Good morning one and all to another stupendous day!
Maduro Accuses U.S. Of ‘Seeking A Regime Change’ After Trump Deploys Military To South Caribbean
Hegseth authorizes hundreds of Defense Department lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges
Federal Appeals Court Reinstates FTC Commissioner Fired by Trump
US Appeals Court Rules Trump’s Use of Wartime Law to Deport Venezuelan Gangs Illegal
Oversight Committee Releases Subpoenaed Epstein Documents From DOJ
Watchdog Report: Two Largest Teachers Unions in U.S. Funneled $43.5 Million to Left-Wing Groups
Tow truck driver slapped with federal charge after hauling away ICE vehicle
Trump Unveils New Troll Of Joe Biden’s Autopen In Oval Office
Trump strikes skeptical tone on his own Covid vaccine record, policies
Alcohol Consumption Hits Record Lows in U.S.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
GM 🙂
Ford?
Stop with that German around here.
Papieren, Bitte.
BD 🙂
verhaften Sie diese Kartoffel
Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!
Does not Compute.
Arrest the Rat too.
Big Eights!
Wohin geht Peter?
Morning, Banjos.
“It now appears the use of U.S. military force against drug cartels has begun.”
Or you know….
No trial, no jury. Guilty of something as presumed
Trump personally reviews the disposition matrix …
Didn’t we have SOF operating in Colombia years ago? Or was Tom Clancy really just imagining shit?
The US had Navy Special Warfare groups running operations against cartel refineries in Columbia and Bolivia (ineffectively, I might add) as early as the late 80’s. Acting like this is something new is a perfect storm of stupidity and malevolence.
Did Congress sign off on that or was Reagan just whacking dudes?
The only thing new is the Drone Porn.
Begun? Come the fuck on…
Sadly, so fucking many will suck that up without question.
https://youtu.be/dKsDjpKr2Mk
“There are now as many as 3.5 million cases awaiting adjudication.”
That’s going to take years.
Not realy, just a small script to add “Deport” to the file. Run it off hours it should be done by monday.
How many times have you been to immigration court?
I haven’t tried to live somewhere I didn’t have the legal right to reside.
Common Tater:
I’ve never been to immigration court, but I have been to various INS offices over the years (haven’t had the pleasure since they turned to ICE).
The offices were dysfunctional enough to make me want to do something bad (wood chippers had not yet entered my lexicon). The only people working there who could give a shit were all sadistic bastards who loved lording over the immigrants. You had better kiss their ass or you can be sure that green card would never show up.
Still, as many bad memories as I have of them, I still am rooting for them against the current crop of illegal aliens.
The whole system is fucked.
I haven’t tried to live somewhere I didn’t have the legal right to reside.
Only because NY hasn’t figured out how to make it actually illegal to be Conservative while in the State. Give them time.
“A situation like this has never been seen,”
Oh come on. The US has deployed the military to overthrow Latin American governments dozens of times. Quit acting like it’s some kind of novel happening.
+ 1 Heartbreak Ridge
Worst war movie ever.
But the barracks scenes were pretty entertaining.
Can’t we just use a Filibuster instead? No need for the regular army to get involved.
Deliberately misunderstanding you now so I can picture Spartacus Booker being airdropped on Caracas with a 1000 lb. bomb glued to his ass.
In boot camp, the DI’s taught us that the Banana wars in Haiti and Nicaragua were good for the Corps. When WWI started, the Corps actually had officers and nco’s that had actual combat experience from those places.
It does seem like that would be a better way to figure out who should be promoted and who shouldn’t. How many of our woke generals would have survived running around the hills of Venezuela?
Standard Libertarian Disclaimer: Don’t put your dick into things that are none of your business.
Something tells me Central America proved a very different combat environment from the Western Front.
Foreign adventures are not a moral good, but that gets kind of abstract. They may well be good for the military readiness, the economy, and even the people being adventured upon.
Generals on the battlefield?
That’s a quaint idea.
Threedoor:
I was thinking that the woke generals of today would have been weeded out when they were shavetails or captains. They just wouldn’t have cut the mustard and been released from service.
UCS:
The combat environment would be different for sure. But still is useful for figuring out who panics when shots are fired in anger and who doesn’t. Who can command their troops and who can’t.
Now they get promoted, if you can breathe you make captain in three years.
“Further, a lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton against Pfizer, which is ongoing, alleges that far from the 95% figure, the Pfizer vaccine is less than 1% effective. ”
Who knows?
How can you prove/disprove the claim: “Sure you got the Rona, but it would have been way worse than if you didn’t get the vax”?
‘Dismissing it out of hand as obvious quackery’ is the way.
Let’s not forget they changed the definition of “vaccine”. If you got the polio vaccine, and only caught a mild case of polio, would we call that a success?
Now, TOK, we settled yesterday that it’s perfectly cromulent for new meanings to be assigned to words for political purposes. After all, language changes, and changes driven by the desire of certain people to have more power over you are as good as any other, right?
Fair point, RC. Why I remember when dictionary.com changed the definition of court-packing literally changed overnight during a Biden/Trump debate to suddenly include filling judicial vacancies with judges that agree with you.
The way relative effectiveness is calculated- the effectiveness quoted by Pfizer et al – any effectiveness below 50% is harmful. To be 1% effective would mean that almost everyone who took the product was harmed.
The odds of a media employee understanding any of it is less than 1%.
To say nothing of using relative risk vs absolute risk. In the before times, the long long ago (e.g. pre 2021), the direction from various agencies was to report absolute risk reduction or both since relative risk was, often times intentionally, misleading about the actual efficacy of the treatment.
To say nothing of the absolute absurdity of treating people as unvaccinated for 2-3 weeks post 1st dose. There’s no (good) reason to do that. Guess what happens if you conduct a double blind, double placebo trial? Divide participants into a treatment arm and control arm. But give both arms a placebo while treating the treatment arm as part of the control arm for 2-3 weeks. You’ll get 80-90% relative effectiveness of the treatment that will wane with time from enrollment even though everyone got exactly the same placebo. Stagger the enrollment over time, and you can make your waning ‘effectiveness’ persist for several months.
Strangely like the ‘effectiveness’ curve for some recent intervention.
He isn’t this clever, but maybe he’s baiting the trap.
“Our data shows that this is not 1 percent effective, it’s 51 percent effective. Never mind that we said 95-100 percent.”
Fire her again. This shit needs to end.
And if you cannot fire her, keep her on the payroll albeit stationed in Alaska.
In the basement supply closet, and take her red stapler.
At minimum wage.
“On July 17, U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan ruled that Slaughter’s termination was illegal because it violated a 1935 Supreme Court precedent known as Humphrey’s Executor v. United States. That precedent upheld legal limitations Congress imposed on removing members of the FTC, an independent federal agency.”
Independent federal agency is the problem.
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.
All of it.
More of FDR’s bs that needs clearing out.
Yeah ironic that Congress can step on the Executive like that, while simultaneously ceding it’s own powers (tariff authority, regulations equivalent to statutory law, etc.).
And on top of that, the mention from PM about the supposed connection of Epstein to the intelligence world and how that shielded him. Which in fact it didn’t unless he’s not really dead. But the plausibility we give to that connection absolutely screams that we must obliterate the intel apparatus or be owned by it.
Why ignore the Constitution in only one direction? This way they can pick and choose powers as convenient for grift and avoiding responsibility.
PM?
CT reference to last night’s post from PutridMeat. It would be way too ambiguous a reference if PlayaManhattan were around more often.
“Independent federal agency is the problem.”
^This.
They need to be insulated from
politicsaccountability.Just show me in the Constitution where “independent federal agencies” are mentioned.
They are listed right under FDR: God.
Penumbras and emanations.
While alcohol consumption may be down other forms of intoxication may be up.
/Not a pollster or sciency person
Honey huffing?
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh
And with it all other forms of amusement are down.
Which sucks when you have kids. All the places to go and have fun have been replaced by pot shops.
I don’t know what the kids do for fun anymore. I took my nephews (teenagers) to 16-Bit/Pins Mechanical, which is a big barcade here. Free play video games, ski-ball, and dexterity games; pinball, bocce, duckpin bowling, and other items available for nominal charges. They had zero interest in the place.
If there were other humans around, it sounds like a nightmare. I play games to get away from people.
On the flip side, have you asked what they do?
UCS:
I have. As they are teenage boys, the response is general sighs, grunts, and “dunno”s. Things I know that they like based on continued observation and their reactions:
Free Comic Book Day
Chicken Tenders
BA Sweeties
Running wild in the woods
Cheese Pizza
Staring at their phones
My kids would have eaten that up.
There was a small arcade locally but he shut down this spring after a break in and some of his stuff got jacked and smashed. My boy was heartbroken when we told him about it.
But we keep the kids off of the TV and they don’t know what video games are aside from the now defunct retro arcade.
threedoor:
We’ve got a big gaming culture here. Besides the large barcade, there’s several smaller ones, as well as places focused specifically on pinball. Most are child friendly up until a specific time, at which point they go 21+.
Then, once a year, things get REALLY BIG. [They brought the BattleTech pods back! THEY’RE BRINGING THEM BACK AGAIN!]
Hey now, the kids love the pot shops!
Related to the teacher’s union piece:
Why Didn’t We Know Randi Weingarten Was a DNC Member?
Hahahahahaha! Blind squirrel finds nut.
Because you are blind idiots? I mean maybe I can see not knowing she was officially on the committee but if you didn’t know she was a shill for them you should be put under a guardianship as incapable of handling your own affairs.
This is why we need to bring asylums back.
Chump change. I bet the real number is much higher than that.
+1 forced volunteers
““We declare, as did the Supreme Court, that our injunction solely applies to the use of the war-related federal statute and does not impede use of any other statutory authority for removing foreign terrorists,” it stated.”
So it doesn’t actually matter?
Is that fish in the bowl a sucker?
I, too, have questions about that image.
blowfish
Isn’t that the beloved cartoon character Peter the Pufferfish?
Why am I still surprised at the idea of a written voice for regular people? I’m reviewing/revising process documentation and can tell which of my team wrote (or most contributed to) a document by the style of writing. (Same thing when looking at scripts). I was going “This doesn’t look like my work” on one that had undergone at least a significant update by my supervisor.
I am surprised you are surprised.
My brain’s fuzzy today.
I had to look up processes I myself had written up for another task because I was drawing a blank. The moment I spotted the text, it came back to me. I tried to comfort myself with a quote from Henry Jones “I wrote it down so I wouldn’t have to remember”, but it didn’t help.
I’m surprised you were unaware of the concept of a “fist”, especially as the term came from the old telegraph days. Back in the days of BBSs, that was the way to tell if someone was changing handles or not. Those trying to redeem themselves would often publicly deny it, while privately acknowledging it.
I did not own my own computer until college, which was well after those days.
I also can’t tell when a person shows up here under an unknown name and avatar if they’re really new.
I picked up on the idea of an author’s voice from reading books, and it just refuses to translate to regular humans.
You don’t even need to be that obscure. I can tell when a book is by a different author within a page or two at most. It makes it almost impossible for me to read any of those “new author takes over a series from dead originator” books. they just sound wrong and it puts me off.
(((Jarflax:
*sigh*
I know that pain.
/looks over at Rising Steam sadly
(((Jarflax:
Sometimes it is a blessing. Brandon Sanderson finally finishing the Wheel of Time series for example. If Robert Jordan hadn’t croaked he’d still be turning out those books, each of which would have the start of at least three new story arcs.
*thinks about the ‘new’ Mitch Rapp novels*
*sigh*
In that particular case the stylistic differences were a blessing. Reducing the number of braid tugs alone saved 500 pages.
I’m an easy tell by the way I write. Especially in the phone, I have large thumbs and often manage to hit the back space button and the spacebar at the same time after typing the letter ‘N’. Most often when I try to type “don’t”
(((Jarflax:
+1 forkroot tea
“Hello fellow American. This you should vote me. I leave power good. Thank you. Thank you. If you vote me I’m hot. What? Taxes they’ll be lower son. The democratic vote for me is right thing to do Philadelphia. So do”
-Charlie Kelley
““it will take the Department time to produce all the records’ while ensuring that victims’ identities and any child sexual abuse material are properly redacted.”
Which somehow results as the identities of the people who victimized them being redacted. Also, did some of the victims help recruit more girls?
16, 17 and 18 year old “children”. Right.
If they aren’t identified how can we know their ages?
It would be nice if instead of a simple redaction, the names were replaced with age as the identifier.
Yep.
The conversation that I had before I was kicked off of X/Twitter concerned this point.
A child is 0 through 15.
The leftoids came out of the woodwork on that one. Nearly all young, gay, and I guarantee have if had sex by the time they were 14, likely with much older men.
They don’t like the real definitions of words.
Minor and child are not the same definition.
“Rep. Nancy Mace stormed out of the House Oversight Committee’s closed-door meeting with Jeffrey Epstein victims visibly shaken and in tears, claiming their horror stories gave her a “full blown panic attack.”
….
“As a recent survivor (not 2 years in), I had a very difficult time listening to their stories. Full blown panic attack. Sweating. Hyperventilating. Shaking. I can’t breathe,” she later posted on X, adding that she was forced to leave the meeting early.”
….
House lawmakers said they learned “additional names” of persons of interest who could provide further information about the convicted pedophile, who killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/03/us-news/nancy-mace-spotted-walking-out-of-epstein-meeting-in-tears/
“…the convicted pedophile, who killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019.”
The big lie – the more you repeat it the more people will buy into it. Nobody seems to notice that this is the tag they put on everything? “It is sunny out today but there is a small chance of rain this afternoon. Also, Jeffery Epstein was a convicted pedophile, who killed himself in a Manhattan jail cell in 2019.”
OBEY
Am I wrong for wishing we had leaders made of stronger stuff?
Maybe Nancy should be one of those we send to some police action in a shit hole country to toughen her up?
She was strong enough to march out in front of the media to proclaim her distress – what more could you ask of her?
Being that weak should get you kicked off of your committee assignments and censured.
I’m still not entirely clear why we are redacting the identities of victims, especially of (alleged) crimes that happened years or decades ago.
The real question no one seems to be asking is, are there any victims?
Sure. All of Epstein’s non-existent clients.
The article says they are illegal aliens. Why is a US court siding with illegal aliens against American law?
Trump is more illegaller than the illegaliest illegal
They aren’t illegal deportations. They’re undocumented deportations.
I am not sure why there is any debate at all. They came into the country illegally. Put ’em out.
Seeking asylum? There are proper channels for that and sneaking across the border aint that.
Put ’em the fuck out.
At what point is the R controlled congress going to start impeaching these ridiculous judges?
Admit that Biden administration actions were not in compliance with the law, i.e. illegal?
I actually don’t think that Trump using the emergency wartime powers deal is legal. I don’t think gangs can count as a real govt when it comes to declaring war.
BUT, I am really confused as to why we can’t just deport all these fuckers who everyone agrees are illegal aliens. I don’t understand the need to jump through these extra hoops.
If I were an immigration judge, I’d tell everyone that a) everyone is going to be deported, b) if you think you have some real case speak up, but if I rule against you (and I will) you will be deported to Uganda instead of your home country and c) any lawyers who lose the appeal will be officially sanctioned and not allowed to represent other illegal aliens.
I bet I could deport thousands of illegal aliens a day with those rules.
I don’t understand the need to jump through these extra hoops.
You probably also don’t understand that women can have dicks. You hopeless bigot!
I never saw the point either. I always assumed there was some technical legal 4D chess reason that I didn’t understand.
One approach would be to allow them to pursue any appeals from their home countries.
“I don’t think gangs can count as a real govt when it comes to declaring war.”
I think the Trump Administration has been taking the angle that the gangs are working at the behest of foreign governments. (didn’t read the article)
“I am really confused as to why we can’t just deport all these fuckers who everyone agrees are illegal aliens.”
I assume many of them were waved through into the country using the CBP One app set up by the Biden Administration to circumvent existing law. Then they go live in a hotel or subsidized housing while waiting years for the court date for their bogus asylum claims.
Gangs are just tribes, we can go to war with tribes.
I cant read the epoch times and i am not giving my email.
It seems to me that the courts are attempting to destroy the last shreds of their credibility. I am assuming those decisions are based on party affiliation.
That explains a lot.
We’re doing our part around here.
I’m just going to imagine the Starship Troopers style PSA for this.
*cuts to kids picking up airplane bottles of booze*
“We’re doing our part!”
The best use for those tiny bottles of booze is in trying something new. It’s a lot cheaper, and if you don’t like it, there’s less waste.
As mentioned above, add in the metric tons of Gummies and vape and everything else.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
All I got was suicide prevention, Jimbo. Is that some kind of a hint?
At the risk of pushing you even further into crisis, I have to tell you that Mrs. Holiness threw away the State Fair Swag that I promised you.
I have no idea why she hauled the two fans we won at the Action for Liberty booth (that had “Walz Lies” on them) all the way home only to immediately toss them into the garbage. Wives! amirite?
* while trying to find a link to the Walz Lies fans, I found this story which I had not heard of before. King Walz just keeps on giving.
After watching a video of himself in hunting attire loading a gun Walz decided this was necessary
https://alphanews.org/gov-walz-says-he-intends-to-call-special-session-on-gun-control/
I know it would never happen but it would be funny if the special session passed a law repealing all state restrictions and funding youth marksmanship classes.
I got laughed at by everyone on the weekend zoom when I said I sure hoped that the Minnesoda GOPers would stand firm and not agree to any new legislation in King Walz’s special session. I hung my head in shame because I knew they were right.
Maybe they could demand quid pro quo that in return for some stupid new gun laws, the new law making any conversion therapy illegal would be repealed?
But not to worry, if King Walz can’t get his critical new gun laws passed his dukes are ready to step in.
Yes, yes, exactly what we need are different gun laws in each town. That makes things so much simpler.
I wish they would just be honest and ban all means of self-defense. Pitch it as the final step in achieving a violence-free utopia.
lol Apparently I didn’t already hate Coldplay enough.
CWAA
I’m a little unclear – what exactly did Chris Martin do that was so awful, other than be decent to a couple Israeli fans?
And don’t get me wrong, I hate Coldplay as only someone who did sound for college bands in the late 90’s/early 00’s can…
Condescension / veiled insult.
You didn’t read to the part where he then invited Palestinians on stage as well. As well as what he said. I don’t think it was evil bad, so much as cringeworthy.
No, I did. And yeah, cringeworthy in the ‘shut up, hippie’ sense is all I felt.
This. There is no reason to bring up “Palestine” except as a sort of passive-aggressive threat.
It’s from the “when did you stop beating your wife” school of assholery.
Temu U2.
Up at the crack of dawn to round out a perfect night of sleep with plenty of cushion before we have to push out the door and split for work.
https://archive.is/A5jg6
Ass Wednesday.
Waiting in the chair to get my first piece of titanium implanted.
Titanium nipples?
Uffda. Something even more worthless than just regular male nipples.
I think we all know what is really getting implanted. Just look at Mrs. NA curled up in the fetal position and whimpering in fear.
Rubber nipples?
More like this I think
Where? Skull? Joint? Tooth?
Dental
Good luck, man.
We’re not all counting on NA, however.
He’s going fore the James Bond “Jaws” implants.
https://youtu.be/lueIajfi34w
My wife is getting some in her hip at the end of the month.
Hold out for adamantium!
Retractable adamantium fangs would be so hip.
He’s desperate but not serious.
Look, if you’re not going straight to unobtanium, you’re just playing around.
Are you assuming NA’s gender? Maybe they want eveantium?
No insurance covers any of those.
My son got a full set, looks great and worth the price in self confidence and useful as well.
Useful?
Opening beer bottles?
Operation rescheduled for two weeks! Building evacuation. Fire trucks out front.
Hope it goes well.
My ankle surgery went poorly six years ago. Took two years to recover. It’s failing now.
The more I hear about the effects, the worse an idea it seems.
That, and drugs for depression and anxiety which may be prescribed post-use of the pill. I’ve witnessed it. It’s a real problem.
I think SSRI’s are worse than the pill.
Agreed.
“how Goya’s probable STD changed his painting style”
Too bad it’s out of print.
My wife just found one on thrift books.
My SIL had serious blood clots from the pill, almost killed her.
I hate to agree with Walsh but this is one the wife and I have talked about for almost a decade now.
Trump questions his plague legacy? They told me he was incapable of learning.
I think his second term has been an impressive display of an old dog learning new tricks.
Which probably would not have been the case had he been re-elected in ’20.
Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters
No “and then”!
I’ve heard of bacon ice cream. I worked in an office that had the bacon shelf containing a collection of bacon products – candy, gum, soda, candles, …
😱
Voice-recognition AI drive through is the worst of all worlds.
I don’t want to talk to a computer. I can barely stand talking to humans. And that computer is fucking up the order worse than the humans?
Yoyo Donuts in Hopkins, MN was the go to place for donuts because they had Maple Bacon Long Johns. Even better, everyone working there was morbidly obese, so you felt no shame buying a ton of donuts.
Some of us speculated that there must have been an employees only door in the back because we didn’t think they could use the regular door in the front.
Was there a loading dock?
Good Lord. Or Good Lard.
What is the best fat to fry doughnuts in?
“The best fat comes from humans.”
Not with the amount of hormones and mood-altering chemicals most humans are swimming in, plus all the rampant diseases those filthy creatures carry.
Where is the geographical line separating Maple Bar from Long John?
I had never heard of a Maple Bar being called a long Jon until I went to the south. Where they fill them with frosting for a triple dose of the Diabitis.
And where do those names go away, I’ve never heard of either.
A local bakery offers maple bacon donuts. My favorite place for donuts is The Donuttery in Huntington Beach, catching them when they have guava malasada available.
Where is the geographical line separating Maple Bar from Long John?
I’m a pastry rube, so I’m not even sure I understand the difference. I’m not sure that this is question with a clear cut answer. It isn’t like hotdish vs.
casseroleor duck, duck, gray duck vs.duck, duck, goosewhich all have 100% clear cut answers.Pope Jimbo:
It was just recently I learned that there was a difference between what we call a cassata cake here in Cleveland, and what the rest of the world calls one.
Anyone that fills them with custard or frosting makes them something that is not a maple bar.
https://www.biggerbolderbaking.com/maple-bar-donuts/
I’m too affiliated with pastries.
Best Donut in Clarksville TN is the place for apple fritters. There is a reason I got up to 275 and stayed there for far too long.
Oh I’m sure that true…
Niinami said a package containing supplements was set to be mailed to his home from elsewhere in Japan by the brother of an acquaintance in the U.S., though he knew nothing about the planned delivery. The brother’s arrest led police to Niinami.
The acquaintance had earlier mailed him a similar package, but he said he never opened it or consumed its contents because it was disposed of by his family, who have a policy of getting rid of mail from unknown senders.
How Jet Lag Cost the Global Face of Japan Inc. His Job
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/how-jet-lag-cost-the-global-face-of-japan-inc-his-job-5672d7a9?st=SPD2XK&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
TLDR – He was using some product with CBD. Japan is crazy strict on drugs and this CBD didn’t meet Japan’s THC content requirements. If he just ordered something from overseas I could buy his story, but not this tall tale.
I don’t believe this story. You aren’t going to just ship something overseas without an “Hey, I just sent you…” or a “did you get…”
Since you’re the Japanophile here, I’ll post this story from NHK this morning:
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20250903_02/
https://www.gov-online.go.jp/eng/publicity/book/hlj/html/202202/202202_07_en.html
Immature reactions for transliteration must be resisted.
Located in the kinky region of Japan….
Not true! Kinky puns about trains and pussies are always allowed!
Kinki University in Japan to change name
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-27519000
Tama was elevated to a minor deity after her death, which happens to be on my birthday. Now I really want to visit that station.
Is Kinki University’s mascot an octopus? It should be
It’s in the Kansai era which is the epicenter of takoyaki.
It’s only Kinki if the octopus eats the girl.
My niece brought us to a great little beach near there. She didn’t tell me at all about this station. I’m going to have to have a talk with her.
Is Kinki University associated with Ball State?
Only as a gag
At least Fukuoka University is safe…
It was quite the scandal when the Japanese in-laws discovered that Mrs. Holiness had eaten a thc gummy in Colorado on a visit.
Didn’t matter that it was legal and that Mrs. Holiness had hated it. Her sister and nieces couldn’t believe she had done something so scandalous. It was right up there with marrying a dumb American guy.
Clearly part of a pattern of poor decision making.
OTH, Japanese tourists frequently go to gun ranges in the US…
A company I did IT consulting for had a bunch of Japanese law students visiting, and someone came up with the bright idea of taking them to the gun range. So of course, I got to provide some guns and ammo and act as safety officer.
One of the lawyers did the translating (none of the law students spoke more than very rudimentary English) and introduced me as a ‘nationally ranked competitive shooter.’ All of the students went, “Ooooooooohhh!” in sync, just like in bad animes. I swear I turned absolutely crimson.
Good times. Everyone had great fun shooting the suppressed shorty AR…
Sensei:
When my nieces visited us in their teens, they LOVED to go to the gun range. I let them shoot .22’s and a shotgun (both at trap and with slugs at a paper target).
It was very amusing to see them taking all sorts of selfies with the .22 and the 20 gauge youth shotgun. They were so convinced that they were total bad asses.
I swear I turned absolutely crimson.
Also like in bad animes.
Malibu’s Beloved Reel Inn, Destroyed by L.A. Fires, Is Told It Can’t Rebuild
https://www.wsj.com/business/hospitality/malibus-beloved-reel-inn-destroyed-by-l-a-fires-is-told-it-cant-rebuild-3b839b74?st=h8ZY8i&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
No way. I can’t believe CA would do something like this…
I don’t believe it. California would have fined them for failing to maintain the appearance of a historic site while denying the permits to rebuild and issuing a citation for smoke release during the fire.
The other day, one of our finance managers told us that they went to a kaizen session at corporate headquarters to cut down the amount of time it takes to close our books. After speaking with other managers and employees, they were able to find the bottlenecks and get rid of the inefficiencies in our processes. I was thinking that local government could do this with their permit processes but then came back down to Earth when I remembered that the permit processes isn’t there to ensure safety and quality but there to provide jobs, give petty tyrants some power, and creating opportunities for graft.
It’s a shame what’s happening in LA but then you realize it’s all by design.
I live in what is now a tony suburb of Minneapolis. When we moved here in ’95, it was the hinterlands. In the intervening years we started replacing farms with developments full of McMansions.
Now when I have to pull a permit it is way more than any of the surrounding suburbs. My deck permit was $500+, if I lived 100 yard south in a different suburb, it would have been about $100.
My theory is that the local city bureaucrats figure all these permits are for Richie Rich’s who won’t blink.
What is this permit you speak of your holiness?
Threedoor:
A piece of paper that my contractor buddy insisted that I needed to get. He is a great builder, but he is a bad businessman because he is so strict about following regulations.
When I moved to Cleveland and did a full renovation of my house (because of two pipes bursting), I was incredibly lucky to be doing the renovations around the time when the guy in charge of approving the permits was retiring. Cleveland Heights has a lot of old 100+ year old homes and it’s usually a hassle to get your permit in a timely manner along with it being expensive. He knew my contractor so that definitely helped but it all went smoother than it should have simply because the guy just didn’t give a shit and was counting his days towards retirement.
What is a deck permit?
Suthen:
Common sense building laws that protect you and your neighbors from your stupid selves.
Around here they check the satellite images to see if you did any major work.
I doubled the size of my patio last year. It’ll take them at least five years to catch on. Not like my property taxes aren’t going to go up 10-20% a year anyway.
The satellite pictures haven’t told them o poured 3/5 of a shop floor or built a loft in the shop. Or added a 200 amp sub panel, and bathroom…
Big Deck must work for the state.
They’ve got that big deck energy.
What is a deck permit?
Wetting the beak.
I was expecting a demand to build homeless apartments on the beach.
They’re lucky to get a “no” from the first bureaucracy. Even if approved by the Parks bureaucracy, you can bet the Coastal Commission would’ve fucked them over.
I think his second term has been an impressive display of an old dog learning new tricks.
He has certainly done a bang up job of bringing the deep state to the surface.
TW:TOS
“An Alaska man is petitioning the Supreme Court to consider whether the government’s seizure of his $95,000 plane for transporting an illicit six-pack of beer is an excessive fine under the Eighth Amendment.
The Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm, filed a petition for writ of certiorari today on behalf of Ken Jouppi, an 82-year-old Alaskan bush pilot, asking the Supreme Court to rule on whether states should consider the gravity of a defendant’s specific offense, rather than an abstract view of the general crime.
Jouppi was convicted of a misdemeanor in 2012 when state troopers searched his plane before takeoff and discovered that a passenger was attempting to bring several cases of beer to a “dry” village where alcohol is prohibited. (Jouppi was only culpable for a single six-pack of Budweiser that troopers said was in plain sight.)”
https://reason.com/2025/09/02/an-alaska-mans-95000-plane-was-seized-over-a-6-pack-of-beer-now-hes-taking-his-case-to-the-supreme-court/
Stupid seizure over stupid law.
Da Fuq?
Definately a violation.
Seize the police department’s assets and pensions to compensate.
Also, does “dry” mean “we have criminalized the possession of alcohol” rather than “we forbid the sale of alcohol” as I generally understand it?
Native villages have absolute prohibition.
I don’t know how true it is, but I have heard horror stories about guys losing everything after being busted by Montana game wardens for some minor violation.
That was decades ago, so not sure if they have changed things up. The stories said that after being busted, they confiscated all the guns, the trailers and the trucks of the violators.
In Minnesoda, the game wardens have had a lot of their powers stripped because they overreached. For example, it used to be a law that the game warden could come into your fish house unannounced to check your catch. Then the game wardens wrote a couple people up for smoking dope in their fish house (even though their catch was 100% legal). The courts ruled against the game wardens and said if you want to write regular tickets like that, you can’t just bust in. So now the game wardens have to knock and wait to be let in.
The Forrest service goons in Washington state will do that to you as well.
Give the pigs an excuse to seize your property, and they’ll take it every time. Sometimes they make up the excuses themselves…
Fortunately the current SCOTUS is unlikely to look favorably on this. Unfortunately it will take time and the troopers won’t be punished.
Alcohol Consumption Hits Record Lows in U.S.
I’ll admit it: I’ve been cutting back.
Of course it has! What do you expect when they seize your plane if you have a six pack?
Good thing I have a beer belly instead…
I’ve been cutting back too. For me it’s part of eating right.
I cut back a lot during the pandemic.
When I realized that the lockdowns were causing so much evaporation in my liquor cabinet, I instituted a “only drink Friday through Sunday” rule.
There are exceptions, but I have learned to stick to that schedule.
I’m thinking of all the times we tried to smuggle beer back from our trips to Winnepeg. The drinking age was only 18 there so we all tried to sneak back cases of beer on the way home.
Lots of stories about the border patrol guys finding the beer and confiscating it. I’m sure those bastards drank like kings for free. No stories of the family sedan also getting confiscated though.
Can we declare the ACLU persona non grata?
“The Trump administration’s use of a wartime statute during peacetime to regulate immigration was rightly shut down by the court,” said Lee Gelernt, who argued the case for the ACLU. “This is a critically important decision reining in the administration’s view that it can simply declare an emergency without any oversight by the courts.”
Isn’t there an “undesirable” category in immigration law?
“This is a critically important decision reining in the administration’s view that it can simply declare an emergency without any oversight by the courts.”
Now do Covid.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/03/hiv-aids-funds-protest-washington-dc
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/sep/03/trumps-aid-cuts-in-east-africa-led-to-unwanted-abortions-and-babies-being-born-with-hiv-report
Sad, but Africa needs to get their shit together.
Why do you hate the white man’s burden?
Step up with donations, progressives.
More CA fun and games.
California’s Ride-Share Stick-Up
Democrats coerce a deal with Uber and Lyft to help drivers unionize.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/california-democrats-ride-share-law-unions-uber-lyft-1b4fb306?st=vSxK15&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
He is truly a shameless liar.
Just like raising minimum wage laws has made fast food more affordable. Today’s paper has a stat that fast food sales to those making less than $45,000 are down by over 10% from prior year.
Independent Union of Drivers?
“Jonny Greenwood also collaborated with Israeli musician Dudu Tassa on the 2023 album Jarak Qaribak, comprising reworkings of Middle Eastern love songs recorded in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Oxfordshire, UK. The ensemble also features musicians from Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait and Iraq. A European tour was cancelled after the Israel-Gaza war broke out in October 2023. In 2024, Greenwood joined protests in Israel calling for the removal of president Benjamin Netanyahu and for the release of hostages held by Hamas; he and Tassa also performed in Tel Aviv, which drew condemnation from pro-Palestinian activists….
Before Radiohead’s new dates were officially confirmed, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel had already shared a statement calling for a boycott of the tour as a result of Jonny Greenwood’s performance in Tel Aviv.
“Even as Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza reaches its latest, most brutal and depraved phase of induced starvation, Radiohead continues with its complicit silence, while one member repeatedly crosses our picket line, performing a short drive away from a livestreamed genocide, alongside an Israeli artist that entertains genocidal Israeli forces,” it read.”
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/03/radiohead-announce-first-tour-dates-since-2018-and-face-boycott-from-pro-palestine-campaigners
CWABOA
Until I see “pro-Palestinian activists” advocating the return all of the Israelis they kidnapped, or their bodies, I really don’t a give a flying fuck about anything else they have to say.
Don’t throw me in that briar patch!
Trump did it anyway. Now Democrats — eager to show the base that they’re taking the fight to the president — will almost certainly take the bait, making the prospects of a shutdown extremely high this fall…
But the difficult reality for Democrats is that the same reasons Schumer gave for avoiding a shutdown back then also apply now: Typically the party that makes the demand that leads to a shutdown is the party that shoulders the public blame.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/01/shutdown-showdown-democrats-schumer-00538396
The X-factor here is will Trump do the usual in a shutdown and close the national parks and other petty shit that the Dems always do when they want to make the plebes suffer?
And I’m sure if he did try to shut things down, some judge would force him to open it back up. Just because.
No. He was smart and used the shutdown to assist in his layoffs and stopped federal work in places that nobody cared about except NPR with breathless headlines that highlighted we are spending money on things we shouldn’t.
Basically the exact opposite.
Donald Trump announced Friday he was unilaterally cancelling $5 billion of foreign aid funding, he was making good on his America First policy promises. But he was also picking a fight that’s been months in the making.
Yeah, I’m sure the American public will be on board with a shutdown in order to be able to send their hard-earned tax money to foreign countries.
The majority opinion said Trump’s allegations about Tren de Aragua do not meet the historical levels of national conflict that Congress intended for the act.
“A country’s encouraging its residents and citizens to enter this country illegally is not the modern-day equivalent of sending an armed, organized force to occupy, to disrupt, or to otherwise harm the United States,” the judges wrote.
That’s some top shelf reasoning.
It seems to me that deliberately sending your criminal gangs to the US (which I can’t believe they’re admitting, by the way) is a crystal-clear example of “sending an armed, organized force to occupy, to disrupt, or to otherwise harm the United States”.
DRUGZ HARM US!!!
A seventh AfD politician has now died a week before German elections.
https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1963238599853310225
Holy shit!
Tried to find a source for this and every link in the search results is to leftist media.
https://x.com/GFreiNews/status/1962830429339148497
Here is a list.
From an English language substack about German politics (and ‘vid reactions):
Six AfD candidates have died ahead of municipal elections in Nordrhein-Westfalen. They are very unlikely to have been the victims of a covert assassination campaign.
Damn, just how many people have dirt on the Clintons?
They all got the Trump shot.
Bad dates?
―Sallah Mohammed Faisel el-Kahir
Prof. Briggs to the rescue.
ABC: “A group of Jeffrey Epstein survivors are set to speak at the Capitol on Wednesday morning.”
Give me a fucking break. Can we strike “survivor” from the lexicon?
No, but you can bill yourself as a survivor survivor if it bugs you.
But these survivors are on their closure journey.
Just trying to put in as many annoying words as possible.
You need to create a matrix so you can track the paradigm shifts to move equity and inclusion up a sigma
Comfort women
Ahead of the meeting with lawmakers, several of the survivors and their families held a rally outside the Capitol.
“It the voices of survivors of these crimes that are important, so we are here together to stand united,” said survivor Liz Stein.
On Tuesday night, Massie accused the White House of not wanting to release the files.
“Look, if my legislation were redundant, why would the White House be trying to stop it? It’s not redundant. There are things that the White House doesn’t want out there that my legislation would cause to be released.”
Asked to respond to President Donald Trump calling the Epstein investigation “a hoax,” Massie said, “I hope he doesn’t say that after tomorrow when 10 of the survivors testify, that would be very disrespectful.”
Worse than the Bataan Death March.
Show me the gun that Epstein pointed at you to force you onto the plane.
He used financial coercion! He offered them much higher rates than they could get from the average John.
“Ahead of the meeting with lawmakers, several of the survivors and their families held a rally outside the Capitol.”
And their identities are still secret?
Just like Valerie Plame was “outed” as a CIA spy. Even though she drove to the CIA offices at Langley every day for her job.
Everything is under control
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) told reporters Tuesday that he was insulted by President Trump’s suggestion this week that the governor should call him and ask for help in combating crime in Chicago.
“It’s an insult to any and every citizen to suggest that any governor should have to beg the president of any political party for resources owed their people,” Pritzker said during a news conference. “When did we become a country where it’s OK for the U.S. president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don’t want?”
“Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation, that we treat this as normal?” he added.
Don’t send help. send money.
Pritzker will make a great Presidential candidate in a year or two.
Illinois Governors can’t run for another office immediately following their term. It’s almost impossible to run a campaign from prison.
almost
But hundreds of murders a year in Chicago is totally normal and of no concern whatsoever.
Not all black lives matter, apparently.
“As President Donald Trump’s takeover of Washington, D.C., continues, some Democrats are calling out his deployment of troops in a supposed effort to thwart urban crime — and his threats to do the same thing in many other cities — as racist…
“Restore those $800 million, and while you’re at it, restore the billion dollars in locally raised revenue that the District of Columbia was denied by MAGA Republicans in Congress,” Raskin said Tuesday. “There’s a lot that can be done.””
https://www.salon.com/2025/09/03/dems-strike-tougher-tone-on-trumps-dc-takeover-its-racism/
You’re racist if you don’t give us money!
Addressing crime that is mostly black-on-black is racist how?
Do they even listen to the words coming out of their mouths…?
It’s just their culture, Rhy, like girlhood knife fights, and pillaging small shops.
Crusader
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) said late Tuesday that President Trump “may be covering for some rich and powerful people,” as the lawmaker pushes for more transparency in the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“I think the best way to clear President Trump’s name is to release all the files,” Massie told MSNBC’s “All In” host Chris Hayes. “I actually don’t think he’s done anything criminal; I think he may be covering for some rich and powerful people that are friends of his. And in fact, some of those billionaires are running ads against me in Kentucky right now.”
“One of them is in Epstein’s black book. So, we’re, you know, we’re getting close to the center of power here,” he continued in the clip, highlighted by Mediaite. “And I think, you know, embarrassment is not a reason to conceal all of this stuff.”
The Bluegrass State lawmaker added, “We’ve got to get it out in the open, regardless of whose friends might be incriminated.”
Yeah, whatever.
And I think, you know, embarrassment is not a reason to conceal all of this stuff.
This man does not understand the national security state in the slightest. What a whacko!
He’s dating AOC now isn’t he?
CNN
There are fewer and fewer jobs available for US workers
1 hour ago
By Alicia Wallace
I’m confused CNN. I thought we need the “undocumented” because of a labor shortage.
Apparently those 1.2 million jobs illegals lost that I heard about just went *poof*.
Jobs Americans
won’tcan’t do.“If we can’t pay slave wages, we’d rather it not be done.”
Maybe California should import more Japanese engineers to get their high speed trains running?
If you can build a maglev bullet train, how hard would a simple high speed train be?
They are also predictable to a fault. I can hear the “凄い!!!” in my head now.
凄い = sugoi
Sugoi is one of those basic words that you can use a lot in Japan and get a lot of milage out of it. Right up there with honto (really), urusai (noisy/annoying) and dame (bad).
Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo, the California high speed train isn’t about building a rail link, it’s about plundering the treasury.
This
We expect every other country to be as low-trust and run by grifters as ours is and it comes as a surprise to see anything different.
I had a big wheeler dealer in local politics admit to several of us at a fundraising breakfast that our light rail was just urban redevelopment. He told us that for every $1 they spent on light rail, the Feds matched it with $2. So why wouldn’t you want that deal.
He got huffy when someone pointed out that the line would never make a profit and all those “savings” would be eaten up by subsidies in just a few years.
One of those moments when I realized the local GOP was just as bad as the DFL when it came to spending.
“local GOP was just as bad”
Maybe the local libertarians should be challenging these GOP idiots in the primary, instead of speaking to almost no one as Libertarian Party candidates? If our libertarian ideas are so compelling, then they need to be heard by the most people, not buried in some third party backwater where the choir is being preached to.
Or at least import “sorry, train delayed” certificates to California in the meantime.
Reddit has it covered on my railroad.
https://www.reddit.com/r/newjersey/comments/68n9lb/in_japan_they_issue_delay_certificates_to_show_to/?rdt=46609
Sugoi!
“It has little to do with culture”
bullshit
The VRE gives out ride certificates when your train is delayed 30 minutes. I regularly collected enough to use them to take the family up to Washington or give to people without a pass.
Rat – NJTransit gives out slips to show your employer and that’s it. If they gave out rides they’d be even more broke than they are now.
I’m fortunate that I’m not punching a time clock and my boss also takes NJTransit…
There are fewer and fewer jobs available for US workers
I hear ICE is hiring.
Normal
A new Redfin analysis suggests housing costs could return to “normal” by 2030 if price growth stabilizes, incomes continue to rise and mortgage rates dip to 5.5 percent.
“The path back to normal housing costs doesn’t require a crash in home prices — stability may be enough,” Redfin Senior Economist Asad Khan said in the report.
To measure housing costs, the company looked at the share of income going to mortgage payments and used July 2018 as the baseline. Back then, mortgage rates hovered in the mid-4 percent range, and the typical mortgage payment-to-income ratio was 30 percent — a standard affordability benchmark.
Today, the monthly mortgage payment on a typical U.S. home consumes about 38 percent of the median household income. That’s down from 42 percent in fall 2023 but still well above prepandemic levels, the data shows.
Sure. Just plug in some numbers…
Define “Normal”.
I don’t see any return to “normal” as long as 90% of the population (of both Teams) is invested in the idea of making housing as expensive as possible.
I have decided that the target price for a middle of the road house should be approximately the median individual income for the area, with an HOA house having negative value.
This is wholly irrational and based off of emotional values pulled from thin air.
2040 tops I would say
“Captain Arvin had been planning the surprise for months. The idea began when Stock asked him to help plan her honeymoon. After the flights were booked, he quietly checked to see who would be piloting the return leg — and bid for it himself.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/travel/pilot-father-surprises-daughter-airport
Billy Binion
@billybinion
Call this what it is: entitlement. Some conservatives don’t want competition from hardworking immigrants who outwork & outperform them. And here I’d been told progressives are the ones against merit.
https://x.com/billybinion/status/1962920965148434759
i would think people do not worry about being outperformed so much as having wages undercut…
Billy Binion
@billybinion
A lot of people apparently don’t realize that even with today’s immigration, the vast, vast, VAST majority of US jobs go to citizens. Only a small share goes to those not fortunate enough to be born here. Being born in the US isn’t an accomplishment. It’s luck.
See I never really seen being born in a place as luck, because you are the product of those that made the place what it is and of the enviroment of the place, I could not be born elsewhere and be me… anyhoo
Recognize, though, that every job you ever took probably undercut the wages of some other red-blooded American applicant.
not always some companies have a fixed pay rate for a job and choose what they believe to be the best candidate, not the cheapest.
Some companies go above the rate they wanted initially for a really good candidate.
it depends
and if this is in regards to me personally, I never worked for an American company or had American work outsourced for me.
By numeric metrics at the Xerox helpdesk I was 7x as productive as the people who replaced me when the helpdesk was outsourced. I was only making $12.32/hr. Those Mumbai agents would have to make under $1.76/hr to undercut me. They certainly didn’t compete on KPIs or caller satisfaction or problem resolution.
Ahh, but you are assuming the goal is to solve customer issues. The goal is actually to discourage customer calls, and your curmudgeonly professionalism is not nearly as discouraging as talking to a friendly voice that speaks broken heavily accented English and has never so much as seen the product they are troubleshooting from a binder whose index they cannot read.