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Howdy Horde! Thursday night, almost to the weekend, how is everybody?

On Islam

? [1/9] I recently had a passionate debate with a German friend about whether Islam lies at the root of the dysfunction in Islamic societies and whether it can be reformed. Like many of my privileged Western liberal friends, his understanding of the Islamic world seems to rest… pic.twitter.com/19I1WEWfPv
— Maral Salmassi (@MaralSalmassi) March 24, 2025

It's worth clicking through to X and reading the whole thread. Do you agree with her conclusions?

Headline Of The Week

Pregnant woman forced to swallow lit ‘blunt’ after being dragged out of bed by man who wanted to wash her feet, cops say

The story is just run of the mill domestic violence, but that headline...boy howdy.

Squish

Amy Coney Barrett Could Be A Superb Supreme Court Justice. She’s Choosing Not To Be

Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett has become a sort of enigma among avid Supreme Court observers.
After filling the vacancy left by deceased Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in late 2020, many conservatives were hopeful that the former clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia would offer a much-needed dose of originalism to the high court’s majority of Republican appointees. With Barrett joining Associate Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and (on his good days) Neil Gorsuch, the prospects for decisions abiding by the Constitution as written would be far more likely, or so the conventional thinking went.
To her credit, Barrett has shown the potential do just that. During her time as a justice, the former Notre Dame law professor has been instrumental in overturning Roe v. Wade and Chevron deference, upholding certain religious liberty protections, and several other high-profile matters that have come before the high court in recent years.
However, what continues to stump constitutionalists and Barrett hopefuls alike is the associate justice’s abject failure to consistently apply originalist doctrine in her rulings.

She's a squish, nothing but.

America The Beautiful

Non-Americans Are Sharing The Things They Actually Like About America, And It's Eye-Opening

This person's probably from South Africa:

Safety in rural areas. Our dream is to buy a farm and live peacefully, but where I live, it's so dangerous it's unreal. When I see movies or programs about people living on ranches or farms in some town in the US, it looks amazing. We could never.

And of course, they didn't forget the important stuff:

My country never would have thought of replacing the bread in a KFC chicken sandwich with TWO PIECES OF CHICKEN. Genius. Keep 'em coming.

USA! USA! USA!

Say Dave, How Drunk Have You Seen People Get On The ONT?

Me:

pic.twitter.com/jmhjSmmLU1
— ONT WTF (@OntWtf) April 4, 2025

The Sorry State Of “Higher” Education

https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/the-average-college-student-today

Students are not absolutely illiterate in the sense of being unable to sound out any words whatsoever. Reading bores them, though. They are impatient to get through whatever burden of reading they have to, and move their eyes over the words just to get it done. They’re like me clicking through a mandatory online HR training. Students get exam questions wrong simply because they didn't even take the time to read the question properly. Reading anything more than a menu is a chore and to be avoided.
They also lie about it. I wrote the textbook for a course I regularly teach. It’s a fairly popular textbook, so I’m assuming it is not terribly written. I did everything I could to make the writing lively and packed with my most engaging examples. The majority of students don’t read it. Oh, they will come to my office hours (occasionally) because they are bombing the course, and tell me that they have been doing the reading, but it’s obvious they are lying. The most charitable interpretation is that they looked at some of the words, didn’t understand anything, pretended that counted as reading, and returned to looking at TikTok.

Has anyone seen any of those social media posts displaying things like eight grade exams from 100 years ago? Inevitably, the questions are more detailed and harder than many people get in college today. Here's an example.

Archeology

Archaeologists find first evidence of epic biblical battle at ‘Armageddon’

For the first time, a team of Israeli archaeologists has uncovered ancient artifacts at northern Israel’s “Armageddon” site that might offer proof of an epic battle documented in the books of Kings II and Chronicles between a king of Judah and an Egyptian pharaoh.
Two academic papers published earlier this year explained how an unprecedented amount of 7th-century BCE Egyptian pottery was found in recent excavations at Megiddo, suggesting that Egyptian soldiers were indeed in the right biblical place at what could be the right biblical period.
“Megiddo is the only site in Israel and the neighboring countries mentioned in the Bible and in all great records of the Ancient Near East,” said Prof. Israel Finkelstein, head of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures at the University of Haifa and long-time director of the Megiddo Expedition.

Weird how they keep finding 10,000 year old artifacts in Israel from the people who “colonized” the poor Palestinians. Very strange.

Perfect Your Racism!

Actually, this is a fun little website. It shows you two pictures, a male and a female, typical of different ethnic groups from around the world. You have to click on the map where you think they're from, and then it tells you how far off you were.

EthnoGuesser

My average score was 1274, although I nailed Eastern European group dead on.

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Comments

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1 amazed

Posted by: Ciampino - I've fallen & I can't get up LOL at April 03, 2025 09:58 PM (sPQoU)

2 foist

Posted by: Ciampino - I've fallen at April 03, 2025 09:59 PM (sPQoU)

3
HIya.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 03, 2025 09:59 PM (3izae)

4 Kaboom, figuratively

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 03, 2025 10:01 PM (QSrLX)

5 Overnight Thread. The th-th-th-th-that's all, folks, of the AoS day.

(Nods back to last night's.)

Posted by: mindful webworker - you know, -those- folks, wink wink, nudge nudge at April 03, 2025 10:01 PM (bI8eg)

6 Good evening good people!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2025 10:02 PM (cYBz/)

7 Good Val Kilmer ref, WD.

Thanks for the ONT.

'I was just playing about.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2025 10:04 PM (bss/y)

8 Good evening morons y gracias wd por el ont

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 03, 2025 10:05 PM (RIvkX)

9 Just pulled my sourdough out of the oven. Looks and smells damn good. I think I am getting this thing dialed in.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2025 10:05 PM (cYBz/)

10 EthnoGuesser

My average score was 1274, although I nailed Eastern European group dead on.

I got an average score of 2425.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2025 10:07 PM (xCA6C)

11 'I was just playing about.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2025 10:04 PM (bss/y)

"I'll be your huckleberry."

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 03, 2025 10:08 PM (pM4Nm)

12 So in my journey's in AI, I've been checking out Udio, the AI music generation platform, shockingly, the vast majority of the music is really good.

Checking out the Grunge music catalog, you can really hear that the DNA of the wide array of songs is from Nirvana, The Pixies, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Stone Temple Pilots.

It's surreal to hear a song fronted by an AI bot that perfectly mixes Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley vocal sound.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2025 10:09 PM (XV/Pl)

13 My dad worked with several South Africans on construction projects forty years ago. They told him that it was hard for them to understand how farmers could leave their tractors and combines in the fields because in SA, someone would have stolen them right away. Every piece of equipment had to be parked in a locked barn or shed every time it wasn't in use.

Posted by: huerfano at April 03, 2025 10:09 PM (n2swS)

14
"Like many of my privileged Western liberal friends, his understanding of the Islamic world seems to rest on a brief visit to the Egyptian pyramids..."

This is probably true.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 03, 2025 10:09 PM (3izae)

15 Sorry I'm late, my map was on an Etch-a-Sketch, until we hit that pothole.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 03, 2025 10:10 PM (G2w/T)

16 They told him that it was hard for them to understand how farmers could leave their tractors and combines in the fields because in SA, someone would have stolen them right away. Every piece of equipment had to be parked in a locked barn or shed every time it wasn't in use.
Posted by: huerfano

Umpossible! I've been assured that all cultures are equal.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2025 10:11 PM (cYBz/)

17 The Manolo does NOT approve of that final picture.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 03, 2025 10:12 PM (G2w/T)

18 Good evening Horde. Thanks WD!

Glad you made it tankdemon.

Posted by: TRex at April 03, 2025 10:12 PM (IQ6Gq)

19 Just pulled my sourdough out of the oven. Looks and smells damn good. I think I am getting this thing dialed in.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2025 10:05 PM (cYBz/)

Two things in the kitchen that smell wonderful in the house. Bread, as you know. But I find making beef broth from bones a very pleasent aroma. Almost primal.

Posted by: RickZ at April 03, 2025 10:13 PM (gKDq2)

20 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 03, 2025 10:13 PM (6PUpl)

21 Sorry I'm late, my map was on an Etch-a-Sketch, until we hit that pothole.
Posted by: tankdemon

At least you were in a town where all the roads were on a grid, otherwise you could have been really late.

Posted by: mikeski draws perfect stairs at April 03, 2025 10:14 PM (DgGvY)

22 Weird Dave!

Posted by: Bulg at April 03, 2025 10:14 PM (77rzZ)

23 2954....

*buffs nails*

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at April 03, 2025 10:14 PM (kOluj)

24 Equipment needs to be locked up here, too.

Posted by: davidt at April 03, 2025 10:16 PM (i0F8b)

25 I thought Val Kilmer was dead in Top Gun - Maverick. He did not look good.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2025 10:16 PM (VofaG)

26 It's surreal to hear a song fronted by an AI bot that perfectly mixes Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley vocal sound.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2025 10:09 PM (XV/Pl)

Read a blog post today where the author opined that Taylor Swift will be the last human pop superstar. From here on out it will be AI-generated visions that will produce "music" that is precisely tuned to appeal to selected demographics.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 03, 2025 10:16 PM (pM4Nm)

27 "Like many of my privileged Western liberal friends, his understanding of the Islamic world seems to rest on a brief visit to the Egyptian pyramids..."

This is probably true.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

So he hangs out with the worldly, educated ones.

Most liberals base their beliefs about Islam on watching Disney's Aladdin when they were kids.

Posted by: mikeski at April 03, 2025 10:17 PM (DgGvY)

28 Read a blog post today where the author opined that Taylor Swift will be the last human pop superstar. From here on out it will be AI-generated visions that will produce "music" that is precisely tuned to appeal to selected demographics.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

S.o.o.n.

Posted by: Hatsune Miku at April 03, 2025 10:17 PM (DgGvY)

29 My dad worked with several South Africans on construction projects forty years ago. They told him that it was hard for them to understand how farmers could leave their tractors and combines in the fields because in SA, someone would have stolen them right away. Every piece of equipment had to be parked in a locked barn or shed every time it wasn't in use.
Posted by: huerfano at April 03, 025 10:09 PM (n2swS)

Nothing like a Low Trust Society, Turd World-style.

Which is sad considering S.A. was a nuclear power and Dr. Christaan Barnard performed the first human-to-human heart transplant. S.A. was a First World Country that is now lost to the four winds and the ANC. But mostly to the ANC.

Posted by: RickZ at April 03, 2025 10:18 PM (gKDq2)

30 Just pulled my sourdough out of the oven. Looks and smells damn good. I think I am getting this thing dialed in.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2025 10:05 PM (cYBz/)

Every time I think that, the next one comes out heavy and unrisen.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 03, 2025 10:18 PM (D7oie)

31 >> It's worth clicking through to X and reading the whole thread. Do you agree with her conclusions?

I can’t read it because Twitter on mobile sucks, but:

those areas were f*cked up long before Islam, but adding fanatical religious devotion to shit-poor countries* full of dipshits probably didn’t help.

People over-intellectualize this. Islam is trash, but it’s not like Iraq would be ruling the world if it were Catholic. This isn’t 2000 BC and Mesopotamia is not the center of the Earth.

At the same time, look at Albania: Muslim, but basically standard-issue “Eastern European shithole” tier.

Islam does the most damage among already-wrecked societies, which just happen to be most of the places Islam takes root (except Albania?)

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 03, 2025 10:18 PM (l3YAf)

32 You can also write your own prompts, I created a song called, Project Manager In Hell, in the genre of big band meets grunge, with a singers voice as a mix of Luciano Pavorati and Morrisey.

It ended up sounding like a harder edged Squirrel Nut Zippers.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2025 10:19 PM (XV/Pl)

33 18 Good evening Horde. Thanks WD!

Glad you made it tankdemon.
Posted by: TRex at April 03, 2025 10:12 PM (IQ6Gq)

As am I.

Good to see you too, TRex. Hope everybody has had a wondrous day.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 03, 2025 10:20 PM (G2w/T)

34 Got a 2016 on ethno guesser. Bullseye 5k points on the eastern European one lol. They couldn't have looked more eastern euro.

Posted by: brak at April 03, 2025 10:20 PM (FxkK0)

35 Even Europeans who talk crap about America wish they could live here.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2025 10:20 PM (VofaG)

36 Howdy Horde! Thursday night, almost to the weekend, how is everybody?

Not great. I did my taxes yesterday, and that always puts me in a foul mood. To say I hate the IRS and our tax system is an understatement.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 03, 2025 10:21 PM (0Htd1)

37 @26

>>From here on out it will be AI-generated visions that will produce "music" that is precisely tuned to appeal to selected demographics.

Rick Beato had a segment today on AI generated music, he played different genres's they all sounded good, the one that stood out to me though was country, any one of the songs that he demoed could be playing on a top 40 country station.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2025 10:21 PM (XV/Pl)

38 1869. Nya, nya, na nya-na.

Posted by: buddhaha at April 03, 2025 10:21 PM (t56RO)

39 The slow fade out is the worst part of 80s music. Just there to give DJs a chance to put down their cigarette.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 03, 2025 10:22 PM (lhenN)

40 Got a 2016 on ethno guesser. Bullseye 5k points on the eastern European one lol. They couldn't have looked more eastern euro.
Posted by: brak at April 03, 2025 10:20 PM (FxkK0)

Were they wearing silk shirts and gold chains. Those wild and crazy Eastern Europeans.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2025 10:22 PM (VofaG)

41 1807

Posted by: lin-duh at April 03, 2025 10:23 PM (VCgbV)

42
[1/9] I recently had a passionate debate with a German friend about whether Islam lies at the root of the dysfunction in Islamic societies and whether it can be reformed.

------

Readers added context they thought people might want to know:

I keel you!

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 03, 2025 10:23 PM (iTNuP)

43 Holy shit, I was terrible at ethnoguesser

Average 406.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 03, 2025 10:24 PM (a2HsN)

44 Weird how they keep finding 10,000 year old artifacts in Israel from the people who “colonized” the poor Palestinians. Very strange.

The current Islamist claim is modern Jews are descendants of Khazars and therefore not really from Israel.

Genetics, history, and archeology all prove them wrong yet here we are.

Muslims didn't show up in Israel until the Caliphate conquered the lands in the 600s. Jews had lived there by that point for well more then a millennium.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2025 10:24 PM (t0Rmr)

45 Read a blog post today where the author opined that Taylor Swift will be the last human pop superstar. From here on out it will be AI-generated visions that will produce "music" that is precisely tuned to appeal to selected demographics.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

So everyone will lip sync at concerts ?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2025 10:24 PM (VofaG)

46 13 My dad worked with several South Africans on construction projects forty years ago. They told him that it was hard for them to understand how farmers could leave their tractors and combines in the fields because in SA, someone would have stolen them right away. Every piece of equipment had to be parked in a locked barn or shed every time it wasn't in use.

Posted by: huerfano at April 03, 2025 10:09 PM (n2swS)
----
YES!

However in this small S IL town, while a bank was being built IN THE MIDDLE OF TOWN and during the lunch break, someone loaded a large backhoe onto a truck and stole it.

Posted by: Ciampino - every thing chained or it's gone at April 03, 2025 10:25 PM (sPQoU)

47 Islam can't be reformed because it has elements in it to keep it from reforming in the direction leftist elites want it to reform.

Islam can give you a Caliph, or a despot, but not an atheist bureaucracy.

And here's the thing as bad as Islam is it is still better then the modern left.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2025 10:26 PM (t0Rmr)

48 So everyone will lip sync at concerts ?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2025 10:24 PM (VofaG)

Milli Vanilli were ahead of their time.

Posted by: RickZ at April 03, 2025 10:26 PM (gKDq2)

49 The track I am listening to now is a "Live" performance of a song called Nirvana, it literally sounds like Kurt Cobain, it's shockingly good.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2025 10:27 PM (XV/Pl)

50 So everyone will lip sync at concerts ?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Milli Vanilli were ahead of their time.
Posted by: RickZ

Bitches better un-revoke our Grammy.

Posted by: half-zombie Milli Vanilli at April 03, 2025 10:27 PM (DgGvY)

51 Ethnoguesser accused me of being a racist. I just said they all looked Irish. Was that wrong?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 03, 2025 10:28 PM (6PUpl)

52 People over-intellectualize this. Islam is trash, but it’s not like Iraq would be ruling the world if it were Catholic. This isn’t 2000 BC and Mesopotamia is not the center of the Earth.

In the 500s, just before the rise of Islam, the most advanced regions in the west were: Italy, North Africa, Egypt, the Levant, Asia Minor, and Persia.

Islam conquered all but the first and they are all backwards shitholes now...well except for Israel where the Jews took it back...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2025 10:28 PM (t0Rmr)

53 "EthnoGuesser

My average score was 1274, although I nailed Eastern European group dead on."

My average score was 2297, and I did especially well with the African faces.

Posted by: Big Penguin at April 03, 2025 10:29 PM (hRN9+)

54 Thanks WD. 1292 - one bullseye, the rest...not so good.

Posted by: scampydog at April 03, 2025 10:30 PM (41CYW)

55 They told him that it was hard for them to understand how farmers could leave their tractors and combines in the fields because in SA, someone would have stolen them right away

We tend to think of “high trust societies” as a luxury or a nice thing to strive for. It is much more than that. It is absolutely impossible to have any sort of remotely civilized society without it. Sure, we’ve always needed cops, and justice, but America was great because Americans were good.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 03, 2025 10:30 PM (KMICP)

56 We soon get even with the penguins.

https://is.gd/195cgN

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 03, 2025 10:31 PM (pBnSW)

57 I have a useless talent of immediately recognizing a women as Asian from just seeing them from behind.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2025 10:31 PM (VofaG)

58 Off, Big Penguin sock.

Penguins wouldn't do that well in Africa, anyway.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 03, 2025 10:31 PM (hRN9+)

59 Meh, got a mid 2k score on EG. Stupid anyway because all the obvious Africans were from Africa of course, all the Asians were from Asia, and all the European were from Europe. Who cares what specific country the "came from."

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 03, 2025 10:32 PM (0eaVi)

60 Sorry I'm late, my map was on an Etch-a-Sketch, until we hit that pothole.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 03, 2025 10:10 PM (G2w/T)

Next time, put it on a Don't Break the Ice game!

https://a.co/d/bxnkfv6

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 03, 2025 10:33 PM (VNX3d)

61 I have a useless talent of immediately recognizing a women as Asian from just seeing them from behind.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2025 10:31 PM (VofaG)

Or, their tiny little feet.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 03, 2025 10:33 PM (0eaVi)

62 Sure, we’ve always needed cops, and justice, but America was great because Americans were good.
Posted by: Common Tater at April 03, 2025 10:30 PM (KMICP)

We used to be the kind of society where if you were given too much change, you gave it back. Now it's 'Bank Error In Your Favor'. I still give back too much change.

Posted by: RickZ at April 03, 2025 10:34 PM (gKDq2)

63 58 Off, Big Penguin sock.

Penguins wouldn't do that well in Africa, anyway.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 03, 2025 10:31 PM (hRN9+)

Oh, Really?

Posted by: Black Footed Penguin at April 03, 2025 10:35 PM (G2w/T)

64 Nothing like a Low Trust Society, Turd World-style.

Which is sad considering S.A. was a nuclear power and Dr. Christaan Barnard performed the first human-to-human heart transplant. S.A. was a First World Country that is now lost to the four winds and the ANC. But mostly to the ANC.
Posted by: RickZ at April 03, 2025 10:18 PM (gKDq2)

A few weeks ago I had someone telling me how racist Musk was “because he was a Boer”, and how evil Trump was for wanting to give amnesty to whites fleeing South Africa.

Not four sentences later, he said one of the things that made S.A. a great country that is better than America was because the first heart transplant was done there.

I was like “Uh.. do you think that was done by Zulus, bro?”

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 03, 2025 10:35 PM (l3YAf)

65 The shoe is cute and all, but those look nothing like White Castle burgers.

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at April 03, 2025 10:35 PM (JRP2U)

66 Penguins wouldn't do that well in Africa, anyway.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 03, 2025 10:31 PM (hRN9+)

That's what we want you to think!

Posted by: The Cape Penguins at April 03, 2025 10:35 PM (0eaVi)

67 I only got a 1746 on the Ethn-o-Matic. But I nailed the Caucus and Siberian regions!

So to speak.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at April 03, 2025 10:35 PM (kpS4V)

68 The crazy thing is you can mix genres, mix singers, mix vocal styles and the AI will create it.

And you can really see the sources the AI is pulling from, like I'm listening to a ska/punk song fronted by a chick that sounds eerily like Pat Bentar and Gwen Stefani merged into a single vocal delivery.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 03, 2025 10:35 PM (XV/Pl)

69 An armed populace makes predators have to think about their actions.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2025 10:35 PM (VofaG)

70 Hello, Horde! 😊❤️

Hello, Jim SND! 😘😘😘

Hello, Jewells! ❤️❤️❤️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 03, 2025 10:36 PM (SRRAx)

71 Not four sentences later, he said one of the things that made S.A. a great country that is better than America was because the first heart transplant was done there.

I was like “Uh.. do you think that was done by Zulus, bro?”
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 03, 2025 10:35 PM (l3YAf)

Aztecs, man! Aztecs.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 03, 2025 10:36 PM (VNX3d)

72 58 Off, Big Penguin sock.

Penguins wouldn't do that well in Africa, anyway.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 03, 2025 10:31 PM (hRN9+)
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Try Cape Town and environs. I know one nature park where there are signs in the parking lot at the lodge, to check under the car for penguins. Tiny little things.

Posted by: Ciampino - this is small penguin at April 03, 2025 10:36 PM (sPQoU)

73 Was drunk woman Asian?

Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at April 03, 2025 10:38 PM (8cPKb)

74 On ethnoguesser, I averaged 2216, but I'm a bit ticked off at one of the questions because the correct site was likely the ancestors of people from a different continent, so I got zero on that one.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at April 03, 2025 10:38 PM (pYSTI)

75 Meanwhile, in Ukraine:
1. Both the Russians and the Ukrainians appear to be uninterested in the current US ceasefire proposal.
2. The Russians continue to slowly clean up the last of the Kursk salient. A bit to the south, the Ukrainians are holding on to a tiny cross-border salient, which seems to be well contained.
3. The Ukrainians are having some success in preventing the southeast logistics hub city of Pokrovsk from being encircled. Everywhere else, the Russians continue to grind forward.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 03, 2025 10:38 PM (pM4Nm)

76 Is scarymary around? Let me know at teresa.hamilton.koch@ gmail.com (remove space) if you want to go with us to dinner Saturday night (and how many will be coming, so that I can adjust our reservation) - our treat! 😊❤️

Looking forward to meeting you -

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 03, 2025 10:39 PM (SRRAx)

77 Looking forward to meeting you -
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 03, 2025 10:39 PM (SRRAx)

Now you know, probably one hundred people will show up.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at April 03, 2025 10:40 PM (0eaVi)

78 Drunk girl looks fun.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 03, 2025 10:42 PM (/lPRQ)

79 Speaking of famous heart surgeons , Dr. Michael DeBakey was born in my hometown of Lake Charles,Louisiana.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2025 10:42 PM (VofaG)

80 Not four sentences later, he said one of the things that made S.A. a great country that is better than America was because the first heart transplant was done there.

I was like “Uh.. do you think that was done by Zulus, bro?”
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 03, 2025 10:35 PM (l3YAf)

When I was living in Brooklyn in the early '80s while Apartheid was still going on, I met two South Afrikaners who came to the States to avoid military service over there. I must say I never met two more arrogant racist pricks in my entire life.

Posted by: RickZ at April 03, 2025 10:42 PM (gKDq2)

81 73 Was drunk woman Asian?
Posted by: Biggest Alfredo at April 03, 2025 10:38 PM (8cPKb)

Ask Sebastian Melmoth.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 03, 2025 10:42 PM (G2w/T)

82 Not four sentences later, he said one of the things that made S.A. a great country that is better than America was because the first heart transplant was done there.

I was like “Uh.. do you think that was done by Zulus, bro?”
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

Aztecs, man! Aztecs.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

They had it half figured out 500 years ago!

Posted by: mikeski denounces himself at April 03, 2025 10:43 PM (DgGvY)

83 Oh, and those two guys were both gay on top of all that.

Posted by: RickZ at April 03, 2025 10:45 PM (gKDq2)

84 Watching "Castrovalva." Classic Doctor Who is so much better than new Who.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 03, 2025 10:45 PM (CHHv1)

85 82

Aztecs, man! Aztecs.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

They had it half figured out 500 years ago!

Posted by: mikeski denounces himself at April 03, 2025 10:43 PM (DgGvY)
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Well they got the 'taking it out without anesthesia' but hadn't got to the 'put the candle back' stage.

Posted by: Ciampino - logistics at April 03, 2025 10:47 PM (sPQoU)

86 Ethnoguesser...

Bombed that on second set because "Don't Give a Shit".

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 03, 2025 10:48 PM (/lPRQ)

87 Jim SND.
Hope you are here. Am sending prayers. Always enjoyed our conversations.

Posted by: DBCooper at April 03, 2025 10:48 PM (y1Mvi)

88 Well they got the 'taking it out without anesthesia' but hadn't got to the 'put the candle back' stage.
Posted by: Ciampino

You forgot your BEN sock.

Posted by: mikeski at April 03, 2025 10:49 PM (DgGvY)

89 Watching "Castrovalva." Classic Doctor Who is so much better than new Who.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at April 03, 2025 10:45 PM (CHHv1)

I watched reruns of the early stuff with Tom Baker. But I gave up in the mid '80s when they started showing newer doctors and the plots got thin. But now they've so lost the plot as to be nonexistent.

Posted by: RickZ at April 03, 2025 10:49 PM (gKDq2)

90 83 80 Oh, and those two guys were both gay on top of all that.

Posted by: RickZ at April 03, 2025 10:45 PM (gKDq2)
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Surprised they got a visa.

Posted by: Ciampino - stop eating the beating heart at April 03, 2025 10:49 PM (sPQoU)

91 Criminals steal lots of things from orchards and rice fields here in the valley. Bins of almonds and walnuts - which also means there are lots of hullers fencing stolen goods.

VDH talks about it on his podcasts.

Posted by: 13times at April 03, 2025 10:50 PM (KxesK)

92 I used to do a map game of the world where you were given the name of the country and you would tap on where it was . That was 20 years ago but I think I could still do it except for some of the African countries. All of the Stans were difficult to get straight for awhile so I’d probably mix them up too.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2025 10:51 PM (VofaG)

93 2476 here

Too much time reading Nat Geo … back when it weren’t woke

Posted by: browndog tilting head at April 03, 2025 10:51 PM (TTAGa)

94 North American Golden Marshmallow

https://youtube.com/shorts/GIqCa6uvzZI

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 03, 2025 10:52 PM (VNX3d)

95 The only reason to ever watch Dr Who: https://tinyurl.com/39fkf36j

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2025 10:52 PM (t0Rmr)

96 Surprised they got a visa.
Posted by: Ciampino - stop eating the beating heart at April 03, 2025 10:49 PM (sPQoU)

Well thye both lied to get in. Plus, it was a different time. One got a sham marriage here paid with diamonds. Don't know about the other guy. He was looking to get 'married', too, for money of course.

Posted by: RickZ at April 03, 2025 10:52 PM (gKDq2)

97 91 Criminals steal lots of things from orchards and rice fields here in the valley. Bins of almonds and walnuts - which also means there are lots of hullers fencing stolen goods.

VDH talks about it on his podcasts.
Posted by: 13times at April 03, 2025 10:50 PM (KxesK)

I bet they learned that living in their previous shit hole country.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 03, 2025 10:52 PM (VofaG)

98 I tried the EthnoGuesser I had one bullseye and at least in the right continent until the end with sneaky squinty eyed Europeans the looked Asian.

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! Now I'm not at April 03, 2025 10:53 PM (HN1FN)

99
Watching "Castrovalva." Classic Doctor Who is so much better than new Who.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

That's Peter Davidson? He's okay.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 03, 2025 10:53 PM (U87Q7)

100 Criminals steal lots of things from orchards and rice fields here in the valley. Bins of almonds and walnuts - which also means there are lots of hullers fencing stolen goods.

VDH talks about it on his podcasts.
Posted by: 13times

It's amazing how far you can get into a restricted space by simply wearing the proper gear; Hardhat, hi-viz vest, lab coat, rolled up plans, etc.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2025 10:55 PM (cYBz/)

101 It's amazing how far you can get into a restricted space by simply wearing the proper gear; Hardhat, hi-viz vest, lab coat, rolled up plans, etc.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2025 10:55 PM (cYBz/)

Our natural deference to 'authority'. We're finding out how much of a crock of shit that is.

Posted by: RickZ at April 03, 2025 10:56 PM (gKDq2)

102 "Like many of my privileged Western liberal friends, his understanding of the Islamic world seems to rest on a brief visit to the Egyptian pyramids..."

Or it's based on indoctrination from the media.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 03, 2025 10:57 PM (0Htd1)

103 I need some naptime.

Posted by: Ciampino - stop eating the beating heart? at April 03, 2025 10:57 PM (sPQoU)

104 Read a blog post today where the author opined that Taylor Swift will be the last human pop superstar. From here on out it will be AI-generated visions that will produce "music" that is precisely tuned to appeal to selected demographics.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 03, 2025 10:16 PM (pM4Nm)

I was thinking about this today. This is not true AI, but it could probably produce fairly decent pop. Think about say Boston. I like Boston, but they are very much in 'variations on a theme' territory. 'Take these notes and put them together like this and it is pleasing. Make more like this.'

But I doubt AI could come up with something like this, say:

https://tinyurl.com/jbu2k743

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2025 10:57 PM (bss/y)

105 It's amazing how far you can get into a restricted space by simply wearing the proper gear; Hardhat, hi-viz vest, lab coat, rolled up plans, etc.
Posted by: Tonypete

The good old Bavarian Fire Drill.

They've gotten a bit more expensive now that you need to carry an iPad instead of a clipboard.

Posted by: mikeski at April 03, 2025 10:57 PM (DgGvY)

106 It's amazing how far you can get into a restricted space by simply wearing the proper gear; Hardhat, hi-viz vest, lab coat, rolled up plans, etc.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 03, 2025 10:55 PM (cYBz/)

You don't even need to. There is no security out in the country... no way the manpower costs would be worth it... so they just wait until no one is around.

Hell... I've got a Van with a person parked outside my house on my street right now... no idea who they are... and that is in small town Central Calif... not even the country.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2025 10:58 PM (QAkQ3)

107 Weird how they keep finding 10,000 year old artifacts in Israel from the people who “colonized” the poor Palestinians. Very strange.

The whole matter of who was there first is kind of weird. When Abraham entered the area, there were already inhabitants there, according to Scripture.

So essentially, if you are gonna play "who was here first", it wouldn't be Israelites.

From there, it passed hands many times. Each time, I'm sure the people that took it reckoned they owned it rightly. And that is the case to this day.

Which isn't to say it's unfair. Someone owned my property before me, and undoubtedly it was taken at some point by force, and at some point it's likely that someone thought it was their land, even though they didn't have such a thing as a property deed. Maybe an Indian or trapper or something.

The only other argument is that God gave it to them, which is an entirely different topic.

Posted by: Just sayin at April 03, 2025 10:58 PM (PEDYf)

108 Man.. 2016 on Ethnoguesser.

Lesson: I can tell negroids and caucusoids apart, but mongoloids confuse me.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 03, 2025 10:59 PM (l3YAf)

109 Islam is just a convenient excuse. They're a bunch of third world savages who would behave this way, with or without a religious or theological framework to justify it.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at April 03, 2025 10:59 PM (MZ+PY)

110 Ethno guesser avg 2421, even tho I had 3 perfect scores...

Posted by: scottst at April 03, 2025 11:00 PM (QpmmB)

111 I was thinking Val Kilmer may have been ill when he played Doc Holliday as the role of Doc required a ailing character..

Steve McQueen had cancer while working in his two last movies , Tom Horn and The Hunter. Coincidentally both roles were bounty hunters.

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! Now I'm not at April 03, 2025 11:00 PM (HN1FN)

112 2572 on ethnoguesser. hit a bullseye on ethiopins and likely scored the same as everyone else on the rest

Posted by: steven at April 03, 2025 11:03 PM (SBQD7)

113 Sure, we’ve always needed cops, and justice, but America was great because Americans were good.

Posted by: Common Tater

I think a very big part of that was the 1700s and 1800s where the average citizen took justice into his own hands very frequently. With lawfare coming down hard on people defending themselves and their property, the high trust has gone down somewhat.

*looks at the 1911 and .380 that get EDC sitting out in the open by the keys that are 30' away from the door to keep ner do wells from activating the smart key fobs*

I trust Smash, and Junior-ette explicitly. Everyone else is on a sliding scale of "will they defend me or mine?"

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 03, 2025 11:03 PM (MsrgL)

114 The only other argument is that God gave it to them, which is an entirely different topic.

Posted by: Just sayin at April 03, 2025 10:58 PM (PEDYf)

"God fights for the side that has the most artillery" -Napoleon

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 03, 2025 11:03 PM (pM4Nm)

115 Or this:

https://tinyurl.com/ky4esy34

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2025 11:05 PM (bss/y)

116 Speaking of ethnic stereotypes..

If you ever need a reason to hate Communism: it made Germans poor and Russians afraid to speak.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 03, 2025 11:06 PM (l3YAf)

117
Which isn't to say it's unfair. Someone owned my property before me, and undoubtedly it was taken at some point by force, and at some point it's likely that someone thought it was their land, even though they didn't have such a thing as a property deed. Maybe an Indian or trapper or something.

The only other argument is that God gave it to them, which is an entirely different topic.

Posted by: Just sayin

Property taxes where i live say the damned county/city owns my 1/2 acre if I don't pay the taxes. There's a noun for that, but I've forgotten it. Servitude, serfdom. I'm leasing my living space, even though i have a land / title / deed saying "I" own it.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 03, 2025 11:07 PM (MsrgL)

118 I was thinking Val Kilmer may have been ill when he played Doc Holliday as the role of Doc required a ailing character..
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Steve McQueen had cancer while working in his two last movies , Tom Horn and The Hunter. Coincidentally both roles were bounty hunters.
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! Now I'm not at April 03, 2025 11:00 PM (HN1FN)

Same with John Wayne in 'The Shootist', his last movie. His character, as was he, was dying of cancer. But I don't think they gave him real Laudanum on the set.

Posted by: RickZ at April 03, 2025 11:09 PM (gKDq2)

119
The only reason to ever watch Dr Who: https://tinyurl.com/39fkf36j
Posted by: 18-1

Another reason:

https://t.ly/QI05Y

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 03, 2025 11:09 PM (63Dwl)

120 Or this is a good example:

https://tinyurl.com/272hvfwn

If you fed an 'AI' every classical requiem BUT this one, would it turn this out? No.

It can produce variations on a theme, even make something that is a valid revolutionary combination, but the... out of the box thinking, the Divine Breath of inspiration is denied to it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2025 11:09 PM (bss/y)

121 No, Amy Coney Barrett is not an "enigma." She is, as you say, a "squish." This is just what I called her when Trump was going through his selection process, and it wasn't difficult to see.

Posted by: Ordinary American at April 03, 2025 11:10 PM (Hmysf)

122 Property taxes where i live say the damned county/city owns my 1/2 acre if I don't pay the taxes. There's a noun for that, but I've forgotten it. Servitude, serfdom. I'm leasing my living space, even though i have a land / title / deed saying "I" own it.
Posted by: BifBewalski at April 03, 2025 11:07 PM (MsrgL)

Yep. Property taxes are fundamentally evil.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 03, 2025 11:10 PM (l3YAf)

123 I know this web page provides quality based articles and extra information, is there any other website which provides
such stuff in quality?

Posted by: Get Gut Go at April 03, 2025 11:11 PM (zustO)

124 My rancher grandfather never left farming equipment in the field - at the end of the work day everything went back to it's proper place.

I imagine dry farmers on huge farms (Idaho) may leave equipment in the field since dragging threshers etc. dozens of miles back to their pole sheds is really inefficient and wasteful.

I do understand what the SA guys are saying about American culture.

Posted by: 13times at April 03, 2025 11:12 PM (KxesK)

125 Property taxes where i live say the damned county/city owns my 1/2 acre if I don't pay the taxes

The left recently discovered actual human beings pay tariffs.

It will be interesting to see if they ever discover they pay income, sales, capital gains, and property taxes as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2025 11:12 PM (t0Rmr)

126 2117, with two bullseyes.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 03, 2025 11:12 PM (MsrgL)

127 "I know this web page provides quality based articles and extra information, is there any other website which provides such stuff in quality?"

I'm conflicted, because clearly the bot didn't read the content and therefore must be a Moron....

Posted by: PabloD at April 03, 2025 11:13 PM (/0qJC)

128 Ruh roh.... new boss incoming...

Posted by: Bob, NSA at April 03, 2025 11:13 PM (QAkQ3)

129 I know this web page provides quality based articles and extra information, is there any other website which provides
such stuff in quality?

There is this site called PornHub that teaches you all about human anatomy.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2025 11:13 PM (t0Rmr)

130
I do understand what the SA guys are saying about American culture.
Posted by: 13times

We don't have roving mini-armies.

Yet

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 03, 2025 11:13 PM (63Dwl)

131 Penguins wouldn't do that well in Africa, anyway.

I went swimming with penguins in Simon's Town.

A great bucket list thing to do, though the water was quite cold.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 03, 2025 11:13 PM (a4flb)

132 https://tinyurl.com/272hvfwn

If you fed an 'AI' every classical requiem BUT this one, would it turn this out? No.

It can produce variations on a theme, even make something that is a valid revolutionary combination, but the... out of the box thinking, the Divine Breath of inspiration is denied to it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2025 11:09 PM (bss/y)

If you fed every other possible variation of humanity than our own every classical requiem but that one, would those alternate timelines produce the same thing?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 03, 2025 11:13 PM (l3YAf)

133 Spam alert at 123. April 03, 2025 11:11 PM (zustO)

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 03, 2025 11:13 PM (pM4Nm)

134 If you fed every other possible variation of humanity than our own every classical requiem but that one, would those alternate timelines produce the same thing?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 03, 2025 11:13 PM (l3YAf)

If it had a Gabriel Faure, maybe.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2025 11:14 PM (bss/y)

135 Drunk girl looks fun.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

Til she gets behind the wheel again and runs you down.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 03, 2025 11:16 PM (0Htd1)

136 111 I was thinking Val Kilmer may have been ill when he played Doc Holliday as the role of Doc required a ailing character..

Steve McQueen had cancer while working in his two last movies , Tom Horn and The Hunter. Coincidentally both roles were bounty hunters.
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! Now I'm not at April 03, 2025 11:00 PM (HN1FN)

Just found out that Alan Rickman knew he had cancer the last couple of Potter movies, but thought he owed it to the character, to play it out.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2025 11:17 PM (QAkQ3)

137 Bruce Willis eked out a few last films before his mind fell into darkness.

Posted by: 13times at April 03, 2025 11:19 PM (KxesK)

138 Stellantis has shut down production at several plants in Mexico and Canuckistan. I guess they’re hoping Trump blinks and will wait him out.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 03, 2025 11:19 PM (O9qIg)

139
Here's an ethno-guess: The drunk girl is Russian.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 03, 2025 11:19 PM (Ijbq0)

140
I think Jannicke Mikkelsen onboard the Fram 2 takes the cake for space hair:

https://tinyurl.com/2b9gxj7y

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 03, 2025 11:20 PM (w6EFb)

141 >> Just found out that Alan Rickman knew he had cancer the last couple of Potter movies, but thought he owed it to the character, to play it out.

And he still went on to kill Dumbledore.. 😔

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 03, 2025 11:20 PM (l3YAf)

142 Got 3286 on the Ethno-Guesser with 3/10 perfect hits on the original location of the ethnic group.

I have been to several of the areas and worked with teams which included the people of those groups.

Posted by: Engineer at April 03, 2025 11:25 PM (VCdJc)

143 If it had a Gabriel Faure, maybe.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2025 11:14 PM (bss/y)

I tried listening to it, I really did. It sounded generic and easily emulated by AI. That precise song? No. But something indistinguishable to me. Because I have absolutely no memory of that song, no emotional attachment to it.

You could tell me that was 100% AI and I’d believe you.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 03, 2025 11:26 PM (l3YAf)

144 You could tell me that was 100% AI and I’d believe you.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 03, 2025 11:26 PM (l3YAf)

Huh. Interesting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 03, 2025 11:26 PM (bss/y)

145 Just found out that Alan Rickman knew he had cancer the last couple of Potter movies, but thought he owed it to the character, to play it out.
Posted by: Romeo13 a

Maybe, in a situation like that, it's helpful to keep working as long as possible. It might help to keep your mind off the awfulness.

Posted by: nerdygirl at April 03, 2025 11:30 PM (0Htd1)

146 Maybe, in a situation like that, it's helpful to keep working as long as possible. It might help to keep your mind off the awfulness.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 03, 2025 11:30 PM (0Htd1)

Especially if it's a series of projects where your character is iconic. I would say that takes one's mind off of other things. Honestly, Rickman was the perfect 'Professor Snape'.

Posted by: RickZ at April 03, 2025 11:34 PM (gKDq2)

147 >> From there, it passed hands many times. Each time, I'm sure the people that took it reckoned they owned it rightly. And that is the case to this day.

Which isn't to say it's unfair. Someone owned my property before me, and undoubtedly it was taken at some point by force, and at some point it's likely that someone thought it was their land, even though they didn't have such a thing as a property deed. Maybe an Indian or trapper or something.

***

Right, who was there first is immaterial*. What matters is who has it and can keep it. Seems to be the Israelis, for the moment. They seem to not be going anywhere.

I don’t know why ownership of some ass-end of the middle east involves me or my tax dollars, though. Seems the Israelis are holding it for now. If they can’t, someone else will. But given the general incompetence of Arabs, probably not.

(*It is somewhat ironic that the Palestinians’ claims are mostly backed by appeals to “we’re a bunch of losers, so give is what we can’t obtain through our own power.” AKA, slave morality, which Nietzsche historically attributed to Judaism. I guess history is full of funny juxtapositions.)

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 03, 2025 11:40 PM (l3YAf)

148 Hamburger cruel shoes.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 03, 2025 11:47 PM (jc0TO)

149 EthnoGuesser

My average score was 1274, although I nailed Eastern European group dead on.

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My average score was 1490 but my problem is that I suck at geography lol

Posted by: vmom deport deport deporte at April 03, 2025 11:48 PM (WL2lA)

150 'A calm will decend and there's peace at the end of the darkest night; sometimes I cry, sometimes i fly like a bird'

~Boz

Evening all!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 03, 2025 11:52 PM (0ohAJ)

151 sometimes i fly like a bird'

~Boz

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 03, 2025 11:52 PM (0ohAJ)

Sometimes I 'Fly Like An Eagle'.

Posted by: Steve Miller at April 03, 2025 11:55 PM (gKDq2)

152 2319 on one shot at the ethno guess thing. If you get a high score do you get recruited by the Nazzy Dept of People Judgement?

Posted by: azjaeger at April 03, 2025 11:55 PM (3/XaG)

153 Evening everyone. Thx WeirdDave.
That post about Islam is spot on . If you aren't Islamic, you are an infidel. They want infidels dead, converted or enslaved. There is nothing else.
The COEXIST crowd are suicidal fools. The Queers for Palestine are double suicidal fools

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 03, 2025 11:56 PM (MxsNV)

154 There is this site called PornHub that teaches you all about human anatomy.
Posted by: 18-1

I was just checking in then heading to bed. But after having a chuckle now I'll have another beer...

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! Now I'm not at April 03, 2025 11:56 PM (HN1FN)

155 Doge just terminated a California state library grant that was funding everything from drag shows to community gardens. Of course the funds weren't used to buy books.

Still winning.

Posted by: 13times at April 03, 2025 11:56 PM (KxesK)

156 > From here on out it will be AI-generated visions that will produce "music" that is precisely tuned to appeal to selected demographics.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Likely the same for porn (including the female-oriented porn that usually hides under the euphemism "romance").

> Not great. I did my taxes yesterday, and that always puts me in a foul mood. To say I hate the IRS and our tax system is an understatement.
Posted by: nerdygirl at April 03, 2025 10:21 PM (0Htd1)

I'm feeling downright virtuous in that I got mine done early this year rather than filing for the automatic extension, as in most years.

I still hate taxes, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 03, 2025 11:58 PM (W5ArC)

157 My ethnoguesser was stuck on asia and the middle east.

I chose... poorly. 1924

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at April 03, 2025 11:59 PM (fY84s)

158 Iowa State students organized a "funeral" to "mourn" the closing of the university's LGBTQ center

https://x.com/i/status/1907863545406001570

That's where the nerds were getting nookie.

Posted by: Ciampino - stop eating the nookie at April 03, 2025 11:59 PM (sPQoU)

159 >
There is this site called PornHub that teaches you all about human anatomy.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2025 11:13 PM (t0Rmr)

Imagine a doctor trained on PornHub.... normal-sized genitalia would seem abnormally small and/or misshapen.

In some parts of the Islamic world, it's strictly forbidden for male doctors to examine the genitalia of women -- and women aren't allowed to be doctors. Nice, huh?

In other, more "liberal" areas, the doc can look at the naughty bits, but only in a mirror. Probably they have to develop the same skills as dentists.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 04, 2025 12:01 AM (W5ArC)

160 > The Queers for Palestine are double suicidal fools
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 03, 2025 11:56 PM (MxsNV)

Yep. Same with feminists for "Palestine".

Oh? You're upset because your Marxist Studies degree doesn't pay the same as a Chemical Engineering degree? Try not being allowed to go to school at all, getting stuffed into a sack at puberty, and never allowed to leave the house except in the presence of a male relative.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 04, 2025 12:03 AM (W5ArC)

161 2043 on the Ethnoguesser. Not perfect, but not too bad. Not that I particularly care. People are people, no matter what color, shape or size.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 04, 2025 12:04 AM (LweC0)

162 Evening everyone. Thx WeirdDave.
That post about Islam is spot on . If you aren't Islamic, you are an infidel. They want infidels dead, converted or enslaved. There is nothing else.
The COEXIST crowd are suicidal fools. The Queers for Palestine are double suicidal fools
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 03, 2025 11:56 PM (MxsNV)

The scary thing to me is the muzzies are up front about what they want. They want sharia, they want women covered, they want 4 wives. They want to be able to bugger young boys. They believe everyone should fast during Ramadan. Halal for everbody. Non-muslim women are fair game. Everything is about pisslam. They come here and use our freedoms to take away our freedoms. See the Somalis in MN and the muzzies in Dearbornistan. That screetching 'call to prayer' five times a day is another 'plant the flag of conquest' move. I wonder what Texas will end up doing with that planned muzzie sharia city?

But the morons who can't see the conquest aspect of pisslam will never see it, because it's outside their wheelhouse; they don't think like that so nobody else does, either. Nice gets your head chopped off. They are the coexist morons.

Posted by: Steve Miller at April 04, 2025 12:05 AM (gKDq2)

163 Washington DC stabbing leaves at least seven injured

https://mol.im/a/14569461

Posted by: Ciampino - butter knives next at April 04, 2025 12:06 AM (sPQoU)

164 141 >> Just found out that Alan Rickman knew he had cancer the last couple of Potter movies, but thought he owed it to the character, to play it out.

And he still went on to kill Dumbledore.. 😔
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 03, 2025 11:20 PM (l3YAf)

He might well have been one of the best actors ever, certainly within my lifetime. I do miss him, and his ironic eyebrow.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 04, 2025 12:06 AM (LweC0)

165
"As a result of the meetings that our Foreign Minister held with the State Department and the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Argentina will move forward to adapt its regulations so that we meet the requirements of the reciprocal tariff proposals drafted by President Donald Trump.

We have already met 9 of the 16 necessary requirements, and I have instructed my Foreign Ministry and Secretary of Commerce to move forward with the remaining requirements as soon as possible.

Posted by: 13times at April 04, 2025 12:06 AM (KxesK)

166 >> Probably they have to develop the same skills as dentists.

If you feel a sneeze coming on, look away?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 04, 2025 12:07 AM (l3YAf)

167 {{{COMM}}} it is nice to see you, wanna grab a drink?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 04, 2025 12:07 AM (0nHVk)

168 But the morons who can't see the conquest aspect of pisslam will never see it, because it's outside their wheelhouse; they don't think like that so nobody else does, either. Nice gets your head chopped off. They are the coexist morons.
Posted by: Steve Miller at April 04, 2025 12:05 AM

There is iron in the words of the Gangster of Love.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 04, 2025 12:07 AM (jc0TO)

169 I got 1920 on Ethnoguesser. But it gave me some hard choices (lots of Africa and central Asia).

I like this kind of thing. It's interesting.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 04, 2025 12:08 AM (XCUp7)

170 Boy dies after drinking mother's juice that was 'laced with meth'

https://mol.im/a/14566887

Mother's juice? Sort of ambiguous?

Posted by: Ciampino - coolaid at April 04, 2025 12:09 AM (sPQoU)

171 Who's to say that modern "pop" music ISN'T AI already? Music took a giant dive after the industry got smacked when the majority of the grunge producers stopped producing product due to being unstable artist types. After that there was a concerted effort to condition people to accept forms of music that were mostly created by professional producers who could be counted on for product. Performers then became basically front people. If somebody stops producing, you get another one.

Posted by: azjaeger at April 04, 2025 12:09 AM (3/XaG)

172 Repeating from earlier:

Is scarymary around? Let me know at teresa.hamilton.koch@ gmail.com (remove space) if you want to go with us to dinner Saturday night (and how many will be coming, so that I can adjust our reservation) - our treat! 😊❤️

Looking forward to meeting you -

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 04, 2025 12:09 AM (SRRAx)

173 168 But the morons who can't see the conquest aspect of pisslam will never see it, because it's outside their wheelhouse; they don't think like that so nobody else does, either. Nice gets your head chopped off. They are the coexist morons.
Posted by: Steve Miller at April 04, 2025 12:05 AM

There is iron in the words of the Gangster of Love.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 04, 2025 12:07 AM (jc0TO)

It's a lot easier to coexist with peoples you've conquered who exist at your sufferance.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 04, 2025 12:10 AM (XCUp7)

174 Yeah and there are only continents on ethnoguesser .That seems a little vague to say the least. I wanted to place a couple in the Sudan I was off.

I suspect ethnoguesser was created by MSNBC as an accurate polling device given to white men only.
HEADLINES: White Men deemed totally prejudiced against people of color due to the 'They all look alike to me ' syndrome.
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Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! Now I'm not at April 04, 2025 12:11 AM (HN1FN)

175 There is this site called PornHub that teaches you all about human anatomy.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 03, 2025 11:13

So you're saying between AOS and Pornhub you will have all the intellectual and physical needs met to survive in 2025?

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at April 04, 2025 12:11 AM (55Qr6)

176 Congratulations!
EthnoGuessr 2025-04-04

You scored an average of 3240 over 10 rounds in today's EthnoGuessr!

You had 2 perfect rounds!

— —

I was close in a lot of the ones I missed.
Except for that Turkish couple I thought looked Iranian.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 04, 2025 12:11 AM (6ydKt)

177 Obligatory daily post as proof that I'm following Ace's command to us all to not die.

AKA, "ping".

Long day, had to go to the Valley of the Sunstroke for work stuff, so this is pretty much a drive by.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 04, 2025 12:12 AM (lUFok)

178 Happy amazing ending for confused dog filmed being dumped out of car

https://mol.im/a/14569025

Posted by: Ciampino - no dogs for you at April 04, 2025 12:12 AM (sPQoU)

179 There is iron in the words of the Gangster of Love.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 04, 2025 12:07 AM (jc0TO)

Thanks for the reminder.

Off sock, not a smelly sock, though. Good concert.

Posted by: RickZ at April 04, 2025 12:14 AM (gKDq2)

180 *waves to Blanco*

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at April 04, 2025 12:14 AM (qKe5f)

181 158 Iowa State students organized a "funeral" to "mourn" the closing of the university's LGBTQ center

https://x.com/i/status/1907863545406001570

That's where the nerds were getting nookie.
Posted by: Ciampino - stop eating the nookie at April 03, 2025 11:59 PM (sPQoU)
_____________________________

Instead of a Wake, they went with the Woke. (rimshot)

Posted by: Orson at April 04, 2025 12:15 AM (dIske)

182 California projected to lose 4 House seats (and electoral votes) in the 2030 Census. New York -2. PA, IL, MN, WI -1.

TX + 4. FL + 4. NC + 1. AZ + 1.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 04, 2025 12:16 AM (W5ArC)

183 Oh - if anyone in the Houston area wants to see a FUN concert this weekend, there are still tickets available for the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain concert on Saturday night at the Grand Opera House on Galveston Island at 8:00 pm.

They have a few more tour dates on n the US - look them up on YouTube, and if they are playing near you, GO SEE THEM!!!!! You will have a great time 😊😊😊

If you want to go on Saturday, purchase your tickets directly from The Grand's website - no additional fees!

And if you decide to go, let me know - we will be eating dinner at the Saltwater Grill beforehand, and we would love to have you as our guests. But I have to know no later than tomorrow so that I can change the reservation! 😊💕😘

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 04, 2025 12:16 AM (SRRAx)

184 I know one of those foreigners had to say that he liked America because of Monster Trucks . That’s pure unadulterated American bad ass.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 04, 2025 12:16 AM (VofaG)

185 Fun Fact: If North Dakota was a city, it would be the 18th largest by population, just edging out Seattle.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 04, 2025 12:17 AM (jc0TO)

186 Boy dies in his twin's arms after being murdered for senseless reason

https://mol.im/a/14567367

Posted by: Ciampino - bring a knife to a game? at April 04, 2025 12:18 AM (sPQoU)

187 TX + 4. FL + 4. NC + 1. AZ + 1.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 04, 2025 12:16 AM (W5ArC)

At this point, considering the AZ Republican Party and its corruption, I don't know if that +1 helps or not.

Posted by: RickZ at April 04, 2025 12:18 AM (gKDq2)

188 Islam is like Catholicism in that you are born into a family that lives by the precepts of the religion in daily life as opposed to traditional Christians.
I won't list any parallel's between Catholicism and Islam .
If you consider Islam requires a follower to face Mecca while kneeling on a prayer rug FIVE times a day that will give you an idea of how dedicated (fanatical) followers get to the Koran..
The Koran say all kinds of crazy shit as in killing people ect....

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! Now I'm not at April 04, 2025 12:19 AM (HN1FN)

189 Boy dies in his twin's arms after being murdered for senseless reason

https://mol.im/a/14567367
Posted by: Ciampino - bring a knife to a game? at April 04, 2025 12:18 AM (sPQoU)

Local story instead of a national story for one reason.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 04, 2025 12:21 AM (VofaG)

190 You know you’re having a good night when it suddenly occurs to you that it’s a lot easier to crawl over the seat to get out of the passenger side than to just open the driver’s side door and get out.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 04, 2025 12:21 AM (6ydKt)

191 It was good to see Newt Gingrich expound his wisdom and constitutional prowess upon the congressional hearings this week. Newt was and remains impressive.

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! Now I'm not at April 04, 2025 12:22 AM (HN1FN)

192 The Koran say all kinds of crazy shit as in killing people ect....
Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! Now I'm not at April 04, 2025 12:19 AM (HN1FN)

In Afghanistan, after our disastrous adventure there, old muzzie men are marrying 6-year-olds. They also have young boys provocatively dance and hump the ground in order to catch some pederast's eye. All shari'a approved. That is pisslam. That is the pisslam they never talk about.

Posted by: RickZ at April 04, 2025 12:23 AM (gKDq2)

193 2297

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 04, 2025 12:23 AM (zxGcY)

194 You know you’re having a good night when it suddenly occurs to you that it’s a lot easier to crawl over the seat to get out of the passenger side than to just open the driver’s side door and get out.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 04, 2025 12:21 AM (6ydKt)

Yeah, well, that's one way to put it. Hope it wasn't a long night at the bar.

Posted by: RickZ at April 04, 2025 12:25 AM (gKDq2)

195 Congratulations!
EthnoGuessr 2025-04-04

You scored an average of 3016 over 10 rounds in today's EthnoGuessr!

You had 3 perfect rounds!

Posted by: setsoru at April 04, 2025 12:25 AM (EQ18D)

196 NSA director and deputy director: outta there.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 04, 2025 12:26 AM (W5ArC)

197 I used to be able to quote The National Enquirer!!

Declassified CIA file reveals aliens committed 'revenge massacre'

https://mol.im/a/14564689

Posted by: Ciampino - bring a missile to a Space battle at April 04, 2025 12:26 AM (sPQoU)

198 > At this point, considering the AZ Republican Party and its corruption, I don't know if that +1 helps or not.
Posted by: RickZ at April 04, 2025 12:18 AM (gKDq2)

Agreed.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 04, 2025 12:26 AM (W5ArC)

199 Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! Now I'm not at April 04, 2025 12:19 AM (HN1FN)
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This is so offensive.

Can a co-blogger please delete this insane post.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 04, 2025 12:27 AM (zxGcY)

200 Aides reveal Biden was out of it and needed tape on floor to guide him

https://mol.im/a/14563325

We could have had such fun.

Posted by: Ciampino - bring tape. I have idea at April 04, 2025 12:29 AM (sPQoU)

201 Joey Bidet had handlers disguised as Easter bunny furries...

Yeah his Cadbury Egg was rotten.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 04, 2025 12:31 AM (xiqAs)

202 I would fail out at Ethno-Guesser.

Now, Cup-Size Guesser on the other hand, very high scores!

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 04, 2025 12:32 AM (Aqu9a)

203 I hope I meet you some day, Gumby. I promise you will not like the result.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 04, 2025 12:34 AM (zxGcY)

204 *waves to Blanco*

*waves back, swings too hard, hits self in head*

Good night, Horde!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at April 04, 2025 12:34 AM (lUFok)

205 I'll wait for Piper's judgment on the shoes. Me - whatever makes your legs look best.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 04, 2025 12:35 AM (v1KtB)

206 Let the offensive stupidity stay, just as an example.

Someone still hasn't gotten over the Reformation and Counter-Reformation and has their panties in a wad.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 04, 2025 12:35 AM (xiqAs)

207 Hell... I've got a Van with a person parked outside my house on my street right now... no idea who they are... and that is in small town Central Calif... not even the country.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2025 10:58 PM (QAkQ3)

Really, you must have some inkling of who they are.

Posted by: NSA Bob at April 04, 2025 12:35 AM (FCbAQ)

208 Romeo13

Check the local WiFi networks. See if there is one that says FBI13.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 04, 2025 12:38 AM (xiqAs)

209 I got an average score of 2425.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 03, 2025 10:07 PM

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I got almost the same, despite one bullseye.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 04, 2025 12:38 AM (v1KtB)

210 167 {{{DDS}}}

Way ahead of you! Yikes! It's so lovely to see ya😛😋❣!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 04, 2025 12:38 AM (0ohAJ)

211 {{{SMH}}} I have thought of you so often. I miss you and I hope that all is well with your family.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 04, 2025 12:40 AM (0nHVk)

212 {{{SMH}}} I have thought of you so often. I miss you and I hope that all is well with your family.

I second that.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 04, 2025 12:42 AM (mH6SG)

213 SMH sighting!!

*YAY*

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 04, 2025 12:42 AM (xiqAs)

214 Debby Doberman Schultz,

I'm sorry I didn't get that recipe to you sooner. If you still want it, I have it all ready to go.

Posted by: RickZ at April 04, 2025 12:43 AM (gKDq2)

215 198 > At this point, considering the AZ Republican Party and its corruption, I don't know if that +1 helps or not.
Posted by: RickZ at April 04, 2025 12:18 AM (gKDq2)

At some point, the MAGA types have to take over, cause all the R voters are MAGA but we aren't there yet

Posted by: azjaeger at April 04, 2025 12:43 AM (3/XaG)

216 Missing girl, 16, found safe... but she's pregnant by abductor

https://mol.im/a/14568879

Posted by: Ciampino - bring shears at April 04, 2025 12:44 AM (sPQoU)

217 Abductor+wood chipper = good idea.

Put the child up for adoption.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 04, 2025 12:45 AM (xiqAs)

218 You got 406?! That is awesome! 👌

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 04, 2025 12:46 AM (PUylJ)

219 I tried to ask Grok a simple question tonight, and it wanted me to give it email and sign in. Wrong answer.

https://youtu.be/TzFnYcIqj6I

G'nite, y'all. Stay dry.

Posted by: mindful webworker - when the rain comes at April 04, 2025 12:46 AM (bI8eg)

220 194You know you’re having a good night when it suddenly occurs to you that it’s a lot easier to crawl over the seat to get out of the passenger side than to just open the driver’s side door and get out.

Ok, that's too funny...and too close to home🤪....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 04, 2025 12:46 AM (0ohAJ)

221
DAMMIT, Ciampino, content warnings.

Here's a palate cleanser:

The National Endowment for the Humanities has cut its grant programs. Clawing back $175 million as we speak.

"Notice of Grant Termination

"Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 04, 2025 12:48 AM (3izae)

222 The DNC, Chuck Schumer, and Hakeem Jeffries are suing Trump over his EO to block non-citizens from voting.

https://x.com/i/status/1907450659101667366

Sounds crazy, right?

Posted by: Ciampino - bring 8 lb sledge at April 04, 2025 12:50 AM (sPQoU)

223 So the Democrats are fighting to give illegals the right to vote.

The Coyote wasn't this stupid.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 04, 2025 12:52 AM (xiqAs)

224 Hey Anna. : )

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at April 04, 2025 12:53 AM (qKe5f)

225 207 Hell... I've got a Van with a person parked outside my house on my street right now... no idea who they are... and that is in small town Central Calif... not even the country.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2025 10:58 PM (QAkQ3)

Does it say 'free candy' on the side...keep your kiddies in the house😳...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 04, 2025 12:53 AM (0ohAJ)

226 I have usually found that if I need to exit via the passenger seat it was due to a colossal failure to park the vehicle properly! Best to get inside and horizontal and deal with it in the morning.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 04, 2025 12:53 AM (0nHVk)

227 I'm doing okay, DDS.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at April 04, 2025 12:53 AM (qKe5f)

228 {{{Notorious BFD}}}

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at April 04, 2025 12:54 AM (qKe5f)

229 Time to bail.
https://tensor.art/u/727481333235843246

Hope you keep doing good SMH.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 04, 2025 12:58 AM (xiqAs)

230 Thanks, Anna.
Sleep well.

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at April 04, 2025 12:58 AM (qKe5f)

231 Local story instead of a national story for one reason

The wife had Lez Holt on and they surprised me with their coverage of that story. Awful.

Posted by: Miflin at April 04, 2025 01:06 AM (aA6YN)

232 Sheesh...
I fell down the stairs to the cafe...
That place is always a kick...I'm back now, but I better take a nap..
Good night sweet Horde💕💕

Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 04, 2025 01:07 AM (0ohAJ)

233 Does it say 'free candy' on the side...keep your kiddies in the house😳...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at April 04, 2025 12:53 AM (0ohAJ)

Well... Kinda... My 34 year old Navy Vet Son... who does have 2 guns, is in the other room... soooo...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 01:10 AM (QAkQ3)

234 207 Hell... I've got a Van with a person parked outside my house on my street right now... no idea who they are... and that is in small town Central Calif... not even the country.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 03, 2025 10:58 PM (QAkQ3)

Really, you must have some inkling of who they are.
Posted by: NSA Bob at April 04, 2025 12:35 AM (FCbAQ)

I think the funniest thing about this last post???

Yeah, lets just say I'm an early adopter of the Bob NSA sock... pretty sure I was the first but it was a long time ago.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 04, 2025 01:13 AM (QAkQ3)

235 It's amazing how far you can get into a restricted space by simply wearing the proper gear; Hardhat, hi-viz vest, lab coat, rolled up plans, etc.
Posted by: Tonypete
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Heh. Or the, "I'm with the city/county."

Posted by: scampydog at April 04, 2025 01:14 AM (41CYW)

236 Geeze, I scored 2230 on the ethnoguesser, and I thought that was bad.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 04, 2025 01:19 AM (8zz6B)

237 Community note, this was a long time ago in my youth!!!

I really shouldn't drive at night until I get my eyes fixed.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 04, 2025 01:19 AM (0nHVk)

238 The Democrats had Tulsi on their side and they pissed her off to appease that shriveled old crone Hillary, who had just lost.

It’s mind-boggling. Tulsi was a near-ideal candidate for the Democrats. A historic first woman of color President. Lefty, but populist. A veteran. Someone who could bring together the Bernie Bros and Wall Street and get single-payer healthcare across the finish line.

They chose trannies and illegals instead. They chose riots and random street crime instead.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 04, 2025 01:22 AM (l3YAf)

239 Seems americans had no problem voting for democrats last night in wisconsin. 2026 is coming!

Posted by: raimondo at April 04, 2025 01:24 AM (L3U83)

240 Aztecs, man! Aztecs.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 03, 2025 10:36 PM (VNX3d)

They nailed the taking out; the putting back, not so much.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 04, 2025 01:27 AM (8zz6B)

241 219
How can I sell your data if you don't give it to me...GIVE IT TO ME!!!!!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 04, 2025 01:27 AM (vd6bO)

242 Geeze, I scored 2230 on the ethnoguesser, and I thought that was bad.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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I scored worse. Clicked on Sierra Leone. 3 times. Stubbornness was not helpful in this exercise.

Posted by: scampydog at April 04, 2025 01:28 AM (41CYW)

243 I EAT POOP!!!

Posted by: raimondo loves poop at April 04, 2025 01:28 AM (6PUpl)

244 SMH, please don't be a stranger.

Good night, Marie, I guess that I'll just sit here by myself and order one more before bed.

RickZ, I would love that recipe again. I did write it down, I made them over the holidays and my SIL loved them. I can probably find the recipe, but it could be anywhere and that could be time consuming.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 04, 2025 01:30 AM (0nHVk)

245 Is scarymary around? Let me know at teresa.hamilton.koch@ gmail.com (remove space) if you want to go with us to dinner Saturday night (and how many will be coming, so that I can adjust our reservation) - our treat! 😊❤️

Looking forward to meeting you -

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at April 03, 2025 10:39 PM (SRRAx)

*****

Hi Teresa! I emailed you. Mr Scary and I would love to meet you. Sometimes our email client doesn't play well with geemail. Check your spam folder.

Posted by: owl curious at April 04, 2025 01:31 AM (KmLQh)

246 Crappy sock off.

Posted by: ScaryMary at April 04, 2025 01:32 AM (KmLQh)

247 (zustO)

Spammer in aisle 123

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 04, 2025 01:33 AM (8zz6B)

248 I guess on-topic for an ONT, but for some reason I just learned that the junior Japanese foreign ministry official on the USS Missouri for the surrender ceremony on September 2, 1945 was Yoko Ono's uncle.

I knew that Chevy Chase's father in law had been Adm. Halsey's chief of staff and commanded a carrier in the Pacific (though he was a stormy and volatile character who eventually got relieved of command). Didn't know about the Ono-Kase connection.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 04, 2025 01:35 AM (1m82a)

249 1/2

Here ya go, Debbie.

Lemony String Beans Amondine

Ingredients:

One to one-half lbs. fresh string beans, rinsed, trimmed and cut into thirds
Sx cloves garlic, peeled and sliced about 1/4 inch
One lemon, zested then juiced (zest onto plastic first)
Half cup slivered almonds (or more!)
One heaping tsp Better Than Bouillion Chicken
Four TBS butter, in two halves
Dried basil, about 1 tsp or to taste
Salt and cracked black pepper to taste

Posted by: RickZ at April 04, 2025 01:38 AM (gKDq2)

250 2/2

In a pot large enough for the beans, start with two TBS butter. Add the slivered almonds and constantly stir until golden brown. Remove onto paper towel and reserve.

Add the other 2 TBS butter and the sliced garlic. Stirring often, cook until just blond. Add the string beans. Stir to coat with butter. Add water to just cover the beans. Add the bouillion, lemon juice, basil and some cracked black pepper.

Stir and bring to boil on high heat.

Cook the beans until tender and most of the liquid has evaporated.

Taste for seasoning.

Add the almonds and stir to mix

Turn off heat and add lemon zest. Stir and serve.

(Let's hope this doesn't get rejected again as spam.)

Posted by: RickZ at April 04, 2025 01:38 AM (gKDq2)

251 Those green beans sound delicious, Rick Z.

And hello Jim SND. I'm in Galveston for the second time ever and can hear the Gulf of America. It seems like a good place.

Posted by: ScaryMary at April 04, 2025 01:43 AM (KmLQh)

252 Islam can give you a Caliph, or a despot, but not an atheist bureaucracy.

And here's the thing as bad as Islam is it is still better then the modern left.
Posted by: 18-1

I disagree. Both systems guarantee sociopaths at the helm. Both are capricious, vicious, and both are religions without grace, redemption, or wisdom. They only differ in the amount of camel piss consumed.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 04, 2025 01:44 AM (mlg/3)

253 EthnoGuessr 2025-04-04

You scored an average of 3275 over 10 rounds in today's EthnoGuessr!

You had 3 perfect rounds!

**********

The last round I placed in Mongolia, which wasn't a bad choice but still missed the target by a wide margin.

Probably more luck than skill for the score I received.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at April 04, 2025 01:46 AM (wlI+O)

254 Holy Crap ! Thanks! I would never have noticed it otherwise...
Posted by: somejoe at April 04, 2025 01:38 AM (RCAte)

The reason for these alerts is to get COBs to delete the offending posts, because they often link to malware sites, which in turn gets this site flagged by anti-SPAM robots.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 04, 2025 01:48 AM (8zz6B)

255 Those green beans sound delicious, Rick Z.

Posted by: ScaryMary at April 04, 2025 01:43 AM (KmLQh)

I have to admit they are. One of my better culinary creations.

Posted by: RickZ at April 04, 2025 01:48 AM (gKDq2)

256 Oh, and thank you Dave for the link to the Islam thread. Good stuff.

said Prof. Israel Finkelstein
He shows up in a couple of documentaries on the archeological basis for the Exodus and the destruction of the Canaanite cities. His thesis is that there's little to no evidence of mass migration from Egypt, and those that did exit kicked of a commie revolution in the cities.

I apologize for laughing at his improbable name of course.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 04, 2025 01:50 AM (mlg/3)

257 I will make Rick Z's green beans at Easter. There is a turkey breast in the freezer that needs roasting.

Posted by: ScaryMary at April 04, 2025 01:58 AM (KmLQh)

258 In the immortal words of Allen Iverson;

'Practice. Your talking about Practice.'

F1 practice at Suzuka Japan about to begin.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 04, 2025 02:00 AM (6PUpl)

259 Posted by: I was Gumby Damn It! Now I'm not at April 04, 2025 12:19 AM (HN1FN)
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This is so offensive.

Can a co-blogger please delete this insane post.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 04, 2025 12:27 AM (zxGcY)

I fail to see the offense. All I see is that Catholicism and Islam are both "cradle religions" in which the children are brought up to believe the precepts before they develop any critical thinking chops. But islam is evil, and Catholicism is not.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 04, 2025 02:02 AM (8zz6B)

260 Ok, sure. It is a good thing we are alerting the cob-loggers to these things, how would they ever know otherwise ?
Posted by: somejoe at April 04, 2025 02:07 AM (RCAte)

There are 261 posts in this thread right now. Some people, and the COBs are people, have lives, and cannot read every post on every thread, even those threads they compose. So alerts help a little bit, sometimes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 04, 2025 02:12 AM (8zz6B)

261 So alerts help a little bit, sometimes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 04, 2025 02:12 AM (8zz6B)

Sending Out An SOS.

Posted by: The Horde Police at April 04, 2025 02:17 AM (gKDq2)

262 I hope Teresa in Ft Worth is able to receive my email. It would suck greatly if it is one of those missed connections things.

Posted by: ScaryMary at April 04, 2025 02:20 AM (KmLQh)

263 Turn off heat and add lemon zest. Stir and serve.

(Let's hope this doesn't get rejected again as spam.)
Posted by: RickZ at April 04, 2025 01:38 AM (gKDq2)

DH would then dump a cup of shredded cheddar on top and maybe some french fried onions....

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 04, 2025 02:23 AM (LweC0)

264 Well, I am off to the rack. Night, horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 04, 2025 02:27 AM (8zz6B)

265 Oh FFS. Islam is a heretical sect taken from Catholicism, removing any notion of a knowable, logical God, any notion of the mercy of God (as in forgiveness for sins, atonement by the crucifixion and death, etc.) and any notion of personal responsibility for sin and need to atone for that. It is, in a word, useless, anti-human, and has as its focus Satan, under the name of Allah.

Any other explanation is floss.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 04, 2025 02:28 AM (LweC0)

266 264 I hope Teresa in Ft Worth is able to receive my email. It would suck greatly if it is one of those missed connections things.
Posted by: ScaryMary at April 04, 2025 02:20 AM (KmLQh)

Saw your note on the blog - will add 2 more to the reservation. Will see you Saturday night at the restaurant at 5:30! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 04, 2025 02:47 AM (SRRAx)

267 Just changing socks.

Posted by: RickZ at April 04, 2025 02:47 AM (gKDq2)

268 {{{SMH}}} I have thought of you so often. I miss you and I hope that all is well with your family.

I second that.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 04, 2025 12:42
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And I'd like to third that. Thrice that? Glad all is well SMH.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at April 04, 2025 02:49 AM (55Qr6)

269 Saw your note on the blog - will add 2 more to the reservation. Will see you Saturday night at the restaurant at 5:30! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at April 04, 2025 02:47 AM (SRRAx)

******

Thank you! It will be so nice to meet you!🥰

Posted by: ScaryMary at April 04, 2025 02:59 AM (KmLQh)

270 Time to get moving

Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2025 03:59 AM (ypFCm)

271 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at April 04, 2025 04:01 AM (ypFCm)

272 RE: The shoes...
White Castle burgers are square and don't have lettuce. Who the f**k did this dreadful thing?

Posted by: No Longer a Lurker at April 04, 2025 11:06 AM (l66NB)

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