Good morning one and all and to another great and Happy Birthday for my wonderful Sloopyinca!
DOJ Launches Grand Jury Investigation Into Russiagate Conspiracy
State Department to limit visa overstays by requiring applicants to post at least $5K bond
Trump Accumulates Wins on Supreme Court’s Emergency Docket—Key Takeaways
Texas Gov. Abbott Orders Arrest of Texas House Democrats Who Fled the State
Cornyn targets New York AG with new ‘LETITIA Act’ that cracks down on ‘crooked politicians’
SCOTUS to Consider Use of Race in Drawing Louisiana Election Map
Authorities Arrest Pastor For Allegedly Using Church As Immigration Fraud Center
Netanyahu Approves Plan For Israel To Fully Occupy Gaza Strip
Smartmatic Executive Accused Of Bribing Top Venezuelan Election Official
That’s all I got for today. I will leave you with a song, sending all my love to the Birthday boy.
HBD 🙂
Hear, hear
Human biodiversity?
Hybrid Bivalve Day?
HBD Sloopy!
$5K seems a bit much.
“Countries with the highest visa overstay rates in 2023 include Chad”
But not the Virgin Islands?
icwutudidthar
*prices of human smugglers increases by $5k*
Smugglers don’t use visas.
*prices of “college education” increase by $5k*
Smugglers don’t use visas.
Obviously
One Kilo of cocaine in Columbia: $12,500
First class airfare to the US from Bogota: $1750
Balloons and string for transporting ass cocaine: $2.47
Becoming a drug kingpin in Miami: Priceless
There are some things that money can’t buy, for everything else there’s Mastercard
It will be amusing if the grand jury doesn’t return charges, since so many are so sure that’s going to happen.
What if they do?
Then we’ll see if the prosecutor can convince a jury.
Now we talking…
I have a dream….
Hillary or Barack makes my vanity license plates!!
Texas Republicans are just rolling in stupid these days, aren’t they?
Why? Because the Texas constitution inclues clauses for the arrest of legislators who flee their duties?
I would say that redistricting in the middle of a census cycle is the stupid thing here.
Because they want to do the mid-cycle redistricting, and Cornyn’s proposed legislation. Abbott’s posturing is Olbermann-esque – dramatic squirrel shit.
And right when the Dems were on the cusp of flipping the state blue, too. Diabolical.
Okay, kindly point to where it says “Thou shalt only redistrict in Census years” with regards to Texas.
“Oh no, the sacred 2020 lines!”
“Because they want to do the mid-cycle redistricting”
*Laughs in Illinoisian*
kindly point to where it says
We should have Congressional districts at all. Show me that. We could have proportional representation from each state, every election, without any Constitutional issue. By god, THEN we’d have fair representation, right?
That’s nonsense JI. That would formally bake political parties into the consitution. Parties should be banned as treason.
Jesus UCS, parties are inevitable and protected – 1st Amdt: freedom of association and speech.
Freedom of association has been a dead letter since public accommodation laws were allowed to stand.
And they can still say whatever they want, they just have to stand as an individual candidate.
The host, who is listed as a “superhost” on Airbnb, did not respond to requests for comment. Airbnb has warned him that he violated the platform’s terms and could face removal if another similar report arises.
You get one case of fraud on our platform. Don’t do it again.
That surprised me too.
I couldn’t make heads nor tails of that image. And I hate reading. Did that article finally say what was damaged?
cracked coffee table and alleging that she had stained a mattress, damaged a robot vacuum cleaner, a sofa, a microwave, a TV, and an air conditioner
Nothing was damaged – the “host” faked some pictures in including a cracked table but there were two copies of that image and you can see the crack is different in each.
Attempted fraud.
The use of race in drawing congressional districts is unconsionable and racist. If I had to give a legal argument I’d say that it is a violation of the equal protection clause. But that’s just me picking something to support my preferred position of banning the use of any data other than the distribution of citizens.
But, how are POCs supposed to be able to guarantee electing people who look like them unless the districts are racially gerrymandered?
Because superficial appearance is what really matters.
Bar the Census Bureau from asking about race.
The constitution says count, not income, sex, race, or any of the other bullshit.
“Bar the Census Bureau from asking about race.”
And have them verify citizenship so they can disqualify those that are not.
No democrat will win elections anymore outside of criminally corrupt blue cities.
But it’s the good kind of racism which acknowledges that all non-whites think alike.
“But it’s the good kind of racism which acknowledges that all non-whites think
alikeDemocrat.”Fixed it for you.
I thought the good kind of racism was the kind where whites are the debil.
That runs into the problem that a lot of them like the devil. Whites are true evil, Satan is just misunderstood.
Big 😉
There shouldn’t be any mention of race in any law or public policy. Yet there are all of these government programs that are only for “minorities”.
“Law Enforcement Tools to Interdict Troubling Investments in Abodes”
They shouldn’t pass laws targeting one person.
It’s not – It’ll also get Schiff.
“Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn is expected to introduce a bill targeting New York Attorney General Letitia James, for allegedly using her position to increase her personal wealth by allegedly committing mortgage fraud.”
Yes, but Adam the Pencilneck is accused of the exact same type of fraud.
Isn’t the fraud that James committed already illegal?
Yes.
But if we make it MORE illegal, I’ll get lots of campaign contributions!!!
Then put her on double secret probation.
Not pass laws, but trolling is a hard YES!
“Despite the woman’s explanations and evidence, Airbnb failed to identify the apparent manipulation and ignored her concerns. It was only after the Guardian raised questions about the case that Airbnb reversed its decision. The company ultimately refunded the woman the full cost of her booking, totaling $5,700, and removed a negative review the host had left on her profile.”
The Guardian did something good.
Why wasn’t the host charged in a criminal complaint?
If she reported it to the NYPD, would they do anything?
Depends, is the accused an illegal?
Or would they use the place to house illegals?
Seems that would work as punishment.
Or would they use the place to house illegals?
Seems that would work as punishment.
Or Section 8 housing.
Why are you guys suggesting things that punish the property? The property did nothing wrong – punish the human.
Why refer to this person as “the host?” This kind of anonymous reporting annoys me. If someone deliberately falsified images to defraud a client, identify them clearly and bring shame upon their house! Blaming the platform for refusing to give the refund or review the case is perfectly fine, that would be their failure, but the underlying fraud was by the host and deserves to be called out far more than the failure to catch it or rectify it by the platform.
Been a while since I used AirBNB, but I believe the host names are hidden, so that AirBNB would need to release it (or the writer would have had to do some research).
Property ownership information isn’t that hard to find, two minutes would identify the person, company, or trust on title. I would assume a reporter would be too stupid to be able to get from the identity of the company or trust to the actual ownership, but at least id the company…
(((Jarflax:
But isn’t that what you worked with for a living?
Considering the amount of flat out incorrect information I see in reporting about phone systems, computers, and the like, I fully expect anything that even borders on technical/specialized knowledge to be 95% wrong in any news story.
I do as well. I do not suffer much Gell Mann Amnesia. I assume they are misunderstanding everything they aren’t lying about. That said, and admitting that yes, this is within my area of practice, it’s not that hard. County Auditor and Recorder information is public information, in almost all urban counties it is available online, either free, or for a nominal charge, and if a news organization does not have some public records search subscription like Been Verified, or a dozen others, they are a joke.
Ok, more of a joke.
Omitted in this obituary is that they are sources of dark money for liberals in domestic politics funded by the taxpayers of the US.
The Decline and Fall of NGOs
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-decline-and-fall-of-ngos-83117acf?st=A8Te3j&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Someone should link the meme saying that if you are an NGO – a non governmental agency – that went out of business when DOGE cut your USAID or other funding, then you were actually a GO – a governmental agency – and an illegal/criminal enterprise, and all involved needed to do jail time.
This is probably as close as we’ll get to the level of satisfaction the proles in France and Russia got to briefly experience when they just openly slaughtered their blue bloods.
As I said in the overnight thread, I listen to the sort of foreign broadcaster that back in the day would have been on short-wave. It’s amazing how all of the First World broadcasters consider it axiomatic that NGOs and so-called civil society groups are *the* people to go to to talk policy, and how those groups’ views are the correct ones.
https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/hochul-declares-war-amid-republican-20800832.php
Kath declares war on Republicans.
The purpose of a HoR delegation is to empower Democrats. This is what they actually believe. Representing voters? Fuck that noise. The Tax Cattle are too stupid to know what they want.
Don’t like aborting babies? You’re not a real NYer.
Like the Bill of Rights? GTFOOH.
Actually exercise your rights? Prison.
I seem to remember NY already did exactly what she is complaining about TX doing. But she is shameless so no biggie I guess.
There’s not a whole lot more they can squeeze out of New York. Maybe one. But that will go away when the next Census records the ongoing population drop.
I remember when Maryland Democrats went crazy gerrymandering and complained they weren’t able to eliminate the one remaining Republican district.
I was gonna say, what, they’re going to district out both Republicans in the state?
Ted’s reminded/corrected me about this yesterday. There was a Fed HoR gerrymander that failed, and a State Assembly gerrymander at the same time that succeeded.
NA: Almost. If memory serves, the sequence of events was
1) Team Blue appointees sabotage “independent” commission, as this sends redistricting to the legislature.
2) Team Blue legislative supermajority comes up with ridiculous gerrymander.
3) Judge rejects plan and appoints special master who designs 2022 districts.
4) Legislature claims this map was only supposed to be used for 2022, requiring them to draw a new map.
5) New map tweaks districts enough to give at least two of them a plurality of Team Blue voters (IIRC one on Long Island and Rhywun’s district), but not enough to get declared unconstitutional.
My understanding is that the Assembly and Senate districts are much worse. I’m also surprised they didn’t try to gerrymander Stefanik out of office.
Yeah, mine doesn’t do that so well anymore.
Also yeah, it’s a bit ridiculous that my district reaches around Albany to give it a handy.
Rhywun: The district used to be worse. It went from Beacon over in Dutchess County, be just narrow enough to get Binghamton (I’m assuming for the lefty SUNY staff), and then be narrow again to snake its way to your lefty college town.
The democrats are the sadly the party of the failed drama kids that feel a bullshit dramatic performance is better than akshually doing something that actually solves issues.
No one ever wants to solve issues. You can’t campaign on not having issues to get elected on. In that regard the Republicans are much better liars.
I have never wanted politicians to solve any issues. I am not retarded. Government is a necessary evil. To be kept small and treated like a redheaded step child to prevent what we have today. All I want are politicians that at a minimum will not create new problems. We have to clean out the problems we have now ourselves.
I have never wanted politicians to solve any issues.
That’s nice, you and a handful of people. We aren’t the average voter around here.
Federalism being controversial in 2025 is proof positive the Anti-Federalists had it right to begin with.
Some Va. families worry about impact of possible changes to bathroom policies
“gender diverse students”
Enough already.
“being pushed aside just because you’re trying to be a normal person”
Uh-huh
inmates/asylum
No, the problem is precisely that you’re trying NOT to be a normal person. Normal people go piss where people with the same sex organs piss.
As a proud geek and freak. If you’re not normal, that’s OK, but don’t expect people to treat you like they treat others. If you’re not willing to embrace that, maybe you really aren’t a geek or a freak, and just *gasp* normal (which is also OK, but doesn’t have any coolness).
Normal is fine, but being a poseur is never cool.
Agreed on all counts.
“the Department of Education is giving five Northern Virginia school districts more time to make those changes”
How fucking long does it take to change a policy?
Why is there still a department of education?
Because only an act of Congress can eliminate it.
https://x.com/SteveStuWill/status/1952658777649393880
hmmmm… 24A I guess….
bah, I thought there would be tiddies…
PAGING Q!!
https://x.com/TikTokBaddies/status/1952462041438183810
Q isn’t into A cups either.
I would tap that.. Que rico mami!
But are you into golf?
https://x.com/TikTokBaddies/status/1952151483215913045
and one more
https://x.com/TikTokBaddies/status/1951778345093341427
🤔
Golf is gay. You are supposed to put the pole in the hole, not the balls. Also too much playing with your putter. And yeah, I would tap that too.
… I don’t get it.
not surprising
It looks like someone is showing off their inability to cook.
2,3 , none (I hate coffee)
I knew there was something off with you!
I mean, who eats toast?
I mean, who eats toast?
Well, not me because “carbs” but 4 would be my preference.
Toast is the optimal delivery platform for butter.
Now we know who can’t close…
*fist bumps Pie*
That is the correct answer.
34A
3/-/a
Toast is for retards.
““He has no legal mechanism,” said Texas Rep. Jolanda Jones, one of the Democrat lawmakers who was in New York on Monday. “Subpoenas from Texas don’t work in New York, so he can’t come and get us. Subpoenas in Texas don’t work in Chicago. … He’s putting up smoke and mirrors.”
Hire ninjas?
Well, they might not be able to force you back immediately, but they can request extradition, and if you ever set foot back in texas, you land in the dock for everything that’s accrued during your absense.
Oh, now you tell me.
I’m wondering if “Full Faith and Credit” says otherwise.
It doesn’t. Courts have defined jurisdictions and have to act through local courts outside their jurisdiction. Presuming the Illinois court or New York court is unwilling to reissue the subpoena it won’t work to force them back.
If they were charged with a crime the Extradition Clause would apply.
True, but that would require actually charging them with a crime.
The subpoenas keep you from going back. An extended absence positions you nicely to forfeit your seat (yes, that is Texas law). At which point the governor appoints an interim representative.
Happy birthday, Sloopy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfy18ynhWNU
Happy B-day Sloop!
Happy birthday Sloopy
This is a travesty of justice. This guy was doing a public service, and now the corruptocracy wants to punish him. Burn it all down!!!
I though this was America!
He committed the cardinal sin – mockery.
At least it wasn’t used condoms in team colors
Indecent exposure? I get that most cops are dickless wonders, but you’d think they’d still be able to differentiate a dildo from an actual penis. Also, I don’t think you can criminally trespass in a public venue where you’ve paid for admission.
You can be tresspassed from a venue where you paid for admission, but the process is longer. It starts with a request to leave under the terms and conditions of the ticket, a refusal to leave under those terms, then the arrival of the police and a second refusal to leave (depending on jurisdiction)
I really hate that idiot formulation in cop speak. Only a place can be trespassed (upon). Trespassing is an act of the perpetrator, not a thing which happens to him.
“English as she is spoke”.
Isn’t that “English as zhe be talked” now?
“”Ex-NFLer LeShon Johnson was convicted of six felony counts related to his role in a federal dog-fighting bust earlier this year.
A federal jury in Oklahoma found the former Giants running back guilty last week of violating the federal Animal Welfare Act’s prohibitions against possessing, selling, transporting, and delivering animals to be used in fighting ventures, the Department of Justice announced on Monday.
Johnson will be sentenced at a later date and faces a maximum penalty of five years behind bars and a fine of up to $250,000 on each count.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/04/sports/ex-nfler-leshon-johnson-found-guilty-in-federal-dog-fighting-case-ever/
What’s with NFL players and dog fighting?
Anyway, law seems too broad. Cock fighting should be legal.
“Denmark zoo asks people to donate their pets as food for its predators”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/05/world-news/denmark-zoo-asks-people-to-donate-their-small-pets-as-food-for-captive-predators/
I have some pet politicans and NGO folks to donate.
The bigger predators are accustomed to bigger prey. I see a market for the wild hogs of the South.
Federal? Isn’t this a police power issue which is a state perogative?
SIV, is that you?
–“SIV, is that you?”–
I miss SIV and his links to his website. He definitely liked “foundation” garments.
Cock fighting should be encouraged.
“A Democratic Socialists of America leader boasted that the left-wing group helped write Zohran Mamdani’s radical trans rights platform — which pledges to turn the Big Apple into an “LGBTQIA+ Sanctuary City” and punish hospitals for not performing gender reassignment surgery on minors.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/04/us-news/dsa-leader-brags-he-helped-pen-zohran-mamdanis-radical-trans-rights-platform/
CWABOA
It’s always the fucking commies. Life’s losers hoping to use the power of government to make everyone as miserable as they are.
At the same time he is pretending to be a “moderate”. Love it, keep up the laughs.
Well to other commies he is probably too moderate.
As the mayor his Siberia will probably be on Staten Island and his camps will be near the landfills.
The landfills are parks now, so plenty of room for camps.
Except every day a new quote from his past comes out that’s in perfect alignment with communist principles.
He is a communist, and he’s going to win. What a world.
I hope Mamdani does win, and then the idiots who voted for him get what they voted for, good and hard. Stupidity should be painful.
No way… Unpossible. Peer reviewed!
Scientific Journals Can’t Keep Up With Flood of Fake Papers
‘Paper mills’ churn out fraudulent studies faster than publishers can retract them
https://www.wsj.com/science/scientific-journals-fake-paper-mills-92e42230?st=TgENhf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
At this point assume that if there is a political advantage to the globalists or they are getting research grants from government, that the papers are fake. You will be correct by a margin of at a minimum 99.95%.
But when the peers of the paper mills are also paper mills, there really is no control against junk papers.
You positively peer review mine, and I will positively peer review yours, bruh!
Peer review you say?
The NY Post is based.
Nice.
So…ALL of them?
do you eat oysters?
https://x.com/inkblotistan/status/1952351016344543467
an acquired taste it seems
Dogs don’t like seafood… I have a theory that happened evolutionarily because the ladies and peanut butter… never mind.
I suspect those to be raw, which makes them inedible.
Raw is the best way to eat oysters.
Fried is a close second.
Sometimes when my wife and I go to a good seafood place, I’ll get raw oysters as an appetizer and after my meal, I’ll order another set for dessert.
Just a little cocktail sauce is all you need.
Invertibrates of any variety are not meant to be eaten raw. It is the worst way to eat them except for live.
Oyster chowder is good.
chowder sounds fattening
It’s a form of soup. There are many varieties of chowder whose composition varies widely.
As a class, Chowder is no more specifically fattening than soup as a class.
roux and milk or cream seems like more calories than a soup without cream or flower or butter
My wife got me eating them sans cocktail sauce and you can really taste the difference between different oysters – same species but just the conditions even a mile or two apart (merroir [like terroir], as someone dubbed it) really make a difference.
Ah, the sweet nuances of flavor of the sewage in the water in different oyster beds.
You really need to stop eating gas station oysters, Jarflex.
This place is worth a visit for anyone near the South Shore
https://shop.islandcreekoysters.com/pages/the-raw-bar-at-island-creek-oyster-farm
slumbrew:
Keep in mind, flyover country is not well known for excellent seafood. When the NFL draft was here in Cleveland, the girlfriend and I went down one day. Chatted with visitors, talked trash, had fun. One of the groups I was chatting with had flown up from Florida, and were all excited because they had gotten reservations at what they were told was the best seafood in Cleveland.
I gave him a dead stare, and asked, “You came from Florida, with the ocean on either side, to Cleveland, where our rivers have caught fire, and think we’ll have good seafood?”
I then suggested they check out pierogi, German food, and the other stuff we have that is good.
Caught pre-cooked!
“You came from Florida, with the ocean on either side, to Cleveland, where our rivers have caught fire, and think we’ll have good seafood?”
Yes, that is insane. Know where you are, people.
I eat oysters frequently because they come from just a few miles away. I had 6 different varieties on Saturday, with the furthest away being Damariscotta, ME and the other 5 from the South Shore & the Cape.
OTOH, we don’t have enough good Polish food around here. Nor German.
OTOH, we don’t have enough good Polish food around here. Nor German.
Ever since the Bavarian in Hooksett, NH closed, I think there are no good German restaurants in New England.
Clearly they became New-Anglicized and renamed themselves Windsor.
slumbrew:
Hofbrauhaus is the worst German food in the city (that I’ve had, there may be a little place that’s worse), and it’s nearly obligatory for every restaurant out here to have pierogi and chicken paprikash on the menu. I will at least pimp out one local place that’s gotten up to national distribution: Cleveland Kitchen (formerly Cleveland Kraut).
“‘Pornographic’ mermaid statue is to be removed in Denmark after it was deemed ‘a man’s hot dream of what a woman should look like’ due to its large breasts
Politiken’s art critic, Mathias Kryger, branded the statue ‘ugly and pornographic’, while Sorine Gotfredsen, a priest and journalist, wrote in the newspaper Berlingske: ‘Erecting a statue of a man’s hot dream of what a woman should look like is unlikely to promote many women’s acceptance of their own bodies.’
She said it was encouraging to know that many people find the statue ‘vulgar, unpoetic, and undesirable, because we’re suffocating in overbearing bodies in public space’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14971353/Pornographic-mermaid-statue-removed-Denmark-deemed-mans-hot-dream-woman-look-like-large-breasts.html
Make Sydney Sweeney Queen of Greenland.
Will they replace it with a statue of a merman pretending to be a mermaid?
Beat me to it.
If you have been to a Starbucks recently they have a few of those now.
Nah, they’ll replace it with one of those fat black woman statues.
those are some nicely sculpted breasts
Grants have been given for less important work.
Does it make me a bad person for thinking anyone who unironically says the words
“we’re suffocating in overbearing bodies in public space”
should be tarred, feathered, and ridden out of town on a rail?
“we’re suffocating in overbearing bodies in public space”
Well, somebody is suffocating and overbearing, all right.
Doesn’t seem like those are unnatural proportions. She’s no Jessica Rabbit.
I’ll take it.
Bearded Dragon!!!!!
Iguana!!!!!
What, I thought we were yelling random reptiles?
I am glad you went first cause I thought it was about the beard, and my response would have been… never mind.
-1 Tegu
I stopped by the Reptile room when I was in Salt Lake, met the Tegu, but not the human.
You guys are making Jeff Bezos hungry.
Starrs, 48, has been CEO of Topgolf International, a subsidiary of Topgolf Callaway Brands, since 2021. Before that, he was the global CEO of Pizza Hut.
Sure, why not.
Harley-Davidson Names Topgolf Leader as New CEO
https://www.wsj.com/business/harley-davidson-names-topgolf-leader-as-new-ceo-738bfd97?st=3TCfG2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
how much profit did Topgolf make since 2021?
They blew up EPS spectacularly in 2024. Too lazy to research why.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MODG/financials/
No idea, a couple have opened out here, and a local brewery (Brew Kettle) has even partnered with them.
They must not have heard Jaguars CEO is now available.
I would have laughed out loud if that’s where he wound up.
“We must transition away from beardos in leather jackets as a customer base. Harley for a modern audience”
They will produce only trikes so as to meet the demands of its new target customers. Bonus if they make them electric.
A real go-getter with a proven track record of success.
Grabs popcorn.
New York Post to Expand Into California With L.A.-Based Publication
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/new-york-post-media-to-launch-the-california-post-in-2026-12a17fe2?st=4VQZJz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Studies of income and regime type typically contrast democracies and autocracies, ignoring heterogeneity in the character of authoritarian regimes. We focus on the consequences of personalist rule, where power is concentrated in an individual or small elite. Extending the dynamic panel strategy of Acemoglu, Naidu, Restrepo, and Robinson (2019), we estimate the differential growth performance of democracies, institutionalized autocracies, and personalist autocracies. Across eight GDP series, eight autocracy codings, and six measures of personalism, we observe a consistent pattern: Whenever an “autocratic penalty” emerges, it is concentrated in personalist regimes. The growth performance of institutionalized dictatorships, in contrast, is statistically indistinguishable from that of democracies. We document evidence that the “personalist penalty” is driven by some combination of low private investment, poor public-goods provision, and conflict. These findings emphasize the analytic payoff of unpacking autocracy and highlight the different incentives facing leaders with narrow and broad bases of power.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w34093
“Our model says our post-stalinist totalitarian bureaucracy where we are in charge makes us the most wealth. Dig the trenches, bigot”
Under democracy rich people have power, and some will abuse it. Under collectivism only the powerful have wealth, and they will keep it so.
That’s all by design…
I’m not buying the idea that democracy is opposite to collectivism. It’s the constitutionalist limitations on the republic that avoid collectivism, not the democratic elections.
Fair point. I should not have used democracy, which is by design a horrible form of government. A republic is the thing, but the saying came from someone that used democracy to set the distinction back in the day.
Sounds like they’re trying to prove the soviets would have worked if Stalin hadn’t taken over with his cult of personality.
In other boob news,
“Kylie Jenner nearly spills out of her tiny yellow bra as she reveals she’s learning Spanish
In the clip shared to Instagram, she was heard saying, ‘Me llamo Kylie Jenner’ which translates to, ‘My name is Kylie Jenner’. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14971409/Kylie-Jenner-nearly-spills-tiny-yellow-bra-reveals-shes-learning-Spanish.html
facepalm.jpg
that is not that tiny
Ok, maybe it is time to face the fact that we’re just too stupid to have republican forms of government.
Attention whore whores for attention is not exactly news.
Pamphlets
@PamphletsY
Stalin Killed 6,000.000 people.
5,500,000 were Nazis.
500,000 were CounterRevolutionaries.
https://x.com/PamphletsY/status/1952247125149913336
Dental Economics
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
I go to Guatemala City for dental work. I just had the posts put in there for three implants. The bone has to grow around the posts to make them solid. In six months I’ll fly again from Washington DC to Guatemala to get the actual teeth installed.
But why Guatemala? Because Francisco Marroquín University, a wonderful and liberal private university, where I am an honorary professor, and where I have lots of friends, has a superb school of dentistry.
But why not here in the U.S.? Because exactly the same procedure, less well done, costs in the U.S. fully four times more. It’s why “medical tourism” expands.
American medical care of all sorts is tied up in strong monopolies enforced by the government. The Federal, state, and local governments protect dentists, doctors, nurses, hospitals, pharmacies, drug companies, medical insurance companies, and anyone else who might want to cure you of what ails you.
I think capitalism is to blame rather than government. But indeed it seems to me – not knowing for certain – that the price of dentistry in the u es of a is a tad on the high side
“I think capitalism is to blame…”
*groan*
Jeebus. I dont even know what to say.
that it was sarcasm?
“Former CNN host Jim Acosta was lambasted on social media Monday after publishing what he called a “one of a kind interview” with the AI-generated version of a victim of the 2018 Parkland school shooting.
Acosta spoke with the recreation of Joaquin Oliver, who would have been celebrating his 25th birthday on Monday. Acosta said prior to the conversation with the computer program, “Joaquin Oliver died in the Parkland school shooting in Florida back in 2018, but his parents, Manuel and Patricia, have created an AI version of their son to deliver a powerful message on gun violence. Manny asked me if I’d like to be the first reporter to have the chance to interview Joaquin,” who went by the nickname “Guac.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/absolute-insanity-ex-cnn-host-jim-acosta-interviews-ai-recreation-of-teen-killed-in-parkland-shooting
This is a durian.
These fucking lunatics keep having to make up the reality they want.
You are not helping me overcome my skepticism about democratic elections Tater!
“Reason Magazine senior editor Robby Soave wrote, “This is so insane and evil. It should never be done. I’m speechless.””
Someone needs to do a seance so the spirit of the deceased can contradict the AI
It would be hilarious to have someone program a different Parkland victim that said “While my death was unfortunate and possibly avoidable, the blame lies with the shooter and not with the gun.”
I look forward to when AIs are interviewing AIs for their AI audience.
Wait, that isn’t the source of all podcasts?
This rings a bell. This kind of thing has been done before but I cant remember how.
This is the “We can all agree that…” tactic writ large.
It is jaw-dropping mendacity….but then – Jim Acosta
No, we can’t agree, because your premise is fundimentally wrong.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/g-s1-64640/ai-impact-statement-murder-victim
This tactic is called “Making your mark think past the sale”. You create a preposterous premise and state it is true, then argue about what should be done, since you have laid the foundation that it is true regardless of evidence for or against it.
Yeah, the judge should be off the bench for allowing that.
The Computer is not the dead person and cannot present itself as though it is. If the family wants to say “we forgive the monster” they should do so personally. If the lawyer wants to pull such shenanigans, they should be disbarred.
Christ, this makes me think Alex Jones is sane and maybe his allegation of the whole thing being a fiction could be true.
Wrong school shooting.
Flooding in India has led to widespread destruction
Rescue teams were deployed to India’s Himalayan region after flash floods devastated a mountain valley, with at least four people missing.
Video show muddy water sweeping away buildings in Dharali, Uttarakhand.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1952683119628189892
damn nature you scary
Sidney Sweeney made me $1,173.50. Bless her boobs!
You had AE stock?
I bought $400 worth of short date calls at $12.50 last Thursday and sold them yesterday for $1600, the $26.50 is fees and commissions on the options.
🤑👍
“Now? Well, welcome to Australia in 2025, where the new Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill has galloped through Parliament like a runaway Shetland pony, banning under-16s from social media. This is a full-blown digital eviction. And the ban isn’t limited just to TikTok and Snapchat. It also extends to YouTube (yes, YouTube), where apparently autoplay is now considered a gateway drug.
And how will they enforce this sweeping national grounding? Age verification, of course. Potentially through facial recognition. Not for the kids, mind you; they’ll simply be locked out. It’s everyone else who’ll need to prove they’re not children. Because nothing says “welcome to adulthood” like having to scan your actual face just to post a birthday shoutout or watch a slow-cooker recipe reel. All to reassure a tech platform that you’re not a rogue 14-year-old with strong opinions and a ring light….”
https://thefreemanmag.substack.com/p/australias-brave-new-ban-on-social
WTF, Australia?
Scrap everything there except banning autoplay.
FB is now doing ID scans.
And it will still ban you if it thinks you are not human.
Social media is long past its plateau either by its own hand or by the state
In positive Australian news after looking for these for far too long (over a decade) stateside I finally found a seller that would ship them from Australia.
They are a very strong, no nonsense welders magnet. Much stronger hold than the yellow ones all the local shops carry. https://aandswelding.com.au/products/welders-magnetic-square?srsltid=AfmBOooYOxcGLWGaZTTOoDMkOGlZ1yKQvFv3-GtEvMl5IjKRuYEmHvcR
Have fun paying the import duty.
One online calculator gives an import duty of zero. May not be keeping up with OMB’s Trade Chaos(tm), though.
I ran into an issue with the online MGM sports book here in Ohio. They decided that my phone number was no longer one they liked, and therefore, they couldn’t send me MFA codes. Well, that meant I couldn’t log in, so I asked how to change the phone number. The brain dead morons at MGM asked me to take pictures of my state issued ID (front and back), my SS card, and then to EMAIL THEM THE PICTURES! They also said I would need to do this to close my account or withdrawal all funds to the account that deposited them.
So I asked about going into one of the local MGM sports books here, they told me that those were different, and couldn’t give me my funds, nor could they update my phone number. It took about two months and several threats of lawsuits (and several messages sent into the Ohio gaming commission) to get them to close my account and give me back my money.
This was just before they had their massive data breach that shut down their hotels for a week or so. Couldn’t have happened to a dumber and worse run company.
The first time I ran into an ID scan was at Kroger buying beer, the cashier asked to see my ID (I’m obviously in my 40s) and instead of looking at the date on it flipped it around and scanned it.
I was pissed.
Won’t shop there again.
Threedoor:
That’s not a scam, the barcodes on the back of the IDs contain the information on the front, and are a way to check them instead of looking at them (which leads to a fairly simple way to do fake IDs if you know a place only scans).
In my case, email is not a secure communication method at all. You do not send anything you want to keep private via email.
Do not store digitally any information you want to keep private.
Were you winning? I’ve heard from a number of people that these gambling sites restrict or ban people for betting too well.
He’d successfully rigged a dozen games of curling.
Common Tater:
I am up across the board with my sports betting. Each season, I look for the best promos, sign up, deposit the minimum to get the most promos. Bet the promos, withdraw the initial deposit once the initial bets clear, and play with the winnings.
I am a unicorn in that sense.
That’s not the business model of the gambling industry. You’re supposed to bet wildly until you’re out of money.
They’re giving the UK a run for their money at going full-speed Soviet.
Excellent NY Post cover:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2025/08/AUGUST05.P1_LCF.jpg
Try again:
https://nypost.com/cover/august-5-2025/
yes it was… covered above
Ah, is this one of those X links I can’t access?
probably
The content is available to adult humans. Twitter has determined you’re not human, but a well-dressed rat.
Happy birthday Sloop! I appreciate all the links contributors, that is a big commitment but it’s the bread and butter of this site.
Agreed! Happy birthday Sloopy, you whippersnapper! May you have a lovely day.
Happy birthday tooo slooo
Air bib thing…..It’s the guardian. They have a perfect record of never telling the truth about anything whatsoever. How verified is this story? No criminal complaint? No names ?
Just sayin’.
Is it “Jimmy’s World” level?
So as my tour of Japan winds down, I was finally able to arrange a fishing charter out of Aomori (the northern tip of Japan’s main island Honshu). I and two other guys set off on a well-appointed boat, complete with a mate and a cabin steward who had a blender and provided us with as many frozen cocktails as we wanted.
Our quarry was what the locals call Gindara (銀鱈), which translates to “Silver Cod”. Indigenous to these waters, not found in the U.S., and damned tasty, from what they tell me.
The drinks kept coming, then the bite turned on just as a squall hit us. The mate was frantically trying to help us land fish while simultaneously passing out jackets so we wouldn’t get soaked to the bone.
But I was in my element. ‘Cause I like piña coladas, and getting cod in the rain.
Awesome.
(-.-)
I’m glad that you had a good time, you always enjoying nipping at puns.
He spends too long on the setup and it spoils the punch line.
銀だら, 銀鱈, 銀ダラ ぎんだら
sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria), black cod, Japanese bluefish, North Pacific bluefish, candlefish, sable, blue cod, coal cod, coalfish, beshow, skil, skilfish
Seem to be Pacific versions that may be available in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sablefish
Wiki says imported to Japan. Perhaps a different fish called that locally in the area where you were fishing.
Well… sake to me.
I’m now the laugh-in stock of the board this morning.
Must have been a Master Baiter involved in this tale.
Also be happy you were in the north.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/japan-sets-record-high-temperatures-worries-mount-over-rice-crops-2025-08-05/
107 in freedom units.
But they just signed a deal to buy rice from US producers, so they should be fine in agregate, unless consumers don’t want it.
*rice supply, not temperature related health problems.
“The Trump administration is reportedly weighing two proposals to remove China from critical U.S. supply chains. One option involves negotiating a rare earth mineral trade deal directly with the Myanmar junta. The other, and potentially more strategic, approach is to bypass the junta entirely and engage with the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), a powerful ethnic armed group that controls resource-rich territory and has been fighting the junta since it nullified Myanmar’s democratic election and seized power in 2021.
Engaging with the junta risks legitimizing a brutal regime responsible for widespread atrocities, including airstrikes and ground assaults on civilians, hospitals, schools, refugee camps, and villages. Signing a deal with the junta could be perceived as endorsing its rule. In contrast, partnering with the KIO would send a powerful signal that the United States recognizes the de facto legitimacy of the revolutionary forces now functioning as local governments across much of the country….”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/trumps-decision-could-break-chinas-rare-earth-leverage/
Make Sydney Sweeney Empress of Burma
Oh great another clusterfuck to stick our dick into.
Brilliant, Donald. 🙄
Why not just dig them up around here? We have plenty, and there’s apparently a bunch of laid off public sector workers in need of work. Give them shovels and pickaxes and get them digging.
This. The only thing that makes sense to me is that we exploit resources everywhere but here so that when they run short we will be the only ones left with that resource?
It seems stupid but I cant think of any other reason to go fucking around in ooga-booga for things we have plenty of right here.
^This. The USA has plenty of Rare earth deposits, we just can’t mine them because Gaia or something.
Apparently Gaia doesn’t give a shit about open pit mines anywhere but the US, or something.
“Incredible moment migrants are detained on Spanish beach after being tackled to the ground by tourists”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14971691/Incredible-moment-migrants-detained-Spanish-beach-tackled-ground-tourists.html
Start asking questions unexpectedly.
“migrants”
🙄
I think we should just start calling them Rape Invaders.
“Didn’t we kick you guys out 500 years ago?”
Hope you are all having a good week. I got to see my youngest and her husband last weekend. We had to drive 4 hours each way but we a nice day, we made lunch and then went to a great German festival in Jasper, IN. He got me the red, white, and blue Hot Wheels wheelchair from a Toys R Us in Malaysia. Today she’s back in Seattle and he should be back on the ship about now, about halfway through his deployment.
I have to see pictures of this thing.
Seconded
This is it, I already had the green one. I think we were talking about Nitro Circus here in the last week or two. The wheelchair stunt guy is Aaron Wheelz, and it’s part of his Hot Wheels line.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Hot-Wheels-Aaron-Wheelz-Fotheringham-64-250-3-5/15171018146
Neat!
Excellent!
Nice 🙂
1,500 words on why we knowingly make execution difficult.
Tennessee plans to execute inmate amid concerns his heart implant will shock him repeatedly
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/us/byron-black-execution-tennessee-death
I’m not seeing the concern. Unless they want to crack him open, take the implant out and dedicate the heart to the Aztec gods.
Okay. Roll out the guillotine.
Problem solved! But who cleans the mess?
I guess we designate a system where the next condemned cleans the mess, and the one after pulls the lever. So when it’s your turn you pull the lever on the guy two spots ahead of you, then clean up the guy just before you.
No, you get Elon Musk to train one of his robots to clean up the mess. You could probably have one do the execution too.
No no no no no!
Killing humans is a human’s job. You do not get robots accustomed to it.
Thank you, Grumbletarian.
“I’ve been with my wife for 12 years. She recently admitted she has had many more sexual partners than me, more than 50 for sure, but it could be 100. She has only had a couple of long-term relationships. I didn’t think the number bothered me: I didn’t know her then, it was before we got together and we can’t change the past. However, we hardly ever have sex (only once every three to four months) and her sex drive dropped off a cliff after our first child was born almost 10 years ago. She says it’s the stress of children but I can’t help feeling she just doesn’t find me attractive any more. Rightly or wrongly, I now feel upset that she was willing to have sex with so many people before me but doesn’t want to have sex with me.”
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/aug/05/my-wife-had-more-than-50-sexual-partners-why-wont-she-sleep-with-me
Um…
Dude, you married a whore past her prime who latched on to you for security.
Yep. You’re the paycheck. She’s still fucking around. Whether the kid is just a fashion accessory, I couldn’t say.
Concur…
This guy sounds Beta as fuck. He didn’t figure this shit out beforehand?
Harsh. Accurate but harsh.
I am standing on the side of a road at Endoftheearth, Nowhere waiting for my ride. Some dude just appears out of thin air and stands next to me. We say hello then just stand there silently for about ten minutes. I assumed he thought he was going to get a ride as well because that is the custom there.
So, after a long silence he says “I have a mushroom on my dick. ”
“Oh? Why are you telling me that?”
“You are a gringo and you might know what it is”
“Ah. You should see a doctor but my guess is syphilis” *nearest doctor is about two days trip*
“It cant be syphilis, I have never cheated on my wife.”
*uncomfortable silence*
“I see. You better go see the doctor then.”
Are Gringos innately more knowledgable on the matter of venereal disease than those who would call them gringos?
It’s Gringo tricknology to begin with.
Si
I think gringos are innately more knowledgeable about how his wife spends her spare time.
The knowledge assumed in the dialog is related to the disease, not the infidelity.
Also, at that time in that place the diet is almost entirely rice. Half of the people there wore clothing made of rice sacks that had “A gift from the people of the United States – Crowley, Louisiana” printed on them. I got a kick out of that. Mommy doesnt have any protein in her diet, baby barely gets any protein in his/her diet, the average injun there never meets more than 100 people in their lives, they dont spend one second sitting in a classroom and they are born, live and die inside of about 100 square miles. Their brains are about half the size of ours and they never put anything in it. There a gringo is thought of as a magic god, at least then. By the time we left there they all wanted to kill us.
Grassroots Democrat-ocracy
Audience members yelled, jeered and booed throughout the event, with chants of “free Palestine” and “tax the rich” and, during the town hall’s conclusion, calls to “vote him out.” When Flood tried to engage with audience members on those topics, he was largely met with more protests.
Attendees asked at least three different questions about the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, specifically about Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz,” which one person called “Alligator Auschwitz.”
Inquiring about the immigration detention facility in Florida, an attendee asked Flood, “How much do taxpayers have to pay for a fascist country?” Flood responded that the majority of Americans voted for Trump and not for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
“Americans voted for a, for a border that is secure, and I support the president enforcing our immigration laws, which, by the way, were written by Congress,” he added, prompting more boos.
The Nebraska Democratic Party encouraged people to attend Flood’s town hall, telling voters in the 1st Congressional District on social media, “you know what to do!”
Winning friends and influencing people.
This “BLS chief” thing is so dumb. Nobody ever heard about this department before now.
If you were in the financial markets you did.
“How much do taxpayers have to pay for a fascist country?”
“Well, you paid $XXBB for the FBI over the last four years.”
These ‘protesters’, did anyone ask them how much they were paid and if they were given a ride or not?
No one ever seems curious about who is behind these things.
Spoiled children. I wonder how much they were paid to attend.
If we are so fascist why am I not being entertained by video of leftist protestors having their heads bashed?
That Danish zoo should work a deal with American prisons to alleviate the backlog on Death Row.
Do you want blue states to feed Christians to lions?
This “BLS chief” thing is so dumb. Nobody ever heard about this department before now.
Nobody even blinked at the massive downward revisions during Biden’s administration, as long as they got their happy headline number.
Yeah, the BLS numbers have been a joke forever.
I don’t understand why the don’t use IRS data for employees. Under the payroll tax, the IRS has very solid data on that front. Bigger companies pay every other week, smaller ones pay monthly, if memory serves.
This doesn’t cover self-employed people, but would be a shitload better than the surveys they use now.
Over the course of my career, I filled in numerous “requests” from government statistical gathering bodies. I spent an appropriate amount of time filling in swag (silly wild ass guess) numbers just to get it off my desk (that’s if it couldn’t be trashed immediately because it was a “voluntary” report.)
I remember having to fill out a form listing our homeless patients for the census awhile back.
Nearly all of them had something listed for a home address (and it wasn’t “the I10 overpass at Ajo Way”). And the only reason I know that is because the census form asked for the home address for homeless people.
*shrugs, clicks “send”*
If they used IRS data they couldn’t employ 100,000 unionized people in the department of redundancy department.
A not insignificant chunk of the market has been complaining about the volatility for years.
Random Reddit chart that may or may not be properly sourced and constructed, but is what I wanted to show:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1mf08pa/oc_historical_revision_to_blss_preliminary/
Interesting. Paid search that does its own indexing. For example, DuckDuckGo uses Bing’s data.
Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/enough-is-enough-i-dumped-googles-worsening-search-for-kagi/
Has anybody tried the service?
I trust no internet search engine. They are all rigged. The sad truth is unless you ask for very specific things to reduce the search result volume you have to comb through, you will get pages of bullshit burying & hiding things they do not want you to see/know. And I suspect we will soon have Ai filter out the results they don’t want you to get altogether.
Pay to remove the AI which is sometimes useful?
Pass.
They have an AI option.
The question is, is the AI more useful than not? Really, the question is, are the search results more usable or not?
Yeah good question. Everyone else’s search results are becoming garbage.
The south shall rise again
A bronze statue of a Confederate general that was torn off its pedestal in Washington’s Judiciary Square by demonstrators during the civil justice protests in 2020 will be restored and reinstalled, the National Park Service said Monday.
Albert Pike was the only Confederate leader memorialized with an outdoor statue in Washington until it was toppled in the protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd, which sparked a nationwide reckoning with racism and calls for the removal of monuments to the Confederacy.
But the National Park Service says it’s obligated to restore the Pike statue by executive orders issued by President Donald Trump, including one calling for “restoring truth and sanity to American history” as under well federal preservation law.
“The restoration aligns with federal responsibilities under historic preservation law as well as recent executive orders to beautify the nation’s capital and re-instate pre-existing statues,” the park service said in a statement announcing its plan.
They should have melted it down for dildos while they had the chance.
It shouldn’t take an executive order for the National Park Service to repair vandalism damage.
But it was “good” vandalism.
I’ll bet a judge tries to block it from being fixed.
A “nationwide reckoning with racism” that included tearing down multiple statues in my hometown dedicated to Frederick Douglass.
How about we discard the flapdoodle about “nationwide reckoning with racism” and call it what it really was. Rioting for rioting’s sake.
That is wrong on so many levels.
This. Taking race into account for any reason whatsoever….ok maybe not in medical treatment…..is racism. All of the whining and spaghetti logic in the world doesnt change that.
The statue riots were about erasing history so we can reach the glory of year zero. I dont know why no one seems to be pointing out that these people are dogmatic Alinskyites.
It was nice when they defaced the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment memorial.
Morons.