Good morning one and all to another spectacular day! The birds are chirping, the sun is shining, and the government is still shut down!
Senate to Vote Again on Bill to End Shutdown as Standoff Continues
Highlights: President Trump Speaks to the Navy 250 Celebration
Rank-and-file DC officers accuse superiors of downgrading crimes to mask real levels
SCOTUS Agrees Trump Can Strip Temporary Protected Status Of Venezuelan Nationals In America
Supreme Court takes case on post-Election Day ballots to determine who can sue over elections
Virginia Dem AG Candidate Fantasized About Assassinating Republican, ‘Wished’ Death On His Kids
Judge Blocks Trump From Deploying Any National Guard Troops to Portland
Chicago police were told not to help ICE agents under siege
Americans Get More from Less Migration, Says Study by Pro-Migration Group
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
YAY!
Feel the same way every day I am above ground…
“Some days are diamonds , some days are…”
Morning, Banjos.
More Shutdown, MOAR!
Virginia Dem AG Candidate Fantasized About Assassinating Republican, ‘Wished’ Death On His Kids
When will that become an official party plank?
Yeah, TEAM RED should be tying every single TEAM BLUE candidate to this.
Of course, they don’t have the media behind them the way the Democrats did with Todd Akin.
Oh come on. It’s not like he claimed to be a witch or said women can’t get pregnant by rape.
When will that become an official party plank?
When they decided that every Republican that could win was Hitler.
I personally think when nothing really happened after this is when they realized they could get brazen about “Punch a Nazi (who is everyone we say is one)!”. The subsequent Summer of Love was a crescendo… but this was one of the opening chords.
When?
/looks in rearview mirror…
It’s not?
“When will that become an official party plank?”
Isn’t it already?
I’m not really expecting any changes — though I reserve the right to be surprised. Rand is presumably taking a stand against continuing budget-less PPP era funding (and I can understand and appreciate that). That hasn’t changed.
I don’t think the public really cares all that much outside of Poison Frog Twitter… so there’s not really any pressure on the Jackass Wing to cave. The Stupid Wing isn’t seeing pressure either, so they can keep up with the sombrero memes and fundraising. Win/win.
That’s just my impression, anyway… morning all. Morning, Banjos.
Who needed a study to say importing skilled workers helps the economy more than importing the poor?
The only relevant consideration is which party benefits.
The people who get paid to do such studies, would be my bet.
People who need a reminder that water is wet?
He’s a shoo-in for NoVA. Probably increased support with the base there.
He may lose NoVA votes by trying to distance himself from those remarks.
Perhaps he can woo them back with a firm stance in support of males hanging out in girls’ bathrooms.
May well be true — certainly the lefitst loon hold outsize power because they can get out the primary voters… and both sides have locked in their offices so much that only primaries matter… but honestly? If Johnson told me it was raining, I’d still have to look outside to check.
Yeah The Squad really runs the party. [eyes damn near roll out of head] That’s the fever dream of the left, to actually run the party, so of course every Republican sees it that way too.
I don’t think anyone “runs” that party at all. It’s just an amorphous blob of lefties, unfortunately a lot of them have fully bought into insane ideas.
Who is the base of the D’s currently?
So, yeah, the socialist wing is running it right now.
Obviously, you’re going to need to define “runs.”
My favorite definition is “who can disburse money from the accounts?”
The left side of the Democrats is the noisiest, no question about that. But as TOK puts it, that doesn’t mean they run it. The Democrats are just as factionalized internally as Republicans (many of whom can be just as stupid, just in different ways).
Whoever issued that order should be prosecuted.
They have investigated themselves and found no wrongdoing, sirrah!
I’m really happy nobody was killed. Not only because of the loss of life, but even more of the left would be rabidly cheering it on, and we’d see more of it.
If she was killed, she would be the new St. George Floyd. And shown to be just a better person than Charlie Kirk, because he’s a fascist racist.
I would have also accepted a return to Barbary Pirate doctrine off of Venezuela, Somalia and well, the Barbary Coast itself.
Go NAVY, It’s your birthday!
I’m waiting for the hysteria that accompanies the Marines celebrating their 250th year in November.
It will dwarf the vapors they all got when the Army had their parade.
To paraphrase RoaT above — I think this is now an official party plank for urban areas.
The Democrats should just list all of those things under the header This is fine.
Jeffries and his counterpart, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, fully embraced a federal government shutdown following pressure from their party’s base, who have been demanding a prolonged fight with congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump.
What the base was really saying.
If course, if/when it blows up in their collective faces, Hakeem and Chuck can at least go to the
nitwitsbase and say “we tried.”Chuck will never be able to neutralize the base with his acid tongue — but trying for this shutdown resistance does look to be a bit of a litmus test.
You’re just trying for a reaction there, aren’t you?
The septum ring cohort will still be pretty salty when they don’t get their way.
I heard that the dumpass Jeffries was hitting the gym during the shutdown.
He wants to be buffer.
He wants to be buffer.
That could end up byte-ing him in the ass.
If I thought Jackson had any chance of making a cogent point I might seek out her dissent, given it certainly seems obvious that one administrations “temporary grant” could be revoked by a subsequent one at will… but this is Jackson we’re talking about.. so I’m not going to bother. I’m sure most of the argument amounts to “The ratchet should only go one waaaaaay!”
It’s one of those emanations from a penumbra.
I’ll enact a little labor for you. From SCOTUSblog:
Instead, Jackson wrote, the court had used its “equitable power (but not [its] opinion-writing capacity) to allow this Administration to disrupt as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible.” She concluded that “[b]ecause, respectfully, I cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference with cases pending in the lower courts while lives hang in the balance, I dissent.”
She doesn’t care that a San Francisco district court judge was playing fuck-fuck games with SCOTUS (they’d smacked him down in May, so he up and straight defied them with a “neener neener” in September). She’s just worried about those poor illegal migrants who no longer have temporary protection.
Someone should tell her that “results-driven jurisprudence” is no longer in fashion.
Is incompetence an impeachable offense?
She uttered, stamping her feet and flouncing away.
Is incompetence an impeachable offense?
The Senate confirmed, so the incompetence was affirmed.
That’s another one of her sound legal arguments based in fact/legal precedent. This is what happened when we decided to let yelling win debates instead of facts.
“I cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference with cases pending in the lower courts while lives hang in the balance”
Cases are pending, IE in limbo, but you do not want a resolution? That is some pretzel logic.
But thanks to early mail-in voting (and the Fed taking over Virginia and going rabid), I suspect it isn’t going to matter much. But yeah — put this turkey in charge of justice and police oversight, Old Dominion. What could possibly go wrong?
Well, that shit is the fault of the republicans for not knowing their place…
“One area of scrutiny is a new offense category not currently included in D.C.’s violent crime tallies: endangerment with a firearm, which applies when a gun is fired but intent to harm is unclear. Officers say many shootings not resulting in injuries are being relabeled under that category.”
Put gun ranges in prison?
Also known as the Buford “Mad Dog” Tannen Dance Dance Revolution offense.
Anyone else getting a little more sympathy for Lincoln’s treatment of the Copperheads about now? Frankly, given the Portalnd PD’s positions and Chicago PD’s refusal to work with ICE to secure a crime scene… I’m leaning towards declaring these municipalities in open rebellion against FedGov — and if their state governments care to join them, that’s their call.
As I’ve said before though — this sort of thoughts are why it is likely quite good for the country that I have zero political power or influence. Especially on Monday mornings.
Can the state dissolve the city? Can the federal government kick out a state?
Either option works for me.
The stupid thing is that this BS has already been overturned in CA, and now we get another “last stand” idiot judge.
The ruling appeared to be along ideological lines, with Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting from the granting of stay.
Back in the 1930s, SCOTUS justices that were holding the line against FDR’s unconstitutional three-letter agencies were known as “The Four Horsemen.”
What will this crew be called? The Three Karens? The Jew and the Two-fers? Inquiring minds want to know.
The Unfuckables?
Ok… I guffawed at that one. Nicely played.
STEVE SMITH AGREE!
The Fates.
The Cauldron Keepers.
The Three Amigas?
An Affirmative of Karens?
Well, I certainly didn’t think they were flooding the labor pools of several industries to drive up wages and domestic household income… so “Duh” does seem the appropriate response here.
(-.-)
So I got the random music playing from my computer again. This time, instead of being 1:30am, I was sitting at it and could see what it was.
Fukkin YouTube decided to unpause a video to try to play an Ad.
I won’t be surprised when they bring back full screen pop-ups at random at this point.
And the Blink tag… because, fuck it… why not?
Quit the browser?
Why would I do that?
Because you don’t need it while you are asleep?
But I’m just going to pick up where I left off when I wake up.
I’m using all those windows and tabs.
Your browser doesn’t have a setting to pick up where you left off when you restart it?
But why? Then it would have to chug through reloading it all. Just leave it memory-resident and save the bandwidth.
So that pages don’t start doing things in the middle of the night? You know, the thing you were complaining about just a few posts ago?
how much bandwidth do you need when you are asleep?
All of it?
Morning?
I’m just going to bed. It’s been a long weekend.
Charlie Sheen is that you?
“Plane forced to land after wacko wearing ‘15 masks’ screams that gay people were giving him cancer ”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/05/us-news/plane-forced-to-land-after-wacko-wearing-15-masks-screams-that-gay-people-were-giving-him-cancer/
STIJLTH
Hilarious.
After the fact, sure, but considering how these fucking nutjobs get away with all sorts of shit, I worry this might happen at the back of the plane where the idiot decides to open the door mid flight, and I am sitting up front and end up dying cause all the pussies on the plane let em do it.
Some Ticklish Imps Just Like To Heckle?
(And replying to the actual article… I’d be having some “guidance discussions” with whoever let this whacko board at the gate, costing the airline time and fuel. 15 masks is more than a little bit of a giveaway.. [yeah yeah… maybe he put them on immediately after boarding… somehow I doubt it])
Kaposi’s sarcoma?
Prove they aren’t.
One more mask may have done it.
Five gets you ten that said whackjob is a nervous flier, and OD’d on his anti-anxiety meds and/or had a few stiff drinks on top of them. It happens.
I’m guessing he was slowly suffocating with so many masks and getting delusional.
I heard he was recirculating the farts the fat women in the seat in front of him kept ripping… And it caused drain bamage..
He was confused, it’s trans people that give you cancer, not the gays.
“Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani flashed a beaming smile in a cringeworthy photo with a top Ugandan official who pushed harsh anti-LGBT policies — that included life imprisonment for gay people….
The Mamdani campaign was left scrambling Sunday as photos of the meeting re-emerged, as a spokesperson claimed the democratic socialist candidate was “unaware” of Kadaga’s widely reported status as an anti-gay crusader.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/05/us-news/zohran-mamdani-flashes-beaming-smile-in-pic-with-uganda-bigwig-who-pushed-law-to-put-gay-people-in-jail-for-life/
Why are you gae?
“He’s a moderate, after all… the conservative position is stoning.”
The guy is world-historical levels of hypocrite on every issue – this one isn’t going to make any of his brain-dead fans reconsider voting commie.
Free shit!
It ain’t just the free shit, it is the glorious and righteous hatred they marinate themselves in too!
When you have “Gays for Palestine” or “Gays for Islam”, I am willing to entertain that the problem is with the people tat think either group makes some kind of sense, and not the monster that takes advantage of those useful idiots…
His core constituencies are AWFLs and leftist women. They support him because they want to fuck him. No destructive policy position or toxic association is going to change that.
Hey, ‘Mdani, keep it on the DL until after the election, OK?
Gotta keep the Kwers for Palestine voting for you!
French government quits just hours after being appointed, deepening political crisis
Macron should call new elections and resign.
If Macron called elections, the crazy, wild eyed commies would win and the guillotine would be rolled out for a second revolution.
France is progressing along the Tytler cycle.
Is that cycle what happens when you are defenestrated through the Overton window?
“If Macron called elections, the crazy, wild eyed commies would win and the guillotine would be rolled out for a second revolution.”
Worse, Le Penn could win, destroying the EU.
Even the French don’t usually surrender that fast.
France has an economy?
Also, what JI said.
Yes, France has an economy. It is almost dead from paracitical taxation, since somehow the Government has passed half the GDP. It will collapse soon. The French don’t want their benefits cut, but no one can afford to fund them, so it’s all going to tumble down.
tumble down
Shouldn’t that be tumbrel down?
“Sunday on MSNBC’s “Velshi,” director Rob Reiner said America had one year before “democracy completely leaves,” and we become a “full-on autocracy” under President Donald Trump.
Reiner said, “I mean, your whole first part of your show is about these ICE agents and national troops that are going into these cities to ‘curtail violence. This is just the beginning, and people have to understand our democracy is being taken away from us, and we only have about a year.””
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/10/05/reiner-democracy-is-being-taken-away-from-us-we-only-have-about-a-year/
Stifle, meathead.
He just needs to shut up and produce more movies like “Spirit of ‘76.”
“If we don’t win the next election, Democracy is over.”
Since we are a REPUBLIC…..
Rob should comfort himself with the knowledge that the Resistance, led by the patriots such as the leaders of Illinois and Chicago, is fighting hard to make sure that rampant crime flourishes in their lands.
From what I can see, it’s the lawless behavio(u)r in the Democrat run cities that’s the real issue. Why are the police not protecting the general public? You know, those little people you claim to care about you [Reinar] fat fuck?
Is the Britih spelling infecting your brain?
UCS:
I don’t want to be denied exit due to a speech code violation.
You did remember to set up the Nuke for remote activation, right?
It’s almost like those governors and mayors don’t give two shits about the many crime victims in their jurisdictions.
crime victims
I don’t see on the victim stack any place for them. Move along, we have no use for your kind.
He’s like the Jim Cramer of political predictions.
prediction maker? pundit?
Need moar cofefe
That seems to be the narrative du jour. It’s just not true, they know it, but they are using it to push people into more violence.
Let’s hold him to it. A year from now, if we still have elections and democracy isn’t “dead”, he drops off all media and TV and we never hear from him again.
Taking out the trash.
LOL!
“Forklift driver who won $1M in scratch-off lottery is hospitalized after nonstop partying”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/05/world-news/forklift-driver-who-won-1m-in-scratch-off-lottery-hospitalized-after-non-stop-partying/
LOL
These days, 1.3 million isn’t really enough to quit your job and start partying.
After taxes, it could buy me a modest house.
So much this…
depending on where you are, it could get you a hell of lot of house
Since it’s not enough to retire, it’s a modest house unless I bank it until retirement.
It’s the ‘start partying’ part that is telling. I will rephrase that: ‘throw the money to the wind’.
I know such people. Give them a million dollars a month and they will spend 2 million dollars a month. For them there is no amount of money that would be enough. They are literally bottomless pits.
This should be added to the evidence list of examples of why giving money to people struggling financially will not fix the problem ever. When you are prone to making bad decisions, all you will do when you get a pile of money, is make more expensive bad decisions…
Well, after taxes, it’s probably only ~$600,000. No longer a definitive life changing amount for me, as I wouldn’t feel comfortable retiring on that with the rest of my savings, at least not yet. I would likely quit the current job and switch into something else, like bartending.
Looking at the picture, he was a walking heart-attack before winning.
To his credit, he does grok a basic truth:
As I edge closer to retirement age, I think more about the importance of structure & what I’ll do day-to-day.
Yeah, $600k would certainly be welcome – I’d probably quit my job, peel off a hundred to live on for the next year, and get down to that Appalachian Trail thru-hike I’ve been planning since 2020.
Life-improving, but not life-changing. I’d need about five times that before I look at retiring.
As someone who retired due to unforeseen reasons, the structure is incredibly important.
First six months of retirement may have been the busiest of my life. I couldn’t figure out how I got anything done when I was working. It slowed down (during the winter) after that, and now I’ve got a pace that is pretty comfortable.
I retired relatively young (but not early). I had a lot of things to get done. Seems like every year now I find more things that I want to get done.
There are things I wish I could do but the body keeps saying “No”.
“As I edge closer to retirement age, I think more about the importance of structure & what I’ll do day-to-day.”
I could retire and keep my lifestyle any time, but I wouldn’t know what to do with the time. Golf is stupid, pickleball is dumber, and a senior citizen gigolo job, while attractive comes with too many risks..
Sounds like you need hobbies.
Alex, buy some property, a portable saw mill, hammer and nails, etc and you’ll never finish your projects.
You’ll need a tractor and trailer to haul the logs and lumber, you’ll also make a lot a friends and get free advice.
“Alex, buy some property, a portable saw mill, hammer and nails, etc and you’ll never finish your projects.
You’ll need a tractor and trailer to haul the logs and lumber, you’ll also make a lot a friends and get free advice.”
Even though I live pretty rural, I am in “The People’s Republic of Connecticut”, and doing that would make me an instant target for their evil shit. My employer has gotten a burr up their ass about people working fulltime remote, so my plans to move somewhere less hostile to freedom and finish my work days there until I was ready to pick up fishing as my new employment, are on pause.
I just am not ready to relax. My father retired at 80, and 3 years late died as he fell apart mentally as soon as he no longer had the challenge. I want to go in bed with 3 or 4 women after a night of partying…
Uffda.
Exactly what my retirement has been like. Way too many projects that I have felt obligated to finally start because I don’t have the excuse of a job anymore.
I did less fishing this summer than any other summer. I kept thinking I could go tomorrow. But then something else popped up.
Slowly starting to add that structure.
Government shutdowns get Mammary Monday hot and bothered.
https://archive.is/7UppD
“A judge has spoken out after her $1.5 million home exploded in a suspected arson attack in South Carolina.
Diane Goodstein, 69, sounded calm on Monday morning as she told the Daily Mail she ‘is alright’ following Saturday’s explosion at her Edisto Beach property, which led to her former state senator husband and two others being taken to hospital.
The judge was out walking on the beach when the suspected arson attack happened – just weeks after she had issued a decisive ruling against the Trump administration…
Several reports said the circuit court judge had received death threats over the past few weeks following her decision to prevent the state from handing over sensitive voter registration documents to the federal government.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15166343/Judge-south-carolina-mansion-exploded-diane-goodstein.html
Who knows?
She suspiciously left just before the arson?
Insurance fraud with added political points.
This.
She did it. As for hubby and co., it is not uncommon for the arsonist to be injured.
She wanted to kill her husband, cause divorce was gonna be expensive?
No fucking way she wasn’t in on it.
“He begs me to keep the faith in him. He swears that sex with clients and performances in X-rated moves means nothing to him because he plays a role and mentally switches off.”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/just-jane/my-man-wants-go-back-35946314
Uh, yeah sure.
I only ever read the headlines of the ‘I never thought it would happen to me…’ letters in the DM.
She should tell em that since it is all about the money, she is cool with it as long as it is all gay porn and dudes..
It *is* all gay porn and dudes. If he was strictly doing porn, that might be straight only, but if he’s escorting? He’s at least gay for the pay.
Women generally don’t pay for sex.
And when they do pay for sex, women typically pay other women.
If he was actually an escort, then yes he bangs dudes.
And lets be real; what kind of woman marries an ex-pornstar/escort?
I think we all know the answer to that question.
Just a reminder: ‘The Base’ is not voters. ‘The Base’ are the monied class that donate large chunks of money.
I would love to track down who is paying for Mamdani to win NYC. I am guessing people who like to invest in real estate.
“I would love to track down who is paying for Mamdani to win NYC”
Soros, Pritzker, Gates, and that guy in Singapore that is a CCP billionaire trying to destroy the US? USAID also used to pay for this shit before DOGE…
Exactly the list I was thinking.
USAID also used to pay for this shit before DOGE…
That Big, Beautiful Bill funded USAID at the same level as before. It was only a $40B recission which was what, like 10%? You might rightly wonder where that money is going now (in this FY).
“Turkish activist Ersin Çelik, who took part in the Freedom Flotilla, said: ‘They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15165763/Greta-Thunberg-deported-Israel-today-claims-given-little-food-water-subjected-harsh-treatment.html
doubt
So, A liar.
That is laugh out loud ridiculous, which is the point of course. Theodore Dalrymple nods knowingly.
I saw a whole of social media clips of these people making the claims. So they want me to believe that those pesky Israelis let them make the crap they did after the fact, but they couldn’t get one recording of them whooping that extra chromosome having Swedish bitch’s ass?
I thought her new hairdo precluded being dragged by the hair.
she had been sitting for long periods on hard surfaces.’
Little Miss Muppet was denied her tuffet?!
But they let her keep her phone and post to social media.
Yeah, I kinda picked up on that too.
If the Shin Bet had done ‘everything imaginable’ to poor Greta, she would have been sent home in multiple FedEx packages…
But only after they let OMWC have his way with her.
I don’t think that OMWC is in to uggos…
lol bullshit
Yeah, I think this tells me more about Ersin’s sexual fantasies than it does about what actually happened.
Much like the fans of The Handmaid’s Tale.
I beat their definition of “beat” is much different that that of, say, an ex-con.
They never shutdown the parts of the government i really want shutdown. My fucking property taxes are due next week. Morning Glibs.
Property Taxes are Local, not Federal.
What happens to people with defensive back names that don’t make it as defensive backs?
They become Defensive Bottoms?
“The CBS News owner Paramount will acquire the Free Press, a media startup founded by Bari Weiss, and has appointed her editor-in-chief of the storied US news network.
Weiss, 41, has no experience working in broadcast television, though she has carved out a reputation as a heterodox opinion writer and burgeoning media operator.”
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/06/bari-weiss-cbs-news-paramount-free-press
Oh, well. Almost everything at the Free Press was paywalled anyway.
“Known for her attacks on liberal institutions and “cancel culture”, Weiss founded the Free Press with her partner Nellie Bowles in 2021 after she left the New York Times as a columnist, claiming that she was heavily scrutinized for her conservative views and criticism of the left at the paper.”
If I remember, it was mostly over Israel.
Why would a moribund media institution want to associate with someone who figured out how to build a profitable, growing media business?
Of course the incompetent journalism school grads are offended!
Interesting tempest in the chess world.
Only FIDE, the game’s international governing body, requires that players have at least 40 classical games under their belts before the cycle is up. The problem is that Nakamura, who spends most of his time streaming to millions of followers and favors shorter formats in competition, keeps a light tournament schedule. As of June 1, he had played only 18 classical games this year.
That left him scrambling to rack up games anywhere he could—with little risk of letting his rating drop. Even he dubbed the exercise a “Mickey Mouse” tour.
https://www.wsj.com/sports/hikaru-nakamura-chess-1b43be0e?st=wnmv41&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I gotta ask my nephew his take on this. He loves tournament play, but also prefers speed chess and other short format games.
Some quick hits that were surprising to me being over here in London (I’ll likely put together an article on the flight back):
1) For all the “love” of the NHS, there’s a surprising amount of advertising for private healthcare/insurance all around
2) Home security systems here offer a “smoke screen” for in your house to confuse the intruder and drive them out. This seems terribly dangerous and destructive to me.
3) The locals really don’t grasp that Americans don’t really have a class system. There’s people who think there is one, but they’re a “right bunch of cunts”.
4) They can fuck right off by calling American beer water, sorry Brits, an American IPA is not 5.3%, they start at 6% and go up from there (I have yet to see any one order ice with their beer).
1) People still need treatment while waiting for the NHS to get around to them.
2) Wouldn’t that make it harder to shoot them? /deliberately ignoring the foreign laws
3) To be honest, I can’t really get my head around “knowing one’s place” or being satisfied with that.
4) No Comment.
Hope you had a great trip. You missed my wife’s game in Cleveland. She took an elbow to the nose, and came out with a cut, a concussion, …and a penalty. On second thought, both their teams lost so it was good neither you nor I witnessed it.
Sorry, this date was kind of set in stone by the NFL schedule. I didn’t see if you responded, but was it against the Burning River girls? I used to know some of them (though I’m not sure if they’d still be playing at 50+) from the local punk/ska scene.
Don’t be sorry! I didn’t even make the trip. The house they rented was too expensive for both of us to stay, but she and two teammates who also had injuries decided to drive home that night.
I got some clarification, the teams he played was Black-n-Bluegrass from Kentucky, but the venue was in Cincinnati. I can be a bit clueless at times.
TOK:
I was raised Catholic, the guilt persists. 🙂
And Cinci is on the other side of the state (about a 4 hour drive one way), that’s out OBE way. I hope she stopped at Jungle Jim’s.
“smoke screen”
The brits fucked up when they gave up their guns.
This.
If you tell them that while they are on the rack they will scream at you about the evils of self-defense.
It is a wonder to behold.
Hard to believe that is where the castle doctrine originated, isn’t it?
American beer was to beer what English cuisine was (is?) to food.
Was. That’s over 30 years out of date at this point, American brewers have rescued and resurrected several beer styles that had nearly (or completely) died out. Quite a few of the locals were surprised by how much the Cleveland and Minnesotan fans could drink. The stadium was out of all but one beer by halftime. They also sold through most of their food.
Yeah, but those kind of biases die slowly. We still joke about English food.
juris imprudent:
So far, the jokes on British food are still deserved. I stopped at a place that charged me nearly 45 quid for a chicken Caesar salad and a cocktail (that they weren’t sure how to make, even though it was on their menu, since they had no bartender on staff at the time).
I never had a bad meal in the UK.
I wager you have the same luck of the draw with random food places in the US as well, especially if they have turnover and retention problems with staff.
They do appear to be overcharging you.
“On Tuesday, a Christian legal group will urge the US supreme court to overturn a ban on anti-LGBTQ+ “conversion therapy” in a case that could erode protections for transgender and queer youth across the country.
Lawyers from Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which has opposed abortion and LGBTQ+ rights in high-profile litigation, are representing a woman challenging a 2019 Colorado law that prohibited conversion practices for youth under age 18. The ban applies to licensed clinicians who seek to change a patient’s sexual orientation or gender identity, tactics medical groups have discredited as harmful and ineffective.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/06/alliance-defending-freedom-supreme-court-conversion-therapy
It’s not conversion therapy. It’s not automatically conforming that a child is trans.
“confirming”
The bans are so overbroad and complete ideological nonsense that if the patient themselves goes to the doctor and says “I don’t want to be gay anymore, help me not be gay” the state has decreed that they may not.
Yeah, I think there’s a LOT of obfuscation going on here.
To wit:
Those two things have *nothing* in common.
The irony is many of those kids they are transitioning would have turned out gay or lesbian.
Until I have hard and fast definitions for all of the terms and phrases, with examples, that just reads like gibberish to me.
Nice editorial explaining exactly how China is playing Europe over “green energy”.
State-owned energy giant Sinopec announced its plans to reach peak emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2050. Tech conglomerate Tencent has pledged carbon neutrality and promised to rely completely on “green power” by 2030.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/eu-climate-rules-help-china-hurt-the-environment-d226ee47?st=C3mmsM&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
A Chinese green energy company? Holy shit, that really is grifters all the way down isn’t it.
and promised
To respect everyone in Europe in the morning?
Narrator: None of that is actually going to happen.
Tencent? What, Fiftycent needed some change?
Tencent is a vile CCP front company that has gobbled up huge chunks of the gaming sphere. They are evil.
“An advertising executive with Ashley Madison, a dating website for people who may be married and are seeking to have discreet relationships, said she was concerned by the rapid growth of sites promoting AI relationships. “AI dating is very new for us. How do we deal with competitors which allow you to build your own fantasy rather than having a real connection with a woman?” she asked, also requesting not to be named. “Some people opt out of having real connections because they want to build whatever they want in their head. In the end when you want to actually meet someone, no one’s going to fulfil that expectation.””
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/06/rise-of-ai-girlfriends-adult-dating-websites
The same Ashley Madison that creates fake profiles.
Yeah, I mean, there were pretty much no women on their site, so what’s she worried about?
“Meanwhile, generative AI, which has exploded in popularity, has been proven to regurgitate and amplify misogyny and racism. This becomes significantly more of a concern when you realise just how much online content will soon be created by this new tool.
Women are at risk of being dragged back to the dark ages by precisely the same technology that promises to catapult men into a shiny new future. This has all happened before. Very recently, in fact. Cast your mind back to the early days of social media. It started out the same way: a new idea harnessed by privileged white men, its origins in the patriarchal objectification of women.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/03/ai-sexism-violence-against-women-technology-new-era
OFFS!
It’s the Guardian. Everything is “misogyny and racism” is their schtick.
“Some people opt out of having real connections because they want to build whatever they want in their head.”
Yeah that’s the point. Online dating is a shit show, and we’ve all seen the stories of (lefty) women expecting men to meet all their precise specifications. And Ashley Madison is full of people who are making their lives more complicated. An AI bot that tells you exactly what you want to hear starts to sound good.
I think that article I wrote is holding up. Just add a pretty AI face to that bot.
I’m glad i found my wife and got married before the online dating thing really took off.
That’s no shit Lachowsky. Even without the online thing it is a huge relief not having to deal with the dating scene. Thirty….something….years into a happy marriage here. I wouldn’t trade a second of that for anything and will spend another thirty….something….years with her if I can.
50 years next spring.
We are 14 years as of september. Hopefully I can finish this house i have been building for us for over a year before Thanksgiving.
https://imgur.com/gallery/KPROKkY
Purdy.
20 on Wednesday for me and the wife.
Same as downtown?
(Congrats!)
“The same Ashley Madison that creates fake profiles.”
I spit some coffee out of my nose. I didnt know that Ashley Madison was still a thing.
Same. I honestly thought they didn’t survive that scandal.
So, the friend group of my 13 year old boy all play xbox online with each other. I noticed the other day that most of them have poached pictures of the other’s moms off social media and are using them as their profile pictures. Pretty funny honestly. Just Your Mom jokes updated for the digital age.
However, With AI advances, i can seeing this going to a dark place in a hurry.
Sometimes they get real jobs, sometimes they go into coaching, sometimes they become cautionary tales.
This article is about former NFL wideout Reche (Re-SHAY) Caldwell, who, after leaving pro football, found himself broke and bored. He started up a local gambling ring, then ordered MDMA through the mail to sell, with predictable results.
Having served his 27-month federal sentence, Caldwell was busted again by the feds for conspiracy to commit health care fraud.
But he wound up outside federal jurisdiction before sentencing in that case.
As Dave said, ” he’s Niggar rich”
Is there supposed to be a pun? Because that story is five years old.
Meant as a reply to Tater up yonder.
No idea how I fouled that up.
I’d blame Ga’Quincy ” Kool-Aid ” McKinstry.
“Roughly 19 women are killed with a firearm in domestic violence homicide-suicides each month, according to a new report released Thursday from Everytown for Gun Safety shared exclusively with The 19th.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/06/shooting-his-partner-then-himself-how-firearm-access-fuels-domestic-violence-tragedies_partner/
Totally unbiased reporting.
“One tool Everytown points to that can help prevent such crimes is an Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO), which confiscates firearms from someone deemed to be an immediate threat to themselves or others.”
No.
One thing that would help liberty is to hold Everytown’s head underwater.
Even if these random numbers pulled out of someone’s ass mattered how do you go “Women are being murdered – Lets Make it more difficult for them to defend themselves!”
You cant have my guns. Fuck off.
When are they just gonna go ahead and rename it Hairsalon?
You trust Amanda with scissors?
Lately, whenever I see something about air pollution mentioning ‘tonnes of carbon” (or [other pollutant] I find myself asking how many “tonnes” of atmosphere it is being introduced into.
It always sounds like a terrifying number, devoid of context.
One atom of C is a threat to the planet.
A quintillion atoms are a statistic?
Which one?
Dunno, Teds. Go ask Heisenberg.
ZOMG LOL
Annual EHS refresher. This year’s version of the “run, hide, fight” video starts with a brightly lit white-walled workplace, when a muscley shaved-head dude in all black wearing black sunglasses reaches into his black backpack and pulls out a black pistol-gripped SBS and starts offing people one-handed. I’ve paused it after his sixth shot without reloading. I’ll update at the end.
Before you know it he will be doing his best Keanu Reeves and you will see him running up walls and shooting 360 degrees with ease.
He was stymied by the locked office door!
You just said he had a shotgun. Even if he didn’t have the strength to one-hand the thing, that lock would be in for a bad time.
Look mister, are you a certified safety training multimedia fungineer?
Ok, the rest of it wasn’t that bad.
It had a new fourth segment though, wherein the viewer is informed that the first responders are NOT there to help you or any of the injured.
In addition to guns, carry medical gear.
Do you have a recommendation on the medical part?
Start out by getting your Red Cross BLS certification, and taking a Stop The Bleed course. That’ll give you a good grounding in what hardware you’ll need, as well as how to use it.
I personally carry a flatpacked SOFTT-W tourniquet, small Celox Rapid Ribbon, H&H Min Compression bandage (sadly now discontinued, I’m searching for a replacement), and a vented HyFin chest seal. All of this goes in a PHLster med wallet (also sadly discontinued. But I got mine, and that’s what counts.)
I’m happy for you, but that makes it a bit trickier for me.
Hah! Just for you, UnCiv, I found an equivalent product. You can even buy it pre-stocked with medical gear.
https://activitygroup.us/products/pocket-emergency-wallet-ifak-pew-kit
Thank you.
I half dropped my keyboard and the random keystrokes formed this weird smiley. I’m keeping it in.
=-]
UCS:
Duct tape, super glue, and tampons. And a ratchet tie down for tourniquets.
/kidding
They should just play the final minutes of Weng Weng offing 100p bad guys one at a time in For Your Height Only.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJFYIP5GLUk
What, does he think he is staring in The Terminator?
Can I retell the story of my brother and I at the zoo watching the baboons in their ‘natural habitat’ enclosure?
Did they throw dirt at you?
“Unlike the American Library Association, which defines a banned book as one that has been “completely removed from a library or school collection due to objections from a person or group,” PEN America’s definition is broader, with the terms “bans” and “challenges” denoting “any action taken against a book based on its content that leads to a previously accessible book” being restricted or removed. Using this measure, the new report counts 6,870 books that were banned in the 2024–25 school year, in 23 states and 87 public school districts. That’s actually down a couple thousand from the 2023–24 tally of 10,000 — but the report’s overview remains grim regardless:”
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/06/the-dumbing-down-of-america-one-banned-book-at-a-time/
That’s not what banned means.
Get rid of public education. It is not compatible with a free society.
My definition of a Banned book is one that cannot be printed, trade, bought, sold, or owned.
Fuck off, groomers.
*sigh*
“You spend months making your plans meticulously but they all go to hell the instant the first shot is fired.”
Dwight Eisenhower paraphrased.
I think Mike Tyson said the same thing.
Take that, President Cartoon Villain
“The rule of law has prevailed — and California’s National Guard will soon be heading home,” Newsom said in a statement Sunday. “This ruling is more than a legal victory, it’s a victory for American democracy itself. Donald Trump tried to turn our soldiers into instruments of his political will, and while our fight continues, tonight the rule of law said ‘hell no.’”
Immergut, a Trump appointee, also rejected the president’s claim that the military was needed to combat daily violence against federal immigration officials in Portland. As POLITICO’s Kyle Cheney and Josh Gerstein report, the judge found that Trump’s assessment was “untethered to facts” and failed to satisfy the legal basis to federalize Oregon’s guard troops.
Nobody is laying siege to her house. The whole “emergency” is a fiction.
Let’s see what SCOTUS has to say.
This.
“On paper, Greene has a lot going for her a Trump’s heir apparent, and she likely will get checkbooks flinging open. But there’s one big, glaring reason she’s delusional if she really thinks she can secure the Republican nomination.
Yes, it’s the obvious one: She’s a woman. MAGA will never accept a woman as their leader….
Well, it really is as simple as gender. White men get away with this stuff because they enjoy a presumption of intelligence and authority that isn’t extended to women. When Trump says crazy stuff, his apologists claim he’s joking, or they reframe it as a super-genius idea that was too advanced for those (read: everyone) with smaller brains. The possibility that the man is simply stupid doesn’t register — because he’s a man. In MAGA’s simplistic notions of race and gender, white men are smart by birth (unless they are Democrats). Even the mainstream press gets into it, all too often seeing strategic thinking from Trump when he’s just acting on primal impulse.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/06/marjorie-taylor-greenes-presidential-aspirations-are-delusional/
LOL
Magic the Gathering has a lower public profile than the memelord Vice President. Simple as that.
I keep forgetting she exists, and think of the card name when people initialize her.
That’s what you get for clicking on Salon.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aNTY9_5oapE
Really? I’m sure I’ve seen quite a bit saying Trump, Bush, Quayle, Romney, et all were morons (you know… stupid).
One of the biggest misconceptions in modern life – ‘If a person is intelligent in one domain, they must be intelligent in every domain.’
I see this misconception as nearly ubiquitous on the left, although the right certainly isn’t immune.
I see the left using this “this person is an expert in X” to peddle stupid and evil shit way out of that person’s expertise a lot. I do not think they think since you are an expert in one thing, you are an expert in all things. I think the left believes that normal people will fall for a lie quicker if they think it came from experts, and the fact that their experts have zero expertise in the subject or are experts is stupid woke shit, will be missed. In short, it is evil brainwashing cultist shit.
I read that and thought “That’s gotta be Amanduh.” Nailed it in one.
I realize that most lefties have the memory of a concussed goldfish, but it was only eight years prior to OMB that proto-MAGAs were all atwitter about Sarah Palin.
Now, Palin was, it turned out, not quite ready for prime time, in the Kari Lake / Casey Desantis mold, and MTG might be the same way.
But it won’t be simply because she’s a chick.
It’s like Margaret Thatcher never existed.
In Amanduh’s world, all women are unelectable leftists like Hillary and Kamala.
I mean, if they’re conservative, the can’t be women, it’s just Progic.
Every time I think the left can’t be more sexist and racist… Salon vomits up another piece to prove me wrong.
ALOL, 2nd ed.
A friend has been informed that his onboarding is on hold because the NY state fingerprint/BI check io on hold due to “the government shutdown.”
Which probably means my permission slip is on hold too. Oh well, wasn’t going to take the NewGun to Nats anyway.
I was under the impression that SCOTUS got rid of all of the permission slip business? Where did I get that idea?
Wishful thinking?
The dumbing down of America, one
banned bookSalon opinion piece at a timeJust trying to help.
He was stymied by the locked office door!
Are the office walls made of glass?
And- I thought office locks were verboten since the METOO war on hanky panky.
I’ve decided to set up one of my CZ Shadow 2s as a Limited Optics/PCSL 2-Gun pistol. A magwell and an extended left-side safety are on the way to the casa. We’ll see how it works…
You’ve already converted it to SAO?
As a dunk on all the open shooters last weekend, I ran my S2 with random ammo singletons that had been left behind at the First Responder steel shoot the weekend before. There were no stoppages.
I also am still officially a D shooter in L10 so it was high-larious looking at the final overall standings.
No, and I’m not going to. The single action trigger is plenty good already, and I want to be able to convert the gun back to Carry Optics legal without dicking with the internals.
Understood.
As someone who has played with the internals in question, the CZ75 action conversion* is easier than the Beretta/LTT TJIB.
But you’re right there’s really no reason to do it.
*I haven’t done the conversion, but have swapped the parts that the conversion involves.
I refuse to play with the trigger mechanism on CZs. It’s terribly intimidating. I let Cajun Gun Works handle that for me.
🤔
Now I have the mental image of Sheldon refusing to pull the trigger until some guy from Luisiana runs out to pull it for him.
“The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has argued that prosecutors drop charges against three Muslims accused of vandalizing a Texas church, arguing the act was political expression protected by the First Amendment…
Mustafaa Carroll, Executive Director of CAIR-Texas DFW. “Our state’s hate crime laws were meant to protect vulnerable communities, not shield foreign governments from critique. We can and should condemn the vandalism of a house of worship without criminalizing speech.”
Defense attorney Alison Grinter-Allen defended the defendants’ actions as a form of expression, saying that graffiti is “the language of folks who are unheard.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/cair-defends-muslims-who-graffitied-texas-church-says-it-was-protected-speech
CWABOA
Have those terrormongers not gotten the message? We know you’re the propaganada arm of the Muslim Brotherhood – shut up and piss off.
graffiti is a shooting offense.
This.
What are they going to argue when someone vandalizes a mosque?
I have noticing myself drifting further and further away from being tolerant the more I see assaults on western civilization. I need to keep an eye on that.
You know what they’re going to say. They are Islamic Supremacists. It’s a basic tenet of the ideology.
Wait until some Islamic nation nukes an American city and kills millions….
Can you imagine the unjustified response by those bigoted Americans?
I don’t wish violence on anyone but perhaps it’s time to kick some of these people’s asses or at least lock them up for a while because it’s getting old when this kind of stuff happens. We have allowed the belief that due to someone’s place on the oppression pyramid, they should do as they please without any consequences. You can feel however you feel about the Israeli-Gaza War but have some effing self-control and not vandalize a church.
That is the purpose of the oppressed/oppressor angle, a premise for a free pass on bad behavior.
It’s also a good way to degrade society and create strife. The Left thrives on division because that how they maintain control and curtail liberties. The idea of a society based on mutual trust, individualism, charity, and self-sufficiency is an anathema to them and a roadblock towards their utopian dreams.
The Utopian dreams are for the useful idiots. The people driving the left are about power and nothing else.
Ed, I dont remember you being around when I told my baboon story before so I will put it in a nutshell.
My brother and I are at the San Diego Zoo at 9 and 10 years old. We look at the baboon exhibit. The dominant male is keeping his eye on his harem that he has kind of corralled. The younger ones are playing King of the Mountain on a large rock. You know, that game whose only goal is to be on top. No one ever stays on top long because everyone else is trying to pull them down to be on the top themselves. It was a fun game when I was a kid. The game has no other goal and is never ending. The struggle cycles endlessly. They were playing the game exactly the way us kids did.
I remarked to my brother: “Look, those monkeys are behaving exactly like humans.”
OFFS LOL
Pro-terror commie ratfuckers have been “heard” rather loudly in recent years.
“Internal data reveals that the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) widely cited “heat map” for hate incidents consistently fails to categorize left-wing hate crimes, even when groups involved are openly far-left, while right-wing incidents are always labeled….
The authors admitted they are not counting acts of left-wing violence when calculating the number of left-wing violent incidents, a methodological flaw that dramatically underreports the true scale.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/adl-quietly-downplays-left-wing-hate-crimes-as-antisemitic-violence-soars
Right wing speech is violence.
Left wing violence is just speech.
Do you have a recommendation on the medical part?
Some entrepreneur should put together a “firearm safety” kit and sell them in gun shops (if they don’t already exist).
Army Medical Corps would be a good place to start, I reckon.
There are many companies that offer pre-made individual first-aid kits, or equivalent. I find most of them to be a little large for pocket carry.
TacMed Solutions, Rescue Essentials, and Dark Angel medical are all good places to shop. Don’t ever but medical stuff on Amazon, it’s all fake.
I got a bag of trauma goodies in my bug out bag, it should help if ever the need.
“Newsom’s Director of Communications Izzy Gardon appeared to blame Dhillon for a blaze that engulfed the beachfront home of a judge in South Carolina.
“A few weeks ago,” Gardon said, “one of Trump’s top DOJ officials publicly targeted this judge. Today, the judge’s home is on fire.”
…
Connecticut Democrat Senator Chris Murphy jumped aboard the blame train, sharing Gardon’s post.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/gavin-newsom-staffers-threaten-doj-civil-rights-attorney-harmeet-dhillon-report
At least they didn’t blame the Jews.
If (((they))) did it, wouldn’t investigators have found clues?
Like ashes in the oven?
Leftists are all lowlifes from top to bottom. Anytime I see nooses or things like this it screams ‘false flag’ to me. We have gone from blue haired college kids painting poop swastikas to federal judges engaging in arson.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Thanks Jimbo, for ruining a Curmudgeon’s Morning
No idea how cute babes and pussy would ruin your morning Fourscore
Rape and pillage of a venerable institution
Paramount said Monday that it has bought the commentary website The Free Press and installed its founder, Bari Weiss, as the editor-in-chief of CBS News, a newly created position.
The announcement, while anticipated, is a bold move for the venerable television news network initiated by new corporate leader David Ellison. Weiss’ experience is in print journalism, particularly in commentary.
“I am confident her entrepreneurial drive and editorial vision will invigorate CBS News,” Ellison said in a news release. “This move is part of Paramount’s bigger vision to modernize content and the way it connects — directly and passionately — to audiences around the world.”
Some at CBS News have been concerned that the news division is moving in a direction more friendly to President Donald Trump.
Oh, horror. They are bayonetting the wounded.
If they don’t like the new direction of CBS News, do what I’ve done whenever new management has taken over: accept it or move on to another job.
In government shutdown news, the gate to the parking lot at Muir Beach was closed and locked yesterday, because as we all know, asphalt parking lots stop functioning without constant federal money. On the other hand, the bathrooms, which do require regular cleaning, were still open, thankfully.
It took the Browns for the Vikes to not be totally screwed over by the refs.
Any other team and the Vikes would have lost be 2. Then have to endure Goodell and his NFL drones tell us “you fucked up, you trusted us”.
Happy Love Boat anniversary!
Rubber stamping the Imperial Presidency
Late last month, the court said it would hear a test case, but the handwriting may already be on the wall, at a court dominated by conservatives and keen on enhancing the powers of the presidency.
The outcome “will matter a lot for Congress when we’re digging up the rubble from this administration and trying to think about what kind of institutional arrangements are constitutional,” says Supreme Court advocate Deepak Gupta.
They’re going to rule themselves out of a job if they’re not careful.
Death, what is it good for?
https://www.freethink.com/opinion/immortality-is-dangerous
Not all the big controversies at the court this term are focused on the powers of the president. This week the court hears arguments in a case brought by a Colorado therapist who contends that the state violated her First Amendment right of free speech by barring so-called conversion therapy for minors, a practice that the country’s major medical associations have found to be dangerous. Later in the term, the court will hear arguments in a case involving transgender female students and school sports.
This is the sort of unbiased factual reporting only a publicly funded news organization can bring us.
A private news report might attempt to slyly insert some sort of insinuation about the legitimacy of the case.
Absolutely not a money grab by the trial bar nor a reason you’d never want to have a business in NYS. Just altruistic attorneys looking out for the best interest of their clients.
Long Island business owners slapped with $6 million lawsuit over law they didn’t know they were breaking
“the law is the law”
Says the grifting money launderer.
Utter scum,
200$, was it worth it?
The New York State Trial Lawyers Association opposed the change. The organization declined comment for this story.
Labor unions also fought against watering down the penalties.
“I mean, it’s horrible what happened to them, but then again, the law is the law. All employers should follow the law,” said Brian Schneck, with UAW Local 259. “We got to pay our bills. We got to pay the rent. We gotta feed our family.”
True heroes fighting for then little guy against the evil capitalist oppressors. Makes you proud to be an American.
“To the plaintiffs I award zero dollars. To the defendants I order them to begin complying with the law. Next case…”
Of the $450,000 settlement, $305,000 goes to lawyers and fees. The sisters’ former workers who were paid biweekly stand to collect less than $200 each.
“Everybody got pennies, but the lawyers, they’re the ones who made all the money,” DeMint said.
Justice was served.
Lawyers should only get paid after their clients have been made 100% whole. That includes every member of a class for class action suits.
We have a lot of talk every election cycle about reforming tort and reigning in the trial lawyers. Guess who composes a majority of the legislature.
We had a guy here run for state Supreme Court….a popularly elected position. He made lots of speeches and promises. His opponents campaign consisted of saying “My opponent is a trial lawyer”. Trial lawyer got his ass handed to him on Election Day. That is how hated they are.