Ove the weekend everyone in my house came down with a stomach virus. I didn’t start feeling it until Sunday after my oldest son and I went to the gym and spread it everywhere, but I was pleased with my deadlift that day so it might’ve been worth it. My only advice in these times where I still have kids out of school…wash your damn hands.
¡enlaces!
Would Blackjack Pershing use drones? He always struck me as pretty cutthroat, hell he might even allow covert ops to assassinate cartel leaders.
Prolonged tariffs likely cause a recession for Canada and Mexico, with the first victim being the auto industry. Maybe give the orange man what he wants? Nah…
Perhaps hang a few judges, and this won’t be necessary.
Swords are banned, are the arrows banned too? Maybe they’ll just shoot it now.
I don’t care. I just want to know why Noem keeps showing up on commercials while I watch the Diamondbacks game.
Sounds like history’s worst kept secret got new life.
Chilean Nazi Death Cult sounds like an awesome band name.
Here’s a tune. Have a great Tuesday!
Damn it, Sharpshooter that picture made my day and me laugh at my desk.
I’m glad somebody liked it.
“How was a paedophilia and torture cult operating in plain sight in Chile for decades?”
Same way our elites have had one here for decades. We only ever see the edges of it.
Q ANON CONSPIRACY THEORIST INSURRECTIONIST CONFIRMED! REEEEE!
(Now excuse us while we go mandate that we can take away your kids at gunpoint if you disagree with us, putting them into a system with no accountability and a higher chance of abuse!)
Nothing is ever new under the sun. Diddlers diddle and authorities piddle.
Little to no weapons for the humans — bull has the horns “safed”… sounds like a bull dodge instead of a bull fight at best.
Or a bad idea for where to take a first date. Especially if she’s Jewish.
And yes — I’m pretty sure Pershing would have happily used drones if they were economical at the time.
I wasn’t expecting a Rammstein song about picking up naked bush women.
Their chief weapon is surprise.
Surprise and fear.
Surprise, fear and a pounding bass line….. Oh, I’ll just come in again.
You expect too little
That was great.
Tittays everywhere!
What were you expecting?
Jenna or the other one?
Or both?
Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke to the historic nature of the ruling’s being issued Monday before Boasberg has even held a hearing on a preliminary injunction. She complained about a recent rise in the court deciding major cases on the emergency “shadow docket” without having extensive briefing and hearing oral arguments.
“With more and more of our most significant rulings taking place in the shadows of our emergency docket, today’s court leaves less and less of a trace. But make no mistake: We are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are now less willing to face it,” she wrote.
“At least when the court went off base in the past, it left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong,” she added, citing the notorious ruling that allowed government confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II.
This is exactly the same as rounding up American citizens and putting them in detention camps.
Mental midget can’t think that fast…but the real issue is too many “emergency” injunctions/stays by lower court judges. The US court system is backed-up yet parties with no standing seem to find a court willing to interfere within hours.
This right here. More judges need to be smacked down for overreaching their authority.
The no standing is especially egregious when the courts in the past have denied standing any number of private parties when it suited the deep state/big state/leftist causes.
So do they not kill the bull anymore in Mexico? Swords are how they finish off the bull. The spears from the picador and the sticks from the banderillero seem worse that the sword. If used properly, the sword kills the bull pretty quickly. If not used properly it can be pretty grisly, and the crowd gets surly. The only bullfight I’ve been to we happened to sit next to the family of one of the matadors, and he botched the kill. It got to be a little uncomfortable in the crowd.
I enacted my own labor and found out that Mexico City now has bloodless bullfighting. I wonder how the local restaurants get their daily special of cojones now.
The cajones are small and trampled on now.
Return those to the kitchen.
You gotta kill the bull. He’s so embarrassed about losing to the guy in the silly outfit. It’s the nice thing to do.
I was told by a authoritative source (my 8th grade Spanish teacher) they do not kill it in Mexico.
In Spain though, they want him dead.
In Portugal, they rape the bull first and then kill it.
…Excellent. Just like the Romans.
Bloodless corrida de toros adjacent:
Latin American matadors do one or a few rounds on the American rodeo circuits as rodeo clowns. Being a Spanish-style matador is just easy money once you’ve clowned.
How long did you Matador, Mo?
Mayor Brugada celebrated the bill’s passing on X, saying it was a step into turning the capital into “a city which respects animal rights, and which will not tolerate them being subjected to abuse or violence.”
Turn the bull ring into a petting zoo.
Portuguese bull fighting is a lot more fun for everyone, including the bull
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese-style_bullfighting
I used to watch it on TV in Madrid. I only went to the corrida in Madrid once, for the experience. My wife had her billfold stolen. A day or two later the billfold was recovered, minus the money.
(-.-)
So far, I’ve gotten two and only tweo OSes running on this Pentium 4 – FreeDOS and Tiny Core Linux. FreeDOS is DOS, and so not my preferred CLI. Tiny Core wants to download everything from the internet, and has a very odd UI relative to my comfort zone.
Ubuntu fails because it’s 64-bit.
The 32-bit Debian-based Mint looked ok until it decided it wanted to launch a GUI, which flaked out and froze up. I could probably adjust the boot image to start in runlevel 3, then have a second linux option.
I’ve lost track of what I’m actually trying to get done with this thing. What was I trying to do?
No clue… it should run OS/2 Warp v4 just fine if you’re just doing arbitrary 32-bit OSs, mind you.
Is it easy to get a copy?
Easy yes — free… no. This is what you’re looking at if you don’t have a copy lying around I think.
Play Ultima 3?
🤔
But I don’t have a copy. Is it readily available?
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Ultima_III_-_Exodus_1983
Sorry that might be 10 years early for a pentium.
Ultima 7.
Haha. I enjoy that the entire game is about 10mb.
UCS:
Yes. But I’d skip 1+2+3, and go right into 4+5+6 for the better gameplay and story. And what I believe is the first game to feature a full morality system… and judge you on it.
Sorry that might be 10 years early for a pentium.
Ultima 7.
Yeah, 7 sounds right for that era. I remember playing 7, I don’t remember why I never finished it.
I’d skip 1+2+3, and go right into 4+5+6 for the better gameplay and story.
I had fun with I and III. II ran like shit on the computer, a 386 I think it was, I played it on. Way too fast, like a timing loop was off because of the faster processor than what the game was designed for.
I never played IV or V. I played VI and really liked it.
I liked 3, but 4 was the start of the games having really compelling stories.
Also you are correct about 3 on a 386.
The concept of a time independent game loop didn’t exist yet. You had to run software to slow it down.
*frame independent
Bitcoin mining?
Download porn?
On a non-networked box?
Ted, that’s not how “Wireless” works.
LOL
My Cherry MX Blue key switches just arrived.
“Made In Germany” “Not for sale in California”
🤬
I dropped the “E” keycap for the board I was swapping the switches on, and can’t find it.
W ll, at l ast it’s not a k y that’s us d that fr qu ntly.
I found it.
The darn thing landed in a box so I couldn’t see it on the floor.
I’ve found two key switches where I managed to crush the connector pin, E and Del.
Have to test the rest.
The remaining switches have all passed so far. But what’s a good way to test the Function keys?
Oh I love when the search is fully of sketchy sites that all scream “malware”
Steam to the rescue.
I just checked to see if I could rebind ‘take screenshot’ to the various untested function keys and all of them F1-F16 were available options.
Defenseless, we are
While there’s ample precedent for military leaders being fired for cause, there’s no indication that Chatfield, a decorated helicopter pilot and the first woman to lead the Naval War College, did anything wrong or was falling short in her duties in any way.
So why was she removed from her post? According to The Washington Post, Chatfield had been targeted by a conservative group called the American Accountability Foundation, which lobbied Hegseth for her removal, pointing to a 2015 speech in which Chatfield said that “our diversity is our strength.”
And in 2025, such a sentiment is apparently beyond the pale.
The developments were not well received among Democrats on Capitol Hill. In fact, Rep. Adam Smith of Washington, the ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee, said in a statement, “Yet again, President Trump has fired a military officer serving in a role that is critical to maintaining U.S. national security and national defense with no explanation given for the person’s removal. … The lack of information regarding VADM Chatfield’s removal is unacceptable, as is the apparent lack of planning for her successor.
“Yet again, our country is less safe because of President Trump’s actions.”
She was our last best hope.
I thought our military colleges were cesspits of wokism.
“Chatfield said that “our diversity is our strength.”
Yep. There it is. Sounds like good cause to me.
Might be that it was a bit more than an offhand DEI platitude?
Also, isn’t it a hate crime to be a female admiral without a penis?
Isn’t hating the Orange Man what all right thinking people do?
I just want to know why Noem keeps showing up on commercials while I watch the Diamondbacks game.
I hope you enjoyed Shota Imanaga’s performance against you. He’s damn good at his job. Also interesting, he’s the first Japanese player to openly express himself on the mound. Grimace and smirk alike. He’s fantastic fun. (We’re gonna be way better than folk expect. Fucked up the other day, but still took 2/3 from the Padres, UNdefeating the formerly unbeaten team. Pikers.
I was more irritated by Naylor’s inability to field his own position.
That’s a shame.
Democrats with high hopes.
“House Republicans are running scared, and they should be. They’re tanking the economy, gutting Medicaid, abandoning our veterans, and making everything more expensive. In short, they’ve lost the trust of their constituents, and it’s going to cost them the majority,” DCCC Chair Suzan DelBene said in a statement.
Yup. 90 days in and it is totally clear that the populace hates Republicans.
You go right ahead and run as far to the left as you possibly can. I’m sure the results will be dramatic in 2026.
They should campaign on a return to the Biden days. For just a few hundred million I can plan the whole thing.
Yeah, it’s way too early to see how it all shakes out. We’re three fucking months in.
Can’t recall where I read it, but if GOP loses only 4 percent of those who voted for them (congressmen) in ’24 they will lose 23 seats.
creech:
And if the Republicans pick up 4% of those who didn’t vote for them, they’ll gain a lot of seats. Everything comes down to the margins now.
Ain’t it great to be in interesting times?
/looks around for the McSweeney clan.
The rule of thumb is that the party out of power picks up seats in the House during the off-year elections.
This time around, the Trump administration is making huge changes that will have lasting impacts on the economy.
Either the economy tanks, and the Dems run away with the House.
Of the economy takes off, and I think the Pubs hold on or improve in the House.
We will know what direction things are going by this fall is my guess.
Of particular interest, however, is the president’s apparent eagerness to target women in key military leadership positions. In fact, on the first day of the Republican’s second term, he fired Adm. Linda Fagan, the commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, evicting her from her home with three hours of notice. The fact that Fagan was a four-star admiral and the first woman to lead a branch of the military apparently meant very little to the president who ousted her.
1) It wasn’t her home if he could boot her out of it.
2) It’s like he just arbitrarily took the family pet to the pound.
I wonder if she really had to be packed up and standing on the curb in 3 hours, myself.
I believe he fired her earlier and evicted her later. Maybe because she wasn’t moving fast enough, maybe for spite, or maybe to send a message pour encourager les autres.
“apparent eagerness to target women in key military leadership positions”
It’s an alarming trend, what with all two of the examples they give.
And to add insult to injury, look at how few women he’s appointed to key roles.
If the CG Commandant was a dude, would it be OK to can him and toss him out in 3 hours?
If so, why is it so egregious that they did it to a gal? They are supposed to be just as tough as guys right? Equality?
Also, as Ozy highlighted, she didn’t give a flying fuck when she was screwing Coasties over on the COVID vax. Fuck her.
The measure, among other things, will not allow bullfighters to use spades and swords to attack the animal, which in turn will have its horns covered to prevent injuries to humans.
This takes all the fun out of it.
Yes. Covering the horns of bulls makes people totally safe.
Those animal rights activists should go fight a bull with horns covered to show how safe and humane it is.
Because a 800-1200 pound animal with a soft hat on could hardly be expected to cause any damage to a guy in fruity suit.
*sigh*
Whatever happened to Mexican machismo? Fighting bulls that have their horns covered is for pussies.
Just replace bullfighting with contests to date women with poison frog hair. That would be entertaining.
RJ, it would have the same chance of one of the participants being dead by the end of the contest.
Here’s what I don’t get: Barrett and Kavanaugh were subjected to the most vicious attacks by the left, and apparently have no problem crawling back on their bellies trying to get back in their good graces. If what was done to them was done to me, I would bear a lifetime grudge and miss no opportunity to indulge it.
It’s possible that their reasoning is based on their principles (whatever they are) and not because they are picking rationalizations that justify a decision that curries favor with someone.
Possible, sure. Likely, no. Remember, judges are lawyers with political contacts ie the crème de la scum.
She was essential to overturning Chevron, Roe v Wade, and DEI nonsense.
I don’t agree with her on everything, but the hysteria over her not rubber stamping all MAGA bullshit is a bit much.
Get out of that elk!
Deer Jarflax,
You don’t need to bull moose us.
I am not the one inside a Mexican elk!
Speaking of moose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_Bullwinkel
Oh, deer.
I don’t caribou this topic at all
The story, as I have heard it, on killing the bull: the bull learns so much during the fight if they let him fight in the bull ring again, he’d assassinated the matador.
They could just let him frolic in a field somewhere like Ferdinand.
Bulls learn? Do they become bears then?
speaking of bulls:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln9RuDEea0o
I guess I’d ride a bull for a big enough paycheck.
The Democrats have the bureaucratic dead wood vote in the bag.
Not once they start working the new manufacturing jerbs.
Manual altimeter, at least for the far left portion
They could just let him frolic in a field somewhere like Ferdinand.
And father more fighting bulls.
Speaking of Mexican fighting bulls, this is actually a pretty good movie.
And to add insult to injury, look at how few women he’s appointed to key roles.
Trump hates teh womyns. Everybody knows this.
What’s that you say?
Yeah, but it doesn’t count unless Trump touts them as historic firsts.
But they’re women women. The kind without a lady dick, so they don’t count.
Bombing the Houthis Won’t Work
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/bombing-the-houthis-won-t-work/ar-AA1Cyebt?
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Since mid-March, the U.S. military has hurled more than $200 million worth of missiles, bombs, and rockets into the remote deserts and mountains of Yemen, in what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has dubbed, with sublime ahistorical clumsiness, Operation Rough Rider. The name is meant to evoke Theodore Roosevelt’s vainglorious 1898 cavalry charge up San Juan Hill in the Spanish-American War. Hegseth may not know that the U.S. suffered twice as many casualties as the Spanish in that long-ago battle, the prelude to a needless and costly war of aggression.
…
But if Trump and his team think they can decapitate the Houthis and then ignore them, they need to pay more attention to history. The Houthi movement has been repeatedly decimated in war over the past two decades, and each time it has emerged stronger. The group’s first leader, Abdul-Malik’s older brother Hussein al-Houthi, was killed in 2004 during a brutal offensive by the Yemeni military. The movement replaced him very quickly and would no doubt do the same for the current leader.
Finding a real solution to the Houthi problem would not be easy. It would require a sustained effort to organize the Yemeni opposition, now split into eight armed factions backed by rival foreign patrons, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Those divisions undermined the Saudi-led effort to topple the Houthis that began in 2015, left much of Yemen in ruins, and helped push many people into starvation.
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The Houthis belong to the Zaydi sect, a minority which has ruled Yemen for 1,000 years or so before being overthrown.
from wiki
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The Zaydis in Yemen had initially lived in the highlands and the northern territories, but extent of their dominance away from their capital of 7 centuries, Saada, had been changing over time. Rassid dynasty was established after an Ottoman invasion in the 16th century. After another interaction with Ottomans, a new succession line was started in the 19th century by Muhammad bin Yahya Hamid ad-Din. With minor interruptions, these two dynasties ruled in Yemen until the creation of Yemen Arab Republic in 1962. While the rulers ostensibly conformed to Hadawi law (thus the “imamate”), the doctrines had to be modified to allow hereditary, as opposed to traditional merit-based, selection of imams.[7]
The end of imam rule in 1962, with the new rulers in Yemen no longer conforming to the requirements of Zaydism, caused Zaydi scholars to call for the restoration of the imamate. This contributed to the North Yemen Civil War that lasted from 1962 to 1970.
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The Imams of Yemen and later also the Kings of Yemen were religiously consecrated leaders belonging to the Zaidiyyah branch of Shia Islam. They established a blend of religious and political rule in parts of Yemen from 897. Their imamate endured under varying circumstances until the republican revolution in 1962, then the formal abolition of the monarchy in 1970.
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lol. $200 million!
🙄
What does that work out to in terms of multiples of the value of everything in Yemen?
Yeah that’s it. Not the Houthi takeover. Not the nearly 5 year civil war precipitated during the color revolutions.
And the original 1962 civil war was just about not respecting tribalists. Nothing to do with Arab nationalism or the commies gaining control of South Yemen.
I’m mildly surprised Mex didn’t link to this sad story, although I suppose they’re the wrong type of Latins for him.
I considered it, but between Kristi Noem, bullfighting, and Hitler I left plenty of discussion bait.
Ooops.
I heard about that but I just learned former MLB player Octavio Dotel is one of the deceased. Reliever who pitched for a bunch of teams. I remember him as being quite good.
At least 66 people confirmed dead so far, all from a roof collapsing on them at a concert. That, fuck. That’s a bad day for everyone. RIP.
DOGE has gone too far this time!!!
How will the country survive without digitized record of some obscure group that tried to help Norwegians fight the Nazis? We are already $37,000,000,000,000 in debt. Why not make it $37,000,000,300,000?
Maybe they can preserve those records in vats of lye?
*searches*
“There are more than 4.5 million Norwegian Americans, according to the 2021 U.S. census”
If you can’t get those people to cough up less than $0.07 each (on average) maybe it’s not that valuable a project.
Time to look for some rich Norwegian or descendant of Norwegian immigrants to help. Or maybe crowdsource. I’ve contributed to various libraries over the years. Stop forcing people who aren’t actively interested in your projects to fund you.
Exactly. They could GoFundMe 300k and hit up those millions of Norwegian Americans.
Here’s an example
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Irish_Famine_Memorial#Development
The put the arm on Irish Bostonians to fund an ugly memorial. All without fed funds (AFAIK).
Irish Bostonians tend to be more
patrioticjingoistic about Ireland than the actual Irish. I don’t know that Norwegians are the same.How will the country survive without digitized record of some obscure group that tried to help Norwegians fight the Nazis?
Without proper historical society validation, IT NEVER HAPPENED.
Sununu passes on NH Senate race
Gov. Chris Sununu will not enter the 2026 U.S. Senate race, telling New Hampshire radio host Jack Heath, “It’s just not for me.”
“I’m not going to run,” Sununu, 50, said Tuesday morning. “I really thought about it. I actually talked to the White House this morning. I talked to (U.S. Sen.) Tim Scott. Thanked him for all their support and confidence and all that. But I don’t have to be the candidate, and I’m not going to be the candidate.”
The successful four-term governor was widely viewed as the Republican Party’s best chance to win a federal race in a state where Democrats have dominated the D.C. delegation since the 2010 Tea Party wave. Republicans have won just one federal race — the 1st Congressional District in 2014 — since then.
Sununu acknowledged the Republican Party has struggled in those races, but he insisted the state is still in play for the GOP.
“This is a very winnable seat by a Republican, it doesn’t have to be me. I think 2026 is wide open for New Hampshire to say, ‘Hey, we’re a bipartisan state. How about we have a bipartisan voice in D.C.?’ We don’t. We only have these progressive left Democrats for more than eight years now, driving one side of a message.
“We’re a purple state,” Sununu added. “We don’t have a purple voice, and so there’s a huge opportunity.”
Sununu gave a reason for staying out of the race that many observers have mentioned since he re-emerged as a potential candidate: his family.
“I thought about, is it right for me and my family? For me and my family, it’s just not right for us.”
Ehh, not a fan of bull fighting. Not sure how many of the cheering fans in the stadium have actually ever put down livestock themselves. Guessing something approaching zero.
I’ve never enjoyed putting down domesticated animals and always aim to make it as quick and painless as possible. I don’t get the glorification.
Speaking of which, we had our first 2025 calf born over the weekend. Half Charlois/half Jersey. Will turn him into a steer soon and looking forward to pasture-raised steaks in 18 months.
Someone upthread was worried about a cojone shortage, maybe you could bounce a ball or two their way?
Rubberband method with calves and bucklings. We’ve got em to spare, but not much left when the balls drop off. Sounds rough, but it’s easier on everyone than castration by scalpel.
I spotted a gator in the swimming hole right after I got out. I swam within about 50 feet of it. It was 5 feet long or so.
Exciting! I told some folks to get out of the water and called a ranger.
Hopefully the gator will move on so I can swim again tomorrow. I try to do a daily swim of about 600 ft in 15 minutes. Half front crawl, the rest backstroke.
my swimming hole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm8VvG-H3-o
Good thing for you he doesn’t eat whippersnappers.
I’ve never been closer than about 50′ from a wild gator, and that in winter.
Your encounter reminded me of this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7GyLr7Cz2g
That *IS* exciting! Interesting creatures, the successful ones who’ve not changed much in ~300 million years. Gators, crocs, spiders, etc. They’ve figured their shit out and are ‘proof’ of the ‘don’t fix what ain’t broken’ concept.
I dined on one at a croc farm in Australia in 2003, and we still have some gator bites in the freezer that my parents picked up in Florida.
I’d pay good money for a (consensual?) Croc v Man w Knife fight. A small knife, where piercing the croc’s hide would be tough, but certainly enough for the underbelly. Would finance. Much watch. Steve Smith furiously enjoy spank-wank in bushes.
5 feet. If you got anywhere near him he’d have scurried off as quick as he could.