Monday Overnight Open Thread - August 25, 2025 [Doof]

Howdy Hordelings! The time for the Monday night ONT has arrived. Open thread, as always. Lurkers encouraged to de-lurk, as always. Content here to be ignored, as always. Come on in!

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Don't Hate The Player, Hate The Game

Despite the use of "right wing extremist" (is there EVER a mention of a "left wing extremist??) and "queerphobic", this is kind of funny.

Male-Born German Extremist Officially Changes Gender to Serve Time in Women’s Prison

Taking advantage of Germany’s “gender self-determination” reforms, a male right-wing extremist officially changed his gender to female and will serve time in a women’s prison.
In July of 2023, Marla-Svenja Liebich was sentenced by the Halle District Court in Germany’s Saxon-Anhalt state to a year and six months without parole for incitement to hatred, defamation, and insult. Interestingly, at that time, she was known as Sven Liebich and identified as a man. He appealed the original sentence and lost, but that was only the beginning of a very bizarre situation. At the end of 2024, Liebich, allegedly a member of a far-right extremist group called Blood and Honour, took advantage of Germany’s new Self-Determination Act to legally change his name to Marla-Svenja Liebich and his gender to female.
“Whether the change is serious is doubtful. Liebich has been known for years for her right-wing extremist views and has also made queerphobic statements in the past,” German newspaper Der Spiegel wrote, alleging that he had “made the change of civil status in an abusive manner in order to provoke and embarrass the state”.

Europe is stupid. I said what I said.

Want another example? OK! Angry Patron Sets Fire to Café Because They Had Run Out of Mayonnaise

An angry café patron in Los Palacios y Villafranca, Spain, was recently arrested for allegedly setting fire to the eatery because the staff told him they had run out of mayonnaise.

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Government In The US Can Be Stupid Too

Eminent domain is asshoe

Eminent domain taking pushes to uproot Cape Cod couple from brand new home

Marc and Joan Hendel spent decades of savings and two years waiting for their Cape Cod home to be built.
In February, they moved into the brand new Bourne house. After years far away in Iowa, they settled into the upper Cape, close to their New England roots, their families and the beach. A “perfect, ideal place.”
Just a month later, a letter arrived taking that home away.
“On March, 3, we were delivered an eminent domain letter by MassDOT, hand delivered at our door,” said Joan Hendel. “We were shocked. We were stunned. We had no idea that this was even in the plan, or in the works, or our home could be taken after just building it.”
The Hendels are one of 13 property owners whose homes are being taken under eminent domain proceedings for the Sagamore Bridge replacement project.
The Sagamore and Bourne bridges, which are both 90-year-old federally-owned structures stretching across Cape Cod Canal, are each slated for long-planned replacements through a partnership between the Army Corps of Engineers and the state.

Check out the whole thing.

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Good News Story? Or Just A Guy Being An Idiot?

Hiker rescued after being trapped for 2 days behind Sequoia National Forest waterfall

Dramatic video shows the moment a hiker trapped behind a California waterfall for two days was rescued.
The 46-year-old man from Long Beach was hiking with friends who decided to turn back, but he did not.
Search and rescue teams in Central California are calling it a stunning survival story.
The Tulare County Sheriff's Office says 46-year-old Ryan Wardell went hiking last weekend in the Sequoia National Forest with plans to rappel to the waterfalls at Seven Teacups.
Officials say Wardwell was last seen at the top of the falls, but never made it back to his car that night.
Wardwell got trapped after coming off his rappel lines and got caught in the river's hydraulics.
Days later, on Tuesday morning, a drone used by the Tulare County Sheriff's Office search teams spotted Wardwell behind one of the waterfalls.

News clip at the link. I'm torn on this. Nice that he got rescued, but he's kinda stupid for staying behind after his friends left. What say you, Hordelings?

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No Falsehoods Found

🤣🤣🤣 The perfect description of the typical young liberal woman. pic.twitter.com/M1LEbFI9Mj
— Johnny B. Good (@Cat5SMASHICANE) August 20, 2025

History of the democrat party pic.twitter.com/9PmxwmfX66
— Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) August 17, 2025

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Brew Crew!

This could have been featured last night in the Retro Corner. Oh well - let's enjoy it tonight!

This may be the best advertisement for the greatness of 1980s American life that I’ve ever seen …

pic.twitter.com/Jx01GZioa3
— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) August 16, 2025

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DJ Doof - This Date in Music History Edition
from thisdayinmusic.com

On this date in 2024: Amy Winehouse's Radio 1 Live Lounge performance was voted the best from the past 25 years with her 2007 cover of The Zutons' 'Valerie' topping the list.

Born on this date in 1954: Elvis Costello, (Declan McManus), English singer, songwriter.

Born on this date in 1951: English singer and songwriter Rob Halford who is best known as the lead vocalist for the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Judas Priest.

My first rock concert was Judas Priest on the Defenders of the Faith Tour in April 1984 at the then-called Baltimore Civic Center. My dad took me and a friend because we weren't old enough to drive.
*raises a frosty cold beer to the memory of Doof-dad*

Bonus Priest Exciter (from the album Stained Class)

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Weekly commenter stats for week of 8-24-2025

Top 10 commenters:
1 [584 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer' [82.94 posts/day]
2 [375 comments] 'I used to have a different nic'
3 [373 comments] 'Bulg'
4 [355 comments] 'Hadrian the Seventh '
5 [351 comments] 'polynikes'
6 [333 comments] 'Axeman'
7 [295 comments] 'Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon'
8 [291 comments] 'Rockin' Mel Slurp'
9 [268 comments] 'Duncanthrax'
10 [265 comments] 'Aetius451AD work phone'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [286 names] 'Rockin' Mel Slurp' [40.62 unique names/day]
2 [93 names] 'Count de Monet'
3 [92 names] 'Duncanthrax'
4 [91 names] 'Quarter Twenty '
5 [79 names] 'It's hard to even tell '
6 [50 names] 'Miklos'
7 [35 names] 'I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper'
8 [28 names] 'Chuck Martel'
9 [27 names] 'The Grateful '
10 [26 names] 'The Grateful '

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1 Goodbye Lisa Cook, we hardly knew ye.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 25, 2025 09:59 PM (JkO4W)

2 Rd

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 25, 2025 09:59 PM (KkdUn)

3 Congrats Cicero. I'll fetch the slow ones...

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at August 25, 2025 10:00 PM (KkdUn)

4 Check in:

Made: (X)

Not made: ( )

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2025 10:00 PM (0eaVi)

5 An angry café patron in Los Palacios y Villafranca, Spain, was recently arrested for allegedly setting fire to the eatery because the staff told him they had run out of mayonnaise.

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F*cking Todd.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 25, 2025 10:00 PM (JkO4W)

6 That's my kind of beach !

Posted by: runner at August 25, 2025 10:01 PM (g47mK)

7 For no reason at all Jon Hamm and Adam Scott recreated the SIMON & SIMON intro and it's glorious

https://x.com/Todd_Spence/
status/1960107414944092598

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 25, 2025 10:01 PM (DIweC)

8 The ONT has come for thee.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at August 25, 2025 10:01 PM (lUFok)

9 >>> Want another example? OK! Angry Patron Sets Fire to Café Because They Had Run Out of Mayonnaise

Has got to be a honkey, if not they should put it in the headline.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 25, 2025 10:02 PM (/lPRQ)

10 “Whether the change is serious is doubtful. Liebich has been known for years for her right-wing extremist views and has also made queerphobic statements in the past,” German newspaper Der Spiegel wrote, alleging that he had “made the change of civil status in an abusive manner in order to provoke and embarrass the state”.

It doesn't matter. F you to the new totalitarians. You deserve to have people mock you. Do what she says.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2025 10:02 PM (0eaVi)

11 Good evening Horde. Thanks Doof! Excellent ONT.

Posted by: TRex - overturn Kelo at August 25, 2025 10:03 PM (IQ6Gq)

12 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 25, 2025 10:03 PM (sAmhv)

13 “Whether the change is serious is doubtful. Liebich has been known for years for her right-wing extremist views and has also made queerphobic statements in the past,” German newspaper Der Spiegel wrote, alleging that he had “made the change of civil status in an abusive manner in order to provoke and embarrass the state”.

They know it's a stunt. They openly acknowledge it's a stunt. They're angry about it being a stunt, especially since it mocks their idols: queers and the government.

And yet they still don't dare to call him a he.

Europe is stupid, indeed.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 25, 2025 10:03 PM (lHPJf)

14 “Whether the change is serious is doubtful. Liebich has been known for years for her right-wing extremist views and has also made queerphobic statements in the past,” German newspaper Der Spiegel wrote, alleging that he had “made the change of civil status in an abusive manner in order to provoke and embarrass the state”.
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All of which may be true... and he's still exactly as much of a woman as every other self-proclaimed trans-woman.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 25, 2025 10:04 PM (DIweC)

15 It doesn't matter. F you to the new totalitarians. You deserve to have people mock you. Do what she says.

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I've got to respect someone who's throwing the idiocy of the system right back in their pinched little faces and profiting by it.

Moron-worthy, you could say.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 25, 2025 10:05 PM (JkO4W)

16 Good evening Horde. Thanks Doof! Excellent ONT.
Posted by: TRex - overturn Kelo at August 25, 2025 10:03 PM (IQ6Gq)

*reaches REALLLLLY far so the Dino can fist-bump*

Posted by: Doof at August 25, 2025 10:06 PM (QMAsf)

17 My first.rock concert was Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. The Washougal River Rock Festival and Lighter Than Air Fair. 19mumbly...mumbly...

Posted by: Diogenes at August 25, 2025 10:07 PM (2WIwB)

18 “Whether the change is serious is doubtful. Liebich has been known for years for her right-wing extremist views and has also made queerphobic statements in the past,” German newspaper Der Spiegel wrote, alleging that he had “made the change of civil status in an abusive manner in order to provoke and embarrass the state”.

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You mean, the same reason all of these "women" are doing it.

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 25, 2025 10:08 PM (EH1Gq)

19 Did you know that the lynching of black people prevented them from getting patents?

Lisa Cook said so.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 25, 2025 10:08 PM (JkO4W)

20 Dr. T, exactly my reaction. I was choking at the sight - they KNOW it's faked, but they can't even stop themselves from following the trans rules.

Posted by: RandomDave at August 25, 2025 10:10 PM (aJQbY)

21 An angry café patron in Los Palacios y Villafranca, Spain, was recently arrested for allegedly setting fire to the eatery because the staff told him they had run out of mayonnaise.

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I'd be pissed too!

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 25, 2025 10:10 PM (EH1Gq)

22 “made the change of civil status in an abusive manner in order to provoke and embarrass the state”.

Stop mocking me! I can't stand it!

Posted by: ze deveel at August 25, 2025 10:10 PM (DgGvY)

23 News clip at the link. I'm torn on this. Nice that he got rescued, but he's kinda stupid for staying behind after his friends left. What say you, Hordelings?

I feel cheated.
- Darwin

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 25, 2025 10:11 PM (QVmho)

24 Thanks for the Monday Night ONT, Doof!

Another great photo up top. Nothing better than finding a secluded and empty beach!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 25, 2025 10:11 PM (kB9dk)

25 “…. change of civil status in an abusive manner in order to provoke and embarrass the state”.

I thought you guys were doing a pretty good job of that already.

But - you can’t question someone’s motivations! Maybe he really had a change of heart. Or at least he changed into a dress. That ought to count for something.

In a way, this is a good tactic. Everybody start wearing a dress, outrageous clothes on the same day, and start demanding outrageous shit. Whip me, beat me, call me Edna. Sort of like Sadie Hawkins day or whatever.

It would piss off all the right people.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 25, 2025 10:11 PM (lqKtE)

26 Good evening morons y gracias Disco

An angry café patron in Los Palacios y Villafranca, Spain, was recently arrested for allegedly setting fire to the eatery because the staff told him they had run out of mayonnaise.
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I was at the In n Out on Sepulveda Blvd trying to make a flight out of LAX. After I got my burger, they told me they had no ketchup.

So I think this is understandable.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 25, 2025 10:11 PM (RIvkX)

27 The Cape Cod couple need to lawyer up. Seems to me the realtor or title company, or the bank, even, did not do any due diligence to see if there was any risk of an eminent domain taking. Seeing as the bridge replacements were "long-planned", there should have been some red flags on a number of lots.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2025 10:12 PM (l9cXI)

28 >>> Nice that he got rescued, but he's kinda stupid for staying behind after his friends left. What say you, Hordelings?

They should have just wrote him off.
I don't know how much a drone cost to opera even if just $5 it would have saved five bucks.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 25, 2025 10:12 PM (/lPRQ)

29 DeLurking just to say….picture up top gotta be the Bahamas

Posted by: Lutra at August 25, 2025 10:12 PM (NbvJs)

30 I've got to respect someone who's throwing the idiocy of the system right back in their pinched little faces and profiting by it.

Moron-worthy, you could say.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 25, 2025 10:05 PM (JkO4W)

Don't know anything about the person, whether a real extremist, or just not a leftist. But they deserve every bit of ridicule that comes their way.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2025 10:13 PM (0eaVi)

31 Evening everyone. Thx Doof. The 1982 Milwaukee Brewers who won the AL pennant had one of the great nicknames ever. Their manager was Harvey Kuehn and the team hit a lot of homers so the team was called Harvey's Wallbangers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 25, 2025 10:13 PM (rRoxM)

32 Don't know anything about the person, whether a real extremist, or just not a leftist.

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His crime is "hatred, defamation, and insult." In Germany.

Draw your own conclusions.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 25, 2025 10:14 PM (JkO4W)

33
ood evening Horde. Thanks Doof! Excellent ONT.
Posted by: TRex
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*reaches REALLLLLY far so the Dino can fist-bump*
Posted by: Doof

If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.

Oh. Wait.

My bad.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at August 25, 2025 10:15 PM (QVmho)

34 Remind me why we saved their asses twice in the last century?

https://tinyurl.com/4sktf4ax

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2025 10:16 PM (0eaVi)

35 One of the news reports said the guy stuck behind the waterfall was treated for dehydration. That’s just stupid. Don’t worry about Giardia or other water borne pathogens when it’s a survival situation.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 25, 2025 10:16 PM (lqKtE)

36 DeLurking just to say….picture up top gotta be the Bahamas
Posted by: Lutra at August 25, 2025 10:12 PM (NbvJs)

Ding, ding, ding!

One of those private islands owned by a cruise line. I think that one is from a Carnival cruise. Photo is from October 2017. There were no fights over chicken tenders.

Posted by: Doof at August 25, 2025 10:16 PM (QMAsf)

37 Male-Born German Extremist Officially Changes Gender to Serve Time in Women’s Prison

"Male-born."

Even the news jagoffs who know he's faking it can't bring themselves to call him a dude.

Posted by: mikeski at August 25, 2025 10:16 PM (DgGvY)

38 Just wrapped up enjoying a Drew Estates Extra Ordinary Larry cigar and several rounds of 12 year Balvenie scotch with a good friend out on my patio. This is how every Monday should be spent. Next up is Trash Day Eve tomorrow. Life is good.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 25, 2025 10:16 PM (zdKZs)

39 Europe is stupid, indeed."

*looks at 9mm. Agrees"

Posted by: man at August 25, 2025 10:17 PM (tubbA)

40 Did you know that the lynching of black people prevented them from getting patents?

Lisa Cook said so.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 25, 2025 10:08 PM (JkO4W)

Didn't Prohibition take effect about that time? Maybe the black inventors' sources of inspiration dried up.

Or, more likely, there had been a pent-up demand for patents by a number of black inventors, and when that bump in numbers had been cleared, it reverted to the mean.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2025 10:17 PM (l9cXI)

41 Sorry about this AOP, Stateless, and others... but the commies in Canada now must bow to their new masters:

https://tinyurl.com/yv2e347y

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2025 10:18 PM (0eaVi)

42 Never heard of the Extra Ordinary Larry cigar. Have to go look it up.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 25, 2025 10:18 PM (U/Byj)

43 Evening everyone. Thx Doof. The 1982 Milwaukee Brewers who won the AL pennant had one of the great nicknames ever. Their manager was Harvey Kuehn and the team hit a lot of homers so the team was called Harvey's Wallbangers
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 25, 2025 10:13 PM (rRoxM)

Great team that year. They won the AL East by defeating the Orioles in the last game of the season. I was there with my dad and my sister. Pretty sure the pitching matchup was Jim Palmer vs Don Sutton. Lots of Hall of Famers on the field that day.

Posted by: Doof at August 25, 2025 10:19 PM (QMAsf)

44 His crime is "hatred, defamation, and insult." In Germany.

Draw your own conclusions.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 25, 2025 10:14 PM (JkO4W)

Oh, probably a pastor then....

(probably not)

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2025 10:19 PM (0eaVi)

45 I’m a long-time lurker and I usually arrive too late to comment. Plus I’m lazy. Y’all are a fun group and I treasure you all! (Except maybe not raimando). But, certainly all the rest of you.

Posted by: Random Lurker at August 25, 2025 10:19 PM (LgG1g)

46 Ah, it's in Drew Estate's infused line. Got it.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 25, 2025 10:20 PM (U/Byj)

47 DOOF!
Gosh you crazy guy🤪!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 25, 2025 10:20 PM (3wXSL)

48 Alteria if'n you're partial to infused sticks, try the Isla del Sol line (natural and maduro). Coffee infused. Very good.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 25, 2025 10:21 PM (U/Byj)

49 and several rounds of 12 year Balvenie scotch

I initially misread this as "several pounds," and thought "Good gravy, what is happening in this man's life that he's measuring his scotch by the pound?!"

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 25, 2025 10:21 PM (guCHD)

50 BTW....Nice music!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 25, 2025 10:21 PM (3wXSL)

51 but the commies in Canada now must bow to their new masters:"

I laughed, laughed, laughed.

Posted by: man at August 25, 2025 10:21 PM (tubbA)

52 Never heard of the Extra Ordinary Larry cigar. Have to go look it up.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 25, 2025 10:18 PM (U/Byj)

Extra Ordinary? Dull as dishwater, then?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2025 10:21 PM (0eaVi)

53 Apparently there is faking it, but then, there’s really faking it. Sincerely faking it, well that’s OK. I mean, fake sincerely faking it.

Thought not fake-fake sincerely faking it. That will never do

Posted by: Common Tater at August 25, 2025 10:22 PM (lqKtE)

54 Don’t worry about Giardia or other water borne pathogens when it’s a survival situation.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 25, 2025 10:16 PM (lqKtE)

Giardia is a pretty solid diet plan. I shit 40 pounds off in two weeks.

Posted by: Reforger at August 25, 2025 10:22 PM (e81a+)

55
An angry café patron in Los Palacios y Villafranca, Spain, was recently arrested for allegedly setting fire to the eatery because the staff told him they had run out of mayonnaise.

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One of Spain's new colonizers, perhaps. The lack of impulse control and the catastrophically disproportionate response are clues.

If Europeans took mayonnaise more seriously, instead of ragging on us for liking it, maybe they would have had a reliable supply.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 25, 2025 10:22 PM (azNOR)

56 I’m a long-time lurker and I usually arrive too late to comment. Plus I’m lazy. Y’all are a fun group and I treasure you all! (Except maybe not raimando). But, certainly all the rest of you.
Posted by: Random Lurker at August 25, 2025 10:19 PM (LgG1g)

Place stays open for six hours. You just have to watch your step. The floor gets pretty sticky by then.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2025 10:22 PM (0eaVi)

57 Never heard of the Extra Ordinary Larry cigar. Have to go look it up. Posted by: rhomboid

They are a dark, rich smoke. One of my favorites, especially with with a great whiskey.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 25, 2025 10:22 PM (zdKZs)

58 Sorry about this AOP, Stateless, and others... but the commies in Canada now must bow to their new masters:

https://tinyurl.com/yv2e347y
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2025 10:18 PM (0eaVi)

Saw a lot of pink-haired twinks and Trigglypuffs, but no Paleostinians. LOL, if the orcs cancelled the fagparade, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2025 10:22 PM (l9cXI)

59 Meh.

99% of folks on Cape Cod are leftist rich assholes. Sorry you lost your house.

Not really.

Anyway……

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 25, 2025 10:23 PM (mT+6a)

60 Top 10 sockpuppeteers:

9 [27 names] 'The Grateful '
10 [26 names] 'The Grateful '

Alright, who was socking The Grateful? Fess up.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 25, 2025 10:23 PM (ycI94)

61 DOOF!
Gosh you crazy guy🤪!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 25, 2025 10:20 PM (3wXSL)

BTW....Nice music!
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 25, 2025 10:21 PM (3wXSL)

Howdy, COMM! Glad you enjoyed tonight's selections.

Posted by: Doof at August 25, 2025 10:23 PM (QMAsf)

62 (Except maybe not raimando). But, certainly all the rest of you.
Posted by: Random Lurker at August 25, 2025 10:19 PM (LgG1g)

Maybe? Damning us with faint praise.

Posted by: RickZ at August 25, 2025 10:25 PM (gKDq2)

63 Alteria if'n you're partial to infused sticks, try the Isla del Sol line (natural and maduro). Coffee infused. Very good.
Posted by: rhomboid

I will look it up and get some when I place my next order. The EOLs are straight up Maduros.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 25, 2025 10:25 PM (zdKZs)

64 >>> Eminent domain taking pushes to uproot Cape Cod couple from brand new home

Calling BS on this one.
They probably refused a buyout offer then went and built the house and are now refusing to comprehend why Uncle Sam asked to buy in the first place.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 25, 2025 10:26 PM (/lPRQ)

65 in 2022 a number of the board of governors of the Fed resigned and were replaced by Biden

Lisa Cook was one of them, and another was Adriana Kugler who resigned Aug 8 2025 and who's position is empty

Trump has two members of the board to replace, now, as well as Jerome Powell when his term as Chair expires.
FWIW, Trump will have appointed 5 of the 7 members of the board of Governors when he gets these two positions filled.

Posted by: Kindltot` at August 25, 2025 10:26 PM (rbvCR)

66 Their manager was Harvey Kuehn and the team hit a lot of homers so the team was called Harvey's Wallbangers
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 25, 2025 10:13 PM (rRoxM)

If'n they were actually bangin the wall... wouldn't it be a ground rule double?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 25, 2025 10:26 PM (mP0Kj)

67 Been to Cape Cod a few times. The Sagamore and Bourne Bridges in the summer are parking lots. Given the traffic not surprised that they need to be replaced after 90years. Suck it up cupcakes

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 25, 2025 10:27 PM (rRoxM)

68 Their manager was Harvey Kuehn and the team hit a lot of homers so the team was called Harvey's Wallbangers
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 25, 2025 10:13 PM (rRoxM)

If'n they were actually bangin the wall... wouldn't it be a ground rule double?
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 25, 2025 10:26 PM (mP0Kj)

If they banged metal trash cans they could have been World Series "champs" like us

Posted by: 2017 Houston Astros at August 25, 2025 10:28 PM (QMAsf)

69 @66 they had a lot of those as well. Team could rip. Nickname just a play on the drink

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 25, 2025 10:28 PM (rRoxM)

70 First time I saw Judas priest was with iron maiden at convention hall asbury park NJ. Around 1980-81 in what was basically the shot heard around the world when Iron maiden wiped the floor with them. Priest was touring the laid back Point of Entry album, Maiden was touring the Killers album with Paul Di'anno singing. Maiden crushed them like a bug.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2025 10:29 PM (snZF9)

71 @66 they had a lot of those as well. Team could rip. Nickname just a play on the drink
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 25, 2025 10:28 PM (rRoxM)

Oops. I thought it was a giant rabbit.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2025 10:30 PM (0eaVi)

72 RE: Eminent domain

I assume Joan Hendel either broke up with or ignored the wrong guy in High School, and he now is the head of MASSDOT.
Vengence=cold

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at August 25, 2025 10:30 PM (F/35S)

73 64 >>> Eminent domain taking pushes to uproot Cape Cod couple from brand new home

Calling BS on this one.
They probably refused a buyout offer then went and built the house and are now refusing to comprehend why Uncle Sam asked to buy in the first place.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 25, 2025 10:26 PM (/lPRQ)

or... the Government was doing its usually bang up competent job.

High Cost Rail here in Calif, after decades, is once again changing its plan, and will not go to Merced... even though they have used eminent domain both in court, and to threaten, Landowners into giving up land on that route.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 25, 2025 10:30 PM (mP0Kj)

74 Still reeling from grammie's news today.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 25, 2025 10:31 PM (XeU6L)

75 Here's another little eminent domain story that you might find interesting.

You know that high speed rail project in California that has spent over $10 Billion (and acquired another $14 Billion)? Well, I did a little research last night and found out that there have been nearly 600 properties notified that eminent domain was being applied to acquire private properties (including no small amount of generational farms). This started in 2013 and continues to this day.

Now, I'm willing to make a bet. When the high speed rail project is finally put to rest, and California is sitting there holding all this prime real estate, I'll bet that the names of the parties they sell it to will match up with the same names that come in and buy up all the Palisade properties.

I really do think someone needs to require politicians to be 100% transparent on finances. I have a hard time believing that kickbacks aren't the primary motivators for most of their projects.

Posted by: Orson at August 25, 2025 10:31 PM (dIske)

76 Thanks for a content o'plenty ONT, Doof. And welcome, Random Lurker.

Posted by: scampydog at August 25, 2025 10:31 PM (41CYW)

77 Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
9 [27 names] 'The Grateful '
10 [26 names] 'The Grateful '

Alright, who was socking The Grateful? Fess up.
Posted by: Moron Analyst

The CoBs got the miscreant already. He's now The Dead.

[The magic comment-and-sock counter uses your posting hash, so if you reboot your modem and change hashes halfway through the week, you get half your posts counted under the first hash, and half under the second. -- Wesley Crusher]

Posted by: mikeski at August 25, 2025 10:31 PM (DgGvY)

78 Ah, it's in Drew Estate's infused line. Got it.
Posted by: rhomboid

The EOL is in the Acid series.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 25, 2025 10:32 PM (zdKZs)

79 Calling BS on this one"

Indeed. Too many had to fubar this for that to happen as reported.

Posted by: man at August 25, 2025 10:32 PM (tubbA)

80 Been to Cape Cod a few times. The Sagamore and Bourne Bridges in the summer are parking lots. Given the traffic not surprised that they need to be replaced after 90years. Suck it up cupcakes
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 25, 2025 10:27 PM (rRoxM)

Or maybe they could build more canal crossings. Shit - we've got four bridges that cross the C&D Canal in MD/DE, and we're nowhere near as important as Cape folk.

Posted by: 2017 Houston Astros at August 25, 2025 10:33 PM (QMAsf)

81 Jeez what a know it all.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 25, 2025 10:33 PM (RIvkX)

82 Not absolutely sure but I think Declan might have identified with a country a bit west of England.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 25, 2025 10:33 PM (n4GiU)

83 So, I'm watching this show - Urban Legends..
Sometimes one has to wonder...ONT?

Now I have a cricket in my house...that's you isn't it Rat?!
Grrrr....🐜🪲🪲🦗

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 25, 2025 10:33 PM (3wXSL)

84 Off - egregious cheaters sock

Posted by: Doof at August 25, 2025 10:33 PM (QMAsf)

85 [The magic comment-and-sock counter uses your posting hash, so if you reboot your modem and change hashes halfway through the week, you get half your posts counted under the first hash, and half under the second. -- Wesley Crusher]
Posted by: mikeski at August 25, 2025 10:31 PM (DgGvY)

good night Wesley... I'll most likely kill you in the morning...

Posted by: Dread Pirate Riker at August 25, 2025 10:34 PM (mP0Kj)

86 And Water of Love is a great tune.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 25, 2025 10:34 PM (n4GiU)

87 Re Eminent domain.

Those two shouldn't have been fucking off in Iowa for years. They missed the meeting where the mayor asked who wants to keep their house.

Don't vote/don't complain

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at August 25, 2025 10:36 PM (F/35S)

88 Still reeling from grammie's news today.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 25, 2025 10:31 PM (XeU6L)
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Courage. Also, Prayer.

Posted by: San Franspycho at August 25, 2025 10:37 PM (RIvkX)

89 Declan might have identified with a country a bit west of England"

Wales? Iceland? Western Sahara?

Posted by: man at August 25, 2025 10:37 PM (tubbA)

90 If you ever wanted to visit New Mexico now is the time. September, October and part of November is when this place is Western US perfection. Right now is the green chile harvest and roasting season.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 25, 2025 10:38 PM (zdKZs)

91 Male-Born German Extremist Officially Changes Gender to Serve Time in Women’s Prison

You know what happens if we don't put a stop to this transanity?

In 20 years, dudes will try this to get some prison strange, or at least try to avoid being Big Bruno's bitch, and it'll look like a bad Monty Python skit. They show up at the women's prison, and it's nothing but pudgy middle-aged dudes in drag. Even the guards.

Posted by: mikeski at August 25, 2025 10:38 PM (DgGvY)

92 *raises a frosty cold beer to the memory of Doof-dad*

I love my dear departed Dad, but he had a real blind spot regarding me ever attending a rock concert when I lived under his roof. I missed out on Judas Priest, Kiss, and even Kansas (90% Christian rock band). Oh, and Black Sabbath.

Finally saw Iron Maiden in Phoenix in 1987.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 25, 2025 10:38 PM (0aYVJ)

93 Still reeling from grammie's news today.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
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???

Posted by: lin-duh at August 25, 2025 10:38 PM (VCgbV)

94 I met Elvis Costello once, backstage at the Grand Ole Opry of all places. He's a nice guy.

Posted by: Bert G at August 25, 2025 10:39 PM (VARTN)

95 The Spanish Sahara is gone

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at August 25, 2025 10:39 PM (F/35S)

96 I missed it today. What is the news about grammie?

Posted by: Reforger at August 25, 2025 10:39 PM (e81a+)

97 Ok but without eminent domain no bridge or highway or railway or airport or pretty much any infrastructure would ever get built. Theres always going to be somebody’s home or business or farm in the way.

It sucks for those people but the bridge will serve hundreds of thousands vs inconveniencing 30 people.

Sometimes life sucks but what can you do?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 25, 2025 10:39 PM (wrRTB)

98 And Water of Love is a great tune.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 25, 2025 10:34 PM (n4GiU)

Karen Bass' theme song. Right behind The Doors' 'Light My Fire'.

Gavin Newscum on backup.

Produced by M Inent Domain.

Posted by: RickZ at August 25, 2025 10:39 PM (gKDq2)

99 I do not envy you the headache you will have when you wake up but in the meantime I hope you dream of large women.

Posted by: Eromero at August 25, 2025 10:39 PM (LHPAg)

100 Still reeling from grammie's news today.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

What news? I've been busy all day and haven't had time for normal lurking.

Posted by: Tuna at August 25, 2025 10:40 PM (lJ0H4)

101 so today I made and canned 15 half pints of peach jam, and four pints of apple chutney.
There was also some yard-work done. as well, and then it got to 95 and I spent the rest of the day inside.

Hot muggy weather is the worst weather.

Posted by: Kindltot` at August 25, 2025 10:40 PM (rbvCR)

102 Good evening, quick check in before lights out.

Posted by: Piper at August 25, 2025 10:40 PM (pZEOD)

103
Hmmm. Number 4 last week.

Hello. My name is Hadrian and I'm a Hordoholic.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 25, 2025 10:41 PM (kkTda)

104 I mowed all my grass, hauled off trash, and made guacamole. But I forgot the cilantro.

Posted by: Eromero at August 25, 2025 10:42 PM (LHPAg)

105 Doof, Thank you for another spectacular ONT to begin the work week. Thank you too for last weeks video of The Killers most awesome cover of Dire Straits* Romeo and Juliet. Happy Birthday Elvis C. You remain one of my favorites.

Posted by: SuperExMayorSuperRonNirenberg-Just As Commie As That Guy In NYC, But Can Bench Press Way More Than T at August 25, 2025 10:42 PM (s8tJ/)

106 Rhomboid … I missed asking on last night’s gun thread …. Have you ever done a top ten sticks list? Was it interesting/helpful? There so many ways to slice that!! Lots of different lists, lots of options. Maybe done to death?

Posted by: YellowBird at August 25, 2025 10:42 PM (uwerH)

107 What news? I've been busy all day and haven't had time for normal lurking.
Posted by: Tuna at August 25, 2025 10:40 PM (lJ0H4)

She announced that she has Stage 4 cancer, as I understand it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2025 10:42 PM (l9cXI)

108 Ok but without eminent domain no bridge or highway or railway or airport or pretty much any infrastructure would ever get built. Theres always going to be somebody’s home or business or farm in the way.

It sucks for those people but the bridge will serve hundreds of thousands vs inconveniencing 30 people.

Sometimes life sucks but what can you do?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

If it's used for the right purposes, fine.

Kelo and the like, everyone involved should be dipped in honey and given their choice of fire ants or grizzly bears.

Posted by: mikeski at August 25, 2025 10:43 PM (DgGvY)

109 Hello. My name is Hadrian and I'm a Hordoholic.
Posted by: Hadrian

You forgot the "No dog, not art" disclaimer.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 25, 2025 10:43 PM (zdKZs)

110 "male-born German ..."

Do they mean MALE GERMAN? Why is there no push back on this? The camel's nose is left in the tent.

Posted by: Beck at August 25, 2025 10:43 PM (o1xMm)

111 Kelo type eminent domain is gay and retarded. But for a public good like a highway, I have no issues with it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 25, 2025 10:44 PM (wrRTB)

112 Plus the new prisoner can give der spiegel to all the other women prisoners. Win-Win.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 25, 2025 10:44 PM (rvwwT)

113 She announced that she has Stage 4 cancer, as I understand it.

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Yikes. Didn't see that.

This shit has got to stop.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 25, 2025 10:45 PM (hY4dx)

114 I saw a job ad and looked at the befits listed. It said 12 weeks paid parental leave and an extra 4 weeks for the birthing person.

And I said yeah no not gonna work there.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 25, 2025 10:45 PM (wrRTB)

115 Oh no!

Sweet grammie. How can we help support her?

wtf? Oh no.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 25, 2025 10:46 PM (mT+6a)

116 112 Plus the new prisoner can give der spiegel to all the other women prisoners. Win-Win.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 25, 2025 10:44 PM (rvwwT)
All hat, no bewbz. Hard time?

Posted by: Eromero at August 25, 2025 10:46 PM (LHPAg)

117 I saw Judas Priest in Augusta GA in the mid 80’s. There was 1000 people there. Rob Halford drove a Harley onto the stage. He got off the bike and looked around and screamed into the mic, “are we at the right place?” It was so loud, my ears rang for a week. Awesome concert!

Posted by: Mark in SC at August 25, 2025 10:47 PM (gWO+I)

118 I did not get to hang out in the comments today. What happened with Grammie Winger?

Posted by: Emmie at August 25, 2025 10:48 PM (FMtrg)

119 Plus the new prisoner can give der spiegel to all the other women prisoners. Win-Win.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 25, 2025 10:44 PM (rvwwT)

Don't you mean Der Weinerschnitzel?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2025 10:49 PM (0eaVi)

120 Dire Straits taught my son a valuable lesson: given the chance and the means, people cheat. "Fair" is intellectual concept, but rare in reality.
He and a buddy stood in line for 30 hours for front row tickets to a Dire Straits concert. IIRC, he was 15. They get the tickets, close to center, front row. Concert day, they get there an hour early, get seated in the front row seats. 15 minutes before the concert starts, out comes a crew with folding seats, lines up 2 rows in front of them, which are then occupied by "VIPs" with backstage passes around their necks. The clowns in those seats were up and down all night, loud conversations, etc. Son said he would have been better off 5 or 10 rows back.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 25, 2025 10:49 PM (dWdRv)

121 My first concert was also Judas Priest at the Palace Theatre in Albany, NY for the 1981 British Steel tour. My date was the girl with the biggest tits in the entire school. I did not get a kiss. A few months later my best friend nailed her. Fuck.

Further, I think their best album was Sad Wings of Destiny. Their worst one was that one about your best friend nailing the girl with the biggest tits in the entire school after you spent all that money on tickets and getting her drunk. True Fact. My word as a Bidet.

Posted by: WaitingForMartel at August 25, 2025 10:49 PM (s5hGr)

122 "She announced that she has Stage 4 cancer, as I understand it."

Oh no. Life is just not fair. Damn.

Posted by: Tuna at August 25, 2025 10:49 PM (lJ0H4)

123
It is so upsetting we are losing longtime commenters.

It is really upsetting younguns are moving in.

Rascals, scamps, etc. with their newfangled ideas.

Get off my lawn.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 25, 2025 10:50 PM (3ek7K)

124 119 Plus the new prisoner can give der spiegel to all the other women prisoners. Win-Win.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 25, 2025 10:44 PM (rvwwT)

Don't you mean Der Weinerschnitzel?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2025 10:49 PM (0eaVi)

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He must have an enormous swannstucker!

Posted by: Inga at August 25, 2025 10:51 PM (hY4dx)

125 Sad news about Grammie. She'll be in my prayers. She seems like such a sweet person.

Posted by: Emmie at August 25, 2025 10:51 PM (FMtrg)

126 Fun on the farm 😊
Started some apple wine, made apple butter, peach syrup, pickled green beans, and marinara sauce using roasted cherry tomatoes.

Watched as extended family put up hay in various barns.

Country life is very enjoyable.

The other day I made a zucchini lasagna with two types of homemade cheese. I decided it should be called a cheesy zucchini bake because I used sliced rounds of zucchini and if one was expecting lasagna it would probably be a disappointment but as a zucchini bake, it was quite delicious.

Evening Hordlings

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 25, 2025 10:54 PM (uvzkM)

127 Eminent domain, even if done for good purposes, takes away opportunity for the current land holder. The current value of the property is what usually is paid. That price ignores the value of the property through future use.

Posted by: clarence at August 25, 2025 10:54 PM (dL2Vj)

128 If you ever wanted to visit New Mexico now is the time. September, October and part of November is when this place is Western US perfection. Right now is the green chile harvest and roasting season.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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Don't forget the Pie Festival in Pie Town. 2nd Saturday in September. A hundred miles north of Hatch on I25, then 80 miles west on US60. A nice apple pie to cool the burn.

Posted by: buddhaha at August 25, 2025 10:54 PM (dWdRv)

129 From this a.m.

Rev is doing well. Me, not so much. I was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer last week Ufff Da
Posted by: grammie winger

Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 25, 2025 10:54 PM (XeU6L)

130 Scrolling thru X I see a lot of clips of Trump receiving various people and groups in the Oval Office. He's most always sitting down at his desk while everyone else is standing. Is this a power move, or something else, maybe health-related?

Posted by: Don Black at August 25, 2025 10:55 PM (AOsQT)

131 Sometimes this place makes me laugh and feel good about the world.

Other times, it makes me feel inadequate and quite small in the great scheme of things.

Posted by: RickZ at August 25, 2025 10:56 PM (gKDq2)

132 2 out of 3 on the musicians.

Saw Amy Winehouse at Joe's Pub in 2007. One of the best shows I'd ever seen. You just knew she was going to be big from the moment she belted out her first song. I was a Joss Stone fan at the time, but Amy left her in the dust. Still like Stone, however.

The first two Greatest Hits albums I ever purchased were Steely Dan's and Elvis Costello's. Both were amazing. Declan has terrible politics, but he's a great musician. He won the jackpot in marrying Diana Krall as well. Lucky duck.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 25, 2025 10:57 PM (0CU3H)

133
RickZ, I agree with you.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 25, 2025 10:57 PM (3ek7K)

134 The thing about the Kelo decision, which I thought was wrong, was that it caused something like 43 states to tighten up their eminent domain laws to prevent taking for private business. The decision and backlash caused a small revolution

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 25, 2025 10:57 PM (rRoxM)

135 The male-born trans activist looks like Father Guido Sarducci.

Posted by: tsj017 at August 25, 2025 10:57 PM (xakWh)

136 I'm hammered right now. Carry on you crazy morons!

Posted by: AnchorPoint at August 25, 2025 10:58 PM (qgPFD)

137 Good night everyone, sleep well.

Posted by: Piper at August 25, 2025 10:58 PM (pZEOD)

138 Other times, it makes me feel inadequate and quite small in the great scheme of things.
Posted by: RickZ at August 25, 2025 10:56 PM (gKDq2)
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It makes me hunger.

Posted by: The Barrel at August 25, 2025 10:59 PM (RIvkX)

139 I sent Fr. Sarducci some pot to test for paraquat in 1977.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 25, 2025 11:00 PM (RIvkX)

140 Scrolling thru X I see a lot of clips of Trump receiving various people and groups in the Oval Office. He's most always sitting down at his desk while everyone else is standing. Is this a power move, or something else, maybe health-related?
Posted by: Don Blac

He should have them sit in chairs with sawed off legs.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 25, 2025 11:00 PM (/lPRQ)

141 Eminent domain, even if done for good purposes, takes away opportunity for the current land holder. The current value of the property is what usually is paid. That price ignores the value of the property through future use.
Posted by: clarence at August 25, 2025 10:54 PM (dL2Vj)

Well, if the property owner gets current value in cash, he can reinvest into another property that promises to show some growth in value.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2025 11:01 PM (l9cXI)

142 I hope Grammie Winger has the type that can be knocked out by fenbendazole (see Joe Tippens' "my cancer story rocks") or ivermectin.

Mel Gibson mentioned on Joe Rogan recently that he has two friends with stage 4 cancers who are having great results with fenben and iver. A nurse told me that fenben is powerful against about half of the solid tumors, but she has blood cancer, which it's not effective for, sadly.

Posted by: Beverly at August 25, 2025 11:01 PM (Epeb0)

143 Ok, the Simon and Simon reboot? I'd pay real good money for that!

Posted by: AnchorPoint at August 25, 2025 11:01 PM (qgPFD)

144 quite small in the great scheme of things.

We all are quite small in the great scheme of things. However, we all are created for "some definite service".

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 25, 2025 11:01 PM (uvzkM)

145 115

Sad! Oh my!
I have to have my cancer check Thursday.
I'm hoping for the best...
Biggest prayers for grammie👃👃👃

Cancer sucks, and it fucks with us all the way!!!
Fuck cancer😠

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 25, 2025 11:01 PM (3wXSL)

146 Saw Elvis Costello twice. Both great shows and he's intense in concert. His getting banned from SNL for starting the song he promised and then going into Radio, Radio was a perfect screw you to Lorne Michaels

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 25, 2025 11:01 PM (rRoxM)

147
According to the Daily Mail, the new editorial director for Vanity Fair wants to put Melania on the cover. Half the staff are threatening to walk out if he does. "We will not normalize this despot and his wife!", one is quoted as saying.

Bye-bye, then.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2025 11:03 PM (w6EFb)

148 146 115

Sad! Oh my!
I have to have my cancer check Thursday.
I'm hoping for the best...
Biggest prayers for grammie👃👃👃

Cancer sucks, and it fucks with us all the way!!!
Fuck cancer😠
Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 25, 2025 11:01 PM (3wXSL)

Prayers up for you COMM. Doubly so for grammie w. Praying now.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 25, 2025 11:03 PM (0CU3H)

149 130 Scrolling thru X I see a lot of clips of Trump receiving various people and groups in the Oval Office. He's most always sitting down at his desk while everyone else is standing. Is this a power move, or something else, maybe health-related?
Posted by: Don Black at August 25, 2025 10:55 PM (AOsQT)

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Nobody ever complained when FDR did it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 25, 2025 11:04 PM (hY4dx)

150 My first rock concert was Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen.

you could have stopped there. Commander Codywas rock and roll, distilled.

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at August 25, 2025 11:04 PM (iNp3L)

151 Eminent domain could be improved.

How about, no property can be taken, only forcibly leased.
As long as the Gov wants to use it, they pay. A lot. Every month. And if they don't want it anymore, returned after being restored to the original condition.

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at August 25, 2025 11:05 PM (F/35S)

152
Prayers up for you COMM. Doubly so for grammie w. Praying now.

Amen

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 25, 2025 11:05 PM (uvzkM)

153 Posted by: The Barrel at August 25, 2025 10:59 PM (RIvkX)

I was referring to Grammie.

Sorry I wasn't very clear.

Posted by: RickZ at August 25, 2025 11:05 PM (gKDq2)

154 I think grammie winger likes Beatle tunes, Scandinavian painters, bright colors, and happy, fun church services.
(all the people she loves are to numerous to list)

Maybe folks could link some of the above when she's on a thread.

Grammie Winger you have been a favorite of mine since you were Mama Winger (I think that was your nic before your grands)

Posted by: old chick at August 25, 2025 11:06 PM (F3Dlr)

155 De-lurking. I do that about once every 2 years or so.

Sending love to the horde, from Mexico.

-Joan

Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at August 25, 2025 11:06 PM (sDjqr)

156 The mystery click... what can be said? One of the greatest albums of all time.

I first started really listening to this album in the spring of 84. I was away at school. My roommate and I both discovered this album and played it nonstop (funnily enough, i graduated with Chris Wray that spring... My roommate went on to be a big lib, as did most of my classmates)

I recently bought all of Dire Straits' studio albums on CD. They are absolutely sublime.

Posted by: 496 at August 25, 2025 11:07 PM (ouubj)

157 According to the Daily Mail, the new editorial director for Vanity Fair wants to put Melania on the cover. Half the staff are threatening to walk out if he does. "We will not normalize this despot and his wife!", one is quoted as saying.

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They're such assholes. Trump has not only been "normalized," but he's proving himself one of the greatest presidents of the last 100 years.

The only place he isn't "normalized" is in the fever swamps of the cultic Left who absolutely refuse to acknowledge the reality that everyone else sees clearly.

Stupid Bitter Enders.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 25, 2025 11:08 PM (hY4dx)

158 "An angry café patron in Los Palacios y Villafranca, Spain, was recently arrested for allegedly setting fire to the eatery because the staff told him they had run out of mayonnaise."
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Become ungovernable.

Posted by: 496 at August 25, 2025 11:09 PM (Gei+t)

159 >>>After years far away in Iowa, they settled into the upper Cape, close to their New England roots,
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Hello, remember what it was to live in Iowa, the land of the free?
Welcome back, Fuck You.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 25, 2025 11:10 PM (sB5dv)

160 He should have them sit in chairs with sawed off legs.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 25, 2025 11:00 PM (/lPRQ)

Oversized chairs so they look smaller.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2025 11:10 PM (0eaVi)

161 The 1995 Intern coming out of the office wiping off her mouth.

Hilariously cruel.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 11:10 PM (EYmYM)

162 How do you not know they are going to build bridges next to your home you’re building?

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 11:12 PM (EYmYM)

163 156 De-lurking. I do that about once every 2 years or so.

Sending love to the horde, from Mexico.

-Joan
Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at August 25, 2025 11:06 PM (sDjqr)

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See you in '27!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 25, 2025 11:12 PM (hY4dx)

164 ***but he's kinda stupid but he's kinda stupid but he's kinda stupid
for staying behind after his friends left. What say you, Hordelings?
---

Stick with your group. Boy Scouts 101.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 25, 2025 11:13 PM (sB5dv)

165 Sweet grammie. How can we help support her?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Grammie has often joked about her cooking skills, perhaps a subscription for her and rev for those meals that are ready to cook/delivered? It would be one less chore.

If there is any way to contribute to helping grammie winger could it be added to the prayer thread so lurkers can be part please.

Posted by: old chick at August 25, 2025 11:14 PM (F3Dlr)

166 According to the Daily Mail, the new editorial director for Vanity Fair wants to put Melania on the cover. Half the staff are threatening to walk out if he does. "We will not normalize this despot and his wife!", one is quoted as saying.

Door let the door hit you in the ass. Talk about being replaceable.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 11:15 PM (EYmYM)

167 @158: I have been wrestling with this lately...

The dems and the mainstream media, because of their constant drumming of "Trump is worse than Hitler!!!" has turned half of the entire populace against the other half. Not just a little, but to the extent that friends and family are turning against one another. In days past the differences may have been negligible, but today they are worth ending a lifetime relationship over.

I am sad thinking how different things might be if the hadn't dialed Trump hatred up to 11.

Posted by: 496 at August 25, 2025 11:15 PM (MxCkF)

168 According to the Daily Mail, the new editorial director for Vanity Fair wants to put Melania on the cover. Half the staff are threatening to walk out if he does. "We will not normalize this despot and his wife!", one is quoted as saying.
Bye-bye, then.
Posted by: publius
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Those are threats which have to be taken seriously, assuming that they actually do something at the mag.
Lots of staffers at Conde Nast pubs are trust fund babies, with serious, to quote John Goodman, "fuck you money".

Posted by: buddhaha at August 25, 2025 11:15 PM (dWdRv)

169 I'm sick of liberals, send them out of the country or put them in dungeons.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 25, 2025 11:15 PM (sB5dv)

170 Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at August 25, 2025 11:06 PM (sDjqr)

Used to have a website, didn't you?

I was going to post a comment a long time ago. Let's see... you left the light on?... someone left a package on your porch?... you won the Publisher's Clearing House sweepstakes??

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 25, 2025 11:15 PM (0eaVi)

171 Mike or Emmie, what happened to grammie, please explain?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 25, 2025 11:16 PM (IsuMW)

172 I recently bought all of Dire Straits' studio albums on CD. They are absolutely sublime.
Posted by: 496 at August 25, 2025 11:07 PM (ouubj)

Very nice. Everything from Mark Knopfler should be purchased. He doesn't get enough credit for his talent.

Posted by: Doof at August 25, 2025 11:16 PM (QMAsf)

173 I'm sick of liberals, send them out of the country or put them in dungeons.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 25, 2025 11:15 PM (sB5dv)

Let them start their own country, douchebag land.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2025 11:18 PM (snZF9)

174 @156 I thought Dire Straits last album On Every Street was underrated. Great title song

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 25, 2025 11:18 PM (rRoxM)

175 Well, if the property owner gets current value in cash, he can reinvest into another property that promises to show some growth in value.

So, you get the notice and you are probably going to be the last person to know. Developers (and other riffraff such as politicians) get tipped off and buy up property in anticipation of the rise in value. By the time you get the payout, you may not be able to afford any of the property in the area.

Posted by: clarence at August 25, 2025 11:18 PM (dL2Vj)

176 I don’t put up with or associate with idiots regardless of their political persuasion. Just so happens every Lefty is an idiot.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 11:19 PM (EYmYM)

177 Very nice. Everything from Mark Knopfler should be purchased. He doesn't get enough credit for his talent.

Posted by: Doof at August 25, 2025 11:16 PM (QMAsf)

Yeah, not much of a listener , but he is vastly underrated.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2025 11:19 PM (snZF9)

178 I don’t put up with or associate with idiots regardless of their political persuasion. Just so happens every Lefty is an idiot.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 11:19 PM (EYmYM)

Not every idiot is a lefty, but every lefty is an idiot.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2025 11:20 PM (snZF9)

179 Doof,

Thank you for introducing me to the Amy Winehouse version of Valerie. Fantastic. A talented tormented woman.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 25, 2025 11:20 PM (nedAL)

180 Priest! Priest! Priest! Priest!
Electric Eye is one of the greatest openers in rock history.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 25, 2025 11:21 PM (KAi1n)

181 Not every idiot is a lefty, but every lefty is an idiot.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2025 11:20 PM (snZF9)

Hah. Perfect.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 11:22 PM (EYmYM)

182 Vmom, this is all I know:

129 From this a.m.

Rev is doing well. Me, not so much. I was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer last week Ufff Da
Posted by: grammie winger
Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 25, 2025 10:54 PM (XeU6L)

Posted by: Emmie at August 25, 2025 11:22 PM (FMtrg)

183 Oh I see at 129

Stage 4 cancer sounds dire but I will pray.
I hope grammie will try alternative treatments in conjunction with conventional treatments right away.

Archangel Raphael, bring healing to our dear grammie winger, through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 25, 2025 11:22 PM (IsuMW)

184 Hello, Horde! 😊💕

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 25, 2025 11:23 PM (SRRAx)

185 > 1 Goodbye Lisa Cook, we hardly knew ye.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 25, 2025 09:59 PM (JkO4W)

Says she's not gonna leave.

Let's just see how that works out for you, honey.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 25, 2025 11:23 PM (qpyNK)

186 Let them start their own country, douchebag land.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

It would be 'FABULOUS!!!'

(Gay hands waving in air)

Posted by: Tonypete at August 25, 2025 11:23 PM (cYBz/)

187 Rock Star with Mark Wahlburg is a guilty pleasure movie.

Posted by: polynikes at August 25, 2025 11:24 PM (EYmYM)

188 How much actual work could anyone at Vanity Fair do? With the exception of Melania (maybe) all they do is collate photos of tarts and scatter some insipid verbiage around.

Posted by: Your Grandfather at August 25, 2025 11:24 PM (PfGa7)

189 Any word on type of grammie’s cancer?

Posted by: Javems at August 25, 2025 11:25 PM (8I4hW)

190 If Sad Wings had been re-recorded in 1982 with Les Binks it would have been awesome.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 25, 2025 11:25 PM (KAi1n)

191 Milwaukee Brewers 10 Cent Beer Night..."Problems from the beginning"

https://is.gd/fYWFPv

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 25, 2025 11:26 PM (zdKZs)

192 Very nice. Everything from Mark Knopfler should be purchased. He doesn't get enough credit for his talent.

Posted by: Doof at August 25, 2025 11:16 PM (QMAsf)
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The boxed set was

I am realizing that although Knopfler is peerless, many of the songs are truly driven by the bassist and/or drummer.

And Roy Bittan was the pianist for Making Movies. Go listen to any song from that album and focus on the piano. Amazing stuff.

Roy Bittan, of course, was Bruce Springsteen's pianist with the E Street Band. Once you know, it's impossible to not hear Springsteen's influences on Making Movies

Posted by: 496 at August 25, 2025 11:26 PM (2v2r4)

193 Doof,

Thank you for introducing me to the Amy Winehouse version of Valerie. Fantastic. A talented tormented woman.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 25, 2025 11:20 PM (nedAL)

YW! See you soon, brother!

Posted by: Doof at August 25, 2025 11:26 PM (QMAsf)

194 Priest! Priest! Priest! Priest!
Electric Eye is one of the greatest openers in rock history.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 25, 2025 11:21 PM (KAi1n)

Pretty much. Whenever I was in a cover band that played that song, thats exactly where we put it. Right out of the gate. Hit'em in the head with a sledgehammer, and you own them. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2025 11:26 PM (snZF9)

195 mom, this is all I know:

129 From this a.m.

Rev is doing well. Me, not so much. I was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer last week Ufff Da
Posted by: grammie winger
Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 25, 2025 10:54 PM (XeU6L)

Posted by: Emmie at August 25, 2025 11:22 PM (FMtrg)

Holy shit, grammie? Prayers dear lady.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2025 11:28 PM (snZF9)

196 Probably not all that controversial here, but the Federal Reserve has absolutely no Constitutional justification.

The Constitution says that Congress has the power to coin money and "regulate the value there of".

Goldman Sachs and their buddies aren't "Congress".

There's no provision for Congress to delegate this power, certainly not to a consortium of private banks.

The recent Supreme Court decision that Congress can't delegate its lawmaking power to unelected agencies would appear to apply here as well.

Legal Morons, what say ye?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 25, 2025 11:28 PM (qpyNK)

197 Restaurant running out of mayo? Just make the stuff! It's easy... and superior.

Posted by: Average Guy at August 25, 2025 11:29 PM (lPHZZ)

198 So, you get the notice and you are probably going to be the last person to know. Developers (and other riffraff such as politicians) get tipped off and buy up property in anticipation of the rise in value. By the time you get the payout, you may not be able to afford any of the property in the area.
Posted by: clarence at August 25, 2025 11:18 PM (dL2Vj)

So put on the big boy boots, and look for undervalued property a little further afield, maybe in a lower tax jurisdiction.

In the above-mentioned instance, the new bridges will result in increased traffic, and quality of life in the 'hood will diminish as a result. Take the money and run.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2025 11:29 PM (l9cXI)

199 Binks was definitely the best Priest drummer, IMO.

Sadly, he passed not long ago.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 25, 2025 11:29 PM (qpyNK)

200 Priest! Priest! Priest! Priest!
Electric Eye is one of the greatest openers in rock history.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 25, 2025 11:21 PM (KAi1n)

Agreed. And fast forward about 10 years to add Alice in Chains - Them Bones to that list

Posted by: Doof at August 25, 2025 11:30 PM (QMAsf)

201 Yeah, not much of a listener , but he is vastly underrated.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2025 11:19 PM (snZF9)
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One request: check out Tunnel of Love from Dire Straits' album Making Movies. Especially the last 2 minutes. The closeout to that song encapsulates Dire Straits' genius

Posted by: 496 at August 25, 2025 11:30 PM (FqCIy)

202 Goodbye Lisa Cook, we hardly knew ye.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 25, 2025 09:59 PM (JkO4W)
-

Not enough. When are all these crooks going to be arrested, tried, and sentenced?

Waiting.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 25, 2025 11:30 PM (E+OH8)

203 Terrible news about Grammie Winger.

That's a gut punch.

There's always hope. Always.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 25, 2025 11:33 PM (qpyNK)

204 Evening Hordlings
Posted by: AmericanKestrel

Hello, sweet lady! You sound like you’re in heaven with family and nature and lots of work to do! Good for you!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 25, 2025 11:34 PM (mT+6a)

205 Beatoff O'Cuck's slush fund operation got stomped in court again today.

There are still some levels of appeal left to play out, so let's not break out the pudding cups just yet, but it was good to hear nonetheless.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 25, 2025 11:35 PM (qpyNK)

206 @196: About a month ago I was digging into Warren Zevon hard for the first time in 30 years. I started with his first album and worked forward (amazing stuff).

It occurred to me that Zevon was a punk rocker... VERY counter-culture. His overarching themes would have fit in with The Clash or The Ramones effortlessly, even though his sound is not the classic "punk" sound.

The highlight was one of the YouTube comments which simply said "End the Fed"

Warren spoke to spirits very kindred to our own.

Posted by: 496 at August 25, 2025 11:36 PM (/2KcO)

207 Pharma insanity pricing story:

Covid has revisited our household (yay). Pharmacist called back after healthcare called in the Paxlovid prescription, and told us the copay was listed at a thousand bucks (!), but that a manufacturer's coupon from the paxlovid website should help.

Following up on that brought the copay price to zero.

Um, what the hell?

Posted by: Piercello at August 25, 2025 11:36 PM (G6MQh)

208 'Hoping that tomorrow will bless you with lots of opportunities and reasons to be happy. Recharge yourself tonight, tomorrow’s going to be another adventurous day.” — Unknown'

I love my Horde pals!
God bless Grammie, and God bless the best Morons😀😀!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at August 25, 2025 11:36 PM (3wXSL)

209 The Constitution says that Congress has the power to coin money and "regulate the value there of".

There's no provision for Congress to delegate this power, certainly not to a consortium of private banks.

The recent Supreme Court decision that Congress can't delegate its lawmaking power to unelected agencies would appear to apply here as well.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

* adjusts festive little Devil's Advocate hat *

One way to guarantee things get f--ked up worse is to take the power of the Fed and give it to Hank Johnson and AOC.

Posted by: mikeski at August 25, 2025 11:36 PM (DgGvY)

210 >>>Goldman Sachs and their buddies aren't "Congress".

There's no provision for Congress to delegate this power, certainly not to a consortium of private banks.

The recent Supreme Court decision that Congress can't delegate its lawmaking power to unelected agencies would appear to apply here as well.

Legal Morons, what say ye?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
-----------------------------------

Where's the action Jackson?
Rumor has it that ta Donald is going to remodel that Bank.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 25, 2025 11:37 PM (sB5dv)

211 Check out heavy metal parking lot filmed at Baltimore civic priest show

Posted by: TGS at August 25, 2025 11:39 PM (ud9p9)

212
Beatoff O'Cuck's slush fund operation got stomped in court again today.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

===============

Okay, translate please.

And good evening!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 25, 2025 11:39 PM (cPNCv)

213 Grammie has often joked about her cooking skills, perhaps a subscription for her and rev for those meals that are ready to cook/delivered? It would be one less chore.

If there is any way to contribute to helping grammie winger could it be added to the prayer thread so lurkers can be part please.
Posted by: old chick

What a lovely idea!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 25, 2025 11:39 PM (mT+6a)

214 Sorry I'm late, I had to talk my way out of a little situation because Alexa found out about Siri.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 25, 2025 11:39 PM (R256O)

215 Binks was definitely the best Priest drummer, IMO.

Sadly, he passed not long ago.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 25, 2025 11:29 PM (qpyNK)

Yeah only a few months ago. Stained Class was epic.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 25, 2025 11:39 PM (snZF9)

216 07 Pharma insanity pricing story:

Covid has revisited our household (yay). Pharmacist called back after healthcare called in the Paxlovid prescription, and told us the copay was listed at a thousand bucks (!), but that a manufacturer's coupon from the paxlovid website should help.

Following up on that brought the copay price to zero.

Um, what the hell?
Posted by: Piercello
-------------------------

Tell them to GF then go to Barnhardt's site, then go buy some Ivermectin and take it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 25, 2025 11:40 PM (sB5dv)

217 >>> 214 Sorry I'm late, I had to talk my way out of a little situation because Alexa found out about Siri.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 25, 2025 11:39 PM (R256O)

Who???

Posted by: Zombie Cortana at August 25, 2025 11:40 PM (ULPxl)

218 "99% of folks on Cape Cod are leftist rich assholes. Sorry you lost your house."

Cape Cod is a gloomy ghost town 9 months of the year. A drunken, drug and STD infested utopia. They continuously elected Gerry Studds for Congress despite him regularly getting bagged (heh) pooning his underage male pages

Posted by: Bob Crane at August 25, 2025 11:41 PM (OERWa)

219 "Content here to be ignored, as always."

As if we would ever ignore the content. Sure, we might delay getting to it for a bit in the rush to claim "Sponge!" but we would never straight out ignore it.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 25, 2025 11:41 PM (R256O)

220 214 Sorry I'm late, I had to talk my way out of a little situation because Alexa found out about Siri.
Posted by: tankdemon
---------

Power Co sent me a free Alexa. I disassembled it for parts then ran over the balance with my truck, then sealed the remains in a plastic bag and put them in the trash.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 25, 2025 11:42 PM (sB5dv)

221 Sorry I'm late, I had to talk my way out of a little situation because Alexa found out about Siri.
Posted by: tankdemon

Could you tell Siri to address you as Alexa, and vice-versa, and get them to have a never-ending conversation?

Though it'll play hell with your online shopping bill.

Posted by: mikeski at August 25, 2025 11:42 PM (DgGvY)

222 Power Co sent me a free Alexa. I disassembled it for parts then ran over the balance with my truck, then sealed the remains in a plastic bag and put them in the trash.
Posted by: Braenyard

I still seeeeeeee you.

Posted by: Alexa at August 25, 2025 11:43 PM (DgGvY)

223 COMM!

Prayers for a clean bill of health, lady.

*hugs*

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 25, 2025 11:43 PM (Zqngw)

224
Sorry I'm late, I had to talk my way out of a little situation because Alexa found out about Siri.
Posted by: tankdemon

=============

Sometimes I wonder if Grok and ChatGPT know that I've got them open in separate tabs.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 25, 2025 11:44 PM (cPNCv)

225 Agreed. And fast forward about 10 years to add Alice in Chains - Them Bones to that list
Posted by: Doof at August 25, 2025 11:30 PM (QMAsf)

Used it as my alarm clock in the Army.

AHH!!... AHHhhhhh!! Woke the whole floor up.

Posted by: Reforger at August 25, 2025 11:44 PM (e81a+)

226 The Constitution says that Congress has the power to coin money and "regulate the value thereof”

The recent Supreme Court decision that Congress can't delegate its lawmaking power to unelected agencies would appear to apply here as well.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

There isn’t much Congress and the Fed do that is within their original scope. And it gets ratified by Courts that have far exceeded theirs. Something about the commerce clause.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 25, 2025 11:45 PM (nedAL)

227 A fine ONT, that could only be better if it included some dress /gown porn.

Posted by: Don Loper Originals at August 25, 2025 11:45 PM (G5+As)

228 raimondo is learning how to spell. Yay raimondo!

Don't quite boy!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 25, 2025 11:46 PM (hY4dx)

229 On the vehicle front, I am finally done with the motor mount sag on the Suburban. New mounts are all installed, cinched down, and snubber chains rigged to restrain the engine from thrashing around if the rubber delaminates. And will supply enough restraint, hopefully, that the rubber mounts won't get stressed enough in tension to begin the delaminate.

And...I figured out why I needed to do this. The left side inboard frame outrigger which supports the engine mount on its top side, and the front differential on its bottom side, is bent down about a half inch. The differential is sitting canted a little, too. I never really noticed it before, because I really had no expectation of seeing it level. Now that I see it, I can't unsee it. I have no clue how it came to be bent in such a way. I do know that to straighten it would take a big frame machine. Given that it drove just fine in any case, my home-made mounts are as good a fix as any I can do. The engine/transmission/transfer case assembly is in, and solidly secured, and that's where it's going to stay. I have moved on to the rest of install tasks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2025 11:46 PM (uR5MM)

230 =============

Sometimes I wonder if Grok and ChatGPT know that I've got them open in separate tabs.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
-----------------

All your open tabs are crawled. Crawlers jump from open tab to open tab. All your tabs are watching.
I've thought that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 25, 2025 11:46 PM (sB5dv)

231 How can my AO be under a flood watch when there is no fucking rain? And none pending?

Weather forecasting is shite.

I would love some rain right now. Las real rain fall I saw was on July 4.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at August 25, 2025 11:47 PM (0aYVJ)

232 So put on the big boy boots, and look for undervalued property a little further afield, maybe in a lower tax jurisdiction.

As I said, you lose future value. Some of that future value is being someplace you want to be.

Posted by: clarence at August 25, 2025 11:48 PM (dL2Vj)

233 134 The thing about the Kelo decision, which I thought was wrong, was that it caused something like 43 states to tighten up their eminent domain laws to prevent taking for private business. The decision and backlash caused a small revolution
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 25, 2025 10:57 PM (rRoxM)

Note, the House at the center of the Kelo case? Yeah, the project was never built... the house just stood there abandoned for years.

Posted by: Dread Pirate Riker at August 25, 2025 11:48 PM (mP0Kj)

234
Much of what the Fed did during the Crisis of '08 was clear-cut violations of the Federal Reserve Act. Main one was buying up the MBS dogshit. The swaplines with the other major central banks were quite questionable legally as well.

The federal courts pretty much defer to the Fed. "This monetary policy stuff is way outside of our wheelhouse, so we let them do whatever the fuck they want."

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 25, 2025 11:49 PM (w6EFb)

235 Sometimes I wonder if Grok and ChatGPT know that I've got them open in separate tabs.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 25, 2025 11:44 PM (cPNCv)

do they argue?

Posted by: Dread Pirate Riker at August 25, 2025 11:49 PM (mP0Kj)

236 74 Still reeling from grammie's news today.
Posted by: Mike Hammer at August 25, 2025 10:31 PM (XeU6L)

I missed it - what happened?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at August 25, 2025 11:53 PM (SRRAx)

237 As I said, you lose future value. Some of that future value is being someplace you want to be.
Posted by: clarence at August 25, 2025 11:48 PM (dL2Vj)

The replacement property you buy with the cash payout has future value, too. Or should, if you make a wise buying choice. Construction of the bridge could quite possibly destroy the resale value of the nearby properties not condemned, because of traffic issues. Take the money and run.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2025 11:54 PM (uR5MM)

238 Note, the House at the center of the Kelo case? Yeah, the project was never built... the house just stood there abandoned for years.

I have not kept up with this. Has anyone been detailing changes to the site? Has the property ever been put back into usage of any kind other than growing weeds?

Posted by: clarence at August 25, 2025 11:55 PM (dL2Vj)

239 Power Co sent me a free Alexa. I disassembled it for parts then ran over the balance with my truck, then sealed the remains in a plastic bag and put them in the trash.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 25, 2025 11:42 PM (sB5dv)

This guy goes on The List.

Posted by: Skynet at August 25, 2025 11:56 PM (gKDq2)

240 > Okay, translate please.

And good evening!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 25, 2025 11:39 PM (cPNCv)

"Beto" O'Rourke has been running a Dem slush fund to derail the redistricting effort. He was ordered to shut it down, but refused. He went judge-shopping and got some corrupt judge to overturn the order.

TX Attorney General Paxton prevailed in another court today, and now says he's planning to jail O'Rourke.

You're too pretty to go to jail, Beto.

And a good evening to you as well!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 25, 2025 11:56 PM (qpyNK)

241 Nurse,
Any results from your Doc visit about your BP? Are you gonna end up with the same cocktail of drugs the rest of us have?

Posted by: ChrisP at August 25, 2025 11:57 PM (9i9Oq)

242 >>>and that's where it's going to stay.
-------------------

For the win.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 25, 2025 11:57 PM (sB5dv)

243 Natalie Decker finished 22nd, on the lead lap. No issue with the car. That isn't bad for a new Mom and has struggled in the higher end of stock car racing. She did alright.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 25, 2025 11:57 PM (sAmhv)

244 Natalie Decker finished 22nd, on the lead lap. No issue with the car. That isn't bad for a new Mom and has struggled in the higher end of stock car racing. She did alright.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 25, 2025 11:57 PM (sAmhv)

Well, if she was racing a stock car in a NASCAR race, no wonder she lost. The other guys all run purpose-built race cars.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 26, 2025 12:01 AM (uR5MM)

245
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 25, 2025 11:56 PM (qpyNK)

===========

Ahhh, of course, Beto! lol that guy, as if any of his schemes will work out.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 26, 2025 12:02 AM (cPNCv)

246 Le Monde Infernal
Les Somethings
https://youtu.be/Lc-e-nhRN2o

Mid 1960s French rock with fuzzy guitars.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 26, 2025 12:02 AM (zdKZs)

247 "Beto" O'Rourke has been running a Dem slush fund to derail the redistricting effort. He was ordered to shut it down, but refused. He went judge-shopping and got some corrupt judge to overturn the order.

TX Attorney General Paxton prevailed in another court today, and now says he's planning to jail O'Rourke.

Looks like O'Rourke has not been paying attention. As long as he was just scamming campaign contributions, the state was ignoring him. Now, he thought he could tell them to screw off. So, now he gets to find out.

Posted by: clarence at August 26, 2025 12:05 AM (dL2Vj)

248 So as far as I can tell Germany sentenced Sven Liebich for comparing pure bloods in COVID-fascist Germany to Jews under National Socialist Germany, and opposing immigration.

But remember, we have to hate Russia because they don't have freedom of speech.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2025 12:05 AM (sKqQm)

249 242 Nurse,
Any results from your Doc visit about your BP? Are you gonna end up with the same cocktail of drugs the rest of us have?
Posted by: ChrisP

Yep. That’s pretty much the case. Good thing is, I used to work with the doc occasionally when I worked in primary care and he and his assistant both gave me big hugs. I feel taken care of.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 26, 2025 12:06 AM (mT+6a)

250 Blood cancer is what took my dad out. They have made alot of progress on treating it, but still not a promising prognosis

Posted by: a dude in MI at August 26, 2025 12:09 AM (+I6Y/)

251 How did that history of the Democratic party miss Woody Wilson?

Posted by: tankdemon at August 26, 2025 12:09 AM (R256O)

252 Hey nurse 😊

Thanks for your kind greeting. Hope you are enjoying your beautiful location! Blessings.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 26, 2025 12:10 AM (uvzkM)

253 They continuously elected Gerry Studds for Congress ...
-------

Now, there's a name I haven't thought of in ages.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 26, 2025 12:10 AM (XeU6L)

254 In Russia you can say anything you want to as long as you don't criticize Putin.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 26, 2025 12:11 AM (sB5dv)

255 Good night everyone

Peace

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 26, 2025 12:12 AM (uvzkM)

256 And...I figured out why I needed to do this. The left side inboard frame outrigger which supports the engine mount on its top side, and the front differential on its bottom side, is bent down about a half inch. The differential is sitting canted a little, too. I never really noticed it before, because I really had no expectation of seeing it level. Now that I see it, I can't unsee it. I have no clue how it came to be bent in such a way. I do know that to straighten it would take a big frame machine. Given that it drove just fine in any case, my home-made mounts are as good a fix as any I can do. The engine/transmission/transfer case assembly is in, and solidly secured, and that's where it's going to stay. I have moved on to the rest of install tasks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 25, 2025 11:46 PM (uR5MM)

So, my guess that king kong used the truck to beat a bridge support probably wasn't that far off. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 26, 2025 12:12 AM (snZF9)

257 S FEDERAL HOUSING STATEMENT ON THE FIRING OF LISA COOK:

Thank you President Trump for your commitment to stopping mortgage fraud and following the law. If you commit mortgage fraud in America, we will come after you, no matter who you are.

William J. Pulte
Director

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 26, 2025 12:12 AM (sB5dv)

258 240 Power Co sent me a free Alexa. I disassembled it for parts then ran over the balance with my truck, then sealed the remains in a plastic bag and put them in the trash.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 25, 2025 11:42 PM (sB5dv)

This guy goes on The List.
Posted by: Skynet at August 25, 2025 11:56 PM (gKDq2)

Got a new heater AC unit for the House last winter.... made sure they put in the most absolute basic control unit. No smaht anything, no net access.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2025 12:13 AM (mP0Kj)

259 245 Natalie Decker finished 22nd, on the lead lap. No issue with the car. That isn't bad for a new Mom and has struggled in the higher end of stock car racing. She did alright.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 25, 2025 11:57 PM (sAmhv)

Well, if she was racing a stock car in a NASCAR race, no wonder she lost. The other guys all run purpose-built race cars.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

It identified as a stock car, H8r!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 26, 2025 12:13 AM (sAmhv)

260 Just passing through to say hibye.

MiladyJo and I had a nice feast at Daughter & hubs's place, celebrating Daughter's birthday. Son was there. We didn't bring Daisy Dog, but we did bring delicious peach pie Milady made. Very nice.

Now I have to quit eating and drinking so that tomorrow the doctors can shove things into my heart. Whoopie. At least they don't ask me to be there until 9:30. Usually, they want to get to me at Ungawdly Early o'clock. Living an hour away from the horsepittle, that can be rough. Worse in the winter when those hours are dark.

Meanwhile, prayers for Grammie Winger; that was a jolt to read this morning. Just when the Rev seems about past his troubles. Life ain't nohow fair.

https://youtu.be/eeGRabdYwnQ

And so, g'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - all's fare on the ferry at August 26, 2025 12:13 AM (i1iCx)

261
Lisa Cook is a totally unqualified DEI hire. Jethro Bodine would be more qualified for the job.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 26, 2025 12:14 AM (w6EFb)

262 Reading more about the German Socialist response to COVID I see they had their own version of the fake Whitmer kidnapping. The FNM there claimed there was a plot to assassinate a political leader in Saxony.

The "plotters" where found with "weapons" such as phones, computers and...a crossbow.

Noting says serious political mayhem like having a crossbow...or a phone

Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2025 12:14 AM (sKqQm)

263 255 In Russia you can say anything you want to as long as you don't criticize Putin.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 26, 2025 12:11 AM (sB5dv)

But I never thought that the question of who had more Freedom of Speech, Russia or England... could be a serious question.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 26, 2025 12:15 AM (mP0Kj)

264 Wild Theories Abound Over Gigantic "Comet" Careening Through Our Solar System In The Fall
-------------------

It's bigger than Manhattan. We're all going to die.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 26, 2025 12:15 AM (sB5dv)

265 Mass Daily News@MassDailyNews

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked images obtained by Mass Daily News show a Boston Fire lieutenant’s Milton home hiding an alleged “gun cave” — with what appears to be a 200-foot basement firing range.

Prosecutors say he was preparing for “some type of conflict.”

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 26, 2025 12:17 AM (TGPs7)

266 So the FNM that cheered on the abjectly political prosecution of Donald Trump is livid he fired a fed governor for a little thing like mortgage fraud.

I suspect this is going to backfire on the FNM hard. Going to the public and telling them Trump is trying to lower interest rates by prosecuting important finance people for what are...for them...minor crimes...isn't going to play well in Peoria.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2025 12:18 AM (sKqQm)

267 But I never thought that the question of who had more Freedom of Speech, Russia or England... could be a serious question.

Hey, Germany is in this discussion too...along with half of Germany

Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2025 12:19 AM (sKqQm)

268 err half of Europe

Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2025 12:20 AM (sKqQm)

269 Noting says serious political mayhem like having a crossbow...or a phone
Posted by: 18-1

Everyone knows it's a crossbow and a fan.

https://youtu.be/lJxhRaPGvEA

Posted by: Mike Keneally & Beer for Dolphins at August 26, 2025 12:21 AM (DgGvY)

270 Italy as the protagonist for freedom in western Europe was not on the radar. Poland yeah, but that Three Seas Initiative doesn't seem to be getting off the ground.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 26, 2025 12:23 AM (sB5dv)

271 Wild Theories Abound Over Gigantic "Comet" Careening Through Our Solar System In The Fall
-------------------

It's bigger than Manhattan. We're all going to die.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 26, 2025 12:15 AM (sB5dv)

Before or after the election?

Just want to know if I should hope for the best or cheer it on.

Posted by: RickZ at August 26, 2025 12:25 AM (gKDq2)

272 31 Evening everyone. Thx Doof. The 1982 Milwaukee Brewers who won the AL pennant had one of the great nicknames ever. Their manager was Harvey Kuehn and the team hit a lot of homers so the team was called Harvey's Wallbangers

And those of us beered-up bums in the left field bleachers were known as “Uecker’s Pukers”

PS: decided to create a new nic to more accurately describe my real purpose in life

Posted by: Insensitive Clod at August 26, 2025 12:27 AM (m9PJ/)

273 >>Boston Fire lieutenant’s Milton home hiding an alleged “gun cave”

Where's MisHum when you need him? A WI state legislator Up North Dere had one of those -- damned if I can remember his name.

Posted by: lurk at August 26, 2025 12:31 AM (7IOVT)

274 So, my guess that king kong used the truck to beat a bridge support probably wasn't that far off. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 26, 2025 12:12 AM (snZF9)

Hah! Quite possibly. Maybe some previous owner took it over a jump, and it had a hard landing, and both engine weight and differential weight tweaked the left frame outrigger. No visible kinks or cracks. Body of the truck is nice and straight, too.

I am happy with my solution for this problem. I expect the truck will drive fine, as it did before the engine and transmission crapped out.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 26, 2025 12:31 AM (uR5MM)

275 First Human Case Of Flesh-Eating Screwworm Detected In Sanctuary State Of Maryland

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 26, 2025 12:32 AM (y3EmU)

276 Meanwhile.

Cal Raleigh hit his 50th home run this season.

He’s a catcher.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 26, 2025 12:36 AM (mT+6a)

277 275 First Human Case Of Flesh-Eating Screwworm Detected In Sanctuary State Of Maryland
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 26, 2025 12:32 AM (y3EmU)

Has anyone offered them vegan options? It seems judgmental to refer to them as flesh-eating without knowing more about the extent to which their dietary habits are constrained by caucasian-centric heteronormative conceptions of nutrition.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 26, 2025 12:36 AM (Pr4qS)

278 265 Mass Daily News@MassDailyNews

EXCLUSIVE: Leaked images obtained by Mass Daily News show a Boston Fire lieutenant’s Milton home hiding an alleged “gun cave” — with what appears to be a 200-foot basement firing range.

Prosecutors say he was preparing for “some type of conflict.”
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 26, 2025 12:17 AM (TGPs7)

***

Sheesh.
I'd just call that a well.designed man cave.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 26, 2025 12:36 AM (2WIwB)

279
Here's a little .gif graphic of 3I/ATLAS's trajectory on Wiki:
https://tinyurl.com/28skhs4u

It will make fairly close approaches to Mars and Jupiter, but nowhere near Earth, closest approach there being 1.8 AU.

It's interstellar and moving like a bat out of hell. Note the hyperbola there is almost a straight line, so fast it's moving.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 26, 2025 12:38 AM (w6EFb)

280
Avi Loeb is going even crazier with this. I see he now says there's a "40% chance" it's an alien ship.

Dude....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 26, 2025 12:40 AM (w6EFb)

281 First Human Case Of Flesh-Eating Screwworm Detected In Sanctuary State Of Maryland
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 26, 2025 12:32 AM (y3EmU)

They need horse paste.

Posted by: Reforger at August 26, 2025 12:44 AM (e81a+)

282 Trump teases about changing the name of DoD back to the War Department.

Make it so, Donald. Make it so.

I don't think we've conclusively won a single war since that change took effect, have we?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 26, 2025 12:45 AM (qpyNK)

283 3I/ATLAS may be an alien interstellar craft touring this section of the galaxy. In which case the pilot has taken a good look at earth and said to his passenger, "Lock the doors honey. We are getting out of this neighborhood, right now". I

Posted by: Engineer at August 26, 2025 12:46 AM (jGCIA)

284 220 Trumpster Natalie Decker and her baby drove for trump in the xfinity race at daytona. She got up to 10th place before her car quite, just like trump quites on all trumpsters!

Posted by: raimondo at August 25, 2025 11:42 PM (h6qBU)
- - - - - -- -
Now, raimondo, can you show us on this doll where Brandon touched you? It's okay, you don't have to be afraid, this is a safe place...

Posted by: Planet of the Japes at August 26, 2025 12:47 AM (rBQrx)

285 Gerry Studds.
Ken Buck.

It seems the stronger the ridiculous name the more faggotry arises.

Counterpoint

Harvey Milk.

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at August 26, 2025 12:53 AM (F/35S)

286 It will make fairly close approaches to Mars and Jupiter, but nowhere near Earth, closest approach there being 1.8 AU.

It's interstellar and moving like a bat out of hell. Note the hyperbola there is almost a straight line, so fast it's moving.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 26, 2025 12:38 AM (w6EFb)

Any chance of gravitational interactions with Mars or Jupiter, or their moons? Or with asteroids?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 26, 2025 12:53 AM (uR5MM)

287 I'm pretty sure I saw Judas Priest in Atlanta at an outdoor venue in the late 70s but being the 70s it's a bit hazy in the old memory bank...remember kids, if you recollect the 70s, you probably weren't there...

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at August 26, 2025 12:53 AM (y7zkd)

288 >> Any chance of gravitational interactions with Mars or Jupiter, or their moons? Or with asteroids?

Not really. There will be some tiny perturbation, but it won't be much given the comet's high heliocentric velocity.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 26, 2025 12:54 AM (w6EFb)

289 276 Meanwhile.

Cal Raleigh hit his 50th home run this season.

He’s a catcher.
--------------------
The one's with Big Dumpers usually are.
Ew.
I denounce myself.

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at August 26, 2025 12:55 AM (F/35S)

290 20 Dr. T, exactly my reaction. I was choking at the sight - they KNOW it's faked, but they can't even stop themselves from following the trans rules.
Posted by: RandomDave

Or as they used to say in the Mother Country.."We pretend to work & they pretend to pay us!"

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at August 26, 2025 12:55 AM (y7zkd)

291
They did some spectroscopy on the coma of 3I/ATLAS with James Webb, and it's quite different than normal comets. One would expect this for ancient interstellar wanderer.

Very high CO2 content, and a good bit of heavy CO2 with Carbon-13, but the error bars on the ratio are pretty high so far.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 26, 2025 12:58 AM (w6EFb)

292 If that thing hit Mars it could knock of pieces that would fly right back at earth.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 26, 2025 12:59 AM (y3EmU)

293 262 Noting says serious political mayhem like having a crossbow...or a phone

Phones need to be highly regulated. No one has a need for a tactical assault phone. You don't use that to hunt. Phones should be regulated by the government and chained to the wall if you absolutely have to have one.

Wait a minute, we tried that already.

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at August 26, 2025 12:59 AM (F/35S)

294
Closest approach to Mars will be about 0.2 AU, which is roughly 18M miles.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 26, 2025 01:00 AM (w6EFb)

295 Closest approach to Mars will be about 0.2 AU, which is roughly 18M miles.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 26, 2025 01:00 AM (w6EFb)

Will this comet be visible as a naked-eye object?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 26, 2025 01:07 AM (uR5MM)

296
What would be really cool is to have a probe make a close flyby and see this thing up close. Even better would be to get a sample of it and bring it back. This thing is likely far older than the solar system by billions of years. It could be as old as the Milky Way itself, some relic of the very earliest stars that formed. Having of piece of that material to analyze completely would be amazing.

However, catching that thing now would require more delta-v than any rocket we have.

There are some mission proposals to have some probes in sort of a ring in heliocentric orbit, ready to maneuver for flyby for the next such wanderer that comes in.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 26, 2025 01:09 AM (w6EFb)

297 > Flesh-Eating Screwworm

Dated her.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 26, 2025 01:10 AM (qpyNK)

298 > Prosecutors say he was preparing for “some type of conflict.”
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 26, 2025 12:17 AM (TGPs7)

What the Lower 48 calls an "arsenal", we call "the hall closet".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 26, 2025 01:12 AM (qpyNK)

299 Isn’t 3I/ATLAS traveling out of plane with respect to the solar system? In order to have close interactions with Mars and Jupiter, wouldn’t it have to be at least roughly co-planar to both planets? What angle does the plane of its trajectory make with respect to the planes of the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 26, 2025 01:13 AM (0Mn7M)

300 >> Will this comet be visible as a naked-eye object?

I looked that up. It won't. At it's brightest, it will be about ~11.5, very dim.

Now, some amateurs with some very fancy equipment may be able to see it, and I'm sure they will try.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 26, 2025 01:14 AM (w6EFb)

301 >> What angle does the plane of its trajectory make with respect to the planes of the orbits of Mars and Jupiter?

It's about 5 degrees inclination to the ecliptic, and coming in retrograde. Right now, it's above the ecliptic, and will be below on the outbound leg.

There's some 3D maps of the trajectory out there. I'll see if I can find a good one.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 26, 2025 01:15 AM (w6EFb)

302 Good night, all.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 26, 2025 01:17 AM (qpyNK)

303 We should hit it with nukes. Our space program is dullsville. We never go anywhere, and if something gets blowed up real good, it's always us, all inadvertent like. Let make things exciting again, by teaching this rock a lesson it will not soon forget.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 26, 2025 01:18 AM (Pr4qS)

304 A commercial restaurant running our of mayonnaise? How is this even remotely possible - frankly, I almost understand that guy's rage. Couldn't they just send a busboy to the corner store?

Posted by: Publius Redux at August 26, 2025 01:19 AM (Gu66x)

305 Five degrees out of plane is somewhat aligned. If it were more closely aligned and interstellar in origin, I’d be more suspicious of it!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 26, 2025 01:20 AM (0Mn7M)

306 Oh - and the top picture looks like Bermuda - or potentially the west coast of Florida somewhere.

Anyone know where it is?

Posted by: Publius Redux at August 26, 2025 01:20 AM (Gu66x)

307
Here you go:

https://tinyurl.com/2ckzwubc

Click and drag on that. It will come in above Mars at closest approach, and below Jupiter.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 26, 2025 01:21 AM (w6EFb)

308 >> If it were more closely aligned and interstellar in origin, I’d be more suspicious of it!

5 degrees is close enough for Avi Loeb. His other points, are in came in from the backside of the "Sol's Way", the direction the Sun is moving through the Galaxy, the close approach to Jupiter and Mars, and Venus.

The big suspicious thing to Avi is that perihelion will be behind the Sun relative to us, so we can't see it. The perfect time to execute a sneaky orbital insertion maneuver. Slow down and whip around and put yourself on a course toward earth. That would be retrograde, coming right toward us very fast, giving us little time to react. :-)

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 26, 2025 01:29 AM (w6EFb)

309 Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 26, 2025 01:10 AM (qpyNK)
-------
I'm pretty sure I'm about to off you.... I have never played the older Assassin's creed games... I'm hitting them one-by-one. I'm on #2 and I think it's building up to killing Rodrigo Borgia.

It's you or me, pal!

Posted by: 496 at August 26, 2025 01:32 AM (kTtsV)

310
Ooooh. There's the Juno probe around Jupiter. It still has enough fuel. There's a proposal to repurpose it for a flyby of 3I/Atlas. That would men abandoning the current Jupiter mission for this sole purpose of getting close to 3I/Atlas.

They may do it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 26, 2025 01:40 AM (w6EFb)

311 Natalie Decker is adorable rainmondo you degenerate

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 26, 2025 01:42 AM (WF/xn)

312 Hey Horde, I got mired in the content and I am tired enough to grab some sleep. Sweet dreams to all of you.

Posted by: Bob Hope at August 26, 2025 01:44 AM (0nHVk)

313 Better remove the sock before I hit the hay/

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 26, 2025 01:46 AM (0nHVk)

314 https://tinyurl.com/y3yn7hmm
A very good 20 Posts from.Doug Ross Substack

Posted by: Skip at August 26, 2025 01:55 AM (+qU29)

315 What the Lower 48 calls an "arsenal", we call "the hall closet".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 26, 2025 01:12 AM (qpyNK)

This.

DH has considered getting a gun safe, but then, how would we grab the one we wanted in time to...

Well, you know.

Plus, we like looking at them.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at August 26, 2025 01:56 AM (1Gsou)

316 if you can catch it.

smiley face

Posted by: my new indian name at August 26, 2025 01:56 AM (FSP3j)

317 276 Meanwhile.

Cal Raleigh hit his 50th home run this season.

He’s a catcher.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 26, 2025 12:36 AM (mT+6a)

I have tried mightily to keep track of the Mariners this season, in deference to my location and my sister's predilection for them, but honestly, they list AK as "in market" and won't show the damned games. Like I'm gonna just fly three hours down to see a game and fly back that evening. Yeah. That's the ticket.

If they want to sell the merch, they need to be available to the folks.

I guess I'll stick with the Brewers this year. It appears Ueck is looking down and orchestrating a fine run a the World Series. At long last. God Bless him.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of Alaska at August 26, 2025 02:01 AM (1Gsou)

318
Hell, just reading, Juno's official end of mission is in September, and, unless it got a mission extension (and funding), they were planning on crashing it into Jupiter at the end of Sept anyway.

So hell yeah, use it to intercept the damn thing. There's some question if the old engine could still relight and make the maneuver (perfectly timed slingshot out of Jovian orbit, after plane adjustments), but it should have enough fuel.

The big political thing is Avi Loeb himself is proposing doing this, and they may oppose it just to spite him due to the "I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's aliens" stuff.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 26, 2025 02:06 AM (w6EFb)

319 AOP knows astrology.
Where were all the planets when you were born?
Physics and gravity (and water).
god bless you all
and good luck

Posted by: my new indian name at August 26, 2025 02:18 AM (FSP3j)

320
Juno's main engine hasn't been fired since 2016, over 9 years ago. But it should have just enough fuel. About 2.4 km/s delta-v is needed. Maneuver would have to be precise. Adjust the orbital plane, then lower perijove at just the right time. At perijove, fire that main engine wide open and burn all the fuel left.

If it works, you get Juno on a trajectory to pass right by 3I/Atlas at its closest approach to Jupiter. Relative velocity would be high, but you'd get close.

This is a once in a no-telling how many lifetimes opportunity to probe an ancient relic of the galaxy.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 26, 2025 02:26 AM (w6EFb)

321 When I was born, the planets were all in their orbits, as indeed they are now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 26, 2025 02:33 AM (uR5MM)

322 You know, had I realized 3 or 4 days ago, that the frame inrigger on the 'burb was bent, I could have just assembled the new stock-type motor mount to the left side of the engine, and left it unfastened to the frame. Jack the engine up until it was level, and find a suitable shim to fill the gap. Maybe a slab of aluminum or steel a half-inch thick would have done it. Drill and tap holes for bolts coming up through frame from below, and down through the mount clamshell from the top, and Bob's your uncle.

Oh well. It would have been just my luck that the bolt holes top and bottom would overlap a little, anyway. Not going to rethink it now. What I have built should work, and even looks good.

And it's past midnight, and I need to sleep. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 26, 2025 02:42 AM (qNM55)

323 Watched a video of celestial events in the next 1p,000 years, planets lining up, moon closer than usual kind of stuff.

Posted by: Skip at August 26, 2025 03:42 AM (+qU29)

324 I thought I read in these parts that the moon was moving away from us about an inch or so each year.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 26, 2025 03:46 AM (hubkZ)

325 I'll watch the moon closely and let you all know next Labor day if it's true

Posted by: JM in Illinois at August 26, 2025 03:48 AM (hubkZ)

326 I saw Rob Halford do a set with Black Sabbath in 2004. Ozzy was unable to perform for whatever reason (ha). Sharon Osbourne called Halford, who had already done a set earlier that day with Judas Priest (this was the Ozzfest tour). Halford came back to the venue from his hotel and did a truncated Sabbath set. I was disappointed not to see Ozzy, but I admired Halford for his effort.

I saw a reference to Iron Maiden up above. I liked them until they began to turn into the metal version of Rush. I moved on to Metallica and Slayer, lol.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at August 26, 2025 03:49 AM (xverI)

327 Yesterday, something in St. Louis went BOOM!

https://tinyurl.com/bdmbppxd

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 26, 2025 03:51 AM (E+OH8)

328
The Moon's orbit is a complex, many splendored thing. Due to tidal interaction, the Moon's long term semi-major axis is slowly receding, somewhere around 3.2 cm/yr or something like that. And gradually slowly the earth's rotation down.

However, that's a long term average. Over shorter time scales, due to all the perturbations, the Moon's semi-major axis varies, bouncing up and down.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 26, 2025 03:53 AM (w6EFb)

329
Good wiki page on the lunar distance:
https://tinyurl.com/28a8qxd6

Over 6000 years, from 3000BC to 3000AD, there's a plot of the range of perigee and apogee variation, showing the extremes.

From Meeus, using a time range of 1500BC to 8000AD, we have the following extremes. Closest perigee was 356 352.93 km on November 13, 1054 BC (Julian) and the farthest apogee will be 406 719.97 km on January 7, 2266 AD (Gregorian). That's over 9500 years.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 26, 2025 04:09 AM (w6EFb)

330 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO REFER TO HIM AS "HER."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 26, 2025 04:20 AM (ZmEVT)

331 330 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO REFER TO HIM AS "HER."
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 26, 2025 04:20 AM (ZmEVT)

Thank you, BEN.

Posted by: m at August 26, 2025 04:24 AM (aURVT)

332 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at August 26, 2025 04:31 AM (aURVT)

333 My first concert was Judas Priest in January 1983 at the Duluth Coliseum for the "Screaming for Vengeance" tour. I submit that it's not even remotely possible to have a better first-concert experience than Priest.

Posted by: JV at August 26, 2025 08:56 AM (GKOEm)

334 i/r to judas priest... i just grabbed a dvd called heavy metal parking lot. basically pre- show outside the arena in jersey near d.c. circa '86. very period, very local. idiocy and sexy too.

Posted by: cmeat at August 26, 2025 12:49 PM (LgQ89)

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