I posted about this ICE raid around the Phoenix area last week. Last Sunday, it was suddenly February so I did the reasonable thing and went to the liquor store next to one of the restaurant locations.
”So.l.what can you tell me about the shitshow next door?”
”They cordoned off the entire shopping center. I couldn’t open for two days. Pissed me off, since that’s where I get wings. Wait for the comeback.”
Keep in mind the guy that owns the liquor store is a secular Arab from Palestine. There you have it. Fucking clown show.
¡enlaces!
A corrupt DEA agent? What is this Leon: The Professional?
El Presidenté Mujer pledges aid to Cuba. Trump cuts oil supplies prior to talks with Cuba. I thought this was an empire?
I swear I’ve heard this story before….
Ha! Now its an empire!
I’m posting because I had to double take this guy. I thought he was a Mexican Chris Christie.
Relations are bad? Petro doesn’t want to be black-bagged. Relations are good.
Here’s a tune since she was in the news recently… Enjoy your Tuesday.
A corrupt DEA agent?
There are non-corrupt DEA agents?
Thanks for the tune, Sponge had some great songs and I keep forgetting about them.
“Sponge” was the basement, dance bar in my main nightlife district, at one point (we were told *shrug*) got bought by ‘Korean mob’ folk. They’d park their Lambos and Ferraris conspicuously in the area. One of ’em lived in my apt building a mile away. Or it just so happened to park there nearly every night.
I only went in a few times to scope and, and though it has nothing to do with my abject hatred of dancing, it confirmed my abject hatred of something I should be really good at. (Powerlifting gymnast, c’mon.)
That was a great album. And Sixteen Candles (Molly) wasn’t even one of the better songs on it.
My iTunes library has this song and “Plowed”. Great tunes. Never followed up on the album or anything else by them.
Go download Neena Meenasha (same album.) Same crunchy guitars, same vocal harmonies, but way downtempo. It makes for some interesting energy.
I have this album and keep forgetting about it.
Trump told reporters on board Air Force One that both Venezuela and Colombia were “very sick” and that the government in Bogota was run by “a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States”.
Colombia’s president is a closet libertarian?
Nothing said about blackjack and hookers.
It’s Colombia, of course there are hookers.
And it is Jack of Color, shitlorde!
No evidence of Messicans or ass sex, so crypto-libertarian at best.
“As sick as the shit we’re seeing in the Epstein Files?” Would be a great follow-up question.
On my current passport, which needs to be renewed, the first stamp I got, right on the first page, is from my trip to Medellin in 2016 to visit my friend.
That was a fun, coked-up trip of beach and day-long conversation (with a known Commie). He showed me once, but I bought a couple grams in an alley on my own. No fuss. *swish*
Only since last January? Never change, al Jazeera.
Political savant
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, the top federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia, is facing widespread criticism from conservatives after she said in a Fox News interview Monday that anyone who brings a gun into the nation’s capital would face jail time.
“You bring a gun into the district, you mark my words, you’re going to jail,” Pirro said in the interview. “I don’t care if you have a license in another district, and I don’t care if you’re a law-abiding gun owner somewhere else. You bring a gun into this district, count on going to jail and hope you get the gun back.”
Her comments prompted swift backlash from a slew of Republican lawmakers and gun rights advocates, marking another rare divide among conservatives who typically are in lockstep on gun policies. Pirro walked back her comments Tuesday morning in a pair of posts on X, saying she was focused on people “unlawfully” carrying firearms.
Pirro said she is “a proud supporter of the Second Amendment” and a gun owner herself.
Of course she is. More “for me, not thee”.
Guns only belong in the hands of trained, capable people such as the police and my security guards.
The few times I had the displeasure of watching her show I got the impression that she was a standard law and order authoritarian: tough talk, never saw a police action she’d negatively critique.
Just another semiincompetant hired because she has a nice rack for her age and she kissed ass on Fox News.
She wants her tsuijigiri lite.
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Tsujigiri (辻斬り or 辻斬, literally “crossroads killing”) is a Japanese term for a practice when a samurai, after receiving a new katana or developing a new fighting style or weapon, tests its effectiveness by attacking a human opponent, usually a random defenseless passer-by, in many cases during night time.[1] The practitioners themselves are also referred to as tsujigiri.[1][2]
The act of tsujigiri against defenceless civilians was widely and socially condemned as immoral, cowardly, and associated with rogue samurais and bandits, and was not considered common or respectable samurai practice. It was made a capital offence by law in 1602 by the Edo government.[1][2]
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That is not something exclusive to Japan. Various European groups had the same practice but I dont remember any dishonor associated with it.
Sounds like the Spartan practice of killing helots caught outdoors at night.
Never trust a cop, no matter what party they belong to.
Arresting and prosecuting the owner who hired illegals sounds like the way to kill more birds with fewer stones – and less disruptions.
Along with going after the troublemakers’ financing that’s the best way to go. Unlike the braying jackasses in the streets, business owners and the rich folks handing over dollars have a lot to lose and the punishments are meaningful.
Plus it will be fun watching Dems OUTRAGED! that illegals can no longer get paid less than minimum wage under the table.
The NGO types sure sound like they are participating in a conspiracy that would be a juicy RICO case.
This.
Remember the good ‘ol days when hookers got arrested and the John got a finger wag and told to go home?
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., pointed out in a post on X on Monday that nonresidents in D.C. can obtain gun permits, adding, “don’t ask me how I know.”
“Why is a ‘conservative’ judge threatening to arrest gun owners?” he added Tuesday.
She’s just advocating sensible gun laws.
It’s just common sense.
She’s a weathervane with no principles and a penchant for saying stupid shit. She sucks.
That’s a disappointing slip-up from Massie, since she’s no longer a judge but is currently a US Atty. Maybe it’s one of those for-life title usages which I hate with a passion.
What this country needs is more formalized government permissions to work and make a living.
Have you got a license for that?
Reminds of the Far Side of a guy wearing a bird cage with a mallet in his hand and one cop saying to the other – well, he actually does have a license to do that.
His goals with Cuba remain unclear, but Trump has turned more of his attention toward the island after his administration in early January captured Venezuela’s then-President Nicolás Maduro and has been more aggressive in confronting nations that are adversaries of the U.S.
Casinos and beachfront resort hotels.
Now that Hyman Rothstein has been dealt with, it should be smooth sailing.
The hymen gets dealt with earlier and earlier these days it seems.
Sometimes you have to whack a mule upside the head to get his attention.
It’d be nice to see a free and prosperous Cuba. I’m not holding my breath.
ICE raids restaurants? Good.
Accountants work for the IRS for a while then hang out a shingle with that on their resume.
DEA agents work for….never mind, it writes itself.
One commie bails out another commie. We have seen this movie before, haven’t we? I wont give any spoilers in case some haven’t seen it.
Flooded with cheap Chinese goods? Yes, we have seen this movie before as well. Again, no spoilers.
Hong Kong company? In other words the CCP. That is not even a fig leaf FFS.
Huh. I wonder if the MSM will heap praise on Trump for liberating the…never mind. There wont be a peep about Venezuela.
Remember when it was cheep Japanese goods?
It’d be nice to see a free and prosperous Cuba. I’m not holding my breath.
I have, in real life, heard people say, “I’d love to go visit Cuba before capitalism destroys it.”
The vintage cars and resorts would be great – and could probably make money without being “ruined”.
Several years back, in Vegas for Viva, was sitting at a table with a well meaning idiot Prog and a Cuban-American. The Progressive heard the Cuban guy, and asked if he was from there. The Cuban guy said yeah, he had escaped when he was a kid, but he still had family over there. The Progressive was surprised that someone would want to leave, and asked if he ever went back to visit his family. The contempt from the Cuban guy was awesome, “No. If I step foot in Cuba again, it will be after Castro and his entire family are dead. Not before then, since if I do, they will throw me in a prison and kill me.”
Proggie then said “stop I can only get so erect”?
Juris:
Not even close. He kept pressing on how nice it would be to visit Cuba, and how wonderful it was while the Cuban ex-pat cursed Castro, communism, socialism, Democrats, and touristas who went to Cuba to spend money.
“The Progressive was surprised that someone would want to leave…” How does he think so many Cubans ended up in Florida?
Sounds like Kier Starmer levels of obliviousness on the Prog’s part.
Yes, that was a thing for a while. Then a bunch of people actually went and saw it. I dont think anyone outside people like Karen Bass went more than once. Anyway, enough people went and saw the glories of communism that the tourism disappeared.
I too have heard that. It’s a pretty disgusting point of view. They seem to think that extreme poverty is culture. And would rather Cubans remain in destitute poverty than see a fucking hotel high rise or modern taxi.
I’d love for them to say it in front of an exiled Cuban.
Put a MLB team in Havana (The Sugar Kings) and watch the Miami Marlins finally have a rivalry that matters to players and fans.
I. LOVE. This idea.
I like the way you think.
Nah, move the Marlins franchise to Havana. Or the Rays.
Venezuelan Chris Christie’s escape pictured
Raising Tarazona.
Link is FUBAR.
?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klwrT8rMu5c
Hope everyone is doing well. I had a good PT visit today, we retested a few things and I’m getting better! I originally scored 50+ on my concussion questionnaire, that’s down to 14. For dizziness, I went from 42 down to 12.
Our tax refund wasn’t at all UGE (thanks, Mr. President), so now I have to wait for my lawsuit to hopefully get a new car. Mrs. TOK out of the blue suggested we get a minivan. Her arguments were pretty persuasive. Anyone have buying advice?
Not advice, just sayin’.
We bought a Honda Odyssey in 96?97? and we loved it. Great mileage, drove like a dream, big, roomy, reliable as hell. We drove it for 11 years until the Mrs. wanted a new car.
originally scored 50+ on my concussion questionnaire, that’s down to 14. For dizziness, I went from 42 down to 12.
Great!
You don’t want a minivan till you actually drive one. Then you realize how practical the damn things are.
Exactly.
Also this is perfect.
https://www.motor1.com/news/700037/honda-odyssey-tesla-model-s-sleeper/
One of my teammates had one, switched to a pickup, now he just got another minivan. For a disabled person it is really practical, just put your wheelchair behind the drivers seat, open the side door, and push the chair out, no need to even leave the vehicle to get it out.
Mrs. TOK suggested I could drive my teammates to tournaments, and she could drive her teammates to games, and her race buddies to their races.
I do like Hondas in general of course, so I’m checking those out.
For what it’s worth, I wouldn’t get a newer Honda minivan. Between direct injection, cylinder deactivation and transmission issues on the Odyssey, I’d get a Sienna. Also, Honda stuck with a timing belt on the V6, Toyota switched to a chain over 10 years ago.
Okay, I lied. Minivan advice:
Fold-flat rear seating is important if you will ever be hauling cargo. We used a lot of rental, and coworker-owned, vans (mini and otherwise) for annual [redacted activity involving hauling equipment from HQ to remote sites]. Sure, you can remove seat rows but every rail, mount, etc, makes un/loading a PITA.
I got a Kia carnival. Rail second seats (when the foster kid started spitting his first week with us the bio kids just slid their seats back 😂)
My Dometic cooler fits behind the third row with the seats up which was a must for camping
Cars just suck now. I felt like options were limited but as noted the Honda odyssey engine is not reassuring and the inability to remove the second row sienna seats is retarded.
It’s gangsters and Jarheads that drive minivans.
This x1000
I’ve never had a mini-van. But I’ve liked the compact SUVs that I’ve had. The Forrester used to be great. I think they suck now. My wife’s Rogue as been a great vehicle for use.
We live in rural Iowa. So the AWD is more important that the extra space of the mini-van.
Ultimate mom mobile Sienna is calling.
Sensei:
Not the Cadillac of minivans?
I don’t think that was AWD.
Assuming the lower numbers are more better. Congrats. Hope you continue to improve.
No minivan advice. But you could troll her with ads for vintage 70s vans with Frazetta artwork airbrushed on the sides.
Yes, ideally those numbers would be 0’s.
Great suggestion about the vans, I’ll look for one with glowing eyes on the dragon.
And half-naked chicks. Women love to drive around in those.
Something like this, but riding a sled and wielding a hockey stick?
That’s not a bad idea.
Here’s an alternative. TOK could get all kinds of wild with his wheelchair….
https://www.tiktok.com/@therealhammytv/video/7508120059672382766
Our tax refund wasn’t at all UGE
Assuming I did my taxes right, mine is $-8. State liability TBD. Maybe I should start withholding to cover owner distributions from my business.
Tell her yes but only if you get an airbrushed mural of a Norse God on the side.
Canada to Claim Stellantis, GM Owe Hundreds of Millions to Government
You fucked up, you trusted us.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/canada-to-claim-stellantis-gm-owe-hundreds-of-millions-to-government-8eb5be76?st=cNyjT2&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Got in bed with the devil, did ya’? I see.
Yeah. No way I’d agree to build stuff there. You know Canada is going to screw you at some point.
Stellantis is on death’s door, what could they possibly owe?
Canada threw tax dollars at them to
WTF?
…to move jobs there, so sure why not.
It’s their stupidity thinking they can twist the knobs of the economy with perfect success.
I see the same shit with TV and video games – everything coming out of that miserable place is sponsored by the governments.
So….the textbook definition of fascism, a word almost no one using has a clue of the definition.
Why Trump hate Massie while his base loves him. Had hopes that Trump would care about this stuff.
https://x.com/RepThomasMassie/status/2018767523928305793
Trump is the only one who gets to rock the boat. What’s so hard to understand about that?
The Progressive was surprised that someone would want to leave
Not just leave, as in hopping the next bus out of town.
Leave, as in escape in the dead of night through shark infested waters on a raft made of old bedsprings and inner tubes, and hope you don’t get shot by a patrol boat.
What is this from?
https://apnews.com/article/don-lemon-jimmy-kimmel-arrest-5ea86785951237e39ed641571f792316
Don Lemon says a dozen agents came to arrest him even though he offered to turn himself in
Independent journalist Don Lemon said about a dozen federal agents came to his Los Angeles hotel to arrest him last week, even though his attorney had told authorities he would turn himself in to face federal civil rights charges over his coverage of an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church.
Lemon told ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel that sending the agents was a waste of resources because law enforcement wouldn’t have had to dispatch agents to follow him if he had been allowed to surrender to authorities.
“I was walking up to the room and I pressed the elevator button, and then all of a sudden, I feel myself being jostled and and people trying to grab me and put me in handcuffs,” he said Monday on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
Brutal treatment. Undignified for the professional classes to be treated this way.
He was conducting this interview from his jail cell right?
Jostled!
I cant remember, how did these federal agents conduct themselves during the Biden admin?
By ignoring attacks on Churches.
He got treated like a former president, he should be honored. Did they go through his underwear drawer?
A wise man once said protesting is supposed to make people uncomfortable.
When we did that we were told by the world how bad we are….
It’s Schrodinger’s Result: An action is both good and bad depending on whether OMB is involved or not.
I thought he was a Mexican Chris Christie.
Jesu Jesusie?
The buddhists will be passing through in a couple days.
What about the stoics?
a sit for peace?
Around here, maybe a cocktail for peace. Or a cocktail for a piece. Wait what were we talking about?
I’m sorry. So they shut down one half of a major downtown bridge here for the *&^%$#@! monks. They apparently get a police escort at taxpayer expense. And every do-gooder, virtue-signaller, and hippie flake just has to show up to add to the traffic snarl to walk (or drive, LOL) with them for a few hundred feet and then gush about it on social media. And don’t you dare say anything about that.
The local stretch of US 1 is one of the busiest in the state. Hopefully they don’t pass through when it’s busy.
Hey Tonio, if you’re reading – I sent a lead for an article (using the form) a week or so ago, and I haven’t heard anything back. Should I re-send it, send it somewhere else, print it out and burn it for warmth?
We got to see some sono pics of trashbaby #3 today. After a few miscarriages around this time of the pregnancy, we were rather anxious that we’d find only death, but we got to see some waving arms and kicking legs. 10 weeks down, 30 weeks to go!
Yeah!
Babies are awesome.
Praise be! We need more trash babies!
reboot of Garbage Pail Kids?
Great news!
Awesome!
Oh wow, trashy!! Awesome news!!!
⬅️
+3
Mazel tov
Awesome news!
Completed this assessment for this big job interview process. It was “easy” in the sense that it was what I did every day for 18ish years, but of course my brain is saying “YOU FUCKED IT UP YOU STUPID CUNT”. It was basically “a request to update a web page came in with X, Y, and Z parameters. Take a look at the page and see what, if anything, was missed.”
Right on! Perhaps boring with natural self-worry thrown in, but that’s a good sign. (‘WTF is this shit?!’ <– Sub-optimal!
Was that the first big step?? What's happens next?
It’s good to be paranoid. I hope you aced it!
Fingers cross, KK!
Hopefully you did well.
Indy Star contributor floods her story with negativity and disbelief: “Mocking the ‘Melania’ documentary is your patriotic duty: It’s Like most Americans, I’m over-the-moon excited to not see “Melania,” an unrequested documentary about first lady Melania Trump that was produced by first lady Melania Trump and stars first lady Melania Trump.
Did I mention it’s called “Melania”? A better title might have been “A Turducken of Narcissism,” but that’s splitting hairs.
The documentary opens Jan. 30 in an almost hilarious number of theaters nationwide. Amazon MGM Studios paid the first lady’s production company a whopping $40 million for the rights to the film and has shelled out an additional $35 million promoting the nearly two-hour celebration of meh. I’m sure that investment has nothing to do with a huge corporation trying to curry favor with an administration helmed by the most attention-thirsty political family in history. Total coincidence.”
The editor A-OKd that. Sad. ‘I don’t know anyone who v̵o̵t̵e̵d̵ ̵f̵o̵r̵ ̵N̵i̵x̵o̵n̵ sees docus *I* don’t approve of!!’
USA Today reports on box office: “”Melania,” the controversial documentary featuring first lady Melania Trump, surprised at the box office, notching a $7 million opening weekend… Anything over $1 million is “a huge number,” said Jeff Bock, senior media analyst for Exhibitor Relations, in an interview with USA TODAY the week before release. “That would mean that a lot of folks who don’t normally go to the movies went to this.”‘
And yet we got two hagiographies about Ruth Bader Ginsburg and one about Anthony Fauci.
And have been beat over the head by how beautiful Jackie Kennedy was.
She wasn’t even pretty enough for KFK.
I’m right in the Jackie’s an- absolute- smoke-show crowd. Yowza kadowza. (See also: Mary Tyler Moore)
But huge book deals for Barak and Michelle and a whole bunch of other politicians is totally cool.
My fave on that is Barack getting $50M for a Netflix series on “climate change.”
And, yep and duh, no one gave a shit.
“controversial”
🙄
How many times was Jill Biden on the cover of Vogue? (The answer is 3 times.)
Ooooh! “The first husband of former first lady Jill Biden has been charged with killing his wife at their Delaware home in late December, authorities announced in a news release Tuesday.
William Stevenson, 77, of Wilmington was married to Jill Biden from 1970 to 1975… Stevenson remains in jail after failing to post $500,000 bail after his arrest Monday on first-degree murder charges. He is charged with killing Linda Stevenson, 64, on Dec. 28.”
That’s kinda fun! Jill married Joe Biden in ’77. Uh huh. I assume when a new marriage starts so soon after a divorce that an affair had been going on for some time. Maybe Stevenson’s music venue “Stone Balloon” was less appealing than the sweet, Senatorial $$ Joe brought to the table, along with his dead first wife (died ’72).
I’d ask what’s wrong with people, but I know the answer: They’re people.
That’s Dr Jill to you.
She followed the money.
I’m glad I forgot how that started. I think a Doc of Ed or something equally silly.
Folks considered “Doctors” of Ed should go through competitive rounds, thrown into different ages, races, languages, subjects, and be shown to have ‘accomplished’ all of them well, measured by student results.
Ending with a fight with the principal to show who’s boss.
Bill claimed to the outlet at the time that former President Joe Biden and Jill lied when they claimed they first met on a blind date in 1975 after Jill divorced Bill that same year and after Joe Biden’s wife, Neilia, and their daughter tragically died in a car accident.
Instead, Bill alleges he introduced Jill to Joe three years earlier when he was working on Joe’s first campaign for Senate while they were all still married.
https://nypost.com/2026/02/03/us-news/new-wife-of-jill-bidens-ex-gushed-about-him-before-her-murder/
I saw a few bands at The Stone Ballon. George Thorogood Played there often.
It doesn’t surprise me how much poon Power pulls. Fucking Kissinger, etc, lord. (Power, Money, yes.) But. Yikes. And I’m sure none of ’em care cuz their all political, convenience marriages and whatnot. (I’m sure a few love each other?)
Political swinging, much more prevalent than with normal folk, I’d wager. Strange. Predictable. Very few yums in there to curb by yuck.