Good morning one and all to another joyous day!
Trump plans to clean up Democrat-run cities over local objections
Airbnb Co-founder to Redesign Thousands of US Government Websites
Uganda Becomes Latest African Nation To Take Trump Deportees
Abrego Garcia to appear at ICE office in Baltimore amid talk of Uganda deportation
‘No magic fixes’ for Democrats as party confronts internal and fundraising struggles
Appeals court rules serious Chicago police disciplinary hearings must be public
Texas Senate Approves New Congressional Maps
North Carolina Supreme Court Allows Bars to Sue State Over COVID-19 Restrictions
Dozens of Planned Parenthood Clinics Closed in 2025
Only 28% of US homes now affordable for typical American household as buying power drops
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Can we give them the added gift of Mamdani? I hear he was born there.
That smug prick got himself in the news yet again with some stupid “treasure hunt” stunt. His commie adorers lapped it up.
TW: Vomit-inducing, well, everything
It would be best for the city if he accidentally fell into an open sewer and got devoured by an alligator.
Just when you think he can’t get any more insufferable. I hope NYC enjoys the communist utopia they are going to vote for.
Just as good as his bench press stunt/failure; to be shown up by the two old guys running against him and “Big Balls” from the top rope all pumping iron effortlessly than that skinny twit of a communist.
I was somewhat shocked at his desgree of failure. I’m a blob, and can bench more than 135.
best for the city
Nope. New Yorkers want him, they deserve him.
I am not so cruel as to let the mentally handicapped hurt themselves.
Don’t confuse mentally incapable with willfully stupid.
but free shit!
Nope. New Yorkers want him, they deserve him.
“… good and hard”.
h/t to H.L.
Sadly, I don’t think they’ll get much hard from him. Maybe a lot of lip service.
It’s unclear how they defined “Affordable” but my solution is to get rid of zoning and planning approval requirements for residential construction.
It reads to me that “affordable” is a $298k house… have to assume that’s based on the mortgage rate, average down payment — hence monthly cost relative to average salary.
Yeah I read it as an overly simplistic equation of median income versus media price of a home.
“but my solution is to get rid of zoning and planning approval requirements for residential construction.”
They have zero intentions of doing that. This racket allows a lot of incompetent losers to make a sweet living telling others “No, you can’t do that”.
The 3 most concerned entities should be the buyer, the lender and the insurance company. I don’t see the government as having a vested interest.
Without government, who would issue you a permit to add a deck or patio?
Ackchually Nick, you could always call on an HOA for that.
“Without government, who would issue you a permit to add a deck or patio?”
And make a lot of useless busy work for many to collect good cash from, even if there never is an offer of a bribe to circumvent the whole racket…
NH has made some baby steps in that direction which has split that state GOP into two factions.
One, the libertarians and libertarian adjacent folks that support the changes.
Two, the folks that think the changes will lead to Socialism because NH’s population density will increase which means guaranteed Democrat rule. I guess none of them ever heard of Miami.
What? Build more housing? Are you crazy? I mean, I’m not against new housing, but this isn’t the right place for it.
You want to stop it – buy the land yourself.
That’s what I tell the people who have been blocking a housing development near me. Of course they don’t want to put their money where their mouths are. They want the land owner to suck up the loss while they get lauded by the local newspaper as heroes.
I’m not sure he has the authority to do so. Policing is a state power, not federal.
They only preferred path to me would be to deputize state national guard units under the authority of a constitutional sheriff and they wear civilian police uniforms. Otherwise, Don, your authority ends at the edge of DC in this matter of normal policing.
I am thinking that it would be done under the cover of ensuring civil rights are not being violated, a la Eisenhower’s use of the national guard. Now, how exactly that would play out, and under which civil rights laws (title IX?) is not clear, but there is a lot of wiggle room that the D’s have coded into law over the years.
Not sure I like it, but I do think a lot of people in those areas wouldn’t mind a bit of extra safety.
Oh, definitely. Let’s Go Brandon in Chicago claims his subjects will “riot” against Donald’s interlopers. He’s fucking delusional.
Chicago claims his subjects
I don’t doubt they can whip up an astro-turf mob easy enough.
Yep… I’m probably more law and order than most in this neck of the Internet woods… and I can’t see how you can justify it. If there were riots (or like LA, active interference with Federal activity), you could declare civil unrest or something… but relatively “normal” crime should require at least the Governor of the state requesting assistance… and you know none of the blue state govs are going to do that.
Hopefully this is more just him running off at the mouth as he is wont to do — combined with contingency plans if the opportunity (say anti-ICE actions by the state, city or mobs?… that’s actually an interesting thought… can you send in the guard to enforce ICE being able to do their jobs if the state/local “sanctuary” policies are actively working against you? It isn’t the same as overt obstruction… but there’s a legal argument to be made… might be a shitty one, might be a fig leaf for the courts… no idea) arises.
Morning all.
I suspect we’ll get another “state of emergency” declaration relating to how muggings are a threat to national security or somesuch.
Agreed, DC is a special case. I don’t care for this move, hopefully it’s just bluster.
And miss the chance to step on their own dicks while they have the momentum? Come on man!
Overreach isn’t just a leftist thing.
This.
If anything it’s getting the Dems on record in support of the massive amounts of crime in their cities.
It is pretty entertaining that Trump consistently gets the Dems to defend the 20% side of 80-20 issues.
Policing is a state power, not federal.
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha
Day drinking already?
That Rubicon was crossed long ago. It’s like you think the Constitution matters or something. Now the proggies can choke on the shit they forced on the rest of us.
So I can unleash death squads to eliminate communists and ban the practice of islam, and erase any community which displeases me?
You may have decided to drift towards nihilistic defeatism, but I’m dedicated towards correcting the problem, not wallowing in despair.
What you or I choose is immaterial. The reality is that most people in this country will support one stupidity or another: Mamdami or Trump. Most people in this country wouldn’t recognize the police power until it was crushing their face into the pavement, and they are perfectly good with it crushing the face of someone they don’t like.
That’s not nihilism, that’s seeing what the people of this country are in brutally real terms.
“Woe is me, ther’es nothing to be done amidst this sea of NPCs!” – JI
You’re rationalizing your defeatism so that you can wallow and moan.
Says the man suckling from the public teat.
You don’t like the general public any more than I do, so spare me the false belief that we aren’t in this mess because of that general public and not the dark forces of conspiratorial cabals!
It’s a job. Or are you saying your pot is a different hue from my kettle for being a contractor rather than a direct employee?
And with all the USAID revelations, you may want to give the conspiratoral cabal theory another look. The astroturf collapsed pretty darn quick when the funding got diddled.
Oh I’ve freely admitted that I was a parasite, and personally, that worked out okay for me. Incentives, huh?
The whole point of gerrymandering is that the public can be easily carved up based on reliable (i.e. braindead) voting patterns. Ain’t no cabal that can claim credit for that. Exploiting it? Sure; but not creating that condition.
Where did the conversation skip from “Federal versus State policing powers” to “Gerrymandering”?
Perhaps your USAID reference?
USAID was astroturfing ideas with little to no real popular support. Not sure where that hops to “corralling voters for predictable electoral results”
USAID was not relevant to a discussion of the proper locus and focus of the police power in this country.
It was relevant to your sudden injection to the discussion the issue of conspiratorial cabals.
“USAID was astroturfing ideas with little to no real popular support. Not sure where that hops to “corralling voters for predictable electoral results”
The machine found a way to make the tax payers fund the bills for all sorts of illegal and criminal shit that the tax payers didn’t want. The game truly was rigged against those of us that saw through the lies and bullshit from the marxist globalist cabal.
because of that general public was the context of conspiratorial cabals – aka great manipulators of that general public.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeWMwrdFBw0
whaddup doh’
Heya Banjos- how YOU doin
Hey Joey Tres Cool… they’re not on a break!
Looks like SpaceX is still working on the fix. Probably no flight today. Darn.
Boo.
Awww… and the Dem base isn’t willing to fund them to cull the population of the poor. What a shame…. allowing children to live and all….
Well, their MO has always been to use other people’s money.
And of course the leftys cry about how “women’s health” is being defunded. As though it’s within the purview of the government to provide healthcare for women.
Odd how nobody ever cries about funding for men’s health.
Didn’t they keep claiming that abortions are just a tiny part of their business? Hm.
Most of their business is selling aborted baby parts. Without a supply, that whole line goes down.
just a tiny part of their business
Yep, just like what PBS said about govt funding to them.
They are too busy not funding public broadcasting.
It always boils down to ‘kill the poors.’
The aisles are blessedly vacant. Wendy’s lunch at ten. Bacon cheeseburger w fried egg. Me wanty.
There’s also vacancy in the Talent regard, sadly. Will call the repair shop on lunch and catch up. I’m guessing the car is a goner. Most likely not worth it.
Low expectations help you be surprised. Like betting *against* your team. When they win, you win!
You’re going to make me hunt down your WalMart and pester you on the job, aren’t you?
We did have a lost child, tho!
(Maybe that was UCS.)
It has been ages since I could be mistaken for a child.
We did have a lost child, tho!
[ OMWC has entered the chat ]
*Dammit. Meant to be: Bet against your team. That way when your team loses, ya win money! Lose the bet? Cubs win!
Hey, Evan! What do I do with this radioactive shrimp I bought from WallyMart?
Throw it into the Mr Fusion and power the house.
“WASHINGTON — President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Monday ending cashless bail by threatening to revoke federal funding for jurisdictions across the country, The Post has learned.
Attorney General Pam Bondi will provide Trump with a list of the no-cash-bail jurisdictions that could end up targeting states like New York, cities such as Washington, DC, or other localities with lax bail policies.
“Cashless bail policies allow dangerous individuals to immediately return to the streets and further endanger law-abiding, hard-working Americans because they know our laws will not be enforced,” a White House memo on the executive action states.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/25/us-news/president-trump-to-sign-executive-order-ending-cashless-bail/
I don’t like cashless bail, and I don’t like this either.
Bail should be based on risk to the public and risk of not showing for trial. Cashless is appropriate in some cases.
Agreed and I think most people do agree. Problem is modern day warriors for justice are applying it quite…interestingly.
That is not what that means here.
Here’s a thought… revoke federal funding for all jurisdictions, kill the deficit and then the debt… and then reduce taxes such that state/local governments can fund themselves if need be (and citizens can flee them for more friendly jurisdictions).
Some sort of… constitutionally limited federal republic system… I know, completely wacky idea.
Waiting for the groundswell that causes Glibs to be the most influential website on the internet?
Waiting for the groundswell that causes Glibs to be the most influential website on the internet?
We’re not?
Fuck.
/kicks pebble
Are you going to tell me the Sun rises in the East next?
Doc tells patient “You have a very serious disease. Untreated it will kill you.”
Patient replies “I hate shots and I dont want the side effects of that treatment.”
And there you have it.
The flaw in a free society is that freedom haters are free to actively try and tear down that society. It is the paradox of liberty. No one has come up with a good solution so far outside noting that this form of govt is only suited to a moral people.
Start by only allowing property owners to vote.
“Pabst Blue Ribbon fans gathered en masse in downtown Manhattan last week for a chance at the first taste of a bizarre new collab between the Texas-based beer brand and Campbell’s Chunky soup – complete with costumes showing off PBR pride.
While the unusual concoction – a beer-infused soup loaded with either beef, bacon and chili or potatoes and chorizo – doesn’t hit Walmart shelves until September, dozens of eager locals were able to get a spoonful at celeb-favorite dive bar Ray’s on the Lower East Side Thursday evening.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/25/us-news/pbr-die-hards-line-up-for-first-taste-of-beer-infused-campbells-soup-at-celeb-favorite-nyc-dive-bar/
No.
Beer infused stew/chili/soup is not some weird thing.
Canned beer cheese soup already exists.
Guinness stew, mmm.
Next we will get an article on a weird concoction between a base of tomato, onion and garlic infused with wine.
I didn’t figure out the difference between borracho beans and charro beans until I learned borracho means drunk. Borracho beans are made in a beer broth. While not quite a soup, they are close.
I was worried that it was some kind of soup-infused beer…
A schmaltz liquor?
EvilSheldon:
Those types of beers do exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmaltz_Brewing_Company
Keeps going out of business, for the primary reason that they’re not very good. I can only assume it’s some sort of insurance/money laundering/investment scam at this point.
Trying to ferment chicken fat?
Even hops aren’t as bad as that idea.
/Deliberately obtuse
Schmaltz! JOL YICHU!
Not Adahn:
Schmaltz went under for the first time a while back, and I believe all of the revivals have been contract brew in nature (no equipment, pay someone else to brew your recipes and you just sell it), but with the changing trends going back to tap rooms and less with to go beers and the collapse in craft beer sales, they’re in a tough spot.
Neph – Thank you. I’m going to go be sick now.
EvilSheldon:
I’ve had the Pastrami on Rye beer, it was surprisingly good. There’s also beers made with whole pizzas, breakfast cereal, any starch that people can get their hands on, and more. The fact that few of these are well known outside of the geek community should tell you what the overall impression of them is.
Charro beans go “cuchi cuchi”.
Neph:
The part about Schmaltz that caught my attention was that in one of their incarnations, their brewery was local to me. I think I might have included them in my “Beer it Forward” box. It seems weird to me any time a business keeps bouncing its production facilities around.
Not Adahn:
Pabst Blue Ribbon is a contract brewery. They have no production facilities (at least last time I looked into it, they may have acquired some at some point since). Locally, there’s two production facilities that have shifted through multiple owners and brewery hands.
*…doesn’t hit Walmart shelves until September,”
I cause all things. *bows*
“a beer-infused soup loaded with either beef, bacon and chili…”
A soup loaded with meat, and another soup?
Local objections…I wonder who that could be? Could it be the crime loving commies that have spent decades cultivating their cities into crime infested hell holes?
Thousands of govt sites? *sigh* Do I even have to say it?
Deporting that piece of shit to Uganda? Perfect.
They are always screaming about saving democracy…until they cant win elections. Then democracy is broken. Also, democracy is when people vote – guess what the real, final vote is: dollars. If no one is giving you dollars for your cause then you dont have a cause worth fighting for.
They are going for the ‘we just need different messaging so the ignorant proles will buy our shitty policies’ strategy. Good. Double down.
Just bars?
The last link is too complicated to get into right now.
The rest of them are good news.
Just bars?
The article is behind a paywall. I’m not going to spend time trying to get around it.
If it is the lawsuit I’m thinking of, yes, it is just bars. The reason, again going from memory, is related to how North Carolina regulates bars. There is one type of bar under NC law that has a different licensing scheme I think related to opening hours and food sales. It is those bars that are suing.
Keep ye head on a swivel, matey
A Marion County man who was watching a concert at a pirate-themed bar in downtown Ocala claims he sustained serious injuries after he was allegedly trampled by two “intoxicated women” who were skipping “arm-in-arm” through the venue and “whose combined weight exceeded several hundred pounds.”
Apparently he wenched his back.
Gamboling landwhales?
Thunder….
Thunder…
Thunder…
THUNDER THIGHS… HO!
Ow my lumbARRRRRRGGH.
Guild Wenches are often on the larger side.
And by often I mean pretty much always.
And by larger side I mean their corset makers won’t give them a warranty.
Another ‘overserving’ cash grab. I hope that the bar gets a PI to photograph this asshole playing golf somewhere.
[ Lights the Tres signal ]
Maryland Man update!
Kilmar Abrego Garcia Set for Deportation After Being Arrested by ICE
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/kilmar-abrego-garcia-deport-uganda-eb146949?st=9xKrEj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Maybe we can get Judge Boasberg to stand on the runway in front of the jet.
There was some martyr press event on this in the break room. I shrugged and got my coffee.
In the words of Fletcher Reede, Stop breaking the law asshole
At this point I honestly have no idea if he is guilty of anything or what he might be guilty of. If he is guilty of trafficking why isn’t he being prosecuted for that instead of being deported?
Some Fox twit was claiming he has MS-13 tatts right as he was standing there live mugging for the cameras and showing no visible tatts.
“A cheeky ICE arrest photo showing the capture of an illegal Mexican migrant has gone mega-viral for an unexpected reason after being shared online — and many are accusing authorities of deliberately staging the photo for clicks.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/24/us-news/san-diego-ice-arrest-photo-goes-mega-viral-for-surprising-reason/
Dat ass. Must be some weird angle — she looks two feet taller than him.
I mean, that is a truly succulent ass. I’m not quite sure where the insult is here…
Short legs and too much torso?
He’s probably 5 feet or shorter and she is more than likely 6 feet tall. Don’t think they intentionally did it for da ass as more for not showing her face (I have seen many photos now that instead of masks, they are turning around).
Also, black pants could be hiding what otherwise appears to be quite the peach.
🤤🎂
posed next to a female ICE agent
Presumed female? You are talking about California after all.
(considers briefly, shrugs) Your terms are acceptable.
I assumed he was Guatemalan but maybe just a weird angle.
And she’s not even in heels!
There’s an absolutely enormous turkey flock living in the woods on my drive into work. Four full-sized ones and more than twenty turklings (turklettes?)
A friend has turkeys. The tom is quite aggressive in keeping us away from his hens.
I used to have all sorts of charismatic wildlife on my property until I got Lily. She’ll hunt the chipmunks and squirrels, chase the rabbits and songbirds but she hatesthe turkeys.
Are we talking natural turkeys or the selectively bred butterball abominations which require artificial insemination?
They are called poults.
And ROAT steals my ackchyually thunder.
“Girl, 17, is stabbed to death while calling cops to report being followed on her bike ride home in Holland as cops arrest asylum seeker ‘who raped woman days earlier’
The suspect, identified on August 22, was staying at a site run by the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers (COA) in Amsterdam, reported Dutch media outlet NOS.
He was arrested on August 21 for the rape of a woman in Weesperzijde on August 15, just five kilometres from where Lisa was found brutally killed.
The asylum seeker is also accused of attempting to sexually assault a third woman on August 10, also in Weesperzijde.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15031019/Girl-17-stabbed-death-calling-cops-followed-bike-ride-home-Holland-arrest-asylum-seeker-raped-woman-days-earlier.html
This person doesn’t have a name?
It would be culturally insensitive to identify the perp.
I’m wondering when the vigilantes start leaving dead migrants hanging from disabled CCTV poles.
The law would come down on them with the full force and more. The Euros prefer to punish their own citizens rather than admit their plan to bring in the barbarian hordes – for whatever fucking idiotic reason – was not just terrible, but downright evil.
I’ve been hearing about morale and staffing issues in the law enforcement agencies who would be tasked with that crackdown. I’m beginning to think they’ll crack soon.
Mencken said that Democracy is the idea that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. That seems to be true of every other system of government as well.
Allowing a muslim invasion of Europe is not going to end well. I am wondering how far they will let things go.
It depends which group starts killing the politicians first. One or the other will.
Until it’s too late.
“On Sunday, around 500 people participated in a March Against Femicide in Rotterdam in the wake of Lisa’s death, carrying signs such as ‘She had dreams, no grave needed’ and ‘Not all men, but always men’.”
They seem to be missing a key factor in this crime.
“Not all Muslims, but always Muslims”?
Let the “state capitalism” flow!
The New Acronym Driving South Korea’s Summit With Trump: MASGA
Seoul bets helping to ‘Make America Shipbuilding Great Again’ will net a better deal with Washington
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/the-new-acronym-driving-south-koreas-summit-with-trump-masga-aed1aad9?st=xGjdza&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
So we’ll be the cheap labor for Korean shipbuilders? Given their demographics its probably a smart play.
Certainly it might help get things on a more even keel, if they don’t try to just bilge us.
You want a stern talking to from Swiss, don’t you?
Swiss might subcontract that out to KK, since she likes it in the aft.
Sure, make KK the butt of the joke.
I really liked their “Dogs love trucks” campaign.
SDF-7 : There is nothing wrong with law and order as long as the state is held to the same standard as the citizenry. By that principle I am probably more law and order than you are.
If one believes in self ownership one must believe in freedom of movement. Freedom of movement can be destroyed by high crime…which is one reason the leftists love them some crime so much. They have of late been actively fostering it.
I personally have zero confidence in govt numbers but if we had honest ones I would bet the crime rate this time next year would show crime down lower than we would have dared hope for.
I can agree with you in general principle… barring I think I hold the State to a higher standard as:
1) They’re supposed to have more practice at these things. (As the cops are purported to say… for most criminals, it is their first time. For the cops… it is Tuesday.) They should know the routine better than a surprised citizen.
2) They have a much higher ability to bring deadly force, if not a monopoly in several areas. Greater propensity for damage and loss of life… higher level of responsibility to use it wisely.
But yeah — it is at the core (other than the core “biggest gang becomes a government and institutionalizes wetting of the beaks”) the fundamental function of the government to provide law and order as a contract to keep the “normal” citizens from having to. To secure the potential for liberty is another good way to put it as you allude to. Breaking that social contract should free citizens to act as needed (but it doesn’t obviously)… but now I’m just rambling.
Listen to this fag with his smart talk and all that.
“I can agree with you in general principle… barring I think I hold the State to a higher standard as:”
People are always innocent until the preponderance of the evidence proves otherwise and convinces a jury. The state or state actors are always guilty when accused, until the preponderance of the evidence proves otherwise.
California’s high-speed train robbery continues. The state rail authority is scrounging for money to complete its bullet train to nowhere after the Trump Administration last month yanked $4 billion in funds. So now it is proposing to build real estate and solar projects on property that was seized for the train.
Sorry CA Glibs…
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/california-bullet-train-land-sales-solar-farms-james-comer-881003ed?st=FEUaPn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I’ve seen similar proposals for other public transit. “We operate at a loss. If we diversify into being a landlord we can break even.”
Feds made out really well (eventually) on the original transcontinental railroad deal. The r.r. turned worthless land into not worthless land that the government sold off. Not saying this would happen with Cal bullet train.
Cal Bullet runs through really good farmland, and, as it is now sitting fallow with nothing on it, a lot of those farmers are pissed, and want it back.
That is epic-level graft.
What “private investors” did they think were going to want a piece of that?
I know, I know – it was all bullshit from the start, but still, I gotta dig up that bit of fiction.
The upside it’s so stupid that stupid people get it’s stupid.
It is profitable to own a State.
I am sure they knew the cost and time estimates were bullshit but they needed lower numbers to get the votes.
😂🤣
Not to mention the ridiculous ridership estimates.
I’m happy. Sunday afternoon I shot 420 rounds of shitty Wolf 5.56mm through my new 13.9″ AR without a single malfunction. All I had to do was give the ammo a little squirt of silicone lube.
Previously, I had so many malfunctions with this ammo that I thought I’d have to put it in my will to get rid of it.
I’ll always welcome Wolf ammo. Just saying.
I’m gonna shoot the rest of what I have, now that I can get it to run. I’m not going to buy any more though. Aside from being prone to stuck cases, it’s also filthy and noticably underpowered. I have to open the adjustable gas block five clicks to get it to lock back on an empty magazine (versus the setting for Hornady Frontier 55grn, my usual practice ammo.)
I know at least one of my ARs in .223 wylde seems to like anything.
Yeah, it’s dirty stuff.
He said 420. [ insert Beavis and Butthead laughter ]
Yeah, yeah, I know. I normally don’t keep this kind of track, but Sunday I had 7 30rd. magazines, each reloaded once.
I also shot up whatever was left in the bottom of my 9mm ammo can. I’m not saying that it was 69 rounds, but it may have been pretty close…
I’ve seen Tula 9mm available again. What happened to the ban on Rooskie ammo imports and/or Russia needing wartime production?
I’d like to think that it’s black marketeering, but who knows?
I can’t help but wonder if the margins would be enough to smuggle a commodity caliber into a market swimming with alternatives.
I’ll guess it’s coming in through a third country after having been in that third country for a while.
Supposedly that is how a recent batch of “Chinese-made Albanian” SKSs are coming in. They’re Chinese made, were exported to Albania, weren’t used by the Albanian military, sat in warehouses for a while, and then were exported to the US as “Albanian” because they had been in Albania for long enough.
How do you expect the military surplus industry of Speckonthemapistan to support itself if it can’t sell to the major markets!
Pricing? Condition?
Pricing – Too Much
Condition – Chinese
Pricing? Condition?
I saw one being talked about over the weekend on the Candrsenal discord. The condition looks good. The price was too high ($500).
One more note on pricing: If it was a legitimate Albanian made SKS, they currently sell for a few thousand dollars. The Albanian SKSs have Chinese style spike bayonets, longer stock, longer handguard, and different vent ports on the handguard.
I kick myself a bit on the Albanian made SKSs. I had an opportunity to buy one when they first came into the US for about $250. I talked myself out of it. Oops.
Yeah, the only issue I’ve ever had with Russian steel cased ammo was the case lacquer sticking to the polymer inside of a magazine. Which lubricant solved.
“According to the FBI, civilians stopped just 14 out of 374 active shooter cases between 2014 and 2024, which is a rate of 3.7%.
But the CPRC, a nonprofit data watchdog on crime issues, said it uncovered 561 incidents during the same period, with armed citizens stopping 202 of them, or 36%. CPRC said the percentage jumped to 52.5% when excluding shootings that occurred in “gun-free zones.”
According to the CPRC, the FBI’s data is off, in part, because in some cases civilians who intervened were listed as “security guards,” even when they were private citizens. The group also found that armed bystanders who thwarted attacks were not counted if the suspects fled.”
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/watchdog-group-finds-massive-errors-fbi-data-related-civilians-stopping
Why would the FBI compile statistics that don’t flatter the king’s men?
I was gonna say something but juris already said. It is in the FBIs best interest to claim only the State can protect you.
And how many may have died if those 14 “stops” hadn’t happened? “Even one death…” “Think of the women and children…”
I hate when cops call citizens “civilians.”
Cops ARE civilians. Unless they are MPs.
It looks like my monitor is dying. there are a couple of big dark areas on it. Isn’t that just ducky.
It could just be your backlight – thye tend to be LED strips these days and a few nodes might have gone out. It’s repairable, but it’s also a royal pain.
Have you checked the thermostat?
You are assuming he has a modern monitor.
Just playing the odds.
Have you tried hitting it?
Have you tried turning it off and back on?
Wipe down the glass front and put a towel over the back to keep the tubes warm.
I was dry firing the Colt Agent yesterday. I’ve never had to work so hard to keep the front sight down before. Who was that stocks made for?
Bootleggers, jazz musicians, and cops who use the term ‘mooks’ unironically?
NotA, you need a grip adapter: https://bkgrips.com/
I have one on a couple of my revolvers, and they are the bee’s knees.
Those are nice.
NA, if you’re gonna carry that thing you also need a switchblade, a sap, and a pocket flask of cheap rye.
What’s a sap?
NA, if you’re gonna carry that thing you also need a switchblade, a sap, and a pocket flask of cheap rye.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Stay outta my pockets, Sheldon!
What’s a sap?
a.k.a., a blackjack.
https://cdn.arizonacustomknives.com/images/products/big/010130941643774256193.jpg
Don’t be silly, it’s tree blood.
What’s a sap?
A weapon. Lead shot or other heavy “stuff” in leather used to beat someone.
I’ve always assumed that saps were way too easy to mis-use.
“Whoops, I killed him instead of knocking him out.”
slumbrew:
Yeah. Head injuries are not as light and fluffy as shown on television and in movies. Once every couple of years some yute finds out the hard way that stepping outside for a fight can be fatal.
I got it for BUG matches.
DA pull is much nicer than I had been led to expect.
checking out the BK grips site. I am intrigued.
Neph,
Oh, yeah – head injuries are no joke.
Part of the reason I don’t ride around the city much anymore – I’m one inattentive asshole away from bouncing my brain off a curb. Even with a helmet that’d be bad.
Grip adapter purchased. Thanks Zwak!
Knocking someone unconscious is nearly killing them. Much easier and safer to choke them out.
Two of those things are illegal here, but cheap rye can be very tasty. IIRC, I rated Old Granddad above got Beam and JD.
Also, for whatever reason, I find that rye tastes better than other whiskies when served at body temperature out of stainless steel.
Clearly it was the last variety tested and you were intoxicated from the rest of the test beverages.
Hope everyone had a good weekend. Mrs. TOK turned 50 and her party Friday was a big success. The next day I came down with some sinus thing, and sat on the couch most of the weekend. I threw everything I had at it (Flonase, Zyrtec, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, and sinus rinses), and today I’m doing a lot better.
I read some things over the weekend about the housing thing. Sounds like big corporations buying up all the houses is overblown and it’s not nearly enough to increase prices. Apparently this is a simple supply and demand issue, too many people and not enough building over the past decade.
Nice song choice. They do the definitive version of Ashoken Farewell, which I would like played at my funeral. (Too morbid for a Monday?)
LOOOVE “Ashokan Farewell”, even if I can never remember how to pronounce “Ashokan.” I’ve also heard it covered on hammered dulcimer (live, so I can’t link it,) and that was magnificent too!
To most people it’s the theme song from the Civil War series but I’m ok with that.
Not as difficult to pronounce as the Dutch place names around here. 😉
But which syl-LAB-le gets the em-PHAS-is?
Second.
I believe this too. And I believe it is by design. The left wants people dependent on the government and the more barriers to building housing that people want, the better.
Not just “the left.” The suburban Republicans in my town put the kibosh on re-zoning a large parcel to allow more dense, therefore less expensive, single family homes. They balked and now the developer is approved for 78 homes that will probably start about $1 million. Don’t know where the cops, nurses, retail store clerks, and others making less than $100K will be able to afford.
I don’t think it is by design, but just the consequences of a massive housing regulatory environment.
What else is the point of the massive regulation?
True. The middle-class, as always, can get fucked.
The point of the regulation is to prevent things like the Triangle Shirt Waist fire.
But they get stretched out to cover all sorts of silly things, become overlapping and impossible to navigate as more and more are added to the building codes, and thus need larger places to be able to fit all of the things mandated by code into a living space.
“The left wants people dependent on the government and the more barriers to building housing that people want, the better.”
We are going to stick you in closet sized apartments, feed you bugs & drugs, hook you up to virtual reality to keep you getting dopamine hits, so you will own nothing, and be happy about it….
Cops and nurses where I’m from (and teachers) are the ones that can afford the $1,000,000 homes.
And here I thought Horse Paste was the only acceptable cure-all for the Libertarian crowd.
It’s wonderful living in MAHA times, where that sort of remedy is accepted.
Have you tried hitting it?
Good thinking. It works on the printer.
I have no idea how old this thing is. It was my dad’s and I’ve had it for three years or more. I have been toying with the idea of getting a cheap walmart 32″ teevee to use. Then it would have sound. I guess I’ll have to reconnoiter.
I read some things over the weekend about the housing thing. Sounds like big corporations buying up all the houses is overblown and it’s not nearly enough to increase prices. Apparently this is a simple supply and demand issue, too many people and not enough building over the past decade.
Don’t forget vacation rentals. I heard lots of people whining about that in Livingston.
Looks like a basic-ass 32″ monitor is ~ $200, not much more than a TV and will have a better refresh rate and pixel density (usually).
https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-Business-Borderless-DisplayPort-LS32B304NWNXGO/dp/B0D6CKL4HV
LG curved 32” monitor, seller renewed, $89, $20 shipping.
https://ebay.us/m/U8EMQ2
That’s a great deal.
The market will take time to adjust to the higher interest rates. My area was one of the hottest real estate markets in the country and we are starting to see some price reductions. There is a stickiness to home prices and some people were counting on a big cash out when they sell (retirees, empty nesters).
But it does create a great boogeyman and takes the heat off those who has actually caused the prices to increase due to supply and demand.
The nice thing about renting out a vacation rental is that the renters leave. Maybe if it were easier to evict bad renters, there would be less incentive to convert to an AirBnB.
Also, you can make a shit ton of money if you have a holiday rental in the right location.
I am reluctany to order something like a monitor from Amazon. Probably for no good reason.
I’ve had no issues in the past. They’ll cover any shipping-related breakage, should that occur (although they’re so light and well padded in the boxes, I suspect it doesn’t come up that often).
Fear not. Bezos loves you and will provide for you.
He’s butting into Costco’s territory.
Manufacturer packing is good. And if Amazon ships it they stand behind it. I ordered and safely received a 40” TV from them. The eBay should also be safe, it’s a reseller that does that for a living.
we are starting to see some price reductions.
And now I’m seeing stories about how prices will come back when interest rates go down.
Nobody (who matters) has the slightest interest in seeing price reductions or supply expansion.
I think you’re right there. I see a lot of complaining but zero solutions are being offered, outside of some counterproductive price fixing schemes.
Others are saying interest rates will drive prices down due to more new homes.
Deportations will fix it all.
I saw some images on X that were produced by the new Grok, and I played around with it myself this weekend. This is getting pretty convincing, and I think we’re pretty close to AI pron on demand. I’m predicting this will be one of the Next Big Things. If I wrote down my thoughts about it, would any of you read and/or discuss it?
Sure, my mind is already (always) in that particular gutter.
If I wrote down my thoughts about it,
“Dear Glibs forum – I never thought this would happen to me but…”
(yes, of course I’d be interested)
The gist is, we’re just one enterprising person away from:
a) On demand x-rated image and video generation
b) An x-rated chatbot with video capabilities
I think both of those will have significant impacts.
I did some work many years ago with a company that wanted to develop interactive TV and I not-so-jokingly said that porn was the market niche they wanted.
Hairdressers and nail techs hardest hit.
I wonder how the porn industry will adapt to AI and whether there will even be a need for porn actors if one can use AI to generate a porn scene.
Yep those are some of my points. Now I have to write LOL.
Listen to the experts
Army Lieutenant General Russel Honoré became a household name in 2005 when he led recovery efforts as commander of Joint Task Force Katrina.
Nearly 20 years later, as storms grow stronger and climate disasters are becoming more frequent, Honoré says the lessons of Hurricane Katrina remain urgent: local leaders fail, warnings can be too late and people without resources are often left behind.
He retired in 2008 but remains an active crisis consultant, advising on flooding, wildfires and even the security failures of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
We’re totally unprepared for the next Katrina. What should we do? Trust the federal government and print more money.
Nearly 20 years later, as storms grow stronger and climate disasters are becoming more frequent,
One of the lies that will never die.
What’shisface did not become a household name. I’m pretty sure nobody I interacted with at the time ever mentioned him once.
Who? I don’t think they quite understand “household name”.
I’m sure “That guy who did that thing that time that we didn’t notice, don’t remember, and don’t talk about” counts as a household name
Katrina was a failure of local government and a culture that embraced dependency as opposed to self-sufficiency and accountability.
Look at you with your pithy, accurate analysis.
There’s no good money to be made with that sort of thing.
Stop lying.
I am not the least bit surprised that grifters can tell absurd lies like that. It is in their nature. What I find stunning are the people who buy it. I have an old relative who has lived here her whole life and she is in a panic over this bullshit.
“Goddammit you have lived here for 85 years and you cant remember the weather?”
A shockingly large percentage of the population seems to be addicted to disaster porn. They can’t be convinced otherwise.
Disaster porn.
AI will do that for you too.
Trust the federal government
I thought we couldn’t trust the federal government because of Trump? How on earth do they square that circle?
I have friends who say that the “deep state” is some silly conspiracy theory, and then 10 minutes later will say wise, career federal civil servants have hunkered down to ride out the Trump apocalypse and will right the ship once it has passed.
🤣
wise is not what I associate with other civil servants. “siloed, myopic, ossified, obstinant” maybe, but not wise.
I was there, as in wading around in that shit. I vaguely remember something about an Honore but it is such a common name here….so I dunno.
I cant believe they are still telling the ‘stronger more frequent’ lie. Talk about no shame….
I see this Honore dude is making change off of it still after all these years.
He was the “stuck on stupid” guy, as I recall.
Do you think that the city needed stronger levies to keep the water from pouring in the way it did? I’m asking because I remember hearing something about the levies breaking.
I think we’re pretty close to AI pron on demand.
I can undress women with my eyes without the aid of a computer.
Imagine the AI hallucinations.
😱
Handjobs from Kali?
In creating non-adult imagery, I have seen the AI produce sythetic nightmares far more disturbing and less coherent than something as tame as that, JI.
Ah, but how many fingers on each of Kali’s hands?
Barn find of the day: https://barnfinds.com/rare-gold-nugget-special-1968-ford-mustang/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_source=Newsletter+(Daily)&utm_medium=email&utm_sub=848715f32cb47bcba49313580211d258
I had never heard of the Gold Nugget special, but I do remember a few California Specials running around when I was growing up. Also, I think people in the states freak out way too much about rust. I have seen what the limeys do in a resto, and this is no issue for them.
Is that door completely gone?
And rust tends to imply rot tends to imply expensive/extensive work.
There are some colors not suited for cars. Yellow and orange are two of those. Before. you start showing me hot cars in those colors….dont. The answer is no. Just no.
You’re not my supervisor and you’re objectively wrong. 😛
https://www.auto123.com/en/car-reviews/2007-volkswagen-gti-fahrenheit-road-test/26622/
https://eurodubs.com/audi-s4-bojan-trile/
The General Lee haz a sad.
Bumblebee is sobbing right there next to him…
What about electric and neon colors?
Ford Grabber Orange crying manly tears, also, my ’78 Toyota SR5 liftback is right there with it.
https://www.mustangspecs.com/grabber-orange-1969-ford-mustang/
One more…https://www.audrainautomuseum.org/american-muscle/1969-pontiac-gto-2-door-hardtop-the-judge
Old school.
I had a 69 Camaro. Orange with white top. Looked similar to this:
https://www.hanksters.com/vehicles/2647/1969-chevrolet-camaro-ss-style#:~:text=comfort%20and%20style.-,It's%20powered%20by%20a%20350%20Small%20Block%20Chevy%20V8%20paired,aluminum%20intake%2C%20and%20Flowmaster%20exhaust.
Rust is a lot of work and a ton of money to fix right.
Katrina was a failure of local government and a culture that embraced dependency as opposed to self-sufficiency and accountability.
Building most of the city below sea level might not have been wise, in retrospect.
Tits, tits and more tits on Mammary Monday!
https://archive.is/YcTYE
Stuff nobody cares about but me:
Christian Rasmussen’s first win in IndyCar.
That car was loose.
Rebuke
Current and former FEMA officials are warning Congress that the Trump administration’s policies have undermined the nation’s ability to respond to natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina.
The message, in a public letter addressed to Congress and the White House’s FEMA review council, comes ahead of the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. The 181 signatories said that under President Donald Trump, FEMA has abandoned the reforms designed to correct the agency’s mistakes in responding to the 2005 hurricane.
“We the undersigned — current and former FEMA workers — have come together to sound the alarm to our administrators, the US Congress, and the American people so that we can continue to lawfully uphold our individual oaths of office and serve our country as our mission dictates,” they wrote in the letter.
Everything was perfect before Trump got here.
When did “Hurricane Katrina” stop becoming a shorthand for “The worst disaster response at all time and proof that Republicans are unfit for office?”
The federal government’s handling of that 2005 storm, the costliest in U.S. history, sparked a national conversation about FEMA’s role. It also shined a light on the nation’s preparedness for disasters that are becoming increasingly severe due to warming from climate change, which is fueling more destructive storms through hotter ocean temperatures, higher seas and heavier rainfall.
Obligatory boilerplate requirement fulfilled.
We were so much better prepared for the flooding in North(?) Carolina than we would have been without all that post-Katrina navelgazing.
FEMA learned to keep out private assistance.
Really horning in on AOC’s turf…
Mamdani has been truly blessed by having idiotic and corrupt opponents like Adams and Cuomo.
Still no excuse for NYC voters.
“Climate Change is Increasing the Strength and Frequency of Hurricanes”
Here is the graph they have to support that claim: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=frequency+and+strength+of+hurricanes+history&ia=images&iax=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fi0.wp.com%2Feverythingclimate.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F06%2Fhurricane_frequency_12months.png%3Ffit%3D1424%252C752%26ssl%3D1
I posted a video recently about wildfires…they are out of control and the world is burning! Some girl looks at the numbers…they are down in frequency and area burned…significantly.
Liars will lie.
But they are way up from before we had accurate tracking …
If it’s bright color you want
Mine was this color, but with a flat black hood.
I don’t want a satisfying or beautiful government website.
I want one that is slim, can be accessed with limited bandwidth and ideally that I never have to visit.
Try to fill out UCR, MCS-150, not only are the websites terribly designed but they should not exist. Most federal compliance sites should not exist.