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Monday Overnight Open Thread - June 30, 2025 [Doof]

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Elevated railroad bridge - Cape Cod Canal

Howdy Hordelings! Thanks for ending your Monday - and the month of June - here with us at the ONT. How are you feeling with 2025 now halfway over? Is it all you expected it to be? Got any predictions for the rest of the year? Share your thoughts in the comments - along with whatever else is on your mind. Let's step on in!

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Color me skeptical

She Went On a Vacation to Iran: ‘It was Nothing Like I Expected’

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Chiara Herlemann, who is originally from Germany, travelled across the Middle Eastern country for ten days at the end of May.

Before getting on the plane, Chiara says she was quite nervous about whether the trip would be unsafe after reading about Iran in online news reports. But, she was incredibly surprised when she arrived to find the country a welcoming and friendly destination.

“I was very nervous to go and a lot of my friends were warning me that it was really dangerous,” she told SWNS news agency. “Every time I saw something about Iran in the news it was just some blurry pictures that looked like North Korea.

“When I got there, I was so surprised.”

“Everything was so different from what I expected. The people were so friendly. The men were helping me with my bags and making sure I was okay.

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“It is known as an Islamic country, but it doesn’t really feel like it, it was very westernized.

“As a woman you have an instinct when something isn’t right, and there wasn’t a single moment where I felt like that.”

Chiara says her favorite parts of the trip were the “kind people” and the food, with her favorite sight being the Blue Mosque.

Read the whole thing and decide for yourself.

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History AND Geography Nerd Stuff? Absolutely!

The Almost States of America



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Rule number 1, bro!

Texas Man Discovered Ex-Fiancee Married Him Without His Consent

A Texas man recently made the shocking discovery that he had somehow become married to the woman he had just broken up with, without his consent.
Imagine breaking up with someone only to find out the next day that you are legally married to them, even though you never even attended a marriage ceremony. This is the bizarre experience of a Texas man who claims he was married to his ex-fiancée without his knowledge. The 42-year-old man, whose identity has not been revealed, admitted to having been in a committed relationship with 36-year-old Kristin Marie Spearman and visiting the Wayne County clerk’s office to get a marriage license. However, the pair never made it to the altar. They got into an argument, and the man told Spearman that he didn’t want to be in a relationship with her, but his ex-fiancée had other plans…

Check out the story at the link. Here is a news report on the story:



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Gambling Problem?



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DJ Doof - Today's Birthdays Version
from thisdayinmusic.com

Born on this date in 1963: Yngwie Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist, songwriter and bandleader. Malmsteen first became known in the 1980s for his neoclassical metal playing style in heavy metal.



Born on this date in 1949: Andy Scott, guitarist with English group Sweet



Born on this date in 1944: Glenn Shorrock, from Australian group, Little River Band



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Comments, questions, suggestions, or emotional outbursts? Drop a message in a bottle and cross your fingers.

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1 Well this is unusual. Where do I nood?

Posted by: The Cookie Man at June 30, 2025 10:04 PM (PiHOx)

2 Sneaky! The ONT is an undernood.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 10:04 PM (yGuY2)

3 I called em. I think. Couldn't tell where to go.

Posted by: The Cookie Man at June 30, 2025 10:06 PM (PiHOx)

4 How's the weather up north?

Posted by: The Cookie Man at June 30, 2025 10:06 PM (PiHOx)

5 How's the weather up north?
Posted by: The Cookie Man at June 30, 2025 10:06 PM (PiHOx)

Sunny, warm, and all but wind-less today here in my region of Alberta.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 10:07 PM (yGuY2)

6 Well okay….looks like a wrong turn was taken at Albuquerque!

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2025 10:08 PM (pZEOD)

7 Chronology is just a suggestion. Very avant-garde. Thanks for the ONT, Doof!

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2025 10:09 PM (41CYW)

8 6?

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 30, 2025 10:09 PM (hftn9)

9 Cafe has the wrong date on it so the site thinks this ONT exists before the Cafe.

Posted by: Doof at June 30, 2025 10:09 PM (gpbGF)

10 Doh... but still top 10

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 30, 2025 10:10 PM (hftn9)

11 Best thing about the Kohberger plea deal (sidebar)? A bunch of anti-death penalty lawyers are throwing their yacht catalogs into the trash basket.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 10:11 PM (yGuY2)

12
Hmmmm. Rooftop cafe.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2025 10:12 PM (HuRzZ)

13 Da fuk?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2025 10:12 PM (H7X8V)

14 Hiding the darn thing hurts me here. (touches forehead)

Posted by: Some Rat at June 30, 2025 10:13 PM (TfUTr)

15
Pride Month is drawing to a close. What are YOUR favorite memories of this festive occasion?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2025 10:14 PM (/HVsR)

16 Hiding the darn thing hurts me here. (touches forehead)
Posted by: Some Rat at June 30, 2025 10:13 PM (TfUTr)


Take it up with the boss - I don't have the proper keys to fix his oopsies.

Posted by: Doof at June 30, 2025 10:14 PM (gpbGF)

17 Fucking Torch People!

Posted by: Pitchfork Guy at June 30, 2025 10:14 PM (i0F8b)

18 About the Iran trip- depends on where she went. In the more conservative areas, it would not have been awesome. But in the more metropolitan areas, women are actually defying the Hijab law and dressing really nicely. They carry scarves in case someone is a jerk, but it gives some hope. Now women still don’t have the same rights, but it isn’t Afghanistan in some areas. I hope there is regime change. The Persians may take their country back. At least I hope they do.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2025 10:15 PM (pZEOD)

19 11 Best thing about the Kohberger plea deal (sidebar)? A bunch of anti-death penalty lawyers are throwing their yacht catalogs into the trash basket.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 10:11 PM (yGuY2)


He's a frickin' coward. Of course.

Posted by: Gref at June 30, 2025 10:15 PM (aBgBM)

20 It's probably a good idea to start hiding the ONT. It was beginning to attract the wrong kind of people.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 30, 2025 10:16 PM (hY4dx)

21
The girl who went to Iran probably found that the place is actually full of normal people who hate the mullahs and treasure Persian culture -- which is actually quite hospitable. Too bad they don't have it in them at the moment to revolt.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2025 10:16 PM (HuRzZ)

22 Who? Yngwie Fuc*king Malmsteen, That's who!

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 30, 2025 10:16 PM (hftn9)

23 Good evening morons e grazie Disco

The blog is all cattywampus

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2025 10:16 PM (RIvkX)

24 Pride Month is drawing to a close. What are YOUR favorite memories of this festive occasion?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

The video of the drop dead gorgeous blonde double flipping off the parade.

Posted by: Some Rat at June 30, 2025 10:16 PM (TfUTr)

25
Piper -- horde mind at #21.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2025 10:16 PM (HuRzZ)

26 probably a good idea to start hiding the ONT. It was beginning to attract the wrong kind of people.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)


Hi!

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2025 10:16 PM (gKWVE)

27 Sneaky, real sneaky.

Posted by: Eromero at June 30, 2025 10:17 PM (LHPAg)

28 >Best thing about the Kohberger plea deal ....
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what was the motive
why did he kill 4 people

Posted by: Don Black. Message: duh, winning at June 30, 2025 10:17 PM (AOsQT)

29 9 Cafe has the wrong date on it so the site thinks this ONT exists before the Cafe.

Posted by: Doof at June 30, 2025 10:09 PM (gpbGF)


I thought CBD told Ace to stop fiddling with his experimental time machine. Looks like Ace does have more power here than CBD.

Posted by: Gref at June 30, 2025 10:17 PM (aBgBM)

30 From the things that make you go Hmmmmmm . . . . file:

Today on the beach, I dug up an ancient spent .50 cal casing. Corroded as hell. My BIL (West Pointer, Ranger, 160th SOAR) was with me and just looked at me, and it, and said "'Murica!"


But what the hell was it doing on an OBX beach?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 30, 2025 10:18 PM (H7X8V)

31 Sorry I'm late, I had yo find my scythe. Somebody was serving salmon mousse.

Posted by: tankdemon at June 30, 2025 10:19 PM (05hiV)

32
Paul Anka has a few things to say about this.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2025 10:19 PM (/HVsR)

33 It's probably a good idea to start hiding the ONT. It was beginning to attract the wrong kind of people.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 30, 2025 10:16 PM (hY4dx)


Haha! I'm just honored that some of you actually were looking for my content.

Posted by: Doof at June 30, 2025 10:19 PM (gpbGF)

34 Happy end of Pride Month! How are we celebrating?

Posted by: LizLem at June 30, 2025 10:19 PM (gWBY1)

35 I don't have the proper keys to fix his oopsies.
Posted by: Doof

Do you need me and a couple of the boys to go over and "talk" to him about it?

Posted by: Some Rat at June 30, 2025 10:19 PM (TfUTr)

36 Ahem. It's Yngwie *J.* Malmsteen. He was tired of being lumped in with all the other Yngwie Malmsteens out there.

Great skills. But I was never a fan.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Big Talking Non-Musician at June 30, 2025 10:20 PM (0aYVJ)

37 DERP

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 30, 2025 10:20 PM (mlg/3)

38
Happy end of Pride Month! How are we celebrating?
Posted by: LizLem at June 30, 2025 10:19 PM (gWBY1)

________

WRATH!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2025 10:20 PM (/HVsR)

39 Sorry I'm late, I had yo find my scythe. Somebody was serving salmon mousse.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 30, 2025 10:19 PM (05hiV)

moose salami>>>salmon mousse

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 10:20 PM (yGuY2)

40 Thanks for the swell Monday Night ONT, Doof!

Now including time travel at no additional charge! (Just kidding... I have no idea how the blog works, just grateful to have it.)

The photo up top reminds me of the lift bridge at Duluth. I can watch ships transit all day long.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 30, 2025 10:20 PM (kB9dk)

41 @robertliefeld
Jim Shooter has passed away at 73. Jim is the greatest EIC that Marvel had post Stan Lee. Unlocked the greatness of Marvel’s Bronze Era. Activated Frank Miller, Walt Simonson, John Byrne, Bill Sienkiewicz and so many others. Took a toy tie in and made it a blockbuster with Secret Wars! So many achievements. Gratitude for everything

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 30, 2025 10:20 PM (mlg/3)

42 DOOF! What the heck happened?!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at June 30, 2025 10:20 PM (TZf0i)

43
Of the Charleston Malmsteens?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2025 10:21 PM (/HVsR)

44 Thank you for the ONT Doof.

And it feels like a secret menu!

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 30, 2025 10:21 PM (jvJvP)

45 Piper or Blonde, what did you think of the Bezos dress?

Posted by: LizLem at June 30, 2025 10:21 PM (gWBY1)

46
Don Black,

Maybe he murdered them because one of them wouldn't date him.

Posted by: four seasons at June 30, 2025 10:21 PM (3ek7K)

47 Underboob >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Undernood

Change my mind.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 30, 2025 10:22 PM (0sNs1)

48
*splutters*

I've seen Chinese fire drills run better than this blog!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2025 10:22 PM (/HVsR)

49 Er, Lauren Sanchez dress. Whatever Bezos chooses to wear in private is none of my business.

Posted by: LizLem at June 30, 2025 10:22 PM (gWBY1)

50
Never a dull moment on AOS, LMAO!

Posted by: four seasons at June 30, 2025 10:22 PM (3ek7K)

51 Cosmic thread torn. Doof was kind enough to leave guidance.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 30, 2025 10:22 PM (n4GiU)

52 Fox on the Run is not my favorite Sweet song. But they had some great music. I was listening to them before I found KISS. But, unlike KISS, their music was mostly excellent.

Give Us a Wink and Desolation Blvd. are great albums, and part of my childhood music soundtrack.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Big Talking Non-Musician at June 30, 2025 10:23 PM (0aYVJ)

53 Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%-
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Wow. 77%. You've come a long way. Keep going!

Posted by: TRex at June 30, 2025 10:23 PM (5AQlv)

54 "Pride Month is drawing to a close. What are YOUR favorite memories of this festive occasion?"

The little hats. That's about it.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at June 30, 2025 10:23 PM (89Sog)

55 Sorry I'm late, I had yo find my scythe. Somebody was serving salmon mousse.
Posted by: tankdemon at June 30, 2025 10:19 PM (05hiV)

I didn't even have the mousse.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Big Talking Non-Musician at June 30, 2025 10:24 PM (0aYVJ)

56 >Too bad they don't have it in them at the moment to revolt.
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the mullahs have a gestapo. Iranians that make waves disappear into the gulag.

This is Iran (warning: graphic)
https://tinyurl.com/4u3bby6f

Posted by: Don Black. Message: duh, winning at June 30, 2025 10:24 PM (AOsQT)

57
My favorite memory of Pride Month ending is I live in a very small town and didn't have to see or hear about any of that perverted shit.

Posted by: four seasons at June 30, 2025 10:25 PM (3ek7K)

58 Maybe he murdered them because one of them wouldn't date him.
Posted by: four seasons at June 30, 2025 10:21 PM (3ek7K)

Well, maybe there's some slight chance he will open up as to why he did that awful crime. I am quite OK with the death penalty where the conviction is a foregone conclusion, but it seems to me that this case was a difficult one, with no guarantee of a conviction. And there are a lot of motivated bleeding hearts out there that would try to get on the jury to hang it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 10:25 PM (yGuY2)

59 The Martha's Vineyaed Malmsteens I believe. Swedish immigrants during the great Lingonberry famine of the 1770's

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 30, 2025 10:25 PM (hftn9)

60 The girl who went to Iran probably found that the place is actually full of normal people who hate the mullahs and treasure Persian culture -- which is actually quite hospitable. Too bad they don't have it in them at the moment to revolt.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Open sources...

Iran's best analogy may be an Islamic Apartheid where qn islamic minority rule with an iron fist. Probably worse than SA ever was.

Obammy overtly supported the minority rule. Because Muslim.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 30, 2025 10:25 PM (/lPRQ)

61 >"Pride Month is drawing to a close. What are YOUR favorite memories of this festive occasion?"
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That it turned out to be a nothingburger

Posted by: Don Black. Message: duh, winning at June 30, 2025 10:26 PM (AOsQT)

62 Thank God you are not homeless, that it all woked out. Go live your happiest life Stateless, can't wait to hear all about it

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 30, 2025 10:26 PM (IQ6Gq)

63 > "Pride Month is drawing to a close. What are YOUR favorite memories of this festive occasion?"
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Bitter, bitter tears.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2025 10:26 PM (Q4IgG)

64 Pride Month is drawing to a close. What are YOUR favorite memories of this festive occasion?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2025 10:14 PM (/HVsR)
* * * *
Bombing the shit out of Iran!

That brought me lots of pride in our military!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 30, 2025 10:26 PM (kB9dk)

65 Thanksfor the ONT Doof. Sweet had some great songs.

I logged on kind of late last night. You may have been gone for the night, so at the risk of repeating myself... given your extensive knowledge of 70's and 80's music I'm surprised you haven't offered up anything from Give The People What They Want. The whole album is great. I about burned through my cassette of it back in the day.

Thanks again, to you and all the ONT cobs

Posted by: 496 at June 30, 2025 10:27 PM (MyqLb)

66
That it turned out to be a nothingburger
Posted by: Don Black. Message: duh, winning at June 30, 2025 10:26 PM (AOsQT)

_________

Idiots putting preferred pronouns on their profiles seems to have ended as well.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2025 10:27 PM (/HVsR)

67
[smacks Wayback Machine]

Dammit! Malfunctioning again. Never should have installed the update.

Posted by: Sherman at June 30, 2025 10:27 PM (XeU6L)

68 Let’s get some John Phillip Souza tunes going!

Posted by: Eromero at June 30, 2025 10:27 PM (LHPAg)

69 Obammy overtly supported the minority rule. Because Muslim.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 30, 2025 10:25 PM (/lPRQ)

Jimmuh is hugely complicit in the whole thing.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Big Talking Non-Musician at June 30, 2025 10:28 PM (0aYVJ)

70 I was shocked to hear today that Chris the Zman, of TheZman.com blog, died unexpectedly last Thursday at the age of 59. He had produced a column every Monday through Thursday, with an hour-long podcast on Friday, for years.
He was an articulate spokesman for the Dissident Right, and an early critic of ConInc. He had some strong opinions, but he wasn't for sale.
He reportedly died of natural causes. As far as I know he did not have any information that would lead to the arrest and conviction of Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 30, 2025 10:28 PM (r6SF4)

71 45 Piper or Blonde, what did you think of the Bezos dress?
Posted by: LizLem at June 30, 2025 10:21

I wrote about it last night, but will give you the reader’s digest version- It was a very pretty dress, shockingly so. Lauren looked lovely and I hope it sticks. I love priest buttons, had them all down the back of my wedding gown for my now defunct marriage. Pain to get in it, but looks lovely. A mermaid dress is perfect for an hourglass figure, which she has. D&G did right by her.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2025 10:28 PM (pZEOD)

72 >>> Rule number 1, bro!

Rule Number 1 ?
Stay away from the Bunny Boilers.

They ain't that hot either.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 30, 2025 10:28 PM (/lPRQ)

73 I called em. I think. Couldn't tell where to go.
Posted by: The Cookie Man

I thought you were not telling the truth!!!

Well done nooder!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 30, 2025 10:30 PM (s/SFW)

74 Elevated railroad bridge - Cape Cod Canal
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I look forward to the Bascule bridge post.

Posted by: Joseph Strauss at June 30, 2025 10:30 PM (XeU6L)

75
Let’s get some John Phillip Souza tunes going!
Posted by: Eromero at June 30, 2025 10:27 PM (LHPAg)

________

Sousa was a pretty accomplished guy. Not just the marches but also operettas. Author. Noted trap shooter.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2025 10:30 PM (/HVsR)

76 Thanksfor the ONT Doof. Sweet had some great songs.

I logged on kind of late last night. You may have been gone for the night, so at the risk of repeating myself... given your extensive knowledge of 70's and 80's music I'm surprised you haven't offered up anything from Give The People What They Want. The whole album is great. I about burned through my cassette of it back in the day.

Thanks again, to you and all the ONT cobs
Posted by: 496 at June 30, 2025 10:27 PM (MyqLb)


Solid suggestion. Good to hear from you. Hope all is well!

Posted by: Doof at June 30, 2025 10:30 PM (gpbGF)

77 Yngwie Malmsteen
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Haven't thought about Yngwie in a long time. First time I heard him play, I was stunned.

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

78 53 Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%-
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Wow. 77%. You've come a long way. Keep going!

Posted by: TRex at June 30, 202

Thanks!

The house actually closed today on the third try in 6 months! The animals and I have a place to stay for 2 years! Sweet!

Lost my brother but that's fine. Year of loss. And I am not homeless.

And have a 24 of beer since tomorrow is Canada Day.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 30, 2025 10:30 PM (jvJvP)

79 The homos and trannys pushed it too far- normal Americans are disgusted with them

the pendulum is swinging back

Posted by: Don Black. Message: duh, winning at June 30, 2025 10:30 PM (AOsQT)

80 9 Sorry I'm late, I had yo find my scythe. Somebody was serving salmon mousse.
Posted by: tankdemon

Shut up! You Fing Americans...It's always let me tell you this!...and Let me tell you something about that! Well... Youre DEAD! One of the great scenes in cinema.

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at June 30, 2025 10:32 PM (hftn9)

81 >>> What are YOUR favorite memories of this festive occasion?

Corporations abandoned it in droves since they never really cared, celeb girls ditched vag for peen and it caused a scandal, Tyler Perry's gay downlow got revealed, and JoJo Siwa might have a shot at normalcy since she's not an LGBT pet any longer.

Posted by: LizLem at June 30, 2025 10:32 PM (gWBY1)

82 25
Piper -- horde mind at #21.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2025 10:16 PM (HuRzZ)

I love it!

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2025 10:32 PM (pZEOD)

83 62 Thank God you are not homeless, that it all woked out. Go live your happiest life Stateless, can't wait to hear all about it

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at June 30, 2025 10:26 PM 

Thank you. Me too.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 30, 2025 10:33 PM (jvJvP)

84 And have a 24 of beer since tomorrow is Canada Day.
Posted by: Stateless
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Hmm. I have a Canadian flag. Should hoist it up tomorrow

Posted by: Joseph Strauss at June 30, 2025 10:34 PM (XeU6L)

85 Hiding the ONT under the Cafe thread? You'll have to do better than that to ditch me!

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 30, 2025 10:34 PM (p4nXC)

86 Wait, Pride is only down to a month?

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 30, 2025 10:34 PM (jvJvP)

87 In case you missed it, tcn and hubby will be joining us for MoMe X.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 30, 2025 10:34 PM (HFcKg)

88 I guess my dog snuck out of his crate. I just heard my daughter say from the living room, “Sir, what are you doing out here by yourself? It is bedtime!” We don’t close the door, normally he just stays in it and falls asleep. It was funny.

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2025 10:34 PM (pZEOD)

89 And have a 24 of beer since tomorrow is Canada Day.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 30, 2025 10:30 PM (jvJvP)

I am going to sit home tomorrow, and continue to work on my Suburban transmission. Got another clutch apart, and it was burned up real good. Pump is OK, I think. Pretty much all disassembled except the valve body, and I will leave it for last, as it is about the last part to install. I should have all the parts I need.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 10:35 PM (yGuY2)

90
Wait, Pride is only down to a month?
Posted by: Stateless

_________

Didn't the Great North make it a season?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2025 10:35 PM (/HVsR)

91
Hmm. I have a Canadian flag. Should hoist it up tomorrow

Posted by: Joseph Strauss at June 30, 2025 10:34 PM 

If we were free.

Man, you have more love than me.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 30, 2025 10:35 PM (jvJvP)

92 Wow! Post under post. Is Doof in the barrel two nights in a row??

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2025 10:36 PM (0eaVi)

93 I am going to sit home tomorrow, and continue to work on my Suburban transmission. Got another clutch apart, and it was burned up real good. Pump is OK, I think. Pretty much all disassembled except the valve body, and I will leave it for last, as it is about the last part to install. I should have all the parts I need.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 10:35 PM (yGuY2

Have fun AOP!

I am resting for a bit.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 30, 2025 10:37 PM (jvJvP)

94 In case you missed it, tcn and hubby will be joining us for MoMe X.
Posted by: Ben Had

They're just hoping for a plate.

Posted by: Some Rat at June 30, 2025 10:37 PM (TfUTr)

95 Hmm. I have a Canadian flag. Should hoist it up tomorrow

Posted by: Joseph Strauss at June 30, 2025 10:34 PM

If we were free.

Man, you have more love than me.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 30, 2025 10:35 PM (jvJvP)

I have never liked that maple leaf flag abortion. The Red Ensign was the flag I was born under, and it is still the only legal flag for me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 10:37 PM (yGuY2)

96 Didn't the Great North make it a season?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2025 10:35 PM

That's what I thought!

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 30, 2025 10:37 PM (jvJvP)

97 In case you missed it, tcn and hubby will be joining us for MoMe X.
Posted by: Ben Had

Yay!

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2025 10:38 PM (pZEOD)

98 88 I guess my dog snuck out of his crate. I just heard my daughter say from the living room, “Sir, what are you doing out here by yourself? It is bedtime!” We don’t close the door, normally he just stays in it and falls asleep. It was funny.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2025 10:34 PM (pZEOD)

You make your daughter call your dog Sir? Strict.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 30, 2025 10:38 PM (p4nXC)

99 Time warp?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 10:39 PM (nwGCR)

100 Tricksey undernood.

Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 10:39 PM (jc0TO)

101 Have an Uncle that spent some time in Iran during the Vietnam War. Never said "love it" or "hate it" but never anything negative. Seemed to have fond memories.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 30, 2025 10:39 PM (/lPRQ)

102 I have never liked that maple leaf flag abortion. The Red Ensign was the flag I was born under, and it is still the only legal flag for me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 10:37 PM (yGuY2

Good for you.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 30, 2025 10:40 PM (jvJvP)

103 Wow! Post under post. Is Doof in the barrel two nights in a row??

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2025 10:36 PM (0eaVi)


I claim fault for last night. Not tonight.

Posted by: Doof at June 30, 2025 10:40 PM (gpbGF)

104 Happy Canuckistan Day to all morons north of the border, eh.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 10:40 PM (nwGCR)

105 Willowed (or not?) from the Cafe:

Ben Had, Pug Mahon, et al, my nic has always been Official Delurker, sometimes with a comma and other stuff added on after. My hash changes every day, it looks to me, though. I delurked several weeks back on a scampydog ONT, and I mostly only comment on ONTs because of being busy or sleeping during the other threads.

I might be that "wrong kind of people" mentioned above, lol! :-D

Posted by: Official Delurker at June 30, 2025 10:40 PM (WTK+H)

106
The Red Ensign was the flag I was born under, and it is still the only legal flag for me.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

________

You'll do as your told.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2025 10:40 PM (/HVsR)

107 Chiara Herlemann (gotta be a fake name, right?) had a great time in Iran. Except for that minor incident when she was raped. This story is total bullshit. No way a pretty blonde girl vacations alone in any Muslim country without incident. Unless she was traveling with very big Visigoth bodyguards.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 30, 2025 10:41 PM (b02nc)

108 The Almost States of America took 2 minutes and forty seconds to get to the beginning after ten more seconds the decision was made that this guy takes far too many words to make a point.

At least he's not a professional like J.K. Rowling who can't write a well formed sentence.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2025 10:41 PM (Dng1D)

109
You make your daughter call your dog Sir? Strict.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 30, 2025 10:38 PM (p4nXC)

Someone needs to be. Seriously, I love that she is mimicking me, because when she gets a little sassy I say “Back it up, ma’am.” Or something similar. But I have noticed the dog has not come back here yet!

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2025 10:41 PM (pZEOD)

110 Piper, thanks for your opinion!

Posted by: LizLem at June 30, 2025 10:41 PM (gWBY1)

111 I am listening to a Helloween song, Grapowski's Malmsuite 1001.

Given Helloween's gift of tongue-in-cheekery. I wonder if they are doing an Yngwie Malmsteen send-up.

I need to look into that.

Also, it's weird that this kind of serendipity may have happened.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Big Talking Non-Musician at June 30, 2025 10:41 PM (0aYVJ)

112 Doof ,we are damned lucky to have you.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 30, 2025 10:41 PM (HFcKg)

113 You'll do as your told, eh?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2025 10:40 PM (/HVsR)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2025 10:43 PM (RIvkX)

114 She married a man without him knowing about it.
Sounds like rape.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2025 10:43 PM (Dng1D)

115 I claim fault for last night. Not tonight.
Posted by: Doof at June 30, 2025 10:40 PM (gpbGF)

So, Ace embarrelled himself. Well, now he's done everything. Glad you're not in there, Doof.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2025 10:43 PM (0eaVi)

116 When did the maple leaf become the flag? If I were to guess (and no didn’t google it)…. 1967 for the 100th anniversary?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 10:43 PM (nwGCR)

117 ted by: Piper at June 30, 2025 10:41 PM (pZEOD)

110 Piper, thanks for your opinion!
Posted by: LizLem at June

Did you like it?

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2025 10:44 PM (pZEOD)

118 Happy Canuckistan Day to all morons north of the border, eh.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 10:40 PM (nwGCR)

It's Dominion Day. Changing the name of a holiday is bad luck; no good can come of it. In fact, quality of life here has steadily gone downhill since that change was made. Gas all Liberals.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 10:44 PM (yGuY2)

119
Sounds like rape.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

_________

Feels like it too.

Posted by: The Guy's Bank Account at June 30, 2025 10:45 PM (/HVsR)

120 Doof ,we are damned lucky to have you.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 30, 2025 10:41 PM (HFcKg)


Thanks!! I echo those words back to you tenfold!

Posted by: Doof at June 30, 2025 10:45 PM (gpbGF)

121 When did the maple leaf become the flag? If I were to guess (and no didn’t google it)…. 1967 for the 100th anniversary?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 10:43 PM (nwGCR)

Earlier, I think. 1960-'62 or thereabouts.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 10:46 PM (yGuY2)

122
Happy Canuckistan Day to all morons north of the border, eh.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

________

Yes, indeedy. I'd like to think the smug America-bashing loudmouths are just in a small area.

Posted by: The Guy's Bank Account at June 30, 2025 10:47 PM (/HVsR)

123 An underwood! That explains it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 30, 2025 10:48 PM (L/fGl)

124 So, Ace embarrelled himself. Well, now he's done everything. Glad you're not in there, Doof.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2025 10:43 PM (0eaVi)


Eh - it aint so bad. Some funny graffiti on the inside. I even saw FIRST!!! written in there a few times.

Posted by: Doof at June 30, 2025 10:48 PM (gpbGF)

125 92 Wow! Post under post. Is Doof in the barrel two nights in a row??

Posted by: OrangeEnt
---------------
I have a working theory that Doof has figured out how reroute the aging and fermentation in the barrel to make bourbon. He is not suffering, he is distilling.

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2025 10:48 PM (41CYW)

126
Dammit! I said to myself, "Make sure you cange the sock before posting."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2025 10:48 PM (/HVsR)

127 Yes, indeedy. I'd like to think the smug America-bashing loudmouths are just in a small area.
Posted by: The Guy's Bank Account at June 30, 2025 10:47 PM (/HVsR)

Mostly within a hundred miles of the St. Lawrence River.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 10:48 PM (yGuY2)

128 Ok. I figured it out

Posted by: Otto Pen at June 30, 2025 10:49 PM (sJHOI)

129 Changing the name of a holiday is bad luck;



We did that shit too. Used to be Lincoln and Washington each got heir own day. Then it was combined into Prez’nit Day.

Columbus is Native People day or some such bullshit in a lot of places.

Hell Independence Day probably has a couple of decades left before it’s renamed to Marginalized People Day or some bullshit.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 10:49 PM (nwGCR)

130 I have a working theory that Doof has figured out how reroute the aging and fermentation in the barrel to make bourbon. He is not suffering, he is distilling.
Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2025 10:48 PM (41CYW)

Would you trust barrel bourbon?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2025 10:49 PM (0eaVi)

131 Yes, indeedy. I'd like to think the smug America-bashing loudmouths are just in a small area.
Posted by: The Guy's Bank Account at June 30, 2025 10:47 PM (/HVsR)

Within 100 miles of the US border. 🤣

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 10:50 PM (nwGCR)

132
Would you trust barrel bourbon?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2025 10:49 PM (0eaVi)

_______

He labels it "Berben".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2025 10:50 PM (/HVsR)

133 I have a working theory that Doof has figured out how reroute the aging and fermentation in the barrel to make bourbon. He is not suffering, he is distilling.
Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2025 10:48 PM (41CYW)


You know me well, brother!

Posted by: Doof at June 30, 2025 10:50 PM (gpbGF)

134

We did that shit too. Used to be Lincoln and Washington each got heir own day. Then it was combined into Prez’nit Day.
------------------

Another thing Nixon did. Put 'em all on Monday too.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2025 10:50 PM (Dng1D)

135 Would you trust barrel bourbon?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2025 10:49 PM (0eaVi)

Filter it through Ace's kidneys. Ewok kidneys can purify uranium.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 10:50 PM (yGuY2)

136 Would you trust barrel bourbon?
Posted by: OrangeEnt
-----------
No. But Pride Month, perhaps there was a market?

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2025 10:51 PM (41CYW)

137 Hell Independence Day probably has a couple of decades left before it’s renamed to Marginalized People Day or some bullshit.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 10:49 PM (nwGCR)

They'll turn it into a Dies Nefasti.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2025 10:51 PM (0eaVi)

138 Did you like it?
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2025 10:44 PM (pZEOD)

I did! I was pleasantly surprised she went with a classic look. Thought Sofia Vergara's devotion to the mermaid hem has made me leery of it. But curvy latinas can't seem to resist it.

Posted by: LizLem at June 30, 2025 10:51 PM (gWBY1)

139 Musk says he's going to primary every senator who voted for Trump's Big Beautiful/Ugly Bill "if it's the last thing I do".

Things are getting spicy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2025 10:51 PM (qpyNK)

140
Another thing Nixon did. Put 'em all on Monday too.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

________

We want our hard-working civil servants to have three days off, right?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2025 10:52 PM (/HVsR)

141
Filter it through Ace's kidneys. Ewok kidneys can purify uranium.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 10:50 PM (yGuY2)

_______

Trump's going to bomb Ace next?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2025 10:53 PM (/HVsR)

142 130 I have a working theory that Doof has figured out how reroute the aging and fermentation in the barrel to make bourbon. He is not suffering, he is distilling.
Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2025 10:48 PM (41CYW)

Would you trust barrel bourbon?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2025 10:49 PM (0eaVi)
--------------------------

Served alongside the finest bathtub gins and Russian aircraft antifreeze vodkas. Top shelf stuff.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at June 30, 2025 10:53 PM (qUYGJ)

143 I don’t mind the Monday thing.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 10:54 PM (nwGCR)

144 For Pride month I consulted with the gastro doc and got The Procedure done. Unfortunately for anyone wanting a 'play by play' I was unconscious during the whole thing.

Posted by: Rex B at June 30, 2025 10:54 PM (kzq+c)

145 When are we going to buy Greenland?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2025 10:54 PM (Dng1D)

146 What sorcery is this?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 30, 2025 10:55 PM (XV/Pl)

147
When are we going to buy Greenland?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

________

Buy? Denmark had its chance.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2025 10:55 PM (/HVsR)

148 Would you trust barrel bourbon?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2025 10:49 PM (0eaVi)

Let's see Musk launch his rockets with electric engines powered by lithium batteries charged off solar panels and wind fans. His rockets burn a metric fuckton of methane. which is a product of the oil industry.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 10:55 PM (yGuY2)

149 Would you trust barrel bourbon?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2025 10:49 PM (0eaVi)

Filter it through Ace's kidneys. Ewok kidneys can purify uranium.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 10:50 PM (yGuY2)

* fills bathtub with ice*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at June 30, 2025 10:56 PM (dR6yv)

150 When are we going to buy Greenland?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2025 10:54 PM (Dng1D)

Waiting for the Fourth of July sale?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2025 10:56 PM (0eaVi)

151 @145

>>When are we going to buy Greenland?

Keep them as a territory though, otherwise we'd just get two more Donk senators.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 30, 2025 10:56 PM (XV/Pl)

152 Changing the name of a holiday is bad luck;



Changing the names of anything is not only bad luck but shows disrespect for history and culture (good, bad, and ugly).

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 30, 2025 10:57 PM (/lPRQ)

153 His rockets burn a metric fuckton of methane. which is a product of the oil industry.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 10:55 PM (yGuY2)

How many flatulent cows does it take to fill one rocket?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2025 10:57 PM (0eaVi)

154 How many flatulent cows does it take to fill one rocket?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2025 10:57 PM (0eaVi)

Probably more cows than the planet could carry.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 10:58 PM (yGuY2)

155 When are we going to buy Greenland?
-----

I'm not posting the lyrics to 'Fairwell to Tarwathie' again...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 30, 2025 10:58 PM (XeU6L)

156 Changing the names of anything is not only bad luck but shows disrespect for history and culture (good, bad, and ugly).

Like things that Scrunt from SC did.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 30, 2025 10:58 PM (/lPRQ)

157 Darleen says she will do the ONT better than you

With Gymnastics and Festivities from Marleen and Charleen

Posted by: LeenCorp LLC at June 30, 2025 10:59 PM (UZTGl)

158 Musk now says he will form the "America Party" the day after the Big Bill passes (if it does).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2025 10:59 PM (qpyNK)

159 >>> >>When are we going to buy Greenland? Keep them as a territory though, otherwise we'd just get two more Donk senators.

Same with Ontario if they want to get annexed.

Posted by: LizLem at June 30, 2025 11:00 PM (gWBY1)

160 Burns a fuckton of kerosene too.
Don't know what in or stricken from the bill that really ticked him off.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2025 11:00 PM (Dng1D)

161 Musk says he's going to primary every senator who voted for Trump's Big Beautiful/Ugly Bill "if it's the last thing I do".

Things are getting spicy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
===

He needs to focus on getting himself and his harem to Mars NOT on the taxpayers' dime.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 30, 2025 11:00 PM (/lPRQ)

162 Are you ready, Steve? (Uh-huh)
Andy? (Yeah)
Mick? (Okay)
Alright fellas, let's go!

https://youtu.be/r8pYpii2Atg

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 30, 2025 11:01 PM (p4nXC)

163 Changing the names of anything is not only bad luck but shows disrespect for history and culture (good, bad, and ugly).

Like things that Scrunt from SC did.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 30, 2025 10:58 PM (/lPRQ)


Now normally I'm 100% with you but I do have one minor, itsy-bitsy, teeny-tiny exception: The renaming of the USS Harvey Milk to the USS Oscar V. Peterson.

Posted by: RickZ at June 30, 2025 11:02 PM (gKDq2)

164 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 30, 2025 11:02 PM (sAmhv)

165 Trump's going to bomb Ace next?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Vespas are damn difficult targets

Posted by: SAC, Death from Above at June 30, 2025 11:02 PM (UZTGl)

166 Same with Ontario if they want to get annexed.
Posted by: LizLem
----

Ontario? Let them keep Ontario, we take Alberta.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2025 11:02 PM (Dng1D)

167 I'd go to Iran in a heartbeat, but my friends chickened out. Iraq was fine. Oman stole my heart. S'Audi Arabia, also fine. I'd have to plan it very carefully, but I'd go to certain parts of Afghanistan under the right circumstances. Probably still avoid Yemen at this time, too, but I'd like to see it eventually.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 30, 2025 11:03 PM (Vvh2V)

168 Like things that Scrunt from SC did.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 30, 2025 10:58 PM (/lPRQ)


You mean the highly principled conservative scrunt who was all-in on St George Floyd?
The one who was waiting to be put in the President slot at the RNC convention in 2024?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2025 11:03 PM (D7oie)

169 > His rockets burn a metric fuckton of methane. which is a product of the oil industry.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 10:55 PM (yGuY2)

The new Starship rocket uses methane/LOX, but that's not really in production use yet. The current Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy burn RP-1 (basically, fancy kerosene). Still a petrochemical, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2025 11:04 PM (qpyNK)

170 Now normally I'm 100% with you but I do have one minor, itsy-bitsy, teeny-tiny exception: The renaming of the USS Harvey Milk to the USS Oscar V. Peterson.
Posted by: RickZ at June 30, 2025 11:02 PM (gKDq2)

That name was bestowed in bad faith, and was an insult to the ship and her crew, and was routinely mocked by nearly everyone but Gabe Malor.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 11:04 PM (yGuY2)

171 Musk now says he will form the "America Party" the day after the Big Bill passes (if it does).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2025 10:59 PM (qpyNK)


Good, he can be the modern day Teddy Roosevelt and hand what is left of the republic to whichever Wilson the left can conjure.
Yay for us

Posted by: Kindltot at June 30, 2025 11:05 PM (D7oie)

172 Go woke, go broke, Jaguars style.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 30, 2025 11:05 PM (L/fGl)

173 Are you ready, Steve? (Uh-huh)
Andy? (Yeah)
Mick? (Okay)
Alright fellas, let's go!

https://youtu.be/r8pYpii2Atg
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous
====

One of those EweTube channels featuring selective minorities experiencing 'X' for the first time has that as an intro...

OMG!!! Those guys have to be OD'ing on ball juice to even start the song like that....
... Shit! that is really good !!!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 30, 2025 11:06 PM (/lPRQ)

174 From last night's ONT:

four seasons, you're in SW WY? I'm in SW WI. We're like, fraternal twins!

Posted by: Official Delurker at June 30, 2025 11:06 PM (WTK+H)

175 The new Starship rocket uses methane/LOX, but that's not really in production use yet. The current Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy burn RP-1 (basically, fancy kerosene). Still a petrochemical, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2025 11:04 PM (qpyNK)

And there is no way to make it by using "renewable" energy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 11:06 PM (yGuY2)

176 >>> He needs to focus on getting himself and his harem to Mars NOT on the taxpayers' dime.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 30, 2025 11:00 PM (/lPRQ)

Yeah. I said this earlier today: it's easier to cut someone else's budget than your own. Not exactly fair of him to throw DOGE on everyone else and expect to be spared, if he's serious about draining the swamp.

Posted by: LizLem at June 30, 2025 11:07 PM (gWBY1)

177 > Ontario? Let them keep Ontario, we take Alberta.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2025 11:02 PM (Dng1D)

AB, SK, MB, YT, NT, and NU can all join, as can the eastern half of BC.

All the others can go piss up a rope.

QC can join France, only because that would give us an excuse to open a can of Monroe Doctrine Whoop Ass on the Frogs.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2025 11:07 PM (qpyNK)

178 Go woke, go broke, Jaguars style. Now With link!

https://is.gd/5Sjun4

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Well, This Is Another Fine Mess You've Gotten Me Into at June 30, 2025 11:07 PM (L/fGl)

179
QC can join France,

_______

The French look down their dirty noses at the Quebecois.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2025 11:08 PM (/HVsR)

180 Puppy has returned and tucked himself in, so I am off to bed, too. Night!

Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2025 11:09 PM (pZEOD)

181 158 Musk now says he will form the "America Party" the day after the Big Bill passes (if it does).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2025 10:59 PM (qpyNK)


Maybe it will merge with the Coffee Party.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 11:09 PM (nwGCR)

182 Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 30, 2025 10:41 PM (b02nc)

The story may be bullshit, but it doesn't have to be. I am neither blonde, nor pretty, but I traveled through Iraq with 2 fellow redheads, with no problem whatsoever. And I imagine Iran is far nicer in most ways.

We had guides, and connections with NGOs, but seriously no issues other than the heat and a bit of weirdness trying to get up to Kurdistan

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 30, 2025 11:09 PM (Vvh2V)

183 Gabe Malor.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Ace and I....understood each other.

I bought his first pair of Crocs!

But,,,things...happened...that Polling Bitch stole him away

*sobs*

Posted by: Mabriel Galore at June 30, 2025 11:09 PM (UZTGl)

184 Kate at smalldeadanimals had a great story of some street in British Columbia changed to some crazy native name.

Credit card companies couldn't handle the characters.

Neither could here. Posting did not go well.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 30, 2025 11:10 PM (jvJvP)

185 QC can join France, only because that would give us an excuse to open a can of Monroe Doctrine Whoop Ass on the Frogs.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2025 11:07 PM (qpyNK)

(looks around nervously)

Posted by: St Pierre et Miquelon at June 30, 2025 11:10 PM (0eaVi)

186
Maybe it will merge with the Coffee Party.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 11:09 PM (nwGCR)

________

I thought it was the No Labels Party.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2025 11:10 PM (/HVsR)

187 (looks around nervously)
Posted by: St Pierre et Miquelon at June 30, 2025 11:10 PM (0eaVi)

They are France. Fully integrated into greater France.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 11:12 PM (yGuY2)

188 Oh crap, I meant Alberta. Basically any Canadian that looks like they belong in Letterkenny is probably ok.

I'll also take PEI. I worry what the exploding unfettered immigration in Canada will do to Anne Shirley's home in 30 years.

Posted by: LizLem at June 30, 2025 11:12 PM (gWBY1)

189
Official Delurker,

We lived in Illinois for about 10 years. Northern Ill. We had a trailer in SW Wisconsin for a few years. I can't remember the name of the campground.

I love Wisconsin! We moved from Illinois to South Carolina because of Hubby's job.

Posted by: four seasons at June 30, 2025 11:12 PM (3ek7K)

190 > Don't know what in or stricken from the bill that really ticked him off.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2025 11:00 PM (Dng1D)

Mainly because, rather than actually cutting spending, it increases the debt $5 trillion-with-a-t.

Or so he says.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2025 11:13 PM (qpyNK)

191 The French look down their dirty noses at the Quebecois.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2025 11:08 PM (/VsR)


Quebecois speak 'mud French', or so my French-fluent ex explained. Dirty, muddled. Easily recognized.

But what do I know? I only speak S'uth'un.

Posted by: RickZ at June 30, 2025 11:13 PM (gKDq2)

192 (looks around nervously)
Posted by: St Pierre et Miquelon

maybe we should talk

Posted by: St. Kitts and Nevis at June 30, 2025 11:13 PM (UZTGl)

193 Adding on to my 105:

I usually start out with the greeting "A pleasant evening to all." But I didn't do that tonight on the Cafe, for some reason, so I maybe didn't sound like me, whatever that means. ;-)

So... wishing you all a pleasant evening, you fine folks. This is an enjoyable and enriching place, hanging with the horde.

Posted by: Official Delurker at June 30, 2025 11:13 PM (WTK+H)

194 I'll also take PEI. I worry what the exploding unfettered immigration in Canada will do to Anne Shirley's home in 30 years.
Posted by: LizLem at June 30, 2025 11:12 PM (gWBY1)

PEI is rock-solid Liberal. Fuck 'em.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 11:13 PM (yGuY2)

195 Quebecois speak 'mud French', or so my French-fluent ex explained. Dirty, muddled. Easily recognized.

But what do I know? I only speak S'uth'un.
Posted by: RickZ

Cajuns think Quebecois talk funny

Posted by: C'est Vrai, mes chers amis at June 30, 2025 11:14 PM (UZTGl)

196 Well, the significant difference here is that, rather than being started by a bunch of randos, Musk's America Party will be started by a guy with $425 billion.

Even by government standards, that's real money.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2025 11:15 PM (qpyNK)

197 They are France. Fully integrated into greater France.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 11:12 PM (yGuY2)

They're in the western hemisphere. Europeans have no business holding territories here.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2025 11:16 PM (0eaVi)

198 four seasons, scampywife and I will be in SW, WY the end of July for a wedding/short vacation. Pete Bog gave us a cool route from SLC, to Vernal, Flaming Gorge, and then up into WY. Wedding is in Rock Springs.

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2025 11:16 PM (41CYW)

199 PEI is rock-solid Liberal. Fuck 'em.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Big Beautiful Fish Tariffs. Really the best

Posted by: Le Donald at June 30, 2025 11:16 PM (UZTGl)

200 Yeah...from what I've heard, Canadian French is viewed by the "real" French in much the same way we view hillbilly accents.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2025 11:17 PM (qpyNK)

201 Haha, I couldn't find the ont

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 30, 2025 11:17 PM (WF/xn)

202 Four seasons, 189, cool! What was your husband's job, and have you lived in other states besides IL, SC, and WY?

I've been in WI longer now than MN, where I was born, and have not lived anywhere else.

Posted by: Official Delurker at June 30, 2025 11:17 PM (WTK+H)

203 The place and time that will be nevermore.

https://tinyurl.com/5budnpjc

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2025 11:17 PM (Dng1D)

204
Newfoundland can regain its independence.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2025 11:18 PM (/HVsR)

205 Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 30, 2025 11:09 PM (Vvh2V)

Guided tours are completely different than traveling on your own. Even in the States.

I'm thinking a naive Midwestern blonde traveling by herself to NYC would be in a pretty dangerous situation.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2025 11:18 PM (VofaG)

206
scampydog,

So glad Pete gave ya'll tips. We're halfway between SLC and Rock Springs.

It is beautiful out here. The drive from SLC airport on 1-80 is gorgeous.

I hope ya'll have a wonderful time.

Posted by: four seasons at June 30, 2025 11:18 PM (3ek7K)

207 Yeah...from what I've heard, Canadian French is viewed by the "real" French in much the same way we view hillbilly accents.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2025 11:17 PM (qpyNK)

I believ y'all mean, New England accents, suh.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2025 11:18 PM (0eaVi)

208 >>> I've been in WI longer now than MN, where I was born, and have not lived anywhere else.
Posted by: Official Delurker
====

Not to start a .45 vs 9mm type war, but who has the better cheese?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 30, 2025 11:19 PM (/lPRQ)

209 Quebecois speak 'mud French', or so my French-fluent ex explained. Dirty, muddled. Easily recognized.

But what do I know? I only speak S'uth'un.
Posted by: RickZ at June 30, 2025 11:13 PM (gKDq2)

Basically 17th Century French; archaic now.

And we schoolkids in the West had to take a mandatory 4 years of French in school. And what did they teach? Parisian French, which is almost unintelligible to a Quebecer, and makes Quebec "joual" unintelligible to a English speaker trained in it. They could have trained up teachers to train us in Quebec French, and we might not have this gulf we have today. Opportunity wasted; Liberals to blame.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 11:19 PM (yGuY2)

210
Good, he can be the modern day Teddy Roosevelt and hand what is left of the republic to whichever Wilson the left can conjure.
Yay for us
Posted by: Kindltot


The 2025 version of Ross Perot.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2025 11:20 PM (63Dwl)

211
Official Delurker,

Hubby worked for a telecommunications company. We've lived in many states out East.

Retired now, thank goodness, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at June 30, 2025 11:21 PM (3ek7K)

212 WI cheese FTW!

Posted by: Official Delurker at June 30, 2025 11:21 PM (WTK+H)

213 The new Starship rocket uses methane/LOX, but that's not really in production use yet. The current Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy burn RP-1 (basically, fancy kerosene). Still a petrochemical, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2025 11:04 PM (qpyNK)

Methane and salmon, must stink

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 30, 2025 11:21 PM (WF/xn)

214 Whoa!

Maybe it's the beers or edibles, but the ONT just moved.

Freaky!

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 30, 2025 11:21 PM (jvJvP)

215 Liberals to blame.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

les communistes m'on merde(z)

Posted by: new Orleans French as taught by a Frenchie at June 30, 2025 11:23 PM (UZTGl)

216 > They're in the western hemisphere. Europeans have no business holding territories here.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2025 11:16 PM (0eaVi)

Agreed. The Limeys, the Cheeseheads, and the Danes should also be sent packing.

I don't think the Krauts have any colonies left, but I could be wrong about that.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2025 11:23 PM (qpyNK)

217
Official Delurker,

One of our favorite places we visited several times is The House On A Rock.

That place is amazing.

Posted by: four seasons at June 30, 2025 11:24 PM (3ek7K)

218 Over went the Undernood!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 11:24 PM (yGuY2)

219 Musk is mad that the bill takes away green energy tax breaks but continues fossil fuel tax breaks.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2025 11:24 PM (VofaG)

220 20 It's probably a good idea to start hiding the ONT. It was beginning to attract the wrong kind of people.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 30, 2025 10:16 PM (hY4dx)

Ha! Found it anyway....

Laughs manaicely maniclly manikely....laughs crazy....🤪

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 30, 2025 11:24 PM (QGaXH)

221 > the Danes

Is there an ethnic slur for Danes, by the way? I can't think of one.


It's pretty sad when your country is so insignificant that no one can even be bothered to think up an ethnic slur.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2025 11:25 PM (qpyNK)

222 Laughs manaicely maniclly manikely....laughs crazy....🤪
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 30, 2025 11:24 PM (QGaXH)

ARIK, Scampydog has been trying to get in touch with you.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 11:25 PM (yGuY2)

223 WI cheese FTW!
Posted by: Official Delurker
------------
Agree. From the PNW days, I do like Tillamook. Bandon Cheese Factory closed some time ago - theirs was pretty good back in the day.

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2025 11:26 PM (41CYW)

224 It's pretty sad when your country is so insignificant that no one can even be bothered to think up an ethnic slur.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2025 11:25 PM (qpyNK)

Ham-canners?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 11:26 PM (yGuY2)

225 Best part of pride month was hardly seeing any of the usual suspects putting ghey shit all over their websites. And if they did it was only once or twice. I don't know if it's a cultural shift or just a hudna, but it was a nice reprieve.

Posted by: Stop trying to force me to care at June 30, 2025 11:27 PM (TbWk/)

226 I see that John Cusak has gone full retard .

He says Iran should obtain nuclear weapons to protect itself against Israel and the US.

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2025 11:27 PM (VofaG)

227 Ham-canners?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 11:26 PM (yGuY2)

Dane Gelded.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2025 11:27 PM (0eaVi)

228 WI cheese FTW!
Posted by: Official Delurker at June 30, 2025 11:21 PM (WTK+H)

Government cheese made me what I am today!

Posted by: Lizzo at June 30, 2025 11:27 PM (yGuY2)

229 190 > Don't know what in or stricken from the bill that really ticked him off.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2025 11:00 PM (Dng1D)

Mainly because, rather than actually cutting spending, it increases the debt $5 trillion-with-a-t.

Or so he says.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
---------------------------------

Yeah, he spend a fortune doing Doge, lost fortune missing work, put his heart into it to have Congress piss it away. Driven people get that way. When congress called H. Hughes before them it pissed him off. He gave them what for and even though he helped later on the respect was gone.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2025 11:28 PM (Dng1D)

230 Whoa!

Maybe it's the beers or edibles, but the ONT just moved.

Freaky!
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 30, 2025 11:21 PM (jvJvP)


It moved, Jerry

Posted by: Doof at June 30, 2025 11:28 PM (gpbGF)

231 ARIK, Scampydog has been trying to get in touch with you.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
----------
Thanks, AOP. ARiK and I were able to connect a bit in comments the other night. I've got protonmail headaches.

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2025 11:28 PM (41CYW)

232 You can always tell a Dane but you cannot tell them much.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 30, 2025 11:29 PM (/lPRQ)

233 I see that John Cusak has gone full retard .

He says Iran should obtain nuclear weapons to protect itself against Israel and the US.
Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2025 11:27 PM (VofaG)

Dude he's been full retard for decades.

Posted by: He's a long-standing left loon at June 30, 2025 11:29 PM (TbWk/)

234
I don't know if it's a cultural shift or just a hudna, but it was a nice reprieve.
Posted by: Stop trying to force me to care at June 30, 2025 11:27 PM (TbWk/)

________

Like waking up after a years-long bender and saying, "Ohhhhh, what was I thinking about?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 30, 2025 11:29 PM (/HVsR)

235 162 Are you ready, Steve? (Uh-huh)
Andy? (Yeah)
Mick? (Okay)
Alright fellas, let's go!

https://youtu.be/r8pYpii2Atg
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 30, 2025 11:01 PM (p4nXC)
------------------------

I know it's probably sacrilege, but having been a hair-helmeted young rocker in the 80s, I prefer this version:

https://tinyurl.com/krobrb630

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at June 30, 2025 11:29 PM (qUYGJ)

236 the Danes

Is there an ethnic slur for Danes, by the way? I can't think of one.


It's pretty sad when your country is so insignificant that no one can even be bothered to think up an ethnic slur.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2025 11:25 PM (qpyNK)

Watched a really good sun titled movie called The Promise Land about Denmark's heath region in the 18th century

Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2025 11:30 PM (VofaG)

237 Believe it or not, the only states I've been in east of the Mississippi have been WI and IL. We just don't travel anymore, and when we did (both hubby and me, and with my family of origin when I was growing up), we almost always drove west.

House on the Rock: Yes, love that place, four seasons! Also, the year bc (before children) that we went to Door County, WI, we ate the absolute best-tasting fish I ever had -- at one town's (don't remember which) Friday night fish boil. YUM!

Posted by: Official Delurker at June 30, 2025 11:32 PM (WTK+H)

238 Well, when I went to Iran, I was confused by their absolute infatuation with the some obscure television series called "Ugly Betty."

I'm not sure why, but they really hate America Ferrera. They kept shouting "Death To America." Personally, I never liked her much either, but the Iranians are clear on this point.

Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2025 11:32 PM (dIske)

239 AOP - Thank you

Have to duck out...

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at June 30, 2025 11:33 PM (QGaXH)

240 Did the Rolling Stones do a concert in Israel?

Yes, the Rolling Stones performed their first-ever concert in Israel in Tel Aviv in 2014. The band also visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem ahead of the show

Did Sting do a concert in Israel?

Yes, Sting performed a concert in Israel as part of his "Broken Music" tour. The concert took place in Tel-Aviv and Tzemach
Sting performed in Israel in 2062. This was his first concert in 12 years in the country

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2025 11:34 PM (Dng1D)

241
Official Delurker,

We don't travel anymore. We might drive a couple of hours up to the casino for a couple of nights but that's about it.

Posted by: four seasons at June 30, 2025 11:35 PM (3ek7K)

242 Over went the Undernood!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


The Undernoods would be a pretty good band name

Posted by: Anti-marketer at June 30, 2025 11:35 PM (UZTGl)

243 Yes, Sting performed a concert in Israel as part of his "Broken Music" tour. The concert took place in Tel-Aviv and Tzemach
Sting performed in Israel in 2062. This was his first concert in 12 years in the country
-
Sting gets access to ace's time machine, too?

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2025 11:37 PM (zLwRl)

244 >>> 97 In case you missed it, tcn and hubby will be joining us for MoMe X.
Posted by: Ben Had

Yay!
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2025 10:38 PM (pZEOD)

Double yay!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2025 11:37 PM (ULPxl)

245
tcn is so much fun here on the blog. I love how she says exactly what she thinks.

You all will have a great time with her.

Posted by: four seasons at June 30, 2025 11:39 PM (3ek7K)

246 Sting performed in Israel in 2062. This was his first concert in 12 years in the country
-
Sting gets access to ace's time machine, too?
Posted by: Methos
---------------------

A tribute to Copilot AI.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2025 11:40 PM (Dng1D)

247
One thing about Elon that annoys me is PDT did EXACTLY what Elon wanted about South Africa, and that was a big fucking deal, but since Elon isn't getting more, he's angry.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 30, 2025 11:42 PM (osV36)

248 You know what I wonder about that train bridge, how does that train get up there?

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2025 11:43 PM (0DdMG)

249 You know what I wonder about that train bridge, how does that train get up there?
Posted by: Tom Servo

The Tallahatchie Bridge?

Like I care

Posted by: Billy Joe at June 30, 2025 11:44 PM (UZTGl)

250 Too late to catch the comments, nothing worthwhile to contribute, so this is just waving as I drive by.🙋‍♂️🛻

It's like that some Mondays.

Howdy and g'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - it's just like this at June 30, 2025 11:44 PM (4yKs6)

251
Musk is mad that the bill takes away green energy tax breaks but continues fossil fuel tax breaks.
Posted by: polynikes


What are these fossil fuel tax breaks?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2025 11:44 PM (63Dwl)

252
246 Sting performed in Israel in 2062. This was his first concert in 12 years in the country
-
What impressed me is that Sting could still perform at 112.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2025 11:45 PM (0DdMG)

253 I'd go to Iran in a heartbeat, but my friends chickened out. Iraq was fine. Oman stole my heart. S'Audi Arabia, also fine. I'd have to plan it very carefully, but I'd go to certain parts of Afghanistan under the right circumstances. Probably still avoid Yemen at this time, too, but I'd like to see it eventually.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at June 30, 2025 11:03 PM (Vvh2V)

Damn, woman. I give you credit. The only way I would go to any of those places is in a frigging Deathstar.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 30, 2025 11:45 PM (snZF9)

254
Goodnight all!

Posted by: four seasons at June 30, 2025 11:45 PM (3ek7K)

255 >>> 58 Maybe he murdered them because one of them wouldn't date him.
Posted by: four seasons at June 30, 2025 10:21 PM (3ek7K)

Well, maybe there's some slight chance he will open up as to why he did that awful crime. I am quite OK with the death penalty where the conviction is a foregone conclusion, but it seems to me that this case was a difficult one, with no guarantee of a conviction. And there are a lot of motivated bleeding hearts out there that would try to get on the jury to hang it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 10:25 PM (yGuY2)

Didn't the Eff.Bee.EYE and/or local PD bulldoze the ENTIRE FCKING HOUSE?

I have no problem with the death penalty for such a horrible crime. I have a *huge* problem with flagrant evidence tampering or outright destruction, which is either being reported more often or happening more often overall. WTF is going on when the so-called authoritays can't do something basic like secure a crime scene?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2025 11:46 PM (ULPxl)

256 I'm not going to argue gourmet/"artisanal" cheeses, but IMO Tillamook cheddar is the best mass-produced cheese in the world. Better than anything from Wisconsin -- even better than "real" cheddar from the UK.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2025 11:46 PM (qpyNK)

257 Hey Horde! Doof, thanks for the Albert King, one of my faves.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at June 30, 2025 11:46 PM (0nHVk)

258 I'm sure that if you are a Euro-nik and let Iran and the FNM know you are coming that they will take extra special care of you...

Contrast that with a fairly westernized country like say Morocco where you are generally fine in the cities, but you will be murdered as a western woman out in the boonies.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2025 11:47 PM (t0Rmr)

259 This is a powerful documentary: "Silence Patton." (Our man VDH is in it.)

https://youtu.be/Q8xd-XQiUpY? si=WuW4cqt ND8OCnF4w

Posted by: Beverly at June 30, 2025 11:48 PM (Epeb0)

260 WTF is going on when the so-called authoritays can't do something basic like secure a crime scene?

Traditional notions of competence are rayciss. And our Modern FBI is trying very, very hard to not be rayciss.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2025 11:48 PM (t0Rmr)

261 What are these fossil fuel tax breaks?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2025 11:44 PM (63Dwl)

There’s been a long running (75 years) issue about a thing called depletion allowances which the left calls subsidies and which oil producers say no, it’s just a slight break on the taxes they pay to encourage production.
Seriously people have spent years arguing this one, I don’t want to go into it any more than that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2025 11:48 PM (Lhvai)

262 >>>and that was a big fucking deal, but since Elon isn't getting more, he's angry.
Posted by: Soothsayer
--------------------------------

If you'd spent a billion dollars auditing the govt then have congress piss it away you'd be pissed too.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2025 11:48 PM (Dng1D)

263 No final Senate vote on the BBB expected tonight.

Tomorrow, maybe.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2025 11:49 PM (qpyNK)

264 My local blue shitties leftards are mad about the BBB.

They claim it raises energy costs. And if you read the fine print it takes away green energy tax credits. Aka...graft.

But the area I live in is wealthy anyway. Based on what they tell me there shouldn't be "government hand outs for the wealthy" yet....that is exactly what they want...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2025 11:50 PM (t0Rmr)

265 How can a train ctoss that.? Does it come down for the trains?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:50 PM (Iv8wu)

266 > Contrast that with a fairly westernized country like say Morocco where you are generally fine in the cities, but you will be murdered as a western woman out in the boonies.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2025 11:47 PM (t0Rmr)

There was the female Italian "artist" whose "art project" involved hitch-hiking through the Middle East while dressed as a bride.

You guessed it: raped, murdered, and left in a ditch.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2025 11:51 PM (qpyNK)

267 Rodrigo Borgia -

I agree Tillamook cheddar is fine! Ah, now I’m hungry for some Tillamook cheddar!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 30, 2025 11:52 PM (3mKKp)

268 even better than "real" cheddar from the UK.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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No argument from me. Tillamook is yummy. I do like that Coastal Cheddar from Costco too. It has the Union Jack on the package and says something along the lines of English Cheddar.

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2025 11:52 PM (41CYW)

269 He says Iran should obtain nuclear weapons to protect itself against Israel and the US.

How about a compromise.

We'll put a neutron bomb in LA, right next to Grauman's theater, and give Iran the code to set it off any time they want. I mean that's fair right?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2025 11:52 PM (t0Rmr)

270 So as usual a dumb AWFL goes and travels the dirt region, and claims it's great and amazing, yet if you look at where she was and the timeframe, she didn't go anywhere near where you would expect to be bad (not to mention, of the awful middle eastern countries, Iran seems like it's on the less awful side, to travelers and the like, while most of their horrific actions are the government's actions against the people and USA/ Israel) So basically her trip consisted of the far north western party, which is traditionally where the minority religious folks are pushed, I.E. not Muslim fanatics. Her interactions were most likely more with people closer related to Turks and Armenians.

She should try the same trip to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia or Gaza, and then we can really hear about how it is to travel in these areas, probably from get mourning relatives.

Posted by: Rbastid at June 30, 2025 11:52 PM (unw/D)

271 There’s been a long running (75 years) issue about a thing called depletion allowances which the left calls subsidies and which oil producers say no, it’s just a slight break on the taxes they pay to encourage production.
Seriously people have spent years arguing this one, I don’t want to go into it any more than that.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2025 11:48 PM (Lhvai)

Manufacturers get to write down physical plant and machinery, too. It's a legit business expense, and the "depletion allowance" is no different. The oil business gets taxed heavily on both ends.

Posted by: Lizzo at June 30, 2025 11:53 PM (D59F4)

272 How can a train ctoss that.? Does it come down for the trains?
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:50 PM (Iv8wu)


No problem. The train bridge is on the way to Hogwart's.

Posted by: RickZ at June 30, 2025 11:54 PM (gKDq2)

273 Have an Uncle that spent some time in Iran during the Vietnam War

That’s pretty far off from Da Nang. He would fail the Land Nav course for sure.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 30, 2025 11:55 PM (lqKtE)

274 The Irani government mostly controls the country like a traditional autocracy, so as long as the government doesn't want you murdered you are pretty unlikely to be - no grunt level jihadi wants to be slow-hung from a crane for hours for raping the wrong woman.

And right now Iran wants to curry favor with the Eu-nicks.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2025 11:55 PM (t0Rmr)

275 Musk is mad that the bill takes away green energy tax breaks but continues fossil fuel tax breaks.
Posted by: polynikes

What are these fossil fuel tax breaks?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
===

Actually a very good question.

I am not aware of any tax breaks on buying an IGE vehicle.
Or piping you home with natural gas of relying on the power company vs. solar cells and power walls.
Gasoline tax at state and federal level to pay for roads vs. none for all electric cars.
Paying for oil license on public land which takes small footprint vs. subsidized wind and solar farms which hog land, not that either have jack to do with Musk...

No clue what Musk is bitching about.

Needs to get his ass to Mars with his harem ASAP.
BTW - heavily subsidized.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at June 30, 2025 11:56 PM (/lPRQ)

276 How can a train ctoss that.? Does it come down for the trains?
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:50 PM (Iv8wu)

Yep. They had swing spans, too, which pivoted on a vertical axis on a central pier.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 30, 2025 11:56 PM (D59F4)

277 He must have shot his azimuth wrong.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 11:57 PM (Iv8wu)

278 I had a school bus driver as a kid who claimed that he'd shaken the hand of the Shah of Iran. I gather he spent a lot of his WWII service in the region.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 30, 2025 11:57 PM (qpyNK)

279 The sidebar re the Idaho killer. The painful statement by the sister of one victim reminded me of why during law school I chose against criminal law despite planning a career in prosecution. During a year long internship w the public defender office of capital crimes in a large CA city I saw first hand how that area of US law is a disgustingly mismanaged and politicized system. Deputy DAs and PDs time and again run thru stacks of pending capital cases treating them like dollar garage sale items, settling, pleading out, tossing, just ridding their desks of files with absolutely no consideration of the living victims. I was haunted by the cases, the autopsy photos popping up in nightmares, knowing it all meant so little with both sides just trying to get back to their personal lives as quickly and easily as possible and where DAs actually tried, cases disappear into the ether on stupid appeals. Sorry for the downer rant, that Idaho case dug it up. Back to lurking.

Posted by: Enzo M at June 30, 2025 11:57 PM (9O5RL)

280 The leftoid white women who go to 3rd world shitholes are funny. It's like a really boring version of russian roulette combined with white saviour narcissism. I hope she inspires more awfl types to travel to Africa and the middle east.
Darwinism in action.

Posted by: Cmonman at June 30, 2025 11:57 PM (K6+B4)

281 There’s been a long running (75 years) issue about a thing called depletion allowances which the left calls subsidies

When Biden gave the Taliban $80B in weapons the FNM told me it was a lie. Why a lie? Well after a generous calculation based on deprecation it was only worth $24B.

Same idea as depletion allowances, except when Acme Oil Inc goes to sell old equipment they get less for it. When the Taliban sold our stuff to China and Russia they got MORE then the listed value.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2025 11:58 PM (t0Rmr)

282
We'll put a neutron bomb in LA, right next to Grauman's theater, and give Iran the code to set it off any time they want. I mean that's fair right?
Posted by: 18-1


They could blow up Sid!

https://t.ly/vkPbs

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 30, 2025 11:58 PM (63Dwl)

283 Four seasons,

My hubby is more of a staycation type of guy, even in retirement. We are rather homebodies. Neither of us has even been on a plane!

Well, it's pushing 11:00 here. Good night, horde!

Posted by: Official Delurker at June 30, 2025 11:58 PM (WTK+H)

284 The leftoid white women who go to 3rd world shitholes are funny. It's like a really boring version of russian roulette combined with white saviour narcissism

From what I've seen they believe having sex with a Magic Muslim will make them special and in fairness, that's a virtue signal most of their fellow pussy hat knitting circle can't top.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2025 11:59 PM (t0Rmr)

285 29
I thought CBD told Ace to stop fiddling with his experimental time machine. Looks like Ace does have more power here than CBD.

Posted by: Gref at June 30, 2025 10:17 PM (aBgBM)
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It's no longer experimental!!!

Posted by: Ciampino - No time for being picky? at July 01, 2025 12:00 AM (sPQoU)

286
The German tourista seems to have silly motives, but I still think it's possible she had good experiences if she was in cosmopolitan areas.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 12:00 AM (egH3D)

287 I have no problem with the death penalty for such a horrible crime. I have a *huge* problem with flagrant evidence tampering or outright destruction, which is either being reported more often or happening more often overall. WTF is going on when the so-called authoritays can't do something basic like secure a crime scene?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

These clowns pressure washing the sniper's perch after he shot Trump in the head.

Yeah that is totally normal.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2025 12:00 AM (/lPRQ)

288 I have no problem with the death penalty for such a horrible crime. I have a *huge* problem with flagrant evidence tampering or outright destruction, which is either being reported more often or happening more often overall. WTF is going on when the so-called authoritays can't do something basic like secure a crime scene?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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All too often cop's intuition tell them a thing and turn a blind eye to any contradictory evidence.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 12:01 AM (Dng1D)

289 Hispanic Lesbians Confined to a Wheelchair Who Live On the Odd Side of the Street Day

Posted by: February 26 at July 01, 2025 12:01 AM (CO7ih)

290 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 01, 2025 12:01 AM (bss/y)

291 Low rider wheel chairs with fuzzy dice.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 12:03 AM (Iv8wu)

292 There’s been a long running (75 years) issue about a thing called depletion allowances which the left calls subsidies and which oil producers say no, it’s just a slight break on the taxes they pay to encourage production.
Seriously people have spent years arguing this one, I don’t want to go into it any more than that.
Posted by: Tom Servo

So, depreciation.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2025 12:03 AM (/lPRQ)

293 That story about Beverly Hills TX is funny, I lived in Waco a bit. Beverly Hills is a small little hamlet on the south side, on Valley Mills Road I think.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 12:03 AM (0DdMG)

294 Hispanic Lesbians Confined to a Wheelchair Who Live On the Odd Side of the Street Day

So I don't know how to feel about this idea.

Are they hot and busty?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 12:04 AM (t0Rmr)

295 Musk is mad that the bill takes away green energy tax breaks but continues fossil fuel tax breaks.

The difference is:

Take away the fossil fuel tax breaks, and fossil fuel becomes more expensive.

Take away the green energy tax breaks, and the green energy industry collapses.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 01, 2025 12:04 AM (xTIDn)

296 "Have an Uncle that spent some time in Iran during the Vietnam War."

And he did one hell of a job keeping the VC from seizing Tehran.

Posted by: PabloD at July 01, 2025 12:04 AM (Dsfkc)

297 So, depreciation.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2025 12:03 AM (/lPRQ)

Yes. Pretty ignorant of Musk to call it a subsidy. I expect leftists not to understand it, but he’s smarter than that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 12:05 AM (0DdMG)

298 Shifty VC hiding in Iran.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 12:05 AM (Iv8wu)

299 So I don't know how to feel about this idea.

Are they hot and busty?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 01, 2025 12:04 AM (t0Rmr)

https://tinyurl.com/42v6bk89

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 01, 2025 12:05 AM (bss/y)

300 All too often cop's intuition tell them a thing and turn a blind eye to any contradictory evidence.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 12:01 AM (Dng1D)


Yep. Tunnel vision. They're 'gut' tells them the suspect is guilty. DNA testing 20 years later says that gut's not such a good truth detector.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 12:06 AM (gKDq2)

301 There was the female Italian "artist" whose "art project" involved hitch-hiking through the Middle East while dressed as a bride.

You guessed it: raped, murdered, and left in a ditch.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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They found her corpse right outside the arrival airport.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2025 12:06 AM (/lPRQ)

302 So, depreciation.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2025 12:03 AM (/lPRQ)


Math. Gets 'em every time.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 12:08 AM (gKDq2)

303 298 Shifty VC hiding in Iran.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 01, 2025 12:05 AM (Iv8wu)

I just created a fanfic in my head of Vic, after faking his death (as he has always had to do, lo these many centuries) going underground in Iran and acting out scenes from the old mens mags where he is fighting swarthy foreigners and trying to prevent them from getting the 'plans' to their bosses. And bedding beautiful gals along the way.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 01, 2025 12:08 AM (bss/y)

304 Yep. Tunnel vision. They're 'gut' tells them the suspect is guilty. DNA testing 20 years later says that gut's not such a good truth detector.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 12:06 AM (gKDq2)

The guys may have been guilty of something- just not what they were put away for.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 01, 2025 12:09 AM (bss/y)

305 they're = their

Sheesh.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 12:09 AM (gKDq2)

306 Just got home from the baseball game. Super fiun and the Mariners won!!!’ Had a couple beers. Sat in the shade. Fun, fun evening.

❤️ yall

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 12:10 AM (mT+6a)

307 About the Idaho killer: People will hate this; but DP’s are difficult to get and guarantee 20 years of appeals. So a Prosecutor will always take a plea of guilt and life in prison.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 12:10 AM (Lhvai)

308 Have an Uncle that spent some time in Iran during the Vietnam War

That’s pretty far off from Da Nang. He would fail the Land Nav course for sure.
Posted by: Common Tater
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He was a comm guy - transmission towers.
Got to work in 'Nam too.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2025 12:11 AM (/lPRQ)

309 The guys may have been guilty of something- just not what they were put away for.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 01, 2025 12:09 AM (bss/y)


Yeah, that's another good one I've heard. Sorry, no. Put a guy away for what he did, not for what he didn't do. That's just lazy ass shit.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 12:12 AM (gKDq2)

310 Sorry for the downer rant, that Idaho case dug it up. Back to lurking.
Posted by: Enzo M
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Not a downer at all. Real people, real lives.

Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 12:12 AM (41CYW)

311 295 Musk is mad that the bill takes away green energy tax breaks but continues fossil fuel tax breaks.

The difference is:

Take away the fossil fuel tax breaks, and fossil fuel becomes more expensive.

Take away the green energy tax breaks, and the green energy industry collapses.
Posted by: The ARC
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Musk has said many times that all of the breaks should be taken away.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 12:14 AM (Dng1D)

312 Yeah, that's another good one I've heard. Sorry, no. Put a guy away for what he did, not for what he didn't do. That's just lazy ass shit.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 12:12 AM (gKDq2)

Fair point. I was speaking more about the 'gut feeling.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 01, 2025 12:14 AM (bss/y)

313 Y’all shit on Seattle all the time.

I take a boat to work.
Walked to a MLB sports stadium.
Watched a fun game, had a couple beers and took a boat home.

Sun set just now. It’s a gorgeous evening on the beach.

Tell me why I need to leave.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 12:14 AM (SSC+G)

314 Shifty VC hiding in Iran.
Posted by: Boss Moss

That is where I'd be if I was VC in that day.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 01, 2025 12:15 AM (/lPRQ)

315 So a Prosecutor will always take a plea of guilt and life in prison.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 12:10 AM (Lhvai)


In my non-lawyer understanding, a plea deal cannot be appealed. Unless some hanky-panky can be proved, like compulsion. But I doubt that in this case. So that means he's gone for good and won't clog up any appellate court docket.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 12:15 AM (gKDq2)

316 About the Idaho killer: People will hate this; but DP’s are difficult to get and guarantee 20 years of appeals. So a Prosecutor will always take a plea of guilt and life in prison.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 12:10 AM (Lhvai)

Like I said earlier, a bunch of bleeding-heart lawyers are throwing their yacht catalogs in the trash can.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 12:16 AM (3Hwb5)

317
I'm not going to argue gourmet/"artisanal" cheeses, but IMO Tillamook cheddar is the best mass-produced cheese in the world. Better than anything from Wisconsin -- even better than "real" cheddar from the UK.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

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Try Cheshire cheese from Merrye Olde Englande, available from Zingerman's. You can make an insane Cheese and Onion Pie with that stuff. Cheshire was England's most popular cheese for hundreds of years until it was crushed by Cheddar because Cheddar's production was standardized and modernized. Cheshire is godly in flavor. Expensive thanks to its rarity now.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 12:16 AM (egH3D)

318 Past midnight now-July 1. Debbie Harry was born on this date in 1945, a War Baby. She is now 80 years old. Happy Birthday, Debbie, you done all right for an adopted kid.

Posted by: Pretty Baby at July 01, 2025 12:16 AM (OXFtY)

319 306 Just got home from the baseball game. Super fiun and the Mariners won!!!’ Had a couple beers. Sat in the shade. Fun, fun evening.

❤️ yall
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 12:1

Sweet! I am so happy you had a fun night!

It'll be interesting when they play the Blue Jays. It may not feel like a Toronto home game.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 12:17 AM (jvJvP)

320 > Try Cheshire cheese from Merrye Olde Englande, available from Zingerman's.

I'll give it a try, if I ever run across it.

Thanks for the rec!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 12:20 AM (qpyNK)

321 22 Who? Yngwie Fuc*king Malmsteen, That's who!

Got sent home from school wearing that shirt on September 11 (bad omen), 1985.

Posted by: Fatty McFattington at July 01, 2025 12:21 AM (NRMef)

322 It'll be interesting when they play the Blue Jays. It may not feel like a Toronto home game.
Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 01, 2025 12:17 AM (jvJvP)

Fuckin' Blue Jays! They style themselves as "Canada's team". Do they ever play a "home" game in any other city in Canada? Nearly every big city in Canada has a pro-league ball park. Play one game each season in Vancouver, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Montreal, and Halifax. Six games out of a season of several hundred.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 12:21 AM (3Hwb5)

323 Pain to get in it, but looks lovely. A mermaid dress is perfect for an hourglass figure, which she has. D&G did right by her.
Posted by: Piper at June 30, 2025 10:28 PM (pZEOD)

Could have used a couple more inches of ease. She left nothing to the imagination. Marriage is when you give your body to your husband, not the tabloids. Just sayin'.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 12:22 AM (1Gsou)

324 Past midnight now-July 1. Debbie Harry was born on this date in 1945, a War Baby. She is now 80 years old. Happy Birthday, Debbie, you done all right for an adopted kid.

Posted by: Pretty Baby at July 01, 2025 12:16 AM (OXFtY)


She was a war baby in the sense that Japan wasn't defeated yet. Europe was over.

"I was a post-war baby in a small Scots town
I was three years old when we moved down south
Hard times written in my mother's looks
With her widow's pension and her ration books. . . ."

~ Al Stewart, 'Post-World War II Blues'

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 12:24 AM (gKDq2)

325 That bridge is near where I live. It's used by trains that haul trash off Cape Cod. Also by a few trains that bring tourists in the summer. The Army Corps of Engineers operates it.

Posted by: Linnet at July 01, 2025 12:24 AM (O5Yy7)

326 Could have used a couple more inches of ease. She left nothing to the imagination. Marriage is when you give your body to your husband, not the tabloids. Just sayin'.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 12:22 AM (1Gsou)

I'm sure Bezos wanted her to show off the goods. "I'm tappin' that, bitches, and you're not."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 12:24 AM (3Hwb5)

327 Tell me why I need to leave.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 12:14 AM (SSC+G)

I always loved Seattle. When you are from Alaska, Seattle is like the portal to the world. Who doesn't love seeing Santa in a space ship at the top of the Space Needle? Or jellyfish at the aquarium? Or Ivar's Acres of Clams?

But, the politics suck. That is a recent thing. Nothing like that in the 1960's or 1970's. And now that they got rid of Alaska Way and you can actually see the piers.... much better.

Just watch out for the addicts crapping in the street and leaving their needles everywhere. The urban rot is real.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 12:25 AM (1Gsou)

328 I'm sure Bezos wanted her to show off the goods. "I'm tappin' that, bitches, and you're not."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 12:24 AM (3Hwb5)

Well then he is more of an ass than I thought. Go figure.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 12:27 AM (1Gsou)

329 National treasure Thomas Sowell turned 95 today.

I still want to live over on the alternate timeline where he was the first black President of the United States.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 01, 2025 12:27 AM (qpyNK)

330
That's a wrap for June. Avg. temp was 77.4F, dew point 69F. 3.54" of rain. Normal for June now is 3.9". I'm still ahead for the year, but this June was a little behind.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 12:28 AM (w6EFb)

331 Or jellyfish at the aquarium? Or Ivar's Acres of Clams?

Oh, they made Lauren Sanchez' dress!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 12:28 AM (3Hwb5)

332 306 Just got home from the baseball game. Super fiun and the Mariners won!!!’ Had a couple beers. Sat in the shade. Fun, fun evening.

❤️ yall
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 12:10 AM (mT+6a)

We're headed down to Milwaukee for a game in September. I do wish the Mariners were not blacked out in Alaska. Like, I'm going to commute to the ballpark? Not. I would follow them better but we can't watch them.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 12:29 AM (1Gsou)

333
The problem with the mermaid cut is that you literally cannot navigate stairs in it. There are some hilarious pics out there of A-list celebrity women being hefted upstairs by security because they can't so much as take a single step up or down. Think Hillary and that pic of her with a guy on each side shoulder her arms to get her up the steps.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 12:30 AM (egH3D)

334 313 Y’all shit on Seattle all the time.

In fairness, we're willing to shit on any location.

Don't take it personally.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 01, 2025 12:30 AM (SSEhk)

335 Well, 2230 here, and I am tired, but feeling well. Going to get an early one. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 01, 2025 12:30 AM (3Hwb5)

336 That's a wrap for June. Avg. temp was 77.4F, dew point 69F. 3.54" of rain. Normal for June now is 3.9". I'm still ahead for the year, but this June was a little behind.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Heh. We had 4" of rain one day this past week. A lot of mushrooms sprouting in yards. Have not run the sprinklers for a couple of weeks. Crops are crazy good here.

Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 12:31 AM (41CYW)

337 334 313 Y’all shit on Seattle all the time.

In fairness, we're willing to shit on any location.

Don't take it personally.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 01, 2025 12:30 AM (SSEhk)

To be fair, Seattle dregs shit on Seattle all the time. Pioneer Square might as well be a sewage plant.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 01, 2025 12:32 AM (1Gsou)

338 It can be lunch time on my 12 hour shift

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 12:34 AM (b9Qr0)

339 Tillamook white Cheddar (all Cheddar is white, they add coloring to make it orange, for some reason) should be illegal. It’s that good. It lasts about as Chocolate does around here, not long.

Most store brands of “Sharp” Cheddar taste like a mild Colby. I don’t know if there are any regs on aging, but that’s what makes it sharp. Once in a great while they will slip up and get the real deal. Gets slightly crumbly. For some reason ya hafta buy “extra sharp” cheddar to get a passable whang to to it, and it is only supplied in those twee faggoty 8 oz packages, no 2 pound blocks, no sir. The white Tillamook is consistently good, the orange stuff less so. Still excellent.

Posted by: February 26 at July 01, 2025 12:34 AM (dgu/T)

340 Hello, Horde! 😊♥️

Our niece, Amanda, could use some more prayers - she isn't out of the woods yet. She is having some pain issues, and they are probably going to have to reiterate her temporarily so that her body can heal better.

The good news is that she did wake up after surgery!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at July 01, 2025 12:35 AM (SRRAx)

341
Thanks for the rec!
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

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I repeat: Brace for the price.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 12:36 AM (egH3D)

342
The good news is that she did wake up after surgery!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas

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She got the new heart??

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 12:36 AM (egH3D)

343 Been T-storms all afternoon here, on way to work for 30 seconds couldn't see the road, only tail lights ahead of me.

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 12:37 AM (b9Qr0)

344 Been T-storms all afternoon here, on way to work for 30 seconds couldn't see the road, only tail lights ahead of me.
Posted by: Skip


Sounds like a Minnesota snowstorm.

As long as that guy stays out of the ditch, you're good.

Posted by: mikeski at July 01, 2025 12:38 AM (DgGvY)

345 307 About the Idaho killer: People will hate this; but DP’s are difficult to get and guarantee 20 years of appeals. So a Prosecutor will always take a plea of guilt and life in prison.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 12:10 AM


I know several very Lefty lawyers that do murder cases.

As Lefties, they all staunchly oppose the death penalty as just a form of shallow revenge and you might get the wrong guy.

Yet I see LOTS of cases where the (alleged) murderer pleads guilty if the death penalty is taken off of the table.

There is a huge value in that to me, so at least none of those f*ckers get to walk around free in society, at least any time soon, when there is always a chance of an acquittal.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at July 01, 2025 12:38 AM (HlyYF)

346 Our niece, Amanda, could use some more prayers - she isn't out of the woods yet.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas


She's got 'em.

Posted by: mikeski at July 01, 2025 12:39 AM (DgGvY)

347
For some reason ya hafta buy “extra sharp” cheddar to get a passable whang to to it, and it is only supplied in those twee faggoty 8 oz packages

I buy Cabot Seriously Sharp at Walmart. I like it but I still don't have a passable whang.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 01, 2025 12:39 AM (63Dwl)

348
Tillamook white Cheddar (all Cheddar is white, they add coloring to make it orange, for some reason) should be illegal. It’s that good.

Posted by: February 26

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I regret to inform you of this, but... you're wrong. That stuff tastes like cow-patties. NO, I haven't eaten them, but it tastes like they smell. I have a strong nose and stomach for cheese, but that stuff is cultivated to taste excessively "natural."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2025 12:39 AM (egH3D)

349
From the GSP area records, spanning from 1884 'til present (data was somewhat spotty until about 1900), most rainfall in a 24 hour period was 12.32" from the August 26 to 27th in 1995. Highest one hour rainfall was 3.7" on June 16, 1969.

Because of the calendar date (midnight to midnight) vs any 24 hour period, the highest daily rainfall was 9.32" on Aug 26, 1995.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 12:39 AM (w6EFb)

350 The Falcon 9 uses mostly kerosene and oxygen (LOX).
Starship uses methane.

Posted by: Ciampino - No time for sergeants at July 01, 2025 12:40 AM (sPQoU)

351 Weather - East Texas had an incredibly wet June, my plants think it’s the Garden of Eden.
Average June rainfall - 4.38 in.
This June rainfall - 9.6 in.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 12:41 AM (Lhvai)

352 Ok.

I walk through downtown Seattle five days a week. From the waterfront to the top of the hill.

Yes. It’s got problems.

I love my city. I love the PNW.

IM NOT LEAVING.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 12:41 AM (K2TH6)

353
GSP recalculated the 30 year normals last year to 1990 - 2020, as opposed to 1980 - 2010. so that switched around the wettest and driest normal months a good bit. They do that every 10 years or so. For some things 20 year normal ranges are used, but 30 year is the main one.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 12:44 AM (w6EFb)

354 My wife likes that Cabot Extra Sharp for the “whang”. Me I’m happy with Munster.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 01, 2025 12:45 AM (0DdMG)

355 $15 Billion!? FBI Says It's Uncovered 'Largest Health Care Fraud' In American History

Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

The FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) on June 30 said that almost $15 billion was reported in losses in the “largest health care fraud” investigation in U.S. history, with officials charging more than 300 people in connection with the alleged scheme.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 12:47 AM (Dng1D)

356 Holy crap! Yngwie Malmsteen on AOSHQ? How many 29 year young commentators are on the fence about this phenom?

Related; the three Kings, - Albert, B.B. and Freddie are often lauded for their blues mastery and genius, but let us not forget about Earl, the forth King.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 01, 2025 12:49 AM (ioEI6)

357 Ultra-Processed Foods Linked To Brain Changes That Drive Overeating
Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Ultra-processed foods (UPF) may be literally rewiring your brain to make you overeat,
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mmmm, Good Cracker.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 01, 2025 12:49 AM (Dng1D)

358
Normals are not just simple means over the 30 year period. Outliers are suppressed. They still count, but are downweighted based on variance somehow. My late cousin was big on pointing out that difference.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 12:50 AM (w6EFb)

359 Re: Iranian trip.

Well, the locals can act friendly and helpful as long as you don't act like Johnny Somali. Notice in the picture she is wearing a head scarf where Persia is the land of Aryans and she looks the part.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 12:51 AM (JmEcb)

360 Whang is Slang is a “strong flavor” Hope this helps.

My suspicion is they move more of the orange cheddar than they do the white. Other than the annatto coloring, there is no difference? Consequently a bit older, and thus more flavorful. You know, a strong whang to it. It’s OK if you don’t like Tillamook cheddar, just means more for me!

Posted by: February 26 at July 01, 2025 12:54 AM (vJgBB)

361 For some reason ya hafta buy “extra sharp” cheddar to get a passable whang to to it, and it is only supplied in those twee faggoty 8 oz packages

I buy Cabot Seriously Sharp at Walmart. I like it but I still don't have a passable whang.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.


Well, not compared to the Paolo.

Posted by: Paolo at July 01, 2025 12:56 AM (DgGvY)

362 IM NOT LEAVING.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 12:41 AM (K2TH6)

I don't want you to leave. I don't want you to get hurt, and there is no way I would visit.

I know what it is. It's a lefty infested garbage dump with some fun amenities. It's not for me.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2025 12:56 AM (i24o9)

363 I am going to sit home tomorrow, and continue to work on my Suburban transmission. Got another clutch apart, and it was burned up real good. Pump is OK, I think. Pretty much all disassembled except the valve body, and I will leave it for last, as it is about the last part to install. I should have all the parts I need.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Put in a valve kit... assuming TH350.... the slightly harder shifts are compensated by 15-20% mores miles before rebuilds.

Posted by: buddhaha at July 01, 2025 12:58 AM (I7Qfm)

364 Good Evening Skype Clones!

Dick Vitale@DickieV

Absolutely PURE JEALOUSY that ⁦@WNBA⁩ players voted Caitlin Clark the 9 th best guard . Some day they will realize what she Has done for ALL of the players in the WNBA . Charted planes - increase in salaries-sold out crowds - improved TV Ratings

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 01, 2025 12:58 AM (TGPs7)

365 I just created a fanfic in my head of Vic, after faking his death (as he has always had to do, lo these many centuries) going underground in Iran and acting out scenes from the old mens mags where he is fighting swarthy foreigners and trying to prevent them from getting the 'plans' to their bosses. And bedding beautiful gals along the way.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 01, 2025 12:08 AM (bss/y)

Long live Vic.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 01, 2025 01:02 AM (i24o9)

366
Well, that's interesting. Grok insists the NWS 30-yr normals are indeed basic averages, an no outlier down-weighting is used. For specific things like degree-days, such smoothing is used, but not for the basic normals.

Since my cousin is no longer around, I can't ask him to clarify. But he was big on pointing out normals weren't averages.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 01:03 AM (w6EFb)

367 Dick Vitale@DickieV

the WNBA . - improved TV Ratings

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 01, 2025 12:58 AM (TGPs7)


I guess anything above zero's an improvement.

From the random clips of the WNBA I've watched, it's farcical. And apparently with a lot of mean black lesbians upset at the white hetero stealing their chocolate thunder.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 01:05 AM (gKDq2)

368 Normals are not just simple means over the 30 year period. Outliers are suppressed. They still count, but are downweighted based on variance somehow. My late cousin was big on pointing out that difference.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Have a nephew that is a data scientist. He's now in law school. Fascinating discussions around these types of topics over rum and cokes with him. And he is ornery beyond his years - bonus.

Posted by: scampydog at July 01, 2025 01:06 AM (41CYW)

369 Sousa was a pretty accomplished guy. Not just the marches but also operettas. Author. Noted trap shooter.

And his greatest achievement? Writing the theme music for Monty Python's Flying Circus

Posted by: azjaeger at July 01, 2025 01:07 AM (3/XaG)

370 Posted by: polynikes at June 30, 2025 11:18 PM (VofaG
It wasn't a guided tour, per se in Iraq. There was a young woman I found by word of mouth, with a small business arranging travel in Iraq, who arranged our visas, hotels, a rough itinerary, etc. She met us at the airport, got us to our hotel, took us around Baghdad for the first day. She arranged for a driver for the rest of the trip, and gave us recommendations as far as sites, etc. and her phone number. She checked in regularly, multiple times a day, and of course our driver wouldn't have let us go anywhere unsafe, but it wasn't like a Rick Steven's type tour in a bus with a group of people. It was an absolutely unforgettable experience. And we didn't pay for a meal the entire time we were there. Even the tiniest little street vendors refused to take our money, and random, very kind strangers bought our meals in restaurants. I'd go back again in a heartbeat.
We had private guides in Oman. Armed, although I never felt unsafe at all. I had connections through a perfumer I know, and I think he was worried something might go wrong, although it wasn't at all scary. Oman felt like another world and time. Magical.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at July 01, 2025 01:13 AM (Vvh2V)

371 Still praying for Amanda, Teresa.

nurse, I am glad that you had a fun night, there are four of us girls on the street who go in to a Red Sox game every summer.

Caitlin Clark should have never acknowledged her white privilege.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 01, 2025 01:14 AM (0nHVk)

372 If this guy thinks a movie is great, I will not watch it.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson praises some Kiwi movie rip-off of I Am Legend for getting the science right.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 01:16 AM (JmEcb)

373 Caitlin Clark should have never acknowledged her white privilege.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 01, 2025 01:14 AM (0nHVk)


That really helped her in getting the respect of bashed all over the court by other players.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 01:18 AM (gKDq2)

374 Flounder,

I know for a fact if you contacted me and I set up a geoduck dig and a salmon fish and a hike in the rain forest , you’d be here in a moment.

I can do it.

And I promise not to put hummus on your sammich.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 01:18 AM (nauYR)

375 If this guy thinks a movie is great, I will not watch it.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson praises some Kiwi movie rip-off of I Am Legend for getting the science right.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 01:16 AM (JmEcb)


Neil the Ass Tyson knows science like my hemorrhoids know physics.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 01:20 AM (gKDq2)

376 The science of a movie idea based on a war virus that turns people into vampires? Yeah, "science"

Posted by: azjaeger at July 01, 2025 01:27 AM (3/XaG)

377 >> Neil the Ass Tyson knows science like my hemorrhoids know physics.

So, Neil deAss is basically Carl Sagan's hemorrhoid.

Sagan used to infuriate me with his politics, and then be beclowned himself with Kuwait oil fire nuclear winter shit.

But he's still like Johnny Carson compared to Neil's Jimmy Kimmel. Which is sort of the general trend of public figure devolution.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 01:27 AM (w6EFb)

378 >>>Neil the Ass Tyson knows science like my hemorrhoids know physics.

Posted by: RickZ

>When the celestial black hole becomes the red hole you should seek consultation from a qualified physicsian.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 01, 2025 01:29 AM (ioEI6)

379 @355. $15 Billion "Largest Healthcare Fraud in U.S. History" post by Braenyard

I went to the article and read where all this fraud occurred.
All across the U.S. it seems. Doctors, companies, etc. just shoving our money into their pockets. The government needs to prosecute every one of the crooks they can get their hands on. And hopefully get as much of that money back as possible. Who do these people think they are? Congress?

Posted by: Case at July 01, 2025 01:30 AM (kDs7V)

380 Speaking of truly bad science fiction, I present Andy Weir's Hugo winning drek Project Hail Mary.

The Earth is doomed to global cooling in 30 years because an alien organism is eating the Sun's electromagnetic radiation but needs carbon dioxide from Venus to reproduce. WTF? But wait this organism can also be used as rocket fuel. Double WTF? But Tau Ceti is not affected, so send a mission to find out why.

And this is going to be inflicted upon the movie audiences in 2026 starring Ryan Gosling.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 01:33 AM (JmEcb)

381 Flounder,

I know for a fact if you contacted me and I set up a geoduck dig and a salmon fish and a hike in the rain forest , you’d be here in a moment.

I can do it.

And I promise not to put hummus on your sammich.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 01:18 AM (nauYR)


Geoduck is awesome.

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 01, 2025 01:40 AM (WF/xn)

382 The Yngwie Malmsteen video reminded me of a Japanese goth metal band which has a violinist and they remade Yngwie's "Far Beyond the Sun". It's incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2hZDzJp9Pc

Posted by: Jim S. at July 01, 2025 01:52 AM (d4Ds1)

383 Our entire country is infested with Leftist scum, don't let that stop you from exploring every inch of it!

My only regret in life is not traveling much sooner. I saw most of our great nation as a kid, just visiting relatives, but as anvadult, I figured it would be too expensive to travel internationally. And it is. The Good Lord blessed us in our 50s, so I was able to start, but looking back, I wish I would've just found a way and not worried about the expense. However, with the internet, most people are probably just a best friend's second cousin's college roommate away from knowing someone who knows someone who's mother in law knows a lady with a daughter who'd be happy to put you up a few days in a country you'd like to visit. 😊

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at July 01, 2025 01:54 AM (Vvh2V)

384 The Yngwie Malmsteen video reminded me of a Japanese goth metal band which has a violinist and they remade Yngwie's "Far Beyond the Sun". It's incredible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2hZDzJp9Pc
Posted by: Jim S.


Unlucky Morpheus is awesome, and Jill is extra-awesome.

Posted by: mikeski at July 01, 2025 02:02 AM (DgGvY)

385
And this is going to be inflicted upon the movie audiences in 2026 starring Ryan Gosling.
Posted by: Anna Puma

==========

I just watched the trailer. Bought to you from the best selling author of The Martian. Never mind the science, it's all about how cleverly the author wrote the dialog.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at July 01, 2025 02:03 AM (lCaJd)

386 Howdy, horde.

Thanks for tonight's ONT, Doof!

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 02:09 AM (rdVOm)

387 Well.

Guess I missed ALL of the convo tonight.

*shrugs*

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 02:20 AM (rdVOm)

388 "79 The homos and trannys pushed it too far- normal Americans are disgusted with them"

It isn't just the freaks, although we are likely going to see a few decades of these people flaming out via domestic terror; look at this from an item earlier in the day:

"Close Harris allies acknowledge the sting of Harris' failed White House bid has not fully dissipated among the donor class..."

These people think shit will go back to normal after all the shit they've pulled. They are delusional. It may not go down as anyone expects with tech singularity, demographic collapse, future muslim Europe, and fiscal reckoning all jousting vs each other - but whatever enfuckening is coming is a done deal at least as far as it starting. They are as disconnected from the downstream future as a random sampling of upper crust normies in 1910 or so, and in a few decades their fiefs and households will be dust, mostly.

Posted by: heya at July 01, 2025 02:22 AM (4h4JY)

389 Some of the visiting kids wanted to watch something on YooToob teevee... I'm not a subscriber, but figured I'd check it out.

HOLY SHAT! $82.99 per freaking month?!!!!

No. No f'ing way!

Sorry, kids.

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 02:24 AM (rdVOm)

390
[passes JQ a glass of Jack Daniel's]

Jack is a good friend of mine.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 02:30 AM (XeU6L)

391 "IM NOT LEAVING.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 01, 2025 12:41 AM (K2TH6)"

It sucks what was lost, but when some place becomes unsafe for kids on account of the local rulers, the exodus kicks into overdrive and you get a bit of a feedback loop going.

Posted by: heya at July 01, 2025 02:32 AM (4h4JY)

392 Thank you very much, Mike Hammer!

Wow, especially refreshing after seeing that subscription price... Had to read and re-read it a couple times, thought maybe my glasses needed cleaning.

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 02:32 AM (rdVOm)

393 Wow, especially refreshing after seeing that subscription price... Had to read and re-read it a couple times, thought maybe my glasses needed cleaning.
Posted by: JQ
------

I have a couple of jars of the east Tennesee clear stuff, but you might end up signing on to the subscription. It has a way of muddling the thought process.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 02:37 AM (XeU6L)

394 *feels the warmth of that shot of JD kicking in*

Ahhhhhh. That's better...

Thanks again, Mike Hammer.

How's it going in your part of the country?

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 02:38 AM (rdVOm)

395
I just stumbled onto a fellow named Randall Carlson a few weeks ago. First heard on a Joe Rogan episode, and I've got fascinated. He's big on the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (which ties into Atlantis and all that).

Highly recommend him if you're interested in this.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 02:41 AM (w6EFb)

396 Idaho shooter - guess what?

https://tinyurl.com/idahofurry

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 01, 2025 02:46 AM (t11Bq)

397 Haha, don't believe I could handle a pull of 'shine... I'm a lightweight.

(And really, $83/month for yootoob? Fk that!)

There's certain situations, and certain people that my late BF had a saying about:

"Ain't enough whiskey!"

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 02:49 AM (rdVOm)

398 Good night, JQ and Mike, I am headed off to sleep.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 01, 2025 02:53 AM (0nHVk)

399 Hi/'bye, Debby!

Sweet dreams.....

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 02:54 AM (rdVOm)

400 How's it going in your part of the country?
Posted by: JQ
--------

Hot...followed by hot and humid. We've had some pretty good thunderstorms roll through. People hereabouts get nervous during heavy rains. Had a hail storm about three weeks ago. Insurance has settled on a roof replacement. I haven't even had The Storm damage to the porch fixed yet. All tiresome.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 02:55 AM (XeU6L)

401 Goodnight Debbie. 3:00 a.m. here, so I'm done too.

G'night all.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 02:57 AM (XeU6L)

402 I just stumbled onto a fellow named Randall Carlson a few weeks ago. First heard on a Joe Rogan episode, and I've got fascinated. He's big on the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis (which ties into Atlantis and all that).

Highly recommend him if you're interested in this.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 02:41 AM (w6EFb)


I like listening to both him and Graham Hancock.

It's fascinating how much 'science' today is nothing but a guild. And archaeology certainly fits the guild mold.

Those two destroy the archaeology guild's story with which we have all been indoctrinated and are hated for doing so.

After all, gotta believe those eggspurts, not those rank amateurs like Carlson and Hancock.

Listening to both, I do believe our civilization is older than we've been led to believe. I also believe some event, man-made/natural/from space took out that world, leaving behind some amazing megaliths, megaliths which have been built upon over generations.

I'm not sure why the archaeology guild is so invested in their story. Not monetarily, I get that, but scientifically.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 02:59 AM (gKDq2)

403
Here's the Joe Rogan episode where I first saw Randall Carlson. It's damned interesting:

https://tinyurl.com/29ezmrvm

He lays out the case why he thinks the Azores Plateau is the location of the fabled Atlantis. And yep, he thinks it went down pretty quickly at the end of the last ice age, and a cataclysm brought on by the Younger Dryas "event"/impact.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 02:59 AM (w6EFb)

404 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 01, 2025 02:55 AM

Damn.

I'll try not to complain about 100F temps here. "It's a dry heat!" And the whole region is a tinderbox. Just waiting for some idiot to burn it all down.

Rain? You mean, like, water? From the sky? Get outta town!

Posted by: JQ at July 01, 2025 02:59 AM (rdVOm)

405 He lays out the case why he thinks the Azores Plateau is the location of the fabled Atlantis. And yep, he thinks it went down pretty quickly at the end of the last ice age, and a cataclysm brought on by the Younger Dryas "event"/impact.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 02:59 AM (w6EFb)


When you look at Gobleki Tepe and other Turkish tepes, there is just no way humans from that long ago could possibly make the structures they made at those sites with the tools then known to be at hand. yet here they are. Deliberately buried. Why? When? The Guild has nothing to say.

Hancock also thinks that maybe some of these megalith walls with the precise joints were put together through technology lost. He thinks it might have been harmonics, chanting. Seems peoples have been chanting for forever so maybe. That somehow sound temporarily liquified the stone/rock making it malleable. As good a theory as any. Anyone studying ancient history knows a lot of human knowledge went up in flames with the Library at Alexandria. For example, no one up to today has been able to emulate greek fire. Close, but not quite. The formula was lost.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 03:09 AM (gKDq2)

406 Another is the antikythera device found in the Mediterranean. A celestial map in a box, complete with metal gears. From around the Second/First Century, B.C. Way ahead of its time, a mystery wrapped inside an historical anachronism.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 03:13 AM (gKDq2)

407 380 Speaking of truly bad science fiction, I present Andy Weir's Hugo winning drek Project Hail Mary.

The Earth is doomed to global cooling in 30 years because an alien organism is eating the Sun's electromagnetic radiation but needs carbon dioxide from Venus to reproduce. WTF? But wait this organism can also be used as rocket fuel. Double WTF? But Tau Ceti is not affected, so send a mission to find out why.

And this is going to be inflicted upon the movie audiences in 2026 starring Ryan Gosling.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 01, 2025 01:33 AM (JmEcb)

I enjoyed The Martian, but I have not read this one. The movie trailer makes it look like an unholy marriage of sci-fi and chick flick. No thanks.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 01, 2025 03:15 AM (z5QST)

408 Carlson is quite knowledgeable in astronomy and geology. But, as you say, he's not in the guild.

A point he makes that really makes sense to me is the ancients absolute obsession with the sky and celestial movements. He thinks that comes from the dim memory of "destruction from the sky", obsessively observing things to see if it's gonna come again.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 03:17 AM (w6EFb)

409 >> She Went On a Vacation to Iran: ‘It was Nothing Like I Expected’

You know how she's leaning against the tiles in that mosque? That's a no-no.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 03:20 AM (CQE5S)

410 The World of Antiquity channel on YouTube robustly rebuts Graham Hancock's claims about Gobleki Tepe.

https://youtu.be/T9aH1kQX6d4

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 03:21 AM (NXz8h)

411 A point he makes that really makes sense to me is the ancients absolute obsession with the sky and celestial movements. He thinks that comes from the dim memory of "destruction from the sky", obsessively observing things to see if it's gonna come again.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at July 01, 2025 03:17 AM (w6EFb)


There was power in the knowledge of future events, like solar and lunar eclipses, becoming god-like by controlling natural forces/events and all that.

Ancient Egypt, too, was obsessed with the sky. How Giza aligns with certain stars and how the Sphninx aligns with the sun. And they were not constructed at the same time. The Sphinx is much older, by thousands of years, although The Egyptology Guild denies this.

Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 2025 03:24 AM (gKDq2)

412 The World of Antiquity channel on YouTube robustly rebuts Randell Carlson's claims.

https://youtu.be/VltvNUA9Mb0

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 03:24 AM (NXz8h)

413 Finally home
11 1/2 work, 2 1/2 driving

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 03:47 AM (+qU29)

414 413: Where do they have you working?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 03:50 AM (sAmhv)

415 Delaware

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 03:51 AM (+qU29)

416 Skip, you must be 2nd hardest working man in the country. I would give you first but I'm not ready to take a chance on getting on the wrong side of US Trump.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 03:52 AM (NXz8h)

417 If you like Hancock, Netflix has 2 seasons of a show he did called Ancient Apocalypse that lays out his thinking. I'm pretty sure Carlson makes an appearance (that's my recollection anyway).

I really enjoy this kind of thing. But I categorize it in the same genre as In Search Of (a childhood favorite of mine) and Missing 411 (a more recent guilty pleasure).

Where troublemakers like Hancock excel is at poking holes in the consensus timeline. I think he's valuable there.

I think his own substitute timeline is too speculative and fanciful. But it's fun.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 01, 2025 03:58 AM (z5QST)

418 Skip,

I was trying to think what is 2 1/2 hours from SE PA. Quite a bit actually. NJ, DE, MD, unless you work west or north, you're in another state.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2025 04:01 AM (sAmhv)

419 You know how she's leaning against the tiles in that mosque?

Yeah, the “hey goatf*cker, new in town” pose was interesting. No burka, no peace!

Posted by: Unkaren at July 01, 2025 04:01 AM (LPL2Y)

420 405 When you look at Gobleki Tepe and other Turkish tepes, there is just no way humans from that long ago could possibly make the structures they made at those sites with the tools then known to be at hand. yet here they are. Deliberately buried. Why? When? The Guild has nothing to say.
Posted by: RickZ at July 01, 202

Google is your friend.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 04:03 AM (CQE5S)

421
379 @355. $15 Billion "Largest Healthcare Fraud in U.S. History" post by Braenyard


Please tell me that resident loudmouth racist from "The Spew" Sonny Hostin's spouse is part of this scam, too.

Throw lotsa lawsuits / arrests into her gaping maw.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 01, 2025 04:03 AM (xG4kz)

422 It takes me a hour and half to get there with afternoon traffic, get home in 1 hour, mostly only hitting red lights occasionally with no one else at intersection

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 04:04 AM (+qU29)

423
I was trying to think what is 2 1/2 hours from SE PA.


I think Skip is talking time spent on the round trip, so he's facing a 1-1/4 hours travel time radius.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 01, 2025 04:07 AM (xG4kz)

424
Sorry 'bout the early AM math, folks

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 01, 2025 04:08 AM (xG4kz)

425 Sorry 'bout the early AM math, folks
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Ln(x) is a great ice breaker.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 04:10 AM (NXz8h)

426 And was working today 11 1/2 hours.

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 04:11 AM (+qU29)

427 424 Sorry 'bout the early AM math, folks
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 01, 2025 04:08 AM (xG4kz)

I'm literally shaking.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 04:11 AM (CQE5S)

428
About fifteen years ago or thereabouts, there were times when I'd return from our place in Sussex County in the wee hours of the night. It was a two hour drive, and mostly on the major N-S artery, Delaware Route 1.

Strangely enough, there would be convoys of 18-wheelers out at that time, headed north, too. Many were labelled as carrying chicken to market from the poultry processors down there. It struck me as odd to witness the chicken haulers travelling in packs.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 01, 2025 04:17 AM (xG4kz)

429 Really wondering if Pixy like Vegimite but can't stay up any longer.
Have a great morning everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 04:17 AM (+qU29)

430 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 67 degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. Thunderstorms on the way, as well as the city fireworks, so my poor pups are going to be hiding under the bathtub all day and night. Temperatures today are supposed to be up near 90, so obviously the A/C in the bedroom is going to be pumping away once I clock out.

A couple of hours' work on the board right now. I have no idea what this week is going to be like - are people away for vacation and will visit their doctors next week, or are they deciding to get all their visits over with this week? I really am hoping for a couple of easy days, but am prepared for the worst.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2025 04:18 AM (Dg2sF)

431
Who is already missing Pride Month?

Quick show of hands (I will not take offence if said hands are sporting the raised middle finger)!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 01, 2025 04:24 AM (xG4kz)

432 I was shocked to hear today that Chris the Zman, of TheZman.com blog, died unexpectedly last Thursday at the age of 59. He had produced a column every Monday through Thursday, with an hour-long podcast on Friday, for years.

That was a really interesting blog. A lot of his commenters were pretty Stormfront-adjacent, though.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2025 04:24 AM (Dg2sF)

433 Quick show of hands (I will not take offence if said hands are sporting the raised middle finger)!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

In a perverse plot twist, Las Cruces holds its Pride Week in October. Apparently the peak summer heat ruins the drag queens makeup.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 01, 2025 04:30 AM (NXz8h)

434 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 04:30 AM (CQE5S)

435 Skip!

4 Yes.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 01, 2025 04:31 AM (BLOW1)

2 from the ONT:
429 Really wondering if Pixy like Vegimite but can't stay up any longer.
Have a great morning everyone
Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2025 04:17 AM (+qU29)
Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 04:30 AM (CQE5S)

Posted by: m at July 01, 2025 04:34 AM (CQE5S)

436
When did the maple leaf become the flag? If I were to guess (and no didn’t google it)…. 1967 for the 100th anniversary?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 10:43 PM (nwGCR)

Earlier, I think. 1960-'62 or thereabouts.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


That happened in 1965.

I remember (in one of my past lives), the Dominion of Canada flag being the official flag for Canada, as well as singing "The Maple Leaf Forever" in music class (chorus) in the mid-1960s (now there's a song whose original lyrics would have all of Toronto ablaze by dawn if it were broadcast to the populace).

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at July 01, 2025 04:38 AM (xG4kz)

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Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
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