Good morning one and all to another lovely day!
Congress in what has become a too familiar situation will return to resolve a missed deadline
FCC Taking Enforcement Steps Against Robocall Scam Providers After Years of Abuse
California presses wealth tax despite national unpopularity, billionaires threats to flee
California Drops Suit Against Trump Administration for Pulling Funding for High-Speed Train
New York Subway Ends Its MetroCard Era and Switches Fully to Tap-and-Go Fares
Somali Scammers Allegedly Stole Almost As Much In Minnesota As Entire Somalia GDP
French Cinema Icon Brigitte Bardot Dies at 91
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
predicts war will ‘end’ soon or ‘go on for a long time’
It will end gradually then suddenly.
Somali Scammers Allegedly Stole Almost As Much In Minnesota As Entire Somalia GDP
The Land of Opportunity!
“Hard working and ambitious!”
-The Left
And the food trucks zOMG!
Never had Somali food. Is it any good?
From the reactions of that Mayoral candidate… it’s 🤢
African food is a lot of lentils and warm spices. It can be good
Never had Somali food. Is it any good?
Don’t know. Unless you are willing to venture into Little Somalia (narrator: no one is), there are no Somali restaurants here in Minnesoda.
One of the things that I like to point out when arguing with proggies about our new vibrant neighbors is that the Somalis have not really contributed anything to the local culture. The Hmong gave us kick ass farmer’s markets. The Vietnamese gave us kick ass pho restaurants.
Of course, technically the Somalis have given us countless childcare centers, autism clinics, NGO’s and served countless meals to children. So maybe they are the most altruistic wave of immigrants ever.
Pope, we were told under duress that Somalis built the state!
I like it. It can be bland or spicy depending on the restaurant.
Don’t get on an airplane just after eating Somali food. Axe me how I know!
I went. Only white people in the restaurant. Still weren’t skeered. We had a good time watching the Vikings with the rest of the patrons.
Saw a post somewhere from some dude who went to Africa for the Peace Corps, to Senegal. Basically, the culture was all about stealing from the government to support your family or tribe. Probably same thing with Somililanders.
Somalia’s GDP was $11.97 billion in 2024, according to a release from the country’s Bureau of National Statistics.
What do we think the answer really is?
The magic choo-choo is already years behind with years to go.
Everyone forgets but the original, paltry ~$10B in bonds were expected to attract private investment. With no chance of Trump’s admin shoveling any more federal money into it, and CA clearly not having the means themselves – even the delusional will have to admit it ain’t going to happen.
They won’t. The state is also funneling $1B each year to the vanity project.
So they’ll get in built a century from now?
I am a construction worker on CA HSR, as was my father and his father. Son, someday you will be too.
It 5 years, 2 years ahead of schedule to build the Hoover Dam.
They may as well plan to power it with cold fusion. They’ll both be ready at the same time.
lol @ 4×20’s and my favorite “What, me worry?” pic of Walz on that fraud story.
Mornin’.
The sad thing about the whole fraud thing is how badly it has been managed after people started to learn about it.
The guy who made the video of himself visiting empty daycare centers is pathetic. Even worse, it isn’t the first time they’ve been busted (this story was Jan, 2025)
You’d think that after the first time, they’d be smart enough to tone things down a bit. King Walz and Brother Keith should have been out there telling the fraudsters to cool it for a few months until this all fizzled out. But, nope. Full speed ahead.
Of course, when the local media is so completely in on the con, why would you worry?
I think that this suddenly going national is what really flummoxed Walz. They thought that they could continue the quid pro quo of allowing Somalis to loot the treasury in return for them engaging in massive voter fraud.
Congress in what has become a too familiar situation will return to resolve a missed deadline
Let the handouts stay expired.
If some giveaway has an expiration date, that’s not really a “deadline” for extending it. It’s the originally intended end of the giveaway.
Fortunately, with spending hawk Trump wielding the veto pen, we can be sure that even if Congress does revive the giveaway, it won’t make it past his desk. Right?
“But we need the Paul vote.”
I think those deadlines are more for:
a) An accounting gimmick. Since it will expire, you don’t have to count it as an expense forever. You know it will be extended forever, but to pass it initially you get a better budget score if you pretend it will go away.
b) A tripwire to fuck over the opposing party. If your party is in power at the time, you can extend them easily and tell the mob how wonderful you are for preserving their free shit. If the other party is in party, you can use it to fuck them over. If they refuse to extend them, you can paint them as heartless monsters.
It’s long COVID …
There are great things about the CA wealth tax: expose the hypocrisy of the wealthy left there, chasing billionaires out of the state is good for where they take residency, CA income tax will take a massively disproportionate hit because of how progressive it is – throwing the budget into chaos and making the left eat their own even more.
I love it.
A perfect storm of stupidity.
Oh. OK, then.
I’m chuckling at the claim that this is a “one-time only” tax. Pull the other one.
projected at tens of billions of dollars
Because none of the affected billionaires will react in any way to protect their assets, they’ll just pony up their 5%.
primarily to health care and other public services
… for illegal immigrants.
The minimum that tax will be is $50,000,000. You could possibly afford to build some nice digs elsewhere for that and maybe even have enough change left over for a Bugatti or 2.
The next TEAM BLUE president will sign a bill to bail California out at the expense of red states.
And Illinois. And NY. Etc.
It’s part of why Andrew Cuomo kept the covid panic going.
Now, all that said about CA, I’m going to predict the next governor will be worse – because as the Chicago mayoralty has proven you can’t quite reach the bottom no matter how hard you try.
It’s like additions onto a house. It makes the house bigger but harder to keep clean.
NYC waves Hi
Hawaii asks. “What about me?”
I’ve had enough, now I want my share!
Drone striking their call centers and the houses of the owners?
Strongly worded letters on official stationery. Official. Stationery!
(-.-)
Nuke ’em
Until they glow?
“I do believe that we have the makings of a deal,” Trump told reporters as he stood beside Zelenskyy, adding that he believes the process can “move very rapidly.”
Talk is cheap.
We won’t have a deal until one or both of the belligerent national leaders are out of office.
Arrest Zelinsky for his role in US corruption.
If Putin leaves office, his replacement will be much more hostile to Ukraine and the West.
I expect a succession conflict that makes external hostilities impossible to continue while decision is underway.
Zelensky will balk and this will drag on.
As long as the EU keeps promising to toss billions at him, you better believe it.
Brigitte Bardot said nothing wrong.
https://x.com/i/status/2005313511614726477
“predicts war will ‘end’ soon or ‘go on for a long time’”
Well shit, the man’s a prophet. Who’s gonna win the Super Bowl Donald?
The Tokyo Tornados
Tokyo’s teams are the Yakult Swallows and Yomiuri Giants.
Neither of those will win – it will be the Tornado.
Now do Somali fraud, Mr Clairvoyant
I first misread that as “Somali food” rather than Fraud.
They are kleptovores, fraud is their food.
New Laws in the DMV
I read statements like “The bill requires insurance providers to cover the cost” as “Premiums will increase to cover the costs“.
Just a little more tweaking and everything will be exactly right and there will be no need for more legislation.
At least your cosmetologist will have to pay attention to the beatings Mrs. RoaT is giving you. :-p
What the what?
The rest of the new laws listed are just as dumb.
The derp will flow ever more freely next year.
Goodbye parental rights…
…and responsibilities.
“Florida man suffered ‘serious bodily injury’ after toilet seat shattered beneath him at Outback Steakhouse”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/28/us-news/florida-man-suffered-serious-bodily-injury-after-toilet-seat-shattered-beneath-him-at-outback-steakhouse-lawsuit/
STIJLTH
Was Meth involved?
I was thinking massive obesity. But meth is always possible.
Some Toilets Injure Just Like That Hoe?
No picture of the guy? That seems mandatory. What if he was 600 pounds?
Well, there is a picture of a toilet for anyone who doesn’t know what they look like.
“A treacherous winter storm is barreling toward the Midwest and Northeast as upward of 40 million Americans brace for impact through Sunday and Monday.
Meteorologists warned NPR that the new storm, coming so soon after the tri-state region was battered by a separate winter storm over the weekend, could transform into a disastrous “bomb cyclone.”
A “bomb cyclone,” or a bombogenesis, is a rapidly deepening area of low pressure that creates heightened weather conditions.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/28/us-news/winter-storm-expected-to-batter-midwest-northeast-with-40-million-people-placed-on-alert/
Stop making up words.
OFFS 🙄
Tremble!
Yeah, enough with the catastrophization of language already. What’s wrong with there’s the potential for severe winter weather?
It doesn’t sell and produce clicks. We are a unserious people
A severe winter is something a lot of people have been through, thus harder to tie to climate change (pbuh).
Who would of thought 40 years ago when The Weather Channel was watched for “weather on the 8’s” that they would mutilate the English language to keep eyeballs?
Seth Myers once did a skit on SNL where he was supposed to be like an old timey preacher/weatherman and he was lambasting the viewers for not taking climate change serious enough and that was why we were now facing “tornadocanes”. Like 1984, I don’t think that skit was meant as a guide, but being Seth Myers, I can’t say for sure, but that seems to be what style they have adopted.
Well there was that UN official who claimed that we were on the verge of ‘Climate Boiling’. It may have sounded nice in his native language, but in English it flew like an anchor.
“Stop making up words.”
So, another Gliberstette ? Glibsterino ?
Wunderground says 10 days of highs near freezing, lows in the teens, partial sun to cloudy.
Certainly I have never experienced such a thing in January. Time to make peace with my Creator.
“A former Texas substitute teacher and her boyfriend have been arrested for having inappropriate sexual contact with a child and possession of child porn.
Madison Paige Jones, 30, was hit with one charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child, two counts of indecency with a child sexual contact, and one count of possession of child pornography following her arrest in Midlothian on Dec. 19, police said.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/29/us-news/texas-substitute-teacher-boyfriend-charged-in-child-sexual-assault-investigation/
There is one of these almost every day.
I did not know that Midlothian was a real place until I stopped there for gas between Waxahachie and Arlington.
I thought it was from LOTR.
Indian Roads are not less than a Final destination movie
https://x.com/IndianGems_/status/2005541129459294609
And some people want to give that man a US CDL.
Oops.
Yikes.
Will people stop writing “X (formerly Twitter)” in 2026?
I am going to keep calling it TwiX until Elon either pays me off or gets a court order.
What about M&M Mars?
I’m not picky. But I suspect that Elon might have more of a sense of humor…
Also, if the Beatles could sue Apple Computer, why can’t Exene Cervenka and John Doe sue Elon?
Because they are pretty libertarian, and don’t go down that route.
stop deadnaming
No.
It’s twitter.
You mean Twitter?
X doesn’t work for the site.
No
One day the forces of Truth(tm) will liberate that app and restore it to its birdy mis-/dis-/malinformation free glory!
NC-17 (formerly X)
There are people who would like Twitter to be NC-17.
I watched Mercy for None over the weekend. It’s a typical hyperviolent Korean action movie, only a seven episode series. The characters operate by RPG rules with respect to strength and durability. If you like that sort of entertainment, it’s pretty great.
Scary moment last night as oldest had to administer chest compressions on his grandpa. Luckily, he’s taken some classes and was under instruction from dispatch to begin them on 911 call.
Good news in the end, dad was released from hospital, after passing out. Son didnt break any ribs though when I called him he said there was a lot of cracking noises
Glad your dad is OK.
Thanks DEG.
That’s great to hear.
Surprised he didn’t break any ribs, glad he was able to keep his composure.
Yeah he was in shock when I called. Laughing, bringing up random stuff…but was solid in the moment.
He was very surprised he didnt either.
Shit, OBE, that is scary.
Anyway you look at it.
“o people who didn’t vote for Trump, his sweaty panic over this situation is perplexing. The president’s enthusiasm for sexual violence is no secret. It’s been nine years since the release of the “Access Hollywood” video, in which he bragged about how he liked to “grab them by” the genitals. In 2023 and 2024, two civil juries found that journalist E. Jean Carroll told the truth when she said Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s. The president has also made it a habit to reward men facing credible accusations of sexual abuse, such as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., with plum jobs.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/29/in-2025-epstein-showed-maga-who-they-really-are/
Are there any men who aren’t rapists?
That is walking a very fine line…surprised they didnt bring up Kav too. Clinton however was a saint
Nice liberal men who read Salon.
Without seeing the link I could tell where that quote came from.
And you just knew it was Amanduh, too.
lol Sure, Amanduh.
And I suppose she believes Donald is writing any of those rather than having a team do it for him.
Everyone knows 2016 and 2024 were the fraudulent elections.
“In 2023 and 2024, two civil juries found that journalist E. Jean Carroll told the truth when she said Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s.”
Let’s be very careful to not mention that he was found not guilty of rape.
Woman looks stunned after crashing her RWD Miata while driving over 60 mph on a highway covered in powder snow and ice
She later uploaded the video with the caption, “I get it. I was going too fast. I am okay. RIP car.”
https://x.com/unlimited_ls/status/2005442511784059131
see this is why I would never buy a RWD car
I have only owned RWD cars.
Good tires and not driving like an idiot are key. The only times I’ve had problems were when I waited too long to swap tires, and so was running my summer tires in the snow, or if the snow was too deep for the car.
Fun story: an uncle of mine made a lot of money in the 2000s and bought a new Jaguar without realizing it was RWD. After riving it once on a snowy mountain road he sold it at significant loss (basically sold it back to the dealer)
“Good tires and not driving like an idiot are key.”
Absolutely. I don’t need snow tires in Texas, if I lived anywhere else I would have a set. I have never had AWD. I do understand the blessing of snow tires and various types of chains, as I often drive through Colorado.
Jaaaaaaaaag….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eWIrBOc3zE
She was pretty calm through the whole thing.
My wife’s Corolla did the same thing but luckily she didn’t hit anything.
It’s front wheel drive, but is so light it had no traction.
I did that once in my old Datsun diesel pickup, the lung fish. Scary, but you get through it.
I have a RWD sports car. It stays in the garage until spring.
Good morning all! I’m in the midst of a long holiday break. Having a great time and seeing a lot of people but not too stressful like prior years. Hope you are all getting time off and having fun times (you all deserve it).
I got back on the ice for the first time last night. I made it an hour before a headache kicked in, but that hour I felt like I was at almost 100%. This was much better than I expected. I like good surprises.
And now I begin to search in earnest for another car.
Glad the recovery is progressing.
Somebody wrote some articles here that said Saabs are cool.
Keep it up, TOK!
Good to hear you are getting better.
Woman looks stunned after crashing her RWD Miata while driving over 60 mph on a highway covered in powder snow and ice
She didn’t look too stunned to me. She looked like she (mostly) knew what she was doing.
see this is why I would never buy a RWD car
AWD cars never crash.
Have AWD, can confirm.
Final Mammary Monday of 2025!
https://archive.is/LgZ9A
68 deg yesterday, 20 deg and flurries today.
Dogs are pissed
And now I begin to search in earnest for another car.
The Honda Element is not the worst car ever made. Obviously depending on what you need and how you use it.
Like a small AWD van that gets decent mileage. Nothing wrong with those at all.
Maybe not, but they aren’t gonna win any beauty contests.
MAGA “zeroes” in. The new pounce?
It’s amusing that the scandals are getting so big and so obvious that even lefty rags can’t ignore them anymore.
Oh, they will continue to ignore them.
Hopefully that Nick Shirley video will get a lot of exposure, its blood boiling what he and that Dave fellow have uncovered. The left will always deflect the rampant fraud they faciliatated with a hefty amount of whataboutism. The crazy women in the video who thought they were from ICE and gallantly trying to hinder their efforts encapsulates how most people see the left…. as a bunch of whiny misguided idiots.
Maybe tell them not to believe in ghosts
Psychologists and online safety advocates say parents are right to be worried. Extended chatbot interactions may affect kids’ social development and mental health, they say. And the technology is changing so fast that few safeguards are in place.
The impacts can be serious. According to their parents’ testimonies at a recent Senate hearing, two teens died by suicide after prolonged interactions with chatbots that encouraged their suicide plans.
I remember when kids just asked to Ouija board for advice.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Thanks, Jimbo
That’s what 1 child families miss out on.
Is it better to be the oldest or one of the younger siblings?
He says it’s normal for kids to be curious about sex, but learning about sexual interactions from a chatbot instead of a trusted adult is problematic.
See? Kids need an Epstein to help them embrace their sexuality.
Like… a parent?
I assume the vague language is so they can keep sexing up your kids in public school.
The layers to this will be studied for years.
Amd that Jason dude is no hero here for asking. He wants everything to be free
PLEASE California, make everything “free”.
FREE CALIFORNIA!
Please…
Expert analysis
That unfathomable sum of stranded investment underscores a slowdown in EV sales, but also the regulatory and political whiplash facing American automakers. One minute, President Biden is doling out subsidies for EV and battery factories, $7500 credits to consumers, and pledging to put a DC fast-charger on every street corner. Next, President Trump is casting EVs as the enemy of the job market and setting pollution and fuel-economy rules back decades. For an industry that moves at a notoriously glacial pace, the lack of a stable footing is maddening and expensive.
Markets are hard. Especially when the government “helps”.
Serious, unbiased commentary.
Maybe not, but they aren’t gonna win any beauty contests.
Form follows function, baby.
“The Gateway Pundit reported on journalist Nick Shirley’s shocking report exposing millions of dollars of fraud involving Somali daycare centers in Minnesota.
Rather than address the fleecing of taxpayers in his state, Governor Tim Walz attacked Shirley instead, calling him a “White supremacist” for daring to expose the fraud.
Shirley shared clips of his investigation, including footage of the door being slammed in his face while he asked a Minnesota Childcare Center that claims to care for 102 children, which appeared empty….
“This is what happens when they scapegoat and this is what they happens when they no longer hide the idea of white supremacy,” Walz said of the investigation.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/tim-walz-calls-journalist-nick-shirley-white-supremacist/
Shirley? You cannot be serious.
I didnt see Walzs exact words but the narrative is out….the citizen journalist is a creep for showing up to day cares.
I hope he leared his lesson.
Not creepy and actually completely normal, taking high school kids to China during your honeymoon.
“A Somali candidate for King County Council in Washington state, who previously threatened to blow up a school bus full of children and was later arrested for allegedly assaulting parents at a school drop-off, received campaign donations from day care businesses in Minnesota. The donations to King County Council candidate Ubax Gardheere, who is of Somali descent, are drawing attention amid a viral investigative report by independent journalist Nick Shirley, who alleges widespread fraud involving Somali-run daycare facilities in Minnesota.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/minnesota-funded-day-care-businesses-donated-to-washington-candidate-who-threatened-to-blow-up-school-bus-filled-with-children
“At the time, the Somali immigrant was the Director of the Equitable Development Division in the City of Seattle’s Office of Planning and Community Development, earning over $130,000 a year and calling herself a “bureactivist inside government.””
“On January 12, 2010, Ubax Gardheere boarded a school bus filled with children as it prepared to begin its morning route to Chinook Middle School. According to reports, she told the driver the bus could not leave and was captured on the bus’s internal camera screaming at children that she could have a bomb or a gun and they wouldn’t know. As the children fled through the emergency exits, Gardheere reportedly yelled that they were cowards and that she was “prepared to die,” a concept revered in Islam. Police arrived and arrested her.”
A bunch of Democrats still supported her after the incident.
People are being convicted for “alleged” crimes. Shame on the MN Nice racists
No one is safe.
“After losing in the 2021 primary, she was arrested for allegedly assaulting a parent picking up children at a local school while yelling “Black Lives Matter” and “Free Palestine.””
Hah! My FIL and wife were just watching part of Shirley’s stuff and all I could think was “well, this will be dismissed as racism.”
The only racism that was exposed in Shirely’s video was from a Somali women.
I also continue to be baffled as to what the Dem strategy is in defending the worst cases of illegal immigration and immigrant fraud.
I’m sure there are some truly decent people caught up in the deportations (whether or not they should be deported, I know, is a debate). Why not find some of these people and use them as examples of the policy’s shortcomings?
Yet domestic automakers face a familiar dilemma. They must build popular cars at home without ignoring the wider world, including the potential existential threat of China. The CEOs of the Detroit Three insist they’re not walking away from EVs.
You people keep saying that…
How many American built vehicles get shipped to Eurotopia each year? How many to Africa?
I still don’t understand how that is a dilemma. Ford is global and makes distinct cars for each market. GM even does that to some degree. Dodge/Ram/Jeep also does.
How many American built vehicles get shipped to Eurotopia each year?
Mustangs (not the abomination some call a Mustang, but the proper Mustang) are available in Europe. I think the V8 versions were detuned. There were rumors that Ford was going to cancel the Mustang in Europe, but those are false.
I think Jeeps are available in Europe too.
I’ve seen Teslas on the road in Europe when I last there pre-Rona Panic.
“When you’re isolated like the North American market is, you lose track of what the rest of the world is making,” Fiorani says. “They could lose their edge even more if they don’t keep up. And they’re not going to keep Chinese automakers out forever.”
Kei cars will never sell in America.
Cheap tiny Chinese EVs will DECIMATE American carmakers.
The Somalis messed up. Should have laundered that money through Chinese restaurants instead.
When I was in Alamogordo, population 30k, we had 10 Chinese restaurants. We always guessed they were foreign fronts for spy rings since HAFB housed 4th Space Command and then the F117s/F22s
Ford is global and makes distinct cars for each market.
They squandered billions on their hare-brained “world car” obsession in the ’80s and ’90s, as I recall. They finally gave up and went back to building local market cars.