I need to get to some things. Sorry for phoning in the intro.
https://twitter.com/RadioRomaX/status/2032824573935210993
¡enlaces!
Some of them, I assume, are good people.
I guess parents in other countries use the schools as daycare too?
Iran is really having trouble with this whole, World Cup …thing.
Its Zerohedge comments on a diplomatic scale
What did Jamaica do to deserve this?
NPR goes to Cuba to ask Cubans what they think of America…the results will shock you.
Since the red pill crowd is giving MJ a posthumous white wash… Pun intended.
Apparently the bulk of the NPR story is behind a paywall.
It’s a 9 minute listen, hopefully we get a summary from a helpful glib who breaks the paywall.
Got it.
Thanks.
I started listening to the NPR piece. They interviewed a government official from Cuba. So, it’s all bullshit propaganda. Don’t bother with it — I bailed out right away.
Yeah, the blurb hinted at that.
In other words, exactly what NPR wanted to hear.
Yeah, you open it up and there is a pic of a dude holding a photo of Castro.
Never Change, NPR.
Yes, I expect everyday Cubans to speak in favor of the US and against the regime.
Or a podcast.
I would expect the results to be whatever NPR wants its listeners to hear but I am not a listener so oh well.
They don’t want to lose their amazing healthcare.
Señor, have you now or ever chosen to identify as a Cooban sanswich?
Tampa or Miami style?
Órale !
The intro is behind a Twitter accountwall. Is it something jiggling or popping out?
There is a nip slip. And it’s an extended remix, so lots of bouncing around for a few minutes.
Churros? https://x.com/RadioRomaX/status/2033154374608781661
not logging into X to see whatever it is.
Not allowed to anymore.
Oh well. So long Elon.
Lake said if she is confirmed by the Senate, she looks forward to “strengthening the partnership between our nations, advancing America’s interests abroad, and building on the deep friendship shared by the American and Jamaican people”.
Being a somewhat controversial figure, she may face some spliff opposition.
Trump may come to dread this decision.
He may have to address a joint session of Congress to hash this out.
I am sure the BBC will be all in on covering her.
Zwak wins the internet this day.
During her time leading the agency, Lake – under the direction of a presidential executive order – moved to terminate hundreds of employees at the global broadcaster.
So were they terminated or not?
The April 2026 Treasury statement is out. Due to April income tax payments, there is a monthly surplus.
April 2026 total receipts are $837 billion, total outlays are $622 billion, with a surplus of $215 billion.
For April, tariff receipts are $22 billion, same as March. Individual income tax receipts are $515 billion compared to $189 billion for March 2026. Corporate income taxes for April are $83 billion compared to $7 billion for March 2026. I expect May’s income tax numbers to be similar to March’s.
Rounded to the nearest billion here are the YTD numbers with FY 2025 comparable period numbers:
FY 2026 YTD receipts are $3,320 billion compared to FY 2025 comparable period receipts of $3,110 billion.
FY 2026 YTD outlays are $4,724 billion compared to FY 2025 comparable period outlays of $4,159 billion.
FY 2026 YTD deficit is $954 billion compared to FY 2025 comparable period deficit of $1,049 billion.
Estimate for all of FY 2026 are still the same as in last month’s statement ($5,476 billion receipt, $7,540 billion outlays, $2,064 billion deficit).
a surplus of $215 billion
We’re rich! What should we spend it on?
Do you really have to ask?
The children!
Hookers and blow?
Aloysious:
Heroin and Cocaine?
Professional girlfriends are dangerous. Maybe stick with blow?
Monorail! Monorail! Monorail!
One 215 billion dollar hookerbot? Or 215 billion one-dollar hookerbots?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvpTJLHro90
One 215 billion dollar hookerbot? Or 215 billion one-dollar hookerbots?
Quality over quantity or quantity is a quality all its own?
Also speaking about border security, Trump said illegal crossings at the southern border had dropped to “zero” and that drug flows into the United States were down 97%.
The folks doing the “fenty fold” from Brooklyn to L.A. don’t seem to have noticed a shortage.
Suppliers may be working the northern border now, who knows.
But there’s probably a nice pile stockpiled for now.
Carried over from the dedthred: the Michigan’s UP has some mighty hunters.
Showin’ how funky and strong is your fight
For many years I thought MJ was singing “Show them hot funky’. I never could figure out how to show someone else hot funky.
I never understood a word of that beyond “Beat It”.
I liked Weird Al’s version better, honestly.
Somebody stop me. It’s so stupid that I love it.
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1978-ford-mustang-ii-12/
$10k
I think these things are fugly on a good day but that’s a hell of a deal. You couldn’t pait it for that.
You can’t buy that motor for $10k.
I doubt that’s the hammer price.
Even if it goes for twice that it’s a good price.
Thats an ugly car. But I bet its quick in a straight line.
“The replacement 302ci V8 was built with a Ford Racing short block, a roller cam, X303 aluminum cylinder heads, nitrous, and a Holley Street Avenger carburetor breathing through a shaker hood. “
Go for it. It only costs money, and you’ll earn more. Maybe it comes with an Angelina Jolie look-alike.
That is a lot of money to get a front end with disc brakes.
Zwak gets it. However, I also want the small block and the modern T5 transmission too.
I assume “bring a trailer” means exactly that? Can you strip it for parts or something…?
I thought that years ago but it’s mostly nice stuff on there that you wouldn’t be afraid to hop in and drive a thousand miles.
Ha OK
First full page, Id hop in after checking the fluids and drive any one of them cross country.
Lookit Mr. Hoovies Garage up there.
I drive janky stuff.
None of that stuff is worse than my daily driver. In fact I’d say it’s nicer.
Mr. Hoovies Garage
I had to look that up. He’s got nice stuff.
I’m Dirt Every Day or lower budget.
I prefer https://barnfinds.com/ more jank, less trailer queens.
Somehow, I don’t think that price is going to stay there, even with that mileage.
DAAAMN! That’s a ’78?! Me likey, in a straight-up American muscle car way.
“…subsequently modified between 2005-2009 with custom Eleanor-style bodywork…”
^^ Ah. Then what’s the point!? Isn’t the point to keep the retro looks while upgrading the engine and modernize the interior?
I still like it. But confusion reigns.
“Gone in 60 minutes”
LOL
Mexican summer break is only 6 weeks.
Damn that sucks.
Bold strategy. https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/05/12/just-kill-me-he-was-arrested-in-danville-child-sex-sting-now-his-wife-is-suing-police-over-his-suicide/
The other day I was thinking that the biggest obstacle to family formation in the US and probably other industrialized countries is the lack of cheap housing.
Sure enough, inflation-adjusted home prices are 2.5x what they were in 1950.
https://historyfacts.com/us-history/article/what-my-life-would-have-cost-in-1950/
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But even accounting for the lower household income in 1950, the relative purchasing power was greater at the onset of the ’50s than it is today. For instance, it took about 2.5 years’ worth of paychecks for a person earning the average salary for white workers in 1950 to afford a new home, while the median cost of a new home today is nearly six times the average salary.
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This should be obvious in countries with supposedly higher average IQs. It seems the US and other countries are slouching toward Idiocracy – too smart to breed.
People were having 10 kids back when they lived in huts and one room log cabins.
It’s the birth control, the radical individualism, and the materialistic hedonism.
I thought it was air conditioning and car ownership what ruint us.
I thought it was the heavy metal music.
So when housing was literally dirt cheap, people had more kids? Yeah, that sounds about right. That’s the way it is in the poorer countries of the world now.
I agree on birth control being a factor, but that’s downstream from something else.
visual aid, from a country with above replacement fertility
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Z7e6ZyfY0
lol
I think it’s the education system that separates parents from their kids during nearly all waking hours.
When you actually get to know your kids ands are with them 12-16 hours a day, awake you get to like them. And wish there were more of them.
^^ this.
/guy who wishes he had more earlier
And the average house is probably more than 2.5x bigger than then.
And not just owning. In those days singles and couples just starting out could normally afford to rent in cities like NYC or LA. Now they need multiple roommates and a trust fund or two.
cheap housing = above replacement fertility
cheap oil = world peace
Chad has the highest fertility in the world. Here’s what a house there looks like:
https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.zzZ3XWnCI2QnW9Ifiym2LQHaFj
They’re not having lots of kids because they’re poor or dumb. They’re having lots of kids because they can afford to.
And men gain status there by having many children. And birth control is frowned upon. And they have very little feminism.
But none of that would matter if there was no cheap housing.
That sounds like a unified culture with the same religion.
Chad is about half Christian and half Muslim, similar to other African countries.
It has about 200 ethnic groups and languages, with the Sara being the most numerous at 28%.
Most African countries have hundreds of tribes and languages.
Congo talking drums:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dl0qcKOkKI
And the average house is probably more than 2.5x bigger than then.
There’s truth to this. The average home was smaller then for sure. Three bedrooms was pretty much the limit on most homes. Parents would get a bedroom, and the girls would share one bedroom, and the boys the other. For awhile you couldn’t have more than one bathroom due to wartime copper restrictions. You’d be lucky to have a one car garage. Heating systems were simple; one thermostat for the whole house. No central A/C, no ceiling fans, no security systems. No triple-pane windows. Cheap insulation. No dishwashers or garbage disposals in the kitchen, no separate tubs and showers in the bathroom.
You just described every house I have ever lived in until 3 years ago.
So does NYC.
https://www.the-independent.com/b2975285.html
How to lose an election in 30 seconds. Seriously, at least some lip service to the average American would be warranted on a day that bad inflation numbers release.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/cpi-inflation-april-2026-.html
Believe.
Also consensus CPI was 3.7% versus 3.8%. I ain’t happy about that, but it didn’t come out of left field either. I agree that your average guy trying to buy gasoline for his bass boat having retired as a cop at age 50 isn’t going to be happy come the elections.
I’ve heard GOP will lose one more seat for every week the Iran war goes on from here. It wouldn’t be a far stretch to think the Dems will have a 30 seat majority in the next House.
If the GOP loses the house this election, it will be just like…
every midterm election since the dawn of the two current parties.
The Dems are about as likely to get a 30 seat majority as the Red Wave having happened. The will get a trickle, and spend all of their political capital on failed impeachments.
That guys probably voting with his union anyway.
Only because of gas prices. Any other war we launched and most Americans wouldn’t give a shit.
From the CNBC article:
The consumer price index rose at a seasonally adjusted 0.6% for the month, putting the one-year pace at 3.8%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday. The monthly rate was as forecast, but the annual rate was 0.1 percentage point above the Dow Jones consensus.
Excluding food and energy, the core CPI increased 0.4% and 2.8%, respectively, keeping inflation well above the Federal Reserve’s 2% goal as the monthly rate was the highest since January 2025. Fed officials consider core a better indicator of longer-term inflation trends.
The annual headline inflation rate was the highest since May 2023 and was up half a percentage point from March.
I look forward to Trump supporters blaming Biden for the current inflation spike. After all, we have a surplus now!
The front end of that Mustang looks weird.
You know it’s a serious race car if it has nitrous. At least it doesn’t have 500 inch dump truck motor.
Deflation
A few years ago that thing would have been more like $30k with 20 hours to go.
Yes. And I don’t get it. The new Bronco made them popular.
When Ford puts out a new, retro Mustang II, then you know we have reached the end times.
It was perfect malaise.
When Ford puts out a new, retro Mustang II,
It can’t be worse than that golf cart abomination with the Mustang badge right?
Right?!!?
It has cut wheel wells.
-$10,000 off the top.
Nostalgia
Love it.
I like it.
That Mustang looks like a 1976 Trans Am and Gran Torino had a baby.
Forgive the Brooksing. I’m riding shotgun through Kansas. Usually I do the driving bc my husband and I have a Jack Sprat relationship, but even I can concede when I’m too sleepy to drive.
But I DID solve a plot problem whilst shuttered behind my frou-frou sleep mask.
But I DID solve a plot problem whilst shuttered behind my frou-frou sleep mask.
It was all a dream!
One of my books DID start out from a dream. Random connections made.
The Dream-Quest of Romantic Kadath?
Well, I mean, that’s an idea. But no.
It was my widowed DIL-widowed FIL romance with “late husband died with a deep dark secret” with a twist, which is that the widow was in on it.
https://moriahjovan.com/talesofdunham/blog/it-just-slipped-in-twice/
Had a dream about that sort of quasi-taboo pairing, woke up, said, “Oh, that’s interesting,” forgot about it, did my daily blog rounds which involved a DIY blog, got reminded of the above-linked story, and then had it cobbled all together by the next day.
UPS update:
I had the batteries connected in parallel instead of serial.
In my defense, they have the red wire going to the negative, black to the positive and a yellow jumper wire.
No magic smoke came out, so things are looking good now.
Take the win!
Our local diner-dining escapades thus far have been suboptimal.
Dude: HEY Duncan FB group. We’re visiting. Let us know where the good non-chain places are to eat.
*chants of Wright’s Wright’s Wright’s bEsT sTeAk IvE eVeR hAd*
Erm
Maybe you people need to get out more.
Stopped in Guthrie to eat at a little BBQ shack we spotted Saturday. Turned out it wasn’t a little stand. It was their smokehouse. Okay, this should be good.
Husband’s pork ribs were yummy, he says. My brisket was…suboptimal. Also, when they put “pinto beans” on the menu I think I’m getting baked beans. It was not. It was bean soup, only not navy beans. Mind you, it wasn’t awful but bean soup is winter food.
Anyway, these people came in and shit started squeaking. High-pitched, annoying as fuck, as in I’m about to curl up into fetal position frequency. I start looking around and these people have a baby buggy with FUCKING BABY MONKEYS in it, 3 or 4 of them.
I fucking hate monkeys.
THEN all the waitresses start handling these fuckers!!!! They were tiny.
Yeah, okay, they had diapers on, but still, and there’s my husband going oh how cute!
No. This was almost as bad as dogs in the fucking grocery store, and I say almost because the monkeys had diapers.
Gross.
I hate government. I hate the health department. But damn I’m calling the health department.
I hate monkeys more than the health department.
How does one have enough contact with monkeys to develop a fucking hatred of them? I’m rather ambivalent when it comes to every creatue under the sun ,unless I know them personally, that is. There are a few cats that can fuck right off and one dog that can die in a fire and fuck loads of humans that could choke on a tuna sammich for all I care, but other than that I’m a live and let live kinda guy.
People do have things they just don’t like looking at.
For me, it’s the uncanny valley. I really can’t stand looking at them.
It’s innate with me.
They are potential competition. Particularly the great apes.
Were I emperor of the world I would wage a campaign to eliminate the chimpanzee and gorilla.
They need to go. Every single one.
ape makes and extinguishes a fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMbWDRzqNhc
Being worried about apes taking over is like being worried about children or retards taking over.
You’re not wrong. But I think it would be interesting to hang with them if only once and never again.
Me, I can’t stand uninvited dogs in too close proximity. They are noisy and smell and are unpredictable.
Monkeys are fun! (I did get nervous once around a family of macaques when I was with then-gf. Just enough to keep my eyes on them as we passed.)
Apes? Uh. Fuck no. That fire-making chimp in Derp’s vid is incredible, and predictably, so human (the way he made sure to get himself a drink of that water before pouring the fire out was very cute. And interesting.
That fuck could also rip your legs *off* of you if he even jokingly thought it might be a fun idea. Being too cozy is a great way to lapse into danger. Those arms are BIG. Walking into my own trap, I’d fucking *love* to be master /best friends with him. Because I’m famously omnipotent and no one cares what I do, I’d just take him with me to work. (As long as he behaved. *swags finger*)
Take Your Chimp to Work Day, every day! That’s real diversity, baby! Such fun, we’d have! *gives Kanzi a noogie*
Recent minor obsession:
A bunch of Russians playing the hell out of a Chaka Kahn cover
That chick has an amazing voice – I’m listening to Superstar now…
And she speaks like 6 languages. Makes me feel lazy.
They’re wrapping up their tour nearby (MA, NH & RI). I’ll have a talk with the wife.
Their Earth, Wind & Fire covers are, uh, fire:
https://youtu.be/YHRt_EtbzdY
I keep playing songs and with each one my husband says “that’s not them, is it??” – so good!
I swear I was waiting for him to rip her face off.
Sorry- that was for the monkey thread
inorite
Yeah, that’s a no from me dawg.
I say to my husband, who is busy driving in KC metro rush hour traffic, “One of the Glibs posted a bring-a-trailer for a Mustang and I said it looks like a 1976 Trans Am and Gran Torino had a baby.”
He said, “Oh, that’s a 1978 Mustang II.”
People. 🤯
lol
More nostalgia. My parents had a 1978 that looked almost like this.
My grandmother had a Lincoln that looked like that. Tan with baby poop Carmel interior.
My step-father had one of those monsters in black.
Ha! I know of a local one, powder blue.
I’ll have Mr. Trump know that Mexico now has universal healthcare. That makes Mexico’s female president the progressive darling of the moment.
Besides, is being run by Israel any better than the cartels?