Yes, here we are, yet again. The week has flown by and it’s Saturday. The missus and I spent a couple of days up at the cabin, which made it an especially fine week. The garden is in, and planning for the new daughters nuptials continues apace. I need a generator to power the toilet trailer I rented, and all the rental place had available was a trailer mounted, 45kw unit. I’ll ask the neighbors if they want to save some electricity and just run their house off the generator for awhile.
Links?
Dangling a few below the bridge might yield better results.
Just when you think this guy can’t be a bigger douche.
They could be using this money for something useful, like reparations…
Womp, womp. Nice work Chicago.
Heh heh. “Mormon Mafia”. And Legos.
With friends like this? Seriously, Israel can be it’s own worst enemy at times. You think they would have learned from Jonathan Pollard.
Okay, that’s it for me. Time to pull a couple of weeds and generally goof off. Peace out, Glibbies.
Beaches were stormed
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a D-Day anniversary speech on Saturday to appear to link immigration by sea to the wartime liberation of Europe, warning that the freedom won by Allied troops could prove temporary if leaders failed to defend it.
Hegseth, speaking at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer in northwestern France during commemorations for the 82nd anniversary of the June 6, 1944, landings, said that today, “different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies.”
“Beaches in Spain and Italy and Greece and Bulgaria. Boats and men arrive,” he said.
“When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late?” he added. “I pray not, and I believe not.”
Hegseth did not use the word immigration, but his remarks echoed broader Trump administration criticism of Europe over migration, borders and what U.S. officials have described as censorship of nationalist and far-right voices.
Will the EU put him on the no fly list?
The Bears are looking at properties one county west of me, where my parents and 2 of my siblings live. I’m shocked it’s actually happening.
That is really wild. How bad must it be for them to actually move? We aren’t hearing the half of it.
Chicago completely screwed the pooch and ignored every warning that the team was ready to move on.
I’m also shocked. I’ve never been, but I thought Soldier Field had more cultural cache than that. Hrm. Apparently, it’s staying around as a music /fest arena. Huh. That oddly displeases me, but so does all of ‘Chicago.’ It’s kinda lucky it’s not more frequently dragged down like LA or Detroit. That Chicago Shooting site with the numbers remains revealing.
(https://heyjackass.com/ ! I remembered the jackass part! Good boy.)
They say that… but you might wind up with a Bass Pro shop going in there.
Everyone thought the same thing about Candlestick too. And yet, here we are.
ha They were gonna put a Bass Pro Shop in the Aud after the Sabres got a new arena. That deal fell through, they tore it down, and now there is some neat re-creation of the old canals that used to run through the area.
What’s the average commute between the city and the new location?
I dunno but Hammond, Indiana literally borders Chicago. This is like complaining that the Jets and Giants moved to New Jersey. In both cases the stadium is/will be located in the “suburbs”.
Chesa would have thrown them a party.
I want to be a judge when the revolution comes.
Judgement will be swift, punishment swifter.
My garden is much smaller than in the past. I changed my garden spot into an orchard, this is the first year. I do see some tiny apples on a tree that’s been in the ground 6 years, it’s from an apple seed from a store bought apple. Mice girdled most of the apple trees but somehow they leafed out and look pretty good. We’ll wait and see. In the long run it’s not my problem.
I was relieved that the letter featured wasn’t another tragic Civil War Sullivan Ballou letter (the “my grandparents” was a bit of a giveaway,) but disappointed that the writer and recipient [spoiler] eventually split up, albeit many years later. Certainly a better outcome than many through history.
This one’s pretty cool.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/world-war-ii-veteran-reveals-1-word-feeling-d-day-82-years-later
That is awesome that he’s still around!
I’ve decisively did not take a shit in Normandy. That’d been rather woeful of me. Unlike my brother, I absolutely loved and dove into the history nerd-stuff my parents like and where they took us.
Ha! Went to Paris in ’03 with ’em. Colin was studying at Harlaxton in Grantham. (Hey Maggie!) Around the Arc De Triumph, Chicago Mom repeatedly warned him to not be so rural journalist, so highly pickpocket vulnerable. He, no shit, put his hands up and loudly said to the square: “Any pickpockets here?! ANY?! COME GET IT!”
They did. Yeesh. Then, in maybe 2015 when we met up again in France (Lyon, specifically), we got separated on the same train. He got out at a stop and got lost. He had to get French train folk to get him back on one. I think that was a 4-6hr mistake of his. I say this like he’s that clueless, but he isn’t. Only with languages, science and tech. Can’t believe he didn’t get pocketed again.
(Silence, Teddy. Silence.) I write then walk away then start again! And I don’t recheck! I’m officially *off* the proofreading app clock! Those vids weren’t fun to do, but I was able to redo ’em. They didn’t tell me I only had two minutes and I had to learn, but I’m pretty happy with ’em.
They certainly prove I’m a small, white, Midwestern American (young) man in a chair. Nailed it!
Wut
@RJ: “I’ve decisively did not take a shit in Normandy.”
That’s brutal. I wrote it, then rewrote it, then left, then came back, changed something, and hit submit.
For the rest, my app for a proofreading gig required I submit two vids through their site, answering two questions they had. We joked it was solely to check my race, and I think hearing my American voice was particularly key. *shrug*
I had to poop in a public restroom today. After two weeks on the road eating road food it was such a wretched poo that I felt like leaving a $5 for the janitor.
(Maybe that’s the same mistake that guy made when he returned the $30k he found in the can. Some janitor must be vengeful.)
There’s nothing like ringing steak at 500 yards with a 16” AR carbine. Today was a day well spent.
The steak’s already dead, man.
Don’t play with your food.
That’s a particularly awkward auto-correct, isn’t it? Steel rings, steak moos.
I thought you were participating in some new sport, shooting cows at range and then eating them.
That was the first article on the Utah Lego debacle I’ve been able to read and understand. Thank you for that.
It’s pretty wild, until you understand the players.
My wife has a cousin who recently moved to Boise, Idaho and she and her husband were telling us a little bit about how the Mormons rule the region.
I was just gonna comment that I could not follow this at all the first few times one of you lot has linked it.
Maybe I will give this one a shot.
In the broken clock dept:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/06/06/david_brooks_if_democrats_side_with_platner_i_dont_want_to_hear_about_trump_and_his_degeneracy_in_the_future.html
Florida Man gets a W for the law-abiding citizens.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on Friday that the state is settling a federal lawsuit by declaring Florida’s three-day firearm purchase waiting period unconstitutional under the Second Amendment.
Excellent!