Good morning one and all to another fantastic day!
Trump Says US Not at War With Venezuela After Maduro’s Capture
Trump Team to Brief Congress About Maduro Operation
Sanctioned Oil Tankers Try Mass Run At US Blockade Of Venezuela
Colombian President Says He Will ‘Take Up Arms’ If US Military Attacks
‘Stunning’: HHS slashes vaccine schedule as CDC promotes COVID vaccine over natural immunity
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Shutters Months After Trump, Congress Yanked Its Funding
Trump touts $600B collected or incoming from tariffs
Pentagon to cut Mark Kelly’s military pension over ‘Seditious Six’ video
Here’s Everything Tim Walz Got Away With As Minnesota Governor
Corrupt Amy Klobuchar Mulls Campaign to Replace Walz as Governor of Minnesota
NRA Sues Nonprofit Arm in Alleged Power Struggle With Former Board Members
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
I guess he’s half right.
Must have been an impossibly vital 10%
They’re supporters weren’t going to fill the gap.
I think my local classical station might survive. That’s the only thing that might be personally painful.
Can’t you just not listen, if its survival might be painful?
The funding really tied the graft together.
Bravo!
Eh, CPB itself wasn’t supported by direct donations.
Our local NPR has decided that the only way they’re going to survive is “advocacy journalism.” And yes, they’ve actually become even more partisan.
Is it even possible for them tom get more partisan?
Peak lefty, like peak stupid, can never be reached.
Have you seen the venn diagram for peak lefty and peak stupid? It’s a circle.
I remember the pre-Internet days when WAMC’s supremo was caught on mike saying he didn’t have as much issue with funding cuts to public broadcasting as you might think because WAMC was better positioned to absorb the cuts.
And when PBS stations were caught selling donor lists to the Democrats, WMHT’s boss said this was a result of the government not funding stations properly.
Have you seen the venn diagram for peak lefty and peak stupid? It’s a circle.
Candace Owens refutes this claim.
Ok, nearly a circle.
When those stations go dark it will be an opportunity for others to buy turnkey operations at fire sale prices.
That guy only retired like two years ago. He had a true cult going.
Tonio:
Glib number stations?
I suspect that the people running the CPB, after decades of government funding, were simply incapable of managing a 10% cut in revenue.
“However, soon after, she claimed that the violence was primarily the fault of the U.S. government due to weapons that were smuggled into the country. ”
CWAC
Has she called for the extradition of Eric Holder?
If she had blamed it on the existence of demand in the US, she would have been correct.
Does she understand economics?
Yes, the US has a high demand for guns. As should all free peoples.
It isn’t like the drugs came into existence because of the cartels.
So, coco leaves. They are the root of it.
And Chinese opium, of course.
@ UCS – she’s a socialist, so no, she doesn’t understand economics.
Two shot suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb#Death
Somebody is smuggling guns into Mexico to sell to its army?
I still say that by 1900 US should have taken over Canada and Mexico. A lot fewer problems now. After the Panama canal you should have taken over everything to that point and use the canal as a moat.
Canada, sure, but who the hell wants to have to be responsible for of millions of Mexicans?
Or Canadians? Minnesoda is looking more Trudeauesque every day.
The Irish.
That was literally John Calhoun’s argument against the Mexican War.
No on Canada.
My trip last year cemented to me that they are a drastically different people than Americans as a whole.
Behavioral as well as phenotypical. It makes sense as they are largely descended from the tories that wanted nothing to do with fighting the crown.
Nah. The US is already too big.
that kind of thinking is why you will never be Supreme Overlord of the World.
I’ll take Alberta and Saskatchewan, but we can give Canukistan some left coast enclaves in exchange.
Pie, there’s a lot of shitholes in the world we’d rather not be responsible for.
Pie, there’s a lot of shitholes in the world we’d rather not be responsible for.
Seriously, who needs that shit?
Like Albany?
RC knows.
The U.S. should probably break up into 10 to 50 different independent states.
The Darien Gap is more effective than the canal as a barrier.
Ok you talked me into it all the way to the gap.
I’ll fire up the time machine and get Andrew Jackson on it
At one point or another, the US did so. El Salvador and Belize (British Honduras) were the exceptions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars
“The Nov. 19 “up to date” page linked to a “Benefits of Getting Vaccinated” page, updated four months earlier, that elaborates on the uniform threat of the virus relative to vaccines, including that COVID can kill children and saddle them with “long-term health problems” even if they have mild or no symptoms of infection.”
Where do they get this nonsense?
Where do they get this nonsense?
They pull it out of their asses, since the statistics absolutely contradict what they are saying.
After presenting ‘da Vid as a worse threat than being simultaneously infected with smallpox, bubonic plague, and Ebola they can’t back off getting the mRNA vaccine. They’ll quietly ignore the poor rate of people following the recommendation until seven years from now when they drop the requirement w/o comment. You know, after the statute of limitations has well expired.
I suppose in the end it is the Spaniards fault that South Am is such s shithole.
This is more truth than sarcasm.
And less truth as well. Many of the nations had reached a prosperous state and could have grown out of the problems that led them to make their ill-fated dive into socialism that has failed so often.
The dead hand of Spain only reaches so far after Bolivar.
The cultural factors can’t be minimized – in that, Bolivar was only a symptom.
I agree with JI. The culture of semi-feudal top-down governance didn’t change with the eviction of Spain from the colonies. In the end Bolivar had to admit defeat. The turn to socialism was later, thanks to the universities churning out far more intellectuals than was necessary for governance.
The Portuguese get some credit.
Western Lensman
@WesternLensman
Leftist protestors laud Hugo Chavez:
“They want to destroy the memory of the hero Hugo Chavez. Viva Chavez!”
Minneapolis. Because of course.
https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/2007618136963776586
I nominate this guy as the next governor of Minnesota
I’d vote for her just based on the hat.
shit that a woman?
I had to turn the sound up to figure that out. She’s a real-life Alice the Goon.
Marxist Pat?
Contrast the reactions of actual Venezuelans with the reactions of Democrats, and it really tells you all you need to know about the Democrats.
Same shit outside Maduro’s new guest house in NYC. Keffiyeh-clad, flying the hammer and sickle, the usual ratfuckers have been commanded to another “action”.
It’s all astroturf.
Honestly, my favorite part of the raid was specifically targeting Chavez’s tomb for destruction.
That was a hilarious “fuck you”.
That is old school military psychological warfare.
Agreed on the brilliance of that Go Fuck Yourself. I like the (theoretically) younger Team helping Trump 2.0, kinda taking the gloves off and still kicking them in the dick.
Also highlights, like with Maduro, that our military is not to be fucked with, and we can, when we want to, take you out in whatever closet hides you. (Ooh, that works multiple ways. I’ll pat myself on my wakey bakey back.)
Walz and Klobuchar, sitting in a tree…
Minnesoda Nice doesn’t equal Minnesoda Clean
It wasn’t like this when it was part of Dakota Territory.
The latest rumor I have heard:
Klobuchar will run for gov. If she wins, she will appoint Walz to fill out the next 4 years of her Senate seat.
Everyone locally is assuring me that Klobuchar will easily win the Gov seat if she does run (if she runs and loses, she still keeps her Senate seat). I lean toward that view myself.
Except, maybe she has some skeletons in her closet? No idea how believable these charges are.
“Chinese state-run propaganda outlets are promoting U.S. protests against the Trump Administration’s arrest of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro. The protests appear to be organized by a Chinese Communist Party-linked financial network in the United States.
After this weekend’s U.S. military-led operation capturing Venezuela’s leader and sending him to the U.S. to be prosecuted by the Justice Department, street protests opposing Maduro’s arrest were quickly organized in New York City and elsewhere by the Marxist revolutionary group known as The People’s Forum, the far-left anti-war group Code Pink, the leftist Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL). ”
https://justthenews.com/government/security/chinese-propaganda-outlets-promote-maduro-arrest-protests-organized-ccp-linked
CWABOA
Splitters!
Seriously… what on earth separates all those groups? Are there some finely tuned ideological differences that normal people would not be aware of?
It really is that sketch from Life of Brian.
Those first two have been around for a while — they were frequently brough on Democracy Now! to rail against the war crimes of… Bill Clinton.
I think they’re funded by different commie billionaires.
Sanctioned Oil Tankers Try Mass Run At US Blockade Of Venezuela
Paging Capt. Fury, Capt. Fury to the white courtesy phone.
Let’s have congress issue letters of marque.
Sounds like they succeeded at breaking the blockade.
Of course, you shouldn’t need a blockade (any more) when you control the ports.
Ha! Fantastic real-time social marketing, right there!
My guess, ideologically, is that they’re partitioned for each to focus on a specific limb or case. Added plus of TMITE having a “many groups,” or “multiple protests groups” so they can add a ‘legit consensus’ to their lede and make it look like dozens of groups are pitching a fit, instead of one octopus with many tentacles twitchin’.
Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️⚧️
@LeftieStats
For 20 years, the US Empire has tried to break the back of the socialist revolution in Venezuela because they refused to hand over their natural resources. This is the latest move in a decades-long campaign to shatter the resolve of the Venezuelan people, and it will fail too
https://x.com/LeftieStats/status/2007443693251317985
wait… hold on… is Venezuela back to being real socialism? Cause it was quite Not Real (TM) in leftist circles the past 10 years.
Pay no mind to the Venezuelans celebrating in the streets over Maduro’s removal.
Venezuela is paying attention.
faLSe cOnscIOusNeSS!
Hm… the left likes oil now??
Real socialism is vanquished by capitalist imperialism.
Not real socialism collapses from its internal contradictions.
WAIT FALSE ALARM
Owen Jones
@owenjonesjourno
Maduro stole the last election and in any case has pursued neoliberal policies for years.
https://x.com/owenjonesjourno/status/2008159224598249639
lol wtf does “neoliberal” even mean?
“The hiring trend for new graduates resembles recruiting practices before the pandemic and the tight labor market of 2018 and 2019, researchers who have focused on entry-level hiring say. Most now recruit only at up to 30 American colleges out of about 4,000, starting with top-ranked schools and then looking at local universities, said William Chichester III, who has spent years directing entry-level recruiting at companies including Target and Peloton.”
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/elite-colleges-are-back-at-the-top-of-the-list-for-company-recruiters-ad9526ac?st=nvwD6F&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Economically there is little reason to pick a school with high costs and essentially mid-tier rankings. Either go to a top ranked school or pick one with a specific program and recognition for that program.
It’s an argument I lost at my house. We were fortunate that we could pay for my son’s liberal arts education that he would never be able to economically recoup.
Meanwhile it’s nice to see that learning an actual trade seems to be even more popular.
4,000 – seems a bit to many
It is way too many. A lot of them won’t last much longer.
“ William Chichester III”
If he doesn’t wear tweed jackets and an ascot, he’s doin’ it wrong.
He’s got face tats and his street name is Trey-5-7.
Back in the Old Days, when I was productively employed, I had a lot of liberal arts degrees applying for essentially a retail job. It was a good fit and I still made a few mistakes but at least those could be corrected later.
My son went to a good school with a highly regarded program (business), and realized half-way to his degree that he hated the major.
So, now he is in grad school near you. Complete 180*
I chose my university based on my ability to pay and the university’s job placement department. It ain’t in the top 30.
Guy who supports regime change on climate grounds
x.com/ThomasHochman/status/2007945494941589745
Cool link, bro!
https://x.com/ThomasHochman/status/2007945494941589745
Travel notice: Countries are banning US travelers, canceling American visas
There go my vacation plans.
Burkina Faso is one of those countries I forget about when not directly reminded it exists.
I had never heard of Burkina Faso before.
My favorite Star Wars character
It’s still Upper Volta to you?
I keep thinking it’s a capital city.
It’s that country next door to Gold Coast, Togoland, and Dahomey.
Burkina Faso’s capital has one of my favorite place names ever – Ouagadougou. 😁
“Wake me up when Ouagadougou”
no sleep till brooklyn
Oh news is trying to trot this out as some black eye too..its quite funny.
I can’t tell if dictators are good or bad right now.
Pretty sure there is a decision chart floating around the various leftists that helps them determine that.
Oh no…anyway…
‘Stunning’: HHS slashes vaccine schedule
Won’t someone think of Big Pharma’s profits!?!
“While liquid nitrogen is routinely added to drinks to create a “smoking” effect, its use in this way requires no training or regulation, and many consumers are unaware of the dangers, including but not limited to stomach perforation and death.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/05/health/doc-warns-cocktail-ingredient-can-cause-your-stomach-to-explode/
It’s not routine. It’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.
There’s quite a few tiki drinks that are garnished with a small amount of dry ice for the fog effect. I’ve not heard of liquid nitrogen being used as an ingredient in cocktails, I have heard of it being used for quick ice cream or frozen cocktails.
Unless there’s a better storage/dispense solution for LN2 than the ones I use/have used, It’d very inconvenient for a bar.
What are the odds of the idiot reporter not knowing the difference between dry ice and liquid nitrogen?
WTF:
And based on some quick searches, dry ice for smoke, liquid nitrogen for flash freezing.
But but but I saw some douchebag gastro-chef on the food channel use it to make a dessert in 2 minutes!
The protestors were back on the overpass this morning.
About 10 people and 3 were wearing the ubiquitous inflatable costume.
Today it was DON’T FORGET JAN 6 WAS TREASON.
I think they are right, just not in the way they think they are.
One NY politician was saying this needs to be taught like the holocaust. It was on the radio, no idea who.
https://cbs12.com/news/nation-world/new-york-lawmakers-push-to-teach-jan-6-us-capitol-riot-in-schools
Some idiots I’ve never heard of either.
Fuck off, commies.
“resulting in several deaths”
Hmm… interesting evasions there. It is a one-Party state so you know they will get their wish and the propaganda will be ferocious.
Minnesoda schools already require it.
Any protestors here couldn’t get their inflatable costumes over their winter clothes and burkas so they stayed home.
But a committee determined Trump was responsible!
Seriously, I heard that this morning on ORF out of Austria, which helps explain why Europeans are so misinformed on the US.
As is conspiring to aid foreign invaders.
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/maduro-polymarket-bet-a2e5d100?st=UEBEJx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Jan. 2, 8:38 p.m. to 9:58 p.m.: In final spree, trader bets over $20,000 on Maduro’s downfall
That trader needs to be identified. If it was just some drunk-betting, good on him. If, as I suspect, it was somebody on the inside of the op, there need to be consequences.
“In a recent interview, the social influencer Clavicular announced that — despite being pro-Trump — he would vote for Gavin Newsom over JD Vance in a theoretical presidential election, for a surprising reason.
“JD Vance is subhuman, and Gavin Newsom mogs,” the 20-year-old said on a recent episode of the Michael Knowles show. “Mogging” is slang for being better looking than someone else.
Clavicular, real name Braden Peters, has made a name for himself by promoting “looksmaxxing” — an extreme social media trend that involves everything from diet and tongue exercises to Botox and plastic surgery to get a chiseled face.
Vance, in Clavicular’s estimation, is “fat” while Newsom is a “6’3” Chad.””
https://nypost.com/2026/01/05/opinion/gen-z-is-treating-world-changing-politics-like-edge-lord-slop/
Raise the voting age to 35.
35 and a property owner who has a real job and pays taxes
And no exception to this for the military.
Just ban voting.
I’d be willing to waive the 35 requirement for property (land, not cars) owners.
How about not giving retards like this the attention they crave?
I’m a fan of copying and pasting this kind of idiocy, without including a link to drive the traffic the idiot craves.
And anyone who says Newsom is a “chad” doesn’t know what the word means. This is not a chad:
https://images.citizenmedia.network/4632bbb0-d77f-445b-b22a-148e3e52f26c/iw/2025/12/newsom4235.jpg
lol that will never get old
Vance, in Clavicular’s estimation, is “fat” while Newsom is a “6’3” Chad.””
Vance is…*googles* 1 inch shorter and a former marine. He’s twenty years younger than the wine guy. He easily wins in a fight, or we’re only basing this on looks? (kinda gay).
Well yeah, “looksmaxxing” is gay AF
But he’s so dreamy! 💖 “And I like the way he says ‘Cuber’.”
Americans among foreign tourists stranded on a desert island in Yemen
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/05/travel/socotra-island-yemen-foreign-tourists-stranded-intl
well the scenery is pretty… But I would not go on holiday in Yemen these days myself.
If you’re stupid enough to go on a vacation to Yemen, you get what you deserve.
Stupidity should be painful.
You wanted adventure, you got adventure. Have fun and good luck.
IMO, Kazakhstan, or really Morocco were the ‘craziest’ places I’ve solo-adventured in. (Cambodia /Loas raise their hands.)
Given the right circumstances, and a looot of research I haven’t yet done, that’d be a place I would’ve considered. I have the fantastic luxury of being a straight man. Any women going? Uh. Uh…. yeah. Ya shoulda thought of it and said No.
Fucking idiot Queers for Palestine is some nasty, underhanded shit stupid lefties like to play pretend with. When real? Uh. Whoops.
“Billed as “the world’s first digital studio meets luxury fitness club,” Life Time High Performance soft-launched in September and is set to officially open its doors early this month.
The 420 Fifth Avenue location blends the brand’s signature state-of-the-art fitness equipment, recovery tools and training programs with exclusive digital production spaces for content creators, including a fully equipped podcast studio.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/06/health/inside-nycs-luxe-new-550-a-month-gym-life-time-high-performance/
Thanks, I hate it.
Sounds like a great place to make quality porn.
Quality porn? John Leslie died years ago.
Compare the coverage of this to the evil “gymbro” coverage of the traditional pumping iron for bulging muscles gyms.
420? Someone missed an opportunity.
If it gets these losers out of the actual gyms, I’m all for it.
Because I stayed up to wacth the Steelers game, I went to the gym after work instead of 5 in the morning.
It was a madhouse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGHsxMqpL0c
That thought made this song stick in my head.
Looks at poster name.
Sees the word “madhouse”
Already knows what’s behind the link.
Never a huge fan of Anthrax (the band, totally a fan of the bacterial infection) but don’t actively avoid them.
Ah yes. Good old Bahram Akradi. Another Minnesoda immigrant shyster.
Lots of good local stories about him. One is how he had to hide out for a while to avoid getting in non-compete trouble with US Swim and Fitness before he started Life Time. Another about how he got in a fight outside one of his gyms with a kid who showed him up in a pickup game of hoops. More rage issues that actually ended up with him getting a charge.
I’m a member, but I sure wish they had some real competition.
Look at the guy who can afford a $550/month gym membership. :-p
Ted’s:
Not that bad… yet. I’m in one of the lower tiers. My guess is that those insane tiers are all for members who get a free membership as a job perk.
Every year the price goes up and the services get shitty. My local club is going to be replaced in a year or so and I’m sure the prices will jump again.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2008432778816188680
Holy Shit.
I want this to be true.
Randos on substack are more credible than randos on twitter:
https://susandaniels.substack.com/p/whose-wife-runs-a-day-care-from-home
Does he leave his gone in the bathroom?
I hope we all leave our gone in the bathroom…we arent the middle east Rat.
Some gones are more dangerous than others.
That’s why I keep a gone knife.
Dog gone it!
I mean…people can legitimately do it. However, shouldn’t be subsidized by government.
“Secrets of JD Vance’s ‘home attacker’: Suspect is transgender daughter of wealthy surgeon Democrat donor as ultra-privileged life is revealed”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15436127/william-defoor-julia-transgender-jd-vance-home-attacker.html
Archive sites not loading.
These people need a reality check.
It will get one in jail pretty quickly.
I.e. son
With additional mental issues and a record of attacking other locations IIRC.
Did Ozy make a standalone site for his work with the coofshot refusers? I’d like to link it, but don’t want to send bad people here.
You mean Mossad agents?
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Dammit.
He posted his aviation mishap articles at https://theabjectlesson.substack.com/, perhaps his other work there as well?
Almost all Amish, even the highly conservative Swartzentruber Amish, use washing machines (see the last column on the chart), so laborious is it to maintain the lifestyle of cleaning clothes by hand in comparison
Image
https://x.com/panickssery/status/2008066349491454067
The Amish reject technology that upsets The Order, as determined by the village elders. That’s why you will see some technology, like bicycles, diesel generators and other mundane things.
It also is up to each group to decide where they draw the line, so there is variation in the larger community.
The ones around Sugar Creek OH love electric bikes now.
*stretching, yawning, joint-popping echoes*
Mornin’, fellow alley-cats.
Last week’s family vacation purposefully lacked actual rest, so I’m kinda excited for the day’s possibilities. I do have another voca rehab appt tomorrow, so I’m gonna try to maximize the shaded curve where ‘looking for fresh, new year’s Help Wanted selections, and getting a chance to *actually* rest and kinda enjoy myself.
Minnesota Munchkin is in a similar position, and last night she was depressed w her new make-do job, cleaning and feeding old folk in some retirement community. (She’s far less stoic than me.)
Time for my Saturday to unwind itself.
Mid-Atlantic gun peeps:
I’ll be working at least one (early August), potentially two (May 22-24) matches in New Tripoli PA.
Any insights about the area, potential meetups would be appreciated.
Which matches?
Apart from being impossible for the white man to pronounce, Ontelaunee is a pretty nice club. I’ve shot the Area 8 and the Mid-Atlantic Sectional up there a few times.
That’s only 40 ish minutes from me, but I don’t get up that way much.
You and the Lady should come up and spectate, see why ES and I play this game. It’d be an excuse to buy more guns.
Possibly. Keep me posted.
I just got 2 more last month!
I’m about an hour from there. I’d love to hang out and meet up for breakfast or a similar meal.
A8 (August – just put in the PTO) and Mid-Atlantic Sectional (still seeing if it conflicts with anything, May).
This venue is significantly closer to me than GPGC (which was a great venue) and Cardinal (which has lots of space). Only about 20 minutes further than SIG.
Shangy’s in Emmaus is good place to pick up beer.
Seven Sirens Brewing in Bethlehem defied the Covid restrictions and got fined for it. They’re still around.
Allentown is a ghetto.
Hawk Mountain is west of New Tripoli. It’s a privately owned bird sanctuary with good hiking.
And early August there is a Gun Show in Oaks.
I will have to keep Seven Sirens in mind. It’s good to reward people for good actions.
I have a Fraternity brother that used to live in Allentown. I might need to get back in contact with him.
That gun show actually overlaps the August match. It will depend on how much work my job will require.
I haven’t been to Seven Sirens in a while. They had some great beer back when I’d drop in there.
I sometimes come down for Swing dances and the Oaks gun show. I’ll keep early August open for a trip.
“Florida man wearing red lace bra, G-string arrested for carrying firearm under fake breast while trespassing”
https://thepostmillennial.com/florida-man-wearing-red-lace-bra-g-string-arrested-for-carrying-firearm-under-fake-breast-while-trespassing
STIJLTH
“resisting an officer without violence”
That sounds like bullshit.
That one generally means “starting to run away”.
Or you could go boneless and make them drag your limp ass to the car.
Has Derpy checked in lately?
I think he’s a Tennesseein’ man of late.
Yes. He has been around. Pretty sure that isn’t him.
“We notice he is wearing a G-string, showing off the boys. You know what I mean?”
I’m sorry, I thought this was America.
“The United States has been increasingly issuing visas to OnlyFans sex workers as well as social media influencers under the O-1B visa, or the visa meant for “extraordinary” creative abilities. ”
https://thepostmillennial.com/us-issues-increasing-number-of-extraordinary-artist-visas-to-onlyfans-models-report
If it’s on the internet, what is the point of a visa?
Sometimes men want to go hands on
A US tour like musicians?
We need to close the whore-gap with our rivals?
Dr Strangelove approved.
Unless the media has been lying to me, Russian/Ukrainian/Columbian and Brazilian whores are all of extraordinary quality.
“extraordinary” creative abilities. ””
If she can open a beer bottle with that thang I say let her in.
“The Department of Health and Human Services has confirmed that Abukar Dahir Osman, the Permanent Representative of Somalia to the United Nations and President of the UN Security Council, is associated with a healthcare agency in Ohio that the department previously took action against over fraud….
It had been uncovered in late December that Osman was the President and CEO of Progressive Health Care Services. Libs of TikTok revealed that the National Provider Identifier (NPI) associated with the company is on an exclusion list under the code 1128(a)(1), which is associated with Medicare and Medicaid crimes. The UN Security Council President position changes monthly, with Osman serving in the role for January 2026.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-somali-un-security-council-president-involved-with-healthcare-company-guilty-of-medicaid-fraud-in-ohio-hhs
Boy, Lethal Weapon 25 is going to go back to the “Dip-lo-mat-ic I-mmun-ity” concept, isn’t it?
“For one thing, the last Latin American head of state convicted in a U.S. court on drug-trafficking charges was just granted a pardon by Mr. Trump, so the administration’s commitment to rooting out narco-presidents seems less than solid.”
Good point! (The rest of the editorial is Top International Man Baker being Baker.)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/four-myths-about-the-capture-of-nicolas-maduro-e63c1f43?st=M89aBh&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Y’all…I applied for a job at an organization I’ve been following for a long time. I’ve been following its founder since the magazine-that-shall-not-be-named days. I need all your thoughts and prayers and whatnots that they call me for an interview.
(the organization is Let Grow, founded by Lenore Skenazy)
Growing free range orphans?
They take up so much more acreage than the industrial farmed orphans.
Do you need one of those fancy orphan tractors, you know, to feed and house them?
Good luck!
Good luck – potentially a very rewarding job, helping with something that might actually do some good. Hope you get it!
Fingers crossed!
Good luck, KK.
Be afraid. Very afraid of what’s coming from Team Blue.
This Tech Could Reduce Drunken Driving. What’s Holding It Back?
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/drunken-driving-technology-vehicles-1fcb8d1f?st=9tcgaB&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“The only thing that’s preventing manufacturers putting it in vehicles for sale is a fear of false alarms,” says Chuck Farmer, vice president of research at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, an industry-funded nonprofit that conducts vehicle-safety research.
Yes, you stupid muther fucker — all technology fails. All alerting systems will generate nuisance alerts. Any technology that can disable a car in traffic will eventually get someone killed.
I don’t need your fucking permission to drive my car.
So… no driver’s license? 🙂
I’m OK with that.
+1 emergency brake applications in drive thru lane
So if the designated driver gets in with the drunk guy in the passenger seat, the system won’t pick up the alcohol on the passenger’s breath and brick the car?
I have doubts.
How about this:
Fuck all the complexity, fuck your mandates. Let me drive a basic car without airbags and nannies.
I wonder how it reacts to non-ethyl alcohols? Painters, roofers, and various factory workers unable to start their car after work seem likely, even without the system failing.
How about pot? Because The Kids don’t drink anymore. They do gummies. It’s a blind pig looking for a government handout.
Related: https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/1q4cgy1/how_do_people_with_interlock_systems_get_their/
Yeah, that is a nightmare. I know people who have had to do that.
Submitted without comment:
“We did tires on a Suburban with an interlock recently. Owner’s wife drove it to the shop, and handled the blowing to get it in and out of the shop.”
Fetterman with shots fired
Damn it, I keep having to agree with Fetterman of all people.
#RESIST!
https://twitchy.com/gordon-k/2026/01/05/the-curious-case-of-seth-harp-n2423575
The “Great, now all my property taxes go straight to Israel too” was amusing.
Trolling or genuine stupidity? I can’t tell the difference anymore.
This is the kind of social media slap fight I have zero interest in.
I will admit to unseemly schadenfreude when online activists shit themselves in public.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
You can’t ever escape the Green Do Gooders. Not even in death. A guide to the only good way to dispose of your dead carcass. Lots of ranting about the wrong ways.
And yet sky burials are still (to my knowledge) banned in the US.
The government doesn’t allow me to leave bodies in the backyard for natural recycling.
I expect my kids to bury my carcass in the corn field out back and then fight over the house.
We’ll all pour out a glass of (store bought) mead in your honor at the Honey Harvest when you pass Kinnath.
Then we’ll fight with your kids over the contents of you wine/beer/mead cellar.
Works for me.
Pretty sure that’s a movie plot that doesn’t end well for the cast.
I didn’t see “Left on a stump in the woods” as an option
A handful of ashes in the garden, around the deer stand, in front of the bee hives and a small baggie for each HHer. Oh yeah, some in front of the step so visitors will track me through the house.
Aella
@Aella_Girl
As someone who’s done both prostitution and porn, I strongly prefer the prostitution. It feels more alive and humanizing, I often feel good and fulfilled afterwards. The online porn game, though, feels like it hacks away at my soul and trains men to objectify me, and me them.
https://x.com/Aella_Girl/status/2008386029527392621
as someone who experienced both I too prefer prostitution
Because when you prostitute yourself the images aren’t out there forever for us to laugh at.
Out of morbid curiosity, since she is internet famous and caters to Bay Area techbros/VCs, how high are her rates?
If I remember correctly, she bathes rarely if ever. So… her rates are too high. Unless you’re into that.
Stop judging me you colonizer!!!
Given the lack of accent, I am not sure I buy her claim to be a Haitian immigrant. It was nice of her, though, to self-document why she needs to be given a beating or put in jail.
Why so many people feel compelled to put their worst moments on social media is beyond me.
In his press briefing yesterday, King Walz made a passing claim that Minnesoda he had to go work on the new Minnesoda Family Leave program that was the best in the nation.
Anyone want to take a bet?
When even the local media – who has been covering for him for years – is running pieces warning about fraud, it might be safe to put a little money down on the over/under of 130K claims.
Didn’t Minnesota have a budget surplus a while back? How many billions was it?
I believe every state had a temporary surplus during the era of the Inflation Reinforcement Act.
Enjoying the seal clapping from the own the libs media. Spring 2003 all over again. America, fuck yeah!
Mission accomplished. Now stand up and salute the flag or GTFO.
The song remains the same.
I’d like to think I’ve learned something as I’ve aged but no.
🫡
Mount Algidus Station | 54,000 Acres in Southern Alps | New Zealand Sotheby’s International Realty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ7fSTM4_Eg
Wow. I don’t suppose they ever mention the asking price?
Available upon request?
Will Steve Jobs’ widow rescue NPR from the railroad tracks before the express train to anarchy runs over them?
Iit’s a cliffhanger.
Private funding isn’t as effective as government funding.
Cops brutalizing Maduro protesters.
Hahaha… doesnt look like there was a lot of protesting
We had a bunch of freezing rain last night. I’m off to scrape the ice off my driveway.
Altar Boy texted me in outrage this morning. Seems that his manager sent out an email at 9:15 this morning saying he was working from home because of the ice and he advised everyone on his teams to do the same. Which would have been great if it had been sent at 7 or so. But now everyone except the manage is at work. After a long commute.
Yeah… Rough here too. It was just under 70. Too humid to leave the windows open, but too cool to comfortably keep the AC running. Had to use the full comforter in bed. Wife wore long pants to go shopping this morning.
#FloridaMan
I’ve had a manager that insisted on us staying at work instead of going home when a major ice storm blew in. At 5:15 I went outside to 3/4” thick ice on the street, blocking door handles and covering windshields. It was hell trying to get home.
Cremation, currently the most popular choice in the U.S., is often considered simpler or “cleaner.” But the process requires extreme heat, typically 1,400 to 1,900 degrees Fahrenheit, fueled by natural gas or oil. Cremation also releases carbon dioxide and mercury vapor from dental fillings. (Webster notes that about 14 percent of mercury in U.S. waterways is attributable to flame cremation.)
I want to be cremated on an open pyre of railroad ties and old tires ignited with whale oil.
If 14% of the total mercury in our waterways is attributable to cremated dental fillings, that sounds to me like there is negligible mercury in our water ways, not like a crisis that should lead to banning cremation.
Nice insight.
Anything less than government programs to get the level below what occurs naturally is unacceptable.
Whale oil burns nice and clean. Also… renewable.
Effing greenie
Cetacean needed.
Telephone poles make a very hot fire.
Here’s Everything Tim Walz Got Away With As Minnesota Governor
*scrolls through*
At least he handled the Floyd riots in the best possible manner.
Thanks to NPR, I’m listening to Má vlast right now — one of my favorite pieces of music.
Oh, wait. I’m listening on Sirius XM. No government subsidies or stolen tax dollars involved.
You can hear it too.
All six parts, or just Vltava?
About an hour’s worth, so all six parts.
Would’ve been happy with just the river, but I got what I paid for.
“NHTSA is committed to reducing driving fatalities caused by impaired drivers using every tool at our disposal,” the regulator says.
Why?
paraphrased from a quote I saw on FB last night . . . the urge to save people is a mask to cover the urge to rule people.
Interesting bit of history I didn’t know about.
‘The Doctors’ Riot of 1788’ Review: Anatomy of an Uprising
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-doctors-riot-of-1788-review-anatomy-of-an-uprising-64156d99?st=1YCXXC&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Above all else, industry representatives say that consumer acceptance has to be paramount for the tech to be deployed widely. Manning, the official at MADD, says that the risk of false positives shouldn’t stop automakers from incorporating the tech into new vehicles.
“Let’s start getting it deployed now and figure out how to set it so there aren’t false positives,” she says. “But let’s not let false positives be the reason we don’t solve this crime now.”
They care so very very much about our welfare and happiness. Why do you not OBEY?
Also…. there would have to be enabling legislation that indemnifies the manufacturers.
Absent that, anyone injured in a drunk driving crash could sue.
Fuck MADD. When you drive out your founder and start scrubbing her from the history, you’ve lost the path.
Fuck Mother’s Against Drunk Driving sounds like a really bad OnlyFans account.
Reason covers the 9th circuit decision to overturn California’s ban on open carry.
Should be an interesting response from Cali
https://reason.com/2026/01/05/californias-ban-on-openly-carrying-guns-is-unconstitutional-9th-circuit-says/
Right out of the gate
Tim Walz was nearly elected vice president in 2024. Just 14 months later, the Minnesota governor is ending his political career amid scandal, personal burnout and feuds with former allies — including Kamala Harris.
Wheeeeee!
He shoulda run the pick six….
With Elmer Fudd stepping aside, this really clears the path for Governor Hair Gel for the 2028 nomination.
A day which will forever live in something or other
The federal judges who presided over their cases worried at the time that the most egregious perpetrators would see clemency as an endorsement of their violence. But perhaps even more acutely, they warned that an abrupt end to the Jan. 6 prosecutions would prevent the nation from ever reckoning with an even more troubling aspect of the attack: how hundreds of previously law-abiding citizens — many of whom served their country and overcame personal adversity — were duped by a lie about the 2020 election and goaded into joining the mob.
I can’t help wondering if they have ever asked themselves why so many people found such an “egregious falsehood” so easily believable.
Sure. They asked.
And their answer was “because they are stupid and evil Nazis.”
Life is easy when you have an ideology based on us vs them.
I got blocked on X by Justin Amash.
Im kinda impressed. I haven’t had any interaction with him. I did post a few comments yesterday praising people like Paul and Massey for having consistent positions on things like foreign intervention.
Anyone else manage this feat?
I looked at cat pictures, never posted, got banned from X for inauthentic behavior.
Hahaha… they know you too well.
I got a temporary ban recently for posting “You sure about that?”
I didnt even use a GIF. They declared me to be a bot as well.
Should have looked at porn. That’s more authentic.
The AM thread is about to expire, so I’ll re-post at 4 ET:
Hampton Inn franchisee just hit the FO part of the exercise.
Hilton said Tuesday that it has cut ties with a Minnesota hotel that was part of its franchise network after the property canceled reservations for federal immigration agents deployed to the Minneapolis area.
Oopsie.
Actual Hilton workers may be out there in a few days to chisel off any branding. That owner has completely screwed himself.
The owner lied to Hilton and said they changed policy. All it took was one guy walking in with a hidden camera to prove otherwise.
The owner may have changed policy, but that doesn’t mean the actual humans running the front desk did.
In the weeks before Trump’s second inauguration, many judges worried that the impending pardon of Jan. 6 defendants would erase efforts to understand how ordinary, law-abiding citizens became foot soldiers in a mob, duped by powerful leaders who lied about the 2020 election results.
“I don’t know if we’ve done enough as a country to reflect on how that happened,” U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said at a December 2024 proceeding. His comments came as he sentenced Richard Markey to 30 months in prison for assaulting a police officer at the Capitol. The Obama-appointed judge wondered aloud how a man with no criminal history, a stable family life and reputation as a do-gooder could have found himself at the front lines of a misbegotten mob and “how people like Mr. Markey, for that moment in time, became somebody they’re not — loss of control, flashes of anger, desire to do violence.”
Maybe if the Democrats had not made it plain that they were willing to go to any lengths to pry Trump out of the White House and suppress the people who supported him…
At one point I had a list of all the violent attacks on the capitol by leftist asshats. I have lost it. It was a long and ponderous chain.
We live in the world of Orwell where reality is irrelevant. I note the recent attack on the Vice President by a trans woman.
(Mainstream media has yet to acknowledge the gender identity)
Further evidence…. several articles about Venezuela on the CNN main page, as there should be… although they are all opinion-driven. Also, a profile on the Q-anon Shamen and another on the political divide after the violence on Jan 6.
But nothing on an attack on the Vice President. Not even a “Republicans pounce”.