Just one weekend into the EPL season, and both teams on Merseyside have me excited about their possibilities. For very different reasons. College football is just four days away! The Astros really picked a hell of a time to suck ass. Fortunately they’re not alone. And I guess that’s about it for sports.
Yeah, it’s all his fault! Nevermind the price increases, fallout from covid, changing demographics, and lack of interesting things to do relative to other places. It’s all orange man.
This is a showdown I hope the aforementioned Orange Man wins. Although I’m skeptical he has the right to do so, even though the executive branch, through the DOJ, has had the ability to control how several states carry out their election procedures since 1965.
Let’s see how this one plays out. I’m willing to bet she doesn’t get the same scrutiny as an adult that those on the right, like Kyle Kashuv, got for tweets when he was 16. It will be (D)ifferent somehow.
There’s something in this story for everybody. I’m sure somebody out there can fix her. Maybe even one of you!
I’ve got a more permanent solution they can try. It doesn’t involve fencing, but it does involve erecting things made of wood. Wait, that doesn’t sound right. Anyway, just lock them all up.
Jesus, where were the parents? Kid was obviously crazy as shit and they let him keep access to guns? Also, since the kid is crazy, he should be locked up.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Good. Fuck em!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! (PART 2) Good. Fuck that broad.
“Well, this is obviously bullshit.” -Piggy
You brought this on yourselves. People base perceptions on your previous actions. Of course the other side is gonna play on that.
“It’s a real term.” No it isn’t you stupid fucks.
This doesn’t sound like tolerance tho me. But it was never about that to begin with, was it?
I’m doing one “hit” wonders again today. Last time invited a bunch of criticism. I’m sure it will this time as well. So go ahead and do your worst. But not until you enjoy both tracks.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday too, my friends.
Green farts?
They’re just links. Breathe in deeply.
From blue ham?
“This is a showdown I hope the aforementioned Orange Man wins. Although I’m skeptical he has the right to do so, even though the executive branch, through the DOJ, has had the ability to control how several states carry out their election procedures since 1965.”
The people that rig elections will not give up this cheat without a real fight, but we need to ban these because these mail in ballots are ripe for crookery.
Yeah, this would be yuuuger than anything else he might accomplish.
Only if it’s through legislation. If done through EO, it’ll just be undone by the next team blue President. And they’ll go even father if given the power.
Shouldn’t it be done by State legislatures?
Congress holds the power for Federal elections. No, no, state houses should not be allowed to do this. They will keep doing the same old BS.
See WA CA and OR.
“There’s something in this story for everybody. I’m sure somebody out there can fix her. Maybe even one of you!”
Yeah, that is a whole lot of crazy right there, but….
31, pregnant, unmarried and doing bunny boiler level stuff with her ex…. yeah… that’s just a burgeoning new mother looking to add to society right there, let me tell you.
Even if I weren’t married… pretty sure my “Run away!” instincts would have kicked in way before hearing the whole story.
But have you seen her enormous bosoms? That’s got to count for something.
What’ll happen to them once the kid pops out though?
Her mugshot is the most flattering pic.
Not bad looking but not good looking enough to overlook that level of crazy. Q can have her.
“Just off the strip, there’s been no slowdown at the Pinball Museum, which showcases games from the 1930s through today. Manager Jim Arnold said the two-decade-old attraction is recession-proof because it’s one of the few places to offer free parking and free admission.”
Are you a wizard?
Or, maybe it’s that there’s a pinball renaissance going on? I’m aware of at least four places around here that have pinball games and pinball leagues.
Because pinball is sweet.
And they likely take coins.
Slots that don’t take coins are soulless.
Some music from a couple of pinball machines:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRT7Lz5YKoInVYpUKQSXDSLi2Q3GA_vk3&si=eJPMA4BgX3MA30SG
That’s a great machine.
If I had the cash and the room I would order one.
““Well, this is obviously bullshit.” -Piggy”
I have convinced several ladies I had the cure to whatever ailed them as well….
““It’s a real term.” No it isn’t you stupid fucks.”
Yeah, I knew we would end up with shit like that when parents stopped parenting…
People who play certain wind instruments, like the didgeridoo, may find it easier to breathe while sleeping, according to emerging research.
A new randomized controlled trial suggests that blowing through a conch shell is another option for keeping our airways clear when we sleep, reducing the risk of a condition known as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
You’d think they’d be trumpeting this from the rooftops!
Unfortuately, scientists aren’t the types to toot their own horns.
The whole article blows.
Only a bassoon would believe that.
Article is a bit long winded
If I could toot my own horn, I wouldn’t get ANYTHING done.
“It’s a real term.”
Greysexual is sex with old people.
Or sex with people who are really into London New Wave.
Or floozy fans of the Minbari ruling council.
That video is absolute magic. Man, I miss the 80s.
I still want Perri Lister so badly. The way her lip-synching makes her throat flex puts bad ideas in my mind.
Is there a rule about that?
Geriatrics need love too.
Re: Yosemite, I watched Untamed. it was meh. The portrayal of the hobos seemed remarkably accurate. I’m sure there’s some more proper term, but in lifestyle they’re pretty much circuit Rennies/Deadheads
I thought Untamed was set in South Africa.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0048767/
If you want to watch a movie about hobo’s, try Emperor of the North Pole. Fuckin’ Lee Marvin!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G86I_tp8Z6g
Fuckin’ Ernest Borgnine too.
Jesus, where were the parents?
Busy getting killed?
Dan Beeson, a graysexual man from London, described it to Cosmopolitan UK as a kind of sexual hibernation. “I can go months without any desire,” he said. “Then one day I wake up and it’s back.”
Translation: I’m gay, but I repress it except for those times that I have an overwhelming urge to put a dick in my mouth.
Come again?
That’s what she said…
They should call them Moundsexuals. Because “sometimes they feel like a nut, sometimes they don’t.”
JFC how tedious.
We have a perfectly good word already for all of that imaginary nonsense: Narcissist.
Or “depressed.” Get your medication adjusted, get more exercise, and go outside once in a while…
That’s the thing. Most people through most of human history were introspective about their mental health. If they felt “off,” they looked for solutions, like exercise or finding an activity they enjoyed. This current generation goes the opposite direction and creates labels for themselves to justify their “off-ness” and embraces it like a badge of honor, rather than seeking out solutions to it.
It’s bizarre. They don’t want to be better versions of themselves. They wallow in their misery and want to be noticed, even applauded, for it.
I don’t get it either. Being miserable isn’t particularly fun.
The inevitable result of the “everyone is a unique and special snowflake” method of raising the last generation or two.
Don’t forget social credit. They’ve been raised in a system where vicitimhood grants extra social status. But if you are straight, white, and economically comfortable, you need status points less you become The Oppressor and not An Ally.
Only your puns are gay.
Translation.
I’m a vegetarian.
Well, one of them was apparently deadly serious about the whole thing.
My first impulse was to find a Kermit joke, but frogs are external fertilizers.
“This story brought to you by the lonely sea snail community… blow us daily!”
Tired of seals getting all of that action?
“The teen said his mother had struck him with a belt, according to an adult certification order. He was running from his parents when he picked up a handgun sitting on top of a dryer and fired backward, but “denied any knowledge of hitting anyone,” the record said.”
Laundry is serious business.
Laundry day is a very dangerous day.
There are two appropriate places for a gun. Sitting on top of the clothes dryer isn’t either of them.
Also, probation? Really?
Obviously, your shower gun should be stainless and you freezer gun needs to be hammer fired. I’m not sure what would be the best dryer gun, but do NOT pick a Glock for your broiler gun. Just sayin’
I knew a guy who kept a gun in the freezer. Figured no one would look there.
Gen Z needs to shut the stupid apps down, touch grass and talk to each other already. I suspect all these stupid demi-sexualities will settle out if they actually start to make human connections again.
Or they’ll salt each other’s gas tanks or something. Still better than being a lame ass “gray sexual”.
They want to be special, but not so special they are actually an individual. That makes them keep micro-dividing traits that are a continuous spectrum so that they can be special in nested groups rather than face the ugly truth that they are individuals, and so is everyone else. Sexuality involves a bunch of aspects and, as should be very obvious if you have ever dated, everyone is a bit different in terms of what they like, dislike, desire, and fear. It’s scary to be an individual, there’s no one around to tell you if you are doing it right, but if you create these micro-categories then you have a club with a name and everything.
Ah, the some might say school of “journalism”.
Never change, The Associated Press.
“But a person close to House leadership, granted anonymity to discuss campaign strategy, blasted Republicans for going into “full fear mode” about the midterm elections.
“There will be some emotional members who want to grab headlines with impeachment, however [House Democratic] leadership has thus far shown that it’s not a tool in our box” to hold Trump accountable, the person added, with House Democrats blocking attempts by some members to impeach him.”
Well, that settles it.
Exactly. If they could assassinate him, they would. They have tried at least twice that we know off. But hey, they did it to save their democracy. Not our right to elect our leader, but their right to have their unelected and unaccountable bureaucracy fuck the country over while enriching their elites as the fools that they control cheer on.
Back when reporters actually did journalism, you didn’t publish an anonymously sourced article. If you did and you were wrong, you then publicly burned your sources. They did have articles with a listed source and anonymous sources that backed up the claim. You were supposed to also get 3 sources before printing.
Now some rando staffer (assuming it isn’t just wholly fabricated) becomes the whole story.
assuming it isn’t just wholly fabricated
[Michael Wolff has entered the chat]
Yeah, we all know exactly how the “good” kind of racism plays out already.
I don’t know, sounds an awful lot like Republicans.
It is always the fault of the establishment squishes!
It’s easier to be the bottom than to fight to be the pack leader.
The party had a new nominee for president, Kamala Harris, and she was saying a lot of the right things.
All most of the country heard was an incoherent jumble of leftist feel-good babble.
Expecting coherent rhetoric is white-supremacist patriarchy!
“Some people still roll their eyes at the terminology. Others feel like they’ve finally found the word that lets them feel like they’re not “broken.” In the end, self-definition doesn’t need to be neat or consistent. It just needs to make sense to the person living it.”
That’s not how words work.
It is how solipsism works though!
A woman once wrote Bertrand Russell, after one of his radio broadcasts, that solipsism was so obviously correct she couldn’t understand why more people didn’t accept it.
All the way down?
Agreed. Public sex is not acceptable anywhere else.
Also… find a bath house, boys.
It’s not fair that my outdoor banging/exhibitionism kink isn’t being catered to!
It just needs a fancy Gen Z term and then it will be accepted.
Unless it’s at a Pride parade, you homophobe!
Folsom Street Fair is technically not an official “Pride” event.
It’s happened at officiated Pride events.
Where the East German judge deducted points for a failed dismount?
It IS Seattle.
Need proof that we, as a society, are too rich for our own good?
The kicker (at the end) – he makes sure his own kid isn’t indoctrinated with that bullshit.
Fuck off, commies.
Indians and Arabs are white now?
It’s all Blaq and white to these folx.
I mean, they used to be, until being a victim of racism became popular.
I mean, when you tell a black student that “The sum of the cyclic hypotenuse and any two angles of tensor vertices is equal to the co-tangent of the obtuse seraphim” they usually can’t make heads or tails of it.
If this dude is trying to convince me that black people are genetically and sociologically inferior to white people, he’s making a pretty good argument…
It’s like voter ID is racist because black people are too stupid and lazy to have ID.
Let’s raise a generation of graynumerists, who think numbers mean what they want them to mean. What could go wrong?
The solution Martin proposes is radical: Black students should seek instruction exclusively from black teachers at “independent black institutions.”
Racial segregation: A perennial hallmark of the left.
“radical”
I’ve been hearing calls for racially-segregated instruction for decades.
Also, housing. See: every college that has race-based dorms.
Look who cut the cos-play!
The only way he’s getting Z on board with what is the likely peace is some massive ‘retirement’ deal.
It’s not Zelensky that has to get on board. It’s the whispering, plotting Euroweenies who have sabotaged every attempt at peace. They have to be onboard.
Maybe Mar-a-Lago is hiring.
Dude is worth like 30 million, held in offshore accounts. Putin could take Keeeeev next week and Z man would land on his feet.
From the El Capitan article: On May 21, the park’s acting superintendent signed a new rule outlawing the display of large flags, banners and signs at El Capitan — the park’s iconic cliff — and most of the California park altogether. The move coincided with a broader push by the federal government to limit political demonstrations on public lands, especially those critical of the policies of the Trump administration.
How did they get from “no large banners at all allowed here” to ” especially those critical of Trump?” It’s a total ban. But NYT gonna NYT.
And I’m sure they supplied copious examples of this, right?
January 6?
Walking On Sunshine was great the first thousand times I heard it. /ducks
I raise you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1S5isFLRgI
Surf meets techno. I love it.
No offense meant. I’m still recovering from a recent long drive wherein I was not the DJ, and had to listen to well-treaded songs like Brown-Eyed Girl ad infinitum. Worse, all that late ’50s-early ’60s falsetto.
John Hughes was musically formative for my generation; plus the usual older siblings.
“Songs one never gets tired of”: topic? “Good songs now hackneyed”? “What producer ever OKed this”?
No offense taken. I enjoyed the hell out of it. John Hughes made great movies that were great partially because of the music he chose for them. This is a very good example of a song that would have otherwise never gotten played anywhere outside the studio.
Good falsetto:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAtH90f1RhM
Good falsetto?
Falsetto that he hasn’t sung in a long time.
“A short time later, Carlquist allegedly messaged her ex-boyfriend on Instagram and apologized, explaining she was stressed out because of her pregnancy.”
So he didn’t even do anything?
“I’m sure somebody out there can fix her.”
Nice tits, but not nice enough to sign up for that loony bin.
As Orwell said, some ideas are so stupid only intellectuals believe them.
The thing is, if this was capital-T Truth, this country wouldn’t be the only one – since that truth would’ve been accessible to all men at all times.
I’ll quote another part of that source document: “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed” – which is partially true but mostly false. We don’t consent to being governed, we are born into it and we have no means for withdrawing consent. At best we can submit ourselves to a different government, but we must suffer under one at all times because there is no place where government exists on such a tenuous basis as the consent of the governed.
You can find places where you can live government free. I dont recommend it. The other monkeys there will put you on a spit.
The trouble isn’t govt, the trouble is that the monkeys that formed it are no different from the ones that have not yet formed it.
If men were angels and all that.
Exactly, God ain’t got nothin’ to do with it. Particularly since he ain’t universally worshipped.
If you are not in rebellion you are consenting. You have at all times the option of becoming outside the law, and when enough people choose this course the government no longer governs. There is not now, and never has been, a tyrant who ruled by universal direct coercion. It is impossible unless you hypothesize a Dr Manhattan as tyrant. Yes, there are degrees of acceptance of authority, and obviously a significant portion of our consent is based in fear of the consequences of rebellion, but the context of those words was an inflection point where consent was being withdrawn by a substantial portion of the populace, knowingly and with an understanding that many of them would be executed if they failed. The statement is true, but withdrawal of consent requires a very high price.
If you are not in rebellion you are consenting.
Well that is the most absurd formulation I’ve ever heard.
withdrawal of consent requires a very high price.
How very Hobbesian.
Who promised you easy? If you want to change the government you have to wager everything. If you want to consider yourself outside the law, you are definitionally an outlaw and cannot claim its protection. If the law is sufficiently objectionable you take the leap, if not you accept things and go about your life. Isn’t that consenting to be governed?
“With a Shovel and a Dream, a Woman Finds a 2.3 Carat Diamond in Arkansas
After three weeks, with bug bites and tattered hiking boots, Micherre Fox found the stone at Crater of Diamonds State Park.
For three weeks, Ms. Fox, who lives in Manhattan, had been camping at Crater of Diamonds State Park and going out to dig for gems each day. She rose before dawn, paid the $15 entry fee, walked the half-mile to the fields with her battered tools, and dug, sifted and rinsed until her hands ached. She was on a mission: to find a diamond for her engagement ring.”
https://archive.ph/DunFo
Woah
“About a week in, she got bitten up by chiggers, which left her itching for weeks”
RACIST!!!
Chigga please!
They prefer “chigroes”.
The clarity isn’t that great on that stone from what I can see, but hey, it’s hard to beat artisinally mined diamonds. Though usually the artisinal miners are african slave-children.
Now she needs a fiancé.
Is being a diamond-digger better or worse than being a gold-digger?
Not to perpetuate the patriarchy, but shouldn’t the fiance have been the one digging for the diamond?
Good morning!
Maybe it is all OMB. But ask the right questions; who cares?
Desecrating El Cap with anything should get you a severe beating at an absolute minimum.
“Some people who identify this way only feel attraction under very specific circumstances.”
These Titty Tuesday babes are those specific circumstances.
https://archive.is/phJvB
So… like everybody?
But If you’re like everybody else, then you’re not special. And everybody’s special.
Wait a second…
Rick would disagree.
https://youtu.be/fc7Q8i33s9E?t=17
https://archive.is/fUk55
Check out the video. I think she’s on coke.
“A Rhode Island prosecutor demanded Newport police officers shut off their body-worn cameras as she was being thrown in the back of a cruiser for alleged trespassing — warning the cops they were “going to regret it,” according to reports and authorities.
Police arrived to find Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Hogan Flanagan and her friend Veronica Hannan outside the Clarke Cooke House restaurant on Thursday evening when responding to a call about an “unwanted party,” the Newport Police Department told NBC10.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/us-news/ri-prosecutor-threatens-cops-to-shut-off-body-cameras-while-being-arrested-for-alleged-trespassing-youre-going-to-regret-it/
The insufferable white women epidemic continues.
Coke is possible, but my money is on a Xanax/cosmopolitan speedball…
Wouldn’t they get prosecuted for turning off their bodycams?
I doubt it.
With that ass I’m sure she could start an OF and make the money she needs in a couple of weeks.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15005837/Tash-Peterson-vegan-activist-GoFundMe.html
Someone didn’t read his own link…
I get up, brush my teeth, putter around the house a bit, pour myself a cup of coffee and sit down to enjoy a relaxing morning, and you freaking link me to Jacobin! That does it, I’m routing for Texas!
Every day he takes a morning bath, he wets his hair,
Wraps a towel around him as he headed for the bedroom chair….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgVyeCcCyw8
That routing for Texas – is that sending all your IP traffic through the state? Or you are causing them defeat and chaotic retreat?
He’s rounding off the corners.
I should pretend that I did that deliberately to indicate I was rooting for a rout, but the truth is more pedestrian. I erred.
These two had a bad day:
https://rumble.com/v6xrso4-food-bloggers-chomp-on-sliders-in-houston-when-a-vehicle-crashes-into-them-.html?e9s=src_v1_upp_a
Even money says that an Altima joining them for lunch.
You can never reach peak Nissan.
My initial reaction was, “that’s what they get for eating in their car”, then I saw they were seated in a restaurant.
Whoa.
https://x.com/realchrisrufo/status/1957563629680963875
I honestly forgot there was a publication by that name, and since I had not recognized the people named explicitly, I was briefly confused.
I predict no takers.
“Paid so poorly they can’t quit” is a weird formulation.
People usually find another job if they’re grossly underpaid.
(If you can’t maybe you’re not so underpaid).
Yeah, that stood out to me as well.
You know, when you quit how you then take a vacation for a few months or years to get ready for your next bout of wage slavery. They don’t make enough to do that, and therefore cannot quit.
Cash might be low, but the social credit is super high!
“You’ve sure got to wonder about all those claims that Israel is sparking starvation in Gaza when every single picture meant to illustrate it turns out to be fake.
That’s right: It wasn’t just the infamous photo of supposedly “malnourished” Muhammad Ayyoub al-Matouq that was grossly misleading; The Free Press looked at 12 other media “symbols of Gazan starvation” and found — in each and every case — the photos and stories “lacked important context.””
https://nypost.com/2025/08/18/opinion/with-every-photo-of-a-starving-gazans-proving-fake-beware-of-claims-of-gaza-famine/
That’s not what “fake” means. It doesn’t help thefp article is paywalled.
Fake, not fake, I dont care. Starvation in Gaza? I dont give a shit.
My shit giving stopped on Oct. 7 2023.
Their culture is an evil death cult. It needs to be wiped out.
Apologia for a manmade famine isn’t neither a libertarian position nor a moral one.
I had no idea on this.
Gujarat’s teetotaling tradition is a legacy of Gandhi, a staunch believer in temperance, but also reflects India’s complex history with alcohol. According to the constitution, India’s ultimate destiny is total prohibition “except for medicinal purposes.” But taxing alcohol is a huge source of revenue for many states.
Think Doing Business in India Is Hard? Try Getting a Drink After Work
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/india-alcohol-permit-bars-76fbdc40?st=z9im8C&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Explains why India has a large number of stories with people dying from drinking the wrong kind of alcohol.
Also why so many former Indian citizens love fine scotch and the like. They get free of prohibition and want to try all the things.
Yanno, with the combination of India inventing new religions three times a week and being able to grow every sort of phytochemically complex plant known to man, it’s a little strange they didn’t invent super cocahahuascapeyote poppies.
Never been to India. Getting a drink in Sri Lanka was never a problem. If you the local hooch – Arak = distilled coconut flower sap – be prepared for the worst hangover of your life.
https://pagesix.com/2025/08/18/style/joan-collins-92-defies-age-in-chic-white-swimsuit-on-vacation/
Good genes?
Are you trying to get Fourscore and me to return to our bunks this morning?
Culture Warrior Doesn’t Want to Discuss His Culture War
North Carolina voters should not expect an apology from former Gov. Roy Cooper.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/culture-warrior-doesnt-want-to-discuss-his-culture-war-5e2c69ee?st=4p2C5Y&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Vegas: I dont give a shit. You cant have your open borders. If Vegas turns into a ghost town, tough shit.
Yes, he can do that and he should. End of discussion.
I am not interested in fixing anyone no matter how great their tits are.
R’s with spines putting up an effective defense from the commies? Right. Now pull the other one.
Vegas moguls and corporate investors kept tearing down nice historical hotel casinos to build monstrous expensive palaces. The Mirage was just closed so it can be turned into something bigger and pricier.
They’ve hit the limit of what people will pay to stay in a desert town.
‘Vegas: I dont give a shit. You cant have your open borders. If Vegas turns into a ghost town, tough shit.’
Shouldn’t the libs love this? They’re always saying there are too many people living in the desert. We’re gonna save the environment one deportation at a time.
Now that you mention it…isnt that the watermelons latest attack strategy….the water planet is running out of water?
As someone who listened to a lot of Robyn Hitchcock in high school, I’d say he didn’t really have any “hits”, and there are a half dozen songs you could have picked. But I always did like that one.
Remember this from the same era?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtgXVZmIoy4
Sounds familiar, sounds like something I would have liked.
US spy chief Gabbard says UK agreed to drop ‘backdoor’ mandate for Apple
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-spy-chief-gabbard-says-uk-agreed-drop-backdoor-mandate-apple-2025-08-19/
Backdoor Man Date was my nickname in college.
You took it in the poop chute from men? Does your wife know about this?
+1 Jim Morrison
I have the conch, let me speak! *wheezes then farts
Sucks to yer ass-mar!
“‘You’re gonna need a bigger bank account’: how a Jaws child actor turned a fleeting appearance into a fortune
The cheques keep rolling in for Jeffrey Voorhees, who played short-lived shark victim Alex Kintner when he was 12 – and he’s not the only one”
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/18/youre-gonna-need-a-bigger-bank-account-how-a-jaws-child-actor-turned-a-fleeting-appearance-into-a-fortune
OMWC hardest hit.
“Several unauthorized demonstrations involving El Capitan generated numerous complaints from visitors,” Ms. Pawlitz said. “Yosemite National Park was designated by Congress to highlight the beautiful natural and cultural features of the area. No matter the cause, displaying signs, banners, and flags outside of designated First-Amendment areas detracts from the visitor experience and the protection of the park.”
How will the normies know how stupid and bigoted they are if the enlightened can’t tell them?
Is NBC kicking MSDNC to the curb old news by now? I’m in the mood to indulge in some uncharitable schadenfreude.
Well, they’ve embraced the “No One Watches” moniker.
… what do you mean that’s not what it stands for?
Yes. Old news.
“Trump administration speechwriter linked to hate speech online
“Actress Gina Carano [who likened the experience of Jews during the Holocaust to the US political climate] was right; American conservatives are, right now, on a course for being every bit as ostracized and alienated from broader society as Jews were in the years leading up to Nazi Germany.””
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/19/eric-lendrum-trump-dhs-speechwriter-hate-speech
Like the headline, thats a bit of a stretch.
They cant help it.
All projection, all of the time. Every talking point is the inverse of the truth. Every strategy boils down to “vote for us you backward fucks!”
I predicted a while back we were looking at the death of the D party, that the radical left was poison and would be the death of them. The real tell is now coming out. See the link yesterday where the party scolded its donors with “Yeah, so we threw all of your money to the wind. Get over yourselves and get out your checkbook!” : No one is giving them money.
Gotta love shysters:
https://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?Seq_Code=195327
I would say Vegas having fewer tourists is a good thing, but it may be more a testament to loosening of gambling laws across the several states rather than a general decline in gambling and sin…
What? Changing markets having an impact on behavior? That’s crazy talk!
Now if only I could get the sports books to understand that I really don’t care about the NBA, let alone the WNBA.
The meme going around is a sign on a mini-bar fridge in a hotel room that says the fridge has sensors and if you PUT ANYTHING IN the mini-bar fridge, they’ll charge you $50. However, they don’t supply a fridge. Even Motel 6 has a fridge in their rooms.
Apparently, this is the tip of the nickel-and-dime iceberg.
That’s nuts.
I’ve seen signs like that on mini fridges for years. Different hotels and resorts have different rules for fridges. Usually, it’ll be listed in the room amenities if there is one. It also seems (to me) to very quite widely depending on region.
I’ve specifically chosen different room layouts/locations just to get the mini fridge, I’ve also paid add-ons of $25/day for a fridge in the room.
It says this happened at 36,000 feet. So those pictures must be debris? Or is this when it was coming to land and if so what they heck are they?
I’d love to know more about the photos.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/boeing-plane-makes-emergency-landing-after-engine-bursts-into-flames-i-already-sent-goodbye-texts/
Engine fires are not rare.
I agree. I didn’t think that I was inferring otherwise. I’m just curious about the photos.
As I bet you know as well, there is an amazing amount of work that goes into making the nacelles. It’s big reason why repowering existing designs is so expensive.
I was commenting on the tone of the story, not your input. Sorry for the confusion.
Aircraft are designed to operate with one engine. Engines are isolated so that fire can’t damage the structures of the wings. It looks spectacular, but it’s a well-known problem that manageable.
That 1st photo was shot through a dirty window.. those dots aren’t debris.
The video looks like a classic compressor stall, as others have said, not unusual. You shut down the engine and divert to a safe landing.
Chemical reaction?.. well burning hydrocarbons I guess counts.
No kidding. What incredible insight.
Also, it’s “spokesman.”
“Spokespenis”
Gotcha
Donald Trump’s renewed crusade against mail voting is once again threatening to undermine his party’s efforts.
Republicans poured tens of millions of dollars last year into convincing their voters that casting ballots by mail was safe after Trump spent years bashing the practice and baselessly insisting it was rife with fraud. And it worked, with GOP voters closing or even reversing the mail voting gap with Democrats in several states.
But now Trump is attacking mail voting again as he ratchets up his push to protect Republicans’ House majority in the midterms, scrambling a strategy Republicans effectively used to bank millions of votes in 2024.
Trump wants to undo those fantastic improvements to the voting process.
Those mail in ballots got us great presidents such as Joe Biden.
Which Republicans? Bullshit-artist deep-state hacks?
So the GOP is moving on from being cucks to paypigs…
It only works one time?
That is assuming that actually happened. It is more likely more projection.
Which is it? R’s are sucks or the left engaging in lying projection?
You get one guess.
My kingdom for an edit button…..
I don’t think even Elon Musk could get us an edit button.
Just wrote 1500 words of whining that I will not post here. You’re welcome.
I whine a lot, but I try to moderate that with cheesy jokes.
A 500 word cheesy story might be gouda for your mental well-being?
Sounds like a whine of muensterous proportions.
When did you start punning badly???
Anyway, I’m intrigued by the context surrounding “Like gnats in a meatgrinder.”
This is the one place you can cheese it up, havarti good time. This is like neutral territory. Swiss will monitor of course.
Here you go:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14995091/Woman-tried-smuggle-cocaine-UK-wheel-cheese-jailed.html
Who doesn’t travel with an 18 lb. wheel of cheese?
Narrowed gazes be edamed. Let the puns flow!
It was a line in a Manga supposedly from a fictional other manga in the story. I don’t know whether it came from the original author or from the localizer’s translation, but the line annoyed me out of all proportion. It didn’t help that the entire subplot was a cancer that had taken over three volumes so far and I was getting extra-annoyed at the work threatening to disappear up its own asshole.
Apparently Tim Walz has some influence on the Vikings.
That is a Bee classic that will live on for years.
Do the Vikings cheerleaders have a name? If so, why is it not the Viqueens?
Rent seekers lament
“I look at what the administration wants to accomplish with regards to our national security and winning the AI race — we want to have expansive energy production. We have that opportunity. We can do that affordably, and we can do it while we’re managing air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions,” says Lisa Jacobson, president of the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, whose members include major electricity producers and a trade group for the natural gas industry.
“I would like to focus more on that, than changes to these regulatory policies,” Jacobson says, “which will cause disruption in planning and moving forward with projects we need today.”
Jeff Holmstead, an environmental lawyer at the firm Bracewell, says he doesn’t know of any major industry groups that pushed the EPA to reverse its position on the dangers posed by climate pollution.
“Several of them have opposed it,” says Holmstead, who was an EPA official under then-President George W. Bush. “And I know that a number of companies were trying to persuade the administration not to do it.”
There’s a lot of time and money tied up in gaming the regs.
So will Tesla’s self driving cars or Google’s nuclear powered data center happen before 2030? My bet is neither.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/18/google-kairos-nuclear-smr-tennessee-valley-authority-tva-data-center-ai.html
“MAGA may have denied the Jeffrey Epstein vibes in Carlson’s image of Trump beating a teenage girl, but the use of the Usher song confirms that liberals aren’t wrong to hear a sexual fantasy in all this “Daddy” talk — which is really unfair to Usher, because his song is about consenting adults having sex. For MAGA, the whole point of the “Daddy” nickname is to celebrate force and domination, embodied in their leader who was found by a civil jury to have sexually assaulted E. Jean Carroll in exactly the way he has bragged about doing to other women…..
That’s the most critical takeaway of Trump’s whole “Daddy” branding effort: It reveals his weakness and insecurity. As Carlson’s speech shows, “Daddy” doesn’t take on grown men his own size. “Daddy” beats little girls. “Daddy” tries to make himself feel big by attacking people who are smaller. “Daddy” uses sex as a weapon, because it’s an easy way to degrade and humiliate people, making it the perfect tool for those who fear having to deal with conflict in a dignified, mature way. “Daddy” pretends to be powerful, but only to mask that he has nothing to offer but petulant aggression toward those who can’t fight back.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/08/18/why-maga-calls-trump-daddy/
The most critical takeaway.
I am dumber for having read even that excerpt.
I thought the petulant aggression was the Trump-in-a-diaper balloon.
Knew it was Marcotte without even clicking.
Salon writers have daddy issues?
I thought the judge instructed the jury that the assault was to be considered true for the purposes of the defamation case, and the jury was basically just there to determine damages?
It’s like the Alex Jones case. There is an epidemic of judicial retardation.
Awww fuck. You gotta be kidding me. A take from Amanduh in Salon magazine? I dont even have to read it.That is stupid raised to the thousand power squared.
“Some experts question whether policing shoppers’ grocery carts will actually lead to healthier purchases. In a 2016 study, USDA reported that 20% of SNAP spending went to unhealthy food and beverages. This is on par with non-SNAP families who spent 19.7% of their food budget on “junk food,” according to the same study. Researchers concluded that—no matter what way you split it—differences in SNAP and non-SNAP household purchases were fairly inconsequential.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/06/22/stamps-redefined-by-red-states/
The difference is that it’s their money.
Agreed. Remove subsidized junk food from those getting assistance. One small step forward. Pay for your own fudge rounds.
Now do taxes on sugary foods/drinks.
I don’t know about that. Buy what you will, but with your own money.
A taxpayer funded program intended (stop laughing) to prevent starvation doesn’t need to cover luxuries. Which is different from penalizing or not the choices in use of one’s own money. But not taxing is giving I suppose.
Is there such a tax anywhere?
Denmark used to have one.
https://iea.org.uk/blog/denmark%E2%80%99s-fat-tax-disaster-the-proof-of-the-pudding
My bigger point was that the sort of “expert” bitching about SNAP restrictions is the same sort of expert who thinks their preferred sort of dietary bullying is a great idea and one that will obviously work. The real problem with the SNAP restrictions is that it might take grift out of the bureaucrats’ hands.
I remember Micheal Bloomberg tried to ban restaurants and business from selling sodas larger than 16 ounces.
A taxpayer funded program intended (stop laughing) to prevent starvation doesn’t need to cover luxuries.
Agreed. Food stamps should be able to buy brussels sprouts and prune juice and that’s it.
I wouldn’t trust a USDA study from 2016 any farther than I could throw it.
But they’re EXPERTS!!!
No, I don’t think they are. Not by their work output.
Remember Scott Adams’ first law – ‘An expert is a person assigned to an expert’s job. No other qualifications are necessary, or even desirable.’
Take govt money, get your shopping policed. You dont get to bitch about it.
If you have govt feed people then hand out food, not money. Giving money to a junkie because he claims to be hungry is dumb.
So what hipsters are Taylor Swift fans?
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/media/taylor-swift-life-of-a-showgirl-cassette
One of the openers for Screeching Weasel (Hayley and the Crushers) had one of their albums for sale on a cassette tape. When I caught Fishbone, they had their latest album for sale on a USB jump drive.
It should have had a Standard-B USB 3.2 male connector.
Perfectly compliant and so much wrong at the same time.
I think it’s hysterical that those of us that actually were forced to use cassettes and records want nothing to do with them.
I can write 1,000s of words on digital recording and (data) compressed recordings, but I’ll take uncompressed digital recording any day over cleaning a record or dealing with tape types and which Dolby it used.
This Taylor Swift album was recorded digitally, manipulated within an inch of its life in the digital domain, mastered in the digital domain and finally converted and digitally compressed to fit within the much lower headroom distortion limits of cassette magnetic tape. That way it sounds “more natural” and “organic” and closer to the original.
Environmental advocates, public health experts and former EPA employees say the Trump administration’s proposal contradicts a long-standing scientific consensus that climate pollution, mainly from burning fossil fuels like oil and coal, is raising global temperatures and driving more intense storms, floods and wildfires that threaten communities.
Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist whose work is cited in the EPA proposal and in an Energy Department report on the impact of greenhouse gas emissions, said in an online posting that the Trump administration “cherrypicks figures and parts of studies to support a preconceived narrative that minimizes the risk of climate change.”
As opposed to the “scientific consensus” eggheads, who would never weight their models to produce the outcomes they seek, or use
cherrypicked</strike carefully curated weather events to as "evidence" of impending global climate disaster.It is a beautiful cool morning here. I have now successfully refuted, in toto, the global warming narrative. You can thank me later.
Concensus has nothing to do with Science.
You should be fired from any position that influences policy. Be useful – flip burgers.
Environmental advocates, public health experts and former EPA employees standing in line to be woodchipped?
Agricultural fertilizer may well be their highest and most noble purpose.
Once again, when I see ‘scientific consensus’ I stop reading.
This map shows cafés and restaurants in and around Seoul that have either banned children or designated themselves child-friendly. The blue pins are places where under 12s are banned.
South Korea’s very low birth rates mean adult comfort trumps accommodating young families.
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https://x.com/PMArslanagic/status/1957737180341678111
Amazing Maps
@amazingmap
Countries where cheek kissing is a customary greeting
https://x.com/amazingmap/status/1957166056528560302
I absolutely hated that as a kid and was known in the extended family as the kid who did not want to kiss. I take that from my fathers side came from a non kissing family. My mothers side was an excessive kissing family.
Kissing? No.
My family treats handshakes as the default, with the strange touchy people wanting hugs.
You filthy degenerates actually make physical contact?
🤮
Oh, and while I’m thinking about it, what should I try from this place:
European grocery store Taste of Transylvania opens in Parma Heights?
Blood?
mici salam de sibiu si Eugenia. for a taste of Romania. maybe zacusca if they got it. Jumări .
PieInTheSky:
Thank you.
Somebody fucked up my tag.
pretend that strikethrough is restricted to “cherrypicked.
Somebody fucked up your threading, too.
Vegas tourism is down because Vegas is expensive and it sucks. The hotels and casinos are modern amusement parks, where not only is everything more expensive than outside, but everything is specifically tuned to extract money from you at every possible opportunity.
Even the crappiest shows are at least $50/person for the crappiest seats.
The buffets closed in 2020 and aren’t coming back – not because they’re still unsafe because muh covid, but because they were mostly used as comps to bring in gamblers and the beancounters decided that wasn’t necessary anymore.
Gambling is now either the “penny” slots that are actually $3/pull or $25 minimum table games.
Also online gambling.
Counterpoint.
Going there for fests is relatively inexpensive. Tickets for the full weekend of Viva Las Vegas is ~$225 (Thursday – Sunday, although it mainly wraps up by Saturday night), Punk Rock Bowling was about the same (Friday – Sunday, with additional club shows available for ~$30/each).
As a bean counter, we ruin everything
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The buffets closed in 2020 and aren’t coming back – not because they’re still unsafe because muh covid, but because they were mostly used as comps to bring in gamblers and the beancounters decided that wasn’t necessary anymore.
Someone I knew who worked in Vegas (in the early 2000s) said that there are a lot of hog farms somewhat closeby that buy up the leftover buffet food and feed it to the hogs. They love it and get nice and fat on the mixture of fried chicken, ice cream, scalloped potatoes, etc.
I didn’t know the buffets closed (never been there and have no interest) but I wonder if that affected pork prices.
https://thepostmillennial.com/us-attorney-announces-arrest-of-ny-woman-who-traveled-to-dc-and-threatened-to-kill-trump
https://thepostmillennial.com/georgia-man-arrested-for-threatening-to-assassinate-president-trump
It’s starting to like some people don’t like Trump.
Okay, ‘mutiny in a penal institution’? You can’t just leave us hanging with that one…
It’s important to keep busy.
“Former Attorney General Bill Barr has testified behind closed doors that he did not ever see information in the Jeffrey Epstein case that would implicate President Donald Trump in the disgraced financier’s crimes.
Barr sat down with investigators in the House Oversight Committee on Monday. Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) told reporters, “[Barr] said that he had never seen anything that would implicate President Trump in any of this, and that he believed if there had been anything pertaining to President Trump with respect to the Epstein list, that he felt like the Biden administration would probably have leaked it out,” per Fox News.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/former-ag-bill-barr-says-trump-not-implicated-in-epstein-case
Probably not asked, “Why did your father set up Epstein?”
Democrats on the panel – but you didn’t see anything that exonerated Trump, did you?
“One of the main defenses that the oil companies are raising in these lawsuits pending in state courts is that there is preemption by the federal Clean Air Act,” says Michael Gerrard, a professor at Columbia Law School. “If the federal Clean Air Act is no longer regulating greenhouse gas emissions through EPA, then that defense could go away.”
Weakening a defense used by the fossil fuel industry could expose companies to more legal risk, Holmstead says. “There [are] plenty of people out there who want to bring lawsuits,” he says, “and it seems like this would just invite a lot more litigation.”
Really? Removing the regulatory fiction of “climate harm” seems like a win. At the least, people suing the oil companies would need to conclusively prove their claims.
Haha, I crack myself up.
Greysexual.
Eat some meat you poofs.
“Industry really has accepted the endangerment finding. They have accepted that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses are pollutants and that something needs to be done with that,” says Jim Murphy, director of legal advocacy at the National Wildlife Federation, a conservation group.
Maybe they have. At gunpoint.
Jim Murphy puts out carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses every day. Perhaps he should save the world from himself.
What about consumers? Fuck them, I guess. Their energy bills can triple and they will not complain because it is for the good of the planet.
You almost certainly read, think about and discuss race more in 2025 than you would have twenty years ago. Race has become a poisonous and politically contentious topic, and nowhere more so than in online spaces. Videos of ethnic minorities committing crimes or engaging in anti-social behaviour are blasted into the feeds of everyone on Twitter, whether they want to see them or not. Racial slurs, spurious race science, open fascism and Nazism can all be seen more easily than ever, and find a shockingly large audience. This surge in racism reflects the growing and negative role of racial division in British politics. There are regular riots outside of migrant hotels, and Labour, the Tories and of course Reform are all promising to clamp down on migration. Across the pond, Trump is attempting mass deportation of illegal immigrants from Latin America, and a growing ecosystem of white nationalists have emerged with their own podcasts, channels and merchandise.
Yet the growing salience of race is not an artefact of the right, or of some sudden social collapse into irrational race hatred. It started, in fact, on the left, with an increasingly radicalised and racialised worldview emerging in university departments, media organisations and political parties. In America the massively unpopular policy of “positive discrimination” saw jobs and university places given out on the basis of racial quotas, a policy that has been covertly imitated by the UK. A new “progressive” ideology shifted public conversation from the generally successful and popular policy of equal opportunity and equality before the law to the nebulous territory of “structural racism”. Western culture and history was villainised as uniquely wicked, whilst non-Western groups were presented as virtuous victims. As all this was going on, migration expanded to unprecedented heights across the West, including in countries, unlike America, with no history of racial diversity or migration.
https://thecritic.co.uk/race-to-the-bottom-2/
Yes, antifa are louder than ever.
Sometimes I love corporate email
Dear colleagues,
we would like to share with you a recent situation that reminds us of how important it is to pay attention to our safety, even during everyday activities such as commuting from home to other locations.
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What happened: one morning, one of our colleagues experienced an unforeseen accident while traveling from their home address to another location. During the walk, the laces of their boots became entangled, causing them to lose balance. To break the fall, they supported their body with their left hand, but unfortunately, the impact was significant. They later presented themselves at the nearest emergency care unit, where, after further investigations, they were diagnosed with a “fracture-dislocation of the left forearm.”
Cause of the Event: the event occurred as a result of the entanglement of the laces, which led to a loss of balance and, consequently, a fall that resulted in the injury.
Consequences of the Accident: following this unfortunate event, our colleague suffered a fracture-dislocation of the left forearm, requiring medical treatment and a recovery period.
Recommended Preventive Measures:
Proper and Well-Maintained Footwear: ensure you wear comfortable footwear with non-slip soles and secure fastening systems. Use shoes with Velcro, zippers, or slip-on designs to reduce the risk of laces coming undone.
Increased Attention While Walking: adjust your walking pace to match road conditions. Avoid surfaces that could be slippery or unstable.
Planning Your Commutes: allocate enough time for travel to avoid rushing. Identify safer routes with lower risks of accidents.
Thank you for your commitment to safety and for paying attention to these aspects. Together, we can reduce the risk of injuries and ensure everyone arrives safely at their destination.
One office I worked at had a memo going out banning walking on the grass between the parking lot and office after someone slipped in a pile of goose shit. Most of us just ignored the memo and didn’t step in goose shit.
You should definitely go with the Velcro footwear. And perhaps wear a bicycle helmet everywhere you go, to minimize the risk of head injuries in a fall.
Seriously though, if we’re going to have public schools, and those public schools are going to have PhysEd classes, couldn’t they add ‘breaking a fall without throwing out a hand (and thereby breaking your wrist)’ to the curriculum?
That smacks of “HR lady who was told to send a weekly safety email” who needed to come up with SOME incident or another…
They had these dumb weekly meetings at my first factory job where the safety/nurse lady would talk about some topic, and on some weeks, it was obvious that there were no incidents to talk about but she was required to come up with something. Around Thanksgiving, she gave a lecture about food safety and advised, “And don’t ever cook a steak rare and bloody – that’s dangerous!” There was audible laughter from the 200+ people in the room when she said that. Actually felt a little bad for her.
Right problem, wrong solution
“When I joined the Marine Corps, I joined up because I really, truly believed in the American project,” he said. “I wanted to fight for something I loved and that I thought was good in Iraq and Afghanistan. I watched both failed policies, failed strategies, failed tactics being used over and over and over again.”
“There’s a point where you have to start asking yourself what is the point of this,” he added. “Why are you doing this? And when I went back as a security contractor in 2018, what I began to realize is that I was just watching vast amounts of taxpayer money getting put into the pockets of defense contractors, of security contractors, of this whole apparatus that almost seemed to exist merely to take taxpayer money and put it into somebody’s private bank account. And in seeing that up close for a while, it turned me into a deeply, deeply cynical and angry guy. From that I began to kind of look at our larger political system, our larger economic system, and you just begin to see the same exact thing.”
Platner is seeking to connect with working-class voters who’ve migrated toward the GOP in recent cycles. He pointed to Golden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., as figures offering hope for the Democratic Party nationally and in his state.
Is replacing Susan Collins with a Democratic Socialist really going to be much of a change?
Outright, prolonged laughter.
In his launch video, Platner excoriated “billionaires and corrupt politicians profiting off and destroying our environment, driving our families into poverty and crushing the middle class,” saying his military experience made him unafraid to “name an enemy, and the enemy is the oligarchy.”
“I’m not fooled by this fake charade of Collins’ deliberations and moderation,” he said.
Rise up, comrades!
Getting rid of that authority would lead to the repeal of “all greenhouse gas standards” at the federal level, according to the EPA, amounting, it says, to “one of the largest deregulatory actions in American history.”
NPR frames this like it’s a bad thing.
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/19/nx-s1-5501576/climate-pollution-epa-regulation-endangerment-finding