The Astros got a good result yesterday: they didn’t play. Carolina has Philly’s nuts in a vise. At this rate, their series might be done a week before their Wales Conference Finals opponent’s wraps up. Two more NHL games tonight. I hear the NBA is still in their playoff second round. Don’t care enough to look. And everybody is bitching about the World Cup, both far and near. At this point, I don’t really care about their opinions. If they don’t like the ticket prices or infrastructure, they can stay home. And the UEL and Conference League finals are set. Let’s see how many of the European finals an English team wins. My best guess is two. And I think the third winner will be PSG (again). And that’s it for sports.
He might not have a choice. The party might make the decision for him after yesterday’s bloodbath.
It’s about freaking time. The products are legal, why shouldn’t people be able to ship them through the government service their taxes pay for?
“Oops, our bad!” But we should still be trusted, I promise you.
You dumbasses made your bed. Now you’re gonna have to lie in it.
More of this, please. Those dumbasses thought they had a lifetime right to their tax money no matter how poorly and politically they ran their chancery court. They’re finding out that’s not the case.
Why not just up and leave? I understand suing them, but why bother? Let them have their little fascist island. Just walk away and see how long they can go without technology. OR just wait out the current regime. They might not be there for much longer as things stand.
Complying with the constitution is a “race to the bottom?” Nice headline, dummies. I guess they’re all in on racism and racial gerrymandering.
This guy made a big mistake. Now he and his crazy wife are both about to be out of a job.
Never settle for cheap luggage. This is why you shop at Tumi for your travel needs, lady. I hope you learned a valuable lesson. Also, why not just drive? Gotta be a lot safer than flying for that occupation.
Oh, give it a rest, That’s not my job. I’ll make special note of the photos they chose for the article, which are in no way whatsoever indicative of the “takeover” scenes that have taken place.
It’s always a good day to play these guys. Any day, any time. So today is that day. Enjoy them.
And enjoy this lovely Friday and weekend, dear friends.
“He might not have a choice. The party might make the decision for him after yesterday’s bloodbath.”
If only there had been no Brexit, the EU could just annul the election for him….
““Oops, our bad!” But we should still be trusted, I promise you.”
Are those the ballots of people that actually showed up to revolt? They forgot to mix it with the pile of made up ones?
Surplus yes votes, nothing to see here, move along.
“It turns out we didn’t ‘need’ them after all.”
OR just wait out the current regime
You’re forgetting that Britain’s permanent bureaucracy was the model for our own.
yes, change is always impossible, so better not try, just roll over and die.
We are a stupid small minority here. The majority of American voters are totally bought in on the two party model. Even Trump bought in, unlike Perot.
One of those men got elected President, twice. One got Bill Clinton elected.
That’s my point. Trump is no classical Republican – establishment, RINO or conservative. He jumped in to the party because of the weakness of the primary candidates and the need to have the infrastructure (and loyalty) inherent to the party label. He even attracted voters not otherwise committed to the R brand. [And the true-brand loyalists still haven’t forgiven him for doing that.]
I thought Dell was always based out of Texas.
Just incorporated in Delaware like many other companies because they used to have the best business courts. Appointing liberal activist judges is going to cost that state dearly.
Silly me, I conflated nexus of operations and legal incorporation.
The “State of DuPont” is no longer. Twenty years ago, my company rushed to re-incorporate in Delaware (from New York) in order to get better protection in a looming bankruptcy. Don’t know what they would do today – maybe Nevada?
Deleware should not be a state.
Make it a county.
The physical headquarters are in Round Rock, but the incorporation is in Delaware (for now).
One judgette screwing Elon out of his compensation package that was approved by the board and the shareholders set the ball rolling on the exodus from Delaware.
I think that was initially upheld on appeal, so this is more than one rogue judge. The DE Supreme Court finally stepped in and restored the pay package late last year, but too little too late, I guess.
When your only competitive advantage is laissez faire, and you won’t laissez faire, there is zero reason to stick around.
The Brits are just 1 election cycle ahead of us. They had a “Conservative” government that didn’t conserve anything and betrayed their voters. So the Conservatives got wiped out, Labour took over and made everything worse.
Maybe, like the Brits, we could get a third party going after Republicans are destroyed in November (even with redistricting).
The fans of our political teams are just as dedicated as the fans of sports teams – they’ll vote.
“The Brits are just 1 election cycle ahead of us. They had a “Conservative” government that didn’t conserve anything and betrayed their voters.”
There are, and hove not been for more than a couple of decades, any conservatives in Europe. There are hard core commies and not yet hard core commies. They have all been indoctrinated to love marxism.
-1 Iron Lady
Yep. Just like WWII, two different flavors of socialism fighting.
The socialists won.
It’s a lot easier to get a third party going in a parliamentary system, on the other hand the same coalition building compromises you are upset about happening inside the Republican Party happen in government formation as well as in party formation in parliamentary systems. The compromises are inevitable, both because politicians are corrupt and because there is not a solid majority that agrees about what they want to see.
+ Yesterday afternoon’s link regarding losertarians
I see where it will cost the Libertarian Party $45.000 just to get on the ballot in Massachusetts. Without some well-heeled financial angel, how does one finance a third party in the U.S.?
creech:
The Libertarian Party is busy wasting their shot here in Ohio. They already got ballot access for all state wide elections, and here’s who they’re going with.
There was a lot of food for thought in that article. I had similar thoughts on Dave Smith. I used to listen regularly, but now 2/3 of the show is bitching about the influence Israel has on US foreign policy and explaining why some dipshit on X is a dipshit that will or won’t debate him.
Neph: Only one I heard of is Bill Redpath, whom I’ve known for 40 years. He’s a CPA and I’ll bet he would make a far better U.S. Senator than either of the major party doofuses he’s running against.
Redpath has a cool name.
Id vote for him for that alone.
creech:
Kind of my point. I’ve only heard of a couple of names, and where are the fucking city council and school board seats? That’s where the party needed to be focused for the past 20+ years.
I’ve cooled off on Dave Smith for the same reasons.
“Sugar Vermont?”
“You dumbasses made your bed. Now you’re gonna have to lie in it.”
They will never grasp that people with money have choices, and the choice not to be ripped off is a real thing. Watch these tools decide that the solution is to not let people move. You know, papers and such, with walls to keep the serfs in place and at the mercy of the state…
exit taxes!
I’ve been around long enough to see this cycle repeat a couple times.
NYC thrived after the last round of communists got tossed out – it will again.
I am sure they will sooner than later pick up and implement this great idea….
Taxing unrealized gains is probably the single easiest way to kill capitalism or assure wealth fleeing.
Yeah, that is new wrinkle I don’t remember them trying last time.
I doubt even Kathy will go that far.
It didn’t take long to see that people on the “from each” side of the equation aren’t too keen about their part, and that’s why there will always be coercion/force involved.
It may be legal to mail guns now, but I don’t like postal employees enough to give them my guns.
^^^^THIS^^^^
Guns are best delivered by boats, which are subject to an absurdly high rate of accidents.
Gunboats are better suited for diplomacy than delivery.
Shame that.
Just like flying with guns.
Done it twice with one of mine. Once was OK. The tossers got it the second time.
“This might be an inflection point because NYC is already a welfare state supported by very few people at the top who can leave,” the leader added.
Big cities have been a top-bottom squeeze against the middle for a couple of decades now.
The middle is largely gone, and now the top are starting to notice that the temperature in the pot is getting rather warm.
How much longer can NYC (or LA, or San Francisco, or Chicago) coast along on inertia before becoming the U.S.A.’s version of Lagos? I give it thirty years.
Civilizational decline is a choice.
I expect things to start coming to a head in 10-15. If the D’s get federal control, I expect a bailout before that, which may push it to 30, but expand the damage from the proggy areas to the entire country.
I expect/hope that a federal bailout of corrupt urban governments would lead to an electoral bloodbath in Congress at the next election.
I rate the chances of a federal bailout of state and city governments at nearly 100% in the next decade, BTW. The bailout will be lining Dem pockets, so they’ll vote for it. Plenty of Repubs will vote for it, as well, because they are weak and/or stupid and/or corrupt.
R C Dean:
After the reaction of the average citizen during the COVID lockdowns, I’m not so sure anymore.
Sooner rather than later, that may well be the debt tipping point and every state trying to gain some while there’s still a little fire in the stove.
Don’t have any boating accidents!
@Neph this is indeed another in the long list of “We are being forced to do this bad thing, otherwise our entire civilization will crumble. We have no choice.”
But now we know at least half of all the money spent is wasted/stolen, and even though most Dems don’t care about that, there might be enough other folks pissed off about it to move the needle.
So I hear that the new Nolan version of “The Odyssey” replaced Helen of Sparta/Troy with Helen of Detroit?
It is well known that the real Greeks came from southern Africa.
They were Boers?
why do you hate modern audiences?
Beause they are vile, largely imaginary people.
That’s the rumor.
I saw the trailer on X a few days ago and thought “Well, there’s the one film I’ll go see on the big screen this year.”
But The Critical Drinker has reservations, and I kinda trust him, so maybe I’ll just keep my $20 and wait for it to stream.
Next you are gonna tell me Achilles is played by a woman with mental disorders that cut off her tiny titties and is taking massive amounts of testosterone to grow one or two chin hairs?
To be fair – we only know that she is cast, not that she was cast as Achilles.
Though it might be fitting, as she doesn’t like heels.
honest question: what about the trailer made you say I want to see this? looked awful to me.
Now we have the answer as to the character Eliot Page plays!
I tend to make my one film in the theater a big historical epic, or a popcorn flick with cool special effects.
Dunkirk, the Midway remake, Oppenheimer, Twisters, Top Gun Maverick.
As you can see, the line between historical epic and FX film gets blurred sometimes.
As for The Odyssey, I read the book in high school, and the trailer looked pretty cool on the little X window.
MATT DAMON!!! [/Team America voice] as Odysseus? WCPGW?
Yeah, I am skipping this shitshow..
Using the wokest Modern Audiences translation is a big whiff from the get-go.
The casting just hammers home the likely wokism – Elliot Page? A healthy sprinkling of POCs for a Greek historical epic, probably to placate the Academy at awards time?
Oof. It may turn out to be good, but so far it’s sprouting red flags like a teenager sprouts pimples.
“The casting just hammers home the likely wokism ”
So the production from Nolan was to get himself an Oscar, and not to produce a good movie?
At least it’s not Pedro Pascal.
But it does have Zendaya.
The Drinker mentions Pascal when talking about Anne Hathaway.
Whoops, it was Zendaya that he compared to Pascal.
Wish me luck. I haven’t really mentioned it much, but a couple of years ago I got a cancer diagnosis… stage 4, Gleason 10. Nobody said it out loud, but it meant you don’t have 2 years left.
I got to an NCI cancer center and got a brand new treatment. Only 25% die within 2 years. (Also not said out loud by anyone).
I didnt die. Well, not yet.
I am sitting in the waiting room for a very expensive PET scan that will detect any cancer growing around my body. If this goes well, they will be able to withdraw the several medications they have me on to block the cancer growth. The side effects of these drugs suck. Big time suck.
Plus, it is about $4k per month. Which also sucks.
So wish me luck. If this goes well, I will have been part of a new miracle treatment. (They have actually presented my case at several conferences to talk about how well this treatment is working)
Good luck. We’re all rooting for you.
Count me in. In a few years we’ll be still here together, cyto and what UCS said.
Ditto.
Well wishes from Oklahoma.
Good luck!
I shall contact an old gypsy woman for the very best good luck spell.
Good luck and a little prayer for you.
Prayers from Texas.
Seriously, wishing you the best.
Wishing you a little luck.
Good luck!
Best of luck, and fuck cancer.
Best of luck!
Fuck cancer.
👍🏻
Best of luck to you cyto!
I wish you all the best, Cyto.
Kick cancer’s ass.
Best wishes and cancer indeed sucks balls.
Good luck!
Best wishes! Cancer AND drugs’ side effects suck.
That’s awesome, best of luck!
Good luck! I’ll send up a prayer on your behalf.
Thinking of you. Give a shout if you need anything.
Prayers and good luck sent. Keep up the fight, you got this. I’ve lost too many people to cancer in the last 5ish years, I’m hoping this one is a big win.
Our prayers are with you.
The best of luck, and may the treatment work!
Good luck.
I’ll put in a word with the big Guy for you.
Hope you are on the upswing.
Good luck. You will be in my prayers.
No shit? I think “what teens are really saying” is that their parents aren’t doing their fucking job.
It’s not just the parents. There’s been full on riots at some shopping centers around here from “teen takeovers” that turned into melees between rival schools (that have… differing racial makeups). The lack of discipline and consequences for misbehavior at school can’t be helping.
Yup. That lack is by design because you know why.
If you hear a bunch of guys snapping their fingers, it’s best to clear out.
https://youtu.be/20myPs_-E1I?si=gDkSP7_cCug92qxW
Looking for a Texas Ranch For Sale? Redhawk Lake Ranch offers approximately 1,073± deeded acres in Montague County, Texas, with a 10.16-mile perimeter of the ranch boundary, situated adjacent to Lake Nocona, which is ranked among the top bass fishing lakes in the state. The property is enrolled in the Texas Department of Wildlife Managed Land Deer Program (MLDP) and carries agricultural exemption status, providing a sound foundation for both recreational and operational use.
The ranch is watered by three producing water wells and 15 ponds, with 1.8 miles of Farmers Branch Creek and 0.30 miles of Dripping Springs Creek traversing the property. Approximately 86 acres of coastal hay production generated 165 round bales in 2025, and six established food plots totaling approximately 63 acres support a well-managed wildlife program. The land is cross-fenced into multiple pastures for rotational grazing. It is supported by a complete set of working cattle pens with a squeeze chute, a 30-ton overhead feed bin, and a 1,000-gallon diesel tank with an electric pump.
Improvements include a Morgan Building cabin serving as a field headquarters, complete with sleeping quarters, a bathroom, a small kitchen, a washer and dryer, and a mini-split HVAC unit. Three vacant lots within the Nocona Hills community provide additional access points and HOA-served potable water. Deer blinds and feeders are included in the sale.
Wildlife is abundant, with whitetail deer, turkey, hogs, dove, and ducks well represented across the property, along with a variety of native predator species. The ranch’s adjacency to Lake Nocona and its multiple access points from four separate road approaches create compelling opportunities for low-density residential subdivision, recreational development, or continued ranching and hunting operations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd3Of0ZidlI
$9,400,000 Nocona, TX 1,073± Deeded Acres
What are the property taxes like?
well I dunno I am not a Texas farmer.
Don’t confuse a ranch with a farm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0NCozvovks
I thought Pie was talking about people who grew Texases.
Reasonable with an agricultural exemption. That’s why Westinghouse and Samsung have cattle on their manufacturing grounds.
Since each square mile only has 640 acres in it – a ten mile perimeter is twice as long as it would be were it a rectangular plot. What’s the property line look like?
Like a well gerrymandered congressional district?
There are maps in the video and the listing, your know.
Very nice looking property. All it needs is a house. And a much lower price. I don’t think $9K/acre is realistic, but what do I know?
No, I don’t know.
Why would I?
44 min drive to Wichita Falls you can go train with Mark Rippetoe
I don’t think $9K/acre is realistic
8.5-9 wouldn’t surprise me for that size plot and that location. Even around here, big plots are going for 8-8.5 an acre and we don’t have a zillion Californians here trying to play Texan.
Trashy.
Here close to town proven, cleared and planted farm ground has gone for $5000 an acre in 1000 acre pieces.
Average price is up but it’s still around $3000 and you don’t have to clear trees.
Terrible price.
I’d put about 300 acres of that back into hay production and subdivide it into 50 acre plots.
But the price would have to be down around $3500 an acre
Petty corruption and self-dealing in a small (population <800) southern town?
Why, I never (staggers toward fainting couch)!
Towns that size shouldn’t have police departments.
NPR has news for UnCiv (and other bowler Glibs)
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/08/nx-s1-5814960/bowlers-allege-lucky-strike-violated-federal-antitrust-law-in-class-action-lawsuit
Big Bowling Alley is driving out the independent mom-and-pop dives!
“filed by avid bowlers”
And totally not rent-seeking assholes. Uh huh, sure NPR-Jan.
IMO bowling leagues are what’s been killing bowling. Their hogging of the lanes turned a lot of recreational bowlers/future recruits (like myself) away.
My local lane (Facenda-Whittaker) got turned into a gym a couple decades back.
The one alley in my town has been vacant since I moved here 3 years ago and who knows how long before that.
Leagues provide steady revenue.
Living in the rust belt, there are bowling alleys all around me. There are at least three currently operational ones within a five mile radius. They seem to be gaining back popularity, with several of them also doing concerts. Several have attempted to branch into the beer and cocktail realm with mixed success (more on the beer front than the cocktail one).
One of the common types of leagues (that I’ve been trying to convince the girlfriend to sign up for) will offer a ball or a pair of shoes at the end of the league.
We have been turned away twice by a leage when we wanted to take the boy bowling. And each time the league didn’t even use up all the lanes.
Bowling Alone anyone?
So if a postal worker delivers a handgun without their own unrestricted CCL, are they a felon according to NYS?
Maybe we should work out a swap with Canada – Alberta for NY.
No. We just need some purges.
Regarding Starmer:
Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy cautioned the party not to topple the prime minister, saying “you don’t change the pilot during the flight.”
The flight to Hell?
Do you want a smooth landing there or do you prefer to crash on arrival?
And we think we have it bad (whichever state we happen to live in).
That was interesting.
I’m old enough to remember when Ted Turner (rest in piss) decided to make Montana into California.
Teens need better marketing. “Takeover” isn’t the best term. Just like when I was a teen, we dropped “party” for “hang” or “kickback”.
Also, I would assume GenXers are thinking….as long as you dont mess with my day or errands, go out and have fun.
As I mentioned above, these are more like high school brawls (at least locally) or groups of idiots blocking freeways to burn rubber and do donuts.
Don’t be fooled by the misleading initial paragraphs or the photos. A lot of this is what Hillary got in trouble for calling “wilding”.
I see it as a symptom of crushing nannyism and helicopter parenting spinkled in with constant need for contact every 20 minutes from parents.
Teens are always rebellious, they just don’t have any understanding of what rebellion entails so its as Neph pointed out, brawls amd such.
I would be absolutely shocked if I found out the kids involved in this nonsense helicopter parents.
In fact, I’d be shocked if I was told more than 20% of them have two parent households and better than half know the name of their father.
Yeah, I think the article is deliberately conflating two separate phenomena here.
Sloppy gets it.
Today’s Video Headlines
A female World Cup soccer hopeful has been accused of repeatedly raping a 14-year-old boy who was still wearing braces — and sending him nudes of herself.
Oteta Kristina Kitiona, now 20, was hit with a slew of charges for allegedly having sex with the teen at his home in Bluffdale, Utah, in 2024, when she was 19, cops said.
Kitiona, who was part of Samoa’s 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup failed qualifying campaign earlier this year, is accused of abusing the boy multiple times over a six-month stretch before she went off to college, the Daily Mail reported.
https://x.com/nypost/status/2052452116384354439
Are we judging her culture?
/sarcasm
A non-Sapphic female soccer player?
That’s what made it newsworthy.
teenaged Tres def wood
What 14/15 year old boy wouldn’t jump at the chance at bagging his older siblings friends or even try for a college girl.
The braces detail was odd though
allegedly having sex with the teen at his home in Bluffdale, Utah, in 2024, when she was 19, cops said.
The teen was having sex with a teen?
Well, that was a novel tag fuckup on my part.
He had braces!
Probably the funniest graph ever published by the FT: our 3 possible futures are either 1) infinite wealth and abundance, 2) human extinction or 3) 0.2% faster GDP growth
https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2052598792751550498
Nearing midway through the UK council election results and the Conservative and Labour parties are in 3rd and 4th place.
Saw some lamenting over “political divide bad!!!”
Uh… it is the inevitable result of the backlash against 75 years of ever-leftward movement, dipshits.
Conservatives lament “but we were conserving what was there before us”.
Don’t discount the Thatcher years as a counter to the leftward drift……for awhile.
“A California woman who lived a double life as an OnlyFans model and high-end escort pleaded guilty Wednesday to involuntary manslaughter after one of her clients died following sexual activity with her.
Michaela Rylaarsdam, 32, will be sentenced next month to four years in prison after her client, 55-year-old Michael Dale, died from asphyxiation….
Prosecutors alleged the death resulted from Rylaarsdam placing duct tape over his mouth and a plastic bag and Saran Wrap over his head during a recorded encounter. Because his limbs were bound, Dale could not remove the items….
Dale reportedly paid her $11,000 for this particular encounter….
Her website advertised several services, including the “Ultimate Incall,” her highest-priced offering at $1,500.
Other services included the “Toy Show” for $200 and the “Wild Incall” for $1,100, while a “Mild Incall” was listed at $800. Outcall services were offered at rates $300 lower than the corresponding in-call options.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/07/us-news/california-housewife-pleads-guilty-to-killing-man-who-paid-her-11k-for-kinky-act/
$11K?
“Ex-Miami Dolphins star Tyreek Hill was in court Thursday facing down a towering OnlyFans model, who is accusing him of shattering her leg during a meetup — with her lawyers claiming he aggressively shoved her during a football lesson because he felt humiliated.
The 5-foot-10, 191-lb. standout wide receiver is being sued by 6-foot-1, 250-lb Sophie Hall, whose lawsuit claimed he broke her leg with a “crushing force” as the pair practiced football in the backyard of his Southwest Ranches, Fla. home on June 28, 2023.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/07/sports/tyreek-hill-faces-down-onlyfans-model-who-claims-he-broke-her-leg/
Didn’t he break his son’s arm?
Is that what the kids are calling it nowadays?
“Jaime Pressly is the latest celeb to launch OnlyFans: I’m ‘evolving with the times’ ”
https://pagesix.com/2026/05/08/celebrity-news/my-name-is-earl-star-jaime-pressly-launches-onlyfans-account/
They should just list the people who don’t have an OnlyFans.
Correction to the quote “my acting gigs are drying up”
How many freaks are gonna ask to be called Earl?
Not Crabman?
$11k- so not the same as downtown?
D’oh! Wrong ho! Meant as a reply to above article.
Now looking, I think I did it right. Fuck it, it’s Friday.
She’s an uptown girl.
So what you’re saying is “$11k, same as uptown”.
Yeah, you need to charge more for high-risk services to pay for the legal costs when one goes wrong.
Doing breath play with a hired escort, who you don’t have a long and intimate trust relationship with, is basically paying to commit suicide.
“Gen Z is finally waking up and realizing that they were mass-prescribed antidepressants without much consideration for the long-term side effects.
Among them is Ella Emhoff, the 26-year-old stepdaughter of Kamala Harris, who recently took to TikTok to express concern that she’s having difficulty coming off of SSRIs herself.
“I’ve been on SSRIs for over a decade, almost 15 years probably, and [now researchers are] calling out the lack of research on long-term use of these things,” she said to her 60,000-plus followers.
That means Emhoff was around 11 years old when she started taking the drugs, which are prescribed to treat depression and anxiety.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/07/opinion/gen-zers-finally-realize-they-were-overprescribed-antidepressants/
I’d take drugs if Kamala Harris was my mom.
“A Kentucky mom allegedly gave her 22-month-old son a bizarre dot-shaped tattoo because he “wanted” one, according to alarming reports.
Brook McDaniel, 27, was cuffed on Monday after Kentucky State Police responded to her home in Monitcello over a child abuse complaint, Lex18 reported.
McDaniel allegedly told troopers that she was “tattooing her own leg” when her toddler “walked up to her and stuck his arm in the way of her tattoo gun,” according to an arrest citation obtained by the outlet.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/08/us-news/kentucky-mom-allegedly-gave-22-month-old-son-a-tattoo-because-he-wanted-one/
Top notch parenting.
Now do ear piercing of babies.
Isn’t that more of a gypsy thing?
Would recieve mother of the year if the story had her scheduling him for MtF surgery.
FR
Life as a supermodel is hard.
Related article:
https://thefederalist.com/2026/05/06/the-american-medical-establishment-didnt-discover-a-mental-health-crisis-it-created-one/
Hard to believe the world’s most beautiful woman would need antidepressants.
The news so wants the Hantavirus cluster to be a national thing.
They need another pandemic-like event to fortify the midterms.
They’re setting it up as another win-win situation. If Trump does nothing, they can call him an anti-science murderer. If he does something, they can criticize whatever that something is.
WTF is he supposed to do? Hanta is contracted from inhaling aerosolized rodent feces. It is not transmitted person to person. Find out what rat-infested place they visited AND DON’T GO THERE. If it is part of the cruise ship, then have the USCG prohibit it from docking in a US port until it has passed a health inspection.
So sorry media, this isn’t Covid-2026.
black teen punches student
>teacher separates students
>black teen punches teacher
>the funniest thing happens
https://x.com/TheOnlyDSC/status/2052531102871400672
That wasn’t even a mildly funny thing that happened. It was the most predictable and likely thing
EuroFoot
@eurofootcom
It’s the first time in 55 YEARS that the UEFA Champions League final will be between teams from two different capital cities.
Arsenal (LONDON) vs PSG (PARIS)!
https://x.com/eurofootcom/status/2052142649423941920
From the comments
Football Scout
@footballscoutx
What about last season…
Paris v Milan
James Ayodele
@BiG_EMRYS_007
What of Bayern vs Chelsea in final
etc
Yeah, capital of what? München is the capital of Bayern.
I bet Milan is the capital of something too.
capital of what – a country duh
Bayern – do we not say Bavaria?
If we did, we’d also have to say Munich.
Vying with Paris for fashion capital of the world? 🙄
It is amusingly stupid that English-speakers call the team “Bayern Munich”.
It should be either “Bavaria Munich” or “Bayern München” (as it is for German speakers). But English speakers can’t pronounce “München” so wisely they don’t even try.
Well, there are maps showing the Rio Grande River . . .
Que?
Labour defaulted into power because the Tories wanted to undercut reform with a surprise election, and nobody showed up to vote for the Tories. habit-bound Labour voters showed up, which resulted in them having more votes, due to a low overall turnout.
with Labour winning 68% of parliament on 34% of votes
Labour defaulted into power because the Conservatives undermined Brexit and went all Klimate Kaos Net Zero, cratering the economy. Basically, they STEVE SMITHed their voters in every orifice and were getting fluffed for another round.
Yeah, I was confused by that as well. They probably think what they brand as “center left” is essentially conservative.
The Tories are formally named the “Conservative” party, but they’re leftists, so I don’t use their formal name.
Tories BAD!
They probably meant “voters had grown impatient” because the so-called Conservatives did lead for 14 years before Starmer.
Poor journalisming.
“Hot looks and high-quality traits are hotly important to the sperm-seeking women of the Single Mom By Choice (SMBC) charge.
It’s an unconventional uprising helmed by unmarried gals who’ve chosen to have children through donor insemination and parent alone. Some, however, aren’t choosing their “baby daddies” by themselves.
Solo mommies-to-be, such as Emily Webb, 36, are hosting “sperm showers,” inviting supportive loved ones to parties dedicated to picking the sexiest, smartest, most supreme donors while feasting on semen-themed sweets.”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/07/lifestyle/single-moms-by-choice-talk-costly-crazy-motherhood-journeys/
Celebrating future criminals?
A preview of Emily’s future career…
“I don’t need no man!” has been celebrated for decades so sure why not this.
I find it reprehensible but who am I.
dedicated to picking the sexiest, smartest, most supreme donors
And feminists consider women to be the better sex?
“Single mom by choice”. I’m guessing the choice was made mainly by the men she’s encountered.
College football is looking to expand their Big-Boy school playoff to 24 teams, and America’s favorite notary public weighs in.
Weird to see him break character like this, but some subjects are too important to be left to amateurs.
I don’t follow college sports, but are there any fans out there defending the changes? I’ve seen (and heard) nothing but bitching and moaning about the NCAA for years.
Fans? Who gives a shit about them?
rhywun:
Seems to be the trend of the times. Who cares about the fans, end users, consumers? We know what’s best for them!
Expand to a 64 team playoff. Losing teams deserve a shot.
I believe there are enough D1 schools that mathematically all 64 could be undefeated. But they’d still get bumped for a 5 loss Alabama or an OSU
100% agree. I’m not against a playoff per se (it works in the lower divisions), but the game, the conferences, and the way the playoffs works has made college football almost unwatchable.
We NEED a league 3rd place team to be national champions!
Mission failed successfully
https://x.com/HumansNoContext/status/2052554135573086319
Awesome.
Couldn’t help but notice her . . . . smile.
Would be a great rotation in the article gif repository for reasons
“For nearly two centuries, a New England town manufactured the tools that built America.
Now New Britain, Connecticut – known as ‘Hardware City’ – is losing the last Stanley Black & Decker factory still making products in the company’s hometown…
Stanley chose not to upgrade the New Britain plant to produce double-sided tape measures because it already has a factory in Thailand that makes them – and labor costs there are approximately 75 percent lower than in the US.”
https://www.dailymail.com/yourmoney/article-15795655/stanley-black-decker-new-britain-factory-closure.html
Soon we won’t have shovels to bury the dead.
Stanley tools went to crap in the 90s. Anything was better. They wouldn’t even standardize battery sizes, so you if your rechargeable battery died you had to replace the entire tool because the battery configuration was discontinued. A pox on them.
The quick square are razor knife were great. I just don’t like that everything is made overseas. Very bad for national security.
US state names, which I ranked in tiers, from most globally recognizable (“S”) to least (“F”).
https://x.com/avidseries/status/2052453410184507501
How can you Rank North and South Carolina in separate bands? If you’ve heard of one, you should be aware of the other.
There is no East Virginia.
Sure there is. It’s between North and South Virginia.
Made up rankings gets the clicks
The most populous ones are the most recognizable. No way!
Mutant guns are on the loose!
What? Did you think Glocks were natural?
1935 I could’ve understood (the year the .357 mag was introduced), but 1927?
“Canadian schoolchildren forced to flee woke play about Indigenous rights after sleazy drag queen character began behaving VERY inappropriately”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15798751/Canadian-schoolchildren-play-drag-queen-Nick-Benz-Globe-Theatre.html
STIJLTH
Everything wrong with current year wrapped up in one stupid story.
Didn’t have public display of tossing salad on my bingo card. Dammit.
The weren’t REAL boobs, what’s the problem?
How stupid or perverted do you have to be to take schoolkids to a drag show? Even if they are high schoolers, it’s not appropriate. I just don’t get it.
Meh. I was 13 when I started going to the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
As an unusually large man, I can tell you that putting your mass into a shoulder check like this is one of the most satisfying things you can do.
Yellow shirt guy will be smiling every time he thinks about this for the rest of his lif
https://x.com/SteveSkojec/status/2052478390167359530
Great form, solid center of gravity and all that is missing is yellow-shirt teabagging the cracky
Nice daily ray
I would kind of like to know what exactly was going on there.
That man had played hockey.
“Comedy star Wayne Brady called Bill Maher racist over a joke he made years ago comparing him to former President Barack Obama.
Maher joked in 2010 that, rather than making fun of Obama for being a ‘gangsta,’ he was ‘President Wayne Brady.'”
https://www.dailymail.com/media/article-15800227/Wayne-Brady-Bill-Maher-jokes-Obama-racist.html
OFFS!!
Let’s Make a Deal must not be paying the bills anymore
inorite
WhoTF cares anymore.
PS Maher’s right
Is Wayne Brady gonna have to choke a bitch?
LOL I have heard the meme but never actually saw it
I’m guessing because Obama can’t make a deal?
“But now we know at least half of all the money spent is wasted/stolen, and even though most Dems don’t care about that, there might be enough other folks pissed off about it to move the needle.” Other Kevin, above.
One would think this corruption would at least piss off the “bleeding heart” do -gooder Democrats who don’t want their tax money being diverted to the greedy undeserving? Those types are always prattling about “good government” so you’d think they, too, would care about the waste of tax dollars (even if their motives differ from that of us Glibs).
It shows that they need more money, and to stop evil Republicans from defrauding people.
Honestly, I think those people have worked themselves into a corner. They fear that if they provide anything less than full throated support for the corrupted programs, the right will kill the program whole cloth and get rid of the good parts of the program. On the other hand, they’re very much aware of the fact that they’re supporting corruption. This is why you’ll see them minimizing it as just a one-off or just a small percentage of the whole thing. They’re fine with a little corruption so long as the program continues.
That’s a good thought. The MSM is giving them an out by not mentioning it, or framing it as “Republicans pounce, nothing to see here.”
Yet another consequence of an entire party co-opted by a small percentage of radicals.
Assumes facts not in evidence.
The “right” won’t kill the program. If we’ve learned anything, it is that there are more than enough RINOS who will gladly compromise with keeping the program if it is perceived that the fraud and corruption is eliminated.
@Sheldon I’d say at least 75% of people have not yet realized that the name our government gives something has zero to do with what it actually does.
C’mon Man, Walz is looking into the alleged fraud. He’s taking full responsibility, he said so in public.
Probably an error by some accountant, right, Ilhan?
“They’re fine with a little corruption”
As long as they get their share.
Those “do-gooders” care much more about getting their piece of the action than about any waste.
The do-gooders I know aren’t getting any piece of the action. What they get is virtue signaling that they are good, compassionate people who care about the down trodden and out of luck. And you would think they’d be susceptible to arguments that fraud and waste are snatching scarce dollars out of the hands of said down-trodden.
they are good, compassionate people
You’ve met my ex I see. She used to lose her shit with me when I pointedly did not care.
UFO files are dropping. Time to turn off the internet for the weekend I guess.
The physics that make interstellar travel impossible
I’m sure they’ll patch that bug in the Interstellar update.
For the sake of humanity, I hope that is true.
https://unijokes.com/joke-12372/
“The US government has targeted thousands of parents like LT for deportation since Donald Trump took office in January 2025. A Guardian analysis of government records has found that, during the first seven months of his presidency, the administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 children. During this period in 2025, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was deporting about twice as many parents each month compared with 2024.
The records do not detail how many of these children were detained or deported with their parents, and how many families were split up. But the data provides one of the starkest views yet of how Trump’s mass deportation scheme has affected parents and children. In thousands of cases, DHS sought to deport parents who had a different citizenship or nationality than their children, creating major legal and logistical barriers to keeping families together.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/08/trump-administration-parents-arrested
Here’s a crazy idea, let’s not have immigration policy that changes with each President?
Yes.
Better idea.
Stop dropping anchor babies and thinking that’s your golden ticket to stay here permanently.
This is confusing. Are they saying that deported parents are refusing to take their minor children with them? Or that U.S. (i.e. Trump) is refusing to let the parents take children with them who happen to be U.S. citizens by birth?
The children are citizens, so they can’t be held at detention centers. The parents can take them when they leave.
Too bad so sad. I would argue that Trump isn’t separating the families. The families are.
This.
keeping families together
There it is. Fuck that shit, and fuck the person that thinks they can lead me by the nose because of that.
No one is saying they can’t be together.
They’re saying they can’t be together here, and with that I fully agree.
Send them all home. If they have kids lucky enough to have been plopped out here, they can go too, and return when they’re 18.
Hangry
The discovery of the remains at Glacier National Park comes days after two hikers were seriously injured in a bear attack in Yellowstone National Park, which is mostly in Wyoming.
Those hikers, ages 15 and 28, were injured Monday and airlifted by helicopter.
In that attack, “park staff believe a female grizzly bear with two or three cubs-of-the-year (cubs in their first year of life) were involved in the encounter,” Yellowstone National Park said Thursday.
“Let’s go for a walk in the woods.”
Why STEVE SMITH not protect hiker? Useful he remain alive. By useful, mean….
Something similar happened down here recently when a black bear wandered into a residential neighborhood. The animal spooked and was treed, Animal Control hit it with Tranq, the beast went into snooze mode and fell out of the tree. However, when two sheriff’s deputies went to secure the bear, it woke up and mauled them.
Always, always, always, if you’re going into bear country, bring twice as much fast-acting anesthesia as you think you would need.
Because there’s safety in numb bears.
Pay attention to the environment, you wouldn’t want to miss ursine.
Swiss can’t bear to see these puns.
I had one close call with a black bear in the Smokies (stole my friend’s backpack) and over the years have encountered others in the woods. I take the presence of cubs very seriously.
One reason why I carry a sturdy walking stick while surveying (another is for balance. Mine sucks).
They should have picked the man.
LOL
Justice prevails
The Trump administration’s cancellation of more than $100 million in humanities grants to scholars, writers, research groups and other organizations was unconstitutional, and the Department of Government Efficiency had no authority to end the funding, a federal judge in New York ruled on Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon in Manhattan sided with The Authors Guild, several other groups and several people who had their grants canceled and sued DOGE and the National Endowment for the Humanities. McMahon permanently barred the administration from terminating the grants and criticized DOGE’s use of artificial intelligence in nixing the funding.
Government lawyers had argued that the cuts of more than 1,400 grants of congressionally approved funds were legal moves to implement President Donald Trump’s directives, eliminate grants associated with diversion, equity and inclusion and reduce discretionary spending under the administration’s priorities.
We need more comic books about racism and oppression.
What article of the constitution guarantees the right to federal funding? It’s long past time to tell these maniac district judges to pound sand.
Cut off their funding. Let them take notice of that.
Yep. Another case for SCOTUS to boot to the moon.
Hope you all had a good week. We have some interesting things happening here, my son in law is arriving in Rio today, and Mrs. TOK and my youngest are currently driving back from Seattle.
“All hell broke loose on Thursday after Tennessee Republicans passed a new congressional map eliminating the only Democrat district….
State Senator Charlane Oliver stood on a desk and got into a tug-of-war with the Senate Sergeant at Arms over her banner that read, “No Jim Crow 2 Stop the Steal.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/watch-tennessee-democrat-state-senator-stands-desk-fights/
Were adults always this silly?
The new map is comical. Split all the, uh… Democrats! Yeah, that’s what we’re doing!
In the current political climate I’d be incline to say that it is entirely a partisan, not racial, distribution.
I’m done listening to people who gerrymander their states to give 90% D representation in states that vote 51% D while whining about 75% R representation in states that vote 60% R.
I’m done listening to people.
Yes, they were.
Not a good week for the Donks
Virginia Supreme Court has struck down the Virginia Democrat flipping of the congressional delegation from 6-5 Dems to 10-1 Dems ruling it violates the Virginia constitution.
https://www.vacourts.gov/static/opinions/opnscvwp/1260127.pdf
Those evil meany Republicans, beating us at our own game!
I think this is a theme.
Democrats have owned all of government and the institutions for decades. That ownership has forced Republicans to actually get smart (and these days a bit ruthless politically). That’s led to some pretty fucking smart people turning the levers and winning with the law that was once weaponized against all of us. Meanwhile, democrats have the likes of AOC and The Squad.
Constant success without effort turns you stupid. We see this in many domains beyond politics.
Yep.
I’m constantly reminded of this line from Batman when thinking about Western nations.
Fuuuuuck….
https://youtu.be/rQA1LdVs1Y4?si=6U17fZIiVXYHyxMw
Democrats prove once again that constitutions are meant to frustrate their lust for power.
McMahon said the government violated the First Amendment and the Fifth Amendment’s equal protection right, and DOGE did not have the lawful authority to cancel the grants. She wrote, for example, that it was “a textbook example of unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination” when officials canceled the grants based on DEI.
“The public interest favors permanent relief,” McMahon wrote in her ruling. “The public has a strong interest in ensuring that federal officials act within the bounds set by Congress and the Constitution.”
Several groups that sued the government, including the American Council of Learned Societies, American Historical Association and Modern Language Association, hailed the decision in a joint statement.
“This ruling in an important achievement in our effort to restore the NEH’s ability to fulfill the vital mission with which Congress charged it: helping to create and sustain ‘a climate encouraging freedom of thought, imagination, and inquiry’ through the humanities,” said Sarah Weicksel, executive director of the American Historical Association.
Be still my heart. The greatest thing since Lincoln freed the slaves.
D’oh!
The Pine Mountain prescribed burn southeast of Bend has now been declared a wildfire, growing to 1,500 acres officially. Additional firefighting crews were called in, including aircraft, to fight what is now the Pine Mountain Fire.
The planned 2,008-acre prescribed burn 14 miles southeast of Bend began Tuesday. It continued Wednesday, but Thursday’s ignitions were called off due to unfavorable conditions, according to the Central Oregon Fire Management Service (COFMS).
Isn’t it a little late for a “controlled burn”?
“The Beaver State appears to be on another collision course with judges not on its payroll by fining a Catholic counselor nearly $90,000 for refusing to “personally” affirm a client’s same-sex relationship, deeming it a violation of “professional conduct” obligations.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/religion/catholic-counselor-sues-oregon-90k-fine-not-blessing-clients-lesbian-relationship
OFFS!!
I’m so glad the courts are clogged with such blindingly obvious cases wasting everybody’s time.
SCOVA rejected the gerrymander.
Pedanically, the rejected the procedure used – the Dems were in too much of a hurry to follow the amendment process properly.
Look under the couch cushions
Boosting military spending to 3.5% of GDP from the current 2% may have felt like an adequate effort when European leaders took the decision last year. But even if they hit that target as pledged by 2035, countries from Germany to France and Britain will have to spend more and faster on their defence if U.S. President Donald Trump makes good on his repeated threats to pull out of NATO. Considering tight fiscal resources, and the political fallout of having to choose guns over butter, opens new tab, Europe will need to find creative ways to shore up its defence against a potential Russian threat.
The region’s members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization include most European Union states, plus some non-EU countries like Britain and Norway. If Trump quits NATO in a hurry with no negotiation, perhaps fed up with a lack of cooperation with his Gulf adventures, there won’t be much time for blue-sky thinking in London, Paris, Berlin or Rome. In such a scenario, Europe would have no choice but to spend fast. Even a truce in Ukraine — a distant possibility at best — would not be much of a relief. It would give Russian President Vladimir Putin the time and resources to rebuild his war machine.
This is what happens when Sugar Daddy gets tired of you.
Too local news: Gold medalist Alysa Liu spotted at Buc-ee’s in Huber Heights
Guess she was there after I went in to spend too much on their brisket.
The brisket is good though.
Its certainly above average. The brisket I make is better, but Im not cooking for 1,500 each day.
I can dial my taste preferences in better.
It’s okay.
I had my first experience at Buc-ee’s last month, when I drove down to Florida for the GOAT match. I definitely liked the well-designed vehicle access and the clean-enough-for-brain-surgery restrooms, but the food I found kinda meh.
That’s because you’re trying to think about it as regular food, and not road food. There is a distinct difference.
Am I choosing Buc-ees if there’s a hole in the wall bbq joint on either side with a pit that hasn’t been cleaned in 40 years? Certainly not. But in comparison to 98% of the food along major interstates, it’s Michelin Star rated stuff.