With yesterday being a holiday and somebody already putting up the open post, I didn’t get the chance to recap the sports I enjoyed so much over the weekend. Especially missing the Ohio State victory over Texas, the Liverpool win over Arsenal (on an absolutely ridiculous free kick goal) and Max somehow coming in second at Zandvoort with Lando hand-grenading an engine. All in all, I’d rate the weekend 8/10. Would definitely recommend. Now let’s see how the mens quarterfinals go at the US Open today. And that’s it for sports.
I guess the well is dry. And we all know how that happened. I wonder what the downstream effects will be on the DNC donations.
Is there another Batman sequel in the works? This fucker will make an excellent Penguin.
Welcome to the party, pal. It took you long enough to get here.
Is Europe at a tipping point? It’s starting to look like they’re finally awake. And the governments refusing to listen to the people is gonna make this messy.
Typical holiday weekend is typical. At least, its typical for Chiraq.
It’s about time. Closing them all down is a big part of how we got here in the first place.
The most deadly communicable disease is lurking in the water. How is this the province of the CDC again?
When did this happen? I guess there’s just one solution: force him to hand over every device and notes he has ever taken so they can sift through it themselves.
And the people there will just take it without question. Because that’s what those flappy-headed fucks will do. And the government will help those who are sad about it kill themselves.
Let’s get the whole story. Did the 10 year old just knock on a door (at 11pm) and get shot, or did he do the new thing where they kick a door in and record it for reactions?
This was such a great video. Pretty catchy tune as well. And this one was a masterpiece. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
Good. Cut more.
How do I subscribe to your news letter?
I’m afraid we cut the budget for that.
I’m just impressed Sloopy could make it through that word salad self-congratulatory “It is all about the narrative!” article. For a puff piece… it was under done and way too doughy.
At least the reporter hopefully lacked a soggy bottom.
Diana Ross is an institution?
Yes.
“Bronzan said stories that provide more transparency about how donations are used and how those decisions are made help connect people to a nonprofit and its work.”
So stories about how they pay their executives huge salaries while accomplishing nothing?
We can all feeeeeel so virtuous! Join ussssssss!
Portland Japanese Garden, a 12.5 acre hustle that spends little to nothing on the actual maintenance of the garden. Bit the executives get to travel a lot.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/930511171
An icon, sure.
An institution? Unless she is some kind of organization, I would say no.
Nadler is retiring? That’s kinda shitty.
He’s probably got some incurable disease that’ll have him dead shortly after leaving office, otherwise he’d be on the ballot again.
He was getting primaried, presumably from the left.
And? Are you saying he’s guaranteed to lose the primary?
Ask Bernie about primaries.
For some reason I get emails from his office all the time. I don’t even live in his state.
I think it has something to do with a letter I sent to my former Democratic Senator, who then sold his e-mail list to the DNC and/or other democrat Senators when he was voted out. Go Fuck Yourself, Bob Casey.
Was a shame for Lando — and personally I was rooting for Hadjar to pass Max just for shits and giggles the whole race.
Also hoping that Max in aggressive mode with a slippery track on softer tires wouldn’t lunge into a turn and take everyone at the front out. Maybe he’s matured…
But I also have to say it — “hand-grenadine”? I thought MacLaren was more of a papya livery than pomegranate…
Morning, Sloopy — morning all. Back to the grind.
Ooh, I better fix that typo before the screeching begins.
Too late.
I choose to think of it as light hearted ribbing, not screeching. 😉
lol, if I really got upset about the ribbing at my myriad typos, I’d have quit doing the links years ago.
Relax, you could always go to work for the Grauniad.
“Is Europe at a tipping point? It’s starting to look like they’re finally awake. And the governments refusing to listen to the people is gonna make this messy.”
The Euro elite, the EU dirtbags, feel the European people should go back to being serfs and letting their betters do whatever they want. Even disarmed, the people have shown they will not let the elite get whatever they want, despite the continent becoming a giant vote buying welfare system. And that angered the elite.
Frankly I would like to believe European nations can recover, but I logically see no way for a disarmed people to deal with an elite ruling class that hates them.
“The Euro elite, the EU dirtbags…”
Thats EU de toilette, Alex. It’s French.
C’est la merde.
Vaya con huevos.
Lol
Given that the ruling class has also been stupid enough to defund their military (and I don’t think their police are all that much better armed) they might have a chance.
Personally, I’m not holding my breath — the breaking of the social contract (“Govt monopoly on force in exchange for protection so you don’t have to engage in self defense”) has been passed a long way back into “open support for those who seek to invade and subjugate you”… so not having vigilante mobs already makes me think they’re not really going to get them. Just grumbling as they’re led into dhimmi-tude.
They’re arresting people carrying the St George flag on bicycles in the UK. We’re way past the police sitting this one out or being ineffective.
The state has picked its side. Now let’s see what happens.
https://x.com/HoodedClaw1974/status/1962633705127579921
As the British police become the focus of native rage, bad shit is going to happen IRA style. All these cops have home addresses and I doubt they carry off-duty. It’s going to be ugly but necessary.
They generally don’t carry on duty either.
Cops do what the State tells them to. It’s not gonna be any different here in the US unless we can get the State under control and fast.
Soldiers also do what they’re told, for all those who have some revolutionary fantasy where the military refuses to follow President Harris’ orders to round up the gun owners.
LAH
Support would gladly round up the citizens weapons.
Aviation would gladly bomb their houses.
Lots of combat arms guys would go AWOL.
All of this is by design. The commie ratfuckers who run everything there are rubbing their hands in glee at the coming chaos and violence.
They really are. They never calculate the percent chance it ends with them dangling at the end of a rope.
The Iron Curtain countries fell without civil wars being fought in the streets. The people still outnumber the government, substantially, and a few thousand well armed soldiers surrounded by a couple million protesters changes the math.
Closing them all down…
Who’s going to decide who gets committed? The mental health professionals of today? A new breed of them? Or political hacks maybe? Bureaucrats never accountable for their decisions?
All of the above and it will be a shit show.
Don’t care if it’s unpopular here. I’d rather go with “common sense gun control” than this shit.
Common sense gun control will always end up with law abiding citizens being disarmed. It has happened every time and everywhere they did that. Never will accept that.
So either we do nothing and accept that we live in a failed society, or we deal with the problem people.
Innocent people being disarmed is preferable to me than innocent people being locked up which happens every time you give government the power to do so.
Not to me.
With my gun I can protect myself and my loved ones if some asshat wants to unjustifiably lock anyone up. The other way around we get both the lack of ability to protect ourself and others locked up. And I would like for you to tell me who you think would be “innocent” and still locked up.
Traditionally, it would be people opposed to the administration. Think about this when the Democrats are back in power…
AlexinCT:
You seem very convinced that a government wouldn’t consider you a “problem person” at some point.
Bro…disarm innocent people and innocent people will be locked up. That is the purpose of disarming them.
In the end they will lock everyone up by turning the country into an open air prison.
NEVER give up your guns. Ever.
“You seem very convinced that a government wouldn’t consider you a “problem person” at some point.”
Actually my beef is with this argument in it’s entirety. I pointed out that I wanted people that showed clear and persistent mental disorders to be dealt with. People here decided to expend this to just being problem people, with that term being anyone the government doesn’t like. Then someone told me they would rather we law abiding citizens get disarmed, than the other solution where they went from just the actual people with sever mental disorders be put away to anyone being locked up. I then pointed out that if they take our law abiding citizen’s arms away, they can do whatever they want to us anyway, including locking up anyone they want for whatever reason. A stupid argument at best,
So again, I am not giving up my firearms. And I believe we can have a system where those people that clearly exhibit sever mental disorders and those with a propensity to act violently on those have to be dealt with other than with soft gloves. People that have to expand this to anyone and everyone being locked up in a society where the people can fight government abuse with force, are strawmanning this argument. My suspicion is there is some ulterior motive for the reluctance. Especially when the claim gets made that law abiding citizens should be disarmed before we lock up the drug addled nuts living on streets and evil fucks that want to kill innocents because they are evil fucks.
I don’t really feel the need to engage with someone who simultaneously calls modern psychiatry “quackery” while arguing that we should be giving those “professionals” more power to lock people away in cages.
I don’t want gun control or even more incarceration of any kind.
You’ve never defended anyone with your gun and likely never will. You didn’t use it during the covid tyranny. You aren’t using it when people are locked up on the words of their vindictive (insert relation here). And the ironic thing is that you aren’t just going to be locking up innocent people. Going hand in hand with that power will be the ability to deprive people of their second amendment rights preemptively to try and find a needle in a haystack (the next mass shooter).
Christ, red flag laws are better than this shit and it’s impossible to argue otherwise.
I already articulated this above, but by opening the floodgates to asylums you are going to end up with innocent people losing their gun rights, as well.
The point isn’t I’m here to make a trade. I’m pointing out the tunnel vision people on this site have when it comes to guns. This is gun control and then some using different rhetoric. It’s red flag laws on steroids and some people here are willing to endorse it because they aren’t seeing the forest for the trees.
“I already articulated this above, but by opening the floodgates to asylums you are going to end up with innocent people losing their gun rights, as well.
Again. Not the argument being made.
My argument is that we need to lock up the people that clearly can’t be in society without them engaging in violence. The leap from that to just lock anyone you don’t like is much, much harder to do in an armed law abiding society. Homeless people are not homeless because capitalism has failed them. They are 99% comprised of mental and drug addicted people that refuse to operate in normal society. The situation has been exacerbated by people actually encouraging and subsidizing the drug use and the homelessness. Shit I constantly hear idiots demand we just give these people homes as if that will suddenly solve the issue. And then you have the freaks we continue to coddle with absolutely insane mental issues/disorders and violence fantasies. Just like with repeat violent crime offenders, I want them put away. Not for them, but for the rest of us.
This thing about it suddenly being anyone not liked getting locked up doesn’t fly with me. The people trying to do the locking up after we decided to adopt if for these problem cases are gonna get shot.
In a perfectly fair and reasonable system staffed by neutral fact finders with substantial knowledge and sound judgment it probably makes sense to give the State the power to lock away insane people.
In a polarized political system where the vast majority of cities and substantial minority of States are presently controlled by people who quite literally believe that anyone expressing any of the opinions being debated here suffers from Oppositional Defiance Disorder, and has inherent racist hatred for basically everyone, hell no.
So we just let them continue to assault people, rot in the gutter, shit in the street.
Welcome to Libertopia.
We already have laws against those things and they are completely ignored by the same governments that would be in charge of the involuntary commitments. Eroding the defenses against abuse is unlikely to solve the problem.
I think we can probably come close to threading the needle with who should be locked up because they’re crazy by actively and zealously prosecuting crazy people when they commit crimes and making that determination once they’re incarcerated. Leaving it in the hands of the state to preemptively lock them up is a bad move. It has to be a reaction to an act that results in incarceration.
The key is getting places onboard with actually prosecuting crimes rather than just letting people go because they’re nuts.
I pointed out that I wanted people that showed clear and persistent mental disorders to be dealt with.
Yeah, Alex what do you think some fat, blue-haired proggie would say about you? You’re just gonna trust that they never have power, or are you prepared to go out in a blaze of glory?
My mother was put through shock treatment because of the “help” those previous mental institutions gave her. I don’t want that to happen. That said, we have a growing list of certified crazies out there that need help and letting them live on the street or dream up their mass murder scenarios does not help them or society. There should be checks and balances so that innocents and those harmless to others are not caught in the web.
Judging by the states that still maintain torture chambers for crazy people*, I’m going with unaccountable political hacks.
The problem isn’t the lack of torture chambers for crazy people, it’s that psychology as a science has stagnated in the ‘witch doctor’ phase, and the psychologists themselves are largely responsible for it.
* – Confucius say, “The beginning of wisdom is to call a thing by its right name.”
“ psychology as a science”
I laughed a bit…
It’s quackery at best.
The mental health end of the thing, anyway, but that’s the public face of the discipline. The thing about asylums, or poor houses, is they don’t waste time and money by pretending to offer “treatment,” they simply offer a place of refuge for the afflicted. Warehousing is not necessarily a bad thing for the untreatable, hardcore homeless population. The only question is how (or do) you control their access to street drugs?
“The thing about asylums, or poor houses, is they don’t waste time and money by pretending to offer “treatment,” they simply offer a place of refuge for the afflicted.”
You can’t help people that do not want to be helped. As long as we ignore that, we can’t come up with any solution. The problem is too many people are soft and think locking up the problematic people to spare the rest of society their ills, is wrong. I do not have that issue. There is no other solution, And leaving them loose in society has a cost I am not willing to pay anymore.
You can’t, unless you’re keeping them locked down involuntarily.
If you’re not keeping them locked down involuntarily, then you’re basically giving the hardcore homeless population a taxpayer-funded place to shoot up until they OD.
If you are keeping them locked down involuntarily, you’ve recreated the prison system with less due process and more (guaranteed, really) room for abuse.
Pick your poison, I guess…
There are no perfect solutions. It’s a question of which is worse – crazy people roaming the streets and doing crazy people shit, sometimes including attacking normies, or civil commitment?
I don’t think the answer is obvious, myself.
From a “limiting the power of the state” viewpoint it seems to me that the least bad solution is to not outsource your violence to third parties. Make “needed killing” a valid defense. Yes it’d be annoying risky and inconvenient but infringing someone else’s rights shouldn’t be easy or pleasant. Just better than the alternative.
Enforce the law. If they do violence, then prosecute them in criminal court where they have the same rights as everyone else.
Some administrative procedure where people are declared crazy and locked up based on the word of some “expert” is wrong.
Yep. I don’t have a problem with the permanent homeless population being separated from society. Those who want to cancel learn a vocation and be reintroduced into society in a way that doesn’t include shitting in the street and sleeping on somebody’s stairs.
Isn’t shitting on the street illegal?
It is, and it is unenforced. So is possessing drugs other than pot. These dudes aren’t suffering from reefer madness. Also unenforced.
I don’t think the answer is obvious, myself.
You incarcerate them when they commit crimes. You assess them once incarcerated and institutionalize them if necessary. It’s the best way to do it and still respect their rights.
Random thought:
How is driving while intoxicated different than being stoned but of your gourd living on the streets?
Also, if your government is so dysfunctional that it will tolerate crazy people shitting on the streets and harassing and assaulting people, but will indefinitely commit random people to an asylum for not using your pronouns in their email signatures, then I’m not sure the indefinite commitment thing is really the bridge too far.
Counter point: current day Britain.
Question for Sloopy – can you name one – just one – mass shooting that would have been prevented by opening up the asylums? Most mass shooters have never committed an act of violence prior. They weren’t on the radar of law enforcement at all.
See, Bro – that’s what we need, lock ’em up for pre-crime! /blinded enthusiasts for state power
You think things will get better with Nadler gone?
You can bet the young shit will be worse, and he’ll be there for decades.
Didn’t you get the memo? Team Red is gonna suspend elections forever and declare Trump a king.
I try to not pay much attention to raging retards.
That is a good policy, but it probably involves never engaging with any news source.
never engaging with any news source
Pretty damn selective. TV is the right fuck out.
Nadler is already extreme far-left, but yes, it will get even worse.
Yeah, but he is a scumbag that uses the far left dogma to profit for himself. The successor is likely to be a true believing fanatic. And we all know how those people work out..
They get a taste and fold into worthlessness as well?
I think we’ve seen plenty of troo bleevers “evolve” into cynical grifters, once they see how easy and remunerative it is. The monkish sort of fanatic, devoted to a life of poverty while surrounded by excess, is extremely rare
Even if they sell out, to keep the power and the cash rolling in they have to one up the next fanatic. This never, ever, ends well for those of us that do not want this shit.
Or when they get that first ‘facts of life’ meeting with the CIA and/or the Pentagon…
According to some people, the reason the Epstein files will never be released is that they still serve the purpose of whomever has them to blackmail the shitbags.
of whomever has them
The infamous (((them)))?
“At least, its typical for Chiraq”
#BlackLivesMatter
That “end of the nuclear family” plank they push is working out great in Chicago and many other cities.
We’ve said it before — but as a notorious germaphobe who let his health “advisers” run roughshod over him and who still thinks Warp Speed was a good idea… I sure as anything don’t expect OMB to look too heavily into this. He’s as liable as anyone in the current power structure if they are shit for giving them blanket immunity, after all. What a shock they sold a shitty product of The New Snake Oil as a Miracle Cure.
He’ll just say they all lied to him and he wrongfully deferred to their expertise.
It will be partly true, and in a perfect world it wouldn’t absolve him of his responsibility for what transpired. But at this point, I’ll take what I can get. And transparency is what’s needed.
His tweet, or whatever you call it on his platform, is absolutely setting this up.
I predict… no surprises. I mostly check out during the 2nd week as all my favorite players are gone.
How does “no surprises” work in the Fritz (4)-Djokovic (7) match? That is a tough one to predict.
That ranking is suspicious. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Agreed. Hopefully Djokovic wins this tournament and then retires after he realizes sometime next summer that it’s time to hang em up.
“Former FBI Director and Trump special counsel Robert Mueller claims he has Parkinson’s disease, and “cannot comply with a request to testify this week before a congressional committee investigating the government’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigations,” the NY Times originally reported Sunday evening before stealth-editing their article to lead with the committee having withdrawn their request.”
It seems a reasonable claim. He already seemed kind of old and confused back when he investigated Russiagate.
As noted here, his papers, emails, phone records do not have any degenerative diseases. Also, he headed up a team. He didn’t do the investigation himself. So they need to drag in everyone who had any involvement, starting with the low-man who has zero clout and everything to lose.
When did we close down the legislatures?
More seriously — yeah, though it would be nice to have the pendulum more in the middle this time. Some version of forced committal is obviously going to be needed in some cases — but governments tossing people in just on their say-so… I’m never going to be down for that, especially after the last several years when it was pretty clear the left wanted to put all their opposition in camps (non-vaxed, “un-brainwash the MAGA”, etc.).
I have no answers on this one.
Just a question – how much crazy is the right amount of crazy that we have to put up with?
I think the line is violent crazy.
Loud, constant, threats of violence, or actual violence?
Depends on the state DrOtto. A lot of states make overt, explicit threats of violence an assault.
Yes, violence is the line. ‘a danger to. yourself or others’ is of course a subjective measure but one that is not difficult to define.
So since most Glibs advocate ceding the parks and streets to the crazy, non violent public shitters and don’t mind having storefronts blocked by street zombies that reek of their own urine, or people with vomit on their shirt panhandling from people going to work in the morning, would you be open to any infringement on their liberties?
Because this is what I deal with when I work downtown, and they are not isolated incidents.
Strawman much? I am pretty sure none of us are in favor if that, but broadening the State’s power to commit people to hell on Earth with abbreviated legal procedures seems like a ‘fix’ we’ll regret.
There are already laws on the books that if enforced would solve this, and in cities that want it solved it gets solved. I am deeply skeptical that any new powers would be used to get rid of the homeless in the places that have openly decided that allowing the homeless to make the parks and downtown unusable is just peachy.
(((Jarflax:
That’s one of the reasons I hate selective prosecution. You get this shitty Calvinball legal system where things are prosecuted for one group, but ignored for others.
Hell, allow private prosecutions (who get the fines if they win), and force the legislatures to start repealing some of the laws that are already on the books that aren’t enforced.
Didn’t San Francisco get cleaned up right quick for a visit from XI Jianwhatever?
After a quick search, Yep. With the proper incentive, look what can happen.
I remember a lot of Americans made fun of China for sweeping their bums under the rug before an Olympics.
Los Angeles would not think of doing that.
I love using gun violence to advocate for even more mass incarceration when it’s really about people shitting on the streets.
At least you’re being honest because there’s not a single mass shooting I can think of that would have been stopped by just opening the asylums back up.
It’s always seemed to me that the bums do t get prosecuted because there is lnt any money in it.
You get some working stif who can pay minor traffic infractions and help keep being milked for them. Below a certain point the cops don’t bother to write citations anymore.
Don’t prosecute property owners and business owners for doing what needs to be done to protect their interests.
Stop giving the crackheads narcan when they OD.
Let it self solve.
Well we did tell them to depart from us and let their chains rest lightly upon them… They sure seem determined to live up to that standard lately….
Yup… one of my early cases of “Ignore the obvious crappy politics and just enjoy the art” since I not surprisingly disagreed with them on the Iron Lady and all.
“Chef killed in electric buggy crash after late-night farewell party at Richard Branson’s private Caribbean island”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/01/world-news/chef-killed-in-electric-buggy-crash-after-late-night-farewell-party-at-richard-bransons-private-caribbean-island/
STIJLTH
If it turns out this guy worked for the Obamas, I’m really going to question their cuisine critiques.
He crashed his golf cart?
It’s described as a buggy. Granted, a media outlet, and an NYC one at that, but ATVs (colloquially “buggies”) used in rural areas are faster (~35 MPH) and more rugged than golf carts. Farm folk and hunters use them as transport and utility vehicles, there are also sporty recreation models.
What’s the “STIJLTH” mean?
Over the weekend I watched Terminal List: Dark Wolf.
I remember Terminal List being an adequate if uninspired revenge flick. The series is not that, it’s much better. The protagonists are competent, their enemies are competent. You have killers who want to be Good Guys. I would have watched more, but Amazon is time-gating episodes.
Never heard of it, sorry.
If we’re trotting out new series we started — I watched the first two episodes of Ludwig yesterday.. (not all that surprising since I tend to find David Mitchell quite funny quite often). Pretty good so far… but being British TV.. only 6 episodes total.
There’s a great scene where Bond has to go into a club to whack an arms dealer — in fiction there are ususally two options:
1) If the plan is not described, it will be executed perfectly
2) if the plan is described, it will fail and the hero will successfully improvise.
This one has what seems to me as a non-operator a very realistic blend of success, failure, adaptation and most importantly extended effort required to overcome the setbacks.
I saw the commercials. Looked kinda interesting.
The first episode is military/infantry porn. By the third episode protagonist and (his best friend played by Umbrella Academy’s Space Boy) are doing wetwork for the CIA.
Does one need to watch the first series to enjoy the second
Not so far as I believe it follows a different protagonist…but ive only seen episode one
No, the movie protag has a cameo, and this series is set in the past compared to the movie.
Cool, I might watch it this week.
Hopefully with moar Beretta 1301 action!
Actually, veterinary pistols.
We used to be a proper country where ding-ding ditch was an acceptable prank at like….5-7pm, not middle of the night.
So no love lost for kids not understanding timing is everything.
Not to mention there’s a lot of space between ding dong ditch at 7 pm and kicking a door in at 11 pm and watching for reactions.
Also at a time when no houses had video cameras recording everyone stepping on their porch. Hell, I don’t even answer the door most times when there’s a random knocking. I’ve talked to enough well meaning JWs, LDS, and ATT salespeople.
It is more difficult to get away in the day but you are less likely to get shot.
Part of the goal of the game was to be gone by the time the resident got to the door.
“A popular cosplayer was arrested on Sunday after she allegedly threatened to blow up a rival stall at an anime convention in Texas while they were arguing about gamer supplements online.
Kendra Noel Manning, a 25-year-old cosplayer better known as “kit noel” online, was charged with making a terroristic threat to impair public service — a third-degree felony that could see her exchange her whimsical cosplay outfits for an orange prison jumpsuit for the next decade if convicted…
On Sunday, the day she was booted from the convention, Manning was set to appear dressed as Harley Quinn, the Joker’s notorious on-again, off-again partner.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/02/us-news/cosplay-influencer-kit-noel-arrested-for-threatening-to-blow-up-rival-at-texas-anime-convention/
Method acting?
Well… that‘s certainly not stretched beyond all recognition of the supposed intent of the statute! (I have to read that as being intended to be used against domestic terrorism that takes down power grids, the ‘net, water/sewage, etc… not “Oh, you might inconvenience Comic-Con TX!” Sheesh…)
WTF are “gamer supplements”…?
Think Kool-Aid with supposed nutritional benefits. Mix a bit in water and drink.
My sister and niece are both employed by the company mentioned in the article. It’s a strange place.
Energy drinks and Adderall.
Bawls?
Mountain Dew Code Red and Hot Pockets.
Not cheesy-poofs?
A case of Dr Pepper, a couple of cans of fake cheese and some stale nacho chips?
In an emergency, cheesy poofs are an acceptable, if inferior, substitute.
‘Trump Open To Bringing Back Insane Asylums To Clean Up Streets’
But how will we fit the 25% of the population that belongs there?
Alligator Alcatrazes for all!
Announce “No Kangz” rallies in major cities and just round up whoever shows?
“Free cockfight for Raiders fans on Wednesday at 11 AM”.
Just arrest everyone who shows up.
What kind of cock fights we talking about?
I always knew about the ones with the actual roosters, but I heard there is another variety where no animals are hurt or something..
I am disappointed in you people. Arrest everyone who shows up? Bah. Just hold these events at the facilities where they will be housed and merely close the gates on them.
I need to keep remembering not to ever get Tonio mad at me…. 🙂
You’re mad; Tonio is angry.
The story about the CDC’s drowning shit reads like parody. You can’t cut a fucking thing without some advocacy group/NGO that was leeching off the government chiming in with these ridiculous puff pieces. Howling and clutching their pearls over how Americans will now die because the gravy train to them has been cut off.
It amuses me that news equates the shutdown of a prevention wing of CDC on the 27th of August somehow endangered the holiday weekend.
It isnt like those fucks at the CDC are superheros with a futuristic jet to swoop in and save a child.
Nevermind that the article also says drownings are way up over the past few years.
Maybe shutting everything down wasn’t a great idea. Who knew that there might be second order effects from shutting down things like swimming lessons?
Good thing we killed a bunch of kids to pretend to save Grandma though.
Pretty sure the various scouting groups, YMCA, and community swimming lessons did more to reduce drowning than anything the CDC did.
Ya the article states its more a data collection group within the CDC (so probably funneling/cleaning money) to NGOs
Cue the link to “People Will DIE!!!”… I forget who has that in their back pocket here, but it is apt.
https://youtu.be/eXWhbUUE4ko?si=v6s24GjV_qHHvKqe
“The story about the CDC’s drowning shit reads like parody. You can’t cut a fucking thing without some advocacy group/NGO that was leeching off the government chiming in with these ridiculous puff pieces. ”
It still baffles me that there is not an all out campaign to make it obvious to everyone that any NGO (NON GOVERNMENTAL organization) is getting government funds, then it is nothing but a racket for government to fund things that would be illegal if done directly by government. NGOs should have no funding from government. Period.
And they always read off that same script.
“We are the only thing keeping people from drowning!”
(one person drowns)
“SEE! NOW WE HAVE AN EPIDEMIC OF DROWNING!”
You guys mock, but drowning is OBVIOUSLY caused by a contagious disease and hence right up the CDC’s alley. Look at the numbers, if it weren’t contagious why would you have the clustered distribution pattern? It is clearly caused by some germ that is more active during severe rainfall in dry regions, and endemic to certain rivers and lakes, becoming more active in the summer!
I’ve been saying for years that “if it saves just one child/life” is sufficient reason for gun control, then it is sufficient reason to order every pool in the country closed and filled in.
“A New York City woman locked up for making deranged social media posts threatening to kill President Trump was quietly released by a Democrat-appointed judge last week.
Chief US District Judge James Boasberg, appointed by President Barack Obama, released Nathalie Rose Jones, a 50-year-old Big Apple resident, under electronic monitoring on Aug. 27 and ordered that she see a psychiatrist once back home, court documents revealed.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/01/us-news/nyc-woman-busted-for-threatening-to-kill-president-trump-quietly-released-by-obama-appointed-judge/
That asshole again?
At this point I’m just glad he didn’t order the baliff to hand over their service piece and get her a plane ticket to DC.
I’m sure he’s accumulated enough judicial malfeasance – why does it take an act of congress to remove a bad judge?
That’s rhetorical.
This is a wild story:
“When one considers the country’s alarming drowning statistics and the fact that drowning costs the U.S. economy more than $50 billion a year, by the CDC’s own account, these cuts make zero sense.”
How the hell do you go from 4,000 deaths to 50 billion in damages? As much as every death is a tragedy, I don’t think a ~12 million dollar valuation on human life makes much sense from an economic perspective.
I’m sure they have plenty of anal-lysts to come up with those numbers.
People aren’t buying the emotional appeal so next pressure point is their money.
Give us more billions to save a human life from drowning and we will save you even more billions!
Maybe they are including the cost for all patrolling of navigable waterways, life guards, and non-slip surfaces in bathtubs.
“Things are just as ridiculous at the Ivies. Columbia University has an entire course dedicated to the fictitious HBO series “Game of Thrones” as a way to study empires. It satisfies the Global Core component of the school’s notoriously rigorous core curriculum.
Princeton offers “Gaming Blackness: The Anthropology of Video Games and Race,” which uses gameplay for an “experience-based exploration of video games in a global age.”
….
Yale’s “Bad Bunny: Musical Aesthetics and Politics” apparently now fulfills the school’s Humanities and Arts requirement. Whatever happened to “The Odyssey”?
Unsurprisingly, there are plenty of classes that push nonsensical progressive orthodoxy, like one at Brown called “Prison Abolition as Policy.” Students help “provide policy recommendations” and are encouraged to create TikToks about the issue.
NYU, meanwhile, offers all sorts of intersectionality-laden courses, such as “Indigenous and Latinx Speculative Film and Fiction,” “Queer Cultures” and “Disability and Sexuality in American Culture.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/02/us-news/nycs-new-school-students-learning-how-to-steal/
This wouldn’t be so bad if they also taught opposite points of view.
If it is not obvious yet that all you have to do to get government funding is say you will positively talk about marxist globalist tropes requiring more intrusive and costly government, and they will throw cash at you, yu are ignoring the reality on purpose.
lol Good one
“Oh, we’ve got both kinds:
countrycommunism andwesternsocialism.”I would have gone with Stalinism and Maoism, myself.
Disability and Sexuality in American Culture
a film course?
Put on a German twist and get it all browned!
If only he had completed the HR training mandatory for the rest of us…
https://www.wsj.com/business/nestle-ousts-ceo-after-romantic-relationship-probe-e33668a5?st=1n5KJk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
He did. It made him a certified sexual harasser.
HR exists to protect their company from lawsuits. They are there to screen new hires for problematic behaviors. And they are certainly NOT there to help anyone working there. If you go to HR you get a file saying “PROBLEM CHILD” and the treatment according to that assessment.
HR exists to plan training and celebrations for the current group pride month.
LOL!
“Navratil isn’t expected to deviate from Nestlé’s current strategy of right-sizing the conglomerate and making it more efficient….”
My time as an accountant in the corporate world has taught me that right sizing means they are going to go through the company with a fucking chainsaw.
Moderation is not in the corporate vocabulary. In tough times they over fire and in growth times they over hire.
Food purge?
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/02/companies/suntory-niinami-resign/
“Stimulants”.
Japan deports gaijin over cold medicine.
He’s not having a relaxing time?
“Plunged into darkness while the oceans boil: How Mark Zuckerberg’s master plan will ‘lead to end of humanity'”
https://archive.is/yWFQf
Calm, reasonable journalism.
lol They really have gone off the deep end there. Quite suddenly, too.
The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M
Good morning Glibs! Hope you all had a good weekend. I was mostly unplugged and that felt pretty good. Saturday Mrs. TOK convinced me to volunteer at a Spartan DEKA event in Ft. Wayne, IN. This is an indoor fitness course type thing, something they’ve added to their outdoor obstacle course races. She ran the course, and I found out in the future I will be able to as well. There is a lot to say so I’ll see if I can bang out an article about it.
I will say, it was worth spending the day around so many fit young lasses in spandex.
Run as in administer, as in an adaptive course for people in wheelchairs, or as in https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B-G0SVEQW8A
The guy in charge of the whole program sought us out to talk about our gym being an affiliate, and to tell me about the adaptive ruleset they are rolling out in December. So next year this will be 100% accessible. I will probably retire from sled hockey in the next 1-3 years and this sounds like something I can get into.
Sure, blame the internet. I realize that NOTAMs have increased at an exponential rate in no small part because of FedGov VIPs, but you want to be private pilot there is price to pay.
Fitzgerald attributed his error late last year to a flight-planning program failing to refresh with the latest warnings, after his tablet didn’t connect to the internet at his lake house.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/flying-a-plane-is-fun-until-you-enter-restricted-airspace-137a733f?st=QA1A1A&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Yep it is the responsibility of the pilot to be sure they have all relevant NOTAMs.
I like how they add the blurb about the “lake house”. All airplane owners are rich people who own lake houses. It is known.
Yeah, that was a nice touch.
All airplane owners are rich people who own lake houses.
I used to know a guy that owned an airplane and a lake house. Sample of 1, anecdata, so therefore applicable to the whole world right? Right?!?!?
I’ll handwave away that the plane was a Cessna. I’ll also handwave away that the lake house was in a redneck area and needed to be gutted and rebuilt.
“It took you long enough to get here.”
Well, he had to get the right people in place at HHS, CDC, and NIH. RFK Jr. just recently replaced 100% of the people on the key vaccine committees, and Trump just served notice he’s not fucking around by firing his own CDC director.
“Is Europe at a tipping point?”
Unfortunately, the choice is now between demographic replacement of Europeans and eradication of European civilization, and a brutal “remigration” that is going to look a lot like ethnic cleansing.
Deportation is the humanitarian solution that they won’t take.
Effectively deporting the millions of migrants they have now isn’t going to happen peacefully or easily. To actually sweep out those people from the slums they are dug into like ticks is going to be extraordinarily ugly.
Do you really need to deport them? Just cut off the free shit spigot and they’ll scurry away like the cockroaches that they are.
These aren’t people who want to work and contribute to society.
Europe makes the problem worse by having basically zero ability (or requirement) to assimilate. And all European national identities revolve around language and culture, so not particularly accommodating, as say some country that was founded on a set of ideals available to anyone.
I’d say Europe, and “Palestine”, are both going to inevitably end up with ethnic cleansing one way or another. The question is how soon and which ethnicities get cleansed. The only way to have a multi-ethnic society is if ethnicity is successfully divorced from culture, as the US has done with some success in the past. You cannot have a multi-cultural society, thinking you can involves a complete misunderstanding of what a society is. Yugoslavia, Rhodesia, and South Africa are what you get when you try to have a nation with multiple cultural identities. Either it fractures into warring balkanized States, or whichever culture has the upper hand oppresses the others into eventual extinction. Ethnicity is not culture, but it takes something special to create a culture that surpasses ethnicity as a national identity.
10 step log in this morning. That’s good.
“Storytelling is how we’re able to draw people in and get them to connect to a deeper truth about themselves or about the world or a problem that needs to be solved,” said Elevate Prize Foundation CEO Carolina Jayaram Garcia. “It’s connecting those issues back to you as a human and not saying, ‘Well, that’s their problem. That’s all the way over there.’ The story allows it to be human.”
That’s right out of the confidence trickster handbook.
This is quite the stream of gibberish.
Yep. When someone starts with “Soandso was born in 18XX ….” or “I am going to tell you about…..” I tap out.
I dont give a shit about the protagonists life and dont tell me what you are going to tell me. You are trying to string me along. I dont have time for that. Spit it out or fuck off.
“How is this the province of the CDC again?”
They just can’t close the loop on “This is a terrible problem that isn’t getting any better” and “We’ve been spending a lot of money on it”, can they?
But RC, just last week I read an article that said they were “really close” to figuring out why people drown!
I’m willing to bet if you remove the blacks from the drowning statistics, we’re right on par with other civilized nations that have a massive anti-drowning bureaucracy.
We need more funding for genetic research of gills.
+1 Water World
Little kids and inattentive parent(s)
“Let’s get the whole story.”
I thought I saw somewhere that this happened late at night.
Long after fifth graders should be home and not roaming the streets.
11pm. Still no word if it was pure ding-dong ditch or pound and kick the door.
Some of these tik-toks are even on back or side doors if I researched correctly
Isn’t the guy alleged to have chased them down? Even if they pounded on his door and even if he thought they were trying to break in, you don’t get to chase after them when they flee and call it self defense.
While I’m sympathetic and want to say play stupid games, win stupid prizes here, that’s a bridge too far.
The Spotsy one was the back door in a fenced yard.
“Twisted T-shirts pay tribute to Minneapolis church killer Robin Westman: ‘Protect Trans Kids’”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/30/us-news/website-hawks-twisted-t-shirts-with-face-robin-westmans-face-after-minneapolis-mass-shooting/
I’m thinking this is fake news. While wildfox dot com is a t-shirt company, nothing comes up for wildfoxtee dot com.
There were pictures of some politician wearing a “Protect trans kids” shirt with a knife on it.
That was the Lt. Gov. of Minnesota. Those shirts are real.
People are posting fake shit, such as that bar graph showing this ridiculous % of mass shooters are trans. People have based large portions of podcasts to it, without doing any research.
With AI there is going to be an increasing amount of fake news.
This looks like those bot companies that generate t-shirts from social media.
https://teeonerockin.com/product/robin-westman-protect-trans-kids-2025-shirt/
https://trendingnowe.com/product/robin-westman-protect-trans-kids-shirt-graphic-tee/
The farm economy relies heavily on government requirements for a certain amount of its crops to be blended into fuel: corn into ethanol and soybean oil into diesel. Farmers worry that the government’s fuel mandates won’t keep pace with their expanding harvests.
Corn and Soybeans Rule the American Farm. Why That’s a Growing Problem, in Charts
https://www.wsj.com/business/corn-and-soybeans-rule-the-american-farm-why-thats-a-growing-problem-in-charts-ca03652f?st=QSodd3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Mandate people eat their quota of corn and soybeans or be penaltaxed.
And yet most edamame sold in stores comes from Chyna.
Europe at a tipping point? Probably not.
Maybe if they all stood on one side like Guam.
WATHCA TALKING ABOUT WILLIS?
Just kidding..
Step it up people!
Beer sales have dropped off. Modelo and Corona parent’s stock dives to a 5-year low.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/beer-sales-have-dropped-off-modelo-and-corona-parents-stock-dives-to-a-5-year-low-46dae0cc
Kids today.
Gen A needs to pick up the pace. I saw they are currently well behind other generations in alcohol consumption.
My 17 year old God Daughter asked he Dad if the parties she saw in some 80s movie were a real thing. She was entirely incredulous that high school kids would have parties where dozens or hundreds of kids showed up at someone’s house/yard on the weekend. They just don’t interact like that, and sitting at home alone, or maybe with one or two friends, texting the group, just isn’t conducive to drinking.
@Jar
That’s funny, we all seem to take that for granted. Everyone who grew up in that era has stories. Mrs. TOK has a few, and although I was a goody-two-shoes back then, I do recall those parties happening, harrowing stories of escape when the cops showed up, and even the honors students getting caught.
The Other Kevin:
Just the other day I was teasing one of my old friends about the fact that he didn’t know how to jump a chain link fence when he was in high school (he grew up in a more rural area).
Keg parties on the beach, throwing the keg on a boat when the cops showed up and just moving a mile or two down the shore.
Cops sure wouldn’t walk down the beach, so you had a bunch of time until the next little village police force (I.e., one car) would get a complaint and show at the new location.
I can’t imagine kids these days do that.
Middle son does this…the other two, notsomuch.
The Huntington Beach police were a bit more aggressive.
Never got invited to those parties, granted I’m late gen x.
Went to a few huge ones in college though. Drove around until we found a party.
“Ilhan Omar’s financial disclosure shows 1-year, 3,500% increase in net worth, to between $6M and 30M
She reported in her latest financial disclosure that her husband, Tim Mynett, has a stake in two companies that at the end of 2023 were worth no more than $51,000, but at the end of 2024 were worth between $6 and $30 million.”
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/ilhan-omars-financial-disclosure-shows-1-year-3500-increase-net-worth-between
It’s just dumb luck.
It’s good to be the commissar.
It’s interesting how I keep hearing about politicians increasing their net worth drastically, even the “socialist” ones. But I never hear about one down on their luck financially, unless they spent all their money on criminal defense.
That’s progressivism in a nutshell. It’s not that they hate the rich and wealthy, it’s that they hate that they don’t have their money. AOC’s Green Energy policies would make most of us a lot poorer, but she’ll do her damnest to make sure she never suffers the consequences of her polices.
Arrow of causation alert!
Pure speculation on my part, but…
When you have a psychological diagnosis that is au courant it motivates people to reclassify all psychological conditions as that thing. When it’s actively celebrated, it motivates people to reclassify all psychological conditions and behaviors that are NOT psychiatric issues as that thing.
Thus all (straight) tomboys, as well as drag queens, and stone butches are now “trans.” But also every other crazypants that is difficult to diagnose is pushed into the trans category.
Therefore, all behavioral deviants are more likely to be “trans” and this includes Current Shooter Dude. Being trans didn’t make him CSD. Being the kind of guy that morphed into CSD got him the hip and popular label.
When there is a new popular label, the CSDs of that era will be that thing.
Heresy
A group of more than 85 scientists have issued a joint rebuttal to a recent U.S. Department of Energy report about climate change, finding it full of errors and misrepresenting climate science.
This comes weeks after the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Environmental Defense Fund filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration that alleges that Energy Secretary Chris Wright “quietly arranged for five hand-picked skeptics of the effects of climate change” to compile the government’s climate report and violated the law by creating the report in secret with authors “of only one point of view.”
They reached a consensus interpretation of the data? That’s not how science works.
“…compile the government’s climate report and violated the law by creating the report in secret with authors “of only one point of view.”
That has NEVER happened before. Give it a break. All you have to do is remove “climate skeptics” and you have how the report was done the past 30 years.
Sorry I prescribe to the Environmental Union and Defense of Concerned Scientist Fund
I’ve had about enough from the IFLS crowd. They cannot get one single thing right and we’re supposed to believe anything they have to say?
No.
Price, as tested: $395,790
Base curb weight: 6,839 pounds
An Electric Caddy With Rolls-Royce Aspirations
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/2025-cadillac-celestiq-review-3beb9404?st=3YFrYS&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Aren’t you glad we bailed out GM so it could race in F1 and create this?
Boy I sure am! What a moneymaker!
“Base curb weight: 6,839 pounds”
WTF??
It is going to chew through tires like they are potato chips. Christ. Who would buy that?
I blame ridiculous safety regulations.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/01/us-news/rep-ilhan-omars-net-worth-skyrockets-to-as-much-as-30-million-months-after-denying-she-was-a-millionaire/
Rep Ilhan Omar’s net worth increased 3,500% in one year. She’s a financial genius!
drug money?
Cornered the khat market?
Falling out of her ass?
Confiscate it all and ship her to somalia so she can use her magic moneymaking touch to enrich her home country.
She was living in public housing when she first won office.
Maybe that is the way to get people off the dole and rich? A federal program to give poor people a seat in Congress.
Why is Omar blocking the ladder of success for her fellow Somali refugees? Shouldn’t she resign now so others can get rich too?
Folsom Field is a pretty nice stadium. Great view. I was on east side, so had a great view of the mountains. Plus the game went well.
I too was on the east side. Our damn bison decided she’s retired, and the university didn’t have a backup plan.
Last night I attempted to watch a movie called Calm like a Bomb or somesuch. Holy shit. I tapped out five or six minutes in, barely past the credits. It was quite literally unwatchable. The “cinematographer” should be beaten slowly and methodically with a length of 3/4″ rebar.
My wife watches Netflix movies.
recorded on a phone vertically?
The group of climate scientists found several examples where the DOE authors cherry-picked or misrepresented climate science in the agency’s report. For instance, in the DOE report the authors claim that rising carbon dioxide can be a “net benefit” to U.S. agriculture, neglecting to mention the negative impacts of more heat and climate-change fueled extreme weather events on crops.
Good gravy.
NPR knows their readership is completely ignorant and will gratefully swallow every lie. It is quite a racket.
And they’re too damn cheap to actually pay for that.
“more heat and climate-change fueled extreme weather events”
See, that’s how you assume your conclusion. Well done, scienticians.
“If there are errors, they’ll correct them, of course,” Fisher says. “And I don’t know if any group like this could produce a 150-page document without any errors. So we’ll see what comes up.”
Disagreement not same as error.
Voyager approaching one light-day from Earth
I am not looking forward to its return.
Surely it is the second human-made object to do this? The ballistic manhole cover launched first and faster
The universe is not looking forward to cleaning up our garbage. Expect an interstellar littering ticket soon.
A notice has been posted in Alpha Centauri for 50 years.
Government dwelling units are what we need
To encourage developers to build more places that people can afford, Utah lawmakers last year approved low-interest construction loans for starter homes. This year, they expanded the program to include starter condos. Those incentives follow a string of other laws in recent years meant to encourage all kinds of denser, less expensive housing.
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Cox has made affordable housing a signature issue and brings it up repeatedly at appearances around the state.
He’s appealed to builders to help fill this important gap in the market, even if, he says, “You may be able to make more money doing something else.” He’s implored local leaders to approve starter home projects, despite heated pushback they might face from residents worried about changes in their neighborhood. And to Utahns generally, Cox has urged them to think about where future generations will be able to live, asking, “Are we going to be the selfish generation?”
We could always let the government decide who gets to live where. That’s certain to be a success.
It’s surprising that the government set a target for something, and that target wasn’t met. That NEVER happens.
I wonder how anyone was ever able to afford shelter in the past without the helping hand of the state. It is a mystery.
GM is betting that the Cadillac Celestiq, with its ultraluxurious customizable design and striking silhouette, will become a coveted electric limousine in the new gilded age of the hyperwealthy.
Ah, yes, the all-important hyperwealthy market, where everybody wants to be.
But the margins on the double digit annual sales are huge!
EVs don’t sell without subsidies, so of course every automaker is doubling down on EVs. This is how you end up with the corporations in league with the bureaucrats creating regulations that force the filthy commoners to buy what the sparkling elites think they should own.
There’s a surprising amount of “There oughta be a law” popping up here. We have far to many laws, literally multiple orders of magnitude too many laws. The problem is basically never that we don’t have a law to solve an issue. It is sometimes that we don’t enforce laws that exist, and often that we have laws in place that cause or prevent solving a problem.
Yeah, there ought to be a law against having so many laws.
The system is such that making millions of reams of gibberish into law is far too easy. Invariably it creates an environment for looting the public and stifling the economy.
You get one 8×10 sheet of paper. Single subject, hand written. No delegating regulatory authority to anyone. If it isnt handwritten by a sitting member of congress at the time it carries no weight. Every single member of congress is duty bound to read it and vote on it.
Whatever….the law making process needs to be both more difficult yet much, much simpler.
I’ve subscribed to the Vorarlberger Nachrichten. Bizarrely, a novel series I was reading already had its latest novel set in…Vorarlberg!
That reminds me…I think someone here recommended Cadfael (novel series and/or TV series) at some point? And I’m SURE someone here recommended Manilla Road (metal band). I recall putting some Manilla Road on my youtube watch later playlist years ago, and at some point a while ago, I finally listened. Thanks, whoever that was! If you’re still here!
I am opposed to involuntary commitment of anyone to a mental institution.
If they’re a threat to themselves, tough shit.
If they’re a threat to others, . . . . so are lots of other people. I oppose all forms of pre-crime incarceration. No blood; no foul.
The homeless routinely violate lots of laws. Deal with those criminal violations as criminal violations.
You act like there is a historical precedent for the government shuttling away dissents to asylums and labeling them as crazy. Surely that wouldn’t happen in current year.
https://www.theautopian.com/the-new-audi-tt-concept-is-proof-halo-cars-matter/
WTF is that? Garbage. That’s what it is.
I had the original back in ’99. One of the earliest ones. It was a neat little thing.
So is their website.
There is a certain mentality that values emotional appeal more than practical utility. *sigh* Monkeys and their shiny things.
I hate that new design language.
we have laws in place that cause or prevent solving a problem.
It’s a wonder we successfully housed the people of this nation for so long without having tens of thousands of pages of regulations.
Oddly many of the houses from that insane unregulated hellscape are still standing, and many of the houses, decades newer, that were built under a wise regime of thorough regulation are falling apart.
Is Nadler retiring for good? Or is he going to make a comeback?
Did he make a MacArthur-like statement: “I shart return!”
He’s making the smart play, get out with his Congressional retirement – which he loses if he loses an election.
No, he would get pension even in defeat. He would lose face, however, if defeated in a primary.
WTF is that? Garbage. That’s what it is.
What an astoundingly ugly shitbox.
I’m not reading that autopian drivel. I assume that junkpile is an EV,
ps- Audi had a “halo car” (I don’t even know if they still make them). It was called the R8.
Daily Ray of Sunshine