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Swan ~~dive~~ belly flop.

Simpsons-themed Halloween house decorations.

Sometimes you just need to stick your paw in your mouth.

Fussy raven strips the leaves off a strawberry before accepting it.

Playing with a raven in the snow.

Sometimes a monkey just needs a hug.

This 800 year old linden tree is a real chonky chungus.

A sad photo won the 2026 Wildlife Photograph of the Year. It shows a grieving mother elephant carrying her dead calf with her trunk.

The red and white giant flying squirrel. He's a big boy as far as gliding animals go. Here's a picture of one of these chonky boys in flight.

FAQ: Do owls sneeze?

Owls being cute weirdos.

Sea otter plays basketball with a pumpkin.

But why https://t.co/tP3Umpp5zR
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) October 27, 2026

Dog tells his owner his blind friend deserves a treat first.. 🥺
Dogs are the best.. 😊 https://t.co/5eW7Ia9qOW
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) October 23, 2026

Old but great: service dog likes the slide.

Service dog loves the slide.. 😊 https://t.co/EZcx6FiNSK
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) October 25, 2026

A man knocked down a basement wall, finding a 2,000-year-old underground city
Chasing his chickens through a hole in his basement during renovations came across an abandoned underground city that once housed 20,000 people
The ancient city of Elengubu, known today as Derinkuyu https://t.co/0y5SxlSUP9
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 28, 2026

Apparently that's real:

More than 85m beneath the famous fairy chimneys of Cappadocia lies a massive subterranean city that was in near-constant use for thousands of years.

Violent gusts whipped loose soil into the air as I hiked through Cappadocia's Love Valley. Pink- and yellow-hued hillsides coloured the rolling landscape scarred with deep red canyons, and chimneystack rock formations loomed in the distance. It was arid, hot, windy and devastatingly beautiful. Millennia ago, this volatile, volcanic environment naturally sculpted the spires surrounding me into their conical, mushroom-capped shapes, which now draw millions of visitors to hike or hot-air balloon in the central Turkish region.
But beneath Cappadocia's crumbling surface, a marvel of equally gargantuan proportions lay hidden away for centuries; a subterranean city that could conceal the whereabouts of up to 20,000 inhabitants for months at a time.
The ancient city of Elengubu, known today as Derinkuyu, burrows more than 85m below the Earth's surface, encompassing 18 levels of tunnels. The largest excavated underground city in the world, it was in near-constant use for thousands of years, changing hands from the Phrygians to the Persians to the Christians of the Byzantine Era. It was finally abandoned in the 1920s by the Cappadocian Greeks when they faced defeat during the Greco-Turkish war and fled abruptly en masse to Greece. Not only do its cave-like rooms stretch on for hundreds of miles, but it's thought the more than 200 small, separate underground cities that have also been discovered in the region may be connected to these tunnels, creating a massive subterranean network.
According to my guide, Suleman, Derinkuyu was only "rediscovered" in 1963 by an anonymous local who kept losing his chickens. While he was renovating his home, the poultry would disappear into a small crevasse created during the remodel, never to be seen again. Upon closer investigation and some digging, the Turk unearthed a dark passageway. It was the first of more than 600 entrances found within private homes leading to the subterrestrial city of Derinkuyu.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:10 PM

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Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
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BREAKING: Colleague @davidspunt reports via two sources familiar that there is an ongoing DOJ "aggressive criminal investigation" into Daniel J. Sullivan appearing on the ballot for US Senate in Alaska, and the investigation has intensified in the wake of the bombshell NYT report today.

DOJ sources tell David that multiple grand jury subpoenas will be issued in the coming hours and days, and there are preservation orders to cell phone companies that are being prepared regarding text messages and emails that may build a timeline for how Daniel J. Sullivan was placed on the ballot.

The investigation is being handled by the U.S. Attorney's Office in Alaska and federal prosecutors are interested in potential charges relating to the depravation of rights of Alaska voters. The investigation is expected to go beyond Election Day and has been underway for several months.

Posted by: beckster at October 28, 2026 07:11 PM (kX27y)

2 Pretty tree

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 07:12 PM (8B4gm)

3 Nood'd

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 07:14 PM (8B4gm)

4 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at October 28, 2026 07:14 PM (fO5H9)

5 My painting of a single tree. See nic.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:14 PM (Ti9vn)

6 The wonderful, fresh bouquet of the Café continues.

Thank you Ace, and the AoSHQ Café Custodial Staff !

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 28, 2026 07:15 PM (0sNs1)

7 "It shows a grieving mother elephant carrying her dead calf with her trunk."

Kinda morbid. That was the best they could come up with?
Reminds me of the GOP.

Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 07:16 PM (MWfyi)

8 A man knocked down a basement wall, finding a 2,000-year-old underground city
Chasing his chickens through a hole in his basement during renovations came across an abandoned underground city that once housed 20,000 people
The ancient city of Elengubu, known today as Derinkuyu https://t.co/0y5SxlSUP9
- Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 28, 2026

"So, do you have a movie for me?"
"Yes sir, I do! We'll have a famous chicken starring as a daring professor of archaeology who finds a mysterious city in China..."

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 07:16 PM (jb8Ss)

9 I am tickled by ace's headlines today. En Fuego!

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 28, 2026 07:17 PM (wVcYX)

10 leading to the subterrestrial city of Derinkuyu.

Dink a dink a doo?

Ha-cha-cha-chaaaa!

Posted by: Zombie The Schnoz at October 28, 2026 07:18 PM (fO5H9)

11 Your Wings painting is great.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 07:18 PM (8B4gm)

12 "Yes sir, I do! We'll have a famous chicken starring as a daring professor of archaeology who finds a mysterious city in China..."
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 07:16 PM

Are you going to serve as bluebell's agent?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 28, 2026 07:18 PM (0sNs1)

13 My painting of a single tree. See nic.
Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:14 PM (Ti9vn)

Would hang.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 28, 2026 07:18 PM (wVcYX)

14 I think I saw that underground city in a Netflix documentary called Ancient Apocalypse, which is pretty good. The level of forethought that went into it is insane. Oh, and it's carved out of rock.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 07:19 PM (l26NL)

15 That tree at top has 'connections' at the the highest level.

Posted by: Eromero at October 28, 2026 07:19 PM (LHPAg)

16 but why

just more examples of why women live longer than men.

Also

"It was there"

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 28, 2026 07:19 PM (vJrRc)

17 2026, the year of the ' we are sick of your shit' election

Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2026 07:20 PM (8Uo7a)

18
Marc Elias is an evil man -

John Reese - Person of Interest
@Rickisback_ON_X
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2h
Just In: Per Mark Halperin on Megyn Kelly, the Marc Elias law firm was involved in the fake Dan Sullivan Candidate search in the Alaska Senate race.

Posted by: beckster at October 28, 2026 07:20 PM (kX27y)

19 Your Wings painting is great.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 07:18 PM (8B4gm)

Thanks . One of my top five sitcoms. It's from the closing credits.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:21 PM (Ti9vn)

20 "It shows a grieving mother elephant carrying her dead calf with her trunk."

Kinda morbid. That was the best they could come up with?

Posted by: fd

It works for the Newbery awards

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 28, 2026 07:21 PM (vJrRc)

21 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2026 07:21 PM (Ia/+0)

22 A man knocked down a basement wall, finding a 2,000-year-old underground city
Chasing his chickens through a hole in his basement during renovations came across an abandoned underground city that once housed 20,000 people
The ancient city of Elengubu, known today as Derinkuyu https://t.co/0y5SxlSUP9
- Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) October 28, 2026

"So, do you have a movie for me?"
"Yes sir, I do! We'll have a famous chicken starring as a daring professor of archaeology who finds a mysterious city in China..."
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 07:16 PM (jb8Ss)

Sneks. Why did it have to be sneks.

Posted by: Prof. Bluebell the Chicken at October 28, 2026 07:21 PM (wVcYX)

23 "So, do you have a movie for me?"
"Yes sir, I do! We'll have a famous chicken starring as a daring professor of archaeology who finds a mysterious city in China..."
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 07:16 PM (jb8Ss)
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I'm picturing "Chicken Boo" from Animaniacs in this role...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 28, 2026 07:22 PM (FZ29D)

24 --- > as I hiked through Cappadocia's Love Valley.
Pink- and yellow-hued hillsides coloured the rolling landscape
scarred with deep red canyons,
_Bernie Sanders?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 07:22 PM (jU8k8)

25 I've got one of those cities hidden behind a wall in my basement. I have a whole bunch of tiny aliens living there and every time I visit the yell, All Hail Jack!

True story.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 07:22 PM (viF8m)

26
Derinkuyu was only "rediscovered" in 1963 by an anonymous local who kept losing his chickens. While he was renovating his home, the poultry would disappear into a small crevasse created during the remodel, never to be seen again.

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Great setup for a horror flick about ghost chickens.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2026 07:22 PM (mmrXZ)

27 When I and Kenny B dug that big hole in the yard, we fully intended on a city for 20,000

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 28, 2026 07:23 PM (RIvkX)

28 Some lowlife dirtbag vandalized the 9/11 Memorial.

https://tinyurl.com/y4v7x4db

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 28, 2026 07:23 PM (3ImbR)

29 Simpsons theme is pretty good

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2026 07:23 PM (Ia/+0)

30 Damn, those people diving into the water from crazy places are darwin awards waiting to happen. I know 2 people, friends of mine who died doing that. One was a kid I went to school with. 1 day after graduation. They were jumping off a bridge. He misjudged the jump, and broke his head open like a melon when he hit a chunk of concrete under the surface. The next one was a few years later. He jumped off a cliff a little over 100 feet up at some quarry. Never surfaced. Divers had to find his body. People are frigging nuts.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 28, 2026 07:23 PM (vzuC7)

31 Voted today. First time I was allowed to have a preferred candidate list to look at while voting . Necessary because the local offices like school board don't list Party.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:24 PM (Ti9vn)

32 Derinkuyu was only "rediscovered" in 1963 by an anonymous local who kept losing his chickens. While he was renovating his home, the poultry would disappear into a small crevasse created during the remodel, never to be seen again.
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This does prompt the question, "What is down there eating chickens?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 28, 2026 07:24 PM (FZ29D)

33 Sometimes you are in the right place at the right time with a camera like the top photo.

Skateboard height jumping dude ain't going to live long based on his choice to jump into boulders under the water from that bridge. He was lucky.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 07:24 PM (hzuYO)

34
Just In: Per Mark Halperin on Megyn Kelly, the Marc Elias law firm was involved in the fake Dan Sullivan Candidate search in the Alaska Senate race.
Posted by: beckster

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What kind of idiot needs a pricey law firm for this anyway? There are a gazillion public databases of names.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2026 07:24 PM (mmrXZ)

35 >>What kind of idiot needs a pricey law firm for this anyway? There are a gazillion public databases of names.

He was the one who came up with the idea. So low level staffer got the assignment to find another Dan Sullivan.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 07:25 PM (viF8m)

36 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 28, 2026 07:23 PM (vzuC7)

Whenever I watch the Red Bull events or those crazy diving vids ,etc I always have to comment:

White Boyz Be Crazy

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:26 PM (Ti9vn)

37 What kind of idiot needs a pricey law firm for this anyway? There are a gazillion public databases of names.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

He and the guy that double jumped off the rock won't see too many more birthdays.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 07:27 PM (8B4gm)

38 Some lowlife dirtbag vandalized the 9/11 Memorial.

https://tinyurl.com/y4v7x4db

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 28, 2026 07:23 PM (3ImbR)

They need to be machine gunned to an unrecognizable mass, then reassembled like a dinosaur skeleton with pins and rods, then machine gunned again.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at October 28, 2026 07:27 PM (vzuC7)

39 Some lowlife dirtbag vandalized the 9/11 Memorial.
https://tinyurl.com/y4v7x4db
Posted by: IrishEi

Another (likely illegal alien) sawed the head off of a Marine on the Iwo Jima monument.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 07:28 PM (l26NL)

40 What kind of idiot needs a pricey law firm for this anyway? There are a gazillion public databases of names.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

When only the lowest will do

Posted by: Elias Cheatum and Howe at October 28, 2026 07:28 PM (ik4bQ)

41 Why did the chicken slip into a crevasse?

Posted by: Just The Punchline at October 28, 2026 07:28 PM (wVcYX)

42 I choose to believe the chickens built the underground city

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 28, 2026 07:28 PM (4HoLg)

43 I saw Subterranean Chicken open for the Byrds. It was unreal.

Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 07:29 PM (MWfyi)

44
He was the one who came up with the idea. So low level staffer got the assignment to find another Dan Sullivan.
Posted by: JackStraw

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

Oh, of course. I'm hearing another story right now about how they wanted to start a fake MAGA party. "Dan Sullivan, party affiliation MAGA." Frat game politics.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 28, 2026 07:29 PM (mmrXZ)

45 We'll have a famous chicken starring as a daring professor of archaeology who finds a mysterious city in China..."
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

And the chicken is then accused of rape by several TAs

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 07:29 PM (88C+u)

46 Did the guy find his chickens?
Enquiring minds you know!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 28, 2026 07:29 PM (NnhvP)

47 Some lowlife dirtbag vandalized the 9/11 Memorial.
https://tinyurl.com/y4v7x4db
Posted by: IrishEi

He's in federal custody.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 07:30 PM (8B4gm)

48 Nurse is getting some good, quality sea otter content this week.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 28, 2026 07:30 PM (l0mRP)

49 As pointed out elsewhere, the buried lede in the alaska scandal is that there must be a solid GOP win coming.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 28, 2026 07:31 PM (4HoLg)

50 Derinkuyu was only "rediscovered" in 1963 by an anonymous local who kept losing his chickens. While he was renovating his home, the poultry would disappear into a small crevasse created during the remodel, never to be seen again.

I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for these meddling kids!

Posted by: Old Man Jenkins at October 28, 2026 07:31 PM (wVcYX)

51 The underground city inhabited by fox humanoid hybrids.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:31 PM (Ti9vn)

52 If mentioned, I missed it that this undergraduate city is in Turkey

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2026 07:32 PM (Ia/+0)

53 Test

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 28, 2026 07:32 PM (Sco7b)

54 Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 28, 2026 07:31 PM (4HoLg)

Besides the usual Winston Wolfe quotes, there may be an undercurrent of trying to raise the moles all at once.
Biden "won" 2020 by defrauding several states at once. Trump's legal team could not whack all those moles at once.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 07:32 PM (88C+u)

55 There is a Derinkuyu beneath Las Vegas. The storm drain system or what ever it is. Crackheads, drug addicts, there was even a famous old porn star living down there.

Fuck Turkey. Muslim Schmucks.

Posted by: Zombie Bugsy Siegel at October 28, 2026 07:33 PM (Ssbab)

56 Nicki Minaj may be whatever you think she is
But one thing for sure is that she is a Trumper.
Have a look, scroll through it and see:

https://x.com/NICKIMINAJ

https://twitterviewer.net/NICKIMINAJ

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 07:33 PM (jU8k8)

57 I, for one, welcome our subterranean chicken overlords.

It's gotta be better then having Democrats in charge.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 28, 2026 07:34 PM (wVcYX)

58 This does prompt the question, "What is down there eating chickens?"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 28, 2026 07:24 PM (FZ29D)

I wonder if the map could be used for some sort of Doom II or Castle Wolfenstein reboot game.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2026 07:34 PM (rbvCR)

59 According to Night Stalker, SanFran has an underground city.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:34 PM (Ti9vn)

60 Bet that otter is a Sophie Cunningham fan

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2026 07:34 PM (Ia/+0)

61 We were never here.

Posted by: The Chickens at October 28, 2026 07:35 PM (RIvkX)

62 Fuck Turkey. Muslim Schmucks.
Posted by: Zombie Bugsy Siegel at October 28, 2026 07:33 PM

What that guy said.

Posted by: Greece at October 28, 2026 07:35 PM (l0mRP)

63 According to Night Stalker, SanFran has an underground city.
Posted by: polynikes

I thought that was Seattle.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 07:35 PM (l26NL)

64 What is this stupidity on Fox, the Ingraham Angle to be precise? They are blurring out the faces of people behind Trump as he is giving the speech.

I thought people were there to be seen with Trump.

Posted by: Decaf at October 28, 2026 07:36 PM (ZNpJk)

65 Apologies for jumping into a happy thread but I just returned from DC and it was beautiful there today. Saw a few NG troopers walking around, smiling and talking with the citizenry. Just awesome.

The rate of aggravated assault declined 31%… The rate of property victimization declined 19%… The rates of burglary or trespassing (down 25%), motor vehicle theft (down 30%), and other types of household theft (down 19%) decreased from 2024 to 2025.

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Outside of Democrat-run jurisdictions America is one of the safest big countries, if not THE safest, and outside of Democrat-run states, the rconomy is the strongest in the world. By far.

Thank you PDJT!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 28, 2026 07:36 PM (WKesY)

66 Cotton tree very pretty.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 07:36 PM (Cqx++)

67 Darren McGavin stars in: The Night Pecker.

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 28, 2026 07:36 PM (wVcYX)

68 Turkish chupacabra lives in the cave.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 07:37 PM (8B4gm)

69 37 What kind of idiot needs a pricey law firm for this anyway? There are a gazillion public databases of names.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Lawyer-client privilege. Democrats use law firms to hide dirty political jobs. Reason why Marc Elias worked at Perkins Cooie before they parted ways. Perkins Cooie reported had its own SCIF where Democrat operatives who were also contractors for the FBI used NSA and other classified databases to spy on GOP members of Congress, GOP political operatives, donors etc.

Smith took it a step further during his quest to put Trump in jail and included even people buying MAGA hats and small time donors number thousands of people.

Democrats are basically using national security databases to spy on GOP and anyone getting in their way. And corrupt pieces of shit GOPe operatives like former senator from NC Richard Burr knew this (Senate intel chair and ranking member before retiring). Burr kept quiet because he used similar data to get his family generational wealth through trading and investments.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 07:37 PM (E4rtv)

70 >>>Sometimes a monkey just needs a hug.

And sometimes a monkey just needs to eat someone's face. Choose your moments well.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at October 28, 2026 07:37 PM (syz1S)

71 New York having been around for 400 years has acquired a lot of interconnected tunnels, and I understand some of the "abandoned" tunnels are now housing the ~~hoboshomeless~~unhoused.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 07:37 PM (88C+u)

72
According to Night Stalker, SanFran has an underground city.
Posted by: polynikes

I thought that was Seattle.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

Yeah, Night Stalker TV movie was Seattle. It was just on MOVIES! channel this past weekend.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 07:38 PM (Cqx++)

73 According to Night Stalker, SanFran has an underground city.
Posted by: polynikes

I thought that was Seattle.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 07:35 PM (l26NL)

Was it? Maybe I'm thinking of another show where San Fran built on top of the 1908 earthquake damage.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:38 PM (Ti9vn)

74 Fuck Turkey. Muslim Schmucks.
Posted by: Zombie Bugsy Siegel at October 28, 2026 07:33 PM

What that guy said.
Posted by: Greece at October 28, 2026 07:35 PM (l0mRP)

Ditto.

Posted by: Cyprus at October 28, 2026 07:38 PM (wSZ/B)

75 According to Night Stalker, SanFran has an underground city.
Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:34 PM (Ti9vn)
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In Chinatown

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 28, 2026 07:38 PM (RIvkX)

76 Obama's still packing them in. I asked chat this.

Where's obama's speech tonight?
Room capacity?

🏟️ What is the arena's capacity?
The The Arena at Southlake has a capacity of approximately 8,000 people.

The Arena At Southlake

Address: 1300 Southlake Circle, Morrow, Georgia.
Maximum venue capacity: Approximately 8,000.
Expected attendance tonight: I couldn't confirm an official attendance figure. The number attending Obama's rally could be lower than the arena's maximum capacity.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 28, 2026 07:39 PM (Sco7b)

77 64 What is this stupidity on Fox, the Ingraham Angle to be precise? They are blurring out the faces of people behind Trump as he is giving the speech.

I thought people were there to be seen with Trump.
Posted by: Decaf

James Murdoch hates Trump and hates Elon too by the way. Bleeping globalist nepot and a good reason never to watch Fox. They did the same with supporting Thatcher and then pivoting to supporting Blair with their papers in the UK. All of the family are pieces of human excrement including ole Rupert himself. Nasty critters involved in the whole 2020 steal as well with their call in AZ starting the whole shutdown of counting in multiple swing states simultaneously.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 07:40 PM (E4rtv)

78 I saw that otter on TV yesterday. Or the day before.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 07:40 PM (Cqx++)

79 I can't find anything about San Fran having underground city. False memory I guess.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:41 PM (Ti9vn)

80 >>>59 According to Night Stalker, SanFran has an underground city.

nope, seattle. and that's a fact. Seattle was prone to flooding so they re-graded the city and buried the first two (?) floors of buildings under fill and made the old third story "street level."

It doesn't look like it does in the TV movie, though. That's just a set.

This was in the second Kolchak TV movie, The Night Strangler, which I think is better than the first one.

Posted by: ace at October 28, 2026 07:42 PM (1wjle)

81 Fuck Turkey. Muslim Schmucks.
Posted by: Zombie Bugsy Siegel

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Wife and I are visiting Barcelona next October, and the thought has crossed my mind - see the Sagrada Familia before it gets Hagia Sophia'd.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 28, 2026 07:42 PM (4HoLg)

82 you see the Seattle underground in the bizarro movie "Malignant" (the James Wan WTF movie).

Posted by: ace at October 28, 2026 07:43 PM (1wjle)

83 >>Wife and I are visiting Barcelona next October,

It's pronounced Barthelona.

Tourist.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 07:43 PM (viF8m)

84 New York having been around for 400 years has acquired a lot of interconnected tunnels, and I understand some of the "abandoned" tunnels are now housing the hoboshomelessunhoused.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 07:37 PM (88C+u)

Correct. The Mole People. Most work t Coney Island when they are not in jail.

Posted by: Mole People King Blind Dirty Bastard The First at October 28, 2026 07:43 PM (Ssbab)

85 I never saw much daylight between Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch. They were both running tabloid trash papers in London.
The only difference is that we know the geo-coordinates of the pedo island for the first one's family.

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 07:43 PM (88C+u)

86

They also used the Bradbury building in The Night Strangler.

https://t.ly/u6rzh

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 07:44 PM (Cqx++)

87 Bleeping globalist nepot and a good reason never to watch Fox.
Posted by: whig

I had weened myself from Fox except for Maria in the Morning. Now, even that is gone.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 07:44 PM (l26NL)

88 Posted by: ace at October 28, 2026 07:42 PM (1wjle)

Yeah but still..

( channeling a lefty)

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:44 PM (Ti9vn)

89 New York having been around for 400 years has acquired a lot of interconnected tunnels, and I understand some of the "abandoned" tunnels are now housing the hoboshomelessunhoused.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 07:37 PM (88C+u)
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According to the afterword in "Reliquary" by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, the "Mole people" of Manhattan are quite real, living most of their lives in the underground tunnels. Some estimates say there are as many as 30 levels *below* some buildings.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 28, 2026 07:44 PM (FZ29D)

90 >>>They also used the Bradbury building in The Night Strangler.

oh yeah, I have a hazy memory of that now that you mention it.

Posted by: ace at October 28, 2026 07:45 PM (1wjle)

91 New York having been around for 400 years has acquired a lot of interconnected tunnels, and I understand some of the "abandoned" tunnels are now housing the hoboshomelessunhoused.
Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 07:37 PM (88C+u)

Correct. The Mole People. Most work t Coney Island when they are not in jail.
Posted by: Mole People King Blind Dirty Bastard The First at October 28, 2026 07:43 PM (Ssbab)

Splitters!

Posted by: C.H.U.D.s at October 28, 2026 07:45 PM (wVcYX)

92 "Yes sir, I do! We'll have a famous chicken starring as a daring professor of archaeology who finds a mysterious city in China..."
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 07:16 PM

Ohhh...chasing your chicken through a hole is TIGHT!

Posted by: Max Power at October 28, 2026 07:45 PM (SwyyQ)

93 This was in the second Kolchak TV movie, The Night Strangler, which I think is better than the first one.
Posted by: ace

I concur. Plus, a better bosomy girlfriend.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 07:45 PM (l26NL)

94
Puff and Ruth to the vet today for their annual exam and shots. Considering they're both wild children, they behaved fine. They were found to be in good health. Doc is always amazed at how clean everyone's teeth are.

I'd like to think our vet wished all her clients were like us. Our dogs are well taken care of, well maintained and well socialized. We can discuss problems and solutions intelligently. And if the time comes, we accept it and stay with them to the end.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 28, 2026 07:46 PM (eRlcH)

95 >>>Sometimes a monkey just needs a hug.

And sometimes a monkey just needs to eat someone's face. Choose your moments well.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous

The guys in the video are definitely betting on "face eating"

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 28, 2026 07:47 PM (vJrRc)

96 The only thing Barack is packing in tonight is his colon.

Posted by: Zombie Barney Fag, democrat homosexual at October 28, 2026 07:47 PM (Ssbab)

97 San Francisco's underground is all above the ground since the 1960s

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2026 07:47 PM (Ia/+0)

98 >Wife and I are visiting Barcelona next October,

It's pronounced Barthelona.

Tourist.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 07:43 PM (viF8m)

--------------

When we were there in 2019 I refused to pronounce it that way. People seemed to be OK with it.

Posted by: Decaf at October 28, 2026 07:48 PM (ZNpJk)

99 I know that Atlanta has some parts of it underground and I believe Oklahoma City did at one time or another.

Posted by: Crusader at October 28, 2026 07:48 PM (TN0g+)

100 "Mole people" of Manhattan are quite real, living most of their lives in the underground tunnels. Some estimates say there are as many as 30 levels *below* some buildings.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Well, yes. The foundations of skyscrapers have to be very, very deep, or they fall over like those Chinese high-rises.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 28, 2026 07:48 PM (vJrRc)

101 >>I concur. Plus, a better bosomy girlfriend.

Oh, I don't remember her. I usually do.

Posted by: ace at October 28, 2026 07:49 PM (1wjle)

102
@nicksortor is currently in an active Live Broadcast, click to watch
Nick Sortor
@nicksortor
·
35m
LMAO! The crowd at Barack Obama's rally in Georgia looks COMPLETELY checked out as they send out some "performer" screaming gibberish into a mic, which the crowd can't even HEAR

The "performer" is buying time for Obama, who is now WELL over an hour late to speak 🤣

A GREAT representation of the Obama presidency right here 😂

Posted by: beckster at October 28, 2026 07:49 PM (kX27y)

103 It's pronounced Barthelona.

Tourist.
Posted by: JackStraw

===

I'm assembling my Sheriff J. W. Pepper vacation wardrobe.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 28, 2026 07:50 PM (4HoLg)

104 They also used the Bradbury building in The Night Strangler.

https://t.ly/u6rzh
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 07:44 PM (Cqx++)

Blade Runner used it...

Posted by: Boswell at October 28, 2026 07:50 PM (j10i6)

105 Did you know there are 21 states where BOTH Senators are democrats?

Posted by: Crusader at October 28, 2026 07:50 PM (TN0g+)

106 85 I never saw much daylight between Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch. They were both running tabloid trash papers in London.
The only difference is that we know the geo-coordinates of the pedo island for the first one's family.
Posted by: 88C+u
=====
We know Maxwell was also an intel asset for at least two spy agencies, mebbe three. CIA and MI-6 used him and his academic publishing company as a conduit to Leonid Brezhnev as Maxwell published some of Brezhnev's writings and as a result Maxwell got to spend alone time with him.

Given his state funeral in Israel attended by high ranking officials of Israel after his death, would not be surprised that he was a Mossad asset on occasion as well.

Ghislaine is just the type that would slide into Maxwell's role.

The Murdoch family probably also has intel ties. Rupert had a Hong Kong wife, Wendi Deng, at one time, had Saudi Prince bin Talal as a major silent investor, and Mick Jagger's ex Jerry Hall among others. Now married to a former Russian. Dumped a fiance in between hall and the Russian due to the fiance being a strong Christian which gave Rupert heebie jeebies.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 07:50 PM (E4rtv)

107
Daisy Ridley is supposed to be playing the David Hedison "Captain Crane" roll in a remake of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"

Could this be the peak Girl Boss moment we've not been waiting for?

Posted by: Auspex at October 28, 2026 07:50 PM (Y8DZL)

108
I know that Atlanta has some parts of it underground and I believe Oklahoma City did at one time or another.
Posted by: Crusader

I visited the Atlanta Underground in 1976. It's been closed and reopened several times since then.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 07:50 PM (Cqx++)

109 We are going to deflate the ball
Run an oversized engine
Snow bow the field for the field goal

and then

FBI agents have expressed deep concern that they could be ordered to take legally questionable steps to investigate dubious claims of election fraud, and state officials are wargaming how to deal with federal intervention.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 28, 2026 07:51 PM (/+uur)

110 nope, seattle. and that's a fact. Seattle was prone to flooding so they re-graded the city and buried the first two (?) floors of buildings under fill and made the old third story "street level."

It doesn't look like it does in the TV movie, though. That's just a set.

This was in the second Kolchak TV movie, The Night Strangler, which I think is better than the first one.
Posted by: ace at October 28, 2026 07:42 PM (1wjle)
----
Apparently Chicago has an extensive underground network of tunnels as well. Jim Butcher uses this on occasion in his Dresden Files series as a place for nastier supernatural critters to hang their hats (assuming they have heads...)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 28, 2026 07:51 PM (FZ29D)

111 India has a retarded time zone.

Posted by: NCKate at October 28, 2026 07:51 PM (enNUy)

112 Oh, I don't remember her. I usually do.

Posted by: ace

Joanne Pflug I think. She was in the original movie MASH. She took car of Painless Paul, if I recall. She's hawt.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 07:51 PM (l26NL)

113
The "performer" is buying time for Obama, who is now WELL over an hour late to speak

__________

Punctuality is the courtesy of well-bred people.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 28, 2026 07:52 PM (eRlcH)

114
We built this city
We built this city
In a big hole

Posted by: The chickens at October 28, 2026 07:52 PM (MWfyi)

115 Bradbury Bldg. the one from original Blade Runner? It's right across the street from the Grand Central Market in LA, which is worth visiting (lots of good Mexican and other cuisines, pretty authentic).

Without any arrangements at all you can walk in the Bradbury and look around (ground floor) during regular business hours. There are also tours by arrangement. Just walking in and looking up/around you get the bulk of the Blade Runner thing.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 07:52 PM (U/Byj)

116 I had weened myself from Fox except for Maria in the Morning. Now, even that is gone.
Posted by: Blutarski
========
James wants social recognition among Manhattan elites and doesn't have the rest of the Fox empire like movie studios anymore.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 07:52 PM (E4rtv)

117 Did you know there are 21 states where BOTH Senators are democrats?
Posted by: Crusader at October 28, 2026 07:50 PM (TN0g

Only 4 states have a split.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 07:53 PM (Ti9vn)

118 That was a good solid 30 minutes of MSNow. I'm done.

No Obama speech.
Eternal sadness.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 28, 2026 07:53 PM (Sco7b)

119 Surprised he lived - photo of the flydubai's pilot's head that got the jihadi axe:

https://tinyurl.com/ys8hsmd2

Posted by: beckster at October 28, 2026 07:53 PM (kX27y)

120 "Taking the leaves off strawberries"

Ahem: the calyxes. That raven dinner is going to become a big mess somewhere soon, on a car most likely.

Posted by: gp at October 28, 2026 07:55 PM (Jr5Lq)

121 He's in federal custody.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 07:30 PM (8B4gm)
~~~~~

Excellent. President Trump said 10 years for defacing a national memorial. Hope he gets that.

Posted by: IrishEi ?! at October 28, 2026 07:55 PM (3ImbR)

122 I visited the Atlanta Underground in 1976. It's been closed and reopened several times since then.
-----

Fascinating! What was it like back then?

Posted by: Crusader at October 28, 2026 07:55 PM (TN0g+)

123 CPT

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 07:56 PM (8B4gm)

124
Trump speech: We're all friends here.

Obama speech: You're lucky I'm talking to you.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 28, 2026 07:56 PM (eRlcH)

125 Everything is a cheat
At the touch screen they off calibrate
Or they make the printer need a second sheet but your precinct has 1 per voter
The polls close at 500 shut the fuck up and go home
You did not register by party (their is no registration by party)
The line stop here (inserts a piece of paper)
This is not your voting place (I voted here about 4 time)

Just a few things I have seen in my life.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 28, 2026 07:57 PM (/+uur)

126 >>When we were there in 2019 I refused to pronounce it that way. People seemed to be OK with it.

I don't know why but I hear it's gotten much worse. I have some friends who visited in 2024 for the America's Cup races and they said many of the locals were openly hostile. Not to the point of violence, they just made it clear they thought the tourists, the ones who paid the bills, were beneath them.

They might not be as uppity now that muslims are burning their country down. Again.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 07:57 PM (viF8m)

127 Evenin’, All. Happy Thursday Eve!

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 07:57 PM (77rzZ)

128 Pennsylvania is split Senators

Time forbed
Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 28, 2026 07:58 PM (Ia/+0)

129 If the 17th did not pass the Average term for a Senator would be 18.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 28, 2026 07:58 PM (/+uur)

130
What was it like back then?
Posted by: Crusader

Tourist trap. Shops and bars.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 07:59 PM (Cqx++)

131
Not to the point of violence, they just made it clear they thought the tourists, the ones who paid the bills, were beneath them.

___________

Why go there anyway?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 28, 2026 08:00 PM (eRlcH)

132 You know one thing I haven't seen in awhile that was big for awhile.

Fact-checkig ads.

I guess when no one trusts you, why are they going to trust your analysis.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 106 years old - puppy at heart at October 28, 2026 08:00 PM (Sco7b)

133 400K absentee ballots to be counted in Israel, which reportedly could affect allocation of up to 12 seats (don't axe me to figure that one out). Counting of these supposed to be finished by tomorrow, official final results announced Nov. 4.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 08:02 PM (U/Byj)

134 I went to Underground Atlanta before they redid it in the 80s. It was dingy and dangerous and interesting After they reopened it was was well lit and modernized and boring. I guess it's still open and like a underground mall with a bunch of touristy crap for sale.

Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 08:02 PM (MWfyi)

135 >>>"It was at the time of the [7th-Century] Islamic raids [on the predominantly Christian Byzantine Empire],
---

Fucking Islam

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 08:03 PM (jU8k8)

136 24 year of John Wayne McCornholeyn
things are great
Paxton
ooh ooh ooh gay dick cutting senator bestest ever
Fuck the Bushs

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 28, 2026 08:04 PM (/+uur)

137 >>Why go there anyway?

Beautiful city. Lots of history. Great food. Try the ham.

Seriously, it's a lovely city and it does have a ton of historical significance. Beautiful place.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 08:04 PM (viF8m)

138 133 400K absentee ballots to be counted in Israel, which reportedly could affect allocation of up to 12 seats (don't axe me to figure that one out). Counting of these supposed to be finished by tomorrow, official final results announced Nov. 4.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 08:02 PM (U/Byj)

More Muslim freely vote in Israel than the whole middle east.

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 28, 2026 08:05 PM (/+uur)

139 Tree looks like a big old cotton ball.

Posted by: Don Black at October 28, 2026 08:05 PM (ZxPkt)

140 Tree looks like a big old cotton ball.
Posted by: Don Black at October 28, 2026 08:05 PM (ZxPkt)
----
Ripe for the Q-tip harvest!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 28, 2026 08:08 PM (FZ29D)

141 Another day ending in Y with the VTuber drama cycle.

This is an ugly mess as the female VTuber Ember Paradox has admitted to being in RL a man using a cute avatar and a voice changer. It seems like they let things get out of control because they were having success and we now have hurt feelings and broken trusts.

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2026 08:09 PM (2GVsD)

142 rhomboid. those votes are called double envelopes. They are vote from medical, military and disabled voters that can't make it to the polls.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2026 08:09 PM (8Uo7a)

143 139 Hopefully, it doesn’t get cut down by a beavil.

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 08:09 PM (77rzZ)

144 More Muslim freely vote in Israel than the whole middle east.
Posted by: r hennigantx

Apparently from reports, the Arabs got paid for their votes from countries abroad. SO possibly not 'free'ly.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 08:09 PM (E4rtv)

145 Benjamin Netanyahu - @netanyahu

Translated from Hebrew
Likud:
The elections in the State of Israel were stolen by Arab parties that support terrorism and the elimination of the Jewish state through serious criminal offenses of bribery, threats, violence, forgeries, and the use of prohibited software to mobilize voters.

The Likud party is transferring to the police, the Shin Bet, and the
Central Elections Committee hundreds of testimonies and pieces of evidence

envelopes with cash and Ra'am slips, threats and violence against polling station members, multiple voting behind the curtain, voting with double identities, discrepancies between the number of envelopes and the number of voters, the use of prohibited mobilization software, and more.

We demand from the police and the Shin Bet a thorough investigation into the election theft by the Arab parties and the full prosecution of the criminals.

We demand from the Central Elections Committee an immediate response to investigate these criminal offenses that have severely damaged the integrity of the elections in Israel and the election results.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 08:10 PM (jU8k8)

146 Ah, forgot to mention that they all have to be double verified since the person is not voting in a polling place.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2026 08:11 PM (8Uo7a)

147 You know who else had an underground complex built beneath the city?

Posted by: Count de Monet at October 28, 2026 08:11 PM (wVcYX)

148 Portland Oregon has extensive tunnels under Old Town and Chinatown, Known as the Shanghai Tunnels.

Posted by: Mon Lee Chinee Take Out at October 28, 2026 08:11 PM (EdP2u)

149 134 I went to Underground Atlanta before they redid it in the 80s. It was dingy and dangerous and interesting After they reopened it was was well lit and modernized and boring. I guess it's still open and like a underground mall with a bunch of touristy crap for sale.
Posted by: fd

I think they are on their third iteration of Underground Atlanta. Version one got did in by crime, Version two, ditto as no one wanted to go downtown to that area as there were safer places to party, now they are on Version three.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 08:11 PM (E4rtv)

150 You know who else had an underground complex built beneath the city?
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 28, 2026 08:11 PM (wVcYX)
---
Batman?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 28, 2026 08:12 PM (FZ29D)

151 Why do Arabs even have a party in Israel?

Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 08:12 PM (MWfyi)

152 Apparently from reports, the Arabs got paid for their votes from countries abroad. SO possibly not 'free'ly.
Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 08:09 PM (E4rtv)

Oh, when them cotton bolls get rotten
You couldn't pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields at home

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 28, 2026 08:12 PM (/+uur)

153 151 Why do Arabs even have a party in Israel?
Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 08:12 PM (MWfyi)

Ramadan?

Posted by: r hennigantx at October 28, 2026 08:13 PM (/+uur)

154 August Democrats: "There are no issues here. No dirty tricks."

September Democrats: "Sure there were some dirty tricks, but the Peltola campaign wasn't the problem."

October Democrats: "Sure the Peltola campaign participated in the dirty tricks, but it wasn't, you know, Illegal."

November Democrats: "Look at the Trump administration and their election interference!"

Posted by: notalawyer at October 28, 2026 08:13 PM (lR2Tk)

155 Why do Arabs even have a party in Israel?
Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 08:12 PM (MWfyi)

Because there are a lot of arabs who live in Israel.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2026 08:13 PM (rbvCR)

156 My wife and I were in the underground city about a year ago. Cappadocia in general is awesome and that was one of the cooler things.

Dang, I've been some pretty cool places.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 28, 2026 08:13 PM (Riz8t)

157 I think they are on their third iteration of Underground Atlanta. Version one got did in by crime, Version two, ditto as no one wanted to go downtown to that area as there were safer places to party, now they are on Version three.
Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 08:11 PM (E4rtv)
---
When version three burns down, falls over, and sinks into the swamp, we can rebuild it!

And the fourth one will stand strong!

Posted by: King of Swamp Castle at October 28, 2026 08:13 PM (FZ29D)

158 147 You know who else had an underground complex built beneath the city?
Posted by: Count de Monet at October 28, 2026 08:11 PM (wVcYX)

the lizards of Denver? i mean, before they took over the legislature

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 08:14 PM (88C+u)

159
Nicki Minaj@NICKIMINAJ· 3d

Trump War Room@TrumpWarRoom

International rap sensation Nicki Minaj will appear alongside President Donald Trump in Port Huron, Michigan, on Sunday as he continues his final push to support Republican candidates ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

https://t.co/6CYdbD1pFd
https://t.co/FPj4fE5a3A

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 08:14 PM (jU8k8)

160 "Because there are a lot of arabs who live in Israel.
Posted by: Kindltot "

There will be a lot more if they let them keep this up.

Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 08:15 PM (MWfyi)

161 Boobs!

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 08:15 PM (77rzZ)

162 Dicks!

Posted by: Ben Had at October 28, 2026 08:16 PM (8Uo7a)

163 155 Why do Arabs even have a party in Israel?
Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 08:12 PM (MWfyi)

Because there are a lot of arabs who live in Israel.

Posted by: Kindltot
---

That can be remedied different ways.
_ 'Do you want it nice and easy?
or Do you want it rough?
_Tina Turner

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 08:18 PM (jU8k8)

164 Because there are a lot of arabs who live in Israel.
Posted by: Kindltot "

There will be a lot more if they let them keep this up.
Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 08:15 PM (MWfyi)

Yes. Letting arabs vote for anything is like sticking your tongue in an electrical outlet.

Stupid and pointless. They want to kill you yet you'll let them vote. Madness.

Posted by: Dumb and Dumber at October 28, 2026 08:18 PM (Ssbab)

165
Vulvae!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 28, 2026 08:19 PM (w6EFb)

166 Trump said PUSSY

Posted by: NCKate at October 28, 2026 08:19 PM (enNUy)

167 162 Dicks!
Posted by: Ben Had

Far as the eye can see.
youtu.be/xjkAZO1WAck

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 08:19 PM (88C+u)

168 Hey, Ben Had.🙂

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 08:19 PM (77rzZ)

169 AI sez: "The Arab population in Israel numbers approximately 2.1 million people, making up about 21% of the country's total population of roughly 10 million"

Posted by: gp at October 28, 2026 08:20 PM (Jr5Lq)

170 So your chickens found an ancient city behind a wall.

The professor we stayed with, had this old wardrobe in a room on the 2nd floor.

If you went into it, and walked out the back, you walked into a whole other world.

True story ...

Posted by: Lucy Pevencie at October 28, 2026 08:21 PM (oCio0)

171 Vulnavia

Posted by: Anna Puma at October 28, 2026 08:21 PM (2GVsD)

172 151 Why do Arabs even have a party in Israel?
Posted by: fd
====
The parties are aimed at grifting and destruction of the Jewish state. Sooner or later, the Arabs figure the left will get desperate enough to join with the Arabs to get a majority coalition.

Like the West in general, Israel had some leftists with a death wish.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 08:21 PM (E4rtv)

173 Thanks Ben Had, yep, what we call absentee they call double-envelope (for a similar arrangement with the registration info outside, "privacy" envelope with ballot inside).

Thanks Braenyard, meant to post that Bibi statement. It's pretty strong and specific by Israeli standards. Reports that Israeli intel/LE tracking down the source of the payments. Not entirely clear on Bibi's implication here. Most Arab Israelis vote for Arab parties, historically. So he either means bribed to vote, period, or bribed to vote for one particular Arab party.

Think preliminary estimate for turnout was in high 70s%.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 08:23 PM (U/Byj)

174 I just went to YouTube to watch The Night Strangler to see an underground city. John Carradine is in it!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 08:23 PM (l26NL)

175 "The Arab population in Israel numbers approximately 2.1 million people, making up about 21% of the country's total population of roughly 10 million"

I wonder how many are NOT Muslim.

Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 08:23 PM (MWfyi)

176 No Muzzies should have a vote, anywhere.

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 08:23 PM (77rzZ)

177 >>Because there are a lot of arabs who live in Israel.

Largest minority population in Israel are Palestinians.

If only we had a real media.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 08:23 PM (viF8m)

178 How many of the 10 million citizens in Israel are also American citizens?

Posted by: NCKate at October 28, 2026 08:24 PM (enNUy)

179 Historically the Arab parties usually consisted of one commie (literally) party and one smaller traditional one, as I recall. Arab representation in Knesset will be highest ever after this vote.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 08:24 PM (U/Byj)

180

When version three burns down, falls over, and sinks into the swamp, we can rebuild it!

And the fourth one will stand strong!
Posted by: King of Swamp Castle

More like useless grifting from government contractors and developers will spur version three. Same as Atlantic Station development has been emptying out since Keisha Lance Bottoms let BLM run wild. Hurt Buckhead too. Turns out merchants don't like their stock being stolen and customers don't like homeless bums threatening them nor being robbed/carjacked.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 08:25 PM (E4rtv)

181 Think most Arab Israelis are Muslim. Nazareth and few other areas have the large minority of Christians.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 08:25 PM (U/Byj)

182 Star Trek is on. It's the one where Kirk has to ensure that a bleeding heart leftist dies in order to save his own butt.

Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 08:26 PM (MWfyi)

183 Also the Druze are Arabs

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 08:27 PM (88C+u)

184
Edith Keeler must die!

Also, they walk by Floyd's Barber Shop.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 28, 2026 08:28 PM (w6EFb)

185 Buckhead was turning into a shit hole back in the mid 00's. I can't imagine it now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 08:28 PM (8B4gm)

186 Also the Druze are Arabs
Posted by: 88C+u

What are Druze? Are they muslim or something else?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 08:28 PM (l26NL)

187 Historically the Arab parties usually consisted of one commie (literally) party and one smaller traditional one, as I recall. Arab representation in Knesset will be highest ever after this vote.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 08:24 PM (U/Byj)
**********************

The United Arab List (a.k.a. Ra'am) is the relatively moderate one.

The Joint Arab List combines a Ba'athist party whose leaders used to denounce Israel in Damascus, a communist party descended from the one that took orders from Moscow, and an Islamist party.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at October 28, 2026 08:29 PM (+HuQv)

188 Wife and I are visiting Barcelona next October. . .

Que?

Posted by: Manuel at October 28, 2026 08:29 PM (fO5H9)

189 Star Trek is on. It's the one where Kirk has to ensure that a bleeding heart leftist dies in order to save his own butt.
Posted by: fd

The episodic violation of the Prime Directive?

Posted by: Manuel at October 28, 2026 08:30 PM (fO5H9)

190
The Perseverance rover has set the off-world driving distance record at 28.10 miles distance on Mars.

The off-world driving by humans record is 22.2 miles by Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmidt, Apollo 17.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 28, 2026 08:30 PM (w6EFb)

191 "The Joint Arab List combines a Ba'athist party whose leaders used to denounce Israel in Damascus, a communist party descended from the one that took orders from Moscow, and an Islamist party.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan"

They don't seem nice. We aren't the only ones with enemy within.

Posted by: fd at October 28, 2026 08:31 PM (MWfyi)

192 Mulva?

Posted by: Dolores? at October 28, 2026 08:31 PM (EdP2u)

193 "What are Druze? Are they muslim or something else?"

A question left open pretty intentionally by the Druze themselves. Pretty rational approach over the centuries of various sects over-running the area. In Israel the Druze are well integrated some of the few Arabs who serve in police and IDF. Bibi made a fairly explicit public security guarantee to the Druze of southern Syria - who often demonstrate with Israeli flags and portraits of Bibi. Obviously there's zero trust, or should we say an abundance of caution, with regard to the new Syrian regime.

Bedouin Arabs also serve in the IDF. Some of the Israeli heroes of 10/7 were Druze and Bedouin.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 08:32 PM (U/Byj)

194 Also the Druze are Arabs
Posted by: 88C+u

What are Druze? Are they muslim or something else?
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 08:28 PM (l26NL)
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The Druze speak Arabic and follow a variant of Islam, but they're always categorized separately from Arabs. Unfortunately for them, they're few in number and scattered across Lebanon, Israel, and Syria. In Israel, the Druze are about 2% of the population and participate fully in society, even being subject to the draft at the request of their community (made sometime in the '50s, IIRC).

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at October 28, 2026 08:33 PM (+HuQv)

195 I worked with a Druze Muslim. Nice guy. Lot of the Saudis wouldn't talk to him at all. He was viewed as an apostate.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 08:34 PM (8B4gm)

196 Druids>>Druish>>Druze

Posted by: I Rate 'Em... at October 28, 2026 08:35 PM (EdP2u)

197 Didn't realize Arab Israelis had a Ba'athist faction (!), that's amusing. Dunno if any such folks yet survive up in Beirut, birthplace of the movement. The brutal dictatorships in Damascus and Baghdad that used the "ideas" early on and later the label when useful, of course, have mysteriously disappeared.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 08:35 PM (U/Byj)

198 >>Bedouin Arabs also serve in the IDF. Some of the Israeli heroes of 10/7 were Druze and Bedouin.

I remember seeing an interview after 10/7 of a Bedouin man and his family who risked their lives to rescue a number of Jews who were running from the music festival that was attacked. Very humble guy. Just said it was his duty to help people who were in need.

That kind of thing doesn't sell. Conflict does.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 08:37 PM (viF8m)

199
Edith Keeler must die!

Also, they walk by Floyd's Barber Shop.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Was Barbara Eden doing manicures?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 08:37 PM (Cqx++)

200 185 Buckhead was turning into a shit hole back in the mid 00's. I can't imagine it now.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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Slightly better than after BLM and Keisha but not anywhere near what it was before her disastrous term in office. Atlanta has a new multibillion dollar redevelopment plan now for a former rail yard called the Gulch that is kicking off. Which as usual, will go sour in the end due to rampant crime and feral behavior by drug and alcohol soused homeless.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 08:37 PM (E4rtv)

201 I was going to become a Ba'athist, but showering once a week on Saturday night is enough for me. Any more often dries my hide and fur.

Posted by: Three More Days... at October 28, 2026 08:38 PM (EdP2u)

202 You're soaking in it!

Posted by: Madge The Ba'athist at October 28, 2026 08:41 PM (EdP2u)

203 Checking other sites.

I'm kind of hope the leftists start getting what they're begging for. Within the last year or so, damn, stupid was one thing. Stupid and dangerous is another.

To paraphrase an alien on ST:TNG, teaching them a lesson may cost several of them their lives. Maybe half.

Deal!!

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 28, 2026 08:42 PM (Sco7b)

204 ‘Star Wars’ producer Kathleen Kennedy tapped to bring Hollywood magic to LA Olympics

Posted by: SMOD at October 28, 2026 08:43 PM (gWCxi)

205
Vulnavia
Posted by: Anna Puma

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

THE Vulnavia?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 28, 2026 08:44 PM (mmrXZ)

206 Welp, done for the evening. Have a pleasant evening.

Posted by: whig at October 28, 2026 08:44 PM (E4rtv)

207 desafinado/out of tune

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YkK5eSlX7M

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 08:44 PM (jU8k8)

208 THE Vulnavia?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone

MY...Vul...navia!

Posted by: Dr. Phibes at October 28, 2026 08:45 PM (l26NL)

209 ‘Star Wars’ producer Kathleen Kennedy tapped to bring Hollywood magic to LA Olympics
Posted by: SMOD

Oh, my. That's not going to end well.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 08:47 PM (l26NL)

210 Bibi made a fairly explicit public security guarantee to the Druze of southern Syria -
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You mean, like, he blew up a bunch of Syrians who were trying to annihilate them?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 08:47 PM (jU8k8)

211 Vulnavia
Posted by: Anna Puma

* opens envelope *

Describe lots of little men in boats.

Posted by: Carnac the Magnificent at October 28, 2026 08:47 PM (VHUov)

212 The underground city thing is cool but if it only fell out of use in the 1920s, wouldn't there still have been people around that knew it was there when it was "rediscovered " in 1963? Seems unlikely that everyone could forget an underground city that housed 20,000 people in just 43 years.

Posted by: bluebell at October 28, 2026 08:48 PM (uyuYG)

213 I'd gotten the Arab parties a bit confused: it's relatively moderate Ra'am that's Islamist, while the third party in the Joint Arab List has origins linking it to the PLO/Fatah.

United Arab List (Ra'am): Moderate Islamists

Balad: Ba'athists

Hadash: Communists

Ta'al: Sort of in-between those others

Joint Arab List: Balad, Hadash, and Ta'al

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at October 28, 2026 08:48 PM (+HuQv)

214 ‘Star Wars’ producer Kathleen Kennedy tapped to bring Hollywood magic to LA Olympics
Posted by: SMOD

I'm sorry, I'm honestly not sure how I can make Los Angeles more gay.

Posted by: K. Kennedy at October 28, 2026 08:49 PM (VHUov)

215 The Balad of Hadash and Ta'al was one of those catchy tunes that never really got legs

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2026 08:50 PM (rbvCR)

216 Describe lots of little men in boats.
Posted by: Carnac the Magnificent at October 28, 2026 08:47 PM

That 'big men' can't ever find, and men never ask for directions.

But we love 'em anyway.

Posted by: Women at October 28, 2026 08:51 PM (0sNs1)

217 Bibi made a fairly explicit public security guarantee to the Druze of southern Syria -
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You mean, like, he blew up a bunch of Syrians who were trying to annihilate them?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 08:47 PM (jU8k

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It's a pity that the Druze area in southern Syria isn't immediately adjacent to the Golan Heights.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at October 28, 2026 08:53 PM (+HuQv)

218 You know who else had an underground complex built beneath the city?
Posted by: Count de Monet

the lizards of Denver? i mean, before they took over the legislature
Posted by: 88C+u

Werewolves of London >> Lizards of Denver

Posted by: ah-hoooo at October 28, 2026 08:54 PM (VHUov)

219 Something going on in Aiken SC?

Posted by: NCKate at October 28, 2026 08:54 PM (enNUy)

220 >>> 209 ‘Star Wars’ producer Kathleen Kennedy tapped to bring Hollywood magic to LA Olympics
Posted by: SMOD

Oh, my. That's not going to end well.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 08:47 PM (l26NL)

I can't wait for the opening ceremony starring several WNBA players as magic space lesbians.

No really - imagine an airdrop of several hundred lime green dildos.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 08:55 PM (jb8Ss)

221 *****************************

It's a pity that the Druze area in southern Syria isn't immediately adjacent to the Golan Heights.

Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan
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There's a way to remedy that
_territorial enhancement

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 28, 2026 08:55 PM (jU8k8)

222 Werewolves of London >> Lizards of Denver
Posted by: ah-hoooo

And their hair was perfect!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at October 28, 2026 08:55 PM (l26NL)

223 This is O/T more than normal, but since nether parts are flying above.

PLUS I had a suprise nap during a TV show, upright and normal. Just dropped off the planet. Dude had to say my name a few times. I reckon the month's long insomnia has reached the peak and I will start having narcolepsy.

I was thinking this when lyft Rashad picked me up...

Have read at least twice about young girls getting into a car alone with a strange man, thinking he was their lyft or uber driver.

I have to assme they both were totally inebriated. Both guys said my name after they rolled down the rearview mirror. You get notification with a photo of the car, etc.

A real stupid way to die,girls.

I'll bet ole Rashad is still mad at me as his ego seemed fragile. At least he did not go snack bar on me or drive to another state. I told my husband about the 40min hwy tale he told me (the first guy got me there in 17min going my shortcuts). I may be blonde but I ain't stoopit.

I went along with it as wth, I'm not in danger yet and started reading.

I did like when he said, "I am an expert driver" like Rain Man. I didn't laugh.

Maybe he thought I was kidnapping him! I should have rebel yelled on arrival.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 08:57 PM (hzuYO)

224 I can't wait for the opening ceremony starring several WNBA players as magic space lesbians.

No really - imagine an airdrop of several hundred lime green dildos.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 08:55 PM (jb8Ss)

The whites begging at their feet for forgiveness should be touching.

As will be their sacrifice...

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 28, 2026 08:59 PM (Sco7b)

225 The underground city thing is cool but if it only fell out of use in the 1920s, wouldn't there still have been people around that knew it was there when it was "rediscovered " in 1963? Seems unlikely that everyone could forget an underground city that housed 20,000 people in just 43 years.
Posted by: bluebell at October 28, 2026 08:48 PM (uyuYG)
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Everyone who lived there left. All of them. Ethnic cleansing, but because it involved Muslims eradicating Christians, it's all good. It's just a quirky story, you see.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:01 PM (ZOv7s)

226 Hazy memory but I think there were some Israeli kinetics agin' the bedouin elements Damascus was mobilizing against the Druze. Other than that, intimidation (credible, for obvious reasons), and arms and training to the Syrian Druze in the area. All vaguely recalled or imagined. That is, better than most "reporting" you'll find.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 09:02 PM (U/Byj)

227 No really - imagine an airdrop of several hundred lime green dildos.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 08:55 PM (jb8Ss)
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Each with a tiny parachute.

As the approach the earth, "It's Raining Men" will crank at full volume.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:03 PM (ZOv7s)

228 Something going on in Aiken SC?
Posted by: NCKate at October 28, 2026 08:54 PM (enNUy)

The fire at the Savannah River facility being reported as a nuclear response

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2026 09:04 PM (rbvCR)

229 The elections in the State of Israel were stolen by Arab parties that support terrorism and the elimination of the Jewish state through serious criminal offenses of bribery, threats, violence, forgeries, and the use of prohibited software to mobilize voters.

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that is awfully specific!

Posted by: runner at October 28, 2026 09:05 PM (AKptf)

230 The elections in the State of Israel were stolen by Arab parties that support terrorism and the elimination of the Jewish state through serious criminal offenses of bribery, threats, violence, forgeries, and the use of prohibited software to mobilize voters.

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what software exactly ??

Posted by: Dr. Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed at October 28, 2026 09:06 PM (AKptf)

231 Squeeeee! Sea otters!

Did you know they hold hands while
They sleep?

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 09:08 PM (5cOt9)

232 I'm sorry, but "prohibited software" sounds like "unauthorized guns".

Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 09:09 PM (88C+u)

233 >>I'm sorry, but "prohibited software" sounds like "unauthorized guns".

Check out Kaspersky Labs software bans in the US over national security issues.

Not really the same thing.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 09:15 PM (viF8m)

234 And boy howdy do I wish we had bans on software used to run Dominion voting machines.

And so do you.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 09:17 PM (viF8m)

235 I'm sorry, but "prohibited software" sounds like "unauthorized guns".
Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 09:09 PM (88C+u)
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Unauthorized guns aren't going to scrape your computer and send all your data to mainland China.

Just sayin'.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:17 PM (ZOv7s)

236 Prolapse Paul!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 09:19 PM (8B4gm)

237 The beautiful photograph of the tree at the top.wiped away the memory of the ugly female Senator from Alaska

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 28, 2026 09:19 PM (PKL0q)

238 I'm sorry, but "prohibited software" sounds like "unauthorized guns".
Posted by: 88C+u at October 28, 2026 09:09 PM (88C+u)
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Unauthorized guns aren't going to scrape your computer and send all your data to mainland China.

Just sayin'.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:17 PM (ZOv7s)

yes, false analogy

Posted by: runner at October 28, 2026 09:20 PM (AKptf)

239 Hey, Paul. It's been a minute. God bless you.

I know you're grinding out a wage, typing what you are told to type (but really copy/paste, amirite?). But there is a better way.

You joke about transgenders, but these are human beings. What is more important? The most vulnerable, hopeless people, confused people, are being told to castrate themselves, mutilate themselves.

Why do you think only old people care about that? Do you have any children? Can you have any children? Imagine your only child being brainwashed into self-castration and eliminating the joy of being a parent and you becoming a grandparent? Is that not an existential level of evil?

God is waiting. I have prayed for you.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:21 PM (ZOv7s)

240 S186 The Druze are a breakoff sect of Islam. Not considered true Muzzies by true Muzzies.

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 09:23 PM (77rzZ)

241 The Druze are a breakoff sect of Islam. Not considered true Muzzies by true Muzzies.
Posted by: Bulg

Splitters!

Posted by: The People's Front of Gaza at October 28, 2026 09:24 PM (VHUov)

242 What else do the lady sea otters hold when they sleep?

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 09:24 PM (77rzZ)

243
Not really the same thing.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 09:15 PM (viF8m)

***
Jack...did you see the comment to you I made about French Onion soup the other day? If not I'll repeat as a couple of things make a huge difference.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 09:25 PM (hzuYO)

244 runner, that's what I alluded to up above - Bibi's statement was pretty detailed and strong.

Have no idea what the software bit is about.

Do know that there should be no software or electronics of any kind involved with the voting process. At most, electro-mechanical card readers. Paper ballots. Hand counts (except for the case just mentioned).

There is literally no reason or defense for electronics involved in the voting process (possibly in checking registrations or IDs, but not in the voting or tabulation itself). It's one of the most absurd and pernicious indefensible things in the world today, which is a high bar.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 09:26 PM (U/Byj)

245 "At most, electro-mechanical card readers."

The old Votomatic punch cards seem just fine to me, but they were (wrongly, IMHO) blamed for the 2000 election fiasco.

Posted by: gp at October 28, 2026 09:29 PM (Jr5Lq)

246 I've got one of those cities hidden behind a wall in my basement. I have a whole bunch of tiny aliens living there and every time I visit the yell, All Hail Jack!
True story.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 07:22 PM (viF8m)

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"You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of minded

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 28, 2026 09:29 PM (PKL0q)

247 Hey, she holds mine just fine!

Posted by: Male Sea Otter at October 28, 2026 09:29 PM (77rzZ)

248 The Druze are a breakoff sect of Islam. Not considered true Muzzies by true Muzzies.
Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 09:23 PM (77rzZ)
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What if the Druze are actually the real Islam? We know that "Mohammed" did not exist. He was created to legitimize the Caliphs after the fact.

And by "real Islam" I mean "closer to the Christian heresy that became Islam" than the present version, which went through a major revision and burning of books to clean everything up.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:29 PM (ZOv7s)

249 The old Votomatic punch cards seem just fine to me, but they were (wrongly, IMHO) blamed for the 2000 election fiasco.
Posted by: gp

Not working when you try to punch a stack of 40 ballots at once is a serious deficiency!

Posted by: Democrats at October 28, 2026 09:30 PM (VHUov)

250 >>Jack...did you see the comment to you I made about French Onion soup the other day? If not I'll repeat as a couple of things make a huge difference.

I did not but I'm all ears. Well, some other good parts but that's not important

I got a winter full of onion soup coming up so please make it better.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 09:31 PM (viF8m)

251 The old Votomatic punch cards seem just fine to me, but they were (wrongly, IMHO) blamed for the 2000 election fiasco.
Posted by: gp at October 28, 2026 09:29 PM (Jr5Lq)
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My freshman year in college was the last time punch cards were used for registration.

In 1991. Florida was a bit behind the times.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:31 PM (ZOv7s)

252 that's what I alluded to up above - Bibi's statement was pretty detailed and strong.

Have no idea what the software bit is about.

Do know that there should be no software or electronics of any kind involved with the voting process. At most, electro-mechanical card readers. Paper ballots. Hand counts (except for the case just mentioned).

There is literally no reason or defense for electronics involved in the voting process (possibly in checking registrations or IDs, but not in the voting or tabulation itself). It's one of the most absurd and pernicious indefensible things in the world today, which is a high bar.
Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 09:26 PM (U/Byj)

Here are some allegations: " cash-filled envelopes containing Ra'am ballot slips, threats and violence against polling station staff, multiple voting, voting under different identities, and discrepancies between the number of envelopes and the number of voters"...so just like Detroit, Chicago, or LA...peak Democracy! I guess they might have laws agains certain type of computerized electioneering, like we have against certain type of electioneering at polling stations. I guess we shall see!

Posted by: runner at October 28, 2026 09:32 PM (AKptf)

253 A.H., I still don’t buy the idea that Mohammed didn’t exist. I think that he was an actual person that a lot of weird legends accrued around, for whatever reasons.

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 09:33 PM (77rzZ)

254 A.H., I still don’t buy the idea that Mohammed didn’t exist. I think that he was an actual person that a lot of weird legends accrued around, for whatever reasons.

==

they should did him up and carbon date the remains

Posted by: runner at October 28, 2026 09:36 PM (AKptf)

255 gp, that's what I was referring to. Properly used - and always backed-up by a hand count if needed - punch cards and readers offer no potential for f***ery.

Recall (well, it's a closely held secret, if you quizzed the country) that the initial final result announced by the FL SecState election night *was in fact the correct result*. Subsequent independent recounts confirmed this.

Those kinds of machines can be checked and calibrated without limit. Their accuracy can be checked constantly. Their results cannot be altered electronically.

One of the things that made the FL case a fiasco, and which ultimately led to SCOTUS shutting it all down, was the ridiculous idea of "curing" or figuring out voter intent. Nope. Never. The fucking voter has 100% responsibility to vote properly. Period. Election officials aren't even clerks, they're automatons. Any unclear or improperly marked/punched ballot is either void in its entirety, or those sections improperly done are void.

Those who want to be able to steal elections want to have such outrages as "curing", etc. included. Nope. Self-disenfranchisement of a voter by his own errors is not a public interest.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 28, 2026 09:37 PM (U/Byj)

256 Robert Spencer and few others have laid their case of Big Mo not to existing. Makes sense.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 09:37 PM (8B4gm)

257 In Texas You get a printout after you vote and then that printout is scanned. I don't know what happens to the physical printout after it's scanned.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 09:38 PM (Ti9vn)

258
No really - imagine an airdrop of several hundred lime green dildos.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 28, 2026 08:55 PM (jb8Ss)

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I swore I wouldn't watch anymore WNBA games until they cleaned up, but for this airdrop I might make an exception

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 28, 2026 09:38 PM (PKL0q)

259 255 Concur.

Posted by: gp at October 28, 2026 09:38 PM (Jr5Lq)

260 I wish I could swim
like dolphins can swim

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 09:39 PM (viF8m)

261 No type well today.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 09:40 PM (8B4gm)

262 @NBCNews

Although Brazil's presidential election took place more than 4,000 miles away, the baseless conspiracy theory that it was stolen raced through the American right-wing media.

N-BS and their cohorts (C-BS, A-BS, PBS...) have been quite good at collecting conspiracy theories and claiming they're the truth, while calling things done by the Dems and the Left (BIRM) as conspiracy theories. It's almost like they're the spokesholes of commies in the US, like a 5th column...except they aren't secretive about it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 09:41 PM (l3cgK)

263 261 No type well today.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 28, 2026 09:40 PM (8B4gm)

That's me most days. Also very tired today for some reason; have been awake maybe 3 or 4 hours so far. Figured I must've needed the sleep or something.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 09:42 PM (l3cgK)

264 In Texas You get a printout after you vote and then that printout is scanned. I don't know what happens to the physical printout after it's scanned.
Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 09:38 PM (Ti9vn)

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How about if you also get a purple finger? Though it doesn't do much to stop the mail-in vote fraud.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 28, 2026 09:43 PM (PKL0q)

265 I will grant, however, that Mohammed may have been a composite of several actual historical figures. But I think the idea that he was completely fictitious is nonsense.

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 09:44 PM (77rzZ)

266 250 >>Jack...did you see the comment to you I made about French Onion soup the other day? If not I'll repeat as a couple of things make a huge difference.

I did not but I'm all ears. Well, some other good parts but that's not important

I got a winter full of onion soup coming up so please make it better.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 09:31 PM (viF8m)
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Ok...over the years and other recipes I've perfected it but will try the crock pot o' onions this winter mentioned Sunday. Also a trick to carmelize the onions in the oven vs stirring. I've always used sliced red onions as that was the original I tried as a newlywed.

Once you have your onions carmelized & are adding beef broth, add at least 1/2 cup white wine as well. You can also use wine to deglaze the pan of onions as more wine never hurt anyone. Add herbes de provence. I never measure, but about .5-1 TBS to to your taste.

Before adding the onions/broth to the oven-proof soup bowl, put 1 TBS cognac or brandy on the bottom of the bowl & proceed with onions/broth and slice of bread and shredded Guyere cheese til it browns in broiler.

I don't know what magic the cognac does, but it works for me.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 09:45 PM (hzuYO)

267 260 I wish I could swim
like dolphins can swim

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 09:39 PM (viF8m)

According to the Left, all you need to do is identify as delphine, get plastic surgery to turn your arms and legs into flippers and a tail and add a breathing hole to the top of your head, and viola!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 09:45 PM (l3cgK)

268 A.H., I still don’t buy the idea that Mohammed didn’t exist. I think that he was an actual person that a lot of weird legends accrued around, for whatever reasons.
Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 09:33 PM (77rzZ)
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But what is that based on? Go ahead, try to find a single contemporaneous source talking about Mohammed. There are none. Gibbon pointed this out more than 200 years ago. It's a known problem.

Pick a conqueror. There's always some dude who had dinner with him. The Byzantine Empire was a thing, and do you think some Greek dude wasn't dying to meet the guy ravaging the eastern provinces? Do you think the great conqueror didn't want to have his story told by his enemies? We have first-hand accounts of Atilla the Hun at dinner. Why are there zero accounts of Mohammed doing...anything?

It's funny how there are still retarded "Akshually, Jesus didn't exist" articles when Mohammed is much more problematic.

Oh, and why did "Islamic era" coins still have Christian symbols on them?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:45 PM (ZOv7s)

269 According to the Left, all you need to do is identify as delphine, get plastic surgery to turn your arms and legs into flippers and a tail and add a breathing hole to the top of your head, and viola!
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 09:45 PM (l3cgK)

Gerald Broflovski tried it. Didn't quite work.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Sounding the Carnyx at October 28, 2026 09:46 PM (0aYVJ)

270 they should did him up and carbon date the remains
Posted by: runner at October 28, 2026 09:36 PM (AKptf)
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Every significant history site in the Koran has been demolished. The Dome of the Rock is all that remains, and it is very clearly a Christian church.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:47 PM (ZOv7s)

271 It's funny how there are still retarded "Akshually, Jesus didn't exist" articles when Mohammed is much more problematic.

Oh, and why did "Islamic era" coins still have Christian symbols on them?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:45 PM (ZOv7s)

There are some good vids on EweToob about it, and how contemporaneous sources don't mention him, and even hundreds of years later, how Islam was portrayed by the first crusaders doesn't exactly fit.

https://youtu.be/UqhXJjHafzs

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 09:49 PM (l3cgK)

272 Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 09:41 PM (l3cgK)

Ukraine is over 5000 mils away and the Ldft supported the allegation that Russia stole the election which led to the 2014 coup.

Even though the elected government agreed to have another early international monitored election. The first election was monitored also but it didn't matter either to the CIA and Ukrainian crooks.

Posted by: polynikes at October 28, 2026 09:49 PM (Ti9vn)

273 N-BS and their cohorts (C-BS, A-BS, PBS...) have been quite good at collecting conspiracy theories and claiming they're the truth, while calling things done by the Dems and the Left (BIRM) as conspiracy theories. It's almost like they're the spokesholes of commies in the US, like a 5th column...except they aren't secretive about it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 09:41 PM (l3cgK)
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They want to normalize the idea of last-minute decrees keeping the polls open until enough fake votes are found.

This is "protecting our democracy" because people are totally retarded and can't tell time or know when polls close.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:51 PM (ZOv7s)

274

Pick a conqueror. There's always some dude who had dinner with him.

My Dinner With Genghis

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 09:52 PM (Cqx++)

275 There are some good vids on EweToob about it, and how contemporaneous sources don't mention him, and even hundreds of years later, how Islam was portrayed by the first crusaders doesn't exactly fit.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 09:49 PM (l3cgK)
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Mohammed's various moral lapses are easily explained by the caliphs needed to excuse their perversions. "See, Mohammed did it, so I'm good!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:53 PM (ZOv7s)

276 Let’s go Pilots!

I mean Brewwrs!

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 09:55 PM (yEz+x)

277 275 There are some good vids on EweToob about it, and how contemporaneous sources don't mention him, and even hundreds of years later, how Islam was portrayed by the first crusaders doesn't exactly fit.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 09:49 PM (l3cgK)
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Mohammed's various moral lapses are easily explained by the caliphs needed to excuse their perversions. "See, Mohammed did it, so I'm good!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:53 PM (ZOv7s)

And the sheep, goats, camels, and little kids were very, very afraid...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 09:55 PM (l3cgK)

278 >>I don't know what magic the cognac does, but it works for me.

Thank you. Copied and printing and will go into my recipe file. I will give it a try.

My mom's dad was from Switzerland so it's entirely possible that genes force me to find a reason to eat gruyere. New Years is always a cheese fondue night.

But I could pretty much live on a great onion soup, fresh baked bread and gruyere. Ok, the occasional rib eye, lobster and maybe some other stuff. But I do love onion soup.

Thank you!

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 09:55 PM (viF8m)

279 My Dinner With Genghis
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 28, 2026 09:52 PM (Cqx++)
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It is very much a thing. And the conquerors loved it. "Tell your people about the magnificence of my feast!"

Zilch regarding Mohammed. We know more about chicken-shit one-off Roman usurpers who lasted six month or less.

Oh, and they minted coins with their names on them. Weird that Islam did not, just kept on minting Christian symbols.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:55 PM (ZOv7s)

280 268 A. H., are you an expert in Arabic and Greek primary sources? I am certainly not.

Besides, Islam is an existential threat whether Mo existed or not.

Just treat the false prophet as if he were an actual historical figure and move on, pointing out how false his teachings were.

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 09:56 PM (77rzZ)

281 Let’s go Pilots!

I mean Brewwrs!
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 28, 2026 09:55 PM (yEz+x)

Lol, I was thinking of posting same lately.

Posted by: Rex B at October 28, 2026 09:57 PM (sdSI9)

282 And the sheep, goats, camels, and little kids were very, very afraid...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 28, 2026 09:55 PM (l3cgK)
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If it's good enough for The Prophet, I guess it's okay for the Caliph to get buggered and chase pre-pubescent girls...

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:57 PM (ZOv7s)

283 A. H., are you an expert in Arabic and Greek primary sources? I am certainly not.

Besides, Islam is an existential threat whether Mo existed or not.

Just treat the false prophet as if he were an actual historical figure and move on, pointing out how false his teachings were.
Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 09:56 PM (77rzZ)
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Well, kinda. I do have a history major focusing on the Middle Ages.

But the burden of proof is on Islamic scholars, not on me. Show me the documents! Edward Gibbon exposed all of this more than two centuries ago. Are you saying Gibbon didn't do research into ancient sources? That he didn't know Greek or Latin?

Every frickin' Easter some retarded atheist scholar says Jesus didn't exist, and we have to dump the immense volume of material showing that He did. Not just the Gospels but Roman records that are far from favorable.

No such scrutiny is given to Mohammed. It's time we stopped being pussies and just called the whole thing out: show us this guy. Meet the Jesus standard of proof.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 10:02 PM (ZOv7s)

284 283 OK, A. H. I”ll give you that.

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 10:06 PM (77rzZ)

285 Jack...you are very welcome. We love it also.

I love fall/winter and cooking. Am not a summer cook with any enthusiasm.

Fall/winter/snow does it for me. I must be a throwback to Scots Highlanders as my love of mountains and snow has baffled my entire family in MS since I went to college here. I'm Scots-Irish-French-English.

I loved living 1/4mi from the Atlantic for 20yrs (and 1/4mi from the Intracoastal Waterway aka Indian River) in FL. Great place to raise our babies and we moved there when they were 2yrs and newborn. Baby took his first steps in the sand. The second he heard the surf he was out for a nap before he got to the beach. It was grand to live on that barrier island.

However, the mountains are what we love most. And we're back for 11yrs after meeting 50yrs ago this month in college.

I plan to make many soups, stews, etc as the frost should be on the pumpkins soon. We used to get our first snow below the high peaks in early November (there's snow up there now). Gorgeous. Ski country.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 10:08 PM (hzuYO)

286 If it's good enough for The Prophet, I guess it's okay for the Caliph to get buggered and chase pre-pubescent girls...
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at October 28, 2026 09:57 PM (ZOv7s)

The argument you are making is suspiciously like the early Usenet "because you neglected X your argument is invalid!" but applied to a major religion.

Hooray, dude. You have just shown how 25% of the world population isn't really a religion.

Now what?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 28, 2026 10:09 PM (rbvCR)

287 A. H., you and I are on the same side. I just discount major historical figures as substantial fabrications.

Posted by: Bulg at October 28, 2026 10:10 PM (77rzZ)

288 >>I plan to make many soups, stews, etc as the frost should be on the pumpkins soon. We used to get our first snow below the high peaks in early November (there's snow up there now). Gorgeous. Ski country.

One of the joys of living here is the seasons and the foods that come with them. I love all of them.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 10:18 PM (viF8m)

289 One of the joys of living here is the seasons and the foods that come with them. I love all of them.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 28, 2026 10:18 PM (viF8m)

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Yep. That's what we missed the first autumn in FL. The seasons are subtle there. January/February gorgeous.

Moved there for his job and to be a bit closer to my parent's farm in MS...a 13hr drive. We'd go twice a year and they'd fly to us twice a year. Worth it as my boys got to know my grandmother's and aunts and my family.

We missed these mountains badly. Love FL but love it here more.

I know RI is beautiful. It's too bad our former SIL is such a weirdo and tossed us aside when MIL died (actually before she died). She's of the uber snotty kind of Rhode Islander, for reasons unknown, as her family, to my knowledge, were not of the upper crust in Newport to sneer at us. As far as I know Kingstown. It is all very weird on her part.

I insulted her once (without meaning to) asking if it was spelled Kingston like Charleston. She went off, man. hic Probably during my college daze. Her husband, my late BIL, loved me and that's all that counts. We shared a lot of laughs while she had migraines at family parties here.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at October 28, 2026 10:31 PM (hzuYO)

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