In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
A civilized country like Romania has independence day in December when it is not too hot outside to drink.
Still Happy Good Teeth and Not-the-envy-of-the-world-healthcare day glibs.
Long live the … well I dunno whatever sportsball person y’all worship.
Pie — I’m not even into alcohol, but I can assure you as someone who grew up in the South and has lived too many years in the West (so setting aside our more summer temperate zones) — it is never too hot for folks to drink. It just means that pontoon boat parties for the 4th (especially if you go down the lake to where the good fireworks are in the evening) are more of a thing.
And jet skits, pools, etc…
That why we invented ice and cold beer.
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it”
Insurrectionists!
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.”
New boss, same as the old boss.
Yeah — I didn’t want to dwell too much on how much the pigs resemble the farmers in our current system, CT. Wanted to stay positive. But it certainly is true.
which bag o’ toys wouldst thou have?
closet full of 5.56
four score SEC championships
F150
Sela Ward
Oprah Winfrey
George Clooney
Grand Canyon
Aretha Franklin
Jimi Hendrix
plummeting currency
NSA recording your every move and correspondence
a well-regulated Facebook
equatorial bullgangs chasing your daughters through the streets
spelling “colour” like a Piccadilly pimp
eating porridge with both your teeth while driving on the left
Kate Beckinsale
Graham Norton
Sean Connery
cliffs of Dover
Adele
Jimmy Page
plummeting currency
MI5 recording your every move and correspondence
You had me at Sela Ward
Then lost me at Oprah Winfrey
Then lost me at Oprah Winfrey
The engineer, economist, and Calvinist in me embraces value propositions. Freedom is the father of both tremendous creativity and terrible taste; we’re left picking around the anchovies in our salad. Each culture has delivered incredibly low points; Oprah is not my girl, but, then again, neither is Norton.
There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs – Thomas Sowell
And oldie but still
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3N9pYZSIpI
I still would have preferred “America the Beautiful” be our anthem personally. Doesn’t have the too-hard-for-most-folks-to-hit notes, and honestly I like it better in the lyrics.
I’d like James Brown’s “Living in America”.
I can’t believe I agree with your music choice Ted’S. Today is a special day.
SDF, I feel that a poem about an artillery barrage set to the music from a drinking song is just too perfect in spirit to trade for better music.
Ahem, that’s Dan Hartman’s Living in America.
It remains one of the best breakup “It is not you… it is me… oh wait no… it is you” letters of all time.
Happy 4th all. Hope y’all have a good one. I know we all see a lot of crap, corruption and evil in our governments — but I still think this is a great country and I suspect we’re all still proud to be here (at least until Millei gets permanent chainsaw factories going down in the Global South!)
I honor of America I might just crank up the AC and port a smidge of Willett (Tringa semipalmata) 4YO Rye
That’s the spirit, Pie!
“Is your significant other ‘cookie jarring’ you? These are the sneaky signs to look out for”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/03/lifestyle/cookie-jarring-is-a-toxic-dating-trend/
Stop making up words.
I thought that was just having a roster
It used to have a different name
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox4QWkijsK8
Older than dirt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox4QWkijsK8
“President Trump stunningly announced that there would be a UFC fight with up to 25,000 spectators at the White House within the next year to celebrate America’s upcoming 250th birthday.
“Does anybody watch UFC? The great Dana White? We’re going to have a UFC fight. We’re going to have a UFC fight — think of this — on the grounds of the White House,” Trump said in a speech at the Iowa State Fairgrounds.
A bloody cage-match on the White House grounds is likely to draw criticism from the Republican leader’s political opponents — while offering the president an unconventional way of connecting to the public.”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/03/us-news/trump-to-host-ufc-fight-at-white-house-as-part-of-america250-celebration/
Yeah — we should instead call back to the Jacksonian era traditions of cock fighting and bear baiting!
That sounds like something more appropriate during pride month.
I fully support this, especially if he opens with fights amongst congressmen.
AOC vs. APL bikini jello wrestling.
Sounds like a typical big city summer week end.
Motorcyclist killed in bear attack on Romania’s Transfăgărășan mountain road
https://www.romania-insider.com/motorcyclist-killed-bear-romania-july-2025
I keep telling people motorcycles are death traps]
” The motorcyclist killed by a bear on the Transfăgărășan had gotten off his bike to feed and photograph the animal, according to details from the investigation quoted by Digi24. Authorities found several photos of the bear and a video on the man’s phone. The wild animal was identified and shot.”
Though in this case the bike may not have 100% of the blame. Still.
They shot the bear because this guy was an idiot?
many such cases
How do we know he was an idiot? “Here’s ursine.”
Italian tourist Omar Farang Zin, 49
damn eyetalians
Hmm. Doesn’t sound particularly Italian.
it says so on the passport
That is the second bear fatality for y’all in a year or so, isn’t it?
Dont pet the bears.
they should make some money selling shooting licenses for western tourists though, we got too many bears.
Dont pet the bears
Animal agrees, Tonio has a sad.
Well, he did feed the bear afterall.
heh
I shouldn’t be posting from the top of the mountain….
https://x.com/JustACineast/status/1941112524579258607
Worried you’ll hit your peak?
I’d rather not fall off the peak. The last mile or so to the viewpoint is part of the Devil’s Path which has a reputation fir being difficult. Certainly I had to sit down on multiple occasions this morning and shimmy my way down the trail.
https://hyperlitemountaingear.com/blogs/the-trailhead/toe-to-toe-with-the-devil-a-duel-with-the-most-difficult-trail-on-the-east-coast
Then again, it’s not the fall that kills you, it’s the fall ending that does it.
High on a Moutain Top
Fun fact- despite being covered by various people, it was originally done by Ola Belle reed.
Nice photo
Pretty.
Suppose King George’s government had said, “It is only fair you colonial buggers can have some representation in Parliament, just as you have asked,”
I was going to agree and say something more like the Commonwealth might have worked… but then there’s the 1860s (which would have been the 1830s instead if I recall correctly.. I think that’s when the Brits outlawed it…) I can’t see the Southern colonies taking it well from London when they wouldn’t take it from their own countrymen.
Of course… since the Louisiana Purchase wouldn’t have happened (more likely to go to Spain and then Mexico… oh there’s a lovely thought…), a lot less power in the Southern colonies, probably easier to put down.
Hmmm… actually it gets more interesting the more you think about it… part of the inspiration for the French Revolution was the American one (though they obviously took it down a darker path) as well as the expenditures of allying with the Colonies exhausting the French regime… I’m sure the French would have continued to try to stir up crap… but probably more of a repeat of the French and Indian Wars, and if there’s no Revolution, there’s almost certainly no Napoleon to convulse Europe for 30 years there. (Though given Europe, I’m sure they’d find something else to fight about… question is if Prussia comes into its own as well and all, I would think…)
Chaos butterflies flapping their wings…
Speculation is fun but we live in a deterministic universe. Everything is not only predetermined but inevitable.
If true that eliminates judgment, rights, and personal responsibility.
The South’s dependence on slaves was largely a result of the Whitney’s cotton gin. In 1830, I’m not sure the cotton economy was so significant in the South that it would have helped spark a war.
Yeah, and there was no way that the Brits would have helped out the French with their financial problems by buying land from them.
Suthen, it would be exceedingly sad to live in your world. Good thing you’re wrong.
Closer ties with the colonies and slavery may have been more prevalent in the UK, vs being outlawed.
Just take Louisiana the way they took Quebec and Montreal.
Probably nothing. I think the only thing the British could have done differently to head off the Revolution was open up the West.
And taken all the land from coast to coast in the long run. Just think, Canada would already be a bunch of provinces helping “us” control the British Commonwealth. U.S. population exceeded that of Great Britain by 1860 and the gap kept widening.
United States definitely benefited from being colonized by the Brits rather than by the Spanish or Portuguese or Dutch.
Yeah, we needed to peel away and forge our own path, but we are related and affected by our upbringing in much the same way that 18 year olds need to leave the nest but still have a legacy from their parents and might even get back on very friendly terms, while still maintaining their own households.
“Just weeks after one Love Island USA cast member was booted off the show for past use of racial slurs, web sleuths have uncovered slurs used by another cast member.
Yulissa Escobar, a 27-year-old real estate professional from Miami was booted in just the third day of Season 7, after videos surfaced of her using the N-word in a podcast.
After the swift removal of Escobar, many fans are hoping the same will happen with Cierra Ortega, a 25-year-old content creator from Phoenix, who arrived on Day 2.
Past Instagram posts have surfaced of her using a racial slur towards Chinese people in two separate instances many years apart.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14874091/Love-Island-stars-past-racist-slurs-resurface-fans-want-show.html
outrage archeology
I might care if they were all stranded in Love Canal… but otherwise, can’t say I’m particularly interested.
We’re doing this to low brow reality show contestants? Why? What’s the point?
That even lower-brow people can feel superior?
“surfaced”
They had their rant. Now I have mine: They wrote ‘happiness’ instead of ‘property’. If I could tell them I would say “The agency that will administer this tax will become the most hated agency of this government. It will be the source of endless dread and fear. The tax code will become an indecipherable encyclopedia that not even this agency understands. It will gobble up your hard earned wealth then cast it to the wind to lunacy and nonsense. It will impoverish countless people, imprison us and ruin lives. A president of the country will mock us to our faces that the tax code is not and never was a source of revenue but rather a cudgel to be used as a weapon by this government against the very people that elect and employ them to cow them and control them. This government, using this tax code will become a bottomless pit into which your lives and sweat will be wasted. We will be chained to it as slaves and the people we hire into service will see themselves as our masters. They will hire swarms of armed agents to harass us. They will despise us, mock us and tell us no other way is possible or imaginable. ”
Or, as common tater says above, meet the new boss.
I posit that the govt we have today is worse than the one we broke from.
But still better than what the old one has become…
That is a good point. It looks like a lot of Europe is envying Ceausescu and old East Germany
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MBVlycgZ0s8
And they’ll point to first the ballot box, then the Amendment process and finally the 2nd to remind us it is our own damned fault.
That we now couldn’t trust a Constitutional Convention intended to roll back / clarify some of this stuff to not instead invoke an EU style “all rights are respected when we feel like it” instead is an Us problem.
Will? They did. You are correct. It is our fault. In looking for that Menken quote I saw a collection of his other quotes. I forgot how cynical he was regarding politics.
Now I. am thinking the NYC mayor’s race. They think the solution to their problems is to commie harder. It would be funny if it were not so common as to become beyond tiresome.
And, ironically, their hero, Hamilton, is the guy who actually called for there to be a King in charge.
Based on the snippets I’ve heard, I’ve had no desire to become more familiar with Hamilton, but I suspect its popularity actually has very little to do with Hamilton.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14874019/trump-deploys-marines-florida-Los-angeles-riots.html
Is Laura Loomer claiming AOC is pregnant again? Are AOC’s boobs getting bigger? We need a recent picture of her ass.
“new deportation powers”
🙄
The left is violently protesting the entire process, the same process that every other president has practiced and is required by law but became “cruel” between 2017 and 2021 and again since January.
It would be beyond hilarious if she finally succumbed to Elon’s charms and became his next baby momma.
“It’s a question that has long stumped researchers.
Now, new light has been shed on one reason why three times more boys than girls are diagnosed with autism and ADHD.
Researchers from the University of Rochester have suggested that boys may be more vulnerable to environmental stressors such as toxic ‘forever chemicals’ as their brain develops.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14874753/boys-autism-ADHD-forever-chemicals.html
Or you know, boys and girls are different.
Especially since boys have a lot more energy and the school system (where the diagnosis tends to be pushed) has systematically shut down outlets for said energy and expects them to sit prim with their legs crossed like little girls.
Can’t possibly be related. Nope, no sir.
^THIS^
I was amazed at how little recess time the Altar Kids got in elementary school. I remember having a lot of time to go outside and run around when I was a kid.
I remember talking to a single mom I worked with and she was bemoaning the fact that her son was a ball of energy. She was shocked that her son and his friends would always jump down a small set of stairs in her house. They also all jumped up to see how high they could reach in her entryway to her house.
She really thought it was abnormal. I wonder how many of the teachers are like her? No real contact with men who can tell them that spazzy boys are the norm. Just let them run and jump.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” – Menken
I forgot about this one. I thought the newest one would be groundwater. Apparently we have used so much ground water that we have changed the balance of the earth and the center of rotation has moved 80 cm. This is easily the dumbest one yet so it likely will catch on.
Oh, hush you! All Right Thinking people know that penises and vaginas are interchangeable, and, in some cases, detachable!
Teacher accused of chugging booze, called students ‘little s—ts’ and making them dance the Macarena
https://x.com/nypost/status/1940879149104525320
I mean the Macarena hasnt been cool for 25 years
Al Gore smothered the Macarena in it’s crib.
An Inconvenient Dance?
Nice!
Would
Duck lips picture. Points deducted.
Teacher accused of
chugging booze, called students ‘little s—ts’ and making them dance the Macarenabeing awesome.“South Asian socialist identitarian mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani identified as “Black or African American” as well as “Asian” on his college applications, The New York Times has learned via a hack of Columbia University’s application data. Millions of records were leaked.
Mamdani, who was born to parents of Indian descent in Uganda, said he checked the box because the identity boxes on the application weren’t enough to show the breadth and scope of his ethnic and racial composition.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/identitarian-socialist-zohran-mamdani-declared-he-was-black-or-african-american-on-college-applications
At least Elon Musk has side kids.
Mamdani, who was born to parents of Indian descent in Uganda – I mean that is Asia and Africa
“They didn’t have a box for ‘grifter'”
Best explanation
The smug prick is a smooth talker, I’ll give him that. Trained by professional Marxists will do that, I guess.
It would of course be best if those boxes went the way of the horse and buggy. But if he was checking the correct box it would have to be “Caucasian” as that fits most closely to his “race”.
Well, I made a reasonable bet and lost – I bet I could put off doing the yard till either yesterday after work or this morning and be able to knock it out and enjoy a nice yard all weekend. Nope, rain all day yesterday and all damn weekend in the forecast.
Hmmm. So you didn’t do yard work yesterday. You didn’t do yard work this morning. And you won’t be able to do yard work all weekend. Are you sure you lost that bet? Sounds like a win to me!
“Scott Wiener brings bill to force ICE agents to remove masks”
https://thepostmillennial.com/scott-wiener-brings-bill-to-force-ice-agents-to-remove-masks
Not their pants?
I can’t believe this but I agree with Scott Wiener on something.
I don’t. Besides I don’t think a state law can prohibit federal agents.
As long as they provide appropriate identification (which clearly is the case given the intense scrutiny of every. single. apprehension.) I don’t care if they have masks.
This is going to backfire given the covered from “head-to-toe” tactics of left-wing protesters/rioters/criminals.
I said it before but I think (a) it’s police-state tactics and (b) if they’re too chicken to show their faces they shouldn’t be cops.
I’ll give up masked cops in exchange for gibbets for traitors aiding and abetting an ongoing invasion of their own country.
Plus the COVID tyrants, anyone that wants the “rich” to pay “their fair share”, and the list goes on and on.
“nonreligious and irreligious Americans are the most politically involved groups..Progressive politics, in particular,seems to increasingly serve as a means through which highly educated, relatively affluent whites find purpose..in the absence of religion”
https://x.com/robkhenderson/status/1940859350664511569
Those of us who have been paying attention have been saying for 20 years that politics is religion for lefties. And that’s what makes them so dangerous.
20? Try 50 years, possibly longer.
Unsurprising to anyone paying attention for any length of time.
Yup, I first thought that was the case when they really started to get worked up on the climate change thingy a couple decades back.
Not really shocking. After all, socialism thwarts Jesus’ teaching, so why wouldn’t those who don’t believe in Jesus gravitate to it?
Socialism is J-C values minus God.
Guardian editorial.
Further increase unsustainable spending? Yes, very conservative.
Further increase unsustainable spending? Yes, very conservative. – this but unironically
Now, for some unimaginable reason the WP agrees too.
It certainly conserved previous spending levels, even in the face of DOGE revelations.
Not to worry, though. The Repubs pinky-swore that they’ll cut spending in the next bill.
And now Trump is threatening to deport Musk… (as if he could).
Go ahead and take your opportunity to remake your coalition into something high-tech, innovative and truly fiscally responsible and shit all over it.
Trump’s instincts are sometimes good but often incredibly stupid, and since he is pure id and only flits from one impulse to the next, he sometimes looks brilliant and often looks like a moron.
Ego uber alles
Yeah, we will cut spending when we have a super majority forever and Massie is the Libertarian Speaker of the House, and pigs fly, and Hayek, Rand, Friedman, Rothbard, Coolidge, Jefferson, and Washington rise from the grave to support us.
What is extra annoying is the boot licking by the GOPe pundits/publications.
They are bending over backwards to explain to us rubes that it is so hard to cut spending. You can’t just do it overnight. It will take decades before spending can be cut.
The mask is ripped off them just as much as it is for the MSM that is pushing for full communism.
@ayaonx
Nobody has a harder name than Yves Saint Laurent
Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸
@nikicaga
https://x.com/nikicaga/status/1940818843900985347
Lol
Dude, with a name like that, you HAVE to become a hip-hop artist!
…or a pirate
(long tweet warning) I have a lizard brain loathing of Bill Clinton and have had since he was a governor. This is not some kind of gut instinct that he is scum, though he is scum, as I have the same reaction to Susan Sarandon and Ben Shapiro. The only through line between that group of people is that they are all carbon based life forms.
Here’s the thing: my opinion of Bill Clinton as a politician is fundamentally and irrevocably affected by that lizard brain loathing. I am not capable of evaluating rationally anything he ever did, does, or will do, what with my thinking that he breathes wrong.
I am humiliated by this. It is embarrassing as possible that I cannot put that aside in order to discuss him rationally. It also disqualifies me from ever even attempting to opine seriously about anything about him, other than making the obvious observation that he is one of the greatest natural politicians this country has ever seen.
My own intellectual integrity demands that I admit. to myself and others, that my utter distaste for him makes me an unworthy commentator.
Why did I type all of that?
Because both a metric and imperial fuckton of you make me look sane about Bill Clinton the way you discuss people and groups.
Whether it’s Donald Trump or the Freedom Caucus or Rand Paul or Amy Coney Barrett or pick a person, it is beyond obvious that, again, both a metric and imperial fuckton of you blew way past look at that bitch eating crackers like she owns the place. You think Hate Object breathes wrong. It’s obvious.
And all y’all lack enough respect for your own intellectual integrity to admit this, let alone realize that it disqualifies you from commenting about that person or group.
https://x.com/alexthechick/status/1940743858943361082
So his subconscious can recognize lying and resent it. That’s how half the country reacted to Clinton as soon as he came on the scene.
Why are you posting a long stupid tweet that doesn’t have a point from some nobody?
I am kinda bored really and waiting for the work day to be done while running some long simulations.
I will now go purchase apricots and tomatoes.
It has a point, kind of a valuable one to keep in mind.
That X needs to bring back the character limit?
(((Jarflax gets it. And it is a very important point:
People become so consumed by their hate that they lose rationality, both about the object of hate and life in general, as it bleed through one into the other.
I have a friend who, way back in the day, was hired by the Clinton for Gov. campaign to do polling. His close association with the Clintons led him to the conclusion they were sociopaths.
Default assumption about any politician should be sociopath. Until proven otherwise.
Less restrained sociopaths than most pols. Hillary was always getting caught in one caper or another.
Since I’m perma-banned from that platform I can only look, a little.
Hot my “rate limit” just opening three links this morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhnUgAaea4M&list=RDIhnUgAaea4M&start_radio=1
https://archive.is/1e6Nb
Good morning and happy Independence Day! Got a good workout in, and the wife’s cousin made us a post-workout breakfast.
This is the best holiday of the year btw.
That is one obscure euphemism, TOK. Well done.
An NPR thumbsucker I’ll be sure not to read.
Couldn’t round that up or down to 20 or 15? I’m sure you could find another 3 Trump haters.
How about “non” that’s not really the translation.
Hilariously unfortunate Windows user accidentally ejects graphics card like a memory stick — breaks PC for over an hour out of curiosity
“broadly” is doing a lot of work there.
Friday Funbags laments the linear nature of time.
https://archive.is/abvtA
I enjoy the boobs, like any patriotic citizen.
Friday Funbags on the Fourth is some fun alliteration. But where are my Stars and Stripes bikini clad beauties?
David Lee Roth ate your share.
“LA school district demands inquiry after Ice officers filmed urinating on campus”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/04/los-angeles-ice-officers-urinating
STIJLTH
Some Twat Is Just Loving The Hate?
Sometimes I Just Like The Headline
Legit LOL. It is possible he didn’t know, but I’m surprised.
That Shakespeare he’s huuuge, just the best American writer!
Kinsley gaffe!
I’m not surprised at all. I suspect most people who know the term at all just view it as a derogatory word for bankers and loan sharks, not as a derogatory word for Jewish bankers and loan sharks specifically.
It’s not even derogatory for loan sharks, as they often call their own practice “shy”.
I just learned there is a thing called micro-feminism, and we need to kill all the white women.
all of them? even the octoroons?
the apricots were a bit on the ripe side, but I did find some not quite ripe peaches. It is annoying when you bite into a peach and instead of a nice crunch it is soft and shit and you end up with juice dribbling on your chin.
WTF?
good fruit is usually about 40% ripe. It has a bit of sour a bit of sweet and crunchy texture. Fully ripe fruit are too sweet taste wise and too soft texture wise.
As time passes, starches in fruit break down into sugars/
well its a good idea not to let too much time pass unless you want to turn in into hard liquor
I’ll agree with you regarding apples. Peaches and pears are best when juicy and soft. It’s why good peaches and pears are hard to find, since there is a very narrow window.
Like avocados. I swear I pick a perfect one in the store, and by the time I get home it has turned into brown slop.
Pears don’t ripen on the branch.
Now do Elizabeth Warren and the CFPB.
I think this is the thing about the Trump hate that I find so irritating. That he is somehow uniquely evil/corrupt. I still don’t see him doing anything previous president’s haven’t done.
He’s just more brazen.
Yup. And given David Frum’s history, he is the last person who should make that argument.
I’ve tried to no avail to convey that to the Trump haters in my life. They just fall for the corporate media’s unproven application of “unprecedented” and “worst in history”.
Orwell didn’t write about the two-minute hate because of the elite need for it. Although it was useful to them. It was the masses that needed the outlet.
The average citizen’s understanding of July 4th
https://youtu.be/1ALW09CaSI8?si=mgWncoTzEUj52aBv
Damn, that chick on the right has a deep voice.
AP: “ What to know about buying electric vehicles after the federal tax incentives end”
They will likely be more expensive and reflect their actual cost directly?
Shortest article they’ve written.
Rate My Plate
@ratemyplatenow
Chocolate Pie by Shelley
https://x.com/ratemyplatenow/status/1928929345466253575
This is what I mean when I say extra rice
https://x.com/NoContextHumans/status/1941123328229405076
That’s not keto.
How would you rate this 🥩 — too rare, overdone, or just right?
https://x.com/NoContextHumans/status/1941078280892764538
I am hungry.
Perfect for me
A tad rare for my tastes, but looks perfectly cooked
Cooked right, but cut wrong.
Also using coarse salt is just theater.
Finishing salt works…but ya that coarse salt is for the camera
I would rate that as someone who needs to learn some knife skills.
Nothing like a road raging semi driver.
A tractor-trailer driver was caught on video laughing after he intentionally hit another truck on the New Jersey Turnpike last month and caused a crash that killed the other driver, authorities say.
Joyous Independence day! Off to the aquarium, where ironically….I will enjoy the captivity of other species.
I thought “shylock” was a slur against lawyers.
Shyster.
Oh you did not
Shyster
No, you are thinking of attorney.
This woman is loathsome.
https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1940978653929562202
I feel sorry for the sign language person waving her arms around.
So, I went to the range to zero the red dot on the Shadow 2 this morning.
I found that freestanding, my own lack of practice meant the spread made it difficult to verify the accuracy of the calibration. 🙁
Shooting from a rest I got better groupings and was able to finish the task successfully.
I need more practice in pure accuracy.
Cant hit the broad side of a barn. Sad.
Today I learned Romanian Barns are smaller than a sheet of paper.
Neat!
What do you raise in them?
“I need more practice in pure accuracy.”
I have an index card and a sharpie in my range bag. When I used to shoot regularly, I’d trace the index card on my target in a handful of different places and force myself to get 5/5 in the box before progressing to the next distance. It improved my accuracy real quick.
Ya gotta shoot from a rest to properly zero in, or at least do it with just a few shots. I just got a scope on my new lefty .22 bolt done with 4-5 shots. Otherwise too much guessing.
They make laser cartridges. Just line up the red dots at point blank.
Where’s the fun in that.
Calibrating by shot placement means I get to go and shoot stuff.
To check accuracy, using a rest is the best way simply due to removing as much human error as possible. You are going to be the weak link in any shooting, and there is nothing wrong with starting out with that knowledge, and working to eliminate it as much as possible.
Liberation
A growing chorus of executives has put white collar workforces on notice: Their jobs are at risk of being wiped out by artificial intelligence.
Yet above that din is a more complicated picture of how AI is currently affecting hiring.
Direct evidence of an acceleration in human obsolescence remains scant so far. In a report this week, the job and hiring consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas said cuts spurred by President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency remained the leading cause of job losses — especially for government, nonprofit and other sectors supported by federal funds — followed by general economic and market conditions.
Out of 286,679 planned layoffs so far this year, only 20,000 were linked to automation, the firm said — with just 75 explicitly tied to AI implementation.
Something something rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated.
“How did AI make humans obsolete?”
“Gradually and then suddenly.”
Also I am very distraught that the majority of the job losses are jobs that not only produce nothing but hamper the jobs that do produce.
There’s a huge assumption that the AI-philes don’t broadcast. It’s the assumption of steady state growth in capability. Frankly, I think we have hit a plateau. The AI is getting better in the sense that it is given more functional access to the information it needs, but its actual capabilities aren’t improving that much from 2 or 3 years ago.
There’s a certain Gell Mann amnesia going on where people ignore how mediocre AI is at the stuff they know, but they’re happy to rely on it for the stuff they don’t know.
Copilot has a place in my workflow, but it’s not an important one. It is useful for drafting my weeklies for my boss, and it’s useful as an augmented search engine. Everything else is better done manually.
The real problem with AI, no matter how advanced it becomes, is that it cannot make moral judgements, which are what humans do day-in and day-out without thinking about it. And this is were AI/tech will always fall down.
I am looking out of my window. I see 3 grey squirrels, 2 red squirrels, one cardinal, two bluejays, three hummingbirds and two cottontail rabbits. One of the rabbits cant be 2 weeks old. I am seeing all of them at the same time.
Mrs. Suthenboy had me start putting out food for them a couple of weeks ago. My yard has turned into a freakin’ Disney cartoon.
I have a cat chewing on a small bunny right now on the front porch. Want to borrow her?
Pre-chewed bunnies aren’t very useful.
Our cat has found two rabbit nests this year. The most recent one was fairly disappointing to him. The bunnies were just hours old and couldn’t even crawl around. No fun killing them at all!
Thank you for the offer but I prefer to stay married.
We have been married for…uh…31 – 35 years, I am not sure but she still have a ten year old girl living in her.
Yeah, my wife still has the heart of a little girl.
She keeps it on the coffee table in a little jar.
“Because the female of the species is more deadly than the male”
-Rudyard Kipling
I killed a red squirrel in my backyard 2 weeks ago (the grays are fine, but those fucking red squirrels are too pesky to let be). I also had to go chase a white tail deer out of my back yard that was trying to eat my grape vines.
And I mean I had to physically chase her off. Just opening my back door wasn’t enough. She just stared at me and was about to go back to chomping. I may need to buy a cheap BB gun to enforce my property rights. (I don’t want to use the pellet gun because that would break the skin and get lodged in her).
Red and grey squirrels are invasive species in England and cause quite a bit of damage by stripping bark off of living trees. Oddly the grey are far worse than the reds. I dont know why they do that there, I haver never noticed them doing that here.
They have access to dentistry here.
Right now there is a huge push in England to restore the native Red Squirrels, and cull the Greys.
Indepence Ray of Sunshine
Awesome! Thank you for posting that. I love it.
High crimes
CBS parent company Paramount Global’s decision to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump not only rattled the media world — it prompted accusations of bribery from Democratic lawmakers.
“This could be bribery in plain sight,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Ma.) said in a statement.
“Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval,” posted Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on X. “When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges.”
Accusations that Paramount executives bribed the president to ensure government approval of the company’s pending merger with Skydance media are just the latest example of elected Democrats crying foul at private sector companies kowtowing to the president. Earlier this year, a group of House Democrats claimed law firms’ deals to provide pro bono legal services to causes Trump favors, among other elements, could violate state and federal laws, including bribery statutes.
Extortionist-in-Chief.
Fuck off Ron, you senile hag. Retire to NY where you live already.
Thought you were talking to me.
For a second I was very confused.
Apologies, meant the third senator from NY, not you by any means.
I figured that out pretty quickly.
I’m not going to hunt down the link, but remember the old taunt, “That guy couldn’t run a lemonade stand”?
Apparently AI is incapable of running a vending machine. I don’t think we need to panic yet.
I’m really curious if AI has plateaued.
My job got us some new fancy phones with AI. What the AI does is transcribe the call, then it uploads the transcript – along with a summary – to a website where you can review them later. Presumably the bosses might look at these to make sure that people are actually making the calls that they said they made.
Not gonna lie, it’ll be useful sometimes when I’ve called someone and requested something that is their legit job to do, and they’ve refused (a lot of my job is just documenting “hey, I tried”)
It sucks at medication names though. It heard “lorazepam intensol” as “at’s a pam in tents”. And the summaries are wacky sometimes. I made one call where it just rang and they never answered, and I didn’t speak at any point, and the summary was something like “A caller from [company] is trying to reach [number]. Despite a long hold time, the caller remains patient. At one point, the caller engages in some light conversation with another individual named Akira. This highlights the importance of prompt service.”
Raping and pillaging the environment
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI has secured an air permit from Memphis health officials for its data center project, despite critics’ opposition and pending legal action. The Shelby County Health Department approved the permit this week, allowing xAI to operate 15 mobile gas turbines at its facility.
The air permit comes after months of protests from Memphis residents and environmental justice advocates, who alleged that xAI violated the Clean Air Act by operating gas turbines without prior approval, as per a report from WIRED.
The Southern Environmental Law Center (SELC) and the NAACP has claimed that xAI installed dozens of gas turbines at its new data campus without acquiring the mandatory Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) permit required for large-scale emission sources.
They should run those generators on electricity.
“They should run those generators on electricity.”
Reading through I was going to say the same thing, then I saw yours.
And what is with the NAACP doing sticking their dicks in this? Minorities hardest hit or something?
I just have one other question: How much do they want?
The fact that an “air permit” is required anywhere is a sign that there haven’t been enough civil wars in a country.
Of Coase!
air permit
I wouldn’t argue your point, but it’s interesting that the turbines signal tacit leftist success. The local TVA plant has been coal-free for years, there is considerable solar installed in the region, and MEM has gone from several weeks of hazardous air quality each year to essentially none.
For me it is more interesting that leftists don’t know how to enjoy the win: they got control, bureaucracy, catalytic converters, and a business environment (pardon the pun) conducive to attracting world-class employers……….but it’s never enough.
Don, right.
Look at ‘diesel gate’ with VW, air is clean, Change the standards so they are unable to be met, create a multi billion dollar annal problem (DEF/DPF) that causes more environmental harm (ruined engines, downtime) and burns more fuel and then claim that the air is still dirty.
Hallelujah to your comments on Dieselgate. It was a cash grab, pure and simple. Can’t have cheap fuel efficient cars, no no. The Plebes must have cars that run on unicorn farts.
The TVA is a sign of tacit leftist success.
Also, every asshole who runs a diesel engine on waste french-fry oil. It will take a block that can easily push a half million miles and destroy it in 50K.
Is there a term for “Americanism that’s actually an abandoned Britishism”?
I’d always assumed “elementary school” was an import, but it was the British term until “Primary School” was invented in 1944.
https://x.com/echetus/status/1941031638013812955
See also “soccer”.
I made my son write out the DOI in high-school sa a punishment for not doing his schoolwork, next time I made him write the Federalist letters.
calligraphy one would assume, with oldschool pen and inkpot
No, but that would have been funnier.
It worked with him because he struggles with writing neatly like I do.
My second son breezed through the DOI so I was trying to figure out what would work with him, and we ended up homeschooling.
Worked much better for all of us
In romania calligraphy was still a subject when i was at school and i did it ok, but my regular handwriting is still atrocious
Calligraphy looks neat, but I’ve never tried it.
I would have hated it if they had tried to make me learn that.
Ron, your wife likely had it as a subject all through primary school.
My English handwriting is bad, but my Japanese is a whole level worse.
I would have walked out over calligraphy.
I quit cursive by the seventh grade.
Got pretty good at writing (print) after I took drafting in high school.
My wife can write Kanji very prettily
I write like a second grader with a learning disability
I blame my dad, my mom almost threw out a letter I wrote her because it looked like my dad’s writing snd we both have the same name.
Assuming this is an all day open post…
Baghdad Bob School of Business Management
“This is a strategic step forward for Del Monte Foods. After a thorough evaluation of all available options, we determined a court-supervised sale process is the most effective way to accelerate our turnaround and create a stronger and enduring Del Monte Foods,” said Greg Longstreet, the company’s president and CEO.
*outright prolonged laughter*
Sounds like the 3rd day of a garage sale.
“All of the best bargains are left!”
However, after four years of war, despite the valiant efforts of our land and naval forces, the diligence of our government officials, and the devoted service of our hundred million subjects, the war situation has not necessarily turned in Japan’s favor. Moreover, the general trends of the world have not been advantageous to us.
Happy 4th, ya’ll!
Off to lounge by a pool and drink margaritas, in proper American fashion*
*a big part of what makes this county great is a willingness to
stealadopt good ideas from elsewhere, like margaritas.Dang it, Slumbrew…now I want a margarita.
Tricknology
Many new tax breaks in the bill — on auto loans, tips and overtime pay, and for older Americans — are structured as tax deductions.
How much money you save with tax deductions, which reduce your taxable income, depends on your bracket. Deductions are more valuable to higher-income households and less beneficial for lower earners, experts said.
“The most modest-income workers can’t use a tax deduction at all,” said Carl Davis, research director of the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a left-leaning policy think tank.
We should raise taxes on poor people so they can take advantage of more loopholes.
the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them
Never really noticed the troublesome combination of separate and equal before.
Also note the elevation of Nature (and law), with God being subsidiary in that formulation. This is pure Enlightenment language, not Reformation.
“…Also note the elevation of Nature (and law), with God being subsidiary.”
Nature is a creation of God or the other way about?
I think the Laws of Nature and (the Laws) of Nature’s God (how they are distinct eludes me) are given equal billing in that formulation.
It is too deep a subject for today. Our duty today is to burn alcohol and gun powder.
If you wish I will give my take on it some day. It is not that elusive. As most philosophers of science have noted, in a nutshell, ‘truth is not hard to see, just difficult to accept’.
Never really noticed the troublesome combination of separate and equal before.
I suspect “separate” in that context is intended to mean “distinct”. But I could be wrong.
It sounds like you might be happier somewhere else
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency placed 139 employees on administrative leave Thursday, an agency spokesperson confirmed, after they signed a “Stand Up for Science” petition using their official titles and EPA positions.
The affected employees received an email, shared with Inside Climate News, informing them that they are on leave through July 17, pending an investigation into whether they used work time or resources when signing the petition.
The email emphasizes that “this is not a disciplinary action.”
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The petition, addressed to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and members of Congress, is a “declaration of dissent” with the administration’s policies, “including those that undermine the EPA mission of protecting human health and the environment.”
“Since the Agency’s founding in 1970, EPA has accomplished this mission by leveraging science, funding, and expert staff in service to the American people,” the petition reads. “Today, we stand together in dissent against the current administration’s focus on harmful deregulation, mischaracterization of previous EPA actions, and disregard for scientific expertise.”
More than 200 EPA employees, including retirees, signed the petition, some of them only by initials. The document criticizes the agency for “undermining the public trust” by issuing misleading statements in press releases, such as referring to EPA grants as “green slush funds” and praising “clean coal as beautiful.”
Resignations accepted.
I love the “SCIENCE” crowd.
They are some of the most superstitious idol worshippers around.
I read that earlier and thought about the difference between the public (and unionized) and private sector.
I’m allowed to dissent, but write some public BS about my employer like that and I’m on the street.
Where will we be without our philosopher kings?
“The decisions of the current administration frequently contradict the peer-reviewed research and recommendations of Agency experts. Such contradiction undermines EPA’s reputation as a trusted scientific authority. Make no mistake: your actions endanger public health and erode scientific progress—not only in America—but around the world.”
Signatories also lambasted the EPA for reversing progress on environmental justice, including the cancellation of billions of grant dollars to underserved communities and the removal of EJScreen, a mapping analysis tool that allowed the public to see pollution sources, neighborhood demographics and health data.
Nothing but the most sciency science for us.
They are so far up their own asses that they cant hear the cheering for what Trump is doing.
“peer-reviewed” 🙄
They’ve been circle jerking each other for decades.
Clippy – “It looks like you’ve been RIF’d from Microsoft. Do you want me to help?”
Xbox exec suffers bout of terminal LinkedIn brain, suggests folks laid off by Microsoft use AI to ‘reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss’
LinkedIn brain would be something like.
This.
But there was something I realized and that I had no actual insight.
So I used this to write an asinine post.
Formatted like this. Even AI couldn’t write such a post. Or at least not without an em dash.
And everyone clapped.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/
Barn Find of the (holi)day
https://barnfinds.com/oscar-mayer-wienermobile-pedal-car/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_source=Newsletter+(Daily)&utm_medium=email&utm_sub=848715f32cb47bcba49313580211d258
I want all the things.
WTF kind of car, food purchases or medical issues does she have that cost that kind of cash?
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/03/american-parents-are-sacrificing-financial-security-to-help-adult-children.html
What the what!?!?
If any of my kids moved in with bills like that, they would be getting rid of a lot of things.
I wonder what was lost in translation between that generation and the ones before.
Dont get me wrong, the boomers and gen x’ers have plenty of problems, but operating as an adult isn’t one of them. How did the script get flipped so completely?
That looks like one of those ‘my husband is doing outrageous sexual perversions, what should I do’ fictional advice column letters.
I could survive on $5K/month after-tax income.
*checks paystub* That would be a paycut. 🙁
We do survive on less than that, quite well.
“…one Sherman Oaks, California based mom…”
“…and her husband, a radiologist…”
Oh now get it.
#metoo
We don’t call them Rack’ette’s, we just call them women.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fo4/s/Xzsil1BcuI
Love it.
Sweet.
That’s it. Now I’m radicalized.
Barn Find of the (holi)day
Body swap it onto a shifter cart.
Im doing a succulent garden this year and things are growing nicely.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/SaxGR1qbfDJ8AuJdA
The before and after are pretty cool, I had no idea they would flower like the are,
Happy Independence day, bloody lobsterbacks…..
https://photos.app.goo.gl/SaxGR1qbfDJ8AuJdA
https://photos.app.goo.gl/18okLvVpg5NjJLpq6
I like it.
Thankee
Looks good, Yusef.
My garden looks like a putting green, only a lot rougher and with serious weeds. I just can’t keep up but all the plants have outgrown the weeds. Giant daikon radishes, broccoli and a kohlrabi today.
This may be my last garden, certainly one of this size.
Yusef (or anybody else). I’ve got an HVAC question.
My 20 year old Trane is still doing surprisingly well, knock wood. On the compressor it’s on its original capacitor. Any value in preventively replacing it? OEM part is under $20.
Go ahead for 20$
Use an insulated screw driver and discharge the voltage before changing
And take a picture, dont fuck up,
Thanks.
Yeah, I’d prefer not to get zapped for sure!
With the power off to the unit just short the cap terminals, then change wire for wire, good thinking btw
It’s a 45-5. Once somebody explained that 45 side is for the compressor and the 5 is the fan with both tied to the same common it made perfect sense.
The wacky “trade” talk terminology is “herm” for the hermetically sealed compressor.
No Yusef…charge it and toss at a sleeping student!
Nice.
I need to a Life in the Desert update. We’re shifting to cacti for landscaping, as the last few years of brutal heat and weak monsoons have wiped out a lot of what we had. Damn if those things don’t have amazing flowers.
I love the succulents for the mostly lack of spines and nasy things
Cholla’s are in bloom down in the valley. I might try one up here next year.
I transplanted three staghorn chollas from the raw desert in our front yard. They all have new growth, so I think they’ll take.
Now, jumping chollas, the Hate Plants That Hate, fuck them. I’ve killed a couple close to the driveway. I would never encourage them, though.
Orwell didn’t write about the two-minute hate because of the elite need for it. Although it was useful to them. It was the masses that needed the outlet.
The proles might start hating the wrong people in the absence of proper guidance.
NH Democrat Jeanne Dietsch on the Free State Project. She made a presentation to the Hillsborough County Democrat Committee. I’m surprised at how much she gets right, but in what should not surprise anyone here, she gets plenty wrong.
Coming to you from the middle of the Pacific with Happy Independence Day wishes to you all.
Our local town parade starts a few yards from my house and before the parade starts they have a band each year entertaining for an hour or so. The music started a short time ago and the very first song was “The Immigrant Song” which brought a smile to my lips. Based on the follow-on songs I don’t think it was a native Hawaiian protest. But keeping to the theme- by Thor’s Hammer I hope they don’t play “God Bless the USA.”
Watching the news I expected to see a harmony of Trump and Lee Greenwood. Maybe it happened when my eyes were closed.
Probably one of those deeply confusing and weird parades.
Yep. And Thor came through. No “GBUSA” and they did play “The Liberty Bell March” on guitars. I grant them points for the effort.
Not a bad aquarium in Newport, KY. Took us adults aboit 1.5 hours to meander through.
Sharks, penguins, sting-rays, jelly fish and more. Good interactive things, some old school like feeding and touching and others more modern (VR trip to the ocean).
Id prefer more education, but it was evident people just didnt want to hear the passionate workers giving localized and relevant facts.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/04/us-news/joey-chestnut-reclaims-title-at-nathans-hot-dog-eating-contest/
Back on top.
Speed eating or other eating contest is just gross.
But Nathan’s are the bomb,
Cheers!
Imaging eating 70 fake hot dogs.
w/e
Have him eat 70 Skyline cheese coneys (with hot sauce) and Ill be impressed.
I’m trying to keep my dinner down, thank you very much.
“About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.”
It is a sobering thought that we will never have another president with this clarity of vision and this ability to articulate it. So… let’s drink. And grill. And watch the bang-bangs.
If I had my druthers, I’d celebrate the day with an old-timey anvil shoot.
Coolidge was one cool cat.
That is one of my favorite quotes that happens to be by my favorite….or second favorite….president. That is of all quotes from everyone everywhere.
Nothing more appropriate for today. I am sorry I didnt think to post it first.
Good job Shpip. If that. was the only post today it would be just fine.
How did I miss this? I see stories about the Webb scope finding city lights on a close planet? I see a lot of speculation and computer generated images and blahblahblah but I am having trouble finding the actual images. I smell a rat.
Our imaging technology cannot possibly determine city lights against the blinding lights of the universe
Late April Fool’s Day joke?
That sounds like BS from the start. The JWT is powerful but nowhere near that powerful. The odds that such a civilization would form, at this time, at that distance, is right up there with a finding by the Improbability Drive.
I have no confirmed photographic images of exoplanets, and I keep an eye out for those kinds of developments. When the STAR is still just a dot, the planet is a wobble of the dot, or a fluctuation of wavelength of light.
Assuming of course that William Henry Harrison is your favorite?
Im confused. I was told all science experiments and observation were cut and we’d never know when a hurricane might form.
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/hurricane-hunters-set-probe-tropical-disturbance-near-georgia
I just got a notice that an e-book I’d had on hold at the local library was available, so I logged on to the library’s site. On their home page, listed among the “Best Books of 2025 So Far” were memoirs by Dylan Mulvaney and Bill Gates.* 🤮 I take this as a damning indictment of the state of modern mainstream publishing and of the judgment/sanity of the local library I’ve loved my whole life. 😞 I may resort to yet another reread of all my Louisa May Alcott and Laura Ingalls Wilder books as a palate cleanser.
*”Fun” fact: Listed as the “narrators” of the audiobook version of the Gates memoir were Gates and Wil Wheaton.
To be fair – Gates actually accomplished something in his life. I wouldn’t care to read his memoirs, but there is at least justification to exist.
I doubt Dylan will be honest about “How I destroyed a major brand”
Why wouldn’t she be honest about a bunch of dudebro bigots no longer drinking a shitty beer because someone at the beer company gave her a shit load of money to promote said shitty beer on her shitty podcast. Okay she may not be truthful about the shittiness of her podcast, but, to be honest, I’ve never listened/watched it so I really don’t know how shitty it is.
Not a she, it’s a he right out of the gate. Things go down hill from the predicate lies to lunacy.
You might want to sit down for this: Women, they dont have peckers. I checked. They just dont have ’em.
Either way he/she/it didn’t destroy* a major brand, some one at marketing and a bunch of dudebro bigots did.
*if going from #1 in market share to #3 can be considered “destroyed”
I’ll take Third place in market share of shitty beer sales all day long.
Happy Independence Day from the trash dog!
Thanks, trash dog! Back atcha! But aren’t you supposed to be keeping an eye on that chicken?
That chicken is making a break for it, trash dog need to work on his situational awareness.
He is fully aware of the Slim Jim that doesn’t flee and fight back. Who needs to pick feather out of their teeth. also, that chicken runs and has spurs. Fuck that.
Wrangling hens is beyond her pay grade. She’s here to be loud and close to the chickens. They practically sleep on top of her
Now, I’d love to see a picture of that! 😄🐶🐔🐔🐔
Happy 4th to you and trash dog! And to that chicken who is exercising his God given right to freedom by legging it out if there.
Nice garden, Trashy, now I feel a little better.
Boston Pops on the Esplanade on the CW, if you want some traditional Independence Day action from the Cradle Of Liberty.
The 1812 Overture at the end includes accompaniment by the 101st Field Artillery Regiment, as is proper.