Good morning one and all to another glorious day!
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Vance Slams Democrats, Media For ‘Encouraging Crazy People’ To ‘Commit Violence’
Bondi transfers former death row inmates commuted by Biden to ‘supermax’ prison
DOJ nearing decision on indicting former FBI Director James Comey in coming days
Judge Upholds Trump’s Firing of 8 Federal Watchdogs
Left-Wing ‘Terrorist’ Firebomber Miserably Fails To Win Soft Sentence From Bush-Appointed Judge
Secret Service to Investigate Trump’s U.N. Escalator Incident as Potential Sabotage
Law firms exploiting illegal immigrants to file personal injury lawsuits
Online Censorship Bill Just One Signature Away From Becoming Law In California
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“A Bush-appointed federal judge sentenced a firebomber inspired by Hamas terrorists to nearly 20 years in prison in California, plus restitution and supervised release.”
Good.
It’s a start — I haven’t made it down to that link yet, so don’t know the area — but most parts of California… arson is effectively attempted manslaughter in practice. Too easy for fires to get way out of control and threaten lots of lives.
Fun Fact – Among the short list of crimes that New York recognizes as grounds for the use of deadly force to prevent, Arson is one.
And we’re a very rainty state. You start that fire up, who knows how far it goes.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some of that stemmed form tenement fires in NYC back in the day. Rainy state — but those buildings packed with tinder and packed together were worse than a California grass fire.
“form” –> “from” obviously… Don’t you just love it when you see the typo right *after* clicking “Submit Comment”? :sigh:
I’m pretty sure arson has always been treated as potentially lethal, going way back.
Probably because it is.
UCS, from what you’re saying, it sounds like if that Hamas-inspired terrorist had started a fire next to the Hudson, the fire could have spread from the river to the sea.
Hey! Our rivers don’t catch fire!
““During my time as a student, I was introduced to the cause of Palestinian liberation and I became deeply engaged in questions of racial justice, socioeconomic equality, and human rights,” Goonan wrote. “Over the years, I came to believe that as a U.S. citizen, I shared a responsibility for the ways in which the government’s policies and resources contribute to warfare and oppression abroad, especially the situation facing Palestinians.”
Next time start a blog.
Or run for office. We really need to bring back civics courses and make sure kids learn how the system should work and that our republic requires informed participation.
Aw… precious.
Shocking that he was indoctrinated in college. Curious who spurred him to action.
Our public education system is, in a very real way, the core of most of our problems.
“I am not an arsonist but an activist who in a manic fit of rage and desperation committed arson,” Goonan said.
Look, you light one fire — okay, fire is cool to look at. Two — well, California is a tinderbox in the summer.
But after five, you have to admit that maybe you have a problem.
I’d call him a butthead — but I think it was Beavis that had the fire obsession.
Realizing you have a problem might open up Some Doors
“I learned it from you! I learned it from listening to your lectures, Professor Hatejews!!”
/Professors who teach hate, have kids who become terrorists.
…maliciously damaging or destroying property used in or affecting interstate commerce…
Nope. Has no justification for being a “federal” crime.
It was a Federal Courthouse, JI.
Then destruction of federal facility/property – fine, but not premised on f&^*ing Interstate Commerce.
With ji here. Charge creep to cement interstate commerce as the carch-all even further
“Don’t shoot at vans in the dark with people you supposedly care about, asshole.”?
Morning, Banjos — morning all.
But friendly fire doesn’t hurt people in the shooters I play!
*changes Mr Ilium’s settings to enable friendly fire*
Mornin’
Thanks for the assist dude!
There needs to be more penalties for nuisance lawyers – like a liars brand on their face, or flaying alive.
Believe in the power of AND!
I’m intrigued. Do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to?
https://www.glibertarians.com
Part of the lawsuit win should be removal of all in power who voted for the bill.
“In a response, the DNC stated that political violence of any stripe is abhorrent — even if it is against Nazi fascist pigfuckers like Vance who would really, really deserve it… and here’s his address… and where his kids go to school… and a pamphlet on proper firearm maintenance…”
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And I wish I was kidding, because I don’t think I’m that far off these days.
You snark but Hillary did exactly that talking out of both sides of her hag mouth yesterday.
She’s only gotten worse after “deplorables”.
The old, “We need to tone down the rhetoric”.
Followed immediately by, “Those evil Nazi’s”.
Might as well say she wouldn’t dig her feet into no man’s couch, she has more sense than that.
Will the next lefty shooter write “MAGA Country” on their bullets just to mess with us, or does that ruin the cosplay?
The people who reach the point of actually shooting have convinced themselves they are righteous and the act is justified. Crediting the enemy is not on their mind.
fixed
“Before the 80th meeting of the General Assembly, London’s Sunday Times reported that some U.N. staffers had joked that they might turn off the escalators and elevators upon Trump’s arrival and claim that they had run out of money, in reference to the administration’s cuts to funding for the global institution.”
Criminal genius
1) I do like what y’all have repeatedly observed… all this shit did was turn a 15 minute scripted speech into a full 1 hour improv Trump session. Good job, dipshits.
2) I’d still be more likely to cut them further under the “If you have time and money to fuck around… you obviously need less of both” mantra.
Online Censorship Bill Just One Signature Away From Becoming Law In California
champions of free speech
This and the Google censorship story both dropping while the Democrats suddenly discover free speech shows exactly how deep that support is.
“Only we should be permitted free speech.”
hAtE sPeEcH iS nOt fReE sPeEcH
Meh, your average Democrat is completely unaware of this bill, and the few who have heard of the Google censorship story are dismissing it as lies from Faux News.
California lost on the meme bill appeal. They will lose with this censorship bill as well.
But until it gets through court, they can use the process-as-the-punishment against the heretics. That makes it all worth it to them.
Yep, as soon as its signed, expept a spate of dumped comments, posts, videos.
I also evnision a court telling people they have bo standing for even a temporary injunction.
I’ve never seen Democrats silenced like this before. They currently have no leadership making statements just the usual retards making things worse for them. They always managed to come up with some type of spin, some type of propaganda phrase or coordinated talking points/wording to flip shit back to them. But they just got nothing.
To me, it really looks like they’re just flailing trying to find something to get traction.
Each time they seem to find some footing, some asshole ostensibly on their side fucks it all up. At least we have the Harris book to laugh at.
This. I dunno exactly why it isn’t working this time when it always did in the past. Maybe the slush funds drying up is putting a cramp on their style. Now it’s all lashing out instead of slick silvery tongue.
Or maybe the country really is just getting sick of their shit.
The hairgel asshole is certainly trying to be the leader. Too bad for him everyone knows what an empty suit he is (like the last several morons CA has foisted upon the Republic) and he can’t get traction.
I thought Schumer floated out some “It is all really Trump’s fault for the political climate!” trial balloons… they didn’t make it far, but I think that’s the current Blue JournaList programming… Apparently Tarlov trotted it out on The Five as well, so I assume that’s what they want to go for.
We’ll see though — they seemed disheartened after the election, and the expected Summer of Love didn’t happen right off… but then this wave of shit was spewed upon us, so they may just be huddled up to coordinate.
The government shutdown that’s looming will be the real tell I think. In memory, this is the first time it’s been the Democrats forcing the shutdown while Republicans are in charge. Trump is petty, and has said he’s going to make it hurt the blue states, the White House is saying that it’s going to do layoffs instead of furloughs, and (IMNSHO) this give Trump the perfect cover for gutting any program he wants.
Hakeem Jeffries was still blaming OMB on NPR this morning.
He has been doing that a lot lately. She really deserves it she is so fucking awful.
D’s have blamed everything on
the dog eating their homeworkTrump, so I am not too sure anyone is listening to that anymore.Trump really does suck all of the oxygen out of the room.
Some Democrats even see the problem.
Whote Chrisian Nationalist trended for a hot minute. But other than that…completely rudderless and the only reason not dead in the water is the media propping them up
The commercials on local television are about 1/3 pharma, 1/3 car dealers, and 1/3 ambulance chasers. And guess which of those have the most prestigious phone numbers?
What is a “Prestigious” phone number?
I’ve heard prestige numbers being used to refer to numbers that spell out the name of the company/service. Think 800-GoFedEx.
“Dial 1-WIN-STON-MOM for all your servicing needs….”
That reminds me, gotta check the tracking…
The latest holster for my 1911 is in New Mexico. Darn. Still supposed to arrive tuesday.
222-2222?
Anything easy to remember.
One is 444-4444. Another is something like 500-5000.
Numbers that you have to spend big bucks to purchase.
My lawyer cousin actually had paramedics on the payroll to let him know when accidents occurred that needed an ambulance.
A friends husband had a bike accident and when she went to visit him in the hospital the guy at the reception insisted to give her some lawyers business card.
“Lawmakers defended SB 771 by citing “rising incidents of hate-motivated harm,” including “hate crimes involving anti-immigrant slurs.” The bill’s text also references data from the Human Rights Campaign and the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), showing a 400% rise in “anti-LGBTQ+ disinformation and harmful rhetoric on major social media platforms.”
You didn’t ask the KKK for their take on white people?
Online Censorship Bill Just One Signature Away From Becoming Law In California
but what about constitutional mustard
It fails.
But that’s never stopped Commiefornia before!
Not as bad as constitutional sriracha.
It’s not as good as stadium mustard.
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We also had a massive fire recently in Bucharest at a warehouse holding frozen foods.
You can freeze blood?
I never went to law school… but I thought there was a legal precedent for ‘You can’t seek aid from the court for the consequences of a criminal act’. Given both you and your employer are breaking the law by hiring your illegal ass… no “workplace injury” suit should be allowed — instead both of you should be locked up if you admit to the practice (and the business heavily penalized / shut down).
That would also nip this crap in the bud.
Why you hate “our newest Americans” according to the Dems?
Remember that if you were born here (or obtained citizenship through naturalization), paid taxes since your first job as a teen, maybe served a few years in the military, continued paying taxes throughout your adult life, and been a relatively law obedient citizen YOU are nothing but a colonial oppressor. YOU bear an individual responsibility for slavery, the fate of the various tribes during westward expansion, taking 1/3 of Mexico, Jim Crow, and how “ghetto culture” has ravaged parts of society.
That grifting illegal immigrant? They are due your life through taxes, and crime for they are as pure as the driven snow. YOU RACIST!
“Pentagon seeks Trump approval for first US military execution in 60 years following Fort Hood mass shooting”
It really is taking them almost 20 years to decide what to do with this guy? What a travesty.
“workplace violence”
“The soldiers brought it on themselves.”
Natural reaction to pork sandwich MRE.
If I get ham slice one more time …
what is the official glibertarian position on horseradish in mustard? very popular in Romania
Horseradish is its own seasoning separate from mustard.
just a bit of salt and vinegar?
The mustard I tend to use has vinegar, mustard seed (the key thing in making a mustard), salt, turmeric, and paprika. I didn’t even know the last two were in there.
i assume the turmeric gives more color than taste
That was my thought too.
but I was talking about horseradish which here is grated than mixed with a bit of salt and vinegar then used as a condiment.
Oh, I don’t have a jar within arm’s reach. Sounds about right though.
All this talk makes me want a roast beef and chedder with horseradish.
Grating horseradish into sour cream is very common, and the typical condiment for a roasted beef rib roll.
I’ve had horseradish mustard. Perfectly cromulent condiment, if well made.
I like horseradish mustard. Especially when it is stoneground mustard.
‘Tis…but they can be combined. I don’t want horseradish in mustard all the time, but I like it sometimes.
It’s fairly common, but I’m not a fan.
When I was a young child, my parents had a small garden in the back yard (with all the Victory Garden books). One year, he grew horseradish. One day, he came up to me with a square tupperware container (probably 6 inch square) and said, “[Neph]! Smell this!”
I leaned over the container, and took a big ole sniff of freshly grated horseradish. Recoiling in pain, I slapped upward hitting the container, splattering that horseradish all over the room.
Needless to say, I still don’t like horseradish.
Look, you’re supposed to use it in moderation. I admit, it does clear the sinuses a bit, but that’s part of the appeal.
Horseradish mustard doesn’t work on beef like plain horseradish does.
Also true.
My lunch today is roast beef and pepperjack sandwiches with horseradish and Grillo’s Pickle de Gallo. Best part of the day.
I like it but can be overdone sometimes.
It has it’s place.
I totally dig horseradish mustard. It’s actually a thing that is sold.
I recall seeing a documentary about Tule Lake, California, which allegedly grows the best/hottest horseradish. At the processing plant all the workers wore what looked like complete Hazmat suits.
Mustard is the superior condiment.
Don’t mess with it.
Great on bratwurst with sauerkraut and grilled onions.
“Democrat With The Stones To Speak Out On Trans Issue Now Getting Primaried By Bearded Woman”
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/24/massachusetts-seth-moulton-bethany-andres-beck-primary-challenge-ed-markey-senate-democrats-path-future/
STIJLTH
heretic
😂🤣
Oh please do continue with this stuff Dems… electoral dominance is in yourxz grasp
Did they replace the floride in the water with LSD in MA?
Some Tranny Idiot Jumped Line To Hassle?
Is it a man pretending to be a woman, or vice versa?
I need a pic of the bearded woman before I can determine how outraged I should be.
If she’s hotter than Moulton, I’m voting for her. I’m principled that way.
“Under a program supposedly aimed at combating “extremism,” the DHS funneled funds to the University of Dayton that promoted a “pyramid of far-right radicalization.’
That pyramid outrageously lumped in Kirk’s organization, Turning Point USA, and other mainstream conservative groups with neo-Nazis and other extremists. The message is unmistakable: the federal government legitimized the idea that mainstream conservative groups paved the way for domestic terrorists.
Among the groups included in the “radicalization” pyramid were the American Conservative Union Foundation, the pro-police Blue Lives Matter movement, Breitbart, the Christian Broadcasting Network, Fox News, the Heritage Foundation, the Make America Great Again movement, the National Rifle Association, PragerU, the Republican Party and the Tea Party Patriots”
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/14/joe-biden-administration-charlie-kirk-turning-point-usa-extremism-censorship-accountability/
Thanks Obama
Anything to the right of Stalin then?
In the 1980s, a wave of British councils declared themselves ‘nuclear free’ in support of unilateral nuclear disarmament and opposition to nuclear power. Some produced postcards.
https://x.com/Sam_Dumitriu/status/1971182154597138923
this was probably the nail in the coffin in the ambitions of the Soviet Union
Though never officially declared, I don’t believe there are any nuclear weapons in my house.
Well if we were living in libertopia…
Do you have any idea how expensive klystron switches are?
Don’t even know what a klystron switch is.
Turns out they weren’t even used in Nukes, so I wasted a lot of money on particle accellerator parts.
The storage and maintenance issues are significant.
‘Significant,’ meaning that multistage nukes can go off by themselves if not properly maintained. I’m not joking.
Go off as in boom? I know they can fizzle if not maintained and emit a nasty burst of “Everything in this radius is now dead, everything in this larger radius has cancer,” but I did not know they could actually go boom.
I’m going to need a detailed breakdown of self-detonating nukes to buy that one. Degrade into a radiological hazard, easy. Accidentally reach critical mass and melt down, okay, depends on the design. Detonate atomically? I want citations.
Happens some times.
https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/blowups-happen-full-text-by-robert-heinlein/
“‘Significant,’ meaning that multistage nukes can go off by themselves if not properly maintained. I’m not joking.”
So, pre-mature annihilation?
Radioactive material has been detected in your smoke detector. What are you hiding?
Man, Twitter is not working on my ‘puter. I just get a strobe like effect. Been like this for several days.
Check the thermostat.
So they’re rebranding to a new X?
Have you tried using X instead?
works fine on mine.
“Noem said the suspect was 29-year-old Joshua Jahn.”
Does this mean Candy O and Max Blumenthal are going to blame Israel?
“We can tell you that he was on an elevated rooftop, that he shot into a building—into a carport area, that he was targeting ICE based on what we’ve seen so far as evidence in this case,” Noem said.”
Is there such a thing as a not elevated rooftop?
There are lots of cities where you can fire down onto a rooftop, so yes?
The ceilings of Underground Atlanta when it was in operation?
The roof to the root cellar?
A downhill building relative to the target?
Homes in Coober Pedy?
Elevated relative to his target I suppose.
Were the shooter named Ming Lao or Rajiv Vatislavi, would that have stopped them?
I guess Joshua forgot that the only winning move is not to play.
Left-Wing ‘Terrorist’ Firebomber Miserably Fails To Win Soft Sentence From Bush-Appointed Judge
Why is terrorist in quotes?
Robert Reich
@RBReich
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
https://x.com/RBReich/status/1970941379405619457
How poor could you possibly be if one of the world’s biggest corporations is one of your assets?
No one should own a big corporation. Any billionaire is a crime.
They should all be owned by worker collectives, obviously.
Only the state should have control!
Hush! You don’t point that out when we’re trying to get the commies riled up!
You can’t afford the things you want to buy so you’re whining about it?
You think he is short of the funds?
The problem being Robert Reich is still babbling?
What a whiney little bitch
If Bob Reich was a stock I’d short him…
Didn’t know there was a market for sub-penny stocks.
Fuck off, commie.
The problem, as I see it, is that I’m reading something by Robert Reich.
Speaking tiny people:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZplnP3Mhs14
Somehow she’s even shorter than Tim Herron. Note that they give her a box to stand on.
Posted on X, for all the world to see, without censorship. What’s the problem, Bob?
Not one of those guys can send armed agents to my house to force me to use their products (and I don’t).
Now, on the other hand…
Beautiful Iranian brickwork ceiling in the Shiraz underground metro
https://x.com/ShahanshahCyrus/status/1970429379269534057
I prefer Syrah myself.
Now you’ve done it: you’ve lit the OMWC signal for him to complain about heavy Aussie Shirazes.
Another ceiling in Shiraz:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shah_Cheragh#/media/File:A.Alikhavanin08.jpg
“Online Censorship Bill Just One Signature Away From Becoming Law In California”
They just can’t help themselves. The feds really need to go after this because it amounts to a blatant attack on the 1A and doing it through the platforms aka private companies doesn’t cut it.
The social elevator is breaking down in Spain, one of the richest countries with the greatest inequality of opportunity
The OECD maintains that, on average, a quarter of socioeconomic differences are explained by imposed or inherited factors. In the European country, the proportion exceeds 35%
Economists have long warned that the upward climb has slowed to a near standstill. Now the OECD has provided figures that reinforce this perception: in Spain, more than a third of income inequality is determined by factors that do not depend on the individual, but rather on imposed or inherited circumstances such as gender, the parents’ place of birth, or, above all, their socioeconomic background. This is one of the highest percentages among the countries analyzed by the organization, placing Spain among the group where the influence of birth is especially strong.
https://english.elpais.com/spain/2025-09-23/the-social-elevator-is-breaking-down-in-spain-one-of-the-richest-countries-with-the-greatest-inequality-of-opportunity.html
1. Worst seems Bulgaria, followed by the USA and Romania tied for second. Finally Romania is equal to America in something.
2. I do not trust how such rating is calculated. It is hard to disentangle genetics from socioeconomic factors.
3. I believe in a free country without government forced equality, over time, this would be a natural occurrence. Off course your parents / family / birth place matters. And this cannot be changed.
4. I would say yes there is quite a difference in Romania between opportunities in urban versus rural.
It’s commie claptrap. Anyone pushing it should get a helicopter ride.
The social elevator should be party controlled.
Just like at the UN?
It’s mostly down to stuff you’re not allowed to talk about. Culture, for example.
So they spin it in some commie direction, take steps to “fix” it, and it gets worse. Rinse, repeat.
I read a piece the other day that posed the question “Name one neighborhood that has become more vibrant and affluent after adding ‘urban’ culture to it?”
[He leaned heavily on the black side of it, but poor white trash embraces that culture often enough as well]
I had that thought while reading the article too. I can look out my window and see it every day.
Yeah, poor white trash is no different in outcomes than ghetto culture.
But, again, this is the urban/Dem vs. rural/Rep divide telling us what is important.
It’s a Catholic country, and the social underpinnings implied by that are deeply hierarchical (and persistently echo feudalism).
I wonder if there was more social mobility under Franco than now?
Tough to say, Spanish per capita GDP grew substantially after his death peaking in 2007 and fluctuating (under that) since then.
The School of Salamanca haz a sad.
Just the kind of thing to get the Inquisition. Small wonder they were virtually unknown.
Oddly high taxes and massive over regulation reduce upward social mobility. Who knew?
They switched off the social elevator in the US when Trump showed up just to mess with him.
This will all be fixed once the New Conquistadors can go rape/pillage the Martians.
All those poor folks will come back with the riches of the Red Planet and Spain will once again rule the world.
“Martha Alicia Mendez Aguilar, a member of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in Mexico whose nickname translates as “She-Devil,” allegedly lured poor, pregnant women to remote locations where she would perform illegal C-section operations — often killing the women, CBS News reported.
She would then harvest the dead mothers’ organs and sell their newborns to US couples for up to 250,000 Mexican pesos, or roughly $14,000, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Martha Alicia Mendez Aguilar, also known as “La Diabla,” accused of being part of a cartel that lured pregnant women, performed C-sections, harvested organs, and sold babies.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/25/world-news/la-diabla-martha-aguilar-arrested-for-alleged-baby-trafficking-organ-harvesting-rings/
yikes!
I’m putting my money down on “bullshit.”
You think the allegations are made up? I mean it is Mexico so I guess it could just be some official with a vendetta, but it seems a bit over sensationalized for that, wouldn’t you frame someone for something less likely to draw eyes?
Considering the various moral panic news stories that were completely fabricated (white slavery, rainbow parties, punchbowl parties, jenkem, razor blades in halloween candy, marijuana gummies being given out as halloween treats, Iraqi soldiers murdering preemie Kuwaitis, Israel killing 500 people in an air strike on a hospital)… yes. Yes, I’m going with “completely made up.”
Yeah that one never made sense, especially as it cropped up at a time when those were less readily available. Who would be wasting their expensive stash on random children?
Those usually don’t have an actual person arrested and charged. If this was a report that these crimes were happening without the arrest I’d be inclined to your view
ISTR some specific doctor being accused (though I don’t remember if he/she was actually arrested) of performing involuntary sterilizations of immigrant women. I think the media nickname was “the uterus collector.” IIRC, the accusations were completely fabricated.
For the most part I am with NA on this, but with the caveat that there were a shit ton of dead women in Norther Mexico a couple decades back. And, also the former Spanish countries have a history of stealing babies and moving them to favored peoples.
I’d say Satanic, but it’s already implied.
is there such a market for newborns?
There is definitely some demand for healthy babies to adopt. Whether there is a market for black market babies, with all the forged paperwork that would require, I couldn’t say.
Think China, and all the kids that came out of there.
Have any of the Dem pols come out to condemn their minion’s violence?
So CA is going to have England style hate speech laws? Didnt I hear Newsome complaining about free speech infringements just th eother day?
Off couse they are against violence there is no need for them to make statements it would only encourage the extremist right.
He’s a man of principals.
At least 64 people have been killed in a brutal attack on a Catholic parish in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
A violent onslaught by members of the Islamist rebel group Allied Democratic Forces struck the parish of Saint Joseph of Manguredjipa in the village of Ntoyo, North Kivu province, in the dead of night.
At least 64 people were slaughtered—many of them hacked to death—while others were shot or bludgeoned. The victims had gathered for a mourning ceremony, unsuspecting and vulnerable, when machetes, firearms, and hammers were unleashed. Some attackers then set homes ablaze. Local officials say the assault was clearly premeditated.
In February this year, more than 70 corpses were discovered in a Protestant church in Lubero, many with their hands bound and heads severed.
Despite the presence of the Congolese armed forces, Ugandan troops, and the UN peacekeeping mission (MONUSCO), violence in North and South Kivu continues unabated.
The Congolese bishops’ conference has repeatedly denounced the “odious massacres” inflicted upon innocent faithful, and ACN has called urgently for international intervention to protect civilians, uphold religious freedom, and restore order.
https://thecatholicherald.com/article/64-killed-in-attack-on-catholic-parish
was there anytime when the UN peacekeeping mission did any good?
And while this is tragic, this also tells me we have to be extra careful about accepting immigrants from the area… Because it does not seem to get any better.
And while I am still ideologically against colonialism, I am not sure those places would be worse off as colonies.
Pie, how dare you! The people there love their culture!
The golden age of the Congo was after King Leopold was forced to give control to the regular Belgian government and before the Begians left. During that time it was at least functional.
I think the time of the King is a bit fuzzy and we cannot really know what was going on to properly judge how bad it was.
But it was massively exaggerated in some sources.
It was still a plantation for the personal profit of Leopold, so going to a more normalized colony was an improvement.
“Alyssa Milano is removing her breast implants….
“Today I’m releasing those false narratives, the parts of me that were never actually parts of me,” she wrote in her caption. “I’m letting go of the body that was sexualized, that was abused, that I believed was necessary for me to be attractive; to be loved; to be successful; to be happy.”
“And in doing so,” Milano added, “I hope I am releasing my daughter Bella from ever feeling those same unhealthy demands.””
https://nypost.com/2025/09/25/entertainment/alyssa-milano-gets-her-breast-implants-removed/
OFFS!
her body really but I think that removing the implants would make the breast look quite a bit worse than never having them in the first place. But no one wants to see those so who cares.
Make sure to have your lip filler and stop taking botox too you washed up cow.
She really is a retard.
That being said, the vast majority of men I know are not fans of fake boobs.
Q hit hardest.
I’m not.
Is she going to auction them off? Individually or as a set?
Those implants landed her the roles in Embrace of the Vampire and Charmed, which allowed her to stay relevant and collecting fat checks instead of doing community theatre.
Also, Poison Ivy 2
Woman who once was extremely attractive and who became wealthy and was treated as important as a result decides being attractive is not important once she is not attractive.
Wouldn’t that be a falsie narrative?
DNA Study of 117-Year-Old Woman Reveals Clues to a Long Life
https://www.sciencealert.com/dna-study-of-117-year-old-woman-reveals-clues-to-a-long-life
I was hoping it was wine or whiskey or at least steak. It seems not.
Is the secret falsifying your birth year?
I dread thinking about living another 30 years.
/Cuts wildflower honey from diet
The secret?
Not dying.
“how ass are the broncos?”
https://x.com/JessNoFace/status/1969903586529484863
that looks like a bit of ass
I have a question for our authors/creators, or for that matter, any of you.
I was working on a future article and I had a small footnote related to copyright/patents. And it started growing and I had an idea…if I expand on it, it might end up being about half the article. But, I wanted to bounce the idea off you all first (its not a spoiler on the article).
While I personally oppose IP as a violation of natural law, I can live with it under a “limited” basis. But, I realized there is a way to make the limit variable and make sense, and raise some money for the Government too! So, I was playing around with copyright and having a yearly fee (that increases exponentially with time) to keep the copyright. Basically, the first 25 years is a nominal fee (first 10 years are $0, in fact). Up to year 50 would be affordable by a work continuously generating income (less than $300k total), and the next 25 years (up to year 75) would be payable by a big corporation with a big property to protect ($400MM total) and no one would pay for an extension to 100 years (over $500B). The fee would be yearly, I just summed it up into 25 year increments.
copyright and patents are different imo and should not be mixed.
50 years affordable is way too much.
10 years should be enough for patents. 20 max for copyright. I guess trademark should be as long as the company/person uses it.
That was copyright only. Patent would have a different fee table with a much faster escalation.
shit sorry reading fail.
24 years then public domain. The problem has always been the indefinate rent-seeking and not the initial profit period
And you have a really twisted sense of natural law where the product of the mind is not property of the mind that produced it.
It is. And If my mind produces an exact copy, that copy belongs to me.
“rent-seeking”
The general gist of the article in question.
That is where you have gone off the rails and make no sense.
Unless you make your living by selling bootleg media. Then your personal vested interest could explain it.
You also ascribe more to the term “rent-seeking” than it covers.
Then why is all science not copyrighted UCS?
Because most of it gets patented instead.
Do I own my thoughts? Yes, obviously, otherwise I am a slave.
What if my thoughts aren’t original? I don’t see how that changes anything.
You’re conflating what’s in your head with profiting off the efforts of someone turning what was in their head into a cogent representation and actually presenting it to the people who hadn’t thought it before, possibly including you. Going “Okay I have this copy of what you made, let me make some more copies of what you made and sell them” and justifying it because it made the thoughts pass into your head is unconscionable.
But, I’m supposing you didn’t actually look into copyright law where an idea itself can’t be copywritten. You can produce your own thing with much the same concept and sell it, so long as it is not just a copy of what the first person made. When we get into these discussions you keep arguing as though just copying person a’s work and selling it is fine.
IP law does not apply to what is in a person’s head. It applies only to a record of some kind – written, visual, sound, electronic. This has been stretched by various guilds to include public performances of what someone else has made a record of – like a song or recording.
But you can have that earworm going all day long and not have to worry about violating copyright law. You can also memorize anything you want, and not have to worry about violating copyright law. So yeah, what’s in your head is all yours.
If your mind produces an exact copy without ever having seen the original, well, first in time is first in right. Whoever thought of it first (and got it on the legal record as theirs) owns the commercial rights, at a minimum.
This has been discussed in the past. I was a proponent of the idea. Copyrights should be treated similar to patents which require a recurring maintenance fee to remain in force.
Agreed. Steamboat Willy is a good example. Should Disney have been allowed to keep it and pay a fee? I say yes.
Patents expire in a far more timely manner than copyright.
In my idea, they could, but the fee escalates each year. This would be year 97 of Steam Boat Willy, which in my rough calculation would be a fee of 55 billion dollars this year.
They might choose to let it pass into the public domain.
Better question – should Disney be able to say “Wow that Hero guy published a cult classic, let’s turn it into a movie franchise and not pay him a fucking dime?” while their friends at Amazon or another major publishing house say “Wow, let’s slap our logo on the cover and sell a bajillion copies and not compensate Hero.”
The solution is to make IP pay the single land tax.
shhhhh…now you are spoiling the article.
I have been promising it for years now.
In too-local news, Homeless man arrested for taking phone from Krispy Kreme employee
Battershell told the officer that he never had the phone, but then he reportedly said he had it and had “found” it inside Krispy Kreme. He said he got scared when it rang because the person who called said it was her phone and her parents worked for the government; he said he threw the phone and fled. He told the officer he did not think he should be arrested for theft because he no longer had the phone and the phone was “abandoned” when he picked it up.
“Don’t lock me up because I ditched the stuff that I stole, er, found.”
Sorry. Steal from a Krispy Kreme employee: go directly to jail. Donut pass Go, donut collect $200.
Holy cow. Look at that guy. He printed “Send me to jail” all over his own body.
Poor life choices.
Too local: an even greater Darwin Award candidate.
https://www.dailyfreeman.com/2025/09/24/rangers-rescue-hiker-in-the-slide-mountain-wilderness-in-denning-dec-officials-say/
Just the first two (on the same trail) would take a good five hours, but am idiot who thought he could do five in one day?
I think I’ve figured out why I don’t likw Stairway to Heaven as much as I might.
While a technically proficient well-constructed piece which builds up to it’s creshendo in a stair pattern, it takes 6:45 out of an 8:05 song to get there. You have more build up than most songs have song.
A Matter of Life and Death is better anyway.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Matter_of_Life_and_Death_(film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4HA3vUv2c
Wasn’t that a Fates Warning album?
A Matter of Loaf and Death:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ9BjJN2Kww
I like it as a song, but I have heard it too often and skip it when it comes up on my Zeppelin playlist.
I was overanalyzing my musical preferences while stuck in traffic yesterday. I like the creshendo, but I’m unsure if it would hit as hard without the interminable build up that just takes so long to get there.
I grew up when FM radio jockeys played nothing but that song. You’d try to escape it, jump stations and then it would be Stairway to Heaven again. So it’s not that I hate it, I have just heard it enough in my lifetime, like Ron. The only other thing that compares is when the Cars came out with Candy-O.
RJ, eight minutes and up is a bathroom break. American Pie, Stairway to Heaven, anything in that 8+ minute duration is the DJ taking a leak.
Then there is Dark Star and Inagadadavita if it’s late at night and you need more time.
“In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” if your diet has been lacking in fiber.
anything in that 8+ minute duration is the DJ taking a leak.
Or banging a groupie.
American Pie used to be my preferred karaoke song, until I realized that I was an asshole and everybody hated me…
But what does that have to do with the song?
One of my college room mates was a hard core Zep fan, along with Floyd.
III and Presence are the only two Zep I can listen too now, and Animals for Floyde. I cannot do IV or The Wall, they have become instant NOPEs for me.
We don’t need no education.
We don’t need no thought control…
I agree with ZWAK, the song had nothing to do with it.
Led Zeppelin IV is still way better than III
Zeppelin II is my favorite.
When The Levee Breaks is a better song off the same album.
Of course, its a cover.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSlt8-fmvas&list=RDWSlt8-fmvas&start_radio=1
Album?
I was Poor in the days of physical media.
Meanwhile, back in the jungle
A simpler time
“Trump hangs autopen photo instead of Biden portrait in new presidential gallery”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/25/trump-hangs-autopen-photo-instead-of-biden-portrait-in-new-presidential-gallery
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
The funny part is that there is complaints about decorum, but not about the substance of Trump’s position.
Should they put a flying Auto-Pen blimp out?
The Bee does it again.
I’ve seen a few clips, and this is exactly right. She’s a mental midget, and even after nearly a year to prepare she still couldn’t answer basic questions in softball interviews without creating a huge heaping of word salad.
Look, she’s in unfamiliar territory. Normally when she wants a promotion, she finds a boss 30 years her senior and sucks his dick. Problem with that is that there isn’t a 80 year old boss over the POTUS, so she has to find a new way to move up the ladder and it’s all she knows.
Chicken
A memo released Wednesday by the Office of Management and Budget told agencies whose funding expires Oct. 1 — and which do not have alternative funding sources and are “not consistent with the President’s priorities” — to consider issuing reduction-in-force notices for employees.
The warning ratchets up the pressure on Congress to strike a deal to avert a government shutdown, as thousands of government workers’ jobs could be on the line.
In past shutdowns, federal workers were typically temporarily furloughed until a budget deal was reached.
Some district court judge will issue a ruling to keep the government up and running.
But with just days to go until late Tuesday night, when government funding is set to expire, lawmakers are still far from striking a deal.
I’m sure they’ll hammer out a compromise raising spending across the board.
It’s like you’ve seen this before.
Yeah. About 100 times.
If this time is different, I can hope that his layoff plans stay permanent and a drastic force reduction will occur, courtesy the dems’ fumble.
But that is just a dream.
I’d settle for the govt drones just not getting paid for the time they were furloughed.
Every single fucking time the govt shuts down, the drones get paid for the time they had to go home and goof off. Fuck that noise.
Jeffries, D-N.Y., an X post blasted OMB Director Russell Vought.
“Listen Russ, you are a malignant political hack. We will not be intimidated by your threat to engage in mass firings,” Jeffries wrote. “Get lost.”
“Their goal is to ruin your life and punish hardworking families already struggling with Trump Tariffs and inflation,” Jeffries, D-N.Y., wrote in another tweet.
Fuck you, cut spending.
“And believe me, I know from malignant political hacks.”
You know, if Musk had bought Twitter just to shut it down, he might have done an even greater service to the country.
Bold statesmanship
China led several countries in announcing new climate plans on Wednesday and offered a veiled rebuke of the U.S. president’s anti-climate rhetoric a day earlier at the U.N. General Assembly.
Addressing a climate leaders’ summit hosted by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a live video message from Beijing that by 2035 his country would cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 7%-10% from its peak.
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Another rebuke for President Cartoon Villain.
Says the country that cannot build coal plants fast enough.
Has anyone notified the UN elites that every word coming out any CCP mouthpiece is a lie?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
The internet is for cat videos.
WRONG! But close.
The internet is for pussy videos
“A three-part documentary titled “Death in Apartment 603: What Happened to Ellen Greenberg?” is set to premiere on Hulu on September 29, detailing the controversial case of Ellen Greenberg who died in 2011. Despite her body being riddled with 20 stab wounds, her death was ruled a suicide and Josh Shapiro, who was attorney general at the time, upheld that ruling.
The documentary follows Greenberg’s parents, Sandee and Josh, who have worked to reopen the investigation into their daughter’s death. The series will include interviews with the couple as well as other relatives, close friends, former students, and more, according to People. They have had persistent questions about the investigation and the ruling.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/abc-news-to-air-documentary-about-pa-woman-ellen-greenberg-stabbed-20-times-but-ruled-a-suicide-under-then-ag-josh-shapiro
What did she know about the Clintons?
She had the Epstein client list.
“Green and low-carbon transformation is the trend of our times. Despite some countries going against the trend, the international community should stay on the right track, maintain unwavering confidence, unwavering action, and undiminished efforts,” Xi said.
Buy our stuff.
Ian Bremmer, a political scientist with the Belfer Center, said Trump’s climate denial speech had effectively ceded the market for post-carbon energy to the Chinese.
Muh subsidies!
Awwww… how awful we gave a useless technology edge to the Chinese.
Maybe they can put all that slave labor to more productive uses.
Working in the carbon mines, going downtown now….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O445CcK0qY
Good morning Glibbernam. Grilling steak at the hotel this morning because they locked the bbq last night. Steak and eggs it is. And it is glorious.
I’ve been seeing some kerfuffle now about being shelved by Apple+.
I’m wondering if it was based on Shannen Rossmiller who tracked down Islamic terrorists online.
Looks like the usual Hollywood switcheroo.
I first heard about her on this Darknet Diaries podcast
I wonder the show really only targets Deplorables because yes, that could be awkward given, well, reality.
“misogynist white supremacists” implies yes.
I earlier slagged off The Residence, but there was one thing that didn’t quite follow every woke stereotype. The President was obviously a (D) and the (D) senator (played by Al Franken) was obviously slimy and covering for him, and the truth was being pursued by an obvious MTG stand in (blonde, named “Marjory” with two other names, red dress). Had I watched the rest of it I can only assume that there’s a major plot twist and the Good Guys wind up being the Good Guys.
“true story published in Cosmopolitan”
LOL
Also, I thought there were no former Marines?
10 Ways to Drive Your White Nationalist Terrorist Man Wild In Bed
Freelance ambassador-at-large
Barack Obama has accused President Donald Trump of “violence against the truth” for linking autism to the use of Tylenol by pregnant women.
The former president made a direct attack on his successor that was as rare for its forcefulness as for its setting — an arena stage on foreign soil in London on Wednesday — as he warned that the Trump administration’s claims undermine public health.
“We have the spectacle of my successor in the Oval Office, making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproved,” Obama said during an on-stage Q&A in front of a 14,000-strong crowd at London’s O2 Arena.
Denied not same as disproved.
Has there ever been a study specifically investigating this claim?
That smug prick is never going to go away, is he?
Wasn’t being directly responsible for the country’s imminent tearing itself apart enough for him?
That smug prick will never go away as long as Pritzker pays him to flap his gums.
Tylenol in pregnancy linked to higher autism risk, Harvard scientists report
Like you can believe and SCIENCE from that hotbed of MAGA-ism. Everyone knows Harvard is being forced to produce junk studies like this or OMB will cut off all their funding.
I’m just confused why this has to be politicized.
These people are fucking evil.
Remember
Remember “I won’t take the Trump vaccine” ?
If Trump came out for eating your vegetables, they would be against it.
Tylenol Issues Clarification After White House Resurfaces 2017 Tweet on Usage During Pregnancy
Wasn’t there a Harvard study that showed some indication that pregnant women who took Tylenol had a higher rate of autistic babies?
The public is supposed to revere Harvard studies aren’t we (or only as long as they confirm lefty bias)?
Of course it’s disproved.
* Trump made the claim
* Trump is always wrong about everything
* Therefore the claim is false.
It’s just basic logic.
based on a true story published in Cosmopolitan in 2019 about a former Marine and police officer who worked for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and earned the nickname “The Savant” because of her knack for figuring out when misogynist white supremacists were about to commit an act of violence.
Where’s Norman Lear? This is a great premise for a thirty minute situation comedy.
“The degree to which that undermines public health, the degree to which that can do harm to women who are pregnant, the degree to which that creates anxiety for parents who do have children who are autistic — which, by the way, itself is subject to a spectrum, and a lot of what is being trumpeted as these massive increases actually have to do with a broadening of the criteria across that spectrum so that people can actually get services and help,” Obama said. “All of that is violence against the truth.”
Those women will die without access to Tylenol!
ps- We’re all autistic now, for medical insurance purposes.
Violence, asshole?
Much of the world reached a point in the late 20th century, Obama said, in which people realized “blood and soil nationalism doesn’t work,” and “dehumanising people who are different than us doesn’t work.”
But, speaking of political liberals and progressives, Obama said “we got complacent. We got smug.” Amid a backlash at inequality, globalization, migration and government bureaucracy, “sometimes right now it feels we may be backsliding towards that older way of thinking about the world.”
The good old days of Homo Davos in his prime, I guess.
How are you going to keep them down of the plantation, after they’ve seen your New World Order?
LOL what an asshole.
Yeah, the globalism schtick is dying.
The migrants invading first world countries are really proving to the residents why the countries they came from are shit holes.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
We just gonna backslide right out from under the right side of history!
But, but, but…. Gov. Mumbles unionized the child care workers in Minnesoda? How can things be going so poorly?
Who’d a thunk that letting the govt get a way bigger grip on an industry would lead to such things? Or that maybe the big unionized child care shops might be less affected by onerous regulations than mom-n-pop childcare?
Just more proof the government needs to provide free daycare for all.
Sounds like someone is trying to cash in on a tragedy!
A Somali kid with autism goes to school and hours later has a seizure and is taken to the hospital where he dies. First quote goes to the family:
Doesn’t sound good, does it?
The school responded:
So it seems like the school worked overtime to contact the family. They also followed requests from the police to let them contact them first.
I admit I’m jaded, but I think the parents figured the school wouldn’t come out with these details and they could make some money wailing about their mistreatment.
One less to deport.
Cat video
Extra large cat.
DeLand said the school has had multiple conversations with family members by phone and email since that afternoon, and is working to set up a meeting with the family.
The family needs to get their legal team set up.
Who’s filling in for scheduler duties? I don’t know how any of that works.
My routine has been disrupted 😱