Good morning one and all to another magical day as the government is still shutdown!
The 22-day government shutdown is now the second-longest in US history
Military Families Left in Limbo as Schumer Shutdown Rages On
Government shutdown threatens food stamps for 42 million Americans: ‘Insufficient funds’
Trump’s H-1B Application Fee Is Forcing Visa Abusers to Hire Americans
Trump Considering Congressional Notification for Drug Cartel Strikes on Land
North Carolina Passes Redistricting Bill Aimed at Shifting House Seat to GOP
Report predicts growth for Arizona school choice program
Coca-Cola officially rolls out cane sugar soda across US markets following Trump’s urging
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
No one wants to hire Americans. Lazy fuckers.
Can you blame them?
I read that as lazy truckers.
*Awaits thunder from Gord…*
“Beverage giant launching new 12-ounce glass bottles with US cane sugar in select markets”
Glass bottles?
“”It’s going to be a measured roll-out,” Murphy said. “There is only a certain amount of cane sugar available in the United States.”
That sounds like bullshit.
It’s technically correct. Current cane production would be geared towards the expected demand, and you can’t ramp up on a dime. CocaCola wants to be sure the product will sell before potentially distorting the cane market with ever larger orders.
Cane sugar in the US is expensive due to import tariffs on cane sugar combined with corn subsidies causing cheap high fructose corn syrup to distort the market.
There isn’t an infinite amount of cane sugar in the US. Therefore the statement is technically correct.
It is bullshit. Pepsi is able to produce a sugar version of its product year round.
And you can find domestically bottled sugar Coca Cola in Jewish neighborhoods.
I do know that the concentrated raw material that becomes Coca Cola is shipped from the Caribbean and is classified as a hazmat material. Multiple layers of trade secrets so that it is more difficult to counterfeit.
I’m going to need a citation on that last claim, because it sounds a lot like bullshit.
I mean sawdust is classified as Hazmat, so…
Fair enough Jar. It’s a bureaucratic classification rather than a rational one.
I’m not convinced the HFC is the problem rather than just too much fucking sugar period. Sure there a difference in how fructose is metabolized relative to glucose, so it may be worse metabolically. But cane sugar is sucrose, e.g. 1 glucose, 1 fructose. Maybe we really are at the margins and a few percent higher fructose is really the problem . But I suspect that if everywhere we used HFC we substituted pure cane sugar, the improvement in metabolic health would be marginal if at all. The problem is too much sugar and too many refined carbs. You aren’t fixing it by tinkering with the chemical formula of the poison. Poison is in the dose.
During WW2 sugar was rationed, corn syrup was not and cheaper anyway. Fourscores ate a lot of corn syrup even after the war. I was always a skinny guy, I was always active and burned a lot of calories.
You require more vespene gas?
Good.
Get a job.
And yet they won’t encamp outside the homes or offices of senate democrats and implore them to pass the fucking bill.
And yet — what’s being fought over is just spending stupidly over what we take in… or even MORE stupidly over what we take in.
And yet — almost a year in, the House GOP still can’t find their ass with both hands and get a budget together.
And yet – every single attempt to cut spending is resisted on every front.
Some days it is just bloody depressing. But morning to all and thanks as ever to Banjos anyway.
Nothing will be cut without a dramatically lower number of Dems in Congress. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nothing will be cut without a dramatically lower number of politicians in congress.
Unfortunately, there will always be a full House of politicians.
Nothing will be cut.
The Repubs are as bad as the Dems. Nothing will be cut dramatically until most of the current Reps and Sens are replaced.
Or, what Sheldon said.
I assume the only way we’d see cuts is a collapse sufficient that whatever replaces the government can repudiate everything and start over. Which likely would follow years of blood and anarchy, so not looking forward to it. But it does seem inevitable.
Nothing will be cut until the population as a whole wants it cut.
Politicians are just doing what the voters want.
The 1816 election turned out 2/3rds of the House incumbents – due to the salary act (Congress giving itself an annual salary vice the per diem they collected previously). Hard to imagine, isn’t it?
Since then they cleaned up their ground game and improved their fraud techniques. Couldn’t let that happen again.
Which likely would follow years of blood and anarchy, so not looking forward to it.
Possibly and it’s easy to assume that given the apparent implacability of our current state. However, don’t forget that the Soviet System collapsed in a matter of a few years without a tremendous amount of blood and anarchy. Sure the collapse happened over decades under the hood; maybe we’ve sort of started that process. But until there’s a critical mass of people that are willing to ignore the state, let alone take action against it, we will continue. The government we have is a reflection of us, or at least our willingness to tolerate it. Until the window of disinterest and disgust shifts enough people outside of it (which is sort of happening now), the inertia is too high.
The government we have is a reflection of us, or at least our willingness to tolerate it.
“We’re allowed to do that, and if we do [it] by land, we may go back to Congress,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “We will hit them very hard if they come in by land. We‘ll probably go back to Congress and explain exactly what we’re doing when we come to the land. We don’t have to do that, but I think … I’d like to do that.”
I need more cofeve.
International waters are one thing, sovereign territory another. He’s starting to act like every other President that wants a war so he can be really presidential!
He must really want that Nobel Peace prize. He’s following O’Bama’s path to winning it.
Not really, Obama got his for nothing in his first term and he spent all 8 years in office repudiating it.
Frankly, good. While I feel for whatever (and I suspect small) percentage of them who are truly in need… I’d much rather they work with private charities. Those only in need because they can’t be bothered to work — well, welcome to reality and stop being a leech, jerks.
Especially any who are being fed benefits after “asylum” from the PPP Administration. Just leave.
But the church/charity/community center might make them work and it is shameful for these people to show they are poor /MSM probably
Good, there should be a stigma to living on handouts. It encourages people to improve themselves.
100% agree and it shouldnt be malicious.
I know back in the day with first wife and two youngins, we went to the Church and it wasnt a free handout. I had to agree to assist with grounds maintenance every weekend to recieve the help. I felt it was a fair trade
That does sound like a good program, OBE.
Makes me think that at this point I’d probably be okay even with city/state level welfare if they used them to get all the graffiti cleaned up, clear homeless encampments, etc… all the crap they were formed to do (infrastructure and civil order) but don’t bother with anymore (because they can always claim it is underfunded and use it to push through tax increases, after all…)
Still prefer private — but I’m just wondering how much relatively unskilled labor they could find for folks to do, is all.
The programs are probably being showered with tax dollars too.
Back in the day when there were actually poor houses and work houses they were required to work.
WTF, stigma is good.
The old physical food stamps looked like Monopoly money for a reason, that and your cart of white cans with bold “GENERIC” labels.
Coca-Cola officially rolls out cane sugar soda across US markets following Trump’s urging
HFCS or cane sugar, people shouldn’t be drinking sugar water.
They should be drinking pure seed oils.
It’s kind of funny because Trump likes diet Coke, he doesn’t even drink the regular stuff.
Whether I should or shouldn’t, I’m still going to.
I made two bottles of cane sugar bar syrup last night. It’s Old Fashioned season!
It’s eggnog season!
Sure, not saying sugar water should be illegal, do what you want to do, etc.
I am saying, from a public health standpoint, if the goal is to reduce obesity/type 2 diabetes, changing Coke from HFCS to cane sugar is pointless.
Looks like HFCS blocks the uptake of Vitamin D.
Low D leads to insulin resistance.
“changing Coke from HFCS to cane sugar is pointless.”
Yep. Check the baskets rolling out the door at Walmart. Calories and obesity go together, well, like soft drinks and junk food.
I have three quarts of Alton Brown’s eggnog aging in the fridge as we speak. This year I made it with Old Forrester bourbon (86 proof), Pierre Ferrand 1840 Congac (90 proof), and Planteray O.F.T.D. overproof dark rum (138 proof!), as well as free-range egg yolks and a pound of turbidino sugar. I fully expect this stuff to knock some people on their asses…
Calories and obesity go together,
Going to disagree slightly. At 0th order, that’s true, but it’s an energy balance question, and both the input and output depend very strongly on the composition of the input. To say nothing of the question of the direction of causality between obesity and caloric input. A calorie is just a unit of energy, computed, at it’s base, from a bomb calorimeter. You can compute the caloric value of cardboard, but your not going to get fat eating too much of it, you’re going to die.
well, like soft drinks and junk food.
If you took that Walmart cart and replaced it with an iso-caloric cart full of meat, eggs, and fresh vegetables, you would not have an obesity problem.
If you took that Walmart cart and replaced it with an iso-caloric cart full of meat, eggs, and fresh vegetables, you would not have an obesity problem.
This has been my sample size n==1 observation. Reduce carbs, increase protein, fat and non-starchy veg, lost weight.
I used to do several sodas a day for the caffeine. Now, I only occasionally have them, and it’s only when I can find them with either cane sugar or beet sugar, i.e. (((Coke))) during Passover.
Here we get Mexican Coke in bottles that has cane sugar. To me, it is far superior, but that may just be the glass bottle making it taste better than the can or plastic bottle. I only drink maybe 6-7 a year, but I love them when I do.
KS Home Depot had a pallet of them this spring next to a pallet of Jarettos.
I laughed and bought a case of Mexican cokes.
Four have been enjoyed so far this year, the wife and the kids shared two of them.
Since I have to assume a good chunk of this is the tech industry — I will instead play a sad song on the world’s smallest synthesizer for them.
Of course — they doubtless think they’ll just replace those reqs with AI scripting and screw all the little people anyway.
The race to the bottom in the IT/IS industry is a real thing.
And it’s really depressing.
Look at ThingLab or Xerox’s The Analyst (built for the CIA of course) to see what we were up to in the 80s
Sigh.
Xerox, tho.
I really do need to read my copy of Fumbling The Future; I keep neglecting it.
“Thank you sir… may I have some more?”
Those are rookie numbers. Gotta get those numbers up.
[ sends SDF-7 more illegal immigrants ]
Well…. crapadoodle. As a programmer, I really should know to phrase things so literal interpretations give the desired results only.
Maybe I can open up a new mine beside the monocled orphans or something….
We need more, but hopefully the continued pressure incentivizes some others to either not show up or to self deport if they are here illegally.
Need 10x more a year.
Cali had a terribly big rig accident out near where my oldest lives and drives.
https://abc7.com/post/what-know-victims-deadly-chain-reaction-crash-10-freeway-ontario/18057782/
To be fair to this one — I fully expect a fully domestic idiot who gets high as a kite and takes the wheel of a big rig would have probably done the same.
And given that Loves would sell over the counter meth if they could — I don’t believe there isn’t a good chance of drug problems in the trucking industry… no one is saying just what this idiot illegal was on, of course.
Agreed, this seems like a substance issue rather than an illegal issue.
I/m always curious about how an illegal alien gets a CDL.
2 of my brothers are truck drivers and it’s not an easy process, at least not in PA.
Well, they go to California, which hands them out to illegals like candy,
I suspect like other services that are hard for citizens to get, they break the law and have an insane support network that make it happen
It is absolutely an illegal issue. He should not have been here, period. Prosecute him, punish him, and kick him out.
California slid into anarcho-tyranny some time ago. Rigid enforcement of the rule for some classes of subjects, total lawlessness for others.
Sure, American truck drivers have accidents, too. But the fact remains that if immigration laws were enforced and CDLs weren’t being handed out like candy, this accident wouldn’t have happened and those people wouldn’t be dead or in the hospital.
Another illegal alien with a CDL. Thanks California!
CA has the safest CDL drivers in the country. I know because they just told us last week in the media, so it must be true!
One more reason to eliminate the CDL.
A 33 year old experiment that has lead to zero safety improvement and an increase in foreign drivers.
Damn. I hope you kid is OK and no where near this.
Was not thankfully.
“A Texas mom admitted to running over and killing her husband with her SUV — but claimed she was drunk and only meant to “hit” him….
Gonzalez-Morelos had left a party and was drunk when she returned to her home in Pasadena — about 15 miles southeast of Houston — and got into a verbal exchange with her husband, Pasadena Police Officer Darby Slack said.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/us-news/texas-mom-admits-running-over-killing-husband-with-suv-claims-she-only-meant-to-hit-him/
These things happen.
“I thought this was America!”
So she confessed to felony murder as her defense.
Holy crap, am I tired of reading about a “government shutdown” when all but the most trivial parts of the government seem to be “working” just as they always have.
Oh, gosh, there’s nobody at the gate charging you to enter National Parks! My goodness, IRS employees who don’t actually collect taxes don’t have to show up to the office to do nothing! Golly gee, with no money appropriated, no subsidies are going to state governments!
Why aren’t you suffering? These are government employees, you know… retards.
Im only half-retarded thank you very much!
Are you sure?
In the land of the
blindretarded, theone eyedhalf retarded man is king.That was the entire premise of Idiocracy.
The END of The WORLD as We kNoW It!!!
…and I feel fine!
(I really do.)
*checks paycheck*
They are still collecting income tax from me, therefore they are NOT shutdown.
Nah, you’re employer hasn’t made their transfer of that to the feds as yet. IIRC that is done quarterly.
I’m filling out a federal tax form for the privilege of having commercial trucks (four or five layers of such forms) that only recently became a fee. UCR, appeared in 2004 or so, wasn’t a fee until I think 2011. Keeps going up. Even their own website says that they exist to collect fees so that they can exist.
“Trump’s DHS Arrests More than 480,000 Illegals in 9 Months; 7 in 10 Are Criminally Convicted or Charged”
Remember, crossing into the US illegally is a crime.* The Biden migrants crossed illegally and were given a form of parole (essentially, deferred prosecution). Every single one of them can be charged and deported. Every. Single. One. And the requisite “due process” is little more than confirming their identity and that they are here on parole.
*as opposed to overstaying a visa, which is a civil offense
I look forward to woke moms suddenly embracing HFCS (high fructose corn syrup, the sweetener used in most commercial sodas) and proudly and publicly consuming it, feeding it to their children, etc.
Tonio, that’s not even a joke. Just look at the lunatic pregnant women downing Tylenol to show OMB.
I had not thought of that yet! That will be hilarious!
Won’t someone think of the children?!?
You mean other than the trans lobby? How much thinking about children do we need?
I suppose that’s one way to bridge the divide between coastal AWFLs and the flyover state corn subsidy crowd.
Look at Tonio — healing social wounds… guess he’s looking for the Peace Prize instead.
So cereal.
“A London woman was slapped with a hefty fine for pouring a splash of her coffee down a storm drain before hopping on a bus, according to reports….
As soon as the drop of java dribbled out, Yesilyurt was immediately swarmed by three officers at the bus stop and slapped with a £150 (roughly $200) fine under Section 33 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, which makes it illegal to dump waste in a way that could pollute land or water, including pouring liquids into street drains.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/world-news/london-woman-fined-150-pounds-for-pouring-splash-of-coffee-down-storm-drain-before-hopping-onto-bus/
They once had an empire.
They once had an empire.
The gene pool that created that empire was mostly erased in two world wars. The current state is the creation of the leftovers.
WTF gets it.
Monty Python would have been embarrassed to have three cops jump somebody who poured a little coffee into a storm drain.
They would’ve rightly observed that though it is absurd, there’s nothing amusing about it.
I don’t know anymore, John Cleese has succumbed to TDS.
Speaking of anarcho-tyranny…
Once we had an empire ’round the earth,
Ran it into the ground.
Now our former empire, what’s it worth?
Guv’nor, can you spare a pound?
“Central to Juul’s comeback plan is a new vape device, Juul2, which comes equipped with biometric safeguards intended to limit access to adult smokers only.
Users will have to verify their age and identity through a companion smartphone app — using their iPhone’s Face ID or other phone-based biometric logins — in order to unlock Juul’s flavored pods.
All Juul2 pods will contain a hardware chip that connects to the app via bluetooth and will only unlock for a verified, authorized user who has linked their e-cigarette to their identity.”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/business/juul-is-back-to-its-original-mission-with-a-second-generation-e-cigarette/
OFFS!!
Uh huh.
I suppose it will make the next AWS outage interesting when a bunch of vaping nicotine fiends can’t get their fix and run riot….
Running Riot you say?
Workaround found in 5.. 4… 3…
So the objective is to drive people back to cigarettes to drive up excise tax revenues?
I doubt it, to be honest. This is nothing more than AWFL style feelz in action. Vaping is icky! For the children(tm)!
What about kids that are trying to stop smoking?
“North Carolina Passes Redistricting Bill Aimed at Shifting House Seat to GOP”
Not sure if it would take a Constitutional amendment or merely a law (neither of which is realistically possible, of course), but this gerrymandering crap, where legislatures decide the political makeup of the state’s Congressional representation, has to stop. I would go with a rule that says a legitimate state districting plan follows existing political (city, town, county) lines as closely as possible, with any subdivisions following either roads or, I suppose, major natural features like rivers and being as short as possible.
How will they expand their petty kingdoms though?
Give them back Senate appointments? (As long as we’re dreaming after all…)
Or zip code boundaries.
I have been advocating this for years, and I do not care about equalizing population levels anymore. Draw hard lines, and put an end to this shit.
It only ends when each critter is representing no more than 50K or so. Not more than 750K like today.
Every ten years each state is assigned a random other state to redraw districts. No state does their own anymore. Chaos, baby!
That sounds horrible.
Each district may have up to 6 sides. A river or other non-linear natural surface feature may be considered a single side.
For the entire state, you have 10 extra sides that may be allocated to the districts at the legislature’s discretion.
What do you do about ragged edges along the state borders?
Article 1, Section 4
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
Emphasis mine.
Congressional districts is not mentioned anywhere in the Constitution. The requirement that States divide themselves into districts for the US House was the result of Congress exercising its power to override States on Congressional elections. If Congress can tell a State to break itself into a district via legislation, it tell the State how to break itself up into districts via legislation.
So yesterday we put down our girl dog (the one I mentioned some time back). I drank some of my best whiskey last night but I notice the hole is still there.
So sorry.
Sorry 🙁
She is in the Elysian fields now.
Sorry.
Damn… sympathies JI. Never easy.
Sorry to hear JI, I know from experience how tough that is.
So sorry. I still miss my last girl.
Aw, sorry
Yeah, it’s always hard.
And yet we always go back for more. When the current dogs showed up, one of my first thoughts was “They will break my heart someday”. They are nearly 15 years old now, so that day is not far off.
Truth.
That’s why we haven’t had a dog for 40 years.
Sorry man, that’s always a rough time.
Sorry to hear that.
So sorry. The hurt lasts, but eventually the waves become ripples.
I miss every one of the 5 I’ve had. I wish my age and living situation would permit another, but then I wind up pondering which awful would be worse — outliving another dog or pre-deceasing one.
That’s hard.
Dogs are such good animals, and I bet yours was a sweetie.
She was, the sweetest one I’ve had. Tore me up every day watching her decline.
Sorry dude.
Sorry man, that is tough.
Worst part of owning a dog. Sincere sympathy for you.
So sorry to hear about your loss JI.
Sorry
Late, but you have my condolences, JI.
“Now CEO Julie Felss Masino says the real reason for the change wasn’t political — it was practical.
Speaking at an investor summit in New York, she explained that the simplified design was meant to make the brand’s 660 restaurants more visible to drivers speeding down the interstate. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-15217947/cracker-barrel-logo-change-highway.html
That doesn’t even make sense.
Your sign looks different than all the others making it difficult to spot.
KISS is a thing… if their primary customer is drivers on the interstate it makes sense to have a logo that is not so busy.
If you’re new to the market.
If you have an established brand, looking like some cheap chinese knockoff of your brand isn’t going to improve visibility. The pattern recognition machine between the ears doesn’t need to process what that design is with the cracker and the barrel, just recognize it.
I’ll see your KISS and raise it with “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
They unquestionably had problems, but I don’t think the well-established and recognized logo was one of them.
Fair enough.
Companies do this stuff all the time though and not for “politics”. This time it seemed like a clear-cut case of Conservatives Pounce! to me.
Their customer base is old people, and we all know how much old people like change, right?
This time it seemed like a clear-cut case of Conservatives Pounce! to me.
I’ll go further and say I think it was orchestrated by the same kinds of folks who did the bud light boycott.
They targeted a company with a conservative customer base and a not so hidden corporate bias towards wokeism and pounced when a public and questionable marketing decision was made.
If I were in charge of the right’s attempt at regaining ground in the corporate sphere, I’d have a Rolodex of these companies waiting for a single public misstep to expose their soft belly.
Cracker Barrel was unique in that it was a perfect storm of clueless C-suite, respected brand name, declining quality, and cultural split between corporate and restaurant.
“Eww, we need new, hipper, customers. You know, the ‘Modern’ customer.”
Why do they count weekends in the shutdown?
Govt is going to shutdown tomorrow at 4 PM EST as is scheduled.
What’s the difference between a weekend and a weekday when it comes to govt workers?
The difference in work performed between the two is just a rounding error.
Thanks to everyone who offered support and/or acknowledgement of the need for skin cancer checks in the dead thread. Especially for us gingers, the light complexioned, and those with a family history of skin cancer issues it really does matter. Unless you were raised slathered in sun screen, past a certain age, it matters to you, too. Even then, at least do self-checks and have anything remotely suspicious checked out.
I so deeply appreciate the support I’ve gotten from this community, especially during this past year of medical issue purgatory.
Ginger Power!
*thinks back to childhood*
So you are saying that all those full body sunburns as a kid weren’t that great for me?
Well, they sure didn’t do me any good ;-\
I was once sunburned on the back of my legs (reflection of water, sitting on a dock fishing) that I couldn’t walk for the pain. My folks were very outdoorsy, to put it mildly.
I remember as kids that one of the fun early summer activities was seeing how big a patch of dead skin you could peel off your buddies sunburned back. When summer started we all go sunburns because no one even had thought of sun cream.
After a week or so, the normies all stopped getting sun burned. My sunburns lasted at least until July. I didn’t really tan, but my freckles just expanded and merged.
BTW,
Vitamin E oil is the absolute best treatment for sunburns.
It’s good your surgery went well.
Thanks, and I agree wholeheartedly. But to be fair, it was barely surgery. Scrape down past the carcinoma, cauterize, and bandage. Honestly, I suspect the biopsy already got it all, or the vast majority of it (yes, significant difference). They widened the wound and probably went a little deeper, but it’s less irritating than a mosquito bite in terms of pain.
Beau:
Sigh. Between you and TOK, we really need some training to up our “I’m a victim” cred. Glibs keep passing up chance after chance to play the victim.
Interesting repair of a 1905 shotgun. He actually has to make a couple of parts for it out of bar stock. The use of lock-tite as an adhesive for shims was also a surprise.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=O_gI3WX6Uww&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fpacoenterprises.blogspot.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY
The background music is a bit distracting, and overpowers his narration.
I thought the narration was clearly audible, and the music barely noticeable for the most part.
He has a voice that’s easy to accidentally tune out. The more energetic music demands more attention.
He used to have an old English gunsmith come on and do demos with old, high end British guns and the tools and techniques used on them.
Very informative.
Good morning Glibs! I had a bit of excitement to add to my week last night. On the way home from practice I was stopped in traffic on the highway, and another driver rammed into my car at high speed. He spun me around 180 and totaled my car. I’m ok, as was my wheelchair in the trunk (a miracle, as that costs about $10k). Luckily another driver caught the whole thing on a dash cam and the cop showed it to me. I’m going to the ER today just to get checked out (and in case I sue). But it shook me up quite a bit. If he had hit me square on instead of the corner, it would be a different story.
Hug your loved ones today.
Do you have a copy of the video? I’m not asking you to share, but it would be useful for various institutions.
Glad to hear you’re okay.
The cops have it. I’m going to the ER today, and I plan on talking to a lawyer. They should be able to get it.
Dang, that’s terrifying, glad you’re OK!
Yikes! Very glad you’re okay. Also, that you won’t have to deal with a wrecked wheelchair.
Dude! Glade you are OK.
That had to have been terrifying.
Hope you could walk it off.
On a serious note, glad you’re OK and the wheelchair survived, I’d imagine getting a replacement is not easy.
It’s not. Going through my insurance was terrible.
Holy moly.
I *will* hug my loved ones, as you recommend.
Glad you’re okay.
What was the other driver doing? Looking at his phone? Did he spill his beer when he hit you?
Maybe. He hit his head and went away in an ambulance. The cops had yet to interview him. But he was one of those jackasses zipping around traffic.
And I thought my yesterday was a bummer. Glad you’re okay.
Yikes! Glad you made it out ok.
What kind of vehicle were you in?
Yikes!
Sorry about car.
Glad you are OK.
Cross checked into the boards on your way home from hockey practice is dedication to the sport! I am glad you are ok!
😱
Definitely follow through if any PT is recommended. ::rubs occasionally stiff neck and remembers Festiva rear-ended by an Explorer many years ago::
So glad you’re apparently okay!
I have PT PTSD.
Yikes…glad you are OK!
Sorry. Best wishes on your ER visit.
California CDL driver?
TOK I’m so glad to hear that you are OK.
Please tell me that you pretended that you were able to walk just fine before the accident. Jack up that settlement! If anyone asks, you were just bringing that wheelchair to a friend.
Hah, I’m glad I’m not the only person who thought about that.
[ throws briefcase to prove Jimbo doesn’t have whiplash ]
At the very least, TOK should not tell anyone that his chair is fine. It is damaged beyond belief!
TOK should be rolling in a $20K chair by next week. All the trimmings. Even a new racoon tail antenna!
Ted’S:
I did NOT consent to being showered with your dirty briefs.
That’s not the good kind of excitement.
““I’m from the hood, okay? So when a bully comes like, if there are no rules, you mentally have to figure it out. So, Donald Trump has changed things, and people trying to do what’s always been done is not going to work. And I think that’s why Democrats are losing black people, that’s why they’re losing poor people, because poor people, all they want is for us to fight. So if you hit me in my face, I’m not going to punch you back in your face. I’m going to go across your neck,” Jones said, as she made a slashing motion across her neck.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/wipe-out-every-republican-dem-texas-state-rep-jolanda-jones-uses-violent-rhetoric-against-conservatives-in-concerning-cnn-appearance
These people are nuts.
“The protester, identified as Ron Gochez, teaches at Maya Angelou Community High School. He is a spokesperson for Unión del Barrio, an anti-ICE organization active in Southern California. Speaking at a Tuesday news conference criticizing ICE agents, Gochez warned that immigration authorities were “not the only ones with guns” in the city.
“Don’t forget where you’re standing. This is South Central Los Angeles,” he said, according to Fox News. “They [ICE] are not the only ones with guns in this city. Don’t forget that. And I don’t say that because I’m calling for violence; I’m saying that because the people have every right to defend themselves against masked, unidentified gunmen.”
“The people have every right to defend themselves,” he added. “That’s not violent. That’s intelligent.”
Gochez, who was previously given a “Human Rights Award” by the California Teachers Association, has been active in anti-ICE organizing.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/anti-ice-activist-warning-ice-they-arent-the-only-ones-with-guns-revealed-to-be-la-high-school-teacher
CWAA
Every time someone says, “I’m from the hood!” I always think of the awful (but hilariously funny) Atari beat-em-up game Guardians of the Hood.
Maybe the first video game ever to feature raincoat-wearing weenie-waggers on the subway, and (spoiler alert!) an FtM tranny dominatrix as the final boss…
I don’t know if the neighborhood I grew up in counts as “The hood”. It was better than “The projects” but still a high-crime, minority-majority neighborhood.
Darn, not part of the MAME 2003 library.
Democrats are the party of rich white people, lady. Time you got over it.
Notes from Utah:
I turned on the “Classic Rock” station.
They were playing Belinda Carlyle.
Bette Davis Eyes was released over forty years ago.
Back when the world was full of exciting possibilities.
I did some math the other day that made me feel like I should be drinking prune juice and playing pickle ball. As a kid in the 90s, my dad use to play the classic rock station. He would quiz me as to the band and song name, etc. I thought to myself “I should play songs from the 90s and quiz my kids.” Then I realized that time frame wise, it would be more comparable to be playing songs from the aughts.
When *I* was a kid, the “Golden Oldies station” played music from only twenty years prior.
There are no Oldie or Classic rock station anymore. Everything is ’80s-’90s or newer.
If I had kids I could be a grandpa rocking out to Judas Priest by now.
Dude! I know you needed ammo, but this is not cool for everyone else!
https://www.abc4.com/news/traffic/semi-carrying-firearms-rolls-over-washington-county/
Belinda Carlyle, and by extension the Go-Go’s, where some of the original LA punks.
“Following the incident, Hale Elementary principal Dawn Iles-Gomez sent an email to parents portraying Martinez as a victim, without addressing the teacher’s behavior. The message was shared online by Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet, who called for Martinez to be fired, saying she has “no business being around children.”
In the email, Iles-Gomez wrote, “Safety continues to be my top priority, which is why I am writing to follow up on a situation regarding social media posts that included potentially threatening language to a staff member. The Chicago Police Department (CPD) is continuing to investigate this situation, and will continue providing our school with extra support during arrival and dismissal until that investigation is complete.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/chicago-principal-portrays-teacher-who-mocked-charlie-kirks-assassination-as-victim-in-email-to-parents
Public schools were a mistake.
Remember when proggie froggies laughed at the idea of right-wing types using firearms to resist Federal agents?
“We have tanks, ha, ha.”
https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1981038259565166635
“THAT’S DIFFERENT SHUT UP!!!1!!”
The rooftop Koreans have guns, too.
More importantly, the rooftop Koreans have training and high levels of coordination. Most of them served in the same units on the DMZ, before immigrating to the US and going into business together. Armed, trained together, and highly motivated (the riots were literally taking money out of their pockets), is a dangerous combination.
Where have you gone, Lon Horiuchi?
Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you
Woo, woo, woo
What’s that you say, Mrs. Reno?
Snipin’ Lon has left and gone away
Hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey
“Workshops included a “DIY abortion” session where organizers claimed abortion access was under attack and showed a video on how to make homemade morning-after pills.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/tpusa-frontlines-infiltrates-antifa-in-oakland-and-seattle
WCPGY?
“Choe and Borysenko also visited the Seattle Anarchist Book Fair, hosted by The Vera Project, where they met with citizen journalist Matthew Adams, who has documented Antifa activity for years. Upon arrival, they found a “wall of fascists” display featuring photos of journalists, including Choe, Borysenko, and Adams, labeling them as enemies.
The Seattle event, similar to the one in Oakland, promoted anarchist propaganda, glorified violence against the ruling class, and included hypersexual content aimed at minors. Once the journalists were recognized, they were forced to leave the venue.”
Seattle gotta Seattle.
A really expensive game of Marco Polo…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/russia-acquired-western-technology-to-protect-its-nuclear-submarine-fleet/ar-AA1P0L49
Nixon said the land-based ICBMs are the only first-strike weapon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wox5BxEGWT0
+1 Tom Clancy
Her generosity knows no bounds
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), asked if it was worth pushing the shutdown beyond Nov. 1 given the risk of food aid lapsing, replied, “Worth it to whom? To people who will lose their health care or to people who will lose their food?”
“We’re people who want Americans to have health care and food,” she added. “The Republicans, evidently, don’t care whether they have either.”
At least we know we’ll never run out of money.
They wanted to wait until after No Kings to re-open.
Bad optics for Republicans if health insurance premiums double next year.
If they weren’t the stupid party, they’d have an alternative proposal drafted up. Even one that was untenable to Democrats. Then they could hang both the shutdown and the refusal to pass reform on Team Blue headed into the elections.
But, well, stupid party.
I’m not a Republican, and I don’t care if people have food or health care. In particular, I don’t think that politicians should have either.
This.
And trust me, Elizabeth Warren doesn’t care two fucks about food or health care. She cares about Elizabeth Warren and Elizabeth Warren’s power.
Which is only natural.
We’re not out of money! Look at all the checks we have left!
In the Joys of Motherhood, the author tells a story about a toddler ripping a currency note into little pieces because his parents were arguing about not having enough money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joys_of_Motherhood
Yo CIA and pals: it’s pretty easy to understand foreigners if you read the stuff they write. This sometimes requires learning another language.
I could feed myself much better if I didn’t have so much confiscated from my paycheck in tax.
Meh, you can live off $8 pizzas and limes.
https://csphistorical.com/2016/01/24/salt-pork-ships-biscuit-and-burgoo-sea-provisions-for-common-sailors-and-pirates-part-1/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgoo
I’m thinking that some of these poor, poor victims of the evil GOP cutting their food off will do just fine for a while.
As long as they can waddle to the sink to get water, they have enough energy stored to get them through a couple weeks of lean times.
Exactly what kind of home care are these folks providing?
Agape, not Eros.
Trump and members of his administration have acted selectively to ease shutdown impacts on agencies and programs they perceive as benefiting their political allies — shifting funds to pay active duty troops, for instance, while letting civilian workers go unpaid.
It’s almost as if some government programs might be more legitimate or necessary than others. What a concept.
Am I a bad man for wanting my funeral to look like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi0QEgdO9SQ
suggested music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeBJoKm39Hw
Just as the shooting started, a commercial for brain damage came on.
Dare to be stupid!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrMbkbTPrPA
Any day now Elizabeth Warren will offer to have her salary transferred to SNAP so deserving families can survive.
Life finds a way. So does corruption.
She has reservations about this plan, so she is being brave and limiting her support to smoke signals.
Behold a critical mass of Karens:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqCFxg2ez44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUgwM1Ky228
A group of Karens is known as a screech.
Not a ‘scold?’
Ooh, that is even better. I guess we can save “screech” for a gaggle of male feminists.
RIP, Screech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Diamond
A group of Karens is either a PTA or an HOA
No, no, no, it’s a Complaint of Karens.
C’mon people.
Even a Chief’s salary isn’t going to stretch to cover 42 million Americans who can’t figure out a way to provide themselves with food without someone sticking a gun in another person’s face.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
You’re gonna have to wait a little longer, Jimbo.
Trump is still wrecking Eurotopia
The new pressure on the EU comes after months of attempts by President Donald Trump and his appointees to blunt climate regulations at home and abroad that threaten to impinge on U.S. “dominance” in fossil fuels. And lately he’s succeeded in drawing some countries to the United States’ side.
On Friday, U.S. pressure succeeded in thwarting a proposal by U.N.’s International Maritime Organization to impose the first worldwide tax on climate pollution from shipping. The maritime body had been widely expected to adopt the shipping fee at a meeting in London, but instead it postponed the initiative for at least a year.
Fellow petro-giants Russia and Saudi Arabia lobbied for the pause, and EU members Greece and Cyprus helped that effort by abstaining from the final vote.
Letting them jump off that cliff would be fine with me as long as they don’t take us with them.
As previously discussed, where does some UN agency get the authority to levy and collect taxes?
(“nowhere” is the correct answer)
OFFS it’s not like the peasants there are thrilled with paying 3x more for energy than everywhere else.
Face it, the left. That grift is dying.
Europe’s move to wean itself off Russian energy supplies since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has forced the continent to increase its reliance on U.S. liquefied natural gas imports. But U.S. gas producers have warned that the climate directive will increase the cost of doing business with customers in the EU.
In the letter, DOE and Qatar said the climate directive “poses a significant risk to the affordability and reliability of critical energy supplies for households and businesses across Europe and an existential threat to the future growth, competitiveness, and resilience of the EU’s industrial economy.”
Small price to pay for performative virtue.
Yeah, that was the point.
“Classy” babes for Thot Thursday.
https://archive.is/YQ0Ho
Swoonerism
Will Democrats ever learn to stop swooning?
I refer, as you may have guessed, to the case of Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner and the rinse-wash-repeat pattern that has become all too familiar for the party in the digital age.
It goes something like this: Political outsider or mostly new name mounts statewide campaign with online video that leans heavily on compelling biography or powerful oratory, out-of-state liberal hobbyists quickly fall in love and fork over money, and journalists rush to profile the latest heartthrob before inevitable disappointment when the candidate loses or, well, becomes John Fetterman.
When you accept politics as your god, you expect a savior as part of the deal.
Becomes John Fetterman? Your guy turns out to be not completely crazy? What a tragedy.
Progressivism is a cult. Cults need charismatic leaders to pluck the pigeons.
Unfortunately Commie Mamdani is going to win, and easily.
I’ve learned, for example, that in 2020, Platner went online and called the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office a den of “overweight pansies” and flatly said: “cops are opportunistic cowards.”
You can’t be wrong all the time.
“It’s not his house. It’s your house. And he’s destroying it,” said Hillary Clinton, the former first lady and the secretary of State for President Barack Obama, in a post on the social media site X.
Is she still alive?
Yes, but it is taking more and more children to reanimate her each time.
But it was her silverware?
Who would want it after the Clintons used it?
You don’t know where it’s been.
Never changes Snopes. I thought the Clintons had also stolen furniture and was looking for a link so could make a snarky comment about Hilary doing the interview from a burgled chair, but found the Snopes link instead.
Of course they rated it as Mostly False.
So shut up you rubes! They only stole $50K. Sure, that is probably a lowball value, but it was back when they didn’t prosecute ex-presidents so everything is fine.
Future historians are going to finger “fact checkers” as the moment the MSM jumped the shark.
They wouldn’t let me First when I visited the White House. My house my ass. Seconding cucks.
I Firsted anyways.
Listening to the radio coming back from what seems a weekly appointment with one doctor or another at my age, I heard the anti-ICErs are now asking “What would Jesus do?” Well, then the Son of God has the power to feed every one of them with a couple loaves and fishes. But we don’t. So, perhaps the question is “What would Jesus want YOU to do?” Have you taken them into your house and fed and clothed them? If so, or even specially if not, why do you think Jesus wants you to send armed gangs out there to force their neighbors to do so? Wearing His cross around your neck is not a badge to enforce your particular values on others.
I’ve looked at the books. Those bastards aren’t even sending their tithes into me.
Worse than Dachau
Over a dozen women told advocates and their attorneys that they suffered mistreatment and neglect while they were pregnant and held in immigration custody, including “medical neglect” and substandard care during pregnancy and miscarriage, such as being shackled, placed in solitary confinement and fed with poor-quality food, according to a letter sent to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials and Senate committees Wednesday.
“The stories that are represented in this letter are just the tip of the iceberg,” said the author of the letter, Eunice Cho, senior counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project. “You have women who are talking about being shackled and restrained while they’re actively miscarrying; you have women begging and pleading for things as basic as prenatal vitamins and being denied.”
Poor quality food!
Don’t come here illegally if you’re fucking pregnant hoping to drop an anchor baby, then?
Preach.
You don’t get to complain about the accommodations.
Wasn’t Peter Thiel’s father handcuffed to his hospital bed as he was dying?
Even though I have following the site since the exodus from TOS, this is my first time commenting. I guess that makes me the newest tulpa or something like that. I’ve submitted an article that is due to be posted soon. I’ll be curious to get y’alls thoughts. Due to family commitments, I won’t be around when it’s posted, but I do intend to do more than simply lurk in the shadows.
Is it against the Non Aggression Principle to sock an old guy sitting nearby who snorts phlegm back up into his sinuses every 2 minutes or so?
GET A KLEENEX AND BLOW YOUR FUCKING NOSE!
I’m assuming that he is not a native Minnesodan because we usually get sniffles slapped out in childhood. We learn to blow our noses.
Thinking that a simple slap and a “Welcome to Minnesoda” would be appropriate.
Snorting and making disgusting sounds is a real fucking trend among the cultural enrichers coming from South of the border. Young, old, women etc. They seem to all fucking do it and it makes me want to snap.
The only time snorting snot is acceptable is when you are outside and it is immediately followed by you horking up that loogie and spitting it on the ground.
Sniffling is probably the biggest culture clash that my wife and I ran into.
I can’t stand sniffling. All it does is defeat gravity for a short period of time. All that snot will just start dripping again.
Everyone in Korea/Japan sniffle. Especially when eating spicy food. Drives me batshit insane.
Worse, the in-laws are all horrified and disgusted when I blow my nose. They are the exact opposite of me. To them blowing a wad of snot into your kleenex is totes disgusting. Who wants to see that?
My Chinese ex refused to blow his nose. He would hork straight into the sink once every night before bed. I could only SMDH.
Snorts heavily trying to get that little bit of dried up crap from the low humidity to rocket into the back of the throat so I can cough it up and chew noisily on it…
What was that Pope? I couldn’t hear you over the crusty phlegm.
The worst snot is at the end of a cold. When that previously watery snot finally gels into a goo that is impossible to dislodge.
“We heard multiple stories of women losing their pregnancies in detention and suffering from the lack of proper medical care,” Cho said. “Those stories, I think, really are some of the most chilling stories I’ve heard about detention.”
It shouldn’t be too difficult to verify something like that.
The women whose alleged experiences are recounted in the letter were all given pseudonyms, because they are “terrified” about retaliation and some still have active court cases, Cho said. Some identifying information about the women was also omitted for the same reason, she said.
We don’t need no steenkin proof.