The Week In Woke

Some housekeeping: I posted a video of a professor cancelling a class because of the important news that Taylor Swift got engaged. It turns out it was a "skit." He's some kind of gay-ass "professor of social media" and this was an exercise to... do something. I don't know. It's stupid, who cares.

Note that he's an expert on social media but I, on the other hand, am not.

The woke Stasi loses again: American Eagle stock up 25% after Sydney Sweeney "white supremacy" ad.

American Eagle stock surged 25% after its earnings report Wednesday, with its CEO thanking the controversial Sydney Sweeney "Good Jeans" ad campaign for boosting brand awareness and profit.
"The fall season is off to a positive start. Fueled by stronger product offerings and the success of recent marketing campaigns with Sydney Sweeney and Travis Kelce, we have seen an uptick in customer awareness, engagement and comparable sales," American Eagle Outfitters CEO Jay Schottenstein said on Wednesday in an earnings release statement.
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The company said in its earnings call on Wednesday that Sweeney's jean collaborations with the company "sold out within a week" and that some of those items had sold out within a day.
"(Sweeney) is a winner, and in just six weeks, the campaign has generated unprecedented new customer acquisition," chief marketing officer Craig Brommers said during the earnings call.

A Catholic university sent psychology students to intern at a trans clinic for five year olds.

A Catholic university in California is facing criticism for its partnership with the County of Santa Clara Behavioral Health Services Gender Affirming Care Clinic, which offers transgender services to children as young as 5 years old.
Naomi Best, a former counseling graduate student at Santa Clara University, brought attention to the partnership between the private, Catholic school and the clinic in a post recently on X.
"Just confirmed: Santa Clara U trains therapy students to give 'gender-affirming' counseling to kids as young as 5 at a state-funded clinic that hands out free binders and does affirming garment fittings with no parent consent required," Best wrote.
"Most 5-year-olds are learning to tie shoes, print letters, and ride a bike without training wheels. This is modern therapy training," she wrote. Best didn't respond to The College Fix's requests for comment.

Blue cities are losing hundreds of millions to scam lawsuits which they are unwilling to fight.

One of the underlying narratives of this year's Los Angeles wildfires is that just before the flames broke out, the city had cut fire department funding during a budget crunch. What drove that fiscal emergency? Hundreds of millions in unexpected legal payouts. This year alone, lawsuit liabilities will cost the city more than the wildfires themselves.
But Los Angeles isn't alone. A wave of litigation--unleashed by bad legislation, unfavorable court rulings, and officials' eagerness to settle--is driving liability costs sky-high in cities across the country. New York City paid out nearly $2 billion in claims last fiscal year, a one-year jump of almost $500 million. Chicago's payouts are nearly double what the city budgeted for settlements and judgments. Because most cities are self-insured, it's taxpayers who ultimately foot the bill.
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In Chicago, officials estimate the city will pay around $160 million in judgments this fiscal year, nearly double the $82 million it has budgeted. Some critics say the administration is its own worst enemy, frequently settling lawsuits on generous terms rather than choosing to litigate. In one case, the city paid $5 million to a woman who developed frostbite after being locked out of her apartment, even though police said she had refused their help. "We have to learn that some situations, while tragic, are not our fault," said Alderman Raymond Lopez. "They are not the responsibility of taxpayers."

They're all eager to spend millions to fight Trump, of course.

Ohio State University has done a great thing: they've banned "land acknowledgements" at most (though not all) official university functions.

Ohio State University has banned the widespread use of land acknowledgements, citing a relatively new state law that cracks down on diversity, equity and inclusion. The only caveat is if the land acknowledgement has a direct tie to the subject of a course, the policy states.
"Land acknowledgements are considered statements on behalf of an issue or cause and cannot be issued on behalf of a unit, college, department, etc., used at university-sponsored events (virtual or in person) or placed on any university channel or resource such as websites, social media, signage, meeting or event agendas, event programs, etc.," according to the new policy, announced in late August.
"Land acknowledgements should not be used in written class materials or stated verbally unless there is a direct tie to the subject of the course," the policy states. "Ohio State respects the history of the state and university and will continue to engage in research, academic scholarship, conversations and opportunities to honor this history, but will not issue statements taking a position on, endorsing, opposing or engaging in advocacy or calls to action around this."

The DOJ is suing blue states over lower tuition for illegal aliens, discriminating against US citizens to favor foreigners.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing the state of Illinois for providing in-state tuition rates to illegal alien students, marking the first time the administration has targeted a blue state for the practice.
Illinois became the fifth state targeted by the administration over tuition benefits for noncitizens, joining Kentucky, Texas, Oklahoma, and Minnesota. Unlike the others, Illinois stands out as the first Democratic stronghold to be targeted.
In each case, the DOJ argues that offering reduced tuition rates to non-citizens violates federal immigration law, discriminates against American citizens, and incentivizes further illegal immigration.
Last month, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker signed House Bill 460 into law, granting illegal aliens "access to taxpayer-funded scholarships, grants and stipends."
"Illinois has an apparent desire to win a 'race to the bottom' as the country's leading sanctuary state. Its misguided approach mandating in-state tuition, scholarships, and financial aid to illegal aliens plainly violates federal law," U.S. Attorney Steven D. Weinhoeft for the Southern District of Illinois wrote in the press release.

Two Virginia school districts are suing the Department of Education, determined to continue allowing boys in girls' bathrooms and girls' sports, despite Trump's perfectly-legal redefinition of "sex" back to, you know, its actual definition.

On Friday, Fairfax County and Arlington County schools sued the Trump administration after being warned their policies on bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports violated federal civil rights law. The Washington Post reports that both districts allow students to access facilities based on gender identity rather than biological sex, a practice the Department of Education says strips protection from girls and directly conflicts with Title IX.
The Department announced on August 19 that both districts had been given a "high-risk" status, meaning nearly $200 million in federal aid could be on the line. That money supports free meals, counseling, and special education services, but McMahon says the real issue is whether schools can take taxpayer dollars while openly ignoring federal law.
In a Friday X post, McMahon accused the districts of prioritizing ideology over academics and vowed to defend protections for girls in bathrooms, locker rooms, and athletics.
"It's disturbing that these Virginia school division leaders are fighting harder to keep boys in girls' sports and bathrooms than they are to improve outcomes for students," McMahon wrote in the post, telling the districts "See you in Court."

"What we found contradicts the negative messages that I had come across: Married mothers are actually happier than unmarried women & married women without children.. [even controlling] for age, family income, and education." @jean_twenge https://t.co/cy9aq2wD4X @FamStudies
— Brad Wilcox (@BradWilcoxIFS) September 3, 2025

BREAKING: Brave students at a Temecula Valley middle school (@TVUSD) in CA stage a walkout to PROTEST the district's woke policies that allow MALES to invade the FEMALE restrooms.

THESE KIDS ARE INCREDIBLE 👏 pic.twitter.com/h4QyqIk4fa
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 2, 2025

A truly vile transgender teacher in Colorado. Content warning, it's disgusting.

JUST IN: Dearborn Heights Police Department in Michigan has just revealed America's first police badge to feature Arabic writing, in order to "reflect and honor the diversity of our community." pic.twitter.com/AhdYfYWHjo
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 4, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 06:24 PM

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1 Nooded.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 05, 2025 06:25 PM (u82oZ)

2 Woke woked woken

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 05, 2025 06:25 PM (U1FmN)

3 Whose side is the Dearborn Heights Police Department on? Not Americas.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 05, 2025 06:26 PM (u82oZ)

4 Sharia police!!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 05, 2025 06:27 PM (Il1HA)

5 He's some kind of gay-ass "professor of social media" and this was an exercise to... do something. I don't know. It's stupid, who cares.
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Fake? Check.
Gay? Check.

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 06:27 PM (GoBh/)

6 {{{ vmom deport deport deport }}}

Take off the e and use sesame seed oil.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 05, 2025 06:27 PM (u82oZ)

7 Doesn't the Style Guide mandate THE prefix any mention of THE Ohio State University?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 05, 2025 06:28 PM (0sNs1)

8 "The Great American Melting Pot...."

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 06:28 PM (xcxpd)

9 I still do not get land acknowledgement. It seems like the most vapid and pointless twaddle.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 05, 2025 06:28 PM (zZu0s)

10 Speaking of woke, I was happy when a woke exec where I work resigned to go work for her dream job at Planned Parentlessness.

So they hire a replacement, and guess what, it's someone who used to work at PP.

*bangs head on desk*

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 05, 2025 06:28 PM (U1FmN)

11 County of Santa Clara Behavioral Health Services Gender Affirming Care Clinic
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Fake? Check.
Gay? Check.

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 06:29 PM (GoBh/)

12 awww...didn't make in before the shit eating troll...

Ah well.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 06:29 PM (xcxpd)

13 The biggest long term effect of 911 was a massive influx of Muslim immigrants because the US is so racist or something. Anyway. Sharia police in Dearborn

Posted by: brak at September 05, 2025 06:29 PM (vxsuo)

14 FoxNews showed them changing the name on a building.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless

Is it pronounced THEE Ohio State University or
THAH Ohio State University

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 05, 2025 06:30 PM (U1FmN)

15 Nooded.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 05, 2025 06:25 PM

* pipes NaCly Dog aboard the Thread *

Sorry, NaCly Dog, but all the sideboys were called to Cap'n Ned's stateroom for an emergency DEI seminar.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 05, 2025 06:30 PM (0sNs1)

16 Salty, dinner is pancakes per KTE request

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 05, 2025 06:30 PM (U1FmN)

17 Why are these self-aggrandizing statements called land acknowledgements?

Posted by: davidt at September 05, 2025 06:31 PM (i0F8b)

18 Eric Adams has designated Muhammed's birthday a NYC holiday.

https://x.com/AmyMek/status/1964063310514647219

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at September 05, 2025 06:31 PM (paSBy)

19 awww...didn't make in before the shit eating troll...

Ah well.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 06:29 PM (xcxpd)

May you love a woman some day, man, like Alias loves his fleshlight furry mold of ace's ass.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 05, 2025 06:31 PM (zZu0s)

20 Mcdonalds also has shitty food.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 05, 2025 06:32 PM (zZu0s)

21 Speaking of woke, I was happy when a woke exec where I work resigned to go work for her dream job at Planned Parentlessness.

So they hire a replacement, and guess what, it's someone who used to work at PP.

*bangs head on desk*
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 05, 2025 06:28 PM (U1FmN)
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Must be some sort of revolving door program between your company and PP.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 05, 2025 06:32 PM (IBQGV)

22 Sharia?

Paterson, NJ says "Hold our Halal drink of choice"

https://is.gd/l9KhoJ

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 05, 2025 06:32 PM (PiwSw)

23 Oh, copy pasta error

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 05, 2025 06:32 PM (U1FmN)

24 The world is insane.
Embrace the Word.

He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting
in the Lord. Psalm 112: 7

Posted by: Kingsman at September 05, 2025 06:32 PM (ehY6c)

25 Ace: "Note that he's an expert on social media but I, on the other hand, am not."

I shan't accept that. I shannot. You are a terrific, expert military blogger. And you are on social media. Ergo, you are an expert on social media. Ipso facto.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at September 05, 2025 06:32 PM (gLikB)

26 Must be some sort of revolving door program between your company and PP.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Seems that way!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 05, 2025 06:33 PM (U1FmN)

27 A San Francisco-based federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump Administration from canceling Protected Status for 1.1 million Venezuelans and Haitians.

US District Judge Edward Chen, an Obama appointee, acknowledged the Supreme Court’s ruling but claimed the high court did not bar him from adjudicating the case on the merits.

Posted by: Crusader at September 05, 2025 06:33 PM (TN0g+)

28 The world is insane.
Embrace the Word.

He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting
in the Lord. Psalm 112: 7
Posted by: Kingsman at September 05, 2025 06:32 PM (ehY6c)
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Amen.

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 06:33 PM (GoBh/)

29 Wait, why the fuck are foreign citizens without student visas allowed to apply to ANY college or university PERIOD? That is a slap to any U.S. citizen OR any foreign citizen who played by the rules to study here.

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 05, 2025 06:33 PM (dk5j5)

30 "Note that he's an expert on social media but I, on the other hand, am not."

Yeah, well, like, how's his shelving?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 05, 2025 06:33 PM (0sNs1)

31 Whenever I visit a new piece of land, I like to acknowledge it with a tip of my hat.

Is that wrong?

Posted by: No Name Today at September 05, 2025 06:34 PM (vlXMQ)

32 Doesn't the Style Guide mandate THE prefix any mention of THE Ohio State University?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 05, 2025 06:28 PM (0sNs1)

they should realize that insisting on false titles demeans you.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:34 PM (8avO+)

33 19 awww...didn't make in before the shit eating troll...

Ah well.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 06:29 PM (xcxpd)

May you love a woman some day, man, like Alias loves his fleshlight furry mold of ace's ass.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 05, 2025 06:31 PM (zZu0s)

I can only dream of such passion at my age now

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 06:34 PM (xcxpd)

34 In re "land acknowledgements": if you aren't giving the land back, STFU

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 05, 2025 06:35 PM (Ah2Jt)

35 >> As I've mentioned, I'm on day four of my fast. I know that days 2-4 are the worst days and that at some point, hunger largely just extenuates.

Ace, I think you’re secretly Gandhi. Only he fasts as much as you. Well, he did. Now he’s dead. Maybe it was all the fasting…

Posted by: Marcus T at September 05, 2025 06:35 PM (mCdsz)

36 Wait, why the fuck are foreign citizens without student visas allowed to apply to ANY college or university PERIOD? That is a slap to any U.S. citizen OR any foreign citizen who played by the rules to study here.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 05, 2025 06:33 PM (dk5j5)

Its probably best to avoid universities that do this entirely.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:35 PM (8avO+)

37 I was just told by someone that when OSHA came to their business last time it was a trans person. I bet if you affirmed their being trans they'd wouldn't fine you as much.

I was also told that when OSHA came to their store about 15 years ago the person asked what happens if I say no, the response was I'm here alone today but if you make me come back I'm bringing a team and we will tear this place apart. So the government uses mob tactics openly.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 05, 2025 06:36 PM (Cg3Gl)

38 A Catholic university in California is facing criticism for its partnership with the County of Santa Clara Behavioral Health Services Gender Affirming Care Clinic, which offers transgender services to children as young as 5 years old.

That's demonic. People need to be jailed and/or shipped by ice floe to far away seas.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at September 05, 2025 06:36 PM (gLikB)

39 In re "land acknowledgements": if you aren't giving the land back, STFU
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 05, 2025 06:35 PM (Ah2Jt)

and since they aren't the owners either, double shut up.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:36 PM (8avO+)

40 There needs to be a tuition tariff.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 05, 2025 06:36 PM (VPtfc)

41 A truly vile transgender teacher in Colorado. Content warning, it's disgusting.

In the link it says that it is a music teacher.

God help those poor kids trying to learn about music from this freak show.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 06:37 PM (6ydKt)

42 Maybe it was all the fasting…
Posted by: Marcus T

To be fair, the hunger really subsides after death

Posted by: Kratwurst at September 05, 2025 06:37 PM (fcDpY)

43 A Catholic university in California is facing criticism for its partnership with the County of Santa Clara Behavioral Health Services Gender Affirming Care Clinic, which offers transgender services to children as young as 5 years old.

That's demonic. People need to be jailed and/or shipped by ice floe to far away seas.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at September 05, 2025 06:36 PM (gLikB)

its not Catholic for one thing. We didn't fight abortion to start on toddlers.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:37 PM (8avO+)

44 Doesn't the Style Guide mandate THE prefix any mention of THE Ohio State University?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at September 05, 2025 06:28 PM (0sNs1)
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Bucknut U.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 06:38 PM (ZOv7s)

45 Greta von Susteren says she cares not for the name change of def. dept to The War Department. That's not who we are she added. Fetal position Greta, with a pacifier.

Posted by: Kingsman at September 05, 2025 06:38 PM (ehY6c)

46 A truly vile transgender teacher in Colorado. Content warning, it's disgusting.

In the link it says that it is a music teacher.

God help those poor kids trying to learn about music from this freak show.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 06:37 PM (6ydKt)

the sunny, perky lady music teachers were bad enough in my day.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:38 PM (8avO+)

47 I'm standing on this podium over a stage, raised from the cement slab base, of a building built on land.

-- My land acknowledgement.

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 06:38 PM (GoBh/)

48 I made it 24 hours without eating. Still not hungry.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 05, 2025 06:38 PM (VPtfc)

49 CaliGirl, Newsom's land give away is hopefully not going to affect you.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 05, 2025 06:38 PM (mFSH6)

50 Land acknowledgements, tranny groomers, and Islamopopo, oh my!

There will be no national divorce. There is only Bosnia.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 06:39 PM (i24o9)

51 Geez. 1.5 hours to mow the front, side and backyard on a fast zero turn mower.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 06:40 PM (VSujA)

52 So the government uses mob tactics openly.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 05, 2025 06:36 PM (Cg3Gl)

Part and parcel with just about any government at one time or another. It's one of the downsides of the state monopoly on violence; sooner or later it will be abused.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 06:40 PM (6ydKt)

53 Maybe Greta should write PDT a letter and tell him what she thinks.

Posted by: fd at September 05, 2025 06:40 PM (vFG9F)

54 I still do not get land acknowledgement. It seems like the most vapid and pointless twaddle.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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It is rather amusing to hear pasty white librarians try to pronounce "Xwi7xwa" and "xʷməθkʷəy̓əm"

Posted by: screaming in digital at September 05, 2025 06:41 PM (16V99)

55 Are they giving back the occupied territories of asia minor?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 05, 2025 06:41 PM (VPtfc)

56 Or just ball it up and eat it because it will have the same effect.

Posted by: fd at September 05, 2025 06:41 PM (vFG9F)

57 its not Catholic for one thing. We didn't fight abortion to start on toddlers.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:37 PM (8avO+)
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It goes back to the 1960s when Catholic universities saw all the secular schools opening up, eliminating curfew, having coed dorms and figured they had to get with the program. Very much part of the Vatican II madness.

A lot of schools think they should out-secular the secular schools, and the Jesuits in particular think that more corruption = intellectual openness.

It's going to come to an end one way or another, because there aren't enough students, and fake Catholic schools don't have much of an audience. Actual Catholic want authentic religious schools and the cultural Catholics are leaving the Church altogether.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 06:41 PM (ZOv7s)

58 I made it 24 hours without eating. Still not hungry.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 05, 2025 06:38 PM (VPtfc)

I went 24 minutes since eating some Butter/Garlic Pretzles, then I had some Peanut M&Ms.

I almost didn't make it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 06:41 PM (i24o9)

59 India is a fabulous country with a long history and streets only slightly lined with poo. Modi is a glorious and sexy leader and we should be hiring all his people.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 05, 2025 06:42 PM (gKWVE)

60 Geez. 1.5 hours to mow the front, side and backyard on a fast zero turn mower.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 06:40 PM (VSujA)

Literal genocide.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 06:42 PM (i24o9)

61 I do hope someone will ask the new Pope his opinion on Catholic University positions on fucking up 5 year olds.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 05, 2025 06:42 PM (mFSH6)

62
the sunny, perky lady music teachers were bad enough in my day.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:38 PM (8avO+)

I imagine these students are getting absolutely bombarded with show tunes and this bearded lady doing her drag show routine on a regular basis.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 06:42 PM (6ydKt)

63 Kingsman: "Greta von Susteren says she cares not for the name change of def. dept to The War Department. That's not who we are she added."

And that, Greta, is why you're perfect for TV and not military service. Who knew a name change would be so effectively self-selective?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at September 05, 2025 06:43 PM (gLikB)

64 India is a fabulous country with a long history and streets only slightly lined with poo. Modi is a glorious and sexy leader and we should be hiring all his people.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 05, 2025 06:42 PM (gKWVE)

You must be one of those Twitter MAGA influencers.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 06:43 PM (i24o9)

65 The Arabic on the badge is to make sure you KNOW that you've been conquered.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at September 05, 2025 06:43 PM (TdCYS)

66 Where going to need an extra half comment about india with the tariffs.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 05, 2025 06:43 PM (VPtfc)

67 It seems like the most vapid and pointless twaddle.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

The land belongs to Allah (swt) alone.

Posted by: Dearbornistan at September 05, 2025 06:44 PM (gKWVE)

68 55 Are they giving back the occupied territories of asia minor?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 05, 2025 06:41 PM (VPtfc)

Is Turkey giving up occupied Cyrprus?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 06:44 PM (6ydKt)

69 Blue cities are losing hundreds of millions to scam lawsuits which they are unwilling to fight.

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by design. reparations.

Posted by: runner at September 05, 2025 06:44 PM (g47mK)

70 You must be one of those Twitter MAGA influencers.

We're going cheap now.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 05, 2025 06:44 PM (gKWVE)

71 > 34 In re "land acknowledgements": if you aren't giving the land back, STFU
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 05, 2025 06:35 PM (Ah2Jt)

I like to ask them "Just how much rent are you paying to the Timuktifuk tribe, then?"

It's fun to watch them sputter.

Posted by: HRH Ngwenyama Mswati III at September 05, 2025 06:46 PM (qpyNK)

72 the sunny, perky lady music teachers were bad enough in my day.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:38 PM (8avO+)

I imagine these students are getting absolutely bombarded with show tunes and this bearded lady doing her drag show routine on a regular basis.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 06:42 PM (6ydKt)

If the indoctrination gives them the same feeling learning the recorder did for me, a wave of recruits to our cause is coming.

And the instrument didn't record anything!

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:46 PM (8avO+)

73 Where's MY land acknowledgement?

Posted by: Some Dead European Neanderthal at September 05, 2025 06:47 PM (qpyNK)

74 I do hope someone will ask the new Pope his opinion on Catholic University positions on fucking up 5 year olds.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 05, 2025 06:42 PM (mFSH6)
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If we learned anything from Francis of recent memory, it is that the pope is not an autocrat who can issue decrees that are universally accepted. Many of the schools are no longer under Catholic governance, and it's been going on for a long time. The question is whether there is a diocesan affiliation.

But even then, it has been an open secret that Notre Dame is a hive of perversity and the local bishop traditionally devotes much of his homilies condemning the place.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 06:47 PM (ZOv7s)

75 Blue cities are losing hundreds of millions to scam lawsuits which they are unwilling to fight.

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by design. reparations.
Posted by: runner at September 05, 2025 06:44 PM (g47mK)

Reparations to lawyers and kickbacks to the city institutions, your mean.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:47 PM (8avO+)

76 And the instrument didn't record anything!
Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:46 PM (8avO+)

But now you'll be able to contribute when somebody plays Stairway to Heaven.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 05, 2025 06:47 PM (PiwSw)

77 51 Geez. 1.5 hours to mow the front, side and backyard on a fast zero turn mower.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 06:40 PM (VSujA)

That better be about at least 2 acres or you're doing it wrong.

Posted by: jsg at September 05, 2025 06:47 PM (7Kd+r)

78 Is Turkey giving up occupied Cyrprus?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 06:44 PM (6ydKt)

Are they going to give Constantinople back to the Romans or Greeks?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 05, 2025 06:47 PM (zZu0s)

79 Where's MY land acknowledgement?

Posted by: Some Dead European Neanderthal at September 05, 2025 06:47 PM (qpyNK)

Where's mine?

Posted by: Sydney Sweeney at September 05, 2025 06:48 PM (i24o9)

80 But even then, it has been an open secret that Notre Dame is a hive of perversity and the local bishop traditionally devotes much of his homilies condemning the place.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 06:47 PM (ZOv7s)

he should talk to the football players. A few 3-11 seasons and they would beg for mercy.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:48 PM (8avO+)

81 Get a cow.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 05, 2025 06:48 PM (VPtfc)

82 In each case, the DOJ argues that offering reduced tuition rates to non-citizens violates federal immigration law, discriminates against American citizens, and incentivizes further illegal immigration.

According to the dean of my college foreign student enrollments are half of what they were last year.

I'd be happy if the Secretary of State reduced that even more.

Oh, and in other news, H1Bs are only to be used for tenure track faculty and you can't get exceptions just because you really want a particular foreigner in the job.

It's amazing what happens when you don't let people violate the law.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 05, 2025 06:48 PM (a+4eV)

83 Is Turkey giving up occupied Cyrprus?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 06:44 PM (6ydKt)

Are they going to give Constantinople back to the Romans or Greeks?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 05, 2025 06:47 PM (zZu0s)

It's Istanbul, not Constantinople.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 06:48 PM (i24o9)

84 Doesn't the Style Guide mandate THE prefix any mention of THE Ohio State University?
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Remember Sylvester's son walking around with a bag over his head in shame?

That's me having granulated from a kollege that has a Buckeye as a mascot.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 05, 2025 06:48 PM (cYBz/)

85 I'd like to see "Catholic" universities abide by Catholic doctrine.

I'd also like to see a lawsuit to force Harvard to abide by Puritan doctrine. That would be nifty.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 05, 2025 06:49 PM (qpyNK)

86 There is land under me.

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 06:49 PM (GoBh/)

87 And the instrument didn't record anything!
Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:46 PM (8avO+)

But now you'll be able to contribute when somebody plays Stairway to Heaven.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 05, 2025 06:47 PM (PiwSw)

ours was, no lie, the Israeli national anthem. They are EVERYWHERE MAN

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:49 PM (8avO+)

88 If the indoctrination gives them the same feeling learning the recorder did for me, a wave of recruits to our cause is coming.

And the instrument didn't record anything!

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:46 PM (8avO+)

Thankfully I never had to suffer through that.

They gave us the band/music test when I was in middle school, and I did very well on it, but I never tried to join the band.

I wish I had now that I look back on it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 06:50 PM (6ydKt)

89 Remember Sylvester's son walking around with a bag over his head in shame?

That's me having granulated from a kollege that has a Buckeye as a mascot.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 05, 2025 06:48 PM (cYBz/)

mine has not just a Bear, but a Battling one.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:50 PM (8avO+)

90 Remember Sylvester's son walking around with a bag over his head in shame?

That's me having granulated from a kollege that has a Buckeye as a mascot.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 05, 2025 06:48 PM (cYBz/)
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From my college days:

"What's a buckeye?"

"A small, hairless nut."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 06:50 PM (ZOv7s)

91 EBT should require weighins.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 05, 2025 06:50 PM (VPtfc)

92
Latest photos of 3I/ATLAS:

https://tinyurl.com/23z9l5tz

There was a proposal to divert the Juno probe currently in orbit around Jupiter to try to make a close approach. It would've required a tricky slingshot maneuver using about the fuel left. The main engine hasn't been fired since 2016, and there were some pressure problems, meaning relighting the thing may just blow it up.

The window for that maneuver was on Sep. 9th, and they aren't going to attempt it, doesn't look like.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 05, 2025 06:50 PM (w6EFb)

93 I am going to recognize Free And Independent Cyprus at the next UN meeting.

Posted by: runner at September 05, 2025 06:50 PM (g47mK)

94 Where's mine?
Posted by: Sydney Sweeney at September 05, 2025 06:48

Huuuuge tracts o' land!

Posted by: Swamp King at September 05, 2025 06:51 PM (TdCYS)

95 Property taxes are enough land acknowledgement for me.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 05, 2025 06:51 PM (mFSH6)

96 They gave us the band/music test when I was in middle school, and I did very well on it, but I never tried to join the band.

I wish I had now that I look back on it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 06:50 PM (6ydKt)

Flute girls are easy.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 06:51 PM (i24o9)

97 Amazing that they paid out $2 Billion in claims despite having qualified immunity. That means it's either ignorance, purposeful payments attached to kickbacks and favoritism, or $2 Billion in claims somehow skirted the very difficult threshold of getting passed sovereign immunity via civil rights violations or voluntary removal of sovereignty.

Probably a little bit of everything, but my money is on kickbacks and favoritism to friends and relatives.

Posted by: Orson at September 05, 2025 06:51 PM (dIske)

98 49 CaliGirl, Newsom's land give away is hopefully not going to affect you.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 05, 2025 06:38 PM (mFSH6)

Not yet. Newsom is such a skeeze.

I see problems ahead for water. They're making all private owners put meters on the private wells.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 05, 2025 06:51 PM (gpah0)

99 Why was the Nativity Play canceled at Notre Dame?

They couldn't find three wise men or a virgin.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 05, 2025 06:51 PM (qpyNK)

100 I'd also like to see a lawsuit to force Harvard to abide by Puritan doctrine. That would be nifty.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 05, 2025 06:49 PM (qpyNK)
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They are still very puritanical, but are wholly secularized.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 06:52 PM (ZOv7s)

101 "What's a buckeye?"

"A small, hairless nut."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 06:50 PM (ZOv7s)

my elementary school (well one of them) had a tree. the peeled ones were good for throwing at each other. Stepping on one might twist an ankle.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:53 PM (8avO+)

102 Just for clarity...there is no Palestine in the middle east and the good people of Palestine, Texas, Illinois and Arkansas pronounce it Palisteen.

Reminder: The Dogwood Festival is right around the corner in Palestine, Tx. Mark your calendars. Those trees have a short display!

Posted by: DanMan at September 05, 2025 06:53 PM (8uzBS)

103 > Flute girls are easy.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 06:51 PM (i24o9)

This one time, at band camp...

Posted by: The Delectable Alyson Hannigan at September 05, 2025 06:53 PM (qpyNK)

104 "A small, hairless nut."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 06:50 PM (ZOv7s)

What's all this?

Posted by: Bootygig at September 05, 2025 06:53 PM (i24o9)

105 Speaking of woke, I was happy when a woke exec where I work resigned to go work for her dream job at Planned Parentlessness.

So they hire a replacement, and guess what, it's someone who used to work at PP.

*bangs head on desk*
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 05, 2025 06:28 PM (U1FmN)

Revolving vulva?

Revulving door?

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 05, 2025 06:53 PM (144I4)

106 I see problems ahead for water. They're making all private owners put meters on the private wells.
Posted by: CaliGirl at September 05, 2025 06:51 PM (gpah0)

too bad about those weevils eating the wires.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:54 PM (8avO+)

107 Flute girls are easy.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 06:51 PM (i24o9)

This one time... in band camp...

I would've liked to learn to play the drums, though.
I hear that's the hardest spot to get in any school band, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 06:54 PM (6ydKt)

108 War Department!
Ugh!
What is it good for?
Killing people and breaking things!
Say it again!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 06:54 PM (L/fGl)

109 Temecula Valley

When you've got MIDDLE-SCHOOLERS protesting in favor of a BASED CONSERVATIVE CAUSE then you know it's absolutely over for the Left -- they lost the culture war.

Pack it up, Joe. Fold up the tents, turn in your weapons, get drunk and celebrate at a bordello or two -- this war is done. And we won.

(Just remember to wear a rubber so you don't bring home VD to your girl waiting for you at home.)

Posted by: zombie at September 05, 2025 06:54 PM (pMi6S)

110 Peanut butter chocolate confection.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 05, 2025 06:54 PM (VPtfc)

111 CaliGirl, I am running a pester the shit out of them campaign. for Texas to build 5 new desalination plants

Posted by: Ben Had at September 05, 2025 06:54 PM (mFSH6)

112 Minnesota isn't a Dem strong hold state? Like Modor wasn't a stronghold for Sauron cause a couple Hobbits got in?

Posted by: Bete at September 05, 2025 06:54 PM (LX4y3)

113 The thing you stand behind is a lectern. The lectern is on the podium. The podium is on the stage.

I'm sorry, I just had a really ordinary sandwich for dinner.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Pedantry is alive and well at September 05, 2025 06:55 PM (AOsQT)

114 My favorite time of the year around here. The light coming through the trees is spectacular. Makes my heart happy.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 05, 2025 06:55 PM (viF8m)

115 I love land acknowledgements!

We are in Toronto, historically the land of some poor Indian tribes that were mercilessly butchered and lost to history by those Indian bastards, the

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at September 05, 2025 06:55 PM (jvJvP)

116 Hope they are teaching 5yo how to drive, and see if they want to start smoking cigarettes

Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2025 06:56 PM (+qU29)

117 According to the dean of my college foreign student enrollments are half of what they were last year.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 05, 2025 06:48 PM

At an international conference this year in Colorado, I learned that it had half as many attendees as usual. Most of the no shows were foreigners because of the OrangeManBad and they would be deported. Imbeciles.

Posted by: Beartooth at September 05, 2025 06:56 PM (1RikM)

118 God help those poor kids trying to learn about music from this freak show.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 06:37 PM

I bet he blows a mean....trumpet.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 05, 2025 06:56 PM (Wnv9h)

119 > Temecula

That sounds like some kind of medical condition.

"The patient presented with an inflamed temecula on the proximal part of his left gluteal."

Posted by: The Delectable Alyson Hannigan at September 05, 2025 06:56 PM (qpyNK)

120 Hope they are teaching 5yo how to drive, and see if they want to start smoking cigarettes

Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2025 06:56 PM (+qU29)

First, basic marksmanship.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 06:56 PM (i24o9)

121 It's Istanbul, not Constantinople.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 06:48 PM (i24o9)

It will always be Constantinople. The first city to be built to be explicitly Christian (and by Constantine.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 05, 2025 06:57 PM (zZu0s)

122 I would've liked to learn to play the drums, though.
I hear that's the hardest spot to get in any school band, though.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 06:54 PM (6ydKt)

in these decadent times garbage cans and the lids fail to allow drum practice and cymbals as well.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:57 PM (8avO+)

123 86 There is land under me.
Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 06:49 PM (GoBh/)

There is water at the bottom of the ocean.

Posted by: David Byrne at September 05, 2025 06:57 PM (TbWk/)

124 God help those poor kids trying to learn about music from this freak show.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 06:37 PM

I bet he blows a mean....trumpet.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 05, 2025 06:56 PM (Wnv9h)

More of a rusty trombone man.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 05, 2025 06:57 PM (5+Y60)

125 It will always be Constantinople. The first city to be built to be explicitly Christian (and by Constantine.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 05, 2025 06:57 PM (zZu0s)

Istanbul just means "to the City" it doesn't rename it.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:57 PM (8avO+)

126 Blue cities are losing hundreds of millions to scam lawsuits which they are unwilling to fight.

===

by design. reparations.
-------
by design. grifting. they were in on the lawsuits.

Posted by: Crusader at September 05, 2025 06:58 PM (TN0g+)

127 Are they going to give Constantinople back to the Romans or Greeks?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Venice.
Imagine the LOLz.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 05, 2025 06:58 PM (gKWVE)

128 It will always be Constantinople. The first city to be built to be explicitly Christian (and by Constantine.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 05, 2025 06:57 PM (zZu0s)

Istanbul just means "to the City" it doesn't rename it.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:57 PM (8avO+)
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That's none of your business!

Posted by: The Turks at September 05, 2025 06:58 PM (IBQGV)

129 It will always be Constantinople. The first city to be built to be explicitly Christian (and by Constantine.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 05, 2025 06:57 PM (zZu0s)

Why'd they change it?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 06:59 PM (i24o9)

130 >>There is water at the bottom of the ocean.

Can confirm. Other stuff too.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 05, 2025 06:59 PM (viF8m)

131 125 It will always be Constantinople. The first city to be built to be explicitly Christian (and by Constantine.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 05, 2025 06:57 PM (zZu0s)

What you talkin' 'bout, Willis?

Posted by: Byzantium at September 05, 2025 06:59 PM (PiwSw)

132 I would've liked to learn to play the drums, though.
I hear that's the hardest spot to get in any school band, though.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 06:54 PM (6ydKt)
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It depends. Lots of high schools will take anyone who wants to march.

But at the collegiate level, those guys are maniacs. Obsessive. They. Never. Stop. Drumming.

I am told that a trumpet player was forced onto the percussion bus for the bowl trip in 1990 and had to be institutionalized aftewards. The drumming, the drumming, the drumming, the drumming, the drumming, the drumming.

The worst that happened to me was getting bumped to the Mellophone bus, where we had an in-depth discussion the merits of threesomes. Quite enlightening.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 07:00 PM (ZOv7s)

133 Remember Sylvester's son walking around with a bag over his head in shame?

That's me having granulated from a kollege that has a Buckeye as a mascot.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 05, 2025 06:48 PM (cYBz/)

mine has not just a Bear, but a Battling one.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:50 PM

My HS mascot was a cow hide.

Being one of the biggest leather producing cities in America, we were the Tanners.

Then I went to Kollidge and got the badass Black Knight.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 05, 2025 07:00 PM (Wnv9h)

134 The Oregon Symphony is kicking off its new season, so of course one of its first concerts features - a drag queen.

Portland gets tiring occasionally.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 05, 2025 07:00 PM (xTIDn)

135 I will acknowledge G-d for creating the land. It was His first.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 05, 2025 07:00 PM (mFSH6)

136 It will always be Constantinople. The first city to be built to be explicitly Christian (and by Constantine.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 05, 2025 06:57 PM (zZu0s)

Why'd they change it?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 06:59 PM (i24o9)

Think it was when Ataturk secularized the government. By the way that is such a self congratulatory name.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 07:01 PM (8avO+)

137 Blue cities are losing hundreds of millions to scam lawsuits which they are unwilling to fight.

"Slippin' Jimmy" McGill nods approvingly.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 05, 2025 07:01 PM (UM4Zh)

138 by design. grifting. they were in on the lawsuits.
Posted by: Crusader at September 05, 2025 06:58 PM (TN0g+)
___________________________

That's my thought as well. They have qualified immunity on 90% of any claims coming through the door. Those payments from each of those urban areas scream corruption and crime. My first move in investigating would be to take a look at the bank accounts of anyone in the Risk Management dept. of those cities. I bet it would be interesting, and poorly hidden.

Posted by: Orson at September 05, 2025 07:01 PM (dIske)

139 There was a proposal to divert the Juno probe currently in orbit around Jupiter to try to make a close approach. It would've required a tricky slingshot maneuver using about the fuel left. The main engine hasn't been fired since 2016, and there were some pressure problems, meaning relighting the thing may just blow it up.

The window for that maneuver was on Sep. 9th, and they aren't going to attempt it, doesn't look like.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 05, 2025 06:50 PM (w6EFb)

——-

A physicist posted a video and said the overall size of the coma could get as large as half the diameter of the Sun.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 05, 2025 07:01 PM (Vh9CX)

140 This little gadget looks pretty cool.
Saw an ad on YouTube earlier today for it.

https://pandadrum.com

That'd be fun to learn on.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 07:01 PM (6ydKt)

141 Of all the things the left does to signal their virtue, land acknowledgements are the dumbest.

Give the land back or STFU.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at September 05, 2025 07:02 PM (eYAt4)

142 Think it was when Ataturk secularized the government. By the way that is such a self congratulatory name.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 07:01 PM (8avO+)

Maybe people just liked it better that way?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 07:02 PM (i24o9)

143 What you talkin' 'bout, Willis?
Posted by: Byzantium at September 05, 2025 06:59 PM (PiwSw)
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It was built on the ruins of Byzantium, which had largely been abandoned.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 07:02 PM (ZOv7s)

144 Gay-Ass Professor...

Is there any other kind in today's institutes of higher learning and universities?

Posted by: Big Green Dildo at September 05, 2025 07:02 PM (R/m4+)

145 Istanbul just means "to the City" it doesn't rename it.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 06:57 PM (8avO+)
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That's none of your business!
Posted by: The Turks at September 05, 2025 06:58 PM

Oldcat...I'm glad someone else knows this.

Turks...GFY!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 05, 2025 07:02 PM (Wnv9h)

146 111 CaliGirl, I am running a pester the shit out of them campaign. for Texas to build 5 new desalination plants
Posted by: Ben Had at September 05, 2025 06:54 PM (mFSH6)

That sounds great, I hope your campaign is successful.

We need those here.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 05, 2025 07:02 PM (gpah0)

147 Being one of the biggest leather producing cities in America, we were the Tanners.

Then I went to Kollidge and got the badass Black Knight.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 05, 2025 07:00 PM (Wnv9h)

High School was the Vikings. Somewhat land locked in Southern Ohio, but historically they sailed uprivers into Russia all the way to Constantinople.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 07:02 PM (8avO+)

148 My college mascot is a roadrunner.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 05, 2025 07:03 PM (5+Y60)

149 We need The Grinch as Food Stamp Tsar.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 05, 2025 07:04 PM (VPtfc)

150 The Oregon Symphony is kicking off its new season, so of course one of its first concerts features - a drag queen.

Portland gets tiring occasionally.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 05, 2025 07:00 PM (xTIDn)
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Do they still embrace the white racist system of blind auditions, or have they moved onto the enlightened progressive method of assigning position by race?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 07:04 PM (ZOv7s)

151 The Oregon Symphony is kicking off its new season, so of course one of its first concerts features - a drag queen.

-
Pigaro! Pigaro! Pigaro!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 07:04 PM (L/fGl)

152 >>> A Catholic university sent psychology students to intern at a trans clinic for five year olds.

Groomers ---> Chippers

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 05, 2025 07:04 PM (/lPRQ)

153 Think it was when Ataturk secularized the government. By the way that is such a self congratulatory name.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 07:01 PM (8avO+)

Maybe people just liked it better that way?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 07:02 PM (i24o9)

I meant Kemal's own name. Atta boy, AttaTurk!

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 07:04 PM (8avO+)

154
"Woman has the right to be disgusted if the boys are changing in the girls' locker room!"

I like the emotional validation from this kid! I think he somehow gets that a lot of this fight has been an attack on moral outrage itself.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 05, 2025 07:05 PM (lCaJd)

155 148 My college mascot is a roadrunner.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 05, 2025 07:03 PM (5+Y60)

Please tell me your rival school's mascot was a coyote.

Posted by: Preferably a wily one at September 05, 2025 07:05 PM (TbWk/)

156 Peking. Burma. Siam. Ceylon

Posted by: Common Tater at September 05, 2025 07:05 PM (B+LEV)

157 I made it 24 hours without eating. Still not hungry.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 05, 2025 06:38 PM (VPtfc)

I went 24 minutes since eating some Butter/Garlic Pretzles, then I had some Peanut M&Ms.

I almost didn't make it.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Lack of food is a misdemeanor.

The more I miss, da meaner I get.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 07:05 PM (VSujA)

158 Peking. Burma. Siam. Ceylon

Posted by: Common Tater at September 05, 2025 07:05 PM (B+LEV)

New Amsterdam.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 07:05 PM (EikhB)

159 Bombay?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 05, 2025 07:06 PM (VPtfc)

160 How about we acknowledge Edwin Land, inventor of the first commercially available instant camera, the Polaroid Land Camera.

Posted by: fd at September 05, 2025 07:06 PM (vFG9F)

161 I meant Kemal's own name. Atta boy, AttaTurk!

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 07:04 PM (8avO+)

Thanks for the clarification. I was getting ready to genocide.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 07:06 PM (EikhB)

162 My college mascot was a beaver. The Ducks were just down the road.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 05, 2025 07:07 PM (UM4Zh)

163 High School was the Vikings. Somewhat land locked in Southern Ohio, but historically they sailed uprivers into Russia all the way to Constantinople.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 07:02 PM (8avO+)
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In a bit of dry Homeresque humor, the mascot of East Lansing High School is the Trojan, a play on the Spartans being just down the street. Their colors are blue and white, honestly resembling Penn State (no helmet logo).

Lots of fun cheers back in the day. "Penetrate, Trojans, Penetrate!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 07:07 PM (ZOv7s)

164 That better be about at least 2 acres or you're doing it wrong.
Posted by: jsg

1.
But it was a pasture. So it's not flat, even land.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 05, 2025 07:07 PM (VSujA)

165 156 Peking. Burma. Siam. Ceylon
Posted by: Common Tater at September 05, 2025 07:05 PM (B+LEV)

The Ceylons were scary AF in Battlestar Galactica. I was just a little kid then but they definitely made an impression.

Posted by: Pure nightmare fuel at September 05, 2025 07:07 PM (TbWk/)

166 I meant Kemal's own name. Atta boy, AttaTurk!
Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 07:04 PM

The Ghost and Mr. Shakshuka was such an underrated movie.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 05, 2025 07:07 PM (Wnv9h)

167 My first highschools mascot were the Trojans.

The aren't that anymore.

Posted by: Bete at September 05, 2025 07:08 PM (LX4y3)

168 Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night...

Posted by: The Four Lads, Not Homosexuals at September 05, 2025 07:08 PM (R/m4+)

169 Of all the things the left does to signal their virtue, land acknowledgements are the dumbest.

Give the land back or STFU.
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at September 05, 2025 07:02 PM (eYAt4)
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It's all about performance, never about outcomes.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 07:08 PM (ZOv7s)

170 What you talkin' 'bout, Willis?
Posted by: Byzantium at September 05, 2025 06:59 PM (PiwSw)

Byzantium was kind of a backwater nothing. Constantine actually had trouble taking it though one time. (It really is, barring cannon and earthquake, one of the most defensible spots on earth.)

Well, also barring crusaders in a snit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 05, 2025 07:09 PM (zZu0s)

171 I used to have nightmares about the Ceylons taking me away.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 05, 2025 07:09 PM (VPtfc)

172 I didn't grow up there but spent many years living in a town that had the high school mascot dragons.

There really isn't a more badass mascot than a dragon.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 05, 2025 07:09 PM (viF8m)

173
Dearborn is just following the West Michigan tradition of speaking Dutch when around one of the non-elect, or whatever the Amish speak when around the English.

Posted by: Auspex at September 05, 2025 07:09 PM (Y8DZL)

174 This little gadget looks pretty cool.
Saw an ad on YouTube earlier today for it.

https://pandadrum.com

-
https://is.gd/W6QRc9

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 07:09 PM (L/fGl)

175 I went to two high schools.

The Green Wave
An actual Green Wave with eyes, arms and fists.
I think they stopped using that one awhile back.

Great football team and marching band, they both won a lot of State Championships.

John McKissick was their football coach for 62 years.
He had the most wins in football, at every level, until 2023, after he died in 2019.
621–155–13 overall record.

and the second school was...
The Knights.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 07:09 PM (6ydKt)

176 The Ceylons were scary AF in Battlestar Galactica. I was just a little kid then but they definitely made an impression.
Posted by: Pure nightmare fuel at September 05, 2025 07:07 PM (TbWk/)
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Baltar and Lucifer were pretty awesome villains.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 07:10 PM (ZOv7s)

177
I expect all of you to do First acknowledgements when you beat me to it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2025 07:10 PM (kkTda)

178 172 I didn't grow up there but spent many years living in a town that had the high school mascot dragons.

There really isn't a more badass mascot than a dragon.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 05, 2025 07:09 PM (viF8m)

Was there a flagon?

Posted by: Brew that is true at September 05, 2025 07:10 PM (TbWk/)

179 Of all the things the left does to signal their virtue, land acknowledgements are the dumbest. Give the land back or STFU.
——

They aren’t virtuous. They aren’t going to give it back. They are, however, laying down markers for lawsuits and other legal jiggery-pokery.

Particularly elected government officials: “we stole this land, it ain’t ours” would be something I would want to emphasize if I were trying to play legal games.

It is pretty gay, but it will probably work in some areas. The Harry Reid rule applies

Posted by: Common Tater at September 05, 2025 07:11 PM (B+LEV)

180 Bombay?
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 05, 2025 07:06 PM (VPtfc)

Bombs away
But we're O.K.
Bombs away
In old Bombay...

Posted by: The Police at September 05, 2025 07:11 PM (R/m4+)

181 @163 USC lost to Oregon State.

Headline: Beavers outlast Trojans

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 05, 2025 07:11 PM (Ah2Jt)

182 Vessel with the Pestle?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 05, 2025 07:11 PM (zZu0s)

183 There really isn't a more badass mascot than a dragon.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 05, 2025 07:09 PM (viF8m)
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Just ask the Welsh.

I think the polling Ace showed had Wales completely free of Labour seats. Suck it you should, commies! Kick your ass we will, look you!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 07:11 PM (ZOv7s)

184 Was there a flagon?
Posted by: Brew that is true

Just a pestle

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 05, 2025 07:11 PM (eZ5tL)

185 The world is insane.
Embrace the Word.

He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting
in the Lord. Psalm 112: 7
Posted by: Kingsman at September 05, 2025 06:32 PM (ehY6c)

****

Yea I walk through the valley of death I shall fear no evil, for I am the meanest SOB in the valley.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2025 07:12 PM (2WIwB)

186 Headline: Beavers outlast Trojans
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 05, 2025 07:11 PM (Ah2Jt)
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I had that happen to me at least twice.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 07:12 PM (ZOv7s)

187 Iam never ceased to be amazed that in an age where information, art, literature and history are so readily accessible, so many people are dumber than a post.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 05, 2025 07:12 PM (mFSH6)

188 > 162 My college mascot was a beaver.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 05, 2025 07:07 PM (UM4Zh)

Engineering school? That's pretty common. Both MIT and Cal Tech use the beaver.

Beavers are nature's engineers, after all.

Posted by: The Delectable Alyson Hannigan at September 05, 2025 07:13 PM (qpyNK)

189 172 I didn't grow up there but spent many years living in a town that had the high school mascot dragons.

There really isn't a more badass mascot than a dragon.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 05, 2025 07:09 PM (viF8m)

Pirate with an eye patch and a dagger in his teeth during high school is pretty cool.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 05, 2025 07:13 PM (gpah0)

190 There is a town in Colorado called Eaton. Some years ago there was a big dustup about the mascot of the HS: Warriors. Basically, Indian warriors. there was a contest for a new name.

Local shock jocks submitted: Beavers.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, In His Best Lloyd Christmas Voice at September 05, 2025 07:13 PM (0aYVJ)

191 I actually went through same school system K-12
Rams in HS

Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2025 07:13 PM (+qU29)

192 They aren’t virtuous. They aren’t going to give it back. They are, however, laying down markers for lawsuits and other legal jiggery-pokery.

Particularly elected government officials: “we stole this land, it ain’t ours” would be something I would want to emphasize if I were trying to play legal games.

It is pretty gay, but it will probably work in some areas. The Harry Reid rule applies
Posted by: Common Tater at September 05, 2025 07:11 PM (B+LEV)
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It's about payoffs. In Canada a judge set aside 150 years of law to declare a tribe owned land it sold long ago, throwing all the property owners into confusion - along with their insurers.

If you can never own anything, the state owns everything.

BTW, this is why China is so screwed. No one owns land there, they just lease it. This is why they have ghost cities as people try to buy apartments because they can't have other assets. When the Evergrande bubble burst, it destroyed the market, and they've been falling apart ever since.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 07:15 PM (ZOv7s)

193 Huh. Bing is a bit psychotic when it comes to Constantinople. When you ask it when did Constantinople fall before 1453, it says it never did. You have to ask it straight out about the sack by crusaders.

AI is retarded.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 05, 2025 07:15 PM (zZu0s)

194 These people would vote for a Jacking off guy Jacking off at work and wars.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at September 05, 2025 07:15 PM (G4Wdn)

195 Woody Guthrie is too blame for people thinking this is their land!

Fucking colonizer!

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 07:15 PM (GoBh/)

196 There really isn't a more badass mascot than a dragon
——-

Our local police had an emblem with a dragon for many years. The “community organizers” raised a stink after 65 years and claimed, wait for it, that it was racist and was KKK.

In Iowa. They also falsely claimed it was in response to their earlier riots in ‘68. The whole thing was bullshit from front to back, top to bottom. No matter, they caved and now they have a blank emblem on prowl cars and uniforms.

The important thing is to not roll over for stupid shit and by extension, stupid fuckers.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 05, 2025 07:16 PM (B+LEV)

197 Headline: Beavers outlast Trojans
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 05, 2025 07:11 PM (Ah2Jt)
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I had that happen to me at least twice.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 07:12 PM (ZOv7s)
***

Sometimes trojans burst under pressure.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2025 07:16 PM (2WIwB)

198 Embrace the Word.

He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting
in the Lord. Psalm 112: 7
Posted by: Kingsman
****

Yea I walk through the valley of death I shall fear no evil, for I am the meanest SOB in the valley.
Posted by: Diogenes

"Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying,
"Whom shall I send: And who will go for us?"
And I said,
"Here am I, send me!"
-- Isaiah 6:8

Posted by: Tonypete at September 05, 2025 07:17 PM (cYBz/)

199 I actually went through same school system K-12
Rams in HS
Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2025 07:13 PM (+qU29)
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One of the Ann Arbor schools was the River Rats. Oh how we mocked them.

Oddly, Lansing Eastern was the Quakers. Head-scratcher there.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 07:17 PM (ZOv7s)

200 University of South Carolina v. OSU football headline

"COCKS MERCILESSLY POUND BEAVERS"

Posted by: The reporting we need but don't deserve at September 05, 2025 07:17 PM (TbWk/)

201
Sorry, my high school will always be the Neshaminy Redskins.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2025 07:17 PM (kkTda)

202 195 Woody Guthrie is too blame for people thinking this is their land!

Fucking colonizer!

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 07:15 PM (GoBh/)

Wasn't he a communist?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 07:17 PM (6ydKt)

203
Daniel Rubenstein@paulrubens
Egypt has just confirmed that it will NOT open its border with Gaza in order to allow Palestinian children and mothers in Gaza to escape what Egypt calls a "genocide." Egypt also just confirmed that it will not allow Palestinian children who need food to walk with their mothers to Egypt where food is plentiful. The reason for these restrictions, according to Egypt, is that the displacement of Palestinian children and mothers who are living in tents in Gaza would be dishonorable. Palestinian children must continue to suffer for the "cause of Palestine," Egypt said.

-
It's OK with me.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 07:17 PM (L/fGl)

204 >>Was there a flagon?

As I said I didn't grow up there but if it was anything like my high school then after the game many.

Back before woke Massachusetts high school sports were a blast. The best was the annual football game against arch rivals on Thanksgiving. Those games dated back decades and whole towns came out. Good times.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 05, 2025 07:17 PM (viF8m)

205 My HS mascot was a beaver. Made sense since it was in Beavercreek.

Posted by: fd at September 05, 2025 07:17 PM (vFG9F)

206 Huh. Bing is a bit psychotic when it comes to Constantinople. When you ask it when did Constantinople fall before 1453, it says it never did. You have to ask it straight out about the sack by crusaders.

AI is retarded.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 05, 2025 07:15 PM (zZu0s)

It also fell a few times in Civil Wars too.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 07:17 PM (8avO+)

207 200 University of South Carolina v. OSU football headline

"COCKS MERCILESSLY POUND BEAVERS"

Posted by: The reporting we need but don't deserve at September 05, 2025 07:17 PM (TbWk/)

They'd have to meet in a playoff game or bowl game, but that would be funny.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 07:17 PM (6ydKt)

208 A lot of the land in the UK still owned by some inbred "noble" or other (maybe with 99 year leases or whatever).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 05, 2025 07:18 PM (qpyNK)

209 On the married article, it's obvious.

Women like community. They like building community. So, they would like being married with kids, more than being married without kids, more than being single.

Women are just more social creatures than men. Always have been, always will be.

Posted by: Nova Local at September 05, 2025 07:18 PM (tOcjL)

210
Wasn't he a communist?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 07:17 PM (6ydKt)

__________

About as communist-adjacent as you can be without having a party card.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2025 07:19 PM (kkTda)

211 These people would vote for a Jacking off guy Jacking off at work and wars.
--------
Two words: Rachel Levine.

Posted by: Crusader at September 05, 2025 07:19 PM (TN0g+)

212 >>Pirate with an eye patch and a dagger in his teeth during high school is pretty cool.

Yo Ho.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 05, 2025 07:19 PM (viF8m)

213 Women like community. They like building community. So, they would like being married with kids, more than being married without kids, more than being single.

But still want to fuck Chad.

Posted by: Beta bucks and all that at September 05, 2025 07:19 PM (TbWk/)

214 My HS mascot/name was lame. The Pilots. And we weren't even close to an airport.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2025 07:20 PM (3ImbR)

215 My HS mascot was a beaver. Made sense since it was in Beavercreek.
Posted by: fd

The Battling Beavers. iirc, your mascot displays some pretty nasty teeth.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 05, 2025 07:20 PM (cYBz/)

216 Wasn't he a communist?
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 07:17 PM (6ydKt)
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I think so. I was going to call him a commie colonizer.

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 07:20 PM (GoBh/)

217 The important thing is to not roll over for stupid shit and by extension, stupid fuckers.
Posted by: Common Tater at September 05, 2025 07:16 PM (B+LEV)
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In the very first wave of this insanity, Eastern Michigan dropped its longstanding mascot of the Hurons (you know, like the GREAT LAKE?) and became the Eagles.

Attention then turned to Central Michigan, the Chippewas. The assumption was that they would cave, but lo and behold, the actual Saginaw Chippewa Tribe rallied to their defense. They requested some changes to cheers, and that the mascot be more authentic, but in the face of vocal support by the Tribal Elders, the wokes fled in disarray.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 07:20 PM (ZOv7s)

218 Egypt has just confirmed that it will NOT open its border with Gaza in order to allow Palestinian children and mothers in Gaza to escape what Egypt calls a "genocide." Egypt also just confirmed that it will not allow Palestinian children who need food to walk with their mothers to Egypt where food is plentiful. The reason for these restrictions, according to Egypt, is that the displacement of Palestinian children and mothers who are living in tents in Gaza would be dishonorable. Palestinian children must continue to suffer for the "cause of Palestine," Egypt said.
-------

They belong in Jordan...and Egypt.

Posted by: Crusader at September 05, 2025 07:20 PM (TN0g+)

219 People need to mock these assholes very publicly.

“We are standing on land once occupied by T. Rex and Velociraptors. And Glaciers a mile thick!”

If I were in a gathering and I heard some cocksucker spouting a “land acknowledgment” I’d laugh my ass off.

Posted by: Common Tater at September 05, 2025 07:20 PM (B+LEV)

220 Iam never ceased to be amazed that in an age where information, art, literature and history are so readily accessible, so many people are dumber than a post.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 05, 2025 07:12 PM (mFSH6)

Lots of peeps over the years have been dumb. It takes an extra layer of dumb to not know that yourself and trumpet it to the entire world.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 07:21 PM (8avO+)

221 Dear lefties,

Can you please start doing a land acknowledgement for Palestine?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 05, 2025 07:21 PM (c0Hqc)

222 About as communist-adjacent as you can be without having a party card.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2025 07:19 PM (kkTda)

They sure liked to pound that "This Land Belongs to You and Me" song in our heads as children.
I remember having to sing it a few times.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 07:21 PM (6ydKt)

223 Yes, the Battling Beavers. The drill team was called the Beaverettes.

Posted by: fd at September 05, 2025 07:21 PM (vFG9F)

224
If I were in a gathering and I heard some cocksucker spouting a “land acknowledgment” I’d laugh my ass off.
------
I try not to curse in public, but I'd be very tempted to just loudly announce "Oh bullshit."

Posted by: Crusader at September 05, 2025 07:22 PM (TN0g+)

225 Women like community. They like building community. So, they would like being married with kids, more than being married without kids, more than being single.

But still want to fuck Chad.
Posted by: Beta bucks and all that at September 05, 2025 07:19 PM (TbWk/)
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Women were brainwashed that marriage was a prison and children were a burden, and the entire Hollywood entertainment complex and academia convinced them that YOU ARE ENOUGH, and now they are old, broken and lonely, and their only pleasure is ruining other people.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 07:22 PM (ZOv7s)

226 My HS mascot/name was lame. The Pilots. And we weren't even close to an airport.
Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2025 07:20 PM (3ImbR)

How about close to a major river? In the days before lights on the boats, river pilots were bloody amazing.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 07:22 PM (8avO+)

227 Can you please start doing a land acknowledgement for Palestine?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 05, 2025 07:21 PM (c0Hqc)
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You wouldn't like how the lefties would do that.

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 07:23 PM (GoBh/)

228 Out of the mouths of babes - A guy has his "You know" and a girl has her "You know".

Posted by: Cheri at September 05, 2025 07:23 PM (FGQ5G)

229 *snort*

Posted by: Justinian II at September 05, 2025 07:23 PM (gKWVE)

230 Daniel Rubenstein@paulrubens
Egypt has just confirmed that it will NOT open its border with Gaza in order to allow Palestinian children and mothers in Gaza to escape what Egypt calls a "genocide." Egypt also just confirmed that it will not allow Palestinian children who need food to walk with their mothers to Egypt where food is plentiful. The reason for these restrictions, according to Egypt, is that the displacement of Palestinian children and mothers who are living in tents in Gaza would be dishonorable. Palestinian children must continue to suffer for the "cause of Palestine," Egypt said.

*

Oh. Another sad Pali women and children story.
Sad.
But there isn't a food shortage there. There is a hamas problem that has grabbed all the food.
Give the women a few guns and see what happens.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2025 07:23 PM (2WIwB)

231 Le CAFE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Posted by: Skip at September 05, 2025 07:24 PM (+qU29)

232 About as communist-adjacent as you can be without having a party card.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2025 07:19 PM (kkTda)

They sure liked to pound that "This Land Belongs to You and Me" song in our heads as children.
I remember having to sing it a few times.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 07:21 PM (6ydKt)

Isn't it "This land was made for you and me"?

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 07:24 PM (8avO+)

233 Lots of peeps over the years have been dumb. It takes an extra layer of dumb to not know that yourself and trumpet it to the entire world.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 07:21 PM (8avO+)
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The Chicom victory parade was a hoot. Great way to find the China shills, because when they touted China's victory, you could stop them short by asking what was their most successful battle against the Japanese.

They didn't have one. The Nationalists did all the fighting.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 07:24 PM (ZOv7s)

234 Other Arabs want nothing to do with Pali refugees

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 05, 2025 07:24 PM (Ah2Jt)

235 >>Yes, the Battling Beavers. The drill team was called the Beaverettes.

Calling the drill team the Beaverettes is a little too spot on.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 05, 2025 07:24 PM (viF8m)

236 How about close to a major river? In the days before lights on the boats, river pilots were bloody amazing.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 07:22 PM (8avO+)

It does sound like a perfect school mascot for a town on the Mississippi River.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 07:24 PM (6ydKt)

237 It also fell a few times in Civil Wars too.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 07:17 PM (8avO

Heh. Now that does follow the Roman tradition that Rome did not count as 'falling' between the Gaulic and Gothic sacks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 05, 2025 07:25 PM (zZu0s)

238 Egypt is just posturing. The hamassholes are shooting anyone trying to leave .

Posted by: Ben Had at September 05, 2025 07:25 PM (mFSH6)

239 now they are old, broken and lonely, and their only pleasure is ruining other people

And having 10+ cats.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 05, 2025 07:25 PM (17s+e)

240 They didn't have one. The Nationalists did all the fighting.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at September 05, 2025 07:24 PM (ZOv7s)

Mao killed more Chinese than the Japanese ever did.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 05, 2025 07:26 PM (zZu0s)

241 people are dumber than a post.

-
The Washington Post?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 07:26 PM (L/fGl)

242 Isn't it "This land was made for you and me"?

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 07:24 PM (8avO+)

Probably, my memory ain't so good.

I hated it anyhow.

I remember why everybody around me somehow knew the lyrics to this thing while we were singing it.

It was like being in church where everybody is singing the hymns while you're fumbling through the hymnal.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 07:27 PM (6ydKt)

243 How about close to a major river? In the days before lights on the boats, river pilots were bloody amazing.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 07:22 PM (8avO+)
~~~~~

No. Closest reference to water would be the Bronx River Parkway.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2025 07:27 PM (3ImbR)

244 I find joy in my life everyday.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 05, 2025 07:27 PM (mFSH6)

245 The "Golden Hour" before dusk is very beautiful this time of year, though we're losing a minute or so every night. That's when it starts to get late early around here.

Posted by: Yogi Berra Variations at September 05, 2025 07:28 PM (oftw2)

246 Huh, I guess I missed the narrative that marriage and kids made women less happy. I'm so old that my generation heard from the feminists was that we could have both the career and the family.
"What we found contradicts the negative messages that I had come across: Married mothers are actually happier than unmarried women & married women without children.. [even controlling] for age, family income, and education."
LOL at how they have to mention they controlled for income and eduaction as if that changes the basic human wiring.

Posted by: PaleRider at September 05, 2025 07:28 PM (kdHU2)

247
Breaking fake News!

Our Favorite President just signed an executive order changing the name of "record players" back to phonographs!

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 05, 2025 07:28 PM (mKtOq)

248 It also fell a few times in Civil Wars too.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 07:17 PM (8avO

Heh. Now that does follow the Roman tradition that Rome did not count as 'falling' between the Gaulic and Gothic sacks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at September 05, 2025 07:25 PM (zZu0s)

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 07:28 PM (8avO+)

249 Egypt also just confirmed that it will not allow Palestinian children who need food to walk with their mothers to Egypt where food is plentiful.

A retelling of the story of Joseph and his brothers, I see. Maybe Egypt doesn't want to hold a young boy hostage in case his father comes to get him?

Posted by: pookysgirl has heard this story before at September 05, 2025 07:29 PM (RLzA1)

250 245 The "Golden Hour" before dusk is very beautiful this time of year, though we're losing a minute or so every night. That's when it starts to get late early around here.

Posted by: Yogi Berra Variations at September 05, 2025 07:28 PM (oftw2)

A great time to take photos outside.
Shadows and light are softer.
Perfect for portraits.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 07:29 PM (6ydKt)

251
more Breaking fake News!

President Trump just changed the u.n.'s name BACK to "League Of Nations."

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 05, 2025 07:30 PM (mKtOq)

252

LOOSE!

nood

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 05, 2025 07:30 PM (mKtOq)

253 222 About as communist-adjacent as you can be without having a party card.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2025 07:19 PM (kkTda)

They sure liked to pound that "This Land Belongs to You and Me" song in our heads as children.
I remember having to sing it a few times.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 07:21 PM (6ydKt)

The verse that they didn't teach us in school:

There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me
Sign was painted, said, "Private Property"
But on the back side, it didn't say nothing
This land was made for you and me

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at September 05, 2025 07:30 PM (b12EG)

254 Has anyone gotten their invite to the Swift/Kelce wedding yet? I keep checking the mail every day. And what to buy them?

Posted by: Registered at Target? at September 05, 2025 07:31 PM (oftw2)

255 Huh, I guess I missed the narrative that marriage and kids made women less happy. I'm so old that my generation heard from the feminists was that we could have both the career and the family.
"What we found contradicts the negative messages that I had come across: Married mothers are actually happier than unmarried women & married women without children.. [even controlling] for age, family income, and education."
LOL at how they have to mention they controlled for income and eduaction as if that changes the basic human wiring.
Posted by: PaleRider at September 05, 2025 07:28 PM (kdHU2)

I'm even older when they told them to go to work alone, being a wife and mom was bad. The man fish and bicycle remark failing to land triggered off the do everything, just in the wrong order came later.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 07:33 PM (8avO+)

256 Has anyone gotten their invite to the Swift/Kelce wedding yet? I keep checking the mail every day. And what to buy them?
Posted by: Registered at Target? at September 05, 2025 07:31 PM (oftw2)

Kelce did come from my hometown.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 05, 2025 07:34 PM (8avO+)

257 When in the early days of the great awokening they went after college team names, the school I undergradded at changed it's team names from Chieftains to Sky Hawks, no offending the native americans you know.
Except it never referred to Indian chieftains but to Irish chieftains, and was mascotted as such.
Idiots.

Posted by: From about That Time at September 05, 2025 07:47 PM (n4GiU)

258 37 I was just told by someone that when OSHA came to their business last time it was a trans person. I bet if you affirmed their being trans they'd wouldn't fine you as much.
---------------

And bonus someone at your business that will 'charm it' the way it wants to be charmed. Forever private between you and the employee.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at September 05, 2025 08:03 PM (Quxeu)

259 What is worse than Dearbornistan is that the cops in Patterson, New Jihad, have been wearing Palestinian flag patches ON THEIR UNIFORM in public. I hope some undercover journalist has video this upcoming anniversary of 9/11 to around Patterson and see people cheering the death of 3000 Americans ....again..

Posted by: Donovan Nuera at September 05, 2025 08:20 PM (LKMDZ)

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