It’s the holidays, people are already thinking of turkey and pie.
Here’s an open post to distract you for now.
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It’s the holidays, people are already thinking of turkey and pie.
Here’s an open post to distract you for now.
I am now distracted.
Me too. Oh no I think dinner is burning.
I’m hoping turkey inventories are high after the holiday. Buy a couple cheap, throw them in the freezer.
Rent seeking company sues over end of NH car inspections
The company that makes money from running New Hampshire’s vehicle inspection system is throwing up a legal roadblock to the new law that ends the state’s inspection mandate. But GOP legislators say they aren’t about to hit the brakes on a popular reform that they argue will save Granite State drivers millions of dollars.
As of this month, New Hampshire is one of just 14 states that require periodic (usually annual or biennial) vehicle safety inspections for most passenger vehicles, a fact supporters of ending the mandate frequently touted. That mandate is scheduled to end on Jan. 31, 2026.
The amount of money is significant, says the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy.
“There were 1,383,700 vehicles registered in New Hampshire in 2023, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, which collects vehicle data. At between $30 and $50 per vehicle, inspections alone likely cost Granite Staters approximately $41.5 million to $69.2 million a year. That doesn’t count any repair work required to pass inspection.”
Gordon-Darby, which provides auto emissions tests and related services in New Hampshire, has filed a 60-day notice of intent to sue the state, claiming the new law would eliminate the state’s emissions-inspection program without first obtaining EPA approval for changes to a preexisting State Implementation Plan (SIP) regarding ozone regulations.
“Congress explicitly included New Hampshire in the Ozone Transport Region (OTR) established in CAA (Clean Air Act) Section 184,” the lawyers for Gordon-Darby wrote. “As a member of the OTR, New Hampshire is obligated to maintain an enhanced vehicle I/M program in its SIP that applies to each metropolitan statistical area in the state with a population of 100,000 or more.”
Texas ended their safety inspection this year, but still has emissions inspections. Despite this, people still call me when headlights go out and brakes start squealing. Crazy, I know.
I have it on good authority from the usual suspects here in NH that that never happens. And highways in states without inspections are death zones.
I bought a 1963 GMC pickup that had an Idaho inspection sticker in the window way back in 2000.
I never knew what the sticker was until I joined the army and had some guys in my unit from Texas who were bewildered that the rest of us had not heard about inspections. I put two and two together. Idaho was more free than Texas. Then I learned about Texas gun and hunting regs and I started wondering why people thought Texas was even a tiny bit free.
There is no emissions testing outside Portland, here in Oregon. I have died three times this year!
started wondering why people thought Texas was even a tiny bit free
this guy get it
Medford has it, too. Don’t want to have particulate on your pears!
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/24/mark-kelly-pentagon-trump.html
Sen. Mark Kelly faces Pentagon investigation for making video on refusing ‘unlawful orders’
The Pentagon on Monday said that it was reviewing what it called “serious allegations of misconduct” against Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona for making a video with five other Democratic lawmakers that urged members of the military to refuse to follow illegal orders.
The Pentagon said Kelly, who is a retired U.S. Navy captain, might be recalled to active military duty and face a possible court-martial on the allegations.
This could be amusing for a while.
Tim Pool pointed out their little game. They didn’t exactly say to disobey the president. They spent all summer declaring everything Trump ordered to be “unlawful”. Then these 6 say the military should disobey all unlawful orders. Wink wink.
Yep. They’re purposefully skating that razor edge line, yet pretending not to be within miles of it. It’s so fucking transparent, but they think the rest of us are stupid.
Mom! Mikey’s touching me. No I’m not. Yes, you are. No I’m not. . . . ad infinitum
They’re right, for most values of “us”.
They serve at the behest of the president. They should be stripped of all rank and privileges for this BS.
All are retired. Getting a retired nobody recalled to active duty is difficult even for a straightforward case on a clear issue with a major crime like murder. Recalling members of Congress on a questionable case about a fuzzy issue? Forget about it.
You can have my gas powered leaf blower when you pry it from my cold, dead hands
Lower Merion Township commissioners voted to pass an ordinance banning the devices during a meeting Wednesday night.
The ordinance prohibits the use of gas-powered leaf blowers in the township.
Under the new ordinance, the blowers would slowly be phased out from 2026 to 2028. In 2029, they would be completely banned in the township.
They had mine when it stopped working.
Why do you hate the planet?
This is the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.
*I resolve to be stoicish and not rant.
I demand everyone use rakes. Organic rakes, made from sustainable bamboo. To be funded by the tax payers.
Sounds good, then you can throw the rake right onto the leaf pile when you burn it.
I demand they use roués instead.
I demand to use serfs. I mean, what are we “importing” all these people for anyway?
Reliably red 60 years ago and true blue today. This Main Line burb probably is #1 in Karens per 100 population.
Yup.
Bring back leaf burning.
Actually, I find leaf blowers to be noisy AF. Blowing them off your lawn just means they become somebody else’s problem.
One of my jackass neighbors was out last week blowing his leaves across the street towards my place. He dumps his grass clippings in the opposite ditch too.
Loser runs a landscaping company. I can’t imagine how bad his work ethic is on the places he contracts.
Mow, Blow, and Go.
If it is cheap, it works.
turkey pie
/romanian pie (inthesky) is suspect
Pie
Cheesy Pie.
Teach me how to change the link name from the actual URL to say “pie.” Please.
<a href=”url”>pie</a>
So you write the parentheses , write something pithy without spaces, more parentheses surrounding backslash a
Did I get that correct?
Not quite.
No worries. It is an art.
I did something as it didn’t write down the html I tried to write.
I’ll try it.
used to be a cool car site
If this works I’ll have to write that down.
Thanks!
Failure. Oh well.
The ordinance prohibits the use of gas-powered leaf blowers in the township.
Under the new ordinance, the blowers would slowly be phased out from 2026 to 2028. In 2029, they would be completely banned in the township.
Don’t worry. Batteries are clean energy.
And you’ll only need six or seven 12 amp hour batteries to do the same job as one tank of fuel.
Brooks, here is a build video for that bug with the goldwing engine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHe-QoZBxj8
Following up on the NYT’s sob story about the poor thrice-deported Guatemalan and the family man whose identity he stole, legal immigrant Charlie Cooke from NR sets the record straight:
(archive link ’cause NR+ paywall)
Illegal immigrants work without permission. They dodge the country’s archipelago of employment law. They use government services that are designed to exclude them. They dishonestly submit forms that compel faithfulness in their authors. To respond to these abuses by insisting that their illegitimate presence in the United States is not a big deal is as silly as to respond to the abuses of a tax cheat by declaring that he is an American citizen: Narrowly correct, but beside the material point.
None of that matters. The fact is that for today’s Democrat, that illegal alien is a better person than you or I. He is more deserving of their compassion and your tax dollars than you are.
More Chump Effect. You and I, and that sugar beet worker who had his identity stolen, are required to abide by a wide variety of laws. Illegal aliens get to side step most of them.
Nitpick: the sugar-beet worker was the one stealing the honest person’s identity.
I love how the NYT’s prints this without a second thought. He just so happened after all these years, just months into Trump’s second term, to go legit despite the costs? No, it was fear because the immigration laws were finally being enforced under Trump to some extent.
What a thorough investigation. Never even looked into his identity let alone his immigration status.
Meanwhile, just this morning traffic was all fucked up on the way to work because some fucking Mexican’s van broke down in front of a traffic light at a major intersection. Do you know how often this shit happens here, and funnily enough it’s always a fucking Mexican? Running out of gas or their piece of shit beater cars just breaking on them in the middle of traffic. And they never seem to give a fuck in the slightest.
Dude killed a guy and they didn’t bother to ask any real questions while he was assuming another guy’s identity.
Just… wow. A remarkable coincidence.
That whole thing is remarkably disgraceful even by NYT standards.
Scroll down on this:
https://thewing.es/noticias/un-padre-trabajador-de-minnesota-con-un-pasado-brutal-arruina-su-vida-despues-de-que-un-inmigrante-asesino-le-roba-su-numero-de-seguro-social/319590/
Yeah, that looks like a Dan Kluver to me.
Gordon-Darby, which provides auto emissions tests and related services in New Hampshire, has filed a 60-day notice of intent to sue the state, claiming the new law would eliminate the state’s emissions-inspection program without first obtaining EPA approval for changes to a preexisting State Implementation Plan (SIP) regarding ozone regulations.
Wait. Don’t they have to obtain permission from CALIFORNIA to do that?
No, the EPA.
The law ending inspections instructed the state Department of Environmental Services (DES) to apply for a waiver within some number of days of the bill passing into law. DES is going through the waiver application process now, which the company suing certainly knows.
I have to venture into Walmart after work this evening because I just realized I’m almost out of my flosser refill heads , they’re not sold at any local drugstores, and I don’t dare wait until any closer to Thanksgiving/Black Friday. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers. 😳
I was there yesterday. I survived.
Peak sales hours are roughly three to seven.
Throw an elbow for me.
https://patch.com/pennsylvania/norristown/face-coverings-ice-agents-would-be-banned-under-montco-senators-new-bill
How do they think they get jurisdiction over Federal LEOs?
Well how else are they going to dox them and harass their families?
What if they have the Vid?
Results don’t matter, it’s all part of the performance theater.
No, the EPA.
That was mostly a joke, but I thought New Hampshah was part of the Greater California Planet Preservation Sphere. You know, the states which have farmed pout their auto and air quality regs to CARB.
New Hampshah was part of the Greater California Planet Preservation Sphere.
<a href="https://gc.nh.gov/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_status.aspx?lsr=58&sy=2023&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2023&txtbillnumber=HB92"Shot down.
Oops
Nope, 18 states and 1 swampy district, but New Hampshire isn’t one of them. Most of the other ‘New’ states did though (Jersey, Mexico and York)
Looking at the financial markets today, I saw that one of the biggest one-day losers was Grinder.
At first I was all “Hmmph. That’s odd.” Then… “Wait a fucking second — Grinder is publicly traded with a market cap of $2.5B?”
I knew teh gaze had a fair bit of money, but damn.
Can you bet on the AIDZ?
Not since “step-up, PrEP up”
Damn i get a ton of those adds on YouTube.
Premier League spoilers following…
Hilariously, Everton player gets sent off for hitting team mate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yBeAiu8Tl4
More hilariously, Everton beat United.
Well, that is a new one.
I *do* have Thanksgiving off, so no work ’til Friday… that’s I think 82 hours ’til my next work alarm goes off. Pretty good!
Family’s having a potluck meal, with everyone making their own thing for it, kids including. Dad had to take some convincing. Yikes. So he’s got crackers and cheese (which will likely be American slices, if it’s really just him doing the shopping) and I think olives. He doesn’t know how to navigate a grocery store, really. Other than ‘want and find.’ Bet he’s gonna get out of it, as he’s not recovering terribly well from new knee #2.
I’m gonna pull out my version of French onion soup. Normally, I’d make it with celery, carrots and potatoes to make it more of a meal, but I’ll leave ’em out. (I’m keepin’ the celery.) Should make that today, as I’ve got a couple of appointments tomorrow. I got my dentist appointment cuz I’ll likely be off Medicaid next year, might as well get ’em in now. I also have neuro follow-up tomorrow, where I’ll be learning more about my MRI, maybe 6 weeks ago.
Whoops, Scheduling Me, naughty boy. Neuro’s at 9 and dentist at 10. Huh. I’m gonna have to make a phone call…
I must have missed it, what happened with the possible new job/job search?
The search is ongoing and mostly futile. The coming holidays may pause folk from hiring, but applications are being sent out. No success yet, other than the far-too-good offer that *was* too good and turned out to be a scam I didn’t get taken for.
No bridges burned, so I’m still making money, but the search has been remarkably unfruitful. Like many others, I’m likely gonna have to go out and adapt in some way, as my current skill set is being AI’d to extinction. Much to think upon.
Turned out to be a scam.
Did they try to get you to put some cash down for their healthcare plan or something?
Nah, they sent me a check to print and deposit into my own account… and then wanted me to use that money to buy shit from *their* trusted vendor to get customized equipment for me. This set off many flags, confirmed here.
The money did show up, though never fully cleared. Had I fallen for it, the purchase woulda eventually come out of *my* money and conveniently deposited into their pockets.
So it goes, I s’pose.
Detour
Passengers on a United Airlines flight from Newark to South Africa faced an unexpected ordeal when the plane turned back over the Atlantic Ocean.
United Flight 1122 departed Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday evening at 8:32 p.m. local time, bound for Cape Town, according to flight-tracking data from Flightradar24 and FlightAware.
However, instead of completing its nearly 8,000-mile journey, the Boeing 787-9 got four hours into the flight and roughly a quarter of the way to Cape Town when it made a U-turn mid-Atlantic and flew back another four hours to the US.
The Dreamliner, tail number N24988, landed safely at Newark around 5:03 a.m. Monday, roughly eight and a half hours after takeoff.
A United Airlines spokesperson told Business Insider the plane returned “to address a medical issue with a customer.”
My first guess was somebody smoking in the lavatory.
4 hours is the magic number for when a Viagra induced boner becomes a medical concern, coincidence?
Tell your flight attendant if you need…
Attention.
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. If I hear ONE MORE, “are we there yet” I will turn this plane around and we’ll stay in New Jersey.”
Wouldn’t a landing in Bermuda saved lots of time?
https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL1122
Yes it would have.
And fuel.
The plane would have needed to take on fuel to get from Bermuda back to either Newark or Cape Town.
Getting back to altitude isn’t free. I get that Ted. I’m usually more concerned about the other 200 or so people’s days that are ruined with events like this.
I didn’t realize that today was National Sardines Day.
When I asked the wife if I could have them for dinner tonight, she agreed.
That’s how I know she’s a kipper.
Sardines and peanut butter sandwiches?
We should probably ask Lachowsky. He’s our resident expert on all things smelt.
Trust Donny to make the wrong call.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/11/24/report-white-house-to-unveil-healthcare-framework-to-lower-healthcare-costs/
*Congress yawns, scratches its balls, goes back to sleep*
“lower health care costs”
As we all know, health insurance is actually just a prepaid buyers’ club for unlimited medical treatment.
Chris Bray (one of the more interesting Substacks out there) dissected the Donks’ latest “Don’t Obey the Orange Man” video quite well.
We want to speak directly to members of the military, but we don’t actually have anything to say. Just, you know, disobey the president. Small thought, not a big deal.
High school drama club president Elissa Slotkin has been banging on this drum in an especially insistent way, as she holds town hall meetings with veterans who mumble their own vague slogans about Trump bein’ against the Constitution real hard and stuff.
Their obtuseness is similar to how they talk about Antifa. What’s wrong with being against fascism? What’s wrong with not following unlawful orders? They think they are being clever.
Related, and pithier than I could write.
We want to speak directly to members of the military, but we don’t actually have anything to say. Just, you know, disobey the president. Small thought, not a big deal.
Inciting mutiny. No big deal.
Retard fires Mosin-Nagant without bolt head installed
Lucky man
Love the way he says he’s paranoid about his WWII era guns blowing up, and that’s why he fired it even though it felt off.
Rule #5
Always remember your face is behind the weapon, choose wisely.
I have 132′ of LED rope lights (2 strands of 66′ each). What can I spell out on my patio fence for this festive holiday season? I was thinking of the shape of a hand, then the words “wish” and “shit” alternating on/off
Yes, Amazon has low voltage dual time delay relays with adjustable timers, do it!
Can you do fuck off slaver in lowercase?
Not sure how you are going to get three separate things (“wish” and “shit” alternating, and the shape of a hand) out of two strings of lights.
Cut and splice, its all low voltage, the circuits are simple
L1 goes to the relay and the hand,
R1 goes to wish,
R2 goes to shit,
All grounds wire nutted together,
Voila! 3 things at once
Strand 1: hand + wish
Strand 2: hand + shit
Black gaffer tape to cover the lighted areas between the hand and the word. No that complicated.
I can’t cut these LEDs. And they are programmable via an app. Pretty simple.
Le tits now
OMG YES
A butcher shop near me grinds their own sausage links. One uses four different hot chile peppers, and the shop calls it “The Four Horsemen.”
So of course, in the spirit of SNL’s Sean Connery playing Celebrity Jeopardy, I went in one time and asked for:
“Two links of Four Whore Semen, please.”
I had hopes for my latest Dogs in space to post but eh, maybe next week
Yesterday I was laying on the couch. Archie, the 130 lb Rott decided he needed attention and laid on top of me. Almost falling off, in his attempt to gain traction, he left a nice gouge in my R bicep.
Dogs on Earth are enough.
HEY YUFUS!
Tall Cans Tres!
I thought you were used to intimacy with large beings.
Well Ted they are large dogs, so hes keeping the canon
Who’s a good boy? Who’s a good boy? You are.
some days I miss the 70s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdwzko9DZ0s&list=RDPdwzko9DZ0s&start_radio=1
You were a young(er) kid back in those days, Kinnath
Yes, I was just a kid in those days.
Technically, me too.
62 so far, does that count?
I always liked this one more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imZUqkPlUaQ&list=RDPdwzko9DZ0s&index=3
I like the woman on the piano just noodling around why they get it together.
I miss the 70s too.
Shutting in my pants and cutting teeth.
Good times.
So yeah, San Diego finally has a new disc golf course and it’s called Altitude because it’s right next to Montgomery field executive airport. Really cool stuff. It’s on the Sheraton 4 points property. There is a 9 hole executive golf course there, which has been converted into a double tee disc golf course.There’s a bar, 18 holes of great disc. since it’s new, they’re still upgrading it as they go. Hell yes!
https://nypost.com/2025/11/24/us-news/nyc-dsa-leaders-get-plum-roles-in-zohran-mamdani-transition-team/
It was utterly predictable, but still, have fun hipsters.
OFFS 😂🤣
I keep hearing that guy has “charisma” but I see something rather different.
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fa-standard-maneuver-for-the-chinook-v0-edcybhgvz83g1.jpeg%3Fformat%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Db93066b79d2afe5f6ef3cf02cd3d56dcf43d729a
Good morning, fellow freedom enthusiasts!
🇺🇸👍⛈️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDsCeC6f0zc
🎶🎶
Good morning, Tulpa!
Good morning, Sean and Ted’S.!
Good Morning.
Good morning, U. How are you today?
Not so great.
Uh oh! What’s wrong? 😧
Still trying to figure that part out. I woke up late and miserable. I’m addressing each little thing to see what I can correct.
😟🤞
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/mcdonalds-offer-holiday-happy-meal-inspired-grinch
I want the socks.
suh’ fam
whats goody
TALL PAY DAY CANS!
Could someone explain to me how you do an 8-minute piece on youth homelessness and not have anybody — the radio host, the grifter activist, or the 23-year-old who claimed to be homeless at 13 — mention the words “family” or “parents”?
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/radionational-breakfast/youth-homelessness-hit-new-highs-in-wa/106020142
“Vagrancy” is just another life choice.
The other unanswered question is the “bias by Rolodex” question: how did Kaya get selected as the formerly homeless youth to be interviewed?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/really-shamwow-guy-is-apparently-running-house-seat/
Would you vote for him?
Who’s he running against?
You’re gonna love his nuts.
I feel like trudging up to a mountaintop and performing an alpenhorn solo.
Alas, I have neither an alpenhorn nor a conveniently proximal mountain.
will a hill and a vuvuzela work?
I’ve got a trail head a half hour away. But no alpenhorn. I wouldn’t want to schlepp it up the mountain and I don’t know what the conditions ay the top of the mountain are anyway.
It’s ok. I don’t know that I can actually play an alpenhorn. I assume it’s easier than a bugle though.
I DO have a glibflick suggestion to share at 8:30.
Unless it was a flight safety thing, companies will return to point of departure cause they’d have to request a whole lot of things from a random airport in a different country.