Good morning one and all to another incredible day!
Trump golf club gunman found guilty after assassination attempt; tries to stab self in court
Jan. 6 subcommittee zeroes in on paid informants at the Capitol riot
Peter Strzok Loses Court Case Over His Firing From the FBI
Senator Ron Wyden’s Kids Drove Man To Suicide, Had To Be Maced By Own Mother, Lawsuit Alleges
North Carolina Legislature Passes Bill Spurred by Fatal Knife Attack on Ukrainian Refugee
Minnesota Democrat Lawmaker Sentenced for Burglary
Texas Gov. Abbott Signs Transgender Bathroom Bill into Law
California trying to keep oil and gas firms from leaving the state
Girl Shot in the Head in Minneapolis Church Attack Is Making ‘Miraculous’ Progress, Family Says
Pregnant Liberal Women Post Videos Downing Tylenol to Own Trump
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Have you tried deregulation and lowering taxes?
Are you insane?
How’s your sanity holding up?
And I need an update on the sheepies.
We had cayote attacks in July & August. Hunters came out and resolved that.
We have about 25 sheep, 4 donkeys now, (miniature sheep deterrent) and 3 mini cows who seem to have gained a lot of weight…..
Court cases still going, although criminal stuff may be resolved soon. Still alive.
Glad to hear you’re still alive. Hope the court stuff goes away in your favor. I know it’s been rough.
I assume the coyotes were released by the people you’re up in court against?
I thought they were people smugglers, but ICE got them.
oh no, they did not do that.
Don’t give them any more ideas. Our mailbox was taken out 2 weeks ago, single point of impact, looks like it happened from a vehicle leaving neighbors land (other bad actor)
Got a game camera for the mailbox?
Are you insane?
Squirrels!
No, I’m in New York.
Upstate only means less neurotic than NYC.
🙄
This is what I get for being too clever for my own good.
“I’m not in[sane], I’m in [New York]” => [New York] != [sane]
The rest of us got it. JI is just behind on his cofefe intake.
Don’t be ridiculous.
Obligatory.
Glad I wasn’t the only one hearing it, Sean.
😉
Sean:
I was expecting this.
They’d rather attempt to take full state control of the refineries being shut down. (read as Critical Drinker voice) How do they know more about supply petroleum products than the company? Don’t know.
How do they think they’ll be able to work with CARB to keep output up? Don’t know.
Just a stunt to try to keep gas prices down long enough to kick off Newsome’s attempt at a presidential run? It’ll be fine….
I give them about a week before they blow up an oil refinery with their own incompetence, particularly if they go full DEI with staffing.
Maybe they can get some useful tips from Maduro.
Cut California off from the rest of the energy grids and let them suffer the consequences of a lack of energy.
visual aid
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/such-lovely-place.html
Been enjoying your cartoons!
Thanks. This Bud’s for you:
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/sore-thumb.html
Of course he did — once he was aware that the being on the golf grounds was insufficient to keep him from facing the consequences, he acceded to the pen being mightier than the sward.
Morning all.
In other words, it was parr for the course?
The one time he would’ve been better off if he shanked it?
I mean I would GTFO if the media vultures were setting up a nest near me too.
Same. And most certainly if people might think I should have done more to dissuade an assassin or turn him in. Toss the furry suits, grow a beard — move to deep Montana (not a cabin to send screeds, mind you) and stay off the grid for a while. Might help clear the mind as well.
move to deep Montana (not a cabin to send screeds, mind you)
Uncle Ted haz a sad.
Montana? Move to California and they Mayor of SF will give you a parade and the key to the city.
Moving to Montana?
“Court challenges over the medical ethics effectively froze executions by lethal injection in the state, which relied on doctors supervising the administration of the lethal drugs.”
*lights RC Dean signal*
If the objective is to make sure they are dead – why would we need an MD? I mean, it’s easier to give too much of a dose and kill somebody than to thread the needle to keep them alive.
MAID, on the other hand, it totes A-OK.
My house doesn’t seem quite so expensive now.
Living in what would be a crappy house in most places but in an expensive town in NJ my property taxes alone are $1,200 a month.
Holy.
Freaking.
Shit.
I don’t understand why New Jersey isn’t aflame with rebellion, Sensei. That’s beyond insane.
😱
I only pay about $3k/YEAR and I’m not exactly in a low tax haven.
Meanwhile, in Ohio:
Ohio’s property tax reform bills multiply as abolishment gains support
Poor Robc….
Mine are about 3K also, but I have no sales tax.
I’m seeing a lot of commercials quoting Democrats running for office there promising (more) dramatic energy price rises and huge tax increases across the board.
I guess utopia doesn’t come cheap.
taxes alone are $1,200 a month.
2 months of that covers my tax bill, and there’s enough left over to go on vacation. 😳
About $8K/year. My house is valued above average for the area. I also have no income tax and no sales tax to go along with it.
What is that, a $650k house in NJ?
Why would anyone pay that?
Wat?
My school takes are double that, without including the county/town.
$1,200 huh, oh you pay that per month – that’s about my annual tax bill on the place in Virginia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT1mGoLDRbc
Ok, that’s a new one. It’s good to see creativity hasn’t been completely extinguished.
Does that mean he only is attracted to those with a peel?
I was hoping for a more pithy quip.
Only the right type of lemon stealing whores.
Guess all the juice had been squeezed out.
Maybe gay dudes really like the scent of Zest soap?
“You’re not fully gay until you’re zestfully gay!” ?
/backs slowly out of chat room
The whole thing sounds rather seedy.
Don’t kink shame the gays, Rhywun.
What the kids did was bad, not OJ bad, but still bad.
C’mon now Rhywun, you know you’re one of our favorite Zest Kittens!
Slurs like that leave a sour taste in my mouth
See my comment yesterday. Don’t lead in with “The UN funded and fostered an invasion of the US” without “And so we’re out. You have 72 hours to GTFO.”
“You are all prisoners of war. Negotiations for your return can happen once the invading armies have been driven out.”
At least he shot his mouth off on Ukraine. Maybe the UN can sell the NYC real estate to help Z “take back their Country in its original form and, who knows, maybe even go further than that!”
🙄🙄
I think it’s funny that they fucked up his teleprompter and had to pay the price of listening to him ramble in full-Donald mode for the better part of an hour instead of the scripted 15 minutes.
Absolutely.
(finds and dons aluminum beanie…) Maybe that’s what they were actually looking for in Pelosi’s files — the Chinese spies were just gravy! (Yeah, that’d be quite the long shot and she’d be stupid to still have a list… but would I put it past Mrs. “My daughter has a camera crew right here… how conveeeenient!”? Not really… but I’m mostly kidding on it actually being the case that that was what they were looking for…)
Just saw a Charlie Kirk vigil somewhere. Several thousand people showed up. One protester showed up with a bullhorn trying to villify Erika Kirk as a grifter using her husband’s notoriety. Just as I predicted.
Yes, the protester, despite having a bullhorn, was shouted down.
The tide has indeed changed.
I also saw a new religious grifter on TV. That was also predicted. The iron is hot. “Send just ten dollars and this godly man will bless you”
I did read that the Westboro Baptist Church (remember those cunts?) made an appearance to protest Kirk’s vigil.
Of course they did. Lovely people.
Free speech is a bitch.
I remember the left wing of this country acting like they were the second largest denomination in the country for a couple of years.
“I remember the left wing of this country acting like they were the second largest denomination in the country for a couple of years.”
Which is funny, as IIRC, Fred Phelps was constantly running for governor as a Democrat.
I just feel sorry for the kids on multiple levels now.
Obligatory, but hopefully they’ll rise above it.
It’ll be the thalidomide craze all over again!
Pregnant Women Begin Downing Tylenol In Hopes Sons Will Start Electric Car Companies And Become Billionaires
https://babylonbee.com/news/pregnant-women-begin-downing-tylenol-in-hopes-sons-will-start-electric-car-companies-and-become-billionaires
L’abeille — c’est bon!
I accidentally overdosed on Tylenol when I was a little kid. Having my stomach pumped was probably the least unpleasant part of the experience.
These women are reaching for the pinnacle of stupid and nuts.
It was Tylenol that killed GoodSheldon, leaving this monster in his place.
““I’m about to sign a law that says no men in women’s restrooms,” the governor said in a video shared on X.
“This is just common sense.””
Except you are putting trans men in woman’s restrooms. So now any man can go into the woman’s restroom and just claim they are trans.
That’s a nonsensical claim based on spurious logic Tater.
“Oh, I’m actually a woman pretending to be a man” doesn’t get the man into the woman’s room.
I hate that the bill even has to be considered. It’s a social problem, don’t force people to police it either way. If a freak with a beard goes in the women’s room, call a store bouncer.
Do stores have bouncers as a rule? I know some prone to being targets of shoplifting will have loss prevention officers, but a lot of places see how few people they can get away with having on site.
“That’s a nonsensical claim based on spurious logic Tater.”
No it isn’t. It already happened in Alaska.
““Oh, I’m actually a woman pretending to be a man” doesn’t get the man into the woman’s room.”
Of course it does. It’s the law.
“I hate that the bill even has to be considered. It’s a social problem, don’t force people to police it either way.”
They passed the law in response to zero incidents. It also doesn’t apply to stores:
“Senate Bill 8 (SB 8) applies to government-owned, -controlled, or -operated buildings such as schools.”
You’ve played fast and loose with terminology before so I’m going to be clear. It sounds like you’re saying that obvious biological man (XY) claiming to be a woman pretending to be a man (‘trans’ man) gets them through the door. And claim this has worked – please link the example.
I have an application to migrate at work, so I may be quiet for a while.
“You’ve played fast and loose with terminology before so I’m going to be clear.”
No I haven’t. It’s just that the terminology gets a bit confusing.
As far as I can tell, that was the Planet Fitness incident. It was a locker room not a bathroom. Some woman complained, and she lost her membership because she took a picture of him.
There was also a case (sorry, forgot where) of a trans man (XX) who was told to use the woman’s room and got assaulted for it.
Regardless, no one wants trans men (XX) who are often indistinguishable from XY using the ladies room, except the idiots passing these laws.
Regardless, no one wants trans men (XX) who are often indistinguishable from XY using the ladies room
Correct. The better law would be that all men and gender confused people use the men’s room if there is not an individual bathroom available. The women’s room is for people who both identify as women AND are women.
This.
Women can shut this down if they want to. The problem is the politics are so beyond fucked these days that they will be punished for doing so.
Women can shut this down if they want to.
Can they, though? Do you really want to confront a mentally ill 6’2” guy in a dress with a 5 o’clock shadow? What exactly are we expecting the women to do here?
Smack him with a purse? Take a gal pal along and fight back if necessary. Mace. Fingernails.
Stuff that worked before the country went stupid.
I would say they could scream for help, but apparently you can do that in Neiman Marcus and nobody will even notice.
The Nation tops Grauniad for insanely condensed derp. Seriously unhinged.
I’m not clicking on that garbage but I wonder how many future assassins are reading it.
It’s true. Here in Tucson, they’ve already got the ditch dug in the desert for all the executed trannies.
“Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner’s daughter calls for mask mandates at UN due to ‘ongoing pandemic’ ”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/24/us-news/ben-affleck-jennifer-garners-daughter-violet-advocates-for-mask-mandates-at-un-event-in-nyc/
Ben Affleck is Jennifer Garner’s daughter?
“No. Get help.”
Let the UN mandate masks for their employees.
So, you are saying she needs to be UN-masked?
UN employees already usually wear masks while they’re raping refugees…
She holds no power over me.
You’re the anti-Goblin King?
Violet told the world leaders that evidence shows SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted through the air
You’re telling me now for the first time.
Think of all the proper youth advocates, actually doing good in their communities and then this loser only elevated cause of her parents.
What a sad, broken young person.
“What are you afraid of?”
/Gavin
“It’s a tough place to recruit people,” he said. “It’s a tough place to move employees – a lot of our employees move up through the company, they gain experience in different geographies, different locations, and we have a lot of people who will not move to California. That makes it difficult.”
Geographically it’s diverse with many beautiful places. Depending on where you live the weather is temperate to very hot or very cold. There are many choices. I wonder why people won’t move there?
Bigotry.
It’s a mystery.
Oh, by the way, there is now a tax on mentioning … that state … it’s “royalties” on the geographic terminology.
That will be $2,500.
Quick someone copyright Tardlandia
I think Portland already holds that copyright.
“On Friday night, an investigation into the behavior of billionaire Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd — who began her career at Tinder before suing the dating app and its parent company in 2014 for sexual harassment — was published by the Daily Mail. The parties settled out of court.
Former Tinder colleagues said Wolfe Herd overstated her influence and role at the tech company, was violent toward her ex-boyfriend Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen and treated fellow female employees terribly. (She denied the allegations.)
And in the piece, she admitted to using the N-word and other slurs, but — forgive her, Lord — she blamed it on her colleagues, saying she was simply keeping up with the fellas in the male-centric tech company.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/23/opinion/now-whitney-wolfe-herd-has-been-exposed-will-meghan-call-her-out/
CWAC
Somehow, I do not believe her version of events.
I thought wolves traveled in packs, not herds.
lol
The “the male-centric tech company” is a figment of her imagination that hasn’t been accurate for two or three decades. And I’m pretty sure they weren’t even casually throwing around the word “nigger” either.
I mean, it’s possible it was an all black tech group, but I doubt it.
I suppose it could have been “nigga”.
Ninja, please
Still though, following the science means doing the opposite of what Trump says.
Follow the political science.
If ever there were an oxymoron…
Poli Sci:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWeHNo-sm2A
So, machinists, makers, modellers, and/or those in the know:
I want better grips for my Sig P220 Legion. The ones that come on the gun are ok-ish, but the primary failure of them is that by being flat on the sides there is a void in my palm where I’m not making contact and thus not getting, well, a grip.
My go-to makers do not make any for this gun. My searches online have proved less than optimal, as it seems like everyone* is just reselling grips made by Hogue or Netticks, aaaaand Hogue tells me that their P220 grips will not fit on the legion variant**
Anybody do this sort of work and/or know someone who does?
*except for Wicked Grips, but theirs are all about blinging, not gripping.
**Hogue says specifically that the Legion slide release is closer to the frame than the standard P220 American variant. I guess this means that I could in theory take a Dremel to some grips*** and have them fit, but considering a set starts at about $100, that’s a bit risky
***How finicky is G10 to work with? If I was going to go the Dremel route, that means I could go further and take down the edges**** to create a de facto palm swell. But I don’t know if G10 is one of those materials that shatters when given an excuse ’cause… $100 for the blanks.
**** Since it uses a single-stack magazine, the P220 is rather slim. But the edges could still be taken down and the resulting grip would be a bit thicker than a 1911.
I don’t have an answer for your questions, but I do have one for you – how many alternate Shadow 2 grips did you loan me? I want to make sure I haven’t misplaced any.
No more than three. The only ones I know for certain were the LOK “target veloces.” I may have also lent you a set of LOK G10 bogies and/or a set of aluminum Armanovs.
https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/p220-grip?srsltid=AfmBOophqlULfddKwsGqaEAGaVJIwnNo1yhHMQ_uufHDjHtP51gFXz9d
Looks like there are some others as well. Print these or another variant in cheap PLA and see if they fit. After that modify and keep printing in cheap PLA.
When you are happy print in either nylon or PETG plus carbon fiber. Perhaps you can cut lunch deal with UCS.
Thank you! This is exactly what I was talking about — a place to start. Just looking at those shows some aspects that will need to be changed, but having the proper inner dimensions/shape is vital.
There are people who make custom grips. Will cost more than $100.
You say that, but they’re hard to find* and/or they say that what they will make is limited to X, Y, Z.
A lot of these “custom grip manufacturers” are in fact just dudes with a laser who draw designs on smooth grip blanks made by those two companies mentioned above.
The cost of the finished product isn’t that worrisome since it’s a one-time thing. You can check the prices of the grips in my earlier post about gun grips. What I don’t want is spending a couple of cases of ammo to find out that an idea can’t be done (or rather that I don’t have the skill to pull it off).
*so maybe give me some contact information for these people you say exist?
There are off the shelf grips such as Pachymar, Mershon, etc.
There are also gunsmiths who will carve grips out of various woods, meerschaum, etc. I’m sure you seen revolvers and 1911’s with fancy custom grips. No idea why you doubt they exist.
I also wouldn’t be surprised at all if there are people who 3D print polymer grips now.
I would ask your FFL who in your area does that.
You don’t actually bother reading, do you?
Yes, there are piles of people who will make good looking grips for certain, very specific guns (like 1911s). I am looking for performance grips for a less-popular model of handgun. I am somewhat familiar with the major makers of performance grips. And one of those was in the business of making literally anything you wanted, and they’d charge you accordingly (my GlibLOK aluminum quote was for $450. I should have pulled the trigger then because) they’ve since ceased offering that because they’re now making OEM grips for various brands and don’t have the production space.
And yes, there are of-the-shelf grips…. for specific guns. Take for example your suggestion of Pachmayr:
https://www.lymanproducts.com/products/gun-accessories/handgun-accessories/pistol-grips/sig-sauer
Do you see P220 on that list?
And it turns out that even those nominally fitting:
https://grayguns.com/product/grayguns-sig-p220-hogue-g10-grips/
Don’t actually fit my gun because SIG is just like that.
Yes, it’s my fault for picking an unpopular model.
If it seems like I’m giving you shit, it’s only because you’re being staggeringly unhelpful and cloaking it in a Courtier’s Reply and worst of all not being funny while doing it.
WTF?
Me: I am having difficulty finding specific thing/service.
You: have you tried googling it?
Me: Um… yes. Anything actually helpful?
You: I can’t believe you don’t know about Google.
It’s a fair question whether Google delivered any helpful results.
Are you open to wood grips?
Potentially. I can add skateboard tape where necessary.
I should add: The pre-cut skateboard tape is already available. It won’t help with the “gap in the middle of the palm” problem.
The front strap checkering is good.
Wood should be noticeable thicker than the G10s.
Obviously Hogue makes some, also Altamont, and Marschall do P220 grips too. I don’t see any notes about Legion fitments on their sites.
I communicated w/Hogue which is how I got the message that their pattern only fits the non-Legion. And I did look at the Altamonts. This might be related to your comment about how they’d need to be thicker (though really, they’re not wood, they’re wood-filled resin); the issue with those is they’re still flat with some radiusing at the front and back straps.
Of course, I could get some and try the earlier mentioned plan of thinning them away from the palm.
Re: G10 – you need to be very very careful working with it. The dust from machining it is a major inhalation hazard. It’s also remarkably hard on the tooling.
If you’re open to wood grips, you might contact Ken Nill: https://us.nill-shop.com/ I don’t know if he does Legion grips specifically, bu he does enough custom stuff that it might be worth a shot.
The other guy I’d talk to is Mag-Mo Grips on Reddit. He does 3D printed plastic grips impregnated with silicon carbide. I have his contact info around somewhere if that sounds like your thing.
Thanks! I will look for Mag-Mo on reddit. That sounds like one of the better options.
I figured that G10 would be particularly abrasive since the filler material is fiberglass. What sucks about LOK going OEM is that they make excellent wraparounds for other models.
There are actually a surprising number of “custom shops” local to me… but they’re all “dude with a laser working on other people’s blanks” Like such: https://hrvcustoms.com/
Got his email, request sent.
Good luck!
Howard Lutnick, Steel CEO
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/nippon-steel-u-s-government-howard-lutnick-dave-burritt-granite-city-57231f28?st=S6cfhZ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Funny how the point is that govt appointee doesn’t know wtf he is doing rather than, maybe govt shouldn’t have this power to begin with.
Weeeee!
https://x.com/dailymindvirus/status/1970828796895830102
Now we get to decend into a proper shithole.
meh.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/false-alarm.html
Unfortunately, I think we’re dancing across the line where retribution is inevitable.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/be-prepared.html
This will be blamed on the MAGA gang in 3,2,1…
Well Kimmell isn’t on until 11 tonight.
Doggone it! I forgot to see what our local Sinclair-owned ABC affiliate showed instead! Anyone else here live in the market of one of their ABC stations?
They said they were going to show local news programming.
If they had half a brain, they would air re-runs of The Man Show.
Yes, mine showed one of those “local interest” news shows that nobody watches.
Oy. There is a reason I moved to the Fort Worth side of DFW. Too many crazies in Dallas.
It’s been decades, but I remember just preferring the style of crazy that was in Ft. Worth, not that there was less of it.
If it was an anti-ICE nutter (which to my biased mind is the obvious assumption to start with), they’re an incompetent asshole as well since reports at the moment say the fatalities were all detainees, not ICE employees.
Good job fucking up there, asswipe.
And no, I can’t imagine this was a crazed “anti-immigrant right winger” — because the target would have been a Home Depot parking lot or other place where they were “getting away with it”, not detainees presumably being processed. Hence my assumption.
Here’s hoping everyone can calm the flip down and realize that no, this isn’t the end times / Nazi Germany redux / First Days of 1984 forced Handmaidenry / whatnot. Also needless to say, not holding my breath on that, especially after the continued rhetoric last week.
Almost like someone wants to tear apart our society, foster a revolution and disorder in the hopes that a totalitarian state would arise to impose civil order again….. almost…
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/champing-at-bit.html
My initial thought when I read that it was detainees that got shot was rival cartel/gang hit.
Possible, though in that case I would think the “self inflicted wound shooter” would be a patsy of some sort. If it was an actual gang hit, they would have just left instead, right?
SDF-7:
Unless it was someone who’s family was being held hostage as leverage. But that starts to get too far into TV/movie plot territory for me.
“President Trump said for the first time Tuesday that he believes Ukraine can fully repulse Russia’s three-and-a-half year old invasion, saying after meetings on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly that Kyiv has the ability to “win all of Ukraine back in its original form.”
“After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,” Trump wrote on Truth Social after sitting down with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/23/us-news/trump-claims-ukraine-can-win-back-all-territory-seized-by-russia/
doubt
close enough
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/cossacks.html
I’m also in the “Doubt” column and am assuming / hoping this is bluster for a better negotiating position (similar to sales folks talking up shit when they damned well know better).
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/dont-panic.html
I think this is pretty clearly a direct reaction to Putin playing silly brinksmanship games in Poland and Estonia. It makes sense to toughen your position when someone starts pushing their bluff.
Go home, Donald – you’re drunk.
Though to be fair, it is pretty obvious that he supports the EU going down that rathole and weakening themselves.
Just keep us the fuck out of it, please.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/experience.html
“Disney boss Bob Iger reinstated Jimmy Kimmel after the controversy started to affect he and wife’s social life and standing, according to a new report.
Iger, 74, is said to have been alarmed by Hollywood’s reaction to the Kimmel suspension last week, and how it affected his wife Willow Bay, the dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
According to Puck, Iger was particularly concerned after the host committee of a fundraiser planned at the Iger home in Los Angeles considered pulling out of the event over the controversy.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15129171/Disney-boss-Bob-Iger-Jimmy-Kimmel-cancelation.html
Cocktail parties
This would actually justify a shareholder lawsuit, unlike Musk being paid a bunch.
“A sniper killed at least one migrant and wounded up to four in a shooting at a Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, then shot himself dead, police say.
The bloodbath unfolded at the facility in the Texas city shortly after 7am CT Wednesday morning.
The exact number of those killed and wounded is not yet clear, with WFAA reporting that two of the detainees were killed.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15129363/Dallas-ICE-sniper-three-wounded.html
yikes!
Updates appear to indicate that those hit were all detainees, with current count of two dead and one wounded not counting the shooter who reportedly also removed themself.
I am at a loss for a reason either side would have for shooting the detainees, unless the shooter wanted to hit the agents but had terrible aim.
Or the shooter was just crazy.
“Or the shooter was just crazy.”
That’s a given.
Or the shooter was stupid.
In Iraq the Madi militia shot at our armored truck cabs and not the unprotected engines.
Looks like Jimmy tried to straddle the line last night, offering a “sorry you were offended” non-apology and thanking people on the right for standing up for him. Just like the rest of his show, the whole thing was just “meh”. Except for a few lefty pundits calling it brilliant, nobody was really wowed by it.
I think those of you saying his numbers would go right back in a few days, were right.
Well that discounts the 22% of households that can’t watch him. It will be interesting to see if that changes.
After Colbert made a big deal about his writers not being able to make a living, I wonder what Kimmel’s viewer/staffer ratio is and how it compared to late night shows across history.
I couldn’t see it because Donald told the company that owns my ABC affiliate to take it down.
I never watched a full American late night show episode. I think I saw clips here and there.
“TOKYO—Monkey D. Luffy is a rubber-bodied pirate who battles tyrannical governments as he and his motley crew sail across the ocean. In recent months, young protesters in Asia, Europe and the U.S. have taken up his pirate flag as a protest symbol.”
I watch anime, but I draw the line at “One Piece”. Although it makes sense a bunch of Gen Z grew up watching it.
https://www.wsj.com/world/gen-zs-new-symbol-of-resistance-a-cartoon-jolly-roger-851e8587?st=xwvR59&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I started watching it, it seemed exactly like DBZ. So I stopped.
So about 5 minutes of plot per week of 20 minute episodes?
AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
*punch**punch**punch**punch**punch**punch**punch**punch**punch*
You’re Strong, but not strong enough.
Now for my more powerful form!
AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Next Time on….
Neph – that the same as the standard shonen show regardless. 15 minute battle and 5 minutes of story. Part of my reason I’m not a fan of the genre.
OTH, “Dandadan” keeps my interest because the 15 minutes of animation and the battles pay homage to so many tropes.
UCS, remember when you asked for feedback on your writing? Meaning how to make it more profitable?
Hint: make it more like Dragonball Z
So about 5 minutes of plot per week of 20 minute episodes?
3 minutes of opening titles, 5 minutes of recap, 7 minutes of plot advancement, 5 minutes of running gags, 2.5 minutes of closing titles, 1.5 minutes of next time on…
This is the way of weekly anime! 24 min episodes not 20 🙂
Seven minutes for plot? Cut that down to three and add four minutes of fanservice.
Fanservice is plot! So is punching things, or in the case of One Piece using rubber arms to launch yourself as a combination sling shot and projectile.
Oh, so it’s an Onsen brawl arc?
Also, Fairy Tail is vastly superior to One Piece in terms of fan service.
“Also, Fairy Tail is vastly superior to One Piece in terms of fan service.”
What’s the ratio of panchira to action?
I’m tempted to say 1:1, but that is probably not accurate because there is also the boob jiggle and shirtless male posing to factor in, as well as the comic relief ugly dude characters.
I watched and was amused by the Netflix version.
Couldn’t watch the origional.
I started watching it recently. It’s not bad.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/laziness.html
I see the article mentions some genuine international resistance then lots of fake rEsIsTaNcE once the west latched on to it.
Nice job, ratfuckers.
I watched the live action Netflix show.
Wasn’t exactly great, but I have to say I was pleased with the positivity and lack of nihilism in the show.
American writers could use a dose of that.
In all seriousness, this is what got me hooked on anime. Yes, it is mostly formulaic, at its best melodramatic, and at it’s worst frustratingly slow at plot advancement, but it, at least sometimes, allows actually heroic behavior, or genuine virtue to be shown, without mocking it or punishing it. (nota bene, Deathnote is an exception to this)
Another pattern I appreciated is that often the characters would have to put in effort to get better.
Even the born OP characters tend to have to learn to use their powers. It’s almost as though Western entertainment has been captured by people with a miserable world view that they have to force into every aspect of their writing, and the Japanese are still just following human nature and archetypes.
I watched the nexflix live action version and it was not bad for an anime adaptation.
Yeah it was super weird but… I dunno… I kept watching and watched the whole season.
I enjoyed it.
A growing contingent of doctors and policymakers say they have grown wary of federal health guidance since longtime vaccine skeptic Kennedy became Health and Human Services Secretary—and they are forming a parallel public-health universe outside the U.S. government.
Before Kennedy it’s vaccine recommendations were beyond reproach. Just ask people suspended from YouTube.
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/public-health-kennedy-vaccine-guidance-a64cc122?st=V7uiTh&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
As I keep stating. Their “parallel universe” doesn’t have the benefit of FegGov protection. They are sooooo fucked when the first adverse-reaction cases hit the courtroom and a sympathetic child victim and poor single mother go against big-pharma and docs making $500k a year.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/old-joke.html
Everything was great before Kennedy came a long. We had the healthiest nation in history. No need to change the status quo.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/in-one-ear-and-out-other.html
Recommendations from people who suffer no consequences, ever, for being wrong. And let’s face it, most people want experts to tell them what to do.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/small-world.html
For the record, RFK is absolutely a dolt, though, and Tylenol doesn’t cause autism.
I’d love something like the Trump admin, but less stupid and embarrassing please.
For the record, Tylenol doesn’t cause autism.
How is that on the record?
I am stating it for the record and I am correct.
I am vaccine agnostic no idea in the end but I doubt all are bad, I doubt all are good/necessary. I refuse flu shots myself. And I do think there may be a number in a short time for a child that may not be a good idea and overwhelm the immune system. But what do I know.
The flu and covid shots are garbage. If health officials were honest about that, maybe there would be less skepticism.
And you know, not giving Hep B to babies.
This.
Cook with vaccines.
No real need for the youths to get covid and flu shots.
Hep B shot should only be taken that early if the mother is a wacko who refused to test for Heb B.
*cool with vaccines
He’s pretty annoying, but still wild Berenson nailed this…and then got banned:
I don’t think the vaccines (real ones, not covid) screw you up. It’s the adjuvants.
““People have to also realize that despicable comments — you have the right to say them, but you don’t have the right to employment,” Paul said. In the private marketplace of ideas, he argued, an employee can be summarily fired if the boss doesn’t like it. “The FCC should have nothing to do with it,” he said. “But I do think that, you know, a couple of the networks pulled out. Sinclair pulled. They were disgusted by the comment. That’s their right.”
Libertarians like Paul have consistently embraced the concept of private tyranny, where one’s employer is entitled to rule as a strongman, but this is not even that. The corporate disgust that Paul cited was only aired after the chairman of the FCC — the government agency that has the power to approve or deny corporate mergers — issued his ultimatum. After that, Nexstar Media Group, which owns a slew of local ABC affiliates, said it would no longer air “Jimmy Kimmel Live!””
https://www.salon.com/2025/09/24/rand-paul-and-ted-cruz-the-fccs-phony-right-wing-critics/
It’s the libertarians fault for not inventing time travel.
Kimmel’s offense, ostensibly, was wrongly attributing the assassination of Charlie Kirk to a member of Trump’s MAGA movement; police have not established a motive.
Shameless pivot to Kimmel was wrong only because we don’t know the motive.
I don’t really grasp how Kimmel’s statement was offensive. It was just impossibly stupid.
It’s tyranny if you fire employees for making your company look bad. All right thinking people know this.
It’s tyranny if you fire right thinking employees. Firing deplorables is enhanced freedom.
Righthinkers, by definition, cannot make the company look bad.
Shocking that this isn’t getting more widely reported, especially in light of all of the free speech defenders getting their win against Disney.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/relax.html
“Millions of Californians will soon start saving billions on their energy costs,” Newsom said in a press release. “We’re stabilizing the state’s gasoline supply to avert severe price spikes at the pump and we’re making it easier to build the abundant clean energy we need to keep bills lower.”
Bullshit. Without refineries that crude isn’t going to help.
They’re on the verge of a utopia this time.
CA is in talks with Valero to keep their refinery open.
She Did NOT Expect That!
https://youtube.com/shorts/xFvni_Qe59c?si=B9lw9KbXU4CfkZsy
See Q glorifies FLBP but women struggle with back pain and end up visiting hacks like chiropractors
Quackerpractor.
And that’s how you get a stroke.
Tictoc Tylenol challenge: spontaneous abortion from Tylenol poisoning.
I prefer ibuprofen myself to paracetamol, I believe that mixed with alcohol it is easier on the old liver. And usually if I take pain pills is for hangover headaches, which sadly come easier as I age. 15 years ago I would need no pills.
I’m an aspirin man myself, but not exactly a hardcore consumer. Once every three years maybe I’ll drink too much…..
1980: Life on a North Sea Oil Rig | The Black and the Gold | World of Work | BBC Archive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hc7VURsEQ4
Wylfċen
@wylfcen
Hokkaido, the northernmost part of Japan, has a village called Sweden Hills that’s modeled after Sweden. People there live in red houses with white corners, take Swedish language classes, and celebrate Midsommar.
https://x.com/wylfcen/status/1970415692081176859
If it’s anything like the Midsommar movie, I’ll visit (with an escape plan)
Can they pronounce “hills”?
Man kills self after being fired for theft.
Also, Ron Wyden (D-NY), new York’s third senator
Wyden is vile.
Quackerpractor.
I am reminded of Mencken’s dissertation on chiropractors.
Revolutionary Communist Party
@revcommunists
Next month ballots open for the general secretary election in Unison, Britain’s largest union. Scandalously, the so-called ‘Communist’ Party of Britain is supporting right-wing incumbent & arch-bureaucrat @cmcanea
against left candidate Andrea Egan!
https://x.com/revcommunists/status/1970451707860545848
Communist Party of Britain are a bunch of posers. I KNEW IT!!
close enough
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/soviet-flying-toasters-socialist.html
Do you have a blog?
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/overkill.html
“‘This is me shouting into the wind for change,’ said Tim, who lives in Navajo Nation, where a third of residents have no running water. ‘But it falls on closed ears’”
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/sep/24/navajo-nation-utah-elliot-rosss-best-photograph
I like the traditional Laker’s jersey and wallet chain.
Rez uniform.
Barn find of the day, long roof edition:
https://barnfinds.com/bf-auction-1963-dodge-dart-170-suburban-wagon/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_source=Newsletter+(Daily)&utm_medium=email&utm_sub=848715f32cb47bcba49313580211d258
+1 leaning tower of power
what a pointless vehicle. scrap it.
I usually have nothing nice to say about Ron Wyden, lives in NY, ‘represents’ OR but I think his son is the only normal one in the family.
Well, Wyden’s not room temp IQ Merkley.
What happened to “If it saves one child”?
A study released in August by Harvard University found that women who said they took acetaminophen while pregnant seemed more likely to have a child diagnosed with autism. Ann Bauer, an epidemiologist who worked on that study, told NPR she worried it was too soon for the federal government to offer guidance and that the research community needed to see more evidence.
More evidence means more and bigger grants. Everybody wins.
The vast majority of participants stuck to their beliefs on controversial topics, even after realizing that more people disagreed with them than they had thought.
People often hold onto their beliefs on controversial issues–like abortion or vaccination–even when they know that many others disagree. Why do people have this tendency to persist in their views despite widespread disagreement?
https://x.com/DegenRolf/status/1970521568335012226
what a silly question. My opinions are not based on majority approval.
Just because they are wrong does not mean I should give up my views to appease the herd.
I too took that less traveled road, and it has made all the difference.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/technically-correct.html
But if you want the herd’s money, you must give them something they want.
That only applies to the product being sold, not your own views.
But if you’re a writer, your product is your view.
No, it’s not.
My product is entertainment.
If you want to see someone trying to sell their view as ‘entertainment’ look to the hollywood flops of late.
If their stuff flops because it sucks, then maybe your stuff flops because…
They couldn’t afford to make flops if they didn’t make good entertainment in the recent past.
Jim Davis started out drawing bug cartoons. They were a modest success, but he wanted more. He asked an editor for advice. The editor told him “don’t draw bugs, nobody likes them; draw cats and dogs like everybody else”. And so he did and has been laughing all the way to the bank ever since.
A suggestion – try to turn your novels into comic books or something like it. Bing’s AI image generator works well for me.
Hell, I’ll help you with the illustrations if you want.
That Dart wagon is so ugly it’s cute. Needs a Hemi with a blower.
How “hopeful” is it extracting money from unwilling taxpayers?
The National Endowment for the Humanities has given the Tikvah Fund the largest gift in NEH history.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/jewish-history-is-the-antidote-to-antisemitism-c423041d?st=AJ1zE9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Are there are no wealthy Jewsish donors that could possibly support this? Certainly none that I am aware on Wall St…
Humans are not only the only living beings that have the cognitive ability to contemplate and carry out suicide in order to escape mental pain, they have also evolved a set of emergency brakes to resist the temptation.
…
The prime motive is the imperative to escape unbearable psychological pain. A suite of psychological and cultural defenses evolved to mitigate the danger, protective machinery that we have inherited. When life becomes so protractedly painful that thoughts of suicide could to take hold, emergency defenses intervene to stop any such ideas from escalating into lethal actions. Manifestations may include optimism bias, spirituality, arts and sports, prosocial morality, self-serving self-deception, psychoanalytic defenses, diverse psychopathological symptoms, and even human consciousness.
https://x.com/DegenRolf/status/1969310743733440620
Cardi B says Offset wants her to cover his taxes, pay him millions, and hand over a property before he signs the divorce papers!!
https://x.com/mymixtapez/status/1970218728324202628
Equality!
I have watched a few people (Harry’s Garage, yesterday) recently agonizing and gnashing their teeth about the state of the automobile industry. They have finally allowed themselves to admit the role of regulation and the completely unrealistic expectations inherent in the big push “to zero”.
But they all say, “We have to do this.”
No we don’t. And the only way to avoid the total collapse of the industry is to stop ceding to the fundamental premise that there is even any practical means to achieve their fantasy. The bottom line: there is no conceivable path to zero, so drop the idiotic pretense. If you want to encourage marginal reductions and increased efficiencies, that’s another story.
But Harry and his “sustainable fuel” is letting its sponsorship cloud his anlysis as well.
The UK still seems all in on zero emissions. Hopefully the immigrants and protests burning down the place don’t negate the carbon savings.
A question I wanted to float to the commentariat today was “What impact (if any) do people think we’ll see in the next few years in the cars on the market from the EPA regulatory changes being pushed this year?”
Cars (i.e. Porsche 718) that were sunset being extended. Motors (i.e. Stellantis V8s) that were intended to be sunset continuing.
More hybrids – i.e. Honda Accord and Hyundai products. Toyota always had hybrids so less change, perhaps in more models.
“What impact (if any) do people think we’ll see in the next few years in the cars on the market from the EPA regulatory changes being pushed this year?”
Probably not much.
CAFE fines were zeroed out, but CAFE is still law. A future Congress can easily bring the fines back through the same process the current Congress used to end them. I suspect some car companies are taking that possibility into consideration when they plan.
The Gas Guzzler Tax is still in effect, though, with fewer and fewer passenger cars being sold new that tax probably doesn’t matter that much.
Automakers are pushing for changes to tailpipe emissions rules, and we’ll see how that shakes out.
I’m thinking along the lines of Sensei – some tinkering with product lines but nothing drastic.
Thank you. I needed a reality check. At times I let my optimism run away with me.
MAKE AUTOMOBILES DANGEROUS AGAIN!
This is fixing to be (to use the americanese vernacular) the last warm day of the year. @8C and sunny. From now on the highs will barely touch 20C. Best part of the year really. Autumn is best season.
Believe it or not, airplanes require specific and consistently formulated fuels which are currently only made from “fossil” fuels. We’re going to have to ban nonessential flying.
Bring back blimps!!!!
Bring them back?
Or do you mean rigid airships?
Make airships American again!
(Newest Goodyear “blimps” are made by zeppelin)
Step 1: Find a unicorn.
Step 2: Feed it a lot of beans.
Step 3:…
Step 4: profit!
Delicious Tacos
@Delicious_Tacos
Roman literature could’ve been written last week, Greek literature is from another planet
https://x.com/Delicious_Tacos/status/1970585944656060462
Daily Ray of
SunshineschadenfreudeWhere did you get that video of my kids?
“According to Reuters, JLR had been negotiating a policy through broker Lockton but had not finalized the deal. As a result, the company is believed to lack direct coverage for what has quickly become one of the most disruptive cyber events to hit the U.K. manufacturing sector.”
Whoops. I’m sure the D&O coverage is up to date however. Priorities. Priorities.
https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/cyber/jaguar-land-rover-failed-to-finish-cyber-insurance-purchase-550678.aspx
But Harry and his “sustainable fuel” is letting its sponsorship cloud his anlysis as well.
Yes. The peasants might balk at the absurd price of “sustainable” ersatz gasoline, but they need to look beyond their puny self interest.
And if the F1 teams say something is too expensive…
Balk? The peasants don’t seem to care. The Democrat woman comfortably leading the race to become NJ’s next governor says you aren’t a good person if you object to paying higher prices for green energy.
Net zero is the left’s version of original sin. You’re supposed to feel horribly guilty about your very existence and cede your life, and your wallet, to a higher authority.
A question I wanted to float to the commentariat today was “What impact (if any) do people think we’ll see in the next few years in the cars on the market from the EPA regulatory changes being pushed this year?”
Probably nothing major. President Newsom will reverse course on Day One, so nobody is going to make radical changes.
I’m not sure how much of an effect the slightly less ridiculous CAFE numbers will have, but the manufacturers are, I believe, not going to be fined for failing to hit the numbers.
As fewer and fewer young people are driving, cars are out of the price range for many younger drivers and old folks like me don’t need touchscreens I can see the car market consolidating like tobacco companies.
I could use a generic truck, low end, radio, heater, automatic and reliable.
The first new truck I ever bought was a Chevy S-10 that only had a “heater and a key”. No radio, no power anything, no AC.
It was dirt cheap, which was why I could afford it. Maybe $8K for it?
By the time I traded it in, I really wanted AC and power locks.
One of these days Jimbo will get one with wheels.
Welcome to libertarian America!
Lithium Americas soars 100% as Trump administration seeks equity stake in Canadian miner
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/24/lithium-americas-lac-equity-stake-trump-stock.html
Lithium Americas soars 100% as Trump administration seeks equity stake in Canadian miner
We’re rich! Free lunch for everybody!
And as part of Trump’s inner circle, I’ll have first dibs.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/yay-me.html
Best rundown I’ve ever seen of ghetto culture and its malign influence:
https://mrchrisarnell.com/p/an-inconvenient-black-truth?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fghetto%2520culture&utm_medium=reader2
I think it might be worse than he says because social media can now transmit ghetto culture to children who are geographically very far away from it.
Good, but long, read! Thanks.
Anyone else getting just a black screen with an “X” when trying to get on X?
Y?
Slow to load, but I get the expected post.
Works here.
Gee, I’ve been banned without even posting anything. 😕
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2025/09/if-it-aint-broke-dont-fix-it.html
Small World/Too Local Dept:
I’m pretty sure I know the judge in the Minnesoda lawmaker trial. He was a year older than me and we played D&D a few times in high school.
Better keep training Fourscore. Your competition is still hitting the gym.