OK, I was expecting that the Browns would be the Browns last week. But somehow, they weren’t. So there’s actually an important game for the Ravens today. CAW CAW!! I’m spending the run-up to it stone sober, for a change- I have a technology article to finish (about a gizmo that analyzes loudspeaker drivers). Besides, I got my weekend drinking in last night with Prime at a fine little venue near Buffalo (great pizza, small but interesting wine list- we had an excellent Chinon). So I’m good. Until kickoff, and that’s when the first cork comes out.
The kids start drifting back into town tomorrow, so I’m back in the kitchen helping WebDom and 10b0t. And I will be properly grouchy and hung over, just like a real chef!
Birthdays are also real and today’s include some notable folks including a true genius on cosmological origins; a guy whose work was integral to modern thought, though it was certainly derivative; the SugarFree of his day; a guy who was all about feeling; the Robert Reich of his day; an interesting thinker who could even make humor dull; an oleaginous and amoral senator with an actual hit record; a guy who could out-tunnel Hamas; the Old Guy’s favorite shredder; and a guy I predict will light it up for his birthday today if they actually deign to give him the ball.
And rather than the ball, I will give you Links.
Grrrrreat. We can’t even run our own government.
Iran protests will be, as usual, over in a few days with no effect on the Mullahs.
And it’s not reckless, it’s just stupid.
Hunga Tonga, the climate “scientists” are very quiet.
What the fuck is wrong with kids today?
Admittedly, Wisconsin is a nice place.
My god, this woman was so hot. And a voice to match. She makes this song hers and it puts the lead in the Old Guy’s pencil.
There’s a limit to how many times they can successfully intimidate the populace. The frequency of these events has been getting higher, with less downtime from fear in between.
When it does happen that the mullahs fall, will you admit that you did not see it coming?
I wish I had the ability to distinguish a real organic protest from a CIA funded color revolution effort. I have no idea if it’s real.
I never hesitate to admit when I’m wrong. But this shit and the resulting breathless coverage seem to happen again and again with the same result.
Say, how’s the Tiananmen Square revolution worked out?
[Team America Matt Damon voice] Arab Spring [/TAMDV]
The best hot take I have seen was Trump kidnapped Maduro to distract from the Jan 6 anniversary.
Morning all. Last day of vacation here.
Anniversary of smoking Soleimani…and anniversary of capturing Noriega.
He wanted to get his New Year’s resolutions completed early.
“why is the federal government funding any of this in the first place?”
Good question but in the meantime let’s at least try to eliminate the blatant fraud and then we can move on to the not so blatant fraud. If we’re going to be forced to fund it, and we will be, at least make sure the money isn’t going to a bunch of hucksters.
With the sheer scale of the scams coming to light, Massie and Paul are screaming it from the rooftop. Nobody in GOP leadership is listening.
When the post-mortem on the American republic is done, I think the culprit is likely to be the utter failure of Congress to do its fucking job in the Constitutional division/balance of power.
Although an argument could be made that the real culprit is the unwillingness of the American people to stack the skulls of its rulers on the National Mall. Pour encourager les autres.
The tree of liberty has gotten awfully thirsty.
We desperately need term limits and some kind of restrictions on what our congressscum can do after leaving the fedgov. Good luck getting those assholes to vote for that though.
Rome fell apart when their Senate became too corrupt and cowardly to do anything. Eventually dictators filled the vacuum.
Massie and Paul haven’t been screaming about fraud – Epstein and tariffs are their preferred narratives.
Rome fell apart…
The damn Republic was never stable. It worked sort of while it expanded – kind of like a pyramid scheme. But it was never a stable AND peaceful regime.
Congress critters are not legally allowed to have jobs.
So they extend congressional session to year round and make unconstitutional crap up on the daily to be seen as doing something.
Phantom day-care centers run by ungrateful leeches are the scam we operate together.
“He alleged that they were fraudulently billing the government for nonexistent children because he couldn’t see any.”
I’m curious about this from a legal standpoint, and haven’t paid much attention to the issue like most things in my life. 😆 If the government is giving out money for states to give to childcare providers, and if I obtain a business license, a physical location, and a sign, technically I’m a daycare if those are the rules. The fact that there aren’t any children is irrelevant. Is this an instance of government handing out money with little regard for how it’s used, or are there fake names and addresses being used? I’m not sure I understand the fraud part. Happy New Year everyone!
Apparently the daycares receive a certain amount of funding based on the rated child capacity. If they’re over reporting the number of kids, if there are any kids, that’s fraud. That being said, the oversight’s been so lacking that I almost can’t blame them for taking advantage. Thus far the funds have been ripe fruit on a low branch and that needs to change.
I thought the money was paid based on the number of kids who used the place. Not sure. If the money is paid based on the size of the facility alone, regardless of whether it provides any actual child care, well, that’s an open invitation to fraud and grifting. And our government would never do that.
After all, for better or for worse, isn’t funding of the K-12 child care centers based on actual daily attendance?
Not soley if I am reading this manual correct. Time in actual attendance supposedly factors in with a ton of caveats of the type of assistance being provided. Its insane.
Same as schools. Official attendance is 2nd period, to give the latecomers time to show up and before the drifters, well, drift,
The CCAP policy manual defines what a child is, what is considered child care of said child and what a provider is along with how to verify.
If fake info was used to obtain access the monies, that is fraud by both the applicant and the State.
Also that manual is 550 pages long. It was built for fraud.
Can we deport the lawyers and bureaucrats that came up with a 550 page manual for babysitting?
The carve outs, various determinations, what-ifs, etc is insane as I thumb through it.
Seems like, if we just hafta do this, a payment per child-day of babysitting should do it, with records of attendance co-signed by the parent(s) and the fraudster, err, provider. And civil and criminal penalties for both when they get caught lying.
As seen, an unwilling justice system to pursue and willing state agency actors within have shown how such a fraud will never be found as this is the only avenues to disqualify the transfer of wealth.
if we just hafta do this
We really shouldn’t just concede that stolen base.
https://x.com/i/status/2007784079513858292
Their numbers for authorized amount of kids is insane. Typically its X amount of kids per caregiver to ensure safety and proper supervision. 150 kids is A LOT of kids to watch.
The point being of course that none of those 150 kids exist and that the facilities were never adequate for even a fraction of them if they did exist. It’s fake numbers from start to finish – 4000 day care centers in a population of 80000 – each of which supposedly supporting dozens of kids????
It’s like the restaurants serving 3000 meals a day. I’ve worked restaurants, you aren’t serving 3000 meals, maybe 300. You know the officials are in on this when it’s this blatant.
Remember those officials/bureaucrats only get in real trouble when they don’t spend all of the money allocated to them.
Public schools get funds allotted to them based on attendance. I am sure that private institution funding is based on a similar calculation.
Your american skier lost in the slalom. You people suck. Haha
We’re a simple direct people, all that side to side shilly shallying doesn’t suit us
Now a downhill course with target shooting on the move … we also need skeet surfing for the summer games.
Apparently (((Jarfax has never seen twerking.
Twerking is more a mogul run than a slalom.
The twerking demographic and the skiing demographic have limited overlap. Also admitting twerking is an American phenomenon is treason.
a guy who was all about feeling
Happy birthday Morris Albert!
I was kicking myself after I hovered over the link before taking a guess. I should have been able to connect the dots.
If Swiss sees this, he’s going to go into a blind rage.
Note how few are actually originals. Remakes, sequels, prequels, and… there’s not a single thing here worth watching.
Ricardo Cortez was the ultimate Sam Spade.
I skimmed it. There were a couple that might be worth watching.
If you’re an American and this concept bothers you then you’re a huge pussy and you hate your own country
Every person should want their country to be able to project their will anywhere at any time
https://x.com/growing_daniel/status/2007671678437114080
able? sure. willing? not so much
You dont know you got it if you dont use it from time to time
This shit makes me very nervous.
What we get overseas we often get at home. Also blowback, what the fuck is that?
“You ain’t nobody until you do what you want!”
Fonzie
Might makes right eh? Maybe that asshole needs to be beaten to a pulp and watch his assailant suffer no consequences?
Can you name a time and/or place where it hasn’t been such? Even our lofty experiment in liberty is a result of might makes right.
Thinking otherwise is no less delusional than socialism.
Yeah, the alternatives all suck.
“Araghchi indicated Iran’s armed forces were on standby and “know exactly where to aim” in the event of an attack.”
At Israel?
There’s nothing like a foreign war to distract from domestic problems.
We are charging Maduro with violating an unconstitutional 1930’s firearm law?
https://x.com/i/status/2007469970364539092
How cool would it be for Maduro to be the test case for the Supreme Court to overturn that crap?
4-D chess! Brilliant!
…involved in interstate commerce… ???
What the fuck is wrong with kids today?
They’ve replaced drinking with tatts and piercings as their endorphin-producer of choice.
Ya they arent being healthier, its being moved to other vices. All these articles claiming they want to be health conscious while the kids are popping pills and smoking weed for their head change are being disingenuous
Drunk chicks >> tattoed chicks
One usually signals the other.
They’ve turned into creepy little cultists.
So…finally got caught up on reading the last few weeks of posts. A combination of being busy at work (and never logging in on my govt computer), and not having time to read at home when I can log in. Just finished 6 straight night shifts over the New Year – did get Christmas off – covering for folks on leave, etc. A lot of fireworks here again this year – may watch next year if schedule permits…maybe not.
Doing fairly well overall. I did twist my ankle pretty badly the Sunday before Christmas (not nearly as badly as Ron thankfully) – bound to happen eventually – walking 2km each way to my car – very slick paving stones here. Doing pretty well, but I’ll get x-rays tomorrow (while on base for other errands) just to verify everything is healing well.
2025 worked out pretty well even with my weird parking situation/etc. Enjoying my 40k hobbying a lot – even if I don’t have a chance to play with anyone. My pile of shame is immense, but it does give a sense of accomplishment to work on it – although the painting is less rewarding than the building most of the time. A little local travel – but I’m just not as interested in getting out and about every weekend like a lot of the folks stationed here. Was hoping this tour might be a good opportunity to meet someone, but that may not really be the case. Even with some online sites – they’re not really tailored for being overseas – and even the few folks I’m getting matched with (who may or may not be a little closer to me) – don’t list any details on their profiles that would actually give me an incentive to contact them.
As far as 2026 – I think work should go pretty well. I’ve already got a reservation for the military Edelweiss hotel in Germany for Thanksgiving…and planning on going back to Ischia in the fall for another break. Of course my parents want to visit in a couple months – now I just need to find a solution for transportation locally given my shitty parking situation…(may just hire a driver for a couple days). For the moment…I just feel pretty satisfied with working my shifts, going to the local gym, and then working on hobby stuff and going out for food/beer a few times on my days off. Not really anyone to hang out with locally, but it’s manageable.
BTW…grummun – you still trying to offload that HD-DVD player?
I’m glad life is going well for you.
Venezuelan man:
“Those who say that the U.S. is only interested in our oil, I ask you: What do you think the Russians and the Chinese wanted here?
The recipe for arepas?”
I had arepas ata food truck. i have to say the taste and texture are good and different compared to other things used to hold meats.
“They lack our altruism.”
“What do you think the Russians and the Chinese wanted here?”
An unsinkable platform to bring down their hated rival, the American Empire? As well as making some money on the side?
The CCP definitely wants the oil. The CCP is asshoe thirsty bitches.
We’ve got a married couple that’s been running a local restaurant chain for a while, Barocco. One is from Venezuela, the other from Colombia. Ask them which country’s arepas are “correct”, and sit back.
Argentina of course
Shades of Peru and Chile arguing over the correct pisco sour.
“Students at the Windy City private school — an elite institution where Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker sent his children and middle school families shell out over $47,000 in tuition — had been practicing the song “Erika,” a German marching song widely associated with Hitler’s Third Reich during WWII, a letter from the school to parents revealed.
A teacher overheard two students discussing practicing the taboo tune, leading the institution to launch an internal probe, the letter read.
The same song was shockingly belted out by members of the middle school band in November 2024, in a horrific blow to Jewish families who felt their kids’ well-being was threatened by Latin’s notoriously toxic environment. The punishment faced by those band members is unknown.
The lyrics of the song, originally published in 1938, do not explicitly reference Nazism, although it features a rhythm common to military marching common with Hitler which leant itself to use during WWII.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/03/us-news/elite-chicago-middle-school-embroiled-in-nazi-music-controversy-for-second-time/
Never heard of it.
It contains a rhythm? A song? A marching song? You don’t say.
“We’re doing it in honor of Erika Kirk, right?”
(Which reminds me of a fun fact: After the Rose Bowl, while the talking heads were yammering away down on the field, I’m pretty sure I overheard the Hoosier marching band playing the old ABBA song “Fernando.”)
widely associated with
That’s the tell right there.
Wait, wait, I haven’t finished my stretching warm-ups. I don’t want to pull something!
features a rhythm common to military marching common with Hitler which leant itself to use during WWII.
To quote Rhy: “So tiring”
If we’re going to cancel songs based on rhythms associated, however tentatively, with whatever the most neurotic amongst us consider triggering, there’s going to a lot of music canceled.
A hearty fuck off to all you pseudo-revolutionaries out there trying to cleanse society based on your (literal) psychoses. One doesn’t have to wonder too much about how such movements trigger back-lash than can, and most often do, end up being almost as bad as the revolutionaries themselves.
These people don’t know much about la marseillaise, do they?
JI, all they need is love.
“this potentially priceless anthropological evidence is heading back to Hawaii for “reburial and proper care” — at the hands of an organization that aims to “undo the evils of colonialism.”
The reason is a federal law called NAGPRA, the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act….
Yet in December 2023, President Joe Biden’s Interior Department changed its regulatory guidance on NAGPRA repatriations — adding “Native American traditional knowledge” to the list of necessary evidence.
And the updated regulations “require deference to the Native American traditional knowledge of lineal descendants, Indian Tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations.”
In practice, it means that even DNA evidence counts for nothing if a tribe says otherwise.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/02/opinion/how-woke-politics-defeats-science-slamming-the-door-on-discovery/
CWABOA
This is why I’m just a little sick of everyone’s sacred shit.
No different than the Taliban.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennewick_Man
Trust the science!
Covered While Also Beating Off Alone?
Kennewick man has entered the chat.
The tribes lost.
They didn’t even have the wheel.
Should have fought harder.
The feds should never have made treaties with any of them.
All treaties that were made should have been null and void when they were all made citizens over 100 years ago.
Yeah, I’ve read there was a window during the early 1900s when the reservation system was being seriously considered for elimination. This thing where you are a citizen but you also get the benefits of treaties, etc. made when you weren’t a citizen and were treated as a member of a (semi) sovereign group is long overdue for straightening out. That should have been part of the deal when Indians were made citizens. And they would be a hell of a lot better off for it.
It’ll never happen now, of course.
Even when tribes no longer qualify as having any members by blood quanta (an u scientific racist measure) they become tribal corporations and inherit all the land and assets. When that happens it further concentrates the power of just a few families on the Rez making things even worse.
Since launching in May, the Seoul Morning Coffee Club’s Coffee Rave has become a viral success, drawing hundreds of like-minded Seoulites from the comfort of their beds to dance at daybreak.
Oh.
Now we know why Korea has such a low birth rate.
Maybe “Zionist” just means “meanie” now, like “fascist”. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Evil Colonizers!
The one thing in the world the Jews have never controlled is oil. Or as a co-worker of my dad put it “if Moses had turned right instead of left, we’d have the oil and they’d have the useless desert”.
So THAT’S why they ordered their puppet President to attack Venezuela!!!! / sarc
“Trump said he preferred Rodriguez, 56, in power rather than the country’s opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, adding that Maduro’s VP was prepared to work with the US.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15433043/Venezuela-interim-leader-Delcy-Rodriguez-Maduro-Trump.html
Because of the Nobel Prize?
Rodriguez was in on selling Maduro out?
That’s gotta be it, JI.
This is the stupidest move to make at this point. Don’t put the popular opposition leader in charge, oh no. Put the apparatchik from the deposed regime in charge. And not just any apparatchik; the one that was in Moscow hobnobbing with Putin when it went down.
What’s the apparatchik gonna do at this point if Trump says, “Nah, I’ll go with the chick who dedicated her Nobel Prize to me”? The apparatchik’s reward should be “Thanks much. We won’t send the Delta operators after you”.
Opposition leader probably has uppity ideas of a Venezuelan Venezuela and has the cojones to push than rather than content to be a US puppet.
Listen to Ben Shapiro’s explanation. It makes sense.
Basically, it’s a palace coup with some help. Unless you want to throw the entire infrastructure in disarray, you need an insider.
“New York City socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani issued a statement following news of Maduro’s capture, criticizing the US action. “Unilaterally attacking a sovereign nation is an act of war and a violation of federal and international law,” he said. “This blatant pursuit of regime change doesn’t just affect those abroad, it directly impacts New Yorkers, including tens of thousands of Venezuelans who call this city home. My focus is their safety and the safety of every New Yorker, and my administration will continue to monitor the situation and issue relevant guidance.”
At the same time, Venezuelans were also present at the Times Square gathering expressing support for the Trump administration’s actions. Some Venezuelans were seen confronting left-wing protesters advocating for Maduro’s release and thanking President Donald Trump for his role in the operation.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/communists-swarm-nyc-to-rally-recruit-demand-release-of-maduro
The duality of man.
Regime change for NYC.
The mayor NYC shouldn’t be issuing any fucking guidance or talking about Venezuela anymore than he should Palestine/Israel. Shut your commie ass up.
Yeah, he seems to believe he’s a lot more important than he actually is.
Something tells me Z will have an opinion on just about everything.
I assume all the Venezuelan exiles and refugees in America are frantically trying to get home to help rebuild their country.
Refugee swap – all of Maduro’s base will want to escape.
Mammydammy should send NYPD SWATters to spring Maduro.
Saints preserve us
Bishop Robert Barron, a prominent Catholic leader, slammed socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s inauguration line promoting the “warmth of collectivism,” saying, “For God’s sake, spare me.”
During his inaugural address, the newly minted socialist mayor and New York’s first Muslim mayor, declared, “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”
The line prompted immediate backlash from many conservatives who expressed alarm at such a phrase being used by the leader of America’s biggest city.
That guy’s going to get shipped of to some shithole congregation in Africa if he keeps talking like that.
Am I missing something, or does that article not make the diocese of which Barron is the bishop?
“Name” or “mention”, not “make”.
Seriously. The speech sounded like something il Papa himself might have come up with.
Africa.
Where the real Catholics are.
“Conservative powerhouse and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino has officially wrapped up his tenure at the bureau.
In a post on X on Saturday evening, Bongino announced that it was his last day on the job, capping off his service with involvement in the high-profile U.S. operation that led to the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and his wife.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/dan-bongino-officially-leaves-fbi-after-one-year/
And he never released the trove of Comey files he found and teased us with.
Institution uber alles.
What a shock and completely surprising given his resume of flitting from job to job.
“Importantly, among both Black nationalists and white nationalists, race mixing was often cast in an antisemitic framework, with Jews accused of spurring racial integration. Rockwell claimed Jewish communists were behind the Civil Rights Movement, while the Nation of Islam published a pseudo-historical book in 1991 claiming that Jews were responsible for the transatlantic slave trade.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/02/why-are-some-black-conservatives-drawn-to-nick-fuentes_partner/
Between controlling the weather and running space lasers, how does OMWC have time to watch football?
(((They))) are omnipotent *and* omnipresent.
I can’t think of much of anything I would less want to have Salon-splained to me.
With Maduro toppled, can we please kick all the Venezuelans who came here the fuck out? Look, you’re free. Go back and help your country that you fled from instead of trying to fix it.
GET THE FUCK OUT.
Rodriguez was in on selling Maduro out?
“The race is not always to the swift, nor victory to the strong, but that’s how you bet.”
I’m not sure how you get from “Maduro was not legitimately elected” to “Maduro’s Vice President should be in charge”.
Because you need an insider to play ball. Otherwise the entire infrastructure falls apart.
I took a guess yesterday that they had people in the regime they were talking to about how things would look with Maduro out. Whatever they wanted or demanded of him a few weeks back, he said no and they turned to his underlings.
I’m sure they’ll hold some real nice democratic elections at some point down the line and there will be a soft landing for all the other crooks who worked for Maduro. For a while, at least.
I’m not sure how you get from “Maduro was not legitimately elected” to “Maduro’s Vice President should be in charge”.
It’s the sort of results oriented pragmatism Hillary could get behind.
Sorry Muzzled for missing you the otherday and not getting back to you. With all the hubbub with dad and such we just didnt have time.
It’s okay. Shit happens.
You’d have caught me at a bad time anyways.
I’ve been going to JJ for nearing 2 decades, but haven’t been since covid. Despite knowing JJ is a specialty grocery store more expensive than most (it always has been), I was flabbergasted at the price increases since. Thin slices of bakery made pie at restaurant prices. Deli meat and cheese in the stratosphere.
Our cart was between 1/4 and 1/3 full, and it was over $300. I was salty as fuck because I simply refuse to pay the kind of money they’re charging, especially knowing there isn’t a single thing in there that can’t be had for cheaper online. I walked out with a couple of sodas, a very overpriced cheese danish, and some way too expensive marinated mozzarella. The rest of the cart was my wife, who largely agreed with my assessment, but forged ahead anyways, even if only to justify the 125 mile drive.
Yikes. Ya some of there prices have gone nuts.
I’m just glad the kids weren’t with us. That basket would have been $500.
I was there not long ago, and impulsively bought some crab stuff scallops.
A week later I saw the same thing at Sam’s club for half the price. Granted, I had to buy 3X as many, but….
Democracy is an ugly business
Winning over local officials, however, hasn’t translated to winning over residents.
Developers pulled a project off an October agenda in the Charlotte suburb of Matthews, North Carolina, after Mayor John Higdon said he informed them it faced unanimous defeat.
The project would have funded half the city’s budget and developers promised environmentally friendly features. But town meetings overflowed, and emails, texts and phone calls were overwhelmingly opposed, “999 to one against,” Higdon said.
Had council approved it, “every person that voted for it would no longer be in office,” the mayor said. “That’s for sure.”
Fucking pissant voters. They’re like cannibals.
Yeah there is a fight against one of those in my ultra cobalt area.
I have no idea why the hive mind made this their newest bete noir. Better to leave abandoned factories empty. It’s not like people want jobs. Hell, getting free shit is easier anyway.
In my area, it’s one group of greenies that wants to use the former Catholic high school for a battery electric storage facility, and another group that doesn’t want the fire risk or other environmental impacts.
Unless you own the land you don’t get a say.
Fuck those commies.
Has Trump Xweexed the end of temporary refugee status for Venezuelans yet?
He actually did that months ago, I think.
Naturally, a judge blocked it.
This. Though I think higher courts overruled that judge, as has also largely become natural.
You will definitely want to invade Slutty Sunday and capture its essence.
https://archive.is/HT5vb
not found
Archive seems fucked up today. Here:
https://www.barnorama.com/21-flirty-weekend-girls-bouncing-in-light-and-luscious-looks/
Despite the relative safe confines of glibertarians.com, Im reluctant to click barn-o-rama.com
That’s a hell of a can on 16
Site is probably run in Venezuela
Thank you, Q; I have a rare-for-me cold and it’s a scientific fact that looking at boobs makes men feel better.
I support this science.
You are correct, sir!