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The Morning Report — 12/15/25

Good morning kids. I'm absolutely sick to my stomach over the Bondi Beach massacre. That was horrible enough but the callous indifference of much of the world and in some circles the glee at yet more Jewish blood being spilled is the twisting of the knife. Coming as it does at the beginning of Chanukah, the festival of lights commemorating a miracle of God bestowed upon the Jewish people and representative of their victory over the literal and figurative forces of darkness millennia ago, is typical of how Muslims who plan, execute and the majority who don't but nevertheless celebrate them.

Islam is a cancer that will consume the entire world. That is the goal. The Jews are merely the first target.

Civilizational erasure, as it relates to Europe, has been in the news lately, with the renewed and scaled up predations of Islam once again commanding center stage.
Islam’s resurgence has been a full century in the making, enabled in large part by Western ignorance and enforced taboos against discussing Islam’s highly relevant 1,400-year history of mass bloodshed and conquest.
Indeed, that history is whitewashed by Western academics, whether pseudo-historians like the late Edward Said or execrable and ahistorical oikophobes like Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky. Wikipedia, Google, and artificial intelligence also play outsized roles in the academic and historical whitewash. . .
. . . Many Christmas markets in Europe are now closed due to “uncontrolled vehicles” and related Islamist threats while church bells and caroling fall silent in order to avoid offending Muslims. Meanwhile, the Muslim muezzin sounds triumphantly throughout Western Europe and even in American cities of the Upper Midwest. Islamic supremacism is on the march, its triumphalism augmented by its alliance with Western progressives who denounce any reminders of Christianity, including celebrations of Christmas. Burn a Koran or post a meme mocking Islam, and go to prison for a hate crime. Burn a Bible, and hey, you’re bravely speaking truth to power. Citizens of the West all know the drill by now. Will the governments of the Anglosphere learn their lesson from the Western European canary that dropped dead in the coal mine? Events in locales as varied as Minnesota and the United Kingdom (it appears as if all of Albion is bent over and grabbing its ankles, undergoing a government cavity search) suggest that the answer is probably no. To paraphrase the otherwise cartoonish James Carville, it’s the demography, stupid.

If Aussie PM Albanese and this dimwit asshole in Pennsylvania think they're going to ride the tiger and not be eaten or perhaps nibbled on last, oh to be there when the head-choppers have the rusty hacksaw at their throats.

Dem House Candidate Offers Condolences to Australia’s Jewish Community —Only To Delete the Statement and Replace It With a Message That Omits Jews.. Pennsylvania's Bob Brooks, a former firefighter who started a lawn care business, has been endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ro Khanna, among others

Members of the ‘devil’s party’ don’t create: they take what someone else made, and invert it.
Understand that simple reality and you will understand the macro and the micro struggles all around us. When Muslim terrorists hijacked planes and flew them into buildings, they weren’t creating anything, but they also weren’t just destroying things, they were inverting them.
What evil does isn’t mindless destruction, that’s savagery, instead evil takes the building blocks of civilization, physical, spiritual, intellectual or moral, and turns them inside out whether these building blocks are governments, universities or ideas so that they become tools of destruction.
Representative governments become unrepresentative. Educational systems inculcate ignorance. The infrastructure of civilian life, buses, planes, trucks, become weapons. And the infrastructure of ideas and morality are inverted the same way to become their opposites.
Ideological inversion is everywhere and it’s the dominant form of political discourse.

Brooks et al are Democrat/Leftists. This is who and what they are. And so, to obtain and maintain power, they'll stay silent or otherwise nod and a wink if not give a standing ovation when Jews are slaughtered, so as not to alienate if not to ingratiate themselves to Muslims and fellow anti-Semites who vote them into office.

On that cold shot of reality, I do want to wish my fellow Jews and all of you a Happy Hanukkah in spite of the horror over the weekend and take comfort in that the lights of the season should and must inspire our faith that we will ultimately be delivered from darkness and that the evil we face will be defeated.

May the Lord bless the memories of the victims, comfort their loved ones and keep all of you safe as the Christmas season begins.

Have a good day.

On a personal note, a shout out to commenter AVIATOR, for your advice and insights, they're most helpful. I'll reach out to you a little later and many thanks again.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS

Post sources confirmed the bodies discovered were the longtime couple, who married in 1989. The couple’s 32-year-old son and screenwriter Nick Reiner is a person of interest in the deadly stabbing, the sources added.
Legendary director Rob Reiner, wife found stabbed to death in LA home, son eyed as person of interest
Daniel Greenfield: Evil tries to convince us that the world we live in is evil. And destroying it is good.
Evil Can’t Create, It Can Only Invert

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BONDI BEACH CHANUKAH BLOODBATH
The attack, the deadliest in nearly three decades in Australia, has sparked worldwide condemnation and calls for increased security and action against rising antisemitism.
11 Dead in Anti-Semitic Sydney Terror Shooting.
A Chanukah by the Sea event with upwards of 1,000 attendees was scheduled to take place near a children’s playground from 5pm and had begun when the attack began at the iconic beach.
12 People, Including One Gunman, Shot Dead at Sydney’s Bondi Beach: Jewish Community Targeted in ‘Terror Attack’
Ahmed al-Ahmad, a 43-year-old father and fruit shop owner, tackled a gunman during the Bondi Beach attack.
WATCH: Civilian Ambushes Terrorist At Bondi Beach, Wrestles Rifle Away
At the time of the shooting, hundreds had gathered at Bondi Beach to celebrate the start of Hanukkah in an area known as Chanukah by the Sea, PBS reported. Emergency services began responding to Campbell Parade in Bondi around 6:45 p.m. local time after reports of shots being fired, according to The Associated Press.
Twelve Killed In Shooting Targeting Jewish Community At Australia’s Bondi Beach, Police Say
This is a special time for Christians, Jews and for the Muslims trying to kill them.
A Chanukah Terrorist Attack in Australia
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese failed to heed multiple warnings about the rising tide of hate — including from human-rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky (himself wounded Sunday), who spoke out Dec. 1 after graffiti reading “F–k Zionist Israel,” and “Israel has blood on their hands,” appeared on Bondi Beach overnight. And Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu wrote Albanese months ago, thundering that his call to recognize a Palestinian state “pours fuel on the antisemitic fire” and “emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew hatred now stalking your streets.”
Australia’s government failed its Jews in the long runup to Bondi Beach attack
Antisemitic attacks in Australia have reportedly been rising, with the worst mass shooting in nearly 30 years occurring Saturday. A video previously posted by the Australian Jewish Association on Oct. 9, 2023 shows a large group of people waving various Palestinian flags and chanting obscenities against Jews from the steps of Sydney’s Opera House.
FLASHBACK: Islamists Gathered To Chant ‘F*ck The Jews’ After Oct. 7 Just Minutes From Beach Shooting Site
Both U.S. and Israeli officials warned that recognizing a 'Palestinian' state—which Albanese did in September—would embolden anti-Semites
Australian PM Anthony Albanese Omits Jews in Statement on Hanukkah Massacre
Pennsylvania's Bob Brooks, a former firefighter who started a lawn care business, has been endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ro Khanna, among others (Brooks et al should only be 6 feet under a lawn as worm food - jjs)
Dem House Candidate Offers Condolences to Australia’s Jewish Community—Only To Delete the Statement and Replace It With a Message That Omits Jews

CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

Will the ruling class rule forever?
Aristocracy, Meritocracy, Technocracy, and Revolution

"DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY, NEWSOM/DEMOCRAT VIOLENT INSURRECTION RIOTS
Federal assault charges have been filed against the suspects, and the agent involved was safely recovered.
African Migrant Faces Charges After ‘Kidnapping’ of Homeland Security Agent in Walz’s Minnesota.
Calling Miller a white supremacist is a disgusting reach, and suggesting he’s akin to a Nazi is a disgraceful smear.
Bro-Fo Omar’s attacks on Stephen Miller reveal Dems' broken immigration narrative
The lawsuit challenges the fee as unconstitutional and claims it violates the Administrative Procedure Act, while the administration argues the fee is a lawful measure to prioritize American workers.
Democrats Are Suing Trump Over H-1B Visa Fee Protecting American Workers.
How can there be a legal injury in removing a citizen of Somalia, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Mexico, or any other country, from the U.S.?
Deportation Is The Only ‘Due Process’ Illegal Aliens Deserve
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
According to the Bild newspaper, three Moroccans aged 22, 28, and 30 were arrested alongside a 37-year-old Syrian and a 56-year-old Egyptian suspected of planning to use a vehicle to attack people at a Christmas market in the town of Dingolfing.
Germany: Five Arrested over Alleged Islamist Terror Plot Against Christmas Market
Islam is on the march.
On Civilizational Erasure
U.S.-based filmmaker, evangelist and founder of Truth Nigeria, Judd Saul, told the Caller that extremists are mobilizing units in preparation for a mass assault on Christian regions of Nigeria.
~~Islamic Extremists~~ Typical Muslims Prepare To Slaughter Hundreds On Christmas, Local Intel Warns
And thereby presents a lesson for the West.
Afghanistan Arrests Men for Wearing Suits
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
It's far worse than Minnesota.
California: everything's bigger, even fraud
Allowing state entities to handle federal benefits prevents fraud.
No, States Aren’t “Stealing” From Foster Children
David Harsanyi: During this week’s oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter, Justice Sonia Sotomayor threatened America with a good time — warning that the administration is “asking us to destroy the structure of government.” Great. It’s about time an unaccountable fourth branch of the state was decimated.
The left flaunts its hypocrisy as Supreme Court curbs bureaucrats’ power

THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Concerns over the economy might affect Republican chances in the midterms.
Trump to WSJ: Economic Boost May Take More Time, Americans May Take ‘While’ to Realize.
Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s critics cry “affordability,” but voters remember who sparked the price surge—and who’s now trying to clean it up.
It’s Affordability, Stupid?
Affordability has suddenly become the centerpiece of Democrat messaging. But leftist policies make everything more expensive.
The Myth of Affordability
What will the Supreme Court decide? The case is not as simple as some like to claim.
The Rings of Power and the Trump Tariffs

CHARLIE KIRK'S ASSASSINATION
Candace Owens exploited a national tragedy for clicks, choosing spectacle over truth and compassion while undermining a movement built on moral clarity.
Candace Owens Turned Charlie Kirk’s Murder Into a Stage for Herself
CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY
Col. Oscar Perez, Providence police chief, said at a news conference that the detained suspect was in their 30s, WJAR reported. Authorities are not currently searching for anyone else.
Suspect In Brown University Shooting In Custody
New York City data once again suggest that the answer is no.
Does Poverty Cause Crime?
Shouldn't sheriffs want to jail violent criminals?
The Sheriff who doesn't like jailing violent criminals
The attack is just the latest high-profile violent crime by a homeless person in New York City and comes amid growing uncertainty about safety in America’s most populous city.
Mother Stabbed by Homeless Maniac at Macy’s While Changing Baby.
New Yorkers have a right to a safe city.
Mamdani has no solid plan for New York City’s homeless epidemic
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Without independent judgment, technology perfects systems of control rather than systems of liberty.
The AI Illusion: How Technocracy Threatens Human Freedom
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The administration's decision will reverse three decades of decline.
Trump’s Nuclear Power ‘Renaissance’
For years, politicians managed to hide the damage caused by the green transformation.
The Green Elysium Is Dying on All Fronts
After decades of climate panic, the left quietly abandoned the weather—proof its causes shift not with science or facts, but with whatever outrage best sustains power, protest, and cultural revolt.
What Happened to the Climate Change Cult?
While Europe freezes under net-zero dogma, Norway drills, profits, and keeps the lights on—funding EV virtue with oil and gas while the EU chooses ideology over arithmetic.
Norway Avoids ‘Green’ Energy Quicksand

EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
After the Supreme Court deadlocked on that question, Tennessee’s attorney general teed it up in his state.
Are Religious Charter Schools Constitutional?
The dumbing down of education, and American culture, continues apace.
Ebonics: bad ideas never entirely die
THE 2020 and SUBSEQUENT ELECTION HEISTS , SHENANIGANS/FRAUD and AFTERMATH
The DOJ has now sued 18 states, along with Fulton County, over election-related records access.
Trump DOJ Sues Fulton County for 2020 Election Ballot Records.
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
It’s becoming almost an entry requirement for Democrats seeking high office to be serial liars.
Wes Moore: another Democrat serial fabulist?
POLITICS
MAGA Republicans are going to prevail. We are going to applaud so much that our hands will hurt.
An optimistic prediction for the midterms
Despite holding a supermajority in the upper chamber, 21 of the Senate’s 40 Republican senators joined Democrats in defeating the proposed map (31-19). The measure had previously cleared the state House (57-41) last week.
Indiana’s Redistricting Surrender Illustrates Why Primaries Matter
"Occupy cast a long shadow over left-wing politics... A great deal of the party’s intellectual leadership is embarrassed by cultural radicalism... The best predictor of support for Mamdani was the recency of one’s arrival in the city.”
Mamdani and the Future of the Left
The nightmare of Democrat congressional rule is moving forward, based on GOP complacency. Here's what it would mean...
Republicans are Facing an Extinction Event
Roger Kimball: Aristotle gave virtue its theory; Trump gives it blunt instruction—common sense, hard work, and perseverance—an unscholarly ethics that nonetheless meets the moment.
Trumpomachean Ethics
THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"
If Trump brings peace, Zelensky’s gravy train comes to an end.
Trump and Putin ‘Play the Pipes of Peace’ as Zelensky Sings ‘Burn Baby Burn’
Zelenskyy arrived at the Chancellery ahead of the expected talks with U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, part of a series of meetings in Berlin between Ukrainian, U.S. and European officials.
Zelensky Offers to Give Up NATO Dreams, But Does Not Budge on Territorial Concessions
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
A congressional China panel warns Beijing’s global repression now reaches U.S. soil, urging tougher action as trade diplomacy collides with human rights, security, and American sovereignty.
China Commission Urges Action on Transnational Repression
Donald Trump outplays Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Putin... not to mention his own domestic critics.
The Trump Doctrine
The resignation underscores Bulgaria’s political instability as it prepares to join the Eurozone, with new elections likely adding further uncertainty.
European Government Collapses Amid Anti-Tax and Anti-Corruption Protests.
Deep inside they must know that President Trump is right.
Trump has a point about Europe
Trump’s National Security Strategy ditches diplomatic niceties, calling out Europe’s ruling class for decline, cowardice, and surrender—while Washington shows more backbone than Europe’s own leaders.
Trump Is Right to Lambaste Europe
DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS
“Today in Palmyra, Syria, two United States Army soldiers and one civilian U.S. interpreter were killed, and three were wounded,” chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote on X Saturday.
Two U.S. Army Soldiers and Interpreter Killed in Syria, Three Wounded; Trump Promises Retaliation
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
State-sanctioned euthanasia not only pressures patients to choose suicide, but also inevitably ends in health care systems forcing suicide on patients.
Pritzker Signs Law Welcoming State-Sanctioned Suicide To Illinois (even if thousands of Dems off themselves, they'll still bevotng Democrat rom the grave, forever! - jjs)
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
...it has been competition and freedom that has made all the difference. Before, all rockets were owned or controlled by government monopolies, which limited risk or creativity and kept costs high. Now, they are owned and controlled by private companies, who are incentivized by competition to lower costs and attract as many new customers as possible. Even in communist China this concept has been used (under tight government supervision) to achieve the same ends.
The two American launches today set a new global annual launch record
exceeding 300+
The star in the center is an ancient red giant that is in the initial stages of dying. As it does so it periodically erupts, sending out jets of material from its poles. The result is this elongated shape.
The beginnings of a planetary nebula
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
It has an object of worship, which is female autonomy, its own commandments, theological virtues, a sacrament, and even its own form of evangelization.
How Feminism Became The Biggest Pagan Megachurch In The World
Trans-identifying lawyer Chase Strangio couldn’t present a coherent definition of ‘sex’ without resorting to feelings and ideological babble.
Trans Lawyer Who Asked SCOTUS To Redefine ‘Sex’ Can’t Produce A Definition When Asked
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Nihilism’s vacuum is driving young Americans toward toxic surrogate faiths, and only a Church grounded in spiritual duty—not political obsessions—can offer the meaning they’re seeking.
Nihilism, Anti-Zionism, and the Church’s Ongoing Failure
The world’s first Christian nation is wrestling with its soul.
Armenia’s Spiritual Earthquake And The Warning America Cannot Ignore
Thad McCotter: Lisa De Pasquale’s handbook is a practical, no-nonsense guide for a generation that never needed anyone’s approval.
A Sojourn of Sanity: Lisa De Pasquale’s ‘The Gen X Handbook for Middle Age’
The lessons taught in Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” have a very real-world application.
Marley’s Gift of Christmas Love — A Divine Revelation of Hell
Christian Toto: Neither Late-Night nor NBC sketch show will mock ex-conservative pundits
Why ‘SNL’ Won’t Touch Crazy Candace, Troubled Tucker

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Comments

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1 Sad Monday

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 15, 2025 07:00 AM (gbOdA)

2 Thank you, JJ

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 15, 2025 07:00 AM (Ytdv9)

3
Legendary director Rob Reiner, wife found stabbed to death in LA home, son eyed as person of interest

Guns and White Supremacy. You don't hear of legendary directors being murdered in their homes in Europe.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 07:03 AM (tgvbd)

4
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 15, 2025 07:03 AM (tljrc)

5 Terrible news, here and abroad

Posted by: AgathaPagatha at December 15, 2025 07:03 AM (20Wti)

6 From the Greenfield piece:

The revolution begins with inversion because its purpose is not to liberate, but to enslave. The only way to justify the revolution is, as Orwell warned, by making freedom look like slavery and slavery like freedom. Everything good about our lives, children are told, is really the proceeds of the crime of privilege and the only way to make the world better is to make it that much worse.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 15, 2025 07:04 AM (gbOdA)

7 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2025 07:05 AM (NwnyJ)

8 Am Yisrael Chai.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at December 15, 2025 07:07 AM (B3OIK)

9 Top 10 and happy about it.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 07:09 AM (lXoJ5)

10 Good morning. Such sad news today and this weekend. Husband and I were in interior VA working our way to his work destination. Heartened by the Christmas lights and families out one night and next day found a cute little diner. Lovey people running it and so nice to be part of the community for a meal. On dark days holding onto all the tiny bits of light.

Posted by: Paisley at December 15, 2025 07:10 AM (P9pDS)

11 Notably, the yearly H-1B visa cap of 85,000 is almost always exceeded through loopholes in the law.

California hires PE teachers via H1B.
Why, because they can be fired or moved where needed unlike Union Teachers that a actually permanent.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 15, 2025 07:12 AM (gbOdA)

12 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

Last week of classes (Finals Week). All I have left to do is grade the final assignments and I'm DONE. But that probably won't happen until next weekend because my students like to procrastinate.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 07:13 AM (ESVrU)

13 Posted by: Paisley at December 15, 2025 07:10

Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 07:14 AM (looXz)

14 mornin yall. Cue the Meathead memorials.

*types, deletes*

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 07:16 AM (vFG9F)

15 Good morning Horde, thx JJ.
A Happy Hanukkah to Hordians of the Jewish persuasion. A tough follow up, but be safe out there.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 07:17 AM (D+mpw)

16 One thing about the Australia massacre was, there is so much video of the events

that stood out for me, not sure why

From what I've read, the police response was less than inspired

Posted by: Don Black at December 15, 2025 07:17 AM (ZxPkt)

17 Thanks J.J. for the article from "American Thinker" on "A Christmas Carol".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 07:17 AM (Nx5jP)

18 Bush and Obama reminded numerous times that the murderous Islamic death cult is a religion of peace.

*types, deletes*

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 07:19 AM (vFG9F)

19 Thank you JJ.

Posted by: Eromero at December 15, 2025 07:19 AM (LHPAg)

20 From what I've read, the police response was less than inspired
Posted by: Don Black at December 15, 2025 07:17 AM (ZxPkt)

2 different witnesses said that the popo were there for almost 20 minutes.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 15, 2025 07:20 AM (gbOdA)

21 Not a fan of Reiner's politics but that's irrelevant today
Spinal Tap and The Princess Bride are great bits of movie making. RIP

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 07:20 AM (D+mpw)

22 Good morning horde!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 07:23 AM (ExV1e)

23 'Oikophobe' is a great word.

It should be deployed often against anybody with D next to their name.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 07:23 AM (6ydKt)

24 @18 Bush called Islam a "religion of peace" because if his families ties with the Saudis. And the Bushies are asshoe
Obama said that because he's a commie muzzie puke

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 07:23 AM (D+mpw)

25 The kneejerk refrain during events that expose the ideological divide and tests a sense of common humanity is that "we shouldn't demonize those who hold a different view that ours." But that's not it exactly, is it? It's not like that between Alexander Hamilton and Patrick Henry. It's that one side actively wishes to enslave or kill the other, or is perfectly happy if their political surrogates do it for them. From them, their is no "live and let live" in this struggle.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 07:23 AM (VnsnO)

26 SDA/Democrat affordability means lowering out-of-pocket prices by shifting costs to government. Whether the topic is health care, housing, childcare, education, or energy, the approach is the same: subsidies, mandates, price caps, and public-sector expansion.

Also notice that this creates the need for an admin head and jobs (read spoils) to create more SDA/Democrat voters.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 15, 2025 07:24 AM (gbOdA)

27 warning that the administration is “asking us to destroy the structure of government.”

Yes. And the problem is that it's not fast or thorough enough.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 07:25 AM (lXoJ5)

28 Ella Cook was found out of 11k students and 143 acres at a Sunday night study hall.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 15, 2025 07:25 AM (gbOdA)

29 The police later said the brown university POI was released, assailant still at large. Also it was a targeted assassination of young conservative woman. The left are hunting us down now, one by one, but the pace is accelerating. Their media personalities will cheer it on. R politicians will cower and make weak statements then hide again.

The left means to win.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 07:25 AM (3uBP9)

30 The left are fucking ghouls. They get all the decorum and courtesy and customary traditions they’ve afforded everybody else. Zilch, if you hadn’t noticed. Fuck Rob Reiner The new rules are, we use their rules. I’m looking forward to it.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 15, 2025 07:26 AM (A4VG5)

31 Just one question:

Why shouldn’t we go ahead and take potshots at Rob Reiner’s death the way the left made snide comments about Charlie Kirk’s?

Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 07:26 AM (G9Pnv)

32 Will the ruling class rule forever?

Yes. The composition of the ruling class will change but there will always be one as most people are sheep and prefer to be that way.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 07:27 AM (ExV1e)

33 27 warning that the administration is “asking us to destroy the structure of government.”

Yes. And the problem is that it's not fast or thorough enough.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 07:25 AM (lXoJ5)

This is clearly the hive mind thinking of all Progressives that there must be Agency of Control for every major policy.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 15, 2025 07:27 AM (gbOdA)

34 31 Just one question:

Why shouldn’t we go ahead and take potshots at Rob Reiner’s death the way the left made snide comments about Charlie Kirk’s?
Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 07:26 AM (G9Pnv)

Rob said it was evil and wrong.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 15, 2025 07:28 AM (gbOdA)

35 Australia’s government failed its Jews in the long runup to Bondi Beach attack

JJS, you opened up with how government will likely bring safety...

. . . Many Christmas markets in Europe are now closed due to “uncontrolled vehicles” and related Islamist threats while church bells and caroling fall silent in order to avoid offending Muslims.

That is, so that government won't fail again, they will just go ahead, submit to Islam and cancel everyone else's festivals and public gatherings.

Looks like Christians will soon be returning to the catacombes just like we had to two thousand years ago when government didn't stop certain religious authorities from killing off their enemies.

Fifteen hundred years later, had to cross an ocean and develop a wild and raw land because of other religious authorities and government failing to protect them.

That is the way of the world.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 07:30 AM (pawvM)

36 Rob Reiner was a rich, spoiled, asshole leftist but he did make me laugh and it's a shame his monster child came home to roost and stab. But mostly to stab.

Posted by: Stab Never Slash at December 15, 2025 07:30 AM (FGMmt)

37 31 Just one question:

Why shouldn’t we go ahead and take potshots at Rob Reiner’s death the way the left made snide comments about Charlie Kirk’s?
Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 07:26 AM (G9Pnv)

A. B/c it's wrong
B. B/c we try to be better than them
C. B/c being killed by your own son (allegedly) who fell into addiction and now evil, is horrifying enough

Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 07:31 AM (tOcjL)

38 I'll allow the same compassion the leftys would if PDT was stabbed to death.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 07:31 AM (vFG9F)

39 Fuck Rob Reiner The new rules are, we use their rules. I’m looking forward to it.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 15, 2025 07:26 AM (A4VG5)

That's not polite. You might not get an invitation to the Chamber of Commerce cocktail party!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 07:31 AM (n9ltV)

40 Mamdani has no solid plan for New York City’s homeless epidemic.
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The plan will be to expand the bureaucracy that manages "homelessness." Same as it ever was.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 15, 2025 07:31 AM (yEjNf)

41 If Rob Reiner said it was evil, is it socially acceptable to make fun of Jimmy Kimmel when he dies?

Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 07:32 AM (G9Pnv)

42 B. Where has trying to be better than them helped us?

Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 07:33 AM (G9Pnv)

43 Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 07:31 AM (tOcjL)

And...you entirely missed the point.

The new rules apply to everyone. Read Alinsky.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 07:33 AM (n9ltV)

44 From the Greenfield piece:

Greenfield doesn't need to sign his work, for it is recognizable within a few sentences.

The man is pure gold in his observations.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 07:33 AM (nCgQz)

45 At least the Reiners kept it all in the family.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 07:34 AM (vFG9F)

46 I still don't know how Islam became 'Peace'.

Everybody who's had a rudimentary education can recall that Islam literally means 'Submission/Surrender'.

They taught me that along with the five pillars of Islam when I was in middle school World History class.

Suddenly everybody seemed to forget that on 9/12/01.

Just like everybody forgot what the terms 'vaccine' and 'acquired immunity' meant in 2021.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 07:34 AM (6ydKt)

47 @45 ISWYDT, LOL

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 07:35 AM (D+mpw)

48 Someone said it well , maybe here about Islam. Christianity and Judaism don't preach murder , Islam does

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 07:36 AM (D+mpw)

49 "we shouldn't demonize those who hold a different view than ours."

Except for the Jews... kill them. And then the Christians, they're as bad as the Jews, when you think about it. And the atheists. And the LGB people. I guess what I'm saying is kill everyone who holds a different view than ours. -- you know which group thinks this

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 07:37 AM (ExV1e)

50 "ISWYDT, LOL
Posted by: Smell the Glove"

I should probably stop now.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 07:38 AM (vFG9F)

51 SDA/Democrat affordability means lowering out-of-pocket prices by shifting costs to government. Whether the topic is health care, housing, childcare, education, or energy, the approach is the same: subsidies, mandates, price caps, and public-sector expansion.

Also notice that this creates the need for an admin head and jobs (read spoils) to create more SDA/Democrat voters.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 15, 2025 07:24 AM (gbOdA)

Which is why people who pay no taxes should not get a vote.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 07:38 AM (ExV1e)

52 How can there be a legal injury in removing a citizen of Somalia, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Mexico, or any other country, from the U.S.?

The invaders and their Demonic Party sponsors didn't care at all about laws and "due process" when sneaking across the border, overstaying visas, or lying about asylum.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 07:40 AM (nCgQz)

53 Israeli foreign minister Gideon Sa’ar noted in a post on X that the words "Jews," "Antisemitism," and "Terror" were nowhere to be found in Albanese’s statement. In another post, Sa’ar said Sunday’s shooting represented "the results of the anti-Semitic rampage in the streets of Australia over the past two years, with the anti-Semitic and inciting calls of ‘Globalise the Intifada’ that were realized today."
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And, inexplicably, Manhattan Jews voted in Mamdani

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 07:40 AM (qncWG)

54 A more accurate translation of “My god can beat up your god” after they get all stabby or ‘splodey would be helpful too.

Some of our purported leaders surrendered long ago, they never had the courage to admit it publicly, you kinda hafta put the dots together yerself. Not too tough, but everyone learns at their own pace, I always say.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 15, 2025 07:40 AM (A4VG5)

55 reiner was a piece of shit, rich, progressive, and a assho;e to boot.

I will not be like others because he, ENTERTAINED ME,
beeeotthes be knobbing his job but the hell if I will.

rest in hell.

Posted by: not me, ever at December 15, 2025 07:41 AM (YBgFH)

56 If Rob Reiner said it was evil, is it socially acceptable to make fun of Jimmy Kimmel when he dies?
Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 07:32 AM (G9Pnv)

You do you. While I shall not mourn the eventual passing of Kimmel, neither shall I dance on any graves.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 07:41 AM (ExV1e)

57 Thanks, JJ!

"The new rules apply to everyone."

I think it was Schlichter who said " there is either one rule for everyone, or there are no rules"
and for a long time I have said "the aggressor sets the ROE"

that said, I'm'a go all "types - deletes" with my opinions this morning.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 07:41 AM (Cjt/F)

58 The Muslims figured out that the way to domination is through the west's various political structures. They hold more than a handful of elected positions in the UK. That has worked out well for them there.

They hold more than a couple here too.

Minnesota is a glimpse into what awaits the US if they're allowed to wield real political power at the national level.

Let's take a guess at what awaits NYC....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2025 07:41 AM (NwnyJ)

59 The Bondi Beach terrorists had six guns they legally owned. I expect Australia will react by implementing more gun laws and sucking more Islamic ass.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 07:43 AM (vFG9F)

60 "The Muslims figured out that the way to domination is through the west's various political structures."

No different than the Communists.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 07:44 AM (VnsnO)

61 oh, yeah, and how 'bout a second wrong-guy arrested for the Brown massacre? LOL, pitiful incompetence + gun-free campus = guilty as sin, free as a bird.

*spit*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 07:44 AM (Cjt/F)

62 42 Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 07:31 AM (tOcjL)

And...you entirely missed the point.

The new rules apply to everyone. Read Alinsky.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 07:33 AM (n9ltV)

Alinksy is not my guide to reaching the afterlife.

We don't need to apply the rules to an utter family tragedy.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 07:44 AM (tOcjL)

63 45, LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 07:46 AM (Cjt/F)

64 What is a real tragedy is Breitbart has one less celebrity to quote every f'n day.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 07:46 AM (vFG9F)

65 Minnesota is a glimpse into what awaits the US if they're allowed to wield real political power at the national level.

Let's take a guess at what awaits NYC....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2025 07:41 AM (NwnyJ)

Just look at Dearborn MI and the surrounding areas.

The LGBTQ crowd there learned really quickly what happens when they ally themselves with and then and vote for the Muslim.

They'd have seen it coming in 20/20 if they weren't so blinded by their own ideological bullshit.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 07:47 AM (6ydKt)

66 Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 07:44 AM (tOcjL)

I agree with you. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 07:47 AM (PFs9e)

67 I still don't know how Islam became 'Peace'.

--

I can't reconcile anything "peaceful" about the Islamic religion. I never could. And I never understood those ridiculous words, "religion of peace." They are the antithesis of peace. They are a hateful, brutal and very deadly form of politics tied to a so-called religion.

(Although I'm no religious scholar, nor do I play one on TV.)

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 15, 2025 07:47 AM (qBdHI)

68 Legendary director Rob Reiner, wife found stabbed to death in LA home, son eyed as person of interest.

Somehow, it was Trump's fault. These people all want to be martyrs sacrificed to the Orange Man Bad.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 15, 2025 07:48 AM (MZ+PY)

69 Greenfield is spot-on.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 07:49 AM (Cjt/F)

70 Rob Reiner and his wife being murdered by their son is a tragedy
If Rob Reiner and his wife had been killed because of leftist policies , well then the response is "we told you"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 07:49 AM (D+mpw)

71 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.”

Mark 12:29

Posted by: Marcus T at December 15, 2025 07:50 AM (PM/iv)

72

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at December 15, 2025 07:50 AM (DDJSl)

73 Legendary director Rob Reiner, wife found stabbed to death in LA home, son eyed as person of interest

When I read this sort of story, I don't want to be reminded of the words that he used against his ideological enemies for there is no fruit in doing that.

No one should have to die like this in their own home.

Yet it is a Fallen World filled with reprobates so it also shouldn't be a surprise.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 07:50 AM (rgGn5)

74 I don't see how this any of this works out for us if we can't get to the point that democrat mayors and governors and all their surrogates are arrested for violating federal immigration laws and we find judges who won't dismiss the cases.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 07:50 AM (VnsnO)

75 "On that cold shot of reality, I do want to wish my fellow Jews and all of you a Happy Hanukkah in spite of the horror over the weekend and take comfort in that the lights of the season should and must inspire our faith that we will ultimately be delivered from darkness and that the evil we face will be defeated."

From your lips to His ears, JJ!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 07:51 AM (Cjt/F)

76 Good morning dear horde and happy birthday JJ

Hapoy Chanukah morons

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hnds at December 15, 2025 07:52 AM (9ipOP)

77
Legendary director Rob Reiner, wife found stabbed to death in LA home, son eyed as person of interest.

Not Archie?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 07:52 AM (tgvbd)

78 "The Muslims figured out that the way to domination is through the west's various political structures."

No different than the Communists.

They salute their same commander, Stan.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 07:52 AM (rgGn5)

79 Suspect In Brown University Shooting In Custody
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This is out of date, right? The man they labeled a "person of interest" has since been released.

Presumably, the shooter is hundreds of miles away by now.

My wife participates in a college counseling chat group and one person on the chat associated with Brown said the shooter shouted antisemitic statements as he killed and wounded. I suppose that is nothing more than a rumor at this point but it might also come to be more substantive.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 07:52 AM (pzoNl)

80 Rob reiner is dead?

Too bad he seemed such a nice fellow. Best of luck on future endeavors.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 15, 2025 07:53 AM (i0Hi3)

81 59 The Bondi Beach terrorists had six guns they legally owned. I expect Australia will react by implementing more gun laws and sucking more Islamic ass.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 07:43 AM (vFG9F)

All semi-automatics have been banned since at least 1997.

Pistols are allowed but you need to go through a rectal exam to get one.

That's why the terrorists were using bolt-action rifles and shotguns.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 07:54 AM (6ydKt)

82 The media is claiming the guy who disarmed one of the Australian mass shooters ad Muslim and Palestinian.
Ummm no.
Syriac Maronite Christian.
A Palestinian would likely have tried to help.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at December 15, 2025 07:54 AM (u6mFE)

83 So, wait, the Brown military suspect didn't actually do it? That's a big oopsie by police...

So, they just took the 1st former military guy with mental illness and ran with that? Til it was wrong?

Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 07:54 AM (tOcjL)

84 78, there it is in a proverbial nutshell.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 15, 2025 07:54 AM (Cjt/F)

85 Meathead...dead from the neck up.

And down.

Posted by: Zombie Archie Bunker at December 15, 2025 07:54 AM (FGMmt)

86
The LGBTQ crowd there learned really quickly what happens when they ally themselves with and then and vote for the Muslim.

They'd have seen it coming in 20/20 if they weren't so blinded by their own ideological bullshit.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 07:47 AM (6ydKt)

The Tudeh supported Khomeini's return and takeover in Iran. A few years later they were all dead or fled. Von Papen said in January, 1933, "We purchased Hitler!" The next year, his aides were all murdered.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 07:55 AM (tgvbd)

87 So, they just took the 1st former military guy with mental illness and ran with that? Til it was wrong?
Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 07:54 AM (tOcjL)

They're scrambling. I sense a serious narrative engineering crisis.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 07:55 AM (VnsnO)

88 Why does the woman president of Brown University still have her job today?

Posted by: I gotta ask at December 15, 2025 07:56 AM (2Ez/1)

89 Why shouldn’t we go ahead and take potshots at Rob Reiner’s death the way the left made snide comments about Charlie Kirk’s?
Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 07:26 AM (G9Pnv)

Because I don't care about Rob Reiner? Sure, he said things meant to insult and demean me and my beliefs, but he's now paying for them.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 15, 2025 07:56 AM (uQesX)

90 The New South Wales Fag Force commissioner should also resign.

It was a summer Sunday in a major international tourist destination packed with people.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 07:56 AM (9ipOP)

91 I don't see how this any of this works out for us if we can't get to the point that democrat mayors and governors and all their surrogates are arrested for violating federal immigration laws and we find judges who won't dismiss the cases.

Its even worse than that. The GOP has decided to pitch in with the Demonic Party to guarantee Leftist Sanctuary States where Leftists can commit every evil deed under the sun without any fear of justice by maintaining the Blue Slip tradition.

What makes it even worse is that Blue Slip even removes the Process is the Punishment due to it denying Justice oriented US Attorneys in favor of lawless "prosecutors".

The GOP voter base is transactional and the Party is not providing a quid pro quo for the votes of We The People.

Blue wave 2026. No matter how wicked and depraved the Demonic Party is, the GOP doesn't even offer token resistance.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 07:57 AM (nCgQz)

92 When did lawsuits, either the feds against the states, or the reverse, become a thing? Because it sounds pretty weak.

Where are the arrests? It’s just astonishing to watch the “heads we win tails you lose” amazing self-licking ice cream cone,

1. the “law” sez only the federal national government has jurisdiction over illegal aliens

And

2. It has largely refused to do so.

3. If a new elected by the people in landslide victiry says “Hey, let’s enforce our laws passed by the congress! some clown in a robe declares “you can’t do that”. Does this sound even halfway sane?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 15, 2025 07:57 AM (A4VG5)

93 Last week of classes (Finals Week). All I have left to do is grade the final assignments and I'm DONE. But that probably won't happen until next weekend because my students like to procrastinate.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 07:13 AM (ESVrU)

Why don't you tell your students you're locking your mailbox and if the work isn't received by such and such a date and time, they'll get a F?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 15, 2025 07:58 AM (uQesX)

94
Why shouldn’t we go ahead and take potshots at Rob Reiner’s death the way the left made snide comments about Charlie Kirk’s?
Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 07:26 AM (G9Pnv)

It may be the eventual death of me, but de mortuis nil nisi bonum. Trade not evil for evil.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 07:58 AM (tgvbd)

95 Because I don't care about Rob Reiner? Sure, he said things meant to insult and demean me and my beliefs, but he's now paying for them.

Yeah, the Spirit World plays for keeps.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 07:58 AM (nCgQz)

96 Mornin’, All. Happy Monday.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 07:58 AM (77rzZ)

97 They're scrambling. I sense a serious narrative engineering crisis.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 07:55 AM (VnsnO)
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This so obviously

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 07:59 AM (9ipOP)

98 I can't reconcile anything "peaceful" about the Islamic religion. I never could. And I never understood those ridiculous words, "religion of peace." They are the antithesis of peace. They are a hateful, brutal and very deadly form of politics tied to a so-called religion.

(Although I'm no religious scholar, nor do I play one on TV.)

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 15, 2025 07:47 AM (qBdHI)

It's a religion invented by a slightly crazy Bedouin brigand who decided to take revenge on everybody who thought he was nuts.

And he's the man every Muslim is supposed to emulate.

Recipe for disaster that took over a quarter of the world through conquest.

The only comparable religion I can think of is Scientology and I'm just thankful L. Ron Hubbard just wanted to bilk gullible people of stacks of cash instead of building an army.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 07:59 AM (6ydKt)

99 29 The left means to win.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 15, 2025 07:25 AM (3uBP9)

Winning is secondary. Honestly, they've already won. That's why they can kill at will and get away with it.

The killing is the part the left gets off on most.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:00 AM (UnA8+)

100 Why don't you tell your students you're locking your mailbox and if the work isn't received by such and such a date and time, they'll get a F?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 15, 2025 07:58 AM (uQesX)
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That is basically what I told them. No late work after 11:59 pm on Friday, December 19.

Though now that you mention it, I should set up the Assignments in Canvas to enforce that rule. Right now, they are still open-ended.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:01 AM (ESVrU)

101 A college friend of mine, who became a federal prosecutor in Richmond, was similarly murdered by his own son. The young man was (and is) seriously
mentally ill, obviously, as is the Reiner son. Drug addiction is horrible.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:01 AM (AhYe1)

102 Syriac Maronite Christian.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at December 15, 2025 07:54 AM (u6mFE)

This makes far more sense.

Do you have a link for this info?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 08:01 AM (n9ltV)

103 oof.

>>@TheInsiderPaper
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>>JUST IN - Rob Reiner and Wife Michele Had Throats Slit By Family Member During Argument — TMZ

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:02 AM (viF8m)

104 I watched the video of the Bondi Beach massacre, where the one shooter is atop a viaduct, shooting, shooting, and shooting some more. You here sirens in the background but no help arriving. Who the fuck do the cops in Oz think they are, the Broward County Sheriff's Department or the Uvalde cops?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 15, 2025 08:02 AM (gm9Sb)

105 No matter how wicked and depraved the Demonic Party is, the GOP doesn't even offer token resistance.

The GOP would rather be out of power and helpless. They can spread their hands and say "What can we do?"

The Democrats, on the other hand, are evil driven and supported by evil. Their voters are driven solely by hatred, which is why they ally themselves with moslems.

The only reason to vote for the GOP is to vote against the Dems, and that's becoming a reason without foundation.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 15, 2025 08:02 AM (WPL6O)

106 “ And the Lord said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”

Exodus 33:19

I could quote about 80 times in both the Old and New Testament where God commands us to have compassion. It’s up to each and every one of us how we pursue that, for “ “Do not judge, or you too will be judged”.

That is what separates us from other side.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 15, 2025 08:03 AM (PM/iv)

107 It should be a requirement that all Muslims be gang banged by the men of al-Zutt. See how faithful they are.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 08:03 AM (D+mpw)

108 The Tudeh supported Khomeini's return and takeover in Iran. A few years later they were all dead or fled. Von Papen said in January, 1933, "We purchased Hitler!" The next year, his aides were all murdered.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 07:55 AM (tgvbd)

It's like some people just love being lied to as long as the liar says they agree with them on politics.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 08:03 AM (6ydKt)

109 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at December 15, 2025 08:04 AM (I2M9E)

110 I have a mezuzah on my door.
I lit my menorah last night.

I live in a good place. It's still civilized. I don't take that for granted but even with my civilized surroundings, I still felt a moment of trepidation. Just a moment, but it was the first time. It is not yet no time to be Jewish in America, but it could very, very easily get there. If I were in Baltimore or Dearborn, I may well have made different choices.

Happy Hannukah to the Jewish hordelings, and I hope Advent is going well for the gentiles!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:04 AM (azrRX)

111 NBC "News" latest on Brown:
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What we know

A manhunt is underway after two people were killed and nine others wounded in a mass shooting at Brown University's campus in Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday.
One of the victims fatally shot on Saturday was named as Ella Cook, vice president of Brown College Republicans chapter.
Officials have emphasized the investigation is moving quickly, with evidence being collected by multiple agencies, but they are not yet confirming details that could compromise the case.
The man earlier detained as a person of interest was set to be released last night because the evidence no longer supported holding him, officials said.
Brown has cancelled its remaining fall semester classes and the shooting has reignited the debate over gun control and how to protect college students before and during mass shootings.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:05 AM (Xi8/k)

112 Winning is secondary. Honestly, they've already won. That's why they can kill at will and get away with it.

The killing is the part the left gets off on most.
Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:00 AM (UnA8+)
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Killing begets more killing. The entire history of religious and ideological war demonstrates that, and it's *very* hard to break that cycle.

But this time will be different, I'm sure.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:05 AM (azrRX)

113 Rob Reiner was a leftist but I never heard him say anything that would make me think he didn't love this country.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:06 AM (9ipOP)

114 The GOP would rather be out of power and helpless. They can spread their hands and say "What can we do?"

That red neck Alabama senator "Coach" in an X post commented that someone ought to do something.

My initial though was: "Is this a legally safe way to incite vigilantism? Because Senator, YOU LITERALLY ARE IN A POSITION TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT if you only cared to do your damned job rather than post to social media that people outside of power need to do something that you refuse to do."

Dittos with Mike Lee, Ted Cruz et al. They love to puff out their chest and say "SOMEONE NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING" as if being members of the world's most exclusive legislative club are completely helpless as the minority party gets everything they want.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:07 AM (KhyP1)

115 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:07 AM (Zz0t1)

116
♫ whistles ♫

https://youtu.be/bf4x36XKhsM?si=F2PDKHHpdXGMNsVL

Posted by: Dick Chance at December 15, 2025 08:08 AM (eE4Su)

117 What happened to the Reiners was horrible, politics be damned. I refuse to let politics deprive me of humanity like the left does.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 08:08 AM (77rzZ)

118 113 Rob Reiner was a leftist but I never heard him say anything that would make me think he didn't love this country.
Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:06 AM (9ipOP)

All I can say is RIP.. More than that will get me in trouble

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 08:08 AM (VE6XX)

119 Know islham, no peace.

No islham, know peace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:08 AM (Zz0t1)

120 112 But this time will be different, I'm sure.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:05 AM (azrRX)

I think they also bank on the whole idea of "The Right believes their souls are forfeit if they were to fight back", and can use that as part of Alinsky Rule #4.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:08 AM (UnA8+)

121 ...Brown has cancelled its remaining fall semester classes and the shooting has reignited the debate over gun control and how to protect college students before and during mass shootings.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:05 AM (Xi8/k)
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Kill a non-prog, get a few days off and further disarmament of your enemies.

Pretty good deal, by the looks of it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:08 AM (azrRX)

122 What would you recommend they do?

Posted by: Ok, I'll ask at December 15, 2025 08:09 AM (2Ez/1)

123 Reiner loved this country because it allowed him to get rich and spew his leftist socialist commie BS without persecution.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 08:09 AM (vFG9F)

124 Legendary director Rob Reiner, wife found stabbed to death in LA home, son eyed as person of interest
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Absent any other information, it smells like love/hate, money or both.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:10 AM (azrRX)

125 113 Rob Reiner was a leftist but I never heard him say anything that would make me think he didn't love this country.
Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:06 AM (9ipOP)

Didn't stop him from voting for people who openly hated the country.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:10 AM (UnA8+)

126 Reiner murder. I'm going with the 48 hour rule, but if I had to give a theory I would say the kid and he got them in their sleep. Reiner might have been 78 years old, but he was one big guy who could probably put up a fight defending his wife and self. The kid probably has unfettered access to the house.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 15, 2025 08:10 AM (gm9Sb)

127 Brown has cancelled its remaining fall semester classes

Refund tuition money? How will end of semester exams work? For those who were scheduled to graduate at the end of fall, how does this work for them?

Back to "Covid" protocols that they had years to rehearse and dial in?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:10 AM (KhyP1)

128

As far as I'm concerned, the Reiner story doesn't interest me.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2025 08:11 AM (x0n13)

129 I think they also bank on the whole idea of "The Right believes their souls are forfeit if they were to fight back", and can use that as part of Alinsky Rule #4.
Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:08 AM (UnA8+)
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That never made any sense to me. "Turn the other cheek" doesn't mean "be a doormat" or "let people enslave, torture or murder you."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:11 AM (azrRX)

130 A mother of one of the Hamas victims, a man who was murdered during his captivity, wrote an piece in Free Press yesterday saying she recently saw video of her son while a hostage lighting a Chanukah candle along with other hostages. It was difficult to read her essay.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:11 AM (Xi8/k)

131 Islam has declared war on West. Will various political dupes ever acknowledge that?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 08:12 AM (8CIFn)

132 The thing I noticed about the media (spit) coverage of the Bondi beach massacre is they went out of their way to say that the hero who grabbed the gun away from one of the attackers was a muslim…. That’s great, he’s a good guy who did a good thing. But in the same story they avoid mentioning that the two murders were motivated by their muslim religion to carry out the attack. It’s frustrating… that religion only gets mentioned in a positive light

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:12 AM (/iXAp)

133 131 Islam has declared war on West. Will various political dupes ever acknowledge that?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 08:12 AM (8CIFn)

"We can't hear you, all this Qatari cash is plugging up our ears!"

--Politicians and Pundits

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:13 AM (UnA8+)

134 There are about seven times more Muslims in Australia than Jews, and the median age of the Muslim population is over a decade younger than that of the Jewish population.

Albanese knows which side of the jihad his bread is buttered on.

Posted by: Peter B at December 15, 2025 08:13 AM (VTbl0)

135 Kill a non-prog, get a few days off and further disarmament of your enemies.

Pretty good deal, by the looks of it.

As they say: assassinations work. Who replaced Lincoln, JFK, King, Kirk? Who would have replaced Trump?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:13 AM (a6PrB)

136 Dittos with Mike Lee, Ted Cruz et al. They love to puff out their chest and say "SOMEONE NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING" as if being members of the world's most exclusive legislative club are completely helpless as the minority party gets everything they want.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:07 AM (KhyP1)
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Gavin does this too. I call it the "Who Me?" Style of governance.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:13 AM (9ipOP)

137 "the hero who grabbed the gun away from one of the attackers was a muslim"

Turns out...he's not.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 08:13 AM (vFG9F)

138 132 The thing I noticed about the media (spit) coverage of the Bondi beach massacre is they went out of their way to say that the hero who grabbed the gun away from one of the attackers was a muslim…. That’s great, he’s a good guy who did a good thing. But in the same story they avoid mentioning that the two murders were motivated by their muslim religion to carry out the attack. It’s frustrating… that religion only gets mentioned in a positive light
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:12 AM (/iXAp)

Media was also wrong about hero being a Muslim. He was not, but they went by skin color.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 08:14 AM (tOcjL)

139 138 Media was also wrong about hero being a Muslim. He was not, but they went by skin color.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 08:14 AM (tOcjL)

And now that the lie is out there to act as an "official source", the Left can point to it and reference it endlessly.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:15 AM (UnA8+)

140

Media:

"Pam Bondi responsible for massacre on her beach!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2025 08:15 AM (x0n13)

141 Rob Reiner was a leftist but I never heard him say anything that would make me think he didn't love this country.
Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:06 AM (9ipOP)
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My take exactly. As I said earlier, a similar thing happened to a college friend. Drug addiction and homelessness are tough things for families to deal with.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:15 AM (0ChAx)

142 Islam has declared war on West. Will various political dupes ever acknowledge that?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 08:12 AM (8CIFn)

No.

Posted by: George Bush The Living at December 15, 2025 08:16 AM (FGMmt)

143 The man that grabbed the gun from the Bondi Beach assassin was of Middle East ancestry. Not necessarily a Muzzie. Now, if I was a PR person for the Oz police, I wouldn't be too keen about giving out the guy's name and details. They may have painted a bullseye on his back.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 15, 2025 08:17 AM (gm9Sb)

144 From the Christian Biblical website "Got questions" on "What does it mean to turn the other cheek"

Turning the other cheek does not imply pacifism, nor does it mean we place ourselves or others in danger. Jesus’ command to turn the other cheek is simply a command to forgo retaliation for personal offenses. He was not setting government foreign policy, and He was not throwing out the judicial system. Crimes can still be prosecuted, and wars can still be waged, but the follower of Christ need not defend his personal “rights” or avenge his honor.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 08:17 AM (rZCVI)

145 News reports describe Nick Reiner as a screenwriter. IMDB has one credit for him. A movie directed by Rob Reiner. "Being Charlie." The plot. "A would-be governor's addicted son goes down the long, rough road of rehab, fighting against recovery every inch of the way."

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at December 15, 2025 08:17 AM (ofJjy)

146 Today is National Cupcake Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:17 AM (NpAcC)

147 I prefer to remember Rob Reiner from this classic sock and a sock, shoe and a shoe sketch, which, as I understand it, was largely ad libbed:

https://youtu.be/prRtcQz8Uqk

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 15, 2025 08:17 AM (2Ez/1)

148 ABC news first announced the killings in Australia but didn't mention the fact that Jews were targeted. After a humongous on line denunciation only then did they mention that it was Jews being targeted. You can't hate the media enough

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 08:17 AM (D+mpw)

149 Chile held a democratic (spit!) election and the "right wing" candidate, Jose Antonio Kast, won with 58% of the vote. (He is going to be president 100% of the time, so I guess 42% of the population will be disenfranchised.)

From the NYT:

"Mr. Kast, a stern father of nine with deep ideological roots in conservative Catholicism and economic neoliberalism, belongs to a global right-wing movement that has risen to power around the world by prioritizing strict law and order and sealing borders."

Then they describe his opponent thusly:

"With over 98 percent of the ballots counted, Mr. Kast had more than 58 percent of the vote, a resounding victory over Jeannette Jara, the candidate for the center-left and a member of the Communist Party of Chile, who had about 42 percent."

That's right, the communists are center left now.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 08:17 AM (2ap+5)

150 Media was also wrong about hero being a Muslim. He was not, but they went by skin color.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 08:14 AM (tOcjL)

Of course he’s not. Good grief is the media useless and worse than useless. The lie is out there and I bought it. Disgusting

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:18 AM (/iXAp)

151 Biden allowed thousands of military aged men from the Middle East into the country including many known to have terrorist ties. Muslims are known to attack on Christian and Jewish holidays particularly at large gatherings.

Be very careful of your surroundings during the holidays and particularly if you are attending large, crowded events.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:18 AM (viF8m)

152 Will the ruling class rule forever?
Aristocracy, Meritocracy, Technocracy, and Revolution
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That was really bad. He was just making it up as he went. Note there was no actual history cited, merely a just so story about a "ruling class" ruling forever. I did notice that someone in the comments cited the cycle theory dating to Plato, but without seeming to realize it undercut the article.

I'm tired of such things. I think people nod along, and fail to question. Think, is it really the same ruling class today as it was 200 years ago? Because that's what Shurk is really saying.

These writers always fail to take account of the amount of chaos in every society. Time and chance happeneth to them all.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 08:18 AM (s0JqF)

153 Trans-identifying lawyer Chase Strangio couldn’t present a coherent definition of ‘sex’ without resorting to feelings and ideological babble.
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That's the trans lawyer's name? Seriously?!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:18 AM (0ChAx)

154 How Feminism Became The Biggest Pagan Megachurch In The World
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It has a good hook. "Command the world!" appeals to some and "Yeah, baby, you CAN have it all!" appeals to the rest. In the absence of any actual faith, it can slide in nicely. Then it can go crazy, like engaging in literal demonic idol worship - and get positive press coverage doing it.

My favorite ever example of this came from Denver. A feminist Lutheran (I didn't know that was a thing) "pastor" called for young Christian feminists to send her their "purity rings" (a virtue signal that the girl is waiting for marriage) so she could melt them down and reform them into a status of a pussy on a throne of fire. No, I'm not kidding. Melting down symbols of chastity to make an icon of a fiery chaunch made even me - a young non-Christian man - say to himself, "oh, so you're *definitely* a demon."

And again, this happened. On this planet. http://tiny.cc/x7gw001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:19 AM (azrRX)

155 150 Media was also wrong about hero being a Muslim. He was not, but they went by skin color.
Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 08:14 AM (tOcjL)

Of course he’s not. Good grief is the media useless and worse than useless. The lie is out there and I bought it. Disgusting
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:18 AM (/iXAp)

He's a type of Christian, so you now have the fact to spread.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 08:19 AM (tOcjL)

156 Rob Reiner was a piece of shit. He may not've openly hated this country, but he hated me and everyone that thinks like me.

For that, I will not mourn his departure, but will do my duty and pray for mercy on his soul.

I'll give him more than he gave me in that regard.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:19 AM (Zz0t1)

157 “ “Do not judge, or you too will be judged”.

That is the Evangelical perversion of the passage.

Our LORD says that in the manner you judge others, you too will be judged. Think: Moat vs Beam in the eye.

We are going to be judged regardless of whether we have "judged" someone else.

Furthermore, how can we be judges if we can't administer a verdict and be able effectively declare guilt or innocence? Only the Great Judge can. Are you saying that Christians should never take up the role of a civil authority judge?

We are told to be fruit inspectors, which does include having a discerning eye towards others.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:20 AM (a6PrB)

158 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 08:20 AM (QVuuq)

159 "...and the shooting has reignited the debate over gun control"

Oh FFS. Has the "debate" ever been unignited? Allow students of age to conceal-carry and school shootings end. Currently these schools are "All-You-Can-Shoot" buffets.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 08:20 AM (VnsnO)

160 Brown's security is unimpressive.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 15, 2025 08:21 AM (rJ48h)

161 It is totally flabbergasting how people on TV are refusing to say that hero was Christian.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:21 AM (9ipOP)

162 Yeah. If you don't want to honor your father or mother, you just move away and never call.

Killing them definitely violates the spirit of the Ten Commandments.

Posted by: no one at December 15, 2025 08:21 AM (W7XSX)

163 I barely remember Reiner as Meathead, that show was on and off the air before I could read.

But I certainly appreciate several of his films.

I have to look at Reiner the same way I look at Michael Jackson; a very talented individual whom I admired for their creative output but had to shake my head and stare in disbelief at everything else they said or did.
It's why I gave up Hero Worship a long, long, time ago.

No matter how much I couldn't stand Rob's mouth, he certainly didn't deserve his fate at the hands of his own son.

It's karma possibly, but that's all way above my pay-grade, so I'm going to let God sort it out.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 08:21 AM (6ydKt)

164 Rob Reiner was a leftist but I never heard him say anything that would make me think he didn't love this country.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:06 AM (9ipOP)

I am paraphrasing..."We are less than one year from a full-on autocracy."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 08:22 AM (n9ltV)

165 I have read that the hero of Bondi is a Maronite Christian.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 08:22 AM (8CIFn)

166 That article about why the climate change movement appears to be falling apart mentions the real reason towards the end, but should have focused on it completely - in the US, the money for promoting climate change has run out. It was *never* a true grassroots movement, it was always pushed by those oligarchs and politicians who were making massive amounts of money from the scam. Suddenly the oligarchs and corporate leaders realize this will kill their new AI dreams, plus Trump has cut off all the political money that Biden was pumping out.
The game is over.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:23 AM (k5cxK)

167 I think it's time to ask some super patriotic questions.

As an American megapatriot, I love the people of Australia. Do you know how many people live in Australia? Well, if you're on AIPAC's payroll, you probably don't know this important fact, but it's about 28 million.

28 million Australians shouldn't have to suffer for Israel, should they? Or so that one small group of people can control the government in Canberra, should they? I don't know, it seems ridiculous to me, but maybe it makes to *some* people HAHAHAHAHA.

These are just questions - patriotic questions. Someone has to ask questions, even if a small group of people won't pay for those questions.

Posted by: TC (Tiny Cock) at December 15, 2025 08:23 AM (eE4Su)

168 The leaders in the 2025 launch race:

165 SpaceX (a new record)
83 China
16 Rocket Lab (a new record)
15 Russia

SpaceX now leads the rest of the world in successful launches, 165 to 136.

More significantly, with these two launches the total number of successful orbital launches in 2025 has now exceeded 300, for a present total of 301. To put the spectacular nature of this number in perspective, until 2020 it was rare for the world to exceed 100 launches in a year, especially after the fall of the Soviet Union. Most often, the total each year ranged between 50 to 80 launches.

Those numbers are now history, and it has been competition and freedom that has made all the difference.
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Well said.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:23 AM (0ChAx)

169 How Feminism Became The Biggest Pagan Megachurch In The World

And through abortion their body is a temple - An Aztec Temple.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:23 AM (U4c/V)

170 Islam has declared war on West. Will various political dupes ever acknowledge that?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 08:12 AM (8CIFn)
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Not quite. From its incept, it declared war on the world. It's going after the West now because it's the softest target. Why attack a strong tree when there's a hollowed-out one you can almost just push over first? Once it finishes digesting the West, it can go after the next target which, older and weaker, will then be an easier target than it is today.

And Western political leadeship? LOL.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:23 AM (azrRX)

171 161 It is totally flabbergasting how people on TV are refusing to say that hero was Christian.
Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:21 AM (9ipOP)

More like predictable, but no less contemptible.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 08:23 AM (VnsnO)

172 It's also ...
National Cat Herders Day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:24 AM (NpAcC)

173 149 That's right, the communists are center left now.
Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 08:17 AM (2ap+5)

They're The Center of Leftist Ideology.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:24 AM (UnA8+)

174 Either TuCa or some other Qatari agent posting "questions" at 167

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:25 AM (0ChAx)

175 I have read that the hero of Bondi is a Maronite Christian.

You will never read that again. The gas lighters will say that you hallucinated it.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:25 AM (U4c/V)

176 My favorite ever example of this came from Denver. A feminist Lutheran (I didn't know that was a thing) "pastor"

Pro tip: There aren't.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 15, 2025 08:25 AM (uQesX)

177 Reiner was a talented film maker and also a vile person. I didn't like him but he is not an issue in my life anymore. I don't think he and his wife deserved their end and I don't celebrate it. I will leave it up to God to decide on his soul. I've got more pressing problems here on earth.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:26 AM (viF8m)

178 I've seen photos of one of the Bondi shooters who was clearly visible. I don't know why police didn't put him down.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 08:26 AM (8CIFn)

179 ... but should have focused on it completely - in the US, the money for promoting climate change has run out. It was *never* a true grassroots movement, it was always pushed by those oligarchs and politicians who were making massive amounts of money from the scam. ...
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:23 AM (k5cxK)
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It was a top-down scam from the jump, run first by communists and then by all flavors of tyrant-worship. It was supposed to *become* popular through indoctrination and propaganda. This has been at least partially successful among the youth, who grew up entirely within a propaganda environment. There are a lot of "climate change" and "eco"-anything true believers out there, especially in the under-40 and under-30 crowds.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:27 AM (azrRX)

180 Too bad I could no recognize a palestenian state right after the Bondi massacre. so sad.

Posted by: Anthony Albanese at December 15, 2025 08:27 AM (g47mK)

181 170 Islam has declared war on West. Will various political dupes ever acknowledge that?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 08:12 AM (8CIFn)

I had rather thought that flying hijacked jets into our financial and populational center and slaughtering 3000 of our citizens would have forced that acknowledgment. But apparently I was wrong.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 08:27 AM (VnsnO)

182 That's right, the communists are center left now.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 08:17 AM (2ap+5)

It's even worse in the EU.
There the socialists are center-right.

The far right is anybody who believes their country shouldn't be part of the Islamo-Communist Caliphate.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 08:27 AM (6ydKt)

183 It's also ...
National Cat Herders Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:24 AM (NpAcC)
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That can't possibly be a real thing.

If anyone successfully managed to herd cats, it would be celebrated as one of the greatest achievements of mankind, right up there with sliced bread.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:27 AM (ESVrU)

184 Not a fan of Reiner's politics but that's irrelevant today
Spinal Tap and The Princess Bride are great bits of movie making. RIP
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 07:20 AM (D+mpw)
*****
Definitely not a fan of his politics.
I did like A Few Good Men and When Harry Met Sally.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:28 AM (NpAcC)

185 I've seen photos of one of the Bondi shooters who was clearly visible. I don't know why police didn't put him down.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 08:26 AM (8CIFn)

I'm still shocked that the man that showed some significantly sized balls took the weapon from one and didn't use it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

186 When did lawsuits, either the feds against the states, or the reverse, become a thing? Because it sounds pretty weak.

The 1970s? Maybe earlier. None of this is new. Half the 'laws' and regulations we have at the federal level today were put in place via strategic lawsuits, usually accompanied by equally strategic losses by government lawyers who didn't want to win the case.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 08:28 AM (ExV1e)

187 National Cat Herders Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:24 AM (NpAcC)
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I took Boy F. to the cat cafe yesterday he did a great job.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:28 AM (9ipOP)

188 Be very careful of your surroundings during the holidays and particularly if you are attending large, crowded events.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:18 AM (viF8m)
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Excellent advice.

Also, buy ammo. You may need it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:28 AM (0ChAx)

189 If you are urging women to send in their purity rings to melt them down so you can make a statue to vaginas and fire you have vehemently declared yourself a Pagan and not part of Christianity.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 08:28 AM (rZCVI)

190 That's the trans lawyer's name? Seriously?!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:18 AM (0ChAx)

Yep. He,she, it, I don’t know and don’t care, was in charge of the big case that went to SCOTUS a year or so ago that was, they thought, going to impose tranny views on everything. He lost, miserably.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:29 AM (k5cxK)

191 I'm still shocked that the man that showed some significantly sized balls took the weapon from one and didn't use it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)
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While under fire

????

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:29 AM (9ipOP)

192 Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:28 AM (9ipOP)

What is a cat cafe?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (rZCVI)

193 Posted by: TC at December 15, 2025 08:23 AM (eE4Su)

Hey everyone, lookie.

stormfront has arrived!

Posted by: eff off at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (YBgFH)

194 Either TuCa or some other Qatari agent posting "questions" at 167
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:25 AM (0ChAx)

Please tell me the Qatari agent is number 2600. Lie if you have to.

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (c2vsb)

195 If you are urging women to send in their purity rings to melt them down so you can make a statue to vaginas and fire you have vehemently declared yourself a Pagan and not part of Christianity.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 08:28 AM (rZCVI)
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She's a "pastor." Surely you're not questioning her self-identification?!?!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (avHHk)

196 Right on schedule.

>>@EricLDaugh
·
9m
>>🚨 JUST IN: The Australian Prime Minister is now planning EVEN MORE gun control after the Islamic terror attack in Bondi Beach.

>>Australia has some of the world's STRICTEST gun laws.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (viF8m)

197 I wonder if Norman Lear was disappointed because I think he made All in the Family to make fun of backwards six pack Joe (aka Archie) and advertise liberalism but in the end most people watched because they liked and identified with Archie most of all even while recognizing his foibles… Meathead was certainly not a likeable character but Archie was. I speculate that was not Lear’s intention…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (YobFY)

198 What is a cat cafe?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (rZCVI)
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A coffee shop without mice, I reckon.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (avHHk)

199
A manhunt is underway

_________

Whoa! Isn't that a retrograde expression? Why can't strong, independent women also be Jew-hunting killers? Indeed, should it not be a "persynhunt"?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (tgvbd)

200 It has an object of worship, which is female anatomy.

Posted by: That also works at December 15, 2025 08:31 AM (vFG9F)

201 What is a cat cafe?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (rZCVI)
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Its a store that has cats and kittens to play with. $15/half hour

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:31 AM (9ipOP)

202 I expect Australia will react by implementing more gun laws and sucking more Islamic ass."

Well of course. It's how we empathize. Or whatever the bullshiite term is now...

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 08:31 AM (XuXeR)

203 Please tell me the Qatari agent is number 2600. Lie if you have to.
Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (c2vsb)
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He's wearing his decoder ring and everything. Ask him!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:32 AM (0ChAx)

204 That can't possibly be a real thing.

If anyone successfully managed to herd cats, it would be celebrated as one of the greatest achievements of mankind, right up there with sliced bread.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:27 AM (ESVrU)

You mean those bastard ornament breakers??!! End all their nine lives!!!!11

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 15, 2025 08:32 AM (uQesX)

205 Looking forward to TJM in garish costume doing a Reiner retrospective of his films. Meathead he was, but he made some good movies that are/were very popular. RIP to both Reiners.

Posted by: Dire Wolf at December 15, 2025 08:32 AM (oftw2)

206 I wonder if Norman Lear was disappointed because I think he made All in the Family to make fun of backwards six pack Joe (aka Archie) and advertise liberalism but in the end most people watched because they liked and identified with Archie most of all even while recognizing his foibles… Meathead was certainly not a likeable character but Archie was. I speculate that was not Lear’s intention…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (YobFY)
+++++
See also: "Married With Children." Al Bundy was supposed to be a caricature, the heel that people watched at laugh *at* - not a character that people watched and laughed *with*.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:32 AM (avHHk)

207
While under fire

????
Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:29 AM (9ipOP)

He did the entire thing while under fire. I'm shocked he didn't return fire once he had their weapon in his hands.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:32 AM (Zz0t1)

208 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (avHHk)

She has not been a Christian pastor for years and her actions with some Pagan statue prove that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 08:32 AM (rZCVI)

209
I wonder if Norman Lear was disappointed because I think he made All in the Family to make fun of backwards six pack Joe (aka Archie) and advertise liberalism but in the end most people watched because they liked and identified with Archie most of all even while recognizing his foibles

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It's like The Young Pope. The writers wanted him to be some crazed throwback but viewers responded, "Pius XIII, hell yeah!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 08:32 AM (tgvbd)

210 >> A manhunt is underway

Don’t we mean a “personhunt”… we don’t wanna misgender some perp…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:33 AM (YobFY)

211 I'm still shocked that the man that showed some significantly sized balls took the weapon from one and didn't use it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:28 AM (Zz0t1)

The article I read explained that the man didn't know the first thing about guns.

It's also been stated that the rifle was empty after it went off while they were struggling over it.

I swear it looked like the man was taking a shot at the terrorist but he may have been trying to pull the trigger and got a dry fire.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 08:33 AM (6ydKt)

212
Please tell me the Qatari agent is number 2600. Lie if you have to.
Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (c2vsb)

The Atari 2600 hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

213 I speculate that was not Lear’s intention…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (YobFY)
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It was not Lear's intention. Carroll O'Connor really inhabited that role even though he too was a major leftist.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:33 AM (9ipOP)

214 Islam has declared war on West. Will various political dupes ever acknowledge that?

Well, they have. Privately. And they are actively siding with the eventual victors: Islam.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:33 AM (rgGn5)

215 "All in the Family," was a CIA propaganda OP.

Posted by: Everything Is An OP at December 15, 2025 08:34 AM (Q+gd/)

216 >>🚨 JUST IN: The Australian Prime Minister is now planning EVEN MORE gun control after the Islamic terror attack in Bondi Beach.

>>Australia has some of the world's STRICTEST gun laws.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (viF8m)
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Something tells me they are not going to be storming mosques looking for hidden armories.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:34 AM (ESVrU)

217 URI just announced that all in person exams are cancelled today. URI is about 45 minutes from Brown.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:34 AM (viF8m)

218 "166 That article about why the climate change movement appears to be falling apart mentions the real reason towards the end, but should have focused on it completely - in the US, the money for promoting climate change has run out. "

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Now do recycling.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 15, 2025 08:34 AM (2Ez/1)

219 199
A manhunt is underway

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Whoa! Isn't that a retrograde expression? Why can't strong, independent women also be Jew-hunting killers? Indeed, should it not be a "persynhunt"?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (tgvbd)

B/c they have a pic of the perp's body size and shape...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 15, 2025 08:34 AM (tOcjL)

220 The article I read explained that the man didn't know the first thing about guns.

It's also been stated that the rifle was empty after it went off while they were struggling over it.

I swear it looked like the man was taking a shot at the terrorist but he may have been trying to pull the trigger and got a dry fire.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 08:33 AM (6ydKt)

I didn't read much on it, but did watch the video. It just seemed odd that he disarmed the individual, didn't seem to do anything with the weapon other than set it down. I just found it odd to have such incredible courage, yet still accept you're likely to die at their hand.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:35 AM (Zz0t1)

221 JJ I am so sorry about what happened in Sydney. Even here in the North Shore area of Chicago Burbs, the Synagogues in Highland Park, Glencoe, and Wilmette have multiple police presence this morning. Just pure evil and insanity

Posted by: Jonah at December 15, 2025 08:35 AM (YCxFk)

222 See also: "Married With Children." Al Bundy was supposed to be a caricature, the heel that people watched at laugh *at* - not a character that people watched and laughed *with*.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:32 AM (avHHk)

Ha! Yes… I like Al Bundy…. I still chuckle when I think of that misogynist club he formed with a few friends called “No Ma’am”… they made tshirts and everything LoL

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:35 AM (YobFY)

223 That can't possibly be a real thing.

If anyone successfully managed to herd cats, it would be celebrated as one of the greatest achievements of mankind, right up there with sliced bread.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:27 AM (ESVrU)
*******
True.
The day is meant for those who can manage others and themselves no matter what chaos is thrown their way like herding cats.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:35 AM (NpAcC)

224 ----
Something tells me they are not going to be storming mosques looking for hidden armories.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:34 AM (ESVrU)

You will be arrested in Australia for even suggesting such a thing.

The stupid.......it burns.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:36 AM (Zz0t1)

225 New Yorkers have a right to a safe city.
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And homeless people have the right to attack you crossing Broadway!

Posted by: Mayor Madmani at December 15, 2025 08:36 AM (ppzWn)

226 URI just announced that all in person exams are cancelled today. URI is about 45 minutes from Brown."

Well, they just don't want the little dears to feel unsafe now, dontchaknow?

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 08:36 AM (XuXeR)

227 Well, I hope the man who might be a Syrian Christian who attacked one of the shooters has a strong, supportive religious community and they will watch his back. I'm not sure if he can get a gun in Australia.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 08:37 AM (rZCVI)

228 222 Al Bundy, man spreading on the couch, describing his day. "And then a fat woman Godzillas her way into the shoe store...".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 15, 2025 08:37 AM (gm9Sb)

229 If Aussie PM Albanese and this dimwit asshole in Pennsylvania think they're going to ride the tiger and not be eaten or perhaps nibbled on last, oh to be there when the head-choppers have the rusty hacksaw at their throats.

Actually, in Lefty circles, they talk about leopards eating faces. Trump and Republicans are represented by the "Face Eating Leopards" party, dumb rubes vote for them, and then act surprised when the leopards eat their faces.

This is almost 100% analogous. Muslims (and their holy book) make clear they will subjugate non-believers, violently if necessary, but Lefties invite them in. It's worse, though, because the Lefties never act surprised or betrayed ("why are the eating MY face?"). Instead, the excuse and deflect, "not all Muslims", "the real threat is an Islamophobic backlash", etc

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 15, 2025 08:38 AM (ycI94)

230 I'm not sure if he can get a gun in Australia."

Why would he need one? The Police will protect him...

*cues laugh track*

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 08:38 AM (XuXeR)

231 Please tell me the Qatari agent is number 2600. Lie if you have to.
Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (c2vsb)

The Atari 2600 hardest hit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:33 AM (Zz0t1)

https://youtu.be/XMFy-Iw4CcA

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:38 AM (c2vsb)

232 Calling Miller a white supremacist is a disgusting reach, and suggesting he’s akin to a Nazi is a disgraceful smear.
Bro-Fo Omar’s attacks on Stephen Miller reveal Dems' broken immigration narrative
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Disgraceful smears are all they have.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 08:38 AM (Dv3i1)

233 URI just announced that all in person exams are cancelled today. URI is about 45 minutes from Brown.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:34 AM (viF8m)
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Exams at this time of year are finals. I wonder how much additional cheating there's going to be. Exams aren't canceled, right? Just "in-person" exams? So probably replaced with COVID-protocol exams, which means everything is open-book at URI today!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:38 AM (avHHk)

234 Yes. You cannot deny Reiner's body of film work. High road, Rest in Peace

Posted by: Jonah at December 15, 2025 08:38 AM (YCxFk)

235 Either TuCa or some other Qatari agent posting "questions" at 167
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:25 AM (0ChAx)

Please tell me the Qatari agent is number 2600. Lie if you have to.
Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (c2vsb)

TC aka BurtTC. 20 year AoSHQ alumni!!

Posted by: eff off at December 15, 2025 08:38 AM (YBgFH)

236 If you're not Islamic to a Muslim you're an infidel. An infidel must be killed, converted or enslaved. Act accordingly

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 08:38 AM (D+mpw)

237 215 "All in the Family," was a CIA propaganda OP.
Posted by: Everything Is An OP

The "Rural Purge" at CBS, 1971 was a Communist coup on a large scale. The homey shows we all loved were dumped in favor of Commie propaganda pure and simple. Hee-Haw went on to successful syndication for the next 25 years, so we had the last laugh.

Posted by: Jumior Samples BR-549 at December 15, 2025 08:39 AM (oftw2)

238 Have the violent protests against the backlash started yet?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 08:39 AM (8CIFn)

239 If the world is really built on lies, then the truth is a lie and lies must be the truth.
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Easy to miss though is that the world IS built on lies. There is a veil of lies owned by Satan that must be cut through or you fall foul of it.

What Satan and his minions do is use his own lies, his own destruction, his own bullshit, to prove that EVERYTHING must be a lie, up to and including the truth.

If we don't understand that fundamentally, then we cannot fight it. The world is NOT a place of pure goodness and truth. But those things exist. The devil is there to convince you they are a myth.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 08:39 AM (zALxA)

240 Pakistani Jihadi who murdered people had a license for 6 firearms. Albanese is a wanker and a POS. People need to do investigative reporting to find out how much Albanese and his cronies pocketed from the construction and other industries that benefited from the influx of 3rd worlders.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 08:40 AM (g47mK)

241
https://youtu.be/XMFy-Iw4CcA

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:38 AM (c2vsb)

https://youtu.be/3QAoHt0tycM

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

242 Cat herding commercial from the Super Bowl many years ago:

https://youtu.be/hx1jdgTs03U

Posted by: Wayback Machine at December 15, 2025 08:40 AM (2Ez/1)

243 “Kentucky is a Republican state, but we have one Democrat area in Louisville and we have a Democrat congressman. We could carve up Louisville and get rid of that one congressman, but how does that make Democrats feel? I think it makes them feel like they’re not represented.”
- Rand Paul

What a nitwit.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 08:41 AM (2ap+5)

244 I hope when Erika Kirk and Candace Owens meet privately today, Erika tells Candace she's suing her for slander.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

245 In regards to the Bondi shooters, I did find it amusing to see the cop performing CPR on one of them. Depending on where he was shot, and whether the wound was sealed, CPR might have done a very effective job of bleeding him out. Oh, well...

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at December 15, 2025 08:41 AM (MZ+PY)

246 Aussies used to be some of the most manly men. You can only shake your head at what they've become

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 08:41 AM (D+mpw)

247 An infidel must be killed, converted or enslaved."

Returned, not converted - all are born "Islam" is a key belief, thus all who do not profess can be chastened back into the fold... either by convencing or by force...

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 08:42 AM (XuXeR)

248 I have read that the hero of Bondi is a Maronite Christian.
Posted by: Northernlurker

I've read a bunch of sites. They ALL call him a father of two. Most call him either a tobacco shop owner or a fruit stand owner. Not seeing one news report calling him a Christian.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 08:42 AM (QVuuq)

249 What is a cat cafe?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (rZCVI)
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Its a store that has cats and kittens to play with. $15/half hour
Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025

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I saw one in downtown Evansville this last September. You had to make an appointment, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 08:42 AM (wzUl9)

250 lol. Australia’s answer is more gun laws. They want to virtually ban private ownership of all rifles.

Their descent into tyranny and a complete erasure of Australian culture will s now accelerating.

China and Russia are smiling.

Posted by: Vengeance at December 15, 2025 08:43 AM (I2y5H)

251 “Kentucky is a Republican state, but we have one Democrat area in Louisville and we have a Democrat congressman. We could carve up Louisville and get rid of that one congressman, but how does that make Democrats feel? I think it makes them feel like they’re not represented.”
- Rand Paul

The poster child for the "Thank you sir may I have another!" party.

When our side says "but it's OK when THEY do it," we might be proper f*cked.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)

252 "You cannot deny Reiner's body of film work."

I can. His success allowed him to denigrate my country and demonize me. I will argue that his existence was detrimental to both.

Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 08:43 AM (vFG9F)

253 The "Rural Purge" at CBS, 1971 was a Communist coup on a large scale. The homey shows we all loved were dumped in favor of Commie propaganda pure and simple. Hee-Haw went on to successful syndication for the next 25 years, so we had the last laugh.
Posted by: Jumior Samples BR-549 at December 15, 2025 08:39 AM (oftw2)
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Even funnier when the op fails, like it did with Sesame Street. That show's creators always viewed it as a failure, because it worked.

It turned out that kids who watched Sesame Street had better reading skills than those who did not. It was an unqualified success, which was the problem. It wasn't supposed to be. It was built from the ground up specifically to help "inner-city youth" improve their literacy. It did that, but it helped *everyone* - including suburban and rural types. Those groups weren't supposed to find it appealing because it didn't reflect their environment.

But that didn't matter, of course. It was a pretty good program, and appealing to kids. Mean streets or pleasant suburbia is secondary. It was a very early example of the "representation" fallacy in media.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:43 AM (avHHk)

254 Something tells me they are not going to be storming mosques looking for hidden armories.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:34 AM (ESVrU)

The current Australian government is rogue and an enemy of the welfare of Australian citizens .
IOW the mirror image of the USA Democrat Party.

Posted by: Voter theater. at December 15, 2025 08:44 AM (FCPbW)

255 Cat herding commercial from the Super Bowl many years ago:

https://youtu.be/hx1jdgTs03U
Posted by: Wayback Machine at December 15, 2025 08:40 AM (2Ez/1)
******
I loved that one.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:44 AM (NpAcC)

256 https://youtu.be/3QAoHt0tycM
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:40 AM (Zz0t1)

Ha! Had forgotten that scene. Awesome!

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:44 AM (c2vsb)

257 Ha! Yes… I like Al Bundy…. I still chuckle when I think of that misogynist club he formed with a few friends called “No Ma’am”… they made tshirts and everything LoL
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025

***
National Organization of Men Against Amazon Masterhood!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 08:44 AM (wzUl9)

258 I hope when Erika Kirk and Candace Owens meet privately today, Erika tells Candace she's suing her for slander.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:41 AM

"I tried to remain quiet, but you persisted. I tried to reason with you, albeit indirectly, yet you persisted. You give me no choice but to bury you in a court of law for your indiscretion."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:45 AM (Zz0t1)

259 "You cannot deny Reiner's body of film work."

I can. His success allowed him to denigrate my country and demonize me. I will argue that his existence was detrimental to both.
Posted by: fd at December 15, 2025 08:43 AM (vFG9F)

What's the saying? Oh yeah. Harsh, but fair.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 15, 2025 08:45 AM (uQesX)

260 It's also ...
National Cat Herders Day.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:24 AM (NpAcC)
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That can't possibly be a real thing.

If anyone successfully managed to herd cats, it would be celebrated as one of the greatest achievements of mankind, right up there with sliced bread.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 15, 2025 08:27 AM (ESVrU)

From AI...

National Cat Herders Day is celebrated annually on December 15, and this year it falls on a Monday, December 15, 2025. The day honors individuals whose jobs or daily lives involve managing complex, chaotic, or seemingly impossible tasks—metaphorically described as "herding cats". It was founded in the 1980s by Thomas and Ruth Roy of Wellcat Holidays, and it serves as a lighthearted yet meaningful way to appreciate those who handle difficult responsibilities with patience and resilience.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 08:46 AM (ExV1e)

261 237. Mary Tyler Moore was interesting though. Ed Asner was a commie, but Gavin Macleod and Ted Knight were conservatives. Moore was a liberterian, and Valerie Harper a devout Catholic.

Ted Knight a decorated combat vet who argued with Asner a lot

Posted by: Jonah at December 15, 2025 08:46 AM (YCxFk)

262 I hope when Erika Kirk and Candace Owens meet privately today, Erika tells Candace she's suing her for slander.
Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:41 AM (NpAcC)

this will be like a private meeting with megan markle - lies, leaks and slander. owens will not change her behavior and will say that Kirk begged and bent the knee to her. let's face it, owens had the hots for Charlie. her behavior toward a blond white woman whose husband was murdered for the world to see is psychotic.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 08:46 AM (g47mK)

263 Returned, not converted - all are born "Islam" is a key belief, thus all who do not profess can be chastened back into the fold... either by convencing or by force...
Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 08:42 AM (XuXeR)
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This is the reason why you see stories from Muslim countries (used to be fairly common reporting out of Afghanistan) about some public non-Muslim or another being murdered for "apostasy." It makes no sense - you cannot be an apostate for espousing a belief counter to a faith to which you have never subscribed - *unless* you understand that tidbit.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:46 AM (avHHk)

264 With the POS Reiner's gone, Hell just got a lot warmer.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 15, 2025 08:46 AM (abIsI)

265 What Satan and his minions do is use his own lies, his own destruction, his own bullshit, to prove that EVERYTHING must be a lie, up to and including the truth.

Evaluate that statement in light of 1 Kings 22, where King Ahab summoned Micaiah the Prophet to prognosticate an upcoming battle.

Micaiah initially was reluctant to deliver the bad news, but then reported that he saw the Almighty in the throne room surrounded by His angels who were considering what to do with the King of Israel. After discussion, "one spirit" came forward and set "I will put a lying spirit in each of the Ahab's counselors" and God green lighted that plan.

There are a LOT of take-aways from that narrative, one that jumps out to me is that God is perfectly fine with allowing spirits to motivate mankind through the agency of lies.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:46 AM (pUU4E)

266 Kentucky is a Republican state, but we have one Democrat area in Louisville and we have a Democrat congressman. We could carve up Louisville and get rid of that one congressman, but how does that make Democrats feel? I think it makes them feel like they’re not represented.”
- Rand Paul

The poster child for the "Thank you sir may I have another!" party.

When our side says "but it's OK when THEY do it," we might be proper f*cked.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:43 AM (Zz0t1)
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Rand Paul is becoming more useless by the day.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:47 AM (NpAcC)

267 Now do recycling.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 15, 2025 08:34 AM (2Ez/1)

Kind of a funny topic around here - my wife was one who loved the idea of recycling because I think it made her feel not “wasteful” or something. City used to charge everyone a dollar a month for an extra recycle bin that they would pick once a week or so.
And then last year the only big recycling collection center in the region burned down, and recycling efforts/scams in about 14 counties burned down with it. So it all ended overnight, literally.

Funniest part to me - the regional facility was in Kilgore, and they had about an acre of collected cardboard and a couple old buildings full of it that they couldn’t give away anymore. Somehow, a match found all that. And then the owners took the insurance settlement and just skedaddled.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:47 AM (k5cxK)

268 As Smell the Glove said in the tech thread, "Owens will simply say 'more questions were raised.' "

No idea why Candace did a swan dive into crazy but such is life.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 08:47 AM (lXoJ5)

269 didn't owens publish Kirk's private messages from years ago, his dating history ? yep, internet is there for us :"Candace Owens Sparks Outrage by Sharing Charlie Kirk Dating Texts". there is nothing low enough for this ugly, stinky troll.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 08:48 AM (g47mK)

270 Aussies are tough guys until they see a Chinese Submarine. Then they hide and call the US

Posted by: Jonah at December 15, 2025 08:48 AM (YCxFk)

271 266 Kentucky is a Republican state, but we have one Democrat area in Louisville and we have a Democrat congressman. We could carve up Louisville and get rid of that one congressman, but how does that make Democrats feel? I think it makes them feel like they’re not represented.”
- Rand Paul

Did anyone ask Rand what Republicans in MA "feel" like having no representation ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 08:48 AM (VE6XX)

272 On Sesame Street, were Bert and Ernie gay lovers? Can the truth now be told? Grover I don’t know what that was….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:48 AM (/iXAp)

273 An argument that "Massachusetts is 40% Republican yet has ZERO Republican representatives and that is a perversion of democracy" is embarrassingly poor reasoning.

The old cliche definition of democracy applies - 60% of Massachus-ettes are wolves, 40% are sheep and they are voting on what to have for dinner. Don't expect vegetarian meals 40% of the time.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 15, 2025 08:49 AM (2ap+5)

274 190 Yep. He,she, it, I don’t know and don’t care, was in charge of the big case that went to SCOTUS a year or so ago that was, they thought, going to impose tranny views on everything. He lost, miserably.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:29 AM (k5cxK)

Just for accuracy's sake, She (I know you don't care).

Biological Woman.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:49 AM (UnA8+)

275 ... I think it makes them feel like they’re not represented.”
- Rand Paul

Posted by: redridinghood a

The nut doesn't fall far from the Luap Nor tree.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 15, 2025 08:49 AM (abIsI)

276 URI just announced that all in person exams are cancelled today. URI is about 45 minutes from Brown.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:34 AM (viF8m)

But the police chief in Providence announced that there was no threat, and he would never lie!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 08:50 AM (n9ltV)

277 Even though Rob Reiner hated me I feel bad about his sudden passing at the hands of his own son.

Hopefully he will now get clarification on abortion, trannies, 'socialism' and other Leftist positions that support evil under the guise of virtue.

RIP

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 08:50 AM (KDPiq)

278 On Sesame Street, were Bert and Ernie gay lovers? Can the truth now be told? Grover I don’t know what that was….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:48 AM (/iXAp)

Elmo is a pervert and wants to have his way with your children.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 15, 2025 08:50 AM (uQesX)

279 But that didn't matter, of course. It was a pretty good program, and appealing to kids. Mean streets or pleasant suburbia is secondary. It was a very early example of the "representation" fallacy in media.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Margaret Hamilton guested in an early season on Sesame Street, was interviewed and did he Wicked Witch cackle and voice. The episode wasn't repeated for decades because some children were traumatized.
My sister-in-law would nearly vomit in fear every year when the Wicked Witch came on during the CBS yearly airing of The Wizard of Oz. Margaret did manage to visit Mr. Rogers without scaring the children too much, though.

Posted by: Cora Was Less Scary at December 15, 2025 08:50 AM (oftw2)

280 Wimpsky was a homosexkual.

Posted by: Popeye, balls deep in pussky at December 15, 2025 08:50 AM (xNHSX)

281 I don't think Kirk is going to sue Owens.

But if she does, stand back as far as you can, and call the men with the butterfly nets. Her meltdown will be a thermonuclear one.

Posted by: Sexual Tyrannosaurus at December 15, 2025 08:51 AM (dRfXw)

282 Kind of a funny topic around here - my wife was one who loved the idea of recycling because I think it made her feel not “wasteful” or something. City used to charge everyone a dollar a month for an extra recycle bin that they would pick once a week or so.
And then last year the only big recycling collection center in the region burned down, and recycling efforts/scams in about 14 counties burned down with it. So it all ended overnight, literally. ...
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:47 AM (k5cxK)
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There is, last time I checked, *one* thing that it makes sense to recycle: most metals. They recycle well and the net energy and resource cost is favorable for recycling. There's a reason recycling boosters always (or used to, anyway) use the aluminum can as the poster child for recycling efficiency: it's basically true. It's why there was money for bums in collecting cans and selling them for scrap even before recycling programs took off with a big shot of taxpayer money and propaganda.

Glass *can* make sense, if you're near a bottler (where they can be cleaned and reused, rather than remanufactured).

Paper and plastic? Not on this planet.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:51 AM (avHHk)

283 Rob Reiner was involved in a couple of films I like: The Princess Bride and This Is Spinal Tap. Spinal Tap is especially held by me and my musical circle of friends as an enduring classic. For that reason, I feel a comment about it is appropriate. May the Lord grant you His Mercy, Rob Reiner.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 15, 2025 08:51 AM (6qf1m)

284 There are a LOT of take-aways from that narrative, one that jumps out to me is that God is perfectly fine with allowing spirits to motivate mankind through the agency of lies.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:46 AM (pUU4E)

Mankind motivates themselves; lies just help them feel better about doing what they’ve already decided to do.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:51 AM (k5cxK)

285 I remember when Ed Asner ran against Charleton Heston for President of the Screen Actors' Guild.

I forget who won, though. (I was a kid at the time. I just noted that Lou Grant was running against Moses, but didn't note the outcome.)

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 08:52 AM (77rzZ)

286 Gee, another hollywood icon raises a kid that becomes a useless, drug addled, drain on society that eventually murders his own parents.

I'm shocked, I tell you. SHOCKED!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:52 AM (Zz0t1)

287 If someone said that Rob Reiner got what he deserved because he spread hate and fear, I'm not going to chastise them.
He did spread hate and fear.

Nor am I going to extend accolades of "but look how much better we are" to those offering thoughts and prayers.
He would never have done the same for anyone else.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 08:52 AM (HXT0k)

288 “Kentucky is a Republican state, but we have one Democrat area in Louisville and we have a Democrat congressman. We could carve up Louisville and get rid of that one congressman, but how does that make Democrats feel? I think it makes them feel like they’re not represented.”
- Rand Paul
---------

Contender for the dumbest statement of 2025.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 08:52 AM (zALxA)

289 Did anyone ask Rand what Republicans in MA "feel" like having no representation ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 08:48 AM (VE6XX)

Or California! There may be more republicans in CA than any other state because of its shear size… yet the state government is dominated by Dems

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:52 AM (/iXAp)

290 I never watched Sesame Street. It was for little kids and losers who can't sound sh*t out. Now get off my lawn.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:53 AM (A0sqA)

291 C. Owens does not know the word humility. Having lit the candel of darkness, she sees her true self.

Posted by: Kingsman at December 15, 2025 08:53 AM (ehY6c)

292 Stupid fuck on Fb regarding the brown U shooting:

"Once again, make it political".

You stupid fuck. He murdered the VP of the Republican Club.

THAT MAKES IT POLITICAL. How do you fucking people dress yourselves every day???

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 08:53 AM (QVuuq)

293 Why does Kentucky need democrats representation when the elected Ientucky Republicans do the job for them?

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 08:53 AM (KDPiq)

294 but how does that make Democrats feel? I think it makes them feel like they’re not represented.”
- Rand Paul

Another fool who doesn't know what time it is.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:53 AM (a6PrB)

295
Glass *can* make sense, if you're near a bottler (where they can be cleaned and reused, rather than remanufactured).

Paper and plastic? Not on this planet.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:51 AM (avHHk)

Recycling in most forms creates more pollution than the original manufacturing of the item being recycled. That means, its a ruse. "Saving the planet" my ass.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:54 AM (Zz0t1)

296 Exams at this time of year are finals. I wonder how much additional cheating there's going to be. Exams aren't canceled, right? Just "in-person" exams? So probably replaced with COVID-protocol exams, which means everything is open-book at URI today!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:38 AM (avHHk)

I had a class once which allowed you to decide if you wanted to take the exam closed book (6 questions) or open book (10 questions) but you had to decide before that exams were passed out.

I've always been of the opinion that, on an exam with a time limit, open book is not your friend.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 08:54 AM (ExV1e)

297 270 Aussies are tough guys until they see a Chinese Submarine. Then they hide and call the US
Posted by: Jonah

Any person who calls a plant hedge a Lilly Pilly is gay adjacent.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at December 15, 2025 08:54 AM (abIsI)

298 "Go easy on me your honor, on account of me being an orphan."

Posted by: no one at December 15, 2025 08:54 AM (W7XSX)

299 Great news on a difficult Monday morning. 4nonBlondes is going to do a new album. /s/s/s/s

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 08:54 AM (D+mpw)

300 292 Stupid fuck on Fb regarding the brown U shooting:

"Once again, make it political".

You stupid fuck. He murdered the VP of the Republican Club.

THAT MAKES IT POLITICAL. How do you fucking people dress yourselves every day???
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 08:53 AM (QVuuq)

They made it political when the Dems went on TV and blamed Trump...

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 08:54 AM (VE6XX)

301 Contender for the dumbest statement of 2025.
Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 08:52 AM (zALxA)

Lots of intense competition for that award

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:55 AM (/iXAp)

302 how does that make Democrats feel? I think it makes them feel like they’re not represented.”
- Rand Paul

I don't care how they feel, Rand. As they don't care about my feelings and want to destroy my way of life, I vote for you to destroy THEM, you dipshit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:55 AM (Zz0t1)

303 Beverly Sills appearing and singing on the Muppets and you can tell she was really having a good time.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 15, 2025 08:55 AM (gm9Sb)

304 "Once again, make it political".

When the Left says: "Once again, make it political".

You can bet the ranch that it is political.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:55 AM (a6PrB)

305 I had a cousin who was an Aussie. He saw five+ years of combat in WWII, moved to America and raised a fine family. He died at 101, and was one of the toughest and kindest men I have ever met.

He would be disgusted with modern Australia.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 08:55 AM (n9ltV)

306 >>But the police chief in Providence announced that there was no threat, and he would never lie!

It's maddening they won't release more information. I'm seeing a number of people on X suggest that it was a targeted attack and one of the targets was a young woman named Ella Cook who was the VP of a tiny conservative group on campus.

Could be true, could be bullshit but when the authorities won't give any details lots of theories spring up.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:56 AM (viF8m)

307 247 Returned, not converted - all are born "Islam" is a key belief, thus all who do not profess can be chastened back into the fold... either by convencing or by force...
Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 08:42 AM (XuXeR)

If "true", then why must one take on an Arab name upon conversion?

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:57 AM (UnA8+)

308 Islam has declared war on West. Will various political dupes ever acknowledge that?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at December 15, 2025 08:12 AM (8CIFn)

My fear is the Tea Party gets a charismatic leader. Because all they're selling is fear and anger. And that's all Hitler did.

Posted by: Zombie Rob Reiner at December 15, 2025 08:57 AM (FGMmt)

309 I think Erika Kirk is making a mistake meeting with CO…. You know the saying if you wrestle with a pig you’re gonna get dirty (or something like that). Owens has no shame; you can’t win with her… much better to completely ignore her

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:57 AM (/iXAp)

310 I watched Sesame Street, and it had its moments. But I always preferred Captain Kangaroo.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 08:57 AM (77rzZ)

311
I hope when Erika Kirk and Candace Owens meet privately today, Erika tells Candace she's suing her for slander.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:41 AM

Candace is ushered in to the conference room

the room is empty; no table, no chairs, just a halberd laying at her feet

Erika enters from the opposite door, carrying a halberd

"This ends today" says Erika, as the doors lock behind them...

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 15, 2025 08:57 AM (tljrc)

312 Republicans are Facing an Extinction Event
________
The title is true enough, but the article is silly. For one thing, anyone who turns to the Guardian for history is begging to be wrong. For another, it ignores the parallels in Europe. In fact, the GOP looks disturbingly like the British Conservative Party. Which completely embraced extinction. Can we really be so stupid as to learn nothing from that? Apparently, yes.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 08:57 AM (s0JqF)

313 ... You stupid fuck. He murdered the VP of the Republican Club.

THAT MAKES IT POLITICAL. How do you fucking people dress yourselves every day???
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 08:53 AM (QVuuq)
++++
It *could* turn out that it was a lover's quarrel or somesuch where the jilted lover went on a shooting spree. I doubt it, but it is inside the realm of possibility.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:58 AM (avHHk)

314 C. Owens does not know the word humility. Having lit the candel of darkness, she sees her true self.

In a YOLO world, her contact engagement numbers due to her "insanity" is helping her ego and her bank account.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:58 AM (a6PrB)

315 If "true", then why must one take on an Arab name upon conversion?
Posted by: XTC

Stop asking questions and conform, infidel!

Posted by: Hassen Ben Sober at December 15, 2025 08:58 AM (oftw2)

316 No idea why Candace did a swan dive into crazy but such is life.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 08:47 AM (lXoJ5)

It pays well.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 08:58 AM (ExV1e)

317 Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s critics cry “affordability,” but voters remember who sparked the price surge—and who’s now trying to clean it up.
It’s Affordability, Stupid?
________
Do they remember? If so, it would be out of character.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 08:59 AM (s0JqF)

318 Media is also suppressing crowds of public celebrating the violence in Sydney. That would upset the plebes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:59 AM (9vfnu)

319 Unpopular opinion --

The Princess Bride is highly overrated. Some memorable lines, sure. But otherwise an average movie.

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:59 AM (c2vsb)

320 good morning JJ, Horde

Posted by: callsign claymore at December 15, 2025 08:59 AM (pd4dZ)

321 Do they remember? If so, it would be out of character.
Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 08:59 AM (s0JqF)
++++
Memory is short.
Terms are long.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:59 AM (avHHk)

322 Leftist billionaires are paying 'conservatives' to destroy the conservative movement.

It's working.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:00 AM (Zz0t1)

323 317 Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s critics cry “affordability,” but voters remember who sparked the price surge—and who’s now trying to clean it up.
It’s Affordability, Stupid?

Wish I could believe that
________

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 09:00 AM (VE6XX)

324 I had a cousin who was an Aussie. He saw five+ years of combat in WWII, moved to America and raised a fine family. He died at 101, and was one of the toughest and kindest men I have ever met.

He would be disgusted with modern Australia.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 08:55 AM (n9ltV)

Probably would not be too keen on modern day USA either, I'd imagine.

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 09:01 AM (c2vsb)

325 Could be true, could be bullshit but when the authorities won't give any details lots of theories spring up.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 08:56 AM (viF8m)
====

A little farfetched.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 09:01 AM (To7on)

326 This Australia schooling reminds me so much of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where the police stood by while the shooter did his ugly business.
In the Australia event, the police did nothing for 20 minutes.

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 09:01 AM (RHGPo)

327 310 I watched Sesame Street, and it had its moments. But I always preferred Captain Kangaroo.
Posted by: Bulg

Mister Moose, Mr. Greenjeans, and Grandfather Clock all agreed that Kate Upton looks funny. Only Bunny Rabbit is on your side.

Posted by: Keys To The Treasure House at December 15, 2025 09:01 AM (oftw2)

328
Unpopular opinion --

The Princess Bride is highly overrated. Some memorable lines, sure. But otherwise an average movie.

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:59 AM

true, that

as the kids say these days, it's "mid" at best

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 15, 2025 09:01 AM (tljrc)

329 The Princess Bride is highly overrated. Some memorable lines, sure. But otherwise an average movie.

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:59 AM (c2vsb)

I would say "above average," and "Spinal Tap" is mildly amusing, but not the icon it has become.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 09:02 AM (n9ltV)

330 johnny maga
@_johnnymaga

Nancy Pelosi says not being successful in banning guns is her biggest disappointment as she retires from Congress.

What an evil person.

https://tinyurl.com/33cp3p7h

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

331 Ebonics: bad ideas never entirely die
_______
No. They just go to Congress.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 09:02 AM (s0JqF)

332 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:57 AM (/iXAp)

Charlie was willing to discuss issues with people who hated him. I think that's what Erika is trying to continue though I think she's ignoring the important exception factor that Owens is coo coo for coco puffs.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 09:02 AM (KDPiq)

333 It must be weird to celebrate Hannukah and Christmas in the Southern Hemisphere.

Both are about light enduring/coming amidst the darkness of the winter solstice.

To celebrate either holiday at the height of summer must seem strange, in addition to the lack of snow to accompany Christmas.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:02 AM (77rzZ)

334 Australia was a prison state. Seems nothing has changed.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 09:03 AM (Wg6v7)

335 330 johnny maga
@_johnnymaga

Nancy Pelosi says not being successful in banning guns is her biggest disappointment as she retires from Congress.

What an evil person.

https://tinyurl.com/33cp3p7h
Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

Hey Nan.. Does that include your security ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 09:03 AM (VE6XX)

336 Illinois has the worst Gerrymander in the Country

Posted by: Jonah at December 15, 2025 09:03 AM (YCxFk)

337 The public duty doctrine is a legal principle that holds that government entities owe duties to the public at large rather than to individual citizens, limiting their liability in tort cases.

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 09:03 AM (RHGPo)

338 >>A little farfetched.

We live in a farfetched world these days.

We've spent the last number of years watching western governments import by the hundreds of thousands people who want to kill their citizens. What could possibly be more farfetched?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:03 AM (viF8m)

339 The Princess Bride is highly overrated. Some memorable lines, sure. But otherwise an average movie.
Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:59 AM (c2vsb)

We are 100% in agreement on this, Food.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:03 AM (77rzZ)

340 I remember when Ed Asner ran against Charleton Heston for President of the Screen Actors' Guild.

I forget who won, though. (I was a kid at the time. I just noted that Lou Grant was running against Moses, but didn't note the outcome.)
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 08:52 AM (77rzZ)

From AI...

Ed Asner did not run against Charlton Heston for president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). Asner was elected SAG president in 1981 and served until 1985, while Heston was a former SAG president who later succeeded Asner after a highly publicized power struggle. The conflict between them arose during Asner's presidency, particularly over union policies and political activism, not during a direct election against each other.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 09:03 AM (ExV1e)

341 I never watched Sesame Street. It was for little kids and losers who can't sound sh*t out. Now get off my lawn.
Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025

***
Sesame Street came along about ten years too late for me. And at age six I already knew how to read, so I'm not sure it would have held my attention.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:03 AM (wzUl9)

342 Does Poverty Cause Crime?
_______
The problem with that article is that the author never tells us what he means by "causing" crime. It's a besetting sin of people who rely on the scientific method that they just take causation for granted, and never examine what they are really talking about.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 09:04 AM (s0JqF)

343 The Princess Bride is highly overrated. Some memorable lines, sure. But otherwise an average movie.

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:59 AM (c2vsb)

I would agree but concede the majority disagree .

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 09:04 AM (KDPiq)

344 Hey Nan.. Does that include your security ?
Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 09:03 AM (VE6XX)
++++
You can be sure not. She's important, you see.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 09:04 AM (avHHk)

345 Did you all hear how the proposed building for Mamdani's city run grocery store is
- a vacant property,
- that has sat empty for years, and
-the proposed purchase price is something like $100 million more than it's currently valued at, where
- the land is worth more than the building?

But wait, it get's better:
The property is owned by a family member!

But yeah, that Trump, he is the corrupt one.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 09:04 AM (HXT0k)

346 VDH is a brilliant guy, but sometimes his articles (usually the ones prognosticating public reaction and opinion) are mostly wishcasting…. He overestimates the intelligence of the populace

Most people will blame “affordability issues” on whoever happens to be in office at the time and have zero understanding of economic cause and effect

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 09:04 AM (/iXAp)

347 Another fool who doesn't know what time it is.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 15, 2025 08:53 AM (a6PrB)

https://youtu.be/9FzCWLOHUes

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 09:05 AM (ExV1e)

348 We've spent the last number of years watching western governments import by the hundreds of thousands people who want to kill their citizens. What could possibly be more farfetched?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:03 AM (viF8m)
++++
Oh, that's easy.

A Western government protecting its citizens or setting up an environment where they can succeed at home. That is the most far-fetched thing imaginable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 09:05 AM (avHHk)

349 @_johnnymaga

Nancy Pelosi says not being successful in banning guns is her biggest disappointment as she retires from Congress.

What an evil person.

https://tinyurl.com/33cp3p7h
Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 09:02 AM (NpAcC)

HAMMERTIME!!!

Posted by: Paul Pelosi at December 15, 2025 09:05 AM (Zz0t1)

350 Posted by: Eeyore at December 15, 2025 09:04 AM (s0JqF

I would point to the rich criminal sports stars .

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 09:05 AM (KDPiq)

351 Either TuCa or some other Qatari agent posting "questions" at 167
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 08:25 AM (0ChAx)

Please tell me the Qatari agent is number 2600. Lie if you have to.
Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM (c2vsb)

TC aka BurtTC. 20 year AoSHQ alumni!!
Posted by: eff off at December 15, 2025 08:38 AM (YBgFH)
==================
Burt posted that? As a parody, I assume? If so, I apologize for casually assuming it was serious. But...maybe "too soon" for jokes.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 09:05 AM (yVKAE)

352 To celebrate either holiday at the height of summer must seem strange, in addition to the lack of snow to accompany Christmas.
Posted by: Bulg

Christ was born on October 1, 7BC, so our winter/snow baloney is all made up anyhoo.

Posted by: The Celestial Clock at December 15, 2025 09:05 AM (oftw2)

353 Is it too early to make When Harry Met Stabby jokes?

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 09:06 AM (lXoJ5)

354 https://youtu.be/9FzCWLOHUes
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 09:05 AM (ExV1e)
++++
Called it!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 09:06 AM (avHHk)

355 Oh, great. Now when the rotten old whore dies in a hammer orgy or whatever, we'll have the Left demanding the 2nd amendment be interred with her as grave goods befitting a ruling class American Ptolemaid.

Posted by: Sexual Tyrannosaurus at December 15, 2025 09:06 AM (dRfXw)

356 Sesame Street came along about ten years too late for me. And at age six I already knew how to read, so I'm not sure it would have held my attention.
---------------
Sesame Street was in the Hood/Slums. Leave it to Beaver was in a Nice Neighborhood. Guess which was moar entertaining?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 09:06 AM (Wg6v7)

357 huh, this is my shocked face...

"The suspected father and son terrorist duo who killed at least 15 during a Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration on Sunday were previously investigated by Australian intelligence for ties to the so-called Islamic State, and ISIS flags were reportedly found in their car after the apparent antisemitic attack."

and they had 6 firearms between them...

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:06 AM (g47mK)

358 I watched Sesame Street, and it had its moments. But I always preferred Captain Kangaroo.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025

***
SCTV: "Captain Combat," "Gunny Rabbit," and "Mr. Green Fatigues"!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:06 AM (wzUl9)

359
Is it too early to make When Harry Met Stabby jokes?

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 09:06 AM

well played

golf clap

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 15, 2025 09:07 AM (tljrc)

360 The solution is not banning guns, Nanzi, it is encouraging more people to prepare to defend themselves. Self-reliance is better than being a victim, or a potential victim cowering behind dorm room doors.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 09:07 AM (yVKAE)

361 If you refuse to talk to crazy people, you will run out of options quick.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 09:07 AM (zALxA)

362 forWARd': What FOOLS these Mortals be -- the Brennan Undead change the tune and people keep dancing like no one is watchin' because they know we all are.

https://tinyurl.com/EvilsAdvantageOverConscience
...
while conscience allows us to understand ordinary crimes, it blinds us before the most extraordinary ones.
...
the more brazen and relentless one's acts of brutality, the more likely it is that one will be allowed a second chance, and find even powerful men of conscience coming to one's door offering to forget, to forgive and to give forgiveness a bad name.
---
But What the Deliberately Evil do not realize is The Good can employ the same tactic, to defeat and destroy evil via a different Kind of Evil. Like it or not, the world is not ready for such a demonstration -- but in retrospect only too obvious -- something both Trump knows very well, and why the DJ's frustrations to dance him off the stage, the gang that never intends to shoot straight, continually misses the mark.

"I Wish There Could Be A National System To Alert Us "We Have Solved" The Problem That Is Trump" ctHILLARY, 2025, issuing the clarion call for another shot heard round the world- day of the AfghanDCShooter

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 15, 2025 09:07 AM (imN6w)

363 ISIS attack in Syria on US personnel...the only answer is to import more third world savages to civilized countries to make a few powerhungry wankers rich

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:08 AM (g47mK)

364 Looks like I’m in the minority here because I love The Princess Bride and think it’s brilliant. Mandy Patankin’s performance in that film is out of this world

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 09:08 AM (/iXAp)

365 327 Kate's still got a better face and hair than Sydney.

Sydney's face only looks good when she smiles, but Kate's face is beautiful regardless.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:08 AM (77rzZ)

366 Sesame Street came along about ten years too late for me. And at age six I already knew how to read, so I'm not sure it would have held my attention.
---------------
Sesame Street was in the Hood/Slums. Leave it to Beaver was in a Nice Neighborhood. Guess which was moar entertaining?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025

***
Rob and Laura Petrie and their neighborhood was, and is, more my style. (Runner-up: Darrin and Samantha Stephens and their neighborhood)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:08 AM (wzUl9)

367 Alinksy is not my guide to reaching the afterlife.

We don't need to apply the rules to an utter family tragedy.
---
I render unto Cesar what is Cesar's.
I render unto God what is His.

Reiner's law is Cesar's and I'll hold him to it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 09:08 AM (HXT0k)

368 I would say "above average," and "Spinal Tap" is mildly amusing, but not the icon it has become.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 15, 2025 09:02 AM (n9ltV)

I think it fits in well with that whole series of mockumentaries - for those who have been around that scene, they’re absolutely hilarious. Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, and Waiting for Guffman are others; very funny to a niche audience.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 09:08 AM (k5cxK)

369 If "true", then why must one take on an Arab name upon conversion?"

One doesn't, unless the "infidel" name is ... problematic. Those who select an "arabic" name seem to do so to "fit in"

Arabic =/= muslim

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 09:08 AM (XuXeR)

370 @353 A Few Good Stabbings

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 09:09 AM (D+mpw)

371 To celebrate either holiday at the height of summer must seem strange, in addition to the lack of snow to accompany Christmas.
Posted by: Bulg

***
We often have near-summer conditions, and rarely any snow, at Xmas in Da Swamp.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:09 AM (wzUl9)

372 359 well played

golf clap
Posted by: AltonJackson

Thanks. I have a friend out on the West Coast who I compete with during celebrity deaths. I think this round goes to me.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 09:09 AM (lXoJ5)

373 there is crazy...and there are certifiable sadists who hide behind digital screens, and those can only be dealt with by professional medical personnel

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:09 AM (g47mK)

374 Self-reliance is better than being a victim"

The self reliant don't come running for, nor will pay for, "assistance" or "safety".

Victims will.

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 09:10 AM (XuXeR)

375 ISIS attack in Syria on US personnel...the only answer is to import more third world savages to civilized countries to make a few powerhungry wankers rich
Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:08 AM (g47mK)

Their ego has them believing they'll have a seat at the table in the islhamic world order because they're so valuable.

They won't.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:10 AM (Zz0t1)

376 Aussies are tough guys until they see a Chinese Submarine. Then they hide and call the US
Posted by: Jonah

Has a friend in HS whose mom was an Aussie. Hottest accent ever. I asked her one time why, supposedly, Aussie women liked American men so much. She said that when Aussie men get drunk, they want to fight, when American men get drunk, they want to kiss.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 09:10 AM (ExV1e)

377 There was an ad several years ago for some investment company that showed cowboys herding cats. It was great. Can't remember the company name but the end message on the ad was "In a sense, this is what we do."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 15, 2025 09:11 AM (WPL6O)

378 Sydney's face only looks good when she smiles, but Kate's face is beautiful regardless.
Posted by: Bulg

Please seek help Sir, we are fond of you but this is becoming concerning.

Posted by: Pilgrim State Hospital Bldg. 23 at December 15, 2025 09:11 AM (oftw2)

379 Their ego has them believing they'll have a seat at the table in the islhamic world order because they're so valuable."

Indeed. My guess is that all of the Brownshirts saw themselves as "true Nazis"...

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 09:11 AM (XuXeR)

380 (Runner-up: Darrin and Samantha Stephens and their neighborhood)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Well, except for that Kravitz woman.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:12 AM (77rzZ)

381 Spinal Tap is fantastic, and what's more it was original. Can't rewrite history on that one, the world is a better place with that movie.

Posted by: ... at December 15, 2025 09:12 AM (zALxA)

382 (Runner-up: Darrin and Samantha Stephens and their neighborhood)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Well, except for that Kravitz woman.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025

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Abner's common sense made up for that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:12 AM (wzUl9)

383 Laura Petrie was very pretty
Samantha Stevens was very (very) sexy

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 09:13 AM (YobFY)

384 290 I never watched Sesame Street. It was for little kids and losers who can't sound sh*t out. Now get off my lawn.

Posted by: San Franpsycho - RESIGN ALBO! their blood is on your hands at December 15, 2025 08:53 AM (A0sqA)

I preferred Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood and Pinwheel on Nickelodeon.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 09:13 AM (6ydKt)

385
True story, Reiner's first wife was Penny Marshall and when she was asked why she thinks she could direct a movie (about the time she helmed "A League of Their Own") She said "If my asshole idiot ex can direct a movie, anyone can!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2025 09:13 AM (x0n13)

386 If "true", then why must one take on an Arab name upon conversion?
Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:57 AM (UnA8+)

My name is Seamus al-MacBaconLover. Who does a fella need to blow up around here to get a haggis and pint?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 09:13 AM (ExV1e)

387 We were never shown the exterior of the Petrie house, yet we did get some shots of the Stephens place.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:13 AM (wzUl9)

388 (Runner-up: Darrin and Samantha Stephens and their neighborhood)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Well, except for that Kravitz woman.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:12 AM (77rzZ)

It was for better or for worse...

Posted by: Abner Kravitz at December 15, 2025 09:13 AM (6Ga6M)

389 I think it fits in well with that whole series of mockumentaries - for those who have been around that scene, they’re absolutely hilarious. Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, and Waiting for Guffman are others; very funny to a niche audience.
Posted by: Tom Servo

You left out The Rutles and The Last Polka!

Posted by: Leutonian Benevolent Society at December 15, 2025 09:13 AM (oftw2)

390 369 Arabic =/= muslim
Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 09:08 AM (XuXeR)

I know they aren't the same.

But everyone who wasn't born into Islam goes out of their way to arab-ize themselves when they convert.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 09:14 AM (UnA8+)

391 Has a friend in HS whose mom was an Aussie. Hottest accent ever. I asked her one time why, supposedly, Aussie women liked American men so much. She said that when Aussie men get drunk, they want to fight, when American men get drunk, they want to kiss.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

When I was in Navy boot camp, we heard stories about the horny Aussie gals lining up dockside when an American ship pulled into harbor.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:14 AM (77rzZ)

392 Saw the headline clip at the NYPost, that guy yelling CUNT! at that Jewish girl. Two glaring problems: 1. No one in the restaurant clocked him. 2. Two her escort didn't clock him and 3. She made a funny instead of hitting him with a wine bottle or salt shaker.

Permitting that crap is not tolerance it's submission.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 09:14 AM (gMWM2)

393 To celebrate either holiday at the height of summer must seem strange, in addition to the lack of snow to accompany Christmas.
Posted by: Bulg

Go far enough south and you'll get more snow than you can handle.

McMurdo Station, come in please.

But yeah, Christmas in the middle of your summer? Hard to handle.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:15 AM (QVuuq)

394 A Sure Thing was my favorite Reiner movie.

Starred the other leftist nut, John Cusack.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 09:15 AM (KDPiq)

395 I watched Sesame Street, and it had its moments. But I always preferred Captain Kangaroo.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 08:57 AM (77rzZ)

I loved Captain Kangaroo but I was traumatized when they court martialed Mr. Bunny Rabbit and Mr. Moose for, supposedly, stealing the Captain's strawberries.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 09:16 AM (ExV1e)

396 My bud married an Aussie woman. The most selfish bitch on the planet. She even took out a credit card in the youngest's name without his knowledge. "He needs to establish credit."

Not one dime of the child support went to support the children, either.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:16 AM (Zz0t1)

397 Samantha Stevens was very (very) sexy
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Oh yeah. My first TV crush.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:16 AM (77rzZ)

398 Australia has legal brothels all over the place IIRC.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 09:16 AM (KDPiq)

399 I don't care how they feel, Rand. As they don't care about my feelings and want to destroy my way of life, I vote for you to destroy THEM, you dipshit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 08:55 AM

For a man who consistently shouts "FIRST!" with elan and enthusiasm, this seems uncharacteristically restrained. How do you really feel?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 15, 2025 09:17 AM (0sNs1)

400 The beginnings of a planetary nebula

JJ,

This link needs removal of some schmutz from the end of it.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 15, 2025 09:17 AM (/HDaX)

401 I know they aren't the same.

But everyone who wasn't born into Islam goes out of their way to arab-ize themselves when they convert.
Posted by: XTC
-----------

Arabs are Muslims. I'm sure there must be one.
As voter mom says; deport, deport, deport.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 09:17 AM (gMWM2)

402 Lou Alcindor and Cassius Clay have entered the chat.

Posted by: no one at December 15, 2025 09:17 AM (W7XSX)

403 Unpopular opinion --

The Princess Bride is highly overrated. Some memorable lines, sure. But otherwise an average movie.
Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 08:59 AM (c2vsb)

This post is half right.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 09:17 AM (ExV1e)

404 Reiner directed Stand By Me, didn't he? The best adaptation of a Stephen King story to date. I read the novella way back in '83, and it blew me away; and then the film was astonishing too, with Kiefer Sutherland as the leader of the juvenile delinquents and River Phoenix as the narrator's best friend.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:17 AM (wzUl9)

405 For a man who consistently shouts "FIRST!" with elan and enthusiasm, this seems uncharacteristically restrained. How do you really feel?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 15, 2025 09:17 AM (0sNs1)

It's Monday morning and I haven't finished my coffee yet.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)

406 And Brennan's Undead band played on:: Mission Accomplished

https://tinyurl.com/EvilsAdvantageOverConscience

while conscience allows us to understand ordinary crimes, it blinds us before the most extraordinary ones.
...
the more brazen and relentless one's acts of brutality, the more likely it is that one will be allowed a second chance, and find even powerful men of conscience coming to one's door offering to forget, to forgive and to give forgiveness a bad name.
---
But What the Deliberately Evil do not realize is The Good can employ the same tactic, to defeat and destroy evil via a different Kind of Evil. Like it or not, the world is not ready for such a demonstration -- but in retrospect only too obvious, something Trump ought to know only too well.

"I Wish There Could Be A National System To Alert Us "We Have Solved" The Problem That Is Trump" ctHILLARY, 2025, the clarion call for another shot heard round the world the day before the AfghanDCShooter.

"It would be wrong to cut off contact with a those to kill people in a way we hate" -- Bill Clinton'06

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at December 15, 2025 09:18 AM (s0Eto)

407 There's no needed to dance on Reiner's grave. But there's no need to spin up a prayer circle for the bloated Communist pig, either, or celebrate his stupid movies, either.

Posted by: Sexual Tyrannosaurus at December 15, 2025 09:18 AM (FLB3A)

408 Samantha Stevens was very (very) sexy
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Oh yeah. My first TV crush.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:16 AM (77rzZ

Lost my desire for her after she dated OJ Simpson.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 09:18 AM (KDPiq)

409 But yeah, Christmas in the middle of your summer? Hard to handle.
Posted by: rickb223
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Take a holiday to CO. they have plenty of snow.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 09:18 AM (gMWM2)

410 one that jumps out to me is that God is perfectly fine with allowing spirits to motivate mankind through the agency of lies.
___

Allah is the great deceiver my friend. Now put this special vest on and visit that pizzeria over, friend.

Posted by: Your Bestest Pal, Mohammed at December 15, 2025 09:18 AM (Dv3i1)

411 Burt posted that? As a parody, I assume? If so, I apologize for casually assuming it was serious. But...maybe "too soon" for jokes.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 15, 2025 09:05 AM (yVKAE)

burt has crossed over into the darkside. going full stormfront.

Never go full stormfront.

Posted by: eff off at December 15, 2025 09:18 AM (YBgFH)

412 When I was in Navy boot camp, we heard stories about the horny Aussie gals lining up dockside when an American ship pulled into harbor.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:14 AM (77rzZ)
++++
I was reading a book about the Pacific War and there as an aside about that. Apparently many of the girls lining the docks when American warships put in were not quite of age, and the officers would lecture the men about making sure and avoiding what the Aussies called "pokey bait."

Essentially the same expression as Americans use, of course, just funnier because "pokey" makes it a double entendre.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 09:19 AM (avHHk)

413 Abner's common sense made up for that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Originally, they wanted Jim Backus for the role of Abner, but I guess he was still on the island at the time.

I think he would have brought too much energy to the role. George Tobias' phlegmatic nature was more suited to the role of the retired layabout Abner.

Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:19 AM (77rzZ)

414 As there neighbor, I gotta say that Rob & Laura got into some wacky situations.

Posted by: Jerry Helper, DDS at December 15, 2025 09:19 AM (6Ga6M)

415 But everyone who wasn't born into Islam goes out of their way to arab-ize themselves when they convert."

That's a bit of a Western thingy. Other parts of the world, not so much (travel thru highly muslim Indonesia, for example)

Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 09:19 AM (XuXeR)

416 When I was in Navy boot camp, we heard stories about the horny Aussie gals lining up dockside when an American ship pulled into harbor.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:14 AM

It's scuttlebutt like this that necessitates the addition of Potassium Nitrate to the mashed potatoes.

Posted by: Navy Cooks at December 15, 2025 09:19 AM (0sNs1)

417 Lou Alcindor and Cassius Clay have entered the chat.
Posted by: no one at December 15, 2025 09:17 AM (W7XSX)

"His momma named him Clay -- Imma call him Clay!"

Posted by: Doof at December 15, 2025 09:19 AM (c2vsb)

418 The beginnings of a planetary nebula

JJ,

This link needs removal of some schmutz from the end of it.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at December 15, 2025

***
Remove everything after ". . .nebula/"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:19 AM (wzUl9)

419 What evil does isn’t mindless destruction, that’s savagery, instead evil takes the building blocks of civilization, physical, spiritual, intellectual or moral, and turns them inside out whether these building blocks are governments, universities or ideas so that they become tools of destruction.
***
Taking "This is My Body, which will be given up for you" and inverting it to "My Body, my choice". The most evil of all.

Posted by: LASue at December 15, 2025 09:19 AM (2LJ0i)

420 We were never shown the exterior of the Petrie house, yet we did get some shots of the Stephens place.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

There's one of Beaver & Wally walking home, with the Munster's home in view over their shoulder.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:20 AM (QVuuq)

421 How could I forget Captain Kangaroo?
I liked that one, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 09:20 AM (6ydKt)

422 97 Samantha Stevens was very (very) sexy
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Oh yeah. My first TV crush.
Posted by: Bulg

See? You can be rational! I watched a couple episodes of Bewitched last week when the Stevens were at Loch Ness, 1971 season. Sam forgot to wear a bra. The comedy was ludicrous, but was entertaining, nonetheless.

Posted by: Larry Tate at December 15, 2025 09:20 AM (oftw2)

423 So , I a've listened to one witness account, a woman who had two of her kids with her, approached one of the police on Bondi who were sheltering themselves while people were being slaughtered, and tried to get their gun, to stop the shooters, and they would not let her.

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:20 AM (g47mK)

424 I hadn't thought of Rob Reiner in years. Seemed a bit spiteful and opinionated.

*shrugs* points to barren field ---> over there

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 15, 2025 09:20 AM (NwnyJ)

425 IMO, The Princess Bride is about the characters, and the story is just a vehicle for their interaction, kind of like Seinfeld. In that sense, it's a brilliant work.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at December 15, 2025 09:20 AM (6qf1m)

426 so, the police who were hiding had guns on them

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:21 AM (g47mK)

427 287 If someone said that Rob Reiner got what he deserved because he spread hate and fear, I'm not going to chastise them.
He did spread hate and fear.

Nor am I going to extend accolades of "but look how much better we are" to those offering thoughts and prayers.
He would never have done the same for anyone else.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 15, 2025 08:52 AM (HXT0k)

>>

Best post of the day. Succinct. Truthful. Real

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards at December 15, 2025 09:21 AM (HeR4S)

428 the police were holding the woman...insane

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:21 AM (g47mK)

429 "The suspected father and son terrorist duo who killed at least 15 during a Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration on Sunday were previously investigated by Australian intelligence for ties to the so-called Islamic State, and ISIS flags were reportedly found in their car after the apparent antisemitic attack."

and they had 6 firearms between them...
Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:06 AM (g47mK)

Which they possessed legally. By people suspected of ties to Islamic terror groups. Vote for more gun control, proles.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 09:22 AM (ExV1e)

430
Meathead is mort??

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 15, 2025 09:22 AM (KPKlu)

431 Abner's common sense made up for that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Originally, they wanted Jim Backus for the role of Abner, but I guess he was still on the island at the time.

I think he would have brought too much energy to the role. George Tobias' phlegmatic nature was more suited to the role of the retired layabout Abner.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025

***
Yes on both counts. Gilligan started the same year as Bewitched, 1964. And yes, Backus, good as he was, would have been too energetic and would have not been enough of a contrast with Alice Pearce.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:22 AM (wzUl9)

432
I can't imagine the horror of a child grown adult killing a parent.

I suppose speculation is that there was an argument, and what I saw of Rob Reiner public ally was that he could get himself worked up into a rage discussing almost anything.

Posted by: Auspex at December 15, 2025 09:22 AM (Y8DZL)

433 426 so, the police who were hiding had guns on them
Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:21 AM (g47mK)

Terrible if true

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 09:22 AM (VE6XX)

434 Australia has legal brothels all over the place IIRC.
Posted by: the way I see it

Every state in the US has at least one.
In Texas, it's in Austin.
They sure seem to fuck us quite often.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:23 AM (QVuuq)

435 Kate's still got a better face and hair than Sydney.

Sydney's face only looks good when she smiles, but Kate's face is beautiful regardless.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:08 AM (77rzZ)

Sydney has a better body, though, unless you go solely based on total breast weight.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 09:23 AM (ExV1e)

436 369 If "true", then why must one take on an Arab name upon conversion?"

One doesn't, unless the "infidel" name is ... problematic. Those who select an "arabic" name seem to do so to "fit in"

Arabic =/= muslim
------------------
Gladiator names are moar better. Imma Testicles. I defeated Spatula in Rome in 37 AD. All Hail Testicles.

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 15, 2025 09:23 AM (Wg6v7)

437
Who would've guessed dick von dyke would outlive meathead.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 15, 2025 09:23 AM (KPKlu)

438 His mamma named him Cassius.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 09:24 AM (gMWM2)

439 Meathead is mort??
Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts

He's stable.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:24 AM (QVuuq)

440 A young Rob Reiner was on the set of The Mary Tyler Moore show. Mary had a great body and Reiner, being a boy full of raging hormones and raised in hollywood, took it upon himself to grab her ass. She, of course, was shocked, but laughed it off as a young boy who didn't know what he was doing.

His father smiled, gave the kid a high 5 and told him he shouldn't do that and admired him for doing 'what every man here wants to do.'

hollywood is a sick cesspool of evil.

The world will not miss the likes of Rob Reiner.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 15, 2025 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

441 Variety
@Variety

The newest episode of "Landman" took some shots at "The View."

In the episode, Tommy urges his father, T.L., to kill time around the house by watching a TV show and suggests "The View." When T.L. admits that he doesn't know what that is, Tommy explains it as, "A bunch of pissed-off millionaires bitching about how much they hate millionaires and Trump and men and you and me and everybody else they got a bee up their ass about. It's pretty funny."

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 09:24 AM (RHGPo)

442 We were never shown the exterior of the Petrie house, yet we did get some shots of the Stephens place.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

There's one of Beaver & Wally walking home, with the Munster's home in view over their shoulder.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025

***
There is a shot in a Fugitive episode, sometime after 1964, showing Kimble walking on a city street . . . and the sign for Del Floria's tailor shop, the agents' entrance to HQ on The Man From U.N.C.L.E., is visible.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:25 AM (wzUl9)

443
How old is his "son?" 50? 60?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 15, 2025 09:25 AM (KPKlu)

444 NY Post reporting:

The first victim of the deadly school shooting at Brown University has been identified as a sophomore student and vice president of the school’s college Republican club, Ella Cook, according to her Alabama parish and a former classmate.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 09:25 AM (Dv3i1)

445 443
How old is his "son?" 50? 60?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 15, 2025 09:25 AM (KPKlu)

Late 30's I believe

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 09:25 AM (VE6XX)

446 Princess Bride was a pure fairy tale, but the most enjoyable and adult themed fairy tale ever put on film. Great characters , great actors playing them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 09:25 AM (k5cxK)

447 Mind you, I thought it was funny that Reiner went to therapy for his TDS when he could have just turned off the television and talked to normal people for a few weeks.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 09:26 AM (lXoJ5)

448 ***
Taking "This is My Body, which will be given up for you" and inverting it to "My Body, my choice". The most evil of all.
Posted by: LASue

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 09:26 AM (gMWM2)

449 When I was in Navy boot camp, we heard stories about the horny Aussie gals lining up dockside when an American ship pulled into harbor.
Posted by: Bulg at December 15, 2025 09:14 AM (77rzZ)

I wanted to go to Australia so fucking bad. Went to Guam instead.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 09:26 AM (ExV1e)

450 Alice Pearce>>Sandra Gould

Posted by: Rating The Neighbors at December 15, 2025 09:27 AM (oftw2)

451 415 That's a bit of a Western thingy. Other parts of the world, not so much (travel thru highly muslim Indonesia, for example)
Posted by: man at December 15, 2025 09:19 AM (XuXeR)

One would assume that by this point, most of them are born into Islam.

(Similarly, Chechnya/The Caucasus. Since they're born into Islam, they have no need to change their identity to feel authentically Muslim).

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 09:27 AM (UnA8+)

452 I wanted to go to Australia so fucking bad. Went to Guam instead.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025

***
I always wanted to see Australia and New Zealand. England and Scotland too.

Not no mo'.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:27 AM (wzUl9)

453
I hope "reporters" aren't amiss and omit Meathead's ELECTION FRAUD SCANDAL Conviction in California that everyone forget about.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Historical Facts at December 15, 2025 09:27 AM (KPKlu)

454 I prefer Upton but she was a model and not a Hollywood actress.

Hollywood promotes non model looking women to be 'sex symbols'.

Posted by: the way I see it at December 15, 2025 09:27 AM (KDPiq)

455 There is a shot in a Fugitive episode, sometime after 1964, showing Kimble walking on a city street . . . and the sign for Del Floria's tailor shop, the agents' entrance to HQ on The Man From U.N.C.L.E., is visible.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Ok. That's officially cool.
I wonder how many instances you could find of other shows showing up in shows. They re-used sets all the time.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:28 AM (QVuuq)

456 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 15, 2025 09:28 AM (u82oZ)

457 "Suspect In Brown University Shooting In Custody"

Now waiting for him to be released and the suspect to still be at large. But maybe I'm cynical.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 09:28 AM (lXoJ5)

458 More Patrick Henrys, less Rand Pauls. We can dream.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 09:28 AM (VnsnO)

459 Alice Pearce>>Sandra Gould
Posted by: Rating The Neighbors at December 15, 2025

***
Alice was great in reaction shots as well as everything else she did. I don't even remember her successor.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:28 AM (wzUl9)

460 First thought to the Jewish community, Stop voting Democrat; Second thought, shoot back.
Allowing this to happen is not tolerance it's submission.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 09:28 AM (gMWM2)

461 447 Mind you, I thought it was funny that Reiner went to therapy for his TDS when he could have just turned off the television and talked to normal people for a few weeks.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 09:26 AM (lXoJ5)

He lived in LA.
He probably couldn't find a normal person until he got to Barstow.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 09:28 AM (6ydKt)

462 >Mind you, I thought it was funny that Reiner went to therapy for his TDS when he could have just turned off the television and talked to normal people for a few weeks.

Nobody crazier than a boomer who gets all of his news from cable tv.

Posted by: mr tmz at December 15, 2025 09:29 AM (rJ48h)

463 "Suspect In Brown University Shooting In Custody"

A new one ?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 15, 2025 09:29 AM (VE6XX)

464 A new one ?
Posted by: It's me donna

Sounds like it. Hopefully they found the right person.

Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 09:29 AM (lXoJ5)

465 316 No idea why Candace did a swan dive into crazy but such is life.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 15, 2025 08:47 AM (lXoJ5)

It pays well.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 15, 2025 08:58 AM (ExV1e)

I have realized late in my life that I have greatly underestimated human venality.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 09:30 AM (VnsnO)

466 I used to have a different nic

In my third ship, home-ported in Subic, the trip to Perth, Australia as part of the USS Carl Vinson battlegroup was a dream come true.

Details? OPSEC.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 15, 2025 09:30 AM (u82oZ)

467 And now Moses Brown, the most elite private school in RI and just a few blocks from Brown, has closed for the day.

Heck of a job, Providence PD.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 15, 2025 09:30 AM (viF8m)

468 Art up

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:30 AM (QVuuq)

469 Carrot futures took a big hit when Captain Kangaroo was cancelled. They had to invent "baby carrots" to get their market share back.

Posted by: Inventiveness to Infinity at December 15, 2025 09:30 AM (oftw2)

470 There is a shot in a Fugitive episode, sometime after 1964, showing Kimble walking on a city street . . . and the sign for Del Floria's tailor shop, the agents' entrance to HQ on The Man From U.N.C.L.E., is visible.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Ok. That's officially cool.
I wonder how many instances you could find of other shows showing up in shows. They re-used sets all the time.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025

***
The shot inspired me to write an U.N.C.L.E.-Fugitive crossover story, where Kimble is the "innocent" Solo & Illya recruit to help them, in return for interceding with the Indiana governor to commute his sentence to life. Things don't go according to plan, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:31 AM (wzUl9)

471 My farcebook feed had these three threads near the top when I checked it last night:

1) Trump is rayciss and anti-Islamic in not wanting Somali refugees

2) Some people did some things on a beach in Australia

3) Some people did some things to some Brown college students in the US

Wonder how many people are getting how #1 is the solution for #2/3?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 15, 2025 09:31 AM (sKqQm)

472 Ars gratia artis

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 15, 2025 09:31 AM (wzUl9)

473 Slept late.

Chores await.

Head on a swivel, folk, and have a plan.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 15, 2025 09:31 AM (u82oZ)

474 No idea why Candace did a swan dive into crazy but such is life.

==

if you look at her history, it was not a dive, she was always swimming in it, it's just people were so excited to see a black "conservative" (she never was, and is not now) that they did not care

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:32 AM (g47mK)

475 I wonder how many instances you could find of other shows showing up in shows. They re-used sets all the time.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:28 AM (QVuuq)

Like when Seinfeld re-used the set of the Merv Griffin show!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 09:33 AM (YobFY)

476 Ok. That's officially cool.
I wonder how many instances you could find of other shows showing up in shows. They re-used sets all the time.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 15, 2025 09:28 AM (QVuuq)

The house for Leave It To Beaver was reused for Marcus Welby, M.D then they gave it a new facade for the movie The 'Burbs, before it was reconverted and used for the Leave It To Beaver reunion movie in the late 90s.

It's supposedly still on the Universal lot somewhere today.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at December 15, 2025 09:34 AM (6ydKt)

477 457 "Suspect In Brown University Shooting In Custody"

Now waiting for him to be released and the suspect to still be at large. But maybe I'm cynical.
Posted by: NR Pax
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If they had shot him he would be released to the morgue.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 15, 2025 09:34 AM (gMWM2)

478 if you look at her history, it was not a dive, she was always swimming in it, it's just people were so excited to see a black "conservative" (she never was, and is not now) that they did not care
Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 09:32 AM (g47mK)

I was quite impressed with her when she touring with Charlie. She was fast on her feet and took no shit. You never know, I suppose. Crooked timber.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 15, 2025 09:34 AM (VnsnO)

479 Just one question:

Why shouldn’t we go ahead and take potshots at Rob Reiner’s death the way the left made snide comments about Charlie Kirk’s?
Posted by: LinusPresley at December 15, 2025 07:26 AM (G9Pnv)

We don't have to cheer it, but we can note that he broke it, he bought it. It was avoidable, had he been a better parent.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 15, 2025 09:34 AM (npFr7)

480
Rob Reiner's entire career is summed up by his bitter jealousy of his father's success and how beloved he was. His deep-rooted feeling of inadequacy was far more toxic than his TDS.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 15, 2025 09:36 AM (x0n13)

481 Rob and Laura lived in New Rochelle, which was an interesting choice. New Rochelle was in the news for its racially segregated school system, one of the rare school civil rights projects in New York at the time. She wears capri pants instead of house dresses. There is some subtext in the show, besides them both being great entertainers.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 15, 2025 09:42 AM (R86kT)

482 Just parking this here for later to repost after 100 comment limit on art thread.

Rebel News' Avi interviews survivor of Bondi Beach massacre - transcript (Link goes to 'The Conservative Woman in UK)

https://tinyurl.com/mwnkyb8r

Posted by: Chuck Martel at December 15, 2025 09:43 AM (Dv3i1)

483 Xi Blasts "Reckless" Projects Exaggerating Growth After China Reveals Dismal Macro Data For November

“All plans must be based on facts, aiming for solid, genuine growth without exaggeration, and promoting high-quality, sustainable development...”

... when Chinese youth employment got seriously bad, they just stopped reporting it, so that inconvenient fact is missing.

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 09:45 AM (RHGPo)

484 That never made any sense to me. "Turn the other cheek" doesn't mean "be a doormat" or "let people enslave, torture or murder you."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 15, 2025 08:11 AM (azrRX)

I think Nietzsche had the right take on that aspect of Christianity. Unfortunately.

Posted by: front toward enemy at December 15, 2025 09:46 AM (TIizU)

485 Hedge Fund CIO: "If Nvidia Is This Cycle's Coalmine, Oracle Is The Canary"

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 09:50 AM (RHGPo)

486 Nobody crazier than a Generationalist worshiping Satan.
There ought to be a sort of zoo where people can view you.
You're going to get locked up somewhere when your worldview crashes. Might as well charge admission.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 15, 2025 09:52 AM (zdLoL)

487 I wonder if Norman Lear was disappointed because I think he made All in the Family to make fun of backwards six pack Joe (aka Archie) and advertise liberalism but in the end most people watched because they liked and identified with Archie most of all even while recognizing his foibles… Meathead was certainly not a likeable character but Archie was. I speculate that was not Lear’s intention...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 15, 2025 08:30 AM

Similar story with the series "Family Ties". The show was supposed to be about focusing on the liberalism of the hippy parents, but fans of the show ended up loving Michael J. Fox's Alex P. Keaton and his Republicanism. So the show ended up changing from a focus on the parents to a focus on Michael J. Fox.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 09:57 AM (P5BPp)

488 A question to our Jewish friends here.....is this article an accurate representation of the Jewish belief in the afterlife?

https://tinyurl.com/yvr2jfxv

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 15, 2025 09:59 AM (5xuJ/)

489 >>>Rob Reiner shared his true feelings about Donald Trump

- MSN

F MSN and F Reiner.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at December 15, 2025 10:00 AM (dK+Kv)

490 The person of interest ben Erickson was questioned and released. Back to square 1.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at December 15, 2025 10:03 AM (R86kT)

491 Al Bundy, man spreading on the couch, describing his day. "And then a fat woman Godzillas her way into the shoe store...".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at December 15, 2025 08:37 AM

"It's not the *dress* that makes you look fat, it's the *FAT* that makes you look fat!"

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 10:04 AM (P5BPp)

492 Good morning, all, thanks, J.J. Happy Hanukkah 🕯🕯

Pennsylvania has many dimwitted a**holes, more every time there's an election because there's been years of entryism by VA influencers and pols. (Easy pickings here.)

>>FOX News, 4 Dec. 2025, 'PA school faces fury after Muslim club’s pro-Palestinian display leaves Jewish students ‘shaken’ Dozens of parents sent a letter to the school district demanding answers on the event

Also, WISS NOW dot com, Dec. 4, 2025, and other sources - Parents raise concern over antisemitism at Muslim Student Association booth during Wissahickon Cultural Fair
Several parents criticized a display booth as inappropriate and politically charged

That's the Wissahickon School District, Montgomery County, PA, one of PA's premier high schools. Is it a surprise? IDK but also see, Wissahickon School District community forum · May 27 - This is alarming and also not surprising. A precipitous fall in rankings based on test scores from 2022-2024. The WSD administration and board has lost focus on education.

Continued -

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 10:16 AM (NFX2v)

493 The other high school, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Fairfax County, VA.

>WaPo, Dec. 6, 2025 › Local Education, Kidnapping skit in a high school club’s video draws outrage critics

(Another) 'Once the top-ranked school in the nation, TJHSST drops again,' Fairfax County Times, Published Oct 11, 2024 Updated Dec 5, 2024 (DEI)

No discernible trends, right? 🙄🤬
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>NYT, Hanukkah Concerts With Israeli Military Cantor Raise Outcry in Amsterdam
A concert hall canceled the performance several months ago but then reached a compromise in which three concerts will be held. The bargain hasn’t satisfied critics of the events. 2 days ago

>Marietta Daily Journal, 'Two states designate Muslim group as terrorist, but other GOP governors mum' National News, mdjonline com, one hour ago

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 10:16 AM (NFX2v)

494 TMZ, Rob Reiner & Wife Michele's Son Nick Reiner in Custody, 39 minutes ago

Ron Reiner, a key founder and on the advisory board for the Committee to Investigate Russia (CIR), a non-profit launched in 2017 with journalist David Frum to inform Americans about Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S. election and ongoing threats to democracy, featuring figures like Morgan Freeman in its campaign to raise awareness.

That overrides all of his 'cute' movies for me.

Have a nice day.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 10:16 AM (NFX2v)

495 didn't Candace owens publish Charlie Kirk's private messages from years ago, his dating history ? yep, internet is there for us : "Candace Owens Sparks Outrage by Sharing Charlie Kirk Dating Texts".

Posted by: runner at December 15, 2025 08:48 AM (g47mK)

Yes, Candace Owens did publicly share private text messages from years ago between her and the late Charlie Kirk, in which he asked for her advice on what to wear on a date (specifically, whether to change out of a Turning Point USA-branded shirt). She presented this during a December 2025 episode of her podcast, framing it nostalgically as her acting as his "wing-woman" for a woman he was reportedly "in love with" at the time — before he met and married his wife, Erika Kirk.

The specific exchange she read aloud and showed:

Charlie: "Do I have to change this shirt?"
Candace: "Yes, and throw it away if you can, Charlie."
Charlie: "Ah, okay."

This disclosure sparked significant backlash from conservatives, who called it "deranged," "reprehensible," "highly inappropriate," and disrespectful to Erika Kirk (Charlie's widow, who was pregnant at the time...)

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 10:19 AM (P5BPp)

496 Yep. He, she, it, I don’t know and don’t care, was in charge of the big case that went to SCOTUS a year or so ago that was, they thought, going to impose tranny views on everything. He lost, miserably.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 15, 2025 08:29 AM

Just for accuracy's sake, She (I know you don't care).

Biological Woman.

Posted by: XTC at December 15, 2025 08:49 AM

This grates on me. Isn't "biological woman" redundant?

As Colonel Nathan Jessup said in response to being asked about "grave danger", "is there another kind?"

There is only one kind of woman. "trans" or "transgender" women do not exist. Those are made up descriptions. A "trans-woman" or "transgender woman" is a man. Not a woman.

We should not have to clarify that someone was a "biological" woman or man. Saying 'she is a woman' or 'he is a man' should always be sufficient.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 10:25 AM (P5BPp)

497 This Australia schooling reminds me so much of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where the police stood by while the shooter did his ugly business. In the Australia event, the police did nothing for 20 minutes.

Posted by: SMOD at December 15, 2025 09:01 AM

I read that the majority of the police who were on-scene were women, who immediately ran and hid.

End Wokeness @EndWokeness

"Turn in your firearms, we'll protect you"

The protection:

X images of female cops: https://bit.ly/4aPSlPO

Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews

BREAKING - Newly released images confirm eyewitness claims that four officers were close to the attackers during the Bondi Beach massacre but failed to engage, with photos showing three female officers fleeing or hiding instead of attempting to respond to the threat.

X videos and images: https://bit.ly/4ahNgzG

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 10:56 AM (P5BPp)

498 Not a fan of Reiner's politics but that's irrelevant today
Spinal Tap and The Princess Bride are great bits of movie making. RIP

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 15, 2025 07:20 AM

I did like A Few Good Men and When Harry Met Sally.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 15, 2025 08:28 AM

"The Princess Bride" will always hold a special place in my heart. I first saw it on a trip to Arizona with my uncle and his wife to visit my other aunt (my uncle's sister) when I was 12 years old in 1988. She was taking care of a ranch for the summer and the first night we were there she set me up in the living room pull-out couch and left the TV on. They had satellite TV at the time and there were a ton of channels to watch. My aunt went through the channels for a bit and then settled on "The Princess Bride".

And that was my introduction to the movie and I loved it.

Saw "A Few Good Men" for the first time freshman year in college and immediately liked it. I remember my roommate and I playing over and over the scene where Tom Cruise rips into Demi Moore for being stupid and missing the day they taught law at law school and laughing our asses off.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 11:15 AM (P5BPp)

499 Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh

JUST IN: Liberals are desperately claiming the right is celebrating the death of Rob Reiner, but X is being flooded with conservatives expressing sorrow for Reiner and his wife's death.

Reiner previously broke with the Left to condemn what happened to Charlie.

A sad loss.

X video of Rob Reiner commenting on Charlie Kirk's assassination: https://bit.ly/4oUe3FG

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 15, 2025 11:17 AM (P5BPp)

500 I've been trying to tell anybody that will listen -- The Problem isn't the dirtbag politicians. They've always been, and always will be, with us.

The Problem is the People that vote for them. In the NYC Mayoral election, 33% of the smartest, best educated group of People in history with the most to lose, and a history of doing so, voted for a person who wants to kill them.

'Splain that

Posted by: YosemiteSatchmo at December 15, 2025 11:23 AM (NEFaB)

501 499. Reiner previously broke with the Left to condemn what happened to Charlie.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton

No, he didn't. Listen harder.
That shouldn't happen to anyone.
Kirk's wife forgave his assassin and that's admirable to him.

Then note lots of high echelon lefties jumped on the bandwagon, even out on the West Coast -

The Hollywood Reporter, 'Political Figures and Hollywood Notables React to Charlie Kirk’s Death: “He Was Loved and Admired” The conservative political activist was fatally shot during an event at a Utah university. Sep 10, 2025

Clinton, Newsom, Obama...

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at December 15, 2025 11:31 AM (NFX2v)

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