Yep, Spud gets to bookend Mexi today. Hey! Who just snickered and said “spit roast”?!? Grow up, people!
OMWC and Prime are doing something old and oldish this weekend. I’m sure they’ll have fun along with a few old people naps.
Fine, here’s a few birthdays. Not even gonna try and be clever…something about a club of culture…he loved riding his motorcycle through Argentina…she made a living slapping balls…and my favorite snowman. Feel free to add more in the comments.
Links?
Yep. We’re just warming up here. Israel has decided on a final solution. But sometimes you still take one to the chin.
But Iran isn’t going to be able to hang without some serious backup.
As assessment I’ll give some validity to.
It would be unfortunate if an Abrams was too heavy for the street and dropped into the tunnels.
My shocked face will never heal if this keeps up.
This sucked balls. And the one dude that survived still lost his brother.
Yeah, in local news, that Establishment cuck Mike Simpson can lick our balls.
Okay, I need to save something for later. Have a great day. Peace out, Glibbies.
From a dumb movie that OM thinks is a masterpiece. Dude doesn’t even like Jaws.
I didn’t think the President of Earth Herself was going to be at the Atlanta rally. Plus… didn’t Underground Atlanta go out of business or something?
Morning all….
Cincinnati had its own version of that back in the day. IIRC, it was the victim of a tectonic tragedy. Sad! 😞
That’s funny. It took me a moment it wasn’t a Stacy Abrams joke.
Stacy ate the words ‘to realize’ our of your comment.
Damn her!
Happy birthday Steve Rubell?
Happy birthday Manuel Noriega?
Sean Penn was the snowman.
It would be unfortunate if an Abrams was too heavy for the street and dropped into the tunnels.
I hope they have fun putting up with Stacey Abrams.
I like mine better… but I’m admittedly biased.
“In 2022, Congress passed a law directing the Architect of the Capitol to install a memorial honoring the officers who tried to hold off the mob. The deadline for installing it passed roughly two years ago.”
Is this the same guy building that California railroad? That shouldn’t take more than a week.
Really funny since as I skimmed it — it is just a plaque required. Not a full on Memorial or anything.
Surely there’s a place in one of the urinals they can aim for?
They should put up a statue of Ashley Babbitt, and a plaque reading “In loving memory of January 6th…”
rEwRiTiNg hIsToRy!
” South Africa wins the World Test Championship against Australia, its first major cricket title in 27 years. ”
Who the hell cares?
Pretty sure cricket is the 2nd most popular sport on the planet.
I can’t help but think of one of the moments Capaldi got good writing… the one thing about going to war is you never know who’s going to be killed, prepare as much as you want. Like Sherman — I think that’s true, but also good… because war that’s too easy and too relatively painless is going to be used too often.
You often don’t know who will win, particularly if you do a poor job of defining victory.
I was pretty upset when we took a successful punitive raid in Afghanistan and turned it into a 20-year nation building boondoggle. Still was surprised we took an outright “L”.
America can civilize any people, with enough of YOUR money!
I like that the effete urbanite lefty class has adopted the Leona Helmsley approach to public relations. Protip, Christy: the 346,790,000 people outside your income bracket don’t really give that much of a shit if Trumputler deports the cabana boy at your 5th beach house.
I was struck by the breathless, almost hysterical, tone of the phrase “tanks barrel down the streets of Washington.”
Also, it’s deliciously wrong. Parade vehicles do not move recklessly at high speed. They roll, plod, or perhaps trundle.
And, just think, we haven’t had a military parade since JFK!
I love the talking point they’re going with… “This is what you see in China or Russia!”
One country they adore and another they pretend to hate but certainly adored back in the day.
Animal House taught me that you are wrong!
I would like to see some tanks barreling down the street – into a crowd of pink haired screaming “girl bosses”. That would make for some fine television.
That much grease isn’t good for the treads. You’d have tanks sliding sideways on landwhale lard.
A tank race in downtown DC would be awesome.
And this is where a Merkava would be awesome. It is right there in the name!
“The scheme was possible because of the federal government’s racial “set-aside” laws known as 8(a) contracting, which allow contracting officers to give contracts to companies owned by minorities, women, or veterans without the usual competitive process.”
They need to repeal all that shit. The law should not mention race.
No shit. It is affirmative action and I thought the courts have ruled that illegal?
I like how the one “disadvantaged” company pulled in $271M in contracts. Doesn’t disadvantage have some upper limit, like say $100M?
If they’re really disadvantaged, they’d be happy for a contract max of $2.50
When I worked at the prison mental health department many years ago, I was responsible for ordering office supplies. The place they ordered from was some “minority-owned business network” that just sold all the usual brands of office supplies, but they were 2 to 3 times more expensive. I seriously could have saved thousands of dollars a year by just picking everything up from Staples, but they were under contract to only buy from that place.
I’m just envisioning some company that is technically owned by a minority and does nothing but buy office supplies, mark them up even more than big-box stores, and sell them to the captive market of government departments who have to buy from “minority-owned businesses”.
That anyone ever gets prosecuted for graft and corruption in our “elites”? Yeah.. that is pretty shocking these days, Spud.
What… you don’t support the death cult looking to wipe humanity and any and all of its artifacts from the face of the Earth?
MolochGaia demands it of us!Just wipe out the right people.
“Thank me for my service, you peon!”
I’m very sorry to ignore the 30-minute rule, but this can’t wait.
UnCiv – Stop. Put down the screwdriver and slowly back away from your gun bench.
CZ Shadow 2 OR optic plate screws are M3-0.5, 8mm long. If you try to thread 6-32 screws into the screw holes you’ll strip them out and damage the slide. I’ve done this, and it cost me a bucket to fix.
Impact Custom Machine has the right screws here: https://impactcncmachine.com/icm-m3x8-screws/
Or, I bought 100 US-made 12.9 M3-0.5x8mm high-strength screws the last time I broke one. Drop me a line and I’ll send you a few.
Geez, you’d think somebody had a gun to your head.
Hopefully UCS dodges this bullet.
He’s probably already screwed!
Avatar checks out.
I am thinking I should register L10 at race gun nationals in case some eager NY airport cop inspects my mags.
But… minor with the S2 or major with the 97?
And this is why I said they might be Metric.
And, by the way, if you are going to start playing around with this stuff, pick up a thread pitch gauge. This one, while not the highest quality, is both metric and SAE
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075ZKWH3F?tag=psuni-01-US-7016-20&ascsubtag=wtbs_684d73b49ab133f1e45ae88a&me=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Good advice.
Also a cheap caliper. Sadly all the cheap ones are Chinese.
UnCiv’s travails are why I take my infrequent gun issues that aren’t easily and obviously resolved to a gunsmith.
Thank you.
The screws which connect the adapter plate to the slide were those that came with the Shadow 2 (holding on the plate where the rear irons sat) and did not budge, they were plenty long enough.
The screws that were too short and popped out came with the optic and were connecting it to the adapter plate. Why the optic came with screw too short for itself confuses me.
If anything is damaged, it is not the pistol.
As for dropping you a line, I’m afraid I don’t have your contact info.
EvilSheldon@pm.me
Thank you, email sent.
Have a steak, hydrate… you’ll be ready for another round even if he gets you to finish this morning….
Yeah. The only reason he stays in that senate seat is he’s of the southern Idaho religion.
Guy was always soft but he went left to secure his legacy. He want a plaque at each end of a bypassed dam.
Had to look it up. Never even heard of The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs. The Coen bros should have stopped at Fargo, IMO.
Nobody stops at Fargo, it’s too crowded.
MikeS sings a duet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_sMysEz-TA
If it falls into the tunnels, innocent bystanders could see what happens there.
Politics/sausage making
Wannafud?
Boy George. Back when trannies were cool.
Replace the dams with a power plant fired with used tires.
I am not sure how this works…you sue congress and a judge orders congress to pass a law? I guess judges are the executive branch now so why not the legislative as well?
The so called New World Order was formed after WW2. Pulling the curtain back on it is getting uglier and uglier. Killing USAID was a good first step, now crawling up their asses with a microscope and prosecuting is a good second. Here’s to hoping for more.
A military parade? Fuck. He did this last time, didnt he? What’s with that? It’s not a good move or a good look.
Just do a special show with the Marine Corps silent drill team, and a Blue Angels show. Nice (short) speech, have it televised, call it good.
This year the Dayton Air Show is getting the Thunderbirds instead of the Blue Angels. (I get the impression they alternate.) Which reminds me of the unfortunate fact that Tranquility Base may not be very tranquil next weekend. 😖✈🛫🛬🛩
And miss the spectacle and grand days of tolling tanks through the streets?
I find it interesting that the No Kings people are having many local protests, often in smallish towns. My take on this is that they are trying to up overall attendance by lowering the cost (time, gas, etc) of participation. But it could also reflect the funding from USAID funded pass-through orgs drying up. The frequency of these protests has been decreasing. Will be interesting to see how long they can keep up this momentum throughout the summer.
Many small, local protests will also increase attendance because small, local protests are less likely to turn violent, and also will give the appearance of more support if there is one in every town, to use one of their favorite phrases. And they are also banking on the propaganda value of many small, peaceful protests so they can claim “most protests were completely peaceful.” Which is an easy metric to achieve if your local protest is 3-4 smelly hippies standing around with signs yelling incoherent gibberish.
The hot weather and the fear of violence and arrest will also depress attendance at the larger protests.
What will the Latin Kings do today?
The problem they have is that one violent protest cancels out a dozen or more non-violent protests. And, to make the case that the non-violent protests are the norm, they need to be seen, while the one violent protest cannot help but be seen. It is kind of a trap, and it is one they are all ready caught up in, what with LA. The left is still thinking that the old paradigm of the media will work, and haven’t accepted the TwiX revolution about independent journalists: everyone with a smart phone can put info out there, far too much for “cheap fakes” to cover.
But, to your USAID point, we are already seeing the big guns come out, such as the Walmart heiress, which kind of defeats the purpose of the grass roots cache that the Dems love; you aren’t bottom up if a billionaire is funding the whole thing. See also Brooks, Pritzker, Soros et al.
Yep.
I see a tie in with the dam removal here in the NW.
Every one of these NGOs and tribes that are suitable g to have them removed are funded with federal dollars.
They pulled this shit in Jena back when the cause of the week was the Jena 5. I was in town that day. No one paid any attention to it whatsoever.
I’ll believe the funding from USAID is turned off when a few hundred NGO websites go dark. The recission bill is trimming $9B+ (including NPR/PBS) and USAID is burning ~$40B/yr. They haven’t even skimmed the cream of the grift.
Happy riot day! Peg the patriarchy! or something…
Maybe Ukraine, with nearly five times the population of Israel, can learn a lesson on how to militarily prepare when faced with an implacable enemy?
They seemed to have figured out the getting the US to pay for it part down pretty well.
The planning, logistics, and intel parts too.
Article I read said the USN directly downed two missiles.
We will be sending them a bill, right?
To be fair, Israel also freeloads off US money and intelligence, although unlike Ukraine, they’d more than likely still exist without our assistance. Then again, they also have nukes.
Then again they have incredibly valuable intel with us for decades.
Yeah, if anything I would imagine the intel trades favor us – we get better than we give.
Lightening struck a tree in my yard. It fried the FIOS ONT and some miscellaneous electronics.
Highly unfortunate
Happened to me last year or year before, although we don’t have your fancy fiber optics (why would those transmit electricity, anyway?), just old-fashioned cable. They replaced the cable (pause for jokes) within a few days, and then took nearly three months to bury the new cable.
The fiber is probably fine. The ONT converting to ethernet won’t turn on.
Was Karl Hungus there ?
“GFY.“
Oh, I dunno. I could see a J6 memorial becoming kind of a pilgrimage thing for MAGAts.
Bonus: the article at least didn’t repeat the lie that cops were killed. Although they did fail to mention the two women murdered by cops.
“That’s our job.”
I didn’t see any mention of the coup that caused the ruckus, either.
That is what this whole thing is about. They are trying to do an end-run around any controversy and put a “wall” around their point of view.
But Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said, “Donald Trump doesn’t know the first thing about the Northwest and our way of life …. This decision is grievously wrong and couldn’t be more shortsighted.”
Blow it out yer ass, Senator.
No, it is the way of life of Portland and Seattle, not the rest of the PNW, who rely on those dams and the locks they have to get wheat and other crops to market.
The eastern half of Washington can come join us here in Idaho along with 17 counties in Oregon.
Where do we sign up?
Trump Disappointed Army Parade Won’t Have A Giant Snoopy Balloon
The best the Army could do.
Studies would be conducted by the federal government or with federal funding on how the services now provided by the dams could be replaced, including the barging of farm products and other goods, irrigation, recreation and electricity production. Reaction to Trump’s announcement was mixed, with those who rely on the dams supportive of Trump’s decision and environmental interests unhappy.
We can burn all the reports generated by those studies for heat. And then we can burn the so called environmentalists.
“Shark falls out of sky on unsuspecting disc golfers in South Carolina”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/14/us-news/hammerhead-shark-falls-out-of-sky-on-south-carolina-disc-golfers/
STIJLTH
“His first child, Ari Jr., was born in 2008 to a lesbian mom who posted an ad for a donor on Craigslist and wound up having sex with Nagel. “We conceived the old fashioned way,” he said, adding that he tries to do the deed as “quickly” as possible to reduce any lesbian’s discomfort. “I was many lesbians’ first guy,” he said.”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/14/us-news/the-sperminator-ari-nagel-50-is-retiring-on-fathers-day/
A Jew taking gold stars away?
Conversion therapy?
“These are rookie numbers.”
-Genghis Khan
Also:
“Nagel — who is currently separated from his first wife with whom shares three children”
Gee, I wonder why.
as “quickly” as possible
So turning premature ejaculation into a feature?
Trump’s parade is going to cost 45 million dollars. Do you know how many social justice and homelessness advocates and environmental lawyers we could feed with that money?
At least pay off 90 student loans.
How many could we crucify?
I approve of this message.
“Former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin and her financier scion fiancé Alex Soros will tie the knot at a glamorous Hamptons wedding attended by panoply of left-leaning power players Saturday.
Abedin, 48, the ex-wife of disgraced former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner, will marry Soros, 39, the son of lefty billionaire investor George Soros, at the family’s lavish $14.5 million estate in Southampton.
Hillary, Bill and Chelsea Clinton are on the guest list along with Barack and Michelle Obama and several European prime ministers connected to George Soros’ grantmaking foundation Open Society, a source told Page Six.
Some of the couple’s A-list guests will be flown by helicopter from Manhattan for the festivities, which famed Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, banker James Rothschild and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt are also likely to attend.”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/13/us-news/ex-clinton-aide-huma-abedin-to-marry-financier-scion-alex-soros-at-glamorous-hamptons-wedding-attended-by-lefty-power-players/
That $45 Million could buy a very large bomb.
Gah – she hasn’t aged well.
The job of a Beard is not to look good, only to have a vagina and provide plausible deniability.
Reminds me of that broad from V that swallowed an entire rat whole.
Mission accomplished
No kings!!! Down with the royals!!!
I am a conditional Monarchits – If and Only if I am the Monarch.
Silicone Saturday T&A to brighten your day!
https://archive.is/GAvSj
4, 10, 46 and 63 are mildly attractive.
“The Pentagon Pizza Report tracks the real-time foot traffic at pizza spots near the Pentagon, hinting at officials working late at the government building, which may suggest potential conflict.”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/14/us-news/pentagon-pizza-tracker-reported-larger-foot-traffic-at-restaurants-around-military-headquarters-before-israel-operation-rising-lion/
Why are they eating Domino’s?
+ avoid the ‘noid
Pizzagate 2: Electric Boogaloo?
A tsunami of justice
The time for assessing this administration is over — now is the moment to raise our voices and be heard. Not just to protest this parade, but to affirm something deeper: that power belongs to the people, that democracy is worth defending, that we still believe in a government of, by, and for the people. Inspired by Dr. King’s legacy, this mobilization reminds us of his vision of a just, inclusive, and equitable society. A dream toward which we have dedicated our lives’ and urge everyone to stand together in the face of this latest challenge to our fragile democracy.
Authoritarian moments can feel permanent. But they never are. They crack when people speak. They crumble when people act. And they collapse when courage becomes contagious. Trump is counting on our fear. We’re betting on our courage. Trump wants a crown, but we won’t bow. We will rise.
Come, America, wash away the dread scourge of the wrong people calling the shots.
Blah, blah, blah.
Relevant:
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/diminishing-protest-returns-los-angeles-no-kings-day-newsom-trump-immigration-deport-98c9888c?msockid=174640c79de1650e395655299c626415
I wish someone could explain to me the logical and probable series of events that could lead to the US not having elections anymore because Trump is in office.
Argh! I was hoping OMWC was online to help me with a tube amp problem.
What is the problem?
I have an old Eico ST70 push-pull amplifier using 6AR6 tubes. A few weeks ago some hum began – if I zero out the bias difference between the two tubes, the hum is reduced (but never goes away). Hum gets worse as the tubes become unbalanced in the bias.
I don’t have a scope anymore so finding the source of the hum is more difficult.
New power supply and bias capacitors installed 5 or so years ago. Last week I replaced a wonky hum pot with a new unit. It doesn’t seem to make much difference. Neither does replacing the tube rectifier, output tubes, phase splitter (6SN7s) or the input tube (12AX7).
Have you checked your input and output terminals for stray bits of wire that could cause a hum? Insulation decay around those old terminals could cause a hum to start too, as conducting bits get closer to the metal case.
So like Dynaco 70 with a different front end? Tubes rarely cause hum. I doubt this thing has a quad cap (which is what usually makes Dynaco’s hum), so I would look for a bad power supply cap. That one of them went bad in 5 years is not impossible.
Also, you can buy a handheld scope for around $90 now.
Have you checked the thermostat?
“I doubt this thing has a quad cap”
I just looked this thing up, so it’s old enough to have a quad cap. Which go bad very quite often.
Funny that the “No Kings” thing is being run by people who want even more and more power. Biden certainly tried to run the country like a king.
To be fair, what they’re after is a commissar, not a king exactly. Technically correct is the best kind, after all.
It is important to remember that Biden did not do anything and was never president.
It’s more like a priestly cadre than a monarchy. Or perhaps a committee, a committee for the public, for safety.
Funny that the “No Kings” thing is being run by people who want even more and more power. Biden certainly tried to run the country like a king.
They have no objection to power, per se. They fear power in the wrong hands, wielded against them and their interests.
“I have a pen, and a phone” – BH Obama
All the examples of authoritarianism from previous Democrap administrations come to mind, but what really fucking burns me up is that the same people showing up to “No Kings” protests are the same exact people who, a few years ago, were criticizing politicians for INSUFFICIENT authoritarianism in the face of the Wu Flu. They were totally cool with governors and mayors imposing “emergency measures” that far exceeded and outlasted what is allowed by state constitutions, unelected state “public health” officials making up their own rules, and censoring anyone who had any criticism of this.
And it’s painful for me since my Mom is at the local version of those protests today, and like many people, I love my Mom. But good god, pick a position and stick with it.
“Israel has decided on a final solution.”
I’m the antithesis of a warmonger and I certainly don’t want WWIII to kick off; however, Iran is such a shitshow trouble-maker I don’t really have much of a problem with them Gaza-izing it and toppling their bullshit government.*
*As long as US troops don’t get involved.
Looks like we are already involved.
“BREAKING: US assists Israel to intercept Iranian missiles amid retaliatory attack: report”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-us-assists-israel-to-intercept-iranian-missiles-amid-retaliatory-attack-report
Hawks might try to pull some Gulf of Tonkin shit.
If they had almost any other Republican in the White House, I’d be really worried. With Trump and his disinterest in bloodshed, I’m only mildly worried.
We did this last fall too.
Reposting from ded thread for Sensei, etc.
Tetsuo!
It says “Unable to fetch translation”
You go right to left, manga style.
Before election. What happened? Do you need help (benefits)?
Normally. Tax increases and social insurance increases. Work and pay your taxes!
I was born in the US and don’t speak Japanese, other wise I would, haha! If it’s French I can take a crack at it, but not Japanese. It’s all squiggly to me.
“New Jersey town to seize 175-year-old family farm to create affordable housing
A New Jersey town has moved to take a man’s nearly 2-century-old farm through eminent domain in order to build multiple affordable houses.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/new-jersey-town-to-seize-175-year-old-family-farm-to-create-affordable-housing
No.
Everyone proposing such a move should be lined up and shot.
Yes.
Feet first into woodchippers.
Theft is what society does together.
Always the collective farming with these people…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Laurel_doctrine
The fucking gift responsible for many of NJ issues including the start of income taxes and this abuse.
It’s only just begun
https://www.fox9.com/news/melissa-hortman-john-hoffman-lawmakers-shot-minnesota
I would have expected a more hyperbolic headline from the media given that fact pattern.
Or had it become such habit to not mention democrat affiliation in articles that even when they get shot it’s avoided?
Cosplaying real journalists?
Dispatch from the world’s last sensible Democrat.
https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/riot-on
The Mike Simpson dam story.
A couple of days ago the Nez Perce tribe was patting themselves on the back for placing solar panels on some houses (houses paid for by the BIA), the local commentators were talking about how it had taken several years for the project to do anything and that someone in the tribe was getting kickbacks.
The entire thing is a kickback of the Biden era letter and the anti dam agreement.
Cut the power to the evil white man while having him pay for solar panels. It’s always the same story.
I think it’s a little funny that the “No Kings” thing shows up in the news at the same time that I’m seeing Pahlavi posts from the Persian diaspora.
I’m thinking/hoping that part of the goal for Israel is to facilitate something like Operation Valkyrie by knocking out the command structure so the Persian von Staffenberg (etc.) can get the job done.
One can hope.
“It can be a little bit challenging to know when to fill the cup”
Phrasing?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tv/im-virgin-island-sex-surrogate-35271782
Are you implying it would take two girls to fill the cup?
The fact that they obviously have boot on the ground (and plenty of them) is evidence to me at least that there is local support for them.
“On Friday, a group of far-left protesters—many of them self-described veterans—stormed the U.S. Capitol Grounds in what they laughably called a “staged sit-in.” But they didn’t just sit. Roughly 60 agitators blew through police barriers and charged toward the Capitol steps, pushing over barricades and crossing into restricted territory, in a scene that bore all the trademarks of what Democrats once labeled “a threat to democracy.”
According to local news outlet 7News, the group had just wrapped up a protest in front of the Supreme Court and was supposedly heading toward the Capitol to “take photos.” But the moment Capitol Police reinforced barriers, the activists made their move, toppling a bike rack and sprinting straight toward the Rotunda steps—clearly not the actions of peaceful tourists.”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/06/14/protestors-breach-barriers-at-us-capitol-isnt-that-insurrection-n4940790
Just like the Women’s March.
60 agitators….I see no mention in there that they were FBI. I wonder why they would leave a little detail like that out.
“But only America’s GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), a 30,000-pound bunker-busting bomb, would have a chance of doing any damage to Iran’s centrifuges. Donald Trump is refusing to sell the ordnance to Israel, which means that the Israelis are very limited in doing much damage to Iran’s nuclear program.”
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/06/14/the-real-reason-for-israels-strikes-on-iran-n4940791
Wonder why not? They don’t have a bomber that could carry it?
Would fit in the back of a C130, but getting them around the air defenses is sketch at best. They would be sitting ducks. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aXHCW_kDwhw
Look at the big picture. The root of all that we see is the gamesmanship around access to resources and markets. In a way it is complex like a chess game. If I do this what will the other ones do? Will it affect access to timber? Oil? Grain? All of the shooting and yelling are just distractions.
On the other hand it is fundamentally simple and stupid.
Iran supplies a lot of oil to China. Russia supplies a lot of energy to Europe. Ukraine apparently has a lot of mineral wealth. Who cares about Yemen? Anyone that ships oil through The Gate of Tears and so on.
‘It’s all about the money’ is true in that money is a measure of resources and markets.
Yep. I find it interesting that Ukraine hasent seemed to impact the wheat market as much as it has.
Iron too.
Maybe it’s impacted Europe more but commodities are global so I haven’t figured that one out.
Want (sort of)
It would be a good starting point, but $25k is just silly.
I had an ’84, I think. “Spartan utilitarianism” would be an appropriate description. I’d be sorely tempted to buy another one if it fell in my lap.
Buddy of mine sold his 85 last year. 350,000 miles on it. He sold his 93 or 94 Toyota pickup with it. Together they brought $11k.
Solid axle Toyota prices have gotten nuts. All the FJ 40s I passed up for $1200 over the years because someone had swapped in a SBC…. Kicking myself for those bad decisions.
Agreed. It will sell for 25K. I personally would not pay that, as much as I like it.
I’m getting my work truck painted.
Day cab tractor, it’s going to be around $13,000
The Toyota will get the $25,000. Too bad they didn’t do a diesel swap.
It has some nice upgrades, the ARBs are spendy along with the bumpers and paint (as long as that was done right)
I’ve wanted a Spartan vehicle for a while. Something with extreme reliability and minimal computers.
Unless I want to hunt down a vintage vehicle like that one, that Slate EV might be my only option… And since I drive very little, it wouldn’t really be a huge deal whether my car is an EV or gasoline, but I’m still uneasy about the various flukes being worked out in EV vehicles.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/06/the-week-in-pictures-armageddon-edition.php
Florida gator knocks on door:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIM-DWULviE
Another reason to use the peephole. At least no landshark yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnfX466iVEU
Too bad they didn’t do a diesel swap.
Fuck that. Put a 2JZ in it.
They did pop the windows out and the interior for paint.
If I was in the market I’d pull the trigger on it.
Anti-authoritarianism
A federal judge in San Francisco on Friday stopped Secretary of State Marco Rubio from proceeding with plans to downsize the State Department, saying that it was prohibited behavior under an injunction she issued last month.
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston barred the Republican administration from carrying out much of its plans to reorganize and slash departments while she hears a legal challenge brought by labor unions and others. She said that President Donald Trump had failed to seek Congressional cooperation to do so when he ordered government-wide cuts.
WTF?
The Trump administration said Rubio had launched a reorganization of the State Department independently of the president’s directive and so was exempt.
Illston, who was nominated to the bench by former President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, was not convinced.
“If the State Department has any question about whether planned actions fall within the scope of the Court’s injunction, the Court ORDERS the Department to first raise those questions with the Court before taking action,” she wrote in an order issued Friday.
___
I
AM
THE
LAW.
Then she can get out there and enforce her order.
What? Don’t want to get shot at? And you call yourself a Judge.
This shit is so blatantly unconstitutional. SCOTUS has done an okay job on a case by case basis in smacking most of it down, but at some point they need to figure out how to better control the district courts from going rogue. I’m not sure how that might work.
Underwater cave exploration at my local swimming hole:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyQYJS34fko
The warning sign at the 20 second mark made me laugh. Some guy went through the trouble of putting a warning sign at the entrance of an underwater cave. I guess he didn’t want to retrieve another body.
There are signs like these all over FL spring systems. Exploration of these caves has not been kind to divers, especially those without the requisite training. Shit can happen fast, and when you’re a 1/2 mile deep in a cave, at 200’ of depth, even the slightest mishap can compound to catastrophe in an instant.