The Old Guy is just returned from a week-long road trip. Back in the days when I was in the wine biz, my trips were to Burgundy, Piedmont, Tuscany, Wachau, Champagne, Loire, Capetown, Santiago, Madrid… now my business trips are to Cleveland, Akron, Pittsburgh, Detroit… I really should question some of my life choices. In any case, this time I was in Indiana, with a stop for fun in southern Ohio.
Scene from an Ohio Grocery store:
God, I really hated Jaws. Well, anyway, I’m back and heading out this afternoon for dinner with Prime at my favorite western NY restaurant. So, it’s welcome home.
Birthdays today include a guy who could flatten the curve; one of three generations of pieces of shit; one of the more interesting physicists of the 20th century (for example, he fucked Betty Friedan and was driven out of the US by McCarthy); an inspiration to Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, who showed the way to political power is fucking actual skilled politicians; a guy who proved PT Barnum’s maxims; and a guy who took a rather shotgun approach to comedy.
And I will take a shotgun approach to Links.
But let’s distract people with bread and circuses. That’s the Prog priority, not the US getting into wars (which is familiar and comfortable territory for them).
So New Yorkers will basically have no good choices next year. Grrrreat.
The gullibility (being generous) to propaganda is remarkable. Babies are freezing to death in 70° weather! The photo looks like he’s carrying a pickle.
If you want to know what kind of idiots are teaching law at Ivy League schools, look no further. Reading the piece, you can’t help but be in hysterics as they articulate perfectly contradictory statements. With a straight face.
Never apologize. Is this going to be the next “nooses are racist” deal?
Admittedly, this might be just as stupid.
Do they sell Hello Kitty vibrators?
The Old Guy… has no words. Holy shit. I’m not sure if the eternally-cute Sierra is porking out, chose her outfit badly, or is pregnant, either way it hasn’t hurt her playing! You can skip past the first two minutes of them saying what they’re going to do and go directly to what they actually do.
“one of the more interesting physicists of the 20th century”
So, was he a dirty commie or not?
I can’t think of many intellectuals of the early 20th century that didn’t at least flirt with Marxism.
Every time I hear a sob story about someone who was “blacklisted”… yup, it was a commie.
Now they’re winning major elections. We should be so proud of the progress we’ve made.
That was taken at Jungle Jim’s or I’ll eat my hat (an edible hat, which, if they exist, I’m sure can be found and purchased at Jungle Jim’s.)
https://www.instructables.com/Despicable-Me-Tortilla-Chip-Sombrero-Copycat/
That was taken at Jungle Jim’s
My immediate thought too.
Did I drop enough clues?
So it’s you who’s been bringing all those guns into IL?
Birthdays today include a guy who could flatten the curve
Happy birthday Gottfried Leibniz!
one of three generations of pieces of shit
Happy birthday Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.!
“he fucked Betty Friedan”
But why?
Because she had a vagina?
Make her submit like Ayn Rand?
Lol
She had a feminine mystique about her.
It’s certainly a mystery, anyway.
Do they sell Hello Kitty vibrators?
Now we know what to get OMWC for Christmas….
Happy birthday Reggie Carroll?
It is interesting that they refer to the baby, and others as killed by the weather. It’s not exactly a misuse of the word, but it does sort of imply deliberate action by the (((weather)))
Jews did HAARP!
“Overnight temperatures in Gaza have reached 6 degrees Celsius (43 degrees Fahrenheit) in recent days.”
That doesn’t seem that cold.
And even that was… questionable. I looked it up and the temps were 10-15°F warmer than that as daily lows. It’s bullshit all the way down.
I believe it’s possible (although highly unlikely) to die in the 40s/50s, but it also requires you to be soaking wet, a consistent wind blowing over you, and being weak already (this one I’ll grant, as we’re talking about a baby that may have been premature).
The gullibility (being generous) to propaganda is remarkable. Babies are freezing to death in 70° weather! The photo looks like he’s carrying a pickle.
Newborns can’t regulate their own heat, and premature babies are even worse off. Lows there are in the 50s F or 20s C, so I could see hypothermia for a premature baby being a risk if the kid is in a tent at night.
Much higher risk for babies born to generations of cousins inbreeding.
It’s interesting that Trump ordered those Americans out of Syria during his first term, only to have his DOD leave them there and conceal it, and now he’s ready to launch a war over their deaths.
If I learned one thing today, you can always trust a politician, to lie.
I’m sure you’re being facetious and learned this much earlier in your 4×20+ years.
It is interesting how well Trump II started, with DOGE and all, and how quickly it reverted to the mean.
We are not his constituents.
He has been all talk. The only action we’ve gotten was that “beautiful” pork fest, military strikes, tariffs, and a ballroom. 🙄
I guess it’s better than DEI turned up to 11, but for a guy who had a close encounter with high velocity lead, he’s rather passive in his governance. All talk no action.
Perhaps trshy because he can’t actually lead his party?
I will still argue he is necessary even if he isn’t good (particularly for pushing SCotUS to actually read Article III of the Constitution).
I think you’re right JI, and I think that’s partially because he’s not capable of working with people in positions of authority that can’t be won over by petty bribes. It’s also partially because the stupid party is filled with a bunch of people who are hardly distinguishable from the left.
That said, he seems to have zero perseverance on anything except the tariffs. He’s president trial balloon.
He closed the border, and ended a bunch of “climate change” bullshit.
President Trial Balloon is a keeper.
Launch a war with who? Syria don’t seem to care. ISIS is already at war with us, to the extent that the term war can apply to groups like them.
Trump seems to favor surgical strikes rather than boots on the ground.
Remember when people were freaking out over Iran? The U.S. developed a weapon specifically to take out Fordow, then used it to take out Fordow.
Yeah, I’m wondering how this isn’t just a continuation of a number of earlier wars. How long have we been dicking around in the Middle East? Do we know who “started” it?
“Not us”
-Billie Joel, We Didn’t Start the Fire
It’s interesting that Trump ordered those Americans out of Syria during his first term, only to have his DOD leave them there and conceal it
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
“Some people are more sensitive to rejection”
Are you kidding? If I’m not being rejected, I’m not being myself!
* stands on front lawn in boxers and sips martini *
Why bother with the boxers?
Shrinkage?
Tres chic thong?
Rogue DoorDash drivers.
Oh, you mean DoorFlash
Yeah, that’s just the same old fear of rejection people have had for ~250,000 years wrapped in some some pseudo-scientific sounding jargon to make it sound clinical.
Everything needs a clinical diagnosis so pharmaceuticals can be prescribed.
And privilege can be claimed.
“Rejection sensitive dysphoria”
Oh, fuck off.
In other words “mommy never said no syndrome”
Getting picked last is violence!
“If you want to know what kind of idiots are teaching law at Ivy League schools, look no further. Reading the piece, you can’t help but be in hysterics as they articulate perfectly contradictory statements. With a straight face.”
*taps out*
I gave up a couple sentences in. Why, exactly, do they claim SCOTUS is “illegitimate”? Because it’s not creating law that advances radical leftist concerns?
Because they’re not concerned with compromise, which is “legitimate”. I made it part way through the article, to the point when the started praising the progressive dissents.
lol Where “compromise” means “ignore the constitution and give the left what they want”.
So New Yorkers will basically have no good choices next year.
Thinks about how TR was pushed into the NY governorship so he wouldn’t annoy the important politicians/grifters.
If I’m still around I’ll be happy to throw a vote at whoever not-Hochul turns out to be. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But the not-Dems are so broken in this state I seriously doubt even a known quantity like Stefanik had the slightest chance statewide.
Sounds like California.
“Sarah Dzafce lost her Miss Finland crown last week after a photo of Dzafce pulling the skin at the corners of her eyes posted on social media went viral late last month. The photo, and its caption reading “eating with a Chinese,” was decried by governments and commentators across Finland and Asia as discrimination against Asians.”
Well, that does sound bad.
Dzafce, who won Miss Finland in September, has told Finnish media that she was trying to alleviate a headache. The Helsinki Times reported that she said a friend had shared the private image and wrote the caption without her input. Dzafce did not respond to The Associated Press’s request for comment Thursday.”
Oh.
I thought Finns were half Mongoloids anyways.
Because of all the political and institutional power Miss Universe wields against the Asian people? Making fun of people because of their ethnicity isn’t discrimination, even if that’s actually what you’re doing. Words have meanings.
Korean kids would joke about “round eye” and put circles over their eyes to imitate whites.
I laughed with them. I didn’t pull a slanty eye at them, tho. (Didn’t think to?)
Dzafce posted an apology to social media on Dec. 8 and said it was never her intention to hurt anyone.
Never apologize.
“The company has been at the centre of a scandal since France’s consumer watchdog discovered banned weapons and sex dolls resembling children for sale on its marketplace, which initially prompted the government’s attempt to suspend the platform.”
Banned weapons resembling children?
Children fuelled by sufficient amounts of sugar are weapons.
Give em two shots of espresso.
Better than M&Ms! 😃
I will be going to Jungle Jim’s at some point this next week.
I’ll look for that display.
“Nearly naked Bill Clinton pictured soaking in hot tub with unidentified woman in Epstein files: ‘His reckoning’”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/19/us-news/epstein-files-reveal-bill-clinton-with-mystery-women-mick-jagger/
https://nypost.com/2025/12/19/us-news/who-is-named-in-epstein-files-list-of-famous-ids-in-bombshell-release/
Maybe these women wouldn’t be “unidentified” and “mystery” if you didn’t black out their faces.
What? And become exploiters of the second order? All of those women had no agency!
Wait, Bill Clinton is a horndog and likes them young? Surely you jest.
At least he’s not tied to any mysterious deaths.
“Releasing more Epstein files is likely to cause severe distress and trauma, and could even ‘stimulate a suicide’ among the women who say he abused them, mental health experts have warned.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-15400023/release-Epstein-files-abused-women-victims.html
Oh, fuck off.
The girls were trans?
Yeah total BS.
The longer this drags on the less I think there was anything illegal going on.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15400849/Trumps-DOJ-accused-censoring-Epstein-files-entire-swathes-documents-redacted.html
Ridiculous.
“Sydney Sweeney Is The Hottest Sex Symbol Of The 2020s — And Here’s Proof ”
https://decider.com/2025/12/19/sydney-sweeney-hottest-sex-symbol-2020s/
I’m going to need more evidence.
She has a busted face, and I will die on that hill.
When she rings your doorbell and you tell her to get lost, please send her in the direction of some of the rest of us Glibs.
I’m with Pat.
She has a good angle or two and relative youth.
There is a gal at the local UPS store whose hotter and a barista at Starbucks minis the bad tattoos.
Wait, I had no idea you were gay. Apologies.
STIJLTH [actual article]
I’m sure being entitled shits who have no practical experience of the real world has nothing to do with it.
And yet the industry still needs hundreds of thousands of H1Bs per year because there’s no American programmers…
^^
“Went home to Turkey”
St. Ignatius ‘joys lost tar heroin
“Top tech companies just don’t need as many fresh graduates.”
I’m going to say the quiet part out loud. Facebook dosent need 17,000 employees in the U.S. it was always a bubble.
Puca might just be trying to make a meme.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/anthony-adams-rubbing-hands-together
Utah GOP snatch defeat from the jaws of victory…
Mormons in the state government repeal vote to stop collective bargaining of Mormons in government employ.
This is my shocked face.
Southern Idaho has the same kind of politics. It’s not really political. It’s about the temple.
Is there any way back from the “everything is racist” environment that is strangling “the west”? Hopefully before I am dead and gone?
Nothings gonna change while regular people continue to make themselves beholden to these institutions. It’s really hard to laugh in someone’s face when they’ve got you by the balls.
And while the radical left is in firm control of all the institutions.
Well, the current pushback is Fuentes and the like who are saying “OK, fine. I accept I’m a Nazi, what about my ideas?”
The less intellectually curious don’t necessarily have ideas beyond populism/socialism (but their preferred flavor).
Good morning everyone!
I got a grand total of 2:20 hrs sleep last night. Gonna destroy any hope of a natural sleep schedule by taking a nap now…
Insomnia es no bueno.
“Jake Paul drove himself to hospital with a double broken jaw after his knockout defeat by Anthony Joshua.
The former YouTuber survived six rounds with the former heavyweight champion before Joshua’s power finally told in Miami.
AJ knocked him down twice in the fifth round and then twice again in the sixth to end the mismatch in the early hours of Saturday morning GMT…
Paul was spitting blood following the knockout but he said in his in-ring interview: ‘I’m feeling good, that was fun, I love this sport.’ He later posted a photo of his x-ray confirming a double fracture to his jaw.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-15401443/jake-paul-anthony-joshua-broken-jaw.html
That is odd.
No tko? Kinda Rocky ish, I spose. I can at least get that.
Hope his Adrian is… doing well.
Oh. Following his knock out.
I retract much of my previous statement.
Were classical statues painted horribly?
It is often suggested that modern viewers dislike painted reconstructions of Greek and Roman statues because our taste differs from that of the ancients. This essay proposes an alternative explanation.
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/were-classical-statues-painted-horribly/
I’ve had the same thoughts.
I also suspect that there were some bad repaints over time. I have a collection of spring riders and many of them have been repainted, they started as fairly garish and got worse with another layer or two of paint.
Who remembers Ecce Mono?
I do. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/aug/14/ruined-christ-fresco-money-spinner
My Shadow 2 now looks like it should be a sidearm from The Brotherhood of Nod
How many safeties is that?
One. And it’s off.
At the bottom of the trigger guard is the magazine release, so not a safety.
Directly above it is the slide release, also not a safety.
Behind it, next to the red circle is the safety.
Above that is the textured side of the adapter plate for the red dot, which is not even a mechanical component.
while they remain “good policy,” the debate had been “overshadowed by misinformation and unnecessary division.”
Democracy prevailed!
Elise Stefanik has no ideas of her own?
Not that I find that particularly surprising…
“First Assistant US Attorney Joe Thompson revealed on Thursday that at least $9 billion had been defrauded from Medicaid services in Minnesota since 2018. This comes amid a focus on fraud in the state, especially fraud carried out by Somalis in the Minnesota.
Thompson said in a press conference that 14 Medicaid services in the state were under audit and deemed “high risk” for fraud, and had cost the state around $18 billion since 2018. While an exact number was not revealed, Thompson said that a “significant amount” of that $18 billion was fraud.
“I don’t make these generalizations in a hasty way,” he later added. “When I say significant amount, I’m talking on the order of half or more. But we’ll see. When I look at the claims data and the providers, I see more red flags than I see legitimate providers.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/minnesota-medicaid-fraud-over-9-billion-us-attorney
WTF, Minnesota?
It’s their culture.
You have to pay the jizyah and be happy about.
49 more to investigate.
I’m thinking MN will still be in the top five.
Nothing dirty ever happens in the Navajo nation.
Wow. I swapped the letters in the state acronym.
I bet NM is in the top 5 though.
“The person behind the social media account LAScanner was arrested on Friday and is being held in custody. Jack D. Quillin, the owner of the social media account, has consistently doxed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents….
According to Insider Wire, Quillin is a convicted felon from a 2023 stalking case. As a felon it is illegal for him to have a police scanner. He was taken into custody at the airport “while attempting to visit CA from TX, with DHS possibly being involved in the arrest,” a source told the outlet.
A source told the outlet, “The arrest may be related to his past doxxing of ICE agents, or his various parole violations such as possessing forbidden weapons or police scanners, which have been well-documented online.” Another person who spoke to Inside Wire said that Quillin had been “accused of hacking DHS radios.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-man-behind-lascanner-account-doxing-ice-agents-arrested-and-jailed-in-california
Felons can’t have police scanners?
Yeah that’s BS, sounds like a first amendment violation to me.
He is in California. They pass whatever laws they want.
Felon, on parole? You think he has rights???
“King County prosecutors have charged a 30-year-old Seattle man, Joshua Cole Scott, with a hate crime after police say he left two threatening voicemails targeting a synagogue and its members….
The documents say officers identified the caller using the phone number associated with the voicemails. After listening to the messages, an officer attempted to contact the number multiple times and then texted a request for a callback. Minutes later, the caller returned the call, gave the name “Joshua,” and laughed during the exchange, police wrote.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/man-charged-with-hate-crime-for-leaving-vile-threats-on-seattle-synagogues-voicemail
Criminal genius.
There is no such thing as a “hate crime”
Speaking of massive propaganda campaigns
Dr. Kade Goepferd watched the Trump administration’s moves on Thursday to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth with “a mix of sadness and frustration.”
Goepferd, who is the founder of Children’s Minnesota Gender Health Program, says that for the medical community, nothing has changed about the evidence supporting gender-affirming care that could justify the government’s actions.
“There’s a massive propaganda and disinformation campaign that is selectively targeting this small population of already vulnerable kids and their families,” Goepferd says.
The evidence hasn’t changed. It’s still a bunch of mumbo jumbo.
“Children’s Minnesota Gender Health Program”
Which shouldn’t exist.
I agree. Minnesota should not exist.
“On Wednesday, footage of Fox News host Jesse Watters circulated on social media platform X, where the host of “Primetime” claimed leftist activist groups last summer demanded Brown disable their security cameras so pro-Palestine activists could act out with impunity.
“Over the summer, radical left human rights groups demanded Brown disable their security cameras so Palestinian activists could raise hell under the radar.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/bombshell-claim-brown-university-asked-cut-cameras-earlier/
Who knows?
At the least, Watters should tell where such claims are coming from.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/my-haters-f-you-outgoing-dc-police-chief/
Sign language person is hilarious.
The Marion Barry Jr. building? Is it made out of crack?
And hookers.
At times, health officials cast doubt on the idea that a person could be transgender at all.
“Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women. Women can never become men,” said Acting CDC Director Jim O’Neill. He added that “the blurring of the lines between sexes” represented a “hatred for nature as God designed it.”
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said doctors and medical groups had “peddled the lie” that these treatments could be good for children, and that those youth were “conditioned to believe that sex can be changed.”
Leave God out of it, you fucking retard.
“An officer with the Canton Police Department responded to a shoplifting call and escorted 21-year-old Shane Newman and 23-year-old Katerina Jeffrey to the store’s loss prevention office….
Newman aimed the weapon at the officer’s head and pulled the trigger but the gun did not fire….
Police confirmed Newman was legally prohibited from possessing a firearm due to a prior felony conviction.
Officers also recovered 50 blue pills identified as Molly following his arrest.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/man-caught-camera-trying-execute-police-officer-inside/
Who doesn’t bring an illegal gun and 50 hits of ecstasy while shoplifting?
NPR spoke to a transgender 15-year old in California this week about the moves Trump administration officials were making to restrict care. “They think what I’m feeling is a phase and that my family should just wait it out and that it’s better I’m unhappy and never receive care,” he says. NPR agreed not to name him because of fears for his safety.
He’ll be hunted down and killed so his internal organs can be used in magic spells.
At 15 I was not confused about my gender. In fact, I got over any confusion after I squared danced with little Doris Pierson in second grade.
He needs care.
Reopen the asylums.