TMI Trigger Warning: The day started as usual with me heading into downtown Glibs Gulch to help WebDom and 10b0t with opening and a couple daily specials. But it somehow didn’t feel right, and after a couple hours, it was clear I wasn’t going to make it. Worse yet, I was supposed to have a dinner date with Prime and it was looking doubtful that I’d be making it. And indeed, when I crawled back home, I proceeded to do an imitation of a guy who just drank his pre-colonoscopy GoLYTELY. On the bright side, I’m at least 5 pounds lighter.
Speaking of lighter, there’s candles to be lit celebrating the birthday of a guy who pushed more wood than John Holmes; a truly warped space cadet; a guy whose bio carefully omits mention of a famous penis; a woman who was the true star of the funniest TV show ever made; pure evil grasping for power, disguised as a female Jabba The Hut; a guy, who like Dylan, wrote and performed great songs that other people did better; the best part of 60 Minutes, which is faint praise; a guy who made his fortune being happy, you bet your sweet ass he did; a guy who did everything he could to take science in the wrong direction; a woman who, despite being often called the greatest actress of our generation, never once disappeared into any of her roles; an actress never accused of that, but jesus, look at her!; a woman who would make my Top Five on the list of “Most Deserving of the Woodchipper”; Pie’s man-crush; a woman whose “heroism” was a complete Hollywood fraud; and to go with that, a complete literary fraud.
Links, however, are never frauds.
So, anything newsworthy happen last night?
Grave concern, very grave concern.
“But… but… but… we were negotiating!” (Trigger warning: Twitter)
Let’s go with the classics. I mean, it worked so well the last two times.
To be fair, what else do you have for an economy?
Slower than a speeding bullet.
The Old Guy was never fond of so-called soft rock and pop. But that said, holy fuck could this woman play drums! Don’t know who the other drummer was, but he should be proud that he could keep up.
+ crap on tap
whaddup doh’
Happy birthday Andrew B. Hammond?
Happy birthday Josef Mengele?
I was gonna go with Michael Mann.
What’s Tony Fauci? Chopped liver?
Yeah, Fauci, 350 M people
Bob Villa.
Bob Vila never swung a hammer in his life.
There, I said it.
Happy Birthday Friedrich Weyerhäuser!
Dammit! Beaten by minutes.
I suppose this being his last term he doesn’t need to worry about his credibility, but then, I don’t think that’s ever necessarily been Trump’s primary concern. In a way, it’s reassuring to return to the consistency of every sitting president within my lifetime getting the United States involved in a new, undeclared war.
“I like peace, but I also don’t like change. Continue the forever war.”
I thought NWA was the world’s most dangerous group?
Ice Tea has a sad.
Straight out of Tehran, crazy motherfucker named Ahmed
North West Australia? What did they do this time?
And indeed, when I crawled back home, I proceeded to do an imitation of a guy who just drank his pre-colonoscopy GoLYTELY. On the bright side, I’m at least 5 pounds lighter.
Hawt.
“pre-colonoscopy GoLYTELY”
I prefer Holly Golightly.
I’ve never read the book or watched the movie. Audrey Hepburn tho…
The novella is worth your time! Breezy in style, a tad different from the film, which is also good.
Is there anything in particular that makes bombing Iran grounds for impeachment, but not, say, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Iraq, Lebanon, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia, Iraq, Grenada, Panama, Iraq again…
Yes, donations, social media exposure, and self-promotion opportunities.
And really, what’s more important than that?
They can impeach him for wearing a tie they don’t like if they have the votes. It’s evolved into a political process and because it’s congress here it’s often a stupid one.
Technically speaking it’s always been a political process since high crimes and misdemeanors was deliberately never defined, and I’m OK with that tbh. This particular thing is just such a comically stupid hill to die on in light of the fact that quite literally every president since WWII has authorized bombing a foreign nation.
quite literally every president since WWII has authorized bombing a foreign nation
Which one was done under Ford? Seriously can’t remember any.
Ford? Mayaguez incident.
I was thinking Angola, but upon searching, it looks like we didn’t actually drop bombs, just had spooks “advising.”
Ford? I keep forgetting he was president.
Ford did NOT bomb anyone and look at what it got him – a lost election, that’s what. Americans weren’t going to tolerate a simpering wimp in the White House, and that’s obviously why Ford lost.
Mayaguez incident
Futile military action but no bombs dropped AFAIK.
Mayaguez was a bomb…
Somebody ask AoC to name a couple things that aren’t grounds for Trump impeachment.
Silence. Blessed, peaceful silence.
Resignation.
Howdy, all. *Mwah *
“Revenge later at any time dem like. Dis go mean waiting until di current tension don go down and launch a surprise attack wen US bases no dey on maximum alert”
That’s what I’d say.
pure evil grasping for power, disguised as a female Jabba The Hut
Happy birthday Stacey Abrams! (Or maybe Letitia James.)
The Hutt clan is large.
Both are good choices.
a guy who did everything he could to take science in the wrong direction
Happy birthday Neil Degrasse Tyson!
Al Gore?
I think it’s too early to read the Guardian today.
““We will throw ourselves into the water and use inflatables to oppose the event,” said Federica Toninello, a representative of the “No Space for Bezos” movement, which has announced plans to peacefully block land and water access to the Scuola Grande della Misericordia, which is among the rumored wedding party venues. The protest, she added, would be open to anybody “who wants to join us to take back our city.”
peacefully block?
Inflatables like her lips?
“No Kings” was last week, hon.
Nothing that gets the blood pumping more than a trip home that you can feel is going to end up in a toilet photo finish. Glad it worked out for you.
I have a new celebrity crush. Now number 2 on my Celebrity Waiver List, heading for #1 with a bullet.
She is a cutie.
Yeah, I can see that.
“Ben made the transition?!”
😀
Bitching about tourists in tourist traps is the municipal version of a woman with big tits in a tube top complaining that men look at her.
Leave your money at the border and leave! – Venice Tourism Board
I grew up in a tourist trap. I get the disdain for the touristas.
They are a necessary evil, but it gets tiresome having them tramp all over your hometown. I can say that GPS in cars has helped a lot. Many fewer instances where you get stuck behind some guy who has no idea where he is going and is crawling along looking at street signs.
…crawling along looking at street signs…
Crawling along trying to SEE and READ the street signs…
Gimmee a break, Man
Can anyone why explain why turning down the radio helps you see street signs better? Because I know I’ve done it…
I lived in Las Vegas for a while. Traffic has grown into a nightmare there, but it’s more owing to sprawl than tourism. You can’t really resent the tourists there either since the town was literally built for it.
“The missile cost over $500 million for the US Army to develop, and was built to specifications that would allow it to penetrate deep enough into the Fordow plant to destroy the nuclear centrifuges in the complex, according to a 2013 Wall Street Journal report, which said at that time 20 of the bombs had been manufactured for the US military.”
So $10,000,000,000?
Development cost is not the cost per unit.
The more countries we bomb, the lower the cost per bomb …
How else are we going to get that volume discount?
“Development cost is not the cost per unit.”
Yes, but articles are calling them “$500 million” bombs, so who knows?
Because MSM. Typical labor reporting for a union contract increase of 3% over 5 years is a “15% raise”.
Government programs like this are costed by units over program price. It’s dumb but that’s the kabuki theater our press and government have agreed to play.
“Hotel in China rapped by wildlife officials for using endangered red pandas to wake up guests ”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/22/world-news/hotel-in-china-rapped-by-wildlife-officials-for-using-endangered-red-pandas-to-wake-up-guests/
STIJLTH
Red pandas are endangered? Why?
Oh, they live in china. The Chinese eat toad assholes, bat wings and dog peckers. Of course they are eating all of the pandas.
I laughed because it’s true.
As usual a reporter is too idiotic to grasp the most basic economic reality of conservation. Animals that have economic value to their owners get protected.
Or in other words, why are cows not endangered?
Once again China is infringing on an American business.
Will Holiday Inn go after the ChiComs for their new Panda Express hotels?
“Links, however, are never frauds.”
Wait…I thought the links were to news stories in the media?
Saw a Fox propaganda bit this morning in support of Trump’s bombing in Iran. There were 4 cartoon stereotypes with very carefully curated costumes and the Fox host, also with his signature ‘look’. The interview was obviously scripted. The acting was pretty decent I guess.
I will say again, you should approach every news story the way you approach AI videos; keep in mind ‘everything I see is fake’.
Also, all news should be in Pidgin.
Jar Jar News Network for you
https://www.thedrive.com/news/trooper-stops-semi-with-cars-strapped-on-top-of-dump-trailer-says-its-fine
That’s certainly unusual. 🤪
On the bright side, my son in law is now getting combat pay tax free so there’s that.
Hope he stays out of harms way.
Me too. The B-2 is land based and they launched cruise missiles from subs so no carrier involvement yet. That all depends on Iran’s response.
I can at least comprende the argument for using our planes to drop the bunkerbusters. But why did we launch vanilla cruise missiles to do something that Israel could have done without us?
Distraction? Take out anti-aircraft defenses?
The cruise missiles were a distraction. The planes took off Friday from Missouri, 7 planes 14 bombs. Not one AA missile was launched by Iran. Here’s a good article. https://x.com/amuse/status/1936780818845733252
Because for whatever reason, fedgov likes lend an air of credibility to the most rabid antisemitic conspiracy theorists who insist AIPAC controls the US government.
Interesting read, TOK.
It’s not inherently anti-Semitic to call a spade a spade. Israel gets what it wants from our political class more often than not, particularly Trump.
Control isn’t the right way to put it but they do have a tremendously outsized influence on our affairs that needs to be reigned in. The strike last night wasn’t in our best interests but we did it anyway and this kind of thing crops up over and over again.
Good morning all!
It’s been too long since I’ve lounged around on Sunday morning with a pot of coffee. Nice.
That reminds me….I made a second pot. More coffee….
“About 30 bills concerning these figurines, known as “reborn” dolls, have been introduced across Brazil, including proposals to ban them from receiving public healthcare or to prohibit collectors from using them to claim priority in queues for public services.
Videos of collectors bathing their dolls, tucking them into bed or pushing them in prams spread widely across social media – often accompanied by critical commentary or ridicule, such as a satirical rap song encouraging people to kick the dolls in the street.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/22/hyper-realistic-dolls-brazil
Adult women playing with dolls seems weird.
Fads – monkey see, monkey do.
Just how realistic are these things?
The company I worked for briefly employed a woman who treated her dog just like an infant, including wrapping it in swaddling clothes and running it around in a perambulator in public. She kept all the fur it shed and when it died wove it into a blanket.
Yikes.
briefly
No doubt.
“I proceeded to do an imitation of a guy who just drank his pre-colonoscopy GoLYTELY.”
Who’s the Canadian equivalent of Montezuma, anyway? Because it sounds like he got his revenge.
Castro’s Revenge?
Or you have to spell it Castreau to make the Quebecois happy?
Does anyone else notice that links to MSN go to a home screen and bot the article requested?
Today’s link is working for me, although they usually just load a blank page on my end. I assumed it was my Pi-Hole.
I am using Brave. I hate MSN, so I will not experiment any further to resolve on another browser with looser security requirements.
MSN just aggregates from original sources anyway. Here’s the original.
Thanks.
Considering we just bombed Iran I expect every moronic sleeper cell to be activated.
One bot article is much like another anyway.
https://www.reddit.com/r/StupidCarQuestions/s/mruZcjNRBj
TIL…
update:
“US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced that the USDA is moving to assist the New Jersey farmer whose 175-year-old family farm is facing seizure by local government through eminent domain.
Rollins posted on X that she had spoken directly with the farm’s owner, Andy Henry, after Cranbury Township approved a plan to take his 21-acre property for the development of affordable housing.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/trump-admin-moves-to-stop-new-jersey-citys-takeover-of-175-year-old-family-farm
Turn it into a collective farm and have the hobos live on-site. Win-win.
Brought to you by the miracle of Kelo vs. New London!
‘It’s a public good if we say it is.’
Good. Eminent domain shit should stop. Let’s hope it goes to the SCOTUS and previous bad decisions are reversed.
I finally dropped my article on our crowdfunded health care deal (as requested, err, weeks ago). I’m sure everyone is on the edge of their seat.
Believe it or not, I’m interested.
I am as well. That was a very promising concept before Obama killed it for the less-organized masses.
I am. Thanks!
Everything you post, RC, puts me on edge.
/Interested in the woods
Looking at early retirement in 2 years, definitely interested.
“We protest the use of Venice as papier-mâché stage, a city that can be used as one wishes,” said Toninello.
Venice should only be a stage for our communard Punch and Judy show.
Tourism brings more than $1.5 billion a year to the Venetian economy and employs more people in the region than any other sector. Destination weddings are also a lucrative business—Venice is expected to host more than 600 this year, and in the past, not all have been poorly received. Locals still boast of George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin marrying in Venice in their own celebrity-studded gala in 2014.
They need a copper smelter.
George Clooney has the correct politics.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Wood pulp plant.
GM’s baffling rejection of the future
Additionally, demand for electrified trucks has cooled off tremendously. That’s another area where GM has invested big-time, as it currently offers battery-only versions of the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra as well as the Hummer EV. Sam Abuelsamid, vice president of market research at Telemetry Agency, notes that the soft EV truck market was likely enough to force a strong course correction.
“It didn’t come as a huge surprise given the failure of full-size electric trucks in the marketplace,” Abuelsamid noted. “Given that GM hasn’t followed Ford, Toyota, and Stellantis down the turbo-six-cylinder path for truck engines, this is their most cost-effective way forward.”
“It’s not known what they [GM] are planning for the gen-six small block, but assuming that they continue with the same pushrod OHV architecture, it has notable advantages over a turbo V6 in cost and compared to a DOHC V8 like Ford’s Coyote in cost and packaging,” said Abuelsamid.
Abuelsamid even went as far as saying it was “always inevitable” that the V8 would remain GM’s core truck engine through the 2030s.
I guess somebody can read the handwriting on the wall.
Pay no mind to the likely direct injection, cylinder deactivation, stop start and a bunch of other shit that will detract from long term reliability and durability.
Still beats an EV for most truck duties. Only place I see an EV light truck being economically useful is local usage.
First off, GMs base motor in the full size trucks is a blown 2.7, 4 banger that nobody buys. Second, did the author miss the news that Stellantis is once again offering the V8 Hemi in it’s full size pickup due to consumer demand (or likely lack of demand for a 6.cylinder pickup)?
Pay no mind to the likely direct injection, cylinder deactivation, stop start and a bunch of other shit that will detract from long term reliability and durability.
Undoubtedly true, but if you tow a trailer regularly, buying a truck with a high strung twin turbo V6 is a shortcut to trouble.
Agree. I will say I have heard fewer issues with Ford’s F150 turbo V6 than I expected. It is also port and direct injected.
I have only seen issues in Ford Eco-boost vehicles with higher miles and hard lives. Yet 2 weeks ago a customer texted me from the side of the road with a buried temp gauge in his low mile 2024 rental Wagoneer with the Hurricane 6 asking what to do. “Call the rental people and wait. Don’t push it or they’ll want you to pay for it.”
I remember you mentioned that.
I’m currently watching a Pine Hollow video where Chrysler’s Pentastar V6 shaved 5 of six lobes on the passenger bank intake cam in 70k.
Quality.
Our worries are over
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that Iran’s nuclear ambitions were “obliterated” after President Trump ordered strikes on three nuclear sites across the country Saturday.
“The order we received from our commander in chief was focused, it was powerful, and it was clear,” Hegseth said Sunday morning at a press conference at the Pentagon. “We devastated the Iranian nuclear program. But it’s worth noting the operation did not target Iranian troops or the Iranian people.”
That will show the world we mean business.
Hey, it worked for Clinton.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/december-16/clinton-orders-air-attack-on-iraq
Interesting discussion with a long-time friend who flew B2s. He was horrified that the US stuck our dicks into this. I’m not exactly horrified, but I think it was a terrible idea, on par with all the other undeclared wars we walked into.
My suggestion was to just sell Israel the MOPs and it’s up to them to do what they see as their national interest. Note the word “sell.”
He responded that they would need to have them delivered to the target by something like a B2.
My vision was Mr. Haney, pulling up in his truck, with a tarp over the back. in that wonderfully squeaky Pat Buttram voice, “Wait, Mr. Douglas, you can’t transport that MOP you just bought? Just use a B-2. You don’t have a B-2??? Well…”
/unfurls a sign saying ‘Haney’s Heavy Duty Bombers’ and pulls back the tarp on his truck to reveal a B-2.
“For just $2.5 billion, you can have this nice used B2…”
Tell Frank we miss him.
B-2’s are incredibly expensive, but also very hard to produce as I understand it. If we even still have the ability to do so.
I’d be fine selling bunker busters to Israel to do their own dirty work even though I’m now the resident anti-Jew conspiracy theorist apparently.
So bombing Iran last night after giving them two weeks to think about it was the equivalent of ripping the bandage off on “two”?
Technically he said “within 2 weeks” so he was misdirecting. Iran was meeting with the EU Friday and said they’d never give up their nuke program.
And they won’t. They will rebuild, so this is nothing more than a setback. If anything it proves the necessity because we wouldn’t dare such a stunt if they were a nuclear power.
Rebuilding is a lot harder with their top nuke experts dead. That was more significant than breaking machines.
We will delay them, but not stop them. The nuclear genie just doesn’t go back into the bottle. Hell, buying some from Russia could even be an option.
Good thing we drove Russia into the arms of our enemies/rivals/etc.
Didn’t Trump say “within two weeks?”
Iran’s leadership is crazy if they don’t realize their oil refining and export terminals have a big target on them should Iran start striking U.S. facilities and citizens. These critical infrastructures aren’t buried deep underground or operating within heavily populated cities. 90 million people sent back to the Stone Age would seem to be the price paid for continued opposition.
Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., noted that Trump has repeatedly vowed to end foreign wars but said that his actions in Iran risk starting a new one.
“The American people deserve more than vague rhetoric and unilateral decisions that could set off a wider war,” Warner said in a statement. “The president must come before Congress immediately to articulate clear strategic objectives and lay out how he plans to protect American lives and ensure we are not once again drawn into a costly, unnecessary, and avoidable conflict.”
Heads we win, tails you lose.
Road to Hell…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_road_to_hell_is_paved_with_good_intentions
True. intentions ain’t the same thing as results.
I bet you demanded the same of Obama and Libya, didn’t you senator?
“Over 40,000 American troops and family members stationed throughout the Gulf region, including bases in Iraq, Kuwait, the UAE, and Bahrain, have been braced for counterstrikes, with evacuations underway for non-essential personnel, according to Daily Beast.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/iran-regime-says-nuclear-sites-evacuated-while-ago/
Maybe we shouldn’t be there in the first place?
^This x1million
What? You would abandon our military commands that span the globe?
ISOLATIONIST!!!
I get being in Europe because NATO.
Goldwater-Nichols and the division of the globe into military commands. It needs to die. And so does our participation in NATO.
NATO needs to be SEATOed, not abandoned.
I love Venice, and if I had unlimited money I’d buy a home there to use for decadent parties during Carnivale. But there’s no way I’d go there in the summer. Too many hoople-heads.
Venice had the most horrible traffic of any city I spent time in during my Europe days. Getting to my office in one of the suburbs was even more challenging than maneuvering around a parking lot at a 99 Ranch Market on a weekend.
Meh, I didn’t love it.
Florence, on the other hand…
SB: certamenta si!
-mente 🙄🤌
It’s not that we don’t trust you, exactly…
President Donald Trump and his team were in contact with top congressional Republicans before his strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, but top Democrats were not told of his plans until after the bombs had dropped, according to multiple people familiar with the plans.
The top two Republicans in Congress, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, were both notified of the US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities ahead of time, according to multiple GOP sources.
But Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries received notifications shortly before the public announcement — and after the attack itself, people familiar with the notifications said. Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrats on the Senate and House intelligence committees, were similarly not told until after the strikes had occurred, sources said.
We just don’t want to read about our secret plans on the front page of the New York Times.
“Son, I’ve made a life Out of readin’ people’s faces”
Playing poker with Chuck, Mark, Hak and Jim.
They’d have been squirming in their seats looking for a microphone
“Iran’s parliament has voted to close the Strait of Hormuz, the vital shipping channel through which around 20% of the world’s daily oil flows. The move, which could block $1 billion in oil shipments per day, is likely to send oil prices soaring. It will come into effect pending a final decision by Iran’s Supreme Council…
The bulk of all oil exported by the regional petro giants, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, all travel through this narrow waterway.
Asia is likely to bear the brunt most from any closures to the waterway, with China, India, Japan and South Korea all getting most of their oil imports through the strait”
https://nypost.com/2025/06/22/world-news/iran-orders-closure-of-strait-of-hormuz-putting-one-fifth-of-worlds-oil-supply-at-risk/
I’m sure that is authoritative as an act of Congress. I wouldn’t want the assignment of sitting on that peninsula.
As of Saturday night, Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman was the sole congressional Democrat to praise the strikes, posting on X, “As I’ve long maintained, this was the correct move by @POTUS. Iran is the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism and cannot have nuclear capabilities. I’m grateful for and salute the finest military in the world.”
D’OH!
Recall vote incoming.
No recall votes in Penna. Maybe the parties can do a swap- Fetterman for Murkowski or something?
““This morning ICE & [FBI Denver] were attempting to arrest Jose Reyes Leon-Deras, a criminal alien from El Salvador who is convicted of and wanted for child rape in Italy,” ICE’s Denver field office posted to X. “During our surveillance of Leon, members of Colorado Rapid Response arrived on scene and alerted him to law enforcement’s presence which allowed him to escape arrest.”
Colorado Rapid Response is a far-Left anti-ICE organization that’s been responding to immigration raids. The group’s website says the organization is “committed to responding to raids, deportation, and any Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity happening across the state in our communities.””
https://www.dailywire.com/news/left-wing-activists-help-illegal-child-rapist-escape-from-ice
CWABOA
How TF does an illegal from El Salvador commit crimes in Italy?
I guess he went to Italy some time in the past.
Sounds like obstruction to me. Let’s roll up this org, all the way to the top of the money chain.
How did they know to warn him, anyway?
This, but it is worse. Somebody knows exactly who is funding and executing these groups but it is all games and no one asking or answering the right questions.
GMs base motor in the full size trucks is a blown 2.7, 4 banger
“I’ve been to one World’s Fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that’s the stupidest thing I ever heard come over a pair of earphones.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_L3B_engine
Simple too.
In addition to GM’s active fuel management, start-stop system, and variable valve timing, which are already featured on GM’s other full-size pickup truck engines, this engine also features GM’s Intake Valve Lift Control which has 3 different intake cam profiles that are electromagnetically actuated to provide improved fuel economy and performance at a wider range of operating conditions.[1]
The BorgWarner developed turbo can produce up to 27 psi (1.9 bar) of boost thanks in part to its unique dual volute turbine housing and an electrically actuated wastegate.
What could possibly go wrong?
We need to get rid of these stupid regulations making cars way more fucking complicated.
Make Automobiles Dangerous Again!
Saw a corvair parked at a meet last weekend. 0mph and still unsafe. I felt dizzy just being close to it.
The Atlantic calls up the big guns:
American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran
The United States is well down the road to dictatorship. Imagine what Trump would do with a state of war.
By Robert Kagan
He finally found a war he couldn’t love.
Because…. Trump.
Yes, and that dictators name was FDR.
/hank hill voice
Trump has been very bad for the bitcoin. Shit is stagnant right now with all the dumb shit.