It’s Not Acceptable for Adam Schiff and Bernie Sanders to Have Veto/Approval Authority Over TVA Board Appointments

President Trump’s three new appointees to the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority (“TVA” were just narrowly approved by a 10-9 vote of the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Environment and Public Works. All nine Democrats on the committee voted against Trump’s appointees. Having (barely) received the committee’s approval, the nominations now proceed to the full Senate where a simple majority vote is needed from the Republican-controlled Senate for final confirmation. The TVA is the nation’s largest public power company, providing electricity to over 10 million people in Appalachia and the southeast, including most of Tennessee.

Among those Democrats on the senate committee who voted against Trump’s TVA nominees were Sen. Adam Schiff of California, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Sen. Ed. Markey of Massachusetts. With the “net zero” abolition of carbon-based energy now a foundational priority of Democrats and blue state leftists, it is unacceptable that TVA customers in the Tennessee Valley are in any way subject to the Green New Deal zealotry of blue state senators such as Schiff, Sanders, and Markey.

I’d like to propose an alternative method for selecting board members: TVA Directors should be appointed by the governors of the states served by the TVA, without requiring US Senate confirmation.

Specifics would need to be worked out, but I might suggest something along the lines of nine total directors, with three from Tennessee (which is by far the largest TVA customer and constitutes most of the footprint), and one each from the other six states (Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky.)

As I have previously documented, Joe Biden’s TVA appointees were anti-fossil fuel activists. Fortunately, President Trump promptly fired them after taking office, ensuring that their green delusions about “renewable” energy wouldn’t interfere with the TVA continuing to provide reliable, affordable electricity to its service area…for now.

But there will be almost certainly be another Democrat president in the future, and s/he too will appoint directors with a commitment to shutting down TVA’s carbon-based energy production. An “energiewende” will be inflicted upon Appalachia that is just as devastating as the energy poverty inflicted upon Germany by Angela Merkel. That cannot be allowed to happen.

I live in Tennessee, where we have no say in how California and Massachusetts get their electricity. Residents of those states should not have any say over Tennessee’s electricity either, but when blue state Democrats vote for leftists like Schiff and Markey, they are also casting votes to deny Tennesseans affordable, reliable energy. Again, that is not acceptable.

In the confirmation hearings, Senators Schiff and Markey demanded that the TVA appointees commit to carbon-free, “net zero” electricity production within 25 years. Trump’s nominees would not make that promise, in part because it is not feasible, but also because they do not share the climate alarmism that Democrats have embraced as their post-Christianity religion.

There is some discussion about privatizing the TVA. Chattanooga’s Republican Congressman, Chuck Fleischmann, is opposed to the idea, while Knoxville’s Republican Congressman, Tim Burchett, is willing to entertain the idea. Since a highly regulated, private utility that has no competition is hardly a free market entity, I won’t argue for privatization. Further, since the prevailing business school mindset found in C-suites these days is to cut costs, cut quality, and reduce service, all while treating customers as prey to be gouged, and while vilifying employees as an expense that reduces executive bonuses, I am fine keeping the TVA publicly owned. However, it needs to be accountable to the voters in its service area. That is why I want the governors in the seven states to be the ones appointing directors. The directors then hire the TVA leadership.

If control of the TVA is left to Washington DC, the day is coming that a President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will appoint a full board of Greta Thunbergs to de-carbonize the TVA. The Green New Deal is not a joke. It’s a communist plan for re-organizing society in a way that turns prosperity into poverty, death, and despair. Venezuela’s trajectory is a role model for the Green New Dealers on what they would like to impose domestically.

The Tennessee Valley needs to have energy independence from Washington DC and the Green New Dealers. It is literally a life or death issue.

The map below is the TVA’s service area. I will be reaching out to my Congressman and Senators, and also to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, to promote this idea. Senator Marsha Blackburn is the frontrunner to be elected governor of Tennessee in 2026, so I will also reach out to her campaign team and press secretary.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 03, 2025 11:00 AM (IXZGh)

2 First

Posted by: BifBewalski at November 03, 2025 11:00 AM (6x/n3)

3 Heh. I'll lum NOOD.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 03, 2025 11:00 AM (IXZGh)

4 They know what time it is.i'm gonna be a non nodding bastille

Congrats on the first,Spotify ge!

Posted by: BifBewalski at November 03, 2025 11:01 AM (6x/n3)

5 Go long on candle futures.

Posted by: Mortimer Duke at November 03, 2025 11:01 AM (dyewR)

6 A map! Woo hoo!

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)

7 Tennessee is awesome if you like fishing.

Posted by: eleven at November 03, 2025 11:03 AM (aTgV0)

8 Tennessee is a rather long state.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 03, 2025 11:03 AM (dyewR)

9 Frankly, Buck, I don't give a dam.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 03, 2025 11:03 AM (C6GAH)

10 Well, Mama got sick and Daddy got down
The county got the farm and we moved to town
Papa got a job with the TVA
He bought a washin' machine and then a Chevrolet

Posted by: Song of the South at November 03, 2025 11:04 AM (4rdBE)

11 "hey know what time it is.i'm gonna be a non nodding bastille

Congrats on the first,Spotify ge!
Posted by: BifBewalski "

Escellent communicated.

Posted by: eleven at November 03, 2025 11:04 AM (aTgV0)

12 Tennessee is a rather long state.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 03, 2025 11:03 AM

That's a bit personal.

Posted by: Tennessee at November 03, 2025 11:04 AM (jc0TO)

13 I’d like to propose an alternative method for selecting board members: TVA Directors should be appointed by the governors of the states served by the TVA, without requiring US Senate confirmation.

How DARE you use logic at a time like this!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 03, 2025 11:04 AM (IXZGh)

14 it is unacceptable that TVA customers in the Tennessee Valley are in any way subject to the Green New Deal zealotry of blue state senators such as Schiff, Sanders, and Markey.
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Say what?
-lowly District Court magistrate

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 03, 2025 11:05 AM (A0sqA)

15
Congrats on the first,Spotify ge!
Posted by: BifBewalski at November 03, 2025 11:01 AM (6x/n3)

Meh. I've been called worse.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 03, 2025 11:05 AM (IXZGh)

16 TN borders the most states of any state.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 03, 2025 11:05 AM (3qp0C)

17 The longest state is Hawaii.

Ackshually.

Posted by: eleven at November 03, 2025 11:06 AM (aTgV0)

18 Tennessee is a rather long state.
Posted by: Cicero

From what I've read, the state constitution actually recognizes three regions of the state: Eastern, Middle, and Western, and there has to be balance between the three in political appointments, state supreme court justices, etc.

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:06 AM (77rzZ)

19
Posted by: BifBewalski "

Escellent communicated.

Posted by: eleven

Autocucomber sux moose penis.

Posted by: BifBewalski at November 03, 2025 11:06 AM (6x/n3)

20 Tennessee is a rather long state.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 03, 2025 11:03 AM

Behold the girth, ladies.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:06 AM (evhpt)

21 Tennessee is awesome if you like fishing.
Posted by: eleven at November 03, 2025 11:03 AM (aTgV0)

And riding shotgun with a beer in your hand.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 03, 2025 11:06 AM (IXZGh)

22 16 TN borders the most states of any state.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 03, 2025 11:05 AM (3qp0C)

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THE GAME IS RIGGED!

Posted by: Hawaii at November 03, 2025 11:06 AM (dyewR)

23 Someone needs to invite Schiff and Sanders to a little outing in Tennessee. Then they can meet that kid playing the banjo.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 03, 2025 11:06 AM (2WIwB)

24 "Hahaha, FOAD, Hillbilly garbage."

-Hawaiian Judge

Posted by: XTC at November 03, 2025 11:06 AM (UnA8+)

25
Autocucomber sux moose penis.
Posted by: BifBewalski at November 03, 2025 11:06 AM (6x/n3)

Wait......what?

Posted by: Moose Out Front at November 03, 2025 11:06 AM (IXZGh)

26 TN borders the most states of any state.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

TN and MO both.

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:07 AM (77rzZ)

27 "TN borders the most states of any state.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald"

It's the whore of states.

Posted by: eleven at November 03, 2025 11:07 AM (aTgV0)

28 Buck is too smart and logical to enter politics, and that's Tennessee's loss (although I always thought Buck was a Texan, given the last name and all...)

Posted by: LASue at November 03, 2025 11:07 AM (lCppi)

29 Someone should fight back that by saying the "zero carbon" pipe dream is forcing a state run religion on a government entity.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 03, 2025 11:07 AM (NR6c1)

30 From what I've read, the state constitution actually recognizes three regions of the state: Eastern, Middle, and Western, and there has to be balance between the three in political appointments, state supreme court justices, etc.
Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:06 AM (77rzZ)

State flag has 3 stars signifying this very thing.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 03, 2025 11:07 AM (3qp0C)

31 It's the whore of states.
Posted by: eleven at November 03, 2025 11:07 AM (aTgV0)

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The Nation's Bicycle

Posted by: License Plate Mottos at November 03, 2025 11:08 AM (dyewR)

32 Lunch is almost over

Posted by: Skip at November 03, 2025 11:08 AM (FJlZw)

33 The longest state is Hawaii.

Ackshually.
Posted by: eleven at November 03, 2025 11:06 AM

I beg to differ, Suh.

Posted by: Alaska at November 03, 2025 11:08 AM (jc0TO)

34 "And riding shotgun with a beer in your hand.
Posted by: Sponge"

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: eleven at November 03, 2025 11:08 AM (aTgV0)

35 I will be dammed squared

Posted by: dreamingrobot at November 03, 2025 11:08 AM (EyfuW)

36
Autocucomber sux moose penis.
Posted by: BifBewalski
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Wait......what?

Posted by: Moose Out Front

It's you (the moose out front) get distracted and don't pass along critical, need to know, information.

Posted by: BifBewalski at November 03, 2025 11:08 AM (6x/n3)

37 Missouri borders 8 as well? Weird wild wacky stuff I did not know that.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 03, 2025 11:08 AM (3qp0C)

38 Someone should fight back that by saying the "zero carbon" pipe dream is forcing a state run religion on a government entity.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 03, 2025 11:07 AM (NR6c1)

Zero carbon kills plants and food. Zero carbon will end human life on this planet, and a lot of other species as well.

These people are batshit f*cking insane.

Posted by: Moose Out Front at November 03, 2025 11:08 AM (IXZGh)

39 whell shit.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 03, 2025 11:09 AM (IXZGh)

40 "President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez"

There will sooner be a President Blade than a President AOC

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 03, 2025 11:09 AM (iFTx/)

41 Bernie Sanders has no electricity run to any of his three dachas. He walks the walk!

Posted by: True Believer at November 03, 2025 11:09 AM (oftw2)

42 Lunch is almost over
Posted by: Skip at November 03, 2025 11:08 AM (FJlZw)

I just finished breakfast.
Cheerios and a banana.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 03, 2025 11:09 AM (2WIwB)

43 Zero carbon kills plants and food. Zero carbon will end human life on this planet, and a lot of other species as well.

These people are batshit f*cking insane.

Posted by: Moose Out Front at November 03, 2025 11:08 AM (IXZGh)

That's a feature, not a bug.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:09 AM (evhpt)

44 TN borders the most states of any state

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Even Oklahoma owns TN

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at November 03, 2025 11:09 AM (sX1BW)

45 Is there another utility company like TVA that's quasi-government adjacent?

I'm drawing a blank.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 03, 2025 11:10 AM (Q4IgG)

46 How green is your valley?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 03, 2025 11:10 AM (pkeXY)

47 So liberals are dangerous to flowers, children and money.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at November 03, 2025 11:11 AM (EyfuW)

48 I'd be fine with selling off TVA to some other utility(s) and get it out of the federal government. The Great Depression was a long time ago.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 03, 2025 11:11 AM (viF8m)

49 Lunch is almost over
Posted by: Skip at November 03, 2025 11:08 AM (FJlZw)

I just finished breakfast.
Cheerios and a banana.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 03, 2025 11:09 AM (2WIwB)
-

And we're heading out to dinner.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 03, 2025 11:11 AM (C6GAH)

50
Very OT.

At the vet again for MegaRoy's follow up and blood work results so we can get his teeth cleaned and clear up whatever made his jaw swell and hurt.

Posted by: BifBewalski at November 03, 2025 11:11 AM (6x/n3)

51 >>These people are batshit f*cking insane.

Malthusian

Posted by: Lizzy at November 03, 2025 11:11 AM (GbwPZ)

52
That's a feature, not a bug.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:09 AM (evhpt)

And the amount of support they get from the people really, really saddens me.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 03, 2025 11:11 AM (IXZGh)

53 TVA is collectivist. Collectivism is communism. Break it up and privatize it. The states would have even more control than a "governor-appointed" committee that sits it's ass in DC.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 03, 2025 11:11 AM (75OWm)

54 Missouri borders 8 as well? Weird wild wacky stuff I did not know that.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Yep. And it borders both Tennessee and Nebraska. Blows my mind.

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:11 AM (77rzZ)

55 The fact that Schiff is in power says it all. American citizens with self awareness should never make fun of another country on Earth ever again.

Californians want to be Europe, middle American mid wits want to be California. Reject both.

Max efficiancy with minimal polution. Not no polution, minimal.

Posted by: connected and litigious at November 03, 2025 11:11 AM (s9EN2)

56 For the record, I was never in favor of this rural electrification thing to begin with.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 03, 2025 11:11 AM (dyewR)

57 38 Zero carbon kills plants and food. Zero carbon will end human life on this planet, and a lot of other species as well.

These people are batshit f*cking insane.
Posted by: Moose Out Front at November 03, 2025 11:08 AM (IXZGh)

You need to remember that these people do not want human civilization to continue past their deaths.

They think that they are the most important people to ever live, and want to be the LAST people to ever live.

Posted by: XTC at November 03, 2025 11:12 AM (UnA8+)

58 ***Marsha Blackburn is the frontrunner to be elected governor of Tennessee
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Still cute after all these years.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 03, 2025 11:12 AM (FVOLT)

59 FREE THE TVA!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 03, 2025 11:12 AM (IXZGh)

60 I just finished breakfast.
Cheerios and a banana.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 03, 2025 11:09 AM (2WIwB)

I am sympathy fasting, more or less, because the wife has colonoscopy prep. It would be cruel to make eat all of the yummy foods I am wanting.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:12 AM (evhpt)

61 Oklahoma is Texas' Canada.

Posted by: eleven at November 03, 2025 11:12 AM (aTgV0)

62 T my knowledge the TVA was a brainchild of the Roosevelt Socialism administration, and that's were it got screwed up

Posted by: Skip at November 03, 2025 11:13 AM (FJlZw)

63 >>For the record, I was never in favor of this rural electrification thing to begin with.

Do. Not. Seek. The. Treasure.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 03, 2025 11:13 AM (viF8m)

64 For the record, I was never in favor of this rural electrification thing to begin with.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 03, 2025 11:11 AM

You gotta put things on a paying basis.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 03, 2025 11:13 AM (jc0TO)

65 There are two states that border 2 other states.

What are they? Without googling obviously.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 03, 2025 11:13 AM (3qp0C)

66 Schiff, sanders and markey shouldn't be trusted to pick out a fucking litterbox.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 03, 2025 11:14 AM (snZF9)

67
In the confirmation hearings, Senators Schiff and Markey demanded that the TVA appointees commit to carbon-free, “net zero” electricity production within 25 years.

Fine, then it should be handled the way that the Donk cocksuckers handle stuff they don't like. 25 years out puts the target at 2050. TVA can start building net zero electricity infrastructure in 2048.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 03, 2025 11:14 AM (y9nCu)

68 Tennessee is awesome if you like fishing.
Posted by: eleven at November 03, 2025 11:03 AM (aTgV0)

Lake fishes you!

Posted by: Reelfoot Lake at November 03, 2025 11:14 AM (TezPK)

69 Yeah having the government, whether federal or state run this stuff is a bad idea. Privatize it.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 03, 2025 11:15 AM (3qp0C)

70 And the amount of support they get from the people really, really saddens me.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 03, 2025 11:11 AM (IXZGh)

People are dumb herd animals who are prone to manias and emotional manipulation. Still, I can't find myself to adopt the same Malthusian solutions as these evil cultists.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:15 AM (evhpt)

71 The Tennessee dams are an impressive sight to see.

As you wind along those insane mountain roads.

Posted by: eleven at November 03, 2025 11:15 AM (aTgV0)

72 The Green New Deal is not a joke. It’s a communist plan for re-organizing society in a way that turns prosperity into poverty, death, and despair. Venezuela’s trajectory is a role model for the Green New Dealers on what they would like to impose domestically.

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Make Cave-Dwelling Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 03, 2025 11:15 AM (g8yrO)

73 ‘ But there will be almost certainly be another Democrat president in the future’

We’re better off finding ways to keep this from happening.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 03, 2025 11:15 AM (jbnUc)

74 There are two states that border 2 other states.

What are they? Without googling obviously.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Florida and Rhode Island.

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:15 AM (77rzZ)

75 None of these Senators are from the region.
Why should people from CA, VT, and MA have any say over TVA?

Posted by: Lizzy at November 03, 2025 11:15 AM (GbwPZ)

76 There are two states that border 2 other states.

What are they? Without googling obviously.

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Washington & Delaware?

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at November 03, 2025 11:16 AM (sX1BW)

77 Vermont and New Hampshire?

Posted by: eleven at November 03, 2025 11:16 AM (aTgV0)

78 I look forward to taking a train to Hawaii once the GND is fully implemented and airplanes are banned.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 03, 2025 11:16 AM (3qp0C)

79 There are two states that border 2 other states.

What are they? Without googling obviously.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 03, 2025 11:13 AM (3qp0C)

NH and WA

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:16 AM (evhpt)

80 We have a lot of problem of distant rulers forcing their opinions on the people they consider beneath them.

Any state with a city that dominates the rest of the state is in the same situation.

The founders would have revolted over Reynolds v. Sims.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 03, 2025 11:17 AM (aPBRN)

81 Washington and Florida.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 03, 2025 11:17 AM (3qp0C)

82 When Roosevelt proposed the TVA, he didn't want to acknowledge that it was a plainly fascist/corporatist plan, and so he said "well, it's neither fish nor fowl, but it will taste awfully good to the people of the Tennessee Valley."

And I suppose he was right about that, up to a point. But absent the firm hand of our King, the TVA will give those people the scales of the fish and the feathers of the fowl soon enough, and let them try and make a meal of it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 03, 2025 11:17 AM (BI5O2)

83 Delaware is 3. Which is so crazy given how small it is.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 03, 2025 11:18 AM (3qp0C)

84 Washington, too. That makes three.

Washington, Florida and Rhode Island.

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:18 AM (77rzZ)

85 NH borders ME, MA, and VT

Posted by: Lizzy at November 03, 2025 11:18 AM (GbwPZ)

86 They think that they are the most important people to ever live, and want to be the LAST people to ever live.
Posted by: XTC

After all, they can't imagine how the world will go on without their loving guidance.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 03, 2025 11:18 AM (NR6c1)

87 Trying to get someone to give up power is usually a moot point. But best of luck to all y'all in the TVA sphere.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at November 03, 2025 11:18 AM (xcxpd)

88 Rhode Island borders 3 states.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 03, 2025 11:19 AM (viF8m)

89 People are told that all they have to do to be Superior is to vote Demoncrat.

So of course their feeble minds are going to fall for it.

Posted by: XTC at November 03, 2025 11:19 AM (UnA8+)

90 NH is also 3, MA, VT and Maine.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 03, 2025 11:19 AM (3qp0C)

91 TVA could be traded to Elon Musk for some free rocket rides. Maybe then Musk could DOGE it, make it efficient + profitable, then sell to the customers as a COOP. ?

Posted by: Robert17 at November 03, 2025 11:19 AM (yIR42)

92 TVA is planning to build a multi-billion dollar hydro electric plant down the road from me. They are buying up the land now. They think it will take about ten years to build it.

Posted by: Case at November 03, 2025 11:19 AM (9HFDU)

93 86 After all, they can't imagine how the world will go on without their loving guidance.
Posted by: NR Pax at November 03, 2025 11:18 AM (NR6c1)

The need to ensure that it WON'T.

Because if it does, it means they weren't as superior as they believed they were.

Posted by: XTC at November 03, 2025 11:20 AM (UnA8+)

94 I will be reaching out to my Congressman and Senators, and also to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, to promote this idea. Senator Marsha Blackburn is the frontrunner to be elected governor of Tennessee in 2026, so I will also reach out to her campaign team and press secretary.
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Well you at least buy ink by the quart so maybe they'll listen to a good idea, but likely an ear requires a bushel of money.
They are politicians after all.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 03, 2025 11:20 AM (Hx0tZ)

95 I am all in favor of Buck's idea, and anytime it's possible to move decision making to the states from the DC swamp, it's worth strong consideration.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 03, 2025 11:20 AM (KZgz0)

96 88 Rhode Island borders 3 states.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 03, 2025 11:19 AM (viF8m)

CT, MA and ?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 03, 2025 11:20 AM (LxER7)

97 RI is 3… MA, CT and NY (water border)

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 03, 2025 11:20 AM (3qp0C)

98 Rhode Island borders 3 states.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 03, 2025 11:19 AM (viF8m)

Rhode Island is not even real.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:20 AM (evhpt)

99 >>RI is 3… MA, CT and NY (water border)

Correct.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 03, 2025 11:21 AM (viF8m)

100 Washington and south carolina.

Posted by: tubal at November 03, 2025 11:21 AM (PCK5/)

101 98 Rhode Island is not even real.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:20 AM (evhpt)

No, that's Delaware that isn't real.

The "DC" in Washington DC means "Delaware Consipracy".

Posted by: XTC at November 03, 2025 11:21 AM (UnA8+)

102 The TVA seems like proof that no government program ever ends… something formed by FDR during the great depression still chugging along?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 03, 2025 11:21 AM (cQWrP)

103 Rhode Island borders 3 states.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 03, 2025 11:19 AM (viF8m)

Rhode Island is not even real.

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We never hear what a tragedy it is that Rhode Island has the same amount of senators as Texas and Florida.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at November 03, 2025 11:21 AM (sX1BW)

104 That's a trick question for a state that doesn't even exist.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 03, 2025 11:21 AM (LxER7)

105 I live in Tennessee, where we have no say in how California and Massachusetts get their electricity. Residents of those states should not have any say over Tennessee’s electricity either, but when blue state Democrats vote for leftists like Schiff and Markey, they are also casting votes to deny Tennesseans affordable, reliable energy. Again, that is not acceptable...

There is some discussion about privatizing the TVA. Chattanooga’s Republican Congressman, Chuck Fleischmann, is opposed to the idea, while Knoxville’s Republican Congressman, Tim Burchett, is willing to entertain the idea. Since a highly regulated, private utility that has no competition is hardly a free market entity, I won’t argue for privatization.

You can't be surprised when a government entity is treated as such by people in government. Like it or not, there is only one way to get politicians out of their business, and that's to make it a private entity. It's best to get started on that immediately.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 03, 2025 11:22 AM (Riz8t)

106
Every county in Wyoming is bigger than Rhode Island.

Posted by: fourseasons at November 03, 2025 11:22 AM (3ek7K)

107 "Rhode Island is not even real.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder"

Well...we know that.

Posted by: eleven at November 03, 2025 11:22 AM (aTgV0)

108 Rhode Island borders 3 states.
Posted by: JackStraw

Correct. I forgot the water boundary with New York.

Washington and Florida it is, then.

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

109 Delaware and Rhode Island could be moved and become a large Texas cattle ranch.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 03, 2025 11:22 AM (gm9Sb)

110 Schiff, sanders and markey shouldn't be trusted to pick out a fucking litterbox.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 03, 2025 11:14 AM (snZF9)

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Schitt at least knows to get one deep enough to bury the bodies of dead black boys raped & murdered by him and his BFF Ed Buck ... so he's got that going for him.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 03, 2025 11:23 AM (g8yrO)

111 Rhode Island borders 3 states.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 03, 2025 11:19 AM (viF8m)

Waht? Are you including a maritime border with NY?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 03, 2025 11:23 AM (Hx0tZ)

112 Autocucomber sux moose penis.
Posted by: BifBewalski at November 03, 2025 11:06 AM (6x/n3)

I suspect, suh, that this reference means you are a graduate illustrious Roberts Shooting School and the magazine dropped out of you AR during live fire training.

Posted by: waepnedmann at November 03, 2025 11:23 AM (ICHxq)

113 We never hear what a tragedy it is that Rhode Island has the same amount of senators as Texas and Florida.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at November 03, 2025 11:21 AM (sX1BW)

Or Delaware or Vermont.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 03, 2025 11:23 AM (3qp0C)

114 Delaware and Rhode Island could be moved and become a large Texas cattle ranch.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 03, 2025 11:22 AM

Why not just push them into the Atlantic?

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 03, 2025 11:23 AM (jc0TO)

115 Washington and Florida it is, then.

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

And the trixie Palmettos.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:23 AM (evhpt)

116 Why is Rhode Island called an island? It’s not an island, right?

This is something I’ve never pondered before….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 03, 2025 11:23 AM (cQWrP)

117 [Rhode Island borders 3 states.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 03, 2025 11:19 AM (viF8m)

Waht? Are you including a maritime border with NY?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 03, 2025 11:23 AM

So it also borders Florida.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 03, 2025 11:24 AM (jc0TO)

118 109 Delaware and Rhode Island could be moved and become a large Texas cattle ranch.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 03, 2025 11:22 AM (gm9Sb)

Or we could just execute every non-Texan (and even carpetbagging Texans that haven't been there at least 4 generations).

Yes, I understand this means that I die.

Yee-Haw.

Posted by: XTC at November 03, 2025 11:24 AM (UnA8+)

119 Schiff, sanders and markey shouldn't be trusted to pick out a fucking litterbox.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 03, 2025 11:14 AM (snZF9)

Agreed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 03, 2025 11:24 AM (IXZGh)

120 South Carolina borders 2 states.

Posted by: tubal at November 03, 2025 11:24 AM (PCK5/)

121 >>Waht? Are you including a maritime border with NY?

Only because it's true.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 03, 2025 11:24 AM (viF8m)

122 Why is Rhode Island called an island? It’s not an island, right?

This is something I’ve never pondered before….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 03, 2025 11:23 AM (cQWrP)

They're like the crazy uncle that nobody wants to bring up in conversation.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:24 AM (evhpt)

123 I'm Sorry, But HOW MANY Illegals Get Food Stamps?

I see one silver lining in all of this. If we can figure out how many illegals are on Food Stamps or other forms of welfare, we can finally put a stop to our guesses and the Dem's lies about how many illegals are in the country. Make the Dems acknowledge how many people they want to provide with welfare. That's how many we should focus on deporting.

https://is.gd/UZzrMP

Posted by: Archimedes at November 03, 2025 11:25 AM (Riz8t)

124 Yes, there are three:

Washington, Florida, and South Carolina.

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:25 AM (77rzZ)

125
The Big Dummy is a house dog, but Rosalind is also a house dog and is in season. The two are each penned and separated as far as possible but TBD still howls plaintively for her. I don't know whether to yell at the poor bastard or feel sorry for him.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 03, 2025 11:25 AM (tgvbd)

126 TVA might have better luck untangling themselves from the Feds if they'd (either the Fed or TVA) split off the river management/ag stuff from the power generation.

Just an idea....

As it stands today, TVA has its grimy little fingers in a lot of biz they've got no biz being in.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 03, 2025 11:25 AM (Q4IgG)

127 I KNEW someone would come in with South Carolina.

Posted by: eleven at November 03, 2025 11:25 AM (aTgV0)

128 Thank you, LA Sue. I was raised in Texas and lived most of my life in Austin and San Antonio. California colonists, and Texas property taxes, pushed my wife and me out a decade ago.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at November 03, 2025 11:25 AM (WLaG3)

129 South Carolina borders 2 states.
Posted by: tubal at November 03, 2025 11:24 AM (PCK5/)

Shit you’re right. Opps. Oopsie.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 03, 2025 11:26 AM (3qp0C)

130 Zero carbon kills plants and food. Zero carbon will end human life on this planet, and a lot of other species as well.

These people are batshit f*cking insane.
Posted by: Moose Out Front at November 03, 2025 11:08 AM (IXZGh)

You need to remember that these people do not want human civilization to continue past their deaths.

They think that they are the most important people to ever live, and want to be the LAST people to ever live.
Posted by: XTC at November 03, 2025 11:12 AM (UnA8+)
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Oh, these people aren't insane. Not at all. They know exactly what they're doing: using a flashpoint issue to increase -- drastically -- their wealth and power. The Global Warming scam was the single greatest power and wealth transfer in the history of humanity. We're talking trillions -- and who were the main beneficiaries?

These people aren't insane. They are evil and power-mad, but not insane.

Sure, there are a few genuinely mentally-ill retards out there (Grunta), but even they usually are puppeteered by sane people looking to enrich themselves (her parents).

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 03, 2025 11:26 AM (iFTx/)

131 I’d like to propose an alternative method for selecting board members: TVA Directors should be appointed by the governors of the states served by the TVA, without requiring US Senate confirmation.
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TVA ownership would have to be transferred to corporation held in common by those states, as it's entirely federal property. And then comes the other problems with that, like the various special abatements and rules under which the TVA operates as a FedGov-owned corporation.

Not impossible, but difficult. This is one of the many reasons why state-owned corporations becomes something of a roach motel: you can never get out of it.

The TVA is virtually identical in structure to South Africa's ESCOM. The government owns generation and mainline distribution, with local utilities (usually municipal) handling metering, billing and last-mile power grid infrastructure.

Like ESCOM, the TVA system is uniquely vulnerable to political risks. In South Africa, this has manifested as incompetence and looting under successive generations of competent men being replaced with ANC cronies and gangsters and here, it has been climate policy and short-term planning due to the election cycle.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2025 11:26 AM (zxP/x)

132 I don't have any experience with electric power generation, so I'll just read along

I am FOR electricity though, and I'm not afraid to admit it

Posted by: Don Black. Message: I like things that are great at November 03, 2025 11:26 AM (AOsQT)

133 Georgia touches five states.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 03, 2025 11:26 AM (jc0TO)

134 How many states border 5 states, nerds?

Posted by: eleven at November 03, 2025 11:26 AM (aTgV0)

135 I have spent some time there. Very nice state, South carolina.

Posted by: tubal at November 03, 2025 11:26 AM (PCK5/)

136 59 FREE THE TVA!!!!

free the expo 67! > free the tva!

(now that "6 7" is the word of the year, i expect a resurgence in the popularity of they might be giants)

Posted by: anachronda at November 03, 2025 11:27 AM (sGtp+)

137 Wow. What a great trivia-night question that would be.

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:27 AM (77rzZ)

138 "Rhode Island is not even real.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder"

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Correct.

It's actually the "State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."

/Things I learned playing Trivial Pursuit some 40 years ago...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 03, 2025 11:27 AM (sW83l)

139 134 Arkansas does.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 03, 2025 11:27 AM (gm9Sb)

140 TVA reminds me of "Harper Valley PTA"

Posted by: Don Black. Message: I like things that are great at November 03, 2025 11:27 AM (AOsQT)

141
It's amazing that the city of Providence doesn't make Rhode Island tip over...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 03, 2025 11:27 AM (y9nCu)

142 Not a bad idea, Buck. Seems reasonable to me.

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at November 03, 2025 11:27 AM (w3u3d)

143 There are two states that border 2 other states

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48

- That guy

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at November 03, 2025 11:27 AM (sX1BW)

144 Bernie and Schiff will never have to live with their decisions. Neither will AOC. They will always plenty of electricity and be allowed to use cars and planes.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 03, 2025 11:27 AM (3qp0C)

145 We here in Brattleboro applaud Senator Bernie's plan for Net-Zero in Tennessee. It is even more important now that the FART Tube program has been sidelined by the Trump Shutdown. Please Presdnent Obama and Bernie, help us!

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein Of Brattleboro, VT at November 03, 2025 11:28 AM (oftw2)

146 These people aren't insane. They are evil and power-mad, but not insane.

cough*And*cough

Posted by: Archimedes at November 03, 2025 11:28 AM (Riz8t)

147 I am sympathy fasting, more or less, because the wife has colonoscopy prep. It would be cruel to make eat all of the yummy foods I am wanting.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:12 AM (evhpt)

-----

You can always head out for a pack of smokes and then find yourself at a comfort food diner. Take up the bad habit if you have to.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 03, 2025 11:28 AM (Hx0tZ)

148 125 The Big Dummy is a house dog, but Rosalind is also a house dog and is in season. The two are each penned and separated as far as possible but TBD still howls plaintively for her. I don't know whether to yell at the poor bastard or feel sorry for him.

healing power of "and"?

Posted by: anachronda at November 03, 2025 11:28 AM (sGtp+)

149 Something amusing I've noted - all last week, everyone on the Left, in Congress and in the media, was hyperventilating about the "outrageous" remodeling of the East Wing of the White House.
Suddenly, they've all forgotten about it. Not a word from any of the usual suspects. I guess the memo went out; someone noticed it wasn't working.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 03, 2025 11:28 AM (uWKK8)

150 Georgia touches five states.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 03, 2025 11:26 AM (jc0TO)

Georgia needs to give me no lines and keep its hands to itself.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:28 AM (evhpt)

151 Idaho borders six states and a province.

Missouri borders 8.

Main borders one.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at November 03, 2025 11:28 AM (PSEDc)

152 RI does have an island so technically it’s true?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 03, 2025 11:28 AM (3qp0C)

153 >>Why is Rhode Island called an island? It’s not an island, right?

It's many islands. The original and what should still be the name of the state is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. One of the original capitals of the state was Newport which is on Aquidneck Island.

That's why.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 03, 2025 11:28 AM (viF8m)

154 People in Arkansas are nerds.

Posted by: eleven at November 03, 2025 11:28 AM (aTgV0)

155 I live in Tennessee, where we have no say in how California and Massachusetts get their electricity. Residents of those states should not have any say over Tennessee’s electricity either, but when blue state Democrats vote for leftists like Schiff and Markey, they are also casting votes to deny Tennesseans affordable, reliable energy. Again, that is not acceptable.
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But you also don't have ownership over their power system (unless you own stock in a generation utility). They do. TVA is federal, and TVA is (barely) profitable. Changing ownership to the states would involve a leveraged buyout from the feds, if nothing else and TVA is a big enterprise. And ownership would have to change, or else the other states will - rightly, if uncomfortably - argue that they are being expropriated without compensation.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2025 11:28 AM (zxP/x)

156 I count six states abutting Arkansas.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 03, 2025 11:29 AM (jc0TO)

157 125
The Big Dummy is a house dog, but Rosalind is also a house dog and is in season. The two are each penned and separated as far as possible but TBD still howls plaintively for her. I don't know whether to yell at the poor bastard or feel sorry for him.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 03, 2025 11:25 AM (tgvbd)

It's fox mating season in my neck of the woods. The screams and shrieks of a vixen in heat are unreal.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 03, 2025 11:29 AM (LxER7)

158 TVA recently shut down the Bull Run plant rather than do maintenance for it. Its life could've been extended for at least 20 years, at a low cost. But instead they blew up most of it earlier this year, and are apparently selling the rest of it off to some blue-sky cold fusion outfit. It'll sit there on the Clinch River sucking up resources and doing jack shit else, now.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 03, 2025 11:29 AM (m10Ad)

159 free the expo 67! > free the tva!

(now that "6 7" is the word of the year, i expect a resurgence in the popularity of they might be giants)
Posted by: anachronda at November 03, 2025 11:27 AM (sGtp+)

69 FTW.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 03, 2025 11:29 AM (IXZGh)

160 How many states border 5 states, nerds?
Posted by: eleven at November 03, 2025 11:26 AM (aTgV0)

Even an oblique reference to the 5 color theorem could be considered a violation of the “no maths” rule….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 03, 2025 11:29 AM (g3j/k)

161 Something amusing I've noted - all last week, everyone on the Left, in Congress and in the media, was hyperventilating about the "outrageous" remodeling of the East Wing of the White House.
Suddenly, they've all forgotten about it. Not a word from any of the usual suspects. I guess the memo went out; someone noticed it wasn't working.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 03, 2025 11:28 AM (uWKK

See @ 70.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:29 AM (evhpt)

162
I am sympathy fasting, more or less, because the wife has colonoscopy prep.

________

You're where I was last Thursday.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 03, 2025 11:29 AM (tgvbd)

163 It's actually the "State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."
Posted by: ShainS

They took out the "and Providence Plantations" part via a referendum. In 2020, I think.

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)

164 And by the way, private jets are a necessary tool to Fight Oligarchy!

Posted by: Bernie, I-VT at November 03, 2025 11:30 AM (oftw2)

165
Georgia touches five states.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 03, 2025 11:26 AM (jc0TO)

Show me on the map where the bad state touched you...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 03, 2025 11:30 AM (y9nCu)

166 Not impossible, but difficult. This is one of the many reasons why state-owned corporations becomes something of a roach motel: you can never get out of it.

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Imma gonna have to write a parody song called "Roach Hotel California."

Perfect for Gruesome Newscum ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 03, 2025 11:30 AM (sW83l)

167 Something amusing I've noted - all last week, everyone on the Left, in Congress and in the media, was hyperventilating about the "outrageous" remodeling of the East Wing of the White House.
Suddenly, they've all forgotten about it. Not a word from any of the usual suspects. I guess the memo went out; someone noticed it wasn't working.

Someone should ask Swalwell if he still wants to knock it down.

(ed. note: Neither he nor anyone else in the Democrat Party will knock it down. They'll use the f*** out of it.)

Posted by: Archimedes at November 03, 2025 11:30 AM (Riz8t)

168 154 Arkansas nerds handload ammunition and put ethanol free into the pickup truck. That's about it.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 03, 2025 11:31 AM (gm9Sb)

169 Georgia touches five states.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 03, 2025 11:26 AM (jc0TO)

Michigan, too, if you count the water boundaries with Illinois and Minnesota.

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:31 AM (77rzZ)

170 If control of the TVA is left to Washington DC, the day is coming that a President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will appoint a full board of Greta Thunbergs to de-carbonize the TVA. The Green New Deal is not a joke. It’s a communist plan for re-organizing society in a way that turns prosperity into poverty, death, and despair. Venezuela’s trajectory is a role model for the Green New Dealers on what they would like to impose domestically.
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TVA nearly got done in by Obama+Biden's "green" insanity. Trump has been a double reprieve.

But the only two choices are privatization, which will be logistically very difficult or transfer of ownership to the states it serves, which depends on a willingness of all three parties (the feds, the states which will assume ownership, the states which will lose ownership (proxied by the feds, probably)) coming to an agreement.

Or some sort of dreadful "Public/Private Partnership" joint venture to raise capital for transfer to the states.

Hard problem with no good solutions. These are the results of state-owned enterprise.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2025 11:31 AM (zxP/x)

171 Mass I think

Posted by: ... at November 03, 2025 11:31 AM (y0GVq)

172 Have the infected monkeys taken over Mississippi yet?

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:32 AM (77rzZ)

173 You're where I was last Thursday.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 03, 2025 11:29 AM (tgvbd)

It sucks mostly for the kids.

Eat dirt, guys. It'll be over soon.

I think I'll make chicken tortilla soup for lunch while she's out.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:32 AM (evhpt)

174 Someone should ask Swalwell if he still wants to knock it down.

(ed. note: Neither he nor anyone else in the Democrat Party will knock it down. They'll use the f*** out of it.)
Posted by: Archimedes at November 03, 2025 11:30 AM (Riz8t)

Let me guess.....Swalwell has a relative that's in the construction business that would 'win' the no bid contract for demolition where the taxpayer would pay $27.4m for the work.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 03, 2025 11:32 AM (IXZGh)

175 Isn't it Rhode Island and Plantations? Like there is an actual island and then the rest of the small state?

Posted by: Ted Striker's Polka Hits at November 03, 2025 11:32 AM (y+RCP)

176 It's fox mating season in my neck of the woods. The screams and shrieks of a vixen in heat are unreal.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo

I remember those days-fondly.

Posted by: Speaker Emerita at November 03, 2025 11:32 AM (oftw2)

177 168 154 Arkansas nerds handload ammunition and put ethanol free into the pickup truck. That's about it.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 03, 2025 11:31 AM (gm9Sb)

Our ethanol free is running 3.25/gal here in Mo. What does yours cost now?

Posted by: tubal at November 03, 2025 11:32 AM (PCK5/)

178 Have the infected monkeys taken over Mississippi yet?
Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:32 AM

They've murdered most of them because the driver thought they were infected.

It turns out that they were not.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 03, 2025 11:33 AM (jc0TO)

179 131
‘ the TVA system is uniquely vulnerable to political risks. In South Africa, this has manifested as incompetence’

If South Africa is looming on our political horizon, every right , property or otherwise, are vulnerable to risk.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 03, 2025 11:33 AM (jbnUc)

180 This is a legal document.

My new name.

thug dolphin

Posted by: dreamingrobot at November 03, 2025 11:33 AM (EyfuW)

181 It's fox mating season in my neck of the woods. The screams and shrieks of a vixen in heat are unreal.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo

If you're doing it right.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:33 AM (evhpt)

182 And Providence Plantations

Posted by: Amy Schumer at November 03, 2025 11:33 AM (y0GVq)

183 130 These people aren't insane. They are evil and power-mad, but not insane.

Sure, there are a few genuinely mentally-ill retards out there (Grunta), but even they usually are puppeteered by sane people looking to enrich themselves (her parents).
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 03, 2025 11:26 AM (iFTx/)

Never said they were insane.

Just evil and massively egotistical.

Posted by: XTC at November 03, 2025 11:33 AM (UnA8+)

184 Thanks Amy

Posted by: Ted Striker's Polka Hits at November 03, 2025 11:34 AM (y+RCP)

185 Leftists and too many “republicans” signed on to Deindustrialization, and the destruction of our native energy production. That’s just the tip of the iceberg, though a critical one.

Destruction of the stabilizing family unit - Check. Defanged organized religion - Check. Glorifying destructive behaviors in youth, failure of education - Check. Everywhere you look, it’s unerring and a clear pattern. A weak American government unable or clearly unwilling to protect her borders for decades whilst expected to be the “policeman” of the world. It’s all so tedious and demoralizing, because it was intended to be.

To add insult to injury the politicians who’ve inflicted these wounds on everyone have the gall to suggest anybody trying to correct these defects is “weaponizing” government. What a bunch of fucking asshats. I hope they die in a fire, it’s better than they deserve. They’ve set their sights directly on Americans for probably 60 years now in every way imaginable.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 03, 2025 11:34 AM (B+LEV)

186 because the wife has colonoscopy prep."

Best of luck. Ours didn't work out so well...

Posted by: man at November 03, 2025 11:34 AM (tubbA)

187 They've murdered most of them because the driver thought they were infected.

It turns out that they were not.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 03, 2025 11:33 AM (jc0TO)

Seems the place doing the experimenting on them should be tactically nuked to prevent such happenings in the future.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 03, 2025 11:34 AM (IXZGh)

188 162
I am sympathy fasting, more or less, because the wife has colonoscopy prep.

________

You're where I was last Thursday.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 03, 2025 11:29 AM (tgvbd)

I thought only Penis Americans had to get colonoscopies.

Posted by: XTC at November 03, 2025 11:35 AM (UnA8+)

189 Personally, I prefer the name Rogue Island. That was the name given to Rhode Island by many in the Continental Congress because the people of Rhode Island did not want to be ruled by a federal government, trading one king for another. Held out for an entire year signing the Constitution until the other colonies imposed a ban on trade with RI.

Chief among the concerns was the imposition of a crushing federal income tax. But what did they know?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 03, 2025 11:35 AM (viF8m)

190 The screams and shrieks of a vixen in heat are unreal.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo

If you're doing it right.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:33 AM (evhpt)

Or wrong.

Posted by: ... at November 03, 2025 11:35 AM (y0GVq)

191 man, sorry, hope you guys are hanging in

Posted by: ... at November 03, 2025 11:36 AM (y0GVq)

192 Rhode Island and the Plantations would be a cool name for a band

I’m guessing the vast majority of the land area of the state is in the plantations part?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 03, 2025 11:36 AM (g3j/k)

193 Sigh...Left that one hanging out over the plate.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 03, 2025 11:36 AM (LxER7)

194 okay

Posted by: thug dolphin at November 03, 2025 11:36 AM (EyfuW)

195 I thought only Penis Americans had to get colonoscopies.

Posted by: XTC at November 03, 2025 11:35 AM (UnA8+)

From the web:

Many people don’t realize a woman’s colon is longer than a man’s, making examining the entire colon more challenging during a colonoscopy. And because of its size, the colon has to share space with the bladder and uterus.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:36 AM (evhpt)

196 190 The screams and shrieks of a vixen in heat are unreal.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo

If you're doing it right.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:33 AM (evhpt)

Or wrong.

Surprise Anal!!! Amiright???

Posted by: Ted Striker's Polka Hits at November 03, 2025 11:36 AM (y+RCP)

197 If South Africa is looming on our political horizon, every right , property or otherwise, are vulnerable to risk.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 03, 2025 11:33 AM (jbnUc)
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Sure. But risks differ, as does scope.

The TVA is distinctly subject to political risks, and its scope is enormous seeing as how it serves a lot of new industrial center of the United States.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2025 11:37 AM (zxP/x)

198 It's fox mating season in my neck of the woods. The screams and shrieks of a vixen in heat are unreal.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo

If you're doing it right.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:33 AM

Yes!

Posted by: Two Wild and Crazy Guys at November 03, 2025 11:37 AM (jc0TO)

199 195 I thought only Penis Americans had to get colonoscopies.

Posted by: XTC at November 03, 2025 11:35 AM (UnA8+)

From the web:

Many people don’t realize a woman’s colon is longer than a man’s, making examining the entire colon more challenging during a colonoscopy. And because of its size, the colon has to share space with the bladder and uterus.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:36 AM (evhpt)

196

“ It’s a Long and Winding Road…”

Posted by: tubal at November 03, 2025 11:37 AM (PCK5/)

200 The glorious history of Rhode Island, lol. The Gnat That Roared.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 03, 2025 11:37 AM (m10Ad)

201 177 Ethanol free is about the same here. It can vary by a dime or so because municipal gas tax is permitted. Sucks to be the guy with a station at the city limits looking across at a station out of the city.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 03, 2025 11:37 AM (gm9Sb)

202 I’m guessing the vast majority of the land area of the state is in the plantations part?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

All 6.5 acres.

Posted by: God's Little Acre at November 03, 2025 11:37 AM (oftw2)

203 If you're doing it right.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:33 AM (evhpt)

Or wrong.

Posted by: ... at November 03, 2025 11:35 AM (y0GVq)

There's a wrong way?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:38 AM (evhpt)

204 I read this yesterday and found it fascinating. The Vietnamese have figured out what works, and are formally turning away from Communism, choosing capitalism and Vietnamese nationalism.

on May 4, 2025, the Politburo of the Vietnamese Communist Party adopted Resolution 68, putting private enterprise at the center of economic development. The resolution gave responsibility for national wealth creation to self-management, self-effort, and self-empowerment. The rights of private property will be guaranteed and protected. The Vietnamese state will henceforth “serve and support” private enterprise and not contradict the “principles of the market.

The real question is whether they'll actually become democratic, but they are at least making the right noises.

To Lam doubled down on his new vision for a non-Communist, truly Vietnamese Vietnam. Democracy must be guaranteed with discipline and transparency, with elections as broad-based politics to earn the trust of the people. Private enterprise must be pushed forward for national development. The benefit of the people must become the objective of the government’s new economic policy.

https://is.gd/L7Bmma

Posted by: Archimedes at November 03, 2025 11:38 AM (Riz8t)

205 man, sorry, hope you guys are hanging in"

Thanks, but the news last week was... shitty. Sorry.

Back story was that Mrs had some issues, regular Doc saw something, turned out to be Multiple Myeloma. Sucks. Don't know what we're going to do, exactly...

Posted by: man at November 03, 2025 11:38 AM (tubbA)

206 Posted by: JackStraw at November 03, 2025 11:35 AM (viF8m)

RI also stuck with its colonial charter as its governing doc instead of drafting a constitution, which led to the Dorr Rebellion.

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:38 AM (77rzZ)

207 “ It’s a Long and Winding Road…”

Posted by: tubal at November 03, 2025 11:37 AM (PCK5/)

Butt we'll get to the bottom of it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:38 AM (evhpt)

208 I’m guessing the vast majority of the land area of the state is in the plantations part?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 03, 2025 11:36 AM (g3j/k)

The vast majority of the land area of Rhode Island is just the lobby of its Capitol building.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 03, 2025 11:39 AM (m10Ad)

209 This brunette motorist isn't overly fond of green mandates or state-owned industry:
http://tiny.cc/wuju001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2025 11:39 AM (zxP/x)

210 Many people don’t realize a woman’s colon is longer than a man’s

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Softball alert

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at November 03, 2025 11:40 AM (sX1BW)

211 I be listening to Bad Bunny when I gonna be at the Wal Mark taking all they shit.

Posted by: democrat goblin at November 03, 2025 11:40 AM (4rdBE)

212 there will be almost certainly be another Democrat president in the future...

Nooooooo...

Posted by: American Liberty and Prosperity at November 03, 2025 11:40 AM (MialQ)

213 because the wife has colonoscopy prep."

Best of luck. Ours didn't work out so well...

Posted by: man at November 03, 2025 11:34 AM (tubbA)

Sorry to hear. Godspeed.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:40 AM (evhpt)

214 204 Tu Do street is now reopened and ready for business. All you old numbah one GIs are invited.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 03, 2025 11:40 AM (gm9Sb)

215 I miss those informative articles in Reader's Digest like "I Am Joe's Prostate".

Posted by: Or, I Am Mary's Uterus at November 03, 2025 11:40 AM (oftw2)

216 Next video: filmed.

Now...the editing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having some laughs with Alexander Mackendrick at November 03, 2025 11:40 AM (GBKbO)

217 This brunette motorist isn't overly fond of green mandates or state-owned industry:"

That's why she's driving a Benz instead of a VW?

(cmon, I need a laugh. or two)

Posted by: man at November 03, 2025 11:41 AM (tubbA)

218 I went to Walmart yesterday. I was promised carnage but it was all normal.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 03, 2025 11:41 AM (jc0TO)

219 Good luck on the c-scopy, man.

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:41 AM (77rzZ)

220 I had the Pill Camera checkup not too long ago. Good times, good times.

Posted by: tubal at November 03, 2025 11:41 AM (PCK5/)

221 Yankees.

Posted by: Eromero at November 03, 2025 11:41 AM (jgmnb)

222 The idea is not without merit, but most interstate concerns like this default to the federal government. It will be a hard sell.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 03, 2025 11:42 AM (TkV8C)

223 A famous girl singer has a house in Rhode Island.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: I like things that are great at November 03, 2025 11:43 AM (AOsQT)

224 Well they won't let us burn coal anymore. Hell, I can't even burn a brush pile except on certain months. And not even then if we are under drought conditions.

Posted by: Case at November 03, 2025 11:43 AM (9HFDU)

225 Colonoscopy. Pro tip. Don't ever take the alternative exam they recommend if you are on blood thinners. It was invented by the Gestapo to make resistance members talk.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 03, 2025 11:44 AM (gm9Sb)

226 Good luck on the c-scopy, man."

Not me, her. The dr spotted something, and more tests later... well.

Posted by: man at November 03, 2025 11:44 AM (tubbA)

227 Good luck on the c-scopy, Flounder, I mean.

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:44 AM (77rzZ)

228 NO REPRESENTATION WITHOUT TAXATION!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 03, 2025 11:45 AM (xvV+O)

229 What the fuck is up with women's colons being longer?

Posted by: eleven at November 03, 2025 11:45 AM (aTgV0)

230 Back story was that Mrs had some issues, regular Doc saw something, turned out to be Multiple Myeloma. Sucks. Don't know what we're going to do, exactly...
Posted by: man at November 03, 2025 11:38 AM (tubbA)

Oh f*ck. Man.....SOOO sorry to hear that. That one is a tough one. Get ivermectin and mebendazole. Find a doc that isn't afraid of that as a treatment.

Godspeed to you both. Prayers up.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 03, 2025 11:45 AM (IXZGh)

231 Good luck on the c-scopy, Flounder, I mean.

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:44 AM (77rzZ)

Thank you.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:45 AM (evhpt)

232
Have the infected monkeys taken over Mississippi yet?
Posted by: Bulg

They've murdered most of them because the driver thought they were infected.

They get the funniest looks from everyone they meet.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 03, 2025 11:45 AM (pkeXY)

233 By the time Democrats return to power, the Green scam may be totally discredited. It is beginning to unravel now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 03, 2025 11:45 AM (npFr7)

234 >but most interstate concerns like this default to the federal government. It will be a hard sell.
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Gosh DARN that fiendish Commerce Clause

Posted by: Don Black. Message: I like things that are great at November 03, 2025 11:46 AM (AOsQT)

235 Another tip for colonoscopies:

When you are preparing for it the day before and your system is expelling everything, keep a close eye on the toilet bowl in case you are passing something that you are going to eat in the future. Don't want to cause a temporal event.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 03, 2025 11:46 AM (NR6c1)

236 I know everyone hates Facebook, but there is a good group on there for Multiple Myeloma patients and family.

Have a good family friend who was diagnosed with it about 7 years ago, and is still in remission and doing fine. He had the stem-cell treatment.

Posted by: Good To Know Options at November 03, 2025 11:46 AM (oftw2)

237 What the fuck is up with women's colons being longer?
Posted by: eleven at November 03, 2025 11:45 AM (aTgV0)

It's a numbers game, and I've put enough points on the board to skew the averages.

Posted by: Il Paolo at November 03, 2025 11:47 AM (m10Ad)

238 Back story was that Mrs had some issues, regular Doc saw something, turned out to be Multiple Myeloma. Sucks. Don't know what we're going to do, exactly...
Posted by: man

Prayer up, Man.

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:47 AM (77rzZ)

239 205
‘ Don't know what we're going to do, exactly...’

Take things one day at a time.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 03, 2025 11:47 AM (jbnUc)

240 215 I miss those informative articles in Reader's Digest like "I Am Joe's Prostate".
Posted by: Or, I Am Mary's Uterus at November 03, 2025 11:40 AM (oftw2)
Today it could be ‘I am Pete’s anus.’ Probably not in RD though.

Posted by: Eromero at November 03, 2025 11:47 AM (jgmnb)

241 That one is a tough one. "

yeah. They're (MD Anderson) is assigning her to a team headed by a research Onocologist (sp?)... lots 'o' testing going forward.

Posted by: man at November 03, 2025 11:47 AM (tubbA)

242 Have a good family friend who was diagnosed with it about 7 years ago, and is still in remission and doing fine. He had the stem-cell treatment.
Posted by: Good To Know Options at November 03, 2025 11:46 AM (oftw2)

Stem-cell treatment bought the wife's aunt a couple of years.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 03, 2025 11:47 AM (IXZGh)

243 >Have the infected monkeys taken over Mississippi yet?
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they're too busy singing
to take Mississippi down

Posted by: Don Black. Message: I like things that are great at November 03, 2025 11:47 AM (AOsQT)

244 There's a wrong way?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:38 AM (evhpt

In through the out door

Posted by: ... at November 03, 2025 11:48 AM (y0GVq)

245 229 What the fuck is up with women's colons being longer?
Posted by: eleven at November 03, 2025 11:45 AM (aTgV0)

Men only have a semicolon.

Posted by: XTC at November 03, 2025 11:48 AM (UnA8+)

246 He had the stem-cell treatment."

That's one option they brought up right away... we'll see.

Posted by: man at November 03, 2025 11:48 AM (tubbA)

247 235 Mentioned here before, I had a lady friend that had a real nut gal for a friend. The nut liked to do a colonoscopy prep weekly to keep herself cleaned out.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 03, 2025 11:48 AM (gm9Sb)

248 Apropos of nothing… I enjoyed watching PDJT kick Norah O’Donnell around in that 60 minutes interview last night…. He treated her with the thinly veiled contempt she deserves…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 03, 2025 11:49 AM (QwK6F)

249 They're (MD Anderson) is assigning her to a team headed by a research Onocologist (sp?)... lots 'o' testing going forward.
Posted by: man at November 03, 2025 11:47 AM (tubbA)

Well, prayers for positivity and quality doctor work for her. I can't say it enough. F*CK Cancer......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 03, 2025 11:49 AM (IXZGh)

250 They took out the "and Providence Plantations" part via a referendum. In 2020, I think.

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)

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Ah, was unaware of that -- thanks Bulg.

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume it was a reaction to the "Mostly Peaceful" Summer of Burning, Looting and Murdering amidst the tearing down statues and renaming military bases and on and on and on ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 03, 2025 11:49 AM (3Aa3m)

251 Nobody cares about your intestines

Posted by: dreamingrobot at November 03, 2025 11:49 AM (EyfuW)

252 Well, prayers for positivity and quality doctor work for her. I can't say it enough. F*CK Cancer......"

Thank you. Funny, but y'all mean a lot...

Posted by: man at November 03, 2025 11:49 AM (tubbA)

253 "I see one silver lining in all of this. If we can figure out how many illegals are on Food Stamps or other forms of welfare, we can finally put a stop to our guesses and the Dem's lies about how many illegals are in the country. Make the Dems acknowledge how many people they want to provide with welfare. That's how many we should focus on deporting.

Posted by: Archimedes"

Part of the problem is their anchor baby kids are eligible and that is how benefits are calculated so technically, those illegals are not getting food stamp benefits. The law need to be changed so only citizens can apply.

Posted by: Ripley at November 03, 2025 11:49 AM (GUOwU)

254 Why don't we push TVA back to the states and state control? You can have an interstate compact to run it...MD/VA do these all the time...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 03, 2025 11:50 AM (tOcjL)

255 Many people don’t realize a woman’s colon is longer than a man’s...

Believe me, uh....I can feel the difference.

Posted by: Barack Obama at November 03, 2025 11:50 AM (MialQ)

256 Mentioned here before, I had a lady friend that had a real nut gal for a friend. The nut liked to do a colonoscopy prep weekly to keep herself cleaned out.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 03, 2025 11:48 AM (gm9Sb)

Man, I knew a lady who refused to eat except for vitamins, and drinking ghee. She swore it made her healthier. You couldn't tell from lookin' at her, tho.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 03, 2025 11:50 AM (m10Ad)

257 Nobody cares about your intestines.

Wait, that came out wrong.

Posted by: dreamingrobot at November 03, 2025 11:51 AM (EyfuW)

258 👍 You're not wrong. But it's a wholly owned government corporation & largest public energy provider in the U.S.

Board of Directors
Composition: Nine part-time members who are appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
Term: Each member serves a five-year term.
Role: The board is responsible for upholding the TVA Act and TVA Bylaws, setting policies, and ensuring the strategic goals of the organization are met.
Chair: Members select a chair from among themselves.
Quorum: Five members are required to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

The fight to Green it up will go on for decades. Keep it tipped towards the conservative caucus or lose control.
(Doubt that privatizing it among many communities would help; that's what the Progressive Caucus is shooting for as Universal Basic Services.)

>"UNEQUAL: The rise of a new American oligarchy and the agenda we need," published by Oxfam today and with a forward by Liz Warren.

Yeah, somehow w/i months the Trump administration policies could drive inequality to new heights warns Oxfam. ('UK Guardian, Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report', 3 Nov. 2025)

F'ing A.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at November 03, 2025 11:51 AM (NFX2v)

259 Why don't we push TVA back to the states and state control? You can have an interstate compact to run it...MD/VA do these all the time...
Posted by: Nova Local

The Great-Lake states used to have something similar, I think.

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:51 AM (77rzZ)

260 By the time Democrats return to power, the Green scam may be totally discredited. It is beginning to unravel now.

Agree. They've gotten a good 25-30 years of hysteria out of it, but at some point, the expired horse hasn't just been flogged, it's been flayed, flensed, macerated, and treated with hydrogen peroxide.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 03, 2025 11:52 AM (Riz8t)

261 On a light-hearted note, there was a Two and a Half Men episode entitled “Yay! No polyps” which was very funny…. Charlie lied to his fiancé that he needed a colonoscopy to get out of seeing her parents…. It went all wrong…. One memorable line he uttered: I just saw a piece of Hubba Bubba I swallowed in 5th grade….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 03, 2025 11:52 AM (QwK6F)

262 Montana will be bordering seven states if the four western Canadian provinces join the US.

(Don't know if I want this to happen with the urban area of BC, though.)

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at November 03, 2025 11:52 AM (4yZI/)

263 Back story was that Mrs had some issues, regular Doc saw something, turned out to be Multiple Myeloma. Sucks. Don't know what we're going to do, exactly...
Posted by: man at November 03, 2025 11:38 AM (tubbA)

=====

To give you some hope, my mom has had multiple myeloma for 10 years, and after a couple of rounds of chemo is doing fine. She also got a newly-FDA approved immunotherapy a couple of years ago that she responded really well to.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 03, 2025 11:53 AM (DRSnL)

264 56 For the record, I was never in favor of this rural electrification thing to begin with.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 03, 2025 11:11 AM (dyewR)

How the REA and LBJ destroyed.America:
Lyndon Johnson was a congressional aid when the REA was proposed. He advocated for the implementation of the REA with the congress critter for whom he worked, because of his mother having to draw water by hand from the well when he was a kid.
Everybody got electricity which reduced women's work loads and gave them a little free time.
Radio and television came along.
Then a show, "Queen For A Day" brought the outside world (Hollywood, Chicago, NYC) to rural America: White King D Soap, Speed Queen washing machines, fur coats (not from raccoons) .
Soon folks, women in particular, became dissatisfied with their lives.
It was all down hill from there.

Running serpentine while nurse and CoM reload.

Posted by: waepnedmann at November 03, 2025 11:53 AM (ICHxq)

265 196 190 The screams and shrieks of a vixen in heat are unreal.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo

If you're doing it right.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:33 AM (evhpt)

Or wrong.

Surprise Anal!!! Amiright???

well, you certainly otter be.

Posted by: anachronda at November 03, 2025 11:53 AM (sGtp+)

266 Apropos of nothing… I enjoyed watching PDJT kick Norah O’Donnell around in that 60 minutes interview last night…. He treated her with the thinly veiled contempt she deserves…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 03, 2025 11:49 AM (QwK6F)

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JUST ONCE -- can we get President Trump in an MDM-MSM Progda Enemedia Sycophantic Commie Whore interviewer qualifying that he will answer the question, but only if "first you will blow me?"

/Yeah, he's still classier & funnier than me ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 03, 2025 11:54 AM (3Aa3m)

267 To give you some hope, my mom has had multiple myeloma for 10 years, and after a couple of rounds of chemo is doing fine. She also got a newly-FDA approved immunotherapy a couple of years ago that she responded really well to.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 03, 2025 11:53 AM (DRSnL)

That's great news and is good to hear.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 11:54 AM (evhpt)

268 Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report"

Hey, let's take it all! That'll pay the bills for... about a minute.

It's never "help the poor", it's "take from the rich"...

Posted by: man at November 03, 2025 11:54 AM (tubbA)

269 256 Man, I knew a lady who refused to eat except for vitamins, and drinking ghee. She swore it made her healthier. You couldn't tell from lookin' at her, tho.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 03, 2025 11:50 AM (m10Ad)

What, no MCT Oil?

Posted by: XTC at November 03, 2025 11:54 AM (UnA8+)

270 Montana will be bordering seven states if the four western Canadian provinces join the US.

(Don't know if I want this to happen with the urban area of BC, though.)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at November 03, 2025 11:52 AM (4yZI/)
++++
I don't want it at all.

I am all for Western Canada seceding if they want to, and think we should immediately recognize Western Canada (or whatever they call it) and push through trade and mutual defense treaties as quickly as possible - but I *not* think they should join the United States. Why should they want it, either?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2025 11:54 AM (zxP/x)

271 Mentioned here before, I had a lady friend that had a real nut gal for a friend. The nut liked to do a colonoscopy prep weekly to keep herself cleaned out.
Posted by: bill in arkansas

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That is nuts. I've done one colonscopy prep, and I am already dreading the next one almost a decade away.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 03, 2025 11:54 AM (1Nv0l)

272 I think ghee is wonderful. But drinking it?

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:55 AM (77rzZ)

273 approved immunotherapy a couple of years ago that she responded really well to."

Indeed. Evidently there are many new (less than 10 yo) treatments now available...

Posted by: man at November 03, 2025 11:56 AM (tubbA)

274 I think ghee is wonderful. But drinking it?

Could you clarify your objections?

Posted by: Archimedes at November 03, 2025 11:56 AM (Riz8t)

275 I think ghee is wonderful. But drinking it?

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:55 AM (77rzZ)

Guy like.

Posted by: Guy LeDouche at November 03, 2025 11:56 AM (evhpt)

276 Montana borders 4 states and 3 Canadian provinces

Posted by: Beartooth at November 03, 2025 11:56 AM (kanec)

277 Montana will be bordering seven states if the four western Canadian provinces join the US.

(Don't know if I want this to happen with the urban area of BC, though.)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at November 03, 2025 11:52 AM (4yZI/)
++++
I don't want it at all.

I am all for Western Canada seceding if they want to, and think we should immediately recognize Western Canada (or whatever they call it) and push through trade and mutual defense treaties as quickly as possible - but I *not* think they should join the United States. Why should they want it, either?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2025 11:54 AM (zxP/x)
____

The idea that any part of Canada -- or any other country -- is gonna join the USA is pure click-bait silliness. Never gonna happen. Not ever.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 03, 2025 11:57 AM (iFTx/)

278 273 approved immunotherapy a couple of years ago that she responded really well to."

Indeed. Evidently there are many new (less than 10 yo) treatments now available...

Posted by: man at November 03, 2025 11:56 AM (tubbA)

Immunotherapy is what's keeping me alive and hopping...it's a godsend for blood cancers...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 03, 2025 11:57 AM (tOcjL)

279 >>I miss those informative articles in Reader's Digest like "I Am Joe's Prostate".

They used 'Jane' as the owner of the lady parts.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 03, 2025 11:57 AM (NcvvS)

280 good essay Buck, seems logical so that's going to be a problem

Posted by: DanMan at November 03, 2025 11:58 AM (8uzBS)

281 My state borders so many that the checkpoints we’ll build are going to need a lot of staffing. Job opportunity bonus.

Posted by: tubal at November 03, 2025 11:58 AM (PCK5/)

282 The idea that any part of Canada -- or any other country -- is gonna join the USA is pure click-bait silliness. Never gonna happen. Not ever.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

I remember in the 70s, when the possible secession of Quebec was a big deal, that the Maritimes basically said that they would join the US if Quebec became independent.

But an independent Quebec was also never gonna happen.

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:59 AM (77rzZ)

283 Gee… I’ve never heard of ghee and don’t know what it is….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 03, 2025 11:59 AM (uz6ub)

284
The idea that any part of Canada -- or any other country -- is gonna join the USA is pure click-bait silliness. Never gonna happen. Not ever.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Certainly not until Greenland enters.

Posted by: Merry Marching Penguin Majority at November 03, 2025 11:59 AM (oftw2)

285 Watch out for the insurance scam on the colonoscopy. It's preventative maintenance under Obamacare, which means your insurance has to cover the entire thing. So insurance pays minimal to the providers.

The way the providers attempt to get their usual exorbitant fee it is to remove a "benign" polyp while they are in there, and then attempt to reclassify the whole thing under a surgical procedure code, so it's no longer preventative maintenance.

They attempted to stiff me this way. They only backed off when I threatened to find an attorney willing to launch a class-action lawsuit.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 03, 2025 12:00 PM (1Nv0l)

286 Ghee Wiz did not market well, and was dropped.

Posted by: tubal at November 03, 2025 12:00 PM (PCK5/)

287 The idea that any part of Canada -- or any other country -- is gonna join the USA is pure click-bait silliness. Never gonna happen. Not ever.

Posted by: Elric The Blade

Concur. Being "not-America" is too big a part of Canadian identity (I've seen some argue it may be all that's left of it in some areas).

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at November 03, 2025 12:00 PM (OUMaO)

288 I think ghee is wonderful. But drinking it?
Posted by: Bulg

Destroying a traditional food with your colonizing appropriation. The proper way to consume it is to pour it into a shallow clay bowl, dip your fingers in, and then suck it off your fingers. As Allah, praise be upon him, intended, and 75% of the rest of the world eats!

Posted by: Zoran Mamdani at November 03, 2025 12:01 PM (JCZqz)

289 176 It's fox mating season in my neck of the woods. The screams and shrieks of a vixen in heat are unreal.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo

I remember those days-fondly.
Posted by: Speaker Emerita at November 03, 2025 11:32 AM (oftw2)
.
**************
I do too, though I wish you were so loud.

Posted by: Zombie JFK at November 03, 2025 12:01 PM (4yZI/)

290 The idea that any part of Canada -- or any other country -- is gonna join the USA is pure click-bait silliness. Never gonna happen. Not ever.

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Probably unlikely and not in my lifetime, but it seems silly to think this could never happen. We added 3 states in the 1900s. No reason to think more can't be added.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at November 03, 2025 12:01 PM (sX1BW)

291 Could you clarify your objections?
Posted by: Archimedes

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groan

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 03, 2025 12:01 PM (1Nv0l)

292 But an independent Quebec was also never gonna happen.
Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 11:59 AM (77rzZ)
++++
Except for those Very nearly happened in 1995, IIRC. But lost ground after that.

It'll be odd if the Clarity Act ends up applying to the Prairie Provinces rather than Quebec...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2025 12:02 PM (zxP/x)

293 Mentioned here before, I had a lady friend that had a real nut gal for a friend. The nut liked to do a colonoscopy prep weekly to keep herself cleaned out.

Posted by: bill in arkansas

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Had my first colonoscopy about 5 years ago; thought maybe if I fasted for a week beforehand (just water and electrolytes, the doctor had no problem with it) it might make the famous cleansing the night before a little easier.

Nah ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 03, 2025 12:02 PM (3Aa3m)

294 Hoover, for his many faults, was the one who said to the vile press that "the President of the United States will not stand and be questioned like a chicken thief by men whose names he doesn't even know."

But for all his bluster, he loved their attention. A much better example was set by his predecessor, who routinely rebuffed those worms, and when he declined to run for reelection, he handed them all slips of paper saying "I do not choose to run for president in nineteen twenty eight," and then told them "there will be nothing more from this office, today."

That man was a damned hero.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 03, 2025 12:02 PM (m10Ad)

295 We added 3 states in the 1900s. No reason to think more can't be added.
Posted by: SH (no more socks)

Five, actually: OK, NM, AZ, AK, and HI.

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 12:03 PM (77rzZ)

296 Ghee Wiz did not market well, and was dropped.
Posted by: tubal at November 03, 2025 12:00 PM (PCK5/)

So it’s Ghee Classic then?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 03, 2025 12:03 PM (uz6ub)

297 293

Had my first colonoscopy about 5 years ago; thought maybe if I fasted for a week beforehand (just water and electrolytes, the doctor had no problem with it) it might make the famous cleansing the night before a little easier.

Nah ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 03, 2025 12:02 PM (3Aa3m)

Amazing what hangs around up in there, innit?

Posted by: tubal at November 03, 2025 12:03 PM (PCK5/)

298 I remember in the 70s, when the possible secession of Quebec was a big deal, that the Maritimes basically said that they would join the US if Quebec became independent.

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The world is a lot different now than in 1970. The crown is weak, GB is not great, the UK is not united nor a kingdom.

Eventually some lands will be looking for a protectorate.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at November 03, 2025 12:03 PM (sX1BW)

299 Werent...can I blame this on autocucumber?

Posted by: Zombie JFK at November 03, 2025 12:04 PM (4yZI/)

300 On a lighter note, I was gifted some venison by a friend of mine, about the same age (hunts in an off road vehicle, takes the grandson for the dirty work, so I don't feel guilty about not getting out there). Venison sausage pan fried, topped with eggs, and some sliced tomatoes coming up at noon.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 03, 2025 12:04 PM (gm9Sb)

301 Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 03, 2025 12:02 PM (3Aa3m

Eating light for a few days definitely helps. I've had about a dozen.

Posted by: ... at November 03, 2025 12:04 PM (y0GVq)

302 You know what will solve this problem?
Say it with me.....
*shoulder shimmy*
*milking a cow hand motions*
HIGH SPEED RAIL

Posted by: Gavin Newsom at November 03, 2025 12:04 PM (UjdFS)

303 Ghee Zero came and went pretty quickly. Then they tried Olestra.

Posted by: tubal at November 03, 2025 12:04 PM (PCK5/)

304 Amazing what hangs around up in there, innit?

Posted by: tubal at November 03, 2025 12:03 PM (PCK5/)

Damned vagrants!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 12:06 PM (evhpt)

305 Werent...can I blame this on autocucumber?
Posted by: Zombie JFK

I'd blame Trump's ballroom.

Posted by: Bulg at November 03, 2025 12:07 PM (77rzZ)

306 Watch out for the insurance scam on the colonoscopy. It's preventative maintenance under Obamacare, which means your insurance has to cover the entire thing. So insurance pays minimal to the providers.

The way the providers attempt to get their usual exorbitant fee it is to remove a "benign" polyp while they are in there, and then attempt to reclassify the whole thing under a surgical procedure code, so it's no longer preventative maintenance.

They attempted to stiff me this way. They only backed off when I threatened to find an attorney willing to launch a class-action lawsuit.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 03, 2025 12:00 PM (1Nv0l)

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Interesting, since we refuse to participate in DeathCare -- I just paid out of pocket cash and got something like a 40% discount (so much straight up insurance fraud).

Fortunate, nothing was found ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 03, 2025 12:07 PM (3Aa3m)

307 289 176 It's fox mating season in my neck of the woods. The screams and shrieks of a vixen in heat are unreal.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo

I remember those days-fondly.
Posted by: Speaker Emerita

Here I come baby....I'm coming to GETCHA!

Posted by: Zombie Jimmi Hendrix at November 03, 2025 12:07 PM (JCZqz)

308 304 Two nickels, a wad of Bazooka Joe gum, and a skate key.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at November 03, 2025 12:07 PM (gm9Sb)

309 You know what will solve this problem?
Say it with me.....
*shoulder shimmy*
*milking a cow hand motions*
HIGH SPEED RAIL
Posted by: Gavin Newsom at November 03, 2025 12:04 PM (UjdFS)
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I saw a post on X last week lamenting the Pangea breakup because it limited the potential for railroad construction.

It's a bizarre obsession.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2025 12:07 PM (zxP/x)

310 The idea that any part of Canada -- or any other country -- is gonna join the USA is pure click-bait silliness. Never gonna happen. Not ever.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Certainly not until Greenland enters.
Posted by: Merry Marching Penguin Majority at November 03, 2025 11:59 AM (oftw2)
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Greenland isn't a country or sovereign state. It's a some kind of semi-autonomous territory of Denmark. Despite Trump's bluster, I think the odds of the USA acquiring GL from Denmark is somewhere near zero percent. I think there's a reasonable chance, though, that we negotiate some land or mineral rights there.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 03, 2025 12:08 PM (iFTx/)

311 Ghee Wiz did not market well, and was dropped.
Posted by: tubal at November 03, 2025 12:00 PM (PCK5/)

Did you get me my Cheez Wiz, boy?

Posted by: The Blues Brothers at November 03, 2025 12:09 PM (4rdBE)

312 Greenland isn't a country or sovereign state. It's a some kind of semi-autonomous territory of Denmark. Despite Trump's bluster, I think the odds of the USA acquiring GL from Denmark is somewhere near zero percent. I think there's a reasonable chance, though, that we negotiate some land or mineral rights there.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 03, 2025 12:08 PM (iFTx/)
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That's usually how it goes.

Bluster for something outlandish (US acquires ownership of Greenland, makes it a state) and settle for something much smaller that you actually wanted (mineral rights and freezing out China, or even just freezing out China).

It isn't that hard to see how Trump operates, but the press can't seem to figure it out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 03, 2025 12:09 PM (zxP/x)

313 Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 03, 2025 12:02 PM (3Aa3m

Eating light for a few days definitely helps. I've had about a dozen.

Posted by: ... at November 03, 2025 12:04 PM (y0GVq)

Do you get a free one after so many?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 12:09 PM (evhpt)

314 305 Werent...can I blame this on autocucumber?
Posted by: Zombie JFK

I'd blame Trump's ballroom.
Posted by: Bulg

Right now Reddit is freaking out over a giant party Trump held at Mar-a-Lago. With plenty of hot girls on hand just hanging around. https://tinyurl.com/8dp6ujvf

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 03, 2025 12:10 PM (JCZqz)

315 Greenland isn't a country or sovereign state. It's a some kind of semi-autonomous territory of Denmark. Despite Trump's bluster, I think the odds of the USA acquiring GL from Denmark is somewhere near zero percent. I think there's a reasonable chance, though, that we negotiate some land or mineral rights there.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 03, 2025 12:08 PM (iFTx/)

I’d pay a months salary for Trump to become King of Greenland… it’d be awesome… but yeah sadly it’s not gonna happen. Sure would be fun listening to the lamentations of the lefties though

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 03, 2025 12:10 PM (g3j/k)

316 313 Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 03, 2025 12:02 PM (3Aa3m

Eating light for a few days definitely helps. I've had about a dozen.

Posted by: ... at November 03, 2025 12:04 PM (y0GVq)

Do you get a free one after so many?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 12:09 PM (evhpt)

ONLY if you get your card punched every time.

Posted by: tubal at November 03, 2025 12:11 PM (PCK5/)

317 Nood Ace.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 03, 2025 12:11 PM (NcvvS)

318 Do you get a free one after so many?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 03, 2025 12:09 PM (evhpt

Yeah it's like Monopoly, I get to trade them all in at the end for a hotel.

Posted by: ... at November 03, 2025 12:11 PM (y0GVq)

319 I have a buddy that worked in north Houston (gunspoint) and lives is SW Houston. He was scheduled for a colo the next morning. Decided he'd get an early start on the evacuation and drank the first round of the juice as he left work.

another fun aspect was he upgraded his F150 with a new leather interior

yeah...it was bad

Posted by: DanMan at November 03, 2025 12:11 PM (8uzBS)

320 Montana will be bordering seven states if the four western Canadian provinces join the US.

(Don't know if I want this to happen with the urban area of BC, though.)
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at November 03, 2025 11:52 AM (4yZI/)

Annex the B.C. Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island to Washington State. Split off Washington State at the crest of the Cascade mountains, annex the remainder of B.C. to that, and name it the State of Jefferson.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 03, 2025 12:11 PM (npFr7)

321 Do you get a free one after so many?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

There's a punch card, like a vintage car wash.

Posted by: Spray Wax and Undercarriage Steambath at November 03, 2025 12:11 PM (oftw2)

322 Borders are absolutely sacrosanct and will never change. My grandfather’s 1937 world atlas corroborates this, as do octogenarians born in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. So, yes, Alberta and Quebec will be part of Canada unto time immemorial. All current borders will never change, and there will never be any more US states.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at November 03, 2025 12:12 PM (WLaG3)

323 Greenland isn't a country or sovereign state. It's a some kind of semi-autonomous territory of Denmark. Despite Trump's bluster, I think the odds of the USA acquiring GL from Denmark is somewhere near zero percent. I think there's a reasonable chance, though, that we negotiate some land or mineral rights there.
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There is a serious play for Walrus tusks. We have a serious deficit in Walrus tusks.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 03, 2025 12:14 PM (jFCkp)

324 322 Borders are absolutely sacrosanct and will never change. My grandfather’s 1937 world atlas corroborates this, as do octogenarians born in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. So, yes, Alberta and Quebec will be part of Canada unto time immemorial. All current borders will never change, and there will never be any more US states.
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Then we will have to swallow Canada in whole.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 03, 2025 12:15 PM (jFCkp)

325 Yeah, Trump is too subtle and shifty. I'd prefer a straightforward approach. Seize Greenland and let Denmark cry about it. Then start eyeballing Aruba, and wait for the sales calls from Holland.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 03, 2025 12:16 PM (m10Ad)

326 Buy Canada and Greenland; Dude knows how to negotiate.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 03, 2025 12:16 PM (FVOLT)

327 >>>and there will never be any more US states.
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Thank goodness. Let's put Hawaii and Alaska back in their proper place as non-states.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 03, 2025 12:18 PM (FVOLT)

328
It's never "help the poor", it's "take from the rich"...
Posted by: man at November 03, 2025 11:54 AM (tubbA)

This is a society where envy and resentment are seen as great moral virtues.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 03, 2025 12:22 PM (TkV8C)

329 Honestly, any formerly Canadian territories that align with the US would be more likely to follow the Puerto Rican ~~scam~~ model. (And PR should be cut loose, in my opinion.)

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at November 03, 2025 12:22 PM (OUMaO)

330 322 Borders are absolutely sacrosanct and will never change. My grandfather’s 1937 world atlas corroborates this, as do octogenarians born in Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. So, yes, Alberta and Quebec will be part of Canada unto time immemorial. All current borders will never change, and there will never be any more US states.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at November 03, 2025 12:12 PM (WLaG3)

You tell ‘em, Buck!

Posted by: German Democratic Republic at November 03, 2025 12:23 PM (TkV8C)

331 The longest state is Hawaii.

Ackshually.

Just checked it on my library globe: looks like Ketchikan to Little Diomede is longer than the Big Island to, say, Midway. Is Midway even part of Hawaii? It is, geographically, but it is a separate federal territory. So anyway, looks like Alaska wins.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 03, 2025 01:09 PM (tPQMP)

332 Apparently the average woman’s colon being about 10 cm or 4 in longer than the average man’s is related to necessity since women can get pregnant. Details not exactly pinned down… Anyway a dwarf woman’s colon is going to be shorter than, say, the late Andre the Giant’s.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 03, 2025 01:33 PM (tPQMP)

333 I recently received my 3rd online check for $21,850 which I won by doing a super simple and easy job online. wq300 This online business is amazing and the regular acquisitions that come from it are amazing. Online according to the subtleties

referenced on... m0ney0ffer8.blogspot.com/

Posted by: Maybelle Hodkiewicz at November 03, 2025 01:41 PM (EWYC0)

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