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The Morning Report — 5/ 2 /25

Good morning kids. Well, if it's a day ending in "Y" that means we have yet another Democrat Leftist dog-whistling or in this case overtly calling for violence against President Trump and anyone who supports him. And that is figuratively "half" the nation and in actual numbers likely much more than that.

A high school English teacher in Maine has allegedly called for the Secret Service and U.S. military to assassinate President Donald Trump, his supporters, and top Trump advisors.
JoAnna St. Germain, who teaches at Waterville Senior High School, appears to have made the concerning remarks on her Facebook page, prompting investigations by police and the school district where she is employed.

I doubt she'll receive anything more than a slap on the wrist, but in the highly unlikely event she does lose her job, she can always go teach at Harvard or Berkeley. Where she can be free to teach Jew-baiting, anti-Americanism and Chi-Com indoctrination to her black heart's delight. Unless of course President Trump's efforts at exposing and dismantling of the Pre-K to Post-graduate indoctrination machine can run unimpeded for the remainder of his term and continue indefinitely. the destruction of American academia has been going on for nearly a century or more, from Horace Mann and John Dewey to Herbert Marcuse and Theodor Adorno and the Frankfurt School and through the malign influence of Bill Ayers and his coven of corruptors. So, preventing further brainwashing and hopefully deprogramming the past two or three generations of those who came through the school systems is not going to happen overnight, and certainly not without a fight, that given the words of this stain in Maine, could and likely will get physical. Burning tesla dealerships, and sleeping subway riders, if not entire cities circa the summer of 2020 should be your first hint.

In any case, the goal of dismantling of the Federal Department of Education and its horrendous excesses and abuse seems to be well under way.

The Trump administration this week slashed $1 billion in so-called “mental health” grants for educational institutions, many of which were going to promote leftist ideology and train leftist activists.
The Education Department confirmed Wednesday that it was making cuts to grants handed out by the Biden administration ostensibly for the purpose of “mental health” because of the focus of many of the recipients on racially-focused programs. In a notice to Congress, the administration said it was going to “re-envision and re-compete” the funds allocated for mental health at schools in a gun control bill signed by former [puppet] President Joe Biden. . .
. . . The move was first reported on Tuesday by Christopher Rufo, who wrote on X that there would be “no more slush fund for activists under the guise of mental health.”

On the economic front, despite the constant gescrhei from the Democrat propaganda complex that Trump is destroying the economy, While the tariff regime will yield some bumps in the road, there are indicators that the situation and outlook are a hell of a lot rosier than what is being reported.

Larry Kudlow says the recession talk sweeping through Wall Street and the press is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the latest GDP numbers — and a refusal to acknowledge the early effects of President Trump’s economic agenda.
On his Fox Business Network show Wednesday, Kudlow took direct aim at what he described as a “media and Wall Street obsession” with the headline 0.3 percent decline in real GDP during the first quarter of 2025. . .
. . . Kudlow pointed to what he called “core GDP” — a measure that strips out volatile components like inventories, government spending, and net exports. That narrower but more stable measure, known formally as real final sales to private domestic purchasers, rose at an annual rate of around 3 percent in the first quarter.
“Mr. Trump has barely begun, but take a look already at core GDP — which takes out the fluky trade import numbers from tariff front running and looks at just the heart of GDP, which is private sector consumption plus private sector business investment,” Kudlow said. “Well, looking at core GDP, you see an actual increase in the first-quarter economy — of 3 percent, no less.”

Of course Kudlow is a friend and ally of Trump having served in his first term. But he's also a shrewd and astute business guru who wouldn't stick his neck out for no good reason, as he does value his own reputation.

And as you can see from the links, there are major companies coming back to the US and once again setting up shop, which means jobs and long term investment here in the USA.

As we all know, or should know, economics and geopolitics are tied at the hip. It's no secret that the Chi-Coms have long sought to dethrone America and become the preeminent global superpower. Trump knows this and much of what he is doing vis a vis tariffs and other moves (such as the Panama Canal, Greenland and in the Middle East are intended not only to boost our domestic and foreign positions but to check the ChiComs.

On that note, this story is of some interest:

Workers throughout China are flooding the streets in revolt as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs slam the fragile Chinese export economy.
From the cramped streets of Sichuan in the southwest to the cold outskirts of Inner Mongolia in the northeast, furious workers are demanding backpay and protesting mass layoffs as factories shutter under pressure from Trump’s tariffs. . .
. . .The wave of anger sweeping across China today echoes the uprising in 2022 when Chinese citizens protested President Xi Jinping’s COVID lockdown orders. Xi’s forces quickly cracked down on dissent, leading to violent clashes across the country. China watchers anticipate Xi will take action again. “Xi today has the same mentality as Mao. His bottom line is that no major crisis will be allowed to endanger his hold on power,” an adviser to the Chinese government told the Journal.

There are a lot of internal problems within Red China that potentially pose a threat to the CCP. The one-child policy means a majority of the population will be elderly and not able to keep their industry and economy going and growing. The introduction of even very tightly controlled capitalist reforms instituted under Premier Deng Xiaoping a generation ago have given Chinese youth a taste of western freedom and they prefer it. The level of corruption in their government down especially to the local levels. Over the past few years there have been many mass-stabbing attacks primarily aimed at the children of local party bosses and politburo members.

There are also reported morale problems in their military as well as graft and incompetence that is reflected in their military readiness and quality of their arms and armed forces, and a gigantic real estate bubble that when it bursts could crash their economy big time. Now Trump comes along and the anticipated Chinese century that was supposed to happen with the coming of the new millennium could go up in smoke. This kind of situation on the mainland could also put Taiwan in the crosshairs perhaps sooner than expected.

I'm not predicting the Chinese Communist Party will collapse any time soon. But who knew that the Soviet Union would ever fall when it did, if at all. Hopefully, for the sake of the suffering Chinese people, the CCP disintegrates. And let's hope our own egghead schmucks in Foggy Bottom don't repeat the same insanity in dealing with whatever government arises from the ashes as it did with Russia post the collapse of the Soviet Union. Yeah, that is too much to ask for.

But a free China; what a concept!

We may yet see a Free Iran before then, please God without a mass release of Roentgens and X-rays as a result.

And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

Have a great weekend.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Welcome to a community in Texas - where the Constitution is not welcome. (Meh, AKA every Democrat run city and state - jjs)
EPIC City – Caliphate Blueprint USA
The wave of anger sweeping across China today echoes the uprising in 2022 when Chinese citizens protested President Xi Jinping’s COVID lockdown orders. Xi’s forces quickly cracked down on dissent, leading to violent clashes across the country. China watchers anticipate Xi will take action again.
China Erupts: Furious Workers Riot As Factories Collapse Under Trump’s Tariffs

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

Can DOGE's massive success at cutting government waste continue?
100 Days Of DOGE: Elon Musk’s Initiative Says It Cut $200 Billion. What’s Next?
. . . While looking into that agency’s operations, DOGE made some surprising discoveries.
Elon Musk, DOGE Team Reveal Which Agency Fought Them Hardest

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Martin’s biggest opponents are fearful that he’ll fulfill the job he was appointed to do: to clean up rot and corruption.
Corruptocrats’ Hysteria Against Ed Martin Is Exactly Why He Should Be Confirmed
The same government that permits illegal invaders to fly across our nation with zero proof of identity simultaneously harasses Americans for inadequate documentation.
REAL ID implementation looms, and documentation issues plague ‘married women’ in particular
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Mercedes said a "core vehicle segment" will be manufactured at a factory in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Mercedes Says It Will Make Another Car In The U.S. After Trump Tariffs
"Companies that invest in the United States will be able to deduct 100% of that cost from their tax liability."
Stephen Miller: Small Business Relief Will Come From ‘Largest Tax Cut In History’
. . . the supposed culprit of the import surge—consumer panic buying—simply isn’t real. Consumers are not front-running the tariffs. And that, too, is good news. If they were, demand would be pulled forward and set to sag in future quarters. But it hasn’t been. That means the runway ahead may be longer than expected.
Consumers Aren’t Front Running Tariffs
SiriusXM CFO Dismisses Tariff Concerns on Earnings Call: ‘We Sleep Well at Night.’
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The economy slipped slightly due to soaring imports as businesses stocked up before tariffs kicked in.
GDP’s Small Drop Brings Out The Media’s Anti-Trump Jeers
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Thursday that she has held conversations with U.S. President Donald J. Trump on trade, revealing, “We agreed that the secretaries of the Treasury, finance, economy and commerce will continue working in the coming days on options to improve our trade balance and advance outstanding issues for the benefit of both countries.”
Sheinbaum Agrees She Will Work to ‘Improve’ US-Mexico Trade Balance.
“The liberal press and their pals on Wall Street are talking about recession — because the first quarter GDP was scored with a slight decline of three-tenths of 1 percent,” Kudlow said. “Yet if you look under the hood of the GDP report, and carefully parse through the numbers, what you actually come up with is a rather strong economy, that’s growing at something like 3 percent.”
Kudlow Says Real GDP Is Booming Beneath the Surface of Q1 Data
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"I’m not the least f***ing sorry."
‘F*** Fascism’: Maine Teacher Calls For Murder Of Trump Supporters, Top Officials In Unhinged Rants
The details of the settlement have yet to be announced, with both parties saying they “need more time to finalize documentation,” the outlet reported. The city filed suit against the “Mighty Ducks” alum in January 2019 after his claim to be the victim of a homophobic, racist attack at the hands of two MAGA-heads prowling in the dark of night was exposed as a poorly crafted charade.
Jussie Smollett and city of Chicago reach settlement in lawsuit over hate crime hoax

"BIDEN/HARRIS BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
In the People's Republic of California, the people are apparently second-class citizens to foreign rapists in power.
Alien Police Officer With Criminal Background Arrested For Rape in California
Two illegal aliens are accused of breaking into a Garner, North Carolina, woman’s home, demanding money from her husband, then kidnapping her and her baby girl. (He's merely acting out the Democrat Leftist legislative agenda! jjs)
Illegal Aliens Accused of Kidnapping North Carolina Woman, Her 11-Month Old Baby After Demanding $1 Million
Self-gassing, lucky-sperm-club multimillionaire, ne'er-do-well gasbag/scumbag - jjs
Dem Rep. Goldman: Trump Reportedly Talking About Deporting Criminals to Libya, Rwanda Is ‘Demonization of Immigrants’
If it takes an executive order to enforce laws that already bar illegal immigrants from Social Security, the problem isn’t policy—it’s a government that’s given up on enforcement.
We Don’t Need an Executive Order to Bar Illegals from Social Security—We Need a Government That Obeys the Law
Illegal aliens cost Texas hospitals more than $120 million in November 2024 alone.
Illegal Aliens Racked Up A Nine-Figure Bill At Texas Hospitals In Just One Month
A former judge from New Mexico, Joel Cano, along with his wife, Nancy Cano, has been released on $10,000 bonds after facing charges of tampering with evidence and allegedly harboring a Venezuelan gang member, following a federal raid on their residence. The couple was apprehended in Las Cruces, New Mexico, after Homeland Security Investigations got a tip-off in January 2025 concerning Cristhian Ortega-Lopez. Ortega-Lopez is an alleged member of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang designated as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO).
Ex-Judge and Wife Accused of Harboring Foreign Gang Member Released on Bond
However, the judge said his ruling does not stop the defendants “to continue removal proceedings or enforcement of any final orders of removal” under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Judge Rules Trump Cannot Use Alien Enemies Act for Deportations
Morell asked Omar if more Democrats should be traveling to El Salvador to advocate for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an alleged MS-13 member deported by President Donald Trump’s administration. Omar, without answering the question, repeatedly told Morrell to “fuck off.”
Bro-Fo Omar Tells Reporter To ‘F*ck Off’ Over Basic Question About El Salvador
Kilmar Abrego Garcia allegedly threatened and repeatedly abused his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, according to a protective form she filed in August 2020. Included in her domestic abuse allegations are claims that Abrego Garcia dragged her out of a vehicle by her hair and left her on the street in December 2019, broke her son’s tablet and broke down doors in their house in January 2020 and pushed her against a wall while breaking TVs and phones in March 2020.
Suspected MS-13 Gangbanger Democrats Rushed To Defend Named In Second Domestic Abuse Case
When Democrats went all-in on defending Garcia, they made the calculation that they could find a way to spin all of this. (Considering the media is on their side, it's not necessarily a miscalculation - jjs0
Democrats Rallied Around A Dangerous Criminal Alien. Now They’re Paying The Price.
If looking at the mass deportation effort by the Trump administration bothers you, remember who put us in this position.
Upset About Trump’s Aggressive Deportations? Thank A Democrat
ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS . . . AND BIDEN
“On the eve of Israel’s 77th Independence Day, massive fires rage near Jerusalem, forcing evacuations and closing major highways,” the state of Israel posted on X April 30. “Our firefighters and security forces are working tirelessly to protect lives. We are grateful for the support of all our friends offering assistance. We pray for everyone’s safety.”
Did Terrorists Start Jerusalem Fires Before Israeli Independence Day?
Ibrahim Bharmal will use the money to spend a year 'serving the public interest' at CAIR's California chapter
Harvard Law Review Awards $65k Fellowship to Student Charged in Assault of Israeli Classmate: Report
“I am saying it clear and loud to President Trump and his Cabinet: I am not afraid of you,” preached the foreign guest, as his mob of supporters raised their fists for their new martyr.
Freed Columbia Univ. Jihadi Accused of Telling Gun Shop Owner that He Used to 'Kill Jews'
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
Newsom awarded nearly $200,000 to the Islamic Center of San Diego in March
Gavin Newsom Awards Antiterrorism Grant to Mosque Linked to 9/11 Hijackers, Pro-Hamas Cleric
The jihadist and leftist ties that bind.
How Radical Islam and the Progressive Left Seek to Undermine America
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Municipalities should adopt a more assertive approach to street homelessness.
Sex Offenders Make Up Large Share of Homeless Population, New Report Shows

SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), and Robin Kelly (D-IL) all submitted official requests to have their support withdrawn from the India-born congressman’s impeachment proposal on Tuesday, stating they had been mistaken on certain aspects of it.
3 Democrats Withdraw Support for Rep. Thanedar’s Trump Impeachment Proposal
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
“Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence,” Trump wrote in the order.
Trump terminates NPR, PBS federal funding with sweeping executive order
“Nobody knows what the next shoe that will drop,” the insider told Fox News Digital. “And internally, it’s just very chaotic because everyone doesn’t know what will happen next.”
Trump Settlement Talks and Resignations Create ‘Chaos’ at Disgraced ’60 Minutes’
Michael Walsh: Whether the patrician Walter Lippmann would have admired the wishful handiwork he espoused in Public Opinion (1922) now that it is a reality is open to question, but surely he would celebrate the intrusion of the American federal government, along with governments around the world, into both de facto and de jure informational control of cyberspace. In many countries around the world, the press and attendant broadcast media are now directly and unabashedly controlled by government entities which, in many cases, openly fund and censor them.
THE CONVERSATION: 'A Higher Loyalty'
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
'The administration is absolutely right to draw a line in the sand,' energy industry official tells the Free Beacon
Trump Admin Sues Michigan and Hawaii Over States' Plans To Pursue Climate Damages From Oil and Gas Industry
Valero to shut Benicia refinery, which generates about 12% of the fuel in California . The reason: A toxic regulatory environment and high costs.
California Losing Important Valero Oil Refinery, Exclusive Supplier of Travis AFB
The mainstream media’s refusal to adopt a neutral stance on climate change has transformed a complex scientific debate into a monolithic narrative of impending catastrophe.
How Media Exploits Climate Catastrophism
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
Daniel Greenfield: Harvard should have to pay its fair share.
How High Should the College Endowments Tax Be?
"Good on the Trump administration for ending this. "
Trump Admin Deals Blow To Taxpayer-Funded Leftist Activist Training Program
The effect of Ohio’s scholarship program reinforces why states should continue to expand school choice for all families.
Study: Private School Choice Makes Even Public Schoolers More Likely To Earn College Degrees
The school district’s merit-pay program will attract top talent, benefiting students.
How Houston Is Holding Teachers Accountable
The news comes days after the Trump administration launched an investigation into UC Berkeley for allegedly failing to disclose funding from China, including a $220 million government investment in Berkeley’s joint research institution with Tsinghua University.
UC Berkeley Received Six-Figure Donations From CCP Officials, Records Show
SECOND AMENDMENT
Illinois Democrats will stop at nothing until the state government bans all guns.
Illinois Targeting Glock Handguns in Its Latest Gun Grab
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
The rhetoric from Swalwell — who infamously had a relationship with a Chinese spy known as “Fang Fang” — is nothing new, as the Democrat has continued to criticize President Donald Trump and his administration.
WATCH: Democrat (Chi-Com asset/asshat) Eric Yum-Yum Swalwell Stokes 2024 Election Denial
Instead of holding regular public events in the Bronx or Queens, AOC is focused on causes like investigating GOP stock trades or appearing on late-night television.
Titty-Caca AOC shines in spotlight while her district crumbles in her shadow
She's the queen of CAPITOL gains. (Malig-Nancy Pelosi taught her well - jjs)
New Jersey DEMOCRAT Rep. Mikie Sherrill Sees Assets Soar While Serving in Congress
POLITICS
Harris rattled off a list of Democrat leaders who really inspire her: “Corey Booker, Chris Van Hollen, Chris Murphy, Jasmine Crockett, Maxwell Frost, AOC, and Bernie Sanders.”
Kamala’s Return Speech Sparks Secondhand Embarrassment
Douglas Murray: . . . the true highlight of Kamala’s speech came when she dug into her familiar wine-mom technique. Then the memories really came flooding back. To the public — if not to her. Flailing around with her hands and laughing before she had even said anything funny she invoked the behavior of animals in the zoo. Quite literally.
Kamala Harris reminds everyone why we didn’t elect her president
It's nice to have a President who is proud of America, and willing to put America first again.
Trump 2.0: An Imperial Presidency, or the People’s President?
Republican Michigan Rep. John James believes the fate of President Donald Trump’s agenda in the upcoming midterm cycle could run through the battleground state.
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Only Republican Who Can Perform’: John James Is Determined To Flip Governorship Red During Midterms (Sound of Dana Nessel and Pamela Benson snickering - jjs)
The apparent suicide attempts, in February and April, involved high doses of prescription medication that prompted emergency responses to her home and congressional office, according to The Colorado Sun. Both events were previously undisclosed to the public and only came to light as Caraveo announced a new bid for Congress this year. (Dear Democrat voters . . . - jjs)
REPORT: Former Democrat Congresswoman Tried To Kill Herself Twice Ahead Of Election
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
The comments came just as the United States and Ukraine signed President Trump’s rare earths deal, hailed as an ‘important milestone’ on the road to achieving peace in the region, given it gives the U.S. a long-term interest in the security of Ukraine.
General Kellogg: U.S. Not Backing Away From Negotiations, Ukraine Has Agreed to ‘Give Up Land’ Russia Holds For Peace
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
Waltz’s reassignment reflects Trump’s strategic reshuffling to optimize his administration’s efficiency, ensuring America First policies are advanced at the UN while national security gets a reset following ‘Signalgate.’
Trump Nominates Mike Waltz to Become UN Ambassador.
'You know very well what the U.S. Military is capable of — and you were warned.'
‘You Will Pay The Consequence’: Pete Hegseth Warns Iran Over Lethal Support To Houthis
'They will not be allowed to do business with the United States of America in any way, shape, or form.'
Trump To World: Stop Buying Iranian Oil — Or Else
Fred Fleitz: Trump was right to ditch the Iran deal—Kerry’s uranium concession let Tehran sprint toward the bomb under cover of diplomacy.
President Trump Must Reverse John Kerry’s Worst Concession to Iran
Robert Spencer: Trump Derangement Syndrome on steroids.
Canada Elects a Prime Minister to Spite Trump
Romania had elected hardline conservative anti-globalist Calin Georgescu late last year, but the election was called off and nullified after he was accused of being pro-Russian. Romanians scheduled a new election for May, and Simion—who has promised Georgescu a position in his government if he wins—has emerged as the front-running candidate. Protests have erupted across Romania with people objecting to interference in their elections from Brussels, globalist plotters who canceled Georgescu’s victory.
Exclusive — Leading Romanian Presidential Candidate George Simion: Let’s ‘Make Europe Great Again’ (MEGA! - jjs)
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
Waltz came under scrutiny after he put together an encrypted Signal group chat that mistakenly included the Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg, which inadvertently disclosed discussions with top Trump administration officials about plans to strike Houthi targets in Yemen. One source familiar with the situation told CBS News that the president believes that enough time has passed since the controversy that Waltz and Wong’s departure can be framed as part of a reorganization and that he initially resisted efforts to remove his national security adviser to avoid the appearance of bowing to outside pressure.
Reports: National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Deputy Alex Wong Out at National Security Council
Testifying during his Thursday confirmation hearing, Matt Lohmeier pledged to ensure ‘a culture of accountability’ in the Air Force.
Fired For Exposing The Biden-Era Military’s Marxist Drift, Former Officer Pledges To Restore ‘Accountability’ To The Force
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
Cool image time! The false-color X-ray picture to the right, reduced and sharpened to post here, was released today by the science team for the Chandra X-ray Observatory, showing some interesting astronomical features about 26,000 light years away near the galactic center.
Giant galactic magnetic filament disturbed by pulsar
The cluster is about 650 light-years away in Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer, and has been nicknamed “Ophion” in honor of its resident constellation. “Ophion is filled with stars that are set to rush out across the galaxy in a totally haphazard, uncoordinated way, which is far from what we’d expect for a family so big,” said Huson in a statement. “What’s more, this will happen in a fraction of the time it’d usually take for such a large family to scatter. It’s like no other star family we’ve seen before.”
Astronomers discover a cluster of a thousand very young stars that is flying apart for unknown reasons
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
HHS specifically determined that the ‘gender-identity’ method used to rationalize irreversibly damaging kids’ minds and bodies is senseless.
HHS Report Confirms No Evidence To Support Castrating And Mutilating Gender Confused Kids
Daniel Greenfield: After the wealthiest drag queen endorsed his campaign.
Gov. Newsom Gave $1.7M to Drag Queens That Targets Kids
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
In his post, Rapaport shared another X user’s post featuring the final report on Harvard from the Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Bias — a 300-page document highlighting a plethora of antisemitic instances on the university’s campus since October 7, 2023.
Michael Rapaport Trolls Obama After Harvard Anti-Israel Report Revealed ‘Deep-Rooted Antisemitism’ on Campus
Shannon Sharpe’s legal saga is a symptom of a society that has lost its way.
Shannon Sharpe’s lawsuit exposes a deeper cultural crisis
Christian Toto: Ex-Mumford & Sons musician calls out hypocrisy behind pro-Kneecap support
Winston Marshall Brutally Shames Music Industry
HITHER & YON
. . . beloved Salem Radio Network host Dennis Prager suffered a devastating fall from a ladder in November and is paralyzed below the neck.
Dennis Prager Suffers a 'Setback' in His Recovery

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1 Happy Fricking Friday

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 07:32 AM (gbOdA)

2 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2025 07:33 AM (Q4IgG)

3 Good morning horde! Happy Friday!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 07:33 AM (ExV1e)

4 Happy Friday, one and all. Today, I am taking the day off as my car's front ball joint is in need of replacement. The dogs have been fed, I am drinking coffee and life is good.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 02, 2025 07:33 AM (lXCUP)

5 DJT @ 7:27 this morning:

"We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!"

Posted by: t-bird at May 02, 2025 07:35 AM (tJ2Kx)

6 It's Flapjack Friday!

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 02, 2025 07:36 AM (e5NfL)

7 Thank you, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 02, 2025 07:36 AM (/Ghsb)

8 morning horde

and happy friday and happy birfday jj

off to the content

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at May 02, 2025 07:36 AM (nXhwP)

9 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at May 02, 2025 07:37 AM (lPLG1)

10 Burning tesla dealerships, and sleeping subway riders, if not entire cities circa the summer of 2020 should be your first hint.

As much as the Left's political leadership and donors are concerned, they sent the message to Musk in the targeting of Tesla dealerships.

As far as fires go. Meth heads have this thing about large public fires. They are just attracted to burning things. Anything. Even sleeping humans.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 02, 2025 07:38 AM (a4flb)

11 buzz buzz: seen at the wsj this morning (digital subscription is quite affordable):

"China said it is weighing starting trade talks with the U.S., but only if Washington shows sincerity through concrete measures such as by canceling tariffs against Beijing."

translation: they think that they are negotiating with obama and john kerry. either that or they think trump will listen to paul krugman, tom friedman and bill kristol.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 02, 2025 07:38 AM (CWTWj)

12 “The small agency called the United States Institute of Peace is definitely the agency we had the most fight at. We actually went into the agency and found they had loaded guns inside of their headquarters,” one unidentified DOGE member said.

Maybe they are part of the Religion of Peas.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 07:38 AM (gbOdA)

13 hey yall wut sup

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 07:38 AM (gbOdA)

14 Thinking the Constitution should be changed to have a opposite party Commissar Judge in a office next to the Oval Office who has to confirm any decision by the President.

Posted by: Skip at May 02, 2025 07:39 AM (lPLG1)

15 The Trump administration this week slashed $1 billion in so-called “mental health” grants for educational institutions, many of which were going to promote leftist ideology and train leftist activists.

Obivously none of that mental health money was directed to healing of JoAnna St. Germain, who ~~teaches at~~ was immediately canned from Waterville Senior High School,

(OK, so the last though is wishful thinking. Of course the school board will reward her for her being brave and letting her hatred fly unfiltered)

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 02, 2025 07:41 AM (a4flb)

16 Neil Young say you are a fascist if you drive a Tesla. Now do Volkswagens.

Posted by: fd at May 02, 2025 07:41 AM (vFG9F)

17 From the cramped streets of Sichuan in the southwest to the cold outskirts of Inner Mongolia in the northeast, furious workers are demanding backpay and protesting mass layoffs as factories shutter under pressure from Trump’s tariffs. . .

I'm working on it. -- Rand Paul

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 07:42 AM (ExV1e)

18 good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 02, 2025 07:43 AM (w+dhY)

19 REAL ID implementation looms, and documentation issues plague ‘married women’ in particular

This is just over-compliance by a state asshoe to make people think that getting Real ID is hard.

She had the right docs and the local DMB is just fucking the old lady to make a story.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 07:43 AM (gbOdA)

20 "This kind of situation on the mainland could also put Taiwan in the crosshairs perhaps sooner than expected."
+++

When is it expected?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 02, 2025 07:43 AM (dg+HA)

21 The comments came just as the United States and Ukraine signed President Trump’s rare earths deal, hailed as an ‘important milestone’ on the road to achieving peace in the region,

It has zero to do with achieving peace. It has everything to do with Trump negotiating with his political enemies in the West who were using the Ukraine grift to underwrite their evil causes and offspring's trust funds.

The "minerals deal" allows strip-mining Ukraine by Western elites and getting their pound of flesh by means other than blowing things up and killing people.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 02, 2025 07:45 AM (a4flb)

22
I'm not predicting the Chinese Communist Party will collapse any time soon. But who knew that the Soviet Union would ever fall when it did, if at all. Hopefully, for the sake of the suffering Chinese people, the CCP disintegrates.

MWGA! Make Warlords Great Again!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 02, 2025 07:46 AM (QnmlO)

23 Good morning!

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at May 02, 2025 07:47 AM (7o9l6)

24 “I believe Trump and every sycophant he has surrounded himself with (this is not you – if you’re reading this, this doesn’t apply to you. You are beneath his notice and mine) needs to die,” St. Germain’s post read.
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She exempts us from her Republican death sentence because we are "beneath her notice".

What the heck happened to her that she wants to kill some people and she disdains the survivors? The propaganda is bad obviously, but something has twisted the brains of so many leftist people. Its all in keeping with the ideology I guess, and you can draw a straight line from Stalin and Mao through Pol Pot to Bill Ayers and this chick, but leftism really is a dramatic sort of mental illness.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2025 07:47 AM (lUMEG)

25 ...the problem isn’t policy—it’s a government that’s given up on enforcement.

The government hasn't "given up" on enforcement. It never intended to enforce these rules. Laws are passed to con the rubes and then the bureaucracy does whatever it wants.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 07:48 AM (ExV1e)

26 Astronomers discover a cluster of a thousand very young stars that is flying apart for unknown reasons
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The alien invasion fleet is on its way!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 02, 2025 07:48 AM (7fElN)

27 > This is just over-compliance by a state asshoe to make people think that getting Real ID is hard.
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Certainly not the case for illegals. Their paperwork is a fraction what a US citizen is required to produce. At least, that's the case here in KY.

Our issues stem from staffing issues at the various DMV offices. My local one has been backlogged for two years.

Two. Years.

The KY Transportation Cabinet, the state office responsible for licenses, has suggested people near large metro areas with this backlog go find a regional office out in the boonies that might not have a long wait.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2025 07:48 AM (Q4IgG)

28 It would be great if Red China went into revolt. I look forward to reliving the days of weird named warlords and generals commanding armies of opium addicts fighting each other in pointless battles, lots of military surplus floating around for sale and westerners like me can visit the whore houses like in that movie "Sand Pebbles" while owning a few chinamen to be my personal servants for a bowl of rice a day.

Posted by: Robert De Niro, Midget at May 02, 2025 07:49 AM (979V4)

29 REAL ID?

I love it.

I used to go bowling at the local AF Base. Back in Jan. 2017, the Base Commander notified us that REAL ID was going to be enforced. Since my state wasn't issuing Driver's Licences with it, I got myself a Passport Card.

After paying for and receiving the Passport Card, the Base Commander issued a statement that REAL ID wouldn't be required for another year.

By July 2020, my state was issuing REAL ID. In the mean time, states like NY and others have been issuing IDs to illegal aliens without any documentation.

If they cannot get on a plane, fuck em. They had plenty of time.

So, all those folks

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 02, 2025 07:49 AM (ZmEVT)

30 I'm not predicting the Chinese Communist Party will collapse any time soon.

They just need a different grift.

The Soviet Union was losing its prestige and the people at the top knew it so they changed direction and did their plundering and maintained power in a different way: by selling off public assets (like weapons) and "privatizing" industries that couldn't be parted out and sold abroad.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 02, 2025 07:50 AM (a4flb)

31 Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), and Robin Kelly (D-IL) all submitted official requests to have their support withdrawn from the India-born congressman’s impeachment proposal on Tuesday, stating they had been mistaken on certain aspects of it.

Specifically that it was popular with their constituents.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 07:50 AM (ExV1e)

32 DJT @ 7:27 this morning:

"We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!"
Posted by: t-bird at May 02, 2025 07:35 AM (tJ2Kx)
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Harvard is famously called a "hedge fund with a school attached" snd now they will be treated as such. Pay your taxes Harvard!

Every PDJT day is like Christmas. He's killing it!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2025 07:52 AM (mp2aO)

33 Boatload of documentation? Bullshit.

When I moved here in 2007, I needed my birth cert to get a DL. When my wife's ID expired and we didn't notice it in time, we had to get a certified copy of the Marriage cert.

No sympathy for lazy shits.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 02, 2025 07:52 AM (ZmEVT)

34

"Lee Kwan, Crotus, Ferris, Maltuvis!"

- - Lord Garth

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 02, 2025 07:52 AM (x0n13)

35 "very young stars that is flying apart for unknown reasons"

Sounds like they discovered Hollywood.

Posted by: fd at May 02, 2025 07:53 AM (vFG9F)

36 Just the punchline: "They eat ... and piss gasoline."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 02, 2025 07:54 AM (ZmEVT)

37 "We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!"
Posted by: t-bird at May 02, 2025 07:35 AM (tJ2Kx)
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Harvard is famously called a "hedge fund with a school attached" snd now they will be treated as such. Pay your taxes Harvard!

Every PDJT day is like Christmas. He's killing it!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2025 07:52 AM
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For those of you keeping score at home, I'm still not tired of all the winning.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 02, 2025 07:54 AM (dg+HA)

38 The mental giantson a non-political reddit were lecturing last night that China isn't a communist country. It's stunning to watch.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2025 07:55 AM (QTr+M)

39 this just in: chinese communists ousted, free elections held, obama given nobel peace prize

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 02, 2025 07:55 AM (CWTWj)

40 Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 02, 2025 07:49 AM (ZmEVT)
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Lemme make sure I get your comment: You have had a Real ID for years, so its A-OK with you if now the state burdens everyone else with unwanted national ID requirements. That's your message to the world?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2025 07:56 AM (vS5Dp)

41 This episode was not aired by the BBC in the United Kingdom because of 'sadistic plot elements' and the risqué dance performed by the character, Marta, thought unsuitable for children. The episode remained unaired until 1994.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 07:56 AM (gbOdA)

42 > "We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!"
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Can I have theirs? I mean, it's not like they'll be needing it and I sure could use one.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2025 07:56 AM (Q4IgG)

43 Astronomers discover a cluster of a thousand very young stars that is flying apart for unknown reasons

Their mom said they needed someone to take out the trash.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 07:56 AM (ExV1e)

44 What the heck happened to her that she wants to kill some people and she disdains the survivors?

Get rid of social media and go back to the days that the only way people would hear you is if you bought space in the newspaper or in the community newsletter.

Go sit with the other moms at the park and talk this crap and word gets around the neighborhood fast that you are nuts and your only companionship will be cats.

With social media, hives of mental illness can flourish where Mimetic Theory really demonstrates clear cases of Double Bind as each lunatic tries to out crazy other lunatics in their hive.

Social media is a catalyst for mental illness.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 02, 2025 07:56 AM (a4flb)

45 For those who haven't seen the video yet, Big Mike Obama gave a interview about the importance of trans-ing kids which included the phrase "as a black man", clear as day.

NPR has a story out claiming it's "misleading", of course.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2025 07:57 AM (OyOhQ)

46 34 Ferris became a warlord? Man, he took a dark turn after his day off.

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 02, 2025 07:58 AM (w+dhY)

47 Oh noes!

AP: Memorial wall to fallen USAID staffers is removed from the agency's former building. (image of memorial: https://tinyurl.com/c7aj34uz )

Contractors hired by the Trump administration have removed a memorial wall to fallen staffers from the now-closed headquarters of the U.S. Agency for International Development, with no immediate word on where it will wind up...Crews already had hauled down the agency’s name and banner from buildings in Washington, eradicating traces of an agency whose mission Trump and Musk said was wasteful and contrary to the president’s agenda.

The Dump administrations is disgusting and disrespectful to all real patriots. its probably already in a landfill. Trump doesn't care. He is pure cruelty embodied.

Republicans hate brave people. The memorial is a reminder of how brave people sacrifice for others and they can't handle it.

We need a modern day Monuments Men. Fuck these nazi tactics. Removing and moving art and memorials should be documented to the teeth. (Had to look this up...some movie? Film thread topic!)

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 02, 2025 07:59 AM (ycI94)

48 MOrning again, news folken,

Back from my workout, shower, and I'm having breakfast.

ON the Tech Thread I mentioned the 2024 movie Conclave, a drama about the selection of a new pope. One annoying thing about it is that the story features an Italian cardinal named Tedesco who is a strict constructionist -- we are told he wants to take the Church back sixty years. In one scene he stands and pronounces in a fiery manner that they must fight against the invasion of the Moslems. Yet not a single character agrees with him, and there is no discussion of his ideas -- he is merely painted as a racist and as intolerant of Islam, and "must not become Pope."

I suspect the name "Tedesco" was chosen to be similar to the Italian word for the Germans, "Tedeschi," because the writer or director wants us to link him to Naziism.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2025 08:00 AM (omVj0)

49 46 34 Ferris became a warlord? Man, he took a dark turn after his day off.
Posted by: callsign claymore

But that wheel he invented is pretty cool. So there's that.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 02, 2025 08:00 AM (dg+HA)

50 re 38: they are kindof correct. a one party dictatorship that allows private enterprise and profits is much more like a fascist state than a typical commie state. which kind of demonstrates that fascism and communism are pretty much flies of the same feather

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 02, 2025 08:00 AM (CWTWj)

51 A high school English teacher in Maine has allegedly called for the Secret Service and U.S. military to assassinate President Donald Trump, his supporters, and top Trump advisors.

JoAnna St. Germain, who teaches at Waterville Senior High School, appears to have made the concerning remarks on her Facebook page, prompting investigations by police and the school district where she is employed.

What in the actual fuck is this parched, demented bint on about? I'll fix her wagon.

"Color Sgt Tozier, have the men stand to"
*side eyes left, then right, when satisfied the men are ready*
"FIX! BAYONETS!"
*war face comes out*
"CHARGE!!!"

Posted by: Col. Joshua Chamberlain, 20th Maine, Defenders of Little Roundtop, former college professor of Engli at May 02, 2025 08:01 AM (Aqu9a)

52 Thank you JJ

One can still find JoAnna St. Germain‘s Facebook post up. Yes, she looks about like you’d expect… minus the purple hair

Why do nut jobs end up being teachers??

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 02, 2025 08:02 AM (i5Vkf)

53 Gomes was fired last week on suspicion of raping a woman who was not mentally capable of consenting to his sexual advances.

It’s only a matter of time before other aliens abuse the power our blue-state leaders have entrusted them with.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 08:03 AM (gbOdA)

54 GDP numbers will be revised.

Posted by: runner at May 02, 2025 08:03 AM (g47mK)

55 That's your message to the world?

You want to fly in a plane? It's a privilege, not a right.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 02, 2025 08:03 AM (ZmEVT)

56 The Dump administrations is disgusting and disrespectful to all real patriots. its probably already in a landfill. Trump doesn't care. He is pure cruelty embodied.
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Reads next sentence of article instead of just headline:

"The State Department said the memorial was relocated for what would be a permanent new home at the department, which is overseeing remaining USAID programs."

Don't fall for headlines, kids. Don't be a leftard.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2025 08:03 AM (QTr+M)

57 Lemme make sure I get your comment: You have had a Real ID for years, so its A-OK with you if now the state burdens everyone else with unwanted national ID requirements. That's your message to the world?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2025 07:56 AM (vS5Dp)

I have a RealID. Getting it required showing my birth certificate. Getting my first driver's license, way back in *mumble mumble mumble*, had required showing my birth certificate.

Are there places where you never had to show one? What horrific requirements concern you? How is RealID more of a national ID than your SSN?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 08:03 AM (ExV1e)

58 EPIC City is a horrifying concept. I was too disgusted to read the article, even though I've heard about it for a while. I don't know how close this is to coming to reality, but I'm astute enough to recognize the real danger here. This is a disastrous plan supposedly in motion, and it follows their blueprint in slowly but surely subsuming their host country.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 02, 2025 08:04 AM (qBdHI)

59 Virginia’s junior senator then cited a series of Lohmeier’s tweets, one of which reads, “The Left lies about nearly everything it does. And tens of millions of Americans believe the lies.” Kaine argued that Lohmeier was “calling tens of millions of Americans ‘dupes.’”
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Well, Senator Kaine, they fell for your dangerous bullshit, so how do you describe them? "Dupes" sounds about right to me.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2025 08:04 AM (4/pAP)

60 It's the economy, Stupid!

That's what people care about

The posting on Facebook by a teacher in Maine ?
Distraction
Meh

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at May 02, 2025 08:05 AM (jfsVk)

61 Alien Police Officer With Criminal Background Arrested For Rape in California

Illegal Aliens Accused of Kidnapping North Carolina Woman, Her 11-Month Old Baby After Demanding $1 Million

We really need to shut down immigration about 20 to 30 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 08:05 AM (gbOdA)

62 Harvard is a Stalinist shithole and needs to be dismembered.

"..“Many Jewish Harvard affiliates were routinely asked to clarify” that they were “one of the good ones” by denouncing the world’s only Jewish state, the presidential task force report added."

Posted by: runner at May 02, 2025 08:06 AM (g47mK)

63 Hard to understand Daryl Hannah marrying Neil Young, dirty Canadian hippie

but she was great as Elle Driver

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Doc is NOT here at May 02, 2025 08:06 AM (AOsQT)

64 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 08:07 AM (77rzZ)

65
Are we still "Speaking truth to power", or are we on a different set of stunningly brave lies now?

Posted by: Auspex at May 02, 2025 08:07 AM (j4U/Z)

66 I don't have a problem with a National ID. That ship sailed the first time I got a Passport.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 02, 2025 08:08 AM (ZmEVT)

67 WS made trillions on investing in offshoring. Now they are told to recalibrate and deleverage. So they are throwing temper tantrums.

Posted by: runner at May 02, 2025 08:08 AM (g47mK)

68 Different set of stunningly brave lies.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 02, 2025 08:08 AM (ZmEVT)

69 Are there places where you never had to show one? What horrific requirements concern you? How is RealID more of a national ID than your SSN?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 08:03 AM (ExV1e)
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So your answer is not only "yes, I want everyone inconvenienced" but now you add on that a national ID already exists so an additional one, while burdensome and duplicative, shouldn't concern anyone. Any other totally unnecessary national requirements you want to load on your fellow citizens?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2025 08:08 AM (4/pAP)

70
One annoying thing about it is that the story features an Italian cardinal named Tedesco who is a strict constructionist -- we are told he wants to take the Church back sixty years.

You could do much worse than take the Church back sixty years.

Books and movies like this always feature conservative meanies against saintly liberals. Except, as the recent past pope has shown, the saintly liberals can be horribly intolerant and do everything they can to subvert the Magisterium and make life miserable for those who love the beauty of tradition.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 02, 2025 08:09 AM (QnmlO)

71 rhennigantx was that an accidental post?

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2025 08:09 AM (QTr+M)

72 Today is Kentucky Oaks Day. 🏇
Which is held every year on the Friday before the Kentucky Derby

Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2025 08:09 AM (NpAcC)

73 Are we still "Speaking truth to power", or are we on a different set of stunningly brave lies now?
Posted by: Auspex at May 02, 2025 08:07 AM (j4U/Z)

I told my wife just today that there was something she'd done that I didn't like. She was asleep at the time but I still said it.

Raises fist. Attica! Attica! Attica!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 08:09 AM (ExV1e)

74 "I'm an outgassing star!"

Posted by: Maine teacher at May 02, 2025 08:10 AM (VJc7E)

75 Conclave is a lot worse than just the portrayal of one guy. More leftard Hollywood fantasy diarrhea. The end is an intentional insult.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2025 08:10 AM (QTr+M)

76 Daryl Hannah's best role was Pris in Blade Runner.

Posted by: runner at May 02, 2025 08:10 AM (g47mK)

77 Venezuelan detainees in Texas fear the Trump administration will send them to El Salvador's notorious CECOT maximum security prison. They sent the outside world a message: S-O-S

too bad this image was not from a Predator Drone

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 08:11 AM (gbOdA)

78 Wow, prayers to Dennis Prager. Paralyzed from the neck down doesn't sound good.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 02, 2025 08:11 AM (qBdHI)

79 As far as fires go. Meth heads have this thing about large public fires. They are just attracted to burning things. Anything. Even sleeping humans.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 02, 2025 07:38 AM (a4flb)

My life for you!
https://youtu.be/pt0ASXVWgQg

Posted by: Trashcan Man at May 02, 2025 08:11 AM (Aqu9a)

80 Musicians at the Chopin Piano Competition battle to see who can make the most contorted O-Face while performing:
youtube.com/watch?v=QliMFt9SyR4

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at May 02, 2025 08:12 AM (7o9l6)

81 Are there places where you never had to show one? What horrific requirements concern you? How is RealID more of a national ID than your SSN?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 08:03 AM (ExV1e)
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So your answer is not only "yes, I want everyone inconvenienced" but now you add on that a national ID already exists so an additional one, while burdensome and duplicative, shouldn't concern anyone. Any other totally unnecessary national requirements you want to load on your fellow citizens?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2025 08:08 AM (4/pAP)

No, you're conflating two different people. My question was why does it bother you? Specifically. From my perspective it has exactly the same nominal requirements as a regular drivers license but the state is supposed to verify that you're a citizen.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 08:12 AM (ExV1e)

82 71 rhennigantx was that an accidental post?
Posted by: ... at May 02, 2025 08:09 AM (QTr+M)

which one??

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 08:12 AM (gbOdA)

83 I don't have a problem with a National ID. That ship sailed the first time I got a Passport.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 02, 2025 08:08 AM (ZmEVT)

Ain't nobody gots no time for dat! I got bronchitis, I woke up and smelled smoke and thought somebody was BBQing. I said "Oh Lawd Jesus!" and I ran out da building. I ain't got no times for dat! Next thing you know y'all be wanting me to have an ID to vote. I ain't gots no time for dat!

Posted by: Ghetto Sally, smoking kools and sipping a 40 at May 02, 2025 08:12 AM (979V4)

84 Because shipping from China takes weeks, the Chi-Coms are feeling the pinch on their end first. We won't see empty shelves for weeks. Meanwhile, "Hello Saigon!"

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 02, 2025 08:13 AM (Gqoy+)

85 Here in South Dakota we have had real ID since 2009. I don't even remember it happening so it must not ha e been too traumatic of a process.

Posted by: Molly k. at May 02, 2025 08:13 AM (j/yko)

86 As a married woman, I didn't have any trouble getting a RealID, although I had to go back home a couple of times to get the right documents needed. One, I think, being my marriage certificate that showed my maiden name. I've had a RealID driver's license for years now, so I'm not quite certain on that. But it does require quite a bit of documentation.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 02, 2025 08:14 AM (qBdHI)

87 Have we heard from Biden’s Dog since the fires began? Hope he and his are OK.

Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 08:14 AM (77rzZ)

88 which one??
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 08:12 AM (gbOdA)

The BBC episode? Couldn't figure out what you were talking about but I do miss stuff because I'm essentially a semi-functional mental patient.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2025 08:15 AM (QTr+M)

89 Any other totally unnecessary national requirements you want to load on your fellow citizens?

If you want to vote, yes.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 02, 2025 08:15 AM (ZmEVT)

90 Conclave is a lot worse than just the portrayal of one guy. More leftard Hollywood fantasy diarrhea. The end is an intentional insult.
Posted by: ... at May 02, 2025

***
Which is why I hesitate to recommend it. Good performances all around, yes, but . . . And the ending is left ambiguous as to the exact nature of the character's, ah, "status."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2025 08:15 AM (omVj0)

91 hich kind of demonstrates that fascism and communism are pretty much flies of the same feather
Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 02, 2025 08:00 AM (CWTWj)

Or, flies of the same maggot.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 02, 2025 08:15 AM (0eaVi)

92 My only beef with RealID is my suspicion that millions of them have been issued to illegals already. They hand em out at DMVs for cripes sake.

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at May 02, 2025 08:15 AM (7o9l6)

93 I once won a Chopin competition.

Posted by: Lorena Bobbitt at May 02, 2025 08:16 AM (QTr+M)

94 "Conclave" is crap.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 02, 2025 08:16 AM (ZmEVT)

95 I know zippo about horse racing and I am invited to a Kentucky Derby party tomorrow, so I asked Grok to tell me which horse to bet on. After a lengthy analysis it told me to bet on the favorite, ie the same horse everyone else is betting on. That seems to defeat the purpose so I am going to instead choose the next one down the list. Also, the favorite is called "Journalism" and I can't possibly bet on Journalism to win anything.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2025 08:16 AM (GxCWX)

96 Removing and moving art and memorials should be documented to the teeth.

Now do all the statues taken down during George Floyd Mania.

And calling it a "main bedroom" definitely helped black people, didn't it? Not to mention the various clunky renamings of the "master/slave" design pattern in computer science.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2025 08:16 AM (noPDf)

97 I told my wife just today that there was something she'd done that I didn't like. She was asleep at the time but I still said it.

Raises fist. Attica! Attica! Attica!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 08:09 AM (ExV1e)

Heh. I like this.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 02, 2025 08:17 AM (Aqu9a)

98 EPIC City is a horrifying concept. I was too disgusted to read the article, even though I've heard about it for a while. I don't know how close this is to coming to reality, but I'm astute enough to recognize the real danger here. This is a disastrous plan supposedly in motion, and it follows their blueprint in slowly but surely subsuming their host country.
Posted by: Lady in Black at May 02, 2025 08:04 AM (qBdHI)

And if it happens it’ll essentially be in my backyard. I’m not happy…. Greg Abbott has proclaimed the state won’t allow it. We’ll see… of all places, Texas?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 02, 2025 08:17 AM (6RwsA)

99 Don't fall for headlines, kids. Don't be a leftard.
Posted by: ...

But Trump did call Nazis "very fine people", and is actively deporting US citizen children. And photoshopped the tattoos on Maryland Man's hand!!!

Posted by: Deranged Rabid Leftist at May 02, 2025 08:17 AM (ycI94)

100 As far as fires go. Meth heads have this thing about large public fires. They are just attracted to burning things. Anything. Even sleeping humans.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 02, 2025
*
My life for you!
https://youtu.be/pt0ASXVWgQg
Posted by: Trashcan Man at May 02, 2025

***
Such great casting in that miniseries.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2025 08:17 AM (omVj0)

101 My only beef with RealID is my suspicion that millions of them have been issued to illegals already. They hand em out at DMVs for cripes sake.

RealID exists specifically because of illegals being issued drivers licenses by blue states. The theory is that illegals can't get one, but practice is probably different, as you say.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 02, 2025 08:17 AM (noPDf)

102 "They hand em out at DMVs for cripes sake."

Indeed. IDs issued by NYS should be disallowed.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 02, 2025 08:17 AM (ZmEVT)

103 I am as impressed with Bondi's announcement that she is suing blue states over climate change rules as I am her other do-nothing announcements; e.g., suing over tranny rules, Epstein and JFK releases.

1) you're playing in their sandbox
2) you're playing by their rules
3) you're the Executive--with enforcement authority already--you don't have to beg to a court

These "lawsuits" won't be concluded for a decade, even if Vance wins a second term as President.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 02, 2025 08:18 AM (NwfFc)

104 “Government funding of news media in this environment is not only outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence,” Trump wrote in the order.

--

No sane person could argue that these taxpayer-funded public news outlets are even necessary at all when we have 24/7 news and are quite literally inundated with news networks on the TV, on the internet, on the radio stations. We're awash in news sources. We don't need to fund these anymore.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 02, 2025 08:18 AM (qBdHI)

105
Musicians at the Chopin Piano Competition battle to see who can make the most contorted O-Face while performing:

___________

Compare to Vladimir Horowitz, whose body and expression were quiet while his playing was thunderous.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 02, 2025 08:19 AM (QnmlO)

106 I just checked… my driver’s license is a RealID…. I’m good I guess; I don’t remember jumping through hoops to get it

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 02, 2025 08:19 AM (6RwsA)

107 95 I know zippo about horse racing and I am invited to a Kentucky Derby party tomorrow, so I asked Grok to tell me which horse to bet on. After a lengthy analysis it told me to bet on the favorite, ie the same horse everyone else is betting on. That seems to defeat the purpose so I am going to instead choose the next one down the list. Also, the favorite is called "Journalism" and I can't possibly bet on Journalism to win anything.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2025 08:16 AM (GxCWX)

Roll a 20 sided die...bet $5 on the answer.

With money "evening the odds", and no one knowing much into the Derby, you can have a good time and be just as likely to win as everyone else.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 02, 2025 08:19 AM (tOcjL)

108 Caliphate City? Why not? They're doing it (have already done it) in Europe. Our cowardly and obtuse politicians are no match for them. This brings up David Horowitz, who was way ahead of his time in trying to expose the Islamic threat. His book "Unholy Alliance" about the Left/Islam connection. I remember attending his "Islamic Fascist Awareness" events at UCLA when I was working across the street. Great guests like Nonie Darwish, whose father ran the brutal Fadayeen in Egypt. The "kids" had no interest in hearing such inconvenient truths. You couldn't begin to attempt such an event today.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 02, 2025 08:19 AM (UseAb)

109 The BBC episode? Couldn't figure out what you were talking about but I do miss stuff because I'm essentially a semi-functional mental patient.
Posted by: ... at May 02, 2025 08:15 AM (QTr+M)

JJ mentioned Lord Garth and I assume it was Star Trek "Whom Gods Destroy" is the fourteenth episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 08:20 AM (gbOdA)

110 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2025 08:15 AM (omVj0)

BTW where ya bean. Miss your woman recommendations, I can't keep track anymore.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2025 08:20 AM (QTr+M)

111 Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 08:20 AM (gbOdA)

Ah thanks

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2025 08:20 AM (QTr+M)

112 My only beef with RealID is my suspicion that millions of them have been issued to illegals already. They hand em out at DMVs for cripes sake.
Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at May 02, 2025 08:15 AM (7o9l6)

THAT is a problem but not with the concept. Fortunately, the last time I renewed my license, I had to bring all my documents in again and they scanned them so I should be good. Finally got off my ass and got my veteran designator added as well.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 08:20 AM (ExV1e)

113 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:21 AM (Zz0t1)

114 "Bet on the Indian (feather, not dot) sounding name." - Little old lady at Del Mar.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 02, 2025 08:22 AM (ZmEVT)

115 A high school English teacher in Maine has allegedly called for the Secret Service and U.S. military to assassinate President Donald Trump, his supporters, and top Trump advisors.
JoAnna St. Germain, who teaches at Waterville Senior High School, appears to have made the concerning remarks on her Facebook page, prompting investigations by police and the school district where she is employed.

When the left bans phones in school, you'll never hear of this again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

116 An old Marine friend taught me never to bet to win on a horse race, but rather bet on Place and Show. His old man was a bookie. I made money.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 02, 2025 08:22 AM (pZ64F)

117 Of course, unless they're stupid enough to post it on social media, that is.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

118 RealID exists specifically because of illegals being issued drivers licenses by blue states. The theory is that illegals can't get one, but practice is probably different, as you say.

==

Wouldn't it have been much simpler for those states hell-bent on issuing driver's licenses to illegals to just make theirs with an identifying mark? Bright yellow background, for example. A box with a freaking checkmark to indicate this person isn't a US citizen, but is allowed a DL? I mean, how hard could that be, compared to making the rest of us conform to the requirements of RealID. Maybe I'm missing something profound here.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 02, 2025 08:23 AM (qBdHI)

119 116 An old Marine friend taught me never to bet to win on a horse race, but rather bet on Place and Show. His old man was a bookie. I made money.

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 02, 2025 08:22 AM (pZ64F)

Yeah, you bet on the favorite to show.

But for the winner, roll the die.

Posted by: Nova Local at May 02, 2025 08:23 AM (tOcjL)

120 Off sock

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at May 02, 2025 08:23 AM (VJc7E)

121 With money "evening the odds", and no one knowing much into the Derby, you can have a good time and be just as likely to win as everyone else.
Posted by: Nova Local at May 02, 2025 08:19 AM (tOcjL)
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Plus, I get to drink bourbon so it's going to be a fine afternoon regardless!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2025 08:23 AM (jTQhf)

122 I just checked… my driver’s license is a RealID…. I’m good I guess; I don’t remember jumping through hoops to get it
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 02, 2025 08:19 AM (6RwsA)

You may end up having to provide the documents in the future when your state notices that they handed out RealIDs to people who shouldn't have gotten them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 08:23 AM (ExV1e)

123 If Democrat states agreed to RealID then it likely helps illegals.

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2025 08:24 AM (QTr+M)

124 When you read a Real ID is hardship or getting Social Security is hard or my SS Check is wrong just remember behind each and every one of these stories is a Big Govt worker that may be trying to sabotage the system.

I have a example myself. I applied for my SS Disability as I am not FRA. I also need to apply for Medicare come July. So the SS employees that was reviewing my SSD LOCCKED my account to all other SS employees.
So now instead of me applying for Medicare online I have to have an SS agent fill out the paperwork by hand.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 08:24 AM (gbOdA)

125 I think the Daily Caller lifted that from The China Observer.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 02, 2025 08:24 AM (VWf79)

126 They have outlawed smart phones in the classrooms here. My first thought was "Now the teachers will get away with murder."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 02, 2025 08:24 AM (ZmEVT)

127 Venezuelan detainees in Texas fear the Trump administration will send them to El Salvador's notorious CECOT maximum security prison. They sent the outside world a message: S-O-S

Which media organization orchestrated that stunt- in English- and just "happened" to get the shot?

Posted by: t-bird at May 02, 2025 08:24 AM (9Niia)

128 94 "Conclave" is crap.

I didn't see the movie but the book was UTTER crap

written for 5th graders, no clue about the Church, and soaked in liberal piety

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 02, 2025 08:24 AM (Pv3Rg)

129 "I don’t remember jumping through hoops to get it"

Me neither. Don't think I needed a birth certificate.

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at May 02, 2025 08:25 AM (7o9l6)

130 PS

I think it is kind of funny Real ID is a Gold Star.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 08:25 AM (gbOdA)

131 and good morning! another lovely day unfortunately I have work that needs to be done today

glad to hear (well, that still sucks but better) that nurse's chest pains were a muscle strain

Posted by: Black Orchid at May 02, 2025 08:25 AM (Pv3Rg)

132 They did a major OS upgrade on my phone yesterday. My alarm didn't go off.

It seems they reset my 'allow' settings, so Alarm didn't have access to play audio, so........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:25 AM (Zz0t1)

133 glad to hear (well, that still sucks but better) that nurse's chest pains were a muscle strain
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 02, 2025 08:25 AM (Pv3Rg)

Tis good news. Thanks for sharing.

She didn't tell me........I'm not important.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:26 AM (Zz0t1)

134 Acquiring my initial license in SC was a job. Original birth certificate was not good enough -- I needed a certified copy. The Real ID came later in the mail.

Posted by: Ordinary American at May 02, 2025 08:26 AM (UseAb)

135 you're the Executive--with enforcement authority already--you don't have to beg to a court

How does the Executive enforce these decisions? What law are they breaking? I suppose the FBI could stage a raid, arrest the Governor, announce their execution...

Some judge would order them freed within minutes. Like it or not, everything in this country goes through a courtroom. That will almost certainly continue until judges start suffering mishaps.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 08:26 AM (ExV1e)

136 What if Monty Hall offers you the chance to change your bet to Win?

Posted by: davidt at May 02, 2025 08:27 AM (i0F8b)

137 Today is also...
National No Pants Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2025 08:27 AM (NpAcC)

138 Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2025 08:08 AM (4/pAP)

In Texas, all you have to do to get your DL issued with Real ID is provide the usual proof of residency and identity, a birth certificate and a SSN. Doesn't seem unreasonable or burdensome.

I seem to remember that the SS card had at one time a statement that it wasn't supposed to be used as ID.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 02, 2025 08:27 AM (3Ope8)

139 "I don’t remember jumping through hoops to get it"

Me neither. Don't think I needed a birth certificate.
Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at May 02, 2025 08:25 AM (7o9l6)

I renewed my license online.

It came with a gold star.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

140 Wow, that Maine teacher is fruit loops bat sh*t crazy. She should never, ever be allowed to even teach children how to tie their shoes.

Posted by: Lady in Black at May 02, 2025 08:27 AM (qBdHI)

141 glad to hear (well, that still sucks but better) that nurse's chest pains were a muscle strain
Posted by: Black Orchid at May 02, 2025 08:25 AM (Pv3Rg)
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Thanks for that good news

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2025 08:27 AM (jTQhf)

142 RealID exists specifically because of illegals being issued drivers licenses by blue states. The theory is that illegals can't get one

Will the same state government workers be issuing the Real IDs?

Posted by: t-bird at May 02, 2025 08:27 AM (9Niia)

143 "National No Pants Day."

WAY ahead of you

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at May 02, 2025 08:28 AM (7o9l6)

144 26 The alien invasion fleet is on its way!

I remember when Paul Krugman, Economic Super Genius, floated the idea that the government should announce that an alien invasion fleet was on its way and we needed high speed rail to save us. And when they never showed up, the government could just say "But we now have high speed rail" and we'd all have a good laugh.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 02, 2025 08:28 AM (lXCUP)

145 I know zippo about horse racing and I am invited to a Kentucky Derby party tomorrow, so I asked Grok to tell me which horse to bet on. After a lengthy analysis it told me to bet on the favorite, ie the same horse everyone else is betting on. That seems to defeat the purpose so I am going to instead choose the next one down the list. Also, the favorite is called "Journalism" and I can't possibly bet on Journalism to win anything.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2025 08:16 AM (GxCWX)

Betting on the favorite in no way defeats the purpose. You are betting against "the house" - not everyone else.

Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 08:28 AM (vf0Y9)

146 Currently, the parent company of CBS News, Paramount, is in arbitration to settle the Trump suit. This insider is not happy about that.

“I hope they don’t because it insinuates we did something wrong,” the insider told Fox. “If we weren’t in the midst of the merger we wouldn’t, and we would be more vocal at defending ourselves.”

During a Presidential Campaign you digitally altered both the questions and answers of one of the candidates and presented it as a real time Q and A.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 08:28 AM (gbOdA)

147 I think it is kind of funny Real ID is a Gold Star.

Be even more funny if it were on your belly...

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 02, 2025 08:28 AM (3Ope8)

148 Today is also...
National No Pants Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2025 08:27 AM (NpAcC)

That's every day

- Winnie the Pooh, Donald Duck, Yogi Bear

Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 08:29 AM (vf0Y9)

149 It came with a gold star.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

Do you have a work will set you free sign over the entrance to your place of employment?

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

150 The horses: So, if it were me, I'd pick on name, so I'd be rolling between American Promise, Render Judgment, or Chunk of Gold (all amusingly 30-1).

1. Citizen Bull, 20-1 2. Neoequos, 30-1 3. Final Gambit, 30-1 5. American Promise, 30-1 6. Admire Daytona, 30-1 7. Luxor Café, 15-1 8. Journalism, 3-1 9. Burnham Square, 12-1 10. Grande, 20-1 11. Flying Mohawk, 30-1 12. East Avenue, 20-1 13. Publisher, 20-1 14. Tiztastic, 20-1 15. Render Judgment, 30-1 16. Coal Battle, 30-1 17. Sandman, 6-1 18. Sovereignty, 5-1 19. Chunk of Gold, 30-1 20. Owen Almighty, 30-1 21. Baeza, 12-1

Posted by: Nova Local at May 02, 2025 08:30 AM (tOcjL)

151
Will the same state government workers be issuing the Real IDs?
Posted by: t-bird at May 02, 2025 08:27 AM (9Niia)

My brother needed a new ID. First Lady drove him 2 hours to some town DMV because 'appointments' weren't available anywhere closer.

Covid gave them an excuse to be WORSE than they were before.

He needed his birth certificate and two other forms of ID, being a social security card and a bill of some sort showing his name listed at the current address.

To renew an ID........

But illegals have them without question on entry to the US.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)

152 Be even more funny if it were on your belly...
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 02, 2025 08:28 AM (3Ope

They had none upon thars.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 08:30 AM (gbOdA)

153 We got really good quality gold star stickers when I was good in elementary school. Thick and embossed. Had to lick em, though.

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at May 02, 2025 08:30 AM (7o9l6)

154 Image above needs embiggening.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:31 AM (Zz0t1)

155 I renewed my license online.

It came with a gold star.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:27 AM (Zz0t1)

Skyline is better

Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 08:31 AM (vf0Y9)

156 Sandman.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 02, 2025 08:31 AM (VWf79)

157 Today is also...
National No Pants Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2025 08:27 AM (NpAcC)
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Good thing it's not Sunday...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 02, 2025 08:32 AM (7fElN)

158 137 Today is also...
National No Pants Day.
Posted by: redridinghood
_____

C'est tous les jours pour nous.

Posted by: Sans Culottes at May 02, 2025 08:32 AM (Dv3i1)

159 I was told there would be goats

Posted by: Achmed teh guy what loves goats at May 02, 2025 08:32 AM (j9+uM)

160 89 Any other totally unnecessary national requirements you want to load on your fellow citizens?

+++
Selective Service registration for females.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 02, 2025 08:33 AM (dg+HA)

161
Do you have a work will set you free sign over the entrance to your place of employment?
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 08:29 AM (gbOdA)

That's tattooed on my left butt cheek.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

162 I renewed my license online.

It came with a gold star.

Maybe they'll tattoo my SSN on me, just to be sure.

Posted by: t-bird at May 02, 2025 08:33 AM (7bp2g)

163 Skyline is better
Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 08:31 AM (vf0Y9)

Skyline chili is an abomination.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

164 Selective Service registration for females.
---------------
Why?

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 02, 2025 08:34 AM (pZ64F)

165 When it comes to betting on the fillies at the Derby, always go with

Beetle Bomb!
https://youtu.be/MRgokSbo7c8

Posted by: Count de Monet in a Spike Jones mood at May 02, 2025 08:34 AM (Aqu9a)

166 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at May 02, 2025 08:34 AM (53oGX)

167 Horseshit
---------
"Flying Mohawk" has the coolest name. Here in the Bluegrass the talk is always about the trainer, next the jockey and last the owner. Weather will also factor in as it may be a "sloppy" (wet) track.

I don't "play the ponies" as they say. But my wife always places a small bet, based solely on the horse's name.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2025 08:34 AM (Q4IgG)

168 I've said it before and I'll say it again:

Trump needs his own Roy Bean, a judge with the steel, wit and confidence to do what needs done.
Willing to push and bend the law up to, and just past breaking and ignore the appeal courts while doing it.

Someone who gives the law all the due respect it deserves: None.

Ready to issue a nationwide injunctions and orders the same hour as every lefty judge, but exactly opposite.

Brazenly assign himself every lawsuit, no matter where filed, against Trump--and issue an order dismissing it with prejudice the same day.
Issuing sanctions and property forfeiture orders against the lefty lawyers and firms who bring the suits.

Since they've thrown out all rules, policy and procedure on jurisdiction, venue, standing, separation of powers, etc., to stop Trump--and the people-- making district court judges kings in all but name only:
Let's show them what that means.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 02, 2025 08:34 AM (NwfFc)

169 "She can always go teach at Harvard or Berkeley. Where she can be free to teach Jew-baiting, anti-Americanism and Chi-Com indoctrination"

So vital that "Jew-baiting" is highlighted, very critical take on the incident.

Look at her photo, there is a Jew-baiter without doubt.

Posted by: Mike at May 02, 2025 08:34 AM (NUuQR)

170 Covid gave them an excuse to be WORSE than they were before.

He needed his birth certificate and two other forms of ID, being a social security card and a bill of some sort showing his name listed at the current address.

To renew an ID........

But illegals have them without question on entry to the US.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:30 AM (Zz0t1)
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Tried to upgrade to REAL ID last time I got my driver's license renewed. I couldn't find my most recent utility bill statement, so I brought one that was a couple of months old. They denied me my REAL ID. Said I had to have THE MOST RECENT utility bill, never mind that I'd been living in my house for nearly a decade at that point. Idiots.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 02, 2025 08:34 AM (7fElN)

171 Betting on the favorite in no way defeats the purpose. You are betting against "the house" - not everyone else.
Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 08:28 AM (vf0Y9)
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I used that phrase because it seems to me that bourbon soaked neophytes, like me, should always take a flyer on the longer shots. Someone has to! Besides (as I said), I just can't bet on Journalism. Now if the owner had named the horse "Enemy Of The People", I might have considered it....

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2025 08:34 AM (mp2aO)

172
BTW where ya bean. Miss your woman recommendations, I can't keep track anymore.
Posted by: ... at May 02, 2025

***
Woman recommendations? Oh, my comments from time to time that Such-and-Such Classic Actress was hot or not? I'll have to see about more of that?

I retired from my long-time employer about a month ago and have been relaxing, perhaps more than I should. My semi-daily errands often take me out in the morning, so I've missed the Art Thread and Morning Rant and post less than when I was working!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2025 08:35 AM (omVj0)

173 You need a Real ID to be groped by the 70 IQ TSA?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 02, 2025 08:35 AM (VWf79)

174 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2025 08:35 AM (vs3rY)

175 Good morning Horde, thx JJ. Happy Friday.
1) great jobs report
2) RIP Ruth Buzzi
3) RIP Jill Sobule , though her biggest song was annoying.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 02, 2025 08:35 AM (Er3Q7)

176 The horses: So, if it were me, I'd pick on name, so I'd be rolling between American Promise, Render Judgment, or Chunk of Gold (all amusingly 30-1).

1. Citizen Bull, 20-1 2. Neoequos, 30-1 3. Final Gambit, 30-1 5. American Promise, 30-1 6. Admire Daytona, 30-1 7. Luxor Café, 15-1 8. Journalism, 3-1 9. Burnham Square, 12-1 10. Grande, 20-1 11. Flying Mohawk, 30-1 12. East Avenue, 20-1 13. Publisher, 20-1 14. Tiztastic, 20-1 15. Render Judgment, 30-1 16. Coal Battle, 30-1 17. Sandman, 6-1 18. Sovereignty, 5-1 19. Chunk of Gold, 30-1 20. Owen Almighty, 30-1 21. Baeza, 12-1
Posted by: Nova Local at May 02, 2025 08:30 AM (tOcjL)

Bruce Wayne is trying to get me to bet on Render Judgment because Toby Keith was partial owner.

Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 08:35 AM (vf0Y9)

177
Betting on the favorite in no way defeats the purpose. You are betting against "the house" - not everyone else.
Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 08:28 AM (vf0Y9)

SUCKER!!!!!

Posted by: The House at May 02, 2025 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

178 I woke up really early this morning so it's already time for my first nap.

Posted by: Weasel at May 02, 2025 08:35 AM (Axc90)

179 Jobs report beat expectations. Futures up slightly.

Posted by: WisRich at May 02, 2025 08:35 AM (EL2wb)

180 Bruce Wayne is trying to get me to bet on Render Judgment because Toby Keith was partial owner.
Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 08:35 AM (vf0Y9)

Do be fair, Toby Keith doesn't own shit anymore.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

181 How do you bait a Jew?

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 02, 2025 08:36 AM (pZ64F)

182 I woke up really early this morning so it's already time for my first nap.
Posted by: Weasel at May 02, 2025 08:35 AM (Axc90)

Braggart.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

183 How do you bait a Jew?
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 02, 2025 08:36 AM (pZ64F)

Put a hook in their mouth?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

184 In 1960, every Chicago elementary school classroom had a giant 14-inch paper shear for the kids to play with. Bottles of something called 'mucilage.' American flag, sometimes insufficiently starred. Film strip projector. Long poles for opening tall windows. No A/C. Gold star stickers in the teacher's desk drawer, along with confiscated yo-yos and squirt guns.

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at May 02, 2025 08:37 AM (7o9l6)

185 Morning, Horde!

My oldest daughter and I are off to the DMV today to do this Real ID nonsense. Wish us luck!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 02, 2025 08:37 AM (LxER7)

186 164 Selective Service registration for females.
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Why?
______
Equity.
And inclusion.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at May 02, 2025 08:37 AM (dg+HA)

187 Selective Service registration for females.
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Why?
Posted by: Pudinhead at May 02, 2025 08:34 AM (pZ64F)

I suppose you could say "they get to vote, they should have to sign up" but, for me, just for the laughs watching them freak out over it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 08:38 AM (ExV1e)

188 Skyline is better
Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 08:31 AM (vf0Y9)

Skyline chili is an abomination.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:34 AM (Zz0t1)

You took the bait!

Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 08:38 AM (vf0Y9)

189 Tried to upgrade to REAL ID last time I got my driver's license renewed. I couldn't find my most recent utility bill statement, so I brought one that was a couple of months old. They denied me my REAL ID. Said I had to have THE MOST RECENT utility bill, never mind that I'd been living in my house for nearly a decade at that point. Idiots.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 02, 2025 08:34 AM (7fElN)

You shoulda just said "Gimmie ID, ese......."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:38 AM (Zz0t1)

190
Braggart.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)
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If it's any consolation, the grounds crew is making a bunch of racket with their mowing and trimming.

Posted by: Weasel at May 02, 2025 08:38 AM (Axc90)

191 And she also said this in her rant about Trump: “I believe this with the same forceful belief that Hitler and his sycophants needed to die, before they murdered 6 million innocent Jewish persons.”

Obviously this Jew-baiter is trying to undermine belief in the Holocaust by absurdly identifying Trump with Hitler.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/

Posted by: Mike at May 02, 2025 08:38 AM (NUuQR)

192 @thecjpearson on X

VIDEO: Yesterday, I asked @PressSec to respond to recent comments made by MSNBC’s @SymoneDSanders that black people will be “next in line” for deportation.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 02, 2025 08:39 AM (Dv3i1)

193
You took the bait!
Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 08:38 AM (vf0Y9)

When bait is shitty chili, nobody wins.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

194 I suppose you could say "they get to vote, they should have to sign up" but, for me, just for the laughs watching them freak out over it.
---------------
What is the female equivalent of the Cough Test?

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 02, 2025 08:39 AM (pZ64F)

195 Horse racing is seedy and downright criminal. Where else does a mudder eat his fodder?

Posted by: Lou Costello, 1952 at May 02, 2025 08:39 AM (G5+As)

196 I don't "play the ponies" as they say. But my wife always places a small bet, based solely on the horse's name.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

My mom used to bet by the jockey's colors.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2025 08:39 AM (vs3rY)

197 145 Betting against the house is a sure thing, Doof. How's a house gonna move faster than a racehorse?

Posted by: callsign claymore at May 02, 2025 08:39 AM (w+dhY)

198 "most recent utility bill statement"

Iron-Clad Proof of American Citizenship!

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at May 02, 2025 08:39 AM (7o9l6)

199 ----
If it's any consolation, the grounds crew is making a bunch of racket with their mowing and trimming.
Posted by: Weasel at May 02, 2025 08:38 AM (Axc90)

That's the Mexican orchestra, sir.

They're serenading you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

200 1. Citizen Bull, 20-1 2. Neoequos, 30-1 3. Final Gambit, 30-1 5. American Promise, 30-1 6. Admire Daytona, 30-1 7. Luxor Café, 15-1 8. Journalism, 3-1 9. Burnham Square, 12-1 10. Grande, 20-1 11. Flying Mohawk, 30-1 12. East Avenue, 20-1 13. Publisher, 20-1 14. Tiztastic, 20-1 15. Render Judgment, 30-1 16. Coal Battle, 30-1 17. Sandman, 6-1 18. Sovereignty, 5-1 19. Chunk of Gold, 30-1 20. Owen Almighty, 30-1 21. Baeza, 12-1
Posted by: Nova Local at May 02, 2025

***
It would be a lot of fun to write a story where racehorses appear (even though I know less than zip about racing). Think of how much fun I could have with the horse names.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2025 08:40 AM (omVj0)

201 Bruce Wayne is trying to get me to bet on Render Judgment because Toby Keith was partial owner.
Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 08:35 AM (vf0Y9)

Do be fair, Toby Keith doesn't own shit anymore.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

True. BW probably wants me to bet and take the risk, then if I hit, he'll try to claim a cut.

Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 08:40 AM (vf0Y9)

202 My oldest daughter and I are off to the DMV today to do this Real ID nonsense. Wish us luck!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 02, 2025 08:37 AM (LxER7)

Texas, at least, has a handy webpage with the requirements and what will fulfill them.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 08:40 AM (ExV1e)

203 Morning JJ and the Horde

Posted by: Jonah at May 02, 2025 08:40 AM (YCxFk)

204 Sandman.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 02, 2025 08:31 AM (VWf79)
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I was going that way but Grok was against the idea, saying his post position sucks rotten eggs and his jockey is inexperienced.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2025 08:40 AM (zjfO2)

205 The list of documents needed to get a "Real ID" license includes several that are easily forged.
- piece of mail with name/address for example.

Illegals can provide a form to satisfy the citizenship requirement. The illegals here had those, pre-printed and with the required boxes already checked.

There's nothing "real" with any of this and it has zero to do with increasing safety or security. Of anything. Travel and/or voting included.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2025 08:41 AM (Q4IgG)

206 Selective Service registration for females.
---------------
Why?
Posted by: Pudinhead

Equality is a Stone. Cold. Bitch.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2025 08:41 AM (vs3rY)

207 The horses: So, if it were me, I'd pick on name, so I'd be rolling between American Promise, Render Judgment, or Chunk of Gold (all amusingly 30-1).

1. Citizen Bull, 20-1 2. Neoequos, 30-1 3. Final Gambit, 30-1 5. American Promise, 30-1 6. Admire Daytona, 30-1 7. Luxor Café, 15-1 8. Journalism, 3-1 9. Burnham Square, 12-1 10. Grande, 20-1 11. Flying Mohawk, 30-1 12. East Avenue, 20-1 13. Publisher, 20-1 14. Tiztastic, 20-1 15. Render Judgment, 30-1 16. Coal Battle, 30-1 17. Sandman, 6-1 18. Sovereignty, 5-1 19. Chunk of Gold, 30-1 20. Owen Almighty, 30-1 21. Baeza, 12-1
Posted by: Nova Local at May 02, 2025 08:30 AM (tOcjL)

I bet $50 on the Titsz.

Posted by: Count de Monet in a Spike Jones mood at May 02, 2025 08:41 AM (Aqu9a)

208 I wanted to bet on "American Promise" but Grok vetoed the idea, saying the horse just isn't fast enough

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2025 08:41 AM (zjfO2)

209 In 1960, every Chicago elementary school classroom had a giant 14-inch paper shear for the kids to play with. Bottles of something called 'mucilage.' American flag, sometimes insufficiently starred. Film strip projector. Long poles for opening tall windows. No A/C. Gold star stickers in the teacher's desk drawer, along with confiscated yo-yos and squirt guns.
Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at May 02, 2025

***
I don't remember the paper shear, but all the rest was part of my grade school experience.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2025 08:42 AM (omVj0)

210 Texas, at least, has a handy webpage with the requirements and what will fulfill them.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 08:40 AM (ExV1e)

Found my passport, found my birth certificate, found my county property tax assessment. If that isn't good enough, I just won't fly anymore.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 02, 2025 08:42 AM (LxER7)

211 How about Nigel Farage and Reform winning a Solid Labour Seat in Britain last night. Starmer humiliated

Posted by: Jonah at May 02, 2025 08:42 AM (YCxFk)

212 That's the Mexican orchestra, sir.

They're serenading you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)
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Funny, but FSJ and Gertie don't make a peep while they're here. I think they may recognize each other.

Posted by: Weasel at May 02, 2025 08:42 AM (Axc90)

213 "most recent utility bill statement"

Iron-Clad Proof of American Citizenship!
Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at May 02, 2025 08:39 AM (7o9l6)

Ackshully, that's considered proof of current residence.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 08:42 AM (ExV1e)

214 I just checked… my driver’s license is a RealID…. I’m good I guess; I don’t remember jumping through hoops to get it
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 02, 2025 08:19 AM (6RwsA)
******
I had to renew my Texas drivers license a couple years ago in person instead of online.
They required a birth certificate or a passport.
Never realized that my drivers license was now a Real ID until I saw the Star in the rt. corner.
Photos are now in black & white.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2025 08:42 AM (NpAcC)

215 His father was a mudder. His mother was a mudder.

https://youtu.be/r_YlS3SLoz8

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at May 02, 2025 08:42 AM (dg+HA)

216 Betting against the house is a sure thing, Doof. How's a house gonna move faster than a racehorse?
Posted by: callsign claymore at May 02, 2025 08:39 AM (w+dhY)

Checkmate

Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 08:43 AM (vf0Y9)

217 In sports betting, the house always wins.

Posted by: dantesed at May 02, 2025 08:43 AM (Oy/m2)

218 Democrats still think advocating for violent illegal immigrants is a winning issue. Senator Van Hollen is announcing "sanctions" against El Salvador if they don't send his MS-13 boyfriend back to the US.

https://is.gd/NZnADz

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 02, 2025 08:43 AM (DIweC)

219 179. Thanks for the info

Posted by: Jonah at May 02, 2025 08:43 AM (YCxFk)

220 I don't like being groped by the TSA.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 02, 2025 08:44 AM (VWf79)

221 They have outlawed smart phones in the classrooms here. My first thought was "Now the teachers will get away with murder."
--
All that discussion yesterday about the professors whining that college students all cheat using AI:

Oh, if only there was some way to stop that? Perhaps an ancient teaching technique that cannot use digital tech?
I envision some magical substance called "paper."
And via a wizardry I'll call "handwriting," the students can submit their responses to tests, quizzes and even essays!

Nah. Too crazy.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 02, 2025 08:44 AM (NwfFc)

222 213 I stand corrected.

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at May 02, 2025 08:44 AM (7o9l6)

223 Someone should more thoroughly document the Jew-baiting at Harvard and Berkeley. Obviously, both campuses are fraught with this hateful, ignorant conduct, a threat to the small number of Jews at each campus, victims with historically negligible influence or presence at either place.

Posted by: Mike at May 02, 2025 08:44 AM (NUuQR)

224 It would be a lot of fun to write a story where racehorses appear (even though I know less than zip about racing). Think of how much fun I could have with the horse names.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Francis the Talking Mule & Mr. Ed go undercover at Kentucky Downs to bust a race fixing scheme

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2025 08:44 AM (vs3rY)

225 Do be fair, Toby Keith doesn't own shit anymore.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)
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Recently divorced, is he?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2025 08:44 AM (zjfO2)

226 When bait is shitty chili, nobody wins.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:39 AM (Zz0t1)

LOL! I actually enjoy the stuff. It just shouldn't be called chili.

Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 08:44 AM (vf0Y9)

227 In sports betting, the house always wins.
Posted by: dantesed at May 02, 2025 08:43 AM (Oy/m2)

Allowing betting on every aspect of sports has allowed for corruption in ways never thought possible.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

228
LOL! I actually enjoy the stuff. It just shouldn't be called chili.
Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 08:44 AM (vf0Y9)

I KNEW you were from another planet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

229 Found my passport, found my birth certificate, found my county property tax assessment. If that isn't good enough, I just won't fly anymore.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 02, 2025 08:42 AM (LxER7)

I believe that a valid passport removes the need for a birth certificate and can be used for flying instead of a RealID.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 08:45 AM (ExV1e)

230 Recently divorced, is he?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2025 08:44 AM (zjfO2)

The other reason......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

231 229 Found my passport, found my birth certificate, found my county property tax assessment. If that isn't good enough, I just won't fly anymore.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 02, 2025 08:42 AM (LxER7)

I believe that a valid passport removes the need for a birth certificate and can be used for flying instead of a RealID.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 08:45 AM (ExV1e)

True… passport is the Magic Key….

Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2025 08:47 AM (PCK5/)

232 In sports betting, the house always wins.
Posted by: dantesed at May 02, 2025 08:43 AM (Oy/m2)

Allowing betting on every aspect of sports has allowed for corruption in ways never thought possible.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

$5 says the Smails kid picks his nose.

Posted by: Bushwood Caddys at May 02, 2025 08:47 AM (Aqu9a)

233 Reform has 6 MP 's now in Parliament. Pretty good for a fringe party that was almost outlawed by the British Deep State

Posted by: Jonah at May 02, 2025 08:47 AM (YCxFk)

234 They are going to steal our vital fluids with RealID

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 02, 2025 08:47 AM (Er3Q7)

235 168 Issuing sanctions and property forfeiture orders against the lefty lawyers and firms who bring the suits.

And when the usual people say "But muh moral high ground!" they get thrown to the streets and/or waterboarded.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 02, 2025 08:47 AM (lXCUP)

236 One of the last couple Derby's had a long-shot win. 2022 with "Rich Strike" at 80-1 odds.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2025 08:47 AM (Q4IgG)

237 I don't like being groped by the TSA.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 02, 2025 08:44 AM (VWf79)

Your feelings aren't our concern. Our feeling you up is......

Posted by: The TSA at May 02, 2025 08:47 AM (Zz0t1)

238 But what about the hats?

Posted by: Women everywhere at May 02, 2025 08:48 AM (dg+HA)

239 Yes Passport is all you need

Posted by: Jonah at May 02, 2025 08:48 AM (YCxFk)

240 Enjoy your day horde! Must earn some money because I somehow failed to be given a large trust fund. Oh well.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 02, 2025 08:48 AM (zjfO2)

241 Look, fat, I've been eating paste for nearly 8 decades, it's yummy, but the glue from those gold stars is even better. It was made from old horses down at the Scranton Equestrian Center.

Posted by: Joe Biden, Hoofin' It at May 02, 2025 08:48 AM (G5+As)

242 Brown 'mucilage' in the half empty weird-shaped bottle with crusty red rubber slanted slitted top draped with cobwebs on the sunny hot windowsill. 1960s kids ate white paste, but we never touched the 'mucilage.' That was a treat reserved for the greatest generation.

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at May 02, 2025 08:49 AM (7o9l6)

243 I KNEW you were from another planet.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

Look now, look all around, there's no sign of life
Voices, another sound, can you hear me now?
This is Planet Doof, you're looking at Planet Doof
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop, this is Planet Doof

Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 08:49 AM (vf0Y9)

244
$5 says the Smails kid picks his nose.
Posted by: Bushwood Caddys at May 02, 2025 08:47 AM (Aqu9a)

It was $20, same as in town.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:49 AM (Zz0t1)

245 I don't like being groped by the TSA.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 02, 2025

***
Trust me -- you don't know what you're missing!

Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at May 02, 2025 08:49 AM (omVj0)

246 I think you need something with your SS in addition to proof of birth - like the card itself.

Posted by: runner at May 02, 2025 08:49 AM (g47mK)

247 Skyline chili is lousy chili on top of spaghetti.

Posted by: dantesed at May 02, 2025 08:49 AM (Oy/m2)

248 239 Yes Passport is all you need
Posted by: Jonah at May 02, 2025 08:48 AM (YCxFk)

Get one, keep it updated, whether you travel out country or not.. solves many problems, good for 10 years, easily renewed.

Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2025 08:50 AM (PCK5/)

249 I like Neil Young, although politically speaking, he’s an idiot. He gave Charlie Manson a motorcycle, and tried to get him signed to a record label. That didn’t work out too good, specifically.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 02, 2025 08:50 AM (l+ype)

250
Look now, look all around, there's no sign of life
Voices, another sound, can you hear me now?
This is Planet Doof, you're looking at Planet Doof
Bop bop bop bop bop bop bop bop, this is Planet Doof
Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 08:49 AM (vf0Y9)

Take it to the bridge
throw it overboard
See if it can swim
back up to the shore
No one's in the house
everyone is out
All the lights are on and the blinds are down

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

251 My wife is a HUGE horse-racing fan. Tomorrow kicks off what she calls the "High Holy Days," i.e., the three Triple Crown race days.

She roots for the horses based on their sire lines. I don't understand it, but that's her thing.

I usually root for whichever horse she's rooting for. If she doesn't have a particular favorite, I root for whichever horse has the coolest name.

Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 08:51 AM (77rzZ)

252 Skyline chili is lousy chili on top of spaghetti.
Posted by: dantesed at May 02, 2025 08:49 AM (Oy/m2)

All covered with cheese?

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 02, 2025 08:51 AM (Aqu9a)

253 > But what about the hats?
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It's a really odd tradition around here. About a decade ago the newz readers started to get dressed up around a week before the Derby. Woman would always have a really wild hat and the men would gay themselves up in pink suits.

Sad, really. It's become too expensive for locals to even consider and the area around Churchill Downs is serious ghetto. But... you will never see that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2025 08:51 AM (Q4IgG)

254 Skyline chili is lousy chili on top of spaghetti.
Posted by: dantesed at May 02, 2025 08:49 AM (Oy/m2)

It's not chili.

It's ground beef in a shitty sauce.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

255 140 Wow, that Maine teacher is fruit loops bat sh*t crazy. She should never, ever be allowed to even teach children how to tie their shoes.
Posted by: Lady in Black

We originally viewed them as a benefit, as they'll vote, proselytize and donate to us until their last breath...we'll just make sure they never actually achieve power over us.

Frankenstein's monster, however, is now free, and we can't control it.

Posted by: Establishment Dems at May 02, 2025 08:51 AM (ycI94)

256 'You know very well what the U.S. Military is capable of — and you were warned.'

This doesn't sit well with me..

I used to be completely on board with wars of choice and American projection of power. I was so on board with it that I enlisted after college - to serve in the ranks, where the fight was.

That was 22 year-old me, and he was young and invincible. Old me, though. Old me now recognizes generations of manipulation by the Government to convince us to go fight in a new place.

I'm not saying Iran doesn't deserve to get smoked - they do. Nor am I saying previous malice indicates present malice. I'm just saying it doesn't sit well with me, and I hate that. I want, emotionally and mentally, to - when the President (or SecDef) says 'we need to go to war,' be completely on board and have complete trust.

That trust has been significantly damaged, and I hate it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 02, 2025 08:51 AM (oSeBJ)

257 I lost my poor meatball.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 02, 2025 08:51 AM (VWf79)

258 IIRC, last time I needed a birth certificate, it was to purchase from CMP.

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at May 02, 2025 08:52 AM (7o9l6)

259 I don't like being groped by the TSA.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 02, 2025

***
Trust me -- you don't know what you're missing!
Posted by: Pete Bootyjudge at May 02, 2025 08:49 AM (omVj0)

You don't come here for the air travel, do you?

Posted by: Gate Agent at May 02, 2025 08:52 AM (Aqu9a)

260 Just heard there is some musical that has been put together for killer Louigi Mangioni. And it is already sold out for all 16 schedule show is San Francisco.

This is so bizarre. The left is seriously deranged.

Posted by: Riply at May 02, 2025 08:52 AM (GUOwU)

261 Some of you degenerate gamblers will probably watch the six hour pre-race show that culminates in a minute and a half contest.

Posted by: I Was Bred In Old Kentucky, But I'mJust a Crumb Down Here at May 02, 2025 08:52 AM (G5+As)

262
I usually root for whichever horse she's rooting for. If she doesn't have a particular favorite, I root for whichever horse has the coolest name.
Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 08:51 AM (77rzZ)

Got a friend who bets on any horse with 'bird' in the name.

His dad talked him OUT of betting on "Mine That Bird."

He's a big Larry Bird fan.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

263 Just checked. I have Real ID on my DL. Haven't been to a DL office in years. Dang sure never had to show all that paperwork.

Maybe my DL is tied to my CHL since that required fingerprints & a background check?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2025 08:53 AM (vs3rY)

264 I lost my poor meatball.
Posted by: Boss Moss at May 02, 2025 08:51 AM (VWf79)

Last seen on top of spaghetti.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:53 AM (Zz0t1)

265 All the lights are on and the blinds are down
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:50 AM (Zz0t1)

You got into Squeeze!!

Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 08:54 AM (vf0Y9)

266 The key to betting on the pony races is to pick an excellent jockey to place. You'll win more than you'll lose. Angel Cordero won me a lot of money in Saratoga Springs

Posted by: Life if Wryly at May 02, 2025 08:54 AM (1FWWQ)

267 It's not chili.

It's ground beef in a shitty sauce.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:51 AM (Zz0t1)

"Dis ain't spaghetti - it's Army noodles and ketchup."

- "Wild Bill" Garnier

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 02, 2025 08:54 AM (LxER7)

268 It would be a lot of fun to write a story where racehorses appear (even though I know less than zip about racing). Think of how much fun I could have with the horse names.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Saying that "so-and-so would be a good name for a racehorse" is akin to the old Dave Barry joke that "so-and-so would be a good name for a rock band," or its variant here that "I saw so-and-so open for so-and-so at the wherever."

Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 08:54 AM (77rzZ)

269 There's nothing "real" with any of this and it has zero to do with increasing safety or security. Of anything. Travel and/or voting included.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2025 08:41 AM (Q4IgG)

Correct. It is simply a way to condition The Sheeple to accept being processed and documented for the convenience and use of the government when the government wants to make The Sheeple run from one side of the enclosure to the other side.

Posted by: The Truth at May 02, 2025 08:55 AM (979V4)

270
You got into Squeeze!!
Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 08:54 AM (vf0Y9)

Give yer balls a tug.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)

271 So define “ chili” already ( this could be amusing)…

Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2025 08:55 AM (PCK5/)

272 The chick in the pic up top looks like a white Urkel.

Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 08:55 AM (77rzZ)

273 China Erupts: Furious Workers Riot As Factories Collapse Under Trump’s Tariffs

-

Boy, that Trump guy sure is an idiot, isn't he?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Look up the definition of Nose Ring Theory at May 02, 2025 08:56 AM (Ji8U7)

274 I want, emotionally and mentally, to - when the President (or SecDef) says 'we need to go to war,' be completely on board and have complete trust.

I want the fucking Congress to declare war like it's their job to do. I'm so tired of those greasy bastards sloughing off all responsibility for everything while still strutting around like they're worth more than the old dog shit I scraped off my shoe.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 08:56 AM (ExV1e)

275 What city is it again that's famous for chili over spaghetti? Pittsburgh?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2025 08:57 AM (omVj0)

276 The chick in the pic up top looks like a white Urkel.
Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 08:55 AM (77rzZ)

At least Urkel has big tits.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:57 AM (Zz0t1)

277 5 years in a Federal Pen might take some of that smug off her face…

Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2025 08:57 AM (PCK5/)

278 Since we're feeling nostalgic today.

https://is.gd/3tx2FT

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 02, 2025 08:57 AM (DIweC)

279 What city is it again that's famous for chili over spaghetti? Pittsburgh?

Is it Cincinnati? Or is Cincinnati just the place where they put cinnamon in it?

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 02, 2025 08:58 AM (DIweC)

280 Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 02, 2025 08:57 AM (DIweC)

Did you have a good birthday?

Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 08:58 AM (77rzZ)

281 >>257 I lost my poor meatball.

WAVE OFF! WAVE OFF!

Posted by: Landing Signal Officer at May 02, 2025 08:58 AM (Y1sOo)

282 What city is it again that's famous for chili over spaghetti? Pittsburgh?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Cleveland, iirc.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2025 08:58 AM (vs3rY)

283 Some of you degenerate gamblers will probably watch the six hour pre-race show that culminates in a minute and a half contest.
Posted by: I Was Bred In Old Kentucky, But I'mJust a Crumb Down Here at May 02, 2025 08:52 AM (G5+As)

Sounds like early Mike Tyson match PPVs.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 08:58 AM (ExV1e)

284 Since we're feeling nostalgic today.

https://is.gd/3tx2FT
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 02, 2025 08:57 AM (DIweC)

Shaggy spent a LOT of time blowing weed smoke in Scooby's face.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 08:58 AM (Zz0t1)

285 "I want, emotionally and mentally, to - when the President (or SecDef) says 'we need to go to war,' be completely on board and have complete trust."

Gotta get those WMDs.

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at May 02, 2025 08:58 AM (7o9l6)

286 The Left and the people they choose to be their heroes is disgusting. How can the rest of the country not see that the Dems always pick the side of evil?
The Hill:
Luigi the Musical,’ about accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer, to debut in San Francisco

https://tinyurl.com/bpaaeyxz

Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2025 08:58 AM (NpAcC)

287 257 I lost my poor meatball.

WAVE OFF! WAVE OFF!
Posted by: Landing Signal Officer at May 02, 2025 08:58 AM (Y1sOo)
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Huh. I understood that reference.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 02, 2025 08:59 AM (7fElN)

288 Wasn't "Real ID" mostly to allow Mexicans to drive 18 wheelers across the U.S. easier?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Look up the definition of Nose Ring Theory at May 02, 2025 08:59 AM (Ji8U7)

289 "So define “ chili” already ( this could be amusing)…"

A spicy relish served over carrots.

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at May 02, 2025 08:59 AM (7o9l6)

290 Is it Cincinnati? Or is Cincinnati just the place where they put cinnamon in it?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at May 02, 2025 08:58 AM (DIweC)

Cincinnati, where the river winds
'Cross the Mason and the Dixie Line
Heaven waits for me, I know
In Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati, Ohio...

Posted by: Connie Smith, Hottie With A Great Voice at May 02, 2025 09:00 AM (979V4)

291 Some of you degenerate gamblers will probably watch the six hour pre-race show that culminates in a minute and a half contest.
Posted by: I Was Bred In Old Kentucky, But I'mJust a Crumb Down Here at May 02, 2025 08:52 AM (G5+As)

Sounds like early Mike Tyson match PPVs.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 08:58 AM (ExV1e)

Sounds like Saturday night at the college keg party.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 02, 2025 09:00 AM (Aqu9a)

292 Shaggy spent a LOT of time blowing weed smoke in Scooby's face.
Posted by: Sponge

And Velma spent a lot of time blowing Shaggy.

Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 09:00 AM (77rzZ)

293 I have a friend who recently moved to Maine with her boyfriend. He's a Dr and has a home in Portland and a ski chalet near a resort in Maine. She's in her mid to late 60s and has gone bat shit nuts against Trump. Combine AWFL with something in the Maine water and aaaagggh

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 02, 2025 09:00 AM (Er3Q7)

294 Do No Harm Chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb celebrated the HHS’ quest to bring “needed scrutiny to the gender industry.”

“American children, especially those suffering from gender confusion, deserve better than to be used as a political pawn by gender activists,” he said in a statement, noting that the report “rightfully exposes a number of serious risks in the medical transition of young people.”

Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein for a reason.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 09:01 AM (gbOdA)

295 "So define “ chili” already ( this could be amusing)…"

A country in South America that is eight hundred miles long but only about fifty miles wide. Borders on Peruvia.

True.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 02, 2025 09:01 AM (LxER7)

296 >I don't like being groped by the TSA.
--

at least buy me lunch

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Doc is NOT here at May 02, 2025 09:01 AM (AOsQT)

297 282 What city is it again that's famous for chili over spaghetti? Pittsburgh?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Cleveland, iirc.
Posted by: rickb223

Cincinnati

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 02, 2025 09:01 AM (Dv3i1)

298 I'm livin' on the air in Cincinnati.

Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 09:01 AM (77rzZ)

299 Cincinnati isn't chili. It's cinnamon flavored pasta sauce.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 02, 2025 09:02 AM (+OnsA)

300
And Velma spent a lot of time blowing Shaggy.
Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 09:00 AM (77rzZ)

Shaggy wins.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:02 AM (Zz0t1)

301 288 Wasn't "Real ID" mostly to allow Mexicans to drive 18 wheelers across the U.S. easier?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Look up the definition of Nose Ring Theory at May 02, 2025 08:59 AM (Ji8U7)

It was about 9/11 and how poorly States did with DL and IDs.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 09:02 AM (gbOdA)

302 Cincinnati
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Doh! Yes. You are correct.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2025 09:03 AM (vs3rY)

303 Oh, if only there was some way to stop that? Perhaps an ancient teaching technique that cannot use digital tech?
I envision some magical substance called "paper."
And via a wizardry I'll call "handwriting," the students can submit their responses to tests, quizzes and even essays!

Nah. Too crazy.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

Having two kids getting towards the end of their high school years I would fully support having all computers removed for m classrooms and assignments and all work to be done the old fashioned way with paper, pen and books. Only exception would be computer classes or possibly some tech classes where computers are vital to the lesson. It is impossible to view track what is going on and they just don't learn or retain information when it is all digital. I don't care what the experts say, we need less computers in schools, not more and better.

Posted by: Ripley at May 02, 2025 09:03 AM (GUOwU)

304 So if you live in Chili(e) you are never further than 50 miles from the Beach!!!

Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2025 09:03 AM (PCK5/)

305 And Velma spent a lot of time blowing Shaggy.
Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 09:00 AM (77rzZ)

20 bucks is 20 bucks

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 09:03 AM (gbOdA)

306 294 Do No Harm Chairman Dr. Stanley Goldfarb celebrated the HHS’ quest to bring “needed scrutiny to the gender industry.”
_____

I suggest incarcerations and executions. Tarring and feathering is too good for those people.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 02, 2025 09:03 AM (Dv3i1)

307 Good morning good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 02, 2025 09:03 AM (vKNmo)

308 "So define “ chili” already ( this could be amusing)…"

-

Somewhere between 55-65 or so degrees. Maybe a bit higher or lower depending on if the sun is shining.

Oh, sorry. There's an "i" on the end.

There's too many variables. Cornbread chili is different than hot dog chili.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Look up the definition of Nose Ring Theory at May 02, 2025 09:03 AM (Ji8U7)

309 Good morning good people.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 02, 2025 09:03 AM (vKNmo)

How'd the car seat test go?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:03 AM (Zz0t1)

310 Of course Kudlow is a friend and ally of Trump having served in his first term. But he's also a shrewd and astute business guru who wouldn't stick his neck out for no good reason, as he does value his own reputation.

Wait, you're serious, aren't you?

Kudlow's notorious for being an anti-predictor of financial events.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 02, 2025 09:04 AM (/HDaX)

311 Cincy has that shitty chili with the cinnamon in it plopped over noodles. Horrible stuff.

Posted by: Life if Wryly at May 02, 2025 09:04 AM (1FWWQ)

312 >>Huh. I understood that reference.

Me, too.

-- Roger Ball

Posted by: one hour sober at May 02, 2025 09:04 AM (Y1sOo)

313 See, I would have figured Daphne would have rebelled against the good girl 90210 vibe and gone for some Shaggy Strange.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 02, 2025 09:04 AM (+OnsA)

314 In 1960, every Chicago elementary school classroom had a giant 14-inch paper shear for the kids to play with. Bottles of something called 'mucilage.' American flag, sometimes insufficiently starred. Film strip projector. Long poles for opening tall windows. No A/C. Gold star stickers in the teacher's desk drawer, along with confiscated yo-yos and squirt guns.
Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at May 02, 2025 08:37 AM (7o9l6)

My 1950's elementary school scene was the same. I still remember the tall windows and the 'mucilage'. Also, the oiled wood floors and the desks with the peeling lacquer finish. We boys would peel off a little piece, roll it up into a tiny ball, stick it in our nose. Then walk over to a girl sitting at her desk and fake a sneeze, with the tiny ball of lacquer landing on her desk. Hilarity ensued.
Simpler times.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at May 02, 2025 09:04 AM (5xuJ/)

315 Wasn't "Real ID" mostly to allow Mexicans to drive 18 wheelers across the U.S. easier?
-

It was about 9/11 and how poorly States did with DL and IDs.
Posted by: rhennigantx

-

I know that was the excuse for forcing it onto citizens, but wasn't the main point to allow globalists to get foreigners into the U.S. / workforce easier?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Look up the definition of Nose Ring Theory at May 02, 2025 09:04 AM (Ji8U7)

316 I lost my poor meatball.

WAVE OFF! WAVE OFF!
Posted by: Landing Signal Officer at May 02, 2025 08:58 AM (Y1sOo)
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Huh. I understood that reference.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Carrier landings FTW!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2025 09:04 AM (vs3rY)

317 Chili con Carne, Chili Mac…

Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2025 09:05 AM (PCK5/)

318 If you ever want to see the best athlete in world history, watch the Belmont Stakes, 1973.

Posted by: Very Stable Genius at May 02, 2025 09:05 AM (G5+As)

319 Kudlow's notorious for being an anti-predictor of financial events.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy

Step, off, Bitch, this is my corner.
-- Jim Kramer

Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 09:05 AM (77rzZ)

320 For example, the task force’s report revealed “A Jewish student was told they couldn’t share the story of their Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s rescue efforts because he helped Jews reach British Mandate Palestine,” Teitelbaum said.

“Organizers said it was ‘not tasteful’ and ‘inherently one-sided’ because it mentioned Israel,” the X user added.

Something something doomed to repeat

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 09:05 AM (gbOdA)

321 See, I would have figured Daphne would have rebelled against the good girl 90210 vibe and gone for some Shaggy Strange.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 02, 2025 09:04 AM (+OnsA)

Fred's cock has money tied to it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

322 Two words.

Frito Pie.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 02, 2025 09:05 AM (+OnsA)

323 The one-child policy means a majority of the population will be elderly and not able to keep their industry and economy going and growing.

They also have a big problem with the female to male ratio of their population because of the policy.

It turns out a lot of Chinese couples preferred to have boys, and aborted girls or abandoned them at birth in huge numbers.

So now they’ve got a serious problem with millions of young men who can’t find a woman and millions of young women who are so in demand that they can pick and choose which man they want.

And since Chinese women are notoriously high-maintenance these days most young men can’t afford them if they wanted to.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 02, 2025 09:06 AM (6ydKt)

324
Frito Pie.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 02, 2025 09:05 AM (+OnsA)

I LOVED those......Used to get them all the time at my high school basketball games.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

325 All you folks reminiscing about elementary school have forgotten to mention the pink sawdust the janitor would put down to clean up puke.

Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 09:07 AM (77rzZ)

326 Two words.

Frito Pie.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

2 more words: legitimate dinner.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2025 09:07 AM (vs3rY)

327 Because, greatness......

https://youtu.be/zywY7xXzenI

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:07 AM (Zz0t1)

328 Good morning Sponge - I haven't hear yet. The staff were to perform it after we all left last night. But, yesterday they all were talking as if little Charlie would be discharged tomorrow.

Good thing too - We're glad we were here to help out but we are ready to get back home.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 02, 2025 09:07 AM (vKNmo)

329 324
Frito Pie.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 02, 2025 09:05 AM (+OnsA)

I LOVED those......Used to get them all the time at my high school basketball games.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:06 AM (Zz0t1)

A standard in my elementary school cafeteria. Tuesdays, I think.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 02, 2025 09:07 AM (LxER7)

330 See, I would have figured Daphne would have rebelled against the good girl 90210 vibe and gone for some Shaggy Strange.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 02, 2025 09:04 AM (+OnsA)

Fred's cock has money tied to it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

--

Yeah, ok

Fuck Shaggy
Marry Fred
Kill that fucking dog who watches me and Shaggy.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at May 02, 2025 09:07 AM (+OnsA)

331 All you folks reminiscing about elementary school have forgotten to mention the pink sawdust the janitor would put down to clean up puke.
Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 09:07 AM (77rzZ)

It amazingly made the smell worse.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:08 AM (Zz0t1)

332 Some of you degenerate gamblers will probably watch the six hour pre-race show that culminates in a minute and a half contest.

Posted by: I Was Bred In Old Kentucky, But I'mJust a Crumb Down Here at May 02, 2025 08:52 AM (G5+As)

Six hour pre-race with a 90 second contest? That's dating.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 02, 2025 09:08 AM (oSeBJ)

333 I've been messing with hot dog chili a lot lately. I've discovered that it's very close to sloppy joe if you're not careful. Worcestershire is key.

If you know what a chili brick is that helps a lot, too. They're not easy to find any more, though.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Look up the definition of Nose Ring Theory at May 02, 2025 09:08 AM (Ji8U7)

334 @318 yup Big Red that day was unreal

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 02, 2025 09:09 AM (Er3Q7)

335
Good thing too - We're glad we were here to help out but we are ready to get back home.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 02, 2025 09:07 AM (vKNmo)

Spending that much time in the hospital visiting shows what a good person you are.

Hospitals suck......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:09 AM (Zz0t1)

336 332 Some of you degenerate gamblers will probably watch the six hour pre-race show that culminates in a minute and a half contest.

Posted by: I Was Bred In Old Kentucky, But I'mJust a Crumb Down Here at May 02, 2025 08:52 AM (G5+As)

Six hour pre-race with a 90 second contest? That's dating.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at May 02, 2025 09:08 AM (oSeBJ)

And like Chinese food… in short order you are hungry again…

Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2025 09:09 AM (PCK5/)

337 325 All you folks reminiscing about elementary school have forgotten to mention the pink sawdust the janitor would put down to clean up puke.
Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 09:07 AM (77rzZ)

Reading this brought the smell of that sawdust/puke back like a brick hitting me in the head.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 02, 2025 09:09 AM (N39Ws)

338 Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein for a reason.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 09:01 AM (gbOdA)

I saw someone quip that a single summer spent in the company of Lord Byron was enough to birth two supernatural horror concepts.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 02, 2025 09:09 AM (ExV1e)

339 I know that was the excuse for forcing it onto citizens, but wasn't the main point to allow globalists to get foreigners into the U.S. / workforce easier?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Look up the definition of Nose Ring Theory at May 02, 2025 09:04 AM (Ji8U7)

Cali had serious problems with DL and IDs so many crackdowns starting in the 90s. In early 2000s (D) made the claims that giving ID and DL to illegals would make road safer and in 2003 allowed that to happen. (R) in US congress realized that State ID were basically fake now to required Real ID as an option in 2005.
20 year later it is now require to US travel.

PS I was in the ID business for about 3 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 09:10 AM (gbOdA)

340 Big Red that day was unreal
Posted by: Smell the Glove

The horse that came in second actually thought that he was first. That's how far ahead Secretariat was.

Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 09:10 AM (77rzZ)

341 I made two Chilean contacts yesterday on 10m, CE2EH and CA5JXT. Easy-peasy with my DIY indoor magloop antenna at 50W. I did not ask them to define themselves, though. Next time.

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at May 02, 2025 09:10 AM (7o9l6)

342 323 So now they’ve got a serious problem with millions of young men who can’t find a woman and millions of young women who are so in demand that they can pick and choose which man they want.

And since Chinese women are notoriously high-maintenance these days most young men can’t afford them if they wanted to.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 02, 2025 09:06 AM (6ydKt)

========

Northwestern China has a replacement rate of less than .7.

China's population is going to collapse. It may be a quarter as large in a couple of generations than it is now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 02, 2025 09:11 AM (GBKbO)

343 Married women have a REAL ID pain in the ass, you say? Heh.... Try being a second marriage after being a widow! They wanted the marriage certificate from my first marriage plus his death certificate on top of marriage certificate for Hubbymayhem and I, my birth certificate, and all the other crap.
Luckily, when we adopted our daughter from China, we needed certified copies all of that. They will accept certified copies if they have an actual state seal on them.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at May 02, 2025 09:11 AM (2J/Lj)

344 The DMV in North Carolina has been completely booked for months. You can make a reservation online but they are always completely booked 90 days out which is the only length of time they let you book too. So you have to go there and sign a sheet and wait for 6 hours because they keep open the afternoon for walk-ins.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 02, 2025 09:11 AM (d6aLl)

345 Real Id law has been on the books since 2003 (post 9/11), Feds wanted to add a layer of security, knowing that states do not have DL issuing standards. Then it was postponed for a decade. Trump had a hard deadline in 2016. Then biden , of course, removed it.

Posted by: runner at May 02, 2025 09:12 AM (g47mK)

346 Have we heard from Biden’s Dog since the fires began? Hope he and his are OK.

Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 08:14 AM (77rzZ)
-

I must've posted here dozens of comments since Wednesday.

All's OK other than 10s of 1000s of charred acres of land.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 02, 2025 09:12 AM (sTuNG)

347 I made two Chilean contacts yesterday on 10m, CE2EH and CA5JXT. Easy-peasy with my DIY indoor magloop antenna at 50W. I did not ask them to define themselves, though. Next time.
Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at May 02, 2025 09:10 AM (7o9l6)

I still hear my dad making his call........

Kilowatt nine zanzabar mexico zanzabar.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)

348 I can't imagine eating chili with cinnamon in it.

Maybe I'll cook up some spaghetti with chili this weekend.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2025 09:12 AM (omVj0)

349 Shredded carrots makes chili healthy and supports root crop farmers-Win! Win!

Posted by: Apiacaea For Life! at May 02, 2025 09:13 AM (G5+As)

350 coney dogs > chili dogs

Posted by: one hour sober at May 02, 2025 09:13 AM (Y1sOo)

351
Maybe I'll cook up some spaghetti with chili this weekend.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2025 09:12 AM (omVj0)

I do put chili powder in my spaghetti sauce.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:13 AM (Zz0t1)

352 So now they’ve got a serious problem with millions of young men who can’t find a woman and millions of young women who are so in demand that they can pick and choose which man they want.

-

(looks around at the United States)

Well that's interesting.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Look up the definition of Nose Ring Theory at May 02, 2025 09:13 AM (Ji8U7)

353 348 I can't imagine eating chili with cinnamon in it.

Maybe I'll cook up some spaghetti with chili this weekend.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2025 09:12 AM (omVj0)

Was thinking of making chili this weekend but forgot to check with a coworker to see if he'd let me have some of his ground venison.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 02, 2025 09:14 AM (N39Ws)

354 I must've posted here dozens of comments since Wednesday.

All's OK other than 10s of 1000s of charred acres of land.
Posted by: Biden's Dog

Good to hear. I wasn't on the blog much on Wednesday or Thursday.

As good as the cobs have been filling in, I'll be really happy when Ace comes back.

Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 09:14 AM (77rzZ)

355 States can still have shitty id issuing laws, but the Feds won't allow a DL that has not had that extra scrutiny to be used as identification for Fed facilities. Fed Courts, military, airports.

Posted by: runner at May 02, 2025 09:14 AM (g47mK)

356 351
Maybe I'll cook up some spaghetti with chili this weekend.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2025 09:12 AM (omVj0)

I do put chili powder in my spaghetti sauce.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:13 AM (Zz0t1)

That’s.. Quirky.

Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2025 09:14 AM (PCK5/)

357 I must've posted here dozens of comments since Wednesday.

All's OK other than 10s of 1000s of charred acres of land.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

-

Here's hoping Biden's Dog is okay.

Biden's Dog, if you're reading this, we're rooting for you!

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Look up the definition of Nose Ring Theory at May 02, 2025 09:14 AM (Ji8U7)

358 The DMV in North Carolina has been completely booked for months. You can make a reservation online but they are always completely booked 90 days out which is the only length of time they let you book too. So you have to go there and sign a sheet and wait for 6 hours because they keep open the afternoon for walk-ins.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken

Why not just walk out at lunch and then walk in after lunch?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2025 09:14 AM (vs3rY)

359 But who knew that the Soviet Union would ever fall when it did, if at all.

Three people knew that the Soviet Union would fall:

Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II.

The Western political establishment was convinced that the Soviet Union would go on forever.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 02, 2025 09:14 AM (xTIDn)

360
All's OK other than 10s of 1000s of charred acres of land.
Posted by: Biden's Dog

Glad to hear......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:15 AM (Zz0t1)

361 353 348 I can't imagine eating chili with cinnamon in it.

Maybe I'll cook up some spaghetti with chili this weekend.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2025 09:12 AM (omVj0)

Was thinking of making chili this weekend but forgot to check with a coworker to see if he'd let me have some of his ground venison.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 02, 2025 09:14 AM (N39Ws)

Too bad… you could substitute kale.. or tofu..

Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2025 09:15 AM (PCK5/)

362 "Kilowatt nine zanzabar mexico zanzabar......."

That call is most recently held by a fellow in Texas.

Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at May 02, 2025 09:15 AM (7o9l6)

363 Three people knew that the Soviet Union would fall:

Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II.

Forgot Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, so there were four.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 02, 2025 09:16 AM (xTIDn)

364 coney dogs > chili dogs
Posted by: one hour sober at May 02, 2025 09:13 AM (Y1sOo)

***

Dogs > coney dogs > chili dogs

Posted by: Preznit Urkel X at May 02, 2025 09:16 AM (1FWWQ)

365 Good luck and God bless, Biden's Dog

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 02, 2025 09:16 AM (Er3Q7)

366 (looks around at the United States)

Silicon Valley, certainly.

Posted by: t-bird at May 02, 2025 09:16 AM (qLZZ/)

367
That’s.. Quirky.
Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2025 09:14 AM (PCK5/)

It works. Not a lot, though. I don't want it to taste like chili.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

368 Winning!
Bloomberg-
China Quietly Exempts About A Quarter Of US Imports From Tariffs.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2025 09:16 AM (NpAcC)

369 Prayers for Prager

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 09:16 AM (gbOdA)

370 367
That’s.. Quirky.
Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2025 09:14 AM (PCK5/)

It works. Not a lot, though. I don't want it to taste like chili.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

I throw crushed red pepper on mine.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 02, 2025 09:17 AM (N39Ws)

371 That call is most recently held by a fellow in Texas.
Posted by: Preparing gp For Lazy Loading at May 02, 2025 09:15 AM (7o9l6)

That was my dad. Had that call since the 50's I think. Moved to Tx in the 80's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)

372 367
That’s.. Quirky.
Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2025 09:14 AM (PCK5/)

It works. Not a lot, though. I don't want it to taste like chili.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

Maybe the cumin flavor??

Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2025 09:17 AM (PCK5/)

373 China was told not to do anything stupid. And in its communist arrogance , China did not.

Posted by: runner at May 02, 2025 09:17 AM (g47mK)

374 Step, off, Bitch, this is my corner.
-- Jim Kramer
Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 09:05 AM (77rzZ)

Oops.

Well, in my defense, economists all look alike to me.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 02, 2025 09:18 AM (/HDaX)

375 Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 02, 2025 09:12 AM (sTuNG)

Didn't you have a BBQ the other day?

Posted by: dantesed at May 02, 2025 09:18 AM (Oy/m2)

376 Another bit of Kentucky Derby trivia:

Three gray/roan horses, all descendants of Secretariat, are running in the 2025 Kentucky Derby.
- Final Gambit, 30-1
- Chunk of Gold, 30-1
- Sandman 6-1

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2025 09:18 AM (Q4IgG)

377 Cincy has that shitty chili with the cinnamon in it plopped over noodles. Horrible stuff.
Posted by: Life if Wryly at May 02, 2025 09:04 AM (1FWWQ)

It's great and you all suck!!!

Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 09:19 AM (vf0Y9)

378 @344: Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 02, 2025 09:11 AM (d6aLl)
*****
I’ve lived in MD, VA and SC until moving to North Carolina. I can confirm that the NC DMV is the worst customer service in my experience. Absolutely horrible.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 02, 2025 09:19 AM (lZohv)

379
It's great and you all suck!!!
Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 09:19 AM (vf0Y9)

We may suck, but you swallow.

Skyline Chili is an abomination.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

380 It would not be possible for me to care less about horse racing

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 02, 2025 09:19 AM (6RwsA)

381 378 I’ve lived in MD, VA and SC until moving to North Carolina. I can confirm that the NC DMV is the worst customer service in my experience. Absolutely horrible.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 02, 2025 09:19 AM (lZohv)

=======

I had to deal with them a couple of years ago when we moved here.

All day for our licenses.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 02, 2025 09:19 AM (GBKbO)

382 It would not be possible for me to care less about horse racing
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

What about whores racing? That can be fun. Especially when they have big boobs.

Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 09:21 AM (77rzZ)

383 342 Northwestern China has a replacement rate of less than .7.

China's population is going to collapse. It may be a quarter as large in a couple of generations than it is now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 02, 2025 09:11 AM (GBKbO)

And it’s not just them.
Japan is in the same position.
South Korea is worse than both of them.

And Europe isn’t far behind.
But they’ve got a backup plan at least.
Muslims love sex & babies more than Allah, apparently.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 02, 2025 09:21 AM (6ydKt)

384 Go to GA DMV to get DL when I moved there.
Had all my shit lined up and as proof of residence I took my home deed.
In line checking paperwork gal looks at my home deed and says she does not think that is a legal document and come back with a legal document like a cell phone bill.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 09:21 AM (gbOdA)

385 I’ve lived in MD, VA and SC until moving to North Carolina. I can confirm that the NC DMV is the worst customer service in my experience. Absolutely horrible.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly

Not to make you feel worse but in Tennessee, you walk in (no appointment), choose from the 3-4 available windows, walk up and the clerk will say : "Good morning. How may I help you?"

And they mean it.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 02, 2025 09:21 AM (vKNmo)

386 348 I can't imagine eating chili with cinnamon in it.

Maybe I'll cook up some spaghetti with chili this weekend.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 02, 2025 09:12 AM (omVj0)

Was thinking of making chili this weekend but forgot to check with a coworker to see if he'd let me have some of his ground venison.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 02, 2025 09:14 AM (N39Ws)

Too bad… you could substitute kale.. or tofu..
Posted by: tubal at May 02, 2025 09:15 AM (PCK5/)
******
Don't forget the Mint Juleps.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2025 09:21 AM (NpAcC)

387 All day for our licenses.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla

Petey ain't got no lice-um, but he sho' got a lot of fleas!

Posted by: Stymie at May 02, 2025 09:22 AM (G5+As)

388 TGIF, all!!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2025 09:22 AM (KHnV4)

389 378 I’ve lived in MD, VA and SC until moving to North Carolina. I can confirm that the NC DMV is the worst customer service in my experience. Absolutely horrible.
Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 02, 2025 09:19 AM (lZohv)

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I had to deal with them a couple of years ago when we moved here.

All day for our licenses.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 02, 2025 09:19 AM (GBKbO)

Nothing could possibly suck worse than the California DMV. The stuff of nightmares

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 02, 2025 09:22 AM (6RwsA)

390 As good as the cobs have been filling in, I'll be really happy when Ace comes back.
Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 09:14 AM (77rzZ)

Bulg is a hoity toity moron. He reads the blog with his pinky out.

Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 09:22 AM (vf0Y9)

391
Not to make you feel worse but in Tennessee, you walk in (no appointment), choose from the 3-4 available windows, walk up and the clerk will say : "Good morning. How may I help you?"

And they mean it.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 02, 2025 09:21 AM (vKNmo)

It's the polar opposite in TX.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:22 AM (Zz0t1)

392 I still hear my dad making his call........

Kilowatt nine zanzabar mexico zanzabar.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:12 AM (Zz0t1)

Jim 'Wash Out' Pfaffenbach: Alpha Velveeta Knuckle Underwear, you are cleared for take-off. When you hit that nuclear weapons plant... drop a bomb for me!

Lt. Commander Block: Uh, Sphincter Mucus Niner Ringworm, roger!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 02, 2025 09:22 AM (/HDaX)

393 >>A high school English teacher in Maine has allegedly called for the Secret Service and U.S. military to assassinate President Donald Trump, his supporters, and top Trump advisors.

Yup, that hair is a dead giveaway!
She's a nutter.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2025 09:23 AM (KHnV4)

394 We may suck, but you swallow.

Skyline Chili is an abomination.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:19 AM (Zz0t1)

*double taps fists together like Ross on Friends*

Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 09:23 AM (vf0Y9)

395 It would not be possible for me to care less about horse racing
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

What about whores racing? That can be fun. Especially when they have big boobs.
Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 09:21 AM (77rzZ)

This reminds me of Ralphie on the Sopranos…. Whoo-ores… his pronunciation always cracked me up

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 02, 2025 09:23 AM (6RwsA)

396 ******
Don't forget the Mint Juleps.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 02, 2025 09:21 AM (NpAcC)

And corn!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:23 AM (Zz0t1)

397 >>>>Not to make you feel worse but in Tennessee, you walk in (no appointment), choose from the 3-4 available windows, walk up and the clerk will say : "Good morning. How may I help you?"

And they mean it.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 02, 2025 09:21 AM (vKNmo)
*****
That was my experience in South Carolina as well.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 02, 2025 09:23 AM (lZohv)

398 383 And it’s not just them.
Japan is in the same position.
South Korea is worse than both of them.

And Europe isn’t far behind.
But they’ve got a backup plan at least.
Muslims love sex & babies more than Allah, apparently.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 02, 2025 09:21 AM (6ydKt)

========

Populations rise and fall. Japan will end up bouncing back at some point, weaker than it had been in the 80s but stronger than it is now. It'll take a generation or so, but if they can retain their own borders and culture, the long dip in population won't be apocalyptic for the nation.

China's dip is...a lot, though. And I only focus on it because China is often held up as the always future hegemon of the planet...and its population is in the middle of a collapse.

China will survive in the end. But it's not going to be anything like a hegemon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 02, 2025 09:23 AM (GBKbO)

399 I read that all of the horses in the race are related to Secretariat.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 02, 2025 09:24 AM (cvWHI)

400 Nonfarm payrolls increased a seasonally adjusted 177,000 for the month, slightly below the downwardly revised 185,000 in March but above the Dow Jones estimate for 133,000.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 09:24 AM (gbOdA)

401 The pleasantest experience I had with the VA DMV was during Covid.

Went in at the appointed time, waited about five minutes, was out of there in under ten. No lines.

I think the DMV should go back to those COVID protocols.

Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 09:24 AM (77rzZ)

402 390 As good as the cobs have been filling in, I'll be really happy when Ace comes back.
Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 09:14 AM (77rzZ)

Bulg is a hoity toity moron. He reads the blog with his pinky out.
Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 09:22 AM (vf0Y9)

=======

Let's be fair here:

I suck, am an asshole, and probably am a troll.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 02, 2025 09:24 AM (GBKbO)

403
Let's be fair here:

I suck, am an asshole, and probably am a troll.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 02, 2025 09:24 AM (GBKbO)

FACT!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:25 AM (Zz0t1)

404 I went through the Real ID bullshit two years ago. After the process I get a piece of paper that is my license until the actual card comes in the mail.

It never came in the mail.

It was put on hold because my passport wasn't signed. It had just been renewed and I forgot to sign it.

My wife's passport, renewed at the same time wasn't signed either.... but she got her Real ID anyway.

Like I said; this is neither for security or safety.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 02, 2025 09:25 AM (Q4IgG)

405 Not to make you feel worse but in Tennessee, you walk in (no appointment), choose from the 3-4 available windows, walk up and the clerk will say : "Good morning. How may I help you?"

And they mean it.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 02, 2025 09:21 AM (vKNmo)

Can confirm, mostly. In the Knxoville metropolitan area, there was a wait. But it was pretty minimal and the staff were actually operating quickly and efficiently.

Exactly the opposite of Illinois.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 02, 2025 09:25 AM (/HDaX)

406 The Western political establishment was convinced that the Soviet Union would go on forever.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 02, 2025 09:14 AM (xTIDn)

Will The Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?

So I was off a few years...sue me.

Posted by: Zombie Andrei Amalrik at May 02, 2025 09:25 AM (979V4)

407 Well, in my defense, economists all look alike to me.
__

They all have two hands?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 02, 2025 09:25 AM (Dv3i1)

408 Monty Python and the Holy Grail turns 50.

thwummmppp

Message Sire

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 09:26 AM (gbOdA)

409 408 Monty Python and the Holy Grail turns 50.

thwummmppp

Message Sire
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 09:26 AM (gbOdA)

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Always look on the bright side of life.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 02, 2025 09:26 AM (GBKbO)

410 Oh FFS, suck my fucking balls with this obsession over the -.3%. It’ll be revised up “unexpectedly” to +.3% any day now. Anyone wanna bet?

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 02, 2025 09:26 AM (qYULV)

411 177k jobs created in April.

Weird I was assured we were in the greatest of all depressions. CNN keeps saying so.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 02, 2025 09:26 AM (NWr1F)

412 So now they’ve got a serious problem with millions of young men who can’t find a woman and millions of young women who are so in demand that they can pick and choose which man they want.

-

(looks around at the United States)

Well that's interesting.

-
Silicon Valley, certainly.

Posted by: t-bird

-

We're not too far off when you think about it.

Half of our childbearing age women will be single and childless in 2030, "and most of them are single and completely focused on their career" (Morgan Stanley).

Going through their 20s and 30s becoming jaded and diseased and incapable of pair-bonding with mates, ready to destroy a friend's marriage or their own eventual one when they're bored or unhappy after watching TikTok.

But they're still in demand. The 2s to 6s would be snatched up immediately by 4s and 6s males. But that no longer happens because the dating/sex pool expanded to hours away and not just the local community.

We're not too different from China. No one-child policy required.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Look up the definition of Nose Ring Theory at May 02, 2025 09:26 AM (Ji8U7)

413 they keep you guessing - part of the plan !

Posted by: runner at May 02, 2025 09:27 AM (g47mK)

414 Let's be fair here:

I suck, am an asshole, and probably am a troll.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 02, 2025 09:24 AM

Self awareness!

Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 09:27 AM (vf0Y9)

415 https://youtu.be/BN6XKy0DW6M

Prolly the best song you've never heard.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:27 AM (Zz0t1)

416 China will survive in the end. But it's not going to be anything like a hegemon
_____

The future belongs to whoever shows up for it.

Posted by: Mo's Mad Mullahs at May 02, 2025 09:27 AM (Dv3i1)

417 Muslims love sex & babies more than Allah, apparently.

Not all Muslim countries - Iran has a total fertility rate of only 1.7.

Africa and Afghanistan.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 02, 2025 09:27 AM (xTIDn)

418 Bulg is a hoity toity moron. He reads the blog with his pinky out.
Posted by: Doof

Just airing it out after using it to pick my nose.

Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 09:27 AM (77rzZ)

419 Got my real ID last october in SF. Took 15 minutes and the card arrived several weeks early.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at May 02, 2025 09:27 AM (wdRU1)

420 They all have two hands?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 02, 2025 09:25 AM (Dv3i1)

They generally suck at their chosen profession.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 02, 2025 09:27 AM (/HDaX)

421 Singer Jill Sobule, known for the 1995 song “I Kissed a Girl,” died in a Minnesota house fire Thursday morning, her representatives said. She was 66.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 09:27 AM (gbOdA)

422 410 Oh FFS, suck my fucking balls with this obsession over the -.3%. It’ll be revised up “unexpectedly” to +.3% any day now. Anyone wanna bet?
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 02, 2025 09:26 AM (qYULV)

=======

Other than the rise in imports, it was actually quite a good report. It even showed a marked decrease in fed spending.

And yes, it'll probably be revised up a bit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 02, 2025 09:27 AM (GBKbO)

423 Oddly, the DMV in Fort Collins was very efficient. Last time I had to renew in person took me less than half an hour. They also had on-line renewals.

Haven't experienced the Boise DMV yet, but that will happen soon. I want to shed all ties to Colorado ASAP.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at May 02, 2025 09:28 AM (PSEDc)

424 Stonks are on track to be up for 10 trading days straight. This is another sign Trump’s Tarriffs are destroying the known universe. I think.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 02, 2025 09:28 AM (NWr1F)

425 Yup, that hair is a dead giveaway!
She's a nutter.
Posted by: Lizz

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Nose ring?

Because I recently learned a very interesting and sound observation on nose rings.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Look up the definition of Nose Ring Theory at May 02, 2025 09:28 AM (Ji8U7)

426 414 Let's be fair here:

I suck, am an asshole, and probably am a troll.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 02, 2025 09:24 AM

Self awareness!
Posted by: Doof at May 02, 2025 09:27 AM (vf0Y9)

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I don't got it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 02, 2025 09:28 AM (GBKbO)

427 Not to make you feel worse but in Tennessee, you walk in (no appointment), choose from the 3-4 available windows, walk up and the clerk will say : "Good morning. How may I help you?"

And they mean it.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 02, 2025 09:21 AM (vKNmo)

It's the polar opposite in TX.
Posted by: Sponge

Must have been an off day, but I rolled into the one in McKinney on my lunch hour & it was like rolling into Castle Anthrax minus the oral.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2025 09:28 AM (vs3rY)

428 Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 08:14 AM (77rzZ

Biden's Dog was on the morning thread.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 02, 2025 09:28 AM (42Vb+)

429 Oh FFS, suck my fucking balls with this obsession over the -.3%. It’ll be revised up “unexpectedly” to +.3% any day now. Anyone wanna bet?
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at May 02, 2025 09:26 AM (qYULV)

I've never heard of this horse "+.3%." Have any history on it?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

430 Weird I was assured we were in the greatest of all depressions. CNN keeps saying so.

Remember when the media was rewriting the rules in 2022 to deny that we were in a recession?

Deep State media.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 02, 2025 09:28 AM (xTIDn)

431 Because I recently learned a very interesting and sound observation on nose rings.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie

9v battery will light their asses up!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2025 09:29 AM (vs3rY)

432 Yes, Madame Mayhem, that's the issue I had. You have to show where your name came from. I had the marriage certificate from my second marriage but not the first. Had to come back with that and I was good. Went through this when I moved to KS

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 02, 2025 09:29 AM (cvWHI)

433 Let's be fair here:

I suck, am an asshole, and probably am a troll.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Catholic confession day?

Posted by: Auspex at May 02, 2025 09:29 AM (j4U/Z)

434 433 Let's be fair here:

I suck, am an asshole, and probably am a troll.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Catholic confession day?
Posted by: Auspex at May 02, 2025 09:29 AM (j4U/Z)

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Just resignation at reality.

Or, plain old Catholic guilt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 02, 2025 09:30 AM (GBKbO)

435 Must have been an off day, but I rolled into the one in McKinney on my lunch hour & it was like rolling into Castle Anthrax minus the oral.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 02, 2025 09:28 AM (vs3rY)

When our daughter decided she wanted her license, we had to go to Paris, TX to get her permit so she could learn during that current school semester. Anything around here was 3+ months out.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

436 The DMV in North Carolina has been completely booked for months. You can make a reservation online but they are always completely booked 90 days out which is the only length of time they let you book too. So you have to go there and sign a sheet and wait for 6 hours because they keep open the afternoon for walk-ins.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken

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The time period might end up being the same so it may be worth trying to drive a bit into a rural area. I bet you can walk right in.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Look up the definition of Nose Ring Theory at May 02, 2025 09:30 AM (Ji8U7)

437 >>> We need a modern day Monuments Men. Fuck these nazi tactics. Removing and moving art and memorials should be documented to the teeth. (Had to look this up...some movie? Film thread topic!)

I wonder how upset they got when the the founding father monuments were toppled.

Posted by: DJ at May 02, 2025 09:30 AM (uosPt)

438
A
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Posted by: rhennigantx at May 02, 2025 09:30 AM (gbOdA)

439 >>Let's be fair here:

I suck, am an asshole, and probably am a troll.

All you guys are doing wonderfully, but ace has a unique kind of snark/humor/insight.

Add to it the many snarky/humorous/knowledgeable commenters here and you've got the best site!!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 02, 2025 09:31 AM (KHnV4)

440 Other than the rise in imports, it was actually quite a good report. It even showed a marked decrease in fed spending.

And yes, it'll probably be revised up a bit.

Democratic political operatives still calculate the economic statistics, as they have since the Obama Administration.

Economic statistics are late "adjusted" downward under Democrats, and upward under Republicans.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 02, 2025 09:31 AM (xTIDn)

441 My DMV has an app to get in line. Either make an appointment or get into a queue. No waiting around. You show up when it’s your turn. And then it’s very efficient once there.

Last I was there to register a new car was 10 minutes.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 02, 2025 09:31 AM (NWr1F)

442 RIP Ruth Buzzi.

My brother always referred to the late SC justice as "Ruth Buzzi Ginsburg," due to her resemblance to Buzzi's old lady on the park bench.

Posted by: Bulg at May 02, 2025 09:31 AM (77rzZ)

443 Remember when the media was rewriting the rules in 2022 to deny that we were in a recession?

Deep State media.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

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Right after they redefined "airborne" to include non-airborne viruses like COVID

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Look up the definition of Nose Ring Theory at May 02, 2025 09:31 AM (Ji8U7)

444 I suck, am an asshole, and probably am a troll.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 02, 2025 09:24 AM (GBKbO)

Probably?

Posted by: ... at May 02, 2025 09:32 AM (QTr+M)

445 444 I suck, am an asshole, and probably am a troll.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 02, 2025 09:24 AM (GBKbO)

Probably?
Posted by: ... at May 02, 2025 09:32 AM (QTr+M)

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I've just never denied it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, smashy-smashy with Godzilla at May 02, 2025 09:32 AM (GBKbO)

446 Just checked my FL driver license. It's Real ID. I don't recall having to submit any special documents other than the usual when we moved down here several years ago.

No birth certificate, no passport, no utility bill.

I did, however, present a copy of my DD-214 to get the veteran designation on the DL, so maybe that was enough?

Dunno..

Posted by: one hour sober at May 02, 2025 09:32 AM (Y1sOo)

447 Weird I was assured we were in the greatest of all depressions. CNN keeps saying so.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 02, 2025 09:26 AM (NWr1F)

It's The Greatest Of Greatest Of The Greatest Depressions!

It's 1929 on steroids! Ahhhhhhh! Live in fear! Live in fear!

Posted by: This Is CNN at May 02, 2025 09:32 AM (979V4)

448
Last I was there to register a new car was 10 minutes.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at May 02, 2025 09:31 AM (NWr1F)

I went to the DMV local here a while back. Took a number. Sat for 3 + hours. There are 8 windows. There were only 3 workers.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at May 02, 2025 09:33 AM (Zz0t1)

449 I went to the DMV local here a while back. Took a number. Sat for 3 + hours. There are 8 windows. There were only 3 workers.
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How many of the workers spoke English?

Posted by: Pudinhead at May 02, 2025 09:41 AM (pZ64F)

450 I doubt they will fire the teacher in Maine. Due to the understandable blowback because of her initial post, she backtracked so much, "I didn't mean this. I meant that." that because of that, and because it's almost the end of the year, I think shes safe. However, she's phenomenally stupid. Even some parents in Maine in that school district will have protested (and will request their kids not be in her class) and now she's on the radar of someone actually ethical in the FBI.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 02, 2025 09:48 AM (42Vb+)

451 Good morning, all, and thanks, J.J.

From above, "Workers throughout China are flooding the streets in revolt as U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs slam the fragile Chinese export economy."

This country is not immune. The Guardian dot com, 18 Mar. 2025, 'Fear grows among US’s (sic) 390,000 undocumented Chinese immigrants: ‘So many policies have changed’ Those newly arrived and those who have lived in the US for decades worry as Trump vows to deport Chinese nationals

Also, Birth Tourism which continues in the US: 2022.12.20 - Final - Birth Tourism in the United States, Minority Staff Report, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Rob Portman, Ranking Member

There could be sympathetic groups within our boundaries.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 02, 2025 10:05 AM (NFX2v)

452 U. S. Representative Chrissy Houlahan, D, PA
houlahan dot house dot gov: Press Release
Why I Voted No on the House Armed Services Committee Reconciliation Bill
Pete Hegseth Must Go
Washington, D.C., April 29, 2025

In part, "Second, the additional $150 billion requested for the DoD comes at the direct expense of non-defense programs: Medicare, Social Security, education and research, healthcare, food security, safety and more. I will not vote for a budget that further funds the chaotic and incapable leadership at the DoD while simultaneously actively harming Americans in other areas."
...
Also, "Throughout the budget reconciliation meeting today in the House Armed Services Committee, my fellow Democrats and I offered numerous amendments for consideration—ranging from DoD childcare programs, financial audits for the Pentagon, and training on handling classified information. I introduced an amendment to block the additional $150 billion from being spent until Secretary Hegseth is gone. In response to our amendments, Republican Chair Mike Rogers opined that they were "overbroad and may have unintended consequences."
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The start of the ground plan: Pete Hegseth & DOGE must go!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 02, 2025 10:05 AM (NFX2v)

453 >BBC News, one hour ago, 'Activists say ship aiming to sail to Gaza was attacked by drones'

In part, Activists who were planning to sail a ship to Gaza say it was struck by drones in international waters off the coast of Malta - appearing to accuse Israel of being behind the attack.

And, The Freedom Flotilla Coalition said it had planned to sail to Gaza with people including climate activist Greta Thunberg on board and "challenge Israel's illegal siege and blockade".

Greta's back!
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>France 24, today, 'Vatican chimney installed ahead of papal conclave'
Vatican City (AFP) – Firefighters installed the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Friday which will emit white smoke to signal the election of a new pope as preparations proceed just five days before cardinals gather for the conclave.
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151st Kentucky Derby is tomorrow. 🐎 My mom loved watching it & so do I. It was Mom's one wish I didn't fulfill - getting her there in person.

If only...
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🙏 all Hamas hostages, the Horde & Horde adjacent in need & caregivers.

Nice weekend, all!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at May 02, 2025 10:05 AM (NFX2v)

454 Late getting in...that was a great line up JJ!

Posted by: DanMan at May 02, 2025 10:22 AM (8uzBS)

455 288 Wasn't "Real ID" mostly to allow Mexicans to drive 18 wheelers across the U.S. easier?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Look up the definition of Nose Ring Theory at May 02, 2025 08:59 AM (Ji8U7)

Well, per new regs, that ain’t going to help much. They will have to know English.

I’m waiting for the Real ID thing to be pushed back for the thousandth time.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 02, 2025 10:35 AM (eNdzY)

456 Sefton: "Who knew that the Soviet Union would collapse when it did?"
Robert Heinlein predicted that the Soviet Union would fall before the end of the 20th Century.

Now let's see the CCP and the $1.7 trillion per year US K-PhD credential racket.

Posted by: Malcolm Kirkpatick at May 02, 2025 01:38 PM (fgkXD)

457 I miss when my teachers taught moral and ethical thought...

Posted by: Mudshark at May 02, 2025 03:43 PM (M8TvI)

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