That was a hell of a fun game last night. I’m disappointed that we weren’t in it, but that’s the way it goes. Let’s see if the game tonight is as much fun. Was nobody checking on the progress until a couple days ago? Comical. Liverpool and Arsenal drew. I got nothing else for sports so it’s time to move on.
OK, sue us then. Or better yet, kick us out. I don’t give a shit. The children of wealthy Europeans can find another source of funding for their rape adventures around the world.
This is getting pretty spicy. I’m genuinely optimistic that those barbarians will be thrown out this time.
This will be an interesting case. I guess we’ll finally see if the court thinks the second half of Article I Section 4 Clause 1 carries any weight.
I hope he runs again. Perhaps he will split the psycho and retard votes.
“Experts reveal what could have gone wrong,” lol. I’ve got an idea: why not just ask NASA what went wrong.
What’s an Aleppo? Ah, this brings back memories.
Don’t these people have jobs? Also, this would be a great opportunity for ICE to run a large-scale operation.
They’re falling like dominoes. First Ford and now GM. It’s almost as if this was never really a good idea but was kowtowing to idiotic government dictates than the people never wanted.
These leftists sure know how to pick their “victims.” It’s almost as if they don’t care if these people are sympathetic or not or if they did something bad or not before they run out to call them victims.
Damn, dude. Try being more discrete if you’re gonna be a piece of shit.
Here’s a kick ass band. And they deserve more love. Well, I’ll give it to them. Enjoy them.
And enjoy this lovely Friday and weekend, dear friends.
That was a hell of a fun game last night. – the refs robbed whichever team lost.
Whatcha talking about Willis?
I am not sure really.
The worst call did go against Miami – it wasn’t targeting, player hit him with his shoulder.
There’s a kernel of truth in this. Probably should have called PI on the last play.
https://nypost.com/2026/01/09/sports/ole-miss-miami-game-ends-on-failed-hail-mary/
“The top United Nations official on Thursday said the United States has a “legal obligation” to keep paying its dues that fund U.N. agencies after the White House announced that it is withdrawing support from more than 30 initiatives operated by the world body. ”
Based on what?
Look, they said it, why are you doubting them?
US out of UN and the UN out of the US!
Based on the perpetual bell cow clause of international law that says the US must always fund everything for everybody until the end of fucking time.
I’m more interested in the cow bell clause.
All I know is that we need more of it.
Based on the well known legal principle of “you have more than me, give me some”
Can I have one million dollars?
You’re European. You’re not supposed to ask an American for money. You’re supposed to demand it as if it’s some kind of birthright.
PieInTheSky:
You’ll have to move to Ohio.
Yes, but they are Zimbabwean dollars, just send me the postage and your address and I will get that out to you.
Actually it looks like I can buy a billion Zimbabwean dollar note cheaper than the million so you’ll have to settle for that.
Is it still cheaper than the postage?
Looks like a few cents more assuming I would mail it as a letter, which I would, but Pie is a good guy and I’d happily spring for the $2!
International Law!!!
Was nobody checking on the progress until a couple days ago? – hockey is not a real sport. Nothing Canadia is good at is.
Try being more discrete if you’re gonna be a piece of shit.
Discrete shit is better than diffuse shit.
I keep hoping to hear one of a couple of headlines – Best would be hearing the Ayatollah was torn apart by the mob. Second best would be his escape plane crashing. Third would be him just bugging out.
Nobody deserves hell on earth before they permanently check into real hell than these fucking evil worshippers & agents of death.
I would like to join your Final Crusade.
I hope he runs again. Perhaps he will split the psycho and retard votes. – that is 95% of the votes.
I wonder how many illegal alien criminals he is sheltering in his home. It’s what America stands for, after all.
Somebody needs to ask these people if we’re a nation of laws or are we to be ruled by men who arbitrarily enforce them to consolidate power.
I don’t think I’d like the answer to that question.
Old and busted – ‘evil’ and ‘stupid’ parties.
New hotness – ‘psycho’ and ‘retard’ parties.
Don’t these people have jobs? – why have a job when evil capitalist daddy gives you moneys
NYC is a tinderbox waiting to explode.
Nowhere else in the US are there so many Jews and Muslims living cheek-by-jowl. I am actually quite surprised there haven’t been pogroms already with so much radicalization going on in the last couple years.
There’s a healthy mix of Jewish people, Muslims, and black people here who all have beef with each other. Thankfully it generally stays at the high school football level taunting level. The area isn’t progressive enough to hate the Jewish people, and they have the best corned beef shops in the city.
Radicalism?
More like simply being faithful.
Devil’s advocate – if you were running a car company and it looked as though the government would continue to mandate the unpopular product at the expense of the popular product, would you not tool for supplying the product you would be allowed to sell, under the rational expectation that it would be the only option?
You people are coming at this all wrong. If you realize a bunch of crooks needed legit sounding government programs that they could rip off to enrich themselves, and thus mandated this shit, you would quickly see the rationale. Same shit as all the welfare in blue states. It exists because it can be rife with fraud.
You also have a track record of single track fixation.
And? My fixation is right.
No need to fight guys. There’s plenty of fraud and plenty of stupidity and incompetence as well. Bureaucrats can do both at the same time.
Wait – has (((Jar actually found a performance metric for bureaucracy?!?
Agreed. Squabbling over details is pointless. Our commie president demanded that gas-powered cars were verboten, and companies have to survive. So they all invested huge amounts of money in electric cars. Many of the companies knew it wouldn’t work and it was a dead-end. But it kept the companies alive. Some really believed it was the future, like Ford. Toyota did not, and even swapped out a CEO over his reluctance to destroy his company.
Commies and good people are everywhere in car companies. Just like real life. I think only Ford thought there was sweet, sweet graft. Everyone else was just trying to survive. Dodge sure as heck did not want to go electric – Stellantis forced it on them and pretty much killed the company.
Perhaps. Or perhaps I’d sure the government agency passing regulations with the force of law. Especially when they force my company to completely change what I’m selling to something else.
You’re not a risk-adverse corpo-bureaucrat.
GM used to fight all the gov’t mandates till they didn’t any longer. For awhile, it became profitable to follow the mandates. Until it suddenly didn’t.
Not Devil’s Advocate.
What I’ve said for years now, the auto companies faced a win-win situation:
Outcome 1) EV’s are the future, you are investing in them with huge amounts of taxpayer support and you get the environmentalists off your ass for a while, and a tonguebath from leftwing politicians.
2) EV’s are not the future (or not as big a piece of the puzzle near term as hoped). You get massive write-downs but are backstopped by taxpayer bailouts if things get really serious and bankrupt your company.
Privatize the profits, subsidize the losses, Chapter 405924595.
Damn, dude. Try being more discrete if you’re gonna be a piece of shit. – I don’t believe it. Look at that honest face.
OFFS
Dealing weight loss drugs without a medical license is super serious!
They should ban mail-in voting entirely.
Meh. We need to ban most people from voting.
Yes, everything should be done by special pleading.
Nope, but we do need a voter qualification standard/process – something to weed out the morons.
Meh, it would be to arbitrary. We could just weed out anyone who owns a horse, or race car, or boat, as all of those can be shown to be a stupid purchase that loses money. Or anyone who likes modern art, as many here think that is a stupid thing to like.
Heck, why don’t we just weed out anyone who doesn’t vote the way we want? That is essentially what you are saying, after all.
No, anything like that is just special pleading.
I don’t know, the limited franchise didn’t seem to work too badly for the first 100 years of this country. The expansion of it has worked much worse.
Nope. Everyone should vote, but the power of government should be so limited that you can’t vote yourself goodies at the expense of others
NA first vote would be to kill that rule.
And the first time you disenfranchised people, you’re gonna get a lot of voters killed.
make it on the internet like Estonia.
There are ways that you could do identity-verified, highly fraud resistant voting over the internet. Of course, this will never happen.
^^^^THIS^^^^
The crooks in the EU all know better and ban it.
Relevant
Every voter should have to post a bond, say $100. It your team wins you get your 100 back. If your team loses so do you.
Would stop people from voting wrong and save a lot of campaign money and time. See how problem solving is easy.
They do. It’s not only idiotic in principle, it’s rife with fraud.
Lawyers for the DNC are lying through their fucking teeth.
Military members have always been valid absentee voters.
This is about the Democrats wanting to steal another election, nothing more. I am pretty sure that the current SCOTUS is quite aware of this.
I’m sure SCOTUS is aware that this is about leaving the door open for voter fraud. The only question is, how many Justices are in favor of that?
And how many more than “3” is that number.
Yes and yes.
I’m genuinely optimistic that those barbarians will be thrown out this time.
OK Charlie Brown, you run up and kick this football as hard as you can…
::looks at goalposts. Starts running::
Even if you get rid of one set of assholes, they’ll be replaced by ones as bad if not worse.
There’s that positive mental outlook I come here to find.
Thanks for reassuring my faith in the Glibertariat.
It’s a lot like our own elections.
I have no doubt that whatever replaces the Mullahs will be tyrannical, corrupt, and generally awful. Government tends to be that way. But it will have to be pretty damn bad to be worse than the Mullahs.
Are you running toward, or away from, the goalposts?
But it will have to be pretty damn bad to be worse than the Mullahs.
[Pol Pot has entered the chat]
Ok, but by this logic you would never root for much less seek a change. I agree that caution is in order, and I am not proposing anything beyond moral support for the protestors, but I will cautiously continue to hope that the mullahs fall.
I would say the mullahs getting deposed and, ideally, executed*, is a good in and of itself, even if the next regime isn’t all puppy dog smooches and rainbow farting unicorns.
*Guillotined, by preference. Of course.
you would never root for much less seek a change
Revolutions usually fail, because people. So yeah, it is vanishingly rare that you get an improvement. Mostly you get “bad luck”.
Mr. Dean: How about a large muscled man with an oversized scimitar yelling, “HASAN CHOP!” right before their heads get lopped off?
A bloody bouquet from Madame Guillotine might be too French for the Persians.
In all seriousness, I’d prefer the mad mullahs step down peacefully and fuck off elsewhere.
Me too. What they did was peacefully fuck off the Britain. So there is that problem.
Guillotined? How about fed to feral hogs?
Yep. Who will replace them? Is never the question we ask.
They are being paid very handsomely to sacrifice themselves for The Cause.
I found this tidbit interesting, among the entirely expected news that Soros is among the funders of the fun times in Minneapolis.
One might ask, what interest does that supposedly non-partisan advocacy group have in blocking the enforcement of immigration laws? Hm.
Who are you talking about in your last question? It can’t be the terror-funding team in your last blockquote.
For those who follow Handwaving Freakoutery, BJ has a new article up on the MN ICE shooting. Relevant quote:
#metoo
Their restraint has been pretty impressive – I doubt I would be able to stop myself.
Good stuff. I’m not a follower except here but that might be worth more looks.
Agree that it’s assholes all the way down.
I _just_ yesterday was lamenting that he handn’t posted in months and he drops that.
I read the first half or so & will get back to the rest. I think he’s right in that it’s a perfect Scissor situation.
slumbrew:
I’ll take credit with the white tail reference. Maybe it’s like Kibology?
Substack has been very intriguing to me. Seems to have it’s own set of bubbles and clusters with overlap being arguing back and forth. I’m not sure I like the Notes feature (their X/Bluesky/Truth-esque thing). I’m contemplating launching a cocktail stack in the near future, just for something else to do while I serve as a technical secretary at my job.
This woman’s case is similar to someone getting run over by a herd of bulls at Pamplona. People do stupid stuff to get attention and sometimes suffer for it.
I’ll be in my bunk.
Wasn’t there a story recently about a woman astronaut aboard the space station who was deliberately damaging equipment and who had released feces in the environment? If I remember correctly she was banned from entering the Soviet part of the station. Is this the “medical emergency”? Did DEI Karen spaceboss lose her marbles?
What a shitty thing to do.
You’re saying she lost her shit?
Space Madness!
https://youtu.be/GvDCgR_9-fE?si=WZM6M-wad3YzboFF
“The form asked whether in the last 12 months I was unable to pay my mortgage or rent on time, and if I was “worried that my food would run out before I got the money to buy more.”
These questions weren’t an attempt to gauge whether I would pay my medical bill; they were part of a campaign driven by political activists out to justify socialist policies in the name of improving health care….
he activist endgame is obvious: Once health outcomes are attributed primarily to income gaps, any disparity justifies — even demands — government intervention.
Taxation, seizure, and compelled transfer of wealth then cease to be economic questions; they become public-health emergencies on par with an epidemic.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/08/opinion/why-my-doctor-gave-a-shot-of-socialism-with-my-annual-exam/
Remember when doctors were asking people if they own guns?
Yeah, I have seen how socialized healthcare always plays out, and I will pass on the “You have the option of waiting 5 years for a doctor to see you about that stage 4 cancer, or you can let us suicide your ass” that it always lands on eventually.
The real problem is the five year wait for stage 1 cancer such that it turns into stage 4.
You know even the AMA didn’t just cook it up on their own.
“I decline to answer” is my response to a lot of those non-medical questions.
“We’re done, asshole” is my response.
“Remember when doctors were asking people if they own guns?”
They still do. Mine claimed it was required by Medicare. They weren’t prepared for “none of your goddamn business.”
“I do and unless you’d like to operate on yourself, maybe mind your own fucking business” sounds better but is risky.
“Mine claimed it was required by Medicare.”
doubt
My dad responds “break into my house at 2 in the morning if you want to find out”
Yeah, unless something changed in the last couple of years, that “Medicare requires me to have an inventory of your guns” is complete bullshit.
It is a Medicare requirement along with “are you afraid of your spouse” or something along those lines. It was part of some O’Bama era Medicare retooling.
Well, looking it up, it’s not a Medicare requirement, that’s just the lie doctors trot out to ask the question.
“I’m not on medicare – why are you asking me medicare questions?”
I just say a simple “NO”. Ain’t their business and they deserve a lie for asking.
Yeah, I get page after page of extremely intrusive questioning. It’s probably all standardized everywhere now.
I go shooting with my doctor. And my optometrist, and my old man’s cardiologist.
Even in these benighted times, you can still pick who you hang out with.
Barstool Pizza Review – Gianni’s Deli and Pizza (Needham, MA) Special Guest Ann Michael Maye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FdtkB2rcvs
Wait since when is Michael a chicks name?
Since she married a male duck?
Ann Michael Vincent?
Michael Learned would like a word with you.
Googling it seems one of them evil short chicks taking the tall men away from the tall girls.
“Naked woman allegedly assaults deputy while intoxicated, claims she was ‘trying to be a mermaid’”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/09/us-news/louisiana-mermaid-erin-elizabeth-sutton-arrested-for-trying-to-skinny-dip/
Well, as long as she trying to be mermaid.
Is she as good-looking as Darryl Hannah?
Is she Prisy?
Cop should be glad she didn’t think she was a gator.
So I want to ask a question here about the dumb woman that got herself shot in Minneapolis interfering with government agents. It is all 24/7 fake news by the lame stream media. The dumb bitch obviously never watched the Chris Rock public service announcement. What’s the coverage she would have gotten if she had been actually murdered, by let say, an illegal alien?
Wall-to-wall coverage on Faux News and crickets everywhere else.
Also, I heard a rumor that after voting for Mandami, now Robert DeNiro is leaving NYC cause Mandami and his crowd are taking his savings. Is this just a fun meme or for real?
That would be hilarious, if not for everyone else who can’t just pull up stakes and declare residency in one of their other properties.
How college sports are broken in every way.
https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/article/take-a-bow-college-sports-you-are-broken-in-almost-every-way-possible-222349443.html
The people who run USC athletics, my alma mater, decided they didn’t want to play Notre Dame next year. Playing a good team that late in the season might hurt their chances at something – so fuck 100 years of tradition. Finalized my difference to it all.
Are pro sports any less broken I wonder.
I’ve lost interest, but if you sign a 4-year contract with a team, that’s where you’ll be playing unless traded.
Drake:
Unless they’re cut or released. Even then they still may get paid.
DAMN YOU DESHAUN WATSON! DAMN YOU TO HELL!
At least we’re almost done pretending there is some education also happening.
Education at any level and sports do not belong together.
“An ultra-woke protester in Minnesota has been roasted online after she cried that it felt wrong to visit Renee Nicole Good’s memorial — because “white tears” aren’t helpful.
Footage of the woman’s mind-boggling remark exploded on social media on Thursday after a Daily Wire reporter questioned why she’d decided to visit the scene where Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent.
“It feels kind of wrong being here in a way,” the woman said, noting that it was down to her being a white female with a lot of “privilege.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/09/us-news/minneapolis-protester-mocked-for-mind-boggling-response-about-renee-nicole-good-memorial/
OFFS!!
Apparently, being a white female with a lot of privilege doesn’t make you bullet-proof.
Which seems to be news to a lot of them.
The ghost of Justine Damond nods in agreement.
Considering that the rioters are mostly brain-damaged white females this seems pretty unsurprising.
Nearly half of American homeowners want to relocate in 2026 because of extreme weather and other climate concerns
‘Climate is driving decisions about where people live and the rising costs of homeownership are changing when and how people buy homes,’ Kin Insurance noted
https://www.independent.co.uk/us/money/homeowners-climate-change-2026-b2894707.html
Seems legit. The half of glibs moving this year due to climate change good luck finding a mew place
“Climate is driving decisions about where people live”
It’s always been a pretty major factor. I don’t think you can bootstrap “ermagerd, Americans are super concerned about Klimate Kaos” from that.
I mean unless one lives someplace stupid like Arizona or Florida climate should not be that concerning.
SW desert is relatively mild except 3 months and we’ve solved those three months with human ingenuity.
until you run out of water.
OBE, I would say that the weather in Tucson is relatively mild from, charitably, mid-October through probably April.
I actually did move to get out from under the heat there. Today I have 2 – 3 inches of fresh snow outside my windows, so, win?
Of course, I no longer have a snow shovel and need to get ice-melt. The dog gets his own “pet-safe” ice-melt for his porch and deck. Yes, he has his own porch and deck. At least they’re relatively small.
I loved my year in AZ.
A huge part of it was he weather. I was in rim country. The high desert is awesome.
Yet, UHaul’s data shows people are moving in droves to both Florida and Texas.
Demonstrating that Democrats are worse than climate change.
I want to relocate because of political climate change.
I want to re-locate 80K of my urban neighbors
Wait, aren’t our borders supposedly inviolate? Wasn’t that the complaint against Biden? Are some borders more inviolate then others? Based on what?
Yes, borders are inviolate, and law doesn’t cross them, least of all some fuzzy-ass notion of “international law” that wasn’t created by a legislative body with sovereign authority (which even that doesn’t entitle them to all of the power they do claim). U.S. law applies to U.S. territory, not the whole globe – just as Saudi law doesn’t extend beyond Saudi territory.
At least if we’re going to play the rule of law game – it can’t be Calvin-ball.
Oops, forgot the link.
“How many tin-horn despots are presently robbing, raping, and murdering their own people because “international law” renders their borders inviolate?”
Put another way, how many countries should we invade to impose regime change?
Neo-con boners are endless!
How many times will the regime change result in better regimes?
All national borders are inviolate except those of the US, which are to be permanently open to all comers.
So someone knocked up the broad on the space station?
Kinda interesting that everyone assumes its the female of the group.
In news when this first it was mentioned it was the woman. Maybe it was wrong, but most people do no assume they take what was reported.
Which were based on…assumptions. Easy cheap ones at that.
May be but myself I did not assume anything I took what was reported. And the way it was reported with detail – discovered as she was preparing for her first ever space walk etc made it seem legit not just some name thrown at random.
I thought the equipment did not work in free-fall
Apparently the equipment works, but the act is impeded by the lack of gravity. The top needs gravity or a brace to push off from, and the bottom needs something to hold them in place.
It sounds like finding a narrow space would be sufficient, as you’d have a wall behind each participant.
Don’t we have a (former) commenter who could consult on those requirements?
Where there’s a will, there’s a way!
I imagine that anyone reasonably practiced at suspension bondage could make it work, but might run into issues with lack of strong tie points, privacy, and good taste.
Certain women have done enough kegels that hip motion is irrelevant.
Come to think of it, I believe this was discussed in the XXXenophile Big Book o’ Fun.
But IIRC, it was a lesbian couple so they had advantages.
“Don’t we have a (former) commenter who could consult on those requirements?”
We had an astronaut? Who?
UAE cuts UK from scholarship funding over extremism concerns
Students encouraged to study elsewhere due to concerns about the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood on UK campuses
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uae-cuts-uk-scholarship-funding-over-extremism-concerns
lol
EU countries approve Mercosur trade deal after 25 years of talks
Latin America trade accord wins the required qualified majority, even as France, Poland, Austria, Ireland and Hungary express their opposition.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-countries-approve-mercosur-trade-deal-for-signature/
Again massive farmers protests on the EU-Mercosur trade deal. On the one hand I know farmers have it tough. On the other they are never happy no matter what happens. I do not get how farming is never profitable. Then again I am sure in the EU there are plenty of stupid regulations. But also a bunch of subsidies. Somehow it does not work.
The French farming lobby makes American farmers look like pikers when it comes to demands and govt acquiesence.
Husband Boiler
Living with a woman going through the “change” is why I tread softly these days
Dude…
60 chihuahuas explained months of sadistic abuse
A house with 60 chihuahuas is definitely sadistic abuse.
That’s a dogmatic position to take.
Over at Taibbi’s Racket News, a guest article from a doctor on the opioid mess (Sacklers in particular), has this little gem:
Ain’t it grand to pay no price for being wrong? No wonder journalists and bureaucrats are such pals.
And what should happen to hit my inbox…
The expanding burden of the conveniently wrong
As I said over on Substack – ‘Lack of accountability’ is the main reason I hate cops, doctors, women, the government, and humanity in general.
Someone’s read his Thomas Sowell.
“Later that day, ICE agents operating in Minneapolis couldn’t successfully execute an operation in a neighborhood less than a mile from where George Floyd was gunned down six years ago.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/09/america-reaches-its-breaking-point/
what?
I thought Georgey overdosed on hiw supply of Fent.
It was a ghost gun. How many times are they going to refer to St. Floyd as having been gunned down? At least also please refer to him also as “Parkland survivor” as he was also not killed in Parkland.
If someone is in the process of OD’ing, and I walk up to that person and empty my Glock into his face, I’ve still murdered him.
I truly hate this kind of right-wing/cop shitpicking.
Floyd wasn’t shot. At all.
You missed my point rather badly.
@ ES – Floyd was either choked, or OD’d depending on who you ask. Pretty sure a gun had nothing to do with it. Yet, lefty rags like Salon keep refer to him as being “gunned down”.
Funny, that was my line.
Depends. The ME originally arrived at the conclusion that it was a combination of overdose and bad ticker but then politics wanted a word so later he changed his decision to “homicide” after his career was threatened.
*sigh*
If you insist, I’ll amend my statement. If someone is in the process of OD’ing, and I walk up to that person and throw a collar choke on him and hold the choke until he dies, I’ve still murdered him.
The point was, that just because someone is OD’ing does not mean they can’t be murdered.
In the quill pen days, when I was in law school, I recall reading case law on this topic (more or less). As I recall, the scenario was that someone had been fatally shot, but wasn’t dead yet, and someone else also shot him.
I honestly don’t recall if the second shooter could be charged with homicide. But I think so.
I think the issue was whether the second shot “caused” the victim’s death. Don’t recall the court’s reasoning, though.
Less than a mile from where Floyd died, dude. WHY DON’T YOU GET IT?!?!
lol My memory ain’t what it used to be but JFC at least I don’t just completely make shit up to attract finger snaps.
If Salon linked that on their X account, it seems like a Community Note would be in order.
Ancient Egyptian pleasure boat found
An ancient Egyptian pleasure boat that matches a description by the first-century Greek historian Strabo has been discovered off the coast of Alexandria, to the excitement of archaeologists.
With its palaces, temples and the 130 metre-high Pharos lighthouse – one of the seven wonders of the ancient world – Alexandria had been one of the most magnificent cities in antiquity. The pleasure boat, which dates from the first half of the first century AD, was 35 metres long and constructed to hold a central pavilion with a luxuriously decorated cabin.
It was discovered off the submerged island of Antirhodos, which was part of ancient Alexandria’s Portus Magnus (great port).
Oh.
It’s underwater.
While I find any discovery of the sort neat – I had gotten my hopes up that it had been found indoors, where it would be more intact.
Erm, why would boats be indoors? I figure by function, the best place to look for boats, ancient or otherwise, would be near, in, or under water….
I mean, they COULD discover a boat someone found a long time ago in the basement of some museum that had been forgotten, I guess….
We’re talking Egypt, they routinely put boats in tombs with their former owners.
Tombs are indoors.
I’m doing worldbuilding, and I’m stuck on a question regarding flora. Is there a reason why a plant might prefer to grow on hillsides in a tropical region?
Yes
Which is what?
In addition to the reasons below, it’s also that there are plants that don’t prefer to grow on hillsides in a tropical region (eg. they have deep roots, need full sun, wet soil, etc.)
water drainage for one.
Plus rainfall.
Sun light, winds, soil comp, etc. Tons of reason.
This. In the Rockies, you’ll see ridge and hillsides with trees, and the bottomlands are meadows with no trees. I think it’s that the soil in the bottomlands must not drain well enough for the trees.
Pics for the gram.
Well, it turns out that Renee Good was indeed actively involved in ICE Watch, despite what her mother said about her not being involved with the movement. I was waiting for that narrative to collapse. It is possible that Good had concealed her ICE Watch activities from her mother.
Now, Good’s child is twice an orphan and (presumably) in the custody of Good’s wife who is an obviously unfit parent as she encouraged Good to participate in confrontation that could foreseeably lead to arrest or death. I wonder who was watching the child. I hope the grandparents are able to obtain custody.
A sad outcome but they seem to take it as an exciting game until it isn’t.
Everyone wants to be the French resistance, until it’s time to start doing French resistance shit.
I wonder if Good had a life insurance policy and who the beneficiary is.
Also, would behavior like Good’s negate the policy?
Good question. Hopefully the child is the beneficiary.
How A Landsknecht Halberdier Shall Be Armed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23yYfIMQQbY
“BUSTED: Ilhan Omar Caught Trying to Funnel $1M to a “Substance Abuse Clinic” Operating Out of a Restaurant Run by Three People at the Same Address — GOP TORPEDOES the Earmark
Omar, a prominent member of the far-left “Squad,” entered Congress in 2019 with a net worth between negative $25,000 and negative $65,000, burdened by student loans and car debt with no assets to her name.
Fast-forward to 2024, and her financial disclosures show assets ballooning to between $6 million and $30 million.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/busted-ilhan-omar-tried-slip-1m-fraud-linked/
Nice work if you can get it.
Id be pissed if I were her cause you know there is 500 line items right behind her grift that made it through
Between 6 and 30 mil? That’s quite a spread. As for her newly acquired wealth, I’m sure she’s just an Einstein at making investments.
Her brother/husband is an investing genius!
She probably got some good investment advice from Nancy Pelosi.
First, the ranges on disclosure docs are too damn wide. Second, the disclosures should be more informative e.g. $x in muni bonds, $y in Nyse traded stocks, $x in private corporations,$A in real estate, etc etc. Maybe no full named disclosure of assets (which pols would never agree to) but something that gives constituents, and investigative journalists ( should any exist) at least some knowledge of whom their rep is beholding to.
I thought her wealth was that latest guy she married?
But yeah, if they can get her on a proven grift – awesome.
Some schadenfreude:
NPR has fallen. They ran a story about how akshually Biden ended the fentanyl crisis, but they just didn’t tell the media that they had done so. They wanted to get some quotes so they reached out to the DNC, former advisors of the Biden admin, even those campaign workers from the Biden and Harris campaign that they had on speed dial.
NONE of the agreed to come on the air.
The were eventually able to get a quite from…
CrackyHunter.I’d pay attention to his word if it was related to coke. He doesn’t seem like an opiates kind of guy.
If you do coke, you’ve probably done fentanyl, even if unintentionally.
that they had on speed dial
Is that a meth joke?
“…Biden ended the fentanyl crisis, but they just didn’t tell the media that they had done so.”
That totally fails the sniff test. Of course they’d have bragged about it.
They couldn’t do a sniff test, there was fentanyl around!
Nah, there is SCIENCE! Apparently the fent seized was less pure in the last year of Biden, so that mean there wasn’t as much being imported!
Of course this science was only recently done, but that’s Biden’s fault for not haveing better messaging!
Already hearing a complaint from my proggie cousin that white on white ICE “murder” response is too mild. “If victim was black, cities would be burning.”
They’re not wrong.
Funny how it could’ve been a black ICE and there’d be no further (or diminished) repercussions – and yes, I’d say that to cuz.
Democrats burning Democrats sounds fine to me.
Friday Funbags highlighting evolutionary adaptations of adipose tissue distribution.
https://archive.is/PFa13
“Leftist agitators have set up an “autonomous zone” in Minneapolis following the shooting of Renee Good, a woman who drove her car into an ICE agent who then shot and killed her. The zone appeared to be similar to the infamous “CHAZ” autonomous zone in Seattle that was constructed in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
The so-called “autonomous zone” had walls made from various materials as well as signs that said slogans such as “f*ck ICE” and similar messages. Others said, “Rest in peace Renee Good.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/abolish-ice-radicals-set-up-new-minneapolis-autonomous-zone-just-blocks-away-from-george-floyd-square
WCPGW?
Kinda cold for playtime right now. It’ll be interesting to see how long this lasts.
Well when one dies from the cold, we know who will be blamed and their finaciers will be ecstatic about it
The cold weather just makes their Resistance more stunning and brave.
As I recall, Seattle is now in litigation about paying out to a murder victim because the ambulances couldn’t respond to the CHAZ.
Arson feels so much better in the cold.
““[Renee Good] was trained against these ICE agents — what to do, what not to do, it’s a very thorough training,” Leesa said. “To listen to commands, to know your rights, to whistle when you see an ICE agent,” she added.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/08/us-news/renee-nicole-good-was-minneapolis-ice-watch-warrior-who-trained-to-resist-feds-before-shooting/
Did they train you not to try and run over armed Federal agents?
I’m sorry I couldn’t have less sympathy for this person. In an abstract way, I suppose it’s sad for someone to be that broken and brainwashed, but gimme a fuckin’ break. Also: a radicalized, financially comfortable, early middle-aged, twice divorced White woman into performative lesbianism? Can you *be* any more of a stereotype of the Dem base?
Depends, was she trans’ing her kid? If so, she was the One and the Right stole her from their world.
She has two other kids that apparently she lost custody of.
Just ugh.
I think it’s settling to be manslaughter for the cop and she was a broken idiot.
Left the country for Canada because she and her partner couldn’t bear the election of Trump. Then came back (sort of). Should’ve stayed in Canada.
Prolly fentanyl distributors.
If you want me, just whistle. You know how to whistle, don’t you? You just put your lips together and blow.
Yes, what if the situation was different.
If someone were obstructing a street in your neighborhood, and you demanded they move.
That’s a shit take by Justin. A LEO demanding you stop blocking the street is not at all the same as a civilian doing so.
He changed it so much that now it’s just two neighbors in a dispute.
That’s a really dumb ass statement by a dude that is mostly pretty smart.
He’s not wrong here, but to say that his understanding of the situation is incomplete, to say the least.
Qualified immunity would like a lot of fucking words.
The legal threshold, as applied, is definitely different for cops. Think of all the cases we have seen where a cop shoots someone who a reasonable person would not think presented an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm, and the cop walked.
Now, some of those are when the cops initiated the confrontation*, which would automatically negate the self-defense claim of a mere citizen. Even in those cases, though, blind firing into a car and hitting a passenger, shooting someone who answers the door with a gun in their hand, shooting a guy who is face down on the floor – no way anybody but a cop wouldn’t be charged. Never mind the “furtive movement”, holding a cell phone not a gun, etc. cases.
*while doing their jobs
“Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., posted on Instagram earlier this week that “I have formally made a motion to subpoena Neville Singham, an American billionaire with ties to the CCP.” In her comments during the House Oversight Committee session on Wednesday, Luna said that Singham “has been funding extremist organizations fueling division and civil unrest in this country and especially regarding the ICE riots last summer.”
Luna made her case to the House committee on Wednesday about why Singham should be compelled to testify, and the motion to issue a subpoena was approved by a voice vote. That vote also included approval of unrelated subpoenas, including targets of the Jeffrey Epstein matter.”
https://justthenews.com/government/security/neville-signham-hit-house-subpoena-his-ccp-tied-network-leads-renewed-anti-ice
lol Good luck with that.
Maybe add Soros while you’re at it.
Gen Z is buying used watches now? Mexican Sharpshooter can rejoice. His investments will increase in value.
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/used-luxury-watch-prices-are-ticking-higher
According to my younger coworkers high end watch demand picked up over COVID.
As I’ve often noted you can’t lose money if you pick up a well cared for 2nd hand Rolex. (Naturally I own other brands…)
Besides people here, I never see another person wearing or discussing non-smart watches.
I have my daily wear Jack Mason, and a bag full of older watches of various rarities. I do not have Rolex or other high-end watches.
Remember I work in NYC followed, by financial services in NYC.
Really? Different crowds, I guess.
I’m not rich enough to go in for really high-end watches, but I do love having my one Omega. And I’m maybe one financial windfall away from this work of art…
Im really enamored by the Sinn 556. Not quite in the luxury category but a damn bit more than most non watch people would ever consider. They are built well enough for a couple of lifetimes use. For the meantime I will settle for my everyday work Seiko 5 and a lower end Laco pilot.
Sinn takes “bone stock” but quite nice Swiss mechanical watch movements and puts them in well made cases with a “a high quality tool” aesthetic.
I like quite a few of their pieces. They don’t tick the “high end” box because they use stock movements, but there is nothing wrong with that. It’s the same thing Seiko does with their mass market mechanical watches.
I also like Sinn watches. They have that perfect ‘understated but indestructible’ aesthetic that I like to project myself.
I dig the Air King and the GMT as well, but I know I will never shell out that kind of dough for a watch barring some insane windfall.
“Grok, the AI chatbot launched by Elon Musk after his takeover of X, unhesitatingly fulfilled a user’s request on Wednesday to generate an image of Renee Nicole Good in a bikini—the woman who was shot and killed by an ICE agent that morning in Minneapolis, as noted by CNN correspondent Hadas Gold and confirmed by the chatbot itself.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/grok-x-musk-deepfake-renee-good-ice/
LOLOLOLOL
An entire article reporting the fact that a program that can manipulate photos can be used to manipulate photos… I’d say what I think about journalists but it might be taken as incitement to violence instead of recommended pest control.
Go, go, go money printer!
Trump Calls on Fannie and Freddie to Buy $200 Billion in Mortgage Bonds
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/trump-calls-on-fannie-and-freddie-to-buy-200-billion-in-mortgage-bonds-79312e1c?st=H1yzwz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
uuuuuuuggggggghhhhh
Bonus:
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/raising-the-fdic-limit-risks-repeating-the-s-l-crisis-46397348?st=LjN46m&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
While I like some of what Trump does, his indifference to the financial health of the government (and thus ultimately the currency) is just keeping us on a path to a crisis that will wash away everything else.
This term is going better than his first one, but even that one got thoroughly wrecked by the response to COVID, which he turned over to the most dyed in the wool Deep Staters.
According to CNN, BigOil execs are meeting with Trump to present their “demands”.
Pies NFL prediction give i know nothing of the sport
Panthers packers bills 49ers patriots steelers
Fuck the Stillers.
Oh, and maybe these will help:
AFC bracket
NFC bracket
Help with what? I already made my predictions and i aint changing. Also i already placed the bet.
That’s a really dumb ass statement by a dude that is mostly pretty smart.
You people keep[ saying that.
Everybody is smart about something, but nobody is smart about everything.
His full on TDS is not very impressive to me, but Trumpy has broken many brains. Otherwise he has seemed like a pretty good champion of liberty, but I may have missed something.
I never got all the spread betting thing americans do. Sports bets should be moneyline.
See, in sports other than soccer, we generally expect both teams to score, so being able to predict an ending score differential is a skill.
In an abstract way, I suppose it’s sad for someone to be that broken and brainwashed, but gimme a fuckin’ break.
I think they believe, fundamentally, in magic. Maybe it’s Harry Potter. Somehow, they have been convinced the power of belief will protect them from any adverse consequences of their righteous crusade.
Or they’re really fucking dumb.
You can do magic
You can have anything that you desire
Magic, and you know
You’re the one who can put out the fire
Yup, that tracks.
Washington’s latest bad idea is the Main Street Depositor Protection Act, offered by Sens. Bill Hagerty (R., Tenn.) and Angela Alsobrooks (D., Md.) and endorsed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The bill would increase the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. limit on all non-interest-bearing accounts from $250,000 to $10 million. But the change would apply only to midsize and community banks—not to global, systemically important banks. Smaller banks wouldn’t have to pay the estimated $42 billion for the increased insurance; the premium increases are largely shifted to bigger banks. Banks under $10 billion in assets don’t have to pay any additional premiums.
That deserves its own textbook.
Stellantis – the bleeding continues.
All Jeep and Chrysler Plug-In Hybrid Models Are Officially Dead
https://www.thedrive.com/news/all-jeep-and-chrysler-plug-in-hybrid-models-are-officially-dead-exclusive
And yet the Dodge Hornet hybrid lives on?
Baffling.
Completely different powertrain that I believe is used globally.
The bug ridden powertrain being discontinued was North America only I believe.
Dan Bongino is out of the FBI and now attacking Dave Smith. I know Dave has alienated some guys around here, but how lame is Bongino?
Smartest guy in the room
The executive who grew up on the streets of Detroit watching his dad drag race equated the current situation to that of a station wagon and enthusiasts. “Used to be back in the day, all the journalists would say, you should build a station wagon with a manual transmission, and I’d be like, come on, man. For you. Yeah, for you and the six other friends of yours that want to buy it,” Kuniskis said.
Kuniskis continued, “The new thing now is, everybody, everywhere I go, when are you going to do a regular cab sport truck? Do you know what the market is for a regular cab sport truck? It’s just tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, little sliver. It’s like the wagon with the manual that everybody used to ask for. Now they’re asking for the manual single-cab truck. And, of course, they want it with a manual transmission. They want it with a 6.4.”
When asked if the 6.4-liter V8 will fit in the 1500 Kuniskis said, “Of course it fits in the truck. 5.7, fits in truck. So of course the 6.4 fits in the truck.”
They don’t do special orders? If you build one, you have to build one million? Is the problem the motor, or do they not even make a single cab truck anymore because “nobody wants one”?
They don’t do special orders? If you build one, you have to build one million?
You need to smog certify the variants. One of the reasons for the decline of the manual. I’d imagine the breakeven on that is 100s if not 1,000s of units.
You can tell nobody wants one because nobody buys any of the ones they don’t build. That’s just basic economics, man.
You can’t wait until after you’ve spent years developing and getting regulatory approval to find out if anyone actually wants to buy your product.
You have to be a mind reader or do extensive surveys before investing.
Of course, there have been plenty of breakthrough products in the past couple of decades to show there is a market for products that no one makes yet.
The big guys do fuck this up regularly.
The thing is, the migration to monster trucks happened when they were a more affordable.
Now that there aren’t any affordable ones, though, I would expect there is a demand for smaller, even stripped down, trucks. If your only options are massive crew cab trucks loaded with “luxury” features, though, that’s what you’re going to buy. Even if it’s on an 8 year note.
“Hey, I can afford a crew cab” is different than “Fuck, all they have are crew cabs”.
Kuniskis equated the choice between the standard-output turbo-six in the 1500 with 440 horsepower and the 5.7-liter Hemi V8 with 395 hp to the Pepsi Challenge. “Do you want old school technology? You want the instantaneous torque, no turbo lag, and the great sound? Or do you want the high-tech fuel economy efficiency? Amazing torque,” Kuniskis quipped.
And when you’re out there in the real world flogging the shit out of the six to keep it on boost, what does your fuel economy look like?
When I last went in for an oil change, the service manager at the dealership told me that the new-generation Tacomas (turbocharged I4) are getting around 14mpg in real-world use. My 2018 Tacoma (naturally aspirated V6 with 130k miles) gets 19-20mpg.
Forced induction does not belong on trucks.
But they do great in the EPA laboratory testing cycle. I’m confused…
Yeah. Turbo makes more power, but really does not increase mileage. It stresses the engine too. I really don’t care if my truck does 0-60 in six seconds or less. I need it low stress and reliable.
Diesels work fantastically with turbos.
I don’t understand what happened. Suddenly the car just spun around…
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1q7x3rv/oc_im_a_real_driver_watch_this/
The guy couldn’t have been luckier about having all the room he did. I’d still be shocked if he didn’t bend something in the suspension.
Good thing it had those racing stripes.
Suddenly the car just spun around…
It must have been a gust of wind.
new-generation Tacomas (turbocharged I4)
Another absurdity of modern techno-wizardry. As I recall, that’s a 2.7 liter. Four cylinders should be kept to 2 liters. If you need more displacement, add cylinders.
You can’t wait until after you’ve spent years developing and getting regulatory approval to find out if anyone actually wants to buy your product.
Like fully electric full size pickup trucks?