Not much in the sports world. The latest CFP rankings are out. Nothing much changed at the top aside from Oregon jumping Ole Miss. The big weekend is coming up for a lot of teams. And across the pond, UCL matches are going on and Man City was shocked by Bayer. I guess that’s about it for now. So I’m moving on.
Oh, boo-hoo. First off, these people were always subject to hearings and approval. That’s what “temporary” means. Secondly, they did almost no vetting whatsoever and outsourced it to NGOs they were paying to do the work, so the financial incentive to bring as many people as possible existed. This is a long time in coming and they need to finally put a stop too a lot of this shit, as the reasons for the asylum claims are by and large ridiculous and nowhere even close to what the program was meant to accommodate.
OK, good. It’s time the majority of people see Obamacare for the abject disaster it really is rather than have their premiums subsidized by others.
Another judge, another retarded ruling. Let’s see how long this one lasts before being overturned.
Damn, this is weird. If I were him, I’d mount an insanity defense.
I wouldn’t book a trip to Rome any time soon. Because it’s about to get very messy.
Chase your dreams, lady. No matter how gross they are.
This does not make me sad. Not in the least.
I’m SHOCKED! Just kidding. In fact, I’m not surprised one little bit.
How long has it been since the UK just gave up on self-reliance and -defense? What a pathetic shithole.
This will be curious. Maybe they thought they found the loophole, I don’t know. But I do know this is exactly the kind of thing the mortgage guy told us we could not do when we bought our second home. He said it was illegal to do for either mortgage rate or for tax purposes.
Such a lovely, catchy tune. Especially for that morose fucker. This is more like his usual stuff. Still lovely, but a bit different. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely pre-turkey day, dear friends.
OK, good. It’s time the majority of people see Obamacare for the abject disaster it really is rather than have their premiums subsidized by others.
Just create a proper NHS you backwards Americans
No.
Never.
And it’s no, nay, never
No, nay, never, no more
/starts playing the wild rover
Confirmed: Pie has spent at least five minutes in an Irish pub (though not necessarily in Ireland.)
Also in Ireland.
…and we all got blue-blind paralytic drunk when the Oooollld Duuuun Cooooow caaaaught fiiire!
A bit too much methanol in your ethanol supply there.
I’m not ready for that final of a solution.
I’m sure we could leave people waiting in ambulances or recommend they suicide without taxpayer subsidies.
at least in America they can properly suicide with a gun none of that pills stuff
Another judge, another retarded ruling. Let’s see how long this one lasts before being overturned.
there should be a yearly performance review for judges and there should be penalties for having many rulings overturned.
Now this I partially agree with. Still appeal judge shopping could penalize good judges with good rulings.
Here’s the thing, though:
Once getting overturned poses a real threat to a District judge’s continued employment, the appellate judges are going to be more reluctant to overturn them. The question will go from “Was this ruling wrong?” to “Was this ruling wrong enough to get this judge fired?”
Judges need to be fired more often.
Lifetime tenure was a mistake.
No government agent should ever have lifetime employment, either de facto or de jure.
The primary problem with government is lack of accountability, and you can’t hold someone accountable if they have a lifetime sinecure. Well, you can, but the other options for accountability are a lot less pleasant to consider.
I wouldn’t book a trip to Rome any time soon. Because it’s about to get very messy.
Just don’t bring any wimminz with you and it should be fine. Women ask for it by existing it seems.
Could Pope Leo be reached for comment? This is basically in his back yard.
Dont bring your young sons either.
Chase your dreams, lady. No matter how gross they are.
here at glibertarians dot com we do not kink shame. no siree.
This does not make me sad. Not in the least.
look this is doing them a favor. They can get much higher paying jobs in the private sector.
How long has it been since the UK just gave up on self-reliance and -defense? What a pathetic shithole.
Tax pointed sticks !!!!
Also sloopy was complaining about no comments a few days ago. Happy?
No.
I wasn’t complaining. I was just curious why there weren’t any for so long.
” sloopyinca on November 24, 2025 at 7:11 am
No comments ten minutes in?
I has a sad.”
I dunno man seems more than curiosity.
/charges PieInTheSky with a banana
“You shot him!”
“He attacked me with a banana!”
I’m SHOCKED! Just kidding. In fact, I’m not surprised one little bit.
“. Marc Jacques, the father of Maëlle Jacques, had used his son’s transgender identity and his own advocacy for transgender rights as mitigating factors in his first trial.”
why on earth would that be a mitigating factor in a normal world?
It’s an exacerbating factor.
Stunning bravery should be honored you bigot!
I didn’t read the article, but I would guess it’s proof of mental illness?
How do you get busted a SECOND time? Shouldn’t you have learned how you got caught from your first incident?
And he’d been told that his devices were being monitored while he was on trial and out pending sentencing.
Obviously that means it was an irresistible impulse, and he is not guilty!
If he is unable to resist the impulse, the only solution is to put him down
We don’t live in a normal world.
In the real world, some groups are more equal than others.
FIRST!!!!!!!
Ted S. laughs in your general direction.
“A retired judge has written an open letter to the Chancellor calling on her to include a tax on pointed kitchen knives in the Budget. Former circuit judge Nic Madge wants a tax of around £20 on pointed knives to discourage consumers from using them, which he believes would work in a similar way to charges for plastic bags.”
CWAA
The Chancellor should include penalties for proposing new bans or taxes in the budget. A fine of 10x a persons total assets, including pension.
This time it will work! Banning the sale of cutlery to anyone under 18 didn’t work. Banning private firearms didn’t work. But taxing knives will absolutely work! After all what other solution to problem of Islamic immigrant crime could there possibly be?
Well, we have this model. It’s a classic. We call it the Tepes Treatment.
Hmm, you have a point. I think this idea is a sign of a penetrating intellect. I’d stake a decent wager on this working.
Damn, just ignoring that MLS is down to conference finals?
I wasn’t aware that the Michigan Lutheran Society was still in the running.
wait you people cannot even do true football right? what conference finals? football has no playoffs you play 38 games and who has most points at the end is the winner.
Lets not and say we didn’t.
So you’re saying the Bundesliga and Ligue 1 (34 game season) also don’t know what they’re doing?
34 games is more civilized.
Extrapolating, 0 Games is Most Civilized.
Actually playing the match sometimes leads to the wrong team winning. If you never let the sweaty guys actually play the wise and important commentators are left free to control the entire narrative as it should be.
I thought making sure the right team wins, was what the refs were for.
the wise and important commentators
So Real Madrid and Barça fans.
UCS:
I can’t believe you brought up the Michigan Lutheran Society in public! Fucking SPLITTERS!
— Society of Minnesoda Lutherans
Missouri Lutheran Synod stares at UCS and Pope Jimbo with contempt.
JI:
Oh, I’ll “show you” Missouri Lutheran Synod fucks what I think of you!
*unzips*
Sloopy only cares about the EPL.
Tim Weah did well with Marseille last night.
And I saw that Cristiano Ronaldo only got a provisional suspension so he won’t miss any WC games. This even though similarly violent offenses got two-match bans, or even three.
Which is one more soccer league than the average American cares about.
I missed the Ronaldo news. What a scam. He should have gotten a 3-match ban.
https://www.nbcsports.com/soccer/news/cristiano-ronaldo-avoids-world-cup-suspension-as-fifa-grants-one-year-probation-period
I don’t watch it much since it moved from cable to pay streams. I did happen to catch one match the other day. I forget what channel but they don’t even advertise so who knows.
Or England, France, or Germany. Maybe a few others.
COME TO ROMANIA WE HAVE A BIT OF EVERYTHING BUT NOTHING GREAT
STEVE SMITH LIKE YOUR STYLE – LIKE “BIT OF EVERYTHING” TOO
I heard Romania sucks.
Blood of course.
Only government licensed chefs should be allowed to possess knives.
In the interest of promoting health glibertarians should pledge a dry thanksgiving this year!!!! No alcohol to be imbibed between 26 November 26th and December 1st.
WHOS WITH ME!!!
Were you diagnosed with liver issues?
can’t be diagnosed if you don’t go to the doctor.
No. Retardation.
Pie is on the same health plan as me I see. When my time comes, I want it to be a surprise.
My guess is Pie doesn’t want to get arrested for FUI (flying under the influence).
You bite a few drunk Thanksgiving guests and you are too loaded to fly home.
I recognize the words, but they make no sense put together.
I stand with TedS’.
I might actually do that. I am on the road again though, so I have an advantage.
Alternatively…
I am. Thanksgiving is cancelled in the T&T household. Foster kid got us all sick. We are absolutely wrecked over here
So sorry. May you all recover soon.
Get well soon!
I got real close to sick. I felt like crap yesterday, chugged vitamins. Feeling pretty normal today. I will pass by you later today, I am heading to Fredericksburg.
Thanks RJ and CT. I thought I was going to be the lone escapee, but ended up just being the last to succumb
Safe travels RJ
Get well soon!
Kid brought the vid back from somewhere (probably McDonald’s play place) and we all have it this week.
Gruet is a tradition on my Thanksgiving table.
Gruet Winery is a New Mexico winery and family business founded in 1984
Gruet and gruel I assume
Substitute gruel, it’s close enough, only one letter off.
Gruet Blanc de Noir is right in the pack of French mass-mid-market champagnes.
Better than Moet, not as good as Piper Heidsek. Orthogonal to that merry widow brand.
French – how very unpatriotic. What is wrong with New Mexico I ask?
How much time have you got?
Before I learned about Gruet, I often drank the French sparkling whites.
“ABQ’s finest” is pretty darn good. I imagine it would not be as great a value if bought in Romania unfortunately.
I really, really like their Sauvage blanc de blancs. Low carb friendly, too.
I intend to have a few cocktails, and crack open the first batch of homemade eggnog tomorrow. (I’ve also heard rumors that Mom has baked two separate pies…)
After that though, I’m off behind the Zion curtain for a week, and probably won’t be drinking much. Boo.
Alcohol was easy to come by when I was there.
It is, but I generally don’t drink much when I’m shooting matches.
Afterwards, though?
I never went to a bar. Just liquor stores (which were better than the ones in Talladega) and restaurants. The latter had completely normal modern day selections and prices.
Huh. Things have changed since I was last out there for Nats. Now I’m thinking about taking my cocktail shaker along…
St George was remarkably “like Austin, but 15 years ago.” A bit more zoning going on.
Screw that.
I really missed Thanksgiving last year. My Japanese family tried to make a feast, but it wasn’t even close. The green bean hotdish had to be made with fresh green beans because we couldn’t find canned green beans. You can’t boil fresh green beans long enough to get the flat, limp taste of canned ones.
So this year, I’m doing it up right. Turkey Trot to start the day, then home to clean/drink before cooking/drinking. When guests show up, I should have drunk myself pretty and smart.
I should have drunk myself pretty and smart.
Wow, does such a quantity of alcohol actually exist in this world, or are we talking purely theoretical here?
“Further investigation revealed that Jacques’ residential IP address in Newbury, New Hampshire, was connected to more than 40 other CyberTips recorded by Reddit, Google, Tumblr, and SendVid between 2018 and 2022.”
Wouldn’t want our Law Enforcement Industrial Complex to bother itself following up on 40 tips of child porn.
“Due to a delay in processing, the screenshots did not come to the attention of the Probation Officer until October 16”
Oh, FFS!
“…everything we’ve come to expect from years of government training.”
An Infestation of 2,055 Brown Recluse Spiders (Araneae: Sicariidae) and No Envenomations in a Kansas Home: Implications for Bite Diagnoses in Nonendemic Areas
Somebody get David Arquette in there.
No, seriously. Lock him in the house and don’t let him out. Ever.
They’re called “recluses” and not “aggressive attack and biters” for a reason.
I’ve heard that the best way to tell if you have a brown recluse infestation is by not seeing any other bugs in the house. That sounds like a win to me.
Nooooope.
Brown Recluse bites are nasty.
A friend of mine got bit by one in Florida, he had to get gauze stuffed into the cavity it made.
He said it hurt every bit as much as you think it would when they pulled the old gauze out.
“A Massachusetts family’s basement was flooded with hundreds of gallons of heating oil in a disastrous mishap just days before they were scheduled to host Thanksgiving after a company pumped the batch into the wrong house on Tuesday….
The Medford home was equipped with a pipe to push the oil into a tank in the basement — except there was no tank. Homeowner Dan Nguyen told NBC 10 Boston that the oil tank was removed five years ago.”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/25/us-news/hundreds-of-gallons-of-heating-oil-pumped-directly-into-massachusetts-home-after-company-delivers-to-wrong-address/
Yikes!
Worst part is when they get billed for all the oil delivered to them.
“Why is it taking so long to fill the tank?”
The delivery company was in a rush and that is why they made this mistake.
The customer demanded that they get the delivery as soon as possible. “I want it as oily as possible!” is what they said.
World’s Strongest Woman winner stripped of title after organizers discovered she was born a man
https://nypost.com/2025/11/25/sports/worlds-strongest-woman-winner-jammie-booker-stripped-of-title-after-organizers-discovered-she-was-born-a-man/
well it seems the outrage worked this time
“Discovered”
More like, the organizers were embarrassed when it was reported publicly that the winner was a man.
I think they buried the real lede.
“A relative of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has been detained by federal immigration officials in Massachusetts.
Bruna Caroline Ferreira, “a criminal illegal alien from Brazil,” was taken into custody in Revere, Mass., after allegedly overstaying her tourist visa that expired in June 1999, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told NBC News.
Ferreira shares an 11-year-old son with Leavitt’s older brother, Michael….
Ferreira, who came to the United States with her family as a child, was once arrested on suspicion of battery. The result of the case was not immediately clear, but no charges against Ferreira could be located in Massachusetts’ online court records.”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/26/us-news/white-house-karoline-leavitt-criminal-illegal-alien-relative-bruna-caroline-ferreira-detained-by-ice/
That doesn’t sound criminal.
She should have been back in Brazil before July 4, 1999
DACA
An illegal order issued decades after she was required to be out of the country. Irrelevant.
Doesn’t make her a criminal.
26 years is plenty of time to commit other crimes.
“Doesn’t make her a criminal”
Depends on whether she overstayed a visa (civil) or crossed the border illegally (criminal).
Honestly not sure how this works for children, though.
Regardless, doesn’t sound like she’s here legally. And the first two letters of DACA stand for “Deferred Action”. Much like the probation given to the Biden Horde, it doesn’t confer legal status, it just postpones deportation.
Ferreira, who came to the United States with her family as a child
So where are her parents now, did they overstay their visa too?
“The World’s Strongest Woman competition only realized the initial winner was transgender when super graphic porn videos started swirling online, according to the runner-up who has now been crowned champion.
Jammie Booker, 28, was sensationally disqualified on Tuesday after organizers announced she had violated the Official Strongman Games World Championship rules by not competing in the category aligned with her biological sex.”
https://nypost.com/2025/11/25/sports/worlds-strongest-woman-organizers-allegedly-found-out-winner-was-born-a-man-when-explicit-videos-emerged/
super graphic?
there’s a lot of sick people out there.
Jamie is a he, not a she.
Neon-colored.
Milkshakes and lattes will be hit by a sugar tax for the first time as Labour moves to extend the levy in a bid to tackle obesity and improve the nation’s health
It will also lower the threshold for the levy to hit more sugary drinks amid concerns in government that some companies are effectively gaming the system
In 2016 George Osborne, the Conservative chancellor, announced the levy on drinks with a sugar content of more than 5g of sugar per 100ml, a threshold which led to numerous brands reformulating products to avoid the tax.
This was hailed a success by campaigners, and resulted in the sugar content of soft drinks falling by 46 per cent, but officials now say that “the levy effectively created a ‘target’ of just below the 5g threshold, and products have clustered below 5g as a result”. The government will lower the threshold in a bid to hit more drinks.
https://x.com/Steven_Swinford/status/1993086021542482033
The last government told soft drink companies to cut sugar levels to below 5g/100ml. Now those who complied are accused of “gaming the system”
Britain is showing us the next step beyond government in California. Amazing how we have all these examples of worse and worse governance, and people don’t see it.
They see it, and they beg for it. The problem is they don’t get to where they can get it, they insist on bringing it here.
UK has always been about 30-40 years ahead of the US ever since the postwar. Now it’s down to 10-20 years lead time before their stupidity becomes ours.
Tax! Tax! Tax! Tax!
Lovely tax! Wonderful Tax!
Tax ta-a-a-a-a-ax tax ta-a-a-a-a-ax tax
Lovely tax! Lovely tax! Lovely tax! Lovely tax!
Tax tax tax tax!
UK’s Treasury chief set to raise taxes once again in her second budget
I know it is heresy here to say there out to be a law, but hear me out. I propose a new criminal law, any person who shall pass, promote, or enforce any law intended to improve the health of ordinary citizens by dictating, prohibiting, or taxing a voluntary private food or drink choice said citizens are making or might in future make, shall be guilty of tyrannical busybodydom. The punishment for such behavior shall be death, or such lesser punishment as a court shall decide appropriate, but in no case less than 10 years imprisonment and loss of all pay, allowances, pensions, or other benefits accruing from any period of employment by any level of government. Additionally any person convicted under this law shall be forever barred from public employment, or any profession requiring a license.
Sensible policies for a happier Britain.
“By regulation, the following are not to be regarded as ‘food’ for the purposes of any law and regulartion and shall be regulated as chemical additives – sugar, fat, protein, carbohydrate…”
/FDA
Lewis’s Law?
“But if we aren’t told what to do, what will we do?” /the masses
Cool, now we can prosecute the FDA, and execute the lot of them!
Sorry, Jar, but they’re simply fulfilling the role of enforcing your law by defining what qualifies as food or drink that are exempt from legislation.
They should also be stripped of any political appointments they have been elected into and ineligible to run for office in the future upon conviction, also, the death sentence should be the most likely outcome unless there were extremely extenuating circumstances.
Amended for accuracy.
Those taxes used to be all the rage with the Democrats. But now they’re champions of buying junk food with EBT. They wouldn’t know a principle if it bit them in the ass.
Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-24460-3
Highly Selective Cannibalism is a great album name.
Is this a euphemism for cunnilingus?
Who wants to eat an uggo?
I remember reading an article from the late 1800s about pigmies being hunted in Africa by other tribes, they didn’t consider them human and therefore fair game.
“‘The Creeps at the Failing New York Times are at it again,’ Trump told his followers on Truth Social on Wednesday morning. ‘Radical Left Lunatics in the soon to fold New York Times did a hit piece on me that I am perhaps losing my Energy, despite facts that show the exact opposite.’
‘They know this is wrong, as is almost every thing that they write about me, including election results, ALL PURPOSELY NEGATIVE. This cheap “RAG” is truly an “ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.” The writer of the story, Katie Rogers, who is assigned to write only bad things about me, is a third rate reporter who is ugly, both inside and out.'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15328427/Trump-slams-ugly-female-reporter-NYT-hit-piece-creepy-health-rumors.html
Well, the left is never gonna back off from the contempt and the lawfare against him so why not give as good as he gets.
Justice secretary wants jury trials scrapped except in most serious cases
What tier will handle offensive speech?
I think this is the crux of the issue. Juries tend to let the twitterers go too much.
“At Runnymede, at Runnymede,
Your rights were won at Runnymede!
No freeman shall be fined or bound,
Or dispossessed of freehold ground,
Except by lawful judgment found
And passed upon him by his peers.
Forget not, after all these years,
The Charter Signed at Runnymede.”
The idea of law as emergent from the values of the community is at odds with the more enlightened modern view of everything within the State, nothing outside the State! How dare you question it you fascist!
“Vladimir Putin has sent one of his top generals to Venezuela, along with troops tasked with training Nicolás Maduro’s forces, according to a Ukrainian intelligence official…
Ukraine’s Lt General Kyrlo Budanov has said that Colonel General Oleg Makarevich is leading Russia’s ‘Equator Task Force’, a group of more than 120 personnel who are coaching the Venezuelan army on everything from infantry tactics to drone use.
Budanov claims that the Russian mission was already in place before the United States dramatically increased its number of equipment and personnel close to Venezuela.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15327683/Putin-sends-general-Venezuela-troops-tasked-training-President-Maduros-forces-US-considers-attacking-South-American-country.html
Who knows?
Guyana looking a lot like Ukraine?
I don’t believe a word of anything coming from any nation currently at war or funding a war.
Wait a minute, so that would be almost all of….I see.
Do armies have line crossing ceremonies? Or is it just a naval tradition?
Pakistan and India do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXoWNe_HAak
Mike Solana
@micsolana
what the press has done to my holiday is borderline treasonous. a pirate wires guide to the CORRECT thanksgiving day dishes, with tips on how to run your kitchen like a king.
A Thanksgiving Day Guide for Americans of Class and Taste
a tour of my table with respect for the classics, and tossing out those bullshit recipes, it’s a pirate’s guide for thanksgiving day — with tips on how to run your kitchen like a king
https://www.piratewires.com/p/a-thanksgiving-day-guide-for-americans
First and foremost this is a feast. This is family around a table eating. Talking about eating. And, critically, remembering past Thanksgivings where there was a lot of eating. That means the food doesn’t only need to be great, it needs to be traditional. It needs to be thematic, and dramatic.
This is to say, when a man tells me, as if he’s really edgy, “I don’t like turkey, so we do prime rib,” I become angry. Prime rib on Thanksgiving Day isn’t cute. It’s offensive. No, it isn’t illegal, but, much like porn, if you can’t control yourself you should at least refrain from discussing your disgusting fetishes in public.
The basics are sacred. And fortunately for anyone just dipping their toes into management of the holiday, they are also simple: turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, two vegetable dishes, at least one (but ideally both) of which should be seasonal, and a pie for dessert (apple or pumpkin).
In terms of bread, it either comes out of the oven warm, or you leave it off the table. Don’t waste our time.
A crowded overflowing kind of table is canon. Your guests have to go “wow,” “holy shit,” “that is a lot of food.” Your mom has to chase people out of the house with leftovers wrapped in aluminum foil. That night, everyone has to say, “I am so stuffed, I am in pain, if I eat another bite I will die.” And then you all have to have a sandwich.
NOW. Onto my method.
At my house, Thanksgiving is a two-day process.
…
That is a weird, rambling article.
I think it is an intentional style of writing popular in some circles
Bastardized Dave Barry?
Bastardized modern Dave Barry, after he stopped being funny. That was a sad day…
Barry is no longer funny? But is he still a libertarian? Barry and Shel Richman (remember him taking shots over on TOS?) in their youth used to discuss libertarianism and Rand and it always seemed like a lot stuck with Barry.
Dave pretty much lost his ability to do comedy when he started writing novels (the ones that I’ve read have been awful.)
Mike Solana can go eat out a mangy dog’s asshole at high noon in the town square. How’s that for a disgusting fetish?
I feel like traditions are important, and have held strong with turkey on Thanksgiving. I have no issues with additional meats being added to the feasting, but turkey is non-negotiable.
That’s quality writing.
I’ll echo Neph here. Turkey for Thanksgiving is a must. We’ll also do a ham this year, but it never once occurred to me to not do turkey.
When having thanksgiving alone, I will occassionally substitute something like a Cornish Hen for the turkey. It’s an homage, representing a miniaturized traditional meal.
Agreed. I have done Boston Market Thanksgiving when I was alone. It’s delicious and no prep work.
I don’t give a damn about the turkey. I just want the dressing and mashed potatoes smothered in gravy. And a package of those sweet Hawaiian rolls to mop the plate with. Bring it!
The only Thanksgiving tradition I really care about is getting together with my family. The food, IMO, is unimportant as long as everyone enjoys it.
I am cooking a turkey. And stuffing and colcannon potatoes and pumpkin pie. And some green vegetable which will get a really simple prep. No yellow/orange vegetables. No salad. The oven will be running all day but the stove top not so much. I’ll do an overnight fermenting bread which will be baked Friday morning for the sandwiches.
Oh, and gravy of course.
I’ve done prime rib for Thanksgiving. My Mom’s turkey is not good, so we offered to do the meat.
Turkey takes too long, is hard to cook dark and light meat evenly, and, without injections or brining, kinda boring.
Add me to the Turkey is Mandatory list. Gotta have a bird.
Also, my hometown is a major producer of turkeys. Commie claptrap that espouses non-Turkey meals would really hurt their pocketbooks.
Prime rib is good for any occasion.
If steak is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
Better than composite rib.
Don’t be irrational.
But, Pi is essential to Thanksgiving.
Prime rib is a good choice for the host because no matter how you divide it there is always a remainder.
Prime rib is good for any occasion.
Seconded.
I hear it’s frowned upon for Lent.
I am deeply disappointed at how you people are not Murika enough to deep fry turkey.
That’s a southern fad.
To be fair, we have quite a few southerners here.
I’m deep frying one on Friday. Man the extinguishers!
Pointless and too messy. Plus the resultant gravy is sub-par.
Mrs. TOK has a strict policy of the number of kitchen gadgets we’re allowed taking up space in the house. Especially ones like a turkey fryer that only get used one or two times a year. I’m very much on board with that too. I’m not cooking this time, but we do have a frozen turkey she got cheap so I’ll quarter it and put it on the smoker when we get a nice day.
I have a buddy who is a retired fire captain. He threatened to unfriend anyone who tried to deep fry a turkey.
His beef is how many house fires start because the yahoos decide that because of the rain, the smart thing to do is to move the fryer inside the garage. Then when they drop the turkey in and the flames shoot out the top, the house starts on fire.
Milan prosecutors ask for 20 months’ sentence for Chiara Ferragni
According to the prosecutors, who oversaw the investigation carried out by the Economic and Financial Police Unit between 2021 and 2022, Ferragni allegedly deceived her followers and consumers, and made unfair profits of approximately €2.2 million from the sales of products for which no charity donation was made, as was instead advertised.
https://ww.fashionnetwork.com/news/Milan-prosecutors-ask-for-20-months-sentence-for-chiara-ferragni,1786081.html
Jail more influencers
Example N+1 for thinking the Copernican Principle, and all “paradoxes”/probability estimates that include it as an assumption may in fact be bullshit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPFFUWPXAFs
Thanks. That was a good listen.
We have an 18 year old Frigidaire front loading washing machine(rebadged Elextrolux). Other than having the drain pump replaced about 7 years ago it has been problem free. The drain pump motor is making a racket again and the machine intermittently does not drain all the water out. My wife has to run a spin/drain cycle to get the water out. Anyway she has grown to dislike this front loading machine because she can never get the stench out of the door gasket. Other people I’ve talked to say the same thing about their front loading machines. So now she wants to buy to new top loading machine. I can buy a new drain pump for $50 from Ebay and it takes me about an hour to install it. Decisions, decisions…… I am strongly leaning towards the cheaper option.
An hour plus how much cutting yourself on sheet metal?
I have big hands so I usually end up with some cuts and scrapes. The hardest part is getting those hose clamps off and on.
Get the drain pump, or in three eyars you’ll be getting another fancy washing machine – and again three years after that…
My brother has had to replace 1 dryer and 2 washing machines in less than 7 years. He told me that all these machines had control board failures and it was more cost effective to buy a new one than to fix them.
I have an issue with the brake for the drum in my washing machine, but the damn thing won’t physically budge. I don’t know if it was tiled into the alcove at some point, or if I’m just not able to apply good force to the machine since it is peactically an anchorite, but I don’t know how hard it would be to reach the part to see if it’s fixable by me.
Replacing the brake on a washing machine looks to be major surgery…..
😭
Also, does an unhappy wife cost more than a new washing machine?
An unhappy wife is cheap to come by, but expensive to get rid of.
Have you thought of going the Henry VIII route? It would allow you to dissolve the monastaries for additional funds.
You have to be careful about that, it sets up a lot of internal strife for your heirs and you can start lagging the continental powers.
UCS:
Bite your tongue!
I’m far more flexible than my predecessors when it comes to annulments and divorces. No need to be hasty and start your own church.
Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo – Your chursh has been dissolved for repeated failure to pay the nonconformist denomination fee as required. Attempting to present yourself as a church or clergy without paying the reconstitution fee and all back fees is a capital felony.
Do you enjoy doing your own laundry?
Here’s the neat thing about dressing simply – I don’t have to futz with the settings or separate anything. The most effort comes in folding them in preparation for putting them away.
Now if I were doing anyone else’s laundry – I hope that didn’t require fancy treatment.
Laundry is my favorite chore. Switching loads takes no time, and folding can be done in front of the TV. As I fold things I put them in stacks by which drawer they belong, and I put things away during commercials.
We prefer a top load, and I have heard about that gasket problem. My advice, though, is to make the $50 repair and only get rid of the machine if forced. A new one is a big expense, and in general the newer models are not going to last you 18 years. But if you are getting a new one, find a Speed Queen. It’s more expensive but we love ours and it’s built like a tank. And it comes with a 7 year warranty.
Where do you find Speed Queens? It sounds like I’m in the market for a replacement washing machine.
Speed Queen (they have a great warranty) and Electrolux would be my preferred brands.
A Speed Queen is around $1500. You can buy two Maytags for that money.
We have a friend who lives in Illinois and he found it on sale at an appliance store. So just look online and see what you can find. You might luck out and find a black Friday sale.
@CT – From what I hear you’d have to buy three over the same time frame.
@TOK – I hope This page being blank is a quirk of my work proxy.
@UnCivil, that map is showing a local store for me so it is probably your proxy.
Speed Queen.
Maybe they thought they found the loophole, I don’t know. But I do know this is exactly the kind of thing the mortgage guy told us we could not do when we bought our second home. He said it was illegal to do for either mortgage rate or for tax purposes.
Did you forget to tell him that you were a Democrat politician?
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, says it is “patently false” that Swalwell, D-Calif., claimed a Washington, D.C., home as his primary residence and that Swalwell “explicitly disclaimed any intent to occupy the District of Columbia home as his primary residence in a sworn affidavit attached to his mortgage agreement.” The affidavit “made clear that the home would be his wife’s primary residence—not his own,” and Swalwell “was and remains a permanent resident of California,” the lawsuit says.
Now we just need to look at his and her tax returns to see where they claimed residency.
I would be so happy if the court went “You claimed your primary residence as DC, making you ineligable for congressional office from California”.
That way he was never banging his Chinese nookie in his wife’s house?
Just like Sen Ron Wyden, D-NY.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
My neck, my face, I got chills . . . .
Awesome.
My neck, my back, my…
My cat is snoring again. She’s quieter than my wife (and I).
I have a snoring cat too.
I’m confused
Russia said on Wednesday that the leak of a recording of a call between top advisers to Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was an unacceptable attempt to undermine Ukraine peace negotiations and amounted to hybrid warfare.
Bloomberg News published the transcript, opens new tab of an October 14 telephone call in which Trump envoy Steve Witkoff advised Putin’s foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov on how to pitch a Ukraine peace plan to Trump.
Bloomberg said it had reviewed the recording but did not say how it got access to a highly sensitive conversation between top officials of the world’s two largest nuclear powers.
Ushakov said that his conversations with Witkoff were not intended for publication and they should not have been leaked.
“This is unacceptable,” Ushakov told Russian media. He said the leak was clearly aimed at hindering discussions between Russia and the United States.
I have no idea what was being done by who (or why), but it sounds like a few somebodies need to go to prison, preferably in Siberia.
“Let’s be honest, the turkey is the worst part of Thanksgiving anyway. So why are we going to waste our time, money, and energy lugging a 12-pound frozen bird across town and into our kitchens when half your guests probably won’t even eat it?
My solution: host a Sides-giving. Only the best parts of the Thanksgiving feast!
No turkey coma, keeps your vegan friends happy and you won’t put yourself at risk of the emergency room (turkey frying and carving accidents lead to hundreds of ER visits and millions of dollars in damage every year.)”
https://www.salon.com/2025/11/26/skip-the-turkey-host-a-sides-giving/
Fuck you, this is America!
How are you doing a proper gravy without a pan full of drippings?
It’s Salon, they probably don’t know how to make gravy and think it comes in a jar.
Neph,
Sausage gravy!
pistoffnick:
Sausage gravy (sawmill, country, and redeye gravies) are all fantastic, but are not right for Thanksgiving, although I could allow it if we’re going deep fried turkey more along the fried chicken route.
If I had vegan friends, they can thankfully eat my share of kale, tofu, and quinoa.
“That’s Baconated Kale, and Quinoa with pulled brisket.”
“What about the tofu?”
“We threw it out, it wasn’t fit for human consumption.”
keeps your vegan friends happy
Even if there were such a thing, why would I want to keep them happy?
How many of them can ever actually be happy? How many chose the lifestyle to exert control over others by bullying over their self-imposed dietary decisions?
Yeah, lol
About a half hour interview with Thomas Massie going over the Epstein files.
I’m excited by Derp joining Walmart. That’s just too good to pass up. I’ve been trying to get out, but these holiday weeks are shit for hiring, as I’ve discovered before. (Yes, much of it *is* me, but certainly not all.) Also wonderfully timed, as my first Walgo submission is in.
In the middle of my surprise three-day weekend, today’s for putting out some more applications, I s’pose. I *am* trying to get out, as I’ve been there a shockingly long time. Damn. I’ve now worked there as long as I was managing editor of the Peru Tribune. Yeeek.
But as he said, it’s reliable and *easy* money with plenty of observational fun thrown in. Curious as to what he’ll be doing there.
Institutional racism
The Interior Department on Tuesday shared plans to increase national park entry fees for non-residents.
The new policy will be applied at 11 of the most visited national parks in the U.S., where non-residents without an annual pass will pay an additional $100 per person to enter.
Annual passes will cost $80 for U.S. residents and $250 for non-residents.
The Trump administration says the new costs are reflective of President Trump’s “America First” initiatives that ensure “American taxpayers who already support the National Park System receive the greatest benefit.”
This is a ploy to shear the slanty-eyed sheep. Somebody should tell the Justice Dept.
“Usha Vance doesn’t do dishes
JD and Usha Vance can’t escape rumors that their marriage is on the rocks. It’s been less than a month since the Turning Point USA (TPUSA) conference where the vice president hugged Erika Kirk, the organization’s CEO and chair, in an oddly intimate manner onstage. He also publicly insulted his wife by complaining she won’t leave her Hindu faith and convert to Catholicism. So it’s no surprise that the gossip mill churned earlier this month, when Usha Vance was spotted at an event with Melania Trump at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina, without her wedding ring. ”
https://www.salon.com/2025/11/26/usha-vance-doesnt-do-dishes-so-why-the-wedding-ring-excuse/
It’s over now.
“She just can’t escape the rumors that I keep writing about.”
Amanda wants to split them up so she can move in on JD?
Her whole schtick seems to be starting a rumor and then claiming everyone is talking about that rumor.
She wants a 3-way with JD, but she doesn’t want to go down on Usha because she doesn’t like curry. So she is breaking them up so he and Widow Kirk can invite her over for sexy times.
Are these rumors anywhere other than Bluesky and Salon?
Sounded like he was joking to me.
But I’m not a Salon writer laser-focused on taking down Orange Hitler.
We had to put our 16+ year old doggo down last Thursday. Toby was a large dog, 80lbs, and had developed severe arthritis in his hips and was getting to the point where he was having an extremely difficult time getting his back legs underneath him. He would sit on his haunches and try to rock himself forward and would whine in pain with each attempt. Often it would take him 10 or more tries and he would not tolerate us trying to help him to his feet. He had other age related issues as well, his body was failing. We had him put down in our home, we didn’t want to traumatize him with a car ride and vet visit. He went peacefully and with no stress. My wife and I are are still grieving and our house seems empty without his presence. We shall miss him.
Sorry 🙁
Now my stomach hurts.
16 years for a big dog is pretty amazing though.
We are both still dealing with grief and questioning whether it was too soon. We keep telling ourselves better 1 week too soon than a day late.
I’m sorry. 😢
I’m so sorry.
My old mutt had the same hip issues. Our dog loved our vet, so I walked him to his final appointment and felt like a traitor the whole way. He was just happy to be out for a walk. Completely gassed by the time we had walked the half mile to our vet though.
For me, getting up in the morning and not seeing him at the bottom of the stairs waiting was the worse. First thought for months was a stab of panic, thinking I had forgotten him outside the night before, followed by the sickening realization that he had gone on to the Happy Pheasant Hunting Grounds.
I’m sorry. I didn’t know you could have a vet make a house call. That was a really thoughtful idea.
Yes, you can have this done in your home. You pay a premium but it’s worth it if your pet gets stressed by a car ride or vet visit. The vet also transported our dog to the cremation place as part of the service.
Sorry dude.
Sorry
Ouch, that stinks. Sad as it is, you probably did the right thing. It’s not as if that condition would improve over time. My BIL has a dog that’s on the back end of her life as well, and showing signs of not being able to move around very well. He eyesight and hearing is mostly gone too, so I suspect she may not make it far into next year. Treasure the time you had with him, and be glad you gave him a good life and a peaceful end.
Sorry, CtC. Damn furballs worm their way into our hearts and lives and leave too soon.
My rottweiler had the same issue, he weighed 110lbs.
It’s rough.
Pie’s “sugary drinks tax” link:
It was deemed a success because drinks makers lowered sugar content. Did they happen to mention how many people actually lost weight because of it?
As much as I’m concerned about the number of obese people we have in the US, I’m doubtful this type of law makes any difference. I’d like to see the numbers too.
Noted patriot and legal scholar
Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-Va.) on Tuesday said President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s involvements in efforts to prosecute members of Congress who participated in the “illegal orders” video could force the case to be thrown out on the grounds of “undue command influence.”
“It’s not just Pete Hegseth. It is also the president himself. Both of them have been involved in undue command influence. And I will tell you, there’s no faster way to kill a case in the Uniform Code of Military Justice, in a military court, than undue command influence. And this goes all the way to the top,” Vindman said during a Tuesday appearance on MS NOW, formerly known as MSNBC.
“The interesting thing here is that if this ever sees the inside of a courtroom, and I doubt it, Pete Hegseth and potentially even the president might be called as witnesses, because that’s typically what happens in undue command influence when that issue is raised,” he added.
Why would these trials be held by a military court? Trump must be planning to declare martial law.
Kelly is retired military. The threat is to recall him to active duty and then prosecute under USMJ.
I think I fucked up the acronym
What’s undue command influence?
It is an actual military judicial thing – since the officers serving as judges are subordinate to someone (as opposed to civil judiciary).
These assholes remind me of the kid who puts his finger up to his brother’s face and says “I’m not touching you!” and then cries to mommy and daddy when the brother finally has enough and smacks him.
Only this time they’re dealing with other people’s lives. They’re trying to convince other people to “resist Hitler”, but when one of those other people does something illegal, they’ll deny any involvement.
Faithless allies, just as this country frequently is with “allies” of convenience.
“And once you have been raped you have an aura, a stamp of brokenness that until you have begun to heal, constantly attracts more abusers who can smell your vulnerability and do their best to exploit it. It is clear in all the reports coming out that Epstein and Maxwell conducted interviews with each young woman to assess the degree of this brokenness and exploitability. Or maybe the attack was brought on by living in America, a country currently led by a president, an adjudicated rapist, a man who openly hates women, living in a zone caught in a childhood sexual abuse seizure…
The attack on my body was still shocking. Here, at 72, some 66 years after my own abuse, after years of work attempting to heal through every kind of therapy trying to transform my being from a colonized entity, an invaded landscape a field of rubble. All those years of dedicated work and still this rape lives in my cells, lived in the cells of Virginia, in the collective cells of millions, actually a billion women survivors who attempt to live every day, struggling their way out of darkness.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/26/epstein-victims-justice
Eve Ensler changed her name to V .
“adjudicated rapist”
I just love this word play.
rape lives in my cells, lived in the cells of Virginia, in the collective cells of millions
Rape changes your DNA does it?
“Just a few days ago, this seemed like a weird overreach, like when Trump used a keynote speech at a McDonald’s to demand more tartare sauce on Filet-O-Fish sandwiches. But in this case it really happened. Trump told majority Paramount Skydance shareholder Larry Ellison that he wished someone would make Rush Hour 4, and now Rush Hour 4 is being made.”
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/26/trump-rush-hour-sequel
What?
“Donald Trump’s surprising list of favorite movies, TV shows, and music”
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-favorite-pop-culture-movies-tv-books-music-2016-8
Who gives a fuck?
Huh, I expected Home Alone 2 to be at the top of the list.
It is interesting, just on a casual level.
Bloodsport was kind of a surprise. The rest of it was pretty basic.
Is that the Oracle Larry Ellison?
Yep. He’s converted a considerable amount of that Oracle wealth into other businesses (and sailboat racing).
I knew he had a thing for boats, I just didn’t know how many other acquisitions he’d made.
Q’s father asked Richard Strauss if he ever thought about writing an oboe concerto, and was stunned to find out some months later that Strauss had decided to write one.
I wonder if rape victims are higher or lower than illegal alien rapists on the progressive victim stack.
Oh, that was weird.
Supposed to be a reply to that flapdoodle from “V”.
Trouble on the plantation
But one new workforce challenge facing the party has flown under the public radar: a staff union.
The DNC ratified its first union contract just this summer, and despite the generational opportunity for Democrats to step up against a uniquely toxic Republican administration, the union has spent its nascent months distracted by marginal grievances. This should be especially worrying to anyone hoping for Democrats to make gains in next year’s midterms. Party leadership, including new chairman Ken Martin, must act before it’s too late.
Martin’s recent return-to-work announcement, with staff required in the party’s headquarters five days a week starting February, was the latest case in point. Within hours, the union was in uproar, describing the decision as “shocking” and “especially callous.” Hyperbolic responses to requests like this can be no way to run a political party.
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There’s no question that working at a national political party is a tough gig. Martin himself has called his role as chairman “the shittiest job in America.” And the DNC should strive to be an employer that attracts and retains top talent. But solidarity with labor should not mean ceding the operational excellence required to win elections. The DNC must show it can uphold workers’ rights and run a disciplined, high-performance organization — or risk failing at both.
I thought saving America from the cartoon villain was a labor of love.
Nice party ya got here, be a shame if something bad were to happen to it.
The DNC must show it can uphold workers’ rights and run a disciplined, high-performance organization — or risk failing at both.
I wouldn’t trust the DNC to run a lemonade stand.
You don’t want watered down, unsweetened, locally grown, kale substituted “lemonade” that only costs $42 a glass and takes 6 weeks to receive? Literally Hitler.
| But I do know this is exactly the kind of thing the mortgage guy told us we could not do when we bought our second home. He said it was illegal to do for either mortgage rate or for tax purposes.
I was talking to my mortgage guy last week that has been in the business for over 30 years. We were looking at a rural property to buy but when he came back with a 6.9% mortgage we balked. He explained it was so high as it was for a second home. He said in no circumstances should you try and fib about that as it was something they could and would nail you hard for attempting. That lead to a Tish James conversation, in which he said that while he has seen people prosecuted for lying about that, he has never heard of anyone being charged for what they charged Trump in regards to inflating (or deflating) the value of a property for a loan unless the bank was defrauded.
But Trump is an uncouth person, and the Dems are very couth!
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/26/politics/georgia-prosecutor-drops-trump-election-interference-case
A Georgia prosecutor on Wednesday officially dropped the historic racketeering case against President Donald Trump and others for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election, closing the chapter in a legal effort once seen as a grave threat to Trump’s political future.
The move means that Trump has dodged criminal legal jeopardy for his attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden. The federal cases against Trump from special counsel Jack Smith on election interference leading up to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot and mishandling classified documents were previously dropped.
“Given the complexity of the legal issues at hand — ranging from constitutional questions and the Supremacy Clause to immunity, jurisdiction, venue, speedy-trial concerns, and access to federal records — and even assuming each of these issues were resolved in the State’s favor, bringing this case before a jury in 2029, 2030, or even 2031 would be nothing short of a remarkable feat,” Peter Skandalakis, the prosecutor on the case, wrote Wednesday.
Orange Hitler prevails again.
Ah, more word games. One person’s “attempts to overturn” is another person’s “questioning the validity of”.
He’s the craftiest MFer ever!
And the walls come tumbling down. Again.
Hope you are all having a great week. I will probably won’t be online much this long weekend, so Happy Thanksgiving and I hope you all get some well-deserved time off.
👋😎👍
Happy T-Day to you too TOK!
Happy Thanksgiving and associated long weekend to you and yours TOK!
Damn, I missed the second Saab installment.
At long last, a practical solution
Deputies in the Italian parliament have voted unanimously to introduce the crime of femicide – the murder of a woman, motivated by gender – as a distinct law to be punished with a life sentence.
In a symbolic move, the bill was approved on the day dedicated to the elimination of violence against women worldwide.
The idea of a law on femicide had been discussed in Italy before but the murder of Giulia Cecchettin by her ex-boyfriend was a tragedy that shocked the country into action.
Italy is a special place, I reckon.
I’m glad to see that they are modernizing. Can’t keep living in the pasta.
“Obese Michigan mother charged with manslaughter for killing 11-year-old adopted daughter after sitting on her”
https://thepostmillennial.com/obese-michigan-mother-charged-with-manslaughter-for-killing-11-year-old-adopted-daughter-after-sitting-on-her
Doesn’t say how much she weighs.
“Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed a law on Tuesday that bans “hair-based discrimination” in the state. The Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (CROWN) Act amends the Pennsylvania Human Rights Act to expand the definition of race to include “traits historically associated with race, including hair texture, protective hairstyles, and religious creed.”
The signing of the bill makes Pennsylvania the 28th state to prohibit “discrimination based on hair texture and protective hairstyles historically associated with race, ensuring that all Pennsylvanians can live and work without fear of racial bias in their hair or appearance,” a press release stated.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/josh-shapiro-signs-law-banning-hair-based-discrimination-in-pa-to-respect-identity-and-culture
serious business
And to think that Josh Shapiro has been taken seriously in the past…
Save the mullets!
It would be hilarious if someone sued claiming he was discriminated against because of a mullet.
So basically it means anyone can wear their hair any way they want. I mean, they can’t seriously mean to apply this only to one race? Right??
*Grabs popcorn*
Political purge!
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s transition team has notified more than 170 members of the Eric Adams administration that they are expected to depart their positions by the time Mamdani takes office on Jan. 1, according to City Hall sources familiar with the development.
A spokeswoman for the Mamdani transition team confirmed the notifications to Adams’ political appointees Tuesday. At least some of those senior administration members received the news via phone calls, according to staffers familiar with the matter.
They are all competent loyal patriots dedicated to making New York a better place. He can’t just waltz in and fire them all because of their party affiliation.