Good morning one and all to another glorious day!
US forces seize sanctioned, Russia-flagged oil tanker that eluded Venezuela blockade
Trump and Colombian President Petro Plan to Meet at White House
Video Captures Fatal ICE Shooting During Minneapolis Protests
Federal Grand Jury Indicts J6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Cole Jr.
The food pyramid gets a MAHA makeover: carbs demoted, butter promoted
Trump says he’s banning institutional investors from scooping up single-family homes
Private sector added fewer-than-expected 41,000 jobs in December
US Online Holiday Shopping Hits Record $257.8 Billion
Socialist group tied to Mamdani closely allied with Maduro, now leads protests of U.S. actions
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which counts New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani as a key member, has been closely allied with Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro for years, and is now leading protests in the U.S. against the communist dictator’s arrest by the United States as Maduro sits in a NYC jail cell.”
Also CCP.
Yeah, you know me!
glol
LOL
fun times
Yeah, as if further proof were needed that the “democratic socialists” are just another front group for communists.
Especially memorable as living in Buffalo, the real OPP* was frequently mentioned on the radio.
*Ontario Provincial Police
Every last commie!
Back in the 90’s when O.P.P. was a huge hit, I asked one of my Marine buddies what O.P.P. meant, he asked me, “Are you the last white boy on the planet?”
I must be the last white boy on the planet.
I have no idea what OPP is.
Protest away assholes. I don’t care. As long as it is legitimately peaceful, say what you want. I expect The Zohran’s policies and staffing choices will make your stupidity (and cupidity) self-evident soon enough for anyone who cares to pay attention.
Over HALF of US metros now seeing home prices fall in strongest sign yet a housing crash is looming
Now where am I supposed to borrow the money for travel and luxuries?
You don’t.
What you do is simple – live within your means.
Bro, living within your means is white supremacy.
Un-American!!!
I see we have once again gone straight from “unaffordable housing crisis” to “crashing real estate crisis”.
I want to be able to easily afford a house which will appreciate at 20% per annum! I want this for everybody all the time! Is that too much to ask?
Housing is too unaffordable!
-Market eases, prices drop-
We’re all going to die!
*Awards MBA*
Have you tried starting a daycare?
Perp walks when?
I want a perp walk that makes the poster of “Human Centipede 3” look small.
They don’t consider it fraud. Just the price you taxpayers have to pay for a permanent Dem majority.
Yes, the perps are going to walk.
This. A few big heads will go to jail, but not a single person of consequence.
“One example that the whistleblowers let me know about [comes from] Lieutenant Governor [Peggy] Flanagan.
On April 12, 2024 Flanagan comes to a DHS Health and Human Services equity conference at the Heritage Center and Brooklyn Center [in Minneapolis]. On stage, Flanagan acknowledged the X account and the fraud concerns it raised [but] publicly denounced the X [government whistleblowers] and called them weirdos and losers sitting in their mother’s basement. This was in a public setting with hundreds of participants and elicited gasps among the crowd,”
Was she wearing her hijab?
Weirdoes and losers sitting in their mothers’ basements are one of the greatest enemies of Leftist grifters so I would take that as a badge of honor.
The problem is when the weirdos and losers leave the basements and go film empty daycares. That the job of a real journ-o-list who decides what’s really important to report. We can’t have independent media uncovering this stuff. When was the last real scoop by legacy media? They only claimed to figure out Biden was losing his marbles 6 months ago.
See, this is old news, I don’t know everyone is still going on about it.
While I approve of the sentiment — where’s the Constitutional justification for this? (He asks as if anyone in DC gives a rat’s pestilent patootie about that these days…) Yeah it sucks because I’d like this policy… but that doesn’t mean we should just approve more interference with private transactions…. (Now if this were foreign investment maybe you could justify it through national security… but I don’t think it is at all that clear).
Thinking it over, wouldn’t banning institutional investors from owning homes potentially be a back door way to kill the mortgage bundling and reselling that was behind the real estate crash?
No. The lending and the debt instruments created are distinct from the underlying assets.
The financing for the large firms buying single family properties isn’t going through those programs.
Sensei:
Thanks for that.
Sensei is right that these are separate groups, but depending on who such legislation is written it may royally screw up the mortgage industry. You are going to need to have significant exceptions to any rule against institutional purchases of single family homes or you end up banning banks from buying the foreclosed property at the sheriff’s sale, which is very important in terms of securing mortgage loans. Without the ability to set a floor at the auction by bidding themselves banks face very real losses, which will inevitably translate into much higher mortgage rates.
How not who. My magical ability to only see typos after i have hit submit continues.
(((Jarflax:
Thanks as well, that’s where my head was going to. If you ban companies from owning (or acquiring) single property homes, that leads to all sorts of issues. Could a landlord still have their properties held by an LLC?
This may just be due to my ignorance though.
Could a landlord still have their properties held by an LLC
As ((Jarflax noted – who knows? I can’t find much existing authority to ban this. If they legislate it will likely have all kinds of actions both intended and unintended.
I don’t see much actually happening as a result.
The small landlord issue is another problem. No matter how you define an institutional investor you are effectively drawing a line that says this many houses but no more. If you draw that line low enough you end up either denying small landlords necessary liability protection or dictating a hard limit to their ability to grow their business. If you draw it higher you create an easy work around for the companies you are targeting with the law. Namely they just create a multitude of subordinate entities each holding Limit-1 properties.
It is almost as if interfering with the market inevitably creates a host of unforeseen problems and should be avoided. I absolutely despise companies like Vinebrook, they treat tenants like dirt, use their ability to borrow at lower rates to outbid smaller investors, then maintain their properties very poorly and perform minimal tenant screening, which drives property values down anywhere they own houses. So yes, they absolutely are a problem, but likely a self correcting one since that business model translates into: Buy houses for more than the actual market value (as investment properties), run them poorly to save money on maintenance an management, and end up with properties that have declined in value and with the tenants no one else will take.
Is there a way to do this more on the carrot end than the stick? And by that I mean not creating a law, but closing the door on gov’t investing in companies who do this?
Trump hasn’t said anything that I am aware of saying how this is going to be done, so could that be a possibility?
Ending the Fed, get us on a stable currency, and the regime of artificially low interest rates that make this ‘profitable’ for big players likely changes. Scattered site single family housing has always been a small landlord arena because it doesn’t offer economies of scale on the management and maintenance end which favors hands on entrepreneurial investment over big institutional investment. The low cost of borrowing allowed the big players to get a theoretically acceptable ROI despite those issues, and the overall issues limiting new construction gave them appreciation that at least on paper made paying retail prices for houses viable. That appreciation has now stalled out at least for the time being. Possibly because the institutional investors are realizing that their advantages don’t actually overcome all the issues and are slowing their purchases already. I retired this year so I am not seeing this up close any more, but there were signs last year that some of the institutions were backing away.
Eliminating the mortgage tax deduction would be a start.
Doing the same for businesses would be great too. Too much of the economy is propped up on a house of cards that is lending. Let businesses save without tax penalty so they can pay cash for that new building or equipment.
It will be tighter than than, see my comment below. Yes, foreign investors need to get stuffed. Also anyone who takes government money needs to be banned from scooping up houses.
The major firms buying the housing aren’t using programs that individual buyers are.
As far as I’m aware they are using corporate debt.
And interest on corporate debt is a deduction. It shouldn’t be.
I’ve been searching around the trade rags for this. There isn’t. I’ll be curious as the next few days progress.
I’ve read one paragraph suggesting he wants Congress to “codify” this. No idea what that entails.
One thing FedGov does control is manufactured single homes because they are transported across state lines.
The materials to build homes are transported across state lines. If nothing else the feds can penaltax the investors.
“he wants Congress to “codify” this. No idea what that entails.”
You’re in good company. Nobody in Congress seems to know how to pass laws, either.
The problem with basing things on what Trump says, especially words like “codify”, is that because he did not come up through the ranks of gov’t he might not use words in the same way as someone who did. Codify, to him, could be anything from working on a constitutional amendment, to getting Johnson to say “cool, I like this.”
Gross misinterpretation of the commerce clause.
Only rugged individuals may profit from speculation in homes!
-1 warm collective
Better than +1 warm butt plug (to combine threads and all….)
Specifically, Trump states “ban large institutional investors from buying more single-family homes”
Whatever a large investor is, it will be easy for a large investor to manipulate. Also they can’t buy more, but they can hold their best properties to never be sold again.
Or, they could own serveral “small” investment companies.
That’s what I meant. They file some paperwork and voila, not a large investor anymore.
Even the government is smart enough to consolidate assets among controlled subsidiaries.
Enron has entered the chat.
Next will be ban ownership by living trusts.
Get out of the house, boomer! Go live in a nursing home and just die.
-millennial/gen z
“About time”
Absolutely. Prices are crazy. We had a super bubble of the usual reasons, plus a massive surplus of illegal aliens who were filling up properties which were bought by NGOs. With our money.
Yeah — I expect not cramming illegals into the market with government filtered money through NGOs must have some effect.
The San Diego / San Jose drops mentioned in the article may have more to do with CA being stupid and pushing for an ex post facto wealth tax (starting with billionaires… but camel nose and all that) this year. If I were a VC in SJC I’d be getting the hell out of dodge too.
a VC in SJC
Hell even mid-manager (with stock options) in any decent sized tech company.
For a market that is very slow to respond on the supply side, adding 10% or more to the demand side is going to jack up prices.
I flip cars as a side and I miss the easy sales to illegal immigrants. I could clean a car up and sell it in one day. The criteria was simple enough, it had to run, have AC and newer plates & registration sticker for about $3,000. Now I might have to wait a few weeks and it’s someone who speaks English and they usually aren’t paying me with my own tax money.
And most of that was RAM and nVidia gpus… ;P (I keed… I keed…)
What was the it gift this time?
Buttplugs most likely
Puts new meaning in the wife saying “you shouldn’t have”.
“That’s not going down my chimney!”
You’re correct, its for your tail pipe silly
A chimney is an exhaust system as well. /pedant
Butt plugs? Are we playing 4d chess again?
I’d say “Just wait until they look at California’s books” — but I’m betting all the records have been “misplaced” by now and it will just be a mystery where that 70 billion or so went. Minnesota is a bunch of pikers is my point.
Yeah. California has been doing this for my entire lifetime. There will be no paper trail.
Yeah, their “leaders” are pros.
The clowns running around MN are just learning the ropes.
Illinois raises an eyebrow, but says nothing.
Wonder what the Governor’s Association Slack channel looks like right now
“Minnesota, take one for the team. They might start looking elsewhere too!”
Yep, Walz is the Judas goat right now, and all the D governors are hoping that the feds aren’t too hungry.
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-butter/
Eat more butter.
Paula Deen approved
I am going to start calling it the “Food Tornado.”
Are you previewing tonight’s movie, MegaGrift v. Foodnado?
I was raised on margarine, and kept with it thru college and later.
When I discovered actual butter it was an amazing revelation. And I never looked back.
Who is still buying margarine? I see it in the case so someone is. Who are these madmen/women?
Boomers who learned that Butter was bad back in 1970 and are unshakeable in their belief
Ditto. 100% margarine as a kid. Could probably count the number of times I had butter on one hand. Now you can pry my butter from my cold, soft, buttery hands.
Same here. My dad had a heart attack in the early 80’s, and at that time “heart healthy” meant low fat and margarine. Then Mrs. TOK came along, who hates margarine, so it’s always been a stick of butter on the counter in our house. And both of us have great cholesterol numbers without meds.
Damned Ancel Keys.
Lactose intolerant people buy butter like spreads
Another one here. Grandma always called it oleomargarine.
Also, wasn’t this already an episode of South Park?
Drops into depression realizing there has never been an episode of South Park where things got better.
About damn time.
It’s a start.
If you have ever stopped eating brassicas and then reintroduced them to your diet a few months later you understand what pain is. Secondary compounds may be tasty but they hurt.
The down stream effects of this are going to be positive, military meals are going to get better, fewer fat joes who need more ortho surgeries, school meals that aren’t just high and crash carb feats, and a SNAP program that will force the fatties to not get bloated on my dime.
“US forces seize sanctioned, Russia-flagged oil tanker”
Was it really Russia-flagged? Seems like being flagged by Russian would require more than painting a Russian flag on it in mid-ocean.
Details, details…
/looks for the meme with the person painting themselves into something different.
Maybe the painters were dyslexic and actually painted a French flag on it?
You would think that tough-guy Biden would have ordered something like this while he was trying to escalate the war in Ukraine.
I am seeing that Russia is sending a sub to protect tankers and allegedly shoot missiles at US ships.
If I had to bet, I’d wager the sub’s orders were “Posture, but do not shoot.” under the assumption that the way things used to be meant the fleet would back off rather than risk an incident. The last thing Putin needs is live fire exchange with the US.
“This thing will get out of control…”
Putin shoots a US ship and he can forget about ever controlling Ukraine. The American appetite for throwing money and munitions at that meat grinder is almost sated. He attacks one of our ships and Ukraine gets a blank check.
It identified as Russian.
These people think reflagging your midsection is a legitimate thing that transform human sex. Why wouldn’t they think that reflagging mid-ocean is okay?
The dude who threw the sandwhich at the Fed was more violent than the J6 bomber.
*bomber-wannabe
His cutie mark is a pipe bomb.
““My government did not increase cocaine. It did the opposite,” Petro said on social media. “My government has seized more cocaine than in the whole history of the world.””
“and I’ve been up for the last three days.”
We don’t tolerate competition …
I’ve been thinking about the ICE shooting, and have questions for the Democrat politicians. If you really think ICE is the gestapo, than shouldn’t people be willing to die to stop them? Isn’t that what you expect when you fight fascists and Nazis? If you really think this is the highest calling for your life, dying to protect others is noble. Does anyone question if what the passengers on flight 93 on 9/11 did was noble?
So… do you really think this is an existential threat, or are you play acting?
Didn’t one of their aspiring pols (I think the trans one) send out a call for citizens to resist and if necessary, with their ‘bodies’
To be fair, it’s not as if the protesters have brains.
When have trans people ever resisted their bodies?
So, it wasn’t a call for a peaceful…
(puts on sunglasses)
Trans-fer of power?
Considering that people have been blockading and ramming ICE vehicles, I’m willing to give the shooter some slack about whether there was a threat here. And no, the shooter personally being not directly threatened doesn’t mean it was a bad shoot. There were a lot of other people there who would have been at risk by a deranged driver.
Road condition are also a factor
Yeah, look at people who deliberately drive into crowds, as much as the MSM wants to ignore it.
People don’t drive into crowds, vehicles do. I’ve read the articles and they are very clear on that.
Unless it’s a crowd of Left Wing protestors, then magically the car loses agency and it’s the driver again.
It’s quite clear that the woman put herself in a place she shouldn’t have been. It’s clear she panicked and did something to get herself shot.
I’m also quite willing to believe that he panicked too.
That might have to recover the original Tiananmen Square image, vice the more recent air-brushed versions.
I’ve not seen any looting or fires, what kind of a protest is this, anyway?
George Floyd, now there was guy that knew how to initiate a protest.
Yeah he really stuck his neck out for the cause
You gotta know the market. White women just aren’t selling right now.
It’s January in Minnesota.
Narrator: They are play acting.
The ridiculous tuff-gai act from the mayor and the governor gives it away.
Who’s feet is Jacob Frey-Cooke going to wash now after this incident?
It’s both. The politicians and TV news people are getting people worked up, and encouraging people to put themselves in harm’s way. But Tim Walz, Rachael Maddow, AOC, etc. aren’t in any danger and to them it’s all a game against Trump. It’s one of those “you should go fight that guy” situations.
“Let’s you and him fight.”
These people are pawn to be sacrificed.
Probably stealing thunder from Tonio if he’s doing links this afternoon — but a space article that I have to say I agree with. SLS and Orion look completely unready to me… that the next mission is supposed to be manned seems like complete insanity to me. (And frankly, I expect Starship to be ready before SLS/Orion/Artemis ever is…)
What you said.
“The resolution would prohibit President Donald Trump from undertaking additional military actions in Venezuela without approval from Congress, directing him to “terminate the use of United States Armed Forces for hostilities within or against Venezuela, unless explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or specific authorization for use of military force.””
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/senate-to-vote-on-measure-to-block-additional-military-action-in-venezuela-what-to-know-5967774
Good luck with that.
Wouldn’t it be quicker and easier to just get a District Court judge to ban Trump for giving orders to the military?
Judge Boasberg has a sscheduling conflict unfortunately /signed Congress.
Gentlemen, what this requires is a stupid and meaningless gesture. If congress is sufficiently pissed they can hold a vote on withdrawing funding.
Tucker is railing on this Venezuela thing being the inflection point between our republic phase and our empire phase.
I could quibble with him on the specifics of timing, but the Senate is bolstering his point with this feckless nonsense.
Today in more unconstitutional presidential proclamations.
Trump Orders Crackdown on Defense Industry Stock Buyback
https://www.wsj.com/business/trump-defense-industry-executive-order-9cc2c42e?st=vojM6Y&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
He’s basically pissed that they are never on time or on budget. Like FedGov plays no part in cost plus procurement. It is humorous however.
Its funny because on the other hand they are sticking with the timeline to replace about 600 ground based radars in….2 years.
With the same project management professionals as oversaw the rural wideband initiative?
Indra and RTX….with Peraton as the “prime integrator”
Jeez, even DoD got away from “integrators”.
The fools are spending millions to bring fibre to my rural neighborhood and are burying it, every leg with a boring machine.
We have WiFi, paid for initially by a Buero of Indian Affairs grant in the Obama era, and some in the neighborhood have starlink. In no future will the fibre have much of an impact or utilization. But some crew is getting paid to put it in, I’m guessing the same crew that burried fibre along Highway 12 west of me last summer.
“Kathryn quite literally inhales all of her meals.
You wouldn’t believe it ’til you saw it — the Virginia millennial blends her food and snorts it through a straw. She showed off this freaky feeding frenzy on Wednesday’s Season 7 premiere of TLC’s “My Strange Addiction.””
https://nypost.com/2026/01/08/health/virginia-woman-snorts-her-food-from-omelettes-to-steak-despite-risks/
WTF??
Snort is wrong here. She has a weird ability to ingest through her nose without flooding her lungs with food contaminants.
Alexandria of course.
I’m really starting to hate Virginia.
“You’ve come a long way, baby.”
Just keep her away from your cocaine and you’ll be fine.
Liberation is coming on the 17th. The oppressors have been vanquished. Utopia awaits.
Virginia is for haters, after all.
It’s time for her to get fucked.
In the nose Jar?
I did several lines of Tang off a hoe on spring break many moons ago. Thankfully I didn’t get addicted.
Typical guy — just looking for more moon-tang.
“In 2020, Good received an Academy of American Poets Prize for her poem titled “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/08/us-news/who-is-renee-nicole-good-minneapolis-woman-killed-by-ice-agent/
https://poets.org/2020-on-learning-to-dissect-fetal-pigs
After reading the poem, I’ve decided it was a good shoot.
I didn’t know incoherent ramblings are considered poetry.
Agreed. My parodies of crappy poets weren’t that bad. She is a whole new category of crap.
Obligatory. Read the poetry in the recommended style, oppressor.
People on acid write better poems than that.
People on acid are also more intellectually coherent than the best of lefty protestors.
Paging Dr. Cyborg, Dr. Agile Cyborg…
Is that one of the scam orgs like the people who used to put out things like “Who’s Who Among American High School Students”?
“You only need a GPA to qualify.”
Was she Vogon?
LOL
I don’t know anything about poetry or cooking but I know if it smells bad…
Hmmm, I’m more of a whose woods are these I think I know kind of guy.
A kid at home, two more somewhere, and a wife in the car with her. Maybe fucking around with ICE wasn’t such a smart idea?
But Trump!
These people are being treated as literal pawns in a huge game of chess, and don’t seem to recognize they’re being fed to slaughter.
Visual representation of poem:
https://content.api.news/v3/images/bin/eb2257ab39490733e7345e1f8e1a3308
You win the day
Lol
You know, it wasn’t just that she was absurd – the whole competition was.
Ji is correct. Ballet would be more inclined to be an Olympic sport than breakdancing.
life is merely
to ovum and sperm
and where those two meet
and how often and how well
and what dies there.
Didn’t think she would be pro-life
““Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings appeared to take a swipe at President Donald Trump and his administration, saying he’d support a candidate who vows to prosecute the current “regime.”
Jennings took to the liberal social media platform Bluesky Wednesday during a news cycle dominated by the ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis.
“The ‘prosecute the former regime at every level’ candidate has my vote in 2028,” Jennings wrote.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/08/us-news/jeopardy-host-ken-jennings-says-2028-candidate-who-vows-to-prosecute-trump-regime-has-my-vote/
What is an asshole?
They had on a former CFPB employee and she lamented on the meanie Trump for destroying her good works.
Bluesky, lol.
What are the charges, Kenneth?
So what authority does ICE have to stop cars as opposed to say a standard cop? or an FBI agent? Do they need a warrant for each case? Or do they have a fairly wide authority?
Thanks to the Supreme Court, there’s a 200 mile (~322 km) zone around every border that ICE can stop and check anyone. From memory, I don’t think it applies to international airports.
Haven’t you heard, law enforcement needs a warrant to pull over a speeding car now …
I think they have to politely wait for the person to move their car who is blockading them. Especially as other crazies begine to surround their vehicle.
Here’s what I was told about latest internal RNC polling to be presented to Republican congressional retreat. Internal poll taken before Venezuela stuff, so -like any polls – subject to change. And also designed to scare and raise funds?
GOP will lose six seats presently held even if “Jesus comes back and endorses our candidate” due to redistricting moves by Dems or just plain too many Blue voters in the district held by a GOP congressman. GOP will gain three seats due to “our” redistricting efforts. Because of Trump low ratings, failure to explain improved economy and other messaging failures, there are anywhere from 17 to 23 GOP seats that will be hard to defend unless Trump’s ratings improve substantially. There are only four Dem seats that are vulnerable. Bottom line: get on the stick with fund raising, improve your messaging, run better candidates, scare the crap out of the voters about what another impeachment will do to mood of country and prepare for a net loss of at least 15 seats and see Speaker Jeffries seated.
Shorter Team Red – we need to move to the middle! We give Team Blue what they want, but less of it.
If they ever get a strong majority they will consider keeping their promises.
failure to explain improved economy
I’m not certain the economy actually has improved.
I think the economy will be the determining factor in the midterms. If the average voter sees it as a good, Republicans might keep the House. If the average voter sees it as bad, Republicans will lose the House.
Polymarket on who will hold the House after the midterms.
So the RNC is only marginally smarter than the DNC?
Not included – go on a 10 month run of passing a series of 80/20 bills that they can use to campaign on in the fall and at the same time make the Democrats look stupid and evil for opposing.
Here’s a guy who teaches at Harvard saying the idea that home ownership is white supremacy is ‘uncontroversial.’
They absolutely think these things. They never said they didn’t.
Maybe some of them regret saying the quiet part out loud but they’re not being portrayed unfairly.
https://x.com/feelsdesperate/status/2009022830709755921
It’s true, only white people own homes.
That and capo sellouts. Skinfolk ain’t necessarily kinfolk.
“Homeowners at Carnegie House at 100 W. 57th St. are now staring at a nightmare financial scenario. The issue: a breathtaking 450% ground-rent increase they spent the last year fighting that, on Monday, a New York County Supreme Court judge upheld.
Now, with the massive price hike about to happen, co-op residents say their monthly costs will reach stratospheric levels — and others are looking to get out completely, with sale listings in the building asking shockingly cheap prices.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/07/real-estate/nyc-court-upholds-carnegie-houses-ground-rent-increase/
So they own their units but rent the land?
“David Saxe, a retired appellate judge now representing Carnegie House, said the worst-case scenario is that the building buckles financially under the weight of the higher ground rent. If that happens, Carnegie House could lose its co-op status entirely and revert to rent-stabilized apartments — a shift that would erase shareholders’ ownership stakes while still leaving them responsible for any remaining mortgage debt.”
Yikes!
Did someone say Higher Ground (Rent)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XvVlbNJPIE
pistoffnick:
Higher Ground.
That’s common in NYC.
Also in AZ. Rarely saw it, if ever, in TX.
I remember a development in Maryland was trying land lease with detached housing. It had a lot of problems.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/1997/05/25/remodeled-community-new-colony-village-in-elkridge-features-the-first-single-family-house-of-its-kind-a-breakthrough-design-in-manufactured-homes/
The trick with land leases is that they have fixed terms, and when they expire, everything* on the property belongs to the landowner.
*buildings and fixtures, not personal property
I remember articles about buyers having difficulty getting financing because lenders didn’t want to offer loan lengths beyond the lease.
Like your average trailer park.
So…who makes the most reliable basic-bitch white refrigerators?
Last I read avoid the Korean brands.
Pope Jimbo hardest hit.
RACIST!!!
Amana or Frigidaire?
This guy’s pretty reliable (an appliance repairman and reviewer):
https://youtu.be/5n76TXuDcok?si=mfHWt8cHCnYveI3M
He tends to go for the simple stuff.
I went with a cheap (in stock) replacement when I busted my fridge. I hate it. The shelves are awkwardly spaced, and there’s no drawer on it. But, I was able to get it delivered the next morning.
Sometime this summer, I’ll likely replace it and shift the fridge that annoys me into a garage fridge.
We’ve got a Kenmore top-freezer fridge in our garage that fits your description. Probably 8 years old. It survived being in our garage during Tucson summers somehow. I really never thought it would last in those conditions, but it’s chugging along just fine. Checking their website, I don’t see that model any more.
I liked my GE top freezer.
A basic Frigidaire will work. My LG has been reliable, and survived a move and storage. Samsung is to be avoided at all costs. Oddly the white model of this Frigidaire is $100 more than the stainless.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Frigidaire-36-in-26-cu-ft-Standard-Depth-Side-by-Side-Refrigerator-in-White-FRSS2623AW/320970905
I am happy with my Hotpoint-Ariston fridge.. though it is no longer an existing brand.
Avoid Frigidaire.
My 1948-50 Westinghouse freezer has been a good unit. Until the packrats chewed the cord off of it.
More good news out of DC!
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.
It’s bipartisan!
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/raising-the-fdic-limit-risks-repeating-the-s-l-crisis-46397348?st=e9x17b&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Who has non-interest-bearing accounts? Even my credit union offers a magisterial 0.02%.
“Liberal Hollywood stars have denounced Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after an agent shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15445847/minneapolis-minnesota-ice-shooting-renee-nicole-good-woman-shot-killed-live-updates.html
They’re at least reliable.
If ICE is allowed to do their work who’s going to clean their toilets and raise their kids?
Then cry at Congress for refusing to repeal sovereign border controls.
I saw that Mamdani’s vision for New York is South Africa… makes sense
Well, Islamic conquerors are generally pro-rape so this makes sense.
In a way, not living there, it would be amusing if New York actually gets it good and hard.
As an American, who is just smart enough to recognize that I was born into the most fortunate situation a human can be, and finally after too many years of arrogance, humble enough to understand how much I owe our forbears, it hurts watching as something like half of my countrymen tear down the amazing edifice those forbears built to provide us with this unprecedented wealth and security. Morons so in love with their own insane version of morality that they are destroying the engine of freedom and prosperity because it was less than perfect.
It would be, but they’ll just blame Trump, or all those evil/ignorant people who take their money and move out.
Brianna Wu
@BriannaWu
I spent a decade working in progressive politics. They all talk like this behind the scenes.
Eventually, I came to the conclusion they were morally unfit to hold any power whatsoever.
https://x.com/BriannaWu/status/2008132956385382620
Wait, he is finally waking up?
(no matter what he says, Mr Wu is still not a woman)
LOL
She’s just jealous she couldn’t get elected.
It is interesting watching what’s left of “moderate” Democrats twist themselves into knots trying to distance themselves from the commie ratfuckers who have taken over their party. Mostly what they reveal is that their entire platform is bankrupt. You want a “safety net” but not go full-on commie? You want “care” but not abortion up to birth and snip-snip of kids?
WTF did you expect was going to happen?
“At least two people are dead and six others injured following a shooting outside a Mormon church in Utah on Wednesday night….
Dozens of people were attending a funeral viewing inside the building at the time. All the victims were adults.
Salt Lake City Police Department spokesperson Glen Mills said an active manhunt is underway to find the shooter or shooters but the force’s Gang Unit is involved.
Police have not released a description of the suspects or their vehicle however at least one person was taken into custody just before 10pm.
‘We don’t believe this was a targeted attack against a religion but we also don’t believe that it was random,’ Salt Lake City Police Chief Brian Redd during a late night press conference.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15444441/muliple-victims-day-saints-church-utah-shooting.html
Mormon gang members?
A dispute over the funeral potatoes.
Mormon Mafia vs Amish Mafia?
ARs versus ax-handles?
Suspects, “elders”
Vehicle, late model suburban or Tahoe
Aka “Mormon assault vehicle”
NASA considering bringing astronauts home early from International Space Station due to medical issue
Is somebody pregnant?
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/international-space-station/nasa-considering-bringing-astronauts-home-early-from-international-space-station-due-to-medical-issue
Space suit flatulence is a medical emergency
Hey man, don’t judge. You stay locked in a little capsule in space for a few months and you’ll get pretty hard up too.
Dose Mark Kelly turn you on?
“Petro Plan”: isn’t that Trump’s overall plan for the region?
https://archive.is/vRlko
THICC Thursday.
My buddy is a reddit addict (how his brain still functions I’m not sure), but he dug this up and it’s brutal.
How it started:
https://www.reddit.com/r/EthicalNonMonogamy/comments/1c6lqal/new_to_this_im_married_and_my_wife_has_a_real/
How it’s going:
https://www.reddit.com/r/EthicalNonMonogamy/comments/1q2ccmp/missing_her/
I’m sure there are people who make this kind of arrangement work but DAMN.
Do not believe what you read on reddit
So on NYE my wife went down to Iowa with her boyfriend and their baby to visit his grandparents.
You cannot convince me these arrangements work.
Of course not.
All the stories you see about “polyamory” – at least one person in every such case is lying to themselves.
Reap what you sow you cuck (if real). He helps her pick out outfits for her dates? Yuck.
What a loser.
“For decades, a USPS postmark has reflected the date an item was placed in a mailbox or handed over at a post office counter.
But under the new rule, the Postal Service issays the postmark will now show the date an envelope is first processed by an automated sorting machine.
‘The postmark date does not necessarily indicate the first day that the Postal Service had possession of the mailpiece,’ a release from the Federal Register said.
This could be days after the item was dropped off, rather than the actual mailing date.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-15440031/usps-postmark-rule-change-mail-ballots.html
OFFS!!
Article in the WSJ note if you need to send something with an actual cancellation you’ll need to go to counter and ask for it to be cancelled.
So you can get a postmark if you need it.
I had the IRS send me back some 1099/1096s last year over 2c in postage.
Fuckers.
So what?
Stop running down the clock and you’ll be fine.
The Post Office never recovered from covid. I’ve sent mail that took over two weeks to arrive in the same city.
Your milage may vary – my local does very well.
End mail in voting. Now.
*taps nose* when you know, you know.
Iraqi purple thumb or go home!
The only way it ends is if the GOP starts using it to steal elections.
I receive plenty of mail without a post mark.
With the price of stamps now I’ve been tempted to start reusing them. Make a few test runs on the reused stamps to see if they are not marking them in a manner that I can not see.
Tom Hayes MP describes visiting an infant school (children aged 4-7) and a little girl coming out with this about Elon Musk… surely not
https://x.com/fleurmeston/status/1906995512055644410
Made up wisdom from the mouth of babes always gets the soccer moms wet. The man knows his audience.
OMG. Such bullshit.
Maybe Young Sheldon transitioned and moved to the UK?
Hahahahaha! I was expecting something like “hes rich and should give us money” not a geo-political thesis. What a fucking clown
Fwee-dom!
Dear Hustler…
“Harrel Braddy, 76, kidnapped Quatisha Maycock, five, and her mother Shandelle in November 1998 after meeting them at church.
Braddy drove Shandelle to a remote sugar field and choked her until she was unconscious and left her to die. The mother somehow survived when she woke up and flagged down a driver for help.
Braddy also left the woman’s daughter, Quatisha, alive near a section of the Everglades ominously known as Alligator Alley, apparently afraid that she would identify him.
The child was discovered dead two days later in a canal, allegedly after being attacked by alligators.
A medical examiner said was alive when alligators bit her on the head and stomach. The young girl’s left arm was missing when her body was found.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15442151/florida-man-death-penalty-kidnapped-girl-fed-alligators-everglades.html
Yikes!
Cool. The house is all in too.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-health-care-vote-affordable-care-act-tax-credits/
So the Senate plan only punts this two years. I imagine OMB will sign whatever makes it to his desk.
It would be nice if he said “Fuck you, cut spending” and vetoed it but I fear you are right.
Not a single person was killed by a gun in the Irish Republic last year (the first time since 1968)
https://x.com/edwest/status/2007404610026352986
How many were killed by Migrants?
Yes, they are into knife murder now.
Here’s a summary from AI SMITH:
The murder rate in the Republic of Ireland has shown significant fluctuations in recent years. In 2023, there were 65 homicide offences recorded, a decrease from 80 in 2022, though this follows a sharp increase from 24 murders in the 12-month period ending June 2022 to 47 murders in the same period ending June 2023, nearly doubling the previous year’s figure.
The rise in murders during this period appears to have been driven largely by domestic killings, with 12 women reported killed in the same timeframe, a 50% increase compared to the prior year.
The murder rate per 100,000 population was 0.88 in 2022, the highest in recent years, up from 0.44 in 2021, though it remained among the lowest in Europe.
Despite the spike in 2023, the overall trend shows a decline from peak levels seen in the early 2000s, with the rate falling to 0.44 in 2021 after reaching 3.10 per 100,000 in 2007.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/945262/homicides-in-ireland/
Such a sad slide for yet another European country. The Irish used to do such good violence.
Firebombing is the new hotness:
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2026/01/02/petrol-bombing-of-dublin-home-was-second-mistaken-identity-attack-on-same-family/
January is starting out to be crazy. Stay frosty, Glibs.
Not frosty here, we’re hitting the mid 50s today. Strange weather for January, wonder what the rest of winter has in store for us?
Blackrock is buying up all the houses and… tearing them down?
-rock is the DEI/EGS arm. -stone is the house buying arm.
Given the proclivities of the management, I wouldn’t be surprised at anything they’re doing with the buildings.
I just heard a Trump fan boy on radio lamenting that Black Rock was buying houses and flipping them and that no one could any longer afford them. Where do many of these commentators pick up the nonsense about how markets work?
I can’t buy what I want at the price I want is a market failure.
Elements of truth and then a whole lot of economic illiteracy?
Family friend that is a realtor had some version of that but mostly it was more on rentals and them not maintaining them, driving down the neighborhood value.
Probably one of the secondary goals of the Venezuela mission was to see just how effective Chinese military radars would be against not just our normal forces, but our stealthy assests.
Apparently not effective at all
Easier to read version.
https://archive.fo/gzRXr
The question is how well they used and integrated.
😄😆😂🤣
I’m honestly surprised given they paid for / stole the specifications over the last couple of decades for pretty much all of our equipment. I would have thought they’d have the counter measures right (if not their copies… which I think mainly falter because they haven’t got the hang of the turbines quite as well, so they’re underpowered relative to the stolen source material).
They were instructed to stand down. If you believe Chinese radar can’t detect Blackhawks I’ve got a bridge in Zinjiang I’d like to sell you. Also, Epoch Times…
It doesn’t matter if the radar sees the helos if the people who are supposed to be responding are in a panic because everything is already going kablooie.
The airstrikes on the defenses came before the choppers.
Where did you get that info they were instructed to stand down?
This. You couldn’t fly a helicopter over Hanoi in 1966.
We just paid a few officers to turn everything off and order a stand-down.
“My Source? I made it the fuck up.”
/meme
I would assume that is inference to the fact that Maduro was sold-out by some of his compatriots.
Just an inference from the fact that the helos didn’t even appear to take small arms fire and that it has been established that there was at least one mole that was close to Maduro. I realize y’all want to believe our military are the ultimate badasses but don’t let that blind you.
Not knowing what assets we actually used, I would assume Delta used a much more refined and advanced iteration of the Blackhawks used in the Bin Laden raid.
Air defenses are always neutralizes prior to less stealthy assets appearing, this isnt 1966 anymore and our doctrine isnt Vietnam based.
If we are making shit up I would wager before a sell out, we flew probing missions to see if they even reacted.
Couple this with the Iran mission, it was a note to the world that Chinese and Russian capabilities that are being sold off to these places are trash.
No more than I think China is putting out more than things that look good on paper.
When was the last time attack helicopters were seen being operated by either side in Ukraine? Zelensky doesn’t even bother asking for Cobras or Apaches.
OT – why read the NOTAMs?
“He said it’s important for pilots to review Notices to Airmen, or NOTAMs, while planning their flights.”
https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2026/01/slackline-warning-issued-before-arizona-helicopter-crash-that-killed-oregon-pilot-3-nieces.html
Very sad.
Now that I’m a Navy fan boi, I can say carrier-based Growlers were a big part of that. USS Ford has been in the area for weeks, with planes mapping out radar and air defenses. During an attack they can jam radar and communications, taking down air defenses. It was no coincidence that USS Nimitz arrived near Iran the same day of that attack, right before the bombers arrived. Lots of people say US carriers are obsolete, here is a solid argument against that.
When it comes to just making shit up don’t take anything from the Epoch Times at face value when it comes to China. Not that they’re lying necessarily but they’re a propaganda outlet.
Glibs who are members of the legal bar – what is this going to for reciprocity? I’m going to assume you will have to practice in TX for a X number of years.
Texas becomes first state to end American Bar Association oversight of law schools
https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/court/2026/01/07/540073/texas-supreme-court-ends-american-bar-association-law-school-accreditation/
God willing it ends up killing the cancer that is the ABA. They have never been politically neutral and in recent years have gone all in requiring DEI admissions and curriculum support for accreditation.
“A new $100 fee for foreign tourists entering US national parks has triggered chaos and frustrating waits, with staff reporting long entry lines as citizenship checks are made and irate visitors regularly ditching plans to patronize some of America’s most cherished landscapes.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/08/trump-national-parks-international-visitor-fee
It’s a stupid policy regardless.
Agreed. The national parks should be dissolved, parcelled out and auctioned to citizens for homesteading. Those who do not live on their parcel for at least a decade forfeit it to be auctioned again.
I don’t have any problem National Parks. I do have a problem with Trump making things more complicated and changing things for no good reason.
I’m with Tater.
I’m good with National Parks.
Do t forget the BLM land, USFS land, and the National Monument land UCS, it all needs to go.
Sell it ALL.
Hopefully interest dies down before I go to Arizona in March. At all of my recent NP visits it is impossible not to notice that most of the visitors are foreign. Even the wypipo don’t speak English.
Pariah-in-Chief
The Trump administration is exiting a landmark 1992 climate treaty, President Trump announced Wednesday.
Trump said in a presidential memorandum that the U.S. would pull out of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), along with dozens of other international organizations.
The UNFCCC was established in a 1992 treaty and seeks global cooperation on climate change. Every country has ratified it, and leaving makes the U.S. the only country that is not part of it.
The organization seeks to stabilize concentrations of greenhouse gases to a level that would prevent dangerous interference in the climate system.
How can we walk away from such an effective organization?
Um, that would be the treaty that was never submitted for Senate ratification, right?
The article claims it was.
I believe the original treaty was but the follow on Paris Agreement wasn’t.
FTFY
“The following night, only 15 minutes away, the Minnesota Timberwolves are scheduled to play the Cleveland Cavaliers.
That is the obscenity at the center of this moment. That the machinery of American life – professional sports included – simply lurches forward while a federal agency has just shot a woman dead in a residential neighborhood. The lights can come on at Target Center. The music can play. The crowd can cheer. And this can all be treated as background noise.
What kind of country does that? If the goal is to force attention from those with the power to change conditions, the answer is not another statement or vigil. It is leverage. And in modern America, leverage means money. The most effective response available is for the Timberwolves to refuse to play.
Not after investigations conclude. Not after the news cycle moves on. Now.”
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jan/08/timberwolves-ice-shooting-minneapolis-boycott-comment
This guy should be deported to Uganda. Along with Chris Collinsworth and the singing family in that Honda commercial.
Why aren’t people doing what I want them to do!! Move to NYC and get in bed with Mandami, your wishes will come true.
If we packed it all up and shut it down for every deserving tragedy we’d never get anything done. Fuck whoever this guy is and his emotionally charged bullshit.
They really are just itching for Winter of Love.
I’m sure they’d be saying the same thing if the Vikings were in the playoffs.
Wherein the Guardian ratfuckers learn that not every American is on board with their performative whiny bullshit.
Trump and his administration have repeatedly sought to downplay and deny climate change, despite science showing that human activity is heating up the planet and worsening extreme weather.
*acolytes chant “Amen” in unison*
Extreme weather, like all those hurricanes that made landfall?
And were extra destructive!!!
Talk about “making shit up”.
JFC
The most effective response available is for the Timberwolves to refuse to play.
“Nobody move, or the nigger gets it.”
Irresponsible blamethrowing
Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting Director John Sandweg pushed back on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s claims that the woman fatally shot by an ICE officer Wednesday was committing “domestic terrorism.”
“I find that to be an incredibly irresponsible statement,” Sandweg said on “CNN News Central.”
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Noem said at a press conference Wednesday that the victim “attacked” the ICE officers and attempted to run them over with her car, characterizing the officer that killed her as having acted in self-defense.
But Sandweg, who ran ICE during the Obama administration, said the administration’s argument does a “disservice” to Good, her family and the credibility of Noem’s department.
“First of all, the information you get, even at the department, the initial information, is almost always wrong. … There is no way that you can make those conclusions, that this was an act of domestic terrorism, that this woman was targeting ICE agents,” he noted.
The interviewer then asked him to explain how we got here, right?
Right?
ICE = Gestapo? Uptwinkles!
Woman driving towards a federal officer = domestic terrorist? Incredibly Irresponsible! DOWNTWINKLES!
To be fair it looked like she was just trying to get away but she didn’t give a damn who or what was in front of the vehicle, not that she was actively trying to run them over. Of course, bad decision making and panic will still get you shot.
I see it that way too, she was trying to get away and might not have even seen him. But she was actively trying to disrupt federal law enforcement, and she should have known there was a big risk of at least getting arrested.
I want to know what was said prior to that, because the ICE agent unholstered as he walked toward her car.
I doubt the “domestic terrorism” accusation myself but I want to know WTF she thinks she was doing driving a motor vehicle around in the middle of a police operation. That is just asking for trouble. Definitely not right in the head if she thought that was an appropriate way to “resist”.
TOK. Agent approaching her door (with window down) yelled at her to stop and get out of the vehicle at least once.
Blamethrower
I need to que that up tonight.
She was no less guilty than Ashli Babbitt.
I think calling her a domestic terrorist is a bit of a stretch. She was a stupid lefty protester encouraged by stupid left politicians and a stupid lefty media. If it weren’t for sanctuary policies, she would still be alive.
After what they did to the J6 people, I don’t care.
Calling everyone you don’t like is a “terrorist” isn’t any better than calling everyone you don’t like a “fascist”.
But it’s perfectly acceptable to call them the Gestapo for months on end for enforcing existing laws.
Or what Grumble pointed out.
A multi-ton vehicle can absolutely be used as a lethal weapon.
Using a lethal weapon to intervene into a police operation is not in any way “non-violent” protest.
Whether the officer was justified in that moment to pull the trigger is not clear to me.
But it is clear that Ms. Good initiated the scenario that lead to her demise.
I have no sympathy for her at this point.
Me neither but she is going to be used to score points by everyone involved. Yay.
+1 victim of capitalism.
Speaking of housing-
I stumbled across a news blab a while back about somebody building a little enclave of small detached rental units. From the meager description it sounds reminiscent of those ’40s Los Angeles bungalow complexes. It seems like a worthwhile experiment to me.
Don’t these people have lives?
Also, I’d like to see a bit more police brutality. Kthanxbai.
ICE should get winches like the hunters had in John Carpenter’s Vampires.
Ugh, here we go.
Wait until Summer, unfortunately.
Their life is pRoTeSt. Many of them are paid to do it.
It stops when a Democrat is elected president. This is life in the US now.
Crap. I was hoping it would take another generation or two to become France.
It’d be nice to add my name to the “jobs added” in the Jan report, or rather, “Transitioned(!) to more productive employment.” I did take the day off for that interview in a few hours, otherwise I’d have an awkward ‘leave early’ day I’d have to work around. Might as well get the sleep, though that opened a familiar window of discomfort.
Slight, normal nerves before a short interview, but combined with Normal Wake-Up procedures, and the early morning left hand shakes slightly more dramatic than normal, but a typical slap in the face of ‘this is what Normal’ now is for you, Ev.’ (If my right hand does anything, that’s a Red Flag, along with olfactory hallucination, but both have been vacant for considerable time.) A quick set of 50 pushups is a good way to help my brain-body shift into a better gear.
Posting with Brochetta last night, I briefly forgot SCOTUS’ ruling that the cops have no obligation to ‘protect and serve’ normies. The special rules for the King’s Men are absolute, precedented bullshit, as we all know. Simple Ev Solution: Have fewer crimes on the books, WoD the first and biggest cut, which’ll ‘never’ happen. Until then, everything will remain fucked by design.
If the mail room gig is seasonal or temp, there ain’t much point. If it’s a 6mo+ temp? Hrm. That might be worth it. Having a more normal schedule would help me socially navigate and get a better feel for the States, work-wise and socially, the latter being a significant, internal burden.
Minnesota Munchkin and I had a good talk yesterday about her bullshit state and her equally bullshit return to it from Korea. I’m trying to draw her here, but can only do so much. We’ll see how the day unfolds.
I know you are, but what am I?
Unfortunately, Republicans in Congress and President Trump have shown they are more interested in winning elections than in protecting the right of every adult American citizen to vote.
And Donna Brazile doesn’t really care who those people vote for, as long as they get the opportunity to mail in a ballot.
And the Democrats have shown they will undermine legitimate votes at every opportunity.
We all know Donna Brazile is a paragon of honesty and unbiased reporting.
“protecting the right of every adult American citizen to vote”
Allowing a citizen’s vote to be nullified by allowing ineligible people to vote, or through outright fraud, is not protecting their vote.
They live in a complete fantasy world. You can’t argue with people that are so far removed from reality.
““Many of these people are the same far-left activists behind Black Lives Matter, pro-Hamas, and other marches.”’
https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-anti-ice-protesters-block-streets-burn-american-flag-after-minneapolis-shooting
No shit.
I have a crazy idea. How about the government stops making food guidelines entirely?
Will it shut up the anti-seed oil people?
They can talk as much as they like as long as I’m not paying for it.
Of course not.
No.
That sit is bad for you.
Canola and cotton seeds are not food.
Republicans are eager to see the Supreme Court rule that Section 2 is unconstitutional racial discrimination, because this could help them redraw electoral districts to put many more Republicans in office.
The advocacy group Black Voters Matter says that overturning Section 2 could help Republicans win at least 19 additional House seats in the 2026 midterm elections, since the vast majority of Black voters support Democrats (only 15 percent of Black voters cast ballots for Trump in 2024). This would greatly expand the slim Republican House majority.
Predetermined outcomes are the truest form of democracy.
Today in MSM and correlation versus causation.
The study examined the relationship between dental condition and all-cause mortality (deaths linked to any cause), and found that death rates were lower among people with a higher number of healthy or treated teeth, while those with untreated cavities faced increased risks.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/05/japan/science-health/elderly-dental-hygiene/
Dentistry is bullshit.
LOL. Bold position to take.
Tater is clearly a rabid anti-dentite.
And/or British?
@GT, you probably know the reference, but just in case…https://youtu.be/ne_ucyzLK6E?si=CMioVhQ-6LcB8dfb&t=28
Does Raven know this one?
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S04E17/244577
@ TOG: oh yeah. From the episode where Homer becomes the union rep and acts to save the company dental plan. Very early season – back when I found the show hilarious.
Onion belt! Bumblebee nickels!
I didn’t realize Tater was British.
Are we back to this? People who take care of their dental health tend to also take care of the rest of their health. Shocker.
Yeah this. Correlation causation etc.
High sugar diet the actual thing they are looking at here?
“TALKING POINTS: Kimmel, Colbert, and Fallon All Make the Same Stupid Joke About Trump and Venezuela”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/talking-points-kimmel-colbert-fallon-all-make-same/
No surprise there.
I’d rather get molested by the Masturbating Bear than have to watch any current day late night television.
Go on.
Hochul manages to violate the 2A and 1A simultaneously!
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/keeping-new-yorkers-safe-governor-hochul-announces-nation-leading-proposals-crack-down-3d
NJ looks across the Hudson in awe!
Create a first-in-the-nation policy that requires the establishment of minimum safety standards for 3D printer manufacturers to ensure their products are equipped with technology that blocks the printer from creating firearms and component parts.
I’m hoping they talk to Jian Yang and see if his “not hotdog” application is available.
Not Poptart.
Suckit Jian Yang
Will my 3D printer still be able to create the fin and stabilizer assemblies for my homemade LAW projectiles?
*tap* *tap* *tap*
I am starting to become concerned.
On lighter news, I had my second-to-last operation to install my molar implant, and it was the last time I have to go to Colonie. The surgeon there is apparently excellent, since I suffered none of the warned-about complications.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/91fyu6f_ScGiOqPg90ZlhA.A8eJobiwqlKGG4RAbA5BMK
New edc flashlight. I like it. Knife for scale (no bananas handy).
Watch out for pocket explosions.
o.O
I bought a little rechargeable flashlight for my new work truck the other day.
I had trouble finding one that was physically big enough for my wants. Everything is tiny now. The little crap disappears in a man sized hand especially when wearing gloves.
Richard Blumenthal moved to the UK?
Fake admiral told police: ‘I’ve been expecting you’
Former history teacher admits posing as Royal Navy officer at Remembrance Sunday memorial
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/05/fake-admiral-pleads-guilty/
America is the worst country to have as a military opponent because if you nuke their city centres they get stronger.
https://x.com/punishhorse/status/2009039147646767524
Ouch.
Painful but true.
I’ll type all this out. it will undoubtedly inspire the next post to publish:
Re: Ashley Babbit
People like to look at the event in terms of abstract issues, and also the more humble ones will admit to a lack of knowledge/qualification
However, principles don’t pull triggers. In the specific case, the triggered was pulled by Michael Byrd. Michael Byrd was a documented fuckup. Michael Bryd had a documented history of provoking/escalating violence. Michael Byrd has a history that includes at least one prior bad shoot.
Michael Byrd was not alone. I wasn’t there, but other cops were there. Cops without histories of wrongfully shooting or using violence against people that pissed them off. Those non-fuckup cops chose NOT to pull the trigger. Why would you ever conclude that the known bad/violent cop was the one who made the correct decision?
Because Ashli Babbitt supported Trump. She deserved to be killed for that.
Exactly this. The thought process doesn’t go any further than ‘J6Protester = Trump = Bad’. Or, the inverse: ‘ICEProtestor = AntiFa = GoodShoot’. Critical thinking is neither required nor desired.
The world makes a lot more sense once you start treating most of your fellow humans as dogs that have learned to walk upright and talk in complete sentences.
So Pies dinner tonight: 100 grams whole wheat bread, 100 grams Philadelphia protein cream cheese, 150 g smoked salmon and one medium grapefruit. How does that rate in the new americanese food pyramid thing that just dropped?
According to Grok, that’s 51 grams of protein which passes my standards. But you asked about the food pyramid, so I think it would require one additional fruit or vegetable.
Add chopped red onion and capers, for the additional fruit/vegetable. Or maybe tomatoes, if you’re some kind of weirdo…
i did not have capers had red onion but did not occur to me could have been a good idea
Rating: Kinda gay.
based on the official chart it is mostly foidslop
https://x.com/uncledoomer/status/1858361275534729603
That barely qualifies as a light lunch.
Or are you doing the European “supper” which is light?
Americans eat their big meal in the evening, not the day.
What does 100 metric units of bread look like?
every controversy discussed online with footage from multiple angles has just been this for years. we create information ghettos for ourselves, and live in them self-righteously. the truth has probably never mattered to the average person, but today it’s never mattered less.
https://x.com/micsolana/status/2009300494217527434
Winter has decided to drop by. Three inches of snow or thereabouts last night. Current conditions somewhere between light snow and freezing fog. 25 Americanese degrees. Fortunately I ran errands yesterday.
Emergency Post is up