The Oilers throttled the Stars and are up 2-1. Florida is about to get the brooms out on Carolina. U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! The EPL season is a wrap. And there was plenty of excitement in Monaco, albeit it in the F2 and Porsche Supercup races. They need to seriously reconsider holding F1 events there, because it’s nothing but a parade. And that’s it for sports.
This makes a lot of sense. They are the criminal spawn of British subjects, after all.
There’s no efficiency like government efficiency. How long before they just say these people will never be allowed back and the eminent domain talk starts in earnest?
And speaking of eminent domain. This looks ridiculous to anybody with eyes.
Which one of you can fix her? I wish you luck.
Politics makes strange bedfellows. Or maybe these people were already into this kind of thing.
I could tell them what they’re doing wrong for a lot less: You can’t tell a large segment of the voting population that they’re the cause of every problem in the world and should STFU, and then expect them to support you. Now give me $10m.
That’s some fine police work, Lou. Jeez, The part of America that looks like a boot might want to work on their prison security.
Sure, just take the terrorists’ word for it. Nice fact-checking there, US media.
I want everybody involved in this to lose. Come on, earthquake. Do your thing.
I’m really confused why the taxpayers would be footing the bill for any of this. I’m also confused as to why this woman is not already rotting in a prison cell for her myriad money-laundering schemes.
Not sure I’ve ever played this guy. But I may be wrong. If I did, I probably played this one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Monday as we remember those who gave all in service of our country.
Erste von Deutschland.
“An Australian state government is banning the sale of machetes after a violent gang fight in a suburban shopping mall injured a young man.”
OFFS!!
To be fair — confiscating knives in prison is a well known tactic… Australia is just honoring their roots.
Dangnabbit… didn’t get to reading Sloopy’s summaries past the sports…
They didn’t send their best?
Hey, I’m just glad people are clicking through and reading the links.
It because theres nothing on TV.
1) Yeah, the F2 race was… interesting at turn 1… Given my love of Max’s tactics.. have to wonder if that (combined with Oscar showing no signs of being intimidated by Max’s tactics in the last couple of races) might just be why Max didn’t push it for a change…
2) Wasn’t entirely a parade — but I think the “2 stop mandatory” rule change backfired big time. I don’t know how they can put it in the rules — but backing the entire freaking pack up behind you because there’s only a couple of spots to pass just to give your teammate ahead of you a pit stop window needs to be illegal somehow. Or (better) they need to race with layouts where you will be passed if you try it without going off the track to do it. Can’t blame Russel at all for it — frankly, I think he did it just to highlight to the stewards how stupid it was getting. (Would have been even better if he’d passed and then gotten like one minute ahead or so of the car blocking him just to show the pace difference…)
Morning all.
IMO, they need to just do away with Monaco or reconstruct the track layout elsewhere in the principality or nearby with roads that are twice as wide and some runoffs so there are places to pass.
A third option is to make it a non-points race with special cars that are 2/3 the current size that the teams can build outside of the spending cap, or that are built by a single manufacturer just for Monaco. I’m sure there would be some takers out there in the automotive world.
I could see the latter working — it really is just an excuse for a week long yacht club schmooze fest for the Euro-set, after all. Trot out “classic” cars for one race, have some sort of “Monaco specials” for the main event… sure. Then you can make it the parade for all practical purposes.
For that matter — have the field have to race it in go karts… “Back to their younger day roots!” There’d be plenty of space to pass then….
My neighbor’s kids have a go-cart that might qualify.
“”Any governmental agency has the right to condemn property for governmental purposes. That’s clear.”
No.
It is consistent with property taxes — the government owns everything, is our landlord and can evict us at any time. Yay freedom!
“The power to tax is the power to destroy”, so sayeth the Supreme Court.
It’s insane that they wrote that. There’s a shitload of case law to the contrary.
Government has no rights whatsoever.
My guess is about 6 more months… have to drag it out to exhaust people’s finances so they can’t countersue effectively and make sure it is far from the public mind.
Look, California is spending billions on the homeless, what are a few more?
It’s Eminent Domain.
But it is imminent that the land will be seized. Sloopy just didn’t want to type out imminent eminent domain… that would be an immense amount of effort. Eminently.
😐🤨
The eschaton is immanent, the domain is eminent, the confusion is imminent
::sigh::
And I am sure Teds will be along to tell you about posterior medical treatment.
Obligatory I do believe.
Great track.
Sadly, It’s Hard was not a very good album.
What I was thinking too.
If electric vehicles cause so much toxic waste, maybe they should be banned.
They are going to ban oil then block out the sun. Now, get to your pod.
It is as if a political philosophy preaching tearing down morals in favor of self gratification would produce a bunch of corrupt hedonistic people with no respect for rules, mores or norms…. Whodathunkit?
And yes — I do realize that politicians have historically been more likely to be corrupt hedonistic people with no respect for rules, mores or norms… because those sorts are attracted to power, influence and wealth (that they can get via power and influence)… the current crop is a lot more brazen about it and they celebrate it….
“Kush in Sierra Leone is quite different; it is a mixture of cannabis, fentanyl, tramadol, formaldehyde and – according to some – ground down humans bones.”
WTF??
Pass that shit!
What was the saying? Once you snack on black…
The bones and formaldehyde are what really makes you trip balls.
Why does this sound like some morgue techs took in a junkie one night and were really, really bored?
“Will it give me fabulous nails, like eating Jello?”/ditz
No chance a former police chief turned inmate might either have connections in corrections or know what buttons to push or anything… nope….. no chance of that, I’m sure… good luck Pea Ridge police. Maybe he’s hiding in the park. (One of the lesser known Civil War battles — we lived in Rodgers for a couple of years when I was growing up, so I remember a little about the area…)
“It supports the narrative — what more do we need to know?”
Hey, David Hogg is a young, white male, maybe Democrats should listen to him.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Dems are the breaks.
Pete has electrolytes?
Pete was the perfect cabinet person — go on paternity leave and the permanent underlings can do whatever they want. Biden was effectively on leave the whole four years — it’s the new Dem model, apparently.
He says he was one of the best shots on the shooting team because his dad was an FBI agent. Why do I smell bullshit? Also, I thought mag dumps were specifically looked down on at most shooting ranges?
“He couldn’t shoot, so I had to”?
(Not that I believe the claim in the first place)
FBI agents being good shots? Lolololololololo-*falls off chair*
“criminal spawn of British subjects”
Just not in the sense that one would normally think of it, most likely anyway, because I suppose Pakistan and plenty of similars fit that bill.
Australia: Since any thing can be used as a weapon why dont they do like the motherland and just ban all things.
They are just going through the motions. Newsome already let the cat out of the bag and has had potential foreign investors visit and have talks about re-development. My tin foil hat weighs the possibility that it was all done on purpose.
Kelo is an abomination. Those justices should burn in hell as should the city officials. The behavior was so egregious I am surprised no one ended up getting shot. Overturn Kelo.
Kush? There is always a new drug more deadlierest than ever.
This Wu person…I think I remember her as being completely batshit crazy. No surprise.
A 20M study to state the obvious. Finding: “This 20M study is, like everything the Dems do, a scam to launder 20M bucks. ”
Any and all sympathy I may have had for the Palestinians evaporated completely on Oct 7, 2023. I dont care what they say or do or how many puppies are sad, fuck ’em.
San Francisco: This will be in line with the eminent domain cases. By the time they finish fucking everything up connected people will be much richer and the public will be left worse off.
Luxury trips abroad seems to be a thing for mayors and governors.
Hey, mayors and governors have important foreign policy work to do! The fact that it is expressly forbidden by Article 1 section 10 is unimportant.
Is there some grift in it? They’ll be on that like flies on shit.
Hmm, maybe, but I think the foreign junkets are more in the underaged hooker area of political interest
The entire trip is a taxpayer-funded vacation. The entire thing is a grift.
When I lived in. H-town, Lee “Out of Town” Brown was mayor. Him and most of city council went on some foreign junket and they were all given tchotchkies of some sort. One of the group responded that they found $1,000 cash stuffed in their tchotchke and Lee Brown was asked if he had any cash in his, and he stated he didn’t know, he had never thought to look (yeah, right). You could tell the group was pissed the one guy ratted them all out.
The project, codenamed SAM — short for “Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan” – is described in a prospectus obtained by the New York Times. It outlines a massive push to decode the language and culture of disaffected young men, particularly in online spaces, and includes a proposal to buy ads inside video games.
I can’t wait to see Team Blue gun control ads in Call of Duty.
If there’s one thing the last decade or so has shown, it is that young men in particular just love the insertion of politics into their video games.
The politics of DEI has clearly won them over.
Remember when Biden/Harris stuck custom art ads for sale i. Animal Crossing?
https://www.businessinsider.com/animal-crossing-new-horizons-election-signs-biden-harris-2020-9
That bombed hard. If I recall correctly Nintendo and game players alike were annoyed and the practice was banned.
I see some big “how do you do, fellow kids?” energy coming from the DNC soon.
Soon?
Now.
“Pigeon-costumed activists cry fowl over NYC pet shop as cops try to defuse tensions”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/25/us-news/pigeon-costumed-activists-cry-fowl-over-nyc-pet-shop-as-cops-try-to-defuse-tensions/
SIJLTH
The cops are trying to reduce tension. That’s dumb. The protesters are there to raise tension. Throwing cops in the mix is what they are counting on. Stirring shit for these types is an end in itself. Also, odds that no one is selling birds for target practice?
I have seen these types invent absurd imaginary things like this before. They made it all up.
I remember when the rants about live pigeon shoots were about the little boys in Mexico standing down range to throw pigeons.
Look, you can’t just throw new jumbles of unrelated letters at people and expect them to know what you mean.
I got as far as ‘Mother Piegon’ before I noped out…
How was this song not referenced?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hf-eIgFJg4w
Honoring the fallen with America’s most important export: narcissistic influencers with enormous tits!
https://archive.is/94si5
Memorial Mammary Monday.
*Raises the flag*
“Shocking moment Macron ‘is shoved in the face’ by wife Brigitte as they touch down in Vietnam
Macron’s office initially denied the authenticity of the images, before they were confirmed as genuine.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14749693/Shocking-moment-Macron-shoved-face-wife-Brigitte-touch-Vietnam.html
Shocked she didn’t smack him in the face with her dick?
“Which one of you can fix her? I wish you luck.”
I will make her righteous by injection.
You’re going to have to wait 20 years at least.
“Fashion fans SLAM Kim Kardashian’s new $74 Skims faux nipple piercing push-up bra”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14739887/kim-kardashian-slammed-skims-faux-pierced-nipple-push-bra.html
How long before people stop eating with utensils?
I don’t get it, am I supposed to be relieved or disappointed that my wife’s ripples aren’t pierced once I get to the prize inside?
Sue for false advertising.
There’s some ancient q-tip wearing a ‘Moms Demand Action’ T-shirt at the bagel shop this morning. Nothing goes with bagels and coffee like impotent rage…
Good morning all!
That’s one of those organization names which insists on being misinterpreted.
Just another commie front group. Are they part of code pink or just the same people with different t-shirts?
One of the groups Bloomberg spun up. Not sure how much crossover membership there is with other paid activist groups.
Impotent rage or trying to put out GILF vibes?
Oh, I’ve been looking for a way to ask the obvious question. That’s better than anything I’ve come up with.
Moms Demand Action
*insert Beavis and Butthead laugh*
“Kai Schreiber made a modeling debut in March, walking on the runway for Valentino, and has since appeared in commercials for the luxury retailer. This comes as fellow actor Robert De Niro’s 29-year-old child has also come out as transgender, taking the name Airyn De Niro. This is just the latest among the children of Hollywood stars coming out as transgender, with the children of Jamie Lee Curtis, Naomi Watts, Cynthia Nixon, Charlize Theron, Cher, Dwyane Wade, Gabrielle Union, Jennifer Lopez, and Ben Affleck coming out as transgender as well.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/actor-liev-schreibers-16-year-old-child-joins-hollywoods-trans-kid-cult-with-parents-blessing
That’s some coincidence.
Well their parents are particularly good at playing pretend and dress up…..
Boom goes the dynamite!
Attention whoring is genetically transmitted?
Personality disorders get passed down generation after generation after generation….
It is sad.
I referenced the movie ‘High Plains Drifter’ yesterday regarding the village idiot being made mayor. All of the people appointed under the Biden admin were just that, a giant middle finger to the american people.
I wonder if anyone can name the great accomplishments of bootyjudge as sec of transportation.
He successfully nursed a baby. How many babies have you nursed?
I wonder if anyone can name the great accomplishments of bootyjudge as sec of transportation.
Ummm… As trains were spontaneously derailing and spilling toxic chemicals, he spoke out about how there are too often white utility workers on the job in minority neighborhoods and we need more minority utility workers who “look like” the local residents?
Ok, you’re right.
There are few greater luxuries afforded to the Briton than the ritual of the bath. Not the perfunctory, hurried ablutions of the shower—that brutish, Continental invention—but the proper, deliberate submersion into steaming, scented waters, where a man, or woman, might, for half an hour, pretend that the world beyond the bathroom door does not exist.
First, one must address the water. The novice fills his bath hot from the outset, a grave error that reduces the whole affair to a kind of slow-boiling martyrdom. The true connoisseur begins with the cold tap running, allowing the bathtub to fill just enough to cover the lower extremities upon entry. Only then, using one’s toes to control the taps, does he permit the hot to follow, inching the temperature upwards with the patience of a man who knows that pleasure, like revenge, is best served not only cold, nor scalding, but with a gradual, almost imperceptible ascent towards perfection.
No bath is complete without its accoutrements. A flannel—preferably white, and of a quality that suggests it was purchased from a venerable department store now teetering on the edge of liquidation—must be draped modestly over one’s nether regions. This is not out of prudery, but decorum. A man in a bath is, after all, a man at his most vulnerable. The flannel is a nod to civilisation, a fig leaf for this century of naked savages.
Next, the Cohiba. The bath is one of the few remaining sanctuaries where a man might enjoy a cigar without fear of censure. The steam lends itself to the smoke, curling it upwards in languid spirals, while the occasional ash may be flicked into the water with the insouciance of a man who owns at least one good ashtray—but chooses rebellion.
Then, the whisky. It should be single malt, preferably from Islay, and served in a tumbler heavy enough to suggest it could double as a weapon in a pinch. Ice is permissible, if one is the sort of person who enjoys diluting good whisky, but better to take it neat, allowing the peat to mingle with the cigar smoke and the rising vapours of the bath. The first sip should coincide precisely with the moment the hot water reaches that golden equilibrium between comfort and near-intolerable heat.
No bath is truly complete without the silent, solemn attendance of a terrier—preferably a wiry, opinionated specimen, the sort that regards itself less as a pet and more as a minor aristocrat.
https://countrysquire.co.uk/2025/05/23/the-bath/
I mean if a man be not single the wife may object to cigar smoke in the bathroom.
I think if the man be in a scented bath, the wife be not likely.
Parody or not, it is an entertaining read.
Remarkable that Poe’s Law and Rule 34 may converge here.
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter…
So above all, avoid looking, sounding, or acting like progressives?
I have mentioned this on and off for years now – My grandmother told me that the last time the proggies had a run by the time it was over proclaiming oneself to be a prog in public would get one lynched.
People never learn.
Soft pedal that self-righteousness until they’ve converted, then hit them when they’re vulnerable!
That’s what I got from it.
Monaco: put them in Formula Fords. Let’s see who the drivers are.
“Above all, we must shift from a moralizing tone,” the document urges.
Good one.
The effort comes amid widespread Democratic soul-searching after a loss that wasn’t just electoral, but cultural. A recent NBC News poll placed the party’s favorability at just 27 percent, its worst showing in the poll’s 34-year history.
I call bullshit.
Asking “What’s wrong with THEM?” is not soul-searching.
They didn’t say who’s soul they were searching.
Democrats have souls? Isn’t that some kind of strange religious belief? Modern-minded, reality-denying Democrats certainly wouldn’t entertain such superstitious notions!
While trying to figure out what went wrong and trying to woo back voters by softening their message they elevate David Hogg, AOC and Jasmine Crockett. If you thought the Obama/Pelosi faction was bad….
I, for one, am completely convinced.
What a goddamned freak show.
They are in the beginning stages of a political re-alignment. For Team Red, it began with the Tea Party, who selected an actual witch to grab Biden’s seat and ran some real interesting characters trying to unseat establishment candidates. The battle continues today with Trumpist populists vs. establishment characters.
Team Blue managed to contain the Occupy Types until the Squad got elected, and after the disaster that was Biden Harris, there is a similar struggle about whether to go full on socialist – AOC/Bernie/Squad or somehow reassemble the Bill Clinton Coalition.
The Dems face two difficulties.
(1) The leftist quasi-religious purity demands, which mean they won’t accede to any compromise and will in fact continue to spiral into more bizarre and extreme positions. Trying to adopt a more moderate approach means the left will either quash the moderates or leave the party.
(2) The size of the leftist faction, which includes critical constituencies (college educated women being perhaps the most important). You can either have a moderate party or one that no longer has currently critical constituencies. The gamble is whether your new moderation can replace those constituencies.
Our looming police state
The killing of George Floyd five years ago by a Minneapolis police officer ignited what many reform advocates hoped would be a national effort to end, or at least curb, excessive use of force.
But the Trump administration’s decision last week to dismiss lawsuits and drop accountability agreements with several police departments could undo some of that momentum, proponents of federal oversight say.
“Having a blueprint for reform is one thing, but ensuring objective oversight is a whole other thing,” said Michael Gennaco, a former federal prosecutor who has overseen use-of-force cases.
The Justice Department announced Wednesday that it would drop proposed consent decrees with Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky, and end investigations into police departments in Phoenix; Trenton, New Jersey; Memphis, Tennessee; Mount Vernon, New York; and Oklahoma City; as well as into the Louisiana State Police.
Let the disappearing and roundups begin.
The lie that keeps on giving. The left should just be honest and admit they are pro-crime already.
Late to the links this morning. Regarding the NJ eminent domain thing:
Kelo vs New London Development Corp rears its ugly head an bellows triumphantly. However, this would give SCOTUS a chance to revisit that.
The article says this is an Episcopal congregation, who may not be all White but probably majority White and feel damned guilty about that. You can be damned sure this would never happen to a majority Black congregation such as AME or NBC, or to a Muslim congregation.
See my comment above. Kelo is an abomination and needs to be overturned.
Indeed. The slide from “public use” to “public purpose” is one of the biggest stolen bases in American jurisprudence.
All your base are belong to Blackrock
RC even that distinction is needless. The flaw is in the premise for ‘public’ taking precedence over ‘private’ or ‘individual’. By admitting eminent domain at all the founders nullified private ownership. As the outcome of Kelo shows anything whatsoever can be seized no matter how tangential ‘public use’ or ‘public purpose’ is. Just have a look at the end result of that ruling. The owner displaced and the property in question a waste. No tax dollars ever collected and to top it off the city attempted to collect back rent on the property owners for the time spent in court fighting the taking. The situation was an utter disaster from one end to the other and then the SC had to go take a giant shit not just on that but the rest of the country as well. Stevens, Breyer, Kennedy, Souter and Ginsberg…the lot of them should burn in hell.
There is no such entity as ‘the public’. There is such a thing as ‘the individual’. One has inalienable rights, the other none whatsoever.
Without getting into the philosophical weeds, the Constitution allows eminent domain for “public use”. The Court effectively amended the Constitution to allow eminent domain for any “public purpose”, which is much, much broader, even to include the collection of additional taxes.
RC: My point, which I made poorly, is that the founders erred in allowing for eminent domain at all. ‘Takings’, or as I refer to it – theft – is not an issue in a civilized country.
Since it’s Episcopals, isn’t it an all QUILTBAG congregation?
Fun fact, growing up in the 80’s the local Episcopal church was very conservative. They were hardcore on music, movies, abortion, and were making the Catholics and Lutherans feel like a bunch of hippies.
Apparently the name “Jacinta” is southern hemisphere-speak for “Karen”
The Oilers must be stopped. If Canada manages to bring that cup back home, we’ll never hear the end of it.
Florida will beat them again. Juggernaut.