Slumpday Cafe

This little fella had a second chance at life thanks to the Sheldrick Trust. He is an orphan currently being raised at the trust and will one day join over 200 orphans who have returned to the wild.

[📹 roan.carrhartley]pic.twitter.com/U8G5szYDy3
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) February 11, 2025

Below: The Democrats thought they had the perfect plan to evict Trump from the White House permanently, but the universe just wanted him there.

He is still in shock about how that happened. 😂 pic.twitter.com/9jL2WWlRs4
— The Figen (@TheFigen_) February 12, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 07:40 PM

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1 Cafe

Posted by: Beartooth at February 12, 2025 07:43 PM (UpGHA)

2 Furst

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 07:44 PM (2VST1)

3 And drank his own piss... which although sites try to dismiss... is well documented.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2025 07:37 PM (QAkQ3)

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In fairness, the alternative was Bud Lite.

Posted by: Axeman at February 12, 2025 07:45 PM (krQz2)

4 A.) that's not a Canadian
2.) that's A.I.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 12, 2025 07:47 PM (2sg1c)

5 >>>The streets of Europe are just gorgeous. Just look at those cobblestones!

Canada moved to Europe? Is that far enough away to save it from Trump?

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 12, 2025 07:48 PM (klJTj)

6 The ruler of Venice was the Doge.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 12, 2025 07:48 PM (ZLXSX)

7 I hate everyone.

Except most of y'all. Y'all will be allowed to carry on.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 12, 2025 07:49 PM (v2tTy)

8 I am totally fascinated with how all those houses and bridges were built and remain stable in all that water.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 12, 2025 07:50 PM (mB6WH)

9 A little further back, if you please...

Posted by: Rhino at February 12, 2025 07:50 PM (i0F8b)

10 Corgis called.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2025 07:50 PM (snJvO)

11 the symbol the sun is tracing is called an analemma

it's snowing here, g'night everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 12, 2025 07:50 PM (KaBJL)

12 I know it's A.I. because the dude that passes her never looks back at the caboose.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 12, 2025 07:51 PM (2sg1c)

13 In fairness, the alternative was Bud Lite.
Posted by: Axeman at February 12, 2025 07:45 PM

"Welcome! We have two beers on tap, Ghandi IPU, or Bud Light."

-- Barkeep in Hades

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 12, 2025 07:51 PM (a3Q+t)

14 How many armored divisions does canadia have?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 12, 2025 07:52 PM (yF8T2)

15 Time to dodga da turdsa!

Posted by: Gondola operator at February 12, 2025 07:52 PM (dR6yv)

16 Willowed.

393 OK. Fair warning. Either the Cafe comes or I post Steampunk In Space.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 12, 2025 07:39 PM

You asked for it...

https://youtu.be/Nbq6Wfh9fi4?si=6-a5z2-7TGuaWZS3

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 12, 2025 07:52 PM (kgE5c)

17
The ruler of Venice was the Doge.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at February 12, 2025 07:48 PM (ZLXSX)

___________

"New regulations for the elections of the doge introduced in 1268 remained in force until the end of the republic in 1797. Their intention was to minimize the influence of individual great families, and this was effected by a complex electoral machinery. Thirty members of the Great Council, chosen by lot, were reduced by lot to nine; the nine chose forty and the forty were reduced by lot to twelve, who chose twenty-five. The twenty-five were reduced by lot to nine, and the nine elected forty-five. These forty-five were once more reduced by lot to eleven, and the eleven finally chose the forty-one who elected the doge.

"Election required at least twenty-five votes out of forty-one, nine votes out of eleven or twelve, or seven votes out of nine electors."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 12, 2025 07:52 PM (dxSpM)

18 {{{nurse ratched}}}

I see I dodged another bout of hatred just now.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 07:52 PM (u82oZ)

19 What does Venice smell like with all those canals?

Posted by: davidt at February 12, 2025 07:53 PM (i0F8b)

20 {{{Bed Had}}}

Hope Texas is warmer than here. -1.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 07:53 PM (u82oZ)

21 Nature is Amazing ☘️
@AMAZlNGNATURE

Meanwhile in Zanzibar, Tanzania 🇹🇿

***

Stupid animals, I want to see more of those legs..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 12, 2025 07:54 PM (cFzfG)

22 Willowed:
Nancy, the same bitch that gloated over her ice cream during Covid - is still the hero of both the new and old eras. Including the old fucks that bitch about the new fucks.
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That's the disconnect for me! I WAS a liberal growing up--in college I was a Gary Hart supporter and thought he'd make a great President....until "monkey business" and it came out he was a cheater. I dumped him (but not the party) because I had standards, and I couldn't support a cheater. Ditto for Bill Clinton--voted for him! But couldn't support him after he cheated. The fact that "our" (I was a Democrat then) pretended that "everyone cheats and it doesn't matter" was the push towards conservatism I needed. How do modern liberals *idolize* Democrats who are truly *terrible* human beings? The cognitive dissonance would have driven me crazy.

Posted by: Crusader at February 12, 2025 07:55 PM (TN0g+)

23 Time to dodga da turdsa!
Posted by: Gondola operator at February 12, 2025 07:52 PM

Not if we have anything to do with it.

Posted by: Penguins of the World at February 12, 2025 07:55 PM (a3Q+t)

24 NaCly, dearest. Yes it is but supposed to be 29 tonight.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 12, 2025 07:55 PM (mB6WH)

25 Outrageous. Someone from USAID had a poster made and put on display in DC that calls for the elimination of Elon Musk:

https://tinyurl.com/mr3ex7nv

Posted by: IrishEi at February 12, 2025 07:55 PM (3ImbR)

26 Hadrian the Seventh

Being the Doge was a real burden. They lost a lot of personal freedom as a result.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 07:55 PM (u82oZ)

27 What does Venice smell like with all those canals?
Posted by: davidt at February 12, 2025 07:53 PM (i0F8b)

Like Dylan Mulvaney’s lady jock after a night of drinking Bud Select.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 12, 2025 07:56 PM (cFzfG)

28 What does Venice smell like with all those canals?
Posted by: davidt at February 12, 2025 07:53 PM (i0F8b)

There's a reason they tell you not to get out of the gondola.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 12, 2025 07:56 PM (lHPJf)

29 25 Outrageous. Someone from USAID had a poster made and put on display in DC that calls for the elimination of Elon Musk:

https://tinyurl.com/mr3ex7nv
Posted by: IrishEi at February 12, 2025 07:55 PM (3ImbR)

Little Tommy Tillis knows which way the winds are blowing, lol..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 12, 2025 07:57 PM (cFzfG)

30 Ben Had

You will survive.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 07:57 PM (u82oZ)

31 Are cobblestones the new elbows?

Posted by: Banana Dream at February 12, 2025 07:57 PM (Y6IkP)

32 Not cobblestones. More like pavers. Cobblestone is usually Belgian Block.

Posted by: Dash Riprock at February 12, 2025 07:58 PM (G5+As)

33 NaCly, that I will. Keeping my anti freeze level up.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 12, 2025 07:58 PM (mB6WH)

34 The Duke, the DOGE and the Duchess:

https://tinyurl.com/9y73jesk

Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 12, 2025 07:59 PM (iqLen)

35 Let the dog drive the truck is same as birthday boy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 12, 2025 08:00 PM (63Dwl)

36
Being the Doge was a real burden. They lost a lot of personal freedom as a result.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 07:55 PM (u82oZ)

________

And once they died, their accounts were audited and anything wrong had to be made good by their estate.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 12, 2025 08:00 PM (dxSpM)

37 Dash Riprock

Are you Quinton Terrintino, looking at feet?

Did not notice the street.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 08:01 PM (u82oZ)

38 >>>Lion purrs like a Harley.

Ace better not rev his Vespa anywhere near that guy.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 12, 2025 08:01 PM (klJTj)

39 6 The ruler of Venice was the Doge.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat

I'd rather be a Florentine Pogen.

Posted by: Read 'Em And Weep at February 12, 2025 08:01 PM (G5+As)

40 What does Venice smell like with all those canals?
Posted by: davidt at February 12, 2025 07:53 PM (i0F8b)

—————-

My no no square.

Posted by: Trigglypuff at February 12, 2025 08:01 PM (u73oe)

41 They drive wood posts vertically into the mud and dirt of the harbor. You space them closely and make them deep and the weight they carry is small enough to not sink them

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:02 PM (n7h9X)

42 How many armored divisions does canadia have?
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 12, 2025 07:52 PM (yF8T2)

Lol. I'd have to look it up but I doubt Canada had any divisions of any kind during the World Wars.

Posted by: davis at February 12, 2025 08:02 PM (wBTPl)

43 BREAKING: Seems Roberts' favorite reason gave the original judge his excuse to reverse his TPO...

https://www.nbcwashington.com/ news/national-international/judge-clears -way-trump-plan-downsize-federal- deferred-resignation/3843500/

"A federal judge on Wednesday cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s plan to downsize the federal workforce with a deferred resignation program...

In his ruling Wednesday, O'Toole found that the unions lacked legal standing to bring the suit."

Posted by: Nova Local at February 12, 2025 08:02 PM (exHjb)

44 What does Venice smell like with all those canals?

Never been there but every report I've heard its nasty. Open sewer.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:03 PM (2VST1)

45 >> Ditto for Bill Clinton--voted for him! But couldn't support him after he cheated.

My parents were blue collar Democrats, and they were shocked and disgusted Clinton wouldn’t resign after the Lewinsky scandal. My hippie mom actually held her nose and voted GWB.

I was a teenager and a certified communist; I could see that the Democrats and Republicans were two sides to the same corporate fascist coin. They were obstructing the true worker’s revolution, man. With my help The People would usher in the Marxist paradise.

Got my first real job at 18. (First that was on-the-books. Got my first paycheck, saw how high my taxes were, realized I’d been living in a communist country all along and became a black-hearted, tax-cutting anti-communist.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 12, 2025 08:04 PM (cFzfG)

46 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at February 12, 2025 08:04 PM (EEtBd)

47 Being the Doge was a real burden. They lost a lot of personal freedom as a result.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 07:55 PM (u82oZ)

There was a blind Doge who led a Crusade to Constantinople and sacked it and filled it with Western knights. It took the locals about 50 years to get it back.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:04 PM (n7h9X)

48 NaCly, that I will. Keeping my anti freeze level up.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 12, 2025 07:58 PM

Snow's about to start. Doing the same.

*raises glass*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 12, 2025 08:04 PM (Wnv9h)

49 Lol. I'd have to look it up but I doubt Canada had any divisions of any kind during the World Wars.
Posted by: davis at February 12, 2025 08:02 PM (wBTPl)

Vimy Ridge would like a word with you.

Not to mention Juno Beach.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 12, 2025 08:04 PM (lHPJf)

50 What does Venice smell like with all those canals?
Posted by: davidt at February 12, 2025 07:53 PM (i0F8b)

Don't go in Summer.

Posted by: Ciampino - aromatic not at February 12, 2025 08:05 PM (KjLnc)

51
Re Analemma:

https://tinyurl.com/2784pdv4

Some of my favorites there. The horizontal component is a nice representation of the Equation of Time. Vertical component is declination changes over the seasons.

I forget, but when you shoot it on the morning or evening side, there is a way to see the earliest sunrise/sunset and latest as tangents to the local horizon. I forget how that goes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 12, 2025 08:05 PM (w6EFb)

52 Lol. I'd have to look it up but I doubt Canada had any divisions of any kind during the World Wars.

From what I've read, Canada's troops were badass. I don't know how many they have now but the internet claims that 1.1 million troops served in WW2, with over 90,000 casualties. We could steamroll the Canadian military but all that does is make us occupiers of a gigantic hostile territory.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:05 PM (2VST1)

53 davis

ISTR 1 - 2 Armored divisions, and 4 Inf Divisions in WWII.

The Canadians punched well above their weight in sound military formations in both WWI and WWII.

Today, they are mech infantry with some armored regiments, like Princess Pat Lt Inf.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 08:05 PM (u82oZ)

54 Canadian lass in Europe skips leg day consistently.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 12, 2025 08:05 PM (a3Q+t)

55
2021: "no widespread" election fraud
2025: "no widespread" govt waste

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 12, 2025 08:05 PM (MHPMD)

56 Got my first real job at 18. (First that was on-the-books. Got my first paycheck, saw how high my taxes were, realized I’d been living in a communist country all along and became a black-hearted, tax-cutting anti-communist.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 12, 2025 08:04 PM (cFzfG)

PJ O'Rourke had a similar story as an honest to got hippie getting his first paycheck.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:06 PM (n7h9X)

57 Paris was purported to be an open sewer.

Posted by: davis at February 12, 2025 08:07 PM (wBTPl)

58
A lunar analemma:

https://tinyurl.com/2bqlxuhj

That's a bit more advanced for the timing. You do the same as with ol' Sol, but you have to use an equivalent of "mean lunar time" rather than mean solar time.

It's about 51 minutes later clock time each day of the lunar month to shoot it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 12, 2025 08:08 PM (w6EFb)

59 STR 1 - 2 Armored divisions, and 4 Inf Divisions in WWII.

The Canadians punched well above their weight in sound military formations in both WWI and WWII.

Today, they are mech infantry with some armored regiments, like Princess Pat Lt Inf.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 08:05 PM (u82oZ)

I think one of the beaches on D-Day was all Canadian on the first day.

But I just read an Army Green book recently how even before entering the war the US was taking over responsibility for the defense of Canada on both coasts.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:08 PM (n7h9X)

60 Did not notice the street.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 08:01 PM

Aren't SWOs trained to not fixate on just one or two things?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 12, 2025 08:09 PM (a3Q+t)

61 There were a lot of Italians on Coney Island That smelled bad enough. Tell'em Joe sent ya-get a free glass of wine on the house.

Posted by: Lenny's Clam Bar at February 12, 2025 08:10 PM (G5+As)

62 I love how people on facebook are trying to make fun of Musk and say, "At least Canada isn't letting a South African tell them what to do".

Sit down and shut up Canada. Musk will get to you in time.
Elon Musk reportedly became a citizen of the United States in 2002. He also holds Canadian citizenship which he acquired through his Canadian-born mother.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2025 08:10 PM (snJvO)

63 I am sorry I missed the Viola Davis Die Hard pastiche thread. You know when they started working on that they were expecting it to come out in the first months of the Kamala Harris presidency.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:10 PM (2VST1)

64 Paris was purported to be an open sewer.

Posted by: davis at February 12, 2025 08:07 PM (wBTPl)
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Then why are we finding out it is just now?

Posted by: Axeman at February 12, 2025 08:11 PM (krQz2)

65 Oldcat

in exchange for most of the convoy escorts across the Atlantic being Canadian RN DDs, corvettes, and DEs. They made the invasion of Europe possible by shutting down the U-boat attacks, with other players helping.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 08:11 PM (u82oZ)

66
Just watched PDT swear-in Tulsi.

lol, he took credit, WITHOUT EVIDENCE for inventing the phrase "common sense," hahaha.

Okay, l exaggerate. President Trump qualified his claim by saying "in terms of politics."

Remind me again: Didn't some old-timey guy in the 1700's write a pamphlet titled "Common Sense?" I forgot his name...

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 12, 2025 08:11 PM (MHPMD)

67 Paris was purported to be an open sewer.

London basically was for a long time. Millions living in a single city where everything went into the Thames.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:11 PM (2VST1)

68 From what I've read, Canada's troops were badass. I don't know how many they have now but the internet claims that 1.1 million troops served in WW2, with over 90,000 casualties. We could steamroll the Canadian military but all that does is make us occupiers of a gigantic hostile territory.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:05 PM (2VST1)

90 or so percent of Canada lives right near the border with the US. Most of it is vacant.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:11 PM (n7h9X)

69 Prior to his acting career, James Doohan served in the 14th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. He also served as an Artillery Forward Observation Officer (FOO) and pilot. He saw combat in Europe during World War II, including the D-Day invasion of Normandy, in which he was wounded, apparently by friendly fire.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 12, 2025 08:12 PM (a3Q+t)

70
I was reading about the various conscription crises Canada had in both wars. The units actually serving in Europe got chewed up and replacements were lacking because the "zombie" units in Canada refused to deploy. A pretty sorry story. Naturally the Quebecois showed themselves thoroughly disloyal.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 12, 2025 08:12 PM (dxSpM)

71 Steampunk In Space!

https://is.gd/UJKDxk

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 12, 2025 08:12 PM (L/fGl)

72 Are a lot of Venetians blind, or does that have a different origin?

Posted by: Window On The World at February 12, 2025 08:12 PM (G5+As)

73 Wait they remade Die Hard? Really?

I thought they just did one in all but name with Rey? Where she (all 120lbs soaking wet) is a former navy seal or something and she is working in an office building as a window cleaner? Something like that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 12, 2025 08:12 PM (zZu0s)

74 Tulsi gonna find out, then tell us, who put her on the terrorist no fly list?

Posted by: davidt at February 12, 2025 08:12 PM (i0F8b)

75 Elon Musk reportedly became a citizen of the United States in 2002. He also holds Canadian citizenship which he acquired through his Canadian-born mother.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2025 08:10 PM (snJvO)

Wait.. so.. a Canadian has been running our country?

I’m suddenly sickened and outrage by DOGE! How could Trump sell us out to Big Leaf??

This is the Day of the Rake in reverse..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 12, 2025 08:13 PM (cFzfG)

76 Rome in 120 AD probably did not smell too good.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 12, 2025 08:13 PM (zZu0s)

77 Prior to his acting career, James Doohan served in the 14th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. He also served as an Artillery Forward Observation Officer (FOO) and pilot. He saw combat in Europe during World War II, including the D-Day invasion of Normandy, in which he was wounded, apparently by friendly fire.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

He lost a finger and was able to hide it during his scenes.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 12, 2025 08:14 PM (iqLen)

78 he was wounded, apparently by friendly fire.

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"Friendly fire"? Is that like Liz Cheney is a Republican?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 12, 2025 08:14 PM (L/fGl)

79 The US for a time stopped cities from smelling like shit holes. We seem to be going back.

Posted by: davis at February 12, 2025 08:15 PM (wBTPl)

80 Remind me again: Didn't some old-timey guy in the 1700's write a pamphlet titled "Common Sense?" I forgot his name...
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 12, 2025 08:11 PM (MHPMD)

Yes, although the full title was “Common Sense Illufftrationf of the Common Trollope”

Posted by: 18th Century Smut Peddler at February 12, 2025 08:15 PM (cFzfG)

81 S & T Magazine and a number of historians consider the blend of British regimental structure with Canadian soldiers made for better fighting formations in the Western allies.

Read Farely Mowats's seering personal story And No Birds Sang for another viewpoint.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 08:15 PM (u82oZ)

82 There are a few scenes you can see James Doohan has a finger missing.

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2025 08:15 PM (KQk9m)

83 Rome in 120 AD probably did not smell too good.

Rome actually had a functional sewer system in the age of the Republic, but yeah Italian summers, probably not the most efficient system.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:16 PM (2VST1)

84 Steampunk In Space!

https://is.gd/UJKDxk
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 12, 2025 08:12 PM

See #16. Not space, but...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 12, 2025 08:16 PM (Wnv9h)

85 81 A judge unfroze Trump’s buyout plan Fox tells me
Posted by: kallisto at February 12, 2025 08:15 PM (FOwv0)

Post 43

Posted by: Nova Local at February 12, 2025 08:16 PM (exHjb)

86 So the media has decided to play the....sympathy for Federal employees card. Bold move.

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2025 08:16 PM (KQk9m)

87 The story of how London developed immense steam pumps to pump sewer waste on the outgoing tide is fascinating and made a difference in lowering disease and prolonging life.

Posted by: Shit-Stirrer at February 12, 2025 08:16 PM (G5+As)

88 Its is not arguable ... US Infantry landed, and died thanks to shitty planning, on Utah and Omaha. Depending on which book you read, either the Brits or Canadians sent troop to the easier of the other three.

Spoiler Alert - wasn't the Brits on two of the other three.

Posted by: History at February 12, 2025 08:17 PM (OpPPg)

89 Wait they remade Die Hard? Really?

Not really but its cleary an inspiration. The movie is Viola Davis as president of the USA who calls for a G20 meeting at which bad guys take over with guns and stuff and she Fights Back with her Family Helping. The trailer has several Die Hard callbacks

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:17 PM (2VST1)

90
Yes, although the full title was “Common Sense Illufftrationf of the Common Trollope”
Posted by: 18th Century Smut Peddler

Is this true?
I hate when they whitewash History!

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 12, 2025 08:17 PM (MHPMD)

91 The Die Hard remake is the one with Daisy Ridley. She is a janitor (ex special forces LOL)locked in a building with terrorists

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2025 08:18 PM (KQk9m)

92 I'm 5 years late, but I'm going all in on NeoVim.

It's going to take a while to get up to speed, it's a good thing there is a neovim extension for VSCode so at least the transition will be a slightly easier.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 12, 2025 08:18 PM (XV/Pl)

93 >> Tulsi gonna find out, then tell us, who put her on the terrorist no fly list?

The asshoe who put Tulsi on the list was gone on Day 1. I can't remember his name. But he's outta there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 12, 2025 08:19 PM (w6EFb)

94 in exchange for most of the convoy escorts across the Atlantic being Canadian RN DDs, corvettes, and DEs. They made the invasion of Europe possible by shutting down the U-boat attacks, with other players helping.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 08:11 PM (u82oZ)

A lot of those were 4 pipers we gave the UK, and of course US manned destroyers were fighting U Boats up to the halfway line and then all the way before our formal entry to WWII. And of course our merchant marine was manning the ships carrying supplies.

Canadians pitched in and did a good job, but they were a country too small to defend itself and contribute anything large in WWII and have let the army they have now degenerate. They are less than 2 percent spending on NATO, having gone down since Trump bullied NATO in the first term. Canada recently claimed it might catch up to their obligations before 2032.

Trump just stated in his call to Putin that NATO will need 5 percent GDP spending.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:19 PM (n7h9X)

95 The story of how London developed immense steam pumps to pump sewer waste on the outgoing tide is fascinating and made a difference in lowering disease and prolonging life.
Posted by: Shit-Stirrer at February 12, 2025 08:16 PM

There were other immense things powered by steam developed, as well.

Posted by: The Engineer's Song at February 12, 2025 08:20 PM (a3Q+t)

96 There are a few scenes you can see James Doohan has a finger missing.
Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2025 08:15 PM

Same with Ian Carmichael (Lord Peter Wimsey). Tank officer who lost the first joint of a finger when a hatch slammed shut on it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 12, 2025 08:20 PM (Wnv9h)

97
Thomas Paine, btw. Thanks for making me look it up.

He's spinning in his grave so fast right now they call him Pinwheel Paine.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 12, 2025 08:20 PM (MHPMD)

98 The taxpayers were funding Cow Fart Reduction studies in Brazil for 2 million.

There's got to be a metaphor in their somewhere.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 12, 2025 08:20 PM (XV/Pl)

99 The asshoe who put Tulsi on the list was gone on Day 1. I can't remember his name. But he's outta there.

If he is lucky he will leave with his balls attached...

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2025 08:20 PM (KQk9m)

100 Wait.. so.. a Canadian has been running our country?

I’m suddenly sickened and outrage by DOGE! How could Trump sell us out to Big Leaf??

This is the Day of the Rake in reverse..
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

Besides having all that money, it'd be fun to be Musk. Use your Canadian passport to get into Canada and your US passport to get back. 😂

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2025 08:20 PM (snJvO)

101 Penguins in the Venice canals would only add to the tourism attraction of the city. Imagine being in a gondola with your loved one and a jaunty, little, happy penguin pops in. What could be more heartwarming?

Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at February 12, 2025 08:20 PM (G5+As)

102
The Die Hard remake is the one with Daisy Ridley. She is a janitor (ex special forces LOL)locked in a building with terrorists
Posted by: steevy

She's fucking window-washer.

I think the stupid movie is called The Window Washer.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 12, 2025 08:21 PM (MHPMD)

103 I'm 5 years late, but I'm going all in on NeoVim.

It's going to take a while to get up to speed, it's a good thing there is a neovim extension for VSCode so at least the transition will be a slightly easier.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 12, 2025 08:18 PM (XV/Pl)

Always liked VI. once you grokked the search method you could do lots of interesting text selection in two letters or so

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:21 PM (n7h9X)

104 Trump just stated in his call to Putin that NATO will need 5 percent GDP spending.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:19 PM (n7h9X)

Here's an idea - two things can be true. The UK and Canada used to make fine infantry. But they don't anymore, so fuck them.

Posted by: History at February 12, 2025 08:21 PM (OpPPg)

105 He lost a finger and was able to hide it during his scenes.

I wonder why they hid it. Scar tissue correlates with wisdom and they could have made up a kickass backstory for it.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 12, 2025 08:21 PM (/y8xj)

106 They have a cow fart reduction injection developed in the UK. I'm sure it won't have any terrible side effects....

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2025 08:21 PM (KQk9m)

107 PJ O'Rourke had a similar story as an honest to got hippie getting his first paycheck.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:06 PM (n7h9X)

Yep. And, as an 18yo, I found a book called “Eat The Rich.” I read it, thinking it would be right-thinking comedy about how evil capitalists were and how righteous socialism was.

It was the first time in my life I’d read an actual defense of capitalism or anything right-wing. Changed my political alignment pretty quickly.

I was a smart kid, read two books a day in high school, loved history, GPA of 4.2. No teacher had ever fed me anything other than “America is an evil, racist country where the rich suck the blood of poor, oppressed workers, and we’re ruled by Christo-fascist rednecks, etc..”

I grew up in the conservative south. Teacher’s unions, man.

Posted by: 18th Century Smut Peddler at February 12, 2025 08:22 PM (cFzfG)

108 The Die Hard remake is the one with Daisy Ridley. She is a janitor (ex special forces LOL)locked in a building with terrorists
Posted by: steevy

She's fucking window-washer.

I think the stupid movie is called The Window Washer.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 12, 2025 08:21 PM (MHPMD)

Its in London though.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:22 PM (n7h9X)

109 Mrs. Meta and I are beginning our grand European tour in Venice at the end of May. Bucket list item for me. Cannot wait.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 12, 2025 08:22 PM (GTqXr)

110
Scroll down here and see the analemma on Mars and the Martian Equation of Time:

https://tinyurl.com/2yltjtfa

Very different curves. The difference is the greater eccentricity of Mars' orbit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 12, 2025 08:22 PM (w6EFb)

111 I'm 5 years late, but I'm going all in on NeoVim.

It's going to take a while to get up to speed, it's a good thing there is a neovim extension for VSCode so at least the transition will be a slightly easier.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 12, 2025 08:18 PM

Emacs rules, vi drools.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 12, 2025 08:22 PM (a3Q+t)

112 Can we make it 0% gdp and disband the fucking thing?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 12, 2025 08:22 PM (QpcaO)

113 That horse saw her own reflection in the darkened glass, turned and attacked the "other horse" by kicking.

Also, that horse is belled, as a warning to others.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 12, 2025 08:22 PM (O7YUW)

114
btw, The Beekeeper was a Very, Very, Stupid, Dumb movie, and it's all due to the WORST movie character played by the WORST black woman actress.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 12, 2025 08:23 PM (MHPMD)

115 There are a few scenes you can see James Doohan has a finger missing.
Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2025 08:15 PM

Same with Ian Carmichael (Lord Peter Wimsey). Tank officer who lost the first joint of a finger when a hatch slammed shut on it.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 12, 2025 08:20 PM (Wnv9h)

Also Grandpa in Teenagers From Outer Space.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, waiting for more snow at February 12, 2025 08:23 PM (bDNzX)

116 Iirc you can clearly see that he has a finger missing in the Doomsday Machine episode. When he points out the button for Kirk to set the self destruct there is a closeup.

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2025 08:23 PM (KQk9m)

117 WITHOUT EVIDENCE
WITHOUT EVIDENCE
WITHOUT EVIDENCE
WITHOUT EVIDENCE

........

END PROGRAM

Posted by: MSM NPC's at February 12, 2025 08:23 PM (sAmhv)

118 The Die Hard remake is the one with Daisy Ridley.

Her career has not exactly been en fuego. She's nice to look at but bland as Natalie Portman in the prequels. She's as spicy as the chick in Twilight.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:23 PM (2VST1)

119 The elected monarchy form of government of the Venetian Republic is quite interesting. The Republic lasted for 1000 years.

Posted by: Bigsmith at February 12, 2025 08:23 PM (1Au9i)

120 >> Emacs rules, vi drools.

Deport. Go back to Massachusetts, GNU Pinko.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 12, 2025 08:23 PM (cFzfG)

121 Can we make it 0% gdp and disband the fucking thing?

I think the idea is the Euros will not meet the amount and give us an out.

Posted by: steevy at February 12, 2025 08:24 PM (KQk9m)

122 S & T Magazine and a number of historians consider the blend of British regimental structure with Canadian soldiers made for better fighting formations in the Western allies.

Read Farely Mowats's seering personal story And No Birds Sang for another viewpoint.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 12, 2025 08:15 PM (u82oZ)

Though I can't give a verdict on how well it worked out militarily, I have read that the arrogance with which British officers treated the "Colonial" units was a major factor in the Canadians (not to mention the Aussies and Kiwis) seeking greater political independence after WWI.

Seems likely enough, honestly.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 12, 2025 08:25 PM (lHPJf)

123 Post 43[

I’m in and out of these threads, I rarely stick around

Upthread someone asked if Venice smelled. It didn’t when I was there. In fact, when our ferry was approaching from the rail station, it looked like a 15c fantasyland, the way the different colors of the timeworn buildings reflected on the water

Posted by: kallisto at February 12, 2025 08:25 PM (zX78/)

124 Penguins in the Venice canals would only add to the tourism attraction of the city. Imagine being in a gondola with your loved one and a jaunty, little, happy penguin pops in. What could be more heartwarming?
Posted by: Penguin Promotion Board at February 12, 2025 08:20 PM

You want to increase the mephitic qualities of the canals 10,000-fold?

Posted by: Reality is a B*tch at February 12, 2025 08:25 PM (a3Q+t)

125 WITHOUT EVIDENCE

........

END PROGRAM
Posted by: MSM NPC's

Yeah DNC sent out a DM to the media, and they all started using that line, like mechanisms. The problem is the only way most people learn about this is ... videos making fun of them saying it over and over.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:25 PM (2VST1)

126 One of those sewage pump plants in London is restored and a marvel. Doesn't pump shit any more, as they actually treat it now. A beautiful relic of the Victorian era. I believe those pumps were the largest engines ever built.

Posted by: Take A Three-Hour Offal Tour. at February 12, 2025 08:25 PM (G5+As)

127 The elected monarchy form of government of the Venetian Republic is quite interesting. The Republic lasted for 1000 years.

For a while they were the most advanced, highest scientific study, most powerful and richest nation in the world. Oddly tiny place with the most chaotic system of government but it worked for quite a while.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:26 PM (2VST1)

128 I see Iyah May is in the news again. Let's see if you can guess why the FNM does not like her latest song with a refrain of;

Man-made virus, watch the millions die
Biggest profit of their lives
Here's inflation, that's your prize
This is Karmageddon

And yes she does name drop our moist infamous imp Cause Fauci's laughin' and we've been asleep
And WHO's a liar and it's runnin' deep

The song: https://tinyurl.com/8hhp8vc7

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2025 08:27 PM (t0Rmr)

129 Here's an idea - two things can be true. The UK and Canada used to make fine infantry. But they don't anymore, so fuck them.
Posted by: History at February 12, 2025 08:21 PM (OpPPg)

One interesting thing in this war is Russia had to reorganize its army in the process of rebuilding because modern cool theory had very few infantrymen in the basic squad/company. They had to remake things to push armor support, artillery down and have more grunts per unit to sustain the losses from trench/stronghold clearing and urban combat. Add in their low level units being able to call in or operate drones, and call in air support and there's lots to do to be able to hang in a modern war for the West.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:27 PM (n7h9X)

130 vi has one, and only one, positive quality.

It is on every Unix machine in the world.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 12, 2025 08:28 PM (a3Q+t)

131 Always liked VI. once you grokked the search method you could do lots of interesting text selection in two letters or so
Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:21 PM (n7h9X)

Modal text editors are obviously GOATed. Keystroke-cels seethe.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 12, 2025 08:28 PM (cFzfG)

132 And yes she does name drop our moist infamous imp Cause Fauci's laughin' and we've been asleep
And WHO's a liar and it's runnin' deep

The song: https://tinyurl.com/8hhp8vc7
Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2025 08:27 PM (t0Rmr)

Carmageddon was a pretty fun little game. "Road Warrior" in a little box

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:29 PM (n7h9X)

133 of May. Bucket list item for me. Cannot wait.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 12, 2025 08:22 PM (GTqXr)

It’s been a long time since I was there. I enjoyed it. I haggled the price of a gondola ride though. The first price he quoted was unacceptable.
I liked St. Mark’s Square too.

Posted by: kallisto at February 12, 2025 08:29 PM (zX78/)

134 Next, some of y'all are going to be singing the praises of Perl.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 12, 2025 08:29 PM (a3Q+t)

135 The UK and Canada used to make fine infantry. But they don't anymore, so fuck them.

They used to be the best military in the world. I have no idea how good they are now, it seems like they don't feel much need to be effective or competent with the US stepping up to handle everything. I have not heard any reports of soldiers working with Brits in the war on terror, but I fear that the last remnants of their masculinity was largely obliterated in two world wars.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:30 PM (2VST1)

136 Modal text editors are obviously GOATed. Keystroke-cels seethe.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 12, 2025 08:28 PM (cFzfG)

The war against EMACS is eternal.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:30 PM (n7h9X)

137 Evenin’, All.

New heat pump gets installed tomorrow. Yay!

Posted by: Bulg at February 12, 2025 08:30 PM (77rzZ)

138 You want to increase the mephitic qualities of the canals 10,000-fold?
Posted by: Reality is a B*tch

Do people pay you to entertain at parties? Like John Wayne Gacy?

Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at February 12, 2025 08:30 PM (G5+As)

139 Upthread someone asked if Venice smelled. It didn’t when I was there. In fact, when our ferry was approaching from the rail station, it looked like a 15c fantasyland, the way the different colors of the timeworn buildings reflected on the water
Posted by: kallisto at February 12, 2025 08:25 PM (zX78/)

Back when I was in the Army I spent a day in Venice. It was very cool, and no, it didn't smell. Great restaurants, especially the ones off the beaten path.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, waiting for more snow at February 12, 2025 08:30 PM (bDNzX)

140 83 Rome in 120 AD probably did not smell too good.

Rome actually had a functional sewer system in the age of the Republic, but yeah Italian summers, probably not the most efficient system.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:16 PM (2VST1)

One of the most darkly amusing episodes in London history was the summer of 1858, known as “The Big Stink”. The stench was so bad that everyone who could left, and it lasted for months. It led London planners to develop the first really modern sewage disposal system.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 12, 2025 08:31 PM (khPC6)

141 Carmageddon was a pretty fun little game. "Road Warrior" in a little box

My brother Joel loved that game. That and Interstate 76. He had a nice rig, pedals and shifter and wheel. Dude was a natural driver in the real world, he took good advantage of that in the games.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:31 PM (2VST1)

142 112 Can we make it 0% gdp and disband the fucking thing?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 12, 2025 08:22 PM (QpcaO)

Seconded. NATO was created to fight the commies. Now it pushes anti-white gay communism worldwide. Deport!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 12, 2025 08:31 PM (cFzfG)

143 Her career has not exactly been en fuego. She's nice to look at but bland as Natalie Portman in the prequels. She's as spicy as the chick in Twilight.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025

Hollywood has killed the female movie star. Scarlett Johansson is the only one now and she is over forty.

Posted by: davis at February 12, 2025 08:31 PM (wBTPl)

144 I have not heard any reports of soldiers working with Brits in the war on terror, but I fear that the last remnants of their masculinity was largely obliterated in two world wars.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:30 PM (2VST1)

SAS (if that's the name now) and the like did some work and in our "little wars" but everyone can make a tiny custom SF unit be good.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:33 PM (n7h9X)

145 Hollywood has killed the female movie star. Scarlett Johansson is the only one now and she is over forty.
Posted by: davis at February 12, 2025 08:31 PM

I'm right here, you know.

Posted by: Anne Hathaway at February 12, 2025 08:33 PM (a3Q+t)

146 Hollywood has killed the female movie star. Scarlett Johansson is the only one now and she is over forty.
Posted by: davis at February 12, 2025 08:31 PM (wBTPl)

She was topless in Asteroid City. Would. She’s better-looking than most 20-something actresses.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 12, 2025 08:33 PM (cFzfG)

147 Great restaurants, especially the ones off the beaten path.

Yep, somehow we found a great place to dine, off the beaten path. It was a challenge to find our way back to the hotel, though. Those little streets are confusing.

Posted by: kallisto at February 12, 2025 08:34 PM (zX78/)

148 109 Mrs. Meta and I are beginning our grand European tour in Venice at the end of May. Bucket list item for me. Cannot wait.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 12, 2025 08:22 PM (GTqXr)

It's actually good to start there b/c you'll like every Italian city more than Venice, which I deemed a tourist trap - St Mark's Square is one of the most beautiful places in Italy...and the rest is a miss.

Florence is better - I loved Rome (ruins are my thing) - and Lucca (skip Pisa in Tuscany - the leaning tower isn't that impressige) and Assisi were lesser known hidden gems...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 12, 2025 08:34 PM (exHjb)

149 Obviously we need a Die Hard homage with Viola Davis and Daisy Ridley. They find that they are both locked in with the terrorists and have to work together to stop them.
They have to have a big homoerotic cat fight like in They Live somewhere.

Posted by: because it's not lame and gay enough at February 12, 2025 08:34 PM (gKWVE)

150 Rome in 120 AD probably did not smell too good.

Rome actually had a functional sewer system in the age of the Republic

*We* have a functional sewer system as well. You're walking thru it.

Posted by: SF Streets Dept at February 12, 2025 08:34 PM (7a3bZ)

151 Bored at work.
Now we know what they do with all those records down in that limestone cave.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 12, 2025 08:34 PM (W/lyH)

152 impressive - darn typo

Posted by: Nova Local at February 12, 2025 08:34 PM (exHjb)

153 95 The story of how London developed immense steam pumps to pump sewer waste on the outgoing tide is fascinating and made a difference in lowering disease and prolonging life.
Posted by: Shit-Stirrer at February 12, 2025 08:16 PM

There were other immense things powered by steam developed, as well.

Posted by: The Engineer's Song at February 12, 2025 08:20 PM (a3Q+t)
----
You. Sir, are referring to the brass balls filled with cream?

Posted by: Ciampino - I can't get no, satisfaction at February 12, 2025 08:36 PM (KjLnc)

154 112 Can we make it 0% gdp and disband the fucking thing?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 12, 2025 08:22 PM (QpcaO)

Seconded. NATO was created to fight the commies. Now it pushes anti-white gay communism worldwide. Deport!
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 12, 2025 08:31 PM (cFzfG)

Insisting on a REAL 5 percent may well do it. Most are supposedly above 2 but are probably lying. Replacing all the stuff sent to Ukraine will cost a ton and their varied deep states and EU state parasites are stripping them bare.

They don't have the money for a decent defense and nobody wants to do a DOGE there. They know what they will find.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:36 PM (n7h9X)

155 John Sargent spent a decent amount of time in Venice. Some of the work he produced there is breathtaking.

Posted by: kallisto at February 12, 2025 08:37 PM (zX78/)

156
Also Grandpa in Teenagers From Outer Space.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

I had to look that up. I never noticed it.

https://t.ly/9lEqg

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 12, 2025 08:38 PM (63Dwl)

157 Posted by: Penguin Liberation Front at February 12, 2025 08:30 PM (G5+As)

Splitter.

Posted by: Penguin's Front of Liberation at February 12, 2025 08:38 PM (cFzfG)

158 "Next, some of y'all are going to be singing the praises of Perl.
Posted by: Duncanthrax"

Pearl, Pearl, Pearl
Come let us see our girl
Are you still our valentine? Do you still look so divine?
Come and let us see our darlin' Pearl

Posted by: Lester and Earl at February 12, 2025 08:38 PM (vFG9F)

159 Last time Trump visited them and told them to start meeting their promised commitments ONE country managed it that I recall. They routinely just don't pay in and nothing happens. The US should just shut down the bases and pull out: you can keep NATO, without us. We're not gonna pay your defense budget any longer.

All we need is a base somewhat reasonably close, like, say, Greenland.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:39 PM (2VST1)

160 "Next, some of y'all are going to be singing the praises of Perl.
Posted by: Duncanthrax"
---
My still favorite programming language.

That's all.

Posted by: Axeman at February 12, 2025 08:39 PM (krQz2)

161 Pearl, Pearl, Pearl
Come let us see our girl
Are you still our valentine? Do you still look so divine?
Come and let us see our darlin' Pearl

---------

Pearl, Pearl, Pearl, come be my loving girl
Don't you marry Lester Flatt, He slicks his hair with possum fat
Change your name to Mrs. Earl Scruggs

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:40 PM (2VST1)

162 Next, some of y'all are going to be singing the praises of Perl.

You just quit preachin' and gone to meddlin'.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 12, 2025 08:40 PM (/y8xj)

163 Next, some of y'all are going to be singing the praises of Perl.

Well writing perl code is a great way to make sure you aren't fireable...well if your boss ever wants anyone to be able to figure out what your code does...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2025 08:41 PM (t0Rmr)

164 "Next, some of y'all are going to be singing the praises of Perl.
Posted by: Duncanthrax"

I've used it. Hell, I've used FORTH. I even embedded it as the OS for a cosmic ray detector in a UTAH desert.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:42 PM (n7h9X)

165 Someone is missing from this cafe...

Here he is !

https://tinyurl.com/avy6px5a

Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 08:42 PM (g47mK)

166 Well writing perl code is a great way to make sure you aren't fireable...well if your boss ever wants anyone to be able to figure out what your code does...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2025 08:41 PM (t0Rmr)

better than APL.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:42 PM (n7h9X)

167 >> The US should just shut down the bases and pull out: you can keep NATO, without us. We're not gonna pay your defense budget any longer.

You Americans can’t even afford universal healthcare, proper public education, or tranny pre-K because you waste all of your money on your military industrial complex..

Posted by: European, Smugly Lecturing at February 12, 2025 08:44 PM (cFzfG)

168 On the other hand, I did see a job listing on Monster a couple of weeks ago for somebody who knew REXX. I thought "Hmm, wonder if I should apply; I used to be pretty good with that... HALF MY FRICKIN' LIFE AGO!"

Posted by: Oddbob at February 12, 2025 08:44 PM (/y8xj)

169 Nerds

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 12, 2025 08:44 PM (2sg1c)

170 153 95
The Engineer's song

https://tinyurl.com/yc6yr63p

Posted by: Ciampino - I can't get no, satisfaction at February 12, 2025 08:45 PM (KjLnc)

171 I used to be okay at HTML but other than that, the only programming I ever did was PASCAL and a little BASIC. Its been a long time heh

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:45 PM (2VST1)

172

DOGE is revenge of the nerds for real.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 12, 2025 08:46 PM (w6EFb)

173 Last time Trump visited them and told them to start meeting their promised commitments ONE country managed it that I recall. They routinely just don't pay in and nothing happens. The US should just shut down the bases and pull out: you can keep NATO, without us. We're not gonna pay your defense budget any longer.

All we need is a base somewhat reasonably close, like, say, Greenland.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:39 PM (2VST1)

I believe it was Poland. They've lost a lot of "volunteers" in the war and some claim more are secretly dead and were from the regular army. And they were donating equipment heavily by disassembling a plane in a field and letting Ukraine 'steal' it

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:46 PM (n7h9X)

174 Programmers went from getting their code from GitHub to getting it from AI.

Question is, who is the one guy actually doing all the programming?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 12, 2025 08:46 PM (2sg1c)

175
Jesse Watters just put it this way. Trump hired an actual rocket scientist to audit the federal books. Said rocket scientist has found more "waste, fraud, and abuse" in 3 weeks than the Congressional "oversight" committees have found in 30 years.

Probably more than that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 12, 2025 08:47 PM (w6EFb)

176 144 I have not heard any reports of soldiers working with Brits in the war on terror, but I fear that the last remnants of their masculinity was largely obliterated in two world wars.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:30 PM (2VST1)

SAS (if that's the name now) and the like did some work and in our "little wars" but everyone can make a tiny custom SF unit be good.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:33 PM (n7h9X)
There were Brits, Spaniards, some former Soviet blocs,and some Central and South Americans at Camp Arifjan in 2005.

Posted by: Eromero at February 12, 2025 08:48 PM (LHPAg)

177 15
'Time to dodga da turdsa!'

When the moon hits your eyes like a big poopie pie, that's amore!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 12, 2025 08:48 PM (3wi/L)

178 175
Jesse Watters just put it this way. Trump hired an actual rocket scientist to audit the federal books. Said rocket scientist has found more "waste, fraud, and abuse" in 3 weeks than the Congressional "oversight" committees have found in 30 years.

Probably more than that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 12, 2025 08:47 PM (w6EFb)

Nothing to do with rocket science. Trump and Elon are just the first person to actually do what they said they would do. And they made a plan that would work.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 12, 2025 08:48 PM (2sg1c)

179
WTFF?

The fake news org "AP" refuses to call the Gulf of America by its rightful & factual name because of their "standards?"

Barely Legal has banned the fake news organ "AP" from the Oval Office until they get their facts straight. (Not banned from the Press Briefing Room, though.)

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 12, 2025 08:49 PM (MHPMD)

180 I suspect that we could maintain a nice base in Poland without trouble, and it would do them a world of good. They even have sea access, at least some part of the year. Certainly we don't need to keep pouring billions down the gullet of places like Germany and England, we're basically propping up the corpses of their old empires.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:51 PM (2VST1)

181
btw, just the other day I was complaining it wasn't right for all those Ungrateful lying Fake News Shits to be allowed the awesome privilege of flying on Air Force One.

Ban these fucks until they appreciate the access.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 12, 2025 08:51 PM (MHPMD)

182 Associated Propaganda.

Posted by: davidt at February 12, 2025 08:51 PM (i0F8b)

183 144 I have not heard any reports of soldiers working with Brits in the war on terror, but I fear that the last remnants of their masculinity was largely obliterated in two world wars.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:30 PM (2VST1)

SAS (if that's the name now) and the like did some work and in our "little wars" but everyone can make a tiny custom SF unit be good.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:33 PM (n7h9X)
Pearl, Pearl, Pearl, don't you marry Earl, he's something something something and nutty as a squirrel.

Posted by: Eromero at February 12, 2025 08:51 PM (LHPAg)

184

Congress really needs to have to answer for this. You guys have been sitting up there and letting the biggest fraud and money laundering operation go on under your noses for decades.

This is going to be larger than all the big private sector frauds we've ever heard about put together.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 12, 2025 08:51 PM (w6EFb)

185 The US should just shut down the bases and pull out: you can keep NATO, without us. We're not gonna pay your defense budget any longer.

Britain and the EU states are a greater threat to the average American than Russia or even China. Why the hell should we be paying the European autocrats for the privilege of them threatening to arrest Americans

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2025 08:52 PM (t0Rmr)

186 >It's actually good to start there b/c you'll like every Italian city more than Venice, which I deemed a tourist trap - St Mark's Square is one of the most beautiful places in Italy...and the rest is a miss.

Florence is better - I loved Rome (ruins are my thing) - and Lucca (skip Pisa in Tuscany - the leaning tower isn't that impressige) and Assisi were lesser known hidden gems...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 12, 2025 08:34 PM (exHjb)

Florence is on the itinerary and another bucket list item. We make our way through the south of France on the way to Barcelona for a few days and end in Madrid.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 12, 2025 08:52 PM (GTqXr)

187 Emacs is like a virus that takes over the entire operating system.

I introduced our netadmin at one place to perl. I didn't really understand it but had done a special class on it in college. The company was running on Access databases. Access was not designed for it and regularly crashed. Netadmin built a script to do backups every half hour, so that's all the work they would lose. Fun times.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 12, 2025 08:53 PM (EV2jz)

188 SAS (if that's the name now) and the like did some work and in our "little wars" but everyone can make a tiny custom SF unit be good.

They did kind of invent special forces although I suspect the Israelis perfected the concept.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:53 PM (2VST1)

189 184

Congress really needs to have to answer for this. You guys have been sitting up there and letting the biggest fraud and money laundering operation go on under your noses for decades.

This is going to be larger than all the big private sector frauds we've ever heard about put together.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 12, 2025 08:51 PM (w6EFb)

Absolute proof that Congressional oversite without regular order for the Budget, failed horrifically.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2025 08:53 PM (QAkQ3)

190 Britain and the EU states are a greater threat to the average American than Russia or even China. Why the hell should we be paying the European autocrats for the privilege of them threatening to arrest Americans
Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2025 08:52 PM (t0Rmr)

Yep. I’m no fan of Putin or Xi, but how are Starmer, Zelenskiiii, Macron and Scholz any better? They literally hate us and hate our freedoms.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 12, 2025 08:54 PM (cFzfG)

191 I used to be okay at HTML but other than that, the only programming I ever did was PASCAL and a little BASIC. Its been a long time heh
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:45 PM (2VST1)

I suppose if you wanted to get back into it Python would be the best analog to Basic out there. Tons of libraries you can download for free to do just about anything. More structured than basic but has some loosey goosey features to make it a bit easier in small to medium sized projects.

Did some projects for a border-control contractor using Python to prototype and convert to C++ for speed to find items in trucks and shipping containers and XRay images . Find non empty trucks, find contraband in cars driving across the border and score it for the operator, track people moving to avoid workers getting irradiated by X Rays...

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:54 PM (n7h9X)

192 SAS (if that's the name now) and the like did some work and in our "little wars" but everyone can make a tiny custom SF unit be good.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:33 PM (n7h9X)
Pearl, Pearl, Pearl, don't you marry Earl, he's something something something and nutty as a squirrel.
Posted by: Eromero at February 12, 2025 08:51 PM (LHPAg)
Well, that was silly as hell.

Posted by: Eromero at February 12, 2025 08:54 PM (LHPAg)

193 Next, some of y'all are going to be singing the praises of Perl.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Yaaaah, Maaaan !!!!

Posted by: Necklace at February 12, 2025 08:55 PM (tcomi)

194 We have made it mid week! All down hill from here!

Posted by: Piper at February 12, 2025 08:55 PM (p4NUW)

195 When you’re really bored at work

Job well done!

Posted by: t-bird at February 12, 2025 08:55 PM (uVcOS)

196 Absolute proof that Congressional oversite without regular order for the Budget, failed horrifically.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2025 08:53 PM (QAkQ3)

I dunno, it was pretty good for me.

Posted by: Jim Jordan's Shirt Sleeves Tailor at February 12, 2025 08:56 PM (cFzfG)

197 There was a blind Doge who led a Crusade to Constantinople and sacked it and filled it with Western knights. It took the locals about 50 years to get it back.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 08:04 PM (n7h9X)

Venice and Constantinople were economic rivals.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2025 08:57 PM (D7oie)

198 184 Congress really needs to have to answer for this. You guys have been sitting up there and letting the biggest fraud and money laundering operation go on under your noses for decades.

This is going to be larger than all the big private sector frauds we've ever heard about put together.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Noooo, the are in on it, they've been part of the scam for a long time. Think of all the new candidates that ran as Tea Party then turned after the assumed office. Something powerful did that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 12, 2025 08:58 PM (KWTb5)

199 >>Nothing to do with rocket science. Trump and Elon are just the first person to actually do what they said they would do. And they made a plan that would work.

The truth is somewhere in between.

Musk and his merry band of big balls are very smart and capable. They are also acting under the authority of the head of the Executive branch.

Congress can only investigate the parts of the Executive branch the Executive branch allows them to investigate. Everyone who wastes their breathe screaming about Congress not doing oversight doesn't seem to get how separation of powers works.

Now that we have an Executive who wants his agency investigated we are getting results. And it's just getting started.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2025 08:59 PM (LkLld)

200 >> I suppose if you wanted to get back into it Python would be the best analog to Basic out there. Tons of libraries you can download for free to do just about anything. More structured than basic but has some loosey goosey features to make it a bit easier in small to medium sized projects.

Python is the best language to get into programming (or back in.) However, they’ve crapped it up with pseudo-static typing features which undermine its scripting roots while not providing any real guarantees of type safety.

Javascript is another good one to learn. It’s not a great language, imho, but is widely used and gives you an entry into front-end and “full stack” jobs.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 12, 2025 09:02 PM (cFzfG)

201 >> Congress can only investigate the parts of the Executive branch the Executive branch allows them to investigate. Everyone who wastes their breathe screaming about Congress not doing oversight doesn't seem to get how separation of powers works.

Congress has had wide oversight powers for decades. Plus, they can just refuse to fund anything they aren’t given access to.

Most are corrupt. The capos are active deep state while the lower ranks are just there to make some quips for social media and get rich off insider trading.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 12, 2025 09:05 PM (cFzfG)

202 I introduced our netadmin at one place to perl. I didn't really understand it but had done a special class on it in college. The company was running on Access databases. Access was not designed for it and regularly crashed.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 12, 2025 08:53 PM (EV2jz)

I did work in one place that did home credit, they wanted to track if people paid off mortgages early so this one little group could call them back try and have one last try to just refi the same people and avoid losing the load.

They had an issue that the basically insane way their IT was set up meant that they read the screen of the original mortgage to copy the info into the local shared computer for this group. But something was off and records were missing so the group leader would come in for hours on Saturday and manually find the missing ones that would take hours.

I found that in the Access like program used to import the data it copied any input format error records in a speclal table, which could be used to correct the record in most cases, or just manually type in any other.

She was so happy for the relief! Sometimes its the little things.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 09:06 PM (n7h9X)

203 hmmmm

"Israel considers striking Iranian nuclear sites - report
A report by the Wall Street Journal shows Israel may be planning major strikes on Iran's nuclear sites this year, seeking potential US backing under the Trump administration."

Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 09:06 PM (g47mK)

204 Why go to Rome for ruins? Baltimore, Detroit, Gary, Newark, all fill the bill.

Posted by: Road To Ruin at February 12, 2025 09:06 PM (G5+As)

205 How hard is it to find fraud within a $4T federal government? Not very I suspect. What’s hard is the willingness to look. Nobody ever looked so nobody ever found anything.

Elon’s actually looking and what do you know? He found stuff.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 12, 2025 09:06 PM (QpcaO)

206 Lee Zeldin at EPA is clawing back $20 billion in grants from the last few months of the Puddin administration.

https://tinyurl.com/3b3z8mer

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 12, 2025 09:06 PM (paSBy)

207 btw, The Beekeeper was a Very, Very, Stupid, Dumb movie, and it's all due to the WORST movie character played by the WORST black woman actress.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 12, 2025 08:23 PM (MHPMD)

Jason Statham is a black woman? That is better impersonation than Robert Downy Jr!

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2025 09:08 PM (D7oie)

208 I had a blind doge. He was an old mutt.

Posted by: Not A Venetian Blind Doge, Though at February 12, 2025 09:08 PM (G5+As)

209 Noooo, the are in on it, they've been part of the scam for a long time. Think of all the new candidates that ran as Tea Party then turned after the assumed office. Something powerful did that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 12, 2025 08:58 PM (KWTb5)

Not really. Many were just riding the wave of TP rather than be true believers. Now, though, for at least 8 years everyone will be trying to suck up to MAGA

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 09:08 PM (n7h9X)

210 Snoop Doge is my favorite wrapper.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 12, 2025 09:09 PM (QpcaO)

211 >>Congress has had wide oversight powers for decades.

As I said, most don't seem to understand how separation of powers works. Do you think Congress could have hired Elon to do a forensic audit of the Executive branch? Sure, they could have used the powers of the purse but that hasn't happened ever. Never will.

>>Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

That's the problem. Blaming Congress is convenient but it's not really accurate.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2025 09:10 PM (LkLld)

212 How hard is it to find fraud within a $4T federal government? Not very I suspect. What’s hard is the willingness to look. Nobody ever looked so nobody ever found anything.

Elon’s actually looking and what do you know? He found stuff.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 12, 2025 09:06 PM (QpcaO)

It starts out pretty easy but they are just skiming the obvious crap. Then they make the tools to dive deeper and find the paths and people doing the crime. Then you go after the universities and contractors and rip them up.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 09:11 PM (n7h9X)

213 btw, The Beekeeper was a Very, Very, Stupid, Dumb movie, and it's all due to the WORST movie character played by the WORST black woman actress.

I mean the villain is basically Hunter Biden so...I did enjoy that part.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2025 09:11 PM (t0Rmr)

214 Beekeeper was dumb but fun

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 12, 2025 09:13 PM (OTdqV)

215 All we need is a base somewhat reasonably close, like, say, Greenland.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 12, 2025 08:39 PM (2VST1)

I was wondering a week back, are the French noted for their skills at arctic combat?

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2025 09:14 PM (D7oie)

216 >>Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

That's the problem. Blaming Congress is convenient but it's not really accurate.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2025 09:10 PM (LkLld)

Of course you can blame them. They have powers to make things better and don't use them. And they are the prime vector for entering the fraud into the system. Its Maxene waters people go to move the EPA staffer to do something.

And of course it is the fault of every executive, every judge in the system who knew it was there, and the fault of all the media people and such who knew it was happening and did nothing, or joined the scam of the voters.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 09:15 PM (n7h9X)

217 Get along little doge.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 12, 2025 09:16 PM (dR6yv)

218
Looks like RFK, Jr. has the votes. Lisa MooCow is a yes. Mitch will be the only no again.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 12, 2025 09:18 PM (w6EFb)

219 Trump's suit against X for suspending his account after Jan 6 has been settled for a reported $10 million.

https://tinyurl.com/5f463mt8

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 12, 2025 09:19 PM (paSBy)

220 Trump should ban any media outfit that received money from the Biden administration until they pay it back.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 12, 2025 09:19 PM (KXtU1)

221 No Trump nominee has lost a cloture or confirmation vote yet, have they?

Posted by: davidt at February 12, 2025 09:20 PM (i0F8b)

222 Congress can only investigate the parts of the Executive branch the Executive branch allows them to investigate. Everyone who wastes their breathe screaming about Congress not doing oversight doesn't seem to get how separation of powers works.
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See: Attempted investigation of the Reds who had infiltrated nearly all of Federal agencies (and most particularly State) 1940-1955. Congress (or at least the R's) were thwarted at every turn by the agencies (partcularly State) and Truman,

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2025 09:20 PM (XeU6L)

223 Of course you can blame them. They have powers to make things better and don't use them. And they are the prime vector for entering the fraud into the system. Its Maxene waters people go to move the EPA staffer to do something.

One of the most astounding things in our modern times is the number of incredibly powerful people doing not much of anything claiming there is nothing they can do about all the problems the government they oversee is causing.

Then you look at Elon and Trump and the answer is obvious. Those other people didn't WANT to do anything. As the GOPe always told us, its never the hill to die on, fight on, or even, exercise any of your power on.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2025 09:21 PM (t0Rmr)

224 Looks like RFK, Jr. has the votes. Lisa MooCow is a yes. Mitch will be the only no again.

I look forward to this one more then any other. RFK is no conservative, but he's one of the very few people with a public profile that might be willing to bring Fauci in front of a tribunal.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2025 09:22 PM (t0Rmr)

225 Heavy Meta-
Hope you get a chance to see Sorrento (Amalfi Coast) and Capri south of Naples. Very beautiful’

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at February 12, 2025 09:22 PM (ZTJjv)

226
What are the Intrade betting odds on RFK & Kash?

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 12, 2025 09:23 PM (MHPMD)

227 >>Of course you can blame them.

You can. Many did for decades. How did that work out?

What actually ended it was one person in the Executive branch who finally said my branch of government is completely corrupt and not only will I not allow them to lie, stonewall Congress and not turn over all of the information even under subpoena I will have my branch audited without redactions. That's why all of this is happening.

Trump did this in 3 weeks. Not even Reagan did anything remotely like this in 8 years and the corruption was there under him as well. This is what real executive leadership looks like.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2025 09:26 PM (LkLld)

228 >>Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

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The New Yorker has the answer!

The New Yorker

@NewYorker
“Isn’t this undemocratic, sticking us with a dead-hand document that we can’t change when the times do?” Louis Menand on the arguments to reform—or abandon—the Constitution.

The Week agrees.

The Week@TheWeek
America's Constitution is terrible. Let's throw it out and start over:

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It's those damn rights that are the problem! And you know what? The crazy right thinks those rights are given by God!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 12, 2025 09:27 PM (L/fGl)

229 Lee Zeldin at EPA is clawing back $20 billion in grants from the last few months of the Puddin administration.

https://tinyurl.com/3b3z8mer
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 12, 2025 09:06 PM (paSBy)
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Trump, the Clawbacks is my favorite 2025 movie, so far.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 12, 2025 09:28 PM (Vkgxu)

230 >225 Heavy Meta-
Hope you get a chance to see Sorrento (Amalfi Coast) and Capri south of Naples. Very beautiful’

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at February 12, 2025 09:22 PM (ZTJjv)

We were fortunate to spend time in Positano a few years back. Very beautiful indeed.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 12, 2025 09:28 PM (GTqXr)

231 50M here, 20M there, before you know it...

Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 09:29 PM (g47mK)

232 The Week@TheWeek
America's Constitution is terrible. Let's throw it out and start over:
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They thought it was fine, so long as no one paid any real attention to it. Now it sucks.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 12, 2025 09:29 PM (Vkgxu)

233
Trump did this in 3 weeks. Not even Reagan did anything remotely like this in 8 years and the corruption was there under him as well. This is what real executive leadership looks like.

The thing that impresses me the most about Trump is not that he won a presidential election, or that he won another after having one stolen from him but he seems to have actually learned something from his first go and his 4 years in the desert.

I just pray he really is prepared for what he will need to do because all the amazing things he's done so far will be nowhere near enough by themselves.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2025 09:29 PM (t0Rmr)

234 Were you wondering whatever happened to Keith Kellogg, Trump's Special Envoy to Ukraine and Russia, who was going to sort things out?
Turns out his daughter was running a USAID funded pro-Ukraine charity, running "humanitarian" supplies over the border.
Oopsie!

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 12, 2025 09:30 PM (kpDSe)

235 Are... are the New Yorker and The Week recommending... we suspend the Constitution . . .
... when DJT has already taken command of the bureaucracy and has his man in charge of Defense?

Posted by: ave caesar! at February 12, 2025 09:30 PM (gKWVE)

236 Imagine if the NYG election hadn't been stolen from Zeldin? Oh the corruption and thievery just waiting to be exposed at that level...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2025 09:31 PM (t0Rmr)

237 Pam Bondi just filed charges against Kathy Hocul and Letitia James for not enforcing immigration laws. I can see I'll be calling my doctor again in 4 hours.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 12, 2025 09:31 PM (7mYvx)

238 The Left regard The Constitution as a time-consuming bottleneck.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2025 09:32 PM (XeU6L)

239 "don't cross the Rubicon", say the Romans, after hoisting a big bridge over the Rubicon while dressed up like Vestal Virgins and wiggling their buttocks at the legions

Posted by: gKWVE at February 12, 2025 09:32 PM (gKWVE)

240 Were you wondering whatever happened to Keith Kellogg, Trump's Special Envoy to Ukraine and Russia, who was going to sort things out?
Turns out his daughter was running a USAID funded pro-Ukraine charity, running "humanitarian" supplies over the border.

It looks like Trump's real point man for this is Steve Witkoff a long term confidant of his and the man he was playing golf with when the CIA tried to assassinate the two of them.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2025 09:33 PM (t0Rmr)

241 Lol, I saw the photo of Schumer in the Quick Hits, with two smiling ladies I didn't recognize immediately.

My first thought was "Jeebus. I knew Amy was a gross cow, but *all* of his female relatives are ugly, just in different ways. These Schumer broads are CURSED."

Once I read the caption, I realized they were just a couple of faggots.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 12, 2025 09:33 PM (0l8OY)

242 Also just saw on Fox that Trump has sent SecTreas to KEEEEV to ensure that the settlement of the war includes paying back the US Treasury.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 12, 2025 09:33 PM (7mYvx)

243 The Week@TheWeek
America's Constitution is terrible. Let's throw it out and start over:
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Meanwhile, the other half of the left is hyperventilating over a "Constitutional Crisis™"!!

Posted by: Axeman at February 12, 2025 09:33 PM (krQz2)

244 The UK has a new requirement for an Electronic Travel Authorization that applies to Americans. You apply on an app and answer some questions, upload a photo and scan your passport (with your phone). The last question is (approx), "Are you a member of any extremist organizations?", which I believe means "Did you vote for Trump?"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 12, 2025 09:35 PM (Vkgxu)

245 Think they can bargain Z to giving back less money if instead he forks over the Burisma records?

Posted by: gKWVE at February 12, 2025 09:35 PM (gKWVE)

246 Heavy Meta-

Have a safe and wonderful trip! We took the water bus from the parking lot (edge of Venice proper) to St Mark’s Square via the grand canal. If you return via the water bus you’ll return to the starting point via the industrial canal. Kind of interesting and much cheaper than water taxi’s.

Imagine Murano is on your itinerary while in Venice.

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at February 12, 2025 09:36 PM (ZTJjv)

247 Ungrateful lying Fake News Shits

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Kara Swisher and Jake Tapper over analyze Musk's Harry Bolz joke. They're like Freud except better.

https://is.gd/YPSPyp

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 12, 2025 09:37 PM (L/fGl)

248 Though I can't give a verdict on how well it worked out militarily, I have read that the arrogance with which British officers treated the "Colonial" units was a major factor in the Canadians (not to mention the Aussies and Kiwis) seeking greater political independence after WWI.

Seems likely enough, honestly.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 12, 2025 08:25 PM (lHPJf)

Montgomery had a meeting with Freyburg (Boss man of 2NZEF in Nth Africa )circa 1941 and muttered to him , "look your troops seem to be a bit light on the saluting of a General Officer. "
Freyburg replied , well if you wave at them they will wave back!

Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at February 12, 2025 09:38 PM (bgJ0E)

249 I remember the 4th Crusade.

Venice delenda est.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2025 09:38 PM (TpJej)

250 You. Sir, are referring to the brass balls filled with cream?
Posted by: Ciampino - I can't get no, satisfaction at February 12, 2025 08:36 PM

Sadly, it was all go and no stop.

Posted by: The Engineer at February 12, 2025 09:38 PM (a3Q+t)

251 Zelensky's a sunk cost. We made that little weirdo into one of Europe's wealthier men. We ain't getting that cash back, ever. But we won't have to cough up more for him, and with any luck, we can avert another horrifying military debacle for our own country.

Let him and his whore and his Slavic pisspot functionaries make off with their filthy lucre; so long as they quit being an albatross around our necks.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 12, 2025 09:40 PM (0l8OY)

252 >Have a safe and wonderful trip! We took the water bus from the parking lot (edge of Venice proper) to St Mark’s Square via the grand canal. If you return via the water bus you’ll return to the starting point via the industrial canal. Kind of interesting and much cheaper than water taxi’s.

Imagine Murano is on your itinerary while in Venice.

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at February 12, 2025 09:36 PM (ZTJjv)

Thank you! It's definitely a big-time splurge for us. We were gypped out of our 25th anniversary trip by Fauci's Follies. So considering this an early 30th anniversary celebration. Sparing no expense. I intend to eat, drink, and do all the things.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 12, 2025 09:40 PM (GTqXr)

253
I hope & pray Elon's next name is "Deez Nuts!"

Oh, Dear Lord, please make it happen. Amen.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 12, 2025 09:40 PM (MHPMD)

254 Yerf.

Last two patients today were TRAIN WRECKS. Took a lot of time and effort that wasn't in our lane. Primary care is overwhelmed to the point that folks are demanding their specialists go WAY off track to fill the gaps.

Not good.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 12, 2025 09:40 PM (DMpo1)

255
Dear Lord, better yet, Elon's next name should be "Bofa" and then a couple of days later "Deez Nuts." Amen.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 12, 2025 09:41 PM (MHPMD)

256 Montgomery could have fucked up a one-car funeral.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 12, 2025 09:42 PM (dR6yv)

257 Zelensky will soon be seen wooing any female Arafat spawn, he's just a gigolo.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2025 09:42 PM (TpJej)

258 We are fully capable of winning the Ukraine war. Just keep sending money!

Posted by: General Harry Flashman at February 12, 2025 09:43 PM (Vkgxu)

259 The Left regard The Constitution as a time-consuming bottleneck.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

Just when we're so close to utopia!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 12, 2025 09:43 PM (L/fGl)

260 Venice

Plaza of Saint Mark - looted art.
Bones of Saint Mark - looted human remains.

Just let the place sink.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2025 09:43 PM (TpJej)

261 Ok. Ok. Ok.

It's just a little pinprick.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 12, 2025 09:44 PM (2sg1c)

262 Ah Venice.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 12, 2025 09:44 PM (yF8T2)

263 Bollz of You're Fired!

Posted by: davidt at February 12, 2025 09:44 PM (i0F8b)

264 256 Montgomery could have fucked up a one-car funeral.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factor

Now now, just because you have seen Saving Pte Ryan.

Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at February 12, 2025 09:45 PM (bgJ0E)

265 Ballz of Fyre?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2025 09:45 PM (TpJej)

266
Just when we're so close to utopia!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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American politicians: Funding good intentions for 50 years!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2025 09:45 PM (XeU6L)

267 265 Ballz of Fyre?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Goodness gracious

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 12, 2025 09:46 PM (DMpo1)

268 >> As I said, most don't seem to understand how separation of powers works. Do you think Congress could have hired Elon to do a forensic audit of the Executive branch? Sure, they could have used the powers of the purse but that hasn't happened ever. Never will.

Congress has multiple committees written into the law to do oversight of the executive branch. They could have done this decades ago.

Weird that you’re suddenly insisting that the most powerful, accountable branch of our government never coulda done nothing to root out the corruption they were voting to fund, year after year after year..

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 12, 2025 09:46 PM (Cw7Lx)

269 That's the problem. Blaming Congress is convenient but it's not really accurate.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2025 09:10 PM (LkLld)

Uh, one reason Congress has oversite authority, so they can decide on spending...

If there is this much waste and fraud, then they failed in their oversite... so yeah, I can blame Congress for a lot of this crap.

They were so busy renaming silly shit, they have not done their primary duty on the Budget.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2025 09:46 PM (QAkQ3)

270
Here's something nobody talks about: I wonder what Elon's security is like. I'll bet my left nut it puts the Secret Service to shame, at 1/1000th of the cost.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 12, 2025 09:47 PM (MHPMD)

271 Operation Market Garden

So many airborne troops it will take TWO days to drop them all.

XXX Corps will drive up this ONE road.

What could go wrong? Well besides two SS Panzer units at Arnhem?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2025 09:47 PM (TpJej)

272 >>> 198 184 Congress really needs to have to answer for this. You guys have been sitting up there and letting the biggest fraud and money laundering operation go on under your noses for decades.

This is going to be larger than all the big private sector frauds we've ever heard about put together.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Noooo, the are in on it, they've been part of the scam for a long time. Think of all the new candidates that ran as Tea Party then turned after the assumed office. Something powerful did that.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 12, 2025 08:58 PM (KWTb5)

So far they've only (!!) exposed massive, ludicrous misuse of tax revenue. What else is there...?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 12, 2025 09:47 PM (Vqx30)

273 Who has oversight of the Judicial Branch?

Posted by: davidt at February 12, 2025 09:47 PM (i0F8b)

274 Paul Giamatti is set to star in a biopic about the legendary Art Bell...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at February 12, 2025 09:48 PM (TGPs7)

275 >>>It starts out pretty easy but they are just skiming the obvious crap. Then they make the tools to dive deeper and find the paths and people doing the crime. Then you go after the universities and contractors and rip them up.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Something interesting that's not been talked about.
Elon, has said several times, we're not just finding it we're re-writing its DNA. He never says throw away lines. What is he re-writing and how is he re-structuring it? Or what better question to ask about re-writing an agency's DNA?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 12, 2025 09:48 PM (KWTb5)

276 Apple has Gulf of America now.
Maryland sues Glock.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 12, 2025 09:48 PM (yF8T2)

277 So far they've only (!!) exposed massive, ludicrous misuse of tax revenue. What else is there...?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 12, 2025 09:47 PM (Vqx30)

The investigation into where that money really went? Gonna be lit.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2025 09:49 PM (QAkQ3)

278 Not even Reagan

PDT doesn't have tens of thousands of ICBMs pointed at him.

Posted by: DaveA at February 12, 2025 09:49 PM (FhXTo)

279 Like I said, this has to result in people going to jail. The fraud isn't doing itself.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 12, 2025 09:49 PM (2sg1c)

280 273 Who has oversight of the Judicial Branch?
Posted by: davidt at February 12, 2025 09:47 PM (i0F8b)

Congress, who not only creates and controls courts inferior to the Supremes, but has the ability to impeach Judges.

Supremes are also supposed to be able to spank lower courts, but no method for doing so has ever been legislated.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2025 09:50 PM (QAkQ3)

281 >>The thing that impresses me the most about Trump is not that he won a presidential election, or that he won another after having one stolen from him but he seems to have actually learned something from his first go and his 4 years in the desert.

I'm pretty much the opposite. Trump is obviously very smart and talented. He's now a two time elected president, 3 really but let's leave that aside, and he did it while not only beating his Democrat opponents but he did it while taking over the Republican party and remaking it in his vision. Who is the last person you know who did that all by himself?

They tried to impeach him, bankrupt him, imprison him and when all that failed murder him. How does anyone really believe he knows less than we do about how corrupt this government has become?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2025 09:50 PM (LkLld)

282
Who has oversight of the Judicial Branch?
Posted by: davidt

The Senate & House each have their stupid, useless "committees."

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 12, 2025 09:51 PM (MHPMD)

283 How many sudden passings after a sudden illness will result?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2025 09:51 PM (TpJej)

284 So far they've only (!!) exposed massive, ludicrous misuse of tax revenue. What else is there...?

I suspect we will find out in short order:

1) Almost every decision maker in the federal bureaucracy knew COVID came from the Wuhan lab and that the clot shot did nothing good all the way back in 2021

2) Sex trafficking is an explicit goal of the uncontrolled southern border - this will be couched mostly in terms of helping immigrant children embrace their sexuality/gender but will show the government sending children to be with adults that are sexually interested in them

3) Lil Z's right in that less then half of the funds allocated to his war actually went to him. The rest went to the friends and clients of our government

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2025 09:51 PM (t0Rmr)

285 See: Attempted investigation of the Reds who had infiltrated nearly all of Federal agencies (and most particularly State) 1940-1955. Congress (or at least the R's) were thwarted at every turn by the agencies (partcularly State) and Truman,
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 12, 2025 09:20 PM (XeU6L)

The GOP did do extensive investigation. Truman had to order records of Communist infiltration be moved to the White House and kept under lock-and-key to keep Congress from getting ahold of them.

And the Communist infiltration was a big deal in the 1952 election, which swept Eisenhower to power. Eisenhower almost immediately started obstructing Congress, proving the corruption was bipartisan.

Still, Congress managed to make most of the details public. The voters just didn’t insist on any real changes so the subversion of our Constitution and the American way of life continued unabated.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 12, 2025 09:51 PM (Cw7Lx)

286 Zelensky's a sunk cost. We made that little weirdo into one of Europe's wealthier men. We ain't getting that cash back, ever.

Nope. Ukraine has resources. They will belong to the US taxpayer now.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 12, 2025 09:52 PM (2aYv8)

287 Rubio is kicking butt. Going to Munich and then to Israel, Saudi and UAE. He is the new Kissinger !

Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 09:54 PM (g47mK)

288 Posted by: Ian S. at February 12, 2025 09:52 PM (2aYv

But how much of it is in the areas Putin gets to retain?

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at February 12, 2025 09:54 PM (Vvh2V)

289 Depose Zelensky to a Swiss chalet and install Elon in Kiev.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2025 09:54 PM (TpJej)

290 Congress, who not only creates and controls courts inferior to the Supremes, but has the ability to impeach Judges.

Supremes are also supposed to be able to spank lower courts, but no method for doing so has ever been legislated.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2025 09:50 PM (QAkQ3)

Yep. Congress also defines SCOTUS’ appellate jurisdiction, which is where most of their power comes from.

The GOP could sideline all of these Hawaiian judges, and put John Roberts in his place, if they really wanted to.

They don’t want to.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 12, 2025 09:55 PM (Cw7Lx)

291 First World Problems: it only applies to those who use YoutubeTV for streaming. Paramount, including CBS, will be removed from it's lineup due to a pricing dispute. In the age of the internet, there are workarounds.

Anyway, carry on...

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 12, 2025 09:55 PM (sAmhv)

292 Paul Giamatti is set to star in a biopic about the legendary Art Bell...

Art Bell's was an interesting guy. Fairly non-political he came to the public just before the left decided you are either 100% with them or against them and if the latter you must be destroyed.

I notice the left already hates his successor George Noory who is also mostly non-political but because he won't mouth leftist shibboleths...well...he's gotta be destroyed.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2025 09:55 PM (t0Rmr)

293 https://shorturl.at/5Eew5

Article I
Section 9 Powers Denied Congress
Clause 7 Appropriations
No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
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So, shouldn't we have been receiving regular audit reports for the past century and a half?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 12, 2025 09:56 PM (Vqx30)

294 There are plenty of answers.

I forget the questions.

Perhaps a good ONT will help.

Soooon...

Posted by: mindful webworker - so far so far at February 12, 2025 09:58 PM (C7u2V)

295 It already is settled law that these judges can not interfere with the President exercising his executive powers.

Mississippi vs President Johnson, 1866.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2025 09:58 PM (TpJej)

296 NASA poached a bunch of Canuck aerospace engineers who were quite good, Avro or something like that. Might be a stretch to say we wouldn’t have made it without ‘em but they knew their stuff.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 12, 2025 09:59 PM (im9tq)

297 But how much of it is in the areas Putin gets to retain?
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor
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If Ukraine doesn't get a port out of the deal they are getting screwed.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 12, 2025 10:00 PM (KWTb5)

298 Avro Canada, the CF-105 Arrow.

Ottawa cancelled the interceptor, and those engineers immigrated to US aviation companies.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2025 10:00 PM (TpJej)

299 Snake fears not la chancla!

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 12, 2025 10:00 PM (B4OJl)

300 >>Uh, one reason Congress has oversite authority, so they can decide on spending...

Let's play a game. You get 1 vote and I get 1 vote.

You want to defund some part of government and I don't.

Let's vote. How do you think it will work?

We the people vote for these people and we the people keep sending back people to the Congress that are not serious about doing anything to make any real changes largely because most are making bank off it and then we bitch about Congress not doing anything like it's a surprise. And then we wait a couple years and do it all over again.

Change was only ever going to come from the executive not a bunch of clowns in the legislature who get paid to talk.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2025 10:01 PM (LkLld)

301 NOOD ONT

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 12, 2025 10:02 PM (Vqx30)

302

noood

go

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 12, 2025 10:03 PM (MHPMD)

303 >>>Congress that are not serious about doing anything to make any real changes largely because most are making bank off it
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I called it, 'in on the scam'.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 12, 2025 10:03 PM (KWTb5)

304 So, shouldn't we have been receiving regular audit reports for the past century and a half?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 12, 2025 09:56 PM (Vqx30)

No, don’t you see? Congress is powerless to get an audit of the money they spend! They’re Constitutionally required to hurl $6.752 trillion over the wall every year with no oversight.

Mike Johnson isn’t a corrupt cuck RINO, he’s just a real stickler for the Constitutional separation of powers, or something!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 12, 2025 10:03 PM (Cw7Lx)

305 Let's play a game. You get 1 vote and I get 1 vote.

You want to defund some part of government and I don't.

Let's vote. How do you think it will work?

***

FedGiv is not funded by default. Every appropriation needs a positive vote.

So I would win.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 12, 2025 10:05 PM (Cw7Lx)

306 Operation Market Garden

So many airborne troops it will take TWO days to drop them all.

XXX Corps will drive up this ONE road.

What could go wrong? Well besides two SS Panzer units at Arnhem?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 12, 2025 09:47 PM

The surrender scene in the movie Bridge too Far was one of the best lines ever.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 12, 2025 10:06 PM (4p0Xq)

307 >>So I would win.

No you wouldn't. What have you ever done other than bitch on a blog?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2025 10:07 PM (LkLld)

308 nic'd my finger on monday cooking and picked up the shit guitar again. Boop, blood again.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 12, 2025 10:47 PM (mlg/3)

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