OK, so I’m the one on suicide watch- losing is bad enough, but watching every top Ravens player go down injured was just traumatic. Mojeaux dodged a bullet. And I’m sitting in here for Banjos as a sign of life.
Speaking of life, birthdays today are numerous and include the actual victim of The Lost Ark; a pioneer in wind power; one of our philosophical forebears; the creator of a massive industry of bullshit; the guy who pioneered the intersection of science and politics; a guy who made oaters into musicals; a guy was Aaron Sorkin and Normal Lear rolled into one if Sorkin and Lear were actually intelligent; a guy who, once I was the parent of a six year old, I grew to hate; a guy who was my inspiration when it came to chasing girls; Donald Trump with a vowel at the end; a guy who was a major player in one of the worst TV shows ever and whom I was trapped next to for a five hour flight (and we actually had an interesting conversation); a woman who was so tired; a much better moustache than John Bolton; a guitarist whose ineptitude became the stuff of legends; a TV host whose brainlessness became the stuff of legends; an NPR Lady often and deservedly parodied and whom I never dated; and one of the few actual statesmen the Palestinian Arabs ever had (so of course was exiled).
As usual, Links will contain no statesmanship, either.
Inevitable. The voters are about to get what they want, good and hard.
And some of them are already taking action.
Britain makes sure that we are all accepting of Third World customs.
The wavin’ weed can sure smell sweet when the wind comes right behind the rain…
Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t.
The GS-12s need a paid vacation.
Just to show that there’s actually no principles behind cutting “foreign aid.”
Just to show that there’s actually no principles behind cutting bailouts.
The Obergefell boogeyman trotted out yet again.
Orange Man Bad hasn’t said or done anything, but he’s about to, any second now!
The crazy precision of the playing and rhythmic complexity make this a terrible choice for first thing Monday morning. So of course that what Old Guy Music will be.
At least the Giants won.
Finishing 81-81 at least with Adames finally breaking the 30 homer mark. We all wanted them to beat the Dodgers finally but alas that was not in the cards tnis year.
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Inevitable. The voters are about to get what they want, good and hard.”
Stupid is as stupid does.
Yet another instance of “I don’t understand people”, that’s for sure. Sisyphus is a slacker compared to socialists wanting to “get it right this time!”
They’re judging by tone and intention, not action and results.
Still don’t get this — moving from NYC to the suburbs implies to me you’re still likely working in the city (even WfH if your company is in the city… his policies will effect you). And as such, you’re still vulnerable to the impending reaming… might just shield a few assets (but then he’ll come for the Kulaks and Wreckers in the bridge and tunnel crowd, right?)… if you’re going to get out… get all the f’ing way out — personally, I’d say get out of the state. Hochul seems like a fellow traveler — she just doesn’t think she can quite pull it off yet.
i have a good feeling this is the time it works
I understand people. Most of them vote by reflex. To the extent that they give it any thought, New Yorkers will vote for the politician who promises the most free shit.
“We’ll show Trump.”
Yeah, this one scares me. I seriously believe that if Trump told them he loves breathing, some of these idiots would put a plastic bag over their head and kill themselves to just show him they will not agree with him.
“Trump’s rhetoric leads to mass casualty event! Right Wing violence!”
“some of these idiots would put a plastic bag over their head”
There are bunch of parody videos of people doing just that after Trump says oxygen is good.
She certainly had a clue about layabout husbands.
Morning, OMWC. Morning all.
Is the WNBA full of troons?
probably not given the poor level of play
Strapping down the dick and balls inhibits the jump shot.
Because sports fans love to be lectured by radical leftists.
You’ve got your work cut out for you, Donald. Tread carefully when you “go after” the league.
It’s funny that they think people actually give a shit about the WNBA.
I give up. What’s a WNBA?
Wireless Network Billable Access.
A collection point for sex toy donations for poor unfortunates.
New or used.
“In a similarly baffling claim, an Iranian cleric earlier this month said that earthquakes are caused by promiscuous women.”
I thought it was the gays.
I guess he felt the earth move, and drew the obvious conclusion.
Did he feel the sky tumbling down too?
Not for a while, there’s been a ceasefire.
Yep things can be true at the same time.
“Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t.”
I wonder how broken you are that you think this sort of shit is how you get your 15 mins of fame…
The NC guy… I’m not sure you can even say he was doing it for 15 seconds. It sounds like he may have sincerely believed gremlins were on the dock or something… and assuming it stems from the bullet to the brain back in the Gulf War, I really only have sympathy for the guy. Agree with the comments on Twitchy (I think) this morning though — even if he turns out not to be the shooter, he’s loopy enough he really needs involuntary mental health care. And I’m on the “be very very careful with involuntary care” side (given the “anti-vax people need re-education and ‘mental health treatment’! we had not long back, I think everyone here understands my hesitancy in granting any power in this area… but I think this gentleman meets the criteria).
Don’t know on the Michigan nutcase… just assuming nutcase and not “I hate Mormons” for some stupid reason (beyond crazy).
RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA!
Well the opposition parties were the Socialist Party and the Communist party so much diversity… I did not much care for the elections but many people round these parts were terribly tense. And according to the ruskies foreign votes are now suddenly good.
If the EU is going to let in all these little ex-SSRs, we really, really need to be out of NATO. People have the right to join political unions, sure… but I have no desire to defend them when they’re encircling a nuclear power that has said it draws a red line at that. Idiotic.
Britain makes sure that we are all accepting of Third World customs.
I mean I never had s really hot female cousin so I do not endorse this sort of thing
The Lord works in mysterious ways — not downright stupid ones.
Alternate take: Obligatory.
“Cultures that encourage first-cousin marriage have also been accused of oppressing women and being used as a tool to suppress personal freedoms….
“Cousin marriage is incest, plain and simple, and needs to be banned with the utmost urgency – there is no ‘balance’ to be struck between this cultural lifestyle choice and the severe public health implications it incurs.”
Any particular culture you are not mentioning?
Shouldn’t Axios have to prove they’re human?
“The WNBA has partnered with groups like Planned Parenthood and GLSEN, an LGBTQ+ youth organization. After George Floyd’s murder in 2020, the league dedicated its entire season to “social justice.” ”
So fuck them.
“On the issue of race, there is the “Educational Resources” section of the WNBA website, which promotes titles such as How to be An Anti-Racist, The 1619 Project, and works by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Kimberlé Crenshaw.”
With a rusty chainsaw.
And subsequently killed their Golden Goose who was driving new eyeballs to the game by beating her into submission.
Now I’m flashing back to Hamilton’s interminable press fawning and F1’s stupid slogans all to virtue signal. As if Europe meant jack over shit to US inner-city police methods. “Bandwagon is here — quick, jump on!”
Having now skimmed the article — I’d normally say “Why should Trump care?” (but we know he gets thin-skinned about things so he may)… If I were him I’d just say (only if asked) something like — “Sorry, I only respond to people that actually matter.”
Well, I would wager the author was approached with something like “hey, no one cares about our league….care to write that MAGA is gunning for us so we get a news cycle hit?”
Donald will shoot his mouth off and the Dems will run around in circles with their hair on fire.
Same as any other topic.
There are more fraught socio-political news stories about the WNBA than there are fans at an average game.
My view on sportsball activism is I do not care as long as they do not get said sportsball subsidized by tax moneys via anything like stadiums or any government money being spent towards enabling the spots.
The cousins article is paywalled but I can only guess at the reasoning behind such a decision.
The Hapsburg Lobby.
it strengthens the family (I bet it does) and can have positive economic effects (certainly can in sharia law countries)
According to one congresswoman, taking it even further to your brother is an aid to equitable immigration policy.
Eh, they’ll take it on their shared chin.
I read it by turning off java script and reloading the page.
I got it just by right-click->”Open in private window”. :shrug:
I… wut?
Is there really some large number of voters out there sad at the prospect of elite government “workers” getting a paid vacation?
I am seriously praying they furlough the bunch of them and leave the democrats with balls on their eyes…
They are talking mass layoffs, not furloughs.
Talk is cheap.
The government workers and assorted hangers on.
I haven’t been following the “shut down” news. If Dems don’t control House, Senate or White House how are they able to cause the shutdown?
It takes 60 votes to end debate in the Senate, so while the Democrats can’t defeat the bill if it is voted on, they can keep it from being brought to a vote.
Takes a 60 % approval vote
Joy
Ahhh, Bach.
Barbara?
Catherine.
“Be afraid! They’ll take away your rights! They want you dead! Arm up and resist by any means necessary!”
then also
“What do you mean tone down the rhetoric? It is all your side!”
Yay.
Yep that piece was timed to raise the heat.
lol Never change, the Guardian. Just call him a Christfag while you’re at it.
“An anti-ICE protester in Massachusetts forgot to put her car in park while yelling at agents making an arrest of an illegal alien and her car rolled into a lake and sunk, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) source tells Fox News.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/29/us-news/womans-car-sinks-in-lake-as-she-protests-ice-arrests-in-massachusetts/
LOLOLOL
Team USA lost yet again in the Ryder Cup despite playing well in the final round yesterday. Pretty good article that sums up their problems. Choosing mediocre PGA players over better LIV players (who actually play team golf) because of the politics is a recipe for disaster.
https://sports.yahoo.com/article/clear-path-forward-u-ryder-220536096.html
The US also did not sweep the IPSC world shoot (though we did take the top 3 places in revolver). They let a Slovene, a Filipino and a Frenchman take home golds.
“person wearing unicorn outfit waves flag”
also wearing a covid mask
The same people that were in favor of mandatory mask wearing and now adamant about unmasking ICE.
While wearing masks at “protests”.
“No doubt there are numerous things motivating this sudden Trump administration obsession with Tylenol, including a need to distract people from those pesky Epstein files. However, a concern for women’s health is absolutely not at the heart of it. Rather, this is yet another way to control women; another way to reduce us to walking wombs rather than multidimensional human beings. This war on Tylenol is also very much a war on women. Now, if only there was a pill we could take to help deal with this Maga-induced malaise. As it is, we are all just going to have to tough it out.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/27/trump-tylenol-sexism-tough-it-out
Also, there is an article how autism is good.
So tiresome.
If autism is so good, can we give the writer of that article autism?
Do we really need to?
I took a tylenol then spent the next two hours reading about dinosaurs.
“RFK Jr.’s Tylenol attack insults women’s intelligence
Kennedy’s tactics are straight out of the anti-abortion movement’s playbook”
https://www.salon.com/2025/09/29/rfk-jr-s-tylenol-attack-insults-womens-intelligence/
“Kennedy, of course, was referencing the slogan “believe women,” which advocates for victims of sexual violence crafted to reflect the studies that show over 90% of rape allegations are true. “Believe all women,” in contrast, is a sarcastic phrase typically deployed by rape apologists to falsely suggest that feminists want men to be imprisoned without evidence.”
LOL
“Feminists have never used the phrase “believe all women,” which is a misogynist insult. ”
OK, sure.
They are science haters and rape apologists.
Millions of people actually believe this hysterical bullshit.
I knew it had to be Amanduh from the quotes pulled. No one else could be so blatantly and transparently lying.
The woman admitted in print that she is clinically insane…yet they keep publishing her? WTH?
Jokes on you ladies, there is actually some correlational evidence as to the risk of Tylenol to a developing fetus. Then again, maybe expecting women to grasp math is expecting too much.
I read over the news every morning over coffee. I am pretty sure someone is slipping LSD into my coffee. This morning I hallucinated that pregnant women are deliberately taking Tylenol because Trump announced a legit correlation between that and damage to their fetuses. I also read some Marcotte that made a connection between Tylenol and the rapey patriarchy.
None of that can be real so…..
Anti abortion playbook, don’t hurt babies.
JFC go swallow a bottle of Tylenol and leave the rest of us the fuck alone.
Interesting. Not my first choice, but Team Blue needs something like this.
Rahm Emanuel, Weighing Presidential Bid, Navigates a Democratic Party Moving Left
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/rahm-emanuel-democratic-party-70a5275a?st=9mfkPx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Best soundbite for his campaign – “We agree with Mao that power comes from the barrel of a gun.”
Toby got Bartlett into the White House. Toby as a presidential candidate would have gotten smoked by, well, anyone with a pulse.
“I don’t think that … any of these cases that have been decided are the gospel,” Thomas said during the rare public appearance, invoking a term which in a religious context is often used to refer to the word of God.
Reaching for dog whistles
So when a Democrat says to “fight” Trump, that is ” invoking a term which in a military context was often used by Hitler to encourage his invading Nazi hordes.”
Perfect. Take an absolute historical atrocity add even worse fictious elements and use it as propaganda.
China’s Anti-Japan Dramas Get a Gen Z Makeover
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-world-war-ii-film-updates-a3b59678?st=W3Gtgg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Naturally, the ficituous elements will allow Japan to continue to pretend the whole thing never happened.
For some reason I see “Gen Z Makeover” and envision Diaramas of atrocities where the victims are taking selfies as it’s happening.
Peking Duck Lips.
Presented in Anime format.
I hate this obsession with trying to make everything run through a phone app.
I got a new router with up to date firmware and firewall software, etc. I plugged it in to the spare interface on my linux box so I can do all the configuration stuff. It has wireless ability, but I don’t want to use it for that, as I want all of my traffic to pass through the IPS on my Linux box. So I look for how to turn it off.
I shit you not, the process was “Download our phone app, log on to our website, manage via internet WAN management in the phone app…”
Fuck no. I turned off WAN management for a reason. I have a perfectly good computer plugged directly into the device. I should be able to do everything from there.
What brand/model router?
Asus EBG15. I’m still looking for the local admin option, but I keep getting interrupted by work.
http://192.168.1.1 ?
No, it defaulted to 192.168.50.1
I will be changing that later. I’m in the web admin interface but it looks like it was designed by nontechnical people to look fancy to nontechnical people.
Checking https://manuals.plus/m/a67595d6a3a0be17ac1edf705f4f0fbedcf608cc375cfafced975853b2dc65f0_optim.pdf — I’d bet that’s what it does a dns entry of the “http://expertwifi.net” to map to. That’s usually what I see as a local option.
Ah… can’t help you with Asus’s programmers unfortunately. I’d be looking for an “Advanced” option if you’re not already in it (and if you are — well, my condolences then).
So much wasted screen real estate, so little utility.
Agreed… I know they pitch the phone apps — but I’ve still been able to do what I need via the internal web interface (and I make sure to disable external access to same, that’s for certain).
So I see the marxist globalists in Canada are hard at work trying to disarm their people. They must have some seriously evil future plans for them and need them disarmed, is my guess..
Mandatory MAiD at retirement age or going on disability leaps to mind. That looks like the trendline from this side of the border.
Logan’s Run got the cutoff age wrong?
“While the country is distracted by Donald Trump’s obscene lie that Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism, the administration is making their next major move against abortion pills. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says it will conduct its own study of mifepristone to determine whether to roll back access to the medication—under the guise of “protecting the health and safety of pregnant women.””
https://jessica.substack.com/p/breaking-the-trump-administration
Obscene lie! I thought these assholes loved Harvard.
Oh fuck. Now Valenti? You bastards have no conscience.
“This is a league that is dominated by women of color, Black women. At least within the last couple of decades, it’s been a very openly queer league,” said Cheryl Cooky, a professor who studies the intersections of gender, sport, media and culture at Purdue University. When it comes to players’ progressive politics, Cooky said, “it’s just who they are.”
——-
“This is all figuring into the larger conservative strategy of using women’s sports to advance particular elements of the culture wars,” said Cooky. “It’s really being elevated by political leaders, even at the highest level.”
They are reacting to our explicit intentional politicization of this league in ways we don’t like. Not fair.
Imagine the cozy warm welcome any not radical leftist player gets there.
You don’t have to imagine, it has been playing out ever since Clark got drafted.
Sigh. Thanks, Indiana. Doin’ us proud.
Cooky is kooky. News isn’t news. I’d wager much on Cooky’s cookie being mighty kooky. Yucky yuck.
Matthew Syed on how the UK became a socialist hellhole while upper-normies were moaning about “neoliberalism”.
https://x.com/cjsnowdon/status/1972337148108914743
The problem is that our ruling elite class is degenerate, haughty, and scumbags of the worst kind. From academia to government bureaucracies, it is stupid people that have never had to pay any price for the idiocy they believe in and peddle. They have no ability to create anything of value, and have spent the last 3 or 4 decades extracting wealth from the system at the same time as they rigged the system to punish the productive. But they believe they have the right to rule, because they consider themselves smarter than all others, and especially the common man filled with common sense.
Headline – that I find no point in clicking. It’s got the obligatory clickbait “destroying” nicely seasoned with “obsolete”.
Energy Reporters
“Japan Builds Ammonia Ships Destroying Oil Industry”: Maritime Engineers Reveal Engine Cutting 90% Emissions Making Fuel Obsolete
Sure. Next up perpetual motion.
I have a policy I try my darnest to stick to of not rewarding clickbait. Even for sources I’d otherwise visit, I’ll skip something with clickbait titles/headlines.
Unfortunately, it still works, even on me from time to time. 🙁
Same. But I’d say only 5% or less will I click a cickbait headline story and only from a source I regularly visit.
On sources I’ve never or rarely use it will be a hard pass.
Another shell game that depends on magical thinking. The biggest cost in the production of ammonia issssss…you guessed it: the price of energy, usually natural gas. Like electricity, in the end more ‘greenhouse’ gasses are produced than if you just took the primary energy source and put it directly into an engine.
The bullshit green scams are tiresome.
But they sure as fuck allow the criminals in government to collude with the criminals outside government to rob us tax payers blind….
Running ships on cat pee sounds like a very Japanese thing to do.
In recent months, Trump has weighed in on numerous contentious sports issues, including pressuring the NFL’s Washington Commanders to return to their former name
A name so vile and toxic it cannot be printed or spoken.
“pressuring” 🙄
Did he do anything more than shoot his mouth off? I get it… every word out of this president’s mouth is a totalitarian command but come on.
Someone sent me a clip of Bill Maher trying to act like he talks sense, and in it he basically called for the left vs. the right to give up their shibboleths. Of course, being a fucking idiot, he accused the right of being the side that is totalitarian/authoritarian. Someone should remind that asshat that this argument was settled during the Kung Flu already, and that he needs to do a reboot on his idiotic arguments.
“Spanish-language pop star and Trump critic Bad Bunny celebrated his selection as the Super Bowl halftime act by calling it a victory for ‘my people, my culture, and our history’ amid massive blowback from MAGA world.
The NFL surprised many by announcing Sunday night that the Puerto Rican musician was chosen to headline the highly anticipated show in California next February.
Bad Bunny, who sings in Spanish, has been critical of Donald Trump’s immigration policies and recently admitted he refused to tour in the US over concerns that his fans would be targeted by ICE.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-15143449/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-maga-donald-trump.html
That’s the best person they could find?
Sam Smith is busy that night.
Smart conservatives would do counter-programming with a line up of family friendly, big spectacle stars (probably country stars) and a timer in the corner as an “alternate halftime show”.
Use heavy product placement to pay for it.
Of course, being the Stupid Party, they will do nothing.
Or just air a half-hour of Fox News. Chances are pretty high a country star will appear at some point.
MAGA FURY zOMG!!
They found some randos no one has ever heard of in support of their apparent belief that anyone gives a shit about this person.
The cow ring in his nose is a nice touch, though. Much edge.
They really are trying to make the NFL into the “white people not welcome” league.
Not sure that’s the best business plan.
Sure. I’ll just give a remote ChatGPT browser my credentials. No problem!
So I pulled up ChatGPT, and tapped on a button for its new Agent mode. (To access it, you need a $20-per-month upgrade called ChatGPT Plus — yes, another subscription.) Then I typed: “Unsubscribe me from Hulu and Disney+.” I also entered my Disney username and password.
I discovered ChatGPT’s best new feature: Quitting things for you
https://archive.fo/TMGRZ
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/29/chat-gpt-agent-mode-subscriptions/
“Okay, I unsubscribed you, and signed you up for the super premiere teir access”
Prepaid, lifetime subscription, bargain priced at $24,999
Hey! I like Grand Funk Railroad!
As of Sunday, the 271st day of 2025, there had been more than 320 mass shootings in the US, according to the non-partisan Gun Violence Archive.
Nonpartisan, politically independent civil society experts. You can trust them.
How many of those were Gang related?
ssshhhh.
I bet most of them were in Chicago.
How did OMWC miss Mira Sorvino’s 58th birthday yesterday? At age 36, she played Col. Chamberlain’s wife, Fanny, in “Gods and Generals.”
I remember thinking “How the f…does he go off to war with a hot wife like that at home? Screw the Union, I’m staying home and screwing her.” Historically, his multiple wounds led to him not being able to screw Fanny at all, she considered divorce, but ultimately stayed with the “Hero of Gettysburg.”
She about 50 years too old for him?
“Historically, his multiple wounds led to him not being able to screw Fanny at all”
Euphimism?
Best Mira Sorvino scene (and, yes, it’s exactly what you would expect): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwzvcoFOqXM
Mira Sorvino is my hero/ine. She is badass and awesome in every way.
Speaking of radical breakthroughs in science and technology, yesterday I saw a headline about a new “carbon free steel” made with hydrogen. I’m sure it will transform the industry overnight.
Well just think how much lighter a hydrogen atom is compared to compared to a carbon atom. It will practically float!
🤔
Yes, I know there are stable hydrides, but it’s funnier this way.
Where can I invest?
Stainless steel hasn’t got much
spamcarbon in it.“Carbon” just seems to be a synonym for “bad” these days so maybe they aren’t talking about the element.
East German Visuals
@GDRvisuals
Trabant’s in East Berlin, 1980s
https://x.com/GDRvisuals/status/1972301766906798123
They look nice but with the same problems as my ex-wife.
Long waiting list?
Fiberglass that rusts?
Two stroke?
Gassy, high maintenance, prone to breakdowns?
She burns a lot of oil?
It comes in three colors!
Obergfell was a death tax case, not a marriage case. It should have ended in the supremes striking down inheritance taxes.
And Trump fell for the “Mormons are Christians” lie.
Are you being sarcastic or do you think Mormons aren’t Christians?
They are Christians in the same sense that Christians are Jews.
“British mother murdered in US ‘was killed and dismembered by her husband after he complained she had not lost weight after her pregnancy'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15143873/British-mother-murdered-US-killed-dismembered-husband-complained-not-lost-weight-pregnancy.html
Seems a bit of overreaction.
He couldn’t just divorce her?
She’s in imigration law, just what business was her husband in. Dismembering is pretty popular in certain trades.
Traveling salesman?
Elections in Moldova are a joke. Ex-pats are allowed to vote for some reason. But not the ones who went to the wrong places.
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1972672559016464731
there are not 500,000 Moldovans living in Russia.
Sorry, I’m not watching the Chefs this year. Their sloppy playing has ground my last nerve into mummy dust.
@Tox, I know you were trying to help and I do appreciate it, but
1) my mother has NOT known Susie longer than she’s known me. Susie ran away at 16 pregnant with her 20yo boyfriend’s baby and wasn’t heard from for decades. My mother had been at BYU for 2 years when that happened. By the time Susie WAS heard from, their father was long dead, she had been in California all that time, and I was 14 or some shit. Susie did not come to MY dad’s funeral, but my mom went to HER husband’s funeral because she “needed” her to. Like, WTF? My oldest aunt, Patty, then came up with the bright idea that she should move here and move in with my mom. That happened about 15 years ago.
She absolutely did not know this woman she shares DNA with, although she started to get an inkling after their mother died. I asked her point blank at the beginning of this fiasco if she knew Susie before she moved her in, and she said no. I asked her if she’d moved in with her had she known this woman, and she said no. So.
2) My dad DEMANDED my loyalty to him (this implied Mom also). Now, this doesn’t seem like a big deal just saying it like that, but trust me, it was a big deal. So I was loyal. ALWAYS to my detriment. Not his. I’ve been trying to shake this off for years. So I spend my life being loyal to her, but *I* don’t get any? No, it’s not fair, but it doesn’t have to be that way. AND THEN there’s the fact that if my siblings treated my children the way her sisters have treated me, I’d cut them off completely, no questions asked. I’d burn the fucking house down. So, clearly, I’m not as important as a) Susie and/or b) her relationship with Susie.
Sorry Mo, that can’t be easy to deal with.
At least Cunty Aunt is not controlling the living situation anymore.
You cant choose your family Mojeaux. My parents are both emotional vampires on a scale that is hard to believe. I still speak with them, my brother does not. None of their grandchildren or great grandchildren have anything to do with them.
Sad.
It is. I was thinking after I posted that…I think I am the only person that speaks to them on a regular basis. Even for me, one minute tops and I can feel my soul getting sucked right out of me so I make excuses to get off of the phone then spend the rest of the day in a foul mood.
Lucky to have had a poor but stable family with brothers that were funny, happy and maybe a little lazy. It’s hard for me imagine any other life style.
I have friends on both sides of life’s coins.
Fourscore has had the best outcome.
Life is about relationships and you sir sound blessed.
Speaking of the Chefs, I’m bringing this what I said over from the night shift, to which Ted’S graciously replied, because it’s just part and parcel of the pussification of America:
I’m with you on this.
Last night a Cowboy safety got an unnecessary roughness penalty for hitting a Green Bay receiver that didn’t make a catch.
It was just a normal hit to make a tackle, but because the guy dropped the ball 2 steps before the safety running full speed hit him Green Bay got a free 15 yards.
Yeah, the penalties are getting just ridiculous for everybody. Like, dude, let the motherfuckers play the fucking game!
I am not a Mike Golic fan, but he had a good line about 15 years ago, with one of the new QB protection rules: “No hitting below the hemline.”
I think it was Jack Lambert said you couldn’t hit the QB after “he’d thrown his handkerchief on the ground”.
I don’t mind the guardian helmet. It’s an option the players can decide if they want to use them, and aren’t currently mandated (although I’d think someone like Tua should likely be required to wear one).
That’s the Stay Puft helmet? Those things look ridiculous.
rhywun:
Yeah, the ones that are foam and have the fabric liner put over them (which always looks just off enough). They’re supposed to be better at protecting against concussions.
Came to mention Mises birthday, glad OMWC covered it.
Here is a quote from Mises I just saw on CafeHayek:
It is from “The Anti-Capitalist Mentality”, which I have never read and just started on. I am only a few paragraphs in and it is chock full of Mises goodness.
Other side of the coin: “Most people dont realize that 95% of their problems would disappear if they would just sit down and be still.” – Calvin Coolidge
I am ten years old at the zoo in San Diego when I notice a troop of baboons. The dominant male is keeping an eye on his harem while all of the juveniles are in a big pile playing ‘King of the Mountain’ exactly the way my friends and siblings did. It is a game that never ends and has no point.
The collectivists have both a fixed-pie mentality and view everything through the lens of power.
We are still in the monkey stage Luddy.
My favorite King of the Hill version was one we played in elementary school. We had one of those wide metal slides, and the King would be on top while everyone tried to climb up the slide. To defend the hill, you would slide down as wide as possible to knock people off the slide. So to defend the hill, you had to abdicate the throne.
rob: so you should have called that ‘King of Ashes’.
Dude, take a chill pill.
What could possibly go wrong?
<em.Russia said on Monday that it would carefully analyse whether any U.S. Tomahawk missiles that might be supplied to Ukraine were fired using targeting data supplied by the United States.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday that Washington was considering a Ukrainian request to obtain Tomahawks, which have a range of 2,500 km (1,550 miles) – easily far enough to hit Moscow if fired from Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously said that Western countries will make themselves direct parties to the war if they supply targeting and intelligence to enable Ukraine to fire missiles deep inside Russia.
We’ll just help a little.
Just brilliant. Let’s give nuclear capable long range missiles to these idiots to use against the world’s largest nuclear power. What’s the worst that could happen?
You think they are going to put nuclear warheads on them?
Dicking around over there for resources and grift doesn’t seem worth it if it starts WWIII does it.
“Police said eight were also wounded when 40-year-old Thomas Jacob Sanford rammed his car into Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, Mich., then opened gunfire and set fires…
Reyne did not specify a motive at a news conference on Sunday evening.”
I wonder what was the motive? Everything suggests he was right-wing.
You would not believe how incredibly hateful about Mormons most of the Christian right gets—or at least, the evangelical/pentecostal segment of it.
I’m not saying that’s a motive. I’m saying it wouldn’t be any sort of surprise whatsoever.
As far as I can tell, Catholics either couldn’t care less or at least respect Mormons for actually doing the charity in “faith, hope, and charity”.
Yeah, I don’t think Catholics have much problem with us, but the anti-Mormon sentiment amongst protestants was on full display with Romney.
I mostly don’t care. I did my time in Baptist school and if it weren’t for them, I’d have probably just drifted away from the church. They forced me to examine my theology and be able to defend it.
Common Tater:
The same people who say LDS aren’t Christians generally don’t consider Roman Catholics Christians either. Being raised Catholic, there was no animosity that I picked up against the LDS church.
Catholicism doesn’t accept LDS as Christian. I think the active hostility is largely a fundamentalist protestant thing, but all the main branches of Christianity, Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant accept the Nicene creed as the core statement of doctrine, and LDS beliefs contradict that. It’s roughly the same relationship believing Jews have with Messianic Jews (Jews who are Christian). The newer group regards themselves as a more enlightened part of the whole, the more traditional group regards them as outsiders who have fallen into error.
I’m 100% anti Mormon faith.
The people I know that are potentially violently anti Mormon are former Mormons who have gone atheist.
Or a member rebelling. Like the Kirk assassin.
If I had to put money down this would be my choice.
Comeback
Jaguar Land Rover has said it will resume some production in the “coming days” after a cyber-attack forced the carmaker to suspend operations.
Work at its three UK facilities in the West Midlands and Merseyside were halted on 1 September after a cyber-attack the night before.
The BBC understands manufacturing will resume first at the engine facility in Wolverhampton on 6 October, and production at other plants will have a phased return.
Industry sources said they expect it to still be several weeks before the production lines are running at full capacity.
Government bailouts work.
Hitting the big time
For a play that’s famous for the lack of progress its characters make, Waiting for Godot has succeeded in bringing an awful lot of A-list names to the New York stage. The latest to take on Samuel Beckett’s co-dependent hobos, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, have teamed up in the past on film—perhaps most notably, and most appropriately in this case, as the central duo in the Bill & Ted franchise.
It’s a logical progression.
Oh, I so hope they play it a la Bill and Ted. That would be awesome! 😄
Then they should do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.
Whoa!
“Then they should do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.”
This.
No way!
Was the Neo-Assyrian empire as brutal as it portrayed itself?
“Mass graves have been unearthed at Ashdod and Lachish that date to the time of their conquest by Assyria…At Ashdod, some of the 2,872 bodies buried together show signs of mutilation and beheading. At Lachish, the assembled bodies of more than 1,500 people have been interpreted as the outcome of a massacre.”
These were some of the largest mass graves in the pre-modern world, indicating that the Assyrians really did leave a trail of carnage in the wake of their military Campaign. (After which, the survivors of these cities were also recorded to have been deported).
https://x.com/lefineder/status/1972323961762357442
That’s the Stay Puft helmet? Those things look ridiculous.
Like the idiot in Spaceballs.
“A map of Gothia, the territory of the Crimean Goths.”
https://x.com/lefineder/status/1972433100522340479
right bellow the Crimean Emos
At least it wasn’t the Crimean Emus.
No wonder Minnesoda is such a great place. Our Dear Leader King Walz has so many wonderful ideas!
1) Vote for a constitutional amendment to ban assault rifles because he doesn’t have the votes in the legislature to do anything. But he does have the DFL vote counting machine in the Twin Cities to take away rights.
2) He brings a lot of wisdom to the current bickering about how the new vibrant neighborhood Somalis swindled the state out of more than $1B.
Thank doG that the state didn’t just sit on that money. Walz really deserves a lot of credit for cutting red tape I guess.
3) He really is super funny! Why doesn’t he get credit for his sense of humor?
He so roasted Mike Lindell! Too bad he has zero chance of actually running against Walz
Oh, he’s funny all right. We just laugh *at* him, not with him.
“new vibrant neighborhood Somalis swindled the state out of more than $1B”
new vibrant neighborhood Somalis swindled the taxpayers out of more than $1B is more accurate
I read that as $18.
“We need to create an army bigger than Israel’s and we have to respond with a war”
Colombian President Gustavo Petro calls for military intervention during a demonstration against Gaza genocide in New York City.
https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1971679892048892274
Colombian Israeli war will be legendary
They need to provide the cocaine so that both sides can party together.
Keep pushing on that string
Automakers and investors are about to find out what the “natural demand” is for new all-electric vehicles in the U.S., starting this week.
Amid what’s set to be a record year for EV sales, including a record for units sold in the third quarter, demand for EVs is expected to decline. That’s because federal incentives of up to $7,500 to purchase a plug-in vehicle are getting discontinued after Tuesday.
Many automakers have relied on the incentives to boost consumer demand for EVs, which they’ve spent billions of dollars developing even as the vehicles remain largely unprofitable.
But they cost virtually nothing to run. Embrace the future.
Colombian Israeli war will be legendary
Will the Colombians sail to the Mediterranean in reed boats?
The roundel essentially shows you were on the allied side in the Great War. Everyone adopted a version of the French revolutionary cockade to avoid bleu-en-bleu on the Western Front, and even Russia followed suit. The cross and all its variants was used by the Great Powers.
https://x.com/FennellJW/status/1971885187979214926
planes should not have targets painted on.