New daughter is having her bridal shower at the Spud domicile today. It looks like the house puked Hawaiian kitsch. Whadya gonna do? She deserves a happy day.
Links?
Maybe best not to have another melt down.
He can’t even find a Democrat donor to loan him a plane.
Everybody was Tai Chi walking!
And then there’s the other 51st state.
Oopies. Dude didn’t cover his tracks very well.
Another take. Iran has been at war with us for 47 years.
Okay, that’s it for me. Iran is dominating the news cycle today. I’m hiding on the patio, about to pour myself a tall one. Peace out, Glibbies.
We’ve always been at war with Iran.
Well yeah, they declared it in 1979 and stuck to it since.
And have consistently committed acts of war (albeit mainly through proxies more recently) ever since. My take: When someone shouts “Death to America”, believe them.
You going over there?
Non seq much?
They pretty wisely talked big but didn’t do much that we would take notice of here. As for shit in their own backyard, well maybe we shouldn’t swing our big ol’ dick around so freely?
So if we weren’t wearing such a short skirt, the radical fundimentalist jihadis wouldn’t keep waging terror war on the infidels?
C’mon, JI, what fun is having a big ol’ dick if you don’t flop it out on table once in a while?
It’s been a while, but yeah, they have done things that we noticed here in the form of dead soldiers. That PJ Media article makes a pretty good argument, other than the “right side of history” retardedness.
I’m not thrilled about us being involved in this shit, but someone has to put an end to it, and the Ayatolla’s version of putting an end to it was to usher in the apocalypse.
Yeah. I was over there. Outside Basrah, with the IRGC trying to kill me quite earnestly.
The allies did invade Iran in 41 despite their neutrality. Then we did a coup in 53 that gave the Shah and Savak more power. There has been a lot of fuckery in both directions over the years.
Of all days to decide to have a news free morning, I chose this morning.
Imagine my surprise.
Honestly you could catch up in about 10 minutes.
Our national dick is still deeply imbedded in the Middle East, same as it ever was.
It’s a four way gang bang at this point.
Nonintervention is a wildly popular policy position, and most presidential contenders campaign on it during the election season (Trump, Bush the Younger, Obama…. yada yada…. Woodrow “He Kept Us out of War” Wilson), and yet it’s never delivered. I guess it’s too tempting to fix this ooonnneee vexing little international problem through superior firepower, that they just can’t leave it alone.
When you have an arsenal of hammers …
Least sexy porno ever.
Pox on both Houses and the Executive but I aint crying over it.
I’ll lose no sleep over it.
Yeppers
https://www.egglandsbest.com/product/meat-lovers-omelets
For the record, these don’t suck.
Top with extra shredded cheese and hot sauce.
But I was planning to have steak tonight.
Steak is tomorrow. Strips were on sale this week at $8.99/lb.
Well thats annoying. Seems the 2 big chain grocery stores here only have the “3 Cheese” variant.
Is it me, or am I just cheap enough to make my own omelets?
Yeah this product never occurred to me but hell I’ll give it a try. I am just that lazy.
Unless you’re a prepper, and dont work from home, its sometimes worth it to pay for the convenience.
Heat em’ in the office. Or as is often my case- the job trailer.
Ah, the “senior citizen” size. I saw that for the first time at the other supermarket here, the one that isn’t my usual supermarket. Now I make sure to pick up one or two whenever I find myself there because that size is perfect.
If you are aged but not a citizen would that make you a ‘señor citizen?’
*narrows gaze*
Mary Kitchen is just a Hormel subsidiary.
And if you’re cooking at home, its adequate hash. Make sure you give it time to get crispy.
The best corned beef hash I ever had was at some restaurant in Brooklyn- cant remember the name, but I could walk you there. Somewhere near Union Street and 6th avenue.
However, when Im in the (216) Slyman’s Deli is the spot.
(I think Neph will agree)
…I dont really care for rye bread, but theirs is really good
The worst corned beef hash I ever had was in Manhattan a couple years ago – the diners there are all seriously hit or miss now (mostly miss). Let’s just say they are not run in the classic manner any more, but rather by indifferent staff who largely don’t speak English and don’t give a shit about food.
oof Park Slope… a neighborhood way outside my price range and other than a B&N and a couple concerts in the park I never found a reason to be around there.
His decision is risky, but it carries the moral fortitude of being indisputably on the right side of history.
JFC, bad enough when the left gives us that shit.
Re: the LA super:
They want to put one of the short bus kids in charge? Might be an improvement. 🤷
The shortest. Looks like a Smart Car.
They tend to be honest.
I swear I’ve seen a few Trek-i-verse episodes where the good guys sticking their dick into conflicts they don’t understand and moreover have no business sticking their dick into did not end well.
“We’re carrying dozens of antimatter warheads – and I don’t get paid for bringing them home.”
Redshirts hardest hit.
As long as the officers make it back ok everything is fine.
“As little as I can…”
“Forget about it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”
Those hulu dolls smack of cultural appropriation.
Put a grinning demon face on them and call the Lahulu Dolls.
Ohhhh
NPR is probably upset at the NYT writing the most NPR article before they could think of it.
And now my feed is full of Tai Chi adds.
You sort of deserve it
Congratulations on new daughters impending nuptials.
Yeah, I deserved it. Thanks!
Random comment for the dead thread about material prices. My structural steel prices are down from a year ago. I just got a quote for fiberglass walkway grating which was also down from last year. The rubber products I have made in Seattle have been the same for the last two years.
The biggest price increases I’ve seen are for programmable logic controllers and other electrical control panel components.
I need to check my iron supplier bill.
My welding wire has held stable for almost two years now.
One product dropped last year.
I switched from Haskins to Farwest a couple of years ago for steel. I still use Haskins for laser and oxy cuts for production runs.
Our local welding store was bought out by Airgas so I’ll see what happens to wire pricing.
Non-ferrous metals are through the roof along with precious metals. Iron is actually the odd one out, not sure why.
Plastics are nuts too.
Maybe there is still enough US steel production to offset import costs? About half the steel I buy is US rolled.
I have two and a half options in lewiston.
Gateway for the best assortment, cutting and breaking ( I’ve been going back and forth on a part they have tried to make four times now. ) pacific for steel of limited supply and Bromling if they are open for what supply they may have.
I don’t buy much so I’m not buying direct from any of the distributers.
On the wire I buy direct from Hobart and Stoody.
@Anti: In the stainless world, the two most expensive ingredients are nickel and chrome (alloy dependent- sometimes ferroniobium is a spice). Watch the prices in those markets and you’ll get an idea why.
Stainless prices are crazy.
Chromium is a not insignificant percentage of one of the alloys I use and is largely mines in Africa, nickel in Madagascar. When there is political unrest in the south of Africa my alloy prices go crazy.
You know who sits on one of the world’s largest nickel reserves? Its not Sudbury, ON, CA
Its Cuba.
Good luck mining in CA.
Even for gold. Y largest customer had a five year contract to crunch rock in CA for a leach pile.
The mine couldn’t make it feesable even with gold above 3000 an ounce.
I could see heavier metal deposits being turned up or brought into the Arabian by the chixalub (however th hell that’s spelled) asteroid.
Carabian.
However that spelled.
A couple of years ago, I was in the market for a 3”x12” rod of bronze. $1,200. I went a different direction.
Break #2 ending. Thankfully, freedom in an hour 45.
Yeeesh. Am gonna try to get transferred to in the normal store this weekend, amid looking for long-term work.
Double yeeesh.
Ya know, when I worked at Kroger I never took my breaks….
That must have been before there was a union.
Ugh:
Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/02/hyperion-author-dan-simmons-dies-from-stroke-at-77/
I really enjoyed Ilium and Olympos when I read them a few years ago. I read Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion more recently and they were good, but I haven’t read Endymion or Rise of Endymion yet.
I’m missing one book of that series and should get it. I hate being shy a book before I read a series. I’m a little off like that.
RIP
I enjoyed the latter four but never was able to wrap my head around Ilium.
I liked Illium and Olympus, Hyperion and Fall of Hyp…, but could not get into Endymion.
And had never been able to get into anything else by him.
“Biden flies commercial from Reagan National Airport and winds up stuck in delays like everyone else
…where was his SS detail in that photo-op?
Hiw detail knows nobody is going to bother was a senile dotard ex-president.
The comments are fantastic- his praises for being the best president ever.
*reads the tongue-bath*
He’s such a man of the people. *swoon* 🥰
The Scranton kid.
A boy who stutters.
He’s just like us!
Gotta love AI
Whats at the top? He loved Adderall ?
It clearly says ‘Adernall’
Not sure who this Ihat was who was poosing adernall.
I’ve been busy holding an estate sale at my parents’ house. Did I miss anything?
There was a bridal shower here today.
And I hope you enjoyed every minute of it…sincere congratulations on your marriage and new family. Wishing you every happiness!
Thank you! A radical change from where I thought I was headed, and a marvelous surprise.
Hot take incoming: Chai Tea is way better than Tai Chi.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
Ramones hardest hit.
The USSR didn’t collapse when Stalin died, and Iran didn’t collapse when the last ayatollah died. Some other mullah will take over, and it will be business as usual.
Iran will not abandon their nuclear program.
I don’t know who will take over, but there is a better than even chance it won’t be a member of the Islamic Republic. The mob is still out in arms against them.
Stalin was killed via a continuing air bombardment while soviets were hunting him and the rest of the communists.
Stalin WASN’T killed….
Fucking edit button.
Trump killed Khamenei
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA GET FUCKED MULLAHS
I’m sorry, Trump liberated the most beautiful women on the planet. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I love life.
GFSF
My childhood friend was Baháʼí . His friends were all Persian refugees. To say I was smitten is… to put it lightly. The Iranian daughters of these people… you’d have to see it to believe it. I can see what Hitler saw.
One of my closer HS friends was the son of Iranians. Fugly is being generous.
I’m not saying I agree with Hitler… but to put these girls in chadors…
Yeah, killin’s awesome. Thumbs up!
Shame for the carpetbaggers, innit?
RIP Ayatollah Khamenei
https://x.com/i/status/2027846233096655088
Those of you with finer taste may enjoy this post rock album….
https://youtu.be/NHCY3-tdkbQ?si=2bLvy1pJyabMXOnW
*skips around*
I like what I’m hearing.
I like post-rock, will check this out.
So… are we done in Iran? Was all that about killing 1 dude?
So confusing
When it comes to war it takes one to start it and two to finish it (unless you completely kick their teeth in ala G 1945) so…maybe? I’d think they have plan though.
I dont get the plan, if we are going further.
We didn’t take out their missiles, anti-ship positions, navy, air force
They attacked Dubai Airport with drones.
If we are doing a full attack and not just a decapitation, why not take out the entire military capability?
“ why not take out the entire military capability?”
Maybe we don’t have the capability to take out their capability.
Takes more than a day to take down a heavily armed country? Bombers aren’t involved yet. This has been in the works for awhile.
Yeah, that is what I was wondering.
If this is just an opening salvo, why the long pause? One would think the prudent thing would be to take advantage of chaos and our superior numbers to sustain an overwhelming attack.
OTOH, if POTUS believed “intelligence reports” that said that simply taking out Khamenei would lead to a revolution….
Cyto: This info might be appropriate. Sounds like they didn’t attack until they knew where all to strike.
https://xcancel.com/shanaka86/status/2027799113182679061
Saruman – great link.
That makes sense, from 2 angles.
As a demonstration of power it could allow space for concessions. Taking out supply chain instead of people could help make this easier.
At the same time, it does lay the groundwork for destruction of military capability in subsequent strikes, as retaliatory and defensive capacity is degraded.
I still dont really know what we are going to do next
Theoretically it’s a multiweek operation. At least that’s what I read earlier today. If so, then I would guess a number of prisons and basij facilities will be bombed.
“Ladies and gentlemen… we got him!”
Totally ended all opposition last time.
Mission accomplished!
Well. I accidentally locked myself into the shed where the dumpster lives. Putting all the trash in, damn windy fucking wind blew the door shut and the metal peg slotted into its home to secure it in that spot.
I don’t have Sarah’s phone number, so I was legit, though light-heartedly, worried. If we had folk filling gas, I imagine I could shout the ~100 feet and gather their attention. BUT! aHA! I just used my fingers to lift the sliding peg up to free it. It was trickier than it sounds cuz my fingers only had about an inch to work with. It was not unimpressive, my success.
I freed myself by sliding my fingers up the steel bar, slowly raising the slippery bitch out of its slot. Sounds like I’m jerkin’ a dude off while he’s repeatedly penetrating his gal. (I’m sure that’s been done many times.)
You ARE the true hero.
Not the hero we needed. But the hero we got.
Trump’s going to give the sailor that pressed the launch button the Medal of Honor next weekend.
I know you being sarcastic but both MoH OMB presented were seriously legit.
The Legion of Merit for the Coast Guardsman who saved all those lives during the TX floods was bullshit. The Legion of Merit in the current era a non-valor decoration. The proper decoration would be either the Coast Guard Medal or the Gold Lifesaving Medal both are presented for non-combat acts of valor and saving life.
My snark was how quickly the Venezuela one was pushed through. Also don’t think it was appropriate award for the narrative described.
How quick it was processed surprised the fuck out of me as well. But keeping a MH-47 under control and responsive after being shot up takes some serious discipline as well. Having read all the MoH and DSC citations on the wall at the SOF schoolhouse kinda keyed me in how to read them. I’ll give him the benefit.
I do not doubt his performance. Perhaps it’s because the only MoHs during my time were upgraded Vietnam & prior ones and Shugart and Gordon’s posthumous awards.
Indiana Man.
good thing you been training your fingers how to deal with “about an inch” your whole life!
Damn it! I brooksed my sick burn!
It’s somehow funnier that I don’t know who you were burning.
Hey! All those tiny men I service need attention, too. Tweezer-fingers, so many uses! I’m the hero they deserve. (And afford. So appreciative, they don’t *just* tip with the tip. It wasn’t the *wind* that blew ’em over.
(Why am I setting myself up like this?)
I’ve worked 5 of the last Saturdays. I can’t tell you how nice it is to have today and tomorrow off.
Today was my girlfriend’s birthday (57, so old).
I made her a mocha devil’s food cake with peanut butter frosting. It turnt out awesome.
Before that we had Fettucini Alfredo with shrimp. It was very good.
Older than me. 🧐
By one month.
Good on ya, nick. I know what you mean about the weekend stuff. A few times per year I get in jams like that where I’m working weekends and evenings to get a project finished up.
Now, why are you hanging out with us assholes? Get in there and make that gal feel like she’s 27, not 57!
Why you trying to make her fat?
Heh. Nick knows whats up.
You bunch of losers are busy losing, meanwhile time of my life
I dig this.
Best Iranian outcome: This is just a highly targeted ‘execution’ of the most powerful man in the country. Then bounce. Now, let (their) People topple statues, continue to celebrate and reclaim their country outside the ayatollahs.
Worst: We continue the Never ending Middle Eastern Wars.
I’m *far* more confident in the second scenario being what actually happens. However, a quick strike that gives Power back to the People, who are furious with the govt over their recent reactionary moves, imprisoning and killing thousands? If we just walked away, I’d still not like it, but I’d ‘get’ it. Kinda. Team America: Again. Continued. (FUCK.)
(Truthful, honest reaction? I don’t *really* give a shit about Iran and what we just did. It really doesn’t affect me. If we just killed Franz Ferdinand and kickoff WWIII, well, it will affect me. But I don’t see that realistically occurring. (China’s got ideas, somewhere, tho…))
Meh? I don’t want to say I don’t give a damn, cuz I do, but it’s remarkably low on my list of Shit to Care About. (Frankly? That’s quite healthy. Far more important shit close to home. I’m also not one of (((them))), so that’s a big ‘But.’)
Exactly my thoughts, Evan. 110%
*very pleased fist bump*
*knuckles* in return
Best outcome? Glass parking lot. Fuck em. Australia’s next. 🦘💥
suh’ fam
yo whats goody yo
TALL SABBATH CANS!
Woke up with a gouty knee, so I got that going for me.
You’re eating too many Claussen’s Hearty Garlic Deli-Style™ pickles.
Too much salt.
Good morning, all you residents of Glibville!
👨🌾☀️🥣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7v4AAd00dSQ
🎶🎶
Good morning, Sean, and all you fellow miscreants!
😁
Protesters in Columbus urge US withdrawal from Middle East amid Iran strikes.
I looked at the URL on the one dude’s sign. Well arent they cute.
Its commies from the Party for Socialism and Liberation
“The Party for Socialism and Liberation believes that the only solution to the deepening crisis of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society. Driven by an insatiable appetite for ever greater profits regardless of social cost, capitalism is on a collision course with the people of the world and the planet itself. Imperialist war; deepening unemployment and poverty; deteriorating health care, housing and education; racism; discrimination and violence based on gender and sexual orientation; environmental destruction—all are inevitable products of the capitalist system itself.”
Totes adorbsies.
“The Party for Capitalism and Liberation believes that the only solution to the deepening crisis of socialism is the capitalist transformation of society. Driven by an insatiable appetite for ever greater power regardless of social cost, socialism is on a collision course with the people of the world and the planet itself. Corruption; deepening unemployment and poverty; deteriorating health care, housing and education; racism; environmental destruction—all are inevitable products of the socialist system itself.”
Change my mind.
I had France24 on yesterday, and after the presenter talked to several Standard Issue Analysts and some of their correspondents, he interviewed professor in Iran who was an absolute hoot. He accused the presenter of only repeating what the presenter’s overlords in Washington and Israel wanted, and referred to the US as the Epstein regime. He also accused France24 of not reporting on dead children in Gaza, which is of course thoroughly disconnected from reality.
Deport them all to Canada.
The opposition responds: Kamala Harris doesn’t want regime change in Iran: ‘Dangerous and unnecessary’
They didn’t even bother to get her sober enough for a sound bite. Sad!
Andy Kim is a retard.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Did you rock him gently?
At least the media is consistent in elevating the Ayatollah with his warm smile and bushy white beard.