The Classical Saturday Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

[H/T: Sharon(willow's apprentice)]

There is just one little problem with this advice. What if yours truly doesn't want to hear funny jokes in the morning?

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Before we enter the Prayer Revival, just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Lake Mills)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind. Be nice.
3) Must we address the issue of running with sharp objects?
4) Have a great weekend!

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AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List

Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks unless we receive an update.

Prayer Requests:

3/28 – Hrothgar asked for prayers for a dear and long time close friend and former neighbor, Daniel, who is scheduled for open heart surgery in mid-April. Prayers for his wife would be appreciated as well, as she will be carrying a heavy load for the next few months.
4/18 Update – Daniel survived his complex open heart surgery. He is sitting up and it seems like it went well, but they are not going to release him as quickly as he would like, so he is not happy. Thanks to the Horde for the prayers and please keep praying for his dear wife, who now has even more to put up with.
5/16 Update – Hrothgar sends thanks for the prayers for Dan. Thanks to his attitude and the miracles of modern heart surgery, Daniel is back home and in good spirits and mobile. He still has a lot of rehab ahead, but it sounds like a pretty good recovery to be home only 20 days after being on the table!

3/28 – Jordan61 posted that Mr. Jordan61 is back in the hospital. His sepsis has returned and gotten into where his compression fracture is, and he has vertebral osteomyelitis. The doctor is supposed to come in today and let them know the plan.
4/9 Update – On 4/1 Mr. Jordan61 was released from the hospital with six weeks of IV antibiotics, which Jordan61 is administering every 8 hours. He’s in a lot of pain; they’ve given him oxy, fentanyl, and dilaudid, and nothing seems to touch it. From what they were told, the pain won’t subside until the infection is cleared up. For the time being, he is bed-bound and they are limiting his movement as much as possible to keep the pain to a minimum. Jordan61 will send updates with progress.
4/25 Update – Mr. Jordan61 is making slow but steady progress. He can get up and walk for short periods of time, and can sit in the living room for an hour or so per day. He is halfway through the IV antibiotics, with 3 weeks to go. A physical therapist will be coming to help him build strength and learn how to move without aggravating his back injury. Thank you all for the prayers!
5/26 Update – Mr. Jordan61 had his last antibiotic infusion on 5/24 and his PICC line was removed on 5/26. He will have follow-up blood work in 2 weeks but for now, all looks good!

4/3 – Teresa in Fort Worth posted an update. Her chemo seems to be holding things steady for now. Unfortunately, as she is receiving a steroid, she has gained about 25 pounds. Her blood sugar has also jumped up about 40 points (which only happens when she is on steroids).
4/24 Update – Teresa in Fort Worth provided an update: The pump that was put in to battle cancer in December can only be used for 6 months. After that, it starts to damage the liver. So she may have to go back onto the medication that made her lose her hair and messed up her vision and nails, and then return to this medication after a break. This is not good news, since this new medication is working so well. But for now, she is doing well and is incredibly grateful for the time that she has been given so far.
6/1 Update – Teresa had a CT scan and has seen the surgeon. Everything looks good/stable. There are no new tumors and the ones that are there have pretty much stayed the same or shrunk. No metastises seen. Additional good news is that she can stay on the current medication, and just alternate it with other meds. She continues to respond extremely well to the protocols. She sends her gratitude for each and every prayer.

4/18 – neverenoughcaffiene asked that Devyn be kept in prayers. She is a young mother of 2 with a mass on her esophagus. The Doc said it was scar tissue and hopefully the second opinion will agree.
5/23 Update – Devyn had the biopsy and is waiting for results. Prayers are appreciated.

4/18 – Smell the Glove could use some prayers as therapy and rehab occur after gout/sepsis.
5/2 Update – The gout has cleared and the infection in the lower back is healing.
5/18 Update – Smell the Glove may be out of rehab this week, but still would need wound care at home. Thanks for all the prayers and well wishes!

4/18 – Sam Adams requested prayers for a friend, Mary F, who was just sent to a long-term recovery facility after having a tracheostomy.
5/2 Update – Mary’s breathing is improving, and they are weaning her off assisted breathing. She is now off the ventilator for 12 hours a day, and they are aiming for 14 hours soon. Many thanks to all of the Moron Horde for the prayers.

5/2 – neverenoughcaffiene requested prayers for parishioners at her church, who lost their newborn daughter, Astrid.

5/7 – turambar asked for prayers for relatives. Mom needs prayers as she was admitted to the hospital to check her heart and cardio. They did not find pneumonia. Two months ago, she fell at her assisted living place, and broke her hip. She also has dementia. Turambar’s uncle fell recently and broke his hip, too.

5/9 – D asked for prayers. He was let go from his IT job and has started a business making and selling lens cleaners to make ends meet. Please contact Annie’s Stew if you’d like more information – either to order lens cleaners, or if you’d like to contact him related to IT job openings (DBA/Network Admin).

5/11 – rez986 asked if anyone had an update on Neidermeyer’s Dead Horse’s health. The last info Annie’s Stew has was from January, 2026, that he’d been given 6 months to live due to heart failure and was being treated and waiting for a transplant at Mayo.
5/16 Update – Dash my lace wings! posted that NDH is recovering well. IrishEi posted that NDH did receive a heart transplant and that she is doing well. She also posted a link to NDH’s X account, and her fundraising page.
5/23 – rez986 sent thanks for the updates on NDH. It is much appreciated.

5/15 – Toad-O requested prayers for his second ex-wife, the mother of his two children. They were divorced 25 years ago, and 3 years later, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and the children came to live with Toad-O. The ex-wife is now suffering from advanced Alzheimer’s, and has been living with Toad-O’s daughter and her husband. The ex-wife fell last month and and cracked 2 vertebrae, and just was taken to ER with a rapid heartbeat and low blood pressure due to dehydration. Prayers are appreciated for her and also for the daughter who has sacrificed a lot to care for her.

5/16 – Anna Puma requested prayers for the family of Dan Fordice, who was killed when the aircraft he was flying crashed. He leaves behind a wife, 3 children, and many friends. He was a Warbird flyer, a CEO, and a veteran of the 2/20th SFG.

5/16 – Tonypete asked for prayers for Jane who is dying of breast cancer, and for Cheri who is in jail (again) for drug related crimes.

5/20 – D gave an update on his wife Susan and her continued battle with cancer. Her cancer markers are still headed in the right direction. She is on a new antibiotic, and it is causing some side effects, but it is keeping her out of another surgery, so that is a win. Thanks again to everyone for their prayers. May 1 marked one year since they found out about the cancer, and Susan is doing so well.

5/20 – E gave an update. She and her family were having financial struggles a few months ago, and asked for prayers. E sends her thanks for the prayers, and wanted to let people know that things are getting better, thanks to the Horde’s prayers and their church family. They have resolved their mortgage issue and her husband has resumed his side gig making deliveries. They are also cutting monthly expenses. They would like continued prayers as they deal with the insurance company of the person who crashed into (and totaled) E’s vehicle. Insurance only offered half the replacement value, so that struggle is still going on.

5/23 – San Franpsycho sent a praise report. His prayer to become a grandad has been answered, and Girl F will have a baby in December. Girl F still plans to attend grad school, but will delay a year, which means they will depend on them for child care. This pleases San Franpsycho to the nth degree!

5/23 – Vmom deport deport deport would appreciate prayers. She has been freaking out about her eyesight. Her eye doctor says she has myopic macular degeneration.

5/23 – I used to have a Different Nic could use some prayers as he waits for the results of a biopsy of a mass on his prostate.
6/2 Update – I used to have a Different Nic sent in an update. He has been diagnosed with risk group 2 prostate cancer. It appears to be localized to the prostate but this will be verified via another scan. He has doctor appointments lined up for the next month or so before he starts treatment.

5/23 – George V sends his thanks for the prayers on behalf of his wife, when she had a heart valve replacement. The procedure went very well and she is doing great in the rehab program. But prayers are still needed. There are indications of problems in her lymph nodes that showed up in the scans checking her heart. She will have a biopsy in June, as well as a biopsy on a skin lesion that is looking suspicious. Thank you for all prayers.

5/26 – Doof posted a request for prayers for his mom. She is back in the hospital. She is very weak from one or more infections, and is sleeping a lot. She isn’t really talking when she is alert for a few minutes.

5/27 – Grannysaurus Rex asked for prayers for Sherry, a co-worker, who is being tested for possible cancer of the blood.

5/29 – Bulg requested prayers for his sister, her husband, their four children, and the rest of the family as his sister is dying. She is in palliative care in the hospital, with a lot of blood clots, and is not expected to last long.

5/29 – huerfano requested prayers for her brother, R, whose appendix “got hot”. Luckily he was with his daughter, who got him to ER quickly, and surgery was scheduled for 5/29.

5/29 – Beltway Elite posted that s/he had just signed forms for her/his mom to enter hospice. Mom’s quality of life has been declining since she had a stroke several years ago, and she hasn’t been able to speak or swallow solid food recently.

5/30 – RandomDave posted that he would appreciate prayers as he searches for work. He has had some good job prospects/interviews over the past week.

6/2 – Ellipsis (… sent in an update. We had prayed for a friend of hers who was going through cancer treatment. It’s been a little over a year, and her port is out now and her hell is over. She is battered and bruised, but clear. Thank you to the Horde for prayers, and praise to Jesus.

6/4 – Teresa in Fort Worth’s niece (Amanda) received a heart transplant a few months ago. One of the complications of that was that her kidneys started failing, and she needed a kidney transplant. On 6/3, she received a new kidney and it appears to be working. Hallelujah! The family is so grateful for the gift from the donor’s family.

For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com. If you see a prayer request posted in a thread comment, feel free to copy and paste it and e-mail it to Annie's Stew. She tries to keep up with the requests in the threads, but she's not here all of the time, so she may not see it unless you e-mail it to her. Please note: Prayer requests are generally removed after four weeks or so unless we receive an update.

2 Corinthians 4:8-9
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 08:00 AM

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Posted by: Boswell at June 06, 2026 07:40 AM (j10i6)

2 Eat your heart out Elric!

Posted by: Boswell at June 06, 2026 07:41 AM (j10i6)

3 Mornin', Horde.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 06, 2026 07:42 AM (Wnv9h)

4 “ So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.”

Corinthians 10:31

Posted by: Marcus T at June 06, 2026 07:44 AM (1zcQ9)

5 Eat? Drink? I can handle that.

Posted by: Caf at June 06, 2026 07:45 AM (qS/Xm)

6 “ Lord my God, I called to you for help, and you healed me.”

Psalm 30:2

Posted by: Marcus T at June 06, 2026 07:46 AM (1zcQ9)

7 Oh. We're up here now, are we...

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 06, 2026 07:48 AM (mbNQQ)

8 Recent update from Bulg: he visited his hospitalized sister, and she was doing better. She was able to communicate and they had a nice visit. He also got to spend time with her family. Prayers that she continues to improve are appreciated, and he gives thanks that they have reconciled.

Posted by: Annies Stew at June 06, 2026 07:50 AM (r4jnk)

9 Morning, all! I’m up here in Chicago for my son’s wedding. I’m so happy for them!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 06, 2026 07:51 AM (DooTB)

10 has anyone heard an update on grammie winger? I am almost afraid to ask but I haven't heard anything for awhile. If there was news some time ago and I missed it, I apologize.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 06, 2026 07:53 AM (mQ0bC)

11 9 Morning, all! I’m up here in Chicago for my son’s wedding. I’m so happy for them!
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 06, 2026 07:51 AM (DooTB)

Congrats!
Enjoy the festivities

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at June 06, 2026 07:53 AM (CkDaS)

12 Good morning Mis Hum and Horde

I have a desperate request for some prayers sent to my boss and his wife. Their 1 of three daughters passed away day before her 30th birthday.

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2026 07:55 AM (Ia/+0)

13 I tried during the week to figure out Annie’s email but just doesn't want to work. Ben tried to help but it comes up invalid address. Not first time I wanted to but can't get it to work.

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2026 07:56 AM (Ia/+0)

14
Remembered all those on the Prayer List and those with needs unexpressed. Not like I have influence Upstairs, but it can't hurt any.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 06, 2026 07:59 AM (O0L8i)

15 Saturday morning. I can sit on my deck.Drink a cup of coffee.Look at the woods and listen to the birds. Oh wait, I'm retired. I do that every morning. Never mind.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 06, 2026 08:00 AM (Riz8t)

16 Mornin’, All. Happy Saturday.

Posted by: Bulg at June 06, 2026 08:01 AM (77rzZ)

17 Their daughter's death, totally unaware, has to be devastating. They lost son some years ago with unexpected reasons as well.

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2026 08:01 AM (Ia/+0)

18 82d anniversary of D-Day.

Posted by: Bulg at June 06, 2026 08:03 AM (77rzZ)

19
82d anniversary of D-Day.
Posted by: Bulg at June 06, 2026 08:03 AM (77rzZ)

Which was won by black, lesbian codebreakers!!!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 06, 2026 08:04 AM (O0L8i)

20 "82d anniversary of D-Day.
Posted by: Bulg at June 06, 2026"

During Pride Month???

Posted by: Pawl at June 06, 2026 08:06 AM (vFG9F)

21 Which was won by black, lesbian codebreakers!!!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 06, 2026 08:04 AM (O0L8i)

They had to walk to the next town over to pee at the gym that allows trans in the womens locker room.

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 06, 2026 08:07 AM (/+uur)

22 I can’t post my email address clearly, because then bots pick it up and send hundreds of junk emails. I’ll try to explain it here:
apaslo, then the @, then hotmail.com

Hope that helps!

Posted by: Annies Stew at June 06, 2026 08:07 AM (r4jnk)

23 If you want some positive news, go read about a few of the cancer advancements that came out of the recent ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) meeting. The next gen of immunotherapy and continued improvements with current gen like Keytruda are stunning.

More to come, but God is putting miraculous capabilities in our hands.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 06, 2026 08:08 AM (1zcQ9)

24 >>>>19
82d anniversary of D-Day.
Posted by: Bulg at June 06, 2026 08:03 AM (77rzZ)

Which was won by black, lesbian codebreakers!!!

*cough*

Posted by: Neurodivergent Transsexuals at June 06, 2026 08:08 AM (Riz8t)

25 "The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit."

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 06, 2026 08:08 AM (/+uur)

26 > Which was won by black, lesbian codebreakers!!!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 06, 2026 08:04 AM (O0L8i)

They had to walk to the next town over to pee at the gym that allows trans in the womens locker room.
Posted by: r hennigantx at June 06, 2026 08:07 AM (/+uur)
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Sadly, on the 100th anniversary this will all be taken as fact. Probably.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 06, 2026 08:08 AM (jehhT)

27 We were discussing "Pressure" in Pixy's thread this morning. The movie is about the lead up to the D Day invasion, and is getting some complimentary moron reviews in the very early going.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 06, 2026 08:09 AM (hF7Dm)

28 Annie Ben tried to tell me that but then and many times before mh phone just says its invalid.
Have no explanation why it does that

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2026 08:10 AM (Ia/+0)

29 “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles.”

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 06, 2026 08:10 AM (/+uur)

30 And all things, whatsoever ye ask in prayer,believing, ye shall receive.

Posted by: kingsman at June 06, 2026 08:10 AM (ehY6c)

31 >>>27 We were discussing "Pressure" in Pixy's thread this morning. The movie is about the lead up to the D Day invasion, and is getting some complimentary moron reviews in the very early going.

Casting brendan fraser eisenhower was a bold choice. I can't tell from the trailer whether it paid off.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 06, 2026 08:11 AM (Riz8t)

32 I have emailed others without issue.
Oh well

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2026 08:12 AM (Ia/+0)

33 Good morning! The sun is up and the birds are singing. Gonna have spend time in the garden doing some weeding and transplanting. Damn the bad luck.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at June 06, 2026 08:13 AM (3Ope8)

34 "More to come, but God is putting miraculous capabilities in our hands.
Posted by: Marcus T "

I don't know if it was the prayers or the medicine that put my dog Bruno's lymphoma in remission but thank the Lord and the Horde for both!

Posted by: fd at June 06, 2026 08:13 AM (vFG9F)

35 I suppose Microsoft had a problem with receiving emails, then. Thanks for trying! And thanks for posting here, so we can see the updates when they can’t through via email.

Posted by: Annies Stew at June 06, 2026 08:13 AM (r4jnk)

36
We were discussing "Pressure"

The first in a series of five films centered on constituents of the ideal gas law. "Volume" is due to be released next year, and "Temperature" the year after that. Plans are still being drafted for the final two entries, "Mols" and "Gas Law Constant".

A film series for the ages, it will be!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 06, 2026 08:14 AM (s9VOe)

37
All them greek homos did was steal what was invented in Wakanda.

Posted by: Auspex at June 06, 2026 08:14 AM (Y8DZL)

38 I had a problem for a while sending to Hotmail. Then it went away. I got around it by sending from a different address.

Posted by: fd at June 06, 2026 08:15 AM (vFG9F)

39 34 "More to come, but God is putting miraculous capabilities in our hands.
Posted by: Marcus T "

I don't know if it was the prayers or the medicine that put my dog Bruno's lymphoma in remission but thank the Lord and the Horde for both!
Posted by: fd at June 06, 2026 08:13 AM (vFG9F)

The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe and the prayer.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at June 06, 2026 08:15 AM (CkDaS)

40 Arf!

Posted by: fd at June 06, 2026 08:16 AM (vFG9F)

41
All them greek homos did was steal what was invented in Wakanda.
Posted by: Auspex

Mickle sneaky, them Greek homos!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at June 06, 2026 08:17 AM (s9VOe)

42 Filed under "no one will care, but I'm posting it anyway."

In the Blue Angels video posted on the ONT, within the first minute after they departed runway 25L at NAS Pensacola, you can clearly see my house. The video is at least five years old because the seawall we had constructed in the summer of 2001 had not yet been installed at the time the video was taken.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 06, 2026 08:18 AM (J4Dwc)

43
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 06, 2026 08:18 AM (AMvSw)

44
Sadly, on the 100th anniversary this will all be taken as fact. Probably.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 06, 2026 08:08 AM (jehhT)

A couple of days ago, I went over to B&N while Her Majesty was getting her nails done. The history books available were depressing as hell. Nothing but stuff about how terrible America is, how everything was built by slaves and how women won World War II.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 06, 2026 08:18 AM (O0L8i)

45 Good Saturday morning, horde!

Prayers for all who've asked, and the rest of you, as well.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 06, 2026 08:18 AM (h7ZuX)

46 Bill Maher fights back against the latest Democrat fear mongering, arguing that the 60 minutes cast changes do not mean CBS has gone "full MAGA". Lord, I really cannot stand Chris Murphy.

https://tinyurl.com/38p9s4ue

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 06, 2026 08:22 AM (OOPSg)

47 C-SPAN is replaying President Reagan‘s D-Day 40th anniversary speech that he gave at Point du Hoc.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 06, 2026 08:23 AM (Geta8)

48 Now C-SPAN is running Clinton’s speech at the same location on D-Day.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 06, 2026 08:25 AM (Geta8)

49 My brother, R, had his appendix out last Friday night. Apparently, it was already leaking ick, so the surgery was more complicated and required lavage of his internals. He had a drain tube that caught on everything they were removing yesterday. He's been back at his daughter's house since Monday, but he said the other day he's ready to come home. Unfortunately, it's a 500 mile drive, either over the mountains or through Albuquerque and down I40. He was thinking about doing it today. I told him he's crazy. I'll know later today just how crazy.

Posted by: huerfano at June 06, 2026 08:25 AM (VJX5o)

50 CNN furiously covering for the California Steal, arguing the DOJ sending a prosecutor out to "observe" Los Angeles vote counting is because of "baseless" claims the election is being stolen. "Baseless": Their favorite defense.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 06, 2026 08:30 AM (OOPSg)

51 - Regarding Grammie...

I do not understand the "worry" or "fearing the worst" type of comments. At least not from those who claim the name of Jesus.

While when she passes, or if she has already passed, it will indeed be our loss, she is one who I believe belongs to our Lord.
And at her passing will be in His loving arms.

Posted by: TeeJ at June 06, 2026 08:30 AM (N6m+x)

52 Good morning again dear morons with thanks to annie and mh and the horde for praying

Just back from taking the kids to SFO

{grammie} Hiya JT

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 08:32 AM (RIvkX)

53 Good morning Horde,thx MisHum.
Prayers for the Horde and their loved ones in need.
Going up near 90° today. Staying in high 80s for rest of week. Warm in mid Hudson

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 06, 2026 08:34 AM (JQmtK)

54 There was a post yesterday about the California elections. Specifically the L.A. mayor's race. An individual was identified as a likely culprit in the ballot harvesting/fraud scheme. Why isn't that individual currently being questioned by the FBI?

Are bogus state elections OK?

Apparently they are. Which leads to states using the same harvesting and fraud schemes to rig national elections. This makes no sense.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 06, 2026 08:34 AM (jehhT)

55 50 "Baseless": Their favorite defense.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Claimed, "Without Evidence"!

Posted by: Auspex at June 06, 2026 08:35 AM (Y8DZL)

56 A top staffer for Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) is facing several firearm charges months after he allegedly attempted to bring a firearm into the U.S. Capitol complex.

Luis Vega, Sessions’s chief of staff, was charged on Wednesday with two counts in connection with the alleged incident that happened days before Christmas last year, according to court documents.
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He forgot he had it in his bag. Oh well, he will not make that mistake again anytime soon.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 06, 2026 08:37 AM (1cdUq)

57 OY!

Posted by: Don Black at June 06, 2026 08:40 AM (ZxPkt)

58 From downstairs
Seems Collective Soul is still touring

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2026 08:42 AM (Ia/+0)

59 CBS published a critical description of a long list of Trump administration clean-up actions at the FBI. Personally, I believe the agency is not redeemable but it is satisfying to read of the actions taken.

https://tinyurl.com/4hr77dck

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 06, 2026 08:43 AM (pSHyr)

60 Best Wishes and positive vibes to all who are in distress this day.

Posted by: Don Black at June 06, 2026 08:44 AM (ZxPkt)

61 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 06, 2026 08:46 AM (u82oZ)

62 Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

Hail Mary Full of Grace, blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

St. Norbert, you who preached penance to the prideful, pray for us.

****

I have prayed Rosaries for the Horde's intentions, both stated and unstated.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 06, 2026 08:47 AM (ksbjf)

63 Prayers ascending to all Horde and Horde adjacent people who are in need today.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 06, 2026 08:48 AM (u82oZ)

64 So this showed up in my local news.

Headline: A deadly bacteria is creeping up the Atlantic Coast. How worried should you be?

https://tinyurl.com/yu3rsbab

Posted by: muldoon at June 06, 2026 08:48 AM (qgHp7)

65 Okay:

what to watch today?

Saving Private Ryan
The Longest Day
Band Of Brothers

Posted by: Don Black at June 06, 2026 08:48 AM (ZxPkt)

66 I have a desperate request for some prayers sent to my boss and his wife. Their 1 of three daughters passed away day before her 30th birthday.

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2026 07:55 AM (Ia/+0)
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May her memory be a blessing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 08:48 AM (RIvkX)

67 Prayers up for those that have asked us for them in the prayer list;
Prayers up for those that know they need them but have not asked us for them;
Prayers up for those that need them but don’t know it yet; and
Prayers up for those who pray alone, asking for help in silence, and whose prayers are known but to God!

Prayers up even for all "our" politicians who have decided that their 10% graft and power are still far more desirable than their honor or integrity, may they see the error of their ways, repent, and become true representatives of we the people!

Prayers up for all those in our military, both deployed overseas and stateside, protect them from harm as they serve with honor and integrity.

And lastly, prayers up for President Trump, keep him and our beloved country safe from harm and may the many forces of corruption and evil arrayed against both him and our country be rendered ineffective and their plans come to naught!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at June 06, 2026 08:48 AM (hOUT3)

68 "Gas Law Constant".
A film series for the ages, it will be!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars

LOL. I want to see that one in particular. although I hear the Temperature one will have both a hot Sydney Sweeney and a cold Whoopi Goldberg.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 06, 2026 08:51 AM (u82oZ)

69 Florida AG declares unconstitutional the state's Amendment 12, which imposed a 3-day waiting period on gun purchases following a Brady Campaign-led voter referendum in 1998.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 06, 2026 08:51 AM (J4Dwc)

70 Commissar Hrothgar

A big Amen to that prayer.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 06, 2026 08:53 AM (u82oZ)

71 Which leads to states using the same harvesting and fraud schemes to rig national elections. This makes no sense.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 06, 2026 08:34 AM (jehhT)

Practice makes perfect!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at June 06, 2026 08:53 AM (hOUT3)

72 Headline: A deadly bacteria is creeping up the Atlantic Coast. How worried should you be?

https://tinyurl.com/yu3rsbab
Posted by: muldoon at June 06, 2026 08:48 AM (qgHp7)
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Goodness, that is not a fun read. A sea-borne bacteria with up to a 50% fatality rate for those infected. We're gonna need a bigger antibiotic.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 06, 2026 08:54 AM (J7Qx6)

73 So will the Voter Fraud Industrial Complex be so brazen as to deny Pratt even a second-place finish and a spot in the run-off? It appears that this may be the plan.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 06, 2026 08:54 AM (fZiTB)

74 Okay:

what to watch today?

Saving Private Ryan
The Longest Day
Band Of Brothers
Posted by: Don Black at June 06, 2026 08:48 AM (ZxPkt)

Either The Longest Day if you want to see a bunch of vignettes based upon Cornelius Ryan's book. Or the episode of Band of Brothers covering the D-Day airdrop if you want to see a "worm's eye view."

Skip Saving Private Ryan: it's nihilistic -- the hero is the coward, suckers!!!

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 06, 2026 08:55 AM (ksbjf)

75 Good morning, beloved Horde!

The kind person who has been leasing us a vehicle while we wait for the insurance settlement needs it back. None of us thought it would take this long to get things resolved with the at-fault driver's insurance company. I have learned that Arkansas law allows auto insurance companies to treat claimants unfairly.

Anyway, I wanted to put the word out in case anyone knows of a good deal in NW Arkansas or a nearby state. We are looking for a vehicle with a moderate step-in height (like a minivan, SUV, or small pickup) to accommodate my husband's mobility. We need a hitch and 7-pin connector to tow 3,500 lbs. In our price range, we are looking for an older model year, so I would be thrilled to find something that is still reliable after 200,000 miles. And it needs to be cheap. The insurance offered $2600 but I counter offered and asked for $5000. They might respond in about a month. Does anyone know of a good unicorn vehicle we should consider, please?

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at June 06, 2026 08:56 AM (FMtrg)

76 59
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 06, 2026 08:43 AM (pSHyr)

The "white" wash in that article is an inch thick!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at June 06, 2026 08:56 AM (hOUT3)

77 Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer

Saving Private Ryan, but only watch the first 24 minutes. The rest is dreck.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 06, 2026 08:57 AM (u82oZ)

78 72 Headline: A deadly bacteria is creeping up the Atlantic Coast. How worried should you be?

https://tinyurl.com/yu3rsbab
Posted by: muldoon at June 06, 2026 08:48 AM (qgHp7)

All you need to know is in the headline... "and climate change is accelerating its spread." More panic porn.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 06, 2026 08:57 AM (fZiTB)

79
59 CBS published a critical description of a long list of Trump administration clean-up actions at the FBI. Personally, I believe the agency is not redeemable but it is satisfying to read of the actions taken.

https://tinyurl.com/4hr77dck
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 06, 2026 08:43 AM (pSHyr)

Wow, was that a slanted article! Makes it sound like Trump is just firing completely innocent analysts. You have to read between the lines to work out what really happened; these analysts were caught collaborating with the SPLC to smear anyone with conservative religious beliefs. Now that the SPLC has been indicted as a criminal organization, their continued employment can no longer be tolerated.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 08:57 AM (3mtTi)

80 Morning, horde. Thanks in advance for any prayers, and you have mine for you as well. I keep telling myself, "God has a plan, and it must be a doozy..."

Posted by: RandomDave at June 06, 2026 08:59 AM (aJQbY)

81 Saving Private Ryan
The Longest Day

Band Of Brothers

If me
Watch 1st 1/2 hour od SPR. The rest is not worth time
Longest Day would watch whole movie
BoB best episodes are D-Day to Market Garden

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2026 08:59 AM (Ia/+0)

82 So will the Voter Fraud Industrial Complex be so brazen as to deny Pratt even a second-place finish and a spot in the run-off? It appears that this may be the plan.
Posted by: Ordinary American at June 06, 2026 08:54 AM (fZiTB)

Crush the uppity peasants, comrade, it has worked so ofter in the past, da!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at June 06, 2026 08:59 AM (hOUT3)

83 Daily Mail the other day had a piece on the flesh-eating bacteria including photos of the leg of a lady who was infected here in Pensacola. Yikes! Her leg was gruesome-looking.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 06, 2026 09:00 AM (J4Dwc)

84 64 So this showed up in my local news.

Headline: A deadly bacteria is creeping up the Atlantic Coast. How worried should you be?

https://tinyurl.com/yu3rsbab
Posted by: muldoon at June 06, 2026 08:48 AM (qgHp7)

The article blames global warming. I blame mad scientists. Well, maybe not in this case, but we'd have fewer nasty diseases if it weren't for mad scientists.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at June 06, 2026 09:01 AM (FMtrg)

85 Emmie -- be strong and courageous!

My 2011 Honda CRV, my everyday ride, is very reliable. With 169,000 miles on it.

Let me think about this.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 06, 2026 09:02 AM (u82oZ)

86 I don't swim in any body of water that isn't chlorinated, and preferably only the one I'm responsible for chlorinating.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 06, 2026 09:02 AM (fZiTB)

87 Headline: A deadly bacteria is creeping up the Atlantic Coast. How worried should you be?

https://tinyurl.com/yu3rsbab

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Wouldn't you know it, they're blaming global warming...

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 06, 2026 09:04 AM (qBdHI)

88 "God has a plan, and it must be a doozy..."
Posted by: RandomDave

Better than me telling my Plan to God. He's laugh so hard there would be an injury if he was not God.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 06, 2026 09:05 AM (u82oZ)

89 If you want to fix the FBI, you're gonna need to burn the Hoover building with termite and magnesium until its a pool of igneous rock, and then build a gallows 2x the size of Hamsn's, and keep it running day and night til everyone is gone.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 06, 2026 09:05 AM (epiNW)

90 NaCly, you are very kind and sweet! We do not expect anyone to sacrifice on our behalf, but we will accept God's blessings with gratitude. No obligation, of course.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at June 06, 2026 09:05 AM (FMtrg)

91 The opening of Saving Private Ryan is epic. The rest of the movie is Spielberg killing off members of CPT Miller's platoon, one by one, for dramatic effect.

IMO

Der Langste Tag fur mich.

Posted by: Don Black at June 06, 2026 09:06 AM (ZxPkt)

92 64 So this showed up in my local news.
Headline: A deadly bacteria is creeping up the Atlantic Coast. How worried should you be?

https://tinyurl.com/yu3rsbab
Posted by: muldoon at June 06, 2026 08:48 AM (qgHp7)

*shudders

Also, didn't take them long to blame climate change for it.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 06, 2026 09:06 AM (h7ZuX)

93 While when she passes, or if she has already passed, it will indeed be our loss, she is one who I believe belongs to our Lord.
And at her passing will be in His loving arms.

Posted by: TeeJ at June 06, 2026 08:30 AM (N6m+x)
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b"h

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 09:06 AM (RIvkX)

94 In Chicago for one more day after a database conference, then flying home to Portland. Maybe I'll walk around a bit. I kind of just want to sit down somewhere quiet and do some personal programming.

Posted by: frammish at June 06, 2026 09:06 AM (9aT4D)

95 So will the Voter Fraud Industrial Complex be so brazen as to deny Pratt even a second-place finish and a spot in the run-off? It appears that this may be the plan.

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Nobody is stopping them from what's obviously happening, so of course they'll do it. Brazen cheating means nothing to them. Why should it when they get away with it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 06, 2026 09:07 AM (qBdHI)

96 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, forever. Amen.

Oh my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell. Lead all souls to heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 09:08 AM (ZOv7s)

97 Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer

Saving Private Ryan, but only watch the first 24 minutes. The rest is dreck.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 06, 2026 08:57 AM (u82oZ)

Agreed.

There really needs to be a movie made portraying Brig. General Norman Cota, Asst. Div. Commander, 29th Inf. Div. He's most likely the man that prevented Omaha Beach being a disaster. He rallied the troops, made a reconnaissance run up the bluff with a couple of staff officers and enlisted men, found the way out for the beachhead and came back with over 50 German prisoners.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 06, 2026 09:09 AM (ksbjf)

98 Every spring/summer that I can recall there's been reports of some sort of pathogen or bug that will kill you.

This year it's genetically modified ticks and flesh eating bacteria. Last year it was murder hornets and brain eating amoebas. Or something.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 06, 2026 09:12 AM (jehhT)

99 {{{Emmie -- be strong and courageous!}}}

I do have to think very hard. It has been garaged since bought new. Too bad my wife's car does not have the height needed.

I rate the Honda as a tad more reliable than the Ford Fusion Sport, which has much less milage on it; 49,000.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 06, 2026 09:13 AM (u82oZ)

100 Nobody is stopping them from what's obviously happening, so of course they'll do it. Brazen cheating means nothing to them. Why should it when they get away with it.
Posted by: Lady in Black at June 06, 2026 09:07 AM (qBdHI)
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There is no mechanism to do this. Yes, lawless judges are abusing their authority in many ways, and then they get slapped down.

But in this case, it is better to let the thing run its full course, taking notes, observing the process, collecting evidence and only then - after documenting the fact that there is no way to prove anything is authentic - move to have it annulled.

This is how evil usually works. People find a way to cheat, to steal from others in a small way, they succeed and then scale things up until their theft becomes impossible to ignore.

Their pride conceals the danger from them, and makes them even more bold and brazen. Another important element is that the issue is now "ripe." Even the most sincere believer that 2020 was flawless now has doubts about California's antics.

The 0 Pratt votes in a batch of 24,000 gave the game away.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)

101 There really needs to be a movie made portraying Brig. General Norman Cota, Asst. Div. Commander, 29th Inf. Div. He's most likely the man that prevented Omaha Beach being a disaster. He rallied the troops, made a reconnaissance run up the bluff with a couple of staff officers and enlisted men, found the way out for the beachhead and came back with over 50 German prisoners.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 06, 2026 09:09 AM (ksbjf)
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The Longest Day?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 09:14 AM (ZOv7s)

102 This year it's genetically modified ticks and flesh eating bacteria. Last year it was murder hornets and brain eating amoebas. Or something.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 06, 2026 09:12 AM (jehhT)

Meanwhile Leftism has snuck past our defenses with little to no incitements to panic and done more to infect and rot away the tissues of our body politic than any bacteria.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 06, 2026 09:14 AM (fZiTB)

103 We have a friend who offered to sell us a 2003 Chevy Trailblazer with a replaced engine for $2800. Does anyone know if Trailblazers tend to have a long service life? (I am used to putting 400,000 miles on Toyotas.)

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at June 06, 2026 09:15 AM (FMtrg)

104 The 0 Pratt votes in a batch of 24,000 gave the game away.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)[i/]

The statistics of "random" events is problematic!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at June 06, 2026 09:16 AM (hOUT3)

105 The 0 Pratt votes in a batch of 24,000 gave the game away.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 09:13 AM (ZOv7s)

LiB's point may be: but gave the game away to whom? To what body of accountability? To what end?

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 06, 2026 09:16 AM (fZiTB)

106 NaCly, I do not think your Honda has the tow capacity we need. But that doesn't diminish my appreciation for you!

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at June 06, 2026 09:18 AM (FMtrg)

107 59 CBS published a critical description of a long list of Trump administration clean-up actions at the FBI. ....

https://tinyurl.com/4hr77dck
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 06, 2026 08:43 AM (pSHyr)

...You have to read between the lines to work out what really happened; these analysts were caught collaborating with the SPLC to smear anyone with conservative religious beliefs. Now that the SPLC has been indicted as a criminal organization, their continued employment can no longer be tolerated.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 08:57 AM (3mtTi)

Yes, the now-infamous "Catholics that prefer the Latin Mass are the real domestic terrorists" assessment. That assessment was so ridiculous that it called-out, by name, a little religious order of Trad. Cath. sisters (all 8 or 9 of them), the Slaves of Mary, as a bunch of potential terrorists.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 06, 2026 09:18 AM (ksbjf)

108 The way California counts votes (actually the way they conduct elections writ large) is a total joke and embarrassment. They are a full-on banana republic and they have no shame. I saw Ed Kilgore had an apologia for CA in NY Magazine…. In true Orwellian fashion he argued that the slowness of the count demonstrates how accurate it is! Like I said, no shame…. Hilton and Pratt never had any chance whatsoever. Even if one or both make it to the general they’ll get wiped out there…. Cali is gone

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 06, 2026 09:18 AM (yz/88)

109 Anyone with a rudimentary understanding of statistics knows what goes on with vote-counting in California.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 09:18 AM (RIvkX)

110 Skip Saving Private Ryan: it's nihilistic -- the hero is the coward, suckers!!!
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 06, 2026 08:55 AM (ksbjf)
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I walked out of that film choking with rage. All the hype, all the praise, the saccharine sweet ending, I wanted to puke.

In addition to its incidental crimes against the truth (the War Dept. didn't mass produce condolence letters, commanders wrote them by hand) the entire story was a lie. Private Ryan was reached by a Catholic Chaplain who volunteered to go alone and find him. Why was that part ripped out of the story?

Oh, and I hate the washed-out color palette that every WW II move adopted after it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 09:18 AM (ZOv7s)

111 The 0 Pratt votes in a batch of 24,000 gave the game away.

Doesn't matter. Once a state puts up a vote total - nobody has the will or power to invalidate it.

Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 09:19 AM (EFkNq)

112 {{{Lady in Black}}}

California is a one-party state, enforced by cheating. This is not allowed under the Constitution.

I would support raids by the FBI on the LA and CA vote counting locations. Arrest the counters, their supervisors, and the head of elections in LA and the CA Secretary of State, who oversees elections. DHS and a Marine infantry battalion of two can be in support.

Based on finding of obvious fraud, arrest the LA mayor and the CA governor.

This is going all Cromwell on the Communist / nihilist government that is trying to overthrow the basis for the US of A.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 06, 2026 09:19 AM (u82oZ)

113 Emmie -- be strong and courageous!

It does have a little used trailer hitch. But I have not towed anything in a decade.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 06, 2026 09:21 AM (u82oZ)

114 The game in LA seems to be to conjure enough votes to put Pratt in 3rd and freeze him out.

Pratt had a 10pct lead over Raman on election night, it’s down to 3pct with over 1/2 a million votes left to count.

The Fix as they say is in.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 06, 2026 09:21 AM (DC7Uw)

115 We have a friend who offered to sell us a 2003 Chevy Trailblazer with a replaced engine for $2800. Does anyone know if Trailblazers tend to have a long service life? (I am used to putting 400,000 miles on Toyotas.)
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at June 06, 2026 09:15 AM (FMtrg)

Mrs. Cop had a Trailblazer of about that model year. She liked it. It was pretty comfortable and drove well. However, we think we had a lemon because we had to repair the transmission twice.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 06, 2026 09:22 AM (ksbjf)

116 LiB's point may be: but gave the game away to whom? To what body of accountability? To what end?
Posted by: Ordinary American at June 06, 2026 09:16 AM (fZiTB)
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The DoJ was waiting for this, I promise you. I've been having some fun imagining Thune is really an evil genius who screwed over Cassidy and Cornyn and did so without leaving fingerprints, but the confluence of events is remarkable. The SAVE Act has been a national topic for six months, with constant floor action that always leaves a cliff-hanger. As a result, GOP turnout went from comatose to epic, and dozens of RINOs have been shown the door during primary season.

With all that going on California decides to go full retard and just dump transparently fake ballots and brag that taking more than a month to find a winner is totes cool, dudes, right when a SCOTUS case on the vary topic is pending. I think the Election Day ruling might have gone 6-3, but now it will be 8-1 because this is an embarrassment. India can count votes faster than California.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 09:23 AM (ZOv7s)

117 I would support raids by the FBI on the LA and CA vote counting locations. Arrest the counters, their supervisors, and the head of elections in LA and the CA Secretary of State, who oversees elections. DHS and a Marine infantry battalion of two can be in support.
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I VOTED FOR THIS

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 09:24 AM (RIvkX)

118 This is going all Cromwell on the Communist / nihilist government that is trying to overthrow the basis for the US of A.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 06, 2026 09:19 AM (u82oZ)

That would be delicious. But it won’t happen. Even Trump won’t do that (or even consider it honestly) and he’s the ballsiest public figure of my lifetime. We have no Pinochet’s or Franco’s in America and actually I think that’s a positive. Once blood starts to spill it’s hard to turn off that spigot. See our American civil war for a prime example

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 06, 2026 09:24 AM (yz/88)

119 Thanks for the Coffee Thread and Prayer Revival, Mis Hum and Annie!

May God's goodness and mercy shower down upon all of His children this day.

And may God continue to bless the U.S.A. and Israel.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at June 06, 2026 09:24 AM (D/6p1)

120 I have said here many times that all large cities have 5% fake voter regs in the bag to change elections.
NY State has almost 13%.
So I am waiting to see what the Harris County cheat in the fall for the Senate race will be.
In my 8 years here I have seen the following:
No vote paper.
1 vote paper per voter when 2 sheets needed.
No power. Someone at the school told them they cannot use wall outlets.

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 06, 2026 09:24 AM (/+uur)

121 Doesn't matter. Once a state puts up a vote total - nobody has the will or power to invalidate it.
Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 09:19 AM (EFkNq)
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Last year SCOTUS ruled that losing candidates have standing to bring suit challenging election results. Trump's suits failed in 2020 because all the judges dismissed it for lack of standing.

The rules have changed.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 09:24 AM (ZOv7s)

122 Thumb Tillis is really a piece of work. What a scumbag.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 06, 2026 09:25 AM (deJ25)

123 Tom Hanks infects his war dramas with sappy woke nonsense. I recently watched Greyhound. Technically superb, but his screenplay added so much crap that wasn't in the book, all of it eye-rolling sentimental stupidity. Almost ruined the movie for me.

Posted by: goatexchange at June 06, 2026 09:25 AM (hyS0X)

124 Mornin' Horde. Prayers for all.

I've officially reached burnout. On everything in my life. I can see where God has been good but feel like it is immediately drowned in a sea of bad. I have solutions in my grasp only for the decisions of others to yank them away. I do not know how long I can continue like this.

Pray for me, Horde. For us all.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez at June 06, 2026 09:25 AM (LtIPD)

125 I think the Election Day ruling might have gone 6-3, but now it will be 8-1 because this is an embarrassment. India can count votes faster than California.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 09:23 AM (ZOv7s)

NASDAQ processes 1.8 BILLION trades per day with 99.seven more 9s% accuracy.

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 06, 2026 09:26 AM (/+uur)

126 I think the Election Day ruling might have gone 6-3, but now it will be 8-1 because this is an embarrassment.

OK - now I gotta' call it. I'll have a toke of what you're having, but no more. Because that chronic is stout.

You are really spreading the copium that this will be the bridge too far for The Wide Latina AND Kagan ?

Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 09:27 AM (EFkNq)

127 Thanks for the information, RBCop! There are apparently certain models that are remarkably more durable than others of the same make.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at June 06, 2026 09:28 AM (FMtrg)

128 99.seven more 9s% accuracy.
Posted by: r hennigantx at June 06, 2026 09:26 AM (/+uur)

Took me a second, but yes!

Thing is NASDAQ has their OWN skin in the game!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at June 06, 2026 09:28 AM (hOUT3)

129 That would be delicious. But it won’t happen.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 06, 2026 09:24 AM (yz/8

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Serious question for the pessimists out there. Why?

Why always so negative? Yes, life can be disappointing, you can't get everything you want, but maybe - just maybe - things happen for a reason. God permits evil in order to call the faithful to repent, to bring us closer to Him.

Has that not happened? Are we not seeing a surge in Bible sales? Is faith not returning to the public square? Our enemies are reeling, lashing out, wailing in despair, so why assume that their victory is assured?

I'm fine with being too optimistic. I used to be pessimistic, but I couldn't stand to live there. Even death itself has been conquered, so what do we have to fear?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 09:29 AM (ZOv7s)

130 I’m surprised at the negative comments about Saving Private Ryan here. It’s not a perfect film but I didn’t see any fatal flaws in it… men who were there said the beach landing scene at the beginning is as realistic a depiction of what happened as possible…. And it’s patriotic generally showing the American soldiers in a positive light. Tom Hanks character dies to bring Ryan back; a positive sacrifice and Ryan shows tremendous gratitude… also positive. What’d I miss that’s so bad?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 06, 2026 09:30 AM (yz/88)

131 Good morning all
Sending healing hugs to those of you who are in need. I hope I can give some in person in a couple of weeks at the MoMe.
Had a good n ight's sleep for a change and woke up feeling normal. Wish I could figure out why some nights I toss and turn, get up multiple times and wake up more tired than when I got into bed.
Anyway, no excuse for being unproductive.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 06, 2026 09:30 AM (kJmSS)

132 There really needs to be a movie made portraying Brig. General Norman Cota, Asst. Div. Commander, 29th Inf. Div. He's most likely the man that prevented Omaha Beach being a disaster. He rallied the troops, made a reconnaissance run up the bluff with a couple of staff officers and enlisted men, found the way out for the beachhead and came back with over 50 German prisoners.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 06, 2026 09:09 AM (ksbjf)
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The Longest Day?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 09:14 AM (ZOv7s)

It's been quite a while since I've read Cornelius Ryan's book or seen the movie. So, I can't remember if Brig. Gen. Cota is mentioned.

The book by Joseph Balkoski, Omaha Beach: D-Day has the details. The 29th Inf. Div. was a Virgina National Guard division. They trained very hard to be "just as good" as the Regulars in the 1st Inf. Div.

The officers in the 29th tended to know each other. There's a little incident in Balkoski's book where Gen. Cota comes across a junior officer and says something like, "Oh, you're so-and-so's boy. How's your dad?"

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 06, 2026 09:31 AM (ksbjf)

133 The constitution promises states that they will be guaranteed a constitutional republican form of government. California doesn't have that. Should they be sued until they do? Should California be reduced to a territory until they do?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 06, 2026 09:31 AM (l26NL)

134 You are really spreading the copium that this will be the bridge too far for The Wide Latina AND Kagan ?
Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 09:27 AM (EFkNq)
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I mean, I'm not saying 9-0, that would nuts. But we have had 8-1 on a bunch of stuff lately, it's not like Ace hasn't posted about how KJ is an embarrassment to her colleagues.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 09:32 AM (ZOv7s)

135 Serious question for the pessimists out there. Why?

Its not a serious question. Because you spent three paragraphs right after telling us all why "pessimism" is not an option.

But I'll give you the scoop anyway. Its realism. If everything is rolling downhill like a snowball headed for Hell ? I got no time for grinning idiots that want to make slushees.

Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 09:32 AM (EFkNq)

136 Big Bob Mitchum played Gen. Cota.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 06, 2026 09:33 AM (l26NL)

137 Pray for me, Horde. For us all.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at June 06, 2026 09:25 AM (LtIPD)

Hang in there Brother Tim, and as you know, there's no one here that couldn't use a prayer, or two!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ THIS NoVA MoMe in Virginia! ~ at June 06, 2026 09:33 AM (hOUT3)

138 So this showed up in my local news.

Headline: A deadly bacteria is creeping up the Atlantic Coast. How worried should you be?

https://tinyurl.com/yu3rsbab
Posted by: muldoon
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Climate change!
Abandon all hope.
And if we somehow survive Climate Change.
We're still gonna die from Racism.

Posted by: Florida Peasant at June 06, 2026 09:34 AM (Lo97M)

139 The officers in the 29th tended to know each other. There's a little incident in Balkoski's book where Gen. Cota comes across a junior officer and says something like, "Oh, you're so-and-so's boy. How's your dad?"
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 06, 2026 09:31 AM (ksbjf)
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IIRC, when France fell, FDR declared a national emergency and order the National Guard to active duty. So they got a long period to get back into shape.

Also, Marshall's "plucking board" and the Louisiana Maneuvers.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 09:34 AM (ZOv7s)

140 But I'll give you the scoop anyway. Its realism. If everything is rolling downhill like a snowball headed for Hell ? I got no time for grinning idiots that want to make slushees.
Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 09:32 AM (EFkNq)
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So faith is for grinning idiots? Good to know.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 09:35 AM (ZOv7s)

141 I'm fine with being too optimistic. I used to be pessimistic, but I couldn't stand to live there. Even death itself has been conquered, so what do we have to fear?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 09:29 AM (ZOv7s)

I’m a very optimistic person in general. But in the case of California I also have to be realistic. I lived there for more than 30 years and watched it go downhill with my own eyes. I was there for the 2020 election and the Gavin Newsom recall; in the latter case, Newsom was unpopular everywhere and still beat the recall 2-to-1… it wasn’t even close. The corruption in that state is way too pervasive to overcome in one election cycle. It may sound pessimistic but I’m telling you that state is not electing a republican this year even if the residents want one. The dem machine is in firm control

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 06, 2026 09:36 AM (yz/88)

142 Big Bob Mitchum played Gen. Cota.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 06, 2026 09:33 AM (l26NL)

Thanks. All the different vignettes in The Longest Day get a bit lost in my memory. Brig. Gen. Cota needs his own movie.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 06, 2026 09:36 AM (ksbjf)

143 I shall pray for you.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 09:36 AM (ZOv7s)

144 So faith is for grinning idiots? Good to know.

Faith is exactly what it is - a belief despite evidence at hand. You've got it. You are certainly not alone here.

Now understand - not everyone operates that way. Not by a long shot.

Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 09:37 AM (EFkNq)

145 I wasn’t sure if I was mixing up the stories of BG Coda, and BG Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Ted Roosevelt Jr pulled strings to be allowed to
Go ashore early at Utah Beach with his troops. Because the boats drifted off target area, he improvised the plan and rallied the troops.

Posted by: Fenderbender at June 06, 2026 09:37 AM (1FEc1)

146 Thanks. All the different vignettes in The Longest Day get a bit lost in my memory. Brig. Gen. Cota needs his own movie.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop

I remember Cota (Mitchum) rallying the troops on the beach but not reconnoitering or capturing Germans. They blew a great opportunity.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 06, 2026 09:38 AM (l26NL)

147 Pessimism has value in that it can generate anger, resolve and reformative action. When it masks, or becomes, lazy despair is the problem.

Posted by: Ordinary American at June 06, 2026 09:38 AM (fZiTB)

148 If everything is rolling downhill like a snowball headed for Hell ? I got no time for grinning idiots that want to make slushees.
Posted by: Howdy

That is a good two lines. Stealing it.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 06, 2026 09:38 AM (u82oZ)

149 But I'll give you the scoop anyway. Its realism. If everything is rolling downhill like a snowball headed for Hell ? I got no time for grinning idiots that want to make slushees.
Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 09:32 AM (EFkNq)
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So faith is for grinning idiots? Good to know.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 09:35 AM (ZOv7s)

I'm pretty certain that this is the "Man of Many Nics." He's a cynical contrarian.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 06, 2026 09:38 AM (ksbjf)

150 Have a great day, everyone.

May you all be blessed with bliss.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 06, 2026 09:39 AM (u82oZ)

151 That SCOTUS ruling giving standing to candidates to challenge voting results applies only in elections for federal office. It carries no weight in state or local elections.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 06, 2026 09:39 AM (J4Dwc)

152 Got truck box off side rails and in the bed. Not sure how I did it other times but its done.

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2026 09:40 AM (Ia/+0)

153 Thanks. All the different vignettes in The Longest Day get a bit lost in my memory. Brig. Gen. Cota needs his own movie.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop

I remember Cota (Mitchum) rallying the troops on the beach but not reconnoitering or capturing Germans. They blew a great opportunity.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 06, 2026 09:38 AM (l26NL)

Gen. Cota made the Germans show him the path through the sea-wall. Since they were all coming from the "German side" he made the Germans go first.

I wonder what the enlisted men thought when a General showed up with over 50 prisoners?

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 06, 2026 09:42 AM (ksbjf)

154 Emmie, Ram and Ford make those small "transit" vans that are basically an enclosed light deliver truck.
There are a lot of them for sale on auctions but the trick is to find one that will last and isn't beat like a company truck on salted roads.
They are quite handy.

Here is one of a few in an online auction out of Vernona KY, but the Proxibid site is all of the US. I don't know what sort of towing package you could get on it, and I suspect it is only rated 2000 lbs in the back bay, which is typical of a standard automobile rating, like a Ford Taurus or the like.

Here is a link to an example at Proxibid

https://tinyurl.com/2ta5a3wu

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2026 09:42 AM (rbvCR)

155
Most people don't know just how bad shape the U.S. Army was in 1939. It had been systematically starved during the Depression. Its numbers put it on par with Portugal and Romania. Obsolete equipment, obsolete doctrines, obsolete officers. Negligible R&D investment. No industrial capacity to re-equip it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 06, 2026 09:43 AM (O0L8i)

156 Given that the second sentence is about "global warming" everything else is highly suspect as to accuracy.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at June 06, 2026 09:43 AM (lFFaq)

157 That SCOTUS ruling giving standing to candidates to challenge voting results applies only in elections for federal office. It carries no weight in state or local elections.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 06, 2026 09:39 AM (J4Dwc)
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Whew, good thing there are any Congressional races there this year!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 09:43 AM (ZOv7s)

158 I see the new PM in Hungary has agreed to sign the EU Unlimited Muslim Immigration agreement. That didn’t take long.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 06, 2026 09:43 AM (QZThv)

159 Watching episode 2 of Band of Brothers (D-Day drop). It always amazes me many Brits I've since come to know played Yanks. Some even had decent accents.

I thought Damien Lewis was an American the first time I watched. Then I later saw him in a British film using what I guess is his natural accent and I thought, "That's the worst British accent I've ever heard".

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 06, 2026 09:43 AM (l26NL)

160 Faith is exactly what it is - a belief despite evidence at hand. You've got it. You are certainly not alone here.

Now understand - not everyone operates that way. Not by a long shot.
Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 09:37 AM (EFkNq)

A little quibble: Faith is not belief despite evidence. See Hebrews quote below. It is evidence of things not seen… there are all kinds of rational reasons for faith; if (big IF) your faith is in something solid like almighty God. Faith in the tooth fairy is foolish. Faith in our God is the only rational way to live.

Hebrews 11:1-3
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
For by it the elders obtained a good report.
Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 06, 2026 09:44 AM (yz/88)

161 What is giving the game away in LA is the surge in Raman votes. Why should the 3rd place candidate be getting a larger percentage take of Democrat votes all,of a sudden than the first place Dem?
The news cycle this week has been insane. I don't know how DJT stays on top of all these world changing events. Has there ever been a Lresident that can sit day after day and take questions from a hostile media on wide ranging topics without blinking an eye?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 06, 2026 09:44 AM (kJmSS)

162 I thought Damien Lewis was an American the first time I watched. Then I later saw him in a British film using what I guess is his natural accent and I thought, "That's the worst British accent I've ever heard".
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

He plays Montgomery in "Pressure".

Posted by: Tuna at June 06, 2026 09:45 AM (lJ0H4)

163 I see the new PM in Hungary has agreed to sign the EU Unlimited Muslim Immigration agreement.

The day the EU formed should have been the day we walked away from NATO.

Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 09:45 AM (EFkNq)

164 The very first president of the Continental Congress was elected unanimously — Peyton Randolph of Virginia — in 1774. Thomas Lynch, who nominated him, described him as "having great Dignity," according to a entry in John Adam's diary. Randolph also had some serious connections: He was a good friend of George Washington and the first cousin once removed of Thomas Jefferson.

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 06, 2026 09:46 AM (/+uur)

165 > That SCOTUS ruling giving standing to candidates to challenge voting results applies only in elections for federal office. It carries no weight in state or local elections.
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My comment upthread about allowing states to continue ballot harvesting and fraud practices (presuming the feds can't properly investigate, or won't get involved in "local" state elections) just means those states will perpetrate fraud in national elections.

It makes no sense to have a "hands off" policy for one set of elections and scrutinize the other one.

California is the posterchild for local, state and national election fraud. Other states follow their methodology.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 06, 2026 09:47 AM (jehhT)

166 @23 -- Maybe they can reverse the cancers caused by the rRNA shots.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 06, 2026 09:47 AM (XMwZJ)

167 So faith is for grinning idiots? Good to know.

Faith is exactly what it is - a belief despite evidence at hand. You've got it. You are certainly not alone here.

Now understand - not everyone operates that way. Not by a long shot.
Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 09:37 AM (EFkNq)

*sigh*

Your definition of Faith is incorrect. Faith is a belief in things that cannot be observed. Faith is not irrational.

Because you do not understand Faith, you wallow in cynicism and despair. The sooner the embrace the love that Christ Jesus that offers you, the sooner you will find comfort -- even in suffering.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 06, 2026 09:47 AM (ksbjf)

168 The day the EU formed should have been the day we walked away from NATO.
Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 09:45 AM (EFkNq)

The second best day is Today

Posted by: r hennigantx at June 06, 2026 09:47 AM (/+uur)

169 re: the article on "flesh eating" Vibrio.

1. There is nothing new about Vibrio. Don't eat raw oysters in months without an "R" (May, June, July, August) i.e. warm weather months. Don't swim in warm brackish ponds/streams if you have open skin sores.
2. This is a pseudo-news piece pushed to local news outlets for seasonal filler by a group called Grist or Grist.org which describes itself as a non-profit, independent news organization that focuses on climate change.
3. Note the hyped language such as "surge" "rapid", "dramatic increase" "unprecedented" etc.
4. The early detection system is a self-licking ice cream cone or a computer model that uses known parameters related to Vibrio growth to predict Vibrio risk on a county by county basis, and is not good at identifying "high-risk" counties, mostly because there are very few high risk counties.
5. They are talking about a couple hundred deaths a year. So the kind of surge they are describing is more of a blip and more consistent with periodic fluctuations rather than an ongoing trend
As Ordinary American points out above, more panic porn.

Posted by: muldoon at June 06, 2026 09:47 AM (qgHp7)

170 The dem machine is in firm control
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 06, 2026 09:36 AM (yz/8

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So was Tammany Hall. All empires fall, and so do all political machines.

If you think you will always lose, you will. If was have seen anything in the last decade it is the impossible keeps happening. It's staggering for me to see stuff I never dreamed of happening, pure fantasies and wishes made real.

America is re-industrializing! How is that possible?! The military is un-wokening! A single fitness standard for all branches mean the whole women in combat thing has been resolved! It just goes on and on. Even abortion has a path forward for an incrementalist approach.

So many wins, such great abundance, an embarrassment of victories, and yet like spoiled children we complain. I can't live like that.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 09:48 AM (ZOv7s)

171 "Has there ever been a Lresident that can sit day after day and take questions from a hostile media on wide ranging topics without blinking an eye?"
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I didn't blink much.

Posted by: Creepy joe at June 06, 2026 09:49 AM (djegq)

172 muldoon, I don't see why anyone would eat raw oysters ever, except out of sheer desparation.... ewwww.....

Posted by: RandomDave at June 06, 2026 09:50 AM (aJQbY)

173 Folks - sermons and recitations just are not persuasive to the non-religious. Look ... if you want to tell each other that a Deus Ex Machina is right around the corner ? Have at it.

Not all believe it. Most don't - for a variety of reasons. But by all means, make all the slushees you wish. Keep mine for yourself.

Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 09:50 AM (EFkNq)

174 blip ≠ surge

Posted by: muldoon at June 06, 2026 09:50 AM (qgHp7)

175 There is a good British movie Damien is in bout a British unit in UN contol in Serbia, can't think of name, but its a British APC name

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2026 09:51 AM (Ia/+0)

176 Brother Tim, I've been praying for you. I've also been wracking my brain wondering if there's a way I can help. I am truly surprised that no one at your work or your church has a spare room for you to shelter in while you work on improving your circumstances.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at June 06, 2026 09:51 AM (FMtrg)

177 My wife and I took our vehicles to get fueled this morning at the cheapest place we could find. That out of the way, we went to a local diner for breakfast. Good call. Vehicles full. We're full. Life is good.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 06, 2026 09:52 AM (O7YUW)

178 It’s probably better for all of us in the long run if California goes ahead and cheats Pratt out of the runoff now, when it will be obvious. Because of course he has no chance in the general election, but the fraud will be easier to hide.

It’s not black pilled to say California is lost, because it is. Most every major corporation and high income industrialist are fleeing the state because of it. They’re not fleeing because they’re scared or stupid, but because they’ve made a cold hard analysis of the situation and Sen no hope for change outside of massive destruction.

And I also see this as a very good thing - Central Texas will become what Silicon Valley was, lwhile also becoming the base of operations for most major corporations, who are moving because of the legal climate.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 09:53 AM (3mtTi)

179 Watching episode 2 of Band of Brothers (D-Day drop). It always amazes me many Brits I've since come to know played Yanks. Some even had decent accents.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 06, 2026 09:43 AM (l26NL)
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The British have a solid system of producing quality acting talent. We do not. It was always something of ad-hoc arrangement, when people coming over from stage shows, or being "discovered" at a gas station, etc.

But it's now full nepotism/patronage, same as writing. Writers are hired out of a collegiate pipeline, not after going out in the world and writing what they know.

Which is why two films with tiny budgets and no-name casts (and one of whom's director can't even legally buy beer) are dominating the box office while the latest Star Wars slop tanks.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 09:53 AM (ZOv7s)

180 Howdy,

This. Is. Prayer. Thread.

Why are you complaining about our faith here IN THE PRAYER THREAD?

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at June 06, 2026 09:53 AM (FMtrg)

181 124 Mornin' Horde. Prayers for all.

I've officially reached burnout. On everything in my life. I can see where God has been good but feel like it is immediately drowned in a sea of bad. I have solutions in my grasp only for the decisions of others to yank them away. I do not know how long I can continue like this.

Pray for me, Horde. For us all.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez at June 06, 2026 09:25 AM (LtIPD)

Don't like the sound of this.... Do you have Friends/Family you can talk to? Will pray for you...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 06, 2026 09:54 AM (5XwF9)

182 Howdy, if you don’t know God, you’ve got more to worry about than whatever bad stuff turns up in the news cycle.

Posted by: Bulg at June 06, 2026 09:55 AM (77rzZ)

183 I'm at Waffle House this morning. Grits bowl with eggs, cheese, bacon and sausage.
And coffee.
Lots of coffee.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 06, 2026 09:55 AM (djegq)

184 So was Tammany Hall. All empires fall, and so do all political machines.
...
So many wins, such great abundance, an embarrassment of victories, and yet like spoiled children we complain. I can't live like that.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 09:48 AM (ZOv7s)

Just like you, I don't understand the "All is lost!" crowd.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 06, 2026 09:56 AM (ksbjf)

185 There's nothing funny about necrotizing faciitis. well, except for

Two, three days. Fall off by self.

-Dr. Lee

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 06, 2026 09:56 AM (w/O5Q)

186 >>Whew, good thing there are any Congressional races there this year!

The person you responded to with the SCOTUS ruling was speaking to probable fraud against Pratt in the LA Mayor race. I accurately pointed out that the SCOTUS ruling only applies to elections for federal office.

But you keep being you.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 06, 2026 09:56 AM (J4Dwc)

187 Seems Collective Soul is still touring
Posted by: Skip
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Yep! I saw them here in SC about a month ago. It was a great show.

Posted by: screaming in digital at June 06, 2026 09:57 AM (0SdQT)

188 Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 09:53 AM (3mtTi)

I agree Tom. But it’s very sad. California is the most physically beautiful of all the states and the climate is amazing … for most of the years I lived there it was a near paradise. The Dems have ruined it… makes me sad and angry. If I could pick one place to live it’d be SoCal (before the Dem destruction overwhelmed it)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 06, 2026 09:57 AM (+gA9j)

189 I started to watch the new Hanks WW2 documentary on History, but saw it was produced by Jon Meacham. I quit. If I don't trust Meacham on what he says about current events (he's fully politicized), why should I trust him on a subject from 80 years ago. He's a noted historian!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 06, 2026 09:58 AM (l26NL)

190 Quarter Twenty you didn't have a stroke did you?

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2026 09:58 AM (Ia/+0)

191 I don't know if my reference (180) to an old meme was too vague:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?
v=gZo2qR8x_n8&pp=ygUPVGhpcyB
pcyBsaWJyYXJ5&ra=m
remove spaces

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at June 06, 2026 09:59 AM (FMtrg)

192 I wonder what the enlisted men thought when a General showed up with over 50 prisoners?
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 06, 2026 09:42 AM (ksbjf)

R.H.I.P?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2026 09:59 AM (rbvCR)

193 No. Just hungry.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 06, 2026 09:59 AM (djegq)

194 Wow, there's a lot of Howdy Doody in this thread.

Posted by: muldoon at June 06, 2026 09:59 AM (qgHp7)

195 Prayers up for all the Horde's intentions. Those asked and unasked.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 06, 2026 09:59 AM (hcPzc)

196 Being way over in Bucks County say billboard Roger Daltrey is at Parx cassino soon

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2026 09:59 AM (Ia/+0)

197 Prayers for all the Horde in need, and for the Nowak family.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 06, 2026 10:00 AM (hLhMb)

198 I believe that within 10 years, Texas and Florida will be the base of operations for at least half of the corporate wealth of the entire country. California, at least the cities, will decay into a miserable and insignificant existence of constant crime and decay.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 10:00 AM (3mtTi)

199 >I thought Damien Lewis was an American the first time I watched.
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He played Steve McQueen in Tarantino's 'Hollywood' movie

Posted by: Don Black at June 06, 2026 10:01 AM (ZxPkt)

200 As Ordinary American points out above, more panic porn.
Posted by: muldoon at June 06, 2026 09:47 AM (qgHp7)
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*squirts sanitizer*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 10:01 AM (RIvkX)

201 198 I believe that within 10 years, Texas and Florida will be the base of operations for at least half of the corporate wealth of the entire country.
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Sitting right here, boss.

Posted by: Delaware at June 06, 2026 10:01 AM (djegq)

202 Folks - sermons and recitations just are not persuasive to the non-religious. Look ... if you want to tell each other that a Deus Ex Machina is right around the corner ? Have at it.

Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 09:50 AM (EFkNq)
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My faith is founded on logic and reason. They are what led me to conclude that God is real and active. I did not want to be a Catholic. I was raised to hate the Church, ripped on it all the time, teased Catholics in school, mocked the saints.

And yet...here I am, utterly against my will. There is a certain irony that my fascination with ancient warfare caused my to buy Polybius, Tacitus, etc. and the more I studied them, the more I came to understand that you either have to accept what is written or not.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 10:02 AM (ZOv7s)

203 PRESIDENT TRUMP CLAIMED WITHOUT EVIDENCE!!!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 06, 2026 10:02 AM (Kt19C)

204 This. Is. Prayer. Thread.

Why are you complaining about our faith here IN THE PRAYER THREAD?

*******************

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 06, 2026 10:02 AM (J4Dwc)

205 Most people don't know just how bad shape the U.S. Army was in 1939. It had been systematically starved during the Depression. Its numbers put it on par with Portugal and Romania. Obsolete equipment, obsolete doctrines, obsolete officers. Negligible R&D investment. No industrial capacity to re-equip it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 06, 2026 09:43 AM (O0L8i)

However, the post-WWI draw down had been managed by the officers who dealt with the CF that had been the mobilization for WWI and they tried to set up a skeleton that could be fleshed out for another mobilization. FDR finally got his thumb out of his ass and let industry be industry instead of forcing it to be a piggy bank for his buddies pretending it was a social welfare sector of the economy as well, and that helped an awful lot.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2026 10:02 AM (rbvCR)

206 This. Is. Prayer. Thread.

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.

Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 10:03 AM (EFkNq)

207 The person you responded to with the SCOTUS ruling was speaking to probable fraud against Pratt in the LA Mayor race. I accurately pointed out that the SCOTUS ruling only applies to elections for federal office.

But you keep being you.
Posted by: one hour sober at June 06, 2026 09:56 AM (J4Dwc)
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As others have already noted, the Constitution and Voting Rights Act cover state elections, and if you think that somehow a federal suit finding a congressional race was fraudulent doesn't have serious implications for state and local elections, I don't know what to say.

I shall pray for you.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 10:05 AM (ZOv7s)

208 It’s not black pilled to say California is lost, because it is. Most every major corporation and high income industrialist are fleeing the state because of it.
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Standing right here boss.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 10:05 AM (RIvkX)

209 I agree Tom. But it’s very sad. California is the most physically beautiful of all the states and the climate is amazing … for most of the years I lived there it was a near paradise. The Dems have ruined it… makes me sad and angry. If I could pick one place to live it’d be SoCal (before the Dem destruction overwhelmed it)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 06, 2026 09:57 AM (+gA9j)

I grew up in Phoenix, but we vacationed in California every summer. I remember camping in Yosemite when you could still drive in and get a spot with no reservations, my dad renting a condo on the beach in San Diego for $100 a week one summer. No crime, it truly was a paradise.

Well as the words to a song go…

They call it paradise, I don’t know why
Call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 10:05 AM (3mtTi)

210 FDR finally got his thumb out of his ass and let industry be industry instead of forcing it to be a piggy bank for his buddies pretending it was a social welfare sector of the economy as well, and that helped an awful lot.

I read everything I can from Morganthau. Perhaps unintentionally - he shows FDR to have been one stupid SOB

Per Morganthau - it was a constant battle to stop FDR from nationalizing key industries. As well as having the FED step in and take over all payroll.

Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 10:06 AM (EFkNq)

211 Good morning hordelings! Prayers up for all. I've done my short morning walk, had my breakfast, and may now enjoy a nap. Nope! Not today nap monster!

Got results from my blood work. A1C is excellent! BP is... Not.

My short morning walk is going to get longer.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 06, 2026 10:07 AM (OsdBI)

212 Emmie - I'm not vouching for this particular vehicle, but this website can be helpful in finding used vehicles in your radius / price range / etc:

https://tinyurl.com/bdh67ean

CarGurus is another similar site that you can use.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 06, 2026 10:07 AM (kOluj)

213 Howdy,

This. Is. Prayer. Thread.

Why are you complaining about our faith here IN THE PRAYER THREAD?
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at June 06, 2026 09:53 AM (FMtrg)

I'm pretty sure it's our least favorite stalker. He's made a number of comments under this current "nic" that I've learned that he really needs Jesus in the worst way. But he's decided that he wants to be separated from God.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 06, 2026 10:07 AM (ksbjf)

214 Standing right here boss.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 10:05 AM (RIvkX)

But you’re remarkably stubborn!

Not to mention that roller coaster is still a lot of fun, even after you go over the big hill at the start.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 10:08 AM (3mtTi)

215 Emmy,
We had the same problem when a very low mileage older vehicle got hit. Minor damage. They totalled it, and offered about 1/3 what it's worth.
Turned it into my insurance company. Got it fixed, and they sued the other company.
Dunno if this helps, but it may.

Posted by: MkY at June 06, 2026 10:09 AM (q6tQZ)

216 So on the old blog I help out at, every day I have been posting a random bird photo (stolen from bird id sites) and some of them are quite cool-looking, like today's bird.

Link in nic if you want to ogle a birdie 😀

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 06, 2026 10:09 AM (LmPA0)

217 If you think the SCOTUS ruling is in any way an impedance to the Dems cheating Pratt out of a shot at becoming LA mayor, you're delusional.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 06, 2026 10:10 AM (J4Dwc)

218 Speaking of willow's apprentice, does anyone keep up with willow?

I know she quit commenting due to eyesight issues. But I worry a bit about the absent.

Posted by: current events at June 06, 2026 10:11 AM (Jxl54)

219 Standing right here boss.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 06, 2026 10:05 AM (RIvkX)
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Pratt and Hilton took off precisely because they had a message that things don't have to be that way. The ads showing things as they were, coupled with Trump's transformation of DC have created a radical hope in California that hasn't been there in a long time.

Gee, Trump did the same thing on a national stage. Things that we were told just could not be fixed are now being addressed. All things end, and Gov. Brylcreem is uniquely stupid enough to get caught red-handed, as are all his minions.

Hope is simply being open to the idea that better things can happen, because they can.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 10:11 AM (ZOv7s)

220
And I also see this as a very good thing - Central Texas will become what Silicon Valley was, lwhile also becoming the base of operations for most major corporations, who are moving because of the legal climate.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 09:53 AM (3mtTi)

____________

Money goes where money is treated well.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 06, 2026 10:12 AM (O0L8i)

221 https://tinyurl.com/bdh67ean

CarGurus is another similar site that you can use.
Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 06, 2026 10:07 AM (kOluj)

Thank you, MKC! I like the item you linked! I haven't determined for sure which auto sales sites do the best job of including family-owned used car businesses. That's where we've had the best luck in our experience.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at June 06, 2026 10:13 AM (FMtrg)

222 A war movie I don't see mentioned much that I found impactful is Hacksaw Ridge. The difficulties of the terrain, the chaos, what had to be overcome to do their job was so overwhelming. It really hit home,how war is Hell. Those of you who served, I can't tell you how much I appreciate how much you sacrificed. Saying Thank you for your service just doesn't seem adequate.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 06, 2026 10:13 AM (kJmSS)

223 Grok, Does Bost v. IL Apply to State and Local Elections?
Yes, the reasoning in Bost extends beyond federal elections.

The core holding is about candidate standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution.
Nothing in the opinion limits it to federal races. The logic applies to any election in which the candidate is running — including state legislative races, statewide offices (governor, attorney general, etc.), and local elections (mayor, county commission, school board, etc.).
Lower courts have already begun applying Bost to state and local election challenges.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 06, 2026 10:13 AM (73/SM)

224 Why are you complaining about our faith here IN THE PRAYER THREAD?
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at June 06, 2026 09:53 AM (FMtrg)

Because his smarmy superiority complex requires it of him. He has nothing else, but the conviction that he is always right, and he told us so, a hundred thousand times, and don't we remember, and why don't we listen, and if we would all only think the way he does, the world would be perfect.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at June 06, 2026 10:14 AM (h7ZuX)

225 A war movie I don't see mentioned much that I found impactful is Hacksaw Ridge.

A Bridge Too Far is still my favorite.

Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 10:14 AM (EFkNq)

226 Sitting right here, boss.
Posted by: Delaware at June 06, 2026 10:01 AM (djegq)

Outside of corporate lawyers and a few execs, not many people realize that Delaware completely destroyed it’s once treasured status as a corporate haven when it allowed a State judge to attack Elon Musk’s board approved compensation package just because he wasn’t liked.

To every corporate lawyer in the country, that shouted that Delaware was no longer a safe or trustworthy corporate haven.

Hence the rush of corporate hq’s relocating. Chevron, Samsung, and Exxon have announced moves to Texas recently, and they’re just the big ones.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 10:15 AM (3mtTi)

227 Ernest Goes To Stalingrad is still my favorite war movie.

Posted by: anti-TMJer at June 06, 2026 10:16 AM (Jxl54)

228 a blooper from The Longest Day:

Pluskat's binoculars

'Made In Germany'

https://youtu.be/rPW1x4KgRW8?t=51

Posted by: Don Black at June 06, 2026 10:17 AM (ZxPkt)

229 Turned it into my insurance company. Got it fixed, and they sued the other company.
Dunno if this helps, but it may.
Posted by: MkY at June 06, 2026 10:09 AM (q6tQZ)

My husband says our insurance company won't help us, but I wonder if he just hasn't asked the right questions. (Our insurance coverage doesn't include delivery driving, which we learned after the wreck.)

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at June 06, 2026 10:17 AM (FMtrg)

230 Outside of corporate lawyers and a few execs, not many people realize that Delaware completely destroyed it’s once treasured status as a corporate haven when it allowed a State judge to attack Elon Musk’s board approved compensation package just because he wasn’t liked.

To every corporate lawyer in the country, that shouted that Delaware was no longer a safe or trustworthy corporate haven.

Hence the rush of corporate hq’s relocating. Chevron, Samsung, and Exxon have announced moves to Texas recently, and they’re just the big ones.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 06, 2026 10:15 AM (3mtTi)
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Yeah, I thought I heard something about that. Delaware is hugely reliant on all the corporations based there and that stupid judge just killed the goose laying golden eggs.

Typical. Leftists gotta leftist.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 10:17 AM (ZOv7s)

231 Folks - sermons and recitations just are not persuasive to the non-religious. Look ... if you want to tell each other that a Deus Ex Machina is right around the corner ? Have at it.

Posted by: Howdy
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Will you admit that without religion, you live in a universe without meaning, and death ends all? If so, why do you even care about politics when you're facing imminent oblivion? It's religion or nihilism. You seem to want to carve out some make believe in-between which is common to atheists who have not thought things through.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 06, 2026 10:18 AM (XvL8K)

232 Thank you, MKC! I like the item you linked! I haven't determined for sure which auto sales sites do the best job of including family-owned used car businesses. That's where we've had the best luck in our experience.
Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at June 06, 2026 10:13 AM (FMtrg)

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You're most welcome! Both AutoTrader and CarGurus host listings from all types of dealerships. Private listings such as the one I posted are more the exception than the norm on these sites, in my experience.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at June 06, 2026 10:19 AM (kOluj)

233 Typical. Leftists gotta leftist.

They truly believe. They also have faith, one could say. Faith that if they just Communist hard enough, they'll reach Proletariat Paradise. Its not bullshit for the rubes anymore. Just listen to Mamdani. To the dumb bitch in Seattle.

The most dangerous liar is the one that believes his own lies.

Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 10:20 AM (EFkNq)

234 One war movie that I watched because it was well known… but really annoyed me (I’d never watch it again): Bridge over the River Kwai… I really couldn’t stand the Alec Guinness character and do not understand why that’s considered a great movie

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 06, 2026 10:20 AM (yz/88)

235 The shortened version of Emmie's URL to that video on YouTube in #191:
https://youtu.be/gZo2qR8x_n8

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 06, 2026 10:21 AM (O7YUW)

236 May GOD bless those mentioned and silent prayers as well, may He also bless America and President Trump.

Posted by: Eromero at June 06, 2026 10:21 AM (LHPAg)

237 https://m.youtube.com/watch?
v=gZo2qR8x_n8&pp=ygUPVGhpcyB
pcyBsaWJyYXJ5&ra=m

___________________________

Multi line link and spaces?

Have you ever thought of using a link shortener?

Posted by: Will Robinson at June 06, 2026 10:21 AM (YGJ8E)

238 Yeah, I thought I heard something about that. Delaware is hugely reliant on all the corporations based there and that stupid judge just killed the goose laying golden eggs.

Typical. Leftists gotta leftist.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 10:17 AM (ZOv7s)

There was some commentary in the fringe economics section of the web that Delaware SOS online and recording system is quite leaky and has people who aren't supposed to be getting information getting notified of big corporate moves before it is published. There appears to be no concern that this is an issue from the DE SOS IT side, and this is concerning for corporation who care.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2026 10:21 AM (rbvCR)

239
I have to take Her Majesty to the airport tomorrow morning, so I can't go to my usual 7:00 Mass. I will have to get to a later one, which is a pain.

If I go at 7:00, which is the earliest Mass, the rest of the day is cleared out. My parish has six (6) Sunday Masses, such is the local demand for the TLM. If I go to a later one I'm falling all over the people leaving. No fun.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 06, 2026 10:22 AM (O0L8i)

240 A Bridge Too Far is still my favorite.
Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 10:14 AM (EFkNq)

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There's a Ted Kennedy biopic in the works. They're going to call it A Bridge Too Narrow.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 06, 2026 10:23 AM (6/7Fs)

241 a blooper from The Longest Day:

Pluskat's binoculars

'Made In Germany'

Posted by: Don Black at June 06, 2026 10:17 AM (ZxPkt)
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Counterpoint: Germany produced a lot of precision optics for export, and when the British blockade kicked in, those would have been issued out to military units.

Same way export-marked weapons end up domestic service. See also American Mosins with the Imperial crest.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 10:23 AM (ZOv7s)

242 In case you thought the country wasn't declining fast enough.

“Maybe, Maybe Not”: AOC Keeps 2028 White House Speculation Alive

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 06, 2026 10:24 AM (ndZc7)

243 Have you ever thought of using a link shortener?
Posted by: Will Robinson at June 06, 2026 10:21 AM (YGJ8E)

It's a pain in the neck on my phone. Sorry!

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at June 06, 2026 10:24 AM (FMtrg)

244 It's religion or nihilism.

Horse shit. Thats the typical Evangelical False Choice. I care about what happens here and now because I'm here, now. I care about after I'm gone because others will still be here after I'm gone.

Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 10:25 AM (EFkNq)

245 https://youtu.be/gZo2qR8x_n8
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 06, 2026 10:21 AM (O7YUW)

Thanks, Grumpy!

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at June 06, 2026 10:25 AM (FMtrg)

246 Further to Tom Servo's #226:

https://tinyurl.com/3prvv466

The Texas Lawbook

The Rise of ‘DEXIT’: Why Corporations are Swapping Delaware for Texas

May 14, 2026 Byron F. Egan

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 06, 2026 10:25 AM (O7YUW)

247 oh FFS

Posted by: Don Black at June 06, 2026 10:27 AM (ZxPkt)

248 Howdy is a fag. If you impaled him, he'd orgasm.

Posted by: Vlad Tepes at June 06, 2026 10:27 AM (jJ+lW)

249 @245/Emmie: "[i[Thanks, Grumpy!"

Most welcome. I figured you might be on a mobile phone from the format of the URL you posted. I'm doing the "Desktop Jockey" thing this morning, where I have a little more control over things than I do over my phone, where the UI regularly has me frustrated.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 06, 2026 10:27 AM (O7YUW)

250 Every spring/summer that I can recall there's been reports of some sort of pathogen or bug that will kill you.

This year it's genetically modified ticks and flesh eating bacteria. Last year it was murder hornets and brain eating amoebas. Or something.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 06, 2026 09:12 AM (jehhT)

We're gonna have a Plague of Something, dammit!!!

This Trump monster must be exposed for the world destroyer he is!!!!!1!11111!!!11111!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 06, 2026 10:28 AM (iJfKG)

251 If I go at 7:00, which is the earliest Mass, the rest of the day is cleared out. My parish has six (6) Sunday Masses, such is the local demand for the TLM. If I go to a later one I'm falling all over the people leaving. No fun.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 06, 2026 10:22 AM (O0L8i)
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For a while I was going to the 8 a.m. Mass at the student location for the same reason. I got to enjoy the whole Book Thread rather than punching out around 10:30.

However, if I want others to go with me, it has to be 11 or later.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 10:28 AM (ZOv7s)

252 Horse shit. Thats the typical Evangelical False Choice. I care about what happens here and now because I'm here, now. I care about after I'm gone because others will still be here after I'm gone.
Posted by: Howdy
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But the things you care about, in the absence of religion, are nothing but your individual taste. What do you say to the person who has a taste for murder and rape? You have no basis whatsoever for telling that person that they're objectively wrong. All you can say is "Our tastes differ."

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 06, 2026 10:29 AM (XvL8K)

253 The most dangerous liar is the one that believes his own lies.
Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 10:20 AM (EFkNq)

Adler suggested that we shouldn't self analyze because we make up lies to justify our self___ and provide pretexts for why it is OK to do things that don't really fall in line with what is generally accepted as true or moral. God and religion are both touchstones for a society since they are an evolved set of principles on how to operate within a society with maximum openness and cooperation.

"I am smarter than everyone else" is a terrible way to justify rudeness, unless your goal is to start fights and make people unhappy, and abuse people online.
"Everyone needs a wake up call because destroying this community is the only way to force people out of the stupid engrams and the cultural stasis they have fallen into" is both a self aggrandizing moral position to take, and also the position the Red Guards of the Cultural Revolution, and the central group of the Khmer Rouge took as well.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2026 10:30 AM (rbvCR)

254 Just saw this and it is so appropriate for,this thread.
https://tinyurl.com/ychckkza

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 06, 2026 10:30 AM (kJmSS)

255 A Bridge too Far is in my top 10 war movie list
Bridge over the river Kwai its a shame what they did hp the Col

Posted by: Skip at June 06, 2026 10:30 AM (Ia/+0)

256 Posted by: Vlad Tepes at June 06, 2026 10:27 AM

He's actually a married man who acts as a guard dog for his wife-not my words-his. The anger is incandescent and the disappointment is palpable.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 06, 2026 10:32 AM (IYIYn)

257 >>Lower courts have already begun applying Bost to state and local election challenges.

Not surprising. Which means the issue will probably have to be readdressed by SCOTUS when different circuits hold opposite opinions as to whether Bost applies at the state and local level.

But the SCOTUS ruling as we have it now applies only to candidates for federal office.

Posted by: one hour sober at June 06, 2026 10:32 AM (J4Dwc)

258 Well, you know, he needed a little walking around money.

NBA Star’s $26.6M Vanishes: Terry Rozier’s Salary Forfeited Over Alleged Game-Fixing Scheme

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 06, 2026 10:32 AM (ndZc7)

259 We're gonna have a Plague of Something, dammit!!!

I'm pretty sure the only reason we DIDN'T have this from Post WW II until the fall of the USSR is because "The Russians" filled the role of bogeyman that - historically - Man writ Large has always needed and when necessary created out of thin air.

1800s Americans were obsessed with impending natural caused as well as spiritual doom according to contemporary writings. Apparently the same all through history.

Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 10:33 AM (EFkNq)

260 It's religion or nihilism

Sorry, Biff, but this was dumb. It's been known as dumb since the Akkadians assembled the Epic of Gilgamesh.
The solution to the human condition is to leave a legacy. Not to suck your thumb and hope for a better afterlife.
The latter is an ad for MAID.

Posted by: Yyrog the Lich King at June 06, 2026 10:33 AM (yYROg)

261 Posted by: Kindltot at June 06, 2026 10:30 AM (rbvCR)

Well expressed. Thx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 06, 2026 10:33 AM (IYIYn)

262 I used to think my father was an atheist because he is an avid fan of Bart Ehrman and seems to take joy from his grim pessimism.

Since my stepmother went into hospice, we talk more, every few days or so, and I've gotten to know him a lot better. I finally talked about faith with him not long ago, and he's actually a Unitarian. In fact, he married my other in a Unitarian church. It seems a small detail, but it actually explains a lot about his life. He was raised Methodist, btw.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 10:34 AM (ZOv7s)

263 Cota was a very good general. His reputation was sullied because of his alleged lapses in the Hurtgen Forest. The entire Hurtgen operation was a cluster**k so I can't really get on Cota's case

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 06, 2026 10:35 AM (5y7pw)

264 Kindltot gets it.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at June 06, 2026 10:35 AM (FMtrg)

265 Whenever "A Bridge Too Far" is mentioned I automatically think of The Simpsons episode where Homer gains weight to go on disability.

"Hey, fatty, I've got a movie for ya - A Fridge Too Far!"

Posted by: PabloD at June 06, 2026 10:35 AM (K1RVP)

266 Please tell me that raving imbecile Howdy didn't latch on to my post for his garbage.

I really should just keep my mouth shut.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at June 06, 2026 10:38 AM (N5734)

267 What do you say to the person who has a taste for murder and rape?

Pretty easy ... one's taste should not come at the direct expense of someone else who opposes.

All false choices you are presenting. Fairly typical. You want to establish that we'll all revert to savages unless we all convert. Not gonna' happen.

Posted by: Howdy at June 06, 2026 10:40 AM (EFkNq)

268 Feds Probe Alleged Voter Fraud in California

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Vote fraud?!!! In California?!!! Why, I never heard of such!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 06, 2026 10:40 AM (ndZc7)

269 @260/Yyrog the Lich King:

The solution to the human condition is to leave a legacy.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:

And on the pedestal these words appear:

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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Ozymandias
by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 06, 2026 10:40 AM (O7YUW)

270 Thoughts and prayers for all of those on the list.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 06, 2026 10:41 AM (XeU6L)

271 Please tell me that raving imbecile Howdy didn't latch on to my post for his garbage.

I really should just keep my mouth shut.
Posted by: Brother Tim, still standing at June 06, 2026 10:38 AM (N5734)
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Don't worry about it. They clearly have a lot of unresolved anger and need to externalize it.

Happy people are very upsetting to unhappy people and faith enrages the faitless.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 10:41 AM (ZOv7s)

272 I attended a memorial service at a Unitarian (church?) a couple of years ago. The officiant - I won't say pastor - was a FtM transgender. All I could think was "this is atheism for people who like soft piano music and candles."

Posted by: PabloD at June 06, 2026 10:41 AM (K1RVP)

273 We're gonna have a Plague of Something, dammit!!!

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Well, there's a lot of stupidity and fraud going around.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at June 06, 2026 10:42 AM (ndZc7)

274 'Made In Germany'

Posted by: Don Black at June 06, 2026 10:17 AM (ZxPkt)

After the war, Zemke snatched the whole Zeiss plant - the Soviets were getting ready to ship the plant to Russia. The whole works later disappeared into the ether. Book at archive.org.

Book -Zemke's Stalag

Page 128 — My new “command” was more extensive than I had at first appreciated. In addition to the Zeiss plant, my administration extended to the Schott und Genossen Glas-Werke, one of the foremost manufacturers of specialist glass. The Zeiss management had, apparently, been exceedingly cooperative, undoubtedly hoping to preserve their industry for happier times in the future. An advantage for my presence was that I could converse in German whereas Brayer had to rely on an interpreter, although several people at Zeiss were fluent in English. My immediate task was to ensure proper security, particularly against casual British or American personnel who came looking for loot ...

Posted by: 13times at June 06, 2026 10:42 AM (JqbO1)

275
The glorious fruits of atheism are written in recent history. Death, starvation, terror, economic ruin, a morally-devastated population.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 06, 2026 10:43 AM (kb3W+)

276 This being the Prayer Thread, I post the first paragraph in FDR's D-Day Prayer.

"Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity."

Notice he says "our Republic" not democracy, "our religion" not diversity, and our [Western] civilization. So when some idiot says today's antifa bears any resemblance to our brave fathers and grandfathers who went ashore that day I'll remind them of what's in the balance.

Posted by: Rex B at June 06, 2026 10:43 AM (rgnea)

277 I’m sorry… but if there’s no God and we’re all just a cosmic accident of chemical reactions then the only rational approach to life is hedonism… enjoy as much pleasure as you can for as long as you can. It’s ultimately empty…. Real purpose comes only through knowing and worshipping your Creator

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 06, 2026 10:43 AM (gZZCh)

278 I saw Faitless in Seattle and 3 Heresies and a Funeral as a double feature at the Rialto in '87.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 06, 2026 10:44 AM (6/7Fs)

279 I attended a memorial service at a Unitarian (church?) a couple of years ago. The officiant - I won't say pastor - was a FtM transgender. All I could think was "this is atheism for people who like soft piano music and candles."
Posted by: PabloD at June 06, 2026 10:41 AM (K1RVP)
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No, it's the ultimate spiritual "easy button." Just feel good, think good thoughts, there's some kind of God or something, and everything will turn out right in the end.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 06, 2026 10:44 AM (ZOv7s)

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