We’re back! Thanks to all those who helped pick up the pieces for us while we were gone. And thanks to all of you for patiently awaiting our return. It was a fantastic trip.
The World Cup is finally underway. The two games in Mexico to kick it off were…ok, I suppose. Although there were a lot of people dressed up as empty seats in the second game. The Hurricanes are within one game of the Stanley Cup. Snd Texas Tech might want to start looking in the mirror and realize they’re becoming a mockery. And that’s pretty much all I’ve got for sports.
Bang, zoom! Straight to the moon! I wonder how high it will go.
Do they not have a firing range nearby? Seems to me there are several simple solutions that are being overlooked here.
Grab a seat before you open this link. Because I’m sure you’ll be as shocked as I am to find out there’s fraud going on.
Get Derek Zoolander on the job. IIRC, he had a solution for these people.
::puts on tinfoil hat:: Nothing to see here.
Nobody said you weren’t human. You just can’t work there anymore because you’re partisan hacks. Pretty simple concept.
Why even have prisons then? Oh, yeah. Because society wins when violent people who lack impulse control are locked away from the rest of us.
I’m curious about the jurisdictional issues here. Unless that judge is prepared to say all campaign finance laws are violations of the 1A. But I suspect he’s not going to say that.
This guy came five decades too late. Had he been born that long ago, he’d have been the toast of California politicians like Jerry Brown and Harvey Milk.
This is peak Galveston culture. Having visited Stonehenge just this week, I am now ready to make another pilgrimage to see this amazing feat of Galvestonian development and look forward to the locals learning how to make fire next.
Happy to be playing this. Or anything by these guys. And yeah, this is what everyone was expecting next. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Friday and weekend, dear friends.
Welcome back and thanks for doing the links when you’ve just returned.
It was a magnificent trip. Thanks to everybody who picked up the slack.
Where the white womenz at?
“Bang, zoom! Straight to the moon! I wonder how high it will go.”
I am definitely buying me some of that…
Elon isn’t going to get us to Mars. He’s going to use Neurolink to make us think we took a vacation to Mars. With the action/spy package available as an add-on.
I don’t want to deal with Bluesky on Mars.
I was going to.
Don’t want to lose my ass on the AI bit.
Indeed. Not much interest for that one. And I felt sorry for the poor Czechian fans greatly outnumbered by… Mexican Korea Republicans?!
“Many FBI agents and professional staff analysts are quietly dealing with the mental health challenges that have been caused,”
It’s not so much fun when the figurative boot is on your neck, is it?
Exactly, they are making evil people the victims because they have been stopped of doing the work of the fucking devil.
I still feel the sentence was too light. He was intentionally provoking people to try to kill someone on a claim of self defense. He didn’t care who. It was premeditated and he has proven himself unredeemable. Give him the chair. ⚡
From the article:
Jeff Metcalf, the victim’s father, said he thinks Anthony should have been sentenced to life in prison. He said he had “a little bit of sorrow” for Anthony but vowed he will advocate against parole for the rest of his life and will record a video to play at parole hearings after he dies.
It looks like the father wants prisons and a heavier sentence.
The father said he’s going to give statement at every parole hearing, and record a video to be played at parole hearings after he dies. Me? I would likely be standing trial for assaulting the parents who called the trial racist.
The murderer’s family as much as admit that the trial would NOT have been fair had the prosecutors not excluded certain jurors.
That is where we are as a country now.
It is like all of those people who say “no one should be killed for stealing” referring to security guards and such. I always think “then don’t steal!” If you don’t want to spend the rest of your life in prison or get the gas chamber, don’t kill someone. It is pretty fucking simple.
“It is like all of those people who say “no one should be killed for stealing” referring to security guards and such. I always think “then don’t steal!” If you don’t want to spend the rest of your life in prison or get the gas chamber, don’t kill someone. It is pretty fucking simple.”
I tell people all the time that the perspective that it is wrong to value property over someone’s life is faulty and stupid. If you value my property over your life, then you deserve to be put 10 feet under.
10 feet?
I prefer leaving their bodies so the scavengers take care of it.
“https://www.foxnews.com/us/80-percent-americas-largest-sexual-abuse-settlement-history-fraudulent-la-da-nathan-hochman-says”
If they can ballot harvest, why can’t they also victim harvest?
There is a lot of fraud in those settlements. One of my neighbors signed up to a class action settlement to which she is not entitled; she claims she was recruited by her lawyer.
I regularly get emails or calls asking me to join suits. I ALWAYS tell them to take me off their fucking criminal lists please, but it don’t stop.
I keep trying to think of a way to penalize ambulance chasing class action lawyers in a way that hurts the lawyers but doesn’t remove the mechanism as a deterrant entirely.
Maybe if you weren’t a criminal, you wouldn’t be on criminal lists.😛
“Maybe if you weren’t a criminal, you wouldn’t be on criminal lists.”
Touché..
Getting so much quiff makes me a gangsta.
I thought it was your trysts with Winston’s Mom.
“I thought it was your trysts with Winston’s Mom.”
YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!
Do not disparage that beautiful and hard working woman….
It is a version of the Pigford Settlement problem. A lot of people who were not affected by the issue at hand wanted in for the 50K, and here a lot of lawyers wanted to raised the level of the settlement as to get a bigger percentage of it.
It is the same issue as the voting rights controversy; do you allow anyone to vote so as to not deny a persons civil right, or do you tighten the voting rolls and require an ID so as to not let any non-citizen vote.
Tighten, next question.
Here’s a thought – how about holding the lawyers accountable when they bring completely bogus claims and clients to court? Accountants that endorse tax fraud schemes are punished by the profession and firms that perform failed audits are punished by sanctions which include loss of licensure to do audits.
The Margaritaville developers have also maintained radio silence with their would-be neighbors and the media for years, leading many island residents to wonder if the $700 million, 63-acre project would be built anytime soon or, indeed, at all.
Some people claim that there’s a woman to blame
And I know this is somebody’s fault
Florida Keys >> Galveston.
The office of the guy doing colonoscopies >> Galveston
Huh. I thought all Texans got infected with some parasite that made them think Galveston was nice. Glad to see your immune system is up to spec!
The office of the guy doing colonoscopies
Obligatory.
I thought all Texans got infected with some parasite that made them think Galveston was nice.
Nope. The best praise ive heard from a texan was “it isn’t half bad when the weather and the sea are both good”.
My lone experience in Galveston cured me of any desire to return. Reeking seaweed knee deep on the beach, hardly updated 1970s buildings, and a cloudy humidity. No thanks.
“Because society wins when violent people who lack impulse control are locked away from the rest of us.”
I’m not sure that’s winning, so much as limiting the risks associated with letting them live. There is no “win” in this situation, but there’s damn sure a lot of losing. Also, fuck that whole family.
Risk mitigation is a win in my book. Sure, there’s also a loser when that happens. But most losses in life are due to the consequences of one’s own actions rather than random chance. The overwhelming number of people in prison are a testament to that.
Yes, there are people who end up in prison for victimless actions. Those are a travesty. But the ones there who committed violent crimes of aggression or due to their inability to deal with adversity in a civilized manner will cause me no loss of sleep.
There are no perfect solutions. Only compromises. The people demanding we tolerate them leaving the people that destroy societies amongst those that can neither defend nor avoid the consequences of this kind of virtue signaling, are making the worst compromise possible and, it is by design.
Ahem:
“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”
PBUH
Most people age out of their “I’mma stab a bitch” phase by the time they’re 53.
Sums it up for me.
I don’t ever want to hear from them or anyone else associated with their grifting and race baiting again. The whole story is fucking sick.
Well, his family “won” over $600K
That’s a much better price than most people get for selling off their kids!
It’s so cute when The Guardian stamps its feet.
Funny, I remember saying exactly that. FBI agents (and other government enforcers) are not human and have no rights.
Wasn’t the most recent firing squad execution marred by utter incompetence just like the lethal injections?
I was thinking that the prison phlebotomy attempts are so bad that maybe our resident one could buy himself a hood and hire himself out for those gigs, but Derpy doesn’t seem like he’d be morally OK with that.
Can’t they just give the guy a gun with a round in the chamber and tell him they’ll be back to collect his body in 10 minutes?
You can’t ensure that he’d actually do the right thing. Criminals tend not to.
I mean, who/what would the condemned shoot with that round though?
Although, if you were in Building Services, repairing the wall/floor/ceiling damage could be a bit of a bonus.
However: if you went the Kevorkian Rube Goldberg Suicide Machine route, you cold straightjacket the guy attach him to a chair and then let him lean forward to hit to kerblooie button with their forehead (mounted around the gun barrel of course.) Eventually they guy would doze off if he was unwilling to do his part..
Crucifixion victims generally died of suffocation when they couldn’t keep their heads up and their airway open.
Crucifixion’s a doddle.
I’m assuming “a doddle” is an expression you picked up on your trip?
Also, people fuck up suicides all the time. Especially suicides with guns.
Nitrogen asphyxia – I don’t believe that inhaling nitrogen interferes with your breath reflex. I know for a fact that nitrous oxide doesn’t, don’t ask. So there’s no ‘choking’ or ‘struggling for air’ – you get sleepy, pass out, and die, in about five minutes.
A huge amount of this bullshit could be spared if the condemned prisoner got a double-dose of Xanax in their last meal…
It took way too long to find this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcvkjfG4A_M
If (IF!) the people being executed are suffering (in a non psychosomatic way) it’s because the morons are running the gas flow way too low and allowing the CO2 concentration to elevate.
They went off just fine in SC.
They could just diagnose him with depression and send him to Canada. They’d euthanize him quick.
I mean, the guy died, so it was “successful.”
ISTR all three missed the heart, but googling it now doesn’t come up with anything to confirm/deny that.
Found something:
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/08/nx-s1-5389846/firing-squad-south-carolina-death-penalty-execution
All missed the heart, one missed entirely.
You all know my views on methods of execution. Firing squads are a field expedient for the military. Guillotines are pretty much foolproof and quite humane (in the sense of not inflicting any physical suffering).
True, but do you really want to ape the aesthetics of the French revolution?
You mean, mass executions of our ruling class?
Too French. Needs a more American name.
Introducing the Slice-o-matic!
Does it also dice and julienne?
Choppy McChopface.
Touché.
Aping the aesthetic of the French Revolution would mean hot-air balloon rides instead of helicopter rides.
Too French. Needs a more American name.
Lots of Americans are of German descent, so we can borrow from Germany.
Thanks to everyone who pitched in to keep the comments section fresh and updated.
“FBI agents driven out under Trump”
It was Robert Mueller who first pioneered that, with his ‘five, up, or out’ strategy that forced field officers to either go to DC or find work in another field, thereby engineering a turnover ratio that guaranteed a partisan work force.
How about just firing 90% of the employees?
How about 100% dissolving federal law enforcement, given there is no FUCKING POLICE POWER in the Constitution?
What’s happening? Alarming poll finds that half of Americans do not care about the World Cup
Euros don’t understand Americans.
Only half?
I could have sworn a lot more Americans don’t care about the World Cup.
The football Americans care about uses neither feet nor what is usually referred to as a ball.
Handoblong just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Americans went with a variation of rugby football instead of association football. Euros seem confused by that.
“Alarming”
That’s adorable.
Bizarre.
It’s like acting surprised that nobody in the rest of the world gives a shit about the World Series or the Super Bowl.
Globally I’d imagine there is much more interest in baseball and the US World Series than the Super Bowl.
It is sports so tribalism is involved.
Unfortunately it also gives certain people license to be tedious virtue signalers about how much they hate soccer.
Truly virtuous people hate “sportsball.”
It is
sportshumans so tribalism is involved.FTFY
Alarming?
How many Europeans care about the World Series or the Superbowl?
I’ve been seeing a lot of stories about the Euros coming to America and gushing about how great it is. They are nice stories that are upbeat and fun.
Americans are loving these new tourists back for now.
My fear is that the love fest will come to an abrupt end the first time some Euros try to get a bar to show a soccer game instead of the local news coverage of some NFL team’s OTA practices. It will get ugly.
Freddy’s TwiX posts have been a delight. The one where he hears some local radio DJ talking about his road trip and playing him a song, that was particularly fun.
I wonder if as many Germans are following him as Americans.
The other half don’t care except for the traffic delays.
There’s nothing I love more than other people telling me what I should and shouldn’t be interested in.
I think we’ve hit the half-hour mark:
https://nltimes.nl/2026/06/12/video-7-hurt-explosion-amsterdam-apartment-building-search-victims-ongoing
I thought that was going to be Amsterdam New York.
Could you really tell the difference if they bombed Amsterdam NY?
Where these the fools trying to build the bomb, or the victims of the people that loves them firecrackers?
That “ghost wolf” looks kinda coyote-ish to me. But I am not a veterinarian.
That’s because it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galveston_Island_coyote . They’re mixed with red wolves, but mostly coyote.
The WSJ is unhappy.
“Congress failed another test of its democratic duty on Thursday when the House defeated a proposal to extend a crucial intelligence-gathering authority. ”
Fear not it will be returned promptly after an appropriate deep state person is confirmed.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/fisa-702-congress-democrats-donald-trump-jay-clayton-c98237f2?st=h2yj9f&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“failed another test of its democratic duty”
What in the everloving fuck is that supposed to mean? Go fuck yourself.
I thought only the left was supposed to use newspeak?
Warrant-less spying on citizens is the cornerstone of democracy.
Well, it is the Current Day WSJ, so . . . .
I was reliably informed that when Congress fails its democratic duty the President can use pens and phones to implement what must be done.
Are his pant creases perfect?
Trump has been opposed to FISA in the past, but (I’m guessing) didn’t want to spend the political capital to get rid of it. Here he has a chance to jujitsu the Dems into doing so.
That would be interesting, but I find it hard to believe it is top of mind for him or whoever is actually dealing with this.
As always, the real opposition to it is only when THE OTHER GUYS are doing it.
I so fucking hate humans.
So should we expect Trump to be devastated and reluctant if/when enough of those Democrat “No” votes turn into “Yes” votes to pass the extension? I don’t buy that, even “secretly”.
If I could be granted one wish, it would be every time some asshole (or collection of them) says “national security” they could only do so in Team America “MATT DAMON” voice.
Do they also have to suck cock to prove their loyalty? Cause that I would be for…
Re: college kids who can’t read good – maybe your admissions process is selecting for something other than academic excellence.
Nah, can’t be that.
A pulse? And a completed Financial Aid Form.
To me, the question is why aren’t the High Schools being named and shamed for graduating students who can’t fucking read?
[Baltimore shrugs its shoulders]
LOL good one
Their graduation process hasn’t been geared for that either, so why should they select for it?
I’m not going to post a link, but I watched a James Reeves interview with the current head and heir to Beretta for their 500th anniversary.
What blows my mind more than the whole “making guns for 500 years” is that these guys are the 15th and 16th generation of the Beretta family to run the company. I can only assume that there must be some Italian corporate law quirk that helps that happen because Jim Beam couldn’t manage even half that.
Also that both of these guys consider their O/U to be the best product they make.
They’re keeping their eye on the sparrow.
It usually depends how long the company has been public. Public companies in both Europe and the US get much more scrutinty.
That said public European usually only get like 25% of the scrutiny of a US company, but that has increased in the past 25 years or so as things became more and more global.
It’s interesting that these guys have avoided the “shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations” trope.
However, the 16th Beretta did get the company into NFTs, so time may be running out for the company.
They could always expand into hats….
Gun companies like to buy vast quantities of hats and give them away. I’ve got approximately two dozen Vortex hats and three dozen Hoppe’s.
Ruger just got a batch of NEW hats! These use a shinier red thread (and more of it!) than the pile I’ve already got.
I have multiple perfectly good hats – I don’t need more.
At my last major Ruger gave me not just the new, shinier red-on-black baseball cap, but a boonie in navy digicam. No idea how long that has been sitting in a warehouse.
I will be disappointed if the hats don’t match the gloves.
how much death this family must be responsible for over 15 generations…
Tools to protect life, put food on the table, and provide simple joy.
A noble tradition.
They’ve been reducing humanity’s carbon footprint! Combine that with the fact that they built their own hydroelectric plant waaay back in in 1913, they deserve ALL the environmentalism medals!
The Zildjian family has done pretty well so far.
I was thinking of them too, though Beretta is apparently older unless Zildjian can reliably trace their existence further back than the official 1623 founding. Makers of noisy products last longer?
BTW, I want to point out that I recently realized the same morons that freaked out about Hegseth spending money of steaks & lobsters for our armed forces, are only mad at the revelation that the SPLC, a liberal NGO getting massive tax money and donations from people feeding from the usual social services fraud racket team blue has created, was financing the KKK and other hate organization, because it exposed that racket….
It’s all fake indignation with that crowd. See Platner.
Robots stealing jobs from people too lazy to have jobs.
https://x.com/i/status/2065407283115294896
To confirm he still has his marbles, he was asked to draw a clock face displaying the time 10 minutes after 11.
I had to read this twice to confirm that the hour was 11:00. That’s not exactly easy to intuit with a quick read.
Also, I still use a digital alarm with a battery back up and radio time sync. It’s a single purpose device with physical controls that just works. Naturally we need to get rid of it and make it multipurpose with notably higher failure rates because of the device itself or the user interaction with it.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/time-runs-out-for-the-alarm-clock-261996dd?st=7ppbv4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I keep forgetting to wind my pocket watch.
It tends to sit on my desk next to my computer. I own it because it has a skeletonized mechanism so you can see the parts in motion. I don’t need it to tell time, and the contrast between the watch hands and the background isn’t good enough to read it at a glance.
I too have a pocket watch of similar design.
It is an astonishing work of art.
Older generations can use analog clocks, and cursive, as secret codes …
Yup. It has never even occurred to me to use my phone as an alarm clock. I guess that makes me old.
I have a twenty-six year old alarm clock that still works just fine. Why should I use an unreliable peice of techology that I got within the past five years?
I very occasionally use my phone as an alarm clock when traveling. The trick is remembering it has to be plugged in, and to crank up the volume.
RC:
Yup. The only time I use my phone as an alarm clock is while traveling. It is nice for that because it is familiar. No trying to figure out how to work some random hotel clock.
At home I have a regular alarm clock that I mostly use to see what time it is when I randomly wake up in the middle of the night.
Yeah, maybe in a hotel room it could make sense.
Not at home. I don’t even keep the thing near my bed.
PJ, that’s exactly what I use my bedside clock for. Since I’m generally up at 5:00, I couldn’t tell the last time I set an alarm at home (except once or twice when I needed to leave ridiculously early to catch a flight).
You can have my Boston Acoustics Recepter when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.
(Although I may need to find a Mend It Mark kinda guy – membrane buttons are going, loses a little time and even FM reception is going)
Don’t they still have analog clocks in 4th grade classrooms? (All the classrooms that the Altar Kids were locked into had them).
I bet 4th graders still spend a lot of time watching clock hands draaaaaag themselves along, desperately waiting for 3 pm so they can go home and play.
“Two Boston children hoping to make extra cash for the summer were robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight while they were running their lemonade stand.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/12/us-news/two-children-robbed-at-gunpoint-while-running-lemonade-stand-in-boston-by-juvenile-suspects/
OFFS!!
running put of liquor stores and gas stations in the ol’ U S of A?
*running out
The robbers were 11 and 14 if I am remembering. They haven’t graduated to robbing gas stations yet
By armed agents of the state?
No, just kids in job training.
Sounds like the criminals got away. I wonder if they are even being sought – the article doesn’t say.
Hopefully they are caught before they graduate to more serious crimes.
noticed two juvenile suspects passing the stand in South Boston around 4:45 p.m
Later in the article:
Byrne told WCVB that her son described one suspect as a black male smaller than him — guessing he was around 10 or 11 — wearing a balaclava-style mask. The other was described as a black male in his early teens, wearing a black Nike balaclava-style face mask, black shirt, shorts and high white socks.
They let blacks into Southie?
MARIANA MAZZUCATO, ROCKSTAR ECONOMIST
by @OliDugmore
Mariana Mazzucato’s ideas now influence how millions of people are governed. She was directly consulted in the formulation of Joe Biden’s CHIPS Act, a stimulus package worth $280bn. The World Bank’s mission to connect 250 million sub-Saharan Africans to electricity is pure Mazzonomics. And it’s not just the centre left drawing on her work. The Trump administration’s 10 per cent stake in Intel has made the US government one of the chipmaker’s largest shareholders. “He’s taking bits of The Entrepreneurial State,” she says, namechecking her 2013 book. But “other bits were completely ignored. The bit where I talk about socialisation of risk and socialisation of rewards is critical: you can’t just have an entrepreneurial state taking the risk, investing, and not then making sure that the citizens who paid for it, through their tax, benefit too.”
And the “missions” which Keir Starmer launched in opposition and then codified in Labour’s 2024 election manifesto? He drew on her 2021 book Mission Economy. Yet it wasn’t long after Labour came to power that she realised: “Guys, you misunderstood what missions are. Growth is not the mission. Growth is the result. Missions can’t just be completely top-down, technocratic, otherwise you kill innovation.” (Mazzucato knows Starmer personally and they’ve bumped into each other at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium.)
There is a persistent narrative that the social-democratic left has not just run out of ideas but is so intellectually deficient that it is actively ushering in the radical right. In Britain, that narrative is a justification for attempting to defenestrate the Prime Minister. Over the past few months I have interviewed Mazzucato a number of times, to understand what a progressive economic agenda might look like, and whether it’s capable of crushing the populists.
https://x.com/NewStatesman/status/2064969334229713323
Matt Kilcoyne
@MRJKilcoyne
“Mariana Mazzucato’s ideas now influence how millions of people are governed.”
Believe me, we know. It’s not going well.
The New School (PhD, 1999)
All I need to know.
The Entrepreneurial State
Found next door to the unicorn farm.
The Entrepreneurial State
See, that’s how you rebrand fascism.
understand what a progressive economic agenda might look like
“… this is known as bad luck.”
I guess that tested better than “FASCIST AUTHORITARIAN” when they were writing the headline.
“But when celebrity DJ Steve Aoki cranked up Kesha’s 2012 hit at Dave Asprey’s BEYOND Biohacking Conference at the Fairmont Hotel in downtown Austin, the crowd wasn’t thinking about biological age, mitochondrial health or life expectancy.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/12/health/how-biohackers-party-inside-the-worlds-healthiest-rave/
Remember when he used to play decent music.
He’s the guy that makes money playing other people’s music, but not on actual instruments like a cover band.
That link to the Bay Area cultist did not involve Rationalists/EA/Zizians. Good to know that they still can support a vibrant diverse range of cults there.
I’m sure he was convicted because it was a religious cult.
Rationalists aren’t? Then why do they keep telling me to read
DianeticsThe Sequences?Two State Ranch spans 5,788± total acres across both Montana and Wyoming.
Located in Powder River County, Montana, and Campbell County, Wyoming, the ranch sits between the Bighorn Mountains to the west and the Black Hills to the east. With county road access, proximity to Sheridan, Gillette, Broadus, and Interstate 90, and a 3,500± foot landing strip, the ranch offers excellent accessibility in a quiet and highly regarded recreational setting.
The property features four residences, a 40′ x 80′ shop, 150′ x 100′ indoor riding arena, game processing room with walk-in freezer, seven wells, numerous springs, seasonal creeks, multiple stock and wildlife water tanks, and 10 improved food plots.
Elk, mule deer, whitetail deer, antelope, turkeys, and sharptail grouse are found throughout the ranch and surrounding country. With strong habitat, water, cover, and food sources, Two State Ranch offers exceptional recreational and hunting opportunity along the Montana-Wyoming border.
Offered at $10,900,000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NdqdNOqAw
the Bighorn Mountains to the west and the Black Hills to the east
LOL, well that really narrows it down. You could see one, or the other, but probably neither.
So I just wasted my time writing up a glowing description of my house being located “between the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east”?
Awhile back, we were in Panama (Boquete, to be precise; delightful town) pondering whether to go expat in retirement. We looked at some real estate, including a vacant lot just outside of town that had views of both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. As in, there was one spot where you could see both just by turning your head without moving your feet.
Couldn’t afford it. The sellers had managed to chop it up so you would really want the other two lots they were selling. But if I had had the money, those views were probably almost unique in the world . . . .
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Rise and grind. Good man.
https://stoicquotes.com/journey-of-a-thousand-miles/
Wow. He lost, what, 70 pounds?
Multiply them kgs. by 2.2 to get lbs.
Divide, Alex. Divide.
110kg (initial) – 74kg (final) = 36kg (lost) = 79.2lbs (lost)
Perhaps you could have sent a few token assets to Trump’s folly in the Strait.
US plans major cut to fighter jets, warships for NATO operations in Europe, NYT reports
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-plans-major-cut-fighter-jets-warships-nato-operations-europe-nyt-reports-2026-06-12/
Good things occasionally come from bad decisions.
Now the Euros will have to postpone their planned war with Russia.
We had crazy storms last night. No damage to my place but there’s tornado damage in surrounding towns. It’s jarring when you watch that Ryan Hall storm chaser and he spends hours talking about where you live.
This has been a bad year for tornadoes already.
I blame climate change.
“The FBI has revealed a 22,000-square-foot fake town it uses for cyber war training.
The indoor facility features realistic real-world buildings, including a grocery store, hotel, courthouse and gas station.
There are also fully furnished homes, a power company, a video games arcade and a data center running 200 servers.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/12/us-news/fbi-reveals-22000-square-foot-fake-town-in-alabama-used-to-train-agents-for-cyber-warfare/
no giant tomato
22,000 square feet is a half acre.
The grocery store I work is more than double that size.
Why do they need meatspace simulations for cyberwarfare?
They’re training for fighting cyborgs.
Combined operations. Same reason that some fed and military MOUT sites have Intranets with operational news services and social media sites.
I’ve read that there are a few sites like this that are available for private training. That would be very cool to try out.
Since when does the FBI do “warfare”?
They’ve been waging war on the American people for decades.
I’ve noticed that none of my white progressive friends have said anything about the Karmelo Anthony case and it’s probably because they know that it was the right decision but are scared to say anything.
There is a giant rot in black culture. The idea that someone should be excused for stabbing another person due to their race and based on some historical oppression is evil for a lack of a better word. The Civil Rights Movement failed because while getting rid of segregation and discrimination was great it didn’t put the emphases on that with freedom comes responsibility, accountability, and perseverance. It allowed a bunch a grifter activists and commie academics to tell black people that they aren’t responsible for their actions due to historical oppression. And when you add a bunch of asshole politicians creating a welfare state that incentivizes out of wedlock births and lack of ambition, you get what we have today.
Karmelo is going to jail because he embraced the idiotic culture that tells young men that the worst thing that can ever happen to them is getting dissed or losing a fight, and they need to be gangsta to protect their street creds. The people defending him making these stupid choices do so because they are part of the stupid culture and worse, real racist fucks that think blacks should have the right to inflict that stupid culture on others and not just other blacks.
The comments on that substack article will make you convert to Cthulhu to speed things up.
It’s a shame Frederick Douglass did not win the culture war after emancipation.
He wanted to start vocational and liberal art schools then let the people work themselves out of poverty.
He also only wanted one thing from the government to assist the former slaves.
He wanted them to let them alone.
He wanted to start vocational and liberal art schools then let the people work themselves out of poverty.
Booker T. Washington nods.
Frederick would be an “Uncle Tom” today and not a guy who deserves to be on the $20 bill.
Not to mention that hairstyles would be way cooler. Douglass was the best.
When I was living in Memphis, the local news would cover crime stories in a certain way…
“The two robbers were described as white men in their early 20’s.”
“The two robbers were described as men in their early 20’s”
Somehow this was supposed to end racism.
Somehow, though, everyone figured out what the race of the perps in the second example was.
Sometimes the lack of information is information.
They don’t want to be racist though.
I think that’s common knowledge anymore.
Especially so when a perp was identified with a name like “Quaneesh” or “Muhammed.”
“Race relations” for want of a better term are at the lowest point I can remember going back to the 1980s. Growing up I never expected that huge numbers of the public would be actively fighting against civil rights – and that those people would be blacks and “white allies”, not the “white supremacists” I was told lurk around every corner.
If you understand the marxist learned from their failures in the 60s and 70s, where they used class as their cudgel, and pivoted to race, what you see today suddenly will make absolute sense. The globalist marxist cabal has been using entities like the SPLC, the legacy media, and the DNC to make up fake racial shit, because that helps them split the country in a way that allows them to take power and use it. The fools going along with that race shit today will be the first lined up against the wall once the new criminal feudal lord class take power, as every other commie revolution has shown us.
They could have sentenced Karmelo to life in Chicago.
Let him take his knife…
Cruel and unusual punishments are prohibited.
Everyone is making a big deal about the kid “taking a pocket knife to a soccer game.” Back in the day, my friends and I carried pocket knives all the time (when we weren’t in school) – they came in handy for cutting fishing lines, strings on bundles of papers, carving whistles, playing mumblty peg, defacing bark of trees. Never thought to stab or menace anyone with them.
I don’t recall athletes having knives with them during competitions like track meets.
Inside South Carolina’s Perfect Town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R84r0iQkSKI
McClellanville, South Carolina, is a historic village known for its strong sense of community and small town way of life. In this video, we explore how the town has endured at a time when many others are either struggling or succumbing to rapid growth.
sounds racist.
I bet it’s 95 degrees there today and 90% humidity. Coastal South Carolina summers are brutal.
“An Iran-linked hacker group has claimed to have breached FBI drones, threatening to target the World Cup, according to a new report from a monitoring group.
Handala, a prominent pro-Palestine cyber threat group, alleged that it had hacked first-person view (FPV) drones used by the FBI, obtaining access to ‘every image and every suspect’ for months ahead of the World Cup, which kicked off on Thursday.
The SITE Intelligence Group, a private organization that monitors jihadist groups, published a statement from Handala which outlined its claims.”
https://www.dailymail.com/sport/football/article-15894993/iran-hacker-group-fbi-drones-world-cup.html
Who knows?
“Iran-linked” or “pro-Palestine”? Those seem like two different causes.
Why?
The Iranians are big Hez and Hamas supporters. So why wouldn’t their (other) foreign ops be “pro-Palestine”? Hell, I think the freakin’ Chinese are/were funding “pro-Palestine” useful idiot ops for their disruptive value.
a private organization that monitors jihadist groups
UK’s version of SPLC?
Oh no.
Not the World Cup!
Anyway…
I bet none of you bastards bet on Romania in the world cup.
Just for that I am rooting for Canadia!!!!
I didn’t know there was a hockey game on.
I might have bet on Romania if I was sure that they would only play night games.
Without that assurance, why would I bet on them? If they get a day game, all of us get burned.
I’m sure that their US games would have to be because of the “reasonable accommodation” ADA clause. No idea if Mexico has the equivalent.
That would have been a sucker’s bet Jimbo.
what are you talking about all games are at night
Canada Bosnia is at 22:00
USA Paraguay is at 04:00
Nice one Ron.
Without betting on the game, why would anyone care. Gambling gives you a stake in the outcomes of the games.
Imagining that none of those players will cross themselves when taking the pitch.
What Heinlein said…..
The comments to the original tweet are on point as well.
“Here’s how to properly hate him”
Where we learn that the MSM is just a click of JH girls throwing tantrums.
Comrade, Emanual Goldstein deserves all the hate you can cram into two minutes, doesn’t he?
Globe and Mail responds to their own post with this:
“The previous headline on this article did not meet The Globe’s editorial standard. It has been replaced.”
OMFG it now reads, “Is that a bad look for capitalism?”
You can’t hate the MSM enough.
Uffda.
At least we learned our lessons in Minnesoda.
The “disenrollments” were part of a state effort to get Uncle Sugar to start paying Medicaid again. The state allegedly reviewed all the organizations getting paid.
The usual suspects are shouting that shouldn’t be used to “prove” that fraud was happening. They rolled out a bunch of sob stories about blameless providers being disenrolled for bad paperwork.
The moment they feel they are no longer being watched, the fraud will come back in spades. That’s because team blue relies on fraud to line their wallets. Socialism is basically a cabal of criminal syndicates and crime organizations of all sorts deciding how to fleece the serfs.
Scots arriving in Boston for the World Cup
Benefit of Idiocy
‘No way bro almost killed someone’
https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/benefit-of-idiocy
A group of teenage boys gang rape two girls on two separate occasions, film the crimes and laugh about doing it. As a punishment, they are condemned to community service, with Mr Justice Nicholas Rowland explaining at Southampton Crown Court last month that ‘I should avoid criminalising these children unnecessarily and understand the effects of their behaviour and support their reintegration into society.’
In the more recent case, the judge chose to be lenient because the two rapists were not only young, but too stupid to understand what they had done. This is not unusual – many vicious and violent criminals escape serious punishment because the law sees low intelligence as mitigation.
Last June, an innocent man called Kamran Aman was murdered in a racist attack by two teenage lowlifes who showed no remorse for the horrendous and unprovoked killing. As well as a chaotic home life and history of substance abuse, one mitigating factor put forward by the defence was that one of the killers was of ‘exceptionally low’ intelligence and had ‘limited capacity to consider the consequences’ of his actions.
Am i the only one who thinks that if you are to dumb to understand you cannot be reabilitated?
Everyone should just identify as retarded.
You absolutely are not.
‘Too stupid to understand’ is an aggravating factor, not a mitigating one.
Agreed. Should make no difference in the sentence. Lock em up, keep em there.
What if we all agree we’re too stupid to understand taxes?
CT, there’s not much to understand – pay or bad men with guns will haul you off to the ceremonial rape cages for ritual humiliation to scare the others into compliance.
“Too stupid” just means they should be locked in a criminal hospital rather than a prison.
Whatever it takes to keep them away from the rest of us.
PS. I am pretty sure I don’t believe in “rehabilitation” anyway. A leopard doesn’t change his spots. The people who believe in rehab are engaging in wishful thinking that helps ease their conscience when they refuse to do what needs doing with such folks.
How dare you assume that leopard’s gender!
Tulsi Gabbard lobs a bomb on the way out the door.
https://x.com/i/status/2065440568423944607
Sloopyinca, did the authorities finally fix that damage at Stonehenge that the Griswolds caused?
“Noleen Sedra, wife of far-right preacher Andrew Sedra, declared that feminism has been a “demonic, satanic death cult,” since its inception — which, in the U.S., means the Seneca Falls Declaration of 1848, when first-wave feminists demanded suffrage and the right to earn their own money. She then went on to defend burning women as witches.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/12/tpusas-new-message-to-girls-hate-yourself/
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Cruel and unusual
Journalists and advocates who have witnessed other executions using nitrogen gas have reported that those subjected to it writhe and retch as they die; Justice Sonia Sotomayor described the experience of suffocating as “intense psychological torment” in a 2025 dissent where her conservative colleagues allowed a different nitrogen gas execution to take place. In this case, a group of doctors filed a brief to inform the court that in their opinion, execution via nitrogen gas “necessarily causes inhumane suffering.”
The Supreme Court, in a series of opinions dating back to 2008, has ruled that when death row inmates challenge the method of their execution, they must provide an alternative means of carrying out the death penalty that would not violate the Eighth Amendment. In this case, Lee suggested that Alabama instead execute him via firing squad.
It’s revenge murder, for fuck’s sake. It’s not intended to be a pleasant trip.
Do it while he’s sleeping if you think that would make a difference.
Can we just crush them on the Russian Hydraulic Press Channel?
Dip the inmate in boiling sulfuric acid.
And those journalists and advocates are known for objectivity, right?
From a process safety engineering standpoint, the reason N2 is so freaking dangerous is that dying from nitrogen hypoxia is the opposite of what they’re describing. It’s supposed to be a quiet mix of “no idea anything’s wrong” and “maybe a pleasant buzz”, depending on the actual gas mix.
“Journalists and advocates”
I assume there were no reliable sources?
Am i the only one who thinks that if you are to dumb to understand you cannot be reabilitated?
In ye olden tymes those boys would have been sold into slavery on a pirate ship.
Or caged on a cliff and left out to rot.
They would have been hanged.
At the same time, states have struggled to purchase the drugs commonly used for lethal injections as many major pharmaceutical companies refuse to participate in executions. This has led some states to adopt other methods of execution, including firing squads and gas chambers.
Get him good and drunk and push him off the roof. Or would that violate generally accepted medical ethics?
“Talk show host Larry Reid has called for Black Americans to consider a “mass exodus” to Africa after Karmelo Anthony was sentenced to prison for the murder of Austin Metcalf, a case that has become another national flashpoint over violence, crime, justice, and public accountability.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/talk-show-host-larry-reid-calls-black-americans/
“The user behind the Instagram account @onebigrichfolkz74, an aspiring rapper, posted a photo of himself standing over Metcalf’s grave plaque and appearing to urinate directly onto it….
In a reply to a comment from someone claiming that they would have defecated instead, the user wrote, “ima go back tomorrow n diarrhea on dat bitch afta takin some laxatives.”
The deranged lunatic captioned the photo, “I woke up and chose violence,” and “FREE #KarmeloAnthony.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/sickening-deranged-ghoul-10000-instagram-followers-posts-photo/
perfectly normal reactions
You know, Larry – go, please.
So how is Liberia these days?
They’ll go for a weekend and will be begging to come back here. For one thing, African’s don’t view black people as actual Africans. Secondly, the technologies and luxuries we have here in the states aren’t readily available on the African continent.
A lot of US Blacks have a non-negligible amount of Non-African heritage, often White and Native American.
A lot of US Whites have a non-negligible amount of Native American heritage.
This happened. Did anyone post this?
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/talk-show-host-larry-reid-calls-black-americans/
Ok I’m retarded. Tater beat me to it.
What’s the maximum penalty for that, and who else would nullify if Mr. Metcalf decided that was insufficient?
“In a June 7 episode of Native Land Pod, Democratic Pennsylvania representative, Summer Lee, said that once black Americans felt like they would not receive reparations, they would stop voting.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/dem-rep-summer-lee-claims-black-voters-will-stop-voting-if-reparations-arent-paid
Your terms are acceptable.
Only the authentic black ones though, the fakers will still keep voting.
They are being bated by a party that lies to them that they will get it, but will never deliver. In the mean time I am keeping the Chappelle financial advice video handy, Buy gold, diamonds, fried chicken, and Cadillac.
Talk show host Larry Reid has called for Black Americans to consider a “mass exodus” to Africa
He might oughta check and see if anybody is willing to accept them.
Africa no doubt has ditches than need filling.
If I could time travel I’d kill Hitler”
“If I had time travel I’d stop my favorite politician getting assassinated”
You’re all thinking way too small.
If I had time travel I’d stop Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from dying on the moon due to Soviet sabotage, kicking off the Great Nuclear War and devastating half the planet.
https://x.com/klara_sjo/status/2065143527831470172
The last word on the subject of time travel: https://www.hou2600.org/ftp/ae/spacemoose/time_machine.html
Fantast
They’ll go for a weekend and will be begging to come back here. For one thing, African’s don’t view black people as actual Africans. Secondly, the technologies and luxuries we have here in the states aren’t readily available on the African continent.
I could be wrong, but I don’t think there is much call for ostentatious luxury beliefs in Africa. Hard work and practical solutions, maybe.
Genocide and rape is hard work?
Something do what you love, something something a day in your life.
From what I can tell, there’s not much call for practical solutions, either. Seems to be mostly tribal bullshit with a creamy post-colonial Marxist coating.
MC5 Kick Out the Jams on German TV (not full version)…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCYfNo__9zA&list=RDhCYfNo__9zA&start_radio=1
Reid went further, casting Africa as a promised land from which Black Americans were historically removed. “You come from a land that flows with milk and honey,” he said.
WHEEEEEEE!
I know. Unbelievable. I dare him to go back there and say he is a black prince and see what happens.