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Reading Thread 9/14/2025

Howdy Readers! Welcome to the Reading Thread, your Sunday morning source for the insightful, lively and spirited discussion of books 'n stuff. I'm filling in for a while as this space re-invents itself under new management so please set your near-term expectations accordingly low.

What do we have this week? Why, it's none other than Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain and published in late 1884 in the UK and Canada, and in early 1885 in America where it counts. As I mentioned in the other editions of the Reading Thread you may not always get such fabulous selections as this.

Korrection Korner
I have again shamed my ancestors. Last week I wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was published in 1846. WRONG! Fortunately, sharp-eyed commenter James Braden caught and corrected my error near the end of the comments.

I don't know if this correction was already made in the nearly 400 previous comments, but Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain published "Tom Sawyer" in 1876, not 1846. Clemens was only eleven years old in 1846.
Posted by: James Braden at September 07, 2025 01:42 PM (dKpV9)

Thanks James Braden! Before posting I recall thinking that 1846 seemed sort of early for publication, but didn't bother to follow up. Appreciate it!

Anyhoo, feel free to discuss reading and books in general and share your thoughts on this week's selection if you're so inclined.

I know you're just as excited as I am, so just jump below the fold to get started!

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091425 Huckleberry Finn cover scaled.jpg

click for download options

New procedure for clicking beginning this week. Rather than opening a PDF, clicking now takes you to the Gutenberg Project web page for the book with multiple download options.

For those interested, here is the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Wiki page link.

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Special Bonus Topic For Today's Discussion

Do you stop reading a book that proves unsatisfactory, or keep slogging thru to the end? How far have you gone in a book before deciding to abandon ship?

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So that's it for now, guys and gals. Come to class next week prepared to discuss reading 'n stuff, and remember, Reading is FUNdamental!

Posted by: Weasel at 09:00 AM

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1 Happy Sunday

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 14, 2025 09:00 AM (gbOdA)

2 Tolle Lege

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 09:00 AM (+qU29)

3 Bible Study Corner With Chuck Todd.

Chuck Todd@chucktodd
Being angry and staying angry is a choice. Giving grace is a choice. Choose wisely. Don’t let the algorithms fool you, in the real world, folks choose grace.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Raging Like Godzilla! at September 14, 2025 09:01 AM (L/fGl)

4 First?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2025 09:01 AM (omVj0)

5 Gave up after twenty five pages of Lord of the Rings.
Haven’t missed finishing it.

Posted by: Buzzy Krumhunger at September 14, 2025 09:02 AM (DTBr0)

6 1/3 the way through Rick Atkinson's The British are Coming, certainly picking up a lot on the American Revolution 1775-1777 I didn't know

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 09:02 AM (+qU29)

7 I'm well into the title bout of "The Osterman Weekend." My lands, Robby Ludlum surely do love his exclamation points.

Posted by: Weak Geek at September 14, 2025 09:03 AM (p/isN)

8 Project Gutenburg and Librivox. Nothing else needed for non-paper.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 14, 2025 09:04 AM (XvL8K)

Daily Tech News 14 September 2025

Top Story

China's Great Firewall turns out not to be watertight: It sprang a leak involving 500GB of code and documentation relating to the firewall itself. (Tom's Hardware)

That's a lot of data to sift through but it spells years of trouble for the maintainers of the firewall, whether in China itself of in it client states Myanmar, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Ethiopia, all of which run versions of the same totalitarian control software.

Tech News

Didn't get a lot of time to test the tablets, but they are both set up and working fine.

The two 2560x1600 displays look great. The "paper-like" screen on the cheaper Idea Tab stands out in particular as a pleasant user experience. Colours don't pop quite the way they do on my OLED screens, but it's not washed out or muted, just not aggressive about grabbing your attention. It's listed as covering 72% of the NTSC colourspace, which is the number to look for - it's the equivalent of 100% sRGB. It doesn't seem to handle DCI-P3, which you'll find on televisions and OLED panels, but it's a perfectly good screen, and considering that it's on a budget tablet it's a very good screen. And the resolution is as sharp as you could ask for unless you have some very specific needs.

The CPU on the Idea Tab... Is a budget CPU.

Using the much more expensive Legion Tab (my price A$799), tasks are done before you can start to wait for them. Using the Idea Tab (my price A$249) it's not slow, exactly, but you can definitely feel the 2018 Arm A76 shouldering the weight of a 2024 version of Android.

Maybe I should have set up the slower model first.

I haven't tested sound extensively but the speakers on both tablets sound just fine at the default settings.

The 11" Idea Tab has a headphone jack and a microSD slot in addition to the USB-C port. The 8.8" Legion Tab has two USB-C ports, which might be useful, I guess, but I'd much rather they just return the headphone jack and microSD slot. (Reportedly the coming Legion Tab 4 will restore the microSD slot.)

I also need to test the pen that came with the Idea Tab. The web site doesn't say this, but according to 9to5Google that pen and only that pen also works with the Legion Tab. (You can also buy that pen by itself, but general-purpose Android pens aren't supported by the Legion Tab.)

Perfect opportunity to confirm this, or at least the first part.
Also mowed the lawn. Last time I did that I noted my cardiovascular health seemed to be shot from the earlier bout of RSV. It was just two days later that I got my scary blood pressure reading and found new things to worry about.

Last time I was worn out by the time I had mowed just the area directly in front of the house. This time my back was hurting by the time I had mowed that area and the much larger and much steeper stretch from the retaining wall bounding that first patch and the roadway, but I didn't need to take a break half-way through.

Definitely on the mend, but not fully mended.
Are heart attacks contagious? (TUNI)

I mean, probably not, but nobody believed that stomach ulcers and gastric cancer were largely caused by bacteria until Barry Marshall chugged a beaker of H. pylori in 1984 and landed himself in hospital and in the history books - winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology for an unauthorised experiment on himself.

(He got better.)
Five years ago KK Park in Myanmar was farmland. Now it's a bustling town, home to many of the country's 100,000 trafficked slaves working in scam call centers. (The Guardian)

Null route the entire fucking country.
We clean up after vibe coding. Literally. (404 Media)

Vibe coded your way into disaster? Know literally nothing and can't find your way out? Now you can outsource your mess to a Polish tech team which maybe you should have done in the first place.

(I took a moment to look up the location of one of the countries mentioned in the article. Not the third world. Potentially a viable solution.)
"Forever chemicals" have been found in 95% of beer tested in the US. (Science Daily)

At long last you can buy beer and not just rent it.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Down in both directions.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 04:33 AM (+qU29)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at September 14, 2025 04:33 AM (aURVT)

3 Mornin' Pixy.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 14, 2025 04:33 AM (O7YUW)

4 What a smorgasbord of tech-stuff!

Posted by: m at September 14, 2025 04:37 AM (aURVT)

5 Five years ago KK Park in Myanmar was farmland. Now it's a bustling town, home to many of the countries

countries --> country's

Posted by: m at September 14, 2025 04:38 AM (aURVT)

6 Top of the mornin' to all.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 14, 2025 04:39 AM (WO/K1)

7 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 14, 2025 04:39 AM (c3B7E)

8 5 countries --> country's
Posted by: m

I blame (throws dart) inflatable velociraptors.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 14, 2025 04:43 AM (BLOW1)

9 Had to look up Sunway Murderer as saw comment downstairs he was in a institution, he is in jail, some judge just ordered a mental evaluation.

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 04:43 AM (+qU29)

10 Wikipedia
The accompanying music video for "Y.M.C.A.", filmed in New York City in July 1978, features the band singing the song and dancing all over the city. The location shown the most is the original site of YMCA, McBurney, 213 West 23rd Street. Other filming locations included 395 West Street – site of the Ramrod gay club – the West Side Piers and Hudson River Park. It ends with the camera zooming in on the Empire State Building.

Posted by: m at September 14, 2025 04:44 AM (aURVT)

11 "Vibe coding" = "I should not be allowed near a compiler"

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at September 14, 2025 04:51 AM (N3+8y)

12 8 5 countries --> country's
Posted by: m

I blame (throws dart) inflatable velociraptors.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 14, 2025 04:43 AM (BLOW1)

That woulda been my first guess!

Posted by: m at September 14, 2025 04:54 AM (aURVT)

13 G'morning, all!

Second day back from B'More and Ocean City.

Early Church service, new members class, then the Church picnic today.

Back yard need mowing, and I'm debating putting the Volvo wagon back together without the new strut assemblies, as the new ones are back ordered for another month. Control arms, ball joints and axles are ready to go, and I really miss the wagon.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 14, 2025 04:57 AM (a1415)

14
Day old news, but I just heard about it...

Steven Crowder has been subpoenaed by ATF for leaks about what was found (text) on the Democrat murderer's casings.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 05:01 AM (CEIO6)

15 In another window, I'm watching

Charlie Kirk + Q&A / Debate | Cambridge Union
19th May 2025

https://youtu.be/dkiM-z0Mzyg

Posted by: m at September 14, 2025 05:04 AM (aURVT)

16 Seen more Charlie's videos in last few days than all others ever seen. He was very skilled at debating.

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 05:12 AM (+qU29)

17 "He was very skilled at debating."

That is why they killed him.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 14, 2025 05:14 AM (a1415)

18 Charlie Kirk on America's founding...

https://tinyurl.com/bdfrbcr3

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 05:15 AM (X+xvk)

19 No was thinking yesterday down to really a month and a half to go in hurricane season and have had next to nothing

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 05:16 AM (+qU29)

20 The BBC posted a heartfelt articleful of responses to Charlie's assassination from the Cambridge Union debaters.

https://www.bbc.com/news/
articles/c9wdp2ypq5vo

Posted by: m at September 14, 2025 05:23 AM (aURVT)

21 17 "He was very skilled at debating."

That is why they killed him.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 14, 2025 05:14 AM (a1415)

Looks like one guy killed him. Many celebrated the killing.

Posted by: m at September 14, 2025 05:24 AM (aURVT)

22 That's how it works, Propaganda works some into a frenzy and then those carry out the dirty deeds

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 05:25 AM (+qU29)

23 Looks like one guy killed him. Many celebrated the killing.

Posted by: m

Including members of the Oxford Union.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 05:25 AM (X+xvk)

24 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 14, 2025 05:26 AM (XQo4F)

25 We need all of the Discord chats. We need all of the texts. Friends of the Trantifa freak were celebrating Charlie's shooting moments after it happened. This network needs to be rolled up, and these twinks need to be thrown in prison.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 05:28 AM (X+xvk)

26 Michael Savage isn't buying the FBI's version of events.

Pretty interesting questions here.

https://tinyurl.com/3p5wtnd3

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 05:30 AM (X+xvk)

27
I'm glad 4Chan is on the case. Really.
I have way more confidence in $Chan's ability to investigate than the FBI.

I don't think half the FBI even wants to investigate this assassination.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 05:31 AM (CEIO6)

28 23 Looks like one guy killed him. Many celebrated the killing.

Posted by: m

Including members of the Oxford Union.
Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 05:25 AM (X+xvk)

Cambridge Union?

Posted by: m at September 14, 2025 05:32 AM (aURVT)

29
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 14, 2025 05:33 AM (tljrc)

30
By now you all saw/heard the photoshopped fake image of the Democrat assassin wearing a ______* t-shirt that the Entire left-wing/Democrat party was reposting since Friday.

But if you haven't, now you know.

*I don't want to put our President's name in the same sentence as that Democrat murderer.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 05:35 AM (CEIO6)

31 "Looks like one guy killed him. Many celebrated the killing."

By the legal definition, you are correct.A single person apparently committed the actual assassination.

But I still will lay his assassination at the feet of the Democrats, progressives, the liberal media, the education industry, and anyone else who spouted the ideology that created the environment needed for this to take place.

IOW, they own it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 14, 2025 05:37 AM (a1415)

32
That story about the scam call centers in Myanmar is horrifying.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2025 05:38 AM (bmq0V)

33 28 23 Looks like one guy killed him. Many celebrated the killing.

Posted by: m

Including members of the Oxford Union.
Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 05:25 AM (X+xvk)

Cambridge Union?

Posted by: m

Oxford Union condemns incoming leader for celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination

https://tinyurl.com/tunjz7u4

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 05:39 AM (X+xvk)

34 But I still will lay his assassination at the feet of the Democrats, progressives, the liberal media, the education industry, and anyone else who spouted the ideology that created the environment needed for this to take place.

IOW, they own it.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Thank you.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 05:41 AM (X+xvk)

35 Has there been a single act of violence committed in the entire world in the name of retribution for Charlie Kirk's assassination to date?

Any boarded up cities?

And fiery but mostly peaceful protests?

If there are, I am unaware of any.

A stark contrast in it's own right between the left and the right's overarching principles.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 14, 2025 05:46 AM (a1415)

36 Yesterday I went to officiate at ceremony where people were getting married after living together for about 24 years, They are lovely people and Republicans . There was a woman who was a friend of the wife. They practice Buddhism together She asked me how I knew the couple and I said we are in our township Republican group. She said that she is a Democrat, but she is horrified by stuff online . This is where I think people can come together. She wants peace in the world. I think it's people of good will of various religious traditions who come together.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 14, 2025 05:46 AM (looXz)

37 Fen hopefully many will see violence is not going to solve anything

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 05:49 AM (+qU29)

38 Yesterday here seemed to be batting around what was last if any conservative murder?

Too many get in that trap calling Far Right on the conservative side. Keep bringing it up Europeans are definitely stuck thinking National Socialism, ie Nazis are Right Wing that the Communists started in 1940doing.

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 05:53 AM (+qU29)

39 Note that George Abaraonye will still be allowed to assume the leadership mantle of the Oxford Union. They aren't happy that he so openly cheered Charlie Kirk's political assassination, because it causes them a small amount of embarrassment, but they aren't about to deny a fellow Leftist his position of power.

After all, a community college dropout from America came to their home court and schooled them in debate. To the degenerates at Oxford, there can hardly be any higher crime.

(Unless it involves pointing out Pakistani rape gangs, or waving the Union Jack...)

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 05:54 AM (X+xvk)

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 14, 2025 05:54 AM (a1415)

41 "Myanmar" "Why did you say 'Myanmar'?" "I panicked."

The joke was better with "Burma", IMO.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at September 14, 2025 06:00 AM (JBKUT)

42 I'll vibe code ANY project for $99,999.95. Cash up front, please.

Posted by: Earl Scheib at September 14, 2025 06:00 AM (PiwSw)

43 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 14, 2025 06:01 AM (hoCmQ)

44 Elon was at Tommie Robinson's thing electronically.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 14, 2025 06:03 AM (ZTk50)

45 Is a shithole still a shithole if you call it something else?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 14, 2025 06:05 AM (ZTk50)

46 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: I always like going south. It feels like going downhill.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 14, 2025 06:06 AM (WvZaB)

47 Evening and morning, all! Pixy, to start off a Sunday and a new week with "YMCA" is inspired. Plus it should inspire us all and remind us of Trump. Full speed ahead!

I'm basically awake after a dream of trying to charge my phone using a USB port in the rear shelf (what they used to call a "hat shelf" under the back glass) -- something my car does not have there -- and another of getting spaghetti sauce all over my trousers in a public restaurant. How was your night?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2025 06:08 AM (omVj0)

48 "Fen hopefully many will see violence is not going to solve anything"

The German National-Socialist German Worker's Party, various North American native tribes, and the citizens of Carthage would like to have a word with you. Among others, of course.

There are certain problems that only violence can solve; you may certainly claim that violence created almost all of that set of problems in the first place, and I'd agree. The US situation appears to be one of those violence created the problem that appears to need violence to solve.

I'd say the situation in England is one of those exceptions, unless the replaced population and culture is willing to disappear. I don't live there and don't really care what happens to them; they appear to be a future example of something bad. YMMV on this bit.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at September 14, 2025 06:13 AM (JBKUT)

49 Fen hopefully many will see violence is not going to solve anything
Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025

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Skip, the standard cynical answer is that violence solves a lot of things. Ask a Carthaginian, if you can find one. (Paraphrased from Robt. A. Heinlein) But yes, the hope is that violence will not break out over this, or if it does, it will be limited.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2025 06:14 AM (omVj0)

50 I have watched the video from the Tommy Robinson rally several times. Someone mentioned that the bobbies were trying to keep the crowd away from a group of counter protestors with pali flags. I never saw the counter protestors, did anyone else?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 14, 2025 06:15 AM (mFSH6)

51 It'll always be Burma to me, Elaine.

Posted by: J. Peterman at September 14, 2025 06:18 AM (XQo4F)

52 Having eaten, Stirling the big black cat is flashing around to burn off energy. Little Dagny is chilling on one of the dinette chairs. Both slept with me at various times last night; at one point I tried to turn over and felt pinned by a furry body on either side of my legs.

A second cup of coffee, and then I need to go work out. Grocery shopping can wait until tomorrow. I'll have time for breakfast before the Book Thread.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2025 06:19 AM (omVj0)

53 Ben didn't see any other flags , but read they tore one done so probably a few in the near future will get visited and cuffed for a H8 event

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 06:19 AM (+qU29)

54 Skip, I don't know about that. I think the Brit government is in a " oh shit, what do we do now" mode.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 14, 2025 06:24 AM (mFSH6)

55 So is the assassin a transexual? Because a few days ago I was assured he was a transexual. Maybe he could at least put on some lipstick for the mugshot.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 14, 2025 06:25 AM (XQo4F)

56 When they say "paper like" is that an eInk screen or an LCD with paper like qualities?

Had a tablet with an eInk screen and liked it for a lot of applications, but the lack of color was an issue.

Posted by: Voyager at September 14, 2025 06:26 AM (nmL8W)

57 I think the British government is deliberately provoking their populace into rebellion so they can claim justification for putting the people down by use of force. They want to bring in a combination of military and police to shut up these evil, patriotic Brexiteers.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 06:26 AM (X+xvk)

58 It seems Tyler wasn't a Trannie, his lover was.
Kind of like Dog Day Afternoon

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 06:27 AM (+qU29)

59 Did read somewhere the British government was hoping for a Jan6 outcome to call for a crackdown

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 06:28 AM (+qU29)

60 55 So is the assassin a transexual? Because a few days ago I was assured he was a transexual. Maybe he could at least put on some lipstick for the mugshot.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty

His boyfriend is. Or at least, he's moving in that direction.

He is allegedly on suicide watch. If he ever gets thrown into general population, he's going to wish he'd killed himself. Same goes for his little twink accomplices. If we ever get the full logs from the Discord chats, they're all cooked.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 06:29 AM (X+xvk)

61 Quarter Twenty , I don't and never did believe he was a deni (denialist , because I will never use that other word). I do believe he is antifa to the bone. I read that he is on suicide watch.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 14, 2025 06:29 AM (mFSH6)

62 Put Communist News Network on for a little they are talking about Harris's book how everyone was against her

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 06:30 AM (+qU29)

63 [i)Definitely on the mend, but not fully mended.

Good to hear, Pixy.

Consider getting a robot lawnmower so we can get another good tech review out of it, and you can get some rest.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 06:30 AM (6ydKt)

64 Just switched over to CNN, and boy-howdy! they want that man gone.
Therefor, he's my guy.

Posted by: MkY at September 14, 2025 06:32 AM (cPGH3)

65 OOps. referring to Kash

Posted by: MkY at September 14, 2025 06:32 AM (cPGH3)

66 59 Did read somewhere the British government was hoping for a Jan6 outcome to call for a crackdown

Posted by: Skip

I'm sure Starmer's Stormtroopers are salivating at the thought of having their own Tiananmen Square moment. Remember how frequently and fondly Joe Biden brought up the thought of using the military against the American people? Leftists really dig the totalitarian crap.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 06:33 AM (X+xvk)

67 19 No was thinking yesterday down to really a month and a half to go in hurricane season and have had next to nothing
Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 05:16 AM (+qU29)

We’ve been pretty lucky this year, that’s for sure.

Another month and we should be in the clear until next summer.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 06:35 AM (6ydKt)

68 57 I think the British government is deliberately provoking their populace into rebellion so they can claim justification for putting the people down by use of force. They want to bring in a combination of military and police to shut up these evil, patriotic Brexiteers.
Posted by: Sam Adams

Considering the state of the British police, they're likely to end up like Nepal with that plan.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 14, 2025 06:38 AM (BLOW1)

69 Wait. The cold blooded murderer assassin has a boyfriend who thinks he's a girlfriend? Gross. Glad I haven't done an Algor's Amazing Internet Deep Dive™ into this person's story.

At least tell me the boyfriend slash girlfriend has been arrested as an accomplice and is wearing lipstick in his slash her mugshot.

Lie if you have to..

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 14, 2025 06:40 AM (XQo4F)

70 Andy Ngo has thoughts about the assassin, and his alleged lover.

https://tinyurl.com/27fp9asd

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 14, 2025 06:43 AM (a1415)

71 56 When they say "paper like" is that an eInk screen or an LCD with paper like qualities?

Had a tablet with an eInk screen and liked it for a lot of applications, but the lack of color was an issue.
Posted by: Voyager at September 14, 2025 06:26 AM (nmL8W)

‘Paper like’ means like a semi-gloss or matte finish on the display, so when you touch it it feels more like a really smooth premium paper as opposed to feeling like glass. It also has much less glare for that reason.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 06:44 AM (6ydKt)

72 Roommate/ sex partner is cooperating with the Eff Bee Eye reports say

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 06:48 AM (+qU29)

73 70 Andy Ngo has thoughts about the assassin, and his alleged lover.

https://tinyurl.com/27fp9asd
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 14, 2025 06:43 AM (a1415)

So Robinson was living with and in love with a Trans Furry.

Well that explains the messages on the bullet cases, and the motive.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 06:48 AM (6ydKt)

74 Considering the state of the British police, they're likely to end up like Nepal with that plan.

Posted by: Pixy Misa

I don't think that would leave them in a worse place than they're in right now.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 06:48 AM (X+xvk)

75 VIA just read that

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 06:48 AM (+qU29)

76 56 When they say "paper like" is that an eInk screen or an LCD with paper like qualities?

LCD with a high-quality matte finish; for once "paper-like" is not an exaggeration. I really need to find how the pen feels, because the screen looks perfect for things like note-taking.

The one drawback, as I mentioned, is speed. There's also the Idea Tab Plus which has a larger version of the same screen, is about twice as fast and has twice the memory and storage of this model, albeit for twice the price. If I end up using this one a lot I'll consider that the next time it goes on sale.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 14, 2025 06:49 AM (BLOW1)

77 " was thinking yesterday down to really a month and a half to go in hurricane season and have had next to nothing
Posted by: Skip"

The Experts have come up with a new weather term for Georgia, "sudden drought". If we don't get a hurricane soon we all gonna die.

mornin yall

Posted by: fd at September 14, 2025 06:49 AM (vFG9F)

78 Also been pointed out by a few, the Eff Bee Eye all these years seems to have had a verboten looking on Antifa.

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 06:50 AM (+qU29)

79 I'm beginning to suspect that transgenderism and mental illness ride adjacent horses on the carousel of life.

While the calliope plays in the background.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 14, 2025 06:52 AM (a1415)

80 78 Also been pointed out by a few, the Eff Bee Eye all these years seems to have had a verboten looking on Antifa.

Posted by: Skip

James Comey was a Commie. The FBI knelt in subservience to BLM. Chris Wray claimed Trantifa was just an idea. Wray also claimed that Trump wasn't directly shot in Butler, PA.

Now we hear that the Utah FBI had pictures of the shooter for over twelve hours before turning them over to Patel. There is a distinct pattern of protection here for the Left's violent, Marxist tranny army.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 06:54 AM (X+xvk)

81 I went an ordered an iPhone 17 pro max. After all is said and done, my bill will be 10$ less per month for the privilege.

Posted by: Accomack at September 14, 2025 06:58 AM (+sNap)

82 How much did it cost you to save ten dollars a month?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 14, 2025 07:00 AM (XQo4F)

83 The 11" Idea Tab has a headphone jack and a microSD slot in addition to the USB-C port. The 8.8" Legion Tab has two USB-C ports, which might be useful, I guess, but I'd much rather they just return the headphone jack and microSD slot. (Reportedly the coming Legion Tab 4 will restore the microSD slot.)

I suppose they think you should buy a USB-C headphone cable and use a small USB-C flash drive for extra storage.

It would be better as you suggest, but at least it’s something.

*glares at the single USB-C port on the bottom of his iPad*

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 07:03 AM (6ydKt)

84 Watching some coverage of Charlie Kirk's assassination. It's depressing yet inspiring with all the tributes to him.

Just wait, the lefties will say Trump had him shot to further his cause. They are despicable scum in some of their reactions.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at September 14, 2025 07:07 AM (55Qr6)

85 80$ upfront on a 36 month deal. Bill goes from 115 to 105. I get new phones about every 4 years. I moved on this now because of the trade in.
I think we are at peak phone tech now.

Posted by: Accomack at September 14, 2025 07:07 AM (+sNap)

86 Transgenderism is the saddle on the mental illness nag.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2025 07:08 AM (W4Tso)

87 The "right" will never burn shit down in a riot because we live there. We work there. We shop there.

And when the right gets rowdy, it's to make the world better. Not worse.

The left brings shitters in from all over the country. They don't care about the local business, the community, any of that. They destroy without compunction. Because none of it is theirs, and their aim is to make it worse.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 07:08 AM (06Hmj)

88 I'm looking forward to a future road trip where I visit every newly named Charlie Kirk Street, Avenue, Court, Terrace, Boulevard and Parkway in the country.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 14, 2025 07:12 AM (XQo4F)

89 88 I'm looking forward to a future road trip where I visit every newly named Charlie Kirk Street, Avenue, Court, Terrace, Boulevard and Parkway in the country.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 14, 2025 07:12 AM (XQo4F)

Make sure you snap a pic of the odometer when it hits 999,999.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 07:17 AM (06Hmj)

90 Tech is like cars: you lose money on the deal unless you keep them for a long time.
I have Amazon Prime and WalMart+. How much do I spend on tech and WiFi to avoid driving everywhere for everything?
Capital investments to make more preferred choices with our scarce time.

Posted by: Accomack at September 14, 2025 07:18 AM (+sNap)

91 The new iPhone Air is not impressive to Marques Brownlee, other than the thinness and look of the design.

https://youtu.be/idEAABFzpfg

The camera isn’t as good as the lower prices iPhone 17 base model, and nowhere near as good as the cameras on the Pro model.

He is also worried that the Air will have terrible battery life due to the thinness and since it’s made of titanium, unlike the aluminum bodies in the other two models, that it will get a lot hotter.

Marques is tempted to believe that the new iPhone Air is probably Apple’s first design for a new thinner type of iPhone and that this is a first step in getting a foldable phone from Apple on the next few years.
—-

It does look cool, but at $999 I’d rather get the iPhone 17 and save $200 and get a better camera and battery life.

But it’s perfect for people who prefer cutting edge beauty over function.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 07:19 AM (6ydKt)

92 Now we hear that the Utah FBI had pictures of the shooter for over twelve hours before turning them over to Patel. There is a distinct pattern of protection here for the Left's violent, Marxist tranny army.
Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 06:54 AM (X+xvk)

Maybe, possibly, maybe, they thought that if they could get the guy on their own, they could hog all the glory.

I highly doubt that. But it might, by some astronomical odds, be true.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 07:19 AM (06Hmj)

93 Definitely on the mend, but not fully mended.
Definitely a good thing to hear.

Posted by: GWB at September 14, 2025 07:19 AM (RTQn+)

94 If you do decide to get a robot mower, really push the company to see what temperature restrictions the mower has.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at September 14, 2025 07:20 AM (JBKUT)

95 86 Transgenderism is the saddle on the mental illness nag.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 14, 2025 07:08 AM (W4Tso)

and furryism is the assless chaps on the retard riding it backwards.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 07:21 AM (06Hmj)

96
I might link, but I just watched a clip of the Oregon Ducks coach, sharing some thoughts on Charlie, guns, etc. It was okay, nothing great, some "both sides" bullshit, but okay.

But what struck me is how this Coach got into the odd habit of smiling while talking, no matter what the subject. At times it was just weird. But he constantly smiles, like a grinning fucking idiot. It's weird.

https://is.gd/a20UXK

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:22 AM (CEIO6)

97 So is the assassin a transexual? Because a few days ago I was assured he was a transexual. Maybe he could at least put on some lipstick for the mugshot.

No. The killer is a violent, militant homosexual. No lipstick needed until the sodomite gets to prison.

Posted by: Warden Samuel Norton at September 14, 2025 07:22 AM (R/m4+)

98
Oh, and the woke faggots from the shitty band Coldplay acknowledged Charlie Kirk. Weaksauce, but probably a big deal for them to do it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:24 AM (CEIO6)

99 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 14, 2025 07:24 AM (ppG5b)

100 The real lesson in all of this is that you never, ever hook up with a roommate, even if you are trannies and furfags.

That way lies madness.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 07:27 AM (06Hmj)

101 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 07:27 AM (u82oZ)

102 Good morning morons

Pixy a prayer for complete and speedy recovery

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 07:27 AM (RIvkX)

103 I'm willing to believe almost any rumor about the fibbies being on the wrong side...
their essential core of alliance with evil is what I have confidence in.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 14, 2025 07:27 AM (ppG5b)

104 Phones are heading towards gimmickry as a selling point. My 13 is a very good phone and the camera fine for a family man and CYA work photos. A folding phone? Nah, I need a durable phone.
I like the Apple interface so I will stick with them.
The NSA has access and security is based your network's servers. And Pixy has shown that is an illusion despite our increasingly intricate password polkas.

Posted by: Accomack at September 14, 2025 07:28 AM (+sNap)

105 Wifey bought a foldy phone, and she loves it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 07:28 AM (06Hmj)

106 Password Polka was a hit for the Schmenge Brothers back in the day...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 14, 2025 07:28 AM (PiwSw)

107 Good morning everyone. Thx Pixy , praying that you feel better. As a person with a serious heart condition I would advise you stay consistently active. Don't overdo it.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 14, 2025 07:34 AM (Ve63F)

108 I don't really know that the killer of Iryna is that much worse than the people who sat there watching a woman get her throat cut and acted like it was just a bum pissing in the corner.

I get if you don't want to stick your neck out and get murdered yourself, no one is obligated to be a hero (that's part of the definition of heroism), but at least show *some* emotion, some kind of reaction, maybe flee to the other end of the car, something. But to just roll your eyes and look away in annoyance? That takes even more insanity than the murder itself.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 07:34 AM (06Hmj)

109 History teaches the only solution to communism.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 07:35 AM (RIvkX)

110
heh.
I just heard someone make a great point:

They (govt & fascist corporations' influence on the govt) SHUT DOWN fucking Parler because it was "inciting" "violence" and "insurrections." But that hive of wretched scum & evil, Bluesky is still operating.

Bluesky & Tik Tok are terrorist grooming grounds.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:35 AM (CEIO6)

111 Pixy Misa

Glad to hear you are on the mend.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 07:36 AM (u82oZ)

112
shirley You People do remember Parler, yes?

And you remember how it was shut the fuck down because of Jan 6th.

Wasn't that Dan Bongo's platform?

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:37 AM (CEIO6)

113 Wasn't that Dan Bongo's platform?
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:37 AM (CEIO6)

Oh crap, that's right. I actually did forget about that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 07:38 AM (06Hmj)

114 I get if you don't want to stick your neck out and get murdered yourself, no one is obligated to be a hero (that's part of the definition of heroism), but at least show *some* emotion, some kind of reaction, maybe flee to the other end of the car, something. But to just roll your eyes and look away in annoyance? That takes even more insanity than the murder itself.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 07:34 AM (06Hmj)
=====

Riding SEPTA desensitizes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 07:38 AM (RIvkX)

115
And they tried to shut down Rumble, too.

Remind me again who Parler's competition was? Some other platform had a CEO who was constantly ragging on Parler, but he was sus as all get out.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:39 AM (CEIO6)

116 San Franpsycho

A number of countries have abandoned Communism when the external occupying power did not enforce obedience.

But I think only Nepal, France, and Chile have forced a change to no Communists in control.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 07:39 AM (u82oZ)

117 It's interesting how useful the tools of Kremlinolgy are now. If a politician's party is not mentioned in a news article, you know he or she is a Democrat.

If a terrorist's identity is not named, or if the authorities say "we may never know the motivation" you know the perp is either a Democrat or a Muslim.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 14, 2025 07:40 AM (PiwSw)

118 Definitely on the mend, but not fully mended.

Crickey, don't go anywhere, friend.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 14, 2025 07:40 AM (mlg/3)

119 I would leave BlueSky and TicTok alone. It is all admissible self incrimination.
We know they are lunatics bent on destroying civilization and the easier it is for others to see and learn, the closer we get to winning the culture war with Marxism.
Islam we will have fight face to face in the laundry mats and deli counters.

Posted by: Accomack at September 14, 2025 07:40 AM (FqNtp)

120
I've not been following the shooter story closely, but yesterday there was a lot of screeching on the Left that "He wasn't trans and stop saying he was and stop picking on trans, generally!"

Whatever.

How about we start using a term coined by you and seemingly preferred by you -- "adjacent"?

The shooter was "LGBTQ+ adjacent". We'll hold to that until all the votes are in and counted before declaring into which bin the ID tag settled. Is that good enough for you?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 14, 2025 07:41 AM (Tv15w)

121 Islam we will have fight face to face in the laundry mats and deli counters.
Posted by: Accomack at September 14, 2025 07:40 AM (FqNtp)

The muzzie's natural enemies.

Cured pork products, and clean clothes.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 07:41 AM (06Hmj)

122 Accomack, agree 100%. I want them continually exposing themselves.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 14, 2025 07:42 AM (mFSH6)

123
Oh! I remember now.

GAB

Remember GAB?
It turned into a huge anti-jew shit show. We're so free speech, the wacky CEO would say, and he did everything he could to shut down Parler. So the CEO ended up looking like a total Glowie, trying to make Us, the "right," look bad by allowing all kinds of douche bags to say whatever they wanted on Gab.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:43 AM (CEIO6)

124 But I think only Nepal, France, and Chile have forced a change to no Communists in control.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 07:39 AM (u82oZ)
=====

Indonesia.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 07:43 AM (RIvkX)

125 124 But I think only Nepal, France, and Chile have forced a change to no Communists in control.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 07:39 AM (u82oZ)
=====

Indonesia.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 07:43 AM (RIvkX)

North Korea... technically.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 07:44 AM (06Hmj)

126 Are heart attacks contagious? (TUNI)

--

From the link, it almost sounds like the arterial plaque is a way the body tries to contain the bacteria initially., keeping it dormant
Which works until a virus or something else breaks that and allows the bacteria get free and spread, then inflammation is the second defense that leads finally to a heart attack.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 14, 2025 07:45 AM (J5RCE)

127
do You People even remember the deep, deep mess we were in in 2021 & 2022? We were lost. We were finished. We were getting "canceled" and "de-banked" and investigated and prosecuted.

Thank God for Donald Trump.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:45 AM (CEIO6)

128 I might add Hungary too because although they remained firmly a one party state in the Soviet orbit the economy became fairly liberalized and loosened state direction as a result of the 1956 revolution.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 07:46 AM (RIvkX)

129 While I was at the grocery store, a song was playing on the PA which raises an important question.

'Temperature', by Sean Paul, make the claim that he has the right right temperature to shelter the female he is conversing with from a storm. But he never specifies what temperature has this property.

Given that he is Jamaican, you would expect him to tell his countrymen. Sad.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2025 07:46 AM (ExV1e)

130
btw, the great Roseanna Barr took the piss outta this weekend's jew conspiracy jerkoffs wilding out over the "mossad" doing the assassination

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:48 AM (CEIO6)

131
Ironically, the vaunted mossad couldn't take a shit in a toilet -- they are as incompetent & corrupt & useless as our CIA.

(yeah, yeah, but what about the exploding beepers!? Luck.)

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:51 AM (CEIO6)

132 After debating Grok for two days about transgenderism and science I have learned that LLMs are somewhat useful in that they are capable of maintaining a debate for any length of time without threatening to shoot me.

Posted by: pawn at September 14, 2025 07:51 AM (PmITa)

133 lol, I wasn't going for that connection, just public places where Christian liberty meets muslym hegemony.
Trump's super power is never lashing out. I understand how upset many of us are over Kirk's death but spontaneous violence would not help us, think Catholics and Protestants in Ireland. As much as we disparage it, voting still produces results and the vast majority of America still wants to vote our way out.

Posted by: Accomack at September 14, 2025 07:52 AM (FqNtp)

134 San Franpsycho

Thanks. Added to the list.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 07:55 AM (u82oZ)

135
irony...

How ironic is it that TMZ got TMZ'd?

(I was wrong about TMZ -- I initially believed those asswipes a few days ago when they apologized and gave their [false] reason for the cheering. After seeing more evidence, I now know I was wrong -- they did lie.)

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:55 AM (CEIO6)

136 Remember GAB?
It turned into a huge anti-jew shit show. We're so free speech, the wacky CEO would say, and he did everything he could to shut down Parler. So the CEO ended up looking like a total Glowie, trying to make Us, the "right," look bad by allowing all kinds of douche bags to say whatever they wanted on Gab.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:43 AM (CEIO6)

Gab is still around.
gab.com

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 07:58 AM (6ydKt)

137 As the thermo-meter registers 36°F this morning am reminded once again how wonderful propane is generally, and Catalytic type heaters are specifically.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2025 07:58 AM (uywL/)

138 116
'But I think only Nepal, France, and Chile have forced a change to no Communists in control.'

When did France throw out its Communists?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 14, 2025 07:59 AM (3wi/L)

139 Dr. Claw

1871, after the Paris Commune.

They came back about 30-35 years later.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:00 AM (u82oZ)

140 139
'They came back about 30-35 years later.'

Yeah. I was going to say, they didn't throw them far enough away.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 14, 2025 08:04 AM (3wi/L)

141 I read that Iryna had bought a car and was learning how to drive. If she'd just had a little more time....

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 14, 2025 08:05 AM (kUxzU)

142 135 irony...

How ironic is it that TMZ got TMZ'd?

(I was wrong about TMZ -- I initially believed those asswipes a few days ago when they apologized and gave their [false] reason for the cheering. After seeing more evidence, I now know I was wrong -- they did lie.)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:55 AM (CEIO6)

They claimed the cheering was from watching a car chase video in LA.

Well, some bright bulb took the car chase vidro they were watching and it turns out the LA nes station they were watching announced Charlie Kirk’s death while the car chase was on screen.

So they were cheering during the car chase but only because they heard Charlie was dead while watching it.

I never really liked TMZ much anyhow.
Far too much celebrity worship by Cali lefties for me.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 08:05 AM (6ydKt)

143 134 San Franpsycho

Thanks. Added to the list.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 07:55 AM (u82oZ)

Romania?

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 14, 2025 08:06 AM (6qAtw)

144 Notsothoreau

Being in Charlotte and having to rely on public transport killer her. Very Sad.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:06 AM (u82oZ)

145 I haven't watched this video all the way through, but it promises to be good. A Black Gay man gets red pilled.

https://youtu.be/N14ywRyTWVI

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 14, 2025 08:08 AM (PiwSw)

146 Cow Demon

I debated about Romania and Yugoslavia. Should I include them? The USSR was a force for maintaining the repressive governments there, even without troops in country.

Victor Suvorov mentions this in one of his books. No one in Russia wanted to go to Romania or Yugoslavia.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:10 AM (u82oZ)

147 So the CEO ended up looking like a total Glowie, trying to make Us, the "right," look bad by allowing all kinds of douche bags to say whatever they wanted on Gab.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 07:43 AM (CEIO6)

You cannot say that you have completely free speech and then say except to bitch about Jews.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2025 08:11 AM (ExV1e)

148 Vidro is a new word.
I invented it so it’s mine now.

Vidro™

Amazing how autocucumber didn’t catch it before but every time I try to type Vidro now, it wants to change it to video.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 08:12 AM (6ydKt)

149 Funny how all the chat platforms except X have turned out to be nothing. Some watch Truth social to see what Trump says, Bluesky has turned into a toxically comic hellhole of hate and declining usership, “threads” which is affiliated with Facebook consists of grandparents talking about their grandchildren.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 14, 2025 08:13 AM (5Gg6R)

150 Funny how all the chat platforms except X have turned out to be nothing. Some watch Truth social to see what Trump says, Bluesky has turned into a toxically comic hellhole of hate and declining usership, “threads” which is affiliated with Facebook consists of grandparents talking about their grandchildren.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 14, 2025 08:13 AM (5Gg6R)

I'll always have MySpace!

Posted by: Stuck in 2005 at September 14, 2025 08:14 AM (R/m4+)

151 After debating Grok for two days about transgenderism and science I have learned that LLMs are somewhat useful in that they are capable of maintaining a debate for any length of time without threatening to shoot me.
Posted by: pawn

"For now" - CCP.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 14, 2025 08:14 AM (mlg/3)

152 I liked MySpace for several years.
You could customize the pages, had your own message board, could add music and video and gifs.

My new friend “Tom” loved my page and was quite welcoming when I first got there.

They should make MySpace popular again.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 08:18 AM (6ydKt)

153 They should make MySpace popular again.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

I believe this is called 'trolling.'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 14, 2025 08:21 AM (mlg/3)

154 The Eff Bee Eye had shooters pictures for 12 hours before turning over to Patel because they had to make sure he wasn't one of their minions

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 08:24 AM (+qU29)

155 You can use Slack to talk with a group of like-minded friends.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 14, 2025 08:24 AM (XQo4F)

156 153 They should make MySpace popular again.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

I believe this is called 'trolling.'
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 14, 2025 08:21 AM (mlg/3)

Who? Me!?
Never!

It’s still a thing..👇🏻

https://myspace.com/

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 08:24 AM (6ydKt)

157 Back from my workout, showered and fed. What'd I miss? Something about this Robinson freak being an even bigger freak than we thought?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2025 08:25 AM (omVj0)

158 Prodigy network for the win!

Posted by: Common Tater at September 14, 2025 08:26 AM (YD9e9)

159 "I like the Apple interface so I will stick with them."

The only good thing about the Apple interface is the alt-space (or apple-space for those who only use Apple crap) interface to launch applications.

Their desktop interface sucks absolute ass (work gives me a Macbook) for multiple monitors.FWIW, I don't run MS Windows enough to bitch about that UI. My linux desktops (mainly KDE) understand how virtual desktops operate.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at September 14, 2025 08:26 AM (JBKUT)

160 I liked MySpace for several years.
You could customize the pages, had your own message board, could add music and video and gifs.

My new friend “Tom” loved my page and was quite welcoming when I first got there.

They should make MySpace popular again.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025

***
I remember seeing that actress Kim Darby of True Grit fame had a MySpace page maybe 15-20 years ago.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2025 08:26 AM (omVj0)

161 Hungary and Poland, definitely.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 08:29 AM (06Hmj)

162 You cannot say that you have completely free speech and then say except to bitch about Jews.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

“Absolute” free speech is a false goal that we like to pay lip service to, but which is in fact a self destructive fantasy. Look at us right here - we don’t allow it, because there is some speech that is so toxic that it drives out anyone who wants to have a reasoned, intelligent conversation. And there are always people who will destroy a conversation just to say “look at me! Look at me!”
So speech should as free as possible while still blocking the deliberately toxic and vicious.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 14, 2025 08:29 AM (5Gg6R)

163 "Remember GAB?
It turned into a huge anti-jew shit show. We're so free speech, the wacky CEO would say, and he did everything he could to shut down Parler. So the CEO ended up looking like a total Glowie, trying to make Us, the "right," look bad by allowing all kinds of douche bags to say whatever they wanted on Gab. "

So, what do you think "free speech" looks like?

Posted by: Richard Cranium at September 14, 2025 08:30 AM (JBKUT)

164 So speech should as free as possible while still blocking the deliberately toxic and vicious.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 14, 2025 08:29 AM (5Gg6R)

That is precisely what the Left claims that they do when they ban us.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2025 08:31 AM (ExV1e)

165 Oh, back from grocery shopping
I owe money, to tje money, to the money I owe

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 08:32 AM (+qU29)

166 You can't stop people from being wrong and dumb and probably evil. It's a sucker's game.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 08:32 AM (06Hmj)

167 Maybe, possibly, maybe, they thought that if they could get the guy on their own, they could hog all the glory.

Ironically, when the FIB practically said "The dude is in the wind, maybe the public will have a better chance" the punk turned himself in.

I sort of wish that there was a throw-back to the old days when the criminal feared the angry mob more than they feared the police.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 14, 2025 08:35 AM (a4flb)

168 I'm all for multiple forums. Let the crazy people have their own little corners to stew in. Makes it easier to keep an eye on them, and gives them somewhere to be that isn't anywhere near me.

You'd think it'd be a dawdle with LLM tools available. Go ahead, believe the Earth is flat. Believe we're governed by lizards. Believe that Jews are behind your microwave's potato button not working anymore.

And when you start to say "we should do something about these non-euclidian potato-hating lizard-Jews, here's the plan", then we'll know who you are and can probably stop you before you launch an armed assault against the Hague or whatever.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 08:36 AM (06Hmj)

169 Warai-otoko

Under the Russian thumb. Lack of their response was the key to their freedom.

On the full list of all Communist countries that are now under a different government, sure.

I think there are only 5 communist countries left.

Powerless Cuba, North Korea, China, Laos, and Vietnam. The first three are hardest hit by bad governance.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:39 AM (u82oZ)

170 So speech should as free as possible while still blocking the deliberately toxic and vicious.

I like that speech is free, but one must expect the consequences. And by consequences, I'm not talking about government regulations and enforcement. Like acknowledging through loud salutation your friend "Jack" when you are in a TSA line getting you thrown on to a No Fly List.

Playground rules basically. Fighting words result in seeing a dentist or physical therapist, but not a trauma ward.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 14, 2025 08:39 AM (a4flb)

171 " believe the Earth is flat."

Nobody in my chapter of the Flat Earth Society has ever advocated violence against any of you round earthers.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at September 14, 2025 08:40 AM (89Sog)

172 Powerless Cuba, North Korea, China, Laos, and Vietnam. The first three are hardest hit by bad governance.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:39 AM (u82oZ)

And really, Vietnam is pretty much Communist in Name Only these days. They're more like a garden variety corrupt republic that dresses up like a Commie for parades on holidays.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 08:40 AM (06Hmj)

173 "So speech should as free as possible while still blocking the deliberately toxic and vicious."

Define "deliberately toxic and vicious".

I must confess that it's really fucking useful for your enemies to voluntarily unmask themselves. Ambush predators hide to consume their prey.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at September 14, 2025 08:40 AM (JBKUT)

174
do You People understand the difference between "free speech" and the First Amendment's freedom of speech?

First Amendment prohibits the government from curtailing our speech. But privately owned businesses can censor speech on their premises.

If YOU owned a social media platform, would YOU allow total uncensored speech? No, you would not, because that's dumb. But you would if you were a Glowie and wanted to create a platform to gather "right wingers" and set them up.

I'm almost starting to believe Bluesky is an op. But then I remember that the Democrats are both evil & stupid, so they don't have enough sense to see they created a monster that is doing great harm to the Democrat party.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 08:41 AM (CEIO6)

175 All the memorials to "Charlie" makes me think of Charlie Gard, who didn't get nearly as many. He's the baby the UK government killed because they were afraid treatment in another country, Italy had offered to take him, might prove successful and then other parents with sick children would stop meekly accepting fatal diagnoses.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 14, 2025 08:42 AM (lFFaq)

176 Nobody in my chapter of the Flat Earth Society has ever advocated violence against any of you round earthers.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at September 14, 2025 08:40 AM (89Sog)

I know, bad example, I just needed a third "incredibly wrong thing people get worked up over" for symmetry and that's what I came up with.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 08:42 AM (06Hmj)

177
Does Ace allow "free speech," here?
Why not?

You know why not.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 08:42 AM (CEIO6)

178 I bitch about joos all day long.

Especially my mother and her yenta friends.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 08:42 AM (RIvkX)

179 Somewhere South of I-80

Ask you chapter this. If an island is land surrounded by water, and a lake is water surrounded by land,
what do you call is when the left side of the disk is all land, and the right side in all water? 50%-50%?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:42 AM (u82oZ)

180 Powerless Cuba, North Korea, China, Laos, and Vietnam.

You never, ever hear anything about Laos in the news or otherwise. I think only 7 million people live there.

I wonder if the Swells will turn that into the must go destination in the near future.

Posted by: Travelocity at September 14, 2025 08:43 AM (R/m4+)

181 You'd think it'd be a dawdle with LLM tools available. Go ahead, believe the Earth is flat. Believe we're governed by lizards. Believe that Jews are behind your microwave's potato button not working anymore.

It seems that LLM training data comes from those forums. I ask ChatGPT why the potato button isn't working and I'm given a lecture on genocide in Gaza.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 14, 2025 08:43 AM (a4flb)

182
oh hi, Polliwog

Have you not been around in a while, or have I just missed you when you're here?

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 08:43 AM (CEIO6)

183 what do you call is when the left side of the disk is all land, and the right side in all water? 50%-50%?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:42 AM (u82oZ)

Oooh! Oooh! I know this one!

Posted by: Hank Johnson (D-Luded) at September 14, 2025 08:43 AM (06Hmj)

184 I wonder if the Swells will turn that into the must go destination in the near future.
Posted by: Travelocity at September 14, 2025 08:43 AM (R/m4+)

Aren't they in the middle of a big civil war right now?

Posted by: Hank Johnson (D-Luded) at September 14, 2025 08:44 AM (06Hmj)

185 Off, sock.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 08:44 AM (06Hmj)

186 "Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:42 AM (u82oZ)"

We are not devotees of heretical thoughts. It disrupts karaoke night.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at September 14, 2025 08:45 AM (89Sog)

187 I just watched the Michael Savage video,

He does make a good point.

Who reassembles a rifle in the woods to hide it after disassembling it on the roof to make a quick getaway?

That part definitely doesn’t seem logical at all.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 08:46 AM (6ydKt)

188
I know, bad example, I just needed a third "incredibly wrong thing people get worked up over" for symmetry and that's what I came up with.

Then for your own safety, you should steer clear of the 9mm vs .45, longbow or cross bow, or Ginger or Maryanne conflicts.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 14, 2025 08:46 AM (a4flb)

189 Travelocity

Leeches, poverty, unknown diseases, unexploded weapons, and land mines your favorites? Visit Laos. We have a wonderful Karst system to explore.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:47 AM (u82oZ)

190 That part definitely doesn’t seem logical at all.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 08:46 AM (6ydKt)
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Been wondering that too.

Posted by: Weasel at September 14, 2025 08:47 AM (KX0bc)

191 - Was on gab for about a year, maybe.

Then the owner started pushing videos by some "pastor." Andrew something. Fisker maybe?
Full preterist which, by itself, is idiocy. Also pushing the heretical, church has replaced Israel, guacamole.

I don't support heretics. Bye.

Posted by: TeeJ at September 14, 2025 08:47 AM (eDPLA)

192 That part definitely doesn’t seem logical at all.

You are expecting logic from someone who is shacked up with a tranny?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 14, 2025 08:47 AM (a4flb)

193 178 I bitch about joos all day long.

Especially my mother and her yenta friends.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 08:42 AM (RIvkX)

Even the strongest man can only take so much.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 08:47 AM (6ydKt)

194 Somewhere South of I-80

Wow. May your karaoke nights harden you to a power of good. Ask Yoko to visit for the final armor installment.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:48 AM (u82oZ)

195 Then for your own safety, you should steer clear of the 9mm vs .45, longbow or cross bow, or Ginger or Maryanne conflicts.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 14, 2025 08:46 AM (a4flb)

12 ga. / sling / Mrs. Howell.

I got no dog in any of those fights.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 08:49 AM (06Hmj)

196
That's no mystery, I'd put the rifle back together in case I needed it. I would assume I am being chased or followed or who knows, someone might have seen me. At least now I have a weapon to use in case I run into somebody.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 08:49 AM (CEIO6)

197 Powerless Cuba, North Korea, China, Laos, and Vietnam.

You never, ever hear anything about Laos in the news or otherwise. I think only 7 million people live there.

I wonder if the Swells will turn that into the must go destination in the near future.
Posted by: Travelocity at September 14, 2025 08:43 AM (R/m4+)

The problem with Laos is that it's laosy place to go.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 14, 2025 08:49 AM (iJfKG)

198 Morning peeps.

My wife and I had a fairly candid discussion yesterday on the Kirk assassination, the disinformation and propaganda operation spawned by it, and our government's (at least some of it) role in all that.

She had been a bit less skeptical than I am on a lot of things. Now.... she's not so sure.

Point being; a lot of nominal conservatives probably "woke up" to the realities we're faced with in dealing with the Feds, the left, and the entities that control them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 14, 2025 08:49 AM (Q4IgG)

199 I have the feeling again the facts of this shooting will go down the rabbit hole.
You just need to know shooter had a rifle he got legally and did it all by himself, especially after just 1 semester at Utah awhile ago.

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 08:49 AM (+qU29)

200 106 Password Polka was a hit for the Schmenge Brothers back in the day...
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes

They were the Kings, but they abdicated the Throne!

Posted by: Lenny Gomulka and the Chicago Push at September 14, 2025 08:49 AM (oftw2)

201 I imagine all the late-stage "Communist" countries, certainly China and Vietnam, operate their economies like gang style oligarchies, military-owned enterprises, and slavery extortion schemes.

These countries do not provide their populace with ANY education, health care, disability, unemployment, or retirement schemes like most westerners presume.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 08:49 AM (RIvkX)

202 192 That part definitely doesn’t seem logical at all.

You are expecting logic from someone who is shacked up with a tranny?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 14, 2025 08:47 AM (a4flb)

He was logical enough to pull off an assassination in front of thousands of people.

I’m not saying he’s a genius by any stretch but he had enough brain cells to get as far as he did.

I’m just thinking he had very little time to put the rifle back together while he was running for his life.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 14, 2025 08:50 AM (6ydKt)

203 196 - But run into someone when? If the plan was to ditch it, you'd remain in that location as short a time as possible.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at September 14, 2025 08:51 AM (XvL8K)

204 Warai-otoko

I too am beyond the event horizon, when Mrs. Howell is more interesting than Ginger or Mary Ann.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:51 AM (u82oZ)

205 "Wow. May your karaoke nights harden you to a power of good. Ask Yoko to visit for the final armor installment."

The Ladies Auxiliary are having the annual bake sell here shortly. Yoko's screeching would deflate the cakes !!

What have we ever done to you for you to suggest such a horrible thing?

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at September 14, 2025 08:51 AM (89Sog)

206 Walmart closing all their Portland stores. I don't think there are many of them

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 14, 2025 08:52 AM (kUxzU)

207 Leeches, poverty, unknown diseases, unexploded weapons, and land mines your favorites? Visit Laos. We have a wonderful Karst system to explore.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:47 AM (u82oZ)

Sounds exciting! I hope they have Starbucks and Sushi!

Posted by: Mumsy And Dadsy Archibald III at September 14, 2025 08:52 AM (R/m4+)

208 SpeakingOf

Who helped him?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:54 AM (u82oZ)

209 People in Portland think its not "cool" to use an umbrella in the rain.

Idiots.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 08:54 AM (RIvkX)

210 Full preterist which, by itself, is idiocy. Also pushing the heretical, church has replaced Israel, guacamole.

Ironic though that Dispensationalism completely removes Israel from the Old Testament prophecies and makes much of what the various prophet says refer to events still yet future.

Also, I know full preterists, like the late David Chilton, and people like James Stuart Russel (The Parousia) have better arguments for a full eschatological completion than the Dispies have for all of their goofy black helicopter teachings.

(I am not full preterist)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 14, 2025 08:55 AM (a4flb)

211 Walmart closing all their Portland stores. I don't think there are many of them
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 14, 2025

***
Maine or Oregon?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 14, 2025 08:55 AM (omVj0)

212 Somewhere South of I-80

Sorry. You are a social club, not an assault force getting ready for unpleasantness.

My bad.

OK, I'm over it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 14, 2025 08:56 AM (u82oZ)

213 - 12 ga. is the way to go when you can't hit the broad side of a barn from inside the barn.
- What you gonna do when you run out of bolts or arrows? Get a good sling and the whole world is your ammo pouch.
- Mrs. Howell knew how to keep a man. Which means she knew how to keep a man happy.

The defense rests.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 08:56 AM (06Hmj)

214 Bible Study Moment With Chuck Todd.

Chuck Todd@chucktodd
Being angry and staying angry is a choice. Giving grace is a choice. Choose wisely. Don’t let the algorithms fool you, in the real world, folks choose grace.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Raging Like Godzilla! at September 14, 2025 08:56 AM (L/fGl)

215 Have you not been around in a while, or have I just missed you when you're here?
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 08:43 AM (CEIO6)

Mostly lurking and reading. Tech Thread is always over before I read it. Hope you are doing well.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 14, 2025 08:57 AM (lFFaq)

216 Chuck Todd@chucktodd
Being angry and staying angry is a choice. Giving grace is a choice. Choose wisely. Don’t let the algorithms fool you, in the real world, folks choose grace.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Raging Like Godzilla! at September 14, 2025 08:56 AM (L/fGl)

I've never heard anything more "privileged" come out of a white dude's face.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 08:58 AM (06Hmj)

217
I'm bueno, Polliwog.

Don't be a stranger.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 09:00 AM (CEIO6)

218
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Posted by: r hennigantx at September 14, 2025 09:00 AM (gbOdA)

219 If YOU owned a social media platform, would YOU allow total uncensored speech? No, you would not, because that's dumb. But you would if you were a Glowie and wanted to create a platform to gather "right wingers" and set them up.

Gab was founded before Musk bought Twitter, back at a time when suggesting that someone might consider voting Republican was consider hate speech and bannable.

So the founder set the rule to be "if it's legal to say in the United States, then it's legal to say on this platform". You can disagree with that. Fine, stay away. But imagine what people would say if you had a platform who's rules were "free speech except for saying bad things about Jews". That would be considered proof that all the bullshit people claim was all true.

Now, you could say that you're only allowed to say things that don't offend anyone. We know how that works out.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 14, 2025 09:00 AM (ExV1e)

220 Portland OR

And an umbrella doesn't work well when it's windy.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 14, 2025 09:01 AM (kUxzU)

221 BOOK THREAD IS UP

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 09:01 AM (+qU29)

222 - i think he's conflating "grace" and "forgiveness"

- anger is an emotion. Very few people can practice total mastery of their emotions. And I thought we were all supposed to wallow in our emotions as if they were central to our identities, right? Otherwise we're "inauthentic" or some such nonsense?

- In the real world, nobody chooses "grace" (forgiveness). That's precisely why we need a justice system of some form or another to keep everyone from exacting vengeance for every slight, real or imagined.

It's just a stinky puddle of low-brow Frenchian nanothought masquerating as a High horse.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 09:02 AM (06Hmj)

223 masquerating?

To Masquerate. He/she/it Masquerates. To have Masquerated.

....

Man, that could almost be a word, couldn't it?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 14, 2025 09:03 AM (06Hmj)

Saturday Night "Club ONT" September 13, 2025 [The 3 Ds]

Blurry picture, but that's the charm of live music in small venue - one of life's perfections. You're there for the music, moment(s), and memories not the social media likes. Up front, easy peasy - if that's your thing. Smaller crowd - room energy. No Jumbotrons - well...there is that one bartender.

What are your all timers for listening to live music in small venues? Hit the comments.

Welcome to Club ONT! A collaboration the 3D's - The Disco, The Doggo, and The Dino. Don't worry, membership is free. All acting responsibly must relay their reasoning to the Horde through interpretive dance.

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More live music - The Disco was listening to cover bands on the high seas a week or so ago and saw the dandy Gibson guitar below which would be a fine addition to his or any collection.

[Disco says: This guitar really caught my eye in the way the light hit the blend of black and brown. This was at a small venue on an NCL ship called "Syd Norman's Pour House". Syd Norman is a made up name with a made up history. Kitschy but fun. The band that was playing was very talented. There was a bit of over-produced schtick between the songs, but that's expected on a cruise ship.
That particular guitar may be available for purchase somewhere, but the one that I really, really want is much harder to find. Read on.]

The Beato Blue Gibson

The YouTube guitar giant's new signature model sports a lightweight mahogany body (just 7.2 pounds), and a custom TV Blue Mist finish

Rick Beato has been linked on these pages many times. His page is a rabbit hole of music greatness that can keep you informed and entertained for countless hours. Check it out!

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Saturday Night Jokes and Other Funnies

A guy goes on vacation to a tropical island. As soon as he gets off the plane, he hears drums. He thinks, "Wow, this is cool." He goes to the beach, hears drums. he eats lunch, hears drums. He tries to go to sleep, hears drums.

This goes on for several days and nights. It's driving him nuts!

He goes down to the front desk and asks, "Hey, what's with these drums? Do they ever stop? I cannot get any sleep.

The hotel staff replies, "No! Drums must never stop. Very, very bad if drums stop.

"Why?"

"When the drums stop, the bass solo begins."

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How do you catch a drummer? Lay down a snare. What’s the best way to confuse a drummer? Put sheet music in front of him.

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Drink of the Night

Playing card drinks - continuing the theme

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Keeping with the Theme of the Week

Not linking a big list - the Horde has their favorite haunts of live music. One person band in Florida, local watering hole, hard cores doing micro on macro level. What say you?

If you're into anarchy, off color hair, and youthful debauchery, Club Kafe 44 in Stockholm may be your bag.

AoSHQ Master Commenter Miklos recommended Caveau de la Huchette. And as typical, friend Miklos did not disappoint. Paris Jazz Club of awesomeness.

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Club ONT False Advertising

Yes! Beerometer. How many cases of beer per line, per shift. Line 3 is kicking ass.

I am disappoint. Closer look shows they are canning energy drinks, not beer.

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Club ONT History

Any ever tried pulque? No, morons...not pulling your pulque - the drink.

Drink fast. College flashbacks - sipping is discouraged.

One of the reasons pulque is relatively overlooked compared to other fermented beverages, such as kombucha (originating in ancient China) and kefir (hailing from the North Caucasus), is its exceedingly brief shelf life. Naturally fermented in an enclosed container over 12 to 24 hours, it reaches an alcohol concentration comparable to beer – roughly 4 percent to 6 percent – then rapidly spoils over the next 24 to 36 hours.

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Club ONT Domestic Duties

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Club Wholesome

Grandpa watering his garden spotted kids returning from a pool party with water toys
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— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) September 5, 2025

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Club ~~Wholesome~~ Naughty Quotes

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” ― Mae West, The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West

“A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.” ― Chauncey Mitchell Depew

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Club ONT Music

Honoring Rick Davies from Supertramp, who passed away last Saturday.

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Top 10ish Comments of the Week. Or thereabout...

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Club ONT brought to you by: Some things are eternal.

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— ℒ (@FletchMatlock) September 5, 2025

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Been a tough week. Club ONT has a heavy heart but clear eyes. Great to have the Moron Horde virtually in one place to connect with each other. You are not alone. We're all collectively struggling but in our own ways. Prayers all around. Having said that, the table in the corner is still wobbly. The bartender has matchbooks if needed.

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1 1st

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 13, 2025 10:00 PM (wQPGd)

2 Ont

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 13, 2025 10:00 PM (6U1c2)

3 YAY ONT! Now for the content!

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 13, 2025 10:00 PM (wQPGd)

4 Nooded

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2025 10:01 PM (TnWYh)

5 Let’s dance.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 13, 2025 10:02 PM (fveCG)

6 Evening all

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 10:03 PM (hx5BH)

7 Let's play.

Posted by: Case at September 13, 2025 10:04 PM (iwlvf)

8 Never thought I'd ever see -- and laugh at -- a Depeche Mode joke. Yet here we are.

Posted by: RickZ at September 13, 2025 10:05 PM (gKDq2)

9 Nooded. And read the content! Good night, all, and congratulations JohnFNotKerry for the SPONGE!

Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2025 10:07 PM (NcvvS)

10 Disco Stu likes disco music.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 13, 2025 10:07 PM (qM1j6)

11 Small venue - the old Scotch Mist(max occupancy 40) on Rush Street in Chicago. Saw the Four Tops there in 1968; it was like having a live performance in your living room.

Posted by: Joe Redfield at September 13, 2025 10:07 PM (KOtXO)

12 Good evening good people.

Question for the Horde: If an asshoe gets fired for posting a heartless, disgusting remark on their social media accounts, why do they then post another one crying that they were held accountable?

Clearly, they have learned nothing.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2025 10:07 PM (cYBz/)

13
*picks up random knick-knack*
*pretends to examine it*

Well. Good evening, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 10:07 PM (kkTda)

14 Orville Peck at some hole in the wall in Baltimore. Ditto Rasputina.

My Life With the Thrill Kill Cult in a shitty basement venue in D.C. Terrific show.

Many fine shows at the 930 Club: Gary Numan, Purity Ring, Phantogram

Love and Rockets in Pearl City

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 13, 2025 10:07 PM (kpS4V)

15 What are your all timers for listening to live music in small venues? Hit the comments.

Watched kid 1 sing in choir performances twice. Only other live was the Spinners decades ago in the Rubberband Man era.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2025 10:08 PM (0eaVi)

16 The Big Lie has been agreed on.

Charlie Kirk Shot by 'Fellow Conservative' Appears at the Top of X's News Tab

Journo's Sources Tell Him Tyler Robinson Hated Charlie Kirk Because He Wasn't Conservative Enough

And that damn Trump!

NYT, ABC News Report That President Trump Has Escalated Attacks on His Political Opponents

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Raging Like Godzilla! at September 13, 2025 10:08 PM (L/fGl)

17 I'm too old for clubbing. Even baby seals.

Posted by: Grizzled Veteran at September 13, 2025 10:08 PM (oftw2)

18 I read the content. Ugh!

Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2025 10:09 PM (pZEOD)

19 I saw Robert Cray play with a three person house band in a bar in Seattle to about 15 people.

Does that count?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2025 10:09 PM (mT+6a)

20 9 Nooded. And read the content! Good night, all, and congratulations JohnFNotKerry for the SPONGE!

Thank you friend!

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 13, 2025 10:09 PM (wQPGd)

21 Didn’t make the top ten but was the set up for Some Rat. I’ll take the W.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 13, 2025 10:10 PM (fveCG)

22 “A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.” ― Chauncey Mitchell Depew

An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds.

A pessimist fears this is true.

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2025 10:10 PM (nhCoE)

23 I'm too old for clubbing. Even baby seals.
Posted by: Grizzled Veteran

A baby seal walks into a bar. The barkeep asks "Whadda have?"

The baby seal says "Anything but Canadian Club"

HeyOhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2025 10:10 PM (cYBz/)

24 You'll dance to anything by Depeche Mode.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2025 10:11 PM (ULPxl)

25 Voltaire at a tiny Goth club in Honolulu. He's hilarious. Great show.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 13, 2025 10:11 PM (kpS4V)

26 Evening to the ONT Horde, and our hostal triumvirate.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 10:11 PM (B4SRX)

27 13
*picks up random knick-knack*
*pretends to examine it*

Well. Good evening, Hordians.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September

I literally just dusted those and rearranged them in a perfectly artful fashion. I need to go record a tik tok in my car about this.

Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2025 10:11 PM (pZEOD)

28 The Utah branch of the FBI sat on the photos of the shooter for over twelve hours.

https://tinyurl.com/bdz7wcat

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 13, 2025 10:11 PM (X+xvk)

29 The Big Lie has been agreed on.

Charlie Kirk Shot by 'Fellow Conservative' Appears at the Top of X's News Tab

Hard sell since his trans lover is cooperating with law enforcement.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 10:11 PM (hx5BH)

30 The Big Lie has been agreed on.

Charlie Kirk Shot by 'Fellow Conservative' Appears at the Top of X's News Tab

Journo's Sources Tell Him Tyler Robinson Hated Charlie Kirk Because He Wasn't Conservative Enough

And that damn Trump!

NYT, ABC News Report That President Trump Has Escalated Attacks on His Political Opponents
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Raging Like Godzilla! at September 13, 2025 10:08 PM (L/fGl)

They live in such a bubble they truly have no idea what they've unleashed. They think it's just about Charlie.

We're passed FO. We're in the I. Don't. Give. A. Fuck. stage. They're not ready.

Posted by: RickZ at September 13, 2025 10:11 PM (gKDq2)

31 I love Depeche Mode.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 13, 2025 10:11 PM (kpS4V)

32 “A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.” ― Chauncey Mitchell Depew

His best known address: The Lambs Club, New York.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2025 10:12 PM (0eaVi)

33 Rick Beato and Professor of Rock are must watch YouTube Channels.

Beato is getting bigger a bigger interviews, his recent interview with David Gilmore was incredible.

I hope he gets to interview John Williams before it's not possible.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2025 10:12 PM (XV/Pl)

34 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2025 10:12 PM (c3B7E)

35 From Al Jazeera

“ A coordinated online doxxing campaign has emerged in the wake of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk’s killing, targeting academics, teachers, government employees and others who have posted critical remarks about him.”

Critical remarks? Like you mean celebrating his death?

No matter how much you hate the media it’s only 10% how much you should hate them.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 13, 2025 10:12 PM (qM1j6)

36 Saw The New Riders of the Purple Sage At The Red Rail in Nanuet NY around 1976. Jerry Garcia came by and played half the show with them. Capacity maybe 180.

Posted by: Panama Red at September 13, 2025 10:13 PM (oftw2)

37 My washing machine has a Rush setting.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 13, 2025 10:13 PM (63Dwl)

38 The Big Lie has been agreed on.

Charlie Kirk Shot by 'Fellow Conservative' Appears at the Top of X's News Tab

Journo's Sources Tell Him Tyler Robinson Hated Charlie Kirk Because He Wasn't Conservative Enough
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,

That's a hot take. I should have put on sunscreen before reading the ONT.

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2025 10:13 PM (nhCoE)

39 >>I saw Robert Cray play with a three person house band in a bar in Seattle to about 15 people.

>>Does that count?

yep

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 10:13 PM (viF8m)

40 Greetings triple Ds!
It's been a hellova week, but we made it!
For all of the f'kd up news, we morons always have each other!
God bless us everyone🙏❣❣

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 13, 2025 10:13 PM (3wXSL)

41 After a heavy week, it's good to enjoy the light comedy and music here. Good job, guys.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at September 13, 2025 10:13 PM (dadcM)

42 "What’s the best way to confuse a drummer? Put sheet music in front of him."

Chester Thompson, Terry Bozzio, and Chad Whackerman may beg to differ.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2025 10:13 PM (vFG9F)

43 I didn't like disco very much, then rap came out. Disco seemed a lot better to me.

Posted by: Case at September 13, 2025 10:13 PM (iwlvf)

44 Jeepers, this birds brewers game is sloppy sloppy sloppy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2025 10:14 PM (mT+6a)

45 Critical remarks? Like you mean celebrating his death?

No matter how much you hate the media it’s only 10% how much you should hate them.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 13, 2025 10:12 PM (qM1j6)

C'mon, that Al-Jizz. I hate everything that comes out of Al-Jizz.

Posted by: RickZ at September 13, 2025 10:14 PM (gKDq2)

46 Sorry I'm late, the river bank wouldn't cash my check.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 13, 2025 10:14 PM (Ic+AQ)

47 Isn't that drink just a rum and Coke? Why the exotic name?

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 13, 2025 10:14 PM (ftFVW)

48 I love Depeche Mode.
Posted by: All Hail Eris

Me too! How those contortionists could do what they did on the jumbotron is beyond me.

https://t.ly/f53-s

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2025 10:14 PM (cYBz/)

49 What are your all timers for listening to live music in small venues? Hit the comments.

The King Eddy Hotel, Calgary's home of the Blues, for many years.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 10:14 PM (B4SRX)

50 40 Greetings triple Ds!
It's been a hellova week, but we made it!
For all of the f'kd up news, we morons always have each other!
God bless us everyone🙏❣❣
Posted by: COMountainMarie at September

Bless!

Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2025 10:15 PM (pZEOD)

51 Lonnie Mack, on a Monday night, Rick's in Ann arbor.

Had probably played in Detroit on Saturday.

50 people in the place

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 13, 2025 10:15 PM (8AONa)

52 >>Saw The New Riders of the Purple Sage At The Red Rail in Nanuet NY around 1976. Jerry Garcia came by and played half the show with them. Capacity maybe 180.

Awesome.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 10:15 PM (viF8m)

53 47 Isn't that drink just a rum and Coke? Why the exotic name?
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 13, 2025

It has lime!

Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2025 10:16 PM (pZEOD)

54 The King Eddy Hotel, Calgary's home of the Blues, for many years.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
---------------
I have read about that place.
Good evening, Horde.

Posted by: scampydog at September 13, 2025 10:16 PM (41CYW)

55 My washing machine has a Rush setting.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Does it play "The Big Wheel" while it washes?

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2025 10:16 PM (nhCoE)

56 I literally just dusted those and rearranged them in a perfectly artful fashion. I need to go record a tik tok in my car about this.
Posted by: Piper

There just aren't enough women opining and whining in car videos. Thanks for stepping up!

Posted by: Ricardo Romantico at September 13, 2025 10:16 PM (oftw2)

57 My washing machine has a Rush setting.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

10 minutes of cleaning and 20 minutes of commercials?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 10:16 PM (hx5BH)

58 What are your all timers for listening to live music in small venues? Hit the comments.

Posted by: OrangeEn

My parents spent a decade of Friday nights watching their kids in the high school marching band. Symphonic band concerts, too.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 13, 2025 10:16 PM (fveCG)

59 You'll dance to anything by Depeche Mode.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

"Blasphemous Rumours" is a hard ask.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 10:16 PM (gKWVE)

60 I didn't like disco very much, then rap came out. Disco seemed a lot better to me.
Posted by: Case at September 13, 2025 10:13 PM (iwlvf)

Disco was happy music, get laid, have sex, party.

Rap is about cappin', thug life.

Posted by: RickZ at September 13, 2025 10:16 PM (gKDq2)

61 @31

>>I love Depeche Mode.

Violator is a perfect album.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2025 10:16 PM (XV/Pl)

62 So what did I miss today? The Antifa assassin had a tranny lover/roommate? Was he trying to tick all the boxes or what?

Posted by: Dr. T at September 13, 2025 10:17 PM (lHPJf)

63 Robert Cray at the Zoo Bar in Lincoln, NE.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 13, 2025 10:17 PM (X+xvk)

64 The Tennessee Vols dedicated a stadium seat today for Charlie Kirk at Neyland Stadium.

It will forever be reserved for him and no tickets will ever be sold for it.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2025 10:17 PM (cYBz/)

65
Swept, vacuumed and scrubbed down the pens, power washed all the floor mats and mesh beds, bleached, rinsed and refilled all the water buckets and gave out bones today. I hurt all over.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 10:17 PM (kkTda)

66 C'mon, that Al-Jizz. I hate everything that comes out of Al-Jizz.
Posted by: RickZ at September 13, 2025 10:14 PM (gKDq2)

They're muslims. Lying is baked into the cake.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 10:17 PM (B4SRX)

67 The guitar is a gibson les paul studio. They fall from the sky like leaves. Can be found everywhere.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 10:18 PM (snZF9)

68 It was difficult to top Music For The Masses, but somehow Violator did it.
Oh, and "Sweetest Perfection" is a waltz.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 10:18 PM (gKWVE)

69 64 The Tennessee Vols dedicated a stadium seat today for Charlie Kirk at Neyland Stadium. It will forever be reserved for him and no tickets will ever be sold for it.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2025 10:17 PM
***
Really? Hadn't heard that. Well done Big Orange.

Posted by: TRex - good old rocky top at September 13, 2025 10:18 PM (PDUpY)

70 I didn't like disco very much, then rap came out.
Posted by: Case

You can't spell Crap without rap.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2025 10:19 PM (cYBz/)

71 It has lime!
Posted by: Piper

Fair enough. Though I'm sure I've ordered rum and coke and received it with a twist of lime. Can't say for sure if it also had a dash of juice.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 13, 2025 10:19 PM (ftFVW)

72 My parents spent a decade of Friday nights watching their kids in the high school marching band. Symphonic band concerts, too.
Posted by: QED Texan at September 13, 2025 10:16 PM (fveCG)

that's what we did for choir. high school and college, then she quit.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2025 10:19 PM (0eaVi)

73 Donnie Iris!!! Ellwood City's finest resident!!! Great song under the top pic too! He's in his 80s now and still lives in Western PA.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2025 10:19 PM (c3B7E)

74 I saw the Ramones play a small club in Portland, great show. Later on, saw Midnight Oil at the same club.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 10:19 PM (kUxzU)

75 Zoot!

Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2025 10:20 PM (LHPAg)

76 I have nothing remarkable to say except thank you to you all for being here this dreadful week. Ace, what would we do without the home you have created?

Posted by: Wenda at September 13, 2025 10:20 PM (dqnNP)

77 Muddy Waters with J Geils tuning up at the Paradise in Boston.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 10:20 PM (viF8m)

78 Donnie Iris!!! Ellwood City's finest resident!!! Great song under the top pic too! He's in his 80s now and still lives in Western PA.
Posted by: Puddleglum
------------
Saw him play that set at the mystery click.

Posted by: scampydog at September 13, 2025 10:21 PM (41CYW)

79 "Some things are eternal"

She wants to make sure she has time to shampoo and dry her hair before he returns. What's wrong with that?

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 13, 2025 10:21 PM (ftFVW)

80
My parents spent a decade of Friday nights watching their kids in the high school marching band. Symphonic band concerts, too.
Posted by: QED Texan at September 13, 2025 10:16 PM (fveCG)

_________

High-school band contests in Texas are fierce.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 10:21 PM (kkTda)

81 They're muslims. Lying is baked into the cake.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 10:17 PM (B4SRX)

That's the one thing if I had a magic wand I would wave it and impart that bit of wisdom into every brain on the planet.

So many do not get their taqiyya, or that it even exists.

Once you learn that lying is acceptable to them, everything else falls apart.

Posted by: RickZ at September 13, 2025 10:22 PM (gKDq2)

82 I saw The Savage Resurrection at a smallish club in Louisville, KY in 1968.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 13, 2025 10:22 PM (63Dwl)

83 The Center for the Arts in Grass Valley is really pretty nice.
The artist, of course, makes all the difference in the world. I moved from an extremely conservative county to here, Nevada county. Thought all of Eastern NorCal was conservative. Nope. Tons of gray pony tails and a giant hippie population. All that said, they do enjoy live music, but some of it intolerable…
The Floyd is a Pink Floyd tribute band that I’ve seen twice at the aforementioned venue. Exceptional group!
Going to see them in Reno next weekend.

Posted by: Gunslinger at September 13, 2025 10:22 PM (7hdjp)

84 A Cuba Libre is technically served in a tall glass as well.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2025 10:22 PM (mT+6a)

85 My washing machine has a Rush setting.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

Dallas Motel Manager Beheaded by Illegal Alien Over Broken Washing Machine

-
I guess washing machines are haram.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Raging Like Godzilla! at September 13, 2025 10:22 PM (L/fGl)

86 Back in the day, a Friday or Saturday night at Doc Maynard's in old town Seattle was a damned good time. With a good band, boob wars between the balconies was a given.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2025 10:22 PM (2WIwB)

87 And this has been my little pick me up this week, if you like Fleetwood Mac (newer version):

https://youtu.be/f-FcdfSKc60

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 10:23 PM (kUxzU)

88 i think the beheader was Cuban, and not Muslim

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 10:23 PM (gKWVE)

89 And it looks like my new modem is installed and working.
Sweet.

Piper's here. Great.

Since I watched a lot of Disney and Nick shows in the past when they wouldn't piss me off, I still occasionally check in on my favourite actresses once in a while.

I think of you because one trend I've seen is the girls going to prom or red carpet ceremonies in very pretty dresses and wearing running shoes.

LOL. That always makes me think of you.

They look very pretty. But sneakers. On the other hand....comfortable.

Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, LOVED, APPRECIATED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.4% at September 13, 2025 10:24 PM (Sco7b)

90 @67

>>The guitar is a gibson les paul studio. They fall from the sky like leaves. Can be found everywhere.

Just get a Firefly for 200 bucks and spend 500 bucks swapping to premium components and you will have a sub 800 dollar guitar that plays like a custom shop Gibson.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2025 10:24 PM (XV/Pl)

91 Pouring Coke on rum is an abomination.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 10:24 PM (viF8m)

92 Drummer joke:

"Mom, I want to be a drummer when I grow up!"

"But son, you can't do both!"

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 13, 2025 10:24 PM (CHHv1)

93 Pouring Coke on rum is an abomination.
Posted by: JackStraw
----------
I am enjoying that abomination currently!

Posted by: scampydog at September 13, 2025 10:25 PM (41CYW)

94 Saw Mudhoney play to a half full bar. And booed Kurt Cobain off the stage when he was so lit up he couldn’t even stand up

Bar was The Central Tavern in Seattle. Less than 150 people.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2025 10:25 PM (mT+6a)

95 that's what we did for choir. high school and college, then she quit.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

I was in choir for middle school and half of high school. Musicals, too.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 13, 2025 10:25 PM (fveCG)

96 77 Muddy Waters with J Geils tuning up at the Paradise in Boston.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 10:20 PM (viF8m)

I saw Muddy live in 1979 in a small club..great show.

Posted by: joemarine at September 13, 2025 10:26 PM (y171U)

97 oh no youtu.be/Acq6ZwyEM2E

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 10:26 PM (gKWVE)

98 The funeral service for Charlie Kirk will take place Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025, in Arizona.
It will be held at State Farm Stadium.
The headquarters of Turning Point USA, Kirk’s nonprofit, are based in Phoenix.

"Join us in celebrating the remarkable life and enduring legacy of Charlie Kirk, an American legend," Turning Point USA shared on social media.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 10:27 PM (hx5BH)

99 >>I am enjoying that abomination currently!

I will pray for your eternal soul that you will be forgiven.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 10:27 PM (viF8m)

100 When other music failed me l would always fall back on country. Hank Williams Jr wouldn't let me down.

Posted by: Case at September 13, 2025 10:27 PM (iwlvf)

101 Pour the rum into the Coke.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 13, 2025 10:27 PM (63Dwl)

102 What are your all timers for listening to live music in small venues?

Bill Kirchen, guitarist for Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen, in various dive bars and restaurant backrooms in and around Austin.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2025 10:27 PM (3nLb4)

103 33:Beato is getting bigger a bigger interviews, his recent interview with David Gilmore was incredible.

I saw that! It was very good. I've been binge listening to Pink Floyd/Gilmour solo albums this week.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2025 10:27 PM (c3B7E)

104 25 Voltaire at a tiny Goth club in Honolulu. He's hilarious. Great show.
Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 13, 2025 10:11 PM (kpS4V)

This Voltaire?
https://youtu.be/-WsZ2fUXbZg

Posted by: tankdemon at September 13, 2025 10:28 PM (Ic+AQ)

105 86 Back in the day, a Friday or Saturday night at Doc Maynard's in old town Seattle was a damned good time. With a good band, boob wars between the balconies was a given.
Posted by: Diogenes

Doc’s!!!! Duffy Bishop and the Rhythm Dogs was pretty awesome. Dancing spilled out into the cobblestone walk out front.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2025 10:29 PM (mT+6a)

106 Pouring Coke on rum is an abomination.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 10:24 PM (viF8m)

This!
Worst drunk EVAH!
That was 40 years ago and haven't touched it since.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2025 10:29 PM (2WIwB)

107 High-school band contests in Texas are fierce.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

True. I wasn’t yet a Texan when I was in high school.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 13, 2025 10:30 PM (fveCG)

108
They look very pretty. But sneakers. On the other hand....comfortable.
Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, LOVED, APPRECIATED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.4% at September 13, 2025 10:24 PM

This made me laugh.

Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2025 10:30 PM (pZEOD)

109 Doc’s!!!! Duffy Bishop and the Rhythm Dogs was pretty awesome. Dancing spilled out into the cobblestone walk out front.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2025 10:29 PM (mT+6a)

I know right??!!
Great times!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2025 10:31 PM (2WIwB)

110 64 The Tennessee Vols dedicated a stadium seat today for Charlie Kirk at Neyland Stadium.

It will forever be reserved for him and no tickets will ever be sold for it.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2025

That was very sweet of them.

Also, how ‘bout them Dawgs?

Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2025 10:31 PM (pZEOD)

111 They look very pretty. But sneakers. On the other hand....comfortable.
Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, LOVED, APPRECIATED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.4% at September 13, 2025 10:24 PM

This made me laugh.
Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2025 10:30 PM (pZEOD)

Perfect.

On a week you could use a laugh.

Going to see my friend. Everyone have a great night.

Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, LOVED, APPRECIATED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.4% at September 13, 2025 10:31 PM (Sco7b)

112 In the early 90s I used to be a cameraman for a cable access show that would go around The Bronx and video tape Latin Jazz Bands.

One night we were there to record a "local group" at a spot called Willys Steakhouse.

We got there set up and up comes Tito Puente, Dave Valentine, El Canario and a few more Latin Jazz pipe hitters.

It was quite the evening.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2025 10:32 PM (XV/Pl)

113 61 @31

>>I love Depeche Mode.

Violator is a perfect album.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2025 10:16 PM (XV/Pl)

Yep. Agreed.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at September 13, 2025 10:32 PM (0CU3H)

114 77

Same! Heck, I might have seen you there😛1

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 13, 2025 10:32 PM (3wXSL)

115 OY!
This night is alright for

I forget

Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2025 10:33 PM (AOsQT)

116 Not a tiny crowd but one of the best places you'll ever see music. Dylan thought so and went electric.

Billy Stings - Summertime

https://tinyurl.com/bdefdv44

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 10:33 PM (viF8m)

117 Saw George Thorogood and Slash perform together at the Canyon in Agoura. George was a little past his prime but still was an excellent show.

Posted by: Some stupid with a flaregun at September 13, 2025 10:34 PM (6eSAH)

118 "When the drums stop, the bass solo begins."

When the lead singer does not have a girlfriend he is homeless.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 13, 2025 10:35 PM (gbOdA)

119 They look very pretty. But sneakers. On the other hand....comfortable.
Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, LOVED, APPRECIATED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.4% at September 13, 2025 10:24 PM

This made me laugh.
Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2025 10:30 PM (pZEOD)

Watch out for the Nashville Sneakers:

https://youtu.be/I7onqDAwemQ

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 10:35 PM (B4SRX)

120 Tennessee is similar to Penn State. They'll win 10 games a year, more or less, and consistently lose to the same 2 or 3 teams, every year. PSU can't beat OSU or Michigan. Tennessee can't beat Georgia or Alabama. Just a casual observation. I'd talk about Virginia Tech but they're the 5 best team in Virginia! Maybe. They're terrible. ODU and Liberty will have more wins than either VT or Virginia.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2025 10:35 PM (c3B7E)

121 The videos honoring Rick Davies from Supertramp are great...

Breakfast in America, 1979...huge album!

Posted by: joemarine at September 13, 2025 10:36 PM (y171U)

122 An ongoing question the last half of this week is whether Charlie Kirk’s assassination would be a turning point. Since Mrs. Erica Kirk’s eulogy last night, TPUSA has received 18,000 new chapter requests! They currently have 9,000 college chapters and 1,000+ high school chapters.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 13, 2025 10:36 PM (fveCG)

123 The guitar is a gibson les paul studio. They fall from the sky like leaves.
Posted by: Berserker

* KABONG *

Ow! F--k!

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2025 10:36 PM (nhCoE)

124 Got to see the aftermath of a rather spectacular collision just now. Not sure how it happened but it looked like someone was turning left and got nailed by a car coming the other way doing 40 or a little over. Broken glass and plastic everywhere.

Unfortunately an ambulance did have to be called, so hopefully that person ends up being OK.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 13, 2025 10:37 PM (lUFok)

125 That was very sweet of them.

Also, how ‘bout them Dawgs?
Posted by: Piper

The Vols deserved to lose that game - 17 unanswered points? Wow.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2025 10:37 PM (cYBz/)

126 Erika Kirk in discussion to sue Stephen King for defaming her husband's character.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 10:37 PM (hx5BH)

127 Good evening morons and слава Тройке!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 10:38 PM (RIvkX)

128 The Baked Potato for amazing jazz

Posted by: LASue at September 13, 2025 10:38 PM (lCppi)

129 >>Bill Kirchen, guitarist for Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen, in various dive bars and restaurant backrooms in and around Austin.

https://tinyurl.com/5yra5vbu

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 10:38 PM (viF8m)

130 David Lo Pan Style
youtu.be/-xiAbDkXDgg

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 10:39 PM (gKWVE)

131 How will the Vols ensure that some rando from the nosebleed section doesn't sneak down and sit in Charlie's seat?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 10:39 PM (B4SRX)

132 Erika Kirk in discussion to sue Stephen King for defaming her husband's character.

I hope she does. Mr. King certainly earned it.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 13, 2025 10:40 PM (lUFok)

133 I never miss an opportunity to hose down passing children.

Wait a minute...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 10:40 PM (RIvkX)

134 Isn't that drink just a rum and Coke? Why the exotic name?
Posted by: She Hobbit

It has lime!
Posted by: Piper

TIL my highball glasses are huge. No way two-and-half-ounces of drinky fills one.

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2025 10:40 PM (nhCoE)

135 Erika Kirk in discussion to sue Stephen King for defaming her husband's character.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 10:37 PM (hx5BH)

She should hire Cujo for a lawyer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 10:41 PM (B4SRX)

136 Saw a couple residences flying the Flag at full mast today. Is that not a sign of disrespect? DJT ordered them at half mast til sundown 9/14. Anyway, it got me wondering about the local fire station near me in NE Seattle. It was at half staff, same (surprisingly) for the 3 schools I chose to drive by- 2 of them always have a pried flag below US flag. All 3 schools were half staff. I nearly started tearing up.

Posted by: Rex B at September 13, 2025 10:41 PM (+xk6Q)

137 Back later. Have to replace two toilet seats. The one the foster kid ruined with hair dye, and the other just needed an upgrade to "soft close."

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 13, 2025 10:42 PM (lUFok)

138 >>Isn't that drink just a rum and Coke? Why the exotic name?

To try and fool the gods.

It won't work. They know what you did.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 10:43 PM (viF8m)

139 Erika Kirk in discussion to sue Stephen King for defaming her husband's character.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 13,

I dont think the tort of defamation survives death. But maybe there's a business/estate component in this situation

Posted by: LASue at September 13, 2025 10:43 PM (lCppi)

140 The Rockies are back to losing.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 10:43 PM (gKWVE)

141 Pouring Coke on rum is an abomination.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 10:24 PM (viF8m)
====

A go-to dark rum with plenty of grenadine.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 10:43 PM (RIvkX)

142 Sean Spicer had a good rant on 2-way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfkyW468uCA

Posted by: Eeyore at September 13, 2025 10:44 PM (s0JqF)

143 @120. There were some good games on today. Tennessee and Georgia is always a good game.

Posted by: Case at September 13, 2025 10:45 PM (iwlvf)

144 Saw a couple residences flying the Flag at full mast today. Is that not a sign of disrespect? DJT ordered them at half mast til sundown 9/14. Anyway, it got me wondering about the local fire station near me in NE Seattle. It was at half staff, same (surprisingly) for the 3 schools I chose to drive by- 2 of them always have a pried flag below US flag. All 3 schools were half staff. I nearly started tearing up.
Posted by: Rex B at September 13, 2025 10:41 PM (+xk6Q)

Might just be those people who run the flag up, and leave it there until it falls apart.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 10:45 PM (B4SRX)

145 I dont think the tort of defamation survives death. But maybe there's a business/estate component in this situation
Posted by: LASue

Definitely has estate component with Turning Point USA. It's still up & running.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 10:46 PM (hx5BH)

146 Never really dug Supertramp

Posted by: Otto Pen at September 13, 2025 10:46 PM (sJHOI)

147 RE: Banana Dreams Comment about slipping unbosom into a report.

To amuse myself at work, I'll start using a little used word repeatedly in every conversation I can. I'll do this for a couple of weeks and then stop. I then watch who starts using it. It starts with my local group but before long it is showing up in emails and corporate speak. I was struck how easily people started to use the word, often not knowing the meaning originally.

Posted by: Beartooth at September 13, 2025 10:46 PM (1RikM)

148 Erika Kirk in discussion to sue Stephen King for defaming her husband's character.
------

I wish her the very best, but as I have pointed out, the court held that Jewell's family could not sue The Atlanta Constitution after it named Jewell as a suspect, because a dead man has no standing.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 10:47 PM (XeU6L)

149 Might just be those people who run the flag up, and leave it there until it falls apart.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 10:45 PM (B4SRX)

I'm hoping so, AOP. All 4 were in my neighborhood. 2 new and 2 always flying.

Posted by: Rex B at September 13, 2025 10:47 PM (+xk6Q)

150 Heya Rex B,

Maybe you can join us at the range one of these days. WCA Bellevue. Saturdays.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2025 10:47 PM (Y/u0P)

151 70 I didn't like disco very much, then rap came out.
Posted by: Case

You can't spell Crap without rap.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2025 10:19 PM (cYBz/)

I'm a fan of rap music. Run DMC and Aerosmith's Walk This Way is a fantastic song - Run DMC made it even better than it already was. Biggie's Ready To Die is one of the greatest albums ever made, period. Run DMC's debut album is groundbreaking and amazing. Same with Beastie Boys. I liked disco when every one of my friends hated it back when I was in HS at its heyday, and I have no regrets about that either. Every music era has its classics.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at September 13, 2025 10:48 PM (0CU3H)

152 Awesome hike with Boy F. today through Haight Ashbury, up to Buena Vista, then along the Bay ridge to Upper Terrace, then down and up again to Tank Hill, then down into Cole Valley for a repast.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 10:48 PM (RIvkX)

153 So digging thru the church music room circa 1978 we find a telecaster probably 1960s era with Texas stained into it.
I cant play but everyone that played it says it was really nice.
I have no idea where it went.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 13, 2025 10:49 PM (gbOdA)

154 94 Saw Mudhoney play to a half full bar. And booed Kurt Cobain off the stage when he was so lit up he couldn’t even stand up

Bar was The Central Tavern in Seattle. Less than 150 people.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2025 10:25 PM (mT+6a)

Booing Kurt Cobain offstage...that sounds like a memorable show!

Posted by: joemarine at September 13, 2025 10:49 PM (y171U)

155 As the handsome successful writer
(hack)
returned from recess to the courtroom chamber, to his horror he saw that the twelve jurors had turned into lean, shadowy spiders... and they were all wearing strap-ons

Posted by: Stephen King at September 13, 2025 10:50 PM (gKWVE)

156 Maybe you can join us at the range one of these days. WCA Bellevue. Saturdays.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Certainly. Just need a little advance notice. I used to go to West Coast Armory North. Need to get back on it.

Posted by: Rex B at September 13, 2025 10:50 PM (+xk6Q)

157 I'm hoping so, AOP. All 4 were in my neighborhood. 2 new and 2 always flying.
Posted by: Rex B at September 13, 2025 10:47 PM (+xk6Q)

Leave polite notes on their doors explaining the Flag Code. Signed by "Patriot Front".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 10:50 PM (B4SRX)

158 Creatures are snuggled in their beds, I am going to sleep, too. Night, all!

Posted by: Piper at September 13, 2025 10:50 PM (Wmg4n)

159 >>Isn't that drink just a rum and Coke? Why the exotic name?

Flor de Cana (with that funny thing over the ana). Neat.

Way better than bourbon.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 10:50 PM (viF8m)

160 I sat not six feet from Nanci Griffith playing live in the Basement Coffee in the Memorial Student Center on the TAMU campus in the late 70s. This was back when her first album was out on BF Deal Records out of Austin.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 10:51 PM (VnnhK)

161 Certainly. Just need a little advance notice. I used to go to West Coast Armory North. Need to get back on it.
Posted by: Rex B

Tag Mark Andrew Edwards and he can let you know. He’s usually in the GT and his email is attached to his nic.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2025 10:52 PM (Y/u0P)

162 Leave polite notes on their doors explaining the Flag Code. Signed by "Patriot Front".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Not a bad idea. Thanks.

Posted by: Rex B at September 13, 2025 10:53 PM (+xk6Q)

163 Basement Coffee -> Basement Coffeehouse

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 10:53 PM (VnnhK)

164 Never really dug Supertramp

Posted by: Otto Pen
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Right, (Right), you're bloody well right
You got a bloody right to say
Right, you're bloody well right
You know you got a right to say
Ha-ha, you're bloody well right
You know you're right to say

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 10:53 PM (XeU6L)

165 High-school band contests in Texas are fierce.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
--
Just finished with 4 years worth. I don't have any more kids in but I still get tingles when I hear a marching band.

Posted by: lin-duh is offended at September 13, 2025 10:53 PM (VCgbV)

166 Bar was The Central Tavern in Seattle. Less than 150 people.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2025 10:25 PM (mT+6a)

I think ive been there Divey and toward Duwamish?

Posted by: LASue at September 13, 2025 10:53 PM (lCppi)

167 @151

>>I'm a fan of rap music.

I'm from The Bronx and listened to rap from its inception in the late 70s.

It falls into my belief that the greatest period of music was from 1975 to 1995.

Biggie lived a couple of years after that but rap effectively died with him.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2025 10:54 PM (XV/Pl)

168 Flor de Cana (with that funny thing over the ana). Neat.

Way better than bourbon.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 10:50 PM (viF8m)

The 12 year-old stuff is like mothers' milk. I have a bottle of the 5 year-old on hand. I will take it with cola.

If you ever visit Nicaragua, you will meet Flor de Cana chicas in the airport, sometimes with free samples. Of the rum, sad to say.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 10:54 PM (B4SRX)

169
I think we'll start seeing stories from "unnamed sources" and "former employees" implying Kirk was an adulterer, his marriage a sham and his organization riddled with financial chicanery.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 10:54 PM (kkTda)

170 I think ive been there Divey and toward Duwamish?
Posted by: LASue

Pioneer Square. Right next to the J&M Cafe.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2025 10:55 PM (Y/u0P)

171 Best small venue was seeing Gil Scott-Heron on a Circle Line nighttime cruise around Manhattan

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 10:55 PM (RIvkX)

172 Will do, Nurse. Had a busy work day today catching up on things but I expect some things will slow again.

Posted by: Rex B at September 13, 2025 10:56 PM (+xk6Q)

173 I dont think the tort of defamation survives death. But maybe there's a business/estate component in this situation
Posted by: LASue at September 13, 2025 10:43 PM (lCppi)

It worked for me.

Posted by: Jesse Ventura at September 13, 2025 10:56 PM (0eaVi)

174 The only Rum drink I'll have is a Pina Colada, pretty much only when I'm at a beach.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2025 10:56 PM (XV/Pl)

175 think ive been there Divey and toward Duwamish?
Posted by: LASue

Pioneer Square. Right next to the J&M Cafe.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2025 10:55 PM (Y/u0P)

Not the one i was thinking of

Posted by: LASue at September 13, 2025 10:57 PM (lCppi)

176 How we can help.

https://tpusamerch.com/

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 13, 2025 10:57 PM (X+xvk)

177 I still get tingles when I hear a marching band.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended

Especially if it’s John Philip Sousa.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 13, 2025 10:57 PM (fveCG)

178 So digging thru the church music room circa 1978 we find a telecaster probably 1960s era with Texas stained into it.

That is awesome.

Back in about 1982, 1983, my boss at college said, hey, my church is about to toss a set of Leslie speakers into the trash. Can you help me take it away before they do?

Absolutely. But he has to find a truck first, and can’t get one until the next night. By then the church has decided it’s no longer available for trashing.

I did snag a Terak from the computer department a few months later. Basically a minicomputer in the form of a desktop. Probably cost them tens of thousands of dollars each when they bought them. They really were pretty much worthless at that point, but a friend of mine wanted one.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at September 13, 2025 10:58 PM (EXyHK)

179 David Bromberg at the Top Hat in Missoula. Either that or maybe it was at Luke’s. Also Buddy Guy and Junior Wells.

The Central. I remember the name but little else. Drank a lot of beer there. Nurse, I was the ruggedly handsome GI, you probably remember me. You always looked great. I recall $7 got cover to a whole bunch of bars around it. It was a cool time to be in Seattle. A little part of me died when Rainier Beer went bye-bye.

I thought it was cool a corner of the brewery sort of stuck right along the I5. The Army actually took us on a sponsored tour as part of our inprocessing. Still scratching my head on that. They had a tasting room for samples.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 10:58 PM (55dRY)

180 I think we'll start seeing stories from "unnamed sources" and "former employees" implying Kirk was an adulterer, his marriage a sham and his organization riddled with financial chicanery.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

TPUSA has received 18,000 requests for starting new chapters worldwide.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 10:58 PM (hx5BH)

181 I saw Chuck Mangione in a small ballroom setting at the U of Montana Student Union building.

I got drug their by my roommate who was big into jazz. Most of the crowd were smelly hippies.

Posted by: Beartooth at September 13, 2025 11:01 PM (1RikM)

182 TPUSA has received 18,000 requests for starting new chapters worldwide.
Posted by: rickb223

See me at #122. Horde mind.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 13, 2025 11:01 PM (fveCG)

183 >>The only Rum drink I'll have is a Pina Colada, pretty much only when I'm at a beach.

Forgive them Jimmy Cliff. For they know what they do.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 11:01 PM (viF8m)

184 So, they had a small gathering in London today. First time in a long time, or ever, I saw a demonstration in London waving union jack, st. geroge's flags. The sea of those. Looked like a million people.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 11:02 PM (g47mK)

185 Common Tater,

We danced a few times. I remember you. It was dark and the floor was sticky and the music was loud.

And then I made last call and tossed everyone out.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2025 11:03 PM (9CzvH)

186 Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson’s roommate and possible transgender partner has been identified as 22-year-old Lance Twiggs.

Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson lived with his transgender partner – a male to female trans, according to Fox News reporter Brooke Singman.

The transgender partner is cooperating with the FBI.

The FBI used Robinson’s texts with his transgender partner to solidify Robinson was the assassin.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 11:03 PM (hx5BH)

187 I found an old bottle of Triple Sec cleaning out my parents place, could tell it was early 60s maybe by the style of tax stamp. It was actually pretty tasty stuff, it had been opened long ago but wasn’t too worse for the experience.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 11:03 PM (55dRY)

188
Saaaaaay, where are *our* riots? The burning cars? The looting?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 11:03 PM (kkTda)

189 142 Sean Spicer had a good rant on 2-way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfkyW468uCA
Posted by: Eeyore at September 13, 2025 10:44 PM (s0JqF)

It was a great rant. He's 100% correct, and the knuckleheads at the PBS NewsHour (Brooks and Capehart) should see every second of what Sean had to say. One of his finest moments.

That said, I do like Mark and Dan quite a bit. Dan is a Dem through and through, but he's not afraid to call his own side out on a lot of their stupid stuff - which is better than every single Dem that shows up on TV. Mark was in the hierarchy of news programs before he got unceremoniously defenestrated, and he was steeped in the insider network (Heilemann was his writing partner) during that time. You can see him working all this stuff out in real-time on 2-Way. They're a must-watch.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at September 13, 2025 11:04 PM (0CU3H)

190 Video I saw of London was courtesy of Turkish government but showed UK police very heavy-handed imho with nationalist demonstrators

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 11:04 PM (RIvkX)

191 ND v TAAM is a real barn-burner

oh Nelly

Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2025 11:04 PM (AOsQT)

192 See me at #122. Horde mind.
Posted by: QED Texan

Fist bump!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 11:04 PM (hx5BH)

193 My axle swap appears to have been a success. No nasty noises apparent in a 4-mile run on the gravel grid road. Will go for a blast on the highway tomorrow.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 11:05 PM (B4SRX)

194
The FBI used Robinson’s texts with his transgender partner to solidify Robinson was the assassin.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 11:03 PM (hx5BH)

__________

So, who else was he communicating with about this? And who were they communicating with? This could get sporty.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 11:06 PM (kkTda)

195 167 @151

>>I'm a fan of rap music.

I'm from The Bronx and listened to rap from its inception in the late 70s.

It falls into my belief that the greatest period of music was from 1975 to 1995.

Biggie lived a couple of years after that but rap effectively died with him.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2025 10:54 PM (XV/Pl)

That's pretty much sums me up as well. Grew up on 225th and Broadway (strictly speaking, not The Bronx, although nobody knew that at the time).

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at September 13, 2025 11:06 PM (0CU3H)

196 ND v TAAM is a real barn-burner

oh Nelly
Posted by: Don Black

Nail biter here at casa QED.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 13, 2025 11:06 PM (fveCG)

197 Leading Report @LeadingReport
BREAKING: American Airlines reportedly grounds and removes from service pilots who celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Sep 13, 2025 · 7:55 PM UTC

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 11:07 PM (gKWVE)

198 Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson’s roommate and possible transgender partner has been identified as 22-year-old Lance Twiggs.

Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson lived with his transgender partner – a male to female trans, according to Fox News reporter Brooke Singman.

The transgender partner is cooperating with the FBI.

The FBI used Robinson’s texts with his transgender partner to solidify Robinson was the assassin.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 11:03 PM (hx5BH)

Has Twiggs had his twig and berries lanced?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 11:07 PM (B4SRX)

199 I used to double time from the barracks at Lewis and get a case of Rainier longnecks at the shoppette. I think they were $20, not the same as in town.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 11:07 PM (55dRY)

200 There is more to the trans thing, possibly an Antifa plot, a conspiracy. From the NY Post: "A neighbor claimed two weeks ago several people, driving cars with out of state plates, were seen going in and out. “They did not give off a good vibe,” the neighbor said." So many to hang.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 11:07 PM (g47mK)

201 I don't think I'm tired of #winning, lads

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 11:07 PM (gKWVE)

202 Eastern Washington cafeteria(?) where a friend went- saw J Geils. i saw Jim Carey at the comedy store around 1983 when he was doing impressions.

Posted by: LASue at September 13, 2025 11:08 PM (lCppi)

203
i think the beheader was Cuban, and not Muslim
Posted by: gKWVE

=============

Yes, an illegal alien Cuban.

And good evening.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 11:08 PM (bmq0V)

204 I saw some xweets that Lance wasn't trans, "just" a furry

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 11:08 PM (gKWVE)

205 Saaaaaay, where are *our* riots? The burning cars? The looting?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 11:03 PM (kkTda)

We just passed, "the Saxon's began to hate" stage moving towards fire bombing cities stage.

Posted by: Beartooth at September 13, 2025 11:08 PM (1RikM)

206 hi morticia.
at some point i need to get off the screens.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 11:09 PM (gKWVE)

207 Saaaaaay, where are *our* riots? The burning cars? The looting?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 11:03 PM (kkTda)

I'll think about it.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 11:09 PM (g47mK)

208
I'll think about it.
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 11:09 PM (g47mK)

________

Can you pick up a television for me? Thanks.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 11:10 PM (kkTda)

209 I saw a pic of the tranny pilot. I’m not convinced people can or even should separate their personal life from professional. I used to think differently. It’s a total composite deal. I’m not getting on a fucking plane with that thing. “Fucked In The Head” is not who I want to see on the controls.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 11:10 PM (55dRY)

210
What's this?

I'm hearing the Democrat party's train stabber was released out of jail and admitted into a mental facility on the orders of a "judge." Don't know if true.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 11:10 PM (CEIO6)

211 167 @151

>>I'm a fan of rap music.
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I'll listen to some of the older stuff. Sir Mix a Lot - Posse on Broadway, La Di Da Di - Slick Rick (every rapper samples that), and the Country Grammar CD by Nelly. Kids think it funny.

Posted by: scampydog at September 13, 2025 11:11 PM (41CYW)

212 saw some xweets that Lance wasn't trans, "just" a furry
Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 11:08 PM (gKWVE)

That sounds like a distinction we should leave to the left to argue about. But more importantly, How prescient are we?

Posted by: LASue at September 13, 2025 11:11 PM (lCppi)

213 I saw a pic of the tranny pilot. I’m not convinced people can or even should separate their personal life from professional. I used to think differently. It’s a total composite deal. I’m not getting on a fucking plane with that thing. “Fucked In The Head” is not who I want to see on the controls.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 11:10 PM (55dRY)

There is no such thing as a sane tranny. Cannot happen. at. all. Might make good kamikaze pilots, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 11:12 PM (B4SRX)

214 Saw the Greg Kihn Band open for J Geils who opened for the Rolling Stones in the kingdome in the early 80’s. Summer of 81 I think. Next time I saw Greg Kihn Band was about 2012 at a SF Bay Area country club picnic. The played a medley of their “Greatest Hit”. Jeopardy. Pretty amusing.

Posted by: Pete Bog at September 13, 2025 11:13 PM (TYzdQ)

215 there's no such thing a "just a furry"

just sayin'

Posted by: Otto Pen at September 13, 2025 11:13 PM (sJHOI)

216 tweets don't know jack and ..., info from Fox reporter was confirmed by Breitbart's two sources

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 11:13 PM (g47mK)

217
repost:

this is Ace when he gets mad at us:

https://is.gd/dopcFs

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 11:13 PM (CEIO6)

218 Back. Throne room upgrades completed.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 13, 2025 11:14 PM (lUFok)

219 We need a full investigation of Trantifa nationwide. We need to start throwing these Commie twinks into prison left and right.

But first, we need to make sure that the FBI agents investigating aren't current or former members of the Trantifa Fan Club, as many appear to be.

The FBI Utah Branch sat on photos of the shooting suspect for over twelve hours.

The Secret Service just found an agent posting about how Charlie Kirk "deserved it."

This nation has a LOT of trash that needs to be taken out.

And President Trump needs to hire private security. Butler, PA was no accident.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 13, 2025 11:14 PM (X+xvk)

220 Touchdown ND.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 13, 2025 11:15 PM (fveCG)

221 I wonder if they had someone running a video directly to the perp, since Kirk got shot the exact moment he was answering a trans question.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 11:15 PM (g47mK)

222 If DJT gets hit, this country is toast.
"Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle..."

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 11:15 PM (gKWVE)

223 Given the Cuba Libre reaction, I'd like to point you all to the Cape Codder.

Also, Rum and coke is for cheap rum. Further, don't ignore the wonders of a nice light rum and 7-Up in the summer.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at September 13, 2025 11:15 PM (pIfcn)

224 Muffed PAT. Remains a 6 pt game in South Bend.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 13, 2025 11:16 PM (fveCG)

225 antifa is a no good anarchist terrorist organization that needs to be rolled up , like the mob, like KKK.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 11:16 PM (g47mK)

226 Back. Throne room upgrades completed.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 13, 2025 11:14 PM (lUFok)

Did you file the teeth of the sharks in the moat?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 11:16 PM (B4SRX)

227 Kamikaze. Vodka triple sec and lime.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2025 11:16 PM (Z5vAv)

228 Their sponsors and promotors need to got to jail.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 11:17 PM (g47mK)

229
If the FBI Shits had their way, we would know NOTHING about murDerer tyler robinson (D-Utah) and his gay pervert (D-Utah) boyfriend/accomplice.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 11:17 PM (CEIO6)

230
A&M football has always perplexed me. Big university, fanatical fans, great traditions and every year it seems like they're 7-5.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 11:18 PM (kkTda)

231 The Secret Service just found an agent posting about how Charlie Kirk "deserved it."

This nation has a LOT of trash that needs to be taken out.

And President Trump needs to hire private security. Butler, PA was no accident.
Posted by: Sam Adams

Lots of trips to the train station.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 11:18 PM (hx5BH)

232 Saw the Greg Kihn Band open for J Geils who opened for the Rolling Stones in the kingdome in the early 80’s. Summer of 81 I think. Next time I saw Greg Kihn Band was about 2012 at a SF Bay Area country club picnic. The played a medley of their “Greatest Hit”. Jeopardy. Pretty amusing.
Posted by: Pete Bog at September 13, 2025 11:13 P

The Kingdome in the late 70s (and i assume in the early 80s) had to be the worst place acoustically to hear any band. So echo-ey

Posted by: LASue at September 13, 2025 11:18 PM (lCppi)

233 Are the reports of Robinson's magical ACT scores real?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2025 11:19 PM (Z5vAv)

234 >> I dont think the tort of defamation survives death. But maybe there's a business/estate component in this situation

That's generally true. The theory of libel/defamation is that it causes harm to a person's reputation, etc, which has a cost. Once the person is dead, well, there can be no such damage -- he's dead, Jim.

However, the trick there is if the defamation does extend harm to living people or business entities associated with the deceased. That's a subtle, tricky thing, but it can apply.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 13, 2025 11:19 PM (w6EFb)

235 There is no such thing as a sane tranny. Cannot happen. at. all. Might make good kamikaze pilots, though.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Nor a sane furry. Mentally ill both: tranny and furry.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 13, 2025 11:20 PM (fveCG)

236 The SS agent lost it's security clearance and was placed on leave.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2025 11:20 PM (Z5vAv)

237 If the FBI Shits had their way, we would know NOTHING about murDerer tyler robinson (D-Utah) and his gay pervert (D-Utah) boyfriend/accomplice.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 11:17 PM (CEIO6)

Well, look at the flip side. If certain Fibbies can be shown to have been actively trying to bollix this investigation, it gives Patel and Bongino a reason to put their heads in a noose.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 11:20 PM (B4SRX)

238 Thanks for a great Saturday night ONT! The last sentiment is obviously the best - the horde is awesome!

My favorite hole in the wall is no longer one, but back in the day it was: The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA. I've seen the Seldom Scene there many times, but went to see Ricky Skaggs once and he pulled me onstage to sing. Just cause. I'm real glad I knew his songs so I could sing harmony with him and not make a fool of myself. It seems having audience members come on stage was a thing there back in the 80's. I have no idea what it's like now, but I saw on the event schedule that the Yachtly Crew is playing on October 14 for all you yacht rock aficionados!

Posted by: moki at September 13, 2025 11:22 PM (wLjpr)

239
The Secret Service STILL sucks. President Trump had to literally Tell his Secret Service Detail to get their ass in gear and remove the those fake anti-war code pink pigs from the restaurant.

They got within *inches* of President Trump and many Cabinet members. No urgency at all displayed by the SS.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 11:22 PM (CEIO6)

240 Mentally ill both: tranny and furry.
Posted by: QED Texan

Yeah, no argument here.

"I am NOT calling you Loretta."
"I'm not asking you to! I wanted to be called 'Fido'. Woof!"

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 11:22 PM (gKWVE)

241 If the FBI Shits had their way, we would know NOTHING about murDerer tyler robinson (D-Utah) and his gay pervert (D-Utah) boyfriend/accomplice.

Posted by: Soothsayer

They kneel before their Commie heroes in BLM.

They actively refuse to investigate Trantifa.

James Comey and Chris Wray did everything they could to protect them.

Comey went on to post his assassination-porn seashell shot on social media.

Chris Wray denies that Donald Trump was actually shot.

These are the pieces of shit who were in charge of our FBI. Think of the collection of turds piled up beneath them. Things in the porta-potty don't get prettier the deeper you dig.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 13, 2025 11:22 PM (X+xvk)

242 The SS agent lost it's security clearance and was placed on leave.
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2025 11:20 PM (Z5vAv)

I expect that is a prelude to firing. Probably not easy to just up and fire Federal agents.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 11:23 PM (B4SRX)

243 Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2025 10:54 PM (XV/Pl)

That's pretty much sums me up as well. Grew up on 225th and Broadway (strictly speaking, not The Bronx, although nobody knew that at the time).
Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at September 13, 2025 11:06 PM (0CU3H)
===

I had only two rules growing up and one was "can't go north of 92nd St"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 11:23 PM (RIvkX)

244 https://tinyurl.com/2e4s8bsm
Illustrated Spygate scandal pt XI
Doug Ross Substack

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 11:23 PM (+qU29)

245 Given the Cuba Libre reaction, I'd like to point you all to the Cape Codder.

Also, Rum and coke is for cheap rum. Further, don't ignore the wonders of a nice light rum and 7-Up in the summer.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls

Popped into Spec's Liquor today. 15 yr old Macallan sherry cask $179.00. Damn.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 11:24 PM (hx5BH)

246
Weird.

I just got a mad craving for a hot dog, with lots of relish....

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 11:24 PM (CEIO6)

247 Did you file the teeth of the sharks in the moat?

Forgot to do that. It was one of the kid's jobs, so it probably never got done.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 13, 2025 11:26 PM (lUFok)

248 Mariners are winning. Against the Angels.
AL-W is a real throuple between them, the Asterisks, and the Rangers.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 11:26 PM (gKWVE)

249 126 Erika Kirk in discussion to sue Stephen King for defaming her husband's character.
Posted by: rickb223

Good.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2025 11:27 PM (c3B7E)

250 I missed the movie thread, but I remember seeing Rhinoceros on TV way back when, and thinking of Gene Wilder's character as the last human on Earth during Covid when I was the only person I knew IRL who didn't believe in masking, 6', shots and the importance of walking only one way in grocery stores.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2025 11:28 PM (rbvCR)

251 There is more to the trans thing, possibly an Antifa plot, a conspiracy. From the NY Post: "A neighbor claimed two weeks ago several people, driving cars with out of state plates, were seen going in and out. “They did not give off a good vibe,” the neighbor said." So many to hang.

Posted by: runner
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Unless they left all their cell phones back home they can be tracked. Just like the J4 months (years) later....
... and it seems a lot of antifa leaders are trust fund babies -- nice newer cars with live connection via cell towers at all times...

The only way this is not rolled up is if DoJ FBi etc obstruct

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 13, 2025 11:29 PM (/lPRQ)

252 Good evening everyone.
Thanks to moviegique for allowing me to poach the movie thread. Downloaded, Rhinoceros and watched Charlie Varrick, which is a good watch. Diva is too exclusive at this time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 11:30 PM (EJQ63)

253 >>Given the Cuba Libre reaction, I'd like to point you all to the Cape Codder.

Nobody cares about Vodka. The entire point of Vodka is to taste and smell like nothing. If you are ever out with a guy orders a Cape Codder just get up and leave before he tries to violate you.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 11:30 PM (viF8m)

254 I’m not getting on a fucking plane with that thing. “Fucked In The Head” is not who I want to see on the controls.
Posted by: Common Tater

---
After the Kung Flu Freakout 90 percent of all medical staff are suspect

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 13, 2025 11:31 PM (/lPRQ)

255 new Sabaton
youtu.be/oEtvIFNLfVE

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 11:31 PM (gKWVE)

256 Apr 5, 1979 (46 years ago) Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Arena. Navy Corpsman Naval Regional Medical Center Oakland.

My roommate burst into the room and exclaimed "Hey! Supertramp is playing at the Coliseum tonight!" "We should go!"

I said, "But it's 5:30 and the show starts at 8?" Can we even get tickets??"

"Let's just go and try."

Oh we got tickets...20 rows back and one of the best concerts I ever attended.

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 13, 2025 11:32 PM (25kuG)

257 What are your all timers for listening to live music in small venues?

In 1976, I saw Boston play in a college bar in Waukesha, WI, I think it was named “Monty’s Flying Circus” or something similar.

Posted by: Insensitive Clod at September 13, 2025 11:33 PM (h60a/)

258 227 Kamikaze. Vodka triple sec and lime.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2025 11:16 PM (Z5vAv)

The first time I went to a bar in college, someone said "Get kamikazes!" It was triple happy hour - three for ones, and I tried them. A couple of times. Maybe even three. First and last time I drank more than one beer or one glass of wine. I threw up for two days.

Posted by: moki at September 13, 2025 11:33 PM (wLjpr)

259 DREAM THEATER TONIGHT IN ATLANTA

KICKED ASS

NUFF SAID

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2025 11:33 PM (ngszx)

260 Types of people who harmed you that you may want dead

1.Serial killers
2.Murderous gangsters
3.Rapists, pedophiles, thugs, bad drivers
4.Swindlers, forgers, Internet scammers
5.Corrupt judges and lawmakers
6.Incompetent judges
and people who DIDN'T harm you
7.People with different opinions from yours

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 13, 2025 11:33 PM (fMVpK)

261 I'm hearing the Democrat party's train stabber was released out of jail and admitted into a mental facility on the orders of a "judge." Don't know if true.

Posted by: Soothsayer
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In a just society that guy and the judge that let him walk before the murder should have been executed already.
... maybe the last five judges.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 13, 2025 11:33 PM (/lPRQ)

262 Unbosom means something totally different to me.

Posted by: Chaz Bono at September 13, 2025 11:34 PM (cHOHf)

263 Other good news, the kid's dragon was rehomed today. Worship pastor's daughter is into reptiles and had room, so off it went.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 13, 2025 11:34 PM (lUFok)

264 Isn't that drink just a rum and Coke? Why the exotic name?
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 13, 2025

It was pushed during the lead-up to the Spanish American war as part of the Hearst papers' drive to either liberate Cuba through revolution or by involving the US military directly in conflict with the Spanish Empire.

Remember, the Maine was an initiating incident because the US sentiment was looking for an inciting incident.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2025 11:34 PM (rbvCR)

265 Rum, bourbon, rye - all on the menu.

I find FdC 12-year good though a bit woody and sharp, but an excellent example of a Spanish-style column still rum. I'd like to try the 18-yr. Usually I tend towards English-style, mostly Barbados, often a mix of pot and column still. Jamaican generally too funky for me, Guyana can have a bit of funk but not too much.

Only time I mix is with so-darker rums, with ginger beer and a bit of lime. Only when it's hot. Hamilton 86 is perfect for this - also sippable actually (to me a Guyana-type profile to it).

Have a Haitian rum I need to open. Wild stuff from there. Usually wild yeast fermentation, out in sheds in the cane fields.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2025 11:35 PM (U/Byj)

266 After the Kung Flu Freakout 90 percent of all medical staff are suspect
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

I love my PCP who usually thinks outside the box for the best treatment. But he’s all in on Kung Flu. Sad.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 13, 2025 11:35 PM (fveCG)

267 200 There is more to the trans thing, possibly an Antifa plot, a conspiracy. From the NY Post: "A neighbor claimed two weeks ago several people, driving cars with out of state plates, were seen going in and out. “They did not give off a good vibe,” the neighbor said." So many to hang.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 11:07 PM (g47mK)

Most of the neighbors interviewed are as clueless as we are. "They were quiet" except for one "who played music loud." The only one I trusted was an 11yr old kid looking for odd jobs. Bucky (how I refer to the killer as I never give their names fame) answered the door..."Kept looking behind him. Nervous."

I doubt antifa or consipiracy.

There was a group of gamers from HS. They became liberal trans wackos online. Covid enters the chatroom of demonic liberals.

Bucky started his grand scholarship and lasted one semester. That tells me he did not fit in. It scared him. Hell, I don't know. But it is rather pathetic if you made a 34 out of 36 on an ACT score and can't fit in.

So he left and roomed with one guy (one left a year ago). Furry remained,his "parntner"is male wanting to be female. I am not sure how far in the process of transmutation.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 13, 2025 11:35 PM (6PCLE)

268 there's no such thing a "just a furry"

just sayin'
Posted by: Otto Pen
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Was it Uncle Palp who used to go off on Furries?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 13, 2025 11:35 PM (/lPRQ)

269 TAMU touchdown ties it up. 0:13 on the clock.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 13, 2025 11:35 PM (fveCG)

270 What a game...wow!!

Posted by: joemarine at September 13, 2025 11:37 PM (y171U)

271 DREAM THEATER TONIGHT IN ATLANTA
KICKED ASS
NUFF SAID
Posted by: Cow Demon

Nice. That's my small-ish venue answer; I saw DT at First Avenue, before they got "big" and started playing the Orpheum and the State Theater.

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2025 11:38 PM (nhCoE)

272 By the way, if you make a Cuba Libre using either Aguardiente or Raki, it is called a Mercado Libre

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2025 11:38 PM (rbvCR)

273 242 The SS agent lost it's security clearance and was placed on leave.
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2025 11:20 PM (Z5vAv)

I expect that is a prelude to firing. Probably not easy to just up and fire Federal agents.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

If you lose that security clearance, you're done.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2025 11:39 PM (c3B7E)

274
I wondered what Grok would say about Erika' possible case. Grok thinks "intentional infliction of emotional distress" would be the better route than defamation, although she might be still be able to get around the deceased hurdle for defamation.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 13, 2025 11:39 PM (w6EFb)

275 What a game...wow!!
Posted by: joemarine

Ugh! I’m off to bed.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 13, 2025 11:40 PM (fveCG)

276 In keeping to one of the ONT themes of music in small venues:

1) Kenny Loggins in a small university venue. Very nice.

2) Aerosmith in a very small venue of a small college. Blew out eardrums and my brother and I heard Tyler screaming from the parking lot.

The other concerts I went to in my supermodel days were in huge concert venues and totally worth it if you were on the 5th row and standing on chairs (Jethro Tull and ZZ Top).

I had a blast. One concert I was apparently pretty wasted for Eric Clapton. My husband said it was not that great and I don't remember but I had fun.

He is an engineer by profession and a very good guitarist (blues) by hobby. He loves Steve Beato.

The most recent concert we attended on a date was to see the lovely and ethereal Alison Krauss and Union Station in an open concert of 3k people. We had a fantastic picnic and a night to remember always. Her voice is the same voice my brother introduced me to 20yrs ago. Wonderful time.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 13, 2025 11:40 PM (6PCLE)

277 Mentally ill both: tranny and furry.
Posted by: QED Texan

Yeah, no argument here.

"I am NOT calling you Loretta."
"I'm not asking you to! I wanted to be called 'Fido'. Woof!"
Posted by: gKWVE

Not sure which is nuttier: a male human who thinks he's a female human, or a male human who thinks he's a male wallaby.

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2025 11:41 PM (nhCoE)

278 For very good bajan (Barbados) rums that are under or close to $30 -

Doorly's XO
Doorly's 12-yr
Seale's Best 10-yr

All sippable neat. They're my everyday sippers.

Around twice the price, Real McCoy. Fairly bourbon-ish due to oak aging, very good, excellent first rum for anyone crossing over from Bourbon Land.

Haven't ventured much into French style (agricole). One nice one I got at half price, would never pay full, Neisson Reserve Especiale, fairly woody. Picked up a blanc from Martinique in St. Martin last fall, actually sippable neat. Have to open it. Tasted at the liquor store. Not available in US far as I can tell.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2025 11:42 PM (U/Byj)

279 Trany...Trany...Trany,

If we still endorsed STATE MENTAL INSTITUTIONS.

That is where you would be. Working through your severe DADDY or MOMMY issues dear TRANY.

No guns for you my little impaired ones.

No guns for you.

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 13, 2025 11:42 PM (25kuG)

280 Not sure which is nuttier: a male human who thinks he's a female human, or a male human who thinks he's a male wallaby.
Posted by: mikeski

Are you assuming the gender of that female wallaby?

Posted by: QED Texan at September 13, 2025 11:42 PM (fveCG)

281 Freak shooter is faggot pawn of BLM or a derivative. His boyfriend may be a bigger link in the chain than he appears. This isn't a one off thing. They picked someone that could shoot this time.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 11:43 PM (EJQ63)

282 Speaking of live music, I just saw Eric Clapton tonight. I give him an A for the performance - he still sounds great - but a C+ on song selection. For the catalog of hits that he has, to play so many generic blues songs was disappointing.

Posted by: Josephistan at September 13, 2025 11:44 PM (MxelC)

283 230A&M football has always perplexed me. Big university, fanatical fans, great traditions and every year it seems like they're 7-5.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 11:18 PM (kkTda)

They were a big deal when they stayed in a less high powered conference, like the old SWC. Then they got the swelled head and decided they belonged in the SEC where they’re just average. Now average in the SEC is gonna be way better than most of the country, but it’s still always gonna be 7-5, 8-4 seasons.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2025 11:46 PM (5Gg6R)

284 The greatest "small" venue in the world: the Village Vanguard. In late '64 through mid '65, I saw Miles Davis Quintet, then what you would call a spinoff today -Wayne Shorter Quartet with Herbie Hancock, and Fatha Earl Hines. I impressed the hell out of my future wife by taking her to a Shirley Scott/ Stanley Turrentine show down the bottom of these cellar steps.

Posted by: buddhaha at September 13, 2025 11:46 PM (VxJ5N)

285 Best band I ever saw in small venues it's highly unlikely you ever heard of them. The Wigs out of Milwaukee in the early 80s. Hard power pop, sort of punkish 1965 Beatles with a Cheap Trick vibe. There's an album out there of their original songs but they were hoping for commercial success so it's not recorded as hard as they played live. A few years ago they released a CD of a live radio broadcast and I immediately bought it and yes, they were as good live as I remembered.

Posted by: azjaeger at September 13, 2025 11:47 PM (3/XaG)

286 Best live music in a small venue. Hmmm. There was a place on the wharf, kind of a dive but not raunchy. They offered live music and it could be anything from small combo jazz, traditional folk music, and sea shanties. Good place to hear all the voices and instruments and to sing along. One time they had Buddy Rich and his band. He was in town for the Jazz Festival. Yeah, it was loud in that small space but it was awesome to be able to sit ten feet from Buddy.

The other was listening to the Minstrels of Mayhem in a small, maybe 100 seat, auditorium. They did Renaissance music and traditional ballads but with some comedy thrown in. On one ballad they turned it into blues and Rap. Funny as hell. Sadly they disbanded a while back. I have the CDs but you can find them on YT.

The benefit of small venues, for my taste, is being able to distinguish and appreciate each instrument or voice. It doesn't need volume to be an effective performance, just intimacy.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 11:47 PM (yTvNw)

287 did not act alone

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 11:47 PM (g47mK)

288 >>>>He is an engineer by profession and a very good guitarist (blues) by hobby. He loves Steve Beato.
--------------

Wait. We need a qualifier here. He's a railroad engineer, a recording engineer (ptuie) or some other kind of engineer?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 11:48 PM (EJQ63)

289 Charlie asked his pastor to pray for him recently. Said something like "they will try to kill me "...

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 11:48 PM (g47mK)

290 Was amused to see kamikazes on the drink menu at a restaurant in Kobe. But generally the term "tokkotai" is used in Japan, portmanteau of "tokubetsu kōgeki tai", or special attack unit.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2025 11:49 PM (U/Byj)

291 Back in the day, down at the Pikes Place Market in Seattle, it was not uncommon to see musicians playing on the street corners. One time a guy was playing his clarinet. Nobody recognized him as he covered himself pretty well.
Kenny G. (He lives across the lake inBellevue).
I stood there and listened. It was awesome. Asked him how often he comes there. He said it was a great place try out new material. Very cool.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2025 11:49 PM (2WIwB)

292 The political class here thinks its perfectly acceptable, obligatory even, to have young women stroll with young children down the same sidewalk as literally stark raving lunatics.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 11:49 PM (RIvkX)

293 >>> Jasmine Crockett Says She’s Not ‘Necessarily’ Encouraging Her Supporters to Hurt Republicans in Wake of Charlie Kirk Assassination
+++

I think I found part of the problem

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 13, 2025 11:50 PM (/lPRQ)

294 Here , chilling :

https://tinyurl.com/3awnvj84

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 11:50 PM (g47mK)

295 Nice. That's my small-ish venue answer; I saw DT at First Avenue, before they got "big" and started playing the Orpheum and the State Theater.
Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2025 11:38 PM (nhCoE)

Coca Cola Roxy in Atlanta.

I saw SLAYER at the Showcase in San Antonio and a little band called Stream of Passion at the Gigant in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2025 11:50 PM (ngszx)

296 "they"...

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 11:50 PM (g47mK)

297 Smallest venue with biggest name ive been to was a wedding in austin. The reception musician was Diana Krall who played for an hour.

Posted by: LASue at September 13, 2025 11:51 PM (lCppi)

298 Oh we got tickets...20 rows back and one of the best concerts I ever attended.
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 13, 2025 11:32 PM (25kuG)

That's the way to live life!

I saw Pure Praire League (I forgot it was also a small venue!) on a spur of the moment deal with some of my boyfriends...who really were just party friends of mine. I always had groups of boys who treated me well platonically. Some had girlfriends and would come have a beer with me and discuss them. Like I knew squat about relationships.

It was a mid-week concert, with a huge Med/Surg II exam in college the next day. My nursing friends were horrified and tried to talk me out of it. I made index cards and studied while getting tickets in addition to just doing well with tests in general. I made the highest A in the class! HA!

Rock on, Morons and 'ettes!

https://tinyurl.com/5ftbsv3a

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 13, 2025 11:51 PM (6PCLE)

299
But of more CAPITAL CONCERN...the dark web...TicToc and the need for parents to start BEING PRESENT as to what sites their children are visiting. Take our schools back, go after these tenured Commie/Marxist Professors in our universities like they did to the Republic in the 60's. Drag them out into the light of the public square and expose their poison.

And if need be...remove them by any needs necessary.

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 13, 2025 11:51 PM (25kuG)

300 292 The political class here thinks its perfectly acceptable, obligatory even, to have young women stroll with young children down the same sidewalk as literally stark raving lunatics.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 11:49 PM (RIvkX)

They are never punished for it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2025 11:51 PM (ngszx)

301 Saw Cannonball Adderley with Walter Booker and Joe Zawinul.
Saw Miles; same group with Tony Williams at drums.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 11:52 PM (EJQ63)

302 They are never punished for it.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2025 11:51 PM (ngszx)
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Actually we're going to punish all of you for it,

Posted by: The Political Class at September 13, 2025 11:53 PM (RIvkX)

303 They were a big deal when they stayed in a less high powered conference, like the old SWC. Then they got the swelled head and decided they belonged in the SEC where they’re just average. Now average in the SEC is gonna be way better than most of the country, but it’s still always gonna be 7-5, 8-4 seasons.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2025 11:46 PM (5Gg6R)

A&M was generally OK in the Big XII. If Manziel had stuck around for four years…

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2025 11:54 PM (ngszx)

304 243 Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2025 10:54 PM (XV/Pl)

That's pretty much sums me up as well. Grew up on 225th and Broadway (strictly speaking, not The Bronx, although nobody knew that at the time).
Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at September 13, 2025 11:06 PM (0CU3H)
===

I had only two rules growing up and one was "can't go north of 92nd St"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 11:23 PM (RIvkX)

Don't you know it. 'White Flight' was a real thing back in the 70s and 80s, but I saw it up close on the #1 train at 96th Street. Woe betide the person who was stuck on the train when the doors closed at 96th Street! If you weren't black I knew you probably went to Columbia U. Good times.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at September 13, 2025 11:56 PM (0CU3H)

305 I always though Amie was a pretty song. I don't usually pay attention to the lyrics. Then I listened to the lyrics. It's like Fooled Around and Fell in Love. Great tag line, lyrics aren't what I thought they were.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 11:57 PM (EJQ63)

306 139 I dont think the tort of defamation survives death. But maybe there's a business/estate component in this situation
Posted by: LASue at September 13, 2025 10:43 PM (lCppi)

Jesse Ventura's suit against Chris Kyle... as I type, I realize thst this is not a very good comparison, as Jesse was suing Chris (and I still believe Chris, btw) the allegation was in an actual publication, not just social media, and Chris was still alive when the suit was brought.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 13, 2025 11:57 PM (Ic+AQ)

307 A&M was generally OK in the Big XII. If Manziel had stuck around for four years…
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2025 11:54 PM (ngszx)

And thus will go college football. The top twenty teams will be the AAA for the NFL. The rest will be the AA and single A as players jump and shuffle up the ladder.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2025 11:58 PM (2WIwB)

308 Back in the day, down at the Pikes Place Market in Seattle, it was not uncommon to see musicians playing on the street corners. One time a guy was playing his clarinet. Nobody recognized him as he covered himself pretty well.
Kenny G. (He lives across the lake inBellevue).
I stood there and listened. It was awesome. Asked him how often he comes there. He said it was a great place try out new material. Very cool.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2025

Definitely cool You may remember Richard Peterson outside Husky Stadium, too? A very good musician

Posted by: LASue at September 13, 2025 11:59 PM (lCppi)

309 Korihor tells Zelph that dump needs his own horst wessel.

Posted by: raimondo at September 13, 2025 11:59 PM (PxeZJ)

310 I can't remember the name of the club outside Frankfurt where I saw Frank Black whilst I was stationed in Germany way back in the 90's.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 14, 2025 12:00 AM (Ic+AQ)

311 Wait. We need a qualifier here. He's a railroad engineer, a recording engineer (ptuie) or some other kind of engineer?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 11:48 PM (EJQ63)

Ha! He was a software systems architect guru. Retired. Puttting up with me is his second degree. Have known him 49yrs this month, 46 of them married happily.

Taught himself to play piano and guitar in HS. Plays by ear. One of our sons is a professional musician (saxophone) but figured out quickly he'd better learn software/systems as well. There are a LOT of nerds in my family. Also a lot of music.

Where did you see yesterday afternoon that Bucky (killer) was "dating" and found out his "girlfriend" was a male (furrie")?? I read it briefly as I was getting ready to go out for dinner.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 14, 2025 12:01 AM (6PCLE)

312
For very good bajan (Barbados) rums that are under or close to $30 -

Doorly's XO
Doorly's 12-yr
Seale's Best 10-yr

All sippable neat. They're my everyday sippers.
...

Posted by: rhomboid

Have all of those in the house right now. I'm big on the Foursquare stuff, though I don't care for the 14-yr. Vanilla-heavy.

Curious if anyone else has tried Teeda Japanese rum. It's, um, unique.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at September 14, 2025 12:01 AM (4DY5T)

313 looks like the room's IQ just dropped.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 14, 2025 12:01 AM (gKWVE)

314 307 A&M was generally OK in the Big XII. If Manziel had stuck around for four years…
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2025 11:54 PM (ngszx)

And thus will go college football. The top twenty teams will be the AAA for the NFL. The rest will be the AA and single A as players jump and shuffle up the ladder.
Posted by: Diogenes

Yup.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 14, 2025 12:02 AM (c3B7E)

315 Definitely cool You may remember Richard Peterson outside Husky Stadium, too? A very good musician
Posted by: LASue at September 13, 2025 11:59 PM (lCppi)

Husky Stadium???!!!
*spits*
Go Cougs! (although they sucked today)

Posted by: Diogenes at September 14, 2025 12:02 AM (2WIwB)

316 ffs troll to make sense.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 12:03 AM (RIvkX)

317 289 Charlie asked his pastor to pray for him recently. Said something like "they will try to kill me "...
Posted by: runner
------------

Saw comments on a military guy who was down close to the tent.
He said this is a kill box, where it was set up. They could have put the tent anywhere.

There were also statements about two people behind Charlie to the right that appeared to be making hand signs. But it's chatter.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 12:03 AM (EJQ63)

318 Its interesting looking through leftwing social media.

The smarter ones are posting fluffy "violence is always wrong things" which is the minimum of what a decent person would say. And a fair number blather on about the State legislator in MN that was murdered by one of Walz's flunkies. In fact, I would love to see Trump publicly ask the FBI to verify if in fact Walz did have anything to do with it

But the less intelligent lefties? They are all in on murdering Kirk. Sometimes with a list of fake quotes, sometimes just with a "he was a Christian"

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2025 12:03 AM (sKqQm)

319
Does horst wessel go well with sauerkraut?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2025 12:03 AM (w6EFb)

320 *try to make sense

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 12:03 AM (RIvkX)

321 Go Cougs! (although they sucked today)
Posted by: Diogenes
-----------
Yes, they were awful today.

Posted by: scampydog at September 14, 2025 12:05 AM (41CYW)

322 Saw comments on a military guy who was down close to the tent.
He said this is a kill box, where it was set up. They could have put the tent anywhere.

There were also statements about two people behind Charlie to the right that appeared to be making hand signs. But it's chatter.

One thing that stands out to me - one of the anti-Kirk people down in front immediately jumped up and celebrated when Kirk was shot making him a very obvious target for a truly random sniper. An odd reaction for someone who didn't have foreknowledge.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2025 12:05 AM (sKqQm)

323 If DJT gets hit, this country is toast.
"Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle..."

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 11:15 PM (gKWVE)

Just bought a necklace saying exactly this.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at September 14, 2025 12:05 AM (oSeBJ)

324 Posted by: raimondo at September 13, 2025 11:59 PM (PxeZJ)

No problem. We will make sure it's your lifeless hand found holding the gas can in the burned-out ruins.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2025 12:06 AM (B4SRX)

325 I wonder if the discovery that the sniper wasn't a troon, but a true blue leftist will affect whatever legislation/EO Trump is going to work on for this.

Out: Common sense Tranny control

In: Common sense Antifa control

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2025 12:06 AM (sKqQm)

326 looks like the room's IQ just dropped.

No, I've been here for a while.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 14, 2025 12:07 AM (lUFok)

327 Probably not easy to just up and fire Federal agents.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 11:23 PM (B4SRX)

You have to refuse orders to investigate Christians for being Christian over a period of several months.

Ask me how I know.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at September 14, 2025 12:07 AM (oSeBJ)

328 Word salad at #309

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 14, 2025 12:09 AM (ngszx)

329 “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”

You learn something new every day - all this time I thought that was just the typically-Steinmanian chorus and title of a Meat Loaf song.

Posted by: far cry at September 14, 2025 12:10 AM (CmUac)

330 >Does horst wessel go well with sauerkraut?
----

no no
is boat for horst!
a horst wessel

Posted by: Don Black at September 14, 2025 12:10 AM (AOsQT)

331 Might just be those people who run the flag up, and leave it there until it falls apart.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 10:45 PM (B4SRX)

I read that two states: NJ and Iowa did not lower their flags due to being liberal Demoncrats.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 14, 2025 12:10 AM (6PCLE)

332 Ask me how I know.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at September 14, 2025 12:07 AM (oSeBJ)
====
I wonder if the people who persecuted you have now been purged?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 12:10 AM (RIvkX)

333 So glad you husband is or wasn't a recording engineer. I know you have a wonderful family but difficulty may have been on the horizon if he was close to the boards. whew.

Where did you see yesterday afternoon that Bucky (killer) was "dating" and found out his "girlfriend" was a male (furrie")?? I read it briefly as I was getting ready to go out for dinner.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
--

I have no idea. I'm an X link traveler. If the link seems credible and interesting I'll bring it. I didn't bring it because it was a first.
Whatever you posted prompted a brain 'ding' and the statement was from recall.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 12:11 AM (EJQ63)

334 THey need to execute this POS publically for the world to see :

"The man who allegedly killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk joked that his 'doppelganger' pulled the trigger while discussing the tragedy in a private Discord chat just hours after the shooting.

Tyler Robinson, 22, mocked the manhunt for the gunman and taunted the FBI's investigation while joking about obtaining reward money before eventually surrendering to police, according to messages obtained by The New York Times.

Robinson has since been arrested and identified as the prime suspect in Kirk's killing.

He showed no sign of remorse in screenshots of the Discord chat shared by a former high school classmate.

In fact, Robinson appeared to revel in the attention, exchanging meme-laced jabs with acquaintances while authorities scrambled to find the person responsible.

'Tyler killed Charlie!!!!' one user wrote in a group chat on Thursday afternoon, jokingly tagging Robinson.

Robinson fired back almost instantly: 'My doppelganger's trying to get me in trouble,' he wrote."

derragned prick

Posted by: runner at September 14, 2025 12:12 AM (g47mK)

335 And his acquaintances are accomplices.

Posted by: runner at September 14, 2025 12:12 AM (g47mK)

336 Iowa did order the flags lowered. Johnson County's supervisor publicly announced he was defying that order but the county seems to have defied the defiance.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 14, 2025 12:13 AM (gKWVE)

337 I wonder if the people who persecuted you have now been purged?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 12:10 AM (RIvkX)

No. But I wasn't at FBI. I was at another DoD investigatory agency.

I'm keeping my ears open to who's taking the early outs being offered by the White House and SecWar Hegseth.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at September 14, 2025 12:13 AM (oSeBJ)

338 Husky Stadium???!!!
*spits*
Go Cougs! (although they sucked today)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 14, 2025 12:02 AM (2WIwB)

No love for the Cougs, but to see them travel to texas to lose to basically a jr college is pretty awful. The ridiculous and pointless destruction of the Pac 8/10/12 still makes me sad

Posted by: LASue at September 14, 2025 12:14 AM (lCppi)

339 Saw Les Paul at the Wisconsin State Fair. You would think it would have been in an auditorium, but it was just a good size room. No stage, it was him standing on the floor in front of a bleacher. I sat right in front of him on a bale of straw. During his break, he set down his guitar and chatted with folks who came down from bleacher. In case you have not yet reached the age of twenty-nine, he was quite famous in the fifties.

Posted by: French Jeton at September 14, 2025 12:14 AM (j0T5y)

340 No love for the Cougs, but to see them travel to texas to lose to basically a jr college is pretty awful. The ridiculous and pointless destruction of the Pac 8/10/12 still makes me sad
Posted by: LASue at September 14, 2025 12:14 AM (lCppi)

Same.
very sad.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 14, 2025 12:16 AM (2WIwB)

341 Grudge Harbor, nice. Unfortunately I just started exploring good rum when Foursquare's better stuff doubled in price, so haven't had much of their ECS stuff. There's a whole bunch of others I've liked but didn't list above (Colombian, Jamaican, Guyanese). I tend to switch back and forth, and try to keep exploring. For Spanish-style under $40 I can recommend Allegro XO (a bit "hot") or South Bay, both from the DR.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 14, 2025 12:16 AM (U/Byj)

342
One thing that stands out to me - one of the anti-Kirk people down in front immediately jumped up and celebrated when Kirk was shot making him a very obvious target for a truly random sniper. An odd reaction for someone who didn't have foreknowledge.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2025 12:05 AM (sKqQm)

The old Bernie looking guy or the pony tail guy who stood up and cheered with fist pump? Both were either arrested or questioned. The Bernie guy, it turns out, is well known to police in Salt Lake. He got arrested in 2013 asking marathon people if he could help with a bomb (after the Boston Marathon). At this arrest he was yapping about his right to remain silent and a lawyuh.

The other guy was named. Did either a X diatribe or someone saw his questioning. He claimed bullshite and did not seem honest. So I think fist pump is still under investigation. I saw his real name so he's probably screwed for life for jobs. I hope he's connected, as I am pretty mean. I hope the poster on X, Omar, is also connected. He's who I turned in and was questioned.

Basically I want the entire gaming "followers" of their "new social paradigm" to be arrested. Fist bump guy had 75 followers.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 14, 2025 12:16 AM (6PCLE)

343 executes someone in cold blood, then goes home to laugh about it in some chatroom with other deranged losers

Posted by: runner at September 14, 2025 12:17 AM (g47mK)

344 336 Iowa did order the flags lowered. Johnson County's supervisor publicly announced he was defying that order but the county seems to have defied the defiance.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 14, 2025 12:13 AM (gKWVE)

Good to know! I was sad about Iowa but not surprised by Bergen, NJ.

I love defying defiance. I should add that to my life's work along with "Try Me."

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 14, 2025 12:18 AM (6PCLE)

345 In fact, Robinson appeared to revel in the attention, exchanging meme-laced jabs with acquaintances while authorities scrambled to find the person responsible.

'Tyler killed Charlie!!!!' one user wrote in a group chat on Thursday afternoon, jokingly tagging Robinson.

Robinson fired back almost instantly: 'My doppelganger's trying to get me in trouble,' he wrote."

derragned prick
Posted by: runner at September 14, 2025 12:12 AM (g47mK)

It would appear he was trying to establish an insanity defense.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2025 12:18 AM (B4SRX)

346 Robinson appeared to revel in the attention, exchanging meme-laced jabs with acquaintances while authorities scrambled to find the person responsible

type...delete

Posted by: gKWVE at September 14, 2025 12:19 AM (gKWVE)

347 no no
is boat for horst!
a horst wessel
Posted by: Don Black at September 14, 2025 12:10 AM (AOsQT)

Perfectly missed opportunity for a Cmdr Checkov sock.

Posted by: RickZ at September 14, 2025 12:19 AM (gKDq2)

348 That emotional roller coaster of waking up hung over, remembering the the band from the night before, the dancing, the people, I GOT THE EP, putting it on and it sounds like crap

Posted by: Nato at September 14, 2025 12:19 AM (pBz/W)

349
"The man who allegedly killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk joked that his 'doppelganger' pulled the trigger while discussing the tragedy in a private Discord chat just hours after the shooting.

I've been saying for a while ALL of these leftwing killers are posting what they are up to online with their friends. It is just a question of whether Trump will force the FBI to actually investigate, follow the money, and arrest those that gave material assistance this time.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2025 12:19 AM (sKqQm)

350 It would appear he was trying to establish an insanity defense.

==

no, he did not think he would get caught, he thought he is very clever

Posted by: runner at September 14, 2025 12:20 AM (g47mK)

351 Washington Nearsider that's horrendous and kudos to you.

I am not overly optimistic about all this in the longer run. Rot seems too deep and widespread. It's similar to situations where we've approached a situation in a Third World country, trying to figure out a way/place to start trying to combat the endemic corruption and dysfunction.

And there are people compiling military members' self-reveals, in addition to that big project of a 50K+ database of vile idiots flying their flags. Pretty sure there will be consequences for those in uniform.c

Posted by: rhomboid at September 14, 2025 12:20 AM (U/Byj)

352 no, he is just a monster, like his friends

Posted by: runner at September 14, 2025 12:21 AM (g47mK)

353 ffs troll to make sense.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 14, 2025 12:03 AM (RIvkX)

There's a reason these things prefer to shoot people who challenge them intellectually.

"Debate this" is the reductio ad absurdum of the entire vile, grotesque "progressive" mindset.

Posted by: far cry at September 14, 2025 12:21 AM (CmUac)

354 I've been saying for a while ALL of these leftwing killers are posting what they are up to online with their friends. It is just a question of whether Trump will force the FBI to actually investigate, follow the money, and arrest those that gave material assistance this time.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2025 12:19 AM (sKqQm)

Any of those online chat partners that didn't drop a dime on him should be charged as accessories after the fact.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2025 12:21 AM (B4SRX)

355 no, he did not think he would get caught, he thought he is very clever
Posted by: runner at September 14, 2025 12:20 AM (g47mK)

They always do.

Hubris and ego.

Posted by: RickZ at September 14, 2025 12:21 AM (gKDq2)

356 The other guy was named. Did either a X diatribe or someone saw his questioning. He claimed bullshite and did not seem honest. So I think fist pump is still under investigation.

Yeah, this guy.

Most normal people duck when bullets are flying even if they are hitting someone they hate.

This guy had no fear whatsoever. So either:

He's ex-military and had some time in the box getting shot at
He's a psychopath
He had a pretty good idea what had just happened as in a specific assassination

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2025 12:21 AM (sKqQm)

357 You keep having music in the ONT, but I never see you guys do contemporary heavy metal. Find the birthdates of the members of Lovebites or something and put them up.

Posted by: Jim S. at September 14, 2025 12:23 AM (ORG52)

358 This thing about anti-Kirk people present at the scene *celebrating* a murder right in front of them. Jeebus.

This equals anything in Nablus on 9/11.

Whistle all you want but this society is deeply degraded.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 14, 2025 12:23 AM (U/Byj)

359 Speaking of the ludicrous destruction of the pac 12 , seeing Ucla get crushed by new mexico in front of an almost non existent student fan base was pretty surreal

Posted by: LASue at September 14, 2025 12:23 AM (lCppi)

360
What's this?

I'm hearing Thomas Massie (D-Fucknutville) couldn't keep his stupid fucking mouth shut and said "Trump" needs to "tone down" the rhetoric.

True?

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 14, 2025 12:25 AM (CEIO6)

361 Peak Sara Evans was pretty spectacular.

https://tinyurl.com/yfavev2m

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2025 12:25 AM (viF8m)

362 I lived in Albany, NY and back in 1980 or so, a small club opened up that booked well known bands. Hall and Oates, Rory Gallagher and others.

One day a friend of mine asked if I wanted to go to the club. He’d heard this guy Pat Benatar was going to be playing and he was supposed to be pretty good. Sure.

Imagine our surprise when a VERY female Benatar came on “stage” (which was just the bar floor) and started bringing the house down. It also helped that this “guy” was wearing a leotard that looked to be sprayed on! She was on tour promoting her first album.

I figure that we were maybe 20 feet from her and the rest of the band.

One of the best concerts I ever was at. Hands down.

Posted by: RobertM at September 14, 2025 12:25 AM (btIS/)

363
Daily Mail has a picture of the furry/tranny "it-friend", Lance Twiggs:

https://tinyurl.com/25pdp7nl

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2025 12:26 AM (w6EFb)

364 I'm hearing Thomas Massie (D-Fucknutville) couldn't keep his stupid fucking mouth shut and said "Trump" needs to "tone down" the rhetoric.

The last assassination of this scale with MLK.

Now there certainly were people cheering it on - but they were people without access to the media. Can you imagine the reactions if thousands of right leaning people were cheering on the killing?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2025 12:27 AM (sKqQm)

365
'Tyler killed Charlie!!!!' one user wrote in a group chat on Thursday afternoon, jokingly tagging Robinson.

Robinson fired back almost instantly: 'My doppelganger's trying to get me in trouble,' he wrote."

derragned prick
Posted by: runner at September 14, 2025 12:12 AM (g47mK)

Hope he enjoys gen pop in prison! These "gamer" types don't seem all that innocent to me these days. Their Mama's are not checking on them in HS like I did. I was not a Mama to be their friend, altho they loved me some of the time.

Granted, once they get to college you just pray. Our sons did fine at two huge party universities... fearing their parents but loving at the same time. Grown now and good men.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 14, 2025 12:27 AM (6PCLE)

366 For Spanish-style under $40 I can recommend Allegro XO (a bit "hot") or South Bay, both from the DR.

Posted by: rhomboid

Cool. I'll keep an eye out for those.

And yeah, FS high-proof stuff has gotten pricey. I really only hunt down Indellible now (96 proof).

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at September 14, 2025 12:27 AM (4DY5T)

367 Have told the big musician/small venue story before, even recently, so just the punchline: George Thorogood at the Cold Spring Tavern, small bar in mountains above Santa Barbara. He rode his Harley in, nobody recognized him until he started singing One Scotch, One Whiskey, One Beer.

New Orleans Jazzfest used to be a place to see big names/great musicians in small/nearly empty venues. The tents, on a weekday. Harry Connick Jr., just a few of us in the tent. And San Diego used to have a music thing called Street Scene, which like most such great things got much too big and then went away. Very first year, just 3/4 stages, nobody there. Buckwheat Zydeco, maybe 15 people there to enjoy.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 14, 2025 12:28 AM (U/Byj)

368 Don't run off I'm looking for some things.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 12:29 AM (EJQ63)

369 Also in Tennessee…

Two leftist cvnts were fired from Cumberland University for celebrating Charlie’s death.

Never heard of that university. But good on them.

More please.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 14, 2025 12:29 AM (qM1j6)

370 Stephen Miller is going nuclear…

“This is not fringe anymore. Tape, after tape. Federal workers, bureaucrats, educators, professors, nurses… people celebrating and cheering the assassination of Charlie Kirk!
There is a domestic terrorist movement growing in this country.”
[and we are going to get them]

https://tinyurl.com/4e4ar4pn

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 12:32 AM (EJQ63)

371 some people are just born bad and nothing can fix them

Posted by: runner at September 14, 2025 12:33 AM (g47mK)

372 My favorites so far, city attorney of Oklahoma City, OK (infamous blue state, right?), and Clemson. The Clemson thing may be quite delicious and have legs. Board and president who (surprise!) appear to be idiots who can't even de-fuck the situation though they're trying, but only compound it, and serious talk of funding cuts from the state.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 14, 2025 12:34 AM (U/Byj)

373 The last assassination of this scale with MLK..
________________

Democrats cheered for that one too.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 14, 2025 12:34 AM (DIweC)

374
Stephen King's apology is that he just happened to not "fact-check" that particular accusation.

Like, guys, I couldn't chase down the equivalent for "elderberry" in the Amharic alphabet at that moment because I was riding a rickshaw somewhere in Anhui Province on my way to the local shaman to get my appendix out. I mean "Charlie Kirk says gay people should be stoned to death" is not even that bad of a thing to say about someone when you think of it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2025 12:34 AM (bmq0V)

375 He's ex-military and had some time in the box getting shot at
He's a psychopath
He had a pretty good idea what had just happened as in a specific assassination
Posted by: 18-1 at September 14, 2025 12:21 AM (sKqQm)

I think he had a pretty good idea and knew Bucky and where he was. Simply because I don't like him and his dead eyes. Plus his X thing of wanting his "new social paradigm." I assumed that meant he's part of the furry team, but I could be wrong. I remember details like him having 75 followers...so I want them screened as well.

Basically I want them ALL who were involved to be accessories.

Then, in my magic world, I want all the "gamer" trans furries to be scared of what they might find on their "chats." That makes me happy to think about. Right now they don't have that fear...make it happen!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 14, 2025 12:35 AM (6PCLE)

376 The USS Charlie Kirk

Just floating that

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 14, 2025 12:36 AM (DIweC)

377 The last assassination of this scale with MLK.

Now there certainly were people cheering it on - but they were people without access to the media. Can you imagine the reactions if thousands of right leaning people were cheering on the killing?
Posted by: 18-1

Never followed Kirk, but relatively speaking MLK is just a local story. Kirk had international impacts. Even S Korea had remembrances.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 14, 2025 12:37 AM (/lPRQ)

378 The encyclopedia entry for "Dingleberry" has Stephen King's face on it.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 14, 2025 12:38 AM (gKWVE)

379 The surgeon in NJ - in front of nurses and a patient - sharing his profound wisdom that Charlie deserved it - is an outstanding one. Whistleblower nurse (who's a 10, funnily enough) was fired by the hospital. Burned/abandoned by the nurses' union. Assume she's having to get a second phone number to handle the lawyers' calls pouring in.

Hard to tell and early, but seems like the doc has already been dropped from one medical group he was part of. Seeing all the doctors revealing their retarded amoral arrogance is something.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 14, 2025 12:38 AM (U/Byj)

380
My favorite Sara Evans song, "Born to Fly":
https://tinyurl.com/2mqrk6ho

I'd forgotten all about her and that. 25 years since that came out, damn.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2025 12:39 AM (w6EFb)

381
https://tinyurl.com/4e4ar4pn

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends

===============

"You will live in exile."

I don't know how we'll do it, but we must.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 14, 2025 12:39 AM (bmq0V)

382 368 Don't run off I'm looking for some things.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 12:29 AM (EJQ63)

Who you talking' to?

I am fading fast and have a brand new demanding 1mo old granddaughter visiting me tomorrow morning to keep me busy. She's very bossy to everyone and cracks me up. A week ago she was po'd at her binkie and we thought it was hilarious. She's fierce!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 14, 2025 12:39 AM (6PCLE)

383 To be read in a emphatic Trump PO'd voice

This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.

"My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it, as well as those who go after our judges, law enforcement officials, and everyone else who brings order to our country.

From the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania last year, which killed a husband and father, to the attacks on ICE agents, to the vicious murder of a health care executive in the streets of New York, to the shooting of House Majority Leader Steve Scalice and three others. Radical left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives. Tonight, I ask all Americans to commit themselves to the American values for which Charlie Kirk and the monster who attacked him was attacking our whole country. An assassin tried to silence him with a bullet, but he failed. Because together we will ensure that his voice, his message, and his legacy will live on for countless
generations to come.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 12:40 AM (EJQ63)

384 And #370, Steven Miller, you want to hear it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 12:41 AM (EJQ63)

385 Good to see Miller (meaning WH inner circle) appropriately apoplectic about all this.

Just wish they'd arrange a few high-profile illegal alien employer arrests (large private or publicly traded companies) before they march off to (finally) disassemble the Axis of Evil Idiocy in the US.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 14, 2025 12:41 AM (U/Byj)

386 I'm not a big Ben Shapiro fan but this was a thing of beauty.

https://tinyurl.com/2pcuer2m

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2025 12:42 AM (viF8m)

387 Michael Savage has questions.

https://tinyurl.com/3p5wtnd3

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 12:42 AM (X+xvk)

388 I think they are serious. They tried to kill him, they killed his buddy.
He's not the kind of guy to put up with that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 12:43 AM (EJQ63)

389 I so love me some Stephen Miller.

And he is 1000% correct.

We are fighting against satan, y'all. Demonic trans crap, led by violent Dim politicians cheering them on. Social media and gamers are their veneral disease spreaders.

There was an estimated 1million Brits marching today with Tommy Robinson. Katie Hopkins spoke. They honored Charlie Kirk, many of the speakers. Some had posters of his face in the crowd of British Flags and the Flag of St. George. Their common theme is mass deportation of illegals.

I have been praying for a long time for countries to follow our lead under President Trump. Pray for this, too, for the UK and Europe.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 14, 2025 12:43 AM (6PCLE)

390 43 I didn't like disco very much, then rap came out. Disco seemed a lot better to me.

Posted by: Case at September 13, 2025 10:13 PM (iwlvf)
- - - - - - - -

Jazz funk is better than both of those...

Posted by: As not seen on TV at September 14, 2025 12:44 AM (OvUrq)

391 386 I'm not a big Ben Shapiro fan but this was a thing of beauty.

https://tinyurl.com/2pcuer2m
Posted by: JackStraw
-----------------

I haven't listened but I can't stand Shapiro. I heard they picked him. I hope they are right.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 12:44 AM (EJQ63)

392 TikTok User Calls For Charlie Kirk’s Widow and Children, Elected Officials, CEOs to be Murdered Next – “His Wife and Kids Need to Go Too… Get Rid of the Whole Family” (VIDEO)
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You'd think calling for specific people to be killed would be kind of illegal.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 14, 2025 12:45 AM (/lPRQ)

393 @379 Hard to tell and early, but seems like the doc has already been dropped from one medical group he was part of. Seeing all the doctors revealing their retarded amoral arrogance is something.

Posted by: rhomboid

Seeing the enormous percentage of medical professionals who publicly approve of political assassinations is profoundly disquieting.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 12:46 AM (X+xvk)

394 Good to see Miller (meaning WH inner circle) appropriately apoplectic about all this.

==

I worry about him, he is very articulate and does not back down.

Posted by: runner at September 14, 2025 12:47 AM (g47mK)

395 Giorgia Melonia made a nice statement about Charlie. Then against the anti-fa, she thinks they did it, and ended with, 'We won't be intimidated'.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 12:49 AM (EJQ63)

396 What's the best fairly reasonably priced rum?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 14, 2025 12:51 AM (Z5vAv)

397 >>I'd forgotten all about her and that. 25 years since that came out, damn.

I'm here for you.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2025 12:51 AM (viF8m)

398 Seeing the enormous percentage of medical professionals who publicly approve of political assassinations is profoundly disquieting.
Posted by: Sam Adams
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My primary, a devout Catholic, a gentleman and a scholar (truly) is dismayed at the abject revulsion of reality by the people in his circle.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 12:52 AM (EJQ63)

399 The entire Dem party needs to be designated a terrorist group.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 14, 2025 12:52 AM (qM1j6)

400 We see virulent Leftist hatred directed at all sorts of people. Ben Shapiro, James O'Keefe, Steve Bannon, Elon Musk. I think all of these people are in danger, O'Keefe and Musk particularly so because of their constant efforts at revealing government corruption.

Hope Elon gets his head out and drops his beef with Trump, but I am not optimistic on that front. His ego can't allow it.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 12:53 AM (X+xvk)

401 Two talented politicians were assassinated by the left a bit further down the map from us. Miguel Uribe in Colombia and Fernando Villavicencio in Ecuador ins 2023. They were both running agains leftist marxist scum.

Posted by: runner at September 14, 2025 12:54 AM (g47mK)

402 396 What's the best fairly reasonably priced rum?
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 14, 2025 12:51 AM (Z5vAv)

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Pussers Original has a lower price than all other premium rums combined.

Sorry. I couldn't resist after yesterday's Wyoming meme.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 14, 2025 12:54 AM (dDmld)

403 So the leftist marxist scum killed them.

Posted by: runner at September 14, 2025 12:54 AM (g47mK)

404 Rum is the reason pirates never ruled the world.

Posted by: zombie Toby Keith at September 14, 2025 12:54 AM (CmUac)

405 I attended a performance by BB King in a little roadhouse in Redondo Beach years ago (and I saw many other other great artists also performed there) that later became a Cracker Barrel.

I don't know if it still exists, - it may have been leveled.

Those small venues are some of the best times to be had.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at September 14, 2025 12:55 AM (KdNiq)

406 392 TikTok User Calls For Charlie Kirk’s Widow and Children, Elected Officials, CEOs to be Murdered Next – “His Wife and Kids Need to Go Too… Get Rid of the Whole Family” (VIDEO)
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At the Beginning of the Bush war and that rancorous so called Baptist group disrupting funerals. There were a group of motorcyclists the put the quietus on them. Escorted they did.

That concept needs to be revived on a protection level.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 12:56 AM (EJQ63)

407 I saw the Office Depot dustup on TV today.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 14, 2025 12:56 AM (63Dwl)

408 >>Rum is the reason pirates never ruled the world.

Sure they did. Just not the Johnny Depp kind.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2025 12:57 AM (viF8m)

409 My primary, a devout Catholic, a gentleman and a scholar (truly) is dismayed at the abject revulsion of reality by the people in his circle.

Posted by: Braenyard

My primary emigrated from South Africa. We shared a huge laugh when Trump granted political sanctuary to the white South Africans fleeing racial/political persecution. Hey, finally a group of migrants the KneePad Press didn't want to see here!

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 12:57 AM (X+xvk)

410 402 396 What's the best fairly reasonably priced rum?
______________________

We have had good luck with Largo Bay and Mount Gay

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 14, 2025 12:59 AM (DIweC)

411 391 386 I'm not a big Ben Shapiro fan but this was a thing of beauty.

https://tinyurl.com/2pcuer2m
Posted by: JackStraw
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Yes.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 01:00 AM (EJQ63)

412 Giorgia Melonia made a nice statement about Charlie. Then against the anti-fa, she thinks they did it, and ended with, 'We won't be intimidated'.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 12:49 AM (EJQ63)

I don't expect antifa keeps formal membership rolls.. Doesn't matter, declare all antifa, and fellow travelers to be hostis humanii generis, and make them outlaws, in the strictest sense of the word.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2025 01:01 AM (a9R6a)

413 @392...reporting any threats or hatred of Charlie Kirk here...I'd say wanting to kill his widow and children qualify.

https://tinyurl.com/yanctb22

Or

https://tinyurl.com/2y25fvhu

I don't have X or tik tok. Bookmark links and report this trash, please.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 14, 2025 01:03 AM (6PCLE)

414 What's the best fairly reasonably priced rum?

Posted by: Boss Moss

I like the Doorly's XO ($22) or Doorly's 12-yr ($2

that rhomboid mentioned.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at September 14, 2025 01:03 AM (4DY5T)

415 There was a time in America where political debate was elevated to television so that the pundits could address the American people directly. And the people could hear and see these politicians give their reasoning why they were the best because of what their policies could and would benefit the voting public the most.

BURMA SHAVE...

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 14, 2025 01:04 AM (25kuG)

416 Someone on Blue Sky or whatever they call it, said something about Kirks wife being next.

Gee, I wonder if there is a way to track these people down who think they are anonymous? Just saying.

Posted by: Case at September 14, 2025 01:04 AM (iwlvf)

417 What's the best fairly reasonably priced rum?

Posted by: Boss Moss

Bacardi Black is perfectly fine for making a rum and cola highball. Lamb's is good too, at its price point.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2025 01:05 AM (a9R6a)

418 Other small venue performers observed. Joe Walsh in a Boston bar before he became well known. Don Ho in an open-air, thatched roof place. He was already famous by then, but that was what he did at the time. Some guy who became famous, but I forget his name. Saw him at a bar just as he was gaining a following in Los Angelos.

Posted by: French Jeton at September 14, 2025 01:05 AM (j0T5y)

419
Giorgia Meloni's speech, from her X feed, in Eye-talian:

https://tinyurl.com/25g5lvy8

And translated:
https://tinyurl.com/2dl9egqk

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2025 01:06 AM (w6EFb)

420 I am jumping in really late here, being on the West Coast and all, but talking of live music in small venues, I have experience both in the audience and on the stage.

Without a doubt, the band I have seen most in small venues is Tower of Power, almost always either at the Roxy or the Golden Bear. I saw them virtually every time they were at either place throughout the Eighties and Nineties. Those guys always had it nailed, every note in time, place and tune. The best horn section ever, back in the Greg Adams days.

I saw Marilyn Scott a lot during those years as well, usually at At My Place. She did a Christmas show every year with the Tower horns, which was always the highlight of my musical year.

On the stage, my friends and I had a pretty good band going for a while, and we had two epic shows. One was at Club 88. That was a scary show, because the first thing we saw when we got on the stage to set up was the sign facing the stage saying "NO COVERS." Now, that was early in our existence, and most of what we were doing then was covers. Our set with only originals would have been very short!

So we decided to do the only thing we could do, and ignore the sign. (continued)

Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at September 14, 2025 01:06 AM (2JDMs)

421 CHARLIE KIRK!!!

CHARLIE KIRK!!!

Death to the left

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 14, 2025 01:07 AM (25kuG)

422 Hard to tell and early, but seems like the doc has already been dropped from one medical group he was part of. Seeing all the doctors revealing their retarded amoral arrogance is something.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 14, 2025 12:38 AM (U/Byj)

Between them and the teachers, their giddy celebrations are being lost in the noise.

Now I have to check the politics of those who treat me when I'm in the hospital. If they find out I hate lefties, will they spike my saline line?

This is serious shit, along with kids being absolutely indoctrinated by these amoral demons who call themselves 'teachers' and who revel in and celebrate murder of those who just talk. Topsy-turvy world. Crazy. Glad some pilots got pulled. If they hate normal people that much, will they go all allahu snackbar next flight?

Posted by: RickZ at September 14, 2025 01:08 AM (gKDq2)

423 And we wondered all of that time why Tranny-tifa was allowed to kill/maim/destroy at will without facing charges, while groups like the Proud Boys were immediately arrested and charged for fighting back.

Our own government was waging war on us.

This was but one of many fronts.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 01:08 AM (X+xvk)

424 377 The last assassination of this scale with MLK.
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This is world wide. Millions in England, Positive demonstrations in India, accusations of anti-fa from Italy. On and on, it's world wide.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 01:09 AM (EJQ63)

425 Happily, the club personnel didn't seem to notice we were doing a lot of covers, because they were all R&B, soul, or Little Feat, and that was a New Wave venue. Oh, one other thing about Club 88: the stage smelled like cat urine. We never did find that litter box.

Our other big show was towards the end of our time, when we had developed something of a following. It was at the big room at The Ice House, right here in Pasadena. We had that audience in the palm of our hand, and boy, is that adulation addictive!

Posted by: Otis Criblecoblis at September 14, 2025 01:10 AM (2JDMs)

426 Boss Moss, what Grudge Harbor said, er, but he was saying what I said. So - what I said. I think.

Depends on purpose. For mixing, have little to recommend, as I don't do it much. Hamilton 86 ($25 or under) is a good dark-ish mixer rum.

For everyday sippers, the ones Grudge and I listed. I'm sure I'm forgetting some, but those are now my go-to's.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 14, 2025 01:10 AM (U/Byj)

427 If you're a political conservative and your doctor has directed you to undergo the cardiac stress testing, you just might want to find out the political leanings of the person administering that test....

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 01:11 AM (X+xvk)

428
This is world wide. Millions in England, Positive demonstrations in India, accusations of anti-fa from Italy. On and on, it's world wide.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 01:09 AM (EJQ63)

I've been praying for people to rise up for years, more since last November. The scene in London was very cool today with over a million marching (MSM there said 100K which was bs). People are rising up against evil and illegals!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 14, 2025 01:11 AM (6PCLE)

429 What's the best fairly reasonably priced rum?
Posted by: Boss Moss

I like Kraken. Not sure if it's considered reasonably priced, but it must not be too much if I'm willing to buy it fairly regularly.

Posted by: She Hobbit at September 14, 2025 01:13 AM (ftFVW)

430 419
Giorgia Meloni's speech, from her X feed, in Eye-talian:

https://tinyurl.com/25g5lvy8

And translated:
https://tinyurl.com/2dl9egqk
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Thanks.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 01:14 AM (EJQ63)

431 Frightening to see that the ideological capture of the Media by the Left is comprehensive, world-wide.

The clowns of the BBC are every bit as hateful, stupid and dishonest as any of the clowns at PMSNBC. Seems to be universal.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 01:14 AM (X+xvk)

432 You know, if we had a law on the books that would treat looting, rioting destruction of property as terrorism, and assign the death penalty to his behavior, I wonder if it would improve things....

Posted by: runner at September 14, 2025 01:15 AM (g47mK)

433 Let the Bodies hit the floor...

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 14, 2025 01:18 AM (25kuG)

434 As JackStraw and AOP mentioned, Flor de Cana 12. Clean column-still style with a fair amount of wood.

Rum has an interesting history. "Invented" (like many things, discovered by accident) in the New World, mostly likely Barbados, as a distillate of molasses, side product of sugar refining.

Rum was the primary hard liquor of America for most of its history, and played a role in Revolutionary War finances and doings (as did tobacco). Of course the US grew little sugar cane, but distilled lots of rum from imported cane/molasses. Rum dominated until Prohibition, from which it didn't really come back well. Bourbon and rye, already major players, took over in that lane following Prohibition.

Rum is enjoying it's latest rebirth in recent years, as Americans discover better rums meant for more than mixing. Europe and the UK have never lost their taste for fine rum. They have rum cruises in the Baltic. I'd love to wander a good liquor store in the UK or Netherlands, likely an amazing rum selection.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 14, 2025 01:18 AM (U/Byj)

435 JD Delay on death threats.

https://tinyurl.com/ym6mfb8p

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 01:18 AM (X+xvk)

436 The clowns of the BBC are every bit as hateful, stupid and dishonest as any of the clowns at PMSNBC. Seems to be universal.
Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 01:14 AM (X+xvk)

The BBC has a lot more power. Government-owned. Makes it much worse.

With the media pretty much everywhere, everybody they don't like is called 'far-right' yet somehow nobody is ever identified as far-left.

Posted by: RickZ at September 14, 2025 01:19 AM (gKDq2)

437 433 Let the Bodies hit the floor...

Posted by: Nightwatch

America has a LOT of trash that needs to be taken to the curb.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 01:20 AM (X+xvk)

438 https://youtu.be/KmJ_qf7OrKE

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 01:20 AM (rdVOm)

439 The absolute best of the Feat in no small part, see what I did there, is the Tower of Power.

Always note perfect.

https://tinyurl.com/ym3aa4be

Posted by: JackStraw at September 14, 2025 01:21 AM (viF8m)

440 I don't have X or tik tok. Bookmark links and report this trash, please.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
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That was from Gateway Pundit. Actually the leading article right now

I think they have 1000+ comments on that tictoc and note the poster was in country less than four years (alien) and engaged in "terroristic threatening".

Fairly sure it is a matter of days before deportation.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 14, 2025 01:23 AM (/lPRQ)

441 Mt. Vernon, Washington's estate, was named for Admiral Vernon of the Royal Navy, who among other things regularized the rum (grog) ration for the RN's sailors. Sadly the rum ration was discontinued in 1971. You can still buy some of the last batches of Royal Navy grog that were contracted for but surplused when the ration was discontinued, some company bought it all. Pricey.

Thus endeth the rum trivia portion of this evening's program. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 14, 2025 01:24 AM (U/Byj)

442 America has a LOT of trash that needs to be taken to the curb.
Posted by: Sam Adams

Starting with Drowning Pool, that song sucks.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 14, 2025 01:26 AM (gKWVE)

443 And we wondered all of that time why Tranny-tifa was allowed to kill/maim/destroy at will without facing charges, while groups like the Proud Boys were immediately arrested and charged for fighting back.

Our own government was waging war on us.

This was but one of many fronts.
Posted by: Sam Adams
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Flashback to Kyle Rittenhouse (?) when he had to pop those antifa skum. Weren't they all MAPs?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 14, 2025 01:30 AM (/lPRQ)

444 Hey Horde, just popping in to grab a quick drink. How are you all?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 14, 2025 01:30 AM (0nHVk)

445 For anyone else in CA, check out the new round of Prop 50 ads. They dropped all the old, inciteful ones immediately after Charlie was assassinated.

However, Newsom's new ad starts with him saying, "we can't unilaterally disarm..." in an ad for gerrymandering. They just can't help themselves.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at September 14, 2025 01:32 AM (4DY5T)

446 Frightening to see that the ideological capture of the Media by the Left is comprehensive, world-wide.

The clowns of the BBC are every bit as hateful, stupid and dishonest as any of the clowns at PMSNBC. Seems to be universal.
Posted by: Sam Adams
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They call it Globohomo for a reason.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 14, 2025 01:34 AM (/lPRQ)

447 Flashback to Kyle Rittenhouse (?) when he had to pop those antifa skum. Weren't they all MAPs?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

They were. And, despite Rittenhouse trying desperately to run away, despite Rittenhouse being forced to defend himself from repeated, violent attacks, the Media and the Left (but I repeat myself) continually accused him of being a "white supremacist" who murdered peaceful protesters.

They wanted to send him to prison for surviving.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 01:39 AM (X+xvk)

448 America has a LOT of trash that needs to be taken to the curb.
Posted by: Sam Adams

Starting with Drowning Pool, that song sucks.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 14, 2025 01:26 AM (gKWVE)

Is Fleetwood Mac an American or British institution?

Either way, into the Sarlacc!

Posted by: don't ... stop ... thinkin'about tomorrow ... for 1000 years! at September 14, 2025 01:39 AM (CmUac)

449 Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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Have a double and stay a while.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 01:40 AM (EJQ63)

450 Hi, Debby!

*slides a Chivas (neat) down the bar*

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 01:41 AM (rdVOm)

451 On and on, it's world wide.

Yup.

(whistling)

The wind of change
Blows straight into the face of time
Like a storm wind that will ring the freedom bell
For peace of mind

( whistling)

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at September 14, 2025 01:42 AM (NZ5n/)

452 NASA Bans Chinese Nationals From Working On Agency Programs

Hello?, Trump threw 'em out in his first term, failures.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 01:48 AM (EJQ63)

453 I work in hospital

My bosses came in absolutely GIDDY

I wanted to punch them

Then puke

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at September 14, 2025 01:48 AM (XLfSN)

454 (whistling)

The wind of change
Blows straight into the face of time
Like a storm wind that will ring the freedom bell
For peace of mind

( whistling)
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate

Let your balalaika sing
what my guitar wants to say....

Take me to the magic of the moment
on a glory night
where the children of tomorrow share their dreams
with you and me.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 01:49 AM (X+xvk)

455 453 I work in hospital

My bosses came in absolutely GIDDY

I wanted to punch them

Then puke
Posted by: melodicmetal1

So, should I feel comfortable if people of this political disposition are injecting me with radioactive die and forcing me to accelerate my heart rate to 180+ bpm?

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 01:52 AM (X+xvk)

456 Another vigil for Charlie

https://tinyurl.com/4u2z9rtt

I think I'm more upset now that when it happened.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 01:53 AM (EJQ63)

457 Stephen Miller@StephenM

In recent days we have learned just how many Americans in positions of authority—child services, law clerks, hospital nurses, teachers, gov’t workers, even DOD employees—have been deeply and violently radicalized.
The consequence of a vast, organized ecosystem of indoctrination.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 01:56 AM (EJQ63)

458 where the children of tomorrow share their dreams
with you and me.

That's the line that got to me when I spun that song up earlier this evening. Was getting a bit dusty in the room, it was.

May it be so.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at September 14, 2025 01:59 AM (NZ5n/)

459 Charlie Kirk's Assassination Suspect Lived With Transgender Partner, Discord Denies Use
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Lot of talk that this is conspiracy, anti-fa, and they used these chat groups to arrange it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 01:59 AM (EJQ63)

460 A couple of my coworkers scanned socials for our particular hospital and we found a few.

Submitted to charliesmurders site

We shall see

I struggled with absolute RAGE the past 48 to 72 hours.

My boss goes "wooow you seem tense"

Yeah no shit bitch!!

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at September 14, 2025 02:02 AM (XLfSN)

461 This week has been mostly *type/delete* so I've not commented much.

Prayers for Charlie's family. Prayers for the U.S.A.

Prayers for our Moron Horde.

That's all I can do, from here. (and remember to take my blood-pressure meds...)

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 02:07 AM (rdVOm)

462 Thanks JQ, mind if I grab some ice on the side? Here's to Charlie and his wonderful wife and family, he truly does wear the crown of a martyr.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 14, 2025 02:07 AM (0nHVk)

463 My bosses came in absolutely GIDDY

I wanted to punch them

Then puke
Posted by: melodicmetal1 at September 14, 2025 01:48 AM (XLfSN)

Do you have clandestine access to extreme diarrhretic formulations, which could be placed in certain peoples' sippy water bottles?

In the movies, always a great source of super-accurate real-life scenarios of all kinds, that is a guaranteed reliable source of revenge.

Posted by: far cry at September 14, 2025 02:08 AM (CmUac)

464 I've seen a few clips of NYT's Peter Baker blaming Charlie Kirk for getting himself assassinated. I've never seen Peter Baker before. He looks like he spent high school getting stuffed in lockers by the A/V Club. Nerds would beat him up and take his lunch money. He'd get wedgied by the D&D Club. He just looks like a very weak, cowardly, man who is lashing out at those better than him, which is most everybody.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 14, 2025 02:09 AM (c3B7E)

465 *grabs tongs*

One perfectly clear ice cube, for Debby's drink...

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 02:09 AM (rdVOm)

466 No Palestinian State, This Place Is Ours': Netanyahu Rejects UN Two State Recognition

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 02:09 AM (EJQ63)

467 ...and a tumbler of ice, on the side...

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 02:10 AM (rdVOm)

468 458 where the children of tomorrow share their dreams
with you and me.

That's the line that got to me when I spun that song up earlier this evening. Was getting a bit dusty in the room, it was.

May it be so.
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate

I had such profound hope for the world when that song came out. Communism seemed to be on the run. The possibility of peace and freedom spanning the globe actually seemed within reach.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 02:17 AM (X+xvk)

469 Does horst wessel go well with sauerkraut?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 14, 2025 12:03

Don't know publius. But WI brats sure do, I brought them back from my last trip. We had store made cheddar brats tonight w/ sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and of course ketchup. Delish.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at September 14, 2025 02:18 AM (55Qr6)

470 461 This week has been mostly *type/delete* so I've not commented much.

Prayers for Charlie's family. Prayers for the U.S.A.

Prayers for our Moron Horde.

That's all I can do, from here. (and remember to take my blood-pressure meds...)
Posted by: JQ

A full week of types/deletes.

Yep.

God help us. God forgive this nation, and heal our land.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 02:20 AM (X+xvk)

471 Hubby is sinking deeper into dementia, and Cat has an abscess which is finally healing... I'm still dealing with Dad's estate *all by myself* no thanks to 3 siblings, and got a half-acre of yard to maintain.

Heh. I'm losing my personal battles. Cuckoo. Cuckoo...

This place is my only sanity.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 02:20 AM (rdVOm)

472 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 14, 2025 02:21 AM (BLyNd)

473 Hi, Teresa!

Hope you're as well as can be!

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 02:24 AM (rdVOm)

474 This place is my only sanity.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 02:20 AM (rdVOm)

I come here to look for insanity. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 14, 2025 02:25 AM (snZF9)

475 If the siblings aren't helping they should get a proportional share to the effort the put in.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 02:25 AM (EJQ63)

476 The entire Polish Parliament just stood up, held a moment of silence and prayed for Charlie Kirk

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 02:26 AM (EJQ63)

477 No Palestinian State, This Place Is Ours': Netanyahu Rejects UN Two State Recognition
Posted by: Braenyard
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Good for Bibi.

SCREW 'Paleswine'

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 02:26 AM (rdVOm)

478 Hey Teresa, I hope that you are feeling better.

JQ, Thanks for the ice, and like you, I have some personal battles going on, it can be a bit overwhelming. The events of this week sunk my spirits. I shall endeavor to persevere.

Farmer, good to see you, how about a glass of Merlot?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 14, 2025 02:28 AM (0nHVk)

479 No Palestinian State, This Place Is Ours': Netanyahu Rejects UN Two State Recognition
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 02:09 AM (EJQ63)

confederatefifth, aka yankeefifth, aka "n" , or, "I can't type more than one letter, because I'm so desperately tired from sucking Arafat's delicious Jew-hating AIDS cock but no I'm not a Jew-hating sack of civilization-loathing coprophage, I just want the wonderful Islamic caliphate to annihilate the Jews from the Earth what's wrong with that you guys" ... hardest-hit.

Posted by: far cry at September 14, 2025 02:28 AM (CmUac)

480 If the siblings aren't helping they should get a proportional share to the effort the put in.

Posted by: Braenyard
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In a *just* world, yeah.

As estate representative-- I must follow Dad's Will: equal shares. Of what's left, that is.

If it takes so long to do it, well, gotta pay the property tax & utilities for The Duration. Plus, my fee.

At this rate, there won't be anything left to "split" by the time I'm done. Tough shit, they can sue me later if they don't like it, right? Get some blood from this turnip, haha.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 02:30 AM (rdVOm)

481 I saw Dexter Gordon Play Saxophone for half the night with his quartet at the Jazz Showcase on Rush Street in Chicago in about 1977. Awesome. Big Door Charge and two drink minimum of very high priced cocktails. Dexter drank about half a bottle of Scotch in his 2 sets, but didn't affect his playing, ...it might have fueled it. His eyes had that tinge like his liver was taking a beating however.
I took my new girlfriend. My old girlfriend was tending bar and wasn't thrilled about it. Lucky I wasn't poisoned. Been married to the New Girlfriend since 1979. So it was a good time in a small venue.

Posted by: DaveyCrockettThe5th at September 14, 2025 02:30 AM (6ixOF)

482 This place is my only sanity.

Posted by: JQ
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I know what you mean. Every day it seems as though there is some unanticipated stress stacked on the others. I try constantly to remind myself that when the apostle Paul was beset with miseries:
2 Corinthians 12:9

I forget, but constantly... remind myself.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 14, 2025 02:31 AM (XeU6L)

483 Franklin Graham@Franklin_Graham . 5h
Our nation is in trouble. We’re faced with overwhelming violence and hatred—and you don’t have to look farther than the assassination of Charlie Kirk or the brutal murder of a young Ukrainian woman on a train in North Carolina.

My good friend @GregLaurie and I have put together a special broadcast that will air this Sunday at 2:30 PM on @TBN, @NEWSMAX, and Newsmax 2. The 30-minute program, Hope for a Broken Nation, will also feature music by Michael W. Smith and Charity Gayle.

Greg and I will discuss the recent violence—and the great hope we have in Jesus Christ. America has faced many dark hours before, and we just commemorated one of the darkest: 9/11. We’ll also share the message my father preached from the National Cathedral after that horrific tragedy 24 years ago. It’s just as relevant and powerful now as it was then

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 02:32 AM (EJQ63)

484 If it takes so long to do it, well, gotta pay the property tax & utilities for The Duration. Plus, my fee.

At this rate, there won't be anything left to "split" by the time I'm done. Tough shit, they can sue me later if they don't like it, right? Get some blood from this turnip, haha.
Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 02:30 AM (rdVOm)

Good luck to you, JQ. You have a lot on your plate right now. Getting late here, and I am going to go to bed. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 14, 2025 02:32 AM (a9R6a)

485 UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT -- all are the Playthings of the Brennan-Undead, and they may you dance to any tune they want.

Think Different, viewer intelligence required.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMhwddNQSWQ

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 14, 2025 02:33 AM (QxivM)

486 The hotel staff replies, "No! Drums must never stop. Very, very bad if drums stop.

"Why?"

"When the drums stop, the bass solo begins."

Bastards, my bass player was here tonight. We were running through some songs. I made the mistake of letting him read the joke up top. Between every song he started goofing around trying to play the most god awful bass solo he could think of. Bastards...

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 14, 2025 02:33 AM (snZF9)

487 479 No Palestinian State, This Place Is Ours': Netanyahu Rejects UN Two State Recognition
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 02:09 AM (EJQ63)

confederatefifth, aka yankeefifth, aka "n" , or, "I can't type more than one letter, because I'm so desperately tired from sucking Arafat's delicious Jew-hating AIDS cock but no I'm not a Jew-hating sack of civilization-loathing coprophage, I just want the wonderful Islamic caliphate to annihilate the Jews from the Earth what's wrong with that you guys" ... hardest-hit.
Posted by: far cry

No wonder that poster doesn't post here much anymore. That new nic would never fit in the 'Name' box.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 14, 2025 02:33 AM (c3B7E)

488 Bers, I didn't know that you were still here. JQ, please set Bers up with whatever he likes, a Woodford perhaps.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 14, 2025 02:33 AM (0nHVk)

489 476 The entire Polish Parliament just stood up, held a moment of silence and prayed for Charlie Kirk

Posted by: Braenyard

God bless and keep them.

The rest of the EU is too busy trying to resurrect the Soviet Union. I'm sure they'll look for ways to punish Poland, because, Commies.

Posted by: Sam Adams at September 14, 2025 02:34 AM (X+xvk)

490 Bers, I didn't know that you were still here. JQ, please set Bers up with whatever he likes, a Woodford perhaps.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 14, 2025 02:33 AM (0nHVk)

yeah, that and a case of weed. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 14, 2025 02:36 AM (snZF9)

491 Good night good people.
May we all be together here tomorrow.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 14, 2025 02:37 AM (EJQ63)

492 Well, the crowd is thin now, so I'll just cash my paycheck and put it up for Open Bar tonight.

youtu.be/mKc_Ej8RiVs

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 02:39 AM (rdVOm)

493 Oh, and Bers?

*packs a modest bowl*

*lights up & passes...*

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 02:41 AM (rdVOm)

494 Friend of mine (over in a "legal" state), grew some nice ...um... herb... last year.

Now that I am not required to submit Random Samples, I've been able to enjoy the fruit of my friend's labor.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 02:45 AM (rdVOm)

495 I don't need any more booze. I drank more beer this week than I would in 6 months. 10 of us did a 4 day trip on the motorcycles. I call this group the idiot lawyers, because they can't pass a frigging bar. I like beer, but I never crave it. My fridge is where beer goes to die, and I was probably drinking 8 beers a day because of these dudes. They were insane. I brought a small coffee maker, because the big cabin we rented didn't have one. These sick bastards were getting up at 7:30 am, didn't touch the coffee, immediately went out side and started getting stoned. Then they hit a bar every time we passed one that had a parking lot big enough for 10 bikes. One bar tender chick gave them a map of all the bars in the area around Lake wallenpaupack in PA. Yeah, thanks girlfriend.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 14, 2025 02:50 AM (snZF9)

496 6 blocks away is a Weed Pharmacy.

All kinds of little 'factory' sealed jars for different prices -- and definitely not $20, same as in town.

Posted by: RickZ at September 14, 2025 02:51 AM (gKDq2)

497 Friend of mine (over in a "legal" state), grew some nice ...um... herb... last year.

Now that I am not required to submit Random Samples, I've been able to enjoy the fruit of my friend's labor.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 02:45 AM (rdVOm)

Well lucky you. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 14, 2025 02:53 AM (snZF9)

498 Harvest was... substantial. Had to wear gloves so I didn't get loaded while helping to process it.

LOL!

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 02:53 AM (rdVOm)

499 6 blocks away is a Weed Pharmacy.

All kinds of little 'factory' sealed jars for different prices -- and definitely not $20, same as in town.

Posted by: RickZ at September 14, 2025 02:51 AM (gKDq2)

There are 4 of them down the street from me. All of them almost in eye shot of each other. I won't go in, hell no. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 14, 2025 02:55 AM (snZF9)

500 Harvest was... substantial. Had to wear gloves so I didn't get loaded while helping to process it.

LOL!

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 02:53 AM (rdVOm)

I would have gotten naked and rolled in it. lol

Or maybe stuffed a nice pillow for the bed.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 14, 2025 02:56 AM (snZF9)

501 LOL, Bers!!

JQ, Grab yourself a Bailey's, I'll help you clean up, as I understand it, I can grow up to 6 plants for personal use. I didn't try to do it though, my son was pretty ruthless with the weedwhacker and my yard was cleaned up nicely.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 14, 2025 02:56 AM (0nHVk)

502 Back when I was still working, some of us would joke around, about "peeing for der Fuhrer" on a (supposedly) random basis.

I remember telling friends: man, if you'd told me *mumblety* years ago, that I'd be waking at 3 or 4am-- and for a job that wouldn't let me *toke* AND have to pee in a cup to prove it-- I'd be telling you fcuk off, no way, and gimme some-a what you're on!

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 03:00 AM (rdVOm)

503 Or maybe stuffed a nice pillow for the bed.
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Hah! More than enough for that...

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 03:02 AM (rdVOm)

504 remember telling friends: man, if you'd told me *mumblety* years ago, that I'd be waking at 3 or 4am-- and for a job that wouldn't let me *toke* AND have to pee in a cup to prove it-- I'd be telling you fcuk off, no way, and gimme some-a what you're on!

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 03:00 AM (rdVOm)

We have a running joke at one of the shops I work out of. We drug test, because if you're not on drugs you can't work here. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 14, 2025 03:03 AM (snZF9)

505 Or maybe stuffed a nice pillow for the bed.
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Hah! More than enough for that...

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 03:02 AM (rdVOm)

Well then, make it a king size bed and I'll be sleeping in my very own garden of weeden. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 14, 2025 03:04 AM (snZF9)

506 Boss: "Hey, JQ. Drug test today. Head on over to ____"

Me: "Drug test? No problem! Ask me *anything*!"

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 03:05 AM (rdVOm)

507 But seriously, the herb just doesn't "do" like it used to. Can't explain it.

And it fucking stinks.

*sigh*

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 03:07 AM (rdVOm)

508 But seriously, the herb just doesn't "do" like it used to. Can't explain it.

And it fucking stinks.

*sigh*

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 03:07 AM (rdVOm)

Because its so frigging strong now you blow right past mellow and straight into brain dead.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 14, 2025 03:09 AM (snZF9)

509 True, Bers. But I enjoy 'mellow' much more than 'brain dead'.

Also: the smell. Ugh. It used to be more pleasant.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 03:14 AM (rdVOm)

510 Saw the local symphony perform Beethovens 9th. My better half was in the choir. What an amazing piece of music (written by someone deaf at the time of composition). Worth a go if you have the opportunity

Posted by: A dude in MI at September 14, 2025 03:14 AM (/6GbT)

511 Symphony? Bad memories there for me.

Glad you had good time, dude in MI.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 03:20 AM (rdVOm)

512 Last call! I gotta try sleep again.

But if someone else wants to take over the bar... I'll leave you the keys.

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 03:22 AM (rdVOm)

513 This place is my only sanity.
Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 02:20 AM (rdVOm)

I come here to look for insanity. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 14, 2025 02:25

And I come here for both. Does that make me bi-sanity curious?

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at September 14, 2025 03:37 AM (55Qr6)

514 Set the washer to BETTER MUSICAL TASTE.

Posted by: Epobirs at September 14, 2025 03:41 AM (/0z9K)

515 Farmer, good to see you, how about a glass of Merlot?
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 14, 2025 02:28

Hi DDS, nice to see you. Not tonight for Merlot, since we had brats I'm still drinking beer. How are you doing tonight?

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at September 14, 2025 03:41 AM (55Qr6)

516 I am doing okay, Farmer, but the hour grows really late and I have stuff to do in the morning. I hope that Jules is doing well. Good night one and all.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 14, 2025 03:46 AM (0nHVk)

517 youtu.be/8kjBNy5AlNQ

Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 03:51 AM (rdVOm)

518 Just woke up, thought it was 5

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 04:09 AM (+qU29)

519 This place is my only sanity.
Posted by: JQ at September 14, 2025 02:20

I understand JQ. The feeling of being overwhelmed has been present several times since Dad died May 29. I too have no sibling help w/ things, just one brother who makes things worse.

However I just look back to Nov when things were worse and I thought Jules was going to die. If I can survive those days I can surely do it now.

Perserve my dear.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at September 14, 2025 04:10 AM (55Qr6)

520 Just woke up, thought it was 5
Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 04:09

Close enough Skip. Whattsup now, coffee, pancakes?

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at September 14, 2025 04:14 AM (55Qr6)

521 I have to see if can find the Subway Murderer was institutionalize
Cultural Marxists love to think criminals are not doing it without society reasons

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 04:14 AM (+qU29)

522 Maybe oatmeal today to get rid of milk so can get more

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 04:15 AM (+qU29)

523 Keeping Skip from posting 3 in a row.

Posted by: m at September 14, 2025 04:24 AM (aURVT)

524 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at September 14, 2025 04:32 AM (aURVT)

525 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 04:33 AM (+qU29)

526 Had to look up Sunway Murderer as saw comment downstairs he was in a institution, he is in jail, some judge just ordered a mental evaluation.

Posted by: Skip at September 14, 2025 04:43 AM (+qU29)

527 We Must UNITE THE CLANS After They Assassinated Our Latest BraveHeart

Posted by: Shain -- We Must UNITE THE CLANS After They Assassinated Our Latest BraveHeart at September 14, 2025 05:04 AM (CegSp)

528 Used to frequent the Sweetwater in Mill Valley, California, back when it was in the converted horse stable.

Posted by: Whitehall at September 14, 2025 05:28 AM (k6n+8)

529 still get tingles when I hear a marching band.
Posted by: lin-duh is offended

Especially if it’s John Philip Sousa.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 13, 2025 10:57 PM (fveCG)

I agree!!

Posted by: Prof Harold Hill at September 14, 2025 09:00 AM (5xuJ/)

Saturday Evening Movie Post [moviegique]: Rhinoceros

1) I only saw three movies in the last three weeks
2) They were all French: The classic war-orphan story from 1952, "Forbidden Games"; The "last of the French New Wave" 1981 film "Diva", and; from 1991, "The Lovers on the Bridge"
3) You guys aren't really into French films
4) Nobody's gonna talk movies, are they?

So I dug back into the archives and found an early post from eight years ago, when I switched to consistently including screenshots in my reviews and found this gem. It may be topical. (At the time I was using a maximum height of 250px so the pics may be small today.)

Rhinoceros

Imagine, if you will, Night of the Living Dead but with rhinoceroses. That would be a pretty good summary of Eugene Ionesco's play Rhinoceros, if you added in that the play is meant, at some level, to be a comedy. It was a movie I had always wanted to see, despite not knowing of its existence until a week ago. (I did know of the play, though.)

I stole this from a site called "Not Coming To A Theater Near You."

The premise is simple enough: A dispirited young accountant (Gene Wilder), bored to tears with life and drinking himself to death, is witness to a rhinoceros rampaging down the street of his small American town. (In the play, I believe it was a French town but even that may have just been a localization from Ionesco's original Romanian concept.) He does not find much interest in the incident, and in his neglect is upbraided by his dear friend, a rather uptight conservative fellow (Zero Mostel) with a love of culture and contempt for the manners of the everyday people around him.

When he goes to work the next day, his co-workers and boss are all discussing the issue, with one left-wing fellow talking about how the papers always lie, and raving of conspiracies and treason, and the others—while accepting the incident—treating it as a rather banal event. The hallmark of the story is how banal everything is to people, and the ordinary phrasing and clichés they use to discuss even the most extraordinary events.

Nixon...approves?...of rhinoceritis?

Things get knocked in to twelfth gear when the wife of a missing co-worker comes in breathless from having been chased down the street by a rhino. She came to deliver a key from her husband, who had gone out of town for the weekend and knew her boss would need it. "So conscientious!" sighs the boss, even as she relates that there's a rhino in the lobby of the building. Later on, she recognizes a rhino attacking outside the window as her husband.

"How do you know it's him?"
"Those are his glasses! Don't you recognize him?"
"Yes...and no..."

"Yes...and no..."

The first act is really quite a masterpiece of physical comedy and absurdity. The second is almost tragically absurd, as Wilder tries to help Mostel, who has been stricken with rhinoceritis. In the final act, Wilder and his office crush (a remarkably cute Karen Black) form a pact of love, though we already suspect that Black is doomed. While Wilder is struggling with the question of how to fight The Herd, Black insists that you have to let other people do what they want with their lives (even as they smash up the city and trample people). In the span of a few minutes they go from honeymooners to old married couple, and before you know it: rhinoceros! Wilder is left as the last man on earth, though even he seems as though he would give it up if only he could.

The Boy said, "The reason this works is because whatever it's a metaphor for, it's also about a guy dealing with the everyday problem of rhinoceroses!" And he's right. I take it as a metaphor for communism—Ionesco himself talked of left and right-wing, but his right wing were things like Nazis—and the perils of group think and mob mentality (hello, Global Warming! Social Justice Wariors! Public School Systems!), but the story stays very concrete in the actual problem of herds of rhinoceroses. This enhances the absurdity on the one hand while grounding it, however weirdly, in the set up reality. It follows its own rules, we would say.

The arc of a love affair...

It's very '70s. The music was a bit hit-and-miss, I thought. The Flower said "That was something different!" and I double-checked to see whether that was good or bad. Good, but not at all what she was expecting. The Boy and His Girl gave it a thumbs up. I liked it, too, quite a bit. It's not for everyone: There is a great deal of shouting, though it is about as good as shout-comedy can be, done by people who did it the best, and what's being shouted is pretty damn funny to boot. Also, you have to be able to accept the premise, but in a lot of ways, it's a lot easier premise to accept than the actual history that inspired it.

It is remarkably applicable today, which is probably why it keeps popping up in various forms and re-enactments. (Though it was a popular play and won Mostel a Tony, too.) Allegedly, Zombie Strippers is based on this movie. The movie was not well received at the time, for all the reasons that we like it today, I suspect: From what is essentially an artsy play, director Tom O'Horgan makes a rather accessible comedy that isn't bogged down by the sorts of politics that would get this movie a warm reception (and would be banal at best today, and incomprehensible at worst).

The poster in the back reads "Do not ever compromise yourself—that's all you have."

Posted by: Open Blogger at 08:30 PM

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1 And I nooded!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2025 07:34 PM (TnWYh)

2 You did?

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 07:35 PM (asXVI)

3 You're welcome!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2025 07:35 PM (TnWYh)

4 On my to watch list already!

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2025 07:35 PM (5Gg6R)

5 Watched Thunderbolts...do not recommend. Decent 1st 2/3rds and then just a terrible last third with a wildly abrupt ending.

Disney, even when not going woke, has lost the plot for making enjoyable supers movies. D+ on D+...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 13, 2025 07:37 PM (tOcjL)

6 Seems zany

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 13, 2025 07:37 PM (6U1c2)

7 I'm watching "The Running Man" on Comet. It's set in The Future (2019!) but it's so 80's in its unapologetic love for big hair, big shoulder pads, spandex, cheap satire, and explosions.

I love how the sweet old ladies in the audience are the most bloodthirsty.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 13, 2025 07:38 PM (kpS4V)

8 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 07:39 PM (+qU29)

9 Still making my way through the 2014 Librarians series on Netflix. In season 2 and only one episode annoyed me so far...probably gonna go for all 4 seasons and then go back and watch the 3 tv movies.

Apparently, the reboot from 2024 sucks (it also replaced the cast to a woker version), so probably won't move to that.

Posted by: Nova Local at September 13, 2025 07:40 PM (tOcjL)

10 In the Yes and No pic above - I thought the guy in the upper right might be Terry Thomas.

The world could use more Terry Thomas.

Posted by: 496 at September 13, 2025 07:40 PM (qZ8QF)

11 Wait, CBD comes back from France and movieqique watches only French movies?
Is this a Cultural conspiracy?

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 07:41 PM (+qU29)

12 If it has Mostel and Wilder, there's gonna be shouting.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 13, 2025 07:42 PM (kpS4V)

13 Errbody loves Terry-Thomas.

That's his name, if I'm not mistaken: Terry-hyphen-Thomas. Like Ann-hyphen-Margret.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 07:43 PM (asXVI)

14 The one I saw was "Palm Springs". Wish I'd seen it earlier, it was that good. I must have confused it with some other Groundhoglike and missed it.
The MC gets into a timeloop and accidentally brings in some other girl. They have to figure out how to get out. Well, she does. The MC actually likes being stuck in the loop or at least has made peace with it.
The movie revolves around if she can get out and if he wants to join her.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 07:44 PM (gKWVE)

15 I have never seen that movie."The Rhinoceros "I probably should because I really like both Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder ,and I read a number of Ionesco's plays while in theatre classes in college.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 07:45 PM (SKxYB)

16 Rhinoceroses are cool. I want a life sized remote control robotic rhinoceros to patrol the yard and get the mail.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2025 07:46 PM (vFG9F)

17 o/~I wanna rhinoceros for Christmas
Only a rhinoceros will do~\o

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 07:48 PM (asXVI)

18 Not having seen this movie I'm wondering about the special effect. Are they believable or kind of cheesy?

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2025 07:49 PM (vFG9F)

19
Isn't film just a shortened acronym for flim-flam?

* takes a drag on clove cigarette *

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 13, 2025 07:51 PM (Tv15w)

20 They were all French...
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I think I see the problem.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 07:51 PM (RIvkX)

21 If Mostel & Wilder are in it, I would hope that there's a foolproof (hoo-hah!) get-rich-quick scheme in there somewhere, with Bruce Mars and Dick Shawn along for the ride.

Springtime for Rhinos...

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2025 07:51 PM (q3u5l)

22 There are virtually no special effects at all.

I'm trying to recall. That last picture shows, I believe, a shadow of a rhinoceros that =may= stick its head in. There are otherwise no actual rhinos portrayed.

Remember, it was a stage play first.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 07:52 PM (asXVI)

23 12 If it has Mostel and Wilder, there's gonna be shouting.

Yup. When Mostel died in the late '70s (?) global shouting went down 60%.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 07:53 PM (asXVI)

24 Was watching a vintage western on GRIT, wish I had picked off the title. What surprised me a little was that Jack Elam's character was sort of an ordinary, non-exaggerated decent guy.

Most surprising was that at one point in the plot, his character delivered a sort of poignant, soul-bearing soliloquy of what it had been like to grow up as an ugly man.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 07:56 PM (XeU6L)

25 I remember seeing a rhinoceros at a zoo. It was male - amazingly male. Its organ easily was as long as my arm, and so agile that the creature could have picked up a quarter with it. The lady rhinos would be in for quite a time.

As for viewing, I've just finished viewing all five seasons of "The Expanse". I thought it was quite good: well written, with amazing production values. One detail I particularly liked: Two characters are sitting in a bar on the Moon, when one pours out a drink, and the liquid flows from the bottle as slowly as it would have under 1/6 gravity. It was a little detail, easily overlooked, but it showed how much they cared.

Posted by: Nemo at September 13, 2025 07:56 PM (4RPgu)

26
Yup. When Mostel died in the late '70s (?) global shouting went down 60%.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books)

SAMUEL L. JACKSON HAS ENTERED THE CHAT

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 13, 2025 07:56 PM (Tv15w)

27 Karen Black makes me fell like I am climbing the gym rope.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 13, 2025 07:59 PM (gbOdA)

28 I saw the trailer yesterday for the new Sydney Sweeney movie. She plays the boxer Christy Martin. Very unsexy role. Looks like she's trying to diversify.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 13, 2025 07:59 PM (CNl8/)

29 I never was a Wilder fan. He is fine is BS and YF but everything else is cringe.

Posted by: Accomackalypse Now at September 13, 2025 08:00 PM (RBD82)

30 Rhinoceroses are cool. I want a life sized remote control robotic rhinoceros to patrol the yard and get the mail.

Posted by: fd
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[Imagines a semi-sleeping Rhino giving a soft snort and bounding to its feet like an alert Rottweiler]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 08:01 PM (XeU6L)

31 25 I remember seeing a rhinoceros at a zoo. It was male - amazingly male. Its organ easily was as long as my arm, and so agile that the creature could have picked up a quarter with it. The lady rhinos would be in for quite a time.

Posted by: Nemo at September 13, 2025 07:56 PM (4RPgu)

Man had war injury in India and they rebuild him unit with elephant trunk.
His first date with a gal and the truck reaches up and grabs a potato off the plate
The lady Oh my can you do that again?
Dude Nope my ass will not hold another potato.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 13, 2025 08:03 PM (gbOdA)

32 Svengoolie has bad seed on

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 13, 2025 08:03 PM (bXbFr)

33 Rhinoceroses are cool. I want a life sized remote control robotic rhinoceros to patrol the yard and get the mail.

Posted by: fd

white rhino, black rhino, greater one-horned rhino, Javan rhino, and Sumatran rhino.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 13, 2025 08:05 PM (gbOdA)

34 Rhino don't surf!

Posted by: Accomackalypse Now at September 13, 2025 08:07 PM (T1QkV)

35 31 25 I remember seeing a rhinoceros at a zoo. It was male - amazingly male. Its organ easily was as long as my arm, and so agile that the creature could have picked up a quarter with it. The lady rhinos would be in for quite a time.

I was at the zoo once and a young bull elephant walked out, obviously aroused. About 30 people viewing, no one said anything, but all the women were trying to look away and all the men were looking down at the ground with shame.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2025 08:10 PM (5Gg6R)

36 "There are otherwise no actual rhinos portrayed.

Remember, it was a stage play first.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books)"

Oh. One of those movies.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2025 08:10 PM (vFG9F)

37 4) Nobody's gonna talk movies, are they?
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 08:11 PM (EJQ63)

38
I can't buy into "The Rhinoceros" because of the people turning into rhinoceroses.

Now, if they were turning into tapirs, Yes!

But, rhinoceroses...No!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2025 08:11 PM (iJfKG)

39 Gene Wilder was great in comic roles, but I could never really buy into him as a romantic lead, even in farcical movies.

Posted by: Paco at September 13, 2025 08:12 PM (mADJX)

40 white rhino, black rhino, greater one-horned rhino, Javan rhino, and Sumatran rhino.

Posted by: r hennigantx
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I heard that in 'Bubba' Blue's voice.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 08:12 PM (XeU6L)

41 Movies recently watched that I enjoyed.
Fifty Dead Men Walking (200

IRA informer in NI
The Accountant (2016) Autistic vigilante takes-out bad guys
A Walk in the Sun (1945) US platoon after landing at Salerno
Charley Varrick (1973) Bank robber accidentally steals big money from the mob

A movie I watched and mostly liked; it ended up subtly going too woke.
Hostiles (2017) In 1892, a take-no-prisoners cavalry officer is ordered to escort a prisoner, his greatest Indian enemy, from a fort in New Mexico to one in Montana.

Movies I watched and wished I hadn't wasted the time.
Green Zone (2010) Bush Administration flunkies are the Bad Guys in Iraq in 2003.
The Acountant 2 (2025) The Accountant (see above) is paired with his hit-man brother in a buddy-movie, to rescue some cartel-held kids in Mexico. Too much strained buddy stuff, not enough action.

Posted by: Gref at September 13, 2025 08:13 PM (5rh/l)

42 3 military helicopters flew over at pretty low altitude, it's dark here now. House was shaking almost so ran outside to see

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 08:13 PM (+qU29)

43 29
'He is fine is BS and YF but everything else is cringe.'

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 13, 2025 08:13 PM (3wi/L)

44 In this "dystopian" 2019, they have jet packs. 😠

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 13, 2025 08:14 PM (kpS4V)

45 I watched The Beekeeper last night. To say all these movies are exactly the same would be a slight exaggeration.

The formula is:

1. Former [insert badass job] wants to live a quiet life
2. Bad guys in the form of [insert type of bad guys] disrupt his simple life
3. Wiser bad guy who is [insert role here] to younger bad guy excoriates the kid for his stupidity and hubris
4. Bloodbath occurs in [insert location here]
5. Good guys who work for [insert agency here] struggle to do their job while being sympathetic to the hero
6. Last showdown sees all the bad guys dead, and hero walks off while [insert agency here] could have stopped him but didin't

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 08:14 PM (3rxgK)

46 No rhinos were harmed in the making of this movie

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 13, 2025 08:15 PM (bXbFr)

47 25:As for viewing, I've just finished viewing all five seasons of "The Expanse". I thought it was quite good: well written, with amazing production values. One detail I particularly liked: Two characters are sitting in a bar on the Moon, when one pours out a drink, and the liquid flows from the bottle as slowly as it would have under 1/6 gravity. It was a little detail, easily overlooked, but it showed how much they cared.
Posted by: Nemo

Yep. It was a fine series and I liked it quite a bit. Enough so, I bought the DVD set. Haven't read the books yet. Need to get them first. I understand the series didn't follow the books in detail, but got the basic idea well enough.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2025 08:15 PM (c3B7E)

48 Hmm. 'The God's Must Be Crazy' just came to mind. 24 sec. clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_dXBZjDhQ8

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 08:16 PM (XeU6L)

49 I liked wrath of man better which has kind of twisty plot as why the character does whst he does

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 13, 2025 08:17 PM (bXbFr)

50 48 Hmm. 'The God's Must Be Crazy' just came to mind. 24 sec. clip:

I liked that one.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 08:18 PM (asXVI)

51 Its another guy ritchie film as in operation fortune but it has a grittier vibe a little like that modern heist film with gerard butler

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 13, 2025 08:18 PM (bXbFr)

52 The description of this movie reminds me of another 1970s movie "Little Murders", which I like quite a bit, thooooough-

it's not really one I would recommend to someone unless they're a fan of dark, absurd humor.

The movie starts off fairly slow and doesn't really get into gear until the third act, even though there are several funny scenes along the way.

The whole movie is constructed like a funnel to focus in on the climax and final scene, which I tend to like as a fictional construction.

If the play/movie seemed relevant in the early 70s...Wholley Kau! with the events of this year
it's more relevant than ever.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2025 08:19 PM (iJfKG)

53 I love obscure movie recaps! Where can this be seen, as well as the others you mentioned? I will try to check them out.

The only movie I saw this week was ROLE MODELS. It's dumb so don't bother but how I came to watch it is interesting.

I go twice a month to one of those places that stretch you out. The one I go to is called Stretch Med. It's helpful for my pickleball and golf games and just generally good to stay loose.

Anyway, the stretch folks always talk to me about movies because they know I have some involvement. The guy working on me says a client who came in earlier that day is a screenwriter, and ROLE MODELS is his most well known credit.

The writer was originally from the Boston area but back from LA for rehab. I guess some drug or alcohol problems. He couldn't divulge the guy's name but I looked it up in two seconds and watched the movie.

I credit anyone who can earn a living as a screenwriter, but movies like that prove you don't have to be super talented. It had a chuckle here and there but was mainly cliche and tripe.

Posted by: Lex at September 13, 2025 08:19 PM (y4H1r)

54 Looks like she's trying to diversify.
Posted by: Mark1971

It's in her genes.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2025 08:20 PM (TnWYh)

55 Den of thieves, the sequel wasnt as good, too much buddy comedy

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 13, 2025 08:20 PM (bXbFr)

56 It's in her genes.

Posted by: AZ
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Possible Best Pun thread winner.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 08:21 PM (XeU6L)

57 Yep. It was a fine series and I liked it quite a bit. Enough so, I bought the DVD set. Haven't read the books yet. Need to get them first. I understand the series didn't follow the books in detail, but got the basic idea well enough.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2025 08:15 PM (c3B7E)

I started watching, when it was a mystery being pursued by a grizzled former dick, in the midst of a larger political/cultural divide.

Then in season 2 it looked like it was going to become all about the politics, so I stopped watching.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 08:22 PM (3rxgK)

58 Which doesnt work when youre up against serbian commandos the fearsome panthera gang

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 13, 2025 08:22 PM (bXbFr)

59 28 I saw the trailer yesterday for the new Sydney Sweeney movie. She plays the boxer Christy Martin. Very unsexy role. Looks like she's trying to diversify.
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 13, 2025 07:59 PM

Kind of like Hillary Swank? It will be interesting to see if she has the range to play the character.

Separately, I kind of wonder it Sweeney is getting roles that would have gone to Emma Stone a few years ago.

Posted by: Moonbeam at September 13, 2025 08:22 PM (rbKZ6)

60 I watched The Beekeeper last night. To say all these movies are exactly the same would be a slight exaggeration.

I get why Statham does them (money). But ye gods are they formulaic and boring. It's a shame because I think he has more range than man with a gun who shoots his way to a happy ending.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 08:23 PM (CrUNC)

61 Romantic roles vs comedic, yeah, that's what I seeing

Posted by: Accomackalypse Now at September 13, 2025 08:23 PM (oERdd)

62 Peter Sellars in the rom com Pink Panthers as opposed to the mayhem Panthers.

Posted by: Accomackalypse Now at September 13, 2025 08:24 PM (oERdd)

63 The French films have all recently given the 4K treatment.

"Forbidden Games" (1952) - is on Criterion
"Diva" (1981) - is on Prime but I don't know if it's 4K
"The Lovers On The Bridge" (1991) is lots of places, like Netflix, Prime, Mubi, but probably not 4K everywhere

The 4K releases often seem to come out well in advance of the DVD/streaming release. Like they used to do with movies.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 08:24 PM (asXVI)

64 When I want absurd, I reach for Watermelon Man.

Posted by: Texican ette at September 13, 2025 08:25 PM (SNf74)

65 Are the Mets a movie cause I'd swear I've seen this before

Posted by: Accomack at September 13, 2025 08:26 PM (oERdd)

66 I saw the trailer yesterday for the new Sydney Sweeney movie. She plays the boxer Christy Martin. Very unsexy role. Looks like she's trying to diversify.
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 13, 2025 07:59 PM

Kind of like Hillary Swank? It will be interesting to see if she has the range to play the character.

Separately, I kind of wonder it Sweeney is getting roles that would have gone to Emma Stone a few years ago.
Posted by: Moonbeam at September 13, 2025 08:22 PM (rbKZ6)

Christy Martin was very much considered sexy during her boxing career. I mean, sexy for a boxer, at least.

Until she got the snot knocked out of her by Mohammed Ali's daughter. Then got the snot kicked and punched and shot out of her by her husband.

She's still around, seemingly living the quiet life these days, with her girlfriend, a less cute boxer she beat back in the day.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 08:28 PM (3rxgK)

67 Sydney isn't a boxer type

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 08:28 PM (+qU29)

68 The main new movie I saw this week was -

"Dangerous Animals", which we streamed on Shudder for "free".

The story centers around a serial killer who films his victims as he's feeding them to sharks. The plot itself concerns a surfer girl who's captured by the serial killer. Will she escape or won't she?

For a relatively low budget Ozploitation movie, this is really good. They spent all their money in exactly the right places.

Tight script and directing. Mostly excellent acting. High tension, some shocks, some twists, and you're never quite sure how it will all end. Just very well made.

While this is a sort of horror adjacent movie, it's very well directed and edited, they show you juuuust enough but never revel in the gore.

If this sounds like you might enjoy it, you will.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2025 08:29 PM (iJfKG)

69 45...whenever I hear a pitch for a movie that begins with "former special forces operator..." I know I'm in for cliche. I don't think I've liked anything Statham's ever done, and for some reason I watched The BeeKeeper. It was awful, though it's good to see actors from The Cosby Show can still get work from time to time.

Posted by: Lex at September 13, 2025 08:29 PM (y4H1r)

70 Watching 'Broken Trail'. I'm not one to take life lessons from Hollywood, but when Robert Duvall is delivering a eulogy for a dead girl; “We’re all travelers in this world...birth ’til death. We travel between the eternities.” It gets at me. So many Horde members with stress/troubles/loss these days.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 08:30 PM (XeU6L)

71 Here is the trailer for "Christy"

https://youtu.be/hSHwFDPfeV8

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 13, 2025 08:31 PM (CNl8/)

72 I get why Statham does them (money). But ye gods are they formulaic and boring. It's a shame because I think he has more range than man with a gun who shoots his way to a happy ending.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 08:23 PM (CrUNC)

He was fantastic in both "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels" and "Snatch." In neither film was he THE tough guy.

And I'm not going to tell Guy Ritchie what to do, but his career took a left turn after that, and it's been mostly junk ever since he hooked up with Madonna.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 08:32 PM (/z8e7)

73 This is related to movies:

I am getting tired of ewetub AI theoretical concepts for movies games and cars.

The large breasts are fine, but there is some genuinely weird shit mixed in there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 13, 2025 08:32 PM (zZu0s)

74 Has there been a pickleball movie yet?

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 13, 2025 08:35 PM (kpS4V)

75 Been watching Svengoolie but I better get ready for bed

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 08:36 PM (+qU29)

76 Here is the trailer for "Christy"

https://youtu.be/hSHwFDPfeV8

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 13, 2025 08:31 PM (CNl8/)

Sure had to pretty her down for that role.

There's a terrific documentary out there, about her life. Not sure we NEED this film. Oh well, we get the films we do.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 08:36 PM (/z8e7)

77 Lo these many years ago when I was a student in France, they told me Rhinoceros is an an allegory about Nazism coming to town. As such, it's timely. There are rhinoceroses springing up everywhere!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Raging Like Godzilla! at September 13, 2025 08:37 PM (L/fGl)

78 There will be some comedy at some point that revolves around pickleball (think Balls of Fury or Dodge Ball). It's only a matter of time. The movie will be dumb but if pickleball continues to grow in popularity it will happen.

Posted by: Lex at September 13, 2025 08:38 PM (y4H1r)

79 I am getting tired of ewetub AI theoretical concepts for movies games and cars.
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What is this?

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75 Been watching Svengoolie but I better get ready for bed
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He was so cool at the Mutant Meetup last year. Watched six Universal monster movies with us from, like, 11PM to 7AM.

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74 Has there been a pickleball movie yet?
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The Dink. Due out this year.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 08:38 PM (asXVI)

80 A very good Statham movie is 'The Bank Job'. It's about as non Statham movie as you can get. Based, very loosely, on true events. Statham plays a thief. He's not a super hero or ninja. Just a thief. Gets in over his head and Statham and his crew have the London mafia, MI5/6 (?), city police, all chasing them down. The ending may have actually happened. It's a good movie.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2025 08:39 PM (c3B7E)

81 *tosses confetti*

Posted by: Rip Taylor at September 13, 2025 08:39 PM (vYDwg)

82 45...whenever I hear a pitch for a movie that begins with "former special forces operator..." I know I'm in for cliche. I don't think I've liked anything Statham's ever done, and for some reason I watched The BeeKeeper. It was awful, though it's good to see actors from The Cosby Show can still get work from time to time.
Posted by: Lex at September 13, 2025 08:29 PM (y4H1r)

Check out the two I mentioned above, "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels," as well as "Snatch."

His breakthrough film, "The Transporter" is pretty good, but no masterpiece, and I think the sequel wasn't bad either.

I haven't watched any of the Fast and Furious movies, not sure if he's in all of them, or just some, but I'm just not interested.

Otherwise, yeah, damn near every film he's done is that same formula.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 08:39 PM (/z8e7)

83 Don't sleep on "Crank: High Voltage"!

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 13, 2025 08:41 PM (kpS4V)

84 The Dink will feature Ben Stiller and his wife Christine Taylor, Patton Oswalt, Ed Harris, Mary Steenburgen.

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77 Lo these many years ago when I was a student in France, they told me Rhinoceros is an an allegory about Nazism coming to town. As such, it's timely. There are rhinoceroses springing up everywhere!
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That's a theory. They wouldn't tell you Communism, would they?

I think it's foolish to try to limit it to one thing.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 08:41 PM (asXVI)

85 A very good Statham movie is 'The Bank Job'. It's about as non Statham movie as you can get. Based, very loosely, on true events. Statham plays a thief. He's not a super hero or ninja. Just a thief. Gets in over his head and Statham and his crew have the London mafia, MI5/6 (?), city police, all chasing them down. The ending may have actually happened. It's a good movie.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2025 08:39 PM (c3B7E)

I started watching it, lost interest quickly.

Yeah, maybe not his usual, but still too formulaic for my taste.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 08:42 PM (/z8e7)

86 Don't sleep on "Crank: High Voltage"!
Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 13, 2025 08:41 PM (kpS4V)

Oh yeah, I forgot about Crank!

Fun little flick. I'm also a big fan of Amy Smart. She can keep my heartrate at danger levels, that's for sure.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 08:43 PM (/z8e7)

87 Few things in the history of film have been more wildly overrated than French cinema. I've seen most of it over the years (a lot of it out of requirement for my work in Hollywood) and can only remember one that made any impression on me. That was "Contempt" by Godard, and in that case only for the performance of Jack Palance and the musical score.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 13, 2025 08:44 PM (WHfpM)

88 82...It's been a while since I've seen the early Statham movies so I should go back to those. I guess I'm only thinking of his Fast and Furious movies, which were awful. The first FF movie was decent, but he didn't enter the FF world until #5 or something by which time that series had jumped the shark (but still remain popular). The Beekeeper is even worse. I don't know who tricked me into watching that but their credibility is forever shot.

Posted by: Lex at September 13, 2025 08:44 PM (y4H1r)

89 In a world where the mental health crisis spirals out of control, one man dispenses bullets instead of antipsychotics. Jason Statham is THE THERAPIST.

I liked Lock Stock and Snatch too.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 08:45 PM (CrUNC)

90 77 Lo these many years ago when I was a student in France, they told me Rhinoceros is an an allegory about Nazism coming to town. As such, it's timely. There are rhinoceroses springing up everywhere!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Raging Like Godzilla!

What a typically French interpretation. Since France was occupied by Nazi Germany, the rhinoceroses must be Nazis!

What era were you in France, Anonosaurus Wrecks?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 08:45 PM (H6cKs)

91 The Dink will feature Ben Stiller and his wife Christine Taylor, Patton Oswalt, Ed Harris, Mary Steenburgen.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 08:41 PM (asXVI)

But of course. It could only be Ben Stiller or Will Farrell.

And it seems Ed Harris will do anything these days. He's damn near more Bruce Willis/Nick Cage than those two combined.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 08:46 PM (/z8e7)

92 I've seen Diva, and I love it.

It cracked me up when that little emo thug with the shades (I hate buses. I hate candy. I hate umbrellas. Every line of dialogue was deadpan "I hate ___.") finally bought it and his headphones came off--what has he been listening to all this time, this sinister little gangster?
Why, bouncy French bistro accordion polkas, of course!

Loved the guy he goes to for help, and his Vietnamese girlfriend.

The Diva herself was worthy of his adulation, n'est-ce pas?

Posted by: barbarausa at September 13, 2025 08:46 PM (enw9G)

93 In a world where, yes, we have no bananas, one man keeps crime out of the produce aisle. Jason Statham is THE GREEN GROCER.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 08:48 PM (CrUNC)

94 The Beekeeper is even worse. I don't know who tricked me into watching that but their credibility is forever shot.
Posted by: Lex at September 13, 2025 08:44 PM (y4H1r)

Yeah, I saw a list of his "best" films recently, and that one was pretty high. So I watched it.

Good grief, there's about a 15 film tie for whatever number of decent films he's done, after the early Ritchie films, the Transporter films, Crank, and that's about it.

So about 15 films tied for 7th. And then all the F and F films after those.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 08:49 PM (/z8e7)

95 6. Last showdown sees all the bad guys dead, and hero walks off while [insert agency here] could have stopped him but didin't
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I saw that one. Starring Richard Widmark and Alan Ladd.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 08:49 PM (EJQ63)

96 Few things in the history of film have been more wildly overrated than French cinema. I've seen most of it over the years
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You've seen MOST of French cinema?

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can only remember one that made any impression on me.
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Geez. I can think of quite a few: Amelie, The Wages of Fear, A Man and a Woman, The Grand Illusion, Rififi, Beauty and the Beast, The Taste of Things, just off the top of my head.

It's probably over-rated, sure, but there are some great movies, too.

(It probably is over-rated, though.)

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 08:49 PM (asXVI)

97 What era were you in France, Anonosaurus Wrecks?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

'75 - '76. Doesn't seem like 50 years ago.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Raging Like Godzilla! at September 13, 2025 08:51 PM (L/fGl)

98 Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 08:38 PM (asXVI)

Well, ok. A few i know of:

1) there was an F-100 concept. Retro futuristic that looked great when I glanced at the thumbnail. Then I watched and realized it was fake.

2) Days Gone 2 is a game I would love, and I will never believe it is happening until it suddenly comes out due to these random 'trailers.'

3) most of the other stuff is concept stuff that is on the edge of soft core porn. The most recent one I saw was for Thundercats: Cheetara's Fall. Cheetahs was a LOT bustier than I remember as a kid. There are some cool idea/non porn stuff out there that looks cool. But fake.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 13, 2025 08:51 PM (zZu0s)

99 In a world where, yes, we have no bananas, one man keeps crime out of the produce aisle. Jason Statham is THE GREEN GROCER.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 08:48 PM (CrUNC)

Cut to him and some kid (a son or nephew or whatever), he squints his eye and says "You've got to protect the produce, take out the rot, and swat the bugs."

Cut to next scene, with Jason strapped with weapons, he squints at the camera and says "Time to spray."

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 08:52 PM (/z8e7)

100 In a world where a Mexican narco-carte turns a high school into a very high school, one man is taking out the trash. Jason Statham is THE CUSTODIAN.

I could do this all night. Because that's the level of plot development in his average movie.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 08:52 PM (CrUNC)

101
70's movies?

Just watched "Lawman" (1971), Burt Lancaster, Robert Duvall, Robert Ryan

Recommend.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 08:52 PM (uYy3Y)

102 92 I've seen Diva, and I love it.

I missed it when it came out and gave it a half-hearted watch on TV. I didn't get it, and on re-view in a theater I can see why. There are some nice, tightly constructed parts, but there's also a lot of leisurely scene-setting that won't work that well on a small TV.

>> Why, bouncy French bistro accordion polkas, of course!

There's a lot of meta humor, and a fair poke at the New Wave, I think.

>> The Diva herself was worthy of his adulation, n'est-ce pas?

Indeed. In the current worldview, the movie is impossible: The hero is a stalker who steals her dress so he can put it on a hooker--

--though it should be noted the hooker scene is not at all random.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 08:53 PM (asXVI)

103 I did not realize there were two accountant movies (or even 1) with Ben Affleck until I finally clicked on a trailer and realized it was actually real.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 13, 2025 08:53 PM (zZu0s)

104 Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 13, 2025 08:51 PM (zZu0s)

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I did not know this was a thing!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 08:54 PM (asXVI)

105
Movies that I watched recently

The Outlaw Josey Wales. It's not perfect, but it remains extremely entertaining. Geraldine Kearns as Little Moonlight pulled off a worthy comedic performance despite not speaking English from start to finish.

Thunderheart. The interplay between Grahame Greene and Val Kilmer was the highlight of this film. Ted Thin Elk provided an extraordinary "one and done" performance as Grandpa Sam Reaches. Perhaps my favorite Val Kilmer movie.

Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World. I have been enthralled with this film for its depiction of (war)shipboard life in 1805. It is always entertaining for me.

2Guns - Doublecrosses abounded in this tale of two reluctant buddies who thwarted the hordes of bad guys on every side.

The Quiet Man - Jam packed with stereotypes about the drinking and brawling Irish. "The Taming of the Shrew" set in 1920s Ireland. Its dialogue is loaded with sick burns from start to finish: "Your in-laws are coming to visit, Squire darlin'". I was surprised to learn online that Ken Curtiss (Festus, from "Gunsmoke") was in the cast as Durmot Fahy, the accordion player whose name was entered into Danaher's book.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 13, 2025 08:55 PM (Tv15w)

106 The first Accountant is not bad really for what it is.

The second one is painfully bad even for what it is.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 08:55 PM (CrUNC)

107 Imagine, if you will, Night of the Living Dead but with rhinoceroses. That would be a pretty good summary of Eugene Ionesco's play Rhinoceros

So then my screenplay based on Dawn of the Dead but made with a cast of meerkats only has a chance?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 13, 2025 08:56 PM (vYDwg)

108 I did not know this was a thing!
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 08:54 PM (asXVI)

It is all over ewetub.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 13, 2025 08:56 PM (zZu0s)

109 I noticed the old Sean Connery movie, "Outland" is coming on 4K.

Now, that is a movie that's ripe for a Jason Statham remake.

His wheelhouse and there3's a lot that could be done differently with better SFX now.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2025 08:56 PM (iJfKG)

110 93...I played golf today and birdied the first two holes. I was riding high and then it all blew up. I've been upset since then...until reading your log line for The Green Grocer. Kudos!!!

Posted by: Lex at September 13, 2025 08:57 PM (y4H1r)

111 So then my screenplay based on Dawn of the Dead but made with a cast of meerkats only has a chance?

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I'm saying there's a chance.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 08:57 PM (asXVI)

112 Ill see if I can find a link for one of the them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 13, 2025 08:57 PM (zZu0s)

113 In a world where a Mexican narco-carte turns a high school into a very high school, one man is taking out the trash. Jason Statham is THE CUSTODIAN.

I could do this all night. Because that's the level of plot development in his average movie.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 08:52 PM (CrUNC)

In a world, where Chinese gangs have taken over Big Canvass, one man is walking them out the door. Jason Statham is THE SHOE SALESMAN.

Cut to Jason, squinting, with a shoelace around the bad guy's neck "I'm just tying up loose ends."

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 08:59 PM (/z8e7)

114
I did not realize there were two accountant movies (or even 1) with Ben Affleck until I finally clicked on a trailer and realized it was actually real.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

The first one mostly works to tell its tale. The second offering struggles to catch a glimpse of being mediocre.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 13, 2025 08:59 PM (Tv15w)

115 French films I need to revisit one of these days: Grand Illusion, Rules of the Game, Last Year at Marienbad, some of Truffaut's, and some of Chabrol's. Did revisit The Wages of Fear not too long ago, and that sucker still holds up (ditto Friedkin's remake, Sorceror).

Gref, Charley Varrick is a delight from first frame to last. Dynamite script by Howard Rodman (under a pseudonym IIRC); Matthau and Joe Don Baker were terrific in it. The only thing wrong with it is that Jacqueline Scott didn't have more screen time.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2025 08:59 PM (q3u5l)

116 Jason Statham is THE MINISTER...

Squints at camera, strapped with weapons, turns to the older priest, who is beaten up and bloodied: "Bless me father, for I am about to sin!"

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 09:01 PM (/z8e7)

117 'He is fine is BS and YF but everything else is cringe.'

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

See No Evil, Hear No Evil.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at September 13, 2025 09:01 PM (JRP2U)

118
TV Trailer ad for "Westworld" (1973)

https://is.gd/K8CQjM

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 09:02 PM (uYy3Y)

119 yes, the guy is a stalker of sorts, but he stalks her because he is entranced by the music and her voice.
I really think stealing the dress was an impulse/opportunity.
What he was really there to steal was that Nagra recording of her singing.

Posted by: barbarausa at September 13, 2025 09:02 PM (enw9G)

120 119 yes, the guy is a stalker of sorts, but he stalks her because he is entranced by the music and her voice.
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I'm not saying I agree, I'm just saying, good luck trying to get this made today.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 09:03 PM (asXVI)

121
In a world where inverse square laws no longer apply, physicist Jason Statham struggles to restore the natural order of things in THAT'S MESSED UP.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 13, 2025 09:04 PM (Tv15w)

122 A Man and a Woman
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[recollections of a '65 Mustang, and the Monte Carlo Rally]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 09:04 PM (XeU6L)

123 ...THE LIFEGUARD

Jason squints at camera, strapped with weapons, turns to bad guy in the water: "No one's gonna save you from drowning... this time."

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 09:04 PM (/z8e7)

124 "I'm not saying I agree, I'm just saying, good luck trying to get this made today."

Understood, and oh yes agree.

Posted by: barbarausa at September 13, 2025 09:04 PM (enw9G)

125 Ok. This is a Tomb Raider one. Also tawdry as hell. Not something to watch at work where anyone can see you:
https://youtu.be/iVdJLhzLcx4?

I'm warning you. No nudity though just gratuitous.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 13, 2025 09:05 PM (zZu0s)

126 103 I did not realize there were two accountant movies (or even 1) with Ben Affleck until I finally clicked on a trailer and realized it was actually real.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 13, 2025 08:53 PM

Was he an accountant in "Gone Girl"? I read the book but can't remember his occupation. Didn't see the movie.

Posted by: Moonbeam at September 13, 2025 09:06 PM (rbKZ6)

127 ...THE EYE DOCTOR

Jason squints at camera, turns to bad guy in chair, and says: "Which one's better... this *then rips guy's eye out* or this."

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 09:07 PM (/z8e7)

128 Was he an accountant in "Gone Girl"? I read the book but can't remember his occupation. Didn't see the movie.
Posted by: Moonbeam at September 13, 2025 09:06 PM (rbKZ6)

Neither did I. Even though Rosamund Pike is hot. Miserable people being miserable.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 13, 2025 09:08 PM (zZu0s)

129 119 yes, the guy is a stalker of sorts, but he stalks her because he is entranced by the music and her voice.
I really think stealing the dress was an impulse/opportunity.
What he was really there to steal was that Nagra recording of her singing.
Posted by: barbarausa at September 13, 2025 09:02 PM

Why does this scenario make me think of Sam Brinton? Maybe they could work him into a reboot.

Posted by: Moonbeam at September 13, 2025 09:09 PM (rbKZ6)

130 I did not realize there were two accountant movies (or even 1) with Ben Affleck until I finally clicked on a trailer and realized it was actually real.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

The first one mostly works to tell its tale. The second offering struggles to catch a glimpse of being mediocre.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 13, 2025 08:59 PM (Tv15w)

Someone, between films, told Ben to be more "Rain Man."

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 09:09 PM (/z8e7)

131 Recent Watches

Sorcerer (1977)
William Friedkin - Director

It based on the novel Le Salaire de la peur (Wages of Fear). Friedkin says it is not a remake of the 1953 French film Wages of Fear. I find that to be something of a difference without distinction. Either way, it is something of an overlooked gem. The scene where the nitro laden trucks have to cross a jungle bridge is some mighty fine practical effects work. It is gritty, dirty, sweaty, hopeless. Double Plus Good+

Youtube https://youtu.be/3pP6HPfc0Ww

Breaker Morant
Bruce Beresford - Director

Set in the Boer War it tells the story of court martial, more of a kangaroo court, of three Australian soldiers for killing Boer civilians. Was it murder, revenge, a justified execution, or a complication of war? The characters are brilliantly cast an acted. Killer film.

Youtube https://youtu.be/Mp1gGOAQXeo

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 13, 2025 09:10 PM (aJQjq)

132
Did you enjoy any of these 70's SciFi films?

Silent Running (1972) Bruce Dern

Phase IV (1974) it's about ants

The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976) David Bowie

Damnation Alley (1977) Georger Pepard, Jan Michael Vincent, the kid from Bad News Bears
trailer: https://is.gd/I5fsez

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 09:10 PM (nkPTK)

133 I put Breaker Morant in the top 10 of war movies.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 13, 2025 09:11 PM (CNl8/)

134 Have seen very little Jason Statham. Heat, Parker, The Meg, and that's about it. Watchable enough -- seems like he's found a niche and he's stickin' to it.

(And you'd think somebody would be looking at doing a series of flicks from Donald Westlake's Parker novels. But who am I kidding?)

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2025 09:12 PM (q3u5l)

135 Was he an accountant in "Gone Girl"? I read the book but can't remember his occupation. Didn't see the movie.
Posted by: Moonbeam at September 13, 2025 09:06 PM (rbKZ6)

Neither did I. Even though Rosamund Pike is hot. Miserable people being miserable.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 13, 2025 09:08 PM (zZu0s)

There was that other chick too, the model or whatever, who I think gets a little bit nekkid.

To me though, I recall my ex, and think "that could have been me, but wasn't" so I find it satisfying to watch.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 09:12 PM (/z8e7)

136 128- Neither did I. Even though Rosamund Pike is hot. Miserable people being miserable.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 13, 2025 09:08 PM

And now I realize that I'm an idiot that completely misunderstood the original comment. I didn't know that he was in two films called "The Accountant". Improper punctuation nails me again!

Posted by: Moonbeam at September 13, 2025 09:12 PM (rbKZ6)

137
Breaker Morant
Bruce Beresford - Director

Excellent movie. Never a Boer.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 13, 2025 09:13 PM (Tv15w)

138 Statham had an interesting cameo in the Cruise movie Collateral.

Posted by: davidt at September 13, 2025 09:14 PM (i0F8b)

139 There was that other chick too, the model or whatever, who I think gets a little bit nekkid.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 09:12 PM (/z8e7)

Emily Ratajkowski

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 09:14 PM (dBJSR)

140
What was that SciFi movie with Farah Fawcett?

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 09:15 PM (nkPTK)

141 Kinda liked Phase IV. Saw, but remember nothing of the others, except Damnation Alley -- that one I never saw because just from the descriptions and trailers it looked like they probably threw away Zelazny's book before they got a third of the way through the first draft of the script.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2025 09:15 PM (q3u5l)

142 Emily Ratajkowski
Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 09:14 PM (dBJSR)

I was about to say.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 13, 2025 09:17 PM (zZu0s)

143 125 Ok. This is a Tomb Raider one. Also tawdry as hell. Not something to watch at work where anyone can see you:
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Oh. Huh. I'm noticing that the Laura model isn't even consistent across shots.

Problem I have is when you hypersexualize a story like that, I stop being able to take any other part of it seriously.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 09:17 PM (asXVI)

144
Farrah Fawcett in Sci-Fi

Logan's Run or Saturn 3

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 13, 2025 09:17 PM (Tv15w)

145 What was that SciFi movie with Farah Fawcett?
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Saturn 3

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 09:18 PM (asXVI)

146 SF with Farrah Fawcett was probably Saturn 3, with Kirk Douglas and Harvey Keitel. Directed by, God help us, Stanley Donen -- the man who gave us Charade, Singin' in the Rain, and the too-often-overlooked delight Two for the Road.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2025 09:19 PM (q3u5l)

147 Logan's Run or Saturn 3
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Oh, right. She's got a small role in "Logan". I think she gets naked, briefly (PG). Jenny Agutter does.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 09:19 PM (asXVI)

148
Yeah, Saturn 3.

tv trailer:

https://is.gd/yeoeQv

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 09:20 PM (CEIO6)

149 What was that SciFi movie with Farah Fawcett?
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 09:15 PM (nkPTK)

Iirc she was in Logans Run.

Also... Saturn something. 3?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 13, 2025 09:20 PM (zZu0s)

150 Are there any other Boer War movies? I can't think of any.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 13, 2025 09:20 PM (CNl8/)

151 Charade is a great movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 13, 2025 09:20 PM (zZu0s)

152 Can't recall who said it, but somebody called Charade the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made. And he was right.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2025 09:21 PM (q3u5l)

153 FF shows her boobs in a shower scene in Saturn 3.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2025 09:22 PM (iJfKG)

154 Hey, I like "Diva." It's great. The director guy died too young.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 13, 2025 09:22 PM (CHHv1)

155 I saw the latest Superman movie and it was...ok.

Its a James Gunn movie, much like Guardians of the Galaxy, but without Chris Pratt making it really work.

There were woke touches - basically a part of the back story is a war between Russia and Iraq with the heroes siding with the latter - but it wasn't a real heavy part of the movie.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2025 09:22 PM (sKqQm)

156 Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 09:17 PM (asXVI)

That is why I said some of them are essentially porn. Others are actual valid concept ideas that someone is trying to illustrate, without the needless boob physics (unless it does fit the story I guess.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 13, 2025 09:23 PM (zZu0s)

157
Walt Disney's foray into Sci-Fi

The Black Hole (1979)

https://is.gd/0QQIGT

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 09:23 PM (CEIO6)

158 Are there any other Boer War movies? I can't think of any.
Posted by: Mark1971

I have only seen Breaker Morant but there are quite a few.

https://is.gd/dRdRWZ

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 13, 2025 09:23 PM (aJQjq)

159 77 Lo these many years ago when I was a student in France, they told me Rhinoceros is an an allegory about Nazism coming to town. As such, it's timely. There are rhinoceroses springing up everywhere!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Raging Like Godzilla! at September 13, 2025 08:37 PM (L/fGl)

I was looking for Nazis in my closet and there were 2 communist in the kitchen.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 13, 2025 09:24 PM (gbOdA)

160 Can't recall who said it, but somebody called Charade the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made. And he was right.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2025 09:21 PM (q3u5l)

It's better than some Hitchcock movies, but i agree with the premise.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 13, 2025 09:24 PM (zZu0s)

161 Walt Disney's foray into Sci-Fi

The Black Hole (1979)

https://is.gd/0QQIGT
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 09:23 PM (CEIO6)

LOVE that ship.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 13, 2025 09:24 PM (zZu0s)

162
I don't miss these creeps, at all.

Siskel & Ebert "review" The Black Hole (1979)

https://is.gd/hfx47R

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 09:25 PM (CEIO6)

163
Of the 70s sci-fi movies listed above, "Phase 4" is my fave.

"Silent Running" has some good parts but is eye-rollingly libtarded.

Anti-Bonus! Joan Baez is singing some lame song every five minutes.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2025 09:27 PM (iJfKG)

164
btw, I downloaded Megalopolis today for possible future viewing.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 09:27 PM (CEIO6)

165 26 years since Breakaway Day : )

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2025 09:28 PM (c4gEx)

166 BC, just looked him up--he only died a few years ago, at 75.

(It is a great movie, isn't it?)

Posted by: barbarausa at September 13, 2025 09:28 PM (enw9G)

167 I don't miss these creeps, at all.

Siskel & Ebert "review" The Black Hole (1979)
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The thing that impressed me about them over the years was how little they knew about movies. Like, they never rose above bullshit justifications of their gut reactions, and had just the most banal, prosaic things to say about the movies they watched.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 09:29 PM (asXVI)

168 btw, I downloaded Megalopolis today for possible future viewing.
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It's...a thing.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 09:30 PM (asXVI)

169
TV trailer for Alien (1979)

It's reveals almost nothing about the movie. It's mostly a black screen, lol.

https://is.gd/ENXrSp

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 09:31 PM (CEIO6)

170 I think he has more range than man with a gun who shoots his way to a happy ending

Jason Statham is Al Gore in... CHAKRA II

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 09:32 PM (gKWVE)

171 Emily Ratajkowski
Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 09:14 PM (dBJSR)

I was about to say.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 13, 2025 09:17 PM (zZu0s)

Apparently she's a big fan of abortions. Just like that A T and T chick.

Kinda takes the joy out of their tits.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 09:33 PM (mqGKl)

172
...and had just the most banal, prosaic things to say about the movies they watched.
Posted by: moviegique

Maybe that's why they were so popular -- they were just like every other jerkoff who watches movies, hahaha.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 09:33 PM (CEIO6)

173 It's reveals almost nothing about the movie. It's mostly a black screen, lol.
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Yep. And we were psyched.

There was a second trailer, IIRC, that had a very fast montage of shots that looked good, too.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 09:34 PM (asXVI)

174 This almost makes me want to watch French movies, so as not to disappoint you....almost.

I guess I should watch that one with the cute perky brunette who...does something cute and perky, not sure what. Amelie? Something like that?

One of the formative experiences of my early years was watching Karen Black in movies, and saying to people "She's cross-eyed!! Can't you see it?!?"

They couldn't. Drove me nuts, but I'm at peace with it now.

Posted by: Splunge at September 13, 2025 09:35 PM (Yp3x2)

175 Pepe le Moko (1937) is an extremely influential early film noir film. Direct inspiration for much of Casablanca, as well as the mock character Pepe le Pew. Also any number of charming gangster films.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2025 09:36 PM (5Gg6R)

176
George Lucas + Francis Ford Coppola =

THX-1138 (1971)

here's a TV spot from one of my local tv stations in 1984:

https://is.gd/51zz7G

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 09:37 PM (CEIO6)

177 One of the formative experiences of my early years was watching Karen Black in movies, and saying to people "She's cross-eyed!! Can't you see it?!?"

They couldn't. Drove me nuts, but I'm at peace with it now.
Posted by: Splunge at September 13, 2025 09:35 PM (Yp3x2)

And Mary Crosby

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 13, 2025 09:39 PM (gbOdA)

178 After watching Casablanca a few times, I decided it was an accidental masterpiece. It seemed to contain a bunch of the cliche tropes and characters of the time, and a lot of randomness, and yet it was like they hit every single jackpot along the way and it ended up seeming brilliant and perfect.

No idea if that's the real backstory, but that's how it appeared after a few vierings.

Posted by: Splunge at September 13, 2025 09:39 PM (Yp3x2)

179
Yikes!

David Cronenberg's
THE BROOD (1979)

https://is.gd/8VChPO

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 09:40 PM (CEIO6)

180 Maybe that's why they were so popular -- they were just like every other jerkoff who watches movies, hahaha.
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Occurred to me as I was writing it.

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I guess I should watch that one with the cute perky brunette who...does something cute and perky, not sure what. Amelie? Something like that?
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Amelie, yes. ("Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain")

That's an easy one. "Diabolique" is old but it's a classic thriller. "The King and the Mockingbird" is a good family film. (Most French films are NOT suited for American families.)

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They couldn't. Drove me nuts, but I'm at peace with it now.
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The couldn't see that? That's...disturbing.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 09:40 PM (asXVI)

181 I've heard that they were constantly tinkering with Casablanca's script until practically the end of shooting. I may be remembering wrong. But yeah, they got everything right in that one.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2025 09:41 PM (q3u5l)

182 The Old Village of the Damned freak me out
And the Blob Steve McQueen

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 13, 2025 09:42 PM (gbOdA)

183 No idea if that's the real backstory, but that's how it appeared after a few vierings.
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That is essentially correct. A perfect storm of casting, a tight script, and hit cover of an old song--three solid writers--and nobody involved thought it was any more than another "B" movie.

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THE BROOD (1979)
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That's a mind-blowing one. Very '70s.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 09:43 PM (asXVI)

184 181 I've heard that they were constantly tinkering with Casablanca's script until practically the end of shooting. I may be remembering wrong. But yeah, they got everything right in that one.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2025 09:41 PM (q3u5l)

Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here! [a croupier hands Renault a pile of money]

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 13, 2025 09:44 PM (gbOdA)

185 Kinda takes the joy out of their tits.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 09:33 PM (mqGKl)

Definitely.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 13, 2025 09:45 PM (zZu0s)

186 181 I've heard that they were constantly tinkering with Casablanca's script until practically the end of shooting. I may be remembering wrong. But yeah, they got everything right in that one.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2025 09:41 PM (q3u5l)

Speilburg and his writers would be up late writing dialogue for the scenes they were scheduled to shoot the next day. It seemed to work out alright for both movies. (Especially Quint's USS Indianapolis monologue.)

Posted by: tankdemon at September 13, 2025 09:46 PM (Ic+AQ)

187 Saw Village of the Damned when it came out in 1960 -- jeez, that was a good flick, and to this day it holds up nicely. John Carpenter's remake isn't the disaster I thought it was at first, but it still doesn't match the original. The recent British mini-series, The Midwich Cuckoos, can be safely ignored -- trust me on that.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2025 09:46 PM (q3u5l)

188 No idea if that's the real backstory, but that's how it appeared after a few vierings.
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That is essentially correct. A perfect storm of casting, a tight script, and hit cover of an old song--three solid writers--and nobody involved thought it was any more than another "B" movie.

That's a mind-blowing one. Very '70s.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 09:43 PM (asXVI)

Kind of funny how, when a world is at war, artists rise above their own ordinariness to make something more lasting and beautiful than they realized.

I would argue there are plenty of films/teevee shows made in the era of (and after) the Vietnam War that are better than they would have been, without the horror of that war lurking just off-screen.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 09:48 PM (2Wwko)

189 I just watched Weapons so y'all don't have to. This is possibly the worst movie I've ever seen and I'm a big fan of low budget films. It teetered between boring and real stupid.

Posted by: Flanole at September 13, 2025 09:48 PM (ZnrCl)

190 (Especially Quint's USS Indianapolis monologue.)
Posted by: tankdemon at September 13, 2025 09:46 PM (Ic+AQ)

He was so drunk it was unusable. Had to reshoot it the next day.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at September 13, 2025 09:50 PM (JRP2U)

191 There is no worse movie than "Maidstone" by Norman Mailer.

You cannot prove me wrong.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 13, 2025 09:50 PM (CHHv1)

192 Kind of funny how, when a world is at war, artists rise above their own ordinariness to make something more lasting and beautiful than they realized.
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Yeah, I don't think it's a coincidence that the Golden Age was 1938-146.

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I would argue there are plenty of films/teevee shows made in the era of (and after) the Vietnam War that are better than they would have been, without the horror of that war lurking just off-screen.
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Sometimes artists realize their true calling and rise to it. Otherwise you get the "we're making a statement" slop.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 09:51 PM (asXVI)

193 Well, outta here for the evening.

Thanks for the thread, moviegique.

Have a good one, gang.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2025 09:51 PM (q3u5l)

194 189 I just watched Weapons so y'all don't have to. This is possibly the worst movie I've ever seen and I'm a big fan of low budget films. It teetered between boring and real stupid.
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My last review here was on "Weapons". I didn't find it so.

https://moviegique.com/2025/08/weapons/

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 09:52 PM (asXVI)

195 'night, JSG!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 09:52 PM (asXVI)

196
Food Of The Gods II

This is Ace when he gets mad at us:

https://is.gd/dopcFs

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 09:53 PM (CEIO6)

197 There's a documentary on the making of "Megalopolis" that's showing September 19th -- "Megadoc", directed by Mike Figgis. I'd like to see it, and may even, if I'm not too lazy.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 13, 2025 09:55 PM (kpS4V)

198 Threw on Convoy this evening, Chris Christopherson was one handsome devil, Ali McGraw was ugly pretty and Earnest Borgnine sure could play an a**hole to a tee.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2025 09:55 PM (XV/Pl)

199 There is no worse movie than "Maidstone" by Norman Mailer. You cannot prove me wrong. Posted by: BeckoningChasm

Yes I can and I just did. I only know this "movie" as the Turkish Star Wars.

https://youtu.be/0SASZaT7lI4

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 13, 2025 09:56 PM (aJQjq)

200 Sometimes artists realize their true calling and rise to it. Otherwise you get the "we're making a statement" slop.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 09:51 PM (asXVI)

Yeah, lots of slop too.

There must be hundreds of WWII era films that are melodramatic schmaltz. Most of which, thankfully, will never be seen again.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 09:58 PM (AYq51)

201 I forever endeavor to pronounce banal as anal, but with a b.

Posted by: Ambiguously Gay Richard Simmons at September 13, 2025 09:58 PM (vh0Vn)

202 One of the formative experiences of my early years was watching Karen Black in movies, and saying to people "She's cross-eyed!! Can't you see it?!?"

They couldn't. Drove me nuts, but I'm at peace with it now.
Posted by: Splunge at September 13, 2025 09:35 PM (Yp3x2)
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MAD Magazine used to have a field day with her. Yes, she is slightly cross-eyed.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 13, 2025 09:58 PM (kpS4V)

203 my favorite Borgnine asshole was Fatso Judson.

He had a great cameo in Red, in his 90s.

Also loved him as Mermaid Man, when y kids were little.

(when I was little, he was Quinton McHale--great career, and deserved his statue for Marty)

Posted by: barbarausa at September 13, 2025 09:59 PM (enw9G)

204 ONT nood! And, good night, all.

Posted by: Nazdar at September 13, 2025 10:00 PM (NcvvS)

205 oh, God, and Borgnine as the cabby!
Another great audiotape reveal, in Escape from NY

Posted by: barbarausa at September 13, 2025 10:00 PM (enw9G)

206 nood

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2025 10:00 PM (TnWYh)

207 Bognine in Ice Station Zebra

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at September 13, 2025 10:02 PM (JRP2U)

208 There must be hundreds of WWII era films that are melodramatic schmaltz. Most of which, thankfully, will never be seen again.
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At least. And pro-fascism ones, though they didn't call it that, since we're the good guys. But I certainly didn't mean to imply there wasn't shlock. There's always shlock.

Just that moments of transcendence do occur.

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201 I forever endeavor to pronounce banal as anal, but with a b.
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I pronounced it that way until I was in college--though it was such an unpleasant word, I didn't use it much. A prof of mine said "buh-NAHL" and the light went on.

Now ask me how I pronounced "segue" for years.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 10:03 PM (asXVI)

209 'night, all! Thanks for popping by.

(The most shocking thing being, the only Kirk we talked about was Kirk Douglas.)

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at September 13, 2025 10:03 PM (asXVI)

210 >>>The Boy said, "The reason this works is because whatever it's a metaphor for, it's also about a guy dealing with the everyday problem of rhinoceroses!"

That's pretty great! That might lure me to see it.

Posted by: m at September 14, 2025 01:42 AM (aURVT)

211 Thanks for the thread, moviegique.

Posted by: m at September 14, 2025 01:44 AM (aURVT)

212 Very rapidly this web page will be famous amid all blogging people, due to it's fastidious content

Posted by: Fatvim Weight Loss Formula at September 14, 2025 05:34 AM (CkC5C)

Hobby Thread - Sept 13, 2025 [Surfer Rex]

Welcome hobbyists! Pull up a chair and sit a spell with the Horde in this little corner of the interweb. This is the mighty, mighty, mighty officially sanctioned Ace of Spades Hobby Thread. A spin of the Ace of Spades Wheel of Hobbies (TM) landed on surfing and waves.

I have faith that you can either find something in the content that resonates or contribute your own hobbying interests.

You might be tempted to say "I have no hobbies or interests." Bah. Dig around in the content and soak in the comments. Be curious. Glad you're here.

[Top: Sunset Surfer by polynikes. Oil. 16x24]

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What are you hobbying?

As per usual Hobby Thread etiquette, keep this thread limited to hobbying. All (legal) hobbying is welcome. However, politics, current events and religious debates can live in threads elsewhere. Current events are still on our minds, but let's stick to hobbying here. Pants are optional. Puns are welcome and encouraged.

Play nice. Don't be a troll and do not feed the trolls.

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Surfing is a hobby for some but a way of live for others. Are you a surfer? Were you a surfer at an earlier stage of life? Have you never surfed but curious to try?

Are you entranced by waves? Can you sit and watch waves break all day?

Even if you're not wise in the ways of the surfboard, the best places to surf are often in beautiful locations. This thread can be about surfing, the art of the wave, and the travels to enjoy memorable parts of the world.

We will do a separate proper Hobby Thread at some point on sea shells and related gathering, collecting and art projects.

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History of surfing:

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Under the Wave off Kanagawa, also known as The Great Wave, from the series "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji"

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Denise Romecki - ceramic wave

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"The Wave" in Newport, Rhode Island:

The feet and the accompanying wave are courtesy of artist and sculptor Katharine Worden, a familiar figure in the lively Newport art community. In 1983, Worden unveiled "The Wave." The design was a twist on Hokusai's famous work. Worden's wave swaps the intense majesty of Hokusai's piece for one that is a bit more humorous. A pair of feet stick straight out from the bronze wave pointing right towards any and all passerby.
Newport locals have taken "The Wave" under their wing in their own special way. In the summer, the statue's feet shine bright as the bronze is polished by the hands of passersby. During the winter, when Newport becomes cold, anonymous locals will put socks on the feet.

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The 8 best places to live in the world as a surfer (according to Red Bull)

Gold Coast, Australia
California, United States of America
Jeffreys Bay, South Africa
Portugal
Indonesia
Southwest France
Oaxaca, Mexico
Oahu, Hawaii, USA

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Time for science:

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Surf board construction:

Most modern surfboards are not made of wood. These are:

Or you could build one with Home Depot supplies:

The Science Behind Surfboard Construction

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This has nothing to do with surfing, but has everything do with waves and the US Navy. Since this is a quasi-smart military blog and some Morons have served in the Navy, it gets included:

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Stand up Paddleboarding is not surfing, but we will include for Hobby Thread giggles. Anyone do this?

How to choose the right shape for your paddleboard

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Did you miss the Hobby Thread last week? We did a horse theme. The comments may be closed, but you can re-live the content.

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Notable comments from last week:

Honorable mention:

Thanks again to Ben Had for looking after the Hobby Thread horsing around.

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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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If you have trouble finding something in the content or comments that resonates with you, contribute something from your personal hobbying. We will feature a different theme next time. What are you hobbying? We love showing off Horde hobbying. Send thoughts, suggestions and photos of your hobbying to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Do mighty things.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 05:30 PM

Comments

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1 Welcome Hobbiests

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 05:30 PM (+qU29)

2 Surfers be crazy, yo.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2025 05:31 PM (h7ZuX)

3 Don't surf, don't live near the ocean. Guess I'll sit this one out.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2025 05:31 PM (0eaVi)

4 I love the beach, sand sculpture, body surfing, alas my life changed.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 05:33 PM (+qU29)

5 My hobby is poker. I play online, as I don't live near a casino. Game starting now, see ya later

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at September 13, 2025 05:33 PM (h7ZuX)

6 I have a body board, it's not surfing like standing up but still was lots of fun.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 05:34 PM (+qU29)

7 I windsurf off Martha'a Vineyard. Keep your damn asses out of my way. If I fall down it's your fault.

Posted by: Jon Cary at September 13, 2025 05:34 PM (0eaVi)

8 3 Don't surf, don't live near the ocean. Guess I'll sit this one out.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2025 05:31 PM

"Even if you're not wise in the ways of the surfboard, the best places to surf are often in beautiful locations. This thread can be about surfing, the art of the wave, and the travels to enjoy memorable parts of the world."

Posted by: TRex - keep trying at September 13, 2025 05:34 PM (PDUpY)

9 I tried surfing but I wasn’t good looking enough.

Posted by: HappyFun at September 13, 2025 05:35 PM (d2+05)

10 Ok, I am starting to think Polynikes is getting a heads up a couple weeks in advance to do the thread painting.
It's another great work btw Polynikes

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 05:36 PM (+qU29)

11 Charlie don't surf

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 13, 2025 05:37 PM (aMl27)

12 Love that painting by polynikes. He really caught the movement and color of the surf. The sun emerging, or sinking, and the clouds are a bonus.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 05:38 PM (yTvNw)

13 The wave sculpture with feet made me lol

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 13, 2025 05:38 PM (dE3DB)

14 "Even if you're not wise in the ways of the surfboard, the best places to surf are often in beautiful locations. This thread can be about surfing, the art of the wave, and the travels to enjoy memorable parts of the world."
Posted by: TRex - keep trying at September 13, 2025 05:34 PM (PDUpY)

May be true, but those beautiful places usually cost money to go to. Just have to look at them on the internet.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2025 05:39 PM (0eaVi)

15 I did some surfing in my younger days but my belly always got rubbed raw on the styrofoam.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2025 05:39 PM (vFG9F)

16 I admire the ability of surfers from afar. Amazing ability and agility.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 05:40 PM (mFSH6)

17 The surf sculpture needs to have a surfboard going off in a weird direction.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 13, 2025 05:40 PM (aMl27)

18 >>> 11 Charlie don't surf
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 13, 2025 05:37 PM (aMl27)

I do.

Posted by: Otter 841 at September 13, 2025 05:41 PM (ULPxl)

19 14 May be true, but those beautiful places usually cost money to go to. Just have to look at them on the internet.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2025 05:39 PM
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I consistently fail to meet your hobby expectations. Send a self addressed stamped envelope and I'll send a refund.

Posted by: TRex - refund available at September 13, 2025 05:41 PM (PDUpY)

20 polynikes, beautiful painting

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 13, 2025 05:42 PM (dE3DB)

21 https://youtu.be/rj7xMBxd5iY?si=jc_UjQw5B0Uoqz0I

The one dude knows he rode a major wave

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at September 13, 2025 05:43 PM (LOZbR)

22 I surfed for a bit. Byproduct of being not too far from the jersey shore. It was a bit hit or miss, sometimes great waves, sometimes ugatz. We didn't have our license yet, so we used to get rides from some surfers we knew that were a couple years older than us who drove. Between waiting for a ride, and waiting for a good day of waves we figured screw it. The 3 of us ditched the surf boards, got our licenses, and figured it was more fun cruising for chicks.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 05:44 PM (snZF9)

23 My hometown has some very good small surf, consistent but different from the towering waves in Hawaii. I never learned to use a board but I was an excellent body surfer. It was more fun than swimming. You knew you caught the wave just right when you ended up on the damp sand as the wave receded.

I haven't lived by the ocean for many years but still remember the 'feel' when you timed things just right.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 05:44 PM (yTvNw)

24 Oh yeah, the movie Jaws didn't help either.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 05:45 PM (snZF9)

25 In California we had "boogie boards." Small body boards for riding waves.

My son, who was about 6 at the time, was on my back during a particularly gnarly day of waves. Slappers and pounders.

The pounders will crack ribs. Yup.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2025 05:46 PM (Q4IgG)

26 I wish I had a hobby instead pf a million half started projects

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 13, 2025 05:46 PM (6U1c2)

27 Surfing is one of those " man against nature" things.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 05:48 PM (mFSH6)

28 I aways did sand sculpture, dragons my favorite, but in October a sand pumpkin which sometimes in evening if standing got a candle lit

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 05:48 PM (+qU29)

29 That sculpture with the feet sticking out is a hoot. Came along after my time in Newport. I can easily believe the locals putting socks, possibly with holiday themes, on the feet during colder weather.

BTW, the angle of the swimmer diving under the wave is about right.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 05:49 PM (yTvNw)

30 Surfing, kayaking, stand up paddle boarding, sailing……. Any sport in the waves is awesome.

It helps to live across the street from the water.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2025 05:49 PM (hC7dH)

31 Surfing in WA state is done on the coast. In dry suits. It’s ferking cold.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2025 05:50 PM (hC7dH)

32 Too bad I don't body surf anymore. With my build these days I qualify as a floatation device.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 05:51 PM (yTvNw)

33 Very lovely painting, Polynikes. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 05:52 PM (looXz)

34
About 25-30 years back, a bunch of us guys who worked together would longboard around Santa Barbara/Goleta during lunch. It was nice to work that close to the beach.

Of course, none of us could hold a candle to Snake Plissken.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3HOCIXroqQ

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 13, 2025 05:53 PM (FoIOl)

35 Have no pictures of beach stuff on digital sadly

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 05:53 PM (+qU29)

36
The Endless Summer

Surf's Up!!! Hodaddies and Chickie Babies!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2025 05:53 PM (iJfKG)

37 I do good with a water depth in my shower.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 05:54 PM (mFSH6)

38 Surfin M.O.D.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2025 05:54 PM (ngszx)

39 Waves have always fascinated me but my interest was mostly expressed in my vocation as a physicist, so I don’t think my work with waves qualifies as a hobby. I am a retired university professor and had an NRL postdoc.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 05:55 PM (uTWkf)

40 Going offline: il fault faire le marché!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 05:57 PM (uTWkf)

41 Fault -> faut

Blast autocucumber!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 05:58 PM (uTWkf)

42 39 Waves have always fascinated me but my interest was mostly expressed in my vocation as a physicist...

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 05:55 PM
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Spent time trying to find good interweb resources on wave generation for this thread. Interesting and surprising how many had some form of "waves push water but we don't fully understand exactly how it works."

Posted by: TRex - amateur scientist at September 13, 2025 05:58 PM (PDUpY)

43 I have a rather mundane hobby that is by necessity to keep me sane when I get dragged along on Antique Store jaunts with a woman that finds that stuff fun.

Almost everyone of the antique stores have a section that includes old news papers. If you know your history and remember dates, you can find some pretty remarkable things. So far, I've collected the Hindenburg Blimp headline, three or four of the Kennedy assassination, VE Day, VJ Day, sinking of USS Indianapolis before they knew how bad it was with the sharks, Atom Bomb headlines in Japan and many many more. I framed a number of Page 1's and switch them around in my home office depending on the month.

Posted by: Orson at September 13, 2025 05:58 PM (dIske)

44 We lived in Corpus for a few years.

Never got out to Padre Island often enough to become any good at surfing.

Though I tried riding those pitiful three foot Gulf waves.

Body surfing is petty much perfect🙄

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2025 06:02 PM (iJfKG)

45 Orson, that is fascinating not the least bit mundane.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 06:03 PM (mFSH6)

46 45 Orson, that is fascinating not the least bit mundane.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 06:03 PM (mFSH6)
________________________

If you're a history buff like me. It can be fun. And, we're not talking a lot of money. Cost on most of them is under $5.

Posted by: Orson at September 13, 2025 06:05 PM (dIske)

47 I'm spending a lot more time on the motorcycle this past year than I usually do. I think I did more miles this past year than I did in the 5 or 6 years before it combined. There is a group of guys that bring their bikes to the shop who have been riding together for years, and I started going on rides with them. They brought me to some great roads in south jersey that I never would have believed existed. Nice forest type roads in the pine barrens, a few nice marina bars on the water, tons of bikes on the roads and not many cars. I guess its an expanded hobby.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 06:06 PM (snZF9)

48 I consistently fail to meet your hobby expectations. Send a self addressed stamped envelope and I'll send a refund.
Posted by: TRex - refund available at September 13, 2025 05:41 PM (PDUpY)

I was not trying to be insulting in that comment. I don't have a lot of money to go places or do things. The older I get, the less I find I can do, especially if it's something completely new to me. The internet is the best way for me to see things. Everyone doesn't have the same likes and interests, but I still read the thread even if it's not in my wheelhouse.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2025 06:07 PM (0eaVi)

49 43 Almost everyone of the antique stores have a section that includes old news papers. If you know your history and remember dates, you can find some pretty remarkable things.

Posted by: Orson at September 13, 2025 05:58 PM
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Outstanding! We have a German newspaper showing the fall of the Berlin Wall displayed. Thanks much for sharing!

Posted by: TRex - history is fun at September 13, 2025 06:07 PM (PDUpY)

50 Just a reminder to those who watch Svengoolie. It starts an hour earlier than usual. 7pm ET/6CT.

Movies can be a hobby too, right? Sorry if I shouldn't post this here.

Posted by: Joyenz at September 13, 2025 06:10 PM (2F0/Y)

51 >>The feet and the accompanying wave are courtesy of artist and sculptor Katharine Worden, a familiar figure in the lively Newport art community. In 1983, Worden unveiled "The Wave."

I dated Kay Worden's daughter in high school. The Worden's had a gorgeous home in my town near Newport and Kay's studio sat on a bluff overlooking Narragansett Bay. Marvelously talented artist. She has at least one other sculpture in Newport, The Hurdy Gurdy Man.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 06:11 PM (viF8m)

52 43 ... "Almost everyone of the antique stores have a section that includes old news papers. If you know your history and remember dates, you can find some pretty remarkable things."

Actually, that sounds like a cool hobby although the topics aren't happy ones. How about some happy ones like the sun coming out literally as Reagan began his first inaugural address or the first launch of the shuttle after the Challenger disaster. Or the faces of the Hillary supporters the night she lost. That one always makes me smile.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 06:11 PM (yTvNw)

53 Here ya go - surfing montage from Pointbreak

https://tinyurl.com/yc29ytmm

Posted by: Fenrisulven at September 13, 2025 06:12 PM (ciYHQ)

54
To rise and fall
Without the hands of gravity
To see it all
My hand to cover up my eyes
To move inside
Suspended by my sense of self
Along the line
The river flows and so do I

To live the groove
Is everything that I need
To see you move
When grace is just a simple wisdom
To feel
To live
To speak the truth at every junction
To be with you
And with myself and my suspicion

And Charles Atlas stands upon the beach
Upon his head and says
I will not fall

Posted by: Fenrisulven at September 13, 2025 06:12 PM (ciYHQ)

55 I've never surfed, at least in part because I live in Oregon and, as Nurse R stated, you need a wet suit (and a desire to be amongst marine predators and random logs the size of a tractor-trailer).

My hobby of acquiring things I don't need is going well. I just got a pocket solar watch and I'm trying to fine-tune it.

Posted by: PabloD at September 13, 2025 06:12 PM (s6jlS)

56 JackStraw maybe you would collaborate on a scuba diving thread.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 06:13 PM (mFSH6)

57 Almost everyone of the antique stores have a section that includes old news papers. If you know your history and remember dates, you can find some pretty remarkable things. So far, I've collected the Hindenburg Blimp headline, three or four of the Kennedy assassination, VE Day, VJ Day, sinking of USS Indianapolis before they knew how bad it was with the sharks, Atom Bomb headlines in Japan and many many more. I framed a number of Page 1's and switch them around in my home office depending on the month.

Posted by: Orson at September 13, 2025 05:58 PM (dIske)

When I used to work in old houses I would constantly find old news papers shoved into walls around windows. I guess it was cheap insulation. It was always a blast to look through them while having lunch. The prices, holy shit the prices. Coats for 79 cents, houses that were enormous for 10K. Found some WWI and WWII era papers. Every time we gutted a kitchen it was like a treasure hunt.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 06:14 PM (snZF9)

58 48 ... "The older I get, the less I find I can do"

OrangeEnt,

When unsure: CROSSWORD PUZZLES!

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 06:15 PM (yTvNw)

59 Outstanding! We have a German newspaper showing the fall of the Berlin Wall displayed. Thanks much for sharing!
Posted by: TRex - history is fun at September 13, 2025 06:07 PM (PDUpY)

____________________________

I was over in Bavaria the week Reagan was in Berlin doing the "Tear down this wall." Speech. I have some newspapers of that I bought myself. I, also, have a rather humorous collage framed of about six or seven German articles describing car accidents on the Autobahn when the East German Trabants (remember those?) started crossing into West Germany through Hungary. It was a mess. Those things couldn't go over 40mph safety, and some cars on the Autobahn were going 3 times that speed.

Posted by: Orson at September 13, 2025 06:15 PM (dIske)

60 59 German articles describing car accidents on the Autobahn when the East German Trabants (remember those?) started crossing into West Germany through Hungary.

Posted by: Orson at September 13, 2025 06:15 PM
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Surely did not go well for the Trabants because they were made of composite cotton and resin. Drove one a few years ago which was interesting but I can't imagine taking one on the autobahn.

Posted by: TRex - rolling death trap at September 13, 2025 06:19 PM (PDUpY)

61 >>JackStraw maybe you would collaborate on a scuba diving thread.

My diving life is pretty dated, but I'd be happy to toss in my unneeded comments.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 06:20 PM (viF8m)

62 I could be wrong, tell me if so, that any hobby news you have is invited to post.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 06:22 PM (+qU29)

63 Thank you for the thread, Surfer Rex! I've never surfed and don't think I'll ever try it. It looks fun, but I can't even ride a skateboard!

This link is maybe more for a modeling thread, but it's how to make waves for a diorama, so it kind of fits?

youtu.be/l5Px8nL74sw

Ah, found a surf diorama!

youtu.be/04OqLFCXz8U

And here is a diorama with a model ship in rough seas.

youtu.be/mkBhu655BGk

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 13, 2025 06:23 PM (144I4)

64 I used to do some longboarding when I lived in SoCal. I was never really good at it, but I enjoyed it and it kept me in great shape. Until you've done it, you don't realize how hard getting out into the lineup can be.

Posted by: Bert G at September 13, 2025 06:24 PM (VARTN)

65 Movies can be a hobby too, right? Sorry if I shouldn't post this here.
Posted by: Joyenz

Movies can be a hobby

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 13, 2025 06:26 PM (tcsrY)

66 Bert G, can you expound on that? I can only imagine all the elements that go into catching a wave.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 06:28 PM (mFSH6)

67 Amazing surf painting, polynikes! Every time one of the cobs posts a painting of yours, I marvel that you are getting better and better!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 06:28 PM (omVj0)

68 63 This link is maybe more for a modeling thread, but it's how to make waves for a diorama, so it kind of fits?
Ah, found a surf diorama!
And here is a diorama with a model ship in rough seas.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 13, 2025 06:23 PM
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Great links! Thanks for finding and posting. Wish I would have spotted and included something like that in the content.

Posted by: TRex - modeling water is hard at September 13, 2025 06:30 PM (PDUpY)

69 Inspired by the start of the surfing craze around 1960, some friends and I tried making our own skateboards. (Land surfing I guess.) This was long before commercial skateboards were around. We nailed a roller skate, the kind that used a skate key, to a plank. It sorta worked until I got to a sharp bump at which point the damn thing just stopped and I went ass over teakettle onto the pavement. And I wasn't graceful about it.

That might have increased my interest in body surfing.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 06:32 PM (yTvNw)

70 My husband loved to surf. It was a big part of his life from age 14 to almost 60, when a neurological condition destroyed his balance.

If anyone wants to watch a fun movie about surfing, I recommend "Riding Giants" or "Step into Liquid". You don't have to surf to enjoy them.

Posted by: girldog at September 13, 2025 06:34 PM (ItPl7)

71 Bert G, can you expound on that? I can only imagine all the elements that go into catching a wave.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 06:28 PM

Riding the board is the easy part as long as you have really good balance. The hard part is fighting the current and waves as you paddle the board beyond where the waves start. It can be a good workout; the bigger the waves, the harder it becomes getting out there.

Posted by: Bert G at September 13, 2025 06:34 PM (VARTN)

72 Just a reminder to those who watch Svengoolie. It starts an hour earlier than usual. 7pm ET/6CT.

Posted by: Joyenz

Thanks for the reminder Joyenz. I was out working on some projects and stopped in to check the thread, and to catch a few minutes of the Three Stooges.

I don't always watch the featured Svengoolie movie, but, and this will sound weird, I like the intro to the show.

"Calling all stations, clear the airlanes, clear all airlanes for the big broadcast."

I don't know if they really used to use that in the olden days of TV, but it sounds retro and cool to me.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 13, 2025 06:34 PM (144I4)

73
Inspired by the start of the surfing craze around 1960, some friends and I tried making our own skateboards. (Land surfing I guess.) This was long before commercial skateboards were around. We nailed a roller skate, the kind that used a skate key, to a plank. It sorta worked until I got to a sharp bump at which point the damn thing just stopped and I went ass over teakettle onto the pavement. And I wasn't graceful about it.

That might have increased my interest in body surfing.
Posted by: JTB

I made one of those and put a Goldwater sticker on it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 13, 2025 06:35 PM (63Dwl)

74 A couple of really cool 3D prints are being made honoring Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2025 06:38 PM (XV/Pl)

75 I need to find a new rapier group. I could go back into archery but I kinda maxxed it out. My high scores still stand. I bristled when my rapier coach said archery was one dimensional but he was right - there's not much depth to it. Rapier OTH I could study for another 20 years and still not master it.

And ooof I cant imagine anything hotter than a girl who knows how to spar with a sword. I remember checking my arrogance at a event meeting: "Gwen's a sweet girl but-what am I saying, she could kill me without breaking a sweat"

Posted by: Fenrisulven at September 13, 2025 06:38 PM (ciYHQ)

76 My husband loved to surf. It was a big part of his life from age 14 to almost 60, when a neurological condition destroyed his balance.

If anyone wants to watch a fun movie about surfing, I recommend "Riding Giants" or "Step into Liquid". You don't have to surf to enjoy them.

Posted by: girldog at September 13, 2025 06:34 PM (ItPl7)

Sorry to hear about your husband. I haven't seen those movies, but my kids (and me) really like Soul Surfer.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 13, 2025 06:38 PM (144I4)

77 I was raised two blocks from the Pacific Ocean in Pacific Beach.

I was quite skilled at body surfing, but I regret not getting a board and really surfing.

PB was great. But Windandsea was legendary.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2025 06:39 PM (ZmEVT)

78 If the subject is surfing, surely this is appropriate:

https://tinyurl.com/mtps688j

Posted by: Eeyore at September 13, 2025 06:40 PM (s0JqF)

79 Oh, and polynikes, I enjoy all of your paintings but I have to echo all of the compliments here. This one really stands out to me, I'm diggin' it.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 13, 2025 06:41 PM (144I4)

80 The surfing scene in" Die Another Day" was memorable .

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 06:41 PM (mFSH6)

81 Watchung the model video.
For all the free foam I could get never used it for game boards

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 06:42 PM (+qU29)

82 >>Riding the board is the easy part as long as you have really good balance. The hard part is fighting the current and waves as you paddle the board beyond where the waves start. It can be a good workout; the bigger the waves, the harder it becomes getting out there.

I've been around the ocean all my life and I've done pretty much everything you can in the ocean including body surfing which I grew up doing. Somehow, actual surfing eluded me.

My dive shop in PR had a surfing beach right next door and one of my fellow instructors was a surfer. Better surfer than diver. He took me out a couple times to give it try. By far the hardest part was just getting out to the waves. It was a frigging workout.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 06:42 PM (viF8m)

83 Well, it involves surfing. Watch 1964's "Ride the Wild Surf", one of the great bad teen movies of the decades. No Annette, but Jan and Dean singing and Barbara Eden in a bikini. Oh yeah, some surfing as well.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 06:43 PM (yTvNw)

84 "The older I get, the less I find I can do"

I bought some Voit surf fins. They were great when I was 30. My legs couldn't do the work when I was 60.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2025 06:44 PM (ZmEVT)

85 Paddleboarding is not surfing, but we will include for Hobby Thread giggles
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Yeah...ha, ha...very funny.

Posted by: Obama Chef at September 13, 2025 06:45 PM (XeU6L)

86 A friend and colleague is from Hawaii. As a surfer, he was a natural at snow boarding.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2025 06:46 PM (ZmEVT)

87 Balance and quickness is a must for surfing, I guess.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 06:48 PM (mFSH6)

88 Paddleboarding is not surfing, but we will include for Hobby Thread giggles
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We had a lady paddle boarder attacked and bitten by a rabid beaver. The name of the lake? 'Beaver Lake'. I proposed re-naming the lake to 'Rabid Beaver Lake' to reduce usage. Could not build any momentum for that.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 06:49 PM (XeU6L)

89 87 Balance and quickness is a must for surfing, I guess.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 06:48 PM
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Just riding barrels in the ocean instead of in the ring...

Posted by: TRex - horses hang ten too at September 13, 2025 06:50 PM (PDUpY)

90 For those of us who use firearms as a hobby, I just learned that Guns and American Handgunner magazines are ceasing to publish paper editions and are going all digital and streaming. Feels like the end of an era.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 06:51 PM (yTvNw)

91 This guy ( at least seeing hands think so, is quite a skilled modeler

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 06:51 PM (+qU29)

92 I was raised two blocks from the Pacific Ocean in Pacific Beach.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2025 06:39 PM

When I worked for PacBell my turf was west of the 5 with everything south of Nautilus Street in La Jolla, PB, and down through MB north of Sea World Drive.

I loved it because there was hardly any traffic in PB and MB in the mornings. No one was awake there until around 10:30 or 11AM.

Posted by: Bert G at September 13, 2025 06:52 PM (VARTN)

93 My amateur hobby this afternoon was four very nice Marzen beers. I may have to turn pro.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2025 06:52 PM (2WIwB)

94 Where there are lots of surfers, I'm always amazed that some don't get clouted by loose boards.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 06:53 PM (XeU6L)

95 That's a problem for doing anything getting older, the less you can do the less later you can do.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 06:53 PM (+qU29)

96 TRex, interesting point. Are your hobbies dictated by your physical abilities?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 06:54 PM (mFSH6)

97 Gorgeous painting, polynikes! I think it's one of your best. Love the delicate addition of sunset orange being picked up by the foamy spume atop the wave. Really pulls the sea and sky together. Great job!

It dates me, but I loved Bruce Brown's movie about surfing, The Endless Summer. The second one was okay but didn't captivate me the way the first one did. Recently acquired both movies and the "making of" documentary, which was quite fascinating. Can recommend it!

Posted by: tankascribe at September 13, 2025 06:54 PM (NtoJk)

98 For those of us who use firearms as a hobby, I just learned that Guns and American Handgunner magazines are ceasing to publish paper editions and are going all digital and streaming. Feels like the end of an era.

Posted by: JTB
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I am beginning to intensely dislike the digital age. When I hear or see 'Just scan the QR code' my hostility grows.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 06:56 PM (XeU6L)

99 Mike Hammer, Amen. I ain't doing it.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 06:57 PM (mFSH6)

100 94 Where there are lots of surfers, I'm always amazed that some don't get clouted by loose boards.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 06:53 PM
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Unwritten rules of respect help keep order. Some beaches are more "regulated" by locals because outsiders can cause contact or cut off others by not knowing the local customs on the waves for who goes, when, what waves, etc. that keep order. If you go to a regulated beach and nobody knows you, best go with humility and stay out of the way until you earn some credibility. (Of course, some locals are just territorial to be territorial, but that's another story...)

Posted by: TRex - local dino at September 13, 2025 06:57 PM (PDUpY)

101 80 The surfing scene in" Die Another Day" was memorable .
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 06:41 PM (mFSH6)

That was Laird Hamilton on that wave. The movie Riding Giants is partly about him and the innovative role he's played in big wave surfing.

Posted by: girldog at September 13, 2025 06:58 PM (ItPl7)

102 Norrin Radd was a pretty good surfer.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 13, 2025 06:59 PM (CHHv1)

103 96 TRex, interesting point. Are your hobbies dictated by your physical abilities?

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 06:54 PM
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Thank goodness no! I have a small brain and short arms.

Many of my rabbit holes are interests expressed through reading, interweb, mail, etc.

Posted by: TRex -hobbying dino at September 13, 2025 06:59 PM (PDUpY)

104 In San Francisco, some people have a new hobby of going around and spraying Narcan in the noses of bums, whether they need it or not.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2025 07:01 PM (vFG9F)

105 98 ... "I am beginning to intensely dislike the digital age. When I hear or see 'Just scan the QR code' my hostility grows."

Mike Hammer,
Oh yeah! First Backwoodsman magazine now Guns and American Handgunner going strictly digital. I want to hold hobby magazines IN MY HAND not read them on a damn screen. Don't get me started on QR codes or the presumption that everyone has the latest 'smart' phone. I hold onto my typewriters and fountain pens both for use and as a protest.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 07:02 PM (yTvNw)

106 I'm with you, Mike Hammer!

I've considered doing a beach/ocean painting just because I've never painted one. Then I remind myself that if I'm going to invest hours of my life into doing a painting, it had damn well better be of something I personally enjoy or it'd be pure drudgery. And I don't enjoy the ocean very much. I'd rather paint mountains and rocks and people and clouds. But someday I'm going to paint a rainbow. A realistic rainbow that doesn't look like a cartoon, which will be a challenge. Just looking for the right photo, so I take pictures of rainbows (and clouds!) whenever I can.

Posted by: tankascribe at September 13, 2025 07:02 PM (NtoJk)

107 And thanks so much for the Hobby Thread, TRex! I look forward to it every week.

Posted by: tankascribe at September 13, 2025 07:05 PM (NtoJk)

108 "Are your hobbies dictated by your physical abilities?

Just today at the rallycross I was thinking "Why is this car not faster? It should be faster. Am I losing my edge? Am I getting too old for this?"

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2025 07:05 PM (vFG9F)

109 Then I found out one of the parking brake cables was not releasing and I felt a lot better.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2025 07:05 PM (vFG9F)

110 109 Then I found out one of the parking brake cables was not releasing and I felt a lot better.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2025 07:05 PM
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HaHaHa!!!

Posted by: TRex - slower is faster at September 13, 2025 07:06 PM (PDUpY)

111 I want to hold hobby magazines IN MY HAND...
Posted by: JTB
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When and where you want to...no battery required.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 07:06 PM (XeU6L)

112 fd, the only thing that would slow you down is 200 lbs weight strapped to you.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 07:07 PM (mFSH6)

113 Reforger, if you're here, I read your Comments of the Week to MrTea and he wondered if you could post photos of the molds, patterns or casts.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 13, 2025 07:07 PM (mZ/55)

114 107 And thanks so much for the Hobby Thread, TRex! I look forward to it every week.

Posted by: tankascribe at September 13, 2025 07:05 PM
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Thank you! Glad you could join "live" this week.

Posted by: TRex - painting by numbers at September 13, 2025 07:07 PM (PDUpY)

115 When you come for a visit Ben Had I will take you to see the Wave statue. I'll also take you to what I think is JTB's old neighborhood which is right up the road.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 07:08 PM (viF8m)

116 Then I found out one of the parking brake cables was not releasing and I felt a lot better.

Posted by: fd
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The smoke curling out should be a hint.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 07:08 PM (XeU6L)

117 113 Reforger, if you're here, I read your Comments of the Week to MrTea and he wondered if you could post photos of the molds, patterns or casts.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 13, 2025 07:07 PM
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Or send to me and I'll post in the content.

Posted by: TRex - bronze age dino at September 13, 2025 07:09 PM (PDUpY)

118 We have a few maniacs here in Alaska who surf the tidal bore in Cook Inlet.

You don't even want to think about how cold that water is, even in July and August.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maJjVwX-OiM

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 13, 2025 07:09 PM (qpyNK)

119 JackStraw, I so look forward to that day.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 07:10 PM (mFSH6)

120 Just today at the rallycross I was thinking "Why is this car not faster? It should be faster. Am I losing my edge? Am I getting too old for this?"

Posted by: fd

To go faster on motorcycles the recommendation is to loos weight. Just saying...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2025 07:11 PM (TnWYh)

121 When Mike Hammer mentioned 'no battery required' in comment 111, it made me think. (Yes it did. Be very, very careful.) Does anyone consider prepping as a hobby, at least in part? So many aspects and levels of involvement.

Just a thought.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 07:12 PM (yTvNw)

122 120 To go faster on motorcycles the recommendation is to loos weight. Just saying...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2025 07:11 PM
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Add lightness.

Posted by: TRex - Colin Chapman says at September 13, 2025 07:12 PM (PDUpY)

123 I knew I was truly old when Field and Stream stopped issuing physical copies of their magazines and went digital. I ended my subscription.

Posted by: Archer at September 13, 2025 07:13 PM (IDphi)

124 Your physical abilities absolutely dictate some of your choices. I have very poor hand-eye coordination. Tennis? Golf? Volley ball? Ha ha. My two lifelong sports were skiing and swimming.

Posted by: Wenda at September 13, 2025 07:13 PM (dqnNP)

125 In the painting up top, Under the Wave off Kanagawa, also known as The Great Wave, I've glanced at that on various websites before, but today is the first time I noticed there was a boat in the waves in the foreground.

In retrospect, it's not that hard to miss but my eyes always skipped over it. And are those net floats at the back of the boat? Hopefully not depth charges!

And where are the fishermen? Did they fall overboard in the wave? Did the boats come lose from the dock and are now out to sea unmanned? So many questions!

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 13, 2025 07:14 PM (144I4)

126 Portugal has monster waves!!! Like 60 ft waves! And people surf them!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2025 07:14 PM (TnWYh)

127 Pack your flip flops, we are also going to Block Island.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 07:14 PM (viF8m)

128 I walked into a Walgreen yesterday, the LabCorp thing was in the back, by the pharmacy.

I noticed that the magazine section was completely empty.

Hmm

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2025 07:15 PM (ZmEVT)

129 Waves.

Amplitude and lamda.
It's maths.
REEEEE!!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2025 07:15 PM (2WIwB)

130 South Africa has great waves too. And sharks.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2025 07:16 PM (ZmEVT)

131 I've glanced at that on various websites before, but today is the first time I noticed there was a boat in the waves in the foreground.
Read up on why the Japanese revere that wave. It wiped out a Korean invasion fleet, represented by the boat I believe.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2025 07:16 PM (TnWYh)

132 "the only thing that would slow you down is 200 lbs weight strapped to you.
Posted by: Ben Had"

I fear I am slowing down. I suppose it is inevitable. I can see #2 son surpassing me some time in the not too distant future.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2025 07:17 PM (vFG9F)

133 Gotta start supper. Thanks to TRex and everybody for another fun thread.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 07:18 PM (yTvNw)

134 Time to say thank you and good night before the next act takes the Ace of Spades stage. As always, thanks for being here and talking hobbying. The theme is only a starting point and I love people pitching in their unique interests. Thanks again to polynikes for the painting.

See y'all in Club ONT later tonight!

Posted by: TRex - waving politely at September 13, 2025 07:19 PM (PDUpY)

135 Putting on the last touches of the "Big Ten Inch" scope today and hopefully finish up the site prep tomorrow.

I will be setting it my my backyard under really crappy skies for astrophotography but with the filters I intend to use will cut out the light pollution.

We've been under a crap low pressure system here in FL or almost a week now and it will hopefully push on out to the northeast finally.

I'll be doing a polar alignment with one of the fancy new gadgets that hooks into a laptop and my mount that allows me to get a true north and polar elevation based on the position of Polaris and a couple other nearby stars using a thing called "plate solving".

With luck I might get a run of images.

I think I'm going to start out with the Andromeda galaxy.

Posted by: pawn at September 13, 2025 07:20 PM (PmITa)

136 Surfing Australia.
Sharks to push you inshore.
Salt water crocs to push you into the water.
And let's not talk about the deadly sneks and spidas.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2025 07:20 PM (2WIwB)

137 TRex, thank you and see you both soon.

TXMOME X is just over a month away

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 07:21 PM (mFSH6)

138 "To go faster on motorcycles the recommendation is to loos weight. Just saying...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron "

I've been think about taking a 12-18" section out of the car to shorten the wheelbase and lighten it. Turn the 4 door into a coupe.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2025 07:21 PM (vFG9F)

139 >>South Africa has great waves too. And sharks.

Sharkiest place I've ever been. I stayed at a lovely little guest house south of Durban that was on a bluff overlooking the ocean. Great view of the waves. And the sharks. You could literally see fins in the surf.

You've gotta really love surfing to surf in South Africa.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 07:21 PM (viF8m)

140 You don't even want to think about how cold that water is, even in July and August.

Swimmer's Ear WHAT?!
Even a wet suit won't protect against that...

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 07:22 PM (gKWVE)

141
To go faster on motorcycles the recommendation is to loos weight. Just saying...

Posted by: AZ deplorable
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When racing F3, I went to great lengths to do just that. I was cross-drilling washers (where safe) just for the few extra grams of saved weight. The ultimate case was fabricating an aluminum clutch cable jam nut (also cross-drilled).

The theory was that all other things being equal, I would have a slight edge. After making the jam nut, I decided that I might gain a greater advantage just by spitting before I rolled up to the starting grid.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 07:23 PM (XeU6L)

142 Posted by: Orson at September 13, 2025 05:58 PM (dIske)

I have a Fort Wayne Indiana special edition newspaper dated November 10, 1918. Giant headline reads ... AUTOCRACY FALLS and underneath in slightly smaller font is... GERMAN THRONE CRUMBLES HOHENZOLLERNS MUST GET OUT! The people will rule in a new Republic.

I found the paper under the linoleum in my old farmhouse. It's been in a gram since then.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 13, 2025 07:23 PM (2J/Lj)

143 130 South Africa has great waves too. And sharks.
Posted by: no one of any consequence

It's not so bad as long as you know where to go and when, and you keep your eyes open and have good security

Posted by: gKWVE on metaphor alert at September 13, 2025 07:24 PM (gKWVE)

144 and some cars on the Autobahn were going 3 times that speed.
Posted by: Orson

And it was glorious!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2025 07:25 PM (TnWYh)

145 Oh, and for all of you who think this topic doesn't pertain to you...we are all surfers here.

We surf the web!

*groan*

Thank you thank you, good night.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 13, 2025 07:25 PM (144I4)

146 141 When racing F3, I...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 07:23 PM
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Say more words.

Posted by: TRex - racing in F3? at September 13, 2025 07:25 PM (PDUpY)

147 "The ultimate case was fabricating an aluminum clutch cable jam nut (also cross-drilled)."

How many beers would you have had to give up to get the same weight saving?

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2025 07:25 PM (vFG9F)

148 Wife to this day, and day it happened says a shark was swimming around once when I was out body surfing.
It would have been during days and theory is sharks don't attack during day.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 07:26 PM (+qU29)

149 haffhowershower, well done!!!

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 07:26 PM (mFSH6)

150 I think I'm going to start out with the Andromeda galaxy.
Posted by: pawn

Without your scope tonight after sunset... Meteor shower viewing!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2025 07:27 PM (TnWYh)

151 I thought only boomers surf the web.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2025 07:27 PM (vFG9F)

152 >>It would have been during days and theory is sharks don't attack during day.

Probably not a theory you should rely on.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 07:27 PM (viF8m)

153 Thank you Trex!!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2025 07:28 PM (TnWYh)

154 I really dig the Sunset Surfer painting. Nice work, polynikes.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 13, 2025 07:28 PM (mH6SG)

155 "Probably not a theory you should rely on.
Posted by: JackStraw "

I'm no expert but it seems dubious.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2025 07:28 PM (vFG9F)

156 49 43 Almost everyone of the antique stores have a section that includes old news papers. If you know your history and remember dates, you can find some pretty remarkable things.

Posted by: Orson

My late mother had a stack of old magazines with 'notable' events. Several on the death of Elvis. Princess Di. Several other things that were interesting but I forget.

During my family turmoil, I gave them to my friends across the street hoping they coukd sell them on eBay and make some cash.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 13, 2025 07:30 PM (jvJvP)

157
How many beers would you have had to give up to get the same weight saving?

Posted by: fd
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I had a rowing machine with an electronic load and read-out which reported calories input. Many, many times while panting and heaving, I watched the dismally slow rate at which those were expended, converted to beer calories.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 07:31 PM (XeU6L)

158 113 Reforger, if you're here, I read your Comments of the Week to MrTea and he wondered if you could post photos of the molds, patterns or casts.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 13, 2025 07:07 PM (mZ/55)

Let me see what I can do.

Posted by: Reforger at September 13, 2025 07:32 PM (SPOEc)

159 *waves to Ben Had*

Hello!!! T-30 Countdown is getting close!

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 13, 2025 07:32 PM (144I4)

160 154 Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 13, 2025 07:28 PM
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Sir Deal!

Posted by: TRex - BFD in the house! at September 13, 2025 07:33 PM (PDUpY)

161 haffhowershower, can't wait to see you.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 07:34 PM (mFSH6)

162 movie nood!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2025 07:34 PM (TnWYh)

163 >>I'm no expert but it seems dubious.

Not an expert either but I've been around a lot of sharks.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 07:34 PM (viF8m)

164 Sir Deal!

*fist bump*

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 13, 2025 07:35 PM (mH6SG)

165 I have a Fort Wayne Indiana special edition newspaper ...
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Second mention of Ft. Wayne this week, and my second recollection of WOWO.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 07:36 PM (XeU6L)

166 Or send to me and I'll post in the content.
Posted by: TRex - bronze age dino at September 13, 2025 07:09 PM (PDUpY)

One sent. Let me know if it worked. I'll send the rest.

Posted by: Reforger at September 13, 2025 07:48 PM (SPOEc)

167 Late, but hopefully not banning late. TRC-448 is still on the bench. Power cord finally came in today, but I haven't had a chance to attach it yet. Hopefully this will work. If you never hear about it again, it probably caught fire.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 13, 2025 08:30 PM (lUFok)

168 Well, no interest in the Movie Thread, so I will hang out here until ONT-time.

Hobby related: I have been working on one of my hobby cars, the 1963 Avanti. Finished the rear end swap, and took it for a 4-mile spin on the local gravel road. No worrisome noises. Will get it out on the pavement tomorrow.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 09:30 PM (rnEDf)

169 "Even if you're not wise in the ways of the surfboard, the best places to surf are often in beautiful locations. This thread can be about surfing, the art of the wave, and the travels to enjoy memorable parts of the world."
Posted by: TRex - keep trying at September 13, 2025 05:34 PM (PDUpY)

True, dat. First time I went to Nicaragua, we drove down to Playa Gigantes on the Pacific coast, and stayed in the surf hotel. Hotel was run by some ex-pat Americans, and was basically "youth hostel". Lots of fun. I never tried surfing, but we hired a boat and went fishing. Beautiful place.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 09:33 PM (rnEDf)

170 polynikes, beautiful painting
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 13, 2025 05:42 PM (dE3DB)

It certainly is!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 09:35 PM (rnEDf)

171 Maybe kind of an odd one, but one thing I find enjoyable is following a couple of professional pilots who post some aviation related YOUTUBE videos.

Search on the term in quotes to find the relevant channels:
"Mentour Pilot" likes to break down commercial aviation mishaps (mishap meaning sometimes nothing would seem wrong from a passenger perspective). When he is dealing with an accident that caused loss of life, he treats the subject with the gravity and respect it deserves.

"74gear" is a pilot who has an entertaining dry wit and posts every other week where he breaks down some event recorded via Air Traffic Control radio traffic monitoring.

Both have undergone some evolutions in their coverage over the years, but these are SFW professional discussions of a topic that you might find interesting, is easily accesible and educational, and is about an industry that most of us have engaged with from time to time.

Posted by: ghbucky at September 13, 2025 09:46 PM (/xDbx)

172 Well, time for me to wash some dishes, and get dinner under construction.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 09:49 PM (B4SRX)

173 Lifetime surfer from SoCal, dad taught all 5 siblings how to bodysurf by the time we were 7-8 y.o.
I’ve lived and surfed in Hawaii but am now back on the west coast. I love the water, have surfed 27 of the last 30 days, have a sailboat, too. Being in or on the water makes me feel closer to the Creator.

Posted by: Westside Dano at September 14, 2025 01:20 AM (J/v2z)

174 Wow. Nice painting!

Posted by: DavidD at September 14, 2025 07:31 AM (MSTeU)

Ace of Spades Pet Thread, September 13

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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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Courtesy TRex, who could have used this content in an ONT:

A TED Talk: What happens when your dog uses the internet?

Should your dog be able to make more choices concerning his or her social life?

Would you like your dog to be able to call you while you are out shopping or at work?

Related:

How scientists are building an 'animal internet' with phones for dogs and touchscreens for parrots

New experiments suggest technology could allow pets and zoo animals to choose their own social interactions and even make friends worldwide.
Researchers at Glasgow University are experimenting with digital tools to help animals communicate more directly with both humans and other species. From video calls for dogs to interactive touchscreens for parrots, the work is laying the foundations of what scientists describe as an "animal internet." The project goes beyond enrichment activities, aiming to give animals more autonomy in shaping their own environment, the Financial Times reported.

The Financial Times piece includes details from studies on dog and parrot internet arrangements. Some studies were conducted here in the USA.

Would you like to communicate with an animal via internet?

The dear, Dog and the Parrot are Friends pic.twitter.com/FUGdu8Bfx5
— aww (@omgaww) April 23, 2023

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Mandi Clark:

This incredible shot was captured by Shasta Schlitt (Everything Back Yard Chicken). Her rooster, Jay, jumped in to defend one of his hens from a hawk. The hawk didn�t survive the encounter, but Jay�though left with a few puncture wounds�pulled through and is doing well. What a brave protector!

Life can be rough for some of our pets.

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Meet The PetMorons

We are waiting for PetMoron news. It seems that most of them are photo-shy this week, or perhaps they are occupied on the internet.

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PetMoron Adjacent Animals
Encountered by Members of The Horde

Thanks again, KT, here are some more turtles. I meant to send this in last week but time escaped. These are fairly recent from earlier in July. Whenever you see them in the water, and they know you can't easily get to them, they will still keep a baleful eye on you while you're there--as you can see from the one on the thin branch. It's hard to see on the other one, as his head is positioned oddly (it's lower left in the picture), but I believe he's doing the same.
Thanks for the weekend threads!
BeckoningChasm, East Tennessee

They are fun!

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&&&

From jsg:

This is Charlie. Charlie hangs out on the back garage light at least 3-4 times a week.
We like Charlie. He's very low maintenance.

Charlie is great!

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Thank you for sharing your pet 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 6

I closed the comments on this post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 03:37 PM

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1 Arf!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 13, 2025 03:41 PM (oJpPh)

2 Was getting worried
Happy Caturday everyone

I miss my cats

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 03:43 PM (+qU29)

3 Meow...

Posted by: Puddleglum, drive by meow at September 13, 2025 03:45 PM (sAmhv)

4 I couldn't get Charlie to load on the computer for a while. "Animal Internet". Heh.

Posted by: KT at September 13, 2025 03:46 PM (7vIsy)

5 Animals are delicious.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2025 03:46 PM (Z5vAv)

6 doggerel /dô′gər-əl, dŏg′ər-/
noun
Crudely or irregularly fashioned verse, often of a humorous or burlesque nature. A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry. A doggerel poem or verse.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 13, 2025 03:47 PM (oJpPh)

7 Charlie knows the best spot for juicy bugs.

Posted by: fd at September 13, 2025 03:48 PM (vFG9F)

8 "From video calls for dogs to interactive touchscreens for parrots, the work is laying the foundations of what scientists describe as an "animal internet."

What could go wrong?

Posted by: Penguin Facts at September 13, 2025 03:48 PM (vFG9F)

9 Hey guys,

New update { #331 ) to our cat blog

https://tinyurl.com/4k65zjkx

Posted by: Joyenz at September 13, 2025 03:53 PM (2F0/Y)

10 Charlie looks like he is trying to wake up and having a hard time doing it.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 03:53 PM (yTvNw)

11 That photo of rooster vs hawk is amazing

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 13, 2025 03:57 PM (6U1c2)

12 How are you and your sister doing, Joyenz? Still in my prayers.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 13, 2025 03:57 PM (mZ/55)

13 I posted this in ONT the other night and a few of you have seen it. Figured I would post it in the pet thread. We had a groundhog visit last week.

https://youtube.com/shorts/hyVB4LgSFsM

Posted by: Joyenz at September 13, 2025 04:00 PM (2F0/Y)

14 How scientists are building an 'animal internet' with phones for dogs and touchscreens for parrots
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THIS is NOT a good idea. Dogs already have a problem crossing the street without being distracted. And parrots will fly right into a mirror even though there is "another parrot" flying directly at them coming from the opposite direction. And, that's when they are perfectly attentive.

Posted by: Orson at September 13, 2025 04:00 PM (dIske)

15 Greetings one and all. It's a peaceful day here at the house. Our two guest dogs are napping and patiently waiting for dinner. I believe my dogs are hovering near the kitchen because they heard my wife break out the chopping block.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 13, 2025 04:02 PM (7xrfc)

16 Snowflake, who was an outdoor cat, is back outside and sleeping at her home at my friends' place. She hangs around here a lot and still lets me pick her up and hug and kiss her.

And when I go outside with the dog Ralphy, age 14, Snowflake comes running over to be pet. And she still rubs up against Ralphy. Adorably.

I brought over the cat tree, scratching posts and all the toys to my friends house. The house is so much cleaner. And the house is less chaotic with no middle of the night wake up calls.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 13, 2025 04:02 PM (jvJvP)

17 How are you and your sister doing, Joyenz? Still in my prayers.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 13, 2025 03:57 PM (mZ/55)

We are surviving. Thank you so much for the card. Have been wanting to send a Thank You card back, but finances have been tight.

Posted by: Joyenz at September 13, 2025 04:02 PM (2F0/Y)

18 There's a pond we drive by quite often, there are always branches in the water by the shore. You can tell spring is approaching when you see turtles, which we haven't seen for months, crowding on the branches trying to soak up sunlight and warmth. They are so crowded we've seen a few bumped into the water. Mild amusement for the end of winter.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 04:04 PM (yTvNw)

19 Thought Dr Irene pepperberg determined Alex the Grey parrot could read a computer screen.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 13, 2025 04:04 PM (lFEu+)

20 For Christmas 2023 I did custom calendars featuring our cats and sent them out in lieu of Christmas cards. It was pretty expensive and time intensive so last year just did custom cards, which disappointed our friends and family so it looks like I'll be doing another calendar this year.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 13, 2025 04:06 PM (DxP/N)

21 Paisley seemed to be moving in for a welcome home kiss but she burped instead. Paisley!

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at September 13, 2025 04:07 PM (kTd/k)

22 I like Charlie and the turtles . Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 04:09 PM (lQ+/f)

23 Joyenz, BenHad has my email.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 13, 2025 04:09 PM (mZ/55)

24 Pet internet?

Great, cats will be watching cat porn, ordering hard drugs (catnip, silver vine) and some of that cat wine..

Posted by: Joyenz at September 13, 2025 04:10 PM (2F0/Y)

25 And the protective rooster, Jay, is not only brave but a handsome guy!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 04:11 PM (lQ+/f)

26 Not a great day at work, so yay!! Pet Thread.

Nice pet-related moment this week: our chiropractor is practicing out of his garage while working out new office arrangements. This gave us an opportunity to visit with his just-past-kittenhood ginger Maine Coon, a stately and handsome fellow; his elderly housemate half Chihuahua/half ?, very chill and pleasant, and the longhaired Chi puppy who is in continuous "Pet me! Love me! Pet me!" mode.

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at September 13, 2025 04:11 PM (R3yzU)

27 Ha ha, Northernlurker! Our dog, Luna, had a series of very helpful physical therapy sessions and she LOVED her therapist. Unfortunately, she would consistently show that love by burping in her therapist's face.

Treat it as a blessing--I guess.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at September 13, 2025 04:13 PM (FEVMW)

28 Thanks for the Pet Thread, KT.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 13, 2025 04:14 PM (hoCmQ)

29 Joyenz, BenHad has my email.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 13, 2025 04:09 PM (mZ/55)

My email is my name here, but lowercase j at charter dot net

(hope it was ok to post this)

Posted by: Joyenz at September 13, 2025 04:16 PM (2F0/Y)

30 I couldn't get Charlie to load on the computer for a while. "Animal Internet". Heh.
Posted by: KT at September 13, 2025 03:46 PM (7vIsy)

So the frog was being jumpy?

Thanks for a great, yet short pet thread.

Posted by: Joyenz at September 13, 2025 04:24 PM (2F0/Y)

31 Hard to type. Big black cat on lap. Send lawyers, guns, and money.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 04:28 PM (omVj0)

32 I have been meaning to send in photos of our two kitties -- have lots of photos to choose from. I am not techy, so MrTea has to do the sending.
Love the Horde Adjacent pets photos.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 13, 2025 04:29 PM (mZ/55)

33 Hard to type. Big black cat on lap. Send lawyers, guns, and money.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 04:28 PM (omVj0)

Haha!I have two cats on my lap. Good thing I use the on-screen keyboard.

Posted by: Joyenz at September 13, 2025 04:29 PM (2F0/Y)

34 Hey Wolfus, hoping you have a fun and successful (however you define success) trip to our fair state of IN.
I saw the post earlier about the pipe shop in Pierceton -- yes, a bit further north than you are going, this time. Not terribly far from us.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 13, 2025 04:31 PM (mZ/55)

35 We have turtles cross the road by the lake so I watch out for them. If there's a chance they could get hit, I push them along with the shilallegh. The last one though was not amused. He was fast and kept coming after me! I got him closer to the edge of the road and decided it was good enough.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 04:34 PM (kUxzU)

36 * Stirling has vaulted away to do Stirling things *

Afternoon, Pet Folken. Big black Stirling hasn't climbed onto my lap for a while, and I hated to disturb him. Good to see you all here, including Joyenz.

We have the occasional frog here in the DA Complex, mostly heard at night and not seen, and lots of garden lizards. (If one of them streaks into my place, the cats will make short work of him, so I try to shoo them away.) No turtles. Though we did have an invasion of -- what are those middle-sized white wading birds with the long, thin legs and long, thin, down-curving beaks? They would stalk around among the cars and across the postage-stamp lawns. No idea how they got here; there is no park with a lagoon close by.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 04:37 PM (omVj0)

37 I once stopped and carried a medium- sized snapper across the road so he wouldn't get run over. He did not seem to appreciate it. Thankfully it wasn't too far.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 13, 2025 04:38 PM (mZ/55)

38 I meant to write "Da Complex," not "the DA Complex" (which suggests that either district attorneys live here, or people who like double-action revolvers. On second thought, the latter is horrifyingly possible).

It took me a moment to get the Picard/Riker meme pun. For some reason I kept trying to puzzle out something involving the "void" part. Occasionally, as the turtle told the rabbit, I'm slow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 04:40 PM (omVj0)

39 We are in Florida now and our dogs made thw trip calm and collected. We had tried medication for the weimaraner and M&Ms would have been more effective. We tried some holistic chews with natural products and by golly, it worked. He was calm and didn't whine or try to pace around. We don't have to worry about the beagle because he just sleeps or looks out of the window. I hope this will make traveling more pleasant for him.

Posted by: Megthered at September 13, 2025 04:42 PM (kueL3)

40 Last week I picked up some new friends for my lonely bachelor turkey. They're not yet old enough to tell if they are toms or hens; trying to decide if I should send pics to the Pet Thread or the Food Thread.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2025 04:50 PM (ULPxl)

41 We tried some holistic chews with natural products and by golly, it worked. He was calm and didn't whine or try to pace around. We don't have to worry about the beagle because he just sleeps or looks out of the window. I hope this will make traveling more pleasant for him.
Posted by: Megthered at September 13, 2025

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I have some "calming" chew treats for the cats, mostly melatonin I think. I give them to Stirling when I know there will be disturbing noises outside -- he hates and fears fireworks and hides under the bed. Not sure if the chews do anything for him, though.

In contrast, little Dagny takes even the operation of the vacuum cleaner in her stride.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 04:55 PM (omVj0)

42 Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2025 04:50 PM

These are hard decisions.

Posted by: KT at September 13, 2025 04:57 PM (7vIsy)

43 There is a rabbit living in the yard, shame it runs away when it spots us. I have a live and let live policy so wouldn't hurt it.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 05:18 PM (+qU29)

44 These chews have hemp seed and hemp oil and chamomile, lemon balm and only 0.1 melatonin. We have given him 5 mg melatonin at July 4 fireworks but it didn't help at all. I don't know what hemp does to animals or people but it works on a hard headed weim.

Posted by: Megthered at September 13, 2025 05:18 PM (kueL3)

45 K. T., many thanks for the pet thread!
It is such a nice diversion. Is much appreciated.

Turtle and frog are fun, I enjoyed the deer, dog and parrot, as well.

Posted by: Appycay at September 13, 2025 05:20 PM (EdYR/)

46 Colostrum is used in many calming products. It's good stuff for them.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 05:31 PM (kUxzU)

47 HOBBY NOOD

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 05:31 PM (+qU29)

48 "Last week I picked up some new friends for my lonely bachelor turkey. They're not yet old enough to tell if they are toms or hens; trying to decide if I should send pics to the Pet Thread or the Food Thread.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket"

Lonesome Electric Turkey:

youtu.be/MmdnTSbRrHs

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at September 13, 2025 05:32 PM (vFG9F)

49 We are so close to restocking our cats. We lost the last pair a few years ago and have been waiting for the right time after the big move. They lived 14-15 years. Mokie and Piewacket.

I'm a dog person, never had much use for cats. But sorry Wolfpack, she turned me. She tried SO hard to do dog stuff to keep me happy - actually fetched a ball 6 times in a row, as if to say "see? I can do this I just think its silly, make up your mind". I dont know how I can ever be so lucky again, but I'm looking forward to having those soothing purr motors back in our lives. We certainly need it.

Posted by: Fenrisulven at September 13, 2025 05:51 PM (ciYHQ)

50 So Publius is charming a stray he's named Sammy. Sammy has decided that our place is an OK place to hang out sometimes. No further bites - we're more careful, and don't mistake his overtures as entirely safe yet. But he's definitely interested in going inside the house. No, too soon. But he's welcome to lounge on the patio furniture and shelter from rain if he so desires.

Purry gives him baleful looks, as Publius feeds him and pets Sammy. Della stares through the sliding glass door, lusting after the lavishly-filled cat bowl.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 13, 2025 06:00 PM (w6EFb)

Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Sept. 13

Hi KT,
Very nice landscaping at the NY Mets baseball academy/complex in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic. They really do very nice work and take pride in manicuring the facility.
Thanks again for all the posts you do!
-scampydog

Thanks, scampydog! You described that landscaping perfectly!

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

It's September, and here are some scenes from a farmer's market in Ogden, Utah, where an enthusiast has been encouraging people to grow fruit trees, including under winter protection. What looks good to you?

Have you ever sold produce at a farmers market?

Architecture and Landscaping

Keep up on the latest trends:

Ah, Nature

Related plants from New York State, Sarah Hinkling:

Red Clover:

Water Mint:

Feature Flower

KUDZU

They are not all bad.
- fd

Yes, THAT kudzu. The one that swallows stationary school buses.

Kudzu is edible and is used medicinally, but may not be as useful for alcohol misuse as sometimes hoped. It has some drug interactions and side effects.

Gardens of The Horde

Actually, this is from a cousin. This geranium was about to be discarded after a funeral, but she heard it calling, "you can save me" as she held it over the trash can. Looks pretty good now.

What's going on in your garden? Harvesting anything? Saving anything?

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

If you would like to send photos, stories, links, etc. for the Saturday Gardening Thread, the address is:

ktinthegarden at g mail dot com

Remember to include the nic or name by which you wish to be known at AoSHQ, or let us know if you want to remain a lurker.

Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, Sept. 6

Any thoughts or questions?

I closed the comments on this post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 01:22 PM

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1 Nooded. Hey, KT.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 13, 2025 01:29 PM (hoCmQ)

2 Never sold produce at a farmer's market. I shop at two in my area (one on Saturday, one on Wednesday). I, have, however taken a couple bushels of wonderful Beefsteak tomatoes to a local favorite Tavern/restaurant of mine that I frequent at least once a week and donated them. It was much appreciated.

On a separate note, in my region, I'm amazed how late things are coming in this year. We had a very cold spring, and a mild summer. As a result, the field corn (and sweet corn for that matter) is late. Field corn is usually fully developed by now and they just have to wait on the stalks to brown and dry. This year, the tassels aren't even fully out yet. But, man, they look super hardy this year.

Posted by: Orson at September 13, 2025 01:31 PM (dIske)

3 Good afternoon Greenthumbs
Just picked a large ripe but slightly flawed Anaheim pepper, maybe use it for tacos.
Still getting cucumbers growing out of my ears, if slowing down finally

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 01:34 PM (+qU29)

4 Still getting cucumbers growing out of my ears, if slowing down finally
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 01:34 PM (+qU29)

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PICKLES!!!!!

Posted by: Orson at September 13, 2025 01:38 PM (dIske)

5 The HGTV thing isn't much of an exaggeration. While stuck in a waiting room some years ago I saw a few minutes of this show. The wife resold things on eBay. Husband was a part-time freelance writer or something. Their budget was like 7 or 8 hundred thousand dollars. What the actual fuck?

Posted by: No really, what the actual fuck? at September 13, 2025 01:40 PM (TbWk/)

6 I have several statues in my yard. My late mother liked them. I took pictures to send in one day.

Now that the house is finally mine, I did buy 2 concrete monkey statues on 2 pedestals. I'm bringing one into the house.

I'm on a corner lot. The plan is for the other monkey, black eating a yellow banana, to be placed by the corner where we have several small bushes and a huge rock. I think it'll look great there and make people smile. Little kids will love it.

The plan is to have my friend cement in the 80 pound pedestal and glue the 175 monkey to the base.

I'm a little worried about vandalism but we're in a quiet neighbourhood in a very small farming community. Older community. Alcohol places close early. And I can put a camera on him. That's the plan.

We have a dog on the porch and one Halloween a girl told me she'd come up after school and give him a hug. Monkey could go on the porch. But he'd look very cool on the corner by the rock and bushes.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 13, 2025 01:41 PM (jvJvP)

7 Like Skip, our cukes won't quit. Vines look bedraggled- like they wouldn't even support life, and yet we'll get 6 to 8 cukes every other day. Gonna plant half next year. Getting tired of begging people to take them.
Tomatoes are still going. Peppers are doing great.
2 paprikas, poblanos, green chili, jalapenos, and a "lunch box" pepper. We can't seem to grow sweet red peppers... go figger.
Watered the garden last Sunday, and then we spent most the week at hospital. Zukes became weaponry.

Posted by: MkY at September 13, 2025 01:43 PM (cPGH3)

8 Thought I would give a bit of a review on figs. I have two Fignomenal plants (these are designed to grow in pots). One bought last year and one this year. I also have a Chicago Hardy, bought last year and planted in a pot. All three look good and the grasshoppers don't touch them. I saw a video from someone that grows figs in pots. He prefers to grow standard varieties as he says they are more vigorous. The two plants from last year are about the same size. Will be interesting to see if I can get them through the winter. I am really happy with them and might even buy another fig next year.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 01:43 PM (kUxzU)

9 I love Farmers' Markets and shopped the one in my old hometown at least once a week. I bought tomatoes from sisters who started selling them when they were about 10 years old for spending money and to save for college. Their mom was rightfully proud of them. When I moved, I think they were in high school. All grown, graduated and with families of their own, no doubt, and probably still gardening.

Posted by: huerfano at September 13, 2025 01:44 PM (98kQX)

10 5 The HGTV thing isn't much of an exaggeration. While stuck in a waiting room some years ago I saw a few minutes of this show. The wife resold things on eBay. Husband was a part-time freelance writer or something. Their budget was like 7 or 8 hundred thousand dollars. What the actual fuck?
Posted by: No really, what the actual fuck? at September 13, 2025 01:40 PM (TbWk/)

Yeah, my wife liked these shows. I would offer color commentary. They reminded me of the ling defunct website Stuff White People Like.

Shepherd runs a daycare for orphaned wombats and Harmony is fundraiser for start-ups focusing on vaginal rejuvenation and chakra realignment. Their all-in budget is 6.2 million.

It drove me batty.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 01:48 PM (2wadn)

11 As for garden stuff, it suffered from me dealing with health issues. A transplanted tomato finally took off and I might get a tomato or two if the weather holds. I got a summer squash plant from the store, supposed to be a crookneck. It has produced but they are the weirdest squash I've seen. The filet beans did poorly. The other beans have grown wel but no beans. Most of what I have are berry bushes, which look good and asparagus. If I can put together my cold frame, I should be in better shape for next year.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 01:48 PM (kUxzU)

12 It is the end of the gravenstein apple season, and we are in the middle of my plum tree dropping fruit. So far I have canned 17 pints of plums, and I have dried about 3 gallon jugs full of dried prunes. I still have gobs of fruit on that tree.
After lots of research I think it is a Peshore yellow egg, and I suggest everyone have one.

My tomato trellises are not doing well, and after trying to get them to work for me for 5 years I am going back to cages. A lot of people think trellises are the best, and I congratulate them on their success.
I have made a fair amount of tomatoes, canned, cooked down for sauce, and as tradition dictates, when we got that downpour, I picked all the ones that split and froze them.

so far I have made plum cobbler, plum tarts, plum pie, and this morning I made plum tartlets.
Tarts are plums arranged in one or two layers on a puff pastry crust, dabbed with butter, and covered with plum jam for baking. The recipe calls for topping it with crushed almonds or other fruits, but I consider that to be gilding the lily

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2025 01:48 PM (rbvCR)

13 so far I have made plum cobbler, plum tarts, plum pie, and this morning I made plum tartlets.

Man, that sounds good.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 01:50 PM (2wadn)

14 Yeah, my wife liked these shows. I would offer color commentary. They reminded me of the ling defunct website Stuff White People Like.

Shepherd runs a daycare for orphaned wombats and Harmony is fundraiser for start-ups focusing on vaginal rejuvenation and chakra realignment. Their all-in budget is 6.2 million.

It drove me batty.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 01:48 PM (2wadn)

LOL. Yeah there's that for sure, but my question was always WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY GETTING MONEY FROM ??!! Based on the stated occupations of a bunch of these people, they were lucky if they were clearing $40-45k a year. How the fuck do you qualify for a $600,000 house on that? Trust fund kids? Rich uncle just passed away?

Posted by: No connection to reality at September 13, 2025 01:52 PM (TbWk/)

15 Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 01:43 PM

Thanks for the fig review! Breeders may be paying attention.

Posted by: KT at September 13, 2025 01:53 PM (7vIsy)

16 WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY GETTING MONEY FROM ??!!

Yeah, I always wondered this too. Generational/inherited wealth? I would like to have their budgets.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 01:56 PM (2wadn)

17 I planted a couple of Ghost Pepper seedlings in May. It took 4 months, but the pepper pods are finally ripening. And boy, are they hot, lol!

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at September 13, 2025 01:59 PM (ILRiY)

18 The old timer we knew had one Damson plum and a couple of bigger yellow plums with a red blush. Those were really tasty eating.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 02:01 PM (kUxzU)

19 Topping with other nuts I meant.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2025 02:02 PM (rbvCR)

20 The HGTV gag puts me in mind of a certain type of story that used to appear in Forbes magazine all the time, a sort of faux rags-to-riches theme. The story would center on somebody with an interesting idea who made it a success. I'd start reading, and get interested in how the person got the project off the ground, and, inevitably, the author dropped this little nugget into the storyline: "And so Susie Glotz borrowed $2 million from friends and relatives..."

Posted by: Paco at September 13, 2025 02:03 PM (mADJX)

21 >>> 5 The HGTV thing isn't much of an exaggeration. While stuck in a waiting room some years ago I saw a few minutes of this show. The wife resold things on eBay. Husband was a part-time freelance writer or something. Their budget was like 7 or 8 hundred thousand dollars. What the actual fuck?
Posted by: No really, what the actual fuck? at September 13, 2025 01:40 PM (TbWk/)

I will be very amused if this is yet another thing mysteriously no longer able to run after DOGE stomped USAID and such.

Posted by: Helena Handbakset at September 13, 2025 02:13 PM (ULPxl)

22 20 The HGTV gag puts me in mind of a certain type of story that used to appear in Forbes magazine all the time, a sort of faux rags-to-riches theme. The story would center on somebody with an interesting idea who made it a success. I'd start reading, and get interested in how the person got the project off the ground, and, inevitably, the author dropped this little nugget into the storyline: "And so Susie Glotz borrowed $2 million from friends and relatives..."
Posted by: Paco at September 13, 2025 02:03 PM (mADJX)
Snort.

Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2025 02:14 PM (gotIn)

23 inevitably, the author dropped this little nugget into the storyline: "And so Susie Glotz borrowed $2 million from friends and relatives..."
Posted by: Paco at September 13, 2025 02:03 PM (mADJX)

Raw capitalism!

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at September 13, 2025 02:17 PM (FMtrg)

24 Hey, is this the thread I'm supposed to post when we do our fall decor? Because we're doing that today.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 13, 2025 02:18 PM (DIweC)

25 >>> "And so Susie Glotz borrowed $2 million from friends and relatives..."
Posted by: Paco at September 13, 2025 02:03 PM (mADJX)
Snort.
Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2025 02:14 PM (gotIn)

I woulda needed 4 million friends and relatives.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 13, 2025 02:18 PM (3uBP9)

26 Hey, is this the thread I'm supposed to post when we do our fall decor? Because we're doing that today.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
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tinyurl.com/2hvcxev8+

Posted by: Obligatory at September 13, 2025 02:23 PM (rdVOm)

27 Susie Glotz

No glot clum fliday

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 13, 2025 02:24 PM (uDtSY)

28 Beautiful produce!

This year was just crazy bad for produce. Early heat followed by a blistering dry July. Almost everything quit, except the okra. Then a ton of rain in August.

Some years are like that. I was able to can 7 quarts of Contender beans, and we got some peas and squash, nothing impressive. Our big achievement was peaches. Canned a bunch of those, and made jam with a low sugar recipe that's out of this world!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 13, 2025 02:25 PM (w6EFb)

29 I would take pictures of the figs, but one is in a pot with raspberries and a lilac. The other two are in a pot together. I'm waiting for cooler weather to do some transplanting.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 02:27 PM (kUxzU)

30 I've traded gardening and fruit trees for a, might as well be, pet deer. Almost as good as a goat. Fires chased them into the valley a few years ago and they never left. There was a herd of about 60 or so at one point.
Last week she was feeding on pears dropped on the ground from my tree. She finishes the ones on the ground and grabs the tree and shakes it. Several fall. She looks at the haul and walks off. I think she's ripening them.
There isn't much left anywhere that a deer can reach. My roses are stripped. All trees leafless up to about 6'. I've mostly given up trying to grow anything.
It's a good thing she looks yummy. Might need that protein someday.

Posted by: Reforger at September 13, 2025 02:27 PM (SPOEc)

31 LOL. Yeah there's that for sure, but my question was always WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY GETTING MONEY FROM ??!! Based on the stated occupations of a bunch of these people, they were lucky if they were clearing $40-45k a year. How the fuck do you qualify for a $600,000 house on that? Trust fund kids? Rich uncle just passed away?
Posted by: No connection to reality at September 13, 2025 01:52 PM (TbWk/)

USAID?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 02:30 PM (ZE4/d)

32 I see leaf collecting isn't far in the future ,even if it's near 80 degrees now

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 02:30 PM (+qU29)

33 I would take pictures of the figs

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I misread this as " I would take pictures of the .... [very similar word]."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 13, 2025 02:30 PM (DIweC)

34 My God, how I hate HGTV.

You would think there would be a limit on how many shows you could centre around unlikeable couples doing exactly the same things to overpriced shacks.

Posted by: stv at September 13, 2025 02:31 PM (XMeSM)

35 Hey, is this the thread I'm supposed to post when we do our fall decor? Because we're doing that today.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

tinyurl.com/2hvcxev8+

Posted by: Obligatory at September 13, 2025 02:23 PM (rdVOm)

Don't forget the fucking loofahs. Hanging like elephant dicks all over the place.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 13, 2025 02:32 PM (w6EFb)

36 I've really got to capture a good photo of the impatiens that just took over the entire northern border of the porch, cascading onto the concrete in riotous abundance. It was an unexpected gift.

Looks like we've got a good crop of lemon grass. They were planted in 15 gal tree pots left over from buying those crapemyrtles, and we watered them generously throughout the summer.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 13, 2025 02:35 PM (w6EFb)

37 Del Boca Vista > Boca Chica

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 13, 2025 02:35 PM (LjSYW)

38 You would think there would be a limit on how many shows you could centre around unlikeable couples doing exactly the same things to overpriced shacks.
Posted by: stv at September 13, 2025 02:31 PM (XMeSM)

Tim Dillon claimed once that the real-life conversation for a speculative home buyer in those areas and price range was, "Colonel, so glad you could meet here today, how was your flight in from the Hague? I am correctly hearing that the ICC has withdrawn the charges, then?"

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2025 02:37 PM (rbvCR)

39 Anyone happen to know if tcn in Alaska's first prize carrots (congrats to her) are pickles or lacto-fermented? I love carrots in any way and would like to have some, pickled or fermented, I made.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 02:37 PM (yTvNw)

40 My God, how I hate HGTV.

When my wife and I were selling our last home, we had a buyer that obviously binge watched HGTV and thought he could get us to go lower than we wanted. He tried saying "Well, there are other townhomes in the area that are cheaper."

My response: "Our home is newer, it's an end unit and there are woods in the back instead of other houses."

We ended up selling to a different family and got higher than our asking price.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 13, 2025 02:37 PM (7xrfc)

41 I think this falls under gardening.

My wife has a section of her garden dedicated to attracting caterpillars. We had a horde of them descend on it with many crunchings and munchings. She took two and put them in a jar on 8/29. One of them hatched yesterday and the other one hatched today. They are flying freely now.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 13, 2025 02:41 PM (7xrfc)

42 Don't forget the fucking loofahs.

Grabbed a loofah at the corner store and told the guy "this bread is stale".

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 13, 2025 02:43 PM (8qH0t)

43 Shepherd runs a daycare for orphaned wombats and Harmony is fundraiser for start-ups focusing on vaginal rejuvenation and chakra realignment. Their all-in budget is 6.2 million.

It drove me batty.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 01:48 PM (2wadn)

You know it's coming: "Skyler is a brave and courageous transwoman, and her husband, Tyler (who is currently unjustly incarcerated) is a freelance assassin."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 02:44 PM (UqdkK)

44 They are flying freely now.

Need a tiny shotgun.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 13, 2025 02:45 PM (8qH0t)

45 >>Need a tiny shotgun.
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Bug-A-Salt!

Posted by: Obligatory at September 13, 2025 02:47 PM (rdVOm)

46 When HGTV began in the 90s they had shows that actually involved home and gardens. (GASP!) Simple, practical home repairs, all levels of gardening, and even a show about backyard bird watching. It was pleasant and informative. Then it morphed into this 'lifestyles of those who want to seem rich' crap that has nothing to do reality. All pretention, no substance.

One of the many, many reasons I didn't regret cutting cable.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 02:47 PM (yTvNw)

47 I love to watch YouTube clips of Ben and Erin Napier on HGTV Hometown. They recently renovated a cute house for a very nice little old lady all in for $85K (or was it $65K?). And they are very sweet and gracious people. Ben is a PK, so I relate to that.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at September 13, 2025 02:48 PM (FMtrg)

48 Every time the grass is mowed, taking out the clover, I see honey bees flitting around like they are searching for the little flowers. I get the impression they aren't pleased.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 02:51 PM (yTvNw)

49 >>> 48 Every time the grass is mowed, taking out the clover, I see honey bees flitting around like they are searching for the little flowers. I get the impression they aren't pleased.
Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 02:51 PM (yTvNw)

This means you need more flowers around the house.

Posted by: Helena Handbakset at September 13, 2025 02:53 PM (ULPxl)

50 Yep, $85K for Miss Pearl. Great antidote for those other HGTV shows:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?
v=Iz_tWrIz24k&pp=ygUZSGd0diBob21lIHRvd24gb
WlzcyBwZWFybA%3D%3D

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at September 13, 2025 02:54 PM (FMtrg)

51 Puttering, dividing recycling metals in the back yard, really need to take a Saturday and get rid of a few things

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 02:57 PM (+qU29)

52 Very nice landscaping at the NY Mets baseball academy/complex in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic. They really do very nice work and take pride in manicuring the facility.

Think of how amazing the US could look if we imported a few million of them!!!

Posted by: The Bulwark at September 13, 2025 02:58 PM (JCZqz)

53 We went from 'kill the Boer' to 'kill the right wing influencer' pretty damned fast.

Posted by: torabora at September 13, 2025 02:59 PM (+LXmR)

54 Ben is a PK

Placekicker?

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 13, 2025 03:00 PM (hoCmQ)

55 No glot clum fliday
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 13, 2025 02:24 PM (uDtSY)

Are you threatening me?

Posted by: Cornholio at September 13, 2025 03:00 PM (2wadn)

56 >>> 53 We went from 'kill the Boer' to 'kill the right wing influencer' pretty damned fast.
Posted by: torabora at September 13, 2025 02:59 PM (+LXmR)

Cultural phrases! Cultural phrases! RRRRAAWWK!

Posted by: This... is XiNN at September 13, 2025 03:00 PM (ULPxl)

57 49 ... "This means you need more flowers around the house."

Very true. I've been having thoughts of pansies in hanging baskets. Easy to maintain, really hardy and a huge variety of colors. And no mowing involved. Win-win.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 03:04 PM (yTvNw)

58 torabora yeah that did happen quickly

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 03:04 PM (+qU29)

59 It is now being reported that the Charlie Kirk shooter was in a relationship with a male "transitioning" to female. Ace was right.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at September 13, 2025 03:06 PM (4NjTz)

60 54 Ben is a PK

Placekicker?
Posted by: olddog in mo at September 13, 2025 03:00 PM (hoCmQ)

Haha! Well, no; he's built more like a lineman.

He's a preacher's kid.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at September 13, 2025 03:09 PM (FMtrg)

61 Anyways, the garden is winding down, I plant bush beans when I dig my potatoes in July/August, and they are blooming now. With luck I will have green beans before the rain and frost comes.
I also have giant grey hubbard squash this year. One grew in the center of one of my two tomato cages at the end of the trellis, so it has to wait until I pull the tomatoe before I can pick it

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2025 03:10 PM (rbvCR)

62 Every time the grass is mowed, taking out the clover, I see honey bees flitting around like they are searching for the little flowers. I get the impression they aren't pleased.
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At some point in the future, we are replacing the backyard with a clover yard.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 13, 2025 03:12 PM (DIweC)

63
Must be confusing for the lefties comparing the firing of the "Kirk shooting" celebrants with the Holocaust while denying the Holocaust while comparing it to the fate of the HAMASians.

Odd mushrooms and fungi popping up in the side yard this week.

Posted by: Auspex at September 13, 2025 03:14 PM (yZFrB)

64 62 ... "At some point in the future, we are replacing the backyard with a clover yard."

I would have no problem with that. I think of them as stars in a green sky. I feel the same way about dandelions.

Posted by: JTB at September 13, 2025 03:15 PM (yTvNw)

65 The well fed Fed gal now has cavalry riding over the hill: docs that state to bank that 2nd home is 'vacation home'. Weeks later...hmmm.

Posted by: torabora at September 13, 2025 03:17 PM (+LXmR)

66 Only stuff on the home and garden front this week is cleaning out the foster kid's room and found some flower seeds. May plant them next spring and see what comes up. Hopefully it'll be stuff the elk won't uproot and toss around the yard.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 13, 2025 03:19 PM (lUFok)

67 The hummingbirds are zooming around to beat the band, as Pop-Pop used to say. I bought another 6 pack, and they're digging all of the feeders.

I'm gonna miss them when they leave.

As anyone here ever identified a young hummingbird buzzing around? They all seem to look the same.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 13, 2025 03:24 PM (w6EFb)

68 I am going to look at new digs Monday. I'm a little nervous, going to a senior place but here's the deal. Step one is just like renting anywhere but just being surrounded by contemporaries. Nothing to do with Medicare, income, etc. In fact, the nice lady brought up rent. A little high (actually pretty high) but giving all sorts of amenities and keeping out the riff raff (don't know if I'll make the cut). In addition to the real nice grounds, provision is there for elevated gardening, which I have looked into. Some 'maters and peppers and even some broccoli would entertain me.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 13, 2025 03:29 PM (gm9Sb)

69 As anyone here ever identified a young hummingbird buzzing around? They all seem to look the same.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 13, 2025 03:24 PM (w6EFb)

We have a red-chested one we call Fat Albert. He's as wide as he is tall. A few green ones, one with a black band around it's neck, and another lighter red chested one. The rest of them kinda blend together.

Posted by: jsg at September 13, 2025 03:31 PM (7Kd+r)

70 67 69 When living in Erie I did some work on the attic for the old Polish landlady. A very hot day, and coming down I was covered in dust. She insisted I cool off in the backyard, sitting in a glider with a couple cans of Piva. Hummingbirds were coming in for her flowers, especially those looking like small lillie's (I don't know flowers). Those little birdies will mesmerize you.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 13, 2025 03:35 PM (gm9Sb)

71 My brother visited from Texas and we swanned around east central Kansas looking for pictures that define Kansas. He is a quite accomplished photographer with a nifty camera.

We have a lot of pictures of round hay bales in fields or in rows, trees growing out of silo tops, and my favorite, a long line of silo corn all brown in the field with the top of the north Kansas River Valley ridge line peeking over the top.

He uses a pantographic technique, for pictures up to 270 degrees and 40 megs.

He turns the mundane into art.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 03:36 PM (u82oZ)

72 I meant a 6 pack of feeders, not hummingbirds, LOL!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 13, 2025 03:44 PM (w6EFb)

73 We have a red-chested one we call Fat Albert. He's as wide as he is tall. A few green ones, one with a black band around it's neck, and another lighter red chested one. The rest of them kinda blend together.

Posted by: jsg at September 13, 2025 03:31 PM (7Kd+r)

Sounds like you're loaded with hummingbirds! I've never seen more than 4 at one time.

70 67 69 When living in Erie I did some work on the attic for the old Polish landlady. A very hot day, and coming down I was covered in dust. She insisted I cool off in the backyard, sitting in a glider with a couple cans of Piva. Hummingbirds were coming in for her flowers, especially those looking like small lillie's (I don't know flowers). Those little birdies will mesmerize you.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 13, 2025 03:35 PM (gm9Sb)

They really are mesmerizing, especially when they're at their most active.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 13, 2025 04:04 PM (w6EFb)

74 37 Del Boca Vista > Boca Chica
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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Had to look that one up. Well played.
Thanks for the gardening thread, KT.

Posted by: scampydog at September 13, 2025 04:16 PM (41CYW)

75 Late to the party.... here in Western NY, I think my hummers have left. I had one mature males, about 3 juvenile males, and maybe two females... Hope they stay safe on their trip down south, and look forward to seeing them next year.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 13, 2025 05:18 PM (i49OE)

76 Love little Charlie.

Posted by: KT at September 13, 2025 05:29 PM (7vIsy)

77 Pat* in Boise area, way late to this party (2 picnics to attend today). Temperatures are slowly dropping and we've had some thunderstorms.

Green beans getting parboiled and frozen - still haven't gotten rid of the plants with bean rust. A few cantaloupes still on the vine; hoping they'll ripen. A number of butternut squash look like they'll ripen. Getting tomatoes, but not sure if we'll get enough paste ones to make much sauce. Still a few strawberries and red raspberries to nibble.

Going crazy processing peaches - already canned 7 quarts in light syrup, now cutting up and freezing them for Husband's protein shakes. Next comes digging out more potatoes from their pots, and squashing pears to make perry.

Posted by: Pat* at September 14, 2025 12:34 AM (8Pecz)

Frames of reference have all changed - for some of us

statues and pepple salute washington.jpg

But for others, the story remains the same

(credit - Statues and the People They Salute)

I don't have much of a "theme" for today's thread. I have been reading from some sources that normally do not catch my attention, but I have had a hard time bringing my thoughts together.

However, I have noticed that lefties on my social media have found it easy to maintain the position that Charlie Kirk was a "hater". For example, this article from The Guardian was framed by some of them as a POSITIVE piece about Charlie Kirk: Virulent debater and clickbait savant: how Charlie Kirk pushed a new generation to the right

What is a virulent debater????

The far-right activist, who was fatally shot this week in Utah, galvanized young conservatives through online antics and inflammatory views

Of course, none of his ideological opponents' views were inflammatory. Nor their debating techniques.

Fortunately, some on the left have been coming around.

Being Inflammatory on Campus

Stephen Green:

WE HAVE A PROBLEM: Student support for violence, bans on ‘controversial’ speech hits ‘record highs’ in annual survey. “More than a third of students would ‘at least rarely’ accept the use of violence to stop a campus speech (34%), 10 percentage points higher than its 2021 survey, while majorities would block other students from attending such a speech (54% versus 41% in 2021) and shout down a speaker (71% from 66%), all ‘record highs.'”
The problem is that the universities accept and teach these attitudes.

Are we allowing kids to think that they could become legends for killing people designated as oppressors?

What killed Charlie Kirk� pic.twitter.com/0yWbR6YDtA
— Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن (@elicalebon) September 11, 2025

From the comment thread:

They told us that words are violence. That silence is violence. That speech must be policed, feelings must be protected, and disagreement is a form of oppression. But somehow, actual violence? Stabbings, riots, threats, mobs, glorifying terrorism - that gets a free pass. Or worse, a blue check and a book deal. We’re watching the collapse of moral clarity in real time. The same people who light candles every September 11 and post “never forget” are now cheering for movements that chant “globalize the intifada” - a phrase that, in practice, means suicide bombings, knife attacks, and rockets fired at kindergartens. We saw it on October 7. We’ve seen it for 20 years. And yet, those who say “free Palestine” with no qualifiers are treated like moral leaders, while those who raise concerns about Hamas, radical Islam, or jihadist slogans are treated like bigots. Look at who gets promoted. You’ve got an openly radical academic like Mohamed Mamdani - who supported Hamas “resistance,” called the NYPD a terrorist organization, and praised violent uprisings -running for mayor of New York. The city that buried thousands after 9/11 is now seriously entertaining putting a pro-intifada ideologue in charge of its police and schools. This isn’t progress. It’s surrender. And now? We have people getting murdered for the crime of being conservative and for holding the wrong views.

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Quotes

Charlie Kirk seemed to be keeping his priorities in mind. Do you remember the few moments when it was thought that he might survive, but be paralyzed, sort of like Dennis Prager? This is Dennis, with some thoughts about Charlie:

As an American, we have lost the most articulate spokesman for America and its unique value system—a country founded to be free, based on Jerusalem and Athens, the Judeo-Christian value system and the Greek emphasis on logic and reason. Charlie was a uniquely gifted individual who, in his teens, created the largest movement of young Americans committed to preserving and growing America and its ideals. He tirelessly went from campus to campus, from Oxford to Utah, dialoging with any student who wished to debate him. Using his vast reservoir of facts and his exceptionally speedy and articulate mind, he gave them what seemed to be unlimited amounts of time, and then calmy eviscerated all their anti-American, anti-Western, and anti-Judeo-Christian positions. I watched an inordinate number of these exchanges and thanked God that Charlie Kirk was there to do this work. America’s youth in particular have lost a moral and intellectual leader, one who would, perhaps, have one day become their president.
As a committed Jew, I thank God regularly that a non-Jew, a committed Christian, became one of the few great public spokesmen on behalf of Israel and the Jewish communities outside of Israel. Few Jews could match Charlie’s knowledge and eloquent arguments on behalf of those two entities.
As Dennis, I have lost a very close friend. Charlie repeatedly visited me in the various hospitals that I have been in since November 12 of last year, when I suffered a catastrophic fall which has left me paralyzed. When members of the nursing staff heard that Charlie Kirk was visiting me, my room became the most popular one in the hospital. Charlie brought me the manuscript of his forthcoming book arguing that everyone—Christians as well as Jews—should observe Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath, just as he and his family had begun to do from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown. It is a measure of our close relationship that he dedicated the book to me. His brilliant exposition of these arguments provide clear evidence for the non-necessity of a college education for most young Americans.
My heart breaks for his young widow, Erika, and for his two children, who have lost as great a man and a father as children can have. And for Charlie, who did not live to see them grow up. For one of the first times in my 20 years with my wife, Sue, I have seen her sob uncontrollably. The Prager home is in deep mourning, as are the homes of countless Americans. The loss to us personally and to the country generally is immeasurable.
Dennis Prager

Hard for me to see how employers can bear the liability now of keeping on board anyone who expresses deadly wishes for another or celebrates the death of another.
— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) September 11, 2025

And what about tenured professors?

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Music

Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing

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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 6, The Charge of the CIA and the Storytellers

Heard anything new about Ukraine this week?

Comments are closed so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 11:17 AM

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1 Good morning KT

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 11:18 AM (+qU29)

2 It's not "just" influencers on the right that get demonized.

It's all of us. The vast majority on the left hate us and want us dead. They used to be circumspect about pulling the proverbial trigger, but I think we're way past that now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2025 11:20 AM (Q4IgG)

3 Hi, Skip!

Posted by: KT at September 13, 2025 11:21 AM (7vIsy)

4 Martini Farmer at September 13, 2025 11:20 AM

Good point.

Posted by: KT at September 13, 2025 11:24 AM (7vIsy)

5 Thank you KT

The vile reactions of many were just as discouraging to me as Charlie Kirk’s murder. What is wrong with these people??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 13, 2025 11:26 AM (ANuwa)

6 Watched a bunch of H8 videos from Leftists but watched on conservative blogs and TV news. As Dennis Prager has pointed out Leftists stay in their bubble only taking in what other Leftists say, mostly rhetoric and Propaganda so total BS.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 11:28 AM (+qU29)

7 Thx K.T. I posted on the last thread about leftists I know posting on Facebook stuff from Occupy Democrats. All three of the people who posted are 70 or older and it does seem age has made them politically wiser. Tried to explain that OD people were Marxists who would kill middle class leftists in a heartbeat. It was like trying to explain algebra to a pig

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 13, 2025 11:29 AM (Ve63F)

8 Willowed but relevant to this thread:

X algorithms have decided that I need to be exposed to Charlie Kirk hate. One heavily edited video began with three young people physically fighting over who gets to sit in the chair to debate CK.

The dickhead that prevailed by elbowing some girl, and shoving her away tried to make the argument that XY Chromosomes do not make a person male. His primary argument is that Christians call God "The Father", and thus God is expressed as a man even though He doesn't have XY chromosomes.

CK didn't know how to respond to such tortured absurdity so the young creep shouted out that he 0wned CK and beat him in a debate. (because of editing I have no idea how the exchange really happened/ended)

This is the lunacy that CK had to deal with.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 11:30 AM (a4flb)

9 .

Everything olde is new again:

https://tinyurl.com/S-L-0-P-pee

Posted by: Marooned at September 13, 2025 11:30 AM (kt8QE)

10 The Left knows the Right will never step over the lines they have erased. Which is why no one boarded up any city in America after Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Had a prominent Leftist been slain in a similar manor many Blue Cities would have been locked down and still looted and burned…..

Posted by: Bang-a-gong at September 13, 2025 11:32 AM (Mrq15)

11 Dennis too over the years was vilified by Leftists, was a devoted listener for a long time and do think those years he shaped a lot of my thinking way more than one might think. I would catch evil things hoisted onto Dennis I knew were just H8 full BS much like what Leftists have done to Charlie.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 11:32 AM (+qU29)

12 Turning Point? HA! The War on Normal People is just getting started! forWAR'd.

As stated many times before:
https://tinyurl.com/EvilsAdvantageOverConscience
....the more brazen and relentless one’s acts of brutality, the more likely it is that one will be allowed a second chance, and find even powerful men of conscience coming to one’s door offering to forget, to forgive, and to give forgiveness a bad name.

The REAL POET Virgil once wrote about how the WORST punishment in Hell was reserved for those whom in times of crisis did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Hell is not the a place you go to after Death. It is the Real World here, now, govern'd by LIB stoopidity which proudly proclaims that 'some' must be sacrificed that others (they) may live, that the will of the people should be in evidence everywhere, yet existent in no one.

That no only must you sponsor your adversaries, but actively defend them as well, to reward the guilty, to Puhsih the Innocent, to Champion the Mediocre the Unworthy and the Depraved on the basis of their Depravity.

they use pity as a weapon, and pity for themselves as a weapon, which, as described above, is evils chief advantage....

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 13, 2025 11:32 AM (KFBO9)

13 The amount of leftists today screaming about free speech for the people getting fired is hilarious. Especially the ones from the UK.

Posted by: Joyenz at September 13, 2025 11:34 AM (2F0/Y)

14 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 13, 2025 11:35 AM (Zz0t1)

15 Howdy! Heavy feelings are still persisting. Thanks for this thread. The young woman in the video is absolutely correct.

Posted by: Moonbeam at September 13, 2025 11:36 AM (rbKZ6)

16 The crowd at the Tommy Robinson rally in London might just be the biggest gathering I've ever seen.

https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1966839095143117121

Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2025 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

17 It's all of us. The vast majority on the left hate us and want us dead. They used to be circumspect about pulling the proverbial trigger, but I think we're way past that now.

The Bible says that their consciences have been seared. Also that the wicked have no shame. (Jer 6:15; 8:12)

So my operating position is that they are amoral and don't care about the optics.

You mention "trigger", and the Left has certainly introduced the idea of being "triggered" and have given us physical evidence to pre trigger and post trigger behavior.

So I think the "want" to kill us is really just a triggered response. That is, if they know you are conservative by reputation they don't want you dead Right Now, but if they discover your leanings based on a red cap or something they overheard you say to a friend that offends them, then they are deciding where to plunge the shiv and can they get away with it.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 11:37 AM (a4flb)

18 "Hard for me to see how employers can bear the liability now of keeping on board anyone who expresses deadly wishes for another or celebrates the death of another."

I'm watching closely what my company does. Internally, they put out a real chickenshit email about some employees being threatened, but didn't say WHY, nor condemn what they did to draw fire.

Already looking at other jobs. Meanwhile all these freaks are prancing around playing victim or drama queening about their pronouns, whole nobody noticed one of our services was down and we were bleeding 6 figures a day. It's fucking absurd.

Posted by: heya at September 13, 2025 11:37 AM (xq47N)

19 Everything olde is new again:

https://tinyurl.com/S-L-0-P-pee

Yes, but after that, 20th century humanity got a clue and stopped killing each other. RIGHT?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2025 11:38 AM (Riz8t)

20 I've been steadily on the verge of tears over the last few days since Charlie was assassinated. Erika's live address last night (thanks Ace for linking to it when you did) broke me. I was both inspired and humbled at the same time. Inspired, because his death is goading me into becoming even more politically active. Humbled, because I want to be the kind of husband that my wife can say the words about me that Erika spoke about Charlie.

Politically, I know that the Left has been trying to raise up their own Joe Rogans, Charlie Kirks, and Scott Preslers. Failing that, I'm afraid they would be happy to go after ours. Through all the performative crocodile tears several (certainly not all!) from the Left are shedding over the loss of Kirk, there must be some that are secretly glad that one of our most powerful chess pieces has been taken off the board.

Although, according to Erika Kirk, they haven't anticipated what they have actually done in making a martyr out of Charlie.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at September 13, 2025 11:38 AM (0CU3H)

21 >> Martini Farmer at September 13, 2025 11:20 AM

Good point.
Posted by: KT at September 13, 2025 11:24 AM (7vIsy)
---------
You can tell by the behavior of store clerks, newspaper editorials (and letters to the editor), small time politicos in podunk towns as well a those in places like Chicago, L.A. or NYC.

To these people, no line was crossed. And you're a bigot if you think otherwise. Sure, some on the left are rethinking their long-held political views, but a lot of them have had their view reinforced... bigly.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2025 11:39 AM (Q4IgG)

22 >>> 18 "Hard for me to see how employers can bear the liability now of keeping on board anyone who expresses deadly wishes for another or celebrates the death of another."

I'm watching closely what my company does. Internally, they put out a real chickenshit email about some employees being threatened, but didn't say WHY, nor condemn what they did to draw fire.

Already looking at other jobs. Meanwhile all these freaks are prancing around playing victim or drama queening about their pronouns, whole nobody noticed one of our services was down and we were bleeding 6 figures a day. It's fucking absurd.
Posted by: heya at September 13, 2025 11:37 AM (xq47N)

I think we may have had the same employer...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2025 11:39 AM (ULPxl)

23 Today, I go to my dad's to collect most of the last of belongings I find relevant or meaningful, ending that part of his legacy, whatever it is.

Tomorrow, we have a going away party for his widow, married for 29 years, whom is moving to a different assisted living facility in another state, hours and hours away. I was not a huge fan of hers, I have my reasons, but she proved she was in it for better or worse as my dad was hell on her for the better part of 10+ years. My step-sister has proven to be a largely selfish and worthless c*nt, honestly.

They murdered Charlie Kirk this week, the day before 9/11 memorials, and each side blames the other, only one, though, pulling the trigger and taking no responsibility for it whatsoever.

Life is already hard. Now, it's really starting to suck. I pray for guidance and strength, not just for me, but for everyone.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 13, 2025 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

24 Good morning again good people.

Prayers for all whom grieve, all that suffer, all whom are confused, lost or alone.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2025 11:40 AM (cYBz/)

25 It occurred to me this morning that Charlie Kirk was the literal, physical, intellectual and spiritual antithesis of the Left. In every characteristic and expression he was their total opposite. Joyful, confident, constructive, enterprising, kind, embracing of dialogue, successful, Christian -- in any way you wish to break it down -- he was their total inversion.

Given this truth, given the fact he sought out interactions with them in such a way as to highlight these opposing characteristics, the strengths of his arguments and the weakness of theirs, his mere existence could only be a humiliation for them. Charlie never consciously tried to humiliate anybody. It didn't matter. It was simply a function of who he was and who they are, their narcissistic, insecure and pathological profile. This kind of inescapable humiliation was intolerable. It had to follow that the only answer, the only response, was to eliminate him.

This is and always will be the price they will try to make us -- or the best fighters among us -- pay.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 13, 2025 11:40 AM (WHfpM)

26 Although, according to Erika Kirk, they haven't anticipated what they have actually done in making a martyr out of Charlie.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie

See my #16. While that rally wasn't specifically about Charlie, it was clear whose side they were on. There is a global movement coalescing, and it is not favorable to those who would enslave us.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2025 11:40 AM (Riz8t)

27 Leftists always have to play their victim card that they thrive on

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 11:41 AM (+qU29)

28 Leftists always have to play their victim card that they thrive on

They always play it, but we don't have to play along.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2025 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

29 whole nobody noticed one of our services was down and we were bleeding 6 figures a day. It's fucking absurd.
Posted by: heya

They'll just write it off!
- Leftists and those ignorant of how money really works (birm)

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2025 11:42 AM (cYBz/)

30 See my #16. While that rally wasn't specifically about Charlie, it was clear whose side they were on. There is a global movement coalescing, and it is not favorable to those who would enslave us.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2025 11:40 AM (Riz8t)

We've all been feeling that we've been at a moment in time where the right spark could set off any number of things.

no one could have guessed that something like this would turn out to be one of those sparks.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2025 11:43 AM (uWKK8)

31 Thanks , KT , for your thoughts and for the hymn, "Come, Thou font of every blessing." I really like that hymn.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 11:43 AM (L2PcB)

32 "So I think the "want" to kill us is really just a triggered response. That is, if they know you are conservative by reputation they don't want you dead Right Now, but if they discover your leanings based on a red cap ....
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 11:37 AM (a4flb)"

Nah.

The democidal excesses of the left go to their very roots, from which "the left" came as a descriptor in France. Decades of spastic, gleeful murder in Russia, Spain, China, Cambodia, Cuba, and so on are not consequences of the ideology. It is THE END GOAL IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Leftism has one tenet: what is right, is defined by what leftists want or do in the moment, and they have a perpetual, non-negotiable right to rule by all and any means. And it's not that they really feel any one policy is correct, it's that this is the single most effective path to enabling pillage, rape, and murder on a massive scale.

It is the ultimate expression of psychotic hatred for fellow man, and the pure will to gleefully exercise all manner of power. It is Calvinball, on a pyramid of 160 million skulls.

Posted by: heya at September 13, 2025 11:47 AM (xq47N)

33 I wonder if the celebrating leftwing lunatics are shocked to find they're not the massive majority.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at September 13, 2025 11:47 AM (kTd/k)

34 16 The crowd at the Tommy Robinson rally in London might just be the biggest gathering I've ever seen.

https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1966839095143117121
Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2025 11:36 AM (Riz8t)

Wow. You're absolutely right. An incredible outpouring.

There is a pitched information battle between the globalists and the nationalists taking place right now - and it's been going on for years, ever since Brexit and Trump's election in 2016. There's one outlet that I listen to - Monocle - that is gleeful over Bolsonaro's imprisonment, and wistful that Trump didn't share his fate. Charlie is only one front of this wider, global conflict. This Robinson march is of a piece.

Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at September 13, 2025 11:47 AM (0CU3H)

35 15 Howdy! Heavy feelings are still persisting. Thanks for this thread. The young woman in the video is absolutely correct.
Posted by: Moonbeam

I couldn’t get past the fake fingernails and the bird hands. Sorry.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2025 11:48 AM (dmwOI)

36 Yesterday, a small restaurant in the town next to ours is now facing a boycott by locals. The owner posted on her personal Facebook page "You reap what you sow" in reference to Kirk. Very dumb of her since people did like her restaurant and most people in this area are Republican.

Posted by: Joyenz at September 13, 2025 11:48 AM (2F0/Y)

37 This is and always will be the price they will try to make us -- or the best fighters among us -- pay.

Dr Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary had a motivating sermon titled "Does the Devil Know Your Name?" It was based on the passage in Acts (19:13-16) where the sons of the Jewish priest Sceva were attempting an exoricsm when the demons within said "Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?" and then proceeded to beat the hell into these guys.

The development of the message was to be such a pain in the rear to Hell that they will go all out to "sift you like wheat" like Satan demanded of Christ to do to His disciples, or what was demanded of God concerning Job.

CK was known very well, by name and deed in Hell. Of course they had to come after CK and destroy him.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 11:48 AM (a4flb)

38 I am sure any Loud mouth Leftist fired it will be a temporary problem. Many will get the job they got fired from back. Or just moved sideways.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 11:48 AM (+qU29)

39 Paraphrasing a post on X:

If you believe that a person deserves to be killed for their speech, don't cry when you're fired for yours.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 13, 2025 11:49 AM (2UnvF)

40 Thanks, KT. I have avoided tears all this week, which has been my worst days since 9/11/01. Dennis Prager's piece on Charlie Kirk almost got me.

Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2025 11:49 AM (LHPAg)

41 I'm struggling with rage.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at September 13, 2025 11:50 AM (kTd/k)

42 "The vast majority on the left hate us and want us dead"

I think it's a lot of very loud, very twisted people who think that way. But is it really a majority?
There may be a sizable number on the left who just want to be left alone, same as us. They disagree with us about how to achieve similar goals and solve the same problems. But, they're throwbacks being drowned out by the crazy and evil. Doesn't mean that they aren't there. They could be the silent majority on that side. The folks that are publicly walking away from the Democrat party appear to be from that cohort. So they do exist. But are their number greater than the crazy/evil cohort?
Or, perhaps, the sane/sensible group are fleeing in numbers so large that the crazy/evil do outnumber them now.

I don't pretend to have the answer. I just don't think everyone left of center is crazy and evil and want to kill anyone and everyone who doesn't agree with them.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 13, 2025 11:51 AM (2J/Lj)

43 You don't reap what you sow.

If I sow a single wheat berry, I reap dozens.

They sow disorder. Let them reap utter destruction.
They sow murder. Let them reap dozens.
They sow hatred. Let them reap true, abiding, unquenchable malice.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 11:51 AM (06Hmj)

44 I noticed a lot of teachers and other govt workers were placed “on leave”. Which means they’re getting a vacation until this all blows over.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 13, 2025 11:52 AM (AvVQO)

45 Paraphrasing a post on X:

If you believe that a person deserves to be killed for their speech, don't cry when you're fired for yours.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 13, 2025 11:49 AM (2UnvF)

Yup.

Posted by: pookysgirl nods at September 13, 2025 11:52 AM (Wt5PA)

46 I think it's a lot of very loud, very twisted people who think that way. But is it really a majority?

—

A super majority, yes.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 13, 2025 11:52 AM (AvVQO)

47 Yesterday, a small restaurant in the town next to ours is now facing a boycott by locals. The owner posted on her personal Facebook page "You reap what you sow" in reference to Kirk. Very dumb of her since people did like her restaurant and most people in this area are Republican.
Posted by: Joyenz at September 13, 2025 11:48 AM (2F0/Y)

Ah, the masks. They fall. Hopefully she will live by her own words shortly.

Posted by: Out Of Business at September 13, 2025 11:53 AM (R/m4+)

48 Here I raise my Ebenezer;
hither by thy help I’m come;
and I hope, by thy good pleasure,
safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
wandering from the fold of God;
he, to rescue me from danger,
interposed his precious blood.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2025 11:53 AM (uWKK8)

49 It is the ultimate expression of psychotic hatred for fellow man, and the pure will to gleefully exercise all manner of power. It is Calvinball, on a pyramid of 160 million skulls.

You mention a pyramid (I know of skulls), but isn't there a pyramid of devotion to this mass genocide? Those at the top, sure, I will go along with your assessment, the Ba'al Gates and the leadership of WEF, yep purveyors of mass murder.

Those at the bottom, some crank who has an IV drip of MSNBS and CNN? Too lazy and cowardly Right Now, but some good triggering might bring the fight out.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 11:53 AM (a4flb)

50 Personally, I want to see so many people fired that the UE rate ticks up.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 13, 2025 11:54 AM (2UnvF)

51 Meanwhile all these freaks are prancing around playing victim or drama queening about their pronouns, whole nobody noticed one of our services was down and we were bleeding 6 figures a day. It's fucking absurd.
Posted by: heya

I think that's why the market was down yesterday morning. A lot of work slowing down, internal infighting, some firings, too many meetings...

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 11:54 AM (gKWVE)

52 This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.

"My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it, as well as those who go after our judges, law enforcement officials, and everyone else who brings order to our country.

From the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania last year, which killed a husband and father, to the attacks on ICE agents, to the vicious murder of a health care executive in the streets of New York, to the shooting of House Majority Leader Steve Scalice and three others. Radical left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives. Tonight, I ask all
Americans to commit themselves to the American values for which Charlie Kirk and the monster who attacked him was attacking our whole country. An assassin tried to silence him with a bullet, but he failed. Because together we will ensure that his voice, his message, and his legacy will live on for countless
generations to come..

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 11:54 AM (RK8vO)

53 To know that Charlie Kirk heard, "Well done, thy good and faithful servant," gives me some joy for him. I am still grappling with grief, though. Someone on X last night said that he almost pitied the demons who celebrated Kirk's death because his lieutenants are harder right than he was.

Posted by: jmel at September 13, 2025 11:54 AM (bVhJi)

54 I have a sense, just a little tingle, that shooting Charlie Kirk has um, changed the minds of a lot of moms.

The development of the message was to be such a pain in the rear to Hell that they will go all out to "sift you like wheat" like Satan demanded of Christ to do to His disciples, or what was demanded of God concerning Job.

I love Al Mohler's preaching, he's been a great force for Christ over the years.

I have been trying for the past few years to be more conspicuously Christian. Not performative or going out street preaching, but just being more obviously a child of God. Praying before meals, etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 11:54 AM (dfIr7)

55 I already have a growing list of places who don't want my money, have no problem adding to it if they want.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 11:54 AM (+qU29)

56 "I think it's a lot of very loud, very twisted people who think that way. But is it really a majority?"

It doesn't matter, really. The twisted people control their culture. The rest are followers. The urge to be left alone is nothing next than the need to do the bidding of "the Great beast."

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 13, 2025 11:55 AM (WHfpM)

57 Yesterday, a small restaurant in the town next to ours is now facing a boycott by locals. The owner posted on her personal Facebook page "You reap what you sow" in reference to Kirk. Very dumb of her since people did like her restaurant and most people in this area are Republican.

And forever more people will wonder if she is mixing in some feces with your meal just because you are "One of Those".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 11:56 AM (a4flb)

58 Here I raise my Ebenezer;
hither by thy help I’m come;
and I hope, by thy good pleasure

One of my all time favorite hymns.

Let that grace now, like a fetter,
bind my wandering heart to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
prone to leave the God I love;
here’s my heart; O take and seal it;
seal it for thy courts above.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 11:57 AM (dfIr7)

59 Yesterday, a small restaurant in the town next to ours is now facing a boycott by locals. The owner posted on her personal Facebook page "You reap what you sow" in reference to Kirk. Very dumb of her since people did like her restaurant and most people in this area are Republican.
Posted by: Joyenz at September 13, 2025 11:48 AM (2F0/Y)

There are a few similar restaurants where I am. I don’t know specifically what the owners said about Charlie, I can only imagine. They always have signs in their windows pushing the latest thing. But they do good buisness because they found a niche market. Overall the area is 65-35 right/left. They cater to that 35 and it works for them.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 13, 2025 11:57 AM (AvVQO)

60 And forever more people will wonder if she is mixing in some feces with your meal just because you are "One of Those".
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure

Aliassmithsmith puts on his MAGA hat whenever he eats there.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 11:57 AM (gKWVE)

61 >>> 56 "I think it's a lot of very loud, very twisted people who think that way. But is it really a majority?"

It doesn't matter, really. The twisted people control their culture. The rest are followers. The urge to be left alone is nothing next than the need to do the bidding of "the Great beast."

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 13, 2025 11:55 AM (WHfpM)

It matters if we can pull some of the least committed away from the top-tier crazies (and UDUP, I'm stealing Ba'al Gates).

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2025 11:58 AM (ULPxl)

62 Leftism has one tenet: what is right, is defined by what leftists want or do in the moment, and they have a perpetual, non-negotiable right to rule by all and any means.

Posted by: heya at September 13, 2025 11:47 AM

And it does not matter if someone agrees with 99.9% of their views. They will still want you dead if you disagree with them on anything.

Case in point, as pointed out on Friday Night Tights last night... among all the calls for "kill this person next" by the left over the past few days on social media, a popular name cited has been JK Rowling. She is a far left liberal on 99% of issues. But because she disagrees on "trans" stuff, she is an enemy deserving of death to them.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 11:59 AM (P5BPp)

63 The left has gone absolutely nuts in a full-court press trying to portray Charlie's shooter as a far right radical freak, a conservative MAGA type, a Christian boy!

He's not but the effort to claim this is an absolute tsunami on Twixxer so bad that the algorithm repeated this lie as one of its trending stories claiming Kirk was shot by a conservative.

The truth is pushing back, slowly as always.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 11:59 AM (dfIr7)

64 The truth is pushing back, slowly as always.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 11:59 AM (dfIr7)

A lie gets halfway around the world before it realized it forgot to put pants on and has to go all the way back.

Or something like that.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 12:00 PM (06Hmj)

65 a popular name cited has been JK Rowling. She is a far left liberal on 99% of issues. But because she disagrees on "trans" stuff, she is an enemy deserving of death to them.

Right, and this is critical. These people are unreachably demented, they cannot be connected to reality, only denied the power to carry out their insanity.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 12:01 PM (dfIr7)

66 The Bolsheviks were never the majority, but they took over a major country making everyone else thinking they were the majority.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 12:01 PM (+qU29)

67 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 11:56 AM (a4flb)

Yeah, very sad. We've never been to that place because I just heard of them a couple of months ago and we also don't drive out of town to go eat. We were thinking about it to at least go once. Not anymore.

Posted by: Joyenz at September 13, 2025 12:01 PM (2F0/Y)

68 My doctor office had MSNBC on while I was waiting for my appointment yesterday. At the time (9:45am), they had on a guest who was talking about the possible coincidence that the sniper shot Charlie Kirk right after he started answering a question about mass shootings committed by "trans" people.

He said that his sources told him that Charlie Kirk had been speaking for about 10 minutes already, but it was not until he started answering this question that the shot was taken. So he said that it would be good for law enforcement to interview that person who asked the question to find out if there was any coordination there or it was just coincidence.

I would say they also need to call in for questioning the two people standing behind Charlie Kirk to his right, who seemed to be making signals right before the shot was taken.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 12:02 PM (P5BPp)

69 63 The left has gone absolutely nuts in a full-court press trying to portray Charlie's shooter as a far right radical freak, a conservative MAGA type, a Christian boy!

This makes sense and should have been seen coming given the starkness of the killing and threat it imposed. Audacity and doubling down is what they do and in this case audacity on steroids was all they could do. Again, it should be no surprise, and honestly we should have been more prepared. They will push this with every bit of their beings, and we must be relentless is breaking it down.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 13, 2025 12:04 PM (WHfpM)

70 "The vile reactions of many were just as discouraging to me as Charlie Kirk’s murder. What is wrong with these people??"

They're baying for blood. Anybody's blood will do, so long as its not theirs.

They're reprobates. Romans 1

Posted by: ju at September 13, 2025 12:04 PM (vgX6l)

71 66 The Bolsheviks were never the majority, but they took over a major country making everyone else thinking they were the majority.
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 12:01 PM (+qU29)

Good point. Likewise in Cuba.

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 13, 2025 12:05 PM (WHfpM)

72 FYI, FBI interviewing roommate of killer. Male to female transitioned and apparently involved romantically w killer.

Gwp is the source so take it for what you want for credibility .

Posted by: whig's phone at September 13, 2025 12:05 PM (eAs8J)

73 The Bolsheviks were never the majority, but they took over a major country making everyone else thinking they were the majority.

Revolutions are always like that. The American revolution was carried on the back of like 20% of the population, but the bulk of the people were in agreement, even if not that motivated.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 12:05 PM (dfIr7)

74 The Week in Pictures: Ballpark Karen edition.

https://is.gd/peuPzh

Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2025 12:06 PM (Riz8t)

75 They will push this with every bit of their beings, and we must be relentless is breaking it down.
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 13, 2025 12:04 PM (WHfpM)

I don't think they care so much if "people" believe it, of course their own braindead true believers will, but that's besides the point. They just need the idea to get out there, however preposterous, so that the people who don't pay much attention can have their cover to say "it's all so complicated, who really knows the truth blah blah blah" and go back to not having to care.

Basic psyops 101 FUDdery.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 12:06 PM (06Hmj)

76 Loomer is reporting this:
x.com/BrookeSingman/status/1966889202412347602
Robinson was boning his roommate, who was transitioning into being female. S/he is now singing like a canary, if a rather huskyvoiced canary.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 12:08 PM (gKWVE)

77 Gwp is the source so take it for what you want for credibility .

Yeah I always wait for at least one more credible source to support anything I see on Gateway Pundit. The trans stuff on the killer's gear suggests that he was at least sympathetic to the idea.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 12:08 PM (dfIr7)

78 "You mention a pyramid (I know of skulls), but isn't there a pyramid of devotion to this mass genocide? Those at the top, sure, I will go along with your assessment, the Ba'al Gates and the leadership of WEF, yep purveyors of mass murder.

Those at the bottom, some crank who has an IV drip of MSNBS and CNN? Too lazy and cowardly Right Now, but some good triggering might bring the fight out.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 11:53 AM (a4flb)"

It's a pyramid wider at the base in that sense too. Hordes of ghouls and barbarians just looking for license to rape and pillage - very similar to islam, actually.

Psychotic cat ladies, blue haired adjuncts, and perpetually envious functionaries in the middle. Philantropaths at the top. A key feature is they all in some sense hope to move up, and the perpetual jockeying for position on who is more devout is a self-honing feature that works really well.

If these people get a full grip on power, they are going to kill us wholesale, or at the very least allow it for profit and entertainment. Why do you think they keep doing the no bail, no policing shit?

Posted by: heya at September 13, 2025 12:10 PM (xq47N)

79 Part of the problem with the left is that all of them are in therapy and have been for most of their lives, so they are pretty skilled in at least layman's psychology. That's why they have all the phrases like "toxic" and "emotional intelligence" and spew it constantly. It is the basis of their religious worldview.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 12:11 PM (dfIr7)

80 > "I think it's a lot of very loud, very twisted people who think that way. But is it really a majority?"
---------
Perhaps it's the "majority of the ones that matter?"

A number of Democrat politicians have voiced... incitement over Kirk's assassination. I wonder how many of their supporters now feel the need "to do something?"

Or leftist media propagandists who prod their audiences into "doing something."

Or leftist influencers on the socials who agitate for violence from their followers to "do something."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2025 12:11 PM (Q4IgG)

81 58 Here I raise my Ebenezer;
hither by thy help I’m come;
and I hope, by thy good pleasure

I never could take this seriously because all I could think of was lifting Alastair Sim over my head.

Posted by: A chain forged in life, Ebenezer! at September 13, 2025 12:12 PM (TbWk/)

82 It is always the same playbook, historically. Cambodia, Cuba, Germany, Russia, Rwanda Yugoslavia etc etc.

“Otherization” of the enemy. This is done through the press and academia. Eventually legislation. This has been going on for decades in the US, though much less covertly, but ever increasing in tone and stridency.

Sarajevo, Yugoslavia hosted the Olympics one year, everything must be fine, more or less, right? Well not really. Like a switch being thrown, it was under artillery siege within a year or two and lasted for a couple years.

If you wanted to go shopping, it was zig-zagging and low crawling. Barter for every day items that were hard to find or impossible to get. All the landscaping in residential areas was gone, burned in fireplaces for warmth. Things can go sideways with astonishing speed. Maybe that’s the default. “Slowly at first. Then all at once.”

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 12:12 PM (ayI3s)

83 People are getting fired all over the place and it is glorious.

Posted by: Danimal28 at September 13, 2025 12:12 PM (mNOhh)

84 I'm old enough to remember when the leftists closed businesses over a flu virus and fired people who refused the vax.

They made the rules. Now they can feel what unemployment is like.

Posted by: Iasonas at September 13, 2025 12:12 PM (gUzGB)

85 Oh, wari-otoko,

Saw your post after I did last night. On phone so short posts but dhimmis were used as scapegoats in Islam because periodically, caliphs etc would threaten to remove protection from the masses. Dhimmis were allowed to keep lives and property but I my at the discretion of the rulers. As individual the Islamic legal systems such as the Ottomans, they were treated as inferior to Muslims in any interfaith dispute. Some ottoman rulers were worse than others about that. We know less about the Abbasid caliphs as far as legal disputes because much of the documents remaining are in Arabic and much has been destroyed since the Middle Ages.

Posted by: whig's phone at September 13, 2025 12:13 PM (eAs8J)

86 >>> 84 I'm old enough to remember when the leftists closed businesses over a flu virus and fired people who refused the vax.

They made the rules. Now they can feel what unemployment is like.
Posted by: Iasonas at September 13, 2025 12:12 PM (gUzGB)

THIS.

And the little shitstains weren't satisfied with that, at all; many wanted people children taken away, wanted vaxx 'refuseniks' in prison, and so on.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2025 12:14 PM (ULPxl)

87 MSNBC got chewed out by Comcast for its demented, hateful coverage of Charlie Kirk's assassination. After an initial burst of "yeah F that guy!" coverage, its shifted worldwide to more respectful and honoring. This is, rightly, being treated like Martin Luther King jr's shooting: a good man cut down by hate.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 12:14 PM (dfIr7)

88 Actually, Jesus said that His Father works and He works, on the Sabbath. And apparently there was an ancient Jewish variant of Genesis where God rested on the Seventh Day, and then started working again on the Seventh Day.

The Lord's Day, the Eighth Day, of the Resurrection and the new Creation, is the day Christians do. Although Saturdays are traditional Christian fasting days, along with Fridays and Wednesdays.

Posted by: Suburbanshee at September 13, 2025 12:15 PM (cHUaN)

89 It's embarrassing how hard the Left is trying to portray Kirk's shooter as some rightwing extremist, and the whole event an example of an internal right-on-right power struggle.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 13, 2025 12:15 PM (gDn8A)

90 From the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania last year, which killed a husband and father, to the attacks on ICE agents, to the vicious murder of a health care executive in the streets of New York, to the shooting of House Majority Leader Steve Scalice and three others. Radical left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 11:54 AM

This does not even include the terrorist attacks on Tesla dealerships and people's cars. And they were terrorist attacks, as they were politically motivated violence.

And the violence did not stop due to anyone in the Democrat party or left asking people to stop (as none of them, as far as I know, did so), but only because Tesla vehicles have cameras and were catching these people in the act. And people were subsequently arrested and prosecuted.

President Trump could take this back to 2020 as well with all the burning-looting-murdering by BLM and antifa. This radical domestic terrorism has been raging for at least 5-10 years.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 12:16 PM (P5BPp)

91 Brooke Singman, a Fox News Digital reporter, is also reporting that the killer's room mate is a tranny.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 13, 2025 12:17 PM (2UnvF)

92 Posted by: A chain forged in life, Ebenezer! at September 13, 2025 12:12 PM (TbWk/)

That's what I thought as well. Then I learned the meaning of the word Ebeneezer in the Bible.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 12:17 PM (Nx5jP)

93 If the report is correct about Robinson banging his would be tranny roommate us correct, the left will go into overdrive bat shit crazy. They will throw every verbal punch they can . They will be paranoid ( more than usual) that the right will kill them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 13, 2025 12:18 PM (Ve63F)

94 And the little shitstains weren't satisfied with that, at all; many wanted people children taken away, wanted vaxx 'refuseniks' in prison, and so on.

They were calling for camps to concentrate people who refused the "vaccination" and literally created such camps in Australia and put people in them

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 12:18 PM (dfIr7)

95 Loomer is reporting this:
x.com/BrookeSingman/status/1966889202412347602
Robinson was boning his roommate, who was transitioning into being female. S/he is now singing like a canary, if a rather huskyvoiced canary.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 12:08 PM (gKWVE)

So the killer is a violent, militant homosexual?

Posted by: Lady Boi Johnson at September 13, 2025 12:19 PM (R/m4+)

96 The dancing loonies are morally guilty of murder. There is no doubt they would murder anyone for a wrong opinion.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at September 13, 2025 12:19 PM (kTd/k)

97 Danimal28,
These leftists being fired are probably being held accountable for the first time in their lives for their spittle flecked spite against other humans. Some will undoubtedly react violently for it. The thought expressed follows the deed sometimes.

Posted by: whig's phone at September 13, 2025 12:20 PM (eAs8J)

98 95 Loomer is reporting this:
x.com/BrookeSingman/status/1966889202412347602
Robinson was boning his roommate, who was transitioning into being female. S/he is now singing like a canary, if a rather huskyvoiced canary.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 12:08 PM (gKWVE)

So the killer is a violent, militant homosexual?

Posted by: Lady Boi Johnson at September 13, 2025 12:19 PM (R/m4+)

Is that the fetish, when you still want to sleep with them as they become a girl?

Posted by: Nova Local at September 13, 2025 12:20 PM (tOcjL)

99 Actually, Jesus said that His Father works and He works, on the Sabbath

Yeah the 4th commandment is an eternal law for us, it was made for us, not for God. He doesn't need the rest, we do.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 12:20 PM (dfIr7)

100 I can't conceive of a rational employer hiring a murderer.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at September 13, 2025 12:20 PM (kTd/k)

101 >>> 100 I can't conceive of a rational employer hiring a murderer.
Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at September 13, 2025 12:20 PM (kTd/k)

I think I see the problem.

Just wait until the DEI-trained medical "professionals" start getting hired out and about the country.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2025 12:22 PM (ULPxl)

102 Tenured professors have not covered themselves in glory the last several years. They let the inmates take over the asylum.

I remember thinking when the “woke” lunatics were confined to a small subset of campus. I clearly recall being secure in believing they will never get anywhere in the sciences, mathematics, chemistry, engineering etc. To the extent they have, they’ve ruined the programs. Behold the power of crazy. They won’t shut the fuck up and they won’t change the subject. But this did not need to happen.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 12:22 PM (ayI3s)

103 The dancing loonies are morally guilty of murder. There is no doubt they would murder anyone for a wrong opinion.

Gary (nerdrotic) mentioned that he spent time in prison with a guy who was in for life for being the driver of guys who murdered someone. He didn't pull the trigger but was just as guilty.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 12:22 PM (dfIr7)

104 "I think it's a lot of very loud, very twisted people who think that way. But is it really a majority?"

It doesn't matter, really. The twisted people control their culture. The rest are followers. The urge to be left alone is nothing next than the need to do the bidding of "the Great beast."

Posted by: Ordinary American at September 13, 2025 11:55 AM

Maybe not a majority across the country, but I would say that majority of people in positions of influence in this country are radical leftists. They control our school system, our university system, our media, social media, the entertainment industry, healthcare industry, numerous levels of government, numerous levels of federal and local law enforcement (e.g. Soros DAs), tech industry, etc.

The most dangerous that has needed to be a priority for decades is the fact they have been in control of media, schools and universities for decades, indoctrinating generations.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 12:22 PM (P5BPp)

105 "Here I raise mine Ebeneezer,"

It is such a great verse in a great song, and yet modern versions have change the words. Charlie did. God bless him for faith in a mighty God who delivers us from or through suffering, or delivers us home to Him.

Posted by: moki at September 13, 2025 12:22 PM (wLjpr)

106 Saw a TV news report a ICE agent was dragged by a Illegal at a traffic stop and was in serious condition.
I take it Illegal grabbed agent and floored the car.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 12:22 PM (+qU29)

107 Unclear if there's any hope for the broader society, the depth of degradation and collapse in "education" and several other key areas, where it was known the general mindset was delusional and extreme for some time. Presumably the Pentagon will manage to clear out the no longer shocking number of uniformed personnel who mouthed the vile misinformed party line ("racist, misogynist, homophobic").

But practically speaking the most important thing is whether Trump and co. can implement what the boss has already articulated as their goal, to dismantle, defund, and destroy the $$ networks that fund pantyfa et al, and pursue criminal prosecution where appropriate.

Overall, the rot seems so pervasive and deep that any goals for the larger society should be set very very low.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2025 12:22 PM (U/Byj)

108 It's not death being celebrated, it's murder. Big difference.

Posted by: ... at September 13, 2025 12:23 PM (E0p3T)

109 We have a launch soon

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 17-10
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: September 13, 2025
New T-Zero: 10:55 a.m. PDT (1755 UTC, 19:55 CEST).

https://youtu.be/rUVTFjslnlc

Posted by: Joyenz at September 13, 2025 12:24 PM (2F0/Y)

110 Tenured professors have not covered themselves in glory the last several years. They let the inmates take over the asylum.

Same with business. Several insiders on Friday Night Tights talked about how the leftists are so dense in business (especially show business) that the owners are afraid of their employees throwing a fit if they say or do something.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 12:24 PM (dfIr7)

111 Normie parents needs to get involved in their local school boards.

If they have time to sit around and watch NFL games and watch Disney movies, they have time to go to a school board meeting or two.

Doing nothing is no longer good enough.

Posted by: Iasonas at September 13, 2025 12:24 PM (gUzGB)

112 >>> 111 Normie parents needs to get involved in their local school boards.

If they have time to sit around and watch NFL games and watch Disney movies, they have time to go to a school board meeting or two.

Doing nothing is no longer good enough.
Posted by: Iasonas at September 13, 2025 12:24 PM (gUzGB)

Home schooling needs to be considered as well.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2025 12:25 PM (ULPxl)

113 So the killer is a violent, militant homosexual?

Posted by: Lady Boi Johnson at September 13, 2025 12:19 PM (R/m4+)

Is that the fetish, when you still want to sleep with them as they become a girl?
Posted by: Nova Local at September 13, 2025 12:20 PM (tOcjL)
------------
Goes a long way to explaining one of the freaky-deaky things he scratched on the cartridges.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 13, 2025 12:25 PM (WvZaB)

114 Loomer is reporting this:
x.com/BrookeSingman/status/1966889202412347602
Robinson was boning his roommate, who was transitioning into being female. S/he is now singing like a canary, if a rather huskyvoiced canary.

Not sure what to say. The lefties are real invested in "the killer was a groyper" right now.

Posted by: KT at September 13, 2025 12:25 PM (7vIsy)

115 I want every death that happened under those cheering nurses' care to be investigated.
We got a black widow nest in our hospitals.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 12:26 PM (gKWVE)

116 Posted by: moki at September 13, 2025 12:22 PM (wLjpr

I am not familiar with modern versions. It still says "Ebeneezer" in our hymnal. I usually try to explain the background of the hymns in church or words that might not be familiar with .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 12:26 PM (Nx5jP)

117 NPR interviewee this morning casually mentioned as self-evident that "Kirk's remarks were often deeply offensive".

Testicularly-unburdened NPR host let it go as an obvious truth, instead of saying "Hold on there Cowboy, give us an example of that deeply offensive shit, okay?'"

I have a deeply offensive remark for NPR: "Fuck you. Dead in the ass."

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at September 13, 2025 12:26 PM (PQOq3)

118 106 Saw a TV news report a ICE agent was dragged by a Illegal at a traffic stop and was in serious condition.
I take it Illegal grabbed agent and floored the car.
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 12:22 PM (+qU29)

Story had a happy ending - while he was being dragged, agent pulled out his service weapon and plugged the driver a couple of times. ICE agent survived, driver did not.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2025 12:27 PM (uWKK8)

119 My step-sister has proven to be a largely selfish and worthless c*nt, honestly.

Life is already hard. Now, it's really starting to suck. I pray for guidance and strength, not just for me, but for everyone.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 13, 2025 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

I'm sorry for your loss Sponge. Going through items is the worst. I'm almost finished but it took me longer because I took care of Mom and despite my asshole brother's efforts, still live here.

I also have a subhuman c+nt of a step sister!

Fun, aren't they?

All the best.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 13, 2025 12:28 PM (jvJvP)

120 Nerdrotic's prison/criminal content is the best content he's posted (I'm not being snarky). Top tier scared-straight shit. If you have a teenaged boy (or maybe girl, some of them can get nuts too) then they need to watch it.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 12:28 PM (gKWVE)

121 He didn't pull the trigger but was just as guilty.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 12:22 PM (dfIr7

I have a distant cousin who got out of prison a few years ago. He did the full twenty-five years of hard time because he helped his friends dispose of the body. He didn't kill the guy. The bastard who tripped the trigger got a shorter sentence because daddy is well connected. Someone had to pay the check.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 13, 2025 12:28 PM (2J/Lj)

122 Sister in law...

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 13, 2025 12:28 PM (jvJvP)

123 Testicularly-unburdened NPR host let it go as an obvious truth, instead of saying "Hold on there Cowboy, give us an example of that deeply offensive shit, okay?'"

I wonder if it ever listened to Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at September 13, 2025 12:28 PM (kTd/k)

124 I feel like I am reliving 1968.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2025 12:28 PM (ZmEVT)

125 Testicularly-unburdened NPR host let it go as an obvious truth, instead of saying "Hold on there Cowboy, give us an example of that deeply offensive shit, okay?'"

Remember, these are people on the 20% side of the 80-20 divide, and in a nest of their kind. They are all equally pearl-clutching about shocking statements like "men do not belong in girl's changing rooms"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 12:28 PM (dfIr7)

126 Common Tater, as a former tenured prof at a school in the South, the switch was Obama's second term and new Millennial hires replacing retiring silents and Baby Boomer colleagues.

I had to take medical retirement last year but 2013 or so is when DEI and speech is violence nations occurred in wake of Obergefell.

Posted by: whig's phone at September 13, 2025 12:29 PM (eAs8J)

127 For those that are unfamiliar with the word in the Bible or would like to know about it, here's a article on Ebeneezer":

https://tinyurl.com/3jdyr5fc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 12:30 PM (Nx5jP)

128 Tenured professors have not covered themselves in glory the last several years. They let the inmates take over the asylum.

I'd abolish tenure going forward. It has not achieved its stated purpose of protecting academic freedom (academia is monolithic in its views and not very academic or productive of heterodox viewpoints). And there's no other reason why professors of all people alone should be insulated from market forces.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 12:30 PM (4/BuS)

129 As noted by others here, consider the challenge in coming years as the people deformed by vile indoctrination enter the workforce in law, medicine, etc. You think things are bad now (and they are)?

I remain satisfied that my term of racist-totalitarian adequately captures the mindset of those disfigured in recent decades. Lots of separate pathologies, but altogether forming a worldview utterly alien to what could be considered the most distinctive and admirable historically American mindset.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2025 12:31 PM (U/Byj)

130 I'd abolish tenure going forward. It has not achieved its stated purpose of protecting academic freedom

I agree, something has to change. Tenure simply created a situation where there was no recourse for one group of zealots taking over each department one at a time and shutting out diversity of thought.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 12:32 PM (dfIr7)

131
Sooner or later you figure out that pragmatism and compromise are principles in a democracy. It's not selling out your convictions -- Bill Clinton, top 20 high ball'r on Epstein's Island Paradise

From Archive.org, but still prescient.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-MorallySuperiorSharks
... Even more obscene is the celebration by the Democrats of the scandal during a presidential campaign.They would gladly sacrifice the country if only they could rule over its ruins. ...
...
when Hillary moves into the White House, the immorality of the United States will need a different scale for measurement, a scale which will leave sharks barely visible even with a powerful microscope.

How TRUE!

LIB's plead for a Morality which holds COMPROMISE as it's standard of Value, making it possible to judge Virtue on the basis of the number of Values which one is willing to Betray.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 13, 2025 12:32 PM (ZBeQ1)

132 No one,
This is transnational, more like 1848 than 1968. Western society is going batshit crazy over illegals and deviant sex.

End of gramscian rampage through institutions.

Posted by: whig's phone at September 13, 2025 12:33 PM (eAs8J)

133 I noticed a lot of teachers and other govt workers were placed “on leave”. Which means they’re getting a vacation until this all blows over.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 13, 2025 11:52 AM (AvVQO)

The answer to that, difficult as it is to achieve, is to not let it blow over.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 13, 2025 12:33 PM (ExV1e)

134 tarns activist assassinated Charlie Kirk ? demons

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 12:33 PM (g47mK)

135 As Dennis Prager has pointed out Leftists stay in their bubble only taking in what other Leftists say, mostly rhetoric and Propaganda so total BS.

These people believe every shooter in the last 15 years has been proven to be a staunch conservative. Robinson, the Minnesota Walz-employed shooter, the Minnesota trantifa shooter, the Nashville trantifa shooter, the Bernie Bro that shot Steve Scalise, etc, etc. MSNBC never tells them otherwise, and Reddit certainly doesn't.

Popping that bubble would greatly improve things all around.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2025 12:33 PM (QZThv)

136 I'm feeling deeply sad. Come Lord Jesus.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at September 13, 2025 12:34 PM (kTd/k)

137 NBC catches a ratio
x.com/NBCNews/status/1966690823535227147
BTW, I feel like I owe people here an apology. Last week I was babbling that MSNBC isn't associated with NBC, it's MS-NOW, Comcast/Peacock/NBC is going to be better just watch.
It's the same human centipede with the media.
Shame on me.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 12:34 PM (gKWVE)

138 "Fortunately, some on the left have been coming around."

I've gotten jaded to the point where I believe them to all be fake. If I see a "conservative" who just can't get on board with Trump or MAGA or whatever, I assume it's actually a leftist in disguise trying to bolster the side they already belonged to. Likewise, when I see a "liberal" abandoning the left and seeing the light or whatever, I assume it's actually a conservative in disguise trying to bolster the side they already belonged to.

"All the world's a stage, and everything on it is bullshit" seems the only prudent view.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at September 13, 2025 12:34 PM (v7apI)

139 I feel like I am reliving 1968.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2025 12:28 PM (ZmEV

Lets not be silly! 1968 is an even number and 2025 is an odd number.... So..... Totally different!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 13, 2025 12:34 PM (2J/Lj)

140 tarns activist assassinated Charlie Kirk ?

Maybe. This is a wait and see thing, he was clearly pro trans and antifa based on his sayings on the gun and ammo

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 12:34 PM (dfIr7)

141 Don't drink her flavor aid.

Posted by: sTevo at September 13, 2025 12:35 PM (HNXEw)

142 Leftists don't hang out with conservatives.

What they think they know about conservatives comes from other leftists.

Posted by: Iasonas at September 13, 2025 12:35 PM (gUzGB)

143 66 The Bolsheviks were never the majority, but they took over a major country making everyone else thinking they were the majority.
Posted by: Skip
-------------

Marines.
It's the will to win.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 12:35 PM (RK8vO)

144 Last week I was babbling that MSNBC isn't associated with NBC, it's MS-NOW, Comcast/Peacock/NBC is going to be better just watch.

MS-NOW is being separated from NBC News, but it doesn't mean NBC's getting better.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2025 12:36 PM (QZThv)

145 What whig just said. The collapse of civil society especially as seen in "education" eventually produces consequences.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2025 12:36 PM (U/Byj)

146 How can someone who has acknowledged it is too stupid to debate someone with different opinions than there own possibly be fit to be a professor or teacher?

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at September 13, 2025 12:36 PM (kTd/k)

147 I feel like I am reliving 1968.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2025 12:28 PM (ZmEV

Lets not be silly! 1968 is an even number and 2025 is an odd number.... So..... Totally different!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 13, 2025 12:34 PM (2J/Lj)
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They're both evenly divisible by 3!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 13, 2025 12:37 PM (WvZaB)

148 New T-Zero: 10:55 a.m. PDT (1755 UTC, 19:55 CEST).

https://youtu.be/rUVTFjslnlc

Posted by: Joyenz at September 13, 2025 12:24 PM (2F0/Y)

Thanks for the reminder. I watch the launches whenever I can. I'm still in awe that they can get a million pounds of rocket fuel into the air, time after time.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 13, 2025 12:38 PM (cnmiW)

149 Fwiw, the problem I saw was more administrators. Those over student affairs in particular. Tenure protected the reasonable ones until administrators started eviscerating that like in the Mike Adams case over a decade ago. So tenure now only protects those that administrators like. See Lisa Cook as example, econ department wanted to deny tenure, admin forced it through because twofer pokemon pts. Black and female.

Posted by: whig's phone at September 13, 2025 12:38 PM (eAs8J)

150 >>>I would say they also need to call in for questioning the two people standing behind Charlie Kirk to his right, who seemed to be making signals right before the shot was taken.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
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One military person close to the tent said it the location was a kill box. Who and why was that specific location chosen?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 12:39 PM (RK8vO)

151 This is transnational, more like 1848 than 1968. Western society is going batshit crazy over illegals and deviant sex.

End of gramscian rampage through institutions.

The big idea on the left is that Obama's election signaled that Marxists controlled everything and they could drop all the disguises. That's why they talk about the 2016 election the way the Palestinians talk about 1948. Then in 2020 they thought they once again had permanent power (all the experts said so!) and dropped even more disguises, and the result is now, where Trump's performed an unprecedented gutting of the government/Marxist NGO money pipeline and is now talking about RICO charges against George and Alex Soros.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2025 12:40 PM (QZThv)

152 Something to ponder upon:

How is the Left side of aisle handling the current state of affairs? What is their strategy to turn around the onslaught that has recognized their contribution to the current state of poisoned affairs?

It's very telling that the most over the hill with nothing to lose politician made their case for them (poorly). Nancy Pelosi was their choice, and she got brutally ripped apart in response. Bernie Sanders produced a video the day before, and tried the same message (the right is just as culpable as the left, and MORE violent). His prime focus was the attempted Whitmer Kidnapping case (which was pure entrapment and manipulation of half-wits by the FBI).

That should tell you something. They have no idea how to counter this. And no one with a potential political future ahead of them wants to stick their heads up.

Posted by: Orson at September 13, 2025 12:40 PM (dIske)

153 They're both evenly divisible by 3!!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 13, 2025 12:37 PM (WvZaB)

NO MATH!!!!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 13, 2025 12:40 PM (2J/Lj)

154 Tom Servo - didn't see anything after initial report, sounds like it ended well

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 12:41 PM (+qU29)

155 They have no idea how to counter this. And no one with a potential political future ahead of them wants to stick their heads up.

Jasmine Ratchet has, but her future is is questionable as her blaccent.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2025 12:42 PM (QZThv)

156 I don't think we can build insane asylums fast enough for these people who think murder is the answer to their problems. And they do have mental problems. They are a threat to everyone even themselves. There is no arguing with insane people.

Posted by: Case at September 13, 2025 12:43 PM (iwlvf)

157 What is their strategy to turn around the onslaught that has recognized their contribution to the current state of poisoned affairs?

They are lying. They are claiming that the left never once even said anything that enticed and inflamed the left, never said anything incendary, and besides even if they did the right does it too like Trump putting out a cartoon of Biden being arrested.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 12:44 PM (dfIr7)

158 Ian S
Very possible. Plus social media generations were viewed as more easily controlled by censorship and algorithms. If all else failed, deplatforming and demonetization.

Posted by: whig's phone at September 13, 2025 12:45 PM (eAs8J)

159 Prayers for all whom grieve, all that suffer, all whom are confused, lost or alone.

Amen

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at September 13, 2025 12:45 PM (PcTds)

160 Saw a pic of the "roommate" - oh boy, if it's real, the left will be trying to bury this entire event faster than anything...let's say, his transition to her is not the attractive kind...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 13, 2025 12:46 PM (tOcjL)

161 Jasmine Ratchet needs to be **types***deletes, and then get***types***deletes, and if that doesn't shut her whore mouth just***types****deletes***!!!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 13, 2025 12:46 PM (2J/Lj)

162 I don't think we can build insane asylums fast enough for these people who think murder is the answer to their problems. And they do have mental problems. They are a threat to everyone even themselves. There is no arguing with insane people.

A lot of current insanity is following the same path as crime. If the top crazies get locked up and can't make TikTok or Instagram videos influencing the borderline cases into being crazy, you'll see a dramatic reduction.

Similar to why I want the death penalty for Robinson: if an antifa assassin gets executed, ideally publicly, it'll have a chilling effect on further antifa garbage.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2025 12:46 PM (QZThv)

163 I'm listening to Kate Bush sing Oh England my Lionheart it makes me cry.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at September 13, 2025 12:46 PM (kTd/k)

164 Thanks , KT , for your thoughts and for the hymn, "Come, Thou font of every blessing." I really like that hymn.

I add my thanks and will also say that that hymn is one of my favorites as well.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at September 13, 2025 12:46 PM (PcTds)

165 As a point to consider, Kirk's positions would have been considered centrist a generation before.

Now its extreme right wing speech deserving of death?

That means the left thinks everyone before now deserved death for their views

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2025 12:46 PM (sKqQm)

166 Apparently the assissin lived with a trans.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 13, 2025 12:48 PM (LjSYW)

167 That means the left thinks everyone before now deserved death for their views
Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2025 12:46 PM (sKqQm)

The current crop of crazy/evil would kill JFK themselves.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 13, 2025 12:49 PM (2J/Lj)

168 147 I feel like I am reliving 1968.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2025 12:28 PM (ZmEV

Lets not be silly! 1968 is an even number and 2025 is an odd number.... So..... Totally different!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 13, 2025 12:34 PM (2J/Lj)
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They're both evenly divisible by 3!!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 13, 2025 12:37 PM (WvZaB)
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And 3 is a Prime number and we are primed for success!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2025 12:49 PM (2WIwB)

169 As a point to consider, Kirk's positions would have been considered centrist a generation before.

Something more to consider: his positions are moderate to more than half the country and the great majority of humanity on earth. We are not the 20% side of the 80-20 divide.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 12:50 PM (dfIr7)

170 As a point to consider, Kirk's positions would have been considered centrist a generation before.

Now its extreme right wing speech deserving of death?

Even people with lefty views who actually watch some of Kirk's videos come out agreeing he's not extreme. Tearing down the left's bubble should be a focus because a lot of them hold those beliefs simply due to not knowing the truth.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2025 12:50 PM (QZThv)

171 Beautiful. Now a "judge" (state level?) in Cincinnati posting vile idiotic comments about the murder. A "judge". This piece of human garbage has been removed from an advisory board to some foundation for his troubles, but beyond that who knows.

No corner of society is immune from the degradation, a lowering tide lowers all boats, but it's especially infuriating and depressing when people (absurdly) given responsibility and power reveal what unfit despicable freaks they are.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2025 12:50 PM (U/Byj)

172 Prone to wander
Lord I feel it
Prone to leave the God I love
Here's my heart
O take it, seal it
Seal it for thy courts above.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at September 13, 2025 12:51 PM (PcTds)

173 166 Apparently the assissin lived with a trans.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 13, 2025 12:48 PM (LjSYW)

I'm thinking we're gonna have the "white knight" defense coming...only preserving my "princess's" way of life and protecting "her" honor...

And princess didn't think he'd really go through with it...thus, "her" folding and immediately showing the Discord messages (also, trying to avoid accessory and conspiracy charges)...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 13, 2025 12:51 PM (tOcjL)

174 I surely hope Mrs. Kirk is not above suing the socks off Stephen King for defamation. He has been running his suck far too long. Start with him, win the case, and go down the list. LT fuckin' Sulu, George Takei, gets pretty mouthy. Of course, Fat Rosie now of County Bumfuck. Any number of "on air talent" at MSwhatever. Take what you need, Erika and put the rest in the kitty for the cause.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 13, 2025 12:51 PM (gm9Sb)

175 Saw a pic of the "roommate" - oh boy, if it's real, the left will be trying to bury this entire event faster than anything...let's say, his transition to her is not the attractive kind...
Posted by: Nova Local at September 13, 2025 12:46 PM (tOcjL)

Link?

Posted by: Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp at September 13, 2025 12:52 PM (R/m4+)

176 I want Stephen King sued into poverty.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at September 13, 2025 12:52 PM (kTd/k)

177 Can the governor of Ohio strip this creature of it's judicial authority?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 13, 2025 12:52 PM (2J/Lj)

178 175 Saw a pic of the "roommate" - oh boy, if it's real, the left will be trying to bury this entire event faster than anything...let's say, his transition to her is not the attractive kind...
Posted by: Nova Local at September 13, 2025 12:46 PM (tOcjL)

Link?

Posted by: Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp at September 13, 2025 12:52 PM (R/m4+)

On Facebook post, so not sure I can link that...let me see if it's also moved to X...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 13, 2025 12:52 PM (tOcjL)

179 Surprisingly enough, Mark Hamill had a decent take about not shooting people for disagreeing. I mean it was the bare minimum of humanity but for once he wasn't an insane hateful crank.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 12:52 PM (dfIr7)

180 Can the governor of Ohio strip this creature of it's judicial authority?

No, but the legislature can remove them from their position by impeaching and trying them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 12:53 PM (dfIr7)

181 Bluesky user wants Kirks wife to be next

https://tinyurl.com/blueskyterror

Posted by: Joyenz at September 13, 2025 12:54 PM (2F0/Y)

182 Apparently the assissin lived with a trans.

I said he was a homicidal murderer, I should have said homo-cidal murderer

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2025 12:54 PM (sKqQm)

183 I mean it was the bare minimum of humanity but for once he wasn't an insane hateful crank.

Everyone expected the bare minimum. The fact that a lot of people, including name Democrats, did not do the bare minimum is why many people have been shocked into seeing that the Democrats are the Democrats.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2025 12:54 PM (QZThv)

184 177 Buckeye here by birth. I don't know. Ohio judges have a lot going for them when trouble brews. Stuff like they can only be tried by a panel of their peers (drinking buddies). It wouldn't surprise me if it's hands off, even with the Gov.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 13, 2025 12:54 PM (gm9Sb)

185 I'd abolish tenure going forward. It has not achieved its stated purpose of protecting academic freedom (academia is monolithic in its views and not very academic or productive of heterodox viewpoints). And there's no other reason why professors of all people alone should be insulated from market forces.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 12:30 PM (4/BuS)

I watched someone close to me go through the tenure process at a private university. I realized that whether she achieved tenure was heavily dependent on the extent of her conformity. I do not believe, for instance, that she could have achieved tenure if she had declined the clot shot. She had to blend perfectly with the mindset in academia.

Posted by: Emmie at September 13, 2025 12:55 PM (FMtrg)

186 for once he wasn't an insane hateful crank.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

And last night, Kamala Harris didn't blow anybody on her walk through the parking lot.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 12:55 PM (gKWVE)

187 >>> I would say they also need to call in for questioning the two people standing behind Charlie Kirk to his right, who seemed to be making signals right before the shot was taken.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 12:02 PM (P5BPp)

When I've seen this asked before people have answered that one of the people making "signals" was one of Charlie's best friends who accompany and assist him, part of his team.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 13, 2025 12:56 PM (3uBP9)

188 I've seen too many comments preface comments decrying murder by insisting they didn't like Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at September 13, 2025 12:56 PM (kTd/k)

189 184 177 Buckeye here by birth. I don't know. Ohio judges have a lot going for them when trouble brews. Stuff like they can only be tried by a panel of their peers (drinking buddies). It wouldn't surprise me if it's hands off, even with the Gov.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 13, 2025 12:54 PM (gm9Sb

"It's ok to shoot people who say things I don't like" is a pretty sporty position for a judge. People do occasionally shoot them (and lawyers in general).

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 12:57 PM (4/BuS)

190 Just thought the old rhyme
Sticks and stones may break my bones
But your H8 speech will make me kill you

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 12:57 PM (+qU29)

191 Hi speed train to California bankruptcy news: more tens of billion$$$ needed to go from Lancaster to Gilroy to earn from passenger fares $1.6 billion.

They're shameless. Taxpayers in California are hiring good looking hookers that are packing equipment.

Posted by: torabora at September 13, 2025 12:58 PM (+LXmR)

192 a)Murderer
b)Assassin
c)Executioner
d)Demonic Piece of Shit
e)All of the above

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 13, 2025 12:58 PM (2J/Lj)

193 People do occasionally shoot them (and lawyers in general).

Just couple weeks ago a judge was gunned down for being an evil corrupt piece of crap by a dad.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 12:59 PM (dfIr7)

194 I saw a video by the kid that asked that question. He had obviously been crying. He said he asked it and was going to tell Charlie that the Left was peaceful. But they shot him.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 01:00 PM (kUxzU)

195 There no doubt are judges who would benefit from a little fear of the Lord.

Posted by: Still lurking up north, read some, don't comment much at September 13, 2025 01:00 PM (kTd/k)

196 193 I don't know where that happened, but it is an example of one of the few reasons to live in Louisiana. That Napoleonic Code Crime of Passion stuff can come in handy.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 13, 2025 01:01 PM (gm9Sb)

197 And last night, Kamala Harris didn't blow anybody on her walk through the parking lot.

"Hey, try not to suck any dick on the way through the parking lot!" - Dante Hicks

Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2025 01:02 PM (QZThv)

198 Stephen King apologized and deleted his post.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 01:02 PM (kUxzU)

199 What is their strategy to turn around the onslaught that has recognized their contribution to the current state of poisoned affairs?

They are lying. They are claiming that the left never once even said anything that enticed and inflamed the left, never said anything incendary, and besides even if they did the right does it too like Trump putting out a cartoon of Biden being arrested.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 12:44 PM

I think their strategy so far is to say that Charlie Kirk deserved it, because he was a Nazi and all his hateful rhetoric.

That's what I am seeing from politicians' statements and leftist statements. That's the consensus response. There are some who are trying to "soften" those statements by prefacing them with "I do not agree with assassinations BUT..." and then listing out things they claim Charlie Kirk said which made him a danger and a Nazi in their eyes.

Fright Night Tights showed a post from Christina Ricci last night where she said:

"Not to speak ill of the dead or anything, BUT... Things to remember about Charlie Kirk:"

X: https://bit.ly/4nu8Mo0

So they are justifying his assassination.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 01:02 PM (P5BPp)

200 When I've seen this asked before people have answered that one of the people making "signals" was one of Charlie's best friends who accompany and assist him, part of his team.
Posted by: banana Dream at September 13, 2025 12:56 PM (3uBP9)

What if the "signal" was "bro there's someone on that roof"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 01:03 PM (06Hmj)

201 Bluesky user wants Kirks wife to be next

The popular meme on Bluesky last night was reportedly "You can't spell 'Erika Kirk' without KKK".

Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2025 01:03 PM (QZThv)

202 >Robinson was boning his roommate, who was transitioning into being female.
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Letting the clinically insane roam free from being institutionalized turned out to be a huge mistake.

There's a real need to fire up the asylums again, as Trump suggested some time ago. The left goes on about the right being "a threat to democracy" while their insane foot soldiers go around assassinating people.

Something ain't right with all that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2025 01:05 PM (Q4IgG)

203 The popular meme on Bluesky last night was reportedly "You can't spell 'Erika Kirk' without KKK".
Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2025 01:03 PM (QZThv)

Heh. Good. Excellent.

Keep it up, fucknuts. Keep letting everyone know who you are.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 01:05 PM (06Hmj)

204 >>> I feel like I am reliving 1968.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2025 12:28 PM (ZmEVT)

I was born in '70 so all I know I heard from my older sisters who were in high school at the time. I remember them telling me about daily race riots, knife fights in gym locker rooms, a constant level of threat, and this was in the middle of Kansas. I didn't see any of that in the 80s. I don't know if it boiled over and then went back to a simmer or the militants just went underground quietly infiltrating everything. But the late 60s sounded pretty bad.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 13, 2025 01:05 PM (3uBP9)

205 Stephen King apologized and deleted his post.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 01:02 PM (kUxzU)

He fell short of doing a swan dive into a wood chipper. Not good enough.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 01:06 PM (01SDT)

206 Letting the clinically insane roam free from being institutionalized turned out to be a huge mistake.

Which is why the Democrats pushed for it so hard. They want societal Cloward-Piven.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2025 01:06 PM (QZThv)

207 But your H8 speech will make me kill you

For most of human history evil people wanted the Svegali effect where they can make other people do their bidding without a direct connection or traceable monetary inducement.

Many movies have this trope.

I want to know, if Conservatives have these Jedi skills over weak minds, why can't we speak them into doing good?

Are they saying that CK was Jedi?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 01:07 PM (a4flb)

208 203 "Makin' a list, checkin' it twice, gonna find out who's naughty or nice, Blam".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 13, 2025 01:07 PM (gm9Sb)

209 Problem for the oppo is they have no Trump, or Vance, or Charlie Kirk, because how could they? The practical application of their policies has been proved as disastrous for society time and time again, and their moral framework is based on celebrating dysfunction and obvious untruths. How WOULD you logically convince someone that gender is a choice? Or Chicago was built by Indians and slaves? Or that in 2025 every black person is in mortal danger every day from roving bands of white racists? All that is simply and obviously not true and their only power is threatening consequences if you don't submit and lie with them. All of their political leaders are obviously mostly interested in riches and perks and are chosen by how badly they want 1% status without possession of any skill beyond the ability to lie with a straight face. We have no idea who actually controls their movement and it's obviously not the leaders we see as they show no ability to do so.

Posted by: Azjaeger at September 13, 2025 01:08 PM (cnMKF)

210 I was born in '70 so all I know I heard from my older sisters who were in high school at the time. I remember them telling me about daily race riots, knife fights in gym locker rooms, a constant level of threat, and this was in the middle of Kansas. I didn't see any of that in the 80s.

Same and same. But it's documented that things were wild in the late 60s and early to mid 70s. There were multiple Marxist bombings every week in the early 70s, and the media simply refused to mention them. Local crime story, you see. And that was before people knew Walter Cronkite was a piece of shit.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2025 01:09 PM (QZThv)

211 They are lying. They are claiming that the left never once even said anything that enticed and inflamed the left, never said anything incendary, and besides even if they did the right does it too like Trump putting out a cartoon of Biden being arrested.

The left is all over the place right now.

Kirk deserved for saying rightwing hate speech, but the shooter was right wing. The left never advocated violence, oh and thank Gaia that's asshole's dead he deserved it. It was a false flag attack, and wouldn't you kill Hitler before he came to power if you could?

And on and on

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2025 01:09 PM (sKqQm)

212 451 My wife passed away on Aug. 18. While it wasn't a sudden death, it wasn't expected, either. Just went into the hospital with suspected pneumonia (it wasn't pneumonia) and never came home.

I know what you are going through.

One day at a time...
Posted by: one hour sober at September 13, 2025 11:21 AM (Y1sOo)

==Willowed from Coffee Break thread

Sorry for your loss...

Posted by: joemarine at September 13, 2025 01:09 PM (y171U)

213 I am willing to give King credit for recognizing he was wrong and apologizing. Not a lot of credit because he's a creepy and nasty old man but some.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 01:09 PM (dfIr7)

214 179 Surprisingly enough, Mark Hamill had a decent take about not shooting people for disagreeing. I mean it was the bare minimum of humanity but for once he wasn't an insane hateful crank.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

That's only because Corvette Summer II filming is about to wrap up.

Posted by: Annie Potts at September 13, 2025 01:09 PM (oftw2)

215 190 Just thought the old rhyme
Sticks and stones may break my bones
But your H8 speech will make me kill you

Nice Skip

Good question for our society at this time: under which slogan would you like to live?

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me
OR
Sticks and stones may break my bones
But your H8 speech will make me kill you

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at September 13, 2025 01:10 PM (PcTds)

216
Fright Night Tights showed a post from Christina Ricci last night where she said:

"Not to speak ill of the dead or anything,

She still is in character on her Addams family Wednesday role.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 01:10 PM (a4flb)

217 And on and on
Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2025 01:09 PM (sKqQm)

You know that video, of the windmill in a storm going unstable and grenading itself in a storm?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 01:10 PM (06Hmj)

218 I saw something on FB accusing Kirk of hating MLK. I suspect more lies being passed around.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 01:10 PM (kUxzU)

219 I am glad the Cultural Marxists masks have come off

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 01:10 PM (+qU29)

220 And last night, Kamala Harris didn't blow anybody on her walk through the parking lot.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 12:55 PM

"Hey, try not to suck any dick on the way through the parking lot!"

https://bit.ly/4pBnPyi

Posted by: Dante Hicks at September 13, 2025 01:11 PM (P5BPp)

221 I'm reading articles on Charlie Kirk in the Detroit News (which smells more and more like the Freep) and over and over they use the words "divisive" and "deeply polarizing" to describe a man who was a uniter.

I can't wait to unsubscribe to this fish wrap, but it's Mom's paper.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 13, 2025 01:12 PM (r2Uym)

222 Heh. High school, senior year 1969. Some of the black guys and some of the white guys got into a major beef in the cafeteria/study hall. Lots of punches, chairs being thrown, all kinds of good stuff. Principal, via intercom, sent all coaches down there to bust things up by any means necessary.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 13, 2025 01:12 PM (gm9Sb)

223 I am never shocked or surprised when an athlete or actor has a stupid take on things, they are very dumb and narcissistic and isolated from reality. You can't expect any better from them than you would a dumb dog. Once in a while one surprises you, like Billy Dee Williams who praised Charlie Kirk.

But Steven King should have known better to trust some random quote without context, being an author himself.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 01:13 PM (dfIr7)

224 over and over they use the words "divisive" and "deeply polarizing" to describe a man who was a uniter.

One could cover this sort of thing fairly. Kirk was a strong advocate for conservative principles who debated left wing adherents on campus or something like that.

But the FNM decided long ago anyone right of center was divisive and anyone left of center was a uniter which BY DEFINITION makes no sense.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2025 01:14 PM (sKqQm)

225 A lot of the violence in the 70s was on the East Coast. My husband did take his draft physical at the Oakland Induction Center, right after it had been bombed. He said they had construction crews working on the damage, right where they did the hearing tests. Everyone passed.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 01:14 PM (kUxzU)

226 He fell short of doing a swan dive into a wood chipper. Not good enough.

Heh. Too little, too late!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at September 13, 2025 01:15 PM (PcTds)

227 I'm reading articles on Charlie Kirk in the Detroit News (which smells more and more like the Freep) and over and over they use the words "divisive" and "deeply polarizing" to describe a man who was a uniter.

Its the left's favorite trick: claim everyone who disagrees with them is controversial, polarizing, and divisive. Any opinion they dislike is radical, extreme, and problematic -- causing trouble. Its never just "a different position than I" but always counter-revolutionary and wrecker.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 01:15 PM (dfIr7)

228 But the FNM decided long ago anyone right of center was divisive and anyone left of center was a uniter which BY DEFINITION makes no sense.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2025 01:14 PM (sKqQm)

Everyone belongs on the "left".

Those who bring people to the left Unite.

Those who bring people away from the left Divide.

I don't think the thought even goes that deep in them, let alone any deeper.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 01:15 PM (06Hmj)

229 Stephen King apologized and deleted his post.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 01:02 PM

As they noted on Friday Night Tights last night, he didn't apologize for the tone and intent of his post. He apologized for getting the quote from Charlie Kirk incorrect.

The tone and intent of his post was that Charlie Kirk deserved to be shot and killed. He has not apologized for that at all.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 01:15 PM (P5BPp)

230 But Steven King should have known better to trust some random quote without context, being an author himself.

Before King reached a certain level of fame he had some grounding - if you read what his experiences in college were like you'd expect him to be right wing.

But all that fame, and surrounding himself with other celebrities, went to his head. Now he has the hack writer rewarded for writing whatever the latest fad is that he once railed against...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2025 01:16 PM (sKqQm)

231 > Letting the clinically insane roam free from being institutionalized turned out to be a huge mistake.
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Which is why the Democrats pushed for it so hard. They want societal Cloward-Piven.
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At the time the asylums were closed I don't think the left was even aware of what we'd be seeing today. Transgender nutters assassinating people and generally being a nuisance/danger to society. Sure, some of them were dangerously insane, but the majority of the patients back then were suffering from a different form of psychosis. I mean, there weren't that many trans people and if they were... they were likely heavily medicated and on suicide watch 24/7.

The left stigmatized mental illness and by the 21st century has normalized/rationalized insane behavior as mainstream. And something to be championed.

Makes you wonder who's really the retards.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2025 01:18 PM (Q4IgG)

232 Beautiful. Now a "judge" (state level?) in Cincinnati posting vile idiotic comments about the murder.

Cut & Save for any attorney in that judge's court to petition for a different judge. Obviously unstable, incapable of justice and likely vindictive.

Might be interesting for attorneys in cases lost before the "judge" to use this irrational bias in repeal.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 01:18 PM (a4flb)

233 Now he has the hack writer rewarded for writing whatever the latest fad is that he once railed against

Its how they get work and accolades. Every so often some actor will make a big public statement that's really stupid and left wing because their career is flagging. It gives them a few more roles in reward.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 01:18 PM (dfIr7)

234 Fright Night Tights showed a post from Christina Ricci last night where she said:

"Not to speak ill of the dead or anything, BUT... Things to remember about Charlie Kirk:"

X: https://bit.ly/4nu8Mo0

So they are justifying his assassination.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 01:02 PM (P5BPp)

I recall Ricci was one of the people who dressed up in a white robe, holding a candle, parading to mourn the death of Matthew Shepard, and to fight against hatred of gays.

When of course the guys who killed Sheperd included his gay lover, and another fella. They were all drug dealers. His murder was over drug money, and buggery.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 01:19 PM (WJ9zD)

235 At the time the asylums were closed I don't think the left was even aware of what we'd be seeing today.

I think that maybe some of the intellectual architects had it in mind but yeah the bulk was just "I read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and we gotta do something"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 01:20 PM (dfIr7)

236 At the time the asylums were closed I don't think the left was even aware of what we'd be seeing today.

They will blame anyone and anything other than the guilty, starting with inanimate objects and then the victim him./her self, then moving to "society at large" as if they have no part in society when they pretend to be the ruling majority.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 01:20 PM (a4flb)

237 I saw something on FB accusing Kirk of hating MLK. I suspect more lies being passed around.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 01:10 PM

That was part of Christina Ricci's X post. She stated:

Not to speak ill of the dead or anything, BUT...

Things to remember about Charlie Kirk:

-- He said it was a mistake to pass the Civil Rights Act in 1964
-- He called MLK Jr "awful" and said he was "not a good person"

X: https://bit.ly/4nu8Mo0

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 01:20 PM (P5BPp)

238 Stephen King is a big time anti 2A nut.He only believes in ownership of the Colt Woodsman, mentioned in many novels, a pistol which he no doubt owns. And, he believes Stephen King is the only person in the whole wide world that can own it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 13, 2025 01:21 PM (gm9Sb)

239 157 What is their strategy to turn around the onslaught that has recognized their contribution to the current state of poisoned affairs?

They are lying. They are claiming that the left never once even said anything that enticed and inflamed the left, never said anything incendary, and besides even if they did the right does it too like Trump putting out a cartoon of Biden being arrested.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 12:44 PM (dfIr7)
_________________________________

The perfect "Trump" card is ready to be played. Federal Law enforcement going in a cleaning up Chicago. A success in that city shows the diametrically opposed views even clearer. An honest Mayor in that city would welcome it, and, obviously, attempt to gain benefit from its success. BUT, by fighting it tooth and nail, the Democrats further define themselves as supporters of the criminal run status quo. The time is ripe.

Posted by: Orson at September 13, 2025 01:22 PM (dIske)

240 Steven King looks like an inbred hillbilly who should be playing the banjo and raping tourists; not writing crappy, long winded stories about nonsense. Hot Dog!

Posted by: Celtus Leadbelly at September 13, 2025 01:23 PM (R/m4+)

241 He called MLK Jr "awful" and said he was "not a good person"

Not as "good" as he is portrayed to be. Cheated on his wife.. of course he did good things too and certainly didn't deserve to die.. I guess she's saying Charlie did...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2025 01:23 PM (VE6XX)

242 There are over 3000 hours of Charlie Kirk footage out there to listen to and watch, I wish the left would even try to check some how instead of repeating the same talking points they have been spoon fed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 01:24 PM (dfIr7)

243 Its the left's favorite trick: claim everyone who disagrees with them is controversial, polarizing, and divisive. Any opinion they dislike is radical, extreme, and problematic -- causing trouble. Its never just "a different position than I" but always counter-revolutionary and wrecker.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 01:15 PM (dfIr7)

I don't think it's just a "trick." I think they believe those are their subjects, the college students who go into classrooms to be brainwashed, the kids in elementary school who must be exposed to sex perversions. They belong to the leftists, and YOU coming into their realm, whether you are Charlie Kirk, or an outraged parent at a school board meeting, you are getting in their way, of creating their utopia, their "democracy."

You are an existential threat to them. You don't just disagree with them. You aren't just offering an alternative opinion.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 01:24 PM (WJ9zD)

244 I'm reading articles on Charlie Kirk in the Detroit News (which smells more and more like the Freep) and over and over they use the words "divisive" and "deeply polarizing" to describe a man who was a uniter.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 13, 2025 01:12 PM

Yep, this is the consensus message the left is using. The "moderates" are going with "Political violence is wrong, however Charlie Kirk was a divisive and deeply polarizing radical, so we can understand why someone would do this."

The normal leftists are leaving out the first part and just going with "Charlie Kirk was a divisive and deeply polarizing Nazi who deserved it. And next we should go after these other Nazis who are like Charlie Kirk..."

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 01:24 PM (P5BPp)

245 I was curious about the reference to a book re the sabbath by Charlie Kirk and got the following info from grok:

Yes, Charlie Kirk has authored a book specifically focused on the Sabbath, titled Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life. This book explores the biblical practice of observing the Sabbath (which Kirk personally kept as a tech-free day from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown, drawing from his evangelical Christian background with influences from Jewish traditions). It argues that honoring the Sabbath fosters rest, reduces anxiety, strengthens family bonds, and serves as a "rebellion against busyness" in modern life.Key DetailsPublication Status: The book was in the final stages of preparation at the time of Kirk's death on September 10, 2025, and is now set for a posthumous release on December 9, 2025, by Winning Team Publishing (founded by Donald Trump Jr.).

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at September 13, 2025 01:24 PM (PcTds)

246 He said it was a mistake to pass the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

It was.

Posted by: 14th Amendment at September 13, 2025 01:25 PM (R/m4+)

247 I like Ricci. I mean I like looking at her, despite her sixhead, which somehow doesn't add up to additional brainspace/brains. She got a breast reduction a while back, so I like looking at her less now. I'm meandering. Unsurprisingly, she is an adorable retard.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 01:25 PM (4/BuS)

248 241 He called MLK Jr "awful" and said he was "not a good person"

Not as "good" as he is portrayed to be. Cheated on his wife.. of course he did good things too and certainly didn't deserve to die.. I guess she's saying Charlie did...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2025 01:23 PM (VE6XX)

It's become well know that in his personal life he was a degenerate. So commenting on this means you should be murdered, apparently.

Posted by: Deranged, evil people they are at September 13, 2025 01:26 PM (TbWk/)

249 246 He said it was a mistake to pass the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

I'm sure there is an explanation of why he said it if he did... I don't think the Act has worked too well...

Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2025 01:27 PM (VE6XX)

250 The problem Charlie Kirk had with the Civil Rights Act is that it violated electoral law and created a two-tier justice system that while well-meaning started up the whole "affirmative action" thing. It was badly written and a smart congress would replace it with something better. And watch the Democrats try to block it, again.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 01:27 PM (dfIr7)

251 -- He said it was a mistake to pass the Civil Rights Act in 1964

It was and is unconstitutional.

-- He called MLK Jr "awful" and said he was "not a good person"

Dude serially cheated on his wife, which according to modern feminist women is the worst possible thing a man can do, unless the cheating is with them.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2025 01:27 PM (QZThv)

252 Richard Grenell retweeted

Brooke Singman . @BrookeSingman 1h

Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson lived with his transgender partner, sources tell me.

The individual, who is a male transitioning to a female, is fully cooperating with the FBI.

Sources tell me the FBI had texts and other communications between Robinson and the individual that helped FBI authorities solidify that Robinson was indeed the shooter

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 01:28 PM (RK8vO)

253 "EXCLUSIVE: Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson lived with his transgender partner, sources tell me.

The individual, who is a male transitioning to a female, is fully cooperating with the FBI.

Sources tell me the FBI had texts and other communications between Robinson and the individual that helped FBI authorities solidify that Robinson was indeed the shooter."

https://x.com/BrookeSingman/status/1966889202412347602

Posted by: Mmm Hmmm at September 13, 2025 01:28 PM (qUkBO)

254 Nood gardening.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 13, 2025 01:28 PM (hoCmQ)

255 It argues that honoring the Sabbath fosters rest, reduces anxiety, strengthens family bonds, and serves as a "rebellion against busyness" in modern life.

This is something that even Christians don't seem to consider these days. Taking a day off is a blessing from God, it is mandated for us, not as a cruel imposition or limitation on our fun. There are 10 commandments, not 9.

I still recommend very strongly that everyone take one day off from social media a week. And from your non-essential labors. One day.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 01:29 PM (dfIr7)

256 The tragedy of King is that he did not live long enough to destroy his own reputation. He was not a good man in his private life (a pastor stepping out on his wife is hooboy territory). If he'd lived to support all the terrible causes the black civil rights movement embraced after his assassination, he'd probably have a reputation on par with Al Sharpton. Martyrdom is more or less what King has going for him.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 01:29 PM (4/BuS)

257 One could cover this sort of thing fairly. Kirk was a strong advocate for conservative principles who debated left wing adherents on campus or something like that.

But the FNM decided long ago anyone right of center was divisive and anyone left of center was a uniter which BY DEFINITION makes no sense.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2025 01:14 PM (sKqQm)

I saw one of those brief vids, some cute girl is at the microphone, and she's complaining that Charlie keeps cutting her off, citing data. She says he won't stop talking for five seconds.

So Charlie sits back, mouth closed. She continues to complain that he won't let her speak. This goes on for... I don't know, two minutes? Everyone behind the girl is laughing and cheering. Finally, they ask her to give up the mic.

When Charlie does speak, he tells the guys in the audience, "Guys, if you see this kind of gal, run!" Or something like that.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 01:30 PM (J4UmJ)

258 Stephen King just got canceled by Belfast Book company in Northern Ireland after they announced they are removing all Stephen King books after King claimed Charlie Kirk advocating “stoning” gay people.

Belfast: “We thought so much more of you Stephon King and even though this may harm us financially we’re removing all your books from our website.

Absolute abhorrent and ill informed comment in the first instance that an inchoate apology doesn’t begin to cover.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 01:31 PM (RK8vO)

259 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 01:29

Very good suggestion. Thanks, Christopher .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 01:31 PM (7RYym)

260 There are over 3000 hours of Charlie Kirk footage out there to listen to and watch, I wish the left would even try to check some how instead of repeating the same talking points they have been spoon fed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 01:24 PM

Rush Limbaugh had all his show transcripts on his website for anyone to access. Didn't stop people on the left and the right from getting their news about what he said from other sources which smeared him and took him out of context.

I was fed up with ace numerous times over the years when he fell for the BS and turned on Rush over stuff the Left claimed he had said.

The same thing is going on now with Charlie Kirk. The Left does it, because they know it works because most people are too lazy to go to the source and prefer to rely on quick snippets and summaries from biased sources.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 01:32 PM (P5BPp)

261 He said it was a mistake to pass the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

It was.
Posted by: 14th Amendment at September 13, 2025 01:25 PM (R/m4+)

It's the same trick as always: You oppose the Civil Rights Act means you oppose civil rights.

You oppose Obamacare, means you oppose health care access for the poor.

You oppose public schools, you hate children, and so on and so forth blah blah blah.

This tactic keeps getting used because it's effective.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 01:34 PM (J4UmJ)

262 256 The tragedy of King is that he did not live long enough to destroy his own reputation. He was not a good man in his private life (a pastor stepping out on his wife is hooboy territory). If he'd lived to support all the terrible causes the black civil rights movement embraced after his assassination, he'd probably have a reputation on par with Al Sharpton. Martyrdom is more or less what King has going for him.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 01:29 PM (4/BuS)

The other thing I'll say about MLK, Jr. is that when conservatives today advocate his vision of a colorblind society, we get called white supremacists. Which is it? Is he a great man or not? Race-obsessed leftists need to pick a narrative and stick with it.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 01:35 PM (4/BuS)

263 He called MLK Jr "awful" and said he was "not a good person"

Not as "good" as he is portrayed to be. Cheated on his wife.. of course he did good things too and certainly didn't deserve to die.. I guess she's saying Charlie did...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2025 01:23 PM

It's become well know that in his personal life he was a degenerate. So commenting on this means you should be murdered, apparently.

Posted by: Deranged, evil people they are at September 13, 2025 01:26 PM

I'm not sure why the left would highlight anything about MLK, Jr. considering they don't like him or his message. They (entire Democrat Party and the Left) have completely rejected his dream of a nation of people judged by content of character rather than color of skin. They all have pushed affirmative action and DEI for decades.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 01:36 PM (P5BPp)

264 The other thing I'll say about MLK, Jr. is that when conservatives today advocate his vision of a colorblind society, we get called white supremacists. Which is it? Is he a great man or not? Race-obsessed leftists need to pick a narrative and stick with it.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 01:35 PM (4/BuS)

He was already seeing the error of his ways when he was killed. It might be why he was killed.

And yes, for those who still don't know, he was killed by the CIA. James Earl Ray was.... wait for it.....

A patsy.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 01:37 PM (pwpAH)

265 I got up late today, first decent night of sleep in weeks. Got a sleeping pill from my doc, and don't seem to have an after effects.

Other than missing the Coffee Post, and most of KT's. I guess people are upstairs talking about plants.

Oh well, I got lots to say. None of it's about plants.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 13, 2025 01:40 PM (pwpAH)

266 The problem Charlie Kirk had with the Civil Rights Act is that it violated electoral law and created a two-tier justice system that while well-meaning started up the whole "affirmative action" thing. It was badly written and a smart congress would replace it with something better. And watch the Democrats try to block it, again.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 01:27 PM

"Look, the media's twisting my words because they can't handle a real debate. Yes, I said the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a huge mistake — not because I support discrimination, but because it exploded the size of government. Title II forced private businesses to serve everyone, which sounds nice, but it set a precedent for endless mandates. We've got the IRS enforcing wokeness now. If MLK [Martin Luther King Jr.] saw what it's become — affirmative action quotas, DEI training forced down our throats — he'd be rolling in his grave. We needed change in the '60s, absolutely, but not this federal leviathan."

Full Grok summary of Charlie Kirk's comments: https://bit.ly/4n5SaDs

Took me about 10 seconds to find this information.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 01:41 PM (P5BPp)

267 Great Cut Jib News Speaks

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 01:43 PM (+qU29)

268 @Signal99Cinci

Dear Aaron Sharpe—owner of Luscious Q BBQ,

Though you are certainly entitled to your unhinged opinion, we are entitled to share your business as one not to patronize. See how that works?

We hope every First Responder, every Conservative, every human being that finds your words to be heartless, soulless and cruel—we hope they tell everyone to avoid your restaurant like the plague.

https://tinyurl.com/54nk94at

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 01:44 PM (RK8vO)

269 I'm not sure why the left would highlight anything about MLK, Jr. considering they don't like him or his message. They (entire Democrat Party and the Left) have completely rejected his dream of a nation of people judged by content of character rather than color of skin. They all have pushed affirmative action and DEI for decades.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 01:36 PM (P5BPp)

That is correct. They grasp onto MLK as a totem or a fetish (in the shamanistic sense) without any respect for or understanding of his actual message or beliefs regarding race and society.

Posted by: He's just one of their many moral superiority woobies at September 13, 2025 01:46 PM (TbWk/)

270 "I have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it, and I’ve thought about it. We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s.

The Civil Rights Act was a huge mistake. It’s one of the worst things we’ve ever done. It’s led to all sorts of government overreach. It’s why we have DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion] today. It’s why we have affirmative action. It’s why we have all these crazy things where the government tells private businesses who they can hire and serve.

I’m not saying segregation was good — obviously it was evil and wrong — but the way we fixed it was even worse. We should have let the free market handle it. Boycotts, private pressure — that would have ended it faster without giving the feds this power. Now we can’t even run our own businesses without Big Brother looking over our shoulder."

Full Grok summary of Charlie Kirk's comments: https://bit.ly/4n5SaDs

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 01:49 PM (P5BPp)

271 By the way Aaron no longer owns Lucius BBQ. Do not boycott them. The current owners need to sue his ass into oblivion.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 13, 2025 01:51 PM (bglRl)

272 Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid

Breaking: Mayor of Netanya, Miriam Feirberg, announced that one of the main squares in the city will be named after Charlie Kirk.

Netanya is one of the major cities in Israel.

X: https://bit.ly/41RqauI

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 01:53 PM (P5BPp)

273 "
This does not even include the terrorist attacks on Tesla dealerships and people's cars. And they were terrorist attacks, as they were politically motivated violence."

Let.us not forget summer of 2016 with the mobs of violent mexican flag wavers, antifa, and many, many highly visible assaults on peaceful rally attendees

It was THEN that I knew war was in the offing unless Trump could awing a miracle. He is trying but hasn't, yet. I respect him immensely for burning the last decade or more of his life in the attempt, but I doubt he will succeed.

If he fails, we are going to add an entry to the history books with a footnote, see also: carthago delende est.

You normies in normieland only now grasp a FRACTION of the left's hatred for you. You have an inkling but don't really know it in your bones yet. You will before this is done.

Posted by: heya at September 13, 2025 01:55 PM (xq47N)

274 >>> By the way Aaron no longer owns Lucius BBQ. Do not boycott them. The current owners need to sue his ass into oblivion.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 13, 2025 01:51 PM (bglRl)

Ya done messed up A-A-Ron!

Posted by: banana substitute Dream at September 13, 2025 01:55 PM (3uBP9)

275 274 >>> By the way Aaron no longer owns Lucius BBQ. Do not boycott them. The current owners need to sue his ass into oblivion.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at September 13, 2025 01:51 PM (bglRl)

Ya done messed up A-A-Ron!
Posted by: banana substitute Dream at September 13, 2025 01:55 PM (3uBP9)

Go straight to Principal O Shag Hennessy's office and tell him what you just told me!

Posted by: Mr. Garvey at September 13, 2025 01:56 PM (TbWk/)

276 Make sure your boycotting goes to the correct business

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 01:58 PM (+qU29)

277 Just got here. I hope this thread stays open awhile because not everybody gardens. I watched the Elica Le Bon video. I was predisposed to not like because of her too made up face, but she tells some truth, despite her posh, received English accent. She does indulge in bothsiderism: yeah far right skinhead Nazis might indulge in political violence, but where are they? Other than in prison gangs? And she makes it too complicated: what killed Charlie Kirk? A .30-06 bullet. Why was Charlie Kirk killed: because he used reason to persuade people to his side. Why do people celebrate his death? Because they think killing people who persuade others with reason to think differently than the current Leftist shibboleths is a crime worthy of execution. The Leftist who celebrate Charlie’s death need to be persuaded that doing so is unacceptable, but they need not be persuaded by reason, since they are incapable of it. Fire them. Put them up on charges, federal if need be. Try them in Kirk sympathetic districts with Kirk sympathetic judges. Let them suffer for their heinous acts and stands, and let the rest of them see it and know that’s what can happen to them too if they do the like.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 01:58 PM (uTWkf)

278 Finally watching the video
First she sounds foreign, British maybe but either way people, especially foreigners to me do not know the difference between, " Far Right and Far Left". Europeans definitely put Far Right as Fascism and Far Left , if they even use that term Marxists. Both of the same cloth not direct opposites.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 02:03 PM (+qU29)

279 Nemo, excellent points but that 30.06 shell was fired by a human that had lost all contact with moral restraint.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 02:04 PM (mFSH6)

280 "That is correct. They grasp onto MLK as a totem or a fetish (in the shamanistic sense) without any respect for or understanding of his actual message or beliefs regarding race and society.
Posted by: He's just one of their many moral superiority woobies at September 13, 2025 01:46 PM (TbWk/)"

This is BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO BELIEFS OTHER THAN THE WILL TO POWER. NONE. ZERO. They define what is morally right as "what we want right now", like a psychotic 2 year old.

I am going to keep repeating this because people are trying to logically model what the left is doing, and why, and coming up confused.

I think Kirk understood that you are unlikely to reach the true believers. What he was doing was trying to save the well meaning useful idiots, of which there are many.

That's a noble calling and he was a better man than I ever will be. But he's also dead. If shit pops off I'm not risking my family for love of *all* fellow men, and if I live to be an old fart I will make no excuses about it to my descendants, nor pretend it was the "right" thing to do. Sorry commies, you had your chances.

Posted by: heya at September 13, 2025 02:05 PM (xq47N)

281 Of the two, the murder of Iryna Zarutska and the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which is really more significant?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 13, 2025 02:07 PM (/lPRQ)

282 The participation trophy society has no idea how to deal with real world adversity and repercussions of actions.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 02:08 PM (mFSH6)

283 Ben Had - agreed.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 02:08 PM (uTWkf)

284 273 "
This does not even include the terrorist attacks on Tesla dealerships and people's cars. And they were terrorist attacks, as they were politically motivated violence."
----

He restricted it to political terrorism. He called the assassination of CK a terrorist act. All of the acts he listed were political acts of violence.

He did not mention Iryna Zarutska or Austin Metcalf both murdered by racial terrorists. He doesn't want to confound legal actions.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 02:08 PM (RK8vO)

285 Itinerant, I don't know how to answer that. Both are the result of a breakdown of a civil society.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 02:12 PM (mFSH6)

286 "281 Of the two, the murder of Iryna Zarutska and the assassination of Charlie Kirk, which is really more significant?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 13, 2025 02:07 PM (/lPRQ)"

This is hard to quanitfy. The left's reaction to Kirk getting murdered makes it clear what the left thinks of us. But what happened to Zarutska is HOW the left has been killing them.

The motivations for the enablers are the same, the methods are different. The two combined are making people realize what is up, and who these people really are.

Posted by: heya at September 13, 2025 02:12 PM (xq47N)

287 Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson

Crowds are now chanting “we are Charlie Kirk” in South Korea

This movement is worldwide..

X video: https://bit.ly/42rNdfN

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 02:12 PM (P5BPp)

288
This is BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO BELIEFS OTHER THAN THE WILL TO POWER. NONE. ZERO. They define what is morally right as "what we want right now", like a psychotic 2 year old.

I am going to keep repeating this because people are trying to logically model what the left is doing, and why, and coming up confused.

Posted by: heya at September 13, 2025 02:05 PM (xq47N)

This is what I've been trying to get older (mostly Boomer, get over it) Republicans to understand. You can't engage these people in rational, civilized discourse because they are neither rational nor civilized, no matter how much you want them to be.

Posted by: It's a form of denial at September 13, 2025 02:14 PM (TbWk/)

289 Charlie is infinity more important
Both are tragic, but Charlie is much more well known.
Iryna was otherwise unknown until she was murdered.
Also the way it was done, one in front of thousands who cane to see him, her murder was only witnessed by a few people. Iryna was a random killing, Charlie was picked out to be murdered.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 02:16 PM (+qU29)

290 Setting aside pretty blatant racial attacks like those mentioned - it doesn't matter if the attacker is a non ideological crazy. The left keeps setting them on us, deliberately, out of political and racial animus, INTENDING to cause our deaths, in ones and twos as they axe bail, empty asylums, and dismantle policing.

And then they proclaim, "oh look he was just crazy. see, we just need more money, and power, and your arms"

Fuck you, commies. War. I wanted to be left alone but if - IF, and it's still teetering either way - we're gonna do this, so help me God I will make my own allies wince out of sympathy for these Marx-fellating jackasses. I am going to be that guy where later on they say, "yeah maybe we took it too far sometimes", 20 years later when everyone is a couple beers in and those who weren't there are out of earshot.

Posted by: heya at September 13, 2025 02:20 PM (xq47N)

291 Nick Sortor @nicksortor

BREAKING: Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson’s roommate has been identified as 22 year old Lance Twiggs, amid reports Robinson was living with his “transgender partner,” per Daily Mail

Their families REFUSE to deny transgenderism was a motivating factor in the kiIIing.

We all know it was.

X: https://bit.ly/4ndF7zC

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 02:21 PM (P5BPp)

292 Sorry for your loss...
Posted by: joemarine at September 13, 2025 01:09 PM (y171U)

Thank you

Posted by: one hour sober at September 13, 2025 02:21 PM (Y1sOo)

293 Iryna was a random killing, Charlie was picked out to be murdered.
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 02:16 PM (+qU29)

Iryna was "just" a person going about her day.

Charlie was out, actively sticking his neck out to fight for all the people out there who are pouring out support right now. Across the world, people are suffering under very similar bullshit to what we're dealing with here. Unaccountable governments. Illegitimate "nobility". Draconian laws for plebes and total immunity for the connected. And the lies. Lies, lies, lies, all day every day in every country on earth. It's not just Americans who are sick of this shit. Everyone is. And Charlie put himself out there to fight against it with nothing but words and a grin.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 02:22 PM (06Hmj)

294 The two killings are both important for different reasons. Iryna Zarutska was killed because she was too trusting, white, and pretty, even in work clothes. It points out black racism against whites “I got that white girl!” and reminds us that the criminally insane should be institutionalized (as opposed to executed). Charlie Kirk’s death was based on the justification from the Left that “bad thought” needs to be suppressed, by killing the “bad thinker” if need be. I see that as the more serious crime by its implications. I also think in passing that the university Charlie was talking at is partly to blame by not providing a secure site for the discussion. The universities are run, for the most part, by Leftists and typically give short shrift to security concerns from right-wing speakers. It is a tribute to Charlie Kirk’s bravery that he chose to speak anyway. I hope and pray that insouciant attitude from university administrators changes for the better going forward.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 02:23 PM (uTWkf)

295 Collin Rugg @CollinRugg

BREAKING: The roommate of Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin has been identified as 22-year-old Lance Twiggs, according to the Daily Mail.

The development comes as Fox and the New York Post say Tyler Robinson was living with a "transgender partner."

It's unclear at the moment if Twiggs is the transgender partner that Fox and the NYP are referring to however Twiggs' grandfather refused to deny the report.

"I don’t want to comment on that. I’m not sure what his situation is exactly right now," the grandfather, Jerry, said.

"After he was with the police, he’s been at his house, and there’s no way for us to contact him other than going over there."

Twiggs reportedly handed over incriminating text messages to the FBI, according to the outlet.

X: https://bit.ly/41SwWAj

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 02:23 PM (P5BPp)

296 The name Lance Twiggs sounds gay.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at September 13, 2025 02:24 PM (3ry0w)

297 Twiggs reportedly handed over incriminating text messages to the FBI, according to the outlet.

X: https://bit.ly/41SwWAj
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 02:23 PM (P5BPp)

Man, what a piece of work this shitbag is. Everybody he knows is narcing on him.

Fucking loser.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 02:26 PM (06Hmj)

298 I don't believe it possible to change the truly hard-core but Charlie seemed to have made a lasting impression on-- what to call them- the less closed minded. The ones that are getting fired will either have to really re-evaluate their beliefs or turn harder left.

As a boomer, I have no forgiveness for them.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 02:26 PM (mFSH6)

299 Re. the bint judge and others who may not be fired or fireable - I wonder if some of these shitbags have done something that will not hold up to an IRS audit? or, have done something sketchy like mortgage fraud for one example?

Posted by: Helena Handbakset at September 13, 2025 02:26 PM (ULPxl)

300 Starting to get a real Dog Day Afternoon vibe from this mess.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 02:26 PM (06Hmj)

301 "This is what I've been trying to get older (mostly Boomer, get over it) Republicans to understand. You can't engage these people in rational, civilized discourse because they are neither rational nor civilized, no matter how much you want them to be.
Posted by: It's a form of denial at September 13, 2025 02:14 PM (TbWk/)"

No offense to the squishy boomercons over the age of 29 (and we don't really have such around here, but we all know some), but they're blinded by fond memories of a time they didn't really have to see who these people were, and put off by the near certainty that this won't get fixed in their time.

I am not saying people are morally wrong for engaging these people, just that you have to understand who they are, and who your audience may actually be, and what good you might actually do. You are often risking legitimizing their BS, in order to reach those on the fence

Posted by: heya at September 13, 2025 02:27 PM (xq47N)

302 BREAKING: Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson’s roommate has been identified as 22 year old Lance Twiggs, amid reports Robinson was living with his “transgender partner,” per Daily Mail

Their families REFUSE to deny transgenderism was a motivating factor in the kiIIing.

We all know it was.

So it was Trantifa after all!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 02:28 PM (uTWkf)

303 I wrote after Iryna was murdered she could have been anyone, a fit male could have just as easy be stabbed from behind. Seen policemen have that happen.
Do think she being white and female made her a target.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 02:28 PM (+qU29)

304 >>> 203 The popular meme on Bluesky last night was reportedly "You can't spell 'Erika Kirk' without KKK".
Posted by: Ian S. at September 13, 2025 01:03 PM (QZThv)

Heh. Good. Excellent.

Keep it up, fucknuts. Keep letting everyone know who you are.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 01:05 PM (06Hmj)

Klan(/tran)tifa says what?

Posted by: Helena Handbakset at September 13, 2025 02:28 PM (ULPxl)

305 Was Lance Twiggs born as a she or a he?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 02:29 PM (uTWkf)

306 "Iryna was a random killing, Charlie was picked out to be murdered.
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 02:16 PM (+qU29)"

Iryna was killed because someone let loose many criminals, hoping they'd kill someone. It was no less intentional, just more indiscriminate.

It is showing people the truth of WHY that animal was free, and is the real message behind "Kirk was shot because they don't know our names".

Yeah, they don't shoot those of us they don''t know - they just create the conditions for animals to slaughter us, and do the work for them.

Posted by: heya at September 13, 2025 02:32 PM (xq47N)

307 Nemo and Warai, thank you both for your comments.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 02:32 PM (mFSH6)

308 Charlie or Iryna ?

The same talking heads on the MSM mocked and/or supported the killing of both.

- Charlie was killed because he spoke up - after some meticulous planning.
- Irnya was killed because what she looked like and was there - virtually instantly on the spot.

Together the talking heads show that it's OK to be killed because you said something, but even if you say nothing it is still OK.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 13, 2025 02:34 PM (/lPRQ)

309 J.D. Vance on C.K.

https://tinyurl.com/48n5khcf
-----------------------------------------

@Geiger_Capital .

Stephen Miller is going nuclear…

“This is not fringe anymore. Tape, after tape. Federal workers, bureaucrats, educators, professors, nurses… people celebrating and cheering the assassination of Charlie Kirk!
There is a domestic terrorist movement growing in this country.”
[and we are going to get them]

https://tinyurl.com/4e4ar4pn

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 02:35 PM (RK8vO)

310 the british girl in the grey sweater is WRONG. she hits some points but overall I cannot endorse what she says. "violence on both sides" "Extreme right is killing people"
she gave NOT ONE EXAMPLE of the violence on the right. she is another of these "lets all just get along" (and note the bird hands, a dead giveaway.

Posted by: susan harms at September 13, 2025 02:36 PM (Kkd7F)

311
she gave NOT ONE EXAMPLE of the violence on the right.

She would just say what they always say: Timothy McVeigh and January 6.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 13, 2025 02:39 PM (63Dwl)

312 The shooter was not trans, but does have a gay tranny partner (who turned the shooter in)!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 02:40 PM (uTWkf)

313 Susan harms see up a little on my opinion of European and their definition of Right and Left extreme

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 02:40 PM (+qU29)

314 "22 year old Lance Twiggs, amid reports Robinson was living with his “transgender partner,” per Daily Mail"

The picture they have of Twiggs, he's wearing a furry hood. Furry hood with a nose, and eyes. sheesh ...

Posted by: illiniwek at September 13, 2025 02:40 PM (vbXSk)

315 Hasn't been a conservative who committed a public murder in a long time as I know

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 02:41 PM (+qU29)

316 "The shooter was not trans, but does have a gay tranny partner (who turned the shooter in)!"

If he "knew" of Robinson's plan to assassinate in advance, then Twiggs is not in the clear. But that part is not clear, yet.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 13, 2025 02:43 PM (vbXSk)

317 susan harms -

Yeah, it’s what I called bothsiderism. The only far right violence is in prison, between prison gangs. It’s not out here in public in the USA.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 02:43 PM (uTWkf)

318 At the University where I teach part-time, I am amazed at how conservatives always speak in hushed tones and look around before saying anything. And this is in the business school.
My next class.ought to be interesting.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2025 02:45 PM (2WIwB)

319 316 "The shooter was not trans, but does have a gay tranny partner (who turned the shooter in)!"

If he "knew" of Robinson's plan to assassinate in advance, then Twiggs is not in the clear. But that part is not clear, yet.
Posted by: illiniwek
------------------

He was not trans but he was queer.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 02:46 PM (RK8vO)

320 X News Tab Features Trending Story that “FELLOW CONSERVATIVE” is to Blame for Charlie Kirk Assassination After Shooter Revealed to be Leftwing ANTIFA Terrorist
-----

Propaganda works.

The MSM progs don't like Charlie speaking, one small crowd at a time, because their goal is suppressing or killing the norms, Irnya, one at a time. Then the trains. They say so.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 13, 2025 02:49 PM (/lPRQ)

321 Palestinians elected Hamas because they promised to make the buses run on time. -- Clinton'06

I tried to represent a better America when I was president. But now I don't have to... -- Bill Clinton'06, on earning the Golden Ticket pass to Epstein's Island Paradise

"Iran is the only country in the world that has now had six elections since the first election of President Khatami (in 1997)...... In every single election, the guys I identify with got two-thirds to 70 percent of the vote. There is no other country in the world I can say that about, certainly not my own. -- Bill Clinton'05

Again:
https://tinyurl.com/EvilsAdvantageOverConscience
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-MorallySuperiorSharks

That in the struggle between Good and Evil, the Normal and the Depraved -- the more consistent will ALWAYS prevail. Even in the face of established DeepState who will pit man against other men until we exist no more, and that because when the Truth becomes a Liability, ALL (NORMAL) PEOPLE become the Enemy.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at September 13, 2025 02:49 PM (OaDSS)

322 It's been so long ago the facts are barely there in my rembering if a sniper who was killing abortion doctors was some conservative or not

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 02:49 PM (+qU29)

323 Wow, I'm only scanning headlines at TGP and zerohedge.

I won't miss a lot of these subhumans. And I'm sick of this crap.

Also, I wonder how many protesters are going to be at the funeral? I would think that would not be a smart place to be.

Back to housecleaning.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 13, 2025 02:51 PM (jvJvP)

324 "Fortunately, some on the Left have been coming around."

DO NOT LET THEM OFF THE HOOK.

Their "coming around" sounds like former Nazis disavowing Hitler even though they were full participants in and benefited from the Third Reich.

They are running scared because they're finally being held accountable. Let them feel it good and hard. I don't remember most of the reasons why I got whacked with a belt when I was a kid, but I can guaran-damn-tee you that I didn't do it again.

Actions speak louder than words. Let's wait five years and see how far they've "come around" before we accept their apologies and disavowals.

Posted by: p-squared at September 13, 2025 02:54 PM (0prFs)

325 I am relishing these people getting fired. I.hope they never find another job and have to live by dumpster diving. Let's see how well they live on the courage of their convictions.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 02:59 PM (mFSH6)

326 WHOA!

WHOA!

Have you guys seen this aerial view video of today's "UNITE THE KINGDOM" rally that took place today in LONDON, England?

Watch the whole thing.

LINK (YT): https://tinyurl.com/2jf2e57v

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2025 02:59 PM (rj6Yv)

327 I was a default leftist all through my undergraduate and graduate training and during my postdoc with the Navy (wound up doing my postdoc with the NRL). I only began to question my political leanings when I began to see what low lives so many dedicated Leftists really were (I was not dedicated: I was a “default” leftist). That and the political oppression of scientific ideas that I first saw at the NRL (it had to do with CO2 as the prime greenhouse gas - it’s not, but that’s a topic for another time). I got my tenure just about the time I had become a right leaning thinker: listening to Rush Limbaugh really helped. Later, the chair of my tenure committee, a rare black physicist who had helped hire me, told me that if he knew how I would turn out (right wing) he wouldn’t have let me get tenure. There is a reason right wing thinkers speak in cautious, hushed tones in the university!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 02:59 PM (uTWkf)

328 Ben as been saying, their firing is deserved but doubt will last long mostly

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 03:02 PM (+qU29)

329 Starmer has pissed himself at this point.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 03:03 PM (mFSH6)

330 He was not trans but he was queer.

Do you mean the shooter or his roommate?

If you mean the roommate, just look at the videos.
If you mean the shooter, well, just look at his “roommate”.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 03:05 PM (uTWkf)

331 326 WHOA!

WHOA!

Have you guys seen this aerial view video of today's "UNITE THE KINGDOM" rally that took place today in LONDON, England?

Watch the whole thing.

LINK (YT): https://tinyurl.com/2jf2e57v
Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2025 02:59 PM (rj6Yv)

Just like during Covid, peaceful protests are cute and not worth covering. It may as well not have happened.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 13, 2025 03:06 PM (jvJvP)

332 Skip, employers do ask reasons for termination and are now asking to check social media. Might be a little tougher.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 03:06 PM (mFSH6)

333 Palestinians elected Hamas because they promised to make the buses run on time. -- Clinton'06

Hehehehe!!!!
That bit of stupidity didn't stand the test of time.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2025 03:06 PM (2WIwB)

334
"What is a virulent debater?"

That's someone with VD, who fortunately prefers to be a solo act.

Posted by: Speller at September 13, 2025 03:07 PM (pSotA)

335 Latest polling has Starmer's support at 9%.

9%

If King Charles has a shred of honor and a sense of duty to the Realm, he should immediately prorogue Parliament and call for a new general election.

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2025 03:08 PM (rj6Yv)

336 The UN passed a non binding resolution to recognize a terrorist state. The next vote is September 22nd.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 03:10 PM (mFSH6)

337 Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 13, 2025 03:06 PM (jvJvP)

Depends on the event. Ignoring this kind of turnout and the general public's mood would be foolish in the extreme. Brits don't do political protests on this scale.

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2025 03:10 PM (rj6Yv)

338 King Chuck is pissing himself too.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 03:11 PM (mFSH6)

339 If your going to join the Caliphate soon might as well get with the program

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 03:15 PM (+qU29)

340 Depends on the event. Ignoring this kind of turnout and the general public's mood would be foolish in the extreme. Brits don't do political protests on this scale.
Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2025 03:10 PM (rj6Yv

Agreed mrp.

But during Covid there were a LOT of mass protests buried by the media and tech, You could still find some evidence of them.

They did nothing. Public hangings of officials would have been more effective.

And considering what I went through to remain unjabbed in Canada, I would have been in favour of that.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 13, 2025 03:17 PM (jvJvP)

341 Looking at the video (from the Guardian, of all places!) of the turnout in London for the Unite the Kingdom Rally, I would have to say millions turned out. This must be giving TPTB in the UK the willies!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 03:22 PM (uTWkf)

342 Can the governor of Ohio strip this creature of it's judicial authority?

No, but the legislature can remove them from their position by impeaching and trying them.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2025 12:53 PM (dfIr7)

***

But his comments will taint every case that he presides over... almost a guaranteed appeal.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2025 03:23 PM (2WIwB)

343 Daily Mail doesn't have anything on the rally

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 03:25 PM (mFSH6)

344 He was plugging his male room mate. It's certainly not heterosexual.
The room mate is max-queer.

Ten to one, room mate knew it was going to happen and is jockeying for leniency.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 03:27 PM (RK8vO)

345 Would MSNBC have anything on a Trump Rslly?

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 03:27 PM (+qU29)

346 ANOTHER "Unite the Kingdom" YT march video, this time a Forbes News feed from the ground and on the street. Periouls times.

LINK (YT): https://tinyurl.com/3vd2323x

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2025 03:28 PM (rj6Yv)

347 "If you mean the roommate, just look at the videos.
If you mean the shooter, well, just look at his “roommate”.

yeah, I guess Robinson was (probably) having sex with the trans/furry (male trans'ing to "female"), which makes Robinson "queer/gay", but not himself (Robinson) a trans, as far as we know.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 13, 2025 03:29 PM (vbXSk)

348 Ten to one, room mate knew it was going to happen and is jockeying for leniency.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 03:27 PM (RK8vO)

The FBI homed in on the killer's location by tracking the texts flying between the killer and his squeeze. That included messages discussing picking up the discarded rifle.

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2025 03:33 PM (rj6Yv)

349 mrp, thanks for that link. I didn't see any Paki, Arab faces in that crowd.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 03:36 PM (mFSH6)

350 Trans homo that looks like Beto shoots and kills someone he hates from 200 yards away, and then tells his father he wants to kill himself after confessing to the evil deed. Yeah, He's a right wing MAGA.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at September 13, 2025 03:38 PM (abIsI)

351 mrp, thanks for that link. I didn't see any Paki, Arab faces in that crowd.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 03:36 PM (mFSH6)

Working people, paying for Starmer's shit. They've had enough. Did you see that cop taking a swing at a protestor? He got shoved aside by a wave of people like he wasn't even there.

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2025 03:39 PM (rj6Yv)

352 Ben Had en fuego hoy!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 03:40 PM (RIvkX)

353 The FBI homed in on the killer's location by tracking the texts flying between the killer and his squeeze. That included messages discussing picking up the discarded rifle.
Posted by: mrp

Why, it's like it was a ProgTard CONSPIRACY!

But the talking heads and MSM will push their agitprop that it was a right wing lone wolf inspired by Trump's hate.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 13, 2025 03:42 PM (/lPRQ)

354 mrp, the one short Bobby was quick with his stick and then he hit the wrong guy and the crowd just walked over them.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 03:48 PM (mFSH6)

355 https://tinyurl.com/3vd2323x

Anadolu is Turkish state media

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 03:49 PM (RIvkX)

356 SanFranpsycho, trying to stay abreast of the winds of change.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 03:50 PM (mFSH6)

357 https://tinyurl.com/3vd2323x

Anadolu is Turkish state media
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 03:49 PM (RIvkX)

The two lines of cops (front and back on the street) were keeping the massive crowd wearing and waving the St. George's Cross flags from the much smaller crowd of counterprotestors waving the the new national flag of GB, the Pali flag.

Posted by: mrp at September 13, 2025 03:57 PM (rj6Yv)

358 CBC is covering the rally.

Reporting over 100,000 people. Because the CBC.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 13, 2025 04:06 PM (jvJvP)

359 348 Ten to one, room mate knew it was going to happen and is jockeying for leniency.
___

Concur. And apparently others in the local "transgender" "community" knew about it, too, since one of them hinted at it in a social media post the day before the shooting.

Posted by: Mmm Hmmm at September 13, 2025 04:09 PM (qUkBO)

360 358 CBC is covering the rally.

Reporting over 100,000 people. Because the CBC.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 13, 2025 04:06 PM (jvJvP)

Well 1 million is certainly over 100 thousand so they're technically not lying

Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2025 04:10 PM (VE6XX)

361 347 "If you mean the roommate, just look at the videos.
If you mean the shooter, well, just look at his “roommate”.

yeah, I guess Robinson was (probably) having sex with the trans/furry (male trans'ing to "female"), which makes Robinson "queer/gay", but not himself (Robinson) a trans, as far as we know.
____

Adjacent to trans is trans.

Posted by: Mmm Hmmm at September 13, 2025 04:12 PM (qUkBO)

362 Well 1 million is certainly over 100 thousand so they're technically not lying

Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2025 04:10

It's nice how they always manage to clear that lowest hurdle, embedded 1 inch into the ground.

Reporting at its' finest.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 13, 2025 04:12 PM (jvJvP)

363 media multiplies leftist crowd numbers by ~5-10, and divides conservative crowds by ~5-10.

Posted by: illiniwek at September 13, 2025 04:14 PM (vbXSk)

364 Remember how we used to say the leftists in this country are acting a lot like Islamic terrorists?

This movement can never be allowed to slow down

This needs to be trumpeted from the rooftops and NEVER be allowed to happen again. Maybe not all the hard core lefties will calm down, but it should at least make a dent in psycho social media syndrome.

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at September 13, 2025 04:14 PM (XLfSN)

365 Stephen King pretty much consistently displays in a way that you would take him as a nasty pervert who is obsessed with being a late 60s commie hippie of the worst sort. Which is why The Stand is so weird because it is basically Christian in who the good and bad guys are.

Posted by: Azjaeger at September 13, 2025 04:18 PM (cnMKF)

366 Not easily forgotten

https://tinyurl.com/9nv5avpb

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 04:34 PM (RK8vO)

367 Elon Musk responded "Exactly".

@MsBlaireWhite Sep 12
"They don’t kill you because you’re a Nazi, they call you a Nazi so they can kill you."

Posted by: illiniwek at September 13, 2025 04:35 PM (vbXSk)

368 355 https://tinyurl.com/3vd2323x

Anadolu is Turkish state media
Posted by: San Franpsycho
-------------

Looked like the fookin Brit citizens overwhelmed the coppers and pushed back the Saracens. Did I read that right?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 04:41 PM (EJQ63)

369 Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes

Love this: The Charlie Kirk assassination is inspiring Americans who have been afraid to speak

“My name is John. I have practically no online presence, and the reason for that is because I am scared to post things that I believe or really care about because I worry about what people will think of me. I am worried about missing out on opportunities because of an online footprint.

Yesterday, a man died. Presumably because he believed the same things that I believe in. I am a conservative and more importantly, I'm a Christian. I believe wholeheartedly that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior, that he died from our sins and rose again, and that he is God.

I know that in the grand scheme of things, I don't really matter. No one knows or even cares who I am. But If there's even one person who sees this and gains the courage to speak up themselves, that's why I'm making this. Just so that everybody knows that we're not alone.”

This post got over 48k likes in 7 hours

X video: https://bit.ly/3JZPpF3

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 04:48 PM (P5BPp)

370 Muslims and Cultural Marxists are at least for now comrades to take down western civilization. But I am sure if I could predict the future, Muslims would turn on Leftists who are not Muslims.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 05:14 PM (+qU29)

371 Thank you for one of my favorite hymns.

There are more of us than the tiny, useless % of trans and gays and furries who have found guns. There are more of us than demons. Rise up and fight with words.

Being naricissists, keep in mind they HATE laughter or you not being swayed by them. I have had one in my life, and while she did not faze me she did rob me of what true friendship is for 42yrs. I cut her out of my life.

The difference between us normies and the radical left? We mock them with words, here and elsewhere, vs killing them. We have fun, where they have bitter anger. I personally don't care if the furries have a parade, as I would mock them from afar vs showing up and throwing rotten fruit.

May God bless you all abundantly this day and always. Ace has built an army of Morons who see truth.

Pray for people to rise up against demons...and you recognize them. No longer demonic radical esslam, but radical youth indoctrinated by radical liberals in politics, gaming, covid results of isolation, social media, and insanity are their brand.

Parents need to wake the hell up to what is going on, for starters. People need to stop wrapping these weirdos in cotton blankies.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 13, 2025 05:28 PM (6PCLE)

372 Hobby NOOD

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 05:31 PM (+qU29)

373 Fox reporter says her sources say Tyler Robinson was living with a tranny, male in process of transitioning to female. Says that was the one who showed them texts, and is cooperating with FBI.

Hoax, someone trying to make Fox look bad?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 13, 2025 05:32 PM (Vvh2V)

374 Seems real, Tammy Al-Thor.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 05:45 PM (uTWkf)

375 310 the british girl in the grey sweater is WRONG. she hits some points but overall I cannot endorse what she says. "violence on both sides" "Extreme right is killing people"
she gave NOT ONE EXAMPLE of the violence on the right. she is another of these "lets all just get along" (and note the bird hands, a dead giveaway.
Posted by: susan harms at September 13, 2025 02:36 PM (Kkd7F)

I'm not sure I agree. I think she may have said that purely to deflect the "what about the right" criticism that would have followed and to keep those folks listening. In other words she knows the violence is overwhelmingly from the Left but didn't want people to try to blunt her point.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at September 13, 2025 05:46 PM (8hxDK)

376 yeah, I guess Robinson was (probably) having sex with the trans/furry (male trans'ing to "female"), which makes Robinson "queer/gay", but not himself (Robinson) a trans, as far as we know.
____

Adjacent to trans is trans.

Posted by: Mmm Hmmm at September 13, 2025 04:12 PM (qUkBO)

Someone else can study the vagaries of the insect kingdom and the various arguments over phylogenetics and cladistics.

I'm just gonna step on the fuckin' ant.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 06:30 PM (06Hmj)

The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

[Yes Tommy, pray for Mis. Hum.]

Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. What a trying week it has been. Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to take care of. (Rulz for those of you in Whitefish Bay)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate within the AoSHQ guidelines.
2) Be kind, be nice.
3) No running with sharp objects.
4) Have a great weekend.

*****

I received the following prayer from a friend who I attended church with. I thought I would share with you before our regular Prayer Revival.

Lord, thank you for our relationship. Without you and your wisdom I would be lost. You have provided for me and my family again and again. You have protected me, comforted me, and have given me strength when I was tired and weak. Thank you.
I'm scared, Lord, and I don't know what to do. Evil seems to be everywhere and on everyone's minds. You tell me to forgive, but I'm finding it hard to. You tell me to love my enemy, but I'm finding that impossible. I feel lost, surrounded by Satan's lies. You tell me to see the good in people, but I just can't anymore. Even parts of my family and friends have been tricked by the enemy. The evil one has used the world to convince them that sin is acceptable. That your word doesn't have to be followed, because it doesn't line up with what they want to believe. Help them, like you have helped me, to see your light. Help them realize this is spiritual war and that there is only one side that is righteous. Your side.
Lord the enemies are at the gates, what am I to do? I trust you, but please help me, my family, and your church. We are all in danger from the evil one. We are hurting and in need of your strength. When you said that the world would hate me because of you. I didn't realize how true that would be. Faith in you is the only comfort I have. Don't let the world shake that faith.
Jesus, I pray you have mercy on all who have died in your name. From the ancient Apostles to Charlie Kirk, all who have bled in your name, Lord help them and their families. Help the people who are confused, help the people who have turned from you and are now lost in ideology and hate. Help me to not hate those who support Satan and his evil ways. Help my children to stay in their Baptismal grace and for them to not fall into confusion and mental illness. Help your Church, we are suffering right now.

Lord, we are waiting for your return. Please hurry, we need your Kingdom here on earth. This world is lost and we need your mercy more than ever. I pray for my enemies, I pray for your grace to forgive and help me to not get lost in this world. In your Father's name, Amen.

*****

AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List
Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.
Prayer Requests:
8/20 – rickb223 sent an update. His wife, Stacy, was diagnosed with Stage 4 endometrial cancer on 3/5/23. She had been seeing an oncologist in Plano, TX, but after two years, the chemotherapy was no longer working, and was doing more harm than good. They wanted to try and let her body heal for a couple of weeks. She went on hospice 8/1/25. They thought they would have more time, but God had other plans. She went Home at 10:20 am, to be with her father, brother, granddaughter, and our Lord.
8/22 – NR Pax requests prayers for his father, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s on 8/20.
8/30 Update – Dad was in the ER all Tuesday night after taking a tumble. He is on medication for Parkinson’s so now it’s a matter of seeing how much that helps.
8/23 – SpeakingOf could use prayers. SpeakingOf’s father’s lung cancer has returned, and due to dad missing SpeakingOf’s mom, dad does not want any treatment and is in hospice. SpeakingOf is worried and fearful and heartbroken and would appreciate God’s mercy at this time.
8/23 – Tecumseh Tea gave a status. She is steadily improving from her heart attack. She said she feels mostly like herself again. She is looking for a new cardiologist, since the one she saw had zero interest in her or her heart.
8/28 Update – Tecumseh Tea is in the hospital again with heart issues. Please pray that they can figure out what is going on and how to treat it.
8/25 – Grammie Winger posted that Rev is doing well, but she was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer last week.
9/6 Update – grammie winger sent her love and how much the Horde has meant to her over the years. She said her time is being measured in days and weeks now, and that soon she will go to that place that Jesus has prepared for her. She said she will miss the group so much.
8/25 – BurtTC is dealing with a family matter and could use some prayers.
9/4 Update – BurtTC’s mother passed away. BurtTC asked for prayers for her family, who suffering the loss. Her soul is safe and at peace in heaven.
8/26 – Axeman would appreciate prayers. He just gave the verbal approval to move his mom to hospice.
8/27 – Ben Had sent an update on JT. He is doing well and sends a “Hiya” to the Horde.
8/28 - Grumpy and Recalcitrant asks for prayers for Pixy Misa, who runs the morning tech thread. Pixy has been suffering from edema (water retention and swelling of the extremities). In addition to the swelling, there has been significant pain in both feet, and now one hand. Please pray that the doctors and nurses take this problem seriously. Pray that God guides their minds and hands in the diagnostic and treatment processes, so that Pixy may be restored to full health. Pray that He sustains Pixy through this health trial.
9/6 Update – Grumpy and Recalcitrant sent an update: Pixy has been on medication to reduce the water retention, and has shed many pounds in a short time, and has a cream to apply to his feet to help with the pain. Both are helping a lot in short order. Things are not fully back to normal yet, but there has been big progress and a lot of relief from how bad it was. Thank you for your prayers, Horde.
8/30 – Accomack requested prayers for his wife, who is hospitalized with babesiosis that advanced to hemolysis. She is anemic to begin with and won’t be discharged until her red blood count returns to normal.
9/1 Update Mrs. Accomack should be discharged on 9/2. Thank you for your prayers.
8/30 – The Walking Dude requested prayers for his mother, who fell and broke her hip. She is in the hospital, and will be in rehab for weeks/months? She is 90 years old. Please pray for her recovery. Thank you very much; he really appreciates the prayers.
9/5 – Inogame requested continued prayers for his wife. It seems like they may have two blessings on the way, not just one, since there seems to be a second heartbeat. In a few weeks they will know for sure. He asks for prayers that they be doubly blessed if the Lord wills it.
9/5 – Teresa in Fort Worth gave an update that she was very ill (throwing up), and was going to spend a day or two at the hospital while they figure out what is going on (and give her IVs due to dehydration). It doesn’t seem to be related to the cancer.
9/7 Update – Teresa still cannot keep solid food down. The CT scan showed something odd (metallic) in her stomach, so she will have an MRI on 9/8.
9/6 – Tbodie sent an update on a son, who has pancreatic cancer at age 36. He just finished his sixth round of chemo. Please pray that the family will know that God is in control and that the son and daughter-in-law will know He is there for them.
9/6 – “Perfessor” Squirrel sent his thanks to the Horde for their prayers over the past few weeks, as he went through a difficult time at work. He announced he will be moving to a new job (at the same university) on 9/22. It will be similar work as before, but a different boss, and that is good.
9/6 – vmom deport deport deport asked for prayers for Sophia, age 12, who was still fighting for her life with a bullet in her brain after the trans school shooting in MN.
9/7 – Moki would be grateful for prayers for a nephew who just had a heart attack. He is 54 years old, and has 3 kids under age 5.
9/7 – GWB requested prayers for a neighbor who is suffering after multiple back surgeries and in a LOT of pain.
9/9 – Pookysgirl asked for prayers as Pooky has a procedure to hollow out his prostate on 9/23. They are not sure of the long-term implications of his acute kidney injury, but his kidneys are recovering. God has worked miracles to keep Pooky with them in the past, as an answer to many, many prayers.
9/11 – D sent an update for Susan, his wife, and her battle with cancer: Thank you, everyone, again for your prayers for Susan. Her cancer markers went down at the last Dr visit, but she is back to having abdominal pain that is making it hard to eat right. They are trying to get her weight up and thank God for the good days they do have. The really good news is that she is able to walk around again without the fear of falling over.
9/11 – Annie’s Stew asks for prayers of comfort for Charlie Kirk’s family (first and foremost), prayers for this country as we all grieve, and that God would reveal His will for us, as we move forward as individuals and as a country.
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.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 08:00 AM

Comments

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1 So soon?

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2025 08:02 AM (l8N5O)

2 Good morning Mis Hum and Horde

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 08:02 AM (+qU29)

3 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 08:02 AM (u82oZ)

4 On last cup of coffee now

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 08:02 AM (+qU29)

5 Prayers up for all the Horde's intentions. Those asked and unasked.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 13, 2025 08:02 AM (hoCmQ)

6 Top o ta mornin to ya.

May you and your Fabulous be thriving.

Told Pixy there was a coffee nood, but to wear Speedos.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 08:03 AM (u82oZ)

7 Prayers for all.
We thank you for prayers offered on our behalf.

Posted by: MkY at September 13, 2025 08:03 AM (cPGH3)

8 Mornin', Horde.

Prayers up for all of the Horde, and for our country.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2025 08:04 AM (Wnv9h)

9 Told Pixy there was a coffee nood, but to wear Speedos.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 08:03 AM (u82oZ)

Yeah, but they wear them backwards in Australia.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 08:06 AM (AQ1VH)

10 - Great. That's just great.
No comments yet so I had to say something to be able to refresh the comments.
Well there. I said something.

Posted by: TeeJ at September 13, 2025 08:07 AM (eDPLA)

11 Prayers ascending for those in expressed need and for those with unasked for issues.

Annie’s Stew is a national treasure, and her request is heartily endorsed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 08:08 AM (u82oZ)

12 mayor of LA has ordered all flags to fly at top mast

no flags may be lowered to half mast without express permission from the mayor

Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2025 08:08 AM (AOsQT)

13 If you haven't heard Erika Kirk's speech yesterday please do.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 08:08 AM (+qU29)

14 The Left has no idea what they’ve done.

But they’re starting to worry about it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2025 08:08 AM (l8N5O)

15 bear with asymmetrical balls

I saw a design patent for a very minimalist male covering. Basically a tight sock with two bumps. Never say it again, but then I don't go to gay beaches.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 08:11 AM (u82oZ)

16 mayor of LA has ordered all flags to fly at top mast

no flags may be lowered to half mast without express permission from the mayor
Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2025 08:08 AM (AOsQT)

Tell me that's snark.

Tell me they're not actually that stupid.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 08:11 AM (06Hmj)

17 TeeJ

How are you doing? Got fishing stories. Or young widow stories?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 08:12 AM (u82oZ)

18 An interesting prayer. Started off real well with gratitude and acknowledgement of the wisdom and protection of God.

Then its like that person walked away and someone off the anti-anxiety meds came in and wrote the next paragraphs without any reflection on the first. Because the first paragraph is a retort to the rest

At that point the prayer exposed the author as an evangelical because of the conclusion: I'm too weak, my faith is near gone, I need you to come to earth NOW and settle all of my differences.

Go back to the first paragraph and meditate on that.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 08:12 AM (a4flb)

19 @12/Don Black: The appropriate response would be for as many people (particularly private individuals or businesses) to fly their flag at half mast.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 13, 2025 08:13 AM (O7YUW)

20 The appropriate response would be for as many people (particularly private individuals or businesses) to fly their flag at half mast.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 13, 2025 08:13 AM (O7YUW)

Upside down.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 08:13 AM (06Hmj)

21
Fuckoffee was the favorite beverage of the Wherethefuckarewe clan

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 13, 2025 08:14 AM (Tv15w)

22 [ik]Tell me that's snark.

It must be snark, where is the legal enforcement language, and since when did the mayor of LA assume authority over the US flag and its lawful presentation?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 08:14 AM (a4flb)

23 [ik]The appropriate response would be for as many people (particularly private individuals or businesses) to fly their flag at half mast.

Along with the Jolly Rodger or the Come and Take it flag depending on mood.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 08:16 AM (a4flb)

24 “ Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.”

Isaiah 54:10

Posted by: Marcus T at September 13, 2025 08:16 AM (lMONC)

25 Unknown Drip Under Pressure

File another lawsuit. File for everything she does contrary to Federal Law. Make it personal.

The French after the Paris Commune had the right attitude on Commies.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 08:17 AM (u82oZ)

26 11 Prayers ascending for those in expressed need and for those with unasked for issues.

Annie’s Stew is a national treasure, and her request is heartily endorsed.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 08:08 AM (u82oZ)

Annie is a fine lady. And her devotion to the AoS community is remarkable.

I consider her a friend even tho we have not met.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at September 13, 2025 08:17 AM (7FBlg)

27 Good morning.

Matt:34-36

34“Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city, 35 so that upon you will fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 13, 2025 08:17 AM (tT6L1)

28 20 The appropriate response would be for as many people (particularly private individuals or businesses) to fly their flag at half mast.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 13, 2025 08:13 AM (O7YUW)

Upside down.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 08:13 AM (06Hmj)

Karen Bass should be flown upside down. Like Mussolini.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 08:17 AM (AQ1VH)

29 @23/Unknown Drip Under Pressure:

Perhaps also Kent McManigal's "Time's Up" flag (the spiritual successor to the Gadsden flag.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 13, 2025 08:18 AM (O7YUW)

30 Hi NaCly,

No fishing stories. Been aching to get out but...
And that "young" widow, while young at heart, and always doing for others, is 13 years older than me.
She blesses me by allowing me to do for her and mostly by praying for me,,, often.

Hope you're well!

Posted by: TeeJ at September 13, 2025 08:18 AM (eDPLA)

31 Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra

Besides the CoBs, I credit the Prayer Thread and Annie’s Stew with making us a caring community.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 08:18 AM (u82oZ)

32 21
Fuckoffee was the favorite beverage of the Wherethefuckarewe clan
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 13, 2025 08:14 AM (Tv15w)

Hmmm.
The things you learn here on the Prayer Thread.

Outstanding Kreb.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at September 13, 2025 08:18 AM (7FBlg)

33
The mayor of LA has ordered all flags to fly at top mast

no flags may be lowered to half mast without express permission from the mayor
Posted by: Don Black

You can't spell "Ass" without "Bass"

Hasn't she got to prepare for her next boondoggle excursion to Africa?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 13, 2025 08:20 AM (Tv15w)

34 TeeJ

Good for her. You need praying over.

Give her a kiss on the hand from me, as thanks for helping you.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 08:20 AM (u82oZ)

35 Tell me that's snark.

Tell me they're not actually that stupid.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 08:11 AM

I can only find one search result that's an Instagram page, so...take with a grain of salt.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 13, 2025 08:20 AM (Wnv9h)

36 It's warning my heart to know Tyler's days will be shackled and in a 8 foot cell the rest of his hopefully not too longer life.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 08:20 AM (+qU29)

37 I get emailed a daily Bible verse. Here was today's:

Beat your plowshares into swords And your pruning hooks into spears; Let the weak say, I am strong.

Total coincidence, I'm sure.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 13, 2025 08:20 AM (ExV1e)

38 >Tell me they're not actually that stupid.

Posted by: Warai-otoko
----
wish I could

https://x.com/SteveHiltonx/status/
1966741677583802545

Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2025 08:20 AM (AOsQT)

39 Apparently the order went out to the LA Fire Department, but I assume the mayor intends it to be for all flags on city property

Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2025 08:22 AM (AOsQT)

40 31 Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra

Besides the CoBs, I credit the Prayer Thread and Annie’s Stew with making us a caring community.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 08:18 AM (u82oZ)

Actually we are all flawed and sinful creatures.
And unfortunately the wages of sin is death.

Our faith in the Golden Rule is what the Horde is all about.

Although there are atheists, agnostics, Jews, Christians, here at the Prayer Thread, we believe in the golden rule and try to be good.

Hope this all made sense.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at September 13, 2025 08:22 AM (7FBlg)

41 Don Black

Sure would be a shame if a cartel gang raided the LA town hall and took all the secret records of graft.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 08:22 AM (u82oZ)

42 The mayor of LA has ordered all flags to fly at top mast

no flags may be lowered to half mast without express permission from the mayor
Posted by: Don Black

Remember, though, the shooter was totally a Republican and the Left is full of nothing but peace and love.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 13, 2025 08:23 AM (ExV1e)

43 Misanthropic Humanitarian

This is a very special on-line community. We have had a number of marriages between commenters, for example. Try that on You Tube.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 08:24 AM (u82oZ)

44 MisHum, that entire prayer was much needed by me. I wish I could memorize every word and recite it to myself daily. It touched upon everything I'm feeling.

I also watched Erika Kirk's address on Rumble this morning. It was impossible not to shed tears. Speaking for myself, I've been in a fog since that shining light that was Charlie Kirk was brutally assassinated. Things feel different. Dire. Uneasy. I'm being drawn closer to our Lord and Savior, for He is truly my refuge in these unholy times.

I'm praying for everyone in need of healing, and in need of Christ's love.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 13, 2025 08:24 AM (qBdHI)

45 Mis Hum - the prayer thread is an oasis in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water

Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at September 13, 2025 08:24 AM (DCWfW)

46 Karen Bass amazes me. She is creating a controversy when it isn't necessary. She could have kept her mouth shut and gone on her way.

Instead, everyone across the nation, possibly the world, will see this and a majority will condemn her.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 13, 2025 08:25 AM (tT6L1)

47 I'll laugh if the council/ assembly gets a wild hair up their asses about it and slaps her down.

Even if they agree with the sentiment, they'll feel like they got passed over. These mutants are nothing if not pretty, vindictive, and jealous of power and attention.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 08:25 AM (06Hmj)

48
Outstanding Kreb.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra

Too much time spent in my youth among companions who engaged in twisted and vulgar wordplay with the dialogue of "F Troop".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 13, 2025 08:25 AM (Tv15w)

49 Bass is an especially odious critter to be sure. It is remarkable how much damage a single low frequency individual can do in an organization.

She has not been selected for any management competence, merely for her political or ideological reliability.

Government is now full of broads just like her. I suppose in a way their success in aggregate has been their undoing, because the policies they champion are ultimately designed to fail, intended to be failures. Ain’t nobody buying their shit any longer.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 08:25 AM (KE/UI)

50 43 Misanthropic Humanitarian

This is a very special on-line community. We have had a number of marriages between commenters, for example. Try that on You Tube.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 08:24 AM (u82oZ)

Salty, why would I try that when I have the Fabulous and wonderful friends like you?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at September 13, 2025 08:25 AM (7FBlg)

51 You can't spell "Ass" without "Bass"
Hasn't she got to prepare for her next boondoggle excursion to Africa?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 13, 2025 08:20 AM (Tv15w)

Karen Bass looks, smells and is of ass.

Posted by: Ass Man at September 13, 2025 08:27 AM (R/m4+)

52 {{{Grammie Wingers'}}}

I pray you are not suffering. You seem very clear-eyed. You face dire news with courage.

Give the Rev a tip of the hat.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 08:27 AM (u82oZ)

53 48
Outstanding Kreb.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra

Too much time spent in my youth among companions who engaged in twisted and vulgar wordplay with the dialogue of "F Troop".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 13, 2025 08:25 AM (Tv15w)

Certainly more educational than the yutes of today using their thumbs on their devices.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at September 13, 2025 08:28 AM (7FBlg)

54 Mis Hum, thank you for all you do. A huge hug to you and The Fabulous.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 08:28 AM (mFSH6)

55 I must add this exhortation.

In view of the prayer starting this thread, it is a dereliction of duty for any pastor to not be preparing for a comprehensive preaching of Ephesians 6:10-20 to be delivered on as many opportunities as possible.

Its also likely that, if the assembly has a good reputation in the community, that there will be plenty of new opportunities to console and share the practical aspects of our faith.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 08:28 AM (a4flb)

56 It must be snark, where is the legal enforcement language, and since when did the mayor of LA assume authority over the US flag and its lawful presentation?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 08:14 AM (a4flb)

The same time as they got to set immigration policy

Posted by: night lifted at September 13, 2025 08:29 AM (/YboP)

57 Salty - I have absolutely zero pain. A little brain fog but I am blessed.

Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at September 13, 2025 08:29 AM (DCWfW)

58 Grammie Wingers'

One marriage at a time. A good marriage is somehow a secret app for a better life. Worldwide, most married people are happier.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 08:29 AM (u82oZ)

59 The mayor of LA has ordered all flags to fly at top mast

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Is anyone surprised? We're talking LA. The city of sin. Would the Devil want the cross of Jesus flying above his city? These are hateful, wicked people. They had and have no respect for all that is good and decent. Let them have their "fun" by showing disrespect to someone who was murdered because of their hatred. Their fun will come to an end they're not prepared for.

Posted by: Lady in Black at September 13, 2025 08:30 AM (qBdHI)

60 Misanthropic Humanitarian

One marriage at a time! Don't go all French on us.

A good marriage is somehow a secret app for a better life. Worldwide, most married people are happier.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 08:30 AM (u82oZ)

61 45 Mis Hum - the prayer thread is an oasis in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water
Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at September 13, 2025 08:24 AM (DCWfW)

Good morning Grammie. Thank you for your kind words and your regular visits and commentary

I expect you to root for Bucky vs Roll Tide later today while I'm trout fishing.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at September 13, 2025 08:30 AM (7FBlg)

62 Said a few times in last 24 hours, Leftism ( read Marxism) requires one to loudly proclaim your devotion to the Marxism religion as often as you can.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 08:30 AM (+qU29)

63
An interesting prayer. Started off real well with gratitude and acknowledgement of the wisdom and protection of God.

Then its like that person walked away and someone off the anti-anxiety meds came in and wrote the next paragraphs without any reflection on the first. Because the first paragraph is a retort to the rest.

I agree. Besides what followed's inordinate length, it took on (and on) and wallowed in the tone of "Gloom, despair, and agony on me (ooooh!)"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 13, 2025 08:30 AM (Tv15w)

64 Grammie Wingers

That is good news, indeed.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 08:30 AM (u82oZ)

65 Their fun will come to an end they're not prepared for.
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 13, 2025 08:30 AM (qBdHI)

Oof. Shivvers.

"The time for glorifying yourself is coming to an end".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 08:31 AM (06Hmj)

66 Good morning good people.

Prayers for all Hordeian intentions - those requested and those known but to God.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2025 08:31 AM (cYBz/)

67 I expect you to root for Bucky vs Roll Tide later today while I'm trout fishing.

I accept the assignment.

Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at September 13, 2025 08:31 AM (DCWfW)

68 59 The mayor of LA has ordered all flags to fly at top mast

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Is anyone surprised? We're talking LA. The city of sin. Would the Devil want the cross of Jesus flying above his city? These are hateful, wicked people. They had and have no respect for all that is good and decent. Let them have their "fun" by showing disrespect to someone who was murdered because of their hatred. Their fun will come to an end they're not prepared for.
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 13, 2025 08:30 AM (qBdHI

If you can't say something good, don't say nothing at all. But, of course not, never let a crisis or the murder of a good guy go to waste.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at September 13, 2025 08:31 AM (7FBlg)

69 Good morning and prayers up- beautiful, touching prayer, MisHum. Thank you.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 13, 2025 08:32 AM (hlNLQ)

70 Selfish minor prayer request for me - please - I have this annoying stubborn rash on my neck.
I thought it was bug bites on the left side a month ago. Then it moved to the middle, now it's on the right.

I am being suspicious and exiling any newish hair / body products that might be causing it,

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 13, 2025 08:32 AM (dE3DB)

71 Grammie may God shine his light on you

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 08:32 AM (+qU29)

72 Prayers up for those who have asked us for them;
Prayers up for those who need them but haven't asked us for them;
Prayers up for those that need them but don't know it yet;
Prayers up for those that pray alone in silence whose petitions are known only to God;
And bless all those that have sought Your wisdom, heard Your answers, and are trying to do Your will on this Earth!
Bless the Kirk family as they face a future without their beloved Charlie!

Posted by: Hrothgar, The Hrothgar at September 13, 2025 08:32 AM (hOUT3)

73 Anyway, sorry for threadjack

Best Wishes to all who are in distress this day.

Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2025 08:32 AM (AOsQT)

74 Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 13, 2025 08:32 AM (dE3DB)

Hang in there Toots!

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at September 13, 2025 08:32 AM (7FBlg)

75 You are so sweet, Skip. Thank you

Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at September 13, 2025 08:33 AM (DCWfW)

76 Mayor Karen Bass can legally issue that flag proclamation for city owned properties, nothing else. Federal properties can (and should) follow the President's proclamation to fly flags at half-mast until sundown on Sunday Sep 14.

https://tinyurl.com/yb9t5wmc
(Goes to whitehouse.gov)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 13, 2025 08:34 AM (O7YUW)

77 Today is the feast day of early Church father St John Chrysostom ("Golden tongue"), Bishop and Doctor of the Church.

St. John Chrysostom, pray for the soul of Charlie Kirk, and pray for all that loved and supportrd him.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 13, 2025 08:35 AM (dE3DB)

78 Morning, grammie!

Always a good day when I see you in a morning thread.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 13, 2025 08:35 AM (tT6L1)

79 I don't think Jesus was a pacifist. His words and deeds in the Gospel can be confusing. The writings after his death cause more confusion.

He never killed anyone, I don't think. But he took whip to some and he did tell his disciples to carry a sword (top of the line assault weapon of the day).

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 08:35 AM (RK8vO)

80 Good morning Blake!

Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at September 13, 2025 08:36 AM (DCWfW)

81 Government is now full of broads just like her. I suppose in a way their success in aggregate has been their undoing, because the policies they champion are ultimately designed to fail, intended to be failures.

Failure in the spirit of Cloward-Piven. They are installed precisely because our enemies want the nation to fail. In that sense, they are profoundly successful.

The issue with C-P, was that their strategery was to crush the welfare state as is so that it could be replaced with UBI. The crushing the welfare state extended to crushing everything because the ideology of destroying something for the principle of Marxism extend to also destroying the family, the community, the culture, language, borders, etc.

it was like the question asked when cooking off the first atomic bomb test, would a chain-reaction devour everything - that question was either asked and answered by Dark Tetrad types, or exceeded the abilities of the implementor's ability to process abstracts.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 08:37 AM (a4flb)

82 @73/Don Black: "Anyway, sorry for threadjack"

Falls within (1) of the thread rules, at least in this schmoe's opinion.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 13, 2025 08:37 AM (O7YUW)

83 @Don Black: Ie, you're good. No worries.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 13, 2025 08:37 AM (O7YUW)

84 73 Anyway, sorry for threadjack

Best Wishes to all who are in distress this day.
Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2025 08:32 AM (AOsQT)

Open thread Don.

No need to apologize.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at September 13, 2025 08:37 AM (7FBlg)

85 Have to go. Daughter is taking me for a pedicure. I'm getting bright orange.

Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at September 13, 2025 08:38 AM (DCWfW)

86 Also, if it's not too forward of me , can we pray for ace's health? I am a bit concerned about his fasting regimen, and I hope he is well and I am just silly. I hope he has real life people who can be a support and guide to him.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 13, 2025 08:38 AM (dE3DB)

87 Speaking of open threads.

I think I'll be the Monday ONT cob. So if you aren't too busy stop by then. I'll try to stay awake for the event.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at September 13, 2025 08:38 AM (7FBlg)

88 L.A. mayor, Karen (lol) Bass did not read the room correctly.

But, more importantly, she's indicative of the belligerent left right now. Defensive. Arrogant. Dangerous. They want a fight right now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2025 08:39 AM (Q4IgG)

89 No one wants to see a skinny ewok.

Look like a damn fur coat on a broom handle.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 08:39 AM (06Hmj)

90 Matthew 10:34-36. "Do not think I have come to bring peace ....

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 08:39 AM (mFSH6)

91 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, world without end. 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 13, 2025 08:40 AM (ZOv7s)

92
The mayor of LA has ordered all flags to fly at top mast

_________

If true, another indication that bubble-dwelling leftists Just Don't Get It.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 08:40 AM (kkTda)

93 Have to go get some routine maintenance on Mt truck, drove way too many miles commuting to work this summer.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 08:40 AM (+qU29)

94 Have fun, grammie!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 13, 2025 08:41 AM (tT6L1)

95 But, more importantly, she's indicative of the belligerent left right now. Defensive. Arrogant. Dangerous. They want a fight right now.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2025 08:39 AM (Q4IgG)
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No, I don't think they even know what that would mean. They are just being obstinate, and have in the back of their minds the idea that Trump is a bully and if you just stand up to a bully, he slinks away.

This is because none of them have ever fought an actual bully, whom you have to actually beat up, or at least make the cost of bullying not worth the risk of persistent violence in response. They're used to telling teacher and everything being made fine.

There is no teacher.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 08:42 AM (ZOv7s)

96 I think I'll be the Monday ONT cob. So if you aren't too busy stop by then. I'll try to stay awake for the event.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at September 13, 2025 08:38 AM (7FBlg)

Great, now I have an excuse for a Monday afternoon nap and can evade necessary chores yet again!

Posted by: Hrothgar, The Hrothgar at September 13, 2025 08:43 AM (hOUT3)

97
Not sure what I'm committed to today. It's one or more of:

- Mow the back acreage
- Reload the RV for next weekend's shows
- Scrub down the pens in the kennel

No attractive prospects there.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 08:43 AM (kkTda)

98 Good morning Horde, happy Saturday. Thx MisHum. Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones. Prayers for the Kirk family and all of the rest of us for what is to come
It appears that the dweebs have been stored from Office Depot have been fired for not printing the Kirk vigil pamphlets. The two looked like stereotypes of guys who live in their mom's basement

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 13, 2025 08:43 AM (Ve63F)

99 I feel like the general populace is not at all buying in to the idea that Charlie was "one of them". This isn't building up like a partisan thing, it's a national thing. It's not "News", it's History. People who don't even give a damn or know who the guy is are moved by it. This piece of shit murder-furry and all the vermin who goaded him into this atrocity have really, really messed up.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 08:44 AM (06Hmj)

100 The "flags must not be at half mast" thing is like the requirement that you agree the potato harvest is the best it's ever been. If you submit, you live by a lie. Now eat your cardboard and cabbage soup.

Posted by: PabloD at September 13, 2025 08:45 AM (8aqBR)

101 >>> I hope he has real life people who can be a support and guide to him.
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport
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I've never done it so I stayed out of the conversation. I think without monitoring blood levels that kind of regimen can be harmful to soft organs. However, it appears that he's taking in 300 calories a day, if so, that can mitigate.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 08:45 AM (RK8vO)

102 I don't think Jesus was a pacifist. His words and deeds in the Gospel can be confusing. The writings after his death cause more confusion.

You need to understand the Meta Narrative.

God (according to John, Jesus in particular aka "Word") created all things through Him. Jesus also has the name "Light" and in Him is "Life".

The incarnate missions was to defeat Sin and Death. At His resurrection he initiated "The Age To Come" (aka Church Age) we are living in it. He gave the generations between his ascension and return (The Last Day) the Paraclete to aid the building of the Church (aka the Bride of Christ).

The Paraclete's work is undoubtedly the most complex and comprehensive as billions of lives have His personal guidance.

The LORD returns to judge the Earth. Sin & Death are cast into the Pit along with those who are not in the Book of Life.

The idea of "killing" is nonsense in a spiritual context. Fear not the one who can take your physical life, but the one who can condemn your soul to Hell.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 08:45 AM (a4flb)

103
There were a number of ways Hurricane Beryl could have handled the poster request. She managed to choose the worst.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 08:46 AM (kkTda)

104 Thank you

Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2025 08:46 AM (AOsQT)

105 Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 08:43 AM (kkTda)

Working on a Saturday. Seems wrong.

Posted by: dantesed at September 13, 2025 08:46 AM (Oy/m2)

106 I must say, leading off the prayer thread with an F-bomb doesn't really put me in a prayerful mindset.

Posted by: muldoon at September 13, 2025 08:47 AM (/iMjX)

107 Mornin’, All. Happy Saturday.

So much sickness in the world, physical and mental. Prayers for healing of both types of affliction.

Posted by: Bulg at September 13, 2025 08:47 AM (77rzZ)

108 79 I don't think Jesus was a pacifist. His words and deeds in the Gospel can be confusing. The writings after his death cause more confusion.

He never killed anyone, I don't think. But he took whip to some and he did tell his disciples to carry a sword (top of the line assault weapon of the day).
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 08:35 AM (RK8vO)

No he was a Social Drinker
https://youtu.be/TTiRNRvoG1s?si=doCsi36jHiaE-PXQ

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at September 13, 2025 08:47 AM (7FBlg)

109 Before I get any further into discussion, I have to offer thanks and praise to God and you, my prayer buddies, for the many blessings my family has received this week. I said last night that his week feels like it's lasted for years, and it goes far deeper than Charlie Kirk.

So many things have been hanging around, unfinished, so many relationships locked in silence, questions of health lying unresolved, and even minor details, like my long time web host (Typepad) announcing it was shutting down, leaving me scrambling for a replacement.

All of these have in some way reached resolution - not final, but long-hidden pathways are now plain to see. My life has changed a lot since Monday, and I'm still processing it. Our family has also changed, in a very good way.

I guess I will just say that with God, anything is possible. The person making that prayer at the top of the thread only needs to understand that. God hears all our prayers and answers them as well, but not in ways we expect.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 08:47 AM (ZOv7s)

110
Working ~~on a Saturday~~. Seems wrong.
Posted by: dantesed at September 13, 2025 08:46 AM (Oy/m2)

That's how I really feel.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 08:48 AM (kkTda)

111 Bergen County NJ Executive, Tedesco, is refusing to lower the flag in honor of Charlie. This in spite of even democrat idiot governor, Murphy, ordered it as well as Trump.

He's running for an unprecedented 4th term in 2026. If you live up there, let your neighbors know.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 13, 2025 08:49 AM (3ImbR)

112 57 Salty - I have absolutely zero pain. A little brain fog but I am blessed.
Posted by: Grammie Wingers

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May all the angels and saints be at your side in your journey, Grammie.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 13, 2025 08:50 AM (GhIJO)

113 I am thankful for this prayer thread. I have not had time to be on the site much this week and some of these prayer requests. I have missed. I did not know about Grammie Winger. May all of the prayer requests be blessed and I shall keep them all in my prayers..

Posted by: Jen the original at September 13, 2025 08:52 AM (xPcNV)

114 106 I must say, leading off the prayer thread with an F-bomb doesn't really put me in a prayerful mindset.
Posted by: muldoon at September 13, 2025 08:47 AM (/iMjX)

I had it picked out before 9/10.

Originally this was the coffee thread.

I took over the prayer posting after OM's death. As no one else wanted to do it.

Muldoon we've never had issues over the years. But, you are free to apply for my job and take over.
I really don't need to do this thread or any other thread.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at September 13, 2025 08:52 AM (7FBlg)

115 There are vigils and memorials for Charlie Kirk all over the world. I had no idea the guy was so huge. I knew his name, but not much else about him before this.

Posted by: Bulg at September 13, 2025 08:52 AM (77rzZ)

116 Just got word there will be a prayer vigil for Charlie this evening at the Courthouse.

I honestly didn't think folks around here knew who Charlie was.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2025 08:53 AM (cYBz/)

117 I don't think Jesus was a pacifist. His words and deeds in the Gospel can be confusing. The writings after his death cause more confusion.

He never killed anyone, I don't think. But he took whip to some and he did tell his disciples to carry a sword (top of the line assault weapon of the day).
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 08:35 AM (RK8vO)
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According to the Lord of Spirits podcast guys, Jesus is "The Angel of the Lord" in the Old Testament, the one who is the instrument of God's wrath and wields a fiery sword. In the New Testament he says he comes with a sword.

This is consistent with Catholic teaching. Good has a duty to defeat evil, not passively sit there and die. Many martyrs did die, but they had no meaningful way to resist, and so rather than submit and live, they chose death.

St. Michael the Archangel is not a pacifist.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 08:53 AM (ZOv7s)

118 I’m off to see a man about a horse. Good morning everyone.

Posted by: every abuser at September 13, 2025 08:54 AM (hFJdg)

119 The "left" has no rudder anymore. It's a distributed non-ideology whose only defining proposition is "do the crappiest thing possible. Say the crappiest things possible. Never argue, scream. Never convince, intimidate. If you can anger the enemy in any way, do so at all costs." Etc etc. No one calling the shots. Their elder statesmen are all antediluvian remnants of the lazy imbeciles who attained their positions under better political operators and only retain them by inertia and corruption.

They're all spontaneous little von Neumann machines of stupidity and hatred.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 08:55 AM (06Hmj)

120 Good morning everyone.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 13, 2025 08:55 AM (kpS4V)

121 I must say, leading off the prayer thread with an F-bomb doesn't really put me in a prayerful mindset.
Posted by: muldoon at September 13, 2025 08:47 AM (/iMjX)
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You must not know any Catholics or Baptists, because both groups in my experience can go from absolute foul-mouthed rants to heartfelt prayer in the same breath.

The cussin' makes room for the prayin'.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 08:55 AM (ZOv7s)

122 > But, more importantly, she's indicative of the belligerent left right now. Defensive. Arrogant. Dangerous. They want a fight right now.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2025 08:39 AM (Q4IgG)
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No, I don't think they even know what that would mean. They are just being obstinate, and have in the back of their minds the idea that Trump is a bully and if you just stand up to a bully, he slinks away.

This is because none of them have ever fought an actual bully, whom you have to actually beat up, or at least make the cost of bullying not worth the risk of persistent violence in response. They're used to telling teacher and everything being made fine.

There is no teacher.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 08:42 AM (ZOv7s)
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If they can goad the right into a fight they think they'll have the moral high ground. It's not whether they win or lose, it's who starts it. I see this sort of thing in real life all the time.

Read the room again. They've demonstrated an ability to fight. They've killed. They don't need to be taught a thing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2025 08:55 AM (Q4IgG)

123 Is anyone surprised? We're talking LA. The city of sin. Would the Devil want the cross of Jesus flying above his city?

it is rather bothersome that they changed everything but the name of the city. The city's full original name was:
"El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula" which honors the Virgin Mary.

For something more appropriate I nominate: "Morada de los Demonias"

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 08:55 AM (a4flb)

124 L.A. mayor, Karen (lol) Bass did not read the room correctly.

But, more importantly, she's indicative of the belligerent left right now. Defensive. Arrogant. Dangerous. They want a fight right now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2025 08:39 AM (Q4IgG)

Good, because they are totally unprepared for the hornets nest they'll walk into.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 08:55 AM (snZF9)

125 I’m sock-retarded

Posted by: banana Dream at September 13, 2025 08:56 AM (hFJdg)

126
St. Michael the Archangel is not a pacifist.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 08:53 AM (ZOv7s)

_________

We on earth are the Church Militant, not the Church Pacifist.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 08:56 AM (kkTda)

127 Just got word there will be a prayer vigil for Charlie this evening at the Courthouse.

I honestly didn't think folks around here knew who Charlie was.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2025 08:53 AM (cYBz/)
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When I saw the world wide impact Charlie's death had, I was reminded of Revelation 14:6-7.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 13, 2025 08:56 AM (tT6L1)

128 En mi casa toman Bustelo!

Posted by: Caffiend at September 13, 2025 08:58 AM (oftw2)

129 Si vis pacem etc etc.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 08:58 AM (06Hmj)

130 TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT FOR DREAM THEATER

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2025 08:59 AM (6qAtw)

131 I honestly didn't think folks around here knew who Charlie was.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2025 08:53 AM (cYBz/)
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It's interesting that the GOPe in the Senate suddenly found its backbone, voting in lockstep to ram Trump's people through.

I think a big part of it is that they finally understand that there is no differentiation between Trump or other Republicans - all are on a list somewhere. The only thing standing between them and an Antifa bullet is Trump's government, and he needs it fully staffed NOW.

Charlie Kirk was no radical, reasonable, kind and the horror of seeing him shot to death in front of his family and then seeing media and Dem elected officials (their "honorable colleagues) rejoicing over it really opened their eyes.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 08:59 AM (ZOv7s)

132 People who don't even give a damn or know who the guy is are moved by it. This piece of shit murder-furry and all the vermin who goaded him into this atrocity have really, really messed up.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 08:44 AM (06Hmj)

Agreed; and as horrific as the murder itself was, it is the reaction to it by so many on the left that is so inflaming. It was the Left jumping up and saying “yeah we’re all in with this”.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2025 09:00 AM (l8N5O)

133 If you submit, you live by a lie. Now eat your cardboard and cabbage soup.
Posted by: PabloD at September 13, 2025 08:45 AM (8aqBR)

Grass mush is best! Saves the state money! Forward comrades for the glory of the soviet state!

Posted by: The Gulag at September 13, 2025 09:00 AM (R/m4+)

134 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

Well, I'm officially transitioning to a new job starting Monday, September 22.

Different boss (Yay!) for less pay (Boo!), but on the whole it will be a good change for me.

First thing this morning I went into my office and packed up two full boxes of crap I've accumulated since I've been working in my cubicle.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2025 09:00 AM (IBQGV)

135 Karen Bass nothing better to do than get into a pissing match with Trump by not lowering the flags?. So very childish.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 09:01 AM (iWbgM)

136 You must not know any Catholics or Baptists, because both groups in my experience can go from absolute foul-mouthed rants to heartfelt prayer in the same breath.

In the wake of the CK assassination, there has been spiritual outpouring from a very broad spectrum of personalities.

My favorite is this tatted by gang banger whose vocabulary specializes on all of the variations and applications of the F-bomb. Diagramming the sentences would be interesting.

Along the foul-mouther, vulgar language was the expression of sincerity, empathy and love for CK's family ending with a question of spirituality and a prayer.

It may not be kill one get a thousand, but kill one and get millions.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 09:01 AM (a4flb)

137 Perfessor, sorry you've had to take a cut in pay, but, happy you're still employed.

See you in TX in a month!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 13, 2025 09:01 AM (tT6L1)

138
Leftists are finding out there are times you should just keep your mouth shut. Whether they learn anything is another question. After all, they're the kind who post articles about how to lecture your family at Thanksgiving. No sense of occasion at all. Politics is their all-consuming passion.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 09:01 AM (kkTda)

139 I honestly didn't think folks around here knew who Charlie was.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2025 08:53 AM (cYBz/)

I think what is happening is the younger generation is telling their parents and grandparents about Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 09:02 AM (g47mK)

140 It was the Left jumping up and saying “yeah we’re all in with this”.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2025 09:00 AM (l8N5O)

It's a real winnowing kind of event. Splitting those who cheer from those who are horrified.

Yes, default left, these people aren't playing. They're horrible. They're evil. You really want to keep hitching your wagon to their project of absurdity and suffering just because "Republicans are mean and racist"?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 09:02 AM (06Hmj)

141 Present.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 13, 2025 09:03 AM (wVcYX)

142 It's spiritual warfare.

https://tinyurl.com/yjbbh2fp

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 13, 2025 09:03 AM (XQo4F)

143 Let us also mourn the fact that an entire generation has gone by that has never known a moonrise, a moonset, or a night lit by a full moon. On this day in 1999, we lost the 311 men and women of Moon Base Alpha after the explosion that blew the moon out of orbit. I raise a toast to Commander John Koenig and all under his command, alive or dead, wherever they may be, hurtling through space.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2025 09:03 AM (6qAtw)

144 Read the room again. They've demonstrated an ability to fight. They've killed. They don't need to be taught a thing.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2025 08:55 AM (Q4IgG)
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Yes. The fear I had under Biden was that Trump would be killed, Biden would cover it up, and there would be sporadic riots and demonstrations in the right, followed by a brutal crackdown that creates further resistance from governors, who in turn are targeted and the military splinters over orders to open fire on the crowds.

I was not only much in those days, but told my friends that if Trump got five points ahead of Biden he would be killed. look at the polling prior Butler.

Thank God he survived, and now the correlation of forces is entirely different. An increasingly unified military is standing squarely behind Trump, and federal agencies are being purged in record time - helped greatly by the traitors self-identifying on social media. The left feels its power ebbing away, and so lashes out with pure wrath. There is no hope in victory, only violence and death.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 09:04 AM (ZOv7s)

145 Karen Bass nothing better to do than get into a pissing match with Trump by not lowering the flags?. So very childish.

You want childish? I give SB-627 which is a California law prohibiting LEOs from wearing any sort of mask. the Bill also strips law enforcement officers from qualified immunity for officer and agents who commit "assault, battery, false imprisonment, false arrest, abuse of process, or malicious prosecution" while wearing a mask, and could face a fine up to $10,000.

Applies to every level of government from city to feds.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 09:04 AM (a4flb)

146 Good luck, Perfessor

Posted by: dantesed at September 13, 2025 09:05 AM (Oy/m2)

147 138
Leftists are finding out there are times you should just keep your mouth shut. Whether they learn anything is another question. After all, they're the kind who post articles about how to lecture your family at Thanksgiving. No sense of occasion at all. Politics is their all-consuming passion.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 09:01 AM (kkTda)

Politics should be a concern and something flowed for all citizens, but it should not be THE be all and end all for free people. Yes, self government is important, but it should not be the only thing. Life requires balance.

The Left forgets this in their rush to worship The State.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2025 09:06 AM (6qAtw)

148 You want childish? I give SB-627 which is a California law prohibiting LEOs from wearing any sort of mask. the Bill also strips law enforcement officers from qualified immunity for officer and agents who commit "assault, battery, false imprisonment, false arrest, abuse of process, or malicious prosecution" while wearing a mask, and could face a fine up to $10,000.

Applies to every level of government from city to feds.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 09:04 AM (a4flb)

Let them wear black sunscreen.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 09:06 AM (snZF9)

149 Dear Grammie Winger
You and I have only interacted on rare and random occasions here on this smart military blog but I always find myself smiling at your comments. I am so very saddened by the challenge you and your family are facing. Praise God you're not in pain! I hope and pray this road is as smooth as it can be for you. Let your faith in our Holy Father guide you and light your path. My prayers for you will continue. May God bless you and your family.

Actual sincere regards
Mayhem

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 13, 2025 09:06 AM (2J/Lj)

150 Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at September 13, 2025 08:52 AM (7FBlg)

********

Not a personal attack by any means. Just an observation related to my own beliefs about prayer.

It's obvious folks are understandably on edge, this week in particular. I apologize for hitting a nerve. I'll leave it at that.

Posted by: muldoon at September 13, 2025 09:06 AM (/iMjX)

151 Applies to every level of government from city to feds.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 09:04 AM (a4flb)

A state law, applies to federal law enforcement? Hey, good luck to CA. And you said it best: childish.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2025 09:07 AM (6qAtw)

152 WOW

Look at the BULLSHIT Grok is pushing on X
this is supposedly an AI-generated news summation:

Charlie Kirk Fatally Shot by Fellow Conservative at Utah University Event
Last updated
4 hours ago
Charlie Kirk, the influential conservative activist and founder of Turning Point USA, was fatally shot on September 11, 2025, during a speaking event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. The suspect, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson from a Republican-leaning family, surrendered after his father turned him in, with authorities charging him with murder in what they called a political assassination motivated by Robinson's view of Kirk as insufficiently conservative and fascist-like. Kirk's death has drawn worldwide tributes, including vigils in London and New Zealand, while igniting fierce debates on political violence, online radicalization, and America's deepening divisions.
This story is a summary of posts on X and may evolve over time. Grok can make mistakes, verify its outputs.

Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2025 09:07 AM (AOsQT)

153
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 13, 2025 09:00 AM (IBQGV)

Congrats

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at September 13, 2025 09:07 AM (7FBlg)

154 57 Salty - I have absolutely zero pain. A little brain fog but I am blessed.
Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at September 13, 2025 08:29 AM (DCWfW)

May the Good Lord continue to comfort you and bless you, Rev and family. You all are in our prayers.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 13, 2025 09:07 AM (7v6oI)

155 nothing if not pretty, vindictive, and jealous of power and attention.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at

Note: Karen Bass is NOT pretty.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2025 09:08 AM (n4GiU)

156
Yes. The fear I had under Biden was that Trump would be killed, Biden would cover it up, and there would be sporadic riots and demonstrations in the right

_________

The fear I had was that Biden would be killed after he became an embarrassment to the Democrats. Kamala takes over and the pogroms begin.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 09:08 AM (kkTda)

157 The cussin' makes room for the prayin'.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 08:55 AM (ZOv7s)
~~~~~

I generally don't use foul language, and I admit to feeling very uncomfortable when women use anything harsher than a damn, hell, etc. Lots of college kids come to my town in the summer, and I don't think many of them can complete a sentence without dropping an F-bomb. " Anyone see my f'ing car keys?" And the girls are absolutely the worst.

I didn't grow up with swearing in the house, and my own kids don't curse in front of me. It stuns me to hear parents using f-bombs in convos with their kids.

All that being said, I have to admit that I've cursed more this week than any time since I worked in a refinery years go and mastered the art.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 13, 2025 09:09 AM (3ImbR)

158 I saw that $2.5 M raised for Charlies family.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 13, 2025 09:09 AM (gbOdA)

159 Last night Charlie Kirk's wife Erika in her televised speech:

Erika Kirk reveals her daughter asked her: 'Where's daddy?' She's 3."

"I said, 'Baby, daddy loves you so much. He's on a work trip with Jesus, so he can afford your blueberry budget.'"

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 13, 2025 09:09 AM (7v6oI)

160 It's spiritual warfare.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 13, 2025 09:03 AM (XQo4F)
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Very much so. People blathering on about "cultural Marxism" are blind to the truth that this is demonic energy, not a political or ideological dispute. For one thing, gays and trannies are not at all Marxist. Marxists regard them as bourgeois decadence. Look at Communist China. People who do that there get sent to camps.

It is a combination of vile heresies, and a desire to mar God's creation. Everyone felt that oppression - and we felt it lift last November. The demons certainly felt it, and are now spooling out their people to create as much mayhem as possible now that their plans to turn the US into a pagan nation have failed.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 09:10 AM (ZOv7s)

161 The fear I had was that Biden would be killed after he became an embarrassment to the Democrats. Kamala takes over and the pogroms begin.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 09:08 AM (kkTda)

I expected him to die so they could get the sympathy vote.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 13, 2025 09:10 AM (gbOdA)

162 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. - Isaiah 6:8

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2025 09:10 AM (6qAtw)

163 It is still not perfect, they found a Glock that was somehow "missed" during a sweep around Trump. Just "missed it" after the wand and everything! Then some stupid hog who just happened to be on S S mouthed off about Kirk and how glad he was that he a "racist" got the bullet. But he was just a stupid one who put it out in the open. What about the ones who are more careful and more deliberate ?

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 09:11 AM (g47mK)

164 >>>People blathering on about "cultural Marxism" are blind to the truth that this is demonic energy, not a political or ideological dispute.
~~~~~

I absolutely agree. It's why I posted the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel yesterday.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 13, 2025 09:12 AM (3ImbR)

165 Morning again, Coffee Folken,

Got about an hour before Miss Linda shows up, so I'm finishing the morning pot of black juice and listening to a Casey Kasem show from Sept. 1983. I'm cleaned up, shaved, fed, and with the furry thugs fed as well. Whassup?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 09:12 AM (omVj0)

166 I think what is happening is the younger generation is telling their parents and grandparents about Charlie Kirk.

I was vaguely aware of Kirk. Saw him occasionally around Trump and he was on the jet to Greenland with Don Jr.

At our men's breakfast Friday, a retired AF O-6 mentioned that two of his daughters were distraught over the assassination and much consoling was required.

What I don't get is how so many Boomers and X knew and hated him due to their belief in the lies and slander. There is even a Army Reserve Major whose hatred was so intense that he would throw away his career from his social media posts.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 09:12 AM (a4flb)

167 I think that while DJT needs solid security, so does JD Vance. He is superbly effective. He is also a threat to them.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 09:13 AM (g47mK)

168 The fear I had was that Biden would be killed after he became an embarrassment to the Democrats. Kamala takes over and the pogroms begin.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 09:08 AM (kkTda)
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That was another scenario I considered, but in retrospect, Harris was not considered a reliable replacement for the cabal running the show. They should have had a primary, but Doctor Jill (and Obama) outfoxed them until the California Clique mounted a coup. (Was Biden's letter announcing his decision not to run signed with an autopen???)

For years I've been asking "Who is Jose Calvo Sotelo?" and I think we all agreed he was Trump.

Turns out it was Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)

169 Charles Krauthammer was quoted the other day.

Republicans think Democrats are stupid.
Democrats think Republicans are evil.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 09:14 AM (RK8vO)

170 Grammie Winger, love and prayers for you and your family.

Posted by: whig's phone at September 13, 2025 09:14 AM (eAs8J)

171 good morning MisHum, Horde

RIP, Mr. Kirk

Posted by: callsign claymore at September 13, 2025 09:15 AM (+LVYd)

172 Mornin' Horde. Going to baby my throat a bit this weekend, it's starting to get a bit rough and sore from the radiation. 11 down, 30something to go.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at September 13, 2025 09:16 AM (7C97G)

173 What about the ones who are more careful and more deliberate ?

I look at it this way. Those who have a lot to lose yet still blow up their career and reputation have serious impulse control issues. In a deportation sense, this is the winnowing of the "worst of the worst".

By any measure CK was a man among men, decent among the decent, and kind among the kind. The lies were so outrageous and contradictory to the well known persona and demonstrated life of CK that the "careful and more deliberate" don't necessarily have the personality to take at face value the lies that would lead their peers to murderous rage.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 09:16 AM (a4flb)

174 Mornin Horde from the ATL. Not my favorite place but I'm here with someone I love.

Love and hugs to all y'all especially Grammie and a big ol hiya to JT

Posted by: screaming in digital at September 13, 2025 09:17 AM (fXcmT)

175 In view of the prayer starting this thread, it is a dereliction of duty for any pastor to not be preparing for a comprehensive preaching of Ephesians 6:10-20 to be delivered on as many opportunities as possible.
.....

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 08:28 AM (a4flb)

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Funny you mention that verse.... I just recently sent that one (10-17) to my friend Layne who is battling bladder cancer. By no means am I well studied in The Bible, but it feels like the Lord shows his hand sometimes when I see the same verse mentioned in different contexts over a short period. God is good!

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at September 13, 2025 09:18 AM (kOluj)

176 >>>What I don't get is how so many Boomers and X knew and hated him due to their belief in the lies and slander. There is even a Army Reserve Major whose hatred was so intense that he would throw away his career from his social media posts.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Assuming language of the left doesn't help you make your point.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 09:18 AM (RK8vO)

177 I'm planning for my trip to Indiana at long last. Turns out the pipe shop in Birmingham I planned to stop at on my way, on Monday 9/22, is closed on . . . Mondays. Oh, well. One less frivolous thing I'll spend pocket money on. (Doesn't mean I won't spend it online, of course.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 09:18 AM (omVj0)

178 Unknown,
What too many people have done is worship ideology as an idol instead of the Lord. That leads to kill the unbelievers similar to Islam because it is an impulse to shut up those that might lead to a loss for "your side".

Posted by: whig's phone at September 13, 2025 09:18 AM (eAs8J)

179 >Colts have ruled out CBs Jaylon Jones and Charvarius Ward Sr for Sunday against the Broncos 👀
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OK my takeaway from this is that someone named their kid Charvarius

Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2025 09:18 AM (AOsQT)

180 172 Mornin' Horde. Going to baby my throat a bit this weekend, it's starting to get a bit rough and sore from the radiation. 11 down, 30something to go.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at September 13, 2025 09:16 AM (7C97G)

If you need a hot tea suggestion, let me know.

I find vanilla black tea the most soothing, but sometimes chai is also nice (as is English Breakfast)...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 13, 2025 09:18 AM (tOcjL)

181 What I don't get is how so many Boomers and X knew and hated him due to their belief in the lies and slander. There is even a Army Reserve Major whose hatred was so intense that he would throw away his career from his social media posts.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 09:12 AM (a4flb)
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The ones who rely on traditional media are clueless. They still slurp down CNN and the Nightly News, thinking it is honest.

Also remember that there is a deep rot in the officer corps, where they think themselves superior to everyone else, above the chain of a command, serving a higher cause. These are the Quislings who enthusiastically followed unlawful orders and went the extra mile to hound out vaxx resisters.

I know some of them, and the moment they found out I didn't take the shot, their demeanor sharply changes and they go on about we all have to follow orders, etc. They are oblivious that multiple laws and regulations were broken in their zeal to show they are so super-obedient.

My retirement application was rejected twice before finally going through on the 3rd try. I did not get my proof of service (NGB-22) until this summer. Pricks never made it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 09:19 AM (ZOv7s)

182 If true, another indication that bubble-dwelling leftists Just Don't Get It.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 08:40 AM (kkTda)

They get it. They always have. It's our side of the line that's finally starting to get it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 13, 2025 09:20 AM (g8Ew8)

183 Republicans think Democrats are stupid.
Democrats think Republicans are evil.

False analogy because Democrats don't even have in their vocabulary the ability to contemplate objective evil.

I see it along this division:

In terms of politicians and those who are too involved in politics: All Democrats and many Republicans hate America, the rest of the Republicans have no love for America.

Its a harmonization of the old: Stupid and Evil Parties and the Uniparty.

Thus the Uniparty hates America, the rest have no love for America.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 09:20 AM (a4flb)

184 Cambridge, a den of iniquity and dark magic, did not lower its flags to halfmast, despite Lesbionic Governor Maura Healey, surprisingly ordering Mass towns to do so. (My theory is that Healey has fallen under the spell of Melania and wants Trump to invite her to the White House).

During my last visit to Cambridge, an evil Wizard turned me into a mouse and I started chewing car cables....

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 13, 2025 09:20 AM (TGPs7)

185 172 Mornin' Horde. Going to baby my throat a bit this weekend, it's starting to get a bit rough and sore from the radiation. 11 down, 30something to go.
Posted by: Brother Tim
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Good luck. Be prepared, anything with any seasoning will be inflammatory. Bland is the plan.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 09:20 AM (RK8vO)

186 Wow. The crowd in London for Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom rally is estimated in the millions!

https://tinyurl.com/3ayxnfpy

He said yesterday that they will also be honoring Charlie.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 13, 2025 09:21 AM (3ImbR)

187 So when you see military people going on social media an acting like fools, understand that these people were pampered and promoted under both Biden and Obama, and they are typical Milley-esque blue falcon back-stabbing snakes. They screwed up paperwork on purpose, abused their authority, and loved every minute of it.

Now they think their highest calling is to undermine Trump because they have no sense of honor; they think betrayal is clever and lying is sophisticated.

These are the ones who would have given the order to fire on peaceful demonstrators.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)

188 Unknown Drip Under Pressure
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Talk to Charles.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 09:22 AM (RK8vO)

189 Present.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 13, 2025 09:03 AM

* nods approvingly *

Posted by: Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) at September 13, 2025 09:22 AM (0sNs1)

190
185

tea w/honey
very soothing

Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2025 09:22 AM (AOsQT)

191 Got about an hour before Miss Linda shows up, so I'm finishing the morning pot of black juice and listening to a Casey Kasem show from Sept. 1983. I'm cleaned up, shaved, fed, and with the furry thugs fed as well. Whassup?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 09:12 AM (omVj0)

Going on your trip alone, Wolfus?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2025 09:24 AM (0eaVi)

192 During my last visit to Cambridge, an evil Wizard turned me into a mouse and I started chewing car cables....
Posted by: Mister Ghost

You're lucky! I was turned into a newt!

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2025 09:24 AM (cYBz/)

193 Also remember that there is a deep rot in the officer corps, where they think themselves superior to everyone else, above the chain of a command, serving a higher cause

I read your "Long Live Death", your analysis has credibility with me.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 09:25 AM (a4flb)

194 I am praying for everyone on this list. I'm not here very often, even after so many years, since losing my precious husband and best friend.

I am so heartbroken for grammiewinger. She and the late Tami are the two who are my reason for joining the horde so many years ago. Their sons were coming home from Afghanistan as mine was preparing to go. My husband and I didn't have any friends who had kids serving, and the HQ was a huge comfort and support.

I'll continue to keep you all in my prayers. I love you all.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 13, 2025 09:26 AM (4tmpE)

195 Going on your trip alone, Wolfus?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2025

***
Yep. I told her about the plan last Wednesday night over ice cream at a nearby Haagen-Dasz. Reaction: The crickets said, "Are we the only ones here?" Which just means that, as usual, she's keeping her thoughts to herself. She'll feed and look after the cats while I'm gone.

I plan to leave early on Monday 9/22, get to Evansville on the 23rd, and head back the 28th/29th. The car and I are ready. Now I need to plan my packing!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 09:27 AM (omVj0)

196 Wow. The crowd in London for Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom rally is estimated in the millions!

https://tinyurl.com/3ayxnfpy

He said yesterday that they will also be honoring Charlie.

==

Is this today ?? that is a sea of people!

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 09:28 AM (g47mK)

197 Early morning weather report (not the band)

@BigJoeBastardi . 1h

Would not be surprised to see NHC have development area off Carolinas as AI has been all over feedback feature that develops and then moves into mid atlantic with eye like feature. Impressive rain shield also

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 09:28 AM (RK8vO)

198 I am reliably informed by Wikipedia that Charlie Kirk was an influential figure in the "hard-right" movement.

If you hover over the link, you are presented a picture of men carrying Nazi and Confederate flags.

Why yes, they are also wearing matching shirts and khaki pants, why do you ask?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 13, 2025 09:28 AM (PiwSw)

199 >>>Is this today ?? that is a sea of people!
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Yep. Massive! The Brits have finally woken up. Maybe Farage really does have a chance.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 13, 2025 09:29 AM (3ImbR)

200 Tonypete, you got better, didn't you?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 13, 2025 09:29 AM (PiwSw)

201 I am praying for everyone on this list. I'm not here very often, even after so many years, since losing my precious husband and best friend.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at September 13, 2025 09:26 AM (4tmpE)
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God bless you! I know the weekly threads can be tough sledding at time, but do stop in on Saturdays. For two years that was what I did, and it was very helpful.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 09:30 AM (ZOv7s)

202 If you hover over the link, you are presented a picture of men carrying Nazi and Confederate flags.

Why yes, they are also wearing matching shirts and khaki pants, why do you ask?
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 13, 2025 09:28 AM (PiwSw)
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That was such a joke. "OMG, the KKK now buys its clothes at Kohls!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 09:31 AM (ZOv7s)

203 I plan to leave early on Monday 9/22, get to Evansville on the 23rd, and head back the 28th/29th. The car and I are ready. Now I need to plan my packing!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 09:27 AM (omVj0)

Anywhere near Townsends? Can you buy a colonial era style pipe from them instead of that store closed on Mondays?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2025 09:31 AM (0eaVi)

204 In terms of politicians and those who are too involved in politics: All Democrats and many Republicans hate America, the rest of the Republicans have no love for America.

Its a harmonization of the old: Stupid and Evil Parties and the Uniparty.

Thus the Uniparty hates America, the rest have no love for America.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 09:20 AM (a4flb)

In light of the diametrically opposite responses between both parties and the fact Kirk was a political activist , that’s the dumbest thing I’ve read on the internet in a long time.

Posted by: Zombie Martin Luther King at September 13, 2025 09:31 AM (EYmYM)

205 Yep. Massive! The Brits have finally woken up.

They've been asleep for quite some time. Hope this is the start of something.

Posted by: dantesed at September 13, 2025 09:31 AM (Oy/m2)

206 Prayers for the Horde and all sane people, and the insane as well.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 13, 2025 09:32 AM (TnWYh)

207 My retirement application was rejected twice before finally going through on the 3rd try. I did not get my proof of service (NGB-22) until this summer. Pricks never made it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 09:19 AM (ZOv7s)

Be thankful you didn’t retire from my base. That was a cluster.

My commander went off on me for not getting The Poke until I calmly reminded him I could not go on AT without one because the FRG government would not have permitted me entrance to the country without it. (And I got the coof anyway. Some vaccine.)

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2025 09:32 AM (6qAtw)

208 Is this today ?? that is a sea of people!

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 09:28 AM (g47mK)

Imagine if they were all armed. We would be reading about a king in exile.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 09:32 AM (snZF9)

209 > I plan to leave early on Monday 9/22, get to Evansville on the 23rd, and head back the 28th/29th. The car and I are ready. Now I need to plan my packing!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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Depending on your route, check to see which colleges are along the way and might be having a home football game on your days of travel. Traffic could be a nightmare.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2025 09:33 AM (Q4IgG)

210 Is there a place to get accurate info about Tommy Robinson, because if I try to put it in a google search all it says is "British far right activist"?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 09:33 AM (ELdpA)

211 Bass is a communist. You shouldn't be surprised by this.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 09:34 AM (kUxzU)

212 Anywhere near Townsends? Can you buy a colonial era style pipe from them instead of that store closed on Mondays?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2025

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Where is Townsends?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 09:34 AM (omVj0)

213 Imagine if they were all armed. We would be reading about a king in exile.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 09:32 AM (snZF9)

Or, half-naked in the Thames.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2025 09:35 AM (0eaVi)

214 Fen, I think it's a pretty good bet whenever you see "far-right activist" to assume the person believes in rule of law, limited government, and has a Judeo-Christian worldview.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 13, 2025 09:35 AM (PiwSw)

215 “Also remember that there is a deep rot in the officer corps, where they think themselves superior to everyone else, above the chain of a command, serving a higher cause. These are the Quislings who enthusiastically followed unlawful orders and went the extra mile to hound out vaxx resisters.”

Many, yes. Not all. I’m not happy about the circumstances of my retirement and not doing all I wanted to do. But I am still glad I did it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2025 09:35 AM (6qAtw)

216 Pecan pumpkin bread is in the oven, pumpkin spice coffee is in my Halloween mug, it's raining outside, and Jean-Philippe Rameau is noodling away on KUSC. All is well.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 13, 2025 09:36 AM (kpS4V)

217 DJT is going to the UK next week.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 09:36 AM (g47mK)

218 Be thankful you didn’t retire from my base. That was a cluster.

My commander went off on me for not getting The Poke until I calmly reminded him I could not go on AT without one because the FRG government would not have permitted me entrance to the country without it. (And I got the coof anyway. Some vaccine.)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2025 09:32 AM (6qAtw)
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My Guard unit was great. Totally supported me. The Wing Commander personally apologized and I knew the Medical Group put of a stiff fight to get the waiver.

I had a very nice retirement ceremony, which was combined with my daughter's promotion to E4. Huge crowd, very blessed to have served with people like that.

The rot was at Big Air Force.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 09:36 AM (ZOv7s)

219 12 mayor of LA has ordered all flags to fly at top mast

no flags may be lowered to half mast without express permission from the mayor
Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2025 08:08 AM (AOsQT)

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Acts of Insurrection, large and small, by the Left.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 13, 2025 09:37 AM (0lV1y)

220 Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 09:34 AM (kUxzU)

I think even a Communist should pick their battles.
It just seems stupid and childish but then again, she was completely clueless during the fires, as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 09:37 AM (ELdpA)

221 Where is Townsends?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 09:34 AM (omVj0)

Their mailing address is in Pierceton. Never heard of it. Store is open by appt. only it seems.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2025 09:37 AM (0eaVi)

222 You want to know what really killed Charlie Kirk?

What really killed Charlie Kirk was the shooter's easy access to a military-style, hyper-powered, fully manually-operated, automatic, long-range assault rifle.

Posted by: Lefty Journalists at September 13, 2025 09:37 AM (Y1sOo)

223 Imagine if they were all armed. We would be reading about a king in exile.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 09:32 AM (snZF9)
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The Catholic Stuart heir is tanned, rested and ready.

Also would personally unite the UK, Liechtenstein and Bavaria.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 09:38 AM (ZOv7s)

224 In light of the diametrically opposite responses between both parties and the fact Kirk was a political activist , that’s the dumbest thing I’ve read on the internet in a long time.

Please identify the Charlie Kirk in any of the 50 states legislatures, the US Congress or any governorship.

The closet I can think of is DeSantis, but I still think that he love an ideology and himself more than the country.

In Texas, Cornyn proves he hates America, Cruz has no love for America, only his ability To Own The Libs.

You can't take one outlier, who is not even an elected politician, and claim "the dumbest thing I've ever read on the internet"

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 09:38 AM (a4flb)

225 Depending on your route, check to see which colleges are along the way and might be having a home football game on your days of travel. Traffic could be a nightmare.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2025

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I'll be off the highway by early afternoon on Monday and Tuesday. Coming back from IN to AL on Sunday, I might hit trouble.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 09:38 AM (omVj0)

226 196 Wow. The crowd in London for Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom rally is estimated in the millions!

https://tinyurl.com/3ayxnfpy

He said yesterday that they will also be honoring Charlie.
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Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 09:39 AM (RK8vO)

227 Oh I forgot because she seems to be getting slowly better, but please pray for my daughter KTE to filly recover from the stomach bug or whatever it is.

She's been suffering bravely.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 13, 2025 09:39 AM (J5RCE)

228 You want to know what really killed Charlie Kirk?

What really killed Charlie Kirk was the shooter's easy access to a military-style, hyper-powered, fully manually-operated, automatic, long-range assault rifle.

Posted by: Lefty Journalists at September 13, 2025 09:37 AM (Y1sOo)
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From what I heard, he was killed by the Fuddiest of Fudd guns: a sporterized Mauser 98 rechambered into 30-06 with cut down stock and scope. The kind of thing you can buy at a gun show for peanuts.

And also a weapon legal in just about every country, including the UK. This is in stark contrast with Uvalde's shooter having a $2,000 rig he paid for by working part-time at Wendy's.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 09:40 AM (ZOv7s)

229 Note: Karen Bass is NOT pretty.
Posted by: From about That Time at September 13, 2025 09:08 AM (n4GiU)

Petty! Petty! Good gravy, what a typo.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 09:40 AM (06Hmj)

230 Lord, please place a hedge of protection round Tommy Robinson and his family and those in Britain who still follow you.
Amen

Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2025 09:41 AM (LHPAg)

231 Their mailing address is in Pierceton. Never heard of it. Store is open by appt. only it seems.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2025

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Wiki and Gorgle show Pierceton as way up in the northern part of the state, west of Fort Wayne. I hadn't planned to drive up that way. The clay pipes look cool.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 09:41 AM (omVj0)

232 prayers for all,

same with Christian nationalists, the ones that lefty political officer, could not root out,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at September 13, 2025 09:42 AM (bXbFr)

233 Where is Townsends?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 09:34 AM (omVj0)

A little bit past Townsmiddles.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 09:42 AM (06Hmj)

234 One can only hope Tommy Robinson has a fantastic day.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 09:42 AM (j9CiB)

235 Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2025 09:41 AM (LHPAg)

Amen

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 09:42 AM (ELdpA)

236 Please identify the Charlie Kirk in any of the 50 states legislatures, the US Congress or any governorship.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 09:38 AM (a4flb)
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Kirk was 31. Not a lot of 31-year-old senators or even congress critters. He's part of a different generation, completely different from the geriatrics who dominate the upper elected offices.

There are probably quite a few state reps and senators who were (so to speak) created in his image, and have yet to emerge on the national scene.

That is why Kirk was so impressive - and such a threat.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 09:43 AM (ZOv7s)

237 The Catholic Stuart heir is tanned, rested and ready.

Also would personally unite the UK, Liechtenstein and Bavaria.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 09:38 AM (ZOv7s)

lol, last one to try that got his head chopped off, they still remember it...

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 09:43 AM (g47mK)

238 I can't take the "both-sides-ism" on Charlie's assassination

just can't it anymore

and if I even GENTLY argue it, they GO OFF (including my husband)

Im going to get cut off just for debating that "both sides do violence."

by people who claim to know history, and went to Ivies, and aren't even registered Ds!

totally fed up today

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 13, 2025 09:44 AM (FHttA)

239 You might try Throat Coat. It's an herbal tea and carried in many grocery stores.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 09:45 AM (kUxzU)

240 lol, last one to try that got his head chopped off, they still remember it...
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 09:43 AM (g47mK)
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Bonnie Prince Charlie went into exile, and these are his descendants.

The current king is a bad joke, so I don't know why anyone would be averse to a replacement.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 09:46 AM (ZOv7s)

241 Glenn Youngkin probably has a future. Likewise Winsome Sears.

After all, she's winsome.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 13, 2025 09:46 AM (XQo4F)

242 Picture of the weapon I saw had no scope.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 09:46 AM (RK8vO)

243 BTW, on any given Sunday in the UK, more Catholics are at church than Protestants. The game has changed.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 09:46 AM (ZOv7s)

244 You might try Throat Coat. It's an herbal tea and carried in many grocery stores.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 09:45 AM (kUxzU)

Come and see me. I'll give you two pairs of slacks with every throat coat!

Posted by: Marcus Pincus at September 13, 2025 09:47 AM (0eaVi)

245 Picture of the weapon I saw had no scope.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 09:46 AM (RK8vO)
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I'm going off of the description at the press conference.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 09:47 AM (ZOv7s)

246 Read Yates "Easter 1916."
A terrible beauty is born.

Posted by: vivi at September 13, 2025 09:47 AM (NddcJ)

247 Wiki and Gorgle show Pierceton as way up in the northern part of the state, west of Fort Wayne. I hadn't planned to drive up that way. The clay pipes look cool.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 09:41 AM (omVj0)

It's far enough north that I've never heard of it! Hubbymayhem probably knows where it is. Truck drivers know maps! Glad you're finally making the trip. Prayers for a smooth journey and that you find exactly what you're looking for! I can also throw in some prayers for Miss Linda to become more enthusiastic about a change of scenery, if you think it wise.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 13, 2025 09:47 AM (2J/Lj)

248 >You might try Throat Coat

Who doesn't like a good throat coat? Amirite?

*cackle*

Posted by: Kamala at September 13, 2025 09:50 AM (Y1sOo)

249 Here is a site with information on Tommy Robinson. It is Rebel ( Conservative ) News from Canada:

https://tinyurl.com/4dsxph22

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 09:52 AM (oT1li)

250 Don't go to the Daily Mail, unless you want more heartache. Unless you feel it will give you more resolve and clarity.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 09:52 AM (g47mK)

251 Speaking of British royalty, this past week Katherine, Duchess of Kent, died. She was married to Duke Andrew, a cousin of Queen Elizabeth.

What is noteworthy is that she converted to Catholicism and will have a royal requiem Mass at Westminster Cathedral. This is the first time a royal peer has had a Mass since the Reformation.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 09:52 AM (ZOv7s)

252 *yes, I said "unless" twice

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 09:52 AM (g47mK)

253 252 *yes, I said "unless" twice
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 09:52 AM (g47mK)

you need to unbosom your self of an unless, there, chief.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 09:53 AM (06Hmj)

254 DJT is going to the UK next week.
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 09:36 AM (g47mK)

Hmmm. This could get interesting.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 13, 2025 09:55 AM (g8Ew8)

255 I lurk here every week and read between Saturday chores and needed to de-lurk long for a moment to send love and prayers to Grammie Winger. You're all remembered in my daily rosary intentions and since last week, especially Grammie. God bless you all!

Posted by: KatieFloyd at September 13, 2025 09:56 AM (jOCuK)

256 Good morning MisHum, good morning Horde.
Grace and God's peace to all of us, it's been an unimaginable week.

Prayers for all in need of them- sometimes we open up to those close to us, but sometimes it's hard to ask.

45 Mis Hum - the prayer thread is an oasis in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water
Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at September 13, 2025 08:24 AM (DCWfW)

Hugs and prayers for you and Rev, Grammie. You've been a lovely presence here, and I hope you know what you mean to those who know you. (even just in the little grey boxes) Hope your manicure day is a lot of fun!

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at September 13, 2025 09:56 AM (R3yzU)

257 So when you see military people going on social media an acting like fools, understand that these people were pampered and promoted under both Biden and Obama, and they are typical Milley-esque blue falcon back-stabbing snakes. They screwed up paperwork on purpose, abused their authority, and loved every minute of it.

Now they think their highest calling is to undermine Trump because they have no sense of honor; they think betrayal is clever and lying is sophisticated.

These are the ones who would have given the order to fire on peaceful demonstrators.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 09:21 AM (ZOv7s)

Call them to the Oval Office, strip them of rank and all benefits, and tell them to pick up their token on the way out for a free cardboard box as their new residence.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 13, 2025 09:57 AM (5xuJ/)

258 It's far enough north that I've never heard of it! Hubbymayhem probably knows where it is. Truck drivers know maps! Glad you're finally making the trip. Prayers for a smooth journey and that you find exactly what you're looking for! I can also throw in some prayers for Miss Linda to become more enthusiastic about a change of scenery, if you think it wise.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 13, 2025

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Madamemayhem, thanks for your thoughts. Yes, please pray for Linda to have an awakening.

Pierceton is apparently where US 30, running west out of Fort Wayne, meets state highway 13? Not too far east of Warsaw? It had only 700 people at the 2000 census, says Wiki.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 09:57 AM (omVj0)

259 I'll continue to keep you all in my prayers. I love you all.
Posted by: Jane D'oh

I am glad to see you here, Jane. Been missing you.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 13, 2025 09:57 AM (gDlxJ)

260 Report I read said scope. Sadly too long since got to fire a rifle especially over iron sights for reference.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 09:58 AM (j9CiB)

261 I'm just saddened to read that Perfessor Squirrel is transitioning.

Posted by: The Weakly Reader at September 13, 2025 10:00 AM (oftw2)

262 mayor of LA has ordered all flags to fly at top mast

no flags may be lowered to half mast without express permission from the mayor
Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2025 08:08 AM (AOsQT)

What an absolute bitch

Posted by: LASue at September 13, 2025 10:00 AM (lCppi)

263 With what is happening today, I offer the prayer to St. Michael the Archangel:

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.
Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou,
O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits,
who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.

Posted by: George V at September 13, 2025 10:01 AM (HUbHH)

264 mayor of LA has ordered all flags to fly at top mast

==

DEI keeps dei-ing

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 10:02 AM (g47mK)

265 Wow. The crowd in London for Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom rally is estimated in the millions!

https://tinyurl.com/3ayxnfpy

He said yesterday that they will also be honoring Charlie.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 13, 2025 09:21 AM

While that is impressive, does it matter at all as far as affecting positive change in the government?

My guess is that people in government are just watching this thinking "ok just let them have their little protest to get it out of their system. They can't do anything to get us out of office, so this doesn't matter."

In past eras, something like this would probably matter, because people in government would see potential for being voted out of office. But now, with elections fortified, I think things have changed.

I guess what this does help to do is show others in the UK that they are not alone in their frustrations with the state of the UK.

On the other hand, all these people are now on UK cameras and will be watched by UK government going forward.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 10:03 AM (P5BPp)

266 Good morning again morons and thanks mh and annie and the horde for praying.

If there was ever a time for prayer and introspection. It is now. The Days of Awe will soon be here.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 10:03 AM (RIvkX)

267 Report I read said scope. Sadly too long since got to fire a rifle especially over iron sights for reference.
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 09:58 AM (j9CiB)
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With a decent scope, 200 yards is not that difficult, and I've seen speculation that the shooter was aiming for center mass and either missed or Kirk was wearing a vest and fragments hit him in the throat.

Regardless, 30-06 is so much beefier than .556 that one need not have pin-point accuracy to obtain a lethal hit.

And of course, AOC is now actually saying "Yes, we're coming for your hunting rifles!" because she's an utter twit.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:04 AM (ZOv7s)

268 Charlie, by Diesel.
Grab a kleenex.
https://youtu.be/E40mmmuYZlM?si=Ky4K5Bkp-8jqZ6FH

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at September 13, 2025 10:04 AM (ekM0A)

269 Report I read said scope. Sadly too long since got to fire a rifle especially over iron sights for reference.
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 09:58 AM (j9CiB)

200 yards with iron sights is basic marksmanship. Doesn't take much skill or practice either.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 13, 2025 10:05 AM (g8Ew8)

270 >>>And of course, AOC is now actually saying "Yes, we're coming for your hunting rifles!" because she's an utter twit.
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The more they act out the better.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 10:06 AM (RK8vO)

271 While that is impressive, does it matter at all as far as affecting positive change in the government?

My guess is that people in government are just watching this thinking "ok just let them have their little protest to get it out of their system. They can't do anything to get us out of office, so this doesn't matter."

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 10:03 AM (P5BPp)
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It is significant because the PEOPLE realize that they have the numbers. There are too many of them to arrest, and so a "Colour Revolution" is now a possibility - massive resistance across the country, making it ungovernable.

This is a nightmare to the Labour Party, which has dreamed of a successful National Strike for more than a century - and now it is staring them in the face.

No, if they could stop it, they would, but their police are pussies and the military could fit in a booth at Denny's.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:06 AM (ZOv7s)

272 Family pictures indicate that they are hunters.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 10:07 AM (RK8vO)

273 Two hundred yards in Utah is not much.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 10:07 AM (RK8vO)

274 45 Mis Hum - the prayer thread is an oasis in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water
Posted by: Grammie Wingers' ipad at September 13, 2025 08:24 AM (DCWfW)
You are an inspiration for all those who are past three score and ten, Grammie.

Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2025 10:09 AM (LHPAg)

275 Take over the government. Dissolve Parliament. Install a new King. (not a Windsor)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 10:09 AM (RK8vO)

276 MIsHum, you are so well loved and respected. Please don't take offense at anything people say here today. This week has everyone on edge.
We all appreciate your work here, and I know many of us miss your ONTs (but we appreciate the people who have stepped up so we have an ONT every evening).

I have no idea what goes into creating posts, but I am sure it is time consuming, and then you have to watch over the Horde so it doesn't get ugly. Or violent.
You are so loved here.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 13, 2025 10:10 AM (mZ/55)

277 Two hundred yards in Utah is not much.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 10:07 AM (RK8vO)
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None of the assassins - or would-be assassins - had exceptional marksmanship skills.

Which is another lesson to the GOPe - the crazies will find a way. Trump needs to roll up these guys in a way that makes J6 look like game of tag.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:10 AM (ZOv7s)

278 Good morning grammie.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 10:10 AM (viF8m)

279 Good morning all.
Happy to see so many of you here today. This has been a tough week emotionally but this thread has a positive vibe which I am so grateful for.
I am now walking without a cane. Balance good but gait is still off. I guess that is why PT is called for. Still get tired but trending towards normal.
You all have helped enormously.
🤗❤️

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 13, 2025 10:11 AM (t/2Uw)

280 The horror! The horror!

NBC News@NBCNews
Following the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk this week, educators across the country have found themselves facing swift termination or potential discipline after sharing opinions on social media about the killing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Raging Like Godzilla! at September 13, 2025 10:12 AM (L/fGl)

281 mayor of LA has ordered all flags to fly at top mast

no flags may be lowered to half mast without express permission from the mayor
Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2025 08:08 AM (AOsQT)

This is what it's like to be invulnerable.

She's being a tasteless, uncivil asshole just because she knows she can and nobody (important!) will object. If the fires didn't manage to get her the boot, this certainly won't.

Also, she's probably smart enough to realize that the Democrat Party's nom for Preezy is wide-open right now, and the loudest, most obnoxious, rhetorically violent Democrat a-hole in America, whoever that may be, has a pretty good shot at that role.

I doubt she has the national reach for Preezy, but if she can make herself the political queen of Cali, Vice-Preezy is doable.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2025 10:13 AM (iJfKG)

282 No cane.
applause, applause

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 10:13 AM (RK8vO)

283 Take over the government. Dissolve Parliament. Install a new King. (not a Windsor)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 10:09 AM (RK8vO)
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The Stuart heir is the current Duke of Bavaria.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:14 AM (ZOv7s)

284 >>>Trump needs to roll up these guys in a way that makes J6 look like game of tag.
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Agree.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 10:15 AM (RK8vO)

285 Also, she's probably smart enough to realize that the Democrat Party's nom for Preezy is wide-open right now, and the loudest, most obnoxious, rhetorically violent Democrat a-hole in America, whoever that may be, has a pretty good shot at that role....

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2025 10:13 AM (iJfKG)

Oh yeah!

Posted by: Tim Walz at September 13, 2025 10:15 AM (PiwSw)

286 Hiya JT
{grammie}
{TiFW}
{CoMM}
{rickb}
{blanco basura}

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 10:15 AM (RIvkX)

287 He's worried about my soul.

Brian Schatz@brianschatz
What fucking difference does it make if this murderer was left or right. Pull yourself together, read a book, get some exercise, have a whiskey or walk the dog or make some pasta or go fishing or just do anything other than let this algo pickle your brain and ruin your soul

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Raging Like Godzilla! at September 13, 2025 10:15 AM (L/fGl)

288 277
'Trump needs to roll up these guys in a way that makes J6 look like game of tag.'

X1,000,000

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 13, 2025 10:16 AM (3wi/L)

289 Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 13, 2025 10:10 AM (mZ/55)

Well said. Thanks, Tecumseh, and thanks to MissHum.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 10:16 AM (8Cor4)

290 she was the no 3, choice after Kamala and Abrams, the erstwhile babalu blog noted this back in 2020

Posted by: miguel cervantes at September 13, 2025 10:17 AM (bXbFr)

291 NBC News@NBCNews
Following the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk this week, educators across the country have found themselves facing swift termination or potential discipline after ~~sharing opinions on social media about~~glorifying political violence and celebrating the killing.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Raging Like Godzilla! at September 13, 2025 10:12 AM (L/fGl)
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Fixed it for them

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 10:17 AM (RIvkX)

292 Whatever caliber was used specifically to murder Charlie Kirk, the audio was not a .30-06, No chance

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 10:17 AM (KE/UI)

293 I couldn't watch Erika Kirk's speech last night. One of my greatest fears is that due to the radiation damage, or mental health, or another one of life's risks, my children will not know their father. Pooky cried(!) when he found out he wouldn't be able to be present for Lil Pooky's first birthday because he was stuck in the hospital. He loves his kids a lot, and I hope they always know it.

Posted by: pookysgirl, dodging Cheerios at September 13, 2025 10:18 AM (Wt5PA)

294 after sharing opinions on social media about the killing.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Raging Like Godzilla! at September 13, 2025 10:12 AM (L/fGl)
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Do they elaborate on what those opinions are?

See, this is why there's such a disconnect on the right. If you still actually watch the broadcast news, you think it's all overblown, and might even buy the "woke right" now embracing cancel culture b.s.

Not to stir the generational warfare pot, but that is why Boomers are so out of sync with everyone else. One of my good friends is a Boomer, and he get it, but his two brothers are deep in denial. One is a West Pointer who despises Trump. There's no easy way to reach those people, and anyway, they are fading from the scene.

Which is why Charlie Kirk was so important, but if all you know is what NBC reads out to you, you don't even know that. He's just a guy the kiddos dig.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:18 AM (ZOv7s)

295 the dummest Hawaian, it's a tough competition with the other nitwit senator,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at September 13, 2025 10:18 AM (bXbFr)

296 They're feeling pretty salty over at The Nation today:

https://tinyurl.com/bdcmzz34

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 13, 2025 10:20 AM (BI5O2)

297 The Stuart heir is the current Duke of Bavaria.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

Colloden happened.

Posted by: Auspex at September 13, 2025 10:20 AM (V/J8S)

298 What fucking difference does it make if this murderer was left or right.
———

It makes a lot of difference numbnuts. The left declared open season on the normies several decades ago. Millions of decent, peaceable people. Wake the fuck up.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 10:20 AM (KE/UI)

299 It's not enough to go after individuals, either. Discord and Twitch need multi-billion dollar lawsuits for sponsoring terrorism and their CEOs put under arrest for facilitating criminal conspiracies.

Incitement to murder has never been protected speech and both platforms have shown they can and will censor content they feel is inappropriate, so there is no wiggle room here.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:20 AM (ZOv7s)

300 she was the no 3, choice after Kamala and Abrams, the erstwhile babalu blog noted this back in 2020
Posted by: miguel cervantes at September 13, 2025 10:17 AM (bXbFr)

Still no explanation of why babalu blog disappeared.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2025 10:21 AM (0eaVi)

301 Lib joos on October 8: "Ohhhh, you meant kill me, kill me."

Moderate right on September 10: "Ohhhh, you meant kill me, kill me."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 10:21 AM (RIvkX)

302 With and wisdom of Jazzy Crockett.

Jason Cohen @JasonJournoDC
NEW: Jasmine Crockett doubles down on calling Trump "WANNABE HITLER" after Charlie Kirk Assassination
"Me disagreeing with you, me calling you a wannabe Hitler — all those things are like not necessarily saying 'Go out and hurt somebody.'"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Raging Like Godzilla! at September 13, 2025 10:21 AM (L/fGl)

303 >>>Not to stir the generational warfare pot, but that is why Boomers are so out of sync with everyone else. One of my good friends is a Boomer, and
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Adopting language of the left is never helpful.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 10:21 AM (RK8vO)

304 But he was just a stupid one who put it out in the open. What about the ones who are more careful and more deliberate?

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 09:11 AM

This is something that I think has to be a major wake-up call for all conservatives after seeing the responses from all walks of life, all generations regarding the Charlie Kirk assassination. The fact that there are millions upon millions of people who are radicalized in their mindset now and cheer on and support the killing of conservatives.

Over the last few days, we've seen social media posts from teachers, professors, healthcare workers, celebrities, law enforcement, people in all different corporations and businesses, people from colleges and universities, media and social media members, athletes, you name it, expressing not only their support of the Charlie Kirk assassination, but calling for more.

And just like the "moderate" Muslims who don't commit terrorism, but silently support it, there are who knows how many millions more Americans who didn't make statements but support those who did. This is a major problem.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 10:21 AM (P5BPp)

305 Colloden happened.
Posted by: Auspex at September 13, 2025 10:20 AM (V/J8S)
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A world-historic tragedy.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:22 AM (ZOv7s)

306
So did Culloden.

But since the Church of England doesn't believe in Christianity anymore maybe they've got an opening.

But, nah, humanity only has one king, and he's not some inbred poofter.

Posted by: Auspex at September 13, 2025 10:23 AM (V/J8S)

307 OT:

Anyone know what show that morning after video with the guy and lizard gal on the ONT is from?

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2025 10:23 AM (iJfKG)

308 Adopting language of the left is never helpful.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 10:21 AM (RK8vO)
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I refuse to accept your oddball framing. What other term do you suggest for the Baby Boomers? Are you not aware of polling showing a sharp divide generationally? Is that leftish language?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:23 AM (ZOv7s)

309 Jasmine Crockett, Ilhan Omar, Maxine Waters, and many more should be incarcerated for incitement.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 10:24 AM (RK8vO)

310 https://tinyurl.com/bdcmzz34

You can see the evil one speaking these words.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 10:24 AM (RIvkX)

311 Dear Grammie,

I've never met you, but seeing your comments over the years - especially from the front lines of WI during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial - have given me an incredible sense of joy, laughter, and practical teaching on how to live a Christian life.

It was bad enough going through Charlie Kirk's passing this week, but seeing the entry from Annie's about your health update is breaking me yet further. I wanted to tell you how much your gray box entries have meant to me, while I still can. For some, like OM, I never had the chance, and that fills me with no small amount of sadness. I pray that God keeps you with us for longer, but if that is not His will, I know that you will be meeting up with Charlie before me. Please tell him that we miss him deeply when you do.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 13, 2025 10:25 AM (0CU3H)

312 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:23 AM (ZOv7s)

A. H., I'm thinking Christopher's post on ALH might have a deeper meaning than just finishing a draft.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2025 10:25 AM (0eaVi)

313 >>Not to stir the generational warfare pot, but that is why Boomers are so out of sync with everyone else

How old is the scumbag who murdered Charlie?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 10:25 AM (viF8m)

314 Still no explanation of why babalu blog disappeared.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Nobody's left in Cuba to report on.

Posted by: Auspex at September 13, 2025 10:25 AM (V/J8S)

315 I refuse to accept your oddball framing. What other term do you suggest for the Baby Boomers? Are you not aware of polling showing a sharp divide generationally? Is that leftish language?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:23 AM (ZOv7s)

Individuality is frowned upon and sneered at in this country. All must be pigeonholed by…something.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2025 10:26 AM (6qAtw)

316 ---
I refuse to accept your oddball framing
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Go ahead. Divide and conquer is their game. If you want to participate feel free.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 10:26 AM (RK8vO)

317 A. H., I'm thinking Christopher's post on ALH might have a deeper meaning than just finishing a draft.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2025 10:25 AM (0eaVi)
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Obviously. I was just answering the question asked.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:26 AM (ZOv7s)

318 All that being said, Pooky is definitely on the mend. His kidneys are recovering, he's catching up on his sleep, he's becoming more mobile every day, he's more confident in interacting with the kids, and his sense of humor is back in full swing. I said a prayer of thanks last night that we got him back, quirks and all.

Posted by: pookysgirl, dodging Cheerios at September 13, 2025 10:27 AM (Wt5PA)

319 Jason Cohen @JasonJournoDC
NEW: Jasmine Crockett doubles down on calling Trump "WANNABE HITLER" after Charlie Kirk Assassination
"Me disagreeing with you, me calling you a wannabe Hitler — all those things are like not necessarily saying 'Go out and hurt somebody.'"

I'm sure she meant it in a nice way.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2025 10:27 AM (Riz8t)

320 Go ahead. Divide and conquer is their game. If you want to participate feel free.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 10:26 AM (RK8vO)
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So accurately describing electoral demographics is now divide and conquer? What other knowledge are we forbidden to openly discuss?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:27 AM (ZOv7s)

321 Believe it or not, Bass WAS on the Biden short list for VP candidate already. I think this particular flavor of asshat shelf life is rapidly reaching “best by” date. Everyone is well & truly fatigued by the incompetent, corrupt clowns heading government.

This ain’t Cuba

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 10:27 AM (KE/UI)

322 How dare she complain about her husband's murder!

Wajahat Ali@WajahatAli
Erika Kirk is using her husband's death to promote Kirk's vehicle of hate, Turning Points USA.
Fascinating to watch this right now.

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"Fascinating" is not the word I'd use.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Raging Like Godzilla! at September 13, 2025 10:27 AM (L/fGl)

323 Crockett is trying to ignite something. Charlie's blood, and the blood of that poor unkranian girl, wiped away remnants of Floyd, and she and the likes of her are pissssssed!

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 10:27 AM (g47mK)

324 Thank you Mis. Hum. and Annie's Stew.

Bless you Grammie Winger!
Prayers for all of4 you. Especially BurtTC since I have had a similar type of year.

I'm very happy for “Perfessor” Squirrel. It's nice to hear good news this week.

I'm trying to finish cleaning the house the next few days. I've donated or thrown out most of the stuff I didn't want that was unimportant to Mom. Dusting will be A LOT easier. And after this I get to focus on income.

Everyone try to find some happiness today.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 13, 2025 10:27 AM (jvJvP)

325 https://tinyurl.com/bdcmzz34

You can see the evil one speaking these words.

Posted by: San Franpsycho

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No enemies to the left, no friends to the right

Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 13, 2025 10:27 AM (8AONa)

326 It is significant because the PEOPLE realize that they have the numbers. There are too many of them to arrest, and so a "Colour Revolution" is now a possibility - massive resistance across the country, making it ungovernable.

This is a nightmare to the Labour Party, which has dreamed of a successful National Strike for more than a century - and now it is staring them in the face.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:06 AM

I'd like to think that, but it's one thing to show up to a protest where there are little to no consequences for doing so. It is quite another to participate in a national strike or a color revolution, where the consequences are much, much higher.

People here in the US participated in a lot of "protests" during COVID, but when it came to actually risking their jobs and livelihoods by refusing to mask up or refusing to remain at home during lockdowns, that was another story.

I can think of only a few instances -- the New Jersey gym who stayed open while getting fined, the Michigan barber who was made an example of by Whitmer.

I hope you're right that this is the start of revolution in the UK, but I am skeptical. We'll see.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 10:28 AM (P5BPp)

327 Nobody's left in Cuba to report on.
Posted by: Auspex at September 13, 2025 10:25 AM (V/J8S)

I think Hank might be telling us Florida could tip over.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 13, 2025 10:28 AM (0eaVi)

328 I said a prayer of thanks last night that we got him back, quirks and all.
Posted by: pookysgirl, dodging Cheerios at September 13, 2025 10:27 AM (Wt5PA)
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b"h for good health

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 10:28 AM (RIvkX)

329 >>>Are you not aware of polling showing a sharp divide generationally?
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Yes, I'm aware of polling, who does it, how it's weighted and how consistently accurate it is.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 10:28 AM (RK8vO)

330 Xi Van Fleet survived Mao's Cultural Revolution. She knows whereof she speaks:

@XVanFleet
Who launched Mao’s bloody Cultural Revolution?
Radicalized students—the Red Guards. They quickly went from justifying violence to committing murder, leaving up to 20 million dead, including many of their own.
Who radicalized them? The Communist education system.
In America, it’s Woke Marxist professors. Our campuses have become hotbeds of anti-American radicalism.
We must carry on Charlie’s legacy and reclaim our universities—because if we lose them, we lose America.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 13, 2025 10:28 AM (3ImbR)

331 I'm sure she meant it in a nice way.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 13, 2025 10:27 AM (Riz8t)
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"Saying that you were going to destroy the world in no way implied anyone should stop you - well I mean, they should, by any means necessary - but not violently - unless you have to."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:28 AM (ZOv7s)

332 "Not to stir the generational warfare pot.."

Which you do in nearly every thread you participate in.

Posted by: one hour sober at September 13, 2025 10:29 AM (Y1sOo)

333 >>>I think Hank might be telling us Florida could tip over.
Posted by: OrangeEnt
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Thank goodness for the panhandle or it'd be a gonner.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 10:31 AM (RK8vO)

334 I hope you're right that this is the start of revolution in the UK, but I am skeptical. We'll see.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 10:28 AM (P5BPp)
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The stakes are pretty high. People are already been arrested in the dozens every day. Girls are getting raped daily and the government just keeps doubling down.

A classic mistake is to think that since a people hasn't risen up it never will rise up.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:31 AM (ZOv7s)

335 Not to stir the generational warfare pot, but that is why Boomers are so out of sync with everyone else

How old is the scumbag who murdered Charlie?
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 10:25 AM (viF8m)

Yeah, it's a stupid framing.

Most Boomers I know are conservative.

The "generation" with the greatest number of leftards that I know appear to be in the 30-40 range.

BOOMERS
They're Responsible For Everything Wrong in the World and Unfathomably Eeeeeevil!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2025 10:31 AM (iJfKG)

336 It's time to make the donuts.

*wanders off*

Posted by: muldoon at September 13, 2025 10:31 AM (/iMjX)

337 Not to stir the generational warfare pot, but that is why Boomers are so out of sync with everyone else. One of my good friends is a Boomer, and he get it, but his two brothers are deep in denial. One is a West Pointer who despises Trump. There's no easy way to reach those people, and anyway, they are fading from the scene.

Which is why Charlie Kirk was so important, but if all you know is what NBC reads out to you, you don't even know that. He's just a guy the kiddos dig.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:18 AM (ZOv7s)

Now, ask the same questions to any of the other generations. You may be surprised at how close the ratios are.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 13, 2025 10:31 AM (g8Ew8)

338 Yes, I'm aware of polling, who does it, how it's weighted and how consistently accurate it is.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 10:28 AM (RK8vO)
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Right, so demographic polling is now also suspect? I guess we'll never know how demographic groups vote!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:32 AM (ZOv7s)

339 I was born between 1946 and 1964

Don't make me come up there.! Settle down kids😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 10:32 AM (ELdpA)

340 This is a nightmare to the Labour Party, which has dreamed of a successful National Strike for more than a century - and now it is staring them in the face.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:06 AM
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I'd like to think that, but it's one thing to show up to a protest where there are little to no consequences for doing so. It is quite another to participate in a national strike or a color revolution, where the consequences are much, much higher.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 10:28 AM (P5BPp)
~~~~~

I think times are very different now. This is a worldwide movement. Have you not seen the protests against governments all over the planet? Hell, even Nepal has joined in. The One World Government tyrants are on their heels, and they know it. We have Donald Trump to thank for showing the way.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 13, 2025 10:33 AM (3ImbR)

341 They quickly went from justifying violence to committing murder, leaving up to 20 million dead, including many of their own.
Who radicalized them? The Communist education system.

==

the pattern is clear

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 10:33 AM (g47mK)

342 >>>In America, it’s Woke Marxist professors. Our campuses have become hotbeds of anti-American radicalism.
We must carry on Charlie’s legacy and reclaim our universities—because if we lose them, we lose America.
Posted by: IrishEi
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Recalling the campuses in Germany, circa 1850?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 10:33 AM (RK8vO)

343 Boomers killed more commies than all other generations combined.

Got that going for us...

Posted by: Old Fart Boomer at September 13, 2025 10:34 AM (R/m4+)

344 Please do everyone a favor: help us drink all the coffee.
tinyurl.com/3uz8ksfa

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 10:34 AM (K7yuL)

345 It's not enough to go after individuals, either. Discord and Twitch need multi-billion dollar lawsuits for sponsoring terrorism and their CEOs put under arrest for facilitating criminal conspiracies.

Incitement to murder has never been protected speech and both platforms have shown they can and will censor content they feel is inappropriate, so there is no wiggle room here.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:20 AM

Watching Friday Night Tights last night, they showed a number of Twitch "influencers" who were very detailed in their call for murder of conservatives. And these were live streams that have been going on for at least a year now. People with hundreds of thousands of followers.

FNT also talked about how a few of these leftist streamers had some sense and spoke out against the assassination, but then you check their followers in their chats and they are calling out the streamers for not sticking to radical views. Scary shit.

We always talk about the "silent majority". There is also a "silent" group of millions across the country with these dangerous, radical views.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 10:35 AM (P5BPp)

346 I'm with Braenyard here.
It is Left vs Right. The Left knows no age boundaries, no class boundaries, no race boundaries diaries. The Left is old, young, black, white, rich and poor. They are oligarchs and commmunists. They are angry and jealous. Conservatives are the same covering every demographic but we are sane, optimistic, patriotic,normal, loving. The total opposite,of the Left.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 13, 2025 10:35 AM (t/2Uw)

347 End Wokeness@EndWokeness
Rep. Ilhan Omar is happy Charlie Kirk was kiIIed: "He downplayed George Floyd. He opposed Juneteenth."
Look at their grins

https://is.gd/7t2mCA

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Raging Like Godzilla! at September 13, 2025 10:35 AM (L/fGl)

348 Anyone know what show that morning after video with the guy and lizard gal on the ONT is from?

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2025 10:23 AM (iJfKG)

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I dug into this a bit, and it's not a show. It's a guy who makes short clips. It's Bots in the Hall on YouTube.

Posted by: Jordan61 at September 13, 2025 10:36 AM (tcLX5)

349 LOL, Trump calling out the hypocrites in the West ,East and beyond:

https://tinyurl.com/k3x2s532

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 10:36 AM (g47mK)

350 It's time to make the donuts.

*wanders off*

Posted by: muldoon at September 13, 2025 10:31 AM (/iMjX)

Maple frosting, please!

Posted by: pookysgirl, batting her eyes at September 13, 2025 10:36 AM (Wt5PA)

351 Braenyard,
Some folks used google earth to estimate distance, it was closer to 125 yds straight line and a bit more considering elevation differences.

Posted by: whig's phone at September 13, 2025 10:36 AM (eAs8J)

352 BOOMERS
They're Responsible For Everything Wrong in the World and Unfathomably Eeeeeevil!!!!
Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2025 10:31 AM (iJfKG)
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Right, and where did I blame Boomers for anything? What crime did I attribute to them?

Is anyone going to seriously argue that the three-letter networks are watched by the over-60 crowd and no one else? I mean if Zoomers are the primary audience of NBC news and CNN, it's news to me.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:37 AM (ZOv7s)

353 Went through Facebook quickly and three older leftists I know are again posting Occupy Democrats crap about Kirk. I got into it a bit , and was backed up by a few conservative people I know. The funny thing is the three people who posted different Occupy posts are all seventy or older. There are obviously younger leftist idiots, but it's good to see the "revolution" may die of old age.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 13, 2025 10:37 AM (Ve63F)

354 Anyone know what show that morning after video with the guy and lizard gal on the ONT is from?

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2025 10:23 AM (iJfKG)

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I dug into this a bit, and it's not a show. It's a guy who makes short clips. It's Bots in the Hall on YouTube.
Posted by: Jordan61 at September 13, 2025 10:36 AM (tcLX5)

Thank you Jordon61!😀

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2025 10:37 AM (iJfKG)

355 We always talk about the "silent majority". There is also a "silent" group of millions across the country with these dangerous, radical views.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 10:35 AM (P5BPp)
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They can reach inside a conservative household and turn your children into killers.

Crush Discord and Twitch as an object lesson to the others.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:38 AM (ZOv7s)

356 Thanks for the Coffee Thread and Prayer Revival, Mis Hum and Annie!

Nice prayer from your friend, Mis Hum.

May God bless all of his children.

And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 13, 2025 10:38 AM (hC3Tj)

357 >>They quickly went from justifying violence to committing murder, leaving up to 20 million dead, including many of their own.
Who radicalized them? The Communist education system.

Anyone know what the Four Olds were?

Communism is fairly predictable. Even us boomers know how it works.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 10:38 AM (viF8m)

358 Could somebody share some blessing they had yesterday?

I was telling them on the tech thread that my husband and I were invited to lunch
With a lovely 90 year old lady at the nursing home.
She and another woman who also comes to Bible study was there . We had a wonderful time sharing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 10:39 AM (QJ2Hs)

359 mayor of LA has ordered all flags to fly at top mast

==

DEI keeps dei-ing

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 10:02 AM (g47mK)

She should be flying at top mast. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 10:40 AM (snZF9)

360 Every living generation is riddled with Leftists. All this infighting is stupid. No matter what age you are, they are looking to kill or enslave you. Stop imagining new enemies among your own. We have enough real ones as it is.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 13, 2025 10:40 AM (BI5O2)

361 I think the main difference in the generations is where do you get your news? If, like a lot of older people, you’re still watching television for the “news” you are still being indoctrinated by the Left and the Deep State. I am a late Boomer, but never felt a part of the Age of Aquarius. I don’t watch TV for news and haven’t for decades. I have found my own sources for news at independent web sites like AOS. I resent being told what I think or what I am like. I am the individual that God made and my experiences shaped. You don’t know me: don’t lump me with others you also don’t know.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 10:40 AM (uTWkf)

362 "Occupy Wall Street" was Tea Party but fake and gay. It just became an excuse for "transients" to camp and poop.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 10:40 AM (K7yuL)

363 It's time to make the donuts.

*wanders off*

Posted by: muldoon at September 13, 2025 10:31 AM (/iMjX)

Maple frosting, please!
Posted by: pookysgirl, batting her eyes at September 13, 2025 10:36 AM (Wt5PA)

Absolutely. And none of that powdered sugar shit.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 13, 2025 10:41 AM (g8Ew8)

364 Anyone know what the Four Olds were?

Communism is fairly predictable. Even us boomers know how it works.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 10:38 AM (viF8m)

Old thoughts, old customs, old habits, old ways. IIRC.

Sweep away all…

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2025 10:42 AM (6qAtw)

365 Dude, read the room.

Trump Attempted Assassination Suspect Routh Opens Trial With Hitler Rant, Judge Shuts Him Down

https://is.gd/YWb9QF

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Raging Like Godzilla! at September 13, 2025 10:43 AM (L/fGl)

366 362 "Occupy Wall Street" was Tea Party but fake and gay. It just became an excuse for "transients" to camp and (shit).
Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 10:40 AM (K7yuL)

Communist through and through. All you needed to know was the media cheering it on.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 13, 2025 10:43 AM (6qAtw)

367 Boomers were the last generation to be drafted. The vast majority of them went to Nam when ordered, without protest because they thought they were fighting for their country.

They came home to a nation of Gen Xers who spit in their faces and called them baby killers. Many suffered from exposure to Agent Orange, and still more from PTSD.

But they moved on. They married, had families, and worked two, maybe three jobs in order to afford their 18% mortgage. Many, if not most, succeeded and built wonderful lives.

But now the generations that follow despise them. They blame them for all their own shortcomings.

They can't afford a home! --Neither could we. We worked OT, two jobs. Menial jobs.

They can't get a good job! - We worked our way up the ladder and were smart enough not major in gender studies or French Lit.

So do me a favor and sit down and shut up.
Sick of it.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 13, 2025 10:44 AM (3ImbR)

368 >>Old thoughts, old customs, old habits, old ways. IIRC.

>>Sweep away all…

Cow demons and snake spirits

Kill the olds.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 10:44 AM (viF8m)

369 What about the polls showing the young demographic is okay with murder of political opponents? Where did they get their ideas? Do,they watch MSNBC?
It is The Left, Communists, Antifa, BLM, DEMOCRAT pols, MSM that are doing this. Not Conservatives who are all ages and races and religions(except for Islam).

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 13, 2025 10:44 AM (t/2Uw)

370 Daily Mail is saying the crowd is 110,000 in London. Don't know about other cities.
The Sun is calling it "far right".
110,000 indigenous Britons in the emirate of London is crazy large and it's almost certainly a lowball.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 10:44 AM (K7yuL)

371 "Anyone know what the Four Olds were? "

The 442
The Cutlass
The Toronado
The Delta 88

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 10:45 AM (snZF9)

372 Kirk's very successful challenge to DEI made an army of those who benefit DEI very , very , very mad. They framed it as "racism", or anti-this or that, as they do everything that rattles their cage. But it was nothing of the sort, it was a challenge to the system that promotes the lowest common denominator instead of merit.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 10:45 AM (g47mK)

373 I mean if Zoomers are the primary audience of NBC news and CNN, it's news to me.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:37 AM

Clearly, you're not getting your news from approved sources, Comrade!

Posted by: Mika B. and The Opinion Shapers at September 13, 2025 10:45 AM (0sNs1)

374 That goes for race, gender and all the rest, too. We are in a pretty terrible phase of American history and it will only get worse.

Find fellow travelers wherever you can. Try to protect one another and stop or impede the enemy wherever you can. That distinction - Normie versus the Left - is the only one that matters. Stop listening to THEM tell YOU about the amorphous groups of people you should hate instead of having a united front.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 13, 2025 10:46 AM (BI5O2)

375 Anyone know what the Four Olds were?

Communism is fairly predictable. Even us boomers know how it works.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 10:38 AM (viF8m)
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I've got Mao's Little Red Book downstairs. Very important reading.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:46 AM (ZOv7s)

376
Did Bass positively order "no flags at half staff" or is LA just not doing it?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 10:46 AM (kkTda)

377 Found a meme that I wish I could post here. Shows a picture of Mr. Roger’s in his cardigan with the caption “the Christian I want to be.” Then showing a fully armored Crusader holding a staff with a tall cross on it, at night in front of a burning building, “The Christian I am forced to be.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2025 10:47 AM (l8N5O)

378 The people calling for the death of conservatives: put them up on charges, federal if need be. Try them with our judges, not theirs. Try them in conservative districts. Fire them, put them in prison. Make them pay for it! They have gone too far!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 10:47 AM (uTWkf)

379 They came home to a nation of Gen Xers who spit in their faces and called them baby killers. Many suffered from exposure to Agent Orange, and still more from PTSD

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That is not true. They came back to the generation of their own boomers. Gen X was not even born when they came back from Viet Nam, or were in their cradles max.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 10:47 AM (g47mK)

380

Sweep away all…

"Dammit" - Sparrows

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 10:47 AM (kkTda)

381 Well at least truck is good for a long time.
Interesting they charged.02% for credit card, first time at least was told beforehand

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 10:48 AM (+qU29)

382 Went through Facebook quickly and three older leftists I know are again posting Occupy Democrats crap about Kirk. I got into it a bit , and was backed up by a few conservative people I know. The funny thing is the three people who posted different Occupy posts are all seventy or older. There are obviously younger leftist idiots, but it's good to see the "revolution" may die of old age.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 13, 2025 10:37 AM (Ve63F)

Why don't you peruse the brutal abyss of Tik Toc. You're generalizing to the point of being dumb.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 13, 2025 10:48 AM (g8Ew8)

383 What about the polls showing the young demographic is okay with murder of political opponents? Where did they get their ideas? Do,they watch MSNBC?
It is The Left, Communists, Antifa, BLM, DEMOCRAT pols, MSM that are doing this. Not Conservatives who are all ages and races and religions(except for Islam).
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 13, 2025 10:44 AM (t/2Uw)
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Yes, they're attacking them via online platforms and of course the schools.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:48 AM (ZOv7s)

384 I am a late Boomer, but never felt a part of the Age of Aquarius.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 10:40 AM

C'mon, man, Let The Sun Shine In!

Posted by: The Fifth Dimension at September 13, 2025 10:48 AM (0sNs1)

385 Everyone on the Right is far right as far as the Left is concerned. It seems a lot of people o who considered themselves Liberals are waking up to the fact that most of the Left are loons and coming over to our side. Lots of walk away type videos on X.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 13, 2025 10:49 AM (t/2Uw)

386 Those who called returning vets "baby-killers" were people their own age, ones who got an exemption, went to Berkeley and similar, or conscientiously objected to Canada.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 10:49 AM (g47mK)

387 Chris Cuomo Says He Wouldn’t Be “Surprised” if Elon Musk Was Next to Be “Murdered” After Kirk Assassination

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Well, at least we can all agree there will be a next to be murdered.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Raging Like Godzilla! at September 13, 2025 10:50 AM (L/fGl)

388 As a GenXer, I can confirm I did scream and cry a lot in airports when there were people returning from 'Nam.
Also peed my diaper and snuffled into a security blanket. I did those things too in 1973.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 10:50 AM (K7yuL)

389 BOOMERS
They're Responsible For Everything Wrong in the World and Unfathomably Eeeeeevil!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2025 10:31 AM (iJfKG)

"And we took all the good drugs and had all the good sex and there's none left, so you can't have any!"

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 13, 2025 10:50 AM (cnmiW)

390 I've got Mao's Little Red Book downstairs. Very important reading.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:46 AM

My advice concerning intestinal bloating may prove to be my most enduring.

Posted by: zombie Mao Tse Tung at September 13, 2025 10:50 AM (0sNs1)

391 That is not true. They came back to the generation of their own boomers. Gen X was not even born when they came back from Viet Nam, or were in their cradles max.
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 10:47 AM (g47mK)
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I'm a relatively late boomer and I'm speaking from experience. I'm also a VFW Auxiliary member and the majority of men there are Vietnam vets. Stories I've heard from even recent times would break your heart.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 13, 2025 10:52 AM (3ImbR)

392 They came home to a nation of Gen Xers who spit in their faces and called them baby killers. Many suffered from exposure to Agent Orange, and still more from PTSD.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 13, 2025 10:44 AM (3ImbR)

Not exactly sure about that one. The ones doing the spitting were college age boomers born in the 1950's. The gen Xers were mostly still shitting diapers and watching cartoons. They would have been 3 years old when my cousins came home from vietnam. I always divided the boomers by early and late. I'm extremely late, and have waaay more in common with gen X.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 10:52 AM (snZF9)

393 I found this prayer on the internet on 9/11. It is by Father Mychal Judge who was a Franciscan priest. He died after being hit by falling debris after giving someone last rites at the World Trade Center. Many people recall the picture of him being carried out on that day. He was a chaplain to the NYC fire dept. he said this prayer every day apparently:

"Lord, take me where you want me to go; let me meet who you want me to meet; tell me what you want me to say; and keep me out of your way.”

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 10:52 AM (looXz)

394 And we took all the good drugs and had all the good sex and there's none left, so you can't have any!"
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

There is an element of that envy in GenX, I admit.
"Ahhh yes, back in MY day, it was a threesome every weekend. Man those hippie chicks were fun. Sorry you can't do that because we spread AIDS everywhere. Heh."

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 10:53 AM (K7yuL)

395 346 I'm with Braenyard here.
It is Left vs Right. The Left knows no age boundaries, no class boundaries, no race boundaries diaries. The Left is old, young, black, white, rich and poor. They are oligarchs and commmunists. They are angry and jealous. Conservatives are the same covering every demographic but we are sane, optimistic, patriotic,normal, loving. The total opposite,of the Left.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 13, 2025 10:35 AM (t/2Uw)
There is a smart cookie, that Sharon!

Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2025 10:53 AM (LHPAg)

396 Those who called returning vets "baby-killers" were people their own age, ones who got an exemption, went to Berkeley and similar, or conscientiously objected to Canada.
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 10:49 AM (g47mK)

Correct...and then they went into teaching and passed on their evil ways to younger brains full of mush.

Posted by: Bill Ayers, Retired Prefesser at September 13, 2025 10:53 AM (R/m4+)

397 As a GenXer, I can confirm I did scream and cry a lot in airports when there were people returning from 'Nam.
Also peed my diaper and snuffled into a security blanket. I did those things too in 1973.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 10:50 AM (K7yuL)
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I learned about Vietnam by watching Magnum p.i. Seemed like it was a bad thing.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:54 AM (ZOv7s)

398 >>I'm extremely late, and have waaay more in common with gen X.

I have a lot in common with me. I'm not part of whatever group anyone wants me to be in.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 10:54 AM (viF8m)

399 I can't take the "both-sides-ism" on Charlie's assassination
Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 13, 2025 09:44 AM

Saw an interesting post/meme on LinkedIn, of all places, this morning.

Titled the difference between the Right and the Left, it contrasted videos of peaceful gatherings of people mourning Charles Kirk with the "mostly peaceful" gathering of rioters and looters following "St." Floyd's demise.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 13, 2025 10:55 AM (0sNs1)

400 I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss that security blanket this week.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 10:55 AM (K7yuL)

401 384 I am a late Boomer, but never felt a part of the Age of Aquarius.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 10:40 AM

C'mon, man, Let The Sun Shine In!
Posted by: The Fifth Dimension at September 13, 2025 10:48 AM (0sNs1)

Same here. I didn't come of age listening to the Beatles and Peter Paul and Mary; for me it was Led Zeppelin and The Who.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2025 10:56 AM (uWKK8)

402 Boomers were the last generation to be drafted. The vast majority of them went to Nam when ordered, without protest because they thought they were fighting for their country.

They came home to a nation of Gen Xers who spit in their faces and called them baby killers. Many suffered from exposure to Agent Orange, and still more from PTSD.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 13, 2025 10:44 AM

I don't think Gen-X-ers were spitting on Vietnam war veterans. Gen-X is from 1964 to 1980. So Gen-X-ers would have been 9-11 years old when US soldiers were returning from Vietnam 1973-1975.

If those Gen-X children were spitting on soldiers, it was likely at the direction of their Silent generation (1928-1945) parents.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 10:57 AM (P5BPp)

403 I'm extremely late, and have waaay more in common with gen X.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 10:52 AM (snZF9)

Hubbymayhem was born in December of 1964. They say that's extra late boomer. Hubbymayhem says fuck that! I'm gen X prototype.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 13, 2025 10:57 AM (2J/Lj)

404 Unless I'm mistaken GenX begins in the mid 60s. The war officially ended on April 30, 1975, but calling the vets baby killers didn't end that day.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 13, 2025 10:58 AM (3ImbR)

405 There is an element of that envy in GenX, I admit.
"Ahhh yes, back in MY day, it was a threesome every weekend. Man those hippie chicks were fun. Sorry you can't do that because we spread AIDS everywhere. Heh."
Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 10:53 AM (K7yuL)
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Gen X had some advantages, like Bill Clinton declaring that oral sex did not officially count as sex.

As to spitting, look up how popular the War on Terror was by 2006. All manner of media slurs about mass graves. Remember The New Republic's fake articles showing our troops as callous killers? Good times.

Two of my uncles served in Vietnam and I tell them that they can finally feel better about themselves, because they only lost one war, while I've lost two.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 10:59 AM (ZOv7s)

406 If those Gen-X children were spitting on soldiers, it was likely at the direction of their Silent generation (1928-1945) parents.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 10:57 AM (P5BPp)

Thats why the generational distinctions by year don't always work. By chronology I am pre-64, but my parents were silent generation ('34 and '37) and I always identified with Gen-X'ers.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2025 10:59 AM (uWKK8)

407
https://tinyurl.com/3t9sy9k3

I rest my case.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 13, 2025 10:59 AM (t/2Uw)

408 351 Braenyard,
Some folks used google earth to estimate distance, it was closer to 125 yds straight line and a bit more considering elevation differences.

Posted by: whig's phone
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It doesn't matter. They were Utah hunters not brush country. One hundred yards is a short shot out there. Two hundred is not a long one.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 11:00 AM (RK8vO)

409 Thank you for the prayer thread. Stabilized me and shut down the evil imagination I was indulging.

I can't believe there are this many twisted people.

We're going to need more rope

Posted by: Fenrisulven at September 13, 2025 11:00 AM (ciYHQ)

410 I’m Gen X and I can testify I was way too young to spit on returning Vietnam vets… I was starting kindergarten when that war ended. So whoever that was it wasn’t Gen X

I learned everything I know about the Vietnam war from Apocalypse Now and Platoon…. And I now know those movies weren’t exactly accurate history

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 13, 2025 11:00 AM (ANuwa)

411 Thanks Eromero. Can't wait to give you a hug in person. Might even be able to take you upon a dance by then.❤️

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 13, 2025 11:01 AM (t/2Uw)

412 I remember the Vietnam War, but growing up in Phoenix was different then. At that time it was a very conservative, pro-military town and hearing about protests was like hearing stories from some other country that I didn't live in.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2025 11:01 AM (uWKK8)

413 If those Gen-X children were spitting on soldiers, it was likely at the direction of their Silent generation (1928-1945) parents.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 10:57 AM (P5BPp)
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Or early Boomer parents. My mother was born in 1947. Either way, they would have no understanding of what Vietnam was about or why spitting was required.

Someone taught them to do it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 11:02 AM (ZOv7s)

414 358 Could somebody share some blessing they had yesterday?

I was telling them on the tech thread that my husband and I were invited to lunch
With a lovely 90 year old lady at the nursing home.
She and another woman who also comes to Bible study was there . We had a wonderful time sharing.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 10:39 AM (QJ2Hs)

Not yesterday, but recent....
In the depths of Reddit can actually be found some good and useful things. r/Genealogy is one of them! Hoping it will be useful in finding information, for people researching family members and history.

And Fen, what a lovely visit!

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at September 13, 2025 11:02 AM (R3yzU)

415 360 Every living generation is riddled with Leftists. All this infighting is stupid. No matter what age you are, they are looking to kill or enslave you. Stop imagining new enemies among your own. We have enough real ones as it is.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 13, 2025 10:40 AM (BI5O2)
Good advice. Let's take to heart.

Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2025 11:02 AM (LHPAg)

416 I can't take the "both-sides-ism" on Charlie's assassination
Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 13, 2025 09:44 AM

There are a lot of videos of Charlie calmly arguing with those with opposing views. He did not lose his temper, he used his intellect to calmly dismantle the argument. Using clear rhetoric and facts. Because what those on the other side argue is not particularly smart, just solipsistic and loud.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 11:03 AM (g47mK)

417 GenX here. I learned that

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 13, 2025 11:03 AM (qmiE+)

418 Good morning Mis Hum and Horde
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 08:02 AM (+qU29)

Likewise from me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 11:04 AM (D91Jg)

419 I shared this yesterday or the day before, but I'll share again since this is in line with the prayer thread.

Cartoon image of Charlie Kirk with Jesus' arm around his shoulder, likely walking him towards heaven.

Charlie: "Do You think someone will pick it up, Lord?"

Jesus: "Someone will, Charlie. Someone will."

[Charlie Kirk's microphone on the ground in the foreground]

X: https://bit.ly/4n5uBuy

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 11:04 AM (P5BPp)

420 Thats why the generational distinctions by year don't always work. By chronology I am pre-64, but my parents were silent generation ('34 and '37) and I always identified with Gen-X'ers.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2025 10:59 AM (uWKK

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They are only useful to a point, just like decades. The early 1980s were very different from 1989-90.

My father was a War Baby.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 11:04 AM (ZOv7s)

421 Whoops. Learned that LBJ and the military brass were fucking idiots in Nam.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 13, 2025 11:05 AM (qmiE+)

422 Charlie also had phenomenal memory too. Amazing volumes of facts that he could bring up to support his arguments.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 11:05 AM (g47mK)

423 I deeply regret trying to explain why legacy media targets older populations who still retain residual trust in them.

I don't know why that was so controversial, but I shall never bring it up again.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 11:06 AM (ZOv7s)

424 Honestly this week left me downright discouraged… on top of Charlie Kirk’s murder (which I find greatly depressing) I found out a HS friend of mine died….when your contemporaries start dropping your own mortality becomes a bit more real. Life is hard sometimes

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 13, 2025 11:06 AM (ANuwa)

425 I am a late Boomer, but never felt a part of the Age of Aquarius.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Late Boomer. Age of disco & Urban Cowboy.

1962.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 11:06 AM (Y7hJ9)

426 352
'Is anyone going to seriously argue that the three-letter networks are watched by the over-60 crowd and no one else? I mean if Zoomers are the primary audience of NBC news and CNN, it's news to me.'

The pope's a Boomer. Are you blaming him too?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 13, 2025 11:06 AM (3wi/L)

427 I learned everything I know about the Vietnam war from Apocalypse Now and Platoon…. And I now know those movies weren’t exactly accurate history
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 13, 2025 11:00 AM (ANuwa)

The shit-burning scene in Platoon was pretty accurate.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 13, 2025 11:06 AM (g8Ew8)

428 https://tinyurl.com/3t9sy9k3

I rest my case.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

One candle to light the darkness.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Raging Like Godzilla! at September 13, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl)

429 There are a lot of videos of Charlie calmly arguing with those with opposing views. He did not lose his temper, he used his intellect to calmly dismantle the argument. Using clear rhetoric and facts. Because what those on the other side argue is not particularly smart, just solipsistic and loud.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 11:03 AM

They were talking about this on Fright Night Tights last night and a few of them brought up a good point.

That leftists put their entire identities in their political views. So if their political views are challenged, they take that as a challenge or attack on them personally. And that's why they cannot handle debate. Because they cannot separate their sense of self from the issues being debated.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 11:07 AM (P5BPp)

430 Hubbymayhem was born in December of 1964. They say that's extra late boomer. Hubbymayhem says fuck that! I'm gen X prototype.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 13, 2025 10:57 AM (2J/Lj)

Yup. I'm culturally gen X.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 11:07 AM (snZF9)

431 Late Boomer. Age of disco & Urban Cowboy.

1962.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 11:06 AM (Y7hJ9)
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"Where were you in '62?"

"Diapers."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 11:08 AM (ZOv7s)

432 My neighbor is someone I have known for almost my whole life. He's a few years older than me and his dad passed away this past week. Funeral is today. I was gonna zip in and pay my respects and zip back out before the funeral starts. I was up half the night with allergies and have been battling them since I gave up on sleeping at 0530. My eyes look bruised from wiping them. I can barely see because of the itching and watering. I'm not gonna make it to the respect paying or the funeral.

I may just grab something to eat and try to nap for a while.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 13, 2025 11:09 AM (2J/Lj)

433 "Where were you in '62?"

"Diapers."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

*snort

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 11:09 AM (Y7hJ9)

434 The bedrock of Mao's cultural revolution was to blame the problems of the current entirely on the older generations and older customs. It created a generation of ruthless, merciless and mindless killers who gleefully slaughtered 20 million people to help create the wonder of modern China, a totalitarian nightmare.

There's a difference between reading and understanding.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 11:09 AM (viF8m)

435 That leftists put their entire identities in their political views. So if their political views are challenged, they take that as a challenge or attack on them personally. And that's why they cannot handle debate. Because they cannot separate their sense of self from the issues being debated.
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Identity politics you say ? Marxists love identity politics. They even create identities to instill their "wisom", doncha know.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 11:11 AM (g47mK)

436 BOOMERS
They're Responsible For Everything Wrong in the World and Unfathomably Eeeeeevil!!!!

As a Boomer, I know lots of this hate directed at my generation has nothing to do with me.

That said, maybe some hatred of Boomers is necessary because the young generation thinks "Boomer" is anyone over 50 regardless of what the marketing demographers want us to believe.

There is a lot of truth in the hippies bringing their Marxist ideology into the classroom and other venues. The youngsters having built in suspicion of their intents and broad brushing an OK Boomer on what might often be more Marxist garbage is good.

That is, the paid protesters who are mostly grey hairs - yeah, call them Boomers and also hold them in contempt by default. Then ignore their garbage.

If hating me because of my age is the collateral damage, then I'm fine with that.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 11:11 AM (a4flb)

437 Where were you in '62?"

"Diapers."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 11:08 AM (ZOv7s)

In the bathroom choking the chicken.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at September 13, 2025 11:11 AM (g8Ew8)

438 I may just grab something to eat and try to nap for a while.

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grab Allegra !

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 11:12 AM (g47mK)

439 Also in line with the prayer thread, Shad M. Brooks (of Friday Night Tights) thoughts (with supporting scriptures) on how God is using Charlie's life and death:

X: https://bit.ly/4piR8VY

"I believe that by God suffering an evil man to Kill Charlie, God has used his death to change hearts and to fulfil his plans for us. For Charlie had completed the work God wanted him to do, and part of his work was to become the martyr he now is. It is not the first time God has had good men die for him, and it won't be the last.

Charlie Kirk's death might mean more for changing hearts than his later life could have, for we don’t know how long his life was destined to be. His future could have been faced with disease, or death by personal injury. He might have been destined to die in a car crash for all we know. But what I do know, is that God has made his death mean more than what his later life was destined for."

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 11:13 AM (P5BPp)

440 I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, and all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God.

Sorry to derail the thread.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 11:13 AM (ZOv7s)

441 Condolences rickb223

Posted by: DaveA at September 13, 2025 11:13 AM (PMJuY)

442 It created a generation of ruthless, merciless and mindless killers who gleefully slaughtered 20 million people

I remember when that number was 250 million people. I guess it has suffered the same ideological revisionism like there only being "10 million illegal aliens" in this country for all of the fast fifty years.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 11:14 AM (a4flb)

443 Posted by: DaveA

Thank you.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 11:15 AM (Y7hJ9)

444 But what I do know, is that God has made his death mean more than what his later life was destined for."

That statement makes absolutely no sense. Since God is in control, it is clear the "destiny" was to die at 31. There is no such thing as an alternate/hypothetical destiny.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 11:16 AM (a4flb)

445 I remember when that number was 250 million people. I guess it has suffered the same ideological revisionism like there only being "10 million illegal aliens" in this country for all of the fast fifty years.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 11:14 AM (a4flb)
---
Apparently the people who lived through the Great Leap Forward are pretty much feral. If they see food, they take it, if there is a promotional giveaway, they take everything they can find. That's what they learned.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 11:16 AM (ZOv7s)

446 "Where were you in '62?"

"Diapers."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 11:08 AM

Same, except for '22.

Posted by: Jos. Robinette Biden at September 13, 2025 11:17 AM (0sNs1)

447 Much of the vitriol directed at Boomers (I am a very late boomer) is pure, unadulterated jealousy.

Because the facts are quite different than the lazy suppositions made by people who are reflexively critical of Boomers.

We paid into SS and Medicare for 40+ years. We suffered through the financial malaise of the 1970s and early 1980s (and the dotcom bubble and the recession of 2008+).

We managed the ups and downs of the economy without whining like little bitches about being owed a universal basic income. We went to work five days a week!

You don't like our success? Tough shit. Make your own success, and stop blaming others for your sloth and weakness.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo [Flying the American Flag!] at September 13, 2025 11:17 AM (n9ltV)

448 Identity politics you say ? Marxists love identity politics. They even create identities to instill their "wisom", doncha know.
Posted by: runner
---------------

Categorizing cultural generations alphabetically is the genesis of advertisers and has been adopted by the left to divide Americans as people. Accepting the concept, adopting their language is submission to their disruption. There are good people and there are bad people, there are smart people and there are dumb people of all ages.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 11:19 AM (RK8vO)

449 KT HAZ A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 11:19 AM (+qU29)

450
...Sorry to derail the thread.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 13, 2025 11:13 AM (ZOv7s)

Not a derail. We can all use extra blessings right now.

Not exactly a prayer, but wincing in sympathy for the organizers of the (outdoor) beer and wine festival just down the street. The first real rain we've had in many weeks is pounding down right now, and I can just imagine the 'Are you ***kidding*** me? 's down there right now.

Posted by: barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at September 13, 2025 11:19 AM (R3yzU)

451 Thank you.
Posted by: rickb223

Saw your post from last night, as well.

My wife passed away on Aug. 18. While it wasn't a sudden death, it wasn't expected, either. Just went into the hospital with suspected pneumonia (it wasn't pneumonia) and never came home.

I know what you are going through.

One day at a time...

Posted by: one hour sober at September 13, 2025 11:21 AM (Y1sOo)

452 I think in many ways Charlie was like Rush. They went after Limbaugh, called him racist, antisemite , everything. First time I listened to Rush was precisely, because I've heard negative things about this guy Rush Limbaugh on the radio. So I though, what is he saying, I need to hear for myself. And the rest is history. Rush always said, ask your liberal friend (or whoever ) to listen to my show for 30 minutes. Just give me 30 minutes.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 11:21 AM (g47mK)

453 https://tinyurl.com/3t9sy9k3

I rest my case.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice

Lovely. Thanks so much, Sharon!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 11:21 AM (ZeH0U)

454 There are a lot of videos of Charlie calmly arguing with those with opposing views.

X algorithms have decided that I need to be exposed to Charlie Kirk hate. One heavily edited video began with three young people physically fighting over who gets to sit in the chair to debate CK.

The dickhead that prevailed by elbowing some girl, and shoving her away tried to make the argument that XY Chromosomes do not make a person male. His primary argument is that Christians call God "The Father", and thus God is expressed as a man even though He doesn't have XY chromosomes.

CK didn't know how to respond to such tortured absurdity so the young creep shouted out that he 0wned CK and beat him in a debate. (because of editing I have no idea how the exchange really happened/ended)

This is the lunacy that CK had to deal with.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 11:23 AM (a4flb)

455 Prayers for all.

Posted by: Mick at September 13, 2025 11:23 AM (HFx9z)

456 As a Boomer, I know lots of this hate directed at my generation has nothing to do with me.

That said, maybe some hatred of Boomers is necessary because the young generation thinks "Boomer" is anyone over 50 regardless of what the marketing demographers want us to believe.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 13, 2025 11:11 AM

It's ironic that the "Ok, Boomer" phrase became popular and spread on social media. When most of the people who created the internet, cell phones, video games, desktop computers, laptops, iPhones, music players, etc. were from the Boomer generation or before.

Steve Jobs (1955 - Boomer)

There's also the Presidential candidate the younger generation all seemed to go for back in 2008:

Barack Obama (1961 - Boomer)

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at September 13, 2025 11:23 AM (P5BPp)

457 *I was not a liberal, never was, just never heard of Limbaugh, was younger than the average age of his listeners I guess.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 11:27 AM (g47mK)

458 Thanks CBD.
I feel the same.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 13, 2025 11:27 AM (t/2Uw)

459 434 The bedrock of Mao's cultural revolution was to blame the problems of the current entirely on the older generations and older customs. It created a generation of ruthless, merciless and mindless killers who gleefully slaughtered 20 million people to help create the wonder of modern China, a totalitarian nightmare.

There's a difference between reading and understanding.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 11:09 AM (viF8m)
I always thought and continue to believe Mao's own megalomania was the cause of all China's problems.

Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2025 11:28 AM (LHPAg)

460 Is there a place to get accurate info about Tommy Robinson, because if I try to put it in a google search all it says is "British far right activist"?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 09:33 AM (ELdpA)

Google is evil, Fenelon. Use a more reliable search engine. Duck Duck Go, or Qwant, or even Yandex.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 11:29 AM (05iS8)

461 NR Pax requests prayers for his father, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s on 8/20.
8/30 Update – Dad was in the ER all Tuesday night after taking a tumble. He is on medication for Parkinson’s so now it’s a matter of seeing how much that helps.

They help a lot. From barely shuffling across a room hanging onto everything to just walking semi-normal in 1/2 hour.

Exercise helps.

A local support group helps. Seeing others in the same situation is good and scary at the same time.

Posted by: DaveA at September 13, 2025 11:33 AM (PMJuY)

462 Anyone know what the Four Olds were? "

The 442
The Cutlass
The Toronado
The Delta 88
——

LOL that’s fucking Ace, I don’t care who ya are

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 11:42 AM (ayI3s)

463 okay, Somebody up there is trolling me.

1. A Leftist just called me a nazi
2. He's in Shreveport, 3 hour hop
3. profile pics that make him an easy mark
4. other pics of front yard, is house

Dear Lord,
I get that you're mad at me for stalling on the "put away sinful things" bit. And I admit to recent stupidly
But I'm not falling for this.

Posted by: Fenrisulven at September 13, 2025 11:44 AM (ciYHQ)

464 Prayers for Grammie - what type of cancer do you have?

I am home - weak, but getting better every day 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at September 13, 2025 05:13 PM (SRRAx)

465 Explicit material is available on various adult websites for entertainment.
Always choose reliable adult sites for a protected experience.

Posted by: https://lovemygifts.co.uk at September 13, 2025 10:48 PM (BYYO/)

466 You finally found out what "covfefe" means.

Posted by: wferrin at September 14, 2025 04:10 AM (uWVK7)

Daily Tech News 13 September 2025

Top Story

Intel has announced two new desktop CPUs. Do not buy them. (Tom's Hardware)

The first is the i5 120, a six core part that has the exact same specs as the Core i5 12400 from 2022, mostly because that's what it is. Admittedly not an awful part, particularly if you didn't run a workload that would make good use of the "efficiency" cores, because it didn't have any of those.

The second is the i5 110, a six core part that has the exact same specs as the Core i5 10400 from 2020, mostly because... Yeah. The 10th generation chips didn't even have "efficiency" cores yet, so you're safe there. But you will need to find a five year old motherboard and DDR4 RAM for it, because none of this modern stuff will work.

Oh, and it's 14nm.
Arm has introduced four new CPUs. (Notebook Check)

The C1 Ultra replaces the X925 (which replaced the X4) as Arm's new flagship mobile core.

The C1 Premium replaces the A725 (latest in the same line as the A78, for example) as a sub-flagship core.

The C1 Pro also replaces the A725 which is a bit confusing, but is optimised for smaller size and lower power.

And the C1 Nano replaces the A520 (latest in the same line as the good old A53) as a core that also exists and powers your budget tablet probably.

Tech News

Speaking of budget tablets, I have my Lenovo Idea Tab and Lenovo Legion Tab charging right now ready for testing tomorrow. (Notebook Check)

And a couple of older models I dug out to see how things have improved over the years.

Couple of things immediately evident:

First, the more expensive Legion Tab boots much faster, which it should do since it has a much faster CPU (Arm X3 vs. A76 cores).

Second, while the Legion Tab has a glossy screen, the Idea Tab is matte. Very matte. Lenovo's marketing material describes it as "paper-like" and at first glance that is correct.
UTF-8 is a brilliant design. (I Am Vishnu)

A brilliant implementation of a terrible idea.

UTF-8 is the default implementation of Unicode, and Unicode is an attempt to create a single alphabet that can encode every human symbol ever, from all languages including ones we can't read and ones that have syllabaries or pictograms rather than alphabets, and also everything else.

But it's just an alphabet. There is no embedded context as to what language you are using if the same symbol appears in more than one. Which happens all the time.

Which makes it impossible to write anything that can be read unambiguously.
AI-generated medical data can be used without ethical concerns, say exceptionally unethical people. (Nature)

If you are wondering how the AI learned to generate useful fake medical data, then your most likely guess is precisely correct: It was trained on real human medical data.

The issues here are large enough and obvious enough to provide roosting space for the entire former eastern seaboard population of the passenger pigeon.
The employee of a DVD manufacturer who leaked the Spider-Man Blu-Ray has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison... (TorrentFreak)

... On unrelated firearms charges.
Samsung is releasing the Galaxy Tab A11 range, consisting of unusable low-resolution garbage. (Liliputing)

1340x800 on even an 8" screen is unacceptable. Google fixed that in the Nexus 7 in 2013.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: In a world of bear, be frog.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 04:33 AM (aURVT)

2 Mornin' Pixy + Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 13, 2025 04:34 AM (O7YUW)

3 Oink!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 13, 2025 04:35 AM (aJQjq)

4 Morning all.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 13, 2025 04:36 AM (BLOW1)

5 G'morning all, from soon to be sunny, Summerville, SC.

IOW....We're finally home!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2025 04:36 AM (a1415)

6 Pixy...

I thought I saw you comment yesterday that your blood pressure meds seem to be bringing your BP closer to b being under control.

Glad to hear it!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2025 04:37 AM (a1415)

7 Pixy, what little description you posted of AI-anonymized medical data vaguely reminds me of what Surgisphere said they intended to do, but it turned out to be a way to launder completely fraudulent data, which they went on to do when it would do the most damage.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at September 13, 2025 04:38 AM (VNmb8)

8 Oh, and it's 14nm.

Intel fell over and couldn't get up with that generation. It seems Intel's 14nm CPUS had the power to drive Apple to making their own CPUs and Microsoft to seriously start hooking up with Qualcomm. Truth is, having Intel become irrelevant is not a win; worse is they did this to themselves.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 13, 2025 04:42 AM (aJQjq)

9 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2025 04:43 AM (pLaQB)

10 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 13, 2025 04:48 AM (XQo4F)

11 The issues here are large enough and obvious enough to provide roosting space for the entire ~~former eastern seaboard population of the passenger pigeon.~~ current and future population of US lawyers.

What a mess.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 13, 2025 04:48 AM (aJQjq)

12 "Both tablets feature 8.7 inch, 1340 x 800 pixel displays with a 90 Hz refresh rate, ..."

My Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 has a 10.5" screen and a screen resolution of 1920 x 1200.

Why is Samsung regressing?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 13, 2025 04:52 AM (O7YUW)

13 Xylophone--if that's what it is?--is fun! Several times, I suspended disbelief and it really was as though the plushies were playing.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 04:59 AM (aURVT)

14 Why is Samsung regressing?

Good question. I have had a couple Samsung tablets, a nice one and a not so nice one. They were complete trash and went to E-Waste Heaven prematurely. I don't think I could ever be coxed into buying another one.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 13, 2025 05:00 AM (aJQjq)

15 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at September 13, 2025 05:03 AM (AN2gy)

16 If things get really bad and you have to resort to cannibalism, eat the vegans first.
They're the closest thing to grass fed.

Posted by: The More You Know at September 13, 2025 05:04 AM (XQo4F)

17 Sorry I'm early. Can't sleep.
_-_
"16 If things get really bad and you have to resort to cannibalism, eat the vegans first.
They're the closest thing to grass fed."
_-_
That's the funniest thing I've heard all day, but tk be fair, it is quite early!.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 13, 2025 05:08 AM (vd6bO)

18 >>> it really was as though the plushies were playing

Frog not playing?

Posted by: fluffy at September 13, 2025 05:09 AM (AN2gy)

19 >>>Disclaimer: In a world of bear, be frog.

Aesop? Aussop?

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 05:09 AM (aURVT)

20 18 >>> it really was as though the plushies were playing

Frog not playing?
Posted by: fluffy at September 13, 2025 05:09 AM (AN2gy)

He is, but he's not having to move as frantically as the bears.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 05:11 AM (aURVT)

21 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 05:13 AM (+qU29)

22 He is, but he's not having to move as frantically as the bears.

... I think.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 05:13 AM (aURVT)

23 Love the video!
Evidently that super fancy xylophone thingy is called a Marimba.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 13, 2025 05:14 AM (XQo4F)

24 What's a Marimba, you ask?

$20. Same as in town.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 13, 2025 05:15 AM (XQo4F)

25 >>>the Legion Tab has a glossy screen, the Idea Tab is matte

I've only ever had a glossy screen, an iPad. There must be pros and cons?

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 05:16 AM (aURVT)

26
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 13, 2025 05:20 AM (tljrc)

27 Stuffed animals playing a marimba? Weak sauce. Totally weak soy sauce.

https://youtu.be/xkXEme7aBsI

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 13, 2025 05:23 AM (aJQjq)

28 https://tinyurl.com/26bnanva
20 Posts from Doug Ross Substack Sept 12

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 05:23 AM (+qU29)

29 AltonJackson, thinking of you.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 13, 2025 05:24 AM (mFSH6)

30 24 What's a Marimba, you ask?

$20. Same as in town.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 13, 2025 05:15 AM (XQo4F)

haha!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 05:26 AM (aURVT)

31 Posted by: The More You Know at September 13, 2025 05:04 AM (XQo4F)

LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 05:29 AM (looXz)

32 I've only ever had a glossy screen, an iPad. There must be pros and cons? Posted by: m

Matte screens mostly eliminate reflections but at the expense of less contrast. Glossy screens mock you and then steal your burrito. Other than that both are pretty solid choices for watching cat videos.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 13, 2025 05:31 AM (aJQjq)

33 27 Stuffed animals playing a marimba? Weak sauce. Totally weak soy sauce.

https://youtu.be/xkXEme7aBsI

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 13, 2025 05:23 AM (aJQjq)

Teamwork!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 05:32 AM (aURVT)

34 From the ONT re: deserts and translation

In my town we have Swamp Swamp.

I'm sure all over America we have Hill Hill, River River and Lake Lake.

Posted by: fluffy at September 13, 2025 05:32 AM (AN2gy)

35 Stranger saves man's life and then they have a reunion in hospital:

https://tinyurl.com/2txpfjpk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 05:33 AM (looXz)

36 32 Glossy screens mock you and then steal your burrito.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 13, 2025 05:31 AM (aJQjq)

hmm ...

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 05:34 AM (aURVT)

37 So just as we got home last night, my Uncle, a man of faith and little use for technology nor social media called me.

And out of the blue, he began with 'Did you see what they did to Charlie Kirk?'

So we talked.

For quite some time.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 13, 2025 05:38 AM (a1415)

38
g'mornin', Ben Had

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 13, 2025 05:39 AM (tljrc)

39 1340x800 on even an 8" screen is unacceptable. Google fixed that in the Nexus 7 in 2013

The current iPad Mini is 8.3” with a 2266x1488 resolution at 326 ppi.

So yeah, not going with 1200p or even 1080p is inexcusable. Especially since these will mostly be used to read, watch video, and play simple games on.

Samsung acts like they don’t already make displays and adding some more ppi to the screen will bankrupt them. It would probably be a few more dollars a device for the higher screen rez.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 05:42 AM (6ydKt)

40 Kentucky nurse saves drunken raccoon in dumpster with CPR: Scroll down for video:

https://tinyurl.com/bdyrxvt9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 05:43 AM (looXz)

41 >>> And out of the blue, he began with 'Did you see what they did to Charlie Kirk?'

Someone brought it up at work, a young millennial. Some other guy who took for an oblivious normie also spoke well of him.

This is in corporate IT in blue Massachusetts.

Posted by: fluffy at September 13, 2025 05:43 AM (AN2gy)

42
Christ Almighty help me.
I made the mistake of wading into the Youtube comment sewer and engaging with the goblins. I should know better.

But they are out, in full force, with their new download, spamming with their new lies. It bothers me. But I shouldn't let it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 05:44 AM (Rw4Ax)

43 Good morning morons

Woke up and intrusive thoughts immediately destroyed any hope of returning to sleep.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 05:46 AM (RIvkX)

44 >>> It bothers me. But I shouldn't let it.

Of course it will bother you. "Reeeeeeeee!" is obnoxious. Don't go where they speak Ree.

Posted by: fluffy at September 13, 2025 05:46 AM (AN2gy)

45 @14/Alteria Pilgram: "I have had a couple Samsung tablets, a nice one and a not so nice one. They were complete trash and went to E-Waste Heaven prematurely..."

Guess I got lucky with my Tab A8 then, it's been fine.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 13, 2025 05:48 AM (O7YUW)

46 iPads are glossy, but Apple has some secret sauce in there to reduce glare while still providing some excellent contrast ratio.
For the non-Pro models anyhow.

The Pro models use OLED where contrast is not a problem.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 05:53 AM (6ydKt)

47 Christ Almighty help me.
I made the mistake of wading into the Youtube comment sewer and engaging with the goblins. I should know better.

But they are out, in full force, with their new download, spamming with their new lies. It bothers me. But I shouldn't let it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 05:44 AM (Rw4Ax)

This is why I very rarely read YouTube comments.
And when I do, it’s on music or computers, or something that is far less controversial so has far fewer trolls on the board.

I get about all the commenting action I can stand here at AoSHQ.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 05:58 AM (6ydKt)

48
Hurry, hurry Hercules!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! [/i at September 13, 2025 05:58 AM (Tv15w)

49 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 13, 2025 05:59 AM (hoCmQ)

50
Christ Almighty help me.
I made the mistake of wading into the Youtube comment sewer and engaging with the goblins. I should know better.

But they are out, in full force, with their new download, spamming with their new lies. It bothers me. But I shouldn't let it.

Posted by: Soothsayer

Avoid X, then.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! [/i at September 13, 2025 05:59 AM (Tv15w)

51 AI feels like my military days - we'd go full steam ahead on something even tho all of us knew it wasn't gonna work but we did it because that's what we were told to do and you're life was simply much easier just shutting up and following orders than questioning and getting reamed. AI is that.

Posted by: Bobbie Joe at September 13, 2025 05:59 AM (KbweE)

52 The same people glorifying and celebrating butchering babies for Palestine also glorifying and celebrating Charlie's murder.

Rhomboid said it best last night, "our fellow Americans."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 06:04 AM (RIvkX)

53
One idea making the rounds: since the assassin may be a groyper, that moves the blame for Charlie Kirk's death from the Left to the Right.

Tell me you do not know how to read the room without telling me that you do not know how to read the room.

It's the Left's gleeful reaction to his death that has holed their vessel below its waterline, dipshits.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! [/i at September 13, 2025 06:05 AM (Tv15w)

54 51 AI feels like my military days - we'd go full steam ahead on something even tho all of us knew it wasn't gonna work but we did it because that's what we were told to do and you're life was simply much easier just shutting up and following orders than questioning and getting reamed. AI is that.
Posted by: Bobbie Joe at September 13, 2025 05:59 AM

###

Now do recycling.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 13, 2025 06:05 AM (XQo4F)

55 Avoid X, then.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! [/i at September 13, 2025 05:59 AM (Tv15w)

But at least with X you can set it to only show posts from your Follow list (if you have an account, of course).

Unless you follow someone who constantly reposts lib-trolling, you can avoid the dark side for the most part.

I follow LibsOfTikTok but I can still scroll on by if I don’t want to see a nose-piercing have a tantrum in her car.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 06:09 AM (6ydKt)

56 Coffee is finally done, that's a start.
Stove top takes awhile

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 06:13 AM (+qU29)

57 52 The same people glorifying and celebrating butchering babies for Palestine also glorifying and celebrating Charlie's murder.

Rhomboid said it best last night, "our fellow Americans."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 06:04 AM (RIvkX)

The left is a coalition of death cults at this point.
No wonder they’re all so attracted to Islam.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 06:14 AM (6ydKt)

58 >>> Now do recycling.

Come on, now. I get a warm fuzzy from recycling. It's a great concept to re-use materials. We just do it so badly.

Posted by: fluffy at September 13, 2025 06:15 AM (AN2gy)

59 Had such a nice time at the Senior Citizens home yesterday at lunch with two people in the Bible study. They are so sweet! FenSpouse came with me. FenSpouse had a nice talk with a woman who's about 80 about the Beatles. And the other woman who's about 90 read us a poem. She had written It's about how much she's likes living there. There are always activities going on and the staff is very nice .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 06:19 AM (looXz)

60 @44/fluffy: "Don't go where they speak Ree."

I just took a look, myself. Sage advice.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 13, 2025 06:20 AM (O7YUW)

61 I guess I’m lucky, they never mandated separate recycling bins for garbage collection here.

I’ve never had to put plastics, aluminum, glass, and paper in a separate container in my life.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 06:21 AM (6ydKt)

62 Pixy, do you have a recommendation for a mini form factor pc to host a home Minecraft bedrock server? There are so many options I don't know where to start.

Thinking it would be a good project with my 12 year old

Posted by: CanuckJack at September 13, 2025 06:24 AM (1cCGi)

63 FenSpouse came with me. FenSpouse had a nice talk with a woman who's about 80 about the Beatles. And the other woman who's about 90 read us a poem. She had written It's about how much she's likes living there. There are always activities going on and the staff is very nice .
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 06:19 AM (looXz)

So was she one of those girls back in the 60s screaming her head off as soon as the Beatles came on stage?

I always thought it was hilarious how the teeny-boppers reacted so hysterically to Elvis and The Beatles back then.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 06:25 AM (6ydKt)

64 54 51 AI feels like my military days - we'd go full steam ahead on something even tho all of us knew it wasn't gonna work but we did it because that's what we were told to do and you're life was simply much easier just shutting up and following orders than questioning and getting reamed. AI is that.
Posted by: Bobbie Joe at September 13, 2025 05:59 AM

###

Now do recycling.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 13, 2025 06:05 AM (XQo4F)

ha!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 06:25 AM (aURVT)

65 I guess I’m lucky, they never mandated separate recycling bins for garbage collection here.

I’ve never had to put plastics, aluminum, glass, and paper in a separate container in my life.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 06:21 AM (6ydKt)
====

We pay a contractor to come to our garbage rooms to be sure our garbage is separated properly. It's less expensive the paying the fine for not separating, comrade.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 06:26 AM (RIvkX)

66 So the port is on the right?

Posted by: Guy still not getting it at September 13, 2025 06:26 AM (vFG9F)

67 62
Posted by: CanuckJack at September 13, 2025 06:24 AM (1cCGi)

Hey! Have you seen andycanuck?

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 06:27 AM (aURVT)

68 I love how Accomack county Virginia does zero recycling while Lincoln county Maine sorts every bit of detritus and it all goes to some pit in Alabama.
NYC does both because fuck you hater peace out Gaia

Posted by: Accomack at September 13, 2025 06:27 AM (JY+81)

69 Pixy, do you have a recommendation for a mini form factor pc to host a home Minecraft bedrock server?
====

A whatwhat for a whonow?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 06:27 AM (RIvkX)

70 Posted by: m

Hey! I have not, contrary to common belief we don't all know each other

Posted by: CanuckJack at September 13, 2025 06:28 AM (1cCGi)

71 Evening to you Saturday toilers, and morning to you early risers! Here we are almost halfway through September, huh? How did *that* happen?

I'm up, awake (for certain values of "awake"), I've fed the feline hogs, and am sipping coffee in prep for making my own breakfast. Howzabout you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 06:30 AM (omVj0)

72 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: It's not easy...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 13, 2025 06:32 AM (WvZaB)

73 62 Pixy, do you have a recommendation for a mini form factor pc to host a home Minecraft bedrock server? There are so many options I don't know where to start.

Thinking it would be a good project with my 12 year old
Posted by: CanuckJack

Minecraft servers (at least with Java, I haven't tried it with Bedrock), like fast CPUs but don't care about the core count. So basically the cheapest one with a real CPU and not whatever they call Atom these days.

Apparently the Bedrock server still works with Linux so you can have fun setting that side of things up.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 13, 2025 06:33 AM (BLOW1)

74 I sort my garbage two ways: kitchen drawstring and black plastic contractor bags.

Posted by: Accomack at September 13, 2025 06:33 AM (4qMiv)

75 Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 06:25 AM (6ydKt)

The older woman remembered them not showing the gyrations of Elvis below the waist on the Ed Sullivan show , and the younger one recalled screaming fans after Elvis. I'm just glad that FenSpouse could talk about the Beatles with her. I was a bit too young to really appreciate them

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 06:34 AM (looXz)

76 You know, if you say Pixy Misa's name in reverse order, you sound like Jar Jar Binks.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 06:34 AM (XCUp7)

77 70 Posted by: m

Hey! I have not, contrary to common belief we don't all know each other
Posted by: CanuckJack at September 13, 2025 06:28 AM (1cCGi)

Sad!
; )

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 06:34 AM (aURVT)

78 You know, if you say Pixy Misa's name in reverse order, you sound like Jar Jar Binks.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 06:34 AM (XCUp7)
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Mind.

Blown.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 13, 2025 06:35 AM (WvZaB)

79 There are so many options I don't know where to start.

Thinking it would be a good project with my 12 year old
Posted by: CanuckJack at September 13, 2025 06:24 AM (1cCGi)

If I were you, I’d pick a few models you like and then do a lot of research on the companies that make them before committing.

Most of the mini-PCs are made in Hong Kong, and some companies have good reputations others don’t, mostly to do with after-sale support, like updating BIOS which some of them rarely, if ever, do. And getting customer service if something breaks is also a PITA.

There are a few corps that have some sort of American presence which makes things easier, like Asus makes NUC products now.

GMKtec has some staff here: https://www.gmktec.com/

Also Geekom seems to do the same - https://www.geekompc.com/mini-pc/

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 06:35 AM (6ydKt)

80 72 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: It's not easy...
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 13, 2025 06:32 AM (WvZaB)

... being green!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 06:36 AM (aURVT)

81 On the schedule for today: Another of my vintage fedoras has sold on eBay, so I have to bring that package to the post office; and Miss Linda wants to go to World Market again, probably to use another of her endless coupons. I tell her that when she gets to Heaven, she will probably offer St. Peter a coupon. He'll squint at it and say, "This is expired, and besides you have to buy one to get one free. Sorry, no Heaven for you."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 06:37 AM (omVj0)

82 We used to burn leaves. One and done. Rake the yard into a pile and torch ‘em. Then they outlawed it. What was once an enjoyable ritual turned into a gargantuan pain in the ass, time, and expense.

The city bought a fleet of trucks for re-cycling, drivers, pensions, special recycling containers, and more expense. If an item can be recycled profitably, someone will be more than happy to come and get it from you. For free.

The yard waste site was pretty good, at least they didn’t charge. It was conveniently located. Then the eee pee aye discovered it was by a river, and theoretically, leaves could get in the river if a flood were to occur. So that will never do. Re-located to a pain in the ass location. Modern life is just a series of bs expenses, crafted by misanthropic anti-humanists designed to impoverish or at least nickle and dime ya to death. Death by a thousand cuts.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 06:37 AM (0Dsks)

83 Some of us don't know each other, yet pounding away here for 15 years I know a fair amount on lots of people.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 06:38 AM (+qU29)

84 from the ONT:

191 I remember reading something, I think by Emily Post, that said never to put anything in a letter you wouldn't want seen in a newspaper the next day. Leftists in their social media posts seem to have forgotten this useful little axiom.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2025 08:55 PM (kkTda)

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 06:38 AM (aURVT)

85 191 I remember reading something, I think by Emily Post, that said never to put anything in a letter you wouldn't want seen in a newspaper the next day. Leftists in their social media posts seem to have forgotten this useful little axiom.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2025

***
"Emily Who?"
( -- Leftists Everywhere)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 06:40 AM (omVj0)

86 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2025 08:55 PM (kkTda)

Isn't that the truth !

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 06:40 AM (WFtAr)

87 Posted by: Pixy Misa
Thanks for the advice, was planning to run Ubuntu and just have as a headless block turning electrons into heat near the modem.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September
Thank you, ya the number of janky looking/sounding makes and models is making my head spin.

Posted by: CanuckJack at September 13, 2025 06:41 AM (1cCGi)

88 Wolf, when I was selling stuff online I took advantage of the carrier pickup service. Works pretty good, once you get ‘em trained up.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 06:42 AM (0Dsks)

89 Hadrian hundreds if not thousands of people will regret they didn't think that ahead of time.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 06:43 AM (+qU29)

90 We went out to Linda's favorite thrift shop/food bank yesterday (and no, we don't qualify for free food on at least two counts), and then to a local bakery/coffee shop. $17 for a cup of coffee, a glass of milk, a Danish, and a biscuit with honey. Something's wrong with this picture. The place is pretty, but the $$$ are way off.

But Office Depot charged me only a buck for my 1 lb. of old bills for shredding, so there was that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 06:43 AM (omVj0)

91 The way I heard it, never post anything online that you wouldn’t on the community bulletin board at the entryway to the local grocery. I think that’s pretty good advice.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 06:44 AM (0Dsks)

92 My city and county make it complicated to throw things away. One place for old furniture, another for used electronics, still another for paints and such. This is why we see sofas and dishwashers abandoned along roadsides.

Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2025 06:44 AM (AOsQT)

93 K9 officer accused on stealing officer's lunch. Scroll down for cute video:

https://tinyurl.com/4jb9t9x2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 06:44 AM (WFtAr)

94 Appreciate the help folks, time to get ready for the 2 hour drive to Tampa for soccer games. Looks like the weather may even cooperate.

Posted by: CanuckJack at September 13, 2025 06:45 AM (1cCGi)

95 Most of these Leftists loud mouths will be temporary setbacks, but will they learn?
I doubt it, because being a Leftist you have to constantly broadcast your a Leftist

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 06:45 AM (+qU29)

96 Did You Know?

The Post Office will e-mail you photographs of your letters due to arrive in the mail, if you want. I’m not making this up.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 06:47 AM (0Dsks)

97 Wolf, when I was selling stuff online I took advantage of the carrier pickup service. Works pretty good, once you get ‘em trained up.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025

***
It's not a serious problem. The buyer pays for the shipping, I print the label right there from the site, I wrap the package and put the label on it, and I drive it to one of several POs nearby. Living in this pesthole of an apartment complex as I do, I'd worry that the pickup guy wouldn't be able to find my place.

Speaking of living in a pesthole and doing something about it: My trip to Indiana is slated for 9/22-9/29. I'll bring this laptop along with me and post as I go!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 06:47 AM (omVj0)

98 @71/Wolfus:

Ate some cereal, having coffee, trying to find the energy to go out and do useful things today. I have government compliance paperwork I need to finish up and turn in on Monday. Yaaay.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 13, 2025 06:48 AM (O7YUW)

99 We pay a contractor to come to our garbage rooms to be sure our garbage is separated properly. It's less expensive the paying the fine for not separating, comrade.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 06:26 AM (RIvkX)

But just think of all the glorious work you’re providing for your fellow man, comrade.

Don’t you feel better knowing you paid to separate your recyclables providing employment to those in need?

That’s it’s all going to be dumped right back in the same dump and shipped on a container to China is beside the point. It makes the party officials at City Hall and Sacramento happy, and isn’t that the most important thing here?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 06:49 AM (6ydKt)

100 100

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 06:49 AM (aURVT)

101 My first large cup of coffee is getting cold before it's done because spider solitaire is evil.

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 06:51 AM (+qU29)

102 Pixy, on the ONT, there's a glitch in the matrix at comments 117-120, 122, 125.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 06:52 AM (aURVT)

103 I'm just glad that FenSpouse could talk about the Beatles with her. I was a bit too young to really appreciate them
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2025 06:34 AM (looXz)

Oldsters like to reminisce.

I’m finding that out now as my Dad wants to tell me a new story from his past every chance he gets now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 06:52 AM (6ydKt)

104 Two hours to drive from Canadia to Tampa?
Damn.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 13, 2025 06:53 AM (XQo4F)

105 Thank you, ya the number of janky looking/sounding makes and models is making my head spin.
Posted by: CanuckJack at September 13, 2025 06:41 AM (1cCGi)

Tell me about it.
I looked for months for the perfect mini-pc I wanted. Finally picked one out, ordered it from Amazon, and discovered a few months later when i opened the box that it was a completely different, much cheaper, computer in the box.

Somebody did a switcheroo and it took me another few months to get a refund.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 06:57 AM (6ydKt)

106 Morning peeps.
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Did You Know?

The Post Office will e-mail you photographs of your letters due to arrive in the mail, if you want. I’m not making this up.
======
Informed Delivery. It's free. Saved me from trudging down to the mailbox at the road, in the cold rain a couple times as there was nothing important that day.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2025 07:00 AM (Q4IgG)

107 102 Pixy, on the ONT, there's a glitch in the matrix at comments 117-120, 122, 125.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 06:52 AM (aURVT)

I'm sorry, it wasn't the ONT, it's the Erika Kirk thread:

Erika Kirk, the Young Mother Made Widow by the Left's Latest Antifa Assassin, to Speak to the Nation at 8:15 about the Martyr Charlie Kirk

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 07:02 AM (aURVT)

108 84 from the ONT:

191 I remember reading something, I think by Emily Post, that said never to put anything in a letter you wouldn't want seen in a newspaper the next day. Leftists in their social media posts seem to have forgotten this useful little axiom.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2025 08:55 PM (kkTda)
Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 06:38 AM (aURVT)

Sorry, that also wasn't the ONT. It's the Erika Kirk thread.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 07:03 AM (aURVT)

109 Found at Slashdot just now as I was scanning through articles there:

"Newfoundland and Labrador's 10-year Education Accord report (PDF) intended to guide school reform has been found to contain at least 15 fabricated citations, including references to non-existent films and journals. Academics suggest the fake sources may have been generated by AI."

Trying to build the future on inaccuracies and false data reminds me of the parable of the foolish man who built his house upon the sand (see Matthew 7, verses 24-27.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 13, 2025 07:04 AM (O7YUW)

110 Intel seems to be going for broke, or admitting defeat by going back to 14nm chips just to get some product out.

Are they admitting that the 14A node is bust, or going to be extremely delayed?

Or is this OEMs demanding some low core chips that don’t cost $250?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 07:08 AM (6ydKt)

111 https://tinyurl.com/3cz9b4rh
Powerlineblog.com week in pictures

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 07:08 AM (+qU29)

112 @102+107/m: "Pixy, on the {Erika Kirk thread}, there's a glitch in the matrix at comments 117-120, 122, 125."

I was trying to refresh the site at exactly the time that comment was posted that ended up repeating multiple times.

I hit refresh, got the delay spin, hit "X" and tried to re-refresh, still spinning, did that again and it came back, but those repeated comments were present.

"Uhoh, that's not supposed to happen..." But then everything was fine afterwards so I just shrugged it off.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 13, 2025 07:08 AM (O7YUW)

113 “ I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth.”

Psalm 1121:1-2

Posted by: Marcus T at September 13, 2025 07:10 AM (XXLiD)

114 @110/SpeakingOf "Intel seems to be going for broke, or admitting defeat by going back to 14nm chips just to get some product out. "

I'm wondering if CEO Lip-Bu Tan is a Chinese agent who is trying to cause Intel to stumble so it falls far behind China's efforts to ramp up domestic production of their own chip fabs.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 13, 2025 07:11 AM (O7YUW)

115 What I learned from the Real Housewives.

Say it, forget it. Write it, regret it.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 07:11 AM (RIvkX)

116 112 @102+107/m: "Pixy, on the {Erika Kirk thread}, there's a glitch in the matrix at comments 117-120, 122, 125."

I was trying to refresh the site at exactly the time that comment was posted that ended up repeating multiple times.

I hit refresh, got the delay spin, hit "X" and tried to re-refresh, still spinning, did that again and it came back, but those repeated comments were present.

"Uhoh, that's not supposed to happen..." But then everything was fine afterwards so I just shrugged it off.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 13, 2025 07:08 AM (O7YUW)

PIXY, Grumpy and Recalcitrant broke the blog!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 07:12 AM (aURVT)

117 ... ; )

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 07:13 AM (aURVT)

118 92 My city and county make it complicated to throw things away. One place for old furniture, another for used electronics, still another for paints and such. This is why we see sofas and dishwashers abandoned along roadsides.
Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2025 06:44 AM (AOsQT)

I’ve left oof furniture and stuff by the sidewalk here for trash pickup and the garbage guys never her a chance.

There a few guys who’ll drive around the neighborhood once people start putting garbage out and will pick up anything they think they can use or repair to resell within a few hours.

They ride around with the pickup bed full of discarded stuff.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 07:14 AM (6ydKt)

119 @116/m: "PIXY, Grumpy and Recalcitrant broke the blog!"

https://youtu.be/JFvujknrBuE

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 13, 2025 07:15 AM (O7YUW)

120 Oof = out
Her = get

Autocucumber = Stoopid

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 07:15 AM (6ydKt)

121 The Post Office will e-mail you photographs of your letters due to arrive in the mail, if you want. I’m not making this up.
======
Informed Delivery. It's free. Saved me from trudging down to the mailbox at the road, in the cold rain a couple times as there was nothing important that day.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2025 07:00 AM (Q4IgG)

Since they take a photo of every piece of mail that goes through the system I’m guessing the found a reasonable use case for it besides surveillance and tracking.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 07:21 AM (6ydKt)

122
Say it, forget it. Write it, regret it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

We used to have notepads in our workplace with the slogan "Don't Say It, Write It" on the bottom of each page.

All it took to have them disappear from the workplace was the Benlate lawsuits in the early 2000s when a comprehensive records sweep during discovery uncovered documents in which company scientists spoke of evidence that the product could cause harm.

The new rule became, "Think Twice Before Committing Anything to Written Form".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think that you are in char at September 13, 2025 07:21 AM (Tv15w)

123 I just watched the video Ace posted, the last one, with Erika Kirk. Wow. What a brave lady.

I can just imagine what the leftoids at my former employer would have been posting at the news of Charlie and their reactions to Erika. And the professors in the classrooms spewing their garbage. Glad to be out of it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 07:21 AM (omVj0)

124
Fine tuning

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge?[/ at September 13, 2025 07:22 AM (Tv15w)

125 I'm wondering if CEO Lip-Bu Tan is a Chinese agent who is trying to cause Intel to stumble so it falls far behind China's efforts to ramp up domestic production of their own chip fabs.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 13, 2025 07:11 AM (O7YUW)

Trump was wondering the same thing out loud a few weeks ago.

They must have smoothed things out after Tan met him at the WH, because I haven’t heard anything else along those lines.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 07:23 AM (6ydKt)

126
One last tweek ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 13, 2025 07:23 AM (Tv15w)

127 I truly hope that the death of Charlie Kirk will really be a flashpoint and serious wake-up call for normies in America, and the world.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 07:24 AM (omVj0)

128 122 Say it, forget it. Write it, regret it.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

We used to have notepads in our workplace with the slogan "Don't Say It, Write It" on the bottom of each page.

All it took to have them disappear from the workplace was the Benlate lawsuits in the early 2000s

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think that you are in char at September 13, 2025 07:21 AM (Tv15w)

The notepads are from ca. what years pre- the early 2000s? I'm astounded!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 07:25 AM (aURVT)

129 HIPAA doesn't apply to AI?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 13, 2025 07:27 AM (J5RCE)

130 123 I just watched the video Ace posted, the last one, with Erika Kirk. Wow. What a brave lady.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 07:21 AM (omVj0)

It got really dusty in the room when she kept talking to Charlie.

She’s going to be doing that for a long time.

Anybody who’s lost a loved one knows the feeling.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 07:28 AM (6ydKt)

131 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 07:28 AM (u82oZ)

132 Used to work with a high ranking design manager for a very big dollar project who had a prominent sign in very large letters in his office:

"If it ain't written down, it didn't happen."

Every decision, design change, requirement, contract mod and calculation has to be traceable.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at September 13, 2025 07:29 AM (XQo4F)

133
The notepads are from ca. what years pre- the early 2000s? I'm astounded!
Posted by: m

They were there when I hired on in May 1981. How long they had existed for prior to then, I cannot say.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 13, 2025 07:30 AM (Tv15w)

134 I love how the video is not AI

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 13, 2025 07:30 AM (J5RCE)

135 Good Can Can music. Wakes you up.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 07:31 AM (u82oZ)

136 Office Depot fired the workers that wouldn't print the Charlie Kirk memorial.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 07:31 AM (kUxzU)

137 They must have smoothed things out after Tan met him at the WH, because I haven’t heard anything else along those lines.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 07:23 AM (6ydKt)

"No, honestly, I swear, we just suck!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 07:31 AM (06Hmj)

138 also from the Erika Kirk thread; a very thoughtful comment (thank you, ChristyBlinkyTheGreat!):

216 147 cafe up, that was so emotional, so hard to bear

cannot imagine what it's like for her and her tiny children
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 08:44 PM (KRtlO)

Ace and all...the very tiny mercy is that her children will not remember this. They will be sheltered. His daughter will be fine with Daddy on a business trip with Jesus. She will want to go there, too (I know I am not helping but it is how they think, then they'll be ok moments later).

His memory will be kept alive for them with family, friends, videos and photos of him with them. There will be regrets, when they marry or big events that he is there in spirit. But the burden is on Erika, and may God continue to keep her strong. You can see the strength as she got stronger as she spoke.

I am thankful for family and friends to be by her side and see her through the coming weeks, until she is strong enough to want things "normal" again. The new normal without Charlie.

Pray for them often. They need your prayers and the comfort from them is felt.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 12, 2025 10:49 PM (6PCLE)

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 07:32 AM (aURVT)

139
The plushies playing the marimba video will greatly entertain our gKids.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 13, 2025 07:32 AM (Tv15w)

140 I tell her that when she gets to Heaven, she will probably offer St. Peter a coupon. He'll squint at it and say, "This is expired, and besides you have to buy one to get one free. Sorry, no Heaven for you."

When I die I'm going to wait for a dog to show up. I'll sneak in while Peter is doing the "who's a good boy" thing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 13, 2025 07:32 AM (ExV1e)

141 133 The notepads are from ca. what years pre- the early 2000s? I'm astounded!
Posted by: m

They were there when I hired on in May 1981. How long they had existed for prior to then, I cannot say.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 13, 2025 07:30 AM (Tv15w)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 07:33 AM (aURVT)

142 I work for a small company that's mostly all related to each other. They're all pretty rabidly MAGA. Even the younger guys who don't like Trump much and make fun of him a lot still love what he's doing and voted for him.

They are absolutely livid right now.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 07:34 AM (06Hmj)

143 136 Office Depot fired the workers that wouldn't print the Charlie Kirk memorial.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 07:31 AM (kUxzU)

YAY!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 07:34 AM (aURVT)

144 "No, honestly, I swear, we just suck!"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 07:31 AM (06Hmj)

Intel has bet wrong for so long it’s a miracle they’re still holding it together.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 07:35 AM (6ydKt)

145 I truly hope that the death of Charlie Kirk will really be a flashpoint and serious wake-up call for normies in America, and the world.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 07:24 AM (omVj0)

My YT feed is filled with people I've never heard of talking about it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 13, 2025 07:35 AM (ExV1e)

146 When I die I'm going to wait for a dog to show up. I'll sneak in while Peter is doing the "who's a good boy" thing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 13, 2025 07:32 AM (ExV1e)

G-d: "Pete, what the crap! Why'd you let this guy in, he's a jerk!"

St. Peter: "Well, yeah, but... cute dog!"

G-d: "... Well, OK, but.... I'm watching you...."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 07:36 AM (06Hmj)

147 WASHINGTON, Sept 12 (Reuters) - A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.

No link to docs so this dd not happen.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 13, 2025 07:36 AM (gbOdA)

148 Office Depot fired the workers that wouldn't print the Charlie Kirk memorial.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 13, 2025 07:31 AM (kUxzU)

Yeah. They were assholes but I can't imagine how they thought that was going to work in their favor.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 13, 2025 07:36 AM (ExV1e)

149 When I die I'm going to wait for a dog to show up. I'll sneak in while Peter is doing the "who's a good boy" thing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 13, 2025 07:32 AM (ExV1e)

Twilight Zone

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 13, 2025 07:37 AM (gbOdA)

150 18 impressive and adorable!

I had google translate the title and it's
2023 Sports Day Medley [Relay Duet] "Ichimura Ikuyo Music School" Piano Recital

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 13, 2025 07:38 AM (J5RCE)

151 Yeah. They were assholes but I can't imagine how they thought that was going to work in their favor.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 13, 2025 07:36 AM (ExV1e)

I could imagine it's not necessarily their fault. If there is no clear guidance on what Policy is, or if Policy got yanked out from under them, who knows. Are they telling their employees "Don't print anything inflammatory or political, period"? Or are they saying "It doesn't matter what it is, print it, it's none of your business"? Or do their powers that be vacillate between the two leaving the employee to guess what they have to do or not do in order to keep their job?

It's more likely they're just an asshole. But, you know, not guaranteed.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 07:40 AM (06Hmj)

152 shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.

No link to docs so this dd not happen.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 13, 2025 07:36 AM (gbOdA)

Vacation or not she was still renting the house out and lied about it, if as you say, this is even the case.

Sounds like her lawyer is now leaking to the prsss for some PR spin.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 07:41 AM (6ydKt)

153 151 Yeah. They were assholes but I can't imagine how they thought that was going to work in their favor.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 13, 2025 07:36 AM (ExV1e)

I could imagine it's not necessarily their fault. If there is no clear guidance on what Policy is, or if Policy got yanked out from under them, who knows. Are they telling their employees "Don't print anything inflammatory or political, period"? Or are they saying "It doesn't matter what it is, print it, it's none of your business"? Or do their powers that be vacillate between the two leaving the employee to guess what they have to do or not do in order to keep their job?

It's more likely they're just an asshole. But, you know, not guaranteed.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 07:40 AM (06Hmj)

In the video, the manager was out of line. She needed to say, o.k., let me check on that, or something pro-customer, rather than what she said.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 07:42 AM (aURVT)

154 @149/r hennigantx: "... Twilight Zone"

Excellent music time:
https://youtu.be/z2xsbmBn09g

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 13, 2025 07:42 AM (O7YUW)

155 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Went swanning around Kansas yesterday with my photographer brother. We had fun. He could turn a field of withered corn into art.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 07:43 AM (u82oZ)

156 In the video, the manager was out of line. She needed to say, o.k., let me check on that, or something pro-customer, rather than what she said.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 07:42 AM (aURVT)

Oh, I missed the video, thought it was just rumor and scuttlebutt.

da hell, man.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 07:43 AM (06Hmj)

157 The Hunt
Episode of The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
"The Hunt" is episode 84 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on January 26, 1962 on CBS.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 13, 2025 07:45 AM (gbOdA)

158 In the video, the manager was out of line. She needed to say, o.k., let me check on that, or something pro-customer, rather than what she said.
Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 07:42 AM (aURVT)

She was very smug. She wasn't unclear on the policy. The policy was "F U, Reichwinger!"

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 07:45 AM (AQ1VH)

159
Are they telling their employees "Don't print anything inflammatory or political, period"? Or are they saying "It doesn't matter what it is, print it, it's none of your business"?

I suppose that if your post or profile ties you to your employer, or if you associate your politics to your profession (e.g. nurses refusing to treat "Zionists"), then you're an idiot and likely deserve sacking.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 13, 2025 07:46 AM (kkTda)

160 Little Dagny La Siberienne is showing me some affection nowadays. After breakfast, if I come into the bedroom where my desktop computer is, she will often follow and jump on the bed for petting. If I sit on the bed and say her name, she'll come around, bumping her body against me.

Okay, so she's not going to be a lap cat, but this is good.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 07:47 AM (omVj0)

161 It's more likely they're just an asshole. But, you know, not guaranteed.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 07:40 AM (06Hmj)

Did you see them?
One had green hair and looked like a “Pat”.

The other was wearing problem glasses and a Karen attitude.

I’m thinking they were practicing some selective interpretation of any guidance they were given.

The poster was a pic of Charle with birth-death years, nothing controversial about it unless you make it that way.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 07:47 AM (6ydKt)

162 the OFFICE DEPOT fiasco video:

https://x.com/mdeperno/status/
1966643871783276739

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 07:47 AM (aURVT)

163 Teens React to Weird Al

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewGXnaN3_Ow

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 13, 2025 07:47 AM (W4Tso)

164 Rip is a great dog name.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 13, 2025 07:49 AM (gbOdA)

165 The poster was a pic of Charle with birth-death years, nothing controversial about it unless you make it that way.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 07:47 AM (6ydKt)

There's probably a word for the specific feeling when you try to be impartial and not assume bad motives, only to find out, no, no, they are indeed shitbags with terrible motives.

Enschmuckening?

Hanlon was wrong. Never ascribe to stupidity that which can be ascribed to malice and stupidity.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 07:50 AM (06Hmj)

166 Coffee's hot and black, mmm.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 07:50 AM (RK8vO)

167 Rip Fart was Joey Bidet's Secret Service code name.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 13, 2025 07:51 AM (W4Tso)

168 There are a lot, and I mean a lot of hardcore leftists like those two broads in the Office Depot, refusing to print anything pro Charlie Kirk. They're smug. Until Monday they figured they could do and say anything they wanted to whomever they wanted without consequences.

The other day, they still thought it.

There are millions of others just like them that haven't figured out that there 'might be consequences' for their actions.

We've got a very long way to go.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2025 07:51 AM (Q4IgG)

169 They still could have avoided PRINTING it, maybe, but the attitude is fireable. IMHO

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 07:51 AM (aURVT)

170 I just watched the trailer on IMDb of Sydney Sweeney as boxer Christy Martin in Christy, due out later this year. You would hardly recognize the blonde from the American Eagle ads. "Oscar buzz," says the IMDb entry.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 07:51 AM (omVj0)

171 >the OFFICE DEPOT fiasco video:
---

I think that woman felt really smart, using the word 'propaganda' multiple times

Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2025 07:51 AM (AOsQT)

172 2nd cup and French Toast

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 07:51 AM (+qU29)

173 I think that woman felt really smart, using the word 'propaganda' multiple times
Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2025 07:51 AM (AOsQT)

And yet someone is getting all those "Debate This" flyers printed up. Somewhere.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 07:53 AM (06Hmj)

174 I think that woman felt really smart, using the word 'propaganda' multiple times
Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2025 07:51 AM (AOsQT)

Correct me if i'm wrong but isn't propaganda by definition generated by a state or government?

Otherwise it's just ... i don't know... some other word?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 07:54 AM (06Hmj)

175 the OFFICE DEPOT fiasco video:

https://x.com/mdeperno/status/
1966643871783276739
Posted by: m at September 13, 2025

***
Might have known it would be some fat office drone.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 07:55 AM (omVj0)

176 167 Rip Fart was Joey Bidet's Secret Service code name.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 13, 2025 07:51 AM (W4Tso)

AKA Lumpy

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 13, 2025 07:55 AM (gbOdA)

177 If only she had pulled out the office guidelines or whatever.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 07:55 AM (aURVT)

178 Hanlon was wrong. Never ascribe to stupidity that which can be ascribed to malice and stupidity.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 13, 2025 07:50 AM (06Hmj)

I’d add in some arrogance too.

They were both supremely confident in their ability to discern that what offends them politically should offend everybody politically.

It takes decades of leftist brainwashing in school to be that arrogant in your intolerant tolerance.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 07:56 AM (6ydKt)

179 the text from the video posting:

Today at 2:24 PM, the Kalamazoo County Republican Party #KGOP placed an order for a poster of #CharlieKirk for a vigil tonight. At 5:30 "Beryl" the print supervisor (guy on left) called and said they are refusing to print the poster because it is "propaganda." Hey

@officedepot
@OfficeMax

do you think this is acceptable?

We went to
@FedEx
They apologized and printing the poster for free. Thank you!

Office Depot, 6272 S Westnedge Ave, Portage, MI 49002, (269) 200-2406

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 07:57 AM (aURVT)

180 what was the line?

'you keep using that word...'

Posted by: Don Black at September 13, 2025 07:57 AM (AOsQT)

181 Hey! Have you seen andycanuck?
Posted by: m
------

Saw him briefly the other day. He was harassed.
Apparently, the grief expressed here about CN put him into a tiff with some others and now there's unhappiness all 'round.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 07:58 AM (RK8vO)

182 Propaganda is today most often used in reference to political statements, but the word comes to our language through its use in a religious context. The Congregatio de propaganda fide (“Congregation for propagating the faith”

was an organization established in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV as a means of furthering Catholic missionary activity.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 13, 2025 07:58 AM (gbOdA)

183 Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions.

That was a real find. Thank you. What teamwork is right. Very enjoyable.

I can't even imagine a US public school system that could pull that off.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 07:58 AM (u82oZ)

184 163 Teens React to Weird Al

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewGXnaN3_Ow
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 13, 2025 07:47 AM (W4Tso)

I saw him on tour recently. It's easy to forget how talented Weird Al is. He was incredible.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 08:00 AM (AQ1VH)

185 coffee nood. But wear Speedos at least.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 13, 2025 08:01 AM (u82oZ)

186 The Office Depot employees being fired by the company:

Appropriate response. I also would have fired those two on the spot. When at work, focus on the work, that's what they're paying you to do. Do not tarnish the company's reputation.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 13, 2025 08:05 AM (O7YUW)

187 181 Hey! Have you seen andycanuck?
Posted by: m
------

Saw him briefly the other day. He was harassed.
Apparently, the grief expressed here about CN put him into a tiff with some others and now there's unhappiness all 'round.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 07:58 AM (RK8vO)

I'm blanking on who "CN" is. Sorry.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 08:05 AM (aURVT)

188 But thank you, Braenyard.
Hi, andycanuck, if you're lurking.

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 08:06 AM (aURVT)

189 Saw him briefly the other day. He was harassed.
Apparently, the grief expressed here about CN put him into a tiff with some others and now there's unhappiness all 'round.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 07:58 AM (RK8vO)

I kinda thought that had something to do with it.
He kinda vanished around the time of the Canadian election, when the insults were flying hot and heavy, especially when Trump was on the 51st State mission.

He always has some good posts and links to share. Hope he returns when the heat dies down.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 13, 2025 08:08 AM (6ydKt)

190
propaganda

Poor thing -- Beryl (rhymes with "barrel") -- couldn't help but use that word again and again.

She was aflutter with the thought of propagating with the hot, sweaty and testosterone free sack of suet standing near her sporting that A Flock of Seagulls hair.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 13, 2025 08:09 AM (Tv15w)

191 190
propaganda

Poor thing -- Beryl (rhymes with "barrel") -- couldn't help but use that word again and again.

She was aflutter with the thought of propagating with the hot, sweaty and testosterone free sack of suet standing near her sporting that A Flock of Seagulls hair.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge? at September 13, 2025 08:09 AM (Tv15w)

🤮

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 08:11 AM (aURVT)

192 >>> 127 I truly hope that the death of Charlie Kirk will really be a flashpoint and serious wake-up call for normies in America, and the world.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 13, 2025 07:24 AM (omVj0)

>>> 145
==
My YT feed is filled with people I've never heard of talking about it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 13, 2025 07:35 AM (ExV1e)

Over at Instapundit the local cobs have been posting reactions from multiple countries.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2025 08:25 AM (ULPxl)

193 I recently worked in a division of the worlds largest defense contractor and that delete every email, chat or other electronic record after 3 months.

Most projects go on for a year or so and it makes it incredibly difficult to keep things on track because the history disappears and all you have is the narrative at the current time.

Completely erases accountability.

I asked one of the senior engineers why they did that and he said it was because of the liability. If some engineer said something in an email about possibly something weird was going on with the altimeter box, that could influence a lawsuit.

Say a plane goes down and the FAA wants to know what happened to the radar altimeter. There would be no record of anyone saying there was a problem.

I really can't imagine this is OK with the DOE and the FAA but hey, DC is nest of vipers.

Posted by: pawn at September 13, 2025 10:20 AM (PmITa)

194 "Are they telling their employees "Don't print anything inflammatory or political, period"? "

Political ads and posters are a print shops bread and butter.

I worked with a drummer who worked at a huge printing company in Baltimore and they always worked tons of overtime starting before any major election.

He was a cool dude and had worked there a long time. He would bring the rest of the guys all kinds of posters for jazz performances and posters of some major jazz artists that business with them.

Posted by: pawn at September 13, 2025 10:30 AM (PmITa)

Life, Liberty And The Pursuit Of The ONT

Howdy to all my gray box friends. Boy, it's been quite a week, huh? It seems that we are living in interesting times.

Feline Friday: Domestication

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Tonight's game

Best hummingbird feeder ever

Halfswording

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Tonight's Venn

Genius

Neat

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Bet this woman is glad they shot Charlie

(#1 she's a leftist and #2 she went right out of the social media spotlight)

Lifehack

This looks fun

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Tonight's conspiracy theory

Absolute legend

One night in Bangkok

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Fun factoid

The problem with translators

Quick-thinking man

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Watch vs Warning

In this house we believe that

This just amused me

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1 Early and mislabeled.
Have i hit tje jackpot.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 12, 2025 09:56 PM (n4GiU)

2 In before the Madding Crowd.

Posted by: RickZ at September 12, 2025 09:57 PM (gKDq2)

3 Super easy, barely an inconvenience!

Posted by: Cray Cray at September 12, 2025 09:57 PM (EES2L)

4 peak body and force field.

Purge Night will be lit AF

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2025 09:57 PM (xcxpd)

5 I'm early, but late.

Posted by: mot at September 12, 2025 09:59 PM (fIPNY)

6 nope

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 12, 2025 10:00 PM (wQPGd)

7 Meow

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at September 12, 2025 10:00 PM (w3u3d)

8 Friday ONT! Thanks wd.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 12, 2025 10:01 PM (fveCG)

9 Lots of content. A long hike to get here

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at September 12, 2025 10:01 PM (w3u3d)

10 Brian Dennahy?

Whoa big fella

Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at September 12, 2025 10:01 PM (JU+zk)

11 Hola mis amigos.

Posted by: Mainah at September 12, 2025 10:01 PM (uKFWZ)

12 Hard to comment when the page keeps reloading things ... but made it in the end ...

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at September 12, 2025 10:02 PM (atZ8o)

13 Always enjoy watching friction welders in action.

No /s.

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at September 12, 2025 10:03 PM (nxhlp)

14 also boobs

alien, lizard boobs. But boobs.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2025 10:03 PM (xcxpd)

15 It's weird that Brian Dennehy wasn't cast in First Blood. He'd have made a great sheriff.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 12, 2025 10:03 PM (mlg/3)

16 Sorry I'm late, the stag beetles were throwing a party and wanted me to arrange for some "ladybugs."

Posted by: tankdemon at September 12, 2025 10:03 PM (ZjXB4)

17 I guess I'm not first.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2025 10:03 PM (dDmld)

18 Sorry I'm late.

I was fetching a box of tissues for Tankdemon after Mrs. Kirk's speech.

Posted by: SimoHayek at September 12, 2025 10:04 PM (Zd6Rk)

19 I'd like to be first but it's just not working out for me.

FML

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2025 10:05 PM (dDmld)

20 I didn't watch Mrs. Kirk's speech, but I read the excerpts afterwards. Even those were tear-inducing: especially the "work trip with Jesus" part. Oof.

Posted by: Dr. T at September 12, 2025 10:05 PM (lHPJf)

21 Evenin’, All. Happy Friday Night.

Posted by: Bulg at September 12, 2025 10:06 PM (77rzZ)

22 Peak Physical Condition and Halloween Magic. Duh. 💪 🎃

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 12, 2025 10:06 PM (kpS4V)

23 Sorry, but opponent on sword video? He sucks... he is throwing the match... this is like the Jui Jitsu videos where they just RUN at the Master to get thrown around.

You use measure... distance... you stay outside the half sword range... and you own him.

Yeah... 30 years of historic Sword fighting here.

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 12, 2025 10:06 PM (mP0Kj)

24 The Venn diagram is excellent!

Posted by: keena at September 12, 2025 10:08 PM (1D+/d)

25 So the Wyoming thing is a trick question right?

Posted by: Diogenes at September 12, 2025 10:08 PM (2WIwB)

26 Morgoth: "The tea must be spilled!"

😆

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 12, 2025 10:08 PM (kpS4V)

27 It says he lost his right arm in a siege. It's a pic of an iron left arm.

Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2025 10:08 PM (i0F8b)

28 regarding "desert": well, we do live on a planet named "dirt".

Posted by: anachronda at September 12, 2025 10:09 PM (edU/H)

29 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Going to see Henry Cho in concert tomorrow night 🥳🎊🥳🎊🥳 Staying overnight in a hotel next to the venue -

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at September 12, 2025 10:10 PM (SRRAx)

30 especially the "work trip with Jesus" part. Oof.
Posted by: Dr. T

I don’t know how I would tell a three year-old that her daddy was dead.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 12, 2025 10:10 PM (fveCG)

31 Boobs!

Posted by: Bulg at September 12, 2025 10:11 PM (77rzZ)

32 It says he lost his right arm in a siege. It's a pic of an iron left arm.
Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2025 10:08 PM (i0F8b)

Maybe he was ambidextrous?

Posted by: Dr. T at September 12, 2025 10:11 PM (lHPJf)

33 It says he lost his right arm in a siege. It's a pic of an iron left arm.
Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2025 10:08 PM (i0F8b)

The intentions were good. It's the thought that counts.

Posted by: RickZ at September 12, 2025 10:11 PM (gKDq2)

34 Somehow, there should be a stripper in that Venn diagram.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2025 10:12 PM (aWmr1)

35 27 It says he lost his right arm in a siege. It's a pic of an iron left arm.
Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2025 10:08 PM (i0F8b)

I was thinking that too

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2025 10:12 PM (xcxpd)

36 Diggin' the friction welding😜!

Lovely, wild ONT, WD!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 12, 2025 10:13 PM (3wXSL)

37 Personal inventory: 2- 125 pound 5'8" blondes, 500 pounds of bar snacks and 1250 pounds of assorted booze items.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at September 12, 2025 10:13 PM (hirWM)

38 The intentions were good. It's the thought that counts.
Posted by: RickZ at September 12, 2025 10:11 PM (gKDq2)

Good intentions? Don't those pave something or other?

Posted by: Dr. T at September 12, 2025 10:14 PM (lHPJf)

39 Yeah... 30 years of historic Sword fighting here.
Posted by: Romeo13

That’s hot.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2025 10:14 PM (WXvh7)

40 The catapult is cool. Now we got something cool to launch leftists into volcanoes.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2025 10:14 PM (snZF9)

41 Pick 2

Personal force field and learn 5 new skills.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 12, 2025 10:14 PM (fveCG)

42 Wow. Just saw a Sydney Tribute to Charlie Kirk.

All the way from Australia. THAT 'S how powerful Charlie's words were.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 12, 2025 10:14 PM (D3P9d)

43 Israel Exposed

No mention of the Weather Machine???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 12, 2025 10:14 PM (ULPxl)

44 27 It says he lost his right arm in a siege. It's a pic of an iron left arm.
Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2025 10:08 PM (i0F8b)

-------

So? He lost his left arm in a threshing machine accident.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2025 10:15 PM (dDmld)

45 The reptile does not have boobs, which is at least accurate.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 10:15 PM (gKWVE)

46 Best Venn diagram ever.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 12, 2025 10:15 PM (bJRuO)

47 I don’t know how I would tell a three year-old that her daddy was dead.
Posted by: QED Texan at September 12, 2025 10:10 PM (fveCG)

Not making light of anything. When I was young, had a second cousin and her husband killed in a car accident by a drunk driver. Left behind 3 kids, two not school-age yet. It's hard. But at least Charlie's two have their mother. Small graces.

Posted by: RickZ at September 12, 2025 10:16 PM (gKDq2)

48 That iron hand up above? Why is it a left hand if he got his right arm shot off?

Posted by: rickb223 at September 12, 2025 10:16 PM (D3P9d)

49 Dude never masturbated again.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2025 10:16 PM (dDmld)

50 45 The reptile does not have boobs, which is at least accurate.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 10:15 PM (gKWVE)

boobs are implied

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at September 12, 2025 10:16 PM (xcxpd)

51 says he lost his right arm in a siege. It's a pic of an iron left arm.
Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2025 10:08 PM (i0F8b)

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So? He lost his left arm in a threshing machine accident.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43

Wankers

Posted by: Spinal Tap drummers at September 12, 2025 10:16 PM (SLwrZ)

52 Friction Welding. Did something like that, shifting from 1st to 2nd in the old truck, forgetting the clutch.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2025 10:17 PM (aWmr1)

53 Good ones. "smaller than all 49 other states, combined!"

Posted by: t-bird at September 12, 2025 10:17 PM (Qgg5f)

54 Shop teacher.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 12, 2025 10:17 PM (ZTk50)

55 This thread is asking me to think Waaaaaaayyy

More than I'm capable of or willing to.

I hope everyone is well.

Posted by: eleven at September 12, 2025 10:17 PM (aTgV0)

56 27 It says he lost his right arm in a siege. It's a pic of an iron left arm.
Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2025 10:08 PM (i0F8b)

🎵Right arm! Left arm! Father Abraham, had many sons, many sons had Faaaaather Abraham...🎵

Posted by: Cray Cray at September 12, 2025 10:17 PM (EES2L)

57 *types* *deletes*

Posted by: Michelle Fields at September 12, 2025 10:18 PM (i0F8b)

58

Wyoming is an awesome place to live.

Unfortunately, we're full up.

Posted by: four seasons at September 12, 2025 10:18 PM (3ek7K)

59 Trump needs to take something big that the media talks about every day and get it named after Charlie Kirk. Like the White House Press Room. Get an act of a congress to get it named the Charlie Kirk Room.

Make the media and Democrats say his name every day, or refuse to.

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2025 10:18 PM (E0p3T)

60 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 12, 2025 10:18 PM (cYBz/)

61 Wouldn't every state be smaller than the other 49 combined?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 12, 2025 10:18 PM (ZTk50)

62 Best hummingbird feeder ever
OK, I have to give this the biggest thumbs-up ever!

Posted by: GWB at September 12, 2025 10:18 PM (RTQn+)

63 Missed lunch with a friend 'cause they had to work...hope they didn't hear me giggle.

Posted by: Some Rat at September 12, 2025 10:19 PM (TfUTr)

64 Shop teacher.
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 12, 2025 10:17 PM (ZTk50)
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By law, every shop teacher has to be missing at least a finger and sport an eye patch.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 12, 2025 10:19 PM (kpS4V)

65 Saw a short: Office Depot refused a print job. It was a simple B&W picture of Charlie Kirk and a location where the service was at.

They said that was 'propaganda'. They don't print propaganda, they say.

You can email the SOBs at corporate like I did to remind them why they exist.

As an aside it reminds me of that old saw that the power of the press resides with the people that own presses.

Posted by: torabora at September 12, 2025 10:20 PM (+LXmR)

66 So? He lost his left arm in a threshing machine accident.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2025 10:15 PM (dDmld)

Not to mention his ears and that automatic rice picker incident.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 12, 2025 10:20 PM (0eaVi)

67 I was going to move to Wyoming.

apparently I'm not.

Posted by: eleven at September 12, 2025 10:20 PM (aTgV0)

68 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2025 10:21 PM (G1ktt)

69 Best hummingbird feeder ever
OK, I have to give this the biggest thumbs-up ever!
Posted by: GWB

Yes! However I hate people more clever than I. I'm sure that huge number doesn't really care though.

Posted by: Some Rat at September 12, 2025 10:21 PM (TfUTr)

70 Evenin', Hordenvolk.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 12, 2025 10:21 PM (Wnv9h)

71 Dude never masturbated again.
Posted by: Cicero

Clank clank, clank clank, clank clank clank, cla

Tommy! You'd better stop that or you'll go blind!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 12, 2025 10:21 PM (D3P9d)

72 The fire dancer was *really* not as worried as she should have been about being on fire.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 12, 2025 10:22 PM (lFFaq)

73 Hi friends! Super fun content!

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 10:23 PM (p4NUW)

74 I didn't watch Mrs. Kirk's speech, but I read the excerpts afterwards. Even those were tear-inducing: especially the "work trip with Jesus" part. Oof.
Posted by: Dr. T

I know - I boo hoo'd little a little girl. My 8 year old discovered his mom's body after she passed. I threw him and my 10 year old out of the house to remove them from the scene. When I went out into the front yard a few minutes later, the 8 yr old asked me 'Why would anyone kill Momma?'

That's not what happened buddy. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at September 12, 2025 10:23 PM (cYBz/)

75 16 Sorry I'm late, the stag beetles were throwing a party and wanted me to arrange for some "ladybugs."
Posted by: tankdemon

I have Rhino Beetles that burrow under my pecan tree that come back every year. They're horny too, but come by that naturally.

Posted by: Big Black Bug Bled Black Blood at September 12, 2025 10:23 PM (oftw2)

76 maybe the iron hand guy is hoping it will grow hair.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 10:23 PM (gKWVE)

77 >>> 42 Wow. Just saw a Sydney Tribute to Charlie Kirk.

All the way from Australia. THAT 'S how powerful Charlie's words were.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 12, 2025 10:14 PM (D3P9d)

The cobs at Instapundit have been collecting and posting international reactions today.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 12, 2025 10:24 PM (ULPxl)

78 WD awesome ONT

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 12, 2025 10:24 PM (dE3DB)

79 Always great to get q WeirdDave post. Thank you.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 12, 2025 10:24 PM (CHHv1)

80 Absolutely fantastic ONT tonight. Many thanks

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 10:24 PM (go8bP)

81 It's take a stiff spine to live in Wyoming. All that cold and snow. Just so you can have a spring summer for 8 weeks before it snows again.

Wyoming is for crazy people.

That's their new tourism brochure.

Stole it from Virginia.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 12, 2025 10:25 PM (bJRuO)

82 61 Wouldn't every state be smaller than the other 49 combined?
Posted by: Boss Moss at

Yes, but if you say it with serious conviction, it will take a few to get it. In the meantime, they are in awe of your knowledge.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 10:25 PM (p4NUW)

83 72 The fire dancer was *really* not as worried as she should have been about being on fire.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 12, 2025 10:22 PM (lFFaq)

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She probably had an extinguisher strapped to her thigh.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2025 10:25 PM (dDmld)

84 Wyoming population: 853. Not counting sheep. Or rich assholes who fly in for snow skiing.

Posted by: Overcrowding is a beast at September 12, 2025 10:25 PM (TbWk/)

85 Aunt Esther, LaWanda Page had a fire dance act. She was billed as "The Bronze Goddess of Fire".

Posted by: Fish-eyed Fool! at September 12, 2025 10:26 PM (oftw2)

86 I'm sure Wyoming is a great state to live in. But it also has a super volcano under it.

Posted by: Case at September 12, 2025 10:26 PM (iwlvf)

87 I'll take the protect and electrocute bucket, and the portable bathroom thanks.
Safe and comfortable works for me. I can sleep in the tub.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 12, 2025 10:26 PM (n4GiU)

88 Pick 2: peak physical condition and pixie healer for the trouble I get myself into for being in peak physical condition.

Posted by: Nerd Herd at September 12, 2025 10:26 PM (6nQni)

89
That's not what happened buddy. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at September 12

Oh that is so hard.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 10:27 PM (p4NUW)

90 I know - I boo hoo'd little a little girl. My 8 year old discovered his mom's body after she passed. I threw him and my 10 year old out of the house to remove them from the scene. When I went out into the front yard a few minutes later, the 8 yr old asked me 'Why would anyone kill Momma?'

That's not what happened buddy. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at September 12, 2025 10:23 PM (cYBz/)

Fuuuuck.

Posted by: That's super horrible at September 12, 2025 10:27 PM (TbWk/)

91 67 I was going to move to Wyoming.

apparently I'm not.

Posted by: eleven at September 12, 2025 10:20 PM (aTgV0)
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I spent 10 years in Seattle then 20 years in VT.

I love it here in Wyoming. Love it

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 10:27 PM (go8bP)

92

Can someone explain the understanding science pic?

Posted by: Elderly Git at September 12, 2025 10:27 PM (ImqEA)

93 86 I'm sure Wyoming is a great state to live in. But it also has a super volcano under it.
Posted by: Case

Look on the bright side. If you're living in Wyoming when it blows, you won't feel a thing. The rest of the world will suffer but that isn't your problem anymore.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2025 10:28 PM (G1ktt)

94 The sword: just break out the quarter staffs. The guy who is winning is using his sword like one! Question: if a sword is stout and sharp enough, and the wielder strong enough, could he chop through a quarter staff?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025 10:28 PM (VphID)

95 Yeah, with permanent peak and pixie healing you basically become oxymandius.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 12, 2025 10:28 PM (bJRuO)

96 Dude never masturbated again.
Posted by: Cicero

that's a pretty big assumption

where there's a will, there's a way

Posted by: Otto Pen at September 12, 2025 10:28 PM (sJHOI)

97 Unfortunately, we're full up.
Posted by: four seasons at September 12, 2025 10:18 PM (3ek7K)

No kidding! Inspector was looking into what it would take to move back to Linear and either there's *nothing* to buy or prices are super high.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 12, 2025 10:28 PM (lFFaq)

98 I'm sure Wyoming is a great state to live in. But it also has a super volcano under it.
Posted by: Case

Only the northwest corner. If things go sideways though, the rest of the State will be UNDER the super volcano.

Posted by: Some Rat at September 12, 2025 10:28 PM (TfUTr)

99
Puddleglum,

Yep, it will happen quickly. We won't have time to bend over and kiss our asses goodbye.

Posted by: four seasons at September 12, 2025 10:29 PM (3ek7K)

100 The sword -> the sword fight

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025 10:29 PM (VphID)

101 But at least Charlie's two have their mother. Small graces.
Posted by: RickZ

Before I married Mrs. QED, her sister became a young widow with 4 small children. Not a murder. Cancer. The kids are all grown now. Wonderful people.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 12, 2025 10:29 PM (fveCG)

102 Saw a short: Office Depot refused a print job. It was a simple B&W picture of Charlie Kirk and a location where the service was at.

They said that was 'propaganda'. They don't print propaganda, they say.

You can email the SOBs at corporate like I did to remind them why they exist.

As an aside it reminds me of that old saw that the power of the press resides with the people that own presses.
Posted by: torabora at September 12, 2025 10:20 PM (+LXmR)

The CEO , who is a Trump supporter , would love to hear about that.

Posted by: runner at September 12, 2025 10:29 PM (g47mK)

103 Can someone explain the understanding science pic?
Posted by: Elderly Git at September 12, 2025 10:27 PM (ImqEA)

Scientific results based upon who financially supports the 'science'.

Posted by: RickZ at September 12, 2025 10:29 PM (gKDq2)

104 Dude never masturbated again.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2025 10:16 PM (dDmld)

With those stories, how often did he need to?

Posted by: Nerd Herd at September 12, 2025 10:29 PM (6nQni)

105 You know me, evil eye
You know me, prepare to die
You know me, the snakebite kiss
Devil's grip, the iron fist

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2025 10:30 PM (snZF9)

106 OK here's the magic thing I want, a magic alarm clock.

It's a clock, I set the time in the morning that I want to get up and the alarm rings. It has a snooze function so if I don't want to get up then (this accounts for 100% of the time TBH) I just hit the snooze button. But this is the magic part, time stops at that point.

If I snooze for a half hour I'm not late, or an hour, or three hours, whatever doesn't matter, but when the snooze ends time starts again.

Now this is when my brain starts with the but, but, if time stops then how are you able to go back to sleep, if time doesn't stop for you but it does for everything else then what about the air you're breathing and that means that you'll grow older soon and and... SHUT UP YOU STUPID BRAIN IT'S MAGIC!!!

Posted by: banana Dream at September 12, 2025 10:30 PM (3uBP9)

107 Today was a good day. Foster kid's homeless bio mom made contact this morning. Met with her to let her know what had happened. Going to make sure she has the opportunity to attend all three services.

Grandma still pulling insane shit. Went to the cops to ask them to call here and get the service info. Hey, bitch, maybe don't call all insulting and ranting and then hanging up when you don't get the answer you want and you won't get blocked. She doesn't get to go to the "family" service.

But, yeah, headed for the hills and took a hike. Good for the mental clarity. Lunch at the Pie Bar in Strawberry. They do decent empanadas.

Yep, a very good day indeed.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 12, 2025 10:30 PM (lUFok)

108 >> All the way from Australia

Sky News Australia apparently ran Erika's address live.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2025 10:30 PM (w6EFb)

109 Wouldn't every state be smaller than the other 49 combined?

That's the joke.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 12, 2025 10:30 PM (Riz8t)

110 @92

>>Can someone explain the understanding science pic?

Science is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2025 10:30 PM (XV/Pl)

111 The text says the knight lost his right arm in a siege, but that’s a left hand!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025 10:31 PM (VphID)

112 Brian Dennehy was great as the mountains Rambo hides out in.

Classic Dennehy.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 10:32 PM (krQz2)

113 110 @92

>>Can someone explain the understanding science pic?

Science is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

LOL!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2025 10:33 PM (G1ktt)

114 ITS FUNNY BECAUSE NO STATE HAS A BIGGER POPULATION THAN ALL OF THE OTHER STATES COMBINED

Posted by: Ben Roethlisberger at September 12, 2025 10:33 PM (dDmld)

115 Personal inventory: 2- 125 pound 5'8" blondes, 500 pounds of bar snacks and 1250 pounds of assorted booze items.

Be a bit more inspired.

Fun Fact: Antimatter is estimated to be at $62.5 trillion per gram.

If you want something a bit more marketable: Californium-252 at $27 million per gram.

If you want to be killed by the diamond cartels, high quality gems are up to $55k per gram.

You can afford anything you want.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 12, 2025 10:33 PM (a4flb)

116 111 The text says the knight lost his right arm in a siege, but that’s a left hand!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025 10:31 PM (VphID)

He was ambi-chivalrous

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 12, 2025 10:33 PM (bJRuO)

117 Ah late to the party!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025 10:34 PM (VphID)

118 So, that 20 year old car in reality meme. A few years ago, I was leaving work and saw a car pulling out of the parking lot with antique plates.

It was a Mazda Miata.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 12, 2025 10:36 PM (3uBP9)

119 The explaining science meme is spot-on, at least with regards to most practitioners of so-called “climate science”. Yes, I know there is a tiny band of scientists who tell the truth in this area, but you should notice that most of them are retired, voluntarily or not.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025 10:38 PM (VphID)

120 Fun ONT, thanks WD.

Posted by: scampydog at September 12, 2025 10:38 PM (63tLs)

121 Heh. That "20 year-old car" meme strikes home with me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2025 10:38 PM (QjQFX)

122 It says he lost his right arm in a siege. It's a pic of an iron left arm.
Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2025 10:08 PM (i0F8b)

Or some dimwit reversed the image wherever it was found.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2025 10:40 PM (QjQFX)

123 The hummingbird feeder is a model of a KC-135R, if you were wondering - or if you weren't.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at September 12, 2025 10:41 PM (ha1wR)

124 Or some dimwit reversed the image wherever it was found.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2025 10:40 PM (QjQFX)

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But then wouldn't the thumb be on the wrong side?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2025 10:42 PM (dDmld)

125 Refueler?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 12, 2025 10:42 PM (ZTk50)

126 Went through all those special powers. I only need the one.

Little Half monkey homunculus. Who doesn't want one of those following you around? And, I'm assuming I get to name him. He dresses like me. AND, he has a special skill.

So, do you think he can steal cars? Am I going to need a phone book for him to sit on, or is that part of the skill?

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 10:43 PM (dIske)

127 customers
Office Depot sent out a very well written apology and I believe we have a few unemployed Office Depot associates.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 10:43 PM (p4NUW)

128 Soviets reverse images for some reason.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 12, 2025 10:43 PM (ZTk50)

129 Refueler?

Of course, but the R means re-engined.

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at September 12, 2025 10:43 PM (ha1wR)

130
27 It says he lost his right arm in a siege. It's a pic of an iron left arm.
Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2025 10:08 PM

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The post does go into some detail about how angry he was.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 12, 2025 10:43 PM (PbePe)

131 My truck is a 2000 Toyota Tundra. It’s still running and has over a quarter million miles on it. It’s my daily driver. So if I want to know what a 25 year old truck looks like I look in my garage!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025 10:44 PM (VphID)

132 But then wouldn't the thumb be on the wrong side?
Posted by: Cicero

Maybe it's a WeirdDave joke. He lost his right arm which is why the museum only has his left.

Posted by: t-bird at September 12, 2025 10:44 PM (Qgg5f)

133 https://tinyurl.com/yr7ppm93

Link to said apology.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 10:45 PM (p4NUW)

134 My truck is only 22.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 12, 2025 10:45 PM (ZTk50)

135
8:45 here and 45 degrees. Maybe it will snow, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at September 12, 2025 10:45 PM (3ek7K)

136 Good evening morons y gracias al wd por el ont.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2025 10:46 PM (RIvkX)

137 It says he lost his right arm in a siege. It's a pic of an iron left arm.
Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2025 10:08 PM

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The post does go into some detail about how angry he was.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

I would be too. I lose my right arm and someone makes me a replacement left arm...

Posted by: rickb223 at September 12, 2025 10:47 PM (D3P9d)

138 My truck is only 22.
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 12, 2025 10:45 PM (ZTk50)

So you're saying it can drink and drive.

Posted by: RickZ at September 12, 2025 10:48 PM (gKDq2)

139 So, that 20 year old car in reality meme. A few years ago, I was leaving work and saw a car pulling out of the parking lot with antique plates.

It was a Mazda Miata.
Posted by: banana Dream at September 12, 2025 10:36 PM (3uBP9)

Same thing here. Last week it was a "Classic" plate on a first generation Toyota 4Runner.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 12, 2025 10:48 PM (eLPWB)

140 8:45 here and 45 degrees. Maybe it will snow, lol.
Posted by: fourseasons

Ugh. 78 here. Mid 90's for the next 10 days.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 12, 2025 10:49 PM (D3P9d)

141 I was leaving work and saw a car pulling out of the parking lot with antique plates.

It was a Mazda Miata.

1991 here. If I'm older than my 'antique' car...

Posted by: t-bird at September 12, 2025 10:49 PM (Qgg5f)

142 >>> ITS FUNNY BECAUSE NO STATE HAS A BIGGER POPULATION THAN ALL OF THE OTHER STATES COMBINED
Posted by: Ben Roethlisberger at September 12, 2025 10:33 PM (dDmld)

Texas is bigger on the inside than the outside.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 12, 2025 10:49 PM (3uBP9)

143 https://tinyurl.com/yr7ppm93

Link to said apology.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 10:45 PM (p4NUW)

That's how it is done. Good on Office Depot.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2025 10:49 PM (QjQFX)

144 Texas is bigger on the inside than the outside.

Especially if you're driving.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 12, 2025 10:50 PM (3nLb4)

145 My truck is a 2000 Toyota Tundra. It’s still running and has over a quarter million miles on it. It’s my daily driver. So if I want to know what a 25 year old truck looks like I look in my garage!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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That's awesome. I had a 2003 Silverado with 260k on it (which means I bought when I was 7rs old). Parked it at farm. Covid - runaway prices, sold it. Without tailgate.

Posted by: scampydog at September 12, 2025 10:50 PM (63tLs)

146 The iron arm above put me in mind of a Foreign Legion legendary hero whose relic is still in the Legion's museum, I've read: The Iron Hand of Captain Mabuse.

I'm going just by memory. I believe he lost his hand, & possibly his life, fighting for Emperor Maximilian I in Mexico.

Posted by: mnw at September 12, 2025 10:51 PM (oa1u0)

147 You know your over 29 and you see a really cool car and then see it has Antique plates on it.

Shit...

Posted by: pawn at September 12, 2025 10:51 PM (PmITa)

148 Fun Fact:

The criteria for antique plates is a vehicle must be 15 years or older.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2025 10:51 PM (XV/Pl)

149 Good evening, my fellow reprobates. I received a text from Jewell’s daughter, Amy.

“ “ … Back in July I finally got the nerve up to do a shift at Shep’s Place. I hadn’t been since before mama got really sick. Couldn’t bear it. Anyway. A couple of board members showed up to help me get back in the swing of things.
They also let me know how much money was raised for Shep’s place in mom’s memory. At the time, we were just 300 dollars short of what was needed to get a room named after her when they do their expansion here in the next year or two. A good friend of mine donated the last we needed but I KNOW a huge chunk of the 5,000 total came from Ace of Spades.
So, just wanted to reach out and let you know so you can post in the message board and let all her Ace friends know. “

Posted by: SnailRacer at September 12, 2025 10:52 PM (ZHhja)

150 The flaming hula dancer: as soon as she caught on fire I was shouting “Jump in the pool!”. I am glad someone tossed her in, and I hope she didn’t get badly burned!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025 10:52 PM (VphID)

151 127 customers
Office Depot sent out a very well written apology and I believe we have a few unemployed Office Depot associates.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 10:43 PM (p4NUW)
_____________________________

Was that just sent out in the last couple of hours, or previously?

Because I contacted their customer service dept at their home office and filled them in with the details about 3 hours ago.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 10:53 PM (dIske)

152 Guy calls down to the front desk of the hotel:
"I'd like a wake up call"

Desk clerk: "Ok, your wife was here last week".

Posted by: rickb223 at September 12, 2025 10:54 PM (D3P9d)

153
Was that just sent out in the last couple of hours, or previously?

Because I contacted their customer service dept at their home office and filled them in with the details about 3 hours ago.
Posted by: Orson at September 12

20 minutes ago.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 10:54 PM (p4NUW)

154 >Soviets reverse images for some reason.
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Is to fool moose and squirrel.

Posted by: Don Black at September 12, 2025 10:55 PM (AOsQT)

155 20 minutes ago.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 10:54 PM (p4NUW)
___________________________

Ooops, looks like I got someone fired.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 10:56 PM (dIske)

156 >>> Fun Fact:
The criteria for antique plates is a vehicle must be 15 years or older.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2025 10:51 PM (XV/Pl)

The shoes I'm wearing are older than that. Clarks, good brand tho, just a little stain and polish occasionally and they look great.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 12, 2025 10:56 PM (3uBP9)

157 Stolen from twitface:

Going to ask a gay baker to make a Charlie Kirk memorial cake.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 12, 2025 10:56 PM (lUFok)

158 Texas is bigger on the inside than the outside.
Posted by: banana Dream

DFW Airport is bigger than the island of Manhattan.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 12, 2025 10:56 PM (D3P9d)

159 63 Missed lunch with a friend 'cause they had to work...hope they didn't hear me giggle.
Posted by: Some Rat

You bastard!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2025 10:57 PM (jPSng)

160 I'm starting early on a horse trail ride with my kid tomorrow as her bday present so off to bed with me. Have a good night people.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 12, 2025 10:58 PM (3uBP9)

161
2013 Honda Odyssey, 325,000 miles.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2025 10:59 PM (kkTda)

162 Ooops, looks like I got someone fired.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 10:56 PM (dIske)

Hopefully someones. Also they're only leftists, not people. Just kidding - we are better than this!!!

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2025 10:59 PM (E0p3T)

163 DFW Airport is bigger than the island of Manhattan.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 12, 2025 10:56 PM (D3P9d)
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Old Vermont joke-

Texan to Vermonter: Why, there ain't a county in Texas that your entire state wouldn't fit in.

Vermonter: And there isn't a county in Texas that wouldn't be improved by it either.

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 11:00 PM (WRA0V)

164 Office Depot not reading the room

https://x.com/MIForward_Net/status/1966636154301669810
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 12, 2025 08:10 PM (CNl8/)

I foresee more unemployment.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 12, 2025 08:12 PM

Like Nostradamus.

https://tinyurl.com/26pmt7cr

Posted by: toby928 at September 12, 2025 11:00 PM (WtmqQ)

165 It’s 79 here, 10p. 90 tomorrow.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 11:01 PM (p4NUW)

166 It's pretty racist to pick on Wyoming just because its a really small state.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2025 11:02 PM (viF8m)

167 Posted by: SnailRacer at September 12, 2025 10:52 PM (ZHhja)

SnailRacer! Will you be at the MoMee?

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 12, 2025 11:02 PM (lFFaq)

168 https://tinyurl.com/yr7ppm93

Link to said apology.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 10:45 PM (p4NUW)

That's how it is done. Good on Office Depot.

Good! Now I don’t have to boycott them!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025 11:02 PM (VphID)

169 166 It's pretty racist to pick on Wyoming just because its a really small state.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2025 11:02 PM (viF8m)
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Yes, that's it.

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 11:03 PM (ZBXTd)

170 Did Nostradamus get fired?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2025 11:03 PM (63Dwl)

171 >>Vermonter: And there isn't a county in Texas that wouldn't be improved by it either.

Boom

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2025 11:05 PM (viF8m)

172 Did Nostradamus get fired?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

never saw it coming

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 11:05 PM (gKWVE)

173 I’m watching a democrat meltdown in real time. It’s scary. I look at her and realize she could actually kill me because I’m conservative and Christian. I have 4 days off and sorta hope she ain’t there when I go back.

Posted by: Eromero at September 12, 2025 11:06 PM (LHPAg)

174 I wonder if that Iron Hand of Berlichingen is where Mel Brooks or whoever got the idea for the Police Inspector in Young Frankenstein.

The hand in the picture does look different from the one at wikipedia.

Posted by: far cry at September 12, 2025 11:06 PM (CmUac)

175 Re the cars since about 2000: aren’t they all styled the same? They all have the same streamlined look that marked the Porsche 356: I mean 4 doors instead of 2 and front engined, but don’t all sedans these days look alike since about 2000?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025 11:07 PM (VphID)

176 172 Did Nostradamus get fired?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

never saw it coming
Posted by: gKWVE
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LOL.

Posted by: scampydog at September 12, 2025 11:07 PM (63tLs)

177 My wife showed me that hummingbird feeder earlier.

There's a couple around here. IIRC they migrate to Mexico... from where we are in KY that means they'll fly across the Gulf of America.

Weird little creatures.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2025 11:08 PM (Q4IgG)

178 never saw it coming
Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 11:05 PM (gKWVE)

"Closed due to unforeseen circumstances."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2025 11:09 PM (0sq2f)

179 I went on one of those Office Depot Live Chats at their headquarters (as a valued customer who buys in bulk from them...they had my account number handy and likely saw what a good customer I had been). The first contact on Live Chat was AI, but I requested to speak with the on duty manager, and she got on the chat (Beatrice something). She was extremely nice. I filled her in and informed her that it was not acceptable. And linked the video. I suggested that it would behoove them to handle the matter expeditiously. And, I told her I would be following up for a status sometime tomorrow.

No need for a status, apparently.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 11:09 PM (dIske)

180 DFW Airport is bigger than the island of Manhattan.

Everything is bigger in Texas!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025 11:09 PM (VphID)

181 Evening guys,

I hope everyone is doing well.

We do have a launch late tomorrow morning.

SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 17-10
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: September 13, 2025
Launch Time: 8:41 a.m. PDT (1541 UTC, 17:41 CEST)

https://youtu.be/rUVTFjslnlc

Posted by: Joyenz at September 12, 2025 11:10 PM (2F0/Y)

182 Yeah, we're real shook that the clowns who've been sending a guy who honeymooned in the USSR to the senate for 20 years think they're better than us.

The thing about non-Texans is that they can't stop talking about Texas. We forget you even exist until you start crying for the attention your whore mothers never gave you.

Posted by: Yawn at September 12, 2025 11:10 PM (sdf4R)

183 Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2025 11:08 PM (Q4IgG)
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I had a nice martini tonight. Normally I go with a dry gin and 3 olives. Tonight, a Vesper with lemon peel. It was delicious, but I kind of wish I'd gone with the usual.

Cheers

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 11:11 PM (8YzGs)

184
Vermonter: And there isn't a county in Texas that wouldn't be improved by it either.

_________

The only remaining industry in Vermont is Smug.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2025 11:11 PM (kkTda)

185 Posted by: Yawn at September 12, 2025 11:10 PM (sdf4R)

You seem nice.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 11:12 PM (gKWVE)

186 FEMA fired a young male employee today for posting a vile post about Kirk.

He looks ALMOST normal, although a little sweet-- and then I noticed he was sporting drop-down diamond earrings.

He was a data analyst, & he'd worked for FEMA for only 9 months-- which means he was still a probationary employee.

Talk about easy to fire!

Posted by: mnw at September 12, 2025 11:14 PM (oa1u0)

187 I live in Georgia!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025 11:15 PM (VphID)

188 The leftist media is trying to tell us that Tyler Robinson was a religious, conservative, republican. They point to his parents' beliefs and what he was like in high school, in which case, they are correct. What should be highlighted is that he was a conservative Christian and in just a few short years, college professors turned him into an anarchist, radical communist who was willing to murder someone to advance the cause.

All college campuses need to be purged of these anti-American radicals. They are poisoning the minds of our kids. Can someone in government (Congress, FBI..) investigate this.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 12, 2025 11:16 PM (c0Hqc)

189 Posted by: Yawn at September 12, 2025 11:10 PM (sdf4R)
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Don't blame me for Bernie - I never voted for him once. I do think he's earnest. Stupid, and incredibly wrong, but I think he means it. Either way, I'm out of there and don't miss it. It is a lovely state though.

That being said, I have wanted to visit Big Bend Park for decades. I heat it is lovely - especially in the spring when things are blooming. Someday...

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 11:16 PM (khVJI)

190 No need for a status, apparently.
Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 11:09 PM (dIske)

Check anyway. Always good to let them know you follow up on such things.

Posted by: RickZ at September 12, 2025 11:16 PM (gKDq2)

191 Am I missing something? Because yes, obviously, Wyoming has a smaller population than all the other states combined. Is that a joke that I just don't get?

Posted by: The Inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork at September 12, 2025 11:17 PM (4jdqZ)

192 Does anyone know if Erika Kirk has police protection ( I certainly hope so ) Because it was said online that after her talk someone posted her home address.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 12, 2025 11:17 PM (wvguf)

193 if I want to know what a 25 year old truck looks like I look in my garage!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

My daughter drives her papaw’s 1999 Silverado. When she bought it from his estate in 2021 it had less than 50,000 miles on it. Farm truck. Didn’t drive it much.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 12, 2025 11:17 PM (fveCG)

194 "Never ask a man if he is from Texas. If he is, he will tell you. If he isn't, there is no reason to embarrass him"

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 12, 2025 11:18 PM (eLPWB)

195 >>The only remaining industry in Vermont is Smug.

You know you live in Texas, right?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2025 11:18 PM (viF8m)

196 There will be a lot of firings in the next few days: the lefties just can’t help themselves! It’s good that there will consequences for heinous statements and stands.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025 11:18 PM (VphID)

197
180 DFW Airport is bigger than the island of Manhattan.

Everything is bigger in Texas!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025 11:09 PM (VphID)

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"Don't flush!"

Posted by: Drunk Guest Who Fell Into The Swimminhg Pool at September 12, 2025 11:18 PM (azNOR)

198 He was a data analyst, & he'd worked for FEMA for only 9 months-- which means he was still a probationary employee.

Talk about easy to fire!
Posted by: mnw at September 12, 2025 11:14 PM (oa1u0)

Now fire the scrunt who hired him.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2025 11:19 PM (0sq2f)

199
The only remaining industry in Vermont is Smug.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

You could stay at the Stratford Inn.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2025 11:19 PM (63Dwl)

200 2013 Honda Odyssey, 325,000 miles.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Our 2006 Toyota Sienna had 311,000 when it died in 2022. Didn’t quite make it to twenty.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 12, 2025 11:19 PM (fveCG)

201 Not to mention that the iron hand of Gotz is the *left* hand, not the right they say he lost.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2025 11:20 PM (omVj0)

202 46 Best Venn diagram ever.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 12, 2025 10:15 PM

But almost certainly too complicated for renowned Venn diagram "expert" Kamala!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 12, 2025 11:20 PM (HlyYF)

203
There will be a lot of firings in the next few days: the lefties just can’t help themselves!

________

Or they're astonished their words may have consequences.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2025 11:21 PM (kkTda)

204 Ooops, looks like I got someone fired.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 10:56 PM (dIske)

There's a guy online that has 30 scalps.

I don't care. Fuck them.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 12, 2025 11:21 PM (LjSYW)

205 Re the cars since about 2000: aren’t they all styled the same? They all have the same streamlined look that marked the Porsche 356: I mean 4 doors instead of 2 and front engined, but don’t all sedans these days look alike since about 2000?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025

***
Yeah, the other day I saw a Jaguar sedan, the modern F-whatever it is, in ruby red, and at first glance I thought it was my ruby red Buick.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 12, 2025 11:21 PM (omVj0)

206
Does anyone know if Erika Kirk has police protection ( I certainly hope so ) Because it was said online that after her talk someone posted her home address.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

===============

She must. As bad as that is, it gets worse. I won't elaborate.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 11:21 PM (l6OhZ)

207 191 Am I missing something? Because yes, obviously, Wyoming has a smaller population than all the other states combined. Is that a joke that I just don't get?
Posted by: The Inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork

It is true of any of the 50 states! Think about it!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025 11:22 PM (VphID)

208 SnailRacer! Will you be at the MoMee?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 12, 2025 11:02 PM (lFFaq

Absolutely! Are you and Inspector going to make it?

Posted by: SnailRacer at September 12, 2025 11:22 PM (ZHhja)

209 The only remaining industry in Vermont is Smug.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2025 11:11 PM (kkTda)
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LOL - Good line. I will be using it.

FYI, they also have maple syrup and skiing, but yes, mostly just smug.

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 11:22 PM (khVJI)

210 >>There will be a lot of firings in the next few days: the lefties just can’t help themselves!

Already have been. Been a constant theme on X for days. Going on as we speak.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2025 11:23 PM (viF8m)

211 148 Fun Fact:

The criteria for antique plates is a vehicle must be 15 years or older.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2025 10:51 PM

Crap. I am pretty sure I still have a few t-shirts older than THAT.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 12, 2025 11:23 PM (HlyYF)

212 190 No need for a status, apparently.
Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 11:09 PM (dIske)

Check anyway. Always good to let them know you follow up on such things.
Posted by: RickZ at September 12, 2025 11:16 PM (gKDq2)
________________________________

You know what? You have a good point. It will give me an opportunity to give positive feedback on the Cust. Serv. manager. I think one of the reasons the Left has co-opted corporations is that they are scared of them. They should be more scared of their client base...who are likely mostly right of center...being that they have jobs, money and buy stuff.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 11:24 PM (dIske)

213 Lyle Lovett

That's Right, You're Not From Texas

https://youtu.be/KQoXnz3h_FE

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 12, 2025 11:24 PM (eLPWB)

214 Am I missing something? Because yes, obviously, Wyoming has a smaller population than all the other states combined. Is that a joke that I just don't get?
Posted by: The Inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork

That IS the joke.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 12, 2025 11:24 PM (D3P9d)

215 What a stupid way to boot away a job.

Posted by: mnw at September 12, 2025 11:24 PM (oa1u0)

216 I have classes to teach in the morning. Please, Dear Father, hold Erika and her babies in your grace tonight.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 11:24 PM (Wmg4n)

217
Am I missing something? Because yes, obviously, Wyoming has a smaller population than all the other states combined. Is that a joke that I just don't get?
Posted by: The Inexplicable Dr. Julius Strangepork

===============

Think of it this way: California has a larger population than no states at all combined. Does that help?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 11:25 PM (l6OhZ)

218 148 Fun Fact:

The criteria for antique plates is a vehicle must be 15 years or older.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2025 10:51 PM (XV/Pl)
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You need to specify where.. cause here in Kentucky:

"shall mean all motor vehicles twenty-five (25) years old or older, which are used
primarily for exhibition in shows, parades, tours, and other special uses, but not for
general transportation"

Posted by: ghbucky at September 12, 2025 11:25 PM (/xDbx)

219 Fun Fact:

The criteria for antique plates is a vehicle must be 15 years or older.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2025 10:51 PM

Crap. I am pretty sure I still have a few t-shirts older than THAT.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot

I'm wearing underwear older than that.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 12, 2025 11:26 PM (D3P9d)

220 Erika Kirk thanked the police for her protection detail in her very brave speech. Presumably, that protection will continue awhile. She will need to work out her security long-term for her children and herself because of the difficult path she has set for herself in continuing Charlie Kirk’s legacy.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025 11:26 PM (VphID)

221 The leftist media is trying to tell us that Tyler Robinson was a religious, conservative, republican
----------------

Emphasis on was

Posted by: ... at September 12, 2025 11:26 PM (E0p3T)

222 What a stupid way to boot away a job.
Posted by: mnw at September 12, 2025 11:24 PM (oa1u0)

Twink should transition to a "woman" and get a job as a hula dancer. We could all chip in and buy him a nice grass skirt made of the finest celluloid.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2025 11:27 PM (0sq2f)

223 Posted by: SnailRacer at September 12, 2025 11:22 PM (ZHhja)

We'll get there Thursday. Hopefully Inspector will be able to have a good time this year.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 12, 2025 11:27 PM (lFFaq)

224 Fun Fact:

The criteria for antique plates is a vehicle must be 15 years or older.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 12, 2025 10:51 PM (XV/Pl)
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You need to specify where.. cause here in Kentucky:

"shall mean all motor vehicles twenty-five (25) years old or older, which are used
primarily for exhibition in shows, parades, tours, and other special uses, but not for
general transportation"
Posted by: ghbucky at September 12, 2025 11:25 PM (/xDbx)
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Woohoo!! My vehicle is an antique!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at September 12, 2025 11:27 PM (WvZaB)

225 "Don't flush!"

The South will rise again!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025 11:28 PM (VphID)

226 Does ace have family pr friends who check in on him in real life?
His fasting regimen sounds concerning - I hope he's not over doing it.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 12, 2025 11:28 PM (znREB)

227 Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025 11:26 PM (VphID)

Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 12, 2025 11:28 PM (xY6Tn)

228 177 My wife showed me that hummingbird feeder earlier.

There's a couple around here. IIRC they migrate to Mexico... from where we are in KY that means they'll fly across the Gulf of America.

Weird little creatures.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2025 11:08 PM

KC-135 hummingbird feeders migrate? Who knew?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 12, 2025 11:29 PM (HlyYF)

229
one of the reasons the Left has co-opted corporations is that they are scared of them.

Posted by: Orson

============

100%. I think one of the reasons for our plight is the gutlessness of the corporations -- donated to BLM, pledged to fight against climate change, celebrated "Pride." Not a leader among them, funding and promoting the destruction of merit and American ideals.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 11:30 PM (l6OhZ)

230 KC-135 hummingbird feeders migrate? Who knew?

Nature is amazing.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 12, 2025 11:30 PM (lUFok)

231 It says he lost his right arm in a siege. It's a pic of an iron left arm.
Posted by: davidt
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Pic got mirrored in Photoshop while he was trying to resize it..

Posted by: buddhaha at September 12, 2025 11:30 PM (7XE4O)

232 KC-135 hummingbird feeders migrate? Who knew?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 12, 2025 11:29 PM (HlyYF)

That is a very cool hummingbird feeder.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2025 11:30 PM (0sq2f)

233
The leftist media is trying to tell us that Tyler Robinson was a religious, conservative, republican

_________

And Stalin was a seminarian.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2025 11:30 PM (kkTda)

234 The leftist media is trying to tell us that Tyler Robinson was a religious, conservative, republican
----------------

Emphasis on was

Which, ironically, is actually the point.

He was a peaceful young man with parents that were trying to raise him right. And then leftists turned him into a homicidal murderer

Posted by: 18-1 at September 12, 2025 11:31 PM (sKqQm)

235 I like Legal Mindset's idea of siccing OSHA on companies that employ the gravedancers/threateners (I'm tired, okay, can't think of a better word). Because if my cow-orker posts publicly that everyone with Charlie Kirk's views needs to die, I'm not going to feel safe going in to work if I agree with Charlie even slightly. Even better, we can UNO Reverse the "I feel unsaaaaafe!" card they constantly play.

Posted by: pookysgirl, former safety inspector at September 12, 2025 11:31 PM (Wt5PA)

236 Another very old Vermont joke:

A old-timer patient at Waterbury (Vermont's insane asylum) was wandering the grounds when a bird pooped and it landed on his head. The nurse who was nearby was horrified and said "Oh dear! I'll go get some toilet tissue and wipe it up!"

The patient said "Don't be a damned fool! That bird will be miles away by the time you get back!"

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 11:31 PM (TV54s)

237
Woohoo!! My vehicle is an antique!!
Posted by: Captain Obvious

==============

Veneer!

Posted by: The Antiques Roadshow at September 12, 2025 11:31 PM (l6OhZ)

238 100%. I think one of the reasons for our plight is the gutlessness of the corporations -- donated to BLM, pledged to fight against climate change, celebrated "Pride." Not a leader among them, funding and promoting the destruction of merit and American ideals.

When one of your largest investors starts saying they want to see certain changes or they're dumping your stock, what's a gutless coward to do? See also: Larry Fink, Blackrock, etc.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 12, 2025 11:32 PM (lUFok)

239 And Stalin was a seminarian.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2025 11:30 PM (kkTda)

As was Linda Lovelace. oh, wait... nevermind

Posted by: Emily Litella at September 12, 2025 11:32 PM (2WRlI)

240 mnw - I think you're referring to the wooden hand of Capt. Jean D'anjou, who died at the battle of Cameron in Mexico.

Posted by: PabloD at September 12, 2025 11:33 PM (8aqBR)

241 Yeah... 30 years of historic Sword fighting here.
Posted by: Romeo13! at September 12, 2025 10:06 PM (mP0Kj)

I think it was just a demonstration, no speed at all
However it also reminds me of some Filipino Esgrima demonstrations. They really like those parry-with a pommel follow up

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2025 11:34 PM (rbvCR)

242 He was a peaceful young man with parents that were trying to raise him right. And then leftists turned him into a homicidal murderer
Posted by: 18-1 at September 12, 2025 11:31 PM (sKqQm)

Isn't "homicidal murderer" a tad redundant?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2025 11:34 PM (2WRlI)

243 She must. As bad as that is, it gets worse. I won't elaborate.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 11:21 PM (l6OhZ)

why not ? what is going on?

Posted by: runner at September 12, 2025 11:34 PM (g47mK)

244 President Trump didn't do the prosecutor any favors when he said, "He did it, & he deserves the death penalty."

Thanks a lot, Boss!

Posted by: mnw at September 12, 2025 11:35 PM (oa1u0)

245
The text says the knight lost his right arm in a siege, but that’s a left hand!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

===============

You had one job.

Posted by: Knight Taking Delivery of his New Hand from Government Ironsmith at September 12, 2025 11:35 PM (l6OhZ)

246 Twink should transition to a "woman" and get a job as a hula dancer. We could all chip in and buy him a nice grass skirt made of the finest celluloid.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Then he can practice the flaming hula like the girl in the video!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025 11:35 PM (VphID)

247
Mark kelly, Arizona has no faith that Trump will tone down the rhetoric.

Speculation is he is going to run for president.

Article at The State, Columbia's newspaper.

I think he is disgusting.

Posted by: fourseasons at September 12, 2025 11:36 PM (3ek7K)

248 192 Does anyone know if Erika Kirk has police protection ( I certainly hope so ) Because it was said online that after her talk someone posted her home address.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 12, 2025 11:17 PM (wvguf)

She does. Police and....rings of very capable and enthusiastic...volunteers...

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2025 11:36 PM (nbLIj)

249
what is going on?
Posted by: runner

==============

I saw one of those sickos on Twitter bouncing and leering, "Why not the wife, too?"

Posted by: Knight Taking Delivery of his New Hand from Government Ironsmith at September 12, 2025 11:36 PM (l6OhZ)

250 I think he is disgusting.

You would be correct in your assessment.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 12, 2025 11:37 PM (lUFok)

251
Oh jeez, sock off

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 11:37 PM (l6OhZ)

252 240

Sounds right. I said I was too lazy to look it up.

Posted by: mnw at September 12, 2025 11:38 PM (oa1u0)

253 Article at The State, Columbia's newspaper.

I think he is disgusting.

Posted by: fourseasons at September 12, 2025 11:36 PM (3ek7K)

Well, he is an ASS-tronaut, you know.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2025 11:38 PM (2WRlI)

254 I’m impressed by how bedraggled the hummingbirds look upon first arrival. Long flight, you know.

They will keep coming back to the same house every year if you have a feeder out. They will let you know they have arrived early, too - by peering in all the windows. “Hey! Where’s the feeder?!”

Some researchers have discovered at least some hummingbirds don’t fly the entire way - apparently they burrow into the feathers of Canada Geese, or other high flying long distance birds.

I had a great off trail campsite in Canyonlands one year, there was a high,smooth expanse of sandstone rimrock. I was laying back resting idly looking at the sky, the trees, etc, and noticed this tiny little nubbin of rock in the sweeping red rock. It was like a little balcony, with a hummingbird sitting in it. Perfect spot for a nest. Cute little fvkers ya gotta admit.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2025 11:38 PM (HO+Dn)

255
Speculation is he is going to run for president.

Article at The State, Columbia's newspaper.

I think he is disgusting.

Posted by: fourseasons

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At last! A president with toned-down rhetoric! Just what I want.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 11:38 PM (l6OhZ)

256 President Trump didn't do the prosecutor any favors when he said, "He did it, & he deserves the death penalty."

Thanks a lot, Boss!
Posted by: mnw at September 12, 2025 11:35 PM (oa1u0)

I'll take that Presidential statement, considering the event, every time over a different event's Presidential statement, "The police acted stupidly."

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 12, 2025 11:39 PM (wVcYX)

257
Charlie Kirk has passed, and we are diminished. God rest his soul, and protect his family.

My karma seems to be running over the Left's dogma. Many fools are losing their jobs, and many more are waking up, only to be repulsed by the Left.

I sense a building sense of sanctimonious butt-hurt. I think the Left needs vengeance already, even though things are only going to get worse for them.

Watch for a false-flag operation or two. Watch for spontaneous acts, likely violent.

Carry pepper spray. It's easy to carry, low psychological bar to using it (several times on several people), and if you have to use it, you can always say you're sorry, you thought you were defending yourself from a dog or two.

Posted by: Arbalest at September 12, 2025 11:39 PM (FlRtG)

258
Lol AOP

Posted by: fourseasons at September 12, 2025 11:39 PM (3ek7K)

259 You had one job.
Posted by: Knight Taking Delivery of his New Hand from Government Ironsmith at September 12, 2025 11:35 PM (l6OhZ)

Hey! Socialism didn’t get started in Germany until Bismarck!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025 11:39 PM (VphID)

260 So, just wanted to reach out and let you know so you can post in the message board and let all her Ace friends know. “
Posted by: SnailRacer at September 12, 2025 10:52 PM (ZHhja)

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jewells z"l

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2025 11:40 PM (RIvkX)

261 Rumor had it that Kelly was Obama's and his clique's choice after Biden was shoved out of the way.

Posted by: runner at September 12, 2025 11:40 PM (g47mK)

262
When one of your largest investors starts saying they want to see certain changes or they're dumping your stock, what's a gutless coward to do? See also: Larry Fink, Blackrock, etc.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

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Try leadership. What would our founding fathers do?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 11:40 PM (l6OhZ)

263 203
There will be a lot of firings in the next few days: the lefties just can’t help themselves!

________

Or they're astonished their words may have consequences.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

The price of living in self made bubbles. Bubbles pop.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2025 11:41 PM (G1ktt)

264
runner,

That would have been a nightmare.

Posted by: fourseasons at September 12, 2025 11:42 PM (3ek7K)

265 >>> 262
When one of your largest investors starts saying they want to see certain changes or they're dumping your stock, what's a gutless coward to do? See also: Larry Fink, Blackrock, etc.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

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Try leadership. What would our founding fathers do?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 11:40 PM (l6OhZ)

Many of the CEOs agree with Fink and the WEFtard scumbags.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 12, 2025 11:42 PM (ULPxl)

266 256

President Trump just accidentally disqualified many of the state's best jurors. The most pro-death penalty ones.

Posted by: mnw at September 12, 2025 11:42 PM (oa1u0)

267
Hey! Socialism didn’t get started in Germany until Bismarck!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

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You mean medieval Knight Electric Bugaloo wasn't placed under house arrest in a castle he had purchased with all his quest rewards?!?!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 11:43 PM (l6OhZ)

268 Rumor had it that Kelly was Obama's and his clique's choice after Biden was shoved out of the way.
Posted by: runner at September 12, 2025 11:40 PM (g47mK)

Apparently his treatment of wife Gabby Giffords is quite beastly.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2025 11:43 PM (2WRlI)

269
Many of the CEOs agree with Fink and the WEFtard scumbags.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

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I think I meant to say "gutless and weak-minded."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 11:45 PM (l6OhZ)

270 Fun Fact:

The criteria for antique plates is a vehicle must be 15 years or older.

Posted by: Thomas Bender

It’s 25 years in Texas. You can use plates from the year of your vehicle instead of the current ones. We had some 1999 Texas plates from an old vehicle and gave them to our daughter for her 1999 Siverado.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 12, 2025 11:45 PM (fveCG)

271 225 "Don't flush!"

The South will rise again!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Gas. Take a Tums.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2025 11:46 PM (G1ktt)

272 Isn't "homicidal murderer" a tad redundant?

So you are saying and connotating that my statements are repetitive and monotonous?

That's both offensive and unkind!

Posted by: 18-1 at September 12, 2025 11:46 PM (sKqQm)

273 Arguably Bill Clinton was the last authentic politician on the left. He was by all accounts very good at “pressing the flesh” (no jokes pliz). It is one part bullshit, one part charisma, one part good memory, etc.

But it’s like being a good salesman or good NCO or Officer. We can describe those traits, we can try to emulate them, but good leaders are born, not made. I think that’s the problem with modern retail politics.

It’s carefully choreographed focus-grouped stage managed bullshit. One errant question from a member of the public (or Bernard Shaw!) can derail an entire political campaign. So they don’t do that anymore.

It’s all theater, by people who can’t even act. At least the old school pols kept the streets plowed, and basic government responsibilities. The latest crews in recent years are just low frequency morons, and corrupt as hell. They’ll be lucky to escape with their heads if things go sideways

Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2025 11:47 PM (HO+Dn)

274 >>>I'm going just by memory. I believe he lost his hand, & possibly his life, fighting for Emperor Maximilian I in Mexico.
Posted by: mnw at September 12, 2025 10:51 PM (oa1u0)

No, that was Captain D'Anjou of the FFL.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2025 11:47 PM (rbvCR)

275 ry leadership. What would our founding fathers do?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 11:40 PM (l6OhZ)

Why, go to New Brunswick for the whoring and drinking, naturally!

Posted by: Ben Franklin at September 12, 2025 11:47 PM (wVcYX)

276 247
Mark kelly, Arizona has no faith that Trump will tone down the rhetoric.

Speculation is he is going to run for president.

Article at The State, Columbia's newspaper.

I think he is disgusting.

Posted by: fourseasons

tRUmpDF WOn't tonE DowN HIs rHEtoRic.....

Say people who've been pouring gasoline on a fire for the last decade+.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2025 11:48 PM (G1ktt)

277 I saw one of those sickos on Twitter bouncing and leering, "Why not the wife, too?"

Posted by: Knight Taking Delivery of his New Hand from Government Ironsmith at September 12, 2025 11:36 PM (l6OhZ)

They are just begging to be wiped off the fucking planet. They hurt the wife and they won't be worth the dirt they stand on.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2025 11:48 PM (snZF9)

278
I’m watching a democrat meltdown in real time. It’s scary. I look at her and realize she could actually kill me because I’m conservative and Christian. I have 4 days off and sorta hope she ain’t there when I go back.
Posted by: Eromero

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What's she melting down over? She had a good week, didn't she?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 11:49 PM (l6OhZ)

279 04 Tacoma. 340,000.

Posted by: Reforger at September 12, 2025 11:49 PM (SPOEc)

280 New Zealand Maori Christians performed a traditional Haka at a vigil in Central London for Charlie Kirk, drawing huge crowds of supporters.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 12, 2025 11:50 PM (D3P9d)

281
Wow. Just saw a Sydney Tribute to Charlie Kirk.

All the way from Australia. THAT 'S how powerful Charlie's words were.
Posted by: rickb223

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Tributes to him are happening in non-English-speaking countries. Amazing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 11:50 PM (l6OhZ)

282 >>Many of the CEOs agree with Fink and the WEFtard scumbags.

Many do. But it doesn't matter. If you are the CEO of a public you either do what the ownership says or they will get a new CEO. Some people find it harder to leave the lifestyle.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2025 11:50 PM (viF8m)

283 Welts, went to watch Erika Kirk's presentation and it appears that it was a live streaming event only. Maybe tomorrow they'll have a repeat.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2025 11:51 PM (aWmr1)

284 looks like pigs are flying and the Rockies are winning

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 11:51 PM (gKWVE)

285 That's both offensive and unkind!
Posted by: 18-1 at September 12, 2025 11:46 PM (sKqQm)

A two-fer!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2025 11:51 PM (2WRlI)

286 Homicidal maniac is the classic term, I think.

“Homicide” actually means death caused by another. It is distinct from “Murder”, as one may have to kill a homicidal maniac who is trying to kill you. This isn’t required, but it is widely considered justifiable. Thus “justifiable homicide”, or put another way, “he needed killin’.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2025 11:52 PM (HO+Dn)

287 Not everyone has heard Trump say anything about the “alleged” assassin. I haven’t. I just saw someone saying Trump said something that would disqualify jurors. I don’t know what Trump said, and I don’t want to know what Trump said! They will find enough jurors, rest assured. I am more interested in what information the “alleged” assassin can give about the network that supported him and about his immediate confederates, in exchange for a lighter sentence (life without parole, say). There are conspiracies to be unraveled!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 12, 2025 11:52 PM (VphID)

288
Distance from Here to the Moon?

About 230,000 miles.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 12, 2025 11:53 PM (Rw4Ax)

289 Rumor had it that Kelly was Obama's and his clique's choice after Biden was shoved out of the way.
Posted by: runner at September 12, 2025 11:40 PM (g47mK)

Apparently his treatment of wife Gabby Giffords is quite beastly.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Flood the zone with Dent holding her AR-15.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 12, 2025 11:53 PM (D3P9d)

290 This makes me sad. Yes, she was celebrating Kirk's death. Also she seems like she's in high school, and this would be world-ending to someone that age. I hope someone older gets ahold of her and let's her know this moment won't define her - she can learn from it and get better.

I'm happy when old hags like college professors get hit with this stuff, but this one is too young. Bring her back.

https://tinyurl.com/muxx7rwj

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 11:53 PM (tXY4l)

291 I saw Mrs. Kirk's speech and was very impressed with her composure in the face of vast grief. This is the strength that faith brings.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 12, 2025 11:54 PM (RIvkX)

292 the Rockies are winning
Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025
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Mets are fading. Lost again.

Posted by: scampydog at September 12, 2025 11:54 PM (63tLs)

293 Even better, we can UNO Reverse the "I feel unsaaaaafe!" card they constantly play.
Posted by: pookysgirl, former safety inspector at September 12, 2025 11:31 PM (Wt5PA)

We're not really playing a card when one of them murders one of us and millions are mocking and celebrating in response. That's not a 'card'.

Saw this Holocaust doc on tv. There was a Jewish woman survivor. Her brief words I've never forgotten: When someone says they want to kill you, believe them.

These people rejoiced at cold-blooded political assassination of a nobody, no power, no money, just a brain and with whom they disagreed. If they were in the next cubicle over, I wouldn't feel safe. They want me and mine dead. It's not a question up for debate at this point, it's a proven fact. That's what shaken up quite a few people, that realization.

Posted by: RickZ at September 12, 2025 11:54 PM (gKDq2)

294 “Homicide” actually means death caused by another. It is distinct from “Murder”, as one may have to kill a homicidal maniac who is trying to kill you. This isn’t required, but it is widely considered justifiable. Thus “justifiable homicide”, or put another way, “he needed killin’.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2025 11:52 PM (HO+Dn)

Murder is a subset of homicide.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2025 11:54 PM (2WRlI)

295 283 Welts, went to watch Erika Kirk's presentation and it appears that it was a live streaming event only. Maybe tomorrow they'll have a repeat.

Posted by: Braenyard

Youtube has the replay.

youtube.com/live/_nvJq1nN6Wo

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2025 11:54 PM (G1ktt)

296 Apparently his treatment of wife Gabby Giffords is quite beastly.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2025 11:43 PM (2WRlI)

I heard he treats her like a potted plant.

Well, not like Harvey Weinstein’s Ficus.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2025 11:56 PM (l8N5O)

297 Posted by: Common Tater at September 12, 2025 11:47 PM (HO+Dn)
_______________________________

I don't know if you remember, but Clinton developed a reputation for constantly walking around with his finger in the air to see which way the wind was blowing. It became almost a caricature.

The reason for that was James Carville. Say what you like about the rat man. He knew better than anyone how to use the polls. He could care less about races using polls. He used them almost exclusively on issues. He'd poll a state and find out the single most important issue to that constituency, then brief Clinton prior to any visit. "Talk this up." "Take this position." "Hammer it home."

That's how Clinton won that second term even though his reputation was absolute sh*t at the time. That's also why Clinton took a chunk out of entitlements.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 11:57 PM (dIske)

298 Distance from Here to the Moon?

About 230,000 miles.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 12, 2025 11:53 PM (Rw4Ax)

I wonder if Alice knows that.

Posted by: Ralph Kramden at September 12, 2025 11:57 PM (wVcYX)

299 I'm happy when old hags like college professors get hit with this stuff, but this one is too young. Bring her back.

https://tinyurl.com/muxx7rwj
Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 11:53 PM (tXY4l)

Meh. She can earn a living working the pole. None of the clients will care about her politics.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2025 11:57 PM (2WRlI)

300 There will be the usual "Charlie was a very popular guy ...."But" from the lame stream media.

But the "LEFT" will soon understand how truly "F**KED" they are like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Not that the LEFT even has a biblical understanding of history.

WOE TO THEE...WOE TO THEE.

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 12, 2025 11:58 PM (25kuG)

301 Posted by: Yawn at September 12, 2025 11:10 PM (sdf4R)

You seem nice.
Posted by: gKWVE

Very sensitive.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 12, 2025 11:58 PM (/lPRQ)

302 RickZ -

I don’t like Charlie Kirk being called a “nobody”. He wasn’t, but that wasn’t what you meant. As to the rest of it, I totally agree!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 12:00 AM (VphID)

303 DIA is bigger than the city of San Francisco.

Posted by: AnchorPoint at September 13, 2025 12:00 AM (qgPFD)

304
I read that the Cubs owner is giving Mrs. Kirk a 5% ownership of the Cubs. I sure hope it's true.

Hubby says the Cubs owner is a staunch Republican.

Posted by: fourseasons at September 13, 2025 12:01 AM (3ek7K)

305 DIA is bigger than the city of San Francisco.
Posted by: AnchorPoint at September 13, 2025 12:00 AM (qgPFD)

And has a lot less shit on the sidewalks, I'm betting.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 12:02 AM (2WRlI)

306 AOP - she's homeschooling. She's not even 18 yet, so I disagree. These mo.ents feel like the end of the world to teens. I fear they see no way out. I hope some adult gets through to her and shows her the way.

If she's still the same 10 years from now I will agree with you. For now, this is one FAFO that makes me sad

Posted by: 496 at September 13, 2025 12:02 AM (MxCkF)

307 That being said, I have wanted to visit Big Bend Park for decades. I heat it is lovely - especially in the spring when things are blooming. Someday...
Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 11:16 PM (khVJI)

I have too! Was discussing it this morning. I’ve been to Marfa and Ft Davis, as close as I’ve got, but I had to drive on to Phoenix. I live in East Texas, and Big Bend is still a 12 hour drive from my house.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2025 12:03 AM (l8N5O)

308 As my brother pointed out "Charlie Kirk was killed by leftist lies."

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at September 13, 2025 12:03 AM (Da7Vv)

309 DIA is a fucking zoo 24/7

Posted by: 496 at September 13, 2025 12:03 AM (MxCkF)

310 303 DIA is bigger than the city of San Francisco.
Posted by: AnchorPoint at September 13, 2025 12:00 AM (qgPFD)
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Plus DIA has killer art. Really. Lucifer the Blue Mustang statue fell on, and killed the artist.

Posted by: Orson at September 13, 2025 12:04 AM (dIske)

311 https://tinyurl.com/yr7ppm93

Link to said apology.
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 10:45 PM (p4NUW)

Soooo... the office depot bridge troll was shit canned. I love when things zip along.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 12:04 AM (snZF9)

312 Mark Kelly. Military, astronaut, white, and presumably Christian. The Dems last chance to fool Normies into voting for them.

Runners Up would be the Fiercely Heterosexual Corey Booker and Governor Hairgel.

Of course, Beatoff O'Rourke is always available to burn some more of his father-in-law's money.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 13, 2025 12:04 AM (eLPWB)

313 AOP - she's homeschooling. She's not even 18 yet, so I disagree. These mo.ents feel like the end of the world to teens. I fear they see no way out. I hope some adult gets through to her and shows her the way.

If she's still the same 10 years from now I will agree with you. For now, this is one FAFO that makes me sad
Posted by: 496 at September 13, 2025 12:02 AM (MxCkF)

She has kids she's home-schooling, or she is being home-schooled? If the latter, her teachers have failed her.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 12:05 AM (2WRlI)

314 And has a lot less shit on the sidewalks, I'm betting.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 12:02 AM (2WRlI)
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This is why non slip soles are essential.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 13, 2025 12:05 AM (RIvkX)

315 Distance from Here to the Moon?

About 230,000 miles.

If there was a road, I could have driven there in my truck! I wouldn’t have made it back yet, and I’d have to know if there are any Buc-ee’s on the way!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 12:06 AM (VphID)

316 Wait, what DIA is everyone talking about. I was referring to the Denver Airport (DIA)?

Posted by: Orson at September 13, 2025 12:06 AM (dIske)

317 Ripped from the twatters, a guy I think in CO posted this today:

"I work at a hospital. My coworkers are positively giddy. And whining about flags being flown at half staff.

My sister works at a school district. Her coworker brought in brownies to celebrate and everyone stood around guffawing at Charlie being silenced."

Your "fellow Americans".

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2025 12:07 AM (U/Byj)

318 AOP - not sure, but I think she's in HS. Her teachers definitely failed her. She just seems too young to be in such despair. Again, I hope someone with more perspective on the world can point her in the right direction. Someone like Charlie Kirk, for example. She needs to know this doesn't define her life.

Unlike all the other FAFO videos, this one made me sad

Posted by: 496 at September 13, 2025 12:09 AM (ouubj)

319 AOP, yes of course, the problem is the press likes to conflate this. “The death is being investigated as a homicide” when they subtly sort of imply it equates to murder. Self-defense is considered gauche by our betters. “Just die quietly, and don’t ask too many questions” is the English Way.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 12:09 AM (HO+Dn)

320 Did you know that our very stupid and violent "countrymen" like to record themselves crying about losing their jobs for being EXACTLY what they claim we are? Its the best

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at September 13, 2025 12:10 AM (XLfSN)

321 Orson - I was talking about Denver International Airport.

Posted by: 496 at September 13, 2025 12:11 AM (ouubj)

322 I think they got DIA and DFW (from an earlier post) confused!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 12:11 AM (VphID)

323 The problem with translators

I think there's also a place in England that is named something like "Hill Hill Hill" because its a name in Modern English, Old English, and Welsh or something along those lines.

Posted by: buzzion at September 13, 2025 12:12 AM (aRLgQ)

324 I have wanted to visit Big Bend Park for decades. I heat it is lovely - especially in the spring when things are blooming. Someday...
Posted by: 496

We were at Big Bend in late September—not an ideal time to visit. Temps were in the 100s. But then there was some rain. The desert erupted in blooms. Ocotillo was beautiful.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 13, 2025 12:14 AM (fveCG)

325
Many many more need to lose their jobs and hopefully will be forever unemployable.

Hey asswipes!! Lots of luck applying for welfare. TRUMP has taken care of that issue.

Posted by: fourseasons at September 13, 2025 12:14 AM (3ek7K)

326 I always simply call it “the Mojave”. I’m pretty sure that means “Desert” too.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 12:14 AM (HO+Dn)

327 Ripped from the twatters, a guy I think in CO posted this today:

"I work at a hospital. My coworkers are positively giddy. And whining about flags being flown at half staff.

My sister works at a school district. Her coworker brought in brownies to celebrate and everyone stood around guffawing at Charlie being silenced."

Your "fellow Americans".

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2025 12:07 AM (U/Byj)

Not Americans, to me they're fucking taliban. Actually, if CWII goes hot they should be treated less than taliban, because they should know better. They weren't raised in a 5th world shithole with the IQ of a frigging Austalopithecus.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 12:15 AM (snZF9)

328 The Samuel L Jackson "Furious" quote from Pulp Fiction has been playing over and over in my head as watch the wailing and crying.

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at September 13, 2025 12:15 AM (XLfSN)

329
Amen Berserker

Posted by: fourseasons at September 13, 2025 12:16 AM (3ek7K)

330
Soooo... the office depot bridge troll was shit canned. I love when things zip along.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

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"It's propaganda," she explained breezily, completely confident that she would call the shots as usual.

Rules have changed, lefty bitch.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 12:16 AM (l6OhZ)

331 *insert random bon mot here*

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 13, 2025 12:16 AM (wVcYX)

332 COWBOYS FIRESTORM: AT&T Stadium will throw open its doors free of charge for three full days to honor Charlie Kirk, giving fans rare, behind-the-scenes access to the iconic home of America’s Team — from locker rooms and player tunnels to the Cowboys’ Hall of Fame exhibits. But the moment that brought the crowd to tears came when owner Jerry Jones unveiled a permanent ‘Charlie’s Kids Zone’ inside the stadium — a colorful space filled with games, learning programs, and Cowboys memorabilia designed to honor Kirk’s legacy. Every dollar raised through activities and merchandise will go directly to support his two young children. The announcement has ignited Texas and sparked a nationwide storm of debate…

While the free access announcement was groundbreaking in itself, the most emotional moment came when Jones unveiled a permanent addition inside AT&T Stadium: the creation of Charlie’s Kids Zone.
The new area will be a vibrant, family-friendly space designed specifically for children. It will include:
* Interactive games themed around the Cowboys.
* Educational programs focused on teamwork, perseverance, and leadership.
* Special memorabilia displays tied to Charlie Kirk’s legacy.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 12:17 AM (D3P9d)

333 317 Ripped from the twatters, a guy I think in CO posted this today:

"I work at a hospital. My coworkers are positively giddy. And whining about flags being flown at half staff.

My sister works at a school district. Her coworker brought in brownies to celebrate and everyone stood around guffawing at Charlie being silenced."

Your "fellow Americans".

Posted by: rhomboid

Some people, in deep Blue enclaves, will not be fired for this. But many will, and if they are not being fired for this, we should take note of it and apply leverage where possible. Case in point: Office Depot.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 12:18 AM (VphID)

334 >>There will be a lot of firings in the next few days: the lefties just can’t help themselves!

Already have been. Been a constant theme on X for days. Going on as we speak.
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Based on the numbers I'm seeing, I thinks it's going to have an impact on next month's jobs report. Oh well.

Posted by: Methos at September 13, 2025 12:18 AM (zLwRl)

335
"I work at a hospital. My coworkers are positively giddy. And whining about flags being flown at half staff.

My sister works at a school district. Her coworker brought in brownies to celebrate and everyone stood around guffawing at Charlie being silenced."

Your "fellow Americans".

Posted by: rhomboid

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This is why I say our first priority is elementary education. NOW. Whatever it takes. Bend the Constitution as far as it will go to get these commies and perverts away from our kids. We've already got a couple of generations of damaged minds in power now and more coming up. We cannot afford to neglect this.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 12:19 AM (l6OhZ)

336 he Samuel L Jackson "Furious" quote from Pulp Fiction has been playing over and over in my head as watch the wailing and crying.
Posted by: melodicmetal1 at September 13, 2025 12:15 AM (XLfSN

This came to mind right after it happened

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 13, 2025 12:21 AM (WF/xn)

337 In re Big Bend National Park: the rumors have it that cartels smuggle drugs through the park, and it is very dangerous to run into them. I don’t know if the rumors are true or not, but it is probably something to research!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 12:22 AM (VphID)

338 Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 12:17 AM (D3P9d)
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Don't make me like Jerry Jones. I really don't want to like the old bastard. But if that's true then goof for him.

Well done Jerry.

Posted by: 496 at September 13, 2025 12:22 AM (8YzGs)

339
Wow!! What a wonderful thing to do!!

I think we'll see more of these touching honors for Mr. Kirk.

Posted by: fourseasons at September 13, 2025 12:23 AM (3ek7K)

340 >>> 333
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Some people, in deep Blue enclaves, will not be fired for this. But many will, and if they are not being fired for this, we should take note of it and apply leverage where possible. Case in point: Office Depot.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 12:18 AM (VphID)

I'd bet many of these filth have committed at least one federal felony, not the BS 'interfering with a gubmint proceeding' type, but something more serious like oh I dunno, mortgage fraud. And maybe the remaining IRS agents can audit the last seven years of their tax returns. For starters.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2025 12:23 AM (ULPxl)

341 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 12:19 AM (l6OhZ)

What do you do when it is your children spouting this crap.... My 34 year old Son is unemployed, and living i my spare bedroom... told me today the Kirk was a Monster...

Which means... as I agree with Kirk... I am a Monster, and thus should be killed.

Am trying to deal with this... it's almost Old Testament Biblical... when is your progeny so far gone, you just have to say... enough

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:25 AM (mP0Kj)

342 There are smuggling routes through Big Bend over a hundred years old.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 13, 2025 12:25 AM (aWmr1)

343 I'd bet many of these filth have committed at least one federal felony, not the BS 'interfering with a gubmint proceeding' type, but something more serious like oh I dunno, mortgage fraud. And maybe the remaining IRS agents can audit the last seven years of their tax returns. For starters.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2025 12:23 AM (ULPxl)

Yep. Anal probes. Without the excitement of aliens.

Posted by: RickZ at September 13, 2025 12:26 AM (gKDq2)

344
Am trying to deal with this... it's almost Old Testament Biblical... when is your progeny so far gone, you just have to say... enough
Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:25 AM (mP0Kj)

Damn, tough time

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 13, 2025 12:27 AM (WF/xn)

345 What do you do when it is your children spouting this crap.... My 34 year old Son is unemployed, and living i my spare bedroom... told me today the Kirk was a Monster...

Which means... as I agree with Kirk... I am a Monster, and thus should be killed.

Am trying to deal with this... it's almost Old Testament Biblical... when is your progeny so far gone, you just have to say... enough
Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:25 AM (mP0Kj)

That's the real eye-opener. 34 is not a 'confused' kid.

Good luck.

Posted by: RickZ at September 13, 2025 12:29 AM (gKDq2)

346 The Samuel L Jackson "Furious" quote from Pulp Fiction: do you mean this scene?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xH7wgQQW1i0

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 12:29 AM (VphID)

347 We're not looking for revenge. We are looking for a reckoning.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 13, 2025 12:29 AM (SRRAx)

348 What do you do when it is your children spouting this crap.... My 34 year old Son is unemployed, and living i my spare bedroom... told me today the Kirk was a Monster...

Which means... as I agree with Kirk... I am a Monster, and thus should be killed.

Am trying to deal with this... it's almost Old Testament Biblical... when is your progeny so far gone, you just have to say... enough
Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:25 AM (mP0Kj)

I'd say give him a deadline to get a job, or move out.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 12:30 AM (2WRlI)

349 The last of the old school battle axes and military veterans and gym coaches retired by the 1970s or so. The education system was completely warped after that.

In a way feminism ruined school teaching. Females historically had few employment opportunities.

Teaching was one, and consequently competition was very high and so were the standards. That’s all gone now. When historically male employment fields were broken into and opened up, the higher pay and rest of it meant that the quality of the pool of available applicants declined precipitously. Slowly at first, then all at once. It shows, just a high proportion of brain dead whack jobs.

Don’t misunderstand there are great teachers, but the few that remain are strangled by a top down bureaucratic system that demands conformity and punishes excellence. You have to be a very determined sort to navigate all the mine fields, and courageous enough to buck the system. They will shiv you in the back, remember this is a field largely dominated by females, of a very specific subset.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 12:31 AM (HO+Dn)

350 We're not looking for revenge. We are looking for a reckoning.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 13, 2025 12:29 AM (SRRAx)

You say to-MAY-to, I say the hell we ain't!

Posted by: RickZ at September 13, 2025 12:31 AM (gKDq2)

351 I find the Office Depot penance inadequate. The store manager may commit seppuku at the store's threshold, after which his assistant manager will, with all store employees inside, fire the store so that only ash remains. Their families may wail in anguish at a safe distance and then be paraded naked through the streets so the public may scourge them. "We fired 'em" ain't gonna work for me at this point. They could have been this decent before. After is just CYA bottom-line management.

Posted by: They Want Me Dead
The feeling is mutual. at September 13, 2025 12:32 AM (qDVYV)

352 Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 12:22 AM (VphID)

Regarding Big Bend and drugs. There was a CBP presence inside the park (not super noticeable). Looking towards the Mexican side across the river it looks very inhospitable—mountainous desert. Several miles north of the park there is a zone where every vehicle is stopped and questioned.

Posted by: QED Texan at September 13, 2025 12:32 AM (fveCG)

353 >>> 351 I find the Office Depot penance inadequate. The store manager may commit seppuku at the store's threshold, after which his assistant manager will, with all store employees inside, fire the store so that only ash remains. Their families may wail in anguish at a safe distance and then be paraded naked through the streets so the public may scourge them. "We fired 'em" ain't gonna work for me at this point. They could have been this decent before. After is just CYA bottom-line management.
Posted by: They Want Me Dead
The feeling is mutual. at September 13, 2025 12:32 AM (qDVYV)

See my 340.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 13, 2025 12:33 AM (ULPxl)

354
*radicalized*

I used to laugh at this when the Fake News said it. I thought it was stupid when I heard the Democrats say it. [Because they were always talking about You & Me.) I even thought it was dumb when it was said about muslims.

I thought: adults can be that weak-minded to be "radicalized," en masse, by listening to other people.

Well, then came Tik Tok, and my eyes have been opened. I want Tik Tok shut down. I want all Platforms to better moderate their content. I want Platforms to be punished, even shut down, if they allow goblins to incite violence & mayhem.

It sickens me that I sound Exactly like the Democrats did 2017-2024.

However, I am on record here at AoS in 2019-2020 for often saying "Social Media is tearing this country apart." And I was right; it was. It did. It still is.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 12:33 AM (Rw4Ax)

355 Wasn't there a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader who showed her ass, gloating about Charlie Kirk's murder? Maybe Jerry Jones needs to edit her out of any group photos of the cheer squads.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 12:33 AM (zTh/f)

356 >>Am trying to deal with this... it's almost Old Testament Biblical... when is your progeny so far gone, you just have to say... enough

Say enough.

Your home.

34 is not a child. You know the right answer.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 12:33 AM (viF8m)

357 Am trying to deal with this... it's almost Old Testament Biblical... when is your progeny so far gone, you just have to say... enough
Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:25 AM (mP0Kj)

That's the real eye-opener. 34 is not a 'confused' kid.

Good luck.
Posted by: RickZ at September 13, 2025 12:29 AM (gKDq2)

I probably would not be as... careful... but...

But his twin, my Daughter... who declared she was a Lesbian at 14... committed suicide a few years ago...

Do I go tough love? and hope? because I lost one child that way already.

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:34 AM (mP0Kj)

358
If she's still the same 10 years from now I will agree with you. For now, this is one FAFO that makes me sad
Posted by: 496

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I saw that one and I couldn't quite piece it together.

1 - She dropped out and got homeschooled because her friends pressured her to. Wat? Was this entirely her decision? Her parents had no say? I don't get this situation.

Then she "goes to school" with them and she doesn't know how she's going to avoid them. Maybe she means homeschooling is pooled with other homeschoolers and they all go to school together, but...?

2 - She was the one who blocked her friends, not the other way around, "because they had different political views." She admits that she's the one who blew up these relationships.

3 - She sat in her very nice car playing a celebration song over Charlie Kirk's death, and now "everything they say makes me feel like such a shit person."

These are her peers, and they have the right to reject her. Who tf wants to be seen in public with the girl who was dancing on Charlie Kirk's grave?

And most important...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 12:35 AM (l6OhZ)

359 Anyone who laughs at the death of a good man should not be annoyed when others laugh when they get fired.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 13, 2025 12:35 AM (2WIwB)

360 34 is not a child. You know the right answer.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 12:33 AM (viF8m)

got children? where do you draw the line

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:35 AM (mP0Kj)

361 My 34 year old Son is unemployed, and living i my spare bedroom... told me today the Kirk was a Monster...
——-

You have been too nice to your Son. I’m not saying that as a criticism per se, just an observation. I see a little bit of the younger me, in another lifetime. I think my parents decided 24 was plenty. We want the best for our kids but we make it too easy on them.

He’s old (young?) enough for the Army or Air Force and might learn to get up in the morning and learn a useful skill. Boot his ass out.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 12:36 AM (HO+Dn)

362 294
Charlie Kirk’s assassination. That is the proper definition.

Don't try to Minch definitions. The LEFT will pay for this.

The LEFT brewed this up in our universities over the last 3 decades. Sad to say that murderers are still teaching in places like Nebraska State (Bernardine Dohrn) and Illinois State (Bill Ayers) who killed people with their bombs back in the 60's

Yeah, the LEFT needs a very very "RESET"

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 13, 2025 12:36 AM (25kuG)

363 He’s old (young?) enough for the Army or Air Force and might learn to get up in the morning and learn a useful skill. Boot his ass out.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 12:36 AM (HO+Dn)

He spent 4 years in the Navy... and failed...

Fat boy program... do you let him be homeless?

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:38 AM (mP0Kj)

364
4 - She never ONCE admits she was wrong. Just weeps because she lost friends whose heads and morals are screwed on straight. Like, can't I dance on a murdered guy's grave and have people to party with and hang out with at lunch?

5 - I'll say it again: she NEVER takes responsibility or considers whether SHE needs to be the one to change, not her friends.

6 - She says the difference is "their political beliefs." Maybe it's their MORALS and VALUES.

7 - She's old enough to know better.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 12:38 AM (l6OhZ)

365 Yep very difficult to be optimistic given the utter degradation of a former jewel of the society - public education - and its transformation into a firehose of imbecilic acid soaking the foundations of the civil society.

And just wait until the idiocy that has taken over law schools starts showing up (more). The lawlessness and sub-mediocrity and power madness of the judiciary in recent decades is nothing compared to what might lie ahead.

Inertia is a powerful factor, and the main favorable one right now.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2025 12:40 AM (U/Byj)

366
Wow!

The air traffic controller guiding Air Force Two upon landing at Phoenix Airport said "Welcome Home Charlie. You didn't deserve it. May God bless your family"

We have so many great people in our country.

Posted by: fourseasons at September 13, 2025 12:40 AM (3ek7K)

367 Do I go tough love? and hope? because I lost one child that way already.

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:34 AM (mP0Kj)
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I am praying for you.

Posted by: 496 at September 13, 2025 12:42 AM (JQ6N+)

368 He spent 4 years in the Navy... and failed...

Fat boy program... do you let him be homeless?
Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:38 AM (mP0Kj)

set boundaries, your house, he can stay , but no politics only happy stuff

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 12:42 AM (g47mK)

369 I think it was BurtC who mentioned the other day that Canyonlands as being equal to or even better than Grand Canyon.

I would tend to agree from the standpoint that while the GC is awesome, one is mostly limited to standing on the edge and gawking. The Csnyonlands area is much more immersive, you get right in it, as far as you want in very good graded gravel roads that crisscross the area. It would take years to explore even small parts of it.

While 4WD is preferred even cars can travel extensively in the backcountry, Utah and Arizona really take their rural roads seriously. Carry plenty of food and water, detailed maps and guidebooks, camping supplies, the usual stuff and it is absolutely fantastic.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 12:43 AM (HO+Dn)

370 It's sad.... I already know what I need to do...

asking the horde for validation... which... is a weakness I've never had before in my entire life.

I'm a Sigma... look it up... that I am looking for others to tell me I'm doing the right thing?

Not sure how I got here.

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:43 AM (mP0Kj)

371 7 - She's old enough to know better.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 12:38 AM (l6OhZ)
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Every point you bring up is correct. Still, she's so young. I am praying someone can bring her out of the darkness she has put herself in.

Posted by: 496 at September 13, 2025 12:44 AM (TV54s)

372 Do I go tough love? and hope? because I lost one child that way already.
Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:34 AM (mP0Kj)

If he regards you as a monster because you support Charlie Kirk, I would say you have lost him already. You have a stranger freeloading in your house.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 12:44 AM (zTh/f)

373 He spent 4 years in the Navy... and failed...

Fat boy program..He spent 4 years in the Navy... and failed...

Fat boy program... do you let him be homeless?
Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:38 AM (mP0Kj)

Honestly, Romeo13!, I have no advice to give. I don't even know where you could go for help.

Sorry you're in this position.

Posted by: RickZ at September 13, 2025 12:45 AM (gKDq2)

374 >>got children? where do you draw the line

Before 34.

I don't know everything about your particular situation but unless there is some health reason there is no reason you have to both house your family and take abuse from them when they are adults in my world.

My dad told me when I was a kid "My house, my rules." Didn't change after I turned 18.

Always made sense to me.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 12:46 AM (viF8m)

375
Am trying to deal with this... it's almost Old Testament Biblical... when is your progeny so far gone, you just have to say... enough
Posted by: Romeo13!

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R13, I've been thinking about your situation. Maybe there are some pedestrian solutions. Do you have to share common spaces in your house? Can your son exist in a MIL-type unit, his own mini-fridge and microwave and bath? Is it topologically possible for you to go days without crossing paths?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 12:46 AM (l6OhZ)

376 *radicalized*

I’m thinking of that picture from Nazi Germany where everyone in the crowd is giving the Nazi salute, except for one guy. That man had courage. The authorities also singled him out and later killed him. Or the lone man standing in front of the tanks in Tiananmen Square. They killed him too. It hasn’t gotten that bad here, but that is what the left is aiming for. That’s what they wanted when they shot Charlie Kirk. Let’s make sure it never happens here!

P.S. The Wikipedia article about Tiananmen Square makes no mention of the lone man facing down the tanks. Maybe that’s a place to start.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 12:47 AM (VphID)

377
If it's any consolation (to us) , it's that both the murder and the reaction created FEWER Democrats. Not a lot, but quite a few people left the Democrat party over this, and NO ONE left MAGA or the GOP.

The Democrats have been hemorrhaging supporters for a few years with all the racist/nazi bullshit, and it accelerated in July 2024 when the Democrats tried to murder President Trump. No one is leaving our side. The Democrat party is getting smaller and smaller, every day. There's no place for any disagreement in the Democrat small tent, which is going further and further to the Left.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 12:47 AM (Rw4Ax)

378 If he regards you as a monster because you support Charlie Kirk, I would say you have lost him already. You have a stranger freeloading in your house.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 12:44 AM (zTh/f)

Harsh but true.

By your prior post, Romeo13!, you do know what to do.

But I understand the heavy heart.

Posted by: RickZ at September 13, 2025 12:48 AM (gKDq2)

379 372 Do I go tough love? and hope? because I lost one child that way already.
Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:34 AM (mP0Kj)

If he regards you as a monster because you support Charlie Kirk, I would say you have lost him already. You have a stranger freeloading in your house.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 12:44 AM (zTh/f)

Thanks... the ONLY reason I talked about this on AOS... is I trust many many people here to have an honest opinion.

I may disagree with you all at times, but I know that you are sincere in you beliefs.. and the vast majority of you are good people

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:48 AM (mP0Kj)

380 Romeo - you know I've had my family torn apart by woke crap too. My earnest advice is to pray on this and read scripture and be open to hearing whatever God calls you to do.

I don't normally speak like this, but my heart is saying to pray and hear the lord speak.

Be well.

Posted by: 496 at September 13, 2025 12:48 AM (TV54s)

381 Wikipedia is radical's paradise, full of lies.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2025 12:49 AM (g47mK)

382
Every point you bring up is correct. Still, she's so young. I am praying someone can bring her out of the darkness she has put herself in.
Posted by: 496

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I think only she can. What puzzles me over and over is that she's the one who blocked them. Now she's crying from loneliness.

Guy who killed his parents crying because he's an orphan stuff.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 12:49 AM (l6OhZ)

383 She sat in her very nice car playing a celebration song over Charlie Kirk's death, and now "everything they say makes me feel like such a shit person."

Maybe she should admit to herself that they are telling her the truth?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 12:52 AM (VphID)

384
R13, I've been thinking about your situation. Maybe there are some pedestrian solutions. Do you have to share common spaces in your house? Can your son exist in a MIL-type unit, his own mini-fridge and microwave and bath? Is it topologically possible for you to go days without crossing paths?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 12:46 AM (l6OhZ)

He is, at this point, totally supported by me. Yes, we can go day without any real interaction... yes, I could continue to support him... but...

I'm to the point of... why? Dinner tonight... I made meatloaf... we watched Babylon 5... but I sat there angry about what he had said earlier.

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:52 AM (mP0Kj)

385 Thanks... the ONLY reason I talked about this on AOS... is I trust many many people here to have an honest opinion.

I may disagree with you all at times, but I know that you are sincere in you beliefs.. and the vast majority of you are good people
Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:48 AM (mP0Kj)

You are a good man who has been given a tough row to hoe. I hope you can get past this.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 12:52 AM (zTh/f)

386 370

Pray Frist if you are of faith. Pray for discernment that you are not acting out of pure anger. This country needs us to be strong but at the same time not resorting to our vengeful nature.

But understand this...Americans do have a vengeful streak...of yes we do...

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 13, 2025 12:53 AM (25kuG)

387 But his twin, my Daughter... who declared she was a Lesbian at 14... committed suicide a few years ago...

Do I go tough love? and hope? because I lost one child that way already.

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:34 AM

So sorry for your loss, Romeo.

We have had children express suicidal ideation - while their life is pretty darn good and they live in a loving 2-parent intact family household.

I wish I knew what the answer was to be able to give you the correct advice.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at September 13, 2025 12:54 AM (HlyYF)

388 I stopped giving family advice. I once said in a thread long ago that bad family should be cut out like a cancer and discarded. It was a super unpopular comment. I took it in neck. lol

But I wasn't being provocative. I had to do it with almost all of my family (lots of mental health problems and criminal behavior). They're the kind of people who show up on COPS! (One actually was on an episode of COPS!) Nothing to be done. I can't make them whole, but they can ruin me.

My wife is going through the same deal (lots of trash in her family, though not all). But she finds it impossible to cut ties, even though she should. Blood has a strange pull on most people, I think.

For whatever meager worth it might be in a difficult situation, I draw comfort from the episode when Jesus, being informed his family was near, said that his disciples, those who do the will of the Father, are his family. So, in my mind, blood ties can't be some sort of unbreakable suicide pact. That's where I landed anyway.

But no one should be taking advice from me on this subject. Even my wife thinks I'm a reptile.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 12:54 AM (CrUNC)

389 >>Not sure how I got here.

You and me both.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 13, 2025 12:55 AM (viF8m)

390 Hm, what was the Characterization of Discharge? I.e. “Honorable” or similar? You mentioned he failed. There is also some obscure notation called “RE Code” or re-enlistment code. Like 3 letters, cryptic. Nobody outside recruiters know what they mean.

What I’m getting at, maybe he could go back in the military. He is presumably somewhat older and wiser. Sometimes lack of any recruitment standards can work in someone’s favor.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 12:55 AM (Ay1cE)

391 386 370

Pray Frist if you are of faith. Pray for discernment that you are not acting out of pure anger. This country needs us to be strong but at the same time not resorting to our vengeful nature.

But understand this...Americans do have a vengeful streak...of yes we do...
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 13, 2025 12:53 AM (25kuG)

there is a large disconnect about the US Military...

We have no intention for dying for our country... but we will KILL for our country...

The Left has no idea....

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:55 AM (mP0Kj)

392 346 The Samuel L Jackson "Furious" quote from Pulp Fiction: do you mean this scene?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xH7wgQQW1i0
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 12:29 AM (VphID)

Yes

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 13, 2025 12:57 AM (WF/xn)

393 390 Hm, what was the Characterization of Discharge? I.e. “Honorable” or similar? You mentioned he failed. There is also some obscure notation called “RE Code” or re-enlistment code. Like 3 letters, cryptic. Nobody outside recruiters know what they mean.

What I’m getting at, maybe he could go back in the military. He is presumably somewhat older and wiser. Sometimes lack of any recruitment standards can work in someone’s favor.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 13, 2025 12:55 AM (Ay1cE)

Fat boy discharge... overweight.. which is even worse now. no way he could meet weight standards now...

And the Fat Boy killed his GI Bill... soooooo... add in some stupid way in debt consolidation stuff that he won't talk about?

Yeah... I just need to nut up...

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:59 AM (mP0Kj)

394 Trump is clearing out all of the Obama and Biden Military Officer holdovers, for a very good reason.

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 13, 2025 01:00 AM (25kuG)

395 Bear - I try to stay away from giving family advice too. It's not like I did such a great job of it. I'm certainly no paragon of domestic felicity.

In all matters I have learned to say "Thy will be done." Who am I to ask God to do things differently than He is doing them? JD Vance said as much when he said God had other plans for Charlie Kirk. Who are we to question it?

His will be done.

Posted by: 496 at September 13, 2025 01:00 AM (sfOD1)

396
Dinner tonight... I made meatloaf... we watched Babylon 5... but I sat there angry about what he had said earlier.
Posted by: Romeo13!

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What I'm getting at is, can you two avoid each other's company? Buy him a bunch of frozen dinners or whatever he likes and tell him he can stay under your roof but the less the two of you hang out, the better?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 01:04 AM (l6OhZ)

397 Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:43 AM (mP0Kj)

You got here because your teenaged daughter killed herself. Of course you are hesitant to rock the boat.

I have no answers, only prayers.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 13, 2025 01:07 AM (Vvh2V)

398 LA Mayor Karen Bass has ordered that city flags NOT be flown at half-staff for Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 13, 2025 01:09 AM (qpyNK)

399 If it came to a fight we could beat them. The Blue mostly live in cities, and cities can be encircled easily. You cut off supplies going in, trash coming out, turn off the water supplies (the Blues control all the water! LOL). They will starve to death or die of thirst, or try to break out. They can be picked off as they try to leave. We could kill most of the people in the Blue cities (and all the cities are Blue). But do we want to become the kind of people that could do this? It would mean killing the sort of people we used to be. Do we really want do that? If we do that, there’s no going back. We can’t put the puzzle together and have what we used to have: there would be too many pieces missing! I don’t know about you, brother, but I don’t want to go there. Count the cost before we begin something that can’t be undone!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 01:10 AM (VphID)

400 They're the kind of people who show up on COPS! (One actually was on an episode of COPS!) Nothing to be done. I can't make them whole, but they can ruin me.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 12:54 AM (CrUNC)

Are we cousins? What part of the South are you from? 😂

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 13, 2025 01:10 AM (Vvh2V)

401 398 LA Mayor Karen Bass has ordered that city flags NOT be flown at half-staff for Charlie Kirk.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 13, 2025 01:09 AM (qpyNK)

Because she is a c&^t.

Posted by: Reforger at September 13, 2025 01:11 AM (SPOEc)

402 What I'm getting at is, can you two avoid each other's company? Buy him a bunch of frozen dinners or whatever he likes and tell him he can stay under your roof but the less the two of you hang out, the better?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 01:04 AM (l6OhZ)

Sure. I could ignore the fact that he wants those like me dead... I could continue to make him dinner, and support him....

I'm at the point of wondering.... why?

I played for many years in areas of the world, that wanted me dead. I've picked up dead US Marine bodies... I've been shot... I've killed a man...

I'm struggling with the fact that my beliefs would make my Son... want to kill me... so yeah... not in a good place tonight.

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 01:11 AM (mP0Kj)

403 398 LA Mayor Karen Bass has ordered that city flags NOT be flown at half-staff for Charlie Kirk.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 13, 2025 01:09 AM (qpyNK)
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I can't comprehend the mindset.

Posted by: 496 at September 13, 2025 01:12 AM (khVJI)

404 403 398 LA Mayor Karen Bass has ordered that city flags NOT be flown at half-staff for Charlie Kirk.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 13, 2025 01:09 AM (qpyNK)
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I can't comprehend the mindset.
Posted by: 496 at September 13, 2025 01:12 AM (khVJI)

Well, she is a certified turd, so there is that

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 13, 2025 01:13 AM (WF/xn)

405 403 398 LA Mayor Karen Bass has ordered that city flags NOT be flown at half-staff for Charlie Kirk.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 13, 2025 01:09 AM (qpyNK)
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I can't comprehend the mindset.
Posted by: 496 at September 13, 2025 01:12 AM (khVJI)

so a Mayor, now has more power then the US PRESIDENT?

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 01:14 AM (mP0Kj)

406 Your household needs to go carnivore. It will help his weight and both your moods. The diet has been shown to help many people with depression, which I would imagine both of you are suffering from.

Animal products only.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 13, 2025 01:15 AM (Vvh2V)

407 LA Mayor Karen Bass has ordered that city flags NOT be flown at half-staff for Charlie Kirk.

Run around LA and remove all American flags not being flown at half staff: they don’t deserve to fly Old Glory!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 01:15 AM (VphID)

408 396

I have been blessed with 5 sons and a beautiful daughter who have been raised in the faith.

I ask you not to give up on your son. Be present for him as he works through his trials and tribulations. But be a Father foremost and do not allow him to quit on himself.

You have more power than you know.

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 13, 2025 01:15 AM (25kuG)

409 I can't comprehend the mindset.
Posted by: 496 at September 13, 2025 01:12 AM (khVJI)

She is a flat-out Communist, alumnus of Castro's indoctrination.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 01:17 AM (zTh/f)

410 Flags are at half-staff at hubby's nursing home. There's a note taped to entrance door, explaining why.

Really? They need an "excuse" for it?

There was no note, when the Pope died.. and flags were half-staff until a new pope was selected.

I will be more...wary...regarding nursing home staff, from now on.

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2025 01:19 AM (rdVOm)

411 You have more power than you know.
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 13, 2025 01:15 AM (25kuG)

Question... have you had a child, who failed?

Have you had a child commit suicide?

There are times, when we are powerless.

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 01:21 AM (mP0Kj)

412 If it helps, God promised he would not give us such a burden that we could not handle it. You are carrying a tremendous load.

More than once I have prayed to the Lord and asked him to help me lift my my burden... that it was too much for me. He has always been faithful. It is ok to lay your burdens at God's feet - even if only for a little while.

I'll get off the soap box. I don't normally go this far. Everyone here is pulling for you and everyone here wishes we could do more. Be well Romeo

Posted by: 496 at September 13, 2025 01:24 AM (TV54s)

413 (mQQaB)

Do fuck off, troll.

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2025 01:25 AM (rdVOm)

414 JQ -

What was in the note that made you uneasy? If it just explained why they were doing it, what made you concerned?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 01:26 AM (VphID)

415 394 Trump is clearing out all of the Obama and Biden Military Officer holdovers, for a very good reason.
Posted by: Nightwatch

Quite a few of them, officers and NCO's, are clearing themselves out by celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination, and doing it on social media with there real names.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2025 01:27 AM (G1ktt)

416 Think happy thoughts, JQ. Like taking raimondo's scalp with an angle grinder.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 01:28 AM (zTh/f)

417
I'm at the point of wondering.... why?

Posted by: Romeo13!

===============

Because you're traumatized over what happened with your daughter. Until you work through that, you won't be able to make a decision re your son that you can live with.

You could get counseling/therapy over your problem with daughter if you haven't already, and see if it brings you clarity about your situation with your son.

You could work with the assumption that your son will never change no matter what. Remove any tension or effort or fear -- or hope or future -- and go from there. It might lift something from you.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 01:29 AM (l6OhZ)

418 403 398 LA Mayor Karen Bass has ordered that city flags NOT be flown at half-staff for Charlie Kirk.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 13, 2025 01:09 AM (qpyNK)
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I can't comprehend the mindset.
Posted by: 496

It's easy. She's a communist.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2025 01:29 AM (G1ktt)

419 Do not feed the troll.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 01:29 AM (VphID)

420 Shape without form, shade without colour.
Paralysed force, gesture without motion"

Good night good people. May your troubles pass.

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 13, 2025 01:30 AM (WF/xn)

421 I will be more...wary...regarding nursing home staff, from now on.

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2025 01:19 AM (rdVOm)
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I doubt one out of a hundred nursing home residents know who Charlie Kirk was. Good on the staff for spreading the word.

Posted by: 496 at September 13, 2025 01:31 AM (RkrlD)

422 What was in the note that made you uneasy? If it just explained why they were doing it, what made you concerned?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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Seemed wholly unnecessary to me, when I first saw it.

But just now I've realized that not everyone was even aware of Charlie, and particularly older people who come & go at a nursing home.

I was overreacting, I'm sure.

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2025 01:32 AM (rdVOm)

423 LA Mayor Karen Bass has ordered that city flags NOT be flown at half-staff for Charlie Kirk.
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I wonder how quickly Trump could mobilize NG units to take care of that?

Posted by: Methos at September 13, 2025 01:33 AM (zLwRl)

424 Kelly was once a military pilot and an astronaut. Now he's a corrupt paid tool.
The car meme is so true. Also applies to planes. I daily cars that a car that old when I was 18 would have made me stop and stare. Now they are just not late model to me. At the same point in time a 40 year old fighter was a P-40. Now a 40 year old fighter is an F-16.

Posted by: azjaeger at September 13, 2025 01:33 AM (3/XaG)

425 Puddleglum it's yet another unsurprising yet shocking thing, and I certainly hope that as many are saying online there are ready UCMJ options as well as discharge tools to use on all the idiot freaks in uniform.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 13, 2025 01:33 AM (U/Byj)

426 The problem with translators

I think there's also a place in England that is named something like "Hill Hill Hill" because its a name in Modern English, Old English, and Welsh or something along those lines.
Posted by: buzzion

A buzzion sighting!

You're thinking of Torpenhow Hill.

Tor - "Hill" in Old English
Pen - "Hill" in Welsh
How - "Hill" in Danish

"Welcome to Hillhillhill Hill."

Posted by: mikeski is king of the hillhillhill at September 13, 2025 01:33 AM (nhCoE)

427 DIA is DEN now.

Posted by: Racially Ambiguous Honky at September 13, 2025 01:34 AM (gSTJh)

428 Question... have you had a child, who failed?“

I have, although she’s started to change a little bit lately. The real complication is her 2 children by 2 different fathers, and they are as wonderful as she is nuts. And yeah her social political views are whack, but that’s not the real problem, mental illness is.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2025 01:36 AM (l8N5O)

429 You could work with the assumption that your son will never change no matter what. Remove any tension or effort or fear -- or hope or future -- and go from there. It might lift something from you.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 01:29 AM (l6OhZ)

Thanks... already knew this... but... hearing it from someone else... who is at least a semi trusted source...

helps

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 01:36 AM (mP0Kj)

430 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 01:28 AM

LMAO!

Various cuts & abrasions... add acetone...

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2025 01:36 AM (rdVOm)

431 so yeah... not in a good place tonight.
Posted by: Romeo13!

May God bring you peace. Both of you.

Prayers.

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2025 01:37 AM (nhCoE)

432 Posted by: Tom Servo at September 13, 2025 01:36 AM (l8N5O)

But does it not force you to question the situation?

Did I do something wrong? Introspection is the only way to grow IMO.

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 01:39 AM (mP0Kj)

433
LA Mayor Karen Bass has ordered that city flags NOT be flown at half-staff for Charlie Kirk.

=========

I saw it on X and I can scarcely believe it's not a hoax. Good lord, they are flying American flags and singing Amazing Grace in FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

https://x.com/rossthedonn/
status/1966580948541026712

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 01:39 AM (l6OhZ)

434 asking the horde for validation... which... is a weakness I've never had before in my entire life.

I'm a Sigma... look it up... that I am looking for others to tell me I'm doing the right thing?

Not sure how I got here.
Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:43 AM (mP0Kj)

I can empathize, having lost a daughter to suicide 8 years ago.

Can I ask you a rather delicate question? Has your son ever talked about how his sister's suicide affected him? Being that she was his twin must make it doubly hard for him. His other half is no longer there, and given that he was only 24 when that happened - my gosh.

I know in talking to both of our other adult daughters, they suffered, too, when Michelle died, but they didn't feel like they should burden either of us with their pain, because we had lost a daughter. I guess in their minds "daughter" trumped "sister" in the grief hierarchy. It doesn't, of course, but people think weird things when a family member commits suicide.

My guess is that a lot of your son's issues stem from his sister's suicide. Eating is a coping mechanism.

Is there some way to get him to join a group of adults who have lost a sibling to suicide?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 13, 2025 01:40 AM (SRRAx)

435 In all matters I have learned to say "Thy will be done." Who am I to ask God to do things differently than He is doing them? JD Vance said as much when he said God had other plans for Charlie Kirk. Who are we to question it?

His will be done.
Posted by: 496

Struck down, he will become more powerful than we can possibly imagine?

There's something to pray for.

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2025 01:41 AM (nhCoE)

436 Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 01:39 AM (mP0Kj)

You did not do anything wrong.

Try to find something in your life that makes you feel good for a few seconds; kittens, baseball, the ocean, whatever it is. Think about it for a few seconds. Remember what if feels like to feel good. Do that a few times a day. Your brain and your heart and your soul need relief.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 13, 2025 01:44 AM (Vvh2V)

437
I was overreacting, I'm sure.
Posted by: JQ

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I'm sure it's incredibly hard to be among people to whom one has to explain who Charlie Kirk was and why the flag is being lowered for him. Once again, we're living in two different countries and it's scary and sad.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 01:44 AM (l6OhZ)

438 Various cuts & abrasions... add acetone...
Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2025 01:36 AM (rdVOm)

Heh. There used to be a line of guitar amps called "Acetone". Berserker probably remembers them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 01:44 AM (ZE4/d)

439
Just thought the loons couldn't get any worse, but they did. Just saw a quote of a BlueSky post, right after Erika Kirk spoke.

It called for Erika to "be next". So they children could be taken away and educated properly in a "foster home", and taught to hate their parents.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 13, 2025 01:45 AM (w6EFb)

440 > I saw it on X and I can scarcely believe it's not a hoax.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 01:39 AM (l6OhZ)

Yes, same here, even knowing what I already knew about her.

Time for me to hang it up, folks. Have a good night!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 13, 2025 01:45 AM (qpyNK)

441 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 01:39 AM (l6OhZ)

Turning Point is an international organization. His outreach was huge. People don't realize what we lost.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 13, 2025 01:46 AM (Vvh2V)

442 I'm sure it's incredibly hard to be among people to whom one has to explain who Charlie Kirk was and why the flag is being lowered for him. Once again, we're living in two different countries and it's scary and sad.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 01:44 AM (l6OhZ)

I scarcely knew who he was. He worked in venues and in media that I never see. Like I know who Jordan Peterson is, but I do not "follow" him.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 01:48 AM (ZE4/d)

443 It called for Erika to "be next". So they children could be taken away and educated properly in a "foster home", and taught to hate their parents.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 13, 2025 01:45 AM (w6EFb)

There really needs to be a rash of public disembowelings.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 01:50 AM (ZE4/d)

444 Acetone -
Two syllables or three?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 01:50 AM (VphID)

445 Ace-tone. They spelled it as two words.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 01:53 AM (ZE4/d)

446 Is there some way for both of you to attend a group meeting with other families who have experienced what you have? It doesn't have to be a professional, it can be a church group or a hospital program.

I understand not wanting to toss him out. It is entirely possible that he needs the comfort of home, and good on you for providing that for him.

However, grief is sneaky - it will sit in the background, just festering. At some point, you(he) will have to face it. That's a scary proposition, but your son is not going to get past this stage until he confronts his pain head on.

I wish you luck, and both of you will be in my thoughts and prayers. Are you coming to the Texas MoMe? Would he consider coming along? I would love to have a chance to meet with both of you; having also experienced the suicide of a beloved family member, perhaps he would be willing to open up and talk about his feelings. I'm told I am good in these types of situations...

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 13, 2025 01:53 AM (SRRAx)

447 Is there some way to get him to join a group of adults who have lost a sibling to suicide?
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 13, 2025 01:40 AM (SRRAx)

Once they hit puberty, my kids were never close. There was always a tension there. I really tried to be the 'good parent'.. but now? that was probably a mistake, I should have been an asshole.

Why? the way thing turned out? Could not have been any worse.

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 01:54 AM (mP0Kj)

448 publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 13, 2025 01:45 AM
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Whoa. Talk about masks being ripped away...

I never wanted to believe that there are such sicko MFers around. Ugh!

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2025 01:54 AM (rdVOm)

449 Sky News Australia can be sued and/or the persons responsible put up on charges, and the people calling for Erika Kirk’s death can also be charged. Are the people in the latter case in the USA?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 01:56 AM (VphID)

450 When the blog switches to a late night talk format, the Ace Tones will be the house band.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 01:56 AM (XCUp7)

451 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 13, 2025 01:53 AM (SRRAx)

Yeah... been to both VA counseling... and dated those who gave counseling.

Sorry.... worthless. Unless you have been THROUGH that exact situation? Your counseling is worthless.

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 01:57 AM (mP0Kj)

452 Acetone -
Two syllables or three?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Three.

Ass uh tone.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 01:58 AM (D3P9d)

453 Sky News Australia can be sued and/or the persons responsible put up on charges, and the people calling for Erika Kirk’s death can also be charged. Are the people in the latter case in the USA?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 01:56 AM (VphID)

Not Sky News. The Bluesky social media app.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 01:58 AM (ZE4/d)

454 >> Sky News Australia can be sued

If this was in reference to my post that was on the toxic *Bluesky* anti-X clone the woke flocked to after Elon took over.

Sky News Australia has been pretty good on this. They're sort of the Aussie FOX. Paul Murray, Rita Panahi, et al are pretty good.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 13, 2025 01:59 AM (w6EFb)

455 Sky News Australia apparently ran Erika's address live.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)

That should be cause for summoning Australia's ambassador.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 01:59 AM (gKWVE)

456 AOP, how did your tests go?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 02:00 AM (snZF9)

457 OK, are the Bluesky people in the US? They can be tracked down and put up on federal charges and tried in a Kirk friendly district.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 02:03 AM (VphID)

458 AOP, how did your tests go?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 02:00 AM (snZF9)

Not enough crud in the pipes to be causing a problem. Worst blockage is 40%; they don't start talking stents until it hits 70%. So the irregular heartbeat is NOT a result of my heart muscle being starved for oxygen.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 02:03 AM (YlAE5)

459 >> That should be cause for summoning Australia's ambassador.

No, no. This was Bluesky woke twitter clone, not Sky News Australia.

Sky News Australia did run Erika's address live, I saw. They liked it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 13, 2025 02:03 AM (w6EFb)

460 455 Sky News Australia apparently ran Erika's address live.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)

That should be cause for summoning Australia's ambassador.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 13, 2025 01:59 AM (gKWVE)

Summon him, alright. To a salvage yard, put him in something roomy, in the car crusher. Mail that compact bloody square of metal postage due to the Aussie PM.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 02:04 AM (XCUp7)

461 AOP -

I figured it was Ace-Tone for the speakers. My comment was like test to see if somebody is a chemist: ask them to pronounce “unionized”.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 02:06 AM (VphID)

462 Summon him, alright. To a salvage yard, put him in something roomy, in the car crusher. Mail that compact bloody square of metal postage due to the Aussie PM.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 02:04 AM (XCUp7)

Sky News did nothing wrong. They ran Erika's speech today; they did not doxx her by publishing her home address.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 02:07 AM (YlAE5)

463 Heh. There used to be a line of guitar amps called "Acetone". Berserker probably remembers them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 01:44 AM (ZE4/d)

Actually, I do. Never owned one, never heard one, but I have seen them pop up from time to time. Not for a long time though. They were made in japan if I remember right.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 02:07 AM (snZF9)

464 462 Summon him, alright. To a salvage yard, put him in something roomy, in the car crusher. Mail that compact bloody square of metal postage due to the Aussie PM.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 02:04 AM (XCUp7)

Sky News did nothing wrong. They ran Erika's speech today; they did not doxx her by publishing her home address.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 02:07 AM (YlAE5)

Let's not bicker about who is and isn't guilty. God will sort them out.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 02:09 AM (XCUp7)

465 Actually, I do. Never owned one, never heard one, but I have seen them pop up from time to time. Not for a long time though. They were made in japan if I remember right.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 02:07 AM (snZF9)

The Deuce Tone amps were really shitty.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 02:09 AM (YlAE5)

466 LOVED the video of the cat and two roommates!

I am worried about Ace's fast. I came home from dinner and started reading comments.

If any of you out there in the statosphere are in touch with him, and yes I guess I could email...please ask him to eat before he damages his kidneys and possibly his heart. His fast is way too long. I thought he was talking 3 days max. His body is feeding off muscle at this point. His heart is a muscle.

I told him below that I am worried. With all we have going on in the world we need him. Thanks, imaginary friends.

Also, Romeo, I am so sorry for what you are dealing with now and ten years ago.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 13, 2025 02:09 AM (6PCLE)

467 Not enough crud in the pipes to be causing a problem. Worst blockage is 40%; they don't start talking stents until it hits 70%. So the irregular heartbeat is NOT a result of my heart muscle being starved for oxygen.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 02:03 AM (YlAE5)

One of mine went from 40% to 100% in 13 years. How is your cholesterol?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 02:09 AM (snZF9)

468 The Deuce Tone amps were really shitty.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Sounded like a wet fart.

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2025 02:10 AM (nhCoE)

469
Oh, I see. I said Erika's "address". I didn't mean literal postal address, location. I meant her speech, her talk, her message tonight.

"Speech" for a widow eulogizing her dead husband just didn't seem like the right word, but maybe I should use that to be clear in the future.

To repeat, Sky News Australia is one of the good guys.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 13, 2025 02:10 AM (w6EFb)

470
The Deuce Tone amps were really shitty.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Something about the brown note reproduction.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 02:11 AM (XeU6L)

471 I am seeing so much positive stuff in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death.

Someone said it earlier when they said it feels like something has happened. Something has changed.

It really does.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 02:11 AM (D3P9d)

472 Acetone -
Two syllables or three?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Three.
Ass uh tone.
Posted by: rickb223

Should be a diet supplement and not a solvent.

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2025 02:11 AM (nhCoE)

473 One of mine went from 40% to 100% in 13 years. How is your cholesterol?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 02:09 AM (snZF9)

It is a little high. Not hugely over whatever number is supposed to be the "limit". And I am on a med to reduce that. Will be going in next week for a blood draw.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 02:12 AM (YlAE5)

474 If you've ever *puckered* at having a wound treated with isopropyl alcohol... then you'll just *love* the sensation of having acetone applied to it!

Posted by: JQ at September 13, 2025 02:12 AM (rdVOm)

475 The Deuce Tone amps were really shitty.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 02:09 AM (YlAE5)

The world is flooded with shitty guitar amps. Shit you never heard of and would never own. A store by me always had a pile of shit you never heard of. A graveyard of bad ideas.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 02:13 AM (snZF9)

476 . Will be going in next week for a blood draw.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Things haven't changed so much...they still do a lot of 'bleeding'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 02:14 AM (XeU6L)

477 Sorry.... worthless. Unless you have been THROUGH that exact situation? Your counseling is worthless.
Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 01:57 AM (mP0Kj)

I completely agree - the sad thing is that there are wonderful resources out there for kids under the age of 18 who have experienced the loss of a loved one. Fort Worth has The WARM Place (What About Remembering Me?), which does amazing things. Unfortunately, there aren't programs like that for adults who have lost a sibling.

You haven't failed as a parent, so quit beating yourself up. You are in a very delicate situation; I wish I had answers for you. The important thing is to love your son and to pray that one day he will get tired of hating the world. But ultimately, HE has to want to change. Just be there for him - that is all that you can do.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at September 13, 2025 02:15 AM (SRRAx)

478 Things haven't changed so much...they still do a lot of 'bleeding'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 02:14 AM (XeU6L)

When I went for the angiogram Monday, a nurse stuck my finger for a blood sugar test, and it came back at 5.9, which she said was "fine". I had had 2 cups of coffee, but no food.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 02:17 AM (YlAE5)

479
been to both VA counseling... and dated those who gave counseling.

Sorry.... worthless. Unless you have been THROUGH that exact situation? Your counseling is worthless.
Posted by: Romeo13!

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That scratches off my earlier suggestion. Objective counseling doesn't work for you; you need sympathy.

But Teresa's suggestion of getting your son into counseling is worth taking up. Does your son know what he wants? Is he discontented with his situation?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 02:18 AM (l6OhZ)

480 One of mine went from 40% to 100% in 13 years. How is your cholesterol?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 02:09 AM (snZF9)

It is a little high. Not hugely over whatever number is supposed to be the "limit". And I am on a med to reduce that. Will be going in next week for a blood draw.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 02:12 AM (YlAE5)

Thats the thing, mine wasn't high. I changed my diet quite a bit and I still got screwed. The final result was 2 were blocked at 100%, the widowmaker was 95%, and the 4th was 80%. I had these extra ones, collaterals, that probably saved my ass, because I should have been dead. To be honest, I don't think I had a few weeks left at the rate things were going south.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 02:18 AM (snZF9)

481 Australia makes me emotional. Longstanding grievances. 1. Jacinda Arden, who while she is a Kiwi, I'm holding Australia responsible for because New Zealand is not a real place. Not really. 2. Never acknowledging all the free publicity Looney Tunes gave to Tasmania. 3. Outback Steakhouse. 4. Vegemite. Other cruelties and malice.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2025 02:18 AM (XCUp7)

482 So how do you pronounce “unionized”?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 02:20 AM (VphID)

483 The deuce you say?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2025 02:21 AM (ZTk50)

484 The word is “eulogy”.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 02:22 AM (VphID)

485 So how do you pronounce “unionized”?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 02:20 AM (VphID)

yune-yun-eyezed

Posted by: RickZ at September 13, 2025 02:22 AM (gKDq2)

486
Teresa's suggestion of getting your son into counseling is worth taking up.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

============

Or let me put it this way, her suggestion of focusing on your son. He obviously has problems, too.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 02:22 AM (l6OhZ)

487 Thats the thing, mine wasn't high. I changed my diet quite a bit and I still got screwed. The final result was 2 were blocked at 100%, the widowmaker was 95%, and the 4th was 80%. I had these extra ones, collaterals, that probably saved my ass, because I should have been dead. To be honest, I don't think I had a few weeks left at the rate things were going south.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 02:18 AM (snZF9)

I am sure there is a genetic component to the rate at which one's arteries get clogged, or not clogged. Which is why I am kind of wary of the medical profession's tendency to set benchmarks for certain markers, and then declare "you are sick" if one of those is even slightly exceeded.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 02:23 AM (YlAE5)

488 I am sure there is a genetic component to the rate at which one's arteries get clogged, or not clogged. Which is why I am kind of wary of the medical profession's tendency to set benchmarks for certain markers, and then declare "you are sick" if one of those is even slightly exceeded.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 02:23 AM (YlAE5)

yeah no doubt. My mother had the same blockages. My brother got squat, so he probably takes after my father's side of the family. At the same time my cholesterol is waaay lower than my mother's side runs. They are all over 300, mine was 180. My mother was 360 when she first got checked.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 02:26 AM (snZF9)

489 New Zealand is 2,587 miles away from Australia: you can’t really blame the Aussies for Jacinda Arden!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 02:28 AM (VphID)

490 yeah no doubt. My mother had the same blockages. My brother got squat, so he probably takes after my father's side of the family. At the same time my cholesterol is waaay lower than my mother's side runs. They are all over 300, mine was 180. My mother was 360 when she first got checked.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 02:26 AM (snZF9)

I think it might be more useful to record trends in the value of those markers, more than the absolute value. Maybe everyone has a different set point for cholesterol, or A1C, or sugar,, and as long as there is no big change, everything is ticking over as it should. But if one of those is rapidly rising, there is your warning sign.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 02:31 AM (YlAE5)

491 Not un-ionized? You’re not a chemist!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 02:31 AM (VphID)

492 New Zealand is 2,587 miles away from Australia: you can’t really blame the Aussies for Jacinda Arden!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 02:28 AM (VphID)

Another closeted tranny, like Mooch.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 02:33 AM (KmEIw)

493 Not un-ionized? You’re not a chemist!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Chef with poor reading comprehension: un-onion-ized.

Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2025 02:34 AM (nhCoE)

494 Peeking in

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2025 02:36 AM (+qU29)

495 Darn. Already 0030 here, and I am getting sleepy. South wind tonight, and a lot of the smoke in the air has cleared. Was dusty here today, with combines running in nearby fields. Clouds of chaff drifting through the yard. But I knew to expect that when I bought here.

Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 02:36 AM (KmEIw)

496 Which is why I am kind of wary of the medical profession's tendency to set benchmarks for certain markers, and then declare "you are sick" if one of those is even slightly exceeded.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 13, 2025 02:23 AM (YlAE5)

I'll never forget my first cardiologist. He said my LDL had to be below 70, when at the time I think the standard was 100. I said 70?? Where did they get that number?? Then he tells me about studies they did of some frigging tribes in south america, most likely ones that don't even know what a light bulb is, and says they found that an LDL of below 70 there was no trace of any heart issues. I looked at him, and my exact words were "so, you're telling me that for the rest of the world that don't run around in loin cloths hunting monkeys with a fucking blow gun we need cholesterol meds???" He laughed and said yeah pretty much. I probably should have listened actually.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 13, 2025 02:36 AM (snZF9)

497 Ola, good people. All Blacks against Sud Afrika in 1 hour, second test match of the series. I will be drinking heavily.

Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at September 13, 2025 02:41 AM (DJ7Q9)

498
The two meaning of address there show you how much one word can matter. They're pronounced differently, but spelled the same.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 13, 2025 02:41 AM (w6EFb)

499 497: Cricket match?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2025 02:44 AM (pLaQB)

500 Are any crickets actually harmed?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 13, 2025 02:44 AM (pLaQB)

501 For crying out loud

Found my employer was getting dragged for some jerkoff running his (their? its?) mouth about Kirk getting murdered. Go to try and find how much attention it had gotten, and find other clients complaining our service is down.

It's been down for a couple of days and nobody noticed. Probably out about maybe a quarter, half a million bucks. What the actual fuck. It's like I work for 20th century motor company in Atlas Shrugged but replace "the downtrodden" with "people confused about what is in their pants". It's getting harder to keep things running.

Posted by: heya at September 13, 2025 02:45 AM (xq47N)

502 Why is it I’m thinking the Sud Afrika team is also All Blacks?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 02:49 AM (NkuV0)

503 Quit worrying about your cholesterol. Most people admitted for heart issues have normal or low values. Your triglycerides are a better indicator of problems.

Everyone's cholesterol rises as they age. It's likely protective. Your needs cholesterol to stay soft. Every cell in your body needs cholesterol to function properly. There are undoubtedly people who need to be careful, but as AOP mentioned, those people have a genetic component working against them, and you're usually talking about values above 1000. My cousin Brett had cholesterol of 1200, and you could see the blobs of it in the test tube thingee when they drew his blood. He took after his coon ass Daddy, who also had high cholesterol and was one of my favorite uncles, and both of them died before 50 of massive heart attacks. Most heart attacks before 50 are genetic, and you probably don't have much chance, but avoiding cigarettes and carbs helps. Brett's older brothers took after his mom, my actual aunt, who lived well into her 90s, and they're all still alive, too.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 13, 2025 02:54 AM (Vvh2V)

504 Good night, folks. It’s been fun “talking” with you. Some of my posts tonight were in deadly earnest, most were in jest. I leave it to you to decide which was which. God bless you!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 13, 2025 02:55 AM (NkuV0)

505 I'm cheering All Blacks on, Frank!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 13, 2025 02:56 AM (Vvh2V)

506
Here's a tweet from today:

"If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.

If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.

If you believe the State should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.

If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist."

-- JK Rowling

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2025 02:56 AM (Rw4Ax)

507 Rugby, you heathens

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 13, 2025 02:57 AM (Vvh2V)

508
Another day, another illegal alien beheads someone.

https://tinyurl.com/58t7mzv5

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 02:58 AM (l6OhZ)

509 "got children? where do you draw the line
Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:35 AM (mP0Kj)"

My wife had to explain to one kid that certain behavior would get them kicked right out when they turned 18 if they keep it up and don't grow out of it. The kid is 6 though so we ahould have time.

But I draw the line at commies, thieves, thugs, and the like. I have had other family go moonbat and you think you can manage until they have kids and make them freaks, or threaten yours.

Posted by: heya at September 13, 2025 03:01 AM (xq47N)

510
It's been down for a couple of days and nobody noticed. Probably out about maybe a quarter, half a million bucks. What the actual fuck. It's like I work for 20th century motor company in Atlas Shrugged but replace "the downtrodden" with "people confused about what is in their pants". It's getting harder to keep things running.
Posted by: heya

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It appears the service was down for days and there were no internal alerts? Or external complaints that got through to you?

Also, I read Atlas Shrugged, but please contextualize "the downtrodden."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 03:02 AM (l6OhZ)

511
Heh. I ran this "address" ambiguity through Grok. After describing the context, Grok agreed that "speech" or "remarks" wasn't really the right tone. "Eulogy" or "tribute" weren't right either, as it was more than that.

And it decided, that "address" was indeed likely the best word, and the simple way to remove the ambiguity would be to attach and adjective like "moving" or "poignant", or "powerful". Her "poignant address". A postal address would never be considered such.

Simple, and I didn't even think of it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 13, 2025 03:06 AM (w6EFb)

512 Another 7.4 earthquake in Kamchatka.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 13, 2025 03:15 AM (ZTk50)

513
BlueSky dragging Erika Kirk. Can't spell her name without KKK (and more).

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 03:21 AM (l6OhZ)

514 If Sky News showed her address, it was a mistake. They are definitely on the Right.

And the cops were at the Kirk home earlier tonight because of some shit already. I believe someone upthread said Ms. Kirk had police protection.

My advice to her is to upgrade immediately. I had police protection for awhile many years ago, for reasons I do not care to get into at the moment, and I am here to tell you that obsessed and/or angry lunatics will easily outsmart the cops, unless they happen to have direct training in stalking behaviors, or specific military training around things like clearing buildings, perimeter, etc.
As she is high profile, she will probably get more than one guy standing at the front door, though.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 13, 2025 03:22 AM (Vvh2V)

515 Ok, guess I'm off to bed, too. Good night!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 13, 2025 03:27 AM (Vvh2V)

516
Another 7.4 earthquake in Kamchatka.
Posted by: Boss Moss

================

They shouldn't bother re-hanging the pictures this time.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 03:27 AM (l6OhZ)

517 >> If Sky News showed her address, it was a mistake.

That was me. I meant her remarks, her speech, her uh-DRESS, not AD-dress.

THey didn't doxx her, they aired her speech live. The word "speech" didn't seem right in that context. It was more than a eulogy or tribute. "Remarks" is too dry.

There is no ambiguity between the two meanings "address" in the spoken word, as they are pronounced differently, but boy in the written word.

I can see how wars have been started over mistranslations and misinterpretations of words.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 13, 2025 03:28 AM (w6EFb)

518 >>> 471 I am seeing so much positive stuff in the wake of Charlie Kirk's death.Someone said it earlier when they said it feels like something has happened. Something has changed.It really does.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2025 02:11 AM (D3P9d

The day he was murdered, I was so afraid to go look at social media and see all the hate.

It's there, of course. But I was so happily surprised to see the outpourings of love, courage, faith, hope, encouragement. People sad but also openly saying they would try to continue his legacy. And so much of it young people! And many of them were the very lgbt, black, female minorities that the left believes Charlie hated.

Something is definitely in the air! I hope it bears good fruit. I hope the left unwittingly unleashed a thousand new Charlie Kirks to take up the torch.

Posted by: LizLem at September 13, 2025 03:41 AM (gWBY1)

519
I can see how wars have been started over mistranslations and misinterpretations of words.

Posted by: publius,
--
It even happens here. Intended humorous sarcasm can be taken seriously.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 13, 2025 03:42 AM (XeU6L)

520 Supposedly THE Billy Dee Williams posted this:

"Never should be a memorial for Charlie Kirk at every college campus.
I don't care if you disagree."

Based Lando!

There's a pic of a statue. It's nice, but any statue memorial to Charlie Kirk should be a metal bench!! With a statue of him sitting on one side of the bench, his hands and expression open to talking to the live person sitting on the other side of the bench. And someone can actually sit there and post like they are talking to him.

A fitting legacy for someone that just wanted to promote dialogue.

The first statue should be unveiled at the soon-to-be created Charlie Kirk plaza at UVU, the plaza where he died, which they are naming in his honor.

Posted by: LizLem at September 13, 2025 03:47 AM (gWBY1)

521
Posted by: LizLem at September 13, 2025 03:47 AM (gWBY1)

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FANTASTIC concept, LizLem! You should write a few letters to a few people.

And I must bid you all good-night. See you tomorrow.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 13, 2025 03:50 AM (l6OhZ)

522 Night Blonde Morticia!

Posted by: LizLem at September 13, 2025 03:53 AM (gWBY1)

523 Romeo13, me heart goes out to you and breaks for you.

Reaching out when you need help isn't weakness, it's courage. For you or your family. I wish I could be of more help as you choose what to do next. But I know we're all here to support you.

Posted by: LizLem at September 13, 2025 03:58 AM (gWBY1)

524 Seen on X:

@RyanAFournier

If you believe people deserve to be shot for their opinions, don't cry when you get fired for yours.
----

Even now, there's a small cohort of Vichy "conservatives" giving us the " this is not who we are!!!!" treatment in reaction to the firings. To no avail, fortunately. People are PISSED.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at September 13, 2025 04:05 AM (xverI)

525 I must admit that I had no idea how popular (and unpopular) that Kirk was. I was aware of him, of course, but I didn't really pay attention to what he was doing. The international tributes, especially, are eye-opening.
Now that I have watched some his speeches and his interactions with the college students, I understand. The man walked the walk, and had stones the size of Jupiter. God bless Charlie Kirk.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at September 13, 2025 04:20 AM (xverI)

526 Posted by: Romeo13! at September 13, 2025 12:35 AM

Romeo13, all I have is prayers for you and your son.

I will say, I know some parents who bought a new house, sold the old one, moved out, and didn't tell their son where or when they were going. Some times, you do what you have to do. Sometimes children are simply bad news.

Obviously, we both hope it doesn't come to that. But if it does, do what you must. Ask God. Bless you.

Posted by: Persnickety at September 13, 2025 04:28 AM (jJdyX)

527 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at September 13, 2025 04:33 AM (aURVT)

528 One of my friends is a retired AF pilot. He used to fly those tankers for mid-air re-fueling. I sent him the picture of the hummingbird feeder.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 13, 2025 04:45 AM (ZmEVT)

529
That's a left hand. They wrote that he lost his right hand.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! [/i at September 13, 2025 06:18 AM (Tv15w)

530 Baden Baden-German verbosity.
Bath-English, clean, precise.

Posted by: Fred_Z at September 13, 2025 06:49 AM (VQIqq)

531 Acetone -
Two syllables or three?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

Three.
Ass uh tone.
Posted by: rickb223

Should be a diet supplement and not a solvent.
Posted by: mikeski at September 13, 2025 02:11 AM (nhCoE)

Key ingredient in film splicing cement.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 13, 2025 08:51 AM (5xuJ/)

532 Gotz von Berlichingen lost his right arm in a siege.... and they give him a left arm prosthetic? No wonder he went on a rampage.

Posted by: krontekag at September 13, 2025 07:28 PM (9Gj9g)

Absent Friends Cafe

The Taiwanese Blue Magpie
Lovely plumage

Well that was tough. It was unbearable to hear. I cannot imagine what it was like to have to give that speech, thinking of those tiny orphaned children.

But I have a nice cafe for you.

Dog enjoys a hot dog at the game.

This dog loves exploring.

This dog explored a little too much.

Poor dog thought his cat-brother had died, so he tried to revive him. No good deed goes unpunished.

Talking to your dog, teaching him English. He does his best.

Dogs are greater propagandists than the communist Satanic media!

Penguin training.

The spatula-tailed hummingbird.

Mutt Mukbang.

Husky is a real chatterbox.

Compilation: Dogs sneeze explosively.

Dog demands affection.

Compilation: Some dogs are good at the "hands-in" challenge, others are doing their best.

This pit bull is very dangerous. Beware.

This husky is also a toughguy.

Baby skunks are cute little squeakers.

Rescuing a stray dog who just gave birth to a litter of puppers.

Some say dogs are man's best friend. I say, depends on the dog.

Stitch pic.twitter.com/bKdNbGRVix
— Puppies 🐶 (@PuppiesIover) August 26, 2025

The Democrat-Media Party:

Demolitions. pic.twitter.com/Mdy6o4WlWp
— The Best (@Thebestfigen) September 11, 2025

9. pic.twitter.com/ar68ABaHvu
— Earth_Seeker (@Earth_Seeker1) August 26, 2025

They have history:

The longest red light ever.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/OQOwHNefgE
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) August 29, 2025

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1 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 08:46 PM (+qU29)

2 I can't stop the tears from flowing after watching Erika Kirk's speech.

Posted by: redridinghood at September 12, 2025 08:46 PM (NpAcC)

3 Damn, the last thread was important.

Go back if you understand it's time to Cowboy Up.

Posted by: pawn at September 12, 2025 08:48 PM (PmITa)

4 Even in hard weeks and months like this one, I know the world is still a wonderful place full of great morons and others. Kids and dogs and a great reminder of that.

Posted by: LASue at September 12, 2025 08:48 PM (lCppi)

5
The Taiwanese Blue Magpie
Lovely plumage
- ace

Mr. Praline: The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead.

Owner: Nononono, no, no! 'E's resting!

Mr. Praline: All right then, if he's restin', I'll wake him up! (shouting at the cage) 'Ello, Mister Polly Parrot! I've got a lovely fresh cuttle fish for you if you show...

Posted by: BifBewalski at September 12, 2025 08:49 PM (AQgL+)

6 Ace

Thank you for being here for me. I really wish you would consider going to TX. No one needs to know who you are. There’s plenty of lurkers. And Ben Had can keep a confidence.

It would do your heart good.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2025 08:50 PM (mT+6a)

7 Absent Friends:
Where's Vic?

Where's Ciampino?

We're missing a couple of others too.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2025 08:51 PM (aWmr1)

8
Ace

Thank you for being here for me. I really wish you would consider going to TX. No one needs to know who you are. There’s plenty of lurkers. And Ben Had can keep a confidence.

It would do your heart good.

Posted by: nurse ratched

What nurse said, boss. Just wear croks, act GAF and wear a Garrett name tag.

Posted by: BifBewalski at September 12, 2025 08:53 PM (AQgL+)

9 Been thinking without knowing what could be done for past on friends. Has to be a way to memorialize them.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 08:53 PM (+qU29)

10

Mrs. Kirk was very, very impressive. A heartfelt and moving speech. I can't believe she got through it. They really don't know what they have done.

Posted by: imp at September 12, 2025 08:54 PM (g6TN6)

11

It might have even gotten quite dusty in here.

She just needs to point in which direction to attack, and she's got an army

Posted by: imp at September 12, 2025 08:56 PM (g6TN6)

12 Dogs are greater propagandists than the communist Satanic media!
________
Fact check: True.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 08:57 PM (s0JqF)

13 I am just at a loss for words about this tweet...

Mark Halperin
@MarkHalperin
For the first day, I refused to believe that anyone was actually going on social media to celebrate Charlie's murder.

Then I realized there was in fact some of it, but I assumed it was a very small amount.

Now I see how naive I was.

What is wrong with someone who would do that?
5:28 PM · Sep 12, 2025

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at September 12, 2025 08:57 PM (9aVck)

14 Thank you for being here for me. I really wish you would consider going to TX. No one needs to know who you are. There’s plenty of lurkers. And Ben Had can keep a confidence.

They're just trying to harvest your organs. They're so old.

Posted by: The Villages ... of the Damned at September 12, 2025 08:57 PM (guCHD)

15 “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.” – Ephesians 5:25

“A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.” – Proverbs 31:10

I can say no more.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2025 08:57 PM (gbOdA)

16 If anyone is driving from Florida to the Mome, I would like a ride.

I'll pay for gas.

I couldn't go for years now due to work and sickness but now I've been retired and feeling pretty good.

Posted by: pawn at September 12, 2025 08:58 PM (PmITa)

17 Has anybody on the left been stupid enough to speak ill of Mrs Kirk?

Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2025 08:59 PM (i0F8b)

18
Now I see how naive I was.

What is wrong with someone who would do that?
5:28 PM · Sep 12, 2025

________

Willowed:
I remember reading something, I think by Emily Post, that said never to put anything in a letter you wouldn't want seen in a newspaper the next day. Leftists in their social media posts seem to have forgotten this useful little axiom.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2025 08:59 PM (kkTda)

19 >>>Thank you for being here for me. I really wish you would consider going to TX. No one needs to know who you are. There’s plenty of lurkers. And Ben Had can keep a confidence.
It would do your heart good.

thank you, I'd like to, but it's hard for me to travel.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 08:59 PM (KRtlO)

20
Has anybody on the left been stupid enough to speak ill of Mrs Kirk?
Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2025 08:59 PM (i0F8b)

_________

Well, it's only been a few minutes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2025 08:59 PM (kkTda)

21 thank you, I'd like to, but it's hard for me to travel.
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 08:59 PM (KRtlO)

Outstanding warrants.

Posted by: Ace is Gonna Give It to Ya at September 12, 2025 09:01 PM (i8u+g)

22 "
Well, it's only been a few minutes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2025 08:59 PM (kkTda) "

so, in an hour or less ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 12, 2025 09:01 PM (ppG5b)

23 Has anybody on the left been stupid enough to speak ill of Mrs Kirk?
Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2025 08:59 PM (i0F8b)

They can't help themselves.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 12, 2025 09:01 PM (LjSYW)

24 thank you, I'd like to, but it's hard for me to travel.
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 08:59 PM (KRtlO)

If it's a time thing you could connect with Berserker - I know that would spoil the anonymity a bit. He and his wife drive down from NJ in about 4 hours. If you have problems traveling at high mach speeds it might not work though.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 12, 2025 09:02 PM (ExV1e)

25 A Golden would never iron your shirt. He thinks you're perfect just the way you are.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 12, 2025 09:02 PM (kpS4V)

26 The little girl imitating the penguins was very cute. No responsible parent would ever want their child to emulate a bat.

Posted by: Merry Marching Penguin Majority at September 12, 2025 09:02 PM (oftw2)

27 If you are on the fence about taking that the left calls "direct action" in your small sphere of influence, JUST DO IT!!!

"For Charlie!!!"

Tell them, let them know.

Never again.

Posted by: pawn at September 12, 2025 09:02 PM (PmITa)

28 I think if I'd known Charlie Kirk, every time I spent time with him I would have come away thinking, "I need to be a better man".

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at September 12, 2025 09:02 PM (b294k)

29 >>> Leftists in their social media posts seem to have forgotten this useful little axiom.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2025 08:59 PM (kkTda)

they say it for affirmation. It has been going on for years, and it is not an attempt to show an opinion, it is an attempt to create widespread opinion, with them at the forefront. You can refer to it as a shibboleth, something to show that they are the right people with the right thoughts and that good people think this way.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2025 09:03 PM (rbvCR)

30 Proverbs 31:11-12 Her husband has full confidence in her; she brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life.
Proverbs 12:4 A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2025 09:03 PM (gbOdA)

31 I'll have to watch the video later (Charlie Kirk's wife), I'm at work. I think I saw somewhere that what is starting a fire under those who usually don't pay attention to events is not necessarily the assassination, but the reaction to it by colleagues, friends, family, other acquaintances. The celebration of the murder of a young man with wife and kids, who just talked and seemed very nice. That's going to turn A LOT of normals.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2025 09:03 PM (G1ktt)

32 Has anybody on the left been stupid enough to speak ill of Mrs Kirk?
Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2025 08:59 PM (i0F8b)

They can't help themselves.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 12, 2025 09:01 PM (LjSYW)

***

You know it's coming. And they will try to outdo each other in their vile rants.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 12, 2025 09:03 PM (2WIwB)

33 "Lovely plumage"
-------
I bet you say that to all the boys

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 09:04 PM (qZ8QF)

34 thank you, I'd like to, but it's hard for me to travel.
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 08:59 PM (KRtlO)

Limited luggage capacity on a Vespa.

Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2025 09:04 PM (i0F8b)

35
You can refer to it as a shibboleth, something to show that they are the right people with the right thoughts and that good people think this way.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2025 09:03 PM (rbvCR)

_________

Yes, and they're now astonished they're being fired for it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2025 09:04 PM (kkTda)

36 Groyper Update:

The guy they have in custody is a patsy. Mossad did the killing. And Trump is a Mossad asset so that’s why he got the FBI to arrest him.

Seriously this is the shit they’re posting.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 12, 2025 09:04 PM (AvVQO)

37
@MarkHalperin

Now I see how naive I was.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe

================

Just your Master of the Universe Mainstream Journalist DC Habitue Finger on the Pulse Political Caller of Shots Knower of All who begins each show by calling for peace love and understanding from all sides.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 09:04 PM (l6OhZ)

38 Comment #33 ×was uncalled for. I regret it already.

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 09:05 PM (qZ8QF)

39 I am just at a loss for words about this tweet...

Mark Halperin
@MarkHalperin
For the first day, I refused to believe that anyone was actually going on social media to celebrate Charlie's murder.

....

Now I see how naive I was.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at September 12, 2025 08:57 PM (9aVck)
---
Yup, I saw that. Ace reposted it.

Modern evil can exist. It can reform itself.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 09:05 PM (krQz2)

40 Sneako, who is a Muslim, prayed for Charlie Kirk.
That hasn't sat well with Sneako's commenters -
youtu.be/ZV0twS08uWU

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 09:05 PM (gKWVE)

41 Online reports reveal 572 leftists have publicly lost their job so far

Riverside Walter Reed Hospital in Virginia confirms that Miami anesthesiologist Tatiana Atkins has been fired.

Seeing things like this all over Fb.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 12, 2025 09:05 PM (D3P9d)

42 Seriously, it's not the night for digs at one another. My apologies.

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 09:05 PM (qZ8QF)

43 Funny videos

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 09:06 PM (+qU29)

44 Penguin training.

===

Very nice!

Posted by: runner at September 12, 2025 09:06 PM (g47mK)

45 Lotta' math in those demolitions.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2025 09:06 PM (aWmr1)

46 What's a Sneako?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 12, 2025 09:07 PM (ZTk50)

47 A Golden would never iron your shirt. He thinks you're perfect just the way you are.
Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 12, 2025 09:02 PM

And no opposable thumbs...

Posted by: Diogenes at September 12, 2025 09:07 PM (2WIwB)

48
thank you, I'd like to, but it's hard for me to travel.
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 08:59 PM (KRtlO)

Outstanding warrants.
Posted by: Ace is Gonna Give It to Ya

===============

confuzzled by time zones

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 09:07 PM (l6OhZ)

49 >>38 Comment #33 ×was uncalled for. I regret it already.

?

it's fine!

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 09:07 PM (KRtlO)

50 "They hated me first". Don't turn away from the hard or uncomfortable. I just witnessed a celebration of a life.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2025 09:07 PM (mFSH6)

51 Ace, it's probably hard for a lot of folks.

These are your people.

Just tell everyone "No autographs, please"

You can even put that on your badge to give folks a bit of a hint.

Posted by: pawn at September 12, 2025 09:07 PM (PmITa)

52 36 Groyper Update:

The guy they have in custody is a patsy. Mossad did the killing. And Trump is a Mossad asset so that’s why he got the FBI to arrest him.

Seriously this is the shit they’re posting.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 12, 2025 09:04 PM (AvVQO)

I have a friend that is a anti Zionist fucking nut.
I pointed out that for the last 2 or 3 years Charlie was Islamophobic.
He said that was a ruse.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2025 09:07 PM (gbOdA)

53 www.charliesmurderers.com

Keep spreading it around. And send examples you found.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 12, 2025 09:08 PM (AvVQO)

54 You know, fresh beef is so mich better than frozen patties.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 12, 2025 09:08 PM (ZTk50)

55 And no opposable thumbs...
Posted by: Diogenes at September 12, 2025 09:07 PM (2WIwB)
----

I read a fantasy story where a wizardess have her cat hands and the first thing it did was strike matches and nearly burn her house down.

"Who knew they were such firebugs?"

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 12, 2025 09:09 PM (kpS4V)

56 You know, fresh beef is so mich better than frozen patties.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Depends. Roll it out thin. Vacuum pack it and it's just as good as fresh.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 12, 2025 09:10 PM (D3P9d)

57 Well, I had better get cleaned up, and go to the store and get some groceries for dinner.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 12, 2025 09:11 PM (Zzf3f)

58 Posted by: 496

I didn't see it. I think the only thing that might be offended is that bird and birds can't type fast enough to follow the convo

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 09:11 PM (gKWVE)

59
Thought there was something seriously wrong with the interlocks on the riding mower because it wouldn't even crank. Turned out to be a loose battery connection. Lawn and pens duly mowed this afternoon.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2025 09:11 PM (kkTda)

60 it's fine!

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 09:07 PM (KRtlO)
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It's not the night.

The Cafe is always a wonderful palate cleanser at the end of a day of political outrage. Today, and this week, was more fraught than most.

I loved the video of the stray who was rescued with her new litter. Many thanks

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 09:11 PM (2v2r4)

61 https://youtu.be/lGQOJYX-3lQ

Pam Bondi on unsafe Chinese vaping products. Seizure in Chicago and more to come.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at September 12, 2025 09:11 PM (atZ8o)

62 Squee! Cute lil baby skunk!

The one on my deck last night wasn't much bigger than that, and had much less white on it. Couldn't see the stripes at all, until a bright flash of lightning.

Didn't have hearing aids in, LOL, so don't know if it squeaked.

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2025 09:12 PM (rdVOm)

63 Ace doesn't need a badge. We'd know it was him.

Posted by: Accomack at September 12, 2025 09:12 PM (4qMiv)

64 I have a friend that is a anti Zionist fucking nut.
I pointed out that for the last 2 or 3 years Charlie was Islamophobic.
He said that was a ruse.
Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2025 09:07 PM (gbOdA)

these people are nuts, don't turn you back on him...

Posted by: runner at September 12, 2025 09:12 PM (g47mK)

65 Travel advice. When things get sporty, Fort Smith, AR has an excellent reproduction of the gallows as used by The Honorable Judge Isaac Parker, lacking only one noose from the original "six pack". Exit I40 at Roland OK, follow US64 east into Fort Smith and follow the signs.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 12, 2025 09:12 PM (gm9Sb)

66 i've been to enough funerals to know that the first thing the bereaved say to you is "it's okay to laugh, it's okay to still enjoy life"

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 09:12 PM (KRtlO)

67 >>thank you, I'd like to, but it's hard for me to travel.

Rhode island isn't that far. You are always welcome.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2025 09:13 PM (viF8m)

68 Hi friends, I am..I don’t know what I am. Poor Erika Kirk, her swollen eyes she tried to hide with make up. On a work trip with Jesus to afford blueberries broke me.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 09:13 PM (p4NUW)

69 Go to Texas if at all possible, Ace.

You'll meet interesting folks in meatspace, fire boom sticks, and drink tequila under the stars.

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 12, 2025 09:13 PM (kpS4V)

70 "Turned out to be a loose battery connection"

First law of troubleshooting: Check the power.

Posted by: pawn at September 12, 2025 09:13 PM (PmITa)

71 Has anybody on the left been stupid enough to speak ill of Mrs Kirk?

Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2025 08:59 PM (i0F8b)
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Don't worry, they almost probably will.

Some of them are on a purity spiral.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 09:13 PM (krQz2)

72 the last meal I ate was the monday before the last

still going fine

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 09:13 PM (KRtlO)

73 Good, having a pro-murder on your staff can't be a person you can count on.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 09:14 PM (+qU29)

74 >>>71 Has anybody on the left been stupid enough to speak ill of Mrs Kirk?

No, but I am calling my shot: The angle for the media all through the weekend will be "she failed to calm the waters and call for peace"

Which the media is refusing to do, too.

But it's up to the widow of the man they just murdered to say "don't shoot liberals"

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 09:14 PM (KRtlO)

75
Reposting:

"A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Trump administration can end legal protections for around 430,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela."

WHY an appeals court? Because of course: "the court lifted a stay issued by a district court..."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 09:14 PM (l6OhZ)

76 Online reports reveal 572 leftists have publicly lost their job so far

Riverside Walter Reed Hospital in Virginia confirms that Miami anesthesiologist Tatiana Atkins has been fired.

Seeing things like this all over Fb.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 12, 2025 09:05 PM (D3P9d)

Nice.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2025 09:15 PM (snZF9)

77 Ace's best bet is probably to get a friend to claim him as their support Ewok.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 09:15 PM (krQz2)

78 who wants to bet against me?

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 09:15 PM (KRtlO)

79 anybody on the left been stupid enough to speak ill of Mrs Kirk?

Posted by: davidt

It’s like the story with scorpion and frog. It is who they are.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 12, 2025 09:15 PM (AvVQO)

80 I have wanted to go to TXMOME since I moved out west. I can't again this year. But if Ace goes, I WILL be there anyway

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 09:15 PM (2v2r4)

81 572 is a nice start.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 12, 2025 09:15 PM (AvVQO)

82 Tonight even I will accept that there are decent Oregon Duck fans.

Sigh.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 12, 2025 09:15 PM (2WIwB)

83 ace you haven't eaten for a week, or more? what?

Posted by: rhomboid at September 12, 2025 09:16 PM (U/Byj)

84
Had a root beer float this evening.

Cane sugar soda in a glass bottle >>>> HFCS soda in an aluminum can.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2025 09:16 PM (kkTda)

85 Ace William O’Spades. Honestly. What am I going to do with you?!?

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 09:16 PM (p4NUW)

86 13 I am just at a loss for words about this tweet...

Mark Halperin
@MarkHalperin
For the first day, I refused to believe that anyone was actually going on social media to celebrate Charlie's murder.

Then I realized there was in fact some of it, but I assumed it was a very small amount.

Now I see how naive I was.

What is wrong with someone who would do that?
5:28 PM · Sep 12, 2025
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe

Its what happens when you live inside an amoeba of thought. Where everyone in your little world thinks exactly alike. It's an easy self made trap to fall in.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 12, 2025 09:16 PM (G1ktt)

87 I’m sure a lot of the vermin are self employed. They can’t be fired. But we can make it very hard for them to find clients again.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 12, 2025 09:16 PM (AvVQO)

88 Ace just watch any signs you need a T-bone steak and a baked potato.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 09:17 PM (+qU29)

89 Online reports reveal 572 leftists have publicly lost their job so far

Riverside Walter Reed Hospital in Virginia confirms that Miami anesthesiologist Tatiana Atkins has been fired.

Seeing things like this all over Fb.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 12, 2025 09:05 PM (D3P9d)

---
Again, it's a low bar to ask people not to celebrate the death of a person who mainly is known for discussing issues.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 09:17 PM (krQz2)

90 " who wants to bet against me?"

What? You want/need to be bribed?

Posted by: pawn at September 12, 2025 09:17 PM (PmITa)

91 Never bet agains the house!

Posted by: runner at September 12, 2025 09:17 PM (g47mK)

92 >>>83 ace you haven't eaten for a week, or more? what?

yeah, it's day 10 or 11 or whatever. 11. I have cream in my coffee and I have had some bone broth and some pickles for electrolytes and I admit I nipped a bit of cheese here and there.

But like 300 calories in those cases. Most days, zero.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 09:17 PM (KRtlO)

93 Walter Reed's in Maryland. The idiot doc is in FL. Happy to hear she's toast, but confusulated. Reed has a VA satellite facility, I'm guessing. Still don't understand why they'd have anything to do with a Miami gas-passer.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 12, 2025 09:17 PM (U/Byj)

94 I haven't not eaten for a week since I was a teenager.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 12, 2025 09:17 PM (ZTk50)

95 >>>88 Ace just watch any signs you need a T-bone steak and a baked potato.

t-bone? Ribeye!!!

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 09:18 PM (KRtlO)

96 I was doing dishes and Snowflake the cat, now outdoors and back with my friends, was on the window sill watching me.

Cute. I stopped by there for a few minutes Starry and Snowflake followed me back across the street.

Human females should be that eager...

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 12, 2025 09:18 PM (jvJvP)

97
Mark Halperin
@MarkHalperin
For the first day, I refused to believe that anyone was actually going on social media to celebrate Charlie's murder.

================

Luxury beliefs.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 09:18 PM (l6OhZ)

98 Wow - I just watched Erika Kirk's address. Wow.

"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."

Yes, yes - I know a movie line but it fits.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 12, 2025 09:18 PM (cYBz/)

99 >>>I read a fantasy story where a wizardess have her cat hands and the first thing it did was strike matches and nearly burn her house down.

"Who knew they were such firebugs?"
Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 12, 2025 09:09 PM (kpS4V)

My sister has a 6 toed cat who opens drawers using the handles

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2025 09:19 PM (rbvCR)

100 t-bone? Ribeye!!!

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 09:18 PM (KRtlO)
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Please. Porterhouse.

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 09:19 PM (MxCkF)

101 who wants to bet against me?

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 09:15 PM (KRtlO)
---
I'm not betting against my own position.

But I'll up it. In ~2 weeks we'll start hearing more and more about how conservatives are "radicalizing" people.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 09:19 PM (krQz2)

102 ace, who advised you to go on that diet ? that does not sound right AT ALL

Posted by: runner at September 12, 2025 09:19 PM (g47mK)

103 Did you lose some weight?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 12, 2025 09:19 PM (ZTk50)

104
Online reports reveal 572 leftists have publicly lost their job so far

________

No one forced them to be assholes online. So my pity is somewhat attenuated.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2025 09:19 PM (kkTda)

105 Thanks for the answer ace.

You know what you're doing and I think there was a discussion here when you started. I just figured it would be more short-lived. More power to you.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 12, 2025 09:19 PM (U/Byj)

106 Pot roast! Carrots! Brussels sprouts!

Posted by: Accomack at September 12, 2025 09:19 PM (RBD82)

107 But like 300 calories in those cases. Most days, zero.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 09:17 PM (KRtlO)

Good for you.

I found when I was fasting, I was glued to the Food Network.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 12, 2025 09:20 PM (jvJvP)

108 I had ribeye the Monday before the fast. I got au poivre sauce with it just because.

also had ice cream cake.

Nice meal. Will have a ribeye in a week or two

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 09:20 PM (KRtlO)

109 61 https://youtu.be/lGQOJYX-3lQ

Pam Bondi on unsafe Chinese vaping products. Seizure in Chicago and more to come.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want
---------------

Bondi may appease me when she jails Christopher Wray, James Comey and a few others; Not until then.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2025 09:20 PM (aWmr1)

110 Why fire the asshoes?
Let them be stupid for another year.
Another 5 years.
Another lifetime.
Never cancel a stupid voice.
Let stupid ring for their lifetime.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2025 09:20 PM (gbOdA)

111 My sister has a 6 toed cat who opens drawers using the handles

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2025 09:19 PM (rbvCR)
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These posts are reminding me of books I read as a youth. Did anyone else read Ruth Chew books? I loved them.

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 09:20 PM (MxCkF)

112 >>I found when I was fasting, I was glued to the Food Network.

yeah I usually go on YouTube and look for recipes. But this is, of course, a terrible thing to do, as you do not want to stoke your hunger.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 09:20 PM (KRtlO)

113 "Turned out to be a loose battery connection"

First law of troubleshooting: Check the power.

Posted by: pawn at September 12, 2025 09:13 PM (PmITa)

Harley trouble shooting 101 when things get weird electrically. The owners never check the battery. 90% of the time its the issue. Loose ground or positive cable. They drop the bike off, and its fixed by the time they get home. The shop don't even charge for that because its so routine and don't take 2 minutes.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2025 09:21 PM (snZF9)

114 My sister has a 6 toed cat who opens drawers using the handles
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2025 09:19 PM (rbvCR)

Hemmingway cat

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2025 09:21 PM (gbOdA)

115 >>>Please. Porterhouse.

I should try that again.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 09:21 PM (KRtlO)

116
Mark Halperin not fully awake yet:

>>CNN and MSNBC are not taking the remarks of Erika Kirk live???

It takes a lot to surprise me.

This is shocking.

The BBC is taking it live!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 09:21 PM (l6OhZ)

117 59
Thought there was something seriously wrong with the interlocks on the riding mower because it wouldn't even crank. Turned out to be a loose battery connection. Lawn and pens duly mowed this afternoon.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
--------------

Good for you. Spent $100 to discover it was a bad cable.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 12, 2025 09:21 PM (aWmr1)

118 , but I am calling my shot: The angle for the media all through the weekend will be "she failed to calm the waters and call for peace"

There's an agency that used to go around to the families of victims of racial violence: the Community Relations Service. That's why whenever the grieving dad showed up he'd never ask for justice, only ever understanding and dialogue and that rot.
I assume the CRS always said about the same thing, if you don't say this we'll call you a racist and we cannot be responsible if the pastors picket your home.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 09:22 PM (gKWVE)

119 I saw that PC resturants are not calling it a tomahawk chop ribeye any longer. They call it an "ax handle ribeye."

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 09:22 PM (KRtlO)

120 All these lefties getting hit with unemployment brings us back to dignity canals.

"You'll always know your neighbor
And always know your pal
When you're digging with your bare hands
on the dignity canal"

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 12, 2025 09:22 PM (gm9Sb)

121 Been meaning to try an au poivre sauce. Have watched several appealing UToob videos thereon. Cooler weather thing for sure, so not now.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 12, 2025 09:22 PM (U/Byj)

122
rhennigantx,

You can't let that shit go if the assholes are ruining your business.

Posted by: four seasons at September 12, 2025 09:22 PM (3ek7K)

123 40 some hours is most I went without eating not quite 2 years ago. Didn't think I could do it but wasn't too bad for hunger because had more issues than that.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 09:22 PM (+qU29)

124 >>>There's an agency that used to go around to the families of victims of racial violence: the Community Relations Service. That's why whenever the grieving dad showed up he'd never ask for justice, only ever understanding and dialogue and that rot.
I assume the CRS always said about the same thing, if you don't say this we'll call you a racist and we cannot be responsible if the pastors picket your home.

wow.

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 09:23 PM (KRtlO)

125 I'll have to watch Charlie's wife's video later, I'm just not ready for it.

But like others have said, there were some good, needed posts today.

The best part about the 'strange words' post, was that the boss was right there with us in the comments.

Your post may be gone Ace, but we're still with you.

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 12, 2025 09:23 PM (144I4)

126
First law of troubleshooting: Check the power.

Posted by: pawn at September 12, 2025 09:13 PM (PmITa)

_________

Yeah, but when it doesn't start, it's usually because one of the interlocks isn't set. It's only when I decided to test the battery that I found the problem.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 12, 2025 09:23 PM (kkTda)

127 Has anybody on the left been stupid enough to speak ill of Mrs Kirk? Posted by: davidt

Does Psaki dragging out the dead bodies of the MN state politicians shot up by the lunatic Gov. Walz validated with an appointment count? While, never once mentioning that minutes before.Ms.Kirk spoke with elegance about her husband who was just hours before assassinated by a lunatic stoked with vile rhetoric spewed by the likes of Ms. Psaki for years? Do those count?

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 12, 2025 09:23 PM (aJQjq)

128 Harley trouble shooting 101 when things get weird electrically. The owners never check the battery. 90% of the time its the issue. Loose ground or positive cable. They drop the bike off, and its fixed by the time they get home. The shop don't even charge for that because its so routine and don't take 2 minutes.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 12, 2025 09:21 PM

Don't you have to charge them to top off all the oil it leaked waiting for them?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 12, 2025 09:23 PM (0sNs1)

129 bbc will shock its audience, they don't talk openly about faith over there . unless it's Islam I guess

Posted by: runner at September 12, 2025 09:23 PM (g47mK)

130 I'm watching tonight's Jeopardy episode and the three nerdy contestants have been hilariously silent on all the sports questions.

My people!

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 12, 2025 09:23 PM (kpS4V)

131 "I am afraid that we have awakened a sleeping giant, and filled him with a terrible resolve..."

Posted by: man at September 12, 2025 09:24 PM (tubbA)

132 Ace, great job this week. Thank you.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 12, 2025 09:24 PM (0sNs1)

133 Bondi may appease me when ...

Posted by: Braenyard -

It's not about Bondi. RFKjr was there too. The sh*t the chinese are sending is putting kids in hospital.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at September 12, 2025 09:24 PM (atZ8o)

134 Heh.

heheheheheh.

Just imagine any of these nutsacks in an interview for their next job....

"So, why did you leave your previous job?"

"uh... uhmm.... "

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 09:24 PM (06Hmj)

135 You can't let that shit go if the assholes are ruining your business.

Posted by: four seasons at September 12, 2025 09:22 PM (3ek7K)

yes I see that but would the owner be better off saying

Sorry I hired and asshoe.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2025 09:25 PM (gbOdA)

136 Man oh man - how incredibly poised she is.

They just unleashed an Alpha Momma Bear.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at September 12, 2025 09:25 PM (SRRAx)

137 Yep gKWVE the CRS at DOJ has long been a wildly pernicious outrageous operation. I assume it's been/getting wrecked - thought I read about it but can't recall exactly. Know DOJ is blowing up several consent decrees whereby DC basically took over local police forces to the extent needed to render them ineffective, racist, and a problem. Seattle's agreement was s-canned. But in places like Seattle and Mpls, getting the federal vandals out of the picture still leaves you with the idiot local officials and their idiot voters.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 12, 2025 09:26 PM (U/Byj)

138 I engaged a tobacco tax audit this week. They sell tons of that imported stuff. It won't be the focus of my audit, but I did a surreptitious purchase last week and they have a whole wall of it.

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 09:26 PM (MxCkF)

139 21 thank you, I'd like to, but it's hard for me to travel.
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 08:59 PM (KRtlO)

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"The journey of a thousand miles starts with but a single step. Then go online and buy a plane ticket like a normal person."

-- Stuff Confucius Said, vol. 1

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2025 09:26 PM (JkO4W)

140 But like 300 calories in those cases. Most days, zero.
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 09:17 PM (KRtlO)

ace, with love, this sounds anorexic

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 12, 2025 09:26 PM (Jj1OR)

141 If you have forgot, or need some fill in on the 2016 Coup d'etat read the Illistrated Spygate at Doug Ross Substack, it's up to pr 10.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 09:26 PM (+qU29)

142 What's a Sneako?
Posted by: Boss Moss

*Looks around - notices no one else stepping up. . . *

$20, same as in town.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 12, 2025 09:26 PM (cYBz/)

143 130 I'm watching tonight's Jeopardy episode and the three nerdy contestants have been hilariously silent on all the sports questions.

My people!
Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 12, 2025 09:23 PM (kpS4V)

Justin Folk
Brian Kovar

Who is arguably be cornhole player?

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2025 09:27 PM (gbOdA)

144 114 My sister has a 6 toed cat who opens drawers using the handles
Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2025 09:19 PM (rbvCR)

Before Trumpy was catnapped and relocated, he loved to watch running water. And I have faucets where you raise a handle and water cascades down a ledge into the sink.

He'd turn that on at night.

I had to close bathroom doors...

Miss that Dude. But he was so beautiful I know he found a good home.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 12, 2025 09:27 PM (jvJvP)

145 Trump and Melania should invite her to the Whitehouse in a week or so.

Posted by: pawn at September 12, 2025 09:28 PM (PmITa)

146

The left has really fucked up.

The tide is turning, I can feel it.

RIP Mr. Kirk and God bless your wonderful family.

Posted by: four seasons at September 12, 2025 09:28 PM (3ek7K)

147 I better turn this off and get some rest.
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 09:29 PM (+qU29)

148
The Anorexic Ewoks used to open for The Carpenters.

They always left the crowd hungry for more.

Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2025 09:29 PM (i0F8b)

149 Hey ace thx

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2025 09:29 PM (gbOdA)

150 82 Tonight even I will accept that there are decent Oregon Duck fans.

Sigh.
Posted by: Diogenes

Ugh. Yes.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2025 09:30 PM (2Cc5C)

151 Apparently those flavored vapes were never legal.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 12, 2025 09:30 PM (ZTk50)

152 146

The left has really fucked up.

The tide is turning, I can feel it.

RIP Mr. Kirk and God bless your wonderful family.
Posted by: four seasons at September 12, 2025 09:28 PM (3ek7K)

my 34 year old Antifa supporting Liberal Son... who is living with me as he is unemployed and not in good health...

Just told me that we will never agree on whether Charlie Kirk was a Monster, or not.

Going to take a couple days to decide on my reaction.

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 12, 2025 09:30 PM (mP0Kj)

153 For those who celebrate that Charlie Kirk was murdered.

Do you celebrate the fact Erika is now a widow, and those two little children are now without a father?

If you do, there is no common ground called Humanity between us. You are demons.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2025 09:31 PM (6GsEQ)

154 A "Hunter Thompson-ish" road trip with Ace would be... epic fodder for AoSHQ posts for the foreseeable future.

Call me... I have Bourbon and gummies, a half tank of gas, etc.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2025 09:31 PM (Q4IgG)

155 You know. It occurs to me, that with sheer volume of laws on the books, not to mention how many commie - very likely any uniparty - politicians have been doing stupid blatant stuff like mortgage fraud, that there are probably quite a few *real* federal and state felonies that the celebrating douchebags have committed and should be charged with.

I'm sure You People can come up with more and better ideas.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 12, 2025 09:31 PM (ULPxl)

156 Going to take a couple days to decide on my reaction.

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 12, 2025 09:30 PM (mP0Kj)
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God bless you and I'm sorry.

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 09:32 PM (y0erj)

157 148
The Anorexic Ewoks used to open for The Carpenters.

They always left the crowd hungry for more.
Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2025 09:29 PM (i0F8b)

Damn... Karen Carpenter... such a sad story... did not believe anyone loved her, even the brother she worked with.

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 12, 2025 09:32 PM (mP0Kj)

158 If you do, there is no common ground called Humanity between us. You are demons.

--------

I thought we'd already established that.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 12, 2025 09:32 PM (JkO4W)

159 The left has really fucked up.

Posted by: four seasons

The (few) friends I have on the left have not yet grasped the giant pile of goo their side has stepped into. While they insist violence isn't the answer, they equivocate and trot out the 'yeah, but what abouts'. They are getting the virtual sh*t kicked out of them online but don't get it at all.

They can't even utter a few sincere words of prayer or mourning.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 12, 2025 09:32 PM (cYBz/)

160 I hate to say this Romeo13 but it sounds like your son is trying to thread a needle to avoid getting kicked out on the curb.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2025 09:32 PM (6GsEQ)

161 the last meal I ate was the monday before the last

still going fine
Posted by: ace

You're a computer now? You've uploaded your consciousness to 'The Cloud'?

Posted by: t-bird at September 12, 2025 09:32 PM (Qgg5f)

162 What if ever AoC and Omar is peaking around the corner?

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2025 09:32 PM (gbOdA)

163 They always left the crowd hungry for more...

Who's hungry?

Posted by: Momma Cass at September 12, 2025 09:32 PM (tubbA)

164 And maybe Bernie is shitting his depends.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2025 09:33 PM (gbOdA)

165 >>>who wants to bet against me?
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 09:15 PM (KRtlO)

at what odds? At good enough odds I will bet the sun will rise in the west in the morning

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2025 09:33 PM (rbvCR)

166 Cicero

Never hurts to cite the evidence again and again.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2025 09:33 PM (6GsEQ)

167

Romeo,

We have a 40 something daughter who is a loon. She wasn't brought up to be a loon.

We have as little contact with her as possible. All she does is yell at us about how we are awful people because of our politics.

We don't need that.

Posted by: four seasons at September 12, 2025 09:33 PM (3ek7K)

168 And Crockett is practicing her English.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2025 09:33 PM (gbOdA)

169 We all prayed that God would change this evil world and push back the tide of demented culture that threatens to overwhelm us.

Maybe God worked through COVID to wake more and more people up to what was going on in our schools.

Maybe God worked through Trumps enemies to prepare the man for this term.

Maybe God worked through the assassins bullets to raise a battle cry in this country that liberalism needs to be defeated, utterly and thoroughly.

Maybe this path and only this path would change the tide of history and pull us back from the brink of Marxist madness.

I see God in this.

And I see Charlie Kirk's legacy spawning millions more just like him. People have seen the evil clearly.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 12, 2025 09:34 PM (bJRuO)

170 The left has really fucked up.
---
Because sometimes when you "win" you really lose.

The powers (demons) of the Earth thought it was a good idea to get Jesus crucified.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 09:34 PM (krQz2)

171 Why

What is there is a Tyler on the right?

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2025 09:34 PM (gbOdA)

172 You're drinking lots of water, right chief?

Posted by: You know I am asking at September 12, 2025 09:36 PM (TdYBy)

173
the last meal I ate was the monday before the last

still going fine

Breatharian!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 12, 2025 09:36 PM (63Dwl)

174 We don't need that.

Posted by: four seasons at September 12, 2025 09:33 PM (3ek7K)
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I am in Wyoming because of the same thing - younger kid though. Infected by woke in VT schools and Yada Yada Yada, I'm here. I am still hopeful for reunification.

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 09:36 PM (y0erj)

175 I hope you are near an ocean so you can stay hydrated.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 12, 2025 09:36 PM (ZTk50)

176 "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the Valu-Rite soaked gummies began to take hold..."

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 12, 2025 09:37 PM (kpS4V)

177 What is there is a Tyler on the right?

No, just the bathroom

Posted by: clarence creedwater at September 12, 2025 09:37 PM (gKWVE)

178 "We can't stop here! This is bat country!"

Posted by: HRT with Ace on road trip at September 12, 2025 09:37 PM (PmITa)

179 Cleaned up the trash from the model builds. Flat clear coat is drying on the Eduard 1/48 Spitfire. Did dishes. Going to take a break to finish watching Sink the Bismarck and then get back to painting areas of the 1/48 B-25.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2025 09:37 PM (6GsEQ)

180 160 I hate to say this Romeo13 but it sounds like your son is trying to thread a needle to avoid getting kicked out on the curb.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2025 09:32 PM (6GsEQ)

Yeah, but this crossed the line...

He's already told me we will never agree on anything.

My real issue? His twin Sister, who professed she was a Lesbian at 14... committed suicide 10 years ago... left a lot of letters and video saying why (not a spontaneous event).... and a large part was she felt like she had been abandoned.

To say I'm conflicted, would be an understatement.

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 12, 2025 09:38 PM (mP0Kj)

181 Ace, why are you doing such a long fast??

It's not healthy to lose weight this way, brother.

When you start eating, please take it very slow. Broth and soups to start.

Please be careful man. We love ya.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 12, 2025 09:38 PM (bJRuO)

182
496,

Howdy neighbor! We are also in Wyoming.

Our daughter has lived in Colorado for several years. I think that is where she was "infected" with the wacko shit.

Posted by: four seasons at September 12, 2025 09:38 PM (3ek7K)

183 Hey all - I have a heartwarming update from Amy, Jewells’ daughter.
“ … Back in July I finally got the nerve up to do a shift at Shep’s Place. I hadn’t been since before mama got really sick. Couldn’t bear it. Anyway. A couple of board members showed up to help me get back in the swing of things. They also let me know how much money was raised for Shep’s place in mom’s memory. At the time, we were just 300 dollars short of what was needed to get a room named after her when they do their expansion here in the next year or two. A good friend of mine donated the last we needed but I KNOW a huge chunk of the 5,000 total came from Ace of Spades. So, just wanted to reach out and let you know so you can post in the message board and let all her Ace friends know. “

Posted by: SnailRacer at September 12, 2025 09:38 PM (ZHhja)

184 >> I see God in this.

I have oft heard the phrase "put on the armor of God". Well, I have just seen that. Erika Kirk was wearing the armor of God. Her faith is what let her speak those words of iron. Her spine is hardened steel. And that is her faith.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2025 09:38 PM (w6EFb)

185 67 >>thank you, I'd like to, but it's hard for me to travel.

Rhode island isn't that far. You are always welcome.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 12, 2025 09:13 PM (viF8m)
_______________________________

Don't do it, man. Jack will ask you innocently to pick up a little package at the NY docks. T-shirts or something he'll say. But, take if from me, you don't want to get those "t-shirts" within 25 feet of a drug sniffing canine.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 09:38 PM (dIske)

186 Sink the Bismarck is a great movie. I haven't seen that in years. I'll add it to the list. Someone here recently mentioned Zulu. Another one on the list.

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 09:39 PM (ouubj)

187 LOL, Eris!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 12, 2025 09:39 PM (ppG5b)

188 And I see Charlie Kirk's legacy spawning millions more just like him. People have seen the evil clearly.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 12, 2025 09:34 PM (bJRuO)

The girl at Texas AM asked a question. Why? It was a class on wait wait wait for it
Childhood Literature in Education.
And the professor wanted to talk about fucking the children (the only reason to talk about children and sex) and a young woman ask why??>
They are all gone, the prof, her boss, and the dean.

AMF

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2025 09:39 PM (gbOdA)

189 We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the Valu-Rite soaked gummies began to take hold..."

Warm smell of roasting hobo rose up in the air, my sight grew dim, I had to stop for the night. ...

We are living it up here at the Hotel Ewok

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2025 09:40 PM (6GsEQ)

190 While they insist violence isn't the answer, they equivocate and trot out the 'yeah, but what abouts'. They are getting the virtual sh*t kicked out of them online but don't get it at all.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 12, 2025 09:32 PM (cYBz/)
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So far, we have been live and let live about their doublethink and their nonseriousness slogans they prattle. Theirs is not a life we have dominion over, so the damage they do was mostly to themselves and their integrity.

But they did not let live.

When they reach a level of jeopardy where their shit thinking becomes critical, we can't ignore their vapidity, their rot, much longer.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 09:40 PM (krQz2)

191 Don't forget "Zardoz"!

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 12, 2025 09:40 PM (kpS4V)

192 These are your people.

Just tell everyone "No autographs, please"

You can even put that on your badge to give folks a bit of a hint.
Posted by: pawn

Debbie Harry was the most photographed person in the world for like 15 years. She had a shirt made that said "NO PICTURES!" and would recoil in horror at times. Of course, she loved being popular and it was just an act.

Posted by: Most Photogenic Person Ever? at September 12, 2025 09:41 PM (oftw2)

193 189 We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the Valu-Rite soaked gummies began to take hold..."

Warm smell of roasting hobo rose up in the air, my sight grew dim, I had to stop for the night. ...

We are living it up here at the Hotel Ewok
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2025 09:40 PM (6GsEQ)

You can check out...

But can never leave.... the barrel...

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 12, 2025 09:41 PM (mP0Kj)

194 I have a woke 30+ daughter but she's otherwise good so I just don't talk politics with her. Her elder sister is quite right-wing and they get along very well.

One out of two is not bad.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at September 12, 2025 09:41 PM (atZ8o)

195 This is nothing but Evil manifested.

You don't have to be a church-going Christian to see the devil at work.

Posted by: pawn at September 12, 2025 09:41 PM (PmITa)

196 >>> 152
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my 34 year old Antifa supporting Liberal Son... who is living with me as he is unemployed and not in good health...

Just told me that we will never agree on whether Charlie Kirk was a Monster, or not.

Going to take a couple days to decide on my reaction.
Posted by: Romeo13! at September 12, 2025 09:30 PM (mP0Kj)

I'm sorry to hear this.

I would consider securing any items you don't want him to take or break, especially anything he could use to harm you, or himself. Whatever you decide, is there anything the Horde can assist with?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 12, 2025 09:42 PM (ULPxl)

197 I would very much like to thank you all for the response to this year's MoMe X.

We can't wait to see you in October.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2025 09:43 PM (mFSH6)

198 Ace - the last time you fasted for a long period of time, you damn near died.

Stop it.

EAT.

If you want to lose weight, talk to your doctor about a GLP-1 medication. They work, and you don't have to starve yourself to lose the weight. I should know - I have lost over 100 pounds and kept it off for 3 years.

Seriously - we all need you here, now more than ever. We love you so much 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at September 12, 2025 09:43 PM (SRRAx)

199 I have oft heard the phrase "put on the armor of God"

Ephesians 6:10-18, yes, it's quite powerful.

Posted by: t-bird at September 12, 2025 09:43 PM (Qgg5f)

200 Zulu is great. "Introducing Michael Caine". Spectacular location setting. Actual contemporary Zulu leader/descendant of leader at time of Rorke's Drift playing his grandfather (?). They don't make 'em like that no more.

How's my memory? I believe two (2) sailors survived from HMS Hood when Bismarck blew her up. Enormous personnel losses.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 12, 2025 09:43 PM (U/Byj)

201 Don't forget "Zardoz"!

Posted by: All Hail Eris,, coming to you live from the Roller Disco of Discord! at September 12, 2025 09:40 PM (kpS4V)
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We'll always have Zardoz.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 09:44 PM (krQz2)

202 Dinner- blackened chicken breast, steamed broccoli, a baked sweet potato, and 1/2 a wonder Monday lemon drop cheese cake. 500 calories.

Lunch-
Dal with red lentils, coconut milk and butternut squash, 1/2 cup brown rice, 2 cups steamed green beans with lemon- 325 calories

Breakfast - plain Greek yogurt, 2tsp raw honey, chopped almonds, oat milk latte with collagen, 350 calories

Snack after class- apple and almond butter 215 calories

Snack between lunch and dinner- smoothie with greens, aloe, spirulina, mango and unsweetened vanilla almond milk - 200 calories.

I taught 2 classes - 2 hours, and did my own workout 1.5 hours. Plus random walking the dog and house work. I probably could have another snack, but I ate a ton of food today that totals about 1700 calories (see above) and am not hungry. You can eat real food and be healthy. Xoxo

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 09:44 PM (pZEOD)

203 >> Ephesians 6:10-18, yes, it's quite powerful.

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

You saw that right there with Erika Kirk.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2025 09:44 PM (w6EFb)

204 "I don't eat."
"You don't eat?!"
"No, but it hasn't affected my appetite."

Name that quote

Posted by: MkY at September 12, 2025 09:45 PM (cPGH3)

205 I would consider securing any items you don't want him to take or break, especially anything he could use to harm you, or himself. Whatever you decide, is there anything the Horde can assist with?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 12, 2025 09:42 PM (ULPxl)

I taught him to sword fight years and years ago....

Trust me, he will NEVER confront me physically.

And thanks... the horde helps just by being supportive when I vent... I'll figure this out... Just.... hard...

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 12, 2025 09:45 PM (mP0Kj)

206 I wonder if it comes in Lorica Segmentata.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 12, 2025 09:45 PM (ZTk50)

207 And for those of you praying for the safety of our warriors, please don't forget Elon, who freed us from their power.

Posted by: pawn at September 12, 2025 09:46 PM (PmITa)

208 >>> 180
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To say I'm conflicted, would be an understatement.
Posted by: Romeo13! at September 12, 2025 09:38 PM (mP0Kj)

Oh hell. I know it's a cliché but, you can NOT blame yourself for what someone else does.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 12, 2025 09:46 PM (ULPxl)

209 178 "We can't stop here! This is bat country!"
Posted by: HRT with Ace on road trip at September 12, 2025 09:37 PM (PmITa)

I hadn't thought about Fear and Loathing in a long time. Made me laugh. Thanks.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 12, 2025 09:46 PM (TdYBy)

210 To say I'm conflicted, would be an understatement.

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 12, 2025 09:38 PM (mP0Kj
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Thats awful, and im sorry.

It took me a while to see it, but seriously it was the whole woke culture that poisoned my daughter. In 5th or 6th grade she came home from school and told my wife I was racist, misogynistic, and homophobic. We never used those words... it was surely her teacher saying that anyone who supported Trump must be those things.

I'd bet the farm that some woke piece of crap got hold of her and infected her as well. Don't blame yourself, no matter if she did or not. You surely didn't raise her (or her brother) that way.

I will pray for you and your son and your daughter's memory.

I suspect so.e

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 09:46 PM (sfOD1)

211 You saw that right there with Erika Kirk.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 12, 2025 09:44 PM (w6EFb)

Except nowadays we don't dick around with strapping big hunks of metal to us. She put on the M1 Abrams of the Lord.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 09:46 PM (06Hmj)

212 Three sailors survived HMS Hood sinking.

Drachinifel has a recent video from one of the men who manned a 40mm pom-pom aboard HMS Prince of Wales. The weather was scuddy. He saw two salvos bracket HMS Hood, the battlecruiser was still sailing straight ahead, then a third salvo came in, he saw two splashes, and then the ship exploding.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2025 09:46 PM (6GsEQ)

213 Everyone is going to get a red nappy at the MoMe?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2025 09:47 PM (6GsEQ)

214 You can eat real food
Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 09:44 PM (pZEOD)

??? I don't think almonds have nipples ...

--gh

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at September 12, 2025 09:48 PM (atZ8o)

215 204 "I don't eat."
"You don't eat?!"
"No, but it hasn't affected my appetite."

Name that quote
Posted by: MkY at September 12, 2025 09:45 PM (cPGH3)

Debbie Does Dallas!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 09:48 PM (06Hmj)

216 I hadn't thought about Fear and Loathing in a long time. Made me laugh. Thanks.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 12, 2025 09:46 PM (TdYBy)
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Depp narrating the concoctions of Dr. Gonzo is something I always remember from that movie.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 09:48 PM (krQz2)

217 Thanks, Anna. So, three survivors. There are decent videos out there analyzing how the Hood probably blew up.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 12, 2025 09:49 PM (U/Byj)

218 74
'But it's up to the widow of the man they just murdered to say "don't shoot liberals"'

Isn't that door open now?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 12, 2025 09:49 PM (3wi/L)

219 Name that quote

Posted by: MkY at September 12, 2025 09:45 PM (cPGH3)
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Steve.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 09:49 PM (krQz2)

220 I am actually afraid to carry right now.

Because I live in Seattle. If I see one of those assholes with the picture of Charlie dying and it says “debate this” or whatever nonsense,

I will shoot them. And I would be in jail.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2025 09:49 PM (wLzbH)

221 Carl?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 12, 2025 09:49 PM (ZTk50)

222 Debbie Does Dallas!
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Same era, but no cigar.
We listened to this group's LPs.
Damn, that was a long time ago!

Posted by: MkY at September 12, 2025 09:50 PM (cPGH3)

223 Romeo,

We have a 40 something daughter who is a loon. She wasn't brought up to be a loon.

We have as little contact with her as possible. All she does is yell at us about how we are awful people because of our politics.

We don't need that.

Posted by: four seasons at September 12, 2025 09:33 PM (3ek7K)

You're both not alone. My 40 year old brother treats me the same way. He can't deal with the fact that I have differing opinions than him.

Posted by: Mainah at September 12, 2025 09:50 PM (uKFWZ)

224 On YouTube you can find footage that was taken aboard Prinz Eugen of the engagement and HMS Hood on the horizon blowing up.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2025 09:50 PM (6GsEQ)

225 Debbie Harry was the most photographed person in the world for like 15 years.
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She was so pretty it almost hurt to look at her. I sure had a thing for her back in the day.

Posted by: 496 at September 12, 2025 09:51 PM (sfOD1)

226 Regarding wayward children - I put a very small notice in the church bulletin about a small startup group to discuss the path forward with our kids. I booked a room that holds 12.

Over 50 showed up.

It's quite a common issue. My 'trying so hard to be a' lesbian daughter had two pigs living in her apartment. Not pigmys, full sized Yorkshires for heaven's sake.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 12, 2025 09:51 PM (cYBz/)

227 Firesign Theater
I think from
Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand me the Pliers

Posted by: MkY at September 12, 2025 09:51 PM (cPGH3)

228 "I don't eat."
"You don't eat?!"
"No, but it hasn't affected my appetite."

Name that quote
Posted by: MkY at September 12, 2025 09:45 PM (cPGH3)

I don't remember the album or the name of the character, but he played Georgie Tyrebiter in all those Georgie and Jughead movies.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2025 09:52 PM (rbvCR)

229 92
' >>>83 ace you haven't eaten for a week, or more? what?

yeah, it's day 10 or 11 or whatever. 11. '

Food still tastes the same.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 12, 2025 09:52 PM (3wi/L)

230 Romeo13!, I will pray to St Joseph and St Monica to change his heart

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 12, 2025 09:52 PM (GhIJO)

231 220 I am actually afraid to carry right now.

Because I live in Seattle. If I see one of those assholes with the picture of Charlie dying and it says “debate this” or whatever nonsense,

I will shoot them. And I would be in jail.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2025 09:49 PM (

Proof that the victim openly advocated shooting people he disagreed with ought to be legal justification in a trial for shooting him.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 12, 2025 09:53 PM (TdYBy)

232 I wonder if it comes in Lorica Segmentata.
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 12, 2025 09:45 PM (ZTk50)

trust me, you never want to come in Lorica Segmentata

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2025 09:53 PM (rbvCR)

233 And I think there are videos of the Prinz Eugen, capsized in shallow water, on the Pacific island where she was used as an atomic bomb test target. Think they salvaged the exposed screw and returned it to Germany not that long ago.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 12, 2025 09:53 PM (U/Byj)

234 I am going to meander away. Ciao amica.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 12, 2025 09:53 PM (6GsEQ)

235 Also, as a reminder, I lost 85 pounds and have kept it off over 3 years. I went from a size 16 to a 2 or 4. I changed how I ate, I got off my tail, and am in better shape than when I really was 29. I am sure I could be smaller if I worked at it more, but I am accepting where I am. I am healthy (well I have low blood pressure and low blood sugar, but easily managed if I eat) I don’t take any meds. It is possible to do it, and you don’t even have to lose muscle mass or deplete your bones of calcium in the process.

Posted by: Piper at September 12, 2025 09:53 PM (pZEOD)

236 208 >>> 180
==
To say I'm conflicted, would be an understatement.
Posted by: Romeo13! at September 12, 2025 09:38 PM (mP0Kj)

Oh hell. I know it's a cliché but, you can NOT blame yourself for what someone else does.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 12, 2025 09:46 PM (ULPxl)

Intellectually? I know that...

Emotionally, in the dead of night when I wake from a bad dream based on memories? hard.

PTSD is a healthy minds reaction, to an unhealthy situation... one where you mind get locked into a memory loop... I know... Beirut 83 Marine Bodies...

It can be preempted by being mentally ready... like when I finally did shoot and kill someone... (no PTSD for that one)...

But the simple fact is that we should not outlive our children... nothing can prepare you for that, especially when they chose to leave.

As much as I dislike my Son right now... I don't know if I could go through that again.

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 12, 2025 09:54 PM (mP0Kj)

237 I have not posted in a couple days.

I am livid with rage.

I don't know what to say that won't get me or ace in trouble.

I hope you are all well.

Posted by: eleven at September 12, 2025 09:54 PM (aTgV0)

238 Pro tip: don't shoot people over their t-shirt.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 12, 2025 09:54 PM (U/Byj)

239 I don't remember the album or the name of the character, but he played Georgie Tyrebiter in all those Georgie and Jughead movies.
Posted by: Kindltot

I don't think there were ever any movies. Maybe. Yeah.
Georgie Tyrebiter, just a student and a girl delighter.

Posted by: MkY at September 12, 2025 09:55 PM (cPGH3)

240 Night Anna

Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 12, 2025 09:55 PM (bJRuO)

241 eh, mudhead.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 12, 2025 09:56 PM (rbvCR)

242 Also, as a reminder, I lost 85 pounds and have kept it off over 3 years. I went from a size 16 to a 2 or 4.. . . .
Posted by: Piper

If it helps at all to stay slim I'd be happy to chase you around the parking lot.

It's true! I'm a giver!

Posted by: Tonypete at September 12, 2025 09:56 PM (cYBz/)

243
Mainah,

It's so sad. Why people can't be family even if we have different opinions is something we don't understand. We have never talked politics with her, she just knows we are conservative.

Posted by: four seasons at September 12, 2025 09:56 PM (3ek7K)

244 Low blood sugar without symptoms is nothing to be alarmed about.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 12, 2025 09:57 PM (ZTk50)

245 For Romeo13...

https://youtu.be/1YVcDCvHiIo?t=68

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2025 09:57 PM (rdVOm)

246 It's time to return the favor.

Think I'm a monster? Then don't live in my house. Think I'm a nazi? Then why the fuck are you talking to me, commiefag?

"Oh, no, what a shame, they're such a good person otherwise..." Fuck that.

The true dividing line between generic pre-Marx "socialism" and Marxism is the declaration that Socialism can not possibly be achieved without violence. That's it. That's Marx and Engels' entire contribution. "All this socialism anti-monarchy stuff is nice, but it's never going to happen unless you convince enough of the population to burn shit down and kill a bunch of people first. And then keep doing that. Forever."

Current Year retards kept the inevitable unceasing bloodshed part and threw the actual economic theory (however stupid it is) straight out the fucking window. I mean *they* didn't even do that, honestly, 20th century faggots did that. But they sure do love it, themselves, though, while pretending they invented sucking at life and being a shithead.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 09:57 PM (06Hmj)

247 245 For Romeo13...

https://youtu.be/1YVcDCvHiIo?t=68
Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2025 09:57 PM (rdVOm)

That would be great, but he already did 4 years in the Obama Navy... F'd him up actually.

Posted by: Romeo13! at September 12, 2025 10:00 PM (mP0Kj)

248 242 Also, as a reminder, I lost 85 pounds and have kept it off over 3 years. I went from a size 16 to a 2 or 4.. . . .
Posted by: Piper

Wow! You lost one entire Jane Birkin!

Posted by: Elderly Fashion Maven at September 12, 2025 10:01 PM (oftw2)

249 SS agent who couldn't keep his mouth shut placed on leave.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 12, 2025 10:02 PM (ZTk50)

250 Romeo, please do consider talking to some Moron(s) offline.

And maybe traveling to a MoMee some day.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 12, 2025 10:02 PM (ULPxl)

251 NOOD

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at September 12, 2025 10:03 PM (atZ8o)

252 Sorry, Romeo13.

Never been in your shoes. No idea how I'd handle it.

Posted by: JQ at September 12, 2025 10:03 PM (rdVOm)

253 They also nuked his security clearance.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 12, 2025 10:03 PM (ZTk50)

254 Romeo,

So you are bein emotionally blackmailed by your son.

That is really a tough situation to be in.

I was in a similar situation with my wife or a long time. There was literally nothing I could do to change things. This went on for years. I was beginning to really suffer, drinking too much, losing friends, etc.

Then God did something for me that I could do for myself and freed me and my son from a hell life.

Things eventually didn't turn out well for him but at least I can live with myself now.

Posted by: pawn at September 12, 2025 10:04 PM (PmITa)

255 253 They also nuked his security clearance.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Raid his home at 3am, doxx his wife, kids and cousins. Ruin his entire family.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2025 10:05 PM (WXvh7)

256
Here's the decorum-snubbing, DEI-advantaged, slouching, vain, ghetto rat in all his ragged "authenticity" who celebrated Charlie Kirk's death -- after debating him at the Oxford Union. Now set to become the Union's President.

https://tinyurl.com/2rfxnn5d

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 10:15 PM (l6OhZ)

257
https://tinyurl.com/2rfxnn5d
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

They're calling him "Temu Jack Sparrow"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 10:16 PM (l6OhZ)

258 "I hadn't thought about Fear and Loathing in a long time . Made me laugh. Thanks"

Desocking. You are welcome.

I have read just about everything that HRT has written.

I was really worried that the movies were going to suck but thankfully they turned out really well.

He was a darling of the Left but he was an honest broker and pretty much nailed modern day journalism to the wall.

Posted by: pawn at September 12, 2025 10:16 PM (PmITa)

259 So about a month ago I told my wife and daughter (39) that they are really not going to like a low trust society.
Broken windows, locked up goods, and scams.

She said it was ok as the rich were taking over.

Posted by: r hennigantx at September 12, 2025 10:17 PM (gbOdA)

260 Low trust societies

Go on Google Street view of just about any city outside the US and ALL you see is barred up windows and fences, sometimes with barbed wire around their houses.

Pretty sure they don't have a Second Amendment and Castle Doctrine laws.

You should offer to take your daughter to the range sometime because she's going to need it if things don't turn around.

Posted by: pawn at September 12, 2025 10:24 PM (PmITa)

261 220 I am actually afraid to carry right now.

Because I live in Seattle. If I see one of those assholes with the picture of Charlie dying and it says “debate this” or whatever nonsense,

I will shoot them. And I would be in jail.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2025 09:49 PM

No, you wouldn't. Because you are rational and caring. They are not. Don't let them get to you. You're better than them. Always think of that if assholes make your blood nearly boil.

Posted by: Gref at September 12, 2025 10:42 PM (5rh/l)

262 On some other blogs I frequent the Usual Suspects seem desperate to convince everyone the Utah scumbag is a white supremacist, homophobic, anti-trans, anti-Left, biggest MAGA-head after Trump, and a guy who's been lusting to kill someone who doesn't think like him, ever since he got his first gun at age 6-months.

They must realize the forces they h8te are slowly but surely winning the culture struggle, meaning the political struggle.

Posted by: Gref at September 12, 2025 10:49 PM (5rh/l)

263 169 We all prayed that God would change this evil world and push back the tide of demented culture that threatens to overwhelm us.

Maybe God worked through COVID to wake more and more people up to what was going on in our schools.

Maybe God worked through Trumps enemies to prepare the man for this term.

Maybe God worked through the assassins bullets to raise a battle cry in this country that liberalism needs to be defeated, utterly and thoroughly.

Maybe this path and only this path would change the tide of history and pull us back from the brink of Marxist madness.

I see God in this.

And I see Charlie Kirk's legacy spawning millions more just like him. People have seen the evil clearly.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at September 12, 2025 09:34 PM (bJRuO)

I doubt you will see this, Alabama from a MS girl...but I see God in this as well. I prayed during Trump 1 for evil and corruption to be revealed. Then they were and people freaked out. It has to be done.

The recent evil of what I am now calling transmutation and the killing of children...well, I did not pray for innocents to be murdered. And school shootings hit me very hard...I want trans crap in the woodchipper then sandblasted.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 13, 2025 01:54 AM (6PCLE)

264 I am on late. Doubt Ace will see this, but, honey, please eat. That's too long to fast and bad on your kidneys, I don't care what anyone says. Oh, crap, tomorrow is Saturday (I think?) and he won't see this. Could a COB send this to him?

I am overweight and need to lose, oh, 30lbs I put on during covid or other excuses. It comes and goes. Now it is here again.

Your fasting is too long. I thought you were doing 8:16 or a 3day fast.

I am basically fat, altho my PCP and husband say not too bad as I am pretty glorious no matter what in my self esteem. I am positive I still look 22yrs old when I am as old as dirt. I can't see my fat arse is the main problem and electric boogaloo.

WE NEED YOU TO BE HEALTHY...please start eating! Healthy eating. You already run or walk and exercise, which is more than I have been doing. Eat!!! Please!

On top of all the stress in the world I don't want you dead or on dialysis. Please believe me this is not good.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 13, 2025 02:02 AM (6PCLE)

265 The Taiwinese have full color magpies, we Aussies only have them in black and white.

On the other hand yesterday whilst sitting on my porch I had four magpies perch on my knees at various times. My house is the nexus of three magpie territories, they routinely arrive and sing curses at each other, musically.

Also had some noisy miners (they're a bird) and an alpha male currawong (another bird) sitting on my knee as well. They receive bread and mincemeat.

Good therapy after the events of the last few days.

Posted by: Bruce of Newcastle at September 13, 2025 02:59 AM (vMN/r)

Erika Kirk, the Young Mother Made Widow by the Left's Latest Antifa Assassin, to Speak to the Nation at 8:15 about the Martyr Charlie Kirk

"You have no idea of the fire you have ignited in this wife. The cries of this widow will echo around this world like a battle cry."

🚨BREAKING: Singer Gavin Adcock leads thousands of young fans in chant: "Charlie Kirk! Charlie Kirk!"

Gen Z is coming for you, traitors. pic.twitter.com/hoAkiFrb3B
— Inevitable West (@Inevitablewest) September 12, 2025

�If you thought my husband�s mission was powerful before, you have no idea� You have no idea what you have just released across this entire nation, across the world." pic.twitter.com/5Yl0zU6w8I
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) September 13, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 08:09 PM

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1 oh no. just when the tears had stopped

Posted by: LASue at September 12, 2025 08:09 PM (lCppi)

2 That's going to be tough to watch.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2025 08:09 PM (6ydKt)

3 Hello

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 12, 2025 08:09 PM (LjSYW)

4 Office Depot not reading the room

https://x.com/MIForward_Net/status/1966636154301669810

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 12, 2025 08:10 PM (CNl8/)

5 In the meantime, here's Dave Rubin lighting up Cenk Uygur on Piers Morgan for some distasteful things Cenk said about Charlie Kirk in the past:

Guess who starts throwing the insults first?

https://youtu.be/HYC-S5IsXa0
(9m44s)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2025 08:11 PM (6ydKt)

6 I didn't know that he didn't get into West Point. Just another example of how what hurts at the time and seems like a loss can be used by the Lord for the good of so many. I hope that his tragic death becomes another shining example of that.

Posted by: LASue at September 12, 2025 08:12 PM (lCppi)

7 Oh Lord I can't watch that. I don't know how she can speak so soon.

Posted by: steevy at September 12, 2025 08:12 PM (YwEeS)

8 Office Depot not reading the room

https://x.com/MIForward_Net/status/1966636154301669810
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 12, 2025 08:10 PM (CNl8/)

I foresee more unemployment.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 12, 2025 08:12 PM (ExV1e)

9
g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 12, 2025 08:13 PM (tljrc)

10 Cenk Uygur is a fat sack of lard.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 08:13 PM (gKWVE)

11 7
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY HAS STAFFING PROBLEMS: Top university administrator calls Charlie Kirk assassination ‘fair’ due to stance on guns: ‘No prayers.’

You mean the right guaranteed by the Constitution you piece of shit?

Posted by: steevy at September 12, 2025 08:14 PM (YwEeS)

12 Cenk Uygur is a fat sack of lard.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 08:13 PM (gKWVE)
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But he posted that he was glad he got a chance to have a beer with Charlie.

I respect that. I don't respect him that much. But that was human.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 08:16 PM (krQz2)

13 Cenk Uygur is a fat sack of lard.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 08:13 PM (gKWVE)

"Bloated" is the word that comes to mind every time I see him, which of course is as seldom as possible.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 08:17 PM (i49OE)

14 Damn. I kind of wish she was not doi g this. Take a week miss.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2025 08:17 PM (zZu0s)

15 Why's it pollen season in September?

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 08:17 PM (gKWVE)

16 I have to watch her but I know I'll be sobbing again for about the 40th time.

Posted by: bluebell at September 12, 2025 08:17 PM (79pEw)

17 George Washington University, Clemson, and Office Depot. What other entities have emerged in the last couple of hours that don't have the right people running them?

Posted by: Crusader at September 12, 2025 08:17 PM (TN0g+)

18 But he posted that he was glad he got a chance to have a beer with Charlie.

I respect that. I don't respect him that much. But that was human.
Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 08:16 PM (krQz2)

he plays the same game as the rest who talk the same scripted nauseating pinko bullshit for a living, but then 0.001% of the time they say one or two words off-script and everyone says "Wow how principled, how noble, he really doesn't let people tell him what to say!"

Fuck that. And fuck him.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 08:18 PM (06Hmj)

19 she will probably call for unity, and I will say: When the Democrat-Media Party starts calling out the 48% of liberals who support assassinating people they hate (which is practically everybody)

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 08:18 PM (KRtlO)

20 14 Damn. I kind of wish she was not doi g this. Take a week miss.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2025 08:17 PM (zZu0s)

Something of the Lacedaemonian wife about it, though.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 08:19 PM (06Hmj)

21 Office Depot not reading the room

https://x.com/MIForward_Net/status/1966636154301669810
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 12, 2025 08:10 PM (CNl8/)

I foresee more unemployment.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 12, 2025 08:12 PM (ExV1e)

Yeah, it is not so much office depot as that fat stupid commie bitch.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2025 08:19 PM (zZu0s)

22 She should just say "War!" and walk away.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 12, 2025 08:19 PM (CNl8/)

23 This is going to be hard to listen to, but listen we will here in SE AZ.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at September 12, 2025 08:19 PM (WE4ap)

24

Her husband was assassinated. I salute her for having the courage to make this address.

Posted by: four seasons at September 12, 2025 08:20 PM (3ek7K)

25 15 Why's it pollen season in September?
Posted by: gKWVE

There's a lot of forest/meadow wildflowers and plants blooming now, then going to seed. Goldenrod among them, that irritates a lot of people.

Posted by: Tales of the Riverbank at September 12, 2025 08:20 PM (oftw2)

26 17 George Washington University, Clemson, and Office Depot. What other entities have emerged in the last couple of hours that don't have the right people running them?

Posted by: Crusader at September 12, 2025 08:17 PM (TN0g+)

It's been one long, slow, reveal since Trump came down the escalator.

It's how we've discovered the left has tainted, subverted, or destroyed nearly every major institution in the country.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2025 08:20 PM (6ydKt)

27 How is Cenk's fat ass still in the country?

Send him back to Turkiye...which is how the assholes like him spell Turkey.

Posted by: ICE ICE Baby at September 12, 2025 08:20 PM (R/m4+)

28 I mean, i'm not going to fib, I'll be disappointed in anything short of her killing a farm animal live on stage with a knife and smearing the blood on her face like war paint screaming "NOW YOU ALL DIE!!!!!"

But, you know, far be it from me to... you know... etc.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 08:20 PM (06Hmj)

29 Warai-otoko: I reckon Cenk gets my respect when, at a time he's confronted with his own words, he doesn't bluster his way through it. This was not his time.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 08:20 PM (gKWVE)

30 She's broadcasting from his podcast room.

Just video up now.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2025 08:21 PM (6ydKt)

31 Do not turn away from the hard things.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2025 08:21 PM (mFSH6)

32 not Turkey, Turkmenistan. He should love it there.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 08:21 PM (gKWVE)

33 Just have to build up se courage to watch.

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 08:21 PM (+qU29)

34 Crusader, one of those situations where making the list of institutions *not* run - or inhabited to a significant degree - by human garbage these days would be more efficient to compile.

The military has its own purge to do now on this topic, with many urging UCMJ process and not discharges (not sure what the article would be).

This is not some freakish, fringe, or limited thing. This is a reflection of a social reality now.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 12, 2025 08:21 PM (U/Byj)

35 17 Video game developer Suckerpunch, DC comics both had scumbags they fired. No doubt many more remain, no doubt some will quietly be rehired later.

Posted by: steevy at September 12, 2025 08:21 PM (YwEeS)

36 All I remember about Cenk is a quote from some years back, in which he opined that if there was no 'action' by the third date, that would be the last date.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 12, 2025 08:21 PM (0sNs1)

37 Deport him to Armenia. They'll take care of him.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 12, 2025 08:21 PM (CNl8/)

38 I mean, i'm not going to fib, I'll be disappointed in anything short of her killing a farm animal live on stage with a knife and smearing the blood on her face like war paint screaming "NOW YOU ALL DIE!!!!!"

But, you know, far be it from me to... you know... etc.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 08:20 PM (06Hmj

And by farm animal, you mean Keith Olbermann, right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2025 08:22 PM (zZu0s)

39
Damn. I kind of wish she was not doi g this. Take a week miss.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2025 08:17 PM

I know, right?

or, mayhaps she's going to lead off with "GAME ON, MOTHERFCUKERS", which would be an entirely different address completely

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 12, 2025 08:22 PM (tljrc)

40 The little girl in the first clip gets to me.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 12, 2025 08:22 PM (s0JqF)

41 I happen to know people who are with her. If she makes the announcement that I 'm aware of, expect a major dust storm....

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2025 08:22 PM (nbLIj)

42 All I remember about Cenk is a quote from some years back, in which he opined that if there was no 'action' by the third date, that would be the last date.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 12, 2025 08:21 PM (0sNs1

Something about him and horses.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2025 08:22 PM (zZu0s)

43 The left immediately produced a voting record that did not belong to the scumbag, photoshopped him in a MAGA shirt and the trolls are literally everywhere saying " this was MAGA on MAGA infighting not the left".

Posted by: steevy at September 12, 2025 08:23 PM (YwEeS)

44 32 not Turkey, Turkmenistan. He should love it there.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 08:21 PM (gKWVE)

I hope they gurbanguly his berdymuhammed off.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 08:23 PM (06Hmj)

45 41 I happen to know people who are with her. If she makes the announcement that I 'm aware of, expect a major dust storm....

Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 12, 2025 08:22 PM (nbLIj)

Is she going to announce that she's pregnant or something?

Cuz I can see that turning on the tear hose for a lot of people.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2025 08:23 PM (6ydKt)

46 I appreciate the continuing coverage of the Dem-media’s showing its ass, but it is over for them..

They have lost a generation of Americans.

Antifa is finished too. Their comms and ops are henceforth compromised and suffocated by paranoia.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis, Expert at betting on trannies at September 12, 2025 08:23 PM (jYRYu)

47 she will probably call for unity, and I will say: When the Democrat-Media Party starts calling out the 48% of liberals who support assassinating people they hate (which is practically everybody)
Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 08:18 PM (KRtlO)

In the immortal words of Zach Mayo, I got nothing... I got nothing else. -- The Democrats

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 12, 2025 08:23 PM (ExV1e)

48 Is she pregnant with another child? That would be heartbreaking.

Posted by: steevy at September 12, 2025 08:24 PM (YwEeS)

49 If the shooter is proud to Trans or Gay send him to Tehran with a T-Shirt that Says Proud To Be Gay......

Wonder what would happen ????

Posted by: Jackson at September 12, 2025 08:24 PM (xl8DV)

50 And by farm animal, you mean Keith Olbermann, right?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 12, 2025 08:22 PM (zZu0s)

You don't sacrifice a crippled and retarded animal like that. That will just piss the gods off.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 08:24 PM (06Hmj)

51 She's on.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2025 08:24 PM (6ydKt)

52 Got a funny story about Turkmenistan.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 12, 2025 08:24 PM (U/Byj)

53 Cenk always reminds me of the warden in "Midnight Express" that liked to rape the inmates.

Posted by: Billy Hayes at September 12, 2025 08:25 PM (R/m4+)

54 Sorry. Time to update my nic.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at September 12, 2025 08:25 PM (jYRYu)

55 Who better to carry his torch.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 12, 2025 08:25 PM (mFSH6)

56 The moment it happened I knew the left would bring up nazi "martyrs" and ofc they did. Human filth.

Posted by: steevy at September 12, 2025 08:25 PM (YwEeS)

57 7 Oh Lord I can't watch that. I don't know how she can speak so soon.
Posted by: steevy at September 12, 2025 08:12 PM (YwEeS)

Jackie Kennedy gave an interview with JFK’s blood splashed all over her. If it’s in her to do it, then do it. She’s a warrior.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2025 08:26 PM (l8N5O)

58 Babylon Bee is stealing my jokes now:
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The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee

Gun Owners Call For Common-Sense Democrat Control https://buff.ly/KCCJVTd
---

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 08:26 PM (krQz2)

59 Cenk is the chink in the armor of the young turds.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 12, 2025 08:26 PM (ZTk50)

60 Kirk should have been President on day

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 08:27 PM (gKWVE)

61 I am not ashamed to say I am tearing up after just the first few minutes.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 12, 2025 08:27 PM (i49OE)

62 Oh gosh, this is so hard to watch. She's holding it together, barely, but better than I am.

Posted by: bluebell at September 12, 2025 08:27 PM (79pEw)

63 Cenk Uygur is lying when he says he respected Kirk. It's what they do.

Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2025 08:27 PM (i0F8b)

64 it's a hard watch

i pray for her

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 08:28 PM (KRtlO)

65 They have lost a generation of Americans.

Antifa is finished too. Their comms and ops are henceforth compromised and suffocated by paranoia.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis, Expert at betting on trannies“

I agree with you. The Left is just starting to realize what they’ve done, and they’re staring to get scared.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 12, 2025 08:28 PM (l8N5O)

66 62 Oh gosh, this is so hard to watch. She's holding it together, barely, but better than I am.

Posted by: bluebell at September 12, 2025 08:27 PM (79pEw)

Yup.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at September 12, 2025 08:28 PM (atZ8o)

67 Interesting to read a number of folks planning to attend church Sunday. Some clearly haven't been in a long time

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 12, 2025 08:28 PM (kUxzU)

68 wonder if the Oregon Ducks will pay Kirk some respect

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 08:28 PM (gKWVE)

69 63 Cenk Uygur is lying when he says he respected Kirk. It's what they do.
Posted by: davidt at September 12, 2025 08:27 PM (i0F8b)

Small comfort when the guy who just shoved your unconscious body into a cattle car says "You know I really respect that guy" while slamming the door shut.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 08:28 PM (06Hmj)

70
Belfast Books
@BelfastBooks
We thought so much more of you
@StephenKing
and even though this may harm us financially we’re removing all your books from our website.

Absolute abhorrent and ill informed comment in the first instance that an inchoate apology doesn’t begin to cover.

Go further.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 08:29 PM (l6OhZ)

71 I heard the only reason in the middle of it all, they cane back and said Charlie Kirk was "stable" was because his wife needed to be the first to be told he was fatal or dead.

Posted by: Axeman at September 12, 2025 08:30 PM (krQz2)

72 Antics never had any heat on them. Trump's first term he most certainly had a completely disloyal DOJ. That is all changed now(obviously there are still scum burrowed in).

Posted by: steevy at September 12, 2025 08:30 PM (YwEeS)

73 Absolute abhorrent and ill informed comment in the first instance that an inchoate apology doesn’t begin to cover.

Go further.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 12, 2025 08:29 PM (l6OhZ)

Woof. Was that second ppg your editorial, or part of the original tweet? Because if in the original.... woof.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 08:30 PM (06Hmj)

74 >>>71 I heard the only reason in the middle of it all, they cane back and said Charlie Kirk was "stable" was because his wife needed to be the first to be told he was fatal or dead.

oh... so terrible

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 08:30 PM (KRtlO)

75 4 Office Depot not reading the room

https://x.com/MIForward_Net/status/1966636154301669810
Posted by: Mark1971 at September 12, 2025 08:10 PM (CNl8/)
_______________________________

I usually don't do anything in reference to something like this. But, I guess I've had enough. Just went on Office Depot Live Chat Customer Service and asked them if I could get a sign printed for a Vigil. Absolutely was the response from "Claire"...likely AI, but no problem.

I told them I'd like that confirmed by a manager/supervisor in customer service so I'm not wasting a trip. Woman joins chat, Beatrice. She says absolutely. I say OK fine...and posted the link to the video.

Under the link I printed... "Then tell the ladies in this store to do their jobs, and leave their personal politics out of it. I'll be following up. Have a nice day.

Posted by: Orson at September 12, 2025 08:31 PM (dIske)

76 Autocorrect decided that Antifa should be antics okay.

Posted by: steevy at September 12, 2025 08:31 PM (YwEeS)

77 The typical behavior on the right is to accept things and move on.

This is the root cause of our down fall because our enemies just keep pushing and eventually we are where we are.

It's going to take a complete change of heart on our part to carry this through.

In other words,

WAR!

And not just the words. We need to become merciless and fearless.

Because ultimately this is for our children.

So ladies, put away the hankies and think what you can do to make these people on the other side miserable.

We must become "Meanies" and laugh when they cry.

Posted by: pawn at September 12, 2025 08:31 PM (PmITa)

78 Strong faith makes a person strong. Mrs. Kirk is a strong woman. May God bless her and her family.

Posted by: Charles Martel at September 12, 2025 08:31 PM (smrxK)

79 She's not sounding unity at the moment.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 12, 2025 08:32 PM (ExV1e)

80 Boudicca is raising the standard of the Iceni

Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 08:32 PM (gKWVE)

81 I love her.

She’s twice the woman I am.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2025 08:33 PM (mT+6a)

82 "The cries of this widow will echo around this world like a battle cry."

Here we go.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 12, 2025 08:33 PM (O7YUW)

83 "you have no idea of the fire you have ignited in this wife"

Posted by: ace at September 12, 2025 08:33 PM (KRtlO)

84 80 Boudicca is raising the standard of the Iceni
Posted by: gKWVE at September 12, 2025 08:32 PM (gKWVE)

Let them learn that they are hares trying to govern wolves.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 08:33 PM (06Hmj)

85 Be prepared to do unpleasant things.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 12, 2025 08:33 PM (LjSYW)

86 God love her. What a brave woman.

Posted by: bluebell at September 12, 2025 08:33 PM (79pEw)

87 Is she pregnant with another child? That would be heartbreaking.
Posted by: steevy at September 12, 2025 08:24 PM (YwEeS)

I would not be surprised, but it would be a blessing.

Posted by: LASue at September 12, 2025 08:34 PM (lCppi)

88 Seriously having to consider firing an employee who is, unfortunately, vital to my business. She has always posted her leftist tripe and I ignore it out of necessity and practicality. The last 48 hours her posts are becoming increasingly unglued from what small sense of reality or decency she previously maintained.

Posted by: Caradoc at September 12, 2025 08:34 PM (T3HGz)

89 She's amazing. He chose well.

Posted by: LASue at September 12, 2025 08:35 PM (lCppi)

90 "Something of the Lacedaemonian wife about it, though.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 08:19 PM (06Hmj) "

true, and all honor to her.

I hope her message adds up to Breitbart's most famous quote.
it probably won't, but I can hope ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 12, 2025 08:35 PM (ppG5b)

91 God bless this woman. Amazing grace under such terrible fire.

Posted by: NAB at September 12, 2025 08:36 PM (3sHsl)

92 Posted by: nurse ratched at September 12, 2025 08:33 PM (mT+6a)

Nope. Equally fabulous, but not better.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at September 12, 2025 08:36 PM (Vvh2V)

93 I hope her message adds up to Breitbart's most famous quote.
it probably won't, but I can hope ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 12, 2025 08:35 PM (ppG5b)

That's not the TP message, though. They're happy warriors and must remain that to remain effective. Others can take up the FU,W standard.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 12, 2025 08:36 PM (ExV1e)

94 The coconspirators at wikipedia and google ai haven't been rounded up yet.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 12, 2025 08:37 PM (ZTk50)

95 88 Seriously having to consider firing an employee who is, unfortunately, vital to my business. She has always posted her leftist tripe and I ignore it out of necessity and practicality. The last 48 hours her posts are becoming increasingly unglued from what small sense of reality or decency she previously maintained.
Posted by: Caradoc at September 12, 2025 08:34 PM (T3HGz

Rip off the bandaid. You’ll regret not doing it.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at September 12, 2025 08:37 PM (jYRYu)

96 I am a mean, grumpy, cynical old man and I had to walk away for a few minutes because Erika Kirk moved me to tears and I didn't want anyone else to see it.

Posted by: Seamus Moon at September 12, 2025 08:37 PM (Ab/3c)

97 What a great lady.

Posted by: Speechless Here at September 12, 2025 08:37 PM (oftw2)

98 Seriously having to consider firing an employee who is, unfortunately, vital to my business. She has always posted her leftist tripe and I ignore it out of necessity and practicality. The last 48 hours her posts are becoming increasingly unglued from what small sense of reality or decency she previously maintained.
Posted by: Caradoc at September 12, 2025 08:34 PM (T3HGz)
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I know it's easy for me to say, but I hope you can trust that God will find you someone better and let her go. I'll pray for you because I know this must be a tough decision.

Posted by: bluebell at September 12, 2025 08:37 PM (79pEw)

99 The spiritual battle is all there is. We are mere pawns.

Posted by: LASue at September 12, 2025 08:38 PM (lCppi)

100 I bet my minister will talk about this on Sunday

Posted by: Mike at September 12, 2025 08:38 PM (8LxTb)

101 Time to ask yourself, "What can I do to make these pukes miserable", every day.

All of them.

Turn off the TV and go out and preach it.

And ask God for strength because we are Righteous and love him.

Posted by: pawn at September 12, 2025 08:38 PM (PmITa)

102 Trump's Descends The Escalator, June 16, should be federal holiday

Posted by: Accomack at September 12, 2025 08:38 PM (Bbhox)

103 Rip off the bandaid. You’ll regret not doing it.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at September 12, 2025 08:37 PM (jYRYu)

Yup. Measure the inconvenience of training someone else up against your business in the news because the nutjob poisoned the coffee pot or blew up a wing of the building.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 08:39 PM (06Hmj)

104 Too long have I lived
among those who hate peace.
I am for peace;
but when I speak, they are for war.

Psalm 120:6-7

Posted by: Marcus T at September 12, 2025 08:39 PM (WSTFK)

105 Hubbymayhem and I are fighting over the tissues.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 12, 2025 08:39 PM (2J/Lj)

106 Seriously having to consider firing an employee who is, unfortunately, vital to my business. She has always posted her leftist tripe and I ignore it out of necessity and practicality. The last 48 hours her posts are becoming increasingly unglued from what small sense of reality or decency she previously maintained.
Posted by: Caradoc at September 12, 2025 08:34 PM (T3HGz)

Find a replacement ASAP and shitcan her.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 12, 2025 08:39 PM (LjSYW)

107 I hope we all feel the love she and Charlie have --even just once in our lives.

Posted by: LASue at September 12, 2025 08:39 PM (lCppi)

108 Fuck "Code Pink".

We have Code Red.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 12, 2025 08:39 PM (06Hmj)

109 “ To every man upon this earth cometh death, soon or late.
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temple of his God”

Charlie Kirk wil not be forgotten.

Posted by: Charles Martel at September 12, 2025 08:40 PM (smrxK)

110 3 years old, just heartbreaking.

Posted by: Max Power at September 12, 2025 08:40 PM (q177U)

111 88 Caradoc, get rid of her for the safety of you and other employees. One never knows how far these leftist psychos can go.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 12, 2025 08:40 PM (gm9Sb)

112 Her daughter asked “”Where’s daddy?””
Tears

Posted by: Mike at September 12, 2025 08:40 PM (8LxTb)

113 88 Seriously having to consider firing an employee who is, unfortunately, vital to my business. She has always posted her leftist tripe and I ignore it out of necessity and practicality. The last 48 hours her posts are becoming increasingly unglued from what small sense of reality or decency she previously maintained.
========================
Do what you need to do. You didn't ask for this.

Posted by: Seamus Moon at September 12, 2025 08:40 PM (Ab/3c)

114 Don't catch hollow points over your feelings leftists.

It's coming...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 12, 2025 08:40 PM (Q4IgG)

115 That was painful to watch for her

Posted by: Skip at September 12, 2025 08:41 PM (+qU29)

116 That was pretty intense.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 12, 2025 08:41 PM (6ydKt)

117 My heart is broken.... Later all