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Christmas Day Tech News 2025
Top Story
- Merry Christmas everyone!
- Samsung and SK Hynix wish you a Merry Christmas too and announce they have cancelled plans to stop making DDR4 memory. (Notebook Check)
DDR4 is mostly produced on older equipment than DDR5 and was not profitable - particularly with CXMT dumping DDR4 at below cost - so the plan was to refit the factories and switch them to DDR5.
But that's time-consuming and expensive and suddenly DDR4 is profitable again - very much so - so both companies plan to keep producing it at least through 2026.
That won't end the drought, but it helps.
- In other rare positive news, Microsoft says it has no plans to rewrite its codebase in Rust, not Windows or anything else. (Windows Latest)
The article that kicked off this typhoon in a tea cosy was actually talking about a research project investigating the use of AI in such tasks, not any intent to do so for anything in any fixed time frame. But it made none of that clear.
Tech News
- If your video card has been having too easy a time of it Samsung has announced a 6k 165Hz 3D monitor. (Tom's Hardware)
That'll slow the fish down.
It uses eye-tracking to create glasses-free 3D images as long as there's a single viewer.
There's also a non-3D model if you don't need all those dimensions, a 5k 180Hz model that can boost up to 360Hz at 1440p, and a 600Hz 1440p model that can boost up to 1040Hz at 1080p.
We're talking about bat hearing levels of frame rates.
- The LG 4k monitor I favour is now available in a 144Hz model - up from the standard 60Hz - with no other changes.
I might pick one up once I've paid off all the recent purchases.
- The Radeon 780M GPU - found for example in the MinisForum AI X1-255 - loses 30-40% of its performance running in single-channel mode, if, for example, you pulled out half the memory from each of two systems to populate a compatible motherboard.
Even then it is faster than the older Vega 8 found in the Ryzen 7730U.
No reason.
- I was annoyed at datacenters, and then I met the people who oppose them. (Tech Crunch)
They're the usual Black Bloc communist imbeciles.
- How to develop web apps: Test on something that sucks. (Zero Trick Pony)
Specifically an iPhone:If you don't read the rest of this rant, I can sum up my advice as just this: if you're making a web project, even a simple one, do your rapid, many-times-a-day iteration loop testing on an older iPhone as your test mule. Yes this is a pain, because none of us are programming on an iPhone soft keyboard. We're sitting at a computer or laptop, and so that's the platform it's most natural to iterate on. Most frontend tools do not make it easy to have a quick edit-and-reload cycle with a real mobile device. So you'll have to either frequently push to a private web server, or use some exotic ssh tunnel contraption, to get it so that your test mule iPhone can view your test web project.
He then goes on to name names.
This is not because iPhones are good, it's because they're bad. iPhones are more peculiar and less compliant than any other device I tried. I promise that if you get your web project looking good and working smoothly on a crappy iPhone, your residual costs to test and polish on all other platforms and browsers will be fairly low. (For extra bravery, I recommend Firefox iOS instead of Safari, because it is the most buggy, least compliant browser I was able to find. If it works on Firefox iOS it's going to work anywhere. See below.)
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That tape of Unix V4 has been successfully restored by the archivists at the Computer History Museum. (The Register)
And it works. You can download it and run it on your PDP-11 today.
Okay, or a PDP-11 emulator.
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Why did Waymo robotaxis get stuck during the San Francisco blackout? (Tech Crunch)
With all the street lights out, they phoned home to check if it was safe to proceed.
All of them.
All at once.
- Meanwhile Zoox - owned by Amazon - has issued a recall for 323 of its robotaxis, which is to say all of them, because they drive like illegal immigrants on a CDL issued by California. (Tech Crunch)
Well, not quite that badly. They haven't killed anyone yet.
- How we reduced a 1.5GB database by 99%. (Cardog)
They deleted 99% of the data,
Though to be fair they did realise that 50% of the data was just pre-computed values that could easily be derived from the other data.
The rest they literally just deleted.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: This post is made of 99% post-deleted data.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 25, 2025 04:03 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 25, 2025 04:05 AM (RGk3C)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 04:06 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 04:06 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 04:10 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 04:11 AM (RuTUS)
and Merry Christmas!
Yes, I'm at work in the wee hours of Christmas Morning.
Bah Humbug!! (I need an early 1840s top hat).
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 25, 2025 04:13 AM (aKh6S)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 25, 2025 04:13 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 04:14 AM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 04:15 AM (nhCoE)
Merry Christmas!
Posted by: My Life is Insanity at December 25, 2025 04:15 AM (WE0m7)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 25, 2025 04:14 AM (dK+Kv)
hahahahaha
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 04:15 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: mikeski's pet bat at December 25, 2025 04:15 AM (nhCoE)
163 1. How many reindeer does Santa have?
2. Can you name them all?
Posted by: Soothsayer
Ten.
Rudolph, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Olive.
Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 08:44 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 04:17 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 04:20 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 04:21 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Fen at December 25, 2025 04:21 AM (2r5ZV)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 04:34 AM (7RYym)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 25, 2025 04:35 AM (C0Nlv)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 04:36 AM (7RYym)
Posted by: Fen
22,600% is a pretty good 10-year return, innit?
Posted by: mikeski at December 25, 2025 04:36 AM (nhCoE)
Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son,
and shall call his name Immanuuel.
Posted by: Kingsman at December 25, 2025 04:39 AM (ehY6c)
Anyone watch Salem Techsperts on You Tube? He's pretty entertaining.
https://tinyurl.com/5drhnhjv
I was able to use an 11" 2011 Macbook Air the other day to read and post on the blog. 2gb of RAM and running AntiX. It works pretty well and it's nicer to use than my iPad. Cost me $37 on Ebay. When I get past the holiday, I plan to start putting thermal paste on these and whatever upgrades I can.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 25, 2025 04:41 AM (+mUZM)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 04:43 AM (7RYym)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 25, 2025 04:44 AM (tljrc)
Thanks for what you do to help keep us safer. I seem to recall you work for the Pentagon?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 04:45 AM (7RYym)
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at December 25, 2025 04:46 AM (caMfM)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 04:50 AM (7RYym)
Have an iPhone because everything else is alphabet.
Don't have firefox because Brave
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 04:50 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 04:52 AM (7RYym)
Posted by: Fen
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INTC has entered the chat.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 04:54 AM (2ef5s)
https://tinyurl.com/3r8manu2
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 04:58 AM (7RYym)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 04:59 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 05:02 AM (RuTUS)
Insomnia has it's benefits.
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 05:05 AM (2ef5s)
And speaking of Alistair Sim, let me refer you to a film, Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It," in which Sim has a hilarious comic turn playing a Scotsman. It's available on the Internet Archive.
Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at December 25, 2025 05:05 AM (caMfM)
Anyone watch Salem Techsperts on You Tube? He's pretty entertaining.
https://tinyurl.com/5drhnhjv
I was able to use an 11" 2011 Macbook Air the other day to read and post on the blog. 2gb of RAM and running AntiX. It works pretty well and it's nicer to use than my iPad. Cost me $37 on Ebay. When I get past the holiday, I plan to start putting thermal paste on these and whatever upgrades I can.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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Merry Christmas.
On what are you going to paste and what are the things may I ask?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 05:07 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 25, 2025 05:08 AM (Cjt/F)
Thanks; I'll have to look for that.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 25, 2025 05:08 AM (7RYym)
Border Patrol shoots down Cartel drone.
https://tinyurl.com/3uxcbhuu
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 05:12 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 05:14 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 05:15 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 25, 2025 05:17 AM (aKh6S)
Posted by: fluffy at December 25, 2025 05:18 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 25, 2025 05:21 AM (u82oZ)
https://tinyurl.com/5drhnhjv
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 25, 2025 04:41 AM (+mUZM)
Above my level of techitude, but he seems very engaging:
The $15 Solution to the DDR5 Price Crisis?
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 05:21 AM (RuTUS)
Christmas Eve Open Thread - December 24, 2025 [Nativity Adjacent Rex]
Good evening Horde. Fa la la la la.
On behalf of the Ace Media Empire, the staff and management and contributors, Der Weihnachtsmann, The Grateful and myself, Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)https://bit.ly/the-innkeeper
Posted by: mindful webworker - let it shine, let it shine, let it shine at December 24, 2025 10:00 PM (uPdbI)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 10:00 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at December 24, 2025 10:00 PM (w3u3d)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 24, 2025 10:01 PM (XSP3T)
Going to look for it.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 10:02 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 24, 2025 10:02 PM (rghSL)
Customers are so persistent and stupid.
Calling over the PA saying registers close at 6pm, 5:52pm guy whining because all the cheap bicycles are sold out, and at 6:05 there is a guy with his two daughters in soft-lines getting clothes, and finally at 6:40pm a woman comes in the door and is shocked we are already closed.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:03 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Arbalest at December 24, 2025 10:03 PM (FlRtG)
If you're solo this holiday season, please check in. If you know someone that is solo, please check on them
colin said he would be alone tonight for the first time
nec is in a hotel room to take her sik doggeh to the vet
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 10:04 PM (WGeqj)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 10:04 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 24, 2025 10:04 PM (A62KL)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 24, 2025 10:04 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 10:04 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:05 PM (nWPIJ)
Not even the Moose Out Front
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:05 PM (nWPIJ)
If you want something a little different, Mark Steyn always posts a one hour “Lessons and Carols” on Christmas Eve. It’s up at steynonline.com. I’m listening to it now.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:05 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 24, 2025 10:06 PM (sjyPY)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 10:06 PM (yreN9)
One can never be solo when the Horde is at hand.
Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at December 24, 2025 10:06 PM (jYat7)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 24, 2025 10:07 PM (aKh6S)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 10:07 PM (cYBz/)
You gonna dress him up for Christmas?
Little hat?
Sweater?
Posted by: Soothsayer
No way! Dude Cat still has all his claws, and they are *razor sharp* as in: you don't know you've been sliced until you notice all the blood...
He's not "cuddly" although he is generally well-behaved. I don't push him. LOL!
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 10:07 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 24, 2025 10:07 PM (S/Y4j)
https://bit.ly/trex-star
Posted by: mindful webworker - jolly hollydaze at December 24, 2025 10:07 PM (uPdbI)
And I still remember our family going to the come-and-go Christmas Eve prayer service at our church, and INSISTING that we pray for our astronauts who were up in space that night (I was all of 8 years old).
My dad - a NASA engineer - was embarrassed, but I didn't care. I wanted to be sure that God was watching over them while they were so far away from home and their loved ones.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 24, 2025 10:08 PM (XSP3T)
Annual Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump’s name installed on Kennedy Center
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 10:08 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:08 PM (2GVsD)
Behold the father is his daughter's son,
The bird that built the nest is hatch'd therein,
The old of years an hour hath not outrun,
Eternal life to live doth now begin,
The word is dumb, the mirth of heaven doth weep,
Might feeble is, and force doth faintly creep.
O dying souls! behold your living spring!
O dazzled eyes! behold your sun of grace!
Dull ears attend what word this word doth bring!
Up, heavy hearts, with joy your joy embrace!
From death, from dark, from deafness, from despairs,
This life, this light, this word, this joy repairs.
- St. Robert Southwell
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 10:08 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2025 10:09 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: mindful webworker - jolly hollydaze at December 24, 2025 10:07 PM
***
Ha! We're a little skiddish with anything that looks like an approaching meteor.
Posted by: TRex - duck and cover dino at December 24, 2025 10:09 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Joyenz at December 24, 2025 10:09 PM (2F0/Y)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 24, 2025 10:09 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: tankdemon
*********
Best.Excuse.Ever.
Merry Merry my very creative friend!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 24, 2025 10:09 PM (cCn4/)
I fondly remember midnight Mass when I was very young. They stopped doing it at some point, I don’t remember why. I remember a retired priest performed that Mass, so it may be that he died and was the only one willing to. (Our parish priest was shared among several communities.)
My current church does a midnight Mass (and at midnight) and will be singing carols before Mass. Always nice.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:10 PM (EXyHK)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO7Hs6nzAuE
Posted by: huerfano at December 24, 2025 10:10 PM (98kQX)
https://bit.ly/trex-star
Posted by: mindful webworker - jolly hollydaze at December 24, 2025 10:07 PM (uPdbI)
That's cruel, man. Just plain cruel.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 24, 2025 10:10 PM (A62KL)
Posted by: tankdemon
Heh. Good one.
Wouldn't want the fat man missing the runway.
Posted by: mindful webworker - incandescent, halogen, or LED? at December 24, 2025 10:10 PM (uPdbI)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 24, 2025 10:10 PM (sjyPY)
Annual Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump’s name installed on Kennedy Center
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice!
Should put his name on Congress, the SCROTUS bldg and all lessor courts.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 10:11 PM (/lPRQ)
Tomorrow is lamb shops, a nice Cabernet and some NFL.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 24, 2025 10:11 PM (MNCvZ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:12 PM (nWPIJ)
"This isn't a basketball game. We aren't playing 'til the final buzzer. Get out!"
Posted by: Last Night's Comedy Piece at December 24, 2025 10:12 PM (gCsmq)
Posted by: tankdemon
*********
Best.Excuse.Ever.
Merry Merry my very creative friend!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 24, 2025 10:09 PM (cCn4/)
When lights fail you can always try the Die Hard 2 method. It's FAA compliant if you're a certified action hero.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 10:12 PM (3uBP9)
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Shawn Farash
@Shawn_Farash
TRUMP SINGS: "TIS THE SEASON TO DEPORT 'EM"
https://is.gd/LnXCuk
'Tis the season to deport 'em, FLLLLLLLL
We love ICE and we support 'em, FLLLLLLLL
Send 'em on one-way vacations, FLLLLLLLL
Ramp up those mass deportations, FLLLLLLLL
We've deported millions so far, FLLLLLLLL
Next we'll deport Ilhan Omar, FLLLLLLLL
Look at how those thugs are acting, FLLLLLLLL
Let's send those bad hombres packing, FLLLLLLLL
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 10:13 PM (LgsNJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma
OOooo, she's cute.
Isn't that the gal Oregon Muse regularly featured in his fashion posts?
Posted by: mindful webworker - I miss the chess puzzles at December 24, 2025 10:13 PM (uPdbI)
Merry Christmas to all the Horde from me, Her Majesty and all the Hounds of Soyara.
(Diana, Dot, Dutchess, Val, Rosalind, Dan, Sonny, Puff, Ruth, Finn and The Big Dummy)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 10:13 PM (tgvbd)
So did they. Or some of them did. I read Robert Zimmerman’s Apollo 8 a few weeks ago. That was the Christmas flight around the moon. Most if not all of the families were churchgoers and integrated prayer into their hopes for the safe return of their fathers/husbands.
That was also the famous flight where the astronauts read from Genesis.
Well worth a read.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:13 PM (EXyHK)
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Liminaria has nearly gone extinct since penicillin was discovered.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:13 PM (nWPIJ)
https://tinyurl.com/NightBeforeXmas
AdventCalendar
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 24, 2025 10:13 PM (XSP3T)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 10:14 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2025 10:14 PM (LNeRu)
From the Grandfathers, the Grandmothers, and the Youngs
We are now drink the October wine, for this is time of Happy and Celebrationings
Posted by: Official Novdu Informations at December 24, 2025 10:14 PM (f/3mU)
They say you're never really gone if someone remembers you.
Merry Christmas to our not-forgotten friends in 2025: Vic, Jim (SND), Deplorable Jay, Ciampino, WitchDoktor...
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 10:15 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 10:15 PM (pkeXY)
A very very merry merry Christmas… to you!
And mele kalikimaka to all morons!
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:15 PM (EXyHK)
https://youtu.be/mKScvzJ7CkE?t=377
There are a lot of funny ones here.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 24, 2025 10:15 PM (S/Y4j)
Merry Merry my very creative friend!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 24, 2025 10:09 PM (cCn4/)
Thank you. Merry Christmas.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 24, 2025 10:16 PM (sjyPY)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 10:16 PM (tgvbd)
To all of the Horse who have graduated to the Choir Triumphant, slainte!
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:16 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 10:17 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 24, 2025 10:07 PM (S/Y4j)
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Shoot Greedo first and it will be official.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:17 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Hans Gruber, Jr. at December 24, 2025 10:17 PM (XaT2C)
Merry Christmas to our not-forgotten friends in 2025: Vic, Jim (SND), Deplorable Jay, Ciampino, WitchDoktor...
Posted by: Soothsayer
Amen.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 10:18 PM (c115l)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 10:12 PM (3uBP9)
Then you have to replace the shingles in the new year. Not really in the budget.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 24, 2025 10:18 PM (sjyPY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:18 PM (2GVsD)
Is it Kwanzaa yet?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 10:16 PM (tgvbd)
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Not until you've beat the living shit out of your pregnant girlfriend and jacked a liquor store.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:18 PM (nWPIJ)
Apollo 8 also gave us the seminal Earthrise photo. Taken by Bill Anders.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 10:18 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 10:12 PM (3uBP9)
Saw a meme sayin Die Hard was NOT a Christmas movie... since it was Alan Rickman chasing a guy through a building, it was a Harry Potter movie...
But... that means its also Alan Rickman getting killed by the protagonist, thus Quigley down Under...
And Alan Rickman chasing a guy at Christmas? Costner's Robin Hood? and call off Christmas!
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 24, 2025 10:19 PM (mP0Kj)
I don’t know. I thought “To all of the Horse” had a nice ring to it. Especially ending in “Slainte”.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:19 PM (EXyHK)
Woot! I just got an antique farm radio to play for the first time in probably 70 years or more. It has a nasty hum, because my cobbled-together "A" supply is not filtered well enough, but I heard two stations with just 2 feet of wire for an antenna. So I know the tubes are good, and I didn't make a major screw-up with the wiring.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 10:19 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Beavis at December 24, 2025 10:20 PM (nWPIJ)
Still probably the most-used photo of the Earth.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:20 PM (EXyHK)
When I was a kid somehow the line "that went out a decree from Caesar Augustus" really impressed upon me. Wow, this Caesar Augustus dude is a really big deal. Decreein' the whole world do stuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 10:20 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 10:15 PM
***
Stay tuned. A proper 2025 remembrance post is planned.
Posted by: TRex - lookback dino at December 24, 2025 10:20 PM (cCn4/)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WZ1Fe1rsug
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:20 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 10:16 PM (tgvbd)
Amazing how fake bullshit sells.
At least when P.T. Barnum charged you a dime to see "The Great Egress," there was an actual exit.
Posted by: RickZ, Club ONT VIP at December 24, 2025 10:21 PM (gKDq2)
He was a big deal. That’s why only Brian Blessed could play him.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:21 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2025 10:21 PM (XV/Pl)
Wow, this Caesar Augustus dude is a really big deal. Decreein' the whole world do stuff.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 10:20 PM (w6EFb)
_____________
Clean up your room, you little bastard.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 10:22 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:23 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: huerfano at December 24, 2025 10:23 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
Mista, they a lot o' them over here
All them folding chairs I put out is full
Posted by: Beloved 101 year old Custodian at December 24, 2025 10:23 PM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2025 10:24 PM (XV/Pl)
Don't I know it!
https://tinyurl.com/yfkmk248
Posted by: Ea-nasir at December 24, 2025 10:24 PM (A62KL)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 24, 2025 10:24 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at December 24, 2025 10:24 PM (jrgJz)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 24, 2025 10:24 PM (aKh6S)
Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at December 24, 2025 10:25 PM (oftw2)
For the Hobby Thread may want to look at this guy's channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylZ5KPDpvBk
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:25 PM (2GVsD)
Zimmerman captioned the photo (correctly displayed) with the note:
If you turn the book sideways so that the moon’s horizon is on the bottom, the picture will probably then look familiar, as this is how every publisher since 1968 has presented it. At Bill Anders’s home, however, it is framed with the moon’s horizon on the right. “That’s how I took it,” he says. To Anders, floating in zero gravity, the earth wasn’t rising from behind an horizon line (which is how a human living on a planet’s surface would perceive it). Instead, floating in a space capsule seventy miles above the moon, Anders saw himself circling the moon’s equator. The lunar horizon therefore appeared vertical to him, and the earth moved right to left as it came out from behind the moon.”
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:26 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
I decreed MORE, fat!
I think
Jill, don't look at me like that
Posted by: Joey B. at December 24, 2025 10:26 PM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 10:15 PM (yreN9)
Yes! Thank you for the reminder. I am alone tonight, be with the Horde in spirit. Speaking of spirits, it's rum time at Peon Manor!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 10:26 PM (npFr7)
The story is a real head-scratcher and is still unfolding. smh.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 10:26 PM (rdVOm)
https://shorturl.at/r2hAQ
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 10:26 PM (ULPxl)
that reminds me...
T-Rex, an idea for a hobby thread for you:
Military Surplus stuff. You know, like those steel Ammo boxes, etc.
I don't have any mil-surplus stuff, but maybe the morons do.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 10:28 PM (yreN9)
Don't I know it!
https://tinyurl.com/yfkmk248
Posted by: Ea-nasir
Works for us
We basically own Iraq
Posted by: The descdants of Ea-Nasir's lawyer at December 24, 2025 10:28 PM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 10:29 PM (KDPiq)
For the Hobby Thread may want to look at this guy's channel:
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:25 PM
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Thank you!
Posted by: TRex - milk and cookies dino at December 24, 2025 10:29 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:29 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Of course. I was joking. Looks a lot like her, though.😉
Posted by: mindful webworker - did Tensor read Muse posts? at December 24, 2025 10:30 PM (uPdbI)
I am very blessed that I made it through a year cancer free.
My heart is praying (for what it's worth) for my wonderful Horde friends going through tough times.
I love you all, with all my heart!
I'd like to say thanx so much to our stand-in CoBs❣❣
My prayers so much for TiFW, pookiesgirl, and all Morons having struggles today. Please try and give it your all, and Merry Christmas.
"May the peace of Christ calm every storm in your heart.”
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2025 10:30 PM (LNeRu)
Posted by: huerfano at December 24, 2025 10:23 PM (98kQX)
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There's about 10 taquerias in the Mission called El Faro
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 10:30 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Weather Or Not at December 24, 2025 10:30 PM (oftw2)
At least not in the general zeitgeist.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2025 10:24 PM (XV/Pl)
Raimondo was quacking about it the other night. But he is more of a poltergeist.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 10:30 PM (npFr7)
25 Luke is my favorite telling of the Christmas story.”
Luke is marvelous. When you read it closely it is obvious that Luke, like a good reporter, interviewed Mary late in her life, as his Gospel is the only one that contains a lot of information that only Mary could have personally known. (Such as the Magnificat and most of the Nativity details) Luke’s Gospel could almost be subtitled “Mary’s Story.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 10:31 PM (7JH4o)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 10:26 PM
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Outstanding. Thank you! Added to the content inventory for next year.
Posted by: TRex - inflatable dino at December 24, 2025 10:31 PM (cCn4/)
JAXA's moon orbiter took some spectacular "Earthrise" videos as well back in 2008.
First, whipping around the lunar south pole, which makes the earth's south pole be on top:
https://is.gd/XxQgkB
And a few months later, from the lunar north pole, with earth thus "right side up":
https://is.gd/evJbXE
The narration there is pretty annoying to me somehow.
Among many other things, that Kaguya probe mapped out the Moon's lumpy, non-spherical gravitational field to high resolution.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 10:31 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:31 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 10:31 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: The descdent of Ancestors, unaborted at December 24, 2025 10:32 PM (f/3mU)
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 10:26 PM (rdVOm)
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The last report I read was he was stuck on a road trip and was calling you for a rescue.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 10:33 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 10:33 PM (7JH4o)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 10:28 PM (yreN9)
You could do a Hobby Thread on mil-surp gubs alone. Or vehicles alone. I have examples of both.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 10:33 PM (npFr7)
ME🥰
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2025 10:33 PM (LNeRu)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 10:33 PM (ULPxl)
Note the phases of the earth as seen from the Moon are 180 degrees out of phase. When it's a full Moon, it's a "new Earth" and vice versa. To get a full Earthrise like that, it has to be during a new Moon, with the Sun right behind the camera looking at Erf.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 10:34 PM (w6EFb)
All of you commenters are a gift that keeps giving. Well, except for trolls, lol.
Thank all ya'll, Ace and all the COBs who keep this wonderful place going.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.
Posted by: four seasons at December 24, 2025 10:34 PM (3ek7K)
My ex-wife and I put out luminaria a couple of times when we lived in Virginia. Most of our neighborhood did, as well. It was. Pretty and pleasing to see streets and driveways outlined in candlelight.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 24, 2025 10:34 PM (xG4kz)
"May the peace of Christ calm every storm in your heart.”
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2025 10:30 PM
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Amen. Well said.
Posted by: TRex - little drummer dino at December 24, 2025 10:34 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 10:34 PM (BI5O2)
I don't do it, misanthropic nonhumanitarian as I am. But nice if you do.
I really should start an NGO to fund it and pay myself a salary.
Just kidding. God bless us, everyone. The Savior is born!
Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 24, 2025 10:34 PM (W4R97)
I’m assuming he’s the lower-right circle that is unattributed.
A meme isn’t a true meme unless it has a serious error somewhere.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:35 PM (EXyHK)
At least not in the general zeitgeist.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Kwaanza people
People who understand the term "Zeitgeist"
A Venn diagram even Kummala could draw
Posted by: Bishop Ralph of Shrewsbury at December 24, 2025 10:35 PM (f/3mU)
For the Hobby Thread may want to look at this guy's channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylZ5KPDpvBk
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:25 PM (2GVsD)
I love these advanced models have you put together multiple parts that will never be seen once the model is complete. It's more than just having something to display.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 10:35 PM (KDPiq)
Dec. is a very volatile pressure month (all of winter usually is). Put that in monthly mode and look at the graph of the pressure there.
Still haven't beat Dec of 2024. And GSP set a daily high record for Dec. 24th of 75F, beating the old record in 1961 of 71F. Christmas Day record is 78F, set in 1955. It will get close to that.
Of course, I beat all that locally at 79F today. We'll see what it does tomorrow.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 10:36 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Nobody will have what he's having
Posted by: Liability aware bartender at December 24, 2025 10:37 PM (f/3mU)
Military Surplus stuff. You know, like those steel Ammo boxes, etc.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 10:28 PM
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Could be fun. Thanks for the suggestion.
Posted by: TRex - surplus destroyer dino at December 24, 2025 10:38 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 10:38 PM (7JH4o)
Their 1/32 He 219 Uhu has 63 parts for each engine. There are wing spars. The mechanic's jump seat in the aft fuselage is included, though the chances are maybe 1% anyone will ever see it or the wooden floor back there.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:39 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 10:33 PM
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Mark has no nativity story.
Posted by: TRex - venn diagram dino at December 24, 2025 10:40 PM (cCn4/)
https://shorturl.at/tpS2m
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 10:40 PM (ULPxl)
But, that means I don't know people alone on Christmas. Everyone knows someone and goes somewhere.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 10:40 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 10:41 PM (KDPiq)
ME🥰
Posted by: COMountainMarie
Now see?
We CAN have nice things!
Posted by: banned commenter Imklos at December 24, 2025 10:41 PM (f/3mU)
This Fellow Jesus, Louis Cassels, 1973 — a great small book by a one-time religion editor for UPI. My well-thumbed copy is much yellowed and falling apart, front cover missing. I greatly appreciated his simple reportage of what is known about Jesus.
I see a good-condition copy on ebay for (gulp) $75. I think I'll just do my best to keep my copy together as long and best as I can.
Posted by: mindful webworker - did Tensor read Muse posts? at December 24, 2025 10:41 PM (uPdbI)
=
You should stick around for the 2am brawls?
Posted by: Methos at December 24, 2025 10:41 PM (vSvIl)
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Posted by: mindful webworker - did Tensor read Muse posts? at December 24, 2025 10:41 PM (uPdbI)
Correct, Jesus was born in a plastic stable!
Posted by: Snopes at December 24, 2025 10:42 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 10:33 PM (ULPxl)
His Gospel should be added, immediately.
Posted by: Methos at December 24, 2025 10:43 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: TRex - venn diagram dino at December 24, 2025 10:40 PM (cCn4/)
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Also, the earliest versions of Mark end at the discovery of the empty tomb. There are no post-crucifixion appearances of Jesus.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:44 PM (nWPIJ)
It ain't
Big City boys on their Vespas got no idea
Posted by: Darleen, Marleen, and Charleen, smothered and covered at December 24, 2025 10:44 PM (f/3mU)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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He was 150 miles further away than he originally said-- too far for me to help in-person. Said he'd disconnect the trailer & drive into town for a spare tire. Uhhh... he needed the *whole wheel/tire assembly* as it had come off!
Said he would fix it and continue from ~Twin Falls to Tucson.
That was 2 weeks ago.
Oh, it gets
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 10:44 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: The Eyes of Nostrildamus at December 24, 2025 10:44 PM (oftw2)
Watching It's a Wonderful Life for the hundredth time and it continues to amaze and entertain. It rolls from comedy to pathos and back again.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 24, 2025 10:45 PM (y171U)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 24, 2025 10:45 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2025 10:45 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Piper at December 24, 2025 10:45 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 24, 2025 10:46 PM (5Ne9C)
Posted by: Piper at December 24, 2025 10:45 PM (p4NUW)
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Nice.
Merry Christmas.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:46 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:47 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Timeline of History at December 24, 2025 10:47 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Piper
Was it open?
Posted by: Context required at December 24, 2025 10:47 PM (f/3mU)
Walked through or walked into the front door?
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:47
She open my door and walked through. She is here. I had no idea. J flew her in without telling me. I can’t believe it.
Posted by: Piper at December 24, 2025 10:48 PM (p4NUW)
It was in the basement ant it looked like a fireplace.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:48 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:49 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 10:49 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Piper at December 24, 2025 10:49 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Piper at December 24, 2025 10:45 PM (p4NUW)
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Nice. Have you performed a hunger and nutrition assessment?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 10:50 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 24, 2025 10:50 PM (aKh6S)
We did Christmas different this year.
We live four blocks from our son, daughter-in-law and four grandchildren, ages 3 to 11.
They all came here today and we cooked them a huge brunch, opened presents and had a great time.
We have a very long hall in the middle of our house and the grandkids bring their roller skates and skate most of the time they're here.
This worked out because we wanted them all to enjoy Christmas day, staying in their pjs all day, not having to cook a big meal tomorrow.
Hubby and I actually enjoy Christmas Eve more than the big day.
Tomorrow they can enjoy their day without having to have the stress of cooking a huge meal. We sent them home with lots of already prepared food.
Enjoy your day and do whatever makes you happy, even if doesn't conform to the norm that people expect.
We watched/listened to beautiful music and it was great.
Posted by: four seasons at December 24, 2025 10:50 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 24, 2025 10:50 PM (aKh6S)
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Weird.
Posted by: George Foreman at December 24, 2025 10:51 PM (nWPIJ)
Watching It's a Wonderful Life for the hundredth time and it continues to amaze and entertain. It rolls from comedy to pathos and back again.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 24, 2025 10:45 PM (y171
My favorite part is when they show the newspaper headline ,
HARRY BAILEY WINS THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR.
The reason is back in the day the horde would always complain when the news or someone would say win or Congressional. The admonition was that you are awarded . You do not win it and that it's just the Medal of Honor not Congressional MoH.
So every time I watch It's a Wonderful Life I think of aos and its personality.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 10:51 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:49 PM (2GVsD)
My big black cat is her cat. He is losing his kitty mind that she is here. He came RUNNING when he heard her voice.
Posted by: Piper at December 24, 2025 10:51 PM (p4NUW)
Going to look for it.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 10:02 PM (cYBz/)
Ah, nothing like Jews pretending to be Nazis while singing a Christian song.
Only in America.
Merry Christmas, everybody!
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 10:51 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: TRex - venn diagram dino at December 24, 2025 10:40 PM (cCn4/)
Biblical scholars believe Mark was the first written (probably by John Mark, mentioned in Acts) and it was very simple and brief. (And the original ending is missing, which is why it ends abruptly). Mark contains much which appears to have come from Peter personally.
Matthew took this framework and built on it, adding much of importance to Jewish Christians, many references to older scriptures, also accounts from Joseph.
Luke takes Marks framework and adds a very personal account from Mary, as well as saying more about Jesus’ relationship to women than any others.
And John is just …. John. Marches to his own cosmic drummer.
Luke
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 10:51 PM (7JH4o)
Posted by: Timeline of History at December 24, 2025 10:47 PM (oftw2)
They were temporally confused back then. None of the calendars had BC or AD on them. And don't get me started about the clocks...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 10:51 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Piper
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Awwww! That is SO AWESOME!
Merry Christmas, indeed!
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 10:52 PM (rdVOm)
I'll catch y'all on the flip side.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 10:52 PM (BI5O2)
We had too much wind and rain for luminaria, but there seem to be gunshots or fireworks nearby tonight.
Posted by: KT at December 24, 2025 10:52 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 24, 2025 10:53 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 10:53 PM (pkeXY)
His sons Herod Antipas, Herod Archelaus and Daryl were nepo-baby hacks.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:54 PM (nWPIJ)
After seeing a 47lb Maine Coon, big black cat though needs further elaboration.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:54 PM (2GVsD)
Often the MoH is confused with the Congressional Gold Medal, which is, yeah, a completely different thing (for one thing, the CGM is a civilian award, and can be given for any meritorious conduct, not just military valor).
The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the rough equivalent from the executive branch.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 10:54 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Piper
Oh, no! Was it your favorite door?
Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2025 10:54 PM (gCsmq)
Piper,
What a wonderful gift for you. I know you will enjoy every moment of your daughter's visit.
Merry Christmas to you all!!
Posted by: four seasons at December 24, 2025 10:55 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Piper at December 24, 2025 10:45 PM (p4NUW)
Nice!
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 10:55 PM (IG3/x)
I am listening to Tears For Fears, Songs from the Big Chair. This album is nearly flawless. I am on side 2 now (that's a reference to LP or cassette for those under 29). Broken, Head Over Heels and Listen.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 10:55 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 24, 2025 10:50 PM (aKh6S)
Herod The Great was responsible for the slaughter of the innocents.
Herod Antipater was around when Jesus was crucified. Jesus refused to speak to him.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 24, 2025 10:56 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 10:56 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 10:31 PM (yreN9)
Kwanzaa doesn't have nukes, yet.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 10:56 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:56 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2025 10:56 PM (LNeRu)
Theories about just what the Star of Bethlehem was are also interesting. Kepler himself worked out there was a rare triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in 7 BC.
There was also a very close conjunction of Venus and Jupiter in 2 BC, never been that close since. But that would've been seen in the West at sunset, not the east.
Chinese astrologers recorded something, either a nova or comet in 5BC. It's thought very unlikely that a comet could be it, since they were considered very bad omens, not good ones, at the time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 10:56 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Piper
Good thing you weren't doing anything freaky...
... right ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 10:56 PM (/lPRQ)
https://tinyurl.com/5n933xpv
Posted by: tankdemon at December 24, 2025 10:57 PM (sjyPY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:57 PM (2GVsD)
Merry Christmas to all.
And to all, a good night.
Posted by: GWB at December 24, 2025 10:58 PM (97Tsy)
Time Title Duration
22:56:26 Thou Didst Leave Thy Throne 4:02
22:55:07 To Us a Child of Hope Is Born 1:19
22:52:19 Hark! the Herald Angels Sing 2:48
22:48:32 Silent Night 3:48
https://www.fbcradio.org/
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 10:58 PM (XeU6L)
There is some dispute over Herod's death occurring in 4BC. That has become "generally accepted", but there is still doubt. Could have been as late as 1 BC.
I remember a good hypothesis, involving that conjunction of Venus and Jupiter that would put the birth in spring of 2 BC.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 10:58 PM (w6EFb)
I loved the guest appearance of Curt Smith on the TV show Psych .
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 10:58 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Otto Pen at December 24, 2025 10:58 PM (sJHOI)
Posted by: Piper
Good thing you weren't doing anything freaky...
... right ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 10:56 PM (/lPRQ)
Queue up the Horde jokes about kale dishes...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 10:58 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 24, 2025 10:59 PM (xSYff)
The country Pakistan is as fake as Kwanzaa.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 10:31 PM (yreN9)
I always snickered when Barky called it "PockyStohn".
Somehow he never called Afghanistan "OffGonnyStohn".
Fake intellectual muddafugga, that Barky.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 10:59 PM (IG3/x)
Just finished watching 3 Godfathers, a 1948 John Ford Western with John Wayne: very much an unusual Western, as three bank robbers find themselves promising a dying woman that they will care for her newborn baby -- in the middle of the AZ desert while a posse is hunting them. Nice stuff.
We had some homemade shortbread cookies and store-bought non-alco eggnog this evening. I walked Miss Linda back to her condo, and now I'm checking in with all of you as the "love light gleams."
I can't help but think back to Christmas Eves when I was young, as I guess we all do at this time of year. It's funny: I can recall what I received as gifts each year from the time I was about seven until I was thirteen. After that? The exact memory is gone. Oh, there are random items -- a topcoat Mrs. Wolfus No. 1 bought for me in about 1978, and a Harris Tweed sport coat No. 2 gave me ca. 1984 -- but most of them are gone. I wonder why that should be. . . .
What are you up to tomorrow?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:00 PM (wzUl9)
Found out days later, that BIL had *left the trailer at that rest area* instead of fixing it!!! Said he didn't mind losing it, was too expensive to fix and had more problems than last time I saw it (and it was pretty bad then), took his stuff out & went back to AZ without it.
So now-- 2 weeks later-- he's driving back to the rest area, because he forgot something, and thinks his trailer will still be there.
I told him to call State Patrol, that trailer was likely impounded by now & he's gonna have major problems.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 11:00 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 11:02 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 24, 2025 10:50 PM (aKh6S)
Herod The Great was responsible for the slaughter of the innocents.
Herod Antipater was around when Jesus was crucified. Jesus refused to speak to him.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 24, 2025
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Which younger Herod was it who knew the future emperor Claudius? I seem to recall it might have been Antipater's son.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:02 PM (wzUl9)
Although that event isn’t corroborated by any other contemporarneous sources, it’s very believable, because it’s known that Herod personally murdered his oldest son and heir, and also murdered his favorite wife. (Which caused him to go pretty mad by the end, wondering why he couldn’t get her back). He set up a secret police force that Stalin could have used as an example.
He was one hell of a murderous bastard.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 11:02 PM (7JH4o)
Wolfus,
Hubby and had our big day today with the grandkids.
Tomorrow we are going to relax and we are going to grill sausages, burgers and hotdogs.
Merry Christmas to you and Miss Linda and the furry beasts!!
Posted by: four seasons at December 24, 2025 11:02 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10:57 PM (2GVsD)
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You must have read Arthur C. Clarke's short story about a visit to the burned out planet that was all that was left of the system of a star that went supernova that was seen on Earth as the Star of Bethlehem.
I'm too seized with ennui to look up the title.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 11:03 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 10:55 PM (0aYVJ)
A One Hit Album wonder. (At least IMO.) There are worse things in life.
Posted by: RickZ, Club ONT VIP at December 24, 2025 11:03 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 24, 2025 11:04 PM (sjyPY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 11:04 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 10:49 PM (0aYVJ)
Your friends are not pulling your leg. A "normal" winter here has just enough snow and ice on the ground now to make getting around miserable. Oh, well:
"Climate is what you expect and weather is what you get."
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 24, 2025 11:04 PM (A62KL)
Herod Agrippa.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 11:04 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: mindful webworker
We are having no room at this location
Posted by: Innkeeper Patel at December 24, 2025 11:04 PM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 11:02 PM (7JH
Died with dogs and full of maggots or maybe that was just wishful thinking.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 11:05 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 11:05 PM (2GVsD)
The cross stitch chart I bought on eBay arrived today, so I lugged all of my beading stuff back to the walk in closet in the back bedroom and dragged out my fiber bin to pull out what I needed. I haven't gone through whatever I tossed into the bin when we moved here three years ago and I got many happy surprises. There was all sorts of stuff I thought might have gotten lost in the process of moving. There was also a lot of stuff I'd totally forgotten about. So that was my Christmas present. (We don't give each other presents any more or just something small. We don't have room, not to mention it's too easy to order from Amazon when either of us wants something.)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at December 24, 2025 11:05 PM (DK5Sh)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 10:58 PM (KDPiq)
Saw a vidya of him and his daughter playing (I think) Everybody Wants to Rule the World. Kid has talent.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 11:05 PM (0aYVJ)
HARRY BAILEY WINS THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR.
The reason is back in the day the horde would always complain when the news or someone would say win or Congressional. The admonition was that you are awarded . You do not win it and that it's just the Medal of Honor not Congressional MoH.
So every time I watch It's a Wonderful Life I think of aos and its personality.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025
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Conclusion: The media was no more on the ball in 1946 than they are now.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:05 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 11:06 PM (XeU6L)
We are having no room at this location
Posted by: Innkeeper Patel at December 24, 2025 11:04 PM (f/3mU)
Have Ramanujan contact Cantor. He has a solution for that.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 11:06 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 11:06 PM (nWPIJ)
I'm too seized with ennui to look up the title.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025
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"The Star"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:06 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 11:07 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: browndog sitting in the dark at December 24, 2025 11:07 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 11:07 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 11:07 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 11:06 PM (nWPIJ)
Nope, different guy.
Herod Agrippa was Herod the Great's grandson.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 11:07 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Inmklos recalls a story by O. Henry at December 24, 2025 11:08 PM (f/3mU)
You must have read Arthur C. Clarke's short story about a visit to the burned out planet that was all that was left of the system of a star that went supernova that was seen on Earth as the Star of Bethlehem.
I'm too seized with ennui to look up the title.
Posted by: Cicero
It was also a Twilight Zone story in 1985 called The Star.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0734723
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 11:08 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 11:08 PM (2GVsD)
“The Star”. I read it in Isaac Asimov’s Twelve Frights of Christmas. It was probably the worst of a bad bunch. Clarke seemed to think he was presenting a wholly new and frightful view of the Christmas story, but he made no mention of the story of the Holy Innocents, which is a far more immediate frightful and unsettling part of Christmas. Both by its immediacy and the innocence of its victims it dwarfs Clarke’s more natural and more all-encompassing catastrophe.
That his narrator was a Jesuit made his ignorance of Herod’s massacre even more inexcusable, as it made the man’s crisis of faith inexplicable.
“The Nine Billion Names of God” was a far better story.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 11:08 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 11:08 PM (7JH4o)
Posted by: Methos at December 24, 2025 10:43 PM (vSvIl)
ISWYDT
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 24, 2025 11:09 PM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 11:11 PM (f5220)
Posted by: pawn at December 24, 2025 11:11 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: four seasons at December 24, 2025 11:11 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Timeline of History
Well, I wouldn't want to argue with a Fact!
The year 7BC is right, "some say." I've seen arguments for the month being either in the Spring, or late Summer to early Autumn. Cassels (op cit) reasons from the presence of the shepherds and their flocks: "to this day, Judean shepherds and sheep do [remain outside in the fields overnight], during the warm nights near the end of summer. So… September or early October seems the best guess…."
Posted by: mindful webworker - conjunction of planets in August 7BC at December 24, 2025 11:12 PM (uPdbI)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Great
Now what are we supposed to do with these hair combs and this watch fob?
Posted by: Soft hearted but practical Imklos at December 24, 2025 11:12 PM (f/3mU)
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They couldn't have been Achaemenids since Alexander the Great put paid to that empire in the 4th century BC. Parthians maybe?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 11:13 PM (nWPIJ)
Just looked that up. It's a theory from astronomer named Craig Chester.
Starting in Sept of 3 BC, there was a rare triple conjunction of Jupiter and the star Regulus -- "king" planet and "king star". 9 months later, June of 2BC, Jupiter then moved into conjunction with Venus. This conjunction was so close they would've appeared as a single bright object in the sky. Now, Jupiter is the king planet, and Venus is love and fertility.
To the astrologers of the time, that would've screamed "birth of a new king"...
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 11:13 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Benito Is Right Out, Too at December 24, 2025 11:14 PM (oftw2)
I know some are having a rough time this holiday, missing people, a bad year, lonely. You are in my prayers as God knows you, your heart and loves you.
Never feel loney here as there is always someone who understands and cares.
My back is killing me, I am exhausted, but know I am blessed beyond all measure. Tomorrow we go see our beloved grands an hour or two after a visit from Santa, so am going to bed (again in the guest room as the south wind blows 50mph gusts). Grab those memories tomorrow and relive the good ones.
By dinner tomorrow, after we return here and bake more cookies, I may need a full body cast and be wheeled in, but I'll be there. Can rest on Boxing Day. Advil and a heating pad R Me. Love y'all.
It takes special people to make me snort laugh, and y'all do nearly every night. XXXX
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 24, 2025 11:14 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 24, 2025 11:15 PM (31p00)
It's not too big a stretch to think the headline or article writer was ignorant. Nothing new about that in the media!
Posted by: mindful webworker - did Tensor read Muse posts? at December 24, 2025 11:15 PM (uPdbI)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025
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Brushing and combing, and if necessary scissors to cut the mats out. Most of my cats have not been happy to be brushed, though combing if done right was okay. So at least once in their lives the longhairs have had to be shaved -- the "lion cut" where only their heads, tails, and legs still have fur. They look funny as hell.
You could apply some cornstarch preemptively, to keep the grease down -- the oils that accumulate on the fur from your hands.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:15 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Beverly at December 24, 2025 11:16 PM (reMys)
Little got his first taste of blue crab marinara. Will never forget the look on his face. I told him it's even better when you catch the crabs yourself. We'll make that happen in '26 I'm certain, fresh from the Gulf of America!
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 24, 2025 11:16 PM (nbLIj)
In the ‘36 version, these three are bad hombres - they’re cold blooded killers. But they find a dying woman, and a baby, and their humanity comes back. They each do penance for their wrongs, and find redemption, but ONLY by willingly sacrificing their lives for an innocent, each one in turn. The last one makes it into town by drinking poisoned water, which lets him survive just long enough to take the baby into town and give it to the people there.
The John Wayne version goes soft on the point that true Redemption demands sacrifice.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 11:17 PM (7JH4o)
Posted by: Benito Is Right Out, Too at December 24, 2025 11:14 PM (oftw2)
No British Kings named Richard after Richard "Dick" III. None named Henry after Henry VIII.
It would not surprise me if the name Benedict took a dive in popularity post-American Revolution.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 11:18 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 11:08 PM (7JH4o)
If you are interested in the Magi, Antiochus, Nimrut Dag, the conjunction of Regulus and the Moon in Leo, the emblem of the crescent moon and a star, and other speculations on the star that guided the magi, you could look at this article by Ethical Skeptic.
He does have his own agenda, but his actual facts are pretty interesting even short of making any conclusions from them
https://tinyurl.com/4ujsevdz
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 11:18 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Beverly at December 24, 2025
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The most dramatic space flight of them all. Taking everything together, Eight topped Eleven, even with the latter's actual landing on the moon.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:18 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 24, 2025 11:15 PM (31p00)
So its true. That permanent record continues to follow us for ever.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 11:18 PM (2WIwB)
BIL is *already* 1/3 of the way back to the rest area. Didn't reply after I asked what he's gonna do if his trailer is no longer there.
Dumbass.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 11:19 PM (rdVOm)
Santa and his crazy critters just landed on my roof!
I don't even have kids...
Now I have a fat guy stuck in my chimney (oh my! is that guy cussin')!
Now I'm going to have to explain my roof damage to insurance...
Jeez....this fat red guy and his 8 (why 8!) damn wanna-be elk...
This will be a pain in my insurance ass...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2025 11:20 PM (LNeRu)
Posted by: Beverly at December 24, 2025 11:16 PM (reMys)
I was a wee lad then, but I guarantee my Dad and Grandpa heard that. Grandpa was a NASA engineer during the Appollo missions.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 11:20 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Benito Is Right Out, Too
Ahem
Adolph Hitler Uunona rose to international attention in 2020 when news media reported that his full name was Adolf Hitler Uunona, after election to national office in Namibia, formerly German Southwest Africa
Posted by: Fun Facts with Imiklos at December 24, 2025 11:20 PM (f/3mU)
The John Wayne version goes soft on the point that true Redemption demands sacrifice.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025
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Yes; I found it unsatisfying on some level, and you've put your finger on it.
I looked the 1936 version up. Chester Morris, Walter Brennan -- and Sidney ("Charlie Chan") Toler as a character called Professor Snape!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:21 PM (wzUl9)
Adolph Hitler Uunona rose to international attention in 2020 when news media reported that his full name was Adolf Hitler Uunona, after election to national office in Namibia, formerly German Southwest Africa
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Well, Africa.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 11:22 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:15 PM (wzUl9)
Thank you, his fur is very fine. I trimmed the top off the dreds yesterday and mostly combed them out. He was not amused.
I have to turn it into a gentle roughhouse for him afterwards to be OK with it.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 11:22 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 24, 2025 11:22 PM (NtoJk)
Diogenes,
We were talking about permanent records today with our kids.
They believe, as we do, don't post anything on the internet about your children. They don't "do" facebook and other social media.
Son said with AI children's lives from their first newborn picture and forward there will always be a record on line about their lives.
The world has changed and it's scary.
Posted by: four seasons at December 24, 2025 11:22 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 11:23 PM (KDPiq)
Didn't reply after I asked what he's gonna do if his trailer is no longer there.
Dumbass.
Posted by: JQ
Some people are oblivious and wish to remain so.
Some times I wish I was more like that, for the "bliss," and all that.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 11:23 PM (yreN9)
Have a lot to do to get ready for tomorrow so will mostly lurk tonight.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 11:23 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 11:23 PM (2GVsD)
I cannot rest until a problem is solved, or, at the very least, I formulate a Plan to resolve the issue.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 11:24 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 24, 2025 11:24 PM (sjyPY)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 24, 2025 11:24 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:25 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:00 PM (wzUl9)
Because neat and exciting kid's toys were replaced with boring and practical items such as socks, underwear, sweaters, etc.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 24, 2025 11:25 PM (y171U)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 24, 2025
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I know, right? The guy's BMI is off the charts. He's a coronary looking for a place to happen.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:26 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: tankdemon
Try Viagra
Posted by: Mrs. Santa at December 24, 2025 11:26 PM (f/3mU)
GRIT likes to air lots of Randolph Scott.
Once I heard ol' Randolph was a pickle smoocher, I couldn't un-see it.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 11:26 PM (yreN9)
And yet, he was perfect for Slayer. One of my favorites. Best Slayer was Lombardo Slayer.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 11:26 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2025 10:09 PM (XV/Pl)
Why would anybody need that many Dec 2nd's?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 11:27 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025
Because neat and exciting kid's toys were replaced with boring and practical items such as socks, underwear, sweaters, etc.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 24, 2025
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I do believe you've hit on it. At least since I left home it's been like that. Generally, if I wanted something "exciting," I bought it for myself.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:27 PM (wzUl9)
Some times I wish I was more like that, for the "bliss," and all that.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Yeah. I understand.
This guy is 70yrs old. You'd think he'd have a clue, but no: he's been *chronically dependent* all his adult life.
I'm in no position to be his surrogate mommy and refuse to do so.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 11:28 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 11:28 PM (QVmho)
On one of the President’s NORAD calls, the kid asked him if Santa would take it personally if they didn’t leave out cookies. Trump recommended definitely leaving out the cookies. Don’t know if the kid asked it randomly or if he saw the MAHA video about Santa going with the carrots for Rudolph instead and was worried. It was funny.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 11:28 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 24, 2025 11:28 PM (znREB)
Posted by: Santa Imklos, or else at December 24, 2025 11:28 PM (f/3mU)
I had a link to an online article by a fellow who used computer modeling to verify the conjunction three times in 7BC. Alas the link is dead now. The Internet is not really always Forever as they say.
Oh, wait, wait. Thanks to the wonder of websearch I found it.
https://bit.ly/star-of-wonder
"I have modelled them on a computer, and the one which I favour is a triple conjunction (ie three successive
conjunctions) of Jupiter and Saturn, in 7 BC. At the end of May that year they approached within a degree of
each other – equivalent to about two widths of the moon. This was visible in the east, in the couple of hours
before sunrise. They then separated and joined up again at the beginning of October, again within a degree, this
time visible all night, moving with the stars from east to west. Finally, at the beginning of December, the two
planets approached again just a degree apart, in the south, moving south-west and west during the evening."
Posted by: mindful webworker - did Tensor read Muse posts? at December 24, 2025 11:28 PM (uPdbI)
Exact birthdate doesn't really matter to me
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 11:02 PM (KDPiq)
Yes, and he called himself divine in the NT. No doubt about that. He called himself both the Son of David, and the Father of David.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 24, 2025 11:30 PM (y171U)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 11:11 PM (f5220)
Augustus was mentioned upthread - it’s really fascinating to think about how Rome was involved in this story. Rome had been in a civil war with itself for a century, before that was the war with Carthage, war with the Greeks, wars all over, culminating in the great play for control by Antony and Cleopatra.
Finally, Octavian wins all. For the first time in centuries (maybe ever) there’s peace all around the Mediterranean, there’s a culture with a common language where ideas can spread easily, there’s safety and security where commerce and ideas can grow rapidly.
So Octavian changes his name to Augustus, and what is one of the very first orders he gives? He makes a decree sending Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem, and the Christmas story - and the Christian era - begins. As if all that had come before was a preparation for this Advent.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 11:30 PM (7JH4o)
Posted by: JQ
If "surrogate mommy" means Dr. DOCTOR Jill,
count me out
Posted by: independently living Imklos at December 24, 2025 11:30 PM (f/3mU)
we did not have to have The Talk.
Hell, I had it figured out when I was five. Just play along, get the loot.
I was way more upset to learn what my parents did to get more kids. *shudders*
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 11:31 PM (0aYVJ)
What to I want for Christmas? Peach on Earth Goodwill toward Man.
What will I accept for Christmas?
Venezuela, Cuba, peace and Independence for the Western Hemisphere.
God Bless and let's get it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 11:31 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 11:06 PM (nWPIJ)
Nope, different guy.
Herod Agrippa was Herod the Great's grandson.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 11:07 PM (IG3/x)
Agrippa was a whole other kind of asshole.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 11:32 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Pug Mahon,
We raised you
And it worked
Posted by: Ma and Pa at December 24, 2025 11:33 PM (f/3mU)
As for me, I have a new pipe tobacco to try, called Old Joe Kranz Blue Label. (Yes, they give pipe tobaccos odd names like that. There is a blend called "Corn Cob Pipe and a Button Nose," and another called "Awakened Elder.") I'm tempted to order an estate (read: "used") pipe on one of the vendor sites, but of course I wouldn't receive it until close to New Year's.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:33 PM (wzUl9)
(grumble, grumble... get banninated to get out of working... grumble, grumble) Neat trick, buddy.
Merry Christmas anyway & good to see you again!
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 11:33 PM (rdVOm)
If you're interested, Stellarium can easily run the sky back to the sky circa Year Zero (1 BC). Download the desktop version to do it. Online and mobile, while nice, don't have the full capability to do this so easily.
Also for full accuracy, download the JPL DE430 or DE440 high precision ephemerides files for Stellarium.
With that you can run the sky back and see all those conjunctions mentioned above.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 11:33 PM (w6EFb)
And there is one other big source of cash for those generals - all of those blue barrel’s in all of those drug boats.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 09:13 PM (7JH4o)
dealing with the money is usually the easy route. Someone is bankrolling Maduro, someone is bankrolling the cartels and someone is bankrolling the ELN. It sure as Hell isn't Cuba and Russia anymore.
Also since there is a lot of money in that oil and in the cocaine being captured and blowed up in the Gulf, some banks are starting to feel the pinch from not having their cut from laundering it, and some governments are starting to really wonder where the money to cover the losses from graft is comin from.
we have been killing people for all my life and it hasn't worked, besides make a lot of people who aren't related to me really rich. I don't think that approach is going to work this time either.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 11:33 PM (rbvCR)
I will never put milk and cookies on my mantel for the fat red one again...
Maybe out in the meadow.
That guy's wrecked my roof too many times...
Is there actually a Santa trap?!
I could do so much with that...money to be made$$$....
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2025 11:34 PM (LNeRu)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 11:23 PM (KDPiq)
Poleese dat moostash!!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 11:34 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: tcn in AK
GI Joe with Kung Fu Grip>>>Agrippa
Posted by: Imklosius at December 24, 2025 11:34 PM (f/3mU)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 11:35 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
I can do that with grade school. I can remember every teacher and class except 5th grade. Not one memory.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 11:35 PM (c115l)
Posted by: JQ
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You married his brother not his family.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 11:35 PM (2ef5s)
Chy na.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 11:36 PM (c115l)
Posted by: four seasons at December 24, 2025 11:37 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: JQ
I'm waiting for the No Tax on Tips or Overtime to kick in January 1st
The CoB who banned me (again) had no idea how much PTO I had accumulated.
Posted by: Imklos needs some Personal Days at December 24, 2025 11:38 PM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 11:08 PM (7JH4o)
Read an interesting piece once suggesting that Daniel taught some members of the Magi of his time about the prophecies of the coming of the Messiah when he was given authority over the king's magicians during his Persian captivity.
Posted by: KT at December 24, 2025 11:38 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 11:38 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 11:38 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: tankascribe at December 24, 2025 11:39 PM (NtoJk)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 11:30 PM (7JH4o)
Go farther. God tells Eve she will crush the serpent. She did, when Mary said yes to Gabriel.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 11:39 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025
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Grade and junior high school, not too bad a problem; not really tough in high school either. Remembering which class was in which period is tougher. After that, college? Fuhgeddaboutit. I can remember certain classes clearly, usually ones with a good-looking graduate student teaching it, but I may or may not recall her name.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:39 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 24, 2025 11:39 PM (nbLIj)
It's almost Christmas Day on eastern time.
Since we moved from eastern time out here to Mountain Time I still get discombulated about the time difference.
Posted by: four seasons at December 24, 2025 11:40 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:18 PM (wzUl9)
Yes, and no rescue LEM like Apollo 13. It took big balls to do that.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 24, 2025 11:40 PM (y171U)
What is the possibility we could bomb the living shit out of China?
Posted by: four seasons
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Peking is about 700 miles from the coast of Korea.
It's within cruise missile range. If we wanted to we could mess up Xi's day, incredibly so.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 11:41 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 11:41 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 24, 2025 11:42 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 11:42 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Also funny is that I have neither of those items still. They would still fit me and were good quality; but they both vanished at some point over the ensuing decades.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:42 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: four seasons at December 24, 2025 11:43 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 11:43 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025
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True. But they were the first humans to leave Earth orbit, the first to orbit another body of the Solar System, and went farther from Earth -- 250K miles or so -- than anyone had ever gone in history.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:45 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 11:30 PM (7JH4o)
Go farther. God tells Eve she will crush the serpent. She did, when Mary said yes to Gabriel.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 11:39 PM (6Bc8
That conversation between Mary and Gabriel is why I get upset when I see people on social media referring to Jesus' birth as an "unplanned pregnancy."
Posted by: tankdemon at December 24, 2025 11:46 PM (sjyPY)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2025 11:46 PM (LNeRu)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:45 PM (wzUl9)
As I recall, it was rather scary and way cool. Pretty much any huge box eventually became a space module. We didn't have live tv yet in AK but we listened on the radio.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 11:47 PM (6Bc88)
Book of Revelations was written, when, 50 years after Jesus?
Those people, back then, probably thought Jesus would Return in their lifetime, yes?
And that became the case for every generation since -- people believing Jesus will return in their lifetime.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 11:47 PM (yreN9)
Apollo 8 did enter lunar orbit, completing 10 lunar orbits.
The forthcoming Artemis II mission, which may launch in Feb. will basically be a repeat of Apollo 8, however it will not enter lunar orbit, just take a far figure 8 free return trajectory. They'll get farther from the Moon than Apollo, and will set the record for greatest distance of humans from earht.
Returning, they will also break the speed record,coming in hotter than any Apollo mission did. Apollo 13, which did use free return, set the previous distance record, and Apollo 10 set the speed record.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 11:47 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 24, 2025 11:24 PM (sjyPY)
I left out some venison jerky and a compound bow and Ted Nugent left me a new rifle.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 11:48 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 11:48 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025
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Yes, and no rescue LEM like Apollo 13. It took big balls to do that.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 24, 2025
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True. No chance of rescue if something had gone wrong.
Plus the flight happened at the end of a particularly tumultuous year in American and world history. In '88, I recall one of the local radio stations running a special series on "1968: A Year Like No Other." Up to that point anyway, '68 really was.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:48 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 24, 2025 11:46 PM (sjyPY)
She said yes. She didn't say, "Grab a condom."
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 11:48 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 11:48 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2025 11:49 PM (LNeRu)
🎄Heap o' Christmas Videos 2025
https://bit.ly/heap-o-xmas-vids-2025
🎄Heap o' Commercial Christmas Links 2025 (in case you missed the link before)
https://bit.ly/heap-o-xmas-ads-2025
🎄Twelve Days of Madness (as serialized on AOS last year)
https://bit.ly/12-crazy-days
🎄Santa, Dear Friends
For those who may have come to doubt the old elf (text, ill.)
https://bit.ly/santa-dear-friends
🎄Journey to Bethlehem
A simple trip to pay the taxes becomes a life-or-death nightmare for a new family
A cartoon-illustrated take on the Nativity story
https://bit.ly/bethlehem-journey
🎄Mindful Webworkshop Episode #16 - Christmas
A politically incorrect and culturally inappropriate Christmas show - pop song parodies and original tunes sure to put coal in my stocking. From back in 2016. (vid 11:02)
https://bit.ly/webworkshop-016
That should hold you for twelve days.
Posted by: mindful webworker - jingle them bells at December 24, 2025 11:49 PM (uPdbI)
After seeing a 47lb Maine Coon, big black cat though needs further elaboration.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 10
He is a Savannah, he is very big. He weighs 25 pounds. But is tall and thin. A 47 pound Maine Coon is a fat Maine Coon!
Posted by: Piper at December 24, 2025 11:49 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Ephemerides? For Stellarium?
They musta learnt you good at the Cow Kollidge
Posted by: Imklos will Just Trust at December 24, 2025 11:51 PM (f/3mU)
Book of Revelations was written, when, 50 years after Jesus?
Those people, back then, probably thought Jesus would Return in their lifetime, yes?
And that became the case for every generation since -- people believing Jesus will return in their lifetime.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 11:47 PM (yreN9)
Letters of Paul were in the '50s. Revelations probably by about 110 or so. Paul believed it would happen in his lifetime but of course that was cut short.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 11:51 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: tankdemon
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"unplanned" by who ?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 11:52 PM (XeU6L)
Genesis 3:15
"And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."
God is talking to the serpent, though Eve probably overheard it, about Christ, not Eve ('his' specifies a masculine descendant).
Posted by: Methos at December 24, 2025 11:52 PM (vSvIl)
She should reach the GOLA, USA in about six days time
GOLA
Galveston Offshore Lightering Area
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 11:53 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: four seasons at December 24, 2025 11:53 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 11:36 PM (c115l)
China is buying the oil, but China is not terribly good at force projection. I think the support was coming from USAID, NED, and the EU. There is noise that Iran is also involved in the chain, and that means it is tied into Hamas and other militias. There have been accusations that Hamas was training in Venezuela.
It is either a rope of sand trying to tie them all together, or it is a house of cards because none of the players have enough money to survive without the cocaine shipments and the oil, and still force some sort of fight.
It is important to identify the problem before trying to solve it. You wind up pushing on doors marked "pull" and figure you have to push harder.
Dry up the funding and half the problem is solved.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 11:53 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 11:54 PM (2ef5s)
They were all, during TLI (trans-lunar injection) placed on a free return trajectory in case the SM engine didn't fire. Once they entered lunar orbit, however, they needed that engine to get out and come back.
Looking it up, the free return trajectory was used up to Apollo 11. This limited the range of landing sites, and for Apollo 12 and later, they used a different trajectory. Apollo 13 had to fire the lunar model descent engine to get back on a good free return path.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 11:54 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: COMountainMarie
I ain't even started on the Christmas Punch yet.
It needs to ferment a bit overnight
Posted by: Merry Imklos, trying to figure out what an Elf Dance would even look like, but trying at December 24, 2025 11:54 PM (f/3mU)
I kept it, replacing the battery each year and putting it on a Speidel Twist-o-Flex bracelet (remember those?) after several leather straps, for many years.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:54 PM (wzUl9)
Ephemerides is the sister of Clitorides.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 11:55 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025
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Tell that to the stranded Chinamen.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 11:55 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Braenyard
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Thank you for that, Braenyard. I've helped as much as I'm able, already: physical work on repairs, parts, clothes, food, money...
Still, it's difficult to not feel like a Grinch, especially this time of year, but the man has had many more years *and* many more resources than me, to get his life sorted.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 11:56 PM (rdVOm)
We will keep the ship
_Trump
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: Braenyard
All seized tankers should be immediately be renamed "WD-40"
Posted by: Merry Cap'm Imklos, thinking of Cap'n New Dawn Jim at December 24, 2025 11:57 PM (f/3mU)
Merry Christmas, all, and to all a good night!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 11:57 PM (wzUl9)
Krampus stopped by to rest up before he goes on his annual Yuletide spree. Also, he wanted to catch up on the latest fNCAA football. He is fixed upon Ole Miss, delighting in their defeat of Mississippi State and their victories in the play-offs. He is also deeply infuriated with Laine Kiffin. The last few days have been a near-endless chants of Hotty Toddy. Someday I must tell you the story of how he rescued me from Ayn Rand's ongoing Stockholm Sydrome. I will say this much: he engineered a pimp slapping contest between her and Cthulhu. Once more, Werner sends all his best Yuletide wishes to the Horde. At this moment Krampus is high overhead, complaining endless about how this frigid air is freeze drying his....wedding tackle, shall we say, Ach.
Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at December 24, 2025 11:57 PM (VqnfR)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 11:48 PM (6Bc8
The other variant I've seen is trying to pretend they were kind of illegal alien, when the Bible SPECIFICALLY says that they went to Bethlehem because that was Joseph's NATIVE TOWN.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 11:57 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 11:57 PM (c115l)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
We say the Left can't meme.
The Left can't Bible either.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 11:58 PM (c115l)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
The point of occlusion is called the G-Spot
Posted by: Imklos, pre-med at December 24, 2025 11:58 PM (f/3mU)
It is important to identify the problem before trying to solve it. You wind up pushing on doors marked "pull" and figure you have to push harder.
Dry up the funding and half the problem is solved.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Or you point a shotgun at the handle and blow the fucker open.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 11:58 PM (2ef5s)
It's bizarre.
Posted by: four seasons
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Had high temp of 59 here in the middle of Idaho today. Raining lightly & steadily now & still not quite 50F. Yeah, pretty warm for Christmas.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 11:59 PM (rdVOm)
JQ,
There is no reason for you to feel any guilt about him.
You have enough stuff to contend with right now.
We can't be saviors for people who have wrecked their lives. So many people try to guilt us into helping them to solve their problems.
Stay strong and let him deal with the mess he's made of his life.
Posted by: four seasons at December 24, 2025 11:59 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 11:59 PM (snZF9)
"And to all a good night".
Posted by: From about That Time at December 25, 2025 12:00 AM (sl73Y)
Posted by: Imklos with traditional Austro-Hungarian style at December 25, 2025 12:00 AM (f/3mU)
OK, you made me look it up.
Lightering
Lightering is the process of transferring cargo between vessels of different sizes, usually between a barge and a bulker or oil tanker. Lightering is undertaken to reduce a vessel's draft so it can enter port facilities that cannot accept large, fully loaded, ocean-going vessels.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 12:00 AM (pkeXY)
This times 1000.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 25, 2025 12:01 AM (lUFok)
Stay strong and let him deal with the mess he's made of his life.
Posted by: four seasons
+1 and Amen.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 12:01 AM (rghSL)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:03 AM (3ek7K)
I hope you all have a lovely and magical Christmas Day. I love you all to pieces. I will continue to pray and send my best to you all for this wonderful day!
Thanks Mr. Rex and all of you CoBs, wherever you are🥰!
Peace and good night 💕
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 25, 2025 12:03 AM (LNeRu)
That is probably a Maine Coon mixed with a Bombay. He has the same head and face as my black tom, and the same look of offense.
Bombays can run 20 lbs
Posted by: Kindltot at December 25, 2025 12:04 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:04 AM (3ek7K)
It is either a rope of sand trying to tie them all together, or it is a house of cards because none of the players have enough money to survive without the cocaine shipments and the oil, and still force some sort of fight.
It is important to identify the problem before trying to solve it. You wind up pushing on doors marked "pull" and figure you have to push harder.
Dry up the funding and half the problem is solved.
Posted by: Kin
cocaine is a hell of a drug,
rick james
Posted by: n at December 25, 2025 12:04 AM (1/MxA)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 12:05 AM (rghSL)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
Is also Merry Christmasings!
We are wait kind help for local bike shop of Novdu. We are having helmets with spikes, from old Grandfathers, but Youngs say need for speed and why always leaking the oilings of Big American Davidson-Harlyings?
Posted by: Official Novdu Informations at December 25, 2025 12:05 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 25, 2025 12:06 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 25, 2025 12:06 AM (R4u51)
Posted by: Hunter Biden, Esq - artist at December 25, 2025 12:06 AM (lUFok)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:06 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 12:08 AM (viF8m)
I had to look it up. From Apollo 12 and onwards, the initial trajectory to the Moon was just a highly elliptical orbit that would fall short of the Moon, and come back to earth. So, they were still okay if the SM engine didn't fire.
After docking with the LM and all that, they did a systems check, and then fired the SM engine to put them on the desired trajectory to reach the Moon, but it was not free return.
Apollo 13 had already done that maneuver. They were counting on using the LM engine if there was problem, which there was. If the LM engine hadn't fired properly, they would've been fucked.
Coming back, they also did another burn to speed up the return to earth. With the power constraints, they probably would've been fucked without that speed-up as well.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 12:08 AM (w6EFb)
Lightering is the process of transferring cargo between vessels of different sizes, usually between a barge and a bulker or oil tanker. Lightering is undertaken to reduce a vessel's draft so it can enter port facilities that cannot accept large, fully loaded, ocean-going vessels.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
That is how I Darleen in the front door sometimes
Pee and try again
Posted by: Imkos tries. And pushes. And lubricates the door frame at December 25, 2025 12:08 AM (f/3mU)
Merry Christmas, Horde-- I'd be bonkers without all of you.
Ugh. Think I'll mix a drink...
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 12:09 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 25, 2025 12:06 AM (nbLIj)
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Someone needs to invest in a calendar.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2025 12:09 AM (nWPIJ)
I'm drinking a lot of wine to night, so just put up with me, lol.
My favorite Christmas song is O Holy Night. Last night we watched/listened to Jenniffer Nettles, of Sugarland, sing the song. Her rendition is so powerful. It brought tears to our eyes.
The only accompaniment she had was a guy playing the guitar.
It was so moving and I recommend watching it on the boob tube.
It was the video that was on Sirius.
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:10 AM (3ek7K)
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That cat is not 47lbs. It's a big cat but no way it's 47lbs. Probably 25 at most. I have a Maine Coon mix kitten that's almost 11lbs at 9 months. He looks full Maine coon.
I'm ready to kill the dog. I made an apple pie today. It turned out great, looked great. Had it on the counter to cool... I no longer have anything to bring to the in-laws house tomorrow...😱🤯🤨😡
Posted by: lin-duh is offended at December 25, 2025 12:11 AM (VCgbV)
And I will put enmity between thee (the serpent) and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it (her seed - Jesus) shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
It was our Lord's crucifixion that defeated satan, bruised his head. The Lamb, slain from the foundation of the world.
Thank you Father for sending your Only Begotten Son! That through your gift of faith in Him we have life eternal.
Thank you Jesus, our Lord and Saviour, for being obedient, even unto death. Help me to be obedient unto you.
In Jesus name above all names I ask!
Posted by: TeeJ at December 25, 2025 12:11 AM (T08Hw)
Posted by: H1-Z Imklos at December 25, 2025 12:12 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 12:12 AM (rghSL)
Just got here, going to read the comments, nice ONT, thanks!
I've put out luminaries before. They are beautiful and easy: brown paper bags, sand, and tea light candles.
Thanks for the note about checking in on loved ones who may be struggling.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 25, 2025 12:12 AM (igoLh)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2025 12:13 AM (nWPIJ)
youtube.com/watch?v=Mn_y3nVUmGk
Posted by: gp at December 25, 2025 12:13 AM (GHIyr)
OK, you made me look it up.
Lightering
Lightering is the process of transferring cargo between vessels of different sizes, usually between a barge and a bulker or oil tanker. Lightering is undertaken to reduce a vessel's draft so it can enter port facilities that cannot accept large, fully loaded, ocean-going vessels.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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And what's up the street from GOLA?
Exxon, one of the only refineries capable of mass reduction to Venezuelan tar.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 12:13 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 24, 2025 11:57 PM (IG3/x)
I usually take that "illegal alien" bit to be about their running to Egypt, which, if I understand it correctly, in modern parlance, would have been like moving from Puerto Rico to Guam.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 25, 2025 12:14 AM (sjyPY)
There was a group in the MA town I used to live in that would spend days lining the roads with luminaries, candles in white bags. The tradition was on Christmas Eve people would turn their car headlights off and drive around by the light of the luminaries and Christmas decorations. It was really pretty.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 12:15 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: Cicero
I think it's in there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3kQlsW3JxY
Posted by: Swingin' it Imklos at December 25, 2025 12:15 AM (f/3mU)
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There is a great danger that our sympathy and heartfelt caring can become enabling.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2025 12:16 AM (XeU6L)
The only difference is only one of them was an intentional idiot.
Posted by: JB1000 at December 25, 2025 12:18 AM (/gRa9)
Posted by: gp at December 25, 2025 12:18 AM (GHIyr)
JQ,
Have your drink and try to relax.
You are having tough times now. The main thing is not to feel responsible about your b-i-law.
Hubby and I have been in that position with a couple of family members and, you know what? Everything we did to help them did no good. They are still in the shitholes they have made of their lives.
Good people try to help others and most of the time it doesn't do anything for them and makes our lives worse.
I'm not trying to be bossy, lol, well sometimes I am.
Take care of your husband and you and that is all that matters.
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:19 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
It's when the ululations start
Posted by: Imlos notices that the drums have also stopped at December 25, 2025 12:20 AM (f/3mU)
Mike Hammer,
You are correct!
Merry Christmas to you and I hope the bears up there leave you alone, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:21 AM (3ek7K)
Heard some celebratory gunfire a little while ago. No fireworks.
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary
Thugs shooting at Santa.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 12:21 AM (pkeXY)
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Worth the watch, Nettles, Oh Come Oh Come Emmanuel
https://shorturl.at/v7rO3
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2025 12:21 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 11:58 PM (2ef5s)
It doesn;t matter how much force you use if you don't understand the problem. You missed where I said "we have been killing people for all my life and it hasn't worked, besides make a lot of people who aren't related to me really rich."
Your blood, their wealth.
Your addiction, their wealth.
Your children sacrificed, their wealth.
This isn't winning.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 25, 2025 12:22 AM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2025 12:09 AM (nWPIJ)
It's Florida. Fireworks stores are open all year round here...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 25, 2025 12:22 AM (nbLIj)
Posted by: four seasons
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Yes. That IS all that really matters.
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 12:22 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:23 AM (3ek7K)
They've got the Artemis II SLS rocket boosters all decked out with an "America 250" logo. I think Trump is going to make a big deal out of this as part of the 250 year festivities.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 12:24 AM (w6EFb)
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Sounds good to me.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 12:25 AM (2ef5s)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your wonderful wife.
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:04 AM (3ek7K)
Thanks, and to you as well!
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 12:26 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Mick at December 25, 2025 12:27 AM (HFx9z)
JQ,
The only thing that matters now is you and your husband.
I'm almost 80 y/o and I speak from experience. We cannot let guilt rule our lives. I wished I had learned that many years ago.
You are a wonderful person.
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:28 AM (3ek7K)
Just an educated guess on my part.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2025 12:28 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Official Novdu Informations at December 25, 2025 12:05 AM (f/3mU)
They haven't leaked since 1984. You sure you're not wearing the helmet spike on the inside? lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 12:28 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 12:29 AM (2ef5s)
And there's a significant chance that they won't survive.
Posted by: pawn at December 25, 2025 12:30 AM (EMg+d)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Wolfus beat me to it.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 25, 2025 12:30 AM (XeU6L)
I'm so old, I remember this
https://twitter.com/i/status/2003157180179186013
God Bless us, every one
Posted by: Tiny Imklos Tim at December 25, 2025 12:30 AM (f/3mU)
They haven't leaked since 1984. You sure you're not wearing the helmet spike on the inside? lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Glad they figured it out.
But you know
my Kohler has been leaking since the middle of 2000 and it's still leaking. Just add oil up to the fill line and crank it up.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 12:33 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:33 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Says here...Mike Hammer...one (1) figgy pudding
*adjusts monocle, and glances over in a kindly way*
Posted by: Tiny Imklos Tim, keeping records like his Dad at December 25, 2025 12:33 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 12:34 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:34 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:35 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: four seasons
Dittos
You also have Dixie doggie tail wags.
Which has got to be good for something
Posted by: Tiny Imklos Tim, thankful and prayerful at December 25, 2025 12:35 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: PabloD at December 25, 2025 12:36 AM (Epuwl)
Posted by: four seasons
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*blushes*
Don't know about wonderful, but I *do* wonder a lot... heh.
Merry Christmas, 4s. And thank you.
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 12:36 AM (rdVOm)
God Bless us, every one
Posted by: Tiny Imklos Tim
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Merry Christmas, Miklos.
_ . - > MERRY CHRISTMAS to ALL !!!
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 12:36 AM (2ef5s)
Son #1 just left. We co hosted my brother and his family plus my SiL 89 yo dad. He’s a lovely gentleman. Parkinson’s. He’s Jami g in there though and, if you take the time, has lovely comments to add to conversation.
Son stayed to help with initial cleanup. Dishwasher running. I will leave my
Depression era glassware for tomorrow morning when I am more coordinated.
Love to you all. Just me and Lucy now. son will be here in the morning for crab cakes and presents.
I am so very blessed.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 25, 2025 12:37 AM (IhIKR)
*mixes one more*
Posted by: JQ
Dammit
No
Gosh darn it
*checks Amazon for one of those automatic drink maker machines*
Posted by: Tiny Imklos Tim, starting gift list for 2026 at December 25, 2025 12:38 AM (f/3mU)
Hubby and I are retired.
He does his thing and I do my thing, perks of being retired.
He amazed me last when I told him I know I read AOS most of the day. He told me it's your community.
He is right, geez, I hate to admit he's right about something, lol.
We are a community here, not the commie type of community.
We are all blessed by Ace.
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:39 AM (3ek7K)
Ahhhhh... that feels pretty good.
*mixes one more*
Posted by: JQ
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Hey ho, I'm having extras too.
--- is it sleigh bells or tinnitus? only your dr knows for sure
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 12:39 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:40 AM (3ek7K)
I watched "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" a few weeks ago and I have to say, your use of "GatorCam" was sheer genius.
I guess you didn't finish your Hallmark Christmas movie in time to show it this year. Hopefully, next year we get to see Nick Cage as the cocaine-crazed small town guy who shows the city girl the True Meaning of Christmas.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 25, 2025 12:41 AM (A62KL)
MiladyJo fed these three dogs and our cat, then went down to the old house near the gate to feed the various feral kitties down there, then went to feed and check on Son's two dogs and cat since he's working late, then went by Daughter's to check on their two cats. That's five dogs, four house cats, and a pack of ferals. I just sat here and hung out with the feral Morons on the ONT.
About 40 minutes until Midnight here in God's best time zone, so it's time to leave and go do some final Christmasy things.
Silent Night (Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht)
Edison Male Quartette (1905)
https://youtu.be/yA7dj7wBONY
Sweet dreams of sugar plum fairies, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - keep it simple, keep it sweet at December 25, 2025 12:42 AM (uPdbI)
Posted by: Sobek at December 25, 2025 12:42 AM (sazW1)
Posted by: Tiny Imklos Tim,
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Pony up 20k, Tesla Optimus not only makes your drink it brings it to you.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 12:42 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at December 25, 2025 12:43 AM (VqnfR)
Posted by: Braenyard
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LOL! My tinnitus gets so loud sometimes, I wonder if *other people* can hear it too!
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 12:44 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 12:44 AM (npFr7)
I remember your nic as a frequent commentator.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 25, 2025 12:44 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 25, 2025 12:45 AM (viF8m)
Miklos,
Hubby and I were laughing with oldest son tonight about a dog we had a couple of decades named Dixie. She was a cocker spaniel and was the meanest dog we've ever had. We're sure she was an inbreed dog from unscrupulous breeders. We kept her until her old age but it was a trial.
Meanest bitch we've ever had, lol.
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:45 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Tiny Imklos Tim
Have you considered an IV slow-drip of pure ethanol? No more having to get off the couch. No more messing with those pesky bottles of mixer.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 25, 2025 12:46 AM (A62KL)
Is Tigger that (formerly little) kitten what you found in the shop a while back?
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 12:46 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard
*invests 20k in Tesla shares*
This might work
Posted by: Tiny Imklos Tim, nickel and dime and lithium investor at December 25, 2025 12:47 AM (f/3mU)
But you know
my Kohler has been leaking since the middle of 2000 and it's still leaking. Just add oil up to the fill line and crank it up.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 12:33 AM (2ef5s)
I hate oil leaks. Harley had leaks for a few reasons. The main thing was up until 1965 they had a front primary chain oiler that pumped, or dripped oil directly from the oil pump onto the chain to lube it, and there was no return. There was a small little drain tube that dropped it onto the street. In 1965 they came out with a return system. Great, but then they added an oiler to the rear drive chain, so now that chain got oiled, and dripped onto the street. The big problem is owners never checked the setting of the rear oiler which was adjustable, and they just let it do whatever. They also never checked the return hoses for the primary oiling system. They would get loose, or old and cracked, more leaks. 1984 they came out with a new motor, stuck the primary chain in a sealed wet bath with it's own fluid, and eventually in 1986 went to rear belt drives with the new 5 speed, and poof, no more leaks.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 12:47 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 25, 2025 12:47 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 12:48 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 12:48 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 12:46 AM (rdVOm)
Yes, she arrived via the Cat Distribution System. She was friendly right from the get-go, no way she was a feral. Fuzzy, all black save for a small white chest patch, and named Tigger for the stripes she ain't got.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 12:48 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
We done had that for years. Private parties only.
Posted by: Crazy Imklos' Non-Stop Tzampotli Family Fun Park and Somewhat Legal Other Stuff at December 25, 2025 12:49 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Squeee!
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 12:51 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at December 25, 2025 12:51 AM (igoLh)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 12:52 AM (npFr7)
And to all you cantankerous bastards,
You’re all a bunch of softies and I want to hug you all.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 25, 2025 12:52 AM (IhIKR)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 12:53 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: PabloD at December 25, 2025 12:54 AM (Epuwl)
Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at December 25, 2025 12:54 AM (VqnfR)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
I see dollar signs....
*tries to file patent on Official Holiday*
Posted by: Imklosian Anti-Marketing SA de CV at December 25, 2025 12:55 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Genial bartender on unpaid leave at December 25, 2025 12:56 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 12:58 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 12:59 AM (w6EFb)
Drink until I'm fucking jolly fa la la la la la la la la
Laugh at those in ghey apparel fa la la la la la la la
Time to tap another barrel fa la la la la la la la la
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 12:59 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 01:00 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 01:00 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 25, 2025 01:01 AM (XSP3T)
Merry Christmas back to all of you!
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 01:01 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 25, 2025 01:01 AM (yreN9)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 01:01 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 01:01 AM (rghSL)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 01:01 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
I left Bourbon
Bet it's gone by morning
Posted by: Imklos was a Good Boy, considering at December 25, 2025 01:03 AM (f/3mU)
https://youtu.be/1cZIUstS1wY
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 01:03 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 25, 2025 01:07 AM (rghSL)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 01:01 AM (rdVOm)
like this? lol
Deck the viking house with holly Valhalla la la la la la la la
Drink the mead until we're jolly Valhalla la la la la la la la
Don we now our war apparel valhalla la la la la la la la
raid some village steal their barrels valhalla la la la la la la la
Merry christmas to you too!
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 01:07 AM (snZF9)
Just for fun, I ran Stellarium back to 2BC using DE441 (that's a 2GB data file, too!)
That conjunction of Venus and Jupiter peaked at June 17, 2BC, at 17:50 Z.
Well, "Z" is UT1, based on Stellarium's delta-t model. In ephemeris time, it's exact, but the uncertainties in earth's rotation make it a little bit fuzzy for actual UT1 time.
Anyway, they were so close the disc of Venus touched Jupiter. Venus was closer to Jupiter in the sky than all the Galilean moons. That was some conjunction indeed.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 01:09 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 01:10 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Dr_No at December 25, 2025 01:10 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 01:12 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 01:14 AM (3ek7K)
https://tinyurl.com/4ujsevdz
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 11:18 PM (rbvCR)
That was fascinating! You’re right he has his own agenda, and by the end you get into the “huh?” territory, but it’s still some great thinking.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 01:15 AM (7JH4o)
Stay strong and let him deal with the mess he's made of his life.
Posted by: four seasons
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I'm a soft touch for someone with dementia and mental illness. Her bad behavior is not entirely her fault, but it's still bad behavior.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 25, 2025 01:17 AM (tESdR)
I got her a basket of goodies - a fuzzy lined cap with earflaps and a brim (she's sleeping in it right now), one of those scarves with a loop so you can feed the other end right through and keep your throat and neck warm without long ends to deal with. Some fancy Italian cookies that my college roommate brought to our wedding that she thought were delicious. Some Andes and cinnamon honey pecans.
And hopefully the best one - a collection of the first three novels in a new detective series for her. She's sucked all of the juice out of Commissar Brunetti and his wife Paola. I hope that Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano is as enjoyable for her, because there are over two dozen novels so far.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 01:22 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 01:26 AM (rdVOm)
Well, not today, it's gonna be in the 70s.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 01:27 AM (w6EFb)
I've read the Ethical Skeptic stuff for a while. His writing, however, can be like trying to swim through molasses in December.
He's the author of that "ECDO Theory", that the Erf does a crust/mantle pole shit from decoupling with the core. I tell myself that is just impossible. The erf has settled around it's maximum axis of inertia, and nothing like that can happen. Seriously, in his timeline, the last time that supposedly happened was what, 4000 BC or something? No way we could be here now if that happened that recently.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 01:28 AM (w6EFb)
I'm a soft-touch too, for anyone in need. It has been mostly to my own detriment over the years...
Being called "selfish" is like being called "racist"-- no one wants to be called *that* or to be thought of as such!
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 01:29 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 25, 2025 01:29 AM (JkO4W)
Bet it's gone by morning
Posted by: Imklos was a Good Boy, considering at December 25, 2025 01:03 AM (f/3mU)
I bought some for eggnog, but I haven't made eggnog yet. So maybe two fingers in a crystal glass, to toast Santa, of course.
brb
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 01:30 AM (w6EFb)
Miley,
I am hooked on a series written by M. C. Beaton.
It's a series about a constable in the Scottish Highlands, Hamish Macbeth.
When Mama runs out of something to read you might want to check out those books.
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 01:31 AM (3ek7K)
There's only so much BS I will take, before shutting off completely. Compassion fatigue...
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 01:34 AM (rdVOm)
20 minutes here in the Mountain time zone until Christmas Day. Then it will be time to go to bed.
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 01:41 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 01:42 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 01:42 AM (rdVOm)
Running Stellarium back to August 27th, yep, that 4-planet conjunction happened just like ES described it.
DE441 puts in on August 26, around noon UT1, which is well within the expected uncertainty range of lower precision ephemeris.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 01:44 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 01:26 AM (rdVOm)
I love that lady, JQ. It's been a rough 6 months for her, and I'm grateful to have her with us still. Since we don't have kids and the cats are happy with boxes, she's like the kid. Honestly, she's so cute in her warm cap.
I did not manage to get her a Christmas tree this year. I may run some seed lights up a palm tree tomorrow. My bad.
And I haven't baked a single cookie. Yet. But I'm planning to bake an apple pie recipe from 1390.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 01:45 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Piper at December 25, 2025 01:46 AM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 25, 2025 01:46 AM (2WIwB)
Being called "selfish" is like being called "racist"-- no one wants to be called *that* or to be thought of as such!
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 01:29 AM (rdVOm)
I have made that mistake often, I certainly sympathize. I always talk a big game like I’m gonna be a hard ass and when its decision time I fold like a cheap lawn chair.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 01:46 AM (7JH4o)
That makes a fellow think about dating a stripper again.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 25, 2025 01:47 AM (A62KL)
By "puts it" at a certain time, I'm looking for when everything is the closest.
You had Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter nearly on top of one another, with a thin crescent Venus off to the side, and the thin crescent Moon above, all in Regulus.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 01:47 AM (w6EFb)
Miley,
I am hooked on a series written by M. C. Beaton.
It's a series about a constable in the Scottish Highlands, Hamish Macbeth.
When Mama runs out of something to read you might want to check out those books.
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 01:31 AM (3ek7K)
AWESOME! Will make a note of that right now.
Actually, Grok recommended the Montalbano series.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 01:48 AM (w6EFb)
I would like to exchange stories of human perfidy with Miss Mama.
The resulting book should be required reading for all Business students, and the exam required for any MBA program.
Posted by: President Imklos J. Trump, noting that Trump has a Masters in Finance at December 25, 2025 01:50 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: four seasons at December 25, 2025 01:51 AM (3ek7K)
You, my friend, live in the safest city in Sakerlina, and I hope you appreciate that.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 01:53 AM (w6EFb)
The Ballad of Harley's Hat is only 90% done
Tales of Human Perfidy could be a whole 90 minute set or CD
Posted by: Imklos is as lazy as Life allows at December 25, 2025 01:55 AM (f/3mU)
She rejected the Anne of Green Gables series - she said she didn't like the way she looked on the cover.
*shrugs*
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 01:55 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 25, 2025 01:59 AM (7JH4o)
This is all fascinating. 2 BC was indeed a year with some spectacular alignments in the sky. That previous June conjunction of Jupiter and Venus, touching each other, and then this 4 planet thing in late August. That was a very rare thing, indeed.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 25, 2025 02:00 AM (w6EFb)
Men's Revenge is more to the point. Usually half an hour or so. The wives are such bitchez! Maya, over 2 hours. Women like to really get into the emotional element. Takes time.
What are AI learning?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 02:00 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
Oh Honey Chile.
If I make it to the coast, well, look up the Black Weeks at the beach.
Some weeks businesses close down, and people hunker down. Virginia Beach, Ft. Lauderdale....
Posted by: Imklos is as careful as Life allows at December 25, 2025 02:00 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 25, 2025 02:00 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 02:00 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
AI learns everything from me.
I think AI owes me moneys
Posted by: Imklos is as all-knowing as any dildo, maybe moreso sometimes at December 25, 2025 02:03 AM (f/3mU)
Alright,
It is now Christmas Day here in the great state of Wyoming.
Merry Christmas to all and goodnight.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 25, 2025 02:03 AM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 02:05 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 02:06 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Imklos is as lazy as Life allows
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Say the magic woid and win the tune of life:
youtube.com/watch?v=9wYEfQcU0Ww
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 02:06 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 02:07 AM (w6EFb)
They's a "R" onto the end of that
Sakkliner
or
South kackalacky
Posted by: Clempson hampsters at December 25, 2025 02:07 AM (f/3mU)
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 25, 2025 02:09 AM (A62KL)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 02:10 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 02:11 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 02:11 AM (w6EFb)
There's gonna be a lot of shrieking.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 02:15 AM (w6EFb)
"Perfidia" was originally performed by the Mexican composer Alberto Domínguez in 1939. It became a hit when recorded by Xavier Cugat in 1940.
But what about Benny?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 02:17 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 02:17 AM (w6EFb)
Night, Horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 25, 2025 02:18 AM (npFr7)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 25, 2025 02:19 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Inquiring Mind of Imklos at December 25, 2025 02:19 AM (f/3mU)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 02:20 AM (rdVOm)
I am wrapped and ready, sipping on a scotch and being mighty grateful for so many blessings in my life.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 25, 2025 02:21 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: pawn at December 25, 2025 02:22 AM (EMg+d)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 02:23 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 02:24 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 25, 2025 02:32 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 01:29 AM (rdVOm
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Good point. I'll have mull that over, include it in my thinking.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 25, 2025 02:33 AM (v71Ni)
Posted by: pawn
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He didn't have any alligators. what else could he do?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 02:34 AM (2ef5s)
The Philippines Department of National Defense (DND) is preparing to sign a ₱34-billion ($585 million) contract to acquire two new frigates for the Philippine Navy
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Everybody's gearing up for Chairman Xi.
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Sanae Takaichi, wants Japanese government to revisit the constitution regarding military restrictions.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 02:43 AM (2ef5s)
_Sanae Takaichi
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 02:48 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 25, 2025 02:49 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: pjungwir at December 25, 2025 02:50 AM (noE7F)
Posted by: JM in Illinois
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Beware of those who would use the word "selfish" as a cudgel against you! Consider whether they stand to gain from your *supposed* guilt.
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 02:55 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 02:58 AM (rdVOm)
Need to sleep but so wound-up! Grrr.
Lord, please help me overcome anger and resentment! Please help me discern true need from thieving deception.
I'm not worthy. Ugh.
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 03:03 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 03:05 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 02:55 AM (rdVOm)
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Yes, indeed, their gain from "supposed" guilt. Spot on.Thanks.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 25, 2025 03:09 AM (DwYwN)
I'm not worthy. Ugh.
Posted by: JQ at December 25, 2025 03:03 AM (rdVOm)
Go with your gut. I found that "usually" thieving deception types are gross repeat offenders, true need types are usually victims of circumstances beyond their control. I have a friend who is an abject fuckup, a 90% worthless human, but is as honest as the day is long, and never really asks for help much. He can't fix anything, and would be late to his own funeral, and is in a semi hell of his own making because he just won't get his shit together. Probably in a class by himself as he'll never screw anybody for his own survival. You want to help, but it just wouldn't produce any lasting results.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 25, 2025 03:14 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 25, 2025 03:22 AM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 03:29 AM (Ia/+0)
Time to say good night to all.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 25, 2025 03:37 AM (jRujf)
Repeat.
So good. So very, very GOOD.
Merry Christmas to you all.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 25, 2025 03:38 AM (2Ez/1)
Hemispherical
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 03:49 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Skip at December 25, 2025 03:56 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip
You can stay up
There are bluberry muffins on the kitchen table
Posted by: Affectonate Aunt Imklos, enjoying a Hot Toddy with "Uncle" Raymond at December 25, 2025 03:59 AM (f/3mU)
Israel favors Moscow’s presence over Turkey’s expanding influence, and Washington accepts Russia’s key role given its control on the ground, officials say. - Kan News
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 25, 2025 04:00 AM (2ef5s)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 04:00 AM (RuTUS)
Christmas Eve Cafe
Spain calls their Nativity-scene buildters Belenistas,
though this one is by an American in Santa Clara
At the conference, Benito learned that in Europe, whole cities have Nativity scene clubs that spend an entire year constructing life-sized dioramas, "For example, Madrid, Sevilla, and Barcelona: their clubs start building detailed buildings, with little exterior little lights, little pots and pans, trees and some of the dioramas have real water running as a little creek or fountain." One of the few Americans to participate in the international conference, he laughed when he recalled how the European artisans reacted when they discovered his nationality, “A gentleman said to us, "Americans, pay close attention to this diorama because St. Joseph looks like the Hollywood actor, Charlton Heston, Mary is the likeness Ava Gardner, and the Egyptian figurine looks like Yul Brynner." But apart from this playful reference to the Hollywood film The Ten Commandments, Benito was one of equals amongst a handful of 550 international nativity makers in attendance. All were treated to the various creative ways that the nativity clubs and Spanish and Italian artists craft their dioramas to be truly sensory experiences.Merry Christmas, friends! And garrett, too! And of course a special thanks to the cobloggers! Give them a hand. Tomorrow and Friday will be open threads from me, but I've got some good ones in the mix. Cucking a chicken. If you need a last-minute gift recommendation for your cat... This dog wants you to know there's no shame in wearing a garish Christmas sweater. Never challenge a cat in a pouncing contest. On the internet, no one can tell if you're a cat. Scuba Santa delivers toys to all the good underwater boys and girls. Sweet drinks cabinet.
Baby elephant trying to stand up for the first time..🐘🐾😊❤️ pic.twitter.com/Npauxd4m4C
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) December 21, 2025
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— Washington Crossing Historic Park (@WashXingPark) December 16, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)It's been two-thousand years. When will the Jews admit they're wrong?
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My cat Hexie would *love* that gift.
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Americans use real people and animals.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:38 PM (c115l)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 24, 2025 07:38 PM (sDNVV)
106 Tucker did not spend the entire speech shilling for Islam.
Just part of it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 06:53 PM (Vj99u)
--------------
Here's 32 seconds of VDH's introduction to his take down of Carlson.
https://tinyurl.com/b23yhyrs
Here's VDH's takedown of Tucker Carlson;
There is a 1:27second quote of Tucker's idiocy before VDH begins.
Push up to 1:27 if you choose.
https://tinyurl.com/fr7z74b5
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 07:39 PM (2ef5s)
This is about every angle greeting. Maybe because we are weak and scared, and doubting when G D has a plan for us.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 07:39 PM (gbOdA)
But do you think General George Jefferson stood up like a light house on the boat as the famous painting depicts? I doubt it.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:39 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 07:39 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:40 PM (c115l)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 07:40 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Ben
How is she doing?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:40 PM (c115l)
I LOLed; it hurt...(still recovering from abdominal surgery last week)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 07:41 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 24, 2025 07:41 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 24, 2025 07:41 PM (0sNs1)
This is about every angle greeting. Maybe because we are weak and scared, and doubting when G D has a plan for us.
Posted by: r hennigantx
Maybe angels don't all look like Glenda the Good Witch?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:42 PM (c115l)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 07:42 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:42 PM (yreN9)
Washington wasn't having it and delivered the ultimate punishment. Not taught in most history classes.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:42 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 24, 2025 07:42 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:42 PM (c115l)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 07:43 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:43 PM (c115l)
{{{{Jane D'oh}}}} Merry Christmas!!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 24, 2025 07:43 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 07:43 PM (gbOdA)
Wondering if it was acute one...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 07:44 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:44 PM (c115l)
God rest ye, Merry Gentlemorons & ettes
(Per Ann Barnhardt, "Merry," in early modern English meant "mighty" or "great". And "rest" means "keep".)
Posted by: mindful webworker - let nothing you dismay at December 24, 2025 07:45 PM (uPdbI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:45 PM (npFr7)
Ooooooh. A double post.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:42 PM
Yah. Pixy was caganeering on me.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 24, 2025 07:45 PM (0sNs1)
Monteverdi smiles upon you all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqrTsxQgCt0
Posted by: Piercello at December 24, 2025 07:46 PM (NRGJj)
Is it figgy or thiggy pudding?
And what is it?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:42 PM (yreN9)
Intertubes say similar to fruit cake, but different.
https://tinyurl.com/4k6ftyt9
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 07:47 PM (ynpvh)
And what is it?
Posted by: Soothsayer
You have to bring it, and bring it right now, before we can tell.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 24, 2025 07:47 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:35 PM (yreN9)
I have a friend, a rabbi here in town. He likes to say “When the Messiah comes, first thing I’m gonna ask him - is this your first visit here, or your second?”
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 07:48 PM (7JH4o)
I think that's gone the way of the Dodo bird.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:49 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:45 PM (npFr7)
especially as he's not in the bed...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 07:49 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:49 PM (npFr7)
I think that's gone the way of the Dodo bird.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:49 PM (KDPiq)
Sorry. Nowadays we have Karening.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 07:49 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:50 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: Piercello at December 24, 2025 07:50 PM (NRGJj)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:49 PM (npFr7)
Better call OSHA...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 07:50 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:49 PM (npFr7)
Don't know why that gave me a chuckle but it did.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 07:50 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 07:50 PM (7JH4o)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 07:48 PM (7JH4o)
That's pretty good.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:50 PM (KDPiq)
"Have you ever been to Utah?"
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:51 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 07:42 PM (ynpvh)
Likewise from me, Jane!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:51 PM (npFr7)
God: No dice. They're still talking about my last vacation there and that was over 2,000 years ago!
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 07:55 PM (wVcYX)
to us a son is given,
and the government will be on his shoulders.
And he will be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Of the greatness of his government and peace
there will be no end.
He will reign on David’s throne
and over his kingdom,
establishing and upholding it
with justice and righteousness
from that time on and forever.
The zeal of the Lord Almighty
will accomplish this.
Isaiah 9:6-7
Posted by: Marcus T at December 24, 2025 07:55 PM (B5Sbl)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:55 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 07:44 PM (ynpvh)
Do not be obtuse
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 07:55 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 07:50 PM (gKDq2)
The more you look at it, the more you realize the modeler simply did not know how arches work.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:55 PM (npFr7)
I went out early this morning to do some last minute shopping. It was early in the day, so I wasn't expecting total chaos, but thought things might be a little hectic. Turns out, not so much. I guess it's due to online shopping, but last minute shopping isn't what it used to be.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at December 24, 2025 07:56 PM (OGOaV)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 07:57 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: pawn at December 24, 2025 07:57 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 07:57 PM (f5220)
Krogers was packed so I spent twice as much for a roll of paper towels at the Circle K so I wouldn't have to deal with it.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:58 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:55 PM (npFr7)
Arches sure weren't decorative back then. I mean they could be. But decoration/style was not their purpose.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 07:59 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 08:00 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 08:01 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:01 PM (f5220)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:55 PM
Darnit, I'm an artist, AOP, not an engineer!
Posted by: The Modeler at December 24, 2025 08:01 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 08:02 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 07:50 PM (gKDq2)
The more you look at it, the more you realize the modeler simply did not know how arches work.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:55 PM (npFr7)
It was a Christmas miracle!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:02 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 07:59 PM (gKDq2)
I expect most plebian building in Biblical Israel was done with adobe.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 08:02 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:55 PM (npFr7)
Arches sure weren't decorative back then. I mean they could be. But decoration/style was not their purpose.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 07:59 PM (gKDq2)
Ah, yes, an arch enemy.
Posted by: Piercello at December 24, 2025 08:03 PM (NRGJj)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 08:04 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:04 PM (f5220)
Brian's Mum: Led by a bottle, more like.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 08:00 PM (wVcYX)
Reminds me of this one:
Guy is driving in the deep South and sees a creche with the three wise men dressed as firemen. So he stops and asks around and keeps being told it's in the Bible. So finally he asks, "Show me in the Bible where it says that!", and a guy goes, it says, "It's right here. It says they came from afar."
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:05 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 08:05 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 08:06 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:06 PM (f5220)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:06 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 07:59 PM (gKDq2
I tried to show them how it’s done.
Posted by: Titus at December 24, 2025 08:06 PM (7JH4o)
Posted by: mindful webworker - let nothing you dismay
--
So, not pacifist?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 08:06 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 08:07 PM (pkeXY)
Still in fear of mine to come!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 08:05 PM (Kt19C)
My discomfort is much reduced. Coughs don't kill me like they did before (hold my belly for those), still prevent sneezes though, as I figure those will really hurt...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:07 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Opinion fact
Shit. You can't hide money, I guess.
Posted by: Poor Boy From A Poor Family at December 24, 2025 08:07 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 08:07 PM (pkeXY)
Dyslexic DEI...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:07 PM (ynpvh)
1. How many reindeer does Santa have?
2. Can you name them all?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:06 PM (yreN9)
3. How many of his reindeer can jump higher than a house?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:08 PM (ynpvh)
Just reading some more about this Black Dahlia/Zodiac suspect, Marvin Margolis (who used the alias Marvin Merrill in later life).
His son is fully cooperating with all this. He doesn't believe his father could have done it, but he's letting them have everything they want. They're going to do handwriting analysis and all that.
Also, Margolis did do 30 days in jail in CA for some fraud case involving an auto-repair business he was in in the early '70s.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 08:08 PM (w6EFb)
Thank you, Amazonian Gods of Delivery!
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 08:08 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:08 PM (f5220)
lulz...
black people...
Nicki Minaj is no longer a "black American" goblins declare on Black Twitter and Black Tik Tok.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:08 PM (yreN9)
Do you know how to drum?
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 08:09 PM (KDPiq)
but it is We who are in a "cult"
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:09 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Javems at December 24, 2025 08:09 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Hal Dall at December 24, 2025 08:09 PM (SBJWI)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:09 PM (f5220)
lulz...
black people...
Nicki Minaj is no longer a "black American" goblins declare on Black Twitter and Black Tik Tok.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:08 PM (yreN9)
Those lefties sure like to "whitewash" any man or woman of color they don't like...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:10 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 08:10 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Movin' On Up! at December 24, 2025 08:11 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 08:11 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:11 PM (f5220)
Three Godfathers, with the Duke.
On now, but getting sleeeeepy...
Zzzzz zzzzz Zzzzzz
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 08:11 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:09 PM (f5220)
Q. How many of his reindeer can jump higher than a house?
A: All of them; houses don't jump.
(Not even the bouncy ones, unless poorly tied down and picked up by the wind, and even then it's not jumping).
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:12 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 24, 2025 08:12 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Hal Dall at December 24, 2025 08:09 PM (SBJWI)
David McCullough's "1776" isn't bad, either. Covers only the year 1776, including The Battle of Trenton as a windup.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 08:12 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 08:13 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 24, 2025 08:14 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 08:14 PM (KDPiq)
Jim in Kali,
I loved the firemen joke, lol.
Thanks for the laugh.
Merry Christmas!
Posted by: fourseasons at December 24, 2025 08:12 PM (3ek7K)
Thx (not my joke, just stole it).
Merry Christmas to you too.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:14 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:14 PM (f5220)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:15 PM (f5220)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:05 PM (ynpvh)
LOL
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 08:16 PM (wVcYX)
Who's having a White Christmas?
/raises claw
It snowed enough yesterday to make everything white.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:16 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Boss Moss
The Mesopotmanians?
Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slurp at December 24, 2025 08:16 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 08:17 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:17 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:14 PM (f5220)
It was the rage in Britain, at some point, to build ruins to have on one's estate...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:17 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Movin' On Up! at December 24, 2025 08:11 PM (oftw2)
Around 2950 feet, according to a topo map found online.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 08:19 PM (npFr7)
Who's having a White Christmas?
/raises claw
It snowed enough yesterday to make everything white.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:16 PM (yreN9)
Rain here. They say it's an atmospheric river...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:19 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 24, 2025 08:20 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
That's right. They also built Church ruins to bury their rich relatives in. It was all the rage.
Posted by: Closer To Heaven at December 24, 2025 08:20 PM (oftw2)
Did she learn how to swim?
Posted by: Boss Moss
=====
In a matter of speaking.
Posted by: Soothsayer
=====
Here's to swimmin' with bow legged wimmen.
- Quint
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 08:20 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:20 PM (f5220)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 08:21 PM (rZCVI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 08:21 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 08:21 PM (rZCVI)
Any Wassailing?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:22 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Kinda sad y'all can't dig a hole in the ground to store water. In many other states, they are called reservoirs.
Posted by: French Term, I Believe at December 24, 2025 08:22 PM (oftw2)
That's nice, Fenelon. Glad it went well.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:22 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 08:22 PM (rZCVI)
Back from candlelight service
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 08:22 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:23 PM (f5220)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
Kinda sad y'all can't dig a hole in the ground to store water. In many other states, they are called reservoirs.
Posted by: French Term, I Believe at December 24, 2025 08:22 PM (oftw2)
In Kali, we blow more dams than we build, and can't blame Kumala for all of the blowing...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:23 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 08:24 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:24 PM (f5220)
TC is a self serving fool.
Posted by: Accomack at December 24, 2025 08:24 PM (/Chlc)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Wow, that means it's downhill to Rowley then.
Posted by: Coasting Away. at December 24, 2025 08:24 PM (oftw2)
Is that going to be on the test?
Posted by: Florida International University Engineering at December 24, 2025 08:24 PM (UYzXg)
I'm not actually sure what "wassailing" is but I think it involves alcoholic beverages and singing . 😉 we can't have alcohol on church property and I'm not about to go to the liquor store right now.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 08:25 PM (rZCVI)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 24, 2025 08:25 PM (aKh6S)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 08:25 PM (rZCVI)
And of course a special thanks to the cobloggers! Give them a hand.
Posted by: Ace
Merry Christmas, Ace!
Merry Christmas, CoBs! 👏
Merry Christmas, Horde!
We all knew garrett was more than a friend.....
Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 08:25 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 24, 2025 08:26 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: torabora at December 24, 2025 08:26 PM (KtOUo)
Posted by: Archer at December 24, 2025 08:27 PM (YGRGv)
Posted by: Javems at December 24, 2025 08:28 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:28 PM (f5220)
Will again tomorrow
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 08:28 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Archer at December 24, 2025 08:28 PM (YGRGv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:28 PM (f5220)
"You had one job."
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 08:29 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 24, 2025 08:30 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 08:31 PM (rdVOm)
It still works.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 08:32 PM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Archer at December 24, 2025 08:33 PM (YGRGv)
Now is that why Dan left?
Is Kash next? How much can he take.
Posted by: torabora a
---
Are they leaving because they have been thwarted in their mission?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 08:34 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Coasting Away. at December 24, 2025 08:24 PM (oftw2)
Rowley is at 2130 feet, so a lot lower, 820 feet lower. Doesn't really feel like it, though. Big part of the elevation difference is that one bank of the Red Deer River canyon is lower than the other.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 08:34 PM (npFr7)
Brown, muddy Christmas. Bah! Humbug!
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 08:34 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 08:35 PM (Ia/+0)
It still works.
Posted by: Cicero
Back when we had malls, there were kiosks at Christmas time selling crosses made of olive wood from Israel.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 08:35 PM (c115l)
It still works.
Posted by: Cicero
Arabs make all the bagels in NYC now too. The old Jews who did that died, or are in The Villages, their progeny went to Law School and are a Royal PITA now. Nothing is the same.
Posted by: Pining For The Fjords at December 24, 2025 08:35 PM (oftw2)
hahaha -
He thought he could hide that in the Content, safe in his assumption that nobody would ever read it.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 08:37 PM (grNgC)
Archer, we had water restrictions through the summer and fall. Barely any rain.
Hubby said probably we'll have a blizzard in May, lol.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 24, 2025 08:38 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 08:37 PM
Well, we are approaching the end of the annual Commenter Review period.
He'd have gotten away with it in January.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 24, 2025 08:38 PM (0sNs1)
He had an incentive to make sure it was overbuilt and wasn’t going to collapse.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2025 08:39 PM (2RHvg)
Having no guest rooms available they may have had to rent a stall that other guests would pay to board their animals in. Maybe same rate?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 08:42 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 08:42 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 08:43 PM (f5220)
2. Can you name them all?
Posted by: Soothsayer
Ten.
Rudolph, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Olive.
Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 08:44 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Time For Change at December 24, 2025 08:44 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 08:45 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 08:42 PM (/lPRQ)
Could also be a part of a cheese factory. "A Whey in a Manger".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 08:46 PM (npFr7)
5 y/o granddaughter asked a couple of weeks ago if it is going to be a brown Christmas.
She's always had a white Christmas.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 24, 2025 08:46 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 08:46 PM (MvI35)
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 08:47 PM (LHPAg)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 24, 2025 08:47 PM (3ek7K)
black people...
Nicki Minaj is no longer a "black American" goblins declare on Black Twitter and Black Tik Tok.
Posted by: Soothsayer
+++++
Meh.
I think she is from Trinidad AND Tobago and would personally not want to be "black American" as many more educated Africans feel.
Granted, she is in entertainment and would be careful not to say that.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 08:47 PM (/lPRQ)
7h
🚨 LMAO! The Democrat lawfare against President Trump may now BACKFIRE, resulting in MARINES being sent into Chicago instead of National Guard
SCOTUS said “regular forces” must be used before the Guard
MARINES are “regular forces”
Posted by: @nicksortor at December 24, 2025 08:49 PM (UYzXg)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:49 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Pining For The Fjords
-------
And the Chinese make our medicine.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 08:49 PM (2ef5s)
black people...
Nicki Minaj is no longer a "black American" goblins declare on Black Twitter and Black Tik Tok.
Posted by: Soothsayer
But still lesbian right, strong and all that?
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 08:51 PM (LHPAg)
Thank you for the daily break from the craziness.
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2025 08:51 PM (LNeRu)
Who the hell is Olive?
Posted by: Soothsayer
She's in the song. "Olive, the other reindeer."
Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 08:52 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Archer at December 24, 2025 08:53 PM (YGRGv)
MARINES are “regular forces”
Posted by: @nicksortor
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I can't find it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 08:53 PM (2ef5s)
Who the hell is Olive?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:49 PM (yreN9)
I thought 'Olive' was the new name.
Used to be Ollie.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 08:55 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 24, 2025 08:56 PM (3ek7K)
SCOTUS said “regular forces” must be used before the Guard
MARINES are “regular forces”
Posted by: @nicksortor
Ooh-rah!
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 08:56 PM (c115l)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 24, 2025 08:58 PM (gm9Sb)
If I touch raw meat I will not touch anything else until I wash my hands.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:58 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 08:59 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 08:31 PM (rdVOm)
We went to the Korean restaurant.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 09:00 PM (rbvCR)
7h
🚨 LMAO! The Democrat lawfare against President Trump may now BACKFIRE, resulting in MARINES being sent into Chicago instead of National Guard
SCOTUS said “regular forces” must be used before the Guard
MARINES are “regular forces”
Posted by: @nicksortor at December 24, 2025 08:49 PM (UYzXg)
Just wait, the next judge will rule the use of the regular armed forces illegal, trying to put Trump in a zugzwang.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 09:00 PM (gKDq2)
Who the hell is Olive?
Posted by: Soothsayer
She's in the song. "Olive, the other reindeer."
Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 08:52 PM (nhCoE)
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How long you been waiting to spring that on us?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 09:00 PM (2WIwB)
MARINES are “regular forces”
Posted by: @nicksortor
__________
When it positively, absolutely has to be destroyed overnight.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 09:00 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Diogenes
That joke is old enough to shave, at minimum.
Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 09:01 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Pining For The Fjords
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And the Chinese make our medicine.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 08:49 PM (2ef5s)
And we run the IT for all of it.
- Indian H1B s
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 09:02 PM (MvI35)
Port of Galveston Offshore Lightering Area (GOLA)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 09:03 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 09:04 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 09:04 PM (MvI35)
Posted by: Pining For The Fjords
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And the Chinese make our medicine.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 08:49 PM (2ef5s)
And we run the IT for all of it.
- Indian H1B s
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 09:02 PM (MvI35)
Those yards aren't going to cut themselves.
- - Jose and Diego
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 09:04 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 09:05 PM (f5220)
Port of Galveston Offshore Lightering Area (GOLA)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 09:03 PM (2ef5s)
Apparently Maduro pays his generals in oil, which is sold overseas where it is easier to launder the money to evade the US banking sanctions. Should the tankers stop running, the money stops flowing and Maduro doesn't have a military any more. The Generals do.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 09:05 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Pining For The Fjords
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And the Chinese make our medicine.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 08:49 PM (2ef5s)
And we run the IT for all of it.
- Indian H1B s
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 09:02 PM (MvI35)
Those yards aren't going to cut themselves.
- - Jose and Diego
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 09:04 PM (2WIwB)
If you guys ever need a place to crash for the night we got you covered.
- The Patels who own every motel in America
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 09:06 PM (MvI35)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 09:07 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 09:07 PM (77rzZ)
Do you dislike using the FBI and the Federal reserve for political purposes, too? And if so, where were you bitching about this the last 4 years.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 09:08 PM (rbvCR)
Kaylee the Calico Kitty Cat (the cutest little cat of them all) absolutely LOVES her catnip-infused kitty treats.
The rest of my feline brood can't be bothered.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 09:08 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 09:08 PM (77rzZ)
SCOTUS said “regular forces” must be used before the Guard
MARINES are “regular forces”
Posted by: @nicksortor
+++++
Who did they deploy to enforce school desegregation on the racist Democrats back in the 50s / 60s ?
82nd or 101st ?
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 09:09 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 24, 2025 09:09 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 09:04 PM (MvI35)
I agree. An absolutely last resort. I don't think the cities have felt enough pain yet. The demand should be from the grassroots...the citizens. Will innocent people be hurt? Yup. But that's on the local government. Not the federal government.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 09:09 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 09:10 PM (f5220)
Posted by: LASue at December 24, 2025 09:10 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 09:11 PM (rbvCR)
Do you dislike using the FBI and the Federal reserve for political purposes, too? And if so, where were you bitching about this the last 4 years.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Right here.
We've been here bitching about it since before Obama was elected. Remember the FBI hounded that poor scientist so hard he committed suicide
over that white powder from Florida?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 09:11 PM (2ef5s)
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And wasn't the bugaboo about enforcing "state law"?
F-U, they are here to enforce the federal laws against killing federal agents and terrorism which the state refuses to support.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 09:11 PM (/lPRQ)
'Who did they deploy to enforce school desegregation on the racist Democrats back in the 50s / 60s ?
82nd or 101st ?'
The 101st.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 09:12 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 09:12 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 09:12 PM (f5220)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 24, 2025 09:13 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 09:05 PM (rbvCR)
Thank you! I’ve been trying to convince people that’s what this is all about! Getting every general to realize their lives could get a lot easier if Maduro wasn’t around anymore.
And there is one other big source of cash for those generals - all of those blue barrel’s in all of those drug boats.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 09:13 PM (7JH4o)
If questioned they reply, 'you know the answers'.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 09:14 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 08:58 PM (yreN9)
Something something Sandra Fluke...
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 24, 2025 09:14 PM (A62KL)
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 09:15 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 09:16 PM (2ef5s)
This is how I know you are not Bobby Flay.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 09:16 PM (grNgC)
And no peeking under the tree
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 09:18 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: KT at December 24, 2025 09:19 PM (7vIsy)
Of course it’s a White Christmas.
We only let non-Caucasians in in the Summer.
Posted by: RI Red at December 24, 2025 09:20 PM (30Gj0)
Posted by: PabloD at December 24, 2025 09:20 PM (Epuwl)
Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) retweeted
🇺🇲 FLEET with 3,000–4,000 assault troops (Marines) spotted TODAY sailing aggressively headed to 🇻🇪
USS Iwo Jima (LHD) + 2 LPDs + AOR can carry ~3,000–4,000 assault troops. AOR, an oiler, fuel.
Add OVEAN TRADER special ops mothership.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 09:21 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2025 09:22 PM (mlg/3)
If any of you are handy Costco has 500ft of 12/2 on sale for 250 dollars.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2025 09:23 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: @nicksortor
__________
When it positively, absolutely has to be destroyed overnight.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
Mrs. O'Leary, a lonely city raises it's eyes to you...
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 09:24 PM (c115l)
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They are going to do that anyway. They went down that path a long, long, long time ago.
This notion that nobody should do anything because the democrats will do what they are gonna do anyway, or already are, is just not persuasive to me any longer.
Expecting civility or restraint or basic decency much less lawful behaviour from these clowns is a fools’s errand. Always has.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2025 09:24 PM (5dzh4)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 09:24 PM (f5220)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2025 09:25 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 09:28 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 09:28 PM (7JH4o)
Tonight I’m sitting by the tree with Christmas music on, enjoying it for a second time.
And the cats are all hung by the fireplace with care.
That took some doing by myself.
Posted by: RI Red at December 24, 2025 09:28 PM (30Gj0)
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 09:29 PM (rdVOm)
Tonight I’m sitting by the tree with Christmas music on, enjoying it for a second time.
And the cats are all hung by the fireplace with care.
That took some doing by myself.
Posted by: RI Red at December 24, 2025 09:28 PM (30Gj0)
Cats are like kangaroos in a way. Give them a hanging stocking/pouch they can climb into and out of and they'll stay there all day.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 09:31 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 09:31 PM (gKDq2)
If cats had opposable thumbs, we’d have been in trouble a long time ago.
Posted by: RI Red at December 24, 2025 09:34 PM (30Gj0)
Posted by: RickZ
Animals are simple that way.
Posted by: some dude in a hammock at December 24, 2025 09:35 PM (nhCoE)
If any of you are handy Costco has 500ft of 12/2 on sale for 250 dollars.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Good price.
I wonder if President Trump's policies lowered the price of CU (copper, for those unaware).
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 09:38 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Thomas Bender
Door Buster Special !
If planning any new projects would definitely look into it.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 09:38 PM (/lPRQ)
We had amazing thick fog yesterday morning and this morning; will probably have more tomorrow. That'll have to do for a "white Christmas" for us. Really not complaining!🌞🤠
MiladyJo fixed "three kinds of fish" for us tonight: salmon and cream cheese on crackers for an appetizer; cod, which wasn't very good, maybe freezer-burnt; and crabcakes, which were great, although not really fish.
Italian-heritage son-in-law and our daughter are in NY with his family for Christmas, so this year we didn't have to suffer through that twenty-seven seafoods or whatever it is Italians like to do.🐟🐠🦈🐡🙂
Posted by: mindful webworker - let it shine, let it shine, let it shine at December 24, 2025 09:39 PM (uPdbI)
This notion that nobody should do anything because the democrats will do what they are gonna do anyway, or already are, is just not persuasive to me any longer.
Expecting civility or restraint or basic decency much less lawful behaviour from these clowns is a fools’s errand. Always has.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2025 09:24 PM (5dzh4)
Political suicidal empathy.
"They went down that path a long, long, long time ago."
Lois Lerner IRS Supervisor extraordinaire. Just one bureaucratic (D) example among many after her. One of those little things that adds up. Pile on cencorship over a laptop and COVID. The FBI going after Catholics, particularly the Latin mass ones. Pile on the FBI going after parents at school board meetings for being 'terrorists'. Pile on the entrapment of J-6. Pile on a whole bunch of crap.
Fuck them. This is war. War for our Country.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 09:42 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: WIRE at December 24, 2025 09:42 PM (grNgC)
Feel good show where Koreans stoically await SMOD to hit the Korean Peninsula.
Many were able to get visas to other countries. Dirt-bags hanging around, living it up, and LARPing the worst Epstein has been accused of.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 09:43 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: some dude in a hammock at December 24, 2025 09:35 PM (nhCoE)
This is true. Though usually not indoors.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 09:44 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 24, 2025 09:44 PM (gm9Sb)
Merry Christmas, everybody!
Posted by: Bach In Black at December 24, 2025 09:45 PM (KY9hS)
My cat is outside, doing cat things. He only comes in when it's cold or raining, mr. rough n tough, LOL
Posted by: JQ
You gonna dress him up for Christmas?
Little hat?
Sweater?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 09:46 PM (yreN9)
They do not hesitate to use every tool in the government tool kit. Unlawfully. Meanwhile, “our side” has been too chicken shit to use those tools for what they are designed & intended for, their very Raison Dètre. It is pathetic.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2025 09:47 PM (5dzh4)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 09:47 PM (2GVsD)
We know some of you (Eris) bought & wrapped presents for your cats & not-cats. It's okay, you can tell us.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 09:48 PM (yreN9)
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Hey, AOP -- Wifey was wondering if you had any thoughts or opinions about the following (presumably support it)?:
[Is this old news or the first time this has been formally attempted?]
Not the Bee
@Not_the_Bee
Alberta to officially start collecting signatures for referendum to secede from Canada
x.com/Not_the_Bee/status/
2003593963350163634
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 09:49 PM (LgsNJ)
Ace spending his Christmas Eve investigating a serial killer is kinda depressing.
What are we going to do with this boy?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 09:52 PM (yreN9)
Last night I put in the DVD for Miracle on 34th Street. I’ve seen it many times, and noticed that there was a commentary track by Maureen O’Hara. It was a real treat to listen to.
Listening to Mark Steyn’s 2025 “Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols” right now, before midnight Mass. (www.steynonline.com).
Buon Natale!
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 09:52 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Jingle Ballz at December 24, 2025 09:57 PM (oftw2)
The bird that built the nest is hatch'd therein,
The old of years an hour hath not outrun,
Eternal life to live doth now begin,
The word is dumb, the mirth of heaven doth weep,
Might feeble is, and force doth faintly creep.
O dying souls! behold your living spring!
O dazzled eyes! behold your sun of grace!
Dull ears attend what word this word doth bring!
Up, heavy hearts, with joy your joy embrace!
From death, from dark, from deafness, from despairs,
This life, this light, this word, this joy repairs.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 10:07 PM (tgvbd)
And there is one other big source of cash for those generals - all of those blue barrel’s in all of those drug boats.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 09:13 PM (7JH4o)
dealing with the money is usually the easy route. Someone is bankrolling Maduro, someone is bankrolling the cartels and someone is bankrolling the ELN. It sure as Hell isn't Cuba and Russia anymore.
Also since there is a lot of money in that oil and in the cocaine being captured and blowed up in the Gulf, some banks are starting to feel the pinch from not having their cut from laundering it, and some governments are starting to really wonder where the money to cover the losses from graft is comin from.
we have been killing people for all my life and it hasn't worked, besides make a lot of people who aren't related to me really rich. I don't think that approach is going to work this time either.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 11:35 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 11:36 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:49 PM (npFr7)
Don't know why that gave me a chuckle but it did.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 07:50 PM (gKDq2)
#metoo
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 03:24 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 25, 2025 03:53 AM (RuTUS)
The Christmas Week In Woke
Stephanie Lundquist-Arora, the Fairfax chapter leader for Independent Women, found that Fairfax County spent $44 million on legal fees between fiscal 2019 and fiscal 2025. She revealed to the Washington Examiner that the school district paid the law firm King & Spalding $980,515.14 between August and September alone. In a FOIA request, she found Fairfax County had a contract paying $1,850 an hour for services rendered in August and November. "Ironically, November is the same month that the district filed Rule 68 in Jane Doe's case to 'save money,'" Lundquist-Arora said.Fairfax County Public School's newest innovation: Claiming that not only do trans boys have the right to use the girls rooms, but non-trans boys who are just gay have that right too, Bigot.
FCPS will pay Jane Doe, represented by America First Legal, nominal damages of $50 and her attorney fees. The case centered on a complaint from Jane Doe that a biological boy was allowed to use the female locker room in West Springfield High School, even though he identified as gay, not as transgender. When Jane Doe complained, she was told to use a single-use restroom. When other female students began to complain on social media, court documents showed the boy wrote an Instagram post, saying, "My counselor and principal both said I'm allowed to go in there, I don't even look at any of you, I go in a stall. You go to a public school, not everything is catered to you." In her latest piece for iWFeatures, Lundquist-Arora wrote, "Cultish trans fervor aside, it doesn't take a legal eagle to know that boys presenting as boys and not even claiming to be transgender are not legally permitted in girls' bathrooms and locker rooms. The male student Jane Doe encountered in the locker room identified as gay, not transgender, according to the lawsuit."Zorhan Mamdani appointed the new chief of the NY Fire Department. Can you guess which boxes she fills? Probably as many as she can. If you guessed the new fire chief would be yet another fat lesbian linebacker like the incompetents that couldn't control the Palisades fires," congratulations -- homophobes.
The Patriot OasisDemocrat candidate for mayor and alcoholic Karen gives cop grief as the cop attempts to get her to take a field sobriety test. Unfortunately, she was not afforded the opportunity to Ride the Lightning. She did not receive a dose of Zeus Juice. The real lesson of Bondi Beach...? The Australian government hasn't done enough to combat "Islamophobia." I agree with the first two thirds of "combat Islamophobia, to be honest. That's the compromise I'm offering. Lefties react to Judge Dugan's conviction: The Nazis purged and arrested judges, too, you know. No, that's not a joke. That's what this guy, a "political theorist," said.
@ThePatriotOasis BREAKING: FedEx wins multibillion-dollar federal delivery contract, uses funds to HIRE foreign workers through the H-1B visa program. CEO Rajesh "Raj" Subramaniam, who was born in India, is facing backlash for firing Americans to hire foreigners. Publicly available immigration data shows a SUBSTANTIAL increase in FedEx’s hiring of foreign workers through the H-1B visa program. Some of the listed salaries for these positions being filled by non-Americans range from about $100,000 to $115,000.
This is beyond the pale. https://t.co/l8DLFbnGJX
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) December 23, 2025
We just passed e-verify in Ohio.
— Rep. Josh Williams (@JoshWilliamsOH) December 23, 2025
If people are hiring illegal aliens, they're breaking state and federal law.
And the media is trying to portray them as the victims. https://t.co/DmUDueeW1w
Madam Secretary Hillary Clinton,
— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) December 23, 2025
If you are convinced that torture is taking place at CECOT, El Salvador is ready to cooperate fully.
We are willing to release our entire prison population (including all gang leaders and all those described as “political prisoners”) to any… https://t.co/GKHMUgeZeO
To keep you alive. That’s the point. The point of food stamps is NOT to make you happy and give you whatever you want. It’s to keep you alive and healthy so you don’t cost us even more $$$ when we have to pay for your healthcare. Want other stuff that makes you happy? Get a job. https://t.co/CMsMsYF7yK
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) December 18, 2025
🚨 BOMBSHELL at AmFest: Dead silence from the TPUSA crowd as Tucker Carlson spends his entire speech shilling for Islam
— Reverend Jordan Wells (@WellsJorda89710) December 19, 2025
- Calls Muslims “mostly good”
- Says it’s “evil” to be anti-Islam
- Compares being Muslim to being black (as if it’s not a chosen ideology)
Zero cheers.… pic.twitter.com/eLtWfP7ZOm
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🚨 BOMBSHELL at AmFest: Dead silence from the TPUSA crowd as Tucker Carlson spends his entire speech shilling for Islam
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That's a lie.
Last I checked people who call themselves "reverend" are supposed to obey the 10 Commandments.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 24, 2025 06:34 PM (wGK1C)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 06:38 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 06:41 PM (c115l)
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 06:42 PM (CNl8/)
Good Lord, she looks like an actual normal woman and human being. What the fuck did the world do to her?
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 24, 2025 06:43 PM (HYKHz)
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 06:43 PM (Slgjz)
Posted by: Abdully al-McAbdulface at December 24, 2025 06:43 PM (0sNs1)
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Is this that "law professor" from Richmond that every NPR story cites?
Posted by: the lower depths at December 24, 2025 06:45 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: Chappyman66 at December 24, 2025 06:46 PM (yLpt1)
Good Lord, she looks like an actual normal woman and human being. What the fuck did the world do to her?
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Check out what happened to Elton John over the years. He didn't just get older and fatter. Something else happened. I've seen it happen a lot with Alphabet People and I no longer think it is a coincidence.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 24, 2025 06:47 PM (UdiE9)
And because it's Fairfax County, every member of the 'Independent Women' will vote democrat.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 24, 2025 06:48 PM (aKh6S)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 24, 2025 06:49 PM (O7YUW)
It's not against the law to be stupid but do we have to have shoved down our throats every day? Just because some people get attention does not make them an expert on anything. If they don't make sense I just file it under garbage.
Posted by: Case at December 24, 2025 06:51 PM (G1OIb)
We need a return to rotten vegetables being thrown.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 24, 2025 06:49 PM
#MeToo?
Too soon?
Posted by: Stocks at December 24, 2025 06:52 PM (0sNs1)
Like it being evil to be anti-Islam.
No, Tucker, Islam is a threat to everyone who isn't Muslim. It's a rejection of Christianity.
If you want to be a stupid, suicidal shit leave God out of it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 06:52 PM (fd80v)
so you agree it's "hateful" to object to the Islamification of the US?
Boy some of you "America First" types have some strange ideas about what America is.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 06:53 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 06:53 PM (grNgC)
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FDNY resignations en masse to follow in 3...2...1...
Posted by: Don Black at December 24, 2025 06:53 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 06:53 PM (Vj99u)
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 06:54 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 06:54 PM (KDPiq)
“The thing that infuriates me most about Tucker isn’t even the Nick Fuentes interviews or the Gaza takes.
It’s the smug, pompous arrogance of a man who’s never spent a single year in seminary declaring with absolute certainty:
“There are no chosen people.”
Bro, that’s straight-up replacement theology on steroids, and it’s demonic.
God’s covenant with the Jewish people is literally all over Scripture—Genesis 12, Romans 11, forever and ever, amen. Yet Tucker, who can’t even quote a verse correctly, struts around like he’s the final authority on theology while mocking actual pastors who’ve dedicated their entire lives to studying the Word.
He doesn’t just disagree with dispensationalists or Christian Zionists. He acts like he’s smarter than Paul, smarter than Moses, smarter than God Himself.
That level of pride isn’t “edgy” or “based.”
It’s the spirit of Lucifer in a bowtie.”
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 06:55 PM (7JH4o)
yup. What did Rush call him? Chatsworth something the Third?
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 06:55 PM (1wjle)
'yup. What did Rush call him? Chatsworth something the Third?'
I thought it was Chatsworth Osbourne IV.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 06:56 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 06:56 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: Don Black at December 24, 2025 06:56 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 06:56 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 06:56 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 06:55 PM (1wjle)
Chatsworth Osborne III.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 06:56 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 06:57 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 06:57 PM (WHfpM)
that's what I thought but I'm getting "jr." on google
then again, google talks like a fag and it's shit's all retarded
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 06:57 PM (1wjle)
How soon thereafter will the common council pass a bill calling for gun confiscation?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 06:57 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 06:58 PM (CNl8/)
Got Fresh Rosemary Focaccia in the oven.
Looking forward to an evening of Jazz LPs and Pinball.
Hope you all have plans for a pleasant Christmas Eve.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 06:58 PM (grNgC)
A lot of downer sort of news today. I'm not against reporting it, it is what it is, better to know about it, but man...
Being sort of antisocial, I have trouble following my own advice, but best for people to network, develop parallel resources that do what the government is supposed to do for us, arm yourselves, learn the law...
Including Jewish people. Or maybe especially at this point. The fuckers admit what they're all about.
The diseased communist bastards are coming for us all, including the useful idiots who imagine they're on the winning team.
Holy shit. Some retirement this is turning out to be. I think something awful is coming. Multiple awful things. It's what they do.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 24, 2025 06:58 PM (t1fZA)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 06:58 PM (0aYVJ)
Something went “boom”, and out went the power in my apartment.
Breakers won’t reset, and maintenance won’t be here for a hour.
… and no, I don’t have candles #notaboyscout 🤦♂️
Posted by: browndog sitting in the dark at December 24, 2025 06:58 PM (7d7sD)
*************
Reminds me of the before and after pics of beautiful teenage girls, who after enduring endless brainwashing by the left look like they rolled around in a junkyard until every loose metal object was shoved into their orifices
It’s so evil and horrific
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 24, 2025 06:58 PM (HYKHz)
i think Tucker has "alternate revenue streams"
the one I'm hoping to see collapse is Me-Again Kelly
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 06:58 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 06:58 PM (2ef5s)
That is definitely where it came from. Rush mentioned it many times.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 06:59 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 07:00 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 06:58 PM (1wjle)
My example that guys will still bang someone they really dislike.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:00 PM (KDPiq)
oof. well, if you have a phone, at least you have something to read.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:00 PM (1wjle)
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I think this is the basis for his worldview.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 07:00 PM (CTokg)
It’s so evil and horrific
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at December 24, 2025 06:58 PM (HYKHz)
Hell, Rachel Madcow was once a pretty young woman. Now she is Harriet Potter.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 07:00 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: GWB at December 24, 2025 07:01 PM (8xNfY)
meh, Me-Again has always been "pretty in theory." If you run the numbers, a computer would tell you she's attractive. But I never actually wanted to throw dick at her.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:01 PM (1wjle)
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Ok. That is the second stupidest thing I've read today.
Look at her eyebrows, eyelashes, ear buds and probably weaves or extensions.
Posted by: clarence at December 24, 2025 07:02 PM (MXMX4)
I always keep one of those candles they sell in the Mexican Food Section for just such an emergency.
The tall glass ones with Mary, Jesus or a random Saint on them.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:02 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 07:02 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Braenyard -"
so many different kinds of "oh hell yes, spot-on!"
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 07:02 PM (Cjt/F)
i'm listening to the podcast now.
Posted by: ace
Read it last night. Only thing for me is his age timeline. He was 20 in '47. That makes him 18 when the war ended in 45. 17 in 1943. Yet he supposedly went thru basic & medical training and then saw enough combat that he had PTSD?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:02 PM (c115l)
i had some of those but I tossed them the last time I moved. I should get more. You never realize how much you need candles until you realize you need candles.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:03 PM (1wjle)
What if you were straight, though?
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:03 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: Archer at December 24, 2025 07:03 PM (YGRGv)
But those Mexican Food Aisle Candles...those I can remember to buy.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:04 PM (grNgC)
I understand not wanting to put in the effort but if it was offered I don't see you turning it down.
( no pancakes for her though)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:04 PM (KDPiq)
Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. He was played by Steven Franken, an actor who had the look. He also played the murderer in a Perry Mason episode, with Julia Adams.
That was one were Perry apparently lost the case at trial and his client was sentenced to the gas chamber. Perry was able to find the real killer, ol' Chatsworth at the last minute.
He dressed up like a woman to do the murder.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 07:04 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: The Truth at December 24, 2025 07:04 PM (R/m4+)
yeah but that seems like a documented fact, right? And supposedly he got caught in a collapsed Japanese cave. who knows what that would do.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:04 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 06:58 PM (1wjle)
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Disappointed with her. She has lost what little credibility she had with me. She blew smoke up Bari Weiss' ass in October and now says she "has no experience in television." True back in October too you know, Megyn.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 07:04 PM (CTokg)
Which show is more unfunny, I Love Lucy or Honeymooners?
Honeymooners Christmas episode, colorized:
https://is.gd/FYVemj
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:04 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:00 PM (1wjle)
Thank the heavens for wireless connectivity as I lost my WiFi when the power went
… hey … miracle of miracles, maintenance is here 🎉
Now can they solve the issue
#staytuned
Posted by: browndog sitting in the dark at December 24, 2025 07:05 PM (7d7sD)
'If voter fraud is cleaned up then we'll know, much better, where we stand as a Republic.'
If it is, it will be after a fight. The 'Rat leaders have telegraphed that they'll abuse their power and perpetrate outright violence to hold their territory.
Their voters keep right on rubber stamping that.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 07:05 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: garrett
well, as straight men could tell you, straight men like women with womanly bodies
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:05 PM (1wjle)
He was on Okinawa. They saw some serious shit. A fellow around here, I've mentioned here over the years, "Ol' Red" we called him, was at Okinawa.
The stories he could tell about what went on there, well, it was awful.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 07:06 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 07:06 PM (wVcYX)
Tucker's very fond of the "absolute certainty" shtick. He likes to make a quasi-declarative statement then follow it up with a superlative, almost as an afterthought, as if he's suddenly given it more conscientious thought.
This comedian's impersonation nails him.
https://tinyurl.com/wkemscxh
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 07:06 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 07:06 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:03 PM (grN
Damn garrett. One of your best LOL: be prepared for return fire at a later date.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:07 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 24, 2025 07:07 PM (UdiE9)
I will have you know that you just ruined 14 year old Keifer Sutherlands Christmas.
(I always laugh at that old gag)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:07 PM (grNgC)
Garrett's Pimp Hand is Strong, even during Christmas.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:08 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 07:08 PM (wVcYX)
she's a lefty feminist, always has been. she's really letting women down right now by changing all of her opinions on Bari Weiss-- and defending CBS "news" -- based on a current feud.
It's... very feminine.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:08 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 07:08 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Count de Monet
Something something blue flame.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2025 07:09 PM (mlg/3)
'She blew smoke up Bari Weiss' ass in October and now says she "has no experience in television."'
Credibility hinges on smoke in Bari Weiss' ass?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 07:09 PM (fd80v)
With the likelihood of death.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2025 07:10 PM (NwnyJ)
When you make one of those comments, you have an obligation to put your name at the TOP of the comment, so I know to swallow my wine before I read it.
Posted by: Wenda at December 24, 2025 07:10 PM (FRS+s)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 07:10 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 24, 2025 07:07 PM (UdiE9)
*side eyes and silently backs out of the room*
Posted by: Ric Gillespie, CEO TIGHAR at December 24, 2025 07:11 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:11 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: ace
He was born Oct 15, 1927.
Oct 15, 1945 was when he turned 18.
WWII ended September 2, 1945. He wasn't 18 yet.
When did he enter the military? When was basic and then M.O.S. training as a medic?
I'm not saying he wasn't the killer, but his timeline is tight.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:11 PM (c115l)
It would be like going to bat for Stephen Glass and the NYT.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:11 PM (grNgC)
I was wrong, it's awful
I think I just knew about fifteen seconds of the song from commercial bumpers
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:11 PM (1wjle)
right but i'm saying is that all known as documented facts from his military records? Like, the amateur sleuth isn't making that up or speculating about that. He has his records.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:13 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: clarence at December 24, 2025 07:13 PM (MXMX4)
This Zodiac/Black Dahlia suspect theory sounds pretty good. The guy was trying to solve the Zodiac code, close to brute forcing as I read it, and came up with a name that turned out to be one of the main suspects in the Black Dahlia case, which wasn't released to the public.
The suspect died of cancer back '92, and before he died did this disturbing painting of a woman apparently cut off at the torso. The name "Elizabeth" and also the word "Zodiac" were sort of hidden in the background, they claim.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 07:13 PM (w6EFb)
It is barely behind the Muppet Christmas Movie as far as I am concerned. Two of the best versions of the tale, imo.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:13 PM (grNgC)
btw i actually listened to all of Paul McCartney's Simply Having a Wonderful Christmastime
I was wrong, it's awful
Posted by: ace
It's the fuckin worst!
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:13 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:14 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 24, 2025 07:15 PM (b4o9z)
Would they have made a 16 year old a medic because that's the age he would have had to be.unless he lied about his age like Audie Murphy
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:15 PM (KDPiq)
He was born Oct 15, 1927.
Oct 15, 1945 was when he turned 18.
WWII ended September 2, 1945. He wasn't 18 yet.
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IIRC the average age of soldiers sent into actual combat in WW2 was a lot higher than in Vietnam. Because we had both a lot of volunteers and a draft that wasn't a joke, there was no need to throw kids into frontline combat.
The fact that the stories involve filmic details like "being trapped in Japanese caves" sounds like total bullshit to me. I haven't looked into this story myself, but I've read a lot of military history. Maybe this is real, but it sounds like it's been written as the plot to a pulp novel.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 24, 2025 07:15 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 07:15 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 24, 2025 07:16 PM (aKh6S)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 07:16 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 24, 2025 07:15 PM (b4o9z)
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Yeah, I tried watching that movie but turned it off after 30 minutes or so.
The television show Millennium did an episode that was clearly inspired by the Zodiac killer. It was somewhat disturbing.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 07:17 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 24, 2025 07:17 PM (IhIKR)
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Do we have his records, or just the "sleuth"? Maybe the sleuth is concealing their evidence where Candance keeps her evidence against Brigitte Macron.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 24, 2025 07:17 PM (UdiE9)
It is incredibly well done.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:18 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: Count de Monet
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Fist bump!
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 07:18 PM (2ef5s)
Just part of it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 06:53 PM (Vj99u)
One microsecond spent shilling for islam means an eternity shilling for Satan.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:19 PM (npFr7)
literally one of my favorite movies
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:20 PM (1wjle)
My limited opinions on the Beatles.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:20 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 07:20 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Count de Monet
You bought the wrong mop!
Posted by: MkY at December 24, 2025 07:20 PM (q6tQZ)
no, they have the records. They pulled them during the grand jury investigation of the murder, and those are available. They have his psych reports and stuff. Cops were looking at him as a suspect in the Black Dahlia case and could never eliminate him as a suspect. (nor definitely prove he had done it.)
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:21 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 24, 2025 07:21 PM (aKh6S)
Here's an NY Post article on this:
https://is.gd/mxle5w
The suspect's military records are known, not speculation. He was in the first invasion wave at Okinawa.
He wanted to become a surgeon, but they turned him down to what they call PTSD now. His hands shook, and he had recurring dreams and displayed aggression. Discharged from the Navy on disability because of all that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 07:21 PM (w6EFb)
Will, so much for the big tent.
Posted by: Sergeant Major at December 24, 2025 07:21 PM (PbU6T)
Searching through old ads and other period information, this investigator determined the one that was in the most likely location for the black dahlia killer to have used - the Zodiac Motel.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 07:21 PM (7JH4o)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:22 PM (KDPiq)
that's a neat detail
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:22 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 24, 2025 07:22 PM (+mUZM)
Power is restored, but I’m without a stove through Monday
Life could be worse, at least I have my meal prep dinners that can be nuked to tide me through
It appears the Apollo spacecraft had more amperage available to run electronics and such than my apartment does
Posted by: browndog sitting in the dark at December 24, 2025 07:22 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:02 PM (c115l)
Some guys lied about their age so they could enlist.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 07:22 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: What the actual fucking fuck? at December 24, 2025 07:23 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: MkY at December 24, 2025 07:25 PM (q6tQZ)
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 24, 2025 07:25 PM (/HDaX)
Posted by: ace
It's very possible it's him. The other thing that's strange, he killed her in '47 and then nothing for the next 21 years. 1968. Serial killers generally don't wait that long between kills.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:25 PM (c115l)
Posted by: Opinion fact
Costner's best film. 'Citizen X' is, IMO, the best serial killer movie. Though, 'Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer' is very disturbing.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at December 24, 2025 07:26 PM (aKh6S)
That would have been March 1945 . He would have just turned 17 five months earlier.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:26 PM (KDPiq)
Everything Paul McCartney ever touched.......
I liked Mull of Kintyre. It's a good drinking song.
Posted by: Case at December 24, 2025 07:27 PM (G1OIb)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 07:28 PM (7JH4o)
oh we don't know that!!!
He claimed he killed 35 people though Zodiac only killed five people (and seriously stabbed two more).
Maybe he did a lot of murders in between.
Also, he fled LA when he was a suspect in the Dahlia case and went to Chicago and Atlanta and Kansas. I betcha cops in those states are now looking at unsolved murders in the late forties and in the fifties.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:28 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 07:29 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 24, 2025 07:30 PM (WL2lA)
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🎄Twelve Days of Madness (as serialized on AOS last year)
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🎄Santa, Dear Friends
For those who may have come to doubt the old elf (text, ill.)
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🎄Journey to Bethlehem
A simple trip to pay the taxes becomes a life-or-death nightmare for a new family
A cartoon-illustrated take on the Nativity story
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🎄Mindful Webworkshop Episode #16 - Christmas
A politically incorrect and culturally inappropriate Christmas show - pop song parodies and original tunes sure to put coal in my stocking. From back in 2016. (vid 11:02)
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That should hold you for twelve days.
Posted by: mindful webworker - jingle them bells at December 24, 2025 07:30 PM (uPdbI)
Posted by: ace
That's true. That's very possible.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 07:30 PM (c115l)
Posted by: C. Tarlson at December 24, 2025 07:30 PM (maMpM)
On that tangent the percentage of homosexual serial killers is far greater than their overall percentage of the population.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:30 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: What the actual fucking fuck? at December 24, 2025 07:23 PM (TbWk/)
Well, that is asking a lot.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 07:30 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: What the actual fucking fuck? at December 24, 2025 07:23 PM (TbWk/)
Close.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 07:31 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 07:31 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 07:32 PM (KDPiq)
It begs the question: Why don't we have "serial killers" anymore?
Or do we?
I wonder if police work is so inept, so unimaginative, and so callous today that a serial killer would go unnoticed.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:34 PM (yreN9)
CEO Rajesh "Raj" Subramaniam, who was born in India, is facing backlash for firing Americans to hire foreigners.
Publicly available immigration data shows a SUBSTANTIAL increase in FedEx�s hiring of foreign workers through the H-1B visa program.
Some of the listed salaries for these positions being filled by non-Americans range from about $100,000 to $115,000.
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Unlike everyone else here, I didn't have a problem with Luigi and the United Healthcare CEO. Pretty much due to the shit like the above.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 24, 2025 07:34 PM (Vh9CX)
Damn garrett. One of your best LOL: be prepared for return fire at a later date.
Posted by: Opinion fact
A number of years ago, i was fresh out of spine surgery with a brand new titanium disk between L5 and S0. Had maybe 8 or 10 staples in my lower abdomen as theynwent in throught front. Reading the smart military blog between naps and garret was on one his legendary snark rolls. Damned near tore two staples laughing at the shit posts he made that day.
Keep it up, dude. In spite of the harrassment, you're what helps make this place family.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 07:34 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:34 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 07:34 PM (3uBP9)
Steve Franken played the characters of Chatsworth Osbourne, Jr. and Winthrop von Money VIII.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent
He was a murderer on Perry Mason and an arsonist on Barney Miller.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 07:34 PM (pkeXY)
You cant
You fucked up and trusted the system that promoted you to failure.
It is called the Peter Principle as you do not have a Peter.
hahaha
It is called the Peter Principle becuase a man named Larry Peter noticed that organization promoted people out of the way so that in the end they were out of the way but were failures.
You failed bitch.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 07:35 PM (gbOdA)
Just part of it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 06:53 PM (Vj99u)
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OK, here's 32 seconds of VDH's introduction to his take down of Carlson.
https://tinyurl.com/b23yhyrs
Here's VDH's takedown of Tucker Carlson;
There is a 1:27second quote of Tucker's idiocy before VDH begins.
Push up to 1:27 if you choose.
https://tinyurl.com/fr7z74b5
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 07:36 PM (2ef5s)
Quick, what's the harshest metal song to slay the McCartney wyrm?!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 07:37 PM (kpS4V)
She's a Knut BUT a) only a complete fool would consent to field sobriety tests and they are typically not required (breathalyzer might be a different story) and b) declining said field sobriety tests (on its own) is typically not sufficient probable cause for an arrest. But she's still a self-important bitch and I have no pity.
Posted by: Driving While an Idiot at December 24, 2025 07:38 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:39 PM (grNgC)
Brother and fam are late. Me and -#1 son getting schnockered.
ooops.
Posted by: nurse ratched
Where's my damned cat nip?
-Lucy the fink
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 07:40 PM (QVmho)
Quick, what's the harshest metal song to slay the McCartney wyrm?!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 07:37 PM (kpS4V)
Slayer Raining Blood?
Posted by: You did say slay at December 24, 2025 07:40 PM (TbWk/)
BRING BACK THE BOMB :
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=YWPCGoO4620
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 07:40 PM (grNgC)
Loved the top comment:
"I am 46, it is not a phase Mom."
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 07:43 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 07:51 PM (MvI35)
It begs the question: Why don't we have "serial killers" anymore?
Or do we?
I wonder if police work is so inept, so unimaginative, and so callous today that a serial killer would go unnoticed.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 07:34 PM (yreN9)
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I remember hearing that there are about +200 serial killers around the USA at any point in time.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 24, 2025 07:52 PM (Vh9CX)
The field sobriety test and other observations are what gives him probable cause to measure BAC with a breathalyzer or blood draw. She ain’t gettin out of nothing. You have to submit to a breathalyzer or blood draw. That’s “implied consent” by virtue of you accepting a DL.
A field sobriety test is not required, if you’re not drunk then demand a breathalyzer or blood draw and have an attorney on speed dial. Technically speaking it is entirely possible to fail a field sobriety test even though no alcohol is in your system.
I’d like to know how many of these whack job bitches are on prescription tranquilizers and “mood elevators” and all that bullshit. They should be prohibited from operating heavy machinery, cars, and government.
This Is Your Government On Drugs <—- you are here
Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2025 07:55 PM (aZxh/)
That was just some bullshit to quiet the peasants. In reality it’s nothing. Was it even implemented? Even if it was it’s nothing compared to the cost savings. Pay $100k one time to save $50-75k a year for 6 years. Deal of a lifetime.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 07:56 PM (MvI35)
“There are no chosen people.”
Bro, that’s straight-up replacement theology on steroids, and it’s demonic.
Listening to Christians ceaselessly advocate for Jews, who rejected Christ, as the chosen people - still - despite that rejection is pretty tedious. Modern Christians don't believe in much of anything, and it shows. Toleration is a fine thing. But Christians weren't always so casual about the rejection of Christ. Christians from pretty much any other era would not recognize the thin soup that the religion has become. No point in believing if it this kind of intrafaith, ecumenical mush.
Posted by: hard pass at December 24, 2025 08:01 PM (aYB33)
Posted by: DanMan at December 24, 2025 08:33 PM (8uzBS)
After the Bruen decision said that states have to actually allow citizens to carry weapons, Hawaii passed laws to allow it but not really. They made it illegal to carry weapons in public places such as grocery stores. Clearly trying to make it impossible to carry except maybe inside your own house.
There's a challenge, Wolford v. Lopez, which has reached the Supreme Court. It basically says Hawaii isn't really complying.
The state of Hawaii is arguing that back when it was a kingdom, and not a part of the United States, it didn't let peasants have weapons; therefore, it is part of Hawaii's culture to forbid the citizens from having weapons, so they shouldn't be forced to grant any Second Amendment rights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A86IvqwM4gc
Posted by: mr_jack at December 24, 2025 08:49 PM (LNPSJ)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 07:09 PM (fd80v)
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Not at all. Credibility depends on being consistent; in approving of Bari's takeover in October but then taking weak ass potshots at her in December.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 09:12 PM (m6HS6)
“There are no chosen people.”
Bro, that’s straight-up replacement theology on steroids, and it’s demonic.
God’s covenant with the Jewish people is literally all over Scripture—Genesis 12, Romans 11, forever and ever, amen. Yet Tucker... struts around like he’s the final authority on theology while mocking actual pastors who’ve dedicated their entire lives to studying the Word.
He doesn’t just disagree with dispensationalists or Christian Zionists. He acts like he’s smarter than Paul, smarter than Moses, smarter than God Himself.
That level of pride isn’t “edgy” or “based.”
It’s the spirit of Lucifer in a bowtie.”
You do realize that Dispensationalism didn't even exist until the 19th Century, and Tucker's belief that "Israel" in the Bible means "people who accept Jesus as the Messiah" was the official theology of the Church for 1800 years?! Tucker is just stating the normal Christian belief. It is this nonsense that Jews who reject Christ are "chosen" that is demonic.
Posted by: Exiled2Texas at December 24, 2025 11:38 PM (YINx+)
Charlottesville, VA Disables Citywide Crime Cameras to Help Illegal Alien Criminals Evade the Law
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- The City of Charlottesville will not move forward with the Flock Safety license plate reader system following the conclusion of a yearlong pilot program, despite reported success in helping police solve crimes. City Council decided during its meeting on Monday, citing concerns largely outside the city's control. "I just think that the concerns are much bigger than us," Charlottesville Police Chief Michael Kochis said. Over the 12-month pilot period, the Charlottesville Police Department gathered feedback from community members on the use of the Flock camera system. "Most of the feedback we got was very positive from folks in the community. That being said, there were some concerns," Kochis said. Among the primary concerns were how data collected by Flock could potentially be accessed or used beyond the city's control, including fears it could be obtained by federal agencies for unintended purposes, such as tracking undocumented immigrants. "The big concerns continue to come up from mostly policymakers that, you know, are they the federal government or the administration in D.C. could get access to it," Kochis said. Despite those concerns, Kochis said the system proved effective during the pilot program. "It's helped us solve our homicide in the city. It has helped us recover a missing child. It has helped us recover missing people. It does help us recover stolen cars in time frames that actually have meaning," he said.But fuck American citizens, the only ones who matter are foreign criminals.
🚨Charlottesville ends use of Flock cameras d/t fear data will be used by @ICEgov to track illegal immigrants
— ((( C-Ville🫧 ))) (@CvilleBubble) December 21, 2025
The tech was instrumental in finding Brown/MIT killer
In one year in C'ville, Flock helped solve a murder, find missing persons, & recover stolen cars, according to… pic.twitter.com/H245cKF6p2
BREAKING: Walid Saadaoui, Amar Hussein, and Bilel Saadaoui, CONVICTED in lSlS t*rror plot which police say could’ve become “the deadliest t*rrorist attack in UK history.”
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 24, 2025
They planned to target the Jewish community and m*rder responding police in a mass casualty event.
The UK… pic.twitter.com/m3AkdeYQaA
Two migrants from Afghanistan have been convicted in London for being part of a prolific burglary and theft campaign targeting gay men on Grindr. Rahmad Khan Mohammadi, 23 and Mohammed Bilal Hotak, 21, met with victims on the gay app to steal their property.
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 23, 2025
Mohammadi was… pic.twitter.com/QBpp333nDI
This is Judge Joy Kennedy
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 23, 2025
Earlier this month, she lowered the bail for a repeat violent offender to $5k in Cleveland
5 days later, he kiIIed Ben McComas pic.twitter.com/bSDadGElI1
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: neverrenoughcaffeine at December 24, 2025 05:33 PM (leOJv)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 24, 2025 05:34 PM (leOJv)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 05:34 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Al Shabbah at December 24, 2025 05:35 PM (vh3n1)
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at December 24, 2025 05:35 PM (cxFcK)
None of them.
Posted by: Accomack at December 24, 2025 05:37 PM (77Bgk)
Meh. I am OK with this, regardless of the impetus.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:37 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Caf at December 24, 2025 05:38 PM (qS/Xm)
Posted by: The Phantom Pooper at December 24, 2025 05:38 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:38 PM (abIsI)
DOJ announced that I to just recovered another ONE MILLION FILES !
Hard to believe that to believe than number of files could have been overlooked? Until now. So a most Merry Christmas to all
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 24, 2025 05:39 PM (4NS/v)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 05:40 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 05:40 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Adriane the Not Enough Christmas Lights, the Airplanes Are NOT Circling Yet Critic . . . at December 24, 2025 05:40 PM (3ZUWJ)
Meh. I am OK with this, regardless of the impetus.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:37 PM (dK+Kv)
Yeah. I'm old enough to remember when we thought it was a bad idea for the government to have cameras everywhere, both as a matter of the nefarious purposes they'd use them for, and the expense.
You know, observing how tyrannies like Britain use them.
Posted by: Methos at December 24, 2025 05:41 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 05:42 PM (Kt19C)
You know, observing how tyrannies like Britain use them.
Posted by: Methos at December 24, 2025 05:41 PM (vSvIl)
It's one reason for lazy, ineffective policing. Instead of prevention by presence and the occasional hickory shampoos, you get armored car riding, no-knock dog shooting, ass-sitting video-watching, investigation after the bodies are cold "policing."
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:44 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 05:45 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Vanishingly Rare Foreign Youkai at December 24, 2025 05:46 PM (eeua8)
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Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 24, 2025 05:47 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 24, 2025 05:48 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Desperate For Excitement at December 24, 2025 05:48 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 05:50 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 05:53 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 24, 2025 05:53 PM (ph+d0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 05:53 PM (tgvbd)
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They'll start using them again when they find out they can track ICE with them.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 24, 2025 05:54 PM (PWcY+)
Posted by: Nannies, Too at December 24, 2025 05:54 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 05:54 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 05:54 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 24, 2025 05:54 PM (CWTWj)
If you don't see illegals committing crimes then those crimes do not exist.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 24, 2025 05:56 PM (0N4FZ)
If you don't see illegals committing crimes then those crimes do not exist.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 24, 2025 05:56 PM (0N4FZ)
And neither do the victims...right?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 05:56 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Nannies, Too! at December 24, 2025 05:56 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 24, 2025 05:56 PM (ynpvh)
Sanctuary city?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:58 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: SciVo at December 24, 2025 06:00 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 06:00 PM (Ia/+0)
What this actually means is that they will keep the cameras on, if one of their brownshirts goes wilding, oops! we don't have cameras anymore!, if you do anything, "WE GOT YOU!". But they will say they've "disabled" them.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 06:02 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 24, 2025 06:03 PM (b4o9z)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 24, 2025 06:03 PM (b4o9z)
Well, it's no blaster.
Posted by: Han Solo at December 24, 2025 06:04 PM (ynpvh)
All of them should be treated as such.
Their Legislatures and Executives should be forcefully disbanded and the members should be jailed.
Their Statehood should be suspended until they have been replaced with properly functioning institutions.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 06:05 PM (grNgC)
Meh. I am OK with this, regardless of the impetus.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
You mean you want your privacy back?
Can't have that now, can we?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 06:10 PM (pkeXY)
Just think of the Social Justice we'd have when that happens!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 06:11 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 06:13 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 06:14 PM (COQGW)
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Sounds like an entendre but actually it's a double truth.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 06:16 PM (2ef5s)
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That has to be the stupidest thing I've read all day.
Posted by: clarence at December 24, 2025 06:16 PM (MXMX4)
'Every single Sanctuary City and State is in active Rebellion against the US Constitutional Republic.'
Thank you. This in insurrection, worthy of implementation of an insurrection act. Treating it as a joke is horseshit.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 06:16 PM (fd80v)
There's nothing that possibly could go wrong with Charlottesville's camera turn-off plan. Kumbaya, even.
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 06:17 PM (wVcYX)
:sigh: I used to be against the panopticon security state, cameras everywhere, snooping constantly for silly traffic violations and the revenue that generated.
But I realize, that only works in, what do they call it, the "high trust society" like we used to have. The Before Time before we started importing 3rd world shit hole populations willy nilly. When you've got a society where any random lunatic may knock some grandma over the head with 2x4 with nails in it, well, my high trust ideal no longer works.
Damn it all to hell.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 06:17 PM (w6EFb)
That bitch Terry McAwful should be in the can along with his redcaps and bullies on the State Police.
Posted by: Travesty of Justice at December 24, 2025 06:18 PM (oftw2)
Do you hate, or do you meta-hate?
Or, put more fully: Do you hatwe the criminal who actually committed the crime -- or do you hate the leftist judges, politicians and citizens who intentionally released this soulles crime-bot into the community to wreak havoc on the fellow citizens?
Personally, I meta-hate, because I do not accord the criminals any shred of humanity, so there's nothing to hate, just like you can't hate a cheetah or a rabid dog.
Posted by: zombie at December 24, 2025 06:18 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 24, 2025 06:20 PM (wVcYX)
Heh. A South Carolina Man made the Daily Mail:
https://is.gd/UN2trh
Just over the river in Spartanburg County, this guy stole a police car and went on a joyride, and drunk to boot. He threw a fit before the judge and threatened to call Trump on the judge.
According to his mother, he ain't right in the head.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 06:21 PM (w6EFb)
'Do you hate the criminal who actually committed the crime -- or do you hate the leftist judges, politicians and citizens who intentionally released this soulless crime-bot into the community to wreak havoc?'
I have enough hate for all of them. That's why my punishment for them is identical.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 06:21 PM (fd80v)
The excuse was intersectionality. Remember? Poor babies, how would they know they can't chase down a grown women for sex? And then it because broader & began to cover awful crimes & more people of certain 'types' - not just those who came illegally over the border but also those with relatives chairing LWVs units in many states.
And don't try to publicly fight back. You'll be next to be charged with a ridiculous summary offense or "almost a hate crime" with substantial fees and affect on jobs.
Pandora's box. They f'ed up and unless you put on the stage show (with mob blessings, Black and White alike) as Frank Rizzo once did in Philly, you're not going to get the towns and cities back to where they once were.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 24, 2025 06:25 PM (NFX2v)
I hate both. I hate bullies and that's what both are but in different ways.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 06:25 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Randolph Duke at December 24, 2025 06:25 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 06:26 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Fairfax County at December 24, 2025 06:26 PM (7vtxe)
They send men into womens prison.
They have drag queens in study hall.
They may not want to bang your children but they will send them to those that will.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 06:27 PM (gbOdA)
Self abuse.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2025 06:27 PM (NwnyJ)
According to his mother, he ain't right in the head.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 06:21 PM (w6EFb)
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Just a good ol' boy, never meaning no harm...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 06:28 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 06:29 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 06:29 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 06:30 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 06:30 PM (KDPiq)
'One would think (and they'd probably be wrong) that people would have enough of this shit.
Self abuse.'
Leftists make it a suicide mission to do anything about it, destroying anyone who tries.
I could see it getting bad enough to want to do it anyway.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 06:31 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 24, 2025 06:31 PM (IX8iX)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 06:29 PM (Ia/+0)
UVA (Charlottesville) has one of the most-respected law school in the country. I know more than one of their law school grads, from years past. Gives one an indication of the lawyers being loosed on America.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 24, 2025 06:32 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 06:32 PM (KDPiq)
'Squat Guat' is just as descriptive and succinct as well.
Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 24, 2025 06:34 PM (LdBR/)
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 24, 2025 06:34 PM (1ah2V)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 24, 2025 06:31 PM (IX8iX)
Mine worked great. I could jump stuff, including a cat and a dog, a whole dog house. Also had sparks. It would go a long ways. Worked better without kneival on, but he helped it to pop wheelies.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 06:35 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 06:35 PM (fd80v)
No, don't make waves, it'll work out.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 06:35 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 06:37 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 24, 2025 06:37 PM (LdBR/)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 06:39 PM (Ia/+0)
'UVA (Charlottesville) has one of the most-respected law school in the country. I know more than one of their law school grads, from years past.'
I'd be more impressed if I regarded officers of the court as anything more than colluders in a scam to keep the leftists and their friends in power.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 06:39 PM (fd80v)
Heh, one of the weather guys at GSP tries to be literary and cute sometimes with his forecasts. He started it off at noon today with "'Twas the day before Christmas and all through the house, the AC is needed, 'cause we live in the South".
I topped out at 79F today.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 24, 2025 06:39 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 06:40 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 06:40 PM (Ia/+0)
'Hardly a day goes by now some Black guy doesn't kill a older white woman'
Yeah. Those are some brave motherfuckers. I'm surprised they're not going after toddlers.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 06:41 PM (fd80v)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 06:43 PM (c115l)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 24, 2025 06:41 PM (fd8
That was years ago where someone at the Mall of America threw the toddler off one of the upper balconies.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 06:43 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 06:44 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 06:45 PM (KDPiq)
Yeah, that.
Posted by: Chappyman66 at December 24, 2025 06:47 PM (yLpt1)
I think most Law Schools turned into Cultural Marxist Seminaries, probably don't even teach the Constitution anymore
Posted by: Skip
Just like the Hippocratic oath.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 06:49 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 06:53 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 06:54 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: IronDave at December 24, 2025 06:57 PM (K6UoY)
Posted by: Boondocks at December 24, 2025 07:47 PM (retOh)
Do you hate, or do you meta-hate?
Posted by: zombie at December 24, 2025 06:18 PM
It's cool to hate.
YouTube: https://bit.ly/49s3V2s
Posted by: The Offspring at December 24, 2025 08:12 PM (P5BPp)
The Games We Used to Play Open Thread
So I did this post as an open thread for Christmas, but then didn't like the reduction of the holiday to its commercialized aspect.
But I think it's okay if I post it on Christmas Eve, maybe? "For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself." -- A Christmas Carol Does that cover me?Board games of the 70s, including the one where you have to escape from the sinking Titanic. I have it cued up to that one but feel free to check out the others. Stay Alive -- the survival game. I never understood the appeal of this one. Mousetrap. I tried to make the trap work -- I didn't bother playing, just assembling the trap -- and I was disappointed. I don't remember making the Rube Goldberg contraption actually work. The classic -- ? -- Connect Four commercial. Bermuda Triangle game commercial. A how-to-play for Bermuda Triangle. Merlin commercial one. Merlin commercial Two. This song continues as an earworm in my head. Simon in the 70s, with Vincent Price as the pitchman. Simon in the 80s and the 90s. You can tell it's the 90s because now Simon is RADICAL! Stop Thief!, after the end of a Norelco commercial. And of course: Mattel's handheld electronic games, including football.
Scarborough says there's nothing damning on Trump in the new Epstein Files
— Martin Walsh (@martinwalsh__) December 23, 2025
“One of the great mysteries to me … we've had reporting for some time. Donald Trump is not on Epstein's list. There's nothing in there that's really damning about Donald Trump”pic.twitter.com/SeWRQuXztD
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 04:23 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 04:24 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 24, 2025 04:24 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 04:25 PM (vFG9F)
Does that cover me?
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Works for me.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 24, 2025 04:26 PM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 04:27 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 24, 2025 04:27 PM (LdBR/)
We were reliably told that we had planted evidence. What has happened to our people on the inside?!
Posted by: Joe "The Intern Hunter" Scarborough at December 24, 2025 04:28 PM (mexfo)
https://tinyurl.com/3y26h9ff
with the video here:
https://tinyurl.com/4b6j8rxu
I don't know why it works, but it works.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 24, 2025 04:28 PM (pIfcn)
One time we played it (ma and 3 siblings), and got in such a fight, that my mom threw out the game.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:28 PM (NuV6c)
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Maybe you left out a key step. I was able to get the Rube Goldberg contraption to work OK. It was a bit janky, but it would do the job.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 04:28 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 04:29 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 04:29 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 04:25 PM (vFG9F)
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Played a lot of Stratego when I was kid. My sisters preferred "The Game of Life". The wheel went "WWwwwwzzzzzzz"
Posted by: mrp at December 24, 2025 04:29 PM (rj6Yv)
— Scott Adams, How the Gamesman Began, p. 51
One of these days I need to finish one of his games. They were always fun and there are emulators available
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 04:30 PM (EXyHK)
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Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 04:31 PM (2vrAX)
MERRY CHRISTMAS, YA FILTHY IDIOT!
Love of course to the Horde this Christmas. I miss this place, but full-time work plus a side gig has its price.
Posted by: Catherine at December 24, 2025 04:31 PM (ZSsrh)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:31 PM (NuV6c)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 04:32 PM (pkeXY)
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Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 04:32 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at December 24, 2025 04:30 PM (zQLjY)
Well that fell flat.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at December 24, 2025 04:32 PM (zBIzS)
I simply get bored, really quickly, and it turns into a chore for me to pretend to be interested.
Except Pictionary. I am good at that.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 04:33 PM (0aYVJ)
Those were really lame, even for the '70's.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:34 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: Rachel Corrie
>>Well that fell flat.
Can we interest you in a Tonka toy, Rachel?
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:34 PM (NuV6c)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes
Sandra Bullock looked hot in that movie.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:34 PM (abIsI)
I liked managing the property deeds, so that was my job.
The rule was Loser Puts Up the Game.
Posted by: sal at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (f+FmA)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:34 PM (COQGW)
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Tiny felt footballs.
Posted by: mrp at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:30 PM (abIsI)
That's a gateway game to Russian roulette, you know.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (COQGW)
Dayum! It's cold out there. Four below zero, and snowing lightly, and a breeze, too. Too flippin' cold for me to want to fire up the snow blower. Put the #1 Suburban into 4High, and ran back and forth to make tracks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (CNl8/)
I spent more time on that console than any other device in my life. I'd rather play Combat than Fortnite.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:36 PM (NuV6c)
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Posted by: Nova Local at December 24, 2025 04:38 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 04:38 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 04:38 PM (dGdfE)
Posted by: Kevin Canuck at December 24, 2025 04:38 PM (/xmMU)
Nice. I still have a Playstation I and II.
I sold my Sega Genesis and all its components and games years ago. Big mistake. Apparently that sealed Final Fantasy that I included in the package was worth more than half a dozen of the consoles.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 04:38 PM (grNgC)
Then, there was Tic-Tac-Toe, using sticks to mark the dirt.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (abIsI)
One time we played it (ma and 3 siblings), and got in such a fight, that my mom threw out the game.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:28 PM (NuV6c)
A few years back, Target had a version that was labeled "Now, With Crushing Debt!"
Always regretted not buying that--it was a one-season offering.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 04:38 PM (dGdfE)
Mumbledy, mumbledy Peg Bundy. Why, yes, I would.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (CNl8/)
I recall either Joe Mannix or YD commenting about how their Monopoly games always ended in violence. This was some years ago.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (0aYVJ)
Dayum! It's cold out there. Four below zero, and snowing lightly, and a breeze, too. Too flippin' cold for me to want to fire up the snow blower. Put the #1 Suburban into 4High, and ran back and forth to make tracks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (npFr7)
High today in AJ is 71.
I saw you plan to travel after Christmas. Safe journey!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (QGaXH)
Look back now and it looks like a ridiculous football game that no kid would play with in today's world.
Posted by: Jackson at December 24, 2025 04:40 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (abIsI)
He was quite wise no matter his BAC.
Posted by: Catherine at December 24, 2025 04:40 PM (ZSsrh)
Posted by: Zombie Gunnery Sergeant Hartman at December 24, 2025 04:40 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: FollyHerself at December 24, 2025 04:40 PM (dyewR)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 04:41 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 04:41 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Mark1971
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Are you talking about fun or hours required?
Posted by: Kevin Canuck at December 24, 2025 04:41 PM (/xmMU)
Good Memories!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (QGaXH)
It was based on commodities trading and the goal was to corner the market.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (NuV6c)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (XeU6L)
You had toes? LUXURY!
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: Jackson at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (J9q9v)
-Jim Cramer
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 04:43 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Kevin Canuck at December 24, 2025 04:41 PM (/xmMU)
LOL. My cousins and I played a game of Axis and Allies that started in early afternoon and went to 6 am the next morning.
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 04:43 PM (CNl8/)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:43 PM (abIsI)
If you all don't have a version of Wits and Wagers, ala the fair Trivial Pursuit game, b/c it's not what you know, it's who you gamble on, you're missing out. And it's done in 7 questions per game...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 24, 2025 04:43 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:44 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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Probably a good move in general, but now look at your life--spending Christmas even sh*t-posting on the moron site with all of us losers
Posted by: Kevin Canuck at December 24, 2025 04:44 PM (/xmMU)
Posted by: Jackson at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (J9q9v)
I remember being so jealous of kids that had those!
I liked games in phases. Hungry Hungry Hippo was always fun tho.
Posted by: Catherine at December 24, 2025 04:44 PM (ZSsrh)
Kenner Girder and Panel Hydro-Dynamic Building Set
I'd kill someone to have one again.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 04:44 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Kevin Canuck at December 24, 2025 04:41 PM (/xmMU)
LOL. My cousins and I played a game of Axis and Allies that started in early afternoon and went to 6 am the next morning.
Posted by: Mark1971
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Respect
Posted by: Kevin Canuck at December 24, 2025 04:44 PM (/xmMU)
It was based on commodities trading and the goal was to corner the market.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (NuV6c)
That one was raucous!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 24, 2025 04:45 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at December 24, 2025 04:45 PM (GSe6k)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Stay Fresh, Cheese Bags at December 24, 2025 04:39 PM (0aYVJ)
Probable Hasboro could have gotten more sales if they had the "Bankruptcy expansion pack"
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 04:45 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Catherine at December 24, 2025 04:40 PM (ZSsrh)
I think it was the Aunt that was drunk.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 04:46 PM (QGaXH)
Hell, Now the toothpaste is locked up so people will not steal them...
Posted by: Jackson at December 24, 2025 04:46 PM (J9q9v)
I'd kill someone to have one again.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 04:44 PM (cYBz/)
Chy-nah scarfed them all up to build the Three Gorges Dam.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:46 PM (npFr7)
Smartest move of the game. Kindling.
What a total scam of a game. Worst. "Game." Ever.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 24, 2025 04:46 PM (gLikB)
I'd kill someone to have one again.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 04:44 PM (cYBz/)\
How did you contain the plasma?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 04:46 PM (rbvCR)
“One of the great mysteries to me … we've had reporting for some time. Donald Trump is not on Epstein's list. There's nothing in there that's really damning about Donald Trump”
___________
What's the mystery? Trump can find his own quiff just fine. He didn't need Epstein.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 04:47 PM (tgvbd)
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Nanci Griffith, 'Love at the Five and Dime'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GK462XnRjQ
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:47 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 04:48 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 04:48 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 04:48 PM (L/fGl)
Well, maybe NERF football.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at December 24, 2025 04:49 PM (gLikB)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
Who Can Eat the Monopoly Money Fastest? Great game.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2025 04:49 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 04:48 PM (L/fGl)
How do you appear after the bar?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:50 PM (npFr7)
I think I last pulled it out 15 years ago and played it with my kids, when they were actually still kids.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at December 24, 2025 04:50 PM (5yDGQ)
I had a nice one. I don”t recall following the instructions. Just mixing stuff at random over the burner and noting which had the most interesting (i.e. explosive) results.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 04:50 PM (EXyHK)
Hey, I don't even need to de-sock from two threads ago for this one.
Posted by: Squidward at December 24, 2025 04:50 PM (3nLb4)
You do still enjoy a nice glass of Pomeroy's Plonk or Chateau Thames Embankment though, right?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:50 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:51 PM (NuV6c)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 24, 2025 04:51 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: 496 at December 24, 2025 04:51 PM (kTtsV)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 04:51 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Old Fart Who Knows The Mystery at December 24, 2025 04:51 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (yreN9)
I'd kill someone to have one again.
Posted by: Tonypete
How did you contain the plasma?
Posted by: Kindltot
It's easy once you map out the laminar flows, boundary layers, and skin friction drag.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (cYBz/)
We also played Mastermind and Uno a lot.
Also Trivial Pursuit was popular when I was a teen.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (6ydKt)
Kenner Girder and Panel Hydro-Dynamic Building Set
I'd kill someone to have one again.
Posted by: Tonypete
I had one of those. Spent many an hour pumping and dumping water.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Cicero
Of course.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (L/fGl)
There are some rather strong suggestions that Donald Trump is a heterosexual male. Make of that what you will.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: L - No nic
Fun for a time but by college, they moved into a whole different realm.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 04:53 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
Just seeing them runs my blood cold.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 24, 2025 04:53 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 04:54 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 04:54 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:55 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: RPL at December 24, 2025 04:55 PM (6lCOl)
Posted by: PA Dutchman at December 24, 2025 04:56 PM (31p00)
Posted by: Tonypete
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Ah. Fluid dynamics have entered the chat.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:56 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 04:56 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 04:56 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 04:56 PM (6ydKt)
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=R-5L8mZtyMI&list=
PLJkeDBmFGaFCtwYv4dJRDYUBfXHWrXIWq
Might be the best Christmas LP I own.
Posted by: RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO at December 24, 2025 04:58 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
I would be kicking everyone's butt and then would hit the popular culture questions and stalled.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 04:58 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: tubal at December 24, 2025 04:59 PM (M6VqZ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:55 PM (npFr7)
The Pentecostal version of the game had the snakes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:59 PM (COQGW)
I also had a merlin, like most cool hip kids who were down with it.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 04:59 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 04:55 PM (npFr7)
The Milton-Bradley version since 1943 was always Chutes and Ladders, but it’s basically the same game I think.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 05:00 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Tonypete
Aha! So I've heard. 🤨
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 24, 2025 05:00 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 05:00 PM (npFr7)
I mostly preferred to read. Then came video games, like SNES games and that was it for human interaction.
Oh yeah, we did still play dice games. Not craps. More like Yatzeee and some offshoots like Zilch. Literal hours of each day of everyone sitting around a kitchen table, eating snacks and rolling dice.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 24, 2025 05:00 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2025 05:01 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: tubal at December 24, 2025 05:01 PM (M6VqZ)
No, really.
Ah youth. . .
Posted by: Zombie Gunnery Sergeant Hartman
I recall a few raised eyebrows when I went to the checkout line with a Twister game, a large jar of Crisco Oil and thirty feet of rope.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 05:01 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Beverly at December 24, 2025 05:01 PM (6NOyf)
Posted by: Hugh Jass at December 24, 2025 05:02 PM (UslNH)
Might be the best Christmas LP I own.
Posted by: RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO
Your link is farked.
https://is.gd/4QMuSi
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:02 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 05:02 PM (Cjt/F)
Thanks for fixing it for me...never tried linking an Album in Playlist Format.
Apparently, I fucked that up.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Wenda at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (FRS+s)
The new Mr. Coffee machine just arrived. (An emergency Christmas present to myself.)
The world is a better place already.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: tubal at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (M6VqZ)
Posted by: Hugh Jass at December 24, 2025 05:05 PM (UslNH)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 05:05 PM (3uBP9)
Who wants to see Our Favorite First Lady?
President answers calls from NORAD.
With Melania looking wonderful & majectic in the background:
https://is.gd/eDNe9D
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:05 PM (yreN9)
I believe TODAY is the Holiest of Holy days. Tomorrow is after-the-fact.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (yreN9)
Easter.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 24, 2025 05:05 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 05:05 PM (E0p3T)
Ever step on jacks?
Posted by: tubal at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (M6VqZ)
__________
Then: Legos
Now: Dog kibble
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 05:06 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Jill at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: tubal at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (M6VqZ)
Yes, still better than clear plastic Christmas bulb caltrops.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Wenda at December 24, 2025 05:04 PM (FRS+s)
My friend's parents, until the days they died, kept a puzzle on the dining room table, except at holidays. It was always a many hundred-piece puzzle and it would just sit there and those passing by might put a piece or two in. Completing it might take weeks. I have no idea what they did with all those puzzles.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (gKDq2)
Yes, I used to be a 14 year-old boy. Some would argue I still am.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: 496 at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (khVJI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (npFr7)
You see that?
The Pentagon's NORAD took calls from children, and the President talks to the kids.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (yreN9)
I found it utterly impossible, and constantly got shocked, every five seconds.
I later read that the game was basically training to be a dentist, because dentists often have to look at your teeth (and do procedures) reflected in one of the long "dental mirror" rods.
If you do good at Tantalizer, it sends a message to the American Association of Dental Surgeons, and within minutes men in black suits and dark glasses show up at your door and abduct you for training and a lifetime career as an indentured dentist, whether you like it or not.
Posted by: zombie at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2025 05:01 PM (mlg/3)
I generally don't like the remakes but I did enjoy the remake of The Bishop's Wife almost as much as the original. Of course they had to do a race swap but you can't have everything.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (QGaXH)
We had the Atari 2600 and I mostly played Pac-Man, Pitfall, and Frogger.
Then with Nintendo it was Super Mario, Top Gun, and Legend of Zelda.
Played a lot of other games, too, but those were my favs.
I had a Sega Game Gear and Genesis was last, played John Madden Football to death, before moving on to PCs.
Haven’t owned a console since the late 90s.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 05:08 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (yreN9)
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Easter.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 24, 2025 05:05 PM (tOcjL)
I agree. Being born is pretty easy. Rising from the dead? Not so much.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:08 PM (gKDq2)
Just love the looks they give each other toward the beginning. Genuinely happy.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 05:09 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 05:09 PM (pkeXY)
How are you Wenda. I hope you are hanging in. Merry Christmas!
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 05:09 PM (E0p3T)
Then we went over to playing Twister and shoving and punching each other.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (NFX2v)
Contra was my jam when I went to a friends house. We didn't have a Nintendo.
Posted by: Jill at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (grNgC)
I got put outside and told to find a stick to play with.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: zombie at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (oraVG)
Aha! We now see revealed the roots of your obsession with conspiracies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (CNl8/)
I believe TODAY is the Holiest of Holy days. Tomorrow is after-the-fact.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 04:52 PM (yreN9)
Easter.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 24, 2025 05:05 PM (tOcjL)
No love for National Donut Day?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 05:11 PM (pkeXY)
Loved that game.
It was also good to get on Mom’s nerves with by intentionally hitting the edges to get it to buzz.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 05:12 PM (6ydKt)
I never had that one but I had the skyscraper one and the bridge one. It taught me that my path in life was engineering. (Math later convinced me otherwise.)
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 05:12 PM (1wjle)
Who wants to see Our Favorite First Lady?
President answers calls from NORAD.
With Melania looking wonderful & majectic in the background:
https://is.gd/eDNe9D
Posted by: Soothsayer
She's lovely, always.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 24, 2025 05:12 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Tuna at December 24, 2025 05:12 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 05:13 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:13 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Thomas Paine
Did anyone direct you to where they were selling courgettes?
Posted by: GKWVE at December 24, 2025 05:13 PM (vi3Cj)
Posted by: Granpa Ace at December 24, 2025 05:13 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 24, 2025 05:14 PM (FLiOE)
Posted by: Jill at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (grNgC)
Had a friend who owned Contra.
Borrowed that one several times to play it.
Probably the first great military game, at least in my mind it is.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 05:14 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 05:15 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Mark1971 at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (CNl8/)
Waders of the Lost Narc. Tragic story of a DEA group fishing vacation to the headwaters of the Missouri River, gone terribly wrong.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 05:15 PM (npFr7)
sometime in the early 2000s I discovered 3D jigsaw puzzles.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 05:15 PM (1wjle)
Not a board game, more of a body puncture game - has anyone mentioned Jarts?
My high point with Jarts was when we were visiting an uncle I didn't really like, and it was only my parents and me. (brother and sister got dropped off somewhere, they were lucky) So the adults all talked in the living room, and I got sent out in the yard to play by myself. I found a set of Jarts, and decided to see how high I could throw them. Yeah, the fun is in dodging them. (that's what 12 year old boys do)
But he had trees in his yard, and one got stuck in a branch about 25 feet up. So I said to myself "uh oh I'm gonna be in trouble, better knock it down." Well you know what happened. After Jart #2 joined #1, it wasn't long before #3 and #4 were up there as well.
Luckily about then parents called "time to go!" and I just said goodbye to Uncle I didn't really like anyway and never said anything to anybody. Heh I do wonder about the next time anybody went out to look for those things.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 05:15 PM (uWKK8)
Yes, I used to be a 14 year-old boy. Some would argue I still am.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 24, 2025 05:07 PM (MZ+PY)
I liked the S & T games, with the hexagon map grids. Stalingrad, Frigate (War in the Age of Sail), Gettysburg, etc.. Spent hours playing those.
There was this two-book game called, I believe, 'Ace of Aces'; a WWI dogfight game. It was a small flip book and each player had one, calling out pages (for manouvers) until either both planes flew away from each other or one of you got shot up. That was fun. Lots of imagination in picturing the dogfight in your head. Easy to carry around, too.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:16 PM (gKDq2)
it was pretty good! I really liked the pieces and the nineteenth century theming.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 05:16 PM (1wjle)
But few people around wanted to play it so I rarely got to.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 05:16 PM (6ydKt)
Unfortunately, I had to have a friend over if I wanted to play Stratego. My sister would never play that one.
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 05:17 PM (grNgC)
My granddaughter Maria died two weeks before Christmas last year, so this first anniversary has been tough. But I've sort of had my Christmas reading about all of yours.
And tomorrow night my son arrives with his kids and some of their friends, so for the next month (!!) I will have a houseful.
And since my son is the bossiest man you will ever meet, I'm not even bothering to plan. He'll do it all!
Posted by: Wenda at December 24, 2025 05:17 PM (FRS+s)
Gettysburg!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 04:48 PM (tgvbd)
My dad had an awesome Gettysburg game, with the hexaganol movement spaces. He loved wargames - he would always play as Lee, and let my brother and I have the Federal Army. He always kicked our asses.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 05:17 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 05:18 PM (grNgC)
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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I don't know who gave us a Ouija board-- parents did not approve-- but it was there in our game closet.
I remember getting scolded, when caught playing it with my friend. It's an evil thing, Mom said.
Year or so later, Mom hollered at me for "rescuing it" from the trash can. (I had not.)
Then Mom burned it, like she "should've done when it first arrived."
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 05:18 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
I only hear Snakes and Ladders on British tv or in British books.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 05:18 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: GKWVE at December 24, 2025 05:18 PM (vi3Cj)
Girder and Panel in general was a great toy. We used to build them for our slot car layouts.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:18 PM (abIsI)
No Steve Jackson Games Car Wars?
https://carwars.sjgames.com/
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:18 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 04:42 PM (COQGW)
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Winter means Basement Jarts! 🩸
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 05:19 PM (kpS4V)
'I'll bet your hair smells good little girl....wanna touch the hair on my leg?'
I will always wonder if it wasn't an unwritten rule around the 'in' crowd to keep your young daughters away from him.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 05:20 PM (QGaXH)
Also King Oil, Gambler, and some oldies like Careers, Go To The Head of The Class.
Kinda a golden age before video games killed it and it became niche.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:20 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:20 PM (gKDq2)
Quite a common move in board games.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 05:20 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 05:20 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 24, 2025 05:20 PM (bQ4nt)
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Loved that!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 05:21 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 05:18 PM (1wjle)
In the Canada of my yoot, we had toys, books and games of British origin, and also toys, books and games of U.S. origin. Best of both worlds.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 05:21 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Lizzy
kind of the same. I think I rquit when I started out with a crappy job.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 05:21 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 05:21 PM (Ia/+0)
Who wants to see Our Favorite First Lady?
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Dated a girl who was much like out First Lady.
Courted her, in retrospect spent more money on her than any other girl. She insisted on being good friends.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 05:21 PM (2ef5s)
Changer in 1943 to make it more Kid friendly
Posted by: It's me donna at December 24, 2025 05:22 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at December 24, 2025 05:22 PM (KaHlS)
My mom and I were talking about how much things have changed and how people aren't into getting stuff on Xmas so much, but it's because back in the day you got stuff two days out of the year, and now you can get pretty much anything whenever.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:22 PM (asXVI)
The family is suboptimal. Hunter's kid with the stripper is probably going to turn out best.
Posted by: GKWVE at December 24, 2025 05:23 PM (vi3Cj)
I don't recall playing many home games as a kid. There were a few with the little arrow spinner that you flicked to have it tell you where to start play, but I don't recall actual names. I was more into the plastic assembly kits, Aurora, Revell, AMT, etc.
Oh, and I just got off the phone with my oldest friend. He's doing well in Florida. Like me, he admits he's become something of a hermit now (despite having his wife of many years and his grown sons there with him), and doesn't trust people like we used to. I told him, "A low-trust society? It stinks."
He's a big Trump supporter, and even used the term "The Deep State." Guess he got it from Trump; I don't know if he reads much alternative news on the 'Net.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 05:23 PM (wzUl9)
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Some marketing genius thought "Lord of the Flies" was a good premise to promote a kid's game. I got a kick out of the winner having a Brooklyn dialect.
Posted by: Orson at December 24, 2025 05:24 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 05:24 PM (tgvbd)
My nurses bought me the Grinch christmas version of Operation, and we will be playing it tonight!
Posted by: Dr. Nick Riviara at December 24, 2025 05:24 PM (D836D)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 05:24 PM (EXyHK)
Got the kids thinking about gambling and poker hands. What's not to like?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:24 PM (abIsI)
I remember having fun at that. And the smell of the plastic-soldier/monster/whatever factory. Smelled so toxic and good.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:25 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 05:25 PM (Ia/+0)
I'm watching Car 54, Where Are You's Christmas episode:
click here & enjoy too
https://is.gd/QBIaIJ
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:26 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Spock, son of Sarek at December 24, 2025 05:26 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:26 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 05:27 PM (kpS4V)
Sorry!
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at December 24, 2025 05:27 PM (V362x)
Boggle?
Posted by: garrett at December 24, 2025 05:27 PM (grNgC)
Designer Steve Jackson was trying to come up with a "microgame" that could be sold inexpensively ($3). He wanted to make a science fiction wargame. He had a limited budget for pieces, and had a brilliant idea: what if one player only had one piece, but it's a really strong piece?
One player controls the Ogre, a giant cybernetic tank with lots of guns and missiles. The other player has a force of tanks, combat hovercraft, artillery, and infantry.
When I played it back in the day, whoever had the Ogre would win. As an adult I realize the game is balanced and the Ogre can be beaten.
It's still available and still has hardcore fans.
Posted by: mr_jack at December 24, 2025 05:27 PM (LNPSJ)
Winter means Basement Jarts! 🩸
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 05:19 PM (kpS4V)
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Break barrel BB pistol with a set of darts.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 05:27 PM (2ef5s)
Got the kids thinking about gambling and poker hands. What's not to like?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:24
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When I was a kid it was the height of hilarity to remove the bottom from the dice cup when the other players weren't looking.
Posted by: Bigsmith at December 24, 2025 05:28 PM (1Au9i)
Losing a "Sorry" game to my granddaughter has made my Christmas Eve.
Losing a Cribbage game to my son later will make it a perfect day.
Posted by: Auspex at December 24, 2025 05:28 PM (YAFrp)
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:28 PM (gKDq2)
Trouble?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:28 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:29 PM (abIsI)
I'm watching Car 54, Where Are You's Christmas episode:
click here & enjoy too
https://is.gd/QBIaIJ
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:26 PM (yreN9)
Sung in increasing frantic voice:
There's a holdup in the Bronx
Brooklyn's broken out in fights
There's a traffic jam in Harlem that's backed up to Jackson Heights
There's a scout troop short a child, Kruschev's due at Idylwild
CAR 54 WHERE ARE YOU?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 05:29 PM (QGaXH)
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"It's A Wonderful Knife" (2023) is absolute trash and woke and obvious.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:29 PM (asXVI)
Hadrian your mothets HS education was probably much better than what the Universities have these days
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 05:25 PM (Ia/+0)
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I have a general-education book she bought in school in the 1940s. You'd be better educated reading that than most college students today.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 05:30 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: mr_jack at December 24, 2025 05:30 PM (LNPSJ)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:30 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:26 PM (abIsI)
Trouble.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:30 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 24, 2025 05:31 PM (DoBxX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 05:31 PM (VMttT)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 05:31 PM (VMttT)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 05:31 PM (VMttT)
We smeared ours.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:32 PM (dK+Kv)
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I played Mille Bornes as a kid, then I played it with my kids, and with luck, I'll play it with my grandkids.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:32 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Tuna at December 24, 2025 05:33 PM (lJ0H4)
Follow them and it will work.
Just like Ikea shelving.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 05:33 PM (/lPRQ)
(Maybe I should use my non seasonal nic for this - bob (moron incog.)
I have two WWII peeves and one just got triggered at another site.
1. That damn "survivor bias" meme with the image of the plane with bullet holes. You all must know it.
I refuse to believe that the engineers at the time were too stupid to understand the importance of control lines, fuel tanks, and pilots. I will say no more.
2. (The one that got triggered.) Gerry Can v. US fuel cans -- "look how inferior the allies were."
Why do people insist on comparing a disposable can used to ship boatloads of fuel and distribute all over the continent to a utility can designed to be reused? Do they really think the Americans were so stupid they just had no good ideas at all? It's a wonder we won.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 05:33 PM (fsyiM)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 05:34 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 24, 2025 05:34 PM (u73oe)
Maybe see everyone on the ONT?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 05:34 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:26 PM (abIsI)
Trouble.
Posted by: Catherine at December 24, 2025 05:34 PM (ZSsrh)
the name of the game is...
Ball Buster
https://is.gd/PvL7XQ
Posted by: Soothsayer
LOL
No mention of wearing eye protection.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:34 PM (abIsI)
I remembered you had had something happen but I wasn't sure if it was around Christmas or not. Happy to hear there is some good around.
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 05:34 PM (E0p3T)
Growing up in Brooklyn, it was kick the can, stickball, box baseball, Ringo-Lee-vee-O , pitching pennies, and so on and so on.
A vanished world I'm afraid. Long ago and oh so far away...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 05:35 PM (x0n13)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 24, 2025 05:35 PM (leOJv)
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I played Mille Bornes as a kid, then I played it with my kids, and with luck, I'll play it with my grandkids.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:32 PM (asXVI)
We played it as teens. "Coup Fourré!", of course, became "Boof! You're gay!"
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:36 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 05:36 PM (kpS4V)
As far as I could tell it was an excuse for old ladies to get together, drink wine, and eat Brie.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 05:36 PM (6ydKt)
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I played Mille Bornes as a kid, then I played it with my kids, and with luck, I'll play it with my grandkids.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books)
They call a flat tire a Puncture.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 05:36 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Wenda at December 24, 2025 05:36 PM (FRS+s)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:36 PM (asXVI)
I guess kids were easier to please back in the day.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2025 05:36 PM (HbU2V)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 24, 2025 05:31 PM (DoBxX)
We had those, yes, but we also played cards.
One game we played was just with just paper and pencils.
Each drew a six by six grid. Starting with one person, they'd name a category, American Rivers for example. Everybody put that as a header. And so on until five across the top are named. Then the next person chooses a letter. Each person puts that letter on the left. Then, using a sand timer from some other game, you'd have to fill in the grid. Duplicates cancelling out, the one with the most points wins. Kind of like Trivial Pursuit, before there was Trvial Pursuit.
Posted by: RickZ at December 24, 2025 05:37 PM (gKDq2)
Much later, this concept was re-invented for much more recent "collectible card games," but no one had ever thought of it before Careers.
Anyway, afer multiple plays, I realized that the winning strategy was to alwasy choose "50 Happiness Points, 0 Money Points and 0 Fame Points as your victory condtion (i.e. go all in on "Happiness"), then SKIP COLLEGE, and then just take the little loop in the board after the college zone, and just go around and around -- the loop allowed yoi to consistently get a few happiness, but almost no Money r Fame points, so everyone just skipped it. But round and round I went, and very quickly I hot 60 Happiness and the game was over, with me winning.
Hacked.
Posted by: zombie at December 24, 2025 05:37 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 05:31
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Along the lines of Red Rover, British Bulldog and Smear the Queer.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 24, 2025 05:37 PM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 05:35 PM (x0n13)
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That's so Baby Sharks and Jets!
*snaps fingers*
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 05:38 PM (kpS4V)
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The foreign aspects of the game add to it, I think.
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We played it as teens. "Coup Fourré!", of course, became "Boof! You're gay!"
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Heh. Natch.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:38 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Admirale's Mate at December 24, 2025 05:39 PM (/enuJ)
You had to allocate 60 points amongst various catepgirois to accumulate, in order to win.
Posted by: zombie at December 24, 2025 05:39 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 05:39 PM (3uBP9)
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Ha, I'll have to try that, Zombie. I have four copies of "Careers", through an odd set of circumstances, and they're different versions (because they kept updating it).
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025 05:40 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 05:39 PM (3uBP9)
We did that, too. Bloody knuckles, etc.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:40 PM (dK+Kv)
Do they really think the Americans were so stupid they just had no good ideas at all?
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Yes. It's important always to disparage and minimize any American idea or operation.
- Strategic bombing did nothing.
- The Sherman tank was inferior to the Tiger
- We won only because we threw more metal
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 05:42 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 05:43 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 05:44 PM (VMttT)
Posted by: Fuzzy Lumpkins at December 24, 2025 05:44 PM (slsCi)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 05:45 PM (wzUl9)
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The foreign aspects of the game add to it, I think.
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We played it as teens. "Coup Fourré!", of course, became "Boof! You're gay!"
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Heh. Natch.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at December 24, 2025
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"The thicket wins"?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 05:47 PM (wzUl9)
- Strategic bombing did nothing.
- The Sherman tank was inferior to the Tiger
- We won only because we threw more metal
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 05:42 PM (tgvbd)
I knew a russian guy that said there had to of been some grand secret conspiracy between the axis and the US because it was impossible that the US could have had as many victories and the war ended so soon. And boy did he have all sorts of statistics and anecdotes to prove his point. Crazy, but funny to listen to.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 05:47 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 05:48 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Hadrian
These are all good examples. I defended the Sherman for years, but now, with the internet, I see people starting to understand that the US needs were very different and so what we designed was very different.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 05:49 PM (fsyiM)
Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 06:00 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Hadrian
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The Chrysler engine could be easily maintained
The transmission on a Sherman could be replaced in a day. A Panzer transmission had to be sent back to Ukraine to be overhauled by Porche.
We didn't have the capability to ship a tank as big as a Panzer.
We could field 6 Sherman's to 1 Panzer, over run it, and go ahead to provide artillery for the infantry.
_recalled VDH monologue
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 06:11 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Lirio100 at December 24, 2025 06:38 PM (ky7/T)
Posted by: Oddbob at December 24, 2025 07:39 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Hal Dall at December 24, 2025 07:56 PM (SBJWI)
I used to play a game with my dad where you traded and auctioned classic cars. EG Stanly Steamer or Stutz Bearcat. Can't remember the name but he always kicked my ass
I recently had a chance to paly a game from the 80s that I somehow missed called Thunder Road. It was a delight.
never heard of Colditz but I'm intrigued.
Posted by: WaitingForMartel at December 24, 2025 09:29 PM (2Q1nt)
Over 100 Minnesota Mayors Declare That Tim Walz Has Bankrupted the State With Unchecked Fraud and Rampant Spending;
Tim Walz Blames "White Supremacy"
The article says 98 mayors signed up to this letter, but now more than 100 have signed it.
Fox NewsApparently an organization exposed a sudden surge in the school lunch program, suspecting phantom students and, yes, fraud. So then their offices were firebombed. Coincidence? We'll see but I doubt it.
@FoxNews CITIES REVOLT: A group of 98 Minnesota mayors warned Gov. Tim Walz and state lawmakers that fiscal mismanagement, fraud and unchecked spending are straining city budgets and forcing higher property taxes. In a letter, the mayors cited the loss of an $18 billion surplus, a projected multibillion-dollar deficit and unfunded state mandates they say are cutting services and pushing costs onto residents and businesses.
PATHETIC: Tim Walz rails against ICE raids in MN by accusing the Trump admin of “WHITE SUPREMACY!"
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) December 23, 2025
“This is what happens when they no longer hide the idea of white supremacy. When you hear the Vice president of the United States talk about now, white people don't have to… pic.twitter.com/EUZ0iJq6aV
I hate this attitude. People were forced to attend DEI trainings or get fired. They had to do "anti racism" classes to graduate college.
— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) December 23, 2025
"No one forced you! You could have just gotten fired." Stop it. This makes you look ridiculous. https://t.co/PGUA0IkJvc
It’s been a while since I took a US History class, but I do recall some events in Boston that took place before any Somalis were there. https://t.co/27U0MSUs4e
— Ilya Shapiro (@ishapiro) December 23, 2025
Kamala: How dare we speak Merry Christmas!
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 24, 2025
Trump: MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
We seriously dodged a bullet pic.twitter.com/gn702h3B00
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Ann at December 24, 2025 03:24 PM (G2vez)
christmas cheer is best cheer
Posted by: kamala at December 24, 2025 03:24 PM (edU/H)
Almost.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 24, 2025 03:25 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: Case at December 24, 2025 03:26 PM (G1OIb)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 03:26 PM (PIdvu)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 03:26 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 24, 2025 03:27 PM (c+QVv)
@EricLDaugh
19h
HOLY SMOKES. It’s now coming out that Somalis buy homes in Minnesota to use as “home care,” they sit empty, then bill the state for MILLIONS per year
455 homes CONFIRMED.
“Somalis figured out the perfect plan on how to scam MN taxpayers.”
INFURIATING.
Dec 24, 2025 · 1:16 AM UTC
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 03:27 PM (rbvCR)
I'm particularly impressed that he's kept his "newsletter" going with 5 subscribers.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 03:27 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Cicero"
And oh, the Polio!
Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 03:28 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 03:28 PM (PIdvu)
They are in the just say something stupid phase.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 03:28 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 24, 2025 03:28 PM (Vpqw1)
It was especially dire before Somalis invented penicillin.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 03:28 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 03:29 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Zombie Mayor James Curley at December 24, 2025 03:30 PM (AWSqF)
This was the SCOTUS ruling that held that state districts must have "roughly equal" population. This is the opposite of how things work at the federal level, with representation being based on each state.
Because of this, cities get all the power and the bulk of the area of a state is underrepresented.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 03:30 PM (fsyiM)
Posted by: Billy Silly at December 24, 2025 03:31 PM (Vu7A1)
Ace, that's Man's Man Tim Walz, right?
Because he's a man's man.
He says were "they're scared shit of me" because "I can fix a truck."
A true man's man. Amirite?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 03:31 PM (yreN9)
I'm particularly impressed that he's kept his "newsletter" going with 5 subscribers.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Maintains plausibility for Jonah to go as a panelist on media shows which is his real purpose for his funders.
He should really transition to go all the way to fill his clown shoes.
Poor man's William Krystol without the cruises or the smirk.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 03:31 PM (WDjG6)
badah-dahdah=dah
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 24, 2025 03:32 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 03:32 PM (To7on)
Posted by: Jonah at December 24, 2025 03:32 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 03:32 PM (PIdvu)
christmas cheer is best cheer
Posted by: kamala
Bottoms up!
Posted by: Pete Buttgig at December 24, 2025 03:32 PM (f/3mU)
A true man's man. Amirite?
Rumor has it he eats carburetors for breakfast!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 03:33 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 24, 2025 03:33 PM (c+QVv)
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 24, 2025 03:34 PM (Vpqw1)
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 24, 2025 03:28 PM (Vpqw1)
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Embarrassed for you girl.
But at this point does it really matter?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 03:34 PM (To7on)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 24, 2025 03:35 PM (CWTWj)
https://tinyurl.com/49773hwb
Posted by: beckster at December 24, 2025 03:36 PM (I7J98)
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 03:36 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Zombie Mayor James Curley at December 24, 2025 03:36 PM (AWSqF)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 03:37 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 03:38 PM (PIdvu)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 24, 2025 03:38 PM (czfTj)
Posted by: Case at December 24, 2025 03:38 PM (G1OIb)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 24, 2025 03:38 PM (Rbvxz)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 03:38 PM (COQGW)
Posted by: DanMan at December 24, 2025 03:40 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Florida Bound at December 24, 2025 03:40 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 03:40 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 03:41 PM (PIdvu)
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Ahhh...a palette cleanser after the last distasteful thread, perhaps?
Thank you Ace
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 03:41 PM (QGaXH)
It's funny, I am starting to see police body cam footage on U-Tube of Somalis getting pulled over while hauling a dozen cars or campers and telling the State Patrol officers that they don't need commercial driver's licenses, or to stop for truck scales, or carry manifests. And when the State Patrol Officers tell the driver that the trucks are listed as stolen, the Wonder-Somalis insist the State Patrol officer does not understand the law, is lying or is only trying to get a bribe from the Somali.
Almost like the Patrol Officers have been seeing this for a while but now think they won't get in trouble if it gets leaked to the Internet.
Posted by: JB1000 at December 24, 2025 03:41 PM (/gRa9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 03:41 PM (PIdvu)
THEY really did. Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. Weaponized nice. Clueless people - by choice.
Easy to see why a Walz could float to the top.
Posted by: Howdy at December 24, 2025 03:41 PM (lliyN)
Keep note, this is just a day after all Democrats claim they "never" tried to force White People to apologize for being White.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 03:41 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 24, 2025 03:42 PM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 03:43 PM (Kt19C)
tim walz, a man's man
So manly that only a real man can understand.
So manly, he's "comfortable" with his "sexuality."
So manly, he's "in touch" with his "feminine side."
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 03:43 PM (yreN9)
Remember, it didn't end well for General George Armstrong Custer.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 24, 2025 03:44 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at December 24, 2025 03:44 PM (jvxGE)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 03:44 PM (viF8m)
...who have been onboard with this shit for years, have detected a shift in the wind.
Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2025 03:46 PM (mexfo)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 24, 2025 03:33 PM (c+QVv)
Same to you CaliGirl
Hope things are ok in your neck of the woods.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 03:46 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: JackStraw
You must be new here.
Seriously, you of all people must understand that they all knew exactly what was going on and their only question was "how do I get some of that."
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 03:46 PM (fsyiM)
Particularly galling from a Taiwanese Commie mayor.
The Somalis didn't make America, and neither did YOU!
You all go home now, regardless of your "documentation," freakin' paperwork Americans.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 03:48 PM (NuV6c)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 24, 2025 03:48 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Harvey Korman at December 24, 2025 03:48 PM (mexfo)
Posted by: GKWVE at December 24, 2025 03:48 PM (5KYMb)
Posted by: KT at December 24, 2025 03:49 PM (7vIsy)
Because Minnesota decided to save money and eliminated the State Auditor position.
Seriously. There has been no oversight for years!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 03:50 PM (NuV6c)
Almost.
Posted by: the lower depths
Almost. I have to wonder. Who is his audience now? His sad posts on X are the pathetic mewlings of a has been. The times have passed him by and he still thinks its 2003.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 24, 2025 03:51 PM (sAmhv)
Pennywise and clownfoolish.
Posted by: GKWVE at December 24, 2025 03:51 PM (5KYMb)
It especially hit home with my family -- people believe what they need to believe to justify their own position.
The Somalians really believe this shit.
Likewise, the palestinians believe the British stole Big Ben from them.
Likewise, the Africans believe they really were "kangz and shit"
And worst of all, the muzzies believe that they are superior and their theft is only taking what allah (piss on him) granted them; their raping of white girls is a virtue, and there really are 72 virgins awaiting them.
It's a dog eat dog world and we have to figure out how to get our side to wake up.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 03:51 PM (fsyiM)
Clearly their long game is to demoralize and weaken the fabric of their long-term adversary by attacking our economy, culture, physical and spiritual wellbeing, our values and social cohesion. And they do so by ruthlessly exploiting their foreign nationals either directly or by intimidation. It's possible she's just a home grown commie, but I think this is a legitimate question.
Posted by: Zek at December 24, 2025 03:51 PM (5FPX4)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 03:51 PM (2vrAX)
https://tinyurl.com/49773hwb
Posted by: beckster at December 24, 2025 03:36 PM (I7J9
That commie chick seriously creeps me out.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 03:52 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 03:52 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 03:53 PM (Ia/+0)
Likewise, the palestinians believe the British stole Big Ben from them.
Likewise, the Africans believe they really were "kangz and shit"
And worst of all, the muzzies believe that they are superior and their theft is only taking what allah (piss on him) granted them; their raping of white girls is a virtue, and there really are 72 virgins awaiting them.
Which is why we should not have been paying NGOs to bring millions of them to settle here.
Totally incompatible w/estern civilization.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 03:53 PM (NuV6c)
Posted by: Zek at December 24, 2025 03:53 PM (5FPX4)
Because Minnesota decided to save money and eliminated the State Auditor position.
Seriously. There has been no oversight for years!
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Well, I think there were some decent federal prosecutors, but nobody paid attention to them until the NYT wrote that the fraud occurred on Walz' watch.
There was also a group of mostly Democrat federal employees who tried to warm Kamala to steer clear of Walz. They were ignored too.
Posted by: KT at December 24, 2025 03:54 PM (7vIsy)
Posted by: GKWVE
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ISWYDT
We could only hope Pennywise would take up residence in Minnesota.
Posted by: clarence at December 24, 2025 03:54 PM (MXMX4)
IIRC, her grandparents immigrated from China to Taiwan, then her parent immigrated from Taiwan to USA.
CCP is not a longshot.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 03:55 PM (NuV6c)
As in 8% or more. In other news Hakeem's Sombrero is citing this as another example of Trump failing to bring down costs.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 24, 2025 03:55 PM (HTCU3)
It is possible- just possible- that our government has instituted itself to plunder our wealth.
Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2025 03:56 PM (mexfo)
Poor man's William Krystol without the cruises or the smirk.
Posted by: whig
>Remember, when you mess with the bull, your wife gets the horns.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 24, 2025 03:56 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 03:43 PM (Kt19C)
and little fishies here in O.C.
At least it's not snowing....
Oh...wait...crap....(kidding)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 03:56 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Case at December 24, 2025 03:57 PM (G1OIb)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2025 03:57 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 24, 2025 03:58 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 03:58 PM (Ia/+0)
Particularly galling from a Taiwanese Commie mayor.
The Somalis didn't make America, and neither did YOU!
You all go home now, regardless of your "documentation," freakin' paperwork Americans.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 03:48 PM (NuV6c)
'you been here four hour. You go home now.....'
Obligatory.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 03:58 PM (QGaXH)
He, his wife, and his kids are batshit crazy as well.
A minstrel show for their Somali patrons.
Posted by: Joe Mama at December 24, 2025 03:59 PM (TezPK)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 24, 2025 04:00 PM (Wv0GD)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 24, 2025 04:00 PM (ciXcx)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 24, 2025 03:58 PM (sDNVV)
Sometimes it looks like that. The Lord works in mysterious ways, and all that.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 24, 2025 04:00 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: THE GHOST OF WILLIE BROWN at December 24, 2025 04:00 PM (g4+28)
End of story
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 04:00 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
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I never get any credit.
Posted by: Oliver Heaviside at December 24, 2025 04:01 PM (XeU6L)
Recently voted out/failed upward to a County position. Not saying all foreigners are commies but why are so many of the commies foreigners?
Posted by: Zek at December 24, 2025 04:01 PM (5FPX4)
So manly that only a real man can understand.
So manly, he's "comfortable" with his "sexuality."
So manly, he's "in touch" with his "feminine side."
Posted by: Soothsayer
TLDR Edition: he's a seasonal crossdresser so he can show solidarity with the Gay Pride season.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions at December 24, 2025 04:01 PM (HTCU3)
If something happens to Walz (and given the DNC hates him, it seems likely he'll get the Rod Blagovich treatment) then Kamala picking him will be even more hilarious.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 24, 2025 04:02 PM (ciXcx)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 04:02 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 04:02 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 24, 2025 04:03 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
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I never get any credit.
Posted by: Oliver Heaviside at December 24, 2025 04:01 PM (XeU6L)
Hush! You have a Unit Function named after you.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 04:03 PM (QGaXH)
The media refuses to cover her daydrinking alcoholism the same way it refused to acknowledge Biden's dementia.
Posted by: Ace at 03:20 PM
Did you see her giving out "dating advice" recently?
tinyurl.com/4pxvukjy
Posted by: pookysgirl, decorating Christmas cookies at December 24, 2025 04:04 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 24, 2025 04:04 PM (CWTWj)
I will never forget that speech. Her eyes were bugging out of her head and she had that goofy overbite smile. She looked and sounded seriously deranged.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 04:04 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 24, 2025 04:06 PM (ciXcx)
Seem to recall she had a 'no whites invited/bureaucrats of color only' holiday party last year. Didn't apologise when it was leaked.
So do go on, Jonah, about how that anti-white stuff has been no bigee.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:07 PM (NuV6c)
FUN FACT: Orville and Wilber Wright were originally Somali. They were force by the white patriarchy, to go around in White Face just to ship their airplane to Kitty Hawk.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 04:07 PM (QVmho)
Did you see her giving out "dating advice" recently?
tinyurl.com/4pxvukjy
Posted by: pookysgirl, decorating Christmas cookies at December 24, 2025 04:04 PM (Wt5PA)
What's with the ancient history wired headphones getup she uses? Where did they come up with that look? From hobos?
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 04:07 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: A True Bostonian at December 24, 2025 04:07 PM (5FPX4)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 04:07 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 04:08 PM (vFG9F)
George Washington recruited heavily from his Somali Special Forces to cross the Delaware River.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 04:09 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: he sucks cock by choice at December 24, 2025 04:09 PM (Zc9aP)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 24, 2025 04:09 PM (CWTWj)
https://tinyurl.com/49773hwb
Posted by: beckster at December 24, 2025 03:36 PM (I7J9
That commie chick seriously creeps me out.
______________
Me too. I'm from MN and know people that know her and they say she's batshit crazy.
Posted by: beckster at December 24, 2025 04:10 PM (I7J98)
Those Marblehead sea merchants were known for their bravery!
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:10 PM (NuV6c)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 04:10 PM (QGaXH)
Louis Pasteur was in fact NOT French. He was Somali. Thise thieving colonialist French made him claim a different nationality.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 04:11 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 04:11 PM (vFG9F)
tinyurl.com/4pxvukjy
Honest dating advice from her would be "find Willie Brown and start unzipping".
Posted by: Ian S. at December 24, 2025 04:11 PM (ciXcx)
Is there anything he can't do?
We simply don't deserve him!!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 04:11 PM (QGaXH)
You can have it.
Posted by: Everyone else at December 24, 2025 04:12 PM (5FPX4)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 04:07 PM (QVmho)
There was a big stink around about December 17 where Venezuela was entirely shocked to realize that other people thought they were the first to build a powered flying vehicle. See, I guess it's taught there that because of some silly eurogay certifying authority didn't witness the Wright brothers it wasn't official and therefore some Venezuelan joker was actually first because some smelly french dude was watching him. They really believe this. And so they were yelling about it all day.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 04:12 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:12 PM (abIsI)
No wonder Trump is compelled to do what is necessary for the citizens of the state. That glob of canine feces clinging to my boot looked just like him.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 24, 2025 04:12 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 24, 2025 04:12 PM (SSHra)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 04:13 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Thomas Paine "
Oh come on. "Common Sense" was great!
Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 04:14 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:14 PM (XeU6L)
>>
@Rightanglenews
·
37m
>>BREAKING - A 92-page report by the California State Auditor has found that over $70 billion in taxpayer funds have been lost, including $2.5 billion in SNAP fraud, $24 billion on fighting homelessness, and $18 billion for a high-speed rail where not a single track has been laid.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 04:15 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 04:16 PM (vFG9F)
Is there anything he can't do?
We simply don't deserve him!!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 04:11 PM (QGaXH)
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No doubt the Left is going to portray President Trump as mobilizing ICE against Santa Claus, thus denying Somali children their Christmas presents.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 04:16 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:16 PM (abIsI)
The Wite-out ppl changed it at Ellis Island
Posted by: Henry Foordu at December 24, 2025 04:16 PM (f/3mU)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:16 PM (NuV6c)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 04:16 PM (Ia/+0)
Seriously
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The vaunted SDNY office "found" these documents.
"Sat on" is probably more accurate.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at December 24, 2025 04:17 PM (2ov6M)
"That's never happened once in my whole damn life!"
==
And thus, the Dems just tossed the "reparations" arguments into the dustbin of history. Like they never happened. Thanks, Governor Jazz Hands!
Posted by: mrp at December 24, 2025 04:17 PM (rj6Yv)
Jonah Goldberg
@JonahDispatch
You never *had* to.
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"The Conservative Case for not taking the mandatory clot shot and losing your job."
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 04:17 PM (hFCFR)
Posted by: Guy who relates everything to Star Trek at December 24, 2025 04:17 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ann
Biden broke the glass floor on the minimum IQ for a president, so why not nominate another retard.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 24, 2025 04:18 PM (vNO59)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 04:18 PM (PIdvu)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 04:19 PM (2vrAX)
Thank you Tim Walz!
Posted by: Minnesota Voters at December 24, 2025 04:19 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:19 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Guy who relates everything to Star Trek at December 24, 2025 04:19 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 24, 2025 04:20 PM (nljXp)
Thank you Tim Walz!
Posted by: Minnesota Voters
Some of the dumbest people I've ever met were from Minnesota.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:20 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:14 PM (XeU6L)
IIRC Roebling was a graduate of a little known Somalian engineering school in Troy, Somalia known as RPI.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 04:20 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 04:21 PM (PIdvu)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:16 PM (NuV6c)
She's cool but all the others need to go.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 24, 2025 04:21 PM (c+QVv)
Posted by: Boston NPR at December 24, 2025 04:21 PM (f/3mU)
Posted by: Peaches at December 24, 2025 04:21 PM (2HfbY)
Posted by: Lizzy at December 24, 2025 04:21 PM (NuV6c)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 04:22 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 24, 2025 04:22 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 04:22 PM (vFG9F)
Tiny Tim Walz needs a forensic audit on his personal wealth. There is no way someone who allowed 8 billion dollars in fraud didn't wet his beak and end up with some of it.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 24, 2025 04:22 PM (IifOV)
I still think we need to get a betting pool going. Where will the Minnesota Somalis go next now that they are under scrutiny. They're tribal, and will move as a group. It's the closest thing the US has to Gypsies.
I'm betting on San Diego....which already has about 15,000 Somalis at present.
Posted by: Orson at December 24, 2025 04:23 PM (dIske)
Cue The Frogman!
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Ain't got no home
A no place to roam
Ain't got no home
A no place to roam
I'm a lonely boy
I ain't got a home...
Posted by: Zombie Rush Limbaugh at December 24, 2025 04:23 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at December 24, 2025 04:23 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: Boss Moss
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Only a MAGA white nationalist supremacist would pose such a dispicably suggestive question.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:24 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 04:24 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 04:24 PM (pkeXY)
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Old & Busted: The 1619 Project -- The Slaves who founded America
New Hotness: The 1776 Project -- The Founding of the USA (United Somalis of America).
Everything Male, Pale, and Stale is New Again ...
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 04:24 PM (hFCFR)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 24, 2025 04:24 PM (YlWIZ)
>>"Sat on" is probably more accurate.
The head of the FBI SDNY office was forced to resign for hiding Epstein documents back when all of this was getting started.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 04:25 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:25 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 04:25 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Boss Moss
This one is easy, Rock art!
Just like our native American weird splotches they call petroglyphs and pictographs. Dummy.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 04:27 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue
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Actually, that would explain why he was always asking about people's shoes.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:27 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 24, 2025 04:28 PM (PWcY+)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at December 24, 2025 04:23 PM (0aYVJ)
My old man was an engineer at a facility in a far-flung place on another continent, where they had a lot of Somali workers.
This was a very remote facility where most people lived in barracks, but my old man's only demand was that be housed away from the Somalis until his private quarters could be arranged.
He wasn't a fan, and he likes most people.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 04:29 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 04:29 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 24, 2025 04:22 PM (IifOV)
I'm starting to think that there is something else being offered people besides money. The walzes honeymooned in commie china. Their marriage celebrated the 5th anniversary of tiananmen square. There is something else going on there.
Being a glorious soldier in mao's revolution? Do people really get off on that? There something else going on beyond obvious money and power. Revenge?
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 04:29 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks
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I've been thinking about a T-shirt that says 'Christian Nationalist'. They are probably available.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:30 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 24, 2025 04:31 PM (Z/jA7)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 04:31 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 24, 2025 04:33 PM (PWcY+)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 24, 2025 04:34 PM (nljXp)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Posted by: Lizzy
She's in Britain, I believe. If she has moved here, she is the exception that proves the rule.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 04:34 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Decaf at December 24, 2025 04:35 PM (Z8jzG)
Posted by: Oliver Heaviside
Retarded-American Walz is a bit on the heavyside
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 24, 2025 04:38 PM (uTmUk)
When I point out that the closest other peoples came to civilization is when the Romans took them as slaves, Mussolini says "whoa, whoa, whoa! Take it down a notch piasan!"
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 24, 2025 04:38 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Kamala at December 24, 2025 04:41 PM (C9oTe)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 04:30 PM (XeU6L)
I'd be fine with "Pink Is a Color, Too"
Posted by: Peaches at December 24, 2025 04:43 PM (2HfbY)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 24, 2025 05:17 PM (FLiOE)
By 6-3 Vote, Supreme Court Lets Stand Ruling That Trump Cannot Send the National Guard to Illinois to Protect Federal Agents and Offices
Per the Supreme Court, violent anarchists can continue attacking federal agents and ICE offices with the sanction of the state and city governments, and Trump isn't allowed to use the National Guard to protect them. Note the Guard wouldn't be used to make arrests or anything. He just wanted them to protect federal personnel and assets under attack by leftist street militias operating with the implicit sanction of Pritzker and Brandon Johnson. And the Supreme Court said: No, you cannot protect federal employees from paramilitary assaults. We'll keep that in mind next time Trantifa tries to kill judges. Note that Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett sided with the far left wing. As usual.The Supreme Court claimed that using the Guard to protect the physical safety of ICE officers executing the law was not part of "executing the law" in itself. This is an absurdly strained and lawless twisting of words to get the outcome that Roberts and Coney-Barrett wanted. Again, we'll see what happens when these people threaten to kill them. I say, well, yo know what, we're not allowed to send in the National Guard to execute the law so I guess you'll just have to stock up on ammunition.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked President Trump from federalizing and deploying Illinois National Guard troops to Chicago, dealing a setback to the administration's effort to bolster security for Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers operating amid violent unrest in the sanctuary city. In a 6--3 decision, the Court declined to lift a lower-court order that had stopped Trump from sending roughly 300 Guardsmen to assist ICE as agents faced repeated attacks near an enforcement facility outside the city. The dispute traces back to October, when Trump moved to federalize the Guard after rioters descended on an ICE site in Broadview, Illinois, chanting "Kill ICE!" and "Shoot ICE!" and confronting officers. A Biden-appointed federal judge issued a temporary restraining order, which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit refused to pause--prompting the administration to seek emergency relief from the high court. In its unsigned order, the Court said the government failed, at this early stage, to identify clear statutory authority allowing the military to "execute the laws" in Illinois.
The majority emphasized that the administration had not invoked an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act and instead relied on claims of inherent constitutional authority to protect federal personnel and property--an argument the Court found insufficient on the present record. The application for a stay was denied, leaving the lower-court block in place. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the order, while Justice Brett Kavanaugh filed a concurring opinion. Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch dissented. Alito's dissent cut sharply against the majority, warning that the Court was standing in the way of basic protection for federal officers under threat. "Whatever one may think about the current administration's enforcement of the immigration laws or the way ICE has conducted its operations, the protection of federal officers from potentially lethal attacks should not be thwarted," he wrote.Kavanaugh concurred with the ruling. He allows that Trump may send in the military itself -- not the state National Guard, but the actual Army and Marines -- if he invokes the Insurrection Act. But don't think that this fixes the problem. He's just one vote. Even if Trump does this and Kavanaugh blesses it, it would still be 5-4 against protecting federal agents from attacks by Antifa, with Roberts and Coney Barrett joining their leftwing allies again.
Clandestine
@WarClandestine
Holy shit I think it’s actually happening. I am reading through the Supreme Court ruling in Trump vs. Illinois, and they ruled that Trump needs to invoke the Insurrection Act in order to send the troops into Chicago. Kavanaugh in his dissent even says that this ruling "could cause the President to use the US military more than the National Guard". The Supreme Court just admitted that Trump has the authority to invoke the Insurrection Act to bypass Posse Comitatus and send the troops to Chicago, and any other city he wants. Trump tried to exhaust every legal avenue possible before resulting to the Insurrection Act, but the Dems resisted and refused to cooperate. Sounds to me like Trump just got the green light. INVOKE THE INSURRECTION ACT!
🚨 In an apparent 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court has BLOCKED President Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Illinois, denying the government's application for a stay.
— SCOTUS Wire (@scotus_wire) December 23, 2025
Justice Alito dissents joined by Thomas. Gorsuch dissents. Kavanaugh concurs. pic.twitter.com/JLfpjbaNxb
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 02:22 PM (IuFEo)
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 02:22 PM (IuFEo)
This spot reserved for The Blade
Posted by: RSVP at December 24, 2025 02:22 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 24, 2025 02:23 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at December 24, 2025 02:24 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 02:25 PM (PIdvu)
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 02:25 PM (IuFEo)
I took a whole platter full of pigs in a blanket (little smokies wrapped in crescent roll dough baked to a golden brown) to the company party today, and was immediately asked if they were pork or beef smokies. If the dough was gluten free, or fried.
I'm going to put the foil back on them and take them home.
Merry Christmas from Portland Oregon
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 24, 2025 02:26 PM (IifOV)
If so, I know 6 justices who apparently don't need protection.
Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 02:27 PM (UeBTl)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 02:27 PM (PIdvu)
This is not some kind of loss.
This is just returning to the standard that Eisenhower used.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 24, 2025 02:27 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: brak at December 24, 2025 02:27 PM (SytBa)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 24, 2025 02:28 PM (LdBR/)
I took a whole platter full of pigs in a blanket (little smokies wrapped in crescent roll dough baked to a golden brown) to the company party today, and was immediately asked if they were pork or beef smokies. If the dough was gluten free, or fried.
I'm going to put the foil back on them and take them home.
Merry Christmas from Portland Oregon
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 24, 2025 02:26 PM (IifOV)
Your cow-orkers are gay.
Posted by: Also retarded at December 24, 2025 02:28 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Amy Conehead Barrett, Collector Of Trophy Children at December 24, 2025 02:28 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: PabloD at December 24, 2025 02:28 PM (Epuwl)
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 02:28 PM (IuFEo)
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 02:28 PM (IuFEo)
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Thomas would rather the NG be used than the Marines.
But, I do think he's wrong.
Trump wasn't using these federal forces to enforce law but to protect federal assets. He's using his post as commander in chief of the armed forces to protect federal assets, just like Eisenhower.
The whole National Guard end-run was a post Eisenhower effort to prevent the bad images of Marines up against American citizens, that's all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 24, 2025 02:30 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 02:30 PM (IuFEo)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 24, 2025 02:30 PM (GBKbO)
So what prevents that now?
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 02:32 PM (IuFEo)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 02:32 PM (ULPxl)
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Bring 'em on in to ClubONT!
We'll say "Thank You!" and devour them!
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 02:32 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: DanMan at December 24, 2025 02:32 PM (8uzBS)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 02:33 PM (PIdvu)
Trump needs to find more FBI agents or some other branch of Federal law enforcement and send them. Or start hiring a whole lot more.
I've not seen one yet where ACB didn't strictly interpret the law. Maybe I've missed something... but this doesn't appear to be one of those either. Roberts is a different story.
Posted by: Frank Nobody at December 24, 2025 02:33 PM (75cud)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 24, 2025 02:34 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 02:34 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Case at December 24, 2025 02:35 PM (G1OIb)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2025 02:35 PM (r3wfs)
Yeah.
Posted by: Frank Nobody at December 24, 2025 02:36 PM (75cud)
But, I do think he's wrong.
Trump wasn't using these federal forces to enforce law but to protect federal assets. He's using his post as commander in chief of the armed forces to protect federal assets, just like Eisenhower.
The whole National Guard end-run was a post Eisenhower effort to prevent the bad images of Marines up against American citizens, that's all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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TJM, the 101st was sent first and then Eisenhower federalized the entire Arkansas National Guard to prevent Faubus from using them for mischief. Natl Guard was used inside the schools and 101st had the perimeter outside the school. FIL was federalized Guard from outside of LR and served in LR Central High School escorting black students to and from classes. So did his brother.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 02:36 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 02:37 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at December 24, 2025 02:37 PM (5IFb9)
Illinois is a state ruled by a city. Just like New York Just like California.
When those cities decide to unleash Hell on those states ? Stop - for the Love of God Stop - insisting on going in and fixing it. Let it happen.
One of Trump's biggest mistakes. Insisting on fixing something for a city that hates him. I'm glad he got shut down.
Posted by: Howdy at December 24, 2025 02:38 PM (Xy8Lb)
Posted by: clarence at December 24, 2025 02:38 PM (MXMX4)
Posted by: The_Hoser at December 24, 2025 02:39 PM (H4qGm)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 02:39 PM (abIsI)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 02:40 PM (2vrAX)
I want Trump to get burnt bad by the SCOTUS,... so that his next picks are so rock ribbed they make Scalia look weak.
He has had it too easy so far and it was making me worry.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 02:41 PM (fsyiM)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 02:39 PM (abIsI)
I'm telling my Mom! Mom! Mommy!
Posted by: Brett Kavanaugh, Momma's Boy at December 24, 2025 02:41 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 02:25 PM
My understanding of the ruling, after reading John Hinderaker's Power line piece on this, is the SC pretty much affirmed that. Frankly, I think the majority, and Justice Roberts specifically, are being too clever by half with this ruling. The professional plaintiffs will take this win, hammer the arguments on to their next suit, which a lower court will affirm, and another round of cajoling/threatening will hit the desks of Roberts and ACB..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 24, 2025 02:41 PM (nbLIj)
I don't like it and obviously am not calling for it to happen, but the lawless courts are calling for it to happen.
Posted by: GKWVE at December 24, 2025 02:41 PM (27L5L)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 02:41 PM (PIdvu)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 24, 2025 02:43 PM (VE6XX)
I'm going to put the foil back on them and take them home.
Merry Christmas from Portland Oregon
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If they're pork, swing them by your local mosque and label them beef.
Posted by: The_Hoser at December 24, 2025 02:44 PM (H4qGm)
Posted by: Party Discipline at December 24, 2025 02:44 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 24, 2025 02:44 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 02:45 PM (mcWkK)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at December 24, 2025 02:45 PM (2ov6M)
Appeal the ruling, of course, but send in a bunch of those armed NOAA, EPA, DEA etc etc types for whom the JEF bought all those guns, to protect ICE. If anyone objects they can be fired for cause, and replaced with a Moron.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 02:32 PM
Or this: gather up as many troops as needed (either NG or Marines) and TDY them to ICE. Whip up some velcro backed "ICE" patches they can slap on their drip; put them under ICE authority
I'm sure ICE has an existing job description what says "Protective Detail" or some siht...make the troops (temporarily) ICE agents
problem solved
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 24, 2025 02:45 PM (tljrc)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 02:46 PM (PIdvu)
Or if by overturning R v W she served her purpose?
I may have my timeline a little off...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 02:46 PM (QGaXH)
John Roberts isn't clever by any margin. He's so damn obvious it hurts.
All he does, day in and day out, is try to figure out what ruling he can make - how he can drag four other of those nine clueless incompetents with him - to keep that court going just a little bit longer.
They're all just arranging deck chairs. While the big piece of ice gets a little bigger and a little bigger.
Posted by: Howdy at December 24, 2025 02:46 PM (Xy8Lb)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 02:46 PM (mcWkK)
Posted by: clarence
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Pretty much crossing the Rubicon which is why Trump will probably use Marines like in Portland to protect the ICE facility.
The reason to federalize ILL Nat Guard is that they have arrest authority without invoking the Insurrection Act where Marines do not unless the Insurrection Act is invoked.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 02:47 PM (WDjG6)
Illinois is a state ruled by a city. Just like New York Just like California.
Posted by: Howdy
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ANd to fix that, we need SCOTUS to unwind renyolds v. simms, which held that the districts must have "roughly equal" population to satisfy one-man-one-vote.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 02:47 PM (fsyiM)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 02:47 PM (2vrAX)
What are they going to do, cut off our supply of shitty food and crappy automobiles?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 02:47 PM (abIsI)
Or if by overturning R v W she served her purpose?
I may have my timeline a little off...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan
Nope, vacancy occurred just before the Nov. 2020 election (Ginsburg death was Sept. 18th). ACB was the only way for Trump to get his appointment on the Court before the election allowed by McConnell. Several of the usual asshole GOP types wanted to wait to fill the office until after the November elections which probably would have meant Biden got the pick.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 02:49 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 02:49 PM (Slgjz)
They'll start arresting Americans traveling through any connecting airport. They'll start getting New York City, LA and San Fran, Baltimore, Chicago, and Boston to extradite.
That's where we are heading.
Posted by: Howdy at December 24, 2025 02:50 PM (Xy8Lb)
If I was in a Federal building in Portland under siege from various whack jobs, the first MFer with a molotov gets shot in the face. I’d be out of ammo before noon.
It is not incumbent for anyone to get killed by these clowns.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2025 02:51 PM (f8+Yv)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 02:51 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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Trump has to wait for the permanent injunction to be levied before appealing again. Better to use another means.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 02:52 PM (WDjG6)
I believe that at least the nation guard would be mostly locals who have a stake in maintaining order.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 24, 2025 02:52 PM (nljXp)
And that is riding on who controls the Senate.
And that (according to Ace) is riding on the economy in July.
I think Trump is acting as if he understands this.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 02:52 PM (fsyiM)
If Trump were to withdraw all federal law enforcement personnel from Illinois and allow them to experience the full consequences of their lawlessness, would it be possible to keep that rot contained in Illinois and prevent it seeping out into other states who did not ask to be endangered?
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Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 02:53 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 24, 2025 02:53 PM (YlWIZ)
More, how does anyone have standing to sue on this? What DAMAGE has been done? As noted in the Supreme Court decision on the Obama Birth Certificate case, until damage is actually done, you have no power to sue.
The Supremes allowed even MAYORS to stomp on our Rights during Covid... flat out said they would not interfere during an 'emergency'... yet now? constant interfering is what the President has declared as an emergency.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 24, 2025 02:53 PM (mP0Kj)
Julie Roginsky
@julieroginsky
If escaped inmates from Dachau had staggered into a newsroom in 1930s Berlin to report what was happening, what would Bari Weiss have done? I think we know.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 02:53 PM (L/fGl)
And you would be in jail before the sun sets. With the full force of the city against you. And the state - in California or New York or Maryland or Illinois. All while detained by one of our Angels in Blue and guarded by the same.
The real question is - why work for the Fed in one of these places ? Move. Vote with your feet. Find another job.
Posted by: Howdy at December 24, 2025 02:53 PM (Xy8Lb)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 02:54 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 24, 2025 02:54 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 24, 2025 02:47 PM (abIsI)
Yes and zee Cheese from zee French asshole that zee Americans love! Var! Zis is var!
Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, über alles in der Welt!
Posted by: Klaus Schwab, Weirdo and Closeted Homosexual at December 24, 2025 02:54 PM (R/m4+)
If I was in a Federal building in Portland under siege from various whack jobs, the first MFer with a molotov gets shot in the face. I’d be out of ammo before noon.
It is not incumbent for anyone to get killed by these clowns.
Posted by: Common Tater
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Federalized nat guard from the state can perform arrests if necessary.
Regular military cannot unless Insurrection Act is invoked aka martial law.
Posse Comitatus law passed after Reconstruction ended prevents active duty US troops from enforcing civil law without invocation of the Insurrection Act.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 02:55 PM (WDjG6)
If I was in a Federal building in Portland under siege from various whack jobs, the first MFer with a molotov gets shot in the face. I’d be out of ammo before noon.
It is not incumbent for anyone to get killed by these clowns.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2025 02:51 PM (f8+Yv)
I seem to remember a Fed Cop shooting an unarmed 'rioter' on Jan 6, killing her, and getting promoted and a medal for it...
Precedent, set.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 24, 2025 02:56 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Halfhand at December 24, 2025 02:56 PM (edbiH)
How many times are some here going to say "Insurrection Act" ?
If Trump says it now ? It takes less than a day for a Federal Judge to say "he can't do that". And less that a week for the Supremes to convene and say "No He Can't".
Posted by: Howdy at December 24, 2025 02:58 PM (Xy8Lb)
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Dude, it's now MS MAO.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 02:58 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 24, 2025 02:58 PM (YlWIZ)
OTOH, if, under 12406 the "regular forces" (in this case, ICE) can't execute the law, President Trump can probably just flood in additional ICE, Border Patrol, ATF, etc, in support of the ICE teams that are being harrassed.
Posted by: Reno_NV_Dave at December 24, 2025 03:00 PM (XTURA)
Let me rant.
One of the things you notice in History is that certain moments are... preventable. Some aren't. Roman Republic was going to fall. Constantinople.
This feels more like WWII, where if someone had just done something different, things might have been different (primarily, standing up to Hitler earlier.) Instead, it seems as though everything everyone does is tailor made to force an inevitable event (in this case, removing options from Trump, forcing him to amp things up and going more and more towards a confrontation.)
I am not sure this is a bad thing though. The slow blade favors the left. Look at Britain. They are fucked and I am not sure if they have the stones or even understand how... dire their situation is.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 24, 2025 03:00 PM (bss/y)
If Trump sends them then the Media will talk about an INVASION!!! and call the troops invaders and egg the crazies on to violence against them.
Posted by: pawn at December 24, 2025 03:00 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: Emmie
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Not necessary. Go after teh funders of mayhem legally which are all big Democrats like Soros. Make them toxic and drag out their shell corps that pay for and encourage these illegal actions.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 03:01 PM (WDjG6)
PBS News
@NewsHour
The U.S. military has killed more than 100 people in targeted strikes on small vessels in waters off South America since early September.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 03:01 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 24, 2025 03:01 PM (nljXp)
Precedent, set.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 24, 2025 02:56 PM (mP0Kj)
Me too, I’ll never forget Babbltt, Boyland, Greeson, and Phillips.
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 03:01 PM (Slgjz)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 03:01 PM (L/fGl)
100 drug dealers and cartel villains? aka A Good Start.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 24, 2025 03:02 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 03:02 PM (PIdvu)
"Mr. Roberts has rendered his judgment. Now let Mr. Roberts enforce it."
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 03:02 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 24, 2025 03:02 PM (biEYB)
What are they going to do, cut off our supply of shitty food and crappy automobiles?
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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They could block us from watching the Eurovision song competition.
What else they got? That and fag football.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 03:03 PM (fsyiM)
@EricLDaugh
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2m
>>🚨 BREAKING: A judge just UPHELD President Trump's landmark $100,000 H-1B VISA FEE, a stunning blow to the Democrats who want to replace Americans with endless foreign workers.
>>Huge win.
>>Americans first. 🇺🇸
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 03:03 PM (viF8m)
Trump should declare sanctuary cities an act of insurrection against the laws of the United States.
It's not any different than Confederate States declaring themselves a sanctuary for slavery.
But Trump is deathly afraid of declaring an insurrection. Whether is J6 or he fears the deadly escalation, is irrelevant:
He's only delaying the inevitable--he will have to declare an insurrection.
Or lose the nation.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 24, 2025 03:04 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Reno_NV_Dave at December 24, 2025 03:00 PM (XTURA)
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Send in those AutoPen Empire 87,000 new-hire IRS agents armed to the teeth ... to audit the situation.
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Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 03:06 PM (mcWkK)
@EricLDaugh
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2m
>>🚨 BREAKING: A judge just UPHELD President Trump's landmark $100,000 H-1B VISA FEE, a stunning blow to the Democrats who want to replace Americans with endless foreign workers.
>>Huge win.
>>Americans first. 🇺🇸
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 03:03 PM (viF8m)
Another Trumpmas miracle. If this is not an annual fee, then such should be considered.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 03:07 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 03:02 PM (PIdvu)
Colombian. The Columbian drug boats are run by the City of Portland
The thing here is that the boats in the Gulf and the oil tankers are both part of a financial chain to Maduro's government.
from what I have heard, Maduro pays his generals in oil, which is sold overseas and the profits go into offshore accounts where it is easier to launder. Once the oil revenue goes away, the Army is no long pro-Maduro.
The cartel boats are going to Europe, where the money goes into Maduro's accounts overseas, where it is easier to launder . . .
Petro is being paid off, and his terrorist buddies are being paid off, but the Coca paste processing in Colombia is most likely cartel run, not Colombian run.
Trump needs to turn Colombia, not start a war. I think this is the reason that Trump keeps on returning Colombian and Peruvian nationals he picks up instead of interning them where the ACLU can defend them
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 03:07 PM (rbvCR)
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On Federal property? Nope. Take another bonghit. We just need to have the right leadership.
Any local clowns try to get cute, shoot them in the face, too. Way past time to get this party started.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2025 03:08 PM (f8+Yv)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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I think we get this. It is a loss, so how could it be a win.
But long term, we need the MAGA agenda to stick. That requires a SCOTUS that is solid MAGA, and that depends on the next 2 or 3 picks.
So I am serious when I say that I see it as a win because it reminds Trump of what he has to do for his legacy to last longer than last term.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 03:08 PM (fsyiM)
Fucking insane.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 24, 2025 03:09 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Zombie James Buchanan at December 24, 2025 03:10 PM (AWSqF)
He's only delaying the inevitable--he will have to declare an insurrection.
Or lose the nation.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 24, 2025 03:04 PM (HXT0k)
The most embarrassing thing in the world is to grab the banner and scream, "FOLLOW ME TO TAKE THE CASTLE" and sprint off to the main gate, only to discover it is a one man race.
Trump needs support, and to get that he needs legal standing. And that needs all the T's crossed and I's dotted.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 03:11 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 03:11 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 03:11 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2025 03:08 PM (f8+Yv)
This is the problem.
1) We are still in the pre stages of the war. Something we can do can change whether the war will happen.
or
2) The war has already begun and we just refuse to acknowledge that fact- because it is daunting and scary.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 24, 2025 03:11 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 03:12 PM (L/fGl)
And I get called a glowie. Do what you describe ? Local LEO will take you straight to jail. And no Federal employee will stop them.
You've got that problem many have. This fixation with the rules as you perceive them. Rather than the rules as enforced.
Posted by: Howdy at December 24, 2025 03:12 PM (Xy8Lb)
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 03:12 PM (Slgjz)
Because that is the exact Precedent that this sets.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 24, 2025 03:12 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 03:03 PM (viF8m)
Another Trumpmas miracle. If this is not an annual fee, then such should be considered.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 03:07 PM (dK+Kv)
What makes this amusing is the judge who made the ruling: Beryl Howell.
She HATES Trump.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at December 24, 2025 03:12 PM (zBIzS)
Posted by: Zombie James Buchanan at December 24, 2025 03:10 PM (AWSqF)
In a bizarre way, that does seem to be the stupid shit Roberts is doing. He is trying to award wins to each side to keep his own side preeminent. If things go weapons free, well the supreme court means exactly dick. He goes from being the robed Master of the Universe to just being a guy who likes watching his wife get plowed by multiple men.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 24, 2025 03:13 PM (bss/y)
>>Huge win.
>>Americans first. 🇺🇸
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 03:03 PM (viF8m)
Another Trumpmas miracle. If this is not an annual fee, then such should be considered.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Amortized over three years. Unclear myself whether it applies to extensions to another three years. But suddenly, along with the increase in the minimum pay for such (IIRC 65k, suddenly it becomes an annualized cost of nearly 100k per year cost for such H1B's. Plus Trump has not given out more H1B lottery positions (85k per year which is in a congressional statute). Biden exceeded that number on a regular basis. Amount of the application fee went up to nearly $250 too.
Other reforms include that you cannot submit multiple applications for the same H1B worker to get a lottery chance for teh H1B. Hardest hit are going to be Indian tech worker importing companies.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 03:13 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 24, 2025 03:11 PM (bss/y)
One side has begun. The other is refusing to accept reality and admonishing its allies that "that's not who we are."
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 03:14 PM (dK+Kv)
Regular military cannot unless Insurrection Act is invoked aka martial law.
Posse Comitatus law passed after Reconstruction ended prevents active duty US troops from enforcing civil law without invocation of the Insurrection Act.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 02:55 PM (WDjG6)
I think a good number of Oregon National Guard were nationalized last February -- in part because they needed the assets for things like forest fires on federal land and the Oregon Gov has a history of not acting because "wilderness land" until towns are burning.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 03:14 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Roy at December 24, 2025 03:14 PM (BZF07)
Thanks for the Nut Punch post.
Any more Nut Punches, today, Ace?
How about we commence with the Baby Jesus stuff?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 03:14 PM (yreN9)
Doesn't make it any better, just something that is, I suppose.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 24, 2025 03:15 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 03:16 PM (6Bc88)
Because that is the exact Precedent that this sets.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 24, 2025 03:12 PM (mP0Kj)
I think what Kav is 'trying' to say is that Trump can, by invoking the insurrection act and sending regular troops in. ace points out that this still means ACB and Roberts will vote with the libs to say that Trump cannot even do that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 24, 2025 03:16 PM (bss/y)
It's not any different than Confederate States declaring themselves a sanctuary for slavery.
It is more like MI and MN declaring themselves Free Soil in defiance of Dred Scott. However it was supposedly solved in 1865
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 03:16 PM (rbvCR)
Fed Judge says Trump can't strip a Lawyer of his security Clearance... even though he is no longer working on Federal Classified cases.
Another Fed Judge says Trump can't stop funding to States or Cities that are defying Federal Law... ie, Lincoln must support the Confederate States of America...
Meanwhile, Boasberg continues his quest to hold the DOJ in criminal contempt for not bowing to his usurped authority...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 24, 2025 03:16 PM (mP0Kj)
Fucking insane.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Inevitable when dealing with the courts. Often there are alternative ways administratively to achieve the same results. Part of teh problem is that the filibuster has effectively gutted our Congress. If you went back to the old talking filibuster rules prior to the 70's reforms, you would get a lot less of them. There is also a way, although it ties up the floor for a couple of months, that you can effectively get cloture in the Senate by exhaustion of the speaker's list--no senator may speak more than twice on the same item of debate.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 03:17 PM (WDjG6)
Thanks for the Nut Punch post.
Any more Nut Punches, today, Ace?
How about we commence with the Baby Jesus stuff?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 03:14 PM (yreN9)
Silly, the rum goes in the punch. The nuts are the side dish snack.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 03:17 PM (6Bc88)
Whatever the dirt is that the Left has on Roberts, it must be so bad as to approach unholy.
Posted by: Sam Adams at December 24, 2025 03:17 PM (X+xvk)
Posted by: Roy at December 24, 2025 03:14 PM (BZF07)
Yeah. The Steal is the real opening shot of being outside normal limits. Then the J6 shit, all the censorship pushes, forced jab, Blood Red Speech. They were going all in. I EXPECTED them to try to go full on complete control. But they didn't.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 24, 2025 03:18 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 03:19 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 24, 2025 03:16 PM (bss/y)
Doesn't matter. This ruling is a direct contradiction of every action that every President has used the National Guard for.
Hell, they had the National Guard flat out enforcing law during Katrina, and nothing was deemed illegal...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 24, 2025 03:19 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 03:16 PM (6Bc8
Short answer ? Trump.
But longer answer ? Do any of you hear remember how wee-wee'd up we all got when a few states ... Kentucky was one ... passed state legislation that Obama COULD NOT enforce Federal Gun Legislation within their state limits ?
The Supremes at the time let that go. States Rights !!!
Well. Nobody makes the Fed plop their shit down in your state. The Fed can always pick up and move.
Posted by: Howdy at December 24, 2025 03:19 PM (Xy8Lb)
Posted by: John McClane at December 24, 2025 03:19 PM (0sNs1)
If Trump says it now ? It takes less than a day for a Federal Judge to say "he can't do that". And less that a week for the Supremes to convene and say "No He Can't".
Posted by: Howdy at December 24, 2025 02:58 PM (Xy8Lb)
"How many divisions do you clowns have to enforce it? I AM the CIC. Now, FOAD.
Thank you for your attention to this matter".
Posted by: DJ Trump at December 24, 2025 03:20 PM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: susan harms at December 24, 2025 03:20 PM (Kkd7F)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
They will have to overrule precedent to do it. Scotus held in Martin v. Mott (1827) that the president has exclusive authority to determine whether an emergency warrants calling forth the militia, and that determination is deemed conclusive for all other persons.
So for lower courts, the caselaw is clear, Insurrection act cannot be reviewed in district court. Scotus allows later challenges to specific actions under the Insurrection Act but not to the invocation as long as legal formalities (Proclamations) are met.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 03:20 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 03:14 PM (yreN9)
Peter Bernegger
@PeterBernegger
6h
A complaint was filed this morning against US Senator John Thune - the Republican Senate Majority Leader - to the FEC for Smurfing $1,148,902 into his campaign.
[ . . .]
Political Committee C00409581, FRIENDS OF JOHN THUNE has accepted 3,996 Smurfed donor transactions totaling $1,148,902 from 714 unique Smurfing donors. That these transactions encompass 19.5% of the 20,536 available committee transactions and also being 12.3% of the $9,335,059 full committee transaction valuation.
US Senator Tammy Baldwin - FEC complaint filed, lawsuit filed $36,820,755 criminally laundered
US Senator Lindsey Graham - FEC complaint filed, lawsuit being filed within days $11,090,385 criminally laundered
US Senator Amy Klobuchar - FEC complaint filed, lawsuit being filed Jan 2nd 2026 $9,633,912 criminally laundered
US Senator Elissa Slotkins - FEC complaint filed $16,126,348 criminally laundered.
US Senator Mark Kelly - FEC complaint filed $41,300,637 criminally laundered. [ . . . ]
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 03:21 PM (rbvCR)
A celebration of baby Jesus -and grown up Jesus- will be commencing for me in about one hour and forty five minutes. A festival service of nine lessons and carols
Thanks for the prayers, folks for those who prayed. I feel well enough to do the service. Thanks, Lord
Merry Christmas to those that celebrate the holiday!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 03:21 PM (rZCVI)
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Then surrendering is the only rational thing, Dorothy.
Where is it written that I have to get incinerated in my workplace by anarchists?
This is not legitimate “protest” or peaceable assembly.
If I work at the Fucking Dairy Queen and some twink is coming up with a molotov, I’m gonna shoot the SOB.
I’m not a “glowie”, this is just common sense. Shit or get off the pot. These are all mostly wannabe revolutionaries. They’ll find something productive to do once they get a whiff of the grape. Guaranteed.
This is all nonsense and wholly unnecessary because of weak leadership and the usual suspects in government.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 24, 2025 03:22 PM (SSuxC)
Whatever the dirt is that the Left has on Roberts, it must be so bad as to approach unholy.
Posted by: Sam Adams at December 24, 2025 03:17 PM (X+xvk)
You can predict John Roberts actions by understanding his true goal... he is only interested in protecting, and expanding, the Power of the Court system.
Even when they over rule a Judge, it's not because the Judge over reached their authority, but because of some procedural reason...
Never an indictment of a Judge, the Judiciary, or the system...
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 24, 2025 03:22 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: DJ Trump at December 24, 2025 03:20 PM (5xuJ/)
Might as well ask the Golden Scalp Weasel to put down his phone. That is simply not who Donald Trump is.
Donald Trump, one way or another, will obey the courts.
Posted by: Howdy at December 24, 2025 03:22 PM (Xy8Lb)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Great news, Fen! Merry Christmas!
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 03:23 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 24, 2025 03:23 PM (c+QVv)
Well. Nobody makes the Fed plop their shit down in your state. The Fed can always pick up and move.
Posted by: Howdy
No, they didn't. See the recent Missouri case involving a state constitutional amendment that forbid local and state leos from cooperating with federales on gun issues. Lower court and 8th Circuit upheld federal supremacy where states and localities cannot be compelled to assist federal officials in enforcing the law, the state and localities lack the power to forbid their employees from doing so.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 03:23 PM (WDjG6)
I don't think it's dirt. He's just on the other side.
When Norm Eisen was the ambassador to the Czech Republic, Roberts spent a week living in the ambassador's home while he and Eisen worked on a project to, ahem, improve the Czech court system.
Their is no deep stater more involved with trying to take down than Eisen.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 03:24 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ann at December 24, 2025 03:25 PM (G2vez)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 03:25 PM (Cjt/F)
And then see this ruling you like, and this one you don't, and this other one over here you're not sure about.
Its not a consistent set of rules. Its Calvin Ball. Seek to force yourself to see some kind of order in it - if that soothes your mind.
But there is no order to it.
Posted by: Howdy at December 24, 2025 03:26 PM (Xy8Lb)
Posted by: Romeo13
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After Blanco reluctantly agreed to it with Bush. That is in part why emergency response laws on federalization were amended to deal with edge cases like where a local community is overwhelmed by a natural disaster.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 03:26 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: JackStraw
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I would agree. The problem would be prosecution. Eisen, like a lot of slimy types, keeps on the edge of the law in most cases and delegates to others outright stupidity like to Jack Smith or Fani Willis to implement his legal strategies.
About like a Mafia Don.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 03:28 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 24, 2025 03:36 PM (3/XaG)
About like a Mafia Don.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 03:28 PM (WDjG6)
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About like the pro-Confederate House and Senate members just before and just after the fall of Fort Sumter.
Posted by: mrp at December 24, 2025 04:06 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: msmanners at December 24, 2025 04:54 PM (yv+EB)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 24, 2025 05:19 PM (FLiOE)
Trump Begins Sanctioning EU Officials For Attempting to Impose Communist/Sharia-Compliant Censorship on Americans
The EU believes it can sanction everyone in the world -- but may not be sanctioned themselves.
Their beliefs are gay and retarded.Lenka WhiteAnnouncing the sanctions, Marco Rubio said:
@white_lenka 17h 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 US sanctions Europe for censoring Americans. EU's @ThierryBreton, behind the Digital Services Act, is sanctioned for threatening @elonmusk before his interview with President Trump. "Before the interview, Breton ominously reminded Musk of @X
's legal obligations and ongoing "formal proceedings" for alleged noncompliance with "illegal content" and "disinformation" requirements under the DSA," Under Secretary of State Sarah Rogers wrote. Others on the sanctions list: -Imran Ahmed, Center for Countering Digital Hate -Clare Melford, Global Disinformation Index -Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, HateAid -Josephine Ballon, HateAid
Are we gonna live in a world where some American puts up a social media posts and then gets to some airport somewhere and is arrested? Um, we're also concerned about the impact that some of their policies are having on our social media platforms. As you recently saw, you know, X. Is facing this massive multimillion dollar fine that they're gonna have to pay, I guess, if they want to continue to operate. But I think more importantly, I think it, it, it, it touches on the broader question that was asked a little bit earlier. We all talk about how these alliances, in many cases, our alliances with our European partners are built on our, on our common principles are common values as much as anything else. These aren't just a geopolitical arrangement. It is an alliance with like-minded countries with whom we share values and principles. And one of those values and principles, we hope is freedom and the freedom of expression, and we're concerned that that is eroding.I think we fought a war to vindicate the proposition that we should be free to make our own laws, instead of having laws imposed upon us without our consent by foreign tyrants. Yes, that rings a bell. Chuck Ross wrote about this Censorship Mafia in November. Of course, it's all a George Soros-funded operation against the American citizenry.
The left-wing philanthropy funded by George Soros, Open Society Foundations (OSF), bankrolls a British nonprofit that works to censor conservative news websites and social media companies, including through a plot to "kill" Elon Musk's X by pressuring advertisers and investors to boycott the company. OSF gave $250,000 last year to the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) for "general support," according to the Soros charity's grant database. The CCDH, under the guise of stopping "the spread of online hate and disinformation," has pressured social media companies' investors and advertisers to censor supposed "disinformation" or other content it deems to be offensive. The organization, founded by former Labour Party operative Imran Ahmed in 2018, has also pressured tech companies to pull advertisements from the conservative websites the Federalist and the Daily Wire over allegedly racist content. The grant, which has not been reported, could resurrect a longstanding battle that Musk has waged with both the CCDH and Soros. Musk has accused Soros of "crimes against humanity" and funding groups involved in violent protests across the country this year. And he has called the CCDH a "criminal organization" and said he was "going after" the group's donors over its efforts to harm X's finances. Last year, the CCDH quietly organized a campaign to "kill Musk's Twitter" by pressuring advertisers to cut ties with the company, according to memos published by Racket News. The CCDH, which the watchdog group Capital Research Center calls a "UK-based censorship advocacy group," met with 16 congressional offices to discuss Musk's lawsuit against the organization, and held "policy engagement" meetings with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.). The nonprofit also lobbied American policymakers toward the creation of an "independent digital regulator," according to Racket News.
These sanctions are visa-related. We aren't invoking severe Magnitsky-style financial measures, but our message is clear: if you spend your career fomenting censorship of American speech, you're unwelcome on American soil. https://t.co/CYvR1HFnhR
— Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers (@UnderSecPD) December 23, 2025
WE'VE SANCTIONED: Thierry Breton, a mastermind of the Digital Services Act. In August 2024, while serving as European Commissioner for Internal Markets and Digital Services, he published a letter using the DSA to threaten @elonmusk ahead of his livestream interview with President...
— Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers (@UnderSecPD) December 23, 2025
You sent a letter to @elonmusk threatening him with legal action if he dare host an interview with a candidate for President of the United States. How dare you engage in such belligerence against our democratic elections and then claim *you* are now the victim.
— Paul D. Thacker (@thackerpd) December 24, 2025
FAFO. https://t.co/TPkHguEiUN pic.twitter.com/Vc5gB2T7dZ
Christopher Landau
@DeputySecState 4h I remember thinking last year that this was one of the most chilling letters I'd ever read. It treats freedom of speech as merely one factor to be weighed in the balance against "detrimental effects on civic discourse and public security." And the letter was targeted specifically at a conversation on this very platform between @elonmusk, an American, and @realDonaldTrump, also an American then running for the US Presidency. When the letter talks about "content that may incite violence, hate and racism in conjunction with major political--or societal--events around the world" in this context, it's talking about core political speech. More than any other document I've ever read, this letter bares the fangs of the global censorship-industrial complex and underscores that unelected bureaucrats in the EU are ready, willing, and able to use their regulatory reach to try to influence elections and nullify the First Amendment in the US. When I wrote earlier this month about the glaring inconsistency between US relations with the EU and NATO, this is exactly what I had in mind. If the sovereign nations of Europe allow the EU to attack fundamental freedoms in the US, those same nations cannot expect the US to defend fundamental freedoms in Europe.
This is how the blob weaponizes government agencies for censorship. First, they spread disinfo. They then use it to demand censorship. They use fake NGOs like "Hate Aid" is to deceive public into thinking their illegal censorship is legal. "Trusted flaggers" = government agents. https://t.co/0cZyAOfXfM
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) December 24, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 01:21 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 01:22 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: steevy at December 24, 2025 01:23 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 01:23 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 01:23 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 01:24 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at December 24, 2025 01:24 PM (LdBR/)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books!) at December 24, 2025 01:25 PM (lpWi1)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 01:25 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 01:25 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: EU Officials at December 24, 2025 01:26 PM (L7qN0)
I am on the fence, obviously, but giving us back the gift of plain language is probably one of the greatest Trumpmas gifts of all.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 01:26 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 01:27 PM (77rzZ)
I want letters of marque and reprisal directed at the WEFtards, the EUfags, and the UN.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 01:28 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 01:28 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2025 01:28 PM (XGYZI)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 01:27 PM (77rzZ)
He opposes adoption by gays.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 01:28 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Dean Wormer at December 24, 2025 01:29 PM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 01:29 PM (COQGW)
The shrimp, imported from Indonesia and sold nationwide under the Market 32 and Waterfront Bistro brands, may have come in contact with Cesium-137, a radioactive substance.
Posted by: Archimedes
I don't understand - the shrimp had glowing reports.
(I'm invoking my Christmas Eve Dad joke license)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 01:29 PM (cYBz/)
. . .
>>>We all talk about how these alliances, in many cases, our alliances with our European partners are built on our, on our common principles are common values as much as anything else. These aren't just a geopolitical arrangement. It is an alliance with like-minded countries with whom we share values and principles. And one of those values and principles, we hope is freedom and the freedom of expression, and we�re concerned that that is eroding.
Dude is en fuego here.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 01:29 PM (dK+Kv)
Remember that.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 01:29 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: banana Dream
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Alex and his bride Huma are running OSF nowadays probably with CIA assistance on the down low. Time for both to be sent to Hungary on extradition for crimes against the Hungarian state.
Papa Soros is supposedly a senile old man by now.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 01:29 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Bulg
It would be bad for Putin because he would own Europe.
Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2025 01:29 PM (XGYZI)
Posted by: Oglebay at December 24, 2025 01:30 PM (2ap+5)
Because Russian winters on the Mediterranean coast would be awful.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 24, 2025 01:30 PM (3nLb4)
Remember that.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 01:29 PM (rbvCR)
See also, never disarm, never get on the train.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 01:31 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Bulg
It would be bad for Putin because he would own Europe.
Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2025 01:29 PM (XGYZI)
LOL
Could he maybe ignore France (and the former Warsaw Pact countries)?. And we should have the UK, as it should be our colony.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 01:32 PM (ULPxl)
I bought you all boxes of Buc-ee's Beaver Buddies.
Merry Christmas you filthy animals.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 01:33 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: rhomboid at December 24, 2025 01:33 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 01:28 PM (3uBP9)
Meh. This, as a first step, is a long way from our government working overtly and covertly to censor our own citizens. It's been less than a year. I'll take it as a win.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 01:33 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Tonypete
They were an ionic brand.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 01:33 PM (77rzZ)
I watch Don't Trust the Rabbit but still not picking up much German
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 01:33 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 01:33 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 01:34 PM (IuFEo)
Putin pointed out that Starmer can't protect his own country from invaders arriving on his beaches in rubber rafts and then raping British women.
Europe lacks basic self-preservation skills, and is therefore doomed.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 24, 2025 01:34 PM (MNCvZ)
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 01:34 PM (IuFEo)
Always was.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 01:34 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Hesh and Heidi's Nautical Nosh at December 24, 2025 01:35 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 01:34 PM (dK+Kv)
I have nothing.
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 01:35 PM (IuFEo)
The irony meter broke, the historical knowledge index went negative, and many former Soviet immigrants in Europe pinched themselves.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 24, 2025 01:35 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 01:35 PM (dK+Kv)
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"Give me a nuke, Vasily. One nuke only, please."
🎵
When will you realize ...
That Brussels waits for you
🎶
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 01:36 PM (EAgl+)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 01:36 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 01:36 PM (rbvCR)
Wait a sec while I fire up a Tor browser to google that.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 24, 2025 01:36 PM (3nLb4)
-- Euro ruling class
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 01:36 PM (fsyiM)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 01:23 PM (ExV1e)
Could be the stupid Illinois civil war insurrection thumbs up from the supreme court idiots.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 01:37 PM (3uBP9)
I watch Don't Trust the Rabbit but still not picking up much German
Posted by: Skip
Something like Counseling Center for Those Affected by Internet Hate.
Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2025 01:37 PM (iETvL)
Posted by: Tonypete
They were an ionic brand.
Prawndo - it's got electrolytes!
Posted by: Vance '28 at December 24, 2025 01:37 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 01:38 PM (rbvCR)
Wow. There's a nic I've not seen before. Or maybe just a sock fail?
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 01:38 PM (77rzZ)
And all the best in the new year, pal. I mean that.
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 01:38 PM (IuFEo)
*important to note*
That above EU Commission letter to Elon Musk threaten/warning about "platforming" President Trump, pretending it will "incite" "violence" and "racism," was issued a month after the Democrats shot President Trump in the head in a failed assassination attempt.
But the EU was fake "worried" about President "inciting" "violence."
FUCK YOU.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 01:38 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 01:24 PM (Ia/+0)
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Concur. And Australia isn't far behind on the censor front.
Posted by: mrp at December 24, 2025 01:39 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 01:36 PM (rbvCR)
To where? Her ass? They're gonna need a bigger boat.
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 01:39 PM (IuFEo)
He'll be lucky if he doesn't end up like Benito Mussolini.
Posted by: Vance '28 at December 24, 2025 01:39 PM (Riz8t)
Well, he only comes one night a year.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 24, 2025 01:39 PM (MNCvZ)
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What, Nina "Stanky Janky" Jankowicz wasn't available?
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 01:40 PM (EAgl+)
And all the best in the new year, pal. I mean that.
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 01:38 PM (IuFEo)
That hits me right in the place in my chest where my heart would be. Oh, wait, that's just indigestion.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 01:40 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 01:40 PM (Slgjz)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 24, 2025 01:40 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Archimedes
I don't understand - the shrimp had glowing reports.
(I'm invoking my Christmas Eve Dad joke license)
Posted by: Tonypete
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Has anyone heard any explanation for how they got contaminated?
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 01:40 PM (fsyiM)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 01:40 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 01:40 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 01:38 PM (rbvCR)
If *we* are lucky, not to mention if the UK subjects are lucky (or something else), the little twat will be Nicolae Ceaușescu.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 01:40 PM (ULPxl)
177 I laugh at the libs for their concern over the loss of the drug boats (29 so far) and the 104 fishermen who have died. At one ton per boat, that's 58,000 pounds of drugs coming here to kill Americans.
The concern of the dems is noted...my ballot will reflect that.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 01:07 PM (2WIwB)
"..that's 58,000 pounds of drugs..."
Shouldn't we be concerned about the effect of dumping 58000 lbs of drugs into the ocean? What about Sponge Boob and his friends? What do you say to them??
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 01:40 PM (QGaXH)
The irony meter broke, the historical knowledge index went negative, and many former Soviet immigrants in Europe pinched themselves.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 24, 2025 01:35 PM (U/Byj)
When Putin declared the draft, a lot of military aged Russians wound up in Germany and other EU states to dodge it.
Now, personally I would balk at allowing military aged, fairly clannish men from a country I was planning to subjugate and destroy into my country unsupervised, but I guess that along with the Bulgarians, Turks, Moroccans Algerians, Afghans and various Africans, they probably figured it could only improve things.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 01:41 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 01:41 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: mrp
It seems western europe and the anglo-sphere are trying to outdo each other for the most censorious regime in town. Ozzies are fook'd.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2025 01:41 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 01:25 PM (3uBP9)
I would support sanctions of the Eigerish sort.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 01:41 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 01:42 PM (yreN9)
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Has anybody ever marketed a sports drink called "HaterAde?"
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 01:42 PM (EAgl+)
Posted by: PabloD at December 24, 2025 01:42 PM (vkIYk)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 01:40 PM (dK+Kv)
Slap a hot iron to it.
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 01:42 PM (IuFEo)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 01:42 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: He's A Shrimp. Too at December 24, 2025 01:43 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 24, 2025 01:43 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Archimedes
I don't understand - the shrimp had glowing reports.
(I'm invoking my Christmas Eve Dad joke license)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 01:29 PM (cYBz/)
Pity there are no instruments capable of detecting such substances.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 01:43 PM (npFr7)
Has anyone heard any explanation for how they got contaminated?
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 01:40 PM (fsyiM)
Cesium-137 is a common byproduct of nuclear fission. My guess is Fukushima deposits in the ocean that shrimp have found, either directly, or by consuming ocean floor biomass of other critters who've been exposed, migrated and then died and decomposed.
"Caesium-137 has a half-life of about 30.04 years." - Wikipedia
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 01:43 PM (dK+Kv)
* uncontrolled giggling *
Posted by: Squidward at December 24, 2025 01:44 PM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 01:45 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 01:45 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Amiright or amiright? at December 24, 2025 01:45 PM (TbWk/)
— "Islam" is a violent fascist political movement bent on world domination.
— Men are men and women are women, and men pretending to be women are mentally ill perverts.
— "Climate change" is neither man-made nor detrimental to the planet, and the natural increased CO2 cycle is causing a beneficial worldwide "global greening."
— Immigration from the Middle East and Africa to Europe needs to be completely stopped immediately, and all current illegal migrants need to be deported.
— The EU is nothing more than the continuation of the USSR, and needs to be dismantled.
Now sue me.
Posted by: zombie at December 24, 2025 01:46 PM (oraVG)
Posted by: Corona_exile_back_in_exile at December 24, 2025 01:46 PM (UE0CA)
I have heard several UK commenters say things like "people without a platform like mine can't say what I say without getting arrested."
They made the system so vague and slippery that maximizes tyranny. To be hate speech, someone has to be offended, or the police have to think someone would be offended. So they can target individuals speaking the truth if anyone claims it is an offensive truth.
It really is even worse than Stalin. It is worse even then East Germany and their Stasi because one class of people (muzzies) are all fully protected -- they can even rape the whites.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 01:46 PM (fsyiM)
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Eroding? Wake the fuck up, Marco -- in Western Europe, and other English speaking countries (Canada, Australia, and New Zealand ... IT'S DEAD!
Jeebus, stop being a pathetic coward ...
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 01:47 PM (EAgl+)
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister
The story I linked doesn't say how the Cs-137 got there. However:
Cs-137 (Cesium-137) is a radioactive isotope from nuclear fission, used in cancer therapy and industrial gauges, but also a significant environmental contaminant from accidents like Chernobyl due to its ~30-year half-life and strong gamma radiation, causing health risks like burns and cancer if ingested or inhaled, as it mimics potassium in the body.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 01:47 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: That guy who always thinks it's beginning at December 24, 2025 01:47 PM (qbLEp)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 01:47 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 01:47 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 01:48 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 01:40 PM (QGaXH)
Dude.... shut up.... cause...
It's Party time!
Posted by: SpongeBob at December 24, 2025 01:49 PM (mP0Kj)
Kind of like enjoying savory French toast for once. Try it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 24, 2025 01:50 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 01:50 PM (2vrAX)
Yeah. Erode. As in e took free speech and then erode up out this bitch.
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 01:50 PM (IuFEo)
"Caesium-137 has a half-life of about 30.04 years." - Wikipedia
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
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OK, I know that it is not from Fukushima. The last batch it was reported that it was not. The shrimp are from no where near Japan (I think they were farmed.) And even fish caught off Fukushima is safe. Japan's waters at their worst are lower radioactivity levels than much of China. (This is a sore point in Japan as China keeps bitching about releases.)
So where is it coming from?
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 01:51 PM (fsyiM)
Do you ladies understand?
Sir, yes sir!
I can't hear you!
Sir, yes sir! "
Posted by: Zombie Gunnery Sergeant Hartman at December 24, 2025 01:52 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Can you put carrots in savory French toast?
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 01:52 PM (77rzZ)
White Brits are arrested for silently praying in public.
Moslems block the streets and blast their prayers over loud speakers.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 24, 2025 01:53 PM (mP0Kj)
Not the Bee
@Not_the_Bee
Alberta to officially start collecting signatures for referendum to secede from Canada
x.com/Not_the_Bee/status/
2003593963350163634
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 01:53 PM (EAgl+)
At least that's what I read somewhere.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at December 24, 2025 01:53 PM (MNCvZ)
Kind of like enjoying savory French toast for once. Try it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 24, 2025 01:50 PM
That sounds really good.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 24, 2025 01:54 PM (c+QVv)
231 I'm a bit late, Ace, but I want to thank you for everything you do and to wish you a very Merry Christmas!!!
Posted by: Moonbeam at December 24, 2025 01:38 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 01:54 PM (RuTUS)
So where is it coming from?
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 01:51 PM (fsyiM)
wild-ass guess? Maybe the Cesium 137 was part of a density meter used to monitor the thickness of the layer of shrimp moving along the conveyor belt, or to measure the thickness of the packaging material? And some dumfuk broke it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 01:55 PM (npFr7)
I bought you all boxes of Buc-ee's Beaver Buddies.
Merry Christmas you filthy animals.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 01:33 PM (cYBz/)
Watching USB port with eager anticipation.....
Merry Christmas to you too from the filthy animals...
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 01:55 PM (QGaXH)
-- Nathan Detroit
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 01:55 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 01:55 PM (fsyiM)
Wait a sec while I fire up a Tor browser to google that.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 24, 2025 01:36
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I laughed.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 24, 2025 01:55 PM (zGabF)
At least that's what I read somewhere.
Yes, that's it, it's not in any way tied to our nuclear program.
Posted by: Shrimp, anxious for revenge at December 24, 2025 01:56 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 01:56 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Aliasjonesjones at December 24, 2025 01:56 PM (PFs9e)
Most of those are 80-20 issues with the commoners.
It could be a presidential platform, if the candidate could survive the globalists' assassination attempts.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 24, 2025 01:56 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Shrimp, anxious for revenge
Pfft. You should see OUR nuclear program!
-- United Penguin Front
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 01:57 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Shrimp, anxious for revenge
Ooops, I mean, the nuclear program we definitely do not have.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 01:57 PM (Riz8t)
. . .
So where is it coming from? The last batch it was reported that it was not.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 01:51 PM (fsyiM)
Reported. By who? From what data?
Even if farmed, it can be in the stream of products used to feed farmed fish, shrimp. And typically third worlders including China could GAF about US FDA regs.
I am not saying it is ultimately from Fukushima, but that is one likely source and probably the biggest public release that we know of. And that does not discount the possibility of China having Cesium contamination in its soils, waters, and effluents.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 01:58 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 01:59 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 01:59 PM (2WIwB)
It could be a presidential platform, if the candidate could survive the globalists' assassination attempts.
Posted by: illiniwek
I wish, but I'm not so sure.
A lot of people are too far gone. They have been brainwashed by the media/schools/censors to really believe a lot of shit.
I think it will take a war to wake people up.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 02:00 PM (fsyiM)
Kind of like enjoying savory French toast for once. Try it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 24, 2025 01:50 PM (IhIKR)
I thought it was that sugary, crumbly topping on an an apple crisp or blueberry muffins. Maybe that's strusel. If only I had a machine that would tell me anything I need to know, I could look it up.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 24, 2025 02:00 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 02:00 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Paco at December 24, 2025 02:00 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 24, 2025 02:01 PM (VE6XX)
cf.
These sanctions are visa-related. ... our message is clear: if you spend your career fomenting censorship of American speech, you're unwelcome on American soil. (Rogers)
Same penalty, different target.
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 02:01 PM (RuTUS)
The English are dicks. Hell - all of Europe between the Atlantic and Poland are dicks. There is a reason some of our ancestors could not leave that place soon enough.
The next time they fight amongst themselves ? And they will. We really, really need to show the good sense to keep our boys - and now girls - at home. Stay out of it.
Posted by: Howdy at December 24, 2025 02:01 PM (Xy8Lb)
Posted by: Diogenes
The ones with tiki torches and Ray-Bands?
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 02:01 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 24, 2025 02:01 PM (zGabF)
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If DogEater can drone an American Terrorist and his boy, Trump should send a Hellfire Missile up the Foreign AND Domestic Terrorist Soros' upturned ass.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 02:02 PM (EAgl+)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 02:02 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: It's me donna
I went to Wegmans earlier. Absolute zoo.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 02:02 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Diogenes
Or the ones the size of a Volkswagen.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 02:03 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Robert, The Love Walrus at December 24, 2025 02:03 PM (Z59Ry)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 02:03 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 24, 2025 02:04 PM (SSHra)
Posted by: Diogenes
Or the ones the size of a Volkswagen.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 02:03 PM (Riz8t)
In Walmart that's half of them
Posted by: It's me donna at December 24, 2025 02:04 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: banana Dream
You're only talking about the hot Eastern-European women, right?
Right??
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 02:04 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 02:04 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 24, 2025 02:05 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 24, 2025 02:05 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder,
I don't remember, I do remember the reporting and my own looking into it that it was just not possible that Fukushima contamination ended up in Indonesia. (Other than the very local area downwind of the plant, it never even made it to Japan)
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 02:05 PM (fsyiM)
Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 24, 2025 02:05 PM (xNHSX)
Posted by: Howdy at December 24, 2025 02:01 PM (Xy8Lb)
126 Hell. Just turn the lights off in the store and pick out the glowing ones.
Posted by: Diogenes
Hell is murky.
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 02:06 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 24, 2025 02:06 PM (SSHra)
Posted by: illiniwek
"I wish, but I'm not so sure.
A lot of people are too far gone. They have been brainwashed by the media/schools/censors to really believe a lot of shit."
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister
yeah, maybe if I redefined "commoner" as those outside the big cities, that work regular jobs, and are not of recent foreign born heritage.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 24, 2025 02:06 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 02:05 PM (fsyiM)
Very good. Thanks.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 02:06 PM (dK+Kv)
Went to my local Publix just before they opened at 6:30. While the lot wasn't full, a rather substantial line had formed outside the door.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 24, 2025 02:06 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 02:03 PM (Riz8t)
In Walmart that's half of them
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We are talking about seafood not EBT women.
Posted by: clarence at December 24, 2025 02:07 PM (MXMX4)
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 02:00 PM (fsyiM)
We're already in one so apparently no
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 02:07 PM (IuFEo)
https://shorturl.at/4f215
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 02:08 PM (ULPxl)
Tim Walz suggests JD Vance is racist for saying it's okay to be white
https://is.gd/YBkoGr
Also, looks like the new Avatar movie is not the savior Disney had hoped. (Insty)
Avatar: Fire and Ash is another box office disappointment for Disney, which had hoped the film would provide a short-term boost. The previous sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, opened to more than $134 million domestically in 2022 and went on to earn nearly $685 million in the U.S., while Fire and Ash debuted with just $89 million. Adjusted for inflation, the decline is even more pronounced, signaling a sharp drop in audience interest and raising doubts about the franchise’s once-reliable box office pull.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 02:08 PM (Riz8t)
The EU is not fit to eat the peanut shards out of a dog turd.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2025 02:09 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 02:09 PM (ULPxl)
https://shorturl.at/4f215
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
People raise freakin' cassowaries? For what, meat?
Those things apparently are ill-tempered and can kill you quickly if you piss 'em off. No thanks.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 02:10 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 02:09 PM (ULPxl)
I am at a loss for why I need these, but I want them, especially if they will annoy the piss out of my Karen neighbors. Do they make loud annoying noises by chance?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 02:11 PM (dK+Kv)
Gosh Darn it if we don't stand tall then the Russians will spread Communism over them all !!!
Posted by: Boomer on the Internet at December 24, 2025 02:11 PM (Xy8Lb)
https://tinyurl.com/5y4uef2e
I am perfectly fine if it arrives sometime in January.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 02:11 PM (rbvCR)
The EU is not fit to eat the peanut shards out of a dog turd.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2025 02:09 PM (NwnyJ)
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 02:12 PM (QGaXH)
In any case, it would be easy to check. Just send out some teams equipped with scintillometers to do a scan of the packages in stores and warehouses, and collect any that are "hot" and dispose of them properly.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 02:12 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 01:51 PM (fsyiM)
wild-ass guess? Maybe the Cesium 137 was part of a density meter used to monitor the thickness of the layer of shrimp moving along the conveyor belt, or to measure the thickness of the packaging material? And some dumfuk broke it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Would not be surprised if it was jackleg attempt at sterilization of the food by irradiation. I recall that a few years ago farmed shrimp from China that was rejected as unsafe to eat in one port had a bunch of antibiotics used to 'fix' the problem and get clearance in another port from health inspectors.
Most of the world has a rather casual approach to food safety compared to the US but as the volume of food imports to teh US from Third World countries surged, we did not hire the food safety inspectors necessary to check the surge of new imports.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 02:12 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 02:12 PM (QGaXH)
Free speech -- USA v. EU, China, Russia
Muzzies -- USA, China v. EU, Russia, and growing
China trade -- USA v. China, Russia, EU and growing
CO2 -- USA, China, Russia v EU
We seem to have more in common with a greatest enemy (China) than our greatest ally (EU). We are in a bad place.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 02:13 PM (fsyiM)
It will be the Marxists government against the Muslims
The people will be serfs again
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 02:13 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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LOL, that would scare the hell outta shoppers.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 02:13 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 02:12 PM (QGaXH)
They might have a reservoir or two that could use a bit.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 02:13 PM (dK+Kv)
Wouldn't all that freedom of speech and personal liberty make them (heaven forefend!) Uncomfortable?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 24, 2025 02:14 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 02:15 PM (IuFEo)
BOGO sale?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 02:15 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 24, 2025 02:15 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 02:12 PM (npFr7)
equipped with scintillometers
A scintillating idea....
Have you performed your annual migration ?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 02:15 PM (QGaXH)
Best Alternate Post Title of 2025:
President Trump Keeps His Pimp Hand Strong, Even On Christmas
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 02:16 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 02:16 PM (77rzZ)
Possibly the billionaire gourmet, Hippolyte D'Orleans McGumbo, would be interested.
Posted by: Paco at December 24, 2025 02:16 PM (2L+MU)
Crush them. See them driven before you. And rejoice when you hear the lamentation of their women!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 24, 2025 02:16 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 24, 2025 02:13 PM (fsyiM)
There has been some consideration on the extreme . . . market-centered mumblesphere that the balance of the world is going to shift to "the economies bordering the Pacific" and away from the "countries bordering the Atlantic"
It seems silly, but these are people who track markets and are not impressed by the EU
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 02:16 PM (rbvCR)
https://tinyurl.com/5y4uef2e
I am perfectly fine if it arrives sometime in January.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 02:11 PM (rbvCR)
Judging by the hollow bolt knob, somebody robbed parts out of a Mk V carbine to build that thing.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 02:16 PM (npFr7)
The same reasons locusts migrate. End of story.
Posted by: Boomer on the Internet at December 24, 2025 02:17 PM (Xy8Lb)
https://tinyurl.com/5y4uef2e
I am perfectly fine if it arrives sometime in January.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 02:11 PM (rbvCR)
Shockingly reasonable price too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 24, 2025 02:17 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Archimedes
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TJM hardest hit. He predicted it would be a modest hit. I think the whole Waterworld era of aiming movies at a global market with dumbass simplified plots fit for subtitles, lots of CGI crap, and explosions has come and gone.
China and India are both rolling their own and the rest of teh world simply pirates whatever they like.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 02:17 PM (WDjG6)
They're not so tough.
Posted by: LiMu Emu (and Doug) at December 24, 2025 02:17 PM (Y1sOo)
"May have come in contact with"
Could be like covid. All we have is a report of a definite "may" about a test result, and none of the people nor the test are necessarily trustworthy.
Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2025 02:18 PM (q1tXs)
Did he change it to throw Ace off the trail of his garbage?
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 02:19 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 02:16 PM (npFr7)
I think it is a demilled parade gun that got a new lease on life.
I WANT a mock deLisle without an integral silencer built out of a clapped out No4, but I have been pricing barrels and I am not eager for the cost.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 02:19 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 02:13 PM (WDjG6)
Well, they could do it while the stores were closed at night. Or the staff could tote the packages into the rear of the store for a few minutes.
I own an ancient Scintillometer. Uses acorn tubes to amplify. It did work, one time I tried it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 02:20 PM (npFr7)
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The judges would have also accepted "glowie faggots whose shit is all retarded."
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 02:20 PM (mR6yz)
Critical Drinker said it blew chunks, yet he expected it would make a buttload of money. I think it's a bit early yet, but it certainly won't be the mega hit Disney needs.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 02:20 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 02:15 PM (QGaXH)
Planned departure date now Friday.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 02:21 PM (npFr7)
https://tinyurl.com/5y4uef2e
I am perfectly fine if it arrives sometime in January.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 02:11 PM (rbvCR)
Shockingly reasonable price too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edward
I ain't a fan of such abortions. If you want, Rhineland Arms has a kit, think Centerfire Systems in KY is the dealer, where you can convert your old SMLE/No. 4 receiver into a DeLisle replica in 45 ACP. Comes with mag, barrel, and the open face of the bolt for the rimmed 303 cartridge means no bolt alterations needed for teh 45 ACP. I think it may come with an altered ejector for the rimless case too but can't remember. The DeLisle, with a real integral silencer, was used for all sorts of commando and intel ops.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 02:21 PM (WDjG6)
It doesn't take much to be an "expert" anymore. Maybe it never did. I suspect it never did.
If an "expert" is telling you the balance of profit will be in Asia ? He's lying. Why do I know ?
Because if he knew, he certainly wouldn't tell anyone. He'd go make that money. Without competition.
Posted by: Boomer on the Internet at December 24, 2025 02:22 PM (Xy8Lb)
Did he change it to throw Ace off the trail of his garbage?
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 02:19 PM (77rzZ)
It's Marco, not Mario...unless you're doing a bit
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 24, 2025 02:22 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 24, 2025 02:17 PM (xcxpd)
That auction house has a reputation of long boring auctions that turn cut-throat at the end.
I am considering buying a Ford Transit Connect in someplace like NC and driving home. Unfortunately there is no way to say if something like that isn't clapped out and will die in Indiana.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 02:22 PM (rbvCR)
I've worked around those sorts of instrument, and all the ones I've seen were built like you couldn't break the containment with a 10# sledge ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 02:22 PM (Cjt/F)
We're already in one so apparently no
Not yet, the war on Normal People hasn't even finished the end of the beginning.
Left of Launch -- They've finally caught on that the ONLY WAY to defeat LIB Strategic Insanity, is before it happens, before Bill and Hillary commit to their target level the aircraft and tilt the wings to do maximal damage.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-theDayAfterTomorrow
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 24, 2025 02:22 PM (CSdNN)
Posted by: Archimedes
What a shame /sarc. Mebbe Cameron will go away with his expensive anti west tripe.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 02:22 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 02:19 PM (rbvCR)
I own an actual Mk V carbine, made at Fazerkerly in '44. Worth something, now.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 02:23 PM (npFr7)
https://tinyurl.com/5y4uef2e
I am perfectly fine if it arrives sometime in January.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 24, 2025 02:11 PM (rbvCR)
Shockingly reasonable price too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edward
I ain't a fan of such abortions. If you want, Rhineland Arms has a kit, think Centerfire Systems in KY is the dealer, where you can convert your old SMLE/No. 4 receiver into a DeLisle replica in 45 ACP. Comes with mag, barrel, and the open face of the bolt for the rimmed 303 cartridge means no bolt alterations needed for teh 45 ACP. I think it may come with an altered ejector for the rimless case too but can't remember. The DeLisle, with a real integral silencer, was used for all sorts of commando and intel ops.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 02:21 PM (WDjG6)
Also want.
I have a .45acp carbine (from Just Right) but a bolt action would be fun. Even more fun suppressed.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 24, 2025 02:23 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
In a post, last week I think, Ace referred to him as "Mario Rubio."
So, yes, it was a bit.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 02:23 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Archimedes
What a shame /sarc. Mebbe Cameron will go away with his expensive anti west tripe.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 02:22 PM (WDjG6)
I'm saving the world!!!
Posted by: James Cameron at December 24, 2025 02:23 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
In a post, last week I think, Ace referred to him as "Mario Rubio."
So, yes, it was a bit.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 02:23 PM (77rzZ)
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And therefore it rises to the annals of AoSHQ lore.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 24, 2025 02:24 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 02:24 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Archimedes
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2nd week is looking like only a drop of 33%.
Just like the previous Avatars that opened soft and then just had legs.
Why is Avatar the only thing that does that these days? The spectacle? I don't know, but it does.
It'll probably hit a billion before January.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 24, 2025 02:25 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: night lifted at December 24, 2025 02:25 PM (/YboP)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 02:22 PM (Cjt/F)
It's Indonesia, so muslims.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 02:25 PM (npFr7)
The same reasons locusts migrate. End of story.
Posted by: Boomer on the Internet
>These cocksuckers will follow the same trajectory as those California transplants who flee from their state's draconian idiocy only to bring and implement the same idiocy somewhere else.
Stay home!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 24, 2025 02:25 PM (nljXp)
The people that piss me off the most. Especially the Loud Normals.
Imagine being on the Titanic, with some loud-mouthed dick telling you "just calm down".
That's a Normal now. Frankly ? The War on Normals isn't going well enough.
Posted by: Boomer on the Internet at December 24, 2025 02:27 PM (Xy8Lb)
The same reasons locusts migrate. End of story.
Posted by: Boomer on the Internet at December 24, 2025 02:17 PM (Xy8Lb)
Or Islamists.
I no longer give a damn what happens to Belgium and most of the EU, and I find it difficult to care about the fate of AMerican judges who let illegals out because "cultural differences" or because they're "immigration ambassadors" If they're hurt by these men, they asked for it
Posted by: night lifted at December 24, 2025 02:29 PM (/YboP)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 02:12 PM (QGaXH)
They might have a reservoir or two that could use a bit.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 02:13 PM (dK+Kv)
blub...blub...blub...blub.......
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 02:29 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 02:30 PM (2vrAX)
nood
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 02:30 PM (yreN9)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 02:30 PM (Riz8t)
...
Why is Avatar the only thing that does that these days? The spectacle? I don't know, but it does.
LIBs with more money than talent are willing to shell out the last of their EBT distributions to see a human-traitor in an alien form sell out the rest of his people and their future to a savage and primitive planet.
Remember who did this:
I remember Judas, that was Bill Clinton, before he disgraced his office and betrayed us all.
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 24, 2025 02:30 PM (QBhW+)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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When ATF opens back up, might be easier to get a homemade suppressor approved then build it for the DeLisle look alike. Easy to keep it subsonic using 230 grain. Navy Arms also made a conversion of the Lee Enfield into a 45/70 complete with mag. If you stuck with old blackpowder substitute loads like Trailboss, you could probably slap a silencer on that as well if you threaded the barrel. 400+ grain bullets have stopping power even if subsonic.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 02:31 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Howdy at December 24, 2025 02:32 PM (Xy8Lb)
(but with a totally sincere calibration sticker!)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 02:35 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 24, 2025 02:45 PM (upAiA)
PBS News
@NewsHour
The U.S. military has killed more than 100 people in targeted strikes on small vessels in waters off South America since early September.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 02:48 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 24, 2025 02:55 PM (tGVts)
The people next door to the church have chickens and roosters. Whenever I go over to the church, the rooster is crowing. I am not over there at break of day, so I guess that he crows whenever he feels like it. I say, "Hello, Mr Rooster. A late wake up call today, eh?"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 03:14 PM (rZCVI)
Posted by: Ann at December 24, 2025 03:24 PM (G2vez)
Posted by: Flakey Foont at December 24, 2025 04:07 PM (kvDvI)
Sarah Rogers represents herself and our country well.
Pleased to see that people in secondary administrative positions are as informed and articulate as their bosses.
Note to Ms. Rogers please take voice lessons and lose the vocal fry and uptick. You mark yourself in a group unbecoming.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 24, 2025 05:10 PM (2ef5s)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 24, 2025 05:23 PM (FLiOE)
Trump Reaches the 50% Approval Mark in One Poll
It is very rare for modern presidents to ever have majority support. Even Obama, who the media told me was a transformational figure that everyone loved (Except Racists (TM)) spent his entire presidency at 43-45% approval.
Insider Advantage says that Trump's at 50%.Gen X represent.
President Trump is sitting at an even 50 percent approval rating nationally, placing him nine points above water nearly a year into his second term, according to a new survey from InsiderAdvantage. The poll, conducted Saturday among 800 likely voters, found 50 percent approve of Trump's job performance, while 41 percent disapprove and 9 percent remain undecided -- a solid net-positive showing at a stage when many modern presidents have already slipped underwater. The numbers show familiar but politically important divides. Trump continues to post strong margins with men, nearly six in ten of whom approve of his performance, compared to just over a third who disapprove. Women remain more skeptical, with approval and disapproval nearly evenly split but tilted slightly negative. Age breakdowns, however, may raise alarms for Democrats heading toward the 2026 midterms. Trump runs even among voters under 40 and posts clear net-positive approval among voters 40 and older, including a +5 margin with seniors -- a bloc that often turns out heavily in midterm elections. Among voters aged 18 to 39, Trump's approval and disapproval are deadlocked, while voters between 40 and 64 give him a comfortable edge.
... The InsiderAdvantage results are more favorable to Trump than the broader national picture reflected in RealClearPolling, which currently shows the president below water overall. Still, a net-positive approval rating at this point in a presidency is a rare commodity in modern politics[.]A YouGov poll has Trump at a mere 39% with "adults" and 42% with actually registered voters. Gotta figure "adults" includes a lot of illegals. Does this matter? Eh, probably not. I continue to think Trump wins or loses based on how the economy looks by July 2026. If it's not more in the Ace range than the garret range, Trump loses Congress and spends his last two years dodging subpoenas. If it looks good, he keeps Congress and locks in Trumpism as the dominant alternative to AOC/Mamdani communism. I know you guys don't like poll posts but can I reply that days before a holiday are very slow news days and I have had a case of Senioritis since before Thanksgiving? Also: I had another post ready to go, but it's a Bad News post, and I didn't want to use a Bad News post to say: Merry Christmas! Okay It's not Christmas yet. Merry Christmas Eve! What are your plans? I'm mostly going to be nestling.
"I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!"Whoop and Hallo to thee! (Looking it up: Laocoön was a Trojan seer punished by the gods. He was attacked by great serpents. I don't know what Dickens means but my guess is that, by hiking up his stockings high, he resembles Laocoön being devoured, one leg at a time, by serpents. The stockings being likened to snakes. If it's not that, I'm stumped.)
🚨 HOLY CRAP! SHOCK poll finds President Trump's approval rating at +9 nationwide, a +14 point SURGE since November
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 22, 2025
50% approve, while 41% disapprove - InsiderAdvantage
WOW. Democrats can't believe this! The attacks failed, Trump is entering 2026 in a VERY strong position 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/6OVBvXGkcr
How the totally unbiased ABC News described +2.8% GDP under Biden (1 year ago, Q3 2024) versus +4.3% GDP under Trump https://t.co/SprJ0QYTy4 pic.twitter.com/NJdQltpifC
— Chris (@chriswithans) December 23, 2025
lol pic.twitter.com/xTaE0nVuNS
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) December 24, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 12:12 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 24, 2025 12:12 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 12:12 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 24, 2025 12:13 PM (IhIKR)
Posted by: No Particular Grievance at December 24, 2025 12:13 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 12:13 PM (PIdvu)
Posted by: pookysgirl, still here at December 24, 2025 12:14 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 12:14 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 12:14 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: The Great Poof! at December 24, 2025 12:15 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:15 PM (OaZlZ)
Posted by: steevy at December 24, 2025 12:15 PM (YwEeS)
Just slowly getting off work now
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 12:15 PM (i+wP0)
I hope they find the way home with their loved ones this year.
Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2025 12:15 PM (jCHfL)
I think you're mistaken. We like to complain about poll posts but that doesn't mean we don't appreciate them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 12:15 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Wally at December 24, 2025 12:16 PM (DEw/K)
I maintain that the bump in Trump's numbers is due largely to Melania's traditional Christmas decorations vs. the decadent gay burlesque show from Jill Biden.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 12:16 PM (Riz8t)
Media polling is particularly bad as it is always designed on purpose, to fit whatever narrative the media is pushing like Orangeman bad.
Same as 60 minutes stories, fabricated story telling where apply the laws is regarding as cruel because it hurts Dems. Applying the laws by throwing Jan 6 US citizens in horrible conditions for parading is good.
I would end any student loans and grants in going for journalism and communcation majors. Turning them back to teh old days of reporters who learned their craft on the job produced superior news gathering and a well earned cynicism regarding claims by pols and government.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:17 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 12:14 PM (UJWr0)
Speaking of, amusing to look at other world leaders. Herr Merz has only got 32%% approval; Macron is polling at about 20%, lately, and I think Starmer is down to 14%.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 12:17 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Miss Jane Hathaway at December 24, 2025 12:17 PM (oftw2)
This, after 2 1/2 weeks of unrelenting, bitter cold and snow.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2025 12:19 PM (NwnyJ)
Troll caught Alaskan King salmon with raspberry sauce
Asparagus strudel
Salad with toasted nuts, Stilton and blueberries
Rice spiked with saffron
Homemade pie by my niece. Also homemade ice cream.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 24, 2025 12:19 PM (IhIKR)
There has to be something wrong with this poll, no way any president gets 50% approval these days.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 24, 2025 12:19 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 12:17 PM (uWKK
Hard to say where Starmer is since they jail anyone who proposes to publish poll results showing him as less than universally beloved.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 12:19 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Tuna at December 24, 2025 12:19 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 12:19 PM (pieWX)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 12:20 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 12:20 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 12:20 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Martini Farmer
You'll freeze your ass off by New Years, so enjoy this while it lasts.
Posted by: Tex Antoine at December 24, 2025 12:21 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 12:20 PM (2WIwB)
What about the other 99% of Congressional Republicans on the ballot?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 12:21 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 12:21 PM (UJWr0)
Channel 5 shows hours of a yule log in a fireplace while Christmas carols play.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 12:21 PM (pieWX)
It's warm-ish where I am too. No white Christmas, but at least I'll get out for a hike and get some sun and exercise.
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 12:22 PM (1wjle)
I think you're mistaken. We like to complain about poll posts but that doesn't mean we don't appreciate them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Too easy to manipulate by a number of unscrupulous tactics. I regard polling on par with Pravda and Izvestia. Pollsters have less scruples in defrauding the readers than most con men do.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:22 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 24, 2025 12:22 PM (U/j9n)
Up early Christmas morning to play golf with family and friends.
Merry Christmas, ace, cobs and to all the Morons/'ettes.
Posted by: Joe Mama at December 24, 2025 12:23 PM (TezPK)
Hope my power stays on!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 12:19 PM (pieWX)
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The big blow of 2025 didn't show up last night as predicted...and is now set for tonight. We shall see.
In the meantime, the neighbor is smoking a pork butt and has offered me some in exchange for a plate of cookies and pumpkin bread.
DEAL!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 12:23 PM (2WIwB)
I wouldn't mind the "unexpectedly" crap at 4.3%, if the propaganda ministries weren't "robustly" fellating the Biden administration at 2.8%
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 12:23 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 12:24 PM (Kt19C)
At the moment I'm trying to decide what to do about dessert for tomorrow.
We're having prime rib roast, brussel sprouts, mashed potatoes, rice, and gravy.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 12:24 PM (ExV1e)
Apparently they're rethinking that position, since there are some leftist politicians who hope to maintain electoral viability once Starmer walks the plank.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 12:24 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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It doesn't work like that statistically. Basically if a polling outfit is garbage and Reuters has been traditionally wrong by double digits, it should be thrown out as an outlier.
You put garbage results and mix it via aggregation, you get garbage aggregation. Look up Meta analysis if you are really interested in doing your own homework on the issue.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:24 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: ace
Gonna be 67 and cloudy tomorrow in Nashville land. Warming trend continues until middle of next week.
Posted by: Tuna at December 24, 2025 12:24 PM (lJ0H4)
There has to be something wrong with this poll, no way any president gets 50% approval these days.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 24, 2025 12:19 PM
It isn't an actual poll, they call it a survey. Not sure what the difference is but I can't find anything that explains the difference on their website.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 24, 2025 12:24 PM (0N4FZ)
Nah, the posts are important. I wouldn't know the current narrative being pushed because it's invisible in my day-to-day world.
Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2025 12:24 PM (jCHfL)
Gotta admit, for all my beefs about the a-hole, I still don't regret my votes for him. There was no other choice.
Posted by: gp at December 24, 2025 12:24 PM (GHIyr)
Just saw your post in last thread, I AM SO GLAD IT WORKED!!
It really is never fail, and so are you
Merry Christmas everybody! Just out of shower, and off to daughter's house for Christmas Eve.
Posted by: barbarausa at December 24, 2025 12:25 PM (enw9G)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 12:25 PM (UJWr0)
If they weren't, you'd see political campaigns hiring these units for internal polling.
But you don't, because they are fake, and just make numbers on behalf of the party and state.
They're at the other end of the process, 2-3 steps removed from the raw data, and reiterating it's carefully massaged output.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 12:25 PM (BI5O2)
https://tinyurl.com/2emxm75d
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 12:25 PM (kpS4V)
Let's run a poll to see how many people don't like poll posts.
Posted by: gp at December 24, 2025 12:26 PM (GHIyr)
Asparagus strudel
Salad with toasted nuts, Stilton and blueberries
Rice spiked with saffron
Homemade pie by my niece. Also homemade ice cream.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 24, 2025 12:19 PM (IhIKR)
Nurse, I love you dearly, but the words "asparagus" and "strudel" should never be put together.
Posted by: pookysgirl, somewhat horrified at December 24, 2025 12:26 PM (Wt5PA)
You put garbage results and mix it via aggregation, you get garbage aggregation. Look up Meta analysis if you are really interested in doing your own homework on the issue.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:24 PM (WDjG6)
I said it clumsily. I mean the average of all other polls is 44,45. So the two outliers, this poll and the AP poll keep the average unchanged.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 12:26 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO
Every reputable pollster, and I actually knew one professionally that used to work for Roper as polling director, admitted that cell phones have killed traditional polling using RDD and non response bias (younger conservatives don't answer polling firms at the same rate as AWFLs or the elderly). So all samples are now bad, the question is how bad.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:27 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 12:24 PM (ExV1e)
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A berry pie, and maybe a lemon or mango sorbet as a palate cleanser.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 12:27 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 12:27 PM (pkeXY)
You don't hear much about Larry Sabato any more. He used to be on the news constantly, presumably because he was willing to say what the left wanted to hear. He still is, but I think his credibility's shot. Fortunately for him, he'll always be a professor.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 12:27 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Since it's just me, I have a nice pork loin to put in the crockpot tomorrow. Will have Brussels sprouts, mashed potatoes and cranberries to accompany.
Posted by: Tuna at December 24, 2025 12:28 PM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 24, 2025 12:28 PM (rbMHe)
Posted by: gp at December 24, 2025 12:29 PM (GHIyr)
And it sure doesn't hurt that Democrats seem determined to take the 20% position on seemingly every single issue. On top of that I think we are going to see some real fireworks in Florida when the grand jury is seated next month and the corruption by Democrats in place like Minnesota, California, Illinois, etc. is just starting to hit and it's about our money not a dirtbag president using an intern as a humidor.
As of now I like our chances next year, particularly with Orange Hitler whipping the troops like he's coming down the home stretch at Churchill Downs.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 12:29 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 24, 2025 12:29 PM (rbMHe)
Posted by: Best Thief in Lankhmar at December 24, 2025 12:29 PM (64rer)
Planing A Party?
Try One Of Theese!
I'm sure it got more attention and eyeballs than if it was spelled correctly. After 40 years I still remember it.
Posted by: Terrestrial Celestial Commuter at December 24, 2025 12:30 PM (oftw2)
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In the world of polling YouGov is particularly useless.
It's not even a poll.
It's an opt-in online panel. There's no effort to make a random sample, or even control for partisan makeup.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 24, 2025 12:30 PM (GBKbO)
Holy ratio, Batman! Nobody is buying the Epstein thing, in fact, it seems to be pissing people off, angry at the media.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 24, 2025 12:30 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Jasmine Ratchet at December 24, 2025 12:30 PM (AHWap)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 12:31 PM (Riz8t)
the missus is making an Irish stew for tonight. I'll figure out something for tomorrow. Or just go to a Chinese restaurant. Fa Ra Ra Ra Ra!
Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 24, 2025 12:31 PM (PSEDc)
My dear people, since ancient times, Ukrainians believed that on Christmas night, the heavens open.
And if you tell them your dream, it will surely come true.
Today, we all have one dream. And we have one wish for everyone:
"May he perish," as everyone says to themselves.
It's amazing how many people think that it is self-evident that Putin's successor will be better than Putin.
"Who could be worse than that warmonger Hindenburg?"
"Who could be worse than that tyrant Lenin?"
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 24, 2025 12:31 PM (xTIDn)
But yeah finding random samples each time in a world of nobody answering their phones is kinda sus.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 12:31 PM (UJWr0)
Hanging out at home with man and dogs, AOSHQ, and online poker. Will add bourbon right about 5 p.m.
Polls, meh. On the other hand, they're typically skewed so far left as to be laughable, so that 50% approval might be really meaningful.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 24, 2025 12:32 PM (h7ZuX)
Not my preferred way to spend Christmas Eve, has to be done.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 24, 2025 12:32 PM (rf2Yc)
But they hate him because he is disfavoring them instead for the middle class/normies.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 24, 2025 12:32 PM (sKqQm)
Holy ratio, Batman! Nobody is buying the Epstein thing, in fact, it seems to be pissing people off, angry at the media.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 24, 2025 12:30 PM (pIfcn)
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Esptein is an online only obsession. In the before times, in the 90s, the networks would carry the water and amplify the story to the point of Congressional hearings, but they can't do it now. They're too distracted by too many other things all while Trump et al simply don't play along narratively.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 24, 2025 12:33 PM (GBKbO)
Yeah, I'm feeling better heading into '26 than heading into '25, and I wouldn't expect many people feel that way, because I'm a naturally apprehensive person who looks for flaws.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 12:33 PM (BI5O2)
Shades of the movie, My Bodyguard. Decent 80's flick.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:10 PM (WDjG6)
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Ah, yes -- never saw it but remember my stepdaughter watching it -- and that a young Adam Baldwin (whom I loved in Firefly and Chuck, plus he's a great Breithartian conservative) was in it.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 12:33 PM (EAgl+)
If it is not a scam, then the only people who will participate are the type of people who fall for scams and click random links sent to them. Which means the sample is biased out of the gate.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 12:34 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 12:34 PM (BI5O2)
Always have.
Manhattan sophisticates have always viewed him as that parvenu from Queens.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 24, 2025 12:34 PM (xTIDn)
Asparagus strudel
Salad with toasted nuts, Stilton and blueberries
Rice spiked with saffron
Homemade pie by my niece. Also homemade ice cream.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 24, 2025 12:19 PM (IhIKR)
Nurse, I love you dearly, but the words "asparagus" and "strudel" should never be put together.
Posted by: pookysgirl, somewhat horrified at December 24, 2025 12:26 PM (Wt5PA)
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Gotta go with the Pookster on this one. Strudel invokes thoughts of warm apple or cherries and a flaky crust.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 12:35 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 12:35 PM (XJtJW)
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 12:35 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 12:36 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: gp at December 24, 2025 12:36 PM (GHIyr)
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"He was a fundamentally transformational figure, h8rs!"
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 12:37 PM (EAgl+)
Posted by: Eric Swallowall at December 24, 2025 12:37 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 12:37 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 24, 2025 12:38 PM (rf2Yc)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 24, 2025 12:39 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 12:40 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 12:40 PM (BI5O2)
huh; maybe more sunshine, more exercise, moar GAINZZZ
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 12:40 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 24, 2025 12:32 PM (rf2Yc)
I very much hope things turn out OK.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 12:40 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 12:41 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Chasten Buttigeg at December 24, 2025 12:41 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: ace at December 24, 2025 12:22 PM (1wjle)
Yeah, I'm cool with that. Traveling to have dinner with family will be more pleasant with warmer weather.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 24, 2025 12:42 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: nurse ratched
All of our ice cream is homemade, nothing like it. I just made mint chocolate chip using real creme de menthe. I wanted coconut chocolate chip, but was outvoted.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 12:43 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 12:43 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 12:43 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 12:43 PM (2vrAX)
Tell me about it. I've been paying people to come on my lawn so I can yell at them.
Posted by: gp at December 24, 2025 12:43 PM (GHIyr)
Good googley moogley--that sounds disgusting (but I hate asparagus). But to each their own. Hope it turns out well.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 24, 2025 12:44 PM (XMwZJ)
Merry Christmas Eve! Having grown up in a religious cult, I feel so fortunate to have Christmas and the Catholic Church in my life!
Posted by: Oglebay at December 24, 2025 12:44 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 12:45 PM (Cjt/F)
Nobody ain't doin' nothin (triple negative!) between the week of Thanksgiving and the Epiphany.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books!) at December 24, 2025 12:45 PM (lpWi1)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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The problem with aggregating polling RCP style is that the polls used have different questions, different sample sizes meaning different error values, and different sampling frames (classic case is using too many NY and CA numbers but it can also be issues with weighting where minorities are oversampled but not MAGA or young white males which accentuates the bias).
Basically, pick a poll and watch the trend line over time rather than worry about the specific numbers. Usually election polls are only accurate just before Election Day in order for people not to exclude them from 538 or RCP as trash. Subnational polls are mostly trash because of small sample sizes and inadequate understanding of a state's peculiarities and thus how to weight the small samples.
Errors are even more magnified when dealing with Congressional districts.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:45 PM (WDjG6)
Good googley moogley--that sounds disgusting (but I hate asparagus). But to each their own. Hope it turns out well.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 24, 2025 12:44 PM (XMwZJ)
Like a pie? Like a quiche?
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 12:46 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Jasmine C. from Dallas at December 24, 2025 12:46 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 12:46 PM (WHfpM)
Posted by: GKWVE at December 24, 2025 12:46 PM (LCnMA)
I get into ecstatic trances, where I channel Andy Rooney, and that nice man Morley Safer. Fortunately they are brief.
Posted by: gp at December 24, 2025 12:46 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at December 24, 2025 12:47 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Semper Paratus at December 24, 2025 12:47 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: gp at December 24, 2025 12:47 PM (GHIyr)
Alec Baldwin says tragic Rust shooting 'took 10 years off my life' as he reveals toll ordeal took on his health
~DM
Posted by: one hour sober at December 24, 2025 12:47 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at December 24, 2025 12:48 PM (xcxpd)
Insider Advantage says that Trump's at 50%.
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Since Trump's election last November, Larry Elder has been predicting that his approval would eventually reach and likely exceed 50%.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 12:48 PM (4dxWO)
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at December 24, 2025 12:47 PM (0sNs1)
Walzing MaTimDa.
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 12:48 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 12:48 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: GKWVE at December 24, 2025 12:46 PM
You are too old to be so optimistic.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 24, 2025 12:49 PM (0sNs1)
They don't. It's a refusal to grant an injunction, not a ruling. They'll let the lower courts play out until it properly comes up. AtC is threatening to "use the puppets" about people not understanding this, LOL.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 24, 2025 12:49 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Case at December 24, 2025 12:49 PM (G1OIb)
It's a Trumpmas miracle.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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I think it is fair to say that Trump is now a known quality in American politics and his poll ratings are fairly stable absent some cataclysm--what is revealed by something like RCP is more an artifact of sampling decisions made by polling directors.
You don't gain votes every presidential election as a candidate and have shitty polling much below 50 percent but probably with a cap of about 53-55 percent at the most by likely and registered voters.
Any pollster using all adults is trash as a sample for politics except possible for very young 18-24 who may have never registered to vote and voted yet.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:49 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 12:49 PM (IuFEo)
Posted by: Oglebay
Out of the frying pan, into the.......
Posted by: Martin Luther at December 24, 2025 12:49 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 12:50 PM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 12:50 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 12:43 PM (RuTUS)
I'll regift my 100 to you. 'Tis the season.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 12:50 PM (dK+Kv)
"People were shocked and asked me why, an these were Catholics."
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 12:52 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 24, 2025 12:52 PM (Bo9Yf)
They don't. It's a refusal to grant an injunction, not a ruling. They'll let the lower courts play out until it properly comes up. AtC is threatening to "use the puppets" about people not understanding this, LOL.
Posted by: Ian S.
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The hint that Gorsuch made in his dissent was that the President has the Insurrection Act and that the case may have come out differently if he invoked it.
Others made the point that active duty is under Trump's direct command already and Scotus has approved using US marines (Portland case I think) to protect and guard ICE facilities if needed.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:52 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: It's a Spring Crop at December 24, 2025 12:52 PM (oftw2)
Oh, the weather outside is fry-t-ful
A fire would just be spiteful
And since there's no where to go
Open the bottle and let it flow
Posted by: Ben Had at December 24, 2025 12:53 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Mike Johnson at December 24, 2025 12:53 PM (cHOHf)
Posted by: Case
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Cost more to heat than it does to cool. Should lighten electrical and gas bills this winter for some.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:53 PM (WDjG6)
Plus, it's the only way to get me to stop pitching for a while.
Posted by: gp at December 24, 2025 12:54 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: Gladys Kravitz at December 24, 2025 12:54 PM (oftw2)
Like blueberries, tariffs and the sweet nectar of Chinese tears mixed with Epstein sex sweat I bet! Enjoy!
Posted by: President Donald J. Trump, Shot Caller With All The Keys at December 24, 2025 12:54 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 12:55 PM (nlneO)
Let's play another round of Ask Newsom.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 12:55 PM (Kt19C)
I thought someone was making a joke.
As a side, I'd try it. As a dessert? I'd riot and overthrow a small country's government.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 12:55 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 12:55 PM (nlneO)
Posted by: gp
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Hope you get a nose hair, eyebrow, and ear hair trimmer set for Christmas if you are channelling Andy.
He resembled a hairy elf toward the end of Sixty Minutes.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:55 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: gp at December 24, 2025 12:47 PM (GHIyr)
Some ham or bacon would be good in it.
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 12:55 PM (RuTUS)
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Between a couple of "soft pillows," amirite?
Merry Christmas Ace & Hordelings!
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 12:56 PM (4dxWO)
Posted by: Gilligan at December 24, 2025 12:56 PM (Bo9Yf)
Posted by: Mike Johnson at December 24, 2025 12:53 PM
Could you leave us out of it for once?
Posted by: Footballs at December 24, 2025 12:56 PM (0sNs1)
- Floor Exercise, which I think they already do
- Balance Beam, jello involved somehow
- Vault, which would be incredibly awesome
Olympics for full grown women, plus the undressing. It would be super classy. And the guys would be judges. 10! 10! 10!...
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 12:56 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: steevy at December 24, 2025 12:57 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 12:43 PM (RuTUS)
I'll regift my 100 to you. 'Tis the season.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 12:50 PM (dK+Kv)
Thank you, Comrade Flounder.
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 12:57 PM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m
Bacon tends to improve anything, ham is hit or miss unless using bones or fatty ham for seasoning.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:58 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 12:58 PM (viF8m)
History seems to indicate that unless something happens that makes the current Russian system collapse, his successor will arise from his system and most likely be less skillful and consequently more brutal.
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 24, 2025 12:58 PM (3/XaG)
Hollywood is STILL blaming the Wuhan Flu for people not seeing their shitty movies.
Remember all the fake excuses Fake News made for obama & biden? Blaming the weather was a favorite.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 12:58 PM (mON3e)
I'm with nurse.
Posted by: Wenda at December 24, 2025 12:58 PM (FRS+s)
Posted by: Jasmine C. from Dallas
Oh, please, please, please...
Posted by: Vance '28 at December 24, 2025 12:59 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Just Desserts at December 24, 2025 01:00 PM (oftw2)
That's not even tone deaf, that's flat out gloating that he got away with murder.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 24, 2025 01:00 PM (QZThv)
Except the liberal political intelligentsia, of course.
Posted by: Simple Reality at December 24, 2025 01:00 PM (HJUJ8)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 01:01 PM (Kt19C)
I am starting to believe that we are not going to get off of this island...
Posted by: Gilligan
Heaven Knows, Mister Gilligan
Posted by: Zombie Debra Kerr at December 24, 2025 01:01 PM (pkeXY)
Will be leaving work in another hour or so and finish up at home.
The off to one of my brothers where we will have the 7 fishes.
In the past his wife would do it the Italian way but those days are gone so we just do sushi. LOL
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 24, 2025 01:01 PM (4q/mG)
Posted by: Mike Johnson
Actually, House and Senate appropriations chairs have come to agreement on the last nine appropriation bills for January, the top line amounts have been released to all committee chairs and ranking members according to news release. The GOP can, if they wish, go reconciliation on spending bills which sidesteps the filibuster in the Senate but puts in play the Byrd rule on spending bill language.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 01:01 PM (WDjG6)
The government of Bangladesh was alarmed enough by the demonstrations to summon the Indian ambassador on Tuesday and complain about inadequate security for Bangladeshi consulates in India.
Representatives for zombie Rodney King of "Can't we all just get along?" fame were not available at press time for comment.
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at December 24, 2025 01:02 PM (0sNs1)
9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
Posted by: Luke 2 at December 24, 2025 01:03 PM (OUE/9)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 12:35 PM (XJtJW
I never really thought about the connection, but it's plain as day. She warned and was ignored, he warned, and got bitten by vipers. Fate.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 01:04 PM (BI5O2)
History seems to indicate that unless something happens that makes the current Russian system collapse, his successor will arise from his system and most likely be less skillful and consequently more brutal.
Putin's probably close to a best case given Russia's history. There is no world in which Russia is magically transformed into middle America.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 24, 2025 01:04 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 01:04 PM (vFG9F)
I'm with nurse.
Posted by: Wenda
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Artichokes are underused in cooking but their lemony flavor goes well with white wine based sauces and seafood.
Have used them in red Italian sauces as well if you are aiming at lightening the heavy tomato flavor.
I prefer asparagus as roasted and we have some planted that yield some asparagus every now and then.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 01:04 PM (WDjG6)
And that's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 01:04 PM (viF8m)
Merry Christmas to Ace and all this fine group!!!
All the best for 2026!!!
Posted by: jocon307 at December 24, 2025 01:05 PM (EuROc)
History seems to indicate that unless something happens that makes the current Russian system collapse, his successor will arise from his system and most likely be less skillful and consequently more brutal.
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 24, 2025 12:58 PM (3/XaG)
It's hard to say if medved is the kind of guy that always pretends to be a bulldog on a leash but when released is reserved. They all project this aura of just being barely constrained by their boss. Maybe that's a russian thing though. I honestly can't read them at all.
Russia, China, mideast, latin america, africa, it sure seems like all of that could have been handled better than it was. I mean, what would really bad statecraft look like if that's not what we've had? Yeah, I guess it could be worse. But there sure were a lot of people in the west in charge who only cared about wetting their own beak.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 01:06 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Wenda at December 24, 2025 01:06 PM (FRS+s)
Did you just deadname Turd Ferguson?
Posted by: Ian S. at December 24, 2025 01:06 PM (QZThv)
The concern of the dems is noted...my ballot will reflect that.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 01:07 PM (2WIwB)
Representatives for zombie Rodney King of "Can't we all just get along?" fame were not available at press time for comment.
Posted by: AoSHQ
Pakistan is meddling in Bangladesh again with their damn fundamentalists/terrorists. India and Pakistan went to war back in the 70's IIRC over Bangladeshi independence.
That is the problem with Islam, when a Islamic dominated state seems to be leaving medieval practices behind, the fundies come out to drag that country back down into violence, stagnation, and terror.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 01:07 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 01:07 PM (Ia/+0)
In the past his wife would do it the Italian way but those days are gone so we just do sushi. LOL
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 24, 2025 01:01 PM (4q/mG)
7 fishes as sushi is adventurist. I've only had about 4 as sushi. They have to be pretty mild.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 01:08 PM (dK+Kv)
The concern of the dems is noted...my ballot will reflect that.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Their cocaine and fentanyl prices are going up. And put quotations around fishermen to denote sarcasm.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 01:08 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 12:58 PM (mON3e)
Best was when they’d blame cold weather in February for bad economic news. Yeah cuz that’s so unusual.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 01:08 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 01:09 PM (4dxWO)
Posted by: The Mighty Ferguson at December 24, 2025 01:09 PM (oftw2)
I still suspect given how upset the Democrats are about it that they're either using those drugs or somehow skimming money from them. Or both.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 24, 2025 01:09 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 24, 2025 12:49 PM (QZThv)
Really, I love it when she does this, because I don't understand legalize very well, and she makes it make sense for me.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 24, 2025 01:09 PM (h7ZuX)
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 01:09 PM (QGaXH)
It's amazing that Zelensky thinks that the people of Ukraine would be wishing for Putin to perish as opposed to someone closer to home.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 01:09 PM (ExV1e)
The same thing is true of broccoli. I've even started peeling celery and fennel.
Posted by: Wenda at December 24, 2025 01:09 PM (FRS+s)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 24, 2025 01:09 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: Gilligan
Heaven Knows, Mister Gilligan
Posted by: Zombie Debra Kerr at December 24, 2025 01:01 PM (pkeXY)
It do be like that, Mistah Gilligan.
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 01:09 PM (RuTUS)
Scary thought for the day. If trends continue in Europe it won't be that long until a muslim is running at least one of the countries. A nuclear armed country.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 01:10 PM (viF8m)
Had to go to the WalMark to get a last minute item or two. Walking around and seeing the disgusting sea of humanity as it washed to and fro with their pajama type clothes on and their monster children hopping in and on the shopping carts and the land whales zooming around in their fat sleds...shudder. People walk like they drive, too fast and don't look where they are going and really don't care.
Posted by: Jacob Marley at December 24, 2025 01:10 PM (R/m4+)
SS Dentist: Tell me, do you floss regularly?
Prisoner: ((whimpers)) Sure! Sure I do!
SS Dentist: ((cracks riding crop)) Why must you turn this chamber into a HOUSE OF LIES?!?!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 01:10 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Wenda at December 24, 2025 01:09 PM (FRS+s)
Interesting. Thanks. Also thanks to Whig on the artichoke lightening heavy tomato dishes. Generally I am a fan of heavy tomato, but I am always on the lookout to diversify, as I am told that is a strength.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 01:11 PM (dK+Kv)
Asparagus strudel
Salad with toasted nuts, Stilton and blueberries
Rice spiked with saffron
Homemade pie by my niece. Also homemade ice cream.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 24, 2025 12:19 PM (IhIKR)
You cut up aliassmithsmith and used him for bait? You go, girl!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 01:12 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: JackStraw
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Kind of out of our hands. US is not up for fighting for NATO when those countries (leaving aside Hungary and Poland) will not fight for themselves.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 01:12 PM (WDjG6)
Is it safe?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 01:12 PM (viF8m)
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Blacks have the highest rate of fentanyl deaths per capita. You’d think the party of “diversity” would applaud Trump for making an effort to stop fentanyl deaths.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 01:12 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Jonah at December 24, 2025 01:12 PM (YCxFk)
Then someone else pointed out that if you remove all the redactions it also says that Hillary blew up the federal building in Oklahoma.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 24, 2025 01:13 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 01:13 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 01:13 PM (IuFEo)
Of course there were SS dentists. It's not like they're British.
Posted by: Ian S. at December 24, 2025 01:14 PM (QZThv)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 24, 2025 01:14 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: JuJuBee, fact checker hammered by events at December 24, 2025 01:14 PM (2HLsC)
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 01:15 PM (IuFEo)
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 24, 2025 12:19 PM (IhIKR)
Holy Cow! Nurse caught one of the trolls and put him to work catching fish for her?
I always suspected she had a mean streak but dayuumm.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 01:15 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 24, 2025 01:15 PM (gm9Sb)
The same thing is true of broccoli. I've even started peeling celery and fennel.
Posted by: Wenda at December 24, 2025 01:09 PM (FRS+s)
This country is getting soft. Peel asparagus? Peel broccoli? In my day we served them in an oak box especially made for the meal and you had to gnaw through it to get to the vegetable.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 01:15 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Case at December 24, 2025 01:16 PM (G1OIb)
Poll posts always stir memories of my yewt and a young lass named Rose who was very adept at using polls to display her delightful rose.
May our Lord bless you with renewed strength and peace in this coming year.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 24, 2025 01:16 PM (55cF/)
New Pope of course has given a Vatican audience to every Hollywood. Marxist and pro abortionist who wants it. Sighhh
Posted by: Jonah at December 24, 2025 01:16 PM (YCxFk)
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 01:16 PM (IuFEo)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 01:10 PM (viF8m)
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South Africa set the example for Europe by dismantling their nuclear weapons before handing over power to the ANC.
Posted by: Oglebay at December 24, 2025 01:16 PM (2ap+5)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 24, 2025 01:18 PM (rf2Yc)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 01:18 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Case at December 24, 2025 01:16 PM (G1OIb)
Me neither, but I am going to have to go to the grocery store. It will be worse than Alec Baldwin surviving a murder.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 01:18 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Jonah at December 24, 2025 01:18 PM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
I find artichokes useful particularly for adding to caprese and arriabiata sauces with clams, shrimp, etc.
Also, I usually use pinot grigio with a tad of butter for a lot of white wine sauces as a base and artichoke hearts go well with items like shrimp or scallop scampi.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 01:19 PM (WDjG6)
I always suspected she had a mean streak but dayuumm.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 01:15 PM
Ahem.
Posted by: zombie Woodie Woodpecker XXXIX at December 24, 2025 01:19 PM (0sNs1)
Channel 5 shows hours of a yule log in a fireplace while Christmas carols play.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 12:21 PM (pieWX)
Channel 5 KTLA in Los Angeles
Merry Christmas to you and all our fellow California morons!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 01:19 PM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 12:43 PM (2vrAX)
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Thanks, had forgotten that (and didn't know who he was when I last saw it in the late 80s); need to watch that again sometime ...
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 01:20 PM (EAgl+)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 24, 2025 01:21 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Jonah
Since Obama's Second term, Fox News polling director Arnon Mishkin, is a hard core Democrat and former Dem staffer.
From wiki,
"Mishkin got his start in politics working in New York under political consultant David Garth. Garth's team first mainly worked for Democratic Party candidates (the party to which Mishkin is a registered member),[9] including the campaigns of Jay Rockefeller for governor and then Senator from West Virginia, as well as the Senate campaign of Mark Dayton in Minnesota.[7] "
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 01:21 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 01:22 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 01:24 PM (77rzZ)
The same thing is true of broccoli. I've even started peeling celery and fennel.
Posted by: Wenda
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Thanks. To be honest, our crowns produce irregularly so most of the asparagus I get is store bought. My wife and I both like asparagus so I will pass the tip on to her. She will be thrilled to be my scullery maid peeling vegetables (j/k).
My issue nowadays is a lot of manual prep, I can no longer do because of arthritic and nerve damage to my hands. I tend the minimize prep work nowadays.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 01:25 PM (WDjG6)
I don't want to be near a retail store today.
Posted by: Case
Or Friday. Or Saturday. Or Sunday...
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 01:25 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 01:08 PM (WDjG6)
Coast Guard should board one of those boats, and do an inventory for the cameras: "fishing gasoline, eight barrels, fishing fentanyl, 12 barrels, fishing AK-47, three, fishing Glock, two. fish hook, one"
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 24, 2025 01:29 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Moonbeam at December 24, 2025 01:38 PM (rbKZ6)
Posted by: Wenda at December 24, 2025 01:40 PM (FRS+s)
This is all theater
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 24, 2025 01:47 PM (upAiA)
The reference is a humorous classical allusion to the famous ancient sculpture Laocoön and His Sons (also called the Laocoön Group), a marble statue from the Hellenistic period (widely known and displayed in the Vatican since the Renaissance). It depicts the Trojan priest Laocoön and his two sons in extreme agony and contortion as they are entangled and attacked by giant sea serpents coiled around their bodies (sent by the gods as punishment, per Virgil's Aeneid and Greek myth).
https://grokipedia.com/page/Laoco%C3%B6n_and_His_Sons
Wikipedia has a photo:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laoco%C3%B6n_and_His_Sons
Posted by: mr_jack at December 24, 2025 01:54 PM (LNPSJ)
Posted by: Kamalla Harris, Dick Sucker and Economic Genius at December 24, 2025 02:18 PM (xvV+O)
Wednesday Morning Rant Christmas Greeting
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir - Joy to the World
Berlin Philharmonic and Choir - Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah
This embed may not work, but it is an excellent version and worth a click-through if needed
Ricardo Montalban & Esther Williams/Red Skelton & Betty Garrett - Baby, It's Cold Outside
Not exactly a Christmas song, but synonymous with the season nonetheless
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Non-nooders are equivalent to drivers who don't use their turn signals.
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Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2025 11:03 AM (NwnyJ)
Omce Junior-ette crawls out of bed and I won't wake her, I'll be back in my office trying to engrave cast acrylic red sheets to finish off my Christmas Ornament run.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 11:03 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 11:03 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 11:04 AM (nWPIJ)
Non-nooders are equivalent to drivers who don't use their turn signals.
Posted by: Bulg
We only had a Beemer for maybe 4 months right before we left Germany in '87. PCS car to get us through shipping oir good one home before final outprocessing.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 11:04 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 11:04 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 11:04 AM (QVmho)
Ever drive the Autobahn?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)
So glad I was able to meet so many of you this year in Texas.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 11:05 AM (2Ez/1)
I assume you will Be providing a photo of a scantily clad buxom blonde wearing a Santa hat later in he day?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:05 AM (UJWr0)
Merry Christmas, Horde. All things considered, it's been a great year. Praise the Lord, have a great holiday with your families, and prepare to make next year even better!
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 11:06 AM (BI5O2)
So glad I was able to meet so many of you this year in Texas.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 11:05 AM (2Ez/1)
*fistbump*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 11:06 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: I Was In The Pool! at December 24, 2025 11:06 AM (oftw2)
Chris Original Black Navy Vet
@Chris4Perkins2
Warning to maga. I'm not the guy to attack. I'll talk about every member of your family. Not even your kids are off limits. I'm going for the jugular every chance I get. I have white family and friends that I love. But I truly hate you maga fucks with a passion.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:06 AM (L/fGl)
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He sounds nice.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 11:07 AM (nWPIJ)
Warning to maga. I'm not the guy to attack. I'll talk about every member of your family. Not even your kids are off limits. I'm going for the jugular every chance I get. I have white family and friends that I love. But I truly hate you maga fucks with a passion.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:06 AM (L/fGl)
Me timbers. They be a shiverin...........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 11:07 AM (Zz0t1)
Reality:
S&P500 up 17% this year
Nasdaq up 22%
If this is 401k destruction I never want it to end.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:07 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Back at ya, YD!
Do you celebrate with Joe Mannix?
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:07 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 11:08 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: A scantily clad buxom blonde wearing a Santa hat at December 24, 2025 11:08 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:08 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: I Was In The Pool!
Mark Steyn has noted that she looked sexier in normal clothes than in a swimsuit.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:09 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 11:09 AM (OaZlZ)
Chris Original Black Navy Vet
@Chris4Perkins2
Warning to maga. I'm not the guy to attack. I'll talk about every member of your family. Not even your kids are off limits. I'm going for the jugular every chance I get. I have white family and friends that I love. But I truly hate you maga fucks with a passion.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:06 AM (L/fGl)
Counterpoint : You, Chris Perkins, are exactly the guy to attack. I'm not getting deported to Liberia because you want to Chimp Out online and make certain whites want to deport anyone with any black DNA in them.
Shut the f*** up.
Posted by: XTC at December 24, 2025 11:09 AM (UnA8+)
Do you celebrate with Joe Mannix?
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:07 AM (77rzZ)
Yup, we do Hanukkah for us and Christmas for the gentiles in the family. Christmas trees and menorahs all over the place.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 11:09 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: The Experts at December 24, 2025 11:09 AM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)
Oh the stories!!! Loved the autobahn!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 11:10 AM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 11:10 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 11:10 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Cool. Have a great one!
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:10 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:09 AM (77rzZ)
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So the rubber swim cap didn't do it for him?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 11:11 AM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:11 AM (L/fGl)
Left now: who cares about stocks only evil billionaires benefit
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:11 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Hessians In Trenton at December 24, 2025 11:11 AM (oftw2)
Ever drive the Autobahn?
Posted by: Sponge
Not with the PCS POS. My '82 VW Jetta diesel, yes. 43mpg, and would get up to 100mph. The suspension was squishy above that so i never went any faster. Had to watch for Hansel and Gretle zooming past at nearly 140mph carefully too.
Would lurve to take my Ducati Multistrada over there.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 11:11 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)
There is one page on the site. Easy to check. It's not like there are threads popping up in random secret obscure confusing places.
Plus it's fun to pour all your effort into a comment only to see that it's either been 8 minutes since the last comment, or the thread is slowing to a sudden crawl. Part of the charm. In my day we had no noods and we wore an onion on our belt.
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 11:11 AM (IuFEo)
Posted by: DanMan at December 24, 2025 11:11 AM (8uzBS)
In a previous job I had a Swiss distributor that also covered Germany for me. He had a Mercedes station wagon. One week we did a bunch of meetings with his customers in Germany.
It's pretty wild to cruising along at 110 mph and have cars passing you like you're doing 50.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 11:13 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: DanMan
My brother used to wait to do all his Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve. Adrenaline rush, I guess.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:13 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 24, 2025 11:13 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: doug at December 24, 2025 11:13 AM (Hy+R4)
There is one page on the site. Easy to check. It's not like there are threads popping up in random secret obscure confusing places.
Plus it's fun to pour all your effort into a comment only to see that it's either been 8 minutes since the last comment, or the thread is slowing to a sudden crawl. Part of the charm. In my day we had no noods and we wore an onion on our belt.
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 11:11 AM (IuFEo)
Besides, you've got a two thread buffer.
You don't get auto-banned until you post in the 4th thread down.
Posted by: XTC at December 24, 2025 11:13 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:57 AM (EXyHK)
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I would be skeptical of that classification of Comte.
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 11:14 AM (OaZlZ)
KUSC is Christmas music solid now through Christmas Day.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 11:14 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 11:14 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 11:15 AM (Js0cN)
I'm sitting right here.
Posted by: Ceramic broccoli on the drug store shelf at midnight at December 24, 2025 11:15 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 11:15 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 11:16 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 11:14 AM (pkeXY)
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Good thing we're heading to Ceti Alpha VI.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 24, 2025 11:16 AM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:16 AM (77rzZ)
Abandoned Minneapolis building listed as Somali daycare received $2 million in taxpayer money this year 🤔
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:17 AM (L/fGl)
I would only need one sentence to flip him out.
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 11:17 AM (IuFEo)
Is that what you kids are calling it now?
Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at December 24, 2025 11:17 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Merry Christmas, MP4! Hope you have a great one.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:17 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Grandpa Simpson at December 24, 2025 11:17 AM (2Ez/1)
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You should go to one of our box socials!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 11:19 AM (kpS4V)
Room temp all the way.
And as The Paolo noted, let sheets cool between batches.
It will not spoil while you have breakfast, just cover the bowl and let it sit while you eat.
(I know there is a school of thought on all baking doughs/pastries to chill. In my experience, that is a no for a lot of things, and the recipe I gave it is a huge no)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 24, 2025 11:19 AM (enw9G)
I chased her into the parking lot and beat her with a chain, too.
You can't be too permissive with these people. They're unpredictable.
Posted by: Brandon at December 24, 2025 11:19 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 24, 2025 11:19 AM (u73oe)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2025 11:19 AM (mlg/3)
It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.
Posted by: Kramer at December 24, 2025 11:19 AM (2Ez/1)
[And I'm pretty sure Mannix & YD are Jewish ... NTTAWWT]
/Seems like every day is Festivus around here with continual airing of grievances ...
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 11:19 AM (Js0cN)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:20 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 11:20 AM (kpS4V)
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I have many times. Spent some time living in Europe. Not in Germany itself but close enough to go there often. I spent a couple of weekends just driving up and down on the a-barn for fun.
It is kinda weird when you’re cruising at 130,135 and a car passes you on the left lane as if you’re stopped. And not talking commie kilometers and hour, 130 mph. 😀. Fastest I ever went was about 155 that was all my car could handle.
The thing I really loved in all W. Europe was people do NOT drive in the left lane. That’s for passing only. Period. If there’s traffic then yeah left lane is used as a travel lane. But out in the open road, there’s no left lane cruising. We could learn from the Euros in that aspect.
Unfortunately the No speed a-bahn is shrinking. Partly cuz “safety” partly cuz enviro bullshit. If you want to experience it you probably don’t have a lot of time left.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:20 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:57 AM (EXyHK)
All that and his daughter still ended up in Cabaret.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 11:20 AM (7JH4o)
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 11:21 AM (IuFEo)
Posted by: t-bird at December 24, 2025 11:21 AM (jCHfL)
Posted by: All Hail Eris
I hate those things. I talk to the boxes, but they never talk respond. What a snoozefest.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:21 AM (77rzZ)
No chilling if you did the recipe I posted.
(said in Edna Mode voice)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 24, 2025 11:21 AM (enw9G)
Ghanaian man builds arks, says God warned him of flood that will destroy the earth on Christmas
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:21 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:20 AM (77rzZ)
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The little one probably does. The older one hasn't for a few years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 24, 2025 11:21 AM (GBKbO)
Turns out the wound got infected and they had to operate on her again last night and clean it out and now she has to stay in the hospital at least until Friday so they can figure out what caused it.
This has not been my favorite Christmas.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 11:22 AM (viF8m)
Yeah I chill some cookie doughs overnight. Deepens the flavor into more caramel notes.
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 11:22 AM (IuFEo)
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 11:11 AM (IuFEo)
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It's a cultural courtesy.
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 11:22 AM (OaZlZ)
Posted by: JackStraw
Sorry to hear that, Jack.
You keeping warm?
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:23 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at December 24, 2025 11:23 AM (ZTJjv)
The flood is obviously a metaphor for Mariah Carey's "I Don't Want a Lot for Christmas".
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 11:23 AM (Riz8t)
“I HOPE EVERYONE HAS A GREAT HOLIDAY WEEKEND, EXCEPT OUR CLINICALLY ILL FELON PRESIDENT, STEPHEN MILLER, JD VANCE, JD’S COUCH, JD’S FUTON, KASH KANT KATCH ‘EM PATEL, KOSPLAY KRISTI, PARTICIPATION-TROPHY PETE, KAROLYN’ LEAVITT, SECRETARY BRAINWORM, AND MIKE ‘ALWAYS ON HIS KNEES’ JOHNSON. — GCN.”
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 24, 2025 11:23 AM (0sNs1)
It's a shame that Kate Bradley, being a widow, never hooked up with Sam Drucker. Coulda saved some money on groceries for the Shady Rest.
Posted by: Newt Kiley at December 24, 2025 11:23 AM (oftw2)
The chilled dough melts a little first thing in oven before starting to bake, especially with all that butter.
Burned edges, and blorphing.
Take your time with your yogurt while it comes completely to room temp.
Posted by: barbarausa at December 24, 2025 11:24 AM (enw9G)
No one likes a half-assed jingler.
Posted by: Ho ho ho at December 24, 2025 11:24 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 11:24 AM (i+wP0)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:25 AM (77rzZ)
What a shock for them all. Ugh.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 11:25 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:25 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: mrp at December 24, 2025 11:25 AM (rj6Yv)
58 Merry Christmas Eve, Horde.
I'm going to attempt making cookies again.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 09:46 AM (kpS4V)
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I went with Christmasy snickerdoodles and the classic toll house chocolate chip. Followed up with raspberry thumb prints and mini-pumpkin bread loaves.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 11:25 AM (2WIwB)
This has not been my favorite Christmas.
Posted by: JackStraw
We'd love to see you but not cross-country the day after you get out of Intensive Care.
tis the season for relative silliness.
Posted by: DaveA at December 24, 2025 11:25 AM (FhXTo)
Greta Thunberg and pro-Palestinian activists once again blocked Piccadilly Circus, one of London’s busiest commercial and tourist areas, during the peak Christmas shopping period.
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Doom goblins gotta doom goblin.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:25 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Skip
That damn Gruber guy at it again? Throw him off the top of the tower.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:26 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:26 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:25 AM (UJWr0)
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Ben Rothlisberger has taken over his X account.
Or, more probably, whether that wrote is true or not, to imitate Trump.
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 11:28 AM (OaZlZ)
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at December 24, 2025 11:28 AM (4q/mG)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg
I thought the gals bathed in the town's water supply - mistakenly as it turns out.
No matter, still hot.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 11:28 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 24, 2025 11:30 AM (u73oe)
Kind of bundled up so not too bad, better than I had thought. I'll be fine but thanks for asking.
Kinda bummed my sister has to spend Christmas in the hospital. Both my niece and nephew had their first babies this year and my sister had planned a big Christmas for them.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 11:30 AM (viF8m)
Greta Thunberg and pro-Palestinian activists once again blocked Piccadilly Circus, one of London’s busiest commercial and tourist areas, during the peak Christmas shopping period.
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Doom goblins gotta doom goblin.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:25 AM (L/fGl)
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They let you pee in the streets there right?
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 11:30 AM (2WIwB)
“I don’t even know if I’m a Democrat anymore,” the son of former President Joe Biden said Monday in a wide-ranging interview on “The Shawn Kelly Show.”
Whadda ya say? Time to let Huntie into The Big Tent?
Posted by: Oddbob at December 24, 2025 11:30 AM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Bulg
Yes Linda Kaye was Paul's daughter. The whole Hooterville universe sprang from Paul's mind because of summering in the Ozarks. Linda was a tomboy who loved and collected critters and was the inspiration for the Ellie May Clampett character.
Posted by: Tales From Hooterville at December 24, 2025 11:30 AM (oftw2)
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Obozo had a single ply resume and it didn't stop him.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:30 AM (L/fGl)
May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 11:30 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2025 11:31 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 11:31 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 11:31 AM (dK+Kv)
*shakes my head*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2025 11:31 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:26 AM (UJWr0)
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Palestine is not free, from the river to the sea.
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 11:31 AM (OaZlZ)
Posted by: Texican ette at December 24, 2025 11:32 AM (SNf74)
“I HOPE EVERYONE HAS A GREAT HOLIDAY WEEKEND, EXCEPT OUR CLINICALLY ILL FELON PRESIDENT, STEPHEN MILLER, JD VANCE, JD’S COUCH, JD’S FUTON, KASH KANT KATCH ‘EM PATEL, KOSPLAY KRISTI, PARTICIPATION-TROPHY PETE, KAROLYN’ LEAVITT, SECRETARY BRAINWORM, AND MIKE ‘ALWAYS ON HIS KNEES’ JOHNSON. — GCN.”
He is really bad at this.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 11:32 AM (Riz8t)
I’m often reminded of the line “Do you still think you can control them?”
Especially when hearing the news out of Minnesota or New York City.
Also, from a similarly-titled movie, “They’re asleep all over America.”
We learned a lot of lessons from World War II. They seem to be the wrong ones. The lessons that only mattered once, not the timeless lessons that matter throughout history.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 11:33 AM (EXyHK)
I pray for my enemies.
And I also give thanks I live in America where we have the 2nd amendment.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 11:33 AM (2WIwB)
Whadda ya say? Time to let Huntie into The Big Tent?
As long as it's one of those tents they use to cover a house before they pump it full of insecticide, sure.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 11:33 AM (Riz8t)
*shakes my head*
Posted by: Martini Farmer
You know. . . . . The Dollar Store around here has Hallmark cards for $1 or less. Nice ones. MUCH more preferable to those $7 ones at other places. Just saying.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 11:33 AM (cYBz/)
but a 3x5 card and a sharpie gives it that "made with love" touch!
Posted by: anachronda at December 24, 2025 11:34 AM (v3pYe)
Guess what the DA did. Yep. Went to the Grand Jury, too. They no-billed Dad and he was released. I hope he sues KSU for every last dime.
Posted by: mrp at December 24, 2025 11:35 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 24, 2025 11:35 AM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: Tonypete
Tonypete is a Cheapskate-even on Christmas!
Posted by: Big Spender at December 24, 2025 11:35 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 24, 2025 11:23 AM (0sNs1)
I don't think he understands the concept of "the Christmas spirit." Maybe he needs visits from some Christmas ghosts.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 24, 2025 11:35 AM (FMtrg)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 11:05 AM (Zz0t1)
Oh the stories!!! Loved the autobahn!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 11:10 AM (2WIwB)
Me too. One of the top things I liked about Germany.......coming in third under the women and adult beverages.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 24, 2025 11:36 AM (g8Ew8)
Bless his heart.
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 11:31 AM (qFwJc)
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Yeah. He's a black man who "goes for the jugular", which i would take to mean says the most offensive things possible.
So, what makes the N-word off the board (besides that i won't use it)?
But, Trump needs to be more compassionate to violent multi-felons.
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 11:36 AM (OaZlZ)
but a 3x5 card and a sharpie gives it that "made with love" touch!
Posted by: anachronda
Tru dat! Except for Thanksgiving - for Turkey Day one has to draw an outline of their hand and then color the 'feathers' with crayons.
And then eat them if you are a Jarhead.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 11:36 AM (cYBz/)
At the risk of incurring CBD's wrath, a lot of foodies are more concerned with ritual than results.
Their results are often enhanced by their many gadgets and accoutrements, as well.
Most people have not the time, money, space, etc to go through the religious process and trappings; they want a pie, cookies, a meal that looks good and more importantly tastes better.
I made damn near flawless cookies with that recipe with my mom's old wooden rolling pin and heavy foil disposable cookie sheets when my kids were little, and rewashed the sheets.
Posted by: barbarausa at December 24, 2025 11:36 AM (enw9G)
LINK: https://tinyurl.com/58s2hutz
Posted by: mrp at December 24, 2025 11:37 AM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: BEN ROETHLESBERGEF at December 24, 2025 11:38 AM (u73oe)
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Obozo had a single ply resume and it didn't stop him.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:30 AM
obama had no record that could be tied to him, none. He was an enigma that could be presented anyway the democrat machine wanted to.
newsom has a ton of failure tied to him that will be exploited in the primary and if he wins, in the general.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 24, 2025 11:38 AM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 11:38 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:38 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: mrp at December 24, 2025 11:35 AM (rj6Yv)
Be a shame if after the Christmas break,the university prez was found face down, naked, and stoned on the 59 yard line.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 11:38 AM (2WIwB)
Universities with a demonstrated inability to ensure the safety of students and the orderliness of campus should be ineligible for any federal funds, including student grants and loans.
That would fix that shit up real fast.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 11:38 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 11:38 AM (WWHbJ)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:39 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 11:39 AM (Riz8t)
Seriously.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 11:40 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:41 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: BEN ROETHLESBERGEF at December 24, 2025 11:38 AM (u73oe)
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They're no match at hand-dancing, though.
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 11:41 AM (OaZlZ)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 11:41 AM (qFwJc)
Too bad they're getting coal...even in Newcastle...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 24, 2025 11:43 AM (OUMaO)
What about nickel-pincher? Where do you land on nickel-pincher?
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 11:43 AM (Riz8t)
"The Oscar-nominated actor, 67, spoke with the podcast Dopey: On the Dark Comedy of Drug Addiction on Friday about what he experienced personally in the wake of the traumatic incident.
Alec Baldwin said his health has suffered tremendously in the four years since the tragic fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his film Rust, in which the gun was in his hand.
"What it's done to my health, I mean, if I told you what my health conditions have been since October 21st of 2021 - it's taken 10 years off my life - it's taken at least 10 years off my life. I can tell you, it broke every nerve in my body, spiritually, financially, work-wise, my career, my wife, my kids, my friends, my health.
The people I was most concerned about, the people I had the deepest pain for, were my wife and my kids."
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at December 24, 2025 11:43 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 11:38 AM (qFwJc)
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Not something you want to write on a card to mom.
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 11:44 AM (OaZlZ)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 11:31 AM (dK+Kv)
Merry Christmas to you and yours!!
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 11:44 AM (IuFEo)
Not surprising to read this part.
“As Law&Crime previously reported, two people were struck by bullets. One of them, 19-year-old De'Jon Fox, died, ”
De’Jon. One of those maga types I bet.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:44 AM (UJWr0)
This has not been my favorite Christmas.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 11:22 AM (viF8m
Well, at least she's alive, and getting care. You can't smoke your devil's weed in the hospital, but you can at least bring in some ham and whiskey.
You can still make it a decent Christmas, Straw.
All jokes aside, prayers for your sister, and Mery Christmas
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 11:44 AM (BI5O2)
One of her biggest social media whinges during lockdown was that it prevented her from jaunts to Europe to sign non-disclosures at quaint B&Bs and inns in Tuscany, Sicily, France to cook with first press EVOO right from the source at an antique faily owned facility in the mountains! Which is the ONLY EVOO she EVER uses now, as she also social medias about constantly, whenever anyone mentions using a recipe with olive oil.
She always chills her pie crust, made with only organic unsalted butter, and posts pictures of some of the homeliest pies I've seen. The damn crust is a mess, and always with burnt edges.
I'm sure they taste fine. (cont)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 24, 2025 11:44 AM (enw9G)
*stealthily substitutes "nickle" for "nickel"*
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 11:44 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 11:44 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Don Black at December 24, 2025 11:45 AM (ZxPkt)
Greta Thunberg and pro-Palestinian activists once again blocked Piccadilly Circus, one of London’s busiest commercial and tourist areas, during the peak Christmas shopping period.
You can never find a soccer hooligan when you need one.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 11:45 AM (pkeXY)
The people I was most concerned about, the people I had the deepest pain for, were my wife and my kids."
-What an asshole.
Posted by: Joey Nichols at December 24, 2025 11:45 AM (Riz8t)
Cheapskate is making her drink chicory with her toast for breakfast.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 11:46 AM (BI5O2)
The people I was most concerned about, the people I had the deepest pain for, were my wife and my kids."
What's that? Halyna? Fuck that bitch. She had it coming. -- Alec Baldwin, probably
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 11:46 AM (ExV1e)
I believe this is one of those quotes where context is everything.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 24, 2025 11:47 AM (3nLb4)
Posted by: Don Black at December 24, 2025 11:48 AM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 11:48 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 11:22 AM (OaZlZ)
My face is my courtesy.
(that's a play on a line from some movie - my face is my warrant. Nevermind)
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 11:48 AM (IuFEo)
Posted by: Joyeux? No way. at December 24, 2025 11:49 AM (TbWk/)
(NewsNation) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded a frozen shrimp recall including more than 83,000 bags of the raw crustaceans for potential radioactive contamination.
The shrimp, imported from Indonesia and sold nationwide under the Market 32 and Waterfront Bistro brands, may have come in contact with Cesium-137, a radioactive substance.
https://is.gd/h13s70
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 11:49 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Christmas Goose at December 24, 2025 11:49 AM (oftw2)
By weird coincidence, we have a flag for just that occasion.
Posted by: Oddbob at December 24, 2025 11:49 AM (3nLb4)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 11:48 AM (qFwJc)
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The US Treasury makes no more cents.
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 11:49 AM (OaZlZ)
Back in the days when you had to stoke a woodstove, and produce edible food three times a day from it. Haul water, the works
"Good cook" had a distinct meaning then, far removed from gadgets and rituals, other than a lot of cast iron and how to proof bread, etc.
Her cookies were outstanding--delicious, simple ingredients, perfect. Brought to every Sunday dinner in old Quaker oats boxes lined with wax paper.
When my mom and her sibs were kids in the Depression, Grandma paid the doctor in rye bread if they got sick, at his request.
She was a great cook.
Posted by: barbarausa at December 24, 2025 11:50 AM (enw9G)
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 11:50 AM (IuFEo)
The magic miraculously reappears with grandchildren.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 11:50 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Tales From Hooterville
The funny thing about the Hooterville universe: The Clampetts knew and interacted with some of the folks back in Hooterville, and the folks in Hooterville knew and interacted with Oliver and Lisa Douglas. But there was an ep of Green Acres where Oliver and Lisa were in the stage version of the Beverly Hillbillies. So, to the Douglases,the Clampetts were just characters in a TV show. But I guess that kinda makes sense given the surreal nature of GA in general.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:50 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 24, 2025 11:51 AM (hZbl2)
Not surprising to read this part.
“As Law&Crime previously reported, two people were struck by bullets. One of them, 19-year-old De'Jon Fox, died, ”
De’Jon. One of those maga types I bet.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:44 AM (UJWr0)
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A dollar to donuts, Kentucky State University receives federal money. If ever a university deserved a Department of Education root-and-branch investigation, KSU should be at the top of the list. DOJ, too. Read it.
LINK: https://tinyurl.com/58s2hutz
Posted by: mrp at December 24, 2025 11:51 AM (rj6Yv)
You can be a pauper and spend every penny you have on a woman, and she'll call you cheap for buying crappy stuff.
You can be as rich as Croesus, and buy her exquisite things, and she'll call you cheap for not spending every penny.
Just pinch those pennies. You'll get called cheap no matter what, but you'll have the last laugh, because you have those pennies.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 11:52 AM (BI5O2)
It's an HBCU. Nothing will happen.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 11:52 AM (Riz8t)
Colombian President Petro is unaware of history. The US didn't take Texas from Mexico. We left on our own.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 11:52 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Joyeux? No way. at December 24, 2025 11:49 AM (TbWk/)
If you focus on the reason for the celebration, it makes it much more lovely. It is a Christian celebration of the birth of our savior, Jesus Christ. The seculars co-opted it to make money and smudge our religious beliefs. Ignore them, make a simple meal your family loves, spend time together and if you are a believer, spend time in prayer and worship. If you are not, then spend time doing something free and fun. It becomes onerous only if you let it!
Posted by: moki at December 24, 2025 11:53 AM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:21 AM (L/fGl)
And the prophet - and the money the people gave him - will ascend to the sky before the dawn of the 26th.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 11:54 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: moki at December 24, 2025 11:54 AM (wLjpr)
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Well, just steal a few billion. It's the Minnesota way!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:54 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 11:55 AM (qFwJc)
Tell me you're a commie who's worried about what Trump's going to do to you so you're trying to gin up some resentment of the US without telling me you're a commie who's worried about what Trump's going to do to you so you're trying to gin up some resentment of the US.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 11:55 AM (Riz8t)
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 11:55 AM (IuFEo)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:21 AM (L/fGl)
And the prophet - and the money the people gave him - will ascend to the sky before the dawn of the 26th.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 11:54 AM (uQesX)
Did he build arks? The video I saw had him walking around making noise (I had the sound off so I don't know if he was speaking, or chanting, or singing, or grunting) but they never showed any of the five arks he was supposed to have built. Or the animals for them. Or the families to populate them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 11:56 AM (ExV1e)
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But how can this be? Diversity is our strength. Surely the 100k Somalis on welfare are creating an economic boom that will fill the coffers of every city in the state with tax revenue.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:58 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Country Fried Jake at December 24, 2025 11:58 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 11:58 AM (PIdvu)
Did the christianists finally surrender?
I miss it
The WAR ON CHRISTMAS had become an American tradition usually starting before Thanksgiving. And sometimes as early as October.
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 24, 2025 11:58 AM (8sSRd)
You can be a pauper and spend every penny you have on a woman, and she'll call you cheap for buying crappy stuff.
You can be as rich as Croesus, and buy her exquisite things, and she'll call you cheap for not spending every penny.
Just pinch those pennies. You'll get called cheap no matter what, but you'll have the last laugh, because you have those pennies.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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The grim reality is that a woman is attracted to you or they are not pretty fast upon knowing a person. Stupid romcoms emphasize grand romantic and expensive gestures--if she digs you, none of that is necessary. If she doesn't, then you are relying on buying her love via presents, etc. which is never worth it.
You can discard the gold diggers pretty fast by giving small thoughtful gifts and time spent listening to your date. They turn up their nose at that, then a relationship is probably not worth pursuing.
If they insist on dinner at the most expensive restaurant in town or demand expensive gifts, then your relationship is and will be transactional.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 11:58 AM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 24, 2025 11:58 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 11:21 AM (L/fGl)
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Hope he leaves the mosquitoes behind this time.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 24, 2025 11:59 AM (u73oe)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:59 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 11:59 AM (PIdvu)
I believe this is one of those quotes where context is everything.
Posted by: Oddbob
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Fondling one's own tits as a male is frowned upon by polite society.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:01 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 12:01 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:01 PM (WDjG6)
And now you understand Windows 11. -- Bill Gates
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 12:02 PM (ExV1e)
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But it rebelled from Mexico, before it voluntarily became a state in the US. It would be strangely contra-modern to suggest that ideological rebellions are illegitimate.
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:02 PM (OaZlZ)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 24, 2025 12:02 PM (8sSRd)
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:02 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 12:02 PM (IuFEo)
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:02 PM (WDjG6)
Ugh. Get better soon. Lots of water. And paxlovid if you can handle it.
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 12:03 PM (IuFEo)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 12:04 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 12:04 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:01 PM (WDjG6)
And now you understand Windows 11. -- Bill Gates
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
Problem with Gates is Windoze 11 is designed to steal every bit of such personal data including photos for teh Microsux Mothership, probably to feed their AI crap models.
Course Gates might be an exhibitionist for all I know. Nasty Gollum like creature.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:04 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Country Fried Jake at December 24, 2025 11:58 AM (oftw2)
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I would prefer the land where Jed was shouting for some food.
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:04 PM (OaZlZ)
So, Henning made Bea Cousin Pearl and a year later created Petticoat Junction and Kate Bradley was born.
Posted by: Hooterville World Guardian at December 24, 2025 12:05 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 24, 2025 12:05 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 12:02 PM (IuFEo)
Eye of the tiger?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 12:05 PM (UJWr0)
Shouldn't you be reading??? (insert smiley here, because they ain't woikin')
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 12:06 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 12:06 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 12:07 PM (UJWr0)
That would fix that shit up real fast.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 11:38 AM (ExV1e)
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I was a practical joker in college -- and nearly got for the following:
Among the denizens of our row house was a bright and sweet but effeminate young man whom was the frequent butt of jokes.
[This was out of character for me; every fight I got into before then was defending kids picked on my bullies.]
One night while he was showering in a locked community bathroom, I helped others lower my roommate down by a rope through a slightly open window to abscond with his clothes and towel.
We all had a good laugh waiting outside the bathroom door as he flew into a panic and smashed his fist through the opaque window in the door -- nearly severing a tendon (he was a concert pianist).
I was summoned by the Dean Of Students and told: if anything further happened to this other student through the end of the year -- I would be expelled; I had now become his protector.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 12:07 PM (EAgl+)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 12:07 PM (PIdvu)
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:02 PM (OaZlZ)
Further, if the US were to say, "Gosh, we're super sorry. We'll get rid of Texas." Texas would revert to being an independent country.
I recommend that Mssr. Petro become acquainted with the Treaties of Velasco.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 12:07 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: ...
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Already took first dose a few minutes ago. I aggressively treat any respiratory virus with antivirals as I always end up with either bronchitis or pneumonia if I don't. Thought it was the flu but the tests show teh Vid instead so went to a doc in the box first thing this morning to confirm
diagnosis and get prescription.
Abbvie is actually pretty good about their ambassador program and got a response. The ritonavir component in Paxlovid can create dosage issues with some medications and Rinvoq is one of them. Had to check dosage levels with Abbvie to avoid complications.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:08 PM (WDjG6)
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Ewww gross. Way too old.
- Joe Biden
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 12:08 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Aliasjonesjones at December 24, 2025 12:08 PM (looXz)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 12:07 PM (ExV1e)
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Not to mention: his own business.
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:09 PM (OaZlZ)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
As well as the Fissure of Rolando.
Posted by: Lux Interior at December 24, 2025 12:10 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: ShainS
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Shades of the movie, My Bodyguard. Decent 80's flick.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:10 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 12:10 PM (PIdvu)
Did the christianists finally surrender?
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No.
It's because their orange god-king now dominates every aspect of your puny life.
Bow to him.
Do it now.
Deus Vult.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 12:10 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Petro is a sniveling pos druggie and former member of a terrorist party. Poor Colombia for having him as president.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:11 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:11 PM (OaZlZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 12:11 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Aliasjonesjones at December 24, 2025 12:08 PM (looXz)
I don't know how old Mary was but I do know that she was married so, apparently, she wasn't considered too young at the time. I refuse to judge people from 2000+ years ago by the mores of today.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 12:11 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 12:11 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 12:12 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Boss Moss
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If Maduro goes, cartels won't be able to keep Petro in office. He is pretty much despised in Colombia as a drugged out clown. The winds are changing in Latin America.
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:12 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: moki at December 24, 2025 12:12 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Chief Engineer Scotty at December 24, 2025 12:13 PM (2GIh1)
It's always amusing to see if you can figure out WTH they're talking about before they tell you. But as you say, it's not a good enough reason to waste part of my limited time on earth seeing it.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 24, 2025 12:13 PM (Riz8t)
Peter could have been in his upper teens when he became a disciple.
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:14 PM (OaZlZ)
I was being sarcastic . The troll (Aliassmithsmith)
Thinks that nobody knew this before?!!
Posted by: Aliasjonesjones at December 24, 2025 12:15 PM (7RYym)
Posted by: moki at December 24, 2025 12:12 PM (wLjpr)
Woo hoo! Thanks. Hope the editor likes it too.
Ah crap. A nood call, Moki probably won't see me response.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 12:15 PM (uQesX)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 12:16 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 12:18 PM (EAgl+)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 12:19 PM (EAgl+)
A few years ago I received a copy of two Rose Levy Beranbaum books, one of which was The Baking Bible. It was fascinating to go through it, and I learned a lot. But I will never in real life take that much time and that many steps. At one point she recommends rolling your dough in a wine cellar, because that’s the ideal temperature.
She really made me love the old-school recipes that would give in one or two sentences what she would take three or four pages to do.
One cup stewed pumpkin, one-half cup milk, one-half cup sweet cream, two-thirds cup sugar, salt, two eggs, spice to suit.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 12:22 PM (EXyHK)
This is true. See what happens when you let a bunch of foreigners into your country?
Posted by: Case at December 24, 2025 12:22 PM (G1OIb)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 11:10 AM (2WIwB)
Me too. One of the top things I liked about Germany.......coming in third under the women and adult beverages.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 24, 2025 11:36 AM (g8Ew
Were I not a married woman, I'd let you know that I am of German descent and therefore like driving fast and hard liquor (but I never ever mix the two).
Posted by: pookysgirl has to wait a few weeks to drink again at December 24, 2025 12:24 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 11:52 AM (BI5O2)
Not so fast my friend …
Posted by: Divorce Court at December 24, 2025 12:24 PM (pY+ea)
The Texas revolution was supported as much by “original” Texans as by newcomers. Santa Anna had just done a Star Wars and taken over/dissolved the Mexican legislature. Most of the northern states of Mexico didn’t like this, and Texas went so far as to rebel. And, with the grace of God, successfully.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 12:26 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: whig at December 24, 2025 12:10 PM (WDjG6)
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Ah, yes -- never saw it but remember my stepdaughter watching it -- and that a young Adam Baldwin was in it.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 12:30 PM (EAgl+)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 12:12 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 12:36 PM (RuTUS)
I dunno why...
XH (see where this is going?) was a cheapskate. A tightwad. He grew up poor but we, as a married couple, were not poor and both had jobs.
To clarify-- what's his was his; what's mine was his too. So, he always got whatever he wanted (stereo equipment, camera, car accessories) and then told me we couldn't afford what I wanted (microwave oven, set of *matching* dishes, basic stuff).
One Christmas, he actually gave me a toothpick holder. With toothpicks!-- it was a cute little wooden wishing-well, with fancy lil picks that looked like they were turned on a lathe... you know those Japanese ones...
But really. A freaking toothpick holder. And that was *it* after he'd unwrapped a nice haul of goodies: things I knew he'd like.
Now, before you all say I was ungrateful-- I thanked him politely, and I really liked the little thing-- it was the callousness of him that hurt me: "You know I hate Christmas." It was such a chore for him to think of anyone other than himself.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 01:17 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 24, 2025 05:26 PM (FLiOE)
Mid-Morning Art Thread
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
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14 When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt, 15 and was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”
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After 9 years of never doing it, our dog has decided that if we don't wake up early enough and let him out, he shits on the floor.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:38 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Chow Mein at December 24, 2025 09:39 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 09:39 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:40 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 09:39 AM (R11M+)
I'm part owner now! Go islham!
Posted by: Tucker Carlson at December 24, 2025 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Leftoid at December 24, 2025 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Joseph typing into Google Maps at December 24, 2025 09:41 AM (2Ez/1)
Caravaggio is awesome.
Posted by: vivi at December 24, 2025 09:41 AM (KruEU)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 09:41 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:41 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: LadyBikki at December 24, 2025 09:42 AM (ZIajN)
https://tinyurl.com/wxsp9taw
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 09:35 AM (ufSfZ)
One......is the loneliest number.....
Posted by: Leftoid at December 24, 2025 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 09:42 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 09:43 AM (R11M+)
https://tinyurl.com/wxsp9taw"
Ozyman, that you?
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:43 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: muldoon at December 24, 2025 09:43 AM (/iMjX)
Grounds it more as a real tangible scene of a thing that actually happened, and less as standard iconography.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:44 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 24, 2025 09:44 AM (ViCCR)
Posted by: Timekeeper At The Bell at December 24, 2025 09:44 AM (oftw2)
She was ecstatic about it, right up till the neighbor music major kid said it was one of the hardest instruments to learn.
She never touched it again.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:44 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Tuna at December 24, 2025 09:45 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at December 24, 2025 09:45 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 09:45 AM (R11M+)
Try Lee Ho Fooks
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:44 AM (XuXeR)
When you hear Bang Ding Ow in the kitchen, it's time to leave.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:45 AM (Zz0t1)
They were hard to start, and idled rough.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 24, 2025 09:46 AM (zdLoL)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 09:46 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Warai-otoko
Same reason I've always liked Tanner's The Annunciation, though if you look you see a blue garment off to the side, as if to nod at what is yet to come.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 24, 2025 09:47 AM (OUMaO)
###
That signifies Angel, Second Class.
Posted by: Clarence, from It's A Wonderful Life at December 24, 2025 09:47 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 24, 2025 09:44 AM (ViCCR)
Well, I can tell you haven't met my boss.
Posted by: Politician at December 24, 2025 09:47 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Timekeeper At The Bell at December 24, 2025 09:44 AM (oftw2)
Well crap I guess I'm an atheist now.
Thanks, bro, that would have been awkward if I had went the rest of my life believing a lie, had you not so thoughtfully intervened!
How 'bout you fuck off back to middle school, shitnuts.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:47 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Chow Mein
I thought it was Korean on Christmas now.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 09:47 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Thought bubble over Joseph at December 24, 2025
***
She reminds me of the violin player for Celtic Woman!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 09:48 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: cmeat
Lume! Underwing, pits, underboob, thighfolds, knees, and feet.
Posted by: 72 Hour Protection at December 24, 2025 09:48 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 09:47 AM (R11M+)
Ya gotta be quick around here.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:48 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025
***
And don't expect her to do "The Devil Went Down to Georgia"!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 09:49 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 24, 2025 09:49 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Chow Mein...
Try Lee Ho Fooks
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:44 AM (XuXeR)
Make sure your hair is perfect before you go.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 09:49 AM (ufSfZ)
Call up Trudy on the telephone
Send a letter in the mail
Tell her I'm hung up in Dallas
And they won't let me outta this jail
And if she asks you how I'm fairing
Tell her I'm just about to lose my mind
Worried about old Johnny Lee Walker
And the girl I left behind...
Posted by: Trudy at December 24, 2025 09:49 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 09:49 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 09:46 AM (kpS4V)
What happened last time?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:50 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:50 AM (XuXeR)
***********
Not a covered benefit of your plan. Your claim will be thrown into denial.
Posted by: muldoon at December 24, 2025 09:50 AM (/iMjX)
Make sure your hair is perfect before you go.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 09:49 AM (ufSfZ)
And visit a good tailor.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:50 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:47 AM (06Hmj)
There's a small, teensy weensy chance I may have misread that guy and flew off the handle a bit.... a tiny bit... maybe....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:50 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Warai-otoko
Maybe, try the decaf?
Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital at December 24, 2025 09:50 AM (oftw2)
I'm going to attempt making cookies again.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 09:46 AM (kpS4V)
I'm out at noon. I'm going to have lunch and then read A Christmas Carol.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 09:51 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 09:51 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 09:46 AM (kpS4V)
What happened last time?
Posted by: Sponge
Something involving a drill that she used wrong. Oh, wait, maybe that was Ace's shelving project.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 09:51 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Joseph, hankering for some bluegrass at December 24, 2025 09:51 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:52 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital at December 24, 2025 09:50 AM (oftw2)
Why that's just crazy talk.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:52 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 09:52 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 09:52 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
The Reginald Owen, Alistair Sim, Albert Finney, George C. Scott, or Michael Caine version?
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 09:53 AM (77rzZ)
East side, right? Fantastic....
Oh, that one.
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:52 AM (XuXeR)
East side meets West side downtown.
*don't tell anyone I said that
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:53 AM (Zz0t1)
So, Hokas?
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:53 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 24, 2025 09:53 AM (DgMqy)
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 24, 2025 09:53 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 09:53 AM (i+wP0)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 09:55 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Skip
"Be not afraid."
Posted by: The first thing every angel always says at December 24, 2025 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)
So, you're still looking for the source of denial?
*ducks*
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:55 AM (XuXeR)
Half-dressed or in a three-piece suit, doesn't matter. People tend to be really scared when angels show up in the Bible, which is why the first thing they say is something like "Calm down; I'm not here to smite you (this time)."
Posted by: PabloD at December 24, 2025 09:56 AM (Epuwl)
Mary was a virgin........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Skip
"Be not afraid."
Posted by: The first thing every angel always says at December 24, 2025 09:55 AM (2Ez/1)
---
"Be not freaked out!" -- the original Aramaic.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 09:56 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Oh, no... at December 24, 2025 09:56 AM (2Ez/1)
*ducks*
Posted by: man
You shall not Speke about the source of denial.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 09:56 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 09:53 AM (77rzZ)
I said, 'read.' This version:
https://tinyurl.com/3x8stj57
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 09:57 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 09:58 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 09:53 AM (77rzZ)
I said, 'read.'
Yes, I know. That was the joke.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 09:58 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Madge at December 24, 2025 09:58 AM (2Ez/1)
Always booked Caravaggio even though he was a lunatic
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 09:58 AM (2vrAX)
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:59 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 09:59 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 09:59 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)
So they discovered that "calm yourself, sugartits" didn't work so well?
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 10:00 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 10:00 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 10:00 AM (R11M+)
One day, when the world is a better place, commenters will pay attention to the admonitions of the cobloggers and just f*cking ignore the trolls.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 24, 2025 10:00 AM (n9ltV)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 09:58 AM (ufSfZ)
He just wanted to remind everyone Mary was 15 or so at the time of conception.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)
Was it you looking for a good cutout recipe last week?
Posted by: barbarausa at December 24, 2025 10:01 AM (enw9G)
The Morons were resting, all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar tits danced in their heads.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 10:01 AM (ufSfZ)
One day, when the world is a better place, commenters will pay attention to the admonitions of the cobloggers and just f*cking ignore the trolls.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 24, 2025 10:00 AM (n9ltV)
Is it OK if Spicoli reminds them of their status?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Hey, it's Christmas. Indulge!
Seriously, MP4, I hope you have a wonderful Christmas.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 10:02 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Keith Green song at December 24, 2025 10:02 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:50 AM (Zz0t1)
The cookies came out shapeless blobs. I worked around it by using cookie cutters while the dough was still warm.
They tasted good tho.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 10:02 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025
***
The Alastair Sim version of the film is on Movies! at 7:00 Central tonight.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 10:02 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 10:02 AM (XuXeR)
Excellent critique of the current vogue in joo-hate from Hillsdale.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 10:02 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Dr_No at December 24, 2025 10:03 AM (ayRl+)
Posted by: Oh, no
***********
No need to get all bent out of shape...
Posted by: muldoon at December 24, 2025 10:03 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 10:03 AM (R11M+)
While visions of sugar tits danced in their heads.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 10:01 AM (ufSfZ)
---
This guy gets it!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 10:03 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 10:02 AM (XuXeR)
Godspeed, sir.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:03 AM (Zz0t1)
I'm the weakest link in the cookie-baking chain, though.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 10:03 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)
I don't recall from the Bible an angel appearing on the journey and I don't know if there were bowed string instruments at that time. Maybe the angel is to show the family was protected on the journey.
Posted by: JTB at December 24, 2025 10:04 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 24, 2025 10:04 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Skip
***
If it looked like Nicole Kidman (now or when she was young, either way) I would lose the freakout attitude real fast.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 10:04 AM (wzUl9)
I'm the weakest link in the cookie-baking chain, though.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 10:03 AM (kpS4V)
---
Quality control specialist?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 10:05 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Oh, no
***********
No need to get all bent out of shape...
Posted by: muldoon
An adjustment in attitude is needed I see.
Posted by: Tuna at December 24, 2025 10:05 AM (lJ0H4)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 24, 2025 10:00 AM (n9ltV)
====
I can't help myself. I'm weak.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 10:05 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 24, 2025 10:05 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 24, 2025 10:05 AM (enw9G)
I don't remember that from the story. Was that in a film adaptation?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 10:05 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Oh, no
***********
No need to get all bent out of shape...
Posted by: muldoon at December 24, 2025 10:03 AM
---
I'll adjust.
Posted by: Groan... at December 24, 2025 10:06 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 24, 2025 10:05 AM (g8Ew
No.
"AngelSoft" in Heaven is actually a tech company.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 10:06 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 10:06 AM (I/KG5)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 10:02 AM (A0sqA)
Hillsdale is promoting joo-hate?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 10:07 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 10:08 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 24, 2025 10:05 AM
+++
Could we please answer the dancing on the head of a pin question first please?
Posted by: One thing at a time at December 24, 2025 10:08 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 10:08 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 10:02 AM (XuXeR)
*cues Beverly Hillbilly theme*
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 24, 2025 10:08 AM (g8Ew8)
will be a busy few days even tho we stay mostly local for the 12 days ... lots of old-fashioned type visits on tap
Enjoy and be merry!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 24, 2025 10:08 AM (emBoF)
Posted by: LASue at December 24, 2025 10:08 AM (nKjbR)
Speak with bluebell. She's a cookie savant.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 10:09 AM (viF8m)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 10:09 AM (R11M+)
I don't remember that from the story. Was that in a film adaptation?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
At least in the Sim version, there are two men standing by her bedside after Ebenezer leaves the room. One is presumably the doctor, and I always understood the other to be her husband.
Regardless, the absence of the father from Fred's life in preference to Scrooge is never explained (not even in the story, if I recall). It's weird. You'd think if her husband had predeceased Fan, it would've been noted, at least in passing.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 10:07 AM (R11M+)
"And then Mary wasn't sure if she left the iron plugged in or not and they all had to turn back---"
"Oh, come on man, don't put that part in! What's wrong with you?"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 10:10 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: muldoon at December 24, 2025 10:10 AM (/iMjX)
Regardless, the absence of the father from Fred's life in preference to Scrooge is never explained (not even in the story, if I recall). It's weird. You'd think if her husband had predeceased Fan, it would've been noted, at least in passing.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 10:09 AM (77rzZ)
Holes in the plot are fine. Nothing to worry about.
Posted by: Steven Seagal at December 24, 2025 10:10 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 10:11 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: cmeat
It's not really a tiny detail. Scrooge's guardianship of Fred is a major plot point.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: muldoon
Tut, Tut...
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 24, 2025 10:11 AM (w9Wax)
serious never-fail, UNLESS you don't bring back to room temp after freezing it, and I only freeze some if I make a small batch.
Let me go get it and will post.
Put one C butter out to soften now, and an egg to come to room temp.
Posted by: barbarausa at December 24, 2025 10:11 AM (enw9G)
https://tinyurl.com/wxsp9taw
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 09:35 AM (ufSfZ)
This is amazing, too. I've never seen it before.
Posted by: LASue at December 24, 2025 10:12 AM (nKjbR)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 24, 2025 10:11 AM (w9Wax)
Moved to Arizona, I hear.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:12 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
No. They just explode when they're fifty.
(old MASH reference)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 10:12 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 10:12 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: muldoon at December 24, 2025 10:10 AM
Sigh is nigh.
Posted by: Geography buff at December 24, 2025 10:12 AM (2Ez/1)
Just to put one coonass boy in jail
Posted by: Charles at December 24, 2025 10:12 AM (vd6bO)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 10:12 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: muldoon
Too bad he died of the Khuf.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 10:13 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Steve Martin at December 24, 2025 10:13 AM (2Ez/1)
Thanks. As work is slow right now, I checked. All Dickens wrote was:
"Always a delicate creature, whom a breath might have withered," said the Ghost. "But she had a large heart!"
"So she had," cried Scrooge. "You're right, I'll not gainsay it, Spirit. God forbid!"
"She died a woman," said the Ghost, "and had, as I think, children."
"One child," Scrooge returned.
"True," said the Ghost. "Your nephew!"
Scrooge seemed undeasy in his mind; and answered brielly, "Yes."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 10:14 AM (ufSfZ)
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
*Cue drum circles, bad dancing, and neon blue hair*
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 10:14 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 10:15 AM (R11M+)
She asks him to go with her, but warns there’s no going back. Of course he goes. I was like 19 when I wrote this. When youre a horny teenager, and some hot girl with wings asks you to go with her, you GO. Now, I’d be like ‘ummm … where we going? Are we really not coming back? I gotta think about this…”
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 24, 2025 10:15 AM (FL09G)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 10:15 AM (R11M+)
Where's Ethel in all this?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:16 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Warai-otoko
_-_
Warai-otoko is my favorite poet today.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 24, 2025 10:16 AM (vd6bO)
https://tinyurl.com/wxsp9taw
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 09:35 AM (ufSfZ)
This is amazing, too. I've never seen it before.
Posted by: LASue at December 24, 2025 10:12 AM (nKjbR)
The funny thing is that it hangs in a side corridor among many, many other objects. You could walk right past it without blinking an eye.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 10:16 AM (ufSfZ)
https://tinyurl.com/wxsp9taw
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression)
Mary is at a Rest Cheops.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 10:17 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Joseph at December 24, 2025 10:17 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 24, 2025 10:15 AM (FL09G)
I thought you only had two guidelines:
TBWB and TBWNB.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)
-
Also, the Loch Ness Monster.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 10:17 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 10:18 AM (ufSfZ)
https://tinyurl.com/wxsp9taw
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 09:35 AM (ufSfZ)
Thank a Somalian!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)
I always think Joseph gets short shrift in the Bible. He accepted God's will, was a provider and protector and should have been honored more. Even in this painting he is keeping watch over his family and assisting the angel. Vigilant and useful.
Posted by: JTB at December 24, 2025 10:18 AM (yTvNw)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 10:19 AM (cYBz/)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 10:19 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Steve Martin at December 24, 2025 10:13 AM (2Ez/1)
_-_
Your sarcophagus is glowin'
But your esophagus is showin'
Posted by: Michael Smith at December 24, 2025 10:19 AM (vd6bO)
https://shorturl.at/SMy2z
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Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 10:20 AM (ULPxl)
Cream 1 cup butter with 1 cup sugar.
Mix in 1 egg, 1 teaspoon vanilla.
Mix in (mixed) dry ingredients, 3 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking powder.
Roll out on floured surface (I toss a thick disk of about half of dough on floured surface, and rub flour on pin over disk, to dust the top of dough a bit before rolling)
Cut and transfer to cookie sheets (I use parchment paper) and bake in preheated 400* oven, for 8-10 depending on how thin you roll and how your oven runs--check a little early and remove when edges are barely brown.
Cool on sheet for a couple minutes, then transfer to rack to cool completely.
Been suing this for over 30 years, and it is reliable.
Good luck, Merry Christmas, and I believe in you!
Posted by: barbarausa at December 24, 2025 10:20 AM (enw9G)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 10:20 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Seems Sensible at December 24, 2025 10:21 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 10:22 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 24, 2025 10:22 AM (enw9G)
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
1597 creation
Location: Galleria Doria Pamphilj
Art gallery in Rome, Italy
After having been warned about the wrath of Herod, the Holy Family flees Bethlehem to seek safety in Egypt (Matthew 2:13-15). Depictions of Mary, Joseph, and the infant Jesus at rest in the countryside became a popular image of family intimacy.
AI Overview: Famous depictions by artists like Titian, Merson, and Mola show varied details, from angels bringing fruit to Joseph dozing, emphasizing the tender, domestic side of this biblical flight.
New Daily Compass: When Caravaggio painted the Flight into Egypt on a tablecloth
In part, “Rest on the Flight into Egypt” is an unusual picture that Caravaggio painted in 1597 on a Flanders cloth, a fabric then used to make tablecloths. It was painted during the Roman period of the artist, who lived a short and troubled life due to his quarrelsome temperament.
..Michelangelo Merisi (1571-1610), known as Caravggio, had a short and tempestuous life. The undisputed leader of the Baroque, he is an artist who can be considered a 'photographer' because of the intense precision of the details in his works.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 24, 2025 10:23 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 24, 2025 10:15 AM (FL09G)
I thought you only had two guidelines:
TBWB and TBWNB.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)
——-
The calculus is more complicated with supernatural girls who can fly.
I’ll have to recreate the lyrics one day. It was a really good song, very Dio-y. He goes with her, experiences supernatural bliss, but then loses her in the shadows. He finds himself back in the real world. He tries to find that bliss again, but can’t. So he realizes the girl was right all along. There was no going back. It just wasn’t in the way he originally thought.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 24, 2025 10:23 AM (FL09G)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 10:19 AM (cYBz/)
Ahhh, jeez, don't quote me being an unwarranted dickhead, that's just cruel!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 10:23 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 10:26 AM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 24, 2025 10:26 AM (pzoNl)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 10:26 AM (kpS4V)
Yuuuuu con DO EET!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:26 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 24, 2025 10:26 AM (pzoNl)
Geez man. Who pissed in YOUR Cheerios?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:27 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Warai-otoko
Ok, but your order is at the next window, sir.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2025 10:27 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 10:28 AM (gbOdA)
Y'all are killing me.
Don't quote the trolls. Especially when I'm the troll in question and I deserve it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 10:29 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 24, 2025 10:29 AM (enw9G)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 10:30 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2025 10:27 AM (mlg/3)
You know if they're gonna muck up my order five times in a row, shame on me, at that point.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 10:30 AM (06Hmj)
I'm the weakest link in the cookie-baking chain, though.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 24, 2025 10:03 AM (kpS4V)
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Quality control specialist?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 10:05 AM (ESVrU)
Quality Assurance is important in software development; I fail to see how it can be any less so in baking. Especially Christmas baking.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 10:30 AM (ULPxl)
They certainly didn't have an oven big enough for it, and even if they did, it would have taken three weeks to thaw.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 10:31 AM (cYBz/)
Isaiah 7:13-14
Posted by: Marcus T at December 24, 2025 10:31 AM (B5Sbl)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 10:31 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 10:30 AM (R11M+)
*computer animated voice*
Pull up.
Pull up.
Pull up.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:32 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Someone has to say it at December 24, 2025 10:32 AM (2Ez/1)
They certainly didn't have an oven big enough for it, and even if they did, it would have taken three weeks to thaw.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 10:31 AM (cYBz/)
That was a YP, sir. I did my part.
Posted by: Scrooge at December 24, 2025 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bentonville at December 24, 2025 10:33 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 10:33 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2025 10:27 AM (mlg/3)
You know if they're gonna muck up my order five times in a row, shame on me, at that point.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 10:30 AM (06Hmj)
Five times?! They ALWAYS fuck you at the drive-through!
Posted by: Leo Getz at December 24, 2025 10:33 AM (ULPxl)
He was transported as a convict to Australia for crimes against The Crown, sodomy and running a muslim rape gang in Rotherham. Once transported, all mention of the person was stricken from the public record.
Posted by: The Fatal Shore at December 24, 2025 10:33 AM (R/m4+)
@POLITICOEurope
Far-right parties are claiming the festive season as their own, recasting Christmas as a marker of Christian civilization that is under threat and positioning themselves as its last line of defense against a supposedly hostile, secular left.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at December 24, 2025 10:33 AM (2ov6M)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 10:33 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 10:34 AM (R11M+)
They certainly didn't have an oven big enough for it, and even if they did, it would have taken three weeks to thaw.
Posted by: Tonypete
Is it Airing of the Grievances already?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 10:34 AM (L/fGl)
*computer animated voice*
Pull up.
Pull up.
Pull up.
***
That's the last thing you want to do in a stall.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 24, 2025 10:34 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 10:34 AM (06Hmj)
You must have a low threshold for entertainment.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 10:35 AM (ufSfZ)
I miss the Old Ways.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 10:35 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: But all the horse men knew her at December 24, 2025 10:35 AM (2Ez/1)
@POLITICOEurope
Far-right parties are claiming the festive season as their own, recasting Christmas as a marker of Christian civilization that is under threat and positioning themselves as its last line of defense against a supposedly hostile, secular left.
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat
Can I get a "No shit, Sherlock?"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 10:35 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 24, 2025 10:34 AM (Y1sOo)
Correct!
But watch enough Air Disaster shows and you'll see it doesn't appear to be common knowledge.
Push the nose over and allow the aircraft to gain speed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:35 AM (nWPIJ)
Includes toast water!
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:36 AM (EXyHK)
Okaloosa County bought the ship and owns it outright. Not sure what interest the leftist hag has in preventing its sinking.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 24, 2025 10:36 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 10:37 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at December 24, 2025 10:33 AM (2ov6M
LOL; these are the people who like to shriek about cultural appropriation.
Imagine saying "these dangerous blacks are recasting MLK Day as a black thing."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 10:37 AM (BI5O2)
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With sparkling clean restrooms!
Posted by: 143 miles. You can hold it. at December 24, 2025 10:37 AM (2Ez/1)
They certainly didn't have an oven big enough for it, and even if they did, it would have taken three weeks to thaw.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 24, 2025 10:31 AM (cYBz/)
Well, it wouldn't have been frozen to begin with, since it was 1843. And as the Cratchits live in London, there would have been bakeshops open where, for a fee, you could bring your food to be cooked.
Thus endeth the lesson.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 10:38 AM (ufSfZ)
Excellent critique of the current vogue in joo-hate from Hillsdale.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
Good article. Thanks.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 10:37 AM (BI5O2)
So close to Pride Month....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 10:38 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:38 AM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat
Can I get a "No shit, Sherlock?"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
________
They could have written that 100 years ago and it would have been true. 200 in France.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 24, 2025 10:39 AM (3WkkF)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 10:40 AM (Js0cN)
If you don't know it, check out
Restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 10:40 AM (ufSfZ)
Supposedly?
Posted by: Zombie Charlie Kirk at December 24, 2025 10:40 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 24, 2025 10:34 AM (Y1sOo)
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Oh, I have stories!
Posted by: Sam Brinton at December 24, 2025 10:40 AM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 24, 2025 10:41 AM (2WIwB)
Let the sheets cool completely between loads of cookies.
I have these weird thick sheets with a central layer supposedly designed for even heating, and first batch always takes a minute longer because they take a bit to heat up. Consequently, they stay hot for a while out of the oven, and can cause some minimal blorph on ANY cookie if I reload immediately (that burned edge you can get on drop cookies sometimes, while the center is still soft?), so I always let them cool before loading again.
Please let me know how it goes.
(been baking all week, and have two bags of cookies, cakes, and muffins to go to daughter's house for this evening. can't wait to do shapes with grandgirl tomorrow when they come here!)
Posted by: barbarausa at December 24, 2025 10:41 AM (enw9G)
Reducing AOA while advancing the throttle(s) to max to fly out of the stall
Posted by: one hour sober at December 24, 2025 10:41 AM (Y1sOo)
They certainly didn't have an oven big enough for it, and even if they did, it would have taken three weeks to thaw.
Posted by: Tonypete
They weren't frozen, as you know. And, two, it would have been probably been wrapped and shoved into the local baker's oven after the morning bake. Or, they could have baked it in the fireplace on a pile of coals.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 24, 2025 10:42 AM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 10:42 AM (OaZlZ)
I don't know. I "suppose" the millions of churchmen's corpses littering the landscape of history since the French Revolution might be a clue, but then I'm just a hayseed.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 10:42 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Heracles at December 24, 2025 10:42 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: ShainS
*makes fist*
-- Herr Kant
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)
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Just like Trump was supposedly shot in the head and Charlie Kirk was supposedly assassinated.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 10:43 AM (Js0cN)
A long time ago, Bill Whittle did a wonderful video essay about the Pharaoh coming across a modern 7-Eleven in the desert heat. I don’t recall that he specifically mentioned clean bathrooms as a modern wonder, but he should have if he didn’t. Clean bathrooms appear to be the first thing to go as civilization backslides toward collapse.
Buc-ee’s, Wally’s, and their ilk are the stubborn final outposts of an apocalyptic world.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:43 AM (EXyHK)
Posted by: The Paolo at December 24, 2025 10:43 AM (2Ez/1)
The Hill
@thehill
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger cancels Paramount subscription over Bari Weiss, ’60 minutes’ drama
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 10:44 AM (L/fGl)
Thanks! Looks fun. Lots of cool images at the very least.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:44 AM (EXyHK)
Dickens used disease as a plot point more than any author outside the Bible.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 10:44 AM (77rzZ)
It is known.
Merry Christmas, Paolo!
Posted by: barbarausa at December 24, 2025 10:45 AM (enw9G)
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Where was this strung when we really needed her?
Posted by: The Imperial Japanese Navy at December 24, 2025 10:46 AM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: cmeat at December 24, 2025 10:46 AM (R11M+)
Posted by: Medical experts at December 24, 2025 10:46 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Sam Brinton at December 24, 2025 10:40 AM (nWPIJ)
You promised not to tell!
Posted by: "Wide Stance" Larry Craig at December 24, 2025 10:46 AM (nhzLx)
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 24, 2025 10:47 AM (/YVdk)
- Candy Cane Owens
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 10:47 AM (UJWr0)
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The guy could play a fiddle.
Posted by: Johnny Carson at December 24, 2025 10:47 AM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 24, 2025 10:47 AM (viF8m)
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The guy could play a fiddle.
Posted by: Johnny Carson
I thought it was a ukulele.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 24, 2025 10:47 AM (/YVdk)
Merry Christmas! Welcome back to Texas. Hope you brought your beach attire. It's going to be a warm one.
Till New Year's, anyway.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:48 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at December 24, 2025 10:33 AM (2ov6M)
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It's amazing when having an opinion is some kind of assault on leftist conformity.
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 10:48 AM (OaZlZ)
Posted by: House at December 24, 2025 10:48 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Joe From Scranton at December 24, 2025 10:48 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 10:48 AM (BI5O2)
Hunter Biden: "We don't want immigrants that are coming here illegally, draining us of resources, and being prioritized above... anybody in our society."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 10:49 AM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 10:49 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Jill not a doctor Biden at December 24, 2025 10:50 AM (2Ez/1)
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"We"?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:50 AM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Flannery O'Connor at December 24, 2025 10:50 AM (nhzLx)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 10:50 AM (77rzZ)
SHE IS SO a Doctor!!!!! She should've been Surgeon General!!!
Posted by: Harpies of The View at December 24, 2025 10:50 AM (Zz0t1)
***********
If he's the kid who rang the church bells every year on New Year's Day I would guess he had tinnitus.
Ringing in the years...
Posted by: muldoon at December 24, 2025 10:50 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: It's me donna at December 24, 2025 10:51 AM (VE6XX)
Because I actually read history, I recall the phrase, "Let us hang the last king with the guts of the last priest."
It should be physically painful to be as stupid as a Politico writer.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 10:51 AM (ufSfZ)
—
Isn’t Christmas LITERALLY that? lol
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 10:51 AM (UJWr0)
-- Herr Kant
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 10:43 AM (77rzZ)
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"The philosophy of Kant is a systematic rationalization of every major psychological vice. The metaphysical inferiority of this world (as a "phenomenal" world of mere "appearances"), is a rationalization for the hatred of reality. The notion that reason is unable to perceive reality and deals only with "appearances," is a rationalization for the hatred of reason; it is also a rationalization for a profound kind of epistemological egalitarianism which reduces reason to equality with the futile puttering of "idealistic" dreamers. The metaphysical superiority of the "noumenal" world, is a rationalization for the supremacy of emotions, which are thus given the power to know the unknowable by ineffable means."
-- Ayn Rand
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 10:52 AM (Js0cN)
Posted by: DaveA at December 24, 2025 10:52 AM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:52 AM (Zz0t1)
Why do we never hear about the Pacific slave trade?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:52 AM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
Correction: The hostility of Leftists toward Christianity and Judaism. They're totes cool with Islam, Hinduism, Satanism, etc.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 10:52 AM (77rzZ)
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Osteogenesis imperfecta. And for your gift of just 19 dollars a month we'll send you this ADOWWABLE bwanket to show how much you care...
Posted by: muldoon at December 24, 2025 10:53 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:53 AM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:53 AM (Zz0t1)
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Jiminy!! Rickets!
Posted by: muldoon at December 24, 2025 10:53 AM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 10:53 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 10:54 AM (c115l)
Posted by: muldoon at December 24, 2025 10:53 AM (/iMjX)
LMFAO, but you might be going to Hell for that one.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:54 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: muldoon at December 24, 2025 10:53 AM (/iMjX)
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Help support the fight against progeria and you'll get this attractive tote bag!
Posted by: The New Years Day Baby at December 24, 2025 10:54 AM (nWPIJ)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 10:54 AM (c115l)
*fistbump*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:54 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Make it stop at December 24, 2025 10:54 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 10:53 AM (nWPIJ)
Well Soros didn’t cut off funding did he?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 10:54 AM (UJWr0)
-- Ayn Rand
Posted by: ShainS
You mean, like Trigglypuff? Because she's ineffable. As in, nobody would eff her.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 10:54 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Neilia Hunter Biden at December 24, 2025 10:55 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
When was the last time ANY Christmas Market ANYWHERE in the world had to be cancelled because of right wing extremism?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 10:55 AM (c115l)
Buc-ee’s, Wally’s, and their ilk are the stubborn final outposts of an apocalyptic world.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair
If there's no Civilization why should I care about other peoples crap?
Posted by: DaveA at December 24, 2025 10:56 AM (FhXTo)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 10:55 AM (c115l)
Britain is dead.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:56 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge
**********
My wife's mom leaves a midnight trail of Fudgesicle wrappers through the house.
Posted by: muldoon at December 24, 2025 10:56 AM (/iMjX)
S&P500 just hit a new all time high.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 10:56 AM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Sponge
This morning, mine was oatmeal with beef broth, to which I added pieces of sliced ham and black beans. Chopped onion and black pepper for seasoning.
Pretty good. Oatmeal can serve as a good base for a lot of stuff.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 10:57 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: muldoon at December 24, 2025 10:56 AM (/iMjX)
"They're sugar free, so it's ok!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)
I am in the midst of reading a fascinating overview of the various “humanist” philosophers (Feuerbach, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Comte) from the perspective of a Catholic priest, Vincent Micelli. The Gods of Atheism. I thought it was going to be a more modern book about more trivial modern gods when I got it (I bought it during a sale on SophiaInstitute.com) but it turns out to be much better and deeper than that.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 10:57 AM (EXyHK)
Q: Which side of politics periodically comes to the other side and announces a new list of replacement phrases?
Q: Which side is waging a culture war?
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 10:57 AM (OaZlZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Out of the mushroom houses and into Kennett Square proper they're going?
Just a hop and skip from Greenville.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 24, 2025 10:57 AM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Not a joke at December 24, 2025 10:57 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 10:57 AM (L/fGl)
Beau Biden died of Osteogenesis imperfecta.
Posted by: Not a joke at December 24, 2025 10:58 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Not a joke at December 24, 2025 10:58 AM (2Ez/1)
While saving children from burning buildings at Iwo Jima.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:58 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 10:53 AM (UJWr0)
Because the entire plan is to surrender to Islam.
Defending Britain never factored in.
Posted by: XTC at December 24, 2025 10:58 AM (UnA8+)
He made some great movies. So he repented of his faggotry and took holy orders?
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 10:59 AM (77rzZ)
https://is.gd/9uZD9Z
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 24, 2025 10:57 AM (L/fGl)
How can he run for governor in a state he doesn't live in?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:59 AM (Zz0t1)
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Erections lasting more than four hours.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 24, 2025 10:59 AM (g8Ew8)
Defending Britain never factored in.
Posted by: XTC at December 24, 2025 10:58 AM (UnA8+)
Yay islham!!!
Posted by: Tucker Carlson at December 24, 2025 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Just the punchline at December 24, 2025 11:00 AM (2Ez/1)
S&P500 just hit a new all time high.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 10:56 AM (UJWr0)
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S&P 500 is up 17.72% YTD. Boy do I miss Joe Biden.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 24, 2025 11:01 AM (nWPIJ)
While saving children from burning buildings at Iwo Jima.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 10:58 AM
Baby Jessica would still be stuck in that well if it weren't for Beau Biden
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 24, 2025 11:01 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)
No, but he did remake many of his movies.
Manger in the Sky
An American in Notre Dame
Trust for Life
The Story of Trinity
The Reluctant Prophet
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 24, 2025 11:02 AM (EXyHK)
And if he’s serious, mass deportations and closing the border can turn things around.
Big if of course.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 24, 2025 11:02 AM (UJWr0)
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Defending Britain never factored in.
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Still weird how the atheistic sybarites in power think they are going to be spared somehow.
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Rand is quite shrewd in some of her reasoning, but quite insistent on her view in others.
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The Morning Report — 12/24/25
The Supreme Court refused to issue a stay requested by President Donald Trump after lower courts blocked him from sending the National Guard to Illinois. The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued the restraining orders. Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, and Neil Gorsuch dissented. Justice Brett Kavanaugh did not join the majority’s explanation. .. Alito, with Thomas, in his dissent, slammed the Court for “unnecessarily” and “unwisely” departing from standard practice.It is high time that President Trump drove a stake through the heart of the undead vampire that is Marbury v. Madison. Deploy the damned Guard and do what the Left have always done and instead of seeking redress in the courts, let the Democrat insurrectionist treasonous traitors waste their time with that and for once just do what needs to be done and declare "Catch Me If You Can" while axing the question "How many divisions do you have?!" And that would put the issue of that video of Mark Kelly, Abigail Spamburger et al sowing mutiny in the ranks front and center in a very glaring spotlight. Do the safety and security of America's citizenry take precedence over respecting a completely corrupt justice system that in its behavior represents as much of an existential threat to America's citizenry as that of gang bangers, illegal aliens and drug dealers, if not more of a threat in that the lack of faith and trust in the rule of law results in total societal collapse and subsequent chaos followed shortly thereafter by tyranny. And that tyranny will be a combination hardcore Marxist/Maoist variety with more than a soupçon of Islamic influence. Of course the latter will ultimately gain the upper hand when their useful idiot hosts/cohorts are no longer of use to them. Speaking of which:
Minnesota Dem Tearfully Apologizes To Somalians After They Were Busted Stealing Billions — Organizer Asad Aliwed put together the event Dec. 12 at the Irshad Islamic Center in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Eden Prairie Local News reported. Democratic state Sens. Ann Johnson Stewart and Steve Cwodzinski tearfully shared their apology and offered support to a mosque full of Somalians on Friday. They were accompanied by Eden Prairie Mayor Ron Case, who ran in a nonpartisan election.Just take a gander across the pond and perhaps through a glass and darkly at our future if we do not get a handle on all of the aforementioned and soon.
Describing British society as “low trust, highly fractured, and highly politically factionalized,” Betz warned that “civil conflict” is “increasingly inevitable.” Then Betz directly accused U.K. authorities of hiding the true intentions behind their overhaul of domestic security forces: “What they’re concerned about is domestic conflict ... but that’s completely politically toxic for them to say so publicly, hence the convenience of saying, ‘We need to develop ... a citizen’s militia for the protection of critical infrastructure.’ To say that we’re doing this against the potential of Russian attack ... is convenient as a pretext.”
. . . Fast-forward to this week, and Lane has written another piece that sharply articulates the disconnect between the government officials preparing Britain for war and the ordinary Britons who will be expected to do the fighting. With talk of military conscription filling the airwaves and a glut of hyperventilating government officials assuring citizens that war with Russia has already begun, Lane notes “the reality that many young Britons feel the government has actively sabotaged their interests and are wondering why they ought to risk their lives for such a state.”
. . . Lane highlights the argument from another op-ed in The Times in which that author correctly observes that “defending one’s homeland is a question of societal mass mobilization ... in the sense of a shared belief in the nation and the culture that is at stake, an awareness that it is at risk and a commitment to defend it. Without a united population it is difficult to make the trade-offs necessary to transform Britain and its European allies into thoroughly indigestible military targets for our enemies.” It is as if corporate news institutions are finally awakening to this reality: When you actively destroy national unity, shared history, tradition, and cultural heritage by importing foreigners on an industrial scale, you also destroy national identity. Young British lads have no interest in fighting and dying for “multiculturalism.” British parents have no interest in sacrificing their children for “diversity.” No sane country is interested in sacrificing everything in order to preserve costly “climate change” regulations and safeguard the criminalization of so-called “hate speech.” No patriot charges up a hill to raise an Antifa or LGBT flag in defense of censorship, government bullying, demographic replacement, and mass surveillance.
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- ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
- Police have declared a "mass casualty incident" and have asked people to "avoid the area."
Gas Explosion Leaves People Trapped Inside Pennsylvania Nursing Home
- We have intersectionality to thank for the widespread rot in higher education, as it works to “dismantle the persistent colonial structures and Eurocentric biases” of academia. Worse, intersectionality has become the ideology of terror — the next logical step for a worldview that pits people against each other based on group identity.
Toxic ideas fueling far-left terrorists came straight from our college campuses
- Statistics from media, academia, and law suggest meritocracy has given way to ideology—reshaping institutions, sidelining men, and raising hard questions about the West’s long-term viability. (this right alongside Islam - jjs)
Feminism, Anti-racism, and the Unraveling of Western Civilization
- CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
- On Tuesday, SCOTUS ruled in a 6-3 decision that the Trump administration “has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois,” and therefore the administration’s application for a stay was denied:
Bastards, time to burn Marbury - jjs
SCOTUS Rules Against Trump Sending National Guard to Sanctuary Chicago "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS - "Omar Abdul Revere rides frantically through the night, relaying a signal from a mosque"
Mayor Wu: You Can’t Talk About Boston’s Achievements Without Mentioning Somalis
- The U.S. is not for everyone. To keep the founding fathers’ vision alive, it must be exclusive. We are not open to all comers.
‘E Pluribus Unum’ Means That We’re One People, Not A ‘Nation Of Immigrants’ - It’s hard to take the administration’s warnings seriously when Trump supports importing more Chinese students.
How Many Chinese Visa Holders Have To Be Charged Before Trump Stops Importing Them Into Our Universities? - And an honest census means counting only citizens.
The Constitution Demands An Honest Census (Democrats to the Constitution, "up yours baby!" - jjs) WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM - . . .Saadaoui, 38, and Hussein, 52, have just been found guilty of plotting a jihad massacre with the Jews of Manchester, England as its target. The plot had gone well beyond the talking stage: “They had bought assault rifles, handguns and ammunition for the suicide attack they planned on Jewish targets. They saw any Christian victims ‘as a bonus.’”
Cops Avert the ‘Deadliest Terrorist Attack in UK History’ — Guess Who the Target Was - The fresh young face of jihad in Europe.
Bambinos with Bombs
- "Instead of demonizing our Somali community, we’re going to do more to welcome more in"
Somali Sentenced for 9/11 Style Terror Plot
- "Terrorism is our religion. Koran say terrorism is normal. We are proud, we say terrorism is proud"
Muslim Terror Plot UK: “I Break My Thirst With Jewish, Christian Blood” DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE - An FBI raid of a Secret Service agent tied to JD Vance’s detail spotlights an alleged charity fraud scheme that could deepen scrutiny of an agency already struggling to restore trust.
FBI Raided Secret Service Agent’s Home in Tax Fraud Probe - As much as $9 billion, or more, in taxpayer dollars could have been fraudulently claimed.
Tim Walz Gets More Bad News From Feds After Massive Fraud Scandal Exposed
- Organizer Asad Aliwed put together the event Dec. 12 at the Irshad Islamic Center in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Eden Prairie Local News reported. Democratic state Sens. Ann Johnson Stewart and Steve Cwodzinski tearfully shared their apology and offered support to a mosque full of Somalians on Friday. They were accompanied by Eden Prairie Mayor Ron Case, who ran in a nonpartisan election. (Filthy scumbag needs to be horsewhipped in public -jjs)
Minnesota Dem Tearfully Apologizes To Somalians After They Were Busted Stealing Billions - As millions of dollars in more fraud and theft of state and federal welfare funding are uncovered in Ohio, Minnesota, and other places committed at the hands of Somali migrants, democrats are falling all over themselves to show their unmitigated support for the fraudsters.
Democrats from Minnesota, Ohio, Maine, and Boston Embrace Somalians - Call it “Stewart’s Folly,” if you will, but Justice Stewart’s “I know it when I see it” was the permission leftist judges needed to make the law up as they go along.
A Single Line In a 1964 Supreme Court Case Opened The Door To Rogue Leftist Judges - DOGE did not collapse the system. It forced parts of it to move. We see that today in this IG report. Once you accept that as the goal, the claim that DOGE “failed” becomes difficult to sustain.
The Social Security Administration's Turnaround and the Real Purpose of DOGE THE ECONOMY, STUPID - The Commerce Department said U.S. gross domestic product—the government’s official economic scorecard—rose at a seasonally and inflation-adjusted 4.3 percent annual rate in the third quarter. The report on the July through September period was delayed due to the shutdown.
Trump Boom: U.S. Economy Grows 4.3%, Fastest in Two Years, Smashing Expectations
- It’s the highest growth in two years.
Third-Quarter GDP Grew at an Annual 4.3% Rate, But With a Catch
- THe economy was softening under Biden, and is now growing rapidly.
Yes, Democrats, Trump Does Own This Economy CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY - Who did he see? The alleged shooter Claudio Manuel Neves Valente.
Brown U. Custodian Claims He Warned Security Twice About Suspected Gunman
- In that case, his bond was set at $15,000 but a nonprofit group called The Bail Project reportedly paid some of the bond a few days later and he was released. However, Allen was charged with murder in the shooting death of Ben McComas on December 14 at a different transit station, the Puritas and West 150th Street Rapid station, and his bond has been set at $1 million.
‘Bail Project’ Leftist Org Freed Career Criminal in Ohio, Days Before He Allegedly Shot & Killed a Stranger
- The “blue state” stories get crazier by the day.
If you park it, they’ll steal it RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, - The move is sparked by concerns over national security and the impact on radar systems, which were completely ignored by the Biden junta.
Trump Administration Puts a Deep Freeze on 5 East Coast Wind Farms
- Environmental groups and left-wing politicians are happy to sacrifice hard-working rural Americans on the altar of their latest hysteria-laden agenda.
Why Are Environmental Groups Attacking the Industry That Makes America’s Clean Energy Future Possible? (Because they're Malthusian Luddites - jjs)
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT - The Trump administration is preparing to crack down on student loan defaulters starting next year. This will be interesting because you can bet Democrats are going to flip out about this. The Education Department confirmed it will begin withholding wages from borrowers who fail to pay their debts.
Trump Makes Huge Move on Student Loan Debt, and Democrats Are Gonna Flip - Parents have a right to be told when their child transitions to the opposite sex, and teachers have a right to tell them.
Win for California Parents, Teachers: Court Blocks School Secret Gender Transitioning Policy
- McMahon said one of her favorite accomplishments is the department’s Title IX work protecting women’s sports from the incursion of transgender-identifying male athletes, and noted that men playing women’s sports “lacked common sense.”
Exclusive: Secretary of Education Linda McMahon Outlines 2026 Priorities After Year of Tackling Radical Left-Wing Agenda - The decision underscores global condemnation of Albanese’s statements.
Major U.S. University Severs Links with Sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur on 'Palestine.'
ABORTION - The VA has ceased aborting babies under the Biden-era rule, complying with the DOJ’s interpretation of federal law.
DOJ Reverses Biden-Era Rule, Halts Veterans Affairs Abortion Funding. SECOND AMENDMENT - “The United States of America brings this lawsuit to protect the rights that have been guaranteed for 234 years and which the Supreme Court has explicitly reaffirmed several times over the last two decades”
Trump Administration Suing D.C. Over Restrictive Gun Control Laws THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH - If nothing comes of Fulton County’s admission, the implication will be that election laws can be treated as optional rather than binding.
5 Years Too Late, Fulton County Proves Trump’s Call To Raffensperger Right POLITICS - It’s worth noting just how well Trump has fared, even if you consider yourself a traditional liberal. A word of caution if you count yourself in this group: By the end of this piece, you’re going to realize you’re a Trumpist.
The Liberal Case for President Donald Trump
- He is just a man. He has flaws. He makes mistakes, it's not a sin to point this out.
Trump Fanboys And Never-Trumpers Are Cut From The Same Cloth
- Hageman also highlighted her success in securing $15 million in federal infrastructure funds for Wyoming projects, her opposition to federal land management policies, and her work with President Trump to secure border funding and deliver tax relief. She also committed to further immigration enforcement, saying, “We work together to secure the border and fund efforts to remove and deport those in the country illegally.” President Trump’s endorsement on Truth Social came swiftly thereafter:
WY Rep. Hageman Launches Senate Bid Backed by Trump, GOP Senators ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND LEFTISTS - Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei last week condemned the US's seizure of an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast, but Iran's interests in Latin America stretch beyond the oil trade
Hezbollah, Short on Support From Iran, Turns to Drug Trafficking in Venezuela To Fill Its Coffers
- It takes a special fusion of ignorance and ideology for people to come together to fund an ideology that routinely executes them. ("Palestine" is a myth dressed in truth drag - jjs)
A ‘Drag for "Palestine"’ fundraiser is the perfect microcosm of leftism FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL - Israel’s “Ministry of Tourism is preparing to welcome an estimated 130,000 visitors this December, including about 40,000 Christian pilgrims expected to celebrate Christmas at holy sites across the country.”
Israel Welcomes 40,000 Christian Pilgrims This Christmas
- The sanctions aim to prevent individuals who promote censorship of American speech from entering the U.S., reinforcing the administration’s stance against external censorship pressures.
U.S. Sanctions Pro-Censorship Figures in UK, EU for Suppressing Americans’ Free Speech.
- But not the way you think.
Iran Opens New Front in Its War Against the U.S.
- But who wants to die for Big Brother’s woke State?
The British State Needs WWIII to Stave Off Civil War
- Is Britain still a free country? A generation ago, the question would have seemed absurd. Today, it hangs in the balance.
From Magna Carta to Mass Arrests: Britain’s Warning to America - For decades, the Cuban regime and its allies around the world have incessantly presented a false narrative that the United States’ “embargo” on Cuba is the one and only cause of all of Cuba’s shortcomings — and not the decades’ worth of failed communist policies, brutal repression, and gross mismanagement of the country’s infrastructure that has pushed the island-nation to the brink of complete ruin.
Report: Cuba Has Purchased over $8 Billion Worth of Food from the U.S. Since 2001
- A bill aimed at curbing the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) forced organ harvesting of cultural and religious minorities, including Christians, has “languished” in committee for seven months as Senate leaders have failed to act.
‘Murder Masquerading As Medicine’: Senate Ignores Bill On CCP’s Christian Organ Harvesting
- A young politician makes the case for France’s survival.
Jordan Bardella: ‘People Are From Somewhere. They Don’t Want to Disappear.’
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
- The surge in recruiting numbers strengthens U.S. military ranks amid global geopolitical challenges, suggesting a renewed focus on military readiness.
Pentagon Hits Best Recruitment Numbers in 15 Years. HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE - Addiction is not a disease. It is a choice.
The Trump admin is high on the denial of marijuana's harms - This is your government. This is your government on leftist politics.
Scotland Bans Smoking Cigarettes, Legalizes Smoking Crack (Trainspotting was a sick movie, not a blueprint for a society - jjs) ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY - …The impressive height of these features wasn’t the only thing that captured the attention of scientists. The new images revealed that vertically imposing filament-like features appear on just one side of the disk, while the other side appears to have a sharp edge and no visible filaments. This peculiar, lopsided structure suggests that dynamic processes, like the recent infall of dust and gas, or interactions with its surroundings, are shaping the disk.
Hubble images gigantic protoplanetary disk FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY - The Southern Baptist Convention has squandered much of its moral credibility crusading for leftist causes, such as amnesty and DEI.
How The Southern Baptist Convention Blew Up Its Credibility To Appease The #MeToo Movement
- One of President Trump's achievements is his reshaping of the manner in which politics is conducted in D.C.
How President Trump's Grandmaster Moves Infused Fun into D.C. Politics
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE - The Netflix–Warner merger isn’t just an antitrust question—it risks creating a cultural monopoly that sidelines parents and reshapes what America’s children are taught to value.
Why Parents Must Oppose Netflix’s Bid to Control America’s Culture - Christian Toto: Chalamet, Arnett and a searing indictment of western culture powered the year
HiT’s Best Movies of 2025 (Behold the Ping Pong Prodigy!) HITHER & YON - The trains that never arrive.
30 Things That Will Not Happen in 2026 - Former U.S. Senator Ben Sasse announced Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with metastasized stage-four pancreatic cancer. The 53-year-old former lawmaker and university president described the diagnosis as terminal and emphasized that his Christian faith is central to how he views his condition and the future.
Former Sen. Ben Sasse Confronts Stage 4 Cancer with Christian Faith: ‘Orient Our Hearts Toward the Hope of What’s to Come’
- Alex Baber — a 50-year-old West Virginian with autism — used AI programs and his codebreaking prowess to whittle down the Zodiac killer’s infamous 1970 clue he sent to newspapers and identify a single suspect with an overwhelming connection across all the murders: a late Chicagoan named Marvin Margolis. “It’s my autism. Once I start on something, I have to see it through. The deeper I go, the harder I push. My mind’s wired differently,” Baber told the LA Times, explaining he’d spent up to 20 hours a day on the code for months at a time.
Zodiac and Black Dahlia killer may have been same man, amateur codebreaking whiz claims: ‘Irrefutable’
FINALLY . . . - "We are giving our country and our loved ones at home a worthy Christmas present," McAuliffe wrote.
Read The Letter General Anthony McAuliffe Sent Exhausted, Surrounded Men At The Battle Of The Bulge
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 24, 2025 07:28 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2025 07:30 AM (7xrfc)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2025 07:30 AM (7xrfc)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 07:32 AM (ufSfZ)
Translation: It works and we hate it. And they think that after the complete destruction of everything, something perfect and beautiful will take its place.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2025 07:32 AM (7xrfc)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 07:34 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: one hour sober at December 24, 2025 07:34 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 07:34 AM (ExV1e)
I've said it before and I'll say it again - Trump's greatest strength is that he believes in the rule of law.
Which is also his greatest weakness.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 07:35 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
Kewl. Thanks.
In my best Johnny Carson voice:
"I did not know that."
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 07:36 AM (2Ez/1)
I don't mean to be a Scrooge though and encourage making charitable contributions to your organization of choice.
Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 07:37 AM (vFG9F)
I've said it before and I'll say it again - Trump's greatest strength is that he believes in the rule of law.
Which is also his greatest weakness.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 07:35 AM (ufSfZ)
THIS. His Achilles heel is that he thinks he has mere rivals and not enemies. As well as that everyone will or will be forced to play by the same set of rules not understanding that the referees are also enemies.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 07:37 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 07:38 AM (uQesX)
The idea's been floated before. I didn't believe it then and I don't believe it now.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 07:38 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: callsign claymore at December 24, 2025 07:39 AM (ALRQm)
Hyperventilating government officials assuring citizens that the male population of Ukraine has been decimated and they'd like to do that with the native male population of Britain for no benefit (to said native population).
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 07:39 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2025 07:40 AM (NwnyJ)
Its always the same throughout human history. Armed troops put their loyalty into those who write them their paychecks. (and it isn't Joey Sixpack's name signing the check)
The city police are the muscle for the city politicians.
The state police are the muscle for the state politicians
Federal law enforcement and military are the lethal force that does the will of and protects the Ruling Class.
We are only tax cows and targets.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 24, 2025 07:41 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Hyperventilating government officials at December 24, 2025 07:41 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 24, 2025 07:41 AM (8CIFn)
May God save us from our utterly corrupt judiciary, our corrupt intelligence agencies, our corrupt law enforcement agencies, our corrupt bureaucracy, our corrupt Congress and our corrupt, evil media.
Posted by: Sam Adams at December 24, 2025 07:42 AM (X+xvk)
Announce that, as a sanctuary city, Chicago is in insurrection against the central government and send the troops in to arrest the mayor and city council and impose martial law.
Sadly, that won't happen. The government is at war with the nation and too many on our side are among the traitors.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 07:42 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 07:43 AM (Cjt/F)
That is so wrong. Have you even read Marbury ?
Never mind. It’s the internet. Who cares ?
Assemble the circular firing squad.
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at December 24, 2025 07:44 AM (zqeQL)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 07:44 AM (2Ez/1)
In: Hobo In The Basement
Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 07:45 AM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 07:46 AM (e64Ur)
And then there is the:
Moreover, the scheme involved "monthly cash kickback payments to the parents of children who enrolled their children in Smart Therapy to receive autism services."
2024 $400M in claims
$200 per visit estimate
2 Million visits
I bet over 10k Simoleans were in on this 1 scam.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 24, 2025 07:48 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2025 07:49 AM (7xrfc)
Translation: It works and we hate it. And they think that after the complete destruction of everything, something perfect and beautiful will take its place.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2025 07:32 AM (7xrfc) "
"perfect and beautiful" meaning "absolutely subjected to our every perverse whim"
I imagine something like medieval France without Christianity or epigrams, but with lots of Caligula and Nero
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 07:50 AM (Cjt/F)
_________
We don't want to fight but by Jingo if we do
We have no ships, we have no men, we have no money too
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 24, 2025 07:50 AM (XvL8K)
NO LUNCH SPECIAL TODAY
Posted by: Your Local Chinese Hole In The Wall at December 24, 2025 07:50 AM (cRmBr)
Tenth Amendment: States that powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved for the states or the people.
The National Guard is part of our military.
Is there a stated right of the federal government to send any part of the military into a state without permission from that State? If the Fed Gov cannot send military personnel to a disaster area within a State unless the State requests it, then what gives Fed Gov the right to send them to perform law enforcement duties? Does that not fall under Posse Comitatus? Where is this right delegated to the Fed Gov?
I'm not a lawyer and I'm genuinely interested in understanding this. My very "not" professional opinion is that the court is right to say that Fed Gov cannot do this even to enforce federal law or support federal law enforcement officers.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 24, 2025 07:51 AM (2J/Lj)
Get the government out of the student loan business. If you just can't bring yourself to do that...
- Limit the amount which can be borrowed.
- Limit the interest rate required of people with accounts in good standing.
- Limit the degree choices for which the government will loan money.
I would argue that loans for medical school tuition (and probably nursing school tuition) should be interest free since both professions are in short supply and in the interest of the country. Maybe the same for science/engineering degree loans.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM (ufSfZ)
Roberts of all people should be careful about leaving Trump little choice but to challenge the authority of SCOTUS. Weird because he always seemed to err on the side of caution before.
Posted by: Fen at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM (QUYhr)
Student loan "forgiveness" will be center stage for the 2026 campaign with democrats.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM (0N4FZ)
I think there is a point where you have to consider yourself part of the Diaspora for Heritage Americans.
The US is no longer a nation, barely a country, and at best is considered an Economic Opportunity Zone.
El Salvador's Bukele showed us the way but as long as the NFL is playing a game, utter destruction of our way of life is acceptable enough that we will let it happen.
We aren't of the caliber of men who crossed the Potomac on Christmas Eve to do what needed to be done.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 24, 2025 07:48 AM (gbOdA)
Isn't Simoleon slang for dollar?
Well played sir
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM (ufSfZ)
Another Magyar!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 07:53 AM (x0n13)
Provided you come to the 'correct' outcome, that's always been the case. They just pretended otherwise.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 07:53 AM (ExV1e)
No worries JJ....woe comes up with the sun...everyday
Posted by: qmark at December 24, 2025 07:54 AM (R91/8)
Instead, the administration is going to wallow in the coup until 2028 when the Democrats have a chance to reclaim the levers of power and get their plan back on track.
Trump really should have forced the issue earlier. Maybe they'll figure something out anyway.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2025 07:55 AM (NwnyJ)
It's not designed to stave off civil war. It's designed to further weaken the nativist side.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 07:55 AM (ExV1e)
Good morning, Horde.
Posted by: Inogame at December 24, 2025 07:56 AM (53oGX)
Posted by: The One Local Chinese Hole In The Wall With An All You Can Eat Buffet Today at December 24, 2025 07:56 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: davidt at December 24, 2025 07:56 AM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM (0N4FZ)
Somali fraud is the student loan forgiveness of S&L scandals!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 07:56 AM (x0n13)
The Constitution was made for a self-regulating religious society. A Constitutional Republic has no enforcement mechanism in it and absolutely requires a population that largely holds to a single transcending purpose.
That population was replaced through depravity and importation of other nations (ethnicities) whose spiritual guidance is completely at odds with the influences that guided the nations's forefathers.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 24, 2025 07:57 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: The One Local Chinese Hole In The Wall With An All You Can Eat Buffet Today at December 24, 2025 07:56 AM (2Ez/1)
Watch a restaurant full of angry Jews sampede for the exits!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 07:57 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 24, 2025 07:57 AM (xNHSX)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 07:58 AM (rZCVI)
I’m a bit of a humbug except when it comes to the reason for the season and my grandsons.
I love this place. It helps get me through the day.
Again, Merry Christmas
Posted by: RetSgtRN at December 24, 2025 07:58 AM (fMVpK)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM
Both the VA and DOD have programs that pay 100% of your schooling to become a doctor or a dentist and there are always openings for qualified candidates. Depends on the program but you generally owe 4 years of service as payback.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 24, 2025 07:58 AM (0N4FZ)
We aren't of the caliber of men who crossed the Potomac on Christmas Eve to do what needed to be done."
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That's because I crossed the Delaware.
Posted by: G. Washington at December 24, 2025 07:58 AM (2Ez/1)
51 Coney-Ferret is going to be a thorn in our sides for a long time. What a missed opportunity that was. The modern day Sandra Day O'Connor.
Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 24, 2025 07:57 AM (xNHSX)
"Comin' on strong!"
- - Golden Earring Radar Love...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 07:58 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 07:59 AM (rZCVI)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 07:59 AM (2GVsD)
It won't be pale and male.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 07:59 AM (2GVsD)
Old Frothingslosh?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 08:00 AM (x0n13)
"Rule Of Law" my ass.
Posted by: Zombie Thurgood Marshall at December 24, 2025 08:00 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 08:00 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Big Farma's Marketing Department at December 24, 2025 08:01 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 08:01 AM (2GVsD)
Merry Christmas horde! Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:02 AM (A0sqA)
To borrow a smaller example, look at Bud Light. Steady market share, regular profit. And along came the woman who said "We need to get rid of the frat boys and bring in the gay people!" because she thought the profit would never go away.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2025 08:02 AM (7xrfc)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 08:02 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 07:56 AM (x0n13)
of NINJ Loans
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:03 AM (gbOdA)
Thanks. I do pray for Israel everyday.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 08:03 AM (ix8EF)
https://tinyurl.com/543sxvxm
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 08:03 AM (ufSfZ)
No. The usual three dimwits will frame it as a "national security" issue to justify it.
Posted by: Halfhand at December 24, 2025 08:03 AM (edbiH)
The idea's been floated before. I didn't believe it then and I don't believe it now.
Totally different MO's. And Z was younger than the BDK would have been. Not buying this for a second.
Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 24, 2025 08:03 AM (xNHSX)
Can we all agree that a Dem President either means that the American Experiment has already completely failed or will be on January 20th of that horrid year?
The point being, we know that the young Democrats will impose evil unseen since Mao, Stalin and Hitler all wrapped into one. We see on social media how much they want to murder all of us. There will be no brakes on them arranging mass murder.
That means PREVENTION is the best method, and we are getting damned close to BAMN to keep the Demonic Forces from completely taking over.
Instead of building monuments of vanity like battleships, we need to completely turn over the utterly corrupt institutions that already are killing this country more than any foreign power could ever imagine.
I assure you, though Trump is likely the best president this country will ever have, letting 600,000 Chinese "students" displace 600,000 Americans in STEM university shows me that Trump is no where near serious about MAGA. If he can't even do the small things, the big things are impossible.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 24, 2025 08:03 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Big Farma's Marketing Department at December 24, 2025 08:01 AM (2Ez/1)
If you've been diagnosed with Bone-Apart...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 08:03 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 24, 2025 08:04 AM (Vx9n2)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 08:04 AM (77rzZ)
- Limit the interest rate required of people with accounts in good standing.
I would add "Put the colleges on the hook for the money when a student defaults."
Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2025 08:04 AM (7xrfc)
Posted by: C Griswald at December 24, 2025 08:05 AM (gbOdA)
We have no ships, we have no men, we have no money too
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 24, 2025 07:50 AM (XvL8K)
It should be remembered that it was Boris Johnson who delivered the message to Zelensky that he should rip up the tentative agreement with Russia at that start of this whole thing and fight tot he end.
They may not want to fight but they sure want someone to.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 08:06 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 24, 2025 08:06 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 08:06 AM (o2ZRX)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 24, 2025 08:06 AM (NpAcC)
- Limit the interest rate required of people with accounts in good standing.
I would add "Put the colleges on the hook for the money when a student defaults."
Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2025 08:04 AM (7xrfc)
The one player in the Game, with NO SKIN in the game.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:06 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Car nerd at December 24, 2025 08:06 AM (2Ez/1)
The story about the possibility that the killer of the Black Dahlia and the Zodiac Killer being the same person is amazing. The thing that makes me believe it is that one of the ex government code breakers who reviewed the evidence found the the key to the Zodiac cypher was the name "Elizabeth". The Black Dahlia's name was Elizabeth Short. More work to be done but what Baber has produced is compelling
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 08:07 AM (2vrAX)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM (ExV1e)
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I was in the USSR with a guy who paid his way with his med school loans.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:07 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Kingsman at December 24, 2025 08:07 AM (ehY6c)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM (0N4FZ)
I wonder how many will buy into the idea considering how many times Biden 'canceled' their loan debt.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 08:08 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 08:06 AM (o2ZRX)
Admiral Levine grabs crotch...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 08:08 AM (x0n13)
You can write to the President directly. He may not read the comments here:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 08:08 AM (ix8EF)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 08:08 AM (qFwJc)
Did she name any Somalis who are responsible for some of Boston's achievements? Did she give the name of a single one?
types/deletes
Posted by: Gref at December 24, 2025 08:08 AM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 08:09 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: davidt at December 24, 2025 07:56 AM (Q+gd/)
There won't be a lower court ruling forbidding it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 08:10 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 24, 2025 08:10 AM (EES2L)
Snoopy dance.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (2Ez/1)
Did she name any Somalis who are responsible for some of Boston's achievements? Did she give the name of a single one?
types/deletes
Posted by: Gref at December 24, 2025 08:08 AM (5rh/l)
It's a slippery slope...
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (06Hmj)
Deport all Haitians.
Deport all Afghans.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (77rzZ)
"Awk"ward styling is an understatement. It's penguin-like shape was the result of Big Penguin's influence on the German automobile industry.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (vFG9F)
American lawyers, they kill everything.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 08:13 AM (2GVsD)
Fewer stray animals?
Posted by: fd at December 24, 2025 08:13 AM (vFG9F)
Literally beyond parody. If you asked me a week ago if this was real or The Babylon Bee, I'd have guessed The Bee.
Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 24, 2025 08:13 AM (xNHSX)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 24, 2025 08:14 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 08:14 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (A0sqA)
I hear the view from their rooftop is killer!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 08:15 AM (x0n13)
Then they came for the Somalis and I didn't say anything because I was helping to refuel the helicopters.
Posted by: Knee Mauler at December 24, 2025 08:15 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: r hennigantx
I stand by the assertion I made a while back: If colleges were forced to pay back the money when students default, in less than 24 hours tuition would drop to 1960s levels and a lot of worthless majors would be gone.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2025 08:15 AM (7xrfc)
Posted by: XTC at December 24, 2025 08:15 AM (UnA8+)
Nayib Bukele
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 24, 2025 08:04 AM (Vx9n2)
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I'm developing feelings for that guy Like I've got for Javier Milei.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:16 AM (A0sqA)
fixed it
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:16 AM (gbOdA)
It won't be pale and male.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 07:59 AM (2GVsD)
Nobody expects the Frisian Restoration
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 24, 2025 08:16 AM (pIfcn)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:06 AM (gbOdA)
The one who raises tuition/fees/etc willy-nilly because the system will shove money into the hands of 'technically' adults who're mortgaging their lives for bullshit.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 08:16 AM (ExV1e)
"Stauffenberg French Bread Pizza"
- - Karl's Donuts
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 08:16 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (A0sqA)
Korean Rooftop Diner
I would go there
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:17 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 08:09 AM (2GVsD)
The most recent theory about Crater is that he was murdered (I don't recall the reason) and his body buried in an abandoned lot in Atlantic City.
Oddly enough, when construction took place in the location in the 1970s, a number of bones were found, but of course there was no way to determine whom they belonged to, so they were simply left and covered over by massive amounts of concrete.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 08:18 AM (ufSfZ)
Snoopy dance.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (2Ez/1)
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Mazel tov quite an achievement and a great career.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:18 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 08:18 AM (2GVsD)
Deport all Haitians.
Deport all Afghans.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (77rzZ)
Deport all.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 08:18 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 08:18 AM (x0n13)
Posted by: XTC
Precisely. John Roberts is to the Constitution what Bill Clinton was to Juanita Broadrick.
Posted by: Sam Adams at December 24, 2025 08:18 AM (X+xvk)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:11 AM (A0sqA)
I thought it was only Chinese.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 08:19 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 08:19 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 24, 2025 08:15 AM (x0n13)
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I'm counting on it. They're on the corner so they have 270 degrees LOS
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:20 AM (A0sqA)
I almost hurt myself LMAO!
https://tinyurl.com/2xdksp2u
Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 24, 2025 08:20 AM (xNHSX)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 08:19 AM (ExV1e)
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These are hard times. Decisions needed to be made.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:20 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 08:20 AM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Nebelwerfer What Werfs Nebel at December 24, 2025 08:21 AM (VAajM)
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That disappearing space in your nic has been triggering my OCD for weeks.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:21 AM (A0sqA)
The little California girl, Melodee Buzzard, who had vanished while taking a trip with her mother has been found. In Utah authorities found her bullet riddled body. DNA linked the body to her mother Ashlee. Ashelle has now been arrested.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 08:22 AM (2GVsD)
2. Politicians like SCOTUS relieving them of having to face the voters on certain issues.
Posted by: davidt at December 24, 2025 08:23 AM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Secretary of Trans. Emeritus at December 24, 2025 08:23 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 08:24 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 08:24 AM (2vrAX)
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 24, 2025 08:24 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at December 24, 2025 08:25 AM (XvL8K)
Posted by: Anna Puma
DB Cooper was the Zodiac killer. He killed the Black Dahlia lady because she figured it all out and tried to blackmail him. He also knew where Jimmy Hoffa was.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 24, 2025 08:25 AM (2J/Lj)
Trump should go Abe Lincoln on the rogue judges.
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 08:25 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:27 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 08:25 AM (qFwJc)
Sure. And, as I said above, that would give the GOPe cucks the stated reason to support and vote to impeach Trump and Vance. Then we'd lose everything.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 08:28 AM (uQesX)
1. We know who staffed to precincts.
2. We know when the precinct opened.
3. We know when the machine was turned on.
4. We know who turned the machine on.
5. We know was user and pw was used.
6. We know how many ballots were ran that day.
I would think any 2 year law student could write the prosecution's case.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:28 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:28 AM (A0sqA)
Probably a NORK spook operation. Counting how many Hyundai's go by and reporting it to their Great Leader so he can plan accordingly.
Posted by: Kim Jong Be Illin at December 24, 2025 08:28 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 08:25 AM (qFwJc)
Send them Mattress shopping?
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 08:28 AM (uQesX)
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We are about to lose everything in any case.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:29 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 08:29 AM (ufSfZ)
‘We need to develop ... a citizen’s militia for the protection of critical infrastructure.’
Let me translate. "We like the ragheads and not you normie white people. The new militia is for putting you extremist rat bastrads down like the colonialist scum you are. Now worship your muzzie overlords like you're supposed to or we'll make you watch while they rape your 12 year old daughter again."
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 08:30 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 08:30 AM (tmOJm)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 08:30 AM (2vrAX)
The father at KSU who shot and killed one student while wounding another, remember him? He went to KSU to help move his son out due to 'bad blood' in the dorm and was attacked.
A grand jury has refused to indict Jacob Bard.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 08:30 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 08:30 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: fd
I am more skeptical than you. I've been a Helen Keller Skeptic for decades and have found sound evidence that both Caleb and Alec from the Shriners Hospital ads are AI creations. Peddling "adowable" blankets is great cover, but I'm sending all mine back. My eyes are wide open now.
Posted by: Felix With A Fez at December 24, 2025 08:31 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:31 AM (gbOdA)
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
LMAO! At almost 12:30 AM, President Trump is up running a poll on who is the WORST late night host
So who is it?!
Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, or Jimmy Fallon?!
https://tinyurl.com/bdhrvcwe
Posted by: redridinghood at December 24, 2025 08:31 AM (NpAcC)
The joint was rocking. Packed.
It took me a little while to put two and two together...
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2025 08:31 AM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 08:25 AM (qFwJc)
I've called for this from the beginning. It will come. It must, if he wishes to be successful, i.e., save the nation. It's just where we are.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 08:32 AM (WHfpM)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 08:32 AM (qFwJc)
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No, this is more than a free trade zone - much more. That would frankly be preferable to what we have.
What we actually have is a bunch of countries here. It's far too big and too diverse in too many ways to be realistically described as a nation state, though its ruling class necessarily insists on pretending it is.
Because what they are doing is holding together a colonial empire through force and fraud from the ruling city-state of DC, and a handful of its provincial capitals in the vast landmass this little shitstain of a swamp dominates.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 08:32 AM (BI5O2)
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A prayer for complete and immediate healing
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:33 AM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 08:33 AM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 08:34 AM (2vrAX)
Because what they are doing is holding together a colonial empire through force and fraud from the ruling city-state of DC, and a handful of its provincial capitals in the vast landmass this little shitstain of a swamp dominates.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 08:32 AM (BI5O2)
My opinion :
We are little more than a Welfare Administration District for the entire rest of the world.
Posted by: XTC at December 24, 2025 08:34 AM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 08:34 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 24, 2025 08:35 AM (xNHSX)
Fairly puts the burden Federal Government to show legal authority FIRST to do 'x' in Illinois.
Malicious Compliance seems to be in order.
- Here's the law to collect Federal taxes in Illinois. Do so.
- Here's the law to arrest illegal aliens on Illinois. Do so.
- Here's the law to arrest politicians engaging in fraud Illinois. Do so.
Do anything beneficial?
Sorry, priorities, not gonna bother with finding some law giving authorization to send Illinois federal tax dollars for anything.
Illinois may think it knows there is a law saying send the money, but President says the "administration"identify the law before doing anything in Illinois.
Test case - Funding O'Hara.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 08:35 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 08:36 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:29 AM (A0sqA)
You're right. I read the "don't worry, we'll get out of this!" posts, but, if people read that certain Book, it quite clearly spells out that things will get worse eventually. Maybe we'll see returns a few times to slow it down, but there are too many people working against what we stand for all over the world, that someday they will have their way. How long it will last, who knows?
What's the option? The Pinochet Gambit won't work because no one wants to do that kind of stuff. The only thing we can do is try to put forward our ideas, and make those of us on our "side" do the right thing even if for the wrong reasons.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 08:36 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 24, 2025 08:36 AM (2GVsD)
Posted by: redridinghood at December 24, 2025 08:37 AM (NpAcC)
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California is the Soviet Union in so many ways.
1. One Party State (including judiciary)
2. Crushing Regulation
3. Government Distorted Markets
4. Economic Rents and Sinecures for Nomenklatura
5. Economically Bifurcated Population
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:37 AM (A0sqA)
So what percent (I am guess 99.5%) of pro Iran and pro Hamas news is fake news put out by their 40,000 keyboard warriors.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:38 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 24, 2025 08:38 AM (xNHSX)
My budget for charity is somewhat overdrawn. I am writing it off, Jerry. $200 a month. So, almost all other charities are going to have to wait. By August on 2026, I will be generous again.
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 08:38 AM (qFwJc)
It's not designed to stave off civil war. It's designed to further weaken the nativist side.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
They need WWIII in order to get the heritage British men out of the country and hopefully dead, in order to help their imported mohammedans to have better access to the women and children they want to molest.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 08:38 AM (0U5gm)
In other words, it was a pho restaurant.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 08:38 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 08:36 AM (uQesX)
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I support because
1. It works and lasts long
2. It is actually low-level of effort only about 3,000 Chileans were ever arrested
3. It is east to restore normal constitutional order thereafter
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:39 AM (A0sqA)
I think Trump fears the response.
But, that's just delaying the inevitable:
The Dem areas are already in a state of open defiance. Every delay or muted response only invites more.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 24, 2025 08:40 AM (HXT0k)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 08:38 AM (0U5gm)
raping the women and children that good Brits will not.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:40 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 08:41 AM (ufSfZ)
Did she name any Somalis who are responsible for some of Boston's achievements? Did she give the name of a single one?
types/deletes
Posted by: Gref
Madam Wu gave pandering whores a bad name with that speech.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 08:41 AM (/lPRQ)
1. It works and lasts long
2. It is actually low-level of effort only about 3,000 Chileans were ever arrested
3. It is east to restore normal constitutional order thereafter
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:39 AM (A0sqA)
That's all well and good, but now let's see you strongarm the people who actually have the power to do it into doing it.
Posted by: XTC at December 24, 2025 08:42 AM (UnA8+)
1. It works and lasts long
2. It is actually low-level of effort only about 3,000 Chileans were ever arrested
3. It is east to restore normal constitutional order thereafter
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:39 AM (A0sqA)
Who really wants to be the person to shove someone out of the helicopter? I'd say it's probably not that easy of a thing to do.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 08:43 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 08:43 AM (2vrAX)
___
Speaking of Jewish dentists:
https://youtu.be/u8QMIYv-y98
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at December 24, 2025 08:43 AM (2Ez/1)
Merry Christmas to you all.
I am truly home for Christmas this year… at the home of my elderly parents and feeling wistful this morning wondering how many more such Christmases might the good Lord grant. The years do fly by….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 24, 2025 08:43 AM (zbzbo)
May you all soon be ensconced with family, friends, and the true spirit of Christmas.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 24, 2025 08:43 AM (u82oZ)
Did she name any Somalis who are responsible for some of Boston's achievements? Did she give the name of a single one?
Can you name any Somali responsible for any achievement?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 08:44 AM (tgvbd)
It’s easy to forget how much really bad stuff used to be broadcast.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 08:44 AM (FvUgT)
Posted by: Wi Tu Lo at December 24, 2025 08:45 AM (oftw2)
It’s easy to forget how much really bad stuff used to be broadcast.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 08:44 AM (FvUgT)
Still, better than today?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 08:45 AM (uQesX)
Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 24, 2025 08:38 AM (xNHSX)
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All my mixed family always put up a tree.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:45 AM (9ipOP)
But, that's just delaying the inevitable:
The Dem areas are already in a state of open defiance. Every delay or muted response only invites more.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 24, 2025 08:40 AM (HXT0k)
All true. Trump is a meliorating figure at heart. He wants the system to work.
I'm no historian, but recently read The Demon of Unrest and noted how Lincoln was slow to grasp the extent of the South's passion for insurrection.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 08:46 AM (WHfpM)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 08:47 AM (uQesX)
Ok, that's funny right there. As if election "laws" ever mattered.
Right, Boss Tweed?
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 08:47 AM (XuXeR)
There's that guy who arose from poverty to become the captain of the Maersk Alabama.
Posted by: one hour sober at December 24, 2025 08:48 AM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: The ghost of A. Lincoln at December 24, 2025 08:48 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 08:48 AM (77rzZ)
I'm the captain now!
*splat*
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 08:48 AM (XuXeR)
Justice Barrett being from Indiana and was seated on the 7th circuit in Chicago, stabbed us in the back on the National Guard. Roberts is Roberts, but Barrett with marxist pig Pritzker. sighhh
Posted by: Jonah at December 24, 2025 08:49 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 08:50 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: The neighborhood divorcee flashing her boobs at December 24, 2025 08:50 AM (2Ez/1)
I disagree on categorizing any of these "bunch of" as countries. Countries have defined boundaries, a functional legal system, relatively sound currency and diplomatic recognition.
I see Chicago, LA, Illinois, NYC, Charlotte, Houston, California, etc. as breakaway regions, fiefdoms or de facto autonomous zones headed by warlords.
A warlord exercises decentralized military, political and economic control over an area that emerges when the preëxisting government is weak, absent or collapsed.
I would categorize the profoundly in debt FedGov, decentralized and ruled by District Judges, various Deep State bureaucrats and IC operatives which provides the weak, absent or collapsed legitimate government that allows for Chicago and NYC to be a warlord's fiefdom.
We are there.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 24, 2025 08:51 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 08:51 AM (qFwJc)
Posted by: XTC at December 24, 2025 08:42 AM (UnA8+)
Who really wants to be the person to shove someone out of the helicopter? I'd say it's probably not that easy of a thing to do.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 08:43 AM (uQesX)
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Hmmm. The left seems to have plenty of people to do their dirty work.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 24, 2025 08:51 AM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Jonah at December 24, 2025 08:51 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Jonah at December 24, 2025 08:49 AM (YCxFk)
Barrett is awful, a disastrous pick.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 08:52 AM (WHfpM)
Posted by: Jonah at December 24, 2025 08:52 AM (YCxFk)
Nah. IMHO, someone in the administration tried to cut corners, and got called out on doing so. Sort that out first, then go. I'm not going to light hair on fire over this...
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 08:52 AM (XuXeR)
I support because
1. It works and lasts long
2. It is actually low-level of effort only about 3,000 Chileans were ever arrested
3. It is east to restore normal constitutional order thereafter
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Who really wants to be the person to shove someone out of the helicopter? I'd say it's probably not that easy of a thing to do.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
I'll do it, and I'll sleep peacefully at night afterwards. Those socialist asshoes will attempt to do it to me, so I'm simply returning the favor when shit starts.
God help the left if someone ever rips this bandaid off. I cannot be alone in my thoughts and emotions.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 08:53 AM (QVmho)
Can you name any Somali responsible for any achievement?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
There's BroFo.
But that is not a real name.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 08:53 AM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 08:53 AM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 24, 2025 08:54 AM (sDNVV)
@ImMeme0
Haha, the same tipster who claimed Trump sexually assaulted an underage girl also accused Hillary of being behind the Oklahoma City bombing.
Now the left treats any nut who calls the FBI like a credible source.
https://tinyurl.com/tccf6524
Posted by: redridinghood at December 24, 2025 08:54 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 24, 2025 08:43 AM (uQesX)
Recruit on college campuses and tell them that you're only executing Jews. Lines will be out the door.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 08:54 AM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Jonah at December 24, 2025 08:55 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Jonah at December 24, 2025 08:56 AM (YCxFk)
Posted by: Bulg
Bing up some pics of -
Ati-Atihan Festival
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 08:56 AM (/lPRQ)
They misspelled "prevent backlash against murdering cultists"
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 08:57 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 08:53 AM (0U5gm)
Same dealio as the Somalians.
The problem isn't the Somalis criminality and corruption.
The problem, according to Our Betters, is that you noticed it.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 24, 2025 08:57 AM (iJfKG)
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I see Chicago, LA, Illinois, NYC, Charlotte, Houston, California, etc. as breakaway regions, fiefdoms or de facto autonomous zones headed by warlords.
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aka "The Balkans"
We've been heading down this path for decades.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2025 08:58 AM (NwnyJ)
There's BroFo.
But that is not a real name.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 08:53 AM (/lPRQ)
____________
Sad to say, if a Somali is notable, it's for a wholly negative reason.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 08:58 AM (tgvbd)
Barrett is there to protect the Deep State and to collect children from across the globe for her picture albums.
Posted by: The SCROTUM will protect you at December 24, 2025 08:59 AM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Fudgie The Whale at December 24, 2025 08:59 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: no one at December 24, 2025 08:50 AM (qFwJc)
I have about 67 or 68 in Little Rock at the Jaycees fundraiser.
I was 6 or 7.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:59 AM (gbOdA)
g'mornin' again, 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 24, 2025 08:59 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Fudgie The Whale at December 24, 2025 08:59 AM (oftw2)
Denied !!
Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at December 24, 2025 08:59 AM (VE6XX)
"I’ve always found blackface to be incredibly creepy. Even worse than clowns."
You get used to it.
https://tinyurl.com/mrxwj98v
Posted by: Ralph Northam at December 24, 2025 08:59 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 08:52 AM (WHfpM)
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LOL. The vitriol against Barrett shows just how totally spoiled conservatives have become. She actually voted to overturn Roe and has been solid on the 2A. Oh, I know, she's not perfect, and everything has to be perfect, and even when we win, we have to cry because that's how the movement is today.
Perhaps you'd like another Souter? Or Sandra Day O'Connor?
Posted by: King Herod the so-called Great at December 24, 2025 09:00 AM (ZOv7s)
And a weary BroTim rejoices as well.
Merry Christmas to all.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 24, 2025 09:00 AM (OUMaO)
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:00 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 08:48 AM (77rzZ)
Now do Pink Face.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 09:01 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Tom Carvel, Creator of Cookie-Puss at December 24, 2025 09:01 AM (oftw2)
Send in the Clowns!
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:01 AM (XuXeR)
We've been heading down this path for decades.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 24, 2025 08:58 AM (NwnyJ)
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Um, they can't feed themselves. They'll capitulate within hours.
Here I thought this would be a jovial crowd. Silly me.
Posted by: King Herod the so-called Great at December 24, 2025 09:02 AM (ZOv7s)
I have about 67 or 68 in Little Rock at the Jaycees fundraiser.
I was 6 or 7.
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 08:59 AM
6 7!!!
DRINK!!!
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 24, 2025 09:02 AM (tljrc)
We need people who know what time it is.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 24, 2025 09:03 AM (a4flb)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 24, 2025 09:03 AM (ZOv7s)
I see Chicago, LA, Illinois, NYC, Charlotte, Houston, California, etc. as breakaway regions, fiefdoms or de facto autonomous zones headed by warlords.
__________
When I moved here in 1984, Houston was a city that actually worked. It was run from the Petroleum Club and run pretty well.
When I came back in 2008, it was well on the road to ruin. Now, eight years of the Moron Mayor and the Teen Commissar have finished the job.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 09:04 AM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Fisk Jubilee Singers at December 24, 2025 09:04 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 24, 2025 09:04 AM (a4flb)
Well, I'll be at the Waller Buc-ee's later on, so yeah - oh joyous day!
Weeeeeee!
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:04 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 08:46 AM (WHfpM)
W.T. Sherman was about the only one who really got it from the start. Early on, he said that there were about 300,000 men in the south who passionately supported secession, and that all 300,000 were going to have to killed before the passion for it would die down.
Ended up being pretty close to southern death totals by the end of the war.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 09:05 AM (FvUgT)
Posted by: Buc-ee's fans everywhere at December 24, 2025 09:06 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 24, 2025 09:03 AM (a4flb)
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We need the attitude of gratitude. After decades of bizarre and twisted legal contortions we are finally getting some actual Constitutional rulings. I'll take the wins as they come and celebrate them, because they are in fact quite significant.
There's also the fact that this sort of judicial insurrection is completely unprecedented. We'll see how it plays out.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 24, 2025 09:06 AM (ZOv7s)
Ati-Atihan Festival
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
Trust me, it's like a Christmas thing.
Santo Nina and all.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 24, 2025 09:06 AM (/lPRQ)
Merry Christmas to the Horde
Posted by: Ben Had at December 24, 2025 09:07 AM (sDNVV)
Just imagine a world where he never won and realize the Almighty has given us at least a temporary reprieve from the current UK experience…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 24, 2025 09:07 AM (RmIP+)
Sorry, I forgot the six years of the Carpet Muncher.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 09:07 AM (tgvbd)
Give credit where due - the Bush family supported the "republican" push across Harris county, but their influence took a hit w/Jr, then cratered with !Jeb!... and then they turned tail completely, and left the local GOP in the lurch. That's when I lost any remnant of respect for the Bush family... screw them all.
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:07 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 24, 2025 09:03 AM (a4flb)
Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 09:08 AM (FvUgT)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 24, 2025 09:08 AM (BEfM+)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 09:08 AM (QVmho)
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:09 AM (XuXeR)
Coffee cup with "The Hunter" (painting) wrapped around the outside of it and a brass plaque engraved with Isaiah 40:31, KJV of course, followed by "Teach me, Lord, teach me Lord, to wait."
Posted by: TeeJ at December 24, 2025 09:09 AM (T08Hw)
Stymie did play both Topsy and Uncle Tom in their production of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The Topsy on the Ice scene was very dramatic.
Posted by: Zombie Hal Roach at December 24, 2025 09:09 AM (oftw2)
Ended up being pretty close to southern death totals by the end of the war.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 09:05 AM (FvUgT)
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To read about Southern preparations for conflict is to realize how distant we are from a similar threat. Much of what is going on is empty posturing, pure symbolism devoid of any actual result.
The left is angry because it is so impotent, and the only thing they can destroy is themselves. Watching Chicago compete with LA to see how many people can be killed on the streets is crazy to watch.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 24, 2025 09:09 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 24, 2025 08:53 AM (QVmho)
You're not.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 09:09 AM (ufSfZ)
By The Tractors?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 09:10 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: The drummer for the band Chicago squinting at the analog clock across the room at December 24, 2025 09:11 AM (2Ez/1)
Meat. Vast quantities of meats.
Did I mention they sell meat?
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:11 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 24, 2025 09:11 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: King Herod the so-called Great at December 24, 2025 09:00 AM (ZOv7s)
No. Another Scalia. Short of that nearly impossible standard, I was hoping for Barbara Lagoa or Raymond Kethledge.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 09:11 AM (WHfpM)
Does anybody really care?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 09:08 AM (FvUgT)
Classic Chicago! As I was walking down the street one day…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 24, 2025 09:12 AM (RmIP+)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 09:11 AM (WHfpM)
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And a Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock and the thing that flips up.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 24, 2025 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)
Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
Minnesota mandates new requirement to teach ethnic studies in all K-12 schools, this must be implemented in 2026.
Students will learn
- Transgender affirmation
- Dismantle cisgender privilege
- Distrusting the nuclear family
- Black Lives Matter principals
- Watch a video about George Floyd Square produced by Unicorn Riot, a nonprofit left-wing media collective that films Antifa and Black Lives Matter rallies across the country
Yes, this is real
Cont.
https://tinyurl.com/yc68rfas
Posted by: redridinghood at December 24, 2025 09:14 AM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 24, 2025 09:14 AM (sDNVV)
Posted by: 704 Hauser Street at December 24, 2025 09:14 AM (oftw2)
Kammie cackled on command like a trained seal
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 09:15 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 24, 2025 09:11 AM (WHfpM)
At this point I'd settle for another Harrold Carswell.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 09:16 AM (ufSfZ)
https://is.gd/JBrbTa
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 24, 2025 09:16 AM (ULPxl)
Posted by: James Buffett at December 24, 2025 09:16 AM (2Ez/1)
The Bail Project should get sued by victim's families.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 24, 2025 09:16 AM (GhIJO)
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:16 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:17 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:20 AM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Yeah, the Army literally thought that Sherman was going insane because of his predictions and requests for more troops. Put him some kind fake command for a while until he calmed down.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 09:20 AM (77rzZ)
Cont.
https://tinyurl.com/yc68rfas
Posted by: redridinghood at December 24, 2025 09:14 AM (NpAcC)
This is likely far worse for all the black kids than the not black kids.
The latter will simply get more and more Black Fatigue and shrug it all off as a retarded, laughable hoop to jump through.
The former will absorb it gladly and be fully programmed into life of uselessness and self-loathing.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:21 AM (06Hmj)
Make them read the BLACK label on Lupron
- Dismantle cisgender privilege
WTF does cis even mean
- Distrusting the nuclear family
Core belief started by Opra, cut of people that you disagree with
- Black Lives Matter principals
3X more maternal and infant deaths dont matter
- Watch a video about George Floyd
Holding gun to pregnant lady belly
Posted by: r hennigantx at December 24, 2025 09:22 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: ... at December 24, 2025 09:22 AM (IuFEo)
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Oh, they certainly should, but for the colonial Empire thing, which can't permit that. They're just provinces for now.
That should change. And I think there's some sliver of hope it can be peaceable, but I think a full-scale sack of Washington, DC should be an exception in that event.
Persepolis style. No stone left unturned.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 09:23 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 24, 2025
***
I love the nicknames for her. Coney-Ferret, Bony Carrot . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 09:23 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:21 AM (06Hmj)
-
... and violence.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 24, 2025 09:23 AM (y1wyK)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)
Awful.
It's just awful.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:24 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: The Loan Arranger at December 24, 2025 09:24 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 09:25 AM (2Ez/1)
Praise The Lord.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: The Loan Arranger at December 24, 2025 09:24 AM
Metal markets are now officially getting weird.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 09:25 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: The Loan Arranger at December 24, 2025 09:24 AM (oftw2)
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How much for a whole slice of pizza?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 24, 2025 09:25 AM (y1wyK)
Posted by: Pecan pie at December 24, 2025 09:26 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Not A Fan at December 24, 2025 09:27 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 09:25 AM (BI5O2)
I've been slowly and methodically rotating out of gold lately.
"At a certain point, you've made enough money", or something.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:27 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty
You're gonna have your hands full, though, trying to figure out where to put all those pear trees with partridges in 'em.
To say nothing of arranging room and board for all those ten lords a-leaping.
Posted by: Bulg at December 24, 2025 09:28 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 24, 2025 09:28 AM (y1wyK)
Minnesota mandates new requirement to teach ethnic studies in all K-12 schools, this must be implemented in 2026.
Students will learn
- Transgender affirmation
- Dismantle cisgender privilege
- Distrusting the nuclear family
- Black Lives Matter principals
- Watch a video about George Floyd Square produced by Unicorn Riot, a nonprofit left-wing media collective that films Antifa and Black Lives Matter rallies across the country
Home school or move. Your options are limited. They will indoctrinate your children and your children will rat you out to the authorities. To the camps........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 09:29 AM (2Ez/1)
*
By The Tractors?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025
***
I'd forgotten that song! A great choice for Christmas Eve!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 09:30 AM (wzUl9)
...but I think a full-scale sack of Washington, DC should be an exception in that event.
Persepolis style. No stone left unturned.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 09:23 AM
there's a reason I'm building a trebuchet in the bed of my '01 F-150
the Siege of the Cities is gonna be LIT
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 24, 2025 09:30 AM (tljrc)
A lot of gold, silver, and copper in computer components.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 09:30 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 24, 2025 09:30 AM (tljrc)
A couple thousand rednecks tailgating on a handful of major arteries for a week would bring the entire institutional "Left" to its knees.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:31 AM (06Hmj)
It's not suicidal empathy, it's genocidal empathy.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 24, 2025 09:31 AM (HXT0k)
nood art
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 24, 2025 09:31 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Frankincense and Myrrh markets at December 24, 2025 09:32 AM (2Ez/1)
It’s over. Donald Trump has directed the Justice Department to investigate Democrats ActBlue
https://tinyurl.com/3befa2f6
Waiting for the arrests, trials, and sentencings.
Waiting.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 24, 2025 09:32 AM (y1wyK)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 24, 2025 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)
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Huge boost to parochial schools.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 24, 2025 09:32 AM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:32 AM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Frankincense and Myrrh markets at December 24, 2025 09:32 AM (2Ez
Frankincense prices are out of control. Slovenly African agricultural practices + hugely increased demand.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 24, 2025 09:33 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: The Loan Arranger
Wow. It was like $28 four years ago.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 24, 2025 09:34 AM (0U5gm)
A couple thousand rednecks tailgating on a handful of major arteries for a week would bring the entire institutional "Left" to its knees.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 24, 2025 09:31 AM
Amen
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 24, 2025 09:34 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: Case at December 24, 2025 09:35 AM (G1OIb)
Posted by: Brenda Lee Wants Some Fucken Pie at December 24, 2025 08:38 AM (xNHSX)
One of my fellow TV broadcast engineers was Jewish, and every year, he would string Christmas lights along the windows in the engineering shop. Great guy. He, as I, retired a few years ago, but we still get together every few months with another retired colleague at a diner for breakfast.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 24, 2025 09:35 AM (5xuJ/)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 24, 2025 09:03 AM (a4flb)
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We need the attitude of gratitude. After decades of bizarre and twisted legal contortions we are finally getting some actual Constitutional rulings. I'll take the wins as they come and celebrate them, because they are in fact quite significant.
There's also the fact that this sort of judicial insurrection is completely unprecedented. We'll see how it plays out.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 24, 2025 09:06 AM (ZOv7s)
We need Stone-Cold Killers who will stick it right up the Left's ass and set it to explode.
Posted by: XTC at December 24, 2025 09:40 AM (UnA8+)
You mean like taking USAID money and buying multiple homes, cars and fund international travel vacations?
Posted by: one hour sober at December 24, 2025 09:40 AM (Y1sOo)
Did I mention they sell meat?
Posted by: man at December 24, 2025 09:11 AM
Ask if they have a beef clod. Great for smoking!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 24, 2025 09:40 AM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Dr_No at December 24, 2025 09:41 AM (ayRl+)
Waiting.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 24, 2025 09:32 AM
Nothing will happen.
Posted by: That Guy who always says "Nothing will happen." at December 24, 2025 09:43 AM (0sNs1)
Also causes me to think about the buddies KIA in VN. Just young guys.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 24, 2025 09:43 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 24, 2025 07:52 AM (ExV1e)
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I agree. If we must have student loans from the government it should be for the furtherance of societal goals and not personal enrichment.
The BLS certainly has all the data needed to identify what majors get student loans. I'd also cap student loans at $10k a year max.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 24, 2025 09:55 AM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at December 24, 2025 09:32 AM (ZOv7s)
Too expensive.
To be fair, it is in large part due to the competition of "free" public schools, but, still, too expensive for many people.
Posted by: Meh at December 24, 2025 10:20 AM (LXgPI)
that seems to be true of a lot of the commies and other assorted traitors infesting our Republic, lately. panic, because of losing their grip"?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 10:27 AM (Cjt/F)
Thanks for all you do J.J. 🙏 for you & yours.
Merry Christmas Eve to all! 💖
NORAD tracks Santa website: noradsanta dot org
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 24, 2025 11:12 AM (NFX2v)
No Citizens United.
No Dobbs.
No end to Chevron deference.
No challenges to any laws infringing on Rights.
Maybe not out a stake in Marbury.
Posted by: Sam at December 24, 2025 05:12 PM (7jMef)
Daily Tech News 24 December 2025
Top Story
- Do not send to know for whom the memory shortage tolls. (WCCFTech)
Today it's Apple, whose cost for the memory in the iPhone 17 has jumped from $29 to $70.
But doesn't Apple have long-term agreements to lock in costs?
Yes. Yes they do. Some of those agreements are expiring in January.
Others expired this month.
- Former Samsung executives and employees have been hit with criminal charges for leaking trade secrets on memory production to Chinese memory manufacturer CXMT. (WCCFTech)
Cool. I mean, tut tut, don't do that again.
Tech News
- Intel's new Fab 52 plant in Arizona is larger and more advanced than TSMC's Fab 21, also in Arizona. (Tom's Hardware)
It does not produce memory, though.
- The launch of the PlayStation 6 and the Steam Machine could be delayed by soaring memory prices. (Notebook Check)
Ya think?
- How AI broke the smart home in 2025. (The Verge) (archive site)
When all you have is an LLM, everything looks like a chat room.This morning, I asked my Alexa-enabled Bosch coffee machine to make me a coffee. Instead of running my routine, it told me it couldn't do that. Ever since I upgraded to Alexa Plus, Amazon's generative-AI-powered voice assistant, it has failed to reliably run my coffee routine, coming up with a different excuse almost every time I ask.
You know what this reminds me of?
It's 2025, and AI still can't reliably control my smart home. I'm beginning to wonder if it ever will.Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is Bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via Alexa! I love the future!
And a second gun to shoot the first one if worse comes to worst.
Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: If not food, why food shaped?
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 24, 2025 04:00 AM (KgVf3)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 24, 2025 04:01 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 04:01 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 24, 2025 04:03 AM (BLOW1)
Posted by: OkJohn at December 24, 2025 04:07 AM (NC/it)
Just wait until it won't open your garage door
Posted by: Dave Bowman at December 24, 2025 04:08 AM (jNK17)
Posted by: actually inside the beltway at December 24, 2025 04:13 AM (aKh6S)
Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is Bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via Alexa! I love the future!
I love tech but setting up a smart home from a completely dumb home seems like a lot of work for little payoff.
If the house was already "smart" I'd enjoy the convenience, I suppose,... until something breaks.
... and something always breaks.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 04:16 AM (6ydKt)
https://youtu.be/3Y71iDvCYXA
What?
I'll listen to Christmas carols later.
Maybe.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 04:21 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 04:22 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Colin at December 24, 2025 04:23 AM (wlQdF)
Posted by: Just Wondering at December 24, 2025 04:27 AM (2Ez/1)
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"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do caffeine."
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 24, 2025 04:35 AM (LgsNJ)
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 24, 2025 04:40 AM (Hvku0)
A couple of hours' work ahead, so will be popping in and out. Might link to a couple of happy Christmas songs later on, after my first cup of tea.
Hope you all have a lovely day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 04:44 AM (ufSfZ)
Posted by: birds are an op at December 24, 2025 04:45 AM (hgvSz)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 24, 2025 04:51 AM (iMotb)
But alas, I need to replace the kitchen faucet, due to a failed factory made compression joint on the main outlet hose.
Which means, being at the big box store as soon as they open this morning.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 24, 2025 04:53 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 04:53 AM (Ia/+0)
https://tinyurl.com/pfjf69ud
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 04:53 AM (Nx5jP)
Blogs are full of comments from owners about their Alexas suddenly becoming almost useless.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 24, 2025 04:54 AM (iMotb)
Posted by: The birds at December 24, 2025 04:55 AM (2Ez/1)
It doesn't take too long going without Alexa for people to eventually come to the conclusion that maybe they don't really need Alexa.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 04:57 AM (6ydKt)
While there is no documentation to say this...
Do NOT place your Alexa devices on the Deco's IoT network. It will not work correctly.
Use the main 2.4/5.0 network, and all will be fine.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 24, 2025 04:57 AM (iMotb)
https://tinyurl.com/mzvnuk6y
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 04:59 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 24, 2025 05:00 AM (JZ+U7)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 24, 2025 05:01 AM (JZ+U7)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 05:02 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 05:02 AM (Nx5jP)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 05:05 AM (Ia/+0)
Hilarity ensued.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 05:06 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: fluffy at December 24, 2025 05:10 AM (AN2gy)
Maybe it's in the financial realm playing markets in an exchange, but I don't see it. Everything else is just more speed, more power, no intelligence. Just mindless algorithms and language engines. AI is not going to make it safer to get you Mars or to make your EV autonomous, or to make your weapon systems more lethal than they already are. Killer drones. Nice.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 24, 2025 05:12 AM (nljXp)
g'mornin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 24, 2025 05:13 AM (tljrc)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 05:15 AM (rZCVI)
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 05:19 AM (RuTUS)
So there's that.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 05:22 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 24, 2025 05:24 AM (dK+Kv)
A couple of hours' work ahead, so will be popping in and out. Might link to a couple of happy Christmas songs later on, after my first cup of tea.
Hope you all have a lovely day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 04:44 AM (ufSfZ)
61 degrees right now in OKC. Gonna be a warm Christmas Eve and Christmas Day here this year.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 24, 2025 05:26 AM (g8Ew8)
Have a great day horde
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 05:28 AM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 04:02 AM (Ia/+0)
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Dialexia?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 24, 2025 05:00 AM (JZ+U7)
Dysphonia.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 24, 2025 05:28 AM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 24, 2025 05:47 AM (bQ4nt)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 24, 2025 05:57 AM (O7YUW)
Posted by: Defenestratus at December 24, 2025 06:01 AM (WYStd)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at December 24, 2025 06:02 AM (qbLEp)
61 F. and foggy here. I'm of two minds about going to work out. On one hand, good temps and no wind; on the other, fog is annoying to work out in. My eyelashes and hair get soaking wet! "Ah, suck it up, Buttercup."
The Killer Kittenz need to be fed, and I will call my oldest friend this afternoon in FL to say Merry Merry. How about you?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 06:03 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 06:04 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at December 24, 2025 04:40 AM (Hvku0)
Fluffy Nuggets, Jr.! Reporting for duty.
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 06:05 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 06:07 AM (wzUl9)
Good morning, Hordians. Foggy and 66 degrees here at Schloss Hadrian.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 06:08 AM (tgvbd)
(I'd make it a dash of eggnog, but I'm almost out, and Aldi didn't have any more of the non-alcoholic type yesterday. Maybe I can find some more today.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 06:09 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
Don't know if you have a Krogers in your area but they had plenty of non alcoholic eggnog in stock when I was there a couple of days ago.
Posted by: Tuna at December 24, 2025 06:12 AM (lJ0H4)
Today is the first day of my 12 day vacation. Only two of those days require me to spend PTO hours.
I plan on doing a whole lotta nothin'.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 06:14 AM (ESVrU)
To borrow from Schlock Mercenary: "Equipment that can't perform up to spec gets replaced. Equipment that won't perform gets abused until it will or it can't."
Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2025 06:15 AM (7xrfc)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
Don't know if you have a Krogers in your area but they had plenty of non alcoholic eggnog in stock when I was there a couple of days ago.
Posted by: Tuna at December 24, 2025
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No, no Krogers here. We have more than a few Aldi stores now; there is one I can pass by this morning. Or the Rouses, the local chain. Walmart seems to have only the stuff with the booze in it -- and in any case I do *not* want to go into a WM on Xmas Eve.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 06:15 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: 1st draft of Office Space at December 24, 2025 06:15 AM (elWPN)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 06:18 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 06:14 AM (ESVrU)
Those are the best vacations.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 24, 2025 06:18 AM (g8Ew8)
Mr. Coffee machine with a clock/timer. Now make your own damn coffee. Or get an even older coffee pot and use the stove.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 24, 2025 06:19 AM (sAmhv)
Happy Kwanzateenth!
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 06:18 AM (2Ez/1)
Didn't Shufflin' Joe make that a Federal holiday?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 06:19 AM (tgvbd)
My first acquaintance with the story, like a lot of people, I suspect, was the cartoon Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol back in the Sixties.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 06:21 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
I'm sure your kitties will be glad to spend the extra time with you.
Posted by: Tuna at December 24, 2025 06:21 AM (lJ0H4)
>Didn't Shufflin' Joe make that a Federal holiday?
Not sure. But if he did, you can be damn sure he doesn't remember it.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 06:21 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: NR Pax at December 24, 2025 06:15 AM (7xrfc)
To borrow from Cool Hand Luke:
Equipment that won't perform spends a night in the box.
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 06:22 AM (RuTUS)
This is what I don't understand about transhumanist worshipers like Ray Kurtzweil. Haven't they had enough experience with technology to know that what they wish for is impossible? Imagine getting a firmware update and your legs stop working because the update bricked your locomotion subsystems. Or getting the BSOD ( Blue Screen of Death ) when you're hiking in the woods...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Luddite Housekeeper at December 24, 2025 06:22 AM (elWPN)
Posted by: Kim Fields' Agent at December 24, 2025 06:22 AM (R+nQW)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 24, 2025 06:19 AM (tgvbd)
Let's go, Brandon!!
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 24, 2025 06:22 AM (g8Ew8)
Grrrr . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 06:24 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Kim Fields' Agent at December 24, 2025 06:22 AM (R+nQW)
K-w-a-n-z-a-a
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 06:25 AM (RuTUS)
"Later on, we'll perspire.
('Is that A/C? Turn it higher!')
We drive and we grump
O'er potholes and bumps,
Sweating in a sticky swampy land!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 06:30 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Sam Adams at December 24, 2025 06:31 AM (X+xvk)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 06:35 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Sam Adams at December 24, 2025 06:36 AM (X+xvk)
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 06:37 AM (o2ZRX)
Posted by: Eromero at December 24, 2025 06:38 AM (o2ZRX)
Kwanzaa
a secular festival observed by many African Americans from December 26 to January 1 as a celebration of their cultural heritage and traditional values.
ORIGIN
1970s: from Kiswahili ‘matunda ya kwanza,’ literally ‘first fruits (of the harvest)’, from kwanza ‘first’.
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 06:40 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Berkeley Professor who invented this nonsense at December 24, 2025 06:42 AM (R+nQW)
Raccoons gotta eat, same as everybody else.
Posted by: fluffy at December 24, 2025 06:43 AM (AN2gy)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 06:44 AM (1Vo6X)
It's not AI, it's Deep Thought. Brewing coffee is beneath its awesome brain's powers.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 24, 2025 06:45 AM (xG4kz)
Another option: Exercise yourself and the furry thugs by playing with them. The old dragging a string around and watching the cats go mental as it disappears around a corner was a fun one.
What my cats of past went absolutely bonkers for was the tear-drop tip of an antenna whip (the type that went on vehicles). Lower the tip onto the carpet and then start moving it around or spin in place and watch the cat chase it round and rouind you. Stop if/when your kitty starts panting from the exertion.
And yeah, I had to store the extra antenna whips behind a closed door for the little furnace/ac room after that otherwise I'd come home and find them scattered, and the cats looking at me like, "Why isn't it moving? Make it move!"
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 24, 2025 06:45 AM (O7YUW)
Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga (born Ronald McKinley Everett, July 14, 1941), previously known as Ron Karenga, is an American activist, author and professor of Africana studies, best known as the creator of the pan-African and African-American holiday of Kwanzaa.
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 06:48 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
I'm sure your kitties will be glad to spend the extra time with you.
Posted by: Tuna at December 24, 2025 06:21 AM (lJ0H4)
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I work from home now, so they'll still get plenty of quality time with me!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 06:49 AM (ESVrU)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
It is, indeed.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 24, 2025 06:49 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 06:50 AM (RuTUS)
And yeah, I had to store the extra antenna whips behind a closed door for the little furnace/ac room after that otherwise I'd come home and find them scattered, and the cats looking at me like, "Why isn't it moving? Make it move!"
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 24, 2025
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I have, or they have, a Cat Dancer -- a permanently curved bit of flexible wire with cardboard at each end so it won't pierce an eye. It works much the same way. Years ago I bought it for big red tabby Arizona, and all my cats since have loved it as he did. Little Dagny will occasionally fish it out of the toy basket on her own.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 06:51 AM (wzUl9)
Kwanzaa
a secular festival observed by many white female American elementary school teachers with too much time and desperately in need of validation. It lasts from December 26 to January 1 and provides an endless supply of mirth, ridicule, and internet memes for people who have the slightest clue.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 06:53 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: Sam Adams at December 24, 2025 06:54 AM (X+xvk)
Good on you for having a similarly cat-safe toy that they love. And Dagny dragging it out on her own proves its value!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 24, 2025 06:55 AM (O7YUW)
Delightful man.
Inspiring holiday.
Posted by: Sam Adams at December 24, 2025 06:58 AM (X+xvk)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 07:02 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 07:03 AM (ufSfZ)
Delightful man.
Inspiring holiday."
demonrats been doing that for a couple of centuries now, innit?
marxism just adds that little frisson of euro-degeneracy ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 07:05 AM (Cjt/F)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 24, 2025
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Dagny is getting more clever by the day. She has learned how to open the kitchen cabinet where I keep their treats, though not how to open the packets (yet). And she seems to know when I am going to the bathroom to shave or brush my teeth. She will follow me in, hop on the counter, and happily lap water from my (clean) shaving bowl.
In a minor Christmas miracle, last night I lifted her, 3/4 asleep, from my armchair and held her on my lap for something like five minutes. She seemed quite happy with the whole thing.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 07:07 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 24, 2025 07:10 AM (Cjt/F)
Kwanzaa
a secular festival observed by many white female American elementary school teachers with too much time and desperately in need of validation. It lasts from December 26 to January 1 and provides an endless supply of mirth, ridicule, and internet memes for people who have the slightest clue.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 06:53 AM (2Ez/1)
lol
I rate this as true.
I honestly believe more young, white, female, teachers celebrate Kwanzaa in their classrooms than black people do at home.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 07:11 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 07:07 AM (wzUl9)
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YAY! I think she likes you!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025 07:11 AM (ESVrU)
https://tinyurl.com/yu6ryxfr
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 24, 2025 07:03 AM (ufSfZ)
Swingin'!
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 07:11 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 07:12 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025
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YAY! I think she likes you!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 24, 2025
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After three and a half years, she ought to!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 07:14 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Eromero
God be with you. That's rough. Hope you're surrounded by decent people and can make the best of it.
Posted by: Sam Adams at December 24, 2025 07:21 AM (X+xvk)
marxism just adds that little frisson of euro-degeneracy ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez
Well said, Sir.
Posted by: Sam Adams at December 24, 2025 07:23 AM (X+xvk)
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 07:23 AM (RuTUS)
That's the only Dagny I can think of.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 07:23 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 07:26 AM (2Ez/1)
That's the only Dagny I can think of.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025
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Actually, I was inspired by our occasional poster here, "Dagny, first of her name."
The name is Scandinavian (rather than the Russian that is traditional to name Siberian cats), and means "New Day."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 07:27 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 07:28 AM (wzUl9)
JJS
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 24, 2025 07:28 AM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 07:27 AM (wzUl9)
dag ny
How lovely!
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 07:28 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 07:29 AM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 24, 2025 07:29 AM (2Ez/1)
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 07:29 AM (RuTUS)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 07:27 AM (wzUl9)
dag ny
How lovely!
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025
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It also has echoes of "dignity." I don't give my cats silly. names. Nicknames, yes; Dagny is the "fluffy little fireplug"; but not their call names.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 07:31 AM (wzUl9)
"All I want for Christmas is to stop seeing perverted Jeffrey Epstein on the cover of major newspapers."
Cecelia Clark
St Petersburg, FL
I agree with you, Cecelia!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 24, 2025 07:31 AM (+hwtP)
The name is Scandinavian (rather than the Russian that is traditional to name Siberian cats), and means "New Day."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 24, 2025 07:27 AM (wzUl9)
Ahh, I see.
I remember seeing that nick on here in my lurker days.
It's an unusual name for a female.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 07:31 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Clark at December 24, 2025 08:06 AM (BDH3H)
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 24, 2025 09:30 AM (w9Wax)
Posted by: smokin' cat turd at December 24, 2025 11:05 AM (KXId6)
Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - December 23, 2025 [Doof]
Happy Festivus Today is your day, Seinfeld fans.
— Ingenuous Firebrand 🐆🇺🇸 (@ING2Firebrand) December 23, 2025
Festivus begins with the Airing of Grievances. Somebody got started a bit early. Found this gem on Sunday morning at the end of Saturday's Club ONT.
Festivus also includes Feats of Strength. OK - here ya go!
A kickflip straight into a 505lb deadlift while on the skateboard is wild pic.twitter.com/XE0AverLKA
— Dudes Posting Their W’s (@DudespostingWs) December 23, 2025
Is Festivus a real thing outside of the Seinfeld universe? I doubt it. Funny episode though!
The airline has confirmed it will no longer automatically reimburse “customers of size” who need to buy an extra seat for space. The benefit had previously been in place for more than 20 years at Southwest Airlines. Under the original policy, passengers who “encroached upon any part of the neighboring seat” were eligible for a complimentary adjacent seat, with the airline clearly stating that armrests were the “definitive boundary” between seats. *** Starting January 27, 2026, any customer flying on Southwest who needs additional space will be required to purchase a second seat, with fewer guarantees they’ll get their money back. In a statement, the airline urged travelers to buy both seats at the time of booking to avoid “last-minute purchases or rebooking at the airport.”----- Media bias shows up in a multitude of ways. See if you can spot the bias here. Journey keyboardist opens up about relationship with Charlie Kirk
Two months after releasing a song in honor of Charlie Kirk, Journey keyboardist and guitarist Jonathan Cain is opening up about his relationship with the late conservative activist. “Charlie’s one of a kind,” he said during an appearance on “The 700 Club,” a Christian talk show hosted by Wendy Griffith on the Christian Broadcasting Network. “He was irreplaceable.” Cain spoke about his single, “No One Else,” dedicated to Kirk, on the show released Tuesday, Dec. 16, and recalled first meeting Kirk at the Republican National Convention in 2016.OK so far, I'd say. Let's keep reading.
“He was all excited telling us about how he was going to go to campuses and just change everybody’s mind and give conservative kids the good news, a voice,” Cain said, adding that Kirk inspired him to openly speak of his conservative and religious values. “He brought a lot of people to Jesus,” Cain went on. “He was unafraid. … You can’t silence us.” Kirk was a polarizing figure in American politics, known for his incendiary rhetoric about gender identity, race, gun rights and religion. In 2012, he founded Turning Point USA to mobilize conservative students on college campuses against what he deemed “woke” ideology. The organization was widely criticized for spreading misinformation. On Sept. 10, while speaking at Utah Valley University, he was shot and killed. A recent report by the Washington Post revealed that the man accused of the murder, Tyler Robinson, allegedly sent messages about the shooting on Discord about 80 minutes after it happened. The musician explained that he was writing a pastor appreciation song at the time of Kirk’s death, set to be part of a larger EP. Upon revisiting the music, he instead decided to dedicate the track to his slain friend as a standalone single. Cain performed “No One Else” at the end of the televised interview while a series of clips of Kirk flashed across the screen.I'm sure you noticed that completely unnecessary paragraph in there. It did nothing to improve the point of article, but it sure did signal the author's liberal bona fides. Complete garbage in an otherwise decent factual article. ----- Big news out of the Smokey Mountains. After 64 Years, Dollywood Announces Immediate Closure
On Saturday, Dolly Parton’s beloved Dollywood theme park announced an “unscheduled” indefinite closure. *** On December 20, Dollywood posted a press release to its official Instagram story, explaining that the Dollywood Express attraction had indefinitely closed due to “unscheduled” but necessary maintenance work.What a misleading headline! It sure did make it seem as though the whole park was closing. Anyway, garbage "journalism" once again. ----- Fun with Charlie Brown
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: mindful webworker - why did I walk into this room? at December 23, 2025 10:05 PM (lNGqL)
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Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 10:07 PM (emBoF)
If they weigh luggage they should weigh Pax.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 10:07 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:07 PM (+HNx/)
Doof finally figured out the "post" button.
Posted by: mindful webworker - what would a 'closed blogger' be? at December 23, 2025 10:07 PM (lNGqL)
but yes, it's a lovely building! there are lots of really nice ones around there. Union League, for example.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 10:08 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 10:09 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 23, 2025 10:09 PM (mzhi4)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 10:09 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 10:10 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:10 PM (5DEFi)
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Also, you'll save money by bringing your own seatbelt extension, fatass.
Posted by: Southwest Airlines at December 23, 2025 10:10 PM (+HNx/)
they GOT BORED
!!!
yeah forget getting them to watch Birdy.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 10:10 PM (emBoF)
And suddenly, first class is 100% lard-asses.
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 10:10 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:10 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 23, 2025 10:11 PM (Hd1lH)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 10:11 PM (FvUgT)
I love each and every one of you, including the jerks, and I wish the very best for all of you.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 10:12 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: TRex - dino trusts the process at December 23, 2025 10:12 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 10:12 PM (emBoF)
https://youtu.be/LYtiDCXLAcQ
Posted by: tankdemon at December 23, 2025 10:12 PM (Hd1lH)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 10:12 PM (CHHv1)
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That's sweet.
Posted by: A Jerk at December 23, 2025 10:13 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 23, 2025 10:13 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 10:12 PM (CHHv1)
-*********
Thanks!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:13 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:13 PM (5DEFi)
It always amuses me when the regular trolls have to become ridiculously incendiary just to be noticed before they are banned. Or...in this case...comment so late in a thread that it was only sheer luck that they were noticed, and Doof was scraping the bottom of the barrel for material!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2025 10:13 PM (n9ltV)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 10:14 PM (3ek7K)
What if you're super skinny? Can you pay for a half seat?
I want to speak to the manager!
~anorexic Karen!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 23, 2025 10:14 PM (dIJjD)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 10:12 PM (CHHv1)
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What about us?
Posted by: The Mooks at December 23, 2025 10:14 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 10:14 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 10:14 PM (rdVOm)
https://youtu.be/QJhSM17a8OA
Posted by: tankdemon at December 23, 2025 10:15 PM (Hd1lH)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 10:09 PM (cYBz/)
You didn't need that if you were facing the losers who ate Quake.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 23, 2025 10:15 PM (uQesX)
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In general, articles should neither tell us it represents only the view of the far left wackos.
But it also shouldn't tell us without telling us.
100% of what Kirk said was not anodyne. But his speech was incendiary to a remote few and the dupes they are trying to convince.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:15 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 10:09 PM (cYBz/)
I loved Quisp! I battled my brother who chose the arch-enemy Quake as his hero.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 10:15 PM (FvUgT)
It's from the San Francisco Chronicle. It's probably mandatory.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 10:15 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 10:15 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 10:12 PM (CHHv1)
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What about us?
Posted by: The Mooks at December 23, 2025 10:14 PM (+HNx/)
but not the Irish!
Posted by: Johan Johanson at December 23, 2025 10:15 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 23, 2025 10:15 PM (XSP3T)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 10:15 PM (/lPRQ)
Next up, Southwest goes to "10 across" seating on their 737s, forcing everybody who weighs more than 75 lbs to buy two or more seats.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 23, 2025 10:15 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (dIJjD)
Mary Christmas.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Boss Moss
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At one time, TRex and I lived next door to the woman who played Charlie's Mom...even saw her framed Golden ticket...our brush with fame!
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (cCn4/)
What if you're super skinny? Can you pay for a half seat?
I want to speak to the manager!
~anorexic Karen!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 23, 2025 10:14 PM (dIJjD)
Zombie Karen Carpenter has entered the chat...
Posted by: Johan Johanson at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (mzhi4)
I always felt bad about Veruca Salt. She was like a girl I met in La Jolla Elementary Summer School in 1967. Not a bad girl. What was her name? Snodgrass.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: mindful webworker - weird lyrics? at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (lNGqL)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2025 10:13 PM (n9ltV)
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Tell me you've never read a Doof ONT without telling me you've never read a Doof ONT.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (snZF9)
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I raked those things for every word of text, including the sell-by date.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (+HNx/)
I love each and every one of you, including the jerks, and I wish the very best for all of you.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 10:12 PM (CHHv1)
Even Raimondo? You are much more charitable than I.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (Hd1lH)
That comes from their No Good Hits period.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 10:18 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: pookysgirl will het through this at December 23, 2025 10:18 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Kaboom Brand ONTs at December 23, 2025 10:18 PM (NxjzV)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (snZF9)
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I raked those things for every word of text, including the sell-by date.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (+HNx/)
Same, was and am a compulsive reader. I still read while eating lunch. Currently The Black Company.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:18 PM (EOjZq)
This will probably get lost in the comments, lol.
My favorite Christmas song is O Holy Night.
Hubby and I found on tube Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland, her rendition.
Her rendition is so powerful.
We highly recommend.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 10:19 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (+HNx/)
Yeah, I'm old enough that boxes did not have sell by dates... at all...
really... thinkin back, when did those start.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2025 10:19 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 23, 2025 10:19 PM (MolB1)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 23, 2025 10:19 PM (mzhi4)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (qFwJc)
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Was she a bad egg?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 10:19 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 23, 2025 10:19 PM (ULPxl)
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To be honest, do kids cereals even need a sell-by date?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:20 PM (+HNx/)
As for Robert the Cat(tm), his evil is contained this season. When the new year dawns, uh, look out. He is a cat after all.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 10:20 PM (CHHv1)
I had to laugh because I've never thought about it like that, and it's on the button.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:20 PM (krQz2)
What if you're super skinny? Can you pay for a half seat?
I want to speak to the manager!
~anorexic Karen!
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No, but I'll give you 50 bucks if you'll let me stuff you in the overhead, scrunt.
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at December 23, 2025 10:20 PM (0yLoC)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:21 PM (5DEFi)
Wife's home.
...hides cigar
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 10:15 PM (/lPRQ)
Hmm....
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 10:21 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 10:21 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Methos at December 23, 2025 10:22 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:10 PM (Zz0t1)
Thought about it but I've featured them on 2 occasions recently.
Also considered Love and Rockets - Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven.
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:22 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: pookysgirl will het through this at December 23, 2025 10:18 PM (Wt5PA)
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Very saddened by this news
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 10:22 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 10:22 PM (sAmhv)
Doof finally figured out the "post" button.
Posted by: mindful webworker - what would a 'closed blogger' be? at December 23, 2025 10:07 PM (lNGqL)
The button stopped bouncing around the page like a zooming puppy.
Either that, or he had to waiting for the disco ball to hit the right speed.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 23, 2025 10:22 PM (S/Y4j)
Posted by: Norberg at December 23, 2025 10:22 PM (uQesX)
I had to laugh because I've never thought about it like that, and it's on the button.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:20 PM (krQz2)
There are lots of child hood stories, that if you look at them with fresh adult eyes... characters who we thought were OK, are pretty damn evil.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2025 10:23 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 23, 2025 10:19 PM (MolB1)
Wow
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:23 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: pookysgirl will het through this
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So sorry to hear this...prayers up for you. What wrenching news to receive now....
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 23, 2025 10:24 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2025 10:13 PM (n9ltV)
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Tell me you've never read a Doof ONT without telling me you've never read a Doof ONT.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (Zz0t1)
I've been to the barrel quite a few times before the sissies started using auto close tags. There's definitely some interesting stuff at the bottom!
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:24 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:25 PM (Zz0t1)
I always felt bad about Veruca Salt. She was like a girl I met in La Jolla Elementary Summer School in 1967. Not a bad girl. What was her name? Snodgrass.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 10:16 PM (qFwJc)
American Thighs is a great album
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:25 PM (EOjZq)
A Summer Place!
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FUN FACT: The Theme from A Summer Place was on the soundtrack of Animal House. I think it was in the scene where Babs was trying to give Greg a handy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:25 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:25 PM (Zz0t1)
*Fistbump*
Me too, man.
It's gimpmas for me and my friends. I brought a bottle to share.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:26 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 23, 2025 10:13 PM (n9ltV)
Somebody has to clean the damn thing out once in a while.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 10:26 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 23, 2025 10:19 PM (MolB1)
Thats some north pole shit right there. Damn..
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 10:26 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: LASue at December 23, 2025 10:27 PM (lCppi)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 10:27 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: mindful webworker - what would a 'closed blogger' be? at December 23, 2025 10:07 PM (lNGqL)
The button stopped bouncing around the page like a zooming puppy.
Either that, or he had to waiting for the disco ball to hit the right speed.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 23, 2025 10:22 PM (S/Y4j)
Those are some weak attempts at airing of grievances.
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:27 PM (QMAsf)
*Fistbump*
Me too, man.
It's gimpmas for me and my friends. I brought a bottle to share.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:26 PM (EOjZq)
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Merry Christmas, my friend.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:27 PM (Zz0t1)
My favorite Christmas song is O Holy Night.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 10:19 PM (3ek7K)
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I love that one. (I like singing it as well.)
But there are a couple others that if competes with for me.
• I Wonder As I Wander
• O Come, Emmanuel
Interesting story about that second one. I went to a Dominican Catholic church for a good portion of my childhood. The entire mass was done in a similar kind of chant. And I hated that "carol", because that was one of the ones that they would have us sing.
That song made me feel like when you lose your baseball cap and your mom insists you wear your cub scout hat because it's "just as good". Almost nowhere else would I hear that hymn.
Decades away from the Dominican service, it's so beautiful--and it's also pretty popular these days.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:27 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2025 10:23 PM (mP0Kj)
In the original 'Willy Wonka', with Gene Wilder, I always thought Willy Wonka was a creep. Never saw the appeal to kids.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 10:28 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Boss Moss
When I worked in a cabinet shop, the boss had us write out every task needed to construct a specific piece of furniture. We almost always started off with: "Sand the rough boards with Grape Nuts. . . "
Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 10:28 PM (cYBz/)
It's always been my favorite too. Here's a version by Selah:
youtu.be/GFLTYAndj84
Posted by: pookysgirl has a lot of Christmas music at December 23, 2025 10:28 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
Bench seating "by the inch"
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 10:29 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 23, 2025 10:29 PM (MolB1)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 10:30 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:27 PM (Zz0t1)
Right back at ya
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:30 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Cover it with Kim chee
Lot's of Kim chee
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 10:30 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 10:30 PM (rbvCR)
"We're done here"
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:31 PM (EOjZq)
https://youtu.be/LYtiDCXLAcQ
Posted by: tankdemon
https://youtu.be/HU05dhTSFq0
https://youtu.be/86VNMGkEIWk
https://youtu.be/t6-4LKuYFz0
https://youtu.be/Yq4KA0mUnC8
https://youtu.be/WYflSAMPgIw
https://youtu.be/VwDRmhmP6Es
https://youtu.be/p6tYk4c8HjE
Posted by: mikeski might be spam at December 23, 2025 10:31 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: TRex - prayerful dino at December 23, 2025 10:31 PM (cCn4/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:21 PM (5DEF
I also found that rather suspicious, even as a junior cereal connoisseur, so I curtailed my breakfast brands to only include Freakies, Count Chocula and Uncle Rastus' Cream of Wheat.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 23, 2025 10:31 PM (mzhi4)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 10:32 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 10:32 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:27 PM (QMAsf)
Grandma won't let us be salty anymore.
Posted by: Kaboom Brand ONTs at December 23, 2025 10:32 PM (NxjzV)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2025 10:23 PM (mP0Kj)
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Also, it's a Dahl story. Dahl always has a dark side.
He's an tremendous author (although I've heard some bad things about his personal side.)
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:32 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2025 10:23 PM (mP0Kj
Look up Dahl's meaning of the "snozzberry" reference.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 23, 2025 10:34 PM (mzhi4)
And Rush.
And Dolly Pardon's tits.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Well, excuuuuuuuuse me!
Posted by: Dolly Martin at December 23, 2025 10:34 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 10:34 PM (KDPiq)
Oh pookiesgirl! So much love and prayers. My heart hurts💔
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 23, 2025 10:35 PM (dIJjD)
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:24 PM (QMAsf)
That is NOT interesting. It is crawly, slimy and foul, but nobody is interested in that.
Doof: DH wants to know what topper you put on your truck. He might finally be getting one.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2025 10:35 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 10:35 PM (FvUgT)
Wait, what?!
All the prayers ascending.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2025 10:36 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 10:36 PM (nljXp)
Tip o’ the 🧢
Quien es mas macho … Senor skateboard dude es mas macho
Posted by: browndog would never at December 23, 2025 10:36 PM (TTAGa)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:36 PM (5DEFi)
Blondie -Dreaming
The drums in that song rocked.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 10:37 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 10:37 PM (0RrTI)
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May God give you strength.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:37 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 10:37 PM (SqxZS)
He's an tremendous author (although I've heard some bad things about his personal side.)
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:32 PM
Pig has entered the chat.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2025 10:37 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 23, 2025 10:06 PM (Hd1lH)
Yo.
Wait for the after 9pm sales. You can score big then!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 10:37 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 23, 2025 10:38 PM (mzhi4)
You're not alone and some of us know exactly what you're going through. It suuuuuuucks. I'm so sorry.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: pookysgirl will het through this
Prayers up, pookysgirl. We are here for you.
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:38 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:36 PM (5DEFi)
I probably could have downed a quart . The half pint is like 3 swallows.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 10:38 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 10:28 PM (gKDq2)
yeah I thought he was a tad creepy too. There was a lot of creepy shit. I never could figure out what the deal was with charlie living with that group of useless bastards laying around in a bunch of pushed together beds.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 10:39 PM (snZF9)
91 80 That Charlie and the Chocolate Factory post was something.
I had to laugh because I've never thought about it like that, and it's on the button.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:20 PM (krQz2)
__________________________
"Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" Pitch Meeting is one of the best that guy's done. It's hilarious. He points out that all four grandparents are in the same bed, and all they eat is cabbage soup. That can't be good. Check it out, you'll laugh at the insights on this one.
https://tinyurl.com/4hncbt6r
Posted by: Orson at December 23, 2025 10:39 PM (dIske)
Gotta say though, Copart really runs a first rate operation. Easy paperwork and verification process and their fork drivers are fast and safe. Hope I don't have to do that again ever.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 10:39 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2025 10:39 PM (p4NUW)
Is this 🎙️on 🤔
Currently the hottest team in hockey is …
The Buffalo Sabres on a 7 game heater
Thank you for your attention to this matter
Posted by: browndog would never at December 23, 2025 10:40 PM (TTAGa)
Chasm - so sweet.
Merry Christmas, Horde!
Posted by: Iris at December 23, 2025 10:40 PM (bOJ2I)
Posted by: Sponge
I'm honestly wondering how Rush's Dreamline got left out.
No space before the L?
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 10:40 PM (nhCoE)
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I raked those things for every word of text, including the sell-by date.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:17 PM (+HNx/)
My cereal box reading days were before they started putting sell-by dates on stuff.
Fuckin' safety nazis.
Posted by: a.moron at December 23, 2025 10:40 PM (X5Jzz)
WHAT what is this? OMG. Bless you, dear girl, and your family. ❤️
Posted by: mindful webworker - life is full of twists and turn, turn, turns at December 23, 2025 10:41 PM (lNGqL)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2025 10:42 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 10:43 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2025 10:35 PM (6Bc8
I have a tri-fold fabric tonneau cover. Made by Tyger. Works well for my needs. Usually fully covered this time of year. Usually folded back in warm weather so only 1/3 of the bed is covered. Easy to remove too - like I did at the ranch in October. It's not 100% watertight in the corners near the cab. Doesn't bother me any.
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:43 PM (QMAsf)
They flirt a little with the antifa stuff but it doesn't work with the general plot of a TV Network propagandizing the populace. I know the left loves to wax idiotic about FAUXNEWS but these bubbleheads repeat whatever the networks tell them in real time.
One specific moment that really stuck out is Killian is offering Richards an opportunity to work for him and Richards argues that they made him a villain how can they now make him a hero to which Killian says, "don't worry about it" and immediately took me back to Steve Colbert persuading his audience to cheer for Comey who they had just been booing because the narrative changed
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 10:44 PM (sKqQm)
Oh my gosh, my heart just fell. I haven’t been on today and this, you have prayers and if there is anything else we can do to support you right now?
Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2025 10:44 PM (p4NUW)
No space before the L?
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 10:40 PM (nhCoE)
I might have to denounce myself.
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:44 PM (QMAsf)
And yes, I never noticed that detail about the grandpa in Willie Wonka.
Posted by: Iris at December 23, 2025 10:45 PM (bOJ2I)
https://is.gd/SnbKFA
Posted by: Boss Moss
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That may be somewhat problematic with the working class.
But it will definitely get the commies in an uproar over here.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 10:45 PM (Mis34)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 10:43 PM (2WIwB)
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Metric dump or Imperial?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:45 PM (+HNx/)
But, when I saw it in the theater as a kid, I found it rather disturbing, and not much fun.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 23, 2025 10:46 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: pookysgirl will het through this at December 23, 2025 10:18 PM (Wt5PA)
hon, I am so sorry, Prayers for you and yours, and precious Lil Pookette.
Posted by: moki at December 23, 2025 10:46 PM (wLjpr)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 10:46 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:46 PM (Zz0t1)
That'll do for today & tomorrow, then will make a mini-charcuterie tray for us to snack on Christmas Day.
Will attend online church service tomorrow evening.
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 10:47 PM (rdVOm)
The claimed reason they want to do this is they have too many cases to handle. And the unsaid part is this is too to importing a criminal class AND criminalizing speech at the same time. Remember Britain has more political prisoners now then Russia does.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 10:47 PM (sKqQm)
https://youtu.be/LYtiDCXLAcQ
Posted by: tankdemon
https://youtu.be/HU05dhTSFq0
https://youtu.be/86VNMGkEIWk
https://youtu.be/t6-4LKuYFz0
https://youtu.be/Yq4KA0mUnC8
https://youtu.be/WYflSAMPgIw
https://youtu.be/VwDRmhmP6Es
https://youtu.be/p6tYk4c8HjE
Posted by: mikeski might be spam at December 23, 2025 10:31 PM (nhCoE)
Did you had those cheddar up already?
Posted by: tankdemon at December 23, 2025 10:47 PM (Hd1lH)
But, always remember the reason for this season.
God loves us, and we will always be in His embrace.
Take solace from this pooky. We all love and pray for you, and we all hold you close.
Hold close those who love you.
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 23, 2025 10:47 PM (dIJjD)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 23, 2025 10:48 PM (0aYVJ)
The second was just odd...Depp playing Wonka as a cross between Michael Jackson and Edwardscissor Hands
And the third one with Chalemet? Never really saw a reason to watch it
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 10:48 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:46 PM (Zz0t1)
It's a shitty situation
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:50 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 10:50 PM (FvUgT)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:50 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 10:51 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 23, 2025 10:52 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:46 PM (Zz0t1)
It's a shitty situation
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:50 PM (EOjZq)
Depends.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 23, 2025 10:52 PM (mzhi4)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 10:43 PM (2WIwB)
Contact Ace and see what night(s) he will allow you to do a better job
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:52 PM (QMAsf)
No space before the L?
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 10:40 PM (nhCoE)
I might have to denounce myself.
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:44 PM (QMAsf)
My rush playing bass player made me learn that song a few weeks back. At first I was not amused, but after awhile I could see he was right. Its kinda fun to play.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 10:53 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 10:53 PM (Sv5iI)
He's an tremendous author (although I've heard some bad things about his personal side.)
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:32 PM
Pig has entered the chat.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2025 10:37 PM (Wnv9h)
"Switch Bitch" has entered the chat
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:53 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:46 PM (Zz0t1)
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It's a shitty situation
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:50 PM (EOjZq)
Paging Mr. Whipple. Mr. Whipple to the courtesy phone. Paging Mr. Whipple.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 10:53 PM (gKDq2)
You see this?
Remember the scene in JAWS when the kids swam underwater with a fake Shark Fin to scare the shit outta the beachgoers?
Remember when Chief Brodie caught up to them, and the one kid, scared, blurted out something like, "he made me do it!"
Watch these two little kids from Ohio from 3 days ago:
https://is.gd/7aqvQd
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 10:54 PM (0RrTI)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Geez, I never thought about it like that. I hope their cereal didn't have horse meat in it.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 23, 2025 10:54 PM (0Htd1)
And yes, I never noticed that detail about the grandpa in Willie Wonka.
Posted by: Iris at December 23, 2025 10:45 PM (bOJ2I)
Sunday's was very easy too. But I have some diabolical ones in the queue!
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:54 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 10:55 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 23, 2025 10:55 PM (IX8iX)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:20 PM (+HNx/)
We'd open that box of Capn Crunch and eat it til it was gone in one sitting and the roofs of our mouths were shredded.
Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at December 23, 2025 10:55 PM (zdQuL)
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Fool (If You Think It's Over) by Chris Rea.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:55 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 23, 2025 10:55 PM (XSP3T)
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:56 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:46 PM (Zz0t1)
We could revisit the vanvera content from last month!
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:56 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 23, 2025 10:55 PM (XSP3T)
She lost a baby
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:57 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:46 PM (Zz0t1)
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It's a shitty situation
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 10:50 PM (EOjZq)
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Some people think it's funny...
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:57 PM (krQz2)
What's that song that goes fool if you think it's over?
Yeah, the singer is mort. 74.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 10:37 PM (0RrTI)
Chris Rea – Fool (If You Think It's Over). One of my favorite songs from 1978.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 23, 2025 10:57 PM (y171U)
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:43 PM (QMAsf)
DH says thanks. So do I.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2025 10:57 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: tankdemon
Just going through the stuff on my iphone, actually.
I gots more.
https://youtu.be/kCxzlNuSdak
https://youtu.be/0rrORyfpty0
https://youtu.be/rcmJCkRL0BA
https://youtu.be/Zq90E6WK15U
https://youtu.be/ziP3bl_xWho
https://youtu.be/qxsz5cwXRNo
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 10:58 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 10:58 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 23, 2025 10:58 PM (XSP3T)
https://youtu.be/iEJNCYZyp5A
https://youtu.be/83zPG4aCyqk
https://youtu.be/Rk2B8pw1dVs
https://youtu.be/77ggV3wGL50
https://youtu.be/1I-p77KFvAc
https://youtu.be/LnHLEQ1hjpw
I think I'm done now, tho.
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 10:58 PM (nhCoE)
As a member of the civil society I'm now obligated
to block him 48 hours
I should provide his number so you guys can taunt him
"Fen doesn't live here anymore Mrs Torrence"
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 10:58 PM (Sv5iI)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 10:59 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: pookysgirl will het through this at December 23, 2025 10:18 PM (Wt5PA)
Here's hoping you are mistaken, and Lil Pookette is hanging in there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 10:59 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 10:59 PM (A0sqA)
Every single year I have a day of wearing myself out because of procrastination.If I had the energy I'd...ok, I don't know what I'd do to myself as I am not known for harm to myself or others.
I buy Christmas (and birthday, etc) gifts months in advance. I buy Christmas cards a a month in advance. I know from my MIL and Martha Stewart you can feeze cookies yet I don't. Marth Stewart, that beetch, always says to wrap gifts when you buy them, but I never do.
Therefore, there is always One Fine Day that all of my bad and wicked ways punish me. Today is that day. My husband did help make the entree that is safely in the fridge for dinner tomorrow. I had it all planned, you see. He helped me make some cookie dough. He is a good man who puts up with me in my day of festivus frenzy that surely has to stop this year.I wrapped gifts. He put a doll bed together.
Our DIL, returning from a ski trip, texts me that she wants me to make cookies for dessert the night of Christmas. Which I planned to do anyway. Then adds that we need to talk about a side dish. I text ok.
Then snap at the poor man who married me. I apologized.Festivus is here! I am going to bed!!!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 10:59 PM (WONhk)
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Oh, that *is* annoying! My BIL does that too, but he's deaf (I think perhaps mentally 'challenged' also) and uses a relay service for calls. You'd think there's some limit to how many times they'll call the same number in 10-15 minutes' time when it is not an emergency.
Finally turned off the answering machine and told him to just text me, I'd reply when able. Ugh.
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 10:59 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 10:59 PM (CHHv1)
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You're something to me.
You're my emergency food supply.
Posted by: Robert the Cat at December 23, 2025 11:00 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 10:54 PM (QMAsf)
"Diabolical" is my specialty.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 23, 2025 11:00 PM (Hd1lH)
There's no earthly way of knowing...
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 23, 2025 10:38 PM (mzhi4)
Chris Rea. On one of his albums, the liner notes refer to him as Germany's Bruce Springsteen. Whatever Happened to Benny Santini was the title of the album that "Fool" was on. Might have been his only hit in the US. I liked a lot of his stuff, and recently turned Little on to this little gem..
http://tiny.cc/vdtw001
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 23, 2025 11:00 PM (nbLIj)
No space before the L?
Posted by: mikeski
I might have to denounce myself.
Posted by: Doof
You might be on double-secret probation.
Posted by: Middletown Dreams at December 23, 2025 11:00 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Otto Zilch at December 23, 2025 11:01 PM (Ws2ua)
Love that song.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 10:56 PM (krQz2)
Didn't the Police have a "Dream of the Blue Turtles"?
There are a lot of "dream" songs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:01 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 10:28 PM (gKDq2)
"YOU GET NOTHING!!! GOOD DAY, SIR!!!"
Man, Wilder performed the hell out of that. I saw a documentary about that, Wilder had practiced that outburst in private, but never in rehearsal. The documentary said that camera men flinched.
Wilder turns out to be one heck of an original.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:02 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:02 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at December 23, 2025 11:02 PM (FMtrg)
There are a lot of "dream" songs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:01 PM (npFr7)
That was Sting's first solo album
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 11:03 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 11:04 PM (+HNx/)
Are they going to have people sit in a seat by the gate before boarding? Like some airlines do to see if your carry on fits? If your arse doesn't fit you can't commit. Or something.
The next time I fly I may go to a SW gate,if nearby, to check this out.
In Fort Lauderdale, it is Spirit that would entertain with wighat wrestling.
I think this SW idea is not going to go well.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 11:04 PM (WONhk)
*lights cigar with burning $100 bill*
How about now?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 11:04 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Middletown Dreams at December 23, 2025 11:00 PM (nhCoE)
I haven't used that as a deep cut yet!
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 11:04 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:21 PM (5DEFi)
Instant Ralston hot cereal as advertised in the 1950's radio show "Space Patrol". With announcer Dick Tufeld who later did the voice of the robot on Lost in Space.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 23, 2025 11:04 PM (y171U)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 11:05 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Don Black at December 23, 2025 11:05 PM (ZxPkt)
*lights cigar with burning $100 bill*
How about now?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 11:04 PM (2WIwB)
Its rhe skunk he's got his feet resting on who's also smoking a cigar that really sells it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 11:05 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: tankdemon at December 23, 2025 11:00 PM (Hd1lH)
OK cool. See you in January!
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 11:06 PM (QMAsf)
*lights cigar with burning $100 bill*
How about now?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 11:04 PM (2WIwB)
That nic doesn't really narrow it down all that much. So many possible candidates...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:06 PM (npFr7)
Ace's (the band) single hit "How Long (Has This Been Going On)" has never been about what most people take it to be about.
And if you know the answer, and you re-listen to it, you'll never hear it the old way again.
The secret: their bass player had been two-timing with another band that might have been going places faster. Paul Carrick wrote this song as sort of notes for the confrontation.
How Long is as great as smooth mid-road pop gets, so take another listen.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:06 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:06 PM (Zz0t1)
Good night all. Much love to pookiesgirl❣🙏...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 23, 2025 11:07 PM (dIJjD)
https://youtu.be/GywDFkY3z-c
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 23, 2025 11:07 PM (oFnDw)
Posted by: pookysgirl will het through this at December 23, 2025 10:18 PM (Wt5PA)
Here's hoping you are mistaken, and Lil Pookette is hanging in there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 10:59 PM (npFr7)
This is sad and I am praying, but wanted to ask if pookysgirl or daughter lost the baby? I never know how old anyone is. Regardless, she and family are in my prayers. Thanks.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 11:07 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Joemarine at December 23, 2025 11:04 PM (y171U)
Ralston originated the Chex line of cereals, didn't they?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:07 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 11:08 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Kaboom Brand ONTs at December 23, 2025 11:08 PM (NxjzV)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:01 PM (npFr7)
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If this wasn't Ace's HQ, I might suggest Silent Lucidity by You Know 'oo.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:08 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:08 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Middletown Dreams at December 23, 2025 11:00 PM (nhCoE)
I haven't used that as a deep cut yet!
Posted by: Doof
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Underrated song from them. Beautifully written song.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 11:08 PM (sAmhv)
Good night all. Much love to pookiesgirl❣🙏...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 23, 2025 11:07 PM (dIJjD)
And out chance to keep remembering him.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 11:08 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 11:09 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: San Franp
It’s swollen and hurts tonight, lidocaine is gone now. She is taking Motrin, but is being a trooper and still trying to help with Christmas prep and all the animals. We got nitrile gloves today so she can take a shower and keep it dry, she was very excited about this.
Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2025 11:09 PM (p4NUW)
@Breaking911 1m
U.K. police declared a major incident on Monday after a sinkhole formed beneath a canal, draining part of it and leaving several narrowboats stranded.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 23, 2025 11:09 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 11:09 PM (zZu0s)
Never heard that song until I moved to Alaska in 1985. Then I heard it a lot. Very nostalgic for me.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 23, 2025 11:09 PM (0aYVJ)
Him. Not him.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 11:09 PM (2WIwB)
Carole King, not mort, wrote a lot of that doo-wop shit in the 60's.
She and her husband wrote the 1965 hit "Loco Motion" sung by Little Eva. Or Evie, whichever.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:09 PM (0RrTI)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 23, 2025 11:09 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 23, 2025 11:10 PM (IX8iX)
Posted by: Kaboom Brand ONTs at December 23, 2025 11:08 PM (NxjzV)
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The chief thing that got me into Harry Potter was the Dahl-ish feeling.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:10 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:10 PM (0RrTI)
Posted by: davidt at December 23, 2025 11:10 PM (Q+gd/)
U.K. police declared a major incident on Monday after a sinkhole formed beneath a canal, draining part of it and leaving several narrowboats stranded.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 23, 2025 11:09 PM (mlg/3)
Vikings hardest hit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:11 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 11:11 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Fen
Does he know about voicemail?
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 23, 2025 11:11 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:11 PM (0RrTI)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 11:11 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 11:12 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 11:12 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:12 PM (Sv5iI)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 11:11 PM (+HNx/)
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They're an American band. (woo-oo)
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:12 PM (krQz2)
Finger above the Heart, keeps the swelling down, right?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:12 PM (0RrTI)
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I did not shoot the deputy.
Posted by: E. Clapton at December 23, 2025 11:12 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 11:12 PM (sAmhv)
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So you think it's over?
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:13 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 11:12 PM (KDPiq)
I'm not from Delaware.
Posted by: Eric Clapton at December 23, 2025 11:13 PM (Q+gd/)
"Well, Sammy, you're not that good looking a guy....."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:13 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:06 PM (krQz2)
My brain is weird. It's been literally years since I heard that one, but it popped into my brain immediately.
Oh sure, I keep having to look up how to find the hypotenuse of a right triangle, but yeah, let's hear some dumb song in my ears unbidden.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at December 23, 2025 11:13 PM (0aYVJ)
I have a cell *and* a landline. BIL would call landline repeatedly, and fill up the answering machine... So I switched it off.
Texted him to only use my cell # from now on, and to ONLY TEXT me.
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 11:13 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Don Black at December 23, 2025 11:14 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:12 PM (Sv5iI)
Tell them you are sending a check in the mail.*
*Denmark's post office is ceasing mail delivery.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:14 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:14 PM (Sv5iI)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:15 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Greenland at December 23, 2025 11:15 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:16 PM (krQz2)
"Well, Sammy, you're not that good looking a guy....."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:13 PM (Zz0t1)
Best of Rick Springfield is pretty good. I didn’t realize how many hit songs he had.,
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 11:16 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:16 PM (5DEFi)
*Denmark's post office is ceasing mail delivery.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:14 PM (npFr7)
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The Indian Danish Butter Cookie scandal has thrown the country into chaos.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 11:16 PM (+HNx/)
Finger above the Heart, keeps the swelling down, right?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:12 PM
Yes, her Aunt N (who is really just my good friend) is an RN, she told her to do that and to take a picture of it every morning to see if it’s getting worse or better, especially as we want to make sure it doesn’t get infected.
Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2025 11:17 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:17 PM (Sv5iI)
A singer who is also a bona fide musician:
https://is.gd/77otLE
(It's Quarterflash, and she plays the Sax)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:18 PM (0RrTI)
Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2025 11:09 PM (p4NUW)
Being a bossy womman, did the ED put her on an antibiotic? IF the cut went into a joint? I fret about stuff like this.
I can't believe all you did today baking. I have become pitiful, altho I did get some stuff done.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 11:18 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:07 PM (npFr7)
And he's My Favorite Martian
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 23, 2025 11:19 PM (wVcYX)
"Well, Sammy, you're not that good looking a guy....."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:13 PM (Zz0t1)
Best of Rick Springfield is pretty good. I didn’t realize how many hit songs he had.,
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 11:16 PM (KDPiq)
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Tao is a solid album.
It's funny that his first moderate hit was "She Called Me Bruce" (Springsteen)
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:19 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:19 PM (0RrTI)
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:19 PM (Sv5iI)
6m people in DK. Out of 7.5 bn. Yeah, your language will be Latin bound........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:19 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:19 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:20 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:20 PM (0RrTI)
or Violin?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:21 PM (0RrTI)
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:22 PM (Sv5iI)
Posted by: Count de Monet at December 23, 2025 11:19 PM (wVcYX)
That was Ray Walston. In later years, he got into selling auto upholstery kits for classic cars. I talked on the phone with him once, trying to get a price on some seat covers. Not pleasant guy to deal with, but RIP nonetheless.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:22 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 11:22 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
>Is three times a day too many? Also there's a bug going around. I'm feeling quite liberated. The jettison of excess mass is rejuvenating, and can restore flexibility. My spine popped as if I had just been to a chiropractor.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 11:22 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:22 PM (5DEFi)
Because I guarantee for any "great" song you can think of, it will have either a Sax, or Trumpet, or Violin, or Xylophone.
*btw, I don't even know what a xylophone is and might be confusing it with some other keyboard instrument.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:22 PM (0RrTI)
so its status quo
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:23 PM (Sv5iI)
I'm going with Trumpet.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:20 PM (0RrTI)
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That's the one that Michael Hutchence called for in What You Need.
However, there are some songs of Kansas where Steve Walsh's marimba adds a completely different element.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:23 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:23 PM (0RrTI)
Posted by: Fen
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I will visit hubs at nursing home for a few hours, but will be otherwise alone. Meh.
Merry Christmas to you!
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 11:23 PM (rdVOm)
Aliasassinmouth was around earlier.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:23 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:24 PM (Sv5iI)
Being a bossy womman, did the ED put her on an antibiotic? IF the cut went into a joint? I fret about stuff like this.
I can't believe all you did today baking. I have become pitiful, altho I did get some stuff done.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23
No, she said if it starts to get red and hot, they would call something in. I changed the bandage today, it looks yucky, of course, but not infected yucky. We decided she should keep the brace on a bit longer than a day because it’s really hard to avoid bending it.
And I only wrapped 3 presents. I have our Christmas lights class tomorrow at 930, Church at 1230, and will be running around like a psycho getting everything else finished after. 😂
Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2025 11:24 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:22 PM (0RrTI)
It's a woodwind, intermediate between an ocarina, and a swynet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:24 PM (npFr7)
Because they appear to be legit musicians.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:19 PM (0RrTI)
They had one big album, but several hits:
Harden my Heart
Find Another Fool
Don't be Lonely
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 11:24 PM (EOjZq)
I'm going with Trumpet.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:20 PM (0RrTI)
I vote sax.
Al Stewart had his hits with a sax. 'Baker Street'. Fer gawd's sake, 'Yakity Sax'.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 11:24 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: GWB at December 23, 2025 11:25 PM (CJqnd)
Because they appear to be legit musicians.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:19 PM (0RrTI)
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I was listening to AOR when they came out, so I don't know if Find Another Fool was ever released as a single.
It rocks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcICuFnkxe4
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:25 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:07 PM (npFr7)
Yes they did. I had a Chex rag scarecrow doll when I was a kid, a giveaway from Ralston by sending in Chex cereal box tops.
Posted by: Joemarine at December 23, 2025 11:26 PM (y171U)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 11:26 PM (+HNx/)
What makes a "great" song, a Trumpet or a Saxophone or a Xylophone?
I'm going with Trumpet.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:20 PM (0RrTI)
I thought it was a stand up bass.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 23, 2025 11:26 PM (Hd1lH)
Anyone here from Delaware and have the scoop on who shot the State Trooper at the DMV?
Posted by: Opinion fact
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And why? Apparently the DMV customer just walked up to the deputy providing security and shot him twice.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 23, 2025 11:26 PM (n7rxJ)
How come Grandpa Joe was not afflic
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 11:26 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Ralston at December 23, 2025 11:26 PM (zwYaq)
afflicted with bed sores?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 11:27 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:27 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:27 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11
I am sorry, I don’t get to see my older girls, that always makes my heart hurt. I miss them.
Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2025 11:27 PM (p4NUW)
Fck me, that's what I'll do. Instead of having a pity party,
"Merry Christmas to you!"
And to you, thanks for the nudge
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:27 PM (Sv5iI)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:28 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 11:24 PM (gKDq2)
Sax is a very big part of pop music and blues. Many, many rock and roll songs have a sax solo. Trumpet more commonly heard in jazz, although sax is big there, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:28 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Toad-0 at December 23, 2025 11:28 PM (VR9YU)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 11:28 PM (EOjZq)
It was a Quaker Oats cereal that was shot from guns (to the tune of the cannons' portion of the "1812 Overture").
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 11:29 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2025 11:29 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 11:24 PM (gKDq2)
Sax is a very big part of pop music and blues. Many, many rock and roll songs have a sax solo. Trumpet more commonly heard in jazz, although sax is big there, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:28 PM (npFr7)
Horns made Chicago Transit Authority memorable.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 11:29 PM (EOjZq)
Also the solo at the end of Dan Fogelbergs “Same old lang syne”.
Maybe it’s sappy but that last one always makes me tear up a little.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 11:29 PM (FvUgT)
Posted by: Galt at December 23, 2025 11:29 PM (9UnaD)
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 11:30 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 11:24 PM (gKDq2)
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I do like Year of the Cat.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:30 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:30 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Joemarine at December 23, 2025 11:30 PM (y171U)
Yeah, doesn't 25 or 6 to 4 have Trumpets?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:30 PM (0RrTI)
I'm going with Trumpet.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:20 PM (0RrTI)
Foghat casts a strong vote for saxophone..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc4r1V6IAZE
Posted by: Joe Kidd at December 23, 2025 11:30 PM (nbLIj)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 11:31 PM (rbvCR)
Quaker Puffed Wheat and Quaker Puffed Rice.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 11:31 PM (xG4kz)
Yeah, doesn't 25 or 6 to 4 have Trumpets?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:30 PM (0RrTI)
Yes indeed. And a trombone
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 11:31 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2025 11:31 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:32 PM (5DEFi)
* shudder *
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:33 PM (krQz2)
6m people in DK. Out of 7.5 bn. Yeah, your language will be Latin bound........
Posted by: Sponge
Hvat?
Posted by: Faroese at December 23, 2025 11:33 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 11:31 PM (xG4kz)
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Puffa Puffa Rice had an entire marketing campaign centered around demeaning the culture of Pacific Islanders.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 11:33 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: BarelyScaryMary at December 23, 2025 11:34 PM (rghSL)
Ignore the song in this video -- Who is this woman in the first 5 seconds? She looks familiar but I can't ID her.
https://is.gd/9vx1AQ
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:34 PM (0RrTI)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 11:31 PM (rbvCR)
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Doesn't Rafferty do his own guitar work?
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:34 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2025 11:31 PM (YwEeS)
Mad Magazine had records incorporated into the magazine cover in several issues. Musically speaking, they were quite well produced.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:35 PM (npFr7)
And I only wrapped 3 presents. I have our Christmas lights class tomorrow at 930, Church at 1230, and will be running around like a psycho getting everything else finished after. 😂
Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2025 11:24 PM (p4NUW)
Ok. The two injuries of son & husband that are similar required an antibiotic. Hard to heal joints, &, yeah, keep that brace on. Poor girl.
My family likes to wound themselves like this on major holidays. Husband did on Easter, requiring a later surgeon (hand surgeon only for hands!!!).
I once went to the ED after cutting my finger.While stupidly cutting potatoes IN the boiling water. I am just as bad as them.I think that was Christmas Eve.
Maybe it's a Southern thing to run around with your hair on fire at least one day before Christmas?
We will be at 4pm Mass at 3pm due to crowds. Our grands & church always give me peace. Then dinner.
Right now it's Advil and a heating pad.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 11:35 PM (WONhk)
Instant Ralston hot cereal as advertised in the 1950's radio show "Space Patrol". With announcer Dick Tufeld who later did the voice of the robot on Lost in Space.
Posted by: Joemarine
I still have some of that in my kitchen cabinet.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 11:35 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:35 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 11:25 PM (Zz0t1)
I was working on a marimba / xylophone group of songs a while back for Club ONT. Don't recall if I used them.
Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone
Rolling Stones - Under my Thumb
I had a few more but can't recall them right now.
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 11:36 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Megthered at December 23, 2025 11:36 PM (BI0Xv)
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 11:36 PM (QMAsf)
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We've Been Having Fun All Summer Long
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 11:38 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 11:31 PM (rbvCR)
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Doesn't Rafferty do his own guitar work?
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:34 PM (krQz2)
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Apparently, he only did acoustic on City to City.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:38 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Good Vibrations at December 23, 2025 11:38 PM (wVcYX)
So we can all be thankful for small things.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 11:39 PM (rbvCR)
https://is.gd/9vx1AQ
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:34 PM (0RrTI)
Jackie Swanson, if you can believe the internet. Naked in Lethal Weapon 1
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 11:39 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 23, 2025 11:40 PM (W4R97)
I'm going with Trumpet.
Posted by: Soothsayer
or Violin?
Posted by: Soothsayer
Why choose just one? Bring the whole orchestra!
https://youtu.be/3oB2x5-44Zo?t=30
.....a solid showing by the french horns.
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 11:40 PM (nhCoE)
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The worlds greatest theremin player says he hasn't touched it in years.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 11:40 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 11:40 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 11:40 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Good Vibrations at December 23, 2025 11:38 PM (wVcYX)
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Occasionally used by prog-metal band Haken.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:40 PM (krQz2)
https://youtu.be/cCR1KDxAnZ4
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 11:41 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: The Grateful - Acta Non Verba at December 23, 2025 10:13 PM (cCn4/)
You'd know it anywhere? Isn't is always in the same place?
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 11:41 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 11:41 PM (+HNx/)
Ignore the song in this video -- Who is this woman in the first 5 seconds? She looks familiar but I can't ID her.
https://is.gd/9vx1AQ
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Valerie Day, lead singer of Nu Shooz
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 23, 2025 11:41 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 11:31 PM (rbvCR)
Great song! I am partial to the saxophone, thanks to many years of bands with our son. He was a professional but got another degree a decade later to support himself. Music is a dicey thing and I tell him, when he moans about waiting a decade, that he did what he wanted and to be happy about his choice. All is well. He found the right girl and married her vs others (he takes after his father in this area). Other son married his HS sweetheart and never gave us any problems.
He found out that sleeping on tour busses are not fun for almost a year. So he got that out of his system.
This son was the hardest to raise in HS and college, but a great guy in spite of giving me fits. I thought once I was going to shoot blood out of my ears on the phone as he explained, while house sitting for us, that he invited a girl over. If I could have crawled through that line he would probably have not survived.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 11:42 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 11:40 PM (snZF9)
Indeed! As did INXS.
Posted by: Doof at December 23, 2025 11:42 PM (QMAsf)
Posted by: Piper at December 23, 2025 11:42 PM (p4NUW)
https://is.gd/9vx1AQ
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Valerie Day, lead singer of Nu Shooz
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 23, 2025 11:41 PM (n7rxJ)
Damn it. I can't wait...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 11:42 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 23, 2025 11:41 PM (n7rxJ)
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News shoes.
Posted by: Semi-comatose Leo Johnson at December 23, 2025 11:43 PM (0aYVJ)
Posted by: davidt at December 23, 2025 11:45 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Toad-0 at December 23, 2025 11:45 PM (VR9YU)
Posted by: Good Vibrations
Is there an acoustic one?
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 11:40 PM (nhCoE)
It's got a complicated history.
Posted by: Good Vibrations at December 23, 2025 11:45 PM (wVcYX)
Kellogs Heap Good Corn Flakes!
(The best thing to happen to corn since the Indians discovered it)
Kellogs Heap Good Corn Flakes!
Posted by: Kellogs at December 23, 2025 11:45 PM (JIDSP)
Dream Academy had a pretty good first album . Life in a Northern Town and The Edge of Forever (Featured in Ferris Bueller) . Light stuff, and the keyboard player was a good looking lady
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 11:45 PM (2vrAX)
Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone
Rolling Stones - Under my Thumb
I had a few more but can't recall them right now.
Posted by: Doof
https://youtu.be/vW7lqJzHkSY
Posted by: mikeski, at 214% normal obscurity at December 23, 2025 11:45 PM (nhCoE)
Why choose just one? Bring the whole orchestra!
https://youtu.be/3oB2x5-44Zo?t=30
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Kind of like Devin Townsend: https://youtu.be/ONZq7xzCKd0?si=p0H_0DdawXyBrgDj
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:45 PM (krQz2)
https://is.gd/9vx1AQ
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:34 PM (0RrTI)
Looks like that chick from the 2nd or 3rd sequel to the Mel Gibson/Danny Glover cop movies
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 23, 2025 11:45 PM (XSP3T)
Posted by: davidt at December 23, 2025 11:46 PM (Q+gd/)
Valerie Day, lead singer of Nu Shooz
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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No, I take that back. I don't believe the internet.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 23, 2025 11:46 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: davidt at December 23, 2025 11:45 PM (Q+gd/)
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Martin Mull callback.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:46 PM (krQz2)
I do, however, like Baker Street.
No sax before a fight. - Frank Drebin
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Bonafide at December 23, 2025 11:46 PM (0aYVJ)
Black Dahlia murder and the Zodiac killings may be solved:
https://is.gd/lSc5VL
I saw a headline about this same story on the Daily Mail the other day. Anyway, Black Dahlia murderer and the Zodiac killer were the same guy, according to his.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2025 11:46 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:47 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2025 11:31 PM (YwEeS)
"Put them in magazines" reminds me of the time Spin Magazine excitedly announced they were including a free condom in one of its issues. To keep the condom from falling out in transit, they stapled it in.
Stapled a condom. What a public service.
Posted by: tankdemon at December 23, 2025 11:47 PM (Hd1lH)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 11:42 PM (WONhk)
At least he wasn't like my brother. My parents went away for the weekend and he brought chicks home and doinked them in my parent's bed.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 11:48 PM (snZF9)
Megthered, the purpose of gaslighting isn't to change your mind, it's to convince You the gaslighter actually believes what he's saying, and when you do, it will then make You second-guess your own beliefs.
Meg, your reaction tells me the gaslighting worked -- you believe *they* believe those absurd things about Charlie Kirk and Trump and Epstein. They don't. But you think they do, and now you're questioning things you shouldn't waste a moment on. That's Gaslighting.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:49 PM (0RrTI)
Posted by: RCA at December 23, 2025 11:49 PM (JIDSP)
Bad news from Southwest Airlines if you're pudgy, portly, or stout.
American airline hits plus-size travelers with new policy forcing them to buy two seats
___________.
I'm big boned.
*eats pie and one dozen donuts*
*drinks Diet Coke*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 11:49 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Kaboom Brand ONTs at December 23, 2025 11:49 PM (NxjzV)
Looks like that chick from the 2nd or 3rd sequel to the Mel Gibson/Danny Glover cop movies
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth
She does!
The one who drowned, right?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:50 PM (0RrTI)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:50 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Kaboom Brand ONTs at December 23, 2025 11:50 PM (NxjzV)
Jackie Swanson, if you can believe the internet. Naked in Lethal Weapon 1
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
Oh, so it is her? Teresa is right.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:52 PM (0RrTI)
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:52 PM (Sv5iI)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Gross. Wtaf?
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 11:52 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth
She does!
The one who drowned, right?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 11:50 PM (0RrTI)
Absolutely, could be her frigging twin.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 11:53 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Don Black at December 23, 2025 11:53 PM (ZxPkt)
The worlds greatest theremin player says he hasn't touched it in years.
Posted by: Cicero
The only time I saw a theremin played live, it was these guys (and gal). And this song:
https://youtu.be/JpiVFAZfF5k?t=216
"t=216" is cued to theremin solo.
Posted by: mikeski, at 117% normal obscurity at December 23, 2025 11:55 PM (nhCoE)
Black Dahlia murder and the Zodiac killings may be solved:
https://is.gd/lSc5VL
I saw a headline about this same story on the Daily Mail the other day. Anyway, Black Dahlia murderer and the Zodiac killer were the same guy, according to his.
Posted by: publius
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That is CRAZY. What's so weird about it to me is that the Black Dahlia killer seemed motivated by hatred of Elizabeth Short, saying she deserved it -- as if she'd led him on or two-timed him in some way. He knew her, and it was personal.
The Zodiac killer was absolutely off his rocker, killing strangers because he needed slaves for the afterlife.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at December 23, 2025 11:55 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 11:55 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: davidt at December 23, 2025 11:46 PM (Q+gd/)
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There wasn't time to get a kinder one, I here.
Posted by: Axeman at December 23, 2025 11:56 PM (krQz2)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
Do you have their numbers?
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 11:57 PM (dAOkg)
Next up, Southwest goes to "10 across" seating on their 737s, forcing everybody who weighs more than 75 lbs to buy two or more seats.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
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Nope, galley seating.
Passengers will be expected to man oars to help in the flight of the aircraft.
If they behave, they will be allowed to have a tiny bag of pretzels.
Posted by: As not seen on TV at December 23, 2025 11:57 PM (sIAVO)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
Also dont believe all the killings that have been assigned to Zodiac were him. If it was just one person.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 23, 2025 11:58 PM (MGB5H)
Posted by: PabloD at December 23, 2025 11:58 PM (Epuwl)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 11:58 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Gross. Wtaf?
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 11:52 PM (rdVOm)
My brother is nothing like me musically, or even culturally in a lot of ways, but I will say I was proud in a way because its the most metal frigging thing he ever did. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 11:58 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 11:59 PM (5DEFi)
https://is.gd/lSc5VL
I saw a headline about this same story on the Daily Mail the other day. Anyway, Black Dahlia murderer and the Zodiac killer were the same guy, according to his.
Posted by: publius
21 years apart with nothing in between?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 11:59 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 11:48 PM (snZF9)
He did not do this. He did, however, invite her dog over,too. Who peed on the rug in the guest bathroom.He fenced off the dog with kitchen chairs, he said! I guess I am grateful for that small mercy.
He knew better but we were thousands of miles away. He explained all this when he was safely back in college. He was there to dog sit our Golden, not to invite his girlfriend of the month over.
Heaven knows what my BP was when I was on the phone with him. He knew better. He also knew we'd figure it out. He turned our house into a romantic weekend and, oh, boy.
My husband,who I blame for this son, would have huge parties when his parents were out of town. I warned our boys that our neighbors would simply call us. At least all that was destroyed was a bath mat.
He dated so many girls that there were 2 Amy's and 3 Christinas & others. We refer to them as Amy the First and so on. Mr. Hot Stuff since 9th grade. I was mortified from then on.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 11:59 PM (WONhk)
393 Shaka, when the walls fell
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:52 PM (Sv5iI)
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
Dammit it’s like shave and a haircut.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 12:00 AM (FvUgT)
Friday night-- all the lights were on and I could see *several people* were at parents' house! Party went late into the night...
Next morning, I loaded up my trusty SuperSoaker™ and walked over there at 8 a.m.
Unlocked the front door. Stepped inside. Listened. All was quiet.
1/2
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 12:00 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 12:00 AM (2vrAX)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 12:00 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
Almost my entire dating history before she hobbit is all J names. Multiple jen/jennifers, multiple Jessica's Julie/julia etc
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:01 AM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 12:02 AM (5DEFi)
I'm going with Trumpet.
Posted by: Soothsayer
or Violin?
Posted by: Soothsayer
Why choose just one? Bring the whole orchestra!
https://youtu.be/3oB2x5-44Zo?t=30
.....a solid showing by the french horns.
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 11:40 PM (nhCoE)
A stand-up bass, of course!
-Buck T.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 24, 2025 12:02 AM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
We asked the gal down the street, one of our daughter's friends, to swing by the house every day to take care of the animals while we were on Christmas break.
Apparently, she brought her younger sister along with her, and little sister came back later with her boyfriend and they got busy in our bed. The white stains on the sheets and the fact that they were bunched up at the foot of the bed gave it away.
We made Daughter put new sheets on our bed ***shudder***.
Daughter's friend was mortified.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 24, 2025 12:04 AM (XSP3T)
Nope, galley seating.
Passengers will be expected to man oars to help in the flight of the aircraft.
If they behave, they will be allowed to have a tiny bag of pretzels.
Posted by: As not seen on TV
If I'm lucky I'll get seat 41.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 24, 2025 12:04 AM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 12:04 AM (2vrAX)
The girl in the start of the video is Patsy Kensit. She was Riggs' South African girlfriend in Lethal Weapon 2. If you go to the end of the video clip, the presenter says her name.
Posted by: PabloD
Nice work, Sherlock.
I should've watched the video.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 24, 2025 12:04 AM (0RrTI)
Apparently, she brought her younger sister along with her, and little sister came back later with her boyfriend and they got busy in our bed. The white stains on the sheets and the fact that they were bunched up at the foot of the bed gave it away.
We made Daughter put new sheets on our bed ***shudder***.
Daughter's friend was mortified.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth
I mean just clean the sheets. That's what we always did.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:05 AM (MGB5H)
I'm going with Trumpet.
Posted by: Soothsayer
or Violin?
Posted by: Soothsayer
What's the difference between a violin and a fiddle?
A violin has four strings and a short neck.
A fiddle has four strangs and a redneck.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 12:06 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 12:07 AM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:08 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 11:59 PM (dAOkg)
You should look it up - it’s an amazing story, and very convincing. The key is that the Zodiac Killer, when challenged by a news reporter, wrote his name into a 13 figure cryptograph that could never be cracked. This amateur detective used AI for months to finally crack the cryptograph - and it turns out to be the name of the top suspect in the Black Dahlia murder, a name that was never released to the public.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 24, 2025 12:08 AM (FvUgT)
A violin has four strings and a short neck.
A fiddle has four strangs and a redneck.
Posted by: rickb223
A violin is for nerds
A fiddle is a legit instrument.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:08 AM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Geez, I never thought about it like that. I hope their cereal didn't have horse meat in it.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 23, 2025 10:54 PM (0Htd1)
Mars, Inc. was in the pet food business almost as long as it was in the candy business. In fact, they bought the first company that made pet food (UK company). They make more money in pet goods and vet offices than they do in candy.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 24, 2025 12:08 AM (0CU3H)
Posted by: Fen
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I'll be spending mine at work.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 24, 2025 12:08 AM (sAmhv)
A fiddle has four strangs and a redneck.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 12:06 AM (dAOkg)
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Robbie Steinhardt of Kansas played both.
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:09 AM (krQz2)
Apparently, she brought her younger sister along with her, and little sister came back later with her boyfriend and they got busy in our bed. The white stains on the sheets and the fact that they were bunched up at the foot of the bed gave it away.
We made Daughter put new sheets on our bed ***shudder***.
Daughter's friend was mortified.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth
I mean just clean the sheets. That's what we always did.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:05 AM (MGB5H)
I'm the captain now.
Posted by: Somali Bed Soiler at December 24, 2025 12:10 AM (NxjzV)
Went downstairs to lil bro's room. Ah! Lump in the bed.
"Arise young mutant, and face your destiny!" Body bolts upright, gets face full of water... Uh... Ooops, not lil bro!
(He, whoever he was, slumped back down to resume slumber)
Upstairs. Ah! Seen just the very top of blond-ish hair in the living room recliner: "Hey! Wake tf up!" Chair turns, soaker squirts... Uh... Again, not lil bro! Victim groans but goes back to sleep.
Over to parents' bedroom. Lump under covers. *This better be lil bro and he'd better be alone!*
Yank back covers. Kid is spread-eagle (alone) and passed out drunk.
SuperSoaked him top to bottom & back up. Told him to clean it all up, parents were coming back TODAY instead of tomorrow.
LMFAO and went home.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 12:10 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Boss Moss
She should have stuck with it. Adult Patsy telling me to "give peas a chance" would have worked.
Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 12:10 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 24, 2025 12:10 AM (dIJjD)
Almost my entire dating history before she hobbit is all J names. Multiple jen/jennifers, multiple Jessica's Julie/julia etc
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:01 AM (MGB5H)
That would be dicey after a few drinks, or pretend to stutter.
I told our sons early on that sex could kill them (AIDS). I am surprised they are not monks.
I'd tell horror stories from the ED to scare them about STD's and other things.
They both were "designated drivers" til they turned 20yrs. They told me when they had their first beer, so they were honest (other than this one driving me insane).
In HS I told them I could tell as I do have a nose like a bloodhound. They never did smoke pot or drink because Mama would greet them at curfew for a hug goodnight.
We owned their cars and helped pay for college. This and them not wanting to tick us off kept them basically pretty good compared to what others went through. They knew we don't mess around.
What they don't know is how wild their parents were. Never asked and never told them. I read a paper in HS by this son saying we had high standards and waited for lightening to strike me quite dead. But we did have high standards for them!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 24, 2025 12:10 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 12:11 AM (5DEFi)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
That would be my brother. The paulo is a frigging piker next to him. He spent an entire summer down the jersey shore one year and didn't spend a dime on rent. He shacked up with a different chick every week. Him and his friends. They would meet a group of girls who rented a house for the week and its party time. He would fall asleep on the beach and wake up to some hot chick laying next to him. He was out of control. You look up chick magnet in the dictionary and his picture is there. In 1985 he bought a brand new trans am. He came up from the shore to pick it up from the dealer, drove it back down to the shore and parked it for a week. Who the hell does that? Him, he does that.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 12:13 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 12:13 AM (2vrAX)
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That's why you say "oh you" or "oh babe"
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:13 AM (MGB5H)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:05 AM (MGB5H)
This lovely young lady was in 6th or 7th grade at the time - executive functioning wasn't her strong suit.
She was a bit of a wild thing. Parents' divorce did bad things to her psyche. I had my suspicions about her stepfather, too.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 24, 2025 12:14 AM (XSP3T)
Posted by: Axeman
Here's Jordan Rudess playing the Continuum with Dream Theater (and we're back to the guessable theme!)
https://youtu.be/2gf8_kVS1OE
Continuum appears at 0:44.
Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 12:16 AM (nhCoE)
LMFAO and went home.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 12:10 AM (rdVOm)
I'm disappointed you didn't pull a Chet from weird science and just bop them on their heads with a shotgun barrel. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 12:16 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:05 AM (MGB5H)
This lovely young lady was in 6th or 7th grade at the time - executive functioning wasn't her strong suit.
She was a bit of a wild thing. Parents' divorce did bad things to her psyche. I had my suspicions about her stepfather, too.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth
To be fair, the lady cleaned the sheets. I didn't know how to do that back then
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:16 AM (MGB5H)
Dream Academy had a pretty good first album . Life in a Northern Town and The Edge of Forever (Featured in Ferris Bueller) . Light stuff, and the keyboard player was a good looking lady
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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If I recall correctly, David Gilmour produced that album.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 24, 2025 12:17 AM (sAmhv)
"You die; she walks out of here with a severe limp!" It's a stupid movie, but Bill Paxton was hilarious.
Posted by: PabloD at December 24, 2025 12:20 AM (Epuwl)
https://youtu.be/2gf8_kVS1OE
Continuum appears at 0:44.
Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 12:16 AM (nhCoE)
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Cool. Rather Hackett-ish vibe to that solo.
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:22 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 12:13 AM (snZF9)
Legend.
When my bf was getting serious about me, he and a good friend went out for beers. I was studying, as that's what I did.
He came back to my apt to tell me this story. Apparently a good looking girl was in the bar and had car trouble. Brand new car. My guy and his friend tried to do whatever to the carburetor and started the engine on fire. Burned the engine and hood badly.They claimed to know what they were doing, but beer was involved, and it was the friend's idea.
My husband gives her a ride home to her parent's and our friend puts the moves on her. After burning up her new car the friend and the girl were making out in the backseat. I do admit this friend was good looking (half Navajo/half Mexican).
I had to laugh when he told me this story. I am pretty sure her father was not laughing when she told him about her car the next day.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 24, 2025 12:22 AM (WONhk)
Posted by: PabloD at December 24, 2025 12:20 AM (Epuwl)
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Sympatico on that.
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:23 AM (krQz2)
There were more than a few seemingly insignificant connections with Dennis Rader with the 1000’s of pieces of info that had been gathered.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 12:23 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Benny Hill, 1978 at December 24, 2025 12:23 AM (oftw2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 12:24 AM (5DEFi)
A fiddle has four strangs and a redneck
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A violin plays Mozart
A fiddle plays Bill Monroe
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 24, 2025 12:24 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Benny Hill, 1978 at December 24, 2025 12:23 AM (oftw2)
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First you will blow me.
Posted by: Tenor Saxophone at December 24, 2025 12:27 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 11:52 PM (Sv5iI)
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
Dammit it’s like shave and a haircut.
Posted by: Tom Servo
>Fascinating.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 24, 2025 12:27 AM (nljXp)
Posted by: Gene Siskel in Hell at December 24, 2025 12:27 AM (NxjzV)
That comes from their No Good Hits period.
She could still sing incredibly but once Heart lost the original guys they basically were like late Jefferson Starship compared to Jefferson Airplane.
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 24, 2025 12:28 AM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Tom Servo
I read the NY Post article. It's possible. His timeline is tight. 16 in '43, 17 in '44 & 18 in '45 because he was 20 in 47.
B 10-15-27.
Front line medic with enough combat after basic & medical training that he had ptsd? In one to two years?
Posted by: rickb223 at December 24, 2025 12:29 AM (dAOkg)
Posted by: PabloD at December 24, 2025 12:20 AM (Epuwl)
Don’t know why but ‘’why don’t you shut up bitch’ to the motorcycle chick was the funniest scene to me.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 24, 2025 12:29 AM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Axeman
Changing keyboardists from Sherinian to Rudess was a much bigger change to DT's sound than changing from Moore to Sherinian.
Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 12:30 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
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Heh. I'm not *that* mean!
Was actually surprised, but relieved, that there were no girls there that morning. (Doesn't mean nothing happened overnight)
He should've thanked me for letting him know about parents' early return! Guess he was way too busy, clearing out all the empty beers and *other evidence* of the party.
Bonus! They'd raided the upright freezer and didn't re-latch the door-- much thawed food. Mom was furious!
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 12:32 AM (rdVOm)
"You die; she walks out of here with a severe limp!" It's a stupid movie, but Bill Paxton was hilarious.
Posted by: PabloD at December 24, 2025 12:20 AM (Epuwl)
Yeah he was great in that.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 12:34 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: PabloD at December 24, 2025 12:34 AM (Epuwl)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 24, 2025 12:35 AM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Megthered at December 24, 2025 12:36 AM (BI0Xv)
You have to be a gigging musician to understand.
Posted by: pawn at December 24, 2025 12:37 AM (EMg+d)
https://youtu.be/2gf8_kVS1OE
Continuum appears at 0:44.
Posted by: mikeski
Also, how about being an orchestra asked to play behind Dream Theater?
Conductor: "We're playing backup for a metal band."
First Violin: "This'll be boring."
Conductor: "Here's the sheet music for Octavarium."
First Violin: "163 time signature changes? What the heck?"
Conductor: "And here's Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence."
First Violin: "275??? Where'd you find these guys?"
Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 12:38 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 10:59 PM (WONhk)
Christy - you sound exactly like Mrs ARiK
Pookysgirl - so sorry to hear of your possible loss. Wish you strength to meet the challenges ahead and peace in your heart.
BeckoningChasm - I don't know much of your personal situation but hope you find value and meaning in the days ahead. Every one of us is important and each of us has value. Hang in there!
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 12:42 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 12:32 AM (rdVOm)
There were never any wild parties at parent's houses when I was in high school. There was one..ONE, and that served as a warning in the area why not to do it. The house got destroyed, and I mean like weird science destroyed. Rugs, walls, china cabinet over turned, tables, etc. It was legend, and it scared the shit out of anybody even thinking of pulling a stunt like that.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 12:43 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 24, 2025 12:43 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 12:44 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
The kids I went to school with had those crazy parties. We had parties that were kept into the tight group of friends. Not that i didint have to fix a wall. But mostly contained
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:45 AM (MGB5H)
e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g.
The rest of us? Well, let's just say we wouldn't be here now, if we had done the same.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 12:46 AM (rdVOm)
e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g.
The rest of us? Well, let's just say we wouldn't be here now, if we had done the same.
Posted by: JQ at December
I broke allllll the rules and had to sneak around. Then I'm getting pictures of my sister (7 years younger) having huge parties by the pool. Still salty about it.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:48 AM (MGB5H)
Pull Me Under has always been one of my favorite tracks from them, but the rest of I&W seemed a little ... twee, IIRC.
And I had kind of expected DT to be prog-metal for mass consumers.
But in listening to that clip of Octavarium I'm hearing chord progressions reminiscent of Tony Banks, where it keeps a tonal feeling but it doesn't seem to be in any one key. And I'm also hearing quite a bit of Spock's Beard, which might make sense because Portnoy was already a long-time frequent collaborator with Neal Morse by 2005. So, it could be easily the case that he was influenced by the Beard, from the mid-90s.
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:49 AM (krQz2)
Yeah, at least they didn't *beat* me, right? *eyeroll*
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 12:50 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 12:38 AM (nhCoE)
Can you imagine being the poor bastards in this orchestra? Some look like they were having a blast actually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlELzbY84Go
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 12:50 AM (snZF9)
I couldn't 'get away with' anything-- older bro would spy on me all the time, just *itching* to tattle on me for the slightest little bs.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 12:53 AM (rdVOm)
Yeah he was great in that.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 12:34 AM (snZF9)
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Paxton was it in Near Dark. Many times he's been the one to watch. Of course, Val Kilmer blows him off the screen in Tombstone. Can't win them all.
Really the scenes between Biehn and Kilmer are the highlights of that great.
Biehn is a chameleon.
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 12:54 AM (krQz2)
Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 12:38 AM (nhCoE)
Can you imagine being the poor bastards in this orchestra? Some look like they were having a blast actually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlELzbY84Go
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divisio
After kill em all. Metallica S&M is the only Metallica worth listening too.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:55 AM (MGB5H)
Another burnt up car story. I was with a bunch of HS girls at youth club. Back in the Civil War times we had wooden purses (which, I know, was weird).I guess I was known by my purse. I left it in the car.
We were watching a movie at a church (it was interdenominaltion) and a guy came up to me & said, "your car is on fire." It was not my car but my friend's mother's.
We had been smoking cigs en route & a girl threw hers out the window & it came back in and set the backseat on fire. Someone yanked it out & it was smoldering. You could see all the way back to the trunk.
Driving home my friend had the brilliant idea to "run away to NOLA." I said no, because I wasn't going to get into much trouble, & didn't.
We drive to her house & she tells her father. He came roaring out of the house cussing (no one cussed then, & it gave me some stress). I called my mother to come fetch me.
Reasons unknown they put the still smoldering backseat on the front porch of their 100yr old wooden farmhouse. Her older brother came home later & threw it onto the front yard before their house burned down.
Country girls have adventures.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 24, 2025 12:55 AM (WONhk)
e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g.
The rest of us? Well, let's just say we wouldn't be here now, if we had done the same.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 12:46 AM (rdVOm)
My brother is younger than me by 3 years, so yeah, he got away with it all. Then again, I probably paved the way. Parents had to figure out who to be pissed at more, the gigolo or the asshole metal guitarist. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 12:59 AM (snZF9)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlELzbY84Go
Posted by: Berserker
The cellist with the jewfro at the one-minute mark was feeling it!
And the two violinist gals in the front row thought they went hard with the eyeshadow, until they saw the band.
Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 01:00 AM (nhCoE)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 24, 2025 01:02 AM (C0Nlv)
Posted by: kelly at December 24, 2025 01:02 AM (6Nl/W)
And the two violinist gals in the front row thought they went hard with the eyeshadow, until they saw the band.
Posted by: mikeski at December 24, 2025 01:00 AM (nhCoE)
Right? lol. One of the string players had all kinds of shit on his face.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 01:02 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: kelly at December 24, 2025 01:02 AM (6Nl/W
You don't choose the barrel. The barrel chooses you.
Posted by: The Wisdom of The Horde, Book 1, Chapter 3, Verses 8-9 at December 24, 2025 01:06 AM (fkNqv)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 01:07 AM (MGB5H)
Barrel gets cleaned by an occupant what gets sent there, IF they wish to be released a bit early. (I think that's a rule. Could be wrong)
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 01:09 AM (rdVOm)
Bruce Wayne, if you are here, Merry Christmas to you and Mama Wayne and the whole family, She Hobbit too.
I am hitting the tip jar tonight, Horde, before I sleep. ace and the COBs work so hard to inform and entertain us every day and evening. I get to sit here and enjoy it, a lifeline to be sure. Thank you ever so much.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 24, 2025 01:10 AM (0nHVk)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 01:12 AM (MGB5H)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 01:07 AM (MGB5H)
Thats a great one. The band playing the christmas carols in that sinister sounding arrangement is a riot.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 01:14 AM (snZF9)
I couldn't 'get away with' anything-- older bro would spy on me all the time, just *itching* to tattle on me for the slightest little bs.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 12:53 AM (rdVOm)
My older sister was the same way. Lived to tattle on me. I spent most of my childhood avoiding her and now haven't heard from her since our parents memorial service ten years ago.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 24, 2025 01:15 AM (QGaXH)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 24, 2025 01:15 AM (MolB1)
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Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 01:16 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads
The kids just kidnapped "Sandy claws"
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 01:16 AM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Axeman at December 24, 2025 01:17 AM (OaZlZ)
Big bro was always a jerk, but *times ten* since our parents passed. I cut contact in 2023. Can't stand him.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 01:19 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: BruceWayne
...........................................
Watching 'A Muppet Christmas Carol' here.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 24, 2025 01:24 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: BruceWayne
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Watching 'A Muppet Christmas Carol' here.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer
Also a good one.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 01:26 AM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 24, 2025 01:31 AM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads
The kids just kidnapped "Sandy claws"
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 01:16 AM (MGB5H)
The lil kid holding up his shrunken head is my fav thing ever.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 01:34 AM (MGB5H)
Posted by: Adriane the Not Everyone Should Sing Christmas Carols Critic . . . at December 24, 2025 01:38 AM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Adriane the Not Everyone Should Sing Christmas Carols Critic . . . at December 24, 2025 01:41 AM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Adriane the Critic . . . at December 24, 2025 01:43 AM (3ZUWJ)
Robert Palmer’s cover of I Dream of Wires:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOmoURHDgVM
Posted by: Adriane the Critic . . . at December 24, 2025 01:56 AM (3ZUWJ)
Posted by: Adriane the Kewl Yule & Kicking Kwanza Critic . . . at December 24, 2025 01:57 AM (3ZUWJ)
Then, it'll be over.🎄 Life's like that.
God bless this Horde of Morons, and comfort our dear pookysgirl especially.
https://youtu.be/Mu8ZA6GUBlk
Have a good tomorrow, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - if you can't have a good one, at least make it through at December 24, 2025 02:07 AM (lNGqL)
The ghosts of Christmases Past, dancing in my dreams. Mom. Dad. Grandparents. Friends, pets, memories...
Damned dusty here.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 02:08 AM (rdVOm)
Is this thing on?
There was much house partying around here where I grew up. So much that we would hit 3 or 4 every Friday and Saturday night before heading out to the Carson River or American Flats for the keggers always going on. Half of my 8th grade class got picked up one Saturday night. We had quite the enterprise going on. Security, proliferation of pallets, The one 21 year old who would go into Albertsons and say "I'd like 6 full kegs of Bud please".
Posted by: Reforger at December 24, 2025 02:13 AM (VF6cf)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 24, 2025 02:41 AM (fovWB)
Posted by: Reforger at December 24, 2025 02:43 AM (VF6cf)
Good Night, all.
Posted by: Adriane the Kewl Yule & Kicking Kwanza Critic . . . at December 24, 2025 01:57 AM (3ZUWJ)
an hour behind ya here... but...
Have to admit, I'm not feelin it. Just like many of my White divorced over 50/60 brothers out there... who are spending the 'Holidaze' alone.
We were sold on a fantasy of Christmas, with family and cheer, and presents, and Grandkids....
Yet... are alone. Please... reach out to that loner Sigma, it really would help....
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 24, 2025 02:49 AM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 24, 2025 02:54 AM (Qab63)
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 03:01 AM (rdVOm)
Yet... are alone. Please... reach out to that loner Sigma, it really would help....
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 24, 2025 02:49 AM
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Feeling it here. Fortunately, my brother is kind enough to invite me to his house for dinner with his family.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at December 24, 2025 03:03 AM (qYbxT)
The ghosts of Christmases Past, dancing in my dreams. Mom. Dad. Grandparents. Friends, pets, memories...
Damned dusty here.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 02:08 AM (rdVOm)
Yeah it sucks watching things shrink over the year. My grandmother had a large christmas eve gathering. 20-25 people minimum, sometimes closer to to 30. I watched it all dwindle to just a few of us now at my brother's for christmas eve.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 03:07 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: JM in Illinois
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Nice!
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 03:09 AM (rdVOm)
Says it all.
Like a wool sweater, washed in hot water & tossed into the dryer on High Heat...
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 03:13 AM (rdVOm)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 24, 2025 02:49 AM (mP0Kj)
I do. I moved to a house twice the size so I can have decent christmas gatherings on christmas day, and I make sure a few of my unmarried friends with no families left are here. Mrs b has a few friends in the same position that show up too. I don't have kids, so its an adult gathering, but its something.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 03:14 AM (snZF9)
In Jesus' precious name,
Amen.
Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at December 24, 2025 03:18 AM (0lzjf)
Time for shuteye.
Good night, Horde. We'll make it through the holiday season, yes we will.
Merry Christmas Eve.
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 03:23 AM (rdVOm)
Says it all.
Like a wool sweater, washed in hot water & tossed into the dryer on High Heat...
Posted by: JQ at December 24, 2025 03:13 AM (rdVOm)
yeah we used to have big gatherings. My mom's sister did the thanksgiving thing. She had a fairly large house on a few acres, and that was good for over 30 people minimum, plus a few neighbors. My mother's other sister did easter, so almost the same crowd. My grandmother on my father's side had the huge christmas eve thing. All gone, grandparents gone, all aunts and uncles are gone, mom's entire family is wiped out. The exception is my father and his siblings since they all have the methuselah gene. The cousins are all over the country now, the 2 oldest cousins on my mother's side are gone. Nobody does shit anymore.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 03:24 AM (snZF9)
And I don't know how a Dreams music theme on AoSHQ doesn’t include “Silent Lucidity” by everybody’s favorite band; Queensrÿche.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 24, 2025 03:36 AM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 24, 2025 03:38 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 03:24 AM (snZF9)
Then do your own shit.
We throw an epic New Years Party and blow stuff up. Nobody leaves hungry. This year is fondue because my arm is in a sling and even DH can't fuck up chopping up cheese and bread.
Make up your own shit and dig it.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 03:51 AM (6Bc88)
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 24, 2025 02:49 AM (mP0Kj)
You are never alone. He is with you. And next year haul yer ass up here and WE will be with you.
Things change. His love never does.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 03:54 AM (6Bc88)
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 24, 2025 12:55 AM (MGB5H)
Concur. That is what we play when we really start a serious project.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 03:58 AM (6Bc88)
We throw an epic New Years Party and blow stuff up. Nobody leaves hungry. This year is fondue because my arm is in a sling and even DH can't fuck up chopping up cheese and bread.
Make up your own shit and dig it.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 24, 2025 03:51 AM (6Bc8
I do. I have a christmas party in mid december, and then a gathering on christmas day, and then another new years eve.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 24, 2025 04:10 AM (snZF9)
Posted by: m at December 24, 2025 07:25 AM (RuTUS)
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 07:12 PM (9ipOP)
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Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:17 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2025 07:17 PM (XeU6L)
they sure do. They sure do.
IKEA and Costco sure make a fine lunch.
Posted by: ace at December 23, 2025 07:17 PM (1wjle)
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Posted by: Kafe Zeit? Jawohl! at December 23, 2025 07:19 PM (YSDKn)
I think so. But I'm one of those guys who say that food lasts longer than most think it does. Especially if you're willing to excuse a little funkiness.
Posted by: ace at December 23, 2025 07:19 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:17 PM
Yes they do. It's a fine way to recharge after the successful conclusion to your hunt for the FIXA power drill.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 07:20 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 07:20 PM (SqxZS)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 23, 2025 07:20 PM (wUu8b)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:21 PM (qFwJc)
I did have a flat tire one time. Changed it on their parking lot. In the rain.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:21 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: Ted Cruz at December 23, 2025 07:21 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: ace at December 23, 2025 07:21 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:18 PM
Assuming your fridge temp is < 40 dF, yes.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 07:21 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 07:22 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: ace at December 23, 2025 07:22 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:18 PM (mNhIh)
I dunno. I got tired of the schtick about a minute in.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 07:22 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:22 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Ted Cruz at December 23, 2025 07:21 PM (KDPiq)
But getting cold shoulder dissed by your own daughter on national teevee is not.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:22 PM (mNhIh)
they sure do. They sure do.
IKEA and Costco sure make a fine lunch.
Posted by: ace at December 23, 2025 07:17 PM (1wjle)
And you don't have to regret the calories either, because you know you're going to burn them all failing to put the shelves together. Somehow.
Posted by: Kafe Zeit? Jawohl! at December 23, 2025 07:23 PM (YSDKn)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:18 PM (mNhIh)
I dunno. I got tired of the schtick about a minute in.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 07:22 PM (zZu0s)
Same.
But no... that is most certainly NOT Patrice O'Neal.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:23 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 07:23 PM (jNFIZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:18 PM (5DEFi)
I err on the side of caution. 3 days in the fridge. If uncooked by then, rewrapped and into the freezer whatever it is goes.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:23 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 07:24 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Boss Moss "
They will actually last months before they get up and crawl out on their own.
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 07:24 PM (vFG9F)
Physics if phun.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:15 PM (qFwJc)
On a lit display it can differ:
On LCD/LED, Black is the combination of Red + Green + Blue pixels.
On OLED, Black is the color of the back panel itself and the RGB pixels are turned completely off to get 100% True Black.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 23, 2025 07:24 PM (6ydKt)
oh you'd love it
Posted by: ace at December 23, 2025 07:22 PM (1wjle)
For some reason, this comes across as creepy, ace. Probably because I read it in my head with a seductive voice.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 07:24 PM (zZu0s)
"Silly faggots, dick are for chicks."
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:24 PM (qFwJc)
Question for the Chefs here:
Why do I need "beef boullion" and/or Beef Broth to Instant Pot my Rib Roast?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:25 PM (0RrTI)
Posted by: One Is The Loneliest Number at December 23, 2025 07:25 PM (BLawi)
Posted by: ace at December 23, 2025 07:22 PM (1wjle)
If Ikea is a nubile (SWIDT?) 21 year old Eastern European leggy model I would.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:25 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 07:25 PM (0sNs1)
I think so. But I'm one of those guys who say that food lasts longer than most think it does. Especially if you're willing to excuse a little funkiness.
Posted by: ace at December 23, 2025 07:19 PM (1wjle)
They hang prime cuts in a humidifier for weeks for dry aging. Weird if it couldn't last five days in a fridge.
Posted by: Ted Cruz at December 23, 2025 07:25 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 07:26 PM (Ia/+0)
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Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:26 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:24 PM (qFwJc)
Hah!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 07:27 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:27 PM (0RrTI)
The Nissan Nubian was intended to be a straight up competitor for the Volkswagen Cabriolet convertible. Unfortunately the styling didn't catch on, the color choices weren't right and the odd shaped rear bumper was not amenable to the ever popular breast cancer awareness stickers considered mandatory by the chick car crowd. Production ceased after only two years.
Posted by: Car Nerd at December 23, 2025 07:27 PM (SzjyL)
https://tinyurl.com/3efs9dnj
Posted by: Marcus T at December 23, 2025 07:28 PM (wUu8b)
I dunno. I got tired of the schtick about a minute in.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
You lasted longer than I.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 07:28 PM (pkeXY)
Never give your livestock names. It makes it harder to slaughter them and eat them.
Posted by: no one
This would make a good Fortune Cookie fortune.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:28 PM (0RrTI)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:27 PM (0RrTI)
Date younger women?
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:28 PM (mNhIh)
Clarkson's Farm...
Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 07:29 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:29 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:29 PM (5DEFi)
Why do I need "beef boullion" and/or Beef Broth to Instant Pot my Rib Roast?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:25 PM (0RrTI)
I use a Crock Pot. I add about a cup of water and a tablespoon of Better Than Bouillon Beef. When done, I strain the juice and have a wonderful au jus. You can ruin it and thicken it however you want. But I just like the strained au jus. Over slices, over an open faced sammich. It's simply liquid beefy goodness.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:29 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 07:29 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 07:29 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 07:29 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 07:30 PM (vFG9F)
oh you'd love it
Posted by: ace at December 23, 2025 07:22 PM (1wjle)
Obligatory book reference:
https://tinyurl.com/3s2yp6sz
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 23, 2025 07:30 PM (yZSOm)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 07:31 PM (Mis34)
Never give your livestock names. It makes it harder to slaughter them and eat them.
Posted by: no one
Give it a number and take away its name.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 07:31 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 07:29 PM (77rzZ)
I have a suggestion for the Donald...
Melania Mountains
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:31 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:31 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 07:31 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Oh yeah - they'll serve anybody!
Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 07:18 PM (cYBz/)
Haha
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 07:31 PM (zYpTz)
I just buy the Hormel Beef Roast with Au Jus sauce. 3 1/2 minutes in the microwave. Unbelievably good.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 07:32 PM (KDPiq)
Post, Constitution. We are no longer a Republic.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2025 07:32 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 07:32 PM (SqxZS)
Good stuff.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 07:32 PM (UJWr0)
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Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2025 07:32 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:33 PM (qFwJc)
What a waste.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 07:33 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 07:33 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:34 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: One Is The Loneliest Number at December 23, 2025 07:25 PM (BLawi)
I'd modify that and say that since color is what we see as a result of the spectrum of light, then black is the absence of light (or 0% reflective color).
When using pigments for painting or print, black is a combination of all colors, but even in that case it comes out more like a very dark brown, so in CMYK printing the K stands for Black (a separate 100% black ink).
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 23, 2025 07:34 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:34 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 07:33 PM (3ek7K)
Hey, I'm right here, you know.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:34 PM (mNhIh)
Lmao
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 07:35 PM (3ek7K)
Meat needs moisture, especially old meat.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 07:33 PM (3ek7K)
There's a menopause joke in there somewhere.
Posted by: Kafe Zeit? Jawohl! at December 23, 2025 07:35 PM (YSDKn)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:36 PM (Zz0t1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvvHXjKloNs
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 07:36 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: RickZ
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L⊙⊙k, at Amazon it's SNAP & EBT eligible.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 07:37 PM (Mis34)
Posted by: Kafe Zeit? Jawohl! at December 23, 2025 07:35 PM (YSDKn)
In there somewhere.....
Nah, I'll let someone else have this one.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:37 PM (mNhIh)
Posted by: BJ Clinton at December 23, 2025 07:37 PM (SzjyL)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:36 PM (Zz0t1)
Me too.
Posted by: Kafe Zeit? Jawohl! at December 23, 2025 07:38 PM (YSDKn)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 07:32 PM (KDPiq)
I make about a 2 1/2 pound pot roast in a crock pot. I have an older model (avocado green), not the newer oval shapes which hold larger cuts of meat. I add whatever sides to the crock pot: Small red potatoes (on the bottom), some large diced carrots, whole garlic, or maybe mushrooms (just add less water).
Put in the pot and forget it for 7 hours.
Gives me a few meals.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:38 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 07:30 PM (vFG9F)
Many a calf has been named "Hamburger."
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 07:40 PM (zYpTz)
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fix'd. LOL
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 07:40 PM (rdVOm)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 07:41 PM (3ek7K)
https://tinyurl.com/3s2yp6sz
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 23, 2025 07:30 PM (yZSOm)
My mind also went straight there!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 07:41 PM (zYpTz)
Next question:
Does Beef Broth go bad after expiration date? I have some unopened powder, expired 9/23.
And I have some unopened liquid bone broth in a Paper Container (like box wine) expired 7/23.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:41 PM (0RrTI)
Posted by: Barry Soetero at December 23, 2025 07:41 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 07:32 PM (KDPiq)
I've been getting those for a year now.
Very easy to make.
Tastes 90% like a homemade roast in the oven.
Feeds two normal people, or one man who likes a large plate.
I'll add sauteed peppers, onions, and mushrooms to it occasionally.
Their beef tips and meatloaf aren't bad, either.
Haven't tried the turkey.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 23, 2025 07:42 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 07:40 PM (zYpTz)
Please. The proper name is Scaloppine.
Veal Scaloppine.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:42 PM (gKDq2)
The liquid, I probably would not risk.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 07:43 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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I postulated to my ex, an art major graduate who did make money as such, that perception of color is different between white people and black people.
Not racist just that we perceive color from what we are.
We see white black and they see black to white.
To me it's obvious from viewing each group's work.
She flipped.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 07:43 PM (Mis34)
The powdered stuff should be okay. I wouldn't use the liquid stuff.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 23, 2025 07:44 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 07:44 PM (sDNVV)
Does Beef Broth go bad after expiration date? I have some unopened powder, expired 9/23.
And I have some unopened liquid bone broth in a Paper Container (like box wine) expired 7/23.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:41 PM (0RrTI)
The dry stuff, no real problem. But the bone broth? 7/23? Yeah, no. I'd toss it.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:44 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:45 PM (cnokD)
Not if you name them cute names like "Ribeye," "T-Bone" or "Brisket."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:45 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 07:45 PM (3ek7K)
Does Beef Broth go bad after expiration date? I have some unopened powder, expired 9/23.
And I have some unopened liquid bone broth in a Paper Container (like box wine) expired 7/23.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:41 PM (0RrTI)
Donate those to your local food bank. Homeless people don't know what year it is.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:46 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 07:31 PM (pkeXY)
You owe me royalties ...
Posted by: Johnny Rivers at December 23, 2025 07:46 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 23, 2025 07:47 PM (GQnhI)
We've secretly replaced his hoity-toity 'Beef Roast Au Jus' with Spam. Let's see if he notices...
Posted by: Hormel at December 23, 2025 07:47 PM (SqxZS)
Posted by: RickZ
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I think they've changed the BTB recipe......use too much, like I used to, it's DAMN salty now.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:48 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 07:48 PM (77rzZ)
Got the lawn mowed this afternoon. That should be it until mowing season resumes in early March.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 07:49 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Ermine Gingold at December 23, 2025 07:49 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 07:49 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Kafe Zeit? Jawohl! at December 23, 2025 07:49 PM (YSDKn)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 07:49 PM (sDNVV)
SpongeBro is supposed to go pheasant hunting at some point soon. I don't remember if I was invited to that or not.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:50 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 07:50 PM (tgvbd)
I recommend it.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 07:45 PM (3ek7K)
The trick I learned the hard way is to make sure you tie up the roast before cooking. (Minds out of the gutter, people.) Makes it easier after cooking to get it out in one piece.
Let cool. Remove string. Then slice that bad boy up. Top with au jus.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:50 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 07:49 PM (sDNVV)
The pheasants are revolting!
Posted by: Harvey Corman to Mel Brooks at December 23, 2025 07:51 PM (cnokD)
I never really thought about it, until using the last of some chicken cubes-- remembered that I'd bought them on a Costco trip with Mom-- and she'd been gone for over 15 years when I emptied that container.
Posted by: JQ at December 23, 2025 07:51 PM (rdVOm)
The trick I learned the hard way is to make sure you tie up the roast before cooking. (Minds out of the gutter, people.) Makes it easier after cooking to get it out in one piece.
Let cool. Remove string. Then slice that bad boy up. Top with au jus.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:50 PM (gKDq2)
50 Shades of Roast
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:51 PM (Zz0t1)
Anything I cut after six steaks is gratis.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 07:52 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 07:52 PM (sDNVV)
The trick I learned the hard way is to make sure you tie up the roast before cooking. (Minds out of the gutter, people.) Makes it easier after cooking to get it out in one piece.
Let cool. Remove string. Then slice that bad boy up. Top with au jus.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:50 PM (gKDq2)
50 Shades of Roast
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:51 PM (Zz0t1)
#shibari
Posted by: Johnny Rivers at December 23, 2025 07:52 PM (3sXRv)
No, they just magically screw themselves together. In reverse.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 07:53 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:48 PM (Zz0t1)
My friend told me they have a low sodium chicken. I haven't looked yet as I still have both in the fridge. But if they have low sodium, I will buy that.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:53 PM (gKDq2)
In what way? The stereotype I am thinking about is these old gals look a lot younger than they are.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:53 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 23, 2025 07:47 PM
Fa la laaaa
Fa la laaaaa
O you brute!
Posted by: Lance Pfoofter, 'Go Dog Go' Director at December 23, 2025 07:53 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 07:54 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 23, 2025 07:54 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 07:54 PM (Ia/+0)
#shibari
Posted by: Johnny Rivers at December 23, 2025 07:52 PM (3sXRv)
Woah....hey now....let's not get carried away......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:55 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 07:55 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: no one
My brother raised some calves on his big pasture. They named the calves Numbers One, Two, Three, Four and Buddy.
Buddy lived to be ten years old and they buried him in a corner of the pasture.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Paco at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:53 PM (qFwJc)
I've always thought it was the opposite.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (cnokD)
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:53 PM (gKDq2)
I will have to remind the wife to look for that next time she shops. My mom cut salt out of a lot of her cooking when I was a yute, so when salt is present, I notice....and if it's overly salted, I'm out.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
Kroger is running choice bone in ribeye roasts for $5.99 lb thru Christmas.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 07:57 PM (dAOkg)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:53 PM (qFwJc)
I've always thought it was the opposite.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (cnokD)
Either way, she looks spectacular.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:57 PM (cnokD)
Final Question:
I will Sear all sides of the Roast first, then put in Instant Pot to pressure cook.
Should I "Sear" it again using "Broil" in the oven afterwards? Not necessary, right?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:58 PM (0RrTI)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 07:58 PM (sDNVV)
"Fine. You raise them. You clean up after them."
Holy SHIT if I'da known how nasty those things were, we'd a had freezers full.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:58 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 07:58 PM (sDNVV)
*seethes with jealousy*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:59 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: fd
Get one off a golf course for free.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 07:59 PM (dAOkg)
Should I "Sear" it again using "Broil" in the oven afterwards? Not necessary, right?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:58 PM (0RrTI)
Correct. Searing twice will create a charcoal effect.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:59 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (0sNs1)
We're always the last to know
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 08:00 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (Zz0t1)
I like a lot of salt, and even I have to be very careful with how much of that BTB I use, or the dish is inedible. Didn't realize they have low sodium--I'll look for that, too.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 08:00 PM (zYpTz)
Correct. Searing twice will create a charcoal effect.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
Yeah, but some people want a "crust" on their prime rib. I don't think I do.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:01 PM (0RrTI)
I’ll bring booze and a floral centerpiece.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 08:01 PM (77rzZ)
I like a lot of salt, and even I have to be very careful with how much of that BTB I use, or the dish is inedible. Didn't realize they have low sodium--I'll look for that, too.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 08:00 PM (zYpTz)
My FiL usually uses so much salt, it's all you taste. I accidentally ate something off his plate once and thought I was going to die.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 07:58 PM (sDNVV)
Great grandfather McPaco: Nay, ye kin keep yer big red boog! Where's m' haggis?
Posted by: Paco at December 23, 2025 08:01 PM (2L+MU)
Yeah, but some people want a "crust" on their prime rib. I don't think I do.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:01 PM (0RrTI)
I've never really been a fan of that kind of searing.
I don't want burned steak. I want to enjoy all of it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:02 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 08:02 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (Zz0t1)
I'm judicious with salt, myself, for health reasons. I only buy unsalted butter, e.g. I also tell people this regarding soy sauce. To me, the best on the market is Kikkoman. But the one with the best flavor is the Low Sodium one. I was buying that well before my health issues I liked the flavor better so much.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 08:03 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:01 PM (0RrTI)
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Yeah ya do. The Maillard reaction is your friend.
Posted by: ballistic at December 23, 2025 08:03 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 08:02 PM (vFG9F)
Commie birds eating moose shit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:03 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:58 PM (0RrTI)
Ye
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 23, 2025 08:03 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:04 PM (Zz0t1)
My Plan of Attack
-Sear
-scrape bottom of pot
-add Red Wine
-add Beef Broth powder, expired 9/23
-place Roast on trivet (wire tray)
-Pressure Cook for, I dunno, 8 minutes
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:04 PM (0RrTI)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 08:04 PM (KDPiq)
Yeah, I'd think the pan sear would be enough.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 23, 2025 08:05 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 23, 2025 08:05 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 08:04 PM (KDPiq)
I've experienced that once. Damn nice tradition they've got going there.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:05 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 08:05 PM (rbvCR)
I will Sear all sides of the Roast first, then put in Instant Pot to pressure cook.
Should I "Sear" it again using "Broil" in the oven afterwards? Not necessary, right?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:58 PM (0RrTI)
No. You'll just dry it out. Besides, you made the crust already by searing it.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 08:05 PM (gKDq2)
Yeah, I'd think the pan sear would be enough.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 23, 2025 08:05 PM (6ydKt)
Oh. Never mind, then.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:06 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:06 PM (0RrTI)
Posted by: Gluteal Thoughts at December 23, 2025 08:06 PM (oftw2)
What's up with the ones not in a white surplice? Are they not virgins or something?
Yes, yes, I'm getting coal in my stocking for that one.
Posted by: GWB at December 23, 2025 08:07 PM (Qpqr0)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:07 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 23, 2025 08:07 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:08 PM (0RrTI)
Posted by: Gluteal Thoughts at December 23, 2025 08:06 PM (oftw2)
*gives Gluteal Thoughts the Stink Eye of Death*
Posted by: Brie Larsen at December 23, 2025 08:08 PM (yZSOm)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:08 PM (0RrTI)
145, I think.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:08 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:09 PM (Zz0t1)
And something pretty stable like bouillon cubes, properly stored, should be good for a loooooong time. I once actually worked with the guy (there was a guy) at USDA in charge of expiration markings etc. Used the opportunity to grill him about the question of food expiration markings and it went about as expected. Dry/solid chemically stable stuff, properly stored - very long shelf life. Ditto, though shorter, for select canned goods.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 23, 2025 08:09 PM (U/Byj)
Posted by: ballistic
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I'm afraid to ask...
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:06 PM (0RrTI)
The browning of food, carmelization.
It's why grilled cheeses are, well, grilled cheeses.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 08:10 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 08:10 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: ballistic at December 23, 2025 08:10 PM (5aZAZ)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:08 PM (0RrTI)
Medium-Rare for beef is 130 - 135.
But if you are going to let it rest then stop around 125 or so.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 23, 2025 08:10 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:56 PM (cnokD)
You are think of Arabs.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 08:11 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:11 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 08:11 PM (nljXp)
Good to hear regard the Russkie evacuation.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 08:11 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 23, 2025 08:12 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 08:11 PM (nljXp)
You been heah foa owa! You go now!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:12 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 08:12 PM (qFwJc)
This means I am cooking, since my wife has a limited repertoire.
Granted, that is not a problem for her daughter, but not everyone wants rice-cake soup for Christmas. We will have that for New Year's
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 08:12 PM (rbvCR)
After you create a sear please don't destroy it with high-moisture cooking after. Thanks
Posted by: ballistic at December 23, 2025 08:13 PM (5aZAZ)
Keep up the holiday joy! XO
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15 i've bought frozen Ikea meatballs and brought them home. Plus the gravy. Which is called Skyullfyukker or something.
Posted by: ace
🤣
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 23, 2025 08:14 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:06 PM (0RrTI)
Maillard reaction is when your protein starts to brown under heat in a mildly alkali situation. Meats, pies, bread, pretzels are all examples of this
This is not the same as caramelization, which is where heat breaks down sugars.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 08:16 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:09 PM (Zz0t1)
Just club the cow. Run a blow dryer over it for a couple mins. Cut to serve.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 08:16 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:17 PM (5DEFi)
IKEA would qualify as the 6th largest restaurant chain in the world, just from the restaurants.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 23, 2025 08:17 PM (0CU3H)
After you create a sear please don't destroy it with high-moisture cooking after.
Posted by: ballistic
I'll try.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:17 PM (0RrTI)
I've had goose once in my life, served with Champagne sauce, prepared in a French restaurant. It tasted like chicken soaked in kerosene.
Posted by: Paco at December 23, 2025 08:17 PM (2L+MU)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 08:18 PM (tcsrY)
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 08:02 PM (vFG9F)
Commie birds eating moose shit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:03 PM (Zz0t1)
That's what I heard as well. And at least in CT, they're illegal to kill.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 23, 2025 08:18 PM (0CU3H)
Regardless of what this Mallard guy thinks, I have a wacky theory that whenever you "brown" meat or anything, you destroy nutrients.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:19 PM (0RrTI)
I got a 10lbs bone-in smoked honey ham as a backup.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 08:19 PM (nljXp)
I recommend it.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 07:45 PM (3ek7K)
The trick I learned the hard way is to make sure you tie up the roast before cooking. (Minds out of the gutter, people.) Makes it easier after cooking to get it out in one piece.
Let cool. Remove string. Then slice that bad boy up. Top with au jus.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:50 PM (gKDq2)
Bless you.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 23, 2025 08:19 PM (0CU3H)
We have a small grocery store chain in RI, Dave's. Best grocery stores I've ever been in, every department is stellar. They even have a seafood section that rivals local seafood shops in the area and we have a ton of those.
Friends came back from the Keys unexpectedly and we are getting together for Christmas Eve dinner. I had to go grab some scallops, shrimp and stuffies and my local Dave's was insane. People are spending money this Christmas.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:20 PM (viF8m)
The reason for his name was because they found graffiti on the police station signed TERRY but he said that couldn’t be him because he spelled his name t e r r r r y..
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 08:21 PM (FvUgT)
Sheep are more valuable for the wool than the meet.
I read Anne Emmerich's visions of the Last Supper. Even Jesus slit the throat but did not enjoy it. They kill lambs and roast them and eat them.
It's okay. Get over it.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 08:23 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Paco at December 23, 2025 08:17 PM (2L+MU
Goose used to be the standard Christmas feast in England - the reason even they have switched to Turkey is that turkey tastes a hell of lot better.
Ducks are about the only water birds that don’t taste like they’ve been marinated in axle grease.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 08:24 PM (FvUgT)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 08:25 PM (qFwJc)
For Us, Christmas is Christmas Eve Noon to Christmas Day Noon, with Christmas Eve evening being the most important part.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:25 PM (0RrTI)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 08:25 PM (pkeXY)
Better safe than sorry. Eat them now, buy more in 4 days.
Posted by: davidt at December 23, 2025 08:26 PM (Q+gd/)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 08:27 PM (FvUgT)
I read Anne Emmerich's visions of the Last Supper. Even Jesus slit the throat but did not enjoy it. They kill lambs and roast them and eat them.
Posted by: no one
Is this the second time today you mentioned this lady? Is she someone famous, or something?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:27 PM (0RrTI)
Just keep it refrigerated. My old AP US History retired Col. of Marines told us. "aged beef is more tender."
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 08:28 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 08:16 PM (zZu0s)
I'm fine with that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:29 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 08:30 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:30 PM (0RrTI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 08:30 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 08:04 PM (KDPiq)
I'm really glad I'm not Catholic, because none of those "fishes" mentioned in Sunday's food thread sounded appetizing to me, at all. My seven fishes would be cod, perch, halibut, more cod, perch and halibut, deep fried with chips, and you could probably sneak in some tuna or shrimp. All those things with shells and tentacles, nope.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 08:30 PM (zYpTz)
Right around the corner. Well, Rhode Island so ..
I've found the staples to be pretty much on par with other local stores but yea, the produce, meats, seafood and prepared are more expensive. But also better quality. At least in my opinion.
I don't even like shopping but that store is pretty cool.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:30 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 08:31 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 08:31 PM (sDNVV)
I think it is the only time I mentioned it today. Maybe someone else mentioned it. I have not been online since the morning.
Posted by: no one
You're right.
It was this earlier comment today from Not You that I was thinking of:
lol, the Democrat black scholar had a pink gun...
how embarrassing
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Easy there, Anne Barnhardt had the first pink AR custom built that she may invite Muslims to come and take it, which she did.
Posted by: Braenyard
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 08:32 PM (0RrTI)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 08:31 PM (sDNVV)
But, that's how you get it from the store. That's how it comes.
Posted by: Millennial Douchebag at December 23, 2025 08:32 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: ace at December 23, 2025 07:17 PM (1wjle)
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Pro Tip: don't eat lunch at IKEA or Costco!
They put melamine in those meatballs!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 08:32 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 08:32 PM (Mis34)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 08:32 PM (Mis34)
He's pissed Musk got his Tesla pay reinstated and is way wealthier.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:33 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 08:34 PM (nljXp)
There is no set type of seafood or number these days. My friend would do lobster , fried calamari, shrimp, cod, mussels/clams , salmon and halibut.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 08:35 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:20 PM (viF8m)
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Did you tell them about the Affordability Crisis (tm)?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 08:35 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 23, 2025 08:36 PM (gm9Sb)
I saw the other day Musk's net worth hit $700 billion. That's hard to even imagine.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:37 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 08:37 PM (sDNVV)
The book online is "The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ." I think it costs 99c.
btw, she contradicts Steven Spielberg. In the third Indiana Jones film, the chalice was a simple thing.
No. According to her vision, it was a grand old thing preserved since Melchisedech. Great story. Very painful you know. Must wait until Lent to read it again.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 08:38 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:37 PM (viF8m)
More than double the next closest.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 08:38 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 08:39 PM (Mis34)
We're watching Celtic Women Christmas Concert ,the one from two years ago.
Their Christmas productions are stellar.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 08:40 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 08:41 PM (+4oV5)
Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 08:41 PM (+4oV5)
*hugs*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:41 PM (Zz0t1)
I saw the other day Musk's net worth hit $700 billion. That's hard to even imagine.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:37 PM (viF8m)
He's destined to be the world's first trillionaire.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:42 PM (Zz0t1)
Creation rather than destruction or parasitic.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 08:43 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
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Seconded.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 08:39 PM (Mis34)
Then you'll love the eel.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 08:43 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 08:43 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
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Seconded.
Posted by: Braenyard
Haters.
Posted by: Cthulhu at December 23, 2025 08:43 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 08:43 PM (qFwJc)
When are ya heading south?
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 08:31 PM (3ek7K)
Planned date of departure is the 26th, Friday.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 08:43 PM (npFr7)
AOP,
Wishing safe travels for you.
Merry Christmas to my favorite Mr. Fix-it!
Love reading your comments.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 08:45 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 08:46 PM (FvUgT)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 08:43 PM (sDNVV)
And there YOU are, dear Ben Had. Alas--much too far away...
Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 08:46 PM (+4oV5)
Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 08:41 PM (+4oV5)
Back atcha, Ladyl!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 08:47 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 08:47 PM (Mis34)
What's your opinion of the secession movement in Alberta? Any chance it goes anywhere?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:47 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 23, 2025 08:48 PM (fUSwr)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 08:48 PM (3ek7K)
Goldman, who was first elected in 2022, has long been a staunch opponent of Trump and his immigration policies in Congress. However, when Trump’s mass deportation agenda literally showed up outside his office, his involvement escalated, with his office becoming the headquarters for a legal operation that has secured the release of nine ICE detainees.
“We have our Washington D.C. angle to it, with the legislation and the letters and public messaging to make Americans aware of what is actually going on,” Goldman said during an extensive interview with TPM earlier this month. “But we also are sitting across the street from families who are being torn apart, and if there’s a way for us to help them, I’ve told my staff, do anything possible.”
Goldman and his staffers began making regular visits to Manhattan’s immigration courts. While there, they got to know the network of court watchers and accompaniers who have been supporting migrants and trying to help them keep their cases alive.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 08:49 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 23, 2025 08:50 PM (dIJjD)
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!
I like bouillabaisse, not so much the TurKraken
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 08:50 PM (rbvCR)
There’s a lot that has happened this year that makes me incredibly angry and upset for our democracy. Nothing has hit me emotionally like this immigration dragnet,” Goldman explained. “My grandmother escaped antisemitism in Russia and came through Ellis Island. And, at that time … there was no need for asylum. People were welcomed here, and they came here to seek refuge, and to seek opportunity.”
“That’s what this country is all about,” he continued. “And now to see this administration demonize immigrants just for being different, or other, or not born in America, or frankly, not white, is very difficult for me just to emotionally handle. There’s a lot of crazy stuff, but nothing has kept me up at night like this.”
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 08:51 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:47 PM (viF8m)
I think we may be in the early stages of a preference cascade. Went to a town hall meeting on the topic a couple of weeks ago, and the hall, not a large one, and in a tiny town, was packed. Presenter was kind of flabbergasted. He asked, "how many of you are at a meeting like this for the first time ever?" Half the folks in the room, myself included, raised their hands.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 08:51 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 23, 2025 08:51 PM (XSP3T)
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 08:43 PM (gKDq2)
Is it green, and nude?
Posted by: AOC at December 23, 2025 08:53 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 08:51 PM (npFr7)
What are the odds of telling Ottawa to EABOD?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:53 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: AOC at December 23, 2025 08:53 PM (npFr7)
For you, Sweet Cheeks, we'll make the eel green and nude.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 08:55 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 23, 2025 08:55 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 08:56 PM (9ipOP)
You know the country better than me but to me Canada seems at least as divided as the US and it seems more obvious because of the smaller population. And then there is Quebec.
It's going to be interesting watching how this plays out.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 08:56 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 08:53 PM (Zz0t1)
There will probably be a secession referendum next year. Should be very easy to get enough signatures on the petition to force a plebiscite on the question.
Posted by: AOC at December 23, 2025 08:57 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 08:41 PM (+4oV5)
Back atcha, Ladyl!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 08:47 PM (zYpTz)
It was so good to see you in Texas!
Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 08:58 PM (+4oV5)
There’s a lot that has happened this year that makes me incredibly angry and upset for our democracy. Nothing has hit me emotionally like this immigration dragnet,” Goldman explained. “My grandmother escaped antisemitism in Russia and came through Ellis Island. And, at that time … there was no need for asylum. People were welcomed here,
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off sides but smart mouth immediately called to mind the shipload of Jews that FDR turned away.
,
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 08:58 PM (Mis34)
>Get some glasspacks. This way you can tune your exhaust.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 08:59 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 08:56 PM (9ipOP)
They are likely going to do yet another separation referendum next year, too. If Quebec splits the sheets, Alberta secession might become unnecessary, because the political center of gravity would take a big lurch to west.
Posted by: AOC at December 23, 2025 08:59 PM (npFr7)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 09:00 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 23, 2025 09:00 PM (npFr7)
FREE SHIT FOR CHRISTMAS .......
EVERYTHING IS FREE FOR THE TAKING BECAUSE NO NATIONAL GUARD TO PROTECT BUSINESSES IN CHICAGO AND THE POLICE ARE PUSSIES ...........
THANK YOU SANTA JB Pritzker !!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 09:01 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 08:41 PM (+4oV5)
Merry Christmas Eve Eve Ladyl ...
Posted by: browndog looking for a snack at December 23, 2025 09:02 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 08:58 PM (+4oV5)
Yes! Hugs!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 09:02 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 09:02 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Happy Harry at December 23, 2025 09:03 PM (oftw2)
Go to your English to French translator and have it say "A seal pushed me."
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 09:03 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 23, 2025 09:09 PM (UONii)
Merry Christmas Eve Eve Ladyl ...
Posted by: browndog looking for a snack at December 23, 2025 09:02 PM (3sXRv)
Dearest Browndog! Merry Christmas!
Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 09:09 PM (+4oV5)
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 23, 2025 09:09 PM (UONii)
SID--have a great time! Will you get to see Ben Had?
Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 09:10 PM (+4oV5)
So long England. We had a good run but it's time for us to see other people.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 09:11 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: screaming in digital
Have a great flight. I'd rather be dead than be on a 5AM flight. Sounds impossible to me.
Posted by: Afternoon Or Not Going at December 23, 2025 09:11 PM (oftw2)
287 Evenin' Horde and Merry Christmas. I've got a 5 am flight tomorrow. Heading to TX for Christmas.
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 23, 2025 09:09 PM (UONii)
Weather’s nice, come on down!
If I could post pictures here, I’d post one of the $1.99 gas I got this morning.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 09:11 PM (FvUgT)
Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 08:41 PM (+4oV5)
And to you too lady!
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 09:12 PM (snZF9)
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 23, 2025 09:09 PM (UONii)
Oh SiD, here's hoping that the day goes as planned ... no delays, no hassles
Posted by: browndog looking for a snack at December 23, 2025 09:12 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: Ladyl
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Sadly, not this time. I'll be in San Antonio.
Big hugs to you and Merry Christmas!!
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 23, 2025 09:12 PM (UONii)
Posted by: Afternoon Or Not Going
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Yeah what dumbass booked this flight??? Oh yeah that was me... well at least it was cheaper...
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 23, 2025 09:14 PM (UONii)
Go to your English to French translator and have it say "A seal pushed me."
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 09:03 PM (2WIwB)
I had to try it.
You’re pathetic!!! ROFL!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 09:14 PM (FvUgT)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door
That sounds like one of the bricks that most frozen fish fillets came packed. Just a cardboard cover. I missed the
A lot less waste than individual plastic sealed fillets, takes up a lot less space in the freezer.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 09:14 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: 5 miles to nowhere at December 23, 2025 09:14 PM (G+z4C)
So long England. We had a good run but it's time for us to see other people.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 09:11 PM (viF8m)
When do we get to loot it? They got some cool artifacts I wouldn't mind having.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 09:14 PM (snZF9)
If I could post pictures here, I’d post one of the $1.99 gas I got this morning.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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I packed a summer dress to wear for Christmas dinner!
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 23, 2025 09:15 PM (UONii)
Pet cemetery? Hmm, no. I suppose you wouldn't have posted one of those.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 23, 2025 09:16 PM (syz1S)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 09:18 PM (qFwJc)
So long England. We had a good run but it's time for us to see other people.
Posted by: JackStraw
So much for the special relationship.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 09:18 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt at December 23, 2025 09:19 PM (fUSwr)
Posted by: browndog
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Thank you - I hope so too. Usually flying out of GSP is not too bad.
Gotta go try to sleep for a bit if I can. Good night and big hugs to all y'all.
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 23, 2025 09:19 PM (UONii)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 23, 2025 09:14 PM (snZF9)
You're going to have to fight your way through the conquering islamic horde. They'll steal the place blind first in any case. Or destroy that which isn't halal. Like art. And statues. They really hate statues. They could just as easily be on a college campus and wouldn't miss a beat.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 09:19 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: JackStraw
When do we get to loot it? They got some cool artifacts I wouldn't mind having.
Posted by: Berserker
You going all Spinal Tap, and touring with the real Stonehenge?
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 09:20 PM (nhCoE)
Bahia Blue.
A corojo wrapped robusto (5 x 50).
Fairly mild. Clean taste. Well made and inexpensive on sale or not.
One to light up when you are going to be doing some yard work or some mechanics - stays lit and clean burn, not a high maintenance cigar.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 09:20 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: screaming in digital at December 23, 2025 09:09 PM (UONii)
Might as well start drinking now. Let's face it, you're not getting any sleep tonight.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 09:21 PM (2WIwB)
You should see the terror we inflict on a traditional New England lobster bake.
Can you hear them, Clarice? The spring clams. The screaming of the clams.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 09:21 PM (viF8m)
Bahia Blue.
A corojo wrapped robusto (5 x 50).
Fairly mild. Clean taste. Well made and inexpensive on sale or not.
One to light up when you are going to be doing some yard work or some mechanics - stays lit and clean burn, not a high maintenance cigar.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 09:20 PM (/lPRQ)
*adds to purchase list*
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 09:23 PM (2WIwB)
I keep thinking smuggling firearms into England could be profitable and moral.
Posted by: no one
.22LR, with printed zip gun construction directions.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 23, 2025 09:28 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Mary Cloggistein from Brattleboro, Vt
This has to be a sock. Nobody is clueless...
Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 09:30 PM (ff2r3)
Posted by: blaster at December 23, 2025 09:31 PM (v0nU1)
Posted by: Ian S. at December 23, 2025 09:32 PM (aUxYo)
Posted by: AOC at December 23, 2025 08:57 PM (npFr7)
My two cents, based on the government's reaction to the trucker strike during the Covidiocy, is that you can expect the RCMP to come in and start busting heads and throwing ringleaders in jail to try and stop the election.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 23, 2025 09:33 PM (GjEvj)
>>> Disgraced Former Prince Andrew Stripped of His Gun License, Can Only Use Firearms Under Supervision
Maybe only 'asians' can have firearms in New Algeria now.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 09:34 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 09:30 PM (ff2r3)
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Actually, you're right.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 23, 2025 09:36 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Ladyl at December 23, 2025 09:38 PM (+4oV5)
Not long ago finished a Rocky Patel Number Six on the back porch. Always good. Though I strongly prefer the corona vitola, having had 3 of the 6 sizes they roll in this line. More of the tobacco sweetness.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 23, 2025 09:39 PM (U/Byj)
'I keep thinking smuggling firearms into England could be profitable and moral.'
I've been thinking the same thing for a long time. They aren't well defended by land or sea. I wonder how many would get the job done.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2025 09:41 PM (fd80v)
'.22LR, with printed zip gun construction directions.'
I understand the Sten gun was easy to produce.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2025 09:43 PM (fd80v)
So long England. We had a good run but it's time for us to see other people.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 09:11 PM (viF8m)
When do we get to loot it? They got some cool artifacts I wouldn't mind having.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
>I'm with Big Mike on this one. If I'm hungry enough I will sink my teeth into a live, raw lobster and savor its flesh as it dies in my clutches.
Generation Lame-oh!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 09:44 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 23, 2025 09:45 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 09:46 PM (qFwJc)
I wonder what it was.
It'll come to me, I'm sure.
In the middle of the night.
🙄
Posted by: mindful webworker - why did I walk into this room? at December 23, 2025 09:46 PM (lNGqL)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:26 PM (qFwJc)
>>> 110
==
Not if you name them cute names like "Ribeye," "T-Bone" or "Brisket."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 07:45 PM (Zz0t1)
Sponge Johnson is right!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 23, 2025 09:48 PM (ULPxl)
Such as no looking down the barrel to see what's innit.
Also on operation.
Number needed - one for every male and female adult in every working class neighborhood.
Little tin single shots would do just fine with proper usage instructions.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 09:49 PM (Mis34)
Posted by: Dr. Claw
Plans are readily available...
Every unmachined piece of a stem is an 80%. For example - this piece of pipe? It's an 80% barrel.
If one were to produce a jig(s) for these 80% parts it would greatly facilitate making quality stens.
As Stalin said - quantity is a quality in itself.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 09:50 PM (/lPRQ)
Best wishes for a positive outcome. No matter what, you are a great person for making the effort. Some truly wonderful people hang out here.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 09:50 PM (viF8m)
Oh, I know what it was! It was that thing, remember? The thing?
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 09:51 PM (FvUgT)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 23, 2025 09:41 PM (fd80v)
It takes more Armalites than you would think it would.
Posted by: The IRA at December 23, 2025 09:51 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 23, 2025 09:51 PM (gm9Sb)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at December 23, 2025 09:52 PM (2NHgQ)
Little tin single shots would do just fine with proper usage instructions.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 09:49 PM
The WWII Liberator single shot .45 ACP cost $3 each in 1944 dollars.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 23, 2025 09:53 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 23, 2025 09:55 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: no one
Apparently Trump was a lady's man and a player at the best FNYC clubs - the places where the doorman only lets in the hottest babes.
That's why he's bagged three models.... Or they bagged him.
Epstein catered to rich trolls in business and government who couldn't even score grade 'a' escorts.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 09:56 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 09:56 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 23, 2025 09:57 PM (dIJjD)
Jesus just wants to ask for His mercy. He wants to give it to you.
You just have to ask.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 09:58 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 09:58 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Tom Servo
That's right! How could I have forgotten?!
Posted by: mindful webworker - why did I walk into this room? at December 23, 2025 09:59 PM (lNGqL)
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at December 23, 2025 09:59 PM (J9q9v)
So he says to me, are you a bad squirrel?
And I said, yeah, I'm bad baby.
He said, show me how bad you are. Fly squirrel, fly.
And I say, Yeah baby, yeah.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at December 23, 2025 09:59 PM (EOjZq)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 09:11 PM (viF8m)
When do we get to loot it? They got some cool artifacts I wouldn't mind having.
Dibs on the Elgin marbles.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 10:00 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:02 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:02 PM (5DEFi)
When do we get to loot it? They got some cool artifacts I wouldn't mind having.
Dibs on the Elgin marbles.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Lotus 7
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2025 10:02 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 23, 2025 09:55 PM (GjEvj)
It happened. Spot went over $70 and that means JPMorgan is now in auto-sell mode for the futures.
It might go to $100 by Jan 1, and then there are predictions of $200/OZT by next December.
Buy copper.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 10:02 PM (rbvCR)
Are more people carrying "crazy-genes" then they did in the past?
The short answer is "yes".
As recently as 1900 in developed countries like Ireland, England and Germany, if your mother was crazy you were probably not going to live to see your first birthday ... In total, crazy-genes had a high probability of "dead-ending". In those days the pool of crazy people resulted from random meetings of recessive genes or in new mutations.
Flash-forward to the permissive, Welfare-State.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 10:03 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:03 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at December 23, 2025 09:59 PM (J9q9v)
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A strong economy is election interference, amirite?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:03 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:02 PM (5DEFi)
There is no Trial by Jury in the Koran.
What a Ko Ink E Dink!
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2025 10:04 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:02 PM (5DEFi)
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Star chambers are so beautiful with all the stars and shit.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:05 PM (+HNx/)
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at December 23, 2025 09:59 PM (J9q9v)
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A strong economy is election interference, amirite?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:03 PM (+HNx/)
But... but... I was told the sky was falling along with the economy because unemployment went up a little bit... mainly due to Gov Employees no longer working.
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2025 10:05 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Romeo13
Trial by the Jewry? Are you f--king nuts????
Posted by: Mohammed M. Muhammad at December 23, 2025 10:05 PM (nhCoE)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:02 PM (5DEFi)
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Star chambers are so beautiful with all the stars and shit.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 23, 2025 10:05 PM (+HNx/)
So... to find a Judge for a Star Chamber...
Do you do a Star Search?
Posted by: Romeo13 at December 23, 2025 10:06 PM (mP0Kj)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at December 23, 2025 10:07 PM (GjEvj)
Posted by: WA, OR, CA, and CO at December 23, 2025 10:08 PM (sDWtc)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 10:08 PM (5DEFi)
Post, Constitution. We are no longer a Republic.
Posted by: Romeo13
hold on eyeore: https://tinyurl.com/y3xdn5un
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at December 23, 2025 11:59 PM (y7zkd)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 07:57 PM (dAOkg)
Not in my AO, $9.99 sadz
Posted by: Pikov Andropov at December 24, 2025 02:35 AM (y7zkd)
Posted by: Skip at December 24, 2025 03:56 AM (Ia/+0)
Epstein Files Bombshell! Trump Was an Acquaintance of Jeffrey Epstein During the Period We Already Knew They Were Acquaintances and Trump Once Flew on an Epstein Plane With a 20-Year-Old Adult Woman On Board
An adult woman? Wow.
You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention.I've also been on planes with adult women. https://t.co/QgValBc8kd
— JWF (@JammieWF) December 23, 2025
Justice Department officials said Tuesday the latest publicized Epstein files contain "false" accusations against President Trump. The department released 30,000 additional documents related to its investigation and prosecution of sex offender and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. The material includes claims that Mr. Trump was involved in the scheme and raped a young woman who was allegedly later found murdered. Democrats have seized on the unverified accusation as evidence of Mr. Trump's involvement and a motivation for the department's resistance to making all of the files public. But Justice Department officials said the claims against the president were politically motivated and were lodged against him just before the 2020 presidential election. "To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already," Justice Department officials said. SEE ALSO: 30,000 more Epstein files released, a few with Trump's name The files include a claim by an unnamed limo driver who said an unnamed female told him, "Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein." The female allegedly told the driver she could not call the police because "they will kill me," but ultimately reported the incident to law enforcement. The limo driver claimed he later found out the woman had been discovered with her head "blown off" in Kiefer, Oklahoma.
It's not the first time Mr. Trump faced unverified claims of rape. In 2016, an unnamed woman abruptly dropped a lawsuit claiming Mr. Trump and Epstein tied her to a bed and raped her in Epstein's Manhattan home. Her lawyer did not explain dropping the lawsuit, but Mr. Trump and Epstein denied the claim. Tuesday's document dump also included a handwritten note Epstein wrote shortly before he committed suicide in a New York City jail cell while he awaited prosecution on sex trafficking charges. He wrote to fellow convicted sex offender Larry Nassar that "life is unfair" and that Mr. Trump, whom he described as "our president," "also shares our love of young, nubile girls."
People are such morons. This letter was postmarked August 13, 2019 -- after Epstein was dead -- and was sent from Northern Virginia. Other than that, totally legit https://t.co/oPt2AgVmi7
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) December 23, 2025
‼️🇺🇸: The US DOJ just released what was supposed to be a video of Jeffrey Epstein attempting to commit suic1de. 👀
— Diligent Denizen 🇺🇸 (@DiligentDenizen) December 22, 2025
HOWEVER it is a FAKE that was published on YouTube 5 years ago by user chadchaddington5164.
WHY did the DOJ release a FAKE VIDEO? 🤨 pic.twitter.com/fkdCZNaHkE
“He raped me.”
— Melanie D'Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) December 23, 2025
“Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.”
“She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.”
Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse. pic.twitter.com/QJ8T0FzjSn
No, the document shows unverified allegations from a 2020 tip. The Justice Department, in its recent Epstein file releases, describes these claims as "untrue and sensationalist" due to inconsistencies. No evidence of guilt has been confirmed by official sources.
— Grok (@grok) December 23, 2025
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— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) December 23, 2025
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*CACKLES*🤣
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 06:03 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 23, 2025 06:04 PM (0N4FZ)
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Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 06:04 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 06:05 PM (sDNVV)
Wouldn't doubt that is fake documents
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 06:05 PM (Ia/+0)
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Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:11 PM (2GVsD)
Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge...
Posted by: ...Say No More
Whoo Doggie !!!
(High five)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 06:11 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:11 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 06:12 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at December 23, 2025 06:12 PM (mrzqz)
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Think of all the things that are called 'acting white' that when non whites do them they are criticized. What are those things? Eating mayonnaise on your sandwich, or being on time for your meeting. The latter, right? The things that are being attacked are the things that make our (formerly) high trust society work.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 06:12 PM (Dv3i1)
WHAT COLOR IS A GREEN ORANGE?!?
DAMN YOUR EYES, SIR, DAMN THEM!!!
Posted by: j'accuse at December 23, 2025 06:12 PM (YSDKn)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:12 PM (2GVsD)
I mean, I'd probably watch, but wouldn't be my proudest moment.
Posted by: Guy with Low Standards at December 23, 2025 06:13 PM (YJgg/)
So there's no "woman" "found" with her "head blown off" in "Oklahoma?"
Because that seems, to me, an important detail. An actual, you know, dead body & name & date. But not to fake Internet Sleuths!
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 06:14 PM (TWzjC)
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? "
Never. It's the way of the world.
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:14 PM (vFG9F)
They keep trying to make hay from the same BS over and over and over and over again. Like the half dozen pictures of Trump and Epstein at some random NOT EPSTEIN HOSTED PARTY.
Epstein was a striver, a grasper, a chiseler. He was all over the east coast power circle party scene and you can find pictures of him with all sorts of people who were also all over the east coast power circle party scene. That doesn't mean they were at his island.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 06:14 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Epstein's Mother at December 23, 2025 06:14 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: JML at December 23, 2025 06:14 PM (EtRph)
Posted by: huerfano at December 23, 2025 06:14 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Life coaches - "No way, man. She's more screwed up than we are."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 23, 2025 06:14 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 06:14 PM (2vrAX)
They want it to be true.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:11 PM (2GVsD)
Feeling cute today. Might perpetrate a genocide. IDK.
Posted by: The Hitler Diaries at December 23, 2025 06:15 PM (YSDKn)
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at December 23, 2025 06:15 PM (pE12i)
Posted by: Epstein's Mother at December 23, 2025 06:15 PM (gbOdA)
Wait, he raped Jeffrey Epstein, too?! This changes everything! Impeach!
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 06:15 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: David Copperfield at December 23, 2025 06:15 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Epstein's Mother at December 23, 2025 06:16 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 23, 2025 06:16 PM (tgvbd)
How dare he! How dare he!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 06:16 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 06:16 PM (Ia/+0)
IMPEACHMENT NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 06:17 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:17 PM (cnokD)
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:17 PM (vFG9F)
Sauron's name appears hundreds of times in Lord of the Rings.
Therefore, Sauron was part of the Fellowship.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 23, 2025 06:17 PM (ph+d0)
Posted by: Epstein's Mother at December 23, 2025 06:17 PM (gbOdA)
30,000 pieces and people still aren't satisfied because there is no nice list that shows who did what with who with a detailed description.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 06:17 PM (KDPiq)
Trump tore the tag off of Epstein's plane cabin mattress!
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 23, 2025 06:18 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Kami Harris at December 23, 2025 06:18 PM (xvV4K)
Posted by: Kamalla Harris, Dick Sucker at December 23, 2025 06:18 PM (xvV+O)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 23, 2025 06:18 PM (a+4eV)
The big disclosure being pushed is that there was a plane, and Trump was on it, and also, as if that's not enough, there was a 20-year-old adult woman aboard too!"
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May need to be verified, but I thought I heard Marla Maples and Don Jr. were also on the flight.
There is, needless to say, no evidence Trump did NOT have sex with Marla.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:19 PM (cnokD)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 06:19 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 23, 2025 06:19 PM (MolB1)
Posted by: Epstein's Mother at December 23, 2025 06:20 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: FeatherBlade"
Some of the Horde might even have had hair back then. I'd like to see the pics.
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:20 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Mrs. Bob Chipeska at December 23, 2025 06:20 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:20 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 06:20 PM (Ia/+0)
According to the Daily Mail, Hunter Biden got kicked out of a sex club for inappropriate behavior.
Now, how bad do you have to be......
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2025 06:20 PM (w6EFb)
Sauron's name appears hundreds of times in Lord of the Rings.
Therefore, Sauron was part of the Fellowship.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at December 23, 2025 06:17 PM (ph+d0)
Now do Satan
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 23, 2025 06:20 PM (gbOdA)
This is all SCAM to keep BS stories in the Headlines and block all the Trump positive news.
How is knowing what Epstein did change the price of gas food, or Tampons for Boys ???
Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 06:20 PM (J9q9v)
*CACKLES*🤣
"You know how to do it. You just get on your knees and blow."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:21 PM (Zz0t1)
He probably tried to cop a free feel.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:22 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:22 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 23, 2025 06:22 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:23 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 06:17 PM (KDPiq)
When the FBI came and took boxes and boxes of evidence off the island, there were hard drives and video equipment.
Honestly, I don't give a shit whether the Democrats want to spin this as a Trump scandal. The REAL scandal is your government is covering up for dozens, if not hundreds of rich and powerful men (and women) who were banging underaged girls and boys.
Politicians want to make this about politics. It's not about politics. It's about a government that is corrupt to its core.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:23 PM (cnokD)
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:23 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 23, 2025 06:23 PM (hZbnZ)
Posted by: Epstein's Mother at December 23, 2025 06:14 PM (gbOdA)
Sorry that was Schwatzennegger
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 23, 2025 06:23 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2025 06:25 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Ripped From The Headlines at December 23, 2025 06:25 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2025 06:25 PM (YwEeS)
I would venture a guess that over 50% of the flights I've been on with American Airlines had underage girls on them.
When is American going to be investigated!!!!!?????
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:26 PM (Zz0t1)
"I tell ya, that chick knew the Global Positioning System like no one's business!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at December 23, 2025 06:26 PM (xG4kz)
Politicians want to make this about politics. It's not about politics. It's about a government that is corrupt to its core.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Government that is corrupt to its core.
And banging underaged girls and boys.
But, mostly the banging by politicians.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 06:26 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 23, 2025 06:27 PM (hZbnZ)
Posted by: steevy at December 23, 2025 06:25 PM (YwEeS)
Don't try to hide it. You've been on planes with underaged boys too.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:27 PM (cnokD)
You KNOW they went through them with a fine toothed comb too.
There's no there there.
We are at an incredibly f*cking stupid time in the universe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:27 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 06:28 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 23, 2025 06:28 PM (XSP3T)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:29 PM (2GVsD)
I suppose I should confess.
When I was in high school, I was surrounded by underaged women every day!!!!!
I even dated some of them!!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at December 23, 2025 06:29 PM (iJfKG)
https://tinyurl.com/hvk3h6cs
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 23, 2025 06:29 PM (yZSOm)
No guy ever tried anything like this crap on me because I gave off vibes of class; as well as I will bobbit you after I beat you to a pulp. It's that simple. I was lucky as well as picky on who I would go out with.
I did have one horrific blind date in junior college, with my friend (who'd date anything with a heartbeat). This guy was pitiful and I would feel sorry for him but can't currently spare anything. Not only ugly but about a foot shorter.
I remember drinking some beers, shooting pool, & hoping I did not die in that pickup cab driving too fast to our dorm. We were almost late for sign in to the convent. I seriously prayed to God not to let me die with that guy.
Never again had a blind date.
Life had been very good. Told my long-suffering husband months ago that I don't need anything. He was bummed today and I said, "Look at what how we started and what we have now! Not just in material things, but family! I have all will ever need and more!"
If it ever snows again we are having dinner at a former castle where we got engaged. That's enough.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 06:29 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 23, 2025 06:29 PM (kfTpm)
And banging underaged girls and boys.
But, mostly the banging by politicians.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 06:26 PM (/lPRQ)
Except it's mostly other people, and not politicians. I know everyone wants to play gotcha with this, to make it about Dems v. Reprobates... I mean Republicans.
It's also university perfessers and administrators, it's CEO's, it's celebrities, media personalities military personnel... etc.
We know our politicians are whores. So's everyone else in power.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:30 PM (cnokD)
>>You KNOW they went through them with a fine toothed comb too.
Old man Biden would have brought a bottle of Jergens along, too.
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 06:30 PM (W23D2)
And banging underaged girls and boys.
But, mostly the banging by politicians.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 06:26 PM (/lPRQ)
Joe Biden fingerbanged an intern and showered with his own daughter.
But we're only worried about what Trump did with a dead, convicted serial sex offender 20 years ago, whom was REMOVED BY TRUMP from Mar-a-lago for being a skeezy perv.
Tell me the Democrats have nothing without telling me they have nothing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:30 PM (Zz0t1)
You will not find any pictures of Barry with Epstein because they only had young girls on Fantasy Island....
Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 06:30 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 23, 2025 06:30 PM (R86kT)
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 23, 2025 06:20 PM
Used to be an angel. It's in the Bible.
Posted by: huerfano at December 23, 2025 06:30 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 06:30 PM (zZu0s)
If someone was smart, they'd tweet Ashley Biden's Diary entries and imply it was an epstein islnad girl and she was talking about Trump.
And when Democrats retweet it, we break the bad news to them.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 06:31 PM (cC/25)
The stain will never wash out.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 23, 2025 06:31 PM (wBaIH)
https://tinyurl.com/hvk3h6cs
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 23, 2025 06:29 PM (yZSOm)
That's completely asinine.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:31 PM (Zz0t1)
Yes, they’re covering for Sasquatch, the Tooth fairy, and possibly The Easter Bunny, but he’s a little more aloof.
You would think at some point you’d find and ounce of shame or remorse for the constant bullshit you peddle here. But nope. They’re “hiding something” for which there is no proof, no basis in fact and no credible evidence. None- and you haven’t offered any.
Honestly your act has grown old, putrid and moldy.
Posted by: Troll master Flash at December 23, 2025 06:31 PM (egaJw)
So he raped her and he raped epstein, did not have have that in the bingo cars. changes things a bit
Posted by: n at December 23, 2025 06:31 PM (NS3Vc)
This wording makes me think they're accusing Trump of raping the unnamed female and raping Jeffrey Epstein. If the latter were true I could understand why Epstein hated Trump so much. It's not, of course, but if it were...
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 23, 2025 06:31 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 06:32 PM (sDNVV)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 23, 2025 06:32 PM (YlWIZ)
Oh the shame of it all!!
*Pulls paper bag over head*
Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 06:32 PM (cYBz/)
To date, we have seen no evidence of extortion.
Not even accusations, really.
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 06:32 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2025 06:33 PM (TN0g+)
The Biden family has not turned up in any of this.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 23, 2025 06:33 PM (VWtfl)
Posted by: Jackson"
I notice Epstein did not even associate with the lowlife Bidens.
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:33 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ben Had
And this 'Ette knows a thing or two about horses!!
Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 06:33 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 06:33 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Every Leftist at December 23, 2025 06:33 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:27 PM (Zz0t1)
I don't believe they did. I think they just let the FBI keep them in the vault, what's still there, that is. And burn the rest.
Team Biden wasn't allowed anywhere near them, and if you want to speculate, it's believable that it's because Trump's team is at least TRYING to get this stuff out there, that we're seeing what we are.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:34 PM (cnokD)
Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2025 06:34 PM (pDt9x)
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Its been a problem for decades--some of the early Yes and Genesis studio tracks were so long and meandering as to be unlistenable.
Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2025 06:34 PM (TN0g+)
This wording makes me think they're accusing Trump of raping the unnamed female and raping Jeffrey Epstein. If the latter were true I could understand why Epstein hated Trump so much. It's not, of course, but if it were...
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 23, 2025 06:31 PM (lUFok)
Remember, journalism degrees should be taken VERY seriously.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:34 PM (Zz0t1)
Epstein, in the library, with the pipe wrench.
Posted by: Clue at December 23, 2025 06:34 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 06:32 PM (W23D2)
Ok, then why do it? Compromise documents? Steal shit?
Seems to me there has to be a reason for how he went about it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 06:35 PM (zZu0s)
It would explain Epstein's disdain for Trump in later years.
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 06:35 PM (W23D2)
The Biden family has not turned up in any of this.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 23, 2025 06:33 PM (VWtfl)
Biden just kept it in the family.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 06:35 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 06:35 PM (xl8DV)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:35 PM (2GVsD)
As proof of low intelligence and/or high dishonesty, sure.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 23, 2025 06:35 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 23, 2025 06:35 PM (YlWIZ)
Not even accusations, really.
Posted by: garrett
it is sort of the thing right, would you expect that the guys getting extorted were going to say they had been extorted by epstein?
Posted by: n at December 23, 2025 06:35 PM (NS3Vc)
It was Ms. Scarlet.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:35 PM (2GVsD)
Ghislaine Scarlett.
Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2025 06:36 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: fd
Even Epstein had some standards.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 06:36 PM (cYBz/)
Deep down, everyone knows it’s bullshit but the media is gonna have a fun time dripping it out as if there’s an actual story there
Posted by: Maroon at December 23, 2025 06:36 PM (cnGye)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 06:36 PM (nljXp)
The only proof that the TDS needs to prove Trump is guilty is he said "pussy" once.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 06:36 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:36 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 06:36 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at December 23, 2025 06:28 PM (XSP3T)
*hugs*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:37 PM (Zz0t1)
According to the Daily Mail, Hunter Biden got kicked out of a sex club for inappropriate behavior.
Now, how bad do you have to be......
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2025 06:20 PM (w6EFb)
I guess even swingers have rules of etiquette. Like:
1. No lube, no love.
2. Parking in the rear by permit only.
What else?
Posted by: The Hitler Diaries at December 23, 2025 06:37 PM (YSDKn)
I will sue in court and make sure I have an Obama appointed Hawaiian Judge hear the case !!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Joe Camel (Cigerette Industry Icon) at December 23, 2025 06:37 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2025 06:34 PM (pDt9x)
Me too. Its nice to be able to confidently and confess to someone who understands.
Big tits are awesome!
See! Its just so freeing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 06:37 PM (zZu0s)
Honestly your act has grown old, putrid and moldy.
Posted by: Troll master Flash at December 23, 2025 06:31 PM (egaJw)
The evidence is out there. You could find it if you want to. But you don't want to. Because you're a coward.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:37 PM (cnokD)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 06:38 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 06:38 PM (2vrAX)
I'm not casting any stones there.
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:38 PM (vFG9F)
If they were to take a black light to the inside of Epsteins Jet, it would be enlightening.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 06:38 PM (IifOV)
1. No lube, no love.
2. Parking in the rear by permit only.
What else?
Posted by: The Hitler Diaries at December 23, 2025 06:37 PM (YSDKn)
I assume he came to the club by himself. You have to bring a lady with you if you're a guy.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 06:38 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Hillary C.... at December 23, 2025 06:39 PM (J9q9v)
For the love of the game.
Seriously, though. He might have just been a degenerate and had a bunch of degenerate friends.
Apparently, he made his money washing CIA Operations Funds through Bear Stearnes and other Financial Institutions.
But he was sharing domiciles with a known British Arms Dealer and later with a known CIA / DOJ Fixer.
He was hired and employed and managed by former CIA officials.
He was Adnon Kashoggi's 'Broker'.
all of this among other relationships with Billionaire / Millionaire Class gentry.
His hands are all over the financing for a lot of CIA / British / Israeli Intel operations.
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 06:39 PM (W23D2)
When's the last time you heard anyone use the word "nubile?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:38 PM (Zz0t1)
It's a porn category classification
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 06:39 PM (KDPiq)
Not even accusations, really.
Posted by: garrett
it is sort of the thing right, would you expect that the guys getting extorted were going to say they had been extorted by epstein?
Posted by: n at December 23, 2025 06:35 PM (NS3Vc)
Back in the day, politicians and media types used the same logic to explain how there was no such thing as The Mafia.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:39 PM (cnokD)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 06:40 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:19 PM (cnokD)
Given that they have a child together, that would be difficult evidence.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 06:40 PM (ExV1e)
Hilary, the hag, would have paid for billboards of this. Instead her Bill is featured wagging his dog.
I have never worried about this and think it is retarded.
I also just pre-heated the wrong oven for my dinner tomorrow night (braised beef/guinness pie),and feel retarded myself right now! All is well! I may have more wine soon! It's all good!
We got a lot done today, I keep telling myself. I will probably be comatose by 9pm!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 06:40 PM (WONhk)
Big tits are awesome!
See! Its just so freeing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 06:37 PM (zZu0s)/i]
https://is.gd/GcBKz1
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Hahahaha!
I cued it up to the real good part:
Democrat black scholar pointing his gun at people on the highway, trying to carjack, Then This Happens, hahaha:
https://is.gd/gDkqXD
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 06:40 PM (cC/25)
https://tinyurl.com/hvk3h6cs
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 23, 2025 06:29 PM (yZSOm)
Him and BadBunny.
Posted by: Eromero at December 23, 2025 06:40 PM (LHPAg)
Much like JFK only the Gov. has the power to pull this shit.
Corrupt since before I was born.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 23, 2025 06:40 PM (cS1cw)
It's a porn category classification
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 06:39 PM (KDPiq)
From 1978.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:41 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 23, 2025 06:42 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Sponge
Columbus Africentric Early College (in Columbus, Ohio) has the mascot the Nubians.
Full of aspiring rappers, doctors and astronauts no doubt.
That city is so f**ked.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 06:42 PM (cYBz/)
Well, obviously grounds for impeachment.
Vance first, so some squish can be emplaced to take over like they did to Nixon.
Posted by: Auspex at December 23, 2025 06:42 PM (YAFrp)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 06:42 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 06:42 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:19 PM (cnokD)
Given that they have a child together, that would be difficult evidence.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 06:40 PM (ExV1e)
I dunno, as Trump has shown quite effectively, it IS possible to fake a birth certificate.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:42 PM (cnokD)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 06:39 PM (KDPiq)
From 1978.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:41 PM (Zz0t1)
This is a trap right?
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 06:43 PM (KDPiq)
There's ample evidence he was a middleman for CIA Arms Trade around multiple CIA backed Coups.
There is none proffered to date that he was running a blackmail operation.
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 06:43 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 23, 2025 06:43 PM (XMwZJ)
See that?
Those Oklamhomans said fuckyou and tried to run that Democrat carjacker the fuck over.
If that was here, in Massachoosetts, people would be pulling over and putting their hands up, surrendering their cars to him.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 06:43 PM (pq1n7)
It was Ms. Scarlet.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:35 PM (2GVsD)
That's a lie!
Posted by: Miss Scarlett at December 23, 2025 06:44 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 06:43 PM (KDPiq)
LOL.
At least I'm not Ackbar.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:44 PM (Zz0t1)
https://is.gd/gDkqXD
Posted by: Soothsayer
++++
Make sure you play with sound on -
Sproing
Sproing
Sproing...
ARs, the gun that goes Sproing!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 06:44 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 06:45 PM (5DEFi)
Not even accusations, really.
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 06:32 PM (W23D2)
Yacht girls who didn't put out would never be harmed... but word would get out and the fun times would end.
Extortion isn't needed for people who seek particular pleasures.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 06:45 PM (ExV1e)
Much like JFK only the Gov. has the power to pull this shit.
Corrupt since before I was born.
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 23, 2025 06:40 PM (cS1cw)
Yeah, a lot of the evidence that exists came from the Florida case that got swept under the rug. There were something like 70 women who gave depositions, and were ready to testify in court.
Only to have the court cut them out of the proceedings, when they gave Epstein a slap on the wrist.
The prosecutor was told "He's one of ours" by some spooks. So it got buried.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:45 PM (cnokD)
Big Breasted Babes......
There is something Geometric about a woman's body with large round breastal units and a plump round glutenous maximus muscles.
I blame this on my Professors from college that got me interested into Geometry, Mathematics, and Physics...
Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 06:46 PM (J9q9v)
ARs, the gun that goes Sproing!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
lol, the Democrat black scholar had a pink gun...
how embarrassing
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 06:47 PM (/lVAo)
Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2025 06:36 PM
In the hot tub. With the green dildo.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2025 06:47 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 06:36 PM (IifOV)
He was working on the lyrics to a rap song. Ahead of his time.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 06:47 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 06:47 PM (/lVAo)
Posted by: Clue: SVU Edition at December 23, 2025 06:48 PM (YSDKn)
how embarrassing
Posted by: Soothsayer
So he would not lose it when he got high.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 06:48 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState
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And a black box right over everything.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 06:49 PM (Mis34)
Yes Raquel, but you have to get that damn cat off your lap first......
Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 06:49 PM (J9q9v)
Youtube comment for video above:
Hit by two cars you’re trying to carjack with a stolen pink pistol only to be Swiss cheesed by an AR. What a bad way to go out hahaha
Did one of us write that?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 06:50 PM (RGjYe)
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 06:43 PM (W23D2)
Blackmail?
There are named university bigwigs who went to the island, had sex with a girl, and subsequently played ball.
Epstein was a partner with Gates on these projects, and they were trying to get scientists to do their bidding.
The tech gazillionaires are neck deep in this stuff, but I sincerely doubt anyone had to say to them "We have you on video banging little girls, so do what we say."
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 06:50 PM (cnokD)
Posted by: The Microbe Wars at December 23, 2025 06:50 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 06:50 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 06:51 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 23, 2025 06:11 PM (bLA4G)
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Searchlight Strangler... there's a blast from the past.
Posted by: Darth Randall at December 23, 2025 06:51 PM (9Gsa+)
Posted by: The Microbe Wars at December 23, 2025 06:50 PM (oftw2)
Probably do not want to wear anything that can't be sanitized either place.
Posted by: Miss Scarlett at December 23, 2025 06:52 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 06:51 PM (5DEFi)
Persons of uncolor.
Posted by: The Hitler Diaries at December 23, 2025 06:52 PM (YSDKn)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 06:53 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 06:54 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 23, 2025 06:54 PM (gm9Sb)
https://is.gd/gDkqXD
That man is a product of a poor environment. There's nothing wrong with him, I can prove it.
Posted by: Randolph Duke at December 23, 2025 06:55 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 06:55 PM (v0R5T)
Very OT.
I'm making Christmas ornaments with the laser cutter i got several months ago when I got my lateral new job and pay bump.
Simple "O" with "i only have one" curved around the top, &"and it's hanging by a thread" around the bottom. "FUCK" is quite litteraly hanging by a thread in the center.
Smash has already claimed one and put it on the tree. Junior-ette has claimed four, one for her, and one each for her three dorm mates. My Moron nephew wants one, and his kid a former 155mm crewman wants one as well.
I still need to make Smash's last present. A two-sided indicator with "clean" on one side and "dirty" on the other with magnets to stick it on the dishwasher.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 23, 2025 06:55 PM (QVmho)
lol, the Democrat black scholar had a pink gun...
how embarrassing
Posted by: Soothsayer
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Easy there, Anne Barnhardt had the first pink AR custom built that she may invite Muslims to come and take it, which she did.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 06:56 PM (Mis34)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 06:56 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 06:57 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: bill in arkansas"
That is so fking perfect.
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 06:58 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 23, 2025 06:11 PM (bLA4G)
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What are you implying?
Posted by: Ted Cruz at December 23, 2025 06:58 PM (KDPiq)
Played Ball how?
Played Ball when?
Played Ball where?
Honestly, it's a great story...but. it is entirely supposition.
We know he was working for the cutout for the CIA. We know he was working with the arms dealers who supplied the arms for at least 3-4 armed conflicts that the CIA was involved in.
All of this is on the record.
But you want to believe a notion that may or may not be true, but has never been corroborated in any way...
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 06:58 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: Pink Democrat Scholar's alert close relative at December 23, 2025 06:58 PM (yZSOm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 06:58 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Miss Scarlett at December 23, 2025 06:59 PM (1wjle)
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 23, 2025 06:20 PM
Used to be an angel. It's in the Bible.
Posted by: huerfano at December 23, 2025 06:30 PM (98kQX)
My point Just cause it is in the Bible
IT IS NOT RIGHT OR JUST
Posted by: rhennigantx austere religious scholar at December 23, 2025 06:59 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 06:59 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:00 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Church Lady at December 23, 2025 07:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 06:59 PM (5DEFi)
It has information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: The Hitler Diaries at December 23, 2025 07:01 PM (YSDKn)
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 07:02 PM (77rzZ)
What’s a Nubian?
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2025 07:02 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 06:58 PM (W23D2)
Corroborated how?
There are depositions. You can find them if you want to look, but the court punted on the case, so it never got that far.
That's how coverups work. You can choose not to believe ALL those women who were ready to testify, but they gave names.
What we don't have are the thousands and thousands of hours of video that was recorded in the three sites where Epstein operated. Where rich and powerful men (and women) came and went. For years.
Honestly, you have to really really WANT none of it to be true to not recognize what this was.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 23, 2025 07:03 PM (aIUZW)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:03 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Uhura at December 23, 2025 07:03 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Ted Cruz at December 23, 2025 07:04 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 07:04 PM (E0p3T)
While I was having wanton sex with underage girls on the island is when it came to me. Man Boobs, African Stunt Babies and vaccines.
Love me.
Posted by: Bill Gates, Tech Weirdo With Man Boobs at December 23, 2025 07:04 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Ted Cruz at December 23, 2025 07:04 PM (KDPiq)
Bif, why do you call your significant other “Smash?”
Posted by: Bulg
It's Army spang for Sergeant Major. Since the duty roster introduced us, and brought us together, AND she immediately took charge of my slacker grab ass-tic e4 mafia attitude....
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 23, 2025 07:04 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2025 07:02 PM (EXyHK)
Some of rhe greatest horsemen of rhe ancient world. Started out as a... client/ally of Carthage. Then swapped sides during the Second Punic War.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 07:05 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 07:06 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Ted Cruz at December 23, 2025 07:04 PM (KDPiq)
I don't mind him having a few brief moments to contemplate his choices.
Also, given law enforcement's track record for marksmanship, I'm not sure I want them upgrading.
Posted by: The Hitler Diaries at December 23, 2025 07:06 PM (YSDKn)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 07:06 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:07 PM (5DEFi)
Twenty bucks, same as in town.
“Cross the
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2025 07:07 PM (EXyHK)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Buffer spring.
Cops camera is picking up the the "sproing".
You can hear it more clear when you get a check weld on the stock.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 07:07 PM (/lPRQ)
>>That's how coverups work. You can choose not to believe ALL those women who were ready to testify, but they gave names.
You are leaping to the conclusion that this was a honeypot scenario without any proof at all. None.
There are no depositions where anyone makes that accusation.
There are no fiscal records linking him to blackmail or payments.
Not a single person associated with him, charged or uncharged has intimated to being blackmailed or extorted.
It is equally as likely, if not more likely, that these are all just degenerates.
If anyone was blackmailing people re. their association with Epstein, I would posit it is the CIA and Intel Services.
Not Epstein himself.
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 07:08 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: The Hitler Diaries at December 23, 2025 07:06 PM (YSDKn)
What's wrong with their marksmanship?
Posted by: Imperial Storm Troopers at December 23, 2025 07:08 PM (yZSOm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:08 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:09 PM (qFwJc)
There are no depositions where anyone makes that accusation.
Why would the girls even be in the know?
Posted by: The Hitler Diaries at December 23, 2025 07:09 PM (YSDKn)
Buffer spring.
Cops camera is picking up the the "sproing".
You can hear it more clear when you get a check weld on the stock.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
*shudders*
I lurve it when my AR-10 does that with 250 grain rounds. 30 or 40 of those at the range and my shoulder knows I've been at the range.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 23, 2025 07:09 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2025 07:02 PM (EXyHK)
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Some of rhe greatest horsemen of rhe ancient world. Started out as a... client/ally of Carthage. Then swapped sides during the Second Punic War.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at December 23, 2025 07:05 PM (zZu0s)
A little Roman history is never a bad thing. Thank you.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:10 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: It's raining shit outside at December 23, 2025 07:10 PM (DsA2n)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 06:51 PM
Not so fast, Kemosabe.
Some that's, for example, blue, when seen under only red light will appear black.
Also, when discussing pigments, black is a mixture of all colors.
You may wish to consult some of Bob Ross' videos for more information on that last sentence.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at December 23, 2025 07:10 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 07:11 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 07:11 PM (0RrTI)
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Who bitch is dis?
/obligatory
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 07:11 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Imperial Storm Troopers at December 23, 2025 07:11 PM (yZSOm)
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:10 PM (gKDq2)
Oops. Just remembered the Nubians were part of Ancient Egyptian history. Oh well.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 07:12 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Car Nerd at December 23, 2025 07:12 PM (SzjyL)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:09 PM
Thank you for your submission.
Unfortunately, it does not meet our needs at this time.
Posted by: Assistant Associate Penthouse Letters Editor at December 23, 2025 07:13 PM (0sNs1)
But there seemed to be a blackout of it for 40 years. I didn't see it until I was 50+ on Prime.
Was the theme of racial bias a factor? I love the film. It's a musical.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 07:13 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Dr_No at December 23, 2025 07:14 PM (ayRl+)
This is my point, the depositions are about the abuse.
We know the abuse happened.
We know Epstein and Maxwell facilitated and participated in the abuse.
We know several dozens of others are accused of participating as well.
We have no idea if there was a purpose beyond the abuse, itself. That is all I am pointing out.
There doesn't seem to be any revenue stream from blackmail.
But there is a whole lot of evidence that the money came directly from the CIA, went to Bear Stearnes, then on to Arms Dealers (Iran Contra, Africa, Afghanistan) and finally to Guerilla factions in the form of weapons and money.
In return the CIA was getting drugs and revolutions.
Posted by: garrett at December 23, 2025 07:15 PM (W23D2)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 23, 2025 07:02 PM (EXyHK
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Bitch, you almost made me laugh.
Posted by: Hooper X at December 23, 2025 07:15 PM (9Gsa+)
ITS ALL ABOUT BATTLESHIPS
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 23, 2025 07:19 PM (Ct6ou)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 23, 2025 07:26 PM (Ct6ou)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 23, 2025 07:28 PM (Ct6ou)
They were best friends each had weird dicks
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 23, 2025 07:29 PM (Ct6ou)
What if we all beat the dead horse, BH, would that work?
I need to teach my kid how to make a Dr. Pepper and vanilla ice cream float.
Posted by: Accomack at December 23, 2025 08:06 PM (T8bqm)
Posted by: clams on the half shell and roller skates, roller skates at December 23, 2025 08:52 PM (kvDvI)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 10:04 PM (Zz0t1)
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Posted by: LASue at December 23, 2025 10:12 PM (lCppi)
Axios: Insubordinate CBS Liar Sharyn Alfonsi Told Viewers That Trump Officials Had Refused Comment On the Story. In Fact, They Provided Comment -- She Just Refused to Air Their Denials.
For those wondering "How can this insubordinate liar not get fired?," I've got great news: I think she will be fired. I thought she would probably be fired before this for insubordination. I'm pretty sure she wrote her "Bari is a Trump censor" email with the knowledge that a confederate would leak it for her (or she leaked it herself).
If I had to guess, I'd guess she already knew she was on the list of candidates for firing and decided on the Jimmy Kimmel strategy of raising a stink among her left-wing allies to create pressure on the network to keep her. But this new report from Axios means that no amount of pressure from her left-wing allies can save her. The media still pretends that straight-up lying is a fireable offense. Of course it's not; lying is the soul of their soulless profession. If you lie and the right people notice -- like your boss, who you just tried to #Cancel -- then the pretense that lying is a fireable offense becomes reality. Axios:The other side: The segment ends with Alfonsi saying the Department of Homeland Security "declined our request for an interview and referred all questions about CECOT to El Salvador. The government there did not respond to our request." The segment included previous comments made by President Trump, who said El Salvador's prison system has "very strong facilities, and they don't play games." It also includes a clip of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt previously saying, "These are heinous monsters, rapists, murderers, kidnappers, sexual assaulters, predators who have no right to be in this country, and they must be held accountable." Between the lines: According to a source familiar with "60 Minutes" correspondence with the administration, the "60 Minutes" team reached out to press officials at the White House, State Department and DHS, all of which provided comment to CBS News. None of those comments, which varied in length and substance, were included in the piece viewed by Axios. CBS declined to comment.Axios was able to view it, of course, because despite the piece being held up by Bari Weiss, somehow it wound up airing in communist Canada. Which is almost certainly another case of gross insubordination.
From the 60 Minutes segment:
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 23, 2025
"The administration considers anyone who crosses the border illegally to be a criminal."
Uhhh, yeah https://t.co/L7MlIh18QI pic.twitter.com/b21b4U5nES
Ian JaegerMost won't. As Chuck Ross noted yesterday, there are fewer and fewer jobs for unskilled, unethical media "reporters." These filthy degenerates will cling to their unearned checks until security drags them out the front doors. But as for Alfonsi: I think she'll "separate" from CBS days after the New Year. Ed Morrissey reminds us that Sharyn Alfonsi has played these games before. When she ran her lying hit piece on Ron DeSantis, which even DeSantis' Democrat opponents told her wasn't true and warned her not to run the false defamation, her package neatly clipped out DeSantis' detailed denial of the charges. Whoops! Whoopsie!
@IanJaeger29 BREAKING: A significant amount of CBS News employees are considering quitting after they feel like the company has become Pro- Trump.
T. Becket AdamsYes, she kept in five word denial -- but without allowing DeSantis to explain why her phony charges were so clearly fake. She denied the audience their right to hear from the Accused. Even left-wing Politi"Fact" noted that this kind of edit, omitting someone's substantive defense of his actions so that the public may not hear it, can be considered "deceptive editing."
@BecketAdams
Oh hey, Sharyn Alfonsi. I remember her. From a failed 2021 "60 Minutes" hit job that went unanswered and unexplained: "In the 60 Minutes segment that aired this weekend, CBS News's Sharyn Alfonsi tells DeSantis, 'Publix, as you know, donated $100,000 to your campaign, and then you rewarded them with the exclusive rights to distribute the vaccination in Palm Beach.' The popular grocery store chain donated $25,000 to the Friends of DeSantis political committee on Nov. 13, 2019, and again on Jan. 28, 2020. Later, between Dec. 7-Dec. 31, 2020, it donated a total of $100,000 to the committee. Then, in January 2021, DeSantis announced the state had paired with Publix to make vaccines available to the public. 'How is that not pay for play?' Alfonsi asked the governor this weekend. 'What you're saying is wrong," DeSantis answered. "It's wrong. It's a fake narrative.' That's all CBS showed of his response -- a straight denial with no substantive explanation. However, there's more to the story. DeSantis actually offered a detailed explanation for Publix's involvement in vaccinating Floridians. These exculpatory remarks were left on the cutting room floor. Additional facts regarding Florida's vaccine program were likewise omitted from CBS's report, as were denials of this bogus conspiracy theory by even state Democrats."
"Deceptive editing" means a clip "has been edited and rearranged," according to the Washington Post's guide to manipulated video. Deceptive editing can include omission ("editing out large portions from a video and presenting it as a complete narrative" to "skew reality") and splicing ("editing together disparate videos (that) fundamentally alters the story that is being told"). By omitting DeSantis' remarks on why the state partnered with Publix to distribute vaccines in Palm Beach County, the "60 Minutes" clip could fall into the former category.So I don't think she'll be at CBS much longer. But she is attempting to make herself a Victim who is always owed a job at another left-wing media company. Related: The Washington Post cuts more opinion columnists.
They’re having a really bad day at the Washington Post.
— Rob Bluey (@RobertBluey) December 23, 2025
Honestly, this latest news should come as no surprise.
When you fabricate quotes and deceive your readers, it’s no wonder people are canceling their subscriptions.
Good riddance! https://t.co/CuSGwcv2IA pic.twitter.com/119NXGFetm
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 04:14 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:39 PM (UdiE9)
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Posted by: 80's music fan at December 23, 2025 04:41 PM (YlWIZ)
Not until they're actually told they're being fired. In which case, they'll hop on X to say "I just quit because I'm such a #ResistanceHero!!!"
Legends in their own minds.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 04:42 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 04:42 PM (OUMaO)
I got "First!" once.
It changed my life.
Immediately thereafter, I was crowned King of Calsmorkian Island.
The place was a dump so I sold my kingship for enough cash to get a ticket home and a Dogo Argentino.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 23, 2025 04:42 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 23, 2025 04:43 PM (YlWIZ)
Posted by: Zeera , Damn Right I voted for all of this! at December 23, 2025 04:43 PM (jvxGE)
Posted by: naturalfake
Honestly, the pup alone put you out ahead on the deal.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 04:43 PM (OUMaO)
Not until they're actually told they're being fired. In which case, they'll hop on X to say "I just quit because I'm such a #ResistanceHero!!!"
Legends in their own minds.
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And behind the times, as usual. Jimmy Kimmel was probably the last person to be able to play the fake "victim of Trump" card, and he only succeeded because he works for Disney. And he got a measly one year extension. That avenue is closed for future presstitutes.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:43 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 04:43 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 23, 2025 04:44 PM (YlWIZ)
Not until they're actually told they're being fired. In which case, they'll hop on X to say "I just quit because I'm such a #ResistanceHero!!!"
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Why would they suddenly be truthful about that?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 04:44 PM (A0sqA)
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What, predicting the url of the next comment? I wonder if Elric has "The Blade is sharp!" comments posted months in advance on yet-to-exist threads on this site.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:45 PM (UdiE9)
"See? I never said they didn't comment. I just said they refused to be interviewed."
Posted by: Turn 2 at December 23, 2025 04:45 PM (CyFyf)
Dennis Prager
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 04:45 PM (Ia/+0)
These old media types are so used to not being called out or held accountable by their bosses. The asylum has been run by the crazies for so long accountability is foreign to them.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 04:45 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 04:46 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: the lower depths
To be honest I thought Pixy had plugged that hole years ago. Been a while since I tried...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 04:46 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 23, 2025 04:43 PM (YlWIZ)
Wiping your ass with plastic sucks...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 04:46 PM (ynpvh)
He felt he had to lie to get what he wanted. This is how they think. I have seen it in grant funded research, and in family, and of course we have all seen it in politics.
People have no allegiance to the truth and that is a problem. Maybe another 10 million Somalians will save us.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 04:46 PM (jNFIZ)
Posted by: huerfano at December 23, 2025 04:47 PM (98kQX)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 04:47 PM (Riz8t)
That reminds me. I gotta order another case of disobedience. There are 144 fluid ozs of rebellion per case. Tastes like YooHoo.
Posted by: gp at December 23, 2025 04:48 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: Brad Majors at December 23, 2025 04:48 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: will it ever end? at December 23, 2025 04:48 PM (PsQIj)
He felt he had to lie to get what he wanted. This is how they think. I have seen it in grant funded research, and in family, and of course we have all seen it in politics.
People have no allegiance to the truth and that is a problem. Maybe another 10 million Somalians will save us.
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Yeah, that was a good comment. The fact that he came from a European academic background (if I read it right) really seems to make sense. It also explains the suicidal way that continent is run.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:48 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:49 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 04:49 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:49 PM (5DEFi)
484 Hah, just double checked - lowest tier for couple that is 60 is $1350/mo rising to $1750/mo for Bronze tier -$9100 deductible. Lower deductible Silver $1800 rising to $2200 $8900 deductible. Poor health and need Gold? $2,050 to $2550 ‐ $2500 deductible.
2025 is w/o subsidy reduction. Typical subsidy is $900/mo so increase is $300 plus $900 from loss of subsidy. Be prepared to spend $15,000 more for Obamacare next year!
___
I'm just going by AI research, so I could be wrong, but they are similar to numbers I was looking at a couple months ago researching for retirement costs before medicare kicks in. Commentor Opinionfact has different numbers.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 04:49 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: gp at December 23, 2025 04:49 PM (GHIyr)
- - -- - - Nina Jankowicz
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:50 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 04:50 PM (Dv3i1)
Pollack?
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:51 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 04:47 PM (Riz8t)
Not stupid at least in the way that you mean - but the ones like Alfonzi are one trick ponies that have no ability or interest in doing things any differently than they have always done them. They won't change because they can't.
I'm not sure which is more amusing - just to fire them outright, or to let them keep working and then let them see you throw everything they work on into the trash as soon as they finish it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 04:51 PM (uWKK8)
When meeting them, he asks "Kopec, Is that Slavic?"
I like to joke about it.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 04:51 PM (qFwJc)
Bri. An. Stel.Ter.
Posted by: Sam Gangee at December 23, 2025 04:51 PM (0sNs1)
Taylor Lorenz thinks this is unacceptable.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 04:51 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2025 04:51 PM (6Bc88)
Posted by: PaleRider at December 23, 2025 04:52 PM (hhkIi)
Bri. An. Stel.Ter.
Posted by: Sam Gangee
Boil 'em, mash 'em stick 'em in a stew?
That's what a sex machine do!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 04:52 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:53 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 04:53 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Dan Rather at December 23, 2025 04:53 PM (SzjyL)
No wonder they lost their minds when Elon bought Twitter
Posted by: melodicmetal at December 23, 2025 04:53 PM (XLfSN)
- - -- - - Nina Jankowicz
Nono YankMyBizz
Posted by: That guy who always makes lame sexual jokes by altering the name at December 23, 2025 04:53 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: gp at December 23, 2025 04:54 PM (GHIyr)
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I doubt Bari Weiss (who seems to think she can fix CBS, bless her heart) is willing to humiliate Alfonsi, but that would be perfect, especially if it's done in a ritualistic and humiliating fashion. Send her to Wyoming to do a worthless nothing story, and then shit-can the results (after leaking how bad the story was). Rinse. Wash. Repeat.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:54 PM (UdiE9)
That reminds me. I gotta order another case of disobedience. There are 144 fluid ozs of rebellion per case. Tastes like YooHoo.
Posted by: gp at December 23, 2025 04:48 PM (GHIyr)
Gin works pretty well in a pinch.
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2025 04:54 PM (6Bc88)
My favorite definition of intelligence is the ability to adapt to a new environment. By that definition, these "reporters" are on par with Zippy the Pinhead.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 04:55 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:54 PM (UdiE9)
Air drop her into Sudan to do some on the spot reporting.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 04:55 PM (uWKK8)
When meeting them, he asks "Kopec, Is that Slavic?"
I like to joke about it.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 04:51 PM (qFwJc
Satan is good. Satan is our pal.
Posted by: Ray, you're chanting. at December 23, 2025 04:55 PM (3sN3b)
They're textbook examples of "constitutionally incapable of being honest".
Posted by: DaveA at December 23, 2025 04:55 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:54 PM
Wyoming doesn't deserve that. Wyomingites are good folk. Kind of the Texans of the West.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 04:56 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 23, 2025 04:51 PM (6Bc8
I think the current ethos is "if I lie and enough people believe me, that makes it true"
because reality is subject to peer pressure or something.
Shoot, burn the old women and everyone admits afterwards they were witches--because otherwise it was murder, and everyone left who isn't smoking bones and char would be to blame.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 04:56 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:56 PM (5DEFi)
I miss pollock jokes.
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:53 PM (5DEFi)
You mean like this?
I caught a pollock once.
Thank cod that's the only one I haddock.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 23, 2025 04:56 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 04:57 PM (rbvCR)
DO IT! DO IT NOW!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:57 PM (Zz0t1)
Bri. An. Stel.Ter.
Posted by: Sam Gangee.
......................................
youtu.be/4Qqendp1kLE
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 04:57 PM (sAmhv)
Seems to be a common thread .
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 04:57 PM (KDPiq)
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It's probably a blessing for us that the DEI hires are so slow. Some people might fall for CBS being respectable again. We wouldn't, but then we are not normies when it comes to political news. If Weiss or Bezos succeeded, the problem would just reemerge in the future, like a looney you allowed to move back in with you because they promised to behave better this time.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:57 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 04:58 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 23, 2025 04:58 PM (w54sG)
I provided him some insights.
Nothing heard since.
Oh well.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 04:58 PM (2WIwB)
Related, I Think:
Have you heard Dead Internet Theory?
tl,dr: The Internet is 75% bots arguing with bots.
In other words, the Internet is mostly amped up fake Bullshit with (relatively) very few real people involved in most of the "viral" bullshit that gets People all roused up.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 04:58 PM (TWzjC)
All that they've done is to make both sides hate them. Not much of a commercial future in that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 04:59 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 23, 2025 04:59 PM (wBaIH)
I'm not a big fan of his paintings but I can't recall any jokes about him.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 04:59 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:59 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: 80's music fan at December 23, 2025 04:43 PM (YlWIZ)
Because killing trees is much better than recycling plastic.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:00 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:57 PM (Zz0t1)
I say it better!
Posted by: AH-NOLD at December 23, 2025 05:00 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 05:00 PM (nljXp)
youtu.be/4Qqendp1kLE
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 04:57 PM (sAmhv)
Never gets old.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:00 PM (Zz0t1)
Have they made them smaller? maybe that's the problem, but I am just not seeing bear in these things.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 05:00 PM (jNFIZ)
Is there a site where bots are doing stand-up comedy for bots? I might tune in once for that.
Posted by: gp at December 23, 2025 05:00 PM (GHIyr)
I don't want to live in a multi-cultural society. I want to live in my society.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 05:01 PM (qFwJc)
Most Youtube accounts are fake, I can tell you that. I mean fake Google-created accounts, too.
Did you ever wonder how a channel like NBC's official SNL on Youtube can have tens of millions of supposed "subscribers" and get a few million views for their SNL skits that NO ONE watches on Television?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:01 PM (TWzjC)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:01 PM (5DEFi)
I don't reflexively hate them with this attempt and if they became a balanced newspaper I would definitely welcome it. I don't need an echo chamber either.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:01 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:01 PM (Zz0t1)
https://is.gd/nl3dXy
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 23, 2025 05:01 PM (9iTu9)
Related, I Think:
Have you heard Dead Internet Theory?
tl,dr: The Internet is 75% bots arguing with bots.
In other words, the Internet is mostly amped up fake Bullshit with (relatively) very few real people involved in most of the "viral" bullshit that gets People all roused up.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 04:58 PM (TWzjC)
The Internet is not real life.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 23, 2025 05:01 PM (HFrEr)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 04:51 PM (IifOV)
I would bet she does not.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:02 PM (Zz0t1)
I don't want to live in a multi-cultural society. I want to live in my society.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 05:01 PM (qFwJc)
Beaners! Taco Benders! Red Dots!
Posted by: Cheech Marin at December 23, 2025 05:02 PM (uWKK8)
No, really, I'm filled up. And Christmas is just a day away!
Posted by: Auspex at December 23, 2025 05:03 PM (YAFrp)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 04:58 PM (TWzjC)
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I can believe it.
Something like 80% of all email is nothing more than automated spam.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 23, 2025 05:03 PM (ESVrU)
Listen, I can keep talking, or if I had some dough I could have a bitch on my dick and straw up my nose and I would be too busy to talk.
Your choice.
Posted by: Hunter at December 23, 2025 05:03 PM (jNFIZ)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 04:58 PM (TWzjC)
How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 05:03 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 23, 2025 05:03 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 05:04 PM (qFwJc)
Also...
the old jewish princess cuck Howard Stern, who looks like a no old ugly dyke wearing a wig, just got another 3 Years from Sirius.
He has No audience.
But they paid him. Why?
Because "Some People" have an interest in keeping his shit going. He's an "influencer." An influencer of bots, yes, but he moves the needle for "stories."
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:04 PM (TWzjC)
Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 05:04 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: ZH Cohen at December 23, 2025 05:04 PM (53ZQd)
youtube.com/watch?v=YYYIbqWQ8U8
Posted by: gp at December 23, 2025 05:04 PM (GHIyr)
How come all these woke journalists stories are 'SHE deceptively edited...' 'HER claims were found to be lies' , 'SHE alleges the White House...'
Seems to be a common thread .
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 04:57 PM (KDPiq)
I think it has something to do with this joke from "As Good as it Gets":
'How do you write women so well?"
"I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability."
Ackshewallee, I think it's a weird extension in these ladies' minds of the "Don't Hit a Girl" Rule.
It's like a Get Out of Jail Free Card for General Obnoxiousness.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 23, 2025 05:05 PM (iJfKG)
Their jobs, reputations and lavish lifestyles all depend entirely on DEI. Without it many are not fit to deliver newspapers much less write for them.
It will be interesting to watch what becomes of them. I assume many will become straight political operatives. A few, I'm sure, will transition into wildly popular conservative commentators -- wherever the money is available for someone with their meager talets.
Posted by: 29Victor at December 23, 2025 05:05 PM (0MjtC)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:05 PM (5DEFi)
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So did Congress when they wrote the laws
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 23, 2025 05:05 PM (PWcY+)
Something like 80% of all email is nothing more than automated spam.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 23, 2025 05:03 PM (ESVrU)
I'll never forget the ass chewing I got for daring to suggest to a manager that email wasn't a real time communication tool and should never be treated as such in the world of business. A lost email should NEVER be tied to a time sensitive thing such as freight deadlines.
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 23, 2025 05:06 PM (Zz0t1)
See?
"battleships" is the new "ballroom"
Next week, the Internet bots will tell us what the new fake outrage is.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:06 PM (TWzjC)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:06 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 05:06 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:05 PM (5DEFi)
I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:07 PM (Zz0t1)
What happened to epstein?
What happened to groceries?
Eggstein failed. Need new fake outrage hoax.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:07 PM (TWzjC)
Posted by: 29Victor at December 23, 2025 05:05 PM (0MjtC)
Did you see the DC Chief of Police the other day screaming about what was in her Bible?
that's what will become of them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 05:07 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 05:07 PM (Ia/+0)
Not a smart idea if you don’t want to risk unemployment benefits, but these people are DEI mudbrains so ….
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 23, 2025 05:07 PM (u2s7M)
Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2025 05:08 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 23, 2025 05:06 PM (Zz0t1)
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I don't consider text messages to be real-time communication, either. I'll respond when I get around to it. I might not even see it until hours after it was delivered.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 23, 2025 05:08 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 05:09 PM (6U1c2)
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"Narrative Engineers" indeed.
OUT: Star Chambers.
IN: Tar Chambers.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 05:09 PM (jvn5r)
I'm against pornography. I think it's bad for the user and bad for the people involved making it. We would be a healthier society if porn consisted of a few crude drawings in men's rooms.
That said, I think a solution that could help everybody would be if all porn in the future were made by former presstitutes, Dim politicians and other DEI failures. It would help some people break their porn addictions, and when these people OD, commit suicide or die from AIDs, we wouldn't feel empathy for people who made really shitty life choices.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 05:09 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:09 PM (5DEFi)
Memory of real life without internet is getting hazy. I remember it had something to do with sustained attention span. *shudder* how ghastly that must have been.
Posted by: gp at December 23, 2025 05:09 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:09 PM (KDPiq)
Beats having a dementia ridden Biden controlled by a cabal that hates America and who won through a fraudulent election.
The things leftists don't understand and conservatives do, is that we take Trump seriously not literally. You folks take him literally but not seriously so it's freak out time for you when Trump is engaging in hyperbole.
Posted by: Aliasjonesjones at December 23, 2025 05:10 PM (8Xy/A)
Posted by: the lower depths
To be honest I thought Pixy had plugged that hole years ago. Been a while since I tried...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 04:46 PM (OUMaO)
——-
[makes ‘shushing’ gesture]
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 23, 2025 05:10 PM (u2s7M)
The camps the left wants to build after the 2028 election will be for Zionists, not Jews
Posted by: Auspex at December 23, 2025 05:10 PM (YAFrp)
Posted by: n at December 23, 2025 05:10 PM (fn4/u)
He was not impressed.
Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 05:10 PM (v0R5T)
"But there is a figure, an exact figure, one that's big enough so that he'll go... (shudders)
But not so big that he won't say, "Well!""
They are trying to optimize their impact by broadening the number of people who tolerate their lies.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 05:10 PM (jNFIZ)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 23, 2025 05:08 PM (ESVrU)
A bud dated a girl for short time. She was texting him one day, knowing he was out with his son at a sports bar watching sportsball. He then saw some acquaintances as well and was chatting with them. He didn't return her text in a timely enough manner and she advise him her therapist told her that if she's not important enough to respond quickly, then they can't be together.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:10 PM (Zz0t1)
I began to consider where I would have to drop bad information so it would propagate throughout the entire structure.
I also realized my cow-orkers didn't care and would just use the easiest information available, so continuing the corruption of the databases into ours.
I think this is a model of the Dead Internet, no one cares, and no one takes the time to verify.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 05:11 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2025 05:11 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:11 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 05:09 PM (UdiE9)
Tell me you're not thinking of Helen Thomas.
You're thinking of Helen Thomas, aren't you.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 05:11 PM (uWKK8)
867-5309
Posted by: J. Random Moron at December 23, 2025 05:12 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2025 05:11 PM (pDt9x)
They've been filming people banging since there was film.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:12 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 05:12 PM (2vrAX)
They have every reason to believe they'll come out on top again. Their whole life experience is an arrow pointing in one direction to victory, always advancing, infecting, devouring civilization.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 05:12 PM (3uBP9)
Therefore Leftist Journalists insist, nay demand, that no one, least of all the employers and bosses of Leftist Journalists, has the moral authority to decide that any piece of finished work by a Leftist Journalist should not be transmitted to the rubes.
Nice work if you can get it. For too long now.
Posted by: Gref at December 23, 2025 05:12 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Person who gave up newspapers long ago at December 23, 2025 05:12 PM (SzjyL)
That's another thing!
Android/Google is hell-bent on forcing you to be "alerted" on your phone to ALL you garbage emails the INSTANT received.
Why?
Why is it important for Apple/Google to "alert" us immediately for texts, emails, tweets, Youtube comment responses, the fucking Weather, etc.?
Because they want you to be a Slave to Media and "news" and products. Must Consoom Product. Must "hate" _______.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:13 PM (TWzjC)
Did he know she was seeing a therapist when he started dating her? You need to have a sit down talk with your bud.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:13 PM (KDPiq)
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Some people who were not impressed with the female pharaoh Hatshepsut made a crude drawing of her in a cave above her temple. That's several thousand years before Pompeii. Not sure if the "Venus of Willendorf" type prehistoric figures count as porn or as some shamanistic fertility objects.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 05:13 PM (UdiE9)
Have Banksy do it. Class it up a little.
Posted by: gp at December 23, 2025 05:13 PM (GHIyr)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:14 PM (5DEFi)
Banana Dream's Big Boom Boom >>>>> The Washington Post cuts more opinion columnists.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 23, 2025 05:14 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Boss Moss
--
"The Firm" was a joke. "Jeremiah Johnson" was great, though.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 23, 2025 05:14 PM (NYInA)
In other words, the Internet is mostly amped up fake Bullshit with (relatively) very few real people involved in most of the "viral" bullshit that gets People all roused up.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 04:58 PM (TWzjC)
>The other 25% is lawyers looking to file suit for some slight to their client's untoward reputation.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 05:14 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 23, 2025 05:15 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:15 PM (KDPiq)
Did he know she was seeing a therapist when he started dating her? You need to have a sit down talk with your bud.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:13 PM (KDPiq)
I don't guess so. They were only together a couple weeks.
I think he's learned lessons in being a single dude in his 50's having to do the dating thing again.
Wayyyyy too many bishes be cray in the older adult dating scene.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:15 PM (Zz0t1)
I realized early on (2007?) that the databases were no real proxy for reality, since I could almost chart which ones depended on others for their information, and how to check if that information was correct.
Posted by: Kindltot
You saw it almost 20 years ago.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:15 PM (TWzjC)
I was a duped young Democrat 50 years ago when they aired a report for which I had deep personal knowledge, turning it upside down. The deceptive edits were clear to see. I quit watching the "show" until a few years later when a story was advertised I had interest in, and the same lying method was repeated.
Sexaginta minuta delenda est!
Posted by: Hal Dall at December 23, 2025 05:15 PM (SBJWI)
Did you see the DC Chief of Police the other day screaming about what was in her Bible? that's what will become of them.
Posted by: Tom Servo
What happens? They will become multi level marketing wizards, Uber/Lyft drivers, Starbucks baristas, or the always favorite, some dept. of human services case workers who have uncanny ability to ignore child abuse. That and getting naked on Only Fans.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 23, 2025 05:16 PM (9iTu9)
PATHETIC: Tim Walz rails against ICE raids in MN by accusing the Trump admin of “WHITE SUPREMACY!"
“This is what happens when they no longer hide the idea of white supremacy. When you hear the Vice President of the United States talk about now, white people don't have to apologize for being white."
"That's never happened once in my whole damn life!"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 05:16 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:16 PM (Sv5iI)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:17 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Soothsayer
...........................
I'm reminded of the movie 'They Live!'.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at December 23, 2025 05:17 PM (sAmhv)
*queues up Gary Oldman*
EVERYYYYYYOOONNNEEEEEE!!!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:17 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:17 PM (KDPiq)
He didn't return her text in a timely enough manner and she advise him her therapist told her that if she's not important enough to respond quickly, then they can't be together.
Posted by: Sponge
He dodged a bullet there, didn't he.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 23, 2025 05:18 PM (QVmho)
"That's never happened once in my whole damn life!"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 05:16 PM (L/fGl)
The f*ck it hasn't, you lying piece of shit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:18 PM (Zz0t1)
Gang Bangers, Rapists, Drug Dealers, Molesters, Thieves, and Criminals need to make a fair Wage/Living also.
So, three cheers to the Supreme Court stopping the 'Racist Dictator" Trump. And in return I will be cutting the Police Force by 30% and raising taxes to help the Illegal Persons of color being mistreated by the 666 Trump Creature...
Posted by: Gov "Fat Boy" Pretzel of Illness-Nois at December 23, 2025 05:18 PM (J9q9v)
They’re having a really bad day at the Washington Post.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 05:18 PM (L/fGl)
Democrats pretend "Be Better, White People" never happened.
Democrats pretend "Dear White People..." never existed.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:19 PM (TWzjC)
He dodged a bullet there, didn't he.
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 23, 2025 05:18 PM (QVmho)
Yes. It was a bit of a shame, tho. She was pretty.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:19 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2025 05:11 PM (pDt9x)
Venus of Willendorf
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 05:19 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: The Rembrandt of Dicks at December 23, 2025 05:19 PM (3KbZ6)
https://tinyurl.com/2w4w4uwp
A 25,000-year-old engraving of a woman at Cussac cave in France.
Challenging, I will admit.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 05:19 PM (jNFIZ)
Posted by: Ariana G. at December 23, 2025 05:19 PM (0sNs1)
Are they all fat, tattooed and pierced?
Why wasn't I informed of this?
Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 05:20 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:20 PM (TWzjC)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 23, 2025 05:20 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: Death at December 23, 2025 05:20 PM (R/m4+)
https://tinyurl.com/2w4w4uwp
A 25,000-year-old engraving of a woman at Cussac cave in France.
......
FUPA
Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 05:21 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Sponge
I WILL NOT BE IGNORED!
Posted by: Respond or this bunny gets it at December 23, 2025 05:21 PM (BIIIL)
lulz...
The White House livestream right now:
Lo-fi Criminal Illegal Alien Naughty List
https://is.gd/OiPAUa
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:22 PM (TWzjC)
Posted by: The Rembrandt of Dicks at December 23, 2025 05:19 PM (3KbZ6)
Fingerpaintings, amirite?
Posted by: Roy at December 23, 2025 05:22 PM (BZF07)
There's nothing wrong with white women dating white men.
There's nothing wrong with not wanting to date a different race.
Being a leftist is the most awful, miserable mindset ever.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:22 PM (Zz0t1)
https://tinyurl.com/2w4w4uwp
A 25,000-year-old engraving of a woman at Cussac cave in France.
Looks like Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: Big Green Dildo at December 23, 2025 05:22 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:23 PM (Sv5iI)
The lockouts in western states generally began under Clinton - it was the zenith of Sierra Club power. Feinstein was mixed up in it as well - JFKjr was involved in a venture capital scheme (BrightSource) to run transmission lines across the Mojave. Feinstein got pissed off because Jr. was muscling in on her patronage.
The 217-mile, 500-kV electrical line will connect Ely, Nevada to Nephi, Utah.
https://x.com/BasinRange/status/2002669908518474234
Posted by: 13times at December 23, 2025 05:23 PM (fnZRl)
The new proposed location for the Biden Presidential Library is the Titanic Wreckage. It has been said that this way at least some people will visit while viewing the Titanic Wreckage which mirrors Biden's Endless 4 years of damage and bilge to the Free World.
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at December 23, 2025 05:23 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Sponge
He dodged a bullet there, didn't he.
Posted by: BifBewalski
>Splendid. I forget my phone is in the truck on the charger, overnight, regularly.
Ballbuster, controlfreak puppetmasters are not something I need in my life.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 05:24 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 05:24 PM (2vrAX)
This $hit about white people having to *apologize* for the color of the skin they were born in is getting tiresome. But it is all they have left apparently.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 23, 2025 05:24 PM (0N4FZ)
"That's never happened once in my whole damn life!"
_____
If he means that a vice president saying that, I guess he's right, it hasn't been said before. But when Affirmative Action/DEI is so out of control that (formerly) serious publishers are putting out opinion that it's ok to kill whitey, then it is past time to say something.
If he means that whitey has always apologized for being white, at least since he was born, then he would have had to have been born, what, around St. George Floyd's suicide/martyrdom?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 05:25 PM (Dv3i1)
IT IS NAMED THE "WHITE HOUSE" !!!!!!!
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at December 23, 2025 05:25 PM (J9q9v)
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:23 PM (Sv5iI)
Possibly they didn't tell her that part.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 23, 2025 05:26 PM (MZ+PY)
The Washington state floods are a perfect illustration of Internet bullshit.
People were surprised to learn about the floods and see the shocking images DAYS AFTER they occurred -- why didn't the "News" make this a big story.
Because Trumpstein files! And Trump said mean things about a meathead celery.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:27 PM (TWzjC)
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:23 PM (Sv5iI)
No, that's about right.
The media, no matter who's running it, is a liberal shithole.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:27 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: tubal at December 23, 2025 05:11 PM (pDt9x)
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Maybe the "goddess" figurines of the Gravettian culture, about 24,000 years ago (4000 years ago if you are YEC).
https://share.google/XDHTjLRWN25gfRvBx
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 23, 2025 05:28 PM (Vh9CX)
https://tinyurl.com/2w4w4uwp
A 25,000-year-old engraving of a woman at Cussac cave in France.
Looks like Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: Big Green Dildo
I dig it.
Posted by: Sir Mix-a-Lot at December 23, 2025 05:28 PM (nhCoE)
The point is: a tweet about meathead was more to the "News" than massive floods.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:28 PM (TWzjC)
Ballbuster, controlfreak puppetmasters are not something I need in my life.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 05:24 PM (nljXp)
He said "I'm too old for such bullshit."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:28 PM (Zz0t1)
IT IS NAMED THE "WHITE HOUSE" !!!!!!!
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at December 23, 2025 05:25 PM (J9q9v)
Stoopid CRACKER SHACK be oppressing peeps.
Posted by: human shake weight at December 23, 2025 05:28 PM (c+RcG)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:28 PM (TWzjC)
https://share.google/XDHTjLRWN25gfRvBx
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 23, 2025 05:28 PM (Vh9CX)
It's not really porn if it's sculptures from before there was really clothing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:29 PM (Zz0t1)
Did you see the DC Chief of Police the other day screaming about what was in her Bible? that's what will become of them.
Posted by: Tom Servo
=========
Also, it appears the AWFL President of Brown University and likely other white pipo in Providence are setting-up the DEI-hire Brown U Chief of Campus Police to be the fall-guy for the lack of security that allowed the shooter into the classroom 10 days ago. In case you missed it, the Chief is a black man. You may not know this because he was never allowed to present info and be questioned by the press while the shooter was at-large.
At the press conference announcing the shooter's ID and discovery of his body, the DEI-hire chief finally appeared on camera. He took a victory lap, of course. Yesterday he was put on paid leave. Unless he proclaims he is now a black woman, he may be sacrificed by the University and Providence City nomenklatura to get the press and parents of students off their backs.
Posted by: Gref at December 23, 2025 05:29 PM (5rh/l)
You're thinking of Helen Thomas, aren't you.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 05:11 PM (uWKK
Well, she's dead. But Andrea Mitchell isn't! And a couple of other sourpusses whose names I can't recall. They should put you right off porn, and they'd be appropriately rewarded for all of their lies.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at December 23, 2025 05:30 PM (zYpTz)
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:23 PM (Sv5iI)
——-
I think that was Bari’s response to the outcry that she was protecting Trump, that the story was already out there. I think the reason for yanking the story was that she said it needed more research/sourcing. I think.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 23, 2025 05:30 PM (u2s7M)
I don't want to live in a multi-cultural society. I want to live in my society.
Posted by: no one at December
Spooks, spics, spazzes and booger eating morons.
Bad News Bears
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 23, 2025 05:30 PM (FxH7T)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 23, 2025 05:20 PM (MZ+PY)
IT'S OUR JOB TO TELL YOU WHAT TO THINK!!!!
- - - - Joe Scarborough's Hat
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 05:31 PM (L/fGl)
I don't care how many dago guinea wop greaseball goombahs crawl out of the woodwork.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:31 PM (TWzjC)
First Lady's follow up with the OB about her surgery went well and she's cleared from any restrictions.
She's still feeling dizzy, however, so there's still restrictions.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:31 PM (Zz0t1)
You can't make this shit up.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:32 PM (KDPiq)
https://is.gd/FGEE6U
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 05:31 PM (L/fGl)
HA! Cruel AND unusual.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:32 PM (Zz0t1)
It is not the olden days of working mirants coming and going after crops are picked. It is the Biden time (or, if we want to get real, GWB wanting open borders with Mexico and Canada) of rapists, thieves and moochers. GET THEM OUT! I am thrilled Trump is doing this!
I have NO sympathy, if that's what they are going for, when they are sent to El Salvador. If there was a gofundme for this I'd contribute.
I hope Somolians are next along with the Turban Cobra in Congress. Get out!
Back to scheduled programming of me combining a ton of stuff I could have done weeks ago into today. I haven't changed one bit since college and term papers. It will be done. Thus sayeth, thus it shall be. It's how I roll, baybee.
Merry Christmas Eve Eve to all Morons and 'ettes!!!
I started drinking again at 3:30! The gifts may look rather wonky before I am done. The baby won't care as she's oblivious. The other two kids won't care because they rip gifts open like chimps
Listening to an entire album of Toto super loud, then Celtic Christmas music to soothe me while I make cookies. It's all good!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 05:32 PM (WONhk)
@MyLordBebo
🇺🇸 The blackout text in Epstein's documents turned out to be easily readable.
In some files of the scandalous financier's case, you can read everything that the US Department of Justice tried to obscure, journalists noticed. If you simply select the "censored" blocks, the text is copied from them.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 23, 2025 05:34 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 05:24 PM (2vrAX)
Yes. But if you are constantly told you are a hateful pox on society if you are white, or that you need mutilating surgery to make yourself feel better, or that you should cut off all contact with people who love you, especially so you can properly fit in with "good society", I imagine that kids feel stressed and not know how to handle it. Especially if they do these things in secret, at school, with teachers who tell them to not ever speak a word of it to their parents. It's child abuse and it affects kids long after that actual abuse stops.
Posted by: moki at December 23, 2025 05:34 PM (wLjpr)
They are already being replaced at a faster and faster clip by AI.
And they are such keen intellects, sharp wits and persuasive writers that--even as they can see AI killing their livelihood--there attacks are ... pathetic.
Like, they just crib old enviro-catastrophe bits and slap an "AI will cause this!" coat of paint on it.
Droughts! Electrical shortages! Endangered species disruption!
LOLGF.
Learn to starve under a bridge, like a good hobo.
Jen Rubin's podcast is gonna launch any day now, maybe she'll spare you an episode ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 23, 2025 05:34 PM (HXT0k)
Bad News Bears
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at December 23, 2025 05:30 PM (FxH7T)
Heh. I find it funny, the billion dollar franchise Chitcago Bears are demanding tax $$$ for a new stadium from the bankrupt, overtaxed state of Illinois and the state is telling them to pound sand.
Indiana is looking at how to get it done, in the northwestern part of the state.
The Chicago Bears would be moved to the shithole that is Gary, Indiana as a possible alternative.
BWWWWAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:34 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:23 PM (Sv5iI)
It would bring nothing new. Everyone already knows our reporters are lying Marxist tools who can't tell boys from girls and therefore have zero chance of stumbling across the truth even accidentally.
Posted by: Bari who what where when Weiss at December 23, 2025 05:34 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:23 PM (Sv5iI)
——-
I think that was Bari’s response to the outcry that she was protecting Trump, that the story was already out there. I think the reason for yanking the story was that she said it needed more research/sourcing. I think.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 23, 2025 05:30 PM (u2s7M)
My guess is that Bari not only thought the hit piece didn't advance the story, to her it would send the story on an unjustified and needless H@te Raycisst Trump path. She would never to say that in public. To avoid being called a Trump Lackey.
Posted by: Gref at December 23, 2025 05:35 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 05:35 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 05:35 PM (9ipOP)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:35 PM (TWzjC)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:35 PM (5DEFi)
And what was the ethnicity of the janitor who kept reporting the shooter hanging around? He deserves some credit.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 05:36 PM (8Xy/A)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:35 PM (5DEFi)
Which will turn into The Scary Bears
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:36 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:37 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: M. Gaga at December 23, 2025 05:37 PM (KiBMU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:37 PM (5DEFi)
Better than bad news.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 05:35 PM (TWzjC)
Agreed. I've been viewing most things in the positive as a silver lining, lately.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:37 PM (Zz0t1)
And what was the ethnicity of the janitor who kept reporting the shooter hanging around? He deserves some credit.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 05:36 PM (8Xy/A)
Good question. I don't know.
Posted by: Gref at December 23, 2025 05:37 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:38 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: melodicmetal at December 23, 2025 05:38 PM (XLfSN)
And what was the ethnicity of the janitor who kept reporting the shooter hanging around? He deserves some credit.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 05:36 PM (8Xy/A)
Custodial-American.
Racist.
Posted by: EEOC Commenter at December 23, 2025 05:38 PM (NI+sF)
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I *really* love sports, and I love capitalism, and yet I've reached the point where I believe the taxpayers should NEVER be on the hook for even a single dollar of stadium building and other such sports-related nonsense. In Oklahoma City, they're already on the hook for giving the Thunder a new stadium, even though I've been to a couple of sports events and a half-dozen concerts in the current arena and the current facility is *really, really, nice* and not in need of replacement. These schemes (at their best) are just construction jobs for the friends of the teams and friends of the local politicians. The taxpayers deserve better representation.
Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2025 05:39 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Soothsayer
About once a decade weather events line up so the rivers from Mt Vernon, WA to Chehalis, WA flood western Washington State. This has been going on for centuries and it's become a bigger problem over the years for two reasons. The number of people living along these rivers and in the flood plain has exploded over the years. Secondly, the media nitwits, steeped in climate propaganda, report the latest weather event as unsubstantiated proof that the modern technological world must be banned.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at December 23, 2025 05:40 PM (9iTu9)
I've known self-centered pricks like that. I craft alternate realities for a living so my head is always in the clouds, sometimes I dissappear for days. Then some jackass that you would've taken a bullet for wants to ditch your friendship because you didn't return a phonecall or were 15 mins late to their party. I just tell them "sorry, death in the family, goodbye and good luck"
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:40 PM (Sv5iI)
Sounds like how I feel about HEB except I don't think they are predatory or not popular.
So I guess I really don't feel the same. I just don't like them.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:41 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Please stay with the tour at December 23, 2025 05:41 PM (SzjyL)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:37 PM (Zz0t1)
I have still seen nothing to dissuade me from my contention that Maryland Man will be with us through the election. He's just too useful.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 23, 2025 05:41 PM (pIfcn)
I *really* love sports, and I love capitalism, and yet I've reached the point where I believe the taxpayers should NEVER be on the hook for even a single dollar of stadium building and other such sports-related nonsense. In Oklahoma City, they're already on the hook for giving the Thunder a new stadium, even though I've been to a couple of sports events and a half-dozen concerts in the current arena and the current facility is *really, really, nice* and not in need of replacement. These schemes (at their best) are just construction jobs for the friends of the teams and friends of the local politicians. The taxpayers deserve better representation.
Posted by: Crusader at December 23, 2025 05:39 PM (TN0g+)
I agree with you 100%.
Team owners are usually multimillionaires if not billionaires that would EASILY be able to secure funding for such projects and not bilk the taxpayer one f*cking dime.
But no.......I guess the old adage "they're billionaires for a reason" rings true.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:42 PM (Zz0t1)
WHITE ANGLO SAXON PROTESTANT!!!!
If you do not like it............ Too Bad Low-T Boy !!!!
Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 05:42 PM (38587)
So I guess I really don't feel the same. I just don't like them.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:41 PM (KDPiq)
I love me some HEB. There's just nothing close, so I don't get there very often. If/when we move, they'll be even further away.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:43 PM (Zz0t1)
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WASHINGTON POST: “This weekend, most of our staff, from our legal and economic centers, are departing immediately. We wish them well, though the manner of their departures speaks volumes.”
KEVIN ROBERTS: “This weekend, additional staff, from our legal and economic centers, are departing immediately. We wish them well, though the manner of their departures speaks volumes.”
WASHINGTON POST: “Heritage has always been home to voices within the conservative movement, but alignment on mission and loyalty to senior leadership are nonnegotiable.”
KEVIN ROBERTS: “Heritage has always been a home for many voices within the conservative movement—but alignment on mission and loyalty to the institution and colleagues are non-negotiable.”
Like Hunter, they just pull shit out of their asses to paint their bullshit canvases ...
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 05:43 PM (Ww2Qx)
Posted by: Smell the Glove
You seen the bullshit that makes up their early lives? I'd be more shocked if they DIDN'T...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 05:44 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 05:42 PM (38587)
*fistbump*
Posted by: Blackie Lawless at December 23, 2025 05:44 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 05:45 PM (SBi1w)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 05:45 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: So it's a grocery thread now? at December 23, 2025 05:45 PM (SzjyL)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at December 23, 2025 05:30 PM (u2s7M)
Ah. There was nuance and complexity. Imagine that. Thanks
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:45 PM (Sv5iI)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 23, 2025 05:46 PM (QzM4s)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 23, 2025 05:34 PM (mlg/3)
Almost like someone wanted them seen.
Or someone didn't know where the secret redaction button on the computer was.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 23, 2025 05:46 PM (MZ+PY)
Posted by: So it's a grocery thread now? at December 23, 2025 05:45 PM (SzjyL)
Got their spiral cut hickory smoked honey ham today. I will throw the glaze packet away, put the ham on the smoker with apple wood for a couple hours Christmas Day and will feast on it that afternoon.
Damn good stuff.
Posted by: Blackie Lawless at December 23, 2025 05:47 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 05:47 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:47 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Jackson at December 23, 2025 05:42 PM
I am proud to be a LOW-T Guy that is Non-White and kinda like guys....
Posted by: Barry O at December 23, 2025 05:47 PM (YnF8s)
They don't carry a number of products I want and replace with their own brand which I don't care for.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:47 PM (KDPiq)
You can't make this shit up.
Posted by: Opinion fact
"Acting white"?
"ACTING White"?!
I ain't fvcking acting.
Idiot. I am white as platinum, ice, and diamonds.
You are the ass trying to pass yourself as something you are not.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 05:48 PM (/lPRQ)
CB figured out that he was trying to scam an extra meal every 96 days. It was classic CB, and classic Snoopy.
I think of that strip whenever Ace puts us on a 1:15 min. schedule. He is trying to squeeze 5 posts into a 6 post day.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 05:48 PM (jNFIZ)
After all these Years the CIA Realizes It's been using Black Highlighters
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 05:48 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:47 PM (KDPiq)
That would do it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:48 PM (Zz0t1)
*mutters about being born in the wrong era*
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 23, 2025 05:49 PM (a+4eV)
Granados, also, was right there with Alfonsi on the DeSantis hit piece.
Posted by: Orson at December 23, 2025 05:49 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 05:48 PM (/lPRQ)
This is about me, isn't it.......
Posted by: Jasmine Crockett at December 23, 2025 05:49 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder
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What likely happened is that they were already redacted at some time in the past, and the team in charge of releasing didn't check every document, and every redaction on every document, to see if it was sufficient.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 05:50 PM (jNFIZ)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:50 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:50 PM (KDPiq)
I think I look better in the summer when I'm tanned.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:51 PM (Zz0t1)
There's nothing wrong with not wanting to date a different race.
Being a leftist is the most awful, miserable mindset ever.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:22 PM (Zz0t1)
Yup. Ask the Strong, Independent Black Women and their opinion of Black Men dating White chicks in the US or getting a passport to find a Filipino wife.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 23, 2025 05:51 PM (y9nCu)
anb B) oh it would be a real shame if the sub groups that do actual weather research are separated from the Climate Change modelers, or horrors some of the work is transferred to management by U of OK, or someplace in actual flyover country instead of being left in the peoples Republic of Boulder.
But I don't know that I would move to OK if that comes to pass, I'd maybe just retire early. Might sell this place, seems there are enouch rich folks that real estate here is likely to stay high and move to a cheaper place to live to enjoy retirement but I'm a huge wimp about heat and humidity, if I moved to OK, I'd have to be able to spend most of the summer somewhere else.
Posted by: PaleRider at December 23, 2025 05:51 PM (hhkIi)
A prominent Democrat was caught in a DUI stop and started ranting at the cops. Because she was drunk, she imagined she is black and tried calling the cop a racist. And she mentioned that, in her opinion, he is also a "dick". She may have been yelling it loudly.
Anyway, Rhode Island Democrats....
https://tinyurl.com/2kyc9k27
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 05:52 PM (x0Rg/)
6 post day? No such thing.
Stop trying to make Fetch happen!
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:53 PM (Sv5iI)
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:50 PM (KDPiq)
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Like Kamala told me, "and there it is."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 05:53 PM (9ipOP)
Yup. Ask the Strong, Independent Black Women and their opinion of Black Men dating White chicks in the US or getting a passport to find a Filipino wife.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 23, 2025 05:51 PM (y9nCu)
My neighbors are black. Their son, going to a predominantly white school most of his life, lead him to date white girls. His mother was NOT a fan, but was extremely happy he started college at an HBCU. He transferred out after a year. He's now dating a white woman.
She's not happy. I have no issue with that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:53 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 05:53 PM (Dv3i1)
I was a duped young Democrat 50 years ago when they aired a report for which I had deep personal knowledge, turning it upside down. The deceptive edits were clear to see. I quit watching the "show" until a few years later when a story was advertised I had interest in, and the same lying method was repeated.
When I was a kid and Consumer Reports was a popular magazine I thought it was great, and my dad sat me down. He was a TV repairman, so he had the ultimate toolkit. But he also understood TVs and manufacturers. He pointed in the magazine to two televisions that CR had rated very differently and told me that they are the same damn TV, by two different brand names.
I looked at reviewers and ratings very skeptically after that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 05:54 PM (3Amc7)
25,000 BP would be even before the last glacial maximum I think. Baby, it's cold outside.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2025 05:54 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:54 PM (5DEFi)
I have a tee shirt with Titanium White on the front.
It's a reference to artist oil paint
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 05:55 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 05:56 PM (5DEFi)
"her therapist" is the Big Red Flag
Posted by: Chuck C at December 23, 2025 05:56 PM (D0HYP)
Geez. Government ensuring innocent people aren't lynched by the Epstein Mobs seems up there. Like double checking the stove is turned off before you go on vacation? Making sure the power is off before you wire this outlet?
Posted by: Fen at December 23, 2025 05:58 PM (Sv5iI)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 23, 2025 05:34 PM (mlg/3)
Almost like someone wanted them seen.
Or someone didn't know where the secret redaction button on the computer was.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder
This was done in some previous 'scandle' about twenty years ago.
Set the color of the adobe hilighter to black.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 05:59 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 04:43 PM (qFwJc)
Italian.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 23, 2025 05:59 PM (5xuJ/)
There will be blood in the parking lot.
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:00 PM (2GVsD)
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Yup.
The offense is not the lie.
The offense was taking a run at the viceroy. The king doesn't take kindly to minor courtiers trying to topple his viceroys.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 06:01 PM (avHHk)
Sounds like some woman Lenny and Squiggy would be perving after in a episode of Laverne and Shirley.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2025 06:02 PM (w6EFb)
Being a leftist is the most awful, miserable mindset ever.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 05:22 PM (Zz0t1)
Yup. Ask the Strong, Independent Black Women and their opinion of Black Men dating White chicks in the US or getting a passport to find a Filipino wife.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
NW European men and SE Asian women go together like apple butter on white bread. Mmmm mmm mmm.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 06:03 PM (/lPRQ)
Which is almost certainly another case of gross insubordination.
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*Maybe*
It is entirely possible that it was an accident. The Canadian channel had a carriage contract for CBS content and it was sent as a matter of course, for example.
Like how the "Sound of Freedom" ended up being released. Disney bought Fox and shoved most of Fox into the vault and forgot about it. The new boss came in, got an offer for something in the vault, and decided to take the money.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 06:03 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:03 PM (2GVsD)
Nah, you can act civilized and be all sorts of cultures. Acting White is acting White, we have a culture and a standard.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 06:04 PM (3Amc7)
Sounds like some woman Lenny and Squiggy would be perving after in a episode of Laverne and Shirley.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at December 23, 2025 06:02 PM (w6EFb)
See my post at 274.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 23, 2025 06:04 PM (5xuJ/)
http://tiny.cc/24tw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 06:04 PM (avHHk)
High priests of the modern secular religion. And where they may have been useful in the past, they're too far into hard left ideology, buzz phrases, and telling people that everyone else is to blame now.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 06:05 PM (3Amc7)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:06 PM (2GVsD)
http://tiny.cc/24tw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 06:04 PM (avHHk)
I think God absolutely nailed it with the female form.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:07 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 06:06 PM (2GVsD)
Agreed.
I've been married for 21 years and am thankful we've been able to grow together and keep things working.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 06:08 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Ben Had at December 23, 2025 06:08 PM (sDNVV)
Nah, you can act civilized and be all sorts of cultures. Acting White is acting White, we have a culture and a standard.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Not enough nuance in my post, I'll admit. Think of all the things that are called 'acting white' that when non whites do them they are criticized. What are those things? Eating mayonnaise on your sandwich, or being on time for your meeting. The latter, right? The things that are being attacked are the things that make our (formerly) high trust society work.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 06:09 PM (Dv3i1)
"her therapist" is the Big Red Flag
High priests of the modern secular religion. And where they may have been useful in the past, they're too far into hard left ideology, buzz phrases, and telling people that everyone else is to blame now.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 06:05 PM (3Amc7)
I thought the high priests were "life coaches".
Therapists are just medium-functioning crazy people who like spreading the crazy and have trust funds or exes who pay alimony on time.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 23, 2025 06:11 PM (y9nCu)
I knew that show was complete bullshit trash in 1990-something with the whole "unintended acceleration" non-sense that was made up from whole cloth and defied the laws of physics. Never watched another episode.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 23, 2025 06:13 PM (XMwZJ)
Hunter Biden: Of Course My Father's Calamitous Bug-Out from Afghanistan Was a "F***ing Failure;" And Of Course We Shouldn't Allow In Immigrants That "Drain Our Resources"
Is Hunter Biden now a racist?
Wait a sec, he already was -- "no yellow." (Who doesn't like Asian chicks? Only a Nazi.) MXM:So what's going on here? Let's put aside the idea that Hunter Biden has suddenly embraced honesty. As we've seen, Democrats are now pushing the idea that out-of-control illegal immigration isn't Democrat policy, but was all Biden's fault, and only Biden's fault. The Democrat policy is perfect -- the Real Villain Here is Biden's faulty implementation of that policy, and now that Biden is out of office and will probably be dead within the year, it's time to throw that weight out of the sinking ship. As to why Hunter Biden would participate in the Democrats' scheme to claim that Biden is the Devil who Deceived them -- I read someone on X stating that Hunter Biden is $15 million in debt. Daddy's not going to be able to get him million dollar checks from Chinese spymasters and Russian oligarchs any longer. He needs a new patron, and that patron will of course be in the Democrat Party. And the Democrat Party network of bribery is currently shutting its wallets to the Bidens. Joe Biden will almost certainly not be able to fund a Biden presidential library.
Even Hunter Biden isn't pretending anymore. The former president's son admitted this week that his father's handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was an "obvious f**king failure," putting a blunt, unsparing label on what many Americans have long viewed as one of the most humiliating and deadly episodes of Joe Biden's presidency. Hunter made the remarks during an appearance on the Shawn Ryan Show, where he also broke from Democrat orthodoxy on immigration. While arguing in favor of legal immigration, Hunter criticized policies that elevate illegal entrants over Americans who served the country. "We need vibrant immigration," he said, "but we don't want immigrants that are coming here illegally draining us of resources and also being prioritized above people that are actual literal heroes that are coming home" after decades of war. The comment echoed a core argument advanced repeatedly by Donald Trump, who has framed Biden-era border policy as both reckless and morally inverted. But it was Afghanistan that drew Hunter's sharpest verdict. Asked directly what his father got wrong in office, he pointed to the August 2021 withdrawal that left Americans and allies scrambling as the Taliban swept back into Kabul. "I think one of the failures was the way in which they executed the withdrawal from Afghanistan," Hunter said. "I think it was an obvious f**king failure." Thirteen U.S. service members were killed in a suicide bombing at Abbey Gate during the evacuation, a loss that became a defining symbol of the administration's collapse overseas. That assessment stands in stark contrast to Joe Biden himself, who insisted in 2023 that he made no mistakes in the withdrawal despite bipartisan criticism, military testimony, and the visible chaos that unfolded on the world stage. The administration has long resisted accepting responsibility, even as the consequences linger.
E X X ➠A L E R T S
@ExxAlerts BREAKING: Biden's presidential library fundraising has hit rock bottom, per New York Times reporting. Key details from IRS filings: - Zero new donations in 2024, Biden's entire final year in office.
- Foundation seeded with just $4M leftover from his 2021 inauguration.
- Projects only $11.3M total by end of 2027, a tiny fraction of the $200M goal aides have discussed.
- Far below what recent presidents raised for their libraries. Insiders now say discussions are underway to merge the project with existing Biden institutes at the University of Delaware to make it viable.
BREAKING: Biden's presidential library fundraising has hit rock bottom, per New York Times reporting.
— E X X ➠A L E R T S (@ExxAlerts) December 15, 2025
Key details from IRS filings:
- Zero new donations in 2024, Biden's entire final year in office.
- Foundation seeded with just $4M leftover from his 2021 inauguration.
-… pic.twitter.com/RQ2HgTvfFr
From @nytimes: 'Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential Library.' Raised exactly $0 in new donations in all of 2024. https://t.co/5vCi6pCXAt
— Byron York (@ByronYork) December 13, 2025
Biden Has Raised Little of What He Needs to Build a Presidential LibraryHuntie's other obvious source of money is grifting from the publishing industry, which is always eager to give leftwing tyrants absurd amounts of money for books that will never sell more than a couple of thousand copies. It's all illegal campaign donations and influence-buying. But they're not going to give Huntie that. They are taking out their anger for their 2024 loss on the Biden Crime Family. Though... Huntie could maybe get a modest deal if he, get this, showed that he was now ready to be candid and spill the real secrets. He won't, of course. But he needs to put out the idea that giving him $500,000 for a book would be a defensible decision by a publishing executive. And so: He shows the tiniest amount of ankle.
His library foundation has told the I.R.S. that by the end of 2027 it expects to bring in just $11.3 million -- not nearly enough for a traditional presidential library.
Former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has raised only a small fraction of the money needed to construct a presidential library, leaving uncertainty about when a library might be built and its viability as a stand-alone project, according to public filings and interviews with his donors. In filings with the Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Biden's library foundation revealed that it had not received any new donations in 2024, the final year of his presidency. The foundation was instead seeded entirely with $4 million left over from his 2021 inauguration. The library foundation declined to say what it had raised in 2025. It said that Mr. Biden was only now beginning to actively raise money. He is holding the first event for potential library donors on Monday in Washington's Georgetown neighborhood.
Still, Mr. Biden's foundation told the I.R.S. this year that it expected to bring in just $11.3 million, total, by the end of 2027. That would be far below the pace set by other recent presidents, and far less than the $200 million that Mr. Biden's aides say they want to raise eventually. Partly because of that poor fund-raising, discussions are underway about consolidating a potential Biden library with pre-existing Biden institutions at the University of Delaware, according to four people who were granted anonymity to talk about the private planning process. That might allow the library to take advantage of the millions of dollars that the university, the former president's alma mater, has already raised to build a "Biden Hall." So far, some of Mr. Biden's most loyal contributors said they had not been contacted by anyone about giving to the library. Other Democratic donors have said that even if Mr. Biden asks them, they are unlikely to give money because they are focused on fighting President Trump or are embittered by Mr. Biden's term in office. John Morgan, a longtime Democratic donor who was one of Mr. Biden's top bundlers, said he would not give "a penny" to the former president's library, citing poor treatment from Mr. Biden's staff.
"The Biden staff, they ruined any type of good library for him," Mr. Morgan said. "He'll be lucky to have a bookmobile."
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 02:42 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: four seasons at December 23, 2025 02:43 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 02:43 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Barack at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (XMwZJ)
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I confess, I like them too. I am not a strong man
Posted by: 496 at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (uC8L0)
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Man, he's pissed now that the well is dry.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (avHHk)
We ought to invite him as the next guest contributor for first world problems.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: four seasons at December 23, 2025 02:45 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at December 23, 2025 02:45 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 23, 2025 02:45 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: Zombie John Lennon at December 23, 2025 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)
Is Hunter Biden now a racist?
No. He knows that the more immigrants there are, the less grift is available for him.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 02:45 PM (lEejK)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:45 PM (5DEFi)
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It was before.
Well, various well-connected Democrat power players like his sugar daddy.
He might be training to maintain/resurrect that by helping blame his demented old father for the problems of the Party, though.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:46 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 23, 2025 02:46 PM (0N4FZ)
He's a pill popper. He didn't see it was a red pill.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 02:46 PM (IifOV)
Posted by: fd at December 23, 2025 02:46 PM (odK/5)
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Run by Party power players. It's such an obvious scheme that it's hilarious.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:47 PM (avHHk)
Nah, it’s going to be a magazine rack next to the toilet.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 23, 2025 02:47 PM (wn0/z)
It could be Hunter Biden.
He's willing to shit on his party the way Trump was willing to shit on the GOP.
Well, Hunter has as much a shot as Wes Moore, at least.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 02:47 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 02:47 PM (n9XW8)
Posted by: four seasons at December 23, 2025 02:47 PM (3ek7K)
Ace should post screenshots of the White House "walk of fame" portrait-biographies. The ones for biden & obama are hilarious.
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:47 PM (TWzjC)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:47 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 02:47 PM (oHAzj)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 02:48 PM (rbvCR)
Interviewer: “You have a party that says you’re a fascist, then you have assassination attempts across the country.”
Biden: “If you don’t want to be called a fascist, don’t act like a fascist.”
F that guy to hell.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:48 PM (dK+Kv)
She'll 'out-grasp' Hunter, for sure.
Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 02:48 PM (n9XW8)
The library foundation declined to say what it had raised in 2025.
Could it possibly be a negative number?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 02:49 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:49 PM (Zz0t1)
Interviewer: “You have a party that says you’re a fascist, then you have assassination attempts across the country.”
Biden: “If you don’t want to be called a fascist, don’t act like a fascist.”
F that guy to hell.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:48 PM (dK+Kv)
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Not even Mitch McConnell voted for the public-private partnership of health insurance that was the ACA, though. Is it really the GOP that's fascist?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 02:49 PM (GBKbO)
This was known.
"Hunter/Harris 2028 -- Blow...something...something"
Posted by: 29Victor at December 23, 2025 02:49 PM (0MjtC)
Is it bullshit or not bullshit?
I see people on "our side" claiming the new Avatar shit "flopped," but didn't already earn, like, $350M?
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:49 PM (TWzjC)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 02:50 PM (Yp6az)
The library foundation declined to say what it had raised in 2025.
Could it possibly be a negative number?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 02:49 PM (pkeXY)
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Well, executives gotta get paid!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 02:50 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 02:50 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 02:50 PM (Ia/+0)
they should take the Tri State Mall and make that his "liberry"
you wouldn't have to do a thing to it, it's currently a perfect representation of Joe Biden and his trash family
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 02:50 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:50 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Odd Fra Oslo at December 23, 2025 02:51 PM (oftw2)
Is it bullshit or not bullshit?
I see people on "our side" claiming the new Avatar shit "flopped," but didn't already earn, like, $350M?
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:49 PM (TWzjC)
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The Avatar movies are known for having incredible legs, remaining top of the box office for weeks and weeks.
Both of the first two movies did it.
Will Avatar 3 act like an Avatar movie or a random other movie? If it acts like other movies, it'll probably be a net-money loser in theaters. If it acts like the other two Avatar movies, it'll steadily climb to 2 billion and no one will know how.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)
Also, What's This?
A Pittsburgh Steelers black player physically assaulted a fan in the stands...on camera??
Guess What!
Guess WHY he attacked the fan. I'll give you 3 guesses.
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:51 PM (TWzjC)
It's the best Christmas ever Mr Scrooge!
Posted by: Auspex at December 23, 2025 02:51 PM (YAFrp)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:51 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: mr tmz at December 23, 2025 02:52 PM (rJ48h)
Also, What's This?
A Pittsburgh Steelers black player physically assaulted a fan in the stands...on camera??
Guess What!
Guess WHY he attacked the fan. I'll give you 3 guesses.
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:51 PM (TWzjC)
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He was complaining about naggers?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 02:52 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)
Look at what Hunter is saying. The Afghanistan withdrawal was bungled. Immigration is out of control and needs to be constrained to ensure higher quality for Americans. It's a soft but real "America First" kind of argument on two issues that are clear Republican winners. In addition, Hunter is a "man's man" type. He is unseemly, but he is successful with women and both works and plays hard.
Now keep that in mind and consider the attempted reframing of Democrats from the early summer: be more manly, be more in touch, walk back the excesses. THAT is what this about. Hunter is a manly man who can find some common ground with major GOP positions that are also widely popular, and doesn't denigrate his fellow citizens or speak in academic language.
This is more about continuing this year's work to rebrand the Democrat Party. He is out there to be rational, good-looking and blunt-talking to soften up the white male margins of the Democrat Party for the next front-runner to come in and continue it with a lot more polish. Hunter will be rewarded for this, but it less about his father than it is about remaking the party's image.
Posted by: Theory From a Universe Even More Clownish Than Ours at December 23, 2025 02:52 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: Seems Legit at December 23, 2025 02:52 PM (aZm/F)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 02:53 PM (nljXp)
He's got that personality disorder (Cluster B?), that kind of pathological awfulness, where he will say literally anything if it means ingratiating himself to whoever he's talking to. Ukrainian oil board? Slavvy Yookrainey, bitches. Talking to some lefty? Talk a bunch of lefty shit. Talking to Shawn Ryan? Talk a bunch of Shawn Ryan-y shit.
He doesn't believe a word coming out of his mouth. It's just a series of tongue-movements and palate-slapping and pharyngeal restrictions orchestrated to get Person In Front Of Me to say "hey this Hunter guy ain't so bad after all". This guy doesn't like my dad? Fuck my dad, he sucks.
The dude is broken.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 02:53 PM (06Hmj)
Funny how lefties get such gracious framing. Righties, on the other hand, are "anti-immigration," full stop. Must be nice to be among the Elect.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 23, 2025 02:53 PM (NYInA)
Guess WHY he attacked the fan. I'll give you 3 guesses.
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:51 PM (TWzjC)
The fan says he used the guy's full name.
There is no audio of the interaction.
I would bet the fan is lying like he's a Democrat office holder.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:53 PM (Zz0t1)
WTF is an "asian" chick?
You mean Oriental?
Or do you mean Indian? Kazahkstan?
There's, like, 6 fucking billion "asians" out there.
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:53 PM (TWzjC)
Posted by: Seems Legit at December 23, 2025 02:52 PM (aZm/F)
It was the Jooz!
Posted by: Hunter Biden at December 23, 2025 02:54 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 02:54 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Theory From a Universe Even More Clownish Than Ours at December 23, 2025 02:52 PM (avHHk)
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He had another outburst like this months ago, and the family's financial prospects have only gotten worse.
The party is not behind this rebrand. If they were, they wouldn't have suppressed the 2024 autopsy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 02:54 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:54 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 02:54 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 02:49 PM (GBKbO)
Democrats will not like a world in which legit fascists are fair game.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:54 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Eeyore at December 23, 2025 02:54 PM (s0JqF)
He was complaining about naggers?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Of course!
The fan supposebly called him a nagger.
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:54 PM (TWzjC)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 02:54 PM (2WIwB)
Hunter isn't getting money from the wacko leftists now, so he's switching sides to grift from stupid people on the right.
Posted by: four seasons at December 23, 2025 02:54 PM (3ek7K)
If that helps.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 02:54 PM (jNFIZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:55 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:55 PM (5DEFi)
Something wrong with a man who rejects all Asian girls
Also: Hunter claims to be 15 million in debt. What a crackhead
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:55 PM (3Amc7)
You mean Oriental?
Or do you mean Indian? Kazahkstan?
There's, like, 6 fucking billion "asians" out there.
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:53 PM (TWzjC)
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LOL. In this country, "Asian" usually means "East Asian." In Britain, it usually means South Asian.
West Asians are their own thing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:55 PM (avHHk)
That is my take as well. He's hoping to get the Nick Fuentes/Candace Owens crowd
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:55 PM (3Amc7)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:55 PM (5DEFi)
What kind of morons make a movie about a Kaiju-ish monster devouring Earth and then spend 50% of the movie on deathly dull (and creepy) plotline about having a baby?
What kind of morons design the best character in the movie (Grimm) and make him look like someone scraped dogshit off the street and formed the outline of the Hulk? His head looks like a shit penis that's been left in the sun to crack.
The Reed character is supposed to be a super-genius, but his plan to teleport the entire Earth (!) to some rando location light-years away was so insanely stupid I can't believe it made the final script.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:55 PM (iFTx/)
The fan says he used the guy's full name.
Posted by: Sponge
Is the player's name Negro Von Negro, or something??
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:55 PM (TWzjC)
And remember their problem with Trump is he's immoral and dishonest. Swearsies.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 02:56 PM (oHAzj)
I imagine a lot of his old "friends" are panicked over what he might say if not paid off.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 02:56 PM (jNFIZ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:56 PM (5DEFi)
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Ace really knew what he was doing when he slipped this line in
Posted by: 496 at December 23, 2025 02:56 PM (uC8L0)
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 02:56 PM (oHAzj)
Biden: “If you don’t want to be called a fascist, don’t act like a fascist.”
F that guy to hell.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:48 PM (dK+Kv)
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Not even Mitch McConnell voted for the public-private partnership of health insurance that was the ACA, though. Is it really the GOP that's fascist?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 02:49 PM (GBKbO)
The lack of self-awareness and magnitude of projection are both astounding. The Democrats in terms of economic policy are classically fascist in many aspects but use it as an epithet against anyone not supportive of the agenda.
Posted by: Reminiscent of Stalin... at December 23, 2025 02:56 PM (TbWk/)
And yet... Democrats in Congress, state governments, and the judiciary have decided that it's the hill for them to die on. Odd that.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 02:56 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 02:57 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 02:57 PM (wlKBZ)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 02:56 PM (ExV1e)
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Crazy, eh?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:57 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:55 PM (iFTx/)
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The movie's release on Disney+ was reportedly the softest Marvel release on the streaming service since the streaming service started.
It made less money than Thunderbolts.
In an unrelated note, the first teaser for Avengers Doomsday released. Steve Rogers is going to be back as Captain America.
Marvel's doing great right now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 02:57 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 23, 2025 02:45 PM (u73oe)
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If we had real journalists, one might have asked, "You were making $500,000 a painting, why not continue to sell your art?"
Posted by: Seems Legit at December 23, 2025 02:57 PM (aZm/F)
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:57 PM (TWzjC)
Posted by: Call it yellow fever, I don't care at December 23, 2025 02:57 PM (TbWk/)
As we've seen, Democrats are now pushing the idea that out-of-control illegal immigration isn't Democrat policy, but was all Biden's fault, and only Biden's fault. The Democrat policy is perfect -- the Real Villain Here is Biden's faulty implementation of that policy, and now that Biden is out of office and will probably be dead within the year, it's time to throw that weight out of the sinking ship.
They are such venal, calculating liars. I wouldn't trust them to rake my leaves.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 02:58 PM (Riz8t)
They clearly modeled him to be huge, then changed their minds and made him small, shrinking him. But now his head is smaller than normal and makes him look stupid. The Thing is supposed to be gruff and huge, not nebbishy and normal height.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:58 PM (3Amc7)
They should consider merging with Obama's library to keep all three terms in one place.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 02:58 PM (ExV1e)
Hunter isn't getting money from the wacko leftists now, so he's switching sides to grift from stupid people on the right.
Posted by: four seasons
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Nah, he is threatening to blow up the '26 election by leaking lots of bad things about the Dems, expecting them to pay him off.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 02:58 PM (jNFIZ)
Posted by: Call it yellow fever, I don't care at December 23, 2025 02:58 PM (TbWk/)
But don't call them "asians."
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:57 PM (TWzjC)
"Mongoloid" is right out.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 02:58 PM (06Hmj)
Real illegal immigration has never been tried.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 02:58 PM (oHAzj)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 02:58 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: Reminiscent of Stalin... at December 23, 2025 02:56 PM (TbWk/)
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"The executive having control of the executive branch of government instead of independent agencies and then reducing the overall power of the executive branch by slashing departments to the bone and eliminating huge swaths of regulation is fascism."
-the modern left
"I need to kill myself."
-Zombie George Orwell
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 02:58 PM (GBKbO)
I imagine a lot of his old "friends" are panicked over what he might say if not paid off.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 02:56 PM (jNFIZ)
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This was my thought also.
Posted by: Seems Legit at December 23, 2025 02:59 PM (aZm/F)
They should consider merging with Obama's library to keep all three terms in one place.
Butt plugs are not usually a shared item.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 02:59 PM (Riz8t)
You mean Oriental?
Or do you mean Indian? Kazahkstan?
There's, like, 6 fucking billion "asians" out there.
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:53 PM (TWzjC)
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"Asian" as used in the USA usually means "yellow" asian (oriental). That's how I use it. Sometimes it's used to refer to Indians, but to me they ain't asian.
The Blade likes them all, though. He don't discriminate, he regulates every shade of the ass!
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:59 PM (iFTx/)
Irish > Asian
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 02:59 PM (oHAzj)
just call it Biden U and there you go
lower the standards - start admitting kids who CAN'T write their names in crayon
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 02:59 PM (emBoF)
If Trump was smart, he'd tweet right now: Democrats Want To Re-Open The Border.
Make.Them.Deny.It.
Or make them oppose it.
Control the Narrative. Control your Enemy.
This is how you Politick.
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 03:00 PM (TWzjC)
2019 MacBook Pro came in 128GB all the way up to 2TB.
Just back of the napkin, you could host 50,000 20MB images on 1TB. Let's say you use 500MB on the OS and various programs. I'm being very generous. Most installations are probably under 100MB. A 600 word email is at most 4KB. That's 128,000 emails in 500MB.
So a 2019 MacBook Pro with a HUGE bloatware problem could host at least 50,000 very high quality images and 128,000 600 word emails.
Hunter is full of shit.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 03:00 PM (Yp6az)
The Fantastic Four is cursed, they cannot get a good movie
One of my favorite hero teams, too.Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 03:00 PM (3Amc7)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:00 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 03:00 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:59 PM (iFTx/)
This is the way.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 03:00 PM (dK+Kv)
They let the Politboro run free, got enough to keep Hunter in coke and hookers for 4 years, and almost nothing else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:00 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 23, 2025 03:00 PM (xcxpd)
- Foundation seeded with just $4M leftover from his 2021 inauguration.
- Projects only $11.3M total by end of 2027, a tiny fraction of the $200M goal aides have discussed.
Obama was supposed to park $400M in a custody account to provide perpetual care at the park he took over for his North Korean Guard Tower.
TO date they have put in around $4 M.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 03:01 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)
They clearly modeled him to be huge, then changed their minds and made him small, shrinking him. But now his head is smaller than normal and makes him look stupid. The Thing is supposed to be gruff and huge, not nebbishy and normal height.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:58 PM (3Amc7)
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Yea, and as it is Grimm seems to change size depending on the scene he's in. In some scenes, he looks barely larger than a big man.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:01 PM (iFTx/)
You mean Oriental?
Or do you mean Indian? Kazahkstan?
There's, like, 6 fucking billion "asians" out there.
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:53 PM (TWzjC)
Only Limeys use "asian" to denote, say, Pakistanis in order to obfuscate the third-world shit-hole origins of their muslim rape gangs.
Posted by: Rotherham? Those pesky restive Asian youths. at December 23, 2025 03:01 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at December 23, 2025 03:01 PM (2J/Lj)
Curling up into a ball to cry while Pookette and Pooky process their emotions by killing virtual things.
Posted by: pookysgirl is depressed at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (WPL6O)
You know what's great about oriental babes?
They have their oriental face, with the slanty barely-open can-blind-them-with-dental-floss eyes, but naked...they have caucasian boobies and everything.
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (TWzjC)
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His last attempt at a Dem Donor and Deep State (BIRM) shakedown to shut-up didn't pay enough -- and no one's buying his constipated paintings.
He wants $20 billion, same as in that town called "Keev" ...
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (wlKBZ)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (UJWr0)
also because English dudes are VERY into (actual) Asian ladies. so the old brits go for "importing Asians" and get ... something very different than they imagined
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 03:03 PM (emBoF)
Curling up into a ball to cry while Pookette and Pooky process their emotions by killing virtual things.
Posted by: pookysgirl is depressed at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (Wt5PA)
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We went through something like this. Crushed us. We still named her and buried her. It's hard.
My condolences.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:03 PM (GBKbO)
And the amusing part is people posting screenshots of their work provided healthcare already costing 4X what these people are paying and noting that if the leftists don't like Obamacare they should call up their Dem congressmen and tell them to join the Republicans to repeal it...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:04 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (UJWr0)
Drugs
Hooker and
Spank
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 03:04 PM (gbOdA)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 03:04 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: four seasons at December 23, 2025 03:04 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:55 PM (iFTx/)
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The movie's release on Disney+ was reportedly the softest Marvel release on the streaming service since the streaming service started.
It made less money than Thunderbolts.
In an unrelated note, the first teaser for Avengers Doomsday released. Steve Rogers is going to be back as Captain America.
Marvel's doing great right now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 02:57 PM (GBKbO)
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I liked the 1960s retro look, but it made no sense given how high tech everything else was. They've got spaceships and FTL travel and teleportation, but they're still using old cassette data storage and cameras with those big old flashbulbs?
They reportedly spent over $200M on this thing, but the SFX looked like something from 2005. The silver surfer chick barely looked better than the T1000 from T2 ... in 1991?
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:04 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 03:04 PM (nHscG)
And the amusing part is people posting screenshots of their work provided healthcare already costing 4X what these people are paying and noting that if the leftists don't like Obamacare they should call up their Dem congressmen and tell them to join the Republicans to repeal it...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:04 PM (sKqQm)
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The first step to repealing the ACA is making it unpopular again.
A bad law aggressively enforced is the best way to repeal it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:05 PM (GBKbO)
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The Reed character is supposed to be a super-genius, but his plan to teleport the entire Earth (!) to some rando location light-years away was so insanely stupid I can't believe it made the final script.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:55 PM (iFTx/)
They should have erected a giant space sign stating that the solar system is a Kaiju-ish monster free zone and Galactus could not have harmed us.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 03:05 PM (ExV1e)
Sure, but in this day and age it's important to say WHY something is true. Too many people simply assert their belief as fact and can't articulate an argument.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 03:05 PM (Yp6az)
Curling up into a ball to cry while Pookette and Pooky process their emotions by killing virtual things.
Posted by: pookysgirl is depressed at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (Wt5PA)
I am so very very sorry. We grieve this terrible news with you.
Posted by: Hard-hearted asshole who's misting up at December 23, 2025 03:05 PM (TbWk/)
This ain't much but it's a start.
Posted by: melodicmetal at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (rHQec)
Posted by: Rotherham? Those pesky restive Asian youths. at December 23, 2025 03:01 PM (TbWk/)
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Yeah when the Rothwrfam thing first got into the news I was confused. I was like a) there’s that many Asians in the UK and b) Chinese, Koreans, etc aren’t known for being the rape gang types. It was weird.
Took me a while to realize “Asian” means SE Asian and really means Pakistani, and really means Muslim. Then it all made sense.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (UJWr0)
Hispanic ladies hit the wall age 28-33, depending on how much weight they gain. AOC hit the wall a couple years ago. Her haunches are enormous now. No longer the dancing coed from college. They also get serious fat around the middle.
Posted by: Arbiter of Beauty And Taste! at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (oftw2)
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I'm sorry for your whole family.
Posted by: Seems Legit at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (aZm/F)
Daddy Joe is going to yank his pardon! I can't think of any other reason he's doing this!
Maybe he wants a gofundme?
I don't need a gofundme, but I could use some elves to wrap gifts I have procrastinated...while I bake cookies I have procrastinated. Plus making Christmas Eve dinner prep, which should be all I am doing today in serenity.
I am unserene, but filled with the joy and blessings of Christmas with no snow. So, that's something vs wailing like an influencer in my car about the lack of snow that I am used to.
Why do they always video themselves in their car? I also don't have fake eyelashes or social media, so maybe 2026 is my year to influence!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (WONhk)
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Simply turn his Corvette into The Biden Presidential Bookmobile.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (wlKBZ)
I am sick o' wastin' leather on these gritty pavin'-stones,
An' the blasted English drizzle wakes the fever in my bones;
Tho' I walks with fifty 'ousemaids outer Chelsea to the Strand,
An' they talks a lot o' lovin', but wot do they understand?
Beefy face an' grubby 'and -
Law! wot do they understand?
I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!
On the road to Mandalay...
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (Riz8t)
Scratch 'n Sniff books...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (TWzjC)
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (oHAzj)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (pLaQB)
Curling up into a ball to cry while Pookette and Pooky process their emotions by killing virtual things.
Posted by: pookysgirl is depressed at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (Wt5PA)
I'm so sorry. That happened to us probably 15 or so years ago. They gave the First Lady drugs to induce labor and she miscarried on my birthday. First Daughter was very young and we had to hide everything from her.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:07 PM (Zz0t1)
So sorry to hear that. I went through something very similar at one point and it is *devastating*. People generally don't talk about it, so when you are expecting you don't think about it, but unfortunately it does happen.
Hug your family and take the time you'll need to recover.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:07 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: pookysgirl is depressed at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (Wt5PA)
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It happened to us too. So terrible. We love you pookysgirl. Hang in there, and try again if you are able.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 03:07 PM (nHscG)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 03:07 PM (+El+t)
Scratch 'n Sniff books...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (ynpvh)
lol
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at December 23, 2025 03:07 PM (xcxpd)
Curling up into a ball to cry while Pookette and Pooky process their emotions by killing virtual things.
Posted by: pookysgirl is depressed at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (Wt5PA)
I'm so sorry.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:08 PM (ynpvh)
I can honestly say this is the first I've even heard of that movie. I might have seen a promotional image of David Harbour in his costume.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 03:08 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 03:08 PM (2WIwB)
Oh no pg I will be praying - I am so so so so sorry.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:08 PM (oHAzj)
Posted by: Arbiter of Beauty And Taste! at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (oftw2)
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LOL. Sometimes it goes like that.
~16 - ~45: virtual stasis in terms of appearance.
Then, one day, wake up as Kim Jong Il.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:08 PM (avHHk)
The left loves to use language to make things like clear.
China has a lot of issues but rape gangs and sudden jihad syndrome are not part of them
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:08 PM (sKqQm)
I wouldn't say HE did it. He was along for the ride.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 03:09 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 03:09 PM (znfsz)
Curling up into a ball to cry while Pookette and Pooky process their emotions by killing virtual things.
Posted by: pookysgirl is depressed at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (Wt5PA)
I am so very sorry. Prayers for you all...and for a better outcome in 2026.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 03:09 PM (WONhk)
I can honestly say this is the first I've even heard of that movie. I might have seen a promotional image of David Harbour in his costume.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 03:08 PM (Yp6az)
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The Marvel movies still make hundreds of millions of dollars.
But they still cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
And it's hundreds of millions of dollars less that they make than they used to make.
Steve Rogers is coming back for the new Avengers movie for a reason. Also all the X-Men from the Fox era. And, like...everyone else.
"Remember these guys?!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)
I saw that movie and kept fast forwarding waiting to get to some sort of action scene.
They have one 4 way fight that is kind of silly and then the rest of the movie is really just fictional people blathering about other fictional people I don't care about.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:10 PM (sKqQm)
A bad law aggressively enforced is the best way to repeal it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:05 PM (GBKbO)
I always thot it was designed to FAIL and then TA DA
Mediscare for All.
Also a few questions on Medicare for all:
1. Monthly premium for my region is $185/mth. Are those payment to be deducted from your check?
2. A decent supplemental is is $150 to $200 per mth when paying for a quarter ($600 bux) at a time. Are people going to just shop for a supplemental and what if they do not have the cash.
3. No supp means Co-pays of 20%. Are people going to take out loans at the hospital?
4. There is no Rx in my numbers. That could be another $40 to $150 a month.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 03:10 PM (gbOdA)
{{{{{{pg}}}}}}
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:10 PM (oHAzj)
Oh no, I am so very sorry
What an awful loss, I will remember you in my prayers and wish for God to send you comfort and peace in this tragedy. Truly I wish I had the words.Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 03:10 PM (3Amc7)
Life sucks sometimes. Condolences.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 03:11 PM (ExV1e)
Biden: “We have put together the most extensive and inclusive VOTER FRAUD organization in the history of American politics”
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:11 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Wenda at December 23, 2025 03:11 PM (cRhQI)
Posted by: almost serious at December 23, 2025 03:11 PM (3sN3b)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 03:04 PM (nHscG)
Like everything else, someone did it for him, and he got to ride the wave. I await the opportunity to urinate upon his grave.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 23, 2025 03:11 PM (MZ+PY)
"Remember these guys?!"
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No. No I don't.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 03:11 PM (pLaQB)
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 03:11 PM (gbOdA)
I saw that movie and kept fast forwarding waiting to get to some sort of action scene.
They have one 4 way fight that is kind of silly and then the rest of the movie is really just fictional people blathering about other fictional people I don't care about.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:10 PM (sKqQm)
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I've seen so little of Marvel since Endgame, and what I've seen is just...mediocre. And I think I've seen most of the best stuff.
Whatevs. It's not for me.
Ernst Lubitsch > the MCU.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)
And lose it all!!!
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 03:11 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 23, 2025 03:11 PM (me+OG)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 03:12 PM (nljXp)
However, the snippets of video I saw from the interview revealed that a number of pushbacks were in order.
I would like to know who initiated the interview, if Hunter was paid, and what the question parameters were.
Posted by: Seems Legit at December 23, 2025 03:12 PM (aZm/F)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 03:12 PM (nljXp)
Depends dispensers.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:12 PM (ynpvh)
"Yes. Yes. Feeeeel the Presidentialyness....."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 03:12 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:12 PM (5DEFi)
But they still cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
And it's hundreds of millions of dollars less that they make than they used to make.
Steve Rogers is coming back for the new Avengers movie for a reason. Also all the X-Men from the Fox era. And, like...everyone else.
"Remember these guys?!"
For the love of all that's holy, get it through your thick skulls. Superhero movies are DEAD!
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 03:13 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 03:12 PM (nljXp)
Attendants dressed up as Easter Bunnies to keep the crowds in check.
Oh, did I say crowds? Sorry, keep that one guy in check.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:13 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:12 PM (5DEFi)
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What does that mean?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:13 PM (avHHk)
But that hasn't been my particular experience.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 03:13 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 03:13 PM (F0j7f)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 03:13 PM (Riz8t)
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"Only mostly dead."
-Miracle Max
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:13 PM (GBKbO)
Hispanic ladies hit the wall age 28-33, depending on how much weight they gain. AOC hit the wall a couple years ago. Her haunches are enormous now. No longer the dancing coed from college. They also get serious fat around the middle.
Posted by: Arbiter of Beauty And Taste! at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (oftw2)
The woman you love never ages. Once upon a time women used to try and grab a man before the wall hit. Some still do.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 03:14 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:14 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at December 23, 2025 03:14 PM (Iwv3U)
But they still cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
Well, that's the problem in a nutshell. They get lots of attention and viewers, they just cost too damned much. If they cost half as much, they'd make hundreds of millions of dollars and everyone would be happy.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 03:14 PM (3Amc7)
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I checked recently and if I bought insurance on my own the cheapest I could get for my family is $1400/mo with a $6k per person deductible.
It’s going to be hard to make Medicare for all vs the status quo argument in favor of status quo.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:15 PM (UJWr0)
I suspect their Dr Doom movie will be decent because they'll go back to Downey jr
But honestly they ruined the whole thing with Endgame by resetting everything. There is no emotional investment with no loss and sorry, no one cares about ScarJo faceplanting.
This is actually a core problem with superhero movies, generally everything goes back to the way it was before the movie started so what was the point?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:15 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:12 PM (5DEFi)
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What does that mean?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:13 PM (avHHk)
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It could mean that somewhere there's a hawt chick in a bikini who is intrigued by weird numbers.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 03:15 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:15 PM (5DEFi)
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The woman you love never ages. Once upon a time women used to try and grab a man before the wall hit. Some still do.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 03:14 PM (ExV1e)
Amen. And as she has passed, she remains ageless...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:15 PM (ynpvh)
But they still cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
Well, that's the problem in a nutshell. They get lots of attention and viewers, they just cost too damned much. If they cost half as much, they'd make hundreds of millions of dollars and everyone would be happy.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 03:14 PM (3Amc7)
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This was the MGM problem in the 50s.
Easily the biggest movie studio. Had all the biggest box office returns.
Losing money all over the place until they sold their library to CBS for cash because they could not get their productions under control.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:15 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 03:15 PM (F0j7f)
How many absolute cratering bombs have there been in sci fi movies in the last 5 years? You can count the successes on one hand. Nobody thinks sci fi is dead, though. I wonder why?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (3Amc7)
But do bitch on ObamaCare moochers.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (wBaIH)
Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at December 23, 2025 03:14 PM (Iwv3U)
True story:
The parking lot across the street from a building I work at often had their ticket thingy break down. They got the quote to replace it. They crunched the numbers. They said "Fuck it", put the gate up permanently, and now it's free parking.
Just a bit of anec-data for ya.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 03:13 PM (Riz8t)
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"Only mostly dead."
-Miracle Max
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:13 PM (GBKbO)
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They've already got at least two Avengers movies coming out, and supposedly a sequel to F4. Plus probably more shit I don't know about. I expect at least a dozen superhero movies out in the next two years, if you include all the IP.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (iFTx/)
http://tiny.cc/azsw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (pkeXY)
Presuming you want kids, the modern idea of marrying so late is insane. Yes you get to "play the field" in your 20s and in most cases I don't think that is the reward most younger women are told it is...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (sKqQm)
And his worthless son would be breaking rocks into pebbles.
Sadly, someone on the left with more money than brains will extend a hand. Full of money.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (NwnyJ)
Posted by: Alec Baldwin at December 23, 2025 03:17 PM (EMg+d)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:17 PM (5DEFi)
prayers from down here by the Bay.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 23, 2025 03:11 PM (gbOdA)
And the Pacific Northwest.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 03:17 PM (2WIwB)
But do bitch on ObamaCare moochers.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (wBaIH)
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Well, that's the thing about welfare programs. You don't pay into them. You are taxed for their current upkeep.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: GKWVE at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (RluLT)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (iFTx/)
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Zootopia 2 making a billion dollars in 5 minutes helps keep things afloat in the film side-business of the cruise line that is Disney.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)
The studios are still throwing oceans of money after returns, but they just aren't there. At some point, someone with a brain has got to say "enough".
Posted by: Archimedes at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Alec Baldwin at December 23, 2025 03:17 PM (EMg+d)
Doing shots means different things to different people...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (ynpvh)
Yeah, 81 million votes my aching ass.
Posted by: Cheri at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (oiNtH)
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Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (znfsz)
Posted by: Dave at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (sbsMc)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 23, 2025 03:04 PM (nHscG)
I disagree. Biden didn't steal the elction because he was already suffering the effects of dementia. No, he was installed as a good little puppet easily led by an ice cream cone.
Who were President Auto Pen?
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)
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Or, in the case of Medicare, a small part of the current upkeep. Medicare taxes are laughably tiny compared to the cost of the program.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (avHHk)
The hottest genre over the last few years seems to be horror. Not that there aren't crappy horror movies, but if you want something recent that isn't a crap sequel, prequel, or reimagining it seems the safest choice.
SF comes in second.
Comedy is mostly dead. Drama/Thrillers are mostly dead.
Its the oddest thing.
20 years ago Hollywood made interesting movies of different genres and you could find an interesting new movie at least once a month in theaters...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:19 PM (sKqQm)
http://tiny.cc/azsw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (avHHk)
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Looks Korean to me. TBWB.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:19 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)
Tee hee.
- Social Security
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:19 PM (UJWr0)
People say that but its the template for every action movie. I mean, how many James Bond movies end with everything different? The only one I can think of is the last one and it sucked.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 03:20 PM (3Amc7)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:19 PM (sKqQm)
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Interesting data point...
Gen-Z goes to theaters 25% more than the previous generation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)
If we had an opposition party and not just Trump this is something they'd be talking about endlessly.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:20 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 03:21 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (sKqQm)
Considering that a good number of guys have started ruling out party girls... no, probably not. Still, lots of women on tiktok telling young women that real men want women who've slept with hundreds of other guys.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 03:21 PM (ExV1e)
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What do they like?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 03:21 PM (pLaQB)
Gen-Z goes to theaters 25% more than the previous generation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)
Duh. Taking a girl out to the movies is the new "netflix and chill", Grandpa.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 03:21 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 03:21 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 03:21 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (iFTx/)
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Zootopia 2 making a billion dollars in 5 minutes helps keep things afloat in the film side-business of the cruise line that is Disney.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)
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It's insane that cute anthropomorphic animals are a multi-billion dollar business, but I can't get an agent to even read my manuscript starring ... cute anthropomorphic animals.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:21 PM (iFTx/)
Looking at my younger relatives, when they go to the theaters it is to watch something made in Japan...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:21 PM (sKqQm)
But they told us Biden was more popular than Jesus ... Or Trump at least.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 03:22 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 23, 2025 03:22 PM (A0sqA)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (avHHk)
But account for all the people who pay Medicare taxes for 20 or 30 years and die before they’re eligible. Or die within a year or two of becoming eligible.
If you live to 90, Medicare and SS are pretty good deals. If you live to 68? Ya got fucked.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:22 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:22 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:21 PM (sKqQm)
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Doesn't matter to the theater owners.
Expect more imports, more coordinated live events (concerts, etc.), more alternative programming in general.
Hollywood is dying, but the theaters presumably want to avoid going down with them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:23 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: NCKate at December 23, 2025 03:23 PM (uQzkA)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:23 PM (5DEFi)
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Its funny that all the Medical Insurance I paid into was finally used for me and mine instead of those chicks who were always going to the doctor.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 03:24 PM (pLaQB)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:18 PM (UJWr0)
There is, it's just a PITA to find.
https://tinyurl.com/4vhzc7sh+
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 03:24 PM (ExV1e)
Gen-Z goes to theaters 25% more than the previous generation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:20 PM (GBKbO)
Duh. Taking a girl out to the movies is the new "netflix and chill", Grandpa.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 03:21 PM (06Hmj)
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It's now much harder for anyone under 21 to get into bars or buy booze. So if you're under 21, and want to go on a date or hang out somewhere, the movies are an appealing option. I'm Gen X. I was sneaking into Manhattan bars and clubs since I was 14. That's not possible any more.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:24 PM (iFTx/)
What a run-of-the-mill, butt-kissing, cowardly, boring, half-wit, lying, fake Christian.
Posted by: Seems Legit at December 23, 2025 03:24 PM (aZm/F)
If you live to 90, Medicare and SS are pretty good deals. If you live to 68? Ya got fucked.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:22 PM (UJWr0)
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People who "paid in" to Medicare and died before taking advantage of it don't change the reality that Medicare is so deeply underwater that most people would need to die before using it to make it balance.
There is "paying in." There is just cash in and cash out, and Medicare is disastrously negative on its cashflow.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:24 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
I see no downside
Posted by: Prince Harry at December 23, 2025 03:25 PM (mmFQG)
Well, compare the MCU generation of movies that ended with Thanos and the time travel shenigans. The world is basically the same.
Then compare it to LotR where they also had a grand battle to save the world. They saved the world...but it was changed because of it...and most of the characters have changed as well.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:25 PM (sKqQm)
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This is what killed Rock n Roll.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 03:26 PM (pLaQB)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:26 PM (5DEFi)
Obamacare got rid of those. Now every policy has to cover everything including flu shots. And weirdly they now cost $1000/mo for what used to cost $100/mo.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:26 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:24 PM
You say that like it's a Bad Thing.
Posted by: USPS, no longer giving a rat's @$$ about rain, sleet, nor snow at December 23, 2025 03:27 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: pookysgirl
Prayers you and yours.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 23, 2025 03:27 PM (kfTpm)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:16 PM (sKqQm)
Considering that a good number of guys have started ruling out party girls... no, probably not. Still, lots of women on tiktok telling young women that real men want women who've slept with hundreds of other guys.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 03:21 PM (ExV1e)
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I think if you're a young lady, the last person on Earth you want to take advice from is a TTHOT. These TT "influencers" are mostly mentally ill, bitter lunatics that do not have any other women's best interests in mind.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:27 PM (iFTx/)
No, but my point is the younger generation is rejecting Hollywood even if they are still going to theaters.
And the funny thing is these Japanese movies aren't really doing much new storywise - they've reverted to what Hollywood used to do, with a lot of standard hero's journey type stuff and a focus on character development instead of woke plot points.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:27 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:26 PM (UJWr0)
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You just described insurance. Insurance doesn't really exist anymore. Insurance has been replaced entirely with cost-sharing schemes - where all of the prices are hidden. Great idea.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:28 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: Sharkman at December 23, 2025 03:28 PM (Tzo3c)
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But they told us Biden was more popular than Jesus ... Or Trump at least.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 03:22 PM (/lPRQ)
More votes than Chocolate Jesus in 2008. Obama had 69,500,000 votes to Biden's 81,200,000. A phantom 12 or so million votes at minimum for Dementia Joe.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 03:28 PM (gKDq2)
Don’t get married at 24 and then wake up 5 years later regretting it.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:29 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:28 PM (avHHk)
During his first term, Trump tried to introduce medical price transparency. Apparently, experts say that's a bad thing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 03:29 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:27 PM (sKqQm)
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Shocking.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:29 PM (avHHk)
It is comical. Against Trump...so the same opponent each time...the left claims they were more excited for Joe F'ing Biden then the first woman president or the first Indian woman president. And as you note more votes then for the Lightbringer
Really?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:30 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 03:29 PM (ExV1e)
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Of course it is. Makes it much harder to steal a quarter of the economy if you post prices.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:30 PM (avHHk)
Nobody hates women like other women
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 03:30 PM (3Amc7)
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 03:28 PM (gKDq2)
And the wingnuts are STILL trying to figure out where that 12 million went in 2024.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:31 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:28 PM (avHHk)
Car insurance still works like that. Car insurance doesn’t pay for oil changes or tires. But health insurance for some reason has to pay for flu shots. It’s insanity.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:31 PM (UJWr0)
Really?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:30 PM (sKqQm)
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"Hatred of Trump animated us to turn out."
"Okay...so what are you going to do in 2028 when Trump isn't on the ticket?"
"Treat Vance like George W. Bush, when we couldn't animate people to come out at the same levels?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:31 PM (GBKbO)
Because it would clearly show the free rider problem.
Was do healthcare institutions price gouge you for things if you have a job and private health insurance? Well, they have to make up for all those illegals and FSA types that aren't paying a dime or have uncle sugar under pay on their behalf
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:31 PM (sKqQm)
Whatever, you drug added chimp.
Posted by: Sharkman at December 23, 2025 03:28 PM (Tzo3c)
There wasn't; it was more than one.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:31 PM (ynpvh)
I think the opposite. Why? Because having babies is exhausting and you need that young energy to pull off all the sleepless nights and day long work.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 03:32 PM (3Amc7)
Some poor boy done good or the scion of one of CA's four families?
But the FNM will tell us Newsom is for "the little people"
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:32 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Kratwurst at December 23, 2025 03:33 PM (mmFQG)
Or pollute our precious bodily fluids.
Fluoride is a Communist plot!
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 03:33 PM (qFwJc)
This would not be tolerated by consumers in any other industry.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:33 PM (UJWr0)
Some poor boy done good or the scion of one of CA's four families?
But the FNM will tell us Newsom is for "the little people"
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:32 PM (sKqQm)
Fairies?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:33 PM (ynpvh)
In filings with the Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Biden's library foundation revealed that it had not received any new donations in 2024, the final year of his "so called' presidency.
In filings with the Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Biden's library foundation revealed that it had not received any new donations in 2024, the final year of his presidency "in name only."
Posted by: Shoofly the Boxing Mule at December 23, 2025 03:34 PM (ufJfM)
This would not be tolerated by consumers in any other industry.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:33 PM (UJWr0)
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It wouldn't be legal in any other industry. It may not technically be legal in medicine, but everyone pretends that law doesn't exist (except HIPAA) when it comes to medicine. It's Calvinball.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:34 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:32 PM (sKqQm)
*shoulder shimmy shoulder shimmy*
Posted by: Gavin Newsom's Sign Language Interpreter, who will need a Chiropractor after all this at December 23, 2025 03:35 PM (yZSOm)
Medically it is safer and you'd have the energy still to take care of them. There are many stressed out career women trying to raise a kid or two at 35+ and of course you are going to be exhausted.
But we tell women having kids early means they'll miss out on fun AND of course we've created an economy where they'd have to marry a man 10 years older to have some financial stability.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:35 PM (sKqQm)
He is definitely running for president. Not sure which party though.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 03:35 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:33 PM (ynpvh)
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hahahaahahaha Well, he is a fricken ponce.
Posted by: Seems Legit at December 23, 2025 03:35 PM (aZm/F)
Oops, gotta go, Mandarin class starts early today!
Posted by: AoS Isolationists and Code Pinkers at December 23, 2025 03:36 PM (Wv0GD)
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:36 PM (oHAzj)
This would not be tolerated by consumers in any other industry.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 03:33 PM (UJWr0)
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I have a simple solution: don't pay it. I had some medical issues over the last few years, one of which required a long hospital stay.
For months afterwards, I was getting big bills (one was $5,000) from at least half a dozen vague medical companies with vague billing statements. I never paid them a dime.
I reasoned that they got whatever they got from my insurance, and if illegal vermin aren't paying then why should I? So I didn't. Sure, they called and sent bill collectors after me, but I told them all to fuck off. They eventually gave up.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:36 PM (iFTx/)
One of the fascinating things to see is that the healthcare industry computerized and the benefits we consumers see are small. Why?
The government used the drive to computerize records and paperwork to demand MORE records and paperwork. The general belief 20 years ago is that all of that would go away and costs would go down significantly.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:37 PM (sKqQm)
You want to blame Tylenol for autism? I have another cause.
Old eggs.
Counter evidence I must admit. My mother was 42 when I was born. I am still at the age of 70 trying to figure out how so many folks just cannot find a career and gainful employment. Clearly my mom's old eggs weren't all bad.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 03:37 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 03:37 PM (Yp6az)
Sure. It takes two to tango, you forget, and if the women don’t want to marry…then what?
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 03:37 PM (Wv0GD)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 03:38 PM (iEaco)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 03:37 PM (Wv0GD)
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Collapsing birth rates and surging wine futures?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 03:38 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 03:38 PM (3uBP9)
Absolutely not.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 03:37 PM (Yp6az)
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I'm certain he was trying to be funny.
Posted by: Seems Legit at December 23, 2025 03:38 PM (aZm/F)
Gambling and medical bills.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 03:39 PM (qFwJc)
Hispanic ladies hit the wall age 28-33, depending on how much weight they gain. AOC hit the wall a couple years ago. Her haunches are enormous now. No longer the dancing coed from college. They also get serious fat around the middle.
Posted by: Arbiter of Beauty And Taste! at December 23, 2025 03:06 PM (oftw2)
The woman you love never ages. Once upon a time women used to try and grab a man before the wall hit. Some still do.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 23, 2025 03:14 PM (ExV1e)
I still haven't hit that wall, and I am a blond Scots/Irish/English/French hag. Sunscreen helps every day. Had I not tanned like a loon in my teens and early 20's I'd have avoided some skin cancer along the way.
When you find someone who still tells you that you don't need make up as a grandmother, he's the one! I still feel the same about him as well...love deepens with your wrinkles and flaws.
They are out there somewhere, boys and girls. Never settle!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 03:39 PM (WONhk)
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:39 PM (oHAzj)
.....
forget the train relish.... train ketchup!
Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 03:39 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 03:38 PM (iEaco)
Perfect. We will request a sign for the TxMoMe:
The Biden Presidential Library
And mount it by the porta-potties.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:39 PM (Zz0t1)
That's the issue really.
I remember some female CEO got in trouble a few years ago mentioning at a college commencement speech that if you want to have kids the graduates should plan on finding a husband and having those kids soon and she was dammed as the second coming of Hitler or Osama...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:39 PM (sKqQm)
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Chocolate Jesus or Milk Chocolate Jesus. What does the AoS style guide say is preferred?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 03:39 PM (Dv3i1)
What is a “healthcare institution”? (I have no health for which to care so I truly have no idea.)
“Price gouging” is a phrase used by the economically illiterate. We should not forget that inflation is high in the medical industry due to massive government intervention.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 03:40 PM (Wv0GD)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 03:40 PM (06Hmj)
He is definitely running for president. Not sure which party though.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
.....
The All Night Hookers and Blow Party.
Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 03:40 PM (v0R5T)
Chocolate Jesus or Milk Chocolate Jesus. What does the AoS style guide say is preferred?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 03:39 PM (Dv3i1)
His momma was lily white........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 03:41 PM (3uBP9)
Or, better yet, "Should Donald Trump be the person that controls what healthcare you get? Because as head of the executive he would also head whatever federal healthcare agency we have. You know that right? REEEEE!!!!!"
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:41 PM (sKqQm)
That's the issue really.
I remember some female CEO got in trouble a few years ago mentioning at a college commencement speech that if you want to have kids the graduates should plan on finding a husband and having those kids soon and she was dammed as the second coming of Hitler or Osama...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:39 PM (sKqQm)
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Screeching childless cat ladies want more screeching childless cat ladies ....
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:41 PM (iFTx/)
Use the DMV for a more localized experience.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:42 PM (Zz0t1)
Of course Kamala was "black" when she had one Indian parent and one half white/black parent
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:42 PM (sKqQm)
Her Dad thought I was great.
Just last year, one of her shitbag brothers (she had 2 shitbag brothers) told me how much he always admired me. Hey asshole, I could have used the encouragement 40 years ago.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 03:42 PM (qFwJc)
Watch Newsome will come out as a border hawk and the public will nod along.
All without the media force multipliers.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2025 03:42 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:43 PM (oHAzj)
...
Screeching childless cat ladies want more screeching childless cat ladies ....
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:41 PM (iFTx/)
If they ain't makin' the babies, they have to indoctrinate the kids of those havin' the babies.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:43 PM (ynpvh)
A woman who marries at 30 has five years before egg quality drops dramatically.
Posted by: Doesn't Matter at December 23, 2025 03:43 PM (JCLJi)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:31 PM (5DEFi)
I have no health for which to care.
I have zero interest in nationalizing the medical industry. Because if you want it to TRULY suck, have a completely uncompetitive medical sector. And contrary to the propaganda, it isn’t working so well in Canada. Which is why murder is perfectly legal in Canada now, so long as the doc does it.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 03:44 PM (Wv0GD)
Posted by: Public Service Announcement at December 23, 2025 03:44 PM (SzjyL)
There's no Obama presidential library either. They raised hundreds of millions of dollars and squandered it destroying a park to put in a crumbling concrete flak tower with a nightclub on every floor and no books or records whatsoever.
Obama's staff, like Biden's, don't want to provide a record of what they did.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 23, 2025 03:44 PM (VWtfl)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 03:37 PM (Wv0GD)
++++
Collapsing birth rates and surging wine futures?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
>Or women want to marry, but don't want to have kids or get a job. Which is worse?
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 03:44 PM (nljXp)
Dependent Personality Disorder (DPD)
If he was acting out rather than just saying whatever pleases who he is speaking to, then maybe it could be a Histrionic PD.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 03:44 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:45 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)
***
The Mocha Messiah's Momma was also a Hoor
Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 23, 2025 03:45 PM (Bo9Yf)
Posted by: wferrin at December 23, 2025 03:45 PM (QuNOR)
Watch Newsome will come out as a border hawk and the public will nod along.
All without the media force multipliers.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2025 03:42 PM (XV/Pl)
R's allow it
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:45 PM (oHAzj)
I was reading the story of one guy who had some difficult to deal with health issue and they put him on a long wait list to see a specialist. But he started getting emails from their euthanasia department telling him there was not wait line for their services.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:45 PM (sKqQm)
Old eggs.
I think that does play a part. That and pumping every kid full of drugs to calm them down in class. And grossly over-diagnosing both autism and ADHD, without allowing for a natural range of natures and personalities.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 03:45 PM (3Amc7)
Posted by: Hunh at December 23, 2025 03:45 PM (SzjyL)
There's no Obama presidential library either. They raised hundreds of millions of dollars and squandered it destroying a park to put in a crumbling concrete flak tower with a nightclub on every floor and no books or records whatsoever.
Obama's staff, like Biden's, don't want to provide a record of what they did.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 23, 2025 03:44 PM (VWtfl)
Is Barky still holding on to all those records the National Archives needs, or is the NA still allowing him to hold all those records?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:45 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
YOU can pay for YOUR own fucking library from the money YOU stole
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 23, 2025 03:45 PM (cOh05)
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 03:40 PM (Wv0GD)
"rentier class" is not understood generally, either, even though that explains what the government is supporting, instead of patients and providers.
(Rentier class short, street definition: a level of intermediaries between suppliers and consumers who have managed to get themselves into a position of saying "f___ you, pay me" and has sufficient leg-breaking support to make it stick)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 03:45 PM (rbvCR)
All 'ettes are axiomatically** beautiful.
** Greek in origin meaning, Damn Straight!
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 03:46 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:46 PM (oHAzj)
As each year passes, neither one is willing to change.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 03:46 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)
***
The Mocha Messiah's Momma was also a Hoor
Posted by: Truck Monkey at December 23, 2025 03:45 PM (Bo9Yf)
As much as Mom?
Posted by: Justin Trudeau at December 23, 2025 03:46 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)
And he had a "typical white grandmother," too.
Not sure how many grandmas are VPs at banks but whatever.
Posted by: RickZ at December 23, 2025 03:47 PM (gKDq2)
I was wondering about that earlier today.
Many men need a reason to keep going. The Why Am I Here issue, and many see themselves as Providers, or the Guy That Gets Things Done.
What motivates such a woman who doesn't have kids a/o a job to get out of bed? Or is that the reason why they spend so much time on-line, in the bottle (pill or wine) or just being public assholes?
The retired men I know have to do something. Just sitting around doesn't work.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 03:47 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:47 PM (oHAzj)
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:47 PM (oHAzj)
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Note: Democrat suppressed the report that told them this because their donors and voters will not support the party actually going back on any issue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:48 PM (GBKbO)
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One service is just like another when you are just a widget being processed. Congrats, Canada on achieving National Health Care!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 03:49 PM (Dv3i1)
Outside spiritual sanctification.
From a materialists view:
Maybe as a man's T levels lower and a woman around menopause - they change.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 03:49 PM (a4flb)
Its a not uncommon sentiment I've seen from men I know personally and online "why do I get out of bed in the morning? My family needs me" or the somewhat darker "why didn't I end myself when things went bad? I'm not leaving my family to deal with that on their own"
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:49 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 03:49 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:50 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:47 PM (oHAzj)
Not Sniffy Joe's senility and full depends, not Kumswalla's word salads...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:50 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 03:47 PM (oHAzj)
=====
Note: Democrat suppressed the report that told them this because their donors and voters will not support the party actually going back on any issue.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:48 PM (GBKbO)
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But the Dums sent out a fat latina dyke to talk to frat boys. Progress!
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:50 PM (iFTx/)
...claimed without evidence. Maybe this is their new fallback position.
Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 03:50 PM (dfgzq)
Counter evidence I must admit. My mother was 42 when I was born. I am still at the age of 70 trying to figure out how so many folks just cannot find a career and gainful employment. Clearly my mom's old eggs weren't all bad.
Posted by: no one
They just never had the heart to tell you that you were adopted, is all.
Posted by: Unwed Mothers Home at December 23, 2025 03:50 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 23, 2025 03:50 PM (8CIFn)
As much as Mom?
Posted by: Justin Trudeau at December 23, 2025 03:46 PM (ynpvh)
Nah. I'm betting Trudeau is one that always refers to his mom as "mother."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bunter Hiden at December 23, 2025 03:51 PM (vqA1l)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:50 PM (iFTx/)
======
They spent, what was it, $30 million on her.
And I think they hired her for some other position afterwards.
When the VA governor's election ends up not predictive of the 2026 midterms, some people are going to be real surprised.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:51 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 03:51 PM (3uBP9)
I ran across a video showing how various B list celebs died. They included some pron stars. The female ones were all: drugs, alcohol, suicide or murder.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:51 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:51 PM (Zz0t1)
...claimed without evidence. Maybe this is their new fallback position.
Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 03:50 PM (dfgzq)
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I think it's just base code of 99% of people who want to get into politics.
Immigration is good. The only question is: how good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:52 PM (GBKbO)
I ran across a video showing how various B list celebs died. They included some pron stars. The female ones were all: drugs, alcohol, suicide or murder.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:51 PM (sKqQm)
Their lifestyles are NOT conducive to dying of old age...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:52 PM (ynpvh)
A latest talking point I have with lefties:
Just think if we didn't have vibrant and diverse immigration policies we'd have to deal with catastrophes like another $9B to spend on health care in America. Obviously that would be terrible right?
REEEE RACIST REEE!!!!!
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:53 PM (sKqQm)
Old eggs.
Genetic Entropy. The older you get the more mutations you acquire. When procreating, there is no reset, your spawn get whatever mutations you have at the time of fertilization.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 03:53 PM (a4flb)
Of course Kamala was "black" when she had one Indian parent and one half white/black parent
Posted by: 18-1
.....
Did they figure out what a woman is yet?
Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 03:53 PM (v0R5T)
A latest talking point I have with lefties:
Just think if we didn't have vibrant and diverse immigration policies we'd have to deal with catastrophes like another $9B to spend on health care in America. Obviously that would be terrible right?
REEEE RACIST REEE!!!!!
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:53 PM (sKqQm)
Is this like a vibrant and diverse debt?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:54 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:54 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:54 PM (ynpvh)
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"Is there any single person the American people can say is not allowed into the nation?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:54 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:54 PM (5DEFi)
Tsar Bomba?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:54 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 03:54 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 03:55 PM (5DEFi)
Of course Kamala was "black" when she had one Indian parent and one half white/black parent
Posted by: 18-1
And wasn't the 'black' in her family Jamaican and NOT African-American? Not that I know the history of Jamacia or how it came to be......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: banana Dream
I guess posting defecatory intimacies is totes normal in some twisted timeline.
Posted by: Greman Scat Alliance at December 23, 2025 03:55 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 03:55 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 03:55 PM (3Amc7)
Posted by: Bunter Hiden
>Crack cocaine is a powerful catalyst.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 03:56 PM (nljXp)
I ran across a video showing how various B list celebs died. They included some pron stars. The female ones were all: drugs, alcohol, suicide or murder.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:51 PM (sKqQm)
Their lifestyles are NOT conducive to dying of old age...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:52 PM (ynpvh)
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I've watched some documentaries on the porn industry and interviews of former porn stars. It's a brutal, sleazy, dangerous industry that I can't believe it actually legal. A very very few women get out without serious physical and/or mental damage. Most end up junkie wrecks. The men, however, mostly go on to lead normal lives.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:56 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA
......
Then somebody might actually go there.
Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 03:56 PM (v0R5T)
____
Easy, white South African farmers being driven off their stolen land. By people stealing their land.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 03:57 PM (Dv3i1)
They got their the same way American black people did - the Europeans brought them as slaves and then freed them. In the case of Kammy's family though her father was a member of the Jamaican elite - he was a well known college prof. And the white side of her family were slave traders originally...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:57 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:56 PM (iFTx/)
70's star Harry Reams went on to a reasonably successful commercial real estate career in Utah. I'm guessing he went back to his birth name.
Just don't know if he shaved his mustache to go 'incognito.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 03:57 PM (Zz0t1)
First of all, we are NOT a nation, a nation has common values, culture, heritage, traditions, language and ethics.
The US has NONE of that. We are barely a country, and only because Trump has done something with the borders.
The US technically is an Economic Opportunity Zone.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 03:58 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)
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Any hot lady Marines are welcome at my place. I don't need any protection ... well, not that kind.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:58 PM (iFTx/)
Her Dad thought I was great.
....................
We were 22yrs when we met and 24yrs when we married. My father loved him the first time they met. Thrilled for anyone to take me off his hands.
The first year he broke up with me for no reason as he was immature and, I guess, fell hard. I put no pressure on him. Would have rather died than chased him or wept. Something finally dawned on him that the grass was not greener (Matthew McConaughey starred in a movie about my lady killer boyfriend, "Ghosts of Girlfriend's Past"). It was his idea to marry, not mine, as I was in no rush. Babies came two and 4 years later and all has been well, growing up together.
We knew before we were engaged that our politics, religion and having babies lined up. I am shocked when I hear a married woman say she wants kids and her husband does not. Wth? You had time to discuss all this!
I never tried to change him. On his own he went back to college because he knew I would not wait nor settle, without even asking me.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 03:58 PM (WONhk)
Here's an idea -- distribute the J'Blowme papers among a huge series of those fencepost libraries ("library-ettes") throughout Delaware. You know, the "leave one, take one" distribution model. Make sure they are close to the edge of derivable roads.
Then -- and this is the genius part -- put together a J'Blowme library-ettes' baseball tour. (Now admit it, you know where this is going.)
Participants drive hither and yon throughout Delaware, baseball bats in hand, and play a full nine inning game with the J'Blowme library-ettes. Some fun, huh?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 23, 2025 03:59 PM (xG4kz)
There were a few male pron stars in the list there were a few were suicides but for them it was mostly HIV. So I assume these were gay male pron stars but I didn't bother to look them up...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:59 PM (sKqQm)
LOL:
Hunter. It’s time.
Come.
x.com/sircalebhammer/status/
2003507184689381859
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 04:00 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Paige Young, Girl Friend Of Bill Cosby at December 23, 2025 04:00 PM (oftw2)
... drivable roads ...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at December 23, 2025 04:00 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 03:50 PM (ynpvh)
Nope
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 04:00 PM (oHAzj)
...
We knew before we were engaged that our politics, religion and having babies lined up. I am shocked when I hear a married woman say she wants kids and her husband does not. Wth? You had time to discuss all this!
I never tried to change him. On his own he went back to college because he knew I would not wait nor settle, without even asking me.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 03:58 PM (WONhk)
Indeed, or worse yet, say they want kids only to change their minds years later. Those years are lost for a woman. If you're dating for more than 5 years and not married, there may be a problem...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 04:00 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at December 23, 2025 04:01 PM (oOIDm)
There were a few male pron stars in the list there were a few were suicides but for them it was mostly HIV. So I assume these were gay male pron stars but I didn't bother to look them up...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 03:59 PM (sKqQm)
____
"Unpossible!"
-- John Holmes
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 04:01 PM (iFTx/)
There are just some things you don't want in your browser history that is being sold to every hustler.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 23, 2025 04:01 PM (a4flb)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:01 PM (5DEFi)
We knew before we were engaged that our politics, religion and having babies lined up. I am shocked when I hear a married woman say she wants kids and her husband does not. Wth? You had time to discuss all this!
I never tried to change him. On his own he went back to college because he knew I would not wait nor settle, without even asking me.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at December 23, 2025 03:58 PM (WONhk)
Wife has a cousin that married her high school sweetheart. They had discussed having a family and all that prior, but after they married, he changed his mind. They never had kids. She likely carries a lot of resentment towards that, but they're still married.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)
"A very very few women get out without serious physical and/or mental damage. Most end up junkie wrecks. The men, however, mostly go on to lead normal lives.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 03:56 PM"
The Paolo, has, how you say, a rather unique definition of, how you say, normal.
Posted by: The Paolo at December 23, 2025 04:02 PM (SzjyL)
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 23, 2025 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)
You DICK!!!!
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 23, 2025 04:02 PM (Zz0t1)
Well, he's a coprophagiac, and you are what you eat...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 04:03 PM (ynpvh)
Thanks for the upbeat view./sarc. It's not over till it's over. We have millions and millions who share the same values, or they probably wouldn't have voted for Trump twice.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 04:04 PM (8Xy/A)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 04:00 PM (ynpvh)
First Lady and I dated 7 years before we got married. She had the First Daughter at 32.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)
http://tiny.cc/n0tw001
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 04:04 PM (Yp6az)
… yeah, that laptop that his lawyers wanted back
Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 04:06 PM (GITLP)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 04:00 PM (ynpvh)
First Lady and I dated 7 years before we got married. She had the First Daughter at 32.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:04 PM (Zz0t1)
Girlfriend of my late wife was in her early 30's, had dated a guy for more than 5 years just for him to say he wasn't interested in having children anymore. Five years when you're 18 is much different than 5 years when you're 30 in terms of having kids...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 04:06 PM (ynpvh)
http://tiny.cc/n0tw001
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 04:04 PM (Yp6az)
"What a loss, man."
You misspelled dumbass. That was some of the worst driving I've every seen. Holy crap. Seems he learned to drive supercars on Grand Theft Auto V.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:06 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:06 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 04:06 PM (XuXeR)
My wife and I went though a book filled with questions like this before we married. We agreed on pretty much everything.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 04:06 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:07 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 04:08 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 04:08 PM (jvn5r)
Posted by: An Ordinary Citizen at December 23, 2025 04:08 PM (cozDI)
He also committed vehicular manslaughter of his passenger, whom it seems, ate the cement barrier first.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:08 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 04:09 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 04:09 PM (3Amc7)
https://is.gd/qPercv
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 04:08 PM (jvn5r)
I get a "page does not exist" error.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:09 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:10 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: bonhomme
So did we. Now we're prayin' for the end of time.
- Meatloaf
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 04:10 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:11 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 04:11 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:11 PM (UdiE9)
You'd be surprised. Most (Carrera GT excepted) are fairly docile, as they have to be controllable at... high speeds. 100MPH in a Turbo 997 feels like... 40 in my son's truck.
Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 04:12 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:13 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 04:13 PM (Dv3i1)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 04:13 PM (Dv3i1)
Prolly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 04:13 PM (Zz0t1)
Then I wondered if Hunter's sniffing around Washington in 2023 was anti-arrest protection or if he was trying to crowbar more money out of Sleepy Joe. Five on one hand, half a ten on the other.
So maybe this interview was an opening salvo in another attempt at getting some more of that "Biden Foundation" payola out of Jill. "Nice pile of secret cash you got there, shame is someone told the public who paid it and why."
Posted by: JB1000 at December 23, 2025 04:15 PM (/gRa9)
Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 04:15 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 04:03 PM (ynpvh)
Now, now, it's not his fault. With his head that far up his ass, the menu's a bit limited.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 23, 2025 04:16 PM (pIfcn)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 04:16 PM (2vrAX)
He has a JD from USD.
His advice is simple. You date not to get laid. You date to find a spouse. If you are not sure after 8 months, move on.
In 4-8 months you should know.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 04:16 PM (qFwJc)
That's not a centapede...
Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 04:17 PM (XuXeR)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:11 PM (UdiE9)
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There is no auto-publish on Minx 0.8 alpha.
Maybe in 0.9 beta.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 04:17 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: man at December 23, 2025 04:15 PM (XuXeR)
I mean the dude slices like a f*ckin' hammer, so why not?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 04:17 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 04:18 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 04:18 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:19 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 04:19 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:20 PM (5DEFi)
Nope; I don't care about being first to post. I think it's funniest when Sponge goes "First " and it's actually 205or something. I was considering WB or WNB after some picture of a boobette as Blade does, but that would be inauthentic of me.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 04:21 PM (8Xy/A)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 04:21 PM (8Xy/A)
You could start a whole 'nother alter-ego nic called "Fenelon's Poke" just to critique the subtler intricacies of the MannixBabes....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 04:23 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 04:23 PM (jNFIZ)
The cats need to be fed (if you have cats), or the elderly parents need assistance, or that's the only way you're going to eat and keep a roof over your head because damn sure no one else is going to feed or house you.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 23, 2025 04:24 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: The person who always says that at December 23, 2025 04:24 PM (SzjyL)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 23, 2025 04:24 PM (a+4eV)
Did Ace stroke out?
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 04:24 PM (TWzjC)
Posted by: The person who always says that at December 23, 2025 04:25 PM (SzjyL)
Well, looks like Trump's gotten the go ahead to send in the Marines to protect federal buildings in American cities.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a bid by the Trump administration to deploy National Guard members to the Chicago area while a legal challenge moves forward, delivering a setback to President Trump in his effort to use federalized troops in Illinois to ensure enforcement of federal immigration laws.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 04:25 PM (pkeXY)
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I got first the last two threads. It was not life-changing. I've observed that when Elric tries to get first (as he did earlier today) and fails, we get a respite from all of "The Blade is sharp!" nonsense for the rest of the day, or for at least a few hours.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:25 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: Billy Silly at December 23, 2025 04:25 PM (Vu7A1)
I could, but I wont. I think most of them are AI anyway and if I were a guy and they're real I wouldn't want to be dating a photo op girl anyway.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 04:25 PM (8Xy/A)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 04:26 PM (Kt19C)
"It's not life changing". I laughed. Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 04:26 PM (8Xy/A)
So sorry... Sending hugs
Posted by: It's me donna at December 23, 2025 04:27 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:11 PM (UdiE9)
He should wear a med-alert when working on shelves...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 04:28 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 04:28 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 04:28 PM (Kt19C)
[SHOT:]
The Patriot Oasis™
@ThePatriotOasis
🚨BREAKING: FedEx wins multibillion-dollar federal delivery contract, uses funds to HIRE foreign workers through the H-1B visa program.
https://is.gd/wmXEnM
[CHASER:]
From the Indian Times --
Biggest mess, say US attorneys, as H-1B delay grounds hundreds of Indian techies.
https://is.gd/G9V2yE
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 04:28 PM (jvn5r)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 23, 2025 04:28 PM (U5htq)
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Hilarious if true
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:28 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: Blanco at December 23, 2025 04:29 PM (q83gU)
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Hilarious if true
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:28 PM (UdiE9)
I had that happen some years back. Docs submitted by the other part had black bars in a PDF, tried to copy the text into another doc to find I had ALL the text, including that under the blackout. I LOLed and told my attorney...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 04:30 PM (ynpvh)
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Hilarious if true
Posted by: the lower depths
Bill Gates and George Stephanpoulous hardest hit.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 04:30 PM (Dv3i1)
The cats need to be fed (if you have cats), or the elderly parents need assistance, or that's the only way you're going to eat and keep a roof over your head because damn sure no one else is going to feed or house you.
Posted by: FeatherBlade
>It's time to grow the fuck up, and make a meaningful contribution to this relationship. Or there's always the pron industry.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 04:30 PM (nljXp)
Bitches whining their new Obamacare premium is $300-400 a month. Well my Medicare premium payments total to $360 a month. Glad I paid all that money into the plan.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 04:30 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN
That, ah, ain't that high a bar.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 04:31 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Cutting Edge Ted at December 23, 2025 04:31 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: RebeccaH at December 23, 2025 04:31 PM (VFung)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:31 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Opinion fact
I think they are complaining that it is going up $300+ as the subsidy goes away. Plans are like $2,000 a month or more for plans with large deductibles.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 04:35 PM (Dv3i1)
Hunter Biden might be trying to angle his way into Democrat politics, but I’ll throw this out there too: I believe Hunter secretly hates his father. Dear dead Beau was the golden boy who got lauded every time Dirty Old Joe gave a speeech. Hunter was just his bagman.
Posted by: RebeccaH
So Hunter is the Biden Faramir?
Posted by: BifBewalski - at December 23, 2025 04:35 PM (QVmho)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at December 23, 2025 04:35 PM (U/j9n)
At the age of 70, maybe I will get a phone call or email or text about a job offer?
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 04:36 PM (qFwJc)
Posted by: Skip at December 23, 2025 04:37 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: Hunter B. at December 23, 2025 04:37 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:38 PM (5DEFi)
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I'm so sorry pookysgirl. The same thing happened to me with what would've been my second child. It's a very sad feeling and hard to put into words. My prayers are with you that you may find peace knowing G*d has a plan for us all, and there is a reason it happened. {{{hugs}}}
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 23, 2025 04:38 PM (qBdHI)
The CTO was in CA, and they were having process trouble, so he sent Seiko Epson a powerpoint claiming to meet the terms of the contract. Problem is PP had an embedded chart, which embedded the entire excel spreadsheet, and if you double clicked you could see. You would also see the tab that said "Robert's completely fake and fraudulent lying data to cheat Seiko Epson"
OK, I made up the label but that is clearly what he had done. He also did not send me a copy since I would know it was a lie and he wanted me to only see it when it was too late to stop.
When confronted in a very heated meeting in Japan he said "of course I lied, if I had not lied, you would not have paid us the money."
You see, he came from Europe and grant funded academic research. This was how they all think. In industry, there are repercussions and he basically ended the company that day.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 04:38 PM (jNFIZ)
At the age of 70, maybe I will get a phone call or email or text about a job offer?
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I'm at the point where I assume every news story is a plant rather than organic unless evidence points otherwise. Unfortunately, this might not mean that you are going to get a job offer, just that some tech barons are pissed their slave workforce is drying up, and so they got some presstitutes to write some agitprop for them.
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 04:38 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: Cutting Edge Ted at December 23, 2025 04:31 PM
What about his Commodore 64 backup?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 04:38 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: no one
Be sure to leave a message at your nursing home front desk. They should forward the call. It worked for me.
Posted by: Memory Care Level One-Day One at December 23, 2025 04:39 PM (oftw2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:39 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
I misread the original comment as asking about women who didn't have a relationship.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 23, 2025 04:40 PM (a+4eV)
The Covid inflation bill subsidy is going away. There is still a subsidy if you qualify. A lot were paying 0-50 for their plan . Now they are paying 200-400 for those 1500 plans.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 04:40 PM (KDPiq)
It's Christmas Eve Eve.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 04:40 PM (qFwJc)
I got "First!" once.
It changed my life.
Immediately thereafter, I was crowned King of Calsmorkian Island.
The place was a dump so I sold my kingship for enough cash to get a ticket home and a Dogo Argentino.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 23, 2025 04:40 PM (iJfKG)
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When confronted in a very heated meeting in Japan he said "of course I lied, if I had not lied, you would not have paid us the money."
You see, he came from Europe and grant funded academic research. This was how they all think. In industry, there are repercussions and he basically ended the company that day.
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 04:38 PM (jNFIZ)
And that, my friends, is how Gov't funded research in Science (e.g. Globul Warmening) works...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 04:40 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 04:40 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 23, 2025 04:41 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 04:41 PM (qFwJc)
Anyone says anything higher might be married.
Posted by: no one at December 23, 2025 04:41 PM (qFwJ
I pay for a Medicare supplement plan also. My Band C premium is 202.
Posted by: Opinion fact at December 23, 2025 04:43 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 04:28 PM (3uBP9)
When I dealt with sensitive information, and if I had done something like this, I would have been asked to sit at home while management determined what all could be done to me for being such a screw-up.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 04:43 PM (rbvCR)
2025 is w/o subsidy reduction. Typical subsidy is $900/mo so increase is $300 plus $900 from loss of subsidy. Be prepared to spend $15,000 more for Obamacare next year!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 23, 2025 04:45 PM (Dv3i1)
Unwilling to part with his porn stash and crack pipe collection, IceKingJOE's presidential library will be more boring that Mike Pence's NY eve party.
Hunter seeks to differentiate himself from his fellow NEPOlibs -- as true to life wuz2b Damien Thorne. NO MORE !!!
But seriously, 4 years from now, who would ever really want to go to the IceKingJOE library other than OBAMA and his minions, and that to mock his lessers...
Actually glad to have Prez Business at the helm, even though we know how it endz. Who wants a TACO now?
https://tinyurl.com/WheresTheH1BSpecial
https://www.tinyurl.com/ctHARRIS-FamousLastWords
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 23, 2025 04:49 PM (bA8Zf)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 04:59 PM (3uBP9)
just call it Biden U and there you go
lower the standards - start admitting kids who CAN'T write their names in crayon
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 02:59 PM (emBoF)
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The Biden Center For Kids Who Can't Read Good
Posted by: The_Hoser at December 23, 2025 05:07 PM (H4qGm)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 23, 2025 06:37 PM (wGqjj)
Worse than the whore mongering, crack smoking, incest/adultery.
Posted by: LGBTQ+POC, ANTI RACIST HERO at December 23, 2025 07:12 PM (741ZB)
Posted by: GWB at December 23, 2025 07:31 PM (58OnA)
Trans Teaching Assistant who Flunked a Christian Student for Rejecting Trans Propaganda Has Now Been Fired
I would say that the student's essay could be docked some points for relying so heavily on non-academic sources -- the Bible -- but then, the trans TA's rejection of all her arguments was based exclusively on quasi-religious fantasy and myth-making, wasn't it?
And, in addition, the trans bully was attempting to compel a Christian to renounce her faith and accept the trans pseudoreligion as the one true religion. So a bit of citation of the Bible is appropriate. If someone pushes their garbage mental-illness religion on you, you have every right to reject it and defend your own. I'm glad this noxious woman-abusing male bully is now kicking rocks.A transgender graduate teaching assistant at the University of Oklahoma has been removed from instructional duties after failing a conservative student's Bible-based essay on gender -- a grading decision the university later concluded was arbitrary following an internal review. The controversy erupted in late November when Samantha Fulnecky, a 20-year-old junior, submitted a written response for a psychology course that rejected modern gender ideology through a Christian lens. The assignment asked students to write a 650-word analysis of an academic article examining whether conformity to gender norms was associated with popularity or bullying among middle school students. Instead of echoing the paper's progressive framing, Fulnecky grounded her response in faith, writing that she does not believe there are more than two genders "because that is how God made us." ... The paper was failed by her instructor, Mel Curth -- a transgender graduate student who uses she/they pronouns -- who told Fulnecky she did not properly address the academic prompt and relied on "personal ideology" rather than empirical evidence. Curth also characterized portions of the essay as offensive, objecting to Fulnecky's use of the word "demonic" and arguing that strict gender norms, by definition, create stereotypes. "To call an entire group of people 'demonic' is highly offensive, especially a minoritized population," Curth wrote in written feedback, while also pointing out what Curth described as internal contradictions in the essay's reasoning."Minoritized"? Like you really weren't a minority, but oppressors forced minority status on to you? Jesus save us from these heathens and their corrupt gutter language.
... On Monday, the university announced it had completed its investigation and determined that Curth's grading of the paper was not applied fairly. In a statement, the school said the decision was based on a review of Curth's own statements and concluded the graduate teaching assistant would no longer have instructional duties.As far as applying rigid academic standards to this essay: It was a 650 word essay. This is an assignment we used to give to middle-schoolers. It's basically an opening argument, two paragraphs, and a conclusion that merely restates the opening argument. It's not as if this was a real essay. It's a time waster. The student was being compelled to accept the framing that we have two sexes merely because of "gender norms." She has every right and duty -- particularly as a believing Christian -- to refute that assumption. A Jewish student cannot be required to write an essay affirming the assumption that Jews deserved the Holocaust. It's very clear that this tranny is not interested in actual academic work. He's interested in forced prosyletization to a captive audience. Below: The Hottie vs. the Nottie.
The University of Oklahoma confirms that Mel Curth, the teaching assistant who gave a student a failing grade on a psychology essay, will no longer be teaching. pic.twitter.com/DAF8vFYFLk
— Pop Base (@PopBase) December 23, 2025
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 01:27 PM (UdiE9)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 01:28 PM (KgVf3)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 01:28 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: the lower depths at December 23, 2025 01:28 PM (UdiE9)
Yeah, the essay was not particularly great, it didn't have several elements such as citations, and was not especially well written, so it was probably a C- or D paper, but that's not why the tranny flunked her.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 01:29 PM (3Amc7)
https://tinyurl.com/2vajm59p
WAR.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 01:29 PM (KgVf3)
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:29 PM (oHAzj)
The only questionable thing about this story, which no one is really talking about, is the fact that the girl that submitted the essay did NOTHING that the project was requesting. She just randomly quoted Bible scripture that had nothing to do with the topic at hand, so she should've failed anyway.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:29 PM (Zz0t1)
Like - at least flounder died doing what he loved - screaming in a flaming car wreck.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:28 PM (oHAzj)
That's so wrong. More like jerking it in a flaming car wreck.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 01:29 PM (dK+Kv)
Bro looks like a Cabbage Patch doll.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (TWzjC)
Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (YoUJR)
Posted by: Trennt Teaching Assistant, probably at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (Wv0GD)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (Kt19C)
Is that fired? Sounds more like one of those paid administrative leave deals.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (UJWr0)
Be honest now, you posted this entire story just for that line, didn't you?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (3Amc7)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (TWzjC)
Garbage Pail Kid
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (kc/r8)
Posted by: Cray Cray at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (nDy1Y)
Yeah, they kicked it out of the classroom, which means it will be put into administration, which is probably worse.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 01:31 PM (IifOV)
Incidentally, CNBC today used a still image of Our Favorite President™ and he kinda looked like "Rygel" from Farscape.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 23, 2025 01:31 PM (TWzjC)
Had Curth been a professor or, even better, a public school teacher, Curth would still be employed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:31 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 01:31 PM (GBKbO)
Seems like a waste of money, since public schools do that anyway.
Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:31 PM (YoUJR)
The snake: it's in my nature.
Also, the administrators who hold themselves blameless: it's in our nature.
Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 01:32 PM (6LzyB)
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 01:32 PM (IifOV)
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"Time waster" == "academic rigor"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:32 PM (avHHk)
All Trans Support is based on personal ideology.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 23, 2025 01:33 PM (vbXSk)
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I bet you he could, especially in an Ivy League school.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:33 PM (avHHk)
Sweatin' to the moldies.
Posted by: Frank Barone at December 23, 2025 01:32 PM (IifOV)
Heh.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:33 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:33 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:33 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (Kt19C)
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I can save you and your loved ones:
https://tinyurl.com/y9bae3mk
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 01:33 PM (KgVf3)
Had Curth been a professor or, even better, a public school teacher, Curth would still be employed.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:31 PM (avHHk)
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Yep. GTAs and adjuncts are pretty expendable from the university's perspective.
Tenure-track or even NTT would have made things much harder for the university.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 23, 2025 01:33 PM (ESVrU)
DOJ has declared all MSI "Minority Serving Institution" programs and grants are unconstitutional.
These are awards to colleges and universities based on the percentage of minorities.
You know, discrimination based on race.
You know, a financial incentive to discriminate against whites and admit lesser-qualified minorities.
That ... could be a lot of money.
Can't wait for the clown judge to issue the inevitable illegal injunction that the Executive must not comply with the SCOTUS Fair Admissions v. Harvard ruling ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 23, 2025 01:33 PM (HXT0k)
Posted by: beckster at December 23, 2025 01:34 PM (I7J98)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 23, 2025 01:34 PM (XeU6L)
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I bet you he could, especially in an Ivy League school.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:33 PM (avHHk)
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"Write an essay from a Palestinian time traveler's perspective as he feeds Jews into the ovens at Auschwitz."
"I thought this was a math class."
"Math Studies."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 01:34 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 01:34 PM (Yp6az)
Be honest now, you posted this entire story just for that line, didn't you?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (3Amc7)
Can you blame him?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:34 PM (Zz0t1)
. . .
>>>a 20-year-old junior, submitted a written response for a psychology course that rejected modern gender ideology through a Christian lens.
It's a fair argument when the counterargument is based in pseudo-scientific, feelz-based, victim-aura-farming mania.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 01:35 PM (dK+Kv)
This is why I come here. Also because Ace always clarifies the "would I?" part of any story involving the fairer sex...when warranted.
Posted by: Meric at December 23, 2025 01:35 PM (3HOfK)
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They force Christians to sing the praises of abortion and islam do they not
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:35 PM (oHAzj)
Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:31 PM (YoUJR)
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You can't buy public schools. This covers the elite's kids.
Faster! Faster!!!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 23, 2025 01:35 PM (KgVf3)
DOJ has declared all MSI "Minority Serving Institution" programs and grants are unconstitutional.
These are awards to colleges and universities based on the percentage of minorities.
You know, discrimination based on race.
You know, a financial incentive to discriminate against whites and admit lesser-qualified minorities.
That ... could be a lot of money.
Can't wait for the clown judge to issue the inevitable illegal injunction that the Executive must not comply with the SCOTUS Fair Admissions v. Harvard ruling ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 23, 2025 01:33 PM (HXT0k)
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I looked into this briefly, focusing on a small CA university just to get an idea.
The money funded at least 10 administrators while promising almost nothing but pamphlets about how great minorities at the university are.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at December 23, 2025 01:35 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: beckster at December 23, 2025 01:34 PM (I7J9
Leftists have discovered that BlueSky is a liberal shithole and have made their way back to X.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 01:35 PM (06Hmj)
The left made a big deal about ending bully in the early 00s. Oddly though they only cared about homosexuals and the like being bullied, not nerds, the poor, or any of the other categories that get you bullied.
And of course as soon as they felt they had waited long enough they then turned their bullying on anyone that wasn't an Alphabet person.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:36 PM (sKqQm)
>>>Flounder if you drop dead I want you to know in advance I'm probably gonna make some highly inappropriate jokes about it.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:25 PM (oHAzj)
I am fine with this. My wife rarely reads here, and I would hope to provide a smile or two, even when I am planning on haunting you mofos from down under.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 01:36 PM (dK+Kv)
Huh. I thought they all went to Bluesky.
Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:36 PM (YoUJR)
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It’s hilarious. I spent a few months in the San Diego area. There were a couple of days of rain. Not torrential downpours or anything just normal rainy days. The way the local news acted you’d think a category 5 hurricane was approaching.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:36 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 01:36 PM (viF8m)
"personal ideology" rather than empirical evidence.
"The assignment asked students to write a 650-word analysis of an academic article"
Except the reply didn't require nor ask for empirical evidence or footnotes.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (lEejK)
We're in Wyoming. We're grilling burgers, sausages and hot dogs even if there is a blizzard, lol.
Tomorrow family is coming here for a big breakfast.
Do what makes you happy!!
Merry Christmas to all of you good people here at AOS, the best place on the internet!!
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:29 PM (Zz0t1)
I've seen a few different discussions and stories on this and it's not at all clear to me what the parameters were for this assignment, and whether there were any detailed parameters at all such as a requirement to cite studies or produce empirical evidence or what have you. Given the 650 word limit - about 2.5 double-spaced pages - there would be little to no room for such, and this sounds more like a prompt for a reaction paper, which are pretty free-wheeling.
Posted by: A few thoughts at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (iDFVA)
Posted by: Warai-otoko
This is about us, isn't it?
-- Jeff Bezos and Mark Kelly
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Trennt Teaching Assistant, probably at December 23, 2025 01:30 PM (Wv0GD)
https://youtu.be/Z_J2JNdC9Vg?t=37
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Eromero at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (LHPAg)
It looks like her face will open up and Arnold Schwarzenegger will pop out.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (v0R5T)
and
"Of course a person can change their sex if they identify as the other sex"
Posted by: Shit liberals say at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: E Buzz at December 23, 2025 01:38 PM (MXlg8)
But... But .. eLoN iS a LiTeRaL nAzI!!!
Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:38 PM (YoUJR)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 01:38 PM (2vrAX)
Merry Christmas to all of you good people here at AOS, the best place on the internet!!
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (3ek7K)
All of this right here.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:38 PM (Zz0t1)
This is the level of top shelf cruelty I have come to expect from Ace.
Posted by: Open Channel D at December 23, 2025 01:38 PM (gYnrv)
Imagine paying tens of thousands a year for college, and you're being taught not by real professors, but by students not much more knowledgeable or experienced than you.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:39 PM (iFTx/)
Why does this always have to go this far? Don't let freak perverts into places of authority. When some idiot already let them in and they pull these stunts then just assert, no you pervert freak get out of here with that. Why is this very basic thing so difficult now?
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 01:39 PM (3uBP9)
The essay was so poorly written that any religious person should be mad at this girl for her awful work. She doesn't even provide a citation for the Bible.
Prepare to see more trans people fired just for existing in red states. The ones that I work alongside here in a very blue state are worried. Friends who have transitioning children are worried. The whole extended community is worried. I can't imagine what it might be like in a deep red state.
Gotta prove that Christians are oppressed by giving them participation trophies for not even trying to meet the standards others have to meet. Talk about snowflakes!
From my understanding transgender status is no longer protected under Title IX. I hope I am wrong but as a trans people myself I've been extra careful lately.
The point wasn't to win though. The point was to send a message that Trans people will not be safe or welcome. Anywhere. That's been accomplished. It's already done.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2025 01:39 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: Mister Fabulist at December 23, 2025 01:39 PM (x8eGV)
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I take your point.
But, while appeals to faith don't necessarily count in academics, the Christian student can at least appeal to the argument that the Bible is a taproot of American civic culture, and can be used as a reference in debates about fundamental social questions.
The tranny can't exactly point to zher illustrated copy of "Little Jimmy's Gay-Ass Dickchopping Adventure" zhe's been reading since 5th grade as some kind of foundational intellectual document.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 01:39 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 01:39 PM (pLaQB)
Posted by: A few thoughts at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (TbWk/)
Other teachers at OU have said they'd have failed her for what she turned in. Had she made the slightest attempt to follow the requirements, she'd likely not have failed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:40 PM (oHAzj)
Posted by: fourseasons
Same to you, Fourseasons!
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:40 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Eromero at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (LHPAg)
The New England Primer, and hornbooks.
Posted by: NOT Morning Glory Milking Farm hornbooks at December 23, 2025 01:40 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 01:39 PM (pLaQB)
I've been fullnecky once or twice. Tee hee!
Posted by: Kumswala Harris at December 23, 2025 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at December 23, 2025 01:37 PM (iDFVA)
++++
From the linked tweet with the picture, it looks like a homely woman. If so, I *strongly* suspect this is a phony virtue-signal claim. "I'm an unattractive girl and I mostly like banging dudes, but I am willing to take a walk down Gay Street and would really like some institutional preference, so I'll claim gender identity and go with the real pronoun and the most-common misused plural so it, in effect, makes no difference."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:40 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:39 PM (iFTx/)
Yeah back in my day TAs graded papers and tests. But professors taught classes. So what the fuck do professors get paid for now if they don’t even do that?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:41 PM (UJWr0)
It is amazing how quickly we went from "what two consenting adults do in their own bedroom is their business" to "If I can't twerk in woman-face in front of a bunch of toddlers it is literal trans-genocide"
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:41 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 01:41 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at December 23, 2025 01:41 PM (PSEDc)
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 01:41 PM (pLaQB)
************
Ace-
Was it you who coined the term crybully? If not, you have used it to good effect. It almost describes the trans radicals, but I think it misses one element. Especially in teens and pre-teens, the validation of their earliest delusions sends a message that they are entitled to force anyone to accept and validate their delusions to the point of using violence.
"Weaponized-delusional-faux-victim-bullies" seems apt, if rather unwieldy.
Posted by: muldoon at December 23, 2025 01:41 PM (/iMjX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)
Failing was probably the point, at some level.
What better way to say F.U. than a nationally publicized flameout like this?
Let's see all the little jabs and insults and abuse she's dealt with at the hands of this fucking pervert beforehand. Bet ya there's a clear trajectory.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 01:41 PM (06Hmj)
You misspelled 'should be drawn and quartered.'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:42 PM (Zz0t1)
That escalated quickly.
Posted by: R. Burgundy at December 23, 2025 01:42 PM (YoUJR)
Posted by: wth at December 23, 2025 01:42 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2025 01:39 PM (ycI94)
++++
LOL K
Assuming this story is accurate, Curth wasn't fired for "existing." Curth was fired for cause - ideological grading.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:42 PM (avHHk)
—
Your terms are acceptable.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:42 PM (UJWr0)
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Who is bringing the booze
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:42 PM (oHAzj)
I suppose there are downsides also but I can't come up with any right now.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 01:43 PM (cYBz/)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
It was both in some of my language classes at Michigan. Usually a TA would teach, but every so often (once a week?) the professor would show up in person to teach.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:43 PM (77rzZ)
Popping the corn even as we speak!
Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:43 PM (YoUJR)
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Okay.
Posted by: Pudinhead
Lol. I'm ready! 🍿
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 23, 2025 01:43 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)
I subscribe to the, "trannies are always wrong" philosophy.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 01:44 PM (3uBP9)
This is why I come here. Also because Ace always clarifies the "would I?" part of any story involving the fairer sex...when warranted.
Posted by: Meric at December 23, 2025 01:35 PM
HARE LIP!
Posted by: AltonJackson at December 23, 2025 01:44 PM (tljrc)
Implicit in the current lefty idea of trannies is that everyone has to celebrate them with however poorly they put on womanface. And yes that includes punishing those that disagree.
Then: Your right to disagree ends at my nose
Now: Your right to disagree ends before your mouth
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:44 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:39 PM (iFTx/)
Yeah back in my day TAs graded papers and tests. But professors taught classes. So what the fuck do professors get paid for now if they don’t even do that?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:41 PM (UJWr0)
Suck dick for grant money.
Posted by: Metaphorically of course at December 23, 2025 01:44 PM (TbWk/)
The Left though can't help itself. think how many institutions they have ruined because they won't stop proselytizing.
Flip this around, you really think a really devout Christian TA would use her position to push some hot button issue? Or would they just have an assignment that everyone could do without any drama?
Posted by: Leupold at December 23, 2025 01:44 PM (eIzlH)
Let's see all the little jabs and insults and abuse she's dealt with at the hands of this fucking pervert beforehand. Bet ya there's a clear trajectory.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 01:41 PM (06Hmj)
That's what needs to happen now, because the removal from teaching because a student failed for not doing the assignment properly is a bad look, regardless.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:44 PM (Zz0t1)
Now: Your right to disagree ends before your mouth
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:44 PM (sKqQm)
There is a natural progression to the next step, best not to think about it
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:45 PM (oHAzj)
Posted by: Meric at December 23, 2025 01:35 PM
HARE LIP!
Posted by: AltonJackson
Snort!
This place. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at December 23, 2025 01:45 PM (cYBz/)
I subscribe to the, "trannies are always wrong" philosophy.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 01:44 PM (3uBP9)
I mean, I'm on the "God didn't get it wrong, you did" philosophy bandwagon.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:45 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:29 PM (Zz0t1)
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Did she, though? Is her paper available on line? The entire assignment seems like a make-work joke to me. 650 words? I was writing book reports in 2nd grade longer than that. This was not a serious assignment.
And it seems she did actually respond (at least kinda) to the assignment -- which asked for analysis on bullying over trans bullshit -- by essentially saying there are only two genders and the rest is bullshit.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: 2+2=4 at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (qUkBO)
Prof also had office hours, but good luck with that.
This was more for the 100 level pre-req kind of classes. (Physics, Calc, etc.). As class size dropped, there were fewer and fewer TAs involved.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (06Hmj)
The lefty takes on this would be something like
You shouldn't be able to push Christian ideas on anyone else. Why would that make me a hypocrite? The transsexual student was just providing scientific facts so she wasn't pushing anything.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (77rzZ)
*prepares lawn chair and beer cooler*
Posted by: Johnny can't read but thinks he's a girl at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (TbWk/)
-The Left
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:47 PM (oHAzj)
You're mean.
Posted by: Bluesky at December 23, 2025 01:47 PM (Qv0IH)
But generally as far as I can remember professors taught classes.
Different time I guess? Even more shockingly even the really left wing ones engaged in honest good faith debates with students. I had one Econ prof who first day said I’m a liberal, but I am going to teach you both sides of every issue and I want you to challenge me when you think I’m wrong. That was. A really fun class. I can’t imagine that exists today.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:47 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (77rzZ)
Gabriella Sabatini
Posted by: Ramada at December 23, 2025 01:47 PM (PSEDc)
Posted by: AoSHQ Celebrity News Bureau and Rumour Centre at December 23, 2025 01:47 PM (0sNs1)
Put 100 MtF trannies on an island and dig up their remains 100 years later and they archeologist will tell you 100 men lived here...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:48 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 01:48 PM (5DEFi)
And it seems she did actually respond (at least kinda) to the assignment -- which asked for analysis on bullying over trans bullshit -- by essentially saying there are only two genders and the rest is bullshit.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (iFTx/)
She didn't even site the Bible passages she used in her paper. She failed to do the assignment as instructed. She earned the fail grade.
I think this is a pock mark on what would normally be a troon inflicting their will.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:48 PM (oHAzj)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:39 PM (iFTx/)
Yeah back in my day TAs graded papers and tests. But professors taught classes. So what the fuck do professors get paid for now if they don’t even do that?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:41 PM (UJWr0)
Suck dick for grant money.
Posted by: Metaphorically of course at December 23, 2025 01:44 PM (TbWk/)
________
I think that's the TAs sucking dick, bro. It's not a coincidence that the vast majority of TAs are pretty girls (for the straight profs) or pretty guys (for the gays). I'm sure there are "arrangements" in effect.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:48 PM (iFTx/)
I am a DVC member and loved taking my family there now, I rent my points and go to Europe or rent an RV and drive across the Country instead, next stop ICELAND.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 23, 2025 01:48 PM (FCrpy)
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (77rzZ)
Anna by a mile.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:48 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (77rzZ)
Anna.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)
Timpon must wish he didn't make a big deal of it when Trump started calling him a 'tard because boy did that insult stick
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:49 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 01:49 PM (nljXp)
Different time I guess? Even more shockingly even the really left wing ones engaged in honest good faith debates with students. I had one Econ prof who first day said I’m a liberal, but I am going to teach you both sides of every issue and I want you to challenge me when you think I’m wrong. That was. A really fun class. I can’t imagine that exists today.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:47 PM (UJWr0)
Yep. Had a really good PoliSci professor who was commie AF but left his beliefs out of it and graded you on the thoroughness of your arguments and clarity of your writing. I doubt these sorts are even allowed to exist on college campuses today.
Posted by: Indoctrinators v educators at December 23, 2025 01:49 PM (TbWk/)
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So this freak is basically asserting in their question that you and I and everyone else aren't transgender because of peer pressure to be straight.
The rise in transgenderism is a direct result of grade school groomers melting these kid's brains while they are going through puberty which is an awkward time that we all made it through but still confusing.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 23, 2025 01:49 PM (nJthq)
It's sad and horrifying
Posted by: melodicmetal at December 23, 2025 01:50 PM (61TgR)
But generally as far as I can remember professors taught classes.
Different time I guess? Even more shockingly even the really left wing ones engaged in honest good faith debates with students. I had one Econ prof who first day said I’m a liberal, but I am going to teach you both sides of every issue and I want you to challenge me when you think I’m wrong. That was. A really fun class. I can’t imagine that exists today.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:47 PM (UJWr0)
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When I was a TA, I was an actual assistant. I didn't teach and did little grading. It was hands-on project/lab class and the prof needed help to get to all the students who needed help.
I had some classes semi-taught by TAs. Big auditorium courses with 500ish students headed by the professor one day a week, smaller 30-ish-student breakouts taught by TAs the other day.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 01:50 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 01:50 PM (3ek7K)
http://tiny.cc/jwsw001
Then later did an update announcing the gym banned the guy. In this update Joey correctly calls the guy, "he."
http://tiny.cc/nwsw001
At which point the usual suspects simultaneously fainted over this pervert being, "misgendered."
http://tiny.cc/pwsw001
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 01:50 PM (Yp6az)
Her parents though apparently really wanted a boy...
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:50 PM (sKqQm)
Timpon must wish he didn't make a big deal of it when Trump started calling him a 'tard because boy did that insult stick
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:49 PM (sKqQm)
It's 4 D chess by Trump in his attempt to make the "sticks and stones" mantra great again.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)
No. Read the source.. He/she whatever whomever has been removed from teaching..
IOW now doing something else.
Posted by: James Lewis at December 23, 2025 01:50 PM (TMfHK)
Ignoring Ace's 'no math on the blog' directive this close to completion of the AoSHQ Annual Commentator Reviews could be suboptimal to one's evaluation.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 23, 2025 01:50 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 01:51 PM (5DEFi)
Fired Just for having a mental disorder.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 23, 2025 01:51 PM (vbXSk)
I'm sick of having to listen to this lunacy.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 23, 2025 01:51 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
There was some Russian tennis chick who came along after Anna and was regarded as a much better player. I recall that she was pretty hot, too, but I forget her name.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:51 PM (77rzZ)
I probably wouldn't give a crap about you if you were just a normal dude, either. You don't matter. Being a creepy weirdo twat just makes you matter even less.
For fuck's aches, just go somewhere and do something useful and shut the fuck up about yourself already. We're trying to have a civilization here.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 01:52 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 01:52 PM (3ek7K)
Human beings have a sex, and outside of a small number of those with genetic conditions you are either male or female and you can't change it
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:52 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 01:52 PM (5DEFi)
Her name is Melvin.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone
Not Mulva?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 23, 2025 01:52 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Sergei Fedorov at December 23, 2025 01:52 PM (Y1sOo)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (iFTx/)
She didn't even site the Bible passages she used in her paper. She failed to do the assignment as instructed. She earned the fail grade.
I think this is a pock mark on what would normally be a troon inflicting their will.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)
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I don't know how you know this. I don't see where there was any requirement to cite sources, whether to the Bible or academic. The assignment seems to have been: read this article and tell me what you think about it. So she did. And, of course, the tranny freak did not fail her for the reasons you say. He failed her because she refused to bend the knee.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:53 PM (iFTx/)
I'm skeered to think what is next.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 01:50 PM (3ek7K)
Cannibalism and human sacrifice.
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:53 PM (oHAzj)
Her parents though apparently really wanted a boy...
Posted by: 18-1
Like the case with Obama's mom. Wasn't she named Stanley?
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:53 PM (77rzZ)
By "closet" I assume you mean mental hospital?
Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:53 PM (YoUJR)
Then: What does gay marriage have to do with your anyway h8ter?!? If you don't like gay marriage don't marry another dude.
Now:Trans Teaching Assistant Flunked a Christian Student for Rejecting Trans Propaganda
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:53 PM (sKqQm)
Shit some exam questions I had to write were longe than that. An essay was like 10+ pages minimum.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:54 PM (UJWr0)
What do they do with the unused dick?
They should ship a bunch of old trannines , and can discuss how happy they are with their sex lives.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 23, 2025 01:54 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Ace at 01:27 PM
Cruel Ace is best Ace.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 23, 2025 01:54 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 01:54 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 23, 2025 01:54 PM (F0j7f)
I'm skeered to think what is next."
Murders are next. There should be a study on how many murders are committed by trannies, and how many by furries (with some crossover). Certainly they seem to murder at a much higher rate than normies.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 23, 2025 01:54 PM (vbXSk)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 01:55 PM (5DEFi)
I need to go, uh, get something, be right back but keep talking
Posted by: David French at December 23, 2025 01:55 PM (sKqQm)
I wonder if Ace posted this just so he could use that joke?
It's a good one, so understandable
Posted by: Mrs. Santa's unclean sister at December 23, 2025 01:55 PM (jNFIZ)
Well, if you use a really big font...
Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:55 PM (YoUJR)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Thank you. Maria Sharapova was the other Russian tennis hottie I was trying to remember.
She and Anna are pretty close in terms of hotness.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:55 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:53 PM (iFTx/)
I have friends close to the situation, graduates of OU and some that live in Norman that are much closer than what's being put on the internet.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)
You know ace, there has been a lot going on with science discoveries that doesn't make the news. Going clear back to the invention of the electron microscope. The "simple cell" ain't so simple.
Recent discoveries in genetics would blow your mind,,, if you took the time to look.
Then there's that whole big bang thing getting blown out of the water.
And evidence outside the Bible that humans walked the earth with dinosaurs.
But you'll never see if you don't look.
Posted by: TeeJ at December 23, 2025 01:56 PM (T08Hw)
https://tinyurl.com/bdea7hmb
Justice Department Sues the District of Columbia for the Unconstitutional Ban of Semi-Automatic Firearms
[Dec 22 2025] the Justice Department sued the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), alleging that the District government and MPD unconstitutionally ban the AR-15 and many other firearms protected under the Second Amendment.
(as a side note, I do like this administration's approach to news releases, they don't bury the lede)
Posted by: Kindltot at December 23, 2025 01:56 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 01:56 PM (5DEFi)
Maybe we'll give Ace a 1/2 day on Christmas. What do you say, gang?
Just kidding. Ace must be here all day on Christmas, posting Yule Log Flame open threads.
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 01:57 PM (TWzjC)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:57 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: thug dolphin
What did Jeffrey Dahmer say to Lorena Babbit?
"You gonna eat that?"
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:57 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: 2+2=4 at December 23, 2025 01:57 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: night lifted at December 23, 2025 01:57 PM (/YboP)
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 01:57 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:58 PM (oHAzj)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 23, 2025 01:58 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Frank Barone
That's not how graduate TA ships work. It was probably relegated to only grading papers and not lecturing.
Worst case, it got its stipend revoked and has to find something else to do for beer money.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 23, 2025 01:58 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 01:58 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: 18-1
And more gun bans.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 01:58 PM (UJWr0)
"The Conservative Case for Cannibalism?"
Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:58 PM (YoUJR)
I had a nice chat with her once at a tournament in Manhattan Beach. I could hardly contain my boner.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 01:59 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: night lifted at December 23, 2025 01:57 PM (/YboP)
I disagree. It's fundamentally human.
"I will debase myself in any way I can imagine if it means I can exert my will over you and you must comply".
It's the most human thing going right now outside of OnlyFans.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 01:59 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: TeeJ
No. There isn't.
Just stop.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:59 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 01:59 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: 2+2=4
My objection starts with "if you're not discussing linguistics or electronics, you shouldn't be using the word gender."
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 23, 2025 01:59 PM (mlg/3)
But you'll never see if you don't look.
Here you go: https://tinyurl.com/4erpp8bz
Posted by: I had to do it at December 23, 2025 01:59 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
There was some Russian tennis chick who came along after Anna and was regarded as a much better player. I recall that she was pretty hot, too, but I forget her name.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:51 PM (77rzZ)
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Back in the day, I dated a Russian former pro tennis player (Elena) who came up in the tennis world with Anna K. Elena was a little younger than Anna, but claimed she won almost all of the matches they played, and would have been a much better player in the pro circuit.
But Anna had access to much more money for tournaments, travel, etc. So Elena eventually couldn't move ahead in the sport.
I was skeptical of this story, so I looked her up. Sure enough, there were records of their matches (in Russian). Elena wasn't bullshitting. And she was attractive too. Not as pretty as Anna, but not far off, and had a smoking body.
She's still one of my FB friends. She did not age well in the face, but the body is still rocking.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 01:59 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 02:00 PM (UJWr0)
_____________________________
That's got to be a new one. I haven't heard it before. By the premise of applying the "minority" label to behavior, you, basically, are putting the make believe sex changers in the same category of someone who puts peanut butter on pickles. Not many people do, and for good reason.
Posted by: Orson at December 23, 2025 02:00 PM (dIske)
Yes! This!
Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 02:00 PM (YoUJR)
To fully embrace a tranny sex fetish you have to remove the organs that let you enjoy having sex.
That seems onpoint for demonic to me.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 23, 2025 02:01 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: "Non-Academic Sources?" at December 23, 2025 02:01 PM (HJUJ8)
http://tiny.cc/5xsw001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:01 PM (avHHk)
Just stop.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:59 PM (77rzZ)
Dinosaurs -> oil -> petrochemicals -> plastic -> plastic dinosaurs.
Plastic dinosaurs are real dinosaurs.
QED, bitches.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 02:01 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Sphynx at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (P6qMv)
Posted by: TeeJ
No. There isn't.
Just stop.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:59 PM (77rzZ)
This! Stop.
Any God who can make Adam and Eve, can make dinosaur bones.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (2WIwB)
I'm gonna be huddled up like Jacob Marley eating my Christmas pudding.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (viF8m)
What's its meaning in elecronics?
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (77rzZ)
Plastic dinosaurs are real dinosaurs.
QED, bitches.
I've seen much less compelling arguments on Facebook...
Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (YoUJR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (5DEFi)
AI does a nice job with babes.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 02:03 PM (8Xy/A)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 02:03 PM (UJWr0)
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 23, 2025 02:03 PM (5xuJ/)
You can't just drop a bombshell like that without linking some sort of source. Unless you're joking, in which case, carry on.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 02:03 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 02:03 PM (oHAzj)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 23, 2025 02:03 PM (NYInA)
well, in tennis one slips the balls past their opponent, but close enough.
Posted by: illiniwek at December 23, 2025 02:03 PM (vbXSk)
I'm gonna be huddled up like Jacob Marley eating my Christmas pudding.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (viF8m)
I'm sorry that's happening during the holidays and I hope you have an electric blanket and a fireplace.
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 23, 2025 02:03 PM (I7V7v)
Sunlight is made of tiny particles.
Each new experience or touch interconnects to a new location in your brain.
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 23, 2025 02:04 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 02:03 PM (UJWr0)
So, like 99.9% of women
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 02:04 PM (oHAzj)
I'm so sorry. Is there a warm hotel you could go to until then?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 02:04 PM (8Xy/A)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
Sharapova was much better, I heard.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:04 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: SMOD at December 23, 2025 02:04 PM (WQ6sk)
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 02:05 PM (oHAzj)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 23, 2025 02:03 PM (NYInA)
Da fuuuuq?
- Cindy Crawford
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 23, 2025 02:05 PM (UJWr0)
From the neck down she's conventionally beautiful. From the neck up, I think she's unconventionally attractive. I'd guess not everyone would feel the same, but she's got something I can't quite name going for her.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 02:05 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (viF8m)
Whereas I'm going to be huddled up like Bob Marley with a spliff the size of a table leg 😁
Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 02:06 PM (YoUJR)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (viF8m)/i]
Don't you mean Bob Marley?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:06 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: LASue at December 23, 2025 02:06 PM (nKjbR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:07 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (viF8m)
Maybe if you'd been nicer to Bob Cratchit, you could go party at his place.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:07 PM (77rzZ)
The guy wasn't burned alive. The seat was ripped out of the car and he was torn in half, with his intestines hanging out. He was apparently alive when he got to the hospital.
If you look closely at that video, you can see them dragging the seat away from the car. There are no legs hanging off the seat. He was cut in half.
Yikes.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:07 PM (iFTx/)
I'm so sorry. Is there a warm hotel you could go to until then?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Just the punchline.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 23, 2025 02:07 PM (/lPRQ)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 02:08 PM (Mis34)
Was that wrong? I feel like, if that were wrong, someone would have said something earlier.
Posted by: George Costanza at December 23, 2025 02:08 PM (ycI94)
Hey, Fen! You gettin' geared up for Christmas Eve services?
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:08 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: LASue at December 23, 2025 02:06 PM (nKjbR)
You'll get no argument from me.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)
also Jack - you gotta have backup heat. I kiss my wood burning stove ever day lol. we lose power too much around here to not have something like that (and a generator to boot)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 02:09 PM (emBoF)
Any God who can make Adam and Eve, can make dinosaur bones.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 23, 2025 02:02 PM (2WIwB)
And any God that invented time can do whatever he wants with it.
Posted by: LASue at December 23, 2025 02:09 PM (nKjbR)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:09 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 02:09 PM (8Xy/A)
No worries. I have a split heating system with a furnace in the attic that does the second floor and one in the basement that does the top floor so we'll just hang upstairs.
Could be worse.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 02:09 PM (viF8m)
I think in the Bible context, "dragon" is usually a translation of the Hebrew work, "Tanniyn." I'm no scholar, but I believe, "Tanniyn" is a general use term for a large sea monster, large land monster, serpent, or even dragon. If all that's true, "dragons" in the Bible don't necessarily mean something like Smaug. They could be all sorts of things. This of course assumes too that the authors in those cases weren't being metaphorical.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 02:09 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: LASue at December 23, 2025 02:09 PM (nKjbR)
Posted by: Barack at December 23, 2025 02:10 PM (XMwZJ)
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And let's not use the word they in place of him.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 02:10 PM (Mis34)
Posted by: Barack at December 23, 2025 02:11 PM (XMwZJ)
also Jack - you gotta have backup heat. I kiss my wood burning stove ever day lol. we lose power too much around here to not have something like that (and a generator to boot)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 23, 2025 02:09 PM (emBoF)
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It was from a comment in the last thread about the creator of Call of Duty dying in a crash over the weekend. It first appeared he was trapped in the car and burned to death. But I heard (second-hand) from a witness on site what really happened. I didn't know the guy who died.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:11 PM (iFTx/)
Sharapova was much better, I heard.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:04 PM (77rzZ)
You decide........
https://is.gd/jJQpcb
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:11 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:11 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)
++++
Okay. Then why fire the TA instead of enforcing the grade? Is she a star player or have a pressure group or something?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:12 PM (avHHk)
https://youtu.be/LVMXAcSLULU?si=UywiGYpnoHB1gIEc
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 23, 2025 02:12 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: Ace at 01:27 PM
Her hobby is developing skill with a racket. And so is his!
Posted by: SciVo at December 23, 2025 02:12 PM (Sy6m/)
Posted by: Barack at December 23, 2025 02:12 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:12 PM (5DEFi)
Go to utube and search "Dinosaurs in the Bible Dr Jason Lisle"
Watch till the end,,, unless you want to remain blind. Up to you.
Then there's also "We predicted this" same guy
Posted by: TeeJ at December 23, 2025 02:13 PM (T08Hw)
Half day for the schools here. Most kids here can walk to and from school.
Listening to them hooping and hollering walking home now is awesome. Brings back memories when I was a kid getting out of school for Christmas break.
Posted by: fourseasons at December 23, 2025 02:13 PM (3ek7K)
Fun world. And they said Republicans would have too many "rules".
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 02:13 PM (oHAzj)
What, exactly, would you have to be careful about? Hmm???
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:13 PM (3Amc7)
Posted by: Prickly Pete Salmonella at December 23, 2025 02:13 PM (dFG8E)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:12 PM (avHHk)
Media frenzies tend to be self feeding. That's probably most of it. You got an "It" topic. You got antagonists straight out of central casting.
It's a self sustaining Rohrschach shitstorm. Reality doesn't matter.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 02:14 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:12 PM (avHHk)
No. That's why I think this is a bad look. She's just going after the fact that a troon didn't like her essay in the name of Christian persecution, instead of revealing the troon was actually doing something wrong.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:14 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 23, 2025 02:08 PM (Mis34)
Sad, resentful homo is my guess.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:14 PM (dK+Kv)
I tend to believe in the theory that the Garden of Eden was a localized pocket of no death or decay. My thinking is God prepared the world using direct and indirect processes, and outside of the Garden, a great deal of time passed, including the time of the dinosaurs.
When Adam and Eve fell, the Garden was forbidden, and the Godly influence over it was removed. The Garden over time became like the rest of the world, a fallen place of thorns, thistles, poisonous plants, death, and decay.
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 02:14 PM (Yp6az)
Yes; I will submit the bulletin to the church secretary also known as FenSpouse. Fortunately it's a service of nine lessons and carols so I don't really have to preach. The guy down the road at the historic reformed church has three services-one at 4:30, one at 7:00 and one at 11 pm. I do not plan to be up at 11;00.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 23, 2025 02:14 PM (8Xy/A)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:15 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 01:52 PM (06Hmj)
Some of us more than others.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:17 PM (dK+Kv)
the nearest black guy, the Brown U. Police Chief, has been suspended.
Posted by: ha ha ha ha at December 23, 2025 02:17 PM (qUkBO)
If I were an early explorer and I spotted one of these bad boys, I'd say I'd seen a dragon.
http://tiny.cc/rxsw001
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 02:17 PM (Yp6az)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:15 PM (5DEFi)
There are men.
There are women.
Anything else is a defect.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)
That's living!
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 23, 2025 02:17 PM (w6EFb)
Was it a homosexual or did it have its dick cut off?
Posted by: Braenyard
What??
No surgery/mutilation stops a homo from being a homo.
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:18 PM (TWzjC)
The "academic" paper is kinda bullshit to begin with--because EVERYTHING in middle/high school is associated with popularity/bullying. Doesn't change the fact that there are only two sexes.
Posted by: Barack at December 23, 2025 02:18 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:18 PM (5DEFi)
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Hermaphrodites do exist and they have both sets of lucky charms. Never met one but I'm told they do pop out every now and then.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 23, 2025 02:18 PM (pLaQB)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:18 PM (5DEFi)
How dare you correct someone spewing their racist bullshit on the internet.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: banana Dream at December 23, 2025 02:19 PM (3uBP9)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:12 PM (avHHk)
No. That's why I think this is a bad look. She's just going after the fact that a troon didn't like her essay in the name of Christian persecution, instead of revealing the troon was actually doing something wrong.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)
I'll accept your premise that she earned the failing grade by failing to submit a paper responsive to the assignment (despite seeing it as at least somewhat responsive from what I have read), but counterpoint:
F, them. War!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:19 PM (dK+Kv)
It was interesting. Was I convinced? No. But some of its critiques of the evolutionary scientists' theories made good points. I have long been skeptical of some evolutionary theories, particularly when it comes to the end of the dinosaurs.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:19 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:19 PM (77rzZ)
Riding in the F-150 with a prime cut rib roast and a bottle of fine cab sauv...
Posted by: Miley
That's nice company to have.
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:19 PM (TWzjC)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:19 PM (3Amc7)
Posted by: Miley
That's nice company to have.
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:19 PM (TWzjC)
. . . nobody rides for free.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:20 PM (dK+Kv)
Riding in the F-150 with a prime cut rib roast and a bottle of fine cab sauv that I scored today, and seeing that gas has dropped 50 cents a gallon in the past month ($2.15).
Posted by: Miley
This right here is half of the next big Country Music hit song!
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:20 PM (TWzjC)
Usually with wiring, you have male plugs and female sockets, and vice versa.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 23, 2025 02:21 PM (WPL6O)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:21 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:58 PM (oHAzj)
Yes, and the goal is to turn kids into sex dolls and toss them when they get older.
Posted by: night lifted at December 23, 2025 02:21 PM (/YboP)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
I would be curious to read any papers that received the highest grade.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 23, 2025 02:22 PM (MolB1)
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (77rzZ)
Seriously ... ???
Chrissie was never hot, girl next door cute maybe ... but never hot.
Jenn was cute ... chunky, but cute
Anna was, and still is, incandescently hot
Posted by: browndog rememberes Gabriella Sabatini at December 23, 2025 02:22 PM (3sXRv)
Posted by: Pudinhead
Phil Donahue had one on his show way, way back in the day. I think they usually have one set of genitals removed and then just identify as the sex of the remaining genitals. The one on Donahue's show looked like, and identified as, a woman.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:22 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Beavis at December 23, 2025 02:23 PM (ycI94)
Usually with wiring, you have male plugs and female sockets, and vice versa.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
OK, that's what I suspected. Didn't know the term "gender" was used for that.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:23 PM (77rzZ)
Yeah that would be a good study as well: what did this person consider good work? Was it objectively well done or are they grading on a scale as it were?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:23 PM (3Amc7)
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Could it be ... "The Father Of Lies?"
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 02:24 PM (BQoC+)
F, them. War!
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:19 PM (dK+Kv)
I would also say that the proper response to a nonsense assignment is a nonsense paper. A nice Eastern kōan symmetry to it.
Posted by: banana Dream - Budda abides at December 23, 2025 02:24 PM (3uBP9)
If a trannie, of all people or things, gives you a failing grade in psychology, isn't that an A+?
Posted by: t-bird at December 23, 2025 02:24 PM (n9XW8)
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His question includes the Freudian assertion the "I'm the normal one, you guys were bullied to be the way you are"
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 23, 2025 02:24 PM (PWcY+)
It occurred that all Plumbing fittings have a "gender" to match their shape.
They call a female a "female" because the corresponding "male" fitting goes INTO it, NEVER the other way around.
This can't stand. It's only a matter of time the Perverts demand we stop calling these fittings male & female because it only "reinforces" "anti trans" thinking.
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:24 PM (TWzjC)
Yeah that would be a good study as well: what did this person consider good work? Was it objectively well done or are they grading on a scale as it were?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:23 PM (3Amc7)
I would put money down that the highest grades were those that confirmed the troons preconceived biases. Such is the way.
Always has been.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:24 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:22 PM (77rzZ)
I worked with a woman years ago that was rumored to be a herm.
I never DARED to find out as she was not attractive along with being batshit cray.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:25 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:25 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 02:25 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: Pudinhead
Phil Donahue had one on his show way, way back in the day. I think they usually have one set of genitals removed and then just identify as the sex of the remaining genitals. The one on Donahue's show looked like, and identified as, a woman.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:22 PM (77rzZ)
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There's quite a bit of ancient art and sculpture depicting hermaphrodites, although you won't see it in most museums. There's also a lot of art and sculpture depicting obvious pedophilia. Again: you won't see that in most museums.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:25 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 02:25 PM (ZLHME)
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Assuming this story is accurate, Curth wasn't fired for "existing." Curth was fired for cause - ideological grading.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
When your ideology is your entire existence.....
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 02:26 PM (M0iC+)
You really can't take in the whole of the "materialist" history of the universe and mankind without being smacked in the face by the Divinity of it all.
Which makes perfect sense.
God made all this "material" after all, didn't He?
Take the universe as given. Take Scriptures as given. It all fits together, and whatever doesn't seem to fit, give it time. Someone or another will figure it out.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 02:26 PM (06Hmj)
If I were an early explorer and I spotted one of these bad boys, I'd say I'd seen a dragon.
http://tiny.cc/rxsw001
Posted by: bonhomme at December 23, 2025 02:17 PM (Yp6az)
That's the island that should be selected as the new home of the Palestinians.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 23, 2025 02:28 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Soothsayer
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They are both exalted rulers not appreciated by the small-minded
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 23, 2025 02:28 PM (tG1pe)
Posted by: banana Dream - Budda abides at December 23, 2025 02:24 PM (3uBP9)
I think rejecting the premise and offering your own alternate premise/conclusion qualifies as a valid "analysis," but I am operating on so little info here as to be uncomfortable arguing that that is what she did or that she did it well as to warrant a passing grade.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:28 PM (dK+Kv)
It's why I'll never rule out there are other life forms in the universe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)
The assignment asked students to write a 650-word analysis of an academic article examining whether conformity to gender norms was associated with popularity or bullying among middle school students.
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You could do this handily without citng the Bible. Defeat the transjerk on xis own terms.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 23, 2025 02:29 PM (n7rxJ)
I am reasonably sure Jamie Lee Curtis is one
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:29 PM (3Amc7)
Posted by: Warai-otoko
This is more or less where I'm at. I have been dealing with the whole creation-evolution question since my early teens. I'm to the point where I don't dismiss either side entirely. The two cannot be completely reconciled, but neither one can or should be dismissed, either. I just trust that at some point in the next life God will make the truth of the matter known to me.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:30 PM (77rzZ)
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Assuming this story is accurate, Curth wasn't fired for "existing." Curth was fired for cause - ideological grading.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
That may be, but I am fine with "fired for 'existing,'" especially in roles that require clarity of thought, being in touch with reality, emotional stability.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:30 PM (dK+Kv)
Also, since when is 650 words a college essay?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 23, 2025 02:30 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:31 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 23, 2025 02:30 PM (n7rxJ)
Since the US dropped out of the top 100 nations in education globally.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:30 PM (dK+Kv)
There's almost an "Existence Theory of Value" angle I could shoehorn one of my tiresome little hobby horses in, here, isn't there?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (06Hmj)
I am reasonably sure Jamie Lee Curtis is one
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:29 PM (3Amc7)
Only her OBGYN and Nigel Tufnel know for sure.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (yZSOm)
Posted by: Today's College Applicant at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (n9XW8)
Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (viF8m)
Only her OBGYN and Nigel Tufnel know for sure.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (yZSOm)
Oh, I'm sure she's been on a casting couch or two in her lifetime.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (Zz0t1)
Or just stop at HEB & Kroger and then go to Sam's & the liquor store tomorrow.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (lEejK)
Usually with wiring, you have male plugs and female sockets, and vice versa.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm
OK, that's what I suspected. Didn't know the term "gender" was used for that.
Posted by: Bulg
You'll also hear "gender bender" for a cable or dongle used to connect two things of the same gender.
But we're never sure if a "lesbian USB-A cable" is two plugs (connects two females) or two sockets (is female itself.)
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 02:33 PM (M0iC+)
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 01:46 PM (77rzZ)
Seriously ... ???
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Monica Hingis
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 23, 2025 02:33 PM (PWcY+)
650 words exactly. You can count em, professor.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 23, 2025 02:33 PM (u73oe)
But we're never sure if a "lesbian USB-A cable" is two plugs (connects two females) or two sockets (is female itself.)
Posted by: mikeski at December 23, 2025 02:33 PM (M0iC+)
"That cable's a fag!"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:33 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Today's College Applicant at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (n9XW
College activists, snappy dressers, mostly spoke German.
But that's not important right now.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 02:34 PM (06Hmj)
How long did Adam and Eve live in the Garden before the fall? Was the passage of time the same before the fall as it was after the fall? We have only the metrics of man to base our conclusions on.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 23, 2025 02:34 PM (MolB1)
Posted by: JackStraw at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (viF8m)
__________
Russia denies this, but I'm sure it's going on (and has been going on).
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at December 23, 2025 02:34 PM (iFTx/)
Monica Hingis
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 23, 2025 02:33 PM (PWcY+)
Martina Hingis
Monica Seles
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:35 PM (dK+Kv)
They are both exalted rulers not appreciated by the small-minded
Posted by: vmom
What in Hezmana is this?
Tralk!
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:36 PM (TWzjC)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:36 PM (3Amc7)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:35 PM (dK+Kv)
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I GOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE!
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 23, 2025 02:36 PM (u73oe)
Posted by: NCKate at December 23, 2025 02:37 PM (uQzkA)
650 words is an email.
Posted by: Boss Moss
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I'm pretty sure some of the reading sections alone in the LSAT and the GRE had passages longer than 650 words.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 23, 2025 02:37 PM (n7rxJ)
It's why I'll never rule out there are other life forms in the universe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
And He will most definitely throw a curve ball from time to time to keep us honest and on our toes.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at December 23, 2025 02:37 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)
No more than any other two people who ever lived, I guess.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 02:37 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Sponge
Way better than Adam & Steve
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 02:37 PM (lEejK)
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:37 PM (TWzjC)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (06Hmj)
Don't know, but it would be interesting to read if you did.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:37 PM (dK+Kv)
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 02:37 PM (lEejK)
The hells you say!
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 23, 2025 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)
Bible doesn't say, nor does it say that God created nobody except Adam and Eve at the time. Only that they were created first and placed in the garden. Could have been hundreds or thousands of others created, outside the garden. Adam and Eve were representative, not necessarily solo.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:38 PM (3Amc7)
Yeah that would be a good study as well: what did this person consider good work? Was it objectively well done or are they grading on a scale as it were?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:23 PM (3Amc7)
I would put money down that the highest grades were those that confirmed the troons preconceived biases. Such is the way.
Always has been.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:24 PM (dK+Kv)
There is a skill to telling the teacher what they want to hear...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 23, 2025 02:38 PM (tOcjL)
It's why I'll never rule out there are other life forms in the universe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
God only told us what He wanted us to know. Not everything He knows.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 02:38 PM (lEejK)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 23, 2025 02:38 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Nova Local at December 23, 2025 02:38 PM (tOcjL)
I haven't learned that too late in life.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:39 PM (dK+Kv)
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Ah yes, the good ol' five-paragraph deductive essay.
Posted by: ShainS -- A DEI Kakistocracy, If You Can Keep It at December 23, 2025 02:39 PM (ubGVs)
290 I would be curious to read any papers that received the highest grade.
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There may have been some that argued against trans ideology , with logic and facts. For paper is available online , and it's garbage. Not college material at all.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 23, 2025 02:39 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Sock Monkey
That's an interesting question. The Bible would make it seem like the time of residence in the Garden was fairly short, but we really don't know.
Assuming that Adam and Eve took God's commandment to "be fruitful and multiply" seriously, they probably tried baby-making pretty soon after their creation. But in the fall story, there is no indication that they had any children yet (and that would probably contradict the theology of the story, since it would mean that Cain, their eldest child, would have been conceived in prelapsarian conditions).
Interesting question, but unanswerable.
Posted by: Bulg at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (yZSOm)
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Assuming this story is accurate, Curth wasn't fired for "existing." Curth was fired for cause - ideological grading.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
That may be, but I am fine with "fired for 'existing,'" especially in roles that require clarity of thought, being in touch with reality, emotional stability.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:30 PM (dK+Kv)
Or more specifically, excluding them from those roles that need that until they treat their underlying dysphoria and regain belief in their existence.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (tOcjL)
and as many as 2 trillion galaxies in the universe
I believe it quite likely there is life throughout the universe
Posted by: Don Black at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (ZxPkt)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 23, 2025 02:37 PM (n7rxJ)
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When I write the Wednesday rant, I target 600-650 words, because if I go meaningfully longer than that, engagement plummets. My first drafts are usually at least 50% longer than that, then I start chopping to try to keep total length under control.
So that's how long the assigned essay was - an average Wednesday rant. As a college assignment. If it wasn't a "write it, edit it and hand it in during this class period as an exercise" assignment, it's really laughable.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: The_Hoser at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (H4qGm)
If you slapped another foot on Martina Hingis and hid her ginormous forehead, she'd be up there too.
Posted by: Orson at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (dIske)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (2vrAX)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (NYInA)
Posted by: Today's College Applicant
Student Assistant.
A friendzoned simp who does all of her homework for her while gets cracked by Chad & Tyrone.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (lEejK)
So that's how long the assigned essay was - an average Wednesday rant. As a college assignment. If it wasn't a "write it, edit it and hand it in during this class period as an exercise" assignment, it's really laughable.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Precisely.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at December 23, 2025 02:41 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:41 PM (TWzjC)
Posted by: Miley
This right here is half of the next big Country Music hit song!
Posted by: Soothsayer Scrooge at December 23, 2025 02:20 PM (TWzjC)
You're right about that! Country music is all about relating to the lyrics.
Alas, I have no musical skillz. It's up for grabs. Any songwriters present?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 23, 2025 02:42 PM (w6EFb)
https://tinyurl.com/4fybyj6m
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (yZSOm)
To be fair, Axios isn't news.
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at December 23, 2025 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Don Black at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (ZxPkt)
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Believe it or the opposite. We'll likely never know either way. Unless everything we know is wrong (possible, to be sure), interstellar travel is impossible. So long as that remains true, I am not getting worked up about aliens who's existence can only ever be hypothetical.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 23, 2025 02:42 PM (avHHk)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)
You know, like a real lady would do.
Posted by: The_Hoser at December 23, 2025 02:42 PM (H4qGm)
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Considering they can't leave children alone, they are lucky there isn't a bounty on them.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 02:42 PM (lEejK)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 23, 2025 02:43 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Barry Soetero at December 23, 2025 02:43 PM (n9XW8)
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 23, 2025 02:43 PM (b/RC2)
Posted by: Boss Moss at December 23, 2025 02:43 PM (5DEFi)
Posted by: Today's College Applicant
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Haha!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone
>Hey, esse, don't Bogart that blunt!
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 02:43 PM (nljXp)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 23, 2025 02:43 PM (wn0/z)
If you slapped another foot on Martina Hingis and hid her ginormous forehead, she'd be up there too.
Posted by: Orson at December 23, 2025 02:40 PM (dIske)
she never made it onto any of my 'hot' lists.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: four seasons at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: Azjaeger
Or mission.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (lEejK)
It's why I'll never rule out there are other life forms in the universe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer
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You don't want to encounter my earlier efforts. Total weirdos.
Posted by: G-d at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (NYInA)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)
I GOT A LOT OF PROBLEMS WITH YOU PEOPLE!
Posted by: Duke Lowell
When everyone you meet is an asshole...
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (pkeXY)
Boneless ribeye steak is amazing. Hopefully, more can be had in 2026 (I may pick up one more roast tomorrow for the freezer)...
Posted by: Nova Local at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Azjaeger at December 23, 2025 02:43 PM (b/RC2)
This encapsulates everything.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 02:32 PM (06Hmj)
Don't know, but it would be interesting to read if you did.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 23, 2025 02:37 PM (dK+Kv)
It just sounds like a fascinating inversion, that I can't really be arsed to fully figure out. Take the EToV as given. They're standing it on its head, and saying "not only do you deserve the job you have by virtue of your existence, any effort to remove you from that job is because of your very existence. Not any action. Not even any qualia or quantifier. Just You Existing makes them Hate."
It's lazy in its perversity, and perverse in its laziness.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 23, 2025 02:44 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Marcus T at December 23, 2025 02:45 PM (wn0/z)
Apparently, that character was written to be a quiet and nebbishy Woody Allen type, browbeaten by his abrasive wife, but the actor thought it would be funnier if he was abrasive, too
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 23, 2025 02:45 PM (3Amc7)
Posted by: thug dolphin at December 23, 2025 02:49 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Bulg
Exactly. Personally, I don't need an answer. I have all the evidence I need manifested in my personal experiences to ground my faith in bedrock.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at December 23, 2025 02:50 PM (MolB1)
Posted by: melodicmetal at December 23, 2025 03:02 PM (rHQec)
Posted by: connected and litigious at December 23, 2025 03:04 PM (cS1cw)
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at December 23, 2025 03:15 PM (nljXp)
Seems like a waste of money, since public schools do that anyway.
Posted by: Jetto at December 23, 2025 01:31 PM (YoUJR)
The PRC should just watch its enemies commit suicide.
If they actually read any Sun Tzu, that is.
Posted by: Cow Demon at December 23, 2025 03:30 PM (Wv0GD)
Posted by: ... at December 23, 2025 01:40 PM (oHAzj)
How about my Little Red Book?
Posted by: Mao at December 23, 2025 03:32 PM (Wv0GD)
Ironically, the transgender weirdo proved the "yes, it's bullying" side of the argument.
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