Good morning one and all to another incredible day!
FBI probing whether its own agents obstructed or interfered with politically sensitive cases
Ryan Routh trial: Jury selection begins in Trump assassination attempt case
John Thune To Steamroll Chuck Schumer’s Blockade Of Trump Nominees Through ‘Nuclear Option’
August tariff collections reach $31.4B, largest monthly haul so far in 2025
US-born workers see job gains as foreign-born employment declines, Labor Department data shows
Why Billions in AI Investment Can Be a Pitfall for Some Companies
Breakdown of the absurd E. Jean Carroll Case
Pope Leo XIV Canonizes First Millennial Saint Carlo Acutis
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Morning, Banjos.
Shouldn’t someone other than the FBI be investigating the FBI?
NO.
What is your name again, fellow Glib?
It’s RJ. I’m somewhere in Middle Flyover Country. It all looks alike, so I’m not sure of my house moved while I was asleep or not.
Haha yes. Another few eyes staring at me won’t make a difference.
That sounds ominous
Too soon. Saints need time to develop. At least a century dead before canonization.
It’s one of a few reasons why I struggle to take the Catholic Church seriously.
Sorry our church seems to incense folks here — but glad you’re not going to censer your thoughts.
(And honestly, I don’t know what to make of this not paying close attention lately… the church I’m going to now that I’m back by my parents made a big deal about studying the recent candidates for canonization (as of a few weeks back) for a youth retreat, so certainly there’s a “Hello fellow youths!” aspect lurking… my mom was suitably impressed by the story / book of the life of this chap to pitch the book to my son… so I’m not really wanting to dismiss it out of hand… though I do lean towards UCS’s comment that a long process with documented miracles (as much as any of the saints get in any event) would be preferred).
To me it comes across as base pandering, especially after the effort to clean up the saints over the past couple of years.
Leo may not be the panacea people hoped for.
As with OMB — I’m willing to settle for lack of open hostility to “my side” from those who lead the organizations that are supposed to represent me at this point. Bonus points if he tells China to jump in a lake regarding veto powers on bishoprics (so they’re first beholden and preaching the CCCP historically).
“Bonus points if he tells China to jump in a lake regarding veto powers on bishoprics”
That needs to get more recognition by liberal Roman Catholics.
Extra bonus points if he restores the Advocatus Diaboli to the sainthood determination.
No ‘Saint’ canonized without a Devil’s Advocate qualifies. You have to rule out non-miraculous explainations.
Beau Knott:
Thanks, now I’m going to have to rewatch Evil.
What is the deal with saints? Has God transferred some of His powers to them? Or do they have preferred access to God so you pray to them and then they approach God on your behalf?
If my understanding of Catholic doctrine is correct, I believe it’s supposed to be the latter.
Caveat – I am protestant, so I’m not that well versed in the minutiae of catholic doctrine.
The latter.
Catholic prayers are full of “intercede for us” (from Mary and Joseph, several archangels — especially Michael, and every saint you can come up with). Somehow God the Father in particular is swayed by the clamoring throng in Heaven apparently.
Honestly — I’ve never fully gotten on board with it, though I will freely acknowledge “Every little bit counts” and all… but Jesus especially is infinite love and infinite mercy… unless you’re doomed anyway — I can’t imagine him ignoring a heartfelt prayer that a saint would listen to. (Yes, I think some thinks Luther got right… but what can you expect from a 2 millenia old organization than some mission creep and distortion of the original goals?)
I used to teach this to kids. There is a “saint” (small s), and a “Saint”, (big s). A saint is anyone who has made it to Heaven. Could be your parents, grandparents, that kindly old neighbor, anyone you know. The problem is, we have no way of knowing what’s in a person’s soul so we have no idea who is a saint. We can just guess.
A Saint is someone the church has determined made it to Heaven. There is a whole procedure, from demonstrating the person has live a holy life, and there have to be miracles attributed to the person. It does take years or decades. St. Carlo was supposed to be canonized by Pope Francis but Francis died.
So my faithful and kind grandmother and St. Carlo are both the same as far as sainthood, it’s just that St. Carlo went through the whole process.
Regarding prayer, as Catholics we believe people in Heaven are close to God and can intercede on our behalf. We can pray to Saints, and we can also pray to saints. I have definitely prayed to my grandparents to intercede for me.
We investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong?
“Officials said Patel’s team – aided by FBI computer network managers – have located other documents that raise similar concerns about the FBI’s behavior in the email case as well as a separate criminal case pursued by three different FBI offices into pay-to-play allegations involving donations to Bill and Hillary Clinton’s family foundation and actions taken while she was President Barack Obama’s secretary of state.”
The Clinton foundation shouldn’t have been allowed to receive any foreign money while she was secretary of state.
It was too obvious to hide so we punished those involved by placing a memo in their personnel folder.
It’s on their permanent record!
That’s good enough for me
/sarc
I read that as ass covering of the most useful sort. Execs that were not in the conspiracy, seeing some shady shit going on, saying “I want to leave a written record that I had no part in this.” And those written records will be useful in a number of ways. Caveat: only if the investigators wish to make use of the records, of course, but the fact that we are hearing about them instead of them remaining locked in a “hidden” SCIF is promising.
August tariff collections reach $31.4B, largest monthly haul so far in 2025
And what’s the size of the budget deficit again?
Nothing to see here citizen. Move along
I’d be closer to impressed if that was anywhere near the deficit (or for that matter the extra spending they keep approving).
Cut. Spending. You. Corrupt. Bastards.
There is no upside on cutting spending – pleasing a few goofy people on the internet is no substitute for the votes they buy.
30 billion x 12 months is 360 billion.
That falls a little short of what the FedGov spends each year
Tariff revenues were never going to cover current expenditures. First, current expenditures are stupid and should be cut. Second, people are going to figure out ways to get around the tariffs so revenues will drop.
Agreed. Now this is the start of a plan to end income tax. I salute the attempt. But he would have to collect 2.4 trillion (2024 income tax collections) if my internet search is correct. He intends to use tariffs, onshoring of business and investments to make up the difference. Will it work? Who knows at this point.
Regardless he could cut the government in half and nobody would notice. So, CUT THE DAMN SPENDING!
Why do you hate old people, health care and the military?
Why don’t you?
Moves Te’d.s from Nice to Naughty Xmas list
Some electronic music for the morning crew:
https://youtu.be/je2_m33FAH0?si=SI31mYuElQWj-Q-e
Nice! Thanks!
Obligatory.
“who noted the “disproportionate favoritism of electoral power” for states like California, New York, and other “sanctuary states” whose congressional apportionment is boosted by the counting of illegals”
Maybe only count people who can vote?
Is your stony heart immune to the non-citizens’ pain and suffrage, CT?
I have no sympathy for an invading force.
I was one of those non-citizens. Come to think of it, having to serve jury duty in order to vote wasn’t such a good deal.
Potatoes have eyes, not hearts.
Now if CT were an artichoke….
Mine is, or used to be. Kinda like the tranny thing, I was mostly indifferent until they started shoving it down my throat. It is no longer indifference.
I read that as ‘electrical power’.
I thought WTF is up with that, why do they get favoritism?
Thought about Generac but only for a few seconds
I’m fine with legal residents – children, legal resident aliens, wards of the state being counted for representation. There is no world in which counting illegal residents should happen for the purposes of representation. It isn’t 1830 anymore.
Like the dog that voted in CA?
“By the end of the 119th Congress (1/2/2027), the Senate is on track to confirm just 426 nominees, the fewest in history, and less than half of what other Presidents have averaged since 2000,” Britt, a member of the working group, wrote on X on Wednesday.
Why is no one asking why are 426 people needing Senate approval for their positions?
Cabinet officials (of which there are too many) and everyone at two-star and above in the Department of War, okay. JFC another four-fucking-hundred-plus?
I think it is mainly district level Federal judgeships, isn’t it? Has to be a crapton of those (especially given the ton of crap they’ve been producing…)
Well, there’s also every federal judge, of which there are too many. Plus I’m pretty sure all of the myraid Deputy Attorneys General, and a bunch of people who probably shouldn’t have government funding.
Myriad
We just assumed you were preoccupied with setting up custom disk failover and redundancy, UCS.
No, I don’t work on the SAN team.
Where is TEd,S’
“”A MUST READ.” — PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP”
I wonder if he’s read it. Doesn’t seem like much of a book guy.
FloridaJamaican Woman Scams AmericansThe FBI is on the lookout for Elaine Eskow, a woman accused of masterminding a $34 million COVID-19 relief fraud scheme in Palm Beach County. Eskow is now considered a fugitive after allegedly stealing substantial pandemic relief funds.
Eskow, who also went by the name Annie Palmer, has been evading authorities since June when she missed a court appearance. Her indictment followed her release from jail earlier this year on related wire fraud charges.
Eskow is thought to have fled to Jamaica, her place of origin. Authorities describe her as having tattoos on her left wrist, stomach, shoulder, and back.
She has nothing on the Minnesoda Somalians, but it’s a pretty good solo effort.
She must be Jamaican the FBI crazy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50JW4aHHm5Q
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CTAud5O7Qqk&pp=ygUVZmxvYXQgb24gbW9kZXN0IG1vdXNl0gcJCbIJAYcqIYzv
Sayonara! – https://youtu.be/C35DrtPlUbc?si=2GFnm0PMIERo91fw
“Japan entered a period of renewed uncertainty on Sunday, when its embattled leader, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, announced his intent to resign after less than a year in office.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CziVmYd3TJE
Domo
“GoFundMe has yanked sickening online fundraisers for the maniac accused of murdering a Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina train after the legal defense funds sparked widespread outrage.
The fundraising pages suggested Decarlos Brown Jr. — a career criminal with no less than 14 arrests — was the victim of a racist, broken judicial system at fault for the 35-year-old homeless suspect being nabbed for allegedly knifing Iryna Zarutska to death…
“Raising money to assist with legal fees for Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr. Anything helps fight against the racism and bias against our people. Thank you for giving us a hand to push against this corrupt narrative,” another fundraiser spewed.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/08/us-news/gofundme-pulls-horrific-fundraiser-for-ex-con-accused-of-murdering-ukrainian-refugee-on-train/
It’s racist he stabbed a random woman to death.
The justice system’s failure lies in not putting that guy away after fourteen arrests, some of them for violent offenses. That criminal lunatic douchebag was a ticking timebomb.
Yep, and every DA and judge involved is complicit in her murder.
Hey, its a too local story, dont know why anyone is making it a big deal
Ukrainian flags at half mast on social media?
The only Ukrainian the left could care less about.
Suddenly just another privileged white girl.
Republicans are pouncing: https://x.com/axios/status/1964993152671969528
Is the U.K. a Canary in the Coal Mine for a Heavily Indebted World?
Borrowing costs are surging for many industrialized countries, causing talk of a possible crisis
https://www.wsj.com/world/uk/is-the-u-k-a-canary-in-the-coal-mine-for-a-heavily-indebted-world-a1d904f0?st=Qditty&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Well, if you got rid of all of the imported people you’re spending billions in supporting, sent them all home. Then stopped wasting police time on thoughtcrime and prosecuted real crime, productivity would imporve while costs would plummet. Then you disband the toxic NHS as not fit for purpose, and suddenly people aren’t left incapacitated on waiting lists. Before long you’ve got a functional country again.
Probably need to ditch the “green energy” crap too and go back to fracking the North Sea fields. (Otherwise, energy costs are going to cripple their economy and drive up their welfare costs as ‘heating supplements’ — or they let the pensioners freeze to death)
Not that any of this is going to happen, of course.
Apparently the NHS is sacrosanct over there and even mildly criticizing it will get you branded a radical.
I am well aware of how stupid they are about their failed national “health” service.
I believe I told the story of the conversation I had with a guy in the UK who mentioned he’d learned to suture his own lacerations because of the wait times for even emergency treatment. I mentioned how I’d recently gotten a same day x-ray for $66 to see if my toe was broken, and he immediately switched modes and went “What if somebody doesn’t have $66?” I was tired at that point and didn’t point out that they would still get treatment over here and would still be without it over there.
A liberal? A fanatical, criminal?
I’m sorry Ted, but your query contains insufficient context to provide a substantive answer.
Your response is not logical.
Insufficient data. Please restate query.
“What if somebody doesn’t have $66?”
“Well, I guess they would be in the same boat as somebody waiting for the NHS to get around to it, wouldn’t they?”
Te;dS:
Done there, seen was.
“…inferior cultures…”
*falls out of chair*
He’s Native American like Elizabeth Warren.
Inbred nativist?
“GOP Sen. John Kennedy warns that eating radioactive shrimp could make you ‘grow an extra ear’ or turn into an ‘alien’ ”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/07/us-news/gop-sen-john-kennedy-warns-radioactive-shrimp-could-make-you-grow-an-extra-ear/
SCIENCE!!
That’s not how any of this works.
Blinky wasn’t a documentary!?!
What’s next — there’s not really a robotic Richard Simmons or dogs that shoot bees from their mouths?
He’s just trying to disallow the importation of foreign shrimp because he represents Louisiana. Definitely in the pocket of big shrimp.
big shrimp
+1 miniature giant space hampster
The Bubba Gump lobby is powerfull.
So how were the shrimp, RJ?
shrimp powers activate
That was quite a game last night. The best part was when the Ravens lost.
It brought a glimmer of cheer to the day.
On the other hand, I’m pretty sure the youngest nephew is now fully a Browns fan. To lose due to two missed kicks…
Maybe I should have him start working on his kicking leg.
Yeah, the Bengals broke their streak of opening losses, but other than that there was nothing to cheer about in that game.
[ Brayden Narveson has entered the chat ]
Also, you guys would never have gotten the ball back to miss the last kick if our head coach could ever remember that you are actually allowed to try to get a first down when there is too much time on the clock to run out with a 3 and out possession. You know, by actually using some of those guys you gave hundreds of millions to in the off season?
(((Jarflax:
The three sacks in a row almost came up with a safety that would have also given us the game back. But the real important story that isn’t being widely reported.
Yes, there was a dildo. It was green.
We were playing scared. In don’t give the game away mode rather than in go take the win mode. It never works. Also, once again we successfully ran the ball in the first drive, so then we immediately went into pass on 1st down mode for the second.
Because of the green dildo?
It was filled with green peaness.
GT:
More likely Chase being afraid of being stabbed in the Dawg Pound, and the Dawg Pound being loud enough to force the Bengals to twice need to take a timeout to get a play call in.
Has anyone checked in on OMWC? That finish has to have done EMOTIONAL DAMAGE.
Also, that finish was an object lesson in not being so eager to go for 2 point tries.
Bills fan but yeah, that was great too.
Well, my Seachickens lost to the (spits) Forty Niners.
Fuck I hate that team.
Need a tissue?
‘War Department’ Is a Good Start
Let’s avoid euphemism and give every agency of government an honest name.
It’s a good, but useless rant.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/war-department-is-a-good-start-e8b7f360?st=rHp84B&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Department of Grifting …
Health, Education, and Welfare?
“Gov. Kathy Hochul is refusing to disclose the costs of using a fuzzy “Frankie Focus” mascot unveiled last week to promote the “bell-to-bell” school cell phone ban, a Sesame Street-type character that even supporters flunked as “completely tone deaf.””
https://nypost.com/2025/09/07/us-news/kathy-hochul-hides-cost-of-cell-phone-ban-mascot-frankie-focus-who-gets-called-tone-deaf/
What is this retardation?
Why do the kids need a neon green character from Where the Wild Things Are to tell them why they aren’t allowed to use their cellphones? Seems insulting even for children.
These are the same people who have outright said black people don’t know how to use computers, and similarly condescending things of blinding stupidity.
Mind you, New York schools suck to the point where they’re child abuse, so the educational attainment of the students is probably around the low grade level
If he does well in school he can go to college
Not as bad as Dukakis and the tank photo. But close.
Please tell me that Hochul and the radioactive nerd were doing a little rap-and-dance bit in that photo.
He’s already failed in his mission. There’s a gal dressed like “The Hamburglar” in the 2nd photo down in the article who has her phone in her right hand just waiting to get back to being distracted by her phone.
I think that’s a state employee, or a school official. The bad fashion sense, dopey “happy to be here” expression, and twenty-something age gives it away.
Compare that expression to the students in the other picutres. They all have the forced “I don’t want to be here” look.
It has an X account too…
My God….
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmso5W2Mpjg
I was waiting for her lamentation of “the MTV video games”.
Surely bluesky is more its jam.
Ok, this along with the various flag/logo revamps has convinced me: ban marketing.
Says the Glibs spokesman for SIG…
That thing is going to get railed so hard by the other furries.
The “no tax on tips” regulation is exactly the confused mess that you would expect it to be.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/taxes/big-questions-remain-on-who-gets-tax-free-tips-ac9a68e7?st=iiDyPk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It could have been the simplest thing in the world.
“Being not taxed, there is no need to report income from tips by anyone.”
Bam, simple bright line rule that covered all.
That and no tax on overtime are a huge PITA that increase accounting costs.
Also, no tax on tips doesn’t make sense if there still are gift taxes.
You’re right, ditch gift and interitance taxes. There’s no need for them, that money was already taxed.
I agree.
Across the board tax decrease would have been better. My position from the start.
Predictable consequences of both of those just so campaign lines.
Maybe he’s over the target
Milei’s recently formed La Libertad Avanza party captured just 34% of the vote in Argentina’s biggest province, losing by a landslide to the left-leaning Peronist opposition, which secured 47% with the majority of ballots counted late Sunday.
Milei conceded that his right-wing party’s crushing 13-point loss to his populist rivals represented “a clear defeat.”
“We suffered a setback, and we must accept it responsibly,” Milei told grim-faced supporters at the party headquarters, his tone reflective, even chastened.
“If we’ve made political mistakes, we’re going to internalize them, we’re going to process them, we’re going to modify our actions,” he said.
Still, he vowed to stick with his sweeping economic overhaul, saying: “There will be no retreat in government policy.”
Change is hard. Keep pushing.
There is some kind of corruption scandal involving his sister receiving kickbacks though I highly doubt the Peronists would be an improvement in that area.
Sometimes I wonder if it’s impossible for a parasite to realize it is killing the host, even as said host is collapsed and wheezing.
It used to be possible in places like Michigan. The would run the state into the ground, bring in some cost-cutting Republicans for a term or 2 to right the ship, then go back to Team Blue to wreck it.
“Some have accused the 26-year-old singer of ‘fetishizing’ the trans community with her rendition of her latest single, ‘Tears,’ which features explicit lyrics.
Carpenter was joined on stage by drag queens — including Honey Balenciaga, Symone, Dashaun Wesley and Richie Shazam — for her performance at the UBS Arena in New York, which included a dance break in the rain.
Her background dancers also carried signs that read ‘In trans we trust’, ‘Dolls, dolls, dolls,’ ‘Support drag,’ ‘Protect trans rights’ and ‘If you hate, you’ll never get laid’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15075847/Sabrina-Carpenter-sparks-backlash-mtv-vmas-trans-rights.html
Drag has little to do with trans, and she probably does know what a “doll” is….
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-15073123/vmas-video-music-awards-2025-worst-dressed-red-carpet-stars-looks-outfits-mtv.html
I’m actually impressed how the clothes still get worse every year.
It’s not about how good it looks. It’s about who made it.
I don’t even know who most of those people are.
The VMAs are still a thing?
That’s the Mugatu fall line.
Darkly ironic
The only thing more ironic would have been if he died on Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.
was traveling west when it attempted to turn left and crossed into the path of an eastbound 2014 Harley-Davidson motorcycle driven by Runte
The almost universal car vs bike collision. Sad.
“Teenage girls are recruiting themselves as contract killers in Sweden’s organized crime wars, with prosecutors reporting cases of 15-year-olds accepting assassination missions through encrypted messaging apps, according to officials…
Sweden charged 280 girls aged 15 to 17 with murder, manslaughter or other violent crimes in 2024, though authorities cannot confirm how many cases are linked to organized crime, the outlet reported. Prosecutors say girls now compete to prove themselves more ruthless than their male counterparts.”
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/05/sweden-teen-girls-contract-killers-organized-crime/
I wonder if they are actually Swedish.
Remove the Niqab and find out.
Sounds like this is going to be a Glib Flick in a year or two.
I thought the same thing!
The food truck scene there must be lit.
The literal bomb.
Kicillof gave an ebullient speech late Sunday in which he rebuked Milei and reminded voters what they’ve lost by swapping Peronist populism for Milei’s brutal spending cuts.
“The ballot boxes told Milei that public works cannot be halted. They explained to him that retirees cannot be beaten, that people with disabilities cannot be abandoned,” he told cheering supporters.
“The ballot boxes shouted that education, healthcare, science and culture cannot be defunded.”
Print and spend!
“Let us go back to destitution and corruption!”
WE WANT FREE SHIT! WE WANT FREE SHIT!
Oh well, it was nice while it lasted.
“Attorney Alan Dershowitz said on Sunday that he was willing to assist in suing former talk show host Rosie O’Donnell over her false claim that President Donald Trump paid $1 billion to deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
O’Donnell made the allegation on “The Jim Acosta Show” on Friday, which fact-checking website Snopes rated as false in July. Dershowitz said on Newsmax’s “Sunday Agenda” that O’Donnell’s statement was clearly malicious…
“Our president is a serial pedophile rapist,” O’Donnell further alleged.”
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/08/alan-dershowitz-says-hed-be-happy-to-help-sue-rosie-odonnell-over-false-trump-epstein-claim/
CWAC
Keep digging that hole, Rosie, and make sure you have a good lawyer.
Didn’t she run to Ireland or Canada?
Neither have free speech protections.
They both have clauses that if it is against the Orange Dictator, it is allowed.
So when is Acosta bringing AI Epstein on his show to verify Rosie’s claim?
LOL
CWAC?
Designed to dominate the attention economy for miles around, the Revuelto serves up 6.5 liters of fuel-injected, naturally aspirated hell, ladled from the lower depths and poured in the ears of kings and commoners alike.
Why? Because codpieces are uncomfortable and hard to get through airport security. The fact is, in an era when unbearable performance is available to the average Tesla Model S owner, status-seeking bangers, enthusiasts and collectors need another yardstick by which to compare their junk, so to speak.
I have zero interest in 90% of modern supercars even if I could afford one.
Lamborghini’s Noisy Play for Attention
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/lamborghinis-noisy-play-for-attention-1a6fdab5?st=C9oqGF&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Can I get a carburated V8, maybe with a turbo? Stick it in a really boring Crown Vic body.
Wait, can you work a turbo with a carburator?
I don’t know… 😢
Pontiac did in 1981
😄
But you really want fuel injection. Carburetors are terrible/inefficient for making power. You can go with mechanical fuel injection if it makes you feel better.
As long as it doesn’t have a computer, I’m sold.
I want to go fast AND turn around corners.
That’s crazy talk.
Carburetors suck. Every accursed car restoration show on Motortrend features a painstakingly restrored engine that won’t start, and 9 out of 10 times it’s the carburetor.
“Price, as tested: $738,858”
Sheeeit, I’ll just get a Corvette and a pretty damn nice house instead.
Heard about this on POTP
“The Trump administration has shattered the record for total US airstrikes in Somalia in a single calendar year, as the US has been bombing the country at a record pace with virtually no American media coverage.
US Africa Command told Antiwar.com in an email on Tuesday that its forces launched a total of nine airstrikes in a recent two-week campaign against the ISIS affiliate in Somalia’s northeastern Puntland region, bringing the total number of US airstrikes in Somalia this year to 68.
The previous record for US airstrikes in Somalia in a single year was set at 63 in 2019 during President Trump’s first term. The current Trump administration is set to significantly outpace the 2019 bombing campaign as it continues to provide air support for local Puntland forces fighting the ISIS affiliate in the northeast and for US-backed government forces fighting al-Shabaab in southern Somalia.”
https://news.antiwar.com/2025/08/26/trump-administration-shatters-the-record-for-annual-us-airstrikes-in-somalia/
Sometimes Puntland gets close, but it just never succeeds.
Minesoda is closer.
Could drone them here to save the fuel.
Not sure about Slate’s readership as they always put some sleazy pervert story on the front page. Today it’s about an underage boy having gay sex with a vacuum cleaner.
Wait, how did they know the sex of the vacuum? Or was it even worse than what my mind came up with?
This from the guy who spends every day reposting Daily Mail OF articles here?
NYPost, and I’m sure about our readership.
So he put the hose up his ass instead of putting his dick in the hose?
I have zero interest in 90% of modern supercars even if I could afford one.
The only good thing about modern supercars is they are produced in such low numbers they aren’t subject to the requirement for all the safety alarms and other nanny features.
Harry and Clarkson talk state of the car
Good Clarkson mini-rant about beeps and boops.
I watched that.
Amazing how things have changed from “shut up and take the shot or be fired”. Just a respectful discussion over differences in opinions.
I inserted myself into a conversation at a bar about Covid and vaccines. Here’s what happened
https://archive.fo/vVwbI
https://www.statnews.com/2025/09/06/covid-misinformation-bar-strangers-public-health-science/
REPENT, HERETICS!
The science burst out of her like projectile vomitus burst out of Linda Blair.
The science burst out of him, eh?Fuck off.
It was apparent by May/June the most impacted and this guys ilk did everything possible to keep that data limited when explaining to the public.
“It is just like figuring out how a car engine works…”
… “if we made the car engine try to kill you, self-replicating and let it hang around the cafeteria without security for a while…”
from the same people that will tell you GMO food is not safe
Good luck growing enough Teosinte to feed anybody.
‘We are going to force people to take it and we released them from any liability should they hurt anyone’ is the biggest red flag imaginable.
Wow there are some whoppers in there:
“They lied to us — the vaccines never prevented Covid-19.”
“We are censoring people who do not fall in line.”
That never happened in this SCIENCE-being.
In particular, I heard one of the guys talking about how rushed the vaccines were and how “they” lied to us and how mRNA was an experiment and we were guinea pigs.
…
But, alas, the science within was bursting out of me, and I leaned over and gently said, “Actually, mRNA technology has been around and tested for decades …”
They were so well tested they required emergency authorization with liability waivers.
And the examples he gave were not human vaccines that had been thoroughly tested on large populations in randomized controlled trials. And no mention of the exponentially higher adverse effects for the clot shots vs. other vaccines as reported to VAERS. Or how it’s not really a vaccine since it doesn’t prevent infection, or transmission, and hasn’t been adequately proven to reduce symptoms. And how the risk of the vaccine was greater than the risk of covid to young people. And how everyone was lied to about it and subjected to mandates, and how effective therapeutics were actively suppressed to justify the emergency authorization. What a smug, dishonest little shit.
Sounds like the guy got a copy of some Democrat talking points from November 2020.
I think part of the issue here might be a gap between what actual clinical scientists claimed about vaccines, etc. and what public health mouthpieces claimed.
But, as most of you note, the goal posts are on wheels at this point. Lab leak was a “racist” claim that is now a possible explanation.
She also has a BS in science and her grad degrees are in public health. So, no more science knowledge than anyone else who walks out of school with a BS in biology.
May she enjoy her cancer.
Can I get a carburated V8, maybe with a turbo? Stick it in a really boring Crown Vic body.
Go buy a Buick Grand National. It’s only a V6, but they go pretty good. “Like a stabbed rat,” as the Limeys say.
*headdesk*
*headdesk*
*headdesk*
Trying to guide direct report in revising process documentation. I pointed out that the document said “Navigate to [Location]. Navigate to [Other Location]” where [Other Location] did not require going to the first to reach (they are in fact unrelated) and that there was something missing in the step regarding [Location]… It took me explicitly saying it didn’t say what you were expected to actually DO at [Location] for him to get why I was harping on it.
Interesting day at the TOK household this morning. Oldest Kid now has a “boyfriend” in NH (we checked, it’s not DEG). He contacted Mrs. TOK to talk about how harsh we are with our kid. Mrs. TOK set him straight and informed him Oldest Kid is only telling the half of the story that makes her look like a victim. (This is a pattern with her). It was actually a good conversation, until he asked if Oldest Kid showed her the dick pick he sent. WTF is wrong with people?
Humble brag?
It’s just weird.
“until he asked if Oldest Kid showed her the dick pick he sent”
He asked if your daughter showed her mom a dick pic?
YES! I’m not sure what the hell is going on. Sounds like he has some mental health issues. Just weird.
Mrs. TOK has stopped responding.
I guess he was just trying to explain why he was making such a ballsy move.
I forgot, his social media handle is “Daddy” so that was a red flag.
Mother/daughter fetish.
His name wasn’t Pedro by chance, was it?
LOL, WUT?
Nixon fan?
What is it with sending dick pictures? Even as an idiotic 20 something during the early 2000’s, it never crossed my mind to send a woman a dick picture.
And why on Earth would he even ask your wife that?
Part of it is, “Why do you have a problem with me sending your kid dick picks?” But he’s persisting too much.
I don’t get it either, and we have told her anything you send is stored on a server somewhere forever.
Worrying but serious answer — he’s another cult leader or has that personality type, that’s why TOK’s eldest was drawn to him… and to him, that’s recruiting?
Only other logical reaction is that he’s a complete dumbass with zero social skills, of course.
I recieved a dick pic once.
Shudders at the memory.
From one of my uncles, he was building a mod 80s ford small block with a turbo (blow through carb) and sent me a picture of his turbo and manifold.
I had been telling him he needed glasses for the last twenty years to no avail. He sent me the same picture he had sent his wife earlier in the day. Between the blower and the intake manifold on the workbench was his dick.
He could see in the thumbnail that the picture was of his turbo parts, too blond to catch his member happened to be in the picture he sent me.
My wife thought it was hilarious.
WTF?
Sorry Kevin.
Unfortunately Medicaid rejected the battery of psych tests her doctor ordered. They didn’t think she needed that much. We appealed that.
I did get some honesty out of her. She says she’s fine the way she is, sees no need to change anything about her health, hygiene, or other habits, and she doesn’t need a therapist. So she most definitely needs a good therapist. I’ll let you guys know how it goes. Thanks for the moral support.
Until she wants to change I am not sure a therapist can help.
If she’s fine, she’s obviously ready to be out on her own supporting herself! 😃👍/sarc
My brilliant colleague Aimee Bernard has a great analogy for this: Every car mechanic across the U.S. uses different messaging for why you need your engine fixed or your brakes replaced. Each one explains it differently based on their knowledge, their customer, and the specific situation. Now imagine if all those mechanics had to agree on one message and deliver it simultaneously, while the cars were actively catching fire, and half the owners insisted cars don’t actually need brakes. That was Covid messaging.
Brilliant. I’m awestruck.
Imagine that there was nothing wrong with the cars, while the mechanics all ahd a gun to their head being told to deliver the message that they needed to add bleach to the gas tank and cap off the exhaust pipe while anyone who said this was the wrong course of action was silenced and censured.
That was Covid messaging.
Imagine I know nothing about cars, and think that different qualified mechanics will somehow not think that brakes work the same way, and different mechanics will somehow explain that “the rotors are worn” in different, confusing, and contradictory ways.
Every car mechanic across the U.S. uses different messaging for why you need your engine fixed or your brakes replaced.
No, they really don’t. If they are qualified mechanics, they all explain what is wrong in the same basic way: “the rotors are worn”, “the fuel injectors are clogged” etc. And if they can’t explain what that means in understandable terms, then they are not qualified mechanics.
Now imagine that some mechanics had a boat payment to make, or a kid to put through college, or were otherwise just dishonest.
This is the kind of person that spends $12,000 to ‘fix’ a $7000 car.
Looking back, it’s easy to criticize decisions about masks, mandates, and lockdowns. Perhaps officials could have communicated more clearly about uncertainty or adjusted decisions as we learned more. But at that time, they were responding to an acute global emergency with limited information.
They were screaming like their hair was on fire, but they just weren’t screaming hard enough.
The more they learned, the more they ignored the evidence.
Bullshit. The message came across loud and clear: we own you and you will do what we say.
Plus, we had to completely ignore everything we had learned about respiratory viruses and vaccines over the last century: Masks, social distancing, what an effective vaccine actually does, etc.
I really like Jonathan Turley when it comes to matters of law. Here’s his take on that Tim Kaine “The government gives you rights” statement from last week:
Other law professors, such as Ryan D. Doerfler of Harvard and Samuel Moyn of Yale, have called for the nation to “reclaim America from constitutionalism.”
That “reclamation” is easier if our rights are based not in natural law, but rather in the evolving priorities of lawmakers like Kaine. Protections then become not the manifestations of human rights, but of rights invented by humans.
https://jonathanturley.org/2025/09/08/the-mark-of-kaine-how-a-senators-remarks-borders-on-constitutional-blasphemy/
Kaine steps right out of the pages of “Atlas Shrugged.”
Does that mean we’re going to be subjected to a two hundred page lecture?
Another bullet dodged. What a slimy asshole.
His Spanish sounded like that gay robot from Star Wars.
https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/1964807497845506487
Wait, I’m on the same side as the police union?
And the average taxpayer, if it makes you feel better.
“A cybercrime group known as “Purgatory” has been identified as the organization behind a string of AI-enhanced swatting calls that triggered lockdowns at universities across the country in late August.
From August 21 to August 25, at least 10 universities received fake active shooter reports, prompting armed responses from federal and local law enforcement. Purgatory used AI tools to mimic the sounds of screaming and gunfire during the calls, making them appear more credible, according to findings from the Center for Internet Security and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/swatting-for-hire-cybercriminal-group-purgatory-linked-to-ai-enhanced-swatting-calls-targeting-universities
CWABOA
I was proud that I was able to navigate the discussion. At the end, three of the guys came up to me and shook my hand. They also shook my mom’s hand and congratulated her for raising a “bright young woman.” (She was kvelling.)
Okay, Karen.
I’ll take “Shit that Never Happened” for $10,000, Alex.
It’s the woke version of Penthouse Forum.
“Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles is facing backlash after responding to the brutal stabbing of a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee by saying the city “will never arrest our way out” of issues like homelessness and mental health….
“We will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health,” Lyles said, according to WCNC. “Mental health disease is just that — a disease like any other that needs to be treated with the same compassion, diligence and commitment as cancer or heart disease.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/woke-charlotte-mayor-says-city-cant-arrest-our-way-out-of-issues-like-mental-health-after-footage-of-brutal-murder-goes-viral
Well, you have to lock them up after you arrest them.
“Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) announced on Sunday that he is going to introduce legislation to hold soft-on-crime judges accountable if they release a violent criminal back to the street and the criminal commits more crimes.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/huge-rep-randy-fine-plans-introduce-bill-hold/
No idea how that is supposed to work.
Personal criminal liability for the acts of any person the judge lets out?
“We will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness and mental health,”
I bet her solution is getting more money from the state/federal government to fix the mental health issue. Money that will be pissed away but won’t solve the issue on top of making it much worse, leading them to ask for more money. It’s a very predictable cycle.
That is correct, we will not be able to arrest our way out of homelessness and mental health, but we CAN arrest our way out of open violence on the streets.
She has the characteristic Dem delusion that they “care” and can “help”.
No, you silly bint. The point of arresting them and locking them up – somewhere – is to stop them from preying on innocent people. Remember them?
And Democrats wonder why the opposition points out that they care more about violent criminals than their victims.
The GOP campaign ads continue to write themselves.
Well, nothing we can do then. The stabbings will continue until “homelessness” and “mental health” are solved.
Other law professors, such as Ryan D. Doerfler of Harvard and Samuel Moyn of Yale, have called for the nation to “reclaim America from constitutionalism.”
They probably consider themselves part of the “No Kings” tribe, too.
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This does not end well.
“Dorian Johnson, the friend of Mike Brown who started the false rumors that Brown was killed with his hands ups surrendering to police, was killed Sunday in Ferguson, Missouri….
The Ferguson police have one person in custody. No officers were involved in the shooting.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/mike-browns-friend-dorian-johnson-man-behind-hands/
Maybe he should have put his hands up.
Waiting for the Media stories lamenting his death in 3, 2, 1…..
“Eleven years after the officer shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked waves of protest against police brutality, the friend who was with Brown when it happened has been shot dead….
Johnson’s account of Brown’s 2014 killing helped inspire the iconic “hands up, don’t shoot” protest chant heard in demonstrations across the US that year, though subsequent investigations called into question the details of Brown’s actions before he died.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/08/us/dorian-johnson-fatally-shot-ferguson-michael-brown
I wonder how loudly CNN ran with the false narrative.
“I wonder how loudly CNN ran with the false narrative.”
Scroll down for picture:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musks-criticism-debunked-hands-up-dont-shoot-mantra-triggers-cnns-don-lemon-needs-context
Serious journalisting. JFC what children.
Holy shit CT, I thought you were writing some satire there until I saw it was an actual CNN story.
You can’t even parody these assholes.
Why no information on the suspect in custody?
“active investigation”
Okay, so the suspect wasn’t white.
Barn find of the day: https://barnfinds.com/rare-aussie-ute-1959-chrysler-wayfarer/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Newsletter+(Daily)
Oldest Kid now has a “boyfriend” in NH
I hate to sound like a callous asshole, but how do these people find each other?
The Internet. It’s for more than porn.
In my very small social circle I know of 2, maybe 3 cases, of socially inept kids finding one another. The internet is a helluva tool. Distance seems not to be a divider. MN-NJ connection in both cases.
Correct. There are a lot of kids, especially the younger ones, who exchange social media handles as soon as they meet someone. In her case, she’s lonely so she trolls friends of friends. She claims this person went to the same high school as her, I’m not convinced.
The U.S. government collected $31.4 billion in tariff revenues in August, the largest monthly haul so far in 2025, underscoring the continued impact of trade duties on the economy.
Really? August data doesn’t come out until Sept. 11th.
All in all, it was a very good talk. I shared nuggets of info that they were not aware of. The fourth fellow was very hard to reach (and I am not sure I reached him at all). Some people can’t be convinced. But maybe, just maybe, I made him think about things he never considered.
She, however, was proudly and utterly impervious to their puerile unscience-tistic ravings and left the field of battle triumphant and unmoved from her faith.
Apparently my boss was fired at the end of the day Friday.
This week just got more interesting.
Malfeasance or downsizing?
I would guess downsizing.
Do you know who you are reporting to as of now? Or are there HR people still lurking the hallways?
Given your recent return from disability you likely have temporary immunity!
Good luck with the change.
Best wishes
What struck me most was how much of their skepticism came from incomplete information rather than anti-science ideology. They didn’t know about the decades of mRNA research. They didn’t understand the nuances of vaccine effectiveness. They weren’t aware of the ongoing scientific debates and policy changes.
What a treasure trove of imbecility.
“We know the negro is an inferior race. We have decades of scientific research proving it.”
I’m sure they will be reimbursing everyone, right?
4 hikers rescued after suffering ‘debilitating psychedelic mushroom high’ in NY’s Catskill Mountains
https://nypost.com/2025/09/04/us-news/4-hikers-rescued-after-suffering-debilitating-psychedelic-mushroom-high-in-catskills/
“Several hikers have indicated severe rectal pain.”
“The name ‘STEVE SMITH’ keeps echoing in my head!” exclaimed one of the hikers.”
I thought it was the drugs falling out of their asses.
ALL THINGS FALL OUT OF ASSES ONCE STEVE SMITH DONE!
They’ve got the goods on him this time
The brief relationship that emerged was consensual. But some of the events that took place within the confines of that relationship were not.
Last October, I came forward with a story I had kept private (with the exception of sharing with my closest friends) for decades: Epstein once walked me into Donald Trump’s office at Trump Tower, where I was groped by Trump as Epstein stood by and watched. (Trump denies that this ever happened). For years I stayed silent in order to protect my privacy and my family. But with the release of a documentary in which I was featured, I felt I had to tell the truth. To support my account, I was polygraphed by a renowned examiner, my close friends were interviewed to corroborate that I had shared this story over the years, and Trump biographer Michael Wolff confirmed that Epstein disclosed the incident to him.
She’s a SURVIVOR.
At this point, without incontrovertible proof I assume all of these stories are basically bullshit. If there was anything damaging to Trump the Biden cabal would have released it long ago.
August tariff collections reach $31.4B, largest monthly haul so far in 2025
Yay! Tax revenue is up because rates increased! Hurray! There’s no down side to this.
I know that the tariffs have made my life more expensive. Those tariffs are designed to combat the Temus of the world, yet the small guys seem to be taking the biggest hit. There are several things I’ve neglected to order from small European synth manufacturers because the price has simply gotten untenable once tariffs are added and the de minimus removed.
Somehow I don’t think that Jens the one man synth shop in Europistan making boutique items is the actual target of the tariffs, but he’s sure being affected by the carpet bombing approach.
This is one policy that I hope SCOTUS smacks down, even if it weren’t affecting my own purchases. I’m not convinced he has the Constitutional authority to levy tariffs unilaterally.
Bring back the 78!
Tiny Vinyl is a new pocketable record format for the Spotify age
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/tiny-vinyl-is-a-new-pocketable-record-format-for-the-spotify-age/
Finding old recordings on vinyl I understand. New releases or vinyl makes no sense to me whatsoever.
I buy new vinyl releases all the time. Or I did until the Covid response which dramatically raised the price of vinyl (and everything else). I still buy a dozen or so records a year, but that’s a far cry from my peak of a 5-6 or so a month.
I buy physical media. I never stopped. I made an order recently where I ordered 3 separate albums, all 3 of which were a different format. A cassette, a record, and a CD.