Good morning one and all! The sun is shining, the birds are chirping, and the bureaucrats are crying as the government is still shutdown!
Senate fails to pass House GOP government funding measure on seventh vote as shutdown hits ninth day
Trump expects Hamas to release hostages Monday or Tuesday
US to send roughly 200 troops to Israel to monitor Gaza peace deal
Grand jury indicts NY AG Letitia James on bank fraud charges in Virginia federal court
GAI’s Seamus Bruner Reveals Left-Wing Funders Such as Roy Singham Behind Antifa Riots
Top Antifa Figures Left the US After Terrorist Designation
Silver surpasses $50 an ounce for first time amid geopolitical, economic uncertainty
Republican Buys Dominion Voting Systems, Forces Them To Drop Lawsuits Against Conservatives
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Software Under Investigation Following Spate of Crashes
Florida grocery store chain allows open carry in stores
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Norway can eat my ass.
I think you want Germany slightly to the south there, CT. Norway’s more into old fish — so they’d probably be looking for more of the female persuasion.
I want them to give him the prize, and then have him tell them to shove it up their asses..
Trump hasn’t droned enough people to qualify.
For eating CT’s ass? This is turning into the oddest set of job requirements I’ve ever heard….
For eating CT’s ass? This is turning into the oddest set of job requirements I’ve ever heard….
Connecticut’s ass? I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy. I mean, have been to Connecticut?
Man, this place is the capital of and leading edge of the ass eating movement!
There’s a sale on Burro Round. So people are eating Ass Ass.
You are awfully critical about people eating CT’s ass, for someone who is always in CT
Do you really think people who eat lutefisk will be intimidated by your threat of ass?
HE SHOOTS! HE SCORES!
“US to send roughly 200 troops to Israel to monitor Gaza peace deal”
Is that necessary?
It might have been given no one can trust the “UN Peacekeepers” — the ones that aren’t rapists were caught working with Hamas already after all. Israel likely wouldn’t trust anyone else — and I can understand if OMB wants some sign of the US’s weight in keeping the deal.
That it strikes me as a good way to get some Midwest kid shot and escalate our involvement when Hamas inevitably secretly rearms and pulls another pile of shit… well, I’m probably just damned cynical or something….
Could be, or it might just make Hamas think twice, since killing SP4 Opie from Oshkosh is a good way to guarantee that B-52s will be along within 24 hours to make the rubble bounce.
Only if we get President Vance, I’d bet… they have enough sense (and need to give their Iranian backers time to rebuild anyway) to wait OMB out and hope for a more compliant White House. The “peacekeeping force” will almost certainly still be there… because when the fracking frack have we pulled ANY troops out of ANYWHERE since Operation Magic Fracking Carpet (it sure seems anyway)…
Hamas never thinks like we do. Allah will will them to victory.
Hamas never thinks like we do. Allah will will them to victory.
I’m certain Hamas thinks they have won a great victory with this peace deal. I’m not being sarcastic – they will take the opportunity to regroup and re-arm to continue the fight at a later date.
Yeah, this isn’t some petty squabble.
Wiping out the Jews is literally the goal and this silly deal isn’t going to change that.
Midwest?
Most of the guys I knew in the army were from the south.
Not at all.
Send 200 random federal employees on furlough.
“Grand jury indicts NY AG Letitia James on bank fraud charges in Virginia federal court”
Good.
But it’s just a witch hunt! She was minding her own business, doing the work of the people when Trump just targeted her for no reason!
When they abuse the law it is for a great cause – their democracy, a.k.a. their grip on power – and when you then charge them for real crimes, they suddenly cry uncle and claim it is retaliation and baseless…
True fucking evil.
Payback against her holy and righteous crusade!
To be fair, she was hired for the express purpose of taking down Trump. Promises made, promises attempted to keep!
unprecedented
I see headlines stating that Trump is prosecuting his political opponents, and I find it aggravating, for some reason.
Also, “Double Standards” is the name of my band’s new hit single, which is rocketing up the charts.
If the asshole politicians and their sycophants didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any.
I thought Double Standards was all about quality control for creating clones?
We’re not cloning any of the people involved in this – they don’t meet any of our standards.
It’s aggravating because the light from that much projection is blinding.
I find it aggravating, too, and I think this is why. This is one of those stupid “rules for radicals”: use your opponent’s tendency to play by the rules against them. They’re only complaining about prosecuting political opponents because that concept is important to you and me.
I’m very much in favor of prosecuting criminals.
There are a lot of criminals who hold political office. Funnily enough that means a bunch of them will turn out to be “political opponants”. I don’t care. If the crime is real, prosecute.
Lock them all up.
With that lead in, I was expecting this for music… though I suppose you didn’t say the air smelled like warm root beer…
Morning Banjos! Morning all (from where it is cooler but I wouldn’t call 54 chilly yet… still pretty down here at the northern edge of the Piedmont….)
Well, I did have to turn the head on yesterday, it didn’t kick on until this morning. So the house has the smell that always makes me think of fall, burning dust in the heating ducts.
Can you explain this head turning on? Is it an Ohio thing?
At least it isn’t eating Connecticut’s ass….
*sigh*
Heat. I’ll blame adjusting to time zone changes, I’m sure that’s the case, not just a dumb typo (that I’ve been called out on, and it would be rude to edit at this point).
https://youtu.be/uZD8HKVKneI?si=ydB4c01kMv8-IdTm
Neph:
I’ve heard of cheap, but do you really only turn the head on when it gets too cold to shit and piss in the back yard? I guess I get why your fave team is the Browns.
Jimbo: only Navy people use the term ‘head’ for that. I’m sorry that your Navy time was spent in green, but it is what it is.
Pope Jimbo:
I shit you not, one of the Browns sponsors is Dude Wipes. The tagline they use for it is:
Dude Wipes love your Browns.
When life gives you a shitty team, make asswipe ads?
(((Jarflax:
But the Browns and Bengals have completed their first trade! Want to borrow my Flacco jersey? 🙂
To quote the first meme I saw about the trade, putting a 40 year old behind the Bengals O-line is elder abuse.
“Dominion Voting systems has been acquired by founder and chairman of Liberty Vote Scott Leiendecker, in a deal which included dropping lawsuits against conservatives.
Leiendecker, former GOP election reform advocate, has officially become the sole owner of Dominion after making the deal contingent on dropping several remaining lawsuits against prominent conservatives and One America News Network (OANN).”
So Democrats are now against electronic voting machines?
““Liberty Vote signals a new chapter for American elections — one where trust is rebuilt from the ground up,” Leiendecker stated in the press release. “Liberty Vote is committed to delivering election technology that prioritizes paper-based transparency, security, and simplicity so that voters can be assured that every ballot is filled-in accurately and fairly counted.””
release the source code
They should offer receipts as a feature on their next product version. The states wouldn’t have to implement that, but it would make it difficult to explain why they didn’t, particularly if their only cost is a few rolls of cash register tape, or whatever the internal printer uses.
Also, the threat of receipts would probably make more states revert to paper ballots.
Toino gets it.
If an atm can give a receipt, so can a voting machine.
Dominion sales to big blue cities dry up immediately.
Of course, there are lots more rural red counties out there than major metropolises, so…
You mean my silver Krugerrands are worth more than I paid for them?
(At the time I did not think there were real silver Krugerrands issued and thought they were replicas in silver of the gold coin. I did not wish to send money to the corrupt ANC government of South Africa)
They are worth the same amount you paid for them, minus whatever it takes to assay or verify them.
Incorrect. They are worth whatever I would get paid for them either by insurance if they are stolen, or in the resale transaction.
What I initially paid is immaterial since the quantity is too small to register on a capital gains tax.
I quit buying around $30 an ounce. I don’t have much but it’s all junk silver so at least it’s fractional of SHTF.
The only other precious metal I have is brass and lead.
… “And nothing of value was lost.”
Hey! Im value!
He asserted without evidence.
I provided you a weeks worth of timely updates and this is how you repay me?
I paid on April 15, thank you very much. :-p
Ok, so we crowdfund OBE and let the rest starve. I’m in.
Federal Government Shutdown – Day
Its my regular day off, there will be no news from the halls of bleak bureaucracy.
Though, we did recieve 72 hrs out of 80 hrs of pay.
Not really sure what kept them from really going over that 8 hours.
Sorry, buddy.
Worst case scenario is that was all the money they had. Best case scenario is that by cutting 8 hours from this pay period they can pay you next pay period for 72 hours.
Thanks. Mrs and myself are fine. Just need to offload the Vegas house and the teens are all prepared to move on.
Glad to hear that. Thanks for the update.
Spot silver briefly rose above $51 an ounce during Thursday’s trading session after breaking the $50 an ounce threshold earlier in the day. It has since dipped back below $49 a share where it opened on Thursday. The last time silver traded around these levels was January 1980.
Spot gold prices fell 2% on Thursday after they crossed the $4,000 on Wednesday for the first time.
Wow. I guess my silver buy was at the right time.
Ditto. I bought mine sub-$20
I think when I was in a silver-buying phase, all I acquired was at about $16/troy oz*
*I hate that metals are measured in a different scheme of weights and measures from most commodities. And no, that’s not an excuse to call for metric.
Troy x 1.09714
1) No shit.
2) Sounds like some RICO / domestic terrorism sponsorship indictments had better be coming. Get off your asses, DOJ. (But do it right and if at all possible don’t bring the cases in fucking DC or Portland/SF, okay? Because “slap on the wrist” will be the rule of the day if you do and you know it… and we know you know it… so it will only rile people up more if you continue the two tier “give them a pass for property destruction / assault / etc.”)
Antifa billionaires will not suffer the slightest setback, you can count on it.
Dominion Voting systems has been acquired by founder and chairman of Liberty Vote Scott Leiendecker, in a deal which included dropping lawsuits against conservatives.
Things have come full circle. I remember when Dominion bought Diebold Election Systems.
You really have to watch out for Dominion’s Founders…
Agreed, Dominion’s Founders are a shape shifting bunch.
Boo.
I hope they bought it to encourage democrats to pass laws banning these vote counting machines and going back to manual ballots, even thought that is one of the democrats most profitable avenues for election fortifications.
Here in NH we mark paper ballots. They can be counted by hand or by scanning machines. In either case, ballots are saved because any recounts or audits involve hand counting paper ballots.
I just read that as “Inflation continues to devalue the dollar, stealth taxing everyone for the fiscal irresponsibility of the FedGov…”
You can misread whatever you like.
Sure,the value of silver is really going up.
Sure, every commodity has a fixed absolute value that can’t fluctuate.
Bitcoin over $120k, gold over $4000, silver over $50. It’s just a big coincidence.
Well, Bitcoin is inexplicable, because it’s got even less value than fiat.
The question is whether there’s a demand spike, or a supply contraction and what caused that. If all you do is point at the spot price and go “the dollar is as worthless as the linen it’s printed on” that doesn’t explain the situation, since most dollars are as real as the same bits in a database that define the blockchain scams.
22lr has quadrupled in price.
Land has tripled.
What time frame? It’s ~.06 a round these days.
I’m sure there’s a time when it was $0.015/rd
Cubs dominate. Game 5 awaits. Took two hours off this morning, now and hour into the shift. Fantastic banter to start day w Crush. Bit of a plan for tomorrow, on that front.
Dems gotta be pro war and anti hostage release, cuz Trump bad, ya hear?
Quit tormenting the poor girl with banter and just grant her your essence already.
Eeeeew!
Honestly… working in software on large OS/storage systems… I can’t imagine having sufficient actual testing in all environments to trust self driving software… which is likely why I don’t trust it in the first place. Make all the stupid sensors and computers and “driving aides” optional (not regulated, not tied to f’ing insurance to force people) so folks who want to use them can.. but otherwise, the only supercomputer which can be built using materials found around the house still works better.
I dont understand removing one of the most advanced computational and situational awareness machines from operating a hurtling mass from the controls.
Because those are not at the wheel. The people at the wheel are paying attention to anything but the road.
That machine is liable to get distracted by squirrels.
I don’t let my dog drive.
I’ve seen head on crashes caused by idiots swerving to miss dogs and squirrels.
People are idiots.
As long as humans are also on the road, no automation will be safe. Humans are idiots.
^This^
I worked for a big German company that was heavily involved in self-driving cars. I remember being on a call when some of the German engineers were bitching about Americans not being able to zipper merge. Not because they didn’t understand the concept, but because we fucking didn’t care about the rules and no way were were letting anyone cut in front of us.
It wasn’t even about the self-driving part, the were just amazed at how aggressive Americans were when it came to merging. Cutting people off seemed to be a sport.
What? They’re the ones who want into My lane!
As I taught all the Altar Kids when they were learning to drive: If you let someone in ahead of you, it proves they have a bigger dick than you. You don’t want that do you?
The Germans lost their ability to survive as a people as two back to back wars within a generation took all the good genes out of their people.
Shocking how many non-computer people think all the automated stuff is fine, and it’s the computer people screaming, “No! No it isn’t!”
Of course, watching some of the younger IT people… I’m not sure they quite grasp how computers work.
But they sure know how to use ChatGPT to “figure stuff out”.
Spoiler: They aren’t figuring anything out and just dig themselves further into a hole.
You mean you don’t want your car to fly off the road just because the sun is shining on the asphalt in just the right way to cause the obstacle avoidance system to think there’s a moose in the road?
🤣
While I was playing with the local LLM last night I asked it for a ROM image to test address lines on a z80. It started to print out a hardcoded test of each individual address value the z80 could reference. I had to remind it that loops exist, even in assembly. I still know what it gave me was bullshit because the comment on the first line was “initialize the variables to 0” while the command set it to FFFFFFFF.
Or because a spare cosmic ray flipped a bit in a register (yes, that can actually happen).
Or because someone pushed an update over WiFi that hit a boundary condition, went into a regressive loop and crashed the sensor threads….
etc. etc. etc.
NASA level testing (and I mean ’70s style “3 computers and all 3 must agree or we fall back to a safe mode”, not “rush to the moon and kill 3 guys in a 100 percent oxygen atmo” or “Sure Challenger will be fine… shuttle launches always work out!” NASA) in all road conditions I might start to think has a chance — but you know they aren’t doing that level of validation for the integrated systems (and I’d bet not even exhaustive for subsystems) and they’re doing hot-patching over wifi… That’s just asking for bugs to creep in.. and there’s no room for bugs in this crap.
“the comment on the first line was “initialize the variables to 0” while the command set it to FFFFFFFF”
*hoots, scratches armpit, wanders off to find banana*
@RC – in computer speak, all Fs is putting filling the variables with 1s from end to end. It’s the exact opposite of what the comment said it was going to do.
This remains an all-time favorite on that subject:
https://xkcd.com/2030/
RC Dean:
Is “hoot” local slang for “flinging poo”?
This.
I will never set foot in a “driverless” vehicle and I don’t give a shit how many times I hear people claim it’s “safer”.
Take all the damned computerized driving aids out of the car NOW! The lane assist crap sees a tar seam or stray ray of sunshine as a lane marker and tries to swerve you into the car next to you. The collision avoidance crap sees a truck or a tree or a freaking dust devil directly in your forward path, fails to notice that the freaking road is curving and hits the brakes, in traffic. It also sees grass behind my car when I am backing onto my parking pad and chirps at me. In the very brief window I had them enabled they almost wrecked me twice. Fuck self driving.
Jarflax:
I was driving my sister-in-law’s car in Japan and we got caught up in a situation where we drove down a narrow lane that ended abruptly. The turn around was crammed with bushes so trying to turn around caused the collision sensors to continually squawk.
With a normal car, I could have eased into the bushes and turned around easily. With the “help” from the anti-collision feature, it took a 482-point turn to get out.
Check out the ISO 26262 standard for functional safety. It is a big PITA to implement with hardware and even more insane with software.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_26262
Jimbo, I am sure that was in no way stressful, and that at no point did you consider torching the car and walking home.
It occurs to me that antifa fleeing overseas will be very useful to promoting antifa from a domestic to a foreign terrorist organization, which is when the gloves really come off.
Yup.
I see the departed commies are playing the pantomime “victim” game. 🙄
The poor dears. I hope their billionaire donors can still find them.
*CIA takes notes* Us too
cavalier973, from the dedthread on Kirk and Israel, here’s Turning Point confirming the texts are real. They don’t show them but they talk about them. They also talk about Kirk’s actual positions on Israel, which are mixed. It seems to me that no one at Turning Point thinks Israel killed Kirk.
I just hope to God in Heaven that this doesn’t turn into this generation’s JFK… 60 years of stupid “counter-culture” movies insisting it was really Mossad ala Oliver Stone would be insufferable.
I just hope to God in Heaven that this doesn’t turn into this generation’s JFK… 60 years of stupid “counter-culture” movies insisting it was really Mossad alaOliver Stone would be insufferable.Fixed it for you.
Replace “would be” with “is.”
“President Trump lost out on this year’s Nobel Peace Prize despite brokering a historic cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas after more than two years of war.
But it wasn’t a snub, more just a case of bad timing: The five-member Norwegian Nobel Committee made its decision on Monday, two days before the peace deal was struck, to bestow the award on Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado…
A source close to Trump said winning the prestigious honor Friday would be a surprise and that next year’s prize is being eyed as a stronger possibility.
Critics, however, point to actions like June’s bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities, musings about taking Greenland from Denmark, and renaming the Defense Department the Department of War as reasons he should not have been considered for the coveted award.
Four US presidents have won the prize: Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, Woodrow Wilson in 1920, Jimmy Carter in 2002 and Barack Obama in 2009.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/10/us-news/why-trump-wasnt-awarded-nobel-peace-prize-for-israel-hamas-deal/
bad company
And that’s why I don’t really give a flying flip about him getting it or not. Obama’s win for just being “Black and Dreamy” (or however they justified it) made it clear the criteria were “Whatever shit we feel like”… so I don’t need to respect their opinion any more than any other set of Euro-snobs.
“Hitler: Man of the Year” comes to mind, as does the fact that Yasser Arafat won the peace prize.
To be fair, Time always said that the award was for the person who had the biggest influence on the news that year, not necessarily a positive one.
*tingly*
Yup. Glad he didn’t get it. You know he would never shut up about it.
He’d wear it like Flavor Flav wearing a clock.
And that would make it OK, Drotto.
DocOtto:
Genuine snort. It would be awesome. Bonus points if Vance dresses up as member of S1W.
Now I hope he gets it.
That would be so awesome if he wore it on a big chain. I am with Ron, he can have it if he does that.
Not warmongers at all.
Of the 4, maybe Carter wasn’t an unrepentant piece of shit?
Roosevelt won for the Treaty of Portsmouth, so arguably the one worthy winner of the prize.
Carter legalized home brewing. If only we had someone to legalize home distillation.
Carter was just as much a piece of shit as the others.
Legal moonshine sucks. Being illegal improves home distilling.
Legal moonshine sucks. Being illegal improves home distilling.
There is no such thing as legal moonshine. If you paid taxes on it, it ain’t ‘shine.
Having said that…. I do like Sugarlands Shine.
I forget the guy’s name but did see comment about that and I agree.
If Trump were to get it he should snub them then tell them to send it to Obama.
I dont know anything about Machado but she is probably just a different flavor of commie than Maduro.
Maybe let’s see if the deal sticks before giving him an award.
Goat skin leather in Hijab Lucy’s football instead of pig skin?
Good.
I’ve open carried at Publix here in Virginia many times with no issues.
“And a Wharton professor’s book is being lauded as, according to New York Magazine, “an economist’s take on heteropessimism,” as though more negativity about heterosexuality is what we need.
In her media rounds for “Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women’s Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours,” associate professor of business economics Corinne Low has ruffled some feathers.
“I’m not physically repulsed by men. I’m socially and politically repulsed,” she “joked” to New York Magazine, before revealing that her move to exclusively date women after divorcing her husband was an “evidence-based decision.”
Making it even more clinical, she recently told the Times of London how “Dating women was an efficient decision. I didn’t have time to filter through [men]. I needed to take another draw from the distribution, as economists say, as productively as possible.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/10/opinion/profs-book-reduces-love-to-a-math-equation-that-negates-men/
CWAC
I don’t think any men are missing her in the dating pool.
Uh…applying your bullshit economic theories to mating is just as fantasyland.
“heteropessimism”
Yeah, sure lady. Enjoy your rug munching, but leave the rest of us out of your delusions.
“I’m a lesbian but I need some kind of pseudointellectual justification for some reason.”
Maybe her kink is domestic violence.
She should have referred back to the study of dinosaurs and mentioned the Licalottapuss.
What’s the lesbian equivalent of Morning Glory Milking Farm?
Isla, She Wolf of the SS — Thrown Into the Pit of Roast Beef?
Making Medusa Moan
Um, ok.
You won’t be missed.
Also:
“I need men to be more scared. I need men to be like, ‘If I don’t learn how to show up as a worthy husband and partner, then I’m going to end up alone.’ ”
Being alone is massively preferable to being with a woman like you.
Let me guess, she never once mentions what women are supposed to bring on the other side of that equation.
Q:
I wonder if these gals realize that a lot of men would probably prefer the model where they just swoop in and fuck all the women and then leave to hang out in bachelor groups?
Evolution did a lot of work to create the model where male humans stick around to help raise their offspring. Now these gals are trying to reverse that. Of course, I think they believe that they can get rid of the men, but not the financial support.
@Jimbo:
“I don’t need men” usually means that they have a job (or enough welfare benefits) to get all the services traditionally provided by a male companion from government or by hiring them out. Obviously, they need men to work in every step of those processes. Unlike most of human history, women can get those services without a direct romantic relationship with a man. That doesn’t mean they “don’t need men”.
It’s like if a man adopted a baby birthed by a surrogate mother, bought breastmilk from other lactating women, hired a nanny to watch the kid when he’s out, and took care of his sexual needs via prostitutes, then proclaimed “I don’t need women for ANYTHING!”
“What Data Tells Us About Women’s Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours,”
Wow. Misogynist much? I dont see my wife as property and I dont try to ‘get the most’ out of her. She’s not cattle.
I guess that’s one way to advertise your book.
PS. DON’T CARE
Based on what I hear from my wife about her all female workplace, bitches be crazy. We dudes may have our issues, but let’s not pretend that women don’t, despite what a Wharton professor says.
For every “bad” thing that women attribute to men, there’s an exact analog in females as well. It just manifests differently for men and women.
41.
Biology has taken her out of the dating pool and the gene pool.
“Palisades Fire arson suspect is anti-Trump climate activist
He posted memes mocking Trump supporters, linked to a Harris-Biden fundraiser, and frequently shared headlines about climate change and veganism.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/palisades-fire-arson-suspect-is-anti-trump-climate-activist
CWAA
If Trump had never been born, this guy wouldn’t have been forced to take such drastic action. Therefore, it’s Trump’s fault.
Q.E.D.
I am shocked. 🙄
I wonder how much Soros and friends paid him for this.
CWAC
CWAA
Stigittle or whatever you write.
Make it make sense man!
“The Department of Justice has revealed in a recent court filing that it has “evidence” raising questions of “fraudulent billing practices” at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh….
Lisa Hsiao, acting director of the DOJ’s Enforcement and Affirmative Litigation Branch, alleged in the filing that the DOJ suspects doctors are using “incorrect diagnosis and/or billing code” to prescribe drugs “because they know that certain insurance plans may not cover off-label prescription of puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones for gender-related treatment.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/philadelphia-childrens-hospital-cheated-insurance-codes-to-give-trans-kids-puberty-blockers-doj
This insane political zealous doctors should lose their licenses.
The risks people are willing to take to continue on with something so misguided are a sight to behold. Goodbye good jobs and maybe goodbye freedom. I assume insurance fraud is still illegal?
It’s about the money. It is always the money.
It’s more than money. It’s ideology.
Yeah I tend to always say “follow the money” too but in rare instances it really does go beyond. Radical leftism is just as powerful an influence for a lot of people. The thrill of chaos and destruction is irresistible to a lot twisted fucks.
They should lose their heads, not licenses.
Re the Antifa funding article: The ultimate solution was always to follow the funding, a task so easy to do that the only reason for not doing it is that the powers that be wanted it to continue to flow. Seems like they, meaning both the funders as well as those who facilitated it by inaction or encouragement, could be charged with conspiracy considering the results of their handiwork.
This x 1000
Good morning!
Holy fuckballs, life is going to be busy for the next three weeks, mostly gun related.
Today: Pick up P220 @LGS, set up for tomorrow’s match
Tomorrow: Points-down match
Next Saturday: UPSA match
Next Sunday: Points-down match
Monday: fly to Vegas, drive to St. George, pick up ammo
Tuesday: Final setup for USPSA Nats
Wednesday: Shoot Nats
Thursday: Shoot Nats, Range Master review board*
Friday: RM paid shooters at Nats.
Saturday: See Friday.
Sunday: See Saturday, get results as to pass/defer on becoming certified as RM, pick up novelty gift from prize table.
Monday: see Zion
Tuesday: Drive to Vegas, fly to Albany, pick up Lily
*I received a location and time for the review board. In that email (bolding theirs):
But… did he mean that or is this some reverse psychology/4D Chess?
“We only accept bribes in cash, in old, non-sequential, unmarked bills”
I would imagine guns and ammo are a more appropriate bribe for that group.
Bring whisky and cigars, for yourself, during the exam. Afterwards, say, “See, they helped me pass!”
It’s probably a non-smoking venue.
I hadn’t considered the potential rarity of whisky in UT…. until now. But spirits to be consumed neat is a vital part of working a Nats.
Not Adahn:
There are horror stories of people driving to the GABF (Great American Beer Fest) with trunks full of rare beer, getting pulled over by the cops in Utah, who then proceeded to confiscate all of the beer, as it was not legal in the state.
The worst part was they probably did destroy it instead of consuming it.
There are horror stories of people driving to the GABF (Great American Beer Fest) with trunks full of rare beer, getting pulled over by the cops in Utah, who then proceeded to confiscate all of the beer, as it was not legal in the state.
When I stopped in Talon in Colorado on one of my FreedomFest road trips, there was a married couple from Utah picking up cases of wine and mead. I think they were buying 20 cases? Yeah, that sounds right.
They were picking up the cases because the winery can’t ship into Utah. Chatting with the folks working at Talon, they said folks from Utah coming in to pick up many cases at once is a normal thing.
I guess their Utah plates give them a stealth mode against Utah cops.
DEG:
Knowing the kind of people who go to the GABF, I’d also be willing to wager that most who got pulled over had bumpers covered in brewery stickers. That always seemed an idiotic idea to me.
“Why yes officer, I enjoy drinking at lots of locations, why would you pull me over for that?”
Locals can sit around and make a stink and give the cops a hassle. Out of state plates more often than not pay the fine and if not, won’t be harassing the chief over it.
So like the guy with all the pro-pot stickers coming out of Colorado…
I think I mentioned it before but we had a good lunch at The Painted Pony in St. George.
Silver Reef Brewing Craft & Kitchen was also good.
Was it painted Pink?
You did, and I plan on it.
I’ll make a point of stopping by when I’m up there in December.
Oh, and this place by the entrance to Zion:
https://www.bitandspur.com/
So good we went two days in a row.
(TBF, being massively hungry after hiking around Zion all day probably made it taste better)
Slum, that whole road has amazing places to eat.
I am liking that menu. Except for the +$5 for bandera style.
OBE – yeah, I think we stuck our heads in at Scout, which looked pretty good, but the GF options at Bit & Spur were part of the draw (wife has a legit allergy).
NA: the chili verde was fantastic, as I recall
One of the things I miss most about moving from Austin is the lack of readily available chili verde. And at a movie theater no less!
Definitely getting it.
The sweet potato tamales intrigue me.
My wife got that and loved it, as I recall.
(note to self – stop writing ‘as I recall’)
And don’t forget IFLA!
On it.
Fortunately, the most catastrophic sign happens after I get back home.
CNN’s spin on Lelita James is “everyone does it”
Last I checked, knowing the investment and well, being an honest human being, I did not lie on my mortgage applications.
Hard hitting journalism
To a certain degree they’re right but attorneys general and prosecutors should be held to a higher standard. There’s nothing worse than a person pocketing a healthy paycheck and being sanctimonious about putting people in prison while being guilty of doing the same damn things.
There are plenty of civilians that have been raked over the legal coals for doing this exact shit, so yes, when an AG does it, it is a travesty when excuses are made for them. Especially one that made up crimes. took such a giant shit on the system tat the NY governor had to go a TeeVee to pinky swear NY would never again abuse the law this badly to prevent a complete collapse of the real estate market in NYC, and did it all to destroy a democrat political opponent.
She said so herself.
So she’s a gigantic hypocrite. Gosh I am surprised.
I wonder how large her margin of victory will be at the next election.
“Everyone does it” didn’t seem to stop TMITE from wanting Trump’s hide nailed to the wall for supposedly over-valuing Mar-A-Lago. But it sure prompted Governor Whatsherface to let every other businessperson in NY state know they weren’t going to be treated the way Trump was.
Yep. I’m a fan of holding people to the standards that they advocate for others. If your team has spent years trying to bust Trump and his associates for the most inconsequential and victimless technicalities aided by “novel legal theories”, then good for the goose, good for the gander. Cry me a fucking river, Democraps.
NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW!!!
Glib baseball fan?
I wasn’t this bad when I used to watch the Altar Boys play sports, but I was close.
So bad it doesn’t exist
Uffda. It was still showing up in the page where I first saw it. After reloading it went away.
Too bad for you guys. I’m sure it would have been the best video you ever saw!
As good as one of Bro’s mythical firsts.
Ted’S:
That is just low down. No need to make such demeaning comments.
I was being Minnesoda nice.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Go cat go!
Spot silver briefly rose above $51 an ounce
In alternate news, the Lone Ranger was spotted in Deja Vu making it rain and screaming “Hi Ho!”
Oh yay — Never let a censorship opportunity go to waste… “For the children”, my ass… this is all about “can’t let adults talk about stuff we find icky!”
“Paxton is expanding the Securing Children Online Through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act investigation to include Discord after reports suggesting the alleged assassin used the platform, according to a press release. He cited other reports noting that the platform is addictive and exposes minors to sexual exploitation.”
Then ban mail and telephones.
And literally every other major social media platform and the minor ones too.
“Sydney Sweeney ‘plans to take her relationship with Scooter Braun to the next level'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15180573/Sydney-Sweeney-plans-relationship-Scooter-Braun-level-three-months-met.html
anal?
Why is this….oh, Daily Mail.
As much fun as it might be to date an extremely good looking and famous woman like Sydney, I know I would become bored/annoyed pretty quickly.
I can’t even imagine the hell of having to go to all these events. Especially when you have to care so much about what you are wearing (or risk being mocked by the Daily Mail for being a slob).
No Neflix and Chill for you. Have to get out there and work on your “brand”. Uffda.
It might be aggravating but I think I could deal with the $tre$$.
Jimbo, that’s why you hire a Valet, or whatever the modern term is for the person in that role. They make sure you’re dressed snazzy and show up on time, wince that is literally what they’re paid for.
Rich is cool. Beautiful is cool. Famous is an absolute no go zone, period, no matter how much I loved her. The idea of living in the celebrity fishbowl is on par with burning to death or being passed around in prison on my I will suck start a 12 gauge first list.
Maybe. I certainly share your distaste for self-promoting.
But on the other hand, Sidney seems to have some interesting hobbies outside “Being A Superstar”. That’s always a good sign, when it comes to people who would be nice to hang out with.
Show me a beautiful woman, and I will show you a man sick of her shit.
“Texas residents were left stunned when a world-renowned chef who once catered events for George W Bush was deported for crossing the border illegally in 1989.
Sergio Garcia – who had become a staple in Waco for his wildly popular Mexican food truck – was originally arrested in March over a two-decade old deportation order…
At first, Garcia thought it was just a mix-up as he had no criminal record – just a two-decade old deportation order for illegal re-entry that immigration agents never before attempted to enforce.
Within just 24 hours, though, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deported Garcia to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico – separating him from his four US-born adult children and his wife Sandra, who would later reunite with him in her hometown of Monterrey.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15177547/Chef-Sergio-Garcia-George-W-Bush-deported.html
This is bad and looks bad.
He was a foreign national who entered illegally. He had an active deportation order and was deported. I don’t see the problem. He was famous? So what?
” I don’t see the problem.”
You don’t, but others do.
CT:
I have been through the INS/ICE wringer because I had to after marrying Mrs. Holiness. I hated those fucking assholes. The legal immigration system is a total clusterfuck.
All that said, I have lost any fucks to give for the illegals. A couple of years ago, I would have agreed with you that this is a bad look. Now? I’m OK with sending him home.
He has had two decades to get his status sorted out?
My one gripe now is that I wish ICE would start bringing the hammer down on the employers of the illegals. Work both ends of the problem.
Don’t care.
Deport them all.
I have to go with Uncivil on this one.
If I did the same in any other country in the world a simple deportation would likely be the best case scenario.
Any other country wouldn’t have ignored it for 36 years.
Ya proper thing here and it would show good faith is boot him and others in the same boat (non violent criminal) and provide a proper expresslane to citizenship.
But still, out you go until you get it right.
No, no express lanes to citizenship. No reentry. Go home.
The problem here is not Trump. The problem is the party deliberately trying to flood our country with incompatible cultures but mostly CONGRESS who are hiding int he corner and hoping no one notices them so they dont have to fix a screwed up immigration system.
Speaking of which, dont the R’s have the house, Senate and presidency? I wonder if there are any big problems they could take care of while they….oh, who the fuck am I kidding.
Meh, I haven’t lost all my compassion just yet for our own shitty system but can see your viewpoint just as well.
Even were I not first and foremost an individualist, it seems to me that “improving the US” is a legitimate reason to let someone immigrate. Therefore if this guy makes really good tacos, he should be allowed to stay. As should all hot chicks.
This is consistent application of the law. Dude had 20 years to get his immigration status straight. You’re here illegally? Dite bon voyage, doesn’t matter if you’re MS13 or a famous cook.
Put me down for “don’t care”.
The Dems and Chamber of Commerce GOP flouting existing law for decades is not an excuse I will accept, either.
Deport his kids too.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15180105/Demi-Lovato-midriff-crop-pregnant-Cardi-B-National-PrEP-Day-Los-Angeles.html
Why does it look like everyone’s head is photoshopped on their body?
OFFS.
Have you seen the PrEP commercials?
Gay.
The bear scene in Philly is wild.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-15179767/Cam-Skattebo-Giants-rips-shirt-Amazon-Prime.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crw9OuoDMnY
What’s the difference between Friday Funbags and a lightbulb? You can unscrew a lightbulb.
https://archive.is/MLhZX
I keep telling y’all, we are still in the. monkey stage.
We have worldwide publications with millions of viewers devoted to ‘what other monkeys are doing with their crotches’.
Ow! My Balls!
In honor of John Prine’s birthday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXbEFTv9zr0
Lucy in a Hijab holding the football for American ‘peacekeepers.”
No.
Let Israel finish that place off and the residents can go back to Jordan, Syria and Egypt.
Jordan, Syria and Egypt already went down that road. If they go back to those places they will be shot on sight. That is why they are where they are.
It is telling that the neighbors – who understand the Palis the best – absolutely refuse to let any of them in.
A Jordanian acquaintance of mine told me, “I probably shouldn’t say this, but I’m glad Israel is doing what it’s doing.” He bears a grudge from the time the PLO tried to kill him and his family.
Sounds like a good deal for the neighborhood.
““Doing so would ‘clear the path for a one-party system where power serves the powerful and silences the people,” Black Voters Matter Fund co-founder LaTosha Brown said in a statement.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/08/supreme-court-ruling-could-let-gop-add-19-house-seats-and-clear-the-path-for-a-one-party-system/
Somehow, I think she would be OK if that one-party were Democrats.
Anyway, the government should entirely ignore race.
“They may say that I’m a dreamer…”
“Bari Weiss’s appointment as editor-in-chief of CBS News is being heralded by some as a watershed moment for LGBTQ+ media representation. She is the first openly gay person to lead the iconic network, and her visibility in such a prominent role, at least on paper, marks real progress.
But I’m not applauding.
As an openly gay working journalist who covers LGBTQ+ issues, I’m not encouraged by this promotion. I speak with sources on a daily basis including transgender student organizers, queer civil rights leaders and LGBTQ+ academics. A consistent message emerges from those conversations: representation alone isn’t enough….
What’s especially concerning is the frequency with which The Free Press has published or platformed content that undermines trans rights and dignity. Essays questioning the legitimacy of gender-affirming care. Coverage featuring arguments that describe trans identities as a social contagion. Columns implying that trans people, especially youth, are being manipulated or misled by progressive politics. These are not isolated incidents; they reflect an editorial stance that sees trans lives not as lived experiences, but as topics for debate.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/10/bari-weiss-at-cbs-news-isnt-a-win-for-queer-journalists/
OFFS!!
Rainbow Brigade is in the kicking and gnashing phase as their victim status is being dismantled.
I’m sure Rick Grenell can console Bari. He can explain to her that if you are the wrong kind of gay, you won’t ever get any accolades for being the “first gay” person to do something.
LGB < Q
Fascinating. I had a “much less than T” in there that I guess tripped some HTML.
Lemme try again:
LGB << TQ
Sucking up to Q in the hope he’ll send you another perfect ass?
So, she platforms people that disagree with your gibberish and lunacy? The usual leftist strategy: shutupshutupshutup.
Queer means radical leftist.
So of course a radical leftist isn’t happy and finds a platform to bitch about it on a radical leftist website.
an editorial stance that sees trans lives not as lived experiences, but as topics for debate.
EGADS! Anything but that!!
All that said, I have lost any fucks to give for the illegals. A couple of years ago, I would have agreed with you that this is a bad look. Now? I’m OK with sending him home.
That’s pretty much where I am.
“Address concerns and complaints to Joe Biden.”
Not just Biden. Immigration law has been completely ignored for decades by all sides.
Sorry, only doctrinaire militant queers and quiltbag agitators need apply.
“Your relationships with same-sex partners aren’t what’s important. What’s important is that you toe the doctrinaire Progressive line. Otherwise you’re just another Nazi.”
What lovely people Progs are. (Although we know the Nazis were all poofs – just look at those jackboots…)
No shit, Shirley?
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said Friday it was a mistake for New York Attorney General Letitia James’ (D-N.Y.) to pledge during her previous campaign to “go after” President Trump, after she was indicted on allegations of mortgage fraud on Thursday.
“Letitia James never should have made those comments. She never should have run on, I‘m going to go after him before she‘s seen the evidence, before she‘s had anything,” Kinzinger said during a Thursday appearance on CNN’s “AC360.”
“That was wrong. Not illegal. That was wrong,” he added.
You can’t expect her to keep her fatwa a secret. She was on a holy crusade against the great Satan.
FFS that is how she won.
Things just got interesting in Japan.
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/japans-komeito-party-withdraws-from-ruling-coalition-0315bdd6?st=nX5XFG&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The Komeito and LDP have split before, haven’t they?
I believe so.
The globalists never go quietly.
The president of Georgia’s Council of Superior Court Judges was arrested early Tuesday on charges he was intoxicated when he backed his car into a pickup truck in the parking lot of a Jacksonville strip club
https://x.com/bluestein/status/1976639605848871222
He looks drunk in that picture.
Nailed it
New York’s top prosecutor, who successfully brought a fraud case against Trump before his re-election, is charged with bank fraud and false statements to a financial institution.
“This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system. I am not fearful — I am fearless,” James said in a Thursday video statement posted to X.
“We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights,” she added.
She is a martyr to the cause.
Chasing after Trump is the single highest priority action conceivable in her defense of the people of New York.
Different definition of “successful” I guess.
She got a friendly Jury and a Biased Judge to issue an initial declaration of “Guilty of being Trump”, despite being legally invalid and falling apart on appeal.
Keep digging that hole.
Goddamn I would love to see her perp-walked in leg-chains.
The charges are baseless.
Our own worst enemy
For decades, the U.S. forged a global order grounded in stability, alliances, and open markets. We wrote the rules, and in doing so, we made ourselves indispensable. But that influence wasn’t guaranteed. It depended on trust and reliability. And now, piece by piece, that trust is being eroded — not by war or sabotage, but by our own elected leadership.
There has been no single event in recent history more strategically valuable to America’s adversaries than the election of a populist president. In electing a leader who questions alliances, mocks democratic norms, and fuels domestic hostility, we may have handed our rivals a blueprint for American decline.
Donald Trump’s approach to foreign policy has always been transactional. During his first presidency, he repeatedly threatened to pull the U.S. out of NATO unless allies met spending targets. He treated Article 5, the cornerstone of collective defense, as a point of leverage, not a solemn pledge. Those threats didn’t fade after 2020; they’ve returned in his second term, undermining the very alliance that deters authoritarian expansion.
We have to do it this way because this is how we do it.
Doing something different will bring the whole house of cards down around our ears.
Because funding worldwide globalist socialism for decades was our highest calling.
JFC these assholes are shameless.
‘Us’.
Under Trump, the U.S. abandoned the Paris Climate Accord, withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, cut funding to the United Nations and exited the World Health Organization at the height of a global pandemic. Although we can debate the effectiveness of these institutions, our participation was always about more than outcomes — it was about sending a signal that America valued the system it created and was willing to lead it.
We must return to performative multilateralism and empty posturing. Otherwise all those dependent regimes will collapse.
“Although we can debate the effectiveness of these institutions, our participation was always about more than outcomes — it was about sending a signal that America valued the system it created and was willing to lead it.”
Translation: We want to waste tax dollars and time.
The true threat to American power is internal. Populism may wear different faces, but its playbook is always the same: distrust the experts, mock the alliances, and declare the system rigged. It’s an aggressive cancer masquerading as patriotism.
We need a new Woodrow Wilson to lead us out of the wilderness, not some churlish moneygrubber.