Saturday Morning New Year’s Recovery Links

by | Jan 3, 2026 | Daily Links | 188 comments

“I’ve been framed, I tells ya! Lemme outta here!”

It was a fine New Years Eve with the family- and I’m including Prime in that category these days. WebDom, 10b0t, Sweet Baby James, 10b0t’s other two kids, Prime, and I gathered around the table, gorged ourselves on a variety of Middle Eastern dishes and cheeses, and (for the carnivores) rib-eye with Béarnaise sauce. WebDom and I attacked our cholesterol levels with su boregi, an exceptionally high-fat high-carb Turkish cheese pie. Shocking as this seems, we drank quite a bit. Quite a bit. I spent the next two days detoxing. Now I’m spending the weekend re-toxing as Prime and I plow through some we-need-to-try-this wine and beer and prepare for the last of the NFL season. Her team (the Bills, of course) is already in it, mine… not so much. My blood alcohol level versus time is starting to resemble a sine wave.

And we’re celebrating birthdays, too, including a guy who always reminds me of garbanzos; an insanely overrated writer, whose output had the profundity of Harry Potter; one of the funniest ladies in cinema; Pia Zadora long before there was a Pia Zadora; a guy who was in the best baseball movie ever; a crypto-Jew at the keyboard; the architect of “Football of the Future”; the Fifth Beatle and most creative studio mind of the 20th century; a guy whose word was law; a guy who is just as entertaining off the screen as on it; and a girl who stands to collect $10,000 from me.

And what you will collect from me is Links.

After many of us saying, “I don’t like him, but at least he’s not dragging us into wars,” Trump says, “Hold my Diet Coke!”. So let’s see, no declaration of war, no authorization for use of military force, just pure “Cuz I say so.” The War on Drugs turns hot.

The unrest might be real (and will be swiftly and brutally squelched), but this guy is a grifter.

Once more I ask, why are we even in the UN, much less handing them shitpiles of money?

This is rather long-form, but it’s worth picking the scab off of the Gates Foundation and discovering that there’s no good guys on either side of their controversies.

Every time you think that Swalwell has reached Peak Retard, he says, “Hold my mocha latte!”

Another chip in the wall. Maybe we’ll one day see the Bill of Rights actually honored… nah. But still, a baby step.

Is it me or does that new voice sound just like AOC? It’s a conspiracy!

Jews make exodus to White Plains.

Why I love Twitter.

Emmet Cohen may be my favorite living pianist. And he just works perfectly with every visiting star, in this case the terrific Israeli-American guitarist Gilad Hekselman. If you know this wonderful Monk tune, you can hear how it’s honored even as it’s turned inside out. It’s a Jew Jazz miracle. The Old Guy loves this shit.

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188 Comments

  1. Ted S.

    including a guy who always reminds me of garbanzos;

    Happy birthday Chickpea Corea!

  2. PieInTheSky

    an insanely overrated writer, – are you drunk?

  3. PieInTheSky

    and a girl who stands to collect $10,000 from me – at her age? ewwww

  4. Ted S.

    an insanely overrated writer, whose output had the profundity of Harry Potter

    With apologies to the posters here, this could be any commercially successful scifi/fantasy writer.

    • DrOtto

      Only if it’s their birthday.

  5. PieInTheSky

    Free the people of Venezuela

      • Chafed

        Both good ideas.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Free beer!

  6. PieInTheSky

    The US should e]never have let the shah fall.

  7. DrOtto

    Bill Gates is a super villain, change my mind.

    • Gender Traitor

      As I’ve said before, Gates and Ballmer have always reminded me of Pinky and The Brain (not in that order.)

    • rhywun

      It’s looking that way.

      Maybe not as 100% evil as the Soros conglomerate but getting there.

  8. juris imprudent

    Hell with the acts of war, how about kidnapping? And no your stupid indictment of someone who never even set foot on U.S. sovereign territory has no weight – you’re just the ICJ with a bunch of well armed thugs.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Ya im not understanding this path

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Seems about the same as Guatemala under Reagan. A flex of the Monroe Doctrine.

      • juris imprudent

        Our good old tradition of fucking around?

  9. rhywun

    President Jimmy Carter signed the International Covenant at the UN headquarters in 1977, but it has since awaited ratification in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

    JFC… never heard of this abomination but I am quite surprised the Dems haven’t figured out a way to shove that pile of shit down our throats yet. You can bet it’s a Day One surprise waiting for us when they are in complete control again.

    • Chafed

      What’s the over/under on Mandami invoking it in some fashion?

  10. juris imprudent

    Moore’s “law” my ass, it was barely an observation and one not actually borne out over time.

    • PieInTheSky

      seems like many laws to me…

    • UnCivilServant

      Moore included a prediction that it would stop, but he put that earlier in the timeline.

      • juris imprudent

        Never mind that software has bloated faster than processors have improved.

  11. PieInTheSky

    the guitar player seems rather annoying.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Since you love stories with elves and magic rings and swords, perhaps you may not be ready for adult music.

      • PieInTheSky

        Oh yes, Jazz… it’s just insolent noise.

      • Threedoor

        Jazz is about weed and butt sekz

  12. rhywun

    Every time you think that Swalwell has reached Peak Retard, he says, “Hold my mocha latte!”

    Whatever dark spirit to which he has sold his soul must be rewarding him handsomely for being such a shameless prick.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Just curious if the agents have licenses in other states how exactly would he ‘strip’ them away?

      • juris imprudent

        Or for that matter what provision of CA law empowers the governor to do that. Swalwell-isma?

      • rhywun

        I doubt he would actually do it. He’s just throwing red meat at his Antifa base for their votes.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        It isn’t even anitfa, it is the No Kangs crowd of (broken) hipsters.

    • Threedoor

      There is no such thing as a mocha latte.

      There should be no drivers lisences either.

  13. R C Dean

    “Why I love Twitter.”

    I thought Twitter wasn’t even around any more.

  14. Tres Cool

    How does a crypto-Jew compare to the legendary Deepwater Jew ?

  15. Gender Traitor

    the Fifth Beatle

    Happy birthday Billy Preston!

    …and most creative studio mind of the 20th century

    OK, well then Martin I guess. They can duke it out for who’s fifth and who’s sixth.

    • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

      I thought the fifth Beatle was Yoko. You know, the only one with talent?

      • Gender Traitor

        I’m proud to say that I managed to avoid hearing “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” (wherein the recording engineer tries valiantly but fails to sufficiently bury Yoko’s vocals in the mix with the kids) throughout the entire holiday season this year.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Huh, I thought the only Xmas song the Beatles did was “you say it’s your birthday” one.

  16. rhywun

    Jews make exodus to White Plains.

    Somehow I doubt these Milestones will draw the same attention that recent lesbian police or fire commissioners got.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Im suspecting more of “see Jews have all the power” articles rather

    • Ted S.

      I don’t recall The Lost Weekend being a baseball movie.

    • Old Man With Candy

      He wasn’t. He was in the ACTUAL best baseball movie ever made.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Bull Durham?

      • Tres Cool

        Major League.

      • Tres Cool

        Whoops.

      • Gender Traitor

        Bull Durham

        We’ve been known to yell “Throw it at the bull” to Single A pitchers who exhibit…less than pinpoint control.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Who did he play in Eight Men Out?

      • Ted S.

        We’ve been known to yell “Throw it at the bull” to Single A pitchers who exhibit…less than pinpoint control.

        You don’t yell “Juuust a bit outside”?

    • Gender Traitor

      Nor in Damn Yankees. 😁😉

      • Old Man With Candy

        You people are totally nekulturny. Pearls before swine, that’s what this is.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Casting Pearls…

        So, not a baseball thing, more of a fishing thing.

      • juris imprudent

        It was a trick question – there’s never been a great movie about baseball.

  17. Ownbestenemy

    Only best outcome with this Venezuela shitshow is the reports of Maduro negotiating and we decided a dog and pony show for his exit. Otherwise, the largest misstep of Trump by far.

    • juris imprudent

      It will be interesting, the cognitive dissonance of the majority[?] of Trump supporters who also don’t want this kind of foreign meddling.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Oh they will contort into pretzels on how this is a good thing

      • juris imprudent

        For the love of Trump fills their hearts?

        I really didn’t need more fuel for my misanthropy.

      • Fourscore

        “Maduros Win Free Vacation!”

        “Glad to be out of that hellhole” Mrs Maduro was quoted as saying

      • Common Tater

        I don’t think Trump supporters are so against foreign meddling, but against forever wars.

      • juris imprudent

        Forever wars start as foreign meddling.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        A lot of Trump supporters will go along with whatever Trump decides to do unfortunately. From trade to war to things like Indian visas or Epstein, they’ll turn on a dime. He could go full commie and they’d still be lining up to blow the guy…not much better than the left really when it comes to instrumental inconsistancy.

      • Common Tater

        “Forever wars start as foreign meddling.”

        They start by not having plans for an ending. What was the goal in Afghanistan? What would winning look like in Ukraine?

        All these people lost their shit over Iran, but the U.S. just dropped a couple of bombs and left, because the plan was to drop a couple of bombs and leave.

      • Ownbestenemy

        And now Trump saying we will install a new leader…this is a colossal mess

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Populist president is populist, news at 11.

        Watching your family and community be consumed by drug problems and wanting the person behind it* put away for life, is slightly different than wars for oil (which we have plenty of here) in the eyes of his supporters. Libertarians are confused by this, story after the first, again at 11. In any case, Trumps supporters want the country to be a decent place again, in their eyes, so if this is part of that they aren’t assuming pretzel shape. Again, populist president is populist.

        *I have no idea if this is true, but is a huge part of the admins story right now, so…

      • robodruid

        I dont like it.
        Would rather issue letters of Marque and walk away from it.

      • juris imprudent

        because the plan was to drop a couple of bombs and leave

        So far.

      • Old Man With Candy

        In any case, Trumps supporters want the country to be a decent place again

        The government needs to protect people from the consequences of their bad decisions. That’s what it’s for, right?

      • Threedoor

        The “wars for oil” bit was a lie as well.

        The U.S. didn’t get a drop of it from Iraq.

      • Chafed

        I’m looking for the bank shot of Vance supporting it and Dave Smith explaining why it’s okay for Vance to do it.

  18. Semi-Spartan Dad

    Maduro is no different than what has been done with the Mexican cartels or Escobar. This has been how the US has operated for decades.

    Either Central/South American countries accept the free reign of the DEA or the obstacles preventing them are removed. Extradition to an American prison are like collecting hunting trophies for the Feds.

    It’s better to see this out in the open, very publicly, so everyone can see what’s been happening.

    • Fourscore

      Well, I guess that’s the end of cheap fentanyl. Buyers will have to switch to a new source, Mexican maybe.

      • Threedoor

        Canada.

    • Threedoor

      Yes.
      Amazing that she’s British on top of it.

  19. Common Tater

    “A Justice Department official vowed to protect the free speech of citizen journalists Thursday after Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson accused “extremist influencers” of harassing Somali child care providers in the city.

    On the eve of her inauguration, Wilson posted a message expressing “solidarity” with Somali child care providers in the city who have come under scrutiny amid a day care fraud scandal more than 1,000 miles away in Minnesota.

    “I stand with the Somali childcare providers who have experienced targeted harassment, and condemn the surveillance campaign promoted by extremist influencers,” the self-proclaimed socialist mayor wrote on X, including a statement warning against filming day care centers.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/01/03/us-news/doj-official-warns-seattle-mayor-katie-wilson-to-leave-journalists-alone-after-she-accused-influencers-of-harassing-somali-child-care-providers/

    CWAC

    • rhywun

      Because a culture of stealing from the government to reward your family or tribe is limited to just Minnesota? Uh huh.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Black americans have become unreliable so they have moved on

    • R C Dean

      I mean, if she can find any actually providing childcare, sure.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Until it becomes an absolute last result, we have more viable and sustainable protein sources and these people can go eat an ass

      • Threedoor

        Not to mention the parasites OBE.

    • PieInTheSky

      Depends on the insects I do like a bit of lobster.

    • creech

      And yet the “food insecurity” is in those parts of the world where eating insects is not disgusting??? Mom always said, “No dessert unless you eat your termites. People in Uganda are starving.”

  20. Common Tater

    “Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul sparked outrage Friday after ordering that 16 state landmarks – including Manhattan’s One World Trade Center – be illuminated in green to celebrate “the heritage and culture of Muslim Americans.”

    Hochul’s decision to light up the skyscraper erected on the site where the Twin Towers were knocked down by terrorists during the 9/11 attacks was decried as “tone deaf” and “disgusting” by several social media users….

    Hochul signed a proclamation Friday declaring January as Muslim American Heritage Month in the Empire State for the first time.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/01/02/us-news/ny-landmarks-including-world-trade-center-lit-green-for-muslim-american-heritage-month-after-hochul-order/

    No.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Its going to be an Islamic bukkake for the next few years

    • Fourscore

      The different groups will soon vie with each other for control of the dollars.

      • rhywun

        LOL

      • robodruid

        You know, the trolling is going to be glorious when AI can recreate movies/scense that twist what has been done. Handsmaiden Hijab will be fun to watch.

      • R C Dean

        Wasn’t the Handmaid’s Tale originally referencing Islam anyway? I thought it was highjacked to be anti-Western Civilization.

    • rhywun

      “Some, I assume, are good people.”

      Yeah, tone deaf AF but entirely in line with Dem sensibilities.

    • Gender Traitor

      …illuminated in green to celebrate “the heritage and culture of Muslim Americans.”

      Cultural appropriation from the Irish!!! ☘🍀☘

    • Tres Cool

      They actually have forgotten what group of people flew planes into the trade center a few years ago.

      • juris imprudent

        “Some people did something…”???

      • rhywun

        Oh no they haven’t forgotten. This is the left rubbing shit in your face and daring you to object.

      • R C Dean

        I’d love to see the degree to which NYers who lived there in 2001 are no longer there, and how many of their replacements aren’t Americans at all.

    • creech

      It wasn’t to celebrate the NY Jets’ season?

    • Threedoor

      There should be no Muslims in the U.S.

      End of story.

      Their death cult is not comparable with our form of government.

    • Chafed

      And she will still be reelected.

  21. juris imprudent

    an insanely overrated writer (and tying together several threads here)

    The prophet Muhammed?

    • creech

      JI courageously faces fatwah.

    • Ownbestenemy

      SDNY, what can’t that court do!

      • juris imprudent

        This is what comes from allowing New Yorkers to think they are the center of the world.

      • ZWAK, doktor of BRAIN SCIENCE!

        Well, someone made sure they are no longer the Trade Center of the world.

    • Tonio

      Predictions: Mamdami will (attempt to) visit Maduro in a gesture of support. One or more congresscritters will engage in “oversight” theater at the facility.

      • Old Man With Candy

        I’d lay money on both of those happening.

      • rhywun

        #metoo

      • Threedoor

        It’s only for marketplace anymore.

        I hope Craigslist makes a comeback.

  22. Common Tater

    “The Presidential McDonald’s feast includes French fries, a Quarter Pounder hamburger, a Big Mac and a Filet-O-Fish.

    The order totals 1,960 calories, nearly an entire day’s recommended intake, and around 225 mg of cholesterol, roughly three-quarters of the daily guideline.

    Add a chocolate milkshake, as Trump often does, and the calorie count balloons to more than 2,700, well beyond a full day’s recommended allowance.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15430007/Trumps-jaw-dropping-McDonalds-order-goes-viral-amid-health-alarm.html

    Big Smoke

    • creech

      Concern for his health is so touching. Like none of these guys wouldn’t cheer if OMB dropped dead today.

      • rhywun

        They are ramping up the concern, aren’t they. I hope he’s watching his back.

  23. Shpip

    a guy who was in the best baseball movie ever

    Walter Matthau’s birthday was three months ago.

    • Old Man With Candy

      Matthau was not in it. The only worthwhile thing about the abomination you’re obliquely referring to is that Matthau went out and shot John Lennon to impress Jodie Foster.

  24. Common Tater

    “A US appeals court on Friday ruled that California’s ban on openly carrying firearms in most parts of the state was unconstitutional.

    A panel of the San Francisco-based ninth US circuit court of appeals sided 2-1 with a gun owner in ruling that the state’s prohibition against open carry in counties with more than 200,000 people violated the US constitution’s second amendment right to keep and bear arms.

    About 95% of the population in California, which has had some of the nation’s strictest gun-control laws, live in counties of that size.”

    What a weird oddly specific law.

  25. The Late P Brooks

    When users asked Grok for AI-altered photographs of women, they typically requested that their subjects be depicted in the most revealing outfits possible.

    Could you have it put Letitia James in a space suit, or one of those tinfoil Red Adair oil well fireman getups?

    • Ownbestenemy

      Men like women in revealing outfits…news at 11.

      • rhywun

        🤢🤮

  26. PieInTheSky

    What would be really funny if Trump sent Maduro to El Salvador for detention

    • rhywun

      I want to sign up for your newsletter.

    • R C Dean

      She lost 50 pounds?

      “Thousands of acres” could be, what, 5 square miles? Even a hundred square miles is only 10 miles on a side.

      • UnCivilServant

        A square mile is 640 acres. So if you assume a minimum of 2k acres for “thousands”, thats 3 1/8th square miles for 2k acres

    • Threedoor

      How the hell could you get lost in Alabama for more than a day or two?!

      Walk ten miles in any direction any you’ll find a dozen houses on your journey.

  27. Common Tater

    “During that time, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued five press releases about Israel and the Palestinians and four complimenting or defending New York City’s new Mayor Zohran Mamdani, according to the news section on CAIR’s main website.

    There’s nothing on the site, though, addressing Iranian citizens’ latest outcry against the Islamic Republic – known for its harsh oppression of women and girls, political dissidents and gay people. A half dozen or more protesters have been killed since the latest unrest began, news outlets have reported.”

    https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/islamic-civil-rights-group-says-nothing-about-civil-unrest-iran

    Because they can’t blame the Jews?

  28. Q Continuum

    “Trump says Maduro and his wife were captured from a fortress-like house and are being taken to New York on a ship”

    WTF?! I wake up to this shit? So I guess we’re at war with Venezuela now because, even if there’s no “declaration”, you can’t get much more of a casus belli than that.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      We had helicopters shooting up Caracas with zero antiair being used, not even small arms. Maduro was almost certainly sold out by his inner circle in exchange for being allowed to maintain or improve their positions. We’ll just install one of those jackasses but it remains to be seen how much the Venezuelan people find this upsetting.

      • Common Tater

        Celebrations have been reported.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It wouldn’t surprise me, he and Chavez managed to run Venezuela’s economy into the ground. On the other hand, they were celebrating in Baghdad a while back and we know how that all turned out.

      • juris imprudent

        THIS WILL BE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT, BECAUSE THE RIGHT PEOPLE DID IT!!! /every fucking moron from both sides

    • KSuellington

      The “war” is already over. Maduro will be in a jail cell next to Luigi shortly. He was indeed as SW mentioned, sold out by his inner circle. Looks like minimal casualties. This is even better than when he took out Soleimani.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Crazy folk medicine

    “They say aspirin is good for thinning out the blood, and I don’t want thick blood pouring through my heart,” Trump, 79, told The Journal. “I want nice, thin blood pouring through my heart. Does that make sense?”

    The president takes 325 milligrams of daily aspirin — one “adult” over-the-counter pill. That is four times higher than the recommended 81 milligram low-dose aspirin used for cardiovascular disease prevention.

    What do doctors and researchers say?

    He should be taking a REAL heart medicine. Something costing hundreds of dollars a month while destroying his liver.

    • Common Tater

      I read that he takes a statin.

      • Threedoor

        That’ll kill you.
        Eventually.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Experts recommend that these patients take 81 milligrams of aspirin every day to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. (The dose used to be described as a “baby aspirin,” but aspirin is no longer recommended for regular use in children.)

    Aspirin doesn’t put food on Big Pharma’s table.

    • Fourscore

      My doc told me to quit the 81 mg aspirin. I bruise easily, bleed easily. Now, a year later with no aspirin it’s still the same. My opinion is that Trump’s self medication is not helpful, 81 is more than plenty. OTOH, advice is worth what you pay for it.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        But if 81mg is good than 325mg should be almost three times as good, right? Maybe the extra will counteract all of those Big Macs.

      • Chafed

        There is only one way to find out.

  31. Common Tater

    “In a video released on New Year’s Day, California state Senator Scott Wiener claimed that his bill banning Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and other law enforcement from wearing face coverings had gone into effect. The Department of Justice was quick to point out that the bill, under an agreement reached in court regarding an ongoing case, has not yet taken effect.”

    https://thepostmillennial.com/scott-wiener-falsely-claims-his-ice-mask-ban-has-gone-into-effect-in-california-its-been-blocked-by-judge

    Deport him to Uganda.

      • Common Tater

        Fine, deport Fauci to Uganda.

      • R C Dean

        Also. Deport Fauci to Uganda also.

  32. Threedoor

    If we’re doing rigged election regime change now we have to do Brazil next.

    Minesoda
    Washington
    Oregon
    California…

    Have to be consistent.

    • juris imprudent

      Hate to break this to you, but those states are actually full of idiot voters. They’ll just vote in a new slate of proggie morons.

      • Fourscore

        MN has two women senators so no surprises there. 7 county metro area rules the state.

        The not-so-funny part is Walz talking third term. He may just get it, so he’ll have time to go after those fraudsters.

      • UnCivilServant

        Hate to break it to you JI, there’s also a shitton of fraud. You want to blame the voters so bad, but each time we turn around there’s another reveal of some people subverting the process for personal gain.

      • R C Dean

        C’mon, UnCiv. Just because the state is rotten with financial fraud doesn’t mean their elections are fraudulent, too.

        Right?

      • Threedoor

        They are.
        But they rigged the system first to make it per incant and then gave drivers lisences to illegals and handed them cater registration cards.

        Motor voter is what will be know as what finally killed off the republic.

  33. Common Tater

    “House Democrats have reintroduced the Supreme Court Tenure Establishment and Retirement Modernization (TERM) Act, a proposal that would effectively end life tenure for Supreme Court justices and guarantee presidents a steady stream of appointments regardless of vacancies….

    18-Year Terms: Justices would serve 18 years in “active service,” after which they would be shifted into a newly formalized “Senior Status.”

    Guaranteed Appointments: A new justice would be appointed every two years — during the first and third years of a presidential term — no matter what.”

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/court-packing-another-name-democrats-push-18-year/

    WCPGW?

    • UnCivilServant

      Is it an amendment to the constitution striking the lifetime appointment from Article 3 Section 1? Or are they legislatively declaring spending too much time on the bench as ‘bad bhaviour’ causing the judges to be removed?

      • Common Tater

        I don’t think they’ve given it more thought than “we don’t control the Supreme Court”.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Hate to break this to you, but those states are actually full of idiot voters. They’ll just vote in a new slate of proggie morons.

    Not always. I was just reading a thing at Politico about San Francisco progressives angry and disappointed about losing their viselike grip on the city. Of course it’s the fault of big techbro money, not their policies turning that jewel of a city into a shithole.

    • KSuellington

      Even with the slight change of just not going with full blown commies and instead electing a mayor and a couple Supes that would be considered lefty in most of the country the City is far improved in the last year. I don’t even like the smarmy little fuck, but it is noticeably better.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    Stop the presses

    Anchorage could see temperatures as low as 25 degrees below zero through the weekend. That’s according to a cold weather advisory issued by the National Weather Service Friday morning.

    Temperatures should be coldest Friday and Saturday night, but there have already been some chilly observations around town, Weather Service forecaster Tracen Knopp said.

    “We’ve seen a lot of temperatures between -10 and -20,” Knopp said. “Like right now, Merrill Field is sitting at -15. Same with over on Abbott Road. So just very cool temperatures that we haven’t seen in a while.”

    The cold weather is due to a large arctic air mass moving down from Interior Alaska, Knopp said.

    I thought Alaska was turning into Miami Beach.

    • Tres Cool

      I dont know but I was told,
      eskimo pussy is mighty cold

  36. KSuellington

    Wow, what a news morning. I absolutely love it. Finally after more than a quarter century Venezuela has a chance. The timing was great too, after Xi just sent his special envoy there yesterday. Looks like it went off without a hitch and now Maduro can be roommates with Luigi. Hope the Venezuelans can sort out the absolute mess he made of their country. At least they have a chance now.

  37. Common Tater

    “A pizza place near the Pentagon received an unusual rush in orders just an hour after the US launched its attack on Venezuela.

    Pizzato Pizza in Arlington, Virginia, “suddenly surged in traffic” at 2 a.m. Friday, according to Pentagon Pizza Report, an online account that tracks a pizza spot supposedly favored by federal agents.

    That would be 3 a.m. in Caracas, one hour after the US rained down airstrikes on the capital city that lasted less than 30 minutes.

    The Pentagon Pizza theory follows pizza orders surrounding the Pentagon, speculating that an increase in late nights orders for federal agents corresponds with major historical events.”

    https://nypost.com/2026/01/03/world-news/pizza-orders-near-pentagon-surge-amid-venezuela-attack-tracker/

    OK?

  38. The Late P Brooks

    Magic spell

    Starting January 1, Californians will pay a new fee every time they buy a product with a non-removable battery – whether it’s a power tool, a PlayStation, or even a singing greeting card.

    The 1.5% surcharge, capped at $15, expands a recycling program that’s been quietly collecting old computer monitors and TVs for two decades. The change is a result of Senate Bill 1215, authored by former state Sen. Josh Newman, a Democrat who represented parts of Los Angeles and San Bernardino. It was signed into law in 2022.

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    Finding ways to properly dispose of batteries and their lithium in the waste stream is critical as the state transitions away from fossil fuels, said Meg Slattery, a scientist for Earthjustice.

    “The next question becomes … where are we sourcing materials, and thinking through what happens to this when we’re not using it anymore, which I think we’re not traditionally great at thinking about as a society,” she said.

    They left off the part explaining how this upfront tax is going to keep those batteries/devices out of the landfills.

    • Chafed

      Try to recycle batteries in this state is a pain in the ass.

      • Threedoor

        Dumped with your couch and dead freezer

    • Threedoor

      Just like the plastic bag fees.
      Now bag fees in general in WA and OR.

      Which are going up to I think 15c a bag in WA.

      And I’ll keep taking them and telling the automated checkout at Walmart that I used zero bags.

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Clean energy shift brings battery hazards

    If I didn’t know better, I’d be tempted to think “clean energy” from batteries is a gigantic hoax.

    • Fourscore

      I dunno, Brooksie, I’ve got a battery in my truck that is regenerative charging. As I’m using the truck the battery gets recharged automatically.

      sarc/

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