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Neuschwanstein Castle in autumn

A parrot learns to trust. (What a gay sentence. Cancel my Man Card.)

Watching movies with your bunny.

This dog is tailmaxxing. Or something.

ADD puppy.

Ladies, if you met a man wearing this ring, what do you think? Keeper, right?

My weekend plans.

Further weekend plans.

I'll try to get in some reading.

Maybe move the furniture.

Take the car into the shop.

I'll see to cleaning the windows.

I might see a movie.

And maybe get in some vigorous calisthenics.

Definitely need to vacuum.

I might try to go to Costco too.

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1 qw3re4vtq3t4 vb

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:21 PM (RfDQK)

2
But what I really wanted to do was keep talking about the Trump/Mamdani convo.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:22 PM (RfDQK)

3 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:22 PM (RfDQK)

So it actually happened?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 07:23 PM (2sfNr)

4 I've been to that castle. a USO trip in 1992. It was pretty impressive, but militarily hapless.

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 21, 2025 07:24 PM (vV6n9)

5 I wonder how a lot of people survive in the world.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 07:24 PM (NwnyJ)

6 to 10!

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 07:25 PM (g47mK)

7 Ok, get this. There's a chillwave band called,...

Panda Bear

Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 07:25 PM (3uBP9)

8 Happy Friday, Ace. Sometimes after a hearty meal at the cafe, it's necessary to cleanse your liver with tequila.

https://tinyurl.com/4tvscp63

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 21, 2025 07:26 PM (WFC1M)

9
Cat on ledge. He had just set down his old-fashioned and was reaching for a pack of Lucky Strikes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:26 PM (RfDQK)

10 My first criticism of chillwave is it sounds like it was mixed on a potato-computer.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 07:26 PM (3uBP9)

11
Who else thought of Snow White (or Sleeping Beauty?) when they saw the pic?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 07:27 PM (01gtA)

12 It is Friday, indeed.

So who ordered FridayPlans.com?

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 07:28 PM (gKDq2)

13
Every puppy is ADD puppy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:28 PM (tgvbd)

14 The Seattle Aquarium just welcomed a new little sea otter girl to the raft. Her name is Ruby.

I may need to go and meet her this weekend.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 21, 2025 07:28 PM (k05yp)

15 The Café cleaning staff doesn't get nearly enough appreciation. The significant amount of overtime, not to mention the exposure to industrial-strength Febreeze they go through for the next few days after penguins have happy-footed through makes them saints, indeed.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 07:29 PM (0sNs1)

16
So it actually happened?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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Yes, apparently, and I'm surprised it didn't get more coverage. Trump was his usual happy, cordial, approving self, but he was like that with that North Korean leader, too.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:29 PM (RfDQK)

17 The dog getting its belly vacuumed..lol

Posted by: Tuna at November 21, 2025 07:29 PM (lJ0H4)

18 What a faggoty ring!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:29 PM (hZbnZ)

19 Blonde Morticia, me too.I thought the dynamics of PDT sitting and Mayor jihadi standing was most interesting.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 07:29 PM (sDNVV)

20 TRUST NO ONE!

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 07:29 PM (g47mK)

21 Neuschwanstein was pretty cool, but there were other castles in Germany I also liked. We saw Frankenstein Castle, but it was closed for renovation, so all we saw was the exterior. Nicely creepy.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 21, 2025 07:30 PM (0aYVJ)

22 Every puppy is ADD puppy.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:28 PM (tgvbd)

Everything's a brave new world for puppies.

Imagine if babies could walk in a week.

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 07:30 PM (gKDq2)

23 What is a potato-computer?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:30 PM (hZbnZ)

24 Still wondering how they survive in the wild.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/yrsnMP8fni

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aww, those poor creatures

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 07:30 PM (g47mK)

25 Blonde: I heard the Trump/Mamdani convo was surprisingly sedate. Nothing exploded, no one got called 'piggy,' and the press corps are shocked (and probably trying to concoct some lame controversy out of it anyway).

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:30 PM (cQHrm)

26 Willowed and slightly edited:

In Dubai there's two brothels: one that rents women, one that rents sheep/goats.

Guess which one does better business?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:31 PM (cQHrm)

27 Yes, apparently, and I'm surprised it didn't get more coverage. Trump was his usual happy, cordial, approving self, but he was like that with that North Korean leader, too.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

The "kill 'em with kindness " offense.

Posted by: Tuna at November 21, 2025 07:31 PM (lJ0H4)

28 Schloss Johannesburg in Aschaffenburg was pretty cool. Had a tower from the original castle that was from medieval times.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 21, 2025 07:31 PM (0aYVJ)

29 Neuschwanstein Castle up top looks a bit like a steam ship plowing through an ocean of trees. Pretty cool.

In Tad Williams' epic fantasy Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, there's a Sithi (elven) community whose name translates into "Boat on the Ocean of Trees."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:32 PM (IBQGV)

30
Who else thought of Snow White (or Sleeping Beauty?) when they saw the pic?
Posted by: Soothsayer

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I think that Neushcshehchwwanhfeeisflll actually was the inspiration for Sleeping Beauty's castle.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:32 PM (RfDQK)

31 Happy weekend, ace!

Wanted to ask you and others if you've seen any good movies lately. This year I've actually kind of wanted to see Weapons, Eddington, and maybe Bugonia.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:32 PM (cQHrm)

32
Everything's a brave new world for puppies.

___________

House time for little puppies is as charming as it is destructive.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:32 PM (tgvbd)

33 >>> What is a potato-computer?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:30 PM (hZbnZ)

It means not very powerful. A computer that could run satisfactorily on the voltage output of one of the potato batteries everyone made in grade school science.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 07:32 PM (3uBP9)

34 In Dubai there's two brothels: one that rents women, one that rents sheep/goats.

Guess which one does better business?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:31 PM (cQHrm)

The one the imam visits? Halal and all that.

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 07:33 PM (gKDq2)

35 Neuschwanstein was pretty cool, but there were other castles in Germany I also liked. We saw Frankenstein Castle, but it was closed for renovation, so all we saw was the exterior. Nicely creepy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 21, 2025 07:30 PM (0aYVJ)
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Oh, sure it's the CASTLE that was under "renovation" and not the monster. That's what they want you to believe.

The Monster was getting some monumental upgrades.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:33 PM (IBQGV)

36 These later castles are really palaces. They are for show not defense.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:34 PM (hZbnZ)

37 I met a very accommodating young German woman at Neuschwanstein castle. She was very imaginative too. It wasn't in Autumn but early Spring. It might have gone on to a longer relationship but I was a stupid young man.

Posted by: Beartooth at November 21, 2025 07:34 PM (0714D)

38
Blonde Morticia, me too.I thought the dynamics of PDT sitting and Mayor jihadi standing was most interesting.
Posted by: Ben Had

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I noticed that. And Trump gave him a pat on the arm in what seems to be the most standout moment of their presser.

Reporter: "Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?"

Mamdani: (starts uttering some glib syllables)

Trump: "It's okay, just say it haha. It's easier."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:35 PM (RfDQK)

39 Would be willowered ...

Bif: what no public septic tank duty?
Posted by: qdpsteve

That was the 1st SGT's favorite punishment. I used to step out of the maintenance platoon's ECP and walk over to Shitter Row, and help the junior NCO punishment detail stir the shit in the barrels. Completely undermined that asshole. If Chief Bif wanted something in Bartertown, Chief Bif got it.

Commander asked me once why, i told him the !st SGT was playing favorites and abusing his authority. I was merely offsetting his BS to keep the unit functional.

Y'all may remember me talking about some of my troop's misbehaviours. My fuel handler was the one firing his .45 ACP through the roof of the all grader's club at Ft. Bliss. One of the launcher platoon's crew was the one stabbing randos on Dyer street.

Bc bailed them out, busted them with company grade ucmj...then told them they belonged to Chief. If Chief said they were worthy, they got a 2nd chance.

Yes. Yes, i was the unit boogey man.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 21, 2025 07:36 PM (QVmho)

40 All puppies have ADD.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 07:36 PM (BW+Gb)

41 They took the heart of Frankenstein’s monster to Japan in WWII, where it got nuked. You wouldn’t believe what happened then!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:36 PM (hZbnZ)

42 Don't tell the Irish how to make a potato computer. They're dangerous enough as it is

Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 07:36 PM (gKWVE)

43 Mamdani: "Yes, but he's a nice fascist..."
:-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:36 PM (cQHrm)

44 Ladies, if you met a man wearing this ring, what do you think? Keeper, right?
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I just read a story where a man puts on a ring like that and inadvertently summons the attention of Hastur the Unspeakable.

To escape Hastur's attention, the protagonist uses the ring to transport himself to the realm of Shub-Niggurath. It doesn't go well for him there and he transports back, where Hastur awaits....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (IBQGV)

45
Neuschwanstein was pretty cool.

Posted by: Pug Mahon

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I would seriously love to live in an old castle -- even an abandoned, drafty old Scottish one. I'd go into every room every day.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (RfDQK)

46 gKWVE:

"If you liked Apple, you're gonna LOVE Russet!" :-P

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (cQHrm)

47 Penguins. Why'd it have to be penguins....?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (Wnv9h)

48 The coolest structure I saw in Germany was the "Church in the Rock" of Idar-Oberstein. It was about a 10 minute walk from the barracks, I would hook up with my Namibian gemology student girlfriend there at 5 PM on weekdays. No cellphones, had to make plans in advance.

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (vV6n9)

49 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (IBQGV)

You said the name thrice.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 07:38 PM (gKWVE)

50 Potato AI works great, especially with some butter, sour cream, bacon and chives.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:39 PM (cQHrm)

51 All puppies have ADD.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 07:36 PM (BW+Gb)

As do all boys. Younger son would descend into what we called The Monkey Hour.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 21, 2025 07:39 PM (0aYVJ)

52 Meme about the Irish before the invention of beer…

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:40 PM (hZbnZ)

53 It might have gone on to a longer relationship but I was a stupid young man.
Posted by: Beartooth at November 21, 2025 07:34 PM (0714D)

Arent we all?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 07:40 PM (zZu0s)

54
These later castles are really palaces. They are for show not defense.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:34 PM (hZbnZ)

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Hunting lodge >>>> Castle

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:40 PM (tgvbd)

55 Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (IBQGV)

You said the name thrice.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 07:38 PM (gKWVE)
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Uh, oh...Why is it suddenly so cold in here?

Did you hear that noise? Sounded like a low, evil chuckle....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:40 PM (IBQGV)

56 Seems fairly type able at least.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 07:42 PM (zZu0s)

57 Close enough:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7-yQ4s6IBec

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:42 PM (hZbnZ)

58 Because Willowed:
I think the last person in an iron lung has died. Most weren't in it all the time, just when they needed the extra help breathing. There was an interesting article a year or so on what they had to do to k(+mUZM)eep an iron lung working, since the companies that made them are no longer in business.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 21, 2025 07:29 PM

In the Western Development Museum in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, there is an iron lung that was hand-built by a local farmer to save the life of his 5 year-old daughter who was stricken with polio. He used an electric motor and a washing machine gearbox. It worked, and saved the girl's life, and she was able to recover.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 07:43 PM (npFr7)

59 Morticia typing with her feet again. There's a glitch in her matrix, I think.

Posted by: Concerned Viewer at November 21, 2025 07:43 PM (oftw2)

60 I would seriously love to live in an old castle -- even an abandoned, drafty old Scottish one. I'd go into every room every day.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (RfDQK)

I knew a lady who went to Scotland, and she sent me a pic of her and her husband in the Camelot Castle, standing in that alcove where the knights were singing. She confirmed that it was a silly place.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 21, 2025 07:44 PM (0aYVJ)

61 A penguin cavorting on the beach is the best way to kick off a weekend!

Posted by: Let Joy Be Unconfined! at November 21, 2025 07:45 PM (oftw2)

62
I knew a lady who went to Scotland, and she sent me a pic of her and her husband in the Camelot Castle, standing in that alcove where the knights were singing. She confirmed that it was a silly place.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

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The Camelot Castle? What was that, a castle that was used as a movie location?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:47 PM (RfDQK)

63
Morticia typing with her feet again. There's a glitch in her matrix, I think.
Posted by: Concerned Viewer

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You have to literally jump on first.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:47 PM (RfDQK)

64
I would seriously love to live in an old castle -- even an abandoned, drafty old Scottish one. I'd go into every room every day.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

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From what I've read, they're very uncomfortable and stupidly laid out.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:47 PM (tgvbd)

65 The Camelot Castle? What was that, a castle that was used as a movie location?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:47 PM (RfDQK)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. That part was filmed in a very old castle in Scotland.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 21, 2025 07:48 PM (0aYVJ)

66
she was able to recover.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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WHOA. Like she got out of the iron lung and went on to live normally?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:49 PM (RfDQK)

67 I would seriously love to live in an old castle -- even an abandoned, drafty old Scottish one. I'd go into every room every day.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (RfDQK)

One of the tricks of the fae: they offer you a castle but not the means to support it so that you wind up in debtor’s prison, poorer than you were. Oh, you should call them the neighbors, or such like, and never tell them your name. Basically never ask for or accept gifts, especially from the “neighbors”.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:49 PM (hZbnZ)

68 I was immeasurably disappointed to learn that Trump did not pull a Longshanks moment with Mamdani.

"Immunity, bitchez! Woooo!"

Posted by: PabloD at November 21, 2025 07:49 PM (Ep1e/)

69
From what I've read, they're very uncomfortable and stupidly laid out.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

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So am I.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:50 PM (RfDQK)

70 A penguin cavorting on the beach is the best way to kick off a weekend!
Posted by: Let Joy Be Unconfined! at November 21, 2025 07:45 PM (oftw2)

Where's 'Penguin Facts' when you need him, huh?

Probably down at that beach chomping on fish.

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 07:50 PM (gKDq2)

71 The Camelot Castle? What was that, a castle that was used as a movie location?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:47 PM (RfDQK)

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. That part was filmed in a very old castle in Scotland.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 21, 2025 07:48 PM (0aYVJ)
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Critical Drinker recently posted a video showcasing some of the famous Scottish locations that have appeared on film. That castle was definitely part of his tour.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:50 PM (IBQGV)

72 Apologies all, but I just had to share this.
I found it at Instagram.

* * * * *

Dear Santa,

When I was a child, my father cheated on my Mom. Later, my parents divorced.

Soon after, my mother died in a car accident.

My brother and I could only live in my grandma's old house.

Grandma's sister was an alcoholic. The whole family lived on my grandma's savings. Grandma recently died.

My Uncle Andy is barely keeping himself out of jail from day to day.

My brother left home and won't talk to us any more.

Dad, now 74, had to go out to work to support the family and eventually he is going to want me to do the same thing.

Yours sincerely,

Prince William

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:50 PM (cQHrm)

73 Greetings to my colony of brothers and sisters! We are bombarded almost daily with the the insults and threats of Spheniscidaphobes, unfeathered beasts who abide in gutters and devour their own young. Fear not, my people, for they shall never conquer our hearts or enslave our homeland, and it is I, Benito Macaroni, who says so!

Tutto nella Antarctica, niente al di fuori della Antarctica, nulla contro la Antarctica!

Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 07:50 PM (mADJX)

74
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The Camelot Castle? What was that, a castle that was used as a movie location?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

We dance when e'er we're able.
We do routines and chorus scenes
With footwork impeccable.
We dine well here in Camelot.
We eat ham and jam and spam a lot.

[dancing]
We're knights of the Round Table.
Our shows are formidable,
But many times we're given rhymes
That are quite unsingable.
We're opera mad in Camelot.
We sing from the diaphragm a lot.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 21, 2025 07:50 PM (QVmho)

75 Martha Mason wrote the book "Breath" about her life living in an iron lung for 61 years. It was a great book.

Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 07:51 PM (uQzkA)

76 It’s only a model.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 21, 2025 07:51 PM (XP5BY)

77 Camelot Castle? ‘It’s only a model!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:52 PM (hZbnZ)

78 >>> I was immeasurably disappointed to learn that Trump did not pull a Longshanks moment with Mamdani.

"Immunity, bitchez! Woooo!"
Posted by: PabloD at November 21, 2025 07:49 PM (Ep1e/)

That's more of a Russian thing to do these days.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 07:52 PM (3uBP9)

79 >>Yes, apparently, and I'm surprised it didn't get more coverage. Trump was his usual happy, cordial, approving self, but he was like that with that North Korean leader, too.

Kind of a pattern, huh?

I liked when he kept insisting Momdani was the leader of the Democrat Party. A socialist.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 07:52 PM (viF8m)

80 Ewetub is going nuts on t he Mamdani-Trump thing.

Most of the right seems to be trying to make it the commie bitching out and Trump patting his head.

That could be good optics.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 07:52 PM (zZu0s)

81 One of the tricks of the fae: they offer you a castle but not the means to support it so that you wind up in debtor’s prison, poorer than you were. Oh, you should call them the neighbors, or such like, and never tell them your name. Basically never ask for or accept gifts, especially from the “neighbors”.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:49 PM (hZbnZ)
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Never, ever deal with a fae. The ultimate price is far less than you can believe, yet far, far more than you can possibly afford.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 07:52 PM (IBQGV)

82 I'd rather have a Papal Palace than a drafty old castle. Gandolfo is too nice for Pope Bob. He should let me live there and feed the cats.

Posted by: The Great Northern Italian Cat-Sitting Service at November 21, 2025 07:52 PM (oftw2)

83 Proper penguins frown on this cavorting behavior.

Posted by: Penguin Advancement League at November 21, 2025 07:53 PM (vL0rw)

84 WHOA. Like she got out of the iron lung and went on to live normally?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:49 PM (RfDQK)

I believe so. She may have had some lingering paralysis, I don't know. As I understand it, if your immune system conquers the polio virus, you can regain some of your lost muscular control.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 07:53 PM (npFr7)

85 One of the tricks of the fae: they offer you a castle but not the means to support it so that you wind up in debtor’s prison, poorer than you were. Oh, you should call them the neighbors, or such like, and never tell them your name. Basically never ask for or accept gifts, especially from the “neighbors”.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:49 PM (hZbnZ)

The old Indian (dot, not feather) 'white elephant' trick. A raja giving an elephant as a gift to some underling, a real honor. The expense of the elephant maintainance kept him in check.

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 07:54 PM (gKDq2)

86 Mamdani wouldn't have gotten such a nice reception from Vlad Putin, that's for sure.

"Can you fly, Mammi?"

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 07:54 PM (cQHrm)

87
"Tancredi wanted Angelica to know the whole palace with its inextricable complex of guest rooms, state rooms, kitchens, chapels, theaters, picture galleries, odorous tack rooms, stables, stuffy conservatories, passages, stairs, terraces and porticoes, and particularly a series of abandoned and uninhabited apartments which had not been used for many years and formed a mysterious and intricate labyrinth of their own. Tancredi did not realize (or he realized perfectly well) that he was drawing the girl into the hidden center of the sensual cyclone; and Angelica at that time wanted whatever Tancredi did. Their wanderings through the almost limitless building were interminable; they would set off as if for some unknown land, and unknown indeed it was because in many of those apartments and corners not even Don Fabrizio had ever set foot (a cause of great satisfaction to him, for he used to say that a palace of which one knew every room wasn’t worth living in)." - Giuseppe di Lampedusa, The Leopard

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:54 PM (tgvbd)

88 Oh the Shiba baby! And a dreamy creamy like Saijo! My heart!

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 07:55 PM (Wmg4n)

89 We have crazy fireworks going off due to a football game at the school here. My Shiba just squished under the bed, he hates it. Cats are glued to me.

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 07:57 PM (Wmg4n)

90 Should you spend a night carousing with them, you’ll return in the morning to find centuries have passed.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 07:58 PM (hZbnZ)

91
It was too cloudy here tonight, but one of my things of late is to see how thin of a "young" Moon crescent I can see right before sunset.

Any of you out mid to west where it's clear might catch it just before sunset. It's about 2.2% illuminated now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 21, 2025 07:59 PM (w6EFb)

92
Gandolfo is too nice for Pope Bob. He should let me live there and feed the cats.
Posted by: The Great Northern Italian Cat-Sitting Service

__________

Francis's performative humility in not using Castel Gandolfo had the unfortunate effect of cutting off the town from tourist income.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 08:00 PM (tgvbd)

93 Prince William
Posted by: qdpsteve at November

Diana was insane and cheated, too. She actually did first before Charles went back to Camilla- they were toxic to each other. Is incredible William is as normal as royals get.

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 08:01 PM (Wmg4n)

94 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 07:54 PM
Tancredi sounds like a guy who loses his car keys and just buys a new car.

Posted by: Eromero at November 21, 2025 08:01 PM (LHPAg)

95 Reporter: "Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?"

Mamdani: (starts uttering some glib syllables)

Trump: "It's okay, just say it haha. It's easier."

Trump's way of saying "You don't deserve to be taken seriously anyway."

Posted by: Oddbob at November 21, 2025 08:01 PM (3nLb4)

96 Piper, all true.

If the Windsors were just another poor family from a trailer park in Appalachia...

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 08:02 PM (cQHrm)

97 SCOTUS news: Alito just stayed the Texas district court order on gerrymandering.

Not a final decision on the merits, but the new maps continue to live for now.

Posted by: TRex - judicious Rex at November 21, 2025 08:03 PM (IQ6Gq)

98
I think the last person in an iron lung has died.

Posted by: Notsothoreau

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

When I was a little kid and I saw those old B&W pictures of big hospital rooms with lots of little kids in iron lungs with just their heads sticking out and nurses standing by, I was so filled with horror and pity I can't even tell you. I've read that the vast majority of those kids died, and I bet it wasn't just because of strictly medical reasons.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 08:03 PM (RfDQK)

99 Lone penguins frolicking on a beach may be infected with rabies and should be avoided.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at November 21, 2025 08:04 PM (vFG9F)

100 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 08:04 PM (+qU29)

101 The old Indian (dot, not feather) 'white elephant' trick. A raja giving an elephant as a gift to some underling, a real honor. The expense of the elephant maintainance kept him in check.
Posted by: RickZ

It was known to the Iraqi Christians as well. They cited it to Shah Khusro I when his choice pope Joseph (of the Nestorians) proved to be a tyrant. "Please take back your elephant", they told the shah.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 08:04 PM (gKWVE)

102 SCOTUS news: Alito just stayed the Texas district court order on gerrymandering.

Not a final decision on the merits, but the new maps continue to live for now.
Posted by: TRex - judicious Rex at November 21, 2025 08:03 PM (IQ6Gq)

Awesome!

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:05 PM (g47mK)

103
SCOTUS news: Alito just stayed the Texas district court order on gerrymandering.

Not a final decision on the merits, but the new maps continue to live for now.
Posted by: TRex - judicious Rex

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w00t

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 08:05 PM (RfDQK)

104 Not a final decision on the merits, but the new maps continue to live for now.
Posted by: TRex - judicious Rex at November

Woohoo!

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 08:06 PM (Wmg4n)

105 Hi, Skip!

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 08:06 PM (Wmg4n)

106 So that's a Shiba on the ride? Pretty cute, even I must say....

Posted by: Felix the Cat at November 21, 2025 08:06 PM (oftw2)

107 The Swan Knight’s son deals with the Fae in one of John C. Wright’s novels (The Feast of the Elfs, second book in the Moth and Cobweb series) but comes out ahead, because he has the protection of the (sleeping) King Arthur.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:08 PM (hZbnZ)

108 Alito just stayed the Texas district court order on gerrymandering.

Thank you Dubya. Or anyway thank you Malkin for helping force Dubya not to nominate ~~his mare~~ Harriet Miers.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 08:09 PM (gKWVE)

109 106 So that's a Shiba on the ride? Pretty cute, even I must say....
Posted by: Felix the Cat at November 21, 2025

It’s disgusting how cute they are, little menaces. I know Ace meant to say “for Piper”. He just forgot. 😂

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 08:09 PM (Wmg4n)

110 Skip speaking as a black lesbian, good evening.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:10 PM (A6iMD)

111 gKWVE, whatever became of Michelle Malkin?

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 08:11 PM (cQHrm)

112
Ladies, if you met a man wearing this ring, what do you think? Keeper, right?

naw, he already has a boyfriend

g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 21, 2025 08:14 PM (tljrc)

113 >> Not a final decision on the merits, but the new maps continue to live for now.

Not final but a pretty good indicator, especially given how fast Alito moved.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 08:14 PM (viF8m)

114 111 gKWVE, whatever became of Michelle Malkin?
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 08:11 PM (cQHrm)
Colorado.......changed.

Posted by: Eromero at November 21, 2025 08:15 PM (LHPAg)

115 Alito just stayed the Texas district court order on gerrymandering.

Thank you Dubya. Or anyway thank you Malkin for helping force Dubya not to nominate his mare Harriet Miers.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 08:09 PM (gKWVE)

Alito is great but nothing was wrong with Miers. And Malkin didn’t have anything to do with it.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 08:15 PM (KDPiq)

116 Eromero, I would bet MM doesn't live there anymore.

With all the money she made with other sites, such as HotAir, I'd imagine she owns a big spread in Wyoming now.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 08:16 PM (cQHrm)

117 The doobadoo song that they play on all animal videos, is travelling across the universe on electromagnetic waves and when it finally hits the shores of an advanced spacefaring alien race we are done for. They'll be all, "Everyone . must . DIE".

They should make a doobadoo filter, and all it does is constantly listens for doobadoo and when found active noise cancels it.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 08:16 PM (3uBP9)

118 Whatever became of Michelle Malkin? She “retired from the fray”:

https://is.gd/d7TXss

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:16 PM (hZbnZ)

119 I think Michelle was fairly traumatized by the disappearance of her cousin and just wanted to conclude her public life.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:17 PM (A6iMD)

120 81
'That could be good optics.'

I don't see the value in it. It just elevates Mamdani and makes him look reasonable which he isn't

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 08:17 PM (fd80v)

121 I think Malkin was getting too many threats maybe ? It's all fun and games and cool and trolling, but these people in the public eye who go against some serious evil need tons of security, and it's costly.

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:17 PM (g47mK)

122 99 Lone penguins frolicking on a beach may be infected with rabies and should be avoided. - Penguin Facts

Did you know...?

...that Morton Sobel, a member of the Rosenberg spy ring, was an executive director of the communist front organization, Penguin Facts, which assisted him in his flight to Mexico to avoid federal charges, although he was later captured, tried and convicted of espionage against the United States.

Posted by: PenguinAnti-CommunistOrganization at November 21, 2025 08:18 PM (mADJX)

123 when my position as Galactic Overlord is finally recognized, Neuschwanstein will be my European hq/residence ... in the US, it will be Fallingwater. in asia, still TBD.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:18 PM (Cjt/F)

124 I think Michelle was fairly traumatized by the disappearance of her cousin and just wanted to conclude her public life.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:17 PM (A6iMD)

That's my take.

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 08:19 PM (gKDq2)

125 If you can think of the doobadoo song, you’ve probably got it as an earworm.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:19 PM (hZbnZ)

126 99 Lone penguins frolicking on a beach may be infected with rabies and should be avoided. - Penguin Facts

Did you know...?

...that Morton Sobel, a member of the Rosenberg spy ring, was an executive director of the communist front organization, Penguin Facts, which assisted him in his flight to Mexico to avoid federal charges, although he was later captured, tried and convicted of espionage against the United States.
Posted by: PenguinAnti-CommunistOrganization at November 21, 2025 08:18 PM (mADJX)

Busted ! Exactly right! it's in the national archives in DC !

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:19 PM (g47mK)

127 My take. After the Pennsylvania courts told Alito " take your opinion and shove it" he is not in a forgiving mood.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 21, 2025 08:20 PM (sDNVV)

128 119 I think Michelle was fairly traumatized by the disappearance of her cousin and just wanted to conclude her public life.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025

Except for those moments where she was keynote speaker at skin head rallies. Maybe the original groyper.

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 08:20 PM (OoFl2)

129 102 SCOTUS news: Alito just stayed the Texas district court order on gerrymandering.

Not a final decision on the merits, but the new maps continue to live for now.
Posted by: TRex - judicious Rex at November 21, 2025 08:03 PM (IQ6Gq)

Great news! I shall toast the decision with a shot of my bootleg apple-pie whiskey.

Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 08:21 PM (mADJX)

130 The Swan Knight’s son deals with the Fae in one of John C. Wright’s novels (The Feast of the Elfs, second book in the Moth and Cobweb series) but comes out ahead, because he has the protection of the (sleeping) King Arthur.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:08 PM (hZbnZ)
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His grandchildren and great-grandchildren will need to keep their head on a swivel. The fae don't like to be "cheated" (anyone who gets the better of them is a cheater) and they have long, long memories. They'll take their frustration out on future generations. Evil, petty assholes, the lot of them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 08:22 PM (IBQGV)

131 Except for those moments where she was keynote speaker at skin head rallies. Maybe the original groyper

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oh....missed all that...

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:22 PM (g47mK)

132 Ran across the best Ryan Long video. Its...perfect. https://tinyurl.com/2t9fnh9v

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:22 PM (sKqQm)

133
oh....missed all that...
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:22 PM (g47mK)

I can try to find some links for you, if they still exist out there.

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 08:23 PM (OoFl2)

134 San Franpsycho, I agree with that.
I know the police seemed to be actively inhibiting that investigation. They just didn't GAF.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 21, 2025 08:23 PM (cQHrm)

135 Busted ! Exactly right! it's in the national archives in DC !

Unless the dastardly Chris Wray had the info put in a burn bag.

Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 08:23 PM (mADJX)

136 And...youtube just gave me a video for an anti-COVID vaccine that isn't a clot shot?!? "Looking for protection from COVID but worried about COVID vaccine side effects? Try new Nuvaxovid"

Funny, I'm so old I remember when talking about clot shot side effects was rayciss, anti-science, and probably made you Hitler.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:24 PM (sKqQm)

137 Marjorie Taylor Green quitting in about six weeks.

Watch whatever special election takes place to replace her. They'll allow three months of voting, two before and one after to do the count in secret, Soros will spend a billion to see some communist run and win, and the lines of AWFLs will extend from the polling places to Savannah.

Posted by: M. Gaga at November 21, 2025 08:24 PM (zeLd4)

138 I suspect Pandas build backyard gyms even in the wild

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 08:26 PM (+qU29)

139 Michelle Malkin wandered off the deep end and landed in anti-semetic territory. She even included the "just asking questions" step.

Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 08:26 PM (TN0g+)

140 Morton Sobell served more than 17 years in prison for espionage. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting made a documentary stating that he was innocent. Later, after his release from prison he admitted to spying. From Wikipedia: Sobell died at the age of 101 on December 26, 2018. He was the last surviving member of the Rosenberg spy ring.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:26 PM (hZbnZ)

141 Some NFL special teams coach upset at Trump because he called the new NFL kick off rule for sissies. Said Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about like the NFL is some special esoteric science that the common man can’t comprehend.

Never mind Trump was the owner of a professional football team.

The kick off rule pairs perfectly with the NFL tranny cheerleaders.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 08:26 PM (KDPiq)

142 Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:18 PM (Cjt/F)

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I admire your ambition!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:27 PM (m6HS6)

143 Malkin is one of the few conservative pundits of her era that didn't screw over the movement - compare her to Goldberg, Kristol, or Will...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:27 PM (sKqQm)

144 >>I don't see the value in it. It just elevates Mamdani and makes him look reasonable which he isn't

Well it certainly elevates him. Again, Trump labeled him the leader of the Democrat Party and said the NYC Mayor's job is one of the most important jobs in the world.

Everyone on the left was in a crouch waiting for Trump to hammer him and they were going to come out swinging. Instead, Trump praised Mamdani and defanged them and made them wonder why Mamdani didn't push back when Trump said he agree with deporting criminal illegals.

Now Trump looks reasonable and Mamdani is the leader of the Democrat Party. What happens when he fails?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 08:27 PM (viF8m)

145
I think Michelle was fairly traumatized by the disappearance of her cousin and just wanted to conclude her public life.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

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

I think her teenage daughter also had some illness.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 08:27 PM (RfDQK)

146 Piper, I would like to know more about that

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 21, 2025 08:27 PM (m6HS6)

147 >>> Except for those moments where she was keynote speaker at skin head rallies. Maybe the original groyper

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oh....missed all that...
Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:22 PM (g47mK)

Ace had a post that touched on it some time in the last few weeks I think. I think it was here. But that's when I first heard about it. Maybe Piper read the same thing.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 08:27 PM (3uBP9)

148 So there was fear early on that DOGE was going to collect this and they were going to curate a list and get rid of 'the undesirables.'"

-----

What's to fear, here? Gay and trans people are gross in the first place, of course, and they are pushy, demanding and disruptive, to boot. That's before we even discuss their frequently demonstrated predilection for sodomizing children.

You motherfuckers are undesirable. It's not a fear that you'll be rousted out of polite society. It's what normies call a hope. It's a hope you'll be sent off without pay.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 08:27 PM (BI5O2)

149 Didn't Ace write about Malkin recently?

Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 08:28 PM (3uBP9)

150 MTG just gave her two weeks?

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 21, 2025 08:28 PM (mT+6a)

151 I suspect Pandas build backyard gyms even in the wild
Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 08:26 PM (+qU29)

A panda's gotta do what a panda's gotta do in order to keep up that roly-poly physique.

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 08:29 PM (gKDq2)

152 It was an AmRen conference. And no, I didn’t know Ace touched on it so not sure if this is the same thing but it wouldn’t surprise me.

Posted by: Piper at November 21, 2025 08:29 PM (OoFl2)

153 Alito is great but nothing was wrong with Miers. And Malkin didn’t have anything to do with it.

Harriet Miers was the first clue that "W" wasn't serious about a damn thing. She was more stringent - would have been a better originalist judge - than Scalia.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:29 PM (+nY70)

154 Marjorie Taylor Green quitting in about six weeks.

===

She is such a flake.

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:29 PM (g47mK)

155 when Ace had a podcast he had Malkin in as an interviewee

Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 08:30 PM (gKWVE)

156
NYC Mayor's job is one of the most important jobs in the world.

____________

Ahhhhhhh, no.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 21, 2025 08:30 PM (tgvbd)

157 Ok, maybe it wasn't Ace but I read the same about Malkin and groypers somewhere recently.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 21, 2025 08:30 PM (3uBP9)

158 NYC Mayor's job is one of the most important jobs in the world.

From where I live ? No. Let the banks fail - we'll still grow corn and mine coal.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:31 PM (+nY70)

159 Malkin was a conservative Karen imo.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 08:33 PM (KDPiq)

160 139 Michelle Malkin wandered off the deep end and landed in anti-semetic territory. She even included the "just asking questions" step.
Posted by: Crusader

Filtering every aspect of human existence through politics can break you and politics seems to break people after a while. If they recognize it, they bail. Leave the scene. Some, sociopaths mostly, marinate in it all there lives and are wretched.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 08:33 PM (BW+Gb)

161 Will Marjorie Taylor Green end up on the View? The prior appearance was an audition

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 08:35 PM (bfwj/)

162 Filtering every aspect of human existence through politics can break you and politics seems to break people after a while.

Please tell me what part of human existence ISN'T dictated by politics ? I'll wait.

Do the roses look good on the long march to the camps ? Don't care.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:35 PM (+nY70)

163 Thank you for the example, #162.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 08:36 PM (BW+Gb)

164 I better turn this off though have no reason to get up except call nood for the tech thread.

Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 08:36 PM (+qU29)

165 Please tell me what part of human existence ISN'T dictated by politics ? I'll wait.

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In a healthy society? 99% of it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 08:36 PM (BI5O2)

166 99 Lone penguins frolicking on a beach may be infected with rabies and should be avoided.
Posted by: Penguin Facts at November 21, 2025 08:04 PM (vFG9F)

Lone penguins frolicking in any environment is generally the result of it being ostracized by penguin society. It should be avoided regardless its status of rabididy.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 08:37 PM (o7Ps5)

167 The Swan Knight’s Son has more help than just the protection of King Arthur. He has been warned about giving in to anger by no less than the Mother of our Savior, who, we are given to believe, will look kindly on him when he does keep it in check. I suspect wrath is a burdening sin to more than just him: let’s all know the difference between righteous and unrighteous anger!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:37 PM (hZbnZ)

168 Filtering every aspect of human existence through politics can break you and politics seems to break people after a while.
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Please tell me what part of human existence ISN'T dictated by politics ? I'll wait.

Do the roses look good on the long march to the camps ? Don't care.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:35 PM (+nY70)

The old joke: You may not be interested in politics but Politics is interested in you.

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 08:37 PM (gKDq2)

169 In a sane world politics would be about whether the tax rate was 10%...or lower.. Not whether trannies are allowed to groom kids.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:37 PM (sKqQm)

170 Thank you for that SFp!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:38 PM (Cjt/F)

171 MTG apparently resigning from Congress in January, if the AP wire is to be believed.

Posted by: Look At this at November 21, 2025 08:38 PM (sXcYT)

172 In a healthy society? 99% of it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 08:36 PM (BI5O2)

And in this society ? Where we took a few years off for a combination "racial protest" and mystery cold ?

I'm talking about his society. How about this one ?

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:38 PM (+nY70)

173 & g'night Skip!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:38 PM (Cjt/F)

174 GOPe throwing the midterms again

Posted by: Accomack at November 21, 2025 08:39 PM (OP3E2)

175 Human existence is dictated by pursuit of the opposite sex. Politics is just one part of the process.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 08:39 PM (KDPiq)

176 I've seen it reported a few places that MTG's resignation on January 5th is just two days after her congressional pension vests on January 3rd, five years of service.

Posted by: Mark1971 at November 21, 2025 08:39 PM (CNl8/)

177 I don't see the value in it. It just elevates Mamdani and makes him look reasonable which he isn't
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 08:17 PM (fd80v)

It might also make him look like an accomadationisg to Trump to his supporters. They can easily turn on him like the rabid weasels they are.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 08:40 PM (zZu0s)

178 Too bad about Michelle Mankin, I used to like to read her stuff.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 08:40 PM (/ZNPI)

179 Michelle Maulkin has retired from public life. I intend to respect her wishes and hope her life is fruitful outside of the spotlight.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:41 PM (hZbnZ)

180 " ... if the AP wire is to be believed. "

aye, there's the rub!

if they said water boiled at 212 degrees (yes, at STP ...) I would look it up in the CRC to be sure.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:41 PM (Cjt/F)

181 So. I just watched the ABC national coverage of Trump and mandamus.

Positive for Trump. Unbelievable.

Trump made the press show him as a good guy.

I’m gobsmacked.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 21, 2025 08:41 PM (mT+6a)

182 In a sane world politics would be about whether the tax rate was 10%...or lower.. Not whether trannies are allowed to groom kids.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 08:37 PM (sKqQm)

Or setting the cars a rich guy sold on fire.

I swear every one of those bastardes ahould have been shot on the spot. Arson is no laughing matter. Society must be better than that. So a whiff of 12-guage should work.

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 08:42 PM (gKDq2)

183 Malkin jumped the shark when she went nuts over Rachel Ray's scarf.

Posted by: Mark1971 at November 21, 2025 08:42 PM (CNl8/)

184
3 Movies, Yay or Nay?

-- Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
-- Extraction
-- Lone Survivor

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 21, 2025 08:42 PM (01gtA)

185 aye, there's the rub!

if they said water boiled at 212 degrees (yes, at STP ...) I would look it up in the CRC to be sure.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:41 PM (Cjt/F)

F or C, AP?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 08:42 PM (zZu0s)

186 The most traitorous thing in the world is choosing morality based on consensus, and not ethics.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 08:42 PM (rbvCR)

187 176 I've seen it reported a few places that MTG's resignation on January 5th is just two days after her congressional pension vests on January 3rd, five years of service.

In her position, wouldn’t you do the same?

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:43 PM (hZbnZ)

188 Human existence is dictated by pursuit of the opposite sex.

Until you get to a certain age. I've hit it.

There's a reason rich dudes - back in the day - didn't want girls at Augusta. You hit a point where they're all just not worth it.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:43 PM (+nY70)

189 >>> 186 The most traitorous thing in the world is choosing morality based on consensus, and not ethics.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 08:42 PM (rbvCR)

I don't get it.

Posted by: Anthony SCIENCE! Fauci at November 21, 2025 08:43 PM (ULPxl)

190 Gut Ritchie’s The Gentlemen though the Covenant is pretty good.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 08:44 PM (KDPiq)

191 I wonder why she is resigning ...hmmmm

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:44 PM (g47mK)

192 Niece playing HS basketball. Other team has a boy. 84 year old FiL just said, "How many points for Tim Walz's grandson."

Posted by: scampydog at November 21, 2025 08:44 PM (41CYW)

193 Trump and mandamus."

Heh. FWIW, a couple of left leaning acquaintances are just flabbergasted and venting that "he sold us out to Trump"

I laughed.

Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:44 PM (XuXeR)

194 Epstein files!

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:44 PM (g47mK)

195 good point, Aetius

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:44 PM (Cjt/F)

196 127
'After the Pennsylvania courts told Alito " take your opinion and shove it" he is not in a forgiving mood.'

And he frigging well shouldn't be.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 08:45 PM (fd80v)

197 192, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 21, 2025 08:46 PM (Cjt/F)

198
Will Marjorie Taylor Green end up on the View? The prior appearance was an audition
Posted by: Smell the Glove

She might move to New York and work for Mamdani.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 08:46 PM (pkeXY)

199 In her position, wouldn’t you do the same?

No. I can honestly say I would not.

Because I would have never kissed ass for five years just to get a pension. Of course, I would have never been a cop or any other public service mooch either.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:46 PM (+nY70)

200 >>Ahhhhhhh, no.

Trump does this every single time with everyone he negotiates with. From Little Rocket Man to Putin. He publicly praises and exaggerates their importance and acts like the gracious guy which makes him look good. Then if things go pear shaped the focus is on what they did not Trump.

Mamdani is the hero of the radical left and Trump is making him the face of the Democrat Party. If Mamdani buckles to reality and works with Trump then Trump wins. If he doesn't and his idiotic socialist plans further break NYC during the 2026 elections guess who wins?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 08:47 PM (viF8m)

201 MTGbseems to primarily be an attention whore.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 08:47 PM (zZu0s)

202 212 degrees Kelvin, Fahrenheit, Celsius, Reamur?

Oh yeah, you’re not supposed to use degrees with Kelvin anymore, just, say, 273 K or the like.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:47 PM (hZbnZ)

203 I've seen it reported a few places that MTG's resignation on January 5th is just two days after her congressional pension vests on January 3rd, five years of service.

Posted by: Mark1971 at November 21, 2025 08:39 PM (CNl8/)

As well, paydays are on the 5th and 20th, so she will get a full paycheck on the 20th for the pay period ending on the 5th.

Posted by: Vendette at November 21, 2025 08:47 PM (LOCTm)

204 MTGbseems to primarily be an attention whore"

And without attention?

Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (XuXeR)

205 Not hot enough to go Hollywood or thot route, so politics it is.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (zZu0s)

206 The most traitorous thing in the world is choosing morality based on consensus, and not ethics.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 08:42 PM (rbvCR)

Depends on where one gets their ethics from, I guess. To wit: Pisslam. Not just the cultural abominations of it like FGM, but the 'religious' tenets as well. Not too many 'faiths' have 'kill the unbelievers' as immutable dogma.

Muzzies think shari'a is just swell and a perfectly moral system for all. I tend to disagree.

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (gKDq2)

207 160 Filtering every aspect of human existence through politics can break you and politics seems to break people after a while. If they recognize it, they bail. Leave the scene. Some, sociopaths mostly, marinate in it all there lives and are wretched. - Puddleglum at work

Boy, if that ain't the truth! I used to work in DC and there were people, I'm convinced, whose entire self-identity was wrapped up in politics. When people - mostly ultra liberal types - tried to engage me in political discussions, I just told them that I was a proponent of anarcho-syndicalism and had nothing but the merest academic interest in the workings of bourgeois American democracy; furthermore, I considered the two major parties to be nothing but elements of political kabuki theater, working secretly to fleece the citizenry while maintaining the fiction of principled opposition. All hogwash, of course - although I think there's some truth to the last bit - but at least it sent them away muttering to themselves.

Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (mADJX)

208 JackStraw - please make a point to drop into the hobby thread tomorrow. Thank you.

Posted by: TRex - Hobby Rex at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (IQ6Gq)

209 The dog getting its belly vacuumed..lol

Posted by: Tuna at November 21, 2025 07:29 PM (lJ0H4)

A body shop I worked at right out of high school had a doberman that acted like a golden retriever. Total goofball. His favorite thing was laying down while somebody broomed him with a large shop broom. Every day he got the broom.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (snZF9)

210 Mamdani is the hero of the radical left and Trump is making him the face of the Democrat Party.

Recognizing Arafat - and thus Palestine / Gaza - wasn't a winning move.

You just don't handle the snake. One of Trump's problems.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:49 PM (+nY70)

211 Valid counter.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 08:49 PM (zZu0s)

212 MTGbseems to primarily be an attention whore"

And without attention?
Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (XuXeR)

she a whooore ??

Posted by: runner at November 21, 2025 08:50 PM (g47mK)

213 Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 08:48 PM (mADJX)

I just start sing Chicken pot Chicken pot Chicken Pot pie !

It works the same.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 08:50 PM (KDPiq)

214 Oy Vey - these politics are getting awful. Lets have a bagel ... 1935 Jew in Germany.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:50 PM (+nY70)

215 A pension after just 5 years “work”: nice work if you can get it!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 08:50 PM (hZbnZ)

216 Trump does this every single time with everyone he negotiates with. From Little Rocket Man to Putin. He publicly praises and exaggerates their importance and acts like the gracious guy which makes him look good. Then if things go pear shaped the focus is on what they did not Trump.

Mamdani is the hero of the radical left and Trump is making him the face of the Democrat Party. If Mamdani buckles to reality and works with Trump then Trump wins. If he doesn't and his idiotic socialist plans further break NYC during the 2026 elections guess who wins? - JackStraw

It would be hilarious if Mamdani returned to New York and was denounced by his "comintern" or whatever as a running dog of capitalism, now that he's met with Trump.

Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 08:51 PM (mADJX)

217 207,
That was my play. Blow right past them, and they walked off muttering. I'd laugh at that point

Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:51 PM (XuXeR)

218 Maybe she will do a podcast with Liz Cheney.

Posted by: Mark1971 at November 21, 2025 08:51 PM (CNl8/)

219 In a healthy society, politicians grow tremendously wealthy stealing from people who are too busy and prosperous to notice the skim.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 08:51 PM (BI5O2)

220 I just start sing Chicken pot Chicken pot Chicken Pot pie !

It works the same.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 08:50 PM (KDPiq)

LOL always loved that episode!

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 21, 2025 08:52 PM (/ZNPI)

221 or whatever as a running dog of capitalism, now that he's met with Trump.
Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 08:51 PM (mADJX)

Trump is trying to make him Trotsky. Or the Meschevics. Or a White. Harder to go for a corrallary.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 08:52 PM (zZu0s)

222 In a healthy society, politicians grow tremendously wealthy stealing from people who are too busy and prosperous to notice the skim.

You are welcome - Nancy from San Fran.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:53 PM (+nY70)

223 207 160 Filtering every aspect of human existence through politics can break you and politics seems to break people after a while. If they recognize it, they bail. Leave the scene. Some, sociopaths mostly, marinate in it all there lives and are wretched. - Puddleglum at work

Boy, if that ain't the truth! I used to work in DC and there were people, I'm convinced, whose entire self-identity was wrapped up in politics. When people - mostly ultra liberal types - tried to engage me in political discussions, I just told them that I was a proponent of anarcho-syndicalism and had nothing but the merest academic interest in the workings of bourgeois American democracy; furthermore, I considered the two major parties to be nothing but elements of political kabuki theater, working secretly to fleece the citizenry while maintaining the fiction of principled opposition. All hogwash, of course - although I think there's some truth to the last bit - but at least it sent them away muttering to themselves.
Posted by: Paco

I've lived and worked in Babylon DC for about 28 years now. A beltway bandit working for the Fed Leviathan. Apparently nothing has changed since you lived here.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 08:53 PM (BW+Gb)

224 @200 JackStraw, correct and the thing that the worrywarts seem not to realize is that by the time 11/26 rolls around the Dems will have had a full scale war during the primaries. The hard left are going to take over from the old guard and they won't look good to independents or even conservative Dems

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 21, 2025 08:54 PM (bfwj/)

225 213 I just start sing Chicken pot Chicken pot Chicken Pot pie ! - the way I see it

Well, that certainly represents a more economical use of words!

Posted by: Paco at November 21, 2025 08:54 PM (mADJX)

226 Boy, if that ain't the truth! I used to work in DC and there were people, I'm convinced, whose entire self-identity was wrapped up in politics.

The Rest of the Jews in 1930s Germany - we should have paid more attention to politics.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:54 PM (+nY70)

227

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV opened a virtual meeting with American Catholic young people Friday by revealing a closely held pontifical secret: He uses a different Wordle start word each day.

Leo divulged his strategy for the popular New York Times online game before fielding questions via videoconference about artificial intelligence, social media and the future of the Catholic Church.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 21, 2025 08:55 PM (pkeXY)

228 Boy, if that ain't the truth! I used to work in DC and there were people, I'm convinced, whose entire self-identity was wrapped up in politics.

The Carthagenians - we also got screwed by politics. Should have took it more serious.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:55 PM (+nY70)

229 >>It would be hilarious if Mamdani returned to New York and was denounced by his "comintern" or whatever as a running dog of capitalism, now that he's met with Trump.

He's already taking some flak for not standing up to literally Hitler. It's pretty hard to argue that Trump isn't a really good negotiator. He lives for this stuff.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 21, 2025 08:56 PM (viF8m)

230 Boy, if that ain't the truth! I used to work in DC and there were people, I'm convinced, whose entire self-identity was wrapped up in politics.

We didn't pay enough attention. And now our five tribes are gone. Other than those living in poverty - The Five Civilized Tribes.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:57 PM (+nY70)

231 177
'It might also make him look like an accomadationisg to Trump to his supporters. They can easily turn on him like the rabid weasels they are.'

He's going to shiv Trump and repudiate any 'understanding' the next chance he gets so that won't happen.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 08:57 PM (fd80v)

232 Boy, if that ain't the truth! I used to work in DC and there were people, I'm convinced, whose entire self-identity was wrapped up in politics.

We ignored the Khmer Rouge - but they took Politics seriously ...

... Every in a Mass Grave in the Killing Fields

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:58 PM (+nY70)

233 ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV opened a virtual meeting with American Catholic young people Friday by revealing a closely held pontifical secret: He uses a different Wordle start word each day.

***

Any follow-up on the crossword puzzle?

Posted by: Father Guido Sarducci at November 21, 2025 08:58 PM (Q+gd/)

234 The Carthagenians - we also got screwed by politics. Should have took it more serious.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:55 PM (+nY70)

They were already fucked and dead. As soon as Cannae happened, Rome was never, ever going to live and let live. Hannibal wanted to destroy them. Turns out all he could do was hurt them and all that did was doom those poor fuckers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 08:59 PM (zZu0s)

235 They can easily turn on him like the rabid weasels they are.'"

I suspect they already are...

Posted by: man at November 21, 2025 08:59 PM (XuXeR)

236 Boy, if that ain't the truth! I used to work in DC and there were people, I'm convinced, whose entire self-identity was wrapped up in politics.

Also us - we just thought this shit would work itself out ...

... the Hmong. We picked poorly. And now we're here.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (+nY70)

237 186
'The most traitorous thing in the world is choosing morality based on consensus, and not ethics.'

But how else are you going to make sure people keep liking you?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (fd80v)

238 Carthage tried to buy off the Roman Senate, but found out you could only rent them, not buy.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (hZbnZ)

239 Pope Leo XIV opened a virtual meeting with American Catholic young people Friday by revealing a closely held pontifical secret:

You're going to protect our people from being replaced by antiCatholic invaders and help our people be productive citizens through meaningful employment?

He uses a different Wordle start word each day.

Sigh.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (gKWVE)

240 226: Kittuhs!!

youtu.be/dZZMyYkv0ps

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (BW+Gb)

241 All this talk about MTG delaying her resignation until the 5th to cash in makes me want to re-iterate my proposal that all Congressional salaries be tax free, but any additional money "earned" (maybe "acquired" is a better word) while in office is to be taxed at 100%, wirh all married members of Congress required to file joint returns.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 21, 2025 09:01 PM (o7Ps5)

242 You are welcome - Nancy from San Fran.
Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 08:53 PM (+

Our problem is that everyone is noticing her theft, and Lindsey Graham's, and everyone else in DC who's running some scam.

None of this can work if these demons claw for so much money and power that they start drawing blood from their fatted lambs.

Politics is supposed to be a seedy, back room criminal enterprise that doesn't intrude too far into normal life - we're well past that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 09:01 PM (BI5O2)

243 I would seriously love to live in an old castle -- even an abandoned, drafty old Scottish one. I'd go into every room every day.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 21, 2025 07:37 PM (RfDQK)

Saw a thing that said castles weren't that drafty, they had wood frames with paneling and used decorated cloth hangings on the walls to act as insulation.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 21, 2025 09:01 PM (8avO+)

244 Carthage tried to buy off the Roman Senate, but found out you could only rent them, not buy.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (hZbnZ)

After the second punic war, the romans made damn sure they never accepted gifts from Carthage.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 21, 2025 09:02 PM (zZu0s)

245 Boy, if that ain't the truth! I used to work in DC and there were people, I'm convinced, whose entire self-identity was wrapped up in politics.

Every White GI that saw Five Promotion Points in the packet to the Black GI to his left.

Its just politics. Don't mean nothin'.

I shit you not - there are some times - I wonder what planet some of you live on.

Posted by: Keep The Record Straight at November 21, 2025 09:02 PM (+nY70)

246 Carthage tried to buy off the Roman Senate, but found out you could only rent them, not buy.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 21, 2025 09:00 PM (hZbnZ)

Same as it ever was with politicians.

'When I buy a politician, I want them to stay bought.'

Posted by: RickZ at November 21, 2025 09:03 PM (gKDq2)

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