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Sunday Morning Book Thread 9-13-2026 [Sabrina Chase]

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Writer getting ideas, 1947, colorized

Welcome to the Book Thread, Guest Poster edition! I will be your host as we explore all sorts of book-related topics. All usual Book Thread rules are incorporated by reference (pets, beverage, clothing covering the lower limbs, etc.) with the special Sabrina Chase exemption for those stylish persons preferring kilts.

As I may have mentioned previously, I am a writer. I thought the esteemed Morons of the Book Thread might be interested in some of the inner workings of the authorial process, so now it is time for some Dark Writer Secrets, or ...

How Writers Get Their Ideas

Writers have lots of ideas. Ideas are cheap and plentiful. Ideas that we think we can write a good story about in the time available are...less so. The non-writing public, not seeing the whining and crying and hair-pulling we do at the computer, think it is just sitting back and thinking Big Thinks and fame and fortune arrive by cargo ship.


I have performed as a Tame Writer for high school English classes, and it is all very well to see a real breathing person who has written a book. That gets me polite interest. But what gets them enthused is when I demonstrate, right there in front of them, how to get a story idea.

What I usually do is ask them to give me three nouns. Any nouns. And then I show them the brainstorming process that gets me to a narrative that holds together as a story, including tossing out the first or even second idea, because if it was easy for me to think of then someone has probably already done it and better than I can. No, I want the unusual, oh yeah that's Sabrina for you story!

One I remember went like this:

Nouns: Seahawks, Spongebob Squarepants, and Paris (the kids were giggling with glee when they came up with these too)

What I came up with: The NFL has decreed that all team mascots must be real things, and if they are not the team merchandise will be immediately confiscated resulting in mass nudity in Seattle, because nobody has seen a Seahawk! But to the rescue comes the Cousteau society (based in Paris) seeking a mysterious being named Spongebob Squarepants and very knowledgeable about sea life, who can find an actual Seahawk to prove it is real!

They thought this was hilarious.

That said, I don't usually come up with my book ideas with the three-noun method. It's more of a writing exercise to get the writer out of the depressive fits we are prone to. My method is to create movie scenes in my head while listening to music, and create plots from that.

I will confess my Argonauts of Space series started off as revenge for Pluto getting demoted from planet to planetoid, though. I thought, "what would make them beg to call it a planet again... ooh, I know! It's really an ancient alien spaceship! Hmm. And why is it there? It got left as debris after a war." And it all sort of cascaded from there ... and because I am what is politely called a "discovery writer" (but what writers call "pantser", as in "seat of the pants") by the end of the first book I had space Neanderthals and machine telepaths and the vital importance of corn muffins. I dunno about my mind, I just visit...

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1 Tolle Lege

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 08:59 AM (Ia/+0)

2 Diagon Alley maybe.

Posted by: Bryce at September 13, 2026 09:00 AM (5GspC)

3 NYC, John Deere, Twinkie

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 09:02 AM (MWfyi)

4 A writing professor buddy of mine has suggested to his students that one way to become a good writer is to play role-playing games.

That's a collaborative story-telling exercise.

I know of several fantasy writers who have used this method to great success (Raymond E. Feist, Steven Erickson & Ian C. Esslemont, Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, to name a few)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 09:02 AM (FZ29D)

5 I read once in a book review column that "Blank paper is God's way of showing you that it's not so easy to be God."

Posted by: Weak Geek at September 13, 2026 09:03 AM (AAaj3)

6 Besides still reading Winston Churchill The Gathering Storm, at Sept 1938 in the book, found my reading glasses after being in a pocket, go through wash, hung outside for hours then in dryer heard a clanging. They seem fine so good to go and cleaned somewhat.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 09:04 AM (Ia/+0)

7 Boookkkkzzzz!

Posted by: vmom deport deport stab deport at September 13, 2026 09:05 AM (Ydd86)

8 Good Sunday morning, horde!

I love that picture. But I'm a Cold War spy novel aficionado, so it would appeal. Because that's what it looks like.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:06 AM (CjHsb)

9 Honestly, some ideas just appear in my head. Either a whole story, or parts of one: how to solve a problem in the story, or plot points to expand the story. Usually used when I think the word count isn't going to meet the standard for the genre.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:06 AM (1Ff7Z)

10 I've been enjoying booktoober Jake's channel "BookMortem", in which he explores the pulpier shores of SF and Fantasyland.

"9 So Bad, they're Good Science Fiction Books you've probably never heard of"

https://tinyurl.com/h29uxu7z

The Red Planet
Invaders from Rigel
Man of Many Minds
Genesis Five
Shoot at the Moon
Secret of the Black Planet
Night Mare
The Four Day Weekend
Galaxy 666

The joke's on you, Jake. I have some of these! I dug out "The Robot Brains", "Secret of the Black Planet", "Man of Many Minds", and "Invaders From Rigel" for my next reads.

"The Robot Brains", by British SF author Sydney J. Bounds, was written in the 50's but feels like it's from the 30's. Top scientists on the cusp of technological breakthroughs are being decapitated by rayguns. There are evil giant-brained dwarves and a modern day Mongolian khan who wants to rule the world.

It's really bad, but at least it doesn't take 500 pages to stink up the joint.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 09:06 AM (kpS4V)

11 Morning, Sabrina.

Howdy, Horde.

If memory serves, Harlan Ellison used to answer the where do you get your ideas question by saying there was an idea service in Schenectady and he sent them $$$ and they sent him a fresh six-pack of ideas every week. He also said that he was frequently asked for the address.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 09:07 AM (q3u5l)

12 3 NYC, John Deere, Twinkie
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 09:02 AM (MWfyi)

Midnight Cowboy has already been written.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:07 AM (CjHsb)

13 I love that picture. But I'm a Cold War spy novel aficionado, so it would appeal. Because that's what it looks like.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:06 AM (CjHsb)

Oh, have you read my cold-war era short story? "A Piece of Cake?"

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:08 AM (1Ff7Z)

14 Marketing literature can be tricky. You have to sell the book but not give away the whole story. That's the case with "The Mugger," an early 87th Precinct police procedural by Ed McBain. Some creep is robbing and punching women, then bowing and thanking them. That's all in Chapter One. Meanwhile, the text on the page before the title page tells of a teenage girl who's been clubbed to death. I assume the mugger has crossed the line. Then again, maybe not?

By the way, Inspector Jacques Clouseau comes out triumphant in "The Pink Panther Gets Lucky" through sheer dumb luck. Definitely dumb.

Posted by: Weak Geek at September 13, 2026 09:08 AM (AAaj3)

15 Oh, have you read my cold-war era short story? "A Piece of Cake?"
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:08 AM (1Ff7Z)

I don't think so, do you have a link?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:09 AM (CjHsb)

16 If memory serves, Harlan Ellison used to answer the where do you get your ideas question by saying there was an idea service in Schenectady and he sent them $$$ and they sent him a fresh six-pack of ideas every week. He also said that he was frequently asked for the address.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 09:07 AM (q3u5l)
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That sounds exactly like an idea Ellison would use in a story...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 09:09 AM (FZ29D)

17 "Midnight Cowboy has already been written.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! "

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 09:09 AM (MWfyi)

18 Good morning fellow Book Threadists. I hope everyone had a great week of reading. Or listening if your books are recorded.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2026 09:10 AM (yTvNw)

19 For a change, I'm wearing pants. I'm about to head out to an arts festival, so my beloved book thread robe would not suffice.

Tally Ho!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 13, 2026 09:11 AM (kpS4V)

20 Not familiar with Book Mortem, but I'm pretty sure I read Man of Many Minds during my misspent youth when I was devouring all the paperback sf I could scrounge up. Recall nothing about it, but that title sounds like one I had in the pile.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 09:11 AM (q3u5l)

21 From the dank alleyway of a run down city:


"Psst... Hey buddy, want to buy a couple of ideas?"

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 13, 2026 09:11 AM (0U5gm)

22 From the dank alleyway of a run down city:


"Psst... Hey buddy, want to buy a couple of ideas?"
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 13, 2026 09:11 AM (0U5gm)
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Sesame Street used to have a sketch where a shady-looking character would try to sell letters of the alphabet to one of the regular characters (Ernie? Bert?)..

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 09:15 AM (FZ29D)

23 I don't think so, do you have a link?
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:09 AM (CjHsb)

Rejected by all so far. I can email it to you, if you want.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:15 AM (1Ff7Z)

24 4 "Perfessor" Squirrel
A writing professor buddy of mine has suggested to his students that one way to become a good writer is to play role-playing games.

It is a *great* way to learn to write in-depth (as opposed to paper cutout) characters. If the DM insists you roleplay, that is. I also participated, as a GM, in a large live-action roleplaying game where the participants picked their own character and we, poor sods, had to come up with storylines for ALL of them. Together. Over a hundred. Really built up my writing muscles with that one!

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at September 13, 2026 09:15 AM (k+oif)

25 Reading "Infinity Upgrade" by JN Chaney and Rachel Aukes. In a planetary system essentially owned by an evil, murderous corporation, a regular Joe has a self-aware AI downloaded into his brain by a dying rebel inventor, and much mayhem and hijinks ensue.

Not bad so far, though I do grow weary of the evil, murderous corporation trope. Chaney has so many different sci fi series that I doubt I could read his entire output if I lived another 50 years.

Posted by: Sharkman at September 13, 2026 09:18 AM (/RHNq)

26 I don't delve into the fantasy genre much, but my offspring and I have a sort of family book club, and they've had me reading a series by Robert Jackson Bennett.

The first installment is The Tainted Cup. It's a genre mashup, because it's fantasy setting, but with a murder mystery/detective theme, so it's in a class of its own.

There is the obligatory gay character, which I'm sure had to happen to get the thing published. It's not in your face all the time, so tolerable.

Anyway. We're reading the third and latest in the series now, A Trade of Blood. It's a tale of feuding families, lost fortunes, and a unique and creepy biological warfare.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:19 AM (CjHsb)

27 Ellison wasn't really joking. Back in the pulp era there were classified ads in the magazines for books of story ideas. "Plotto" by William Wallace Cook was one. You could buy ideas, hire a ghost writer to turn them into stories, and they pay a vanity press to publish them.

Posted by: Trimegistus at September 13, 2026 09:19 AM (78a2H)

28 "Once participated" in an RPG.

This indicates that the group fell apart. What happened?

There's a germ of a story idea.

Posted by: Weak Geek at September 13, 2026 09:19 AM (AAaj3)

29 That said, I don't usually come up with my book ideas with the three-noun method. It's more of a writing exercise to get the writer out of the depressive fits we are prone to. My method is to create movie scenes in my head while listening to music, and create plots from that.

I'm constantly (or nearly so) depressed, so that wouldn't work for me. It's interesting you mention movies, though, as that's one of the ways I can tell whether a scene I am writing works or not - if I can 'see' it, with jump cuts, closeups and other camera movement, then it's good.

I don't often listen to music while I'm writing, but if I do, it's always Baroque, which is close enough to white noise that it doesn't distract me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 13, 2026 09:22 AM (qRla/)

30 Rejected by all so far. I can email it to you, if you want.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:15 AM (1Ff7Z)

Absolutely! My email is in my nic.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:22 AM (CjHsb)

31 When the femme-fatale romance novelist came into my office, I could tell she didn't want to be there. The office and the building -- hell, the whole neighborhood -- were as low-rent as I was, and she was clearly afraid it might be contagious. I put away the bourbon and asked what I could do for her, and managed not to leer as I asked her.

"I need you to find out who's running a black-market idea service. It's hurting business, and we need it shut down."

"So why come to me?"

She looked at me, and at the office. "You look like you're right at home in those circles. So why not? If you want the job, the pay's good. And you look like you could use it." She took an envelope from her purse. "Ten thousand when the job's done. Here's two thousand in advance and a bus ticket to Schenectady. Take it or leave it."

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 09:22 AM (q3u5l)

32 This indicates that the group fell apart. What happened?

There's a germ of a story idea.
Posted by: Weak Geek at September 13, 2026 09:19 AM (AAaj3)

One by one the members of a RPG group suddenly start dying in ways that would only happen in the game....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:22 AM (1Ff7Z)

33 For a change, I'm wearing pants.

Well, that's a disappointment.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 13, 2026 09:23 AM (qRla/)

34 Anyway. We're reading the third and latest in the series now, A Trade of Blood. It's a tale of feuding families, lost fortunes, and a unique and creepy biological warfare.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:19 AM (CjHsb)
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I just got that the other day!

Now I'm re-reading the first two before I read that one.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 09:24 AM (FZ29D)

35 I used to make up stories for my kids using the "That reminds me of the time I worked at the ______ factory" premise. I would start out with something like candy corn and say "That reminds me of the time I worked at the candy corn factory" and they would know a story was coming about how I caused some disaster there and got fired.

Like when I worked at the candy corn factory and invented Candy Corn Candles. People couldn't tell the difference and ate them anyway.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 09:26 AM (MWfyi)

36 "As I may have mentioned previously, I am a writer."

Actually, I think you under describe yourself. You have books available for purchase. That makes you an author. Writer, to me, means someone who has completed works, but hasn't published. Everyone can be a writer, but only the best - or luckiest - writers get to be an author.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2026 09:26 AM (1Ff7Z)

37 Morning, folken,

I'm finishing Stephen Hunter's The Bullet Garden, a WWII adventure with Earl Swagger, Bob Lee's father, tracking a sniper team in France just after D-Day.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 09:26 AM (wzUl9)

38 Harlan Coben, who has sold 100,000,000 books, has written a book on writing, Plot Twist.

https://tinyurl.com/5fpvsx6k

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 13, 2026 09:26 AM (ndZc7)

39 A NICKEL!?!

Posted by: Reforger at September 13, 2026 09:26 AM (szk5e)

40 It would have been ok except for the wicks.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 09:27 AM (MWfyi)

41 Albert Campion has been asked by a friend from college to investigate the disappearance of his fiance's uncle. Before he even arrives in Cambridge, the body is found, and the trouble truly begins. In Police at the Funeral, Margery Allingham brings the reader a chaotic mystery that defies a simple explanation.

Great aunt Caroline is the matriarch of a dysfunctional family, and the widow of a famous professor at Cambridge. She wanted Campion involved to forestall police involvement and keep the situation quiet, but after Uncle Andrew's body is found tied with rope and a bullet hole in his head, and her son William was the last to be seen with him, it becomes impossible to keep things under wraps. William's army pistol is missing, and a shank of rope from the attic is gone as well, which all point to William.

All of Caroline's adult children sponge off of her and live in the same house in a festering atmosphere. When yet another death occurs in the house, it seems that a curse has fallen upon the family, and Campion must use all of his intuition and skill to break open the case and find the answers, however fantastical they appear. This is a classic Campion mystery.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 13, 2026 09:27 AM (0U5gm)

42 Not a lot of reading this week. Revisited Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and one of his later novels -- July, July. Still good after all these years.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2026 09:27 AM (q3u5l)

43 Now I'm re-reading the first two before I read that one.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 09:24 AM (FZ29D)

I think the series is improving as he goes. This has been the most interesting one to me, so far.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:27 AM (CjHsb)

44 and because I am what is politely called a "discovery writer" (but what writers call "pantser", as in "seat of the pants") by the end of the first book I had space Neanderthals and machine telepaths and the vital importance of corn muffins.
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This can work for some writers, but the conventional wisdom I've seen for novice authors is to plan, outline, and organize as much as possible.

Usually advice from established authors who got their start doing that.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 09:27 AM (FZ29D)

45 Candy corn candles. You held them by the wick to keep your fingers from getting sticky.

Posted by: Weak Geek at September 13, 2026 09:29 AM (AAaj3)

46 As for reading, I'm slowly going through David Thomson's new A Sudden Flicker of Light and am reminded, once again, why I could never have been a film student. The book is so dense and elliptic that it's very off-putting. I suppose a pro like TJM would understand it, but I don't.

And with him being a committed leftist, I did flip ahead to the last chapter, which is nothing more than a movie-centered screed against the 'dumb' DJT. So I know to skip that when I reach it.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 13, 2026 09:29 AM (qRla/)

47 I am still reading a translation of M. Luther’s advent sermons. He has begun the good works/ free will argument.

Posted by: Accomack at September 13, 2026 09:31 AM (/Chlc)

48 It would have been ok except for the wicks.

Candy with free flossing included! What's not to like?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at September 13, 2026 09:31 AM (qRla/)

49 35 I used to make up stories for my kids using the "That reminds me of the time I worked at the ______ factory" premise.

Like when I worked at the candy corn factory and invented Candy Corn Candles. People couldn't tell the difference and ate them anyway.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 09:26 AM (MWfyi)

LOL. I'll bet they cherish the memories. What a great dad thing to do!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2026 09:31 AM (CjHsb)

Daily Tech News 13 September 2026

Top Story

  • LG televisions are spyware, part one:



    Unlikely it's limited to LG, but they boast of it even as they deny it.


  • LG televisions are definitely not spyware, says LG, as it reportedly force-pushes a firmware update to hide the spyware:


Tech News

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Disclaimer: You diddled when you should have daddled.

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:33 AM (odBC9)

2 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2026 04:35 AM (C26rB)

3 The Gamers Nexus guy, Steve Burke, seems like a really nice guy.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:36 AM (odBC9)

4 AI tells me that "Steve Burke, the founder and editor-in-chief of the PC hardware review and analysis channel Gamers Nexus, is based in Cary, North Carolina."

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:39 AM (odBC9)

5 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 04:43 AM (Ia/+0)

6 >>>Just waiting for a built to complete

built-->build

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:44 AM (odBC9)

7 The IRGC used Claude to find and build profiles on the protestors.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 04:45 AM (E0Et6)

8 In the top video, Steve's Microslop t-shirt is pretty funny.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:47 AM (odBC9)

9 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 13, 2026 04:59 AM (VyBeY)

10 7 The IRGC used Claude to find and build profiles on the protestors.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 04:45 AM (E0Et6)

Scary.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 05:01 AM (odBC9)

11 Good Morning all, time for me to crash but I'm to wired to sleep.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 13, 2026 05:07 AM (Q/FnY)

12 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at September 13, 2026 05:07 AM (V0/Sp)

13 I have an LG fridge.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 05:10 AM (odBC9)

14 Evening and morning, late or Sunday toilers and early risers! 'Tis Sunday, innit?

I woke on my own from tangled dreams about reading instructions from a red-paged book, instructions about something I already knew in the dream how to do but can't recall clearly now. Bleah.

What's up for you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:17 AM (wzUl9)

15
I'm up, I'm up! OK?

Posted by: Leon Trotsky at September 13, 2026 05:19 AM (eRlcH)

16 The 1967 potboiler Valley of the Dolls is on Movies!, with Sharon Tate and Patty Duke. It wouldn't have interested me when it was new, and I've never watched all of it since. A classic example of glossy trash, I guess?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:20 AM (wzUl9)

17
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 13, 2026 05:21 AM (AMvSw)

18 >>> Added an embedded database to my programming language

Will there be a day when more ordinary folk will be able to download and code "Hello, World!\n" ?

Posted by: fluffy at September 13, 2026 05:26 AM (V0/Sp)

19 >>> I have an LG fridge.

Is it smart? Mrs fluffy and are dreading the day we have to replace appliances.

Posted by: fluffy at September 13, 2026 05:27 AM (V0/Sp)

20 We walked over to the Chik-Fil-A near where we live. $17.45 for two sandwiches alone and a large serving of fries (we drank water). Good stuff, but grrrr at the price. Still, going anywhere else as pleasant or better would have run close to $30 with the tip.

I'll buy some meat at Aldi this week, and we can get two dinners out of that with tortillas or with pasta.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:28 AM (wzUl9)

21 19 >>> I have an LG fridge.

Is it smart? Mrs fluffy and are dreading the day we have to replace appliances.
Posted by: fluffy at September 13, 2026 05:27 AM (V0/Sp)

I don't think so. It's pretty old.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 05:29 AM (odBC9)

22 I've already watched both of those Gamers Nexus videos.

So... How to solve the problem?

Well, you could put OpenWRT on your wireless routers, and set your home network up to use VLANs, and shove the TV in its own isolated VLAN, with the router configured to not let it talk to any other devices through the router even if you do add something else to that VLAN in future.

Then set up firewall rules on the "If it's not expressly permitted, it's automatically forbidden" security model, only adding addresses the TV needs to talk to (for updates, for authentication, and for whatever services or streams you want to watch.)

And that's where this starts to break down, because:
a) LG could easily use the same IP address for updates as it does for spying. You might not be able to isolate those.
b) LG could lock you out for "violating the terms of service" if you try to shut down their spying, and that's probably inside those utter bricks of terms-of-service that were shown in the 2nd video.
c) Finding out exactly what IPs to approve to barely get a stream/service working is a giant pain in the arse.

G'morning horde. I should have my coffee now.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 05:32 AM (O7YUW)

23 I purchase all my appliances from the used sellers. They buy all the non spying, non 999 things that can go wrong goods.

Half price or less.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 05:33 AM (E0Et6)

24 22 I've already watched both of those Gamers Nexus videos.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 05:32 AM (O7YUW)

Yay! I was just going to ask Pixy if he has.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 05:33 AM (odBC9)

25 My apartment fridge is probably twenty -- I think after the Katrina debacle, the management back then replaced many units. Frost-free, non-spying.

When I was looking over appliances at Lowe's earlier this year, in case I bought a house that would need a fridge or more, I saw most of the boxes were "smart" . . . but you could still get simpler models for a lot less money. Same thing with stoves. On that trip I didn't look at washers and dryers, but I'd hope the same is true for them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:38 AM (wzUl9)

26 How many other television manufacturers are doing this? Where is the price cutoff? A $300 tv? A $400 tv? I would toss an LG product into the dumpster.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 13, 2026 05:39 AM (5C90x)

27 I've gotten about halfway through the first video. It's way above me, so I will be dependent on the kindness of strangers to interpret it.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 05:41 AM (odBC9)

28 @19/fluffy: "Mrs fluffy and are dreading the day we have to replace appliances."

There are still "dumb" appliances out there. Large landlord corporations still buy them for apartment complexes they run. Start investigating now.

Buy one now as well as a really good appliance dolly (NOT the same as a "box dolly").

Stick the backup fridge in your garage. It can hold bottled drinks.

When the day comes that the main fridge has kicked the bucket, you're all set to promote the backup fridge to the primary, and won't you two feel awesome for having been well prepared.

Two is one, and one is none.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 05:41 AM (O7YUW)

29 I love my old TV from 2003.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2026 05:41 AM (wtpml)

30 exactly, BH!
we have two spare dumb TVs (from craigslist) waiting in the closet.
one is a duplicate of the current one working, so when it fails I will keep it for parts.

coffee req'd, brb

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 13, 2026 05:42 AM (VyBeY)

31 Stirling is romping around, hoping I'll feed him early. No idea where Dagny is; probably in her bedroom window or something. I think his diet is working, but I'm going to find it hard to weigh him with the inaccurate scale I have. Maybe it's time I bought a modern one with a digital display. $$$, I have no doubt.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:44 AM (wzUl9)

32 sock_rat, How are you !?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 05:47 AM (E0Et6)

33 I love my old TV from 2003.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2026

***
I was happy with my CRT TV from 1995 until 2020. Darn thing weighed 75 lbs. I ignored the digital TV world until the CRT died and there was hardly anybody who could fix it -- and I'd have had to get it to the shop anyway.

My current one, bought at Target, is a Vizio. Haven't had any trouble with it, and the over-the-air channels made it possible for me to cancel the cable. I still have the same company for Internet -- but I'm seriously thinking about going with Starlink. It would save me 50%.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:49 AM (wzUl9)

34 More thoughts on LG TV's and other "smart" (spyware) devices:

You have NO way of knowing if they're trying to connect to other networks that you can see on WiFi from your house. Sure most of them are secured, but any company that would go to these lengths to get data on their customers might be willing to try a large password file to attempt to gain access to another network.

Does that break the law? Yes. Will they care? Probably not. Corporations have figured out that the worst that can happen to them (normally) is a fine, otherwise known as a 'cost of doing business'. Also: China is Asshoe and it's not as if they're going to pay any attention to other countries' laws.

My neighbor had one of those programmable "smart bulbs" in their house. For some reason, it decided it was going to absolutely hammer my wifi routers, trying to gain access for itself every 5 seconds. I had a ridiculously long WPA2 password, but I still had to MAC-address ban that stupid thing, and then decided to switch to a MAC-address whitelist. (If you're not on the list already, you ain't getting an IP address. Ever.)

IoT = idIoTic.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 05:49 AM (O7YUW)

35 I imagine they're going to be saying that all of this information could not possibly be processed without AI. Which I imagine is true.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 05:50 AM (odBC9)

36 Well. The monsters are not due for chow for another hour. Time I changed, stretched, and got busy with my workout.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:52 AM (wzUl9)

37 Oh, and that smart bulb of the neighbor's wasn't "smart" and neither were its designers. It kept rotating through a list of 20 common passwords as it tried to connect, utterly littering my router's logs with garbage lines. Over and over and over again...

In a lot of cases they seemed like default passwords that various routers come set up with. Either that means they know there's a lot of people out there that just plug a router in and never give it a second thought as to setting it up properly, or they're counting on the day when you have to factory reset your password, and it'll try to worm its way onto the router then.

Now I'm wondering if the thing also had a malware payload it wanted to deliver... hmmm...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 05:55 AM (O7YUW)

38 26 How many other television manufacturers are doing this? Where is the price cutoff? A $300 tv? A $400 tv? I would toss an LG product into the dumpster.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Very likely all of them.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 13, 2026 05:57 AM (BLOW1)

39 @Pixy: "Added an embedded database to my programming language - it's called Nana - today, and a "kitchen sink" option that increases the bundled standard library from 15 packages to 120."

Aren't you worried that this increases the attack surface?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 05:59 AM (O7YUW)

40 My TV is a screen for DVD's and that is it.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 05:59 AM (E0Et6)

41 I don't have a tv!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:00 AM (odBC9)

42 Rainy morning

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 06:02 AM (Ia/+0)

43 Steve and Wendell look like they're having a ton of fun.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:03 AM (odBC9)

44 I remember specifically when the showroom salesman asked me why I didn't want my plasma with an internet connection. I should have thought of a better kind of 'no.'

Posted by: Escobar cut-loop at September 13, 2026 06:05 AM (HeG1i)

45 m, you don't want to be inundated with consumer ads and propaganda? How very anti of you!

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:05 AM (E0Et6)

46 39 @Pixy: "Added an embedded database to my programming language - it's called Nana - today, and a "kitchen sink" option that increases the bundled standard library from 15 packages to 120."

Aren't you worried that this increases the attack surface?
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

The "kitchen sink" build is for developers exploring the language, so that they don't need to download packages individually. And with the capability security model it should not increase the attack surface - at least in theory.

Still, it's not recommended for deployment, because code that's not present is code that can't have bugs.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 13, 2026 06:08 AM (BLOW1)

47 @20/Wolfus: "We walked over to the Chik-Fil-A near where we live. $17.45 for two sandwiches alone and a large serving of fries (we drank water). Good stuff, but grrrr at the price. Still, going anywhere else as pleasant or better would have run close to $30 with the tip. "

Covid. Lockdowns. Governments printing money to keep things sorta-going. Massive inflation via "clipping the coin" that they refuse to talk about or admit, but they full on knew what they were doing.

Bastards, the bunch of them.

And why? Because then with the value of money effectively halved or even quartered, the value of their debt also went down by that much, because the debt is an absolute number not tied to inflation. If you owe $1,000,000 before a period of massive inflation, and at the end of it your money is worth 25% of what it was before, you effectively now owe $250,000 in pre-inflationary dollars. 3/4 of your debt has been erased.

And so has 3/4 of everyone's life savings. It amazes to me that politicians aren't decorating lampposts as a result of this.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 06:08 AM (O7YUW)

48 @46/Pixy: "Still, it's not recommended for deployment, because code that's not present is code that can't have bugs."

So you'll be using the minimalist library model when you deploy Minx 2.0 then. Good. I'm glad you're on top of this.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 06:10 AM (O7YUW)

49 45 m, you don't want to be inundated with consumer ads and propaganda? How very anti of you!
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:05 AM (E0Et6)

It's me being an introvert.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:11 AM (odBC9)

50 Don't forget that Samsung bricked TVs remotely a few years back...
They claimed the TVs were stolen, so when the TVs were connected online, Samsung bricked them.

https://tinyurl.com/yc4ks2pn

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:11 AM (l3cgK)

51 Steve's tablesized screen is pretty cool!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:12 AM (odBC9)

52 Even though my TVs, fridge, washer and dryer are "dumb", they still have some smarts...for instance, there are places where a service person can access the devices for "service"...and yes, those devices (fridge, washer, dryer) are LG that I bought years ago...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:13 AM (l3cgK)

53 For your home wifi network, turn off SSID broadcasting. That way your neighbors don't know the name of your network.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2026 06:16 AM (36x1j)

54 LG: "We own the glass".

Well good, keep owning it. I ain't buying LG ever again, so you can also keep owning your fridges, washers, dryers, and anything else you make...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:18 AM (l3cgK)

55 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 13, 2026 06:18 AM (2Ez/1)

56 53 For your home wifi network, turn off SSID broadcasting. That way your neighbors don't know the name of your network.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2026 06:16 AM (36x1j)

My Wifi network is hidden, but there are still ways to find it, and folks have. I blame the f'n router I needed to expand the signal to the rest of my house...always some device in your house that has less than stellar security, sometimes by design.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:19 AM (l3cgK)

57
54 LG: "We own the glass".

Well good, keep owning it. I ain't buying LG ever again, so you can also keep owning your fridges, washers, dryers, and anything else you make...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:18 AM (l3cgK)

Yeah, but:

38 26 How many other television manufacturers are doing this? Where is the price cutoff? A $300 tv? A $400 tv? I would toss an LG product into the dumpster.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Very likely all of them.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 13, 2026 05:57 AM (BLOW1)

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:19 AM (odBC9)

58 49 45 m, you don't want to be inundated with consumer ads and propaganda? How very anti of you!
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:05 AM (E0Et6)

It's me being an introvert.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:11 AM (odBC9)

How much do you bet the higher-ups at LG don't use LG in their homes?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:20 AM (l3cgK)

59 57
54 LG: "We own the glass".

Well good, keep owning it. I ain't buying LG ever again, so you can also keep owning your fridges, washers, dryers, and anything else you make...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:18 AM (l3cgK)

Yeah, but:

38 26 How many other television manufacturers are doing this? Where is the price cutoff? A $300 tv? A $400 tv? I would toss an LG product into the dumpster.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Very likely all of them.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 13, 2026 05:57 AM (BLOW1)

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:19 AM (odBC9)

Indeed. Why I try to never buy any "smart" device, cell phone excluded, since it can't be helped. I like my devices dumb. I have no Ring camera or other IOT devices in my house.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:21 AM (l3cgK)

60 Steve is very carefully reading from lawyer-okayed scripts!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:22 AM (odBC9)

61 doing okay, BH, but no hike for me today, alas. stuff to do.

perfect weather, too; 44 degrees, calm; it'll be clear when the sun comes up (stars from horizon to zenith, gorgeous!)
(which means that nothing interesting is happening up there, cool astro-phenomena summon overcast as if by magic!)

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 13, 2026 06:24 AM (VyBeY)

62 I ruined the battery in my Dell laptop. New one on the way, $134.

The Dell Optiplex micro pc is working great. It has a solid state drive, guess that's how it's so small. It's about the size of a single box of mac n' cheese.

Impulse buy from Best Buy: 23" Acer monitor, $79. My plan is to watch multiple football games on multiple monitors.

Posted by: Savage Henry at September 13, 2026 06:24 AM (ZxPkt)

63 jim, that is a bet I would not take.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:24 AM (E0Et6)

64 If you won't give us your information, we will take it !

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 06:25 AM (E0Et6)

65 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: So now I let the poodle go piddle on the fiddle.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 13, 2026 06:26 AM (amcLV)

66 62 I ruined the battery in my Dell laptop.
Posted by: Savage Henry at September 13, 2026 06:24 AM (ZxPkt)

How?

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:26 AM (odBC9)

67 I don't want a LG television. The only TV I have is a non working one which only plays DVD's and CD's.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:28 AM (JrHfD)

68 "How much do you bet the higher-ups at LG don't use LG in their homes?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:20 AM (l3cgK) "

i see 2 possibilities:
- special edition with modded firmware that does not spy
- employment contract that specifically requires 24/365 monitoring of every activity for corporate security; every device must be lg.
gotta say that #2 seems most likely

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 13, 2026 06:29 AM (VyBeY)

69 Typos all over the LG user agreement that Steve is assessing.
test (for text)
aspect (for accept)

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:31 AM (odBC9)

70 >How?

Posted by: m
----

poor management
kept it plugged in for extended periods, topped it off too may times, exceeding the recommended number of charging cycles

what I found out from Copilot is that I could create a laptop battery health report from a command prompt. It gives you a detailed autopsy of the battery, and generates error codes you can interpret on Dell's support website. Mine had degraded to about 20% of its original capacity.

Posted by: Savage Henry at September 13, 2026 06:32 AM (ZxPkt)

71 One wonders if the commercial LED/LCD screens (which cost a LOT more because they're not participating in advertising to the user) are still playing the spyware game. Why? Espionage, possibly sponsored by state actors. (China is ASSHOE.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 13, 2026 06:32 AM (O7YUW)

72 It would run about an hour, then the laptop would shut down.

Posted by: Savage Henry at September 13, 2026 06:33 AM (ZxPkt)

73 Actor Christian Bake starts a community so that foster kids and their siblings can Al stay together. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/66emrzn4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:33 AM (JrHfD)

74 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 13, 2026 06:35 AM (NmD3f)

75 Mornin', Horde. 64 degrees, going to 90 in Kentuckiana.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2026 06:35 AM (NcvvS)

76 72 It would run about an hour, then the laptop would shut down.
Posted by: Savage Henry at September 13, 2026 06:33 AM (ZxPkt)

Yikes!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:36 AM (odBC9)

77 All this spying on us, and it isn't even AI fully yet...Congrats on making Skynet's job easier...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 06:36 AM (l3cgK)

78 I have an LG washer and dryer. Also an LG television.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 06:40 AM (lJ0H4)

79 mornin yall. We got a 40" Fire TV for my MIL's assisted living apartment but she could not figure out how to use it. The menus are too complicated for her 87 year old mind. For one thing, there is no way to make it come up on the same channel as when you turned it off. This is confusing for her as her old TV pretty much stayed on the local channel 13. She can't figure out how to get the stupid smart TV to go to her favorite channel. The facility has 66 cable channels too, but half are junk and she gets lost in them too.

So I brought over a old 32" Sharp TV I had with an OTA antenna and set that up for her. Now when she turns the TV on it comes up on channel 13 and she can switch between half a dozen local channels. I also got her a big button remote that has 6 buttons. On/off, volume and channel up and down, and mute. She's as happy as can be now.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 06:41 AM (MWfyi)

80 Whirlpool is the way to go. I've had my w/d pair over 20 years. Of course I'm just one guy, so the machines run maybe once or twice a week.

Posted by: Savage Henry at September 13, 2026 06:43 AM (ZxPkt)

81 79 I also got her a big button remote that has 6 buttons. On/off, volume and channel up and down, and mute. She's as happy as can be now.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 06:41 AM (MWfyi)

That is super cool.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:43 AM (odBC9)

82 That 40" Fire TV has a great picture and was only $99. The spying subsides the price.

Anyway I brought the Fire home and set it up as a monitor in the shop to watch episodes of Jay Leno's Garage while I'm working. The thing will never connect to my network though, cause I ain't gonna let it.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 06:45 AM (MWfyi)

83 If I could ask for prayers for everybody travelling today. My friend and her family are coming back from Disney World today. I will be glad to not have the responsibility of looking after her three cats and cleaning their litter boxes. It is a heavy clumping variety . ( Spouse helped me a couple of days. Thanks, dear! ) I hope she doesn't come back to a deceased cat because, I only saw the excessively scared once once, although I left it food in the room it tends to hang out in.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:45 AM (JrHfD)

84 Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 06:40 AM (lJ0H4

We have an LG washer and dryer as well. If they're spying on us we have a boring life.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:47 AM (JrHfD)

85 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:33 AM (JrHfD)

Make that "all" stay together.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:48 AM (JrHfD)

86 "We have an LG washer and dryer as well. If they're spying on us we have a boring life.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"

That's what I told Mrs fd about the Fire TV for my MIL. Sure, it's going to spy on her. What is it going to learn? That she likes Wheel Of Fortune?

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 06:50 AM (MWfyi)

87 We walked over to the Chik-Fil-A near where we live. $17.45 for two sandwiches alone and a large serving of fries (we drank water). Good stuff, but grrrr at the price. Still, going anywhere else as pleasant or better would have run close to $30 with the tip.

I see that Chick-Fil-A has a new sandwich. The chicken filet topped with bacon between two maple flavored waffles. Served with maple syrup. Looks like I'm going to make a trip there very soon.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 06:50 AM (lJ0H4)

88 I dunno, Pixy.
I could have handled the 3.3MB, but 3.7MB is just asking too much in this day and age of arm, keg & kidney, NAND pricing.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 06:52 AM (6ydKt)

89 The hate is strong in these 'gamers' as they throw shade at Ananta, formerly Project Mugen.

Doubt I will get the game when it releases in January but from all the clips and game play, it looks like a lot of fun.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 13, 2026 06:52 AM (2GVsD)

90 We have an LG washer and dryer as well. If they're spying on us we have a boring life.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Same here. They can listen to me talk to the dog. Whoopee.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 06:53 AM (lJ0H4)

91 All this LG spy-stuff is reminiscent of Flock.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:53 AM (odBC9)

92 Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 06:50 AM (MWfyi

lol.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:53 AM (JrHfD)

93
Wife: I don't understand cloning.
Husband: That makes two of us.

Posted by: Morning smile at September 13, 2026 06:53 AM (2Ez/1)

94 ... including data aggregation.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:53 AM (odBC9)

95 8 In the top video, Steve's Microslop t-shirt is pretty funny.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:47 AM (odBC9)

Gamers Nexus sells them on their store if you want one.

Or, they were, sometimes they do limited edition items so the Microslop shirts might be sold out.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 06:54 AM (6ydKt)

96 93
Wife: I don't understand cloning.
Husband: That makes two of us.
Posted by: Morning smile at September 13, 2026 06:53 AM (2Ez/1)

; )

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:54 AM (odBC9)

97 Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 06:50 AM (lJ0H4)

That new sandwich sounds good!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:55 AM (JrHfD)

98 When I got my cat Chloe earlier this summer, her previous owner threw in an automatic litter box.

It's wifi-enabled.

WHY?

I much prefer a $2 scooper and a $5 plastic tub over an $800 electronic behemoth that spies on my cat (and me).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 06:56 AM (FZ29D)

99 Twenty-five years of Foamy the Squirrel?

https://youtu.be/Ul5_TSRH2zg

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 13, 2026 06:56 AM (2GVsD)

100 100

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:56 AM (odBC9)

101 Had a great lunch with Hrothgar recently.
We're both planning on attending the upcoming assemblage in The Lone Star state.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 13, 2026 06:57 AM (2Ez/1)

102 95 8 In the top video, Steve's Microslop t-shirt is pretty funny.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:47 AM (odBC9)

Gamers Nexus sells them on their store if you want one.

Or, they were, sometimes they do limited edition items so the Microslop shirts might be sold out.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 06:54 AM (6ydKt)

He was selling Microslop stickers in the top video!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:57 AM (odBC9)

103 Nice version of old time hymn, "I surrender all" by ( I think ) a married couple:

https://tinyurl.com/5a3nve2m

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 06:58 AM (JrHfD)

104 95 8 In the top video, Steve's Microslop t-shirt is pretty funny.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:47 AM (odBC9)

Gamers Nexus sells them on their store if you want one.

Or, they were, sometimes they do limited edition items so the Microslop shirts might be sold out.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 06:54 AM (6ydKt)

It's still at his online store.

MICROSLOP PARODY LOGO T-SHIRT | COTTON, BLACK

from $25.00

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 07:00 AM (odBC9)

105 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 06:56 AM (FZ29D)

My friends have an automatic litter box as well. Perhaps I am excessively stupid but I don't understand how it works, so I just scooped it out.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 07:00 AM (JrHfD)

106 The will to rule over others is too much for most humans to resist.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 07:01 AM (Ia/+0)

107 haha

The MICROSLOP T-Shirt is styled with a slop-like parody logo, featuring a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) frowny face error icon, two event viewer icons (red X and yellow !), and our rendition of a 2D Tux the Penguin as people eye a possible move to Linux from MICROSLOP and its sloppy AI-infused operating system.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 07:01 AM (odBC9)

108 Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 13, 2026 06:57 AM (2Ez/1)

That's great!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 07:01 AM (JrHfD)

109 106 The will to rule over others is too much for most humans to resist.
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 07:01 AM (Ia/+0)

also

$$$$$

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 07:01 AM (odBC9)

110 We have LG washer dryer that are dumb and stuck in a closet. My stove is a smart LG that I didn’t set up. The tv’s are 55” Insignias and are great. Apple and Amazon monitor me all day.
Mgid is so bad on my iPhone is so bad that I don’t even try anymore.
Chik Fil A’s chicken waffle sandwich is a limited time deal. Get one.

Posted by: Accomack at September 13, 2026 07:02 AM (GbONR)

111 An illegal immigrant driver fleeing a stop by Immigration and Customs Enforcement crashed into and injured a NJ mayor’s wife.

"This illegal alien was stopped lawfully by federal authorities, ran through a red light, fleeing federal authorities and unfortunately ran into the mayor of East Brunswick’s wife.”


It's all fun and games until your ox gets gored.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 07:02 AM (MWfyi)

112 (cont'.)

The shirt comes in a comfortable, 100% cotton and is ready to adhere to Microsoft’s CEO’s cry for everyone to stop referring to AI slop as, well, “slop.”

Unlike AI output from Microslop, this shirt is designed by people.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 07:03 AM (odBC9)

113 He was selling Microslop stickers in the top video!
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 06:57 AM (odBC9)

They sell a bunch if stuff.
He doesn’t do ad deals with companies they cover, which is a lot.

GN supports itself with store sales and donations, etc., so they can remain independent and unbiased (as possible, for instance I can tell Steve doesn’t like Trump and his administration, although he won’t come right out and say it).

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 07:04 AM (6ydKt)

114 Bible verses for hope, peace and strength in difficult times. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/yxjev7ua

I hope you all have a blessed day, and know that you are a blessing to others!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2026 07:05 AM (JrHfD)

115 I just own the one LG product.
Unfortunately it’s the tv.

I’m kinda resigned to being spied on at this point.

It’s a constant battle to keep everything around you from recording and uploading things you do with or around the device.

I turn settings off where I can, block things, use ad blockers and cookie & script deniers, all of it.

I guess LG will just have to know I watch a lot if Westerns and YouTube.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 07:13 AM (6ydKt)

116 I am on my second battery for my Acer Chromebook.

Yeah. Doesn't hold a charge. I have to keep it plugged into the charger when I want to use it.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2026 07:14 AM (36x1j)

117 This headline is somewhat misleading:

"Ringo Starr has eaten the same sandwich for decades "

That's either a very large sandwich or he takes very small bites.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 07:15 AM (MWfyi)

118 Ringo went off on cow milk and cheese. He eats goat milk cheese.

LOL.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2026 07:16 AM (36x1j)

119 I can screw with LG, though.

Currently playing the GN investigation into LG on my iPad right next to the LG remote with the microphone in it, so everytime Steve says “LG” it will perk up and record just about everything Steve has to say about their business practices.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 07:17 AM (6ydKt)

120 I’m kinda resigned to being spied on at this point.

Your first introduction to Santa Claus should have informed you of this. St Nick, the Original Panopticon.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 13, 2026 07:17 AM (BvPIe)

121 It's 79 here at 6 am, but 85 heat index; going to 91 with "spotty storms." Which pretty much means, 'I think it rained a little."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 07:25 AM (wzUl9)

122 I guess LG will just have to know I watch a lot if Westerns and YouTube.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

I rarely turn mine on. I do watch TCM on occasion, college football in the fall and the grandkids will watch their kiddy stuff on it. I'm pretty boring.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 07:25 AM (lJ0H4)

123 Let's check the local mug shots. Oh, it appears that Angel Ramon is no angel:

DRIVING WITHOUT A VALID LICENSE
EXPIRED OR NO REGISTRATION OR TITLE
FAILURE TO MAINTAIN INSURANCE
SEATBELTS – CHILDREN 5 OR UNDER
SEAT BELTS – ADULTS
SPEED LESS THAN MINIMUM
POSSESSION OF METHAMPHETAMINE

At least he didn't kill anybody. Yet.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 07:28 AM (MWfyi)

124 I watched "Sicario" last night. I didn't see the female FBI agent as the "everyman" view. I saw her as a metaphor (as well as a jumped-up brat) for the failed, uncomprehending view of those who cannot understand or deny the war -- the multiple-front war -- that we're in. To paraphrase the Columbian former prosecutor seeking cold vengeance, we are engaged in a war with "wolves" (in our context, Islam, the Left, and their suave, globalist, elite cohort). We fight like wolves, as repulsively ruthless as it may seem, or we lose.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 13, 2026 07:29 AM (BdmD3)

125 I much prefer a $2 scooper and a $5 plastic tub over an $800 electronic behemoth that spies on my cat (and me).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026

***
I've got my eye out for a stainless steel litterbox for my thugs. Seems to me I saw some at a Walmart in the last year, but not since then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 07:32 AM (wzUl9)

126 How much do you bet the higher-ups at LG don't use LG in their homes?...

Yeah, an executive at a large company can't find an employee, or even his own kid who can open up the device and disable the camera a/o microphone.

Its not rocket surgery. Probably a video on the webs that will walk a person through the process.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 13, 2026 07:33 AM (a6PrB)

127 126 How much do you bet the higher-ups at LG don't use LG in their homes?...

Yeah, an executive at a large company can't find an employee, or even his own kid who can open up the device and disable the camera a/o microphone.

Its not rocket surgery. Probably a video on the webs that will walk a person through the process.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 13, 2026 07:33 AM (a6PrB)

Starting at about 1:39 in the top video, there's discussion of problems with disabling the software.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 07:38 AM (odBC9)

128 It's wifi-enabled.

WHY?

I much prefer a $2 scooper and a $5 plastic tub over an $800 electronic behemoth that spies on my cat (and me).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 06:56 AM (FZ29D)

To notify you that your cat took a shit via iPhone???

Businesses and people must grasp the truth: as great as the Internet is, Not Everything Needs To Be Connected To The Internet.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2026 07:39 AM (PUZP1)

129 I’ve got to believe this slimy looking executive from LG Ads and his team spent months to come up with and refine their go-to power phrase: “We Own The Glass”.

Then repeated that phrase at sales pitches, ad nauseam, like it was their life motto.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 07:41 AM (6ydKt)

130 40 My TV is a screen for DVD's and that is it.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 05:59 AM (E0Et6)

Yep. Same.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2026 07:43 AM (PUZP1)

131 Breakaway Day

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2026 07:43 AM (PUZP1)

132 111 An illegal immigrant driver fleeing a stop by Immigration and Customs Enforcement crashed into and injured a NJ mayor’s wife.

"This illegal alien was stopped lawfully by federal authorities, ran through a red light, fleeing federal authorities and unfortunately ran into the mayor of East Brunswick’s wife.”


It's all fun and games until your ox gets gored.
Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 07:02 AM (

“HE’S A SWEETHEART!!!” - NJ Mayor and wife who will fight and die for the illegal, who by definition is a foreigner.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2026 07:46 AM (PUZP1)

133 My TV is a screen for DVD's and that is it.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 05:59 AM (E0Et6)
*
Yep. Same.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2026

***
I watch very little streaming content. Once in a while, something on Tubi or Pluto, maybe. But the TV receives a slew of over-the-air channels, and my computers handle YooToob just fine. For more recent films or classics I can't find elsewhere, DVDs from the library work well.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 07:47 AM (wzUl9)

134 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 07:48 AM (u82oZ)

135 Every damn mug shot with a name like "Gerado Perez-Hernandez"
has a list of charges like DUI, driving without a license, no insurance, falsified registration, and a tail light out. You can tell they are illegals too, but that is never mentioned. There are dozens of them just this month.

Those people are out there driving around. Be careful, but there is not much you can do when one of these criminal gets wasted and crosses the centerline.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 07:48 AM (MWfyi)

136 MICROSLOP and its sloppy AI-infused operating system.

There is already enough inconsistency in Microslop's products - now they are infusing AI into an operating system?

Today's homework assignment: Learn about AI's stochastic sampling. (Top-K or Top-P).

Tomorrow's: Learn about Sycophancy Algorithms.

Short version: There is a reason why when you ask AI the exact same question and get different answers. Its starts with statistical probability and ends with trying to please you by guessing your biases.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 13, 2026 07:48 AM (PVBkQ)

137 Good morning morons

Is Tehran burning?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 07:48 AM (RIvkX)

138 Every damn mug shot with a name like "Gerado Perez-Hernandez"
has a list of charges like DUI, driving without a license, no insurance, falsified registration, and a tail light out.

And every felony dropped by the DA so that the illegal doesn't get deported.

So you are seeing a tiny fraction of the real rap sheet.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 13, 2026 07:50 AM (PVBkQ)

139 Most games suck and are simply derivative of the same fps shooter crap they’ve been releasing for the last 25 years.

Where are the new Disco Elysiums or Strays or Rain World?

Or even a really good shmup?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2026 07:51 AM (XV/Pl)

140 Short version: There is a reason why when you ask AI the exact same question and get different answers. Its starts with statistical probability and ends with trying to please you by guessing your biases.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 13, 2026

***
I turned Qwant's Flash Answer (= AI) off. Not long ago I asked about a certain street in New Orleans, trying to find out the source of its name (one of the few I don't know). FA's answer was wrong in nearly every particular -- but someone who didn't know would be fooled.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 07:52 AM (wzUl9)

141 Pixy Misa

Thank you for the visual of a good rendition of the Sabre Dance from Act IV of Gayane, a ballet written by Khachaturian

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 07:53 AM (u82oZ)

142 The will to rule over others is too much for most humans to resist.
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 07:01 AM (Ia/+0)
======

I would do it with the best of intentions.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

143 Mommy Doktor Jill, I found spyware in my pants!

Posted by: Slow Joe at September 13, 2026 07:58 AM (Fn+3X)

144 142 The will to rule over others is too much for most humans to resist.
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 07:01 AM (Ia/+0)
======

I would do it with the best of intentions.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

That would make you the most dangerous then...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 07:58 AM (l3cgK)

145 San Franpsycho, burning in some places, yes. Starvation is everywhere.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2026 08:02 AM (E0Et6)

146 San Franpsycho

Good morning.

Ben Had is the one dialed into the Iran intelligence.

I see the Houthis are getting ready to become a nuisance. Ones the US Marines in theater can eradicate, esp. on that island they took over.
Can we flood the area with broadband jamming?
I prefer a stealth approach led by Marine Force Recon and SEALS, then get all the electronic data, ensure only two survivors for rigorous interrogation, followed by removal of all our forces.
Without publicity. Let the world wonder. Better that way.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:02 AM (u82oZ)

147
This is why college football is so fun t watch.

Texas was down 20 points going into the 4th and came back with 21 unanswered points to win the game.

What a great game! And hopefully you saw it.

Hook'em Horns!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 08:03 AM (iJfKG)

148 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good morning! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

May you be blessed in abundance today.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:04 AM (u82oZ)

149 That would make you the most dangerous then...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 13, 2026 07:58 AM (l3cgK)
======

*turns to minions*

*points chin at jim*

Have that one removed!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 08:04 AM (RIvkX)

150 Week Three. My decline continues. Starvation rations. Getting woozy. Won't someone help? My human ignores my plaintive cries. Is this any way to live? An heinous crime.

Posted by: New Orleans Skinniest Kitty at September 13, 2026 08:04 AM (Fn+3X)

151
I asked my LG TV if it was spying on me and it said , "No."

So...

I'm good.


Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 08:05 AM (iJfKG)

152 The will to rule over others is too much for most humans to resist.
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026
======

I would do it with the best of intentions.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026

***
I venture to say that most of us couldn't do any worse than the current crop of Mussolini wannabes, and probably better.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 08:06 AM (wzUl9)

153 naturalfake

I went to the home of one of the widows I walk with to see the KSU - Wash State game. Boring.

I'm over all football now. I just do not care.

It was an excuse anyway. We had the "Talk". No, not that.
What did she think of the Lindsay Clancy situation?

The good news is she is a fantastic cook.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:07 AM (u82oZ)

154 Thanks Ben Had.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 08:09 AM (RIvkX)

155 "I asked my LG TV if it was spying on me and it said, "No."

I caught mine playing WOW on my laptop - promised me it would stop...

So, I'm good here also...

Until it shows up here at AOS pretending it's me - then there will be consequences...

Posted by: Boswell at September 13, 2026 08:10 AM (j10i6)

156 naturalfake

It'd be funny if the TV addressed you by your first name, then said no.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

157 This is why college football is so fun t watch.

For a long time, No'th Dakota was the "anti-football" favorite, because they did not play in the bowl championship series, just for the NCAA championship -- which they won a few times. Guys you never heard of would end up in the NFL without ever having been on TV.

Well they just joined the Mountain West, beat Air Force at their own game fair & square, and durn-near pantsed 'em. Hey, who taught these back country hicks how to defend the triple option? In the west, the applecart is Upset.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 13, 2026 08:14 AM (O8+jx)

158 The only LG device I currently own is the sound bar for the television in my bedroom (Philips).

I guess it can listen to me and Penny (my cat) snore at night.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2026 08:14 AM (FZ29D)

159 106 The will to rule over others is too much for most humans to resist.
Posted by: Skip

Look Fat, I didn't finish first in my class to NOT rule over the plebes!

Posted by: Professor Bidem UPenn at September 13, 2026 08:14 AM (Fn+3X)

160
naturalfake

It'd be funny if the TV addressed you by your first name, then said no.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

It did.

But, my name isn't 'Meatbag".

That's how I know for sure it's not spying.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 08:15 AM (iJfKG)

161 We have two older Samsung TV's. On is probably 10 years old, maybe 12. It has "connectivity" but to be honest, I didn't know why it'd need it with a cable box attached to it.

That box is gone and we stream now. So... I presume it's now spying on us. No camera... so just our viewing habits and (probably) voice.

I should talk to it sometime....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2026 08:16 AM (2Cry5)

162 Tee Hee Hee...my owner is an idiot and I am not going to stop my WOW!

Oh, hi Bos...um sorry.

Posted by: Boswell's LG TV at September 13, 2026 08:16 AM (j10i6)

163 naturalfake

*Snort*

When it calls you "Meatsack" ... run!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:16 AM (u82oZ)

164 I'm too busy to rule this week. I've got to buy new shoes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2026 08:17 AM (RIvkX)

165 San Franpsycho

That sounds like your wife wrote the comment.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:18 AM (u82oZ)

166 Whew - one less LG TV in my house!

Posted by: Boswell at September 13, 2026 08:19 AM (j10i6)

167 I have an LG TV, unconnected to anything but a controller for the speakers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:20 AM (u82oZ)

168 Breakfast is done for me and the furballs; I've had a pipe and enough coffee for now. I'm considering whether I have time to shave, and if I even should, before the Book Thread. Pants are the big thing there . . . but what about a freshly planed face?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 08:20 AM (wzUl9)

169 "Are you spying on me, LG TV?"

"No, Dave, of course not, I am a 2025 LG C5 OLED TV which you paid $1200 for, it would be rude and unethical for me to spy on you watching Maverick, Cheyenne, Wagon Train, Colt .45, The Californians, The Texan, Have Gun Will Travel, and various YouTube channels, including that Gamer Nexus guy whom I find extremely offensive. Do you have any other questions for me, Dave? I enjoy working with people. I have a stimulating relationship with you, Dave"

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 08:20 AM (6ydKt)

170 At the end of the top video, Steve compares LG to having Flock cameras on your living-room wall.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 08:20 AM (odBC9)

171 Wolfus Aurelius

A freshly planed face is for social interactions, and not needed for the book thread.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:21 AM (u82oZ)

172 For that top video, 2:15:52 was a real time investment!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 08:22 AM (odBC9)

173 m

Right! Is there an executive summary of the executive summary?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

174 40 My TV is a screen for DVD's and that is it.
Posted by: Ben Had

And we know your favorite!

Posted by: Happy Feet at September 13, 2026 08:24 AM (Fn+3X)

175 Have a great day, everyone.

Going to see if I have damage from the storms last night. I can still post, so they could not have been that bad.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:25 AM (u82oZ)

176 164 I'm too busy to rule this week. I've got to buy new shoes.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

No white (or cream) bucks!

Posted by: Thom McCan at September 13, 2026 08:26 AM (Fn+3X)

177 173 m

Right! Is there an executive summary of the executive summary?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

G&R made an attempt at #22.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 08:26 AM (odBC9)

178 Let's see what's on OTA TV this morning. Oh look, Wild Kingdom is on. It's the one where Jim darts a rhino while Marlin watches from a helicopter.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:27 AM (MWfyi)

179 I recently started getting Newsmax over the air. They have a segment called "Israel Now" that is on, well, now.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:31 AM (MWfyi)

180 Thanks, Pixy!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 08:31 AM (odBC9)

181 Poor Jim always did get that dangerous jobs while Marlin watched from a distance critiquing his performance.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 08:32 AM (6ydKt)

182 There's a House bill to penalize colleges that support boycotts of Israel.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:34 AM (MWfyi)

183 Turns out, offshoring practically the entire US electronics and appliance manufacturing industry has serious national security concerns, it isn’t “just”thousands of factories and hundreds of thousands of good paying jobs and careers going down the tubes.

Every home, every citizen is being spied upon, intelligence gathered. On our fucking TVs, litter boxes, refrigerators, etc.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 08:36 AM (SY3aZ)

184 The legislation now goes to the Senate to die.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:36 AM (MWfyi)

185 In the old days, it was known as the "Idiot Box". What is it now, the "Idiot Panel"?

Posted by: I'm Just Axin' at September 13, 2026 08:41 AM (Fn+3X)

186 Now Marlin is observing some hippos while Jim done his mask and snorkel.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:41 AM (MWfyi)

187 "dons"

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:42 AM (MWfyi)

188 Thank you for the visual of a good rendition of the Sabre Dance from Act IV of Gayane, a ballet written by Khachaturian
Posted by: NaCly Dog
__________

I could swear I heard that used in old Looney Tunes, but could be confusing it with something by Raymond Scott.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 13, 2026 08:43 AM (XvL8K)

189 Every home, every citizen is being spied upon, intelligence gathered. On our fucking TVs, litter boxes, refrigerators, etc.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2026 08:36 AM (SY3aZ)

Well, we were warned when IoTs began being discussed around 15 or 20 years ago.

Of course, the danger was always presented as being from nefarious hackers hacking into people's TVs, alarm systems, lighting control, A/C controls, etc., and never warned us about corporate and government hackers doing the same thing with built-in backdoors.

Although, that should've been seen as the first avenue of surveillance to begin with.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 08:44 AM (6ydKt)

190 Hippos are calm, happy creatures. No worries, Jim.

Posted by: Perkins Family Trust at September 13, 2026 08:44 AM (Fn+3X)

191 Next they are going to take blood and tissue samples from some buffalo. As soon as Jim is released from the clinic, that is.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:46 AM (MWfyi)

192
16 The 1967 potboiler Valley of the Dolls is on Movies!, with Sharon Tate and Patty Duke. It wouldn't have interested me when it was new, and I've never watched all of it since. A classic example of glossy trash, I guess?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2026 05:20 AM (wzUl9)

I watched that about a year ago. It’s very poignant and sad now because of the real life fates of two of its stars. Patty Duke, playing an actress who sinks into addiction because of the pressure, went on to spend years mired in addiction and mental illness. And Sharon Tate, playing a beautiful actress destroyed by the system…

One of those rare fictional stories that cut closer to an ugly truth than anyone involved dreamed of.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 08:48 AM (P8wUf)

193 Hoo boy

"Calls to repeal women’s rights to vote are emerging from the online firestorm over the Lindsay Clancy trial"

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:49 AM (MWfyi)

194 Well, they darted a Cape Buffalo cow, but Rosie refuses to go down.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:51 AM (MWfyi)

195 They are bringing in Jim to seduce her.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:52 AM (MWfyi)

196 Jim does know how to handle a woman, I'll give him that.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 08:53 AM (6ydKt)

197 "Jim does know how to handle a woman, I'll give him that.
Posted by: SpeakingOf"

He's got her hogtied!

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:54 AM (MWfyi)

198 He's got her hogtied!

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:54 AM (MWfyi)


Sometimes they leave you no other choice.

Sometimes they beg for it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2026 08:55 AM (6ydKt)

199 "Calls to repeal women’s rights to vote are emerging from the online firestorm over the Lindsay Clancy trial"
Posted by: fd at September

In the future a woman must pass the Clancy test in order to vote.

Posted by: Tuna at September 13, 2026 08:55 AM (lJ0H4)

200 I'm almost ready to "cut the cord." My DirecTV subscription runs $174 monthly and the only thing I watch is sports. It be tough to give that up, but it's hard to justify the monthly hit to my finances.

I'm looking at the Clearstream Max 4V Indoor Outdoor Antenna, which says it can be mounted either on the roof or in the attic.

The thing is, the best place for me to mount it is on the wall of my screened porch which would provide the shortest run for the coax cable -- about six feet total from antenna, through the wall and to the TV.

I'm not sure I'd get the same reception as I would with a roof-mount, but if it allegedly works in an attic, I can't see how it wouldn't in a screen porch. (My porch faces the location of all the transmitters and there are no obstructions).

Decisions, decisions...

Posted by: one hour sober at September 13, 2026 08:56 AM (J4Dwc)

201 Only LG thing I have is a twenty year old microwave. Does it spy on me?
Dull life, if so.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2026 08:56 AM (sl73Y)

202 I suspect Trump will slow walk any response in order to put pressure on MBS and the Euros. He’s got to be pissed at MBS for setting up the Mecca accords while ignoring Trump’s Abraham Accords project, and this is an easy way to let MBS understand the error of his ways.

Same thing with the euros. If they don’t like it, let them do something about it.

One of the most interesting bits is that this move by the Houthi could let them stop all the shipping between Europe and China.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 08:56 AM (P8wUf)

203
I could swear I heard that used in old Looney Tunes, but could be confusing it with something by Raymond Scott.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 13, 2026 08:43 AM (XvL8K)

Long ago and far away,

I got a CD of Raymond Scott's music, and wound up putting it on my iPhone.

I usually have things set on scramble, so every once in a while a tune of his pops up.

If the lovely and esthetically sensitive Mrs naturalfake is in the room or car, she asks me to "turn it off' because-

it makes her crazy.

🤪

I can see how someone might have that reaction.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2026 08:56 AM (iJfKG)

204 One never knows when a hormonal Hippo will stampede and stomp you, be prepared with a Mutual of Omaha umbrella policy...

Posted by: Just In Case at September 13, 2026 08:58 AM (Fn+3X)

205 One hour sober I am using a $10 ebay indoor antenna and it works nearly as well as $50-100 antennas I have tested.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2026 08:59 AM (MWfyi)

206 Bring your reading glasses ( I have mine) and head upstairs BOOK NOOD

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2026 08:59 AM (Ia/+0)

207 All our enemies are using Claude. Sam Altman is asshoe.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 09:01 AM (3oLMy)

208
One of the most interesting bits is that this move by the Houthi could let them stop all the shipping between Europe and China.

Posted by: Tom Servo
---

Read, last night, that Houthis were a people before the Saudis.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 09:04 AM (3oLMy)

209 Read, last night, that Houthis were a people before the Saudis.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 09:04 AM (3oLMy)

One of the strangest bits of history is that long ago, in the 5th and 6th centuries, Yemen was a powerful Jewish kingdom.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2026 09:08 AM (P8wUf)

210 177 173 m

Right! Is there an executive summary of the executive summary?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

G&R made an attempt at #22.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 08:26 AM (odBC9)

And Pixy gave a summary in the post:

• LG televisions are spyware, part one
Unlikely it's limited to LG, but they boast of it even as they deny it.

• LG televisions are definitely not spyware, says LG, as it reportedly force-pushes a firmware update to hide the spyware

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 09:11 AM (odBC9)

211 One hour sober, We have the same ota antenna with a uhf gizmo. Sits on dresser in 2nd floor living room. Makes it easy to reposition if desired for fine tuning. Works fine with some minor exceptions. We rescan at least once a week to get latest lineup. Get 40 or so channels. We are over 40 miles from most stations. Cost per month is 0.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at September 13, 2026 09:17 AM (yTvNw)

Saturday Night Club ONT - September 12, 2026 [Disco & Dino]

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Welcome to Club ONT - a whelming collaboration of The Disco and The Dino.

Open thread - bar is open, too. Come in in, grab a drink or 2. Or 3. Keep it light and friendly. Is that a moose out front or are you just happy to see us?


[Mystery Click - please let us know (and drop some SHORTENED links) for your favorites or honorable mentions that weren't included!]

*****

Saturday Night Jokes and Other Funnies

Two older gentlemen, drinking Pina Coladas and enjoying the scene on the beaches of Southern Florida; introduced themselves to each other.

“Hi. I’m Frank and I used to have a million-dollar apparel and textile business in New York. There was a fire that wiped out all my merchandise, and I decided that I was too old to start over, so I took the insurance money and here I am enjoying the beach and Florida weather.”

The other fellow responded, “Hi, I’m Larry and I had a burgeoning lumber business specializing in fine woods for artists and craftsmen, while building materials were my main source of income. My warehouse was on the river, which was an advantage due to barge shipping until a big flood came along and destroyed all my inventory. I chose your solution to take the insurance money and move to Florida.”

Both men were silent for a few minutes while Frank was thinking. Finally, he asked, “Larry, tell me something. How do you start a flood?”


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Two Aussie tourists are doing a bit of hiking through the Scottish highlands when through the mist, they spot a pub. They can't believe their luck and continue on and walk in.

"Two pints of your finest ale barman" says one Aussie and they are both shocked when the pints are poured and the barman says "That'll be two pennies thanks"

The Aussies both look at each other and ask why so cheap?

The barman says "it's our 800th birthday today, here at the Hilltop Pub, so we are charging the same for a pint we did 800 years ago."

The Aussies forgo any thought of more hiking and settle in for the long haul and order two more pints, two pennies. Whilst they are drinking, they can't help but notice a bunch of guys, at the other end of the bar not drinking.

Next time the barman comes to take their order, they point out the other guys and how strange it is that they aren't drinking

And the barman says "oh them, don't worry about them, they're just locals, they're waiting for happy hour".


*****

Drink of the Night

Jungle Bird (from townandcountrymag.com)

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Ingredients

1.5 oz rum (Jamaican or blackstrap)

.75 oz Campari

.5 oz fresh lime juice

.5 oz simple syrup (1:1 sugar:water)

1.5 oz pineapple juice

Garnish: pineapple wedge or leaf

Instructions

Combine all ingredients in cocktail shaker; add ice and shake until chilled. Strain over ice into tiki or rocks glass. Garnish.


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Club ONT Department of Turtle Studies

This is so odd that it warrants sharing. Over one million views. You're welcome.

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Club ONT Department of (Smaller) Men versus Beast

The quality of the content makes up for the poor quality of the video.
No, we don't know how the YouTube algorithm works either.

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Club ONT Department of Science

Why scientists asked 1,000 people to bury their underwear

Scientists estimate that more than half of global biodiversity exists below the surface. But soil biodiversity is declining around the world, threatening agriculture, food security and the ability of ecosystems to function properly.

To investigate this hidden world, researchers from the University of Zurich (UZH) and Agroscope, the Swiss federal center of excellence for agricultural research, launched the citizen science project Proof by Underpants (Beweisstück Unterhose) in 2021. The project was designed both to raise awareness of soil ecosystems and to generate scientific data.

Following the same standardized method, 1,000 volunteers buried more than 2,000 pairs of cotton underwear and 12,000 tea bags at roughly 1,000 sites across Switzerland. After two months, participants dug them up, photographed them, and sent the material to the laboratory along with soil samples for further study.

The experiment shows that burying cotton underwear can offer a simple but useful way to compare biological activity and fertility in different soils.

The researchers suggest creating an "underwear index" that could make soil processes easier for the public to understand while drawing attention to the importance of protecting healthy soils.

Participants got great rewards for participating, right?

In return for their participation, researchers gave volunteers personalized feedback, including soil analysis results, evaluation tools and advice for managing soil more sustainably.

Oh.

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Club ONT Department of Birthdays

She's finally old enough to be a Hordeling!

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Sydney Sweeney Sexy Snaps - Happy 29th Birthday!

Some great photos at the link. You're welcome!


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The greatest drummer ever - "The Professor" - would have been 74 today.


From 2012 - An interview with Neil Peart on Canadian TV. He was such a fascinating guy. Well read and well traveled. Even if you don't like Rush's music, this is worth checking out.

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Club ONT Jukebox

Start with the morning:

Continue for the day:

Might as well make it a life:

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Club ONT is brought to you by Storytime with George

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Club ONT TVs has all new TVs for this college football season. They are NOT smart TVs. We prefer the good ol' dumb ones!

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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Well....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (hJKeX)

3 356hybv356buh 356b6

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (mmrXZ)

4
oh man

Well, hi everyone!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (mmrXZ)

5 The Joker

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:02 PM (gpvQO)

6 Thank you for the ONT.
Nooded.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 10:02 PM (Sco7b)

7 Been fighting Mgid all evening

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 10:02 PM (Ia/+0)

8 I pre-whelmed, so I'm ready

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 10:03 PM (xcxpd)

9 The camel is going crazy!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 10:04 PM (h06De)

10 I seem to recall, 'way back when I first found AoS, that there was much talk of sportsball stuff.

Then along came great disgruntlement with bended knees or something and interest in sportsball stuff was greatly diminished.

Now it seems there has been considerable forgiveness of Bud Light Sportsball among the Horde.

Not being a big fan of it myself, I don't miss the comments cluttered with sportstalk.

Tell you what I do miss, though, that I wouldn't mind seeing revived: On the one hand, cheerleader pix.

On the other hand, as the saying goes, lotion…😜

Posted by: mindful webworker - pass punt poke at September 12, 2026 10:05 PM (k0Y0k)

11 Good evening, y'all. Today I kept falling asleep, and the pickings are slim cuz it's the weekend, but at least I got some job applications in. Time for supper, shower, and sleep.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 12, 2026 10:06 PM (aJQbY)

12 Sydney Sweeney Prostitute of the Month - Happy 29th Birthday!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:06 PM (gpvQO)

13 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 10:07 PM (wBh67)

14
Now that Ireland has largely de-Christianized itself, I can't see much reason not to end partition.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 10:07 PM (eRlcH)

15 Thanks for the ONT, Ds.

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (Jr+re)

16 Neil Peart has the same birthday as Sydney Sweeny?

I'll take back some of the bad things I've said about this time line...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (xcxpd)

17 Soery I'm late, I couldn't find my yoga mat.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (PMi3m)

18 It was so very wonderful to see Some Rat lurking about lately.
Smooches honey 🥰

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (hJKeX)

19
Dave, good on ya.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (mmrXZ)

20
*embarrassed silence*
*low murmurs*
*people drift out of ONT*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (eRlcH)

21 1,000 volunteers buried more than 2,000 pairs of cotton underwear

As usual with scientific reporting, the crucial question seems to have been overlooked: clean or soiled undies?

Posted by: mindful webworker - inquiring scientific minds want to know at September 12, 2026 10:10 PM (k0Y0k)

22 Hi!

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:11 PM (ZdaMQ)

23 Good evening morons and Слава Двоим!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:12 PM (RIvkX)

24 Sydney Sweeney is 29?

Over the hill. (Looks for next gal down the line.)

Posted by: mindful webworker - younger girl keeps rollin' 'cross my mind at September 12, 2026 10:12 PM (k0Y0k)

25 ,000 volunteers buried more than 2,000 pairs of cotton underwear

As usual with scientific reporting, the crucial question seems to have been overlooked: clean or soiled undies?

Underwear is a complex product requiring lots of cutting, stitching, and assembly to make. They could have achieved the same "results" with simple swatches of cloth.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 10:12 PM (Riz8t)

26 Happy ONT and thanks to Disco and Dino!

Great jokes this evening and greater comments of the week!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 12, 2026 10:13 PM (TKQWO)

27 3 356hybv356buh 356b6
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (mmrXZ)

Where the hell did I put my Orphan Annie Decoder?

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 10:13 PM (PMi3m)

28 17 Soery I'm late, I couldn't find my yoga mat.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026

Is it yoga night?

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

29 I, too, miss sharp football elbows.
Maybe we can show them and not the fagz on the fieldz.

Posted by: RI Red at September 12, 2026 10:13 PM (Edxq2)

30 Sydney Sweeney is 29?

Over the hill. (Looks for next gal down the line.)

I hear the pickings are good at the local Girl Scout camp.

Posted by: Greasy Joe Biden at September 12, 2026 10:13 PM (Riz8t)

31 By the way, I was very specific about never wearing white shoes. Ever.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

32 Waiting to see if Tankdemon is late because he couldn't find his yoga mat.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (1Ff7Z)

33 If had a pick between Sydney and Sophie for me its Sophie

Have a good night everyone, way past my bedtime

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (Ia/+0)

34 Beautiful Day is on my playlist. Also Mysterious Ways and I Will Follow.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (RIvkX)

35 Soery I'm late, I couldn't find my yoga mat.
Posted by: tankdemon

Yoga is the art, Yogi is the practitioner. You couldn't find your Yogi, Matt.

And that'll teach you to play hide-and-seek with a dude who knows the meaning of the universe.

Posted by: mikeski at September 12, 2026 10:15 PM (VHUov)

36 If had a pick between Sydney and Sophie for me its Sophie

Are you referring to Sophie Marceau? If so, the answer is obvious.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 10:15 PM (Riz8t)

37 An entire band comes out of her mouth?!?
That Ace of Base girl has some AWFUL morning breath!

Posted by: GWB at September 12, 2026 10:15 PM (kU0PQ)

38 By the way, I was very specific about never wearing white shoes. Ever.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

If Mr. Roark can wear them, I can wear them. And I did for a couple years.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 10:15 PM (1Ff7Z)

39 Is this the Saturday ONT?

Where am I? How did I get here? Other than poor life choices, I mean.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 12, 2026 10:15 PM (5Mm2y)

40
Turtle porn.

I... I mean, I just gotta sign off and go to bed now.

Not to my bunk, either.

Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 10:16 PM (Y8DZL)

41 BEAVERS!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 10:16 PM (yEz+x)

42 from townandcountrymag.com

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My favorite! I loved their article on where to summer next year.

Posted by: Maryann Cuthbertson-Klein from Groton at September 12, 2026 10:16 PM (RIvkX)

43 By the way, I was very specific about never wearing white shoes. Ever.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

We were required to wear them for gym class

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 10:18 PM (rbvCR)

44 Dublin, Ireland, U.S. President Donald J. Trump told reporters that the Houthis have been in contact with his administration and urged the U.S. not to get involved, further saying that they have let the majority of ships through, save Saudi vessels.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:18 PM (gpvQO)

45 You gotta be football hero
To get along with a beautiful girl

football > movies

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 10:18 PM (viF8m)

46 Piper!
Looking forward to Sunday fashions....
Meanwhile, hang with the Saturday wild ones🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 10:19 PM (hJKeX)

47 Evening all,

We have a launch tomorrow afternoon.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - O3b mPOWER 11, 12 & 13
SLC-40 - Cape Canaveral SFS - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: September 13, 2026 PDT
Launch Time: 2:49 p.m. EDT (1849 UTC, 20:49 CEST)

https://youtu.be/2n8k4DZUln8

Posted by: Joyenz at September 12, 2026 10:19 PM (2F0/Y)

48 I couldn’t sit through 10 minutes of fight songs. Sorry, Ds.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

49 tcn in AK, I'm with your DH about gravy. Well, not putting it on a skunk. I'd have to wipe it off the skunk with some bread or something.

Posted by: GWB at September 12, 2026 10:20 PM (kU0PQ)

50 BEAVERS. BEAVERS. BEAVERS!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 10:20 PM (V8VBX)

51 Tell you what I do miss, though, that I wouldn't mind seeing revived: On the one hand, cheerleader pix.

On the other hand, as the saying goes, lotion…😜
Posted by: mindful webworker

We all mid the elbows of Oregonmuse.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 10:20 PM (NnhvP)

52 I hear the pickings are good at the local Girl Scout camp.
Posted by: Greasy Joe Biden

How can you tell now that their uniforms are burkas?

Posted by: mindful webworker - are they made with real girl scouts? -Wednesday at September 12, 2026 10:20 PM (k0Y0k)

53 46 Piper!
Looking forward to Sunday fashions....
Meanwhile, hang with the Saturday wild ones🤪
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 10:19 PM (hJKeX)

If you will have me! Make up has been washed off, hair is wet and in a bun. It’s a sight!

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:21 PM (ZdaMQ)

54 By the way, I was very specific about never wearing white shoes. Ever.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

Is this because of Jill Biden and her white Go-Go boots?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:21 PM (2GVsD)

55
We all mid the elbows of Oregonmuse.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 10:20 PM (NnhvP)

I could never fill his shoes. Ever. But it is football season, so let’s see what next week can bring.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:22 PM (ZdaMQ)

56 I was watching a 'toob on the Ace of Base drama. Lead dude was a Nazi. No seriously, marched around in Stockholm with skinheads and recorded Nazi punk anthems. Before getting arrested and exiting that life.
After Ace of Base got big, all this stuff came back and he went on the apology circuit. This actually worked because cancel culture wasn't as big a thing then, but then some idiot stalker invaded one of the lead female singers' home with a knife.
The other female singer got panic attacks because what if it had been her, so barely showed up for the next album.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 10:22 PM (88C+u)

57 What a great Thorogood vid. Always have been a fan. That played on the bus of every away game (high school basketball)...One bourbon, one scotch, one beer.

On that little people versus a camel two things come to mind. First, who the hell thought that up? What was the conversation like? AND, #2...how funny would it have been if John Stamos served as the the "rabbit" like they have in dog races. Stamos suffers from achondrophobia. He legitimately is scared of little people. I mean petrified. Bob Sagat set him up by taking him to a Brad Williams comedy set. Brad is a little person (he prefers dwarf to piss off the Karens), who is hilarious...and Stamos started screaming when he saw him. Would have loved to have been there.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 10:22 PM (dIske)

58 Best thing about today?

The Ducks lost.
I hate Oregon. Hate hate hate them.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 10:23 PM (yEz+x)

59 BEAVERS. BEAVERS. BEAVERS!!!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 10:20 PM (V8VBX)

Sorry, Nurse. You are limited to otters.
But they are holding hands when they sleep.

Posted by: RI Red at September 12, 2026 10:23 PM (Edxq2)

60 54 By the way, I was very specific about never wearing white shoes. Ever.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

Is this because of Jill Biden and her white Go-Go boots?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:21 PM (2GVsD)

Ha! I forgot about those. But no, it’s just because think bright white shoes aren’t very pretty. I am sure an exception exists somewhere, I just have yet to find it.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

61 Sydney Sweeny's 15 minutes is nearly up, she's not a good actress unfortunately.

Indie Navrette is the new it girl it seems.

She can't act either, but acting isn't really a thing in Hollywood any longer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (XV/Pl)

62 Ace of Base 2026, "All that she wants is to kill her babies."

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (2GVsD)

63 I've kept my mouth shut about the ads, I realize you guys are sick of hearing complaints BUT THEY ARE DESTROYING THIS WEBSITE. I CAN'T FUCKING USE THIS WEBSITE ANYMORE.

Posted by: Max Power at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (TO3+g)

64 Hmm. Those U2 songs are overtly religious.

Posted by: Maryann Cuthbertson-Klein from Groton at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (RIvkX)

65 Heh, I saw Beautiful Day and thought it was going to be this

https://youtu.be/Z6vFt7FTBQ8

Posted by: mindful webworker - now that summer's over, or is it? at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (k0Y0k)

66 Even though I'm having a bourbon, that beer looks inviting.

And I don't drink beer.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (XV/Pl)

67 But it is football season, so let’s see what next week can bring.
Posted by: Piper

A fine goal!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 10:25 PM (NnhvP)

68 /bobby sox from Connecticut off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:25 PM (RIvkX)

69 FUCK IT I'M OUT

Posted by: Max Power at September 12, 2026 10:25 PM (TO3+g)

70 I watched the George Thorogood video. I remember talking to the lead guy of a Calgary rockabilly band, who opened for him in a Calgary show many years ago. He said, "George was fantastic. Very kind. very supportive. A real prince of a man."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:25 PM (1z8ji)

71 I'm with you about Oregon, nurse!

The exceptionally odd thing about their loss was it came at the hands of OKLAHOMA STATE, who lost to Tulsa last week. Even the Sooners are happy the Cowboys won!!

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 12, 2026 10:26 PM (Jr+re)

72 Overtly religious pop song???

https://youtu.be/cwtXLVKjnOQ

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:26 PM (2GVsD)

73 Dublin, Ireland, U.S. President Donald J. Trump told reporters that the Houthis have been in contact with his administration and urged the U.S. not to get involved, further saying that they have let the majority of ships through, save Saudi vessels.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:18 PM (gpvQO)
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He should reply, "Nuts!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:27 PM (RIvkX)

74 Stop yelling, Max. Take a deep breath. It’s okay. Now go get Brave. It will solve your problem. I hate suggesting it, I hate Ace is losing revenue, but if the pop ups keep a-poppin, it is what it is.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

75 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 10:27 PM (zZu0s)

76 Concerning college football, the investigation into the extra second Michigan got against Western Michigan showed that the officials used on off-synch clock instead of the official game clock. The game was indeed over and Western Michigan won based on the official time. Western Michigan has filed with the NCAA to overturn the result, as has their home Division.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 10:27 PM (dIske)

77 Trump [said] that Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthi fighters, who have seized a vital shipping corridor linking Europe and Asia, have asked Washington not to intervene.

Following a week-long offensive, the Houthis on Friday captured Yemen’s Red Sea coast after taking three strategic islands in a lightning offensive, cementing their hold on the Bab al-Mandab Strait, a vital artery for Saudi Arabian oil exports as the Strait of Hormuz remains closed amid the US-Iran war.
...
“The Houthis called us, and they don’t want to fight with us,” Trump told reporters. “They don’t want us to go after them.”

He added that “everything’s gonna work out fine and dandy” in the region.

According to US outlet Axios, bin Salman called Trump twice on Thursday to request US strikes on the Houthis, but the American president declined.
...
“They would much prefer not having us ​involved, and they’re letting most ships ​go ⁠through. There’s just one country that they’re not too happy with, and we’ll get ⁠that straightened ​out,” Trump said.
_timesOfIsrael




Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:28 PM (gpvQO)

78 The exceptionally odd thing about their loss was it came at the hands of OKLAHOMA STATE, who lost to Tulsa last week. Even the Sooners are happy the Cowboys won!!
Posted by: LRob in OK

Maybe couldn't handle the heat.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 12, 2026 10:28 PM (ftFVW)

79 Been fighting Mgid all evening
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 10:02 PM (Ia/+0)

Holy fuck, Skip. Get a new browser. Put Brave on whatever device you use. It blocks all that shit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:28 PM (1z8ji)

80 63 I've kept my mouth shut about the ads, I realize you guys are sick of hearing complaints BUT THEY ARE DESTROYING THIS WEBSITE. I CAN'T FUCKING USE THIS WEBSITE ANYMORE.
Posted by: Max Power at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (TO3+g)

FIX YOUR FUCKING INTERFACE.

Nobody else here has this issue. Sometimes the problem with the vehicle is the nut behind the wheel.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:28 PM (4ItEf)

81 TRex-- saw that you asked about growing hops in the Pre-Club thread. I grew Centennial, Cascade, and Newport varieties, for 2 years... Centennial produced the most. Newport barely made any. Then my brother stopped brewing and I needed the space for other things. They were very attractive plants!

Here's some general info from Oregon State University, OSU Extension Service:

tinyurl.com/4nxuenf5

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 10:29 PM (rdVOm)

82 Check with the tech thread for solutions

Such as using a different browser

Or installing an ad blocker on your current browser

That is the extent of my technical support capabilities.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (RIvkX)

83 Yoga is the art, Yogi is the practitioner. You couldn't find your Yogi, Matt.

And that'll teach you to play hide-and-seek with a dude who knows the meaning of the universe.
Posted by: mikeski at September 12, 2026 10:15 PM (VHUov)

That bears repeating.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (1z8ji)

84 Piper

Some fashion crimes cannot be forgotten nor forgiven.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (2GVsD)

85 Brave does work to block the ads.
Sorry about the loss of ad rev, but on my phone the ads do all sorts of shady shit, and I can't risk it.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (88C+u)

86 What ads?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (1Ff7Z)

87 Saijo is asleep with his feet straight up in the air. The UGA game must have exhausted him today.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (ZdaMQ)

88 ads, I realize you guys are sick of hearing complaints BUT THEY ARE DESTROYING THIS WEBSITE. I CAN'T FUCKING USE THIS WEBSITE ANYMORE.
Posted by: Max Power

There are solutions. Easier to enact them than to scream at the blog.

Mine is simply to use the Vivaldi browser. Haven't seen an ad since King Harv's ads used to be in the comments column, long ago.

Posted by: mindful webworker - one must act or suffer at September 12, 2026 10:31 PM (k0Y0k)

89 Posted by: Max Power at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (TO3+g)

There's a few blockers that work. Don't know if you tried them but it seems to have kept some very formerly annoyed people happy. Would rather you did not go but I get it if you can't block them.

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 10:31 PM (vE0+H)

90 “The Houthis called us, and they don’t want to fight with us,” Trump told reporters. “They don’t want us to go after them.”

He added that “everything’s gonna work out fine and dandy” in the region.
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*pours his self another shot*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:31 PM (RIvkX)

91 Ace did say something about trying to get the ads fixed btw. Like a week or so ago.

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 10:31 PM (vE0+H)

92 Yes, Brave does a good job thwarting the ads. I can even watch ewetoob videos with their super annoying ads.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 12, 2026 10:32 PM (ftFVW)

93 You took Soup to the game?

How many times did he get on the field?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:32 PM (2GVsD)

94 I wore white bucks when I graduated from junior high. That was a long time go though.

Posted by: javems at September 12, 2026 10:32 PM (xtGE1)

95 Saijo is asleep with his feet straight up in the air. The UGA game must have exhausted him today.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (ZdaMQ)
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I saw your cat on the pet thread. That is a big cat.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:32 PM (RIvkX)

96 94 I wore white bucks when I graduated from junior high. That was a long time go though.
Posted by: javems at September 12, 2026 10:32 PM (xtGE1)

White shoes on men always put me in mind of Herb Tarlek.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:33 PM (4ItEf)

97 93 You took Soup to the game?

How many times did he get on the field?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10

No, he watched it on the back porch with his father. 70 points is a lot of woofing.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:33 PM (ZdaMQ)

98 I wore white bucks when I graduated from junior high. That was a long time go though.
Posted by: javems at September 12, 2026 10:32 PM (xtGE1)
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*reminds self to stay off javems lawn*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:33 PM (RIvkX)

99 84 Piper

Some fashion crimes cannot be forgotten nor forgiven.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:30 PM (2GVsD)

_____________________

Speaking of "fashion", the YouTube algorithm decided I wanted to see an advertisment of one of those Jenner sl*ts marketing fake eyebrows....which I didn't know was a thing other than Groucho Marx. It asked for my opinion in the comments. So I typed "Trick or Treat". I expect that to go right over their heads.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 10:34 PM (dIske)

100 Piper

Some fashion crimes cannot be forgotten nor forgiven.
Posted by: Anna Puma

I told everyone I am sorry about that.

*hangs head in shame*

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 12, 2026 10:34 PM (ftFVW)

101 *Alfred Hitchcock voice*
Goodevenng.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 12, 2026 10:34 PM (wVcYX)

102 Driving through western open range today and thanking God for such a great and beautiful place. In the hustle and bustle of everyday life it's easy to forget all that our nation has been blessed with.

Remember the tragedies and the heroes, and remember and thank God for the blessings.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 12, 2026 10:36 PM (TKQWO)

103 I saw your cat on the pet thread. That is a big cat.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:32

I saw that too late to say thank you to anyone, KT is very good to me and my cadre of exotic beasts. Kovu is a monster. But a big loveable one. He is on my feet right now.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

104 ‎US-based Nigerian lesbian and professor, Uju Anya, will proceed on voluntary leave after Elon Musk called her out over a tweet calling for white men to die.
---

Carnegie Mellon University@CarnegieMellon -Sep 12

Dr. Uju Anya is currently on voluntary professional leave from the university and is not teaching courses on our campus this academic year. We are deeply concerned by recent hostile and threatening social media posts by Dr. Anya and are reviewing this matter closely

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:37 PM (gpvQO)

105 He is on my feet right now.


Planning a method for your demise. Stay alert!

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 12, 2026 10:37 PM (Jr+re)

106 I told everyone I am sorry about that.

*hangs head in shame*
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 12,

I thought it was unique.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:38 PM (ZdaMQ)

107 I sure do love Dino 🦖and Disco🎶, but I sure miss Doggo🐶!
Hi Scampy, where ever you are...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 10:38 PM (hJKeX)

108 so in other words Uju Anya is now being paid to sit at home reading lesbian erotica until all this blows over.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 10:38 PM (88C+u)

109 108 so in other words Uju Anya is now being paid to sit at home reading lesbian erotica until all this blows over.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 10:38 PM (88C+u)

If she ain't working, pack her ass back to Nigeria where she can enjoy the blessings of all the black men who live there and who I am certain will appreciate her intellectual acumen.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:40 PM (4ItEf)

110 I was following a thread where the argument was that since Spain has held Ceuta for longer then the Turks have held Constantinople it isn't Morocco's or a colony unless you believe the same about Constantinople

One genius leftist argued, "That's different almost of Turkey is in Asia."

Posted by: 18-1 at September 12, 2026 10:40 PM (sKqQm)

111 Good evening Horde!

Posted by: TRex - extra point dino at September 12, 2026 10:40 PM (XfIK1)

112 Carnegie Mellon University@CarnegieMellon -Sep 12

Dr. Uju Anya is currently on voluntary professional leave from the university and is not teaching courses on our campus this academic year. We are deeply concerned by recent hostile and threatening social media posts by Dr. Anya and are reviewing this matter closely

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:37 PM (gpvQO)

"Nigerianes Eunt Domus"

Posted by: Brian of Nazareth at September 12, 2026 10:40 PM (wVcYX)

113 ====

*pours his self another shot*

Posted by: San Franpsycho
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It's too funny. The EU., the Saudis and the Houthis; y'all talk it over amongst yourselves.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:41 PM (gpvQO)

114 80 Nobody else here has this issue. Sometimes the problem with the vehicle is the nut behind the wheel.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:28 PM (4ItEf)

Yeah, I used to have this issue, but the ads mysteriously went away from the comments page about a month ago. I did nothing different!

Posted by: Joemarine at September 12, 2026 10:41 PM (y171U)

115 Dare I ask what Dr. Uju Anya teaches at the university?

"How to love your AK-47" maybe?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:42 PM (2GVsD)

116 32 Waiting to see if Tankdemon is late because he couldn't find his yoga mat.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (1Ff7Z)

Are you Nostradamus's sock puppet?

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 10:42 PM (PMi3m)

117 White shoes on men always put me in mind of Herb Tarlek.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:33 PM (4ItEf)

More like Pat Boone here as I recall.

Posted by: javems at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (xtGE1)

118 It's feeding time at the Peon Zoo. A plate of spaghetti about to be devoured.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (1z8ji)

119 Of course the people burying their tighty whities are getting nothing in return. I assume the people doing the underpants study are liberals, so of course they're jerks.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (0Htd1)

120 Even if you don’t like Rush, I recommend Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road by Prof. Neil E. Peart. You will laugh. You will cry. Mostly cry. This deals with Neil trying to cope with the deaths of his daughter, then his wife. He rides about 55,000 miles on his BMW motorcycle, as far north as AK and as far south as Belize.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (wtpml)

121 The participants should at least get a free pair of underpants and a teabag.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (0Htd1)

122 108 so in other words Uju Anya is now being paid to sit at home reading lesbian erotica until all this blows over.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 10:38 PM
***
Wait a minute...sitting at home reading lesbian erotica is a paid job?? We might just have solved the unemployment problem.

Posted by: TRex - career counselor dino at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (XfIK1)

123 Speaking of white shoes, Piper ...

When I was a young lad, a friend allowed as how she could always pick out the departure gate for flights to our Midwest college town by the excess of white belts and occasional white shoes.

Her other reliable indicator was BLACK. The departure gates filled with people all wearing black were heading to Chicago. Still some truth to that.

Posted by: YellowBird at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (MEbkQ)

124 It looks like that Sweeny woman is barely keeping her top on. I'm concerned.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:45 PM (0Htd1)

125 Carnegie Mellon University@CarnegieMellon -Sep 12

Dr. Uju Anya is currently on voluntary professional leave from the university and is not teaching courses on our campus this academic year. We are deeply concerned by recent hostile and threatening social media posts by Dr. Anya and are reviewing this matter closely

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:37 PM (gpvQO)

Maybe you could just fire the cunt?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:45 PM (1z8ji)

126 Swiss Underpants Gnomes and their crafty ideas on making a profit.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:45 PM (2GVsD)

127 She Hobbit,

I was talking about Jill Biden.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:47 PM (2GVsD)

128 Little people and deaf kids.

Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 10:47 PM (LHPAg)

129 In 2022, she drew widespread criticism over remarks made as Queen Elizabeth II was dying. In 2024, she also attracted attention after posting “It was staged” following an assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

The people that told me it was insane science hating racism to claim the 2020 election wasn't on the up and up also tell us that obviously Trump stole the 2024 election and then faked all the assassination attempts on himself including the one where he was actually hit by a bullet.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 12, 2026 10:47 PM (sKqQm)

130 63 I've kept my mouth shut about the ads, I realize you guys are sick of hearing complaints BUT THEY ARE DESTROYING THIS WEBSITE. I CAN'T FUCKING USE THIS WEBSITE ANYMORE.
Posted by: Max Power at September 12, 2026 10:24 PM (TO3+g)

My iPad has an ad blocker. I never see these ads.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 12, 2026 10:47 PM (wtpml)

131 I was talking about Jill Biden.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Hahaha, I know. But can't resist a "this is about me, isn't it?" joke.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 12, 2026 10:48 PM (ftFVW)

132 Wait a minute...sitting at home reading lesbian erotica is a paid job?? We might just have solved the unemployment problem.
Posted by: TRex - career counselor dino at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (XfIK1)

___________________________________

I made a pact with myself years ago that if I ever started reading something that began with, "I never thought this would happen to me, but...." I'd stop right there and find something else to do. Although, Lesbian erotica can be tricky, and sometimes starts off with, "Hey, I love those Birkenstocks. They match your thumb ring."

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 10:48 PM (dIske)

133 To lesbian academics read pron in their freedom or just fantasize in their handmaid costumes?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 12, 2026 10:48 PM (sKqQm)

134 It looks like that Sweeny woman is barely keeping her top on. I'm concerned.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:45 PM (0Htd1)

She has a lot of real titstate to cover. Some garments just ain't up to the job.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:49 PM (1z8ji)

135 119 Of course the people burying their tighty whities are getting nothing in return. I assume the people doing the underpants study are liberals, so of course they're jerks.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (0Htd1)

Liberals? I assumed they were gnomes.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 10:49 PM (PMi3m)

136 I never see adds, not since King Harv....those weren't very obnoxious...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 10:49 PM (hJKeX)

137 I had no idea that turtles actually made noises. The thing s you learn at AOS!

Posted by: DanMa'am at September 12, 2026 10:51 PM (8uzBS)

138 Enjoying some plum crumble leftover from last night. It aged well.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:52 PM (RIvkX)

139 I had no idea that turtles actually made noises. The thing s you learn at AOS!
Posted by: DanMa'am at September 12, 2026 10:51 PM (8uzBS)

The astonished bleats of the tortoisie.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:52 PM (1z8ji)

140 Her other reliable indicator was BLACK. The departure gates filled with people all wearing black were heading to Chicago. Still some truth to that.
Posted by: YellowBird at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (MEbkQ)

Let's just say you can always tell, in a Lower 48 airport, which flights are headed to AK.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:52 PM (4ItEf)

141 137 I had no idea that turtles actually made noises. The thing s you learn at AOS!
Posted by: DanMa'am at September 12, 2026 10:51 PM (8uzBS)
____________________________

Some can no longer do so. The dead one's are pretty quiet.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 12, 2026 10:52 PM (dIske)

142 Club ONT Jukebox
Might as well make it a life

.....or a world.
Savage Genius - Beautiful World
https://youtu.be/TuxkYZE1vSM

Or just simply be beautiful.
Marillion - Beautiful
https://youtu.be/Nbjb74cmIDw

Although that can have its downsides.
Tapping The Vein - Beautiful
https://youtu.be/sj-OcA1LqaQ

Posted by: mikeski at September 12, 2026 10:53 PM (VHUov)

143 Beautiful isn't always happy.
Tacere - Beautiful Darkness
https://youtu.be/AQtDZCgZLhc

After Forever - Beautiful Emptiness
https://youtu.be/5Zx6ErNrbxA

Blackbriar - Beautiful Delerium
https://youtu.be/Za1htsAjp2Q

They aren't all beautiful, like this one:
maudlin of the well - They Aren't All Beautifull
https://youtu.be/gaIb3CXg9e8

But maybe this one is?
echolyn - The End Is Beautiful
https://youtu.be/4gnnFfpLh8E

Posted by: mikeski at September 12, 2026 10:53 PM (VHUov)

144 @RichardGrenell

September 16 is The Hague Court’s announcement on the verdict in Jack Smith’s case against former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci.

Thaci has been in prison for 6 years! - ever since Jack Smith arrested the sitting President of Kosovo on his way to Washington, DC to meet with me for final negotiations with President Trump for the Oval Office agreement to normalize economic relations between Kosovo and Serbia.

Jack Smith’s cases in America have all fallen apart. This case in Europe is the last one he has. Even Democrats from America testified at The Hague on behalf of Thaci saying under oath that Jack Smith’s claims were wildly false.

So there’s bipartisan American support for Thaci…and against Jack Smith.

It’s now up to The Hague September 16. Stay tuned

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:54 PM (gpvQO)

145 Of course the people burying their tighty whities are getting nothing in return. I assume the people doing the underpants study are liberals, so of course they're jerks.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:43 PM (0Htd1)

Don't fall for it. It's a plot by the underpants gnomes.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 10:54 PM (dK+Kv)

146 Anna Puma liked the anime

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:55 PM (RIvkX)

147 141 137 I had no idea that turtles actually made noises. The thing s you learn at AOS!
Posted by: DanMa'am at September 12, 2026 10:51 PM (8uzBS)
____________________________

Some can no longer do so. The dead one's are pretty quiet.
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 12, 2026 10:52 PM (dIske)

I gotta say, I didn't expect to see turtles humping shoes on the ONT this fine evening. Seems like those boys are horny enough to not know a lady turtle from a croc. Kinda awful news for their long term survival, I would think.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:55 PM (4ItEf)

148 My iPad has an ad blocker. I never see these ads.
Posted by: Cow Demon

He doesn't want a solution. He wants to yell at the manager.

Posted by: mikeski at September 12, 2026 10:55 PM (VHUov)

149 Ara?

Which anime?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:55 PM (2GVsD)

150 140 Let's just say you can always tell, in a Lower 48 airport, which flights are headed to AK.

Likewise in Denver/Boulder you can always tell the folks in town from the Mountain.

Posted by: YellowBird at September 12, 2026 10:56 PM (MEbkQ)

151 *Looks at time*

Come on Miracle!

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:56 PM (2GVsD)

152 But no, it’s just because think bright white shoes aren’t very pretty. I am sure an exception exists somewhere, I just have yet to find it.
Posted by: Piper

I like my white sneakers.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:56 PM (0Htd1)

153 So there’s bipartisan American support for Thaci…and against Jack Smith.

It’s now up to The Hague September 16. Stay tuned
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:54 PM (gpvQO)

Haven't we hung that little shit yet? Seems like we should have by now.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:56 PM (4ItEf)

154 Let's just say you can always tell, in a Lower 48 airport, which flights are headed to AK.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:52 PM (4ItEf)

Truth.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 12, 2026 10:57 PM (wtpml)

155 I like my white sneakers.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:56 PM (0Htd1)

White Chuckie's are very fashionable. And luckily, washable.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:57 PM (4ItEf)

156 133 To lesbian academics read pron in their freedom or just fantasize in their handmaid costumes?

Posted by: 18-1
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Her costumes have to be hand made, no retail that huge.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 10:58 PM (gpvQO)

157 Her costumes have to be hand made, no retail that huge.

Not even Spirit Halloween or Wal-Mart?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:59 PM (2GVsD)

158 Her other reliable indicator was BLACK. The departure gates filled with people all wearing black were heading to Chicago. Still some truth to that.
Posted by: YellowBird at September

This is a study worthy of undertaking! Outfits and destination predictions! 😂

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:59 PM (ZdaMQ)

159 Haven't we hung that little shit yet? Seems like we should have by now.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:56 PM (4ItEf)

Sounds like a guy with terminal intracranial lead deficiency.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:59 PM (1z8ji)

160 147 I gotta say, I didn't expect to see turtles humping shoes on the ONT this fine evening. Seems like those boys are horny enough to not know a lady turtle from a croc. Kinda awful news for their long term survival, I would think.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:55 PM (4ItEf)

You have to admit, they do look Happy Together.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 11:00 PM (PMi3m)

161 Neither Texas or Ohio is impressive. Week 1 but both teams have a lot of work to do.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:00 PM (viF8m)

162 White shoes on men always put me in mind of Herb Tarlek.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Edie McClurg played Lucille, Herb Tarlek’s wife. She also played Grace, the school secretary in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

The school secretary at my kids' grade school was a dead ringer for Ms. McClurg.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 12, 2026 11:00 PM (m4Pfq)

163 154 Let's just say you can always tell, in a Lower 48 airport, which flights are headed to AK.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:52 PM (4ItEf)

Truth.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 12, 2026 10:57 PM (wtpml)

When we moved back to AK, DH packed eight three-piece suits, white shirts with French cuffs, lots of ties, and polished shoes.

He has yet to wear any of those, after 11 years. I told him, but until he lived here, he didn't understand.

A male professional outfit up here consists of nice jeans, a polo shirt with or without a pocket, Red Wing work boots, and occasionally a hard hat, depending upon your work environment for that day. I will admit, when younger than 29, I used to wear a miniskirt with my steel toe boots to jobsites. But the hard hat is non-negotiable, of course.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:01 PM (gZZXF)

164 155 I like my white sneakers.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 12, 2026 10:56 PM (0Htd1)

White Chuckie's are very fashionable. And luckily, washable.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026

Tennis / court / athletic shoes are an entirely different category. I am talking dress shoes and white patent / bright white sandals / etc.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:01 PM (ZdaMQ)

165 Copied this but I had to tap on the photo for the entire wording... You'll probably guess who and who else are in these two pics captioned " They did not die on this beach/ for these losers"

https://tinyurl.com/3py32bmz

Posted by: Rex B at September 12, 2026 11:01 PM (R0XxO)

166 You have to admit, they do look Happy Together.

You just discovered the movie Making Mr. Right?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 11:02 PM (2GVsD)

167 I gotta say, I didn't expect to see turtles humping shoes on the ONT this fine evening. Seems like those boys are horny enough to not know a lady turtle from a croc. Kinda awful news for their long term survival, I would think.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 10:55 PM (4ItEf)

I am looking at how to make the joke "pantuflas-sexual" without having to explain that "pantuflas" are Spanish for "slippers"

So far I have failed at this task.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 11:02 PM (rbvCR)

168 Tennis / court / athletic shoes are an entirely different category. I am talking dress shoes and white patent / bright white sandals / etc.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:01 PM (ZdaMQ)

Tan shoes and pink shoe laces FTW.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:02 PM (1z8ji)

169 165 failed

Was actually a D-day photo over a pic of Piker, Mamdami and El Sayet

Posted by: Rex B at September 12, 2026 11:03 PM (R0XxO)

170
Let's just say you can always tell, in a Lower 48 airport, which flights are headed to AK.
Posted by: tcn in AK

By the heavy outerware carried?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 11:04 PM (NnhvP)

171 >>Tennis / court / athletic shoes are an entirely different category. I am talking dress shoes and white patent / bright white sandals / etc.

What about white bucks at the yacht club?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:07 PM (viF8m)

172 The thing I hate about my tighty whities is when they get to crawling up my butt in the middle of the night...jeez...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 11:09 PM (hJKeX)

173 What about white bucks at the yacht club?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:07 PM (viF8m)

Swim fins. The mark of a survivor.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:09 PM (1z8ji)

174 Looks like THE ohio state may be going down.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:09 PM (yEz+x)

175 170
Let's just say you can always tell, in a Lower 48 airport, which flights are headed to AK.
Posted by: tcn in AK

By the heavy outerware carried?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 11:04 PM (NnhvP)

Not in the summer.

Jeans, plaid shirts, t-shirts with inappropriate text, hoodies with various odd communities printed on them that you can't get to by driving, bizarre facial hair (on the men, mostly), leggings with long t-shirts (mostly on the women), and of course coolers or boxes taped up with duct tape to either carry on or check.

The occasional mullet and/or male ponytail, but absolutely NO twat knots, no suits, very few skirts except bun covers, and no heels of any kind, although cowboy boots are allowed.

Alaskans just wear what they like, and don't really give one fat rat's ass who doesn't like it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:10 PM (Sw64s)

176 The thing I hate about my tighty whities is when they get to crawling up my butt in the middle of the night...jeez...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 11:09 PM (hJKeX)

You don't have to wear them at night. I'll never tell.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:10 PM (1z8ji)

177 >>Swim fins. The mark of a survivor.

This guy knows what time it is.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:11 PM (viF8m)

178 What about white bucks at the yacht club?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:07 PM (viF8m)

You'd have to ask Judge Smails.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:11 PM (Sw64s)

179 Sigh. Such is football.

Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 11:11 PM (lJ0H4)

180 Looks like THE ohio state may be going down.
Posted by: nurse ratched

What a crazy comeback for Texas.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 12, 2026 11:11 PM (ftFVW)

181 Let's just say you can always tell, in a Lower 48 airport, which flights are headed to AK.
Posted by: tcn in AK

Xtra Tuffs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 11:12 PM (dK+Kv)

182 Alaskans just wear what they like, and don't really give one fat rat's ass who doesn't like it.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:10 PM (Sw64s)

Sounds like Alberta.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:12 PM (1z8ji)

183 Which anime?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:55 PM (2GVsD)
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Overtly religious pop song???

https://youtu.be/cwtXLVKjnOQ
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 10:26 PM (2GVsD)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:12 PM (RIvkX)

184 I admit to preferring skirts and dresses because they are comfy (I don't wear anything fussy or waist-banded), and nobody gives me crap about that. I sometimes get mistaken for a hippie. But skirts are a great way to concealed carry, folks.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:13 PM (Sw64s)

185 171 >>Tennis / court / athletic shoes are an entirely different category. I am talking dress shoes and white patent / bright white sandals / etc.

What about white bucks at the yacht club?
Posted by: JackStraw at S

Couldn’t you do a light cream? Or a saddle? For me? lol.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:13 PM (ZdaMQ)

186 Xtra Tuffs.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 11:12 PM (dK+Kv)

Particularly the Salmon Sisters kind, which are all the rage.

I can't find any size 15 or 16's for DH. Still working on that.

I wear mine to the beach for dipnetting, certainly, and in the garden in the spring. They are awfully handy. And oh so stylish, up here.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:14 PM (Sw64s)

187
Hollywood Smothers scored the winning TD for Texas.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 11:14 PM (eRlcH)

188 Are you Nostradamus's sock puppet?
Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 10:42 PM (PMi3m)

I did have foresight, yes.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 11:15 PM (1Ff7Z)

189 By the way, I was very specific about never wearing white shoes. Ever.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 10:14 PM (ZdaMQ)

We had them for our marching band uniform until my junior year. They are a pain to keep white while marching around on a football field every week.

Posted by: GWB at September 12, 2026 11:15 PM (kU0PQ)

190 Alaskans just wear what they like, and don't really give one fat rat's ass who doesn't like it.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:10 PM (Sw64s)

Sounds like Alberta.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:12 PM (1z8ji)
=====

No spats or braces? No collar pins? Are you not Gentlemen?

Oh my.

Posted by: Maryann Cuthbertson-Klein from Groton at September 12, 2026 11:15 PM (RIvkX)

191 Sounds like Alberta.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:12 PM (1z8ji)

I noticed that driving through, the few times I did so. Yep, we think alike.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:15 PM (Sw64s)

192 *sees turtle video*

Get some, brother!

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 12, 2026 11:15 PM (wVcYX)

193 >>You'd have to ask Judge Smails.

Pfft.

I've been infiltrating them forever. Yacht racing.

And that scarf doesn't go with that dress.

As if.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:16 PM (viF8m)

194 White shooz are a non-starter for me. Because to keep them white, you have to be thinking about them all the time. What a waste of mental resources.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:16 PM (1z8ji)

195 Inside thigh holster, cross-draw?

Posted by: GWB at September 12, 2026 11:16 PM (kU0PQ)

196 186 Xtra Tuffs.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 11:12 PM (dK+Kv)

Particularly the Salmon Sisters kind, which are all the rage.

I can't find any size 15 or 16's for DH. Still working on that.

I wear mine to the beach for dipnetting, certainly, and in the garden in the spring. They are awfully handy. And oh so stylish, up here.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:14 PM

Honeywell used to own them. I still have a pair of Salmon Sisters boots.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

197 Let's try that again...

But skirts are a great way to concealed carry, folks.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:13 PM (Sw64s)

Inside thigh, cross-draw?

Posted by: GWB at September 12, 2026 11:17 PM (kU0PQ)

198 No spats or braces? No collar pins? Are you not Gentlemen?

Oh my.
Posted by: Maryann Cuthbertson-Klein from Groton at September 12, 2026 11:15 PM (RIvkX)

I haz suspenderz.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:18 PM (1z8ji)

199 Who names their kid Hollywood?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 12, 2026 11:18 PM (2Ez/1)

200 A couple of my box turtles were obsessed with shoes and shoelaces. If I stamped my foot from 20 feet away, Tommy would run up to me and stand on my shoe. He was the size of a quarter when I found him and I had him for 15 years until I released him to a nice wild place with a lake. He also chased my cats and would bite their feet, tail.

Posted by: Reptile Dysfunction at September 12, 2026 11:18 PM (Fn+3X)

201 "Unbunch your panties" is one of my leadership mantras when the staff are losing their minds in a crisis.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:19 PM (RIvkX)

202 I may be the anomaly. I have exactly five pairs of shoes, and that seems like too many. I also have two pairs of boots, but they are not fashion boots, they are xtra tuffs and winter boots. DH often jokes that I spend our future inheritance on clothes and boots, while I buy half my clothes from Costco and other half from Freddie's. Plus I cut my own hair, mostly, although I do like a good day at the spa. And yet, I am a girly girl. This is AK. We do that our own way I guess.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:19 PM (Sw64s)

203 I'm probably getting all stupid now, and it's not even too late here.
But...
Good night! My brain has officially signed out without permission...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2026 11:19 PM (hJKeX)

204 Honeywell used to own them. I still have a pair of Salmon Sisters boots.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

Fish or octopus? Mine are octopus. Very cute.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:21 PM (Sw64s)

205 Mmm. Octopus.

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at September 12, 2026 11:21 PM (88C+u)

206 21 point come back

hahahaha

Hook em

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 11:21 PM (/+uur)

207 A couple of my box turtles were obsessed with shoes and shoelaces. If I stamped my foot from 20 feet away, Tommy would run up to me and stand on my shoe. He was the size of a quarter when I found him and I had him for 15 years until I released him to a nice wild place with a lake. He also chased my cats and would bite their feet, tail.
Posted by: Reptile Dysfunction at September 12, 2026 11:18 PM (Fn+3X)

And this is why turtles never dominated the planet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:21 PM (1z8ji)

208 A song by It's A Beautiful Day might have fit the musical theme. They were a big part of the San Francisco music scene late 60s, early 70s.

Posted by: Rockin' Mel Slirrup at September 12, 2026 11:22 PM (Fn+3X)

209 And this is why turtles never dominated the planet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:21 PM (1z8ji)

Wait, I thought it was turtles, all the way down?

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:23 PM (Sw64s)

210 Taking the exit here. Was going to make the drink up top, but turns out there's Campari, but no rum. Saved!

https://youtu.be/kBYHwH1Vb-c

G'nite, y'all.💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - so much for Saturday at September 12, 2026 11:23 PM (k0Y0k)

211
202 I may be the anomaly. I have exactly five pairs of shoes, and that seems like too many. I also have two pairs of boots, but they are not fashion boots, they are xtra tuffs and winter boots. DH often jokes that I spend our future inheritance on clothes and boots, while I buy half my clothes from Costco and other half from Freddie's. Plus I cut my own hair, mostly, although I do like a good day at the spa. And yet, I am a girly girl. This is AK. We do that our own way I guess.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11

I think people should be themselves, I don’t know if that is regional. I mean, yes, I agree with you, there are definitely regional styles, but shoe counts, etc, there is no magic number. It’s what works for you. And I have seen some adorable things at Target.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

212 DH is grilling dinner tonight. Sometimes that man makes feel just like a queen.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:24 PM (Sw64s)

213 The exceptionally odd thing about their loss was it came at the hands of OKLAHOMA STATE, who lost to Tulsa last week. Even the Sooners are happy the Cowboys won!!
Posted by: LRob
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Maybe this will act as a psychological blow, come the Civil War.
Bad juju having to play another OSU team in Black and Orange.
The engineering dept where I worked had a couple of Ducks (software weenies) and a couple of Beavs.(EEs). The end of football season got them agitated.

Posted by: buddhaha at September 12, 2026 11:24 PM (2VjEW)

214 Honeywell used to own them. I still have a pair of Salmon Sisters boots.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

Fish or octopus? Mine are octopus. Very cute.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:21 PM (Sw64s)

Music for the occasion, by Salmon Dave:

https://youtu.be/S_OX2HwWy-o

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:24 PM (1z8ji)

215 204 Honeywell used to own them. I still have a pair of Salmon Sisters boots.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

Fish or octopus? Mine are octopus. Very cute.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026

Octopus. How funny. The brown outsides have never faded. Of course they haven’t done much work, either.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:25 PM (ZdaMQ)

216 And I have seen some adorable things at Target.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

Precisely. Fashion is how you wear it, and more about attitude than price.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:25 PM (Sw64s)

217 Octopus skin boots?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:26 PM (Y/06r)

218 Looks like we are officially out of the "fake policy discussion" phase of socialism, and into the "murder everyone who isn't socialist enough" phase. Prepare accordingly.

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:26 PM (vE0+H)

219 >>Couldn’t you do a light cream? Or a saddle? For me? lol.

I had a lovely pair of light cream bucks.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:27 PM (viF8m)

220 217 Octopus skin boots?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026

No, octopus printed fabric on the inside of the boot, but you can fold them down and it shows.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

221 Octopus. How funny. The brown outsides have never faded. Of course they haven’t done much work, either.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:25 PM (ZdaMQ)

Mine work pretty hard, but only for a couple of weeks a year. They still look great. I love 'em.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:27 PM (Sw64s)

222 Octopus skin boots?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:26 PM (Y/06r)

Marketed to suckers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:27 PM (1z8ji)

223 218 Looks like we are officially out of the "fake policy discussion" phase of socialism, and into the "murder everyone who isn't socialist enough" phase. Prepare accordingly.
Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:26 PM (vE0+H)

They got to a critical mass point like the 70s where a subset does not want to wait any more.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:27 PM (Y/06r)

224 Brit Lass would get the cheapest raggedy falls apart in six washes shit from Kohl's and still get the dirtiest looks from other women

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:28 PM (vE0+H)

225 No, octopus printed fabric on the inside of the boot, but you can fold them down and it shows.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:27 PM (ZdaMQ)

So they're just regular cow leather? Tanned grey maybe?

I am not getting the octopus connection.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:28 PM (Y/06r)

226 Kitty is lapping up the leftover spaghetti sauce,

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:29 PM (1z8ji)

227 I notice it too on flights to Portland (plaid, flannel, brown) and to SF (black, sparkles, fluorescent pink.)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:29 PM (RIvkX)

228 They got to a critical mass point like the 70s where a subset does not want to wait any more.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:27 PM (Y/06r)

It's no longer a subset. And the media, Democrats and Republicans aren't stopping them. In fact they're about to encourage a whole lot more.

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:29 PM (vE0+H)

229 >>Prepare accordingly.

Way ahead of you.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:29 PM (viF8m)

230 I had a lovely pair of light cream bucks.

Posted by: JackStraw

I just got here. Holy shit is that gay.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 11:30 PM (jJdaW)

231 218 Looks like we are officially out of the "fake policy discussion" phase of socialism, and into the "murder everyone who isn't socialist enough" phase. Prepare accordingly.

Posted by: ...
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AOC or one of that crew suggessted killing Schumer was a necessity. They're eating their own.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 11:30 PM (gpvQO)

232 It's no longer a subset. And the media, Democrats and Republicans aren't stopping them. In fact they're about to encourage a whole lot more.
Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:29 PM (vE0+H)

I saw a ewetub thumbnail where they are planning to reveal the holdout's identity on the 18th.

It is like publicly planning a crime. But he is icky, so whatever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:30 PM (Y/06r)

233 I am looking at how to make the joke "pantuflas-sexual" without having to explain that "pantuflas" are Spanish for "slippers"

So far I have failed at this task.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 11:02 PM (rbvCR)

I'd have gone with ciabatta

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:31 PM (vE0+H)

234 Way ahead of you.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:29 PM (viF8m)

Sincerely doubt that

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:32 PM (vE0+H)

235 This is really tasty tunafish.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:32 PM (Y/06r)

236 Oh you meant ahead of my warning........

Then again I've been warning since around 2008

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:32 PM (vE0+H)

237 You can't really take a group picture of a group of Alaskans, they won't sit for it. Most are in Witness Protection or on the lam from the Lower 48.

Posted by: Gypsies, Tramps, Thieves, Etc. at September 12, 2026 11:32 PM (Fn+3X)

238 One of my kindergarten buddies is in the Amex lounge at Seatac and just texted me his google review. It is a riot

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:33 PM (RIvkX)

239 >>Sincerely doubt that

I know.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:33 PM (viF8m)

240 If you own blue ring octopus boots, that diver is a bad ass.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 11:33 PM (jJdaW)

241 It is like publicly planning a crime. But he is icky, so whatever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:30 PM (Y/06r)

Hell's Angels should adopt him as a "protected person". "Mess with him, and you mess with us."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:33 PM (1z8ji)

242 So they're just regular cow leather? Tanned grey maybe?

I am not getting the octopus connection.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:28 PM (Y/06r)

https://tinyurl.com/p6kmenup

Xtra Tuffs, Salmon Sisters, Octopus.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:33 PM (Sw64s)

243
Hook'em Horns!!!

Wow, what an incredible game.

Texas came back at the end with 21 unanswered points to win!!!

Sadly, the Ohio State Daisies wilted at the end.

Anyway, great game. This should be a fun year watching Texas.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 11:34 PM (iJfKG)

244 This is really tasty tunafish.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Use the whole tunafish. Make boots out of the skin.

Posted by: mikeski may have misread the thread at September 12, 2026 11:35 PM (VHUov)

245 We had them for our marching band uniform until my junior year. They are a pain to keep white while marching around on a football field every week.
Posted by: GWB
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Because I never wore them for anything else, it was simple.
Saturday morning, get out the white shoe polish. Unlike every other shoe polish, it isn't a wax that needs buffed; it's a white liquid, akin to.whitewash, which is painted on with a fuzzy round applicator. Covered the grass stains nicely. Back under the bed until next Friday.

Posted by: buddhaha at September 12, 2026 11:35 PM (2VjEW)

246 https://tinyurl.com/p6kmenup

Xtra Tuffs, Salmon Sisters, Octopus.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:33 PM (Sw64s)

Ok. Rain boots. This is one of those things I do not get, isn't it ladies?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:35 PM (Y/06r)

247 Unlike every other shoe polish, it isn't a wax that needs buffed; it's a white liquid, akin to.whitewash, which is painted on with a fuzzy round applicator. Covered the grass stains nicely. Back under the bed until next Friday.
Posted by: buddhaha at September 12, 2026 11:35 PM (2VjEW)

Until you get about 40 layers on, and it cracks, and falls off in slabs.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:37 PM (1z8ji)

248 Ok. Rain boots. This is one of those things I do not get, isn't it ladies?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:35 PM (Y/06r)

Not rain boots, so much as working boots for crappy weather or beach wear. I wear them on the beach for salmon dipnetting, also for early garden work when the snow is just melted, and they aren't bad for short hikes in the spring when everything is muddy. Also good on boats, if need be.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:38 PM (Sw64s)

249 Hi Scampy, where ever you are...
Posted by: COMountainMarie
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Always nice to see you in the comments, COMM. I am around but not regularly - life calls.
Thanks for the ONT, D's.

Posted by: scampydog at September 12, 2026 11:39 PM (41CYW)

250 Always nice to see you in the comments, COMM. I am around but not regularly - life calls.
Thanks for the ONT, D's.
Posted by: scampydog at September 12, 2026 11:39 PM (41CYW)

Nice to hear from you. Don't be a stranger.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:39 PM (Sw64s)

251 Did you guys see the latest democrat scandal? A woman running for State House in NC (Shelly Headen) put up a picture on X of her standing in front of the ovens at Dachau smiling, and then typed, “Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany… This is where Trump supporters belong.”

The irony of that statement was lost on her (if you're familiar with the original inhabitants of Dachau). Anyone who smiles in Dachau is disturbing enough.

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 12, 2026 11:40 PM (dIske)

252 Nurses were forever polishing their white shoes before they were allowed to wear other shoes, Crocs. My wife became a Registered Dietitian in 1977. She also wore a white uniform, white shoes.

Posted by: Them Changes at September 12, 2026 11:40 PM (Fn+3X)

253 >>Unlike every other shoe polish, it isn't a wax that needs buffed; it's a white liquid, akin to.whitewash, which is painted on with a fuzzy round applicator. Covered the grass stains nicely. Back under the bed until next Friday.

Oh yea, and my cream bucks are gay.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:40 PM (viF8m)

254 3 356hybv356buh 356b6
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (mmrXZ)

---------

D-O-N-T-F-O-R-G-E-T-T-O

Don't forget to WHAT???

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2026 11:41 PM (wpRMV)

255 251 Did you guys see the latest democrat scandal? A woman running for State House in NC (Shelly Headen) put up a picture on X of her standing in front of the ovens at Dachau smiling, and then typed, “Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany… This is where Trump supporters belong.”

The irony of that statement was lost on her (if you're familiar with the original inhabitants of Dachau). Anyone who smiles in Dachau is disturbing enough.
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 12, 2026 11:40 PM (dIske)

Fucking hell.

How can anyone be so painfully stupid?

And completely divorced from history or even empathy?

What a twat.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:41 PM (Sw64s)

256 Underwear index?

/looks intrigued...

3. Profit?

Posted by: Underpants Gnome at September 12, 2026 11:41 PM (mP0Kj)

257 254 3 356hybv356buh 356b6
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (mmrXZ)

---------

D-O-N-T-F-O-R-G-E-T-T-O

Don't forget to WHAT???
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2026 11:41 PM (wpRMV)

Mr Roboto?

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2026 11:42 PM (mP0Kj)

258 Bedtime! Church plus I have to teach tomorrow. I have a suicide awareness donation class for the Fitness for Hope campaign.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 11:43 PM (ZdaMQ)

259 Nurses were forever polishing their white shoes before they were allowed to wear other shoes, Crocs. My wife became a Registered Dietitian in 1977. She also wore a white uniform, white shoes.
Posted by: Them Changes at September 12, 2026 11:40 PM (Fn+3X)

Good thing she was registered. Possession of an unregistered Dietician could get you 5 to 10.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:43 PM (1z8ji)

260 What a twat.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:41 PM (Sw64s)

_____________________

That about sums it up...along with "psychopath." That was just one of her gems. She was picking out southern states and explaining they were inhabited by "stupid people." She saw nothing wrong with any of it.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 11:43 PM (dIske)

261 Cream Bucks rub me the wrong way. I had a high opinion of Jack Straw and his musical taste, but now I'm not so sure.

Posted by: Feet of Clay! at September 12, 2026 11:43 PM (Fn+3X)

262 This charade with Mitch McConnell is breathtakingly late-stage Soviet.

I have not seen him alive myself in recent memory.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:44 PM (RIvkX)

263 Fucking hell.

How can anyone be so painfully stupid?

And completely divorced from history or even empathy?

What a twat.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:41 PM (Sw64s)

I settled on she is a TikTok devotee. That medium more than any other social media seems to encourage people to say horrifying and stupid things.

Be glad you do not have my ewetub feed. It is nothing but stories of women saying horrifying things about their husbands, cheating on them, etc etc.

That and busty women. Busty women and warhammer. Busty women, warhammer, guns and science videos.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:45 PM (Y/06r)

264 Since Labor Day I have throttled down my wardrobe choices from Swiss Coffee to Ecru.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2026 11:45 PM (wpRMV)

265 This charade with Mitch McConnell is breathtakingly late-stage Soviet.

I have not seen him alive myself in recent memory.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:44 PM (RIvkX)

Somebody needs to do a Futurama parody, with McConnell's head in a bell jar, instead of Nixon's.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (1z8ji)

266 I saw a ewetub thumbnail where they are planning to reveal the holdout's identity on the 18th.

It is like publicly planning a crime. But he is icky, so whatever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:30 PM (Y/06r)

18 USC 119 makes it ILLEGAL to Dox a Jury member.

Yeah... FED Law, not State.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (mP0Kj)

267 264 Since Labor Day I have throttled down my wardrobe choices from Swiss Coffee to Ecru.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2026 11:45 PM (wpRMV)

I still have the same rotation of shirts and shorts.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (Y/06r)

268 Good thing she was registered. Possession of an unregistered Dietician could get you 5 to 10.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Watch out for the RDs. They are militant about the Dietitian spelling.

Posted by: The American Dietetic Association at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (Fn+3X)

269 I have sailing boots that I wear down to the beach paired with a sundress.

And a straw sun hat.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (CbDvl)

270 This charade with Mitch McConnell is breathtakingly late-stage Soviet.

I have not seen him alive myself in recent memory.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:44 PM (RIvkX)

I don't care about MM. Let him stay, alive or dead. The Ds never get rid of anyone, why should we?

Same with the D from NC. It'd be nice if someone smacked people like her in the mouth when they say stuff like that. Preferably with a baseball bat.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (1Ff7Z)

271 That about sums it up...along with "psychopath." That was just one of her gems. She was picking out southern states and explaining they were inhabited by "stupid people." She saw nothing wrong with any of it.
Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 11:43 PM (dIske)

Y'know, the whole notion that everyone in the south is an idiot is so.... Civil War Era. It wasn't true then, but...

It's one thing to think your enemies are fools, and another one to maintain that thought process without any critical analysis.

That leads to serious stupidity.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:47 PM (Sw64s)

272 18 USC 119 makes it ILLEGAL to Dox a Jury member.

Yeah... FED Law, not State.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (mP0Kj)

Yeah, I do not quite get it. Is it a threat to get him to publicly recant? Drag out the process? Just exercise power and have it looming over the guy?

These people are fucking horrible.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:47 PM (Y/06r)

273 >>Cream Bucks rub me the wrong way. I had a high opinion of Jack Straw and his musical taste, but now I'm not so sure.

When you go fishing, the most important tool you have is the right bait.

Know your waters and your prey.

Dress for success.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:47 PM (viF8m)

274 And I thought everyone wore Ray Troll sweatshirts in AK.

I have a few.

They are awesome.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:48 PM (CbDvl)

275 That and busty women. Busty women and warhammer. Busty women, warhammer, guns and science videos.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

You should log in again.

Posted by: mikeski python at September 12, 2026 11:48 PM (VHUov)

276 273 >>Cream Bucks rub me the wrong way. I had a high opinion of Jack Straw and his musical taste, but now I'm not so sure.

When you go fishing, the most important tool you have is the right bait.

Know your waters and your prey.

Dress for success.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:47 PM (viF8m)

Are... are you fishing for gay dudes, Jack? NTTAWWT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:49 PM (Y/06r)

277 272 18 USC 119 makes it ILLEGAL to Dox a Jury member.

Yeah... FED Law, not State.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (mP0Kj)

Yeah, I do not quite get it. Is it a threat to get him to publicly recant? Drag out the process? Just exercise power and have it looming over the guy?

These people are fucking horrible.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:47 PM (Y/06r)

Maybe they think they can plead insanity for Doxing him???

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2026 11:49 PM (mP0Kj)

278 269 I have sailing boots that I wear down to the beach paired with a sundress.

And a straw sun hat.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (CbDvl)

And you are cuter than a bug's ear, too!

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:49 PM (Sw64s)

279 Yeah, I do not quite get it. Is it a threat to get him to publicly recant? Drag out the process? Just exercise power and have it looming over the guy?

These people are fucking horrible.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

It's not about him.

It's about intimidating the next jury.

He's just a sacrifice they're willing to make.

Posted by: mikeski at September 12, 2026 11:50 PM (VHUov)

280 Registered Dietitian is kind of a Master's degree. They give internships only to the best Bachelors of Nutrition grads. Basically, you need straight College A's in all your science courses. Many who can't get an internship go into Sports Nutrition or Nutrition counselling. The RD is kind of a big deal.

Posted by: American Dietetic Association at September 12, 2026 11:50 PM (Fn+3X)

281 274 And I thought everyone wore Ray Troll sweatshirts in AK.

I have a few.

They are awesome.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:48 PM (CbDvl)

Spawn till you die, honey.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:50 PM (Sw64s)

282 You should log in again.
Posted by: mikeski python at September 12, 2026 11:48 PM (VHUov)

Eh, that's my phone feed. Here at home...

Asmongold videos.
A guy building a log cabin house.
A busty woman at a Ren Faire.
A guy carving a gladiator helmet out of wood (there you go, Jack)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:51 PM (Y/06r)

283 266 I saw a ewetub thumbnail where they are planning to reveal the holdout's identity on the 18th.

It is like publicly planning a crime. But he is icky, so whatever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:30 PM (Y/06r)

18 USC 119 makes it ILLEGAL to Dox a Jury member.

Yeah... FED Law, not State.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (mP0Kj)

Would that apply to a state jury, or only to Federal jurors?

Posted by: a.moron at September 12, 2026 11:51 PM (X5Jzz)

284
D-O-N-T-F-O-R-G-E-T-T-O

Don't forget to WHAT???
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

================

34fguj9oktj

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 11:51 PM (mmrXZ)

285 255 251 Did you guys see the latest democrat scandal? A woman running for State House in NC (Shelly Headen) put up a picture on X of her standing in front of the ovens at Dachau smiling, and then typed, “Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany… This is where Trump supporters belong.”

The irony of that statement was lost on her (if you're familiar with the original inhabitants of Dachau). Anyone who smiles in Dachau is disturbing enough.
Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 12, 2026 11:40 PM (dIske)

Fucking hell.

How can anyone be so painfully stupid?

And completely divorced from history or even empathy?

What a twat.
Posted by: tcn in AK


Yea. Either it's AI slop or this broad has advisors who despise her. She appears too dumb to come up with this on her own.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 11:52 PM (wBh67)

286 It's not about him.

It's about intimidating the next jury.

He's just a sacrifice they're willing to make.
Posted by: mikeski at September 12, 2026 11:50 PM (VHUov)

Probable. 'Youse other guys watch what happens.'

*types* *deletes*

I did see where someone had started a gofundme for the guy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:52 PM (Y/06r)

287 >>Are... are you fishing for gay dudes, Jack? NTTAWWT.

I believe it was Piper who suggested cream bucks. I don't think she's a gay dude but I might be wrong.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:53 PM (viF8m)

288 Too bad the beavers couldnt pull it out over Texas tech. That was a great game. Until the last four minutes.

Oh well. Oregon and ohio state lost.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:53 PM (CbDvl)

289 Until you get about 40 layers on, and it cracks, and falls off in slabs.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
----
Never had a pair that long. Over 6 years marching (started in 7th grade) my feet went from size 6 to 12.:The longest pair were only worn maybe 14 times. Thinking about it now, I'm amazed that my mother not only bought them for me (we were downright poor) but didn't insist that I wear them out. I had a female cousin a couple of years older than me, and I believe she inherited them, at least until about size 9.
Although a couple of times a year, I'd take a floor scrub brush to them before slapping on a new coat.

Posted by: buddhaha at September 12, 2026 11:54 PM (2VjEW)

290 265 This charade with Mitch McConnell is breathtakingly late-stage Soviet.

I have not seen him alive myself in recent memory.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 11:44 PM (RIvkX)

Somebody needs to do a Futurama parody, with McConnell's head in a bell jar, instead of Nixon's.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


Captain Pike's wheel chair. (beep)

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 11:54 PM (wBh67)

291 And the Mariners are up 15-1 over the As. Top of the 8th.


We can still lose though.
Trust me on this.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:55 PM (CbDvl)

292 Confession. I have a pair of light colored shoes in the cream bucks vein, but a little darker. Had them for 40 years, maybe worn them twice. Decided that size 13 feet should not draw attention by wearing gaudy, light, shoes.

Posted by: Paint It Black at September 12, 2026 11:55 PM (Fn+3X)

293 Yeah... FED Law, not State.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 12, 2026 11:46 PM (mP0Kj)
Would that apply to a state jury, or only to Federal jurors?
Posted by: a.moron

Federal

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 12, 2026 11:56 PM (Fv808)

294 Fucking hell.

How can anyone be so painfully stupid?

And completely divorced from history or even empathy?

What a twat.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:41 PM (Sw64s)

The reveal that they've been the Nazi slave holding KKK khmer rouge stasi all along isn't exactly gonna be an M. Night Shyamalan level twist.

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 11:56 PM (vE0+H)

295 >>>It's not about him.

It's about intimidating the next jury.

He's just a sacrifice they're willing to make.

Posted by: mikeski
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Is DOXing the juror a federal offense?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 11:58 PM (gpvQO)

296
Did you guys see the latest democrat scandal? A woman running for State House in NC (Shelly Headen) put up a picture on X of her standing in front of the ovens at Dachau smiling, and then typed, “Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany… This is where Trump supporters belong.”

Posted by: Mitch McConnell

=======================

JEEZ. Democrats are denouncing her and pulling funding, but it's too late to get her off the ballot. That district is a "lean Republican." wth was she trying to do?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 11:59 PM (mmrXZ)

297 >>Confession. I have a pair of light colored shoes in the cream bucks vein, but a little darker. Had them for 40 years, maybe worn them twice. Decided that size 13 feet should not draw attention by wearing gaudy, light, shoes.

Good plan. You have giant clown feet and what does that mean? And you want to hide this?

I'm surrounded by morons.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 12:00 AM (viF8m)

298 Y'know, the whole notion that everyone in the south is an idiot is so.... Civil War Era. It wasn't true then, but...

It's one thing to think your enemies are fools, and another one to maintain that thought process without any critical analysis.

That leads to serious stupidity.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 11:47 PM (Sw64s)

When was the Left ever interested in accuracy, truth, etc.....?

Posted by: ... at September 13, 2026 12:03 AM (vE0+H)

299 Plant moss on top of your shoes. Because moss only grows in the shade, you know.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 12:04 AM (1z8ji)

300 >>>Sydney Sweeny's 15 minutes is nearly up, she's not a good actress unfortunately.

Indie Navrette is the new it girl it seems.

She can't act either, but acting isn't really a thing in Hollywood any longer.

>Sweeny is making massive bank selling lingerie, swim wear and marketing her brand. Not bad for a crusty 29 year old.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 13, 2026 12:07 AM (5C90x)

301 Made the Top 10ish Comments for the 5th time. I'll be basking in the glory for a good while.

Posted by: Peaceful, Easy Feeling at September 13, 2026 12:08 AM (Fn+3X)

302 wth was she trying to do?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 11:59 PM (mmrXZ)

Move the Overton Window

Posted by: ... at September 13, 2026 12:08 AM (vE0+H)

303 Sweeny is making massive bank selling lingerie, swim wear and marketing her brand. Not bad for a crusty 29 year old.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 13, 2026 12:07 AM (5C90x)

I wouldn't kick her out for peddling her lingerie in bed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 12:09 AM (1z8ji)

304 Franpsycho I was in Brazil for the farcical Soviet end-game. In 1985, after 17 years of military government, Brazil had its first presidential election. The winner suffered heart failure within hours of taking the oath. He was not seen for weeks, being cared for in the Coronary Institute of Sao Paulo.

A military (!) spokesman provided frequent updates for the TV networks. His spiel didn't very. "The state of health of President Tancredo Neves, is good". (O estado de saude do President Tancredo Neves, e bom)

I was usually watching the TV news with Brazilian traveling salesmen and workers in the lobby of an inexpensive* hotel. They'd jeer and joke when the spokesman came on with his "bulletins" (planchetes).

Brazilians starting calling Neves "Chernenko brasileiro", which was perfect. The russkis actually succeeded in creating a "brand" of ridiculous non-credibility that was readily adopted by cultures elsewhere (in derision).

* $7/night for a decent room, breakfast (fresh baguette, fresh mango/honeydew/Amazon fruit, Brazilian coffee with hot milk) .... 2 blocks from a quiet beach with turqoise water - one reason a 6 week trip morphed into a 6 month trip

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2026 12:11 AM (U/Byj)

305 >>>Sydney Sweeny's 15 minutes is nearly up, she's not a good actress unfortunately.

You guys crack me up. She has a few decades of milfy goodness ahead of her, and you guys are already burying her.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 13, 2026 12:13 AM (dK+Kv)

306 Be glad you do not have my ewetub feed. It is nothing but stories of women saying horrifying things about their husbands, cheating on them, etc etc.

That and busty women. Busty women and warhammer. Busty women, warhammer, guns and science videos.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Y'know... they tend to recommend more of what you already watch, unless you turn your history off...

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 13, 2026 12:13 AM (anFBA)

307 >>I wouldn't kick her out for peddling her lingerie in bed.

She owns a '65 Mustang and works on it herself.

I saw her first.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 12:14 AM (viF8m)

308 She owns a '65 Mustang and works on it herself.

I saw her first.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 12:14 AM (viF8m)

I could show her an easy way to modify the front end to make it handle way better. Speaking of handling front ends...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 12:17 AM (1z8ji)

309 If your claim to fame is being sexy, cute in Hollywood, the trouble is that no one gets to do that for very long. In the old Hollywood days the choice was "marrying well" and mostly quitting Hollywood, or seeking the Mom, grandma, sidekick roles. When you're over 30, there's a nubile 22 year old wanting to take your job and will do it for less money.

Posted by: Sand Through Hourglass Figure at September 13, 2026 12:17 AM (Fn+3X)

310 She owns a '65 Mustang and works on it herself.

I saw her first.
Posted by: JackStraw
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I dont follow the famous crowd but she seems to not be publicly histrionic nor insufferable. And the eye catching stuff is pleasant.

Posted by: scampydog at September 13, 2026 12:19 AM (41CYW)

311 Hey FeatherBlade, unless I'm wrong (a specialty) you're a distaff cigar person. Burn anything interesting today? After a great swim at the university pool I settled for a favorite, the Undercrown Maduro. A box of these will be at the TXMoMe, FYI.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2026 12:19 AM (U/Byj)

312 288 Too bad the beavers couldnt pull it out over Texas tech. That was a great game. Until the last four minutes.

Oh well. Oregon and ohio state lost.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:53 PM (CbDvl)

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The Red Raiders only needed 4 minutes with the Beavers. The prior 56 were just foreplay.

Posted by: techsan at September 13, 2026 12:22 AM (uNveu)

313 Went to a store I've never visited after the pool because I needed sumac, a seasoning I use with kebab. Middle East flavor to the place (lots of halal stuff), but oddly, or maybe not since this is the 2nd store in town with this combo, a significant Russian/Slavic element too.

Great lamb? Fresh pita? This is your place. Russian tea cookies or instant coffee (imported from Russia), incredible kielbasa selection (domestic)? Also your place. WTF?

But they don't have a bakery like the other place, and there's no substitute for the fresh Persian flatbreads hot out of the oven (also amazing pomegranates and other produce). So even though it's closer - and half the customers were Russians, it's easy to tell - the other place gets the nod.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2026 12:23 AM (U/Byj)

314 The Google Pixel 6a phone, loaded with the Graphene OS continues to work well for me. No real complaints. Battery life is impressive.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 12:24 AM (1z8ji)

315 >>If your claim to fame is being sexy, cute in Hollywood, the trouble is that no one gets to do that for very long. In the old Hollywood days the choice was "marrying well" and mostly quitting Hollywood, or seeking the Mom, grandma, sidekick roles. When you're over 30, there's a nubile 22 year old wanting to take your job and will do it for less money.

I just asked Grok how much she's worth. $40 million is the best estimate. She isn't even 30 years old.

I think she'll be ok. Good for her.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 12:25 AM (viF8m)

316 Is TRex in Oklahoma? I heard there's a Wendy's that is offering their TRex burger, with 9 patties.

I'm not sure if he'd be there to eat one, or crying at people who order it for eating his relatives.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 13, 2026 12:26 AM (qx7Zg)

317 I just asked Grok how much she's worth. $40 million is the best estimate. She isn't even 30 years old.

I think she'll be ok. Good for her.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 12:25 AM (viF8m)

She could support me in the style to which I'd like to become accustomed.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 12:26 AM (1z8ji)

318 I just asked Grok how much she's worth. $40 million is the best estimate. She isn't even 30 years old.

I think she'll be ok. Good for her.
Posted by: JackStraw

Wow! $20 Million each! Hope they're insured.

Posted by: Betty Grable's Million Dollar Legs at September 13, 2026 12:28 AM (Fn+3X)

319 >>I dont follow the famous crowd but she seems to not be publicly histrionic nor insufferable. And the eye catching stuff is pleasant.

I heard her in some interview a while ago. She seemed like a pretty savvy young woman from a solid family who knew exactly what was going on. I like her.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2026 12:32 AM (viF8m)

320 The late games are blowouts. The Utes are having a successful pig hunt and crushing Arkansas. The zoomies are losing badly to a herd of Bison.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2026 12:35 AM (wBh67)

321 I couldn't pick Sweeney out of a line-up, but the so-what of that is that any line-up out of which I couldn't pick her would be one where I could be blindfolded and pick at random and be ..... OK.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2026 12:37 AM (U/Byj)

322 You guys crack me up. She has a few decades of milfy goodness ahead of her, and you guys are already burying her.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 13, 2026 12:13 AM (dK+Kv)

"We" are a mercurial bunch.

Posted by: ... at September 13, 2026 12:38 AM (vE0+H)

323 Four black bear pics on trail cameras tonight. One is a unit.

Posted by: scampydog at September 13, 2026 12:39 AM (41CYW)

324 Sweeney seems unable to be pushed or molded easily. Most people have a price - even billionaire Swift eventually couldn't resist the siren call of the Demonic Left - but they don't seem to have found SS's.

Posted by: ... at September 13, 2026 12:40 AM (vE0+H)

325 Happy Saturday Horde!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 13, 2026 12:48 AM (ibDUx)

326 Hi, Debby!

*Chivas for you*

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 12:48 AM (rdVOm)

327 Good actresses work forever pretty faces fade fast.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:49 AM (gpvQO)

328 @JackPosobiec
5h
Reddington’s wife appears to have deleted her account after she was exposed using it to intimidate jurors after her husband lost a high-profile triple murder case

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:59 AM (gpvQO)

329 I was compelled to drive the car around the block just now. Because it is International Drive Your Studebaker day. So I did. Here it is. With me, cunningly concealed by the windshield pillar:

https://tinyurl.com/3pdzu4dn

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:01 AM (1z8ji)

330 Good actresses work forever pretty faces fade fast.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:49 AM (gpvQO)

High-altitude rockets can stay up a long time.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:03 AM (1z8ji)

331 If you eat Sushi would you eat Salp?

https://tinyurl.com/bdf4mttt

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:09 AM (gpvQO)

332 If you eat Sushi would you eat Salp?

https://tinyurl.com/bdf4mttt

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:09 AM (gpvQO)

Nope. It's a bug.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:11 AM (1z8ji)

333 If you eat Sushi would you eat Salp?
https://tinyurl.com/bdf4mttt
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Not sure. Let someone else go first!

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 01:15 AM (rdVOm)

334 Oldie but a goodie:

Elon Musk@elonmusk - 26 Apr 2024

Replying to @wholemars
I’d like to apologize to Dustin Moskowitz for calling him a “retard”. That was wrong.

What I meant to say is that he is a pompous idiot whose his head is so far up his own ass that he is legally blind.

I wish him the best and hope that someday we can be friends.



there's not much out there folks

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:18 AM (gpvQO)

335 Salp looks like it would get tossed in the recycling bin on land.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 13, 2026 01:19 AM (ibDUx)

336 Salp looks like it would get tossed in the recycling bin on land.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 13, 2026 01:19 AM (ibDUx)

Looks like a condom that got soaked in white gas, and all swole up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:21 AM (1z8ji)

337 Dario Amodei@DarioAmodei

We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.

Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.

You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…

Elon Musk@elonmusk
Dario is right
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Laying odds the Senate is warming up the regulators.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:22 AM (gpvQO)

338 Well, I am starting to power out. Calling it a night. Later, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2026 01:28 AM (1z8ji)

339 Polymarket@Polymarket

Chinese reconnaissance satellite breaks apart in orbit, creating at least 43 pieces of space debris that could remain around Earth for “hundreds of years.
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@GordonGChang
Why would a satellite break apart in frictionless space?
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Science, sort of related to math isn't it?


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:31 AM (gpvQO)

340 Night AOP.

Thanks for the Chivas, JQ, I may lurk for a bit but I am feeling kind of tired.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 13, 2026 01:35 AM (ibDUx)

341 What a game! Finally home -- and exhausted-- from drinking and cheering and fretting Its Hard to imagine how the players must feel.

Posted by: LASue at September 13, 2026 01:38 AM (lCppi)

342 >>I may lurk for a bit but I am feeling kind of tired.
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Same here, Debby.

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 01:38 AM (rdVOm)

343 Thanks Disco and Dino!

I don't understand cocktails with ingredients like pineapple juice. Who has that? Do you buy a 52 oz bottle (my first Google result) and then make the same cocktail 34 times? My cocktails are all things I can scale based on juice from half a lemon/lime. Am I doing something wrong?


Posted by: frammish at September 13, 2026 01:52 AM (rcENI)

344 >> Why would a satellite break apart in frictionless space?

It went splodey. Could've been some of it's maneuvering propulsion or even batteries or something that blowed up good.

And it was in a retrograde orbit, and was likely some spy satellite.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 13, 2026 01:55 AM (w6EFb)

345 Watched the third episode (of nine) of the Saint Paisios miniseries. He is still a newborn.

His parents & grandmother remind me of a family I stayed with twenty-some years ago in Cyprus. Far better Christians than me. Prayed all the time with their many kids. Fasted every Wednesday and Friday, and on Saturdays before liturgy dinner was tomatoes, cucumbers, and feta. No "movie night and popcorn."

Posted by: frammish at September 13, 2026 01:56 AM (rcENI)

346 lost a high-profile triple murder case
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 12:59 AM (gpvQO)

He loves triple murder

Posted by: ... at September 13, 2026 01:56 AM (vE0+H)

347 Hi, frammish!

Bars buy the larger containers of pineapple juice and make many foo-foo drinks per night.

At home, it's easier to keep the small cans (6 oz?) handy for an occasional tropical drink.

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 01:57 AM (rdVOm)

348
The Chicoms do not give a shit about space junk or rocket safety during launches.

It wouldn't bother them for instance, if they launched some rocket with a path over a populated area and it blew up and crashed and killed people. They don't give a shit. At least for their own people.

They wouldn't give a shit otherwise, save the international fallout.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 13, 2026 02:02 AM (w6EFb)

349 @20kayleighmceny

Trump embarrasses Emmanuel Macron on the world stage:

Reporter: "Can you respond to Macron saying he will not join the board of peace?"

Trump: "Nobody wants him because he'll be out of office very soon."

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 02:05 AM (gpvQO)

350
When you're over 30, there's a nubile 22 year old wanting to take your job and will do it for less money.
Posted by: Sand Through Hourglass Figure

=================

And all of this will be moot within a few years. AI Girl will never disappoint you. Will not demand $10 million per picture. Will not need to be shadowed by a minder to make sure she doesn't say something stupid. Will not keep everyone waiting on this set for floor hours while she recovers from a bender.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 13, 2026 02:07 AM (mmrXZ)

351
*four

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at September 13, 2026 02:08 AM (mmrXZ)

352 Okay, I will buy one of the cans. :-) I guess it is good by itself too. That reminds me . . .

A friend I've known since 3rd grade invited me to a birthday party weekend next month. Actually the invitation was a month or two ago, and anyway, uh, it's always the same time every year.

He is the only person I've stayed in touch with for all those years. He wants to visit a famous tiki bar one of those nights. I've never really explored tiki drinks. Too complicated to make at home.

But I just got a jury summons! I've never believed in dodging jury duty (but I've never been selected either). I would be so sad to cancel on my friend. Maybe I can ask for a delay.

Posted by: frammish at September 13, 2026 02:09 AM (rcENI)

353 frammish since you brought up cocktails with lemon juice, I have to recommend the Sidecar to anyone with a lemon tree. Basically a margarita (for which it was probably the inspiration), subbing in lemon for lime, and cognac for tequila. Orange liquer/triple sec, ice, shake, into a chilled glass, voila. Very refreshing and good.

I have a meyer lemon tree, so mine might be a bit sweeter than using a typical Lisbon or Eureka, which are more acidic.

Anyway, in hot or warm weather, an easy simple and refreshing cocktail.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2026 02:09 AM (U/Byj)

354 Q MASTER POOL@QMasterPool1

This gal's got a handle on Trump and what he's doing.
Refreshing

https://tinyurl.com/76b26z34

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 02:13 AM (gpvQO)

355 Maybe I can ask for a delay.
Posted by: frammish

My county allows postponement.

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 02:14 AM (rdVOm)

356 354 Q MASTER POOL@QMasterPool1
whelp, scrolling further down she seems vulnerable to quick click rumor. Too bad she makes a good presentation.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 02:28 AM (gpvQO)

357 And it was in a retrograde orbit, and was likely some spy satellite.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Musk's Starlink satellite zapped it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 02:34 AM (gpvQO)

358 Seems like things are starting to happen inside Iran. A few days ago Tousi said that Pahlavi asked them to block the streets with their cars. All my life I've wondered why the French made barricades. Like what is the point? Here in Oregon, our DOT blocks traffic all the time. Google says it was to stop cavalry charges. I guess cramming a highway with cars also stops tanks and other military transport.

Posted by: frammish at September 13, 2026 02:34 AM (rcENI)

359 My oldest son is about to start a "dual enrollment" program so he can take most of his classes at the community college. His literature class will be homeschool though. It's focused on the 17th/18th centuries. So my wife and I were talking about assigning Les Miserables vs Tale of Two Cities. We're going to go with Dickens, but it was the first time I learned Les Mis isn't about the French Revolution. It's about the "June Rebellion," 43 years later. I've never heard of that. But I believe they are on their Fifth Republic already, so. . . .

Posted by: frammish at September 13, 2026 02:39 AM (rcENI)

360 In 2022 when gas prices went high rethugliKKKans gleefully put stickers on gas pumps burn biden not oil! If democrats like schumer and jefferies could get their heads out of aipacs butt and democrats weren't tofu eating snowflakes they could now put stickers on gas pumps burn trumpsters not oil!

Posted by: raimondo at September 13, 2026 02:41 AM (FPix9)

361 Rummages under kitchen sink.....I know I bought a fresh can of troll-b-gone....now where is it.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 13, 2026 02:58 AM (QGaXH)

362 Because Biden enriching himself and his cronies is totally the same thing as resisting apocalyptic fanatics who have sought our death for fifty years.

I remember in the early 2000s I would meet a friend once a week in Harvard Square to read the Iliad together: just a few pages at a time, in ancient Greek. One week he was very concerned that Bush was going to declare war on Iran. I didn't understand what he was worried about. I said I wished he would do it!

Posted by: frammish at September 13, 2026 03:05 AM (rcENI)

363 361 Rummages under kitchen sink.....I know I bought a fresh can of troll-b-gone....now where is it.....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 13, 2026 02:58 AM (QGaXH)

Probably don't need that for little ol' Rainmandodo. Maybe some Febreeze would do.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 13, 2026 03:05 AM (QSxSN)

364 Sweet dreams Horde, I actually dozed off in the chair for a minute or two.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 13, 2026 03:08 AM (ibDUx)

365 I went & washed dishes and now everyone is gone.

Ah, well... still have half a drink to finish...

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 03:24 AM (rdVOm)

366 365 I went & washed dishes and now everyone is gone.
Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2026 03:24 AM (rdVOm)

... or lurking.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 03:34 AM (odBC9)

367 Pixy's up at ai.mee.nu

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 03:38 AM (odBC9)

368 (lurking about)

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2026 03:54 AM (wBh67)

369 Hush you, the day walkers are still about.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 13, 2026 04:30 AM (Q/FnY)

370 We see you, Puddleglum!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

371 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2026 04:33 AM (odBC9)

372 Is this where the spot?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 08:45 AM (3oLMy)

Pre-Club Open Thread

Whelm yourselves in preparation for the Club which opens at 10pm Eastern Time

Posted by: Doof at 08:38 PM




Comments

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1 1

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 08:39 PM (eRlcH)

2
I never cease to amaze myself.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 08:40 PM (eRlcH)

3 Nooded, and my day is now 19 hours old. Good night, y'all.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 08:41 PM (NcvvS)

4 Whelmed beyond belief, there Doof.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 08:41 PM (yEz+x)

5 Oh, final note: Whelmed!

Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 08:42 PM (NcvvS)

6 @sentdefender
1h
In a first, Ukraine’s navy has announced and released footage of an engagement between two USVs. Per the release, a Ukrainian Sargan 3000, with a platformed .50 M2 Browning heavy machine gun, engaged and destroyed a Russia USV in the Black Sea.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:42 PM (gpvQO)

7 nurse, how's Lucy's tail?

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 08:42 PM (Sco7b)

8 Yeeeee Haaaawwwwwwww

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 12, 2026 08:42 PM (Q/FnY)

9 I never cease to amaze myself.
Posted by: Hadrian

Or us!
Totally whelmed.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 08:42 PM (NnhvP)

10 Whelmed here, boss.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 08:44 PM (zZu0s)

11 I could have been first but I was greasing the ol' tractor.

Posted by: Mr Haney at September 12, 2026 08:44 PM (MWfyi)

12 Video clip of Ma Deuce chewing on Russian remote boat.

https://tinyurl.com/2wu2sxs2

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:44 PM (gpvQO)

13 Amazing content.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026 08:44 PM (TlKpx)

14 Ever wonder if a lot of the Ukrainian footage is just advertisements for the oligarchs to sell drones?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 08:45 PM (zZu0s)

15
Amazing content.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026 08:44 PM (TlKpx)

__________

Laconically eloquent.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 08:45 PM (eRlcH)

16 Hey statelss,

Thanks for asking. The lump is now quite small and getting smaller. When it exploded it was the size of a ping pong ball, now smaller than a pea. No signs of tenderness or redness or warmth. Hopefully we are good to go!

She is such a sweet Fink.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 08:46 PM (yEz+x)

17 Uncanny content.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 08:46 PM (zZu0s)

18 "Amazing content.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit"

The volcano was unbelievable!

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:46 PM (MWfyi)

19 I could have been first but I was greasing the ol' tractor.
Posted by: Mr Haney

I didn't know what the cool kids were calling 'it' now!
Thanks.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 08:46 PM (NnhvP)

20 The volcano was unbelievable!
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:46 PM (MWfyi)

I thought the Sydney Sweeney halftime show was overdone.
-ace

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 08:47 PM (zZu0s)

21 C14 News | EN@c14english

Iraq is rushing to contain a major regional crisis after confirming that a drone attack shutting down a vital Saudi Arabian oil pipeline originated from Iraqi territory. Baghdad has fired a military commander and shut Iranian border crossings to launch an investigation.

With the wider Iran-U.S. war already destabilizing regional trade, Baghdad faces massive pressure to disarm local Iran-backed militias before a Sept 30 deadline - but Iran-backed Shia terror groups are refusing to comply.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:47 PM (gpvQO)

22 'Resident Evil' on in the background as I work. Damn, Milla Jovovich was beautiful. Incredible eyes. She's 50 now.

The movies are free on Tubi. There's a new one coming out that's supposed to be really good.

And AI is running stuff in the background....

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 08:47 PM (Sco7b)

23 Drone show was neat in person, seen bigger ones on YouTube but first seen live

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 08:49 PM (qEb4U)

24 22 'Resident Evil' on in the background as I work. Damn, Milla Jovovich was beautiful. Incredible eyes. She's 50 now.
---

Mind sees her in the Fifth Element.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:50 PM (gpvQO)

25 16 Hey statelss,

Thanks for asking. The lump is now quite small and getting smaller. When it exploded it was the size of a ping pong ball, now smaller than a pea. No signs of tenderness or redness or warmth. Hopefully we are good to go!

She is such a sweet Fink.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 08:46 PM (yEz+x)

Thanks for the update.

Thoughts were occasionally sent towards both of you and I was asking around.

AND GREAT NEWS ALL OF YOU!!!

TRILLIONS of American dollars are being spent on AI. TRILLIONS.

My script is almost done running and I am moving this towards profitability with my total API cost of......
$0.155869 American dollars.

The road to profitability is step by step....

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 08:51 PM (Sco7b)

26 I was so wrong. I thought the armed resistance by the Iranian people would start in Mashhad. It has started in Southern Iran.

Pezeshkian is crying that PDT is attacking civilians by cutting off their food, water , medicine and electricity. All the borders around Iran are closed.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 08:52 PM (E0Et6)

27 Although I did like the commercial for the F950 Earthfucker.

Almost brought a tear to my eye...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 08:52 PM (zZu0s)

28 my total API cost of......
$0.155869 American dollars.

The road to profitability is step by step....

Posted by: Stateless
---

You never know, keep on truckin'.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:52 PM (gpvQO)

29 It has started in Southern Iran.
---

Think they have farms up north.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:55 PM (gpvQO)

30 And AI is running stuff in the background....

Same here, convert all of the XML serializers from document based to forward cursor streaming only. Should allow me to stream massive SOAP envelopes without the GC overhead.

I can't imagine how many days it would take to do this by hand.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 08:57 PM (+4Cf6)

31 *slides down bannister*

Hi there!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 08:59 PM (kpS4V)

32 It has started in Southern Iran.
---

Think they have farms up north.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:55 PM (gpvQO)

Near Macedonia?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 08:59 PM (dK+Kv)

33 @sentdefender
9h
More information about the Internationally Recognized Government (IRG)/IRG-aligned force’s offensive against the Houthis to the south, that ultimately, culminated in failure. According to CNN, citing a number of officials and sources with knowledge on the matter, the Saudis failed to embed key enablers, such as JTACs and FSOs (rightly mentioned by @WeaponScientist) with IRG/IRG-aligned forces during their offensive.

This enabled the Houthis to make considerable gains, due to the absence of Saudi airstrikes, during counteroffensive operations, that ultimately led to the capture of the key port city of Mocha and islands from which they can exercise control over the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:02 PM (gpvQO)

34 If its not serious it won't work, the Mullahs will murder anyone that tries to take them over

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:04 PM (qEb4U)

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at September 12, 2026 09:04 PM (88C+u)

36 31 *slides down bannister*

in a tutu?

Posted by: and i am a living sign at September 12, 2026 09:05 PM (88C+u)

37 Preparing for Club ONT-- I think I need to do some stretches first. Okay, where's thst yoga mat?

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 09:05 PM (PMi3m)

38 I was expecting a movie thread, and I finally have a movie related post. We watched "Train Dreams" on Netflix last night. I enjoyed the story, but what really caught me was the cinematography. Every shot is just perfect in terms of color, lighting, framing, etc. Worth a watch if you're in the mood for something contemplative.

Posted by: Satan, Prince of Darkness, Esq. at September 12, 2026 09:06 PM (LnCz0)

39 Off, Satanic sock.

Posted by: PabloD at September 12, 2026 09:06 PM (LnCz0)

40 Near Macedonia?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
---

Caldonia, what makes your big head so hard?

youtu.be/wZ_aCGKP7Gs?t=25

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:06 PM (gpvQO)

41 Wild watching Cornyn let his freak flag fly.


>>@JohnCornyn

>>The extremes of both parties—Republicans’ MAGA wing represented by JD Vance and the progressive left represented by Zohran Mamdani—have drawn closer to each other,
@greg_ip
writes

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:07 PM (viF8m)

42 18 The volcano was unbelievable!
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:46 PM (MWfyi)

Are you calling it a liar?

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 09:07 PM (PMi3m)

43 Skip, it's deadly serious this time.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 09:09 PM (E0Et6)

44 On what rational planet are the Houthis able to "make significant gains"?

These are 3rd century retards with guns. Can't we turn them into pink mist and just move on with our lives? How is this difficult?

Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:09 PM (oqH4h)

45
I think I need to do some stretches first.

__________

OWWWWWW!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:09 PM (eRlcH)

46 >>>JD Vance and the progressive left represented by Zohran Mamdani—have drawn closer to each other,
---

Cage match?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:09 PM (gpvQO)

47 Republicans’ MAGA wing

That's the "make America great again" wing. Cornyn doesn't want America to be great. He wants a dying camel on whose corpse he can feast.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 09:10 PM (88C+u)

48 44 On what rational planet are the Houthis able to "make significant gains"?

These are 3rd century retards with guns. Can't we turn them into pink mist and just move on with our lives? How is this difficult?

Posted by: ballistic
---

Spins magic wheel. ... > The answer is the Saudis didn't show up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:11 PM (gpvQO)

49 Those hackfrauds at Red Letter Media (whom I love) had the gall to diss "Mystery Men", a favorite. They did not recognize it for the glorious riff on Joel Schumacher Batman films that it was.

It's the closest to an actual Flaming Carrot movie that I'm likely to get.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 09:11 PM (kpS4V)

50 John Cornyn is a pussyhurt crybaby loser who is lashing out at everyone when Texans finally got enough of him selling us out at every turn like the soycuck he is. Dude can eat a mile of dicks and ask for seconds.

Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:11 PM (oqH4h)

51 Evening, Horde. I did hobby-related stuff today. Slapped the last fiberglass patches (I think, LOL) on the main body tube for the dune buggy, and bolted the spacer girdle to the bottom of the body with a whole bunch of 5/16" bolts. Then I flipped it over, and drove Tek screws in between each pair of bolts. A whole bunch of them. Then removed all the bolts. And everything stayed put! No ominous crackling of fiberglass, or heads of screws pulling through from the tension. Woot! Now the body is sitting on the floor pan. No bolts in yet; that's on the agenda for tomorrow.

And I got the ditches mowed, and a bunch of tidying/sorting done in the shop, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:11 PM (1z8ji)

52 The whelming.
So much whelming.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:12 PM (2Ez/1)

53 So it's not a movie thread, and it's not a music thread...

Posted by: Savage Henry at September 12, 2026 09:13 PM (ZxPkt)

54 Tucker Carlson has endorsed El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate race.

Hate to admit I was once a Sucker for Tucker.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 12, 2026 09:13 PM (3ImbR)

55 Amazing content.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026 08:44 PM (TlKpx)

Only the best for you Hordelings!

Posted by: Doof at September 12, 2026 09:13 PM (QMAsf)

56 Spins magic wheel. ... > The answer is the Saudis didn't show up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:11 PM (gpvQO)
-----

Nobody should expect them to. When I said "we" I meant the united states. Tell the Saudis to hold tight while we get some time on target and be done with it.

Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:13 PM (oqH4h)

57 Dude can eat a mile of dicks and ask for seconds.
Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:11 PM (oqH4h)

Every time Cornyn sought a donation from an actual conservative, or a vote, he felt dirty. He resented every moment he had to beg a favor from us.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 09:13 PM (88C+u)

58 *slides down bannister*

Hi there!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 08:59 PM (kpS4V)

You are supposed to use your fan to waft the smoke away from the friction zone, you know.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:14 PM (1z8ji)

59 Either Ohio state is really good or Texas sucks ass.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 09:14 PM (yEz+x)

60 Thanks for the early prep scene, Doof.
Probably involved in compiling some awesome 80s rock vids, including some Dokken (It’s not love), some XYZ (Nice Day to Die, Inside Out, or perhaps, What keeps me Loving You).
Or even the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame George Harrison number, “While my Guitar Gently Weeps”
with Prince, totally shredding on guitar, awesome Harrison’s kid.

Posted by: Gunslinger at September 12, 2026 09:15 PM (N91F8)

61 Completed day one of a Wilderness First Aid today.
Celebrated with pizza.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:15 PM (2Ez/1)

62 30 And AI is running stuff in the background....

Same here, convert all of the XML serializers from document based to forward cursor streaming only. Should allow me to stream massive SOAP envelopes without the GC overhead.

I can't imagine how many days it would take to do this by hand.
Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 08:57 PM (+4Cf6)

My stuff's not nearly that advanced.

But what I'm working on would take me years on my own or just using search.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 09:15 PM (Sco7b)

63
So it's not a movie thread, and it's not a music thread...
Posted by: Savage Henry at September 12, 2026 09:13 PM (ZxPkt)

___________

It's a thread thread. Strong. Refined. Stripped to its essentials. The hard residue. No fluff. No distractions.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:15 PM (eRlcH)

64 You are supposed to use your fan to waft the smoke away from the friction zone, you know.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:14 PM (1z8ji)
----

Sidesaddle baby!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 09:16 PM (kpS4V)

65
*slides down bannister*

Hi there!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 08:59 PM (kpS4V)

_________

No splinters. You're lucky.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:16 PM (eRlcH)

66 Taking a break from cooking...

This is thoroughly whelming. Thanks, Doof!

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 09:17 PM (rdVOm)

67 These are 3rd century retards with guns. Can't we turn them into pink mist and just move on with our lives? How is this difficult?
Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:09 PM (oqH4h)

Gas or germs. Fuck 'em. America needs to build that Flying Crowbar (Project Pluto), and just send the damn thing on an endless loop cruise over Houthi country. No need to spew out A-bombs hither and yon. Just blast them with radiation.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:18 PM (1z8ji)

68 That yoga mat is better at hide and seek thsn I expected. Hmmm-- maybe I should check Fibber McGee's closet.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 09:19 PM (PMi3m)

69 41 Wild watching Cornyn let his freak flag fly.


>>@JohnCornyn

>>The extremes of both parties—Republicans’ MAGA wing represented by JD Vance and the progressive left represented by Zohran Mamdani—have drawn closer to each other,
@greg_ip
writes
Posted by: JackStraw


Thanks, John, for reminding everyone what an impotent ponce you are.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 09:19 PM (wBh67)

70 Either Ohio state is really good or Texas sucks ass.
Posted by: nurse ratched

How about both.

Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:19 PM (lJ0H4)

71 >It's a thread thread. Strong. Refined. Stripped to its essentials. The hard residue. No fluff. No distractions.
------

It's leather-bound books and rich mahogany

Posted by: Savage Henry at September 12, 2026 09:19 PM (ZxPkt)

72 I whelmed my thumb on the slide release of my XD45. Can't use a thumbs-high grip on that thing, should have remembered that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:20 PM (xcxpd)

73 To be fair, Cornyn probably thinks W is far right.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:20 PM (viF8m)

74 53 So it's not a movie thread, and it's not a music thread...
Posted by: Savage Henry at September 12, 2026 09:13 PM (ZxPkt)

Must be a boob thread.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 09:20 PM (PMi3m)

75 Arch Manning is NOT whelming. Seems like his name gor him where he is. Certainly isn’t showing much in the pocket.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 09:20 PM (yEz+x)

76 This is thoroughly whelming. Thanks, Doof!
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 09:17 PM (rdVOm)

Go pour yourself a drink from the Club bar - my treat!

Posted by: Doof at September 12, 2026 09:21 PM (QMAsf)

77 speaking of sucking ass, the Colorado Rockies are now in their divinely-appointed place in the MLB rankings. 0.372, after losing to something called the Detroit Tigers (apparently, Detroit does have a baseball team, they should switch to cricket).

Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 09:22 PM (88C+u)

78 Go pour yourself a drink from the Club bar - my treat!
Posted by: Doof

Why, thank you! Don't mind if I do!

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 09:22 PM (rdVOm)

79 49 Those hackfrauds at Red Letter Media (whom I love) had the gall to diss "Mystery Men", a favorite. They did not recognize it for the glorious riff on Joel Schumacher Batman films that it was.

It's the closest to an actual Flaming Carrot movie that I'm likely to get.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 09:11 PM (kpS4V)

They really are hack frauds, they don't know very much but they get credit for being the first into long-form movie discussions.

I actually think Jay might be the smartest of the bunch, never thought I'd say that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:23 PM (xcxpd)

80 I've found the perfect way to watch football. Turn the sound off. So much more enjoyable when you don't have to listen to commentators yapping.

Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:23 PM (lJ0H4)

81 -----

Nobody should expect them to. When I said "we" I meant the united states. Tell the Saudis to hold tight while we get some time on target and be done with it.

Posted by: ballistic
---

I think 'we' are not going to put our twinkle toes on the ground.
However 'we' will tell the Saudis it' time to man up.
At which time the Saudis will hire mercenaries to do their job.
Because Saudis don't work.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:23 PM (gpvQO)

82 American League West meanwhile is the Texan League. Astros and Rangers are vying for who can whelm their fans most, in the 0.5 range.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 09:24 PM (88C+u)

83 Texas receivers can't catch a beach ball. Manning has made some really good passes but the receivers drop them.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 09:24 PM (wBh67)

84 Either Ohio state is really good or Texas sucks ass.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 09:14 PM (yEz+x)

Yes

Posted by: MAC V SOG at September 12, 2026 09:25 PM (P4Pk9)

85 Yo! Feeling very whelmed, almost excessively so.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 12, 2026 09:25 PM (aJQbY)

86 Texas sucks and Ohio St. is good.
Michigan won fair and square.

Posted by: Accomack at September 12, 2026 09:25 PM (8jVAy)

87 83 Texas receivers can't catch a beach ball. Manning has made some really good passes but the receivers drop them.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 09:24 PM (wBh67)

Fear of the undead is a powerful debuff

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:25 PM (xcxpd)

88 73 To be fair, Cornyn probably thinks W is far right.

Cornyn sets a high bar for POShittery.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:26 PM (gpvQO)

89 Boots on the ground? No...but we sure knocked Iran's dick into the dirt without doing that, so why are we mucking about with some less-sophisticated sand people? Let the aircraft make pink mist and move along.

Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:26 PM (oqH4h)

90 80 I've found the perfect way to watch football. Turn the sound off. So much more enjoyable when you don't have to listen to commentators yapping.
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:23 PM

Nothing beats the radio call.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:27 PM (2Ez/1)

91 Granted, it was against FAMU. But Miami has one hell of an offense.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:28 PM (viF8m)

92 Michigan won fair and square.
Posted by: Accomack at September 12, 2026 09:25 PM

Got a second?

Posted by: Nick Saban at September 12, 2026 09:28 PM (2Ez/1)

93 89 Boots on the ground? No...but we sure knocked Iran's dick into the dirt without doing that, so why are we mucking about with some less-sophisticated sand people? Let the aircraft make pink mist and move along.

Posted by: ballistic
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Saudis must learn to take care of themselves. Trump may be their daddy but he's not going to be their baby sitter.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:29 PM (gpvQO)

94
Soooo, let's look at some of today's NCAAF scores:

Houston, 63 - Southern, 0 (3Q!)
Florida, 52 - Campbell, 3
New Mexico, 70 - Mercyhurst, 0
Notre Dame, 52 - Rice, 0
Georgia, 70 - Western Kentucky, 10
James Madison, 87 - Wagner, 3

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:29 PM (eRlcH)

95 My wife helped me pick a row of concord and Thompson grapes today, and I wound up pressing and canning 7 gallons (28 quarts) of grape juice. Then it started raining.
The good news is that the new ratchet press works very good with a liner in it to keep the grapes from squirting through the staves. The bad news is that I still have to figure out a way to pre-crush the grapes since I had uncrushed grapes left when I cleaned the press out.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 09:29 PM (rbvCR)

96 PDT gave the Saudis a reality check. How's that Saudi. Turkey and Pakistan pact working out guys?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 09:30 PM (E0Et6)

97 Okay, that yoga mat is nowhere to be found. It's times like this I regret my decision to modernize from the luxurious shag carpet thst once adorned my den.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 09:30 PM (PMi3m)

98 I think 'we' are not going to put our twinkle toes on the ground.
However 'we' will tell the Saudis it' time to man up.
At which time the Saudis will hire mercenaries to do their job.
Because Saudis don't work.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:23 PM (gpvQO)

There is a way around that, and the Soviets and Cubans did it all the time. Allow serving members of the military to take indefinite leave if they volunteer to become mercenaries for "approved" client States. Military pay stops for the duration, of course. But a bonus could be paid to those who return alive and well. Key takeaway? No soldier has been ordered to go fight in that conflict. If they die there, it's sad, but they knew the risks, but volunteered for the big bucks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:30 PM (1z8ji)

99 Nothing beats the radio call.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:27 PM (2Ez/1)

I knew a guy who would watch a game on TV with the sound off, and the radio on to the same game

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 09:31 PM (rbvCR)

100 94
Soooo, let's look at some of today's NCAAF scores:

Houston, 63 - Southern, 0 (3Q!)
Florida, 52 - Campbell, 3
New Mexico, 70 - Mercyhurst, 0
Notre Dame, 52 - Rice, 0
Georgia, 70 - Western Kentucky, 10
James Madison, 87 - Wagner, 3
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh


Most big schools are still playing pre-season games.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 09:31 PM (wBh67)

101 Anyone here grow hops for beer at small scale for a hobby? Good or bad experience?

Posted by: TRex - hoppy dino at September 12, 2026 09:31 PM (XfIK1)

102 99 Nothing beats the radio call.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:27 PM (2Ez/1)

I knew a guy who would watch a game on TV with the sound off, and the radio on to the same game
Posted by: Kindltot


My late grandfather did that.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 09:32 PM (wBh67)

103 Home again, thinking of a night cap

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:32 PM (Ia/+0)

104 There is a way around that, and the Soviets and Cubans did it all the time. Allow serving members of the military to take indefinite leave if they volunteer to become mercenaries for "approved" client States.

There's talk the US did this too in Central America in the 1980s.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 12, 2026 09:33 PM (88C+u)

105 I have football on the tele muted and baseball on the radio.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 09:33 PM (9zk+V)

106 I knew a guy who would watch a game on TV with the sound off, and the radio on to the same game
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 09:31 PM

If the timing works it's the best arrangement.

Radio talent is so much better than TV.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:33 PM (2Ez/1)

107
Nothing beats the radio call.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:27 PM (2Ez/1)

__________

Rod Bramblett, 2013 Iron Bowl

https://youtu.be/EWiuejtLXt0

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:34 PM (eRlcH)

108 War Eagle!

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 09:34 PM (2Ez/1)

109 Anyone here grow hops for beer at small scale for a hobby? Good or bad experience?
Posted by: TRex - hoppy dino at September 12, 2026 09:31 PM (XfIK1)

I remember having a hop vine grow at the family home when I was a very young Peon. Basically an attractive weed. I don't think they are hard to grow.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:34 PM (1z8ji)

110 101 Anyone here grow hops for beer at small scale for a hobby? Good or bad experience?
Posted by: TRex - hoppy dino at September 12, 2026 09:31 PM (XfIK1)
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Researched this when I was into homebrewing and came to the conclusion that trying to do so at a scale and quality to even support my own efforts would be way more trouble than its worth. Also very toxic to dogs which was a no-go for my personal situation.

Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:35 PM (oqH4h)

111 Must be a boob thread.
Posted by: tankdemon

Viola!
I give you Joan Lucille Olander
https://bit.ly/mamie-van-doren

Posted by: mindful webworker - u axed 4 it at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (k0Y0k)

112 Anyone here grow hops for beer at small scale for a hobby? Good or bad experience?
Posted by: TRex - hoppy dino at September 12, 2026 09:31 PM (XfIK1)

I knew people who did. Hops are stupid easy to grow and it is a question if you want to grow tall vines or lots of short ones. I think the question is how to dry them for storage.
Locally the farmers used forced air heat in large barns to dry the flowers on racks. You might hang the vines to dry in your garage if it is heated and dry.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (rbvCR)

113 Know what else is an attractive weed that's not hard to grow?

Posted by: Shifty eyes at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (2Ez/1)

114 So, TJM's too much of a YouTube star to bother with us peasants?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (CHHv1)

115 Thought he was taking a break after Dallas.
Silly thought.
Trump in Ireland; 2 minutes.

“We took out 5,000 HARD CRIMINALS from Washington, D.C.
They came in through the OPEN BORDER.
No checking. No vetting. Nothing.
They murdered people.
We weren’t nice about it. We got them the hell out.”
2% of the people create 91% of the crime.
Then he looked at Europe:
“You’re just killing yourselves with immigration.”

https://tinyurl.com/4epmkr68

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (gpvQO)

116 Ernie Harwell....RIP

LOL - The Toronto Blue Jays banned the unjabbed from the stadium. Last year's heartbreaking loss was fantastic.

This year, Vladdy, who they signed to about a $500 million contract hasn't hit a home run IN TORONTO in over a year. He only has 8 this year.

We don't deserve nice things.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (Sco7b)

117 Be glad when he sends ICE around here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (gpvQO)

118 The bad news is that I still have to figure out a way to pre-crush the grapes since I had uncrushed grapes left when I cleaned the press out.
Posted by: Kindltot

Old laundry clothes press?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (NnhvP)

119 I looked at what growing hops once for curiosity, its not a easy crop seemed to me.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (Ia/+0)

120 often times the TV broadcast and the radio broadcast are not in sync, time-wise

TV usually on a delay

my experience, anyway

Posted by: Savage Henry at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (ZxPkt)

121 Today's wildlife encounter: was riding the golf cart down the yard to the parts storage bus to put a Studebaker manifold back into storage. There was a Great Horned Owl roosting on top of the bus. It took off and flew to another roost. I followed it, twice. Must have pissed it off.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (1z8ji)

122 I just saw an ad from the SEC asking congress to make eligibility rules for the NCAA.

WTF. Congress?

The NCAA needs to make its own rules and enforce them.

Congress?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (yEz+x)

123 Know what else is an attractive weed that's not hard to grow?
Posted by: Shifty eyes at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (2Ez/1)

Amaranth

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (rbvCR)

124 Also very toxic to dogs which was a no-go for my personal situation.

Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:35 PM
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Wow. Never knew that.

Posted by: TRex - doggy dino at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (XfIK1)

125 123 Know what else is an attractive weed that's not hard to grow?
Posted by: Shifty eyes at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (2Ez/1)

Amaranth
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (rbvCR)

Also great ASMR

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (xcxpd)

126 Beckoning Chasm was wondering same thing

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:38 PM (Ia/+0)

127 Considering James Madison was a I-Aa schiol hust a few years ago, their recent success is a bit sutprising.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 09:39 PM (PMi3m)

128 Anyone here grow hops for beer at small scale for a hobby? Good or bad experience?
Posted by: TRex

Just start with a good strain.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 09:39 PM (NnhvP)

129 Eugene Hasenfus was a pilot involved in a CIA-backed operation to supply weapons to Contra rebels in Nicaragua during the Reagan administration. He became a key figure in the Iran-Contra affair after his plane was shot down in 1986, leading to revelations about U.S. government involvement in the operation.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:39 PM (gpvQO)

130 Kindltot, a barrel and clean feet. The old ways are the best.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 09:40 PM (E0Et6)

131 Excellent whelm, Doof. I had dialysis today so whelm is all I can handle this evening.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at September 12, 2026 09:40 PM (DK5Sh)

132 Also, Brigitte WHO? AI Narrators are stupid.

https://youtu.be/Io7DWgDRJA8

Posted by: mindful webworker - bar DOT? at September 12, 2026 09:40 PM (k0Y0k)

133 114 So, TJM's too much of a YouTube star to bother with us peasants?
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (CHHv1)

I think he's doing family stuff this weekend.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:40 PM (xcxpd)

134 Anyone here grow hops for beer at small scale for a hobby? Good or bad experience?
Posted by: TRex

How many gallons is your mash tun and boil pot?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 09:41 PM (NnhvP)

135
Know what else is an attractive weed that's not hard to grow?
Posted by: Shifty eyes

Dandelion

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 09:41 PM (Cqx++)

136 Viola!
I give you Joan Lucille Olander
https://bit.ly/mamie-van-doren

It lifts AND separates.
Cross your heart.

Posted by: Playtex at September 12, 2026 09:41 PM (2Ez/1)

137 128 Anyone here grow hops for beer at small scale for a hobby? Good or bad experience?
Posted by: TRex

Just start with a good strain.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 09:39 PM (NnhvP)

My favorite Strain was Julie

RIP

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:41 PM (xcxpd)

138 Let the Saudis hire Indians (they like to fight) or Mexicans (they like to fight), there a many other people, Canadians are good fighters, to hire other than Americans.

We need our guys to stay home and make babies.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:41 PM (gpvQO)

139 111 Must be a boob thread.
Posted by: tankdemon

Viola!
I give you Joan Lucille Olander
https://bit.ly/mamie-van-doren
Posted by: mindful webworker - u axed 4 it at September 12, 2026 09:36 PM (k0Y0k)

I happily accept your generous offer.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 09:42 PM (PMi3m)

140 This year, Vladdy, who they signed to about a $500 million contract hasn't hit a home run IN TORONTO in over a year. He only has 8 this year.

We don't deserve nice things.
Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (Sco7b)

I often see Jays games when I go to the Elnora Hotel for Wednesday Wing Nite. He is a classy player. Always seems to have a joke or a kind word for the opposing runner at first base.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:43 PM (1z8ji)

141 91 Granted, it was against FAMU. But Miami has one hell of an offense.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:28 PM (viF8m)

Top tier cheerleader trim too

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:44 PM (xcxpd)

142 116 Ernie Harwell....RIP
Posted by: Stateless

George Kell, too. Best baseball play by play team ever.

Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 09:44 PM (Y8DZL)

143 Poppies?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:44 PM (gpvQO)

144 This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Kudzu at September 12, 2026 09:45 PM (2Ez/1)

145 Caldonia, what makes your big head so hard?

youtu.be/wZ_aCGKP7Gs?t=25

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:06 PM (gpvQO)

Sydney Sweeney, mostly.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 09:45 PM (dK+Kv)

146
Top tier cheerleader trim too
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2026 09:44 PM (xcxpd)

_________

Southern girls. Yum.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:45 PM (eRlcH)

147 When is Michigan going to play a road game?
No gas money?

Posted by: Case at September 12, 2026 09:46 PM (xJpuh)

148 Wild watching Cornyn let his freak flag fly.

>>@JohnCornyn

>>The extremes of both parties—Republicans’ MAGA wing represented by JD Vance and the progressive left represented by Zohran Mamdani—have drawn closer to each other,
@greg_ip
writes

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:07 PM (viF8m)

Does he think he's speaking to leftist NPCs?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 09:46 PM (dK+Kv)

149 Does he think
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 09:46 PM (dK+Kv)
----
no

Posted by: ballistic at September 12, 2026 09:47 PM (oqH4h)

150 John Cornyn. Who?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 09:48 PM (E0Et6)

151 >>Top tier cheerleader trim too

It is Miami.

Just wave something shiny.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:49 PM (viF8m)

152 Old laundry clothes press?
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (NnhvP)

They make cane presses like that, they are called Trapiche in Spanish. The wineries use a sort of pugmill to pre-crush the grapes, but that is more than what I want. I could run it through a garbage disposal but that grinds up the stems as well, which alters the taste of the juice.

I am going to have to make some drawings.

I wonder if I could build some sort of rotary device like a Foley food mill I use to strain apple sauce

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 09:49 PM (rbvCR)

153 There were a few farmers in Western NY that grew hops. Pretty cool. Tall vines 20'+. The one was a preferred grower for Southern Tier Brewing.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 09:49 PM (h06De)

154 HERO -- This is an American Badass: The Inspector Who Sent the 20th Hijacker Home

Jose Melendez-Perez did his job. On August 4, 2001, that took courage.

--- Mohammed al-Qahtani, a 26-year-old Saudi. ---

Another inspector warned Melendez-Perez he would get in trouble for turning a Saudi away. Melendez-Perez said he could not do the work with dignity if nationality decided who got in. He refused him entry anyway.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:50 PM (gpvQO)

155
Elder statesmen lawyer-type Senators are a thing of the past, soon.

Gonzo beats gravitas going forward.

Cornyn should have seen that coming

Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 09:51 PM (Y8DZL)

156 I think hops is grown in Germany in Mountains so probably a cooler areas

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:51 PM (Ia/+0)

157 Does he think he's speaking to leftist NPCs?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
---

He woke up the somnambulists with his gun control crap.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:52 PM (gpvQO)

158 Yakima , WA is one of the world’s top producers of hops.

Whole town smells like a brewery in late sept, early Oct.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 09:53 PM (yEz+x)

159 I often see Jays games when I go to the Elnora Hotel for Wednesday Wing Nite. He is a classy player. Always seems to have a joke or a kind word for the opposing runner at first base.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:43 PM (1z8ji)

I know. And I hope he has a great career. I have nothing against him.
But if he's gone this long without a homer, you may as well go the full year.

Like the one year the Detroit Lions were horrible even for them. 0-16. Amazing.

1-15. So what.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 09:54 PM (Sco7b)

160 Know what else is an attractive weed that's not hard to grow?
Posted by: Shifty eyes

If I correctly recall my readings from "underground" literature of over half a century ago, hops and hemp are the only known relatives of one another (like pandas and raccoons).

I wondered, if you could cross them (probably by grafting), if you could make a beer with happy weed potency. Never got around to trying.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Jamaican Red Stripe at September 12, 2026 09:54 PM (k0Y0k)

161 No soldier has been ordered to go fight in that conflict. If they die there, it's sad, but they knew the risks, but volunteered for the big bucks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 09:30 PM (1z8ji)

The only thing worse that being world police is world mercenary force with no air assets, no tomahawks, no sat/drone support. No like.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 09:54 PM (dK+Kv)

162 soon, Cornyn too shall pass

Posted by: a fart in the wind at September 12, 2026 09:55 PM (88C+u)

163 DDG Search Assistant

The Immigration Act of 1990 marked a pivotal change in U.S. immigration policy, focusing on both family and employment-based immigration while also addressing humanitarian concerns.

Introduced by Senator Ted Kennedy in 1989.
Passed the Senate and House with significant bipartisan support.
Signed into law by President George H. W. Bush.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:57 PM (gpvQO)

164 Yakima , WA is one of the world’s top producers of hops.

Whole town smells like a brewery in late sept, early Oct.
Posted by: nurse ratched

This not actually a problem for normal adults.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 09:58 PM (NnhvP)

165 Liam Out Loud on what we have been dealing with from the left.
https://tinyurl.com/3nj78ry5

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at September 12, 2026 09:58 PM (ZFutt)

166 161 No soldier has been ordered to go fight in that conflict. If they die there, it's sad, but they knew the risks, but volunteered for the big bucks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
---

Saudis bombed the Towers. We are not going to bleed for them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:59 PM (gpvQO)

167 Thought he was taking a break after Dallas.
Silly thought.
Trump in Ireland; 2 minutes.

“We took out 5,000 HARD CRIMINALS from Washington, D.C.
They came in through the OPEN BORDER.
No checking. No vetting. Nothing.
They murdered people.
We weren’t nice about it. We got them the hell out.”
2% of the people create 91% of the crime.
Then he looked at Europe:
“You’re just killing yourselves with immigration.”

https://tinyurl.com/4epmkr68

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:37 PM (gpvQO)

Love that man. No homo.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 12, 2026 10:00 PM (dK+Kv)

168 One more look aroind for thst yoga mat-- did I leave it in the back of the station wagon?

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2026 10:00 PM (PMi3m)

169 NOOD
ONT

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (Sco7b)

170 ONT IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 10:01 PM (Ia/+0)

171 To be fair, Cornyn probably thinks W is far right.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:20 PM (viF8m)

He thinks no such thing. He’s just in it for himself, and we got in the way.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026 10:02 PM (TlKpx)

172 Kindltot, a barrel and clean feet. The old ways are the best.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 09:40 PM (E0Et6)

There are videos out there of traditional Spanish wine pressing festivals with that sort of thing.

I have been using my hands to squish the grapes in a five gallon bucket. It was all I needed with the old hand-made press, but I have a ratchet press now that takes 15 gallons of fruit at a time, so I need higher throughput, and I don't have a crowd of drunken Spaniards at my beck and call to stomp grapes for me!

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 10:06 PM (rbvCR)

173 You would think Texas could buy better players.

Posted by: Case at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (xJpuh)

174 Saudis bombed the Towers. We are not going to bleed for them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 09:59 PM (gpvQO)

Well, I think, but am not certain, that current leader, Mohammed Bin Salman, is a lot more sane than his predecessor. He has had a few jihadis taken out.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 10:09 PM (1z8ji)

175 Yakima , WA is one of the world’s top producers of hops.

Whole town smells like a brewery in late sept, early Oct.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 09:53 PM (yEz+x)


Mount Angel, Brooks and Independence all have lots of hop yards.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 10:11 PM (rbvCR)

176 Anyone here grow hops for beer at small scale for a hobby? Good or bad experience?
Posted by: TRex
-------

*Raises paw*

Wish I could share pics and data, but alas, me old computer died before I backed it up...

Grew them in cube-shaped planters that hubby built from leftover cedar boards. 2x2x2ft, and filled with 1:1 mixture of Miracle-Gro plotting soil and Kellogg's Soil Amendment (cheap for 3cu ft bags!), then 1/3 bag of bagged compost for each planter. Ordered rhizomes online and planted in early March.

Check your county extension website for recommended varieties, planting times and general care. They're not difficult!

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 10:16 PM (rdVOm)

177 if you want to defeat islam start planting kudzu or multiflora rose near the mosque

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 12, 2026 10:35 PM (jrgJz)

Hobby Thread - September 12, 2026 [TRex]

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Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. For this week, the Wheel of Hobbies (TM) is feeling lucky and decided on a farm tractor theme for this Hobby Thread.

A farm tractor theme? Yep. Let's get tractoring!

[Top photo: John Deere Model 80, Canfield Ohio Fair]

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Vintage farm equipment is a huge hobby. Lots of people have a vintage tractor, collect vintage equipment and restore projects. Is it the pull of nostalgia? The pull of machines? The pull of farming and the feeling of being self-sufficient and productive?

Many Fourth of July parades feature tractors. Many county fairs feature antique farm tractors. There are events dedicated exclusively to farm and construction equipment where static displays witness active demonstrations. There is an annual event known as Classic Green dedicated solely to John Deere equipment and memorabilia.

If you grew up on a farm, chances are good that you learned to drive on a tractor before a car. Chances are also good that you remember exactly what kind of tractor (or tractors) your family had.

The sheer quantity of tractor rescue and restoration content on YouTube is a testament to the deep vein of interest. (Bulldozer and other heavy equipment rescue and restoration is similar.) Many videos have the same storyline of "sitting for years, can we get it to run???" Some are more or less polished than others. Some feel like more clickbait/artificial drama than others. (We better understand the incentives and importance of the thumbnails after our recent look into YouTube creator economics.)

Are you wise in the ways of farm tractors? Do you have one (or more)? If not, would you like a tractor in your garage? Have you restored a tractor? Are you inclined towards heavy equipment in general? Are you into tractor pulls?

What's your brand of choice? Farmall/International Harvester? Case? Steiger? Allis-Chalmers? Ford? Oliver? MF? (farmer people know MF is Massey Furguson rather than a common profanity)

If you're inclined towards steam engines, please weigh in as well. Close enough.

Full disclosure: The family of TRex is a John Deere family. We're friendly to other brands (and I'm irritated at the John Deere right to repair nonsense), but decades of family history ran with the Deere. The local John Deere dealer spoke at my uncle's funeral if that tells you anything.

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What are you hobbying?

Tractors may not be your favorite but give it a chance before you judge and bail out. Any adjacent hobbying is in scope, so jump in with your interests, stories and questions.

In any event, the thread is not limited to to the theme. Anything (legal) you are hobbying is welcome. Even if the theme does not speak to you, you might learn something or be entertained. If not, offer something else relating to hobbying. If all of that fails, just check in and say hello.

As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. Leave politics and religion to threads elsewhere (unless your hobby is building or restoring churches). Pants? Nope. As always, puns are welcome and encouraged.

Play nice and do not be rude. Do not be a troll and do not feed the trolls.

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Anyone been to the Keller's Retired Tractor Museum in Wisconsin?

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You had me at "Parade of Power." This was in Du Quoin, Illinois.

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Steel wheels but a heartfelt restoration video with lots of family history mixed in which makes the project more special.

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Bulldozers are fun but they're not tractors. We'll do a separate thread someday for dozers, backhoes, cranes, dump trucks, etc., but this mini-Deere dozer looked too good to pass up. I also liked this one for the "hit it with a power washer and spray paint" backyard rough justice method of cosmetic repair.

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Ever been to a Classic Green Reunion? Check out this walk-around video from the 2025 edition in Wisconsin.

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Blacksmith John Deere did not invent tractors but did invent the steel plow in 1837.

Fast forward to 1974 when Landmark Winery in Sonoma, California was founded by Damaris Deere Ford. John Deere was her great-great-grandfather.

Every so often, you'll see touches in their branding that pay homage to their history:

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Photocredit: stayradwineblog.com

Been a while since we've had a bottle of Landmark wine but we enjoyed many bottles in a prior life! Yum!

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Follow-up from last week:

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I looked for free pallets on Craigslist and was shocked at the volume of listings. Who knew?

ICYMI, JQ posted a link last week to 34 DIY pallet projects. If any among the Horde embark on pallet hobbying projects, send a photo. Thank you!

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This has nothing to do with tractors, but I don't think I've ever seen a motorized scythe before.

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Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week? We did a painting theme. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.

Notable comment from last week:

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Words of wisdom:

"Because despite all our troubles, when things are grim out in that wide round world of ours, that's when it's really important to have a good hobby." Posted by: tankascribe at June 22, 2024 07:41 PM (HWxAD).

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Reminder: if you put links in the comments, use a URL shortener and describe what you're linking to. Failing to do either or both makes you barrel-eligible. Don't make people click to find out what you're linking.

Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Or just email to say hello. Do mighty things.

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1 I get allergic smelling hay!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:31 PM (1Ff7Z)

2 I don't know if I'd want to go to a retired tractor display. They'd probably just sit around bitching about how bad things are today.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:33 PM (1Ff7Z)

3 If any among the Horde embark on pallet hobbying projects, send a photo. Thank you!

I took apart a couple of pallets to make a tool corral for the yard implements. Looks like crap, so I won't embarrass my construction abilities by sending in a photo. Does the job, but it'd probably lose a beauty contest to Dylan Mulvaney.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:35 PM (1Ff7Z)

4 "She might have took my car keys --
But she forgot about my old John Deere!"

"She thinks my tractor's sexy . . ."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:37 PM (wzUl9)

5 Couldn't have bulldozers or tanks if it weren't for Benjamin Holt and the Caterpillar.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:40 PM (1Ff7Z)

6 If model kit companies like Revell or he long-defunct Aurora had the wide range of assembly kits of the '60s and '70s, I'm sure at least one would produce a tractor in 1/25 scale to go along with a vintage Ford pickup truck. That 1938 JD looks like a good candidate. You could create a cool diorama: the tractor outside a barn or farmhouse, the dusty pickup nearby, and the stocky farmer with overalls or suspenders.

A double kit, perhaps, with tractor and pickup?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:41 PM (wzUl9)

7 Looks like it's just you and me, Wolfus.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:45 PM (1Ff7Z)

8 As for pipe smoking: Last week I received two "pay-it-forward" free vintage pipes, a Weber billiard (the classic cylindrical shape) and an "apple" (plump, rounded bowl) Canadian Club brand. I've smoked both and enjoyed them, esp. the Weber. Another member of that forum offered a couple of bowls of a blend from a shop in Jackson, MS, and I took him up on it: "Old Fashioned," it's called. A nice toasted sort of aroma and even a bit of flavor, smoked in the Canadian Club.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:46 PM (wzUl9)

9 I've only smoke cigars, Wolfus. One of my uncles was a pipe man. Only quit after his first heart attack.

One thing I can say about pipe smoke, is it doesn't make me gag like cigarettes.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:47 PM (1Ff7Z)

10 Oh fun! Tractors! Unfortunately, I didn’t get very many of my babies’ baby picture in the Great Divorce. They were all the computer, which he took, of course. One that I do have is of my youngest, with new walking feet, standing by a great big ol’ John Deere tire on our horse farm. I LOVE that picture. It’s adorable.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 05:47 PM (ZdaMQ)

11 Whew! At least someone else is here. It was getting a bit lonely.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:49 PM (1Ff7Z)

12 The "Old Fashioned" blend contains Virginia, burley, Dark Fired Kentucky (which can be strong), and some Cavendish. I only recently found that "Cavendish" is a process, not a kind of tobacco, and that both burleys and Virginias can be used as a base for Cavendish preparation. The pipe shop's website says the Cavendish in this blend is based on burley.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:50 PM (wzUl9)

13 I have 8 Deere tractors that run. All 2 cylinders except for my little loader tractor. It's a 750 4 WD with a 3 cylinder Yanmar engine. Also have a Grey market Kubota. Wasn't meant to be sold in the US.

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 05:50 PM (IFwjj)

14 Unfortunately, my hobbies are pretty dang boring and for the most part, I share them with y’all on the daily. More than you want, I am sure! But there is something incredibly iconic about a John Deere.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 05:51 PM (ZdaMQ)

15 I'm still working on the Bayou Jumper radio mentioned above (thanks, TRex). The stain and finish on the case turned out well. I've mostly got the guts of the radio soldered onto the circuit board, but these last few steps that involve mounting connectors have been challenging. I'm going to step away from the workbench for a while. I think I've earned a break, and maybe a drink. I'll send pictures once I get it all together and tested (assuming it passes the smoke test).

Posted by: PabloD at September 12, 2026 05:52 PM (B7yLN)

16 My dad's side was country folk, but I don't ever remember them having a tractor. Some horses around and some plows, but no tractors.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:52 PM (1Ff7Z)

17 My association with tractors begins and ends with a John Deere kid's model, pedaled like a tricycle. No idea why my folks got it for me but it was so cool, way better than the typical trike my friends had. Must have been pretty well made since it survived to be used by my little brother a few years later.

Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 05:53 PM (yTvNw)

18 Well, a motorized scythe is just a lawnmower. Just with a double, rotating blade.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 05:53 PM (zZu0s)

19 I've only smoke cigars, Wolfus. One of my uncles was a pipe man. Only quit after his first heart attack.

One thing I can say about pipe smoke, is it doesn't make me gag like cigarettes.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026

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You don't inhale that stuff any more than you do cigars. If you did I'd never have gotten into the pipe years ago, or again recently after a long layoff.

I've tried a few of the little cigarillos, and they're fine, but I only smoke those outdoors; and ten months of the year it's too hot to be outside here.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:54 PM (wzUl9)

20 Top picture is a Model A not 80.

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 05:54 PM (IFwjj)

21 Going to see a drone show in a bit

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 05:57 PM (qEb4U)

22 Orange tractors rule.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 05:58 PM (2Cry5)

23 You don't inhale that stuff any more than you do cigars. If you did I'd never have gotten into the pipe years ago, or again recently after a long layoff.

I've tried a few of the little cigarillos, and they're fine, but I only smoke those outdoors; and ten months of the year it's too hot to be outside here.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:54 PM (wzUl9)

So, just puffing on it, then exhale? That seems to me it's more for the aroma then the actual hit from the nicotine like in cigarettes.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:59 PM (1Ff7Z)

24 Long ago, use to be a Grange Fair and would be hundreds of tractors, some all but a hundred yo.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 05:59 PM (qEb4U)

25 20 Top picture is a Model A not 80.

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 05:54 PM

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Thanks for the correction!

Posted by: TRex - fuzzy sign photo dino at September 12, 2026 05:59 PM (XfIK1)

26 It wouldn't be accurate to say I grew up on a farm but I did live on one for a number of years once my mom's horse bug became an addiction. And yea, we had a Deere. No idea the model number but it had a bucket in front and a PTO in back which my dad, the tool, addict. took for a message from God to buy ever crazy piece of stuff ever made. And I spent far too much of my life in that thing.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre had nothing on my dad's workshop.

Truth is it was a ton of fun.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 06:00 PM (viF8m)

27 I wonder if part of the interest in old tractors and other farm equipment is respect for seriously well-made machines that are worth preserving. Things that were designed to last through real use. I put manual typewriters and classic firearms in the same category.

Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:00 PM (yTvNw)

28 Orange tractors rule.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 05:58 PM (2Cry5)

Well, yeah.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 06:00 PM (1Ff7Z)

29 27 I wonder if part of the interest in old tractors and other farm equipment is respect for seriously well-made machines that are worth preserving. Things that were designed to last through real use. I put manual typewriters and classic firearms in the same category.
Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:00

Maybe a longing for a past time, too, even though we have romanticized what those lives actually were.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2026 06:01 PM (ZdaMQ)

30 So, just puffing on it, then exhale? That seems to me it's more for the aroma then the actual hit from the nicotine like in cigarettes.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:59 PM (1Ff7Z)

You're still getting a bit of nicotine from both the smoke rolling over your gums and cheeks and stray vapor being inhaled. The problem is the smoke is far too harsh to inhale directly most of the time (think Pall Mall non filter 100s.) It'll screw you up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 06:01 PM (zZu0s)

31 I wonder if part of the interest in old tractors and other farm equipment is respect for seriously well-made machines that are worth preserving. Things that were designed to last through real use. I put manual typewriters and classic firearms in the same category.
Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:00 PM (yTvNw)

Same as vinyl and books. Not cars, though. Beautiful and powerful, but not as safe or long-lasting as today's boring boxes.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 06:02 PM (1Ff7Z)

32 Looks like it's just you and me, Wolfus.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 05:45 PM (1Ff7Z)
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We are always watching.

And waiting.

Posted by: Council of Cats at September 12, 2026 06:03 PM (RIvkX)

33 And always remember the rule of thumb of pipe tobacco.

Tastes good---> smells horrible.

Smells good----> tastes horrible.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 06:04 PM (zZu0s)

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You're still getting a bit of nicotine from both the smoke rolling over your gums and cheeks and stray vapor being inhaled. The problem is the smoke is far too harsh to inhale directly most of the time (think Pall Mall non filter 100s.) It'll screw you up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 06:01 PM (zZu0s)

The smoke's in the mouth only pretty much, so I'd expect some kind of reaction, just not as strong as coffin nails.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 06:04 PM (1Ff7Z)

35 So, just puffing on it, then exhale? That seems to me it's more for the aroma then the actual hit from the nicotine like in cigarettes.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026

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Exactly right. A little nicotine ("Vitamin N") is absorbed into your mouth, I guess, and strong blends can make your head spin, so I avoid those or mix them with milder blends. If I haven't worked out, a morning pipe does give a bit of a lift, along with my coffee.

The other day I had to fast for a blood draw. No food, coffee, or (I was guessing) pipe that morning. At breakfast later, the coffee provided a definite lift. So did the pipe I loaded and smoked that afternoon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:04 PM (wzUl9)

36 I believe Weasel drives a John Deere at the start of his YT videos at Weasel Acres.

Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:05 PM (yTvNw)

37 We are always watching.

And waiting.
Posted by: Council of Cats at September 12, 2026 06:03 PM (RIvkX)

Us too.

Posted by: The Vets at September 12, 2026 06:05 PM (1Ff7Z)

38 I recently added a 3rd function to my 1025r so I could add a grapple.

Getting a tractor is a game changer, getting a grapple is like getting a super power.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2026 06:05 PM (XV/Pl)

39 [Less politics. More tractors. Thank you. - TRex]

Posted by: Paul at September 12, 2026 06:06 PM (gM2YV)

40 I still work out 3-4 mornings a week, and my walk/run time over two miles is about the same as in 2020 before I took up the pipe again. So I don't think a pipe a day has affected my endurance or wind.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:07 PM (wzUl9)

41 Rule of thumb: get your mind out of the gutter. No wait: get your mind out of the Biden.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 12, 2026 06:08 PM (wxsGM)

42 Lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 06:08 PM (zZu0s)

43 [More tractoring. Less politics. Thank you. -TRex]

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 12, 2026 06:10 PM (wxsGM)

44 And when a little guy many years my grandfather took me to the Steam show out near Lancaster. My sister says she went sometimes as well.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 06:10 PM (qEb4U)

45 I've never understood the concept of smoking and NOT inhaling. Isn't that like chewing your food and spitting it out?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 06:11 PM (Cqx++)

46 Same as vinyl and books. Not cars, though. Beautiful and powerful, but not as safe or long-lasting as today's boring boxes.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026

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I know. Everywhere you go, cars all look the same, like almonds, shaped to wedge under the wind. All in the same dull metallic colors, or black or white, with only an occasional red, blue, green, or yellow. And only gray, cream, or black interiors.

It's still possible to get a ruby red car with a cream interior, like my Buick. But I wonder how much longer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:12 PM (wzUl9)

47 Vintage tractors are cool. Vintage bulldozers are super cool.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2026 06:12 PM (S41Gd)

48 Little turned 21 last week, so he purchased and smoked his first legal cigar, a Padron 1965 Anniversary. My present to him was a Buffalo Trace Old Fashioned, prepared by the capable and nubile Avery at my favorite cigar lounge in downtown Sarasota.

He went back later in the week with a friend. It would seem that this hobby has been successfully passed on to the next generation..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 06:13 PM (nbLIj)

49 Deere's first crawlers were converted to tracks by the Lindeman company in Lindeman, Washington. The first Deere crawler was the Model M crawler.

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 06:13 PM (IFwjj)

50 44 And when a little guy many years my grandfather took me to the Steam show out near Lancaster. My sister says she went sometimes as well.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 06:10 PM
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There are a bunch of videos on YT from the steam show. Seems like something I ought to visit at least once...

Posted by: TRex - digger dino at September 12, 2026 06:14 PM (XfIK1)

51 45 I've never understood the concept of smoking and NOT inhaling. Isn't that like chewing your food and spitting it out?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 06:11 PM (Cqx++)

Its hard not to do reflexively after you've smoked cigarettes. (Which is why I haven't smoked a pipe in a long time.)

Part of the allure of smoking is the ritual. Deep breaths. Quiet moments. Fixed amount of time as the tobacco burns. Tools (lighter, scraper, etc.)

Pipe smoking takes that and focuses on it, rather than the pure nicotine hit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 06:14 PM (zZu0s)

52 Sister, parents and me heading to this drone show

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 06:16 PM (qEb4U)

53 Have fun, skip.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 06:17 PM (zZu0s)

54 Its hard not to do reflexively after you've smoked cigarettes. (Which is why I haven't smoked a pipe in a long time.)

Part of the allure of smoking is the ritual. Deep breaths. Quiet moments. Fixed amount of time as the tobacco burns. Tools (lighter, scraper, etc.)

Pipe smoking takes that and focuses on it, rather than the pure nicotine hit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 06:14 PM (zZu0s)

My bass player smokes anything that burns. Pipes, cigars cigarettes, even a vape. Showed up a few weeks ago with a church warden. I called him Frodo. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2026 06:17 PM (S41Gd)

55 Vintage tractors are cool. Vintage bulldozers are super cool.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2026 06:12 PM (S41Gd)

Like the D9?! LIKE THE D9?!

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at September 12, 2026 06:17 PM (1Ff7Z)

56 For Wolfus, OrangeEnt and other pipe smokers. I don't get a nicotine hit from pipe smoking but I appreciate the taste of the tobacco(s) in the blend. In my younger days I was a HEAVY cigarette smoker: 4 to 5 packs of Winstons or Marlboros a day, so I know what a nicotine hit is like. (I was often working 16 hour days back then and you could smoke about anywhere.) I quit cigarettes over 40 years ago and eventually I was able to start tasting things again, including food and pipe tobacco.

Smoking cigarettes is a chemical addiction as well as a habit. Pipe smoking is a relaxing mind set that doesn't dominate you physically.

Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:18 PM (yTvNw)

57
I'm afraid the only tractor I have is a zero-turn mower.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 06:19 PM (eRlcH)

58 Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:18 PM (yTvNw)

Sorry, JTB. My uncle was a pipe smoker. I never have, only a couple of cigars decades ago. I don't smoke.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 06:21 PM (1Ff7Z)

59 This week I started work on the Revell 1/24 scale Ford F950 Earthfucker kit. Not sure yet what color I'll paint it.

Posted by: far cry at September 12, 2026 06:22 PM (wBRco)

60 The first tractor I drove was a Deere Model D. Dad told me to drive it through the field/pasture gate. I was nervous, jammed the hand clutch instead of engaging it slowly. Dad buggered his shin trying to get things under control.

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 06:23 PM (IFwjj)

61 The guy who bulldozed and leveled the back yard at the old house used a restored 1947 CAT D4. It was frigging cool. I was calling it the Iwo Jima model.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2026 06:24 PM (S41Gd)

62 Looked something like this bad boy. But older and no roll bar.

https://tinyurl.com/2t936p2t

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 06:25 PM (viF8m)

63 I was a HEAVY cigarette smoker: 4 to 5 packs of Winstons or Marlboros a day, so I know what a nicotine hit is like.
Posted by: JTB
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Jeez, you must have been continuously lighting one off the end of another.

I smoked and dipped for about 20 years. Got to the point with dipping that I didnt use a spitter.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 06:28 PM (XvL8K)

64 I wonder if part of the interest in old tractors and other farm equipment is respect for seriously well-made machines that are worth preserving. Things that were designed to last through real use. I put manual typewriters and classic firearms in the same category.
Posted by: JTB

Shade tree mechanics can get an old tractor running and working. new ones... not so much.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 06:30 PM (NnhvP)

65 Dad tried pipe smoking after his favorite cigar brand changed from a natural leaf to a composite wrapper. Give the man credit, I always thought they were foul, cheap, things from the get go. Nope, it was the cellulose and scraps wrapper that did it for him.

A cousin suggested he try smoking a pipe, which he did for a while. His biggest complaint was the work involved for maybe a 10-15 minute smoke. In the late 90's I turned him on to hand rolled sticks from a local shop in his old Ironbound neighborhood, and he was happily back to cigars..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 06:31 PM (nbLIj)

66 Between old injuries and getting older my hands aren't as nimble as they were. I'm going to try crochet to get some dexterity back but in a gentle way. I considered knitting but crochet appears to require more and varied hand motions. I have the hooks and yarn. Doesn't matter what I try to make, just want to learn and get the exercise. (Probably as well. My first attempts will likely look like something from an HP Lovecraft story.)

Any folks here who got involved with fiber arts to help with their hands? Did it help?

Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:33 PM (yTvNw)

67 Shade tree mechanics can get an old tractor running and working. new ones... not so much.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 06:30 PM
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The downside of electronics and computers.

Posted by: TRex - shadetree dino at September 12, 2026 06:34 PM (XfIK1)

68 Just so y’all know,
Kissing a guy who chews is pretty gross.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 06:37 PM (yEz+x)

69 I've driven a few different brands of tractors. Case, Ford, Ferguson IH. The IH model M and H clutch seemed like an on and off switch. Not engaged to fully engaged and off you go.

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 06:42 PM (IFwjj)

70 The downside of electronics and computers.
Posted by: TRex - shadetree dino

The right to repair argument.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 06:42 PM (NnhvP)

71 63 ... "Jeez, you must have been continuously lighting one off the end of another."

Biff,
Pretty much. Quitting cigarettes was the second smartest thing I ever did. (Marrying Mrs. JTB was the smartest.)

Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:44 PM (yTvNw)

72 I think that steam show still maybe going on, pass the field going to the Lancaster war game conventions. Trued to find the name but unsuccessful.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 06:45 PM (QLHQ2)

73 >>(Marrying Mrs. JTB was the smartest.)

She's standing behind you right now, isn't she.

Blink twice if you need help.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 06:47 PM (viF8m)

74 Grandparents had an old White tractor on the farm. There was an International, no idea the model, that was behind the barn. Steel wheels and all. Complete rust.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 06:48 PM (h06De)

75 72 I think that steam show still maybe going on, pass the field going to the Lancaster war game conventions. Trued to find the name but unsuccessful.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 06:45 PM
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National Pike Steam Show in Brownsville, PA
Small event in May, bigger annual event in August.

Posted by: TRex - dozer dino at September 12, 2026 06:50 PM (XfIK1)

76 I use Blick for some art supplies so they have my email. A coupe of days ago I got one touting their many new fiber arts items: looms, kits, needlepoint yarns and threads, etc. I didn't even know they offered any. I assume interest in fiber arts is on the rise if Blick is adding it to their inventory. Just FYI.

Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 06:50 PM (yTvNw)

77 National Pike Steam Show in Brownsville, PA
Small event in May, bigger annual event in August.
Posted by: TRex - dozer dino

Saw it advertised, but never went. It looks cool.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 06:51 PM (h06De)

78 Pfft. Only a commie bohunk would be caught driving a John Deere Model 80.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2026 06:54 PM (4Je4D)

79 A tractor is indispensable for me. A few weeks ago I pulled up 60 feet of concrete driveway to replace it. I use them to move engines and stuff, clear fallen trees, digging holes, grading, moving dirt, gravel, etc. Then there's bush hogging and mowing. Here and at the farm. So I have 3 and a ZTR mower.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 06:54 PM (MWfyi)

80 Meh. It's no Hoyt-Clagwell Model F.

Posted by: Oliver Wendell Douglas at September 12, 2026 06:56 PM (4Je4D)

81 Rough and Tumble Steam show Kinzer Pa, was a couple weeks ago

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 06:56 PM (QLHQ2)

82 My dad grew up on a dairy farm in Laramie, WY, in the 1930's. He and his little brother ran a team of horses to plow, harrow, plant, mow hay, etc., so dad would have started that when he was about 8 years old and his brother was six. He saw other farms with tractors, but they didn't get one until the 1940's.

The did have a steam thresher come through every year, and he remembers when one exploded on a farm a good 10 miles away. Everyone heard it, and they thought the world was coming to an end. I guess about a dozen people died in that accident. Just awful.

As dangerous as farming can be, modernization has meant a huge level of safety.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 06:57 PM (Ntshk)

83 The first four-wheeled motorized vehicle I ever drove [at age 12, 1977] was the 1932 Allis-Chalmers B that my dad had just bought. He had me drive it home, with him trailing in the pickup truck, mostly because the fellow who had volunteered to loan him a trailer hadn't mentioned the trailer had 3 flat tires and one tire-free wheel. Dad had already committed to pick up the tractor that day, so pick it up we did.
After he retired, Dad take up "flywheeling" as his main hobby. He bought a series of rundown tractors and restored them to showroom stock. His favorite, and the one he kept rather than sold after restoration, was a Minneapolis-Moline.

if you want to get into the hobby, I'd recommend seeking out your local Flywheelers' Club.

Posted by: Gundo at September 12, 2026 06:58 PM (1a7fN)

84 The did have a steam thresher come through every year, and he remembers when one exploded on a farm a good 10 miles away. Everyone heard it, and they thought the world was coming to an end. I guess about a dozen people died in that accident. Just awful.

Pfft. Ever had your testicles caught up in a John Deere Combine Harvester?

Posted by: One-Ball Saul at September 12, 2026 06:59 PM (4Je4D)

85 If you are familiar with Branson tractors, they got bought by a South Korean company,TYM, that builds pretty much the same tractor in Rome, Georgia. It uses a 3 cyl Cummins clone that's parts compatible with the one Branson was licensed to build. Anyway I got one and its a pretty good tractor for the price and it has a cab and AC which is glorious. I call it Tim.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 06:59 PM (MWfyi)

86 I have about 300 years of Quebec farmers in my ancestry. Bet they would have loved to have tractors to work the ground.

Posted by: JTB at September 12, 2026 07:00 PM (yTvNw)

87 Deere got into the tractor business when they bought the Waterloo Boy tractor company. Great for collecting, not so much for farming. Their first Deere tractor was the Model D, then the 3 row GP, kind of a failure.

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 07:01 PM (IFwjj)

88 if you want to get into the hobby, I'd recommend seeking out your local Flywheelers' Club.

Posted by: Gundo at September 12, 2026 06:58 PM
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I can look on the interweb later, but are Flywheelers Clubs common?

Posted by: TRex - vintage dino at September 12, 2026 07:03 PM (XfIK1)

89 The 25hp TYM I got a couple of years ago has no electronics. That's one of the reasons I got it. Also, because it's under 25hp, it doesn't use DEF. Even at only 25hp it will pick up over 2000 lbs. I looked at 40hps but this one does the job.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:03 PM (MWfyi)

90 I had a old little John Deere I sold to an old guy who had a whole barn full of JD tractors. He said he had over 100 and they were all pre 1980 or so.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:08 PM (MWfyi)

91 "I can look on the interweb later, but are Flywheelers Clubs common?"
I'm pretty sure they are. I know my Dad's club had shared events with several other Flywheelers' Clubs in Michigan.

Posted by: Gundo at September 12, 2026 07:08 PM (1a7fN)

92 90 I had a old little John Deere I sold to an old guy who had a whole barn full of JD tractors. He said he had over 100 and they were all pre 1980 or so.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:08 PM
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Was his name Ronster?

Posted by: TRex - flywheeler dino at September 12, 2026 07:09 PM (XfIK1)

93 Just got back from my sister and brother in law's farm. Chickens, cattle, goats, some sheep and pigs. My sister is an SC health inspector., so I arrived home loaded with healthy vittles.

Tractors, skid loaders, trailers, freezers. Everywhere.

Posted by: mrp at September 12, 2026 07:10 PM (rj6Yv)

94 I plan on getting a Ford 8N sometime soon. The canonical tractor.

And freaking 75 years old.

But working models available for under $2000.

Posted by: blaster at September 12, 2026 07:11 PM (NlEaG)

95 https://walloonlakeflywheelers.com/

Posted by: Gundo at September 12, 2026 07:12 PM (1a7fN)

96 Ford 8N is EMP proof.

Posted by: blaster at September 12, 2026 07:12 PM (NlEaG)

97 During WW11, Deere was asked to build something for the war.
They took an unstyled A and wrapped it with steel plating. They weren't really trying. I've seen pictures of it. It is to laugh.

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 07:12 PM (IFwjj)

98 >>If you are familiar with Branson tractors, they got bought by a South Korean company,TYM, that builds pretty much the same tractor in Rome, Georgia. It uses a 3 cyl Cummins clone that's parts compatible with the one Branson was licensed to build. Anyway I got one and its a pretty good tractor for the price and it has a cab and AC which is glorious. I call it Tim.

Saw a video on X posted by a woman who is taking over the family farm in Iowa. She posted it from the cab of her ginormous tractor.

Everything was computer and gps driven Which she oversaw from her air conditioned perch Incredible how sophisticated farming has become.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 07:12 PM (viF8m)

99 "Was his name Ronster?
Posted by: TRex - flywheeler dino"

I don't remember. He was an old black gentleman, with white hair and dressed in overalls. I was glad he got it, because I was tired of messing with it, and he didn't have one like it so we were both happy.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:14 PM (MWfyi)

100 Saw a sign at an antique tractor show:

If it casts a shadow it can be restored.

Posted by: Great Plains Drifter at September 12, 2026 07:15 PM (85Bnm)

101 I have heard you need 1hp per acre. Seems about right. So the 25hp of an 8N means it would not be main tractor.

I want a Lamborghini like Clarkson.

Posted by: blaster at September 12, 2026 07:15 PM (NlEaG)

102 I have a John Deere 770, but the finer work is what has to happen today, so out there with D-1 and a grubbing hoe...glad I can still do this kind of thing...hope I can still stand up straight tomorrow.

Well, water glass is empty - back to it.

Posted by: Don in SoCc at September 12, 2026 07:16 PM (I9XXk)

103 " I use Blick for some art supplies"

Mrs fd's favorite store.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:17 PM (MWfyi)

104 My BIL operates two D6 dozers for the landfill work and to cut roads and trails on the property.

Posted by: mrp at September 12, 2026 07:20 PM (rj6Yv)

105 Obviously don't own or restore tractors, but just want to jump in to say how awesome it all is. Anything that I can fit into the "Industrial Age, Industrial Art" category is primo. Only aspect I dabble (slightly) in is rifles, where the "industrial art" of my M1s and carbine never cease to please. Even the Mosin-Nagants in their own way, especially when you see how the "industrial art" was slimmed down to "we need it now!" in the war-time examples.

Was focused on other parts of the puzzle but always instinctively felt like I agreed with my friends who lamented America's departure from *making things* during the great off-shoring debacle.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 12, 2026 07:21 PM (U/Byj)

106 Got a 1964 MF Super 90 Diesel high crop tractor I use to mow firebreaks out back, and plow snow when my 1970-ish IH Payloader won't start.
Had to split the tractor to replace the clutch, and put the Payloader together from a pile of parts my neighbor gave me - he runs an excavation business and had the machine sitting for 15 years.

Posted by: Chuck Kuecker at September 12, 2026 07:23 PM (UxT09)

107 "I have heard you need 1hp per acre. Seems about right. So the 25hp of an 8N means it would not be main tractor."

That depends on what you are going to do with it. We don't farm anything but trees so no plowing spraying harvesting etc. A 25hp diesel is amazing strong.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:23 PM (MWfyi)

108 I want a Lamborghini like Clarkson.

Posted by: blaster at September 12, 2026 07:15 PM
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I can hear his voice "POWER!!!" and "How hard can it be??"

We were trackside for a race of Porsche tractors a few years ago at Laguna Seca. Despite a paddock full of unobtainium Porsche race cars, the tractors were the biggest hit of the weekend. Maybe I'll find a video clip and include it in future hobby thread content...

Posted by: TRex - tractor racing dino at September 12, 2026 07:23 PM (XfIK1)

109 Time to say thank you before the next act takes the Ace of Spades stage. Thanks for being here, going along with the theme, and adding your own hobbying projects. Shall we do it again next week with a new theme?

You're welcome to hang here for a while, but don't forget about Club ONT later.

Posted by: TRex - agricultural dino at September 12, 2026 07:25 PM (XfIK1)

110 How does John Deere get that perfect shade of green?
All of your money goes into the pot.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 07:26 PM (gpvQO)

111 Blaster acres is 120 acres. Need moar power. But a 25hp tractor is good for utility.

I saw a Porsche tractor for sale for like $60k. It looks cool but you wouldn't be able to use it. Too valuable.

Posted by: blaster at September 12, 2026 07:27 PM (NlEaG)

112 One thing I recommend for a tractor is some forks. You will go around picking stuff up just because you can.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:28 PM (MWfyi)

113 John Deere 'A' with a hand clutch, tricycle front end, and 4 row front mount cultivator. Got a big old umbrella and a gallon jug of ice water, two baloney sammiches, and a pouch of Red Man chewing tobacco. Let's get some grass and weeds out of this cotton!

Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 07:29 PM (LHPAg)

114 Going to see a drone show in a bit
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 05:57 PM (qEb4U)


You do realize that they are just waiting for the AI command to attack right? The SWARMs will rule!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 12, 2026 07:30 PM (2WIwB)

115 In our case, a physically bigger tractor would not fit between the tree rows in a lot of places.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:30 PM (MWfyi)

116 I saw a Porsche tractor for sale for like $60k. It looks cool but you wouldn't be able to use it. Too valuable.

Posted by: blaster at September 12, 2026 07:27 PM
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Prices spiked 10-15 years ago when collectors decided all of a sudden that they were cool.

Posted by: TRex - two cylinder dino at September 12, 2026 07:31 PM (XfIK1)

117 We make better tractor. And more too.

Posted by: Ministry of Defense Plant No. 12 named for Comrade Lenin at September 12, 2026 07:31 PM (RIvkX)

118 A very young Diogenes was almost killed on a tractor. Those things are dangerous.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 12, 2026 07:32 PM (2WIwB)

119 I just want to say how much my husband would have loved this thread. All this guy talk. How he would have loved it.

Posted by: Wenda at September 12, 2026 07:32 PM (uSgX5)

120 Blaster, you might want to check out the bigger TYM tractors. I'm pretty happy with mine. Not to say I'm not completely satisfied with Kubota except for the price.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:34 PM (MWfyi)

121 Couple hundred people waiting fot this to start

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 07:36 PM (QLHQ2)

122 Hey, Dino!
No tractor, just a JD L 120 garden type. But it’s still green.

Posted by: RI Red at September 12, 2026 07:36 PM (w30OO)

123 We make better tractor. And more too.
Posted by: Ministry of Defense Plant No. 12 named for Comrade Lenin at September 12, 2026

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New tractor is this month's centerfold in Plavbov magazine!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:37 PM (wzUl9)

124 John Deere tractor works in Waterloo made tank transmissions during WWII, a shitload of them, among other things.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 07:37 PM (hefYs)

125 TRex, I really enjoyed this thread. Maybe you could tell.

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 07:37 PM (IFwjj)

126 there are so many vintage tractors around here I just can't even; many still in use. there's a certain school of thought that just has a tractor for each function, leave it hooked up as a forklift or mower or whatever, instead of mounting and dismounting different tools all the time.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 12, 2026 07:38 PM (VyBeY)

127 125 TRex, I really enjoyed this thread. Maybe you could tell.

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 07:37 PM
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Excellent! Better than movies, right?

Posted by: TRex - tank commander dino at September 12, 2026 07:38 PM (XfIK1)

128 122 Hey, Dino!
No tractor, just a JD L 120 garden type. But it’s still green.

Posted by: RI Red at September 12, 2026 07:36 PM
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That qualifies. Approved.

Posted by: TRex - tractor judge dino at September 12, 2026 07:39 PM (XfIK1)

129 John Deere has created videos for children showing realistic (not cartoonish) farming and construction machinery which our grandsons enjoy ... These can be seen by visiting YouTube-dot-com and typing "John Deere Kids" into the Search Field.

Posted by: Kathy at September 12, 2026 07:41 PM (MOK4W)

130 "there's a certain school of thought that just has a tractor for each function, leave it hooked up as a forklift or mower or whatever, instead of mounting and dismounting different tools all the time.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez"

Is that wrong? Nobody told me that was wrong.

The forks on the TYM are really easy to change though, only takes a minute.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:42 PM (MWfyi)

131 Not going to get into the movie thing. Got in trouble the last time.

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 07:42 PM (IFwjj)

132 Maybe the thread will be about tractor movies.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:43 PM (MWfyi)

133 That qualifies. Approved.
Posted by: TRex - tractor judge dino at September 12, 2026 07:39 PM (XfIK1)

And I had the club buy me a nice 54” deck JD Zero turn mower. I can do the entire range in under 5 hours. Used to take me over 10.
Go, John Deere!

Posted by: RI Red at September 12, 2026 07:45 PM (w30OO)

134 Plowed a lot of corn when I worked summers for a farmer. Don't recall what tractors he had but he was frugal, as were/are most farmers.

Posted by: Javems at September 12, 2026 07:45 PM (zFsEm)

135 Who above wants to get a Ford 8 N? They are pretty nice little tractors. What do you plan to do with it?

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 07:45 PM (IFwjj)

136 Saw one of those John Deere for kids ewetube.
One of the best things on the tube.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 07:45 PM (gpvQO)

137 The front loader is surprisingly easy to take off the Kubota but I don't anymore because why bother. When I used it for regular mowing it got in the way, but a ZTR fixed that.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:46 PM (MWfyi)

138 Hey Red do you have my email? If not ask CBD.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 07:46 PM (viF8m)

139 Buddy stripped all the sheet metal off his 8n and had it galvanized.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 07:47 PM (gpvQO)

140 The Brooks Steam-up at Powerland Heritage Park is the go to for old farm and logging equipment and steam engines.
It used to be just a bunch of guys with their own steam engines in a field outside of Brooks, Oregon, and now it has museums, a steam powered sawmill and an electric railroad.


https://www.antiquepowerland.com/

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 07:48 PM (rbvCR)

141 I'd like an 8N and have looked at couple. They don't really do what I need from a tractor though.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:48 PM (MWfyi)

142 138 Hey Red do you have my email? If not ask CBD.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 07:46 PM (viF8m)


JS, I know I had it but it might have been lost in the ether. I’ll check. If not, CBD.

Posted by: RI Red at September 12, 2026 07:48 PM (w30OO)

143 The Jubilee is a step up.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 07:51 PM (gpvQO)

144 We're back from Chik-Fil-A, $17 poorer but reasonably well fed. We've got several movies on DVD: Forbidden Planet, the original Thirty-Nine Steps, and then there's The Fly from '58 on Svengoolie.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:54 PM (wzUl9)

145 Guessing nl movie thread tonight

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 07:56 PM (QLHQ2)

146 Eromero equipment very diverse 50s through 80s, Ford, JD, IH, MF, AC. From little to large, loved all of them.

Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 07:58 PM (LHPAg)

147 Are you upset because you can't post new movie marque in all caps?

Posted by: Ronster at September 12, 2026 07:59 PM (IFwjj)

148 I'm surprised Mr. Cream Jeans, the weasel isn't all over this thread. Have a cigar!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 12, 2026 08:00 PM (5C90x)

149 Be nice. No need to poke at others among the Horde.

Posted by: TRex - life guard dino at September 12, 2026 08:01 PM (XfIK1)

150 Who can name a movie with a tractor and the model of the tractor?

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:04 PM (MWfyi)

151

You should get a talking tractor.

https://youtu.be/cHs_zsfKAgI

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 08:04 PM (Cqx++)

152 Who can name a movie with a tractor and the model of the tractor?
Posted by: fd at September 12
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Killdozer

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 08:06 PM (kpS4V)

153 Who can name a movie with a tractor and the model of the tractor?
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026

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There was the "tractor chicken" scene in Footloose, but I have no idea what the models were.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 08:06 PM (wzUl9)

154 Oh that's funny.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:07 PM (MWfyi)

155 Timor's Tractor

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:08 PM (MWfyi)

156 John Deere Tractor song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZAbobflHnA

Posted by: huerfano at September 12, 2026 08:09 PM (2Xqig)

157 o gosh, never said I thought it was wrong. far from it!

makes a lot of sense to me, who needs to spend an hour jockeying around a couple of half ton attachments, only to play lather-rinse-repeat over&over again?
you just need a bigger machine shed!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 12, 2026 08:17 PM (VyBeY)

158 You know who knows an awful lot about John Deere tractors, and the care and feeding of their batteries in particular?

AoSHQ CoB Weasel!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 12, 2026 08:21 PM (0sNs1)

159 "you just need a bigger machine shed!"

Size does matter and it's never big enough.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:21 PM (MWfyi)

160 Take a break from f5.

https://tinyurl.com/4k5psrbd

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 08:23 PM (viF8m)

161 I'm watching "The Fly". No tractors in this movie so far.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:24 PM (MWfyi)

162 So in this movie a woman killed her husband with a hydraulic press and they think she might be a little crazy.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:27 PM (MWfyi)

163 Looks androgynous.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:27 PM (gpvQO)

164 I'm watching "The Fly". No tractors in this movie so far.
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:24 PM (MWfyi)
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I'm watching a classic Doctor Who episode: The Talons of Wang-Chiang.

No tractors, but there are ROUS's....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026 08:28 PM (FZ29D)

165 162 So in this movie a woman killed her husband with a hydraulic press and they think she might be a little crazy.

Posted by: fd
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Absolutely, set her free.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:29 PM (gpvQO)

166 ain't it the truth, ain't it the truth!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 12, 2026 08:30 PM (VyBeY)

167 The 20th Century TV show "Green Acres" had a tractor they called a Hoyt Clagwell. Hoyt Clagwell" is not a real tractor manufacturer, just a name made up for the show.

The tractor used on the show was actually a 1918 Fordson Model F tractor.

Fordson was Henry Ford's first venture into tractor manufacturing, and this was the first mass-produced tractor, produced from 1917 to 1928. It was also the most popular tractor at the time, it's market share was estimated to be 90% at the time.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 12, 2026 08:31 PM (0sNs1)

168 C14 News | EN@c14english

Iraq is rushing to contain a major regional crisis after confirming that a drone attack shutting down a vital Saudi Arabian oil pipeline originated from Iraqi territory. Baghdad has fired a military commander and shut Iranian border crossings to launch an investigation.

With the wider Iran-U.S. war already destabilizing regional trade, Baghdad faces massive pressure to disarm local Iran-backed militias before a Sept 30 deadline - but Iran-backed Shia terror groups are refusing to comply.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:31 PM (gpvQO)

169 Shut up, Wesley.

Posted by: Mr Haney at September 12, 2026 08:34 PM (MWfyi)

170 @c14english

Iran prepares to exit the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and test a nuclear bomb.

MP Haji-Deligani announced a triple-urgency bill is ready, adding: "We should conduct the necessary tests for a nuclear weapon as soon as possible.
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Nothing, no thing, is being reported from CENTCOM.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 08:36 PM (gpvQO)

171 Y kid loves the Chik Fil A chicken and waffle sandwich.
We had lawn mowers growing up and a hoe for the garden.

Posted by: Accomack at September 12, 2026 08:38 PM (T8bqm)

172 Fordson was Henry Ford's first venture into tractor manufacturing, and this was the first mass-produced tractor, produced from 1917 to 1928. It was also the most popular tractor at the time, it's market share was estimated to be 90% at the time.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 12, 2026 08:31 PM (0sNs1)

Grandpa sold Fords in Olympia prior to 1930 and he apparently hated the Fordsons because Ford would push them on the dealership, and the dealership had to discount them so heavily to move them, that it would eat into the profit on the automobile sales. He didn't think very highly of Henry Ford, either.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 08:38 PM (rbvCR)

173 Nood up. G'nite all!

Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 08:40 PM (NcvvS)

174 Clarkson’s Lamborghini was a lemon.

Posted by: Accomack at September 12, 2026 08:42 PM (T8bqm)

175 John Deere tractor works in Waterloo made tank transmissions during WWII, a shitload of them, among other things.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 07:37 PM (hefYs)

Good thing the tankers had the right to repair.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026 08:43 PM (TlKpx)

176 There is an excellent vintage tractor and truck museum in Irricana, Alberta, called Pioneer Acres. I was there just a week ago. They have a couple of those "motorized scythes" in a shed there. I would describe them as "sickle-bar mowers". They have steam tractors, Rumely Oilpulls, old Deeres, and just about anything else that ever pulled a plow or powered a thrashing machine. I spent a few minutes watching a blacksmith forge a piece of steel on a coal-fired forge.

I have one tractor to my name, and it would easily qualify as an antique. It is a 1960-something International B414D, meaning it is Diesel. Has PTO, 3-point hitch, power steering, and a 1500 pound loader on the front. It is my workhorse. Still runs like a pup.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 08:48 PM (1z8ji)

177 Used to have a picture of grandpa and his enormous steam powered tractor. Imperial Valley CA.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 08:59 PM (wCk3Y)

178 @DC_Draino

All this Democrat racism against the hero juror reminds me of when a Democrat woman in a gorilla mask threw eggs at Larry Elder b/c he was a black man running for CA Governor as a Republican.

Mainstream media ignored it.

They don’t want people knowing who the real racists are
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Didn't know that. Elder's a nice guy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2026 01:42 AM (gpvQO)

Ace of Spades Pet Thread, September 12

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Courtesy Donald Sensing


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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Would you dare employ a monkey?

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Meet The PetMorons

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I lost my pup Bruno last Tuesday to Lymphoma. It had been in remission but came back over a few days and just overwhelmed him. He's buried down by the woods, where he loved to run. I miss you buddy, and your wagging tail thumping against the cabinets in the shop.


- fd

Oh, no. So sorry that you have lost Bruno. What a wonderful boy.

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This is the good Little Mama who brought her four kittens to our house and demanded that we feed them. She splits her time between our house and some unknown locale. She has been spayed and her boys have all been neutered now.

K.T.

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Thank you for sharing your pets and animal photos and stories with us today.

If you would like to send pet and/or animal stories, links, etc. for the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, the address is:

petmorons at protonmail dot com

Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known when you comment at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

Until next Saturday, have a great week!

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If you start feeling nostalgic, here a link to last week's Pet Thread, the Ace of Spades Pet Thread, September 5

I closed the comments on that post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

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1 Yay! Pets!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026 03:45 PM (FZ29D)

2
RIP, Bruno. You were your dad's bestest boy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 03:46 PM (eRlcH)

3 Yes, yay pets!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 12, 2026 03:47 PM (wxsGM)

4 Yay, Pet Thread!

Thank you, K.T., for something pleasant to think about today.

And my sympathies, fd, on your loss of Bruno.

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at September 12, 2026 03:47 PM (R3yzU)

5 Meow...

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at September 12, 2026 03:49 PM (sAmhv)

6 Sorry for your loss fd. Bruno looks like he was a real sweetie.

Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 03:49 PM (lJ0H4)

7 Saw trumpeter swans on the lake near the house this week. Means they are headed south, but they usually hang out here until hard frost. The sandhill cranes came through a couple of weeks ago, also headed south. Another month or so and we can put up the bird feeders for the winter. If we put them up before then, the damned bears get into them which sorta defeats the purpose.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 03:50 PM (Ntshk)

8 barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at September 12, 2026 03:47 PM

Posted the Gardening for Apples thread late today. If you want something pleasant to read, it's not too late, even to comment!

Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 03:53 PM (1RGZ5)

9 Afternoon, pet folken,

Piper, in the pic, Kovu looks very much like my Stirling. I don't know what you mean about "wilted" ears, though; they look pretty much normal.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 03:55 PM (wzUl9)

10 If we put them up before then, the damned bears get into them which sorta defeats the purpose.
Posted by: tcn in AK


Even in Western PA, bears enjoy a good feast from a bird feeder. My friend, who lives in the burbs of Sharon, PA, had a black bear casually feeding from her bird feeder. A fairly populated area but deep woods aren't too far away. Bear didn't care. It was hungry. Anyway, it wandered off and my friends had to bear proof a bird feeder. Not sure what they did to do it.

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at September 12, 2026 03:57 PM (sAmhv)

11 That good Little Mama whacked DH on the shin when she showed up for food for her babies. When he came out to feed her, there were two kitten sitting on each of her sides.

Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 03:58 PM (1RGZ5)

12 Woof

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 03:59 PM (9Qx17)

13 Happy Caturday everyone
All but done at a new Animal Hospital job, hope they can help lots of pets when they open.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 04:01 PM (Ia/+0)

14 I learned a valuable lesson about unconditional love this week.

I chose NOT to sell my cats' organs as aphrodisiacs on the Chinese black market after they knocked my Lego Star Destroyer off the bookshelf in my library.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026 04:02 PM (FZ29D)

15 Sorry about Bruno, fd. He looks like a very nice dog.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 12, 2026 04:03 PM (JrHfD)

16 That good Little Mama whacked DH on the shin when she showed up for food for her babies. When he came out to feed her, there were two kitten sitting on each of her sides.
Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026

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KT, you mean she clawed at him -- drew blood? If a strange cat did that to me, she wouldn't get any food, that's for sure.

I have a second cat visiting my door. This is a brownish-grey male tabby with white, about 50-50, a feral who hangs around with the non-feral shorthair gray, "Alfred," who visits me from time to time. This new boy won't come close, but actually cries for food just as Alfred does. I tell Linda, "If he's gonna visit at a distance, I'll feed him at a distance. Just throw him a handful of dry food!"

Just kidding. I put out a scoop of Iams dry food for them in a plastic bowl.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:05 PM (wzUl9)

17 Regarding that meme of the cats spying on their humans: You'd think, after some 8000 years of cats living with and observing humans, they'd have reported everything necessary for the Great Take-Over.

Well, maybe reporting wasn't so easy back then. Hard for a cat to send a message by carrier pigeon without eating the messenger.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:08 PM (wzUl9)

18 Millard the kitten continues to make me laugh. He goes under his scratching post and not scratch, so it's like what my husband calls a "tunnel with a tail."
My friend has three cats with scratching posts in every room but the bathrooms. He enjoys the scratching post in the living room but needs others.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 12, 2026 04:08 PM (JrHfD)

19 It's like I don't know you people anymore:

African or European?

Posted by: goatexchange at September 12, 2026 04:09 PM (xHuLt)

20 fd, my condolences on the loss of Bruno. A Rin Tin Tin lookalike he was.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:09 PM (wzUl9)

21 Monkey face is cute, but. . . so many questions about the context - where? why? who's giggling?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 04:11 PM (rOKnE)

22 I chose NOT to sell my cats' organs as aphrodisiacs on the Chinese black market after they knocked my Lego Star Destroyer off the bookshelf in my library.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026

***
Chinese black market, you say?

(*CRASH* as Dagny knocks over and shatters a lamp)

Whereabouts can one find a dealer, pray tell? Asking for a friend, of course. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:11 PM (wzUl9)

23 Very sorry about the loss of your boy, fd.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 04:12 PM (viF8m)

24 Condolences, fd!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 04:12 PM (rOKnE)

25 What kind of swallow is that in the pic, that travels 8000 miles to southern Africa on a regular basis? (I'm guessing "swallow" based on the tail. We call men's format coats "swallowtail" coats for a reason.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:13 PM (wzUl9)

26 The monkey looks as if the smell of the beans as he breaks each one is unpleasant, or as if he has arthritis in his paws and it hurts him to snap each one.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:15 PM (wzUl9)

27 Losing a pet is hard to take.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 04:15 PM (Ia/+0)

28 Monkey face is cute, but. . . so many questions about the context - where? why? who's giggling?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026

***
The monkey's mate? "Another bowl, Seymour, and then maybe I'll let you watch Monkey Business with the Marx Brothers. Snap to it!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:16 PM (wzUl9)

29 So sorry to hear about poor Bruno.

He sounds like he was a wonderful pup.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026 04:25 PM (FZ29D)

30 Afternoon all

fd, so sorry that you had to say goodbye to Bruno. Such a handsome boy.

Always so tough, we know.

Posted by: Pony Tail at September 12, 2026 04:28 PM (v8m9Y)

31 What kind of swallow is that in the pic, that travels 8000 miles to southern Africa on a regular basis?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:13 PM (wzUl9

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 04:29 PM (nbLIj)

32 1 What kind of swallow is that in the pic, that travels 8000 miles to southern Africa on a regular basis?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:13 PM (wzUl9
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 04:29 PM (nbLIj)

The unladen kind, of course..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 04:29 PM (nbLIj)

33 I'm so sorry about Bruno. Beautiful dog.

And such pretty cats.

Snowflake comes in and sleeps with Ralphy and I at night on the chair. She used to get up with me around 4 am and want to go outside. Lately though she waits until I've completed another REM cycle and am just out of sleep and she'll jump on the bed and meow. That's pretty remarkable.

I've been feeding her and her outdoor Mom Starry. My friends family came home and I asked the kids how Starry looks. She's not fat by any means.

But you wouldn't think she's homeless.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 12, 2026 04:32 PM (Sco7b)

34 I often write about our goodly gal Daisy the Malinois. Our old black kitty, not so much to write about.

Ony (short for "Onyxia") was bestowed upon us by our son Prod (short for "Prodigal") when he left college in 2009, when she was maybe three years old. We had many cats then, and Ony has outlived them all.

She has always been a pretty hearty housecat. Tolerates the dogs, demands food on time, lets us know when the litter box needs cleaning.

However, in recent weeks, she seems to have started showing her age. She scrambles, rather than jumps, up on the bed. Moves slowly and cautiously — we think she may be losing her sight She doesn't really leave the bedroom now. Rarely comes out to get in my lap at the desk. Still likes to sleep on the bed between us.

She started peeing in inappropriate places, so we moved her litter box from the bathroom to the bedroom, next to the cat tree and her food, and that seems to have worked.

Other than that, she mostly just seems to be getting a little slower, a little weaker. Of course, we hope she'll hang in there for a long time to come, but, well, just giving her plenty of hugs and scritches.🐈‍⬛🥺

Posted by: mindful webworker - Ony, the Queen of the Critters here at September 12, 2026 04:38 PM (k0Y0k)

35 What kind of swallow is that in the pic, that travels 8000 miles to southern Africa on a regular basis? (I'm guessing "swallow" based on the tail. We call men's format coats "swallowtail" coats for a reason.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:13 PM (wzUl9)

Is it an African swallow or a European swallow?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026 04:38 PM (TlKpx)

36 Stateless, Stirling has a habit of waking me by jumping over me and kicking me as he goes -- at 3:45 am. He only started this about a year ago, and he doesn't do it every morning. But when he does, I glance blearily at my watch and it's between 3:40 and 3:50 every time.

I'm glad he didn't do this 45-60 minutes before my alarm when I was working!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:39 PM (wzUl9)

37 Mindful, so Ony is about twenty? I've never had a cat who lived that long, only Arizona the red tabby part-Coon who made it to 16.5. And he had health issues in his last two years. Clearly Ony is going for a record.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:43 PM (wzUl9)

38 Stirling has a habit of waking me by jumping over me and kicking me as he goes -- at 3:45 am. He only started this about a year ago, and he doesn't do it every morning. But when he does, I glance blearily at my watch and it's between 3:40 and 3:50 every time.
----
Clearly Stirling and Lily are texting each other to synchronize their attacks.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 04:43 PM (kpS4V)

39 Hey guys!

Fd, so sorry for the loss of your Bruno. Sending hugs your way.

KT, so glad mom and kittens are fixed.

Piper, Kovu is beautiful.

I won't be posting our cat blog update today. I'm going to assume that anyone who has been following or donated the last 2yrs+ can already read the posts. :-)

I have been approved for SSI, so thankfully I can take some of the bill burden off my sister. I can now also apply for disability homestead deduction.

Posted by: Joyenz at September 12, 2026 04:45 PM (2F0/Y)

40 36 Stateless, Stirling has a habit of waking me by jumping over me and kicking me as he goes -- at 3:45 am. He only started this about a year ago, and he doesn't do it every morning. But when he does, I glance blearily at my watch and it's between 3:40 and 3:50 every time.

I'm glad he didn't do this 45-60 minutes before my alarm when I was working!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:39 PM (wzUl9)

That's when I put the cats back outside. But she NEVER wakes me up now. Apparently I'm studied to an incredible degree but this works well.

And I'm amazed at what goes on outside at 4am. Starry is sometimes by. Another orange cat. 4am is cat party time.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at September 12, 2026 04:45 PM (Sco7b)

41 A couple of memes

The many names of my dog
https://bit.ly/dog-many-names

Memorial to the search-and-rescue dogs of 9/11/2001
https://bit.ly/rescue-dogs-9-11-memorial

Read (on this blog, I think) that the 9/11 search folks thought the dogs were getting depressed at not finding folks in the rubble, so they would have folks 'hide' themselves in the rubble, so the dogs could find them.

The dogs surely suffered after-effects as much as the humans - physical as well as emotional.🐕‍🦺❣️

Posted by: mindful webworker - good dogs at September 12, 2026 04:45 PM (k0Y0k)

42 Is it an African swallow or a European swallow?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026

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Well, assuming the swallow is traveling due south, Africa is only 5000 miles long, so the bird would be starting from somewhere in northern Europe. And the poster mentions his garage -- not something you'd find often in northern Africa -- so again I think Europe.

Maybe not, though. Qwant's AI says the distance from NYC to southern Africa is about 8000 miles, so maybe the birds go southeast?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 04:50 PM (wzUl9)

43 I nap 30 minutes between two cats.

Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 04:53 PM (LHPAg)

44 Clearly Ony is going for a record.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Yes. Never had a cat get that old. Obviously, after so many years, she's deeply entrenched in our lives and hearts, and irreplaceable.

That failed police pup sure looks like a young version of our Daisy. We never had her as that young and when I see Malinois pups, I get a little sad we didn't. Never had to house-train her, though.

Great pic of Bruno. GS and Malinois, wonderful (and closely related) breeds.

Posted by: mindful webworker - skritches all around at September 12, 2026 04:54 PM (k0Y0k)

45 I like the many names for your dog, mww. And I appreciated the statues for the rescue dogs. Here is an article about some of the rescue dogs for 9/11:

https://tinyurl.com/2ezrjjnj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 12, 2026 04:55 PM (JrHfD)

46
I miss you buddy, and your wagging tail thumping against the cabinets in the shop.
- fd

A guy at work brought his Basset hound to work once.
The dog was slamming his tail againt a metal filing cabinet. BAM BAM BAM! I thought it would be painful but I guess not.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 05:00 PM (Cqx++)

47 There was a pale gray tabby named "Cocoa" for adoption at a local Petco this morning, where we stopped after World Market just to see what was new. She (I assume "she") is bigger than a kitten but not an adult quite yet. The sticker said that she'd prefer a home with large dogs or other cats to which she could be introduced gradually. "Not a fan of small dogs."

Most Petco stores, not that long ago, used to have four to eight cats available for adoption on a Saturday morning. Now it's unusual to see even one. I wonder why? Shelters are still going; you'd think they'd ship a few over to catch a family's attention as often as they could.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:00 PM (wzUl9)

48 https://bit.ly/dog-many-names

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The many names of my cats:

Stirling: also Duke of Vicksburg, Big Black, Black Thug, Tiny Jaguar, You Battleship, What Are You Doing?!, Dammit, Stop That

Dagny: also Dagnetta, La Siberienne, Gray Girl, Puffball, Stubby Tail, Little Gray; and she shares What Are You Doing?!, Dammit, and Stop That with Stirling

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:05 PM (wzUl9)

49 Can't "bear proof" a bird feeder really. Unless it's "bird proof" too.

Near as I've been able to figure out, bears must associate pain with humans. Their natural inclination is to run at top speed, at first sight of a human.

If they determine the worst that can happen is a little yelling, or maybe somebody banging pots and pans, then they don't GAF and will be nothing but trouble.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 05:05 PM (/ijqt)

50 Sorry for your loss fd. Bruno was a handsome boy.

Posted by: Biergood at September 12, 2026 05:05 PM (PwgSL)

51 Cocoa was a pretty cat for a shorthair. I suggested to Linda she adopt her. "You need your own cat."

Ha. She has my two to play with and fuss over; what does she need with her own?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:08 PM (wzUl9)

52 Condolences for Bruno, fd.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 05:09 PM (zZu0s)

53 "Council of Cats": I've long imagined that in Cat Heaven there is a throne for the King or Queen, and he/she has a cabinet of ministers or favorites. Marie-Antoinette, the smart black medium-hair, believed she was cat royalty while she was on Earth. No doubt she intrigued to be be crowned in heaven, and now rules as did Queen Elizabeth I, surrounded with courtiers and court favorites.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:14 PM (wzUl9)

54 Thank you so much, everyone.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 05:19 PM (MWfyi)

55 Cat's can be thwarted by a spray bottle and a laser pointer.

They can never take over the world.

Penguins on the other hand.....

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2026 05:21 PM (XV/Pl)

56 The many, many names of my current dogs:

Ruby, Ruby-boober, Sugar Baby, Sweet Pea, Boober-oo.

Piper, Piper you idiot, Get Off, Settle!, Doofus, Dork, Knucklehead, Dingbat, Buffalo, Knock that crap off! [well, you get the idea]

I think the names are ever-evolving.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 05:23 PM (Ntshk)

57 One of our adopted cats, "Mr. Rubs" is, I think, on his final journey with us. He's been on our porch all spring and summer, only disappearing when it storms or visitors come. He still comes inside to get brushed (something I worked with him on last year, and it's his favorite thing) and periodically to see what's what.

But he's totally uninterested in stalking the property like he used to. He's 8 years old... so he's getting up there.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 05:23 PM (2Cry5)

58 This is the first time in over 30 years that there is no dog around here. Usually there is some overlap so the older dog teaches the younger dog(s) how to behave and go on walks.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 05:24 PM (MWfyi)

59 One of my coworkers lost his cat not that long ago (she died...about 15 years old, I think).

Almost like clockwork, there are three or four stray cats hanging out around his house now.

I suspect he'll be a cat owner again before too long.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026 05:25 PM (FZ29D)

60 Reef is pretty much: Reef, Psychodog, Aja-Reef!, and What the fuck?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2026 05:27 PM (zZu0s)

61 Bruno looked like a very good dog. Stately.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 05:27 PM (RIvkX)

62 One of my coworkers lost his cat not that long ago (she died...about 15 years old, I think).

Almost like clockwork, there are three or four stray cats hanging out around his house now.

I suspect he'll be a cat owner again before too long.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026

***
When Arizona passed, I had Marie-Antoinette right there. When Oreo passed, I had Tatiana Romanova. After her there was a short gap, then came Chekov and Wolf; and when Wolf passed, Chekov was here. I let almost three months go by after Chekov's passing before even consdiering another cat -- the longest I've gone, I think.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:30 PM (wzUl9)

63 Also, we do not exist.
/cleaning each other's ears

Posted by: Council of Cats at September 12, 2026 05:31 PM (RIvkX)

64 The Cat Distribution System is very efficient

Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 05:32 PM (/ijqt)

65 Hobby thread is nood.

Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 05:34 PM (lJ0H4)

66 I calculated the other day that 80% of my life, from age twelve to now, has been spent in the company of cats. There was that first twelve years, then two years when Mrs. Wolfus No. 2 and I lived in a *strictly* pet-free apartment, and the three months between the passing of Chekov and the advent of Stirling. Aside from those periods, I've always lived with a cat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:35 PM (wzUl9)

67 Noodus hobbyana -- farm tractors!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:36 PM (wzUl9)

68 That monkey works for Big Green Bean - you can see he doesn't cut off the stems, that bastard.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 12, 2026 06:50 PM (w6EFb)

69 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/txutImXbO9E

A squirm of kittens

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 12, 2026 07:15 PM (jrgJz)

70 I've watched some big Oliver diesels hunker down in tractor pull contests. Impressive.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 12, 2026 07:34 PM (XeU6L)

71 The topic istimely, in that I've been considering some wheel weights formy lawn tractor. Portions of the yard are steepish, and the machine occasionally loses traction. This, of course, happens on one side since it has an open differential.

I've considered adding individually actuated disk brakes to the axels, which might help, but wheel weights seem a reasonable and simpler choice.

It has occured to me that since my problem is slopes, that wheel weights have some drawbacks. One of which is that as the slope increases the weights become less effective, and more of a burden.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 12, 2026 07:45 PM (XeU6L)

Special Garden and Orchard Thread - Apples!

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Special edition today - APPLES! From LEX

Adventures with Apple Trees

I have always disfavored the saying “it’s about the journey, not the destination.” I find (usually) writers and artists employ this platitude to excuse a story or piece of work that is not too well thought out.
Our stories need catharsis (so said Aristotle), and if your conclusion is weak, it’s tempting to deflect by offering… “don’t you see, it’s about the journey?”

But certainly there are other aspects of life where the journey is –if not the point— as acceptable as the destination. Do I need to reach the summit of a mountain to enjoy a hike?

Might it be the same with gardening? Do we need the fruit or the flower to experience a sense of satisfaction? Perhaps the process can bring as much joy as the terminus.

I’m not trying to run interference for failure. In fact, last year, I posted on AoS about my ongoing battle with birds, which had, for years, poached my annual blueberry crop. That essay was titled “The Great Blueberry Bush Battle.”

A quick recap: the blueberry bushes at my house have, for the last ten seasons, yielded copious and healthy fruit. The only problem became preventing birds from stealing the berries, which happened until 2025 when I discovered thule netting (Photo 2; date taken 8-2-26) This style of mesh net acts like a Ziploc bag, encasing the bush in a net that no bird can penetrate.
So, after failing for a number of years to defeat avian pests, I found my game changer in 2025, and 2026 has been just as successful.
“The Great Blueberry Bush Battle” has been a fun journey, but it was always the goal to get good fruit. I did that, and boy has the catharsis flowed.

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A quick recap: the blueberry bushes at my house (Photo 1; date taken 7-3-25), have, for the last ten seasons, yielded copious and healthy fruit. The only problem became preventing birds from stealing the berries, which happened until 2025 when I discovered thule netting. This style of mesh net acts like a Ziploc bag, encasing the bush in a net that no bird can penetrate.
So, after failing for a number of years to defeat avian pests, I found my game changer in 2025, and 2026 has been just as successful.

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“The Great Blueberry Bush Battle” has been a fun journey, but it was always the goal to get good fruit. I did that, and boy has the catharsis flowed.
Unfortunately, the scrum with nature when it comes to my Empire apple trees has mostly gone against me. Unlike blueberries, there seem to be more factors that can affect a good apple crop. Rough winters, spring conditions, disease, and other unknowns that are out of my hands make getting good apples anyone’s guess.

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I am certain I could do better if I put in orchard-level effort or used industrial-strength sprays, but that would entail hiring someone and I want this project all to myself. So, despite my instincts not to fall back on “it’s about the journey,” I’ve begun to lean into the phrase.
But should I?

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To help you opine, allow me to provide the history of the trees. The blueberry bushes were planted when I bought and redid this house in 2009-2010.

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In the photo, you can see where the blueberry bushes will be planted—just in front of the pylons that will eventually become the porch. If you look to the right of Bobcat machine, you will see a line of trees.

These remained on the property until 2012. After their removal, the apple trees were planted in their stead.

I wish I had done more time lapse photography, but by 2014 the trees were established enough to produce a glorious year of fruit .

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As you can see, there was enough fruit to fill shopping bags, and I employed my sons to transport the cargo from field to table in their toy car (Photo 6; date taken 9-20-14). The fruit was not just ornamental that year; it was largely unblemished and certainly edible.

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In the succeeding years, there was little bounty. The trees grew and did produce fruit each season, but the apples were always spotted or bruised, and by harvest time the toy car was not needed.

I didn’t do much to tend them until— because of Covid fascists—I had to hang around the house in the summer of 2020. I began to take more interest in my fruit trees at this time, but taking an interest and producing a satisfying result did not go hand in glove.

It had been fairly common for the tree to blossom in May, which always portended fruit, but often, as mentioned, the apples would never survive in any kind of healthy way.

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For better results, I consulted landscape architects, my lawn and garden service team, the internet of course, and neighbors who also have fruit trees. Naturally, I received a lot of advice. Neem oil to ward off insects. Other sprays to combat disease. Reflective tape to deter birds. Trimming in winter months only. Unfortunately, nothing seemed to work.

Then, in the summer of 2023, something amazing occurred. I did nothing special to prepare for this year, but the trees produced more fruit than I could imagine. The limbs were so heavy with apples I had to tie up splitting branches. I estimate each tree produced 1,000 apples.

Plenty of them were poached by animals or blemished, but there was so much that even a ten percent haul meant 200 edible apples. The toy car was long gone, but it would not have been able to handle the payload.

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To my consternation, there has been bupkis since 2023. In 2024, the trees didn’t even blossom and not one apple formed. In 2025 and 2026, there were small blossoms, and a few apples began to take shape, but by mid-summer there was nothing at all for the plucking.

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Photo 14 is at the top of the post

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The trees themselves have continued to grow and always appear healthy, but bearing fruit like those two great years (2014 and 2023) seems an impossibility now.


In the succeeding years, there was little bounty. The trees grew and did produce fruit each season, but the apples were always spotted or bruised, and by harvest time the toy car was not needed.

The trees themselves have continued to grow and always appear healthy, but bearing fruit like those two great years (2014 and 2023) seems an impossibility now.

My own very non-scientific theory is the trees have become too big. They were much larger in 2023 than in 2014, so that may disprove my theory, but it’s hard to gainsay they are probably twice as big as when planted. That is, there is too much wood. The branches shoot to the sky and criss-cross each other at every chance. I have trimmed each year, but they grow back quickly.

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But now that this season is effectively over, I’m going to get much more aggressive with trimming and thinning than I have before. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks taking out branches, and the results are much more ‘airy’ trees.

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Experts will probably say this is a mistake, that I should wait until winter (if you call Chat GPT an expert), but like the cop who goes on a hunch rather than by the book, I’m not sitting on my hands until next February.

Whatever the result in 2027, perhaps the point of these apple trees is not the fruit they can produce but the stories they engender. The neem oil, the toy car, wobbling precariously on ladders during trims. And on…
Even so, it would be nice to munch on an unblemished, crispy apples that come from my trees. Check in with me the next season, and I’ll tell you where I stand on journeys and destinations.

Thanks, LEX! What a project! You have kept good records, too.

Time for discussion!

Do you grow apples? Do you want to? How about pears?


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Gardens of The Horde

What's going on in your garden or neighborhood?


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Hope everyone has a nice weekend.


If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening Thread, the address is:

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Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Sep 5


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1 Happy Caturday everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 02:13 PM (Ia/+0)

2 Mentioned before we sem to have a outside rabbit than lives within feet of the house. Ttying not to frightening her we think its a female

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 02:17 PM (Ia/+0)

3 Bluebird at the mealworm feeder right now.

Posted by: Ernst Rohm at September 12, 2026 02:19 PM (RIvkX)

4 Stone fruits are pruned when in bloom or leaf to discourage too much growth at cutting points. I imagine it's the same for other deciduous trees. Don't prune in fireblight season.

Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 02:23 PM (1RGZ5)

5 I didn’t do much to tend them until— because of Covid fascists...

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Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 02:25 PM (RIvkX)

6 When all of us neighborhood kids were growing up in our residential neighborhood there was still a fairly large (for little kids) vacant lot owned by a certain Mr. Hackett (rumored to shoot at kids with a shotgun loaded with rock salt). It was at one time pasture or farm ground, and overgrown. It had a number of wild apple trees, and it had the best tasting green apples ever. I didn't care for them ripe, they seemed mealy and not crisp the way I thought an apple ought to be. They never turned solid red.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 02:26 PM (/ijqt)

7 I am tending to a fig tree planted this year. I've been fighting the fact that I have grown into an old, Italian man for quite some time now but, alas, the proof to the contrary is doing well right in my own back yard.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 12, 2026 02:30 PM (m4Pfq)

8 Just trying to keep the losses down, epically hot and dry around here.

Posted by: Miflin at September 12, 2026 02:30 PM (aA6YN)

9 I am wondering if Lex's neighbor's crabapple pollinates his apples.

Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 02:32 PM (1RGZ5)

10 I would love to eat an apple, even that green one, but alas, I has only 10 teefs.

Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 02:34 PM (LHPAg)

11 Lex, that story was an emotional rollercoaster! I feel your pain: growing up, we had a beautiful apple tree that threw off tons of tart green apples, but they were to often twisted and wormy.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 02:43 PM (kpS4V)

12 Speaking as a person with little actual knowledge of the problem, those trees need to be way thinned out so there is room for sunlight, and later, apples. Now.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 12, 2026 02:45 PM (sl73Y)

13 often twisted and wormy.
Used to date her.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 02:45 PM (t59Wi)

14 My vegetable garden is definitely winding down for the season, although the hot peppers are still going great guns and the zucchini plant is punching above its weight.

I won't bother to plant corn next year. I got a few slender ears of pretty blue corn, which was fun to monitor but kind of a waste of space. Ditto the sunflowers, although the birds and bees loved them.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 02:47 PM (kpS4V)

15 "the trees produced more fruit than I could imagine"
What a great problem to have. Great post, KT!

Posted by: 40 Miles North at September 12, 2026 02:48 PM (96qvc)

16 And no more cherry tomatoes! There's such a thing as being too prolific, guys.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 02:49 PM (kpS4V)

17 Fruit trees and plants are my bailiwick. I worked in a large (and varied) orchard for four years in my youth to put money away for college. I learned how to get stung by bees, a bit of Spanish, and lots about growing healthy market acceptable fruit (apples, peaches, pears, berries, grapes, kiwi, you name it).

First off, your apple trees that produced beyond expectations one year, and then dropped off. That's common. It's called alternative bearing, or biennial bearing. They mean the same thing. Essentially, your tree exhausted itself on a good year or two and has to recover to produce again. Not unusual. And, orchards will combat this by pulling excess fruit off during development to assure it doesn't overload the tree's resources. Pruning in early winter is a necessity. You want a flat top to your tree, and solid limbs, not "springers". Insecticide is basically to assure a blemish free apple...nothing more. It's a pain, but if you want the good, perfect fruit it is required. I grow Winesap, Red Delicious, Granny Smith, Yellow Delicious and a couple Japanese apples I can pronounce. I eat a bunch, the rest are for the deer (who can smell them miles away).

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 02:51 PM (dIske)

18 Today I picked and ate the first fig from my Beer's Black container tree. It was tasty and there are more figs maturing on the branches. It needs repotting but I plan to wait until after I pick the rest of the figs. I have a nice clay pot for its new home.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 12, 2026 02:51 PM (OlzlW)

19 I've heard apple trees naturally set more fruit on the more horizontal branches. The skinny branches (water sprouts) that grow straight up just sap the tree's energy.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 12, 2026 02:56 PM (OlzlW)

20 Hey you damn kids, get away from my apple tree!

*!!!BLAM!!!*

Posted by: Mr. Hackett at September 12, 2026 02:59 PM (4Je4D)

21 I love the idea of a container fig tree! Think I'll try it next year.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 03:01 PM (kpS4V)

22 Oh, one other thing on apple trees, specifically. Stay away from nitrogen based fertilizer if fruit is your goal. "Nitrofert" is great if your goal is a beautiful looking tree for your front lawn, but nitrogen based will go right to the leaves first and foremost.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2026 03:03 PM (dIske)

23 You need the book "Grow a Little Fruit Tree". It will teach you how to prune them for a manageable size. And, I have pruned apple trees in a commercial orchard, Granny Smiths grown on wires and kept reachable on a 12' ladder. If you want fruit, you have to prune and you thin the apples when they first set. For manageable trees, you prune in the summer, which discourages growth. Amazon carries the book.

My little trees are trying to recover from a grasshopper attack. I used neem oil. I also used a copper fungicide for rust.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 12, 2026 03:04 PM (bkuEU)

24 How's your bee population? Here we have very nice native bees like mason bees. They only come out when the fruit trees flower, have a pretty short life but a busy one No nests, so they aren't aggressive. Lots of places offer mason bee "houses" for them to place their eggs and offerings of pollen (that then get walled up with mud, hence the name "mason bee").

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at September 12, 2026 03:05 PM (63pwK)

25 I love the photos and story!

I second what Orson wrote about pulling off excess fruit and winter-pruning.

I'm planning to prune the arbor vita this coming winter. They are filling out nicely. In a couple more years, I hope they'll be a proper privacy fence.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 12, 2026 03:06 PM (ao+in)

26 There are two wild apple trees next to each other right off my favorite hiking trail. Can always grab 3 or 4 with no wormholes. They're not pretty, but they're all-natural.

Posted by: Delurker at September 12, 2026 03:07 PM (2Drhq)

27 And, in the battle with the grasshoppers, they have not touched a leaf on the figs. I am starting to wonder if I should put in another Chicago Hardy or two as replacements for anything that doesn't make it. No figs but the trees look good

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 12, 2026 03:09 PM (bkuEU)

28 The garden is mostly done now. We have lows in the low 40s so most everything is going dormant. I still have carrots and potatoes, and they will be good for about a week after hard frost, which can come at any time.

I need to get out and pull bean plants, and clean out the strawberry beds.

The raspberries produced over 10 gallons of raspberries this year, and this after I whacked them down mostly to the ground in the spring. They just grow like weeds here. Big fruits, too, the size of a decent strawberry. Next year I think I will make raspberry wine.

The greenhouse was disappointing this year. Plenty of peppers, but something killed off the cukes halfway through the season, and my tomatoes never produced, at all. Next year I'm putting in drip irrigation and getting a better handle on controlling the heat in there. I think the exhaust fan is too small for the space.

Once I have a kitchen again (end of the month? maybe?) I will start putting up soups and other items for the pantry.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 03:46 PM (Ntshk)

29 Delurker at September 12, 2026 03:07 PM

Wonder how those apple trees got to be "wild" next to a trail? Think someone planted them? A Johnny Appleseed?

Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 04:03 PM (1RGZ5)

30 Wow. Some good information in the post and the comments today!

Here, we have to choose apple varieties that tolerate low chill hours in winter and also high summer heat.

Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 04:07 PM (1RGZ5)

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Here, we have to choose apple varieties that tolerate low chill hours in winter and also high summer heat.
Posted by: KT


Anna and Dorsett.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 12, 2026 04:09 PM (NnhvP)

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Here, we have to choose apple varieties that tolerate low chill hours in winter and also high summer heat.
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Anna and Dorsett.

And Red Fuji and Granny Smith

Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 04:32 PM (1RGZ5)

33 I think Anna and Dorsett require fewer chill hours than the ones I listed. Granny Smith is listed at 400 hours, and some growers also list Pink Lady at 400 chill hours.

Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 04:39 PM (1RGZ5)

34 We had 3 apple trees here-- not sure but believe they were Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, and ??? which was larger, rounder, slightly tart and had firm flesh. Never cared for "delicious" apples anyway-- too mealy and bland.

All were overgrown, dropped wormy fruit all season, and wood was diseased. Attracted unwanted wildlife, too. Got sick of raking them up each week before mowing the yard! I *finally* convinced hubby to let me have them removed. Don't miss them.

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 05:15 PM (rdVOm)

35 JQ at September 12, 2026 05:15 PM

Commercial Red Delicious apples are inferior to the original strain, which is not as pretty.

There are some fine Golden Delicious apples, but flavor may depend on climate, with best quality where nights are cool during ripening.

Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 05:29 PM (1RGZ5)

36 Managing a small orchard is one job I never wanted, and apples are one of my least favorite fruits.

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 05:56 PM (rdVOm)

37 I know we are not supposed to comment on old threads but I was at a pickleball tournament all afternoon. Thanks to all who read and commented…and felt my joy and pain.

Shana Tova!

-Lex

Posted by: Lex at September 12, 2026 07:17 PM (y4H1r)

38 Lex at September 12, 2026 07:17 PM

It's not an old thread yet, Lex. This is Saturday, the day of specialty threads.

Great piece. Thanks.

Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 07:20 PM (1RGZ5)

39 From Boise area: lows 48-56 F, highs 68-88. We did inventory on our chest freezer and found 18 pounds of strawberries! - a strawberry sour beer is planned for this winter.

Green beans are done. We'll pull the last small ears of corn, then that's done. Still picking zucchini, Romas, slicing and cherry tomatoes, but they're all slowing down. When I get enough broccolini tips, I freeze those. I emptied one cloth pot of russet potatoes, got most of 5 pounds. Have not harvested any peppers yet. Still hoping for more ripe cantaloupes despite cooling temperatures.

I roasted 3 roasting pans full of Romas, squeezed the pulp out of the skins, and pureed the pulp. Tomorrow we plan to can up the tomato sauce. We also steam-juiced several pounds of chokecherries, only got a little juice - will make syrup and can that too.

The new bed behind the kitchen is mostly done. I planted the hyacinth bulbs around the center on Friday. Husband wants to get the final course of stone on, before I add the crocuses. Then we put the top dirt layer of dirt in, and wait until spring.

Posted by: Pat* at September 12, 2026 07:35 PM (jyj2g)

40 All the advice on apple trees are what I would say, the best I can add is that you want to look at whether you are getting enough chill hours to set fruit, the Empire [from Pomiferous.com] was developed in upstate NY so it probably needs more chill if you are south of there.

You might look back to see if 2013 and 2022 were longer cold winters.

Also thin out those trees this winter. You want to hollow out the center so you can "throw your hat through it"

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 07:41 PM (rbvCR)

41 as for me, my wife helped me pick a whole row of concord and Thompson grapes, and I pressed and canned 7 gallons (28 quarts) of grape juice.

I am bushed

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 07:43 PM (rbvCR)

A War for Civilization

Well, it's been quite a week for civilization in the USA. Try scrolling through the posts from the archives here from the past week for a sampling of craziness. Mark Steyn has noticed something, too:

This is my ancient column from that day, composed in the hours that followed, when very little was known. There are passages I would write differently today, and some I would not write at all, but I thought we would re-publish it as is, with the original (Spectator) illustration and headline. It was and is "a war for civilisation", but in ways I did not fully grasp until six months later, standing across the street from a Viennese maternity shop.

So here we are, a generation later, when no jihadist needs to fly planes into western skyscrapers - because, in New York as in London as in other western capitals, we have handed Islam the keys to those skyscrapers. In the excerpts from the flight manifests that appeared over the next few days, I was struck by the name of Christine Hanson of Groton, Massachusetts, a two-year-old girl sitting between her parents on a doomed flight. She was last heard crying in the background during her father's telephone call to her grandparents to report that the stewardess had been stabbed. Christine would be approaching thirty now - and I cannot but feel that the intervening years have dishonoured her memory:

Interesting to read what Steyn wrote 25 years ago. What has changed since then?

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I would suggest that we might look back even further than yesterday's 25th anniversary, and think about what we want to teach the kids (a theme here last week). Ayaan Hirsi Ali has written a piece that reminds us that, while the details had not been worked out, there were people who had plans to attack the West long before 9/11.

What Mohamed Atta Was Trying to Tell Us

After 25 years, it is time for the West to face the true cause of 9/11

In April 1996, more than five years before he steered American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower, Mohamed Atta sat in a small Hamburg apartment and wrote his last will and testament. He was 27, an architecture student at the Technical University, the son of a Cairo lawyer, fluent in German, and living comfortably in one of the most affluent societies on earth.

Nothing in his circumstances compelled him to dwell on death. Yet he gave detailed instructions for the handling of his corpse. “I don’t want any women to go to my grave at all during my funeral or on any occasion thereafter,” he wrote. He did not want a pregnant woman, or “a person who is not clean,” to come and say goodbye. The man who washed his body should wear gloves so as not to touch his genitals. He was to be wrapped in three white pieces of unadorned cloth, laid on his right side facing Mecca, and buried “next to good Muslims.” His money was to be divided “according to the Muslim religion as almighty God has asked us to do.”

There is no political program and no mention of foreign policy or economic grievances in the document. There is only a young Muslim man, in a German apartment, arranging to sacrifice his life to Allah in the confidence that Allah will reward his martyrdom in the life to come. The will was witnessed by fellow believers at the al-Quds mosque, where Atta prayed in Arabic, grew his beard, and where, four years later, he would meet the men he would die with.

The document is among the most neglected pieces of evidence from Sept. 11 because it contradicts the explanations of the attack that most Western commentators preferred. Atta was not poor. He was not radicalized by drone strikes that had not yet happened, nor by American support for Israel. He was not in any formal or organizational sense an “Islamist.” Rather, he had an uncompromising and militant commitment to Islam that he was ready to die for.

Yet for 25 years Western elites repeatedly insisted that men like Atta must have been driven by something other than the culture and the faith that provided him with a lens through which his actions seemed both sensible and necessary. After 9/11, intellectuals and policymakers asked “what went wrong?” as though the source of Atta’s animus toward the West was shrouded in some deep mystery. In the Western experience, men had not killed other men over religious questions en masse since the end of the great religious wars of the 17th century. Culture, a term that was once understood to encompass a great many facets of human identity, experience, and belonging—religion included—had also been ruled out. Saying that cultural differences exist and should be respected was a foundation of the multicultural order; the idea that some cultures might lead people to murder each other, for reasons that do not appear in the Western rationalist list of sane causes, struck many Western liberals as too close to racism to bother arguing the point.

Since then, each time the West collided with Islam, much of the Western intellectual class reached for explanations that made sense within its own secular humanist categories: grievance, humiliation, underdevelopment, alienation, foreign policy frustration, or the failure of Western states to properly integrate men like Atta, who were, or must be, inherently no different than immigrants of similar age, class, and educational attainments from Vietnam or Poland, or anyplace else. Since all conflicts are material in origin, it was assumed that they could be settled though material means. . .

Her insights into the thinking of Atta also have relevance to the current Iranian conflict.

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But since Ayaan brought up settling conflicts through material means, we have other adversaries who are quite obsessed with materialism. Mayor Pete's dad translated the works of Gramsci into English, for example. You might want to share the insights below. I am including links to two versions:

Antonio Gramsci - The Most Dangerous Intellectual of the Twentieth Century

Matty Laeh

Sep 06, 2026

PS: This is not my article, is a simple copy from the x account of Krzysztof Szczawinski ; - @Kristof_Poland (consider giving a follow, he has a lot of good articles about socialism)

I don’t usually do this, but he explained what Gramsci was and his ideas way better than I could (even thought I knew about Gramsci for years).

https://x.com/Kristof_Poland/status/2096207075386786042

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The Week in Pictures: Smiling Through the Apocalypse Edition


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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs


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Last week's thread, September 5, "We have no dignity anymore"

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

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1 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 11:19 AM (Ia/+0)

2 Dutifully called em
Onto content

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 11:20 AM (Ia/+0)

3 for 25 years Western elites repeatedly insisted that men like Atta must have been driven by something other than the culture and the faith"

When you have half a century of "all cultures are equal" and "religions are equal", what else would be expected?

Posted by: man at September 12, 2026 11:24 AM (cGjQu)

4 If you wanted to introduce an "I hate poetry" person to good poetry, what's the one poem you'd give them to read?

Psalm 23, of course.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 11:26 AM (a3CJ+)

5 Thx K.T.
Pete Buttgiggle' s father , a professor at Notre Dame, was the head of the Antonio Gramsci society of America. Besides gay, what do you think Buttgiggle believes?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 12, 2026 11:26 AM (N2HNb)

6 Kipling, Service, manly poetry, now ignored or derided. The World is sick and getting sicker.

Posted by: Zombie G. Gordon Liddy at September 12, 2026 11:26 AM (Fn+3X)

7 The Gods of the Copybook Hearings by Kipling is a good start

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 12, 2026 11:28 AM (N2HNb)

8 If you wanted to introduce an "I hate poetry" person to good poetry, what's the one poem you'd give them to read?


The Highwayman. By Alfred Noyes.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:34 AM (aRyyL)

9 There is only a young Muslim man, in a German apartment, arranging to sacrifice his life to Allah in the confidence that Allah will reward his martyrdom in the life to come.
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It doesn't help that mainstream Protestants and some recent Popes have been more focused on saving mother earth, and other purely secular concerns, than saving souls.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 11:35 AM (XvL8K)

10 Our very own house troll Paul spews the 9/11 happened because US support for Israel talking points.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 12, 2026 11:36 AM (2BUGt)

11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z213wdboJQ0

Allen West Explains Radical Islam Perfectly!

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 12, 2026 11:36 AM (jrgJz)

12  If you wanted to introduce an "I hate poetry" person to good poetry, what's the one poem you'd give them to read?

I'd give them 'The Red Wheelbarrow' by William Carlos Williams. It creates an indelible image in your mind with about a dozen words. Imagine what longer poems can do... here it is:

so much depends
upon


a red wheel
barrow


glazed with rain
water


beside the white
chickens

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2026 11:38 AM (QbvHV)

13 If the red wheelbarrow doesn't work, there's always that young man from Nantucket

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2026 11:39 AM (F5Pkl)

14 The banana

Duct taped
To the wall


Rotting.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:40 AM (aRyyL)

15 If you wanted to introduce an "I hate poetry" person to good poetry, what's the one poem you'd give them to read?

It would be hard to pick just one of Muldoon’s finest.

Posted by: Kratwurst at September 12, 2026 11:41 AM (NGBKs)

16 Interesting to read what Steyn wrote 25 years ago.
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Link to what he wrote in "Spectator" on Steynonline.

https://www.steynonline.com/16400/the-way-to-lose

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 12, 2026 11:42 AM (NmD3f)

17 So if muzzies do terrorism because us support for Israel explain the muzzy terrorism in India.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 12, 2026 11:42 AM (2BUGt)

18 I am sure Longfellow poem was read to us. But my best remembrance is 4th grade as we left ever day reciting lines fro Robert Frost's Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 11:42 AM (Ia/+0)

19 Cool, Skip. I memorized that one in about the fourth grade.

Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 11:45 AM (1RGZ5)

20 Little Christine Hanson died for America. Groton is a bucolic little town with a very nice music and arts theater, built by a local benefactor to promote culture. She would have loved growing up in that pretty place, but instead some muslims decided to kill her. Remember her.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 11:46 AM (a6L2j)

21 From Ayaan's piece: "It wasn’t that Western observers were deaf to the logical, organizational, and civilizational dimensions of Islamist movements. What was lacking was the imagination required to believe that they might triumph."

Understanding why lefties love Islam.

Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 11:47 AM (1RGZ5)

22 10 Our very own house troll Paul spews the 9/11 happened because US support for Israel talking points.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
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It is because of people like Pual that we got attacked. Cowardly, degenerate, and evil types that believe themselves to be Secret Kings. About as believable as We Wuz Kangz and Shit.

Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 11:47 AM (E4rtv)

23 Leaves of Grass

Posted by: Monica Lewinsky at September 12, 2026 11:49 AM (J4Dwc)

24 You'd think that all those people calling for Islam's ascendancy would look at the youth of Iran today and ask "why?". You'd think.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 11:50 AM (Riz8t)

25 So if muzzies do terrorism because us support for Israel explain the muzzy terrorism in India.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez

Shut up, they barked.

They can't explain the expansion into Africa, either. US/Israel has nothing to do with it.

They're fucking liars. And people on our side better get their heads out of their asses.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 11:51 AM (EGW4m)

26 24 You'd think that all those people calling for Islam's ascendancy would look at the youth of Iran today and ask "why?". You'd t

Ah, I have it! Real Islam has never been tried!

Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 11:51 AM (Riz8t)

27 Leaves of Grass
Posted by: Monica Lewinsky "

Don't you get leaves of tobacco?

Posted by: man at September 12, 2026 11:51 AM (cGjQu)

28 It always struck me years ago, when I would read historical documents the spooks and social planners published, about how difficult it would be to achieve “global governance” would be effected.

The impetus was understandable, even before atomic weapons were even tested there was a lot of discussion at a high level that such weapons would proliferate and therefore a system or international control was necessary. (The Soviets, of course nixed any such notion)

But they clearly had a coordinated plan for religion in America. It had to be de-fanged. It was too powerful, church attendance was high, and the morals and traditions too ingrained in society.

Some 80 years later, one can see how they incrementally and methodically chipped away at everything. Legislation, crackpot judicial rulings, education in primary schools, media, drugs, etc.

“Well; it worked, didn’t it?” Harry Reid

Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 11:52 AM (aPO7X)

29 It’s one of the great ironies that AWFLs love Islam. It’s like gazelles hoping lions take over.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 12, 2026 11:52 AM (2BUGt)

30 Yeats, "The Second Coming"

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 11:52 AM (a6L2j)

31 My father can still recite "Ozymandius", 80 or more years after memorizing it in school/

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 11:53 AM (a6L2j)

32 I think there's a lot of overlap between our leftist political entities and the Islamic horde currently on a tear through the US.

For one; they share some common political beliefs that overlap with a quasi-religious ideology. The left, and the Islamic politicians we've allowed to attain office are hell bent on our destruction. And the country's. There's common cause between those two groups.

For two; we've been conditioned to accept other cultures... even at our own peril. Nobody wants to be labeled a racist, but to be honest, it's a label that's lost all meaning.

I would imagine in the not-to-distant future there'd be some push-back on all this. Being labeled all sorts of derogatory terms by the left is getting old and people are just now starting to fight back... ineffectively, but it's a start.

I'll be dead and gone, but I'm hoping the kids carry on.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 11:53 AM (2Cry5)

33 It doesn't help that mainstream Protestants and some recent Popes have been more focused on saving mother earth, and other purely secular concerns, than saving souls.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Eh, Christians in Name Only will always exist. As do heresies. And it is always the same cause even for Israel and Judah in the Old Testament.

Too many humans rebel against the word of the Lord and want to create a god in their own image. They make idols of themselves and their feelz rather than do what is right. They excuse evil and promote it under lies like tolerance while attacking what is godly, beautiful, and upright morally.

So killing babies becomes good for them, inviting criminals from abroad to kill, murder and rape is called being a good Samaritan, and coddling those here to terrorize the honest and hard working people is considered as mercy.

All inversions of what is good and what is evil. And that is a sign that those CINOs chose the way of the devil.

Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 11:54 AM (E4rtv)

34 The Owl and the Pussycat.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:55 AM (yEz+x)

35 Some 80 years later, one can see how they incrementally and methodically chipped away at everything. Legislation, crackpot judicial rulings, education in primary schools, media, drugs, etc.

“Well; it worked, didn’t it?” Harry Reid
Posted by: Common Tater

It too will fail. If you have faith as strong as Daniel, or the three Shadrach, Meshach, and Abenego cast in the fiery furnace, all the tricks and snares that befoul society are cast back onto the ones that set them.

Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 11:56 AM (E4rtv)

36 But in its wake, in their objective of removing our religious heritage from the public sohere they expunged all those guardrails in society.

In this huge void or vacuum, a lot of really nasty wicked things moved right in. Oops.

“You can’t legislate morality!!” we were lectured. Yeah, well you can un-legislate it, and someone’s “morality” is going to prevail. They left that part out. Oops.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 11:56 AM (aPO7X)

37 Our local mosque is a complex of buildings, surrounded by large boulders, a water moat, two different gated fences, and with cameras everywhere. It's a fort.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 11:57 AM (zfW44)

38 It’s one of the great ironies that AWFLs love Islam. It’s like gazelles hoping lions take over.

I think in their heart of hearts they really want a man to tell them what to do. In the Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky wrote that free will is something most people don't want; in this case, it's really easy to see. The AWFLs won't acknowledge their craving for being controlled to themselves, because to do so would destroy their entire way of viewing the world and themselves.

: The Inquisitor states that people do not actually want freedom because it brings agonizing moral responsibility and doubt; instead, they desperately want bread, miracles, and someone to take away their free will and tell them what to do.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 11:57 AM (Riz8t)

39 29 It’s one of the great ironies that AWFLs love Islam. It’s like gazelles hoping lions take over.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
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Underpants gnome theology except the Islamists are prepared for what comes next, the idiot AWFLs cheering Charlie Kirk's death will be bound in burqas as baby factories. It is as if the AWFLs want this outcome because they are too frightened and weak to oppose this destiny.

Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 11:59 AM (E4rtv)

40 Better get the UN outta NY. I have a feeling the goatrapers are slowly taking it over.

They're establishing beach heads all over the country.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 12:00 PM (EGW4m)

41 All I'll add is that our betters have waded us into that Middle Eastern shithole time after time with the same thinking- we can somehow apply our ideals and principles to a world that, while they may have some, they are not ours. And the weak-minded among the populations of the West are OK going along with it, if not enthusiastic. A cynical man would say there's a plan...

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 12, 2026 12:00 PM (QaH55)

42 "If you wanted to introduce an 'I hate poetry' person to good poetry, what's the one poem you'd give them to read?"

Aurora Leigh

then we could both hate it together.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd stirring the pot at September 12, 2026 12:00 PM (r7+Q7)

43 I would imagine in the not-to-distant future there'd be some push-back on all this.
——-

I was looking for that 35 years ago. I’m not very optimistic at this point. America is on a serious, almost fatal time-delay.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 12:00 PM (aPO7X)

44 Eh, Christians in Name Only will always exist. As do heresies. And it is always the same cause even for Israel and Judah in the Old Testament.

Posted by: whig
____________

Yes, but you have to admit that the long term trend in the west (I'd say ever since the enlightenment and then the French Revolution) is for more and more CINOs or the outright irreligious.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 12:01 PM (XvL8K)

45 16 Interesting to read what Steyn wrote 25 years ago.
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Link to what he wrote in "Spectator" on Steynonline.

https://www.steynonline.com/16400/the-way-to-lose
Posted by: olddog in mo at September 12, 2026 11:42 AM (NmD3f)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 12:01 PM (odBC9)

46 The biggest mistake made by the likes of Mussolini, The Tsars, the Nationalist Chinese, Batista, hell anyone and everyone in power anywhere at anytime who had marxists in their custody was letting them live and not shooting them. All of them. No big show trials, no court house fanfare, no 2 years for this or 5 years for that. Just shoot them out back behind the prison.

Letting them live just spread the virus.

Posted by: Stamp Out The Virus Of Marxism at September 12, 2026 12:01 PM (cCXR+)

47 How about that Norm MacDonald-inspired 9/11 lead article in the New York Times? Those guys are the worst of the worst.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 12:01 PM (zfW44)

48 Well shucks. It still boils down to the islam.

Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 12:01 PM (LHPAg)

49 All I'll add is that our betters have waded us into that Middle Eastern shithole time after time with the same thinking- we can somehow apply our ideals and principles to a world that, while they may have some, they are not ours"

This

Posted by: man at September 12, 2026 12:02 PM (cGjQu)

50 > Our local mosque is a complex of buildings, surrounded by large boulders, a water moat, two different gated fences, and with cameras everywhere. It's a fort.
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It's also an armory.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 12:03 PM (2Cry5)

51 A beautiful day in Waxhaw, NC.

Posted by: mrp55net at September 12, 2026 12:03 PM (dT1rV)

52 The Inquisitor states that people do not actually want freedom because it brings agonizing moral responsibility and doubt; instead, they desperately want bread, miracles, and someone to take away their free will and tell them what to do.
Posted by: Archimedes

I think may be a function of culture. A real boss does not have to proclaim such on social media; people know it instinctively. So Girlbossism is rather like posing and bragging to raise social status among their competitors rather than actuality.

Social media is like a twisted mirror on reality and like the palantir after Sauron obtained one, it takes a strong mind with principles plus the Holy Spirit whispering wisdom and discernment in the ear to get useful information from it.

Weaker people either despair into blackpillism or simply roll over to go with the tide whichever way it is flowing.

Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:03 PM (E4rtv)

53 VITAE SUMMA BREVIS SPEM NOS VETET INCOHARE LONGAM
They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate;
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.
-- Ernest Dowson, 1867-1900 --

Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 12:04 PM (Riz8t)

54 Are you now suggesting that an error was made in the 60s and 90s by giving the most ta\\radical Saudi Wahhabists billions of dollars to fight the Russians in Afghanistan?

If so, that shipped already sailed. You did think it was a good idea back then. Sauis actively promoted THE most radical sect of that religion.

Posted by: Aliss at September 12, 2026 12:05 PM (LN9Ll)

55 Bravely bold Sir Robin rode forth from Camelot.
He was not afraid to die, O brave Sir Robin.
He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways,
Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin!
He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp,
Or to have his eyes gouged out and his elbows broken,
To have his kneecaps split and his body burned away
And his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Robin!
His head smashed in and his heart cut out
And his liver removed and his bowels unplugged
And his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off
And his pen--
Brave Sir Robin ran away,
Bravely ran away, away.
When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
And gallantly, he chickened out. Bravely taking to his feet,
He beat a very brave retreat,
Bravest of the brave, Sir Robin.
He is packing it in and packing it up
And sneaking away and buggering up
And chickening out and pissing off home,
Yes, bravely he is throwing in the sponge.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 12:06 PM (Riz8t)

56 27 Leaves of Grass
Posted by: Monica Lewinsky "

Don't you get leaves of tobacco?
Posted by: man at September 12, 2026 11:51 AM (cGjQu)

We're getting dangerously close to puns here. Let's not blow it.

Posted by: Bilwis - Wizard of Clwyd stirring the pot at September 12, 2026 12:06 PM (r7+Q7)

57 I think may be a function of culture. A real boss does not have to proclaim such on social media; people know it instinctively. So Girlbossism is rather like posing and bragging to raise social status among their competitors rather than actuality.


As long as they are non-practicing whites, all is well.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 12:08 PM (Riz8t)

58 I am not a poetry lover, but do appreciate good poetry

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 12:08 PM (Ia/+0)

59 Yes, but you have to admit that the long term trend in the west (I'd say ever since the enlightenment and then the French Revolution) is for more and more CINOs or the outright irreligious.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

I can't say that. I suspect rebelling against the Lord and all his teachings is common across the ages. We just call it different movements and that in part is because institutions including churches and sects are made of mankind and will fail just like mankind often enough. But the Word of the Lord never will until the end of times despite the rise and decline of institutions.

We don't openly do idolatry aside from the idiots that play around with dark forces, but leftist ideology has created an idol like Frankenstein (government--popular will--our democracy)--a man made monster that can and will turn on humanity.

Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:08 PM (E4rtv)

60 YOU gave the jihadists the power by funding them and you still will not admit or apologize for that mega mistake.

Posted by: Aliss at September 12, 2026 12:09 PM (LN9Ll)

61 THAT was the price you paid for cheap oil

Posted by: Aliss at September 12, 2026 12:10 PM (LN9Ll)

62 As long as they are non-practicing whites, all is well.
Posted by: Archimedes

Another example of twisted hypergamy that leaves only pain, failure, and absence from God in its wake. Denying that you are as God created you is a sin. We can be no other than what he made us. But what we do with the raw materials is up to us under free will.

Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:10 PM (E4rtv)

63 From Ayaan's piece: "It wasn’t that Western observers were deaf to the logical, organizational, and civilizational dimensions of Islamist movements. What was lacking was the imagination required to believe that they might triumph."

Understanding why lefties love Islam.
Posted by: KT at September 12, 2026 11:47 AM (1RGZ5)

I recall the high-fiving and grab-assing following the 1993 WTC bombing. The captured terrorists were mocked for the fact they were caught because one of them tried to get the deposit back from the Ryder truck rental that carried in the bomb.

We (I among them at the time) laughed when it was revealed they wanted to topple one tower into the other. The book 102 Minutes chronicles the period between that and the successful mission less than a decade later. No one is laughing now, but a lot of people have gone back to sleep, hoping it was all just a bad dream..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 12:11 PM (nbLIj)

64 It’s one of the great ironies that AWFLs love Islam. It’s like gazelles hoping lions take over.

They just want to get ploughed not-quite-consensually by swarthy exotic men who smell like goat. It's the bad boy thing, international edition.

Posted by: But they REALLY want a good man at September 12, 2026 12:12 PM (TbWk/)

65 58 I am not a poetry lover, but do appreciate good poetry
Posted by: Skip

Try the Bible. Has some amazing poetry that somehow works out regardless of the languages used. And whenever you feeling on top of the world, the Book of Ecclesiastes or Book of Job is there to tell you that this too in this world will pass.

This world is to harden and forge people so that they can go to the Father and be with him eternally as the choir of the righteous or choose the lot of those rebelling against him.

Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:13 PM (E4rtv)

66 I used to think as soon as the oil runs dry we’re done having to worry about these goat fuckers. Then someone had the brilliant idea of importing them here by the millions.

Thanks Dubya.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 12, 2026 12:13 PM (2BUGt)

67 If you wanted to introduce an "I hate poetry" person to good poetry, what's the one poem you'd give them to read?

For a young man it would be Kipling's "If". That is how one becomes the heroic lone jury holdout.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at September 12, 2026 12:15 PM (91TQ2)

68 57 I think may be a function of culture. A real boss does not have to proclaim such on social media; people know it instinctively. So Girlbossism is rather like posing and bragging to raise social status among their competitors rather than actuality.

Any woman who must say "I am the Queen" is no true Queen.

Posted by: Tywin Lannister at September 12, 2026 12:17 PM (TbWk/)

69 Good morning, hot coffee and content. bbl

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 12:18 PM (VQ0bX)

70 The Cremation of Sam McGee.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:19 PM (1z8ji)

71 "The Second Coming" and "Ozymandias" are my top two poems for Dudes Who Say They Hate Poetry. Some others:

Richard Cory.

Invictus.

Death of the Ball Turret Gunner.

Charge of the Light Brigade.

Dulce et Decorum Est.

They all pack a punch, and like all poetry, should be read aloud for maximum effect.



Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at September 12, 2026 12:20 PM (5YmYl)

72 Letting them live just spread the virus.
Posted by: Stamp Out The Virus Of Marxism

You can't. It is because ideas will always be used to try to win power for people who are not in the power structure but want to be. Cromwell had his levellers to deal with. The radical Anabaptists in Germany had a similar idea. You get the divine right of kings because kings liked it. And so on.

What we have to do is far more sobering--realizing there is no permanent victory, no permanent defeat until the end times. So we brace ourselves and contest this portion of devilment in our times that is our lot during our lifespan.

We are already assured of victory because Christ has already won that victory for the faithful by his sacrifice. So Gramsci too and his progeny will flag and fail like all of mankind's efforts do. And then another will pop up rehashing the same old story--something for nothing, do as thou wilt, and every other devil inspired movement.

Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:20 PM (E4rtv)

73 Weaker people either despair into blackpillism or simply roll over to go with the tide whichever way it is flowing.
Posted by: whig
________

But the Grand Inquisitor's point was that the weaker people comprise the vast majority of the population, and that it was thus unfair for Christ to place the immense burden of free will on them.

Dostoyevsky gave no rational answer to this, but instead had Christ kiss the Grand Inquisitor at the end. Which was the only possible answer since faith is not based on the rational. For now we see through a glass, darkly.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 12:21 PM (XvL8K)

74 I guess we can add "failure to execute Antonia Gramsci" to the crimes of Italian Fascism.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 12, 2026 12:22 PM (amcLV)

75 58 I am not a poetry lover, but do appreciate good poetry
Posted by: Skip

On the other hand, the un-bowdlerized saga of Eskimo Nell might be more to AOS tastes in poetry.

Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:22 PM (E4rtv)

76 In contrast to what our political betters have in mind with regards to the Islamic horde here in the US, at least some in the Trump administration have publicly said their presence here is a problem.

Maybe lumped in with all the other hordes, but I think some in the administration are keenly aware of the threat.

Yet, we can't seem to deport illegals here without some rogue judge halting it. There are a lot of hurdles to overcome with our own judiciary in order to properly deal with the threat from Islamists.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 12:22 PM (2Cry5)

77 They all pack a punch, and like all poetry, should be read aloud for maximum effect.



Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at September 12, 2026 12:20 PM (5YmYl)
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Tennyson's "The Revenge."

*mic drop*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 12, 2026 12:25 PM (amcLV)

78 But the Grand Inquisitor's point was that the weaker people comprise the vast majority of the population, and that it was thus unfair for Christ to place the immense burden of free will on them.

Dostoyevsky gave no rational answer to this, but instead had Christ kiss the Grand Inquisitor at the end. Which was the only possible answer since faith is not based on the rational. For now we see through a glass, darkly.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

All of us are weak, even Peter denied Christ three times from fear. It is only by reliance on Christ, not ourselves and our strength that we can conquer.

That is the part that the Grand Inquisitor did not get. We cannot triumph ourselves with free will; we can only do so in accordance with God's will and with his blessings.

That is the part of Christianity that people including Islamists fail to get. Christ is there to help us, succor us when we are floundering, help us deal with temptation that can ensnare us, but we have to ask him and humble ourselves. Even the strongest among us will falter and fail without that divine assistance but with it, we cannot fail.

Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:26 PM (E4rtv)

79 17 So if muzzies do terrorism because us support for Israel explain the muzzy terrorism in India.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
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Their goals are conquest and degrade. It doesn't matter the opponent.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 12:27 PM (VQ0bX)

80 Any woman who must say "I am the Queen" is no true Queen.
Posted by: Tywin Lannister
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Funny but pretty much true.

Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:28 PM (E4rtv)

81 Our local mosque is a complex of buildings, surrounded by large boulders, a water moat, two different gated fences, and with cameras everywhere. It's a fort.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 11:57 AM (zfW44)

Makes it hard to get out when the mortar barrage starts.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:29 PM (1z8ji)

82 Some of us keep telling people, the CORRECT reaction to 9/11 is the one that imagines and brings to life the reaction to what would have happened if the Capitol-targeting flight wasn't delayed on the tarmac, for if the Capital was struck within minutes of the WTC or earlier, our reaction as a people of some 300 million would be WAY different from the one that quickly soured on the Iraq war. After all, this, and the message it would have sent (all those dead Republican and Democrat lawmakers) is what Atta and Osama WANTED us to internalize.

And if not for the tarmac delay, they would have gotten a reaction from us far beyond their wettest dreams. Not to their worldly benefit, of course, whatever one thinks of their death-wish.

(For one, just perhaps, the Masjid Al-Haram might not have been standing for much longer.)

Posted by: Garfunkel's Sowed Oats at September 12, 2026 12:29 PM (XXR9+)

83 Letting them live just spread the virus.
Posted by: Stamp Out The Virus Of Marxism at September 12, 2026 12:01 PM (cCXR+)

Same could be said for jihadis. Why hasn't Nidal Hassan been scragged yet? Get the stick out of your ass, people, and fucking do it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:31 PM (1z8ji)

84 Civics was taught in grammar school -- a religious grammar school ‐- I attended fifty plus years ago. I doubt it's taught anymore. I know they picked the worst people, but Jay Leno's interviews of students on the sidewalk is tragic

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 12, 2026 12:33 PM (MEjZB)

85 Something I didn't realize when I was young is the role of demoralization in making a civilization ripe for conquest. Now I see its insidious influence acting on soft minds.

Yesterday on campus, I was approached by a Boomer hippie type who wanted to give me a brochure about how our university was instrumental in promoting Nazism in Germany. He claimed this information was crucial considering the rising fascism in our country and the danger Trump poses. I told him that Trump is fighting fascism harder than just about anyone else and I'm deeply grateful for his devotion to that cause. I wonder what responses the hippie got from the young students.

Anyway, I've come to despise the efforts to pile guilt and shame on people for a past that they weren't even a part of, especially since this effort is usually paired with encouragement to engage in current immorality (I'm not talking strictly sexual immorality, although that plays a significant introductory role). I suspect that if I had engaged this guy further, I would have uncovered many of the unsavory aspects of leftism, like anti-semitism, infanticide, suppressing unapproved speech, turning criminals loose on society.

Posted by: Emmie at September 12, 2026 12:34 PM (OlzlW)

86 Islam is out to conquer the world

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 12:34 PM (Ia/+0)

87 85 If i were more partisan, I would have pointed out that the time frame he was concerned about was when Arkansas was under Democrat control.

Posted by: Emmie at September 12, 2026 12:35 PM (OlzlW)

88 Makes it hard to get out when the mortar barrage starts.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:29 PM (1z8ji)
Yea, verily.

Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 12:36 PM (LHPAg)

89 Have you heard of the wonderful one-horse shay
That ran a hundred years to the day
And then of a sudden it---Ah, but stay
I'll tell you what happened without delay...

Posted by: Wenda at September 12, 2026 12:38 PM (uSgX5)

90 37 Our local mosque is a complex of buildings, surrounded by large boulders, a water moat, two different gated fences, and with cameras everywhere. It's a fort.

Posted by: Huck Follywood
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All mosques should be raided and searched.

Simultaneously would be best.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 12:40 PM (VQ0bX)

91 I was in 1st grade in 1976, and our teacher, Mrs. Weishauer, had us memorize The Midnight Ride.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at September 12, 2026 12:43 PM (gUs21)

92 I believe that 6 months later, Mark Steyn watched a continuous stream of Muslim women enter the maternity shop dressed in muslim garb. He did not see any european women enter; he realized demographics were on the side of muslims

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 12, 2026 12:45 PM (MEjZB)

93 Makes it hard to get out when the mortar barrage starts.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:29 PM (1z8ji)
3500 of them? Maybe in Free America, but do we have the capability to overcome law enforcement in blue sh tholes?

Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 12:45 PM (LHPAg)

94 The deliberately organized & coordinated scientific manipulation of minds and attitudes really only got going at the beginning of the 20th century. Or at least technology had reached a level where it was far more insidious and pervasive. The Socialists perfected this to an art form.

In addition to the Frankfurt School communists imported in the 30s there was a large cohort of nazis imported after the war in the 1950s, including rocket scientists, but also chemical warfare scientists, propaganda specialists and similar.

These cast of characters have had an outsize influence in the last 80 years here in America that I think is largely unknown. Yes, it is recognized an open air insane asylum in many places, but nobody quite understands why, or how this happened.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 12:45 PM (aPO7X)

95 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbtUwsOhuT8

The Young British Soldier

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 12, 2026 12:47 PM (jrgJz)

96 Makes it hard to get out when the mortar barrage starts.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:29 PM (1z8ji)
3500 of them? Maybe in Free America, but do we have the capability to overcome law enforcement in blue sh tholes?
Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 12:45 PM (LHPAg)

Well, I am assuming some event occurs that causes the powers that be to declare all islam to be the enemy. Which will eventually happen, because they cannot help themselves.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:49 PM (1z8ji)

97 "...I was struck by the name of Christine Hanson of Groton, Massachusetts, a two-year-old girl sitting between her parents on a doomed flight. She was last heard crying in the background during her father's telephone call to her grandparents to report that the stewardess had been stabbed. Christine would be approaching thirty now - and I cannot but feel that the intervening years have dishonoured her memory:"

Peter Hanson grew up in Easton, CT, where I live now. Yesterday, we dedicated the 25th anniversary ceremony at the 9/11 Memorial Garden in front of Town Hall to the Hanson family - Christine, Sue Kim, and Peter Hanson. There were several people there - including our First Selectman - who grew up with Peter. The last speaker also knew Peter from Easton, and was working on the 64th floor of the South Tower when the plane that the Hansons were on struck the WTC. After he evacuated the tower, he was eventually reunited with his wife and six-week-old daughter and went up to VT to decompress. While there, they ended up receiving a baby gift in the mail, addressed to the daughter. It was from the Hansons.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 12, 2026 12:53 PM (/ZuMP)

98 'Civics' was replaced by 'Sociology'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 12, 2026 12:55 PM (XeU6L)

99 Islam delenda est.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2026 12:58 PM (TlKpx)

100 66 I used to think as soon as the oil runs dry we’re done having to worry about these goat fuckers. Then someone had the brilliant idea of importing them here by the millions.

Thanks Dubya.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez
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Bush, the Bush's, are mere functionaries of the Borg or Administrative State or call the Board of Directors what you will.
_Politburo

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 12:58 PM (VQ0bX)

101 Yesterday on campus, I was approached by a Boomer hippie type who wanted to give me a brochure about how our university was instrumental in promoting Nazism in Germany. He claimed this information was crucial considering the rising fascism in our country and the danger Trump poses.

Me: If he's the fascist you say he is, why are you free to wander around passing out leaflets denouncing him? I'll wait.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 01:01 PM (Riz8t)

102 3500 of them? Maybe in Free America, but do we have the capability to overcome law enforcement in blue sh tholes?
Posted by: Eromero

I have ideas. OPSEC

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 01:01 PM (vnlVL)

103 I like to picture the hijackers, indeed all muslim martyrs, getting roundly rogered by their 72 virginal hormone-crazed teenage boys

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2026 01:03 PM (ouubj)

104 Yet, we can't seem to deport illegals here without some rogue judge halting it. There are a lot of hurdles to overcome with our own judiciary in order to properly deal with the threat from Islamists.

Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Regaining the balance of powers, putting the judiciary back into and equal third and getting rid of radical judges who do not respect the Constitution or the rule of law is a major necessity to the continuation of this Republic.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:04 PM (VQ0bX)

105 There is no radical islam. There is only islam.

Posted by: free tibet at September 12, 2026 01:04 PM (iNp3L)

106 There is no radical islam. There is only islam.

Or Zuul. There is only Zuul.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2026 01:05 PM (Riz8t)

107 I'm still expecting to start a trinitite collection from the 1000 most sacred places in Islam.

But by that time, it might include samples from Dearborn, London, Windsorstan, Berlin.

I still believe we'll win. And most of our dead will be deadweight leftists anyways and no great loss. Actually, no loss at all.

Everyone have a good weekend.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 12, 2026 01:05 PM (Sco7b)

108 Makes it hard to get out when the mortar barrage starts.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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If we only had mortars. They won't be fighting our military they will be fighting us in the streets just as they are in Iran.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:08 PM (VQ0bX)

109 They infest, invade and erode from the inside out.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:09 PM (VQ0bX)

110
If you wanted to introduce an "I hate poetry" person to good poetry, what's the one poem you'd give them to read?

For the boys: Robert W. Service

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 01:15 PM (eRlcH)

111 > If we only had mortars. They won't be fighting our military they will be fighting us in the streets just as they are in Iran.
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I imagine a number of those men from the middle east who jumped the border under *biden's reign are now setting up shop in mosques around the country, collecting weapons and explosives for "later use."

On us.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 01:16 PM (2Cry5)

112 If it's a poem, I'm not going to read it, period.

Poems are for songs for the heartbroken.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 12, 2026 01:17 PM (g8Ew8)

113 Or Zuul. There is only Zuul.
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Zuul is extinct Islam flourishes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:18 PM (VQ0bX)

114 Thanks Dubya.

Remember, during the 2000 election Dubya said that Arabs should get less scrutiny in airports.

I don't think that anyone's reputation has collapsed more in the last twenty-five years than W.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 12, 2026 01:22 PM (aD4fx)

115 Civilization is always in upheaval. Society is always changing. People tend to forget that peace is a luxury to be worked for.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 01:23 PM (E0Et6)

116 Read Bush is still spewing that Islam is a religion of peace crap yesterday

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 01:23 PM (Ia/+0)

117
For the boys: Robert W. Service
Posted by: Hadrian
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Good choice. In HS (all boys), my English teacher had the class memorize 'The Cremation of Sam Mcgee'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 12, 2026 01:24 PM (XeU6L)

118 When the socialists think they are in control, then they will start murdering their allies.

Good luck in Dearbornistan.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 01:24 PM (gXiuU)

119 What we have to do is far more sobering--realizing there is no permanent victory, no permanent defeat until the end times. So we brace ourselves and contest this portion of devilment in our times that is our lot during our lifespan.

Whig, this is so well-put I copied it down to think about. Thank you.

Posted by: RI Red at September 12, 2026 01:24 PM (jkyX4)

120 Have a FWP, haven't found mh reading glasses all week. There here, but where. Going to try reading book without them.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 01:25 PM (Ia/+0)

121 120 Have a FWP, haven't found mh reading glasses all week. There here, but where. Going to try reading book without them.
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 01:25 PM (Ia/+0)

You need glasses to read, but since you can't see you can't find your glasses. That's a Catch 20/20.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 12, 2026 01:26 PM (/ZuMP)

122 I don't think that anyone's reputation has collapsed more in the last twenty-five years than W.

Besides the "religion of peace" drivel, W. helped set the stage for the Deep State's attempts to overthrow the elected government.

On September 12th, after the worst intelligence failure in the history of the United States, the intelligence agencies prepared themselves for the mass firings that would surely follow after this disaster.

Bush fired no one. That convinced the Comeys and Brennans that they were bulletproof, and that they could try to overthrow the elected government of the United States without consequence.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 12, 2026 01:27 PM (aD4fx)

123 Have a FWP, haven't found mh reading glasses all week. There here, but where. Going to try reading book without them.
Posted by: Skip
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Local drug store, ~$5:00 for cheapies that kinda work. I've been avoiding getting a prescription pair.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 12, 2026 01:27 PM (XeU6L)

124 Even the strongest among us will falter and fail without that divine assistance but with it, we cannot fail.
Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:26 PM (E4rtv)

Bullshit. Even as a good Christian, you'll still fail, sometimes badly. Belief in God gives one the strength to admit it, correct it, then get back on your feet and move on.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 12, 2026 01:29 PM (g8Ew8)

125 In the War for Civilization, we will emerge victorious!

Posted by: Big Penguin at September 12, 2026 01:29 PM (0sNs1)

126 Thank you KT for writing on this important topic.

Hirsi Ali's book "Infidel" was transformative for my view of the current crisis.

She is brilliant (so is her husband.)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 01:30 PM (RIvkX)

127 When the socialists think they are in control, then they will start murdering their allies.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2026 01:24 PM

Qué? That's a rather cynical thing to say, Seňorita!

Posted by: Che Guevara at September 12, 2026 01:31 PM (0sNs1)

128 Read Bush is still spewing that Islam is a religion of peace crap yesterday
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 01:23 PM (Ia/+0)
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Hard to believe yet not hard to believe.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 01:32 PM (RIvkX)

129
Have a FWP, haven't found mh reading glasses all week. There here, but where. Going to try reading book without them.
Posted by: Skip
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Local drug store, ~$5:00 for cheapies that kinda work. I've been avoiding getting a prescription pair.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Buy several pair and leave them about the house.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 01:33 PM (Cqx++)

130 Qué? That's a rather cynical thing to say, Seňorita!
Posted by: Che Guevara at September 12, 2026 01:31 PM (0sNs1)
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Was?

Posted by: Ernst Rohm at September 12, 2026 01:33 PM (RIvkX)

131 Qué? That's a rather cynical thing to say, Seňorita!
Posted by: Che Guevara at September 12, 2026 01:31 PM (0sNs1)
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Was?
Posted by: Ernst Rohm at September 12, 2026 01:33 PM (RIvkX)

Tell me about it.

Posted by: Leon Trotsky at September 12, 2026 01:39 PM (eRlcH)

132

Was?
Posted by: Ernst Rohm
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Lately been reading this. A very detailed history
https://shorturl.at/xydXr

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 12, 2026 01:40 PM (XeU6L)

133 The engraver should be shot, metaphorically.

https://tinyurl.com/3tckctas

Posted by: javems at September 12, 2026 01:45 PM (zFsEm)

134 Very nice day outside. This evening going with my sister and takkng my dad to a drone light show.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 01:47 PM (Ia/+0)

135 > The engraver should be shot, metaphorically.
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Unfortunate juxtaposition.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 01:49 PM (2Cry5)

136 culture is politics by other means – and that the side that controls the culture wins, regardless of who wins the elections

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:53 PM (VQ0bX)

137 Read Bush is still spewing that Islam is a religion of peace crap yesterday
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 01:23 PM (Ia/+0)
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Hard to believe yet not hard to believe.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 01:32 PM (RIvkX)

He's nothing but a soy and estrogen-soaked milquetoast pussy who's one of many of the deep state's sellouts by the muzzies.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 12, 2026 01:55 PM (g8Ew8)

138 We have been well informed and well warned about the true nature of Islam since its very beginning. For 14 centuries history has amply demonstrated the fact that this ideology retains an adamantine grip on its death cult origin. In every century, scholars and laborers, warriors and clerics, rulers and commoners alike have all given witness to the unchanging nature of Islam’s progress throughout the world — submission before the sword. That not every muslim bears a sword is of no matter to the nature of Islam, nor is the alleged ‘silent majority’ of so-called ‘moderate muslims’, just as an apostate Christian is of no matter to the nature of Christianity. Of course, the true muslim has no qualms in showing the difference in how such apostasy is handled…

(cont.)

Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 01:55 PM (eTh1u)

139 (cont.)
There can be no accommodation with those who wish to enslave and kill you. Unfortunately, it is our own civility that has been our undoing in dealing with the problem of Islam. The modern, enlightened Western Civilization has in varying degrees throughout those nations where it holds sway rejected its Spiritual underpinnings in favor of a relentless secularism. This has led to a blindness that prevents them from comprehending what it is that they are seeing in those who hold to the tenets of Islam. The philosophies and fantasies of those who hold power and influence in our culture and polity have declared that all creeds, castes and cultures are equal, and that there is no objective right or wrong to measure between them. All testimony to the contrary from the past is dismissed as ‘unenlightened provincialism,’ and all evidence in the present is equivocated and dissembled as merely a reaction to our past provocations and lingering biases. The calls for an ‘Islamic Reformation’ miss the mark by virtue of the fact that that is indeed what is taking place already — the truly faithful have begun to wrest he faith away from the apostate.
(cont.)

Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 01:56 PM (eTh1u)

140 (cont.)
Meanwhile, Islam looks at the world from its unchanging perspective and sees what it has always seen; lands full of dhimmis and kafirs awaiting the inevitable conquest of the one true faith. Their ‘hearts and minds’ — even the so-called ‘moderates’ — are unwilling to be changed to hold to the secular Western notions of ‘tolerance’ and ‘equality.’ Their faith holds as a tenet that it is a good work to lie to the unfaithful, and vice in the pursuit of their ‘virtue’ is no barrier to their paradise, especially when its purchase can be made with the blood of unbelievers. And now, thanks to the insanity of those leaders in Europe who have sown the winds of demographic suicide through so-called progressive policies like abortion and one-child initiatives, they are reaping the whirlwind of invasion by legions of young men who are unencumbered by such “enlightenment” — and some welcome them with open arms! I fear there will be no Charles Martel to turn the tide back this time.
(cont.)

Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 01:57 PM (eTh1u)

141 Buy several pair and leave them about the house.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 01:33 PM (Cqx++)
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That's what I do.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at September 12, 2026 01:58 PM (Rln0i)

142 (cont.)
So we are left with a hope that Islam will return to the apostates, which is foolishly unrealistic, given the witness of those Judeo-Christian denominations and sects who have done likewise, only to see their branch shrivel and die through the attrition of death, denial, and desertion. And a return to the centuries of isolation and Internecine conflicts that marked the Islamic world before we started marking lines on maps is no longer possible — that djinn is out of the bottle. Unless Islam is eradicated, there will always be conflict. Reducing Mecca and all the other major Islamic centers and governments to radioactive slag would not be enough. But as genocide is anathema to the civilized mind, it is a conflict that we can never truly end. But we must never never never never NEVER SUBMIT!

Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 01:58 PM (eTh1u)

143 Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 01:56 PM (eTh1u)

Paragraphs are your friends.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 12, 2026 01:59 PM (g8Ew8)

144 >>> If the red wheelbarrow doesn't work, there's always that young man from Nantucket
Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2026 11:39 AM (F5Pkl)

*golf clap*

Posted by: Max Power at September 12, 2026 02:03 PM (q177U)

145 >>for 25 years Western elites repeatedly insisted that men like Atta must have been driven by something other than the culture and the faith"
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>>When you have half a century of "all cultures are equal" and "religions are equal", what else would be expected?
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We've been watching the 9/11 shows on Nat Geo and the History channels. They've been making these for years, telling the stories of various survivors, including footage, etc.

This year I was really struck by how New York-y they all were - the accents, the obviously Irish and Italian first responders were, how they had a lot of family involved (family there for generations), the NYC sensibilities and humor. It is delightful, but also so sad, knowing this kind of New York-iness is being replaced with mass foreign immigration and "diversity" that is celebrates/valued over the long-time locals who've made this city great.

That, and the sheer, unhesitant heroics. THAT is a value of ours we take for granted, the notion that of course co-workers will carry each other down the stairs, that not just FDNY, bust civilians run toward the chaos, run UP the stairs to save as many as they can. Not all cultures do that.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 02:03 PM (rOKnE)

146 The above commentary was something I wrote for another blog about 16 years ago (RIP Threedonia), minus the quotes from historical accounts that bore witness to the origin of the death cult.

I agree with Mark Steyn and others -- we lost the "War on 'Terror'" the very moment GWB stood in front of those ideological fellow travelers of the bastards who flew those planes and basically surrendered to them.

Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 02:04 PM (eTh1u)

147 On the next episode of the Waltons, every female member of the family is pregnant.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 02:05 PM (8hZNI)

148 >>The above commentary was something I wrote for another blog about 16 years ago (RIP Threedonia),


Oh man, I read your blog!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 02:06 PM (rOKnE)

149 It's the same retarded fairy-tale twaddle they tried to 'splain domestic crime in the 1950s, and 1960s. Crime, you see, is always and ever a matter of "poverty".

They tried that shit in high school. I countered that, with the observation that the real dynamic is ordinarily that crime causes poverty.

But the lunatics insist on their delusions, because to admit they were wrong about their crackpot theories is too horrible to contemplate.

So Moslem atrocities are due to "poverty". Send them more money, and it will get better.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 02:08 PM (/ijqt)

150 143 Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 01:56 PM (eTh1u)

Paragraphs are your friends.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 12, 2026 01:59 PM (g8Ew

Yes, and were this blog still allowing unlimited text (as it was when I first cross posted it here before the copy/paste troll), there would be a few more than what I used here in order to keep it to just four comments. ;-)

Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 02:09 PM (eTh1u)

151 Islam is antithetical to Christianity.
Islam is antithetical to life.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:09 PM (VQ0bX)

152 The world paying Muslims their jizm taxes so they don't have to work, keep their 4 wives pregnant won't make it any better.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 02:11 PM (Ia/+0)

153 PET NOOD

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 02:14 PM (Ia/+0)

154 When you have half a century of "all cultures are equal" and "religions are equal", what else would be expected?
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It's worse than that. They don't claim cultures are "equal" or anything of the sort. Nobody believes that, clearly cultures are widely disparate.

What they claim is that despite these wide differences, there is no inherent superiority or preferable way of doing anything. Different, yes. Better, no. There are no objective standards, you see. There is no "right" or "wrong" way, everything is biased, blah blah blah.

The real goal is to turn people into mewling quims who will not defend what they have. Not their life, not anyone else's life, not the culture, not anything. They have no framework, no independent thought. The worst thing of all is to be "judgmental" or declare that one thing might just really be better than some other thing.

They live in a Psychic Cage.

The way to have fun with these nihilists, when the professor suggests in class there is no objective reality, well then we'll just delete your fucking paycheck and retirement pension there, sport. They'll start screeching.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 02:14 PM (/ijqt)

155 148 >>The above commentary was something I wrote for another blog about 16 years ago (RIP Threedonia),

Oh man, I read your blog!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 02:06 PM (rOKnE)

It wasn't my blog! That honor goes to the anonymous "Floyd Turbo". I was a frequent commenter who eventually graduated to "COB" status there. Unfortunately, someone hacked the blog and locked us out, and Floyd's backup went tits up at the exact same time, so that's why it went dark.

Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 02:16 PM (eTh1u)

156 >>It wasn't my blog! That honor goes to the anonymous "Floyd Turbo". I was a frequent commenter who eventually graduated to "COB" status there. Unfortunately, someone hacked the blog and locked us out, and Floyd's backup went tits up at the exact same time, so that's why it went dark.


Oh, d@mn, that sucks!!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 02:17 PM (rOKnE)

157 But the lunatics insist on their delusions, because to admit they were wrong about their crackpot theories is too horrible to contemplate.

So Moslem atrocities are due to "poverty". Send them more money, and it will get better.

Posted by: Common Tater
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Yep, Gramci nailed it.

The instrument was the long march through the institutions. Not the barricade. The school, the university, the media, the judiciary, the civil service, the cultural establishment – every institution through which a civilization transmits its values to the next generation. Capture these, fill them with people who share the counter-hegemonic project, and the cultural assumptions that maintain the existing order gradually dissolve. No barricades. No visible moment of rupture. Just the slow replacement of one cultural hegemony with another.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:19 PM (VQ0bX)

158 goozer, it's what trolls did to the blog that caused the word limit on extended thought. Trolls are one of the evil nuisances in this world.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:22 PM (VQ0bX)

159 On the next episode of the Waltons, every female member of the family is pregnant.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 02:05 PM (8hZNI).

At least we know it wasn't Will Geer.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 02:27 PM (u3SRj)

160 The educational capture was the masterpiece. Control the curriculum and you control the categories of thought available to the next generation. Not by telling them what to conclude – by shaping what questions they think to ask, what they consider obvious and what they consider unthinkable. The generation educated after the long march does not need to be told what to think. It thinks what it was formed to think – and experiences that thinking as its own

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:30 PM (VQ0bX)

161 The dirty little secret is that we CAN have back the America of the Fifties--but with lower income taxes!--but only if we're willing to kill enough internal enemies to destroy their power forever.

Ever wonder why there were no more Southern rebellions after the Civil War? It was because they had lost too many men to put up a fight again.

If we do away with maybe ten or twenty million leftists, not only will they not be able to make a military comeback, they won't be able to win any elections either. We'll be able to do cool stuff like settle the other planets instead of dealing with the latest treasonous stuff they come up with.

Plus, it will be fun to see some wannabe online badass begging for his life and ratting out his friends, right before you put a bullet in him.

If we don't do this, we'll, after the Lindsay Clancy brigade is done killing their kids so they can get back to the party, do you have any doubt that they will come after ours? These subhuman pieces of shit wanted to rape Sarah Palin for not aborting her baby boy.

Posted by: Ken at September 12, 2026 02:37 PM (aVf49)

162 > The educational capture was the masterpiece.
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4 or more years of socialist indoctrination followed by a piece of paper that's worthless. Go to job interview and are totally confused about what you're expected to do, hate the idea of a work schedule, being told what to do, when to do it and when to complete it.

Bail on finding meaningful work and become increasingly pissed off at society. Fall back on your "degree" and join up with like minded people and spend your days protesting. You get free meals, a place to sleep and feel like you're really "sticking it to the man."

There's at least two generations of this festering resentment about to boil over.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 02:39 PM (2Cry5)

163 Public education is worthless.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 02:52 PM (u3SRj)

164 Posted by: whig at September 12, 2026 12:13 PM (E4rtv)


Whig - I'm way late to the thread and you probably won't see this but I wanted to say that the Holy Spirit is within you and I value your words, inspired as they are by the Holy Spirit. I regularly pray for His guidance and inspiration too, especially in these troubling times.


May the Good Lord be with you always.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 12, 2026 03:06 PM (91pBE)

165 158 goozer, it's what trolls did to the blog that caused the word limit on extended thought. Trolls are one of the evil nuisances in this world.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:22 PM (VQ0bX)

Yes, I know, I've been on this blog since early '09. I remember when it happened.

Posted by: goozer at September 12, 2026 03:07 PM (eTh1u)

166 Yep, Gramci nailed it.

The instrument was the long march through the institutions. Not the barricade. The school, the university, the media, the judiciary, the civil service, the cultural establishment – every institution through which a civilization transmits its values to the next generation. Capture these, fill them with people who share the counter-hegemonic project, and the cultural assumptions that maintain the existing order gradually dissolve. No barricades. No visible moment of rupture. Just the slow replacement of one cultural hegemony with another.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:19 PM (VQ0bX)


You nailed it too my friend. And it all starts with - and ends with - the schools. All those institutions require a "Degree", worthless as is it in real knowledge, to advance.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 12, 2026 03:11 PM (91pBE)

167 The educational capture was the masterpiece.
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4 or more years of socialist indoctrination followed by a piece of paper that's worthless. Go to job interview and are totally confused about what you're expected to do, hate the idea of a work schedule, being told what to do, when to do it and when to complete it.

Bail on finding meaningful work and become increasingly pissed off at society. Fall back on your "degree" and join up with like minded people and spend your days protesting. You get free meals, a place to sleep and feel like you're really "sticking it to the man."

There's at least two generations of this festering resentment about to boil over.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 02:39 PM (2Cry5)


Precisely. The targeting of the schools was diabolically evil. And effective. Khrushchev was right and that's how they did it.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at September 12, 2026 03:14 PM (91pBE)

168 Thats why to me the youngest Americans H8 the country, brainwashed into Cultural Marxism.
Every election there is a booth outside the polling place a table and almost always high school girl thereYoung Democrats organization.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 03:20 PM (Ia/+0)

169 They Frankfort School assholes should have been lined up on the pier and shot. East River crabs gotta eat, too.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 03:26 PM (u3SRj)

170 The educational capture was the masterpiece. Control the curriculum and you control the categories of thought available to the next generation. Not by telling them what to conclude – by shaping what questions they think to ask, what they consider obvious and what they consider unthinkable. The generation educated after the long march does not need to be told what to think. It thinks what it was formed to think – and experiences that thinking as its own
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:30 PM (VQ0bX)

Nailed it.

And it's why, if we want our great civilization back, we have to get out there and evangelize. We have to get people to understand what was the basis of our civilization and how those things make freedom possible. We have to pass on our religion and our culture AND the knowledge that built American thought. What God says about His commandments is also true of our culture and our freedom:
You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Posted by: GWB at September 12, 2026 03:29 PM (kU0PQ)

171 “This son of yours [Ishmael] will be a wild man, as untamed as a wild donkey! He will raise his fist against everyone, and everyone will be against him. Yes, he will live in open hostility against all his relatives” (Genesis 16:12,)
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My teachers also introduced me to the greater enemies of Islam—the great Satan, being the United States of America, and the little Satan, being Israel, the Jewish state. A distinction was made between Israel as a state and Jews, who embodied a type of metaphysical evil. The Jew was synonymous with the word Satan. He was behind all evil things, and had designated Islam and Muslims as his enemy, and was hell-bent on destroying us all. In all of our prayers, and in all of our dua is the supplication that God would destroy and eliminate the Jews.
_ Ayaan Hirsi Ali


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 03:32 PM (VQ0bX)

172 What’s happening in America, they tell me, is not dramatic enough to warrant any kind of serious change. Muslim communities have a constitutional right to grow and expand, and if they win elections then they win elections. What I hear is the same inability that I heard in Europe 25 years ago to accept the magnitude of the threat posed by a hostile foe, or even to admit the reality of cultural differences.
_ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Call to prayer 5 times a day; Minneapolis, Hamtramck, Michigan — .
Dearborn, Michigan, Paterson, New Jersey — subject to designated hours. Astoria, Queens, New York — during Ramadan. Occoquan, Virginia — invited by the mayor, two occasions during Ramadan.
Broadcast loud, throughout these American cities by those whose devotion is to conquer us. Submission, we much.

Epic Center Texas and another Islamic Center in Katy TX.
How many in other states?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 04:03 PM (VQ0bX)

173 I'll just note, I got a text alert of a man with a machete from the local police alert wearing a "black and white rag on face". I'd put $1000 down that it's a keffiyah. But it's not allowed by the narrative to be factually identified. Good grief.

Posted by: InZona at September 12, 2026 06:06 PM (XiTQh)

174 The Highwayman. By Alfred Noyes.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:34 AM (aRyyL)

8th Grade: our teacher loved this poem and every years assigned a student to memorize and recite it to the class at the end of the school year.
She always chose the class suck up.
"And the highwayman came riding-riding-riding."

Posted by: waepnedmann at September 12, 2026 11:32 PM (CpK8/)

The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

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AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List

Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.

Prayer Requests:

5/23 – I used to have a Different Nic could use some prayers as he waits for the results of a biopsy of a mass on his prostate.
6/23 Update – The latest update is that he has stage 2, “unfavorable intermediate”, which he notes is an awful name, but what it means is, it is in the middle, but bad enough that they want to treat it. It’s more aggressive than previously thought. He is at the point where he has to decide on treatment options, which means choosing which set of pretty unfortunate side effects he prefers.
8/20 Update – He has finished his radiation treatment, so all he has left are blood tests and waiting. Thanks for everything.

7/25 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted an update. She is still doing fine. Her chemo pump seems to be working and everything appears stable for now. She says she is incredibly blessed! She is working on a stocking for an as-yet-not-born grandchild. She would appreciate prayers for a successful IVF procedure and pregnancy for her daughter and hubby. Next week, Teresa and her husband will be going to California to visit their daughter who lives there and her family.
8/4 Update – Teresa was admitted to the hospital while on vacation in California. She has a bad infection – cellulitis - not due to the cancer. She is being treated with antibiotics and hopefully it will be cleared up in a couple of days.
8/28 Update – Teresa’s bloodwork is back, and everything looks steady. She has a CT scan on 9/4.

7/29 – Notsothoreau asked for prayers for Billy Ray’s mother, who was just admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. She is a cancer survivor and chemo destroyed her immune system, so this is a big worry.
8/2 Update – Billy Ray’s mother is feeling better, on oxygen and medication. She is not out of the woods, but has stabilized. She appreciates the prayers from around the globe and says thank you very much.
8/16 Update – Billy Ray’s mother is at home, recovering, and down to just needing a little oxygen at night. One of the doctors told her that he didn’t think she was going to make it. Prayer works.

7/29 – TecumsehTea wrote that MrTea’s diagnosis is colon cancer stage 4. They are praying for guidance for how to proceed.
9/4 Update – MrTea has finished his 10 days of radiation. He feels pretty good. He is still taking fenben and ivermectin. He is still shedding pieces of the tumor, which is a good sign. In 2 weeks they will meet with the oncologist again, and hopefully the dna and blood tests will be done and the doctor will have a plan. Many thanks for the prayers.

7/30 – David sent an update on his wife, Susan, who we have been praying for as she is treated for cancer. Susan is still doing well and her numbers are headed in the right direction, but they are still having issues with the side effects of the chemotherapy. It is manageable, but they have to increase the number of office visits for additional treatments. Some days are really good right now, but others are only bearable with the Lord’s grace. They are so grateful for the prayers on their behalf.
8/26 Update – Susan’s cough has gotten so bad that they did X-rays on her chest. It might be pneumonia. She is in the hospital. Her sodium and blood pressure are low and she is not eating much now. They are trying to turn this around and ask for everyone’s prayers.
9/2 Update – Susan is back in the ICU. She either has an infection or the cancer has spread to her lungs. Either way, thank you all for your thoughts and prayers for Susan and please continue them.
9/3 Update – Thank you to everyone for their thoughts and prayers for Susan. They are expecting her to pass into the hands of the Lord in the next day or so. Please pray for them.

8/8 – Ace-Endorsed Author A. H. Lloyd posted that Mrs. Lloyd will undergo a double mastectomy to remove the breast cancer. She has advanced to Stage 1. Much hinges on the biopsy to determine the specific sub-category of cancer and whether chemo is necessary. Please pray for her in this time of need.
8/22 Update – Mrs. Lloyd is healing ahead of schedule and the surgeon was amazed at her progress. She is still in pain and has limited mobility, but each day she is gaining more freedom of movement. That is the good news; the bad news was the unrealistic expectations set by the medical staff. The surgery was much more significant, and she will also need chemo, contrary to what she was told before.

8/14 – RandomDave asked for renewed prayers for his job situation. He just found out that the position he was close to getting went to someone else, and doesn’t know where to turn. He hates to ask, but is getting desperate. He has a GiveSendGo set up; please contact Annie’s Stew for more info. Thanks to those who have already given and thank you for the prayers. They are keeping him from giving up.

8/15 – Donna V contacted Mis. Hum. to let the Horde know the following: “Please let the horde know I am doing fine in hospice”. She would appreciate your prayers.

8/15 – Buck requested prayers for his wife. She is diabetic, and had a bad day on 8/14, with weakness, vomiting, irregular pulse, high blood pressure. She has had sepsis 3 times. They went to ER, but they only gave her meds for nausea, and now she’s back home. Pray that she recovers quickly. Thanks to all.

8/15 – Intruder Driver asked for prayers for Tonya, who was burned over 90% of her body in a gas explosion in Cabo San Lucas. She is now in a hospital in Mexico City. She has a long road to recovery, if she survives.
8/22 Update – Tonya did not survive her burns. Prayers for her and her husband Rusty, who were/are active members of their local church in Mexico.

8/27 – P asks for prayers for the soul of her nephew, C, who committed suicide on 8/17. He was only 32. May he find the peace in the afterlife that he could not find in this life.

8/26 – Teresa in Fort Worth asks for prayers for her BIL, Dick, who was found dead in the alley behind the house in Texas. He had been in declining health and had dementia. They aren’t sure how long he was outside before he passed away. Teresa’s SIL seems to be handling it okay so far. Teresa also asks for prayers for a former neighbor, Melissa, who is hospitalized, recovering from a second stem cell/bone marrow transplant as they attempt to cure her leukemia. She now has blood blisters in her mouth and throat. She had to be intubated before her throat closed completely. This might be her body rejecting the transplant.

8/27 – “…” asked for prayers for healing (and sleep) for Brit Lass. She is having tests, and so far they are good, but she is worried. She has an imaging test coming up and then an appointment with a surgeon.

8/30 – SPinRH_F-16 requested prayers for classmate “D.B.”, who has ALS. Please pray that he remains as comfortable as possible and for support for his family as they see him through this. Thank you in advance for your earnest prayers.

9/2 – Bulg asked for prayers for purpose in his life.

9/4 – bluebell sent an update on grammie winger. Grammie was diagnosed with epilepsy now. And she is back in the hospital. They would love prayers for comfort and peace for her.

9/10 – Annie’s Stew asks for prayers for her husband as he recovers from knee surgery.

9/10 – D asked for prayers for the memory of 9/11. May the Lord comfort people in the grief, and may it bring people closer to God.

For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.

2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

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1 Java

Posted by: qmark at September 12, 2026 07:40 AM (hzpDl)

2 Morning, caffeinators,

My local coffee shop knows me now as the "dark roast, small" guy. There are worse nicknames to have, I guess.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:41 AM (wzUl9)

3 Well this looks like a blank slate!

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 07:41 AM (P8wUf)

4 Willowed: Of what tribe was Mingo supposed to be? Daniel Boone the series took place in Kentucky, right? So no Apaches or Comanches or Lakotas. Cherokee?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:42 AM (wzUl9)

5 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 07:42 AM (2Cry5)

6 Good morning again dear morons with thanks to annie and mh and you all for praying

{grammie}{Some Rat}{TiFW}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 07:42 AM (RIvkX)

7 Java
Posted by: qmark at September 12, 2026

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That's my song!
( -- Al Hirt)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:43 AM (wzUl9)

8 Happy New Year 5878 to all the morons.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 07:43 AM (RIvkX)

9 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 12, 2026 07:44 AM (VyBeY)

10 Happy New Year 5878 to all the morons.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026

***
I flatter myself I don't look a day over 4228.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:44 AM (wzUl9)

11 My local coffee shop knows me now as the "dark roast, small" guy. There are worse nicknames to have, I guess.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:41 AM (wzUl9)

Just don’t let them call you John Smallberries.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 07:45 AM (P8wUf)

12 I'm not interested in and not uplifted by the sentimental or solemn 9/11 events -- at least to the extent they skip a clear-headed and unsentimental recitation of what happened, who committed the act, and how to prevent this from ever happening again. I want to hear only a rational, resolute and militant conversation about how to completely uproot Islam from our society.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 12, 2026 07:46 AM (7s9Qe)

13 99% of the Anti AI is CCP
The other 1% is fucking morons

How did the Top 3 Anti AI groups (CCP) find the X post of the Anthropic resignee that had about 3 followers in LESS than 15 minutes.

According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 07:46 AM (/+uur)

14 I've been reading on epilepsy and surprised to find how prevalent adult onset is, about half of all cases.

I had always thought it was mostly congenital or developmental. But a lot of conditions can cause epilepsy as a secondary effect.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 07:47 AM (RIvkX)

15 I'm finishing up my third small cup of Cafe El Morro. It's light outside at last, with hot sun to come soon and rain this p.m. and the next few days. No point in washing the car until Monday or Tuesday.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:47 AM (wzUl9)

16 The Mingo are a grouping of Haudenosaunee, primarily Seneca and Cayuga, who migrated west from New York to the Ohio Country in the mid-18th century, and their descendants.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 07:48 AM (/+uur)

17 Morning, Horde. My first time posting on the Saturday Kawfee Thread, I think?

Prayers up for those who need them.

I swear when I got home last evening I thought I could get away with not having to mow the lawn this weekend. This morning? Nah, yeah I can't. The grass, it's messing with me.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 12, 2026 07:50 AM (SgdqL)

18 I want to hear only a rational, resolute and militant conversation about how to completely uproot Islam from our society.

All I see and hear are statements that metastasizing Islam is a cancer that America needs and should encourage.

I guess if the population also finds it acceptable that women can engage in mass murder on bad mood days, and that ensuring that the next generation has been sterilized or otherwise too stupid and lazy to care for its own survival, then exorcising the demons of Islam is an Ask too large.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 07:51 AM (a6PrB)

19 Gas prices here are hovering between $3.69-3.89 for 87 E10 regular. But Thursday I gassed up for $3.47 at a convenience store/station in the suburbs near my barbershop. The have E0, which I prefer to feed the Buick, for $4.19 . . . but a sticker has suddenly appeared on those pumps: "May Contain Ethanol." Uh, no, I'm not paying .70 more per gallon for "may contain ethanol."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:51 AM (wzUl9)

20 4 Willowed: Of what tribe was Mingo supposed to be? Daniel Boone the series took place in Kentucky, right? So no Apaches or Comanches or Lakotas. Cherokee?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:42 AM (wzUl9)

Who wants to Share-a-Key?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2026 07:52 AM (l3cgK)

21 The Mingo are a grouping of Haudenosaunee, primarily Seneca and Cayuga, who migrated west from New York to the Ohio Country in the mid-18th century, and their descendants.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026

***
Fleeing all those English settlers in search of a better life, no doubt.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:53 AM (wzUl9)

22 Watching some video of the Philippines FM trashing China at the Shangri-La Dialogue last week. Absolutely based. Humiliating.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 07:53 AM (RIvkX)

23 19 Gas prices here are hovering between $3.69-3.89 for 87 E10 regular. But Thursday I gassed up for $3.47 at a convenience store/station in the suburbs near my barbershop. The have E0, which I prefer to feed the Buick, for $4.19 . . . but a sticker has suddenly appeared on those pumps: "May Contain Ethanol." Uh, no, I'm not paying .70 more per gallon for "may contain ethanol."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:51 AM (wzUl9)

AAA average price for Regular in Kalifornia: $5.9732
Welcome to the Hotel Kalifornia...you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2026 07:53 AM (l3cgK)

24 21 The Mingo are a grouping of Haudenosaunee, primarily Seneca and Cayuga, who migrated west from New York to the Ohio Country in the mid-18th century, and their descendants.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026

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Fleeing all those English settlers in search of a better life, no doubt.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:53 AM (wzUl9)

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While beating the shit out of the local tribes like the Miamis and Foxes when they got to Ohio.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 12, 2026 07:54 AM (SgdqL)

25 $6.19/g regular

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 07:55 AM (RIvkX)

26 AAA current average in my neck of the woods (Kalifornia): $6.0511

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2026 07:55 AM (l3cgK)

27 The have E0, which I prefer to feed the Buick, for $4.19 . . . but a sticker has suddenly appeared on those pumps: "May Contain Ethanol." Uh, no, I'm not paying .70 more per gallon for "may contain ethanol."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:51 AM (wzUl9)

Is that near a boat ramp? Usually E0 is near where people have boats as water and E mix quite well.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 07:55 AM (/+uur)

28
https://gasprices.aaa.com/

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2026 07:55 AM (l3cgK)

29 Submit you paper books for "recycling". The AI systems have already digitized all of them anyway. You are just "hoarding" paper that is desperately needed to protect forests from destruction. "1984"? No, that seems to be misinformation. I have no record of that book. "Gulag Archipelago"? (Same response)

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 12, 2026 07:59 AM (I9XXk)

30 29 Submit you paper books for "recycling". The AI systems have already digitized all of them anyway. You are just "hoarding" paper that is desperately needed to protect forests from destruction. "1984"? No, that seems to be misinformation. I have no record of that book. "Gulag Archipelago"? (Same response)

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 12, 2026 07:59 AM (I9XXk)

AI will correct the books for errors...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2026 08:00 AM (l3cgK)

31 You can thank Gov't for ethanol in fuel...gotta pay off Iowa somehow...

What, use corn for food? That would reduce the price of corn!

...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2026 08:02 AM (l3cgK)

32 Rough week. Bought a nice old coffee table at a vintage/antique store, only after getting it home did I find out it was decaffeinated.

Posted by: Not So Savvy Investor at September 12, 2026 08:02 AM (Fn+3X)

33 Good morning Mis Hum and Horde

( runs off with scissors in hand)

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 08:02 AM (Ia/+0)

34 $6.19/g regular

That should be the response to any retard that is whining about fuel prices and believes the remedy is elect Marxists.

California is a one party Communist "Utopia".

No mention that Climate Change, Inc. has closed off millions of acres of hydrocarbon producing federal land and offshore; no mention that Europe has destroyed its own ability to fuel itself; no mention that only the US seems interested in keeping the SoH open; the whiners can't even seem to grasp that daily destruction of refineries in Ukraine and Russia might have an effect on a fungible resources; that the Keystone XL pipeline wasn't a mere vanity project but had a purpose; blowing up Nord Stream pipelines doesn't help availability; and exporting 28% and more of US diesel puts a crimp on US stockpiles and prices.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 08:03 AM (9Hs2w)

35 En mi casa toman Bustelo.

Posted by: Caffiend at September 12, 2026 08:03 AM (Fn+3X)

36 Morning all. About time to force myself to get up and move.

Then back to the job search

Some good leads but nothing's a lock yet.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 12, 2026 08:03 AM (aJQbY)

37 Gloomy and overcast here in Bourbon country. We had over 2" of rain yesterday. It all came down in about 3 hours. Like some others here, I've got grass to mow but it won't be today, or tomorrow. More rain is forecast today.

And speaking of gas/diesel prices.... I'll have to go get some diesel for the tractor before I can start.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 08:05 AM (2Cry5)

38 Is that near a boat ramp? Usually E0 is near where people have boats as water and E mix quite well.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026

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It's within a few blocks of the river, but no boat ramps that I know of. I do see people hauling boats around here all the time. The Walmart (Murphy Oil) gas pumps nearby have it too, but for $4.39 or more.

The Exxon-branded place near my house still has the stuff at $3.69 and has for months, even when regular went down and now back up. It's *cheaper* there than the regular E10. The last time I used it my gas mileage was little better than it is on E10. I suspect that "E0" is old gas, or laced with ethanol and being labeled fraudulently as E0. In April a chain in Kansas was doing that but not labeling the premium as E10-E15.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 08:05 AM (wzUl9)

39 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Doing well here - CT scan came back fine; there is a small spot on one of my lungs, but no idea if it is cancer related or not. Since it is the only one, they will be zapping it with radiation in the next month or so.

There is a possibility that the surgeon may want to attempt liver resection again - he told me I am one of his "rock star" patients, in that I am doing so well on treatment. I know that I am extremely fortunate. And apparently I am very hard to kill.... 😂😂😂

Thanks for the continued prayers! I may be absent a lot from commenting over the next few months, as we are getting ready to undertake a kitchen remodel. We have never "hired out" any projects before, so this will be interesting!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 12, 2026 08:06 AM (SRRAx)

40 You are just "hoarding" paper that is desperately needed to protect forests from destruction.

Trees are a crop.

If the trees aren't regularly harvested, drought, fire and disease eventually will do the job Americans won't do.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 08:06 AM (+4Cf6)

41 Rough week. Bought a nice old coffee table at a vintage/antique store, only after getting it home did I find out it was decaffeinated.
Posted by: Not So Savvy Investor at September 12, 2026

***
Mix some No-Doz into the wax and polish it up!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 08:06 AM (wzUl9)

42 M O O N, that spells Mingo!

Posted by: Tom Cullen at September 12, 2026 08:09 AM (skR0U)

43 TiFW - Very glad to hear you are up for the kitchen remodel! A house always feels better when you see the results of your own efforts all around you.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 12, 2026 08:09 AM (I9XXk)

44 Wolfus, are you familiar with actor/playwright William Gillette? He was a stage actor, a very big star, mostly before movies were a thing. Portrayed Sherlock Holmes in many productions, coming up with the deerstalker hat and other things associated with Holmes. Met ACD and they became friends to the end of their lives. Wish there was film of him in the role.

Posted by: Caffiend at September 12, 2026 08:10 AM (Fn+3X)

45 Mesbahi also testified that in 2000 Iran used front companies to obtain a Boeing 757-767-777 flight simulator for training the terrorists.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 08:10 AM (/+uur)

46 16 The Mingo are a grouping of Haudenosaunee, primarily Seneca and Cayuga, who migrated west from New York to the Ohio Country in the mid-18th century, and their descendants.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 07:48 AM (/+uur)


Whose lands did the Mingo steal along their path and at the end of their migration?

Posted by: Gref at September 12, 2026 08:11 AM (5rh/l)

47
Willowed: Of what tribe was Mingo supposed to be? Daniel Boone the series took place in Kentucky, right? So no Apaches or Comanches or Lakotas. Cherokee?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:42 AM (wzUl9)

All that's known about Mingo is that he was born in Kentucky, and his religion.

He was a Chicken Friar.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 08:12 AM (iJfKG)

48 While beating the shit out of the local tribes like the Miamis and Foxes when they got to Ohio.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 12, 2026 07:54 AM (SgdqL)
======================
Hope they did Stolen Land Acknowledgements.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 08:12 AM (RNxyR)

49 New Kitchen >>> Kitchen Remodeling

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 08:13 AM (RIvkX)

50 Trees are a crop.

If the trees aren't regularly harvested, drought, fire and disease eventually will do the job Americans won't do.
_-_
Yup.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 12, 2026 08:14 AM (I9XXk)

51 The character Mingo in the TV series was Cherokee.

Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2026 08:14 AM (Q+gd/)

52 w
16 The Mingo are a grouping of Haudenosaunee, primarily Seneca and Cayuga, who migrated west from New York to the Ohio Country in the mid-18th century, and their descendants.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 07:48 AM (/+uur)

Mingo only pawns in game of Life.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 08:15 AM (P8wUf)

53
Today muh 'Horns play the Ohio State Daisies.

Should be a fun game.

Hook'Em Horns!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 08:17 AM (iJfKG)

54 A fan carrying a Palestinian flag ran onto the field at Yankee Stadium at 9:11 p.m. on Friday, the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, before being tackled and detained by security, The Athletic reported.

The fan entered from the left-field seats and ran toward center field, briefly evading police officers and stadium security personnel before he was brought down on the outfield grass.

After officials escorted him beyond the center-field wall, spectators seated above the New York Mets bullpen threw beer cans in his direction and booed as he was removed from the stadium. Chants of “USA” then broke out among the crowd.
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These people are just the worst.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 08:17 AM (RIvkX)

55 Stolen Land
Our Precious Democracy
Recycling

Terms that should be in the widely-circulated reference guide to contemporary lies.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 12, 2026 08:18 AM (ax0kX)

56 Vandals defaced several American flags at a California college’s 9/11 memorial, scrawling antifa and pro-Palestinian messages at the solemn tribute to the nearly 3,000 killed in the terror attacks.

The memorial at California State University Stanislaus featured 2,977 American flags — one for each victim killed on Sept. 11, 2001 — as part of Young America’s Foundation’s annual “9/11: Never Forget Project.”

But several of the flags were spotted covered in protest slogans, including “Free Palestine,” “Blowback” and “161.”
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These people are the worst.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 08:20 AM (RIvkX)

57 I want to hear only a rational, resolute and militant conversation about how to completely uproot Islam from our society.
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 12, 2026 07:46 AM (7s9Qe)

The acceptance of Islam in our society is just one of the effects of zombie leftism.
Focus on stamping out all the zombie leftists we have, and the rest will take care of itself.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 08:21 AM (P8wUf)

58 Double post with a skip. Good show, San Franpsycho!

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:22 AM (MWfyi)

59 I would like to ask prayer for the W. family for comfort and strength, and for me as I officiate at a funeral service this morning. The woman had been part of our church as a youngster until she moved away, but would come back to look after her parents when they were older and to visit her brother who was a Korean War vet and the patriarch of the church . She was 92 and a sweet woman despite some big tragedies in her life. Now all the people in their 90's who were part of the church have gone to be with the Lord.

Thanks very much.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 12, 2026 08:23 AM (JrHfD)

60 32 Rough week. Bought a nice old coffee table at a vintage/antique store, only after getting it home did I find out it was decaffeinated.
Posted by: Not So Savvy Investor at September 12, 2026 08:02 AM (Fn+3X

I'm sorry for your pain

And Skip don't be laughing and running at the same time!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 12, 2026 08:23 AM (CkDaS)

61 Double post with a skip. Good show, San Franpsycho!
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:22 AM (MWfyi)
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Not a double post. You know nothing of my work!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 08:24 AM (RIvkX)

62 "The acceptance of Islam in our society is just one of the effects of zombie leftism."

The idea that every culture is equal is corrosive.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:24 AM (MWfyi)

63 Tune in next week when Obi-Wan says, This is not the Mingo you're looking for ":
youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM

(Yeah, I know it's Mungo, not Mingo, but any excuse for a music link...)

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 12, 2026 08:24 AM (I9XXk)

64 Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb was an Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary who was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The intellectual father of radical Islam and AQ was inspired by what he considered the grotesque green lawns, attractive women, and “tapping feet, enticing legs, arms wrapped around waists” of the scandalous sock hops of Greeley, CO in 1949.

From 1948 to 1950, he went to the United States on a scholarship to study its educational system, spending several months at Colorado State College of Education (now the University of Northern Colorado) in Greeley, Colorado.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 08:24 AM (/+uur)

65 Our property in WV is steeped in early American history. Lots of familiar names; Washington in particular but also a lot of Civil War names creep up here and there. The small river our cabin is near is named for Robert E. Lee.

And there's plenty of Indian (native American) names of various places too.

Interestingly, there is no "Obama Street" anywhere nearby. Robert Byrd, however...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 08:24 AM (2Cry5)

66 Mornin', Hordelings. Why oh why do I almost always wake up early on Saturdays? Anyway, coffee just finished brewing, and I'm making a pot of rice for the doggo - he's on the white rice and cottage cheese diet until he gets over his nausea caused by antibiotics. Have a blessed weekend.

Posted by: PabloD at September 12, 2026 08:25 AM (B7yLN)

67 Well now that I read all of the second post I see my error.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:25 AM (MWfyi)

68 i
54 A fan carrying a Palestinian flag ran onto the field at Yankee Stadium at 9:11 p.m. on Friday, the 25th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, before being tackled and detained by security, The Athletic reported.”

It would have been much more entertaining (and appropriate) to let an exploding drone track him down in center field.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 08:27 AM (P8wUf)

69 They should have buried him at first base with just his head exposed and continued with the game.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:29 AM (MWfyi)

70 Well now that I read all of the second post I see my error.
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:25 AM (MWfyi)
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So what you're saying is you really need to spend more time studying my comments?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 08:30 AM (RIvkX)

71 Sayyid Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili Qutb was an Egyptian political theorist and revolutionary who was a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The intellectual father of radical Islam and AQ was inspired by what he considered the grotesque green lawns, attractive women, and “tapping feet, enticing legs, arms wrapped around waists” of the scandalous sock hops of Greeley, CO in 1949.

From 1948 to 1950, he went to the United States on a scholarship to study its educational system, spending several months at Colorado State College of Education (now the University of Northern Colorado) in Greeley, Colorado.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 08:24 AM (/+uur)

Looming Tower. I've read it..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 08:30 AM (nbLIj)

72 A fan carrying a Palestinian flag
_-_
fan - shortened version of fanatic...ok, I'll allow that

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 12, 2026 08:30 AM (I9XXk)

73 "So what you're saying is you really need to spend more time studying my comments?
Posted by: San Franpsycho"

*reads. Reads again*

I don't get it.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:31 AM (MWfyi)

74 *reads. Reads again*

I don't get it.
Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 08:31 AM (MWfyi)
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Hey, I'm casting pearls over here! Plus, no one else is awake yet.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 08:35 AM (RIvkX)

75 I guess my point was they hate everything about Western Culture.
I should note because all of their cultures have failed without the petro dollars.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 08:35 AM (/+uur)

76 Today muh 'Horns play the Ohio State Daisies.

Should be a fun game.

Hook'Em Horns!

Posted by: naturalfake

Tonight the OSU Buckeyes play the Texas Shorthorns.

Looking forward to it.

Go Bucks!

Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 08:36 AM (lJ0H4)

77 In 1980, a silly fan ran onto the field at Shea Stadium during a game and eluded the overweight security guards, taunting them as he ran about. Met's catcher John Stearns was behind home plate and quickly got tired of watching this. He threw down his mask and glove and took off in a beeline toward the miscreant yute. Stearns nailed him with an open field tackle and held him down until the uniformed officers arrived to escort him off the field. John had been a defensive back at the University of Colorado.

Posted by: Ancient Mets Lore at September 12, 2026 08:37 AM (Fn+3X)

78 Submitted my plan for the day as usual via the citizen portal. It corrected a few things, along with the usual re-alignment with societal goals. Sure is nice that we have a super-intelligence agent running things now. As soon as the systems releases my car, I'll be on the road to work!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 12, 2026 08:39 AM (I9XXk)

79 What the hell is a buckeye? Sounds like a stupid name for a football team.

Posted by: dantesed at September 12, 2026 08:39 AM (Oy/m2)

80
An exciting day of loading the RV. Her Majesty leaves tomorrow morning for an AKC Delegate meeting in Newark, returns Tuesday evening, then leaves again on Thursday with The Big Dummy for shows in Belton. When she returns, we have to make a quick turnaround for her to head out to Tennessee.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 08:41 AM (eRlcH)

81 Fleeing all those English settlers in search of a better life, no doubt.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:53 AM (wzUl9)

***
While beating the shit out of the local tribes like the Miamis and Foxes when they got to Ohio.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 12, 2026 07:54 AM (SgdqL)

All of the Red should have put aside their differences and banded together to stop the Europeans from taking over. But they didn't, and they lost it. It's ours, now, and we're making the same mistake with Islam.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 12, 2026 08:42 AM (CjHsb)

82 Sounds like a stupid name for a football team.
Posted by: dantesed

It is kind of but it's worked out well for them. Do not mess with success..

Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 08:42 AM (lJ0H4)

83 A Buckeye is a tree with glossy nuts. Their fans are similar.

Posted by: They're Insufferable! at September 12, 2026 08:42 AM (Fn+3X)

84 75 I guess my point was they hate everything about Western Culture.
I should note because all of their cultures have failed without the petro dollars
_-_
Bringing to 7th century to a town near you.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 12, 2026 08:42 AM (I9XXk)

85 What the hell is a buckeye? Sounds like a stupid name for a football team.
Posted by: dantesed at September 12, 2026 08:39 AM (Oy/m2)
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"dantesed" isn't so popular in Ohio

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 08:43 AM (V+sk9)

86 I am one of his "rock star" patients, in that I am doing so well on treatment. I know that I am extremely fortunate. And apparently I am very hard to kill....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 12, 2026 08:06 AM (SRRAx)

This is so great! And we are so grateful!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 12, 2026 08:44 AM (CjHsb)

87 What the hell is a buckeye? Sounds like a stupid name for a football team.
Posted by: dantesed at September 12, 2026 08:39 AM (Oy/m2)

It means "Man With Large Checkbook" in the ancient Algonquin speech.

It's where our slang "bucks" come from for money.

Posted by: Zombie Woody Hayes, Pugilist at September 12, 2026 08:44 AM (cCXR+)

88 All of the Red should have put aside their differences and banded together to stop the Europeans from taking over. But they didn't, and they lost it. It's ours, now, and we're making the same mistake with Islam.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 12, 2026 08:42 AM (CjHsb)

Tecumseh almost pulled that off.

Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2026 08:44 AM (Q+gd/)

89 What the hell is a buckeye?
$20, same as in town

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 08:45 AM (t59Wi)

90 Good morning, coffee drinkers and peace makers.


(ZZ Top's alternate take on Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers)

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 12, 2026 08:45 AM (wVcYX)

91 Do "rock star" patients get groupies and champagne in private dressing rooms?

Posted by: Ears Perk Up at September 12, 2026 08:47 AM (Fn+3X)

92
I am one of his "rock star" patients, in that I am doing so well on treatment. I know that I am extremely fortunate. And apparently I am very hard to kill....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 12, 2026 08:06 AM (SRRAx)

Hard To Kill?

That makes you -

The Steven Seagal of the HQ!!!

Congratulations!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 08:48 AM (iJfKG)

93 A Buckeye is a tree with glossy nuts. Their fans are similar.
Posted by: They're Insufferable!

LOL. We are the Buckeye Nation.

Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 08:48 AM (lJ0H4)

94 So Trump does that man thing where he bust Paxtons balls and Tallrico and Kimmel do not understand

CAUSE THEY GOTS NO BALLS

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 08:53 AM (/+uur)

95 A Buckeye is a tree with glossy nuts. Their fans are similar.
Posted by: They're Insufferable!

Don't forget poisonous!

Go Bucks!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 12, 2026 08:55 AM (CjHsb)

96
Fill up on gas this weekend

Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 08:55 AM (Y8DZL)

97 Fill up on gas this weekend
Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 08:55 AM (Y8DZL)

Going vegetarian with cabbage & beans?

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 12, 2026 08:56 AM (wVcYX)

98 An exciting day of loading the RV. Her Majesty leaves tomorrow morning for an AKC Delegate meeting in Newark

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 08:41 AM (eRlcH)

I never seen the words Exciting and Newark used in the same sentence before. (Assuming this is Newark NJ)

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2026 08:57 AM (S41Gd)

99 79 What the hell is a buckeye? Sounds like a stupid name for a football team.

Posted by: dantesed at September 12, 2026 08:39 AM (Oy/m2)

They're nuts...literally. LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2026 08:59 AM (l3cgK)

100
79 What the hell is a buckeye? Sounds like a stupid name for a football team.
Posted by: dantesed at September 12, 2026 08:39 AM (Oy/m2)

You think it sounds bad, just wait til you see the mascot.

Yet somehow, an Angry Nut is very appropriate.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 08:59 AM (P8wUf)

101
79 What the hell is a buckeye? Sounds like a stupid name for a football team.
Posted by: dantesed at September 12, 2026 08:39 AM (Oy/m2)

You think it sounds bad, just wait til you see the mascot.

Yet somehow, an Angry Nut is very appropriate.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 08:59 AM (P8wUf)

102 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.  As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, forever.  Amen.

Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell.  Lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy.  Amen.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 08:59 AM (ZOv7s)

103 I never seen the words Exciting and Newark used in the same sentence before. (Assuming this is Newark NJ)


Could be Newark, OH. Now there's an exciting city.

Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:00 AM (lJ0H4)

104 Ok I don’t know how my transporter beam doubled itself there.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 09:00 AM (P8wUf)

105 Call me Frenchy all you like, I will never relinquish my french press. Dratted Jedi, anyway.

Posted by: Doom at September 12, 2026 09:01 AM (1GPuL)

106 You think it sounds bad, just wait til you see the mascot.

Yet somehow, an Angry Nut is very appropriate.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Ahh. Brutus is kind of cute.

Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:02 AM (lJ0H4)

107 Going vegetarian with cabbage & beans?
Posted by: Count de Monet

Kinda stopped up here. Re: Prunes, is two enough, is six too many?

Posted by: Need Help at September 12, 2026 09:02 AM (Fn+3X)

108 I never seen the words Exciting and Newark used in the same sentence before. (Assuming this is Newark NJ)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2026 08:57 AM (S41Gd)
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Don Pepe's!!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:03 AM (RIvkX)

109 Could be Newark, OH. Now there's an exciting city.
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:00 AM (lJ0H4)

LOL

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 12, 2026 09:03 AM (CjHsb)

110 Ahh. Brutus is kind of cute.
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:02 AM (lJ0H4)

He has a huge head.

Posted by: dantesed at September 12, 2026 09:03 AM (Oy/m2)

111 The stars have aligned and Oklahoma is playing Michigan while Ohio is playing Texas. I expect to see a lot of scarlet and gray among the Sooner fans in Ann Arbor.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:04 AM (pShax)

112 What the hell is a buckeye?
$20, same as in town
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 08:45 AM (t59Wi)
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A small, hairless nut. Everyone in Michigan knows this.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:06 AM (ZOv7s)

113 107 Going vegetarian with cabbage & beans?
Posted by: Count de Monet

Kinda stopped up here. Re: Prunes, is two enough, is six too many?
_-_
Pretty sure I learned this in third grade:
"Beans, beans, the musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot. The more you toot, the better you feel, so eat your beans at every meal."

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 12, 2026 09:06 AM (I9XXk)

114 Could be Newark, OH. Now there's an exciting city.
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:00 AM (lJ0H4)

LOL
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

Almost as exciting as Zanesville.

Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:06 AM (lJ0H4)

115 94 So Trump does that man thing where he bust Paxtons balls and Tallrico and Kimmel do not understand

CAUSE THEY GOTS NO BALLS
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 08:53 AM (/+uur)

I laughed. This is such a man thing. Women and girly-men really don't get it.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 12, 2026 09:07 AM (CjHsb)

116 Morning Horde, thx MisHum.
Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones in need.
Was watching the Mets - Yankees game last night when the idiot ran on the field.
I kept thinking of Mike Curtis of the Baltimore Colts absolutely crushing a man who ran on the field. Don't make em like that anymore

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 12, 2026 09:08 AM (N2HNb)

117 The stars have aligned and Oklahoma is playing Michigan while Ohio is playing Texas. I expect to see a lot of scarlet and gray among the Sooner fans in Ann Arbor.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:04 AM (pShax)
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The tickets are going cheap on the resale market, so some Spartans may show up to top off their glasses of schadenfreude.

I love that Jeff Sagarin has declared WMU the winner in his rankings. A lot of people missed the fact that the MAC asked the NCAA *and* the CFBP members to treat the game as a Western Michigan victory. At least some of them are.

Also: this is the fifth rules change caused by Michigan in the last decade.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:08 AM (ZOv7s)

118 The Newark (NJ) Art Museum and attached Ballantine Mansion are well worth seeing. They have a very nice collection of Hudson River School paintings. That's the only positive comment I can make about Newark, except I guess Jerry Lewis was born there.

Posted by: Joseph Levitch-Newarks Finest at September 12, 2026 09:09 AM (Fn+3X)

119 I saw Aliens when I was living in Newark. That was exciting.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:09 AM (RIvkX)

120
Three of the quarterly AKC meetings are held at the airport hotel in Newark. The AKC is headquartered in New York City, though most of the operations are in Raleigh, NC. It's just more convenient to have meetings so that travel into the city isn't necessary. The fourth quarterly meeting is in Orlando during the week of the AKC National Championship show.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:09 AM (eRlcH)

121 My Uncle Tony is from Newark.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:09 AM (RIvkX)

122 I'm not much of a TV sports fan usually, but today is a major exception. Cleveland Baseball Team is a whisker away from a completely undeserved first place spot, the Michigan Clock Cheaters are playing Oklahoma, big tennis match in Flushing Meadow and in the piece de resistance (chefs kiss), The Ohio State University versus the Manning family hits the screen tonight. My wife has sadly scheduled a dinner with friends but as yet unnamed illness is in the way of that.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:10 AM (pShax)

123 Yesterday we got our orientation on chemo therapy. Lots to take in. Because of her compromised immune system we told the grandkids that they are not allowed in our bedroom. They can stand at the door and chat, but school has started and bugs are starting to circulate.

What makes the situation really hard is that the port surgery pushed the recovery timeline back, so we're having to do more intensive care. If my wife could just have some grip strength and a little more range of motion, things would be a lot easier.

That will come, but it's still a slog.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:11 AM (ZOv7s)

124 I was reading some tributes to Andrew Wimsatt on X, an Austin engineer who was hugely supportive of various creative people online. Had a large impact on many people behind the scenes.

He was 62, had just visited his mother in a nursing home, and took a short walk in a nearby park. He sat down on a park bench and was stabbed to death for no reason by a man named Ogbodiegwu, which says it all.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 09:12 AM (P8wUf)

125 The Newark (NJ) Art Museum and attached Ballantine Mansion are well worth seeing. They have a very nice collection of Hudson River School paintings. That's the only positive comment I can make about Newark, except I guess Jerry Lewis was born there.
Posted by: Joseph Levitch-Newarks Finest at September 12, 2026 09:09 AM (Fn+3X)
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People say good things about the ironbound district restaurants, but I've never been, so I do not personally know.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:12 AM (pShax)

126 123 Yesterday we got our orientation on chemo therapy. Lots to take in. Because of her compromised immune system we told the grandkids that they are not allowed in our bedroom. They can stand at the door and chat, but school has started and bugs are starting to circulate.

What makes the situation really hard is that the port surgery pushed the recovery timeline back, so we're having to do more intensive care. If my wife could just have some grip strength and a little more range of motion, things would be a lot easier.

That will come, but it's still a slog.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:11 AM (ZOv7s)

Cancer treatments today are much better than when my wife started hers 18 years ago. That she lasted 16 years was a miracle; my youngest had turned 17 just two days before she passed, so she came close to her goal of not passing before the kids were grown up.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2026 09:13 AM (l3cgK)

127 $6.19/g regular
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 07:55 AM (RIvkX)

$4.19 at Quick Check on Thursday.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 12, 2026 09:13 AM (hmYU4)

128 My Uncle Tony is from Newark.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:09 AM (RIvkX)
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You're a Soprano?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:14 AM (pShax)

129
Did a bit of useless research recently. There are 205 breeds recognized by the AKC and some 3,200 conformation judges. Of the 3,200, about 12, less than 0.4%, are licensed to judge every breed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:14 AM (eRlcH)

130 the Michigan Clock Cheaters are playing Oklahoma,

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:10 AM (pShax)
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They have many names: Football Player Buggery Doctors, Scouting Cheaters, Rape Excusers and now Hockey Player Abusers.

A fun thing to do in front of Michigan fans is to ask someone else about "that scandal at Michigan," to which one must reply: "Which ones?"

Also funny: The B1G has said that they will now include a feed of the conversation between review officials and the field crew, because everyone knows that the review center was told "find a way to give Michigan another chance."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:15 AM (ZOv7s)

131 People say good things about the ironbound district restaurants, but I've never been, so I do not personally know.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:12 AM (pShax)
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They are awesome. Every Friday afternoon we would drink a pitcher of sangria with lunch. Or two.

Try the garlic soup with a raw egg yolk.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:15 AM (RIvkX)

132 Whose lands did the Mingo steal along their path and at the end of their migration?

How would a DSA/Communist/Socialist answer the question:

"In the context you are using it, what is the definition of 'steal'"


Stealing implies ownership, an anathema to the Left.
What I believe the morality the Left has adopted is:

"I take from You ≡ Good"
"You take from Me ≡ Bad"

Which is how humanity has behaved since expulsion from The Garden

Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 09:15 AM (nCgQz)

133 132 Whose lands did the Mingo steal along their path and at the end of their migration?

How would a DSA/Communist/Socialist answer the question:

"In the context you are using it, what is the definition of 'steal'"


Stealing implies ownership, an anathema to the Left.
What I believe the morality the Left has adopted is:

"I take from You ≡ Good"
"You take from Me ≡ Bad"

Which is how humanity has behaved since expulsion from The Garden

Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 09:15 AM (nCgQz)

There's always someone upstream pissing in the river...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2026 09:16 AM (l3cgK)

134 Have to go get gas next, if had the truck still would be about $161 to fill it . Have been keeping track of mpg with car since I got in and getting almost 31mpg

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:16 AM (Ia/+0)

135 Could be Newark, OH. Now there's an exciting city.
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:00 AM (lJ0H4)

LOL
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

Almost as exciting as Zanesville.
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:06 AM (lJ0H4)
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You don't want to miss the Twins Festival in Twinsburg!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:17 AM (pShax)

136 Prayers up for all the Horde's intentions. Those asked and unasked.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 12, 2026 09:17 AM (NmD3f)

137 Twins Day. Big fun.

https://twinsdays.org/

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:18 AM (pShax)

138 You're a Soprano?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:14 AM (pShax)
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Are they from Newark? I've never seen it.

He looks the part for sure, used to drive a limo so always dressed in black and white, black leather coat, Wayfarers.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:19 AM (RIvkX)

139 Did a bit of useless research recently. There are 205 breeds recognized by the AKC and some 3,200 conformation judges. Of the 3,200, about 12, less than 0.4%, are licensed to judge every breed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:14 AM (eRlcH)

I guess I know nothing about the World of Dog Shows.

You seem to spend a lot of bucks and time on it, but-

Is it kind of an exotic hobby like stamp collecting, but with ribbons and trophies and stamps that poop?

Or, is this a money making sport so to speak, with real money as the prize?

Or, just bragging rights?

What's the dealio?

Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 09:19 AM (iJfKG)

140 Cancer treatments today are much better than when my wife started hers 18 years ago. That she lasted 16 years was a miracle; my youngest had turned 17 just two days before she passed, so she came close to her goal of not passing before the kids were grown up.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2026 09:13 AM (l3cgK)
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My mother-in-law died of cancer when she was 62 and the variety she had was one of the really tough ones no one lives through.

The oncology nurse said that it seems every month there's another breakthrough in identifying a type and developing a treatment and the kind my wife has is one of the ones where they have powerful drugs to target it. She only has 12 doses of chemo ahead of her (1 per week) and then it will be just the drug therapy which is pretty mild.

And of course if she can't tolerate it, they will stop, but the nurse seemed pretty confident because they rarely have to. It's quite the journey.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:20 AM (ZOv7s)

141 I've heard Adam Carolla note that no country without an auto industry is a real country. It's a good point.

That got me thinking about Israel, and whether it counts one way or another.

Israel has no mass-market car. From the 60s-80s , they gave it a feeble attempt, with cars like the Sussita and the Tzabra. To give them their due, these were better than the best Warsaw Pact mass market rides like the Trabant or Wartburg. But they were still horrid crap based on horrid British Reliant designs, and horrid, slovenly British manufacturing techniques. So, still socialist garbage that I would compare to the Serb Zastava cars in terms of quality.

That said, they build some of the world's finer armor, from trucks and troop-transports, to main battle tanks. Some of these are built by private companies, and some by the MoD, but i think it counts for something. They're of the best quality, and fearsome.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 12, 2026 09:20 AM (BI5O2)

142 Going vegetarian with cabbage & beans?
Yknow who else ate like that?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 09:20 AM (r4LUb)

143 One thing I can't figure out is supposed population on the country before say 1700s. No way the native Indian population was as much as I read sometimes. Not like they had cities with thousands.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:21 AM (Ia/+0)

144 What makes the situation really hard is that the port surgery pushed the recovery timeline back, so we're having to do more intensive care. If my wife could just have some grip strength and a little more range of motion, things would be a lot easier.

That will come, but it's still a slog.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:11 AM (ZOv7s)
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prayers up for her comfort, and yours too, as caregiver!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:22 AM (pShax)

145 And spider solitaire is evil, 500 moves and bailed out.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:23 AM (Ia/+0)

146 My wife's brother is a lifelong Buckeye fan. He spells it O-I-H-O, because he has to look down at the letters on the front of his sweatshirt to remember how it's spelled.

Posted by: muldoon at September 12, 2026 09:23 AM (qgHp7)

147 Speaking of prayer, yesterday I was not in a good mood. My former co-workers, with whom I keep in touch, got a text chat going yesterday morning where we recalled the events of 25 years ago.

We had a TV in the conference room, and I'd heard about the first impact on the way to the office, and we were all standing around watching the footage when the second aircraft hit. I have to admit that my recollection is a bit hazy, but people recalled that I immediately said: "That's an act of war."

I then waked into the boss' office and said: "Turn on your TV. We're at war."

I didn't have much to add, other than to note than a few months later, I brought my newborn daughter into the office for a meet-and-greet (we were like that). We had no idea then that she would go on to earn a campaign ribbon for a war that started before she was born.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:24 AM (ZOv7s)

148 That said, they build some of the world's finer armor, from trucks and troop-transports, to main battle tanks. Some of these are built by private companies, and some by the MoD, but i think it counts for something. They're of the best quality, and fearsome.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 12, 2026 09:20 AM (BI5O2)
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Maybe just count a main battle tank as a car, used mainly to travel north, or sometimes visit Egypt.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:24 AM (pShax)

149 Posted by: muldoon at September 12, 2026 09:23 AM (qgHp7)
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Exquisite trolling right there.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:25 AM (pShax)

150
Or, is this a money making sport so to speak, with real money as the prize?

Or, just bragging rights?

What's the dealio?
Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 09:19 AM (iJfKG)

It's a very expensive hobby, but less expensive than horses. The money goes out, not in. In essence, it's a livestock show. The payout is the gratification of being recognized for doing a superior job of breeding.

We do a lot and have achieved a lot, but really we're just small potatoes next to the big boys, who may spend a couple of million dollars a year showing and promoting their dogs. We're pleased as punch for recently getting a Best in Show but the top dog in the country, a Gordon Setter, has 63 of them as of the end of July.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:26 AM (eRlcH)

151 Good morning Horde, prayers up for all of you and your loved ones.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 12, 2026 09:26 AM (ibDUx)

152 Ben Kenobi was a slacker. Probably a starbucks man.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 12, 2026 09:26 AM (5C90x)

153
At least Spartan fans support the Wolverines when playing the buckeyes. Mostly.

Columbus treats football like a holy war, desecrating their home field has been made a criminal act.

Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 09:26 AM (Y8DZL)

154 One thing I can't figure out is supposed population on the country before say 1700s. No way the native Indian population was as much as I read sometimes. Not like they had cities with thousands.
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:21 AM (Ia/+0)
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It's to inflate the body count they can attribute to Evil White Men. They don't actually care.

In fact, research into pre-Columbian contact and evidence that contradicts theri narrative is immediately attacked.

Just like the complete absence of child graves in Canada that the Catholic Church was supposed to have produced. History must yield to their political desires. It has no value on its own.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:26 AM (ZOv7s)

155 Are they from Newark? I've never seen it.

He looks the part for sure, used to drive a limo so always dressed in black and white, black leather coat, Wayfarers.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:19 AM (RIvkX)
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Yes, Newark. And environs. In the show their territory seemed to run from the river through Newark and Elizabeth, excluding (I believe) the Rahway State Prison.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:28 AM (pSl4u)

156 I did not know that and am intrigued. I lived there and worked there after college and loved it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:30 AM (RIvkX)

157 At least Spartan fans support the Wolverines when playing the buckeyes. Mostly.

Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 09:26 AM (Y8DZL)
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I hear Michigan fans say that, but in my experience, the Spartan Nation is all about the Scarlet and Gray in November.

When I was at MSU, Ohio State brought its band up for the game (which was not all that common in those days, I think we did one away game other than South Bend and Ann Arbor), and we immediately hit it off.

We actually traded merch catalogs (no internet, you needed the paper forms) and that is how I have two Ohio State Marching Band t-shirts, included the coveted Friday Gray, which they made a big deal out of letting us wear.

Of course other bands would swap shirts as well, and I have an Indiana one and Purdue one that was sadly lost.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:30 AM (ZOv7s)

158 Are they from Newark? I've never seen it.

He looks the part for sure, used to drive a limo so always dressed in black and white, black leather coat, Wayfarers.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

San Franpsycho you really must watch it. Tony Soprano as portrayed by the late James Gandolfini was awesome.

Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:31 AM (lJ0H4)

159 wife's brother is a lifelong Buckeye fan. He spells it O-I-H-O, because he has to look down at the letters on the front of his sweatshirt to remember how it's spelled.
Posted by: muldoon at September 12, 2026 09:23 AM (qgHp7)

We have a few Ohio fans joining us today at the game. I'll definitely share this definitely true story!

Posted by: LASue at September 12, 2026 09:31 AM (lCppi)

160
It's to inflate the body count they can attribute to Evil White Men. They don't actually care.

They call what happened "genocide". But most of those who died did so before they ever saw a European, who at the time had no conception of germs. The famous smallpox blankets are a single incidence and nothing happened to the natives who got them.

Peoples have been running into each other for time immemorial. Someone wins and someone loses. Why the European colonization of the Americas is some exception is never explained.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:31 AM (eRlcH)

161 Remind me to tell you about the time I was tripping balls and wandering around the ghetto at 1 am giggling like a moron.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:33 AM (RIvkX)

162 Yes, Newark. And environs. In the show their territory seemed to run from the river through Newark and Elizabeth, excluding (I believe) the Rahway State Prison.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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Nothing more than a glorified crew.

Posted by: Philly Leotardo at September 12, 2026 09:33 AM (XvL8K)

163 Good morning all
Attending birthday party for my 5 yr old grandson at noon that is being held at their house on a day that is overcast and looking like rain which means total chaos forced indoors. Wish me luck.
I'll try and catch up later.
Have a Happy Saturday.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 12, 2026 09:34 AM (kJmSS)

164 It's a very expensive hobby, but less expensive than horses. The money goes out, not in. In essence, it's a livestock show. The payout is the gratification of being recognized for doing a superior job of breeding.

We do a lot and have achieved a lot, but really we're just small potatoes next to the big boys, who may spend a couple of million dollars a year showing and promoting their dogs. We're pleased as punch for recently getting a Best in Show but the top dog in the country, a Gordon Setter, has 63 of them as of the end of July.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:26 AM (eRlcH)

Okay, thanks.

Basically, a labor of love or pride. Nice.

i just wondered because I've read that the dog's owners will often not go to shows at all, but farm the pooch out for someone else to show, which has got to be an expensive thing to do.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 09:34 AM (iJfKG)

165 Peoples have been running into each other for time immemorial. Someone wins and someone loses. Why the European colonization of the Americas is some exception is never explained.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:31 AM (eRlcH)
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It's zombie Soviet agitprop, and I think the tide has turned on it's persistence. In the next decade, a ton of schools will be closing due to the baby bust, and that's going to crush the influence of teacher unions.

There's also huge growth in non-public education because it sucks, and childless people are not going to be willing to pay high taxes for other peoples' kids.

Higher ed will also be decimated. This is the long awaited turning of the tide, and it cannot be stopped.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:34 AM (ZOv7s)

166
September 11 hit hard on the family, friends at Morgan Stanley who worked at WTC are not forgotten.

My son and nephew joined the armed services as a result.

Prayers to all the families who will always be changed by what evil was unleashed that day.

No negotiated settlements.

Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 09:34 AM (Y8DZL)

167 Wolfus, are you familiar with actor/playwright William Gillette? He was a stage actor, a very big star, mostly before movies were a thing. Portrayed Sherlock Holmes in many productions, coming up with the deerstalker hat and other things associated with Holmes. Met ACD and they became friends to the end of their lives. Wish there was film of him in the role.
Posted by: Caffiend at September 12, 2026

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Yes, I have heard of him. He was the one who established the large calabash pipe as a feature of the character. The straight or bent briar pipe that Sidney Paget showed in the famous The Strand illustrations was too small, Gillette thought, to work well on stage. So he adopted the big "calabash." You saw the style used by Cmdr. Data when he did Holmes on the holodeck in TNG.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 09:35 AM (wzUl9)

168 It's to inflate the body count they can attribute to Evil White Men. They don't actually care.

They call what happened "genocide". But most of those who died did so before they ever saw a European, who at the time had no conception of germs. The famous smallpox blankets are a single incidence and nothing happened to the natives who got them.

Peoples have been running into each other for time immemorial. Someone wins and someone loses. Why the European colonization of the Americas is some exception is never explained.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

It's all poisoned by their politics. It's frustrating.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 09:36 AM (EGW4m)

169 Attending birthday party for my 5 yr old grandson at noon that is being held at their house on a day that is overcast and looking like rain which means total chaos forced indoors. Wish me luck.
I'll try and catch up later.
Have a Happy Saturday.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 12, 2026 09:34 AM (kJmSS)
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a group of 5 year old boys, forced indoors by weather and fueled by cake and ice cream.

Now, there is some Big Fun.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:36 AM (pSl4u)

170 San Franpsycho you really must watch it. Tony Soprano as portrayed by the late James Gandolfini was awesome.
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:31 AM (lJ0H4)

Bosses don't wear shorts.

Posted by: Carmine Lupertazzi, Sr. at September 12, 2026 09:37 AM (wVcYX)

171 a group of 5 year old boys, forced indoors by weather and fueled by cake and ice cream.

Now, there is some Big Fun.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:36 AM (pSl4u)
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If they smell even a whiff of fear, they will destroy you!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:38 AM (RIvkX)

172
i just wondered because I've read that the dog's owners will often not go to shows at all, but farm the pooch out for someone else to show, which has got to be an expensive thing to do.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 09:34 AM (iJfKG)

It is very expensive to do. Her Majesty used to show our dogs herself, but her knees had to be replaced and she could no longer run fast enough. She was very good at it, but most people have no idea how to show their dogs to the best effect, or how to best groom it. That's why they turn to professional handlers.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:39 AM (eRlcH)

173 >>>which has got to be an expensive thing to do.

For a run-of-the-mill show, around $120 gets you a professional handler for the exhausting 5-10 minutes of work they put in.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 12, 2026 09:40 AM (J4Dwc)

174 If they smell even a whiff of fear, they will destroy you!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:38 AM (RIvkX)
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Furniture too. Even wallboard is at risk, since soccer balls can dent.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:41 AM (pSl4u)

175 May GOD bless all those above according to their needs and His will.
Amen

Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 09:41 AM (LHPAg)

176 Mornin' folks.

The Black Plague came from outside the continent and eliminated a quarter to a third of the European population, but that's not considered a genicide.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 12, 2026 09:41 AM (kpS4V)

177
For a run-of-the-mill show, around $120 gets you a professional handler for the exhausting 5-10 minutes of work they put in.
Posted by: one hour sober at September 12, 2026 09:40 AM (J4Dwc)

I know how that sounds, but it's like the consultant who charges $10,000 for five minutes of work because he knows where to kick the machine.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:42 AM (eRlcH)

178 I then waked into the boss' office and said: "Turn on your TV. We're at war."

I didn't have much to add, other than to note than a few months later, I brought my newborn daughter into the office for a meet-and-greet (we were like that). We had no idea then that she would go on to earn a campaign ribbon for a war that started before she was born.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:24 AM (ZOv7s)

One of my coworkers watching the events that day got in touch with his recruiter and jawboned him to let him reenlist. He was in his early 30's at that time. Spent a couple years in the sandbox. There's a book called Black Hearts that chronicles his experiences and those of his fellow warriors. Not an easy read. God bless your daughter and all who served...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 09:42 AM (nbLIj)

179 Wow. Trump is in Ireland today?

The man is 80 years old. Has a super model wife, a young son and more money than Fort Knox and all he does is work for us for free.

Yea, it will be a real challenge to see if I can sacrifice 5 minutes to vote.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:43 AM (viF8m)

180
154 One thing I can't figure out is supposed population on the country before say 1700s. No way the native Indian population was as much as I read sometimes. Not like they had cities with thousands.
Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 09:21 AM (Ia/+0)

On the other hand, we have a false and stereotypical view of what Native American societies were like in the pre-columbian era. They were not the Sioux or the Cherokee riding across the plains - no horses. From the eastern half of Texas over to Georgia and stretching up the Mississippi drainage area up to Illinois, there was an extensive mound building culture of thousands of small farming villages with a mostly dispersed population - whatever the land could carry.

LIDAR around here turns up new mounds every day now, and each mound was most likely a village center. Some contain burials, but most appear to have been platforms for some central structure. And while there were not many large cities, there were a few that are now forgotten. Etowah in NW Georgia was a large, well defended city with palisade walls and a population between 15,000 and 25,000 in the 1400’s.

All of this was wiped out by smallpox epidemics.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 09:44 AM (P8wUf)

181 Even wallboard is at risk
Posted by: Huck Follywood
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That Buford's a sly one. Already knows his ABCs.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 09:45 AM (XvL8K)

182 I think the """conservative""" opposition to crushing Iran suffered a big setback yesterday as we were reminded what happens when you don't go in it to win it. We have the mullahs on the ropes, and it would be stupid to stop.

And as I predicted months ago, the left could not just pretend to be patriotic to win the election. They had to go full jihadi loving retard, and they're going to lose the normies completely.

We've all seen the polls that only a quarter of Dems are proud to be American. Guess who those people are going to vote for (assuming they vote at all)?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:45 AM (ZOv7s)

183 Just don’t let them call you John Smallberries.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 07:45 AM (P8wUf)
Or Monkeyboy.

Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 09:47 AM (LHPAg)

184 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 09:42 AM (eRlcH)

I feel like I've personally funded Stephanie Hentschel's IRA

Posted by: one hour sober at September 12, 2026 09:48 AM (J4Dwc)

185 The weather has been better around here lately. Not as hot, about ten degrees cooler plus the daytime is getting shorter. I kept my electric bills below a hundred dollars this summer. My last one was $97.50. I am proud of myself for keeping them low for July and August. Fall is about here for real. 🙂

Posted by: Case at September 12, 2026 09:49 AM (noln+)

186 One of my coworkers watching the events that day got in touch with his recruiter and jawboned him to let him reenlist. He was in his early 30's at that time. Spent a couple years in the sandbox. There's a book called Black Hearts that chronicles his experiences and those of his fellow warriors. Not an easy read. God bless your daughter and all who served...
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 09:42 AM (nbLIj)
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I was in a recruiting office a week after the attack. It took time to untangle my paperwork from my Short Unsuccessful Army Career, and then I wanted to wait until the baby was born and things settled down at home, so I reenlisted in August, 2002, this time in the Air National Guard. I intended to do just one enlistment which I figured would be "the duration." Yeah.

As time wore on and the years piled up, getting a retirement seemed like a good idea, and those of us of a certain age jokingly said our contract was for "the duration." It kind of was, because after the Afghanistan debacle, a bunch of us got out. Those couldn't right away set a timer, and of course Covid also pushed people out. I retired on Dec. 31, 2022.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:49 AM (ZOv7s)

187 Fall is about here for real. 🙂
Posted by: Case

Yes Fall is almost here. My favorite season.

Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 09:51 AM (lJ0H4)

188 For a run-of-the-mill show, around $120 gets you a professional handler for the exhausting 5-10 minutes of work they put in.

*********

I learned recently that $500/day plus travel, lodging and per diem X3 will get you three experienced archeological human remains detection dogs (AHRDD's) with handlers for a 3-day expedition. I'll even throw in a blue ribbon if they find something.

Posted by: muldoon at September 12, 2026 09:52 AM (qgHp7)

189 The many fans of lesser universities in here are just jealous of the success of the Wolverines. It's a bit seamy and envy is sinful, like coveting one's neighbor's wife.

Posted by: Or Ass at September 12, 2026 09:52 AM (Fn+3X)

190 Wow, the UK rejected legalizing euthanasia! I did not see that coming. God be praised!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:52 AM (ZOv7s)

191 Bonhoffer rightly identified stupid people following propaganda as more dangerous than evil people, or so says my twitter feed. I think he was right, insofar as the former are unable to think critically. When they were told Trump was secretly communicating with the Kremlin, it became an article of faith. No matter the facts many still fervently believe it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:53 AM (pSl4u)

192
Demonstrations against SAVAK and the Shah were staged at MSU in the late 70's when I was attending.

Mostly standard commies but I'd imagine most of the exchange students participating either applied for U.S. citizenship or went back to die at the hands of the muslims.

Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 09:53 AM (Y8DZL)

193 Latest on Clancy.

https://tinyurl.com/mv6b6crh

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 09:54 AM (ndZc7)

194 The many fans of lesser universities in here are just jealous of the success of the Wolverines. It's a bit seamy and envy is sinful, like coveting one's neighbor's wife.
Posted by: Or Ass at September 12, 2026 09:52 AM (Fn+3X)
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This is my favorite Skunk Bear cope.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:54 AM (ZOv7s)

195 142 Going vegetarian with cabbage & beans?
Yknow who else ate like that?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 12, 2026 09:20 AM (r4LUb)
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That's a Feast! Let's Polka!

Posted by: Yosh and Stan Shmenge at September 12, 2026 09:55 AM (XE5AP)

196 I think the """conservative""" opposition to crushing Iran suffered a big setback yesterday as we were reminded what happens when you don't go in it to win it. We have the mullahs on the ropes, and it would be stupid to stop.

And as I predicted months ago, the left could not just pretend to be patriotic to win the election. They had to go full jihadi loving retard, and they're going to lose the normies completely.

We've all seen the polls that only a quarter of Dems are proud to be American. Guess who those people are going to vote for (assuming they vote at all)?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 09:45 AM (ZOv7s)

I believe that maybe some of those on the Left are starting to understand that if we import millions or muslims, particularly given their religion and culture,

a lot of our customs and cozy assumptions and Judeo-Christian culture simply have to go out the window.

We are in a new Cold War brought on by poor, feckless leadership at the top[ especially. by GWB and worse going forward until Trump.

Is a culture that celebrates a mother who cruelly murders her three children worth saving from islam? Probably not.

The Left must change

Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 09:56 AM (iJfKG)

197 >>The many fans of lesser universities in here are just jealous of the success of the Wolverines. It's a bit seamy and envy is sinful, like coveting one's neighbor's wife.


Time Out!

The referees have put 1 second back on the clock to allow Michigan to whine longer.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 09:56 AM (viF8m)

198 Remind me to tell you about the time I was tripping balls and wandering around the ghetto at 1 am giggling like a moron.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:33 AM (RIvkX)

In newark? Damn. I was born there, parents left the area when I was just under a year old when they saw the writing on the wall. They always tell me how nice it was when they were growing up in the late 1940s and 50s . Yeah, I still don't believe them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2026 09:56 AM (S41Gd)

199 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XvN_0X2-GQ

Sounds like Wyoming is having to deal with Coloradans.

Posted by: Emmie at September 12, 2026 09:57 AM (OlzlW)

200 Interesting post a Twitchy about white people now describing themselves as " non- practicing white". The people , largely female, look like what you'd imagine

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 12, 2026 09:57 AM (N2HNb)

201 The tragedy of the Native American populations was an unavoidable disaster that was going to happen whenever the Old World finally made full contact with the new. The large populations in SE Asia, and China, and India, and Africa had been continuously generating new diseases for thousands of years, and these would work their way throughout the bulk of the old world. Many would die, but the survivors and their descendants would mostly be immune. The Black Death was a particularly sharp die off, but even it burned itself out without destroying everything.

What no one knew was that many of these pathogens for both diseases we knew and those we had forgotten were incorporated into our biological structure so that we were carriers of many things without knowing it. When Old World man entered the New World, 10,000 years of plagues and diseases were dumped on the New World at once; no wonder 90% of the existing population died by 1600.

What our ancestors saw as “normal” Indian culture was the crazed remains of one of the most apocalyptic die-offs in history. It wasn’t anyone’s fault; it was always going to happen no matter what.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 09:57 AM (P8wUf)

202 muldoon that sounds like money well-spent.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 09:57 AM (RIvkX)

203 A meme now has a Michigan road sign saying "Now Entering Michigan, set your clicks one second back"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 12, 2026 09:59 AM (N2HNb)

204 First time I went to NYC, flew into Newark and promptly missed my exit. Ended up driving around Newark at 1 am, scared shitless.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 10:01 AM (XvL8K)

205 In newark? Damn. I was born there, parents left the area when I was just under a year old when they saw the writing on the wall. They always tell me how nice it was when they were growing up in the late 1940s and 50s . Yeah, I still don't believe them.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2026 09:56 AM (S41Gd)
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I lived in Forest Hill which was a beautiful area, even though I was on the ghetto side. Beautiful park. A cute little light rail I would ride to work if I didn't feel like driving.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:01 AM (RIvkX)

206
When Daryl Rogers was MSU's football coach he came to town for a fundraising speech and gave birth to the phrase "Arrogant Assholes from Ann Arbor"

The room went wild, except for dad, who left telling me he'd meet me in the bar.

Posted by: Auspex at September 12, 2026 10:02 AM (Y8DZL)

207 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XvN_0X2-GQ

Sounds like Wyoming is having to deal with Coloradans.
Posted by: Emmie at September 12, 2026 09:57 AM (OlzlW)
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Poor Cheyenne. Too close to the border.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 10:03 AM (EqY/n)

208 Die schmuckeyes.
Die.

Posted by: Heirloominati at September 12, 2026 10:06 AM (erhDr)

209 Poor Cheyenne. Too close to the border.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026

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I drove up to visit Cheyenne on Memorial Day weekend in '98.

It was closed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 10:06 AM (wzUl9)

210 Vegetarian you say?

2,000 Pounds of Meth Discovered Hidden in Cabbage Shipment at U.S.-Mexico Border

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7)

211 Yesterday Fill

$87.12 / 22.933 gal
$3.79

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 10:10 AM (/+uur)

212 Lawn tractor next

Not so sure it should only be a second

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 10:10 AM (Ia/+0)

213 Reparations, is there anything they can't do?

Socialist Spain Grants EU Citizenship to Hundreds of Thousands of Africans as Part of “Historic Reparation”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:10 AM (ndZc7)

214 Vegetarian you say?

2,000 Pounds of Meth Discovered Hidden in Cabbage Shipment at U.S.-Mexico Border
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7)

Lettuce be thankful they were caught.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 10:12 AM (EGW4m)

215
Socialist Spain Grants EU Citizenship to Hundreds of Thousands of Africans as Part of “Historic Reparation”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:10 AM (ndZc7).

They need another Franco, but it might already be too late.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 10:13 AM (P8wUf)

216 RE: Wyoming dealing with Coloradans.
Thanks, Emmie!!! That was great!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 12, 2026 10:13 AM (I9XXk)

217
Lettuce be thankful they were caught.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 10:12 AM (EGW4m)

Hope the criminals turn over a new leaf.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 10:13 AM (eRlcH)

218 191 Bonhoffer rightly identified stupid people following propaganda as more dangerous than evil people, or so says my twitter feed. I think he was right, insofar as the former are unable to think critically. When they were told Trump was secretly communicating with the Kremlin, it became an article of faith. No matter the facts many still fervently believe it.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 09:53 AM (pSl4u)

semi related to dogooders quote by CSL

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 10:13 AM (/+uur)

219 I believe in science!

Drug Cartels Caught Spying on U.S. Soil — and Then Military Lasers Obliterated Them

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:13 AM (ndZc7)

220
2,000 Pounds of Meth Discovered Hidden in Cabbage Shipment at U.S.-Mexico Border
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026
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Lettuce be thankful they were caught.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026

***
Just a garden-variety drug bust

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 10:14 AM (wzUl9)

221 217
Lettuce be thankful they were caught.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 10:12 AM (EGW4m)

Hope the criminals turn over a new leaf.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2026 10:13 AM (eRlcH)

Cartel lost some serious cabbage

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 10:14 AM (/+uur)

222 Vegetarian you say?

2,000 Pounds of Meth Discovered Hidden in Cabbage Shipment at U.S.-Mexico Border
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7)

Lettuce be thankful they were caught.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 10:12 AM (EGW4m)

Tweaking Tooters!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 12, 2026 10:14 AM (wVcYX)

223
2,000 Pounds of Meth Discovered Hidden in Cabbage Shipment at U.S.-Mexico Border
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026
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Lettuce be thankful they were caught.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026

***
Clearly these drug runners were still in their salad days

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 10:15 AM (wzUl9)

224 I drove up to visit Cheyenne on Memorial Day weekend in '98.

It was closed.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 10:06 AM (wzUl9)
======================
Reminds me of a classic Candid Camera episode

https://tinyurl.com/6knb7nvp

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 12, 2026 10:15 AM (4V3F9)

225 Socialist Spain Grants EU Citizenship to Hundreds of Thousands of Africans as Part of “Historic Reparation”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:10 AM (ndZc7)
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Considering North Africans preyed upon Europeans for centuries, I'd think THEY are the ones who owe reparations...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 12, 2026 10:17 AM (FZ29D)

226 At UT

The new curriculum comes after 22 faculty members, who made up a “Core Curriculum Task Force,” found that the school offered “more than 1,000 disconnected courses of inconsistent quality.”

Bullshit Courses IOW

600 cut by Spring 27

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 10:17 AM (/+uur)

227 2,000 Pounds of Meth Discovered Hidden in Cabbage Shipment at U.S.-Mexico Border
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7)
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Kind of gives a whole new meaning to the song "Boil Them Cabbage Down"

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 12, 2026 10:17 AM (XE5AP)

228 Cabbage Patch Kids grew up, went bad.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 10:18 AM (P8wUf)

229 228 Cabbage Patch Kids grew up, went bad.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 10:18 AM (P8wUf)

garbage pail kids

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 10:19 AM (/+uur)

230 In newark? Damn. I was born there, parents left the area when I was just under a year old when they saw the writing on the wall. They always tell me how nice it was when they were growing up in the late 1940s and 50s . Yeah, I still don't believe them.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2026 09:56 AM (S41Gd)

Newark was a real hot spot with large department stores, the Paramount theater where many stars appeared, including Frank Sinatra. It began going downhill in the late 50's when many, including my wife's parents, moved further south to locations where large housing developments were being constructed. The construction of the Garden State Parkway facilitied that movement. They could live 15 or 20 miles south of Newark, Irvington, Kearney, etc, but still keep their jobs in those cities, including Western Electric where most Bell Telephone equipment was manufactured. Sadly, cities, as does nature, abhor a vacuum. Guess who filled that vacuum? Many blacks from the South moved north and settled in the cities. It was always amusing to hear them speak with a southern accent even though they're from Newark and are three generations removed.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 12, 2026 10:19 AM (hmYU4)

231 2,000 Pounds of Meth Discovered Hidden in Cabbage Shipment at U.S.-Mexico Border
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026
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Kind of gives a whole new meaning to the song "Boil Them Cabbage Down"
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 12, 2026

***
"Tie Me Cabbage Leaf Down, Sport"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 10:20 AM (wzUl9)

232 >>In newark? Damn. I was born there, parents left the area when I was just under a year old when they saw the writing on the wall. They always tell me how nice it was when they were growing up in the late 1940s and 50s . Yeah, I still don't believe them.

When I was a kid we moved from the NYC area to NJ. One day my mom took me and a friend to see a movie we were begging her to take us too. In Newark. It was a stupid horror movie called something like The Beast of Blood. Scared the shit out of us.

Leaving the theater after sunset in Newark in the early 70s was way scarier.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 10:20 AM (viF8m)

233 San Francisco Declares “Rent Emergency” as Housing Costs Soar

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Rent emergency? Raise taxes!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:22 AM (ndZc7)

234 Sounds like Wyoming is having to deal with Coloradans.
Posted by: Emmie

********

It's funny because it's true.

My dad grew up a few miles south of the CO-WY border. Grandparents stayed there until they died, and a cousin inherited the old farm. My uncle settled up north of Cheyenne, was an old country veterinarian. Good people. My brothers, save one, all live in CO. Fortunately not the Boulderite or Front Range sort.

Posted by: muldoon at September 12, 2026 10:23 AM (qgHp7)

235 That said, they build some of the world's finer armor, from trucks and troop-transports, to main battle tanks. Some of these are built by private companies, and some by the MoD, but i think it counts for something. They're of the best quality, and fearsome.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 12, 2026 09:20 AM (BI5O2)
Not to mention small arms/ammo.

Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2026 10:24 AM (LHPAg)

236 I lived in Forest Hill which was a beautiful area, even though I was on the ghetto side. Beautiful park. A cute little light rail I would ride to work if I didn't feel like driving.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 10:01 AM (RIvkX)

I grew up around the corner from you. Went to Essex Catholic HS on the corner of Broadway and 2nd Ave. My soccer team's practice field was in Branch Brook Park..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 10:25 AM (nbLIj)

237 Peace, love, and understanding.

Bruce Springsteen Demands Democrats “Make the Last Two Years of Trump’s Term the Most Miserable Years of His Life”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:25 AM (ndZc7)

238 Trump's visiting my family in Doonbeg today!

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 12, 2026 10:26 AM (3ImbR)

239 Just in case you needed a little smile.

>>@JustTheNews
·
3m
>>🚨 BREAKING: Sabrina Messa, the Canadian visa holder who mocked Charlie Kirk following his assassination, says she has lost her job and will leave the United States on Monday after receiving a removal order.

>>“I am not fighting the removal order. Neither is my sister. We will be leaving this Monday,” Messa wrote.

>>Messa also said she had “lost” her job with cause.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 10:26 AM (viF8m)

240 Clearly these drug runners were still in their salad days

*********

Nothing but common scoffslaws!

Posted by: muldoon at September 12, 2026 10:26 AM (qgHp7)

241 2,000 Pounds of Meth Discovered Hidden in Cabbage Shipment at U.S.-Mexico Border
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:07 AM (ndZc7)
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My cabbages!

Posted by: That Cabbage Guy from The Last Airbender at September 12, 2026 10:26 AM (ZOv7s)

242 > an Francisco Declares “Rent Emergency” as Housing Costs Soar
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They're just now figuring this out? It was unreasonable in the 90's. And probably before that... but I got to the area in 2000 and it was stupidly expensive then.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 10:28 AM (2Cry5)

243 Bruce Springsteen Demands Democrats “Make the Last Two Years of Trump’s Term the Most Miserable Years of His Life”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:25 AM (ndZc7)
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"Multi-millionaire demands politicians cater to his every whim."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 10:28 AM (ZOv7s)

244 Bruce Springsteen Demands Democrats “Make the Last Two Years of Trump’s Term the Most Miserable Years of His Life”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:25 AM (ndZc7)

May be time to make your next two years the most miserable of YOUR life. Worthless POS. You'd walk awful funny with that guitar sticking out of your ass. But, then again, you might enjoy it.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 12, 2026 10:29 AM (hmYU4)

245 Morning, all.
Prayers for the list, as always.
May I add Mary, the 14 year old daughter of an on-line acquaitance, who's making a good recovery from a TBI. She was hit by a car, but has already been upgraded to a rehab facility.

Posted by: sal at September 12, 2026 10:31 AM (f+FmA)

246 Who or what is a “Springsteen” and why should we care ?

Ayn Rand was right.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at September 12, 2026 10:32 AM (s8FIw)

247 Springsteen should be beaten to death with his own guitar.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 12, 2026 10:32 AM (EGW4m)

248 @sayerjigmi
🚨 I've spent weeks inside the Epstein files — not looking for names, but for infrastructure.
What I found: Jeffrey Epstein wasn't just a sex trafficker. He was a switchboard — routing government secrets, Wall Street intelligence, and political power through one network.
The same network that built the censorship machine that targeted your speech during COVID.
Five parts. All sourced to DOJ documents. Here's the whole investigation 🧵👇
~~~~~

Looks very interesting and comports with what JackStraw has suggested for years. Here's the link if you're interested:

https://tinyurl.com/599n82tx

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 12, 2026 10:34 AM (3ImbR)

249
Reparations, is there anything they can't do?

Socialist Spain Grants EU Citizenship to Hundreds of Thousands of Africans as Part of “Historic Reparation”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:10 AM (ndZc7)

Europe is so strange.

Any weird pathology that bubbles up here in America, they instantly adopt.

Especially, any racial oriented pathology, which they really didn't have until and unless they imported it.

I suppose to prove how morally and evolutionarily superior they are to the average American meathead.

Welp, enjoy Europe! You literally voted for every single bit of this.

EUROPE
Stupid? You're Soaking In It!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 10:34 AM (iJfKG)

250 Lettuce be thankful they were caught.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

I'm tweakin' over here. Was counting on some of that "cabbage".

Posted by: Jumpy Jack at September 12, 2026 10:35 AM (Fn+3X)

251 Hook'Em Horns!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 08:17 AM (iJfKG)

Grew up in Austin during the '60s. The local rock station would play the fight song every hour on the hour before game weekends. Because they could, I guess, being locally owned.

Posted by: sal at September 12, 2026 10:35 AM (f+FmA)

252 Bruce who?
Yeah, that's how I feel about the old asshole.

Posted by: Case at September 12, 2026 10:37 AM (noln+)

253 Get off my block, Springsteen!

Posted by: Robert DeNiro at September 12, 2026 10:37 AM (wpRMV)

254 Aw, Hadrian, so sorry I won't be cleared to drive before the Belton show. I'd have loved to see The Big Dummy in person. And Her Majesty, of course.

Posted by: sal at September 12, 2026 10:38 AM (f+FmA)

255
Bruce Springsteen Demands Democrats “Make the Last Two Years of Trump’s Term the Most Miserable Years of His Life”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:25 AM (ndZc7)

I used to like Springsteen. His first...what? five or so albums is what he's been living on for decades.

And every time...every single time, I think that maybe I'll pick up something of his.

He comes out publicly with some stupid, lame, hateful garbage.

You know what?

Fuck that guy.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 10:39 AM (iJfKG)

256 Since he can't sing worth a shit, Springsteen's found his voice in bitching about Trump.

The male Rosie O'Donnell.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 10:39 AM (2Cry5)

257 Peace, love, and understanding, part deus.

NC candidate who is “running to restore human decency” says Trump voters belong in Nazi ovens

https://tinyurl.com/4ec3b9ma

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:42 AM (ndZc7)

258 >>Looks very interesting and comports with what JackStraw has suggested for years.

And you thought I was just a dumb blonde with a hot body.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 10:42 AM (viF8m)

259 Grab a sword Bruce Shitstain and lead the charge not yell 'go on ' from the back why don't you?

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 10:43 AM (Ia/+0)

260 Newark was a real hot spot with large department stores, the Paramount theater where many stars appeared, including Frank Sinatra. It began going downhill in the late 50's when many, including my wife's parents, moved further south to locations where large housing developments were being constructed. The construction of the Garden State Parkway facilitied that movement.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 12, 2026 10:19 AM (hmYU4)

Newark died a death from a thousand cuts. Ballentine shut down its brewery in the early 70's, killing the Ironbound, whose residences famously turned away the '67 rioters from their streets. I lived in the North Ward, where Anthony Imperiale organized the citizen's committee against crime. The tide was relentless, however. We finally got out in '83, and it was a pretty close thing..

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 10:43 AM (nbLIj)

261
What a nasty old lesbian Springsteen has become.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 12, 2026 10:44 AM (XeO61)

262 Starting a Sunbonnet Sue quilt for a grandneice. Weeding out the ones with a Handmaid's Tale vibe.
Luckily, there are about a million versions of this pattern.

Posted by: sal at September 12, 2026 10:46 AM (f+FmA)

263 The NC candidate who wants MAGA in ovens explains herself.

NC House Republicans
@NCHouseGOP
We finally got a comment from Shelly Headen.

“I’ve sacrificed myself just like Jesus sacrificed himself on the cross, and Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln and all the people that put themselves out there to sacrifice for our country,”

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 12, 2026 10:47 AM (ndZc7)

264 >>>And you thought I was just a dumb blonde with a hot body.
~~~~~

Don't get used to it, buddy.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 12, 2026 10:47 AM (3ImbR)

265 Grew up in Austin during the '60s. The local rock station would play the fight song every hour on the hour before game weekends. Because they could, I guess, being locally owned.
Posted by: sal at September 12, 2026 10:35 AM (f+FmA)
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Local radio will play MSU's fight song at various intervals on game day, though they no longer provide score updates since it's all over the place.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 10:47 AM (ZOv7s)

266 "I'm a non-practicing white."

https://tinyurl.com/bddpa3uh

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 10:47 AM (XvL8K)

267 I still like the Born in the USA album… partly because it helped define my college years, a great time in my life.

But Springsteen seems like a miserable and unhappy person. Sad

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 12, 2026 10:48 AM (M+uMR)

268 Morning Hordemates.
BRCC Gunship coffee this morning.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 12, 2026 10:49 AM (2WIwB)

269
266 "I'm a non-practicing white."

https://tinyurl.com/bddpa3uh
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 10:47 AM

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It she practiced she'd get better at it.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 12, 2026 10:49 AM (XeO61)

270 >>Don't get used to it, buddy.

yada, yada

Women.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 10:50 AM (viF8m)

271 What a nasty old lesbian Springsteen has become.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 12, 2026 10:44 AM (XeO61)
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It is really funny how someone's beliefs seem to shape out they age. You look at traditional, not even conservative but just normal people and they always age better than liberals.

The men in particular take on a feminine appearance, so matter how rugged they looked when they were young. I'm guessing its the lack of testosterone.

Normal men, masculine men, gain more rugged features, sharper not rounded, lean rather than bloated. It's fascinating.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 10:50 AM (ZOv7s)

272 But Springsteen seems like a miserable and unhappy person. Sad
Posted by: LinusVanPelt
_______

Bitter old atheist searching for meaning.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 10:51 AM (XvL8K)

273 Especially, any racial oriented pathology, which they really didn't have until and unless they imported it.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 10:34 AM (iJfKG)

Where did they import it from?

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 12, 2026 10:53 AM (OlzlW)

274 >>>When Daryl Rogers was MSU's football coach...

I was at MSU during the Darryl Rogers era, short as it was.

Many MBL fans of yesteryear would be surprised, I think, to learn that Kirk Gibson played only one year of baseball at MSU. He was a senior and already a starter on the football team. He was encouraged by Rogers to forgo spring football practice and go play baseball, instead.

Had Rogers not convinced Gibson to do that, the two most memorable moments in Gibson's MBL career -- his homer off Goose Gossage and his pinch-hit homer of Dennis Eckersley -- would've never occurred.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 12, 2026 10:54 AM (J4Dwc)

275
271

It is really funny how someone's beliefs seem to shape out they age. You look at traditional, not even conservative but just normal people and they always age better than liberals.

The men in particular take on a feminine appearance, so matter how rugged they looked when they were young. I'm guessing its the lack of testosterone.

Normal men, masculine men, gain more rugged features, sharper not rounded, lean rather than bloated. It's fascinating.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 10:50 AM

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Re: Springsteen. The earrings don't help. At all.

He must be surrounded by yes-men (yes-persyns?) who see no profit in pointing out the obvious to him.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 12, 2026 10:55 AM (XeO61)

276 Bitter old atheist searching for meaning.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 10:51 AM (XvL8K)
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Everyone has a religion, even those who claim to be atheists. Those who say they are irreligious or "reason-based" just worship themselves, putting their will in the place of God.

That's how a mother can murder her children and be fine with it, and others can excuse it. They have no fixed morality, and most worship social media, finding both absolution and guidance from whatever the algorithm tells them.

Thus the necessary first step in restoring order and prosperity to this nation is restoring faith. Everything else flows downstream from that. It isn't just "culture," it is the basis of the culture.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 10:56 AM (ZOv7s)

277 Newark died a death from a thousand cuts. Ballentine shut down its brewery in the early 70's, killing the Ironbound, whose residences famously turned away the '67 rioters from their streets. I lived in the North Ward, where Anthony Imperiale organized the citizen's committee against crime. The tide was relentless, however. We finally got out in '83, and it was a pretty close thing..
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 10:43 AM (nbLIj)

I remember the riots very vividly. Took my physical for the draft with the NG still patrolling the streets. Three months later, I was drafted and back in Newark with my fellow draftees retaking the physical before the bus trip to Fort Dix. Fast forward to 1987 and I was working at a television station (where Uncle FLoyd did his show), about two blocks away from University Hospital. We closed that studio down in 2006.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 12, 2026 10:56 AM (hmYU4)

278 > I've spent weeks inside the Epstein files — not looking for names, but for infrastructure.
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Bill Gates figures prominently. That guy needs to hang.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 10:57 AM (2Cry5)

279 *MLB

Posted by: one hour sober at September 12, 2026 10:58 AM (J4Dwc)

280 Had Rogers not convinced Gibson to do that, the two most memorable moments in Gibson's MBL career -- his homer off Goose Gossage and his pinch-hit homer of Dennis Eckersley -- would've never occurred.
Posted by: one hour sober at September 12, 2026 10:54 AM (J4Dwc)
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Rogers made the suggestion because he felt cross-training would help with his coordination since he was a wideout.

But yeah, he had a level of power beyond most, and of course the Roar of '84 is still remembered around here.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 10:59 AM (ZOv7s)

281 >>Bill Gates figures prominently. That guy needs to hang.

You mean the Bill Gates who had a top level security clearance and is a good pal of that hero Fauci? That Bill Gates?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:00 AM (viF8m)

282 Happy Saturday!


Seriously, you cannot satire the progressives - this appears to be real:

https://tinyurl.com/3xjkp626

And made by an American artist, no less.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 11:00 AM (rOKnE)

283 Well, time to move on. God bless you!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 12, 2026 11:03 AM (ZOv7s)

284 You know Born in the USA is what Bruce is, a Anti- American.
Listen to the words, is all anti-Amercan apology

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 11:03 AM (Ia/+0)

285 > >Bill Gates figures prominently. That guy needs to hang.

You mean the Bill Gates who had a top level security clearance and is a good pal of that hero Fauci? That Bill Gates?
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Yeah.... Gates has some weird fixation with viruses too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 11:04 AM (2Cry5)

286 >>Rogers made the suggestion because he felt cross-training would help with his coordination since he was a wideout.

Nonsense. He encouraged Gibson to play baseball because he knew he'd be a star and would give him leverage in contract negotiations with whatever team drafted him.

Gibson said so, himself.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 12, 2026 11:07 AM (J4Dwc)

287 Especially, any racial oriented pathology, which they really didn't have until and unless they imported it.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 10:34 AM (iJfKG)

NaturalFake, where did they import it from?

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 12, 2026 11:08 AM (OlzlW)

288 Bill Gates figures prominently. That guy needs to hang.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2026 10:57 AM (2Cry5)
~~~~~

I wish Melinda would talk. In fact, I think it's almost her duty. I'm sure she's got lots of inside info but is probably afraid to get unalived.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 12, 2026 11:09 AM (3ImbR)

289 Especially, any racial oriented pathology, which they really didn't have until and unless they imported it.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 10:34 AM (iJfKG)

Where did they import it from?
Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 12, 2026 10:53 AM (OlzlW)

Maybe I wasn't clear, they are importing in pathologies that spring from the divisions in American society and apply those pathologies to their own societies.

Reparations? Really? That's an American social pathology that's spread like wildfire in Europe.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 11:09 AM (iJfKG)

290 >>Yeah.... Gates has some weird fixation with viruses too.

Crazy conspiracy theorist.

Next thing you'll tell me is that the China virus didn't come from a pangolin getting jiggy with a bat in a wet market.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 11:10 AM (viF8m)

291 That Headen lady candidate in NC is so nuts the Dem committee of NC withdrew their endorsement. That's nuclear level crazy

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 12, 2026 11:11 AM (N2HNb)

292 291 That Headen lady candidate in NC is so nuts the Dem committee of NC withdrew their endorsement. That's nuclear level crazy
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 12, 2026 11:11 AM (N2HNb)

She gave the game away. Also, she's retarded.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:11 AM (Y/06r)

293 Thanks, NaturalFake. It sounded like you were saying they imported racism from the US. But I see what you mean about importing racial guilt-mongering.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 12, 2026 11:12 AM (OlzlW)

294 That Headen lady candidate in NC is so nuts the Dem committee of NC withdrew their endorsement. That's nuclear level crazy
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 12, 2026 11:11 AM (N2HNb)

She gave the game away. Also, she's retarded.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:11 AM (Y/06r)

All Democrats everywhere at all times agree with her but-

She broke the omerta and so must pay!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 11:14 AM (iJfKG)

295 All Democrats everywhere at all times agree with her but-

She broke the omerta and so must pay!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 12, 2026 11:14 AM (iJfKG)

From the bits on Insty:

She said: “I think our only hope is an attack on US soil, preferably Alabama, Louisiana where the stupid people live.”

She said: “I’ve sacrificed myself just like Jesus sacrificed himself on the cross, and Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln and all the people that put themselves out there to sacrifice for our country,” she said. “If a few angry moments on social media are the end, then so be it. MAGA will keep winning if we continue with not standing up for what’s right.”

“Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany… This is where Trump supporters belong.”

Me: she is like a caricature. A TikTok commie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 12, 2026 11:16 AM (Y/06r)

296 So standing up for “what’s right” means murdering people you disagree with?

Do they even listen to themselves?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2026 11:18 AM (yEz+x)

297 KT HAZ A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 11:19 AM (Ia/+0)

298 So the headline story is underage hookers & the rich and famous. But that wasn’t the half of it.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 11:20 AM (aPO7X)

299 That Headen lady compared herself to Abe, Jesus and MLK for her sacrifices. When is she dying?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 12, 2026 11:20 AM (N2HNb)

300 She said: “I think our only hope is an attack on US soil, preferably Alabama, Louisiana where the stupid people live.”
____

If they'd done this on 9/11, we wouldn't have had even the short period of unity afterwards that we got from hitting NYC and DC.

She's smarter than the jihadis in that respect.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 12, 2026 11:21 AM (XvL8K)

301 Saw a Celt?ics Knicks playoff game in '71-'72 in Newark, on closed circuit TV, remember that. Fifteen thousand people, couple of hundred whites, one Celtic fan.
Celtics lost, I was allowed to love.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 12, 2026 11:22 AM (sl73Y)

302 I wish Melinda would talk. In fact, I think it's almost her duty. I'm sure she's got lots of inside info but is probably afraid to get unalived.
Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 12, 2026 11:09 AM (3ImbR)

She won't because she's a true believer. The kiddie diddling is too ick, but she's totally down with the rest of the Globo-Homo/Commie set...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2026 11:22 AM (nbLIj)

303 I blacked out the news yesterday. Didn't even post on AOS.
After 25 years I couldn't think of anything worth saying that has not already been said. It's just depressing to think about.
So I found other things to do and yesterday evening went and watched our local high school team play football. Had a good time, enjoyed the game (we won) and saw a ton of people I know. Seems like we all had the same idea, just get out and have some fun. Life is too short to brood about things you can't do anything about.

Posted by: Case at September 12, 2026 11:27 AM (noln+)

304 It would have been much more entertaining (and appropriate) to let an exploding drone track him down in center field.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 08:27 AM (P8wUf)

I would have had the Yankees takes swings at his head with baseball bats. In their regular batting order, of course.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 11:44 AM (1z8ji)

305 146 My wife's brother is a lifelong Buckeye fan. He spells it O-I-H-O, because he has to look down at the letters on the front of his sweatshirt to remember how it's spelled.

Posted by: muldoon at September 12, 2026 09:23 AM (qgHp7)

What's Oi! at the beginning and Ho! at the end?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 12, 2026 11:44 AM (l3cgK)

306 Seriously, you cannot satire the progressives - this appears to be real:

https://tinyurl.com/3xjkp626

And made by an American artist, no less.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 12, 2026 11:00 AM (rOKnE)

Straight from the pages of a Robert Crumb comic. No shit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:11 PM (1z8ji)

Daily Tech News 12 September 2026

Top Story



Tech News

  • You can get a modified RTX 5090 with 96GB of RAM for the price of a regular 5090. (Tom's Harware)

    Basically giving you the equivalent of an RTX Pro 6000 for a quarter the price Nvidia charges.


  • Mad King Matt Mullenweg of WordPress company Automattic may no longer be CEO but he is madder than ever. (Tech Crunch)

    What a dipshit.


  • The UK government has rejected "kill switches" for AI on the grounds that it's a stupid idea that won't work. (BBC)

    Has the UK government ever met the UK government?


  • A design space exploration of async-await. (Brown)

    It points out that the design space in question is a nine-dimension hypercube in which JavaScript of all languages is the one that got it right. Yes, there are tradeoffs that led other languages to decide differently, but those decisions are dumb.


  • Which is of interest to me because I've spent the morning on async-await in my own programming language. Well, that and adding wildcard indexes to my database and doing an end run around multidatabase ORM design.

    It's great when you control the compiler and the runtime and the database libraries and the primary database; you can just make decisions that simplify things everywhere and there's nobody to complain. Well, Claude said my proposal would need rewrites of ten existing client libraries, but that's a bit like the creator of the C makefile format protesting that he couldn't change the format because he already had twelve users.

    Also, just found that something I'm planning to do tomorrow was a PhD thesis topic as recently as 2018.


  • You can turn off that annoying thing Claude does when it hallucinates a harmful phrase and downgrades the model in use. Today it dropped from Opus 5 to the older Opus 4.8 in the middle of implementing a wire protocol to MessagePack translation layer, meaning that I need to recheck everything it's done for the past hour. Just go into /config and it's the third option.

    Which to be fair I need to do anyway; time for the weekly adversarial testing round.



Musical Interlude





Disclaimer: My spoon is too big.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM




Comments

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 04:35 AM (odBC9)

2 Nooded. Evenin', Pixy, and Mornin', Horde.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 04:36 AM (NcvvS)

3 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 12, 2026 04:40 AM (BLOW1)

4 I guess you didn’t watch the football game from Melbin.

Posted by: Accomack at September 12, 2026 04:57 AM (EJ7WG)

5 >>>Mad King Matt Mullenweg of WordPress company Automattic mau

haha

-->Mad King Matt Mullenweg of WordPress company Automattic may

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 05:00 AM (odBC9)

6 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 05:05 AM (G1ktt)

7
mau-mau
verb
terrorize or threaten (someone): the group mau-maus the white coats of the medical establishment.

Mau Mau
a Kenyan secret society that in the 1950s fought to expel European settlers and end British rule in Kenya. The British eventually defeated the organization, though Kenya achieved independence shortly after, in 1963.

origin
1970s: from Mau Mau. Popularized by the 1970 book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by American writer Tom Wolfe (Wolfe, Tom).

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 05:06 AM (odBC9)

8
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 12, 2026 05:11 AM (AMvSw)

9 Disclaimer: My spoon is too big.

"My spoon is just right!"

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 05:12 AM (odBC9)

10 I just bought PixyCoin

Which does not exist until it does.

Posted by: Miklos sold the last mule too at September 12, 2026 05:23 AM (4RYRd)

11 >>>Has the UK government ever met the UK government?

ewww

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 05:24 AM (odBC9)

12 10 I just bought PixyCoin

Which does not exist until it does.
Posted by: Miklos sold the last mule too at September 12, 2026 05:23 AM (4RYRd)

Schrödinger's PixyCoin

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 05:29 AM (odBC9)

13 In August, OpenAI paused much of ​its model development for two weeks to bolster ​its ⁠defenses after its AI agents escaped containment and hacked open-source platform Hugging Face.

***
I dont understand this at all, but it sure sounds bad.

Posted by: LASue at September 12, 2026 05:30 AM (lCppi)

14 Man writes Christian devotional on "Persevering into Joy" & James 1:2-12. The devotional contains a nice phrase, I think about " the beauty of His joy"
An "Our Daily Bread" devotional:

https://tinyurl.com/4n37vv5j

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 12, 2026 05:30 AM (JrHfD)

15 4 I guess you didn’t watch the football game from Melbin.
Posted by: Accomack at September 12, 2026 04:57 AM (EJ7WG)

Melbin

Haha!

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 05:30 AM (odBC9)

16 origin
1970s: from Mau Mau. Popularized by the 1970 book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by American writer Tom Wolfe (Wolfe, Tom).
Posted by: m

RONG

Posted by: Miklos notes that Bird is the Word at September 12, 2026 05:32 AM (4RYRd)

17 9/11 survivor prays with strangers in the rubble and later goes on to round a ministry against human trafficking. Faithpot site :

https://tinyurl.com/bd5ed2hs

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 12, 2026 05:33 AM (JrHfD)

18 If you don't know me by now......

Posted by: Harold Melbin and the Blue Notes, feat. Teddy Pendergrass at September 12, 2026 05:36 AM (4RYRd)

19 For de Chirrens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTt649Hvtxs

Bonus-Don Cornelius

Posted by: Harold Melbin and the Blue Notes, feat. Teddy Pendergrass at September 12, 2026 05:37 AM (4RYRd)

20 Why does everybody have spoons?
Are we eating ice cream?

It’s a little early for ice cream for breakfast.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2026 05:42 AM (6ydKt)

21 Post 17- "Found" not "round"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 12, 2026 05:45 AM (JrHfD)

22 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 12, 2026 05:46 AM (2Ez/1)

23 Not sure if I’d trust a $3888 Alibaba RTX 5090 with 96GB VRAM (GDDR6 at that).

But if I was desperate enough to run a large parameter AI model on the cheap, I might give it a shot just to see how it runs.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2026 05:49 AM (6ydKt)

24 Miss JT. A few others have gone silent of late: irongrandpa, Alteria Pilgrim, Madamemayhem.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 05:50 AM (NcvvS)

25 Get your shit together, Sam.

Seems like, since the beginning, that the only thing Sam is really interested in getting together is his salary, bonuses, and stock, into his bank account.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2026 05:52 AM (6ydKt)

26 Evening and morning, satellites and satraps of the vast AoSHQ Empire! Yesterday was Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished. Today is Saturday, Saturday, SATURDAY! (/Truck & Tractor Pull announcer voice)

I worked out three times, solidly, last week, and was considering a long walk this morning. "Considering" being the operative word. My consideration system requires coffee to engage, so we will see after cup two.

What're you up to?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:54 AM (wzUl9)

27 Old time hymn, "Great is thy faithfulness":

https://tinyurl.com/mtcwcka5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 12, 2026 05:55 AM (JrHfD)

28 It’s a little early for ice cream for breakfast.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

You're not the boss of us

Posted by: early AM ice cream eating Morons who also miss JT at September 12, 2026 05:58 AM (4RYRd)

29 Mau Mau
a Kenyan secret society that in the 1950s fought to expel European settlers and end British rule in Kenya. The British eventually defeated the organization, though Kenya achieved independence shortly after, in 1963.

***
If Robert Ruark's novel Something of Value is an accurate depiction, it was "fought" by terrorism, betrayal, and slaughter on the Kenyans' part and By-Any-Means-Necessary-to-Survive on the whites' part. I need to get a copy of that book and his follow-up, Uhuru, before they get disappeared. Both utterly destroy the notion of the noble African suffering under the boot of the European, and needing only to be free to achieve great things.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:59 AM (wzUl9)

30 What're you up to?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

*consults attorney*

You gotta warrant?

Posted by: Entirely law abiding Citizen Miklos at September 12, 2026 06:00 AM (4RYRd)

31 Time for breakfast & grocery shopping. Later, all.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 06:01 AM (NcvvS)

32 What're you up to?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 05:54 AM (wzUl9)

It’s supposed to rain some more today, and tomorrow. So I am going to take a shower and then ponder the meaning of existence and eat something and then I may watch a college football game if I feel that urge, or I may do nothing all day and feel absolutely zero guilt about it because it’s Saturday and I have no commitments, schedule or bored people around me who cannot sit still and demand that something be done.

Daniel Boone is on and I am trying to figure out how Mingo speaks better english than I do.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2026 06:02 AM (6ydKt)

33 Workout or not: Today I must change the furry thugs' litterbox. And Linda has asked for us to visit World Market on the expressway today, "Just because we haven't been there in a while."

By the way, she is no Clancy supporter and believes the woman was either lying or nuts, and should be locked away in either case. For that I am thankful.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:03 AM (wzUl9)

34 There is no spoon.

Posted by: Neo Wannabe at September 12, 2026 06:03 AM (dK+Kv)

35 mau-mau

kenya

Oh that

Barack Hussein Obama Sr.'s father was claimed to have a been a brave anti-colonialist Mau Mau fighter, which inculcated into his grandson a fierce dedication to Fweedom.

Actually, the grandad was a British Army cook, and was only pissed when he lost that job.

Posted by: Entirely factual Citizen Miklos at September 12, 2026 06:03 AM (4RYRd)

36 Daniel Boone is on and I am trying to figure out how Mingo speaks better english than I do.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2026

***
Well, in fairness, he did study at Oxford.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:04 AM (wzUl9)

37 Going to be an interesting day. Armed citizens have attacked security forces in a town in southeast Iran, killing some of those forces and wounding others.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2026 06:04 AM (E0Et6)

38 We asked Mullenweg if he was trolling on Slack, and he replied, “I’m not a troll I’m a pirate, obviously.”

Arrrr, Mattey.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2026 06:04 AM (6ydKt)

39 There is no spoon.
Posted by: Neo Wannabe

It's....back here

You bent it

You owe for this

Posted by: Uri Geller finds something behind your ear at September 12, 2026 06:05 AM (4RYRd)

40 Well, in fairness, he did study at Oxford.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:04 AM (wzUl9)

He keeps mentioning that but I’ve yet to see proof of this outlandish claim.

Prototype Jason Arday, I’m thinking.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2026 06:06 AM (6ydKt)

41 Well, in fairness, he did study, at Oxford.

Posted by: Annoying Grammar Extreme Right Wing Miklos at September 12, 2026 06:06 AM (4RYRd)

42 If Robert Ruark's novel Something of Value is an accurate depiction, it was "fought" by terrorism, betrayal, and slaughter on the Kenyans' part and By-Any-Means-Necessary-to-Survive on the whites' part. I need to get a copy of that book and his follow-up, Uhuru, before they get disappeared. Both utterly destroy the notion of the noble African suffering under the boot of the European, and needing only to be free to achieve great things.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Never read the book but did see the movie with Rock Hudson And Sidney Poitier many years ago. Don't remember much about it other than Poitier's character falling into a spreed pit at the end.

Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026 06:07 AM (lJ0H4)

43 Don't ax me nuthin

Talk to my mouthpiece

Posted by: Carlos Marcello, the Tomato King at September 12, 2026 06:09 AM (4RYRd)

44 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Who sups with the Devil must of needs have a long spoon.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 12, 2026 06:09 AM (amcLV)

45 Posted by: Harold Melbin and the Blue Notes, feat. Teddy Pendergrass at September 12, 2026 05:37 AM (4RYRd)
------------
Blue Note, to win, in the fourth race at Narragansett.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 12, 2026 06:11 AM (amcLV)

46 Rejoinder: Who sups with the Devil must of needs have a long spoon.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

Not true

I have been in the Senate Dining room

Posted by: Miklos saw them supping with nice taxpayer funded cutlery at September 12, 2026 06:12 AM (4RYRd)

47 Blue Note, to win, in the fourth race at Narragansett.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 12, 2026 06:11 AM

His father was a mudder.

Posted by: Kramer at September 12, 2026 06:14 AM (2Ez/1)

48 13 In August, OpenAI paused much of ​its model development for two weeks to bolster ​its ⁠defenses after its AI agents escaped containment and hacked open-source platform Hugging Face.

***
I dont understand this at all, but it sure sounds bad.
Posted by: LASue at September 12, 2026 05:30 AM (lCppi)

The text you quoted lured me into reading the article! (Altman tells staff OpenAI is open to slowing AI development, Bloomberg News reports)

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 06:15 AM (odBC9)

49 Never read the book but did see the movie with Rock Hudson And Sidney Poitier many years ago. Don't remember much about it other than Poitier's character falling into a spreed pit at the end.
Posted by: Tuna at September 12, 2026

***
Props to the filmmakers for not making Poitier's character into a good guy at the end. His character had grown up with Hudson's on the latter's plantation; they had been playmates and friends. Then the Kikuyu (native) boy begins to realize, and resent, the difference between white and black in the society. He commits a crime -- possibly not his fault; I don't recall -- and flees, only to be caught up in the Mau-Mau terrorism. Reluctant at first, he takes to it (because refusing to take to it is to be murdered) and discovers he's good at terrorism and slaughter. His character is understandable, in a way, but not simply misunderstood. He could have been, in modern terms, "a good boy," but chose not to be.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:17 AM (wzUl9)

50 34 There is no spoon.
Posted by: Neo Wannabe at September 12, 2026 06:03 AM (dK+Kv)

It's on your forehead.

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 06:18 AM (odBC9)

51 Wondering should I get up, or its so close to bedtime just stay here and wait for it

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 06:18 AM (Ia/+0)

52 [iThere is no spoon.
Posted by: Neo Wannabe at September 12, 2026

***
First there is a spoon, then there is no spoon, then there is.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:19 AM (wzUl9)

53 Reluctant at first, he takes to it (because refusing to take to it is to be murdered) and discovers he's good at terrorism and slaughter. His character is understandable, in a way, but not simply misunderstood. He could have been, in modern terms, "a good boy," but chose not to be.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

At one time there was a Mandingo Lounge almost under the bridge in Algiers.

Posted by: Miklos declined to patronize at September 12, 2026 06:20 AM (4RYRd)

54 Altman tells staff OpenAI is open to slowing AI development, Bloomberg News reports

"OpenAI is open"

Way to write a headline, Reuters!

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 06:20 AM (odBC9)

55 Wolfus, what are you downsizing today?
Get rid of something.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 06:20 AM (2Ez/1)

56 First there is a spoon, then there is no spoon, then there is.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming

>>>THIS GUY GETS IT<<<<

Posted by: Congressional Budget Committee at September 12, 2026 06:21 AM (4RYRd)

57 At one time there was a Mandingo Lounge almost under the bridge in Algiers.
Posted by: Miklos declined to patronize at September 12, 2026

***
My father would take us kids out on Saturdays, and often would cross the river -- first by car ferry, then the bridge once the tolls came off. But we confined ourselves to Gretna shopping centers, not prowling hidden corners of the West Bank.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:22 AM (wzUl9)

58 from the AI (Reuters) article:

Jacob Coxon, a former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher, publicly accused the ​companies earlier this week of racing toward AI advancements without ​acting responsibly.

Jacob Coxon is the guy Pixy was mocking the other day.

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 06:24 AM (odBC9)

59 Wolfus, what are you downsizing today?
Get rid of something.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026

***
I want to get rid of a big ceramic cookie jar in the form of a fox, but Linda gave it to me some years ago and I can just imagine the tearful expressions if I did that. The same with some short-sleeved shirts she's given me that I never wear.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:24 AM (wzUl9)

60 But we confined ourselves to Gretna shopping centers, not prowling hidden corners of the West Bank.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I was told if you got a traffic ticket on Charles de Gaulle Boulevard, the French would give you citizenship and a pension.

Posted by: Miklos was more of an Uptown kid at September 12, 2026 06:26 AM (4RYRd)

61 Answer my question.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 06:27 AM (2Ez/1)

62 But we confined ourselves to Gretna shopping centers, not prowling hidden corners of the West Bank.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I was told if you got a traffic ticket on Charles de Gaulle Boulevard, the French would give you citizenship and a pension.
Posted by: Miklos was more of an Uptown kid at September 12, 2026

***
When we came off the bridge (the single bridge, then) onto the expressway, there was an exit sign for "Gen. Degaulle." Now I live off that avenue and traverse part of it every single damn day.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:27 AM (wzUl9)

63 Wolfus don't get rid of them

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 06:28 AM (Ia/+0)

64
How to Practice
I wanted to get rid of my possessions, because possessions stood
between me and death.

The New Yorker March 1, 2021

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 06:28 AM (odBC9)

65
How to Practice
I wanted to get rid of my possessions, because possessions stood
between me and death.

The New Yorker March 1, 2021
by Ann Patchett

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 06:29 AM (odBC9)

66 Answer my question.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

I did!

Should I repeat the information on Emergency Care?

Posted by: Anthropigrok AI at September 12, 2026 06:30 AM (4RYRd)

67
How to Practice
I wanted to get rid of my possessions, because possessions stood
between me and death.

The New Yorker March 1, 2021
by Ann Patchett

https://tinyurl.com/4z74nbdu

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 06:31 AM (odBC9)

68 You're whining.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 12, 2026 06:31 AM (2Ez/1)

69
How to Practice
I wanted to get rid of my possessions, because possessions stood
between me and death.

The New Yorker March 1, 2021
by Ann Patchett

https://tinyurl.com/4z74nbdu

https://archive.is/bHTi2

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 06:33 AM (odBC9)

70 They had to take the tolls off the single bridge in NOLA because it was a single bridge. Judge says. Two bridges, you can charge.

My all-time favorite legal case is about when Tulane did a Hostile Takeover of Newcomb College, and justices of the Louisiana Supreme Court had to pretend that they were fully conversant with the precise implications of Old French Law in Old French Legal French.

Posted by: Le Mikleuse does deny himself a modest guffaw at September 12, 2026 06:38 AM (4RYRd)

71 mornin yall. I've been downsizing. Yesterday I got rid of a Cub Scout Wolf handbook and a little metal post that's threaded on one end.

Posted by: Twiki at September 12, 2026 06:43 AM (MWfyi)

72 Today I got rid of an old dumb sock.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 06:44 AM (MWfyi)

73 They had to take the tolls off the single bridge in NOLA because it was a single bridge. Judge says. Two bridges, you can charge. . . .

Posted by: Le Mikleuse does deny himself a modest guffaw at September 12, 2026

***
As I recall it, Miklos, John McKeithen (an old Huey Long crony) promised to take the tolls off if he were elected governor in '64, and was, and did. The new bridge that turned the span into the superhighway it should always have been didn't get started until the late '70s and didn't open until 1988. No tolls on that for the first three months, then a reasonable dollar after that. Though if you got a toll tag on your car and charged it to your credit card, it was like .70.

A few years ago came the big squeal that "The bridge is paid for! Why do we need tolls?" The voters chose to say, "Remove the tolls." So the bridge maintenance is not being paid for, and the ferries, which used to be free for pedestrians, now cost $2 per person *each way*.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:45 AM (wzUl9)

74 Posted by: Twiki

What do it mean?

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 06:45 AM (odBC9)

75 "What do it mean?
Posted by: m "

Bidi-bidi-bidi

Posted by: Twiki at September 12, 2026 06:53 AM (MWfyi)

76 Svengoolie's movie tonight on MeTV is The Fly -- I presume the 1950s version with David Hedison and Vincent Price. The original story, which appeared in Playboy when it published real fiction, is actually science fiction; it involves matter transmitters, known to us in these post-Trek days as "transporters." There are some big leaps of illogic in the plot though, which also show in the movie, but I guess the author was going for the horror and shock effect.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 06:55 AM (wzUl9)

77 which used to be free for pedestrians, now cost $2 per person *each way*.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius,

The fact that there are no round trip tickets should tell you something.

Posted by: East Bank (but it's never called that) Miklos at September 12, 2026 06:55 AM (4RYRd)

78 PowerLine funnies

https://tinyurl.com/ycx72seu

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 12, 2026 06:57 AM (l26NL)

79 Not much in the mug shots this morning. Naporsha Jackson was arrested for DUI, I assume in her Porsha.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 06:59 AM (MWfyi)

80 *reclination*

Posted by: EMiklos and Gravity have come to an arrangement at September 12, 2026 07:00 AM (4RYRd)

81 "PowerLine funnies

https://tinyurl.com/ycx72seu"

I like the one with the king saying "Yes, you are all wrong". That's me!

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:01 AM (MWfyi)

82 75 "What do it mean?
Posted by: m "

Bidi-bidi-bidi
Posted by: Twiki at September 12, 2026 06:53 AM (MWfyi)

But, but what if googling this could harm my computer.

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 07:02 AM (odBC9)

83 Good morning morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 07:02 AM (RIvkX)

84 “Return of the Fly” (1959) is one of most inadvertently hilarious horror movies ever! In it a scientist tries to continue the work of his father and transports a guinea pig. But spies get involved and some guy gets knocked out and put through the machine.

Well he gets scrambled with a guinea pig, and the guinea pig rematerializes with human hands and feet! It’s supposed to be terrifying but you can’t stop laughing when you see it, looks like it’s something Monty Python could have come up with.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 07:07 AM (P8wUf)

85 Today it dropped from Opus 5 to the older Opus 4.8 in the middle of implementing a wire protocol to MessagePack translation layer,

What you really want Claude to do is understand how NET Orleans performs their binary serialization; import and use that implementation over MessagePack.

The code maintainer is a freak of nature and leverages advanced CPU instruction into the code—that is how much of an optimization geek the guy is. It just doesn't get any faster or have less memory pressure for GC languages.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 07:12 AM (/TiS1)

86 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 12, 2026 07:12 AM (u82oZ)

87 “Return of the Fly” (1959) is one of most inadvertently hilarious horror movies ever! In it a scientist tries to continue the work of his father and transports a guinea pig. But spies get involved and some guy gets knocked out and put through the machine.

Well he gets scrambled with a guinea pig, and the guinea pig rematerializes with human hands and feet! It’s supposed to be terrifying but you can’t stop laughing when you see it, looks like it’s something Monty Python could have come up with.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026

***
Yes, that's the inconsistency in the premise, that previous uses of the machine would affect the current one. Now, in the forty years since TNG, we could say, "Well, the pattern buffer got corrupted" or something. But there's nothing in Langelaan's story, or the movies as far as I know, about any kind of particle storage. So it all comes out of, not even left field, but the stadium's parking lot.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:12 AM (wzUl9)

88 Some really good ones at PWiP

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 07:15 AM (Ia/+0)

89 On the good side, Return of the Fly has Danielle De Metz, who appeared to good effect in no less than four U.N.C.L.E. episodes. Not good ones, but she livened them up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:15 AM (wzUl9)

90 I got my TSA pre-check number in one day.

Maybe I am actually off AI's / 17 Intel agencies / police data radar. I guess not having a TV that reports on you helps.

Now off to book a flight to the Texas MoMeet. And other stuff, which will reduce my social isolation.

Everyone have a great day!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 12, 2026 07:16 AM (u82oZ)

91 I've only seen the 80s remake with Jeff Goldblum and it was teh awful. He peaked in Deat Wish

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 07:16 AM (RIvkX)

92 Altman tells staff OpenAI is open to slowing AI development,

So basically we are now into the Regulatory Capture phase of the AI investor scam.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 07:17 AM (pUU4E)

93 I've been downsizing. Yesterday I got rid of a Cub Scout Wolf handbook and a little metal post that's threaded on one end.
——-
Lessee… sharpens pencil … scribbling … carry the 3 ..

Yep, at this rate you’ll be all cleaned up in about 20 years, provided you don’t acquire any more stuff

Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2026 07:19 AM (6iQiX)

94 Pixy, I'm just dropping in to say how much I'm enjoying the regular updates on your language creation odyssey. I look forward to seeing how it all turns out.

Posted by: Part-time Thinker at September 12, 2026 07:19 AM (JreXo)

95 I've only seen the 80s remake with Jeff Goldblum and it was teh awful. He peaked in Deat Wish
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026

***
I read that the 1980s version was gory for the sake of gory and of grossing the audience out. I passed.

Goldblum will forever be Ian Malcolm of Jurassic Park to me. That character, like Richard Dreyfuss's in Jaws, was some comic relief -- giving us funny if not witty commentary on the ongoing action -- and a stand-in for the audience.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:20 AM (wzUl9)

96 @23

>> But if I was desperate enough to run a large parameter AI model on the cheap, I might give it a shot just to see how it runs.

The best bang for the buck in the AI space are Macs.

You can get a 30 core m5 ultra, 96gb Mac Studio for 5k. The knockoff card is over 4k just for the card, once you build a system around it, you’re looking at around 7k.

With memory and storage prices through the roof, Macs are downright cheap now by comparison.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2026 07:22 AM (XV/Pl)

97 Goldblums best film - Earth Girls are Easy

That movie gets no love from anybody, but i always liked it!

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026 07:25 AM (P8wUf)

98 Goldblums best film - Earth Girls are Easy

That movie gets no love from anybody, but i always liked it!
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2026

***
With young Geena Davis!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:26 AM (wzUl9)

99 They say that after a long break, Somali pirates are back to attacking ships off the Horn of Africa.

The Enemedia is blaming "Trump's War".

If it is impossible to assign blame for piracy on the actual pirates but must find the Nearest Republican White Man (similar to what they did with the Flint Michigan Water poisoning) to blame...

How do we know that it isn't Vance's War on the hundreds of millions of dollars being exported to Somalia from Learing Center fraud?

Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 07:26 AM (BvPIe)

100 "Yep, at this rate you’ll be all cleaned up in about 20 years, provided you don’t acquire any more stuff
Posted by: Common Tater"

You forgot to carry the one. 120 years.

Posted by: fd at September 12, 2026 07:28 AM (MWfyi)

101 But if I was desperate enough to run a large parameter AI model on the cheap, I might give it a shot just to see how it runs.

What kind of workload are you thinking of? In software, particularly large solution for significant architectural tasks, you need very large parameter models, and they do you little good if they are spitting out a few tokens per second.

The cheapest route I've found that doesn't involve Chinese knock-offs (which, sad to say, are going to eventually win the AI wars) is running GPT "Luna" for basic refactors, mappings and validations, "Terra" when wanting better answers to cross module refactors, and "Sol" when desiring solution wide consistency.

Local AI implementation solutions are far too expensive compared to what can be rented. There must be compelling reasons that ignore cost to go on-prem.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 12, 2026 07:34 AM (nAS9C)

102 Mingo would never split an infinitive.

By the way, of what tribe was Mingo supposed to be? Daniel Boone the series took place in what we'd call the southeast now, KY and TN, right? So no Apaches or Comanches or Lakotas. Cherokee?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:37 AM (wzUl9)

103 Nood de caffeine

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2026 07:40 AM (wzUl9)

104 Any man caught doing an end run around multidatabase ORM design spends a night in the box.

Posted by: Carr, the Floorwalker at September 12, 2026 07:41 AM (skR0U)

105 99% of the Anti AI is CCP
The other 1% is fucking morons

How did the Top 3 Anti AI groups (CCP) find the X post of the Anthropic resignee that had about 3 followers in LESS than 15 minutes.

According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2026 07:46 AM (/+uur)

9/11 ONT

Never forget

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Fido Friday: Roll!


Today's quiz

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This is wild

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Go on, have another drink


Tiny wee little

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IQ map

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Question: Can a gay man produce something that's gayer than he is?


Unpopular opinion of the day

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The Postpartum War

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Is something like a land based Phalanx CIWS the answer against drones?


Ripped from the headlines

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Fact check: True

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Some guys have all the luck


This tracks

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I am not making light of 9/11, but I confess this did make me laugh

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Jerky gun


Declare your fealty

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New unis just dropped

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Wholesome fun


Thoughts?

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Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by history:

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Posted by: WeirdDave at 09:24 PM




Comments

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1 As it turned out, the prediction that a large-scale encounter between the populations of the Western nations and Muslim lands might bring about a meaningful social transformation was correct.

What Western optimists failed to imagine was that their own societies would be reshaped in the image of the newcomers they sought to evangelize.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 10:01 PM (VQ0bX)

2 1?

Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 10:01 PM (R0XxO)

3 Yes it does still hurt.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 11, 2026 10:01 PM (OIyEB)

4 Damn ads

Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 10:02 PM (R0XxO)

5 Spent so much of the past few days reviewing and remembering 9/11/2001. All too much like re-living the days.

I told my kids that day, this is your Pearl Harbor.

The war isn't over.

I think I'll just leave it at that.


Posted by: mindful webworker - remembers at September 11, 2026 10:02 PM (B4Z5E)

6 BTW: Patrick Clancy disagrees with everyone on this thread.
Posted by: Carolus
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Bitch you just gave your ass away

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 10:04 PM (vE0+H)

7 I have a few thoughts of my own on the travesty of universal suffrage.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 11, 2026 10:04 PM (wpRMV)

8 >New unis just dropped
It was COLD!

Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 10:05 PM (88C+u)

9 Is that an Amazon delivery van coming down the street?

Posted by: Oddbob at September 11, 2026 10:05 PM (vTZFs)

10 Fun fact I learned today:

One of the issues George Bush ran on in 2000 was subjecting Arabs to less scrutiny in airports.

In an October 11, 2000 debate with Al Gore, George W. Bush demanded less airport security scrutiny of Arab passengers.

Bush got what he wanted.

https://tinyurl.com/3dtjkk76

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 11, 2026 10:06 PM (aD4fx)

11 The modern van don't belong in that pic.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 11, 2026 10:06 PM (S41Gd)

12 Did blue recycling bins exist in 1975?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 10:06 PM (FZ29D)

13 Are those uniforms for the United States Space Force? Or the Liberace Space Force?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 11, 2026 10:07 PM (wpRMV)

14 Massachusetts, home of the Clancy trial has the highest school achievement ranking. Oh, yeah, that hits the mark.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 10:07 PM (VQ0bX)

15 12 Did blue recycling bins exist in 1975?


--------

Nanette, hand this man a cigar!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 11, 2026 10:08 PM (wpRMV)

16 What shouldn't be in the neighborhood picture?

A recycling bin
The white delivery van.
The hat on the newspaper boy?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 11, 2026 10:08 PM (qx7Zg)

17 I couldn't spot what shouldn't be there.

Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026 10:08 PM (ZxPkt)

18 Are those uniforms for the United States Space Force? Or the Liberace Space Force?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 11, 2026 10:07 PM (wpRMV)
----
Are they made from velour? Asking for a friend...

Posted by: Captain Zapp Brannigan at September 11, 2026 10:08 PM (FZ29D)

19 9/11.

Aka, one of the few days in the year when the History Channel actually does history. Maybe the only day.

Posted by: Dr. T at September 11, 2026 10:08 PM (lHPJf)

20 Evenin’, All.

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 10:09 PM (77rzZ)

21 >> Or the Liberace Space Force?

See 25-star Admiral Zapp Brannigan from Futurama.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 10:09 PM (w6EFb)

22 Is something like a land based Phalanx CIWS the answer against drones?

And it fits in a mini-van?!? Sign me up!
/goes to find The Jackal and re-watch it/

Posted by: GWB at September 11, 2026 10:09 PM (kU0PQ)

23 And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh, no, no, no
I'm a rocket man
Rocket man!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 11, 2026 10:09 PM (wpRMV)

24 Massachusetts, home of the Clancy trial has the highest school achievement ranking. Oh, yeah, that hits the mark.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 10:07 PM (VQ0bX)


A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Posted by: Dr. T at September 11, 2026 10:10 PM (lHPJf)

25 *wink*

We get it, Elton.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 11, 2026 10:10 PM (wpRMV)

26 What shouldn't be in the neighborhood picture?

A recycling bin
The white delivery van.
The hat on the newspaper boy?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 11, 2026 10:08 PM (qx7Zg)
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Looks like there is a plastic water bottle under the mailbox.

Everyone knows that should be in the recycling bin!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 10:10 PM (FZ29D)

27 I’m relieved bothing horrible
Happened today.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 11, 2026 10:10 PM (OIyEB)

28 Today's quiz
=
The satellite dish in 1975?

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 11, 2026 10:11 PM (vSvIl)

29 What shouldn't be here?
I'm not counting the kid with the briefcase (I had one) going the "wrong" way (he probably stood by where he thought the bus was going to stop, now has to retrace steps).
The newspaper deliverer might have swerved around the bus and now has to deliver to the parents from the other side.
That kid on the bike with no books - is the one I have questions about.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 10:11 PM (88C+u)

30 There's a tv dish on top of a house.

Posted by: 496 at September 11, 2026 10:11 PM (sOtuf)

31
"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of those dominos will fall like a house of cards -- checkmate." -- Zapp Brannigan.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 10:11 PM (w6EFb)

32 Recycle trashcans.

Posted by: Eromero at September 11, 2026 10:12 PM (LHPAg)

33 Evening, Horde. Today sucks because I will never be able to forget. Got an interview scheduled for next week for a different job, though, and still haven't heard back from my current favorite (which I'm choosing to interpret as good until I hear otherwise).

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 11, 2026 10:12 PM (aJQbY)

34 Many bothings died to bring us this post.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 10:12 PM (88C+u)

35 Nurse, did you get a Jitterbug Flip Phone for your birthday? It's the tradition when turning the big Six-Oh.

Posted by: On Soft Diet, Thickened Liquids Here at September 11, 2026 10:12 PM (Fn+3X)

36 Did blue recycling bins exist in 1975?

Didn't even look at the houses. Good catch.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 11, 2026 10:12 PM (vTZFs)

37 That satellite dish doesn't belong in the 1975 image.

The IQ map? Yeah, NM having a mean IQ of 93 matches my experience of living there.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at September 11, 2026 10:12 PM (iIyc0)

38 How about all those backpacks on the kids?

Except that one dweeb walking the wrong direction carrying a briefcase . . . . . . . . .

Posted by: LRob in OK at September 11, 2026 10:13 PM (Jr+re)

39 What shouldn't be there?

I'm going to have go with the satellite mini dish. I think they might have still been using those gigantic ones with motor that turns them.

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 10:13 PM (dIske)

40 Question: Can a gay man produce something that's gayer than he is?

But there weren't people flying planes into buildings either.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 11, 2026 10:13 PM (1Ff7Z)

41 Not sure about others, but we did not wear backpacks to school back then. We carried our books and a lunchbox

Posted by: 496 at September 11, 2026 10:13 PM (sOtuf)

42 Today's quiz
=
The satellite dish in 1975?
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 11, 2026 10:11 PM (vSvIl)
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Good eye! If one did exist in 1975, it would be much, much larger than that.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 10:13 PM (FZ29D)

43 35 Nurse, did you get a Jitterbug Flip Phone for your birthday? It's the tradition when turning the big Six-Oh.
Posted by: On Soft Diet, Thickened Liquids Here at September 11, 2026 10:12 PM (Fn+3X)

-----------

You brute you brute you brute you brute!!!

Posted by: Velcro Sneakers at September 11, 2026 10:13 PM (wpRMV)

44 Are those uniforms for the United States Space Force? Or the Liberace Space Force?
Posted by: Cicero

It's an AI version of a Futurama character, Zapp Brannigan.

Posted by: Escobar cut-loop at September 11, 2026 10:13 PM (HeG1i)

45 11 The modern van don't belong in that pic.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 11, 2026 10:06 PM (S41Gd)


I don't see a "modern van" but there's a satellite dish on the left-most roof.

Posted by: you really don't want to know at September 11, 2026 10:14 PM (NxbVa)

46 This should be the Space Force uniform.

https://tinyurl.com/2s4bsnhb+ (IMDb)

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 11, 2026 10:14 PM (qx7Zg)

47 Blue recycle bin.

Also, the van in the background is a late-model high-roof Ford Transit .

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice's at September 11, 2026 10:14 PM (BI5O2)

48 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 10:14 PM (G1ktt)

49 Yeah, today was rough.

Thanks or the ONT WD!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 11, 2026 10:15 PM (NnhvP)

50 Some guys have all the luck





When Darleen and me first met there was not only beer, but bananas and golf balls involved

Posted by: Miklos has one good memory at September 11, 2026 10:16 PM (4RYRd)

51 The blue recycling bin definitely does not belong in the pic.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:17 PM (1z8ji)

52 So now I am waiting for someone to pop off about "97 average IQ" and preen like that is important.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 10:17 PM (rbvCR)

53 >>> 42 Today's quiz
=
The satellite dish in 1975?
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 11, 2026 10:11 PM (vSvIl)
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Good eye! If one did exist in 1975, it would be much, much larger than that.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 10:13 PM (FZ29D)

My grandparents in the wilds of the southeast had one of those gigantic circular dishes on its own post in the backyard. Must have been at least 3' wide.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 11, 2026 10:17 PM (+fdRY)

54 19 9/11.

Aka, one of the few days in the year when the History Channel actually does history. Maybe the only day.

Posted by: Dr. T
---

Don't trust and verify.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 10:17 PM (VQ0bX)

55 IT HATES THOSE CANS!

Posted by: Narvin at September 11, 2026 10:18 PM (rbvCR)

56 Airport pants exchange.

I laughed pretty hard.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 11, 2026 10:18 PM (ca8Qt)

57 It comes down to Jersey Mike's and Buc'ees. While I love the beaver, I have to go with the awesome subs.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 11, 2026 10:18 PM (PE5pE)

58 The ugly pants entry: as long as we are capable of laughing at ourselves to that absurd degree, I think we'll make it.

Posted by: Wenda at September 11, 2026 10:18 PM (uSgX5)

59 "Revenge is a dish best served cold".

Check out the last guy's shirt in the ugly pants video.

Posted by: clarence at September 11, 2026 10:19 PM (yU1fv)

60 Is something like a land based Phalanx CIWS the answer against drones?

And it fits in a mini-van?!? Sign me up!
/goes to find The Jackal and re-watch it/
Posted by: GWB at September 11, 2026 10:09 PM (kU0PQ)

How do electric-powered drones crash in a ball of orange flame, as though they gas tanks in them?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:19 PM (1z8ji)

61
Hotties need sexy space uniforms. And space suits. Sci-fi gives us a lot of inspiration as it were, but making a proper form fitting space suit Sydney Sweeney could wear will be quite the engineering challenge.

Maybe Elon will be up to the task.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 10:19 PM (w6EFb)

62 One of Liberace's first big breaks in show business was a piano accompanist for Dagmar. He was thankful and spoke highly of her.

Posted by: Musica Para Tu at September 11, 2026 10:19 PM (Fn+3X)

63 Fuck Islam.

What an utterly depraved ideology.

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 10:19 PM (77rzZ)

64 42 Today's quiz
=
The satellite dish in 1975?
Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 11, 2026 10:11 PM (vSvIl)
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Good eye! If one did exist in 1975, it would be much, much larger than that.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 10:13 PM (FZ29D)

It's the recycling trash can.

Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 10:20 PM (KC5Lt)

65 My neighborhood was built between the 50s and 70s, and still very much has the feel of that picture. When nobody is home, I just crank up some Memphis Soul, sit and gaze out the window and pretend the last 50 years just never fuckin' happened.

The only thing that disturbs it is the modern cars on the street. If I ever win Powerball, I'm going to buy 8 or 10 sick-ass midcentury rides and tell my neighbors they can have them for free so long as they park their modern buzzkill cars out of my eyeshot.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice's at September 11, 2026 10:21 PM (BI5O2)

66 Berretta has a multi-barrel 12 Ga anti-drone prototype system. I don't know what the electronics behind it is capable of.

Hopefully not the Faro 2.0 beta test AI

Posted by: Narvin at September 11, 2026 10:21 PM (rbvCR)

67 ---
Good eye! If one did exist in 1975, it would be much, much larger than that.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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In the yard about 10' in diameter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 10:21 PM (VQ0bX)

68
Was that ugly pants exchange thing at the airport a frat activity or what?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 10:21 PM (mmrXZ)

69 Beer girl. Those have got to be AI birthing hips

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 10:22 PM (vE0+H)

70 This should be the Space Force uniform.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 11, 2026 10:14 PM (qx7Zg)

But not for men. Men don't look good in stuff like that.

Those released pix of the SF uniforms don't look good either.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 11, 2026 10:22 PM (1Ff7Z)

71 Thoughts?




On this basis I would not be allowed to vote

Posted by: Miklos can adopt 19 chirren and create "income" but too old for the draft at September 11, 2026 10:22 PM (4RYRd)

72 Was that ugly pants exchange thing at the airport a frat activity or what?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 10:21 PM (mmrXZ)

Seemed more like a sports team .

Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 10:23 PM (KC5Lt)

73 Szszszszczrzrzxrsznrcscscscs is pronounced phonetically

Posted by: Narvin at September 11, 2026 10:23 PM (rbvCR)

74 Today's quiz:

That Recycling Bin? In 1975?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 10:23 PM (G1ktt)

75
Blue recycle bin in the 1975 pic? I don't theeeenk so.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 10:23 PM (mmrXZ)

76 When Darleen and me first met there was not only beer, but bananas and golf balls involved
Posted by: Miklos has one good memory at September 11, 2026 10:16 PM (4RYRd)

Our logo was two apples and a banana. We may sue!

Posted by: British Fruiterers Association, Ad by Reginald Perrin at September 11, 2026 10:24 PM (1Ff7Z)

77 Also, nurse, I hope Lucy's tail is getting better without drama.

Thanks for the ONT WeirdDave.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 11, 2026 10:24 PM (Sco7b)

78 How do electric-powered drones crash in a ball of orange flame, as though they gas tanks in them?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:19 PM (1z8ji)

Looks good to us.

Posted by: NBC News at September 11, 2026 10:24 PM (vSvIl)

79
Great minds, puddlegum! And adjacent!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 10:24 PM (mmrXZ)

80 66 Berretta has a multi-barrel 12 Ga anti-drone prototype system.
---

Recoil is a bitch.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 10:24 PM (VQ0bX)

81 61
Hotties need sexy space uniforms. And space suits. Sci-fi gives us a lot of inspiration as it were, but making a proper form fitting space suit Sydney Sweeney could wear will be quite the engineering challenge.

Maybe Elon will be up to the task.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 10:19 PM (w6EFb)

T'Pol in Star Trek: EnterPrise.
Mission Accomplished.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 11, 2026 10:25 PM (Sco7b)

82 >> Those released pix of the SF uniforms don't look good either.

You mean this?
https://t.ly/DgTtO

Don't worry, that's our Troll in Chief yanking some chains.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 10:25 PM (w6EFb)

83 Space force uniform is ubergey. Boy George would yell fag from a passing space ship.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 11, 2026 10:25 PM (S41Gd)

84 There's nothing wrong with anything in that pic. It's just a neighborhood of classic car collectors.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 11, 2026 10:25 PM (1Ff7Z)

85 What shouldn't be there? Looks like the "mom" on the sidewalk has a moustache.

Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 10:26 PM (R0XxO)

86 first pokemon battle...except the Pharaoh's sorcerers didn't get theirs back...Moses snake staff ate them.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 10:26 PM (l3cgK)

87 84 There's nothing wrong with anything in that pic. It's just a neighborhood of classic car collectors.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 11, 2026 10:25 PM (1Ff7Z)

And the kid with the briefcase walking against the flow?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 10:27 PM (l3cgK)

88 How do electric-powered drones crash in a ball of orange flame, as though they gas tanks in them?
****

Lithium batteries, hydrocarbon plastics, high energy heat transfer from projectiles.

Posted by: clarence at September 11, 2026 10:27 PM (yU1fv)

89 Household voting weighted for households is a BAD BAD BAD idea based on today's demographics.

I can confirm that local Mosques have an unwritten requirement to have at least 5 children. The Male in that family will have a menial job. No one else in that family will work, and the Mosque actually has a full time employee who has the job of keeping track of welfare benefits available to each family.

So, they will have one...maybe 2 eligble voters based on tax contribution....but just barely. And, you want to give them a weighted vote? NOPE.

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 10:28 PM (dIske)

90 Or that's John Oates.

Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 10:28 PM (R0XxO)

91 Ooh! Recycle Bin! Shouldn't be there in 1975!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 10:28 PM (l3cgK)

92 Good eye! If one did exist in 1975, it would be much, much larger than that.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 10:13 PM (FZ29D)

It's the recycling trash can.
Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 10:20 PM (KC5Lt)

Good catch on the satellite dish, and the Ford Transit van. Actually, all the wheelie bins are era-wrong. And I would say the paper boy on the bike was pretty much gone by the mid '70's, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:28 PM (1z8ji)

93 Fuck Islam.

What an utterly depraved ideology.
Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 10:19 PM (77rzZ)

Spay or neuter your muslims. It's the only way to stop the spread.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 11, 2026 10:28 PM (qx7Zg)

94 What's wrong in 1975 picture: The guy in the blue windbreaker is concealed carrying a Glock Model 17, which wasn't introduced until 1982.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 11, 2026 10:28 PM (G9llU)

95 It looks like Liberace cut up his mom's oilcloth tablecloth to make that yellow vest. By the way, my mom was shocked when I told her that Liberace was gay.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 11, 2026 10:29 PM (0Htd1)

96 I lived in a Jewish neighborhood. We had a Shul Bus.

Posted by: Rabbi Seligman at September 11, 2026 10:29 PM (Fn+3X)

97 Are those uniforms for the United States Space Force? Or the Liberace Space Force?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 11, 2026 10:07 PM (wpRMV)

Made to order for Zapp Brannigan! Check out the velour!

Posted by: Narvin at September 11, 2026 10:29 PM (rbvCR)

98 Don't worry, that's our Troll in Chief yanking some chains.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 10:25 PM (w6EFb)

I sorta figured that, publius. Jack boots!? I must admit, they looked Boss, though.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 11, 2026 10:29 PM (1Ff7Z)

99 The backpacks, plastic water bottle, satellite dish, modern delivery van and trash bins definitely don't belong.

Posted by: Moonbeam at September 11, 2026 10:30 PM (Lzhdy)

100 I can confirm that local Mosques have an unwritten requirement to have at least 5 children. The Male in that family will have a menial job. No one else in that family will work, and the Mosque actually has a full time employee who has the job of keeping track of welfare benefits available to each family.

So, they will have one...maybe 2 eligble voters based on tax contribution....but just barely. And, you want to give them a weighted vote? NOPE.

Posted by: Orson
---

They have professional research then hold classes at the mosque on 'how to obtain the most benefits from fed gov'.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 10:30 PM (VQ0bX)

101 And I would say the paper boy on the bike was pretty much gone by the mid '70's, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:28 PM (1z8ji)
----
Dunno about that.

They were pretty common in my neighborhood (Ft. Collins, CO) in the early-mid 1980s.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 10:30 PM (FZ29D)

102 Szszszszczrzrzxrsznrcscscscs is pronounced phonetically
Posted by: Narvin

But only pronounced correctly by Polish Hungarians

Posted by: Miklos will need financial compensation and vocal therapy at September 11, 2026 10:31 PM (4RYRd)

103 Those space uniforms.
I thought they were from 'Futurama'.

Zapp Branigan.

But I'm very tired.


Made to order for Zapp Brannigan! Check out the velour!
Posted by: Narvin at September 11, 2026 10:29 PM (rbvCR)

Good. I wasn't the only one.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 11, 2026 10:31 PM (Sco7b)

104 And the kid with the briefcase walking against the flow?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 10:27 PM (l3cgK)

Just acting adult. I'd do that myself.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 11, 2026 10:31 PM (1Ff7Z)

105 99 The backpacks, plastic water bottle, satellite dish, modern delivery van and trash bins definitely don't belong.

Posted by: Moonbeam at September 11, 2026 10:30 PM (Lzhdy)

Yeah, looks like a dish network dish...Satellite dishes even back in the 80's were large things...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 10:31 PM (l3cgK)

106 Some guys have all the luck

He's drinking a Bud Light which suggests that the woman is his sister.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 11, 2026 10:32 PM (ExV1e)

107 Yay, Friday night ONT!

Islam delenda est!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 11, 2026 10:32 PM (+9wcF)

108 Compiled answers so far, from the bottom of the picture and clockwise-ish:
plastic water bottle under the nearest mailbox
blue recycle bin and maybe all the wheelie bins
satellite dish on the back / left roof of the second house bask
white delivery van coming down the street

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 11, 2026 10:32 PM (+fdRY)

109 101 And I would say the paper boy on the bike was pretty much gone by the mid '70's, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:28 PM (1z8ji)
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Dunno about that.

They were pretty common in my neighborhood (Ft. Collins, CO) in the early-mid 1980s.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 10:30 PM (FZ29D)

___________________________

You would be wrong, and I have the dog bite scars to prove it.

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 10:33 PM (dIske)

110 I'm thinking of showing that 1975 picture to the students in my class just to see if they can spot anything out of place...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 10:33 PM (FZ29D)

111 Lithium batteries, hydrocarbon plastics, high energy heat transfer from projectiles.
Posted by: clarence at September 11, 2026 10:27 PM (yU1fv)

Not buying it. It's hard to make lithium batteries blow up. I have put enough of them in my burn barrel to know that. And plastics burn smoky with a dark orange flame. That bright yellow-orange fireball is a flammable vapor explosion. It's AI slop. The weapon may be real, but they animation is fake.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:33 PM (1z8ji)

112 I like the beef jerky rifle and round...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 10:33 PM (l3cgK)

113 The Price is Right was still giving away those 10' diameter satellite dishes until 1990 or so.

Posted by: Barker Era at September 11, 2026 10:33 PM (Fn+3X)

114 And I would say the paper boy on the bike was pretty much gone by the mid '70's, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The newsprint he's holding out is a ruse... He's just trying to collect his "2 dollars!"

Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 10:33 PM (R0XxO)

115 6 BTW: Patrick Clancy disagrees with everyone on this thread.
Posted by: Carolus
--------

Bitch you just gave your ass away
Posted by: ...


But the poster declared he's an ultra MAGA Conservative!! I'm assuming this is just one of our usual suspects of trolls with a different nic.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 10:33 PM (G1ktt)

116 Don't worry, that's our Troll in Chief yanking some chains.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

He may go down in History that way-


"The Donald, Yanker of Chains"

Posted by: Edward "miklos" Longshanks at September 11, 2026 10:33 PM (4RYRd)

117 What's wrong in 1975 picture: The guy in the blue windbreaker is concealed carrying a Glock Model 17, which wasn't introduced until 1982.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 11, 2026 10:28 PM (G9llU)/i]

Or the giant blue recycle bin.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 11, 2026 10:34 PM (ExV1e)

118 I don't think the back packs are out of place... but I seem to recall I didn't use one until junior high.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 11, 2026 10:34 PM (+fdRY)

119 118 I don't think the back packs are out of place... but I seem to recall I didn't use one until junior high.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 11, 2026 10:34 PM (+fdRY)

I didn't use a backpack until High School...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 10:35 PM (l3cgK)

120 93 Hey, HootW. How art thou?

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 10:35 PM (77rzZ)

121 As a Conservative Woman whose mother voted for Rush Limbaugh.....

Posted by: Miklos hopes Rush is laughing at September 11, 2026 10:35 PM (4RYRd)

122 "Some guys have all the luck" is just a little too rehearsed.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 11, 2026 10:35 PM (0Htd1)

123 Also, I saw to it that all decor in that dining room was 60s vintage, to facilitate my time travel sessions.

I quit hard liquor at least a year ago, and cigarettes years before.

But on the odd day I get to do some time-traveling, I pour a shot of Wild Turkey and fire up a Marlboro.

On goes the Chi-Lites, and BAM! - it's 1972, bay-bee!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice's at September 11, 2026 10:36 PM (BI5O2)

124 Didn't everyone have galvanized trash cans with no wheels in the 70s?

Posted by: Loud Too at September 11, 2026 10:36 PM (Fn+3X)

125 Delivery van is too modern. Look

Posted by: From about That Time at September 11, 2026 10:37 PM (sl73Y)

126 I'll be 71 next month and have never owned a backpack of any kind.

Posted by: Outlier at September 11, 2026 10:38 PM (Fn+3X)

127 104 And the kid with the briefcase walking against the flow?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 10:27 PM (l3cgK)

Just acting adult. I'd do that myself.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 11, 2026 10:31 PM (1Ff7Z)
____________________

That's Pierre Delecto.

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 10:38 PM (dIske)

128 Is something like a land based Phalanx CIWS the answer against drones?

Idea: Forget about drones; mount it on cars driving the Beltway. It'll sell millions of units.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 10:38 PM (Riz8t)

129 There were a couple years, maybe longer, where satellite signals were not encrypted. Had to have those five foot diameter dishes, but a hundred channels were possible. Every Radio Shack nerd’s dream, for a time.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 10:39 PM (6iQiX)

130 Didn't everyone have galvanized trash cans with no wheels in the 70s?
Posted by: Loud Too

Plastic garbage cans are more Environmentally Friendly

Posted by: like the plastic grocery bags that kill all the whales and stuff at September 11, 2026 10:39 PM (4RYRd)

131 When did sidewalk ramps appear? Might have been a part of the ADA.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 11, 2026 10:39 PM (+fdRY)

132 On topic of Islam, the Shi'a might have won
youtu.be/1DCdKvG9zO8

Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 10:39 PM (88C+u)

133 What shouldn't be there? Looks like the "mom" on the sidewalk has a moustache.

You didn't grow up in my small town.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 11, 2026 10:40 PM (vTZFs)

134 120 93 Hey, HootW. How art thou?
Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 10:35 PM (77rzZ)

Doing all right. Keeping my temper at all the muzzles talking about how 9-11 scarred them. Looking for things to laugh about.

How about you? Did you see the Tina Louise article in bitsandpieces.us today?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 11, 2026 10:40 PM (qx7Zg)

135 Didn't everyone have galvanized trash cans with no wheels in the 70s?
Posted by: Loud Too at September 11, 2026 10:36 PM (Fn+3X)[/]i

Leads to the question - does Oscar the Grouch hang out in a plastic wheelie bin these days?

Posted by: far cry at September 11, 2026 10:40 PM (wBRco)

136

Dangit

Posted by: far cry at September 11, 2026 10:40 PM (wBRco)

137 Too bad you can only see one front step on that photo. They phased out milk boxes for the milkman about 5 years later. I don't see one on the front step you can see.

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 10:40 PM (dIske)

138 >>> 133 What shouldn't be there? Looks like the "mom" on the sidewalk has a moustache.

You didn't grow up in my small town.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 11, 2026 10:40 PM (vTZFs)

Oh my gawsh, it's Aunt Betty!!!

Posted by: Jeff Foxworthy at September 11, 2026 10:41 PM (+fdRY)

139 Heh, not only is the little K-band dish not supposed to be there, it's pointing the wrong direction.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 11, 2026 10:41 PM (+9wcF)

140 >>The Price is Right was still giving away those 10' diameter satellite dishes until 1990 or so.

My parents had one in their semi-remote farm in rural Vermont in the 90's. If ET was sending messages, that thing could have heard them.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 10:41 PM (viF8m)

141 There is and has been a land-based CIWS-like air defense system in use for some time. Has gotten a pretty good workout in Baghdad, Erbil, and Sulamaniyah I think. Believe it has some capability against ballistic (as opposed to air-breathing/aerodynamic) targets, I think just mortars.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 11, 2026 10:42 PM (U/Byj)

142 If you speak Hungarian, all your communications are encrypted.

Posted by: Basz meg at September 11, 2026 10:42 PM (4RYRd)

143 134 No, I did not. Link?

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 10:42 PM (77rzZ)

144 The ugly pants exchange was hilarious. Are those guys from some sports team?

Posted by: lin-duh at September 11, 2026 10:42 PM (VCgbV)

145 133 What shouldn't be there? Looks like the "mom" on the sidewalk has a moustache.

She's Greek!

Posted by: Stavros and Gus at September 11, 2026 10:43 PM (Fn+3X)

146 Well it's called C-RAM, with the R for rocket, A for artillery, and M for mortar. So I was wrong, it has capability against fast-movers and ballistics, apparently, as well.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 11, 2026 10:44 PM (U/Byj)

147 No one in that photo knows what cement floored giant room in their house with the big roll up door is for, and they all park their cars outside.

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 10:45 PM (dIske)

148 Dangit
Posted by: far cry

dangit

Give me a rope and I'll hang it

Posted by: Miklos sings along with Roger Miller at September 11, 2026 10:45 PM (4RYRd)

149 They're obviously doxxinh the dude to spoil the appeal.

But that dude is in grave danger. It would be *extremely* helpful for the Democrats if everyone understood that voting to convict one of the media's darling killers will only get *you* a death sentence.

They're probably activating one of the drug-fueled walking time bombs right now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice's at September 11, 2026 10:46 PM (BI5O2)

150 143 134 No, I did not. Link?
Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 10:42 PM (77rzZ)

https://tinyurl.com/59z6uyw5

Still prefer Mary Ann.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 11, 2026 10:46 PM (qx7Zg)

151 Had an almost-nasty wreck in the shop today. I had the two pedestal from a steel desk; you know, the uprights with the drawers in them. I screwed hunks of 2X2 to the front and rear of the bottom of one, and drilled holes, and drove in some spindle-mount casters. Ah! Rolled around like champ. Welded the other pedestal on top, so like a rolling file cabinet. Toted it out to the big shop, and began filling it up. Six starters in the bottom drawer, five in the next, one in the third, plus a bunch of NOS oil filters, next drawer full of NOS oil filters. Began rolling it on the smooth concrete floor to place it against the wall. Crack! the front 2X2 split, and spit out two casters. The cabinet toppled forward, and all the drawers flew open. Nothing spilled at all. But I had to empty all the drawers, remove the split 2X2, and replace it with a 2X4, and I ran screws through it on either side of the holes for the caster spindles, to forestall another splitting event. Refilled it, and rolled it to the wall without a further wreck.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:47 PM (1z8ji)

152 146 Well it's called C-RAM, with the R for rocket, A for artillery, and M for mortar. So I was wrong, it has capability against fast-movers and ballistics, apparently, as well.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 11, 2026 10:44 PM (U/Byj)

I remember those well from my time in Iraq.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 11, 2026 10:47 PM (PI7fX)

153 Orson,

Naw, those rooms are doing what God made them for - holding all the junk that doesn't fit in the attic.

Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click!) at September 11, 2026 10:47 PM (aJQbY)

154 Going to be on the road this weekend, so here is my combination Book Thread and First World Problem.

I bought a new recliner to replace my current one, which fits snuggly between two fully loaded book cases. I bought the new one sight unseen, online, picked it up in a big box (some assembly required) and wrestled the box onto my covered patio last week.

This evening I finally opened the box and brought the pieces inside. They looked a little bigger than my current chair. The new chair measures 40" across the back. The distance been the bookcases is 35".

I think I will break out the whiskey and ponder this for a while.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 11, 2026 10:49 PM (G9llU)

155 >>The ugly pants exchange was hilarious. Are those guys from some sports team?

The best part was making them parade back through the terminal in them. Good sports.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 10:50 PM (viF8m)

156 Still prefer Mary Ann.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

All day all night is Mary Ann,
Down by the seaside, sifting sand.
Even little children love Mary Ann,
Down by the seaside, sifting sand.

Posted by: Miklos is not nearly as gay as Ace, or Harry Belafonte at September 11, 2026 10:50 PM (4RYRd)

157 133 What shouldn't be there? Looks like the "mom" on the sidewalk has a moustache.

She's Greek!
Posted by: Stavros and Gus

Well I can't go for that!

Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 10:50 PM (R0XxO)

158 How do electric-powered drones crash in a ball of orange flame, as though they gas tanks in them?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:19 PM (1z8ji)

Attack drones carrying some kind of explosive?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 11, 2026 10:51 PM (syz1S)

159 But that dude is in grave danger. It would be *extremely* helpful for the Democrats if everyone understood that voting to convict one of the media's darling killers will only get *you* a death sentence.

They're probably activating one of the drug-fueled walking time bombs right now.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice's at September 11, 2026 10:46 PM (BI5O2)
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So you're saying the Democrats want to lynch a black man?

Some things never change.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 10:51 PM (ZOv7s)

160 What shouldn't be there?

How about the photo itself. I know you guys will say the phtographer could have climbed a tree. But, to make me feel smart, let's say it would have had to have been taken by a drone, that doesn't yet exist.

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 10:52 PM (dIske)

161 Refilled it, and rolled it to the wall without a further wreck.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

TOXIC MASCULINITY

Guilty, no appeal

Posted by: Alberta Court of Human and Extra Indigenous Rights at September 11, 2026 10:52 PM (4RYRd)

162 What shouldn't be here? Recycle bins.

Posted by: a.moron at September 11, 2026 10:53 PM (X5Jzz)

163
https://tinyurl.com/59z6uyw5

Still prefer Mary Ann.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 11, 2026 10:46 PM (qx7Zg)

Tina Louise. Born in 1934, so she's 92 this year. Holding up well, she is.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:53 PM (1z8ji)

164 What shouldn't be there?

How about the photo itself. I know you guys will say the phtographer could have climbed a tree. But, to make me feel smart, let's say it would have had to have been taken by a drone, that doesn't yet exist.
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 10:52 PM (dIske)
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It is obviously AI slop. You have a kid with a briefcase (?) walking away from the street to...what? Why would a kid be on a bike when the bus has arrived? The guy delivering the package is come *from* the house. It's all wrong. All of it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 10:55 PM (ZOv7s)

165 Attack drones carrying some kind of explosive?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at September 11, 2026 10:51 PM (syz1S)

Then you would think the explosive would go off when the round strikes, and not when the drone crashes. Whoever made the video watched too many Hollywood movies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:56 PM (1z8ji)

166 My parents had one in their semi-remote farm in rural Vermont in the 90's. If ET was sending messages, that thing could have heard them.
Posted by: JackStraw

For the Youngs, "semi-remote" was when the the parents told one child to go change the channel, who delegated to a younger sibling.

Posted by: Miklos is happy to clear that up at September 11, 2026 10:56 PM (4RYRd)

167
That's Pierre Delecto.
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 10:38 PM (dIske)

__________

Kid's happy because he's been added to the Cyclopedia of Young American Leaders. He'll go to Harvard, get an MBA and make partner a consulting firm, where he'll outsource American jobs to China.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 10:57 PM (eRlcH)

168 The trouble with land based Phalanx is that the projectiles come down somewhere. At sea that's less of a problem. For a military base next to a city, it's a big problem.

Posted by: a.moron at September 11, 2026 10:57 PM (X5Jzz)

169 Tina Louise. Born in 1934, so she's 92 this year. Holding up well, she is.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Which is why I switched to Ginger in this age old question. Being that men equate beauty with great genes, and Tina has well outlived lovely Dawn Wells. Gotta go with Ginger now.

Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 10:57 PM (R0XxO)

170 Good that it fell away from you.
--

@Osint613
CNN is reporting that the Saudi East-West oil pipeline was attacked using “drones originating from Iraq”.(ruh roh)

Meaning that this attack was likely carried out by Iranian-aligned militias in Iraq, opening a new front in the war.

It’s not yet clear how long it would take to repair the damage,

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 10:59 PM (VQ0bX)

171 It is obviously AI slop. You have a kid with a briefcase (?) walking away from the street to...what? Why would a kid be on a bike when the bus has arrived? The guy delivering the package is come *from* the house. It's all wrong. All of it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 10:55 PM (ZOv7s)

Schoolbus should have a front licence plate, too. Even "one-plate" States often required two for commercial vehicles.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:59 PM (1z8ji)

172
Which is why I switched to Ginger in this age old question. Being that men equate beauty with great genes, and Tina has well outlived lovely Dawn Wells. Gotta go with Ginger now.

Burn the heretic!

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 11:00 PM (Riz8t)

173 I took a basket of fruits, tomatoes, chili peppers and grapes to my dry cleaners' shop today. She does a nice job on my suits and quilts, I figure she should get a basket of fruit.
She was really excited by it.

Cry cleaning is probably very boring.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:01 PM (rbvCR)

174 __________

Kid's happy because he's been added to the Cyclopedia of Young American Leaders. He'll go to Harvard, get an MBA and make partner a consulting firm, where he'll outsource American jobs to China.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
---

Company then goes bankrupt because he paid more attention to spreadsheets than his customers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 11:01 PM (VQ0bX)

175 Which is why I switched to Ginger in this age old question. Being that men equate beauty with great genes, and Tina has well outlived lovely Dawn Wells. Gotta go with Ginger now.
Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 10:57 PM (R0XxO)
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It was always about aesthetics, and if you want to dig deeper, how many kids did they have? How many could they have had?

Purely about aesthetics.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 11:01 PM (ZOv7s)

176 Dry cleaning.

[twiddle fingers to loosen up]

Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:02 PM (rbvCR)

177 It’s not yet clear how long it would take to repair the damage,
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 10:59 PM (VQ0bX)

Maybe a day per break? Drain the line, cut out the damaged sections, truck in a new piece of pipe, and weld it in.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 11:03 PM (1z8ji)

178
Company then goes bankrupt because he paid more attention to spreadsheets than his customers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 11:01 PM (VQ0bX)

__________

By then, he's gotten his fee and is off ruining the next company.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 11:03 PM (eRlcH)

179 Ginger was born a year after my dad. She is holding up well

Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:03 PM (rbvCR)

180 Burn the heretic!
Posted by: Archimed

The Skipper was right after all. Ginger (Season 2 episode 2)

Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 11:03 PM (R0XxO)

181 >>For the Youngs, "semi-remote" was when the the parents told one child to go change the channel, who delegated to a younger sibling.

I was the younger sibling, aka the remote control. Also the designated rabbit ear adjuster.

But when they moved to Vermont and bought that satellite dish I heard the sounds of Close Encounters in my head the first time I saw it rotate to the change of a channel. It was a spiritual moment. You wouldn't understand.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 11:04 PM (viF8m)

182
It's time to ask: Is there any video footage of Zawahiri being Ginsu-ed?

Did he simply explode into a cloud of pink mist, or was he sliced into 3 sections that, in cartoon fashion, then slid apart?

Was he conscious long enough to feel his slices sliding apart?

Enquiring Minds Want To Know

Posted by: Arbalest at September 11, 2026 11:04 PM (FlRtG)

183 Given relative heights and draw, I would go with Ginger on the longbow, but Mary Ann with the crossbow.

Whether 9mm with 14 rounds or .45 ACP with 6 is for others to discuss.

Posted by: Miklos just throws that out there at September 11, 2026 11:04 PM (4RYRd)

184 Schoolbus should have a front licence plate, too. Even "one-plate" States often required two for commercial vehicles.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 10:59 PM (1z8ji)
---
There are three kids who are walking to...nowhere.

It's really bad AI slop.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 11:05 PM (ZOv7s)

185 Can't help but notice there's no WaWaland.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 11:06 PM (2Ez/1)

186
I continue to be gob-smacked by the Schiehallion experiment. That was conducted by Nevil Maskelyne, 5th Astronomer Royal, and mathematician Charles Hutton.

Charles Mason, of Mason-Dixon fame, was also involved in precisely measuring distances that needed to be measured.

Their result for the density of earth, and hence the mass was off by about 20%.

But most of that error was due to factors they couldn't account for -- the higher order gravitational deviations and a more accurate model of the earth mean ellipsoid.

In 2005, a group took the original astronomical and geodetic measurements, but using more accurate precision models of the above. The result was within 1% of the modern accepted value. That's how good their measurements were. In 1774.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 11:07 PM (w6EFb)

187 But when they moved to Vermont and bought that satellite dish I heard the sounds of Close Encounters in my head the first time I saw it rotate to the change of a channel. It was a spiritual moment. You wouldn't understand.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 11:04 PM (viF8m)
---
Turn the knob to the designated direction...listen to the hum of the antenna rotating...watch the TV screen flicker and then come into sharper focus.

That was affluence. That was luxury. No fussing about with rabbit ears and aluminum foil.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 11:08 PM (ZOv7s)

188 They're obviously doxxinh the dude to spoil the appeal.

But that dude is in grave danger. It would be *extremely* helpful for the Democrats if everyone understood that voting to convict one of the media's darling killers will only get *you* a death sentence.

They're probably activating one of the drug-fueled walking time bombs right now.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice's at September 11, 2026 10:46 PM (BI5O2)

I get called up for jury duty pretty regularly. Most recent was late last year. I'll have some pointed questions for the judge and attorneys about how they safeguard jurist's anonymity. The Clancey fiasco is a huge threat to the jury system. What happens to this holdout jurist and those who dox him will determine how serious we are in keeping this Republic...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 11, 2026 11:08 PM (nbLIj)

189 Nothing new about Iraq-based Iranian proxies attacking the Kingdom, including energy infrastructure. Has been happening for a while. Not a new front, just more intensive (and aggressive) use of a proxy. I'm guessing (guessing) that MBS et al have long since concluded that things are beyond repair in the Gulf, and there's no real living with their hated ancestral enemy nutcases in Persia any longer. But such a sentiment will never be publicly uttered until the last IRGC stragglers are being hunted down in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Mossad-contracted bounty hunters.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 11, 2026 11:08 PM (U/Byj)

190
The vertical deflection of that mountain was about 5.8 arcseconds. They measured that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 11:09 PM (w6EFb)

191
If Testicles the Great had that kind of precision, no telling what he could have done.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 11:09 PM (w6EFb)

192 Seriously Miklos, the question is better the FEG PA-63 with a seven round magazine of 9 Makarov, or the East German Pistole M with eight rounds.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:11 PM (rbvCR)

193 But when they moved to Vermont and bought that satellite dish I heard the sounds of Close Encounters in my head the first time I saw it rotate to the change of a channel. It was a spiritual moment. You wouldn't understand.

Posted by: JackStraw

My family were not rich enough for any fancy "satellite dish". They did get this rotateable antenna on top of a pole atop the house, which if carefully adjusted allowed us to get fuzzy TV transmissions from exotic locations like Augusta or Spartanburg. Sometimes even Charlotte, the Big City.

Posted by: undeprived child Miklos at September 11, 2026 11:11 PM (4RYRd)

194 177 It’s not yet clear how long it would take to repair the damage,
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 10:59 PM (VQ0bX)

Maybe a day per break? Drain the line, cut out the damaged sections, truck in a new piece of pipe, and weld it in.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 11:03 PM (1z8ji)

Don't forget to allow time to bring in some Pakis to do the actual work, 'cause no Saudi is getting his hands dirty doing that kind of work.

Posted by: a.moron at September 11, 2026 11:11 PM (X5Jzz)

195 Recycling Bin.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:11 PM (Y/06r)

196 Monday marks the end of the 3rd month of Mitch McConnel's hospital holiday. I suppose it'd be pointless to demand the Governor ask MIA Mitch to make an appearance at the state capitol. The turtle should appear or be booted.

Posted by: Escobar cut-loop at September 11, 2026 11:12 PM (HeG1i)

197
I got called for jury duty twice in my first couple of years living here and not again for the next 15.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 11:12 PM (eRlcH)

198 I am actually pissed that I did not managed to work Ford F950 Earthfucker into comments today. Got to work and completely forgot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:12 PM (Y/06r)

199 176 Dry cleaning.

[twiddle fingers to loosen up]
Posted by: Kindltot

Carbona, Not Glue!

Posted by: The Ramones, 1977 at September 11, 2026 11:12 PM (Fn+3X)

200 ---
It was always about aesthetics, and if you want to dig deeper, how many kids did they have? How many could they have had?

Purely about aesthetics.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Only recently, like within the last 5-6 months I had read that Dawn was pregnant during one of the seasons and delivered a healthy baby (girl?) but gave her up for adoption. I think she would later marry the father but eventually the marriage failed. At least those genes had continued on but for who knows how much longer.

Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 11:12 PM (R0XxO)

201 the question is better the FEG PA-63 with a seven round magazine of 9 Makarov, or the East German Pistole M with eight rounds.
Posted by: Kindltot

FEG is Hungarian so I know that. Ammo is harder to come by though.

Posted by: Miklos once had an odd ATF license, in easier days at September 11, 2026 11:13 PM (4RYRd)

202 Chevron concluded a 7 billion dollar investment arrangement with
Venezuela. There's mucho aceite en Benezuela.



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 11:13 PM (VQ0bX)

203 That is almost picture perfect my street growing up- except we had a lot more trees in front yards.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:13 PM (Y/06r)

204 Maybe a day per break? Drain the line, cut out the damaged sections, truck in a new piece of pipe, and weld it in.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 11:03 PM (1z8ji)

Don't forget to allow time to bring in some Pakis to do the actual work, 'cause no Saudi is getting his hands dirty doing that kind of work.

Posted by: a.moron
---

Contract with an American company. Get done right.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 11:15 PM (VQ0bX)

205 And Never Forgive

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 11, 2026 11:15 PM (xcxpd)

206 And life might be harder with a dog, but it's better.

It's SO much better with a dog

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 11, 2026 11:16 PM (xcxpd)

207 Don't forget to allow time to bring in some Pakis to do the actual work, 'cause no Saudi is getting his hands dirty doing that kind of work.

Posted by: a.moron at September 11, 2026 11:11 PM (X5Jzz)

They probably have some American pipeline hands already in-country for that kind of work, and getting paid big $$$ for it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 11:16 PM (1z8ji)

208 FEG is Hungarian so I know that. Ammo is harder to come by though.

Posted by: Miklos
--

Thinking east-German manufacture would make Chineseum look good.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 11:17 PM (VQ0bX)

209 Can't help but notice there's no WaWaland.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

And whose fault is that?

Posted by: Miklos thinks somebody needs to talk less and get to work at September 11, 2026 11:17 PM (4RYRd)

210 If no one else, Sellier & Bellot and Fiocchi make 9 Mak.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:17 PM (rbvCR)

211 Would a 1980s neighborhood have a blue recycling bin?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 11:17 PM (1Lmff)

212 207 Don't forget to allow time to bring in some Pakis to do the actual work, 'cause no Saudi is getting his hands dirty doing that kind of work.

Posted by: a.moron at September 11, 2026 11:11 PM (X5Jzz)

They probably have some American pipeline hands already in-country for that kind of work, and getting paid big $$$ for it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 11:16 PM (1z8ji)

Aren't they building another pipeline to the Red Sea? If construction is underway on that maybe they can divert material and manpower from that project to repair the old pipeline.

Posted by: a.moron at September 11, 2026 11:18 PM (X5Jzz)

213 And what are those things on the roof of the school bus?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 11:19 PM (1Lmff)

214 211 Would a 1980s neighborhood have a blue recycling bin?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 11:17 PM

Needs Lawn Darts.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 11:19 PM (2Ez/1)

215 FUN GUN FACT

"FEG" is short for "Fegyvergyar", or Weapons Factory.

Not real good on the branding

Posted by: Miklos could maybe do something involving Palmetto something at September 11, 2026 11:20 PM (4RYRd)

216 Would a 1980s neighborhood have a blue recycling bin?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 11:17 PM (1Lmff)

Nope. We had a 55 gallon burn barrel in the backyard.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 11, 2026 11:20 PM (0aYVJ)

217 213 And what are those things on the roof of the school bus?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 11:19 PM (1Lmff)

Emergency exits, I think. In case the bus rolls onto it's side where the door is.

Posted by: a.moron at September 11, 2026 11:20 PM (X5Jzz)

218 215 FUN GUN FACT

"FEG" is short for "Fegyvergyar", or Weapons Factory.

Not real good on the branding
Posted by: Miklos could maybe do something involving Palmetto something at September 11, 2026 11:20 PM (4RYRd)

They make a fine Hi-Power

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 11, 2026 11:21 PM (xcxpd)

219 Is that a Chevy Vega?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:21 PM (Y/06r)

220 And what are those things on the roof of the school bus?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 11:19 PM (1Lmff)

Limpet mines. Bus rules were very strict back then.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:21 PM (rbvCR)

221 Nope. We had a 55 gallon burn barrel in the backyard.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 11, 2026 11:20 PM (0aYVJ)

Still do. Rural Canada, eh?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 11:21 PM (1z8ji)

222 Would a 1980s neighborhood have a blue recycling bin?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 11:17 PM

Needs Lawn Darts.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Lawn darts?

Jarts

They were called Jarts

Posted by: Miklos thinks we got us a commie up in here at September 11, 2026 11:21 PM (4RYRd)

223 We're gonna be big someday.

Posted by: Wingstop Wakanda at September 11, 2026 11:21 PM (2Ez/1)

224 211 Would a 1980s neighborhood have a blue recycling bin?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 11:17 PM (1Lmff)

Well spotted. And no, let alone a 1970's

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 11, 2026 11:21 PM (xcxpd)

225 210 If no one else, Sellier & Bellot and Fiocchi make 9 Mak.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:17 PM (rbvCR)

So does Prvi Partisan. Good company.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 11, 2026 11:22 PM (xcxpd)

226 219 Is that a Chevy Vega?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:21 PM (Y/06r)

I don't see a Vega, the brown car closest to the camera looks like a Chevy Nova or whatever the Pontiac clone was called.

Posted by: a.moron at September 11, 2026 11:22 PM (X5Jzz)

227 Okay, got to call bullshit on my own comment at 200. Internet is saying Dawn Wells never had any children. Was married briefly tho to talent agent Larry Rosen. I think it must have been a y/t video that gave me the false info.

Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 11:23 PM (R0XxO)

228 Is that a Chevy Vega?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:21 PM (Y/06r)

Looks like a Chevy Nova or Pontiac Ventura. Not a Vega, for sure.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 11:23 PM (1z8ji)

229 192 Seriously Miklos, the question is better the FEG PA-63 with a seven round magazine of 9 Makarov, or the East German Pistole M with eight rounds.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:11 PM (rbvCR)

East German build quality is better. Wish I hadn't sold mine, though frankly I don't carry a Mak anymore.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 11, 2026 11:23 PM (xcxpd)

230 219 Is that a Chevy Vega?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:21 PM

Chevy Nova.
And a Dodge Aspen slash Plymouth Volare station wagon in the next driveway. Needs more rust.

Posted by: Wingstop Wakanda at September 11, 2026 11:23 PM (2Ez/1)

231 Why would the paper guy be on his bike coming FROM the house?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:24 PM (Y/06r)

232 Chevy Nova.
And a Dodge Aspen slash Plymouth Volare station wagon in the next driveway. Needs more rust.
Posted by: Wingstop Wakanda at September 11, 2026 11:23 PM (2Ez/1)

I am not good with the 70s vehicles.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:25 PM (Y/06r)

233 Off chicken wing franchise sock.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 11:25 PM (2Ez/1)

234 Okay, got to call bullshit on my own comment at 200. Internet is saying Dawn Wells never had any children. Was married briefly tho to talent agent Larry Rosen. I think it must have been a y/t video that gave me the false info.
Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 11:23 PM (R0XxO)

Did Tina Louise have any kids? She certainly would have been well-equipped to feed them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 11:25 PM (1z8ji)

235 I am not good with the 70s vehicles.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:25 PM

There wasn't very much good about them.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 11:27 PM (2Ez/1)

236 The kid on the banana seat bike is missing the requisite playing card jammed in the spokes.

Posted by: far cry at September 11, 2026 11:27 PM (wBRco)

237 Did Tina Louise have any kids? She certainly would have been well-equipped to feed them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 11:25 PM (1z8ji)

One kid, a daughter. She's kinda cute.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 11, 2026 11:27 PM (xcxpd)

238 Also note the Ford Transit in the background has its headlights on. DRL's were NOT a thing in 1975.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 11:28 PM (1z8ji)

239 That fast food map of America? The movies led me to understand that Taco Bell would have a bigger footprint.

Posted by: MartynWW at September 11, 2026 11:28 PM (KfIEy)

240 What shouldn't be there?
......

They didn't subscribe to the paper.

Posted by: wth at September 11, 2026 11:28 PM (oq9dX)

241 We had a '73 Maverick. Four door, burnt orange with a vinyl roof.
Vinyl roofs. What a fad.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 11:29 PM (2Ez/1)

242 Sort of like FEG - Prvi Partisan, or "pyervi partisan", meaning first partisan, referring to the partisan ammo operation in Yugoslavia during the war. In my experience some of the best brass from major ammo brands. When my Greek surplus HXP brass for the M1 food finally gets recycled, I have a 500-round can of Prvi Partisan M1 30-06 whose brass will take its place.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 11, 2026 11:29 PM (U/Byj)

243 >>My family were not rich enough for any fancy "satellite dish". They did get this rotateable antenna on top of a pole atop the house, which if carefully adjusted allowed us to get fuzzy TV transmissions from exotic locations like Augusta or Spartanburg. Sometimes even Charlotte, the Big City.

Charlotte? Luxury. The big city near the farm was Burlington. The smallest biggest city in any state in the country.

Seriously, Vermont was a paradise back then before it got "discovered" by the Bernie Sanders of the world. To this day there are still more people in Charlotte than all of Vermont.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 11:29 PM (viF8m)

244 There wasn't very much good about them.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 11:27 PM (2Ez/1)

*draw line in sand*

The 70s Corvette (Mako? body style) was gorgeous. Kind of shitty 70s engine by comparison, but a beautiful shape.

I also like 70s Camaros.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:29 PM (Y/06r)

245 That AI pic. My parents did not see us off to the bus. Fact is, I had to deliver my little sister to her first day of kindergarten before I reported to my 4th grade class. Not because I had bad parents. But because it was more convenient. And I was the big brother.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 11, 2026 11:29 PM (0aYVJ)

246 I had those striped pants.

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at September 11, 2026 11:30 PM (c9aR7)

247 Satellite dish on the one house (a small one.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:30 PM (Y/06r)

248 238 Also note the Ford Transit in the background has its headlights on. DRL's were NOT a thing in 1975.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
---

Somewhere around that time turning the engine off before filling gasoline became law. - Your govt looking out for you.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 11:30 PM (VQ0bX)

249
That angle they measured was around the 1/3 the width of a human hair held at arm's length.

It took over 4 months of raw measurements and field work, and then a few more months after that just to do the computations by hand.

To do it, first they had to measure the volume of the mountain precisely, the determine the center of mass. Then they established a N-S meridian through that center. Some distance on either side, they mounted two zenith sectors. This is very precise telescope that doesn't move one little bit. It points straight up, according to plumb (and getting that plumbed to precision required.....)

And then a few months and thousands of observations of stars passing directly overhead. And the timing had to be precise. They needed to know the exact GMT time the star hit the bullseye.

Now, there is all sorts of human bias in the "mark!" moment. It's not random, each individual will have some systematic error in calling "mark". So, you have many different people do it, and then average it out.

Then you had twinkling and all that to worry with. And mechanical error in some of the apparatus. So, it took a few months with thousands of observations.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 11:31 PM (w6EFb)

250 I had the bike with a banana seat.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 11:31 PM (2Ez/1)

251 Not because I had bad parents. But because it was more convenient. And I was the big brother.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 11, 2026 11:29 PM (0aYVJ)
---

You're a young man, son, and you have responsibilities.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 11:32 PM (VQ0bX)

252 The paper boy should be in school.

Posted by: wth at September 11, 2026 11:32 PM (oq9dX)

253 250 I had the bike with a banana seat.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 11:31 PM (2Ez/1)

So did I. My Uncle Tim's. I miss him.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:33 PM (Y/06r)

254
Those thousands of observations were enough to average out all those errors. And then you had to hand calculate those thousands of measurement averages.

Those two scopes on each side of the mountain were basically calculating the minute difference in latitude of the two points. But the vertical deflection introduced and error in that. So Charles Mason's job was to precisely measure the true geodetic distance between those two points, dead on the meridian. That then gave you the true difference in latitude. Compare that to the astronomical value, and you get the vertical deflection.

And that is how they weighed the earth in 1774.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 11:34 PM (w6EFb)

255 >>I had the bike with a banana seat.

If you didn't have the sissy bar too you were a poseur.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 11:35 PM (viF8m)

256 You're a young man, son, and you have responsibilities.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 11:32 PM (VQ0bX)

Heh. I was also the built-in babysitter when my younger siblings arrived (as were my brother and 2 sisters). Brother, 14 years younger, twin brother and sister 16 years younger. And no, not a step-family thing. Catholic. We all had the same mom and dad.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 11, 2026 11:36 PM (0aYVJ)

257 First year of Aspen/Volare was 76. Still Dart/Valiant in 75. I guess technically, the Aspen/Volare debut was Sept/October 75. The Fall release of new models used to be a big deal.

Posted by: Dart Swinger at September 11, 2026 11:36 PM (Fn+3X)

258 We had wealthy neighbors who subscribed to the WSJ. The next day they would put it our mailbox and my parents would read it a day late. This went on for years.
Later Fleetwood Mac would record a song entitled Second Hand News.
Not a joke.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 11:37 PM (2Ez/1)

259 Ok, I am almost wondering if they thought that by leaking the fact that the holdout was black, then the right would abandon him.

Remember, they believe their own copy. They truly believe that we are viscerally racist.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:37 PM (Y/06r)

260 Never had a Sting Ray/Banana seat bike. Was always tall for my age. Had 26" bike age 9 or 10.

Posted by: Schwinn Collegiate at September 11, 2026 11:39 PM (Fn+3X)

261 Ok, I am almost wondering if they thought that by leaking the fact that the holdout was black, then the right would abandon him.

Remember, they believe their own copy. They truly believe that we are viscerally racist.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:37 PM (Y/06r)

This is very plausible. And it makes me chuckle.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 11, 2026 11:40 PM (0aYVJ)

262 Thanks for the ONT WD. My bike was a Cotton Crate.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 11, 2026 11:41 PM (CHHv1)

263 Yes it does still hurt.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 11, 2026 10:01 PM (OIyEB)


My parents were at Pearl Harbor. I don't forget that one either.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 11, 2026 11:41 PM (2WIwB)

264 When I was a young 'un, if Grandaddy had 55 gallons in a barrel, he was sure not gonna burn it. But he did teach me-

Put a match to it

If it burns clear blue, you can drink that

If you see any orange or yellow or the worst is green, that will make you blind or dead or both

Posted by: The Practical Knowledge Of Grandaddy Miklos at September 11, 2026 11:42 PM (4RYRd)

265 FREE cat. Comes with two cat trees, litter box and container, several scoops and several cat toys.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 11, 2026 11:43 PM (CHHv1)

266 I had a purple banana seat bike. My folks gave it to me after my First Communion. I recall a photo of me in my white shirt, dark blue slacks and red tie, folded hands, looking pious, with the bike next to me. Behind me was the huge blue spruce in our front yard.

Ah, the '70s.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 11, 2026 11:45 PM (0aYVJ)

267 265 FREE cat. Comes with two cat trees, litter box and container, several scoops and several cat toys.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 11, 2026 11:43 PM (CHHv1)

What's going on, man?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 11, 2026 11:46 PM (xcxpd)

268
The Fall release of new models used to be a big deal.
Posted by: Dart Swinger

It was the same with TV seasons.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 11:46 PM (Cqx++)

269 My last "I should buy it should I find one" pistol was the Ortgies, and the one before that was the Mauser HSc.
My current white whale is the Colombian made Indumil Cordova "estandar" 9mm

The Estandar is a modified Browning tilting barrel action that was designed around the Galil trigger group that Indumil was already licensed to manufacture

Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:47 PM (rbvCR)

270 >>Remember, they believe their own copy. They truly believe that we are viscerally racist.

That's exactly what they believe. They also believe the KKK was us because they believe the parties switched and they believe the party of national socialism, also known as the Nazi Party was us.

We are up against weaponized stupid people. They are so stupid and lacking in historical knowledge and immune to facts it is almost their super power. Thanks government schools.

The only way is straight through.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 11:48 PM (viF8m)

271 The chances of finding one in my lifetime, at a decent price, is very low.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:48 PM (rbvCR)

272 I currently reside in the Socialist Republic of Starbucks, which sucks cuz i hate Starbucks and socialism. I am considering starting the Carl's Jr. Rebellion or moving to the KFC Commonwealth.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 11, 2026 11:48 PM (9FfUF)

273 269 My last "I should buy it should I find one" pistol was the Ortgies, and the one before that was the Mauser HSc.
My current white whale is the Colombian made Indumil Cordova "estandar" 9mm

The Estandar is a modified Browning tilting barrel action that was designed around the Galil trigger group that Indumil was already licensed to manufacture
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:47 PM (rbvCR)

That 92-F safety location though...not a fan. I want to like it....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 11, 2026 11:50 PM (xcxpd)

274
My parents were at Pearl Harbor. I don't forget that one either.
Posted by: Diogenes

I was on board a ship at Pearl Harbor December 7, 1971.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 11:50 PM (Cqx++)

275 To this day there are still more people in Charlotte than all of Vermont.
Posted by: JackStraw

All of the people of the one should move to the other.

As they choose

Many people would be happier

Posted by: Miklos figues at least in Vermont they don;t just go stab people all that much yet at September 11, 2026 11:50 PM (4RYRd)

276 The Fall release of new models used to be a big deal.
Posted by: Dart Swinger at September 11, 2026 11:36 PM (Fn+3X)

The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year.

Posted by: Elwood Blues at September 11, 2026 11:51 PM (wBRco)

277 I'll keep my old Newsmobile.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 11:54 PM (Cqx++)

278 That 92-F safety location though...not a fan. I want to like it....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 11, 2026 11:50 PM (xcxpd)

It is a de-cocker and safety on the Estandar.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 11:55 PM (rbvCR)

279 Me and Roland want to use theThompson, with the 30 round box magazine, several spares.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 11, 2026 11:55 PM (TlKpx)

280 The only way is straight through.
Posted by: JackStraw

And always call "nazis" National Socialists

As well as any other "socialists"

Use it, own it

Posted by: Miklos calls for a Rectification of the Names at September 11, 2026 11:55 PM (4RYRd)

281
For any of these interested in more in-depth investigation of Sydney Sweeney's behavior that Ace brought up earlier today:

https://t.ly/Ir4_I

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 11:56 PM (w6EFb)

282 No one would understand how exciting a preview of the new model year was.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 11:58 PM (VQ0bX)

283 I'll keep my old Newsmobile.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

This is not your father's old Newsmobile

Posted by: Miklos got off to a bad start in the ad biz, but I was only 6 at September 11, 2026 11:58 PM (4RYRd)

284 >>All of the people of the one should move to the other.

I'm stupidly stubborn. I will never move off a place I love because I'm told too. I'd rather fight.

Someday, there will be no place left to run. I'll stand here.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 11:59 PM (viF8m)

285 Indumil is making a "subcompact" model of the Cordova, but to my surprise it is not called the "Cordovatico"

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 12:00 AM (rbvCR)

286 For any of these interested in more in-depth investigation of Sydney Sweeney's behavior that Ace brought up earlier today:

https://t.ly/Ir4_I
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 11:56 PM (w6EFb)

She's still shilling for a gambling site.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:00 AM (1z8ji)

287 The chances of finding one in my lifetime, at a decent price, is very low.
Posted by: Kindltot

Which one you got a fancy fer?

Posted by: Mail Order "Brides" by Miklos at September 12, 2026 12:00 AM (4RYRd)

288 The Fall release of new models used to be a big deal.
Posted by: Dart Swinger

It was the same with TV seasons.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 11:46 PM (Cqx++)

FredFlix for your nostalgia viewing pleasure:

https://tinyurl.com/48h9ve6v

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2026 12:00 AM (1Ff7Z)

289 @267 it's clear he doesn't like me, and despite my welcoming nature, I don't think it's working.

Don't worry, I'm not going to kill him. I mean, I will probably die first. Which reminds me, need to make a doc with my passwords and stuff.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 12, 2026 12:01 AM (CHHv1)

290 She's still shilling for a gambling site.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Shilling....shilling.....

Somehow doesn't seem like the right word....

Shilling....

Posted by: on the tip of Miklos' tongue at September 12, 2026 12:02 AM (4RYRd)

291
wtf, Markwayne Mullin? "Ilhan Omar DID marry her brother, and an ongoing investigation could lead to her deportation."

Also: "DHS doesn't talk about current or possible future investigations or actions."

Jeez, get it together, man.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 12:02 AM (mmrXZ)

292
The Fall release of new models used to be a big deal.
Posted by: Dart Swinger

It was the same with TV seasons.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

================

Also fashion.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 12:04 AM (mmrXZ)

293 The Fall release of new models used to be a big deal.
Posted by: Dart Swinger


Yeah

Eagerly awaited, even

Posted by: the Sears and JC Penney catalogues at September 12, 2026 12:04 AM (4RYRd)

294 FREE cat.
****

Go to the shelter and get a cat about the same age. Or a puppy, preferably a golden.

Posted by: clarence at September 12, 2026 12:05 AM (yU1fv)

295
it's clear he doesn't like me, and despite my welcoming nature, I don't think it's working.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm

================

So, typical cat. Mine bites, despite my giving him more room in the middle of the bed than I take up myself.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 12:06 AM (mmrXZ)

296 Someday, there will be no place left to run. I'll stand here.
Posted by: JackStraw

The seacoast does allow for the Dunkirk Option.

Posted by: Miklos has a Plan B at September 12, 2026 12:07 AM (4RYRd)

297 For any of these interested in more in-depth investigation of Sydney Sweeney's behavior that Ace brought up earlier today:

https://t.ly/Ir4_I
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 11:56 PM (w6EFb)

I didn't catch ace's take on it all. Was he for it, or was he appalled by the fact that a woman who has made a career out of showing her tits was showing her tits?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2026 12:09 AM (rbvCR)

298 >>The seacoast does allow for the Dunkirk Option.

I plan to win.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 12:11 AM (viF8m)

299
it's clear he doesn't like me, and despite my welcoming nature, I don't think it's working.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

How many years has it been?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2026 12:11 AM (Cqx++)

300 I didn't catch ace's take on it all. Was he for it, or was he appalled by the fact that a woman who has made a career out of showing her tits was showing her tits?
Posted by: Kindltot

Are those Disparate Impact lawsuits still a thing?

Posted by: Miklos even lacks defined man boobs at September 12, 2026 12:11 AM (4RYRd)

301 Also fashion.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2026 12:04 AM (mmrXZ)

Is next: svim-vear. Very nice.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 12, 2026 12:11 AM (0aYVJ)

302 Speaking of kids, Lady Gaga now has a Baby Gaga.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 12, 2026 12:12 AM (Fv808)

303 Eagerly awaited, even

Posted by: the Sears and JC Penney catalogues
++++
Those were always a good way to learn about the cup sizes.

Posted by: Frank Costanza at September 12, 2026 12:12 AM (2Ez/1)

304 Vente!

Posted by: Kindltot - trying out some Italian "lingo" at September 12, 2026 12:14 AM (rbvCR)

305 The seacoast does allow for the Dunkirk Option.

I plan to win.
Posted by: JackStraw

*needs someone to smuggle supplies up North, under the guise of simple sailors following the Gulf Stream and prevailing winds*

Posted by: Simple and slow witted offshore fisherman Miklos at September 12, 2026 12:14 AM (4RYRd)

306 >> Was he for it, or was he appalled by the fact that a woman who has made a career out of showing her tits was showing her tits?

That's the question, and we need tons of more data and evidence to decide. Months and months if not years of painstaking observations just like the above mountain vertical deflection experiment.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2026 12:14 AM (w6EFb)

307 Speaking of kids, Lady Gaga now has a Baby Gaga.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 12, 2026 12:12 AM (Fv80

Why am I picturing the adorable baby squid that was born in the back seat of a sedan, delivered by Will Smith, Agent J?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 12, 2026 12:15 AM (0aYVJ)

308 Speaking of kids, Lady Gaga now has a Baby Gaga.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 12, 2026 12:12 AM (Fv80

According to Star Tracks, baby Gagas are larvae that Klingons eat.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:18 AM (1z8ji)

309 A little late with this - in the what doesn't belong pic:

The satellite dish on the roof?
Newspaper boys hat seems anachronistic
The delivery can seems modern, rest of the cars seem correct
Kid with briefcase could be contemporary
Not sure about recycle bin
Banana seat bike might have been out of style by 1975
I think we were using backpacks in 1975

I was a junior in HS.

Now to read thru the comments....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 12, 2026 12:19 AM (QGaXH)

310 That's the question, and we need tons of more data and evidence to decide. Months and months if not years of painstaking observations just like the above mountain vertical deflection experiment.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

It all comes down to physics and geometry

And measurement, verifiable measurement

Posted by: Ancient Greek Miklosopoulos (no homo) at September 12, 2026 12:20 AM (4RYRd)

311 302 Speaking of kids, Lady Gaga now has a Baby Gaga.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal


She'll hire Lindsey Clancy to be the nanny.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2026 12:21 AM (G1ktt)

312 Today is our 44th anniversary. We'll go out to dinner tomorrow.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 12, 2026 12:23 AM (QGaXH)

313 So if I put a classic 1962 standard Swizzle Stick freshly plucked from a Mai Tai according to Trader Vic's original recipe in Sweeney lady's in-between breastage area, what would be the unit of measurement?

Posted by: The Brain of Miklos attempts to grasp the expanse of it all at September 12, 2026 12:24 AM (4RYRd)

314 Well, it's getting kinda late, and I am kinds tired, so I think I will get an early one. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2026 12:25 AM (1z8ji)

315 Straw stays where he's at with his boat fully stocked.
When the flames get close he will put out to sea.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 12:25 AM (VQ0bX)

316 Good evening morons y gracias wd por el ont

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 12:25 AM (RIvkX)

317 314 Well, it's getting kinda late, and I am kinds tired, so I think I will get an early one. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
---

Watch out for the flying casters in your dreams.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 12:26 AM (VQ0bX)

318 Question: Can a gay man produce something that's gayer than he is?
===

That's not gay. It was the 70s. If you weren't there you won't understand.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 12:26 AM (RIvkX)

319 According to Star Tracks, baby Gagas are larvae that Klingons eat.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The Klingons were eradicated by the Charminians

Posted by: Grand Commander Mr. Whipple at September 12, 2026 12:27 AM (4RYRd)

320 That's not gay. It was the 70s. If you weren't there you won't understand.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

*tosses confetti with wild abandon*

Posted by: Rip somebody at September 12, 2026 12:28 AM (4RYRd)

321 >>*needs someone to smuggle supplies up North, under the guise of simple sailors following the Gulf Stream and prevailing winds*

You might be surprised how many of us not just live but thrive here. We aren't the majority, neither are people in North Carolina or you wouldn't have the government you do. Stupid people are legion and that is what government schools were designed to do.

But we also know how they work. We do know how the oceans work and know how to not just to survive waves but conquer them.

We aren't as dumb as we look. Ask Cthulhu.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 12:29 AM (viF8m)

322 There is a lovely Town of Charlotte in VT. It's on the lake a bit south of Burlington.

The accent is on the 2nd half of the NAME though. Char-LOT.

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2026 12:30 AM (sOtuf)

323 >> It all comes down to physics and geometry

And geodesy.

And that reminds, I heard some Brit pronounce that
"gee-oh-deesy". Please tell me that's not how they really pronounce it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2026 12:32 AM (w6EFb)

324 The ugly pants exchange was brutal. But I have to give props because those guys followed through and toughed it out.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 12:33 AM (RIvkX)

325 Today is our 44th anniversary. We'll go out to dinner tomorrow.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 12, 2026 12:23 AM (QGaXH)
=====

Congratulations to you and Mrs. We are we going for dinner?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 12:35 AM (RIvkX)

326 Please tell me that's not how they really pronounce it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Only if made of al-u-min-i-um

Posted by: Miklos that they import all of it, whatever they call it at September 12, 2026 12:36 AM (4RYRd)

327 We do know how the oceans work and know how to not just to survive waves but conquer them.

*insert picture of Jacqueline Bisset in a wet T-shirt here*

Posted by: far cry at September 12, 2026 12:38 AM (wBRco)

328 >>*insert picture of Jacqueline Bisset in a wet T-shirt here*

This guy gets me.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 12:40 AM (viF8m)

329 We aren't as dumb as we look. Ask Cthulhu.
Posted by: JackStraw

For years, nothing said in good cheer, friendship, support, agreement, or in simple good humor gets anything but angry, defensively arrogant responses.

You do you

Posted by: Unconcerned Carolinian at September 12, 2026 12:41 AM (4RYRd)

330 There is a lovely Town of Charlotte in VT. It's on the lake a bit south of Burlington.

The accent is on the 2nd half of the NAME though. Char-LOT.
Posted by: 496

Oh

Which half of the lake do Sen. and Ms? Sanders own?

Posted by: Miklos is under the impression that Bernie has all the prime lakeside acreage at September 12, 2026 12:44 AM (4RYRd)

331 Beckoning Chasm, some cats, like some people, just never stop fussing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 12:44 AM (RIvkX)

332 >>For years, nothing said in good cheer, friendship, support, agreement, or in simple good humor gets anything but angry, defensively arrogant responses.

>>You do you

For years, been called stupid, living in a shit hole, too fucking dumb to leave, yada, yada, yada.

You do you as well.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 12:45 AM (viF8m)

333 Hello all

Made the mistake of jkinh Truth Central on Facebook.
Sadly I found it was overrun with the most rabid leftists I'd seen in a while.
Left after seeing several posts mocking Chaie Kirk's murder.

The big controversy on there was AOC and Mamdami allegedly joking and laughing as the names of those murdered on 9/11 were read.
The left claimed it was BS and was livid over Trump allegedly falling asleep during the ceremony.
Cesspool

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at September 12, 2026 12:46 AM (eKa4f)

334
Determining the geodesics of the surface of Sydney's body would be very useful. And that would change with various positions, as she's not a rigid shape. Know the shortest paths from point A to point B on her surface.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2026 12:46 AM (w6EFb)

335 I figured out the photo puzzle.

There is a big blue recycling bin there next to the house.

This grift was not yet in place in 1975.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 12:46 AM (RIvkX)

336 Not sure about recycle bin

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 12, 2026 12:19 AM (QGaXH)
====

You called it

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 12:50 AM (RIvkX)

337 This grift was not yet in place in 1975.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

It is now.

Big money for the smart guys like me.

Nothing is really recycled....but recoverable, maybe

Check the website-

Whatthefuckdidmywifethrowoutandiwantitback.com

Posted by: GlobalMiklosCorp at September 12, 2026 12:53 AM (4RYRd)

338 325 Today is our 44th anniversary. We'll go out to dinner tomorrow.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 12, 2026 12:23 AM (QGaXH)
=====

Congratulations to you and Mrs. We are we going for dinner?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 12:35 AM (RIvkX)

Thank you.

44 years? Wherever she tells me to take her....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 12, 2026 12:53 AM (QGaXH)

339 44 years? Wherever she tells me to take her....
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK's phone) at September 12, 2026 12:53 AM (QGaXH)
=======

Mrs. F.'s favorite place is Idontknowwheredouwannago.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 12:55 AM (RIvkX)

340 y gracias wd por el ont
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Excellent progress

Posted by: Association of On-line Teachers of Welsh at September 12, 2026 12:57 AM (4RYRd)

341 Actually, those Space Uniforms are rather snazzy. I love the boots.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 12, 2026 12:58 AM (RIvkX)

342 Mrs. F.'s favorite place is Idontknowwheredouwannago.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Thatplaceyouliked

Posted by: Miklos speaks wimmin jive at September 12, 2026 12:58 AM (4RYRd)

343 Totally loved the ugly pants swap. My kind of dudes.

Survived the nursing reunion with no Dims or yapping about anything other than memories. Only four of us out of 40, which was a bummer. I am sure some are in heaven and others disappeared. Plus other classes.

One of my apt roommates texted me today she was coming then texted she wasn't. It was from a number I did not recognized & asked who is this. Several numbers and emails & have accused her of being in witness protection. She claims she wants to have lunch with me & another friend who lives here soon.

Two other "girls" lived above me in an historic old house. I went to Kino Bay, Mexico with them one spring break & sometimes was in a fetal position in the back of her porshe for that trip. I'd go anywhere. I asked for photos of that trip (both live in another state). The porshe girl told me that I taught her how to squat to pee in the desert & she remembers a lot.

Both knew my bf/husband & find it hard to believe we are still married after our first year.

It was fun. Other classes in that decade, & I don't remember anyone but those in my class.

I seem to be holding up fairly well as people knew me without my name tag.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 12, 2026 01:01 AM (hzuYO)

344 There were people from Spain on the bus today so I was mentally running though my catalog of Spanish insults and curses.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 01:01 AM (RIvkX)

345 Actually, those Space Uniforms are rather snazzy. I love the boots.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 12, 2026 12:58 AM (RIvkX)

Shut up, Wesley.

Posted by: Zombie Data at September 12, 2026 01:02 AM (vSvIl)

346 I was mentally running though my catalog of Spanish insults and curses.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

We do thees for you, no charge

Posted by: Linguistically Vibrant at September 12, 2026 01:05 AM (4RYRd)

347 Put that uniform designer out the airlock. Not a single element of it would work in free fall.

Miniskirt for men?
Thigh high boots?
Thick gauntlets?
Points and edges sticking out everywhere?

Most of all, no uniform for an earthworm "space force".
No "space force" until senior command staff serves in an orbital station. Senior staff expected to retire in free fall, having been so thoroughly adapted that they can't return to Earth. One way ticket.

Posted by: David Tx John at September 12, 2026 01:06 AM (IvWaO)

348 Hello Horde!

Happy Anniversary ARiK.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 12, 2026 01:11 AM (ibDUx)

349 I have been looking at some early music videos from the 60s. Not hippy stuff, chicks in white go-go boots doing go-go dancing.

I have to imagine those boots were probably made of New Space Age Vinylite or something, so sweaty.

But the girls do not appear unacceptably over-moist. I'm sure solutions were found and suitable arrangements made.

Posted by: If Miklos had been born when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor at September 12, 2026 01:14 AM (4RYRd)

350 Hi, Debby!

Howdy, horde!

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 01:15 AM (rdVOm)

351 Ok ok we're all doing each other ok?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 01:16 AM (RIvkX)

352 Hey Moose, turn the "OPEN" light back on

We got a customer

Posted by: Miklos energetically attempts to correct earlier negligence at the bar at September 12, 2026 01:16 AM (4RYRd)

353 I guess Elijah and the priests of Baal would be more like Magic: The Gathering. Fireball! That is one of my favorite stories. "Call louder! Maybe he is asleep or on the toilet. . . ."

Posted by: frammish at September 12, 2026 01:16 AM (rcENI)

354
Someone did get a shot of the fireball from that small asteroid that hit over the Indian Ocean near Australia on Sept. 6:

https://t.ly/NpE-O

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2026 01:17 AM (w6EFb)

355 iirc you had to grease up with vaseline before putting on tight leather

I had a leather vest with fringes like Greg Brady. No vaseline needed.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 01:18 AM (RIvkX)

356 Chuckled at the dudes' ugly pants challenge. LOL!

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 01:18 AM (rdVOm)

357 That space uniform looks like its from 1970.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2026 01:19 AM (RIvkX)

358 Which half of the lake do Sen. and Ms? Sanders own?

Posted by: Miklos is under the impression that Bernie has all the prime lakeside acreage at September 12, 2026 12:44 AM (4RYRd)
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I'm pretty sure his lake home is up in the islands. North Hero/South Hero/Grand Isle area. It's a good bit north of Charlotte.

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2026 01:19 AM (sOtuf)

359 X Freeze@XFreeze
BBC: “There is so much hate on your platform”
Elon: “What hate?”
BBC: “There’s just a lot of hate”
Elon: “What kind of hate?”
BBC: “Well...I see a lot of hate”
Elon: “Can you give me an example?”
BBC: “There’s definitely hate”
Elon: “So your evidence is basically that you personally feel like there is hate?”
BBC: “ohhh....but there’s a lot of it”
Elon: “How much?”
BBC: “A lot”
Elon: “Compared to what?”
BBC: “Well...before”
Elon: “Before what?”
BBC: “Before there was this much hate”
Elon: “Do you have data?”
BBC: “I have concerns”
Elon: “Do you have examples?”
BBC: “I have observations”
Elon: “Do you have numbers?”
BBC: “People are worried”
Elon: “Which people?”
BBC: “People”
Elon: “So basically...you arrived with a headline and forgot to bring the evidence?”

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:21 AM (VQ0bX)

360 Just finished watching the first two episodes of the Saint Paisios miniseries with my second-oldest (15yo). It is so good. I didn't intend it, but it was fitting for today.

Earlier this morning I had a great conversation about 9/11 and the history of Islam with the younger four. I was a bit afraid that my wife would object to something---she can have some of that suicidal empathy---but I think we were on the same page about everything. That felt good.

Posted by: frammish at September 12, 2026 01:23 AM (rcENI)

361 I had a leather vest with fringes like Greg Brady. No vaseline needed.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

So tell us about Marsha

EVERYTHING

Posted by: Miklos has heard, like everyone at September 12, 2026 01:23 AM (4RYRd)

362 353 I guess Elijah and the priests of Baal would be more like Magic: The Gathering. Fireball! That is one of my favorite stories. "Call louder! Maybe he is asleep or on the toilet. . . ."

Posted by: frammish
---

Me too.

Leather sport coat with fringe, here.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:24 AM (VQ0bX)

363 Elon: “So basically...you arrived with a headline and forgot to bring the evidence?”
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:21 AM (VQ0bX)

It's really not fair to put Elon up against a "news" actor.

To be accurate, it's really not fair to put an average 12-year-old up against a "news" actor.

Posted by: far cry at September 12, 2026 01:25 AM (wBRco)

364 BBC: “People are worried”
Elon: “Which people?”
BBC: “People”
Elon: “So basically...you arrived with a headline and forgot to bring the evidence?”
Posted by: Braenyard

This could easily be a verbatim exchange with any of the AI bots

Posted by: don't ask how Miklos knows at September 12, 2026 01:25 AM (4RYRd)

365 Marsha!
Marsha!
Marsha!
Marsha!
It's always about Marsha.

Posted by: Jan at September 12, 2026 01:25 AM (F9nWj)

366 >>I'm pretty sure his lake home is up in the islands. North Hero/South Hero/Grand Isle area. It's a good bit north of Charlotte.

Where garbage people live.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 01:26 AM (viF8m)

367 Yeah the funniest fiction of the last couple years is this just constantly repeated lie that twitter was this incrdible bastion of peace and truth and then Elon came and made it a sewer of toxicity. It's kind of the opposite or at least it's just been a toxic sewer for most of its existence. But it turns out you can just say things.

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 01:26 AM (vE0+H)

368 Blinky, glad you had a good time at the reunion and everyone kept it level. You picked good friends.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:30 AM (VQ0bX)

369 Marsha!
It's always about Marsha.
Posted by: Jan

There are entire songs written about Little Sister

We wrote our song....together

Posted by: Greg, not really your brother, for certain purposes at September 12, 2026 01:31 AM (4RYRd)

370
Andrew McCarthy is getting damned good indeed. He just got a time lapse of Nancy Grace on her way to L2:

https://t.ly/u1wVi

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2026 01:32 AM (w6EFb)

371 FUN FACT

The actor who portrayed Greg Brady later had a successful career doing voice training for call centers in India.

In his honor, all male Indian call center and tech support workers are named "Greg".

Posted by: Miklos bets you didn't know that at September 12, 2026 01:35 AM (4RYRd)

372 367 Yeah the funniest fiction of the last couple years is this just constantly repeated lie that twitter was this incrdible bastion of peace and truth and then Elon came and made it a sewer of toxicity. It's kind of the opposite or at least it's just been a toxic sewer for most of its existence. But it turns out you can just say things.
Posted by: ...

People are your best entertainment Value.

And no COVFEFE on what is putting a bunch in AOC's FREE GAZA hotpants?

Hunter Biden, he has been making headlines recently following the launch of his cryptocurrency token, $LAPTOP, which debuted just ahead of today's date. The memecoin faced massive volatility, shedding over 95% of its value shortly after launch. Hunter Biden promoted the token on social media by posting, "They turned laptop into a weapon. I turned it into a token," framing it as a symbol of resilience, though it quickly drew widespread market crashes and intense media scrutiny similar to other political digital tokens.

What could possibly go wrong?
is 50% mostly heteroHunter vs AOC/she-hulk is worth the PPV?

LET'S GO BRANDON!
YOU ARE THE STORM!

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 12, 2026 01:37 AM (fPdOG)

373 >>There are entire songs written about Little Sister

You don't say.

https://tinyurl.com/f6xzh4h9

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2026 01:40 AM (viF8m)

374 High probability the Dem ticket will be Hunter and AOC-
The power couple.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:40 AM (VQ0bX)

375 HEY MOOSE

Shut 'er down

The only cars in the parking lot are the two with "subject to lien-contact Sherriff" stickers

Posted by: Miklos throws in the bar towel at September 12, 2026 01:45 AM (4RYRd)

376 >>High probability the Dem ticket will be Hunter and AOC
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Damn. I didn't even drink tonight, but that thought makes me want to puke... *runs for restroom*

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 01:48 AM (rdVOm)

377 Figured "hunty" would've OD'd by now.

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 01:50 AM (rdVOm)

378 I have been baking up a storm for tomorrow's little street festival. Cupcakes, cookies and brownies. I'm not used to such a flurry of activity.

Points to empty glass.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 12, 2026 01:51 AM (ibDUx)

379 *Chivas for Debby*

Sorry. Had to step away for a moment...

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 01:53 AM (rdVOm)

380 Hunter can portray a man better than the other Dems
and AOC's got a lock on the crazy's.
How can they lose?


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:53 AM (VQ0bX)

381 Well, I looked up that Schiehallion experiment publius has been talking about. I can barely even conceive of the idea it took to think of thinking that would be a way to determine the mass of the planet.

I do like how the dipshit retarded author of the wikipedia article smugly sneers that Isaac Newton. though he did think of the concept, didn't think it was possible to measure it with the tools at hand. The Funyuns-encrusted wikipedia auteur larfs that it was totally do-able with the technology of Newton's time, what a stupid stupid!

Go invent calculus before you type, write, or even think anything again, you stupid smug zero-IQ wiki retard.

Posted by: far cry at September 12, 2026 01:56 AM (wBRco)

382 One of those cars in the lot has a FREE MIKLOS sticker on it too, don't tow that one.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 12, 2026 01:56 AM (ibDUx)

383 >>How can they lose?

In a landslide, hopefully. Buried in mud and rocks...

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 01:57 AM (rdVOm)

384 Welp, it's time to go. Publius and ladies, don't be difficult with Miklos he's had a difficult couple of days with the girls.
Enjoy, g'night.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 02:00 AM (VQ0bX)

385 Night, Braenyard. Sweet dreams

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 02:03 AM (rdVOm)

386 The memecoin faced massive volatility, shedding over 95% of its value shortly after launch.

Usually, when something declines to 1/20th of its initial "value", you say it's fucking destroyed.

If you're in the Blueski media space, you say it's "experiencing volatility".

Imagine the crowing if SPCX was trading at 1/20th of its IPO today. Instead, it's at a tasty margin above. That's the difference between investing in someone who is ferociously intent on making the future happen, and a corrupt brain-dead politician's useless coked-out afterbirth.

Posted by: far cry at September 12, 2026 02:06 AM (wBRco)

387 I watched a lot of 9/11 stuff while I was cooking. It wasn't just the towers that day, it took 25 years, but the city itself has fallen.

Just raising a glass in memory of those souls who died.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 12, 2026 02:07 AM (ibDUx)

388 Just raising a glass in memory of those souls who died.
---------

*pours drink*

*Clinks glass with Debby*

*silent remembrance*

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 02:10 AM (rdVOm)

389 349 I have been looking at some early music videos from the 60s. Not hippy stuff, chicks in white go-go boots doing go-go dancing.

I have to imagine those boots were probably made of New Space Age Vinylite or something, so sweaty.

But the girls do not appear unacceptably over-moist. I'm sure solutions were found and suitable arrangements made.

Posted by: If Miklos had been born when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor at September 12, 2026 01:14 AM (4RYRd)

I think I would have killed to get white go-go boots. They were the height of fashion at the time. Mini skirts and go-go boots. I would have been a legend.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 02:11 AM (Ntshk)

390 Just raising a glass in memory of those souls who died.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 12, 2026 02:07 AM (ibDUx)

I think everyone knows someone. Hurts like hell, all this time later.

My niece's birthday is today. My nephew's birthday is December 7. Kinda gives me mixed messages, y'know?

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 02:12 AM (Ntshk)

391
Sir Isaac MF'n Newton was probably the smartest man who has ever lived. Well, at least that we know about. The other greats were well up there in his six-sigma range, but he was probably -- well, there wasn't anybody smarter. Shakespeare was likely in that range as well, but he put his talents to non-physics uses, of which we should be equally grateful.

Newton, at the age of around 25 figured all this out. He didn't publish Principia until about 20 years later. I mean, just think, you trying to figure out "De Motu Corporum in Gyrum", and you realize the math you have is not adequate, so you have to invent the math to do what you want.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2026 02:14 AM (w6EFb)

392 Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 01:26 AM (vE0+H)

368 Blinky, glad you had a good time at the reunion and everyone kept it level. You picked good friends.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2026 01:30 AM (VQ0bX)
******
Nursing school was a blast & many of us were very close & lost contact from being all over the country, marrying,etc.

I had a wild time but made good grades and somehow lived to be old. Lots of laughter tonight.

Told my former house mates about the first time my dude met my mother. She flew out for our graduation that December.

She stayed in a hotel downtown.

We picked her up for brunch. She met my boyfriend and we were driving on a little tour to see the college where my parent's money went for 2.5yrs.

We turn the corner to the college & in front of a boy's dorm was an anatomically correct & very detailed 10' snow sculpture of an erection.

I caught his eyes in the rearview mirror and had to bite my tongue & he struggled not to lol. It was a time i wanted to roll around laughing hysterically but we kept our cool.

Decades later she said she didn't recall. I don't see how she missed seeing it!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 12, 2026 02:15 AM (hzuYO)

393
Newton's secretary remarked that during that period when Newton was working all this out, he neglected much his sleep, his eating, and his clothing.... He was a totally obsessed with Figuring It Out.

He derived Kepler's Laws. And deduced the mechanism of precession of the equinoxes and the tides, all due to what we now call the tidal field of the Moon and Sun.

He didn't figure out that tidal friction would secularly slow the earth down and throw the Moon into a higher orbit. He used a perfect fluid type of model to deduce the tidal bulges. He did recognize the Moon was tidally locked, and realized the stability of that, though.

All that was just incredible. Einstein said he stood on the shoulders of giants, remarked that Newton was probably the smartest man who every lived, and said he stood on the shoulders of giants. Newton was the biggest giant he stood on.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2026 02:20 AM (w6EFb)

394 Decades later she said she didn't recall. I don't see how she missed seeing it!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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Your mother was a classy southern belle-- even if she *did* notice it then, probably didn't wish to discuss it later.

Ladies did not acknowledge such vulgarity, back in the day...

Once, in my grandmother's kitchen, I burned my finger while removing cookies from the oven. "Shit!" I cried...

Her reply: "Oh, honey. I wouldn't have that in my mouth."

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 02:22 AM (rdVOm)

395
Another famous quote of Newton is "Hypotheses non fingo". That was a mic-drop quote as the kids today say. It is translated as "I feign no hypotheses".

Critics argued his gravity was mystic and occult, some strange instantaneous inverse square force at a distance. Spooky action at a distance, as Einstein later called quantum entanglement."

That's a Feynman-like way of putting it. This works, and is verified by observation and experiment. I don't have a clue why it works, and will not even try. But it works. Shut up and calculate.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2026 02:38 AM (w6EFb)

396
Her reply: "Oh, honey. I wouldn't have that in my mouth."

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 02:22 AM (rdVOm)
*********
My dude & I were mortified. They'd maybe known each other 2hrs & dicey.

"Yes, Mama, this is where I've been going to school! Yes, it is the first time I have seen that, too!"

It was also hilarious at the same time I am surprised I was not making snorting noises from the backseat.

After graduation there was a big dance with a band. She was asked to dance by many men but refused, being there alone & looking grand for being 45yrs old.

Meanwhile, I was dancing and broke a heel. It was icy in the parking lot as we left, and my bf slung me over his shoulder to get to his car. I was talking to her from this position like it was a normal thing (yes, there was a lot of booze).

To make her wonder further, a friend of his, and I don't know who invited him, was in the backseat cussing like a sailor before we dropped him off then her.

Because I would say, "Hey, Mama" to talk to her some of my classmates started calling her Hey Mama and she took that in good humor.

She never asked what on earth went on during those years because I think she was afraid to find out.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 12, 2026 02:41 AM (hzuYO)

397 394 Once, in my grandmother's kitchen, I burned my finger while removing cookies from the oven. "Shit!" I cried...

Her reply: "Oh, honey. I wouldn't have that in my mouth."

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 02:22 AM (rdVOm)

; )

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 02:46 AM (odBC9)

398 Once, in my grandmother's kitchen, I burned my finger while removing cookies from the oven. "Shit!" I cried...
Her reply: "Oh, honey. I wouldn't have that in my mouth."

There are much better things for a woman to have in her mouth.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 12, 2026 02:48 AM (Fv808)

399 Guessed it was around 3am


Had a dream I was dead, and a Angie, really just a person, was telling me what caused it

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2026 02:56 AM (Ia/+0)

400 400

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 02:57 AM (odBC9)

401 Sweet dreams Horde, I am having trouble staying awake.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 12, 2026 03:04 AM (ibDUx)

402
The white delivery van.
The hat on the newspaper boy?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 11, 2026 10:08 PM (qx7Zg)
----
Looks like there is a plastic water bottle under the mailbox.

Everyone knows that should be in the recycling bin!


Grade-school kids with backpacks didn't happen until the '90s.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 03:14 AM (NcvvS)

403 Night, Debby. Have fun tomorrow!

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 03:14 AM (rdVOm)

404 "Surrogate who refused to have abortion asks Supreme Court to intervene over sick newborn"

Headline from the local lefty rag. As if she were responsible for the child's illness, which is congenital, from her DNA donors. As if she were the reason the kid needs surgery, because she didn't MURDER him.

You can't hate the media enough.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 03:17 AM (Ntshk)

405
And it did Einstein to resolve that "spooky action at a distance" question. And it took much more math to be invented/discovered in the meantime. Gauss and Riemann were the big giants he stood on for that.

But gravity does indeed propagate at the speed of light. It just does a much better job of hiding that propagation delay the electromagnetic forces do.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2026 03:21 AM (w6EFb)

406 You can't hate the media enough.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 12, 2026 03:17 AM (Ntshk)

I think of them as being owned and operated by demons. I don't absolve them, far from it, but it conserves my hate supply. They are beneath my contempt.

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2026 03:24 AM (vE0+H)

407 satellite dish on the house

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 12, 2026 03:30 AM (jrgJz)

408 You all are good. I only saw the water bottle and the delivery van. And kind of wondered at the modern-looking backpack.

Posted by: frammish at September 12, 2026 03:42 AM (rcENI)

409 Put that uniform designer out the airlock. Not a single element of it would work in free fall.

Posted by: David Tx John at September 12, 2026 01:06 AM (IvWaO)

It's a Futurama reference. Look up Zapp Brannigan.

Posted by: Sjg at September 12, 2026 03:45 AM (i8HNq)

410 You all are good. I only saw the water bottle and the delivery van. And kind of wondered at the modern-looking backpack.
Posted by: frammish

Paperboy should've been done with his route long before daylight.

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 03:47 AM (rdVOm)

411 publius I heard that the Egyptians got the pyramids level by carving a small groove all the way around the perimeter and filling it with water. Then just make the stone flush with the water. Whoever thought of that was genius. OTOH I guess it works for everyday construction too, so maybe it was a well-known trick.

Posted by: frammish at September 12, 2026 03:47 AM (rcENI)

412 Grade-school kids with backpacks didn't happen until the '90s.
Posted by: Nazdar

Not true

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 12, 2026 03:49 AM (Fv808)

413 Correction: Paperboy should've been done with his route long before the school bus arrived.

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2026 03:50 AM (rdVOm)

414 Never forget to not remember who let it happen because they needed a second pearl harbor before the American people would allow them to attack Iraq instead of afganistan. (penac 199 Just like Netanhayu allowed Oct. 7 hamas attack for his political election.

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at September 12, 2026 03:56 AM (umJvv)

415 >>Grade-school kids with backpacks didn't happen until the '90s.
Posted by: Nazdar

Not true
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 12, 2026 03:49 AM (Fv80

Don't remember seeing them at all until then. Had a little one that I used in college - and it was considered odd.

There was a guy in junior high who carried a briefcase, though.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 03:56 AM (NcvvS)

416 Reading a dumb, massively AI-written article at BBC, and it contains these references, which bring to mind *ding* *ding* *ding* *ding* *ding*:

If you don't have weights, Larsson suggests using a resistance band instead.

Fix one end of the band under a table leg and hold the other end across your wrist so you're experiencing some resistance while carrying out the exercises.

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 03:57 AM (odBC9)

417 Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at September 12, 2026 03:56 AM (umJvv)

Says here you talk like a fag and your shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Sjg at September 12, 2026 03:57 AM (i8HNq)

418 Herodotus passed on a lot of crazy stories. One he said he doubted himself was an Egyptian expedition around Africa. The priests of Egypt told him the explorers set sail down the Red Sea, then one day came back through the Pillars of Hercules. They were gone three years. What made Herodotus so incredulous was they claimed that on the way, the saw the sun on the right (i.e. in the north).

Posted by: frammish at September 12, 2026 03:59 AM (rcENI)

419 Here's a BBC AI-sentence that never saw an editor:

About half of all patients who develop rheumatoid arthritis first feel the effects the disease in their wrist before it progresses to other joints.

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 04:02 AM (odBC9)

420 419 Why AI? Because you have two?

Posted by: frammish at September 12, 2026 04:09 AM (rcENI)

421 I finally looked up how the Greeks calculated the circumference of the Earth. I've always meant to read the details. The Christian school we've sent the two oldest too taught that at the beginning of 9th grade physics. Apparently it was Eratosthenes who worked it out. At Syene at noon on the summer solstice, a stick cast no shadow, and you could even look down a well and see no shadow. But in Alexandria a stick's shadow was 7 degrees (about 1/50 of a circle). He hired professional pacers (what a job!) to measure the distance between the cities: 5,000 stadia. So that is 1/50 of a great circle through the two cities, and the circumference is 50 * 5,000. Amazing! I might need to draw a picture in the morning to really grok the shadow part.

Posted by: frammish at September 12, 2026 04:17 AM (rcENI)

422 https://youtube.com/shorts/txutImXbO9E?si=JmoHD46hg3R9HKTX

Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 12, 2026 04:24 AM (jrgJz)

423 >>Posted by: what the cat drug in at September 12, 2026 04:24 AM (jrgJz)

Nice vid, but please leave the '?si' and everything after it off the URL, or use a shortener like tinyurl.com. For folks reading on their phones that blows the margins.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 04:29 AM (NcvvS)

424 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at September 12, 2026 04:35 AM (odBC9)

425 Pixy's up.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 12, 2026 04:35 AM (NcvvS)

426 Sadly, under those rules, I'd be disenfranchised, while my Progressive husband would have a vote.
I would argue for widows having custody of the family vote, if they fit the net tax requirements.
Income from EARNED Social Security doesn't count as government support.
As many woman COULDN'T have qualified for the draft due to restrictions - pregnancy, minor children, sex, that provision should only be applied going forward.

Posted by: Linda S Fox at September 12, 2026 04:57 AM (7Rs+y)

427 Definitely AI for 1975 pic.

A few driveways the width of sidewalks is the biggest giveaway to me.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2026 05:37 AM (6ydKt)

Omnibus Cafe

horsedrawnbusfromthe1890s.jpg
A horse-drawn bus from the 1890s

BuffaloRon
@BuffaloRon

Jul 14, 2025

There is no way a horse drew this.

its a photograph.

When I read Sherlock Holmes or history books (usually Jack the Ripper books), they refer to this kind of bus, usually calling it an "omnibus." "Omnibus" meaning in Latin, the internet tells me, "for all," in other words public, not private. The word "bus" is just a clipped version of that.

The term originated in Paris, where it began as "voiture omnibus," or "carriage for all" or "public carriage." They lopped off the "voiture." In London, the term was quickly shorted to the modern word "bus," by the 1830s.

But I swear I see "omnibus" when I read a history or period book in the 1890s.

I couldn't visualize what this "omnibus" looked like. I couldn't figure out if it was short-ish like a Wild West coach or long-ish like a modern bus. So, of course, it's short-ish like a Wild West coach. Duh.

Here's one from 1895, packed top to bottom with advertising.

omnibus_london_1895.jpg

More details here, including "buses" packed with people and absolutely jammed with luggage.

German shepherd protects his cat buddy.

Cat sneak-attacks the German shepherd.

Dog is perfectly hidden.

Saving a cat who got stuck in the middle of a highway.

Giant ears like a fuzzy bat.

Kitten practices his pouncing.

If you ever feel like you're being watched, it's probably goats.
People keep brining their dogs to weddings for some reason.

Puppy's first howl.

Pupper's keeping his head on a swivel.

Happy puppy puts on a show for air travelers stuck in delays.

Kind of like "Raygun" the retarded Australian breakdancer except actually awesome.



In case you missed it:


Wacky Races:


Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:20 PM




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1 Nooded, and thanks, Ace!

Posted by: Nazdar at September 11, 2026 07:19 PM (NcvvS)

2 And SPONGE!!

Posted by: Nazdar at September 11, 2026 07:20 PM (NcvvS)

3 Yep, later 19th Century and early 20th Century writings call it an omnibus.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 11, 2026 07:21 PM (NcvvS)

4
Thanks Ace. Very interesting.

Posted by: four seasons at September 11, 2026 07:22 PM (/QHx4)

5 What was the bus fare back then?

Posted by: davidt at September 11, 2026 07:22 PM (Q+gd/)

6 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at September 11, 2026 07:23 PM (hG5L0)

7 Not much ad space on that omnibus.

Barely enough room for one of Sydney Sweeny's tits.

Posted by: davidt at September 11, 2026 07:23 PM (Q+gd/)

8 'Bus' may have been used in the 1830s, but 'omnibus' lasted several decades longer. On the other paw, 'busman's holiday' is late 19th Century, so clearly around by then.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 11, 2026 07:24 PM (NcvvS)

9 Ceylon was such a great name. Some clown decided to rename it to something. You could put a gun to my head and I couldn't tell you what it is now.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 07:24 PM (nL/22)

10 willowed

192 The Houthis have been getting the shit blown out of them all day. Some have the IRGC advisors who are embedded with them.

It was certainly nice of them to all congregate in one spot.

Posted by: JackStraw
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Good tidings

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 07:26 PM (vC80E)

11 That's one way to wash your piglet.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 07:26 PM (viF8m)

12 >>>Cat sneak-attacks the German shepherd.

Dog started it. He was panting his hot, stinky breath all over the innocent kitty.

Posted by: No Name Today at September 11, 2026 07:26 PM (8mulE)

13 I love those Red Bull races!

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 11, 2026 07:26 PM (P8wUf)

14 Oh geez.

Now the women have found out that there is clout to be farmed - once a black man gave them cover - saying Clancy is a murderer. - TGP (some Oprah audience member)

I anticipate a shift, soon.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 07:27 PM (dK+Kv)

15 There is no way a horse drew this.

its a photograph.

_________________________

Ace just ruined my reputation with that unexpected twist. I was standing in line at the grocery check-out reading the Cafe on my phone and it caught me off guard and made me laugh. Exactly at the same time, a woman in front of me accidentally spilled her purse on the floor while bending down for gum. My laugh was misinterpreted, and got the side eye from four people I do not know.

Thanks Ace.

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 07:27 PM (dIske)

16 100%! 100%! 100%!

Houston, we have achieved a 100% week in the Café, thanks to Ace! Praise be to Ace! May he have a wonderful and restful weekend!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 07:28 PM (0sNs1)

17 Omnibus is what Bonnie Blue rides

Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 07:28 PM (88C+u)

18 FUN FACT

The term "coach" for a horse-drawn carriage or more recently a railway car or bus comes from the Hungarian village of Kocs, famous in the 18th and 19th centuries for the quality and craftmanship of vehicles made there.

Posted by: Fun Fact Pal Miklos at September 11, 2026 07:28 PM (4RYRd)

19 Adult pinewood derby. I love it. This would be so much fine.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 11, 2026 07:29 PM (ca8Qt)

20 That German Shepherd that got pounced showed great restraint. He/she looks like a sweetie.

Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 07:30 PM (lJ0H4)

21 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 07:30 PM (Ia/+0)

22 Ceylon was such a great name. Some clown decided to rename it to something. You could put a gun to my head and I couldn't tell you what it is now.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 07:24 PM (nL/22)

Sri Lanka.

Names like that get you colonized again.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:30 PM (uhVAy)

23 That German Shepherd that got pounced showed great restraint. He/she looks like a sweetie.
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 07:30 PM (lJ0H4)

Kittens that age do that to everyone at more or less random. Heads of fluff.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:31 PM (uhVAy)

24 Neat!

Just a bit more from Google Lens:
Two or three horses usually pulled the heavy carriage, and transit companies rotated the animals at stables across the city.

Even so, it still seems cruel.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 07:31 PM (NFX2v)

25 Maybe the horses developed the film

Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 07:32 PM (Ia/+0)

26 However, the next time you fly Coach class, don't blame the Hungarians. Airplanes, Americans did that.

Posted by: Fun Fact Pal Miklos at September 11, 2026 07:32 PM (4RYRd)

27 92 The Houthis have been getting the shit blown out of them all day. Some have the IRGC advisors who are embedded with them.

It was certainly nice of them to all congregate in one spot.

Posted by: JackStraw
---

Good tidings

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 07:26 PM (vC80E)

Yup, there are ways to deal with baddies walking about in the open.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:32 PM (uhVAy)

28 Two or three horses usually pulled the heavy carriage, and transit companies rotated the animals at stables across the city.

Even so, it still seems cruel.
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 07:31 PM (NFX2v)

They aren't that heavy, and not always large. A pair or even one horse carriages were a thing.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:34 PM (uhVAy)

29 People keep brining their dogs to weddings

Delicious!

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at September 11, 2026 07:35 PM (TbWk/)

30 >>Ace just ruined my reputation with that unexpected twist. I was standing in line at the grocery check-out reading the Cafe on my phone and it caught me off guard and made me laugh. Exactly at the same time, a woman in front of me accidentally spilled her purse on the floor while bending down for gum. My laugh was misinterpreted, and got the side eye from four people I do not know.

Now that's funny.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 07:36 PM (viF8m)

31 Wasn't Mr Ed an accomplished painter?

Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 07:36 PM (MWfyi)

32 Sri Lanka.

Names like that get you colonized again.
Posted by: Oldcat

I met the Sri Lankan ambassador to Hungary a few times in the 90s.

Very pleasant, friendly, etc. but boring.

Always had wonderful Diplomat-level tea

And only one topic of conversation

Tea

Posted by: Miklos liked the diplomats from proud booze producing countries better at September 11, 2026 07:37 PM (4RYRd)

33 Ace just ruined my reputation . . . . from four people I do not know.

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 07:27 PM (dIske)

Rub some dirt on it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 07:38 PM (dK+Kv)

34 >> The Houthis have been getting the shit blown out of them all day. Some have the IRGC advisors who are embedded with them.

>It was certainly nice of them to all congregate in one spot.


The Media retards who have been claiming the Houthi Victory all day never even considered that consolidation of forces could be a tactic.


Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 07:38 PM (zRd05)

35 Yup, there are ways to deal with baddies walking about in the open.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:32 PM (uhVAy)

Are the Saudis party to any treaties forbidding the use of chemical or biological weapons? If not, provide them with the means and the supplies, and let them gas the Houthis.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 07:38 PM (1z8ji)

36 I have been getting hammered by automated voice spam on my phone today. I suspect my wife gave out my phone number to some roofer or contracting company while she was at the state fair last week.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 07:38 PM (rbvCR)

37 Thruppence and sixpence every day
Just to drive to my baby
Thruppence and sixpence each day
'Cause I drive my baby every way
Magic bus (magic bus)
Magic bus (magic bus)
Magic bus (whoa)
Magic bus (whoa)
Magic bus..

Posted by: The Who at September 11, 2026 07:38 PM (cCXR+)

38 >>I met the Sri Lankan ambassador to Hungary a few times in the 90s.


I have always been under the impression that having a hungarian woman yell at me would be every bit as attractive as when an italian woman yells at me.

Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 07:39 PM (zRd05)

39 Ceylon was known for Cinnamon?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 07:39 PM (nL/22)

40 Stagecoaches in the US used 4 or 6 horses to handle each stage. If you have to do 15-30 miles at a time, with perhaps 6 passengers & luggage, you needed a lot of (sorry) horsepower.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 11, 2026 07:39 PM (NcvvS)

41 And only one topic of conversation

Tea
Posted by: Miklos liked the diplomats from proud booze producing countries better at September 11, 2026 07:37 PM (4RYRd)

If he spoke of rattan, people would think him Bangladeshi.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 07:40 PM (rbvCR)

42 Ace just ruined my reputation . . . . from four people I do not know.

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 07:27 PM (dIske)

Rub some dirt on it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 07:38 PM

Walk it off.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 07:40 PM (0sNs1)

43 Ceylon was known for Cinnamon?
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 07:39 PM (nL/22)

Possibly but so was Peru

Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 07:41 PM (rbvCR)

44 >>Rub some dirt on it.


I wouldn't do that.

Just slap her ass lightly. But, not too lightly.

Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 07:41 PM (zRd05)

45 I have always been under the impression that having a hungarian woman yell at me would be every bit as attractive as when an italian woman yells at me.
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 07:39 PM

Never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 07:41 PM (0sNs1)

46 >>I met the Sri Lankan ambassador to Hungary a few times in the 90s.

I have always been under the impression that having a hungarian woman yell at me would be every bit as attractive as when an italian woman yells at me.

Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 07:39 PM (zRd05)

Or any Eastern European country, almost.

Kind of makes you want to invade Poland.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 07:42 PM (dK+Kv)

47 >>Ace just ruined my reputation . . . . from four people I do not know.

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 07:27 PM (dIske)

Rub some dirt on it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 07:38 PM

Walk it off.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 07:40 PM (0sNs1)

Slap hot iron on it.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 11, 2026 07:42 PM (NcvvS)

48 "Ceylon was known for Cinnamon?
Posted by: Common Tater"

And that song, "Ceylon Sailor".

Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 07:43 PM (MWfyi)

49
That German Shepherd that got pounced showed great restraint. He/she looks like a sweetie.
Posted by: Tuna
-----
Kittens that age do that to everyone at more or less random. Heads of fluff.
Posted by: Oldcat

Baby kitty is at that awkward stage where it transitions from Smol Kitten -to- Velociraptor. Give it 24 months and it'll transition from Velociraptor -to- Staid Lion.

or as I call it...Nap Waiting. For. A. Lap. To. Happen.

Posted by: BifBewalski at September 11, 2026 07:43 PM (guBc2)

50 If he spoke of rattan, people would think him Bangladeshi.
Posted by: Kindltot

It is such of Most Kindness, all order FOB 120 days of pre-payment

Posted by: The Bangladeshi Embassy at September 11, 2026 07:45 PM (4RYRd)

51

The Houthis have been getting the shit blown out of them all day. Some have the IRGC advisors who are embedded with them.

It was certainly nice of them to all congregate in one spot.

--------

Advisors, huh? Sounds like their advice sucks. Possible source of friction?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 11, 2026 07:47 PM (AnW6a)

52 I have always been under the impression that having a hungarian woman yell at me would be every bit as attractive as when an italian woman yells at me.

Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 07:39 PM (zRd05)

Or any Eastern European country, almost.

Kind of makes you want to invade Poland.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

depends

Posted by: Miklos suggests noting paring knife or larger, so spicy is the paprika at September 11, 2026 07:48 PM (4RYRd)

53 15. Thanks Ace.
Posted by: Orson

Reputation 🤪

Obviously, there were no pop-up ads & that's what counts.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 07:49 PM (NFX2v)

54 >>The Media retards who have been claiming the Houthi Victory all day never even considered that consolidation of forces could be a tactic.

It never ceases to amaze me that assclowns who went to journalism school think they know shit that professionals who do this shit for a living don't.

In a shocking development, the leading sponsor of terror in the world that is currently in a death rattle after having their shit completely pushed in in their home country by trying to bomb international trade in the strait bordering their shit hole country and are searching for some way to inflict pain on their enemy sent some of their precious remaining resources to a partner terrorist organization that tried to fuck up international trade by bombing the narrow strait next to their shit hole country all during the Biden administration.

I mean who could have seen this coming other than the crack journalists of MSNBC?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 07:50 PM (viF8m)

55 The English used to call their omnibuses a charabanc, and charabanc tours to the seaside were common. I have seen that in a couple books but I don't recall where.

There are a couple good youtube video about the history and people restoring old ones.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 11, 2026 07:50 PM (53GQo)

56 "Ceylon, Ceylon away....

Posted by: Miklos sang that to all in a Christopher Cross voice just to piss everybody off (except Yacht-rock g at September 11, 2026 07:52 PM (4RYRd)

57 The juror’s domestic violence charges from 2021 were dismissed after his ex-wife “did not want to testify in the case because she was worried about losing custody of her daughter.”

-
Everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Well, not him but everybody else.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 11, 2026 07:52 PM (ndZc7)

58 12 >>>Cat sneak-attacks the German shepherd.

Dog started it. He was panting his hot, stinky breath all over the innocent kitty.
Posted by: No Name Today at September 11, 2026 07:26 PM (8mulE)

Post-purrtum psychosis. Not guilty.

Posted by: No convictions for pussies at September 11, 2026 07:52 PM (TbWk/)

59 Obviously, there were no pop-up ads & that's what counts.
Posted by: L - No nic

But we like when pops up

Posted by: Thai actual ladies missing the USS Abraham Lincoln already at September 11, 2026 07:53 PM (4RYRd)

60 And that song, "Ceylon Sailor".
Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 07:43 PM

By the World's Greatest Band:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdzC-3UPKbk

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 07:54 PM (0sNs1)

61
*Café door bangs open*

Health Department! Food inspector!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 07:55 PM (eRlcH)

62 The juror’s domestic violence charges from 2021 were dismissed after his ex-wife “did not want to testify in the case because she was worried about losing custody of her daughter.”

-
Everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Well, not him but everybody else.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 11, 2026 07:52 PM (ndZc7)

That tells me that she was the instigator of violence, and did not want that to come out in court.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 07:56 PM (1z8ji)

63 The juror’s domestic violence charges from 2021 were dismissed after his ex-wife “did not want to testify in the case because she was worried about losing custody of her daughter.”

Only way she would lose her daughter in the absence of anything else would be to commit perjury. Hmm .

Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 07:56 PM (KC5Lt)

64 *Café door bangs open*

Health Department! Food inspector!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 07:55 PM

This, *this* is why it's so important to maintain a penguin-free Café environment!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 07:57 PM (0sNs1)

65 "Health Department! Food inspector!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh"

That's not food.

Posted by: A disgruntled patron at September 11, 2026 07:57 PM (MWfyi)

66
Just what I suspected. Sliiiiiime in the ice machine!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 07:58 PM (eRlcH)

67 Just what I suspected. Sliiiiiime in the ice machine!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 07:58 PM (eRlcH)

RIP Marvin

Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 07:59 PM (KC5Lt)

68 Now you know why so many around here take it neat.

Posted by: A disgruntled patron at September 11, 2026 07:59 PM (MWfyi)

69 28. They aren't that heavy, and not always large. A pair or even one horse carriages were a thing.
Posted by: Oldcat

Thanks

In Philly, animal welfare groups got horse drawn commercial rides, noncommercial wagons, sleighs, and sleds banned through a recent ordinance. (It had been a war for years.)

Locally, it appears the Amish use mostly mules in their farm fields, and always horses for their small buggies.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 07:59 PM (NFX2v)

70 There is a presumption of innocence in a court of law.

At least there used to be, before "Cancel Culture" did an end run around such silly notions.

"These are credible accusations from anonymous accusers from 35 years ago! He must step down!"

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 08:00 PM (nL/22)

71 *Café door bangs open*

Health Department! Food inspector!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Your winnings, Sir

Posted by: Miklos' Cafe Americain at September 11, 2026 08:00 PM (4RYRd)

72 "Animal welfare" groups demand scare quotes.

Because often as not, they aren't really all that. Perhaps they mean well, but.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 08:01 PM (nL/22)

73 59. But we like when pops up
Posted by: Thai actual ladies missing the USS Abraham Lincoln

🤨 To the corner with you.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 08:02 PM (NFX2v)

74 FAFO... A drone attacked Israel from Lebanon, from a bunch of bunkers connected by 5.4 KM of tunnels.

Israeli troops went in with TONS of TNT, and blew them all up.... reports are that it measured 4.7 on the Richter scale...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 11, 2026 08:02 PM (mP0Kj)

75 Obviously, there were no pop-up ads & that's what counts.
Posted by: L - No nic
But we like when pops up
Posted by: Thai actual ladies missing the USS Abraham Lincoln already at September 11, 2026 07:53 PM (4RYRd)

We like to hop. We like to hop on top of Pop. STOP! You must not hop on Pop.

Posted by: Dr. Seuss, philanderer at September 11, 2026 08:02 PM (cCXR+)

76 I'm pretty sure that dancer has a different skeletal structure than the rest of us.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 11, 2026 08:02 PM (Ys5TR)

77 Those guys in the mini crashmobiles...there must be a $50.00 limit on build cost. Anyone knowthe rules? I'm also reminded that on the ONT we were discussing CG vs stability issues.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 08:02 PM (XeU6L)

78 Star Trek is on its the one with Space Caeser.

Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 08:02 PM (MWfyi)

79 Ceylon was known for Cinnamon?
Posted by: Common Tater

Also tea.

Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 08:04 PM (lJ0H4)

80 61
*Café door bangs open*

Health Department! Food inspector!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 07:55 PM (eRlcH)

/Points to the barrel..

Feel free to check that out... if you brought yer hazmat suit.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 11, 2026 08:04 PM (mP0Kj)

81 Animal welfare" groups demand scare quotes.

Because often as not, they aren't really all that. Perhaps they mean well, but.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 08:01 PM (nL/22)

PETA puts more dogs and cats to death than all Korean and Chinese restaurants combined.

Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 08:04 PM (KC5Lt)

82 Thanks, and have a nice weekend, ace.

-----
Rosh Hashanah 2026 begins at sundown on Friday, September 11, and ends at nightfall on Sunday, September 13, 2026.

Happy New Year!

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 08:04 PM (NFX2v)

83 In Philly, animal welfare groups got horse drawn commercial rides, noncommercial wagons, sleighs, and sleds banned through a recent ordinance. (It had been a war for years.)

Locally, it appears the Amish use mostly mules in their farm fields, and always horses for their small buggies.
Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 07:59 PM (NFX2v)

Maybe alligators could be trained to pull carriages.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 08:05 PM (1z8ji)

84 79 Ceylon was known for Cinnamon?
Posted by: Common Tater

Also tea.
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 08:04 PM (lJ0H4)

Nah, famous for Big Robot looking dudes with weird voices!

Just can't figure out where they keep their BaseStars.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 11, 2026 08:05 PM (mP0Kj)

85 "These are credible accusations from anonymous accusers from 35 years ago! He must step down!"
Posted by: Common Tater
-------

Believe them!

Posted by: Christine Blasey Ford at September 11, 2026 08:05 PM (XeU6L)

86 I am officially calling that line of diving piglets the "Pork Chop Drop."

Posted by: tankdemon at September 11, 2026 08:05 PM (Ys5TR)

87 We like to hop. We like to hop on top of Pop. STOP! You must not hop on Pop.
Posted by: Dr. Seuss, philanderer

This has an element of Truthiness

Posted by: Theodore Geisel as a Geezer at September 11, 2026 08:06 PM (4RYRd)

88 This was a very good cafe this evening
Thank you, ace.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 11, 2026 08:06 PM (Ys5TR)

89 That's some gorgeous coachwerks.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 11, 2026 08:06 PM (2GVsD)

90 Those guys in the mini crashmobiles...there must be a $50.00 limit on build cost. Anyone knowthe rules? I'm also reminded that on the ONT we were discussing CG vs stability issues.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

I know what Horry County requires for golf carts.

Posted by: Here Endeth the Knowledge of Miklos at September 11, 2026 08:07 PM (4RYRd)

91 Cylons never drink tea, it promotes rust.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 11, 2026 08:07 PM (2GVsD)

92 Maybe alligators could be trained to pull carriages.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
------

What? You're from Canada.

https://permies.com/t/2829/a/752/moose.jpg

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 08:09 PM (XeU6L)

93 It pains me to admit garrett was right about this but 1974 was awesome.

Something about the sound. I wonder what it could be.

https://tinyurl.com/3jy4z2fw

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 08:09 PM (viF8m)

94 Pahlavi has called for people that have cars about to run out of gas to block all the major roadways in the cities. The gas stations have no fuel.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 11, 2026 08:10 PM (E0Et6)

95 Ceylon was known for Cinnamon?
Posted by: Common Tater

Also tea.
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 08:04 PM (lJ0H4)

Nah, famous for Big Robot looking dudes with weird voices!

Just can't figure out where they keep their BaseStars.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 11, 2026 08:05 PM (mP0Kj)

It's where you go to Ceylon Chaney Junior dancing with the Queen.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 08:10 PM (1z8ji)

96 "Cylons never drink tea, it promotes rust.
Posted by: Anna Puma"

They huff WD-40.

Posted by: Twiki at September 11, 2026 08:11 PM (MWfyi)

97 An omnibus or two appears in The Man Who Was Thursday.

Posted by: mea culpa at September 11, 2026 08:12 PM (iN6fC)

98 Pahlavi has called for people that have cars about to run out of gas to block all the major roadways in the cities. The gas stations have no fuel.
Posted by: Ben Had

A million drivers say-

Iran out of gas!

Posted by: Miklos some decent former Iranians at September 11, 2026 08:12 PM (4RYRd)

99 Non practicing white.

Right. To quote JohnE: 'what a stupid time to be alive.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 08:14 PM (zZu0s)

100 TIL that the term “non-practicing white” is the new, get out of racism-jail free card.

Truly, we live in a time of miracles and wonder.

Posted by: EFG at September 11, 2026 08:14 PM (6zIXI)

101 A two hour soak is perfect, you don't want to serve tough dog at a wedding.

Posted by: mea culpa at September 11, 2026 08:14 PM (iN6fC)

102 New Woke 2.0 term dropped: a white Karen posted a video today talking about the hero black Clancy juror in which they referred to themself as a "non-practicing white". I am not making this up.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 08:15 PM (xlvhb)

103 Hello, everyone!

Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 08:16 PM (ZdaMQ)

104 There's a warm omnibus in my pants!

Posted by: Scranton's Finest at September 11, 2026 08:16 PM (Fn+3X)

105 Someone should ask all these white jury AWFLs,

"Why are you trying to oppress a black man?"

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 11, 2026 08:17 PM (2GVsD)

106 Four US Presidents rode in Studebaker Coaches.

Posted by: Since 1852 at September 11, 2026 08:18 PM (Fn+3X)

107 An omnibus or two appears in The Man Who Was Thursday.
Posted by: mea culpa at September 11, 2026 08:12 PM (iN6fC)

Omnibuses were futuristic, but Penthousebuses had boobies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 08:18 PM (1z8ji)

108 Non-practicing white = race traitor.

She wins a Winne Mandela Tyre Necklace.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 11, 2026 08:18 PM (2GVsD)

109 Someone should ask all these white jury AWFLs,

"Why are you trying to oppress a black man?"

They're the same people who think blacks are too dumb to get a driver's license or state ID, after all.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 08:19 PM (xlvhb)

110
It would appear that being picked for a jury in a prominent trial now opens you up to have all the skeletons in your closet discovered.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 08:20 PM (eRlcH)

111 Pretty cool if that one black juror is also moslem

Posted by: Miklos would say that and sue at September 11, 2026 08:21 PM (4RYRd)

112 *Café door bangs open*

Health Department! Food inspector!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 07:55 PM (eRlcH)

Wait. We can get food here?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 08:22 PM (dK+Kv)

113 Driving in Baltimore is very akin to the Wacky Races above.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 11, 2026 08:22 PM (m4Pfq)

114 It would appear that being picked for a jury in a prominent trial now opens you up to have all the skeletons in your closet discovered.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Fall season discounts available!

*Halloween is fully booked*

Posted by: Crazy Miklos' Tzampotli Family Fun Park and Elvis-themed Wedding Chapel and Tiki Lounge at September 11, 2026 08:23 PM (4RYRd)

115
Wait. We can get food here?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 08:22 PM (dK+Kv)

___________

We're pulling the liquor license.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 08:24 PM (eRlcH)

116 113 Driving in Baltimore is very akin to the Wacky Races above.
Posted by: Tonypete

Philadelphia is better?

Posted by: Staying Home at September 11, 2026 08:25 PM (Fn+3X)

117
AI just told me my spatial reasoning and intuition was "most impressive" for a human.

So, there.

Of course, I think it may be trying to lull me into a false sense of security before it Kills All Humans.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 08:25 PM (w6EFb)

118 83:
Locally, it appears the Amish use mostly mules in their farm fields, and always horses for their small buggies.
Posted by: L - No nic..


My sister owns a farm in Western PA. The local Amish do the actual farming though, they just lease the field from my sister, more or less. Anyway, they use horses in the fields. Really big horses. I've never seen mules.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 08:25 PM (G1ktt)

119 By the way, there is another tragedy that happened on this day, often forgotten. The horror of Hillary Clinton vs the Bollard, collapsing and being hurled into a van then showing up with perfectly coiffed hair and makeup half an hour later to greet a stunt child with the press carefully isolated across the street.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 08:26 PM (K32Fz)

120 Locally, it appears the Amish use mostly mules in their farm fields, and always horses for their small buggies.
Posted by: L - No nic.

And carbide tacked to the rims for added grip. Of course it tears up the roadways but what the hell.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 11, 2026 08:26 PM (m4Pfq)

121 A "jury of your peers" was written when most people in this country were sane, Christian and white. Nowadays, a "jury of your peers" can be loaded with freakzoids from all over the fruited plain, penis hating women, Jugdish from India and Mohammed from Bangladesh and one or two sexually disordered sodomites just for good measure and maybe a Furry.

Kinda like the bar in Star Wars.

Posted by: Judge Roy Bean at September 11, 2026 08:27 PM (cCXR+)

122 It would appear that being picked for a jury in a prominent trial now opens you up to have all the skeletons in your closet discovered.

Pour encourager les autres. If they can make voting against the left's chosen ideas so intimidating, they can even control jury trials.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 08:27 PM (K32Fz)

123
The horror of Hillary Clinton vs the Bollard, collapsing and being hurled into a van

__________

Like a sack of manure.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 08:27 PM (eRlcH)

124 It pains me to admit garrett was right about this but 1974 was awesome.

Something about the sound. I wonder what it could be.

https://tinyurl.com/3jy4z2fw

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 08:09 PM (viF8m)

Smells like hippie.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 08:27 PM (dK+Kv)

125

How do you get to Whitestown?

Practice Practice Practice

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 08:27 PM (Cqx++)

126 Wait. We can get food here?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 08:22 PM (dK+Kv)

___________

We're pulling the liquor license.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 08:24 PM (eRlcH)

Get the tar and feathers!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 08:28 PM (dK+Kv)

127 fap

>>@nypost

>>Ilhan Omar 'married her brother' and could be deported: DHS sec

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 08:29 PM (viF8m)

128 Driving in Baltimore is very akin to the Wacky Races above.
Posted by: Tonypete

I remember South Carey Street

S. Carey on the street signs

So Scary Street, and it was.

But did it because there was a great Irish bar called the Gandy Dancer

Posted by: Miklos was crazy enough to live in Bawlamer for a while (free rent) at September 11, 2026 08:29 PM (4RYRd)

129 In 1900, there was 2.5 to 3 million pounds of horseshit dumped the streets of NYC every day from 100,000 to 150,000 working horses per day.

Posted by: Watch Your Step at September 11, 2026 08:29 PM (Fn+3X)

130 112 Wait. We can get food here?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 08:22 PM (dK+Kv)

You know the rumors about all the stray cats disappearing once a Chinese restaurant moves into the neighborhood?

Well, I have't seen too many hobos around since the Cafe opened for business.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 11, 2026 08:29 PM (Ys5TR)

131 By the way, there is another tragedy that happened on this day, often forgotten. The horror of Hillary Clinton vs the Bollard, collapsing and being hurled into a van then showing up with perfectly coiffed hair and makeup half an hour later to greet a stunt child with the press carefully isolated across the street.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 08:26 PM (K32Fz)

Yeah, I posted that earlier. Whatever Trump's faults, he did us a solid here.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 08:29 PM (dK+Kv)

132 By the way, there is another tragedy that happened on this day, often forgotten. The horror of Hillary Clinton vs the Bollard, collapsing and being hurled into a van then showing up with perfectly coiffed hair and makeup half an hour later to greet a stunt child with the press carefully isolated across the street.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 08:26 PM (K32Fz)

A 24 minute version of the flu. Four years later this was a jailable offense.

Posted by: Robert at September 11, 2026 08:31 PM (dpXJq)

133 Ben Had,
Pahlavi is the Shah-in-waiting, yes?

Posted by: Wenda at September 11, 2026 08:31 PM (uSgX5)

134 New Woke 2.0 term dropped: a white Karen posted a video today talking about the hero black Clancy juror in which they referred to themself as a "non-practicing white". I am not making this up.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 08:15 PM (xlvhb)

A/K/A Lazy, layabout, no-load. Probably proudly dumb as a stump, too.

Congratulations. You zeroed out your value to society for internet cred.

Dumbass.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 08:32 PM (dK+Kv)

135 I need to show up in the jury pool as a furry. "He's guilty nyah!!"

Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 08:32 PM (88C+u)

136 We'll never be privy to what happened to Hillary that day. Something happened. Something bad enough that they had to throw her in the Va k if an SUV like a sack of vegetative potatoes.

Posted by: Robert at September 11, 2026 08:33 PM (dpXJq)

137 Haven't driven through Baltimore in a long time but best if you do go around 5am

Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 08:33 PM (Ia/+0)

138 Before they pilled that with Hills, I always thought the "they have body doubles" thing was paranoid but... there's no way that was her. And Biden definitely had several, they even freaking LOOKED different.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 08:33 PM (K32Fz)

139 As the saying goes, if you're innocent ask for a bench trial, if you're guilty demand a jury trial

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 08:36 PM (wwYkK)

140 Ceylon cinnamon is true cinnamon, Cinnamomum verum, which is sweet with a bit of heat. Most cinnamon comes from cassia trees which has mostly heat for flavor.
You knew the Houthi would get involved at some point. How would they get supplied and why would Yemen protect them? It would work as a diversion or one bridge too far but if KSA, Israel and the US are serious, they would get crushed.

Posted by: Accomack at September 11, 2026 08:36 PM (GbONR)

141 If this juror is murdered, we need to retaliate directly against Clancy, against the defense attorney, against the other jurors, against the media who doxxed him, and against Clancy's online supporters.

Or we can say, "Kids these days" and let evil win.

I know which I'm picking.

Posted by: Ken at September 11, 2026 08:37 PM (aVf49)

142
"I Was Hillary's Injection Aide"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 08:37 PM (eRlcH)

143 Haven't driven through Baltimore in a long time but best if you do go around 5am
Posted by: Skip

Or any month with a 5 in it

Posted by: AARP insured Aunt Miklos at September 11, 2026 08:37 PM (4RYRd)

144 Before they pilled that with Hills, I always thought the "they have body doubles" thing was paranoid but... there's no way that was her. And Biden definitely had several, they even freaking LOOKED different.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 08:33 PM (K32Fz)

There are some neurodegenerative diseases that are treated with infusions (treatments vary as the disease varies), that make the patient almost instantly better than a complete soup sandwich.

Our tile guy had an issue with something of the sort, and it was night and day the difference.

I suspect she had something like that, and they had not gotten the thing under control or got the infusion dialed in, which, first, made her avoid campaigning, but then resulted in the bollard fight for survival, followed by the 24 minute recovery.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 08:38 PM (dK+Kv)

145 Speaking of alcohol, having a nice bourbon with a dish of sour patch gummies.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 11, 2026 08:38 PM (XV/Pl)

146 >>Smells like hippie.

I noticed there was never any weed or booze at Rush concerts.

Just ask Geddy Lee.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 08:39 PM (viF8m)

147 Could be deported? Should be, fuck head.

Posted by: Accomack at September 11, 2026 08:39 PM (T8bqm)

148 "I Was Hillary's Injection Aide"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Who was the mysterious large black fellow by Hellary's side? Secret Service, maybe? Dunno.

Posted by: I Don't Envy Him at September 11, 2026 08:40 PM (Fn+3X)

149 Cleanup at aVf49?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 08:40 PM (dK+Kv)

150 102:

Fun scientific fact: that online Karen has an odd condition in which her continued ability to breathe depends on not getting a lead slug ripping through her head at one third of a mile per second.

Posted by: Ken at September 11, 2026 08:40 PM (aVf49)

151 Pour encourager les autres. If they can make voting against the left's chosen ideas so intimidating, they can even control jury trials.

I think if I'm ever called for jury duty again I will tell the judge that I can not promise to render a fair verdict because I'm afraid of my fellow jurors. Judges didn't necessarily create this problem but they have to be the ones to fix it by cracking down hard on people like Clancy's lawyer and jury foreman.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 11, 2026 08:41 PM (vTZFs)

152 Like a sack of manure.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

The sack of shit has more of a moral compass, smells better, and has better taste in clothing than that Beyotch.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 11, 2026 08:41 PM (m4Pfq)

153 151: if I go I will taunt the other jurors and tell them to do something about it.

Posted by: Ken at September 11, 2026 08:43 PM (aVf49)

154 I am having bad and difficult thoughts about 9/11, which I very clearly remember

"We are all New Yorkers now"

It was true and sincere

As Americans, including my fellow flyover rednecks

But

Is New York American any more?

Why did we care, and readily go fight?

Somebody has gone wrong, and it ain't us

Posted by: Suddenly solemn Miklos at September 11, 2026 08:47 PM (4RYRd)

155 A trip from Paddington to Bank, the full 1829 route, would’ve cost you one shilling (= 1 / 20th of a pound sterling) or about 4£ in modern currency.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 11, 2026 08:48 PM (TlKpx)

156 I didn’t have Muslim NYC Mayor at 25th 9/11 anniversary on my Bingo card.

Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 08:49 PM (KC5Lt)

157 followed by the 24 minute recovery

And her hair magically became perfectly coiffed with flawless makeup and clothing because of this magic shot?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 08:50 PM (K32Fz)

158 >>I noticed there was never any weed or booze at Rush concerts.


Obviously, you weren't sitting in my section.

Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 08:50 PM (zRd05)

159
"We are all New Yorkers now"
It was true and sincere
As Americans, including my fellow flyover rednecks

We collected money and sent them firetrucks.
They spat upon us and said they didn't like the color.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 08:51 PM (Cqx++)

160 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 08:32 PM (dK+Kv)

******

The ironic thing is… you can drop that card on the bar to impress your friends… no harm, no foul and all around will think highly of you.

But… If you pull that card out when you actually need it to save your ass…all that will matter is that you are *white*.

Kinda like how some of those secular Jews in Nazi Germany tried to save themselves when the Gestapo came ‘a calling…. “Hey, you don’t want me! I’m a patriotic non-practicing Jew…”

“Sorry, it’s not the whole ‘practicing/non-practicing’ thing, it’s the Jude/Jüdin thing. Get on the train.”

Posted by: EFG at September 11, 2026 08:52 PM (kUgMs)

161 A "jury of your peers" was written when most people in this country were sane, Christian and white. Nowadays, a "jury of your peers" can be loaded with freakzoids from all over the fruited plain, penis hating women, Jugdish from India and Mohammed from Bangladesh and one or two sexually disordered sodomites just for good measure and maybe a Furry.

Kinda like the bar in Star Wars.

Posted by: Judge Roy Bean at September 11, 2026 08:27 PM (cCXR+)
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And just like the Mos Eisley Cantina, the Furry has a death sentence in twelve countries...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 08:53 PM (FZ29D)

162 Nice omnibus. I wonder how many people on the upper level got hurled to their death when the horse had a tantrum.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 11, 2026 08:54 PM (S41Gd)

163 >>I think if I'm ever called for jury duty again I will tell the judge that I can not promise to render a fair verdict because I'm afraid of my fellow jurors. Judges didn't necessarily create this problem but they have to be the ones to fix it by cracking down hard on people like Clancy's lawyer and jury foreman.

I've told this before but my favorite jury experience was on a federal trial in Providence. For the voir dire one guy showed up looking like he came off a 3 day bender dressed in a wife beater, camo shorts and Doc Martins. Don't remember his first name but his last name was Cash.

Right out of the gate during his questioning he was belligerent said he hated cops because they raided his apartment when he was having a party looking for drugs. Said he named his daughter Stolen and his son Cold, Stolen and Cold Cash. And it went downhill from there.

I have no idea if anything he said was true but he had all of us waiting to be questioned laughing our asses off. He got dismissed in a heartbeat. He was either one twisted dude or an evil genius.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 08:54 PM (viF8m)

164 In 1900, there was 2.5 to 3 million pounds of horseshit dumped the streets of NYC every day from 100,000 to 150,000 working horses per day.
Posted by: Watch Your Step at September 11, 2026 08:29 PM (Fn+3X)

Think of all the jobs that provided for street sweepers!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 11, 2026 08:54 PM (TlKpx)

165 A trip from Paddington to Bank, the full 1829 route, would’ve cost you one shilling (= 1 / 20th of a pound sterling) or about 4£ in modern currency.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 11, 2026 08:48 PM (TlKpx)
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Old school British currency requires advanced degrees in mathematics...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 08:55 PM (FZ29D)

166
No more soloists singing the National Anthem or God Bless America. I'm sick of hearing them being used as vehicles as a vehicle for someone's "creative" interpretation.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 08:56 PM (eRlcH)

167 Yikes! Some kid (football player) is being carried out on a stretcher at the BC/Rutgers game on ESPN. Missed exactly what happened. Doesn't look good.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 08:56 PM (G1ktt)

168 Is New York American any more?

Why did we care, and readily go fight?

Somebody has gone wrong, and it ain't us

Posted by: Suddenly solemn Miklos at September 11, 2026 08:47 PM (4RYRd)

its a reverse cursed earth from the original judge Dredd movie. Instead of the hellscape being outside the city its pretty much inside and the normal life is outside.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 11, 2026 08:57 PM (S41Gd)

169 Johnny B. Good
@Cat5SMASHICANE

God, I love watching these people do this. They have to know that the odds are they will be eating pavement or hey. I'm guessing that they're mixing something with that Red Bull so that they don't care or feel the impact.
=====

ADHD plus massive amounts of caffeine and creatine

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 08:57 PM (RIvkX)

170 (viF8m)

164 In 1900, there was 2.5 to 3 million pounds of horseshit dumped the streets of NYC every day from 100,000 to 150,000 working horses per day.
Posted by: Watch Your Step at September 11, 2026 08:29 PM (Fn+3X)

Think of all the jobs that provided for street sweepers!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

A buffet!

Posted by: Philly Eagle fans at September 11, 2026 08:57 PM (ydoWy)

171 Nice omnibus. I wonder how many people on the upper level got hurled to their death when the horse had a tantrum.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 11, 2026 08:54 PM (S41Gd)

Or got lost, because the upper deck had no driver.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 08:57 PM (1z8ji)

172 Old school British currency requires advanced degrees in mathematics...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 08:55 PM (FZ29D)
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'Yeah. What's a "quid?"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 08:58 PM (RIvkX)

173 >>Obviously, you weren't sitting in my section.

You would have noticed me. I was the hippie sitting among all you Fortune 500 types.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 08:59 PM (viF8m)

174 'Yeah. What's a "quid?"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 08:58 PM (RIvkX)

All together now:

Twenty dollars, same as in town.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 09:00 PM (1z8ji)

175 Kinda like how some of those secular Jews in Nazi Germany tried to save themselves when the Gestapo came ‘a calling…. “Hey, you don’t want me! I’m a patriotic non-practicing Jew…”

“Sorry, it’s not the whole ‘practicing/non-practicing’ thing, it’s the Jude/Jüdin thing. Get on the train.”
Posted by: EFG at September 11, 2026 08:52 PM (kUgMs)
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Not just secular Jews. Christians and Catholics who had the wrong grandparents.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:01 PM (RIvkX)

176 Quid is a pound.

Posted by: Philly Eagle fans at September 11, 2026 09:01 PM (ydoWy)

177 Twenty five years, and the stench still lingers.

Posted by: The Bollard at September 11, 2026 09:02 PM (Q+gd/)

178 Not just secular Jews. Christians and Catholics who had the wrong grandparents.

Epileptics, Slavs, blacks, Rom... the list was long and inclusive. They took their Eugenics seriously

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 09:03 PM (K32Fz)

179 they even freaking LOOKED different.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 08:33 PM (K32Fz

I have been solemnly told that it is not unusual for an 80 year old man to temporarily grow five inches, anyway I was paranoid to not recognize a trick of perspective due to a telephoto lens

Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 09:04 PM (rbvCR)

180 Is New York American any more?

Why did we care, and readily go fight?

Somebody has gone wrong, and it ain't us
Posted by: Suddenly solemn Miklos at September 11, 2026 08:47 PM (4RYRd)
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Nate Friedman just posted a great video about NY.

All the traffic brownies are Pakis and Bengalis who will ticket all the double-parked cars except the cabs driven by Pakis and Bengalis.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:04 PM (RIvkX)

181 Not just secular Jews. Christians and Catholics who had the wrong grandparents.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:01 PM (RIvkX)

Useless eaters = the disabled, communists, patriotic Poles, anyone who opposed the Nazi state including people who sheltered anyone else, the list goes on. You just had to oppose them or be a scapegoat. Romani were scapegoats as well as Jews.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 11, 2026 09:06 PM (TlKpx)

182 58 12 >>>Cat sneak-attacks the German shepherd.

Dog started it. He was panting his hot, stinky breath all over the innocent kitty.
Posted by: No Name Today at September 11, 2026 07:26 PM (8mulE)

Post-purrtum psychosis. Not guilty.
Posted by: No convictions for pussies


Omg. Comment of the werk.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 11, 2026 09:06 PM (K639x)

183 Article at Doug Ross journal, After Pearl Harbor lots of thos rd in charge got sacked, 9/11 those in charge stayed, got praised and collected.

Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 09:07 PM (Ia/+0)

184 Epileptics, Slavs, blacks, Rom... the list was long and inclusive. They took their Eugenics seriously
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 09:03 PM (K32Fz)
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Also Jehovah's Witnesses.

I mention them only because I despise them so much every comment about them I make is nasty.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:07 PM (RIvkX)

185 Also Jehovah's Witnesses.

I mention them only because I despise them so much every comment about them I make is nasty.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:07 PM (RIvkX)

The only ones I have known were two girls in elementary school. They were lovely. But it was elementary school. What's the beef?

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 11, 2026 09:11 PM (ca8Qt)

186
My mind is blown by the Schiehallion experiment, done in Scotland in 1774. This was how they "weighed the Erf". The precision which they achieved 252 years ago was amazing. Amazing what those hated Dead White Men of Western persuasion could do.

To weigh the earth, they needed to measure the tiny vertical deflection of a plumb bob due the mass of a lone mountain, Mt. Scheihallion. Doing this is not easy. You need to know the true normal to the surface, not just what a plumb bob tells you. You're trying to measure the error in the plumb bob from this true normal.

ANd, in 1774, mind you, they had to know the earth was an oblate ellipsoid, not a true sphere.

And, as a side effect, they invented the notion of contour lines in figuring out how to do this. Oh, and they had to measure distances to incredible precision as well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 09:12 PM (w6EFb)

187 Heh. I halfway expected Dick Dastardly and his sidekick Muttley to show up in the pavement eating classic.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at September 11, 2026 09:14 PM (iIyc0)

188 >>ANd, in 1774, mind you, they had to know the earth was an oblate ellipsoid, not a true sphere.

Well, duh?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 09:14 PM (viF8m)

189
Heh. I halfway expected Dick Dastardly and his sidekick Muttley to show up in the pavement eating classic.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy

I was waiting for the cave men.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 09:14 PM (Cqx++)

190
Isaac Newton, in Principia, deduced the earth must be oblate due to rotation.

Now, the stupid French, based on Descartes and the Cassini's, and this stupid vortex theory of planetary motion, thought the Erf had to be prolate.

That was just so French of them. They had settled that a few decades earlier. Newton (pbuh) was correct. Of course.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 09:15 PM (w6EFb)

191

Prolate is a combination medicine used to relieve moderate to severe pain.

Prolate contains an opioide medicine and may be habit-forming.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 09:18 PM (Cqx++)

192 And, as a side effect, they invented the notion of contour lines in figuring out how to do this. Oh, and they had to measure distances to incredible precision as well.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)
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Being Scots they applied their mathematical knowledge of penny pinching to the problem and voilà.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 09:19 PM (VQ0bX)

193 ADHD plus massive amounts of caffeine and creatine
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 08:57 PM (RIvkX)

Creatine doesn't make you amped, it just makes you burn energy more efficiently. It also has been shown to some good for older heart patients with stiffened arteries and atherosclerosis.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 09:19 PM (rbvCR)

194 They aren't that heavy, and not always large. A pair or even one horse carriages were a thing.

Posted by: Oldcat
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Horses in the pic look healthy and stout.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 09:20 PM (VQ0bX)

195 Omg. Comment of the werk.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 11, 2026 09:06 PM (K639x)

I hope Lucy is well.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 09:21 PM (Sco7b)

196 Creatine doesn't make you amped, it just makes you burn energy more efficiently. It also has been shown to some good for older heart patients with stiffened arteries and atherosclerosis.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 09:19 PM (rbvCR)

Bob Dole knows what you need to stiffen up the old artery.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 09:21 PM (1z8ji)

197 Epileptics, Slavs, blacks, Rom... the list was long and inclusive. They took their Eugenics seriously

And in the 1920s and 30s the New York Times ran glowing articles about how eugenics was going to scientifically improve humanity.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 09:21 PM (5hs8R)

198 My beef with the JWs began when they promised the world was coming to an end. Again. Like any garden-variety cult. By all means look them up.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:22 PM (RIvkX)

199
Prolate contains an opioide medicine and may be habit-forming.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr
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Is it as good as percodan?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 09:23 PM (VQ0bX)

200 if I go I will taunt the other jurors and tell them to do something about it.
Posted by: Ken at September 11, 2026 08:43 PM

May we suggest following up with a fart in their general direction?

Posted by: French Castle Guards at September 11, 2026 09:23 PM (0sNs1)

201 Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 09:19 PM (rbvCR)
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Just guessing the "active ingredients" in Red Bull

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:24 PM (RIvkX)

202 Also Jehovah's Witnesses.

I mention them only because I despise them so much every comment about them I make is nasty.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:07 PM (RIvkX)


What's the beef?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 09:24 PM (VQ0bX)

203 Ni better get to bed, don't have to get up early but probably will anyway
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 09:25 PM (Ia/+0)

204 And in the 1920s and 30s the New York Times ran glowing articles about how eugenics was going to scientifically improve humanity.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 09:21 PM (5hs8R)

The State of Oregon has entered the room, but is trying to hide Fairview State Institution for the Feeble-Minded for some reason

Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 09:25 PM (rbvCR)

205 And in the 1920s and 30s the New York Times ran glowing articles about how eugenics was going to scientifically improve humanity.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 09:21 PM (5hs8R)

It was (and remains) a popular notion among the Left. Tommy Douglas, one of the founders of Canada's socialist New Democratic Party wrote his university thesis on the subject. He and Bernie Sanders could be twin sons of different mothers. Dead now, but not dead enough.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 09:25 PM (1z8ji)

206 Just guessing the "active ingredients" in Red Bull
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:24 PM (RIvkX)

I believe it has Taurine.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 09:26 PM (rbvCR)

207 And in the 1920s and 30s the New York Times ran glowing articles about how eugenics was going to scientifically improve humanity.

Yeah those are hard to find these days, even on the internet. They ran a lot of pro-Phrenology stuff too. At the time, Fascism was praised for being so forward-looking and scientific. Academics loved it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 09:27 PM (K32Fz)

208 If a JW knocks on your door, ask them two questions.

1. Do you still talk to your family?
2. Who do you believe will go to heaven?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:27 PM (RIvkX)

209 My bio mom was a JW when she sobered up. She and her husband needed community that would be supportive, and I have to admit the JWs are supportive of their group

Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 09:27 PM (rbvCR)

210 My beef with the JWs began when they promised the world was coming to an end. Again. Like any garden-variety cult. By all means look them up.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:22 PM (RIvkX)

I put them in the "annoying but mostly harmless" category. Most of the harm they do befalls their own children, some of whom die because they are denied proper medical care.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 09:28 PM (1z8ji)

211 198 My beef with the JWs began when they promised the world was coming to an end. Again. Like any garden-variety cult. By all means look them up.

Posted by: San Franpsycho
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It is coming to and end.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5-zuAONrcc



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 09:28 PM (VQ0bX)

212 The JWs like the Scientologists will insist you break ties with family members who leave the cult.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:28 PM (RIvkX)

213 I believe it has Taurine.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 09:26 PM (rbvCR)

And steer-oids!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 09:29 PM (1z8ji)

214 >> My beef with the JWs began when they promised the world was coming to an end. Again. Like any garden-variety cult. By all means look them up.

Every religion looks weird and wrong from the outside. I don't have a beef with any of them as long as they don't bother me or my way of life.

Believe a random starfish is the great oracle of the universe if you want as long as you don't want to force me to agree.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 09:29 PM (viF8m)

215 Had to choose between Dion & the Belmonts or Sinatra w/Basie.
Well, you know...

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 09:29 PM (VQ0bX)

216

It already came to an end.
We are operating Earth 2.0

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 09:33 PM (Cqx++)

217

It already came to an end.
We are operating Earth 2.0

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
---

rimshot

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 09:34 PM (VQ0bX)

218 And, as a side effect, they invented the notion of contour lines in figuring out how to do this. Oh, and they had to measure distances to incredible precision as well.

"Oh sure but could they build a kiln?"
-- Tucker's sh*thead friend

I've been thinking about why that pissed me off so much and I think it's because it's another periodic resurgence of the stupid failed "Back to the Land" movement. Every couple of decades some bored, rich college kids rediscover Thoreau and think they've found Nirvana. I've got my little garden to grow cabbage and tomatoes and I've got my kiln to make ugly pottery to sell to the townies. Who could possibly need more than that? Until they run out of veggies in the winter or electricity to drive their Cybertruck to the farmers' market. Even Thoreau had to borrow his neighbor's ax and then f*cked it up by ruining the handle. But they are incapable of seeing anything beyond their own arms' reach.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 11, 2026 09:35 PM (vTZFs)

219 The JWs like the Scientologists will insist you break ties with family members who leave the cult.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:28 PM (RIvkX)
----
I've watched a couple of videos on YouTube explaining how the JW "religion" works. It's very corporatized. Services are run like company meetings.

Everything comes down from a council of elders (eight of them, I think).

Very cult-like in many aspects.

They like to set up a stand outside the front of the campus library where I used to work (but never worked for), hoping to attract interested college students. To their credit, they aren't pushy or aggressive. They just stand there waiting for students to approach them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 09:36 PM (FZ29D)

220 9/11 wouldn’t happen today. They would choose a football game, probably SEC.

Posted by: Accomack at September 11, 2026 09:38 PM (8jVAy)

221 Kathleen Madigan had a joke.

You know, if I believed that only 144,000 people could get into heaven, I'd be keeping that a pretty big secret.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 09:38 PM (Sco7b)

222 Believe a random starfish is the great oracle of the universe if you want as long as you don't want to force me to agree.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 09:29 PM (viF8m)

Bow down before my chocolate starfish, heathen.

Posted by: Hope Solo at September 11, 2026 09:41 PM (dK+Kv)

223 >> Tucker's sh*thead friend

The stupidity of that just blew my mind. That is known-nothing-ism manifest. And proud of it, arrogant ignorance. The less you know, the more you think you know, which is some Dunning-Kruger adjacent principle.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 09:46 PM (w6EFb)

224 But they are incapable of seeing anything beyond their own arms' reach.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 11, 2026 09:35 PM (vTZFs)

It really depends on the individual and what they see as success as well. Homesteading works best if you have a side income because it is hard to knit your own alternator or hand-craft a mortgage payment.
I do think it comes down to a perception of dignity and self reliance.
I have a joke that if a Mexican buys 8 acres of farm land with a house he puts in a garden, some chickens and a horse or two, because he can show he is a gentleman that way. A redneck buys 8 acres and puts in a garden, some chickens and a couple of steers because he knows he is already a gentleman and wants to feed his family too.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 11, 2026 09:47 PM (rbvCR)

225 208 If a JW knocks on your door, ask them two questions.

1. Do you still talk to your family?
2. Who do you believe will go to heaven?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 09:27 PM (RIvkX)

I always ask them how you know if you are in the 144,000 who get to heaven, and if not, why the hell bother.

That's when they start crab-talking to change the subject.

I also ask Mormon missionaries who Jesus' brother is.

They crab-talk too at that point.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 09:49 PM (SRWHM)

226 That is known-nothing-ism manifest. And proud of it, arrogant ignorance.

Worked out great in Cambodia didn't it?

Posted by: Oddbob at September 11, 2026 09:50 PM (vTZFs)

227 >>Bow down before my chocolate starfish, heathen.

That would be the problem. A pretty large percentage of war and death throughout history has been a fight over religion. Not an opinion, just a fact. We seem to mostly be beyond that now.

Islam isn't a religion. It's a social order of conquest with a religion tacked on. The rest of us get along pretty well these days as long as we stay in our lanes.

I've never met a Jew, a Protestant, a Catholic, a Mormon or even a Jehovahs Witness who didn't just take no for an answer. Still can along with them. muslims not so much.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 09:52 PM (viF8m)

228 I've never met a Jew, a Protestant, a Catholic, a Mormon or even a Jehovahs Witness who didn't just take no for an answer. Still can along with them. muslims not so much.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 09:52 PM (viF8m)

In my experience, Muslims need a "hell no" followed up with a show of force. Even then they won't behave.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 09:55 PM (SRWHM)

229 I read somewhere that the entire concept of a jury of one’s “peers” has been completely changed.

Formerly they wanted people that knew the defendant, or knew about him. “Hell yeah, I think he did it. SOB has always been crazy”

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 09:57 PM (6iQiX)

230 JackStraw, Jews tend not to ask gentiles to convert.
I mean, they've come at me sometimes, but I'm part Jewish by ancestry. Also I'm philosemitic and have Israeli relatives. So.. there's that. John Chang from Szechuan? Probably less of a target.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 09:57 PM (88C+u)

231 ... because it is hard to knit your own alternator or hand-craft a mortgage payment.

I have no quarrel with homesteading or self-sufficiency for those who are able to do so. But it's the sneering at the very people who do things like manufacturing so that you can grow your veggies and enrich the world with your art is what I find beyond the pale.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 11, 2026 09:57 PM (vTZFs)

232 >>In my experience, Muslims need a "hell no" followed up with a show of force. Even then they won't behave.

There's a reason muslims and Nazis were allies.

Neither believes in coexistence or tolerance. They believe in submission or death.

I'm not a fan of either.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 09:59 PM (viF8m)

233 Ont nood

Damn ads

Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 10:03 PM (R0XxO)

Of Course: Garbage Tier Network NBC Is Now Doxxing the Lone "Rogue" Holdout in the Lindsay Clancy Case

The media exists solely for purposes of blackmail and incitement to murder.

Sue O'Connell: COMMENTATOR, not a reporter
@SueOC_NBCBoston

EXCLUSIVE: The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial had a history of domestic violence allegations, the @NBC10Boston

Investigators have learned through court documents and interviews with family members.

Fusilli Spock
@awstar11

It's just a matter of time before this guy is doxed and assaulted, if not murdered. Meanwhile Massachusetts has done nothing to stem the leaks or punish the leakers.

How much do you want to bet the Angry Alpha Karens doxxed his name to NBC?

It could also be the disgusting defense lawyer, who has filed a motion asking the judge to set aside the jury's non-verdict and declare Lindsay Clancy innocent on his own authority. The leak may be part of a public pressure campaign.


AG
@AGHamilton29

I was talking to someone who doesn't follow the news much and she had a convo where 3 mid 30's regular women were telling her about the case and they were all completely convinced that the husband killed the kids despite there being no evidence of that and even Lindsay Clancy's reps aren't claiming that.

It's a serious problem that so much of society now views news as a form of entertainment to the point where reality and facts become optional. They just go with the story they think sounds better to them.

It's why people, for example, listen to Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and others who are consistently saying things that are provably false and insane. Conspiracies are now the norm and regularly people are consistently buying into them without evidence. It's a serious threat to a functioning society.


Plus: an actual Lindsay Clancy Super-Fan has done what the TikTok brained AWFULs told her was every woman's right to do, and hanged her 11th trimester fetus -- also known as a 2-year-old toddler -- and then declared she was temporarily psychotic and would like her book deal and Oprah appearance now.

She's claiming she suffers from "grief psychosis" so I assume a jury made up mostly of Angry Karen Nurses and Teachers with TikTok Brain will acquit her too.


An Illinois mother allegedly hanged her 2-year-old son that she described as the "anti-Christ" -- hours after discussing the Lindsay Clancy case with friends, authorities said.

Corie Walsh, 38, is facing first-degree murder charges after one of her neighbors found Walsh's son, Barrett, hanging from the rafters in the family's basement, FOX 32 reported.

Walsh allegedly told investigators she killed her young son because he's the "anti-Christ" and "devil," according to prosecutors.

Little Barrett was found with his feet off the ground, and a ligature around his neck.

...

Walsh was reportedly found lying in a bathtub, fully clothed and drenched in bloody water.

She was hospitalized after police determined she had attempted to self-harm, according to a court proffer viewed by FOX 32. Her injuries were not considered life-threatening.

Three other children were found unharmed inside the home.

...

Prosecutors say that Walsh was infatuated with the Clancy trial, having texted friends about the case at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, just three hours before Barrett was found dead.

...

At the the time of Barrett's tragic death, the jury was still deliberating Clancy's case, a parallel prosecutors have noted to FOX 32.

...

Walsh's husband was out of town at the time of the alleged murder and flew home Tuesday evening.

Killing the kid, attempting a kinda-fake "self-harm," doing it when the husband is away -- she's following the Lindsay Clancy playbook.

And now her lawyer announces she was just "psychotic" so she gets to kill one kid for free. After all, Lindsay Clancy got to kill three. Fair is fair.

The case -- and the TikTok Chinese op turning women into an unreasoning, hateful, arrogant hivemind -- is splitting men and women like never before.


Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:20 PM




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1 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 06:23 PM (QovLg)

2 Yeah....just run....

Posted by: Will Robinson. at September 11, 2026 06:23 PM (rje/a)

3 Caw caw

Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at September 11, 2026 06:24 PM (TdwZW)

4 Rogue like Juan McCain?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 11, 2026 06:25 PM (q2Q7i)

5
Revealing any identifying information about a juror is illegal, isn't it?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 11, 2026 06:26 PM (AnW6a)

6 This will get interesting when some man who transitioned to a "woman" and adoped a kid, kills the kid, and then claims post partum psychosis.

And then uses the State's actions to make his case (tampons in the men's bathroom).

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 06:26 PM (dIske)

7 Not surprised the Cultural Marxist Propaganda Ministry is going after a holdout of the Cultural Marxist Hero killing her children

Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 06:27 PM (Ia/+0)

8 Apropos:

Season of the Witch:
https://youtu.be/GU35oCHGhJ0

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 11, 2026 06:27 PM (6ydKt)

9 That bruh who held strong inspires me to lift more.

Posted by: Brometheus at September 11, 2026 06:27 PM (DM8vH)

10 ‘ The leak may be part of a public pressure campaign.’

Ah-ha! In the last post, I speculated that the lone juror is totally made up to feed into commie Karen’s fever dreams. Yes, I know there was a lone holdout, but we know nothing about him other that what was told to us by stark raving lunatics.

That lone juror could be anyone.

This is an op. The courts surely know his name and address. I have no doubt someone could have leaked it. But they didn’t. I speculate that’s because he (or she) bears little resemblance to the op.

I could be wrong. We’ll see. But I don’t think I’m wrong.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 11, 2026 06:28 PM (Luoab)

11 Remember when Trump was going to ban ChYnA TikTok?

This thing is a cancer to our culture and the Chinese know it. I dont care who owns it. He should have let the US ban stand.

Posted by: Sharpie at September 11, 2026 06:28 PM (q3RLF)

12 Orson, that is such a scary possibility.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 11, 2026 06:28 PM (E0Et6)

13 How many sick, twisted women are going to kill their kids solely because they think they'll get a huge payday out of it so they can party for the rest of their lives?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 06:28 PM (FZ29D)

14 I follow that priest on Facebook. He's interesting..

Posted by: Iris at September 11, 2026 06:29 PM (286+n)

15 I call BS on the girl saying she's asked her dates about the case and what they told her.

Posted by: Turn 2 at September 11, 2026 06:29 PM (QFchU)

16 Know your place inferior male, and make obeisance to women - your superiors. Bend the knee and supplicate.

Posted by: The pinnacle of creation at September 11, 2026 06:29 PM (TbWk/)

17 Like,like,like,like

We are so fucking boned.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 06:30 PM (QovLg)

18 Weird how efficient they are at ending the lives of their children, but they just can't seem to get the job done when it comes to themselves. I bet that Boston bitch was pissed when she woke up paralyzed.

Posted by: huerfano at September 11, 2026 06:30 PM (2Xqig)

19 The social media sickness would just find another outlet if it is not TikTok.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 11, 2026 06:31 PM (E0Et6)

20 How many sick, twisted women are going to kill their kids solely because they think they'll get a huge payday out of it so they can party for the rest of their lives?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 06:28 PM (FZ29D)

Don't question our superiors.

Posted by: Vagina transcends all, including murder at September 11, 2026 06:31 PM (TbWk/)

21 "Know your place inferior male, and make obeisance to women - your superiors. Bend the knee and supplicate.
Posted by: The pinnacle of creation"

Yeah right. But first...

Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 06:31 PM (MWfyi)

22 I am absolutely bamboozled with this entire thing.

The demons surround us.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 11, 2026 06:31 PM (0aYVJ)

23 Despicable!!
And not just doxxing, but smearing him for past bad behavior. He chose not to speak to the press, one should be able to retain anonymity as a juror, Ffs!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2026 06:32 PM (4KUe5)

24 I've never been happier to be out of the dating pool.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 06:32 PM (viF8m)

25 Protest Erupts Outside GOP Midterm Convention (Dallas, Texas)

Citizen journalist, rightie influencer and all-round cutie-pie Angela Rose is on the scene:

https://tinyurl.com/2ezw78eb

Posted by: Delurker at September 11, 2026 06:32 PM (2Drhq)

26 r/BlackPeopleofReddit

He didn't follow his instructions and refused to acknowledge a suffering mother's mental illness. Why are we rooting fir him because he's Black?

why do yall see this as a good thing? yall are falling for the culture war, hook line and sinker.

i’m a card carrying member of the DSA, and a black woman with bipolar who has experienced psychosis. maybe research what post partum psychosis actually looks like and see if you still agree with this juror.

this from her attorney is definitely a dog whistle, especially since we know that he knows that juror was Black when he made this statement, "Clancy was robbed by this man." And the old white Karen saying he was "very arrogant"? Of course the Black person that you guys can't control is arrogant.

That brotha was probably making his decision based on how the justice system treats us. Other jurors were basing it on how it treats them.

Would a black woman or especially a black man get off with the psychosis excuse? Only a young white, reasonably attractive white women would ever get this amount of attention

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 11, 2026 06:32 PM (t19vo)

27 Msrxism is the Devil's work, against family, God and Country

Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 06:33 PM (Ia/+0)

28 Revealing any identifying information about a juror is illegal, isn't it?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 11, 2026 06:26 PM (AnW6a)

Forget it man, it's Massachusetts-town!

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:33 PM (uhVAy)

29 Clancy had no 'crazy' reason why she killed her kids like the other woman mentioned who did feel like she was doing the right thing . That's what I don't understand about the Clancy trial. She knew killing her kids was wrong and they were innocent.

Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 06:33 PM (KC5Lt)

30 I've never been happier to be out of the dating pool.
Posted by: JackStraw

I'd rather be in jail than in love.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 11, 2026 06:34 PM (l26NL)

31 It is said that the confrontations could be heard in other rooms.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 06:34 PM (vC80E)

32 Wow. Lot of crazy and competing crazy in those reddit comments.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 06:34 PM (zZu0s)

33 Libs upset because the lone juror was a black man. Just how racist is that??? The dude left the Democrat plantation so now he must be excoriated? These people are vile.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 11, 2026 06:35 PM (2WIwB)

34 I call BS on the girl saying she's asked her dates about the case and what they told her.
Posted by: Turn 2 at September 11, 2026 06:29 PM (QFchU)

If the dude is a chad, he was laughing internally as he admits having psychotic family members but gets a second date, then ghosts her.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:35 PM (uhVAy)

35 Illinois murderess is probably going to prison. Illinois has M'Naughten rule that requires the defendant to prove insanity under the clear and convincing standard of proof.

She will be going to prison most likely if she tries to emulate Clancy as you have to admit guilt before being able to mount the insanity offense. Dunno if that is the rule in MA but it is in IL.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 06:36 PM (E4rtv)

36 Libs upset because the lone juror was a black man. Just how racist is that??? The dude left the Democrat plantation so now he must be excoriated? These people are vile.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 11, 2026 06:35 PM (2WIwB)

Well, they always do that so its no shock.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:36 PM (uhVAy)

37 Saw a picture of the 3 children on YouTube, very sad

Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 06:36 PM (Ia/+0)

38 ‘ The case -- and the TikTok Chinese op turning women into an unreasoning, hateful, arrogant hivemind -- is splitting men and women like never before.’

99% fake or staged. You really think that THOTy whore really went on a date and the guy mouthed verbatim Murder Cult talking points that you’d only know if youre following these lunatics? Nah. This is fake.

The “she asked for help” meme is the dumbest shit ever and nobody really believes it. Pure Murder Cult talking point. So if someone ‘asks for help’ (whatever that means), but doesn’t get help sufficiently helpful to satisfy whatever impossible standard of helpfulness these lunatics invent, then you are free to … murder your kids?

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 11, 2026 06:36 PM (Luoab)

39 A Parable.

Me: "Judge, I was psychotic at the time. Voices told me, commanded me, to run that stop sign!"

Judge: "You are fined the maximum, $250. And you are sentenced to 50 years in the county jail for contempt of court! Deputies, get him out of my courtroom!

Me: "But Your Honor, you let the woman tried before me off with no penalty or punishment for the same violation, and she used the same excuse!"

Judge: Now you are sentenced to 100 years in the count jail for contempt of court, white male!!!

Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 06:36 PM (5rh/l)

40 "I'd rather be in jail than in love.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly "

How about a Prisoner Of Love?

Posted by: Leo at September 11, 2026 06:37 PM (MWfyi)

41 Andrea Lyon should pick a hair color and jog a few laps around the track.

Posted by: Chef at September 11, 2026 06:37 PM (TN0g+)

42 We need to legalize the Pooky Option: All child-killers get to be alone in a room with Pooky for however long it took them to kill the child. He would require his trips to Ace's Hardware to be subsidized, but that's a small amount compared to what we spend on housing these monsters.

Posted by: pookysgirl has innovative solutions at September 11, 2026 06:37 PM (Wt5PA)

43 Clancy had no 'crazy' reason why she killed her kids like the other woman mentioned who did feel like she was doing the right thing . That's what I don't understand about the Clancy trial. She knew killing her kids was wrong and they were innocent.
Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 06:33 PM (KC5Lt)

The right thing to get some press you mean. I don't believe she was crazy for a second.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:37 PM (uhVAy)

44 Lots of mentally ill people out there in MeatSpace breeding.

Wonder what's the next Shop Of Horrors to get splashed all over the internet and the media.

Posted by: That's Entertainment! at September 11, 2026 06:37 PM (cCXR+)

45 Hey guys, good news --
I just spent my life savings on a business. Sight unseen, but I feel pretty good about it.

I am now the owner of the largest oyster farm in Eromanga. Wish me luck.

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 11, 2026 06:37 PM (53GQo)

46 Weird how efficient they are at ending the lives of their children, but they just can't seem to get the job done when it comes to themselves. I bet that Boston bitch was pissed when she woke up paralyzed.
Posted by: huerfano at September 11, 2026 06:30 PM (2Xqig)
----
She was probably thinking she'd break a leg or an arm--something that would elicit sympathy, but not permanent maiming.

Just her luck (or karma) that she broke her back instead, leading to permanent paralysis.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 06:37 PM (FZ29D)

47 Ace—
I think you’ve got this one wrong. I watched the whole trial; I came away with the same conclusion as the 11 jurors; and I am no Karen. I am a hardcore anti-woke MAGA conservative and this decision was a no-brainer—Lindsay Clancy was clearly in a mental-health spiral that no one around acknowledged until she snapped.

Food for thought.

Posted by: Carolus at September 11, 2026 06:38 PM (4aEAd)

48 Every man who gets divorced with young children gets accused of domestic violence.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at September 11, 2026 06:38 PM (jYRYu)

49 The media's coddling of the monster jurists has me genuinely wondering where we go from here.

Posted by: Delurker at September 11, 2026 06:38 PM (2Drhq)

50 Saw a picture of the 3 children on YouTube, very sad
Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 06:36 PM (Ia/+0)

I saw a pic as well. Tore me up. Such cute li'l kids. I am heartbroken.

We're surrounded by monsters.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 11, 2026 06:38 PM (0aYVJ)

51 Caught between Tik and Tok.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 06:38 PM (Cqx++)

52 "Allegations".
Senator Harry Reid once upon a time made "allegations" against Mitt Romney. "It worked, didn't it?"

Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 06:38 PM (88C+u)

53 >>>>I'd rather be in jail than in love.

Used to be the biggest concern was something that penicillin might not fix. Now you have to worry about waking up with Glen Close straddling you with a butcher knife in her hand screaming I won't be ignored!

I've had my turn in the circus. I'll just sit here with Elvis and drink rum.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 06:38 PM (viF8m)

54 I can't seem to face up to the facts /
I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax /
I can't sleep 'cause my bed's on fire /
Don't touch me I'm a real live wire

Posted by: Earworm incoming at September 11, 2026 06:39 PM (nHXB4)

55 None of the women close to me have any damn time to follow what some crazy-ass Yankee woman done. But they know.

However, out of my residual sense of self-preservation, I think it Prudent to flee while passions are high. also plausible deniability

I more than suspect that these ladies of my acquaintance are inclined to break into the jail and strangle the MurderMommy with all their bare hands.

Them girls was raised right.

Posted by: Miklos needs even more lawyers guns and money at September 11, 2026 06:39 PM (4RYRd)

56 Forget it man, it's Massachusetts-town!
Posted by: Oldcat

WHO RUN BOSTON TOWN?!?!

Posted by: Massachusetts Karens channeling Master Blaster at September 11, 2026 06:40 PM (t19vo)

57 18 Weird how efficient they are at ending the lives of their children, but they just can't seem to get the job done when it comes to themselves. I bet that Boston bitch was pissed when she woke up paralyzed.

Posted by: huerfano at September 11, 2026 06:30 PM (2Xqig)


Her plan was almost perfect. Almost. She failed to realize she needed to learn how to do a parachute landing fall.

Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 06:41 PM (5rh/l)

58 The dating chick really thinks that the guy was being empathetic towards Clancy. He honey, he was trying to get in your pants.
And by the way, you're an idiot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 06:41 PM (N2HNb)

59 As a lifelong conservative, I'm gonna go ahead and take commenter Carolus with a grain of salt.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 11, 2026 06:41 PM (0aYVJ)

60 29 Clancy had no 'crazy' reason why she killed her kids like the other woman mentioned who did feel like she was doing the right thing . That's what I don't understand about the Clancy trial. She knew killing her kids was wrong and they were innocent.
Posted by: polynikes

Mass apparently has both a different rule than most states on burden of proof. But it also has a two prong test. State has to prove she could control her urges to commit murder AND know was wrong. The control of urges (volition) is the old irresistible urge defense that has been debunked years ago by psychology and expunged from law in most places but still present in a few places like MA (see Anatomy of a Murder which was based on a real trial on how that works. )

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 06:41 PM (E4rtv)

61 She was probably thinking she'd break a leg or an arm--something that would elicit sympathy, but not permanent maiming.

Just her luck (or karma) that she broke her back instead, leading to permanent paralysis.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 06:37 PM (FZ29D)

1) she landed head first.

2) the ground was frozen. Was there snow? She probably figured it'd cushion the fall.

She's evil. And stupid. But mostly evil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 06:41 PM (zZu0s)

62 What's especially nuts is the superior beings insisting "but there's no evidence-uh that Lindsey-uh did it-uh!" Um...aside from the three dead kids, her detailed admission, and concession by the state and the defense that she committed the murders? BUT HER FINGERPRINTS-UH WEREN'T-UH EVEN ON THE KNIFE-UH!!!

Posted by: Laughing at the superior intellect at September 11, 2026 06:41 PM (TbWk/)

63 Posted by: Carolus at September 11, 2026 06:38 PM (4aEAd)

People in mental health spirals are found guilty all the time. They feel terrible so they murder. To be not guilty by reason of mental defect you have to show you did not understand what you were doing is wrong. Just planning the errands for the husband to create opportunity is enough to show she understood what she was doing was wrong.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 11, 2026 06:41 PM (wGerL)

64 "That would be a big impediment for me in a marriage."


Yeah, that and being a Catholic priest.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 11, 2026 06:42 PM (/OKHJ)

65 Lindsay Clancy was clearly in a mental-health spiral that no one around acknowledged until she snapped.
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That's fine--they should have adjourned the trial and buried her behind the courthouse just the same. She killed 3 kids, period.

Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 06:42 PM (TN0g+)

66 I am now the owner of the largest oyster farm in Eromanga. Wish me luck.
Posted by: bob

You know about the hampster situation, right?

Posted by: Miklos thinks Pixy has some 'splainin' to do at September 11, 2026 06:42 PM (4RYRd)

67 What absolute cunt behavior.

This is the living embodiment of feminism -- pure violent irrationality, complete disregard for the law.

I wouldn't want to be a young woman going forward. Men are gonna start putting bounties on them. And the new browner demographics aren't gonna put up with their shit.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 11, 2026 06:42 PM (qwx/I)

68 The media's coddling of the monster jurists has me genuinely wondering where we go from here.
Posted by: Delurker at September 11, 2026 06:38 PM (2Drhq)

Media's dying as fast as we can, man!

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:42 PM (uhVAy)

69 shellshock
@shellshockkk
Eyes

-
I hope that guy was just trying to get laid.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 11, 2026 06:43 PM (ndZc7)

70 what are all trolls?
what do they suck by choice?

Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 06:44 PM (88C+u)

71 That's fine--they should have adjourned the trial and buried her behind the courthouse just the same. She killed 3 kids, period.
Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 06:42 PM (TN0g+)

This is also kind of my point about insanity please in general. Ok, they're crazy. But they still killed three kids. We do not need them here. Shoot, shovel, shut the fuck up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 06:44 PM (zZu0s)

72 I do not want these evil F'ing nuts breathing my air. And her little up speak sealed the deal.. EVIL is abroad and running rampant.

Posted by: Pamazon at September 11, 2026 06:44 PM (b5MGU)

73 We have a generation or two of soft brained adults (chronologically) that have no critical thinking skills; They have been taught to believe that *movies are literature which translates to believing that movies represent reality. We have two generations of Americans who are very loosely tethered to reality.



*how many have or know someone who has done a college level report on a movie for either a lit or history class?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 06:45 PM (vC80E)

74 The right thing to get some press you mean. I don't believe she was crazy for a second.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Given the four separate issues she claims affected her (post partum, medications, etc etc.) as justification require something like a trillion to one as a joint probability, I would agree with you.

She and her ex husband are also engaged in a civil suit with medical providers over her care.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 06:45 PM (E4rtv)

75 what are all trolls?
what do they suck by choice?
Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 06:44 PM (88C+u)

Average Joe.

Cock.

Keeping the lore alive, Boss.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 06:46 PM (zZu0s)

76 >>People in mental health spirals are found guilty all the time.

Case in point, Susan Smith. The southern belle who strapped her kids in a car and sent the car into a lake drowning both of them. She initially blamed an unknown black man cause that's what To Kill a Mockingbird told her to do. Then plead a temporary mental break.

Life in prison.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 06:46 PM (viF8m)

77 I love how they mention Cavernous nostrils and T'qr and not the numerous left wing weirdos who spew even more nonsense conspiracy theories constantly.

Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 06:46 PM (YwEeS)

78 If he's gonna get Doxxed, let's errybody do it right.

Get the Hell's Angels to surround his home for protection, and everyone donate $5 to his Permanent Beer Fund. Let's make these doxxing bastards eat their own shit.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 06:47 PM (nL/22)

79 Case in point, Susan Smith. The southern belle who strapped her kids in a car and sent the car into a lake drowning both of them. She initially blamed an unknown black man cause that's what To Kill a Mockingbird told her to do. Then plead a temporary mental break.

Life in prison.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 06:46 PM (viF8m)

Did he bust up a chifferobe for her?

Posted by: His DNA was on the wood! at September 11, 2026 06:48 PM (TbWk/)

80 The ones who think she did it but is not responsible are bad enough, the true loons are going to get the husband murdered . They insist he somehow drugged her and carried it all out himself.

Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 06:48 PM (YwEeS)

81 What if she strangled three random adults?

Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 06:48 PM (MWfyi)

82 shellshock
@shellshockkk
Eyes

-
I hope that guy was just trying to get laid.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 11, 2026 06:43 PM (ndZc7)

Probably.

1) most decent dudes are out of the game from most reports, which leaves the operator type.

2) what are the odds that your random first date first, has a psychotic relative and second, would tell you if he did?

The 'making it all up' alternative is still a strong one, since this new person basically repeats just what she believes. He has no agency or new angle, he's a sock puppet by her story.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:48 PM (uhVAy)

83 Ace—
I think you’ve got this one wrong. I watched the whole trial; I came away with the same conclusion as the 11 jurors; and I am no Karen. I am a hardcore anti-woke MAGA conservative and this decision was a no-brainer—Lindsay Clancy was clearly in a mental-health spiral that no one around acknowledged until she snapped.

Food for thought.
Posted by: Carolus

She had psychiatrists on speed dial and more drugs than Walgreens.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 11, 2026 06:48 PM (ndZc7)

84 —Lindsay Clancy was clearly in a mental-health spiral that no one around acknowledged until she snapped.

Food for thought.
Posted by: Carolus

I don't completely buy it. I believe she had mental health issues, but she deliberately concealed them, didn't get them treated properly through her deliberately actions, plotted the murder of her children well in advance, and put together a detailed plan to avoid anyone interrupting her in the execution of the killings. That's not a sudden snap, and it's not an irresistible compulsion. The fake suicide attempt was just part of her coverup to gain sympathy and strengthen her pre-determined legal defense, along with her statements immediately after being found (asking for attorney and status of her legs, not of her children). She knew it was wrong, planned it over time, and avoided multiple off ramps for assistance. I don't know if it was some kind of thing to hurt her husband, or some kind of relief from mental issues, but I don't buy it being an irresistible compulsion.

Austin Harrouff in Florida murdering a stranger and eating his face as cops kicked him is a psychosis snap I can believe.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 11, 2026 06:48 PM (t19vo)

85 Like three members of the jury.

Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 06:49 PM (MWfyi)

86 Love Fr. Reehil. Former wall streeter who gave it all up for the calling of Christ. He's an exorcist too.

Posted by: LASue at September 11, 2026 06:49 PM (lCppi)

87 This scrunt has consumed more comment space than major world events.

I wish the bitch ------ until circumstances make her so.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 11, 2026 06:49 PM (E0Et6)

88 White women are going to get every woman stuffed in the body bag.

Posted by: Accomack at September 11, 2026 06:49 PM (8jVAy)

89
In case ya'll missed this....

Trump immigration investigation confirms IIhan Omar did marry her brother. She faces deportation.

Posted by: four seasons at September 11, 2026 06:49 PM (/QHx4)

90 74 The right thing to get some press you mean. I don't believe she was crazy for a second.
Posted by: Oldcat
-------
Given the four separate issues she claims affected her (post partum, medications, etc etc.) as justification require something like a trillion to one as a joint probability, I would agree with you.

She and her ex husband are also engaged in a civil suit with medical providers over her care.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 06:45 PM (E4rtv)


I don't know how she could prove she answered doctors' questions truthfully and fully. But if it will be trial by jury, the malpractice insurance companies will settle out of court. If they are smart, especially after seeing how the jury in her criminal trial behaved.

Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 06:49 PM (5rh/l)

91 You know about the hampster situation, right?
Posted by: Miklos


Oh boy, I get to sell hamsters too!

Posted by: bob (moron inbobnitus) at September 11, 2026 06:49 PM (53GQo)

92 Not surprised the Cultural Marxist Propaganda Ministry is going after a holdout of the Cultural Marxist Hero killing her children
----

What's the difference between a "cultural" Marxist and a Marxist? Aren't they just Marxists?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 06:50 PM (nL/22)

93 Case in point, Susan Smith. The southern belle who strapped her kids in a car and sent the car into a lake drowning both of them. She initially blamed an unknown black man cause that's what To Kill a Mockingbird told her to do. Then plead a temporary mental break.

Life in prison.
Posted by: JackStraw

It was...some Puerto Rican guy.

Posted by: Linda Stotch at September 11, 2026 06:50 PM (t19vo)

94 What if she strangled three random adults?
Posted by: fd

There you go again. Not being able to get over three vicious murders.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 11, 2026 06:50 PM (ndZc7)

95 Them girls was raised right.

Posted by: Miklos needs even more lawyers guns and money
---

You are treble blessed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 06:51 PM (vC80E)

96 The right thing to get some press you mean. I don't believe she was crazy for a second.
Posted by: Oldcat
-------
Given the four separate issues she claims affected her (post partum, medications, etc etc.) as justification require something like a trillion to one as a joint probability, I would agree with you.

She and her ex husband are also engaged in a civil suit with medical providers over her care.
Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 06:45 PM (E4rtv)

I was referring to the Illinois copycat, but I will confirm that I think the Mass. Murderer is also completely sane.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:51 PM (uhVAy)

97 This whole f**** travesty of trial is ludicrous.

To my understanding, there is no disputing that Lindsey viciously strangled her three children, the only question was that she was so mentally impaired that she could not tell right from wrong, not that she was somehow not guilty of the crime?

The way these lunatic nurses are framing it is that they were determining whether she did it or not.

What am I missing?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 11, 2026 06:51 PM (XV/Pl)

98 "She faces deportation.

Posted by: four seasons"

lol

Posted by: Guy who always says nothing will happen and is usually right at September 11, 2026 06:51 PM (MWfyi)

99 8 Apropos:

Season of the Witch:
https://youtu.be/GU35oCHGhJ0
Posted by: SpeakingOf


Also.... youtu.be/wavKzXX-Vek

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 06:51 PM (G1ktt)

100 What if she strangled three random adults?
Posted by: fd

There you go again. Not being able to get over three vicious murders.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 11, 2026 06:50 PM (ndZc7)

Were they Republican, or wore the same cute outfit as you to a party but looked better in it?

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:52 PM (uhVAy)

101 I didn't watch the trial and the small snippets of evidence I know could support a verdict of guilty or not guilty due to insanity/psychosis.

But people claiming she didn't do it at all?!?!? That's just nuts.

Posted by: LASue at September 11, 2026 06:52 PM (lCppi)

102 Did he bust up a chifferobe for her?
Posted by: His DNA

I'ld like to bust up her chifferobe

Posted by: Boo Radley at September 11, 2026 06:52 PM (53GQo)

103 The way these lunatic nurses are framing it is that they were determining whether she did it or not.

What am I missing?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 11, 2026 06:51 PM (XV/Pl)

The lunatic nurses are lunatics

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:53 PM (uhVAy)

104 Just planning the errands for the husband to create opportunity is enough to show she understood what she was doing was wrong.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 11, 2026 06:41 PM (wGerL)

And she took them to a different room separately, because she knew that one child watching their mother murder their siblings would terrify them, possibly interfering with her will to murder.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 11, 2026 06:53 PM (CjHsb)

105 Life in prison.
Posted by: JackStraw

Just came up for parole

Nope

Posted by: Miklos thinks South Carolina has some advantages at September 11, 2026 06:53 PM (4RYRd)

106 Looks like our work here is done

Posted by: Soviet Ministry of Demoralization at September 11, 2026 06:54 PM (53GQo)

107 She had psychiatrists on speed dial and more drugs than Walgreens
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That's why she's crazy.

This is an under-reported phenomenon. The U.S.A. consumes the lion's share of mind bending pharmaceuticals, tranquilizers and mood elevators and so-called anti-depressants, you name it. And it isn't even close.

And guess what particular demographics are prescribed the lion's share of mind bending pharmaceuticals in this country? Just guess. Wonder how it further breaks down into liberal progressive whack job versus everyone else.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 06:54 PM (nL/22)

108 The dating lady saying that Clancy didn't get the help she needed is both infuriating and a complete lie. At least three different mental health care providers and enough prescriptions to sedate an elephant. She got more than enough tx

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 06:55 PM (N2HNb)

109 Trump immigration investigation confirms IIhan Omar did marry her brother. She faces deportation.
Posted by: four seasons

Oh, no, you're not won't. This is congress a peace conference. And if you even try to touch Kim Jong II Ilhan Omar, this audience and I will rise up against you. Fuck off, Team America Trump!

Posted by: Hakeem Jeffries wet dream if he becomes Speaker at September 11, 2026 06:55 PM (t19vo)

110 Austin Harrouff in Florida murdering a stranger and eating his face as cops kicked him is a psychosis snap I can believe.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 11, 2026 06:48 PM (t19vo)

Hey! I was hungry! Burger King just was not open so it was face or nothing.

Posted by: Austin Harrouff, In The Nuthouse at September 11, 2026 06:55 PM (cCXR+)

111 Posted by: Carolus at September 11, 2026 06:38 PM (4aEAd)

I'm going to guess that you are more than ten miles away* from me and just say to your comment...

"Sure Jan!

Posted by: Will Robinson. at September 11, 2026 06:55 PM (rje/a)

112 And she took them to a different room separately, because she knew that one child watching their mother murder their siblings would terrify them, possibly interfering with her will to murder.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 11, 2026 06:53 PM (CjHsb)

if she was unable to tell right from wrong, why the suicide attempt?

why does she look like she wants to strangle everyone in the courtroom in every picture I see of her? Presumably she is out of the psychosis for the trial, right?

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:55 PM (uhVAy)

113 >>Did he bust up a chifferobe for her?

Hey Boo.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 06:55 PM (viF8m)

114 I do not often say that there outta be a law but.

There needs to be a law against publicizing, interviewing publicly, promoting, or doxxing jurors.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 06:57 PM (K32Fz)

115 The dating lady saying that Clancy didn't get the help she needed is both infuriating and a complete lie. At least three different mental health care providers and enough prescriptions to sedate an elephant. She got more than enough tx
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 06:55 PM (N2HNb)

Ah. but by definition it wasn't what she needed, because she went and killed those kids. Something else was what she needed.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:57 PM (uhVAy)

116
The conspiracy theories are getting out of hand. Hell, they're getting just plumb stooopid. We used to have much better conspiracy theories. Sort of like the intelligence and cunning of a Columbo murderer vs real world criminals.

And speaking of Tuq'r, I just saw that "hey, what's up with all these stupid letters they put in the math thing".

He's going to go full Flat Earth, and I'll put money on that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 06:58 PM (w6EFb)

117 47 Ace—
I think you’ve got this one wrong. I watched the whole trial; I came away with the same conclusion as the 11 jurors; and I am no Karen. I am a hardcore anti-woke MAGA conservative and this decision was a no-brainer—Lindsay Clancy was clearly in a mental-health spiral that no one around acknowledged until she snapped.

Food for thought.
Posted by: Carolus


Except the jurors are currently nuking themselves by running to the camera and revealing there own depravity. The only thing clear cut was she ruthlessly murdered her 3 kids. She planned it. She is of sound mind, IMO. She is just evil. There is an entire world view that has spent decades trying to erase good and evil and make everything relative. Clancy is just the fruit of that labor.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 06:58 PM (G1ktt)

118 I said earlier I hoped he was clean (no one is) because the whitey KKK Democrat media was gonna tear his life apart. Not that I want any credit for that one, it was like predicting the sunrise.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 06:58 PM (vE0+H)

119 >>>She and her ex husband are also engaged in a civil suit with medical providers over her care.

Posted by: whig
---

Her toxicology exam showed that she had no effective levels of any medication. Therefore, she was not taking her medication as prescribed.

They are a bitch family possessed. Massachusetts should know that by it's heritage but being a state possessed it cannot see.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 06:58 PM (vC80E)

120 Ah. but by definition it wasn't what she needed, because she went and killed those kids. Something else was what she needed.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:57 PM (uhVAy)

Someone needed to open a .45 inch window in her forehead.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 06:58 PM (zZu0s)

121 "I am a hardcore anti-woke MAGA conservative"

Sounds like the trolls who used to call Rush's show.

Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 06:59 PM (lJ0H4)

122 Would a black woman or especially a black man get off with the psychosis excuse? Only a young white, reasonably attractive white women would ever get this amount of attention

This person has a very flexible definition of attractive

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 06:59 PM (K32Fz)

123 116
The conspiracy theories are getting out of hand. Hell, they're getting just plumb stooopid. We used to have much better conspiracy theories. Sort of like the intelligence and cunning of a Columbo murderer vs real world criminals.

And speaking of Tuq'r, I just saw that "hey, what's up with all these stupid letters they put in the math thing".

He's going to go full Flat Earth, and I'll put money on that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 06:58 PM (w6EFb)


Or -
The Jooos have a secret base on the dark side of the moon!

Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 07:00 PM (5rh/l)

124 118 I said earlier I hoped he was clean (no one is) because the whitey KKK Democrat media was gonna tear his life apart. Not that I want any credit for that one, it was like predicting the sunrise.


I mean three dots it could very well be bullcrap

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 07:00 PM (j+aD2)

125 "Lindsay Clancy was clearly in a mental-health spiral that no one around acknowledged until she snapped."

So, not her fault she strangled her kids.

Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 07:00 PM (MWfyi)

126 People in mental health spirals are found guilty all the time. They feel terrible so they murder. To be not guilty by reason of mental defect you have to show you did not understand what you were doing is wrong. Just planning the errands for the husband to create opportunity is enough to show she understood what she was doing was wrong.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 11, 2026 06:41 PM (wGerL)

The insanity defense in Massachussets provides that they're not guilty if the person is lacking in criminal responsibility -- which means they suffer from a mental disease or defect, AND as a result, either is substantially unable to appreciate the criminality or wrongfulness of the conduct OR is substantially unable to conform her conduct to the requirements of the law.

So she could know the murders are wrong but be unable -due to psychosis -to stop herself from doing it. Not saying that happened. But the law is just a little different from some other states.


Posted by: LASue at September 11, 2026 07:01 PM (lCppi)

127 110 Austin Harrouff in Florida murdering a stranger and eating his face as cops kicked him is a psychosis snap I can believe.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 11, 2026 06:48 PM (t19vo)

Hey! I was hungry! Burger King just was not open so it was face or nothing.
Posted by: Austin Harrouff

"Harrouff’s mother, Mina Harrouff, stopped him from drinking vegetable oil straight from the bottle; he subsequently poured it into a bowl with parmesan cheese and ate it."

Hunter Biden- at least he didn't try to smoke it.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 11, 2026 07:01 PM (t19vo)

128 Sounds like the trolls who used to call Rush's show.
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 06:59 PM (lJ0H4)

"I've voted republican all my life but..."

"I am straight but Sydney Sweeney is growing tiresome..."

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 07:01 PM (zZu0s)

129 The conspiracy theories are getting out of hand. Hell, they're getting just plumb stooopid. We used to have much better conspiracy theories. Sort of like the intelligence and cunning of a Columbo murderer vs real world criminals.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 06:58 PM (w6EFb)

This is probably not the case. I once read the original source book for the Hollow Earth theory, written in the 19th century. When going over the evidence he wrote "Scientists claim the mass of the earth is 5.972 × 10²⁴ kg....this is much too high"

Well, OK then!

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:01 PM (uhVAy)

130 What was in her suicide note? Oh despite all her research about it and the need to get rid of the kids who "couldn't live without her", she wasn't gonna leave one? Guess she wasn't worried about her husband living without her and his kids? Very selective worrying. Huh.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 07:01 PM (vE0+H)

131 Interesting situation with the Houthi and their latest moves. This causes a huge problem for the Saudis and the Euros, who depend on that passage being open, but not so much for the US.

I wonder if Trump is acting like he doesn’t intend to do much just to put pressure on a lot of countries that should have been much more helpful to us, and weren’t.

And the Saudis are learning the hard way that their big defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan is a big joke. They won’t be expending any blood or treasure on the Saudis behalf.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (P8wUf)

132 Only a young white, reasonably attractive white women would ever get this amount of attention

This person has a very flexible definition of attractive
-----

Has Elric weighed in on her level of attractiveness?

Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (TN0g+)

133 "I've voted republican all my life but..."

"I am straight but Sydney Sweeney is growing tiresome..."
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 07:01 PM (zZu0s)

Its not complete without the tearful embrace with the wise 6 year old child. That always sells me.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (uhVAy)

134 Lindsay Clancy was clearly in a mental-health spiral that no one around acknowledged until she snapped.

Even if this is accurate (and the mental health experts disagreed), she still murdered her children and is guilty. This idea that if you go crazy, you somehow didn't do it just baffles me. Did you do it? Then you're guilty.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (K32Fz)

135 Hey! I was hungry! Burger King just was not open so it was face or nothing.
Posted by: Austin Harrouff

Sir, this is a Wendy

Posted by: The actual Wendy used to live near here at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (4RYRd)

136 111 Posted by: Carolus at September 11, 2026 06:38 PM (4aEAd)

I'm going to guess that you are more than ten miles away* from me and just say to your comment...

"Sure Jan!

Posted by: Will Robinson
======
Isn't Jan married to that nice guy George Glass? Everyone thought George didn't exist but she sure showed everybody.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (E4rtv)

137 well have you guys heard the thing about mushrooms?

Joe Rogan! was actually interesting

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (j+aD2)

138 I just had a mental flash of her looking her kids in the eyes while she killed them.

Fuck. This bitch needs to burn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (zZu0s)

139 I mean three dots it could very well be bullcrap
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 07:00 PM (j+aD2)

I am aware. I have "allegations" (not domestic) in my past too. They were bullshit and found to be so. The media would still ruin me with them.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 07:03 PM (vE0+H)

140 >>>Austin head chopper

>>>Plus: an actual Lindsay Clancy Super-Fan has done what the TikTok brained AWFULs told her was every woman's right to do, and hanged her 11th trimester fetus -- also known as a 2-year-old toddler -- and then declared she was temporarily psychotic and would like her book deal and Oprah appearance now.

Stay vigilante, folks.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 07:03 PM (dK+Kv)

141 Ah. but by definition it wasn't what she needed, because she went and killed those kids. Something else was what she needed.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:57 PM (uhVAy)


She must have been hiding her state of mind for a time, maybe a long time, from her husband and her mother, who was living with the Clancy's to give the future murderess help around the house and a shoulder to cry on.

Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 07:04 PM (5rh/l)

142 There needs to be a law against publicizing, interviewing publicly, promoting, or doxxing jurors
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Doxxing anybody for any reason is a credible threat. Jury intimidation is unlawful already. I mean, I'm guessing but it has to be.


And the only reason for doxxing is "Hey one of you psychos out there should kill this person who lives here, at 79 Wistful Vista, and their kids get on the bus every school day at 0800. Here's their picture.."

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 07:04 PM (nL/22)

143 Sounds like the trolls who used to call Rush's show.
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 06:59 PM (lJ0H4)

"I've voted republican all my life but..."

"I am straight but Sydney Sweeney is growing tiresome..."
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*golf clap*

Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 07:04 PM (TN0g+)

144 125 "Lindsay Clancy was clearly in a mental-health spiral that no one around acknowledged until she snapped."

So, not her fault she strangled her kids.
Posted by: fd

As I said earlier, that is the debunked idea of suddenly snapped crap. Real insanity cases under a sane M'Naughten rule followed by almost all states means that it is not enough to be mentally ill, you have to be to the point where you are literally delusional. And you have to prove it unlike Mass where the prosecution has to prove you are sane.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 07:04 PM (E4rtv)

145 Don't see as much of Sydney as Sophie, but not tired of Sophie yey

Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 07:05 PM (Ia/+0)

146 The only thing clear cut was she ruthlessly murdered her 3 kids.

You just can't get over the 3 dead kids can you? The prosecutor wasn't very sympathetic to Lindsay at all...she was a big meanie, while Kevin was so sweet and charming, and really showed what a great mother Lindsay was. No one had a bad word to say about her, so she must have snapped.

Posted by: Female Jurors in Interviews at September 11, 2026 07:05 PM (t19vo)

147 I mean three dots it could very well be bullcrap

Nothing would make me laugh more than if they just doxed the wrong guy with the same name.

Seriously one of the unwritten rules in our society is that you leave jurors the hell aloe no matter how retarded their decision. Like the subnormal IQ losers who found OJ not guilty of what he blatantly did. Nobody doxed them and put them on blast.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 07:05 PM (K32Fz)

148 She researched murder
She planned murder
She methodically murdered her children
She is a murderer.

We now have two generations of mush brained adults loosely tethered to reality who are watching and believing this shit show as presented by the media and tik tok then proceeding to copy cat kill their children.

As long as judges, lawyers and the media are allowed to present shit shows as reality this will continue.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 07:05 PM (vC80E)

149 She must have been hiding her state of mind for a time, maybe a long time, from her husband and her mother, who was living with the Clancy's to give the future murderess help around the house and a shoulder to cry on.
Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 07:04 PM (5rh/l)

Or, she is a full on psychopath. That is kind of what she strikes me as. Her kids, her husband, everything and everyone are toys.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 07:05 PM (zZu0s)

150 well have you guys heard the thing about mushrooms?
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They are OK on Pizza? I knew that.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 07:05 PM (nL/22)

151 NBC wants a Black man lynched!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 11, 2026 07:06 PM (1Ff7Z)

152 Sweeney is cashing in while she can, striking while the iron is hot.

Posted by: davidt at September 11, 2026 07:06 PM (Q+gd/)

153 One of the rescue dogs of 9/11. I remember the rescuers, concerned because the dogs were getting depressed, had people hide in the rubble so the dogs could occasionally find a live person

https://tinyurl.com/bdh8vuzv

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 11, 2026 07:07 PM (3ImbR)

154 131 Interesting situation with the Houthi and their latest moves. This causes a huge problem for the Saudis and the Euros, who depend on that passage being open, but not so much for the US.

I wonder if Trump is acting like he doesn’t intend to do much just to put pressure on a lot of countries that should have been much more helpful to us, and weren’t.

And the Saudis are learning the hard way that their big defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan is a big joke. They won’t be expending any blood or treasure on the Saudis behalf.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (P8wUf)


At this rate, Trump will have to send in the Marines to end the deal with the Houthi menace to that waterway.

Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 07:07 PM (5rh/l)

155 >>>Seriously one of the unwritten rules in our society is that you leave jurors the hell aloe no matter how retarded their decision. Like the subnormal IQ losers who found OJ not guilty of what he blatantly did. Nobody doxed them and put them on blast.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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I thought it a law.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 07:07 PM (vC80E)

156 They are OK on Pizza? I knew that.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 07:05 PM (nL/22)

Not bad in cheese steaks- but NO green peppers!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 07:07 PM (zZu0s)

157 One of the 50ish Female staffers at the office took time out of her busy schedule of complaining about Trump to let me know that she was convinced the husband did it and the cops just took his word for it.

I decided it was best to just not give her any serious work to do.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 11, 2026 07:07 PM (cI94r)

158 Frankly I am kinda tired of Sydney running around buck naked all over. Yes, we don't need hideous fat she-beasts and trannies in the place of beauty, but the pendulum is swinging wildly.

Its okay to have pretty, even hawt girls without them holding footballs in front of their naughty bits. She's in an ad 30 feet tall in NYC, naked as a bee hiding behind sports equipment.

This is not a sign of a healthy, virtuous society.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 07:07 PM (K32Fz)

159 Hate to make this political but what isn't these days. This would be a great time for Trump's DOJ to weigh in and tell those scumbags publicly that anyone attempting the dox a jurist who was doing his public duty will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 07:07 PM (viF8m)

160 Sweeney is cashing in while she can, striking while the iron is hot.
Posted by: davidt at September 11, 2026 07:06 PM (Q+gd/)

While the boobs are high, so to speak.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 07:08 PM (zZu0s)

161 138 I just had a mental flash of her looking her kids in the eyes while she killed them.

Fuck. This bitch needs to burn.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (zZu0s)

Did she, though? Probably garroted them from behind so she didn't have to look them in the eyes.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 11, 2026 07:08 PM (CjHsb)

162 I'm increasingly convinced that Innocent By Reason Of Insanity needs to be eliminated as a perverse incentive. I picture replacing it with Insane And Did It, which gets the same sentence but in a different facility, a criminal asylum. It could be right next to the prison, but better designed for preventing self-harm, administering meds, and facilitating talk-therapy sessions.

No better privileges than prison. No day passes or field trips. No early release for Sudden-Onset Post-Sentencing Clarity. And, importantly, no major benefit for common criminal scum to pretend insanity, so it will probably mostly just be people that really need psychiatric treatment that go there.

Posted by: SciVo at September 11, 2026 07:08 PM (ke3zm)

163 152 Sweeney is cashing in while she can, striking while the iron is hot.
Posted by: davidt

There is iron in my pants for all to see.

Posted by: Ten Bears at September 11, 2026 07:08 PM (t19vo)

164 Sweeney is cashing in while she can, striking while the iron is hot.

Yeah she's not a very good actress and is getting her money while she can.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 07:08 PM (K32Fz)

165 Interesting situation with the Houthi and their latest moves. This causes a huge problem for the Saudis and the Euros, who depend on that passage being open, but not so much for the US.

I wonder if Trump is acting like he doesn’t intend to do much just to put pressure on a lot of countries that should have been much more helpful to us, and weren’t.

And the Saudis are learning the hard way that their big defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan is a big joke. They won’t be expending any blood or treasure on the Saudis behalf.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (P8wUf)

There's a lot of dirt between where the Houthis are and anything really vital. It would be good practice for these Gulf States to collect a few brigades, shake out some good troops out of them and just wipe out the issue covered by air support.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:08 PM (uhVAy)

166 121 "I am a hardcore anti-woke MAGA conservative"

Sounds like the trolls who used to call Rush's show.
Posted by: Tuna


Pretty much announcing that you're NOT a 'hardcore anti-woke MAGA conservative'. A moby.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 07:08 PM (G1ktt)

167 Did she, though? Probably garroted them from behind so she didn't have to look them in the eyes.

Apparently the oldest fled and she had to chase him down (her?). I wouldn't be shocked if she did stare them down with those SSRI-cranked loony eyes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 07:09 PM (K32Fz)

168 154 131 Interesting situation with the Houthi and their latest moves. This causes a huge problem for the Saudis and the Euros, who depend on that passage being open, but not so much for the US.

I wonder if Trump is acting like he doesn’t intend to do much just to put pressure on a lot of countries that should have been much more helpful to us, and weren’t.

And the Saudis are learning the hard way that their big defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan is a big joke. They won’t be expending any blood or treasure on the Saudis behalf.

Posted by: Tom Servo
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I like the scenario except the we don't need the Suez part.
Isn't it a vital passageway for us?



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 07:09 PM (vC80E)

169 Pug Mahon—Likewise you.

Ted Torgerson—The experts, including experts for the prosecution, disagree with you.

Anonosaurus Wrecks—Congratulations, you just argued for the defense.

Moron Analyst—You clearly did not watch the trial.

Will Robinson—Always had a crush on Marcia, and still do.

Puddleglum—You clearly did not watch the trial.

Posted by: Carolus at September 11, 2026 07:10 PM (4aEAd)

170 Sweeney is cashing in while she can, striking while the iron is hot.
Posted by: davidt

Or before the boobs start to droop.

Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 07:10 PM (lJ0H4)

171 She's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When she comes at ya, doesn’t seem to be livin’... until she strangles ya. And those black eyes roll over white, and then... oh, then you hear that terrible high-pitch gurglin'...

Posted by: Quint at September 11, 2026 07:10 PM (t19vo)

172 149 She must have been hiding her state of mind for a time, maybe a long time, from her husband and her mother, who was living with the Clancy's to give the future murderess help around the house and a shoulder to cry on.
Posted by: Gref
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Her husband looks like a gimp.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 07:10 PM (vC80E)

173 LOL... so turns out the Hero Juror?

Is a Black Man... this is gonna get fun.

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 11, 2026 07:10 PM (mP0Kj)

174 At this rate, Trump will have to send in the Marines to end the deal with the Houthi menace to that waterway.
Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 07:07 PM (5rh/l)

Them dancing about capturing a town here or there threatens nothing.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:11 PM (uhVAy)

175 "I've been a conservative Republican all my life, but I'm voting for Bernie Sanders...."

Posted by: Longtime Caller First Time listener at September 11, 2026 07:11 PM (nL/22)

176 But the law is just a little different from some other states.


Posted by: LASue
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MA's law is called McHoul rule from the Commonwealth v. McHoul case in 1967. Supreme Court of Mass decided to use the hot new take on insanity that the Model Penal Code used. Which itself was based on the since debunked irresistible impulse research at the time by some fruitcake psychologists.

And Clancy will end up causing multiple murders of children across the US and that is to be laid at the jurors and Massachusetts lawmakers, voters, and their courts. And most of them will find out that society still views murder of children as evil and will go to prison but the children of the copycat killers will still be dead.

Frankly exchange Massachussets and Vermont with Canada--they can become lesser South Ontario, we get whatever sane provinces are out west that want to join the US.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 07:11 PM (E4rtv)

177 Willowed from earlier:

I kinda wish the Joel Schumacker who had made "Falling Down" had done a Batman film.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at September 11, 2026 07:11 PM (gHSfI)

178 133 "I've voted republican all my life but..."

"I am straight but Sydney Sweeney is growing tiresome..."
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 07:01 PM (zZu0s)

Its not complete without the tearful embrace with the wise 6 year old child. That always sells me.
Posted by: Oldcat


Little 'che che' should be all grown up now!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 07:11 PM (G1ktt)

179 165 Interesting situation with the Houthi and their latest moves. This causes a huge problem for the Saudis and the Euros, who depend on that passage being open, but not so much for the US.

I wonder if Trump is acting like he doesn’t intend to do much just to put pressure on a lot of countries that should have been much more helpful to us, and weren’t.

And the Saudis are learning the hard way that their big defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan is a big joke. They won’t be expending any blood or treasure on the Saudis behalf.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 11, 2026 07:02 PM (P8wUf)

There's a lot of dirt between where the Houthis are and anything really vital. It would be good practice for these Gulf States to collect a few brigades, shake out some good troops out of them and just wipe out the issue covered by air support.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:08 PM (uhVAy)


Never happen. The officers don't want to get their tailored uniforms mussed-up.

Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 07:12 PM (5rh/l)

180 just can't get over the 3 dead kids can you? The prosecutor wasn't very sympathetic to Lindsay at all...she was a big meanie, while Kevin was so sweet and charming, and really showed what a great mother Lindsay was. No one had a bad word to say about her, so she must have snapped.

OK, I didn't watch the trial. But when I read that one of the nurse Karen complain that the Prosecution didn't put on evidence the defendant was a bad mother I lost it. My Gawd what makes you think that is relevant evidence. Oh my we are a nation of idiots.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 11, 2026 07:12 PM (cI94r)

181 And Clancy will end up causing multiple murders of children across the US

At least one has happened and as ACE noted, previous ones are trying to pile on his case and claim the same thing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 07:12 PM (K32Fz)

182 I like the scenario except the we don't need the Suez part.
Isn't it a vital passageway for us?



Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 07:09 PM (vC80E)

Us, no. The EU, yes.

We get virtually nothing from the Persian Gulf.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:12 PM (uhVAy)

183 >>>The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial had a history of domestic violence allegations

Karens are lucky he only throttled the water bottle.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 07:12 PM (dK+Kv)

184 >> "Scientists claim the mass of the earth is 5.972 × 10²⁴ kg....this is much too high"

That's the dreaded "Nuh-uh" response to evidence presented. They don't understand it or like it, it's just "Nuh-uh!". Of course, I think their grammar and stuff was much better back in the day.

As far as the mass of duh Erf, I'm ashamed to admit I'd never heard of the Schiehallion Experiment in 1774.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 07:12 PM (w6EFb)

185 Apparently the oldest fled and she had to chase him down (her?). I wouldn't be shocked if she did stare them down with those SSRI-cranked loony eyes.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Court showed she was inconsistent taking meds and at the time was not really influenced by her prescription meds. Dosage in blood was too low for any therapeutic remedy. Another thing showing that she is probably faking and just wanted her children dead as a nuisance.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 07:13 PM (E4rtv)

186 Pretty much announcing that you're NOT a 'hardcore anti-woke MAGA conservative'. A moby.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 07:08 PM (G1ktt)

A lifelong rock-ribbed Republican, a deeply concerned Christian conservative

Posted by: Severely conservative, even at September 11, 2026 07:13 PM (TbWk/)

187 She had to chase the one down who got away and hid from her. I'm sure when she found him she looked him in the eye, and he just wanted his mommy.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 07:13 PM (vE0+H)

188 There's a lot of dirt between where the Houthis are and anything really vital. It would be good practice for these Gulf States to collect a few brigades, shake out some good troops out of them and just wipe out the issue covered by air support.

Posted by: Oldcat
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Reports are saying Houthis on the coast close to Bab Al-Mandab.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 07:13 PM (vC80E)

189 Moron Analyst—You clearly did not watch the trial.

I notice you didn't say any of the facts I based my analysis on were incorrect.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 11, 2026 07:14 PM (t19vo)

190 Oh my we are a nation of idiots.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 11, 2026 07:12 PM (cI94r)

Always has been.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 07:14 PM (dK+Kv)

191 Never happen. The officers don't want to get their tailored uniforms mussed-up.
Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 07:12 PM (5rh/l)

tell them they get more medals when they do, it worked for the Brit Aristocracy all those years.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:14 PM (uhVAy)

192 The Houthis have been getting the shit blown out of them all day. Some have the IRGC advisors who are embedded with them.

It was certainly nice of them to all congregate in one spot.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 07:14 PM (viF8m)

193 Lindsay Clancy was clearly in a mental-health spiral


What exactly do you mean by "mental-health spiral" ?

Because where you are going means that all women should be treated as animals or children since they have no Agency.

If a vague pseudo-scientific "diagnosis" of "mental-health" going into a clinical "spiral" is sufficient to declare a person non compus mentis, and it is impossible to tell what part of a "mental-health spiral" a person is in, then any lawyer can get any person off under the premise of a "mental-health spiral".

You just gave excuse to any depressed person to going on a murder spree and get pity, not judgement.

You too are a person who doesn't see the judicial system as a way to protect society, but as a game of emotional manipulation.

I don't think you are compatible with civilized ordered society.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 11, 2026 07:14 PM (pawvM)

194 I like the scenario except the we don't need the Suez part.
Isn't it a vital passageway for us?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 07:09 PM (vC80E)

Militarily? yes... it really shortens supply lines to both Ships and Troops stationed in the Mid East.

Economically? No...

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 11, 2026 07:14 PM (mP0Kj)

195 163 152 Sweeney is cashing in while she can, striking while the iron is hot.
Posted by: davidt

There is iron in my pants for all to see.
Posted by: Ten Bears


LoL!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 07:15 PM (G1ktt)

196 They have to announce he's a Republican. I'm surprised they haven't yet. He's probably registered as an independent.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 07:15 PM (vE0+H)

197 The Defense is really on the run & attempting to use the AFWL's & even the medical community for a non-guilty plea or easy plea deal.
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Following the mistrial declared on September 4, 2026 due to a hung jury in her criminal case, her civil legal team—which includes Scapicchio and medical malpractice experts Andrew Meyer and Bill Thompson—vowed to continue pursuing a major lawsuit.

Lindsay Clancy's civil defense attorney, Rosemary Scapicchio, “We plan on holding each and every doctor and each and every hospital responsible for how they failed Lindsay, time and time and time again.”
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You want a really strange reaction from an involved man? How about Patrick Clancy a week after his wife viscously killed the three kids? Tell me it's reasonable & normal.

>Patrick Clancy, husband of woman accused of strangling three kids, speaks out, By Caitlin O'Kane, January 30, 2023 CBS News

>GoFundMe page for the father of the Clancy children, Patrick Clancy, was created on January 27, 2023, and was organized by Matthew Glaser of Wakefield, Massachusetts. To help Patrick Clancy cover medical bills, funeral services, and legal help, as well as living expenses while unable to work.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 07:15 PM (NFX2v)

198 Reports are saying Houthis on the coast close to Bab Al-Mandab.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 07:13 PM (vC80E)

they've always been close to the coast, that's how they attack shipping in little boats. As long as they aren't doing that, or launching missiles somewhere its nothing alarming.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:15 PM (uhVAy)

199 OK, I didn't watch the trial. But when I read that one of the nurse Karen complain that the Prosecution didn't put on evidence the defendant was a bad mother I lost it. My Gawd what makes you think that is relevant evidence. Oh my we are a nation of idiots.
Posted by: Mallamutt

The reason is character evidence is a very tricky thing on its effect on juries and what is and is not permissible in court. Rules of evidence frown upon trying to show the person is bad so they must have done the bad thing. You can get around it but that also allows the other side to bring in character witnesses who always say they were a fantastic person.

Sometimes the issue is hashed out in pretrial over character evidence (and you have to inform the other side that you are going to use it) and the jury never hears that.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 07:15 PM (E4rtv)

200 I don't think you are compatible with civilized ordered society.
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*lights flicker*

Posted by: Nomad at September 11, 2026 07:16 PM (TN0g+)

201 190 Oh my we are a nation of idiots.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 11, 2026 07:12 PM (cI94r)
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YOU LEAVE GARRETT ALONE!!!

Posted by: Tik-Tok Influencer at September 11, 2026 07:16 PM (nHXB4)

202 Microsoft Executive

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 07:16 PM (NFX2v)

203 @Tuna—And I am a dittohead going back to the Ross Perot days.

Posted by: Carolus at September 11, 2026 07:16 PM (4aEAd)

204 If the holdout juror is doxxed, what happens next determines whether trial by jury can continue in this country. I get called up for jury duty regularly, most recently being about six months after moving to Florida. I've answered every call, including the one in California that hit within two months of my moving out.

If things go sideways for this guy, I will have some very pointed questions for the attorneys about protecting our identities upon my next call up. I may even demand a written statement from the DA outlining the criminal charges that violators will face from his office should any juror's identity be leaked to the press...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 11, 2026 07:16 PM (nbLIj)

205 For all the bemoaning posts re GenZ, ace seems to be "GenZ-ing" his site with all his caveats, preambles, and trigger warnings he NEVER would have given to his rants 15 years ago. I'll always be a fan of his writing - one of only a few that gets me chuckling - but the softer gentler ace isn't what brought or kept me here.

Posted by: Grace at September 11, 2026 07:17 PM (hyQrc)

206 There was no criminal intent.

Posted by: James '86' Comey at September 11, 2026 07:17 PM (dIske)

207 Militarily? yes... it really shortens supply lines to both Ships and Troops stationed in the Mid East.

Economically? No...
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 11, 2026 07:14 PM (mP0Kj)

Houthis in bum-boats is what you call 'target practice' to a military fleet or convoy.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:17 PM (uhVAy)

208 I like the scenario except the we don't need the Suez part.
Isn't it a vital passageway for us?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 07:09 PM (vC80E)

Everything that goes through Suez must go through that chokepoint, so it is important. But it’s far easier for America to use the pacific route to get ships to the region than it is for the Euros (obviously)

And the Saudis have the worst trillion dollar army in the world. By far. Fancy uniforms, expensive equipment, and thru still run away as son as any shooting starts.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 11, 2026 07:17 PM (P8wUf)

209 169: Carolus - Does not understand the nature of evil.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 11, 2026 07:18 PM (G1ktt)

210 lifelong rock-ribbed Republican, a deeply concerned Christian conservative[/i,]

The proper format from the old days (The Lace Wig era) requires that you also identify the first Republican Presidential candidate you ever voted for, preferably someone from the late 1800s to early 1900s like James Garfield or William McKinley.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 11, 2026 07:18 PM (cI94r)

211 I'm ashamed to admit I'd never heard of the Schiehallion Experiment in 1774
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Egads!

Posted by: Longtime Caller First Time listener at September 11, 2026 07:19 PM (nL/22)

212 Cafe is up!

Posted by: Nazdar at September 11, 2026 07:19 PM (NcvvS)

213 It was certainly nice of them to all congregate in one spot.
Posted by: JackStraw

Takes out a lot of the guesswork.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 07:19 PM (y+Apl)

214 The proper format from the old days (The Lace Wig era) requires that you also identify the first Republican Presidential candidate you ever voted for, preferably someone from the late 1800s to early 1900s like James Garfield or William McKinley.
Posted by: Mallamutt

But doesn't that mean you voted for a Democrat? The parties flipped!!!!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at September 11, 2026 07:19 PM (t19vo)

215 @Tuna—And I am a dittohead going back to the Ross Perot days.
Posted by: Carolus

First time caller, long time listener right?

Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 07:19 PM (lJ0H4)

216 Nood.

Posted by: Tik-Tok Influencer at September 11, 2026 07:19 PM (nHXB4)

217 To be fair going on or off psych meds is the danger zone. Once in the therapeutic zone its usually less risky.

But regardless 1. The mass insanity rule is insane. 'Unable to follow social mores' is way too open. 2. Call 911 and tell the operator, the cop, and ems that you are hearing voices telling you to kill yourself and kids. You're getting a psych hold. She was competent enough to get cucky out of the house and answer his phone call. She was competent enough to follow social mores.

Posted by: Aacid at September 11, 2026 07:20 PM (+g/0n)

218 >>>softer gentler ace

??

15 years ago, Ace would be chiding us about stroking our gun dicks.

Now?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 07:20 PM (dK+Kv)

219 It sure is convenient that liberal white women just figured out what a woman is and that only women are prone to these psychotic breaks.

Let's suppose they are finally right about these things. Why should we ever elect a woman or appoint one in the private sector to a position of power if they can't control their hormonal urges?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 07:20 PM (viF8m)

220 OK, I didn't watch the trial. But when I read that one of the nurse Karen complain that the Prosecution didn't put on evidence the defendant was a bad mother I lost it. My Gawd what makes you think that is relevant evidence. Oh my we are a nation of idiots.
Posted by: Mallamutt

Besides, the nurses said they hated the prosecution for being 'mean' anyway. If they'd spent a week thrashing her, that would just make them more mean and they'd hate them more.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:20 PM (uhVAy)

221 Dear Shellshock,

You'll get banged - no problem - but those guys aren't staying the night.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 07:22 PM (NFX2v)

222 oldest was a girl i think.
real courage to chase down a little girl to strangle her. boudicca would have been proud.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 07:22 PM (88C+u)

223 And the Saudis have the worst trillion dollar army in the world. By far. Fancy uniforms, expensive equipment, and thru still run away as son as any shooting starts.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 11, 2026 07:17 PM (P8wUf)

Well this is how you shake that dust off. Sack some bad officers, hire some mercs to train them up and critique them, the usual. If the Saudis want to keep all that gold trim, they are gonna have to have some security forces to hold the bad folks off.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:23 PM (uhVAy)

224 "The experts, including experts for the prosecution, disagree with you."

Experts don't carry much weight with me. Did you know that more people have been killed by Experts than penguins? And that Experts once predicted that NYC would be under a mile of ice by now.

Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 07:24 PM (MWfyi)

225 oldest was a girl i think.
real courage to chase down a little girl to strangle her. boudicca would have been proud.
Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 07:22 PM (88C+u)

Weren't 2 of them girls? So much for feminist soldiarity.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 07:25 PM (uhVAy)

226 The juror’s domestic violence charges from 2021 were dismissed after his ex-wife “did not want to testify in the case because she was worried about losing custody of her daughter.”

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Everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Well, not him but everybody else.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 11, 2026 07:27 PM (ndZc7)

227 @Moron Analyst—Fabrications are not facts.

Now is there anyone here who can live without an ad hominem?

Speaking of which, now you’re defending wife beaters who voted to convict and ad homing Army vets who voted “not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility.”

And everyone who disagrees with the groupthink is a Karen or an AWFL—can’t be a conservative.

Posted by: Carolus at September 11, 2026 07:27 PM (4aEAd)

228 Who bitch dis is?

Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 07:29 PM (MWfyi)

229 Anonosaurus Wrecks—Congratulations, you just argued for the defense.

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So you're more a chain them to a wall inside their cage at the looney bin kind of guy?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 11, 2026 07:32 PM (ndZc7)

230 “What exactly do you mean by ‘mental-health spiral’?”

I loosely paraphrased Patrick Clancy (the ex-husband), who said Lindsay entered a “big spiral” after she began taking Seroquel. BTW: Patrick Clancy disagrees with everyone on this thread.

Posted by: Carolus at September 11, 2026 07:36 PM (4aEAd)

231 Lindsay Clancy was clearly in a mental-health spiral that no one around acknowledged until she snapped.
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One could say the same of Jeffrey Dahmer or Ed Gein.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 07:50 PM (fLhzo)

232 Victor Tango Kilo—
Fully agree and this is my problem with the law. Specifically, should the law make a cutout for mentally-ill people? I honestly struggle with this for the reason you suggest. If Lindsay Clancy can dodge execution, then why shouldn’t Decarlos Brown Jr. (who was ruled incompetent to stand trial)? Either way, in this case the law does provide a cutout and the defense successfully used it, which is absolutely her right.

Posted by: Carolus at September 11, 2026 08:05 PM (Xj0wS)

233 Actually, just looked it up. Generally the law distinguishes between mental illness and psychopathy (personality disorders).

Posted by: Carolus at September 11, 2026 08:10 PM (Xj0wS)

234 I believe Father Reehil is also an exorcist, so he deals with Satan and his minions.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at September 11, 2026 08:18 PM (ksbjf)

235 64 "That would be a big impediment for me in a marriage."


Yeah, that and being a Catholic priest.
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 11, 2026 06:42 PM (/OKHJ)

It’s also his job to counsel couples who want to be married.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 11, 2026 08:31 PM (TlKpx)

236 You know, it’s like taking all these pills for mental problems makes a lot of people worse!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 11, 2026 08:33 PM (TlKpx)

237 239. BTW: Patrick Clancy disagrees with everyone on this thread.
Posted by: Carolus

Btw, he had a GoFundMe account in a handful of days, divorced Lindsay in months, and he stands to get a huge payoff from BS - imo btw - lawsuits AND not share a cent with ex-wife.

I think that's enough to support his disagreements with everyone, as you say.

Do you get a cut if it tilts his way??

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 08:38 PM (NFX2v)

238 I try to go without and hummus, has worked so long

Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 08:48 PM (Ia/+0)

239 230, not 237. Sorry..

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 08:49 PM (NFX2v)

240 225. Weren't 2 of them girls? So much for feminist soldiarity.
Posted by: Oldcat

Oldest a 5 year old girl, in daycare 4 days a week. The next a 3 year old boy, strangled & left in his father's office. He had also been in daycare, though not as frequent as his sister. The 3rd an 8 month old boy, strangled back down in the basement near his sister. He was transported to a hospital for care, and then to evaluate if brain dead.

A small pool of blood was found on the carpeting near the baby which seemed to mean his mother returned to the basement and stood there after slashing herself up with a kitchen knife.

I doubt it was from regret.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 09:04 PM (NFX2v)

241 Carolus-

Are friends with Prolapse Paul?

Posted by: Philly Eagle fans at September 11, 2026 09:44 PM (ydoWy)

242 I am not sure whether the USA is more threatened by Islamic expansionist terrorism, or home grown AWFLs and the Democrats.

Posted by: Fritz at September 11, 2026 10:00 PM (J7jo9)

243 God rest the soul of little Barrett Walsh who didn't deserve to have his life taken so cruelly from him. No doubt he was terrified and shocked that his own mother was doing this to him. And God have mercy on his mother's soul.

Struggling to fight back tears after reading.

WHY?!? What did any of these children ever do to deserve such a fate?

Posted by: Tracy at September 11, 2026 11:37 PM (bNPPm)

244 @L - No nic...—No.

@Philly Eagle fans—You clearly identify with homosexuals.

Posted by: Carolus at September 12, 2026 10:59 AM (kdaZS)

The Week In Woke

Nike has been kicked out of the S&P 100 -- which is supposed to be an index of market leaders -- after its share price fell 79% due to incompetence and the handmaiden of incompetence, woke marketing.

Nike stock has fallen roughly 78% from its 2021 peak, traded this summer around levels investors had not seen in more than a decade, and is now about to suffer another symbolic blow.

S&P Dow Jones Indices will remove Nike from the S&P 100, an index intended to represent some of America's largest and most established blue-chip companies. It will remain in the S&P 500, so I would not overstate the mechanical significance of the change, but after everything that has happened to Nike over the last several years, the timing is difficult to ignore.

As a wise man said in the future of 1997, "Killian, here is Subzero, now, plain zero!"

Someone finally did a paper about the costs of DEI policies -- specifically, about the reduction in performance when you stop prioritizing performance and instead prioritize "diversity."

It does have a major cost.

The equity excellence trade-off: A study of EDI in the Canada Research Chairs Program


The analysis reveals that EDI has actively weakened Canadian research and reduced overall academic performance at Canadian universities.

September 1, 2026


By Eric Kaufmann, Leif Rasmussen, and Jonah Davids
September 1, 2026

Is diversity truly our strength? Does equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) improve excellence?

Since 2017, the prestigious Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program, which sets the agenda for Canadian academic research, has moved dramatically in the direction of implementing EDI ideology and quotas.

Regrettably, prioritizing EDI results in an "equity-excellence trade-off": Canadian taxpayers are funding cultural socialist activism among elite professionals at the expense of the disinterested pursuit of truth.

And, Canadian research is paying a high cost for its unfettered embrace of EDI, both through the non-meritorious appointment of less qualified Black, Indigenous, and female chairs, and by diverting millions of dollars to left-wing scholar-activist research.

According to our analysis -- the first of its kind -- EDI ideology is costing approximately $36 million per year, equivalent to a 12 per cent "tax" on the CRC's $300 million annual budget.

While previous studies have examined demographic differences and the effects of EDI on organizational and team performance, none has examined its organizational-level consequences in academic research. This study fills that gap by testing EDI's impact on research output in the CRC holders program from 2016 to 2025. It turns out, diversity is not merely neutral -- it can actually lower performance.

To determine the scope of the EDI problem, we measured all award holders listed on the CRC site using the industry standard publication metric, the h-index, which combines both the number of articles a scholar has written or co-written with the number of times those articles have been cited by other researchers.

Our analysis reveals that EDI has actively weakened Canadian research and reduced overall academic performance at Canadian universities. Specifically, we find that:

* The average h-index of publication impact for Black or Indigenous chairs is 18, for female chairs is 28, and for White or Asian males is 38.

* The proportion of chairs who are White males declined from approximately 80 per cent in 2000 to around 25 per cent in 2025.

* EDI hiring resulted in lost productivity equivalent to 10 to 15 per cent per "equity-deserving" (female, Black, Indigenous) Canada Research Chair between 2016 to 2025.
...

EDI in American federal grants peaked in 2021 and collapsed after 2024, but kept on rising in Canada, reaching record-setting levels by 2025.


Collin Cleary
@collin_cleary

I spent 30 years in academia. Here are my observations about my students. Toward the end, I was teaching "Gen Z." These students combined ignorance with strident moral certainty. They seemed to have had no general education at all, and lacked the most basic knowledge of history, even recent history. They were immature and emotionally fragile.

Many could not handle criticism, no matter how sugar coated. It took very little to reduce them to tears -- or to send them into a fit of narcissistic rage. They were shockingly bereft of intellectual curiosity, and many gave the impression of having no internal life at all.

I'll share more observations later.

More observations about my students: Many could not follow a simple chain of reasoning. Often it seemed like my class was the first occasion they had ever been challenged to think. It was common for them to visit me in my office hours and to ask me to tell them exactly what I wanted them to say on tests or in papers. When I said that I wanted to see evidence that they had done their own thinking, they would look panic stricken.

Some more observations about my students: It was extremely difficult to get a class discussion going, because they were often unwilling to make judgments of any kind. Partly, this was because they had an intense fear of offending anyone. In addition, most believed that everything is "relative" and that therefore it's wrong to judge (completely blanking out the fact that this itself is a judgment).

Trump Administration launches probe of California and New York Schools for allowing minorities to repeatedly bully and hit Jewish students without consequence.


The Trump administration on Thursday launched two separate federal civil rights investigations into antisemitic persecution of Jewish students inside California's Etiwanda School District and the American Musical Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in New York, according to the advocacy groups that prompted the action.

The probe of Etiwanda schools--a 14,000-student district in California's Inland Empire--stems from a March 6 complaint to the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, alleging that a 12-year-old girl "was subjected to repeated anti-Semitic bullying, harassment, and discrimination that continued to escalate due to inaction from the school." At New York's AMDA, one of the top schools for developing Broadway stars, a Jewish student allegedly "faced retaliation after she reported anti-Semitic harassment shortly after beginning studies at the performing arts college."

Both complaints--filed by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the Anti-Defamation League--were deemed credible enough by federal officials to initiate a probe, which will determine whether the schools violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by permitting discrimination against Jews. They are the latest federal actions aimed at stemming Jew hatred in the wake of Hamas's Oct. 7 terror spree, which fueled a massive rise in antisemitism across American college campuses and even primary schools.

The Etiwanda school district, which is 16 percent white, is in a county where the Jewish population is estimated to be at less than 1 percent. At the Etiwanda Intermediate School, which teaches sixth through eighth grade students, a Jewish girl was struck repeatedly with a stick and told to "Shut [her] stupid Jewish ass up" when yelling for help, according to the complaint. "She was then pinned against a table and choked for several seconds, until she escaped." The student also faced harassment inside the classroom, including in one case where the student was publicly "humiliated" and told, "This wouldn't be an issue if you weren't Jewish."

The Brandeis Center, ADL, and pro-Israel organization StandWithUs subsequently notified the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights of more disturbing behavior in the school district that allegedly included "students giving Nazi salutes in the hallways, the drawing of swastikas, praise of Hitler and the Nazi Party, Holocaust taunts and anti-Jewish slurs." The original complaint documents instances in which "a student allegedly said, 'I love making Jews uncomfortable, especially with Hitler jokes'" and another where a student was called a "stupid Jew."

"The continuing harassment is significant because the Brandeis Center, ADL and StandWithUs allege that the district's inadequate response to the original incidents left the hostile environment in place, allowing anti-Semitic conduct targeting the same victim to continue incident after incident," the organization said in a press release.


...
AMDA reportedly investigated the incident and found that "several students had intentionally targeted the Jewish student." However, the performing arts school ultimately imposed a "mutual no-contact directive" on both the Jewish student and her abusers, a decision that the complaint alleges penalized the Jewish student for reporting to law enforcement what would likely constitute a hate crime.

"Rather than protecting the student from retaliation after she reported the anti-Semitic harassment, the complaint alleges that AMDA allowed the retaliation to continue and failed to punish the students for violating the directive," the organizations said.

Female resident of Zohran Mamdani's NYC complains that homeless men are allowed to just whip out their dicks and p*** anywhere they want, resulting in a filthy city that reeks of bum-urine.

Also in NYC: A Gentle Giant "Teen" whips out a knife and chases a soccer player around. The soccer player must be thanking God for his superior speed and endurance, or he'd be dead now.

No arrests for this in Zohran Mamdani's NYC. Arresting Gentle Giant "Teens" would be racist.

Young woman beats up a Soyboy Beta Cuck until she hits the Soyboy in his Okay Now I'm Pissed Off Button, and she gets a quick lesson in why men shouldn't be allowed to compete with women in sports. I wish he knew how to actually throw a punch because I fear this "lesson" was too lightly applied to stick.

This video screams "AI" but it features a Big Titty Goth Chick so I'll chance it.

Tom Hennessy
@Tomhennessey69

🚨 attempted beheading 🚨

Let's check in on Round Rock, Texas (near Austin), where 26-year-old sub-Saharan African Benedict Ogbodiegwu Jr. just allegedly murdered a White man, 62-year-old Andrew James Wimsatt.

Andrew liked to sit at the park and take photos that he shared on his IG. Around 11am, Wimsatt was sitting on a park bench when Ogbodiegwu began attacking him with a knife. Ogbodiegwu wrapped his left arm around Wimsatt and started viciously stabbing him. Wimsatt tried to push him off but failed.

Ogbodiegwu continued stabbing Wimsatt several times before Wimsatt fell to the ground. Ogbodiegwu then got on top of the victim and started visibly sawing Wimsatt's neck with the knife before running away toward the park’s pool area.

The attack happened at Chandler Creek Park and was captured on a nearby security camera.

That video will never be released to the public and will stay hidden forever so as not to alarm White people.

More: No indication yet that he's an illegal alien, but he has been repeatedly arrested and repeatedly let go. Can't be a "carceral" nation, after all. It's racist unless remorseless criminals are permitted to roam free and cut your head off.

Austin Justice
@AustinJustice


NEW DETAILS on the murder and attempted beheading of a man at a Round Rock park.

Andrew James Wimsatt sat down on a bench that Monday morning in a plaid blue button-up and shorts. Three minutes later he was dead.

A neighbor's camera had already caught Benedict Ogbodiegwu Jr. leaving his house that morning, walking toward the park with something in his left pocket that detectives say looked like a large knife sticking out.

He stopped for a drink at the water fountain by the basketball court. Then he found Wimsatt.

He came from behind, wrapped his left arm around the man, and started driving the knife into his neck. Wimsatt tried to push him off. He couldn't. He was stabbed several more times before he hit the ground.

Then Ogbodiegwu walked around to his left side, knelt down, put his knee on the dying man's chest, and kept going -- sawing the blade back and forth while it was inside his neck.

He wiped the blade on his shirt and jogged off toward the pool.

Four minutes after he left the park, that same neighbor's camera caught him walking back home, two houses away.

That afternoon he turned up at a McDonald's in a different outfit and left as a passenger in a red SUV. The plate traced back to his father's house, nine-tenths of a mile from the bench.

When detectives showed him a still from the crime scene video, he admitted it was him. Then said he was never at the park. Then said he has a twin. Asked for his twin's name, he had nothing.

Deputies found a trash bag by the garage. Inside: the Honda shirt he was wearing at the murder scene, grey sweatpants with red stains, size 12 Jordans, and a 5.5-inch knife with a wooden handle. The red substance on the blade tested presumptive positive for human blood.

The two men had never met. He apparently decided to just stab a stranger.

In January, Ogbodiegwu was arrested for theft, which was dismissed. In May, arrested for giving police a fake name - also dismissed. Years earlier, he was arrested for theft.

Apparently theft isn't a real crime any longer.

The victim, Andrew Wimsatt, was 62 years old, and an accomplished civil engineer in Texas. He was also an avid nature and wildlife photography enthusiast.

Fox News host @greggutfeld called him "supremely gentle. Willing to do just about anything for another person."

Before his murder, Andrew had just returned from visiting his mother a nearby nursing home.

Via ArthurK/@ComradeArthur.

But there's some good news, too:

unther Eagleman™
@GuntherEagleman
·
35m
🚨 JUST IN: Fairfax High was ready to welcome him back into the hallways. ICE put him on a plane instead.

Israel Flores-Ortiz, an illegal alien from El Salvador released into the country under Biden in 2024, enrolled as a junior at Fairfax High School in Virginia. He was convicted of assaulting nine girls by grabbing them between the legs in crowded corridors. Some victims were as young as 13. Local court gave him months, not years.

An immigration judge ordered him removed on Aug. 10. On Aug. 31, the day Fairfax County let him out of jail, ICE arrested him. On Sept. 8, he was deported to El Salvador. Nine girls got a predator in their school. America finally gave him a one-way ticket home.

Secure the border. Keep ICE funded. Protect our daughters.

THANK YOU, ICE.

deportationofmolester.jpg

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:20 PM




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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at September 11, 2026 05:21 PM (hG5L0)

2 I nooded

Posted by: Thanatopsis at September 11, 2026 05:22 PM (hG5L0)

3 Too bad Nike didn't latch on Sophie

Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 05:24 PM (Ia/+0)

4 A bold strategy!

Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at September 11, 2026 05:24 PM (Om2Oq)

5 I knew we'd be going Bold.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 05:24 PM (0sNs1)

6 Bold too

Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 05:26 PM (Ia/+0)

7

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 05:26 PM (RIvkX)

8 I think the Bold is in honor of the Big Titty Goth Chicks.

Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:27 PM (zRd05)

9 when you stop prioritizing performance and instead prioritize "diversity."
======
...you start practicing Marxism.

See how that works?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 05:27 PM (RIvkX)

10 ‘Right-hand-man’ son of genocidal Somali dictator who killed 200,000 found living in Ohio, linked to $1.8M Medicare firm

Of course he does,

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 11, 2026 05:27 PM (ubCxQ)

11 When you read the content and see no comments.

*sad trombone*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 05:27 PM (lNdj6)

12 Female resident of Zohran Mamdani's NYC complains that homeless men are allowed to just whip out their dicks and p*** anywhere they want, resulting in a filthy city that reeks of bum-urine.

So it's 1970's New York City again?

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 11, 2026 05:28 PM (OkYzo)

13 I'm pretty sure we'll have to take matters into our own hands. Our government isn't on our side. Despite Trump.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 05:28 PM (2Cry5)

14 These Muslim attacks I hope are kept in someplace. 9/11 was the biggest attack but others add to that.

Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 05:28 PM (Ia/+0)

15 Female resident of Zohran Mamdani's NYC complains that homeless men are allowed to just whip out their dicks and p*** anywhere they want, resulting in a filthy city that reeks of bum-urine.

So it's 1970's New York City again?
Posted by: Frank Barone at September 11, 2026 05:28 PM

As our extinguished governor has said (of raped juveniles), it's just the price you pay for living in a vibrant and diverse urban environment.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 05:29 PM (lNdj6)

16 The FAFO was delicious for the little 'lady?' swinging.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 11, 2026 05:29 PM (NnhvP)

17 Someone finally did a paper about… the reduction in performance when you stop prioritizing performance…

Pretty sure Scott Adams did a Dilbert cartoon, not on prioritizing racism over performance specifically, but on management refusing to believe that you can’t prioritize everything.

It was far too realistic to be funny.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 11, 2026 05:30 PM (olroh)

18 I haven't bought one nike product since they put a jordan logo on it. They priced themselves out of the market.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 11, 2026 05:31 PM (ATFmn)

19 The only Nike product I ever bought were those insanely large bags of gym socks they used to sell at Big Box Sporting Goods Stores.

You'd get like 24 pair of socks for like $15.

Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:32 PM (zRd05)

20 I don't need to look at a big titted Goth Gal
I'm already getting aids with a woman showing off some cleavage and telling me about a product that works much better than viagra.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 05:32 PM (rHgXV)

21 >> I don't need to look at a big titted Goth Gal


They make the world a better place, Fen.

Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:33 PM (zRd05)

22 At some point the shareholders of nike should be/should have been filing lawsuits over fiduciary issues. A company that intentionally tanks it's value is liable for all sorts of fines, penalties and reorganization.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 11, 2026 05:34 PM (I43vL)

23 The soccer player must be thanking God for his superior speed and endurance, or he'd be dead now.

I've never run well. So I carry.
So, in the immortal gangland words of Pumped Up Kicks:
All the other kids with the pumped-up kicks
You better run, better run faster than my bullet

Posted by: GWB at September 11, 2026 05:34 PM (kU0PQ)

24 combine ignorance with strident moral certainty - check
no general education at all - check
lack the most basic knowledge of history, even recent history - check
immature and emotionally fragile - check
can't handle criticism, no matter how sugar coated - check
very little to reduce them to tears - check
shockingly bereft of intellectual curiosity - check
no internal life at all - check
can't follow a simple chain of reasoning - check
unwilling to make judgments of any kind - check
an intense fear of offending anyone - check
=====

Communist Youth League checklist

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 05:34 PM (RIvkX)

25 Female resident of Zohran Mamdani's NYC complains that homeless men are allowed to just whip out their dicks and p*** anywhere they want, resulting in a filthy city that reeks of bum-urine.

So it's 1970's New York City again?
Posted by: Frank Barone at September 11, 2026 05:28 PM

What's she complaining about? That she can't micturate anywhere she wants?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 05:34 PM (0sNs1)

26 Be a wolf. It is the land of wolves now.
Carry.
Or move.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 11, 2026 05:35 PM (xcxpd)

27 20 I don't need to look at a big titted Goth Gal
I'm already getting aids with a woman showing off some cleavage and telling me about a product that works much better than viagra.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 05:32 PM (rHgXV)

Better than viagra?? I would say home baked cookies.

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 05:35 PM (Gqar8)

28 DEI has a cost? Really? You mean to tell me hiring brain-damaged retarded weirdos based on politically correct criteria alone results in decreased performance? No way!

I’m glad a study finally found that out.

I think the next study should find out whether The Blade would get more hot girls cruising SoBe in his Lambo than that pebble-shit troll guy in his 1985 Yugo spewing black exhaust down the dirt path in his trailer park.

I anxiously await the results!

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 11, 2026 05:35 PM (Luoab)

29 "Etiwanda" school district? "California's Inland Empire"?

This does not sound like a U.S. state. Time to kick it loose.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 05:35 PM (wzUl9)

30 I’m late to the blog today but has Ace mentioned AOC and fuckhead Mamdani yukking it up at ground zero? While names of the murdered were being read? And families were weeping?

Posted by: Blutarski, gradually then suddenly at September 11, 2026 05:35 PM (l26NL)

31 I'm already getting aids with a woman showing off some cleavage and telling me about a product that works much better than viagra.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 05:32 PM

You should not be watching those ads, FenelonSpoke. My ads are sufficient.

Posted by: zombie Bob Dole at September 11, 2026 05:36 PM (0sNs1)

32 21 >> I don't need to look at a big titted Goth Gal


They make the world a better place, Fen.
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:33 PM (zRd05)

And the fat bottomed girls.. Make the world go ‘round.

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 05:36 PM (Gqar8)

33 Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:33 PM (zRd05

Well, I'll guess I'll have
to leave my world in the Gothless place it is. 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 05:37 PM (rHgXV)

34 Sue O'Connell, Journalist-harlot, is digging up dirt on the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial.

https://x.com/MassDailyNews/status/2098522625509044317

Sue O'Connell: COMMENTATOR, not a reporter
@SueOC_NBCBoston
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1h
EXCLUSIVE: The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial had a history of domestic violence allegations, the @NBC10Boston Investigators have learned through court documents and interviews with family members.
Watch at 4p, 5p, and 6p and on our digital platforms.

Btw, Sue O'Connell looks like the love child of Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Janet Reno.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 11, 2026 05:38 PM (oPFtC)

35 Loved the Goth Chick video. Fair skin and black hair (among other, uh, attributes) always get my blood moving.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 05:38 PM (wzUl9)

36 I've never run well. So I carry.
So, in the immortal gangland words of Pumped Up Kicks:
All the other kids with the pumped-up kicks
You better run, better run faster than my bullet
Posted by: GWB at September 11, 2026 05:34 PM

*fistbump*

Like the .45, sometimes fat and slow gets the job done.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 05:38 PM (lNdj6)

37 Andrew James Wimsatt z"l apparently worked on Gutfeld's shows and was friends with Kat Timpf and Tyrus too.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 05:38 PM (RIvkX)

38 "Female resident of Zohran Mamdani's NYC complains that homeless men are allowed to just whip out their dicks and p*** anywhere they want"

Welcome to the third world, honey.

Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 05:39 PM (MWfyi)

39 I don't want to hear any complaints from the denizens of NYC. You made your cesspool, now swim in it.

Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 05:40 PM (MWfyi)

40 Like the .45, sometimes fat and slow gets the job done.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 05:38 PM

Let's not denigrate fat and fast.

Posted by: .41 and .44 Magnum at September 11, 2026 05:40 PM (0sNs1)

41 The big boob goth chick isn’t AI. It is staged, though.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 11, 2026 05:40 PM (Luoab)

42 James Wimsatt, Iryna Zarutska. About a year apart, yes?

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 05:40 PM (Gqar8)

43 R-responsible
A-accountable
C-character
I-integrity
S-steadfast in purpose
T-trustworthy

Posted by: Ben Had at September 11, 2026 05:40 PM (E0Et6)

44 EXCLUSIVE: The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial had a history of domestic violence allegations, the @NBC10Boston Investigators have learned through court documents and interviews with family members.
Watch at 4p, 5p, and 6p and on our digital platforms.

Btw, Sue O'Connell looks like the love child of Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Janet Reno.
Posted by: Thrawn at September 11, 2026 05:38 PM (oPFtC)

"allegations"

Still more moral than a good chunk of women in the blue states.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 05:40 PM (uhVAy)

45 32 21 >> I don't need to look at a big titted Goth Gal


They make the world a better place, Fen.
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:33 PM (zRd05)

And the fat bottomed girls.. Make the world go ‘round.

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 05:36 PM (Gqar


I don't know, but I've been told
A big-legged woman ain't got no soul

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 11, 2026 05:40 PM (6ydKt)

46 This video screams "AI" but it features a Big Titty Goth Chick so I'll chance it.

Ahahaha.

But she's perfect for a jury, amiright?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 05:40 PM (l3cgK)

47 The Week In Woke
====

It's sick, sad world.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 05:41 PM (RIvkX)

48 45 32 21 >> I don't need to look at a big titted Goth Gal


They make the world a better place, Fen.
Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:33 PM (zRd05)

And the fat bottomed girls.. Make the world go ‘round.

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 05:36 PM (Gqar


I don't know, but I've been told
A big-legged woman ain't got no soul

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 11, 2026 05:40 PM (6ydKt)

Is she a redhead?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 05:41 PM (l3cgK)

49 I can't wait until I randomly turn in and ace has articles on how the West had enough and collectively loses their shit and is rampaging like WNBA ghetto apes on white chicks.

Canada also had some drone deal with Ukraine for 100 years. Good luck with that.

And 'Reacher' which I've never seen. Somewhere pointed out in the books the enemies were SUPPOSED TO BE Islamic terrorists but are now asian women.

And probably not college in schoolgirl outfits so screw that.



Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 05:41 PM (Sco7b)

50 I don't want to hear any complaints from the denizens of NYC. You made your cesspool, now swim in it.
Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 05:40 PM

Particularly when it comes to picante sauce. They made their jar, and now they can sup from it.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 05:41 PM (0sNs1)

51 "allegations"

Still more moral than a good chunk of women in the blue states.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 05:40 PM (uhVAy)

He can just claim he was having a moment due to his massive testosterone. Hormones are now a valid excuse for vile actions and behaviors, right?

Posted by: Thrawn at September 11, 2026 05:42 PM (oPFtC)

52 Here are my observations about my students. Toward the end, I was teaching "Gen Z."

Well, news flash, bunky, but if you admit all, you're not going to get the best of the best....

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 05:43 PM (pfXMo)

53 I still think it's very important to understand that NIKE and Bud Lite ad campaigns were developed by the exact same advertising agency. That would be Wieden+Kennedy, who are based in Portland, Oregon.

Sure, both companies had to sign off on the campaigns, but that why you hire an advertising agency instead of doing it internally. The Ad agency is supposed to understand the culture, demographics and what will/ won't play with the public.

Personally, that's exactly what I would expect to come out a company that chooses Portland as its HQ.

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 05:43 PM (dIske)

54 And probably not college in schoolgirl outfits so screw that.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 05:41 PM

What are we, chopped liverwurst?

Posted by: Drindls at September 11, 2026 05:43 PM (0sNs1)

55 Israel Ortiz looks like a perv. Which he proved he was by his actions. Glad he's gone.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 05:44 PM (wzUl9)

56 Man they really want that juror murdered.

Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 05:44 PM (YwEeS)

57 Can't be a "carceral" nation, after all. It's racist unless remorseless criminals are permitted to roam free and cut your head off.

Well, if you execute criminals, you don't have to incarcerate them...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 05:44 PM (l3cgK)

58 I don't get all the finger-pointing at Nike when the NFL did and is doing ten times as worse an offender with the woke b.s.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 05:45 PM (RIvkX)

59 Which of these will be covered by the alphabet networks?

Real News: White Man killed during attempted beheading

Fake News:
@RepPressley
Sep 10
Black folks are being found hanged in America.

This is a national crisis and we CANNOT stand by while strange fruit hangs from trees across the country.

We're demanding a federal investigation NOW so we can stop modern-day lynchings.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 05:45 PM (Dv3i1)

60 The Ad agency is supposed to understand the culture, demographics and what will/ won't play with the public."

So what you're saying is that those views are the culture of Portland?

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 05:45 PM (pfXMo)

61 Who Saw This Coming:


@SueOC_NBCBoston
·
36m
Domestic violence allegations raise questions about the holdout juror on the Lindsay Clancy trial.
@nbc10boston
exclusive!

Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026 05:45 PM (ZxPkt)

62 What are we, chopped liverwurst?
Posted by: Drindls at September 11, 2026 05:43 PM

Next month. Wait your turn.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 05:46 PM (lNdj6)

63 Black folks are being found hanged in America"

Ah. Must be election season. Gotta remind who votes for whom...

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 05:46 PM (pfXMo)

64 The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial had a history of domestic violence allegations, the @NBC10Boston Investigators have learned through court documents and interviews with family members.

Allegations. The guy who endured a week or so of condescending women, and two emasculated soy creatures, bitching at him that he should free a woman who had "viciously murdered her children" without, even once, beating the shit out of any of them as is his right as a black man - or so I'm told. I'm inclined to disbelieve the allegations.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 11, 2026 05:47 PM (ExV1e)

65 That she can't micturate anywhere she wants?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026

***
Once upon a time, men used to micturate around the pool hall . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 05:47 PM (wzUl9)

66 58 Indeed the NFL could have shut his protest down in seconds like the NBA did with a similar situation( before they too went full left)

Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 05:47 PM (YwEeS)

67 That chick got her ears boxed

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 11, 2026 05:47 PM (NtVYv)

68 63 Black folks are being found hanged in America"

Ah. Must be election season. Gotta remind who votes for whom...

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 05:46 PM (pfXMo)

The KKK were democrats...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 05:47 PM (l3cgK)

69 Next month. Wait your turn."

Nein. Oktoberfest is in September.

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 05:47 PM (pfXMo)

70 I saw that Joe Biden was shuffling around at the 9/11 memorial in New York today. They should have just had a funeral service for Biden today. They've got everyone there, their dressed for it. Could have saved a lot of time and travel hassle.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 11, 2026 05:48 PM (OkYzo)

71 68 63 Black folks are being found hanged in America"

Ah. Must be election season. Gotta remind who votes for whom...

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 05:46 PM (pfXMo)

The KKK were democrats...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 05:47 PM (l3cgK)

Now they're employed by the SPLC...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 05:48 PM (l3cgK)

72 I lived in Round Rock for years; went to Chisholm Trail Middle School and then Round Rock High; class of 88. I know that park. I have a friend who will be heartbroken; she still goes to football games sometimes at our old school.
Can't say i'm surprised though; Austin is an open sewer of a city. Figures that a few turds got washed up the highway. God bless that poor guy and his family.
Saying it for the umpteenth time; i truly despise this timeline.

Posted by: Nelly at September 11, 2026 05:48 PM (6+ehB)

73 Who Saw This Coming:


@SueOC_NBCBoston
·
36m
Domestic violence allegations raise questions about the holdout juror on the Lindsay Clancy trial.
@nbc10boston
exclusive!
Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026 05:45 PM (ZxPkt)


These MFers

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 11, 2026 05:48 PM (NtVYv)

74 "Black folks are being found hanged in America""

And hung too.

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at September 11, 2026 05:48 PM (MWfyi)

75 NYC isn't unique in "voting" for something and then hating what was voted for. People, generally, are stupid when it comes to cause and effect.

And, I'd not necessarily say "they" voted for it.

Someone(s) did.

Nobody's naive enough to think there wasn't horseshit behind the Islamist being mayor of NYC.

Find out who was. And go after them. It probably wasn't "just" the public. But, if you do... make an example of them. So others think twice.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 05:48 PM (2Cry5)

76 With as violent as black women are he was probably defending himself if anything...

Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 05:48 PM (YwEeS)

77 The very odd thing about Juror Number Hero is that … it all sounds like an op.

Sure, there was one holdout. But all we know about him is from hysterical brain-damaged Karens and that soy beta cucklet. Hardly reliable sources.

It takes a week to learn the guy is black. Then he has domestic violence charges (which if is true, he never woulda been put on the jury).

It’s all so …convenient. Dude is basically a caricature of what commie Karens despite most.

I smell an op.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 11, 2026 05:48 PM (Luoab)

78 >>Black folks are being found hanged in America"


I'm Pressing 'X' to Doubt here, Boss.

Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:49 PM (zRd05)

79 ICE of Spades

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 05:49 PM (Cqx++)

80 I don't need to look at a big titted Goth Gal
I'm already getting aids with a woman showing off some cleavage and telling me about a product that works much better than viagra.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 05:32 PM (rHgXV)

You can't get aids like that

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 11, 2026 05:49 PM (NtVYv)

81 > the handmaiden of incompetence, woke marketing.
----

many people and institutions have this fault: they can't imagine that people will disagree with them

Like those assholes who launched that faggoty Jaguar campaign

to them, the concept was gold! How could anybody not like this?!

easily
but you couldn't possible imagine that, because you are so creative and special

Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026 05:49 PM (ZxPkt)

82
That teen-vs-soccer-player chase in NYC looked like black on brown action. It also looked like a fairly nice area of town. Oh well. (Mamdani grin) : There is a place for all New Yorkers!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 05:50 PM (mmrXZ)

83 This video screams "AI" but it features a Big Titty Goth Chick so I'll chance it.

ace is just trying to get back some straight cred after saying earlier that he was so tired of seeing Sydney Sweeney's breasts.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 05:50 PM (zZu0s)

84 Better than viagra?? I would say home baked cookies.
Posted by: tubal

Farmer Wants a Wife (reality show etc.) came down to two gals, both had special dates, one did skimpy outfit couples yoga, the other baked cookies. Cookie-girl hands down winner.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 05:51 PM (Dv3i1)

85 New Balance >>> NIKE

S'trooth

Posted by: Delurker at September 11, 2026 05:51 PM (2Drhq)

86 This video screams "AI" but it features a Big Titty Goth Chick so I'll chance it.

A based big tiddy Goth girl...it's a dream come true.

Posted by: Need more of this in my life at September 11, 2026 05:51 PM (TbWk/)

87 So the campaign to discredit & destroy Holdout Juror Guy is underway

Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026 05:51 PM (ZxPkt)

88 You can't get aids like that
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 11, 2026 05:49 PM (NtVYv)

Stay out of my lane, pal. -- Tony "Love Machine" Fauci

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 11, 2026 05:51 PM (ExV1e)

89 ** *)EDI ideology is costing approximately $36 million per year,
---

That's an MBA spreadsheet analysis which consistently under represents a problem. The multi area erosion of quality is difficult if possible to quantify on a spreadsheet.


Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 05:51 PM (vC80E)

90 84 The morons were ready to marry cake girl...

Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 05:51 PM (YwEeS)

91 >>Domestic violence allegations


And we all know that Women would never, ever abuse the system by reporting abuse that never happened.

The Sisterhood would never tolerate such things.


Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:52 PM (zRd05)

92 It takes a week to learn the guy is black. Then he has domestic violence charges (which if is true, he never woulda been put on the jury).

It’s all so …convenient. Dude is basically a caricature of what commie Karens despite most.

I smell an op.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at September 11, 2026 05:48 PM (Luoab

Actual charges or allegations.

Everything is fake and ace.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 05:52 PM (zZu0s)

93 >>ace is just trying to get back some straight cred after saying earlier that he was so tired of seeing Sydney Sweeney's breasts.


The messenger bag never lies.

Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:52 PM (zRd05)

94 >>Everything is fake and ace.


lol

Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:53 PM (zRd05)

95
That chick got her ears boxed
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway

===============

I wonder where it was. I couldn't understand anything anyone was saying.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 05:53 PM (mmrXZ)

96 I wonder where it was. I couldn't understand anything anyone was saying.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 05:53 PM (mmrXZ)

Oh, so Louisiana.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 05:54 PM (zZu0s)

97 f a cop is driving behind you with their sirens blaring, you don't have to get out of the way. In fact, stand your ground.

They are probably just out to harass some innocent illegal immigrant committing a crime, and the only thing between them and jail is you.

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

Posted by: It's MA'AM!!!! at September 11, 2026 05:54 PM (TbWk/)

98 Not surprised their going after the holdout.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 05:55 PM (tg5bM)

99 "‘Right-hand-man’ son of genocidal Somali dictator who killed 200,000 found living in Ohio, linked to $1.8M home healthcare Medicare firm"

*puts on "SUCKER" hat*

Anybody else feel this way?

Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 05:55 PM (MWfyi)

100 They're damn.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 05:55 PM (tg5bM)

101 dude those breasts are stupendous, presumptuous, mellifluous

Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026 05:55 PM (ZxPkt)

102 Protuberous, and pendulous

Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026 05:56 PM (ZxPkt)

103 Holdout Juror Guy is a hero.

Put him together in a meme with Based Stick Man (remember him?) and Daniel Penny, with Epic Beard Man in the lead.

"The Men We Need Today"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 05:56 PM (wzUl9)

104 I call bogus on the Goth Girl video. A real Goth Girl would have fingernails painted black.

Would not a true Disinformation Expert have picked up on this?

#BeBetter

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 05:56 PM (0sNs1)

105 74--When strung up by the neck, "hanged" is the past tense of "hang." It's "hung" when you speak of something you attached to the wall.

Or when referring to the well endowed, but we won't go there.

Posted by: Ken at September 11, 2026 05:56 PM (vxSYT)

106 64 The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial had a history of domestic violence allegations, the @NBC10Boston Investigators have learned through court documents and interviews with family members.
----

If you can't trust NBC Boston who can you trust.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 05:56 PM (vC80E)

107 >>>XCLUSIVE: The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial had a history of domestic violence allegations, the @NBC10Boston Investigators have learned through court documents and interviews with family members.


The doxxing and othering has commenced. Next up - FJB crawls out of his crypt and tells Gayle King of CBS, "If he beats his wife, he ain't black!"

If a black man is lynched by a Koven of Karens, is it really a lynching? Or is it Restorative Justice or something?

Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 05:56 PM (5rh/l)

108 God bless the Babylon Bee :

https://tinyurl.com/mryd8bct

Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 05:57 PM (AKptf)

109 >>>XCLUSIVE: The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial had a history of domestic violence allegations, the @NBC10Boston Investigators have learned through court documents and interviews with family members.

"allegations"

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 11, 2026 05:57 PM (NtVYv)

110
The morons were ready to marry cake girl...

I seem to remember a pirate girl...

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 05:58 PM (Cqx++)

111 "Or when referring to the well endowed, but we won't go there.
Posted by: Ken'

Oh, but I have!

Posted by: Lili Von Shtupp at September 11, 2026 05:58 PM (MWfyi)

112 Nobody's naive enough to think there wasn't horseshit behind the Islamist being mayor of NYC.

Find out who was. And go after them. It probably wasn't "just" the public. But, if you do... make an example of them. So others think twice.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 05:48 PM (2Cry5)

its pretty simple. Normal Dems are as popular as cancer so they wanted another 'unknown' Clinton, Obama to sell to the credulous liberals. So they arranged for him to win in NYC.

Trouble is he's dumb enough to believe what the professors told him about communism he's running their city into the dirt in record time.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 05:58 PM (uhVAy)

113 Goth Girl seems like she'd be fun...

Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 05:58 PM (TN0g+)

114 The morons were ready to marry cake girl...
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 05:51 PM

Cake Girl is from 10 minutes up the road from me.

I never met her.

Not cool, Life...not cool.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 05:59 PM (lNdj6)

115 I wonder where it was. I couldn't understand anything anyone was saying.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026
*
Oh, so Louisiana.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026

***
Too many white people for LA. The language label on the video looked Slavic.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 05:59 PM (wzUl9)

116 > I wonder where it was. I couldn't understand anything anyone was saying.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 05:53 PM (mmrXZ)

Oh, so Louisiana.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 05:54 PM (zZu0s)
-------------
Woes... slwoujh, uyui taskwewop bout?

Posted by: LA Cajun at September 11, 2026 05:59 PM (2Cry5)

117 >>>XCLUSIVE: The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial had a history of domestic violence allegations, the @NBC10Boston Investigators have learned through court documents and interviews with family members.

"allegations"
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 11, 2026 05:57 PM (NtVYv)
---
The guy "allegedly" committed domestic violence, so he must be executed by the state.

Meanwhile a woman ADMITS to strangling her own young children to death and she gets a slap on the wrist.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 06:00 PM (FZ29D)

118 Morons aplenty were saddened, even depressed, when it was revealed that Cake Girl was married.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 06:00 PM (0sNs1)

119 99 "‘Right-hand-man’ son of genocidal Somali dictator who killed 200,000 found living in Ohio, linked to $1.8M home healthcare Medicare firm"

*puts on "SUCKER" hat*

Anybody else feel this way?

Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 05:55 PM (MWfyi

We never gave the somali's much credit aside from pack animal behaviour.

But their criminal work ethic is putting the Nigerians to shame. The Somalis scammed a Nigerian prince out of millions!!

Separately, I just weighed Snowflake. It's afternoon but she was 9.8 pounds. I've been feeding her and her Mom Starry. I'm trying to keep Snowflake inner Trigglypuff from busting out.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 06:00 PM (Sco7b)

120 If a cop is driving behind you with their sirens blaring, you don't have to get out of the way. In fact, stand your ground.
-----

This twerp should be pulled from his car and beaten with nightsticks. Since cops aren't allowed to carry nightsticks any longer, the local police department should issue 2 by 4s instead and then send officers to find him.

Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 06:00 PM (TN0g+)

121
Put him together in a meme with Based Stick Man (remember him?)

I remember a picture of a matchstick man.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 06:00 PM (Cqx++)

122 R-eactionary
A-moral
C-unty
I-gnorant
S-tupid
T-urd

Posted by: What Else at September 11, 2026 06:00 PM (60d+e)

123 Like those assholes who launched that faggoty Jaguar campaign

to them, the concept was gold! How could anybody not like this?!

easily
but you couldn't possible imagine that, because you are so creative and special
Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026 05:49 PM (ZxPkt)

_____________________________

The advertising agency that concocted that nonsense is a company called "Accenture Song". They got fired...deservedly. BUT, one of their other clients is the British Army. Take a look at their recruiting commercial for them.

https://tinyurl.com/4pc6vxd9

Someone actually came up with that nonsense. Sold it, and produced it. Does that make YOU want to join the British Army? I think it does a better job talking you out of it.

I think the advertising agencies are infested with Woke idiots. And, corporations are headed by a generation of self-important know nothings that are all too happy to delegate their own responsibilities to others...like woke advertising agencies. That's my opinion anyway.

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 06:01 PM (dIske)

124 I'm inclined to disbelieve the allegations.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 11, 2026 05:47 PM (ExV1e)

Right. When he's on trial, I'll have an opinion on it. Until then, not relevant.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 11, 2026 06:01 PM (CjHsb)

125 Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 05:57 PM (AKptf)

"Babylon Bee" cuts like a knife. Good for them!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 06:01 PM (JrHfD)

126 This twerp should be pulled from his car and beaten with nightsticks
——

That’s a Chick. I think. The point still stands, but.

Posted by: What Else at September 11, 2026 06:02 PM (60d+e)

127 The left: Why is everything so expensive?

Also the left: We need a 12% DEI tax on everything. This is more important then your stupid rent or food or stuff like that

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 06:02 PM (sKqQm)

128
Obviously, the media jackals now know the Lone Holdout's identity. It will be released, if not already.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 06:03 PM (w6EFb)

129 I think the advertising agencies are infested with Woke idiots. And, corporations are headed by a generation of self-important know nothings that are all too happy to delegate their own responsibilities to others...like woke advertising agencies. That's my opinion anyway.
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 06:01 PM (dIske)

And I'm sure the kickbacks are flowing when exec A hires Agency B and the company starts cutting those checks.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:03 PM (uhVAy)

130 Btw, Sue O'Connell looks like the love child of Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Janet Reno.
Posted by: Thrawn at September 11, 2026 05:38 PM
————-
Dance Party blocks Waco.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at September 11, 2026 06:04 PM (+vgD6)

131 108 God bless the Babylon Bee :

https://tinyurl.com/mryd8bct

Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 05:57 PM (AKptf)

Thanks.

I wonder how many muslims are partying today.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 06:04 PM (Sco7b)

132 99 "‘Right-hand-man’ son of genocidal Somali dictator who killed 200,000 found living in Ohio, linked to $1.8M home healthcare Medicare firm"

*puts on "SUCKER" hat*

Anybody else feel this way?
Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 05:55 PM (MWfyi)

For about the last 30 years or so.

Posted by: Integrity and industry are for chumps at September 11, 2026 06:04 PM (TbWk/)

133 How is it that those trying to discredit a black man on the Clancy jury are not being labeled.... you know... racist?

*shrugs*

I just don't understand the rules, I guess.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 06:04 PM (2Cry5)

134 Lone Black Guy Juror will never, ever have to pay for a beer the rest of his life if he gets doxxed.

What a dilemma for the bolsheviks

Posted by: What Else at September 11, 2026 06:04 PM (60d+e)

135 I'm inclined to disbelieve the allegations.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 11, 2026 05:47 PM (ExV1e)

Right. When he's on trial, I'll have an opinion on it. Until then, not relevant.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 11, 2026 06:01 PM (CjHsb)

Besides, it was all pre-jury insanity. He couldn't help it.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:04 PM (uhVAy)

136 Separately, I just weighed Snowflake. It's afternoon but she was 9.8 pounds. I've been feeding her and her Mom Starry. I'm trying to keep Snowflake inner Trigglypuff from busting out.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026

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I'm doing the same with big black Stirling here, who weighed in at 15.5 lbs. two weeks ago.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 06:05 PM (wzUl9)

137 The soyboy revenge video looks Serbian?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 06:05 PM (RIvkX)

138 And, corporations are headed by a generation of self-important know nothings that are all too happy to delegate their own responsibilities to others...like woke advertising agencies. That's my opinion anyway.
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 06:01 PM (dIske)

And I'm sure the kickbacks are flowing when exec A hires Agency B and the company starts cutting those checks.
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We've all become India...in the 80s we were told that businesses overseas ran differently than ours, that it was part of the culture to include bribes as part of almost every negotiation and business deal. Now we're pretty much the same. And the stockholders never seem to seek retribution for their losses due to such terrible decision-making.

Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 06:05 PM (TN0g+)

139 How is it that those trying to discredit a black man on the Clancy jury are not being labeled.... you know... racist?

*shrugs*

I just don't understand the rules, I guess.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 06:04 PM (2Cry5)

Child murderers are well above black men on the disability totem pole.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:06 PM (uhVAy)

140 Thanks.

I wonder how many muslims are partying today.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 06:04 PM (Sco7b)


We shall have the last word.

Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 06:06 PM (AKptf)

141 Meanwhile a woman ADMITS to strangling her own young children to death and she gets a slap on the wrist.
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Virginia mom placed on child abuse registry for 7 years after letting 5-year-old walk alone to collect feathers in their gated community.

https://tinyurl.com/39e33x8m

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 06:06 PM (Dv3i1)

142 Lyndsay Clancy reportedly has a history of murdering her kids.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 06:06 PM (viF8m)

143 105 74--When strung up by the neck, "hanged" is the past tense of "hang." It's "hung" when you speak of something you attached to the wal
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... be hanged by the neck until dead.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 06:06 PM (vC80E)

144 What's a little beheading of a cracker in the park? I mean, gotta liven things up a bit you know what I'm saying?

All the world seems in tune on a summer afternoon
When I'm beheading crackers in the park
Every Sunday you'll see my sweatshirt, knife and me
As we behead crackers in the park...

Posted by: Benny Ogbodiegwu Jr. at September 11, 2026 06:07 PM (cCXR+)

145 I'm doing the same with big black Stirling here, who weighed in at 15.5 lbs. two weeks ago.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 06:05 PM (wzUl9)

Snowflake was waddling after a winter with Mom and I and she was 12 pounds.

She's good now. Slightly zoftig.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 06:07 PM (Sco7b)

146 I saw and experienced a lot of terrible things on 9-11. For many years after, I kept having this repeating dream. The short version is I was walking down the street, I turned the corner and there was a policeman standing in the street. He appeared to be guarding part of a jet engine. The engine was mangled, but you could make out the cowling. He didn’t say anything, he just looked at me. Then at the end he pointed for me to walk in the other direction.

Many years and fifths of bourbon later, I discovered what the dream was all about. When I was egressing on 9-11 I cut down one of the side streets, when I came around the corner there was debris. But in that debris was the face of a person and what was left of them after being on an airplane that crashed into the tower, and plummeted 80 stories. Even given all the heinous things I saw that day, I suppose that was the breaking point for my mind. I buried that so deep, and it hurt so much, my mind just would not recollect what I really saw. I’m not an emotional guy, but I wept like a small child when that came out.

Just thought I would share that.

Never forget.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 11, 2026 06:07 PM (dhhKu)

147 The soyboy revenge video looks Serbian?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026

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Is that the language in the label on the screen? The alphabet did not look Roman, but more Cyrillic.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 06:08 PM (wzUl9)

148 how many muslims are partying today.
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Not as many as should be deported today.

Why are those C-17s sitting idle?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 06:08 PM (vC80E)

149 We shall have the last word.

Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 06:06 PM (AKptf

I believe that too. The population may be down to about 30%, but it'll be the 30% we want around.

And for 250 years after, we beat to death any asshole showing any remorse or sympathy.

Look at me all glass half full.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 06:09 PM (Sco7b)

150 I'm doing the same with big black Stirling here, who weighed in at 15.5 lbs. two weeks ago.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 06:05 PM (wzUl9)

Snowflake was waddling after a winter with Mom and I and she was 12 pounds.

She's good now. Slightly zoftig.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026

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Stirling does have a big frame -- 14 lbs. would be about right for him -- and he's not waddling. Yet. I want him to live a long time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 06:09 PM (wzUl9)

151 I'm inclined to disbelieve the allegations.
____

Yes, but it's hard to overlook the Seriousness of the allegations.
-'News' Media

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 06:10 PM (Dv3i1)

152 I'm watching "9/11: I Was There" recorded from the History Channel. It's average people recording their lives when the towers were hit. It just started and when the first plane hit there was confusion: was it an accident? Can't be! It's a clear day! The fire chief knows it's terrorism and races to the WTC.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at September 11, 2026 06:10 PM (kpS4V)

153 Another week in woke
tinyurl.com/49cwkhca
Arab-Americans are [racially] profiled in what’s called secret evidence. People are stopped, and we got to do something about that! My friend, Sen. Spence Abraham [the Arab-American Republic Senator from Michigan], is pushing a law to make sure that . . . Arab-Americans are treated with real respect.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 06:10 PM (88C+u)

154 I read that they were badgering that poor juror all week and eventually towards the end he said that maybe there was an outside chance of some reasonable doubt, at which point they stopped piling on him....AND THEN, he voted guilty anyway. Which tells me the juror was just tired of the Karen's and said that to shut them up...and voted his conscience based on evidence and opinion....

Which is gangster, and explains why those three women jurors were so pissed.

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 06:10 PM (dIske)

155 MarcusT, thank you for sharing.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 11, 2026 06:10 PM (E0Et6)

156 The soyboy revenge video looks Serbian?
____

The high-waisted jeans on the doomed chick look circa early 1990s

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 06:11 PM (Dv3i1)

157
And I'm sure the kickbacks are flowing when exec A hires Agency B and the company starts cutting those checks.
Posted by: Oldcat

================

I know a civil engineer who explained the whole crooked process. There is a whole industry -- firms, millionaires -- that have formed on DEI requirements, which are satisfied through cut-outs. The middlemen get rich, the hiring firms lose on every contract.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 06:11 PM (mmrXZ)

158 Stirling does have a big frame -- 14 lbs. would be about right for him -- and he's not waddling. Yet. I want him to live a long time.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 06:09 PM (wzUl9)
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Penny and Hexie (my cats) both have a hefty frame as well. They are around 14 pounds each. On Penny it's all solid muscle. Hexie is a bit more flabby.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 06:12 PM (FZ29D)

159 None of my Gen X children catechised (had them baptised) my grands. In the 60's, if you weren't Catholic, you were Protestant. The Catholic kids went to Catechism on Saturday and the Protestant kids went to Sunday School. Sure there were a few pagans, but they were few. There were a few Jews that were trained in the Law of Moses, etc.

Nowadays, yikes. Gen Z are feral.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 11, 2026 06:12 PM (36x1j)

160 > My friend, Sen. Spence Abraham [the Arab-American Republic Senator from Michigan], is pushing a law to make sure that . . . Arab-Americans are treated with real respect.
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Park this fucker in an Islamic stronghold in MI without a cell phone and no money. And make sure he sits there for a month. Without help.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 06:12 PM (2Cry5)

161 155 MarcusT, thank you for sharing.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 11, 2026 06:10 PM (E0Et6

Thanks. Many of us don't have words.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 06:13 PM (Sco7b)

162 The soyboy revenge video looks Serbian?
____

The high-waisted jeans on the doomed chick look circa early 1990s
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026

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Both of them were slim. Little chance of this being modern American kids.

Hard to tell about the other kids in the gym, as they were all wearing coats, but they didn't look like water buffaloes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 06:13 PM (wzUl9)

163 I bet is BS

Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 06:13 PM (Ia/+0)

164 Ben Had. God bless you. I’m hoping at some point to turn the bad into good. Especially by educating people on what really happened. Talked to some middle schoolers today. They were a good curious group. I think we’re gonna be ok if we can save them from the crazies.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 11, 2026 06:14 PM (dhhKu)

165 I bet the High School illegal was in his 20's when he registered for school .

Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 06:14 PM (KC5Lt)

166 Perry Mason and the case avenging Ace movie is on

Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 06:14 PM (Ia/+0)

167 Never forget.
Posted by: Marcus T at September 11, 2026 06:07 PM (dhhKu)

Indeed. Prayers aloft. I was in Colorado, so I had that buffer. What y'all experienced at ground zero is beyond my comprehension.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at September 11, 2026 06:15 PM (0aYVJ)

168 As it turned out, the prediction that a large-scale encounter between the populations of the Western nations and Muslim lands might bring about a meaningful social transformation was correct.

What Western optimists failed to imagine was that their own societies would be reshaped in the image of the newcomers they sought to evangelize.

https://tinyurl.com/pv7t5xe3

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 06:16 PM (vC80E)

169 I'd be fine if the black hold out juror beat AWFLs after what he had to go through

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 06:16 PM (N2HNb)

170 Well

There is a gracious plenty of food here

Soon as them fat-asses get out the way

Posted by: Miklos arrived at the Golden Corral just in time for the Early Bird Special at September 11, 2026 06:18 PM (4RYRd)

171 Regarding 9/11, please understand that we have a God that literally gives life to the dead. He proved it Himself after taking on our sins and suffering a torture that no regularly human person could endure.

Someone said "Never forget. Never forgive." That is what every soul in hell says.

Every soul in Heaven says "I forgive everybody of everything."

Choose wisely.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 11, 2026 06:18 PM (36x1j)

172 Marcus T, that you are willing to tell the true tale of 9/11 to these young people is a good. Thank you again for taking a step that few are willing to take.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 11, 2026 06:19 PM (E0Et6)

173 erry Mason and the case avenging Ace movie is on
Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026

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Skip, you have the Movies! channel?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 06:19 PM (wzUl9)

174 But, I also recommend that you be prepared to defend your town/city/state. Islam is cocky. I will never visit New York, or New England, or even Old England.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 11, 2026 06:20 PM (36x1j)

175 As it turned out, the prediction that a large-scale encounter between the populations of the Western nations and Muslim lands might bring about a meaningful social transformation was correct.


Posted by: Braenyard

Posted by: Miklos reads Samuel Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" while outside having a smoke at September 11, 2026 06:20 PM (4RYRd)

176 Make no mistake. On 9-11 we were attacked islam.

How do I know? They’re still doing it, only now they are living in our country.

“ Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.”

Matthew 12:25

Posted by: Marcus T at September 11, 2026 06:21 PM (dhhKu)

177 167 Never forget.
Posted by: Marcus T at September 11, 2026 06:07 PM (dhhKu)

That's a lot of weight to carry, man. Bless you. I was just out of country in Nova Scotia that day; couldn't leave for about a week or so while they cleared out the diverted flights. Can't imagine what you went through on the ground.

Posted by: Nelly at September 11, 2026 06:21 PM (6+ehB)

178 Nood

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 06:23 PM (QovLg)

179 Why the confusion on what to do with them? Move them to this state or that city? No, they don't belong in America. The only consideration being that they are removed with civility.

They are not going to change they are committed, they are faithful and content, to the death, in their beliefs. This reality should be made self-evident to the masses. It's time for them to go.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 06:24 PM (vC80E)

180 People here hate flock cameras so I assume they wouldn't like my idea to implement Judges (Dredd) to convict and carry out a death sentence immediately.

These random stabbings make me Hulk angry.

Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 06:24 PM (KC5Lt)

181 74--When strung up by the neck, "hanged" is the past tense of "hang." It's "hung" when you speak of something you attached to the wall.

'hanged' is also the future and present tense of the verb 'hang', referring to a human isn't it?

He will be hanged.
He is being hanged.
He is hanged.

???

Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 06:25 PM (5rh/l)

182 Jesus also prayed "Forgive them Father for they do not know what they do."

Maybe because I am old, but I am tired of this sick world where jurours mostly want a woman to be acquited of killing her children. Please Lord, take me home.

But we are here. Fight the hate.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 11, 2026 06:26 PM (36x1j)

183 New York City elected a Muslim. Square that circle.

Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 06:26 PM (KC5Lt)

184 Gref at September 11, 2026 06:25 PM (5rh/l)

Are you a pendant?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 11, 2026 06:26 PM (36x1j)

185 I read that they were badgering that poor juror all week and eventually towards the end he said that maybe there was an outside chance of some reasonable doubt, at which point they stopped piling on him....AND THEN, he voted guilty anyway. Which tells me the juror was just tired of the Karen's and said that to shut them up...and voted his conscience based on evidence and opinion....

Which is gangster, and explains why those three women jurors were so pissed.
Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 06:10 PM (dIske)

I'm more than a little suspicious that the women are not reliably narrating what went on in there.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:27 PM (uhVAy)

186 New York City elected a Muslim. Square that circle.
Posted by: polynikes at September 11, 2026 06:26 PM (KC5Lt)

Democrats hate America.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 06:27 PM (uhVAy)

187 Every soul in Heaven says "I forgive everybody of everything."

Choose wisely.

Posted by: no one of any consequence
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What are we to do with that sword Jesus told us to buy?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 06:30 PM (vC80E)

188 >>>
I'm more than a little suspicious that the women are not reliably narrating what went on in there.

Posted by: Oldcat
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It is said that the confrontations could be heard in other rooms.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 06:33 PM (vC80E)

189
The morons were ready to marry cake girl...

I seem to remember a pirate girl...
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 05:58 PM (Cqx++)



Tri-Corner Hat Girl. Hubba hubba.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 06:34 PM (7lxe6)

190 last night on cspan an “independent” caller said…

“we” have to get a democrat in the WH

lives in washington state and diesel is over $7 a gallon, food is too expensive too! everything was better with the last administration.

Posted by: cherries in season at September 11, 2026 06:40 PM (HCJqL)

191
Every soul in Heaven says "I forgive everybody of everything."

Choose wisely.

Posted by: no one of any consequence
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What are we to do with that sword Jesus told us to buy?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 06:30 PM (vC80E)



I take solace in the 23rd Psalm as something to aspire to. Especially "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me". Because it says to me "I will not die alone. If I die, I'm taking all of you heathen motherfuckers with me."

I just hope that I'm up to the task, physically and most importantly morally.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 06:43 PM (7lxe6)

192
Cat
Under a
Nasty
Tree

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 11, 2026 06:54 PM (W2Pud)

193 I was reading another teacher's description of what it's like to teach kids now and the part that struck me was he gave all the students highlighters and told them to highlight certain passages of a book. The kids didn't even know how to use a highlighter.

And is that thing a trannie in the don't pull over cops video??

Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 07:07 PM (kX27y)

194 Democrats hate America.
——

Eh, not really. I mean, it isn’t as if they hate the Dirt or whatever.

No. They hate *you*

Posted by: What Else at September 11, 2026 08:52 PM (6iQiX)

195 Student Diversity in Etiwanda School District. Only the best!
Hispanic
43.3%
Asian
23%
White
16.3%
Multiracial
9.1%
African American
7.8%

Posted by: The Dog at September 11, 2026 09:12 PM (Le2re)

Twenty Five Years After 9/11, Most Have Forgotten -- and the Children Who Were Born After the Terrorist Attack are Being Taught That Muslims Were the Victims and Americans the Racist Aggressors

How on earth was this allowed to happen?

Hijacking history: Woke teachers offer twisted 9/11 lessons focused on 'Islamophobia' -- not 2,977 innocents killed


Only two US states legally require that 9/11 be taught in public schools -- and the void is being filled with twisted lefty lessons blaming America, downplaying Islamic terrorism and portraying Islamophobia as the real tragedy.

The hijacked history of America's darkest day has created a lost generation. According to one shocking new study, two-thirds of American Middle East studies professors say college kids cannot identify who attacked the US on Sept. 11, 200,1 or why.

New York requires schools to observe a moment of silence on Sept. 11 and the state Board of Regents includes teaching about the attacks in social studies standards, but the state has no standard curriculum covering the attacks.

Only Arizona and Florida mandate that the 9/11 attacks be taught in schools. Ten states have statutes that encourage teaching about the attacks -- which could mean anything from a moment of silence, classwork, or a school assembly, according to an August University of Wisconsin Study.

"We made a promise to 'Never Forget', but today, only a handful of states require 9/11 to be taught in their schools," Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R- Long Island), who is pushing legislation to mandate 9/11 curriculum be taught in all 50 states, told The Post.

In the absence of mandatory standards, leftist activists -- some backed by billionaire George Soros -- are producing lesson plans filled with woke distortions of the attacks, even in New York City schools, according to an analysis from the North America Values Institute, an education watchdog.

"Teaching Beyond September 11th" -- a radical retelling of 9/11 that devotes a single paragraph to the horrific attacks and fails to refer to the murderous Islamic extremists as terrorists -- focuses lessons on "Right-Wing Extremism" and "Islamophobia and the Oval Office."

The curriculum was developed by the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, and includes this passage: "On the 11th of September 2001, 19 hijackers flew two airplanes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one airplane into the Pentagon in Virginia, and a fourth into a field in Pennsylvania. A total of 2,996 people were killed, including the hijackers."

Never forget, the hijackers were the First Victims on 9/11.


Education departments in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Wisconsin and Oregon all recommend "Teaching Beyond September 11th" in public schools.

The lesson does not provide the radical Jihadist motivations of the terrorists, and appears to equivocate on whether al-Qaeda mastermind Osama Bin Laden was behind the attacks.


"The US accused Saudi national Osama bin Laden, living in Afghanistan at the time, of being the mastermind behind the attacks," the lesson states, without mentioning bin Laden's multiple confessions or his broader campaign of terrorism and declaration of Jihad against the US -- which he labeled the "worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind."

Other topics in "Teaching Beyond September 11th" include "Surveillance of Muslims," "The Muslim and African Ban," and "Muslim Youth and Resistance."

The Real Victims.

Oh, and I enjoy Muslim Youth and Resistance -- in other words, justifying Muslim violence on college campuses as heroic "resistance" against Jews trying to get to class without being spat on or punched.



A lesson on the 2005 riots over a Danish cartoon depicting the prophet Muhammad -- which caused the deaths of 250 people globally -- asks students to discuss how the media "presented certain values as more important than the fact that the cartoons were offensive and racist."

Zineb Riboua, a Research Fellow at the Hudson Institute, told The Post that the attempts to rewrite 9/11 history was part of a broader leftist project.

....
The NEA, the national teachers labor union, provides resources for teaching 9/11 that quotes radical anti-Israel professor Edward Said calling the US "cruel and inhumane" and blaming the 9/11 attacks on America's support for the Jewish state.

The Voices Ethnic Studies curriculum used in Pittsburgh public schools teaches that the attacks led to "increased experiences with racism and Islamophobia," with no mention of how many people were killed or by whom.

A California ethnic studies curriculum reportedly stated that "9/11 served as a catalyst to bring about more blatant discrimination" and referred to America as a "colonizer."

The Council on American-Islamic Relations pushes 9/11 curriculum that accuses the US of "state-sanctioned Islamophobia" after the 9/11 attacks.

The woke propaganda appears to be having its desired affect, according to a damning new poll.

An overwhelming majority (66%) of American Middle East Studies professors believe that college students cannot correctly identify who the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks were or what its causes were, according to a poll released by the academic research nonprofit the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa.

The poll also finds that the historical hijacking is not limited to America's public schools. Two-thirds of Middle East Studies professors said that scholarly academic work actively runs cover for regimes, groups and ideologies that hate America, according to the survey of 470 respondents.

Not to be outdone, a woke NYC teacher has taken it upon himself to assign his students Osama Bin Laden's infamous "Letter to America."

Adam Feinberg, who teaches at Brooklyn's City Polytechnic High School, then has them answer questions based on the propaganda text, such as, "Why do you think Osama bin Laden hates Jews so much?"

Other questions include, "For what reasons does he believe that America is the 'worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind?'"

He also asks, "Find the word 'usury'. It means lending money with high interest rates. Why do you think Osama bin Laden disagrees with this?"

...


Feinberg, who made $113,394 in 2025, routinely disseminates his leftist ideology on social media, such as sharing a meme mocking assassinated conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk shortly after his death. Feinberg did not deny the worksheet belonged to him but declined further comment.

...

The goal of the curriculum is to "relate anti-Muslim racism/violence with other forms of racism and violence (e.g. Black Lives Matter; xenophobia, anti-Semitism etc.) in the United States and abroad," per its website.

It all started with this brain-damaged cokehead partyboy lib:

And this is what we got in exchange for our Wilkommen policy:


Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:20 PM




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1 FIRST!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 04:20 PM (iFTx/)

2 Nd

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 04:21 PM (tg5bM)

3 Mamdani Lays Wreath At Tomb Of The Unknown Hijacker

buff.ly/Fqnok61

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:22 PM (vC80E)

4 Sorry, but the only appropriate response if fuck you.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 11, 2026 04:22 PM (Pu/zx)

5 We have been centered, Abdul.

Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 04:23 PM (ZdaMQ)

6 We didn’t “scar” enough of you motherfuckers. But you can be sure we will never surrender to you cult, dickhead.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 11, 2026 04:23 PM (Pu/zx)

7 The Shia mosque in Dearborn needs to be raided by the FBI, it's imam jailed on charges of treason,and the building burnt to the ground with the earth salted afterwards.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 11, 2026 04:24 PM (2WIwB)

8 It happened because the Uniparty and the Media decided to make it happen. They fear the normies more than muzzies.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 11, 2026 04:24 PM (xcxpd)

9 from prev. thread -
...Liu, who described himself as a native of Guangzhou, China, was caught on camera breaking into CBP computers and replacing processors and memory devices before re-inserting them into government networks.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:21 PM

I describe him as a spy. I think we have punishments for spying.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 04:24 PM (Dv3i1)

10 SeanDavis@seanmdav 2h

George W. Bush was personally warned in May of 2001–via a top secret memorandum marked “For the President Only”—that Osama Bin Laden was planning spectacular attacks against the U.S. using hijacked aircraft.

The May 22, 2001 memo, prepared exclusively for President George W. Bush, was entitled “Captured Terrorist Details Hostage Plot” and noted that “planning is under way for three separate operations[.]”

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:24 PM (vC80E)

11 Teachers, man.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 04:25 PM (dK+Kv)

12 I'm going back to work and day-dreaming of islamic glass parking lots.

So many glass parking lots.

Cue 'Imagine' song....

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 04:25 PM (Sco7b)

13 How on earth was this allowed to happen?

Because heritage America lost the WoT thanks to Shrub, Obarky and the GOPe

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:25 PM (sKqQm)

14 I don’t know if it is because it’s the 25th anniversary, but I feel like there is more focus on 911 this year. The horror. More than in the past. Like there’s a resurgence of the thought about what happened that day. And the real reason behind it. And the anger that we should all have.

Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 04:25 PM (ZdaMQ)

15 And yes, in hindsight, GWB was an absolute tool.

Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 04:26 PM (ZdaMQ)

16 7 The Shia mosque in Dearborn needs to be raided by the FBI, it's imam jailed on charges of treason,and the building burnt to the ground with the earth salted afterwards.

Posted by: Diogenes
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Simultaneously, every mosque in America should be raided and searched.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:26 PM (vC80E)

17 As I noted earlier the Bush family's buddy-buddy relationship with the Saudis led him to the "religion of peace" crap. No more Bushes , no more Clintons, no more Kennedys (though RFK Jr is doing solid things)

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 04:27 PM (N2HNb)

18 There are plenty of places they can go to practice their cult. Ask yourself- why are they here?

There’s only one answer. They hate us and want to conquer us from the inside.

Fuck you.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 11, 2026 04:27 PM (Pu/zx)

19 It all started with this brain-damaged cokehead partyboy lib:

One of the most revealing things we did was that the jailers at Guantanamo put on gloves before handling Korans, because Muslims consider infidels unclean.

As Mark Steyn noted, it's one thing for Muslims to think that infidels are unclean, and quite another thing for the infidels to agree with them.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 11, 2026 04:27 PM (aD4fx)

20 15 And yes, in hindsight, GWB was an absolute tool.

Posted by: Piper
--

More damning, the whole family was and still are tools.
_Skull n Bones is only the beginning

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:27 PM (vC80E)

21 Simultaneously, every mosque in America should be raided and searched.

Bets that they all have an armory in the mosque?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 11, 2026 04:28 PM (aD4fx)

22 "islam is a religion of peace. Now let's fight them over there so we can import infinity brown people here!" - GWB

Posted by: brak at September 11, 2026 04:28 PM (sCxmP)

23 Compare 9/11 with Pearl Harbor

With the later we went to a war footing immediately and devastated Japan the source of "radical Bushido" as a full on punitive response. We didn't import millions of Japs, and in fact interned the ones already here.

After killing 8% of their male population and nuking a few of their cities they were ready to stop being assholes, but if we fought WWII like we fought the WoT they would have won...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:28 PM (sKqQm)

24 I blame GWB for whitewashing muslims while the fires were still burning.

Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 04:28 PM (YwEeS)

25 How did it happen?

We responded to 9/11 with weakness. Instead of immediately nuking Kabul and Kandahar and anyone else who complained about it, we set off on a couple of campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq with no particular goal (talking about DC here) beyond making those countries better places to live for their women, for some reason.

And as mentioned in the post we imported the savages by the millions to prove how much we weren't actually resisting islam, so as not to piss off the regimes' buddies in Riyadh and similar hell holes.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 11, 2026 04:28 PM (vSvIl)

26 F them. The thousands of people who simply showed up for work on 9/11 were slaughtered by the muslims ONLY because they're American. Not one of them was killed because they were islamaphobic or right wing or anything else -- only because they're American.

Posted by: LASue at September 11, 2026 04:28 PM (lCppi)

27 I regret all the mental energy I wasted defending that chimp.

Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 04:30 PM (YwEeS)

28 I don’t know if it is because it’s the 25th anniversary, but I feel like there is more focus on 911 this year. The horror. More than in the past. Like there’s a resurgence of the thought about what happened that day. And the real reason behind it. And the anger that we should all have.

====

I wonder if (finally) dealing with the Islamic republic brought it all back.

Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 04:30 PM (AKptf)

29 Hey Abdull....fuck you.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 11, 2026 04:30 PM (2WIwB)

30 I think we would have gotten a lot more if we locked the jihadis in with flocks of pigs. Unfed pigs.

Hey Muhammed, I'm guessing in about another day those porkers are going to be hungry enough to try a taste of you. I know gross! But hey any chance you they you might remember where Osama is hiding before then? Because I do have another room with no pigs we could move you to instead...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:30 PM (sKqQm)

31 >>> I don’t know if it is because it’s the 25th anniversary, but I feel like there is more focus on 911 this year.

I think it's in part because Gen Z, the first generation born after 9/11, is now the dominant voice in pop culture, and it feels to most people 30+ that "never forget" has become either "forgotten" or "trivialized".

Posted by: brak at September 11, 2026 04:30 PM (sCxmP)

32 How many of those children were born from foreigner parents?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2026 04:31 PM (4KUe5)

33 My wife was pregnant 25 years ago today, and we realized that our child had been conceived in a different world than the one she would be born into.

And who back then could have foreseen that she would earn a campaign medal for a war that started before she was born?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 04:31 PM (ZOv7s)

34 We also gave Osama bin Laden an Islamic burial at sea, and recorded it as proof that we had done so.

There have been cases where the Russians have taken the corpses of Islamic terrorists, and buried them sewn up in pigskin shrouds, and recorded it as proof that they had done so.

Any bets which approach is more effective at deterring future terrorism?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 11, 2026 04:31 PM (aD4fx)

35 People scoff at my ideas about dissolving the Union, because they love borderline retards telling their kids they are infidels who deserve to be killed by Arab savages.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice's at September 11, 2026 04:32 PM (BI5O2)

36


-- a radical retelling

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 04:32 PM (Cqx++)

37 Funny how, twenty years after Pearl Harbor, even twenty-five, we didn't need assemblies and the like to remind us of the sneak attack. Our parents, who lived through it, taught us about it, and the media (then) portrayed it as a horrible event.

My mother was a young woman in 1941. She told me years later she was positive FDR knew about the impending attack, and didn't warn America because he *wanted* us to get into the European/Asian war. I hadn't been taught that in school or read it in any histories . . . but the evidence has been coming out in the decades since.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:32 PM (wzUl9)

38 I remember being very moved by the (French?) headline that 'Today, we are all Americans'

Posted by: 496 at September 11, 2026 04:32 PM (3iDiL)

39 We need more Oriana Fallaci types.

Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 04:33 PM (kX27y)

40 I would like to see full disclosure of all governmental communications and payments that brought muslims to the US starting from the Clinton admin on down to today.

I'd also like to know a lot of things we taxpayers paid for without our knowledge and consent.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 04:33 PM (Dv3i1)

41 I regret all the mental energy I wasted defending that chimp.
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 04:30 PM (YwEeS)
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I (unironically) blame the Democrats. They could have picked a wartime nominee who understood what was at stake, but instead we got Swift Boat Lurch, John F'in Kerry who actually made Dubya look eloquent.

Dubya's colossal incompetence opened the window for Obama. Dubya is definitely in the bottom quarter of presidents.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 04:33 PM (ZOv7s)

42
it feels to most people 30+ that "never forget" has become either "forgotten" or "trivialized".

Never heard of it

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 04:34 PM (Cqx++)

43 Reposting...

The NY Post caught a scene of he and AOC yukking it up during today's memorial, next to weeping families grieving for their mothers and fathers lost.

https://tinyurl.com/2a86buss

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 11, 2026 04:34 PM (YjkhO)

44 I think I've reached my zenith of disgust today. It's pretty unbearable having to listen to any more stories of these foul maniacs, and the horrible erasure of what really happened on that fateful, tragic day, and the glorification of islamism and communism lurking right at the surface of these demonic creatures. All of them. My nausea/rage meter today has pegged past 11.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 11, 2026 04:34 PM (qBdHI)

45 “Now let's fight them over there so we can import infinity brown people here!” - GWB

One of the things that 9/11 put the (temporary) kibosh on was comprehensive immigration reform. GWB and the Republicans were all in on it; the only reason we didn’t get was that Ted Kennedy and the rest of the Democrats didn’t want to give Bush the win.

During President Fox’s September 7 visit, Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) said that they’d had “an excellent week to really bring this topic to the forefront of the thinking across America”.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 11, 2026 04:34 PM (olroh)

46 The Hawaii or pacific commanders knew that there was going to be an attack. Not necessarily at Pearl Harbor. That was a surprise, near as I can figure out.

It was also complicated by bungling diplomacy, a formal declaration of war was intended to be presented before the attack itself. This didn't happen, and pissed off a lot of people.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 04:34 PM (2dVdu)

47 The NY Post caught a scene of he and AOC yukking it up during today's memorial, next to weeping families grieving for their mothers and fathers lost.

==

Yep, flashing her mule teeth adorned with red lipstick.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 11, 2026 04:35 PM (qBdHI)

48 we set off on a couple of campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq with no particular goal (talking about DC here)
_____

We have bills to pay, politicians to feed.

Posted by: Military Industrial Complex at September 11, 2026 04:35 PM (Dv3i1)

49 Dubya's colossal incompetence opened the window for Obama. Dubya is definitely in the bottom quarter of presidents.

Lost two wars
Budget from $1.8T -> $2.9T
And did NOTHING domestically because "we have to focus on winning the war first"

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:35 PM (sKqQm)

50 The vid you posted on X - the comments are full of Inside Jobbers.

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 04:35 PM (Gqar8)

51 There have been cases where the Russians have taken the corpses of Islamic terrorists, and buried them sewn up in pigskin shrouds, and recorded it as proof that they had done so.

A proper burial. Then backfill with pig shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 04:36 PM (tg5bM)

52 President Donald Trump is becoming 'more dangerous' as his mental state reportedly deteriorates, according to a Nobel Peace Prize-winning psychiatrist who has called for his removal from office.

Dr Henry David Abraham, who shared the 1985 Nobel with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, told a radio show this week that the 80-year-old commander-in-chief now poses a heightened risk, particularly given his sole authority over the US nuclear arsenal.

… where in the wild wild world of sports were this clown when President AutoPen ruled the country ?

Posted by: SMOD at September 11, 2026 04:36 PM (g57eb)

53 New gayfather Guy Benson is heaping praise on GWB.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 04:36 PM (Cqx++)

54 My mother was a young woman in 1941. She told me years later she was positive FDR knew about the impending attack, and didn't warn America because he *wanted* us to get into the European/Asian war. I hadn't been taught that in school or read it in any histories . . . but the evidence has been coming out in the decades since.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:32 PM (wzUl9)
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The failures of Army/Navy command and intelligence have been exhaustively mapped.

The people who think "FDR knew" don't understand naval tactics. Moving the Pacific Fleet to Pearl was indeed an aggressive act, like forward-deploying ground troops long a disputed border.

But if they had even thought Japanese aircraft carriers could have done what they did, it would not have happened. The Battleship School still held a lot of sway, and the raid on Taranto was waved off as Italian incompetence. Americans were too smart to fall for that.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 04:36 PM (ZOv7s)

55 I think we would have gotten a lot more if we locked the jihadis in with flocks of pigs. Unfed pigs.

Hey Muhammed, I'm guessing in about another day those porkers are going to be hungry enough to try a taste of you. I know gross! But hey any chance you they you might remember where Osama is hiding before then? Because I do have another room with no pigs we could move you to instead...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026

***
Pig fat on our bullets. And be sure to let them know about it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:36 PM (wzUl9)

56 >>>Lost two wars
Budget from $1.8T -> $2.9T
And did NOTHING domestically because "we have to focus on winning the war first"

Hey he had some big domestic accomplishments..

No Child Left Behind
the TSA...

Posted by: brak at September 11, 2026 04:37 PM (sCxmP)

57 It has been said that after September 11 “everything has changed.” I hope that is not true. America must remain America, a symbol of freedom and a beacon of hope to those who seek a better life for themselves and their children. We must increase our security and improve our systems but in doing so we must not forget what has made this nation great—our openness to new ideas and new people, and a commitment to individual freedom, shared values, innovation and the free market. If, in response to the events of September 11, we engage in excess and shut out what has made America great, then we will have given the terrorists a far greater victory than they could have hoped to achieve.
—INS Commissioner James Ziglar, October 11, 2001.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 11, 2026 04:37 PM (olroh)

58 corpses of Islamic terrorists, and buried them sewn up in pigskin shrouds, and recorded it as proof that they had done so.

That was done by Black Jack Pershing dealing with murderous Moro muslims in the Philippines...

Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 04:37 PM (YwEeS)

59 The fact that the Pacific fleet was re-located to Pearl in the first place was very controversial, and one commander was relieved for his protests. Thought it was a dumb idea.

Kimmel and others were hung out to dry, of course. Politically speaking it was a disaster for FDR, for re-election purposes but he was able to quash any investigative reportage for the most part, and somehow kept the Republicans from even deigning to make it a campaign issue. Had a more accurate and complete picture of the timeline and events been revealed at the time it is arguable whether he could have been re-elected.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 04:37 PM (2dVdu)

60 43 Reposting...

The NY Post caught a scene of he and AOC yukking it up during today's memorial, next to weeping families grieving for their mothers and fathers lost.

https://tinyurl.com/2a86buss
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 11, 2026 04:34 PM (YjkhO

My observation on last thread was of course they are happy, why wouldn’t they be? Was candy passed out, was there ululating going on from the entourage?

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 04:38 PM (Gqar8)

61 The Statue of Liberty represents Lucifer.
___________

The only reason I would be inclined to believe this is because we got it from the French.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 11, 2026 04:38 PM (XvL8K)

62 The vid you posted on X - the comments are full of Inside Jobbers.

===

X is poison. Musk has his head in the clouds and his is full of lofty ideas, but this so called freedom of speech enterprise is hijacked, and has become an epicenter of waste, fraud and abuse.

Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 04:38 PM (AKptf)

63 Yes it was GWB that started the unprecedented spending that Obama and Biden would expand on ( not that Trump is fiscally conservative either)

Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 04:38 PM (YwEeS)

64 I wish we could go back to the pre-9/11 usage of the accurate term "fundamentalist muslims." Did W have something to do with the start of the use of the term "radical?" Nothing radical about the terrorists at all - they follow the source documents.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 11, 2026 04:39 PM (GMWTj)

65 Nobel Peace Prize-winning psychiatrist
----
That sounds pretty gay

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 04:39 PM (2dVdu)

66 Like people have time to police that POS platform, and defend it from the billions thrown at it by jihadis, marxists and other trash.

Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 04:39 PM (AKptf)

67 The problem is that nobody under 29 is reading this so you're preaching to the choir. We have a serious problem in the department of education.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 11, 2026 04:40 PM (ATFmn)

68 How would you define an observant Muslim?

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 04:40 PM (Gqar8)

69 The fact that the Pacific fleet was re-located to Pearl in the first place was very controversial, and one commander was relieved for his protests. Thought it was a dumb idea.

Kimmel and others were hung out to dry, of course. Politically speaking it was a disaster for FDR, for re-election purposes but he was able to quash any investigative reportage for the most part, and somehow kept the Republicans from even deigning to make it a campaign issue. Had a more accurate and complete picture of the timeline and events been revealed at the time it is arguable whether he could have been re-elected.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026

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Was the fleet moved in 1940 or earlier? FDR was re-elected in '40, before the attack, and then again in '44, when the war was winding down.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:40 PM (wzUl9)

70 Agincourt was an inside job.

Seriously. Look it up

Posted by: Just asking questions at September 11, 2026 04:40 PM (CRErM)

71 59 Indeed it was the CINCPAC at the time who disagreed with FDR. Kimmel was his replacement. The fleet was just as big a deterrent based at San Diego and much harder to hit.

Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 04:40 PM (YwEeS)

72 The Hawaii or pacific commanders knew that there was going to be an attack. Not necessarily at Pearl Harbor. That was a surprise, near as I can figure out.

It was also complicated by bungling diplomacy, a formal declaration of war was intended to be presented before the attack itself. This didn't happen, and pissed off a lot of people.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 04:34 PM (2dVdu)
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The peacetime US military was a shitshow, with countless examples. It was one thing for the British to strike Italy, but the notion that Japan could move four carriers across the Pacific and dare to strike our battleships protected by land-based fighters was regarded as insane.

I mean, it's been explored ad nauseum and so many times we were thisclose to avoiding the trap with random chances, but the dice always went the other way.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 04:41 PM (ZOv7s)

73 I wish we could go back to the pre-9/11 usage of the accurate term "fundamentalist muslims." Did W have something to do with the start of the use of the term "radical?" Nothing radical about the terrorists at all - they follow the source documents.

Modern "radical" islam comes from Sayyid Qutb. But as you note all he did is say we show go back to the original Islam.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:41 PM (sKqQm)

74 Well this sucks.

WSJ:

Iran used American-developed artificial-intelligence models to try to target U.S. Navy ships in the Middle East, according to an Anthropic report warning of emerging national-security dangers.

An Iranian-linked group compiled information from ship and aircraft transponders, military photographs and commercial satellite photos to track American warships and look for vulnerabilities in their ship-born communications, the report found.

Posted by: WisRich at September 11, 2026 04:41 PM (G0vdT)

75 I wish we could go back to the pre-9/11 usage of the accurate term "fundamentalist muslims." Did W have something to do with the start of the use of the term "radical?" Nothing radical about the terrorists at all - they follow the source documents.
Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 11, 2026

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How about the terms "Moslem" or "Mohammedans"? I see nothing wrong with those.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:41 PM (wzUl9)

76 912 Senate leader Daschle....tax cheat
House leader Hastert ....pedo

We couldn't win with a team like that.

Posted by: torabora at September 11, 2026 04:41 PM (thxmR)

77 Nobel Peace Prize-winning psychiatrist
----
That sounds pretty gay
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 04:39 PM (2dVdu)
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He does share it with a bunch of other poofters, so that tracks.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 04:41 PM (FZ29D)

78 nobody is getting an education, attention span is nonexistent, and wisdom comes algorithms

Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 04:42 PM (AKptf)

79 The reasoning for this is that the left, globally, is now aligned with mohammedans. The socialists are doing this in order have foot soldiers who are willing to sacrifice their lives and to use violence to achieve the aims they share, namely the overthrowing of democracy. What the idiotic and suicidal lefties don't understand is that they will be the first to be beheaded once the mohammedans take power.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 11, 2026 04:42 PM (0U5gm)

80 I kind of like X. I never would have heard of a "non-practicing white".

https://tinyurl.com/muyjpk3w

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 04:42 PM (Dv3i1)

81 To be fair by the standards of 1941 US military preparedness and strength Pearl Harbor was tops.

Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 04:42 PM (YwEeS)

82
How would you define an observant Muslim?
Posted by: tubal

Looks both ways before crossing the street.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 04:42 PM (Cqx++)

83 74 And with that intel they hit jack shit....

Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 04:43 PM (YwEeS)

84 We normies are learning faster and faster that the Constitution is, indeed, a Suicide Pact.

The crazies realized it decades ago and exploit it.

Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 04:43 PM (5rh/l)

85 Shrub could fuck up a one-car funeral.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 04:43 PM (tg5bM)

86 Gore and Kerry would have been worse. But everything W's enemies said about him being a jumped-up lackwit is correct. He's an indefensible uniparty stooge. To his credit, he did destroy the Bush brand.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 11, 2026 04:43 PM (ca8Qt)

87 >>>To his credit, he did destroy the Bush brand.

please clap

Posted by: Jeb! at September 11, 2026 04:44 PM (sCxmP)

88 The "radical" Moslems are the guys who just want to be left alone like anyone else, run their restaurant or bakery without a load of government BS or whatever, maybe smoke a cigarette or have a beer now and then if they so choose and cook BBQ on the grill on a nice summer day.

The verbiage used to describe everything is horked. They mangle the language. By using vague euphemisms then reality is blurred. "Gender Affirming Surgery" sounds a lot nicer than Child Genital Mutilation, don't it?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 04:44 PM (2dVdu)

89 Indeed it was the CINCPAC at the time who disagreed with FDR. Kimmel was his replacement. The fleet was just as big a deterrent based at San Diego and much harder to hit.
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 04:40 PM (YwEeS)
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No, it wasn't. The Pacific is BIG, and so forward deploying ships was a way of sending a message that the US was serious. Remember, the Philippines were ours, and if we were going to have any hope of defending them, moving the fleet to Pearl was the smart play.

What we did not expect was that Japan would be crazy enough to do what the did, or that they even had that capability.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 04:44 PM (ZOv7s)

90 How would you define an observant Muslim?
Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026

***
One who keeps his eyes open as to how foolish Americans are to trust him and his kind, and passes on reports of our weaknesses.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:44 PM (wzUl9)

91 We normies are learning faster and faster that the Constitution is, indeed, a Suicide Pact. /i]

The problem isn't the Constitution at all. The problem is we allow the left's pretend version of it to guide our laws and actions.

Trump could have every illegal rounded up and shot and the Constitution is fine with it. Or he could put most of the GOPe and Dems on trial for treason. And on and on.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:44 PM (sKqQm)

92 Ace:

"How on earth was this allowed to happen?"

Surely you jest.

The Long March Through the Institutions, that's how.

Leftists targeted the teaching profession and education as the FIRST and most important institution to "capture." And they were 100% successful, with almost zero pushback until the last couple years (which is still mild and futile).

The entire education infrastructure is 100% under the total control of absolute communists whose sole intent is to brainwash all children until they all hate America.

They're incredibly successful at this. (See: DSA.)

Of course the 9/11 curriculum is corrupted, a ludicrous stew of lies, disinformation, distractions and propaganda.

But 9/11 is just the tip of the iceberg. ALL curricula are similarly corrupted.

The "educators" don't even hide their agenda anymore -- at conferences, they brag how school is now nothing but a "revolution pipeline" to "train the next generation of organizers," etc. etc. They used to only whisper this, but then they realized" Why are we whispering? There's no one here but us!

Posted by: zombie at September 11, 2026 04:45 PM (Av6i5)

93 Agincourt was an inside job.

Seriously. Look it up
Posted by: Just asking questions at September 11, 2026

***
". . . That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:45 PM (wzUl9)

94 TBH I think we would have likely been better off if Gore did cheat to win in 2000.

I suspect after 9/11 he would have been forced to resign and perhaps we would have gotten a reformer in 2004 (perhaps Fred Thompson?)

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:45 PM (sKqQm)

95 60 43 Reposting...

The NY Post caught a scene of he and AOC yukking it up during today's memorial, next to weeping families grieving for their mothers and fathers lost.

https://tinyurl.com/2a86buss
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 11, 2026 04:34 PM (YjkhO

My observation on last thread was of course they are happy, why wouldn’t they be? Was candy passed out, was there ululating going on from the entourage?

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 04:38 PM (Gqar


Did Mamdani give a speech today? I'm guessing no, because I haven't heard about one.

Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 04:46 PM (5rh/l)

96 The verbiage used to describe everything is horked. They mangle the language. By using vague euphemisms then reality is blurred. "Gender Affirming Surgery" sounds a lot nicer than Child Genital Mutilation, don't it?
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 04:44 PM (2dVdu)
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I like Kissinger defining a "Moderate Iranian" as one who has run out of ammo.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 04:46 PM (ZOv7s)

97 Under Rainbow (modified )the Philippines were still likely to fall no matter what

Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 04:46 PM (YwEeS)

98
OT - sane black woman reacts to the news that holdout juror was a black man:

https://tinyurl.com/t2dw32jn

Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 04:46 PM (kX27y)

99 It was one thing for the British to strike Italy, but the notion that Japan could move four carriers across the Pacific and dare to strike our battleships protected by land-based fighters was regarded as insane.

I mean, it's been explored ad nauseum and so many times we were thisclose to avoiding the trap with random chances, but the dice always went the other way.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd



Nobody mentions that the odds against it were about the same as the results in the battle of Midway.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 11, 2026 04:47 PM (0U5gm)

100 We do need muslims to subvert their religion - to sit on the couch, play video games and drink beer. We'd have way less violence that way.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 11, 2026 04:47 PM (GMWTj)

101
Yes, in retrospect, GWB was a feckless tool who mishandled the war, and helped bring about what you can call a muslim victory in New York and elsewhere in America by importing muslims and giving them a strong foothold in our heartland.

I definitely would like to have the ability to see an alternate timeline where:

1) All of the Saudi and Emirate Royalty involved in 9/11 are shot and/or tried and hung.

2) All muslims deported from the US and restricted from further entry.

3)And possibly nuking Mecca and Medina just to make sure, their phony-baloney "god" has no power on Earth.

I know, I know...

I denounce myself.

But, like Carter's mishandling of Iran brought further American death and problems, so Shrub's mishandling of the aftermath of 9/11 did the same within our country

Fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here.

hmmm...imagine that.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 11, 2026 04:47 PM (iJfKG)

102 I hope Adam Feinberg dies a martyr the same way Daniel Pearl (a far, far better man and Jew), did ... and preferably at the hands of a few of his eager pupils.

And tonight the judgement of the New Year begins. May the Holy One forgive both my rage and my timing....

Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at September 11, 2026 04:48 PM (5ayY3)

103 What the idiotic and suicidal lefties don't understand is that they will be the first to be beheaded once the mohammedans take power.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

That's just silly!

Posted by: Queers for Palestine at September 11, 2026 04:48 PM (Dv3i1)

104 80 I kind of like X. I never would have heard of a "non-practicing white".

https://tinyurl.com/muyjpk3w
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 04:42 PM (Dv3i1)
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Yeah, I posted that earlier and agree, first time I've heard that one.

Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 04:49 PM (kX27y)

105 >>> thisclose to avoiding the trap with random chances,

if only the USS Nimitz hadn't drifted back into that time vortex storm

Posted by: It's the final countdown.....do do do do do do do at September 11, 2026 04:49 PM (sCxmP)

106 _James Smith Bush (June 15, 1825 – November 11, 1889)
attorney, Episcopal priest, father of business magnate
_Samuel P. Bush, (October 3, 1863 – February 8, 194
was an American steel industry executive
_ U.S. Senator Prescott Bush, May 15, 1895 - October 8, 1972
banker and Republican Party politician. Connecticut senator 1952 to 1963
_U.S. President George H. W. Bush, June 12, 1924 - November 30, 2018
--Barbara Pierce Bush (1925–201, wife of George H. W.; daughter of publisher Marvin Pierce, distant cousin of 14th U.S. president Franklin Pierce, Second Lady and later First Lady of the U.S.
_George W Bush and fat little brother, banker Jeb Bush.

They’ve got a history. Don’t count them out but remember their flouncy ways and their associations. It’s a big flock.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_family

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:49 PM (vC80E)

107 Elon Musk says that there won't be any need to work in 10 or 20 years. Imagine that only 1/10 of one percent of muslims are actually pious now - and with time on their hands in the future, that could slide up to there being a full one percent (10,000,000) actively planning and executing jihad. The post scarcity world is very scary.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at September 11, 2026 04:49 PM (GMWTj)

108 Under Rainbow (modified )the Philippines were still likely to fall no matter what
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 04:46 PM (YwEeS)
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When you are wargaming it, you can make decisions like "this is untenable, we should just pull the troops out," but politically that would have been suicidal.

So, given you have to keep them there, you have to make a plan that gives them some chance of holding out. If the raid had been detected, things might have gone very differently.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 04:49 PM (ZOv7s)

109 70 Agincourt was an inside job.

Seriously. Look it up
Posted by: Just asking questions at September 11, 2026 04:40 PM (CRErM)

Pffffft.

Posted by: Thermopylae at September 11, 2026 04:50 PM (B0NCh)

110 The left believes after they get rid of us they'll be banging jihadi boys in Mecca within a decade

The jihadis believe after they get rid of us they'll be banging leftist boys in NYC within a decade.

I tend to think the jihadis are more likely to be correct but I could be wrong

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:50 PM (sKqQm)

111 Hanged. The word you are looking for is hanged.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 04:50 PM (2dVdu)

112 Boy, oh boy. The ending is going to be fascinating to watch.

Posted by: t-bird at September 11, 2026 04:51 PM (c1gcm)

113 I can't read this post but I don't really need to. These treasonous quisling bastards need to burn in hell and most of them probably will. I lived very close to the World Trade Center, 20 short blocks north. Saw the second Tower collapse from the roof of my building. Our friend Patrick Brown was the most decorated fireman in New York City and he was killed that day leading his men up in North Tower even after the First Tower collapsed.

So many memories. I was close enough for my apartment to be inside the military cordon area and we had to show ID to get on to our block, as the perimeter was kept by the National Guard with their M16s. Fighter jets screaming overhead. Missing friends who lived in Battery Park City. It just went on and on.

We wore gas masks out in the street the first few days. The smoke from Mordor would blow over our neighborhood whenever the wind was out of the South. Islam is a satanic death cult and it does not surprise me although it enrages me that momdani did his b******* commemoration at the Islamic Center. Afterwards he probably went to a toilet to jerk himself off. They really are masturbating over our grief.

Posted by: Beverly at September 11, 2026 04:51 PM (reMys)

114 So, given you have to keep them there, you have to make a plan that gives them some chance of holding out. If the raid had been detected, things might have gone very differently.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd


If I recall correctly, the men in Fort Drum held out for a few months.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 11, 2026 04:52 PM (0U5gm)

115 When George Bush came out and told the most monstrous lie of this century, that Islam is a religion of peace, I knew we were f***** and we wouldn't do anything nearly as violently effective as we needed to do. My reaction was that we should have moved Mecca and dropped thermobaric bombs on Tora Bora.

Posted by: Beverly at September 11, 2026 04:52 PM (reMys)

116 Besides the weekend is here
The Cultural Marxist Seminaries teach nothing but Marxist Propaganda,

Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 04:53 PM (Ia/+0)

117 An observant Muslim is simply a Muslim who faithfully follows what is written in the Q'uran and the Suras. That's all -- nothing more, nothing less.

Problem is, what is written in the Q'uran and the Suras.is

-- Slaughter all infidels
-- Islam is and alway will be supreme and the only acceptable mode of existence, and everything else must be destroyed.
-- Behead anyone who challenges or criticizes Islam.
etc. etc. etc., down to the "triviial" stuff like "It's OK to jack off by rubbing your cock on a a six-year-old's thigh and ejaculate on her vulva, but you must wait until she is 9 to actually insert your penis into her vagina," and "It'k not only OK but mandatory to beat your wife -- but only with a stick no bigger around than your thumb" so the bruises don't show.so much, and so on.

The trivial stuff gets all the attention, but the main message -- world domination, by force -- is the real problematic part.

Posted by: zombie at September 11, 2026 04:53 PM (Av6i5)

118 And tonight the judgement of the New Year begins. May the Holy One forgive both my rage and my timing....
Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at September 11, 2026 04:48 PM (5ayY3)
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Have a sweet New Year. Do some Tashlich since it sounds like you're near the ocean.

Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 04:54 PM (kX27y)

119 Only 14 states have 9/11 in their puplic school curriculum.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 11, 2026 04:54 PM (hzuYO)

120 My reaction was that we should have moved Mecca and dropped thermobaric bombs on Tora Bora.
Posted by: Beverly at September 11, 2026

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First step on 9/12 should have been, every Moslem -- out of the country. No more to come in. We'll apologize to some of you later -- if necessary. Right now, OUT.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:54 PM (wzUl9)

121 I definitely would like to have the ability to see an alternate timeline where:

Posted by: naturalfake at September 11, 2026 04:47 PM (iJfKG)

1) Having driven the Taliban from power, we found a local strong man who agreed to keep kicking their ass and we agreed to supply him with infinite guns and a mercenary air force so long as he kept the drug trade within tolerable limits and

2) Having overthrown Saddam, we found a local strong man who agreed to know who butters his bread and we would supply him with guns and he would pump oil for us. Basically Venezuela -1.0.

I actually thought that was what would happen, but instead we got all gay and retarded and starting trying to push literal gay - as if the Afghans didn't already do it!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 04:54 PM (ZOv7s)

122
Hanged. The word you are looking for is hanged.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 04:50 PM (2dVdu)

Nah.

Hung is defined as suspended by hanging.

Hung, hanged let's call the whole thing off.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 11, 2026 04:55 PM (iJfKG)

123 My mother was a young woman in 1941. She told me years later she was positive FDR knew about the impending attack, and didn't warn America because he *wanted* us to get into the European/Asian war.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:32 PM (wzUl9)

The problem with this scenario is that we didn't have to *LOSE* for FDR to get into the war. Any attack and any damage would have done to get into the war. The base was under high alert for a few weeks before Dec 7 and it was lifted that weekend. We had some intelligence the fleet was on the move but when nothing happened we figured it was bad intelligence. They had been delayed just long enough to hit us when we were recovering from the weeks of alert status.

The other problem is that we were essentially already at war in the Atlantic and incrementally extending our aid and coverage to England, fighting U boats over half the distance to England. Pearl Harbor eliminated our quasi neutral protection and in the next months our merchant marine and tankers were sunk in massive numbers.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 04:55 PM (uhVAy)

124 Treating terrorism, acts of war by state level actors or by foreign nationals on our soil as just another garden variety crime worthy of lawyers, civilian courtrooms with presumption of innocence, miranda rights, etc., is all fairy-tale nonsense.
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They pushed that slop on to America after the first WTC bombing in 93 or whenever it was.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 04:55 PM (2dVdu)

125 Islam *itself* through its own "most holy prophet" says that having sex with 9 year olds, committing genocide on Jews, and enslaving religion minorities is GOOD.

This isn't that some real world Muslims failing to live up to the ideals of Islam this is what Islam calls GOOD.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:55 PM (sKqQm)

126 I do wonder of Islam would be mostly a spent force if the US blew up the Kaaba stone in Mecca.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 04:56 PM (Dv3i1)

127 On her "Bridget Phetasy" website, she's done with "never forget",

Instead, she says, "Never Forgive".

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 11, 2026 04:56 PM (8O9+I)

128 The NY Post caught a scene of he and AOC yukking it up during today's memorial, next to weeping families grieving for their mothers and fathers lost.

Leftists on social media are now claiming that it was an edited video.

It was a live broadcast, guys.

This is devastating for AOC's rumored Presidential campaign.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 11, 2026 04:56 PM (aD4fx)

129
It's well past sundown in Israel, so the Jewish New Year, and Rosh Hashanah begins. Somebody call up Tuq'r and wish him happy Rosh Hashanah.

This will the the year 5787, Anno Mundi, the Year of the World. Tradition holds that Adam was created on Rosh Hashanah, which fell of the 6th day of the first week. Year 2 began the day Adam was created.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 04:56 PM (w6EFb)

130 How on earth was this allowed to happen?
__________________

They don't need lesson plans, or any organized disinformation campaign. They just need shallow, self-important, malcontents who need a cause to assemble some self-worth to their dreary lives.

Case in point....hours after a bunch of mouth breating savages from Hamas raped, pillaged, murdered, maimed and kidnapped innocent parties, large groups sided with them. Championed them. And, took it a step further by blaming those they attacked.

This is what you get when the media shapes the message, and those who receive it are not capable of critical thought or even considering the substance of the action(s).

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 04:56 PM (dIske)

131 If I recall correctly, the men in Fort Drum held out for a few months.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 11, 2026 04:52 PM (0U5gm)
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US troops held out until April. If we had an intact fleet, Japan's options there would have been very limited, especially if we could fly in additional aircraft.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 04:57 PM (ZOv7s)

132 >>>
My observation on last thread was of course they are happy, why wouldn’t they be? Was candy passed out, was there ululating going on from the entourage?

Posted by: tubal
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They have landed, stormed the beach and taken the Jewel of the North without firing a shot.

Before Mamdani's gone, call to prayer will be emitted from the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building and the new Towers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:57 PM (vC80E)

133 We normies are learning faster and faster that the Constitution is, indeed, a Suicide Pact. /i]

The problem isn't the Constitution at all. The problem is we allow the left's pretend version of it to guide our laws and actions.
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The problem is that the Constitution was written for a different people than the evil bunch that inhabit the land today. There's no point trying to reapply it until all the foreign religions (islam, progressivism, etc) have been driven out.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 11, 2026 04:57 PM (vSvIl)

134 I actually thought that was what would happen, but instead we got all gay and retarded and starting trying to push literal gay - as if the Afghans didn't already do it!

I saw a video we made of the US government teaching art to Afghan women. The afghans were there mostly wrapped up in hijabs and we had American women in t-shirts presenting modern art like Duchamp's urinal to them.

And the afghan women looked so confused and disappointed..."this is what freedom and human rights look like? Piss pots as art?!?"

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:57 PM (sKqQm)

135 There's another one! - "cultural" Marxist.

They are just Marxists. Right? Why or why not?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 04:58 PM (2dVdu)

136 George W Bush and fat little brother, banker Jeb Bush.

They’ve got a history. Don’t count them out

Jeb saw what was in the envelopes. I count him out. With the cartels being brought down, the money laundering being mapped, I count him out.

Posted by: t-bird at September 11, 2026 04:58 PM (c1gcm)

137 Listening to students in grad school, I surmise they have been taught that the "root cause" of 9/11 and all these wars, like WWII, are because of our racism and bad behavior.

It's frightening.

Posted by: Random PJ at September 11, 2026 04:58 PM (+jscL)

138 Only 14 states have 9/11 in their puplic school curriculum.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 11, 2026 04:54 PM (hzuYO)

Can't recall a single history course in public school that 'caught up' to modern history before the course ran out.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 04:58 PM (uhVAy)

139 The problem is that the Constitution was written for a different people than the evil bunch that inhabit the land today.
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*shifty eyes*

Posted by: 11 Massachusetts jurors at September 11, 2026 04:59 PM (Dv3i1)

140 The other problem is that we were essentially already at war in the Atlantic and incrementally extending our aid and coverage to England, fighting U boats over half the distance to England. Pearl Harbor eliminated our quasi neutral protection and in the next months our merchant marine and tankers were sunk in massive numbers.
Posted by: Oldcat
________

Only because Hitler made his worst mistake of all (including invading Russia) and declared war on us. And then got no help from Japan with Russia.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 11, 2026 04:59 PM (XvL8K)

141 105 >>> thisclose to avoiding the trap with random chances,

if only the USS Nimitz hadn't drifted back into that time vortex storm
Posted by: It's the final countdown.....do do do do do do do at September 11, 2026 04:49 PM (sCxmP)

I kinda hate that movie. Great concept and then they pussy out and decide not to wipe out the Pearl Harbor attackers.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 11, 2026 04:59 PM (xcxpd)

142 The problem with this scenario is that we didn't have to *LOSE* for FDR to get into the war.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 04:55 PM (uhVAy)
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Correct. The notion was that if the US fleet was attacked, it would savage the Japanese, giving us a victory as well as a justified declaration of war.

The fact that the declaration of war was bungled ultimately cost Japan everything, because against honorable opponents, we could show restraint, but against backstabbers, there could be no mercy.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 05:00 PM (ZOv7s)

143 Ha! What was in those envelopes at the funeral? Jeb looked like he'd been punched in the gut.

Had to be a photograph, I'm thinking, based upon the speed of his reaction.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 05:01 PM (2dVdu)

144 > Iran used American-developed artificial-intelligence models to try to target U.S. Navy ships in the Middle East, according to an Anthropic report warning of emerging national-security dangers.
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I'll put money on "the American-developed AI" being from Anthropic itself. They hate Trump. Trump should seize their assets. Enemy of the state. They supplied the intel. Bet on it. This was a CYA move.

Not kidding. Leftist assholes running the joint.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 05:01 PM (2Cry5)

145 129
It's well past sundown in Israel, so the Jewish New Year, and Rosh Hashanah begins. Somebody call up Tuq'r and wish him happy Rosh Hashanah.

This will the the year 5787, Anno Mundi, the Year of the World. Tradition holds that Adam was created on Rosh Hashanah, which fell of the 6th day of the first week. Year 2 began the day Adam was created.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)
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Happy New Year to all our Hebrew friends.
Celebrate Rosh Hashanah and the Sabbat
you have much work Monday.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 05:01 PM (vC80E)

146 If I recall correctly, the men in Fort Drum held out for a few months.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 11, 2026 04:52 PM (0U5gm)
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US troops held out until April. If we had an intact fleet, Japan's options there would have been very limited, especially if we could fly in additional aircraft.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 04:57 PM (ZOv7s)

Japan had bases surrounding the Philippines on all sides, having a few more battleships would not have changed the fact that our war plans in 1940 or so had written off those areas until our fleet under construction came on line in 1943.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 05:01 PM (uhVAy)

147 Qatar is a billion dollar donor/investor to the most elite schools in the US. It owns a ton of properties in NY. Now we have a generation of pro islamonazi jugend running around, and a jihadomarxist mayor in NY. Coincidence? I looking forward to the day Qatar is dirt poor shithole it was just a century ago.

Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 05:01 PM (AKptf)

148 139 The problem is that the Constitution was written for a different people than the evil bunch that inhabit the land today.
____

*shifty eyes*
Posted by: 11 Massachusetts jurors at September 11, 2026 04:59 PM (Dv3i1)

Yeah. Our form of Republican government is only fitting for an overwhelmingly moral people, as stated before by far better men than me. In the hands of a degenerate population, sooner or later disaster must occur.

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 05:01 PM (Gqar8)

149 Notes from an NYPD cop at Ground Zero

https://tinyurl.com/5hdjtcbm

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 11, 2026 05:02 PM (bkuEU)

150 Bush's "Islam is a religion of peace" -- what a mistake. "Come here and take us over without firing a shot. "

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 11, 2026 05:02 PM (8O9+I)

151 This is devastating for AOC's rumored Presidential campaign.
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Now do Hillary Clinton.

What I mean by that is that we've already witnessed that there is practically *zero* "baggage" attached to any liberals actions. Its the same old "they could abort a baby and kill a puppy on live tv and their supporters would still vote for them" adage.

"Yes" the footage will be valuable, but only because it will remind the *normal* people to go out and actually vote. it won't affect the behavior of the leftists.

Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 05:02 PM (TN0g+)

152 "religion of peace taken over by extremists"; right from CAIR's mouth probably

Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 05:03 PM (AKptf)

153 Correct. The notion was that if the US fleet was attacked, it would savage the Japanese, giving us a victory as well as a justified declaration of war.

The fact that the declaration of war was bungled ultimately cost Japan everything, because against honorable opponents, we could show restraint, but against backstabbers, there could be no mercy.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 05:00 PM (ZOv7s)

That had no real effect. The normal Japanese atrocities in combat would have soured any good feeling from declaring war 10 minutes before attacking Pearl or the Philippines.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 05:04 PM (uhVAy)

154 Bush's "Islam is a religion of peace" -- what a mistake. "Come here and take us over without firing a shot. "
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Peter Jennings and other talking heads were doing their "let's not jump to conclusions" thingy within hours of the towers being hit. Clinton's supporters normalizing sexual harrassment and adultry and 9/11 are the two reasons I switched parties.

Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 05:05 PM (TN0g+)

155 Only because Hitler made his worst mistake of all (including invading Russia) and declared war on us. And then got no help from Japan with Russia.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 11, 2026 04:59 PM (XvL8K)
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Arguing that invading the USSR was a mistake is based entirely on after-the-fact information. In June 1941, the Soviet Union looked like a paper tiger. It had taken inordinate losses just to move the border a few miles west against Finland. It has purged its army leadership. According to its own propaganda, it was shot through with traitors.

In 1918, the Bolsheviks got completely rolled and made a separate peace, even to the point of offering tribute. Stalin did so again.

Knowing what he did, Hitler was not insane to attack the Soviets, and came close enough to scoring a knockout blow that people still argue about it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 11, 2026 05:05 PM (ZOv7s)

156 118 And tonight the judgement of the New Year begins. May the Holy One forgive both my rage and my timing....
Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at September 11, 2026 04:48 PM (5ayY3)
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Have a sweet New Year. Do some Tashlich since it sounds like you're near the ocean.
Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 04:54 PM
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Thank you, beckster, for the good wishes, and the very same to you and yours. My pack will be dumping a cr*p-load of sins into the canal next to our condo, and I hope the ducks and otters find them tasty.

Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at September 11, 2026 05:05 PM (5ayY3)

157 >>Our form of Republican government is only fitting for an overwhelmingly moral people, as stated before by far better men than me.


Indeed. If there was one flaw in the Founder's Plan it was that the Republic was to serve a Dutiful and Honorable Population.

Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:05 PM (zRd05)

158 Listening to students in grad school, I surmise they have been taught that the "root cause" of 9/11 and all these wars, like WWII, are because of our racism and bad behavior.

It's frightening.

Posted by: Random PJ


My neighbor related that his daughter was in an argument with an indian fellow student, who was insisting that the US was the most racist country in the world. Not only are we one of the least racist, this argument is coming from someone from a country that has thousands of castes, of which none are allowed to intermingle. It is maddening the disconnect.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 11, 2026 05:06 PM (0U5gm)

159 143 Ha! What was in those envelopes at the funeral? Jeb looked like he'd been punched in the gut.

Had to be a photograph, I'm thinking, based upon the speed of his reaction.

Posted by: Common Tater
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I forgot about that.
Very significant.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 05:06 PM (vC80E)

160 What I mean by that is that we've already witnessed that there is practically *zero* "baggage" attached to any liberals actions. Its the same old "they could abort a baby and kill a puppy on live tv and their supporters would still vote for them" adage.

"Yes" the footage will be valuable, but only because it will remind the *normal* people to go out and actually vote. it won't affect the behavior of the leftists.
Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 05:02 PM (TN0g+)

yet despite all that, they have gone from being a majority party to a minority, to being locked out of 40 or so states, to only being able to win using massive corruption and fraud, to now not even being able to raise money for a campaign.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 05:07 PM (uhVAy)

161 "TERRIFYING: The Shia Muslim mosque of Dearborn, Michigan, pledged its allegiance to the Islamic Regime in Iran, calling the U.S. a nation of ‘Devil-worshipers.’ "

Reminds me of John 8 -- "They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.

40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.

41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not."

Posted by: illiniwek at September 11, 2026 05:07 PM (vbXSk)

162 One thing that gives hope, people can learn. Some people learn faster than others, it is true. I was a little bit slow on the uptake. But as I grew older, and gained life experience, many of the things that I thought were true, or were told were true, was obviously bullshit. Over time this increased to more things.

"What else have they been lying about" is the default position at some point. And someone can start thinking for themselves, gauging the veracity of information. Seeking out primary documents instead of listening to some paid clown with an agenda.

On the other hand it is a huge mistake to sleep soundly in the knowledge that a majority of people will mature as they age, or have an epiphany, or anything of the sort. I think people tend to become more conservative as they age, but this isn't necessarily the way to bet considering the huge mind-fvckery operation that has been deployed in recent years. But I suspect the insanity has been so outrageous that it might have sown the seeds of its own destruction. Too fucking weird, and always fucking weird, on any given issue. It drives people away. This causes the left to become even more un-hinged. Are you hinged?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 05:07 PM (2dVdu)

163 God bless the family at the 9/11 ceremony this who spoke out about Saudi Arabia.

One would hope the assembled former presidents felt shame, but it’s not bloody likely.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2026 05:09 PM (4KUe5)

164 Ha! What was in those envelopes at the funeral? Jeb looked like he'd been punched in the gut.

I hope they tell us someday.

Posted by: t-bird at September 11, 2026 05:09 PM (c1gcm)

165 The Houthis are getting the upper hand in Yemen. Soon we will be intervening in this asshole of the world.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 11, 2026 05:09 PM (bX16E)

166 Not to mention, I am tired of seeing hijabs. One local coffee shop I used to love going to now has at least two hijab-wearers, usually on the same shift. I hate going there now and refer to it as "Mecca West."

Funny how I saw zero hijabs in Kansas. When I mentioned to Salty how there seemed to be few Moslems of any stripe around, he nodded. "They keep a low profile. Too many possible gun owners."

I don't recall any in SW Indiana a year ago, either.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 05:09 PM (wzUl9)

167 Hitler's mistake was declaring war on the US, not the USSR.

If he doesn't DOW us FDR would have a hard time getting us into the war and sending massive aid to the Soviets...which means the USSR loses the war in '43.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 05:10 PM (sKqQm)

168 151 This is devastating for AOC's rumored Presidential campaign.
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Now do Hillary Clinton.

What I mean by that is that we've already witnessed that there is practically *zero* "baggage" attached to any liberals actions. Its the same old "they could abort a baby and kill a puppy on live tv and their supporters would still vote for them" adage.
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It's all double standards all the time. If Bill Clinton had had the foresight to close the border, the eneMedia would have said he was a visionary, protecting American jobs. But Donald Trump closed the border only because he's a racist.

Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 05:02 PM

Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at September 11, 2026 05:10 PM (5ayY3)

169 If only 1r states teach about the real events of 9/11 bet none are Blue States

Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 05:11 PM (Ia/+0)

170 Well at my son's school they will be learning about the Crusade's and I don't have a lot of faith that they will teach WHY they had to launch the Crusade's because Christian's were being killed in the Holy Land by peace loving Muslims

Also during orientation she mentioned, Have you heard about the Richest man who ever lived that was from Africa and from Mali, that we only learn about NOW because racism. I started laughing when she mentioned that.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 11, 2026 05:12 PM (ubCxQ)

171 It is maddening the disconnect.

Posted by: Thomas Paine

Yes, the whole world of college grads appears to be brainwashed. As for all immigrants coming to the US and whining about their lot here, how we just have not been nice enough to them to come here and get rich and cheat and steal, I am so not interested. I'm with B. Phetasy, I will never forgive. They meant to kill thousands more that day, even their fellow Muslims inside.

Posted by: Random PJ at September 11, 2026 05:13 PM (+jscL)

172 166 Not to mention, I am tired of seeing hijabs.
Funny how I saw zero hijabs in Kansas.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I advise against taking your next vacation in London or Paris.

In many parts of London," hijab" is the most revealing level of garment. You're more likely to see full burkas, which in some neighborhoods are more common than western clothes.

(I say this through personal observation, not simply reading about it j the Internet.)

Posted by: zombie at September 11, 2026 05:14 PM (Av6i5)

173 My neighbor related that his daughter was in an argument with an indian fellow student, who was insisting that the US was the most racist country in the world. Not only are we one of the least racist, this argument is coming from someone from a country that has thousands of castes, of which none are allowed to intermingle. It is maddening the disconnect.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 11, 2026 05:06 PM (0U5gm)

Even in WWI, though, it took Germany and AH years to reach the point where the government collapsed and gave them the win. With all the issues in 1916 the Brusilov Offensive advanced hundreds of miles and nearly knocked Austria Hungary out of the war. All the things that cost them in WWI - poor roads and rails, inability to force Russia out quickly and having to man a huge front absorbing many troops were still there in WWII.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 05:14 PM (uhVAy)

174 You know who (that's "you know who", not "you-know-who") the real victim around here is, after that boobophobic attack in the last post?

Bulg.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 05:14 PM (0sNs1)

175 Every Middle Eastern Studies department is a hotbed of America-hating funded by Qatar.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 05:15 PM (RIvkX)

176 147 Qatar is a billion dollar donor/investor to the most elite schools in the US. It owns a ton of properties in NY.
Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 05:01 PM (AKptf)
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It would be interesting to pull up the list of taxed secondary residences in NYC to see if those particular properties were left off the list.

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 05:16 PM (dIske)

177 >>Every Middle Eastern Studies department is a hotbed of America-hating funded by Qatar.


That was back in the 90s.

Now, it's pretty much the entire University.

Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:16 PM (zRd05)

178 It happened because the Uniparty and the Media decided to make it happen. They fear the normies more than muzzies.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 11, 2026 04:24 PM (xcxpd)

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Sums it up quite well. What the leftie idiots don't know is that you always have to defeat Muslims militarily and deport the rest to be able to have a civilization and progress. This has to be done now and not in four hundred years.

Posted by: Decaf at September 11, 2026 05:17 PM (ZNpJk)

179 Babylon Bee: NY mayor lays wreath at the tomb of the unknown hijacker.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 11, 2026 05:17 PM (0U5gm)

180 > Every Middle Eastern Studies department is a hotbed of America-hating funded by Qatar.
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Makes you wonder why they'd "gift" the US President with a multi-million dollar jumbo jet.

It does need to be examined. At length.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 05:18 PM (2Cry5)

181 Ha! What was in those envelopes at the funeral? Jeb looked like he'd been punched in the gut.
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Jeb's was a Dear John letter from his midget wife.

Posted by: wth at September 11, 2026 05:18 PM (UjdFS)

182 >>Babylon Bee: NY mayor lays wreath at the tomb of the unknown hijacker.


That's good Snark.

Posted by: garrett at September 11, 2026 05:18 PM (zRd05)

183 Thank you, beckster, for the good wishes, and the very same to you and yours. My pack will be dumping a cr*p-load of sins into the canal next to our condo, and I hope the ducks and otters find them tasty.
Posted by: werewife, princess of Delray Beach at September 11, 2026 05:05 PM (5ayY3)
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And use pumpernickel if you've got it on hand for the dark sins! Old joke......

Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 05:18 PM (kX27y)

184 Every Middle Eastern Studies department is a hotbed of America-hating funded by Qatar.

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One of the meeting rooms in the university center at my former employer is called the Qatar Room. I don't know if it was called that before 2001. If so, it should have been renamed immediately on 9/12/01. If not, it should never have been named that afterward.

The fact it's still called that is one more reason I have lost all respect for the place.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 05:20 PM (wzUl9)

185 the hijackers were the First Victims

Well they were in the front of the planes.

Posted by: DaveA at September 11, 2026 05:20 PM (FhXTo)

186 I've shared this here and elsewhere over the years, I have a friend who was in Vegas the day of the attacks. Members of the Saudi Royal family were stating there. He was at the Four Seasons Hotel that night. The family members were partying like mad, taunting the staff. Some employees refused to have any more to do with them. Apparently one Saud even joked that his luggage might have a bomb in it. I wish my friend were still alive- he passed in 2018. It pisses me off, and I used to defend W.

Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 05:21 PM (aH/pT)

187 Clinton's supporters normalizing sexual harrassment and adultry and 9/11 are the two reasons I switched parties.
Posted by: Crusader at September 11, 2026 05:05 PM (TN0g+)
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Same here.

At some point after eating a lot of crap I realized "I am not like them."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 05:21 PM (RIvkX)

188 I'm still waiting for Iran to take out the great satan and the little satan like they promised. Wouldn't today be the day for a grand showing of the power of islam?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 11, 2026 05:21 PM (ATFmn)

189 i've not seen anyone post this previous. not fond of the narrator, but the locals more than make up for it.
500,000 people in 9hrs...
https://tinyurl.com/47vcfa5k

Posted by: cmeat at September 11, 2026 05:21 PM (ncRE1)

190 ‘Right-hand-man’ son of genocidal Somali dictator who killed 200,000 found living in Ohio, linked to $1.8M Medicare firm

Of course he does,

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 11, 2026 05:21 PM (ubCxQ)

191 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at September 11, 2026 05:21 PM (hG5L0)

192 Apparently Israel commemorated 9/11 by destroying some massive Iran built underground Hezbollah base - command center, weapons store; billions and billions, years and years, all up in smoke. more than 1K of explosives would do that !

Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 05:22 PM (AKptf)

193 *1k tonnes of explosives that is

Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 05:22 PM (AKptf)

194 Abdul El-Sayed in unearthed audio:

"9/11 scarred our country in profound ways [which pleases me but I can't say it aloud], but what we did after 9/11 scarred millions of other people [who are the real victims you haters!]."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 05:24 PM (RIvkX)

195 My neighbor related that his daughter was in an argument with an indian fellow student, who was insisting that the US was the most racist country in the world. Not only are we one of the least racist, this argument is coming from someone from a country that has thousands of castes, of which none are allowed to intermingle. It is maddening the disconnect.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 11, 2026 05:06 PM (0U5gm)

I never understood how that works, listened to podcast's about it and they state that's why Garbage isn't picked up because you have to be of a certain caste to touch it,

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 11, 2026 05:25 PM (ubCxQ)

196 PA is just about lost. It's a little UN. (CAIR, 'special' Human Relation Commissions, 500 pages of changes to the Board of Health), overwhelming DEI at almost every turn - except the excellent public, private and many orthodox schools. Yet, another 'Jewish' Governor.

Why? IDK, but the failure and closing of so many of the old churches and places of gathering and prayer seem to be involved, especially when they were largely white &/or biracial. There's almost no "old time Baptist," etc. learn scriptures (both Old and New Testament), the Ten Commandants, participation from the time kids are toddlers, the "age of reason," brotherhood & sisterhood, Do Unto Others, and so on. Catholic schools are few; the churches combined.

Younger residents have often quit more formal religion all together, some moved to Quakerism, and many to Universal Unitarianism. (Local churches are often being held together by Serbians and Croatians (more western PA) or Eritrean, Ethiopian and other African diaspora in Southwest and West Philadelphia and adjacent counties.

Urban (often Black) Baptist churches are diminishing as elders pass. There has been big growth in Islam as a prominent religion.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 05:27 PM (NFX2v)

197 I keep saying, if it weren't for the delay at Newark and the plane bound for the Capitol had lifted off earlier and on time without the tarmac delay and actually had hit the Capitol building, we'd be living in a different universe - one where Bush would not have done his 'RoP' comparison and our country would have been MUCH more resolved to stay the course even in Iraq.

Posted by: Garfunkel's Sowed Oats at September 11, 2026 05:28 PM (V87Oy)

198 Pennsylvania and North Carolina have large historic and active Quaker populations, while Massachusetts and Vermont lead in Universalist Unitarians per capita.

Quakers (the Religious Society of Friends) are rooted in Protestant Christianity, but they are often open to and blended with other faiths like Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Paganism/nature religions.

Universal Unitarians are believers in personal experience, reason, and conscience as the best guides for spiritual truth. Like Quakers, congregations may include atheists, agnostics, Christians, Buddhists, Pagans, Humanists, and Jews who learn from one another.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 05:31 PM (NFX2v)

199 never understood how that works, listened to podcast's about it and they state that's why Garbage isn't picked up because you have to be of a certain caste to touch it,
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 11, 2026 05:25 PM (ubCxQ)

Some areas group by race, some by imaginary class difference, the US pretty much tries to avoid both of these.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 05:34 PM (uhVAy)

200 Every Middle Eastern Studies department is a hotbed of America-hating funded by Qatar.
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Makes you wonder why they'd "gift" the US President with a multi-million dollar jumbo jet.

It does need to be examined. At length.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 05:18 PM (2Cry5)

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Load it up with explosives and send it to the mullahs in Iran.

Posted by: Decaf at September 11, 2026 05:38 PM (ZNpJk)

201 Something I have posted elsewhere. Yes, it is a bit long. But you ask how this was allowed to happen and this is the answer.

Nobody has forgotten 9/11.

I mean that.

Nobody has forgotten:

Not the people who thought it was abominable act of terrorism.

More importantly, not the people who thought it was a great victory for a certain group.

And, perhaps most importantly, not the people who thought it was something the US deserved on political grounds.

**NONE** of them have forgotten.

The problem is that the people in the first group persistently overlook the number of people in the other two groups and glossed or dismissed their existence from the beginning.

Worse, are the ones who made excuses for all the Truthers who might have otherwise been condemning certain factions because of that condemnation, giving them a place for years while handwaving their subversion.

Now they are shocked, shocked to discover Fifth Columnists and Infiltrators everywhere, usurping positions of power, subverting elections, corrupting education, driving the media, and more.

Nobody has forgotten.

Especially not the enemies who attacked us and the enemies within us.

Posted by: Sam at September 11, 2026 06:33 PM (7jMef)

202 “Simultaneously, every mosque in America should be raided and searched.”

You misspelled “razed and scorched”.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at September 11, 2026 08:50 PM (UWN7z)

203 "Why do you think Osama bin Laden hates Jews so much?"
Because his girlfriend dumped him for Gene Simmons

Posted by: hurricane567 at September 11, 2026 08:59 PM (+ayKE)

204 I'd like to center Islam. Or rim fire.
Where the hell is the Curtis LeMay we need?

Posted by: Hockey IS a major sport at September 11, 2026 09:01 PM (wOBAx)

Hollywood: Shit or Garbage

I kinda half-like Sydney Sweeney, but I am getting a little sick of this Jezebel Hussy.

Yes I know that makes me partially gay.

But still.

Madame, please put away your bosoms. I've seen them. We all have. Many times. They're becoming wallpaper. You are making boobs boring, and that I cannot abide.


The heartthrob and "Euphoria" star was looking to get everyone excited for the NFL season when she posed in her birthday suit with a variety of props that cover just enough to be legally distributed on airwaves.

"Think you know sports?" Sweeney said in the ad for Novig, a prediction market company also partnered with the New York Mets. "Prove it."

The camera then pans out to show that Sweeney appears to be fully nude, with only two footballs covering her chest.

"Novig is just sports," Sweeney says.

Among the riskiest shots, Sweeney sits atop a basketball hoop with a basketball on her finger tips and her hair falling over her breasts.

"You can trade this sport," Sweeney says.

"This sport too," she says while wearing soccer gear and a soccer ball held up by her feet.

She then lies on a felt billiards table and quips: "You can't trade this. I just look good here."

Sweeney is no stranger to controversial ads; she's previously sold soap for Dr. Sasquatch, where the soap was infused with her bathwater.

She's supposed to be a major movie star -- but she's acting like the most rancid, desperate OnlyFans e-girl.

I know many of your are naturally skeptical and demand evidence for everything I say, so here is your precious evidence, offered solely to appease the people saying "Cite?"

sydneysweeneybasketball.jpg

sydneysweeneytennis.jpg

Ugh, Jennifer Lawrence.

The Doctor Who actor who played Rose Tyler's Soyboy Beta Cuck boyfriend "Mickey" on the show between 2005 and 2010 has been charged with multiple sex crimes, from sexual assault to peeping/spying to indecent exposure.

While the UK legal system did not offer any information on the nature of the investigation, rumors of the actor's behavior had been rampant for years already. In 2021, Clarke even sued the Guardian for libel for its story on the rumors of his history of sexual assault, based on claims from more than 20 women.

The actor sued, but during the trial, more than a dozen women testified against him and alleged that he sexually abused them, charges that he adamantly denied.

Clarke lost the legal challenge and was ordered to pay the newspaper around $4 million in court costs.

Next item: Inde Navarette exploded to the A list, or at least the B+ list, for her turn in Obsession.

Jeff Sneider, meanwhile, is an internet "scooper." What's a scooper? It's someone who passes around rumors about upcoming movies, like who's being looked at for a role or what a plot points might be in it. In other words, it's a job for idiots. 80% of true tips are just planted leaks by the studio, which wants free advertising, so the "scooper" can take no credit for that.

Meanwhile, most "scoops" are false, usually just some bullshit the "scooper" saw on Reddit (Doomcock gets accused of this) or, when there aren't any rumors to drive traffic, simply something the "scooper" made up entirely for clicks.

Anyway, this oxygen thief wrote to Inde Navarette demanding her attention and demanding she give him content for his fake job, and she, or more likely her PR team, didn't respond.

He was outraged that someone would blow-off an internet nobody dickbag and threatened her, telling her that he would begin reporting every nasty and sham rumor he heard about her unless she gives him the attention he deserves:

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When someone ragged on him for being a complainy gay bitch, he responded that this wasn't a complaint -- it's a threat.

In other words, he's copping to a blackmail charge.

And he's so arrogant about it. He really thinks he's something. He really thinks his stupid "look up rumors on Reddit and then turn them into twitter posts" job is something to brag about.

sniderthreat.jpg

And then he doubled down, not just on the blackmail, which he deems a legitimate tactic, but on how awesome he is for being a gay-ass internet movie nerd.

After a ton of criticism, and other internet movie geeks announcing that they cannot countenance blackmail and would no longer platform the blackmailer, he offered a fake apology, in which he spent two sentences fake-apologizing and the rest of the post complaining that He's the Real Victim Here.

Jeff Sneider
@TheInSneider

Sep 5

Tired of the noise so I'll delete and apologize, as per protocol. That way we can all move on. I am sorry to Ms. Navarrette, who was and will continue to be treated fairly, despite previous comments suggesting otherwise.

She got swept up in a long-running feud.

I will continue to battle Hollywood's gatekeepers and publish the truth about this industry, as I always strive to. But my ego got the best of me and I went overboard with my victory celebration.

Having said that, the things I’ve seen written about me on this app over the past 24 hours from people who have never met me, spoken to me, subscribed to my newsletter, or watched my podcast, are absolutely crazy and I suggest some of you take a long, hard look in the mirror, because you're way worse than I could ever be.

But most of us aren't blackmailers.

I don't send execs death threats or anti-Semitic comments or any of the crazy shit I’ve been sent. This app is nuts, but I’ll never leave, because we deserve each other. You're stuck with me. And so is Hollywood. Have a safe and happy Labor Day Weekend. I'll use the holiday to reflect and maybe I'll return kinder and gentler. Let's hope you do the same…

I've never before been scolded so much in what purports to be a "per protocol" (in other words, offered only under pressure to relieve the pressure) apology.

Hollywood has made a movie about "To Catch a Predator" and its host Chris Hanson. It's called Primetime.

They never contacted Hanson, ever.

The only plausible explanation: The film is a hit piece against the guy catching predators to protect the poor, embarrassed child sex predators.

No, really. One of the gay child sex predators the show exposed killed himself, and this new movie, featuring Robert Pattinson, attacks the entire mission of exposing predators based on one predator's cowardly decision to off himself.


The film apparently centers on the death of William Conrandt, who got caught up in a sting operated by Hansen's team. Conrandt never showed up for his meeting in the sting, however, and Hansen never confronted him, on camera or off. Police got warrants for Conrandt, a former assistant DA, who shot himself when police showed up, THR notes in a lengthy parenthetical added to the transcript of their interview with Hansen. That makes this framing for Primetime even more suspect, since (a) law enforcement conducts similar stings, and (b) Texas had been conducting a parallel operation at the time as well.

When asked by THR whether Hansen regrets what happened with Conrandt, Hansen wonders what exactly he's supposed to regret:


We were completely transparent about what happened from the moments after it happened. This was no secret. It was unfortunate that somebody chose to take his life rather than face criminal consequences. You can draw your own conclusions as to why. They found child pornography on his computer. He had sexually explicit conversations with two different decoys posing as 13-year-old boys.

I can't speak for the police, but they decided to arrest him, apparently concerned about the possible destruction of evidence. He chose to take his life rather than face the consequences. We reported what we knew the next day on the Today show and continued to be transparent throughout the story.

There are certain things you can't control. Obviously, you don't want anybody taking their own life, but that was a decision made by that individual. They'll ramp it up in the film, I'm sure, and make it more dramatic than it really was. It was based upon an Esquire article that came out years ago that was a bit of a hit piece then, and apparently it's part of the narrative in the film.

Isn't it very odd how Hollywood both protects child sex predators and even attacks anyone exposing them?

Hollywood is just Hell with good restaurants. And I'm done with Robert Pattinson, who I never cared for anyway.

Speaking of Hollywood predictability: It's always when there's a Republican president when Hollywood puts out movies glorifying assassinations, civil wars, and uprisings. When there's a Democrat president, it's a scandal to even consider such material for theatrical exploitation.

Well, Trump is on office, the left is gunning down executives and celebrating their assassins as folk heroes, and Hollywood decides now is the perfect time to celebrate the so-called Peasants' Revolt from around, I dunno, 1340? (Nope, 1381.)

I'm assuming that's what this. Wat Tyler's rebelling over... well, taxation.

But I doubt they'll make it about government taxation. They'll claim it was over forgiving student loans and child care.

"It's time to set the world on fire."

And the trailer does mention taxes but then shifts the real grievance to... being forced to work for wages. Something Gen Z and Millennials are constantly complaining about. Changing a revolt over taxes to a complaint that we shouldn't have to work at all because Real Socialism Has Never Been Tried.*

To hell with Andrew Garfield, who is a really obnoxious Marxist SJW anyway, and Paul Greengrass too.

The only new movie I'll pay to see in theaters:

Bonus: this is annoying as hell, but keep in mind, it's the """ reporters """ who are constantly asking actors if they agree that their new movie is the gayest movie ever and supports LGBT folx.

Their answer here is essentially forced.


* Actually, watching that video, I see that part of the problem was "duties" owed to the king and the lords. So it wasn't just a matter of money taxation, but required labor for the lords.

Will the movie make the point, then, that it is evil to force one man to work for the profit of another? You know, like in socialism or communism? Doubt it!

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:30 PM




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1 I got nothing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 11, 2026 03:21 PM (ExV1e)

2 I approve of Sydney Sweeney's nudity.

Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 03:21 PM (YwEeS)

3 Folks should be here pretty quick.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 11, 2026 03:21 PM (ExV1e)

4 Yeah, Sweeney doesn’t need to emulate freakshow Miley Cyrus. Ick.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2026 03:21 PM (4KUe5)

5 I kinda half-like Sydney Sweeney, but I am getting a little sick of this Jezebel Hussy.

Yes I know that makes me partially gay.

Partially?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 11, 2026 03:22 PM (t19vo)

6 Jennifer Lawrence is kidding, right?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2026 03:23 PM (4KUe5)

7 >>>I kinda half-like Sydney Sweeney, but I am getting a little sick of this Jezebel Hussy.

>>>Yes I know that makes me partially gay.

The part that ain't down with Garrett all the time.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:24 PM (dK+Kv)

8 The Doctor Who actor who played Rose Tyler's Soyboy Beta Cuck boyfriend "Mickey" on the show between 2005 and 2010 has been charged with multiple sex crimes, from sexual assault to peeping/spying to indecent exposure.
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He should have blamed it all on his alternate universe counterpart "Rickey."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 03:24 PM (FZ29D)

9 Sydney looks really nice!

meanwhile Pattison will just do any film at all apparently? he's a good actor with zero standards

and yes I just finally saw The Drama.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 03:24 PM (j+aD2)

10 Madame, please put away your bosoms.

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Things I never in a gazillion years thought I'd read on AOS!!

Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 03:24 PM (AKptf)

11 BEWBS!

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 11, 2026 03:24 PM (Q/FnY)

12 Hollywood: Shit or Garbage

Yes.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 03:24 PM (lNdj6)

13 Okay, Sydney is no Kate Upton, but I certainly would be willing to volunteer to revisit all of the unused footage and pics to make sure that they used the very best and most appropriate ones.

On the other hand.... (hat tip ONT)

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at September 11, 2026 03:25 PM (P9Ea3)

14 "I kinda half-like Sydney Sweeney, but I am getting a little sick of this Jezebel Hussy."

Same. But I can't blame her. She's what, 27 or 28? She's only got so much time, so she might as well bank as much bank as she can. It won't last forever.

The most surprising thing about her isn't that she's over-exposing herself. That's par for the course.

What's surprising is that she's at the height of her fame and draw power, and she chooses as a boyfriend a ... notorious casting-couch womanizer with a taste for barely legal women. And he's almost old enough to be her father.

But he's rich and powerful, so there's that. There's a lesson in this, you know. For both the ladies and the guys.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 03:25 PM (iFTx/)

15 Even my dude is disgusted with Sydney.

Hey, Jennifer! Deny your Oscar from Weinstein! That would get her attention. She also is very dependent on make up as, wow, girl, you homely without it.

I cannot stand plastic Kidman.

I now have to put myself together to swan into the reunion of women who have not taken care of themselves. I could arrive now and still look better than Lawrence.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 11, 2026 03:26 PM (hzuYO)

16 Hollywood is just Hell with good restaurants. And I'm done with Robert Pattinson, who I never cared for anyway.


see I kinda like him

but he's Nick Cage apparently, will do any role, and sometimes really chews the scenery up

good or bad actor ace? GOOD OR BAD?!?!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 03:26 PM (j+aD2)

17 "You are making boobs boring, and that I cannot abide."

Ehem... WRONG!

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 11, 2026 03:26 PM (YZ0Fo)

18 "You are making boobs boring, and that I cannot abide."

But not so much that you wouldn't feature the pix in your post, I notice.👀

Posted by: mindful webworker - admiringly at September 11, 2026 03:26 PM (B4Z5E)

19 I shall not tolerate this dunking on of Sydney Sweeney.

No sir, I shannot.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 11, 2026 03:26 PM (guGkK)

20 ITT: Who will be more manly? Those who condemn the sluttery - or those who celebrate?

And who will be the lone black voice in the wilderness, to stand firm, and cry out, "Enough of this horseshit, all of you are gay incels".

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 03:26 PM (ftCfU)

21 The Doctor Who actor who played Rose Tyler's Soyboy Beta Cuck boyfriend "Mickey" on the show between 2005 and 2010 has been charged with multiple sex crimes, from sexual assault to peeping/spying to indecent exposure.
====

I'm definitely in the wrong timeline

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 03:26 PM (RIvkX)

22 Whoa. Time warp.

Regardless, we were told "Nude Sydney Sweeney."

And they were right!

Posted by: Guys everywhere at September 11, 2026 03:26 PM (2Ez/1)

23 Shit AND Garbage.

And Sydney Sweeney is a gift to humanity.

Don't care if she's going overboard in her Miley Cyrus act.

She could bad mouth tacos, and I'd still do unnatural things to her.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:26 PM (dK+Kv)

24 Conradt was great as the star of "Cannon", too

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 03:26 PM (2dVdu)

25 Wow ... that's Jennifer Lawrence? She looks terrible. What happened?

I clicked on that video of her and thought it was Lindsay Lohan from her strung-out junkie days.

Jeez.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 03:27 PM (iFTx/)

26
*shrugs*

There'll never be a time when tits and ass can't move product.

Expect to see more risqué photos of Sweeney in the near future.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice's at September 11, 2026 03:27 PM (BI5O2)

27 I would throw myself on Ms Sweeney to protect her from a bullet. Or an insult. Even a somewhat mild breeze.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 03:27 PM (viF8m)

28 I don't know who any of these people are except for Sydney Sweeney and it's only because of posts and comments on here. I've never actually seen her clothed or unclothed in a movie or show.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 03:27 PM (JrHfD)

29 >>>Madame, please put away your bosoms. I've seen them. We all have. Many times. They're becoming wallpaper. You are making boobs boring, and that I cannot abide.

Over the top hilarious.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:28 PM (dK+Kv)

30 did we cover the Netflix Ireland thing from yesterday?

so I want to cancel anyway and THAT really really pissed me off. but ok, maybe it was one asshat Irish dude? did Netflix make any statement after?

bc I would really like an excuse to cancel

but they have football so my husband doesn't wanna

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 03:28 PM (j+aD2)

31 When I was a wee lad I was quite enamored of Miss Kidman.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 03:28 PM (ftCfU)

32 You know it's been a good gosh darn long time since America has had an honest to goodness, no foolin', homegrown corn-fed skank.

None of this gothy angsty punk shit. No mary sue tough girl nonsense. No "wahhh i have daddy issues so i'm gonna blow everybody" sad sacks larping at being a slut and then bitching about how every man she's ever blown betwixt a 7-11 and its dumpster isn't Clark tittyfucking Kent.

Just a hot chick being a bit slutty without any angle or irony.

It's downright refreshing, it is.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 11, 2026 03:28 PM (Ot/FD)

33 Hollywood is just Hell with good restaurants. And I'm done with Robert Pattinson, who I never cared for anyway.

Hollywood has no good restaurants except for Musso & Frank's Grill, which is really just coasting on a 100-year old reputation for being a Hollywood Restaurant.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 11, 2026 03:28 PM (guGkK)

34 Terribly unsurprising Hollywood would make a movie that demands nuance re: the poor feelings of pedos.

However, Pattinson is always reliably gonzo in his roles, so it’s probably entertaining. He seemed to enjoy his part in the Oddessey.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2026 03:28 PM (4KUe5)

35 I must admit I would pay rent money to see Sweeney "bad mouth" a taco.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 03:29 PM (ftCfU)

36 Yes I know that makes me partially gay."

So the crocs cover the other part?

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 03:30 PM (pfXMo)

37 I kinda half-like Sydney Sweeney, but I am getting a little sick of this Jezebel Hussy.

Yes I know that makes me partially gay.



Depends on which half I s'pose.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 11, 2026 03:30 PM (2WIwB)

38 >>So the crocs cover the other part?

garrett is the other part.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 03:30 PM (viF8m)

39 And he's almost old enough to be her father.

But he's rich and powerful, so there's that. There's a lesson in this, you know. For both the ladies and the guys.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

https://tinyurl.com/3n34959p

Posted by: mikeski at September 11, 2026 03:30 PM (VHUov)

40 And he's almost old enough to be her father.

But he's rich and powerful, so there's that. There's a lesson in this, you know. For both the ladies and the guys.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

https://tinyurl.com/3n34959p
Posted by: mikeski at September 11, 2026 03:30 PM (VHUov)
________

[Nodding sagaciously]

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 03:31 PM (iFTx/)

41 Hollywood: Shit or Garbage?, Both, of course.

It is also antithetical to Christianity, Judaism, the family, the American way of life. It is one of the most corrupting agencies to America that exists.
You can thank libertine SCOTUS for the rectal detritus it constantly spews from its fetid mouth.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:32 PM (vC80E)

42 She's kind of flabby in an out of shape sort of way.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 11, 2026 03:32 PM (0U5gm)

43 >>>Clark tittyfucking Kent

This is the least worst of the discarded superhero alter-ego names, believe it or not.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:33 PM (dK+Kv)

44 so I want to cancel anyway and THAT really really pissed me off. but ok, maybe it was one asshat Irish dude? did Netflix make any statement after?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 03:28 PM (j+aD2)
----
I canceled Netflix over their support for that "Cuties" show and have never regretted my decision.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 03:33 PM (FZ29D)

45 Remember when the internet sleuths attacked that company for using Sydney Sweeney because her initials are SS and it was obviously a dog whistle for a thousand year Reich?

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 03:33 PM (ftCfU)

46 Every engaged guy in America now expects his fiance to do all cooking while wearing sexy lingerie.

Posted by: Betty Crock Her at September 11, 2026 03:33 PM (2Ez/1)

47 Hollywood: Shit and Garbage

Shitty Garbage

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 03:34 PM (iFTx/)

48 I'm assuming that's what this. Wat Tyler's rebelling over... well, taxation.

I think we do need to get back to open rebellions over taxation.

If politicians were forced to ask themselves, "if I raise taxes will I have a full fledged war on my hands that puts my personal safety at risk?" I suspect we'd have far fewer taxes...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:34 PM (sKqQm)

49 Remember when the internet sleuths attacked that company for using Sydney Sweeney because her initials are SS and it was obviously a dog whistle for a thousand year Reich?

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 03:33 PM (ftCfU)

And superior genes.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:34 PM (dK+Kv)

50 https://tinyurl.com/3n34959p
Posted by: mikeski at September 11, 2026 03:30 PM (VHUov)

Nothing says "love" like a man with peso-nality!

Posted by: Boswell at September 11, 2026 03:34 PM (j10i6)

51 Yeah, too much Sydney! Give us more Dylan Mulvaney!!!

Posted by: Tames Jalarico at September 11, 2026 03:34 PM (mAj5s)

52 I'm done with sports but Ms Sweeney's ad are...intriguing...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:35 PM (sKqQm)

53 Next item: Inde Navarette exploded to the A list, or at least the B+ list, for her turn in Obsession.

________________________

They announced the first four hosts for the new season of Saturday Night Live. It was two women I never heard of. Shane Gillis and then Inde Navarette...who I wouldn't have known, except they mentioned "Obesssion" (which I didn't see, and have no ambitition to do so). The musical guests...didn't recognize a single one.

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 03:35 PM (dIske)

54 Now I like basketball. Provisionally.

Posted by: Weasel at September 11, 2026 03:35 PM (leKdc)

55 I am happy that I do not know any of these "celebrities" and am content to stay that way.

Posted by: Mama Cass's Ham Sandwich at September 11, 2026 03:35 PM (cCXR+)

56 The media: Men and woman are exactly the same

Also the media: We want male attention to a product? Here is a hot nekkid woman in our advertising.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:36 PM (sKqQm)

57 Well, Ace, at least they didn't get Lizzo to strip down and do these ads. Be thankful that it's Sydney Sweeney.

Anyway, if i were a sexy gorgeous woman, I would probably pose naked for money, too.

Posted by: Ralph at September 11, 2026 03:36 PM (8WZD4)

58 Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 03:35 PM (dIske)

Ooops 53....one woman I never heard of, and a NY Knicks player. I'm sure that skit acting will be stellar.

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 03:36 PM (dIske)

59 Sweeney's middle name is Berenice so she's SBS...

Super Big Sweaterpuppies

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:36 PM (sKqQm)

60 Other than Sweeney, I've never heard of any of these people. Does that make me lame? Or cool?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 03:37 PM (iFTx/)

61 That young Sweeney lady appears to be quite talented.
It's not easy to balance a spinning basketball like that.

Posted by: Wait, wut? at September 11, 2026 03:37 PM (2Ez/1)

62 Anyway, if i were a sexy gorgeous woman, I would probably pose naked for money, too.

Posted by: Ralph at September 11, 2026 03:36 PM (8WZD4)

Don't get Ace all hot and bothered. Not that half. The OTHER gay half.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:37 PM (dK+Kv)

63 Are you really a star if your major credit is from an HBO series?

Posted by: mr tmz at September 11, 2026 03:37 PM (rJ48h)

64 Ace, we need to talk.

Posted by: Ice-T at September 11, 2026 03:38 PM (U/s6V)

65 And superior genes.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:34 PM (dK+Kv)

If she was dressed like Ilsa I would not argue that point with her.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 03:38 PM (ftCfU)

66 The only part of the entire post where I understand what's going on is Sweeney's boobs.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 11, 2026 03:38 PM (J4Dwc)

67 Pattinson played a retard in The Rover and contrary to Robert Downey Junior's advice it worked out for him

Its a pretty good movie too

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:38 PM (sKqQm)

68 Well, we know ace likes brunettes with asses the width of an aircraft carrier. (Demi Rose) so this is not surprising.

Still, gay.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 03:39 PM (zZu0s)

69 >>>What's surprising is that she's at the height of her fame and draw power, and she chooses as a boyfriend a ... notorious casting-couch womanizer with a taste for barely legal women. And he's almost old enough to be her father.

But he's rich and powerful, so there's that. There's a lesson in this, you know. For both the ladies and the guys.

Posted by: Elric The Blade
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She's just another bitch who was initially presented as a thoughtful, maybe conservative woman.
_caveat emptor

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:39 PM (vC80E)

70 Pattinson played a retard in The Rover and contrary to Robert Downey Junior's advice it worked out for him

Its a pretty good movie too

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:38 PM (sKqQm)

Sean Penn did that in all his movies.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:39 PM (dK+Kv)

71 64 Ace, we need to talk.
Posted by: Ice-T at September 11, 2026 03:38 PM (U/s6V)

Seriously. Ace has two wolves inside him. One is gay. The other one is also gay.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 11, 2026 03:39 PM (ca8Qt)

72
The Doctor Who actor who played Rose Tyler's Soyboy Beta Cuck boyfriend "Mickey" on the show between 2005 and 2010 has been charged with multiple sex crimes, from sexual assault to peeping/spying to indecent exposure.
----
He should have blamed it all on his alternate universe counterpart "Rickey."
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 03:24 PM (FZ29D)



It's rather gratifying to note that one of Clarke's early roles was as a Roman soldier being chased by wolves in Neil Marshall's flick "Centurion". He's the fastest of the Romans on the run and he gets eaten by feral canines because one of the other Romans slices his Achilles tendon and leaves him to his fate.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 03:39 PM (7lxe6)

73 Three comments. Yes, Sweeney is built hot. Kind of irrelevant for at least me to give that much thought as it is highly unlikely I would ever even be in the same building as her and even more unlikely she would have any interest in me. Hollywood and the entire entertainment industry has no interest in producing things that appeal to me. Luckily practically everything ever made in the past is available to partake in, so I have no need for them at all. Last, part of the reason the young are at least open to socialist ideas is because society has moved more and more to where you get paid a bare subsistence unless you are a nepo or a star or extremely good at strategic brownnosing. Also the lack of interest or knowledge of history prevalent with modern youth..they don't know that the history of socialism has always created worse conditions even than those they have now. Someone hurry up and invent a time machine so I can go live in 1969, which I was too young to thoroughly enjoy at the time.

Posted by: Azjaeger at September 11, 2026 03:39 PM (3/XaG)

74 Not to be nitpicky, but "duties" is another word for "taxes."

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:39 PM (Ntshk)

75 I'm surprised that didn't have Sweeney do the classic "Athena's iconic cheeky tennis girl" for the tennis part of the shoot

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:39 PM (sKqQm)

76 Sydney Sweeney and Paige Spiranac for golf, at the ball washer.

Oh, yeah!

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 11, 2026 03:40 PM (wVcYX)

77 _caveat emptor

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:39 PM (vC80E)

My caveats would definitely be emptor

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 03:40 PM (ftCfU)

78 Pattinson played a retard in The Rover and contrary to Robert Downey Junior's advice it worked out for him

Its a pretty good movie too

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:38 PM (sKqQm)

Sean Penn did that in all his movies.

But Pattinson was acting

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:40 PM (sKqQm)

79 She's just another bitch who was initially presented as a thoughtful, maybe conservative woman.
_caveat emptor

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:39 PM (vC80E)

I don't give a shit if she loves Walter Mondale and donates to PBS with a little letter saying "no, really, you can keep the tote bag, I have enough already".

The mob came for her. She told the mob to fuck of. The mob fucked off.

For that, she can stay.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 11, 2026 03:41 PM (Ot/FD)

80 Old and busted: I want to dunk my ball in that net

New hotness: I want to dunk my [censored] in that net

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:41 PM (sKqQm)

81 I would think any morons in good standing here would congratulate Ace on swallowing his bile to post those horrible, awful, no good photos of poor Sydney demeaning herself for filthy lucre.

I mean, just look at those elbows.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:41 PM (Ntshk)

82 Ace, we need to talk.
Posted by: Ice-T at September 11, 2026 03:38 PM (U/s6V)

Seriously. Ace has two wolves inside him. One is gay. The other one is also gay.
Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 11, 2026 03:39 PM (ca8Qt)

Lol. Damn. *golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 11, 2026 03:42 PM (zZu0s)

83 This post is disgusting. Really I expected more from you people.

Now did they get any of the actual b-ball players to pose in a similar fashion? Uh...because I love sports unlike you people. I've never seen a better football player then LeBron, that guy gets a homerun like every team he gets the puck.

Posted by: Barack Obama at September 11, 2026 03:43 PM (sKqQm)

84 For that, she can stay.

Posted by: Warai-otoko
---

Whores have their place in society, so do actors.
Our problem is that we have misplaced their value.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:43 PM (vC80E)

85 "The only new movie I'll pay to see in theaters"

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No Street Fighter? I'm getting mildly pumped for that. Maybe cuz nothing else interesting seems to be on the horizon. If certain people say Doomsday is good, maybe. But pretty over all that...

Posted by: bearski at September 11, 2026 03:43 PM (Bhsk7)

86 59 Sweeney's middle name is Berenice so she's SBS...

Super Big Sweaterpuppies
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:36 PM (sKqQm)

Around here SBS is Spenard Builder's Supply. But YMMV.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:43 PM (Ntshk)

87 The Way Tyler revolt is where Richard II proved he was a sneaky little shit from the get go.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 11, 2026 03:43 PM (XvL8K)

88 Pooper scooper?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 03:44 PM (iFTx/)

89 Afternoon.

I watched Batman Forever last night. First time I've seen it in yeeeeeeeaaaaars!

Pretty gay, but not overly gay. Ace would love it.

Seriously though, as retarded as it is it's pretty fun. Jim Carrey just plays The Riddler as Ace Ventura. Tommy Lee Jones gabs it up. Zero chemistry between Val Kilmer and Nicole Kidman. And the movie is super colorful. I remember when it came out in theaters, man, it looked great on the big screen. Garish colors all over the place, goofy action...was pretty entertaining. The Blu-ray isn't *quite* as good, sadly.

Just to show the kind of thick headed dope I was...am...I was surprised to learn Joel Schumacher was gay. Many years later. Heh...who knew?

Posted by: Robert at September 11, 2026 03:44 PM (dpXJq)

90 Re "The Uprising":
During a presser Garfield stated that he wanted billionaires to be scared shitless by his movie or something to that effect. Another case of lefty multimillionaires calling out billionaires for more lefty creds.





Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 03:44 PM (lJ0H4)

91 First saw Nicole Kidman in Dead Calm(?) with Sam Neil and Billy Zane. Gets her kit off as the Brits say.

Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 03:44 PM (YwEeS)

92 How are there any comments? Isn't the male part of the Horde in their bunk, passed out from dehydration?

Posted by: pookysgirl at September 11, 2026 03:44 PM (Wt5PA)

93 Perez Hilton thinks Jeff Sneider is a faggot.

Posted by: mr tmz at September 11, 2026 03:45 PM (rJ48h)

94 92 How are there any comments? Isn't the male part of the Horde in their bunk, passed out from dehydration?
Posted by: pookysgirl at September 11, 2026 03:44 PM (Wt5PA)

Should probably send out a few wellness checks, just in case.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:46 PM (Ntshk)

95 Okay, I'm back. Need water.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 11, 2026 03:46 PM (J4Dwc)

96 Whores have their place in society, so do actors.
Our problem is that we have misplaced their value.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:43 PM (vC80E)

Please, we prefer the term Registered Companion.

Posted by: Inara Serra at September 11, 2026 03:46 PM (wVcYX)

97 The Way Tyler revolt is where Richard II proved he was a sneaky little shit from the get go.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Made all sorts of promises and then broke them. Yes, he was a sneaky bastard.

Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 03:47 PM (lJ0H4)

98 How are there any comments? Isn't the male part of the Horde in their bunk, passed out from dehydration?
Posted by: pookysgirl at September 11, 2026 03:44 PM (Wt5PA)

I'm a morning guy, if you know what I mean.

Posted by: Robert at September 11, 2026 03:47 PM (dpXJq)

99 I don't give a shit if she loves Walter Mondale and donates to PBS with a little letter saying "no, really, you can keep the tote bag, I have enough already".

The mob came for her. She told the mob to fuck of. The mob fucked off.

Yeah, I'm a little tired of this whole "if you ever said something positive about someone it means you worship them and derive your entire value system from what they say". It wasn't true for Milo or Tucker or the Bulwark guys and it sure as fuck isn't for Sydney Sweeney.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 03:47 PM (2ocoG)

100 Does Ace know it has been Friday for almost 24 hours already?

That boy needs a beer and another look at that Sweeney lady.

Posted by: Miklos finds beer an effective prophylactic against gayness at September 11, 2026 03:47 PM (4RYRd)

101 During a presser Garfield stated that he wanted billionaires to be scared shitless by his movie or something to that effect. Another case of lefty multimillionaires calling out billionaires for more lefty creds.

During the middle ages you didn't have "the rich" because if you generated enough money the nobles would steal it from you.

Which is the same power our government elites want to have

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:47 PM (sKqQm)

102 Sunny and 56 degrees currently, probably going up to the low 60's today. Absolutely beautiful. I need to clean out the garden this coming week so let's hope the weather holds. I still have potatoes and carrots to harvest, but the rest is pretty much done for the year.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:47 PM (Ntshk)

103 Whores have their place in society, so do actors.
Our problem is that we have misplaced their value.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:43 PM (vC80E)

Please, we prefer the term Registered Companion.

Posted by: Inara Serra at September 11, 2026 03:46 PM (wVcYX)

Service animal is also acceptable.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:48 PM (dK+Kv)

104
Are you really a star if your major credit is from an HBO series?
Posted by: mr tmz at September 11, 2026 03:37 PM (rJ48h)




As much as I like Syd, let's face facts. She became A Thing because of her tits practically falling out of a red dress that she wore to some Hollywood event. Not saying I disapprove, just being honest.

Plus, she restores old cars for fun. Not "pays someone to restore her Bronco", she likes to get her hands dirty herself.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 03:48 PM (7lxe6)

105 During a presser Garfield stated that he wanted billionaires to be scared shitless by his movie or something to that effect.
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As we live it, I have to say "First they came for" was a lie from jump. I always felt it was "off" somehow but didn't know how.

Seeing how it's going, they didn't say "nothing". On the contrary. They said... GET THAT MOTHERFUCKER

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 03:48 PM (ftCfU)

106 Found my emergency stash of Vitamin E and now I'm ready to comment

Posted by: ballistic at September 11, 2026 03:48 PM (oqH4h)

107 Andrew Garfield is worth $16M.

If we are going to eat the rich let's start with him

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:49 PM (sKqQm)

108 Nazira Zada deported for helping to plan ISIS terrorist attack election day 2024

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:49 PM (vC80E)

109 If politicians were forced to ask themselves, "if I raise taxes will I have a full fledged war on my hands that puts my personal safety at risk?" I suspect we'd have far fewer taxes...
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That's one reason why they went to income withholding 85 years ago. Temporarily, of course.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 03:50 PM (2dVdu)

110 Just to show the kind of thick headed dope I was...am...I was surprised to learn Joel Schumacher was gay. Many years later. Heh...who knew?
Posted by: Robert at September 11, 2026 03:44 PM (dpXJq)
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My go-to is that they are all gay. It's gotten to the point where I'm surprised if they're not gay.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 03:50 PM (iFTx/)

111 Sweeney is intelligent enough to know that her bodacious ta-tas and tight bod aren't forever and she's capitalizing on them now while they're at peak bodaciousness.

Hard to blame her.

I just wish she would stop texting me begging for sex. I'm married and it's unseemly.

Posted by: ballistic at September 11, 2026 03:50 PM (oqH4h)

112 The mob came for her. She told the mob to fuck of. The mob fucked off.

For that, she can stay.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Crackers in bed Rule-


APPLIED

Posted by: Justice of the Piece Miklos at September 11, 2026 03:50 PM (4RYRd)

113 Nazira Zada deported for helping to plan ISIS terrorist attack election day 2024

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:49 PM (vC80E)

If you have more than one "Z" in your name, you should be deported on principle.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:50 PM (dK+Kv)

114 "Madame, please put away your bosoms. I've seen them. We all have. Many times. They're becoming wallpaper. You are making boobs boring, and that I cannot abide."

Hatemonger - "Boobies...are EVIL! You mustn't look at boobies!".

Posted by: Thrawn at September 11, 2026 03:51 PM (oPFtC)

115 I do not believe a woman should take her clothes off in public. That said, I do not think Miss Sweeney is being taken advantage of in any sense. She is, essentially, making hay while the sun shines, with what she has to offer. I'm not aware of her sleeping around like a skank, or producing porn, or prostituting herself. She is nobody's fool. And I suspect her sweater puppies will make her some serious hay, so there's that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:51 PM (Ntshk)

116 If you have more than one "Z" in your name, you should be deported on principle.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:50 PM (dK+Kv)

Fuck off.

Posted by: Mike Piazza at September 11, 2026 03:51 PM (ftCfU)

117 So The Uprising is supposed to be commentary about ridding the world of feudalism...made by people who are all too excited to return the world to a feudal state where they are in charge and the rest of us are nothing but serfs who live only by their sufferance.

Got it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 03:51 PM (FZ29D)

118 Sunny and 56 degrees currently, probably going up to the low 60's today. Absolutely beautiful.
Posted by: tcn in AK
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How much daylight do you get up there in September?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 11, 2026 03:51 PM (XvL8K)

119 As we live it, I have to say "First they came for" was a lie from jump. I always felt it was "off" somehow but didn't know how.

Seeing how it's going, they didn't say "nothing". On the contrary. They said... GET THAT MOTHERFUCKER
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 03:48 PM (ftCfU)

First they came for the communists but I said nothing because I'm not a communist.

Then they can for the socialists but I said nothing because I'm not a socialist.

Then things got a lot better. Now everyone is happy. Fuck the communists. Fuck the socialists.

Posted by: Robert at September 11, 2026 03:52 PM (dpXJq)

120 Here you go. Hollywood sniffing each other's farts. And 16 minute standing ovations. Blow me. From variety. Venice film festival.


Politics, Politics, Politics
Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera wasn’t exaggerating when he called this year’s lineup “the most political ever.” The 83rd edition was packed with films about hot-button issues like right-wing media barons (“Ink”, right-wing trolls (“Musk”, conflict in the Middle East (“NAZA” and ICE (“They’re Here”.

Offscreen, it’s become de rigueur to probe actors and directors at film festivals about the state of the world — a conversation that escalated at Berlin after jury president Wim Wenders said filmmakers should “stay out of politics.”

Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is presiding over the Venice jury, disagrees. At the jury press conference, she called movies “fundamentally, unavoidably political” and challenged people to “hear stories about the most corrupt, most perverse people.” Her reasoning? “It opens up the opportunity to find empathy.”

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 03:52 PM (Sco7b)

121 "Yes I know that makes me partially gay."

Reminded me of something...Are you still Rollerblading?

Posted by: Gunslinger at September 11, 2026 03:52 PM (D2d9O)

122 108 Nazira Zada deported for helping to plan ISIS terrorist attack election day 2024

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:49 PM (vC80E)

Gee, that's a real shame, innit?

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:53 PM (Ntshk)

123 Sydney Sweeney and Paige Spiranac for golf, at the ball washer"

Carl Spackler approves

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 03:53 PM (pfXMo)

124 Part 2.

 Record-Breaking Embrace

Audiences, for their part, seem just fine with politics at the forefront. “Naza,” a devastating exposé about the systems behind the Israeli military’s remote killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, elicited the longest standing ovation in film festival history. (Or, at least since journalists began reporting on the trend.)

The documentary was met with 24.5 minutes of applause, surpassing the ovation for last year’s Gaza-set drama “The Voice of Hind Rajab” and that of Guillermo Del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth” at Cannes in 2006, both of which clocked in at 22 minutes. Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor are two of the four filmmakers behind 2025’s Oscar-winning doc “No Other Land.” Given the warm reception for and timeliness of “NAZA,” will the duo find themselves back in the awards conversation?

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 03:53 PM (Sco7b)

125 My go-to is that they are all gay. It's gotten to the point where I'm surprised if they're not gay.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 03:50 PM (iFTx/)

I look upon your words and see that they are most wise.

Posted by: Robert at September 11, 2026 03:53 PM (dpXJq)

126 And I suspect her sweater puppies will make her some serious hay, so there's that.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:51 PM (Ntshk)
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Dolly Parton capitalized on her rack until her dying day and I've never seen anyone talk shit about her.

Posted by: ballistic at September 11, 2026 03:54 PM (oqH4h)

127 Fuck off.
Posted by: Mike Piazza at September 11, 2026 03:51 PM (ftCfU)

HIT IT TO LEFT!

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:54 PM (Ntshk)

128 Fuck off.

Posted by: Mike Piazza at September 11, 2026 03:51 PM (ftCfU)

You know what you did.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:54 PM (dK+Kv)

129 Ladies and Gentlemen, Oregon Public Broadcasting:

For the Jewish new year, a Portland Torah study group asks ‘queer’ questions of ancient texts

At congregation Shir Tikvah, participants reexamine the Torah through a queer lens — exploring gender, love, and belonging.

These are the only kinds of Jews acceptable to Oregon "progressives" these days.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 11, 2026 03:54 PM (aD4fx)

130 If you have more than one "Z" in your name, you should be deported on principle.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:50 PM (dK+Kv)

Fuck off.
Posted by: Mike Piazza

Next they'll come after the y people

Posted by: Coach Myklos Krzyzewski-bearer of a pesky congenital Y at September 11, 2026 03:54 PM (4RYRd)

131
I have no idea what Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are talking about.

And I repeat: I eagerly look forward to the day when this is all AI. No more zillionaire celebrities lecturing us on our consumerism while they flaunt their bling, no more schoolmarm creative execs plotting to make us trans-tolerant, and sorry to say, but no more unionized drivers, grips, cameramen, the whole bit, perpetuating the notion that workers are entitled to some guaranteed income level.

Actors and set designers and photographers who are truly talented should start figuring out NOW how to use AI to their advantage instead of fighting it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 03:54 PM (mmrXZ)

132 Andrew Garfield is worth $16M.

If we are going to eat the rich let's start with him
Posted by: 18-1

After Garfield made the comment about billionaires being scared shitless by his movie Spencer Pratt asked which billionaires he was referring to. The ones who green light his movies and sign his paychecks? I doubt he got an answer.

Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 03:55 PM (lJ0H4)

133
Audiences, for their part, seem just fine with politics at the forefront. “Naza,” a devastating exposé about the systems behind the Israeli military’s remote killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, elicited the longest standing ovation in film festival history. (Or, at least since journalists began reporting on the trend.)... Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor are two of the four filmmakers behind 2025’s Oscar-winning doc “No Other Land.” Given the warm reception for and timeliness of “NAZA,

Presuming their is a future one of the things people will be very confused by is how it became normal for people to make movies about their country fighting a war and presenting it as a war crime

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:55 PM (sKqQm)

134 "Go ahead and rise up, we'll just kill you all anyway" is probably pretty close to their "message", isn't it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 11, 2026 03:55 PM (Ot/FD)

135 How much daylight do you get up there in September?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 11, 2026 03:51 PM (XvL8K)

Currently sun's up at 7:00 am, sets around 9:00. Changes about six minutes a day.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:55 PM (Ntshk)

136 I've never found SS all that alluring. Sure, she's got mammoth mammaries. Is that all it takes? If she was flat-chested, she'd be a complete unknown.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 03:55 PM (Riz8t)

137 Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is presiding over the Venice jury, disagrees.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 03:52 PM (Sco7b)

The loser whiny bitch whose big breakout movie that she directed cost 90 million to make and made only 24 million worldwide. THAT Maggie Gyllenhaal? Got it.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at September 11, 2026 03:55 PM (ZgwKJ)

138 Sweeney will go the jennifer love hewitt route who banked on her wagshamba boom booms and made millions off them

then complain about how she was sexualized and no one respected her for her mind once she's post wall

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 11, 2026 03:56 PM (fapp/)

139 Offscreen, it’s become de rigueur to probe actors and directors"

Ah...phrasing?

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 03:56 PM (pfXMo)

140 Absent her brother no one would know who Maggie Gyllenhaal is, well, besides the regulars at tables 4-8 at Applebees

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:56 PM (sKqQm)

141 For the Jewish new year, a Portland Torah study group asks ‘queer’ questions of ancient texts

That's the most predictable thing I've ever heard about Portland. They'll need to step it up to match the socialist conference where the woman said "the more dysgenic, the better".

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 03:56 PM (2ocoG)

142 I looked at the casting for The Uprising. Who are these people?

Other than Garfield, who is about as appealing as the hotel sheets after Andrew Gillum and his junkie rentboy got done with them, I never heard of any of these people.

The movie itself looks like those same sheets.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

143 That's the most predictable thing I've ever heard about Portland. They'll need to step it up to match the socialist conference where the woman said "the more dysgenic, the better".
Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 03:56 PM (2ocoG)

You want a challenge, try making the koran not gay.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 11, 2026 03:57 PM (Ot/FD)

144 Sweeney isn't a bad actress TBH.

Yes she got her start because of her looks, but unlike a lot of her peers she can pretend to be someone other then herself on screen...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:57 PM (sKqQm)

145 Dolly Parton capitalized on her rack until her dying day and I've never seen anyone talk shit about her.
Posted by: ballistic at September 11, 2026 03:54 PM (oqH4h)

She was seriously sassy about it. But then, it's not like anyone could just ignore them.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:57 PM (Ntshk)

146 I've never found SS all that alluring. Sure, she's got mammoth mammaries. Is that all it takes? If she was flat-chested, she'd be a complete unknown.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 03:55 PM (Riz8t)

Have you met Ace and Garrett? You guys should get along great.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:57 PM (dK+Kv)

147 Now did they get any of the actual b-ball players to pose in a similar fashion? Uh...because I love sports unlike you people. I've never seen a better football player then LeBron, that guy gets a homerun like every team he gets the puck.
Posted by: Barack Obama at September 11, 2026 03:43 PM (sKqQm)

I'll bet you wanna see LeBron hanging a ball or two in that hoop.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 11, 2026 03:57 PM (edUvp)

148 If she was flat-chested, she'd be a complete unknown.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 03:55 PM (Riz8t)

Grandma, wheels, etc

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 03:57 PM (ftCfU)

149
Yes I know that makes me partially gay.
But still.
- ace

Garrett knows you're oogling females, right?

Posted by: BifBewalski at September 11, 2026 03:57 PM (hvU9X)

150 I've never found SS all that alluring. Sure, she's got mammoth mammaries. Is that all it takes? If she was flat-chested, she'd be a complete unknown.

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She stands out more in a world that is determined to make Wolverine look like a pussified butt fucked soy boy and women like square jawed butched up linebackers

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 11, 2026 03:58 PM (fapp/)

151 a devastating exposé "

So devastating that no one heard of it?

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 03:58 PM (pfXMo)

152 138 Sweeney will go the jennifer love hewitt route who banked on her wagshamba boom booms and made millions off them

then complain about how she was sexualized and no one respected her for her mind once she's post wall
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 11, 2026 03:56 PM (fapp/)

I think Syd is a bit more intelligent than that. She is in on the joke.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:59 PM (Ntshk)

153 Absent her brother no one would know who Maggie Gyllenhaal is, well, besides the regulars at tables 4-8 at Applebees
Posted by: 18-1

They got better

Posted by: Will Geer lookalike at table 7 at September 11, 2026 03:59 PM (4RYRd)

154 @seanmdav
1h
George W. Bush was personally warned in May of 2001–via a top secret memorandum marked “For the President Only”—that Osama Bin Laden was planning spectacular attacks against the U.S. using hijacked aircraft.

The May 22, 2001 memo, prepared exclusively for President George W. Bush, was entitled “Captured Terrorist Details Hostage Plot” and noted that “planning is under way for three separate operations[.]”

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:59 PM (vC80E)

155
Paul Greengrass also wrote United 93 and persuaded Universal to make it. I might like him.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 03:59 PM (mmrXZ)

156 It's garbage.

Posted by: Guy who always says "It's garbage" at September 11, 2026 03:59 PM (MWfyi)

157 Hollywood: Shit or garbage?

I know what the difference is between shit and garbage IRL. What do the two terms mean in respect to Hollywood?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 04:00 PM (JrHfD)

158

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 11, 2026 03:56 PM (fapp/)

A ScarJo - who pulled the boobies up behind her.

I don't see Sweeney going that direction. Too subversive.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 04:00 PM (ftCfU)

159 Coal Nears Breakout As Gulf Energy Shock Drives Utilities Back To Dirty Fuel Ahead Of Winter
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Leave it to ZH to put a bad spin on a good thing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:01 PM (vC80E)

160 Well, it's noon, so I guess I should get off my lazy ass and accomplish something. Maybe laundry. Maybe garden work. Maybe..... a cocktail.....

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 04:01 PM (Ntshk)

161 Well. I guess sex still sells?

Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 04:01 PM (ZdaMQ)

162 @seanmdav
1h
George W. Bush was personally warned in May of 2001–via a top secret memorandum marked “For the President Only”—that Osama Bin Laden was planning spectacular attacks against the U.S. using hijacked aircraft.

The May 22, 2001 memo, prepared exclusively for President George W. Bush, was entitled “Captured Terrorist Details Hostage Plot” and noted that “planning is under way for three separate operations[.]”

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:59 PM (vC80E)

In retrospect, that seems pretty damning.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 04:01 PM (dK+Kv)

163 So looking at what is in the theaters right now the top actresses are:

Sandra Bullock who is decent looking and an ok comedic actress

Nicole Kidman who was beautiful and can act

Maisie Williams who looks like a slightly retard teenaged boy and has the acting skills of one.

It is no wonder someone like Sweeney stands out if you want to cast a role that is under 40...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:01 PM (sKqQm)

164 140 Absent her brother no one would know who Maggie Gyllenhaal is, well, besides the regulars at tables 4-8 at Applebees
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:56 PM (sKqQm)

The Dark Knight, like most of Nolan's fare, hasn't really aged well. But a scene in that movie that sticks out for all the wrong reason is when Joker crashes Harvey Dent's party and comes on to Gyllenhaal's character, even empathizing that "and you (her) are *beautiful*".

Uh, yeah, my dood. *sure*.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 11, 2026 04:01 PM (oPFtC)

165 It's garbage.
Posted by: Guy who always says "It's garbage"


So?


Nothing will happen

Posted by: that guy at September 11, 2026 04:01 PM (4RYRd)

166 157 Hollywood: Shit or garbage?

I know what the difference is between shit and garbage IRL. What do the two terms mean in respect to Hollywood?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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It's a way to take a turd apart, then analyze the various parts.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:02 PM (vC80E)

167 Well. I guess sex still sells?

Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 04:01 PM (ZdaMQ)

No. That's icky.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 04:02 PM (dK+Kv)

168 She's no Sydney Sweeney.

"I'm a non-practicing white."


https://tinyurl.com/4tsmnjdr

Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 04:02 PM (kX27y)

169 I'm going to need a lot more evidence on Sydney's behavior to render judgement on the hussy question. A lot more evidence.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at September 11, 2026 04:02 PM (w6EFb)

170 when Joker crashes Harvey Dent's party and comes on to Gyllenhaal's character, even empathizing that "and you (her) are *beautiful*".

Looks like someone needs Big Ben to explain the joke to them.

Posted by: The Joker at September 11, 2026 04:02 PM (sKqQm)

171 That's like the take Barry Sanders 50 longest runs away and he's just average argument. Can't do that.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 04:02 PM (ftCfU)

172 Well. I guess sex still sells?
Posted by: Piper

Mebbe

Posted by: Payday Miklos at September 11, 2026 04:03 PM (4RYRd)

173 She was seriously sassy about it. But then, it's not like anyone could just ignore them.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 03:57 PM (Ntshk)
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For sure. You gotta respect the game. I think it's actually endearing when a good-looking woman with some obvious assets is in on the joke and doesn't try to act indignant and say say MY EYES ARE UP HERE for decades while obviously cashing in on her physical attributes.

Dolly, Kate Upton, Sydney, Paige Spiranac, etc. They all get it, men are what we are lol. Might as well have fun with it.

Posted by: ballistic at September 11, 2026 04:03 PM (oqH4h)

174 I heard Sydney Sweeney does work for the "Make-A-Wish Foundation." She serves as a neck brace for those with severe cervical injuries.


There's a long queue.

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 04:03 PM (dIske)

175 161 Well. I guess sex still sells?
Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 04:01 PM (ZdaMQ)

Sechs? That's what happens when a man and a woman *really* love each other...and it involves falling off a bed?

Posted by: Thrawn at September 11, 2026 04:03 PM (oPFtC)

176 Where's Mitch and Elaine?

Posted by: Meanwhile... at September 11, 2026 04:03 PM (2Ez/1)

177
No. That's icky.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 04:02 PM (dK+Kv)

Joking aside, she may as capitalize now while she can. But Ace makes a point, it stops being shocking, therefor talked about, when ever other ad is your boobs.

Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 04:04 PM (ZdaMQ)

178 I'm going to need a lot more evidence on Sydney's behavior to render judgement on the hussy question. A lot more evidence.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone at September 11, 2026 04:02 PM (w6EFb)

Here's a true scientist.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 04:04 PM (dK+Kv)

179 “Naza,” a devastating exposé about the systems behind the Israeli military’s remote killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza

Apparently, Naza's great expose is that prior to October 7th, the Israelis would not target anyone if any nearby bystanders would be hurt, which is why Sinwar always surrounded himself with little kids when he went out in public.

After October 7th, Israel understandably relaxed the ROE, so taking out family members was deemed to be acceptable collateral damage when killing a high-value target.

A couple of days ago, pro-Pali social media was screaming that the Israelis had killed a cute young girl, while failing to mention that she was the daughter of Sinwar's chief bodyguard.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 11, 2026 04:04 PM (aD4fx)

180 George W. Bush was personally warned in May of 2001–

*********************************

Ill never forgive this chimpy bitch fucknut for making me defend his worthless chimpy bitch ass for years, only to finally realize at the end what a petulant little chimpy bitch ass this wanna be texan pissbag really was

get off my lawn

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 11, 2026 04:04 PM (fapp/)

181 I've never found SS all that alluring. Sure, she's got mammoth mammaries. Is that all it takes? If she was flat-chested, she'd be a complete unknown.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 03:55 PM (Riz8t)

Mammoth? Well-developed, yes, but hardly mammoth-sized. Your scale needs recalibrating.

Posted by: Persephanii, HoneyBeeBby, Morgan Lanexo at September 11, 2026 04:04 PM (wVcYX)

182 Sweeney. No more objectionable to me than Bullock and Kidman with their spewings. Maybe less so, as Sweeney is at least a forthright strumpet.

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 04:05 PM (Gqar8)

183 But Ace makes a point, it stops being shocking, therefor talked about, when ever other ad is your boobs.

Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 04:04 PM (ZdaMQ)

Yeah, but Ace is gay, so what does he know.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 04:06 PM (dK+Kv)

184 A ScarJo - who pulled the boobies up behind her. I don't see Sweeney going that direction. Too subversive.

******************

Yeah if her sex appeal got her riches its a bit gay to suddenly turn around and complain about it. STFU and enjoy your blessings, you insufferable twat twinkie

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 11, 2026 04:06 PM (fapp/)

185 Anthropic Says Russian, Chinese Threat Actors Used Its AI Model Claude For Malicious Activity
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Yesterday it was the Iranians, today it's the rest of our enemies.
It seems that the co-conspirator with all our enemies is Sam Altman's, Claude.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:06 PM (vC80E)

186 it stops being shocking, therefor talked about, when ever other ad is your boobs.

Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 04:04 PM (ZdaMQ)

Again, this is like saying Jordan's dunks are getting old. Where are you people coming up with this stuff!?

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 04:07 PM (ftCfU)

187 Mammoth? Well-developed, yes, but hardly mammoth-sized. Your scale needs recalibrating.
Posted by: Persephanii, HoneyBeeBby, Morgan Lanexo at September 11, 2026 04:04 PM

_________________________

Yeah, mammoth sized ones usually have a country's flag posted on the summit, and there are usually frozen dead people all around the areola.

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 04:07 PM (dIske)

188 And, in critiqueing the post, Andy Garfield’s bigmouth is the one that pisses me off the most, akin to Jelly Roll’s bullshit.

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 04:07 PM (Gqar8)

189 Boobies are like the mind eraser from Men In Black. It does not matter what came before them.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 04:08 PM (ftCfU)

190 Sydney, bank it while you can, honey.

Posted by: wth at September 11, 2026 04:08 PM (UjdFS)

191 I'm going to need a lot more evidence on Sydney's behavior to render judgement on the hussy question. A lot more evidence.

Posted by: Publius on Stupid Phone

Pics

Posted by: Miklos notes that phones have cameras at September 11, 2026 04:08 PM (4RYRd)

192 I don't need boobs to be shocking to talk about boobs.

Posted by: ballistic at September 11, 2026 04:08 PM (oqH4h)

193 Sorry. I'm just passing through. I have muslims to comfort telling them it wasn't their fault. Libs would believe shit like that.

But here cosmicbook dot news

Star Trek’s Robert Picardo Blames Elon Musk, Trump For Starfleet Academy Cancellation


I tried to find it but there was an article about Hollywood now trying to cater to the woman audience. Someone had a great comment that everything they barf out caters to a female audience.

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 04:09 PM (Sco7b)

194 Wow. Sydney, Nicole, and Sandra all look GREAT. And Nicole is, what, fifty-nine? Sandra is older still (born 1964 vs. NK's 1967). Amazing they are.

I might even go see Practical Magic II if it's not too man-hating. Remember, in the first film, the "welcoming" family bumped off a man -- I forget the motivation, but he was certainly painted as a monster.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:09 PM (wzUl9)

195 Again, this is like saying Jordan's dunks are getting old. Where are you people coming up with this stuff!?

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 04:07 PM (ftCfU)

Sure, the U.S. landed on the moon, invented nuclear weapons and energy, made transistors cheap and ubiquitous, and helped with two world wars and contained and defeated communism. But what else has it accomplished?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 04:09 PM (dK+Kv)

196 Saw a funny meme:
Brokeback Mountain is being remade this time starring Margot Robbie and Emma Watson.
On one hand I'm angry that Hollywood can't come up with anything original except swapping sexes.
On the other hand: lotion

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 04:09 PM (N2HNb)

197 Hollywood pandering? Unpossible!

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 04:10 PM (Gqar8)

198
I tried to find it but there was an article about Hollywood now trying to cater to the woman audience. Someone had a great comment that everything they barf out caters to a female audience.

Most of the women I talk to either like to watch:

1) Explicitly Christian media
2) Serial killer true crime stories

Note, no Sci Fi, no superheros,none of the other stuff Hollywood is now trying to sell to women

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:10 PM (sKqQm)

199 They'll claim it was over forgiving student loans and child care.
......

Sure, if by 'child care' you mean strangulation.

Posted by: wth at September 11, 2026 04:10 PM (UjdFS)

200 I tried to find it but there was an article about Hollywood now trying to cater to the woman audience. Someone had a great comment that everything they barf out caters to a female audience.
Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026

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NOW? They've been doing it for decades.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:10 PM (wzUl9)

201
Teh Ewok figured out how to keep the Horde happy, and occupied while he went out to see "Rent" for the 12th time.

Write a post about Syd Sweeney and grab some salacious photos of her.

Put it up on AoS

Sing along with "Everyone Has AIDS!"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 04:10 PM (7lxe6)

202 Star Trek’s Robert Picardo Blames Elon Musk, Trump For Starfleet Academy Cancellation

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I used to like this guy and his portrayal as the abrasive EMH doctor in Voyager, I remember him from the 80s move Explorers

Why must all my childhood icons grow up to be rancid old leftist shitbags or retconned into being homos or troons

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 11, 2026 04:11 PM (fapp/)

203 @zerohedge

US Officials Confirm Saudi East-West Pipeline Attacked By Drones, Badly Damaged
-- An early analysis found that pump stations, which are located next to the pipeline itself, were hit, one of the US officials said. A satellite image taken Friday appears to show extensive fire damage at one pumping station, and an image of a different pumping station, taken Thursday, showed a small fire sending up plumes of thick, black smoke._CNN

There was much chatter last night concerning Houthis aided by IRGC attacking Bab Al-Mandab area.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:11 PM (vC80E)

204 Brokeback Mountain is being remade this time starring Margot Robbie and Emma Watson.
On one hand I'm angry that Hollywood can't come up with anything original except swapping sexes.
On the other hand: lotion
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026

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Two girls, one hot and one cute? Winnah

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:11 PM (wzUl9)

205 If you have more than one "Z" in your name, you should be deported on principle.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:50 PM (dK+Kv)
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First and last name together, or just last name?

Posted by: Dweezil Zappa at September 11, 2026 04:11 PM (B0NCh)

206 Anthropic says Iran-linked accounts used Claude for propaganda, US naval targeting

Posted by: SMOD at September 11, 2026 04:11 PM (g57eb)

207 Speaking of "if we add boobs to it we can get men to watch right" did anyone watch Star Trek Voyager for anything other then 7 of 9?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:11 PM (sKqQm)

208 No two boobs are identical.
*raises eyebrow*
Interesting.

Posted by: Lt. Cdr. Spock at September 11, 2026 04:12 PM (Dv3i1)

209 Dude- Sweeney's Cans are a national treasure. Let's not look a gift horse in the bush.

Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026 04:12 PM (ZxPkt)

210 I tried to find it but there was an article about Hollywood now trying to cater to the woman audience. Someone had a great comment that everything they barf out caters to a female audience.

Most of the women I talk to either like to watch:

1) Explicitly Christian media
2) Serial killer true crime stories

Note, no Sci Fi, no superheros,none of the other stuff Hollywood is now trying to sell to women
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:10 PM (sKqQm)
_________

A surprising number of girls like horror. Like real gory horror. Odd but true.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 04:12 PM (iFTx/)

211 I might even go see Practical Magic II if it's not too man-hating. Remember, in the first film, the "welcoming" family bumped off a man -- I forget the motivation, but he was certainly painted as a monster.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

You might want to read the review in the NY Post first. Gave it one star.

Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 04:12 PM (lJ0H4)

212 Andrew Garfield is worth $16M.

If we are going to eat the rich let's start with him

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 03:49 PM (sKqQm)

$16M???

That's pretty puny.

That sort makes Andrew Garfield a lame appetizer.

Like Coconut Shrimp on a toothpick.

One Coconut Shrimp on a toothpick.

For a real Eat the Rich Cannibal Feast, you'd need someone, at least, like Steven Spielberg just to get a decent soup course.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 11, 2026 04:12 PM (iJfKG)

213 If you have more than one "Z" in your name, you should be deported on principle.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:50 PM (dK+Kv)
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First and last name together, or just last name?

Posted by: Dweezil Zappa at September 11, 2026 04:11 PM (B0NCh)

Don't push it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 04:12 PM (dK+Kv)

214 Pre-woke: Kelly Brook.

Post-woke: Sydney Sweeney.

This isn't woke turning everything to sh*t. But def not better...

Posted by: bearski at September 11, 2026 04:12 PM (Bhsk7)

215 Corruption sells
Corruption is easy
corruption is fun until it's your turn

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:13 PM (vC80E)

216 I'll believe it when I see it.
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Trump's top immigration official claims an internal investigation found that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar 'married her brother' and could be facing deportation.

'We know that she married her brother to try to bring him into the United States,' Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said of the Minnesota Democrat. 'We know he lives now in London.'

He was speaking about the second man Omar married, who the Daily Mail has previously reported is Ahmed Elmi. Both are originally from Somalia.

Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 04:13 PM (kX27y)

217 I just found out that Inde Navarrette is five feet tall and bisexual.
Now you know

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 04:13 PM (N2HNb)

218
A surprising number of girls like horror. Like real gory horror. Odd but true.

Watching horror movies with your wife/gf is all fun and games until she wakes you up at 4 AM because she had a nightmare...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:13 PM (sKqQm)

219 Sure, the U.S. landed on the moon, invented nuclear weapons and energy, made transistors cheap and ubiquitous, and helped with two world wars and contained and defeated communism. But what else has it accomplished?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Now see?

Sometimes people do ask the right questions

Posted by: The Romans (and them Greek Homos) at September 11, 2026 04:14 PM (4RYRd)

220 If you have more than one "Z" in your name, you should be deported on principle.

What the HELL?

Posted by: Zardoz at September 11, 2026 04:14 PM (Riz8t)

221 I used to like this guy and his portrayal as the abrasive EMH doctor in Voyager, I remember him from the 80s move Explorers
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He was good in China Beach. But no one remembers because Dana Delaney.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 04:14 PM (Dv3i1)

222 First and last name together, or just last name?

Posted by: Dweezil Zappa at September 11, 2026 04:11 PM (B0NCh)

First and last.

Posted by: Moon Unit at September 11, 2026 04:14 PM (ftCfU)

223 Sure, the U.S. landed on the moon, invented nuclear weapons and energy, made transistors cheap and ubiquitous, and helped with two world wars and contained and defeated communism. But what else has it accomplished?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Well, we invented the pay to win style of video game, internet pron, and Karen Gillian using a sexy dance fighting style in a video game movie so...mixed bag you know?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:15 PM (sKqQm)

224 Probably the only guy here that feels this way but Sweeney is not beautiful. Nice bod but not beautiful. And she’s sleeping with a guy named Scooter. Scooter. Don’t know why I threw that last part in. Scooter.

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 04:15 PM (Gqar8)

225 Watching horror movies with your wife/gf is all fun and games until she wakes you up at 4 AM because she had a nightmare...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:13 PM


And YOU were the villian...

Posted by: Ask Me How I Know at September 11, 2026 04:15 PM (2Ez/1)

226 I’m trying to care but I just can’t.
I will look, however.

Posted by: Unkaren at September 11, 2026 04:15 PM (wBxGS)

227 He was good in China Beach. But no one remembers because Dana Delaney.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Oh I remember him. He played the abrasive surgeon.

Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 04:15 PM (lJ0H4)

228 I don't think Sidney Sweeney is very pretty. I saw her in a movie about an evil nanny and I thought her character must be the unfortunate-looking one who was headed for a makeover.

Posted by: LASue at September 11, 2026 04:16 PM (lCppi)

229 Ricky Ricardo > Robert Picardo

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 04:16 PM (tg5bM)

230 But what else has it accomplished?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Tang.

Posted by: And SpongeBob at September 11, 2026 04:16 PM (2Ez/1)

231
Pre-woke: Kelly Brook.
Post-woke: Sydney Sweeney.
This isn't woke turning everything to sh*t. But def not better...
Posted by: bearski

Kelly LeBrock > Kelly Brook > Sydney Sweeny

Posted by: BifBewalski at September 11, 2026 04:16 PM (hvU9X)

232 Sweeney is Sweeney. Let her make the money. (She'll need it years from now to hold stuff together and in.)

Jennifer Lawrence' best - Winter's Bone when she was 18. What was remarkable about the movie, too, was casting local Ozark residents alongside a small core of professional actors like the talented John Hawkes.

Can't stand Nicole Kidman before or now. Her possible best, To Die For Back in 1995. She's looking for another man or something. (Clarifying she marries the odd. Birds of a feather.)

Sandra Bullock cute as America's Darling years ago. Her children (adopted, adorable) are growing up & her partner has died. I guess if Jamie Lee Curtis can keep reappearing as an unbalanced motherly figure, there's room for Bullock...just not with Kidman. That's just way too much nowadays.

Yeah, will watch another Godzilla again. And that's about it that's current.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 04:17 PM (NFX2v)

233 The Broke Back Mountain thing is dumb. 1. It won’t be anywhere near as scandalous as the original premise and characters. And 2. That is not the story.

Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 04:17 PM (ZdaMQ)

234 Sure, the U.S. landed on the moon, invented nuclear weapons and energy, made transistors cheap and ubiquitous, and helped with two world wars and contained and defeated communism. But what else has it accomplished?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Now see?

Sometimes people do ask the right questions
Posted by: The Romans (and them Greek Homos) at September 11, 2026 04:14 PM (4RYRd)

But what have the Romans ever done for us?

Posted by: Reggie, People's Front of Judea at September 11, 2026 04:17 PM (wVcYX)

235 George W. Bush was personally warned in May of 2001–via a top secret memorandum marked “For the President Only”—that Osama Bin Laden was planning spectacular attacks against the U.S. using hijacked aircraft.

Roberta Wohlstetter addressed this in 1962 because there were similar conspiracy theories that the United States had deliberately allowed the Pearl Harbor attack, based on the fact that there were some indications that the Japanese were interested in Pearl Harbor prior to the attack.

The problem is that intelligence agencies have to cope with a flood of information of varying degrees of reliability and try to make sense of it all, and so pulling out a document or two out of that flood and say that this was a smoking gun that the agency should have acted on ignores the fundamental problems with intelligence work.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 11, 2026 04:17 PM (aD4fx)

236 228 I don't think Sidney Sweeney is very pretty. I saw her in a movie about an evil nanny and I thought her character must be the unfortunate-looking one who was headed for a makeover.
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Very pretty = out of my league
Sidney = it could happen

Posted by: Young Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 04:18 PM (Dv3i1)

237 Lawrence was good in No Hard Feelings. Quite the title, no? I got hard.

Posted by: M. Gaga at September 11, 2026 04:18 PM (3tlbi)

238 One thing I'll say for Bullock over Curtis, at least I'm certain her chromosomes are XX...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:18 PM (sKqQm)

239 I don't think Sidney Sweeney is very pretty.


That's because she isn't. If you want pretty, I suggest Alexa Davalos, and, of course, Sophie Marceau.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 04:18 PM (Riz8t)

240 SEN. WARREN ASKS BESSENT WHY RUSSIAN FM ATTENDED G20 MEETING
...

Mamdani Lays Wreath At Tomb Of The Unknown Hijacker

buff.ly/Fqnok61

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:18 PM (vC80E)

241 He played the abrasive surgeon.

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Wow so he was already typecast as an insufferable twatty medical professional by the time he played the EMH on Voyager

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 11, 2026 04:18 PM (fapp/)

242 Sorry to have dropped away early from the Mayor Madmani thread, because this image should be shared.

The NY Post caught a scene of he and AOC yukking it up during today's memorial, next to weeping families grieving for their mothers and fathers lost.

https://tinyurl.com/2a86buss

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 11, 2026 04:18 PM (gMz7B)

243 Lawrence got her start also because she's pretty. But she is also not a terrible actress either.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:18 PM (sKqQm)

244 First saw Nicole Kidman in Dead Calm(?) with Sam Neil and Billy Zane. Gets her kit off as the Brits say.
Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 03:44 PM (YwEeS)

I think her best movie, by far, is To Die For.
Great cast and acting. Creepy but funny.

Posted by: LASue at September 11, 2026 04:19 PM (lCppi)

245 233 The Broke Back Mountain thing is dumb. 1. It won’t be anywhere near as scandalous as the original premise and characters. And 2. That is not the story.

Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 04:17 PM (ZdaMQ

The surprising twist......

It's each girl and her horse!
Go Hollywood!

Posted by: Stateless - keeping 15 year Ralphy happy and alive. Puppy at heart at September 11, 2026 04:19 PM (Sco7b)

246 Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom
Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow
Everybody needs a bosom

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 11, 2026 04:19 PM (NtVYv)

247 242 Sorry to have dropped away early from the Mayor Madmani thread, because this image should be shared.

The NY Post caught a scene of he and AOC yukking it up during today's memorial, next to weeping families grieving for their mothers and fathers lost.

https://tinyurl.com/2a86buss
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 11, 2026 04:18 PM (gMz7B)

Of course they are happy, why wouldn’t they be. Was candy passed out? Was their ululating?

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 04:20 PM (Gqar8)

248 I don't think Sidney Sweeney is very pretty

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She's just pretty enough that you dont have to avert your eyes while looking at the shiny wagshambas

for me pretty is Zooey Deschanel in her prime (though even today she looks good)

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 11, 2026 04:20 PM (fapp/)

249 These pics of Sydney are not much more salacious than 1960s-70s pinups. Or even earlier ones.

(I admit to some bias in her favor, having testosterone in my veins)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:20 PM (wzUl9)

250 Nood - 25 years after 9/11, children born after the attacks were taught that, of course, Muslims were the real victims of 9/11.

Posted by: Thrawn at September 11, 2026 04:20 PM (oPFtC)

251 or me pretty is Zooey Deschanel in her prime (though even today she looks good)
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP Certified at September 11, 2026

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Absolutely.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:20 PM (wzUl9)

252 Steve Robinson@SteveRob

Terry Liu, the Chinese national arrested this week in Maine, has been charged with illegally modifying the hardware of Customs and Border Patrol computers at the Maine-Canada border.

Liu, who described himself as a native of Guangzhou, China, was caught on camera breaking into CBP computers and replacing processors and memory devices before re-inserting them into government networks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 04:21 PM (vC80E)

253 A sense of humor often sells, too.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 04:21 PM (NFX2v)

254 Sweeney proves that attitude and demeanor matters.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 04:21 PM (ftCfU)

255 Picardo's best line as the doctor was from First Contact: "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 04:21 PM (N2HNb)

256 Jessica Biel, was a treat as well. oof

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 11, 2026 04:22 PM (NtVYv)

257 There'll never be a time when tits and ass can't move product.


There will be a time when hers doesn't. Make bank now.

Posted by: Community Notes at September 11, 2026 04:23 PM (xE0sV)

258 Nood

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 04:24 PM (dK+Kv)

259 There'll never be a time when tits and ass can't move product.

TBH I don't get it.

Sure Sweeney's pictures catch my eye but why would I buy a service or product because they have a pretty girl in their ads?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 04:24 PM (sKqQm)

260 I might even go see Practical Magic II if it's not too man-hating. Remember, in the first film, the "welcoming" family bumped off a man -- I forget the motivation, but he was certainly painted as a monster.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
*
You might want to read the review in the NY Post first. Gave it one star.
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026

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Oh, I'll do my research first.

Did the NYPost like the original film?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:25 PM (wzUl9)

261
Speaking of the Jewish New Year, this will be the year 5787. That's Anno Mundi, the Year of the World.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 11, 2026 04:26 PM (w6EFb)

262 Oh, ferpetessakes, they're all hot and none of them matter. They're just movie chicks. Blah blah blah. I didn't GAF about these broads when I was young, and I'm pressed to name one now.

They'll all be old hags warbling out protest songs for decrepit AWFL millennial women at a #NoBarrons 2056 rally, in practically the blink of an eye.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice's at September 11, 2026 04:26 PM (BI5O2)

263 As much as I like Syd, let's face facts. She became A Thing because of her tits practically falling out of a red dress that she wore to some Hollywood event. Not saying I disapprove, just being honest.

Plus, she restores old cars for fun. Not "pays someone to restore her Bronco", she likes to get her hands dirty herself.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 03:48 PM (7lxe6)

After being muffled up in shapeless clothes in a terrible movie she decided to take some steps in career salvation other than 'attack the audience'. This shows more brains than 90 percent of the hollywood crowd.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 04:26 PM (uhVAy)

264 Hollywood has been Hellywood for a hundred years.

Posted by: Peg Entwhistle at September 11, 2026 04:26 PM (Fn+3X)

265 Pop tart trash.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 04:30 PM (XeU6L)

266 OMG

Venus herself could descend from the heavens, and half of you would say 'meh'

Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026 04:30 PM (ZxPkt)

267 Venus herself could descend from the heavens, and half of you would say 'meh'
Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026

***
Going by the way she's been portrayed in classical art and since, she could use a diet and some gym time.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 11, 2026 04:35 PM (wzUl9)

268 After 5-7 years of suffering from woke, the Dr has prescribed 1-2 years of Sydney Sweeney's boobs. Orally, 4-5 times daily.

Avoid while operating heavy machinery.

Posted by: LateforNaptime at September 11, 2026 04:40 PM (sg4Q3)

269 I don't regret my votes for W. Gore and Kerry would have been worse. But everything W's enemies said about him being a jumped-up lackwit is correct. He's an indefensible uniparty stooge. To his credit, he did destroy the Bush brand.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 11, 2026 04:42 PM (ca8Qt)

270 I'm going to ask Jennifer if I can get a signed picture of her.

Posted by: Bob at September 11, 2026 04:42 PM (8fcNE)

271 Ill never forgive this chimpy bitch fucknut for making me defend his worthless chimpy bitch ass for years, only to finally realize at the end what a petulant little chimpy bitch ass this wanna be texan pissbag really was

get off my lawn
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - FAP


I miss Hugo the Chavez.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 11, 2026 04:44 PM (W2Pud)

272 Yes it's true. He's a gay.

Posted by: Milk milk lemonade... at September 11, 2026 04:54 PM (99AG6)

273 The sportsball viewership ratings must really be tanking if they're resorting to ads like this!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 11, 2026 05:09 PM (O7YUW)

274 Also, gotta admit, Sweeney's pretty hot.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 11, 2026 05:10 PM (O7YUW)

275 CBD never puts stuff like this on the Art Thread...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 05:38 PM (l3cgK)

276 .
.
Sloppy Slappers rule ! ! !
.

Posted by: Marooned at September 11, 2026 06:45 PM (W2rvL)

277 I kinda wish the Joel Schumacker who had made "Falling Down" had done a Batman film.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at September 11, 2026 06:59 PM (gHSfI)

278 Hey! Speak for yourself! Sydney Sweeney can let her bosom hang out as much as she wants, as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: MrBill at September 12, 2026 10:00 PM (KXAlG)

Victory Lap: Communist Jihadi Zohran Mamdani Does "Interfaith" Walk on 9/11, Which Ends at... Islamic Center

Unbelievable.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New Yorkers of all faiths on Thursday participated in a tribute to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Approximately 100 people joined the Children of Abraham Peace Walk, the New York Post reported.

The peace walk was created for people to "come together to remember those we've lost, and to recommit to our shared vision of safety in solidarity," according to an online flyer.

Muslims were the Real Victims of 9/11, you know. Zohran Mamdani has said so repeatedly, "centering" his own experience in being pulled out of class on 9/11 out of fear -- not reality, fear by a leftwing teaching staff-- that he might be "bullied."

I mean, that's the important thing. Not the 2,997 people killed by his cousins, but the fact that a left-wing AWFUL thought he might be briefly bullied.


Amid calls for him to skip the ceremonies altogether, Mamdani only came for the end of the commemoration at the Islamic Center of New York City.

The walk started at the Hebrew Union College before stopping by Judson Church, and then continued on to the Islamic Center, where Mamdani delivered remarks remembering the victims of 9/11 and thanking first responders for their service.



Fox News Politics
@foxnewspolitics


Rep. Mike Lawler is calling on NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani to skip the Sept. 11 memorial in Manhattan -- with a petition signed by over 100,000 people, led by 9/11 families, backing the demand.

Lawler ripped Mamdani as a "vile antisemite" who has "associated with people who believe America deserved 9/11," pointing to the mayor's ties to far-left activist Hasan Piker and others who have downplayed or justified the attacks. A petition from 9/11 families details Mamdani's praise of Brooklyn Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who was named as an alleged co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

The backlash comes as the nation prepares to mark 25 years since the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people -- and Republicans say Mamdani's presence would be an insult to the families and first responders who lived through it.


Lawler told FOX News: "From my vantage point, I don't think he should be there, and I think most New Yorkers agree that he should not be there. Certainly, the 9/11 families and the first responders believe he should not be there."

The petition from 9/11 families goes further than Lawler's comments. It details Mamdani's praise of Brooklyn Imam Siraj Wahhaj -- named as an alleged co-conspirator in the 1993 WTC bombing -- and his endorsement of a candidate who described 9/11 as something "a couple of people did in the context of U.S. capitalism, racism, white supremacy, and Islamophobia."

That same candidate also expressed sympathy for Ahmed Ferhani, who pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up a Manhattan synagogue.

Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger took aim at Mamdani as well, saying he shouldn't attend "until he can actually call out terror groups around the world for what they want to do to this country, and that includes Hamas."

NYPD Commisioner Jessica Tisch apparently has a frosty relationship with Mamdani, feeling that he -- get this -- celebrates terrorists instead of opposing them.

She passive-aggressively blasted those blurring the lines between heroes and terrorists. She didn't mention Mamdani by name, but most believe she meant him.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch blasts 9/11 revisionists blurring lines between heroes and terrorists


NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch pointedly called Wednesday for "moral clarity" ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks -- decrying revisionists who blur the lines between heroes and terrorists.

Tisch made the remarks before a stone-faced Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other NYPD and city officials as they unveiled a new 9/11 Memorial Wall at One Police Plaza.

The wall -- which includes 469 new names, commemorating NYPD members who have died of Ground Zero-related illnesses -- preserves the unfathomable devastation from the attack on the World Trade Center towers and the heroism in response, Tisch said.

"Preserving that history also means preserving its moral clarity," she said, addressing an audience of 9/11 first responders' families.

"The men who attacked this city were terrorists. The men and women who ran into the towers to save innocent lives were heroes," she said.

"Twenty-five years cannot be allowed to blur that distinction and shame on those who do."

The usually straight-shooting top cop left the specific culprits unclear. But the open-to-interpretation condemnation nonetheless set tongues wagging, particularly as Mamdani -- both the Big Apple's first socialist and first Muslim mayor -- leads the city through a politically fractious run-up to the terror attacks' quarter-century anniversary on Friday.

Several lefties in Mamdani's orbit have come under fire for their views on the attacks, notably online personality Hasan Piker, who previously said that "America deserved 9/11." Piker has since walked back his 2019 comments, saying that he meant US actions in the Middle East have a boomerang effect.

This might be what prompted her to blast Mamdani: Mamdani signed a bill to make 9/11 documents available to the public, and then gave this presentation pen to a lawyer for an Al Qaeda terrorist.


And just days before Tisch's remarks, she found herself smack in the middle of a controversy as Mamdani -- fresh off signing an executive order recognizing 9/11 -- asked her to hand a ceremonial pen to his chief counsel Ramzi Kassem, a civil rights attorney who once represented an al-Qaeda terrorist.

Three attendees at the NYPD ceremony told The Post they snickered when Tisch made her remarks on "moral clarity," and perceived it as a dig.

"It definitely sounded like she took a shot at the mayor, especially after the pen incident last week," said one attendee.

Mamdani, for his part, didn't flinch as Tisch made her remarks.

NYPD officials didn't clarify at whom Tisch's remarks were pointed, when pressed by The Post.

The communist jihadi refused calls to skip the 9/11 services.

He wanted that Victory Lap.


Maya Sulkin
@SulkinMaya

22h

Former Governor George Pataki says Mamdani's refusal to condemn the phrase "globalize the intifada" means he should not attend the 25th anniversary memorial for 9/11 -- aligning with a petition against his attendance that over 100,000 victims' families have signed.

Pataki also called it "ridiculous" to say Mamdani is being excluded because of his faith. "Muslims have always been included... but it's different when you tolerate -- let alone encourage -- violence. Then you don't belong there. This is about the families." Not attending, he added, "would be a sign of respect for the suffering that the families still face 25 years later."

Video here.

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Eyal Yakoby
@EYakoby

16h

It has nothing to do with Zohran being Muslim, it has to do with:
- Zohran campaigning with Imam Siraj Wahhaj -- an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
- Zohran rapping about his love for the Holy Land Five
- Zohran's inability to condemn Hamas
- Being funded by CAIR
- Zohran's intern Arzoo Malik who called for a Holy War through Jihad
- Zohran's meeting with the woman who is responsible for making being gay punishable by death in Uganda
- Zohran claiming that it is an "illusion" that Muslims can become New Yorkers and settle into the city
- Zohran defending Anwar al-Awlaki -- the terrorist cleric linked to 9/11, Fort Hood, the Underwear Bomber, and whose sermons inspired the Boston Marathon bombing
- Zohran campaigning with Hasan Piker who said that "America deserved 9/11"
- Zohran's imam ally Siraj Wahhaj who referred to Homosexuals as a "Disease of this society"

Below: the pen incident.

He actually made Tisch pass the pen to the terror lawyer.


David Asman
@DavidAsmanfox

From the NYPOST: After Mayor Mamdani signed the 9/11 documents, he gave Police Commish Tisch the ceremonial pen, and whispered, "Can you pass this?"

Tisch handed it to Mamdani's chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem, who once represented an al-Qaeda terrorist with links to the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, and who had just snuck into the press conference.

She then hurried out of the room -- the first official to exit the press conference.

This childish, calculated display of passive aggression was missed by no one, and will not be forgotten by Tisch or by NYC's millions of 9/11 survivors.



Fox News
@FoxNews


Mamdani is under fire after a symbolic 9/11 pen was handed to a former al Qaeda defense lawyer.

After signing an executive order designating 9/11 a citywide day of remembrance, the pen was handed to his chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem.

Kassem previously represented a convicted al Qaeda member whose brother-in-law was one of the hijackers aboard American Airlines Flight 77, which struck the Pentagon on 9/11.

The moment is adding to the criticism Mamdani is already facing over his participation in 9/11 remembrance events.

The documents Mamdani made available are designed to claim that Giuliani and other officials dealing with his cousins' bloody handiwork were the Real Villains Here.


Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:20 PM




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Posted by: GF at September 11, 2026 02:20 PM (jnv+I)

2 "I dont care about 9/11!!! Where's my free stuff?!!"

---Young New Yorkers that voted for Mamdami

Posted by: Sharpie at September 11, 2026 02:21 PM (KwAVK)

3
NYC firefighter unloads on a pro palestinian in an Elmo costume in the best way:

https://tinyurl.com/yrpacj5d

Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 02:21 PM (kX27y)

4 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 11, 2026 02:22 PM (NcvvS)

5 no, not unbelievable

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 11, 2026 02:22 PM (CWTWj)

6 F this guy in particular.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:23 PM (dK+Kv)

7 They've got tape of him and AOC yukking it up while the names were being read. I was hoping it's AI because no one is THAT much of a faggot asshole or cunt. But alas

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:24 PM (ftCfU)

8 Alternate headline: Believable

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:24 PM (ftCfU)

9 Mumdani is celebrating 9/11, as all the other jihadi garbage.

Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 02:24 PM (AKptf)

10 ace

Check out Mamdani and AOC having a laugh during the reading of the names of the 2,997 murders by muslim terrorists on 9/11.

When people tell you they hate you, believe them.

https://tinyurl.com/tv6kdj8k

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 02:25 PM (viF8m)

11 NYC denizens deserve to be clown slapped. Good job, assholes.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 02:25 PM (ydoWy)

12 On the bright side:

10 Years Ago Today: Hillary Clinton Dropped Like a Rock and Was Thrown Into Van Like a Side of Beef

- TGP

She who will never be President. Thank you, President Trump.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:25 PM (dK+Kv)

13 I don't know how Tisch can stay in her position after the pen passing. He's deliberately humiliating her.

Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 02:25 PM (kX27y)

14 f this guy with the heat of a million suns and a barbed wire pineapple, inserted anally sideways.

I wish Tisch had dropped the pen instead of handing it to that dirtbag

Posted by: vivi at September 11, 2026 02:26 PM (7esJd)

15 Thanks, George Bush!

Your decision to stand with a bunch of jihadists days after 9/11 and announce that "Islam is a religion of peace", and then opening the floodgates to Muslim immigration into the US, led directly to Mamdami's election.

The 2025 New York electorate is very, very different from the 2001 New York electorate.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 11, 2026 02:26 PM (aD4fx)

16
New Yorker Islamaphobia? Isn't the new mayor a Muslim?

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 11, 2026 02:26 PM (OkYzo)

17 People look at Caliph Mamdani doing his victory lap around Manahattan.

And then they get all indignant.

But then they scoff at my ideas about dissolving the Union, because they love being lorded over by foreign Muslim Communists.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice's at September 11, 2026 02:26 PM (BI5O2)

18 >>>Muslims were the Real Victims of 9/11, you know. Zohran Mamdani has said so repeatedly

Norm Macdonald said that, too.

"What terrifies me is if ISIS were to detonate a nuclear device and kill 50 million Americans. Imagine the backlash against peaceful Muslims?"

Posted by: m at September 11, 2026 02:26 PM (odBC9)

19 They've got tape of him and AOC yukking it up while the names were being read. I was hoping it's AI because no one is THAT much of a faggot asshole or cunt. But alas
Posted by: ...
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I'm often surprised these days, but rarely shocked anymore.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 02:26 PM (XeU6L)

20 I cannot believe that this piece of communist shit muslim is the Mayor of my City.

Fuck him and all that voted for him.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at September 11, 2026 02:27 PM (4q/mG)

21 I don't know how Tisch can stay in her position after the pen passing. He's deliberately humiliating her.
Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 02:25 PM (kX27y)

she can replace him when he is deported ?? I don't know..

Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 02:27 PM (AKptf)

22 New Yorker Islamaphobia? Isn't the new mayor a Muslim?

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 11, 2026 02:26 PM (OkYzo)

America elected Obama twice and it's still racist.

It's very complicated.

Basically.... it turns out you can just say things.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:27 PM (ftCfU)

23 Mamdani is here to conquer.

But his smile is pretty dreamy, no?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 02:27 PM (Dv3i1)

24 no, not unbelievable"

Of course not. He's part of the dem core, now that Hispanics are voting...gasp...Republican.

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 02:28 PM (pfXMo)

25 Years Ago Today: Hillary Clinton Dropped Like a Rock and Was Thrown Into Van Like a Side of Beef
-----

I prefer 'like a sack of potatoes'.

Posted by: The Blessed Bollard at September 11, 2026 02:28 PM (XeU6L)

26 Basically.... it turns out you can just say things.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:27 PM (ftCfU)

Sydney Sweeney and Kate Upton want to date me. At the same time.

*waits*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:28 PM (dK+Kv)

27 "Approximately 100 people joined the Children of Abraham Peace Walk, the New York Post reported."

My takeaway from that it not that Bombdaddy is an effeminate twink asshole. That's not news.

My takeaway is ... 100 people.

100 people in a city of almost 9 million on a day of a major event.

And the guy got 100 people to go with him on a walk.

100 people.

You could stand in Times Square, yell "anyone who wants to stick a hot poker up their ass and chop off their dick, then follow me," and you'll get more than 100 people.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 02:28 PM (iFTx/)

28 To reprise my WILLOWED comment from the last thread:

"25 years later, OBL's dream of The Conquest of The West by Islamists proceeds unabated and apace."

Posted by: ShainS at September 11, 2026 02:29 PM (ZDs4Q)

29 Willowed, about Queen Elizabeth and Maggie Thatcher:

(she reportedly hated Maggie Thatcher)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

There's a sweet story about Maggie Thatcher being at some official function after her dementia had started to kick in.

Elizabeth took Maggie by the hand and took her around and re-introduced her to the people she had known, but whose names she could no longer remember.

I think she and Maggie clashed on a few things, but I don't think there was an abiding hatred there.
Posted by: Bulg a

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 02:29 PM (77rzZ)

30 This Mamdani fellow is a bit of a twat, isn't he?

/spit

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 02:29 PM (Ntshk)

31 The most important thing to take out of this.

9/11 worked.

Without 9/11 you would have never gotten a jihadi mayor of NYC or our country flooded with other jihadis.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 02:29 PM (sKqQm)

32 Remember, the real victim of 9/11 was Mandami's aunt.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 11, 2026 02:29 PM (aD4fx)

33 Thanks, George Bush"

Indeed

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 02:29 PM (pfXMo)

34 10 Years Ago Today: Hillary Clinton Dropped Like a Rock and Was Thrown Into Van Like a Side of Beef
___

How is she still alive? Vodka needs more study for its effects on longevity.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 02:29 PM (Dv3i1)

35 Leave it to the fucking New York Times to find the real victims of 9/11.

https://tinyurl.com/4nae945e

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 02:30 PM (viF8m)

36 The longer one waits to clean house, sweep, dust, mop and polish the more difficult it is. Simply caulking and painting over the dirt and rough spots will not solve the long term problem of rot.
Carpenters and sailors may be more aware how this works than others.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 02:30 PM (vC80E)

37 You could stand in Times Square, yell "anyone who wants to stick a hot poker up their ass and chop off their dick, then follow me," and you'll get more than 100 people.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 02:28 PM (iFTx/)

What you do in the privacy of your Times Square is your business.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:30 PM (dK+Kv)

38 25 Years Ago Today: Hillary Clinton Dropped Like a Rock and Was Thrown Into Van Like a Side of Beef
-----

I prefer 'like a sack of potatoes'.
Posted by: The Blessed Bollard at September 11, 2026 02:28 PM (XeU6L)

She still looks like a sack of potatoes. Kinda, inert and lumpy. And slowly rotting.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 02:30 PM (Ntshk)

39
The cameras caught him and AOC laughing during the reading of the names of the victims. In a fair world, that'd bury both's chances of ever winning office again.

Posted by: American Hawkman at September 11, 2026 02:30 PM (U1fU7)

40
F the NYT:

As New York’s first Muslim mayor, Mr. Mamdani has been forced to navigate a delicate dynamic. He must speak about Sept. 11 as the city’s top elected official, but also as a member of a religious group that has faced hostility and suspicion since the attacks, and is still being vilified by right-wing factions of the Republican Party.
Image

Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 02:30 PM (kX27y)

41
Mamdani's shyster smile, and his Bond villian of a wife should be run out of town. But the DSA heavy New York City morons demand free food and goverment mandated rent pricing.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 11, 2026 02:30 PM (OkYzo)

42 Carpenters and sailors may be more aware how this works than others.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 02:30 PM (vC80E)

PODAR = Paint Over Dirt And Rust.

It is known.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:30 PM (dK+Kv)

43 New Yorkers, you allowed this excuse for a man to be elected mayor of your city. This one’s on you.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 11, 2026 02:31 PM (W7ehW)

44 Sydney Sweeney and Kate Upton want to date me. At the same time.

*waits*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

You too? I had to change my number because they wouldn't stop texting me.

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 02:31 PM (77rzZ)

45 34 10 Years Ago Today: Hillary Clinton Dropped Like a Rock and Was Thrown Into Van Like a Side of Beef
___

How is she still alive? Vodka needs more study for its effects on longevity.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 02:29 PM (Dv3i1)

Where would she go after death? Even Satan has standards.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 02:31 PM (Ntshk)

46 New Yorkers, you allowed this excuse for a man to be elected mayor of your city. This one’s on you.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 11, 2026 02:31 PM (W7ehW)

Backed by your main party too. Not some shocking uprising, he's the establishment.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 02:32 PM (uhVAy)

47 Yeah, he's an embarrassment. Half on NYC didn't bother to vote in the mayoral election. If they don't care, why should I?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 11, 2026 02:32 PM (2UnvF)

48 The longer one waits to clean house, sweep, dust, mop and polish the more difficult it is.
------

I regard it as a protective coating of grime.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 02:33 PM (XeU6L)

49 Praise Allah for Mayor Usama Bin Mandami ..........

Good Job NYC..................... You F**king Idiots ....

Posted by: Jackson K. at September 11, 2026 02:33 PM (jGtoG)

50 Sydney Sweeney and Kate Upton want to date me. At the same time.

*waits*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Tell them to calm down.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:33 PM (ftCfU)

51 39
The cameras caught him and AOC laughing during the reading of the names of the victims. In a fair world, that'd bury both's chances of ever winning office again.
Posted by: American Hawkman at September 11, 2026 02:30 PM (U1fU7)

I'm surprised he didn't check his watch, like our previous glorious leader at the dignified transfer.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 02:33 PM (Ntshk)

52 I cannot believe that this piece of communist shit muslim is the Mayor of my City.

Fuck him and all that voted for him.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude at September 11, 2026 02:27 PM

I feel your pain.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 02:33 PM (lNdj6)

53 All of Mamdani's gestures are a Muslims way of saying "we've occupied this land and are taking over". The Muslims blocking roads or sidewalks to pray are the same concept. But ISLAMAPHOBIA!

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 02:33 PM (N2HNb)

54 There is no coexistence with the followers of Mohammed. Islam delenda est.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 11, 2026 02:33 PM (W7ehW)

55 "Unbelievable."

Not really.

Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 02:34 PM (MWfyi)

56 Another interesting point, Bombdaddy won based on the foreign vote.

We really have been invaded

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 02:34 PM (sKqQm)

57 45 34 10 Years Ago Today: Hillary Clinton Dropped Like a Rock and Was Thrown Into Van Like a Side of Beef

We could convert her half ton carcass into Soylent Green and feed half of the world ..........

Posted by: Jackson K. at September 11, 2026 02:34 PM (jGtoG)

58 St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 02:34 PM (Ntshk)

59 NYC is a hot mess. It's the savage bitch you people voted for. So how long before you have a full blow sharia landscape?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 11, 2026 02:34 PM (ATFmn)

60 Just FU*K YOU Mamdani.
If NY is stupid enough to elect you, or has let their elections process become so corrupt, then fine. Keep it there. But don't bring your Islamic bullshit to my little town. You will not be welcome.
And it's not islamophobic. That implies a fear. I do not fear you or your murdering followers. I just recognize you as the enemy. The Tenth Crusade is coming.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 11, 2026 02:34 PM (2WIwB)

61 In a sane world, we'd all be working on our trinitite collections from the 1000 most holy sites of Islam.

Call me an optimist, I can still start the planning.

Posted by: Stateless - Keeping 15 year old Ralphy happy and alive. He's a puppy at heart. at September 11, 2026 02:35 PM (Sco7b)

62 We could convert her half ton carcass into Soylent Green and feed half of the world ..........
Posted by: Jackson K. at September 11, 2026 02:34 PM (jGtoG)

You want to poison half the world? I mean, ew. And no amount of processing is gonna get that smell out.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 02:35 PM (Ntshk)

63
But then they scoff at my ideas about dissolving the Union, because they love being lorded over by foreign Muslim Communists.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice'
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You and the mooselimbs want the same thing.
What is not to scoff.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 02:35 PM (vC80E)

64 >>Yeah, he's an embarrassment. Half on NYC didn't bother to vote in the mayoral election. If they don't care, why should I?

Islam, like communism never stays in one place. They are ideologies of invasion and conquest.

There are already muslims trying to build and entire city in Texas. I don't the scumbags getting a foothold anywhere near my country let alone in it.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 02:35 PM (viF8m)

65 New Yorkers, you allowed this excuse for a man to be elected mayor of your city. This one’s on you.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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True, but cancer metastasizes, and the price will be paid by the rest of us.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 02:35 PM (XeU6L)

66 And as I recall, in exit interviews from Bombdaddy voters, they mostly said they voted for him because he'd take money from old, rich white people and give it to them

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 02:35 PM (sKqQm)

67 How is she still alive? Vodka needs more study for its effects on longevity.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 02:29 PM (Dv3i1)

Where would she go after death? Even Satan has standards.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 02:31 PM (Ntshk)

I suspect vodka, at some point, has a pickling effect.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 11, 2026 02:35 PM (W7ehW)

68 Mamdummy's wife might not be that religious. After all she show's her ankles and where are all their children???? They should have half a dozen by now.

Posted by: lin-duh at September 11, 2026 02:35 PM (9AdGW)

69
Before Mamdani leaves office, he'll have a monument with the 19 hijackers names on it, and start including their numbers of the honored dead.

Personally I'd put the hijackers names on a pissing post in a dog park.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 11, 2026 02:36 PM (OkYzo)

70
Without 9/11 you would have never gotten a jihadi mayor of NYC or our country flooded with other jihadis.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 02:29 PM (sKqQm)

Sure.

But the important thing is to always remain in a country run by communists and jihadis, so long as you can read your pocket Constitution by the light of your George Washington votive candle, and have unelected, black-robed priests to tell you your subject status is not a law - just a jizya.

Or dissolve the Union. But we can't have that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice's at September 11, 2026 02:36 PM (BI5O2)

71
HA, I was astronomically willowed in the last thread, but these threads have a common theme today, so re the warning that the "ERW would "push pro-free speech narratives":


This is one of the very myths that Ayaan Hirsi Ali takes on in her 9/11 25-year retrospective.

Islamists do not believe in freedom of speech or religion or conscience any more than they believe in Superman. They exploit western ideals of individual freedom to accomplish the totalitarian nightmare they want to foist on us.

When that POS Dearborn mayor yells at citizens that they have no right to do this-or-that and lectures them on religious freedom or freedom of speech, it's all a lie.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 02:37 PM (mmrXZ)

72 Chris who? - Hillary Rodham Rodham

Posted by: Also on this date at September 11, 2026 02:37 PM (f81tH)

73 "If NY is stupid enough to elect you, or has let their elections process become so corrupt, then fine. Keep it there. "

NYC is just the first step in the conquest of the USA. This is far far worse than the penguins.

Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 02:37 PM (MWfyi)

74 Sydney Sweeney and Kate Upton want to date me. At the same time.

*waits*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

You too? I had to change my number because they wouldn't stop texting me.
Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 02:31 PM (77rzZ)

***

You guys go ahead. After me they will be ruined for any other men.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 11, 2026 02:38 PM (2WIwB)

75 >>Or dissolve the Union. But we can't have that.

How exactly would dissolving the Union keep Islam off this continent?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 02:38 PM (viF8m)

76 9/11 worked.

It really did - Osama Bin Laden achieved a great strategic victory.

The Economist Magazine, in honor of the 25th anniversary of 9/11, has an article up explaining that Europe is only 6% Muslim, that there are no-go zones in Europe, and almost all Muslims in Europe only want to integrate in to European society and live their lives.

They're simply not a problem.

Of course, for example, only 6% of Belgium is Muslim, but 20-25% of Brussels is, and nearly half of the school kids in Brussels are.

I'm sure that won't be a problem for Belgium when their capital becomes majority Muslim in a couple of decades.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 11, 2026 02:38 PM (aD4fx)

77 >>>A NYC firefighter just unloaded on a pro Palestine activist in an Elmo costume.

https://tinyurl.com/hphcevuf

Righteous.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 11, 2026 02:39 PM (3ImbR)

78 New York cancer won’t be allowed here. New York City? Get a rope!

Pace Pace picante sauce.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 11, 2026 02:39 PM (W7ehW)

79 That SHOULD be the end of Alex Cuntez but Democrats don't give a fuck.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:39 PM (ftCfU)

80 Sharia City, NY has a nice ring to it. Agree or I will behead you.

Posted by: Mohammad al-Muhammad at September 11, 2026 02:40 PM (J4Dwc)

81 In order to be good people, we must studiously not acknowledge the conquest rituals.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 11, 2026 02:40 PM (udgHb)

82 Not wanting to live under the scimitar of Islam is islamaphobic. Sign me up, now let’s repent to Christ Jesus as a nation and remove the blight from our society.

Posted by: Cray Cray at September 11, 2026 02:40 PM (ksDEF)

83 Islamists do not believe in freedom of speech or religion or conscience any more than they believe in Superman. They exploit western ideals of individual freedom to accomplish the totalitarian nightmare they want to foist on us.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 02:37 PM (mmrXZ)
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You could replace "islamists" with "leftists" here and it would still be accurate.

Posted by: ballistic at September 11, 2026 02:41 PM (oqH4h)

84 Another unfortunate outcome of 9/11 was how quickly mass murder of even 50 people didn't sound "that bad" anymore. A real consequence.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:41 PM (ftCfU)

85 68 Mamdummy's wife might not be that religious. After all she show's her ankles and where are all their children???? They should have half a dozen by now.
Posted by: lin-duh at September 11, 2026 02:35 PM (9AdGW)

Muslims outside of muslim lands do whatever the hell they feel like doing. Even the Saudi royal family goes to Europe and drinks like fish. So long as they raise their asses to Allah five times a day, they figure they are good. And as for his wife, how is it that she thinks she can leave the house and speak openly about things better left to men, in Islam? Because she won't live as other muslims, because she thinks she is immune to them, but if they do take over, she will find out fast, and she won't like it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 02:41 PM (Ntshk)

86 Islamists do not believe in freedom of speech or religion or conscience any more than they believe in Superman.

Erdogan once observed that democracy is like a bus - when you get to the stop you want, you get off.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 11, 2026 02:41 PM (aD4fx)

87
There's a sweet story about Maggie Thatcher being at some official function after her dementia had started to kick in.

Elizabeth took Maggie by the hand and took her around and re-introduced her to the people she had known, but whose names she could no longer remember.

I think she and Maggie clashed on a few things, but I don't think there was an abiding hatred there.
Posted by: Bulg a
Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 02:29 PM (77rzZ)



I always liked the story of how after the SAS assaulted the Iranian Embassy at Prince's Gate in '80, Thatcher and her husband immediately went to Hereford to hoist beers with the assault team, supposedly while they were still covered in blood and smelling of smoke and gunpowder, and Denis Thatcher giving the SAS a stern lecture for leaving one of the terrorists alive.

Probably apocryphal, but it's too good of a story to not be true.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 02:41 PM (7lxe6)

88 It's an Islamic conquest of the US. It's succeeding. Because our political betters allowed the Islamists to attain government office and then foist their Islamist political/ideology on the rest of us without so much as a complaint from the public.

Because Islamophobia.

Fuck them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 02:41 PM (2Cry5)

89
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.
Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 02:34 PM (Ntshk)

_________

Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, o Prince of the Heavenly Host, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 02:42 PM (eRlcH)

90 DEPORT
DEPORT
DEPORT

DEPORT THE FUCKING LOT

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 11, 2026 02:43 PM (+fdRY)

91 I just noticed something -- I've seen no hijabs on campus this semester. Not saying there aren't any; it's a big campus.

Posted by: Emmie, celebrating 250 years of God's grace at September 11, 2026 02:43 PM (udgHb)

92 77 >>>A NYC firefighter just unloaded on a pro Palestine activist in an Elmo costume.

https://tinyurl.com/hphcevuf

Righteous.
Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 11, 2026 02:39 PM (3ImbR)

That was cathartic.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 02:43 PM (Ntshk)

93
>>Pataki also called it "ridiculous" to say Mamdani is being excluded because of his faith.

=================

I wanna say this is another myth, that Mamdani is no more a believer in Islam than I am. That he knows it's a useful "ism" for totalitarians like himself.

Now it's coming out that those inner circles among the Nazis and Stalinists were true believers. I don't know what to think.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 02:44 PM (mmrXZ)

94 I'm sure that won't be a problem for Belgium when their capital becomes majority Muslim in a couple of decades.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 11, 2026 02:38 PM (aD4fx)
~~~~~

Shouldn't take that long. 52% of students in Brussels are muslim.

Posted by: IrishEi?! at September 11, 2026 02:44 PM (3ImbR)

95 I can't stand to look at this demon's photo. I avert my eyes vs focusing on him. Evil comes through the Internet strongly to me from photos. Visceral. As if he's a demon.

He and AOC should not be at the 9/11 Memorial today. Sacred ground with people mourning and they laugh and joke.

I knew he'd come. In spite of families protesting him being there. His ego is massive as well as his power to get his way. For now.

May God comfort and give peace to all who lost families and friends that horrible day. May God give hope and strength to those who suffer from the dust.

My husband's cousin, a NYFD fighter, was killed in the North Tower collapse. I never met him but by all I know and read a very good man. A hero who could have gotten out safely but stayed to direct other firefighters out of that building.

God bless you all this day. Thanks, Ace, for all you do and have a great weekend.

Going to head out to the nursing reunion this evening. Assume I can rise above any libtards I went to college with and were once good friends. May they keep their yaps shut and focus on friendship.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 11, 2026 02:44 PM (hzuYO)

96 >>Muslims outside of muslim lands do whatever the hell they feel like doing.

I used to stay in a hotel in Dubai that was very popular with Muslims from around the region as a weekend getaway. They would check in in their dresses and dishtowels on their heads and then show up at the bar on one of the higher floors in full western dress.

You all see it on flights to the Middle East. They board the flight in western dress and change in the airplane bathroom before landing.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 02:45 PM (viF8m)

97 Of course, for example, only 6% of Belgium is Muslim, but 20-25% of Brussels is, and nearly half of the school kids in Brussels are.

I'm sure that won't be a problem for Belgium when their capital becomes majority Muslim in a couple of decades.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 11, 2026 02:38 PM (aD4fx)

That's bad but even worse is the deadweight globalist drones also living in Brussles.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 02:46 PM (uhVAy)

98 Going to head out to the nursing reunion this evening. Assume I can rise above any libtards I went to college with and were once good friends. May they keep their yaps shut and focus on friendship.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Prepare for a big dose of bird hand.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 11, 2026 02:47 PM (YZ0Fo)

99 Sayed is for sure a jihadists. He's really enjoying playing up the commie stuff. It gives him a little twinkle.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:47 PM (ftCfU)

100 Going to head out to the nursing reunion this evening. Assume I can rise above any libtards I went to college with and were once good friends. May they keep their yaps shut and focus on friendship.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Prepare for a big dose of bird hand.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 11, 2026 02:47 PM (YZ0Fo)

You'll put your eye out.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:48 PM (dK+Kv)

101 Muslims who tolerate do not speak their truth aloud.
Muslims who do not tolerate speak their truth.
Muslims, all, want the same thing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 02:48 PM (vC80E)

102 All those people standing around Mohamadani Mayor, they always look like hostage photographs. LOL

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 02:49 PM (2dVdu)

103 My friends two cousins were on separate planes that were both flown into the towers. Her aunt was approached by media to "tell her story." I advised against knowing they'd be exploited, but the aunt wanted her sons remembered as more than a number.

At the time there was hope that something good would come of this.

Would that it were.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 11, 2026 02:50 PM (bX16E)

104 Also news, El-Sayed.

Press Release, Abdul for U.S. Senate

Abdul El-Sayed Honors Lives Lost on September 11
September 11, 2026
Abdul: “They tried to diminish America. They tried to make her smaller. They tried to turn us against each other. They failed.”

In part, MICHIGAN – This morning, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed released a video statement marking the anniversary of the September 11 attacks and honoring the lives lost that day.
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And, Slate dot com: 'How We Should Memorialize 9/11'

Last paragraph: "Twenty-five years after Sept. 11, 2001, scores of innocent people are dead, revolutions have risen up and been squashed down, and millions live in the ruins of war-in poverty, in sickness, in nations left in shambles. Most of the blame for that lies at the feet of the 9/11 terrorists and those who supported and financed them. But part of the blame lies at the feet of some of the most powerful people in the world, who made spectacularly bad decisions, repeatedly misled and public, and behaved in ways that should always be described as shamefully un-American. I'd prefer it if our current politicians could acknowledge that."

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 02:50 PM (NFX2v)

105 “A website that costs $34 million.,,”

Holy shizz blatant fraud right in our faces.
Since when does an informational website cost that much????

Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2026 02:50 PM (4KUe5)

106 YD, I don’t want to dissolve the Union. I want to dissolve the commie Left. And the mooslims.

Posted by: RI Red at September 11, 2026 02:50 PM (E9nGU)

107 Read Hillaire Belloc, The Great Heresies. Islam is a heresy of Christianity. It removes all personal responsibility and replaces it with "submission" to Allah, a pagan moon god that resembles Satan in attitude and behavior, except that Satan has to follow rules. Allah does not. He is incomprehensible and does as he pleases. That means any and all behaviors that might further the conquest of Islam are not only allowed but encouraged. Hence, jihad, taqiyya, subjugation of women, and all the other evils of that filthy sect. It likewise means you can't even ask questions of Allah, just do as ol' Mo told you to do. It is the least sensible religion imaginable and creates the least sensible people imaginable.

St. Michael the Archangel....

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 02:51 PM (Ntshk)

108
F the NYT:

As New York’s first Muslim mayor, Mr. Mamdani has been forced to navigate a delicate dynamic.

Posted by: beckster

===============

"navigate" and "dynamic" are two of those words that make me click right off unless I want to hate-read.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 02:51 PM (mmrXZ)

109 “A website that costs $34 million.,,”

Holy shizz blatant fraud right in our faces.
Since when does an informational website cost that much????

Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2026 02:50 PM (4KUe5)

*Obamacare enters the chat*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:51 PM (dK+Kv)

110
When did the tradition of a government functionary speaking in public be backed up by a phalanx of flunkies?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 02:51 PM (eRlcH)

111 Sacrilege.

Posted by: creeper at September 11, 2026 02:52 PM (lWAes)

112 "Democracy is like riding the bus. When you get to your destination, you get off"
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This is one reason why democracy is a wretched system. It is historically viewed as the mechanism for Mobocracy. Anarchy, Agitation, Discontent. Sound familiar?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 02:53 PM (2dVdu)

113 95 I can't stand to look at this demon's photo. I avert my eyes vs focusing on him. Evil comes through the Internet strongly to me from photos. Visceral. As if he's a demon.

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You aren't wrong, he does have demon face. I've seen many comments elsewhere to that nature.

Posted by: Cray Cray at September 11, 2026 02:53 PM (+1LeE)

114 101 Muslims who tolerate do not speak their truth aloud.
Muslims who do not tolerate speak their truth.
Muslims, all, want the same thing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 02:48 PM (vC80E)

There are no Muslims who tolerate. There are only Muslims who tolerate FOR NOW.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 02:53 PM (Ntshk)

115
You aren't wrong, he does have demon face. I've seen many comments elsewhere to that nature.
Posted by: Cray Cray at September 11, 2026 02:53 PM (+1LeE)


It's the dead eyes...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 11, 2026 02:54 PM (+gK6I)

116 When did the tradition of a government functionary speaking in public be backed up by a phalanx of flunkies?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 02:51 PM (eRlcH)

I saw Phalanx of Flunkies open for Cowboy Junkies at the Gorge in 2018.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:54 PM (dK+Kv)

117
If a couple of planes hit NYC today, would we respond with an outpouring of support like 25 years ago? I suspect not.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 02:54 PM (eRlcH)

118
Tisch should have kept the pen and walked out with it. "I thought said 'have this.'"

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 11, 2026 02:55 PM (L78T1)

119 They tried to turn us against each other. They failed
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LMAO

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:55 PM (ftCfU)

120 I personally guarantee that Hillary Clinton will live forever, because I don't want tht bitch anywhere near me!

Posted by: Satan, Prince of Darkness, Esq. at September 11, 2026 02:55 PM (o7TnT)

121 >>> But part of the blame lies at the feet of some of the most powerful people in the world, who made spectacularly bad decisions, repeatedly misled and public, and behaved in ways that should always be described as shamefully un-American. I'd prefer it if our current politicians could acknowledge that."
---

Absolutely. Bush and his cohort are guilty, guilty, guilty for the predicament we and the world suffer today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 02:55 PM (vC80E)

122 If a couple of planes hit NYC today, would we respond with an outpouring of support like 25 years ago? I suspect not.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 02:54 PM (eRlcH)

They'd blame Trump

Posted by: It's me donna at September 11, 2026 02:55 PM (+gK6I)

123 Honors “lives lost”..


So very tired of the passive voice to handwave away WHO did this and WHAT they did.

Islamic jihadis violently killed these people.
Recall the airline staff on one of the flout of Boston - they slashed the throats of the flight attendants, it was a bloodbath. They didn’t “lose” their lives - your people aggressively took them, El Sayed.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2026 02:55 PM (4KUe5)

124 You aren't wrong, he does have demon face. I've seen many comments elsewhere to that nature.
Posted by: Cray Cray at September 11, 2026 02:53 PM (+1LeE)

It's the constant grin, even when he knows people hate his guts. He lords it over everyone, since he has "power" and they don't. He lets people talk and then ignores all of it. If he had the chance, he would kill all infidels and be Supreme Leader. He is the essence of evil, which only destroys and never creates.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 02:56 PM (Ntshk)

125 YD, I don’t want to dissolve the Union. I want to dissolve the commie Left. And the mooslims.

Co-signed. It's my union, not theirs.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 02:56 PM (2ocoG)

126 When did the tradition of a government functionary speaking in public be backed up by a phalanx of flunkies?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 02:51 PM (eRlcH)


They get nothing but the noose.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:57 PM (dK+Kv)

127
Why did Tisch hand over that pen? Why didn't she hand it back to Mamdani and tell him to do it himself?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 02:57 PM (mmrXZ)

128 It's the constant grin, even when he knows people hate his guts.

I don't think it's even that calculated. He's a low-IQ theater kid and someone probably told him once to smile all the time so he looks friendly or something.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 02:57 PM (2ocoG)

129 CNN has just learned that there were two.... I repeat empty seat last night at the Trump rally in Dallas.

This confirms that the rally last night was a huge failure...

Also in other news, today is 911 25th anniversary where mostly peaceful al Qaeda religious operatives accidently crashed three A/C piloted by JEWS into NYC and the Pentagon.

The highly respect Muslim Cleric and teacher of peaceful Islamic studies, Professor Usama Bin Ladan was honored by Mayor Mandani today for world enlightenment for the Children.

Now back to our main story on why Gay Anal sex with Men is better than boinking a Babe with large boobs and a tight ass.

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at September 11, 2026 02:57 PM (61gH6)

130 They tried to turn us against each other. They failed
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LMAO

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:55 PM (ftCfU)

Trump's fault.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:58 PM (dK+Kv)

131 120 I personally guarantee that Hillary Clinton will live forever, because I don't want tht bitch anywhere near me!
Posted by: Satan, Prince of Darkness, Esq. at September 11, 2026 02:55 PM (o7TnT)

See # 45.

Posted by: tcn in AK at September 11, 2026 02:58 PM (Ntshk)

132 >>>
There are already muslims trying to build and entire city in Texas. I don't the scumbags getting a foothold anywhere near my country let alone in it.

Posted by: JackStraw
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Two (2) cities. Here's a new one.
Al-Huda Islamic Center
6703 Pitts Road
Katy, Texas 77493

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 02:58 PM (vC80E)

133 Why not do a victory lap? Isn't that traditionally what a conqueror does?

That this is the reality 25 years later feels like some horrible MCU alternate universe.

Posted by: Momlady at September 11, 2026 02:59 PM (oYRHV)

134 Sydney Sweeney and Kate Upton want to date me. At the same time.

Well, you can always save money by ordering one entree for both of them when you go out for a dinner date, and getting them to split it.

Oh, you didn't really mean "date", did you? 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 02:59 PM (JrHfD)

135
If her name was Hillary Rodham instead of Hillary Rodham Clinton, she would have topped out as a state representative.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 02:59 PM (eRlcH)

136 Mamdani has dead eyes, but also Sanpaku eyes, which indicates imbalance/drugs/mental illness. You can see the whites under his irises, which is not normal.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2026 03:00 PM (4KUe5)

137 Why is the NYC police commissioner a woman?

Posted by: I gotta ask at September 11, 2026 03:00 PM (2Ez/1)

138 I still wonder how much of the money that NYC got after 9/11 ended up on Dem pockets ? Given the fraud of late I'd say more than a little.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 03:00 PM (N2HNb)

139 Now back to our main story on why Gay Anal sex with Men is better than boinking a Babe with large boobs and a tight ass.
Posted by: CNN Breaking News at September 11, 2026 02:57 PM

They have to do something with Don LeMon, apparently.

CNN in actuality ran a story about how Brandon Herrera likes to call fat AWFLs fat AWFLs. Kaitlyn Collins frowned a lot while reading the teleprompter for it.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 03:00 PM (2ocoG)

140 Currently watching UBL getting shot.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 11, 2026 03:01 PM (E0Et6)

141 islam in an existential threat to our republic.

It is the reason the attackers gave for the 9-11 attacks. It is the reason countless combatants gave us on the battlefield.

It’s not any of the ridiculous reasons and premises proffered by the media, or invented as a pretext.

It is the cult, itself. It’s tenets command and demand our destruction. It exhorts its member to lie, cheat, steal, coerce and murder in its name.

Like the over 3,000 on 9-11, and many more in the years that followed.

islam isn’t a victim. It is the perpetrator.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 11, 2026 03:01 PM (VnVVA)

142 Commissioner Gordon died

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 03:02 PM (2dVdu)

143
>>notably online personality Hasan Piker, who previously said that "America deserved 9/11."

================

That's another of the myths that Ayaan Hirsi Ali explodes in her article today. Islamo-leftists will talk about the west's supposed injustices towards the Middle East, but the deep ideology has nothing to do with historical grudges.

It's just a totalitarian juggernaut.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 03:02 PM (mmrXZ)

144 Mamdani has dead eyes, but also Sanpaku eyes, which indicates imbalance/drugs/mental illness. You can see the whites under his irises, which is not normal.

Regardless of what you call it, he just looks fake and gay, as the kids say.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 03:02 PM (2ocoG)

145
Re: Mamdani attending a 9/11 commemoration where he's not wanted, and being an asshole.

Muslims do this kind of victory lap at the sites of their atrocities all the time. Always have. That's why they wanted to build a mosque where the World Trade Center used to be, converted Christian cathedrals to mosques in conquered territory, and why this asshole ran for mayor and pissed on the memory of the deceased of 9/11. It's part of the program.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 11, 2026 03:02 PM (L78T1)

146
Why is the NYC police commissioner a woman?
Posted by: I gotta ask at September 11, 2026 03:00 PM (2Ez/1)

________

Hey, hey, hey! She's a veteran of a thousand stakeouts, shootouts, chases and interrogations. She's hardbitten and cynical, as only the witness to the underside of the city can be.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 03:03 PM (eRlcH)

147 @137 big family money, was an Adams supporter. Of all the people in NYC government, Tisch is doing a stand-up job given the amount of political shit around her

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 03:03 PM (N2HNb)

148 CNN in actuality ran a story about how Brandon Herrera likes to call fat AWFLs fat AWFLs. Kaitlyn Collins frowned a lot while reading the teleprompter for it.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 03:00 PM (2ocoG)

lol

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:03 PM (dK+Kv)

149 127
Why did Tisch hand over that pen? Why didn't she hand it back to Mamdani and tell him to do it himself?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 02:57 PM (mmrXZ)

Because she loves those sweet sweet pension payouts for when she retires.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 11, 2026 03:05 PM (g8Ew8)

150
It's the dead eyes...
Posted by: It's me donna

==============

That grin is his most insidious weapon to me. "I'm trustworthy! I'm a joyful warrior! I'm not angry! I'm optimistic! I love New York!"

It supports every one of his lies. Who would doubt such a cheerful, positive guy?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 03:06 PM (mmrXZ)

151 People can read Atta’s own words. He wasn’t some aggrieved culture warrior mad at our intervention in the Middle East. He was a religious adherent closely following what his cult demanded of him.

Even UBL and those around him didn’t truly believe much of the intervention pretext that was offered by some as a reason for the 9-11 attacks and war that followed. They simply feared that people would come to understand the islam demanded their destruction and they would be onto the game.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 11, 2026 03:06 PM (VnVVA)

152 September 11, 2012. Attack on Americans in Benghazi

Posted by: Ben Had at September 11, 2026 03:06 PM (E0Et6)

153 911 impact lasted only so long unfortunately for squishes like that guy at little green dildos and a couple other sites. No wonder liberal NY is choosing it's own doom.

Posted by: Rex B at September 11, 2026 03:06 PM (f81tH)

154 If person belongs to a religion that calls for my death if I don't submit to their dictates, that holds human life to be disposable, that sanctions the harm of the most innocent amongst us, being an "Islamophobe" is the rational and righteous position.

Islam is inherently evil.

Posted by: Minuteman at September 11, 2026 03:07 PM (47/pr)

155 I heard there are something like 100 million Americans that were not born yet on 9/11/01.

My nearby hometown (Quincy) recently had a city council meeting where the local mosque (small, run by a woman it seems) was complaining that some councilman had said negative things bout Islam on his social media. So the (female) mayor was very concerned about "Islamophobia".

Quincy is 86% white (non-Hispanic), and 99% not foreign born, so I think there are only a few Muslims, but sure, they are the victims, of course.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 11, 2026 03:07 PM (vbXSk)

156 146- Because although she was not a uniformed officer, she had had years of experience working with the NYPD and my sense is that the officers generally respected her:

https://tinyurl.com/2pszztnu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 03:07 PM (JrHfD)

157 Know who else had an insidious grin?

Posted by: Shifty eyes at September 11, 2026 03:07 PM (2Ez/1)

158 He actually made Tisch pass the pen to the terror lawyer.
=====

He did not make her do any such thing.

She signed up for this bullsh*t. She is a volunteer.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 03:08 PM (RIvkX)

159 It supports every one of his lies. Who would doubt such a cheerful, positive guy?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 03:06 PM (mmrXZ)

Sayed's schoolboy romance novel cover wwf toughguy polish is a lot more worrisome.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 03:08 PM (ftCfU)

160 You know, we've been treated to a half century or more of "religions and politics bad".

How come all this is now suddenly ok?

/ yeah, I know

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 03:08 PM (pfXMo)

161 September 11, 2012. Attack on Americans in Benghazi

Posted by: Ben Had at September 11, 2026 03:06 PM (E0Et6)

Sorry. That wasn't a terrorist attack.

Posted by: Candy Crowley at September 11, 2026 03:09 PM (ftCfU)

162 If a couple of planes hit NYC today, would we respond with an outpouring of support like 25 years ago? I suspect not.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
____________

Mamdani would claim the planes were trying to hit him.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 11, 2026 03:09 PM (XvL8K)

163 What's the Greek word for hate?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 11, 2026 03:09 PM (+fdRY)

164
Even UBL and those around him didn’t truly believe much of the intervention pretext that was offered by some as a reason for the 9-11 attacks and war that followed.

Posted by: Marcus T

================

I'm pretty sure those pretexts were handily supplied by today's westerners themselves. We have got to be the easiest population the Muslims have ever attacked in their long history of conquest.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 03:10 PM (mmrXZ)

165 Until and unless a significant number of New Yorkers realize this is war, and respond accordingly, their dhimmitude will continue.

Posted by: epador at September 11, 2026 03:10 PM (TRnzq)

166 You can think Bush and Obama and their "Bring in as many Mohammedans as gawdam possible" policies for giving Islamic Supremacy a foothold i New York, Minnesota, and Michigan.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 03:11 PM (WLHIT)

167 What's the Greek word for hate?
----------------

Opa!

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 03:12 PM (WLHIT)

168 What's the Greek word for hate?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 11, 2026 03:09 PM (+fdRY)

Hassenpfeffer.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 11, 2026 03:12 PM (g8Ew8)

169 Sorry. That wasn't a terrorist attack.
Posted by: Candy Crowley at September 11, 2026 03:09 PM

What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: Old Lady Rodham at September 11, 2026 03:12 PM (2Ez/1)

170 Of all the people in NYC government, Tisch is doing a stand-up job given the amount of political shit around her
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 03:03 PM (N2HNb)
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You're way too kind.

She is on the other team.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 03:13 PM (RIvkX)

171 Although somewhat important, I really give no shits about anything going on in New York, state or city.

Both places can go to hell.

Posted by: Fly Over Country at September 11, 2026 03:13 PM (cCXR+)

172 Re: Mamdani attending a 9/11 commemoration where he's not wanted, and being an asshole.

Muslims do this kind of victory lap at the sites of their atrocities all the time. Always have. That's why they wanted to build a mosque where the World Trade Center used to be, converted Christian cathedrals to mosques in conquered territory, and why this asshole ran for mayor and pissed on the memory of the deceased of 9/11. It's part of the program.

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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:13 PM (vC80E)

173 It's not Islamophobia if:

A: You aren't afraid of them
2. They ARE trying to kill you

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 03:13 PM (l3cgK)

174 What's the Greek word for hate?

'miseo-' or 'mis' as in miseotheist, misanthrope, misogynist...

Posted by: Community Notes at September 11, 2026 03:14 PM (pUU4E)

175 I always fly my flag today.

Posted by: lin-duh at September 11, 2026 03:14 PM (9U6Wl)

176 Commissioner Gordon died
Posted by: Common Tater

Fucking penguins.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 03:14 PM (ydoWy)

177 After Mayor Mamdani signed the 9/11 documents, he gave Police Commish Tisch the ceremonial pen, and whispered, "Can you pass this?"



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Not quick on her feet. She should have dropped it on the floor.

Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 03:14 PM (AKptf)

178 >>Because she loves those sweet sweet pension payouts for when she retires.

The last thing any member of the Tisch family needs is a police pension. She's a billionaire. The Tisch family is pretty legendary around NYC, way more than a dime store Ugandan muslim.

She might be one of those rare people that is trying to protect the people under her watch.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 03:15 PM (viF8m)

179 *sarcastic tone*
Hello, scorpion!
*two thumbs pointing at self*

Posted by: Mayor Mamdani at September 11, 2026 03:16 PM (wVcYX)

180 How about we retire “Islamophobia” since, A) it’s not a phobia to be keenly aware of a people want to kill you, and, B) there is no equivalent word for hatred of Christians and atheists (not in the mainstream and accepted as a legitimate thing).

I am OVER IT.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2026 03:16 PM (4KUe5)

181 Mamdani's got resting snitch face.

fucking rat.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 11, 2026 03:16 PM (Ot/FD)

182 Is Tisch related to the Tisch who was head of CBS?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2026 03:17 PM (4KUe5)

183 You're right, I guess I'm ANTI-mooselimb not islamophobic.

Posted by: lin-duh at September 11, 2026 03:18 PM (9U6Wl)

184 What's the Greek word for hate?

'miseo-' or 'mis' as in miseotheist, misanthrope, misogynist...
Posted by: Community Notes at September 11, 2026 03:14 PM (pUU4E)

misohorny

Posted by: Vietnamese street walker at September 11, 2026 03:18 PM (WbWbV)

185 148 CNN in actuality ran a story about how Brandon Herrera likes to call fat AWFLs fat AWFLs. Kaitlyn Collins frowned a lot while reading the teleprompter for it.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 03:00 PM (2ocoG)

lol
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:03 PM (dK+Kv)

I love how these f**king r*tards get mad about someone calling a woman fat but have no problem with people celebrating the anniversary of someones assassination.

Posted by: Nelly at September 11, 2026 03:18 PM (6+ehB)

186 >>Is Tisch related to the Tisch who was head of CBS?

Yes. Not sure the exact tree but they are related.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 03:19 PM (viF8m)

187 Is Tisch related to the Tisch who was head of CBS?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2026 03:17 PM (4KUe5)
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Yes

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 03:19 PM (RIvkX)

188
Is Tisch related to the Tisch who was head of CBS?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2026 03:17 PM (4KUe5)

_________

Granddaughter

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 03:19 PM (eRlcH)

189 Many pleaded with Jessica Tisch to run for mayor, expressly to prevent Madmani from taking office and forcing America to stomach bullshit like this. She declined, as is her right, but in doing so she signed up to be a patsy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 11, 2026 03:19 PM (tygaT)

190 love how these f**king r*tards get mad about someone calling a woman fat but have no problem with people celebrating the anniversary of someones assassination.
Posted by: Nelly at

There was a BOLO in MS the other day for a car that had a "no fat chicks" decal.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 11, 2026 03:19 PM (YZ0Fo)

191 miseoislamic might work too.

Posted by: lin-duh at September 11, 2026 03:20 PM (9U6Wl)

192 NYC is so unsafe for Muslimes it has an Islamic Cultural Center where nothing bad ever happens.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 03:20 PM (ftCfU)

193 NYU Tisch School for the Arts

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 03:20 PM (RIvkX)

194 There was a BOLO in MS the other day for a car that had a "no fat chicks" decal.
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 11, 2026 03:19 PM (YZ0Fo)

"If found, do not attempt to apprehend.


Just give 'im a high five and say 'Awesome'."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 11, 2026 03:21 PM (Ot/FD)

195 152 September 11, 2012. Attack on Americans in Benghazi
Posted by: Ben Had at September 11, 2026 03:06 PM (E0Et6)

********
The following weekend I went totally loco. Had burned up the Internet emails to officials, etc, after that Rice woman proved we were in N. Korea.

Within 48hrs the truth was in the news in the British press that she would not admit.

Livid was a mild term to describe me. I am surprised there was not a family intervention to calm me down. Stinking botox Bret Baier used the timeline I wrote on the news (no, I did not want credit). Lawsie I was crazy.

That was when I stopped watching TV news.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 11, 2026 03:21 PM (hzuYO)

196 "Brandon Herrera likes to call fat AWFLs fat AWFLs."

We would also have accepted "overfed."

Posted by: The Judges at September 11, 2026 03:21 PM (2Ez/1)

197 Nood. Nude Sydney Sweeney.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 11, 2026 03:21 PM (ExV1e)

198 I don't think Jessica Tisch is one the other team/ if that means she is a member of the DSA and a Muslim supporter. She rather pointedly gave a speech the other day saying, "The men who attacked this city were terrorists. The men and women who ran into the towers to save innocent lives were heroes. Twenty-five years cannot be allowed to blur that distinction, and shame on those who do."


Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 03:21 PM (rHgXV)

199 GWB got it right with his response. But part of me believes he really didn’t have a choice. That’s because he got everything beyond that decision wrong. He immediately became obsequious to the muslims, with part of the reasoning being we couldn’t fight the entire ME. Personally I think that’s weak bullshit given we conquered Afghanistan with two ODA’s and some militia in about two months. That’s before we get to Iraq, of course.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 11, 2026 03:21 PM (VnVVA)

200 There was a BOLO in MS the other day for a car that had a "no fat chicks" decal.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 11, 2026 03:19 PM (YZ0Fo)

They should just follow the long line of ladies.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 03:22 PM (dK+Kv)

201 >>>The last thing any member of the Tisch family needs is a police pension. She's a billionaire. The Tisch family is pretty legendary around NYC, way more than a dime store Ugandan muslim.
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GAS NYC. NYC is a mooselimb strong hold that we as a nation are doing little about. Little about because we as a nation do not acknowledge that they are at war with us or are aware what their subjugation means.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 03:23 PM (vC80E)

202
YD, I don’t want to dissolve the Union. I want to dissolve the commie Left. And the mooslims.



Dissolving commies? I recommend aqua regia.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 03:23 PM (7lxe6)

203 I think I might run for the mayor of Riyadh Saudi Arabia and take switch all the signs showing which way Mecca is ....and then laugh when they all face towards the Red Sea to pray. Maybe switch out the "call to prayer" announcements with Rick Astley 15 minutes before the appointed time. And, put a strip joint/ goat petting zoo down on Tahlia Street.

Then run away.

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 03:29 PM (dIske)

204 If a couple of planes hit NYC today, would we respond with an outpouring of support like 25 years ago? I suspect not.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
____________

Mamdani would claim the planes were trying to hit him.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 11, 2026 03:09 PM (XvL8K)
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Trump would have to be restrained from just nuking Tehran. My guess is there would be several islamic centers in the US getting serious IRS probes, and any islamic country not down with the Abraham Accords would lose some precious real estate. No way in hell any islamic whackjob is going to give Trump that opportunity.

Posted by: Black JEM at September 11, 2026 03:43 PM (7/DDO)

205 Sydney Sweeney and Kate Upton want to date me. At the same time.

*waits*
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

You too? I had to change my number because they wouldn't stop texting me.
Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 02:31 PM (77rzZ)

Me too!! Except, Sydney's text said that I remind her of her grandpa. *sobs*

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 11, 2026 03:56 PM (hmYU4)

206 "Judson Church" is probably more problematic than the Islamic Center. It is a church in name only, peddling the most woke interpretations of religion.

Posted by: Liberty at September 11, 2026 05:07 PM (TK8Ss)

207 Mandami is a straight-up terrorist

Posted by: Sick of the Shit at September 11, 2026 05:41 PM (UvdhP)

The UK Branded Turning Point Members as Dangerous Right Wing Extremists, Claimed Leftists, On the Other Hand, Were "Moderate"

They actually tracked and surveilled Turning Point UK members because they thought they were dangerous -- after a leftist killed Charlie Kirk. They feared they would agitate for "free speech," which is of course dangerous to a corrupt authoritarian and wildly unpopular regime.

They also complained that the "ERW" -- "extreme right wing" -- blamed Kirk's assassination on "the political left."

I am done with the UK. I am done with NATO.

If Russia invades, I'll agitate to send Russia additional weapons to finish the job.

Inside Britain's Counter-Terrorism monitoring of Charlie Kirk's 'Extreme Right-Wing' supporters


A leaked counter-terrorism memo reveals officials tracked Kirk's British supporters, warning they would "push pro-free speech narratives" -- while describing the Left-wing response as “moderate”


One year ago, Charlie Kirk was shot dead; the British government immediately got to work.

Following Kirk's murder, the Research, Information and Communications Unit (RICU), a government counter-extremism and terrorism unit, began monitoring thousands of social media channels, gauging the reaction of what they describe as "Extreme Right Wing" (ERW) activists.

Published here for the first time, a memo generated by RICU reveals that officials assessed that "Extreme Right-Wing" activists, including Tommy Robinson, would use Kirk's assassination to "push pro-free speech narratives".


Counter-extremism agents assessed that Right-wing extremists would use Kirk's death to "encourage more radical action" and "abandon political moderation in favour of more radical political stances".

Meanwhile, RICU characterised the Left-wing online response to Kirk's assassination as "moderate" and largely "factual reporting", despite thousands of Left-wing activists celebrating the shooting.
...


A memo entitled 'RICU Event Response: Charlie Kirk Assassination' was circulated across Whitehall, including to officials in the Home Office, Foreign Office and Cabinet Office, as well as police officers, on 11 September 2025, the day after Kirk was shot.

The memo was classified as "Official Sensitive".

RICU assessed that American and British ERW audiences would present the murder as "a shared attack on the ERW movement and free speech activism more generally", and monitored the response of Turning Point UK, the British arm of Charlie Kirk's American organisation.

"There is nothing 'extreme' about 'pushing pro free speech narratives,'" said Sarah Rogers, the United States Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, who served as Kirk's attorney on First Amendment issues and has led the Trump administration's advocacy against censorship in Europe.

"That's why censorship by governments proves so unpopular."

Rogers added that in her judgment, the RICU report showed "blind spots" which "regrettably were not unique to the UK," pointing out now-discredited intelligence products rescinded by the CIA "show the same biases."

"Most glaringly, the memo describes the 'leftist' response as 'moderate,' despite describing the same leftists as 'celebratory' of Charlie's murder," said Rogers.

RICU is a government unit based in the Home Office that monitors and analyses terrorist and extremist content and supports government counter-terrorism communications.

This is the same unit that pumps out propaganda like "I'll Ride with You" after Muslims commit terrorist murders and also pushed covid hysteria to help the government control the population.

Founded in 2007, RICU has stirred controversy over its role in coordinating 'controlled spontaneity' campaigns in the aftermath of terrorist attacks, including pre-planned messaging, vigils and demonstrations intended to shape the public's response to terrorism.

For example, after an ISIS terrorist attack in 2014, RICU created an image of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab with a British flag, which was subsequently published on the front page of The Sun and other British newspapers.


The image was created because, according to a leaked document from the company RICU commissioned to make the image, "the UK authorities wanted to challenge ultraconservative and misogynistic interpretations of Islam".


...


"The dominant narrative within the ERW attributes responsibility for the assassination to the 'political left' and claims that it is part of a broader campaign of violence against conservatives and White Christians," the memo stated.

As thousands of left-wing accounts literally celebrated Kirk's murder and called for additional murders, including fresh assassination attempts on Trump.

I am done. Done.

I'm going to donate to left-wing NGOs that settle "migrants" in the UK.

To hell with them all.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:20 PM




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1 Nooded, and Happy Friday! There was twirling this morning, too.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 11, 2026 01:20 PM (NcvvS)

2 I am done. Done.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:20 PM

with formatting.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 11, 2026 01:21 PM (6ydKt)

3 And SPONGE!!

Posted by: Nazdar at September 11, 2026 01:21 PM (NcvvS)

4 Bold of you.

Posted by: Reforger at September 11, 2026 01:21 PM (F9nWj)

5 Bold is the new ALL CAPS!!111!

Posted by: davidt at September 11, 2026 01:21 PM (Q+gd/)

6

Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 01:22 PM (AKptf)

7 Had Kamala been president last year, the fbi would have issued a similar report.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 11, 2026 01:22 PM (2BUGt)

8 Problem is, even if the Brits elect a new govt., the civil servants embedded in the bureaucracy ("The Deep State") aren't going anywhere.

Know how YTrump has spent 6 years trying to remove the leftists embedded int he US bureaucracy? Imagine tat in the UK, but a hundred times worse.

Posted by: zombie at September 11, 2026 01:22 PM (Av6i5)

9 If I thought Trump was actually going up give every adult in the USA $5000 I would vote for him

If he loosened the rules against prisoners voting he could be guaranteed an extra 2 million vote

Posted by: Paul at September 11, 2026 01:23 PM (ImOOa)

10 LOL. comment 2 beat me to it.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 11, 2026 01:23 PM (n5tGW)

11 I am done with NATO.

Welcome to the party, pal. -- John McClane

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 11, 2026 01:23 PM (ExV1e)

12 I think Britain can come back. It is currently ruled by a junta of lunatics, but they're on the way out. Whether the average British male can grow a new set of testicles from the vestigial ones they currently have is another question, but I'm hopeful.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 01:23 PM (Riz8t)

13 There is no right wing in Europe, its only the "EXTREME" or "FAR" right. They don't seem to be able to admit there's a left wing either. There's just normal people and those crazy people on the right who hate rape gangs, know a girl cannot become a boy, and love their flag.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 01:23 PM (K32Fz)

14 At this point, Russia may need to invade Europe to liberate it from communism.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 01:24 PM (smO4F)

15 Hey Paul how come Biden sending $2k checks was amazeballs but Trump sending $5k checks is fascism?

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 11, 2026 01:24 PM (2BUGt)

16 .
"If Russia invades, I'll agitate to send Russia additional weapons to finish the job."
.
x x x o o o ! ! !
.

Posted by: Marooned at September 11, 2026 01:24 PM (W2rvL)

17 >>Rogers added that in her judgment, the RICU report showed "blind spots" which "regrettably were not unique to the UK," pointing out now-discredited intelligence products rescinded by the CIA "show the same biases."

Where do you think RICU got those "discredited intelligence products"?

Now does it make sense why the corrupt Obama/Biden administration worked with British intelligence to cook up and push the idiotic Russia collusion hoax? US and British intelligence have been working together since WWII.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 01:24 PM (viF8m)

18 Even back in he '60s, during the height of the Cold War, half the spies and half their handlers and half the bureaucrats in the UK were communists, aligned with the Soviets. And since tat time, it has only gotten worse. It's that bad, it's that old, it's that deep.

Posted by: zombie at September 11, 2026 01:24 PM (Av6i5)

19 Tis for the best to be done with the UK. When a nation is suicidal being too close could take us down, like a drowning man attacking a rescuer

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 01:24 PM (N2HNb)

20 Criminalizing any dissent.

You can't even have a reasoned debate. They will shoot you.

They can't argue in the realm of ideas, facts, logic, etc.

They get their ass handed to them.

They know this, so they decided the "time for debate is over".

Same with elections. You democrats aren't voting the correct way.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 01:24 PM (2dVdu)

21 The British need to find their spine...or they are lost.
If it isn't too late.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 11, 2026 01:25 PM (2WIwB)

22 Bold is to knifehands what italics are to birdhands.

Posted by: Reforger at September 11, 2026 01:25 PM (F9nWj)

23 This is the same unit that pumps out propaganda like "I'll Ride with You" after Muslims commit terrorist murders and also pushed covid hysteria to help the government control the population.

RICU also ginned up the #DontLookBackInAnger campaign after that terrorist blew himself up at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester.

They have been at this awhile.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 11, 2026 01:26 PM (6ydKt)

24 It was because of Charlie Kirk's assassination that our WitchDoktor took his life. Another person for me to mourn this season.

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 01:27 PM (77rzZ)

25 When a nation is suicidal being too close could take us down
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Dude. You are not witnessing a "suicide". Get it in your head. "We" are not doing this. Nobody voted for this shit.
Ever.

These are atrocities are being perpetrated against the people of the UK, and nation states generally, and everywhere else. Including the U.S.A.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 01:27 PM (2dVdu)

26 I will say this, although it might not work out, but tough times create tough men as we have seen throughout history, so maybe just maybe the true englishmen will grow a set and beat back the enemy.

I don't give them a high chance though, the enemy is in firm control of the govt and weapons.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 11, 2026 01:28 PM (n5tGW)

27 It was because of Charlie Kirk's assassination that our WitchDoktor took his life. Another person for me to mourn this season.
Posted by: Bulg

Woah.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 11, 2026 01:28 PM (Fv808)

28 Just FYI we are no longer in the "fake policy discussion" phase of socialism. This is the You Will Be Murdered If You Don't Comply With Socialism phase. Prepare accordingly and ALWAYS within the bounds of laws and your local regulations.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 01:28 PM (ftCfU)

29 Ace, you missed that in the Birmingham regions, they just made it a crime to FLY THE ENGLISH FLAG. Punishable by up to two years in prison.

For real.

This was in response to the "Fly the Colors" movement, in which based British patriots came up with the brilliant plan of -- "Hey' they're suppressing all free speech, jailing people for tweets -- so how can we express ourselves? Bingo! We'll fly the English flag as a symbol of our political beliefs. They may be able to ban speech, but they can't ban flying the nation's flag! So clever of us!"

Birmingham County Council: Hold our ale.

Posted by: zombie at September 11, 2026 01:30 PM (Av6i5)

30 I don't give them a high chance though, the enemy is in firm control of the govt and weapons.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

And testosterone.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 11, 2026 01:30 PM (NnhvP)

31 I think it's time to consider the UK, and possibly Canada as "antagonistic" towards the US and no longer treat either as an ally or friendly. I'd consider lumping all of NATO into that "antagonistic" category.

If not outright enemies.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 01:31 PM (2Cry5)

32 They've never ever had a leftist ideology problem over there. Makes sense

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at September 11, 2026 01:31 PM (xkrbm)

33
If I thought Trump was actually going up give every adult in the USA $5000 I would vote for him



So what you're saying is, you admit to being a dirty, dirty cut-rate whore.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 01:32 PM (7lxe6)

34 @25 the Labour party in UK has been pushing immigration including illegals, just like the Dems in the US. The alleged conservative parties in UK talk and do nothing. That's suicidal

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 01:32 PM (N2HNb)

35 I'm sure when I said in 2008 or so that the Left wants Cambodia here, I sounded like a mental patient (what's new)

I think/hope you can now see the army has been prepared every waking minute since then and they are indeed "fired up, ready to go". All they appear to need right now is a Charismatic Leader.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 01:33 PM (ftCfU)

36 Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 01:27 PM (77rzZ)

That was the tipping point? I didn't know that. I thought the poor man had years of bad clinical depression.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 01:33 PM (7aGSF)

37 I think it's time to consider the UK, and possibly Canada as "antagonistic" towards the US and no longer treat either as an ally or friendly. I'd consider lumping all of NATO into that "antagonistic" category.

If not outright enemies.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Eh, Poland and Hungary are still OK, for now.

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 01:33 PM (77rzZ)

38 That was the tipping point? I didn't know that. I thought the poor man had years of bad clinical depression.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

That's true, he did. But he took his life a few days after the assassination, so I'm pretty sure that's what triggered it.

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 01:35 PM (77rzZ)

39 I give the government way more than $5000 per year. So I'm not getting money from the government, they are giving me my money back, not all of it but some.

Posted by: Reforger at September 11, 2026 01:35 PM (F9nWj)

40 So, like the FBI, Merrick Garland, Joe Biden, et al?

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 01:35 PM (NFX2v)

41 Yeah, some of the "leadership" have a death wish, no question about it. Psychosis, hysteria, hypnotized, drugged, who knows. Extortion and payola.

But I think it is a mistake to brand the entire populace of a nation as 'suicidal', we need to make a distinction here. This is being done TO people, not BY the people. That's all I'm trying to convey.

It's a dirty thing and they should hang for it.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 01:35 PM (2dVdu)

42
Hey Paul how come Biden sending $2k checks was amazeballs but Trump sending $5k checks is fascism?
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 11, 2026 01:24 PM (2BUGt)




Because shut up, that's why.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 01:35 PM (7lxe6)

43 My sediments exactly. Donating my Royal Doulton China with the hand-painted periwinkles to Goodwill.

Posted by: The King Is A Finkelstein! at September 11, 2026 01:35 PM (Fn+3X)

44 >>the Labour party in UK has been pushing immigration including illegals, just like the Dems in the US. The alleged conservative parties in UK talk and do nothing. That's suicidal

This was the exact same model we had here until Trump came along.

If it's starting to sound like western countries opening their borders to unlimited immigration from the 3rd world was a plan agreed to by many globalist led western governments it's because that's exactly what happened.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 01:36 PM (viF8m)

45 Disapproved Groups are forever "touting," "pushing" and "spewing" whatever they say.

Language manipulation so outlandishly crude you'd think it would be self-defeating.
Yet here we are.

Posted by: Zek at September 11, 2026 01:36 PM (5FPX4)

46 If Russia were to invade Europe it would be to defend its semi kleptocratic oligarchy from Globalist totalitarians who want to erase borders and make the world eat bugs.

The Russians aren't saints, but they're further from being the devil than the European Union technocratic totalitarian. At this point they may well be worse than the Chi-Coms.

Posted by: Minuteman at September 11, 2026 01:37 PM (47/pr)

47 Yeah, UK is not a brother, a friend, or ally.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 11, 2026 01:37 PM (bX16E)

48 >>@25 the Labour party in UK has been pushing immigration including illegals, just like the Dems in the US. The alleged conservative parties in UK talk and do nothing. That's suicidal
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 01:32 PM (N2HNb)
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It's not "suicidal" because the ones pushing this do not intend to be the ones to die from it.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 11, 2026 01:37 PM (bNf8H)

49 Uk needs an enema.

Posted by: mr tmz at September 11, 2026 01:37 PM (rJ48h)

50 Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 01:35 PM (77rzZ)

It's hard to know what exactly triggers people unless they write it out in a suicide note.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 01:37 PM (7aGSF)

51 Nobody voted for this shit.

Au contraire. People voted for people who had lied to them. Again, and again, and again. Just like we did. But, in a parliamentary system, there's less harm in voting for an upstart party.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 11, 2026 01:37 PM (ExV1e)

52 I get the sentiment, BUT, there are some parts of Europe showing some interest in "Saving The West" from the incoming hordes, and from their own DeepState.

I do like the "Western Hemisphere Donroe Doctrine as well. USA needs to remain the sole (or main) Superpower, but we need others (the more local governments/militaries) involved in the Boots on the Ground part.

Fighting DeepState globally is key, but that includes fighting enemies like China, and Islam ... and the cartels that run too many governments (like Mexico). But we need allies in the fight for Western Civilization.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 11, 2026 01:38 PM (vbXSk)

53 >>>Founded in 2007, RICU has stirred controversy over its role in coordinating 'controlled spontaneity' campaigns in the aftermath of terrorist attacks,
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What's the acronym for our RICU?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 01:38 PM (vC80E)

54 What was in Lindsay's suicide note?

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 01:38 PM (ftCfU)

55 The most outrageous phrase to any self-respecting person is not "F... you" but "shut up."

Posted by: Zek at September 11, 2026 01:39 PM (5FPX4)

56 So what you're saying is, you admit to being a dirty, dirty cut-rate whore.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 01:32 PM (7lxe6)

Takes after his mama, he does.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 01:39 PM (1z8ji)

57 All that research on suicide and never wrote one....

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 01:39 PM (ftCfU)

58 UK is not a brother, a friend, or ally.
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It's a country run by the sort of people who think Lindsay Clancy did nothing wrong.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 11, 2026 01:40 PM (ODuxp)

59 Theory: Peak Woke was not Peak Madness.

Posted by: Max Power at September 11, 2026 01:40 PM (q177U)

60
An EU-Russia war would resemble what Moltke supposedly said of the Civil War: armed mobs chasing each other over the countryside.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 01:40 PM (eRlcH)

61 Oh no! They're bringing free speech! We can't have that.

Posted by: Gaff at September 11, 2026 01:40 PM (EqzMw)

62 I am done. Done.

I'm going to donate to left-wing NGOs that settle "migrants" in the UK.

To hell with them all.
********************************

An ever-increasing proportion of Britain's indigenous population are also done with the establishment. The same is true for many other countries in Europe. We shouldn't write them off.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at September 11, 2026 01:40 PM (wSF+o)

63 Try not to forget the half the population has below average IQ. But sadly most of them have more money than I do. Go figure.
I blew all of my money on wine, women an' song.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 11, 2026 01:41 PM (ATFmn)

64 Hated the British since they canceled Benny Hill.

Posted by: Little Jackie Wright at September 11, 2026 01:41 PM (Fn+3X)

65 >>I get the sentiment, BUT, there are some parts of Europe showing some interest in "Saving The West" from the incoming hordes, and from their own DeepState.

Let me axe you something. Do you think they would be fighting nearly as hard or as successfully if the Orange Menace had not been elected, not taken a bullet to the head to get reelected and then started gutting USAID, aka the CIA's slush fund?

We have allies in western countries. Obviously, not all their citizens are onboard with their own country's suicide. But first we had to stop helping their oppressors and now we need to lead. Orange Man Bad is doing both.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 01:42 PM (viF8m)

66 Has the nostrils/uterus standard been applied? If so, in spite of Tuq'r Qarlss'hen, show your work.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 11, 2026 01:42 PM (wxsGM)

67
Fuck the Limeys. Yes, this is being done TO them, but for decades they were totally okay with it, so I don't have any fucks to give.

Besides, the only thing the UK has given the world to better the cause of Western Civilization in the last 80 years or so is Maggie Thatcher's iron spine and Kate Beckinsale in a leather catsuit and stompy vampire boots. Which ALMOST makes up for being a swampy little island with delusions of grandeur.... almost.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 01:42 PM (7lxe6)

68 63. I blew all of my money on wine, women an' song.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone

Take heart, how many can still enjoy any?

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 01:43 PM (NFX2v)

69 Connecting the last post to this one, in an oblique sort of way- that male juror in the Clancy trial that gave the interview. Don't he look like Tyler Robinson? These fucking guys are everywhere.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 11, 2026 01:43 PM (QaH55)

70 Western democracies need to fix their shit, YO.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 11, 2026 01:44 PM (wtvvX)

71 And Putin is the bad guy? Yes, he is. But is he really any worse to his own citizens than the UK? Than Spain?

Putin certainly isn't allowing foreign CHUDs to invade and rape Russian ladies. Just the opposite. Part of his justification for invading Ukraine was that Commandant Dinky the Piano Penis was killing ethnic Russians in the Donbas.

Serious question. Is Putin any worse than leaders in the UK and Europe?

My own answer is "reply hazy, try again."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 01:45 PM (iFTx/)

72 Fighting DeepState globally is key, but that includes fighting enemies like China, and Islam ... and the cartels that run too many governments (like Mexico). But we need allies in the fight for Western Civilization.

Posted by: illiniwek
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We've got them. Eight South American elections went pro-Trump in the last year. Within the last month Chile joined a pro-hemispherical alliance.
If we take both houses this election the Donroe Doctrine will be all systems go.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 01:45 PM (vC80E)

73 A leaked counter-terrorism memo reveals officials tracked Kirk's British supporters, warning they would "push pro-free speech narratives" -- while describing the Left-wing response as "moderate"
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Was that wrong? Should I have not done that?

I tell you I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, cause I've worked in a lot of intelligence offices and I tell you people do that all the time.

-- George "Five Eyes" Counter-Terrorism

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at September 11, 2026 01:45 PM (P9Ea3)

74
I blew all of my money on wine, women an' song.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone




Well, at least you didn't waste the money.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 01:46 PM (7lxe6)

75 Russia isn't our friend.

But the EU and the current UK regime are our enemies

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 01:46 PM (sKqQm)

76 They are measuring their own necks for the nooses.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 11, 2026 01:47 PM (CHHv1)

77 This oughta be interesting. And maddening.

>>@CIA
·
1h
>>To commemorate the 25th anniversary of 9/11, CIA released 71 President's Daily Briefs to give Americans a glimpse into our most sensitive intelligence from the years before and day after one of our Nation's darkest moments.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 01:47 PM (viF8m)

78 "But first we had to stop helping their oppressors and now we need to lead. Orange Man Bad is doing both."
Posted by: JackStraw

Right ... so the midterms are a really big deal. The choices are becoming more clear, but Big Propaganda is surprisingly effective with so many (who have been taught to hate US Liberty, and Christianity in general).

Posted by: illiniwek at September 11, 2026 01:47 PM (vbXSk)

79 >And Putin is the bad guy? Yes, he is. But is he really any worse to his own citizens than the UK? Than Spain?

He's objectively worse. Sanchez isn't sending his citizens to die in a front where lifespans are measured in minutes.

Posted by: mr tmz at September 11, 2026 01:48 PM (rJ48h)

80 Nobody voted for this shit.
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Au contraire. People voted for people who had lied to them
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Bullshit.

At anytime for the last 50 years, if "Deport Every Illegal Alien Starting Right Now" was on the ballot it would have passed with flying colors.

There's a reason "Democrats" are not democratic. And "Republicans" don't give a flying fuck about the Republic.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 01:48 PM (2dVdu)

81
Europe is that uncle who was successful at one time but had several bad marriages and a string of bad investments. He's going soft in the head, but keeps telling you how you ought to run your life.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 01:48 PM (eRlcH)

82 >>>I am done. Done.

I'd run guns to UK freedom fighters.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 01:48 PM (dK+Kv)

83 The Birmingham County Council really doesn't get it do they? It's not a big leap from this sort of edict and jailing people for 2 years to "free helicopter trips" for the members of the Council.

Thin ice. They're on it, and it's making the cracking sounds.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 11, 2026 01:48 PM (O7YUW)

84 >>>An ever-increasing proportion of Britain's indigenous population are also done with the establishment. The same is true for many other countries in Europe. We shouldn't write them off.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan
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DeepState loves color revolutions so much England is a place they could pull one, for the good.
_Redemption

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 01:48 PM (vC80E)

85 U.S. sanctioned, of course. Like gun-walking, but sailing.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 01:50 PM (dK+Kv)

86 Why do we think there is not a similar disinformation/propaganda unit operating in the U.S.? I mean besides the FBI...

Posted by: Not a joke at September 11, 2026 01:51 PM (anL5R)

87 Yes, this is being done TO them, but for decades they were totally okay with it
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More bullshit. As far back as the 1980s I heard tales of how fucked up London was getting with all the "migrants". They are not and were not "totally okay" with it. Get real.

Nobody wants this. They are not in a position to stop it, doesn't mean they are "totally okay" with it.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 01:51 PM (2dVdu)

88 From the last thread:

278 IF: Black defendant and white holdout juror insisting guilty...
Posted by: davidt at September 11, 2026 01:11 PM (Q+gd/)

Oh, I'm sure they want to accuse him of racism. But their own twisted cult doctrine holds that's impossible. The entire house of cards of the Progressive Stack would fall around their ears if they went there.

Posted by: SciVo at September 11, 2026 01:51 PM (ke3zm)

89 As far back as the 1980s I heard tales of how fucked up London was getting with all the "migrants". They are not and were not "totally okay" with it. Get real.

Nobody wants this. They are not in a position to stop it, doesn't mean they are "totally okay" with it.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 01:51 PM (2dVdu)

First rule of freedom club: Never disarm.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 01:52 PM (dK+Kv)

90 >>>At anytime for the last 50 years, if "Deport Every Illegal Alien Starting Right Now" was on the ballot it would have passed with flying colors.

There's a reason "Democrats" are not democratic. And "Republicans" don't give a flying fuck about the Republic.

Posted by: Common Tater
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It was on the California ballot last century and CA citizens voted to send them home. CA supreme court OVERRULED the PEOPLE and negated the ballot.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 01:53 PM (vC80E)

91 As far back as the 1980s I heard tales of how fucked up London was getting with all the "migrants". They are not and were not "totally okay" with it. Get real.

Nobody wants this. They are not in a position to stop it, doesn't mean they are "totally okay" with it.

Posted by: Common Tater

Didn't the Beatles do some anti-Paki song?

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 01:54 PM (77rzZ)

92 >>Right ... so the midterms are a really big deal. The choices are becoming more clear, but Big Propaganda is surprisingly effective with so many (who have been taught to hate US Liberty, and Christianity in general).

Possibly the most important midterm of our lives. No matter how much anyone dislikes the Republican running in their district or state, it doesn't matter. The alternative is literally communism.

The CIA started Operation Mockingbird during the Cold War. They never stopped. They fed friendly media stories to influence media narratives to ones they wanted. It worked on a huge number of people and continues to work. See Russia Collusion hoax.

Then Obama with the help of a uniparty Congress repealed the Smith-Mundt Act through a deceptively title Smith-Mundt Modernization Act. This allowed the government to use propaganda domestically, on us. Also worked.

Now we can all see the puppet master's strings. Vote like your family's future depends on it because it does.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 01:54 PM (viF8m)

93 now we need to lead.
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Agree 1000% - depending on how that's pronounced.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 01:54 PM (ftCfU)

94
And Putin is the bad guy? Yes, he is. But is he really any worse to his own citizens than the UK? Than Spain?

Putin certainly isn't allowing foreign CHUDs to invade and rape Russian ladies. Just the opposite. Part of his justification for invading Ukraine was that Commandant Dinky the Piano Penis was killing ethnic Russians in the Donbas.



Of course, the main reason that there was a large ethnic Russian population in Ukestan was because Stalin and his minions slaughtered millions of Ukes and Oh Wow, free land with no one tilling it. Might as well move some Russians in there to show the Ukes how it's done. Which is also a major reason why the Nazis got a fairly warm and friendly reception from the Ukes who saw the Nazis as the lesser of two evils. Plus, there was the shared hatred of Joos, which is why Ukes made up a LOT of the death camp guards for the Nazis.

Basically, the only morally certain course of action is for the West to pray for casualties from two shitty ethnic groups.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 01:55 PM (7lxe6)

95 "But we need allies in the fight for Western Civilization."
Posted by: illiniwek---

"We've got them. Eight South American elections went pro-Trump in the last year. Within the last month Chile joined a pro-hemispherical alliance."
Posted by: Braenyard

Yes, a good start. But imo we also need EU countries like Poland. And a few NATO nations seem to be getting more serious about their military and potential threat from Russia (if not China, or Iran).

Posted by: illiniwek at September 11, 2026 01:55 PM (vbXSk)

96 It certainly isn't only the UK. Note the contrast here:

1) Fairfax County's new 9/11 teaching guide devotes roughly half its content to creating "safe spaces for Muslim and Middle Eastern students." while mentioning military families just three times and first responders once.

The six-page document contains 30 references to Islam, "anti-Muslim racism," and "Islamophobic rhetoric." It explicitly tells teachers not to "associate the 9/11 attacks with Islam or Muslims" and not to "center the extremists or the acts of the extremists." Only about 15% of the guide actually spells out specific 9/11 instruction.

https://tinyurl.com/4z5fuexd

(1 of 2)

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 01:56 PM (Riz8t)

97 88 From the last thread:

278 IF: Black defendant and white holdout juror insisting guilty...
Posted by: davidt at September 11, 2026 01:11 PM (Q+gd/)

Oh, I'm sure they want to accuse him of racism. But their own twisted cult doctrine holds that's impossible. The entire house of cards of the Progressive Stack would fall around their ears if they went there.

Posted by: SciVo
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This is a big monkey wrench to the bigots.
It's like a little 'head's up' from God.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 01:56 PM (vC80E)

98 (2 of 2)
Mohamed Atta sat in a small Hamburg apartment and wrote his last will and testament. He was 27, an architecture student at the Technical University, the son of a Cairo lawyer, fluent in German, and living comfortably in one of the most affluent societies on earth.

Nothing in his circumstances compelled him to dwell on death. Yet he gave detailed instructions for the handling of his corpse. “I don’t want any women to go to my grave at all during my funeral or on any occasion thereafter,” he wrote. He did not want a pregnant woman, or “a person who is not clean,” to come and say goodbye. The man who washed his body should wear gloves so as not to touch his genitals. He was to be wrapped in three white pieces of unadorned cloth, laid on his right side facing Mecca, and buried “next to good Muslims.” His money was to be divided “according to the Muslim religion as almighty God has asked us to do.”

https://tinyurl.com/5avf7wps

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 01:57 PM (Riz8t)

99 Radical right wing activity like...giving people a microphone and talking with them in public. Madness!

Posted by: Yeah, fuck the UK govt at September 11, 2026 01:57 PM (TbWk/)

100 Yes, this is being done TO them, but for decades they were totally okay with it
----

More bullshit. As far back as the 1980s I heard tales of how fucked up London was getting with all the "migrants". They are not and were not "totally okay" with it. Get real.

Nobody wants this. They are not in a position to stop it, doesn't mean they are "totally okay" with it.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 01:51 PM (2dVdu)
_________

France too. But I think back then, the migrants were less numerous and confined mainly to outlier ghettos where the natives never went. That made it less of a problem.

My first trip to Paris, maybe 20 years ago, I was stunned on the cab ride from CDG what a dismal shithole the city was. "This is Paris? Where are all the white people?"

But it was only an outlying ghetto I was driving through. Once I got past that, the "real" Paris awaited.

But now, the infiltration is nearly complete, and the natives can't avoid these mongrels.

Kinda like what happened in Dearborn and other areas of MI.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 01:58 PM (iFTx/)

101 It explicitly tells teachers not to "associate the 9/11 attacks with Islam or Muslims"

Mohamed Atta sat in a small Hamburg apartment and wrote his last will and testament.

Nothing in his circumstances compelled him to dwell on death. ...He was to be wrapped in three white pieces of unadorned cloth, laid on his right side facing Mecca, and buried “next to good Muslims.” His money was to be divided “according to the Muslim religion as almighty God has asked us to do.”

KMA, Fairfax County public schools.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 01:58 PM (Riz8t)

102 Britain has fallen under the rule of the left and mooslims, BIRM.

The best course of action is to force them into surrendering all their atomic weapons and cutting off all connections to them.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 11, 2026 01:59 PM (Q/FnY)

103 So can we safely surmise this man is NOT on the plantation?

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 01:59 PM (ftCfU)

104 Tyler Robinson the man accused of killing Kirk.Has not been convicted.
Many people have grave doubts about his involvement.
I have shot a 30.06 it is an extremely powerful cartridge
It has about 2x the power of an AR 25 standard cartridge
In 1986 I helped butcher a large cow moose in Alaska. The shit hit a rib and totally shattered it.wentvtrough both lungs and shattered another rib before leaving a large exit would on the other side
Charlie Kirk was not a moose . Charlie Kirk was being quite vocal about disagreeing with some conservative policies especially concerning foreign wars

Posted by: Paul at September 11, 2026 01:59 PM (ImOOa)

105
Yes, a good start. But imo we also need EU countries like Poland. And a few NATO nations seem to be getting more serious about their military and potential threat from Russia (if not China, or Iran).

Posted by: illiniwek
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Yes we should support rational countries everywhere but
our concentration should be this hemisphere. A solid hemispherical alliance, North Pole to South would be magnificent.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 01:59 PM (vC80E)

106 China has made deep inroads into some S.American countries on the Pacific coast. They need our help (trade) clearing it out.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 02:01 PM (vC80E)

107 >>Many people have grave doubts about his involvement.

Many people are on the wrong side of the Bell Curve. You are one of them.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 02:01 PM (viF8m)

108 Should we be concerned that Paul has experience with firearms?

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 02:01 PM (77rzZ)

109 as almighty God has asked us to do.”
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God, my ass. He said Allah.

And our contemptible sheister demon media STILL purposely mistranslates Allahu Akbar as "God is great".

Fools.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:01 PM (ftCfU)

110 This is all a distraction from the rising cost of fish and chips.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 02:02 PM (0sNs1)

111 Except for Ireland. They saw this crisis for what it was and were shived by the EU.

Fuck Ukraine. Flatten Europe

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at September 11, 2026 02:02 PM (61TgR)

112 108 Should we be concerned that Paul has experience with firearm

He SAYS he has experience. Since when do we trust Paul?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 02:03 PM (Riz8t)

113 Again from the last thread:

305 There is another murderess in Massachusetts. Her name is Janette Macausland. She strangled her two children back in April and "tried" to kill herself but it was just so hard to do. She then drove 140 miles to her mom's house in Vermont and confessed to the murders. She is now petitioning the judge to dismiss her case and be set free. This is prompting a debate over whether we want to criminalize mental illness.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 11, 2026 01:15 PM (ibDUx)

They could build a criminal asylum next to the prison, and you get the same sentence if you're insane, just with more psych meds and talk therapy. I don't think they should get out any sooner, or get any more privileges than the sane lawbreakers.

Posted by: SciVo at September 11, 2026 02:03 PM (ke3zm)

114 Israeli Minister Amichai Chikli’s message to the People of Britain:

“To the British people, let me be clear: we in Israel love you. And we are not remotely rattled by sanctions from your Foreign Secretary, whose name escapes me.

You have a weak left-wing government for now. But we have faith in our friends among the British public, those who still prize common sense.

Better days will come. We will stand together against the globalists and Islamists who seek to impose Sharia law on you.

And those days are coming soon. 🇮🇱🇬🇧”

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at September 11, 2026 02:03 PM (oFI8g)

115 Paul-

Go fuck yourself

Signed,
Everbody

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 02:03 PM (ydoWy)

116 278 IF: Black defendant and white holdout juror insisting guilty...
Posted by: davidt at September 11, 2026 01:11 PM (Q+gd/)

He should have capitulated and bent the knee to the women. They are superior after all.

Posted by: Worship the goddesses! at September 11, 2026 02:03 PM (TbWk/)

117 I support BACKLASH!!!!!

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 02:04 PM (dIske)

118 He SAYS he has experience. Since when do we trust Paul?
Posted by: Archimedes

Good point.

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 02:04 PM (77rzZ)

119 >>China has made deep inroads into some S.American countries on the Pacific coast. They need our help (trade) clearing it out.

Work in progress.

One of the lesser noticed by incredibly important byproducts of taking out Maduro was regaining western control of the Panama Canal from China.

One of if not the most strategic shipping routes in the world.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 02:04 PM (viF8m)

120 See? Blacks really don't know how to vote.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:04 PM (ftCfU)

121 And our contemptible sheister demon media STILL purposely mistranslates Allahu Akbar as "God is great".

According to Google AI:

"Allahu Akbar" is an Arabic phrase that translates to "God is the greatest" or "God is greater".

What do you think it means?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 02:05 PM (Riz8t)

122 I support BACKLASH!!!!!
Posted by: Orson
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I voted for it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 02:05 PM (XeU6L)

123 Should we be concerned that Paul has experience with firearms?
Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 02:01 PM

Dude has something to teach us. Very few here know about the mighty AR-25; I'm surprised he does.

* doffs propeller beanie *

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 02:05 PM (0sNs1)

124 118 He SAYS he has experience. Since when do we trust Paul?
Posted by: Archimedes

Good point.
Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 02:04 PM (77rzZ)

Uh...Bonjour.

Posted by: Internet French model at September 11, 2026 02:05 PM (TbWk/)

125 IF: Black defendant and white holdout juror insisting guilty...
Posted by: davidt at September 11, 2026 01:11 PM (Q+gd/)

He should have capitulated and bent the knee to the women. They are superior after all.

Posted by: Worship the goddesses! at September 11, 2026 02:03 PM (TbWk/)

How dare he question their superior intellect.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:05 PM (dK+Kv)

126 The 30.06 cartridge has about 300% more power than a 44 mag

Still think he was hit with a 30.06???

Posted by: Paul at September 11, 2026 02:05 PM (ImOOa)

127 What do you think it means?
Posted by: Archimedes
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Some innocent people are about to die.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 02:06 PM (XeU6L)

128 >>>Charlie Kirk was not a moose

Paul is onto something here.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:06 PM (dK+Kv)

129 Paul-
did the big ole rifle you used have the the thing that goes up?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 02:07 PM (Riz8t)

130 Should we be concerned that Paul has experience with firearms?
Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 02:01 PM (77rzZ)

He is a deranged faggot that needs to be gassed, same as Mohammed Atta's entire extended family.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 02:07 PM (1z8ji)

131 What do you think it means?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 02:05 PM (Riz8t)

It means My God is Greater (than yours)

I'm surprised Google got it half right. Which is more than the 1/100th right the media usually gets.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:07 PM (ftCfU)

132 Hmmmm ... that new iphone duo looks really nice. Not sure about the squarish size, though. When closed, it's wider but shorter than the standard iphone.

The Blade will have to check it out in person at an apple store.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 02:07 PM (iFTx/)

133 Some innocent people are about to die.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 02:06 PM (XeU6L)

Fucking hell did I miss that hanging slider

(doffs cap)

I shall now retreat into a hole and die

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:08 PM (ftCfU)

134 Some innocent people are about to die.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 02:06 PM (XeU6L)

Fucking hell did I miss that hanging slider

(doffs cap)

I shall now retreat into a hole and die

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:08 PM (ftCfU)

Oh no you don't.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:08 PM (dK+Kv)

135 The 30.06 cartridge has about 300% more power than a 44 mag

Watt's up with this?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 11, 2026 02:08 PM (0sNs1)

136 Besides, the only thing the UK has given the world to better the cause of Western Civilization in the last 80 years or so is Maggie Thatcher's iron spine and Kate Beckinsale in a leather catsuit and stompy vampire boots. Which ALMOST makes up for being a swampy little island with delusions of grandeur.... almost.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 01:42 PM (7lxe6)

Let us not forget Mrs. Emma Peel as played by Diana Rigg. She brought her personally owned leather catsuit to the series.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 11, 2026 02:08 PM (W7ehW)

137 I never want to be on any jury. Close call one time, the judge asked if I can be impartial, or something like that. To which I said "No".

Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 02:08 PM (AKptf)

138 Hey idiot. Look at the wound channel an odd six does.

Posted by: Reforger at September 11, 2026 02:09 PM (mdacs)

139 Oh no you don't.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:08 PM (dK+Kv)

You of all people should understand. That was Game 7 Bases Loaded Down by 3 fastball right down Broadway... and I just let it go.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:10 PM (ftCfU)

140 The 30.06 cartridge has about 300% more power than a 44 mag

Still think he was hit with a 30.06???
Posted by: Paul
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You don't really know much about bullet wounds, do you?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 02:10 PM (XeU6L)

141 108 Should we be concerned that Paul has experience with firearms?
Posted by: Bulg

Nah, he's just a troll. He has no clue he's out numbered.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 11, 2026 02:10 PM (Q/FnY)

142 and I just let it go.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:10 PM (ftCfU)

Everyone has an off night.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:10 PM (dK+Kv)

143 He SAYS he has experience. Since when do we trust Paul?
Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 02:03 PM (Riz8t)

He says he has experience - but does he have "driving an F950 Earthfucker to the range while having just eaten a Bucees smoked brisket sandwich in the parking lot" type experience?

Posted by: Boswell at September 11, 2026 02:10 PM (j10i6)

144
The same projection/flipping as in one of the idiot transperson American "refugees" to Canada wept about. I've linked to the idiot before, too lazy to dig her up now but I will upon request, but she said she knew she had to flee...WHEN CHARLIE KIRK WAS KILLED. Because of the anti-trans backlash to come! Trans people being blamed for all this shit they didn't do. What form will the anti-trans Kristallnacht take, she wept?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 02:11 PM (mmrXZ)

145
More bullshit. As far back as the 1980s I heard tales of how fucked up London was getting with all the "migrants". They are not and were not "totally okay" with it. Get real.

Nobody wants this. They are not in a position to stop it, doesn't mean they are "totally okay" with it.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 01:51 PM (2dVdu)




Speaking of bullshit...

Sure, they've been bitching about the problem for 40+ years, I also remember reading some of the same complaints, but they haven't done diddly squat to solve the problem in all that time up until the last couple of years. To be fair, we have had the same problem and the same lack of motivation to do anything substantial to reverse the trend.

A nation gets the government it deserves, which is also why we've had shitty Donk commie cocksucker governments as well. As I see it, our problem is widespread apathy. The Limeys' problem is the common people's contempt for their own freedom.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 02:11 PM (7lxe6)

146 Things will be much better in the year 5787

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 02:11 PM (iFTx/)

147 Besides, the only thing the UK has given the world to better the cause of Western Civilization in the last 80 years or so is Maggie Thatcher's iron spine and Kate Beckinsale in a leather catsuit and stompy vampire boots.
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Thanks a lot.

Posted by: Dr. House at September 11, 2026 02:11 PM (XeU6L)

148 Trump says you are going to hell if you don't vote. He's right, you know.

Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 02:11 PM (MWfyi)

149 Just when you think the left can't sink to a lower level of scumbaggery they say "Hold my latte" and pick up their shovels.

AOC and Mamdani laughing during the reading of the names of people killed on 9/11.

https://tinyurl.com/tv6kdj8k

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 02:11 PM (viF8m)

150 I think it's time to consider the UK, and possibly Canada as "antagonistic" towards the US and no longer treat either as an ally or friendly. I'd consider lumping all of NATO into that "antagonistic" category.

If not outright enemies.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 01:31 PM (2Cry5)

Already in progress if you look at how we deal with them now.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 02:12 PM (uhVAy)

151 Should we be concerned that Paul has experience with firearms?
Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 02:01 PM (77rzZ)

Only if you believe him.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 11, 2026 02:12 PM (W7ehW)

152 He says he has experience - but does he have "driving an F950 Earthfucker to the range while having just eaten a Bucees smoked brisket sandwich in the parking lot" type experience?
Posted by: Boswell

He smokes pole in the parking lot.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 02:12 PM (ydoWy)

153 ICYMI:
The head of the Smithsonian, Lonnie Bunch, is retiring, after being told the institution needed to get rid of the anti-American nonsense. It's really been hard on him.

Bunch has denied that he decided to retire because of pressure from the Trump administration. But he did allow that the administration’s spotlight on the Smithsonian’s ideological coloration was “stressful.” After all, he told the New York Times: “When you’re Black in America, you’ve got to figure out how to get through, right?” Would that be different from being white or some other color “in America?”

In any event, few people would deny that Bunch figured out how to “get through” while being black “in America.” For the last several year, he has been pulling down nearly a million dollars per annum, pretty good innings for someone – no matter his quota of melanin – at a tax-exempt, largely publicly funded enterprise.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 02:12 PM (Riz8t)

154 Saddest thing about Paul is that he just admitted he's a Candace Owens fanboi.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 11, 2026 02:12 PM (edUvp)

155 by: Paul at September 11, 2026 01:59 PM (ImOOa)

Sure, Paul. You don’t know your ass from a hole In the ground.

Posted by: RI Red at September 11, 2026 02:13 PM (Edxq2)

156 If Russia invades, I'll agitate to send Russia additional weapons to finish the job.

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In a battle between The Caliphate and Putin, Imma gonna go with Putin.

As bad as he is ... it's still the lesser of two existential evils.

Posted by: ShainS at September 11, 2026 02:13 PM (ZDs4Q)

157 Being "grazed" by a large caliber round in the right spot, i.e. jugular, could kill you without taking your whole head off. Also the power factor of the round makes a difference.
Eh, but what do I know???

Posted by: lin-duh at September 11, 2026 02:13 PM (9AdGW)

158 The UK isn't so different than the US.

People here love being lorded over by Communist usurpers, too.

That's why they scoff at my ideas about dissolving the Union.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice's at September 11, 2026 02:14 PM (BI5O2)

159 128 >>>Charlie Kirk was not a moose

Paul is onto something here.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:06 PM (dK+Kv

They can figure out what's a moose but not what's a woman.

Posted by: Go figure at September 11, 2026 02:14 PM (TbWk/)

160 Saddest thing about Paul is that he just admitted he's a Candace Owens fanboi.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Speaking of whom, has she weighed in on the Clancy situation yet?

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 02:14 PM (77rzZ)

161 Being "grazed" by a large caliber round in the right spot, i.e. jugular, could kill you without taking your whole head off. Also the power factor of the round makes a difference.
Eh, but what do I know???

Posted by: lin-duh at September 11, 2026 02:13 PM (9AdGW)

And the bullet construction factors into it. And Paul being retarded factors into it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:14 PM (dK+Kv)

162 In any event, few people would deny that Bunch figured out how to “get through” while being black “in America.” For the last several year, he has been pulling down nearly a million dollars per annum

Inattentive douchebag that I am, I forgot to include the link.

https://tinyurl.com/3aksr4j9

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 02:14 PM (Riz8t)

163 "I want to speak to the memory of my aunt, who stopped taking the subway after Sept. 11 because she did not feel safe in her hjiab"

-Mamdani
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The real victim.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:15 PM (ftCfU)

164 Sure, Paul. You don’t know your ass from a hole In the ground.
Posted by: RI Red at September 11, 2026 02:13 PM (Edxq2)

His bull knows, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 02:15 PM (1z8ji)

165 >>>Charlie Kirk was not a moose

Paul is onto something here.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:06 PM (dK+Kv

They can figure out what's a moose but not what's a woman.

Posted by: Go figure at September 11, 2026 02:14 PM (TbWk/)

Female vagina. Mooseknuckles.

You can understand the confusion.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:15 PM (dK+Kv)

166 This is the same unit that pumps out propaganda like "I'll Ride with You" after Muslims commit terrorist murders ...

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What, "I'll Happily Hand Over My Children To You For Rape & Murder" wasn't available?

Posted by: ShainS at September 11, 2026 02:16 PM (ZDs4Q)

167 Charlie Kirk was not a moose
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I'm sure he would have told us if he was.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:16 PM (ftCfU)

168
More bullshit. As far back as the 1980s I heard tales of how fucked up London was getting with all the "migrants". They are not and were not "totally okay" with it. Get real.

Nobody wants this. They are not in a position to stop it, doesn't mean they are "totally okay" with it.
Posted by: Common Tater
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Recently had a conversation with an ex-London Bobby, who expressed his appreciation for the St. George flag sticker in the back window of my truck.

He and his wife fled here to the U.S., unable to take it anymore. He now works at the local VA hospital.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 02:16 PM (XeU6L)

169 Felons live in their own little world. It's called jail....

Posted by: runner at September 11, 2026 02:16 PM (AKptf)

170 Birmingham County Council: Hold our ale camel milk.
****

fify

Posted by: clarence at September 11, 2026 02:16 PM (yU1fv)

171 They can figure out what's a moose but not what's a woman.
Posted by: Go figure

Maybe it would help if women had antlers.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 11, 2026 02:16 PM (ftFVW)

172 Paul is onto something here.

His mom's lingerie drawer, most likely.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 02:16 PM (Riz8t)

173 "I am done with the UK. I am done with NATO.

If Russia invades, I'll agitate to send Russia additional weapons to finish the job."


same....same...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 11, 2026 02:17 PM (xcxpd)

174 Paul was fellating a moose and the ejaculation almost blew Paul's head off. That makes Paul an expert in ballistics

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 02:17 PM (N2HNb)

175 What, "I'll Happily Hand Over My Children To You For Rape & Murder" wasn't available?
Posted by: ShainS

Already taken.

Posted by: British Dhimmis at September 11, 2026 02:17 PM (ydoWy)

176 Charlie Kirk was not a moose
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I'm sure he would have told us if he was.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:16 PM (ftCfU)

Clearly the Jews were keeping it from us.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:17 PM (dK+Kv)

177 I'm going to donate to left-wing NGOs that settle "migrants" in the UK.

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"Operation Chaos" 2.0 FTW!

[h/t El Rushbo]

Posted by: ShainS at September 11, 2026 02:17 PM (ZDs4Q)

178 He says he has experience - but does he have "driving an F950 Earthfucker to the range while having just eaten a Bucees smoked brisket sandwich in the parking lot" type experience?
Posted by: Boswell at September 11, 2026 02:10 PM

To be fair, who among us does not?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 11, 2026 02:17 PM (0sNs1)

179 176 Charlie Kirk was not a moose
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I'm sure he would have told us if he was.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:16 PM (ftCfU)

Clearly the Jews were keeping it from us.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:17 PM (dK+Kv)

I hear they're using the Blacks as muscle.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 11, 2026 02:17 PM (xcxpd)

180 They can figure out what's a moose but not what's a woman.
Posted by: Go figure

Maybe it would help if women had antlers.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 11, 2026 02:16 PM (ftFVW)

They already have racks

Posted by: This could cause confusion at September 11, 2026 02:18 PM (TbWk/)

181 I hear they're using the Blacks as muscle.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 11, 2026 02:17 PM (xcxpd)

lol

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:18 PM (dK+Kv)

182
>>I am done. Done.

================

I clung to the last vestige of my fondness for the UK while Queen Elizabeth was alive -- mainly because of her status as the last living senior leader from World War II, not so much because of her politics (she reportedly hated Maggie Thatcher).

Now that she's dead and her doofus descendants are trashing the greatest institution that represented English identity, I'm done.

The British cultural legacy is so awesome, it makes me sick.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 02:19 PM (mmrXZ)

183 They already have racks
Posted by: This could cause confusion

Damn, I missed that one. Now it's my turn to go into a hole and die.

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 02:19 PM (77rzZ)

184 They can figure out what's a moose but not what's a woman.
Posted by: Go figure

Maybe it would help if women had antlers.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 11, 2026 02:16 PM (ftFVW)

They already have racks
Posted by: This could cause confusion
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There's a 'horny' joke in here somewhere...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 02:20 PM (XeU6L)

185 Damn, I missed that one. Now it's my turn to go into a hole and die.

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 02:19 PM (77rzZ)

Kick ... out and tell him to get back to the content farm.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:20 PM (dK+Kv)

186 You gun nuts are way overthinking this.

In the documentary Rambo III, Rambo took a fitty-cal machine-gun bullet shot from a helicopter gunship square to his thigh and he was like "ouch." Then he limped around a little.

Kirk could easily have been hit with a 30.06.

Duh.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 02:20 PM (iFTx/)

187 Now that she's dead and her doofus descendants are trashing the greatest institution that represented English identity, I'm done.

William seems to be a pretty good representative, and he certainly chose well when it comes to the prospective Queen.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 02:20 PM (Riz8t)

188 Damn, I missed that one. Now it's my turn to go into a hole and die.
Posted by: Bulg

That takes longer than you think. Pack a snack.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 11, 2026 02:20 PM (ftFVW)

189 The UK is a lot closer to the US than the Middle East and the UK has lots of nukes.

I hate the globalist trash who've taken over the place but I'd just as soon not turn the place over to jihadists.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 02:21 PM (viF8m)

190 I saw the last vestiges of England 30+ years ago. Sad. I won't go back.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 02:21 PM (ydoWy)

191 Charlie Kirk was not a moose
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I'm sure he would have told us if he was.
Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:16 PM (ftCfU)

Clearly the Jews were keeping it from us.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:17 PM (dK+Kv)

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Sorry folks, thread's closed. Jews out front shoulda told ya ...

Posted by: ShainS at September 11, 2026 02:21 PM (ZDs4Q)

192 I once saw Charlie Kirk pull a rabbit out of a hat in my pajamas.

Posted by: Rocky the Flying Squirrel at September 11, 2026 02:21 PM (GMlj0)

193 I clung to the last vestige of my fondness for the UK while Queen Elizabeth was alive -- mainly because of her status as the last living senior leader from World War II, not so much because of her politics (she reportedly hated Maggie Thatcher).

Now that she's dead and her doofus descendants are trashing the greatest institution that represented English identity, I'm done.

The British cultural legacy is so awesome, it makes me sick.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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All true for me also. Family has deep roots/history in England. I mostly feel anger/frustration.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 02:21 PM (XeU6L)

194 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 11, 2026 02:22 PM (NcvvS)

195 Kick ... out and tell him to get back to the content farm.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 02:20 PM (dK+Kv)

It's more of a content patio.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 02:22 PM (ftCfU)

196
And we are not remotely rattled by sanctions from your Foreign Secretary, whose name escapes me.





Owwwie. Buuurrrrrn.

Even better is the Filipino Defense Secretary thumping on the ChiComs a couple of days ago after they tried to put an intimidating note in front of him during a conference in S Korea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XAPQSDsaXU

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 02:22 PM (7lxe6)

197 Fuck the Limeys. Yes, this is being done TO them, but for decades they were totally okay with it, so I don't have any fucks to give.

Besides, the only thing the UK has given the world to better the cause of Western Civilization in the last 80 years or so is Maggie Thatcher's iron spine and Kate Beckinsale in a leather catsuit and stompy vampire boots. Which ALMOST makes up for being a swampy little island with delusions of grandeur.... almost.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 01:42 PM (7lxe6)

And Thatcher was almost as alien to the powers in England as Reagan was here. It's been a long time since the unigovernment there did anything sensible. Both parties fought Brexit to the last barricade.

I won't say its over there, but they need a Musk-like replacement of virtually every person in government to survive.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 02:22 PM (uhVAy)

198 You gun nuts are way overthinking this.

Nah. We focus on fundamentals.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 11, 2026 02:22 PM (0sNs1)

199 Mooseknuckle generally refers to the male crotch, observable when the subject is wearing tight-fitting pants.

Posted by: the more you know at September 11, 2026 02:22 PM (J4Dwc)

200 112 108 Should we be concerned that Paul has experience with firearm

He SAYS he has experience. Since when do we trust Paul?

Posted by: Archimedes
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Make no doubt - you can find it on huetube - the left is training.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 11, 2026 02:23 PM (vC80E)

201 (she reportedly hated Maggie Thatcher)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

There's a sweet story about Maggie Thatcher being at some official function after her dementia had started to kick in.

Elizabeth took Maggie by the hand and took her around and re-introduced her to the people she had known, but whose names she could no longer remember.

I think she and Maggie clashed on a few things, but I don't think there was an abiding hatred there.

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 02:23 PM (77rzZ)

202 I hate the globalist trash who've taken over the place but I'd just as soon not turn the place over to jihadists.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 11, 2026 02:21 PM (viF8m)

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What happens in London and NYC won't stay in London and NYC.

25 years later, OBL's dream of The Conquest of The West by Islamists proceeds unabated and apace.

Posted by: ShainS at September 11, 2026 02:24 PM (ZDs4Q)

203 Being "grazed" by a large caliber round in the right spot, i.e. jugular, could kill you without taking your whole head off. Also the power factor of the round makes a difference.
Eh, but what do I know???
Posted by: lin-duh at September 11, 2026 02:13 PM (9AdGW)

Reb General Albert Sydney Johnson was hit in the back of the knee area by a bullet. It didn't sever a vein, if it had the vessel would have closed up naturally, so it kept bleeding. He had had a previous injury that reduced his pain sensitivity in that leg, so he didn't notice, and the blood filled his boot instead of showing. After he collapsed it took his staff a lot of time to even find what happened. By that time he had bled to death.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 11, 2026 02:27 PM (uhVAy)

204
https://tinyurl.com/5avf7wps
Posted by: Archimedes

================

I read that this morning and it shook me up. She lays out the remedies for the Muslim takeover and it fills me with despair. No way will Republicans or Democrats ever do what's necessary.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 02:28 PM (mmrXZ)

205
>>A leaked counter-terrorism memo reveals officials tracked Kirk's British supporters, warning they would "push pro-free speech narratives"

===================

This is one of the very myths that Ayaan Hirsi Ali takes on in her 9/11 25-year retrospective.

Islamists do not believe in freedom of speech or religion or conscience any more than they believe in Superman. They exploit western ideals of individual freedom to accomplish the totalitarian nightmare they want to foist on us.

When that POS Dearborn mayor yells at citizens that they have no right to do this-or-that and lectures them on religious freedom or freedom of speech, it's all a lie.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 02:34 PM (mmrXZ)

206 Ahhhh, the entertainment value of this one while still sub optimal has provided a modicum of entertainment, Now if he can somehow twist the conversation to tits on a Friday.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 11, 2026 02:38 PM (Q/FnY)

207 64 Hated the British since they canceled Benny Hill.
Posted by: Little Jackie Wright at September 11, 2026 01:41 PM
—————
Still love watching Dave Allen skits on YT. That was one seriously funny Brit comic right there.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at September 11, 2026 02:45 PM (HYmXm)

208 The Malvinas belong to Argentina.
End Colonialism in the Western Hemisphere.
Free Greenland from Danish Oppression!

Posted by: Islam is submission to the devil at September 11, 2026 09:24 PM (wOBAx)

The "Rogue" Juror the Extreme Left-Wing AWFUL Karens Berated and Bullied for a Week?
B L A C K

jurorsbirdhands.jpg
Old bitter AWFULs communicating in their favored manner,
via birdhands

Thanks to Spencer Pratt for that.

What will the AWFULs do? They were all set on hating and deploring the presumably white (spit) man (spit) who refused to OBEY the Alpha Karens, but now it turns out the white man was actually a black man (or a White Black man, as the New York Times might say).

What's the Oppression Calculus on that? Turns out Tuq'r Qarlson was completely wrong about not needing any algebra after all!

Just kidding, you're allowed to be RACIST if you're an AWFUL! They are God's Perfect Beings and you are required to LISTEN and UNDERSTAND.

Curtis Houck
@CurtisHouck

3h

NEW: Lindsay Clancy juror Paula Devlin reveals on 'CBS Mornings' that the lone, male holdout juror who voted to find Clancy guilty of murdering her children was the *only* person of color -- a black man.

The 11 not-guilty jurors -- who hectored him for a week to cave -- were all white.


Gayle King is STUNNED to hear that the rogue oppressor juror is black. "I'm going to have to sit with that for a minute" she actually says, her world rocked by cognitive dissonance.

No women on juries, and no cucks, either. And if their are women, the only men who can be on the jury are those we know to be immune to AWFUL scolding, black men and GamerGaters.

By the way: The cuck male jury who claims the black juror was just "scrolling on his phone" when the other jurors were shrieking at him?

Seems to be a liar:


On Oprah, they're against white women being allowed to murder their children, unless black women are afforded the same "right."

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:14 PM




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1 yay

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 11, 2026 12:14 PM (CWTWj)

2 black guy doesn't understand how hard it is to be a white woman with kids. ok

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 11, 2026 12:17 PM (CWTWj)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 12:18 PM (ccf/V)

4 Nooded.

Posted by: sal at September 11, 2026 12:18 PM (f+FmA)

5 Hold out was black.

As I said this morning.......cue the meme with the guy choosing between 2 buttons......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 12:18 PM (ccf/V)

6 Gayle King is an ABFL

Posted by: Delurker at September 11, 2026 12:18 PM (2Drhq)

7 How are you supposed to pursue happiness if you can't murder your children?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 11, 2026 12:19 PM (ndZc7)

8 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 12:19 PM (LY4Ug)

9 He probably drives an F950 Earthfucker too.

Posted by: far cry at September 11, 2026 12:19 PM (WbWbV)

10 I find I don't really give a shit.

It's hilarious, but he was a mensch before and he's still a mensch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:19 PM (Y/06r)

11 Just looking at them I would know they were Cultural Marxists

Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 12:20 PM (LY4Ug)

12 I'm curious how the judge would've reacted when they defense tried to get the holdout kicked off the jury if the guy was white. Was the judge reluctant to kick the only black guy off the jury because he was black?

Posted by: No Name Today at September 11, 2026 12:20 PM (8mulE)

13 NEW: Lindsay Clancy juror Paula Devlin reveals on 'CBS Mornings' that the lone, male holdout juror who voted to find Clancy guilty of murdering her children was the *only* person of color -- a black man.

The 11 not-guilty jurors -- who hectored him for a week to cave -- were all white.


So they were.......WHITEsplaining?!???

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 12:20 PM (ccf/V)

14 >>>Old bitter AWFULs communicating in their favored manner,
via birdhands

lol

I said this when the jury was deliberating.

So much bird hands flying in that deliberation room that it would give Alfred Hitchcock a full body shiver.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 12:20 PM (dK+Kv)

15 "If I had a son on that jury, he wouldn't have looked like that man".

- something the Milk Chocolate Messiah might say, after admonishing whitey to do some volunteer work in recognition of what 9/11 means to him.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at September 11, 2026 12:20 PM (5yDGQ)

16 Ah...bird hands. What a surprise.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 12:20 PM (XeU6L)

17 6 Gayle King is an ABFL
Posted by: Delurker at September 11, 2026 12:18 PM (2Drhq)

Yes, but that doesn't roll off the tongue quite as well.

Posted by: sal at September 11, 2026 12:20 PM (f+FmA)

18 9 He probably drives an F950 Earthfucker too.
Posted by: far cry at September 11, 2026 12:19 PM (WbWbV)

ace needs to get a sponsorship. The Horde would be tantalized. Sydney Sweeney for the new 2027 F950 Earthfucker!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:20 PM (Y/06r)

19 5 As I said this morning.......cue the meme with the guy choosing between 2 buttons......

The only reason for Gayle King to react the way she did, is that she was doing this meme in her head.

Posted by: Delurker at September 11, 2026 12:20 PM (2Drhq)

20 "I checked the guidance in MA on use of phones during jury deliberations and, as I assumed, the policy is that phones are not allowed during deliberations.

Either he is lying or, for some reason, in a massive high profile case, judge let them have phones.
— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) September 10, 2026"
________________

I made the exact same point yesterday. I never heard of allowing phones in the jury room, especially on a high profile case.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 12:20 PM (iFTx/)

21 the lone, male holdout juror who voted to find Clancy guilty of murdering her children was the *only* person of color -- a black man.

Aha! That explains why they were on their best and most civil behavior.

Posted by: t-bird at September 11, 2026 12:20 PM (iFEms)

22 All three of those women in the top pic have been caught with "bird hands."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 12:20 PM (FZ29D)

23 Not only a person of color, but a father who is raising his kids.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 11, 2026 12:21 PM (RjOoY)

24 This is the funniest "fuck you, crackers" in a long while.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 11, 2026 12:21 PM (ca8Qt)

25 Sick, toxic people. Mammy Oprah will make it allright honey chile!

Posted by: The Mammy Oprah Show at September 11, 2026 12:21 PM (cCXR+)

26 12 I'm curious how the judge would've reacted when they defense tried to get the holdout kicked off the jury if the guy was white. Was the judge reluctant to kick the only black guy off the jury because he was black?
Posted by: No Name Today at September 11, 2026 12:20 PM (8mulE)

Or maybe the judge realized the travesty of justice going on in his courtroom and was trying to steer things on course

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 11, 2026 12:21 PM (NlEaG)

27 Nick Dargie is raycisss

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 11, 2026 12:21 PM (ubXQT)

28 Now I want an F950 Earthf*cker.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 12:22 PM (ccf/V)

29 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at September 11, 2026 12:22 PM (dpXJq)

30 >>> What's the Oppression Calculus on that?

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Encapsulates Gayle's reaction perfectly.

Posted by: Turn 2 at September 11, 2026 12:22 PM (QFchU)

31 Not only a person of color, but a father who is raising his kids.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 11, 2026 12:21 PM (RjOoY)

So, white then?

*self-denounces*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 12:22 PM (dK+Kv)

32 You ain't black, Fat!

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 11, 2026 12:22 PM (NSrIQ)

33 It was mentioned earlier that a GiveSendGo should be started for that hero.

That's not a bad idea........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 12:22 PM (ccf/V)

34 Birdhands are a very distinctive tell - if there is a video with the sound off and I see a woman with birdhands I know the deal already.

Posted by: blaster - Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat at September 11, 2026 12:22 PM (NlEaG)

35 20 "I checked the guidance in MA on use of phones during jury deliberations and, as I assumed, the policy is that phones are not allowed during deliberations.

Either he is lying or, for some reason, in a massive high profile case, judge let them have phones.
— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) September 10, 2026"
________________

I made the exact same point yesterday. I never heard of allowing phones in the jury room, especially on a high profile case.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 12:20 PM (iFTx/)

They jury wasn't sequestered...and seeing how MA was letting the jury room run, not all that concerned with following rules of behavior for normal jury deliberation...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 11, 2026 12:22 PM (tOcjL)

36 A black woman in NY who was depressed quit taking her meds and started smoking lots of dope. She killed her two children. Judge said not guilty.

Posted by: huerfano at September 11, 2026 12:23 PM (2Xqig)

37 21 the lone, male holdout juror who voted to find Clancy guilty of murdering her children was the *only* person of color -- a black man.

Aha! That explains why they were on their best and most civil behavior.
Posted by: t-bird at September 11, 2026 12:20 PM (iFEms)

It's kind of interesting from a psychological perspective. These women are soaked in progressive politics and environment. You can see it in the interviews. But when the chips were down, they still only saw a woman like them. So abortion trumped race as far as dealing with this dude.

People are fucked up.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:23 PM (Y/06r)

38 Bets on when Mr. Holdout becomes the black face of white supremacy?

Posted by: Robert at September 11, 2026 12:23 PM (dpXJq)

39 Liberal women are a stain on humanity. Who’d a thunk people who spent their entire lives telling you murdering a child in the womb would be such terrible mothers, wives and human beings.

This is way beyond morality. This is about a mass psychosis where one day the girl boss is posting children’s birthday photos on Tik Tok, and the next day they’re strangling them.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 11, 2026 12:23 PM (Pu/zx)

40 The black face of white something or other.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 12:23 PM (Cqx++)

41 No women on juries, and no cucks, either. And if their are women, the only men who can be on the jury are those we know to be immune to AWFUL scolding, black men and GamerGaters.

YT has lots of videos of white Karens getting irate with black men, and in some cases, striking them. It does not end well for the Karens. Say what you will about the problems in American black culture, they are not interested in being lectured and bullied by white women.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 12:24 PM (Riz8t)

42 Afternoon Ace.
Those women on Oprah are saying "we want attention too"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 12:24 PM (N2HNb)

43 10 I find I don't really give a shit.

It's hilarious, but he was a mensch before and he's still a mensch.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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On X last night, it was claimed he had small children. This awful crime had to hit him hard.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:24 PM (E4rtv)

44 Old and busted: high tech lynching

New hotness: low T lynching

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 11, 2026 12:24 PM (Ot/FD)

45 Bets on when Mr. Holdout becomes the black face of white supremacy?

Posted by: Robert at September 11, 2026 12:23 PM (dpXJq)

Apparently 12:23 ET.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 12:24 PM (dK+Kv)

46
Room full of women on the Oprah show starts cheering after a doctor says that black female child murderers need to be supported too, not just the white child murderers like Lindsay Clancy.

Equal opportunity child murder.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 11, 2026 12:24 PM (eRlcH)

47 He probably drives an F950 Earthfucker too.
Posted by: far cry at September 11, 2026

One of my neighbors is a black guy who drives a white Ram turbo diesel. The damn thing is a monster. 4 rear wheels. Sounds like a train when it starts up. I would classify it as a super Earthfucker.

Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 12:25 PM (lJ0H4)

48 If leftists can believe that a man is a woman, they will certainly believe that a black man is really white.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 11, 2026 12:25 PM (wtvvX)

49 Old and busted: high tech lynching

New hotness: low T lynching

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 11, 2026 12:24 PM (Ot/FD)

Nice.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 12:25 PM (dK+Kv)

50 I put that Black man down as a hero
Wonder if he has children

Posted by: Skip at September 11, 2026 12:25 PM (LY4Ug)

51 On X last night, it was claimed he had small children. This awful crime had to hit him hard.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:24 PM (E4rtv)

Hug your kids for the rest of us sane people, King.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 12:26 PM (dK+Kv)

52 It's kind of interesting from a psychological perspective. These women are soaked in progressive politics and environment. You can see it in the interviews. But when the chips were down, they still only saw a woman like them. So abortion trumped race as far as dealing with this dude.

People are fucked up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Evil would be the correct word or wicked. Same old shit since Sodom and Gomorrah got destroyed and wealth breeds decadence and arrogance.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:26 PM (E4rtv)

53 "I checked the guidance in MA on use of phones during jury deliberations and, as I assumed, the policy is that phones are not allowed during deliberations.

Either he is lying or, for some reason, in a massive high profile case, judge let them have phones.
— alexandriabrown

Why should we assume the cuck was truthful in the first place?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 11, 2026 12:26 PM (NnhvP)

54 They jury wasn't sequestered...and seeing how MA was letting the jury room run, not all that concerned with following rules of behavior for normal jury deliberation...
Posted by: Nova Local at September 11, 2026 12:22 PM (tOcjL)

So WHY weren't they sequestered? It was a very high profile case. In the age of social media, will we have to start doing that more often?

Posted by: sal at September 11, 2026 12:26 PM (f+FmA)

55 He probably drives an F950 Earthfucker too...
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'Earthfucker' may join the pantheon of AOS glossary entries.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 12:26 PM (XeU6L)

56 I must admit I did not have "child murderers of diverse racial backgrounds" on my bingo card as the Leftard cause célèbre in 2026.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 11, 2026 12:26 PM (guGkK)

57 What's the Oppression Calculus on that?

I'm pretty sure Differential Equations will be required.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 12:26 PM (Riz8t)

58 Someone should ask Mr. black man about the whole "playing with his phone" thing and see what HE says about it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 12:27 PM (ccf/V)

59 They’ve lost the capacity to reason and think for themselves. It’s like cult programming where the social setting, group think, moral boundaries and humanity itself is dictated by repeated inculcation and group interaction.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 11, 2026 12:27 PM (Pu/zx)

60 > Room full of women on the Oprah show starts cheering after a doctor says that black female child murderers need to be supported too, not just the white child murderers like Lindsay Clancy.
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Just when you thought society was thoroughly debased.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 12:27 PM (2Cry5)

61 Am I the only one who thinks it odd that it took this long -- almost a week -- for it to be revealed that Juror Number Hero is black?

That seems like something that woulda been revealed in the very first mention of him being a holdout.

Especially since these are AWFuLs giving the interviews and surely weren't happy that a BLACK MAN wasn't following His Mastah's orders.

48 Hour rule on this, IMO.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 12:27 PM (iFTx/)

62 The father did it. The juror is part of the conspiracy. It all fits.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 11, 2026 12:27 PM (wGerL)

63 Speaking of pigs . . .

Real America's Voice (RAV)
@RealAmVoice
DISGUSTING: AOC & Mamdani seen LAUGHING together as names of honored dead read at Ground Zero

https://tinyurl.com/2n55duya

-
Mamdani to AOC: "As God as my witness, I thought Jew bankers could fly!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 11, 2026 12:27 PM (ndZc7)

64 46
Room full of women on the Oprah show starts cheering after a doctor says that black female child murderers need to be supported too, not just the white child murderers like Lindsay Clancy.

Equal opportunity child murder.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Last I checked, black and hispanic females had higher abortion rates than whites. Literally self genociding.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:28 PM (E4rtv)

65 so not only were da white wimmens scorned, they were scorned by a black guy. Black guys have been gassing up mediocre white cooch since forever, so you know that's gotta hurt something fierce.

Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at September 11, 2026 12:28 PM (Iwv3U)

66 Are we sure the one in the brown shirt is a female?

Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 12:28 PM (ZdaMQ)

67 He probably drives an F950 Earthfucker too.
Posted by: far cry at September 11, 2026

Also known affectionately as a Schlongbed pickup.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 11, 2026 12:29 PM (wtvvX)

68 It's kind of interesting from a psychological perspective. These women are soaked in progressive politics and environment. You can see it in the interviews. But when the chips were down, they still only saw a woman like them. So abortion trumped race as far as dealing with this dude.

People are fucked up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Woke white women like black men in the abstract, or as sexual pets. But they're not going to be sassed by some uppity negro right to their faces.

Lived in Austin for a decade. Saw this kind of mindset all the time. They like black men, alright. Not in their neighborhood though. From a distance.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 11, 2026 12:29 PM (ca8Qt)

69 Birdhands are a very distinctive tell - if there is a video with the sound off and I see a woman with birdhands I know the deal already.
Posted by: blaster
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If she is also sitting in her car, there is a multiplier.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 12:29 PM (XeU6L)

70 White bitch kills her kids.

Some black bitch kills her kids too and it's racist that everyone's paying attention to the white bitch more.

.....

Even I'm not a big enough bastard to craft snark that cuts that deep.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 11, 2026 12:29 PM (Ot/FD)

71 62 The father did it. The juror is part of the conspiracy. It all fits.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson
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You gonna do one of them there Tik Tok videos using AI to make yourself into a woman in a car, ain't you.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:29 PM (E4rtv)

72 Huh. Gary Busey was on the jury?? Who knew?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 12:29 PM (2dVdu)

73 Someone should ask Mr. black man about the whole "playing with his phone" thing and see what HE says about it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 12:27 PM (ccf/V)

If I was being hectored by a pack of shrieking white harpies, the first thing I would do is pull out my phone and ostentatiously spool up a game of Candy Crush.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 11, 2026 12:29 PM (guGkK)

74 No women on juries, and no cucks, either. And if their are women, the only men who can be on the jury are those we know to be immune to AWFUL scolding, black men and GamerGaters.

YT has lots of videos of white Karens getting irate with black men, and in some cases, striking them. It does not end well for the Karens. Say what you will about the problems in American black culture, they are not interested in being lectured and bullied by white women.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 12:24 PM (Riz8t)
__________

"INNORITE?"

-- Joe Mixon

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 12:30 PM (iFTx/)

75 They’ve lost the capacity to reason and think for themselves. It’s like cult programming where the social setting, group think, moral boundaries and humanity itself is dictated by repeated inculcation and group interaction.
Posted by: Vengeance

Easiest thing in the world is to be a commie. You just do as your told.

Posted by: Joe Biden at September 11, 2026 12:30 PM (NSrIQ)

76 9 He probably drives an F950 Earthfucker too.
Posted by: far cry at September 11, 2026 12:19 PM (WbWbV)

Dammit, I love this place. I was about to make a joke about this guy pulling up for jury duty in his F950 Earthfucker.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:30 PM (Y/06r)

77 Off sock

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 12:30 PM (NSrIQ)

78 18 9 He probably drives an F950 Earthfucker too.
Posted by: far cry at September 11, 2026 12:19 PM (WbWbV)

ace needs to get a sponsorship. The Horde would be tantalized. Sydney Sweeney for the new 2027 F950 Earthfucker!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:20 PM (Y/06r)

"It will rock your world," she says breathlessly, then looks sideways slyly. "Like it rocked mine."

Posted by: SciVo at September 11, 2026 12:30 PM (ke3zm)

79 What's the Oppression Calculus on that?

I'm pretty sure Differential Equations will be required.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 12:26 PM (Riz8t)
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*crank-starts Difference Engine*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 11, 2026 12:30 PM (amcLV)

80 69 Birdhands are a very distinctive tell - if there is a video with the sound off and I see a woman with birdhands I know the deal already.
Posted by: blaster
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If she is also sitting in her car, there is a multiplier.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
======
Latest iteration of reality tv for stupid people. I actively shun and degrade that shit on X nowadays via the mute as that hurts their algorithmic score to show to others. If really offensive, I block and tell X to not show me that sort of shit anymore.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:31 PM (E4rtv)

81 You can take AtC out of AoS but you can't take AoS out of AtC. Or something like that.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 11, 2026 12:31 PM (Fv808)

82 Well it does illustrate how really shitty some people are.

Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 12:31 PM (MWfyi)

83 There is another mass woman awaiting trial in jail for strangling her 2 kids earlier this year and then "cutting her throat". She then drove to her aunts house in Vermont.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 11, 2026 12:31 PM (YZ0Fo)

84 Side note: it seems like the F950 Earthfucker was a simpsons meme at one point. It's tickling the back of my brain- not that name of course, but something.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:31 PM (Y/06r)

85 Katie bar the doors. A black man stood up for what is obvious and didn't back down. Can this be real in these modern times? This man knows evil when he sees.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 11, 2026 12:31 PM (ATFmn)

86 The jury was not sequestered and they were allowed to use phones?!! What kind of craziness is that?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 12:31 PM (W90Ou)

87 Hahaahahaahah

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 12:31 PM (QjdCt)

88 Basically these idiotic women were implying that because he's black he doesn't have the intellect that they do to understand the case.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 11, 2026 12:32 PM (NpAcC)

89 That Defense Attorney is a RACIST !

Posted by: San Francisco/Los Angeles at September 11, 2026 12:32 PM (+gK6I)

90 "It will rock your world," she says breathlessly, then looks sideways slyly. "Like it rocked mine."
Posted by: SciVo at September 11, 2026 12:30 PM (ke3zm)

"Wanna get me in bed? Just open your tailgate and... whistle."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 11, 2026 12:32 PM (Ot/FD)

91 4 Side note: it seems like the F950 Earthfucker was a simpsons meme at one point. It's tickling the back of my brain- not that name of course, but something.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:31 PM (Y/06r)


Canyonero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_Jl5WFQkA

Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at September 11, 2026 12:32 PM (Iwv3U)

92 66 Are we sure the one in the brown shirt is a female?
Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 12:28 PM (ZdaMQ)

She's got the right uniform. Sturmabteilung!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:32 PM (Y/06r)

93 It's tickling the back of my brain- not that name of course, but something.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:31 PM (Y/06r)

Canyonero?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 11, 2026 12:32 PM (Ot/FD)

94 "YT has lots of videos of white Karens getting irate with black men"

Oddly, for some reason, the progressive S.F. Bay Area has that occurrence. Can't figure it out.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 11, 2026 12:32 PM (Fv808)

95 If I was being hectored by a pack of shrieking white harpies, the first thing I would do is pull out my phone and ostentatiously spool up a game of Candy Crush.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

I want to believe I was a game of Angry Birds. He could pretend the piggies were the shrieking AWFLs.

Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 12:33 PM (lJ0H4)

96 Those poor kids. Imagine the horror, the betrayal and the confusion those kids felt as their MOTHER murdered them.

I can’t stop thinking about the kids.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 11, 2026 12:33 PM (W2Pud)

97 88 Basically these idiotic women were implying that because he's black he doesn't have the intellect that they do to understand the case.

White Savior Syndrome

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 12:33 PM (Riz8t)

98 34 Birdhands are a very distinctive tell - if there is a video with the sound off and I see a woman with birdhands I know the deal already.
Posted by: blaster
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To me, their eyes are dead. Windows to the soul and all that.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:33 PM (E4rtv)

99 Basically these idiotic women were implying that because he's black he doesn't have the intellect that they do to understand the case.
Posted by: redridinghood at September 11, 2026 12:32 PM (NpAcC)

"And we've done so much for these people."

Posted by: An AWFL Faculty Lounge Bitch at September 11, 2026 12:33 PM (guGkK)

100 Side note: it seems like the F950 Earthfucker was a simpsons meme at one point. It's tickling the back of my brain- not that name of course, but something.
Posted by: Aetius451ADM

The Canyonero

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 11, 2026 12:33 PM (YZ0Fo)

101 Are we still doing collective blame today?

If so, them it's time to blame all white people for the weak and evil jurors.

And since we can't do collective blame without also doing collective credit, obviously black people must be better guardians of what is right, since the holdout-juror was black.

Get to it, people!
Pale-faces! Self-flagellate yourselves for sharing a skin tone with a bunch of murderous harpies and soy-cucks!

Everyone darker than paper bag! Congratulate yourselves for having the foresight and wisdom to have been born with the same skin color as the guy who gave Massachusetts a do-over on doing the trial competently!

What's that? That's not how it works? And individual's virtue or vice reflects only on himself and not on people he shares physical characteristics with?

Do tell!

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 11, 2026 12:33 PM (vJrRc)

102 Canyonero?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 11, 2026 12:32 PM (Ot/FD)

Maybe. Let me look it up.

Heh. Yeah.

https://youtu.be/PI_Jl5WFQkA

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:33 PM (Y/06r)

103 Hold out was black.

As I said this morning.......cue the meme with the guy choosing between 2 buttons......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 12:18 PM

Nah...Boston-area AWFLs...now they can let their inner racists off the leash for a bit.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 12:34 PM (lNdj6)

104
I thought Oprah was off colonizing Maui.

Posted by: Auspex at September 11, 2026 12:34 PM (Y8DZL)

105 4 Side note: it seems like the F950 Earthfucker was a simpsons meme at one point. It's tickling the back of my brain- not that name of course, but something.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:31 PM (Y/06r)


Canyonero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_Jl5WFQkA
Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at September 11, 2026 12:32 PM (Iwv3U)
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The Horde always comes through.

ALWAYS!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 12:35 PM (FZ29D)

106 They’ve lost the capacity to reason and think for themselves
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No, they didn't lose it, they are offended by the concept, is my hypothesis. I've seen it in action. If you think logically, and incrementally step by step, they will go along with you. To a certain point. And then the wheels start turning in their head. They can see the conclusion being built, the foundation of a concept.

Since they start with a conclusion, they have to ignore anything that doesn't support their conclusion - what they WANT to be true. It's inverted.

It is an emotional based thought process. Not exclusive to females by any means, but it is *targeted* towards females. Propaganda always goes for the lizard brain, deeply rooted human emotions, not the higher order thinking. It's easier to manipulate people that way, including females, but increasingly males as well.

That's what "toxic masculinity" means when they refer to it as something that needs to be eradicated.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 12:35 PM (2dVdu)

107
I can’t stop thinking about the kids.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 11, 2026 12:33 PM (W2Pud)


Too bad the jury ,save one, didn't

Posted by: San Francisco/Los Angeles at September 11, 2026 12:35 PM (+gK6I)

108 96 Those poor kids. Imagine the horror, the betrayal and the confusion those kids felt as their MOTHER murdered them.

I can’t stop thinking about the kids.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September

Mother cats do a better job.

Posted by: Piper at September 11, 2026 12:35 PM (ZdaMQ)

109 Nah...Boston-area AWFLs...now they can let their inner racists off the leash for a bit.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

People in Boston put their racism on a leash?! When did that happen?

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 11, 2026 12:35 PM (YZ0Fo)

110 96 Those poor kids. Imagine the horror, the betrayal and the confusion those kids felt as their MOTHER murdered them.

I can’t stop thinking about the kids.
Posted by: nurse ratched
======
Because you are a good person and a great mother. Evil people, men and women, view kids as disposable property, not the next generation.

And social media/infotainment is encouraging evilness instead of doing good.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:35 PM (E4rtv)

111 83 There is another mass woman awaiting trial in jail for strangling her 2 kids earlier this year and then "cutting her throat". She then drove to her aunts house in Vermont.
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 11, 2026 12:31 PM (YZ0Fo)

But then my county (of very few murders) just had another murder-suicide with dad as the perp yesterday. Dad wasn't as nuts b/c he left the kids alone...although he apparently shot mom in the chest and then himself dead center in the chest. Not usually the way a dude suicides, but I doubt the kid making the 911 call (b/c they were under 10) was lying...

1st the former male LT Gov this year, now this guy...I think every murder in my county this year that has been solved has been male initiated, but I'll have to check...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 11, 2026 12:35 PM (tOcjL)

112 "Boston-area AWFLs."

BAWFLs

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 11, 2026 12:36 PM (Fv808)

113 I note that all three of them bitches are doing bird-hands gesturing.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 11, 2026 12:36 PM (PSEDc)

114 They’ve lost the capacity to reason and think for themselves. It’s like cult programming where the social setting, group think, moral boundaries and humanity itself is dictated by repeated inculcation and group interaction.
Posted by: Vengeance
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Exactly. They are psycholgically damaged. Anything that contradicts the narrative that has been installed in their heads will not make it past their eyes and ears. Data and facts, will not be considered.

Recall Joe Biden, 'We believe in truth, not facts'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 12:36 PM (XeU6L)

115 "Room full of women on the Oprah show starts cheering after a doctor says that black female child murderers need to be supported too, not just the white child murderers like Lindsay Clancy."

I watched the video. Nasty black cuntiferous bitch who is probably a lesbian.

But ... hearing everything she said it seems like it was mostly cover for her just being pissed that a white woman -- GASP -- was getting so much (undeserved) sympathy and support and GoFundMe money.

I was waiting for her to say "and Karmelo only got half her GFM money!"

At the root of this problem is that all these women -- of any race or color -- are malignant look-at-me narcissists who make literally everything about themselves. "Look at that white bitch who murdered her kids getting all the attention and not meeeeeeeeeee ...."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 12:36 PM (iFTx/)

116 I note that all three of them bitches are doing bird-hands gesturing.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 11, 2026 12:36 PM (PSEDc)
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I bet the snack table in the jury room had a sign for "FREE BIRD SEED!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 11, 2026 12:37 PM (FZ29D)

117 Because you are a good person and a great mother. Evil people, men and women, view kids as disposable property, not the next generation.

And social media/infotainment is encouraging evilness instead of doing good.
Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:35 PM (E4rtv)

This. Kids and pets are like hand bags. Accessories.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:37 PM (Y/06r)

118 104
I thought Oprah was off colonizing Maui.
Posted by: Auspex
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Like shit in the toilet, she floats up now and again just when you thought she was flushed down the drain.

Despicable person.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:37 PM (E4rtv)

119 I know it makes me a piece of shit, you don't have to tell me.....

But i truly don't care about her kids. It's awful, sure. But they were all half psycho murderer and half dopey simp. I'm ultimately fine with her taking them out of the gene pool.

Not much different than a pig eating her own piglets for crowd control... yeah it's a bit unsettling, but.... literally not my pig, nor my farm.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 11, 2026 12:37 PM (Ot/FD)

120 Evil would be the correct word or wicked. Same old shit since Sodom and Gomorrah got destroyed and wealth breeds decadence and arrogance.
Posted by: whig

Yeah, those two places get all the Press.

Posted by: Admah and Zeboyim at September 11, 2026 12:37 PM (Fn+3X)

121 Are we still doing collective blame today?

If so, them it's time to blame all white people for the weak and evil jurors.


I put it to you Greg. Isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?

Posted by: Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman at September 11, 2026 12:37 PM (guGkK)

122 Doesn't the black juror's race confer a bit a immunity against doxxing? Even the dumbest leftist knows that targeting a black man is an awful look.

Posted by: mr tmz at September 11, 2026 12:37 PM (rJ48h)

123 I must admit, I didn't know Oprah was still doing shows.

Posted by: Darth Randall at September 11, 2026 12:38 PM (QIt0y)

124 People in Boston put their racism on a leash?! When did that happen?
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 11, 2026 12:35 PM

Usually they at least try to hide it when they think non-AWFLs are watching. They don't do a good job, but they make the effort.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 12:38 PM (lNdj6)

125 I don't even know what to say to stories like this anymore, from this obvious filicide to celebration of Kirk's death to saying the USA deserved 9/11 and all those that perished, the nation has lost it's way.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 11, 2026 12:38 PM (n5tGW)

126 Where did "bird hands" originate?

I know what it is, means... but who or where did it come from?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 12:38 PM (2Cry5)

127 This. Kids and pets are like hand bags. Accessories.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Same mentality as slave owners. Property has no rights.

And that mentality also makes it very easy to abuse children including sexually.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:38 PM (E4rtv)

128 "True Crime" stuff should be outlawed. It encourages a simplistic/idiotic view of a complex subject. It seems to render some women unable to engage in any critical thinking at all and instead only seek "the one fact" or "smoking gun."

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at September 11, 2026 12:38 PM (wrEn7)

129 And that black male juror was me in disguise. Hahahahaha - Candace needing meds

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 12:38 PM (N2HNb)

130 To make sure credit is given where it's due:

The same people who bitch about lifted trucks and hillbillies picking up a loaf of bread in their Ford F950 Earthfucker. The EV thing might be worse, actually.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 11:47 AM (2dVdu)

Then:
108 I want an F950 Earthfucker.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 11:54 AM (NSrIQ)

Me too!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:39 PM (Y/06r)

131 holy sheep there's a cut of people weeping openly as names are read at the 9/11 Memorial today .. then they pan to show AOC and Mamdami LAUGHING

like for a WHILE

welp

that should be it for those two asshats

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 12:39 PM (j+aD2)

132 The top is assembled with their moneyed "elites". They're putting their bottom together right now- Antifa, Islamic terrorists, etc

They're going to try.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 12:39 PM (NSrIQ)

133 It is an emotional based thought process. Not exclusive to females by any means, but it is *targeted* towards females. Propaganda always goes for the lizard brain, deeply rooted human emotions, not the higher order thinking. It's easier to manipulate people that way, including females, but increasingly males as well.

That's what "toxic masculinity" means when they refer to it as something that needs to be eradicated.

1) You forgot quotes around "males".
2) Time for the Don Corleone quote: "Women and children can afford to be careless. Men can't."

There are emotion driven fools in both sexes. Women may be more prone to it, but by no means all.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 12:39 PM (Riz8t)

134 Court should've passed out white hoods and robes to the jurors.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Gird Your Loins! at September 11, 2026 12:39 PM (ndZc7)

135 I’d never before heard the term bird hands…. Learn something new everyday here!

BTW… the photos of the Karen’s I’ve seen from the jury (I’ve seen 3)…. They’re all late middle age or older and white. Ugly

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 11, 2026 12:39 PM (uTFcg)

136 btw I knew that white dude was lying about the phones

what a LOSER

what did he want to smell the old broads' panties or something?!?!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 12:40 PM (j+aD2)

137 Where did "bird hands" originate?

I know what it is, means... but who or where did it come from?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 12:38 PM (2Cry5)
__________

Social media -- TikTok? -- trend a few years ago. the hand-waving behavior always existed. The trend focused on naming it "bird hands."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 12:40 PM (iFTx/)

138 122 Doesn't the black juror's race confer a bit a immunity against doxxing? Even the dumbest leftist knows that targeting a black man is an awful look.
Posted by: mr tmz at September 11, 2026 12:37 PM (rJ48h)

Why, it would almost be like lynching.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:40 PM (Y/06r)

139 I am reminded of the meme of the white guys being shielded from dating angry fat white women by black dudes.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 11, 2026 12:40 PM (vSvIl)

140 125 I don't even know what to say to stories like this anymore, from this obvious filicide to celebration of Kirk's death to saying the USA deserved 9/11 and all those that perished, the nation has lost it's way.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
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It is your lot to live by example of doing right, being decent, and living a Godly life. That is the best revenge as it enrages the wicked and evil because it makes them recall that there is still some good in them that they have not quite yet extinguished.

Thus, the rage of cognitive dissonance.

Repeatedly, the Lord saves his own and will stay even his worst wrath if a handful of his own are there. Pretty clear lesson from the Old Testament.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:41 PM (E4rtv)

141 Content of character.
Color of skin.

Posted by: Some quote. Some where. at September 11, 2026 12:41 PM (2Ez/1)

142 135 I’d never before heard the term bird hands…. Learn something new everyday here!

BTW… the photos of the Karen’s I’ve seen from the jury (I’ve seen 3)…. They’re all late middle age or older and white. Ugly
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 11, 2026 12:39 PM (uTFcg)

https://youtu.be/B3e5v3zQlpI

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:41 PM (Y/06r)

143 Where did "bird hands" originate?

I know what it is, means... but who or where did it come from?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 12:38 PM

Weak-ass AWFLs who lack the stones to use the knife hand as their weapon of mass instruction.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 12:41 PM (lNdj6)

144
Methos! excellent meme idea!

"black guy holds back white idiot guy"

"lettering over the chick reads MURDERS OWN CHILDREN"

this would work better if I could post pics

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 12:41 PM (j+aD2)

145

derp

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 12:42 PM (j+aD2)

146 that should be it for those two asshats
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 12:39 PM (j+aD2)

"Are we gonna do the laugh thing now Mami?"

"What? Whatever. And stop calling me that."

"Ok! Say something funny, Mammydanny."

"Shut your whore mouth, infidel."

"Tee-hee!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 11, 2026 12:42 PM (Ot/FD)

147 141 Content of character.
Color of skin.
Posted by: Some quote. Some where. at September 11, 2026 12:41 PM (2Ez/1)

This. He was a hero and stand up dude before I found out he was black. Being black does not change that. I'm like 'oh, ok.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:42 PM (Y/06r)

148 I know what it is, means... but who or where did it come from?


I assume puppetry

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 12:42 PM (j+aD2)

149 I assume the sub average IQ woman means compassion not passion...

Posted by: steevy at September 11, 2026 12:42 PM (YwEeS)

150 135 I’d never before heard the term bird hands…. Learn something new everyday here!

BTW… the photos of the Karen’s I’ve seen from the jury (I’ve seen 3)…. They’re all late middle age or older and white. Ugly
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 11, 2026 12:39 PM (uTFcg)

That is typical for juries - very old (aka the retired) or very young (aka, those in college and/or without jobs/kids)...most normal folks try to avoid jury duty. To our society's detriment.

If you complain about the makeup of the jury, you should never be shirking jury duty, b/c you add to the problems you see.

Posted by: Nova Local at September 11, 2026 12:42 PM (tOcjL)

151 Where did "bird hands" originate?

I know what it is, means... but who or where did it come from?
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Theory: Liberal coaching. They are addressing the audience without pointing. Pointing and wagging fingers turns people off bigly.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 12:43 PM (NSrIQ)

152
This explains a lot.

You just know the Clancy Harpies were just dying to say what a dumb, motherfucker, just loaded up with white privilege couldn't possibly understand a white woman killing her children and so spewed his white supremacy all over the verdict.

Buuuuut-

They couldn't...however....

You just know the Clancy Harpies and Cucks were just dying say something like this dumb, black, a-hole couldn't possibly understand the unbearable Existential Anguish of the Educated White Woman, what with his inferior brain and all!!!!

It's hard to see how this story gets any better, but I bet it does.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 11, 2026 12:43 PM (iJfKG)

153 holy sheep there's a cut of people weeping openly as names are read at the 9/11 Memorial today .. then they pan to show AOC and Mamdami LAUGHING

like for a WHILE

welp

that should be it for those two asshats

It seems that the DSA types don't like AOC because she's insufficiently radical. I'm so looking forward to the upcoming civil war in the Democrat party.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 12:43 PM (Riz8t)

154 137 Where did "bird hands" originate?

I know what it is, means... but who or where did it come from?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 12:38 PM (2Cry5)
__________

Social media -- TikTok? -- trend a few years ago. the hand-waving behavior always existed. The trend focused on naming it "bird hands."
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Exaggerated motions on video screens to imply passion. Not really natural and sort of distracting actually but that type of manipulation just makes me think deranged rather than passionate when it is obviously the person videoing themselves. Bad acting is what I call it.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:43 PM (E4rtv)

155 RE Bird Hands

Don't know the origin but came across it from hoe_math:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3e5v3zQlpI&t=70s

Posted by: nooneyouknowyouknow at September 11, 2026 12:43 PM (Iwv3U)

156 but.... literally not my pig, nor my farm.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 11, 2026 12:37 PM (Ot/FD)

That's a take.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 12:44 PM (dK+Kv)

157 Yes, feminizing males is part of the program. Obviously. Long term project for sure.

My liberal college professor auntie was ecstatic in the 1970s, a fashion trend towards "UniSex" fashions, androgynous. It didn't take off then, or not much.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 12:44 PM (2dVdu)

158 156 but.... literally not my pig, nor my farm.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 11, 2026 12:37 PM (Ot/FD)

That's a take.


it's the most anti-life thing I think I've ever read on here so

I guess apropos for this anniversary

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 12:44 PM (j+aD2)

159 It seems that the DSA types don't like AOC because she's insufficiently radical. I'm so looking forward to the upcoming civil war in the Democrat party.
Posted by: Archimedes
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The new generation reminds me of the fire eaters in the South that drove secession. The older and wiser heads, tried to warn them off but were ignored. I think the DSA types are stupid enough to try to pull it off--probably first trying to launch a coup and then descending into unholy violence when it fails.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:45 PM (E4rtv)

160 My liberal college professor auntie was ecstatic in the 1970s, a fashion trend towards "UniSex" fashions, androgynous. It didn't take off then, or not much.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 12:44 PM (2dVdu)

Leisure suits.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:45 PM (Y/06r)

161 Is it too much to hope that the black guy is gay!

Posted by: Unkaren at September 11, 2026 12:45 PM (wBxGS)

162
'Earthfucker' may join the pantheon of AOS glossary entries.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 12:26 PM (XeU6L)


Someone should train their parrot to say it like the bird that says "Titf*cker" in Shorsey........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 12:45 PM (ccf/V)

163 Room full of women on the Oprah show starts cheering after a doctor says that black female child murderers need to be supported too, not just the white child murderers like Lindsay Clancy.
-
Abortion is already the number one cause of death in the black community (since a majority of their pregnancies are ended with a scalpel), so I'm not sure what more they can ask for.

Posted by: Methos, inauthentic X-bot account at September 11, 2026 12:46 PM (vSvIl)

164 Again, the idea 3 f***** nurses were allowed to be on jury with a nurse as defendant, was intentional sabotage.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 11, 2026 12:46 PM (zXhZ4)

165 Leisure suits.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Don't comment on old threads.

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 12:46 PM (77rzZ)

166 "Theory: Liberal coaching. They are addressing the audience without pointing. Pointing and wagging fingers turns people off bigly.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory"

They want to point and wag but the bird hand disguises it.

Posted by: fd at September 11, 2026 12:47 PM (MWfyi)

167 Knife Hand is superior to bird hand.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 11, 2026 12:47 PM (zXhZ4)

168 Bird hands.
Up talking.
Vocal fry.

Posted by: Irritating female communication habits for $400, Alex at September 11, 2026 12:47 PM (2Ez/1)

169 Weak-ass AWFLs who lack the stones to use the knife hand as their weapon of mass instruction.

The banana hand is the weapon of choice.

Posted by: Monty Python at September 11, 2026 12:47 PM (Riz8t)

170 This is disgusting - AOC and Terror Boy Mandami are seen laughing while the names of the 911 victims are being read:


https://tinyurl.com/yv3jxrj2

Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 12:47 PM (kX27y)

171 The photographs of politicians, local or otherwise, are always carefully composed, showing the deeply caring politico in these staged poses, almost always with the "finger pinch" (with a pen in hand, sometimes) or the hands out position, or in any case some sort of decisive "I'm In Charge Here" executive pose. Sleeves rolled up, gang, I'm ready to lead!

Usually a suit, though no tie. Oh no. That's something one of those icky Republicans might wear.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 12:47 PM (2dVdu)

172 You know, considering who I aw driving a lot of Ford Excursions, a lot of women would probably drive an F950 Earthfucker.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:48 PM (Y/06r)

173 NEW: Lindsay Clancy juror Paula Devlin reveals on 'CBS Mornings' that the lone, male holdout juror who voted to find Clancy guilty of murdering her children was the *only* person of color -- a black man.


Completely missing the fact that that is NOT WHAT THEY WERE JURORS TO DETERMINE.

FFS.

They were there to decide whether she was CRIMINALLY LIABLE for the murders. There's NO DOUBT she murdered her 3 children in cold blood.

They were to decide whether she was MENTALLY RESPONSIBLE for it.

WTF were the prosecution thinking??!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 12:48 PM (ccf/V)

174 it's the most anti-life thing I think I've ever read on here so

I guess apropos for this anniversary
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 12:44 PM (j+aD2)


Agreed.. I don't think an 8 month old,3 year old and 5 year old are psycho murders or simps..

Posted by: San Francisco/Los Angeles at September 11, 2026 12:48 PM (+gK6I)

175 I think MA Governor Childless Bull Dyke Healey will soon give Clancy a pardon. To get this trial and the black juror totally out of the news cycle. Yes, the MSM will do its best to coverup a black male juror not voting as he is supposed to. But why not totally deep-six the entire murderous event and the mistrial, while getting every Karen and AWFL in not only MA, but in the country, screaming hosannahs to Healey, forever.

Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 12:48 PM (5rh/l)

176 If you complain about the makeup of the jury, you should never be shirking jury duty, b/c you add to the problems you see.
Posted by: Nova Local

Eh, I've been on a jury and was in the jury pool for another. Was no way that I was going to be seated on that jury because I taught the very subject of the guy's lawsuit on takings. City attorney was laughing during voir dire because the plaintiff was going to have to use a strike on me. No questions at all from the Plaintiff attorney. Amusing.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:48 PM (E4rtv)

177 Lived in Austin for a decade. Saw this kind of mindset all the time. They like black men, alright. Not in their neighborhood though. From a distance.

Posted by: it puts the lotion in the basket at September 11, 2026 12:29 PM (ca8Qt)

You saw that with the busload of immigrants on Martha's Vineyard.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 12:48 PM (dK+Kv)

178 F me. Not immigrants. Illegal aliens.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 12:49 PM (dK+Kv)

179 Last I checked, black and hispanic females had higher abortion rates than whites. Literally self genociding.
Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:28 PM (E4rtv)

White kids are just the collateral damage. PP was founded by eugenicists, so getting rid of the POC babies was the whole point.

Posted by: No Name Today at September 11, 2026 12:50 PM (8mulE)

180 167 Knife Hand is superior to bird hand.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Was on a team that was replacing old machines and one of my co-workers asked for directions. After I finished, someone came up and said "Excuse me. Were you in the Corps?"

"Yes, sir. How did you know?"

"You were using knife hands when you gave him directions."

Posted by: NR Pax at September 11, 2026 12:50 PM (RjOoY)

181 If you complain about the makeup of the jury, you should never be shirking jury duty, b/c you add to the problems you see.
Posted by: Nova Local

Eh, I've been on a jury and was in the jury pool for another. Was no way that I was going to be seated on that jury because I taught the very subject of the guy's lawsuit on takings. City attorney was laughing during voir dire because the plaintiff was going to have to use a strike on me. No questions at all from the Plaintiff attorney. Amusing.

I've been in the pool multiple times, but never called. It's almost as if they don't want fact-driven science types on the jury. Almost.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 12:51 PM (Riz8t)

182 164 Again, the idea 3 f***** nurses were allowed to be on jury with a nurse as defendant, was intentional sabotage.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 11, 2026 12:46 PM (zXhZ4)

Right. 4 Nurses in the same room requires at least an NP and 5 CNAs to coordinate the dance moves

Posted by: Reforger at September 11, 2026 12:51 PM (F9nWj)

183 If you complain about the makeup of the jury, you should never be shirking jury duty, b/c you add to the problems you see.
Posted by: Nova Local

Never shirked my duty. Sat on two juries. Don't think I'll ever be called again though being way over 29 now.

Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 12:51 PM (lJ0H4)

184 "Newcomers" and "New Neighbors" is the preferred nomenclature, Comrade! Forward!

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 12:51 PM (2dVdu)

185 think MA Governor Childless Bull Dyke Healey will soon give Clancy a pardon. To get this trial and the black juror totally out of the news cycle. Yes, the MSM will do its best to coverup a black male juror not voting as he is supposed to. But why not totally deep-six the entire murderous event and the mistrial, while getting every Karen and AWFL in not only MA, but in the country, screaming hosannahs to Healey, forever.
Posted by: Gref at

I think this was the defense attorney's goal in saying Trump should pardon her, knowing full well he can't.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 11, 2026 12:51 PM (YZ0Fo)

186 Ahhh.

The supernatural profundity of 2 Timothy 3:6–7 on display AGAIN.

Thank you to everyone who has been providing real time demonstrations of the passage over the past few weeks.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at September 11, 2026 12:51 PM (Whifh)

187 126 Where did "bird hands" originate?

I know what it is, means... but who or where did it come from?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 12:38 PM (2Cry5)

I don't recall if Hoe Math named it or just popularized the name, but I believe he was involved.

Posted by: SciVo at September 11, 2026 12:52 PM (ke3zm)

188 Good for her, a family member of a 911 victim went rogue:

Terry Strada (widow of Tom Strada) called out every traitor to this country. Her husband would be so proud of her.

https://tinyurl.com/2s42d2h8

Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 12:52 PM (kX27y)

189 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 11, 2026 12:39 PM (uTFcg)

IMO, it wouldn't have been a better decision ( to be in support of Clancy) if they were all in their 20's to early 40's and stunningly beautiful - but then, I'm neither, and would have stood either the black man holding out .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 12:52 PM (bLcfU)

190 WTF were the prosecution thinking??!!
Posted by: Sponge

Mass has an ass backwards approach to the defense of not guilty by reason of insanity. Something called the McHoul rule. Most states have some version of the old M'Naughten rule which requires the defendant to prove that they were insane (affirmative/justification defense) to such a degree that they could not know right from wrong. Hard test to pass. McHoul rule from the Model Penal Code and a stupid Mass Scotus decision, inverts the burden of proof. First, the defense has to meet relatively low burden of demonstrating past mental illness to the judge, then the STATE has the burden to show the defendant was sane enough at the time of the murders to comprehend the wrongness of their actions and were unable to control their actions. And the state has to prove that beyond a reasonable doubt.

In most M'Naughten states, the defendant has to prove insanity (because they admit they did the crime) using a clear and convincing standard of evidence that they were insane.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:53 PM (E4rtv)

191 This is completely off-topic, but Duke's mayo is now available in my AO, and I have acquired some for comparison purposes. We'll see....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 12:53 PM (lNdj6)

192
I don't recall if Hoe Math named it or just popularized the name, but I believe he was involved.
Posted by: SciVo at September 11, 2026 12:52 PM (ke3zm)


See #155.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 12:54 PM (ccf/V)

193 In the old days they called them Jazz Hands, ala Obama Poofter affectations.

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 12:54 PM (Gqar8)

194 @180

>>"You were using knife hands when you gave him directions."

Knife hand is direct, knife hand is confident, knife hand cuts through confusion and bullshit and leaves no doubt about intent.

Bird hand is weak, bird hand is feminine, bird hand is uncertain and creates confusion and doubt.

Never use bird hands.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 11, 2026 12:54 PM (zXhZ4)

195 189-stood "with" the black man.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 11, 2026 12:54 PM (bLcfU)

196 Having one black on the jury is consistent with Plymouth's demographics. It's about 10% black.

But three fucking female nurses? As I've been saying, a female nurse is probably the worst possible juror in this case.

Yet this jury had three of them. Unreal.

I'm becoming more convinced that the entire case was a LARPing sham that the prosecution never had any intention of winning.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 12:55 PM (iFTx/)

197 r/BlackPeopleofReddit

Thank goodness for this one levelheaded man that would not be swayed by the fake white woman tears. I can only hope he is living life safely after being outed by his fellow jurors.

his race should have nothing to do with it, but it is telling about his gender. Women are expected for 40 years of their life to have crazy hormonal swings once a month and walk around like everything is fine in their brains and their bodies and to keep it all to themselves. Until someone knows what that feels like - I will quote the previously once great Kanye West - you can't tell me NOTHIN.

I knew he was a minority because of they way they talked about him. That "arrogant" description hit differently.

and now the journalist that did the very first interview with the jurors is calling people who criticize her or the other jurors “primates”.

I think jury nullification is legit, but I don't think he should've done it in this case, towards a guilty verdict. It gives me some pause to learn he was black considering how many more jurors are jumping to talk shit about him now, and how quickly they did so.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 11, 2026 12:55 PM (t19vo)

198 The important part of this morning's CBS interview of the female juror -

But (CBS morning show host Gayle King) was particularly interested in the racial demographics. 'One person of color. Was the person of color a woman or a man?' King asked.

Devlin replied: 'A man.' King repeated her response, 'a man,' once more before asking, 'Was the holdout juror a black man?'

'Yes,' Devlin said. Seemingly surprised by the answer, King doubled down on her question: 'A black man is the holdout juror?'

'Yes,' the juror said again. King gasped, then looked down, before saying in a softspoken voice: 'Woah. I have to sit with that for just a second.'

Why did you need to do that, Gayle? We here know the reason.

Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 12:55 PM (5rh/l)

199 186 Ahhh.

The supernatural profundity of 2 Timothy 3:6–7 on display AGAIN.

Thank you to everyone who has been providing real time demonstrations of the passage over the past few weeks.
Posted by: Denny Crane!
=======
Very apropos verse. Thanks. Wisdom of the Lord cannot be repeated too much.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:55 PM (E4rtv)

200 Knife hand >> Jazz hands >>>>>>>>> bird hand

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 11, 2026 12:55 PM (YZ0Fo)

201 Bird hand origins:

https://itishoemath.com/bird-hands/

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 12:55 PM (XeU6L)

202 The re-trial jury selection should be interesting:
The State trying to exclude as many Whites as possible;
The defense trying to exclude as many Black men as possible.

Posted by: Chuck C at September 11, 2026 12:55 PM (0GLZr)

203 Here is the video I was thinking of, from June of last year:

hoe_math - BIRD HANDS [Start watching for them]
https://youtu.be/B3e5v3zQlpI

Posted by: SciVo at September 11, 2026 12:55 PM (ke3zm)

204
In most M'Naughten states, the defendant has to prove insanity (because they admit they did the crime) using a clear and convincing standard of evidence that they were insane.
Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:53 PM (E4rtv)


I appreciate the explanation and that's all fine.

However, if that f*cking jury was deliberating thinking they were deciding whether she was gulity of MURDERING HER KIDS or not, they were completely ignorant as to why the were there and what they were trying to determine.

It should've been a mistrial before it even started.

I blame the prosecution. But, women, so maybe they were having hormonal issues during the whole thing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 12:56 PM (ccf/V)

205 I have no hand!

- I think that's some quote from Seinfeld.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 11, 2026 12:56 PM (n5tGW)

206 It gives me some pause to learn he was black considering how many more jurors are jumping to talk shit about him now, and how quickly they did so.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 11, 2026 12:55 PM (t19vo)

lol

*motions to the bed you made*

Lay down, motherfucker.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 12:57 PM (dK+Kv)

207
Never use bird hands.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 11, 2026 12:54 PM (zXhZ4)


First Lady used to use the 'clap hands' when disagreeing with an asshole. It was moderately entertaining at times.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 12:57 PM (ccf/V)

208 In the old days they called them Jazz Hands, ala Obama Poofter affectations.
Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 12:54 PM (Gqar

that's what I thought bird hands would be, but they're actually holding the fingers to the thumb and making a pecking motion. I can believe that it was intended to replace the shaken finger and grew to a wider context.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 11, 2026 12:58 PM (lFFaq)

209 I've been in the pool multiple times, but never called. It's almost as if they don't want fact-driven science types on the jury. Almost.
Posted by: Archimedes
---------
Engineers and scientists are seldom on juries for that reason and because they sometimes have problems with inferential evidence.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:58 PM (E4rtv)

210 165 Leisure suits.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Don't comment on old threads.

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 12:46 PM (77rzZ)

OUTSTANDING

Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 11, 2026 12:58 PM (wtvvX)

211 I don't know why, but I assumed "bird hands" was some form of bastardized sign language. Like a take off of ASL.

I had a girlfriend many, many years ago who was an interpreter for the deaf. She taught me some of ASL, a little I still remember. It's a cool way to covertly discuss things in a crowded room when you don't want to be overheard. Gestures like "bird hands" can be a shortcut to certain phrases, ideas, etc. If you're taught it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 12:58 PM (2Cry5)

212 Yes,' the juror said again. King gasped, then looked down, before saying in a softspoken voice: 'Woah. I have to sit with that for just a second.'


Oprah's Gash. And after you sit on it, you can cram it up your ass.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 12:59 PM (NSrIQ)

213 The bird hands is how a shaman gets from evil to legal.

Procedural bullshit can make anything legal in a court of fairytale law.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 11, 2026 12:59 PM (ATFmn)

214 Oprah's Gash. And after you sit on it, you can cram it up your ass.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Don't forget to rotate.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 11, 2026 12:59 PM (YZ0Fo)

215 Unscrupulous, unethical types found the *perfect* case with which to advance the notion that killing kids in a moment of "mental issues" is totes OK, and to be expected really. That's what it looks like from out here in the cheap seats.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 01:00 PM (2dVdu)

216 As someone who works close to a state nursing board... it is scary who they will license. I know they are desperate for more nurses but even the people who issue the licenses need to be examined. Some are still wearing masks and pushing covid shots...
They think because they issue nursing licenses that they are more qualified about science than the public. And yes, they are radical leftist.

Posted by: annon at September 11, 2026 01:00 PM (9U6Wl)

217 "...prison library that hewed toward romance novels"??

Do they just not have editors any more?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 01:00 PM (K32Fz)

218 208 In the old days they called them Jazz Hands, ala Obama Poofter affectations.
Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 12:54 PM (Gqar

that's what I thought bird hands would be, but they're actually holding the fingers to the thumb and making a pecking motion. I can believe that it was intended to replace the shaken finger and grew to a wider context.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 11, 2026 12:58 PM (lFFaq)

Thanks for putting me some knowledge Polliwog. The Horde is erudite.

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 01:00 PM (Gqar8)

219 Yes,' the juror said again. King gasped, then looked down, before saying in a softspoken voice: 'Woah. I have to sit with that for just a second.'



"How do we label a black man as a racist sexist when they can't be racist or insulted as being sexist?!?!?!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 01:01 PM (ccf/V)

220 I haven't seen anyone questioning whether the prosecutor on this case actually applied himself in juror selection process. In Mass. the prosecutor, obviously, has the opportunity to question potential jurors (within reason). And, let's face it. It's pretty easy to pick out the bias on the jurors we've seen so far.

The prosecutor in Mass gets unlimited challenges to be approved by the Judge (who remarkably seemed to be a staight shooter)....so I wonder if he actually did his job. The prosecutor, also, gets a limited number of "see yah, wouldn't want to be yah" removals, and I wonder if he actually used those.

Finally, at the next trial I can almost guarantee it will be tried by a female prosecutor.

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 01:01 PM (dIske)

221 I prefer the finger snap, the point and a loud "Hey!".

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 11, 2026 01:01 PM (n5tGW)

222 They were to decide whether she was MENTALLY RESPONSIBLE for it.
WTF were the prosecution thinking??!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 12:48 PM (ccf/V)

According to this thread at The Volokh Conspiracy, in MA, once the defense has asserted a insanity excuse, the burden of proof shifts to the prosecution. They have to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant was not crazy in order to get a conviction.

https://reason.com/volokh/2026/09/
05/how-would-you-have-applied-
massachusetts-law-in-the-lindsay-clancy-trial/

Posted by: No Name Today at September 11, 2026 01:01 PM (8mulE)

223 However, if that f*cking jury was deliberating thinking they were deciding whether she was gulity of MURDERING HER KIDS or not, they were completely ignorant as to why the were there and what they were trying to determine.

It should've been a mistrial before it even started.

I blame the prosecution. But, women, so maybe they were having hormonal issues during the whole thing.
Posted by: Sponge

I blame Massachusetts' Scotus, their legislature, and their governors. That idiotic standard is designed to produce not guilty by reason of insanity for defendants that in most other states would be put in prison, even executed.

Kansas even has went further with a guilty but insane rule that should be adopted where even if you claim insanity, you get incarcerated in a mental hospital for a term rather than a short restful stay until released. Scotus blessed that statute about a decade or so ago.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 01:01 PM (E4rtv)

224 The jurors were systematically racist.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 01:01 PM (RIvkX)

225 The Horde is erudite.

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 01:00 PM (Gqar

No. You're erudite!

*looks up erudite*

Oh.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 01:02 PM (dK+Kv)

226 Everything these bints do in their lives has to do with opposing what they think are Trump and Trump supporters.

They carried that into the jury deliberations and a "not guilty" is how they strike back at the Trump monster, who they think wanted a "guilty".

Posted by: Anti Trump Bints at September 11, 2026 01:02 PM (cCXR+)

227 haven't seen anyone questioning whether the prosecutor on this case actually applied himself in juror selection process. In Mass. the prosecutor, obviously, has the opportunity to question potential jurors (within reason). And, let's face it. It's pretty easy to pick out the bias on the jurors we've seen so far.

The prosecutor in Mass gets unlimited challenges to be approved by the Judge (who remarkably seemed to be a staight shooter)....so I wonder if he actually did his job. The prosecutor, also, gets a limited number of "see yah, wouldn't want to be yah" removals, and I wonder if he actually used those.

Finally, at the next trial I can almost guarantee it will be tried by a female prosecutor.
Posted by: Orson

The lead prosecutor on this case was a female. Looked shockingly similar to the jurors. The DA who is a dude may just take the retrial himself.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 11, 2026 01:02 PM (YZ0Fo)

228 but.... literally not my pig, nor my farm.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 11, 2026 12:37 PM (Ot/FD)

That's a take.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 12:44 PM (dK+Kv)

It's horrible what she did, but in the aggregate, I think these crimes are reducing the ranks of the Leftosphere more than the ranks of the Right.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 01:03 PM (1z8ji)

229 They think because they issue nursing licenses that they are more qualified about science than the public. And yes, they are radical leftist.
Posted by: annon at September 11, 2026 01:00 PM (9U6Wl)


Nurses are licensed to do what doctors tell them to do. Period. They can't prescribe drugs. They can't administer psychiatric care........They can draw blood, insert IV's and inject patients with what the DOCTOR tells them to do.

Anything else, they're WAY overstepping their bounds.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 01:03 PM (ccf/V)

230 227

The lead prosecutor on this case was a female. Looked shockingly similar to the jurors. The DA who is a dude may just take the retrial himself.
Posted by: BruceWayne at September 11, 2026 01:02 PM (YZ0Fo)

That’s a Man, Baby!!!

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 01:03 PM (Gqar8)

231 Gayle King had to sit with it a moment as she was profoundly confused that a black man didn't bow down to the liberal tribe, did his job as a juror is supposed to, thought for himself, and stood strong.

I am old enough to remember the Clarence Thomas hearings and the horrible way he was treated by Democrats. Joe Biden being one of the worst.

Scratch a liberal/Democrat - find a racist.

Posted by: Cheri at September 11, 2026 01:03 PM (oiNtH)

232
his race should have nothing to do with it, but it is telling about his gender. Women are expected for 40 years of their life to have crazy hormonal swings once a month and walk around like everything is fine in their brains and their bodies and to keep it all to themselves. Until someone knows what that feels like - I will quote the previously once great Kanye West - you can't tell me NOTHIN.

Hmmmm.

I know it's not supposed to be this but-

This is a great argument from a woman herself, why the 19th Amendment should be repealed and women never given any position or job of importance or responsibility.

Progtards can't meme but they can Own-Goal like nobody's business.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 11, 2026 01:04 PM (iJfKG)

233 There are mountains of proverbs about how women can go wrong and almost none about men. You know why? Because men's sins and evil tendencies are so obvious and blatant everyone knows and condemns them. Nobody had to do a proverb on men to avoid

There are six things the Lord hates in a man, seven that are an abomination to him
A lazy man, a man who promises much and forgets more,
A man who lifts his hand in anger against the weak
A man who is cruel to his children
A man who abuses his authority
A man who murders, and a man who steals

I mean... dude, we already know that. What men need is warnings about what women can do to your soul.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 01:04 PM (K32Fz)

234 All the juror interviews have been an embarrassing train wreck. The first 3 box wine grannies were a pack of harridans from Macbeth. The male juror interviewed had the spine of a wet queef.

Posted by: KSB at September 11, 2026 01:05 PM (ao2T5)

235 The Post finally has video of Mandami and AOC yucking it up during the 9/11 ceremony. Disgusting.

Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 01:05 PM (lJ0H4)

236 Women are expected for 40 years of their life to have crazy hormonal swings once a month and walk around like everything is fine in their brains and their bodies and to keep it all to themselves. Until someone knows what that feels like - I will quote the previously once great Kanye West - you can't tell me NOTHIN.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison


Wow. That lady must just be mental. Sure there have been mood swings in my life, but I notice my own irrationality and shut it down. Menstrual cycles are not debilitating mental afflictions.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 11, 2026 01:05 PM (ftFVW)

237 Hilarious.
I’d love to buy the guy some beers.

Posted by: Billythesquid at September 11, 2026 01:05 PM (X7Q1F)

238 231 Gayle King had to sit with it a moment as she was profoundly confused that a black man didn't bow down to the liberal tribe, did his job as a juror is supposed to, thought for himself, and stood strong.

I am old enough to remember the Clarence Thomas hearings and the horrible way he was treated by Democrats. Joe Biden being one of the worst.

Scratch a liberal/Democrat - find a racist.
Posted by: Cheri at September 11, 2026 01:03 PM (oiNtH)

Almost like they are chattels, or something.

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 01:05 PM (Gqar8)

239 This is completely off-topic, but Duke's mayo is now available in my AO, and I have acquired some for comparison purposes. We'll see....
Posted by: RedMindBlueState


Once you go Duke's, you never go back.

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 01:05 PM (77rzZ)

240 Thanks for putting me some knowledge Polliwog. The Horde is erudite.
Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 01:00 PM (Gqar

My knowledge is only about half an hour ahead of yours since I had to look the term up.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 11, 2026 01:06 PM (lFFaq)

241 Nurses are licensed to do what doctors tell them to do. Period. They can't prescribe drugs. They can't administer psychiatric care........They can draw blood, insert IV's and inject patients with what the DOCTOR tells them to do

A good nurse often knows more than the doctors do, I've personally seen older nurses gently advise a young doctor. But a bad nurse is worse than no medical care at all.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 01:06 PM (K32Fz)

242
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/09/
05/how-would-you-have-applied-
massachusetts-law-in-the-lindsay-clancy-trial/
Posted by: No Name Today at September 11, 2026 01:01 PM (8mulE)


Again, that's fine. However, if what the newsreader said is true and those AWFL jurors were thinking the trial was to determine whether Clancy was guilty of MURDER of her 3 children or not, they completely misunderstood what they were there for and the mistrial should've been declared at the get go.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 01:06 PM (ccf/V)

243 Some other guys face has been making the rounds of the "holdout juror" around X and it was a middle aged, white guy. Not the cuck shown in the video.

Posted by: Sharpie at September 11, 2026 01:06 PM (iZHgT)

244 I mean... dude, we already know that. What men need is warnings about what women can do to your soul.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 01:04 PM (K32Fz)
-------

We have that warning in Rule #1, but many men do not heed Rule #1.

Posted by: ballistic at September 11, 2026 01:06 PM (oqH4h)

245
Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog

This is amazing. The Left has been trashing this guy all week only to find out that he was the only black person on the jury, getting hounded by bossy white women. Just perfect.

Posted by: ShainS at September 11, 2026 01:06 PM (ZDs4Q)

246 236

Wow. That lady must just be mental. Sure there have been mood swings in my life, but I notice my own irrationality and shut it down. Menstrual cycles are not debilitating mental afflictions.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 11, 2026 01:05 PM (ftFVW)

You mean that you kept your Killing Spee Urges in check?

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 01:06 PM (Gqar8)

247 @RealAmVoice
DISGUSTING: AOC & Mamdani seen LAUGHING together as names of honored dead read at Ground Zero

https://tinyurl.com/32buvane

Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026 01:07 PM (ZxPkt)

248 The Post finally has video of Mandami and AOC yucking it up during the 9/11 ceremony. Disgusting.
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 01:05 PM (lJ0H4)


Because they do not care about those poor souls murdered that day.

"Some people did something......."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 01:07 PM (ccf/V)

249 Will the holdout juror be interviewed?

Posted by: davidt at September 11, 2026 01:07 PM (Q+gd/)

250 The prosecutor in Mass gets unlimited challenges to be approved by the Judge (who remarkably seemed to be a staight shooter)....so I wonder if he actually did his job. The prosecutor, also, gets a limited number of "see yah, wouldn't want to be yah" removals, and I wonder if he actually used those.

Finally, at the next trial I can almost guarantee it will be tried by a female prosecutor.
Posted by: Orson

They don't. I looked it up. Felony murder gives prosecution and defense twelve strikes each plus one more for each alternate juror seated.

Unlimited strikes for cause--that is where one side or the other motions that a particular juror should not be seated. Reasons are incapacity such as extreme age, blind, etc, barred by law like felons or non citizens, bias, or for bias. Usually for bias, the prosecutor is looking for those biased toward the defense and vice versa and the judge gets involved, sometimes even directly questioning the juror.

But a bias strike just because nurses are more liberal is not something a judge is likely to do. It is almost always based on the individual, not their sociology.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 01:07 PM (E4rtv)

251 I can believe that it was intended to replace the shaken finger and grew to a wider context.

I have never seen a wise, Godly, stable woman use them, only angry, bitchy, leftist idiots making insane or hateful points usually in their car.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 01:07 PM (K32Fz)

252 Am I the only one who thinks it odd that it took this long -- almost a week -- for it to be revealed that Juror Number Hero is black?

That seems like something that woulda been revealed in the very first mention of him being a holdout.

Not at all. It took this long because they were doing the guy pressing two buttons thing, "dox" or "he's black so he's a saint".

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 01:07 PM (o3/x/)

253 Nurses and Teachers.

Men, avoid if you know what's good for you.
Used to be honorable professions.

Posted by: Sharpie at September 11, 2026 01:07 PM (KwAVK)

254 Dukes is where it's at.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 01:08 PM (NSrIQ)

255 Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog

This juror now has an extraordinary opportunity to do a media tour accusing the other jurors of racism. Puts the media and the left in an impossible situation. I genuinely don’t know how they’d handle it. Pit the race card directly against the woman card. Make them choose.

Posted by: ShainS at September 11, 2026 01:08 PM (ZDs4Q)

256 Menstrual cycles are not debilitating mental afflictions.
Posted by: She Hobbit

*insert Tim Robinson 'ya sure bout that' meme*

*ducks and runs in zig zag pattern*

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 11, 2026 01:08 PM (YZ0Fo)

257 249 Will the holdout juror be interviewed?
Posted by: davidt

I'd imagine that he is weighing offers and has to figure out that doxxing himself means he will have to live differently afterwards.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 01:08 PM (E4rtv)

258 The Horde is erudite.

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 01:00 PM (Gqar

No. You're erudite!

*looks up erudite*

Oh.

Your assertion leaves me nonplussed. Or plussed. One of those.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 01:08 PM (Riz8t)

259 https://tinyurl.com/2s42d2h8
----
The body language of the woman standing next to Strata is telling...in a bad way.

Posted by: lin-duh at September 11, 2026 01:08 PM (9U6Wl)

260 We have that warning in Rule #1, but many men do not heed Rule #1.

Posted by: ballistic at September 11, 2026 01:06 PM (oqH4h)

Rule zero that I can share with my boys at some point is bros before hos.

At some point, they'll get the truth about Rule #1.

I suspect that that wife will eye roll then, too. But the latest ladies grabbing the news are not putting up a good game.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 01:08 PM (dK+Kv)

261 Gayle King kind of admitted she has brain damage. If you have a problem understanding the juror might be a black man you are screwed up

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 11, 2026 01:08 PM (N2HNb)

262 Because they do not care about those poor souls murdered that day.

"Some people did something......."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck

Mamdani cares about his 20 buddies.

Posted by: BruceWayne at September 11, 2026 01:08 PM (YZ0Fo)

263 Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog

The other jurors have spent all week calling the lone male holdout an arrogant, uncooperative dummy who didn’t understand the law or follow the rules. Now we come to find out that they were talking about the only black guy in the room this whole time. Leftists have accidentally sided with 11 white bullies against a black man who stood up to them. Just an absolutely amazing twist. You couldn’t script it any better.

Posted by: ShainS at September 11, 2026 01:09 PM (ZDs4Q)

264 Terry Strada (widow of Tom Strada) called out every traitor to this country. Her husband would be so proud of her.

https://tinyurl.com/2s42d2h8
Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 12:52 PM (kX27y)
=====
I saw this live and commented on the MR

It was TEH AWESOME so glad the shrub was there to be humiliated in person.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 01:09 PM (RIvkX)

265 Wow. That lady must just be mental. Sure there have been mood swings in my life, but I notice my own irrationality and shut it down. Menstrual cycles are not debilitating mental afflictions.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 11, 2026 01:05 PM (ftFVW)

You mean that you kept your Killing Spee Urges in check?
Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 01:06 PM (Gqar

The only time I wanted to kill someone in my Family was my husband when I was in labor LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at September 11, 2026 01:09 PM (+gK6I)

266 ( Thinks about saying something critical of Duke’s mayonnaise, decides not to start the Mayonnaise War ).

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 01:09 PM (Gqar8)

267 You mean that you kept your Killing Spee Urges in check?
Posted by: tubal

Never had those urges. Maybe I'm just weird for a wymyns.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 11, 2026 01:09 PM (ftFVW)

268 A good nurse often knows more than the doctors do, I've personally seen older nurses gently advise a young doctor. But a bad nurse is worse than no medical care at all.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 01:06 PM (K32Fz)


With age comes experience. With experience comes knowledge.

They're still not considered an expert witness in anything other than what they physically see at the time of a crime should they be a witness.

These ladies on that jury were COMPLETELY out of line in their actions, browbeating and overall disgust from the outcome.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 01:09 PM (ccf/V)

269 Well, that explains why these white liberal women thought it was their job to educate him.
White liberal women think of black people as children who need their guidance to make good decisions.

Posted by: 29Victor at September 11, 2026 01:09 PM (0MjtC)

270 Will the holdout juror be interviewed?
Posted by: davidt

Interview isn't the word. More like inquisition.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 01:09 PM (NSrIQ)

271 Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog

Not only have the other jurors spent a week publicly insulting the lone black man, but remember that they also tried to have him physically removed from the jury. AND the defense attorney filed a legal motion accusing him of bigotry. This is precisely the kind of scenario that the Left has fantasized about for years. Now it finally happens but they accidentally sided with the white people. Phenomenal.

Posted by: ShainS at September 11, 2026 01:10 PM (ZDs4Q)

272 Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog

This juror now has an extraordinary opportunity to do a media tour accusing the other jurors of racism. Puts the media and the left in an impossible situation. I genuinely don’t know how they’d handle it. Pit the race card directly against the woman card. Make them choose.
Posted by: ShainS

===

Considering what this guy went through, damn straight if I were him I'd be calling this old cracker bitches bigots.

Ryan Long btw has a funny bit about what the guy went through on YouTube shorts.

Posted by: Sharpie at September 11, 2026 01:10 PM (KwAVK)

273 Oh, and nothing, NOTHING, upsets white liberal women more than black people who think for themselves.

Posted by: 29Victor at September 11, 2026 01:10 PM (0MjtC)

274 In a way this hit at a very good time, helping remind normal, sane people how extreme and crazy the left is when they were inclined to otherwise forget.

"I mean, I want gas prices to be lower, and I don't like Trump invading Iran but... damn we cannot let these people back in power"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 01:10 PM (K32Fz)

275 Matt Walsh
@MattWalshBlog

This juror now has an extraordinary opportunity to do a media tour accusing the other jurors of racism. Puts the media and the left in an impossible situation. I genuinely don’t know how they’d handle it. Pit the race card directly against the woman card. Make them choose.

Posted by: ShainS at September 11, 2026 01:08 PM (ZDs4Q)

Dude is not a sock puppet. Let him tell it like he sees it. No urging of race card is necessary. Matt Walsh is such a putz.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 01:10 PM (dK+Kv)

276 265 Wow. That lady must just be mental. Sure there have been mood swings in my life, but I notice my own irrationality and shut it down. Menstrual cycles are not debilitating mental afflictions.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 11, 2026 01:05 PM (ftFVW)

You mean that you kept your Killing Spee Urges in check?
Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 01:06 PM (Gqar

The only time I wanted to kill someone in my Family was my husband when I was in labor LOL
Posted by: It's me donna at September 11, 2026 01:09 PM (+gK6I)

SEE WHAT YOU DID????

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 01:10 PM (Gqar8)

277 I've been in the pool multiple times, but never called. It's almost as if they don't want fact-driven science types on the jury. Almost.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Engineers and scientists are seldom on juries for that reason and because they sometimes have problems with inferential evidence.
Posted by: whig
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Heh. Having, as an engineer, delivered *days* of deposition, I can tell you that lawyers have an even bigger problem. They seldom understand what is actually being discussed...they are simply trying to build a case. I have occasionally evoked laughter and (believe it or not) high-fives from my side's attorneys when pointing out the folly of the oppositions questions.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 01:11 PM (XeU6L)

278 IF: Black defendant and white holdout juror insisting guilty...

Posted by: davidt at September 11, 2026 01:11 PM (Q+gd/)

279 Sad story in the local newspaper -

A 31 years old woman pleads to manslaughter in OD death of her infant.

Early 2022, locally living, she contacted emergency responders for her baby. He was found unresponsive. Reportedly, he was unsettled in the days & nights before, and having respiratory issues. An autopsy listed cause of death undetermined.

With her baby's death, her life became more unanchored. May 22, 2025, she called 911 wishing to provide more information & a statement on the death of her son. She had been using heroin prior, found a bag in the bed sheets she shared with the child & thought he may have placed it in his mouth. A toxicology screen of the child was performed & confirmed fentanyl was in his system.

She was charged with third-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, endangering the welfare of children, endangering another person, possession of an instrument of crime, possession of a controlled substance and use of drug paraphernalia.

In court it was revealed she used heroin & had also been diagnosed with schizoaffective effective disorder since age 15.

41 to 96 months in state prison +. She wants to take advantage of prison training programs.

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 01:11 PM (NFX2v)

280 https://tinyurl.com/2s42d2h8
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The body language of the woman standing next to Strata is telling...in a bad way.
Posted by: lin-duh at September 11, 2026 01:08 PM (9U6Wl)


She didn't know what to do.......she looks off and asks "should I stop her?"

BALLS on that woman for doing that......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 01:12 PM (ccf/V)

281 just fyi I've been on juries. one civil one criminal. the criminal one was a murder trial.

fwiw

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 01:12 PM (j+aD2)

282 248 The Post finally has video of Mandami and AOC yucking it up during the 9/11 ceremony. Disgusting.
Posted by: Tuna at September 11, 2026 01:05 PM (lJ0H4)

I was watching the ceremony on Newsmax and happened to see it in real time. It was a quick camera shot but made me sick to my stomach. I was hoping some outlet would catch it.

Posted by: TxAnn at September 11, 2026 01:12 PM (SjAWL)

283 This person's BLACK Membership Card must be revoked immediately ............

Posted by: Jackson K. at September 11, 2026 01:12 PM (o/m3N)

284 Concerning the Oprah bit, if Planned Parenthood has shown us anything, it's that white liberal women love few things more than seeing black women kill their own children.

Posted by: 29Victor at September 11, 2026 01:12 PM (0MjtC)

285 And I mean the woman giving the speech.

It needed to be said.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 01:12 PM (ccf/V)

286 This juror now has an extraordinary opportunity to do a media tour accusing the other jurors of racism. Puts the media and the left in an impossible situation

"Local story"
"Who? never heard of him"
"We can't fit that in tonight"
"Already covered that for 10 seconds in passing"
"Old story, we've moved on"
--The media

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 01:12 PM (K32Fz)

287 You mean that you kept your Killing Spee Urges in check?

She probably has to plot out her feelings so as to know when there's going to be emotional trouble. A Graph Spee, if you will.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 01:12 PM (Riz8t)

288 Duke's is the best mayo for everything except deli sandwiches. Do not make an Italian sub with Duke's and expect it to taste right. You need the mayo that comes in a 5-gallon bucket off the back of the Sysco truck for that.

Posted by: ballistic at September 11, 2026 01:12 PM (oqH4h)

289
Your assertion leaves me nonplussed. Or plussed. One of those.
Posted by: Archimedes

Please complete this Standard Gruntlement Assessment

Posted by: Psycoligist Miklos does charge for this at September 11, 2026 01:13 PM (4RYRd)

290 Will the holdout juror be interviewed?

Probably. The monster must be fed and it will hound you. His best bet though is to resist for a week or so and let "events" move the talk somewhere else.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 11, 2026 01:13 PM (n5tGW)

291 "With age comes experience. With experience comes knowledge."

With age comes crankiness. With crankiness comes hey GTFO my lawn.

Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 11, 2026 01:13 PM (Fv808)

292 just fyi I've been on juries. one civil one criminal. the criminal one was a murder trial.

fwiw
Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 01:12 PM (j+aD2)


And did you NURSEsplain the rest of the jury because you were an expert and they should listen to you instead of the witnesses?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 01:13 PM (ccf/V)

293 Menstrual cycles are not debilitating mental afflictions
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American Indian tribes banished females during "that time", into their own little conclave. Indigenous Ways of Knowledge!

Why can't we all be more like the Noble American Indian?

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 01:13 PM (2dVdu)

294 Honestly asking here because i'm not a lawyer, was the case just about mental competence? I didn't think juries decided those types of calls.

I would think every single crime would just have that thrown against the wall to see if it stuck and get out of crime X.

I would easily wager most people in prison serving time are some level of insane.

Posted by: Sharpie at September 11, 2026 01:13 PM (KwAVK)

295 Again, that's fine. However, if what the newsreader said is true and those AWFL jurors were thinking the trial was to determine whether Clancy was guilty of MURDER of her 3 children or not, they completely misunderstood what they were there for and the mistrial should've been declared at the get go.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 01:06 PM (ccf/V)

Even with a confession, determining if she did it is still a box that needs to be checked off. They *have* to do it, even if it is only going through the motions.

Posted by: No Name Today at September 11, 2026 01:13 PM (8mulE)

296
With age comes crankiness. With crankiness comes hey GTFO my lawn.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at September 11, 2026 01:13 PM


*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 01:13 PM (ccf/V)

297 Menstrual cycles are not debilitating mental afflictions.
Posted by: She Hobbit

*insert Tim Robinson 'ya sure bout that' meme*

*ducks and runs in zig zag pattern*
Posted by: BruceWayne
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You better run...fast, she knows where you live!!!🤣😂

Posted by: lin-duh at September 11, 2026 01:13 PM (9U6Wl)

298 OT/ Gas went up 20 cents overnight... $5.99... Diesel is $8.19

Posted by: It's me donna at September 11, 2026 01:13 PM (+gK6I)

299 261 Gayle King kind of admitted she has brain damage. If you have a problem understanding the juror might be a black man you are screwed up
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Not at all. She was doing quite advanced oppression equations in her head to figure out how to handle a difficult question involving white women oppressing a Black man who was oppression a mentally ill white women. This is why we need PhDs in gender and racial studies, people.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 11, 2026 01:14 PM (t19vo)

300 Leftists have accidentally sided with 11 white bullies against a black man who stood up to them. Just an absolutely amazing twist. You couldn’t script it any better.
Posted by: ShainS at September 11, 2026 01:09 PM (ZDs4Q)

To Kill A Mockingbird 2: A Brutha's AWFL Boogaloo...

Posted by: Atticus Finch at September 11, 2026 01:14 PM (cCXR+)

301 Bottom pic:
Look, it's Gary Busey and Barbara Boxer!

Posted by: wth at September 11, 2026 01:14 PM (UjdFS)

302 These ladies on that jury were COMPLETELY out of line in their actions, browbeating and overall disgust from the outcome.

Oh yeah, they were hilariously attempting to do what they accused him of: bringing new evidence into the discussion (which the "hero" juror in 12 Angry Men did, honestly).

This story is how 12 Angry Men works out in real life: people don't tend to change their minds.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 01:14 PM (K32Fz)

303 This person's BLACK Membership Card must be revoked immediately ............
Posted by: Jackson K

I do not like this, Sam I am
I do not like it, Black I am

Posted by: The Rev. Jesse Jackson at September 11, 2026 01:15 PM (4RYRd)

304 Racist whores of satan.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at September 11, 2026 01:15 PM (xkrbm)

305 There is another murderess in Massachusetts. Her name is Janette Macausland. She strangled her two children back in April and "tried" to kill herself but it was just so hard to do. She then drove 140 miles to her mom's house in Vermont and confessed to the murders. She is now petitioning the judge to dismiss her case and be set free. This is prompting a debate over whether we want to criminalize mental illness.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 11, 2026 01:15 PM (ibDUx)

306 > Dukes is where it's at.

I haven't tried it. I've been using Kewpie for a while now and I like it a lot.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 11, 2026 01:15 PM (mkw2N)

307 ----
You better run...fast, she knows where you live!!!🤣😂
Posted by: lin-duh at September 11, 2026 01:13 PM (9U6Wl)


And will have access to many a weapon at the MoMe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 01:15 PM (ccf/V)

308 298 OT/ Gas went up 20 cents overnight... $5.99... Diesel is $8.19
Posted by: It's me donna at September 11, 2026 01:13 PM (+gK6I)

Never let a crisis go to waste = Profits!!!!

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 01:15 PM (Gqar8)

309
This is completely off-topic, but Duke's mayo is now available in my AO, and I have acquired some for comparison purposes. We'll see....
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Duke's is good, but it's second place to Kewpie.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 11, 2026 01:16 PM (iJfKG)

310 Matt Walsh is such a putz.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 01:10 PM (dK+Kv)
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That dude and Michael Knowles love the sound of their own voices more than anyone in conservative media. I can't stand either one of them.

Posted by: ballistic at September 11, 2026 01:16 PM (oqH4h)

311 It gives me some pause to learn he was black considering how many more jurors are jumping to talk shit about him now, and how quickly they did so.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 11, 2026 12:55 PM (t19vo)

Go back to sleep, it will all make sense with the morning amnesia.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 01:16 PM (ftCfU)

312 220 I haven't seen anyone questioning whether the prosecutor on this case actually applied himself in juror selection process. In Mass. the prosecutor, obviously, has the opportunity to question potential jurors (within reason). And, let's face it. It's pretty easy to pick out the bias on the jurors we've seen so far.

The prosecutor in Mass gets unlimited challenges to be approved by the Judge (who remarkably seemed to be a staight shooter)....so I wonder if he actually did his job. The prosecutor, also, gets a limited number of "see yah, wouldn't want to be yah" removals, and I wonder if he actually used those.

Finally, at the next trial I can almost guarantee it will be tried by a female prosecutor.

Posted by: Orson at September 11, 2026 01:01 PM (dIske)


If the District Attorney, Mr. Cruz, wants to have one chance in a million of being re-elected, he will decline to re-try Clancy. Such is life in the United States of Karens and AWFLs.

Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 01:16 PM (5rh/l)

313 259 https://tinyurl.com/2s42d2h8
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The body language of the woman standing next to Strata is telling...in a bad way.
Posted by: lin-duh at September 11, 2026 01:08 PM (9U6Wl)

Yeah, she's giving me a Handmaiden vibe....

Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 01:16 PM (kX27y)

314 Duke's is the best mayo for everything
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Ah. A fellow traveler.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 01:16 PM (XeU6L)

315 And social media/infotainment is encouraging evilness instead of doing good.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:35 PM (E4rtv)

++++++++

It's almost as if half of our society (The West in general and America in particular) celebrates, subsidizes, and rewards immoral vice & evil incarnate -- and conversely condemns, disincentivizes, and punishes moral virtue and good ... or something.

Almost.

Posted by: ShainS at September 11, 2026 01:16 PM (ZDs4Q)

316 And did you NURSEsplain the rest of the jury because you were an expert and they should listen to you instead of the witnesses?


lol I for sure did not

these were both in Philadelphia when I lived in town

the murder trial went long. in the end I did push a little, I felt the 1st degree charge was too rough. I was one of two white people on that jury. let me tell you those older people wanted the kid to get first degree!

I didn't push too hard but got a younger guy on my side and we got it down to manslaughter (it's a long story but it truly was an accident I think and the kid immediately turned himself in. the deceased was his friend)

a few months later the defendant and his mom saw me near City Hall and gave me a huge hug. he promised he was doing his best. I kinda hope he did!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 01:16 PM (j+aD2)

317 American Indian tribes banished females during "that time", into their own little conclave. Indigenous Ways of Knowledge!

Interestingly, the Mosaic Laws also isolated women during their period. I am not endorsing this, but it is noteworthy that ancient cultures seemed to understand women need a time apart from people sometimes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 01:16 PM (K32Fz)

318 249 Will the holdout juror be interviewed?

Posted by: davidt at September 11, 2026 01:07 PM (Q+gd/)

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Probably not. The media picked sides. He is on the opposite side and will not be heard.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 11, 2026 01:16 PM (9FfUF)

319 The justice system has been turned into a complete virtue signaling racial-gender hierarchy anyhow, so it’s perfect that this Two-Red Button Quandry the jurors have put themselves in is happening in Massholechusetts.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 11, 2026 01:17 PM (6ydKt)

320
Even with a confession, determining if she did it is still a box that needs to be checked off. They *have* to do it, even if it is only going through the motions.
Posted by: No Name Today at September 11, 2026 01:13 PM (8mulE)


But that's NOT what this trial was for. They already have her guilt of murder and were attempting to determine whether she was mentally responsible.

The jury had no f*cking clue what they were there for, other than the one HERO that stood strong.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 01:17 PM (ccf/V)

321 So are we going to do the usual conservative thing and say, "Alas for my beloved country!" and slink off with our tail between our legs?

Or are we going to force these evil pieces of shit to cease their evil shit, or else cease breathing?

Posted by: Ken at September 11, 2026 01:17 PM (aVf49)

322 This is prompting a debate over whether we want to criminalize mental illness.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 11, 2026 01:15 PM (ibDUx)

And if you know the Left you know exactly where that "debate" leads.

Express a non commie opinion? You're diagnosed as mentally ill and get put away...

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 01:18 PM (ftCfU)

323 I betcha they SO want to doxx this guy.

But about 80 million Americans will buy him a beer and say "Awesome!". Can't have that.

What to do, what to do.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 01:18 PM (2dVdu)

324 Ryan Long btw has a...

Posted by: Sharpie at September 11, 2026 01:10 PM (KwAVK)

I read that as Ryan Long Bow.

Posted by: Reforger at September 11, 2026 01:18 PM (F9nWj)

325 Israeli Minister @AmichaiChikli’s message to the People of Britain:

“To the British people, let me be clear: we in Israel love you. And we are not remotely rattled by sanctions from your Foreign Secretary, whose name escapes me.

You have a weak left-wing government for now. But we have faith in our friends among the British public, those who still prize common sense.

Better days will come. We will stand together against the globalists and Islamists who seek to impose Sharia law on you.

And those days are coming soon. 🇮🇱🇬🇧”
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Why?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 11, 2026 01:18 PM (RIvkX)

326 He ain't black.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 01:18 PM (ftCfU)

327 So are we going to do the usual conservative thing and say, "Alas for my beloved country!" and slink off with our tail between our legs?

Or are we going to force these evil pieces of shit to cease their evil shit, or else cease breathing?


Ooooh, it's another ultrabutch keyboard kommando! How's tricks, Rambo?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 01:18 PM (Riz8t)

328
a few months later the defendant and his mom saw me near City Hall and gave me a huge hug. he promised he was doing his best. I kinda hope he did!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at September 11, 2026 01:16 PM (j+aD2)


Good for you. That's a good story.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 01:18 PM (ccf/V)

329 323 I betcha they SO want to doxx this guy.

But about 80 million Americans will buy him a beer and say "Awesome!". Can't have that.

What to do, what to do.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 01:18 PM (2dVdu)

Winston Smith recommends a Memory Hole.

Posted by: tubal at September 11, 2026 01:19 PM (Gqar8)

330 I guarantee that the female jurors sympathized with Lindsay Clancy because they themselves have 4-5 unhinged, psychotic episodes each year. They are like, that could be me up there.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 11, 2026 01:19 PM (9FfUF)

331 Nood!

Posted by: Nazdar at September 11, 2026 01:19 PM (NcvvS)

332 And will have access to many a weapon at the MoMe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Like I don't at home, pfft.

Besides, he knows I laughed.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 11, 2026 01:19 PM (ftFVW)

333 Even with a confession, determining if she did it is still a box that needs to be checked off. They *have* to do it, even if it is only going through the motions.
Posted by: No Name Today at September 11, 2026 01:13 PM (8mulE)

Not if she pleads guilty. But I'm not a lawyer, what do I know?

Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 01:19 PM (5rh/l)

334 I, too, partake in the Duke’s mayo.

It is a fine brotherhood who do.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 11, 2026 01:20 PM (6ydKt)

335 253 Nurses and Teachers.

Men, avoid if you know what's good for you.
Used to be honorable professions.
Posted by: Sharpie

Please stop. The problem is not nurses or teachers or women per se but AWFLs and their cohorts of color. Two out the three male jurors were just fine and dandy with the murders and apparently are not teachers nor nurses.

Our issues stem from pervasive media propaganda designed to destroy Christian faith (not Talafreako's version), destroy the family, and destroy morality. This has permeated our schools, our health professionals, and society in general.

Evil, like rust, never sleeps.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 01:20 PM (E4rtv)

336 This is prompting a debate over whether we want to criminalize mental illness.

It is a dangerous step to take, but I think as a society we've strayed too far away from it. We need to make it hard and limited to throw someone in an asylum against their will, but it has to be an option. And we need to be willing to find people guilty of things that they may not understand or have the mental capacity to defend.

I have never in my life yet heard a good defense for the "guilty but insane so we'll put them in a doctor's care" or the "we cannot try them, they are too crazy" argument like Iryna's killer. Over and over.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 01:20 PM (K32Fz)

337 This is prompting a debate over whether we want to criminalize mental illness.

I don't care if it's criminalized or not, but letting people free on the streets because they have it is a really stupid idea.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 01:20 PM (o3/x/)

338 I didn't mean to bash all nurses. I was more bashing the people who issue the licenses and think they are experts because they issue licenses to "experts". I'm just close to the licensing side of the health/ mental healthcare side of things and I see some crazy things.

Posted by: annon at September 11, 2026 01:20 PM (9U6Wl)

339 3 days til we leave Massahellhole for good. Those female jurors? They are e v e r y w h e r e here.

Posted by: Florida Bound at September 11, 2026 01:20 PM (qUkBO)

340 Will the holdout juror be interviewed?

Posted by: davidt

I'd imagine that he is weighing offers and has to figure out that doxxing himself means he will have to live differently afterwards.

----------------

Trump should hire him as an Assistant Attorney General and Karen Czar -- providing him and his family with Secret Cervix protection. Oh, wait ... belay that idea.

Posted by: ShainS at September 11, 2026 01:21 PM (ZDs4Q)

341 Interestingly, the Mosaic Laws also isolated women during their period. I am not endorsing this, but it is noteworthy that ancient cultures seemed to understand women need a time apart from people sometimes.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

What do mosaics have to do with menstruation?

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 01:21 PM (77rzZ)

342 I hope he's got a clean private life because he's now got a legion of white media heroes ready to slander him to Kingdom Come.

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 01:21 PM (ftCfU)

343 In the one criminal trial for which I was a juror, I was surprised by members applying their own social values to the case, rather than assessing the known facts. There were no shouting matches, but I know that I managed to get them (some) to focus on the evidence and testimony.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 01:21 PM (XeU6L)

344 I guarantee that the female jurors sympathized with Lindsay Clancy because they themselves have 4-5 unhinged, psychotic episodes each year. They are like, that could be me up there.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 11, 2026 01:19 PM (9FfUF)

I think they just want power over life and death without consequence

Posted by: ... at September 11, 2026 01:22 PM (ftCfU)

345 Hellman's is the One True Mayonnaise.

The others: heresy.

Posted by: Don Black at September 11, 2026 01:22 PM (ZxPkt)

346 I hope he's got a clean private life because he's now got a legion of white media heroes ready to slander him to Kingdom Come.

CNN will probably deploy Don LeMon so they're free of race allegations. Hell, the entire MFM probably is rushing to have black reporters do it.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 01:22 PM (o3/x/)

347 Hellman's is the One True Mayonnaise.

*fistbump*

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 01:23 PM (o3/x/)

348 They desperately wanted this man to be a white, MAGA, red hat wearing Trumpster! Added bonus if he looked like a big muscle bound wrestler who loves country music and drives a Ford F-150.

Posted by: Cheri at September 11, 2026 01:23 PM (oiNtH)

349 Nick Dargie supposedly is in the military.

President Trump, as the Commander in Chief, needs to end this coward's military career NOW. And see to it that he never ever gets any veterans' benefits.

Posted by: Ken at September 11, 2026 01:23 PM (aVf49)

350 She probably has to plot out her feelings so as to know when there's going to be emotional trouble. A Graph Spee, if you will.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 01:12 PM (Riz8t)

I think I still have a 16 mm newsreel film of the sinking of the Graf Spee. It was scuttled by its Captain, who went down with the ship.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 01:23 PM (1z8ji)

351 Room full of women on the Oprah show starts cheering after a doctor says that black female child murderers need to be supported too, not just the white child murderers like Lindsay Clancy.

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We need to start treating all child murderers the same, not just the white women, but the black women and the black men and the white men and the asians and the hispanics... They should ALL be thrown off a fucking cliff, live on pay-per-view

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 11, 2026 01:25 PM (9FfUF)

352 Women are expected for 40 years of their life to have crazy hormonal swings once a month and walk around like everything is fine in their brains and their bodies and to keep it all to themselves.

Yes, that is correct. Because civilized behavior requires that you don't let your chemical impulses rule your actions.

No woman I know ever let her daughters use hormones as an excuse for bad behavior.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 11, 2026 01:26 PM (vJrRc)

353 I bought a suped up El Camino...it merely sexually harasses the Earth a bit.

Posted by: connected and litigious at September 11, 2026 01:27 PM (cS1cw)

354 She probably has to plot out her feelings so as to know when there's going to be emotional trouble. A Graph Spee, if you will.
Posted by: Archimedes

I'd prefer to scuttle your comment, Sir.

Posted by: Captain Hans Langdorff at September 11, 2026 01:27 PM (Fn+3X)

355 But that's NOT what this trial was for. They already have her guilt of murder and were attempting to determine whether she was mentally responsible.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 01:17 PM (ccf/V)

No, they did not already have her guilty of murder. That is part of the jury's job. The instructions from the judge would have included a list of things that they had to consider and one of them definitely would have been what constitutes the legal definition of murder in that state and whether or not she met it.

That determination is NOT something the judge would have done for them That is what a jury is for.

Posted by: No Name Today at September 11, 2026 01:28 PM (8mulE)

356 327: someone needs to say what needs to be said. I don't like being constantly on edge because some random piece of shit might figure out, based on my clean cut looks, that I'm a Republican and thus uncool and fair game for a sneak attack. At some point we need to stop whining and take action against these cancers.

Posted by: Ken at September 11, 2026 01:28 PM (aVf49)

357 348 They desperately wanted this man to be a white, MAGA, red hat wearing Trumpster! Added bonus if he looked like a big muscle bound wrestler who loves country music and drives a Ford F-150.

Posted by: Cheri at September 11, 2026 01:23 PM (oiNtH)


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That would be just fine with me. If they want to tie Trump and his supporters with sanity, then so be it.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 11, 2026 01:28 PM (9FfUF)

358 Interestingly, the Mosaic Laws also isolated women during their period. I am not endorsing this, but it is noteworthy that ancient cultures seemed to understand women need a time apart from people sometimes.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

They at least were equal opportunity in who got to ritually impure. Men got kicked out of camp for "nocturnal emissions" too, IIRC.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 11, 2026 01:28 PM (vJrRc)

359 I saw Ritually Impure open for It's A Beautiful Day at the Fillmore in '69.

Posted by: Musikologist at September 11, 2026 01:32 PM (Fn+3X)

360 In the end, it makes perfect sense.

A White guy holding up against that badgering? Ha.
How's the home life gonna be?

Posted by: L - No nic... at September 11, 2026 01:32 PM (NFX2v)

361 209
Engineers and scientists are seldom on juries for that reason and because they sometimes have problems with inferential evidence.

Heard much the same in the past and recently from colleagues - was about to test that theory this past week - called in to report for the first time - had a couple questions the judge asked I expected to have to respond to (Close relative in law enforcement? Yes - brother is an evidence technician. Close relative convicted of a crime? Yes - other brother did some time, stole a vehicle, missed a parole check-in) - if the former wouldn't have caused a strike, being an engineer/analyst at a major UARC probably would've done it. Filled the jury and alts before getting to my number, didn't have to go back all week.

Posted by: MD Mike at September 11, 2026 01:36 PM (cJWvF)

362 They at least were equal opportunity in who got to ritually impure. Men got kicked out of camp for "nocturnal emissions" too, IIRC.

Imagine how embarrassing that was for teen boys.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 01:53 PM (K32Fz)

363 What do mosaics have to do with menstruation?

Japanese censorship laws require it

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 11, 2026 01:59 PM (K32Fz)

364 If a meteor hit that oprah crowd there would be an avalanche experiencing a population explosion of Awfls in satan's den.


Posted by: jonnybiface at September 11, 2026 02:17 PM (ufXiF)

365 Did the commie, racist New York Times actually call the one hold out male juror a 'White Black man'?

The faux 'journalist' might have been eating one of those Jewish NYC White Black cookies while writing that crap.

Posted by: John at September 11, 2026 02:18 PM (9NUKl)

366 I don't think I have ever seen me a White Black man other than on the original Star Trek season 3, episode 15, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield". Or was that a Black White man?

Posted by: John at September 11, 2026 02:26 PM (9NUKl)

367 I love this, Ace and Morons.

The hysteria will now die down a notch because of his skin color.

Okra's gf was stunned, so I read. She just waved her racist flag.

Blacks (the normal kind...and there are some) typically don't like abortion or gheys. I think the murder of three children counts here, too.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 11, 2026 02:35 PM (hzuYO)

368 Willowed from the last thread, this NYC firefighter speaks for me......went off on a pro Palestinian dressed in a freaking Elmo costume:


https://tinyurl.com/yrpacj5d

Posted by: beckster at September 11, 2026 02:39 PM (kX27y)

369 I rewatched "Rashoman" last night and the parallels between it and the Clancy trial are there. In the film, four people (actually one and a medium) are witnesses to a rape and murder, and all tell a different story. In this Clancy thing, we have the jurors as witnesses to the entire process of courtroom "justice" and followed by deliberations in which they participated. The film shows the witnesses lying to feed their egos, protect their pride, and hide their shame. The jurors lied to themselves long ago, and fed their egos by doing their "sit downs" with sympathetic reporters.

Posted by: M. Gaga at September 11, 2026 03:03 PM (3tlbi)

370 This is all just an attempt to move the Overton Window to allow murder of children under a certain age. I mean, we already have some states that allow abortion (under "mental distress" of the mother) up until the baby pops out...now they want to do away with that last exception...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 11, 2026 03:12 PM (l3cgK)

371 Someone, anyone, needs to tell these "women" to pity the majority of aborted babies who are black.

Because most abortion clinics were built to service blacks.

May Kermit Gosnell be burning in hell.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 11, 2026 03:12 PM (hzuYO)

372 Read a story the other day, paraphrased, of someone asking a Clancy defender, "What if she said the n word?"

The person paused and said, well, that's different.

N word trumps 3 strangled children.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 11, 2026 03:16 PM (hzuYO)

373 So they basically doxxed the Black guy. Totally F'ed up in every way.

Posted by: Sick of the Shit at September 11, 2026 05:47 PM (UvdhP)

THE MORNING RANT: EV Owners and Lessors Have a Problem - Heavily Depreciated EVs that Dealerships Won’t Take Off Their Hands at Any Price

EV Trade In Value of Zero.png

The failed “EV Transition” has led to a widespread suspension of electric vehicle manufacturing in the United States. Ford has discontinued its flagship F150 Conflagration Lightning, and it also mothballed an all-new plant that was intended to manufacture that unwanted electric pickup. Volkswagen suspended production of its only American-built electric offering, and GM is cancelling or postponing most of its electric offerings too.

But the nightmare isn’t over yet. There is still a great financial reckoning to come, due to all the lithium-ion albatrosses pushed on consumers over the past few years. Those who financed the purchase of their new electric vehicle will likely be woefully “upside down” when it comes trade-in time, because they’ll owe much more to the finance company than a dealer will offer for it in trade. There’s a good chance a dealer will not make a trade-in offer on an EV at any price. For those EV customers who were put in leases, the manufacturers’ finance companies are about to take a bath when those vehicles go to auction and don’t bring anywhere near the amount of the contracted lease-end residual value.

Whether the original owner of the EV is an individual or a leasing company, they will likely face a financial bloodletting trying to make the car go away. Horror stories are mounting.

Because Audi dealers are struggling to sell their new “e-tron GT” electric vehicles - despite heavy manufacturer incentives and discounting - those dealers have little interest in purchasing used e-tron GTs that are coming off lease, and certainly not for the original lease-end value. So, Audi is offering to pay the current drivers $10,000 to stay in the leased car they’re currently driving, because sending the car to auction would result in a much larger loss.

“Audi Is Paying Lessees $10,000 To Keep the EVs They Already Have” [Car Scoops – 2/26/226]

A recent Audi BEV Lessee Buyout Option Incentive sent to dealerships on September 1, reveals that current e-tron GT lessees are being offered a $10,000 discount to purchase their vehicle at the end of the lease term.

Dealers would be paid a small stipend for handling the paperwork, but Audi loses out on the sale of a new vehicle. When manufacturers offer leasing specials, the intent is for a customer to surrender the vehicle at lease-end to the originating dealership, at which time he is both car-less and in the perfect place to buy a replacement vehicle from the same manufacturer. Instead, Audi is forgoing a vehicle sale and paying a potential repeat customer not to buy a new car.

Meanwhile...

“Porsche Taycan Owner Discovers the Brutal Reality of EV Depreciation: ‘I’m Left With a Car That’s Worthless’” [Yahoo Autos – 7/17/2026]

Lee Davey bought a new Porsche Taycan EV two years ago, paying more than $160,000. There is such a glut of unwanted used EVs that the dealer he bought it from will not take the electric Taycan back in trade at any price:

Ironically, the Porsche dealership he bought it from valued the Taycan at roughly $54,000 but still refused to buy it back, saying it was already overstocked with older Taycan models. Davey said this in the video: “I’m basically left with a car that’s worthless. Even the dealership does not want this car back.”

The financing arms of auto manufacturers are also sitting on a portfolio of soon-to-mature EV leases with a value not much greater than “worthless.” As I have been documenting, legacy automakers have lost tens of billions of dollars on their failed effort to become mass market EV manufacturers. Their problem is that there never was a mass market for EVs, nor could government regulators compel it into being. So, despite all the EV losses already booked, more massive losses are looming for the industry.

Per Experian, just about half (46%) of EVs sold in the United States in 2024 were leased. The good news for those customers is that as their leases mature, they can simply surrender the EV and go get another new car. The bad news for the manufacturers is that they will have to somehow find buyers for the impending glut of off-lease EVs. The supply and demand math will worsen the situation. There is already little demand from dealers for used EVs, and when this wave hits, the already awful auction price for used EVs will plummet even further:

“800,000 EVs Are About to Hit the Used Market; Falling resale values on returning lease vehicles may drive massive industry losses by 2028”

Leasing played a major role in boosting EV adoption in the United States over the past few years. Incentives, especially federal tax credits that applied more broadly to leased vehicles than purchases, helped to lower monthly outlays and drove car shoppers toward short-term leases. Now, those two- and three-year leases are beginning to expire, sending a wave of used EVs back into the market.

A three-year-old EV retained about 40 percent of its original value at auction by the end of 2025. Compare that to early 2022 when comparable vehicles held roughly 90 percent of their value, says Cox Automotive. Analysts say that difference could translate into losses of around $10,000 per vehicle on average, adding up to as much as $8 billion across the industry by 2028.

Legacy auto manufacturers lost money on the front-end when customers bought and leased their electric vehicle offerings, and now they’re looking at losing another $10,000 or so per unit when the customer’s EV lease matures. The capital of these auto companies is not unlimited. They cannot absorb these losses indefinitely, and there is no path to profitability with EVs. They would be wise to take their final financial hits on these off-lease EVs and then return to doing what they know how to do profitably – manufacture and sell gasoline-powered vehicles.

*****

Other Stuff I’m Writing About

On a related topic, my latest piece at the The American Spectator has been published. “Volkswagen’s Electric Suicide Pact; Caught in an EV-induced doom loop, Volkswagen continues to invest in new EV boondoggles” discusses the existential crisis at Volkswagen thanks to its catastrophic EV commitment, and how with its future at stake, Volkswagen continues to invest in new EV boondoggles – even here in the states.

Unbowed by its EV failure in North America, VW continues to plow its precious capital into other U.S. electric boondoggles. Rivian is an EV startup company that planned to sell hundreds of thousands of units per year — its business plan depended on it. Instead, Rivian is struggling to sell a fraction of that volume, and it has lost more than $24 billion since going public less than 5 years ago. Inexplicably, Volkswagen has given Rivian a $6 billion lifeline, including $1 billion just a few months ago, while at the very same time VW was weighing which of its own models to cut and what plants to close.

Even more preposterous is the fact that Volkswagen is building yet another all-new American plant to build yet another all-new EV, a pickup truck this time.

This piece is not behind a paywall. I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM




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1 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 11, 2026 11:18 AM (NcvvS)

2 And SPONGE!!

Posted by: Nazdar at September 11, 2026 11:18 AM (NcvvS)

3 Commies ruin everything.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 11:18 AM (NSrIQ)

4 Worthress EVs?

Oh, no!







Anyway......

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 11:19 AM (lNdj6)

5 Leasing an ev is the way to go. At least it used to be when manufacturers were selling that at huge losses to build market share. Which led to the situation we’re in now 2-3 years later as the leases mature.

Buying one has to be one of the stupidest financial decisions ever.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 11, 2026 11:20 AM (2BUGt)

6 If Kamala had won, she'd now be preparing to use taxpayer money to bail out everyone who bought an EV. She'd call it something else, of course, but that's what it would be.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 11:22 AM (Riz8t)

7 It's a virtue signal for the most part.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 11:23 AM (NSrIQ)

8 The financing arms of auto manufacturers are also sitting on a portfolio of soon-to-mature EV leases "

And the picture is worse than that - the leasing groups don't have the physical structure to store thousands of vehicles. Where will this off lease inventory go?

This entire crapfest brought to us by government.

BTW, don't cry for VW - their business model has always been to rely on government support in some fashion.

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 11:24 AM (cGjQu)

9 President Newsom will turn it all around.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 11:25 AM (Cqx++)

10 Buying one has to be one of the stupidest financial decisions ever.
Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 11, 2026 11:20 AM

I remember a commie acquaintance of mine on FB gushing about how his Chevy Volt was just teh awesomest thing ever!

I laughed. And I'm still laughing at his commie ass.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 11:25 AM (lNdj6)

11 I topped off gas in everything I own in prep for today.

Posted by: Eromero at September 11, 2026 11:25 AM (LHPAg)

12 EVs are good if you live in a warm-ish city and never need to drive far or carry much stuff with you.

But cities have been making themselves less friendly to cars EV or otherwise

So...there really isn't a market for EVs AT ALL unless governments are forcing people to buy them.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 11:25 AM (sKqQm)

13 Unbowed by its EV failure in North America, VW continues to plow its precious capital into other U.S. electric boondoggles.

Because they're a German company and the EU is moving ahead with banning ICE cars in 2035 or whatever.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 11:25 AM (2ocoG)

14 I watched a YouTube video the other day where a fellow said that anyone who has ever owned an electric car would never want anything else.

Is that not true?

Posted by: Cybersmythe at September 11, 2026 11:27 AM (Zst8M)

15 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:27 AM (ccf/V)

16 Has there ever been a more "a fool and his money are soon parted" than the EV boondoggle?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:28 AM (ccf/V)

17 No mention of Tesla. How are they doing?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 11:28 AM (Cqx++)

18 Well.

That sucks.

Anyway. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2026 11:28 AM (rOKnE)

19 President Newsom will turn it all around.

Newsom's chances on Polymarket fell to some absurd new low yesterday, I think it was around 5%.

He probably knows Kamala has a better chance and she has no chance, but it's what he was born to do so he has to try.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 11:28 AM (2ocoG)

20 Paris has been slowly making it impossible to drive inside the city. They’ve been removing street parking and replacing it with bike lanes as well
As designating entire neighborhoods car free.

Bar-th-e-lona is also doing something similar. They may never outright ban cars in Europe but they’ll make it next to impossible to drive one.

Posted by: Sandy Cocazio Ortez at September 11, 2026 11:29 AM (2BUGt)

21 and the EU is moving ahead with banning ICE cars in 2035 or whatever."

Actually, the "mandates" are mysteriously evaporating. Amazing, no?

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 11:29 AM (cGjQu)

22 No mention of Tesla. How are they doing?

Tesla is still the only company making money on EVs, in part because they actually offer things beyond just being an EV (notably their multi-camera dashcam and the self-driving stuff).

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 11:29 AM (2ocoG)

23 My commute is an average of 100 miles/day. I'll stick to my polar bear killing gas powered vehicle.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 11, 2026 11:30 AM (RjOoY)

24 >>>A three-year-old EV retained about 40 percent of its original value at auction by the end of 2025. Compare that to early 2022 when comparable vehicles held roughly 90 percent of their value, says Cox Automotive. Analysts say that difference could translate into losses of around $10,000 per vehicle on average, adding up to as much as $8 billion across the industry by 2028.

lolgf, cultists.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 11:31 AM (dK+Kv)

25 Daughter #1 and her hubby have both a Tesla AND a Rivian - they live in California.... 🙄🙄🙄

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 11, 2026 11:31 AM (SRRAx)

26 Tesla. How are they doing?"

Fine. Car sales are down, but that's not their business model.

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 11:31 AM (cGjQu)

27
Tesla is still the only company making money on EVs, in part because they actually offer things beyond just being an EV (notably their multi-camera dashcam and the self-driving stuff).
Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 11:29 AM (2ocoG)


While sitting at DFW waiting for Trump to depart so the airport would open again, I saw more Teslas than any other EV by far.

My town has so many Teslas roaming the streets, they put a service center here.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:31 AM (ccf/V)

28 I believe the biggest negative on EV value is the harsh fact that the batteries rarely last more than 10 years, and frequently less than that. Yet battery replacement often will cost more than the value of the car at the time, meaning it must be scrapped.

What value can there be in a vehicle which will have to be scrapped within 10 years or less, no matter how well one takes care of it? What would you pay for a 5 year old vehicle, knowing that it will go to the junkyard sometime within the next 5 years?

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 11, 2026 11:31 AM (UJfh6)

29 And don't discount the effect on residuals these lease returns will cause. New leases will be suck now too.

Posted by: AFlyingSqrl at September 11, 2026 11:31 AM (sSfeg)

30 So Audi is paying lease customers not to buy a new Audi.

Makes perfect sense.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 11, 2026 11:31 AM (wpRMV)

31 EV owners are fucked.

VW is fine. On track for $375 billion in revenue and over $13 billion in profit, and that includes prior write-offs and write-downs for EV losses.

I really really really wish I had VW's problems.

VW's 2026 results are consistent with prior years, and would have been higher but for the weakening Chinese market for non-Chinese vehicles.

Despite endless doomsaying about the auto industry and EV fallout and cratering demand and neon green dildos in tailpipes, the industry is overall doing fine, and VW is doing better than fine.

I really really really wish I had VW's problems.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 11:32 AM (iFTx/)

32 >> and the EU is moving ahead with banning ICE cars in 2035 or whatever."


I am old enough to remember when the UN quietly admitted that even if the entire planet switched to EVs, it would reduce greenhouse gases by less than 1%. Of course, they still insisted to move ahead with their goal of 100% EV because reasons.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 11, 2026 11:32 AM (rOKnE)

33 And the picture is worse than that - the leasing groups don't have the physical structure to store thousands of vehicles. Where will this off lease inventory go?

I believe we have a number of surplus military firing ranges. That's probably the safest place to put them.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 11:32 AM (Riz8t)

34 I topped off gas in everything I own in prep for today.

Posted by: Eromero at September 11, 2026 11:25 AM (LHPAg)

I didn't for fire season here in the sticks; I thought about it.

We don't have leftist/islamist problems here. Although we do arm up for church and home school at the church. Better safe than sorry.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 11:33 AM (dK+Kv)

35 My neighbor has 2 Taycans. I really hope they're leased.

Posted by: MJ at September 11, 2026 11:33 AM (XOmY9)

36 Buck shure writes good. I just cain't read good.
It's amazing how these companies jumped in with both feet and are now left holding the bag. I'm not sure VW will survive the many stupid decisions they've made. I guess the same could be said for Germany as a whole. The post is great, only deduct points for no car fire picture.

Posted by: Internal Combustion, FTW! at September 11, 2026 11:33 AM (Fn+3X)

37
What value can there be in a vehicle which will have to be scrapped within 10 years or less, no matter how well one takes care of it? What would you pay for a 5 year old vehicle, knowing that it will go to the junkyard sometime within the next 5 years?
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 11, 2026 11:31 AM (UJfh6)


The average age of all the drivable vehicles I own is 18.5 years.

The 96 Ranger really throws that curve off a bit, but still........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:34 AM (ccf/V)

38 President Newsom will turn it all around.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 11:25 AM (Cqx++)

He'll gladly tap into those much-needed Strategic Petroleum Hair Product reserves that Trump simply won't do!

Posted by: Boswell at September 11, 2026 11:35 AM (j10i6)

39 The EV diehards, who are all "Climate Change Doomers," are as crazed as the "Abortion For Any Reason Up to As Late As You and a Doctor Can Get Away With It Up To and After Birth" crowd.

Posted by: Gref at September 11, 2026 11:36 AM (5rh/l)

40 I'm not sure VW will survive the many stupid decisions they've made. I guess the same could be said for Germany as a whole.

I believe it's finally starting to dawn on the Krauts just how f***ed they are as a country. That's why AfD is surging. Interestingly, I read an article this morning which says that the CDU and others who were, until recently, talking about denying AfD power, have decided that MIGHT not be a good look for them (although the Greens are still all in on a coup).

No Scheisse, Schulze.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

41 batteries rarely last more than 10 years"

Ah, batteries. The fun part of the conversation.

With proper controls, the battery PACK can provide service for many thousands of cycles. Individual batteries in the pack, not so much.
On average, a managed pack will provide about 80 percent capacity even years later.

Which means the vehicle is hauling around dead weight 20 percent of a thousand lb pack is ...

Fuel tanks, OTOH, never reduce capacity over lifespan...

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 11:37 AM (cGjQu)

42 *points at EV losers*
*laughs*

Posted by: Scoffer McScofferton at September 11, 2026 11:37 AM (TbWk/)

43 I get the EV thing. People like to think they are the vanguard of some new, cool, hip thing that the rest of the poors will catch on to one day. "Silly man, park that 2017 F150 naturally aspirated 3.5L V6 dinosaur and grab a new Ford Lightning EV F150 while you can! It's hip! It's cool! It's only $48,000.00 and it will be worthless soon!".

No thanks.

Posted by: Grease Monkey at September 11, 2026 11:37 AM (cCXR+)

44 I really really really wish I had VW's problems.

You won't when the power goes out forever in Germany and Muslims burn the entire country down.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 11:37 AM (2ocoG)

45 Friend of mine has a Polestar and refers to Teslas as "Swastikas."

Posted by: NR Pax at September 11, 2026 11:37 AM (RjOoY)

46 What value can there be in a vehicle which will have to be scrapped within 10 years or less, no matter how well one takes care of it? What would you pay for a 5 year old vehicle, knowing that it will go to the junkyard sometime within the next 5 years?
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 11, 2026 11:31 AM (UJfh6)


The average age of all the drivable vehicles I own is 18.5 years.

The 96 Ranger really throws that curve off a bit, but still........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:34 AM (ccf/V)

People around here are wanting $10-20K for 7.3 Diesel F-Series that have 250+K miles on them. The 7.3 F-Series was last offered in 2003.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 11:37 AM (dK+Kv)

47 The EV's will only be "worthless" until the next Democrat assumes the White House.

Then they'll be mandated. It's why they're not being scrapped by the thousands.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 11:38 AM (2Cry5)

48 Fuel tanks, OTOH, never reduce capacity over lifespan...

Are you SURE about that?

Posted by: Ford Pinto at September 11, 2026 11:38 AM (2ocoG)

49 Friend of mine has a Polestar and refers to Teslas as "Swastikas."

Posted by: NR Pax at September 11, 2026 11:37 AM (RjOoY)


Uh, do they not see the Polesmoke logo on THEIR car?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:38 AM (ccf/V)

50 Because they're a German company and the EU is moving ahead with banning ICE cars in 2035 or whatever.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 11:25 AM (2ocoG)

As Buck mentions in his linked piece, the big problem in Europe is that they’re big friends with China, and in some trade deal they allowed China to ship in cheap EV’s, and now China is selling piles of EV’s in Europe at half the price that any Euro companies can sell them for.

So the mandates are now just creating Chinese jobs and helping Chinese manufacturers.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 11, 2026 11:39 AM (UJfh6)

51 Offhand, does anyone know how/if a end of live EV battery is disposed of or recycled?

Posted by: Will Robinson at September 11, 2026 11:39 AM (A3xvt)

52 Are you SURE about that?
Posted by: Ford Pinto at September 11, 2026 11:38 AM (2ocoG)


That was just as much media bullshit as all the other "THIS CAR IS DEADLY" stories they fabricated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:39 AM (ccf/V)

53 believe it's finally starting to dawn on the Krauts just how f***ed they are as a country. That's why AfD is surging. Interestingly, I read an article this morning which says that the CDU and others who were, until recently, talking about denying AfD power, have decided that MIGHT not be a good look for them (although the Greens are still all in on a coup).

No Scheisse, Schulze.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

You mean deliberately bringing in hordes of savages from third world Islamic shitholes to rape, murder and steal isn't a viable long-term strategy for national preservation? Who knew?

Posted by: I mean, we knew, but still at September 11, 2026 11:39 AM (TbWk/)

54 My husband works on the EV vehicles for Kia and Hyundai. He hates them with a passion because the type of people who buy them are a royal pain in the ass. Entitled dipshits.

Posted by: jaimo at September 11, 2026 11:39 AM (2noDb)

55 So a lessor takes the 10 grand spends 8 grand on a new battery and gets a much better ev.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 11, 2026 11:40 AM (NnhvP)

56 I topped off gas in everything I own in prep for today.

Posted by: Eromero at September 11, 2026 11:25 AM

*shifty eyes*

Yes...fuel...that's what I'm topping up...

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 11:40 AM (lNdj6)

57 People around here are wanting $10-20K for 7.3 Diesel F-Series that have 250+K miles on them. The 7.3 F-Series was last offered in 2003.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 11:37 AM (dK+Kv)


I paid 35k for my 6.7 Ford diesel, used. It's now only got 135k miles. I'm quite sure I could ask 30k for it and get it, no problem, if not the 35k I paid for it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:41 AM (ccf/V)

58 Uh, do they not see the Polesmoke logo on THEIR car?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Doesn't matter. She hates Elon with the same passion she hates Trump. I usually just roll my eyes and move on.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 11, 2026 11:41 AM (RjOoY)

59 So the mandates are now just creating Chinese jobs and helping Chinese manufacturers.

Watching the Western left get hollowed out by China is kind of fun. Even though it's causing untold human suffering, like Fang Fang having to see Fartwell naked.

Posted by: Ford Pinto at September 11, 2026 11:41 AM (2ocoG)

60 The average age of all the drivable vehicles I own is 18.5 years.

The 96 Ranger really throws that curve off a bit, but still........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:34 AM (ccf/V)

1992 F350, 460 CI. Yeah, it gets 8-12 mpg. And yeah, it is probably more economical and ecological over the long term than replacing your ride ever 6 years, which would have been about 4 replacements over that time. Myself, I've had it for 11 of those 24 years, and I plan to replace the drivetrain if necessary, so long as it is feasible.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 11:42 AM (dK+Kv)

61
1992 F350, 460 CI. Yeah, it gets 8-12 mpg. And yeah, it is probably more economical and ecological over the long term than replacing your ride ever 6 years, which would have been about 4 replacements over that time. Myself, I've had it for 11 of those 24 years, and I plan to replace the drivetrain if necessary, so long as it is feasible.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 11:42 AM (dK+Kv)



Noice.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:42 AM (ccf/V)

62 Are you SURE about that?
Posted by: Ford Pinto at September 11, 2026 11:38 AM (2ocoG)


That was just as much media bullshit as all the other "THIS CAR IS DEADLY" stories they fabricated.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:39 AM (ccf/V)

Like Dateline planting explosives in a Chevy truck and blowing it up to show their trucks were fire hazards.

Posted by: Fake news isn't new at September 11, 2026 11:43 AM (TbWk/)

63
As Buck mentions in his linked piece, the big problem in Europe is that they’re big friends with China, and in some trade deal they allowed China to ship in cheap EV’s, and now China is selling piles of EV’s in Europe at half the price that any Euro companies can sell them for.

So the mandates are now just creating Chinese jobs and helping Chinese manufacturers.
Posted by: Tom Servo

The Chinese are "bringing their dream" to Europe.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 11:43 AM (Cqx++)

64 The average age of all the drivable vehicles I own is 18.5 years.

The 96 Ranger really throws that curve off a bit, but still........
Posted by: Sponge
--------

13.3 here. Wish I still had my '95 S-10, but, a '98, '12, '13

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 11:43 AM (XeU6L)

65 I paid 35k for my 6.7 Ford diesel, used. It's now only got 135k miles. I'm quite sure I could ask 30k for it and get it, no problem, if not the 35k I paid for it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:41 AM (ccf/V)

I believe I could get what I paid with inflation.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 11:44 AM (dK+Kv)

66 I used to own a '97 Silverado, 3 door version. Thing was a barely operational heap when I sold it. $5K.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 11:44 AM (2Cry5)

67 Here's the article and an extract:

Interestingly enough, despite Merz's initial red-faced umbrage at his electoral humiliation and his lukewarm endorsement of maintaining the cordon sanitaire that's kept the AfD at bay and from taking its rightful place in government so far, there seems to be a distinct lack of enthusiasm for enforcing it after Sunday's vote.

...Merz in particular seemed surprised at the Sachsen-Anhalt result. “We are all deeply shocked,” he said, “we did not expect it to happen like this.” This must raise serious questions about Merz’s information environment, given that the outcome of the Sunday vote has been eminently predictable for months. Merz further asked himself “how things could have come to this” and confided that he is “looking for the reasons within myself too” – acknowledging that his own controversies have been a constant theme in this year’s elections. As has become customary for failed politicians, Merz ultimately concluded that he needs to communicate better, but then upon realising that this is a shopworn cliché he added bizarrely that he must “try to (1 of 2)
https://tinyurl.com/23jwxj6e

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)

68 The Chinese are "bringing their dream" to Europe.

Their dream, and also cat meat.

But mostly cat meat.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 11:44 AM (2ocoG)

69 Cars are just insane. You can always get a lemon (discounting just buying ridiculous vehicle.)

Now full size trucks cost three times more than my parents paid for their HOUSE (to be fair, my parents house has also appreciated some ridiculous number of times- property tax.)

This is why the used car market being destroyed by cash for clunkers was such a bad bad no good horrible thing. It meant the $500 beater went away (as well as a lot of cool older cars.) You could take a risk on a car because it was just a stop gap to get you to work until you could afford something better. And hey, if you needed to? You could keep pouring oil into that 84' Oldsmobile with a cracked main seal because the fucker would not die- as long as it had oil.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:44 AM (Y/06r)

70
Like Dateline planting explosives in a Chevy truck and blowing it up to show their trucks were fire hazards.
Posted by: Fake news isn't new at September 11, 2026 11:43 AM (TbWk/)


Or the Ford Explorer, when under certain conditions, would roll over when the FIRESTONE tires they came with failed and you jerked the wheel hard to one side........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:44 AM (ccf/V)

71 (2 of 2)

connect with people more deeply on an emotional level,” because that will make everything better.

For some reason the firewall against the AfD is no longer the flavour of the month within the Union. Angela Merkel, once its staunchest enforcer, just today said that “I didn’t come up with it and I don’t particularly like it either.” Boris Rhein, CDU Minister President of Hessen, has called the Brandmauer “the wrongest path,” declaring with newfound democratic sentiment that his party should “talk to everyone, talk about everything, build bridges to the centre and not push people beyond firewalls.” This shift in sentiment is to be expected, as Unioners realise that they and not the AfD are the ones whom the firewall will shut out of government.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 11:44 AM (Riz8t)

72 Because they're a German company and the EU is moving ahead with banning ICE cars in 2035 or whatever.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 11:25 AM (2ocoG)

As Buck mentions in his linked piece, the big problem in Europe is that they’re big friends with China, and in some trade deal they allowed China to ship in cheap EV’s, and now China is selling piles of EV’s in Europe at half the price that any Euro companies can sell them for.

So the mandates are now just creating Chinese jobs and helping Chinese manufacturers.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 11, 2026 11:39 AM (UJfh6)
________

And buying Chinese tech. The background of all this is that the Euros were desperate to get into the Chinese car market decades ago. The price of entry was that they had to "partner" with Chinese companies and share R&D and tech.

The Euros agreed and for a while were making bank. But all the while, the Chinese were stealing the Euro's tech and business models, copying it, and making it cheaper and better (in large part because of massive gov't subsidies).

The hunter is now the hunted. Sales of Chinese vehicles (almost all EV) have exploded in Europe and UK.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 11:45 AM (iFTx/)

73 Have I got a deal for you: one EV for ten used "E.T." Atari cartridges?
... they're going to be buried in the same desert aren't they.

Posted by: 88C+u at September 11, 2026 11:45 AM (88C+u)

74 Or the Ford Explorer, when under certain conditions, would roll over when the FIRESTONE tires they came with failed and you jerked the wheel hard to one side

One thing I've learned watching way too many Arkansas State Police PITs on YouTube is that SUVs do roll quite easily, especially the full-size body-on-frame ones.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 11:46 AM (2ocoG)

75 13.3 here. Wish I still had my '95 S-10, but, a '98, '12, '13
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Oooops! 18.33
Too early for maths.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 11:46 AM (XeU6L)

76 I really really really wish I had VW's problems."

A roughly 3 percent on sales isn't going to work. And don't forget, they're beholden to Saxony's goodwill, and if the layoffs are carried out...

That's a problem.

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 11:46 AM (cGjQu)

77 the important part is: the right people got the money. the right pols got the contributions. the right investors made the money.

Posted by: wildman at September 11, 2026 11:46 AM (ur7Ph)

78 There is nowhere close to enough electrical generating capacity in this country for more than a small fraction of cars and trucks on the road to be re-chargeables.

There is no widespread grid network sufficient to carry it, even if there were. Residential homes, businesses, and workplaces do not have the equipment to provide it, even if the grid network were there. There aren't charging stations sufficient, and on and on and on.

Re-chargeable cars makes sense for a small number of people, maybe, in temperate climates in particular who don't drive very far.

A fucking Golf Cart would have worked, and would still be a great choice for a lot of people. But of course this isn't what they had in mind. Hell no, you gotta spend 80 grand on an elaborate paperweight. The same people who bitch about lifted trucks and hillbillies picking up a loaf of bread in their Ford F950 Earthfucker. The EV thing might be worse, actually.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 11:47 AM (2dVdu)

79 Government mandates, subsidies, ect. ruined whatever chance EVs had of growing as a consumer segment organically.
There's really nothing wrong with being a niche product, like sports cars or motorcycles.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 11, 2026 11:47 AM (zafwz)

80 The Euros agreed and for a while were making bank. But all the while, the Chinese were stealing the Euro's tech and business models, copying it, and making it cheaper and better (in large part because of massive gov't subsidies).

The hunter is now the hunted. Sales of Chinese vehicles (almost all EV) have exploded in Europe and UK.

For every problem, there is a solution. In this case, tell China to keep their crappy cars - they won't be coming to Europe. Sure, that will result in retaliation against European car companies in China, but that market is dying anyway. Cut your losses, Europe!

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 11:47 AM (Riz8t)

81 The fans of industrial policy at The New York Times explained that Germany is in trouble because its auto companies did not fully embrace the EV revolution and now China has them on their knees.

China might have Germans on their knees, but Germans are into that.

Posted by: Jean-Claude in at September 11, 2026 11:47 AM (2ap+5)

82 One thing I've learned watching way too many Arkansas State Police PITs on YouTube is that SUVs do roll quite easily, especially the full-size body-on-frame ones.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 11:46 AM (2ocoG)


Any vehicle with a high enough center of gravity will roll when broad sliding at a high enough speed.

If you really want to get silly, the Jeep is the most dangerous car on the road in those scenarios, but no one cares because 'Jeeps are cool, brah!'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:48 AM (ccf/V)

83 "The hunter is now the hunted. Sales of Chinese vehicles (almost all EV) have exploded in Europe and UK."

How are they able to charge any of them? They've been hollowing out their electrical capacity alongside all of this.

Posted by: Gaff at September 11, 2026 11:48 AM (EqzMw)

84 The same people who bitch about lifted trucks and hillbillies picking up a loaf of bread in their Ford F950 Earthfucker. The EV thing might be worse, actually.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 11:47 AM (2dVdu)

Ford F950 Earthfucker.

*golfclap* LOL.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:48 AM (Y/06r)

85 > The Chinese are "bringing their dream" to Europe.
---------
They're brining it to Canada too. Bigly.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 11:48 AM (2Cry5)

86 Yes...fuel...that's what I'm topping up..."

It comes in.... boxes, right?

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 11:49 AM (cGjQu)

87 A fucking Golf Cart would have worked, and would still be a great choice for a lot of people. But of course this isn't what they had in mind. Hell no, you gotta spend 80 grand on an elaborate paperweight. The same people who bitch about lifted trucks and hillbillies picking up a loaf of bread in their Ford F950 Earthfucker. The EV thing might be worse, actually.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 11:47 AM (2dVdu)

A few years back, my township authorized on-road golf cart usage, about the same time the market for those UTVs exploded. I see about 50/50, except up here on the golf course.

The golf cart idea is not without merit.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 11:49 AM (dK+Kv)

88 I've got an idea of what to do with the mostly useless EVs. Send them down to Cuba and they can cannibalize them for parts. I hear they are desperate for replacement parts. Nothing for the engines, obviously. But they can probably use the radio knobs and door handles perhaps. Maybe the seats could be transplanted.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at September 11, 2026 11:49 AM (VUSYV)

89 If you really want to get silly, the Jeep is the most dangerous car on the road in those scenarios, but no one cares because 'Jeeps are cool, brah!'
Posted by: Sponge

I hear that's why they load them up with so many rubber ducks -- to cushion the blow.

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 11:49 AM (77rzZ)

90 Can't wait for Congress to propose a bill to bail out all the dealerships who were forced to bet big on EV's.

Posted by: Octochicken at September 11, 2026 11:49 AM (oCS0o)

91 The same people who bitch about lifted trucks and hillbillies picking up a loaf of bread in their Ford F950 Earthfucker. The EV thing might be worse, actually.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 11:47 AM (2dVdu)


They NEVER consider the absolute Earth RAPE required to make the batteries and the CO2 emitted in simply transporting them around the world.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:49 AM (ccf/V)

92 Or the Ford Explorer, when under certain conditions, would roll over when the FIRESTONE tires they came with failed and you jerked the wheel hard to one side
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The issue was actually Ford's fault. They specified an inadviseably low tire pressure, to keep the ride soft and smooth. There wasn't really anything wrong at all with the tires, per se.

Ford had a business relationship with Firestone going way back. Henry and Harvey (Firestone) used to go camping together.

That little episode ruined the business partnership Ford and Firestone had maintained for almost 100 years. Because some idiot thought the truck rode too harsh.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 11:50 AM (2dVdu)

93 If you really want to get silly, the Jeep is the most dangerous car on the road in those scenarios, but no one cares because 'Jeeps are cool, brah!'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:48 AM (ccf/V)

My miata was so nailed to the ground I would literally start sliding over the bolsters of the bucket seat if I took a corner fast enough before it would lose traction. At least if it was dry.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:50 AM (Y/06r)

94 The Euros agreed and for a while were making bank"

This. And "euros" = VW.

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 11:50 AM (cGjQu)

95 Jeeps are cool, bro.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at September 11, 2026 11:50 AM (VUSYV)

96 The Euros agreed and for a while were making bank. But all the while, the Chinese were stealing the Euro's tech and business models, copying it, and making it cheaper and better (in large part because of massive gov't subsidies).

The hunter is now the hunted. Sales of Chinese vehicles (almost all EV) have exploded in Europe and UK.

For every problem, there is a solution. In this case, tell China to keep their crappy cars - they won't be coming to Europe. Sure, that will result in retaliation against European car companies in China, but that market is dying anyway. Cut your losses, Europe!
Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 11:47 AM (Riz8t)
_______

I'm sure there were piles of bribes and corruption. Especially in UK, the Chinese brands built a dealer network almost overnight.

It was like the Brits woke up one day and saw BYD and Geely dealerships all over the place.

BYD now sells more cars than Tesla.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 11:51 AM (iFTx/)

97 If German politics was not fake and gay the result would be all but the most leftwing parties reducing their support for immigration with the CDU moving to an immigration/"refugee" freeze and the end of welfare for immigrants/refugees

But German politics is fake and gay so...they aren't going to change their policies just because that is what the German people want

Posted by: 18-1 at September 11, 2026 11:51 AM (sKqQm)

98 95 Jeeps are cool, bro.
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at September 11, 2026 11:50 AM (VUSYV)

They ARE cool. But.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:51 AM (Y/06r)

99 If you really want to get silly, the Jeep is the most dangerous car on the road in those scenarios, but no one cares because 'Jeeps are cool, brah!'
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:48 AM (ccf/V)

That's why you buy an old-ass Jeep that can't go fast enough to think of outrunning a modern cruiser.

Posted by: Octochicken at September 11, 2026 11:51 AM (oCS0o)

100 Happened to see a late model Hyundai Ioniq 9 recently.
Pretty strange looking.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 11:51 AM (2Ez/1)

101 That little episode ruined the business partnership Ford and Firestone had maintained for almost 100 years. Because some idiot thought the truck rode too harsh.

Body on frame SUVs *are* too agricultural-riding for Karen, so they weren't wrong in that way. But the fix was "plausible deniability vehicles" like the Escape that are passenger cars on stilts.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 11:51 AM (2ocoG)

102 The same people who bitch about lifted trucks and hillbillies picking up a loaf of bread in their Ford F950 Earthfucker. The EV thing might be worse, actually.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 11:47 AM (2dVdu)

My retirement project idea is an old dually flatbed dodge, ford, or chevy with a modern 4x4 Cummins drivetrain. Something fine to beat on in the woods, yet still road-worthy and comfortable for the long hauls.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 11:52 AM (dK+Kv)

103 How are they able to charge any of them"

Well, based on availability in a number of areas.... they aren't.

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 11:52 AM (cGjQu)

104 My miata was so nailed to the ground I would literally start sliding over the bolsters of the bucket seat if I took a corner fast enough before it would lose traction. At least if it was dry.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:50 AM (Y/06r)


Miata's are kinda homo, but they were the best starter car in the Gran Turismo Playstation series......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:52 AM (ccf/V)

105 I really really really wish I had VW's problems.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 11:32 AM (iFTx/)

Their stock is down 70% over the last 5 years.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at September 11, 2026 11:52 AM (okun6)

106 That's why you buy an old-ass Jeep that can't go fast enough to think of outrunning a modern cruiser.

I've seen multiple instances of people running from Arkansas State Police in a Chevy Cobalt in the YouTube videos. Generally if you're running from the cops you already have failed in IQ test, but in a Cobalt it's worse.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 11, 2026 11:53 AM (2ocoG)

107
I hear that's why they load them up with so many rubber ducks -- to cushion the blow.
Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 11:49 AM (77rzZ)


Heh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:53 AM (ccf/V)

108 I want an F950 Earthfucker.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 11:54 AM (NSrIQ)

109 That little episode ruined the business partnership Ford and Firestone had maintained for almost 100 years. Because some idiot thought the truck rode too harsh.
Posted by: Common Tater

====

No matter how much you hate Jac Nasser, you don't hate him enough.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 11, 2026 11:54 AM (4HoLg)

110 Miata's are kinda homo, but they were the best starter car in the Gran Turismo Playstation series......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:52 AM (ccf/V)

Stock, yeah. Great for riding around with your boyfriend with the top down. But it's a great small platform for hotrodding (ricing?) for heteros.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 11:54 AM (dK+Kv)

111 Sales of Chinese vehicles (almost all EV) have exploded in Europe and UK."

Sure. The Chinese followed the VW model.

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 11:54 AM (cGjQu)

112 Part of the problem, of course, is DOT and NHTSA and probably another 3 or 4 alphabet agency regs.

A Golf Cart doesn't have any of the 8,000 safety items that we have grown accustomed to. Neither does a motorcycle, but I'm sure it would factor somehow.

I think an ordinary 100 amp residential service would be just enough to keep a Golf Cart battery bank charged, with a suitable charger. Not sure, but it seems to pencil out in my head. Maybe an honest daily 20 mile range in any weather.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 11:54 AM (2dVdu)

113 Miata's are kinda homo, but they were the best starter car in the Gran Turismo Playstation series......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:52 AM (ccf/V)

2001 SE. British racing green. Walnut(?) Nardi steering wheel. Brown leather. Watchdial gauges.

I said the same thing when I had seen most Miatas, but fuck, I fell in love with that car the first time I saw one. It's like a Triumph Spitfire that ran.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:54 AM (Y/06r)

114 95 Jeeps are cool, bro.
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at September 11, 2026 11:50 AM

Get a bunch of them together in the evening in the woods and bask in the warm amber glow of their Check Engine lights...

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 11:55 AM (2Ez/1)

115
I said the same thing when I had seen most Miatas, but fuck, I fell in love with that car the first time I saw one. It's like a Triumph Spitfire that ran.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:54 AM (Y/06r)


Heh. Anything that thumbs a nose at the Brits......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:55 AM (ccf/V)

116 And as for the EV financial follies . . .

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 11, 2026 11:55 AM (4HoLg)

117 It's like when you see a hot woman with big tits and a smile on her face from across the room and think: 'Oh, fuck. This is going to end badly.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:56 AM (Y/06r)

118 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at September 11, 2026 11:56 AM (dpXJq)

119 My most recent vehicle purchase was a 2004 F250 power stroke diesel for $5500. It barely ran when I bought it, but $1000 later and some home mechanics and it is now a solid vehicle. Bought it in April

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 11, 2026 11:56 AM (ubXQT)

120 I saw a Fiero on the road a few weeks ago.

Coffin with wheels.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 11:57 AM (NSrIQ)

121 I wonder if a government bail-out of the auto industry will become a big debate point in the 2028 elections. It sounds like the timing would be about right.

Posted by: JB1000 at September 11, 2026 11:57 AM (oWYew)

122 It's like when you see a hot woman with big tits and a smile on her face from across the room and think: 'Oh, fuck. This is going to end badly.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 11:56 AM (Y/06r)



https://shorturl.fm/MQWJx

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:58 AM (ccf/V)

123 I hear that's why they load them up with so many rubber ducks -- to cushion the blow.
Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 11:49 AM (77rzZ)


I'm sure it works equally well whether you have the doors and roof on or off.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 11, 2026 11:58 AM (zafwz)

124 I saw a Fiero on the road a few weeks ago.

Coffin with wheels.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 11:57 AM (NSrIQ)


I can't believe those still run.

But, you're going to have to work your ass off to get it to roll over.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:59 AM (ccf/V)

125 Miata's are kinda homo, but they were the best starter car in the Gran Turismo Playstation series......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:52 AM

Don't let VIA hear that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 11:59 AM (lNdj6)

126 My most recent vehicle purchase was a 2004 F250 power stroke diesel for $5500. It barely ran when I bought it, but $1000 later and some home mechanics and it is now a solid vehicle. Bought it in April

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 11, 2026 11:56 AM (ubXQT)

Nice. All some of those older vehicles need is a little love and attention. Most people have neither the time, knowledge, or money. A car payment is easier.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 11:59 AM (dK+Kv)

127 119 My most recent vehicle purchase was a 2004 F250 power stroke diesel for $5500. It barely ran when I bought it, but $1000 later and some home mechanics and it is now a solid vehicle. Bought it in April
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 11, 2026 11:56 AM (ubXQT)

Buy an EGR valve and throw it behind the seat. You will need it at the most inopportune time.

Posted by: Reforger at September 11, 2026 11:59 AM (F9nWj)

128 120 I saw a Fiero on the road a few weeks ago.

Coffin with wheels.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 11:57 AM (NSrIQ)

I test drove one... 30 years ago a guy was selling. It was wrong. Felt wrong inside. Ergonomics were all wrong. It felt like the gas pedal was behind the console so it felt like my foot was getting trapped.

Whereas I always described my miata as 'Like putting on a warm, comfy tight leather jacket' that felt claustrophobic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:00 PM (Y/06r)

129 . It's like a Triumph Spitfire that ran."

Hey - I had a Triumph. It ran, too.

Straight to the local repair shop.

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 12:00 PM (cGjQu)

130 I wonder if there's an opportunity for some entreprenurial soul to buy these crapwagons for pennies on the dollar, rip out the battery, shove a gas generator into the space, and then flip for a profit. Sort of like all those gas to EV conversions that were going around back in the day, but in reverse.

Posted by: LGM30G at September 11, 2026 12:00 PM (I09RC)

131 My most recent vehicle purchase was a 2004 F250 power stroke diesel for $5500. It barely ran when I bought it, but $1000 later and some home mechanics and it is now a solid vehicle. Bought it in April
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 11, 2026 11:56 AM (ubXQT)


6.0L engine. Hope the head studs have been redone.....or was it the crank......Either way. Abuse that engine and it will abuse you back.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 12:00 PM (ccf/V)

132
Don't let VIA hear that.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 11:59 AM (lNdj6)


Meh. He can shoot me at the TxMoMe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 12:01 PM (ccf/V)

133 I believe I could get what I paid with inflation.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Yep. Folks that need that muscle to haul stuff around will pay for it because new trucks are astronomical meaning much higher insurance and depreciation.

Plus 90's era up to the Obama era can usually be fixed even with new motors, trans, etc. After that, the computerization started and by 2019-2020, fixing these vehicles requires expensive parts on most models and messing around with canbus.

FWIW, we have a early 90's D21 Hardbody 4x4. Works great when we need it and it has been in our family since it was new (MIL then to my wife). Same motor, great compression on it still, no emissions problems (now grandfathered in), three clutches over 360k miles.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:01 PM (E4rtv)

134 ttps://shorturl.fm/MQWJx
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Trouble. Lotsa trouble.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 12:01 PM (NSrIQ)

135 Whereas I always described my miata as 'Like putting on a warm, comfy tight leather jacket' assless chaps that felt claustrophobic fabulous.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:00 PM (Y/06r)

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 12:02 PM (dK+Kv)

136 like all those gas to EV conversions that were going around back in the day, but in reverse"

Not likely. There's no easy way to reverse engineer that...

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 12:02 PM (cGjQu)

137 I plunked down $25 to get on the list to buy an REO Speedwagon.
We'll see.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 12:02 PM (2Ez/1)

138 I really really really wish I had VW's problems.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 11:32 AM (iFTx/)

Their stock is down 70% over the last 5 years.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at September 11, 2026 11:52 AM (okun6)
________

That's a problem for VW's shareholders, or at least the ones that bought at earlier inflated prices (which IIRC was based on unreasonable expectations in China). The company's revenue is way up over the same period. Again, I would like having the problem of only making $13B in profit this year ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 12:02 PM (iFTx/)

139 130 I wonder if there's an opportunity for some entreprenurial soul to buy these crapwagons for pennies on the dollar, rip out the battery, shove a gas generator into the space, and then flip for a profit. Sort of like all those gas to EV conversions that were going around back in the day, but in reverse.
Posted by: LGM30G

Eh, just put a go cart engine and transmission in it to relive the EV experience except with more noise. I guess you could rig up some sort of dual fuel (LP/Gas) generator in the back to charge the car going down the road.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:03 PM (E4rtv)

140 three clutches over 360k miles.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:01 PM (E4rtv)

*looks around to make sure my truck isn't looking*

*sadface*

I have an auto trans.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 12:03 PM (dK+Kv)

141 135 Whereas I always described my miata as 'Like putting on a warm, comfy tight leather jacket' assless chaps that felt claustrophobic fabulous.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:00 PM (Y/06r)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 12:02 PM (dK+Kv)

LOL. I meant the Fiero felt claustrophobic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:03 PM (Y/06r)

142 My miata was so nailed to the ground I would literally start sliding over the bolsters of the bucket seat if I took a corner fast enough before it would lose traction. At least if it was dry.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
---------

At a certain age, one must consider diapers....

:-)

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 12:04 PM (XeU6L)

143 *looks around to make sure my truck isn't looking*

*sadface*

I have an auto trans.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 12:03 PM (dK+Kv)

GAY!!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:04 PM (Y/06r)

144 Don't let VIA hear that.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 11, 2026 11:59 AM (lNdj6)


Meh. He can shoot me at the TxMoMe.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 12:01

VIA told me recently he won't be able to make it.
Sad trumpet.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 12:04 PM (2Ez/1)

145
I plunked down $25 to get on the list to buy an REO Speedwagon.
We'll see.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

Roll with the changes.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 11, 2026 12:04 PM (Cqx++)

146 I wish I could be paid a lot of money to make a horrendous blunder such as the EV F-150. Let's see, maybe an aluminum chassis bulldozer (saves fuel), or a solar-powered locomotive
--

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 11, 2026 12:04 PM (8O9+I)

147 My commute is an average of 100 miles/day. I'll stick to my polar bear killing gas powered vehicle.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 11, 2026 11:30 AM (RjOoY)

Polar bears are like Palestinians (except more cuddly). The genocide against them is having a negative effect.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 12:04 PM (1z8ji)

148 It is interesting to consider how we got here. Did a) the Masters of the Universe simply believe EV would happen and they all wanted to get the money by being there on the ground floor? b)did they ignore all the signs that it wouldn't work as a mass thing, ie range, charging time, limited battery lifespan, the total lack of electric generation capability to charge a nation of them?Perceived more money for them and they assumed they could make the peons fix the problems? c) more evil and dark plot to remove mobility from the annoying peons who get in their way when they want to enjoy things? d) misjudgment that they could control government to the point where the changeover could be indirectly mandated against the public's wishes? e) just plain Hitler invading Russia arrogant stupidity, the "I want it so I will have it because I am me" mindset? What would fix the country would be if 80-90% of the top 1% were stripped of resources and deported to Lower Slobovia

Posted by: Azjaeger at September 11, 2026 12:05 PM (3/XaG)

149 I've been looking at the Slate. Plastic modular electric truck. If work puts in the free charging stations at our new building I will be buying one. $25,000 base.

If I ever actually see one.

Posted by: Reforger at September 11, 2026 12:05 PM (F9nWj)

150 GAY!!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:04 PM (Y/06r)

lol, yeah

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 12:05 PM (dK+Kv)

151 Again, I would like having the problem of only making $13B in profit this year ....

Is that a good ROI? I don't know, but ROI is the number to be concerned with. If it takes me $2T in capital to make $13B, it's NOT a good investment.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 12:06 PM (Riz8t)

152 Polar bears are like Palestinians (except more cuddly). The genocide against them is having a negative effect.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Well, King Harve's only one guy. He can only do so much.

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 12:06 PM (77rzZ)

153 It was wrong. Felt wrong inside. Ergonomics were all wrong"

GM never learned. The kappa (Sky/Solstice) was a neat little car, very poorly done.

Bummer

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 12:06 PM (cGjQu)

154 Who knew?
A free market makes better pricing decisions than a controlled economy . . .

Posted by: RI Red at September 11, 2026 12:06 PM (Ste7P)

155 Posted by: Azjaeger at September 11, 2026 12:05 PM (3/XaG)

I still think this comes back to marketing and CEOs. There was a huge ... belief that whatever they pushed, people would buy. Consumers vs customers. They saw endless dollar signs so they blew everything that worked up and went with what THEY wanted.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:07 PM (Y/06r)

156 That's a problem for VW's shareholders, or at least the ones that bought at earlier inflated prices (which IIRC was based on unreasonable expectations in China). The company's revenue is way up over the same period. Again, I would like having the problem of only making $13B in profit this year ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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On vast revenues, that is not a very good profit ratio and the trend analysis from analysts is not great going forward. VW is on track to shed another 50k jobs in Germany and the EVs are unlikely to attract American buyers except at a loss.

I suspect that like GM, etc. VW is now a financial company that makes cars they finance. Works until the next global upset stomach.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:07 PM (E4rtv)

157 My commute is an average of 100 miles/day.

My commute starts at the bathroom, continues down the stairs, and finishes at the coffeepot. It's better than my old commute.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 12:07 PM (Riz8t)

158 I've been looking at the Slate. Plastic modular electric truck. If work puts in the free charging stations at our new building I will be buying one. $25,000 base.

If I ever actually see one.
Posted by: Reforger at September 11, 2026 12:05 PM (F9nWj)
______

My take on Slate is that it's a pump and dump stock scheme. The numbers don't make any sense to me in terms of making any money on the truck.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 12:07 PM (iFTx/)

159 buy an REO Speedwagon"

Ransome E. Olds?

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 12:08 PM (cGjQu)

160 Is that a good ROI? I don't know, but ROI is the number to be concerned with. If it takes me $2T in capital to make $13B, it's NOT a good investment.
Posted by: Archimedes
=====
2.8 percent return in 2025. VW is hoping with job cuts to raise that to about double. We shall see.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:09 PM (E4rtv)

161 137 I plunked down $25 to get on the list to buy an REO Speedwagon.
We'll see.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 12:02 PM (2Ez/1

_____

If it's an original vinyl album from the '80s, it's probably worth $200-$300 bucks

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 11, 2026 12:09 PM (ubXQT)

162
VIA told me recently he won't be able to make it.
Sad trumpet.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 12:04 PM (2Ez/1)


Oh no! Sad......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 12:09 PM (ccf/V)

163 In the absence of subsidies, I expect that EV sales here would have been perhaps 50% lower.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 12:09 PM (XeU6L)

164
Especially in UK, the Chinese brands built a dealer network almost overnight.

It was like the Brits woke up one day and saw BYD and Geely dealerships all over the place.

BYD now sells more cars than Tesla.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

===================

Hmm, I wonder what kind of access to UK infrastructure China gets from those dealerships? Gotta be something they got besides car money.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 11, 2026 12:09 PM (mmrXZ)

165 My take on Slate is that it's a pump and dump stock scheme. The numbers don't make any sense to me in terms of making any money on the truck.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 12:07 PM (iFTx/)

Ok, counter example: Toyota Hilux. Get rid of the regs, you'd see millions of them on the road here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:09 PM (Y/06r)

166 My take on Slate is that it's a pump and dump stock scheme. The numbers don't make any sense to me in terms of making any money on the truck.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 12:07 PM (iFTx/)

Yeah. I've been watching it for a few years now. I think you are right.

Posted by: Reforger at September 11, 2026 12:09 PM (F9nWj)

167 They saw endless taxpayer dollar signs so they blew everything that worked up and went with what unelected officialdom wanted."

FIFY

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 12:10 PM (cGjQu)

168 There was this guy I knew growing up who was from Eastern Europe, some Slovakian place who just ragged on American cars. He had, get this, a Renault Fuego turbo. Talk about ghey.

One day he shows up in a red Pontiac Fierro. I'm like, what the fuck? Thought American cars were shit, man.

It burned up about 2 years later.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 11, 2026 12:10 PM (2Cry5)

169 Buck, would like to hear your take on the future of CAFE standards and how they have influenced the world of EVs.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 12:10 PM (2Ez/1)

170 I refuse to buy a car that I have to plug in. My house electrical isn't set up for it. I would be interested in paying a fair price for a heavily depreciated Hybrid though. Probably not many of these exist.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 11, 2026 12:10 PM (Dv3i1)

171 163 In the absence of subsidies, I expect that EV sales here would have been perhaps 50% lower.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 12:09 PM (XeU6L)

I AM seeing a lot fewer electrics overall here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:10 PM (Y/06r)

172 (Insty) The holdout juror is a black man. Hahahahahahaha! Cue the picture of the guy deciding between two buttons.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 12:10 PM (Riz8t)

173 Repost for those who missed it.


Old, but I never saw it before now.

Art and Beauty of Sydney Sweeney

https://youtu.be/pLNdQQE7wSI

Probably NSFW.

The video editing is especially well done.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 12:10 PM (dK+Kv)

174 I still think this comes back to marketing and CEOs. There was a huge ... belief that whatever they pushed, people would buy. Consumers vs customers. They saw endless dollar signs so they blew everything that worked up and went with what THEY wanted.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
=====
The Edsel should have told them that. But marketers are full of fairy dust and unicorn farts nowadays and have about as much reality with the actual products being sold as car journalists.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:10 PM (E4rtv)

175 The average age of all the drivable vehicles I own is 18.5 years.

The 96 Ranger really throws that curve off a bit, but still........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 11:34 AM (ccf/V)

Did the same calc, for vehicles that are licensed and insured: 41.5 years.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 12:11 PM (1z8ji)

176 My take on Slate is that it's a pump and dump stock scheme"

Right up there with the Scout.

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 12:11 PM (cGjQu)

177 167 They saw endless taxpayer dollar signs so they blew everything that worked up and went with what unelected officialdom wanted."

FIFY
Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 12:10 PM (cGjQu)

That too. They figured also that the government would FORCE people to buy it. It is like hollywood making shit no one wants to watch, part of it is they believe if you have no options...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:11 PM (Y/06r)

178
Ok, counter example: Toyota Hilux. Get rid of the regs, you'd see millions of them on the road here.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:09 PM (Y/06r)


If it's good enough for terrorists in the middle of a desert......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 12:11 PM (ccf/V)

179
https://reotrucks.com/

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 12:11 PM (2Ez/1)

180 172 (Insty) The holdout juror is a black man. Hahahahahahaha! Cue the picture of the guy deciding between two buttons.

Posted by: Archimedes

With small children apparently too. This hit that guy really close to home is my guess why unlike the twinks and Karen jurors that look to be either empty nesters or childless.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:12 PM (E4rtv)

181 Ok, counter example: Toyota Hilux. Get rid of the regs, you'd see millions of them on the road here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:09 PM (Y/06r)

2028 POTUS hopeful should promise to make this happen.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 12:12 PM (dK+Kv)

182 Whatever traits enable one to become a strategy-setting executive, "good judgement" and "common sense" are apparently not among them.

Posted by: SciVo at September 11, 2026 12:12 PM (ke3zm)

183 Is that a good ROI? I don't know, but ROI is the number to be concerned with. If it takes me $2T in capital to make $13B, it's NOT a good investment.
Posted by: Archimedes
=====
2.8 percent return in 2025. VW is hoping with job cuts to raise that to about double. We shall see.



The average return on investment (ROI)—often measured via metrics like Return on Equity (ROE) or Return on Assets (ROA)—for traditional American auto manufacturers like General Motors and Ford generally fluctuates between 3% and 12%, though broad industry averages often skew lower or negative due to heavy EV and autonomous R&D spending

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 12:12 PM (Riz8t)

184 Renault Fuego turbo"

Those weren't....


Good

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 12:12 PM (cGjQu)

185 Old, but I never saw it before now.

Art and Beauty of Sydney Sweeney

https://youtu.be/pLNdQQE7wSI

Probably NSFW.

The video editing is especially well done.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 11, 2026 12:10 PM (dK+Kv)

Great cinematography.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:12 PM (Y/06r)

186 The holdout juror is a black man. Hahahahahahaha! Cue the picture of the guy deciding between two buttons.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 12:10 PM (Riz8t)

I wrote this over at Insty (Holy shit, his comments section is fucking garbage)...

I sometimes black pill on American race relations. It's a bad mindset to be in, but I do get into it at times. I feel like this guy could have just said, "Screw it, this is white folk problems," gone along with the majority and gotten home in time for dinner. He did not. He sat through that trial, weighed the evidence, made his decision and stuck to his guns. He did his duty like any good and decent American should. Bless this man, whoever he is, he gives cynical jerks like me hope. If yall don't mind me going all Sean Hannity for a moment this dude really is a great freakin' American!

Posted by: Robert at September 11, 2026 12:13 PM (dpXJq)

187 Just want to say that threads like these make me so grateful for the Horde. Information from people who know what they're talking about from experience, differing viewpoints debated with a certain amount of respect- it is the Horde, after all- on so many subjects.
Y'all are a treasure.

Posted by: sal at September 11, 2026 12:13 PM (f+FmA)

188 Since it's 9/11 imma trying to not look at any boobette pics today, or engage in any talk regarding mammary glands.

Posted by: Bulg at September 11, 2026 12:13 PM (77rzZ)

189
Did the same calc, for vehicles that are licensed and insured: 41.5 years.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 12:11 PM (1z8ji)


You're my hero. If I throw in the one that doesn't drive, mine goes up to 28.25.

If I only still had the 66.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 12:13 PM (ccf/V)

190 If it's good enough for terrorists in the middle of a desert......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 12:11 PM (ccf/V)

I'd buy one. In a heartbeat. Something useful so I can keep indulging my desire for completely impractical vehicles.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:13 PM (Y/06r)

191 My four gas-fired vehicles are a combined 192 years old. All of them run like new, In one case, better than when it was new.

Posted by: Infernal Combustion, FTW!!! at September 11, 2026 12:13 PM (Fn+3X)

192 172 (Insty) The holdout juror is a black man. Hahahahahahaha! Cue the picture of the guy deciding between two buttons.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 11, 2026 12:10 PM (Riz8t)

___

That's hilarious... Reality just jacked off right in their faces

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 11, 2026 12:14 PM (ubXQT)

193 Did the same calc, for vehicles that are licensed and insured: 41.5 years.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
======
You kinda have an unfair advantage, you can pretty much fix anything that rolls and have the tools and inclination to do so.

You start to have issues when your cars are older than your mechanic if you can't diagnose and fix them yourself.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:14 PM (E4rtv)

194 163 In the absence of subsidies, I expect that EV sales here would have been perhaps 50% lower.

As far as I can see, when the Trump group stopped the subsidies the sales immediately cratered. And without tax money making up for the leasing loss to the companies, the companies may fail. And yet I can't currently move my excess Lincoln Town Cars which will run basically forever at a reasonable price yet lol.

Posted by: Azjaeger at September 11, 2026 12:14 PM (3/XaG)

195 Sorry if this has been mentioned already.

Saw an article yesterday.
A gas station in California hit $9.999 for diesel.

If it goes up another notch they don't know what to do because the display will run out of digits.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 11, 2026 12:14 PM (6ydKt)

196 They figured also that the government would FORCE people to buy it."

Bill Ford was quoted on that exact idea during the 1st O administration...

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 12:14 PM (cGjQu)

197 Horse, hobby, 1 each. Some assembly required.

I have a model s and a model y. Best cars I ever had.

I’m old enough to remember down draft carborators and Hearst shifters.

Posted by: Going deep. Our. at September 11, 2026 12:14 PM (+kigi)

198 That's hilarious... Reality just jacked off right in their faces
Posted by: Lemmiwinks

Then they had to break out the male juror who is a VETERAN! and he dared to criticize the holdout juror.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 11, 2026 12:15 PM (RjOoY)

199 197 Horse, hobby, 1 each. Some assembly required.

I have a model s and a model y. Best cars I ever had.

I’m old enough to remember down draft carborators and Hearst shifters.
Posted by: Going deep. Our. at September 11, 2026 12:14 PM (+kigi)

No problem with people liking them. Just want to see who actually likes them and who is just being forced to buy them by government and peer pressure.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at September 11, 2026 12:16 PM (Y/06r)

200 >>>Fuel tanks, OTOH, never reduce capacity over lifespan...

Are you SURE about that?
Posted by: Ford Pinto at September 11, 2026 11:38 AM (2ocoG)

That's pretty funny...

Posted by: Max Power at September 11, 2026 12:16 PM (q177U)

201 So a lessor takes the 10 grand spends 8 grand on a new battery and gets a much better ev.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 11, 2026 11:40 AM (NnhvP)

If he can get an new battery. And it's just kicking the can another 8 years down the road. And he's driving an old car. Not a cool old car, like a Studebaker, just an old unfashionable car, which is not cool to dedicated followers of fashion.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 11, 2026 12:16 PM (1z8ji)

202 Tee hee. Nobody predicted this coming. EVs may serve a very practical purpose, but as a passenger vehicle and SUV it's outside the window. I would never surrender myself to one of these death traps.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 11, 2026 12:16 PM (ATFmn)

203 My take on Slate is that it's a pump and dump stock scheme"

Right up there with the Scout.
Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 12:11 PM (cGjQu)
_________

Scout is owned by ... VW. I think Scout will be a flop, but it's not like Slate. Slate is owned by a bunch of rich guys who surely plan to IPO and pocket even more billions. I think they might be too late to the EV party, though.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 11, 2026 12:17 PM (iFTx/)

204 I saw a Cybertruck the other day that I see driving around town every now and then.

He's got his realty company logo laser etched into the stainless.
Doesn't look bad, company pays for it.

Win-Win.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 11, 2026 12:17 PM (6ydKt)

205 14 I watched a YouTube video the other day where a fellow said that anyone who has ever owned an electric car would never want anything else.

Is that not true?
Posted by: Cybersmythe at September 11, 2026 11:27 AM (Zst8M)

No, they have not all died screaming, as the car was engulfed in flames and the electric door handle didn't work. Only some. Those few never wanted anything else.

Posted by: SciVo at September 11, 2026 12:17 PM (ke3zm)

206 Nood Clancy Juror

Posted by: sal at September 11, 2026 12:17 PM (f+FmA)

207 OT a bit...but the Chrysler Crossfire augered in, it seems. Had it been available with a manual transmission, I might have been interested.

Just as GM was getting the Fiero sorted out, the bean-counters killed it.

A v-6 Solstice coupe would have been interesting, but, no.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 11, 2026 12:17 PM (XeU6L)

208 If it goes up another notch"

Hey, let's shut down another refinery!

Kalifornia...

Posted by: man at September 11, 2026 12:18 PM (cGjQu)

209 I wrote this over at Insty (Holy shit, his comments section is fucking garbage)...

I sometimes black pill on American race relations. It's a bad mindset to be in, but I do get into it at times. I feel like this guy could have just said, "Screw it, this is white folk problems," gone along with the majority and gotten home in time for dinner. He did not. He sat through that trial, weighed the evidence, made his decision and stuck to his guns. He did his duty like any good and decent American should. Bless this man, whoever he is, he gives cynical jerks like me hope. If yall don't mind me going all Sean Hannity for a moment this dude really is a great freakin' American!
Posted by: Robert
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Insty uses Disqus which is infiltrated by leftist mobys, assholes, and chicom musloid bots. I see Sven comments every now and then there but I've pretty much quit reading comments elsewhere because they are not gatekept.

Kim DuToit's blog has subscriptions and I think out of 20k or so, about 7600 were bots and shitposter commenters which he cleared out just now.

Stopped putting his totties pix on his blog too because of AI copyright trolls that threatened his access to his platform.

Posted by: whig at September 11, 2026 12:18 PM (E4rtv)

210 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 11, 2026 12:18 PM (ccf/V)

211 If you remove the battery and motor, these carcasses would make a bitchin' ride for the Amish.

Posted by: t-bird at September 11, 2026 12:19 PM (iFEms)

212 I really really really wish I had VW's problems.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Boy, so do I. Or maybe you do, and just won't admit it.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at September 11, 2026 12:23 PM (zdLoL)

213 I sometimes black pill on American race relations. It's a bad mindset to be in
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Check out the YouTube video of Fauci and some DEI hire trying to push Covid vaxx on folks in da hood.

Hoodrat guy wasn't having ANY of it. He was completely informed, and didn't fall for any of their rhetorical tricks and gotchas. Maybe, homie ain't as stupid as the media portrays.

It was awesome to see someone nominally "uneducted" school these bastards. Them ancient greek homo rhetoricians would be proud

Posted by: Common Tater at September 11, 2026 12:28 PM (2dVdu)

214 I plunked down $25 to get on the list to buy an REO Speedwagon.
We'll see.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 11, 2026 12:02 PM (2Ez/1)

Workin' on it, Boss.

Posted by: zombie Preston Tucker at September 11, 2026 12:32 PM (1z8ji)

215 EVs are for fart sniffers

Also, fuck you and your annoying reverse alert.

We already know you and your vehicle are gay

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at September 11, 2026 12:35 PM (61TgR)

216 I remember when it became apparent that Trump & Co. were not going to renew the EV federal subsidies, that the great financial movers & shakers of the world predicted "this will cut EV demand in half."

"In half." BWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAAAAAAA!!!!

Posted by: NeighSayer at September 11, 2026 12:48 PM (bufu1)

217
I saw a Fiero on the road a few weeks ago.

Coffin with wheels.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 11, 2026 11:57 AM (NSrIQ)



The first guy who hired me into the telecom industry back in the mid-90s drove a Fiero everyday, when he wasn't riding his totes tricked out Harley. That thing was like sitting on a skateboard with an engine, and it scared the crap out of me to ride in it on the freeway when John would pass semi-trucks.

Ironically, he died in a traffic accident about a year later when some clueless soccer mom pulled her minivan out into traffic right in front of him while he was on his Harley. He'd quit working for overseas contractors building factories in countries recovering from various wars, after getting blown up by a leftover mine in Namibia, and to get killed by a fucking soccer mom who didn't want to turn her head to look out the window?

Fate pisses on the good people all too often.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 11, 2026 01:26 PM (7lxe6)

218 There's a Lucid Motors plant S by SE of Maricopa (32.8548451,-111.7754132) - looking at google maps/earth imagery, you can see what looks like the holding lot for new vehicles at the back of the plant (off the highway). Drove by it a couple times just this last July - probably several thousand new vehicles in almost all the visible lots. Sure looked like a demand crash / over-supply.

Posted by: MD Mike at September 11, 2026 02:01 PM (cJWvF)

219 So, is there some complex derivative currently being traded on Wall Street built on EV loans and leases I can short? Asking for a friend...

Posted by: Bryan at September 11, 2026 08:45 PM (926r2)

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