Wednesday Morning Rant

Is It Actually Unusual?

There is a former USAF major general named William McCasland. He retired in in the teens. He recently took his .38 revolver and headed out for a hike near his Albuquerque, NM home - and never returned. So far, there is nothing all that unusual about this. A missing persons case - even when it is a former Air Force general - is in fact one of those "local news stories." It is unusual for such a case to be reported on outside of the home market and much more unusual for it be a topic for mainstream outlets like Fox News and Scientific American. Or, for that matter, the FBI, Congress and the White House.

And, in fact, it hasn't. Not on its own. McCasland's recent disappearance, however, is allegedly one incident in a disturbing trend. Per NBC News, there has been much online speculation that McCasland is just the latest incident in a long series of deaths or disappearances of US scientists. The speculation is that US scientists are being targeted, by enemy actors or others of unknown motive. This has since grown into actual investigations to see if there is any there there.

The basis of this speculation is that there are a series of US scientists in nuclear, space and related fields who have mysteriously - and unusually - disappeared or died over the past few years. Specifically, the speculation appears to be around the death or disappearance of at least 10 scientists since 2023. Per Fox News, six of them are dead and four of them are missing:

Michael David Hicks, 59; Frank Maiwald, 61; Nuno Loureiro, 47; Jason Thomas, 45; Amy Eskridge, 34; and Carl Grillmair, 47, all died between 2023 and 2026. Each played a key role in vital scientific research, Fox News Digital previously reported.
The causes of death for Hicks and Maiwald remain unknown. Grillmair was gunned down outside his home on Feb. 16, and Freddy Snyder, 29, was subsequently charged with his murder. Loureiro was also fatally shot at his Massachusetts home. The body of Jason Thomas, an associate director of chemical biology at Novartis, was discovered in Lake Quannapowitt, Mass., three months after he was last seen walking from his home late at night. Eskridge, a Huntsville, Alabama--based researcher, died June 11, 2022, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Monica Reza, 60; Melissa Casias, 53; Anthony Chavez, 79; Steven Garcia, 48; and retired Air Force Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland, 68, were all reported missing between 2023 and 2026. All the disappearances occurred under suspicious circumstances.

This sounds quite damning, but it does make me wonder. This is ten people, over about three years, in a country of over 300 million people. At the scale of "the country" or even the relatively rarefied group of "important scientists," is this rate of murder, suicide, unknown death or disappearance unusual? I have no idea. I wouldn't guess that it is. Tragic for their families, yes - but nationally important? I don't know. Congress, however has launched an investigation:

On Sunday, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., warned that "something sinister" could be involved.
"We've put a notice out to the Department of War, the FBI, NASA, and the Department of Energy. We want to know everything they know about what happened with these scientists, because those four agencies were predominantly the ones these 11 individuals were affiliated with," he said during an appearance on "Fox & Friends Weekend." "We want to try to piece this together."

So have the FBI and the agencies involved:

"In light of the recent and legitimate questions about these troubling cases, and President Trump's commitment to the truth, the White House is actively working with all relevant agencies and the FBI to holistically review all of the cases together and identify any potential patterns," Karoline Leavitt later wrote on social media.

NASA has indicated that they see no pattern or national security threat, but are cooperating with the investigation. Secretary Wright told Fox News during an interview about Iran that the Department of Energy is also doing its own investigation to determine if there is any common thread connecting the DOE scientists on the list.

It seems unlikely to me that this is evidence of a coordinated conspiracy to abduct or murder current and former US scientists. I suspect this is much more likely to be an example of "anything can look like a trend if you look hard enough and broadly enough for long enough." Time may, perhaps, tell.

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

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1 Munkey!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2026 11:00 AM (bFu5X)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 11:00 AM (vf0Uk)

3 Noice......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 11:00 AM (vf0Uk)

4 Aaaand, 1st.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2026 11:00 AM (bFu5X)

5 OK!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 11:01 AM (5xoct)

6 Wha'???!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 11:01 AM (vf0Uk)

7 Munkey!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2026 11:00 AM (bFu5X)

I lum'd NOOD on your behalf.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 11:01 AM (vf0Uk)

8 Comments went away for a second there........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 11:01 AM (vf0Uk)

9
It's the Amish mafia at work. You heard it here first.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 22, 2026 11:02 AM (xG4kz)

10 I'm waiting to hear what Tucker thinks...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 22, 2026 11:02 AM (FtULh)

11 Is It Actually Unusual?

It's not.

Posted by: Tom Jones at April 22, 2026 11:02 AM (wXgT/)

12 Specifically, the speculation appears to be around the death or disappearance of at least 10 scientists since 2023. Per Fox News, six of them are dead and four of them are missing:

What did they have on the Clintons?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 11:03 AM (vf0Uk)

13
Well, Massachusetts.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 11:03 AM (tgvbd)

14 Minkey looks like skipper of the prison baseball team...

Posted by: muldoon at April 22, 2026 11:04 AM (I0N4X)

15 I lum'd NOOD on your behalf.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 11:01 AM

*fistbump*

I added a nood. Belt and suspenders and all that.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2026 11:04 AM (bFu5X)

16 This sounds quite damning, but it does make me wonder. This is ten people, over about three years, in a country of over 300 million people. At the scale of "the country" or even the relatively rarefied group of "important scientists," is this rate of murder, suicide, unknown death or disappearance unusual? I have no idea. I wouldn't guess that it is. Tragic for their families, yes - but nationally important? I don't know. Congress, however has launched an investigation:

One would think this would be slightly more important than some leftist media hack's mom........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 11:04 AM (vf0Uk)

17 This sounds like the beginning of a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

FBI Agent Aloysius Pendergast is on the case!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2026 11:04 AM (gnNyN)

18 Joe Mannix nails it.

The hysteria over these "disappearances" is ridiculous. Numbers don't lie, and in a nation of 350 million people, somebody is going to wander off, never to be seen again, or die mysteriously every hour!

And...the idea that these people are all vital national security operatives is just silly.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 22, 2026 11:04 AM (n9ltV)

19 I'm waiting to hear what Tucker thinks...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 22, 2026 11:02 AM (FtULh)

Israel did it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 11:05 AM (vf0Uk)

20
I suspect this is much more likely to be an example of "anything can look like a trend if you look hard enough and broadly enough for long enough." Time may, perhaps, tell.

A former researcher friend of mine expressed this concept as, "Data will confess to anything under sufficient torture."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 22, 2026 11:05 AM (xG4kz)

21 You know who I blame.

Posted by: Candace Owens at April 22, 2026 11:05 AM (f1kZG)

22 Per NBC News, there has been much online speculation that McCasland is just the latest incident in a long series of deaths or disappearances of US scientists. The speculation is that US scientists are being targeted, by enemy actors or others of unknown motive. This has since grown into actual investigations to see if there is any there there.

Now do the 42 suicides of the Friends of Bill & Hill.
Or the 68 or whatever ungodly high number it is.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2026 11:05 AM (/Vcgx)

23
When are people finally going top realize the danger to humanity that the Mole Men represent?!?!

Everyday and every night they sit and plot in their underground capitol, Molevania, near the center of the Earth plotting our demise and kidnapping our scientists.

Plotting!

Plotting and plotting!!!

plotting

plo

Posted by: naturalfake at April 22, 2026 11:05 AM (iJfKG)

24 I think Olivia, the Bishops, and Astrid need to look into this, pronto!

Posted by: Denny Crane - At Least, That's My Rather Fringe Opinion On This... at April 22, 2026 11:05 AM (dmDsy)

25 There's a chance this is just noise to distract us.
Or MAYBE there's some real reporting going on. I have my doubts there.

It's possible scientists and UFO-adjacent folks are being targeted. One of the victims said their life was in danger and got proof she was being targeted and harassed before she 'committed suicide'.

Shady shit does happen and when our government wants it to be covered up, it stays covered.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 22, 2026 11:06 AM (xcxpd)

26 was discovered in Lake Quannapowitt, Mass.

Hmm. I live 2 miles from there and never heard this. Maybe I should actually look at local news from time to time.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2026 11:06 AM (bFu5X)

27 The hysteria over these "disappearances" is ridiculous. Numbers don't lie, and in a nation of 350 million people, somebody is going to wander off, never to be seen again, or die mysteriously every hour!

And...the idea that these people are all vital national security operatives is just silly.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 22, 2026 11:04 AM (n9ltV)

That's just what they WANT you to think.

Terrorists WIN!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 11:06 AM (vf0Uk)

28
All the people associated with the JFK assassination who died afterwards was supposed to be sinister, but on an actuarial basis, the chances of this happening approach 100%.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 11:06 AM (tgvbd)

29 One of the ten was a secretary, right?

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 22, 2026 11:06 AM (4NO2D)

30 Also, Mannix!

*Jazzy music plays*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 22, 2026 11:06 AM (xcxpd)

31 Dave Mason. RIP

We just disagree.

Posted by: alpine_beer at April 22, 2026 11:07 AM (van9r)

32 "When are people finally going top realize the danger to humanity that the Mole Men represent?!?!"

Actually, they can be defeated quite easily with a flashlight.

Posted by: fd at April 22, 2026 11:07 AM (ZO2UD)

33 28
All the people associated with the JFK assassination who died afterwards was supposed to be sinister, but on an actuarial basis, the chances of this happening approach 100%.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 11:06 AM (tgvbd)

"Especially if a CIA doctor is assigned to your care."
-Jack Ruby

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 22, 2026 11:07 AM (xcxpd)

34
Hmm. I live 2 miles from there and never heard this. Maybe I should actually look at local news from time to time.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2026 11:06 AM (bFu5X)

___________

That's what you'd say if you were guilty. Do you have an alibi?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 11:07 AM (tgvbd)

35 Every witness to Lincoln's "murder" is dead. What are the odds of that?

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 22, 2026 11:07 AM (4NO2D)

36
Colonel Mustard, in the Library, with the Wrench

... wait, are we not playing, "Clue"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 22, 2026 11:08 AM (xG4kz)

37 Colonel Mustard, in the Library, with the Wrench

... wait, are we not playing, "Clue"?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 22, 2026 11:08 AM (xG4kz)

Everything comes from Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Airplane! or Clue.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 11:08 AM (vf0Uk)

38 "When are people finally going top realize the danger to humanity that the Mole Men represent?!?!"

Actually, they can be defeated quite easily with a flashlight.
Posted by: fd at April 22, 2026 11:07 AM (ZO2UD)

...oh.

...

Well, never mind.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 22, 2026 11:08 AM (iJfKG)

39 The hysteria over these "disappearances" is ridiculous. Numbers don't lie, and in a nation of 350 million people, somebody is going to wander off, never to be seen again, or die mysteriously every hour!
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People spontaneously combust all the time. It's just not widely reported.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2026 11:09 AM (xvhJH)

40 That's what you'd say if you were guilty. Do you have an alibi?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 11:07 AM

*shifty eyes*

Yes...why? What have you heard?

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2026 11:09 AM (bFu5X)

41 Pfffft!

Pikers.

Freak out when it's over two dozen, lol

Posted by: Hillary! at April 22, 2026 11:09 AM (5xoct)

42 Not particularly curious about this.
But consider the similarities between the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy!!! Time travelers I tell ya!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2026 11:09 AM (2WIwB)

43 ----------
People spontaneously combust all the time. It's just not widely reported.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2026 11:09 AM (xvhJH)

I thought Ozempic was supposed to fix that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 11:09 AM (vf0Uk)

44 People spontaneously combust all the time. It's just not widely reported.

And they die in bizarre gardening accidents.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 22, 2026 11:10 AM (DgMqy)

45 I think that there is enough “there” there to justify the investigation.

Posted by: Bulg at April 22, 2026 11:10 AM (77rzZ)

46 Zerohedge...I know....used to have stories and theories of bankers' suicides, etc. Unless these people were somehow almost irreplacable, held incredible secrets or crossed Hillary, it may be chance.

Oh, I get to go wash my monkey statues today. 175 pounds each, concrete, nicely painted black holding a bananas, 70 pound pedestals.

For some reason when I saw them late last year, I HAD to buy them. Don't know why....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 22, 2026 11:10 AM (Sco7b)

47 I have doubts about this 'issue' based on the fact that the "missing ten" include a retired 80 year old, a retired 70 year old, an administrative assistant, and a manager (admittedly at JPL) whose most notable contribution was made almost 30 years ago.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 22, 2026 11:10 AM (ExV1e)

48
Time travelers I tell ya!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2026 11:09 AM (2WIwB)

___________

Wandering Jews. Call Tucker, stat!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 11:10 AM (tgvbd)

49 "Data will confess to anything under sufficient torture."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 22, 2026 11:05 AM (xG4kz

No way. You should see how he put one over on the Borg Queen!

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 11:10 AM (HgRco)

50 I'm kind of concerned about the aliens that keep filling a fencepost in the backyard with acorns. I think they are invisible because I never see them

Posted by: fd at April 22, 2026 11:10 AM (4pXIh)

51 Everything comes from Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Airplane! or Clue.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 11:08 AM (vf0Uk)

Well...piss off. I fart in your general direction.

Posted by: Monty Python at April 22, 2026 11:11 AM (2WIwB)

52 I wonder how many American scientists, researchers, etc., in total, are employed in the various fields of research mentioned? If it's a small number, say a couple hundred "this might be something."

If, OTOH it's in the thousands?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 22, 2026 11:12 AM (AkEZC)

53 I'm kind of concerned about the aliens that keep filling a fencepost in the backyard with acorns. I think they are invisible because I never see them
Posted by: fd at April 22, 2026 11:10 AM

I have a problem with wren's trying to build nests in my barn. I put a box in the perfect spot so that is where they go. When it is almost ready but no eggs, I dump the box.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 22, 2026 11:13 AM (4NO2D)

54 At the scale of "the country" or even the relatively rarefied group of "important scientists," is this rate of murder, suicide, unknown death or disappearance unusual?

>>> All of these places were tangentially related to Pooky's old career field, which was so unstable that no one knew of any "natives" that made it past E-6 (Tech Sgt). The field employed and worked with literal mad scientists.

As I've repeatedly said, I have had eyes on Pooky for the last five years and he swears he doesn't know anyone on the list. But if anyone from Pooky's old career field was involved or winds up being a victim, I would not be surprised.

Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to keep track of everyone and everything at April 22, 2026 11:13 AM (Wt5PA)

55 37. What, no Monty Python or Blazing Saddles?

Posted by: Bulg at April 22, 2026 11:13 AM (77rzZ)

56 47 I have doubts about this 'issue' based on the fact that the "missing ten" include a retired 80 year old, a retired 70 year old, an administrative assistant, and a manager (admittedly at JPL) whose most notable contribution was made almost 30 years ago.

john titor cleaning up business after having fetched his precious ibm 5100 from the '90s.

Posted by: anachronda at April 22, 2026 11:13 AM (oY6Yp)

57 Thx Joe.
Get Scully and Mulder on this one. It's the only way

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 22, 2026 11:13 AM (gu0hJ)

58 The Zapruder film was made by Abraham Zapruder... his last name starts with "Z", the 26th letter. So naturally, Z2=52.

"Kennedy" has 7 letters, so Z2-7=45

Clearly, someone in the first Trump administration has now gone rouge, and is killing scientists and secretaries....

Posted by: Denny Crane - I Solved It! You Are Welcome. at April 22, 2026 11:13 AM (dmDsy)

59 NM sure can get hot out in the desert. Why a man might never come back if say he drove out there with someone else and was then kicked out of the car.

Just saying

Posted by: Some Man in Black at April 22, 2026 11:13 AM (sKqQm)

60 Given how many Iranian nuclear scientists the Mossad and CIA have taken out very publicly over the last few years, is it possible this is payback?

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at April 22, 2026 11:13 AM (MNCvZ)

61 I'm not saying it's aliens, but...

Posted by: It's aliens! at April 22, 2026 11:13 AM (2Ez/1)

62 Lovely application of "correlation vs causation" is my guess.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 22, 2026 11:13 AM (YBtcQ)

63 What, no Monty Python or Blazing Saddles?
Posted by: Bulg at April 22, 2026 11:13 AM

Inconceivable!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2026 11:14 AM (bFu5X)

64 I'm sure there's a Netflix movie in the making about this. Evil white scientists being offed by innocent but misguided POC's who are victims of the overall white Christian patriarchy.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 22, 2026 11:14 AM (g8Ew8)

65 54 As I've repeatedly said, I have had eyes on Pooky for the last five years and he swears he doesn't know anyone on the list.

that's what they *want* him to swear. *finger touches nose*

Posted by: anachronda at April 22, 2026 11:14 AM (oY6Yp)

66 I'm kind of concerned about the aliens that keep filling a fencepost in the backyard with acorns. I think they are invisible because I never see them/i]

Out: Probing your butt

In: Raiding your bird feeder

Posted by: Some Unidentified Flying Squirrel at April 22, 2026 11:14 AM (sKqQm)

67 Superman vs. The Mole Men was 1952. The fruits of this epic battle have only now come to light. Scientists trying to back-engineer the Mole Men's Electrolux Death Ray have been summarily disappeared. As is necessary to our survival.

Posted by: Mole Men/Penguin Alliance at April 22, 2026 11:15 AM (oftw2)

68 >>One of the victims said their life was in danger and got proof she was being targeted and harassed before she 'committed suicide'.

The story:

https://tinyurl.com/mr29w8dc

Posted by: one hour sober at April 22, 2026 11:15 AM (Y1sOo)

69 I can't believe that the net zero crowd hasn't said that these were all people with the secret to windmill or solar power and big oil is offing them.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 22, 2026 11:15 AM (0U5gm)

70 The Zapruder film was made by Abraham Zapruder... his last name starts with "Z", the 26th letter. So naturally, Z2=52.

"Kennedy" has 7 letters, so Z2-7=45

Clearly, someone in the first Trump administration has now gone rouge, and is killing scientists and secretaries....
Posted by: Denny Crane - I Solved It! You Are Welcome. at April 22, 2026 11:13 AM

That would have been a great with a Louis Farrakhan sock.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2026 11:15 AM (bFu5X)

71
One of the ten was a secretary, right?
Posted by: toby928(c)

Tell me it wasn't the one who, equipped with just a mechanical adding machine, reams of 8-1/2" by 11" paper, dozens of boxes of No. 2 Ticonderoga pencils (each one sharpened to a neat point), gallons of black coffee, and hundreds of cartons of Parliament cigarettes, single-handedly steered all of our Apollo moon missions to that body and insured that our brave astronauts returned safely to Earth?

Not her! Surely, not her! I could not go on if it was her!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 22, 2026 11:15 AM (xG4kz)

72 "important scientists"

Bill Nyet
Neil DeGassed Tyson
Mikey Mann
Herself Dr. Amy Acton-Eaton-Hogg

Posted by: Bad Andrew at April 22, 2026 11:15 AM (DgMqy)

73 >>The hysteria over these "disappearances" is ridiculous. Numbers don't lie, and in a nation of 350 million people, somebody is going to wander off, never to be seen again, or die mysteriously every hour!

Maybe. But if you look at it not as 10 people in a country of 350 million and instead as a relatively small group of people, some who worked together on very sensitive projects, dying or disappearing without a trace it seems a little coincidental.

Certainly couldn't hurt to look a little closer at the circumstances and connections between the people. It's not like we and the Israelis haven't been knocking off Iranian scientists for years and we do have other potent enemies.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 22, 2026 11:15 AM (viF8m)

74 How many left notes before they died or disappeared that claimed they felt they were in danger? One? None? Some?

This story seemed fishy to me since I first heard about it. Fishy in the way that it didn't feel true. Not fishy like there was more to it.

That said I would want to know about notes etc left behind before dismissing it outright.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 11:16 AM (HgRco)

75 This sounds like the beginning of a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

FBI Agent Aloysius Pendergast is on the case!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

All clues point to the SPLC.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 22, 2026 11:16 AM (0U5gm)

76 I can't believe that the net zero crowd hasn't said that these were all people with the secret to windmill or solar power and big oil is offing them.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 22, 2026 11:15 AM (0U5gm)
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The 100 mpg carburetor.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2026 11:16 AM (xvhJH)

77 Given how many Iranian nuclear scientists the Mossad and CIA have taken out very publicly over the last few years, is it possible this is payback?
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at April 22, 2026 11:13 AM (MNCvZ)

Why take out a retired 80 year old? Or a secretary?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 22, 2026 11:16 AM (ExV1e)

78
The missing scientists are all now part of a super-secret government agency all of whose members are officially dead. This is quite common, I'm told.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 11:17 AM (tgvbd)

79 This is ten people, over about three years, in a country of over 300 million people.
---
It's a goofy distraction; a rattling can of rocks.

You could do the same thing with just about any issue.

Another "Shark Attacks White Girl!!!" summer.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 22, 2026 11:17 AM (tUP1A)

80
Clearly, someone in the first Trump administration has now gone rouge, and is killing scientists and secretaries....

It's the CCP. "... going rouge ..." was the tell.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 22, 2026 11:17 AM (xG4kz)

81 What, no Monty Python or Blazing Saddles?
Posted by: Bulg at April 22, 2026 11:13 AM (77rzZ)

Give me a break. I threw the list together in 12 seconds.

Geez......I didn't say it was a locked list.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 11:17 AM (vf0Uk)

82 46 For some reason when I saw them late last year, I HAD to buy them. Don't know why....

*whistles innocently*

Posted by: that hypnotist that amused your high school at April 22, 2026 11:17 AM (oY6Yp)

83 A dark and stormy night. A lonely scientist in a windowless lab toils, surrounded by his tubes and wires and careful notes.

A moment passed. Then, another. Soon, after a moment, another moment passed.

to be continued...

Posted by: Don Black at April 22, 2026 11:18 AM (ZxPkt)

84
60 Given how many Iranian nuclear scientists the Mossad and CIA have taken out very publicly over the last few years, is it possible this is payback?
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at April 22, 2026 11:13 AM

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They'd screw it up.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 22, 2026 11:18 AM (bYpLU)

85 The hysteria over these "disappearances" is ridiculous. Numbers don't lie, and in a nation of 350 million people, somebody is going to wander off, never to be seen again, or die mysteriously every hour!

I keep telling you people!

Posted by: David Paulides at April 22, 2026 11:18 AM (bFu5X)

86 Be a shame if a certain fellow named Fauci got added to that list.

Posted by: Bulg at April 22, 2026 11:19 AM (77rzZ)

87 Lake Quannapowitt Mass.

Hell, that name is enough to kill anybody.

Posted by: Case at April 22, 2026 11:19 AM (pvf3X)

88 So the same media that told me when Clinton's point man to deal with Epstein was found hanging by the neck, dead via a shotgun wound to the chest...with no shotgun anywhere in the area was an obvious boring suicide is telling me to freak out about 10 random people disappearing?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 22, 2026 11:19 AM (sKqQm)

89 I made a baking soda volcano in 9th grade. Am I in danger?

Posted by: Peter Brady, Hiding Out at April 22, 2026 11:19 AM (oftw2)

90 This sounds like the beginning of a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

FBI Agent Aloysius Pendergast is on the case!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

All clues point to the SPLC.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 22, 2026 11:16 AM (0U5gm)

The Society of People of Lizard Collective?!?!

*shudders*

Posted by: naturalfake at April 22, 2026 11:19 AM (iJfKG)

91 Good fodder for conspiros but no one really knows what is going on, if anything.

Posted by: Cow Demon at April 22, 2026 11:19 AM (AZWEO)

92 70 That would have been a great with a Louis Farrakhan sock.

would have had to add up to 19

Posted by: anachronda at April 22, 2026 11:20 AM (oY6Yp)

93 The 100 mpg carburetor.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2026 11:16 AM

It's real, I tell you! Big Oil is suppressing it!

Posted by: Steven Segal at April 22, 2026 11:20 AM (bFu5X)

94 Maybe people are freaking out because they suspect that Obama and Biden's working open borders rush to flood the country with those who hate us is going to do major harm to us soon, in all sorts of unexpected ways?

We lost so much thanks to a Chinese lab-created virus. Chinese students and scientists smuggling in crop-killing viruses. We have Hamas-loving, islamist activists raging across the country since Oct 7th. We have cartels openly trafficking fentanyl, humans, and Lord know what else. We have Somalis, Russians, and others stealing billions with the consent of so many in our government. We have a major organization, the SPLC, which has partnered with our military and Silicon Valley censors, literally manufacturing hate crimes to keep us silent and surveilled. We had Biden's DoJ investigating parents complaining at school board meetings as if they were ISIS. Hell, people like Podesta have been baiting us with the "aliens are real and the government has proof" crap.

I have no idea if this missing/dead scientist thing is a legit concern, but I have a hard time judging anyone for believing it is.

In 2026, what conspiracy is too outlandish to consider, even a tiny bit?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 11:20 AM (5xoct)

95 No one calls it rouge anymore. It's blush or bronzer.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at April 22, 2026 11:20 AM (3ImbR)

96 Oh dear, sorry for the wall of words.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 11:20 AM (5xoct)

97 89 I made a baking soda volcano in 9th grade. Am I in danger?

better buy more ammo just to be safe

Posted by: anachronda at April 22, 2026 11:20 AM (oY6Yp)

98 Have they checked Galt's Gulch?

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 22, 2026 11:20 AM (4NO2D)

99 There is no such thing as aliens. It’s all a lie.

Posted by: The Aliens at April 22, 2026 11:22 AM (ICjqV)

100 This sounds like the beginning of a novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.

Penelope Ann Miller was the bomb in Relic.

Posted by: far cry at April 22, 2026 11:22 AM (wBRco)

101 Going rouge? Is Trumpkins targeting children of coler again?

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein Of Brattleboro, VT at April 22, 2026 11:22 AM (oftw2)

102 I tend to agree with you, Mannix. Having experienced firsthand the Curious Disappearance of a family member (my F-I-L) which is still unsolved 18 years later, I was stunned to find out how many missing persons cases there are in the U.s. The average person, if asked to guess would underestimate the total by a factor of ten or more.

As you mentioned, patterns can be seen. even if there is no relationship between individual cases. By my math, mid-2022 to mid-2026 is actually 4 years rather than three, making a causal relationship even less likely.

I suspect with AI and ever larger data sets, anomalies such as this one will seem more common.

Posted by: muldoon at April 22, 2026 11:22 AM (I0N4X)

103
I gotcher "moments" right cheer!

* throws Frisbee at Don Black *

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 22, 2026 11:22 AM (xG4kz)

104 >>Lake Quannapowitt Mass.

>>Hell, that name is enough to kill anybody.

Pfft.

Lake Chaubunagungamaug, also in Massachusetts, laughs.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 22, 2026 11:22 AM (viF8m)

105 "speculation appears to be around the death or disappearance of at least 10 scientists since 2023"

This is where a Real Statistician would come in handy. Take the total number of that type scientist and compare it to known death stats. Several other factors to consider ... their ages, their health, and even education. I'd assume a more educated person is less likely (than the general population) to get lost and die.

They should be able to determine if this is far beyond the norm, or maybe close to normal. Sounds unusual at first blush.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 22, 2026 11:23 AM (vbXSk)

106 "related fields" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting in the conspiracies out there.

Posted by: GWB at April 22, 2026 11:23 AM (Ta8N4)

107 If governments are interested in mysteries, let's examine numbers of people who died suddenly around 2021 and afterwards.

No idea what that could have been....

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog. Old, but full of life. at April 22, 2026 11:23 AM (Sco7b)

108 >>>I have no idea if this missing/dead scientist thing is a legit concern, but I have a hard time judging anyone for believing it is.

In 2026, what conspiracy is too outlandish to consider, even a tiny bit?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 11:20 AM (5xoct)

That is a great question... I vote "None"...

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 22, 2026 11:23 AM (dmDsy)

109 Lake Quannapowitt Mass.

Hell, that name is enough to kill anybody.
Posted by: Case at April 22, 2026 11:19 AM

Hold my beer...

Posted by: Lake Char�gogg�a�gogg�man�chaugg�a�gogg�chau�bun�a�gung�a�maugg at April 22, 2026 11:23 AM (bFu5X)

110 In my Chemistry class we learned valance. Otherwise the teacher would tell hunting and white water rafting stories.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:23 AM (kbShR)

111 >>Penelope Ann Miller was the bomb in Relic.

Yes. Good movie.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 11:23 AM (5xoct)

112 Colonel Mustard, in the Library, with the Wrench

... wait, are we not playing, "Clue"?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Colonel Mustard, in the Library, with the Wench.

Hilarity ensues.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2026 11:23 AM (/Vcgx)

113 The missing scientists are all now part of a super-secret government agency all of whose members are officially dead. This is quite common, I'm told.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

That never happens

Posted by: Remo Williams at April 22, 2026 11:23 AM (0U5gm)

114 Lake Quannapowitt Mass.

Hell, that name is enough to kill anybody.
Posted by: Case at April 22, 2026 11:19 AM

Hold my beer...

- Lake Chargoggagogg manchauggagogg chaubunagungamaugg

*spaces added to make the hampsters happy

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2026 11:23 AM (bFu5X)

115 The missing scientists are all now part of a super-secret government agency all of whose members are officially dead. This is quite common, I'm told.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 11:17 AM (tgvbd)

And as we speak, they're in a secret lair learning the forbidden secrets of eastern martial arts. Their day of science fair revenge will come. Oh yes, and soon.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 22, 2026 11:24 AM (g8Ew8)

116 Seems perfidious to me.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:24 AM (kbShR)

117 No, Mr Pitt. You need to gaze at the data set with deep focus, and you will be able to make out the shape of an alien spacecraft abducting scientists.

Posted by: muldoon at April 22, 2026 11:24 AM (I0N4X)

118 Oh dear, sorry for the wall of words.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 11:20 AM (5xoct)

Or as I call it, Tuesday.

But you're not me. Do better, Lizzy.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 11:24 AM (HgRco)

119 I've said it before, but it bears repeating:

This whole plot was revealed in Alan Moore's documentary graphic novel Watchmen. Ozymandias is to blame.

Watch for a giant extraterrestrial squid to suddenly teleport into New York causing mass destruction and death. (Covered up by the CIA in the bogus film version.)

Posted by: mindful webworker - Silk Spectre was hot at April 22, 2026 11:24 AM (RVdcP)

120 Shouldn't this require a really big bulletin board and lots of red yarn?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 22, 2026 11:24 AM (2Ez/1)

121 What, no Monty Python or Blazing Saddles?
Posted by: Bulg at April 22, 2026 11:13 AM (77rzZ)

Bulg, partially covered at 51.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2026 11:25 AM (2WIwB)

122 Hmm...it looks like I win the black diamond award today.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2026 11:25 AM (bFu5X)

123
It's real, I tell you! Big Oil is suppressing it!

Posted by: Steven Segal at April 22, 2026 11:20 AM (bFu5X)

___________

It is depressing to know how many people think X is not widely available because "Big [fill in industry] bought up all the patents and buried them!" Or how many think Who Framed Roger Rabbit explains the death of the urban streetcar.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 11:25 AM (tgvbd)

124 Fox News reports!

IRGC naval vessels have captured 2 ships transiting the Straight of Hormuz.

I like my tacos hard shelled.

Posted by: GigantorX at April 22, 2026 11:25 AM (oINIA)

125 >>Lake Chargoggagogg manchauggagogg chaubunagungamaugg

My dad took great pride at knowing how to spell it. For what reason I have no idea.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 22, 2026 11:25 AM (viF8m)

126
I made a baking soda volcano in 9th grade. Am I in danger?
Posted by: Peter Brady, Hiding Out

* chambers a round in his pump shotgun *

"That all depends -- how did you dispose of the by-products afterward?"

-- your friendly EPA enforcer

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 22, 2026 11:26 AM (xG4kz)

127 "related fields" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting in the conspiracies out there.

Posted by: GWB at April 22, 2026 11:23 AM (Ta8N4)

What the hell, man!

I just delivered a sandwich to those guys.

Posted by: Mysteriously Dead and Zombified Door Dash Driver at April 22, 2026 11:26 AM (iJfKG)

128 Why didn't they kill all glow monkey government employees to cover their tracks?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:26 AM (kbShR)

129 >>But you're not me. Do better, Lizzy.

Well, it is the morning RANT!

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 11:26 AM (5xoct)

130 It's all a distraction to hide political BS.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2026 11:26 AM (2WIwB)

131 118 Oh dear, sorry for the wall of words.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 11:20 AM (5xoct)

Or as I call it, Tuesday.

But you're not me. Do better, Lizzy.
Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 11:24 AM (HgRco)

Oh, shit, is today Tuesday?

Posted by: Denny Crane - I'm Late For a Meeting With a Midget! at April 22, 2026 11:26 AM (dmDsy)

132 In 2026, what conspiracy is too outlandish to consider, even a tiny bit?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 11:20 AM (5xoct)

That the Global Left have gotten together to secretly act in our best interests? I think we can toss that one.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 11:26 AM (HgRco)

133 There is no such thing as aliens. It’s all a lie.
Posted by: The Aliens at April 22, 2026 11:22 AM

That's just what the aliens would s....

Wait a minute!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2026 11:26 AM (bFu5X)

134 124 Fox News reports!

IRGC naval vessels have captured 2 ships transiting the Straight of Hormuz.

Did they use their row boats ?

Posted by: It's me donna at April 22, 2026 11:26 AM (2/T3Z)

135 One of the ten was a secretary, right?
Posted by: toby928(c)

Tell me it wasn't the one who, equipped with just a mechanical adding machine, reams of 8-1/2" by 11" paper, dozens of boxes of No. 2 Ticonderoga pencils (each one sharpened to a neat point), gallons of black coffee, and hundreds of cartons of Parliament cigarettes, single-handedly steered all of our Apollo moon missions to that body and insured that our brave astronauts returned safely to Earth?

Not her! Surely, not her! I could not go on if it was her!
-----

Well, they THOUGHT that lady was missing. But come to find out she had merely gone for the 1-mile walk to the bathroom and during the 1-mile walk back a thunderstorm started so it took her longer than expected to return.

Posted by: Crusader at April 22, 2026 11:27 AM (TN0g+)

136 Lake I fish on my side you fish on your side and we both fish in the middle.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 11:27 AM (HgRco)

137 >>>>Lake Chargoggagogg manchauggagogg chaubunagungamaugg

That lake, it's near Athol, right?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 11:27 AM (5xoct)

138 All of these scientists worked or had worked on the magic green dildo and ass tickler that Hillary had requested back in 2000 which was supposed to bring about a quick and intense orgasm for the user.

It failed so the price must be paid for that failure.

Posted by: The Smoking Man at April 22, 2026 11:27 AM (79nfv)

139 Cash's Suit folded like a cheap suit.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:28 AM (kbShR)

140 It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Then something happened.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 22, 2026 11:28 AM (FmapG)

141 That lake, it's near Athol, right?
Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 11:27 AM

No, but I still snicker like a 13-yr-old whenever anyone mentions Athol.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2026 11:28 AM (bFu5X)

142 Athol? I heard that pronounced by someone with a lisp.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 22, 2026 11:29 AM (DIbRX)

143 >>That the Global Left have gotten together to secretly act in our best interests? I think we can toss that one.

That Hillary and Bill,or Michelle and Barack, have the kind of true love worthy of great novels!!

That Antifa is "just an idea?"

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 11:29 AM (5xoct)

144 Why take out a retired 80 year old? Or a secretary?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 22, 2026 11:16 AM (ExV1e)

Cuz some of those guys aren't fully retired. When he was in, Pooky told me about a guy he'd met at The Mother Ship (long story, accurate nickname) that had seen the original of something and his job was literally to sit there and see if something like the original came through the datastream. Yes, they had analysts and AI, but they needed this guy in his 90s to verify results.

Posted by: pookysgirl would like to have met that guy at April 22, 2026 11:29 AM (Wt5PA)

145 Lake I fish on my side you fish on your side and we both fish in the middle.
Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 11:27 AM

Yup. Even our native place names aren't imaginative.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2026 11:29 AM (bFu5X)

146 "The basis of this speculation is that there are a series of US scientists in nuclear, space and related fields who have mysteriously - and unusually - disappeared or died over the past few years. Specifically, the speculation appears to be around the death or disappearance of at least 10 scientists since 2023."

This sounds remarkably like a job for the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 22, 2026 11:29 AM (+2QQb)

147 Mystery illness in Chyna.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:29 AM (kbShR)

148 At the scale of "the country" or even the relatively rarefied group of "important scientists," is this rate of murder, suicide, unknown death or disappearance unusual?

No, really, it isn't. Especially when you see such a broad definition of their similarities as "nuclear, space and related fields." Because you could link me in such a manner - after all, I took astronautical courses in college and have a Starlink now, and I flew in SAC so there's the "nuclear", and my current profession is IT - which is definitely a "related field."

But conspiracies thrive on making those obscure connections and showing everyone that something nefarious is going on.

Posted by: GWB at April 22, 2026 11:30 AM (Ta8N4)

149
All important scientific and engineering advances were really done by women. Men just laughed them to scorn and then stole their ideas. That's what thousands of FB posts tell me.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 11:30 AM (tgvbd)

150 Aaaakkkshualllleee the Straight of Hormuz is curved.

Posted by: Fooled ya at April 22, 2026 11:30 AM (2Ez/1)

151
I think that SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN may be able to shed sone light on these matters.

Dogged. Nay, damn dogged, that commenter is.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 22, 2026 11:31 AM (xG4kz)

152 Mystery illness in Chyna.
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:29 AM

Again?!

Posted by: Rocket J. Squirrel at April 22, 2026 11:31 AM (bFu5X)

153 And a tangential note:

Today, oddly enough, we are meeting with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation agents who have been working on the case to get an update on the current status of the investigation, including a potentially VERY significant piece of news about the main suspect in my F-I-L's murder.

(How's that for a teaser?)

Posted by: muldoon at April 22, 2026 11:31 AM (I0N4X)

154 Obviously, the ancient aliens are up to something.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 22, 2026 11:31 AM (FmapG)

155 Why take out a retired 80 year old? Or a secretary?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Rejected S&M movie plot

Posted by: Dark Litigator at April 22, 2026 11:31 AM (W5mpo)

156 89 I made a baking soda volcano in 9th grade. Am I in danger?
Posted by: Peter Brady, Hiding Out at April 22, 2026 11:19 AM (oftw2)

Fag

Posted by: Danny Partridge at April 22, 2026 11:32 AM (Y1sOo)

157 (How's that for a teaser?)
Posted by: muldoon at April 22, 2026 11:31 AM

To be continued...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2026 11:32 AM (bFu5X)

158 Aliens aren't real.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:32 AM (kbShR)

159 108 >>>I have no idea if this missing/dead scientist thing is a legit concern, but I have a hard time judging anyone for believing it is.

In 2026, what conspiracy is too outlandish to consider, even a tiny bit?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 11:20 AM (5xoct)

That is a great question... I vote "None"...

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at April 22, 2026 11:23 AM (dmDsy)

=====

How about Trump is controlled by Putin?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 11:32 AM (QEvSP)

160 Posted by: muldoon at April 22, 2026 11:31 AM (I0N4X)

I pray you finally get the answers you were looking for...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 22, 2026 11:32 AM (2/T3Z)

161 Aliens aren't real.
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:32 AM

I know, right?

Posted by: A Rodent of Unusual Size at April 22, 2026 11:33 AM (bFu5X)

162 Margins marginalized?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:33 AM (kbShR)

163 They've all been carted off by the big-head aliens from This Island Earth to work on saving their home planet of Metaluna.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 22, 2026 11:33 AM (XvL8K)

164
Why take out a retired 80 year old? Or a secretary?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Why did that traitorous and seditious asshole John Brennan still have security clearance despite no longer being in an appointed position for which that was required?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 22, 2026 11:33 AM (xG4kz)

165 Hot diggity, got up in time for Mannix.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 22, 2026 11:33 AM (rzTfK)

166 150 Aaaakkkshualllleee the Straight of Hormuz is curved.
-------------
Its called Peyronie's disease

Posted by: pudinhead at April 22, 2026 11:33 AM (FmapG)

167
Are they afraid the missing ones were taken and being forced to give info or work as foreign agents?

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 22, 2026 11:33 AM (IifOV)

168 How about Trump is controlled by Putin?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 11:32 AM

That's just Science.

Posted by: Every Lefty Everywhere at April 22, 2026 11:33 AM (bFu5X)

169 > Tell me it wasn't the one who, equipped with just a mechanical adding machine...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 22, 2026 11:15 AM (xG4kz)

The black handicapped lesbian one, right?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 22, 2026 11:33 AM (IG3/x)

170 What do you call a mortgage on Mars?

Alien.

Posted by: Bulg at April 22, 2026 11:34 AM (77rzZ)

171
Oh, there are myriad women composers whose work completely eclipses Bach and Mozart, but the musical establishment ignored and suppressed them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 11:34 AM (tgvbd)

172 168 How about Trump is controlled by Putin?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 11:32 AM

That's just Science.

Posted by: Every Lefty Everywhere at April 22, 2026 11:33 AM (bFu5X)

=======

He's controlled by Putin AND Netanyahu!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 11:34 AM (QEvSP)

173 Hold my beer...

- Lake Chargoggagogg manchauggagogg chaubunagungamaugg

*spaces added to make the hampsters happy
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Or as everybody with a lick os sense calls it, Lake Webster.

Posted by: From about That Time at April 22, 2026 11:34 AM (sl73Y)

174 How do you know?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:34 AM (kbShR)

175 What do you call a mortgage on Mars?

Alien.
Posted by: Bulg at April 22, 2026 11:34 AM

*slow clap*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2026 11:34 AM (bFu5X)

176 173
*spaces added to make the hampsters happy
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

======

The hampsters are never happy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 11:34 AM (QEvSP)

177 As you mentioned, patterns can be seen.
Posted by: muldoon at April 22, 2026 11:22 AM (I0N4X)

A problem I have is that I see patterns that others don't - particularly in faces. I see certain subtleties in features and say (and this is the part where it becomes a problem) "that person looks like this other person" and everyone looks at me like I have three heads. Because none of them see it; they're seeing the "normal" similarities.

So, yes, there are always patterns to see. Even if they're not truly meaningful.

Posted by: GWB at April 22, 2026 11:35 AM (Ta8N4)

178 Train horn.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:36 AM (kbShR)

179 "Why take out a retired 80 year old? Or a secretary?"
###

Mary Jo Kopechne unavailable for comment.

Posted by: Evergreen at April 22, 2026 11:36 AM (2Ez/1)

180 ***NASA has indicated that they see
---

nothing they see nothing

NASA can't find it's ass with both hands.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 22, 2026 11:36 AM (rzTfK)

181 Lot of lawyers gone missing lately too. This firm is a ghost town amirite?

Posted by: Biglaw AI, Esq. at April 22, 2026 11:36 AM (qUkBO)

182 All important scientific and engineering advances were really done by women. Men just laughed them to scorn and then stole their ideas. That's what thousands of FB posts tell me.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 11:30 AM (tgvbd)

And, by golly, there's a pattern there! You might be on to something!

Posted by: GWB at April 22, 2026 11:37 AM (Ta8N4)

183 (How's that for a teaser?)

Posted by: muldoon at April 22, 2026 11:31 AM (I0N4X)

I was just about to ask you for an update.

Posted by: pookysgirl, juggling Lil Pooky and his stuffie at April 22, 2026 11:37 AM (Wt5PA)

184 How would you know it's a ghost town?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:38 AM (kbShR)

185 Maybe that Guthrie woman who's been missing for a month or more was actually a super secret scientist.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 22, 2026 11:38 AM (AkEZC)

186 >>No, but I still snicker like a 13-yr-old whenever anyone mentions Athol.

Heh.
What the Hull were the town's founders thinking?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 11:38 AM (5xoct)

187 GWB
_-_
Same here. A hardworking pattern detector is a good thing!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 22, 2026 11:39 AM (MzBBs)

188 We're not here.

Posted by: The ghosts at April 22, 2026 11:39 AM (2Ez/1)

189 Ninja Rock was taken.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:39 AM (kbShR)

190 Lizard lady was massively coked up.

Posted by: pawn at April 22, 2026 11:39 AM (CGX3Y)

191 >>No, really, it isn't. Especially when you see such a broad definition of their similarities as "nuclear, space and related fields." Because you could link me in such a manner - after all, I took astronautical courses in college and have a Starlink now, and I flew in SAC so there's the "nuclear", and my current profession is IT - which is definitely a "related field."

Did you live in New Mexico? Four of the dead were from New Mexico, 3 worked at Los Alamos, a considerably smaller subset than 300 million.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 22, 2026 11:40 AM (viF8m)

192 What the Hull were the town's founders thinking?
___

It's Worcester than you can imagine.

Posted by: Dipswich at April 22, 2026 11:40 AM (qUkBO)

193 Jokes came early today.
Must be the hump.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 22, 2026 11:41 AM (rzTfK)

194 Heh.
What the Hull were the town's founders thinking?
Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2026 11:38 AM

Captain Blackadder: I then leapt on the opportunity to test you. I asked if he'd been to one of the great universities, Oxford, Cambridge, or Hull.

Nurse Mary: Well?

Captain Blackadder: You failed to spot that only two of those are great Universities.

Nurse Mary: Swine!

General Melchett: That's right! Oxford's a complete dump!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2026 11:41 AM (bFu5X)

195
I love all the learing I get from reading the comments here.

Posted by: Auspex at April 22, 2026 11:41 AM (Y8DZL)

196 That lake, it's near Athol, right?
Posted by: Lizzy

My deaf girlfriend use to call me Athol.

Routinely.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 22, 2026 11:41 AM (cYBz/)

197 Ninja Rock was taken.
Posted by: Boss Moss

How did anyone even know it was there?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 22, 2026 11:42 AM (cYBz/)

198 195 You do realize that you will be tested on this material, right?

Posted by: Bulg at April 22, 2026 11:42 AM (77rzZ)

199 Billerica.

It's pronounced just like its spelled.

Bill and Erica

Posted by: JackStraw at April 22, 2026 11:43 AM (viF8m)

200 Everything comes from Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Airplane! or Clue.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 11:08 AM (vf0Uk)

You forgot Princess Bride. (And Monty Python.)

Posted by: GWB at April 22, 2026 11:43 AM (Ta8N4)

201 *spaces added to make the hampsters happy
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

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The hampsters are never happy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

That requires nitrous oxide in the air conditioning system.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2026 11:43 AM (/Vcgx)

202 Billerica.

It's pronounced just like its spelled.

Bill and Erica
Posted by: JackStraw

Now do Peabody.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 22, 2026 11:43 AM (cYBz/)

203 I was just about to ask you for an update.
Posted by: pookysgirl

**********

We may know more by this afternoon. It's telling that the agents haven't given us info on the phone, and insisted on a face-to-face meeting. If there's anything notable I'll put an update on the weekend coffee thread.

Posted by: muldoon at April 22, 2026 11:44 AM (I0N4X)

204 Wait till they find out every single person associated with developing the Atomic Bomb is dead! How did that get overlooked??

Posted by: DBCooper at April 22, 2026 11:44 AM (3oMnW)

205
Huh?

Market jumped nicety.

Anything in particular happen?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 22, 2026 11:44 AM (iJfKG)

206 Everything comes from Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Airplane! or Clue.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 11:08 AM (vf0Uk)

You forgot Princess Bride. (And Monty Python.)
Posted by: GWB

*cough Blazing Saddles cough*

Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2026 11:44 AM (/Vcgx)

207 191 >>No, really, it isn't. Especially when you see such a broad definition of their similarities as "nuclear, space and related fields." Because you could link me in such a manner - after all, I took astronautical courses in college and have a Starlink now, and I flew in SAC so there's the "nuclear", and my current profession is IT - which is definitely a "related field."

Did you live in New Mexico? Four of the dead were from New Mexico, 3 worked at Los Alamos, a considerably smaller subset than 300 million.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 22, 2026 11:40 AM (viF8m)

Odds they are connected - probably not high.
Harm in looking into a connection - zero.
Help in getting focus on finding the missing and the unsolved murders - decent.

So, I have no problem looking into a link, and doing the "prove it's not by finding these folks or their killers"...

But if you ask me now...they are not linked.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 22, 2026 11:45 AM (tOcjL)

208 So they’ve actually got a suspect in one of the murders? Hmmm, wonder what they’ll learn from him.

Posted by: Bulg at April 22, 2026 11:46 AM (77rzZ)

209 180 ***NASA has indicated that they see
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nothing they see nothing

NASA can't find it's ass with both hands.

and yet they've managed to send a probe to uranus.

(couldn't resist)

Posted by: anachronda at April 22, 2026 11:46 AM (oY6Yp)

210 Hope ace is cooking up a post on the SPLC indictment.

It's really the perfect, platonic ideal of a destructive, hateful, vile organization that "educated", "liberal", and enlightened American cretins support.

Not even sure their enormous off-shore bank accounts are part of this.

And for years, federal law enforcement and Fortune 500 relied on these vile hate-mongering scum to "guide" national policy on "hate groups".

As brilliantly expressed by several here over the years, the demand for actual racism and "extremism" vastly vastly outstrips the supply, so voila, taxpayer and dumb American donor money steps in to fill the gap.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 22, 2026 11:46 AM (U/Byj)

211 That lake, it's near Athol, right?
Posted by: Lizzy

My deaf girlfriend use to call me Athol.

Routinely.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 22, 2026

Great, I'm in the waiting room to get bloodwork. Everyone is looking at me. Lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at April 22, 2026 11:46 AM (CtYil)

212
Did you ever wonder why your offices were not squeaky clean, Mr. Big Shot Scientist?

Because the lowly charwoman tasked with cleaning them spent hours every night reviewing your shoddy work product and correcting it in order to clear the way to you winning that Nobel Prize, or that Fields Metal, that's why!

Put some learning into yourself by watching the documentary film "Good Will Hunting"! The scales will fall from your eyes!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 22, 2026 11:46 AM (xG4kz)

213 He's controlled by Putin AND Netanyahu!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Projection as always. Which leads to the obvious question - who controls the Dem presidents?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 22, 2026 11:47 AM (Dv3i1)

214 Now do Peabody.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 22, 2026 11:43 AM

That would be my hometown.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2026 11:47 AM (bFu5X)

215 Missing persons 17 year old case. Way mpre interesting than anything in my neck of the woods.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:47 AM (kbShR)

216 I thought this was related to noookoolar scientists. But seems like it’s a broad spectrum of scientists. I thought wow 10 nuclear scientists dead in 3 years? Something’s fishy here.

But it’s not just nuclear it’s all sorts of fields. When it’s expanded to just “scientists” then 10 in 3 years doesn’t sound like a lot. You can find people in just about any field dying in mysterious ways.

Posted by: Heroq at April 22, 2026 11:47 AM (O8rRt)

217 213 He's controlled by Putin AND Netanyahu!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Projection as always. Which leads to the obvious question - who controls the Dem presidents?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 22, 2026 11:47 AM (Dv3i1)

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No one controlled Biden.

He was an independent man able to shit his own pants without orders.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 11:47 AM (QEvSP)

218 I tend to agree with you, Mannix. Having experienced firsthand the Curious Disappearance of a family member (my F-I-L) which is still unsolved 18 years later, I was stunned to find out how many missing persons cases there are in the U.s. The average person, if asked to guess would underestimate the total by a factor of ten or more.
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It really is crazy how people--who want to be found!--can just disappear with no trace so often.

My favorite dark conspiracy is that it's roughly 3% a year.
Which matches predator cull rates in nature among stable prey populations ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 22, 2026 11:48 AM (tUP1A)

219 Butt Montana.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:48 AM (kbShR)

220
My deaf girlfriend use to call me Athol.

Thath knob funny!

-- zombie Helen Keller

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 22, 2026 11:48 AM (xG4kz)

221 Everything comes from Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Airplane! or Clue.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 11:08 AM (vf0Uk)

You forgot Princess Bride. (And Monty Python.)
Posted by: GWB at April 22, 2026

***
And The Terminator. And Aliens.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 22, 2026 11:49 AM (+2QQb)

222 Now do Peabody.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 22, 2026 11:43 AM (cYBz/)

Is that you, Sherman?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 22, 2026 11:49 AM (n9ltV)

223 This is where a Real Statistician would come in handy. Take the total number of that type scientist and compare it to known death stats.
Posted by: illiniwek
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The risk, just like for criminal profilers (remember how the DC sniper was assumed to be a white male from statistics?), you miss confounding variables affecting the results. E.g., one of the scientists on the list, that lived in a remote desert spot, has a suspect charged in his murder that had previously been charged with harassing the dude. Homeless drifter druggie sort of dude.

Another is whether someone like McCasland, who took his 38 Special to the wilderness was suffering from the beginnings of dementia. People that have great intellect are often terrified of losing it all to dementia.

Statistics, especially inferring results for a small group of people from a larger statistical universe often runs into the ecological fallacy trap. What is true for the individual may not be true for the group, and vice versa.

We see this in medicine all the time. You take pill X and get result Y based on a large sample trial group's experiences. Sometimes though, people get outcome Z instead because of this fallacy.

Posted by: whig at April 22, 2026 11:49 AM (E4rtv)

224 Helen Keller was a myth.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:49 AM (kbShR)

225
"Fields Metal" ... son ofa ... "Fields MEDAL"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 22, 2026 11:50 AM (xG4kz)

226 Also, The Producers. And Seinfeld.

Posted by: Bulg at April 22, 2026 11:50 AM (77rzZ)

227 Speaking of conspiracies...

@SimonDixonTwitt
The global reset is being manufactured.
Here's a list of major oil refineries/energy facilities being blown up this month:
3rd April: Russia's Major Oil Export Terminal
4th April: Russia's Crude Distillation Unit
7th April: India's Power Plant
9th April: Mexico's Refinery
14th April: India's Power Plant
15th April: Australia's Energy Refinery
20th April: Russia's Oil Refinery
21st April: India's Oil Refinery
21st April: Romania's Power Plant
21st April: Texas Oil Rig

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 22, 2026 11:50 AM (diia5)

228
And Bored of the Rings

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 22, 2026 11:51 AM (xG4kz)

229 Market jumped nicety.

Anything in particular happen?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 22, 2026 11:44 AM (iJfKG)

Yes. Everyone in the nation with a real job has showed up for work today.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 22, 2026 11:51 AM (g8Ew8)

230 224 Helen Keller was a myth.
____

The whole thing about her plane disappearing over the Pacific always sounded a little fishy to me.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 22, 2026 11:51 AM (Dv3i1)

231 Back in the mid eighties the father-in-law of a guy who worked for me was declared missing. They found his pick-up abandoned in a state park. I left that company before any thing was resolved.

Posted by: javems at April 22, 2026 11:51 AM (zFsEm)

232
This very band of Morons has had two retired chemists die in the last couple of years. I can assure you, I sleep with a loaded gun under my pillow!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 11:52 AM (tgvbd)

233 144 Why take out a retired 80 year old? Or a secretary?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 22, 2026 11:16 AM (ExV1e)

Cuz some of those guys aren't fully retired.

indeed. gotta have *someone* come in occasionally to align the heads on the 8" floppies.

back in the '90s, was involved in a project that had a high-speed oscillograph; wide skinny ultraviolet crt put squiggly lines on paper shooting at quite high speed through a machine that looked like had been built in the late '50s. when installing the machine in our basement, the moving folks had dropped it. the manufacturer pulled an old white-haired guy out of retirement to recalibrate it.

Posted by: anachronda at April 22, 2026 11:52 AM (oY6Yp)

234 Amelia Earnhardt.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:52 AM (kbShR)

235 221 Everything comes from Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Airplane! or Clue.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 11:08 AM (vf0Uk)

You forgot Princess Bride. (And Monty Python.)
Posted by: GWB at April 22, 2026

***
And The Terminator. And Aliens.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 22, 2026 11:49 AM (+2QQb)

Or anything by Mel Brooks

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 22, 2026 11:53 AM (N39Ws)

236 Elvis is not dead. You know what this means, rite?

Posted by: pudinhead at April 22, 2026 11:53 AM (FmapG)

237 As brilliantly expressed by several here over the years, the demand for actual racism and "extremism" vastly vastly outstrips the supply, so voila, taxpayer and dumb American donor money steps in to fill the gap.
Posted by: rhomboid

I think you will find a fair chunk of the leftist ngo universe making up these narratives for media consumption and they have been for decades.

E.g. Rosa Parks and her sitdown was a staged act because the original person involved in the dispute was not as media sympathetic to the Cause.

And rotten individuals in government itself does this sort of thing to build its own narratives.

Platonic noble lies for the cause because the plebes can't handle the truth so elites have to lie to them.

Posted by: whig at April 22, 2026 11:53 AM (E4rtv)

238 How many of these people were forced to get COVID vaccines and boosters?

Just in my family alone, anecdotal evidence suggests that the four family members had suddenly developed new health issues, three now dead, one with blood clots in the lungs and had to go on oxygen, and one friend stroked out.

Maybe just coincidence.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 22, 2026 11:53 AM (Fbc0I)

239 I would add that based on the reporting, calling some of these people "scientists" is stretching it ....

This reminds me of the occasional shock and calls for investigations that happen every few years following some publicized deaths on cruise ships.

"OMG, there were 10 deaths on cruise ships last year! Something evil is afoot!" But ... over 20 million Americans go on cruises every year. Another 20 million international passengers every year, for a total of 40 million. A significant percentage of these passengers are seniors.

It is not surprising that a few hundred of these 40 million die on cruises every year.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 22, 2026 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

240 235 Or anything by Mel Brooks

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 22, 2026 11:53 AM (N39Ws)

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Especially Life Stinks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 11:53 AM (QEvSP)

241 Nasdaq is up 50% in the last year. April 25 was the big tariff sell off. Imagine being a TDS suffering cuck who sold. Lol

Posted by: Heroq at April 22, 2026 11:54 AM (O8rRt)

242 I wabted to be Colonel Mustard.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:54 AM (kbShR)

243 Since so many of the "disappeared" seem to have taken a pistol, and left their wallets, cell phones, and other electronics at home, and left on foot . . .

This is not normal behavior. I leave stuff like that at home never. It is the sort of thing that happens when one gets a call in an action-adventure novel.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 22, 2026 11:54 AM (rbvCR)

244 Yeah, I've seen these articles about the missing or dead scientists for weeks now.

Seems like an overblown overreaction which had been turned into UFO conspiracy clickbait.

I've seen literally zero proof of anything nefarious happening to the scientists. All the articles are just photos, lists of names, and cagey speculation about possible bad things that maybe could've been happening.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 22, 2026 11:54 AM (6ydKt)

245 230 224 Helen Keller was a myth.
____

The whole thing about her plane disappearing over the Pacific always sounded a little fishy to me.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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Well, a deaf and blind pilot was unlikely to have much success in that venture. That was a tell.

Posted by: whig at April 22, 2026 11:54 AM (E4rtv)

246 I recall countless Horde references of:

The Godfather
National Lampoon's Vacation
National Lampoon's Animal House
The Right Stuff
The Hunt for Red October

... and probably about a dozen or so others

Posted by: weew at April 22, 2026 11:55 AM (S4IL1)

247 And yet my 401 k lost money.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:55 AM (kbShR)

248 Annie Sullivan was a communist and therefore a lying sack of shit.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 11:55 AM (HgRco)

249
George and Amal Clooney donated a million dollars to the SPLC.

Posted by: Auspex at April 22, 2026 11:55 AM (Y8DZL)

250 The global reset is being manufactured.
Here's a list of major oil refineries/energy facilities being blown up this month:
3rd April: Russia's Major Oil Export Terminal
4th April: Russia's Crude Distillation Unit
7th April: India's Power Plant
9th April: Mexico's Refinery
14th April: India's Power Plant
15th April: Australia's Energy Refinery
20th April: Russia's Oil Refinery
21st April: India's Oil Refinery
21st April: Romania's Power Plant
21st April: Texas Oil Rig
Yep. Pattern.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 22, 2026 11:55 AM (MzBBs)

251 TJM, my compliments on your Peter Weir vid. IMHO the most underrated director of the last fifty years. And not just because Master and Commander is one of my favorite movies

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 22, 2026 11:55 AM (gu0hJ)

252 249
George and Amal Clooney donated a million dollars to the SPLC.

Posted by: Auspex at April 22, 2026 11:55 AM (Y8DZL)

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I will also fight racisms, Mr. and Mrs. Clooney.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 11:55 AM (QEvSP)

253
248 Annie Sullivan was a communist and therefore a lying sack of shit.
Posted by: ...

Agreed

Posted by: weew at April 22, 2026 11:55 AM (S4IL1)

254 251 TJM, my compliments on your Peter Weir vid. IMHO the most underrated director of the last fifty years. And not just because Master and Commander is one of my favorite movies

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 22, 2026 11:55 AM (gu0hJ)

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Thanks!

*preps camera for video about a dumb stoner comedy next*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 11:55 AM (QEvSP)

255 Amelia Earnhardt.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Why in the hell some marketing guru would name a luggage line after her is beyond me.

What - you load it on a plane and it never is seen again?

Genius.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 22, 2026 11:56 AM (cYBz/)

256 OMG, there were 10 deaths on cruise ships last year! Something evil is afoot!" But ... over 20 million Americans go on cruises every year. Another 20 million international passengers every year, for a total of 40 million. A significant percentage of these passengers are seniors.

It is not surprising that a few hundred of these 40 million die on cruises every year.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 22, 2026 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

I blame that mysterious liddo deck.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 22, 2026 11:56 AM (g8Ew8)

257 Helen Keller was a myth.
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:49 AM

She certainly wasn't a mythter.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 22, 2026 11:56 AM (bFu5X)

258 It's really the perfect, platonic ideal of a destructive, hateful, vile organization that "educated", "liberal", and enlightened American cretins support.
Posted by: rhomboid

It's gratifying to have at least one conspiracy laid bare, but the unnerving thing is not to recognize that the left feels nothing wrong was done, but that they've been doing it for years without any investigation by the Feds.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 22, 2026 11:56 AM (diia5)

259 In other news, the entire world is automating things that should NOT be automated.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 22, 2026 11:56 AM (MzBBs)

260 "OMG, there were 10 deaths on cruise ships last year! Something evil is afoot!" But ... over 20 million Americans go on cruises every year.
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Where do 20 million people need to go so badly...? Someone should look into that.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 11:56 AM (HgRco)

261 OMG, there were 10 deaths on cruise ships last year! Something evil is afoot!" But ... over 20 million Americans go on cruises every year. Another 20 million international passengers every year, for a total of 40 million. A significant percentage of these passengers are seniors.

It is not surprising that a few hundred of these 40 million die on cruises every year.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 22, 2026 11:53 AM (iFTx/)

This happened with ski lift deaths recently. The media went into panic mode because a few accidents happened in a short period of time. I think 9 people died in 2024 and 2025 in N. American resorts. Which was higher than the average of 3 or 4, everyone set your hair on fire!!!

What they failed to mention is that every year there hundreds of millions of chair lift rides in North America. You have a better chance of being abducted by aliens while being struck by lightning than dying on a ski lift.

Posted by: Heroq at April 22, 2026 11:57 AM (O8rRt)

262 Cruises are a racket. Overcharge for everything.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:57 AM (kbShR)

263 241 Nasdaq is up 50% in the last year. April 25 was the big tariff sell off. Imagine being a TDS suffering cuck who sold. Lol

Posted by: Heroq
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AI is driving hardware sales for companies like Nvidia, AMD, Intel, etc. right now and creating buzz for software companies like Tesla. Lot of speculation on the jockeying between Open AI and Anthropic over first to issue an IPO and which vendors (like the partnership operations of Anthropic and Amazon or Tesla and Cursor pan out).

Posted by: whig at April 22, 2026 11:57 AM (E4rtv)

264 Everything comes from Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Airplane! or Clue.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 11:08 AM (vf0Uk)

You forgot Princess Bride. (And Monty Python.)
Posted by: GWB at April 22, 2026

***
And The Terminator. And Aliens.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 22, 2026 11:49 AM (+2QQb)
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Taking it up to eleven, eh?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2026 11:57 AM (xvhJH)

265 Platonic noble lies for the cause because the plebes can't handle the truth so elites have to lie to them.
Posted by: whig at April 22, 2026 11:53 AM (E4rtv)

SPLC had Cayman Island accounts and ActBlue was engaged in money laundering through mortgage fraud.

OuR hErOeS lEaD tHe WaY tO jUsTiCe

Posted by: Kindltot at April 22, 2026 11:58 AM (rbvCR)

266 I'm sure either Israel or the tariffs are to blame.

Posted by: toddg at April 22, 2026 11:58 AM (KCFD3)

267 >>Since so many of the "disappeared" seem to have taken a pistol, and left their wallets, cell phones, and other electronics at home, and left on foot . . .

It all could be a big coincidence but that's the part I find odd. A number of them just walked out of their homes taking nothing with them other than a couple took a gun and then they just vanished. No trace.

If it was one person ok. But multiple going missing under the same conditions seems weird.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 22, 2026 11:58 AM (viF8m)

268 264 Taking it up to eleven, eh?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2026 11:57 AM (xvhJH)

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The level of obsession some people have around My Dinner with Andre round these parts is disconcerting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 11:58 AM (QEvSP)

269 243 Since so many of the "disappeared" seem to have taken a pistol, and left their wallets, cell phones, and other electronics at home, and left on foot . . .

This is not normal behavior. I leave stuff like that at home never. It is the sort of thing that happens when one gets a call in an action-adventure novel.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 22, 2026 11:54 AM (rbvCR)

It's the same as jumping in the shower with the pills...

Twitch did the same thing (walk out with just a weapon), but he was famous and got found. It seems an impulse for some suicidal folks to both worry about the mess and about family finding them.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 22, 2026 11:58 AM (tOcjL)

270 I think the Grillmair guy just got killed by some random CHUD who was stealing, like most people who are murdered.

The Portuguese one was weirder. But iirc, the guy who killed him (and others) was some other Portuguese scientist who had a chip on his shoulder about not succeeding in his field or something.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 22, 2026 11:58 AM (BI5O2)

271 Wasn't there a thing about some food storage things burning back in like 2022 and it turned out there was in fact a series of fires on like 10 out of 700,000 potential places and it was all a bunch of crap.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 11:58 AM (HgRco)

272 262 Cruises are a racket. Overcharge for everything.
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West Pac cruises were great. I never got overcharged.

Posted by: pudinhead at April 22, 2026 11:58 AM (FmapG)

273 Taking it up to eleven, eh?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2026 11:57 AM (xvhJH)

Forgot Spinal Tap, right.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 22, 2026 11:58 AM (rbvCR)

274 This reminds me a little of those lists of “coincidences” you sometimes see between the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations.

Posted by: Bulg at April 22, 2026 11:58 AM (77rzZ)

275 Now that SPLC is exposed (well, to half the country, the other half will go on with their artisanal, spoon-feed narratives undisturbed), I wonder if the ADL has any skeletons in their closet on deck to be exposed.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 22, 2026 11:59 AM (Dv3i1)

276 The level of obsession some people have around My Dinner with Andre round these parts is disconcerting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 11:58 AM (QEvSP)
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I don't get it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2026 11:59 AM (xvhJH)

277 The global reset is being manufactured.
Here's a list of major oil refineries/energy facilities being blown up this month:
3rd April: Russia's Major Oil Export Terminal
[Shortened]
21st April: Texas Oil Rig
_-_
Should hear Michael Yon on the topic...if you can handle hearing the word Z@@@ist.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 22, 2026 11:59 AM (MzBBs)

278 I once went on a company cruise to the Bahamas on Carnival, in the early 2000s.

Even back then it was like going to Walmart.

Posted by: weew at April 22, 2026 11:59 AM (S4IL1)

279 I'd like to see the ACLU taken down next.

A guy I know has worked for them since college. To give you some idea - he introduces himself to people he's known forever using his pronouns.

FFS

Posted by: Tonypete at April 22, 2026 12:00 PM (cYBz/)

280 The level of obsession some people have around My Dinner with Andre round these parts is disconcerting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 11:58 AM (QEvSP)

It's surprisingly engrossing
and no subtitles

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 22, 2026 12:00 PM (xcxpd)

281 The level of obsession some people have around My Dinner with Andre round these parts is disconcerting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 11:58 AM (QEvSP)

IT WILL COME OUT IN IMAX, SOME DAY IT WILL HAPPEN

Posted by: Kindltot at April 22, 2026 12:00 PM (rbvCR)

282 Trump has a secretary named Biden!

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 12:00 PM (HgRco)

283 It wasn't us. It was the Bigfoot nation who are doing this.

Posted by: Blor Utar, From Zimtok-5 at April 22, 2026 12:01 PM (R0T0s)

284 280 The level of obsession some people have around My Dinner with Andre round these parts is disconcerting.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 11:58 AM (QEvSP)

It's surprisingly engrossing
and no subtitles

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 22, 2026 12:00 PM (xcxpd)

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Well, Louis Malle was pretty good at making movies with no money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 12:01 PM (QEvSP)

285 282 Trump has a secretary named Biden!

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 12:00 PM (HgRco)

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Preston Sturges' real last name was Biden.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 12:01 PM (QEvSP)

286 You have a better chance of being abducted by aliens while being struck by lightning than dying on a ski lift.
____

That's what I've been trying to tell you!

Posted by: Art Bell at April 22, 2026 12:01 PM (Dv3i1)

287 267 >>Since so many of the "disappeared" seem to have taken a pistol, and left their wallets, cell phones, and other electronics at home, and left on foot . . .

It all could be a big coincidence but that's the part I find odd. A number of them just walked out of their homes taking nothing with them other than a couple took a gun and then they just vanished. No trace.

If it was one person ok. But multiple going missing under the same conditions seems weird.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 22, 2026 11:58 AM (viF8m)

That sounds like they got a call from their handler.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 22, 2026 12:01 PM (xcxpd)

288 Market jumped nicety.

Anything in particular happen?

Posted by: naturalfake at April 22, 2026 11:44 AM (iJfKG)

Yes. Everyone in the nation with a real job has showed up for work today.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 22, 2026 11:51 AM (g8Ew

Could be, but-

My particular theory is that everyone has realized that the doom and gloom about Iran is just, once again, just typical media lies and bs.

Posted by: Mysteriously Dead and Zombified Door Dash Driver at April 22, 2026 12:01 PM (iJfKG)

289 I think it's just one of those random clusters that statistics says occurs. Like the cluster of cancer deaths occurring among those living near high power lines several years ago. No causal connection was ever shown.

Posted by: Martin Tell at April 22, 2026 12:01 PM (sFNX2)

290 Cruises are a racket. Overcharge for everythin
—

I hate the term over charging. Over charge compared to what? Is a beer more expensive at a bar than at the grocery store? Yes. Is it over charging? No.

Cruises and tourism in general charges a lot of things that are cheap at home. But that’s kind of the point. You’re paying to be on vacation. If you want beer for $1 instead of $10 stay home.

Posted by: Heroq at April 22, 2026 12:02 PM (O8rRt)

291 Other than they were all 'scientists' or connected to NASA/Gubmint somehow I don't see a common thread unless they were all tied to some super-secret black project. But the locations and backgrounds/specialties seem too diverse.

Also, NASA isn't the only gov't agency that does spacey stuff. The USAF has it's own activity and there are other places that do intelligence stuff.

Annnd....'Top Secret' is a DoD (now DoW) designation. Do these people share the other types of clearances?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 22, 2026 12:02 PM (QGaXH)

292
Keenan Ivory Wayan's "Scary Movie" was a overlooked masterpiece.

Posted by: Auspex at April 22, 2026 12:02 PM (Y8DZL)

293 Well, Louis Malle was pretty good at making movies with no money.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 12:01 PM (QEvSP)

And with underaged girls. Because French.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 22, 2026 12:02 PM (xcxpd)

294 At DM: "Shameless Portland man, 28, files $17.5m lawsuit against police after he got so high on magic mushrooms and marijuana that he burned all but two of his fingers off"

Police spokesman: "You're doing it wrong, asshole!"

Posted by: gp at April 22, 2026 12:02 PM (N8ZBc)

295 Unusual disappearances are not so unusual at least from reading the "Missing 411" series of books.

Posted by: geoffb at April 22, 2026 12:02 PM (OtD+j)

296
If it was one person ok. But multiple going missing under the same conditions seems weird.
Posted by: JackStraw

Keep a sharp eye out for mass buys of instant mashed potatoes, 70's synthesizers and uuuge banks of audio speakers!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 22, 2026 12:02 PM (xG4kz)

297 Trump has a secretary named Biden!
Posted by: ... at April 22, 2026 12:00 PM (HgRco)
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Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy.

Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2026 12:02 PM (xvhJH)

298 "George and Amal Clooney donated a million dollars to the SPLC."
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It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at April 22, 2026 12:02 PM (2Ez/1)

299 West Pac cruises were great. I never got overcharged.
Posted by: pudinhead

Did you feel the need to tip for the complementary Norovirus?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 22, 2026 12:03 PM (diia5)

300 "I hate the term over charging. Over charge compared to what? Is a beer more expensive at a bar than at the grocery store? Yes. Is it over charging? No."

The beer costs the same. The markup is for being able to drink it on premises without paying a large fine.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at April 22, 2026 12:03 PM (W5mpo)

301 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.
Dammit, Kramer, the money's still fucking gone!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 22, 2026 12:04 PM (MzBBs)

302 At DM: "Shameless Portland man, 28, files $17.5m lawsuit against police after he got so high on magic mushrooms and marijuana that he burned all but two of his fingers off"
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*judiciously* Sounds like Portland to me.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2026 12:04 PM (xvhJH)

303 @SimonDixonTwitt
The global reset is being manufactured.
Here's a list of major oil refineries/energy facilities being blown up this month:
3rd April: Russia's Major Oil Export Terminal
4th April: Russia's Crude Distillation Unit
7th April: India's Power Plant
9th April: Mexico's Refinery
14th April: India's Power Plant
15th April: Australia's Energy Refinery
20th April: Russia's Oil Refinery
21st April: India's Oil Refinery
21st April: Romania's Power Plant
21st April: Texas Oil Rig
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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That would actually be easier to statistically measure. Because easier to establish a baseline of previous fires/explosions in power plants or refineries as it is a normal hazard to the business. Coal plants, for example, coal dust and boiler explosions, refineries, petroleum based fires, etc.

One could do the same for something like locomotive derailments and crashes.

But imputing specific cause of crime from a statistical universe to a specific heterogeneous small group of individuals is a lot harder to do. So a cursory investigation into the commonalities and differences is probably warranted.

Posted by: whig at April 22, 2026 12:04 PM (E4rtv)

304 Keep a sharp eye out for mass buys of instant mashed potatoes, 70's synthesizers and uuuge banks of audio speakers!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 22, 2026 12:02 PM (xG4kz)

This means...something....

Posted by: Richard Dreyfus playing with his food at April 22, 2026 12:04 PM (TbWk/)

305 304 This means...something....

Posted by: Richard Dreyfus playing with his food at April 22, 2026 12:04 PM (TbWk/)

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This from a movie?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 12:04 PM (QEvSP)

306 Cruises are a racket. Overcharge for everything.
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West Pac cruises were great. I never got overcharged.
Posted by: pudinhead at April 22, 2026 11:58 AM (FmapG)
______

Cruises are a bit of an acquired taste and, like anything else, when booking the buyer should beware. But if you do it right, then almost everything will be included. That usually makes cruises a good deal.

40 million people take cruises every year, and from some of the vids we know they all ain't Chadley Highborne IV.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 22, 2026 12:05 PM (iFTx/)

307 Amelia Earnhardt.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Why in the hell some marketing guru would name a luggage line after her is beyond me.
What - you load it on a plane and it never is seen again?
Genius.
Posted by: Tonypete

We don't get it.

Posted by: La Cucaracha Mexican Restaurant at April 22, 2026 12:05 PM (IWRME)

308 306 Cruises are a bit of an acquired taste and, like anything else, when booking the buyer should beware. But if you do it right, then almost everything will be included. That usually makes cruises a good deal.

40 million people take cruises every year, and from some of the vids we know they all ain't Chadley Highborne IV.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at April 22, 2026 12:05 PM (iFTx/)

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False.

All experiences for fun should be compared on a dollar by dollar basis to what you can buy from the local Dollar General. Anything else is just wasting money and a bad decision that makes you a morally compromised person.

#Science

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 12:06 PM (QEvSP)

309 Why smoke weed while on shrooms?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 12:06 PM (kbShR)

310 Cruises are a racket. Overcharge for everything.
_-_
I just swim to shore, eat at McDonald's, and swim back. See my substack for fewer money-saving tips, 'cause, really, I ain't got any

Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 22, 2026 12:07 PM (MzBBs)

311 We don't get it.
Posted by: La Cucaracha Mexican Restaurant at April 22, 2026 12:05 PM (IWRME)
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IIRR, the bar in Babyon 5 was named "Earhart's."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2026 12:07 PM (xvhJH)

312 Last cruise I was on it cost about $200 a day per person. That was the all in cost, food, drinks, tips etc. which is a decent price for essentially an all inclusive resort.

Posted by: Heroq at April 22, 2026 12:07 PM (O8rRt)

313
TJM, my compliments on your Peter Weir vid. IMHO the most underrated director of the last fifty years. And not just because Master and Commander is one of my favorite movies

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 22, 2026 11:55 AM (gu0hJ)

I guess the Aussie directors in general are under-rated.

Bruce Beresford's another one who's underrated.

Though he's made a bunch of movies so maybe the qualities spread out more than with Weir.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 22, 2026 12:07 PM (iJfKG)

314 Why smoke weed while on shrooms?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Why do some people chug Aqua Velva? It's just better not to explore the topic.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at April 22, 2026 12:07 PM (W5mpo)

315
Refineries are full of inflammable stuff moving around at high temperatures and pressures. Considering Russia, India and Mexico - not countries associated with scrupulous adherence to safety - figure prominently in this list, I can't say I'm surprised.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2026 12:07 PM (tgvbd)

316 On the disappearances - while I didn't know her personally, the one lady (Monica?) was a regular hiker in the local Meet-Up Hiking groups I frequented. When she disappeared there were people organizing searches for her in the area she went missing.

I also recall a story a few years back when we were all talking about Student Loan burdens of a lady writing an article about disappearing or faking death to get out from under Student Loans. (You can't bankrupt out remember - thanks Obammy) This person supposedly talked to Life Insurance experts who told her the most common missing persons incidents where no body was ever recovered wasn't drowning - it was HIKING!!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 22, 2026 12:08 PM (QGaXH)

317 Those TCM classic movie cruises look awful. Being trapped on a ship with thousands of movie nerds. Just shoot me now.

Posted by: Bulg at April 22, 2026 12:08 PM (77rzZ)

318 Yeah, it's actuarial numbers. How many suicides in a given profession, region, group. Does the occurrences support targeting, e.g. they come from one specific research division, or group, at a higher-than-normal rate?

Well, I don't know what I don't know.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 22, 2026 12:08 PM (ynpvh)

319 Perhaps only one of the 10 was the actual target and the others were chosen at random from a Who's Who Among American Aerospace Scientists publication and killed in similar manner to cloud the investigation so the authorities think they are looking for a serial killer.

(Actually saw a similar plot on some show a few years back)

Posted by: muldoon at April 22, 2026 12:08 PM (I0N4X)

320 When she disappeared there were people organizing searches for her in the area she went missing.

Burrrp

Posted by: the bear at April 22, 2026 12:08 PM (1ET9J)

321 But imputing specific cause of crime from a statistical universe to a specific heterogeneous small group of individuals is a lot harder to do. So a cursory investigation into the commonalities and differences is probably warranted.
Posted by: whig

Agreed, but I just hope the US has some office tracking that kind of thing. Then again... we're talking about the US government .

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 22, 2026 12:08 PM (diia5)

322 234 Amelia Earnhardt.
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:52 AM (kbShR)

She augured the Number 3 plane into the infield at Daytona.

Posted by: AAAAAND it's a caution flag at April 22, 2026 12:08 PM (TbWk/)

323
Speaking of cruises -- does the Doom Goblin "put out"?

The restrooms are over there, if you feel nauseous ====>>

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at April 22, 2026 12:09 PM (xG4kz)

324 "chug Aqua Velva?" Added to my list, thanks!

Posted by: gp at April 22, 2026 12:09 PM (N8ZBc)

325 309 Why smoke weed while on shrooms?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Exactly. Weed pairs better with alcohol.

Posted by: Auspex at April 22, 2026 12:09 PM (Y8DZL)

326 Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy.

Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2026 12:02 PM

Lincoln's assassin ran from a theater to a barn. Kennedy's assassin ran from a warehouse to a theater.

Posted by: toby928(c) at April 22, 2026 12:09 PM (4NO2D)

327 322 234 Amelia Earnhardt.
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 11:52 AM (kbShR)

She augured the Number 3 plane into the infield at Daytona.

Posted by: AAAAAND it's a caution flag at April 22, 2026 12:08 PM (TbWk/)

Hah.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 22, 2026 12:10 PM (ynpvh)

328 New thread up

Posted by: Ann at April 22, 2026 12:10 PM (SHHm+)

329 iirc, Booth broke a leg jumping from the balcony, so couldn't exactly run.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 22, 2026 12:10 PM (1ET9J)

330 Exactly. Weed pairs better with alcohol.
Posted by: Auspex

Ugh. You definitely do not smoke weed. Weed and alcohol make a terrible mix. Now, weed, a guitar, a big amp, and no neighbors, yeah, great mix.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at April 22, 2026 12:10 PM (W5mpo)

331 Perhaps only one of the 10 was the actual target and the others were chosen at random from a Who's Who Among American Aerospace Scientists publication and killed in similar manner to cloud the investigation so the authorities think they are looking for a serial killer.

(Actually saw a similar plot on some show a few years back)
Posted by: muldoon at April 22, 2026 12:08 PM

Told you so.

Posted by: Jack Reacher at April 22, 2026 12:11 PM (bFu5X)

332 Speaking of cruises -- does the Doom Goblin "put out"?
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Doubt it. She's got "Birth Control Hair."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 22, 2026 12:11 PM (xvhJH)

333 nood shipping attacks

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 22, 2026 12:11 PM (nXhwP)

334 Congress, however has launched an investigation:

Congress, having jurisdiction over nothing, has launched a new TV show.

Posted by: t-bird at April 22, 2026 12:11 PM (z0cWr)

335 "Kennedy's assassin ran from a warehouse to a theater."

From a depository. Ahem.
Depository > Warehouse.

Posted by: gp at April 22, 2026 12:11 PM (N8ZBc)

336 309 Why smoke weed while on shrooms?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 22, 2026 12:06 PM (kbShR)

That's what I asked my younger son before and after I flushed his weed and shrooms away...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 22, 2026 12:11 PM (ynpvh)

337 335 "Kennedy's assassin ran from a warehouse to a theater."

From a depository. Ahem.
Depository > Warehouse.

Posted by: gp at April 22, 2026 12:11 PM (N8ZBc)

Better than the Suppository...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 22, 2026 12:12 PM (ynpvh)

338 Agreed, but I just hope the US has some office tracking that kind of thing. Then again... we're talking about the US government .
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Since national security is involved, that would be FBI counterintelligence.

Unfortunately under Obama, it became going after Americans for being conservative or Republican rather than foreign enemies.

Before, counterintelligence was usually just a dumping ground of mediocrity mainly dealing with security checks. This allowed people like Aldrich Ames to spy for Russia for a decade or so.

Posted by: whig at April 22, 2026 12:12 PM (E4rtv)

339 305 304 This means...something....

Posted by: Richard Dreyfus playing with his food at April 22, 2026 12:04 PM (TbWk/)

=======

This from a movie?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at April 22, 2026 12:04 PM (QEvSP)

Close Encounters

Richard Dreyfus makes a 'Devils Tower' out of his mashed potatoes. Plus they use large banks of speakers and synthesizers to communicate tonally with the little green men....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 22, 2026 12:12 PM (QGaXH)

340 Both Lincoln and Kennedy had VPs from the South named Johnson.

Posted by: Bulg at April 22, 2026 12:12 PM (77rzZ)

341 Better than the Suppository...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Well, one can get the runs from a Suppository as well.

Posted by: whig at April 22, 2026 12:12 PM (E4rtv)

342 This is all connected to Epstein, Q Anon, and the Masons.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at April 22, 2026 12:13 PM (9Ftvz)

343 Repositories are the best. Places of repose.

Posted by: gp at April 22, 2026 12:13 PM (N8ZBc)

344 Everything comes from Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Airplane! or Clue.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 22, 2026 11:08 AM (vf0Uk)

You forgot Princess Bride. (And Monty Python.)
Posted by: GWB

*cough Blazing Saddles cough*
Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2026 11:44 AM (/Vcgx)

/sigh/

Posted by: GWB at April 22, 2026 12:13 PM (Ta8N4)

345 341 Better than the Suppository...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Well, one can get the runs from a Suppository as well.

Posted by: whig at April 22, 2026 12:12 PM (E4rtv)

so Taco Bell is an oral suppository?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 22, 2026 12:13 PM (ynpvh)

346 331 Perhaps only one of the 10 was the actual target and the others were chosen at random from a Who's Who Among American Aerospace Scientists publication and killed in similar manner to cloud the investigation so the authorities think they are looking for a serial killer.

(Actually saw a similar plot on some show a few years back)
Posted by: muldoon
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It is generally believed that was so in the Tylenol murder cases.

Posted by: whig at April 22, 2026 12:13 PM (E4rtv)

347 Repository foreman: "OK you loafers! Get to back to work and nap!"

Posted by: gp at April 22, 2026 12:15 PM (N8ZBc)

348 320 When she disappeared there were people organizing searches for her in the area she went missing.

Burrrp
Posted by: the bear at April 22, 2026 12:08 PM (1ET9J)

LOLOL!

In that area I would think mountain lion before bear. I don't know how many black bears there are in the San Gabriels still.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at April 22, 2026 12:16 PM (QGaXH)

349 The global reset is being manufactured.
Here's a list of major oil refineries/energy facilities being blown up this month:
3rd April: Russia's Major Oil Export Terminal
[Shortened]
21st April: Texas Oil Rig
_-_
Should hear Michael Yon on the topic...if you can handle hearing the word Z@@@ist.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at April 22, 2026 11:59 AM (MzBBs)

There are hundreds of such facilities, maybe thousands, around the world. Russia is involved in a war with Ukraine, not surprising their energy infrastructure would be targeted. India? Incompetence or muslims, your pick.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 22, 2026 12:16 PM (utfVc)

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