F1 is back at the Dutch Grand Prix this week. And Max just signed a new deal through 2030. The Astros managed to get above .500 again only to be sucked back to level after getting shellacked last night. It’s a shame there weren’t a couple zeroes added to this number. The Dodgers ownership financial saga keeps getting weirder. If what’s being reported is true, the reception Houston got with some fans banging trash cans at away games will seem like a walk in the park. And soccer is back across Europe over the next couple of days. That’s it for sports.
European countries have an opportunity to do something. I assume they’ll simply bitch that the US isn’t doing it’s part.
I wonder how much they pushed her. She’s obviously crazy, but I’m curious how much of that was caused by and exploited by the “informants.”
The FBI sure believed in second chances. One would almost be led to believe there were political motives at play.
If this gets a retrial, looks like the gloves are gonna come off. I really think the prosecutor made a mistake by not using it the first time since they had to know Anthony’s team would claim they didn’t get to mount a full defense if they lost.
He did the right thing. Sounds like his paper wasn’t interested in diversity of opinion or seeing specific stories published.
What a twist! He exposed a serial plagiarist because of the plagiarism not the race of the plagiarist and then gets fired by a communist troon. That’s a tough week.
Aw, nuts! Let’s see how long it takes for social media to get blamed.
Lighten up, England. It’s not as if they have a German Blitz airplane ride or something. Which would be a lot cooler than flying dumbos, now that I think about it.
They’ll be fine. All those celebrities wore the shirts saying the place is great already. I remember it like it was yesterday.
Don’t expect the government to give a shit. Because they don’t.
Let’s get those toes tapping. That’ll do it. Now take it up a notch. That’s it. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Friday and weekend, dear friends.
My name is John Cofee. Same as the drink, but spelled differently.
Covfefe?
His role at a Cambridge college was terminated in 2024 after backlash to his view that, under a true meritocracy, black people would “disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment”.
That’s not exactly a “beyond the pale” view in normal society. In the academy, however…
In the academy marxist douchebags hate anything that challenges their idiocy and exposes it.
IIRC, that wasn’t even his view alone. He relied heavily on the findings of a Harvard study that said it would be the case.
Oh, dear.
John Derbyshire waves “hullo” at National Review.
outside of sports
Someone never heard of MLB pre Jackie Robinson?
Isn’t that kind of the implication behind a lot of this DEI crap?
“European countries have an opportunity to do something. I assume they’ll simply bitch that the US isn’t doing it’s part.”
What? The whole racket is about providing lip service, raising taxes, and taking more money from stupid people through supposed charity rackets…
You’re leaving out an important part of these programs:
It’s also about providing locations for the offspring of the European elite to go rape third worlders.
I don’t see how American taxpayers are obligated to take care of the entire fucking world.
Maybe you’re just not as smart as the worthies at the State Department.
(Unlikely, considering that you can connect a computer to the internet and type posts in complete sentences with minimal misspellings…)
Or maybe we’re less evil and corrupt.
You’ve never heard of the white man’s burden?
Government is just what we all do together (in this case, Christian charity).
Every year is the same. Don’t they understand what’s causing all those children?
Being assigned to the Somali Desk at the State Dept must be great.
You are going to get a shit ton of money to “fix” things. Your clients are all crooked as hell and totes willing to kick back a lot of that tax money to your Swiss bank account.
Expectations for anything getting better in Somalia are lower than high speed rail in Cali getting completed so there isn’t any pressure to demonstrate what happened to all that money.
The only real downside is that your clients are all ugly as sin, so you can’t add some pro bono sexxy times. (Unless you are into banging buck toothed gals with huge foreheads – no kink shaming)
Also, it’s a tropical paradise!
/Pierce from Community
“The FBI sure believed in second chances. One would almost be led to believe there were political motives at play.”
Now do Shifty Schiff. That asshat needs to be in jail for real.
It’s amazing how the people they put on TV to lie turned out to have zero morals.
“Aw, nuts! Let’s see how long it takes for social media to get blamed.”
Did they try to deposit it in a bank or some kind of crypto wallet?
They squirreled them away.
That’s ballsy.
I was trying to guess which ass-backwards country that would be. I got the right continent, at least.
In a purse. Where most of them are stored.
You have the right answer Bacon!
They should remodel the slide as the HMS Hood.
Going out with a bang instead of a whimper, I see.
HMS Barham went out with a bigger bang.
True but Johnny Horton didn’t write a song about sinking the U-331.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Ufc2hI4FM&list=RDM1Ufc2hI4FM&start_radio=1
or make a movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF_ErJXx9Mc
I guess all the money the Somalis stole in Minnesota and elsewhere wasn’t used to rebuild farms or fishing boats.
Of course not. Why work when you can continue to grift?
Of course it was… well estates and yachts, but they’re basically the same thing… basically.
Somalis don’t farm, farmers are prey. They raid. The fact that this behavior continues when they leave the pile of dung that such a way of life produces is not surprising, nor will it be surprising when the places they resettle become piles of dung.
I just hope that Minnesodans get some sort of credit for already bailing out Somalia. The rest of you can fund this round of Somali nation building.
The local Somalis can start a non-profit and send back the extra food from the Kids for Groceries project
Fourscore,
The Somalis would actually be better at distributing that foreign aid money than the usual diplomats/ngos. They actually know who is who there.
They would also distribute that money only to their own clans back home. The rest of them could go pound sand.
I’m not claiming that they would give that money to the “good” clans back home. I’m sure a lot of shit heel clan members would get money, but at least it would be somewhat targeted. Some clans would actually improve their lives.
Diplomats would just dump the money out of the back of a C-130 and hope for the best.
How about instead of dropping cash from C-130s, we drop Haitians from the C-130 and have them Enrich Somalia. We can complete the cultural exchange by dropping the Somalis on Haiti.
Some just don’t get the message. Hunter has been bailed out a few times and he’s still can’t figure out the problem.
UCS:
What if we dropped the Somalis and Haitians into Gaza?
They would quickly steal all the money from the various UN aid organizations and Hamas wouldn’t be able to buy arms or pay off the families of martyrs.
Don’t send C130s full of cash.
Send AC130s to have a good time.
Leaving fraud aside, you’d think that US-based Somalis would be helping their Somalian relatives more. Something doesn’t add up about this situation.
The jury never heard about Anthony’s disturbing history, or about Metcalf’s juvenile criminal record because of a “gentleman’s agreement” with the 19-year-old’s defense ahead of his murder trial, Collin County Assistant District Attorney Bill Wirskye revealed.
The NY Post left out everything about Metcalf’s criminal record in their story. I kept an eye on some of the live coverage of yesterday’s hearing. At some point they talked about Metcalf’s history:
It states that there are graffiti photos from a juvenile offense report involving Austin Metcalf that said “KKK, Kill all Black People, Heil Hitler and N-word graffiti.”
And
According to the court document, Austin Metcalf uses n-word in another message on April 1s, day before incident.
In October 2023, Austin Metcalf bullied a Black student in class and used racial slurs, according to the motion in limine. A teacher sent an email that football players in her class were using the n-word. Austin Metcalf called another student a “black ass hoe” and said teachers won’t do anything because he is a starter on varsity.
and more.
I can see why the prosecutors would want that out in a racially charged case where the defendant claimed self defense.
Deny the request for a retrial and send the murderer to prison.
That is the right decision.
Long rope short trip.
If that shit gets out the murderer walks free.
What I don’t understand is that in a rape trial, the victim’s actions before the rape are almost never admissible. Why would this be different, especially happy as there’s no way to even know that the murderer was aware of the statements his victim made or graffiti he may have been party to being scrawled somewhere.
You taint a jury if you give them information beyond what is necessary to prove the crime someone is charged with. This strategy of showing someone did something bad according to the standards of the criminal left when they were 6, is ludicrous.
victim’s actions before the rape are almost never admissible
Rape shield laws exist.
If the defense agreed to a quid pro quo on introducing prior history, I don’t see how the defense can say they were denied a fair trial. They agreed to it; it wasn’t denied them.
I wonder what “Anthony’s disturbing history” was that such an agreement was made.
He was stalking his girlfriend and messaging things about licking blood off a knife, and that he was on the verge, the morning of the murder…
Right?
Must be pretty heinous, juries would lap up the racist graffiti stuff.
The manager of a family farm has defended its Titanic-themed children’s slide amid criticism online calling it “disrespectful”.
The last time I was in the UK I visited Southampton (Titanic’s home port), Belfast (where the ship was built), and Cobh / Cork (the last port of call before heading west on the ill-fated voyage).
In Cobh, the bar where I had lunch was called the White Star, as it was the converted offices of the ocean liner company that owned Titanic.
Needless to say, all three places acknowledged their history with regards to the vessel, and even made it a bit of a tourist attraction.
Methinks the farm owner is just a victim of the perennially indignant, who will find a new shiny object to be angry about next week.
It got a guffaw out of me.
Hmmm….
I had read that they decided to keep the name because they got more support than hate for the name. When I tried digging up a link, I found something interesting.
First the Sun
Second the BBC
You can’t hate the media enough.
whaddup doh’
Another 106 F day. Feels good in small doses.
“Khan reportedly posed as a doctor to lend credibility to the claim, purchasing a white apron, stethoscope, and thermometer to convince his associates that the organs had real medical value.”
——–
I bet that he had a med school degree from “Acme University” hanging on the wall too, who could have possibly put it together?
A Sooper Genius!
Gosh, that’s unusual.
They are always telling you A STORY… Not the truth unless it lines up with that story. Which it practically never does..
Gloves off retrial – I thought this was a reference to Derek Chauvin. Maybe this time the jury sees the department training that he followed to the letter.
https://thenewamerican.com/us/crime/chauvin-filing-grand-jury-should-have-heard-case-ag-illegally-appointed-to-oversee-case-prosecution-conviction-invalid/
Doesn’t matter, the mob will never allow Chauvin a fair hearing.
Giving Chauvin a new trial might be a good honey trap for ICE.
Have them swoop down on the inevitable court protests a few times.
Pope, I like your thinking. A tip of the monocle to you.
I don’t give a shit.
And I am 💯% certain your writers and all the other do-gooders who are up in arms don’t give an actual shit either.
They can either go back to Haiti or be dumped in the mid atlantic for the sharks.
You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.
You know what… I’ll allow the writers and any other private citizen to sponsor a single Haitian refugee. They will have to supply housing and food for the refugee if they are unable to support themselves.
I will allow them to sponsor a single haitian – in haiti.
Too bad El-Sayed in MI isn’t still running the city pounds. He could have sponsored a ton of the Haitians.
Win-win.
Cut costs for the pound and feed the Haitians at the same time.
Jimbo, Jimbo, Jimbo – you’re overlooking an even better option – Feed the Haitians to the animals.
UCS:
How about if we periodically released a lot of the Haitians and animals into Ford Field. Let the strongest win.
We could sell tickets and televise it.
Maybe the DSA could also distribute free bread too.
Haiti unable to figure shit out over a century or more is such a sad, irrelevant tale.
It’s voodoo.
The Haitians could have a referendum and become the 51st state
Noooooo. No more states. Hawaii was a mistake.
Yeah, good god no.
Would the new Haitian Senators be dumber than Maizy Hirono?
Oh God yes they would.
I wouldn’t take up that bet Ted. Hirono is a non-sentient life form.
You’ve never been to Haiti.
The reason the Haitians received TPS was not because of gang violence. It was because of an earthquake. In 2010. “Temporary.”
This is in Friday Funbags’ wheelhouse.
https://archive.is/rxA2t
Original link? Captcha stuck in a loop.
The New York Times can’t get a fair trial in Alabama, not even the northern half.
By fair trial you mean they get away with murder?
So a judge supporting the jury verdict is somehow prejudicial?
I think you could interpret his remarks as saying that the process of arriving at the verdict was correct, not that the guilty verdict was correct:
All the stories keep chopping the quote after “yes they did”. The full answer is a bit more nuanced.
Sshhh. No nuance allowed. You’re not supposed to point out the rest of what people say.
So I have this nautical question stuck in my head related to worldbuilding.
In the colony “Judge of Jinwick” is set, the locals make boats for both fishing and carrying cargo back and forth to the mainland. The seabed along the edge of the mainland shore ranges from 4-10 feet deep depending on the tide. Since these are relatively small boats, I’m inclined to a 3ft draft laden. This is an oceanic shoreline, with most trips being a few miles except when the fishermen go further out in search of catch. I’m trying to figure out the size and capacity that makes the most sense to be made locally. I’m just at a loss as to where to look for information.
Let me ask a question: Will your readers care?
I care.
I can’t read the readers’ minds.
I’m guessing the cargo boats are likely to be larger than the fishing boats. Cargo vessels won’t care about the shallower bits along the shore, just the depth for the route they take between ports. No need for them to have a three foot draft fully laden (which is very small, I think, for a cargo vessel).
The reason the draft was listed was because the voyage to the mainland from the island crosses those shallows. It’s part of the reason the port for dealing with the rest of the world is on the island. This led me to think they’d use dual purpose boats for the local traffic.
That’s a shallow draft for a boat that needs to traverse any sort of ocean waves. Also, not that much room for cargo.
Reading various sources I’ve noticed the wave problem for hull shape. You can get a lot of cargo on a broad flat-bottom boat, but it has trouble in the waves. To handle the waves to lose a lot of beam to V-shape the hull.
How does the calculus change with catamaran and trimaran setups?
Didn’t Viking ships have shallow drafts, but were built to handle the ocean?
Maybe something like that, unless I am misremembering how shallow they were.
You’re not wrong.
My useless historical knowledge comes in handy every now and then.
It is interesting how hard it has become to tell self proclaimed virtuous, empathetic, loving people apart from vile savages cheering on rape, murder, and civilizational collapse.
“Local police have deployed divers to search for the missing organs as part of the ongoing investigation”
Who ever finds them becomes King of the Indians?
I see a buddy movie starring Bill Clinton and Wayne Dumond!
Re: new California tire regulations:
If their claim is true that the new tires pay for themselves in fuel savings in a few months, why would they need to enforce their sale through regulation?
It’s almost as if their claim is bullshit and/or the regulation is about something else.
Also, what are the tradeoffs in durability, safety, etc?
I was hearing something about reduced traction? I wasn’t entirely sure what was being mandated, since I don’t understand tires as well as I should.
I was told these new tires will make burnouts harder to do…
Reduced traction would be a logical consequence. To improve fuel efficiency you’d use a harder rubber compound. Less rolling resistance, but also less grip.
I was told these new tires will make burnouts harder to do…
Cholos hardest hit
I was told these new tires will make burnouts harder to do…
But drifting will be easier.
Chipping Pioneer:
Rudy Cholo?
The additional crashes from loss of control will take vehicles off the market and CO2 emitters from the mortal coil. Win-win!
Because Big Oil is colluding with Big Rubber to force consumers to pay more …
Big Rubber
So sell my stock in Trojan Magnums? Damn! They were doing so well ever since that Odyssey movie came out.
OEM tire selection is driven by CAFE standards. They do whatever it takes to hit gas mileage targets — so that means tires with low rolling resistance. These tires are not engineered to provide best performance or to provide longest life. Low rolling resistance, best performance, or long life are all dissimilar targets that result in dissimilar tires.
Today, you can go buy tires to meet whatever you priority is. The tires I put on my Z give great performance, but not long life. My choice.
CA is saying fuck you. Put on low rolling resistance tires and nothing else.
The response should be “Fuck you, we’re not selling to your shithole state anymore”
Because it’s expensive to switch over a production line from one tire to another, one unintended consequence is that you’re going to get more of these tires outside of California as well, despite the market not signalling demand for them.
Manufacturers and retailing might actually benefit from this.
It’s more cost effective to manufacture, stock, and sell a single tire model than a variety of models.
Don’t expect the industry to complain about this.
Nevada and Arizona tire shops are about to benefit, especially for performance model cars that might demand a different type of tire.
It’s the same as light bulbs or electric cars. These retards don’t believe in markets though.
I should have read the comments before commenting.
If their claim is true that the new tires pay for themselves in fuel savings in a few months, why would they need to enforce their sale through regulation?
The same reason the Feds had to ban incandescent lightbulbs. It’s not about the fuel or electricity savings.
Banning incandescent bulbs improves the sale of psych meds and sleeping pills.
It’s about having more fun in the snow and the rain.
The DERP, it burns!
Now do anti-lockdown people versus bootlickers.
The locals in Santa Fe are in an uproar over some ICE arrest or other. Something about getting arrested in front of his kid?
Nobody asks the first question, which is “Did he have it coming?”. If he did, who cares about the optics? If he didn’t, who cares about the optics?
But no, we have to blubber and wail because some kid saw his father get what he deserved.
There are states that are actively fighting President Trump’s ethnic cleansing campaign. And there are ones that welcome it.
“If groceries keep eating your paycheck, a year of BJ’s is just $15”
https://nypost.com/2026/08/21/shopping/if-groceries-keep-eating-your-paycheck-a-year-of-bjs-is-just-15/
STIJLTH
So, not the same as downtown?
Not $20?
*signs up*
Where is this annual BJ subscription? Cause three a day would make that an amazing bargain.
“Another WNBA game was momentarily interrupted by an apparent green sex toy being thrown onto the court Thursday night when the Sparks host the Dream.
The alleged culprit was apprehended, according to The Athletic, and this incident comes a little more than one year after the league dealt with several similar situations.”
https://nypost.com/2026/08/21/sports/apparent-sex-toy-thrown-onto-court-during-another-wnba-game-and-alleged-hurler-caught-fleeing/
But real dicks are allowed?
It’s going to be hilarious when all these shitlord ex pro and college guys actually do end up in the league and make these ladies look like a junior high player competing with height of power Larry Bird.
They aren’t going to wind up in the WNBA. The meeting the teams held wasn’t to see if they needed a rule change, it was to make sure everybody knew not to draft any men. If nobody drafts them, Nothing Else Happens(tm).
Doesn’t FedGov take an interest when businesses collude in secret to stifle competition?
Sports leagues have an exemption, either de jure or de facto.
Hell, the entire player draft thing would be illegal anywhere but sports.
Thanks for crushing my fantasy.
“But real dicks are allowed?”
Only if they are not green?
They banned Banner?
Don’t make him angry.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Which government agency claims jurisdiction over the lake?
Easy. All of them!
Now what did I win for answering correctly?
Navigable waters is Corps of Engineers domain!
I’m sure the Wisconsin DNR is also advancing a plan to give the public access to his lake. Maybe create an easement from the nearest road to the lake.
Of course, they will also have to take some of the farmer’s land to create a boat launch. Which will be 15 yards from their new house.
On a positive note, watching people attempt to launch boats can be pretty entertaining (as long as you aren’t stuck waiting behind them to launch your own boat).
Excellent
Farmer can afford to take 11 acres out of production and burn all that (subsidized) fuel.
A real struggling American hero.
Speaking of nuts….
“Nurtured Nuts CEO Bryant Williams sought to remove three of the clinically relevant proteins found in peanuts — RH2, RH6, and RH7 — that can cause a severe allergic reaction by modifying peanut DNA using CRISPR.
The result is a peanut that is hypoallergenic, not allergen-free. That means the nut isn’t meant to be eaten by people with severe peanut allergies, but rather that it could be consumed in communal spaces without posing the same risk to people with severe allergies.”
https://nypost.com/2026/08/21/health/new-hypoallergenic-peanuts-are-in-development/
Don’t screw with my nuts.
Not even if a cuck begs you?
What heartless bastard are you that would deprive a woman of the love of a REAL MAN?
No thanks, when I have a load of nuts in my mouth I want all of the proteins that are available.
Call me.
Quit stepping on my act.
I continue to wonder what happened, that we got along just fine for centuries coexisting with peanuts, and now they are the functional equivalent of nerve gas.
Adjuvants
Don’t worry, just keep up with your vaccination schedule.
Trans 1.0?
It was the perfect thing to make your kid “special”. All the other moms would have to admire your bravery in raising a kid under such challenging situations.
Probably also the fact that these alleged allergies* caused less peanuts to be around small kids so they weren’t exposed at an early age.
*AA meetings for these fraudsters who pretend that they suffer from made up maladies should be court mandated.
Maybe a little of both vaccines and moms wanting “special” kids along with something else.
I have a friend, a little older than me, that has a peanut allergy. I met him while I was in high school. That was the first time I ever heard about a peanut allergy. This is long before peanuts allergies became the “in” thing and the vaccine schedule when he was born was pretty simple compared to when peanut allergies became the “in” thing.
My niece said her Dr. told her not to give her son peanut butter.
She said that sounded dumb, so she gave him a little and he was fine.
Maybe over caution helped fuel it more.
“Women have spent generations demanding to be treated as full moral actors: capable of making decisions, accepting consequences, holding positions of authority and being judged by the same standards as men.”
https://nypost.com/2026/08/20/opinion/how-has-lindsay-clancy-become-a-more-compelling-victim-than-her-three-children-who-she-brutally-killed/
When was this?
They have then, whenever it was convenient, escaped to victimhood, accusing their mistakes & failures on the patriarchy and everyone but themselves. The women that pushed the nonsense of the last 5 decades have never wanted equality: they have wanted superiority.
“accepting consequences”
Pffft, yeah right…
I think maybe first wave feminism, call it 1965 to 75?
1848
And they explicitly did NOT want to be treated like men, because they knew they had a better deal already.
I asked Mrs. TOK about this. She says people are convinced the inconsistencies in the case point to the husband doing it. Sounds a lot like a “Dateline” episode where we’ll never know the truth. I haven’t read much about it.
Not even the woman’s defense lawyer in court is arguing she didn’t do it. He’s trying to mitigate the sentence with the insanity plea. She never claimed to not have done it. The people who have a pathological need to blame anyone but the murderess are broken.
That’s an important bit of context. Thanks.
She just gave them late term abortions. These protesters are the same people that believe a woman cannot fully realize her true bodily autonomy unless she kills her offspring.
Medea is the message?
There are literally zero inconsistencies in the case.
This is a case of…well, it’s not even really toxic empathy or empathy for the outgroup. It’s more like monsters empathizing with other monsters. Either way, it’s demonstrated how a bunch of women (and male-feminist enablers) are both evil and retarded.
A friend of mine from my high school days decided to throw her hat in the ring and run for school board.
There are a few folks on this site who don’t vote out of principle, and that’s okay.
But the “one vote can’t possibly matter” crown was wrong on this singular occasion.
Technically one vote still didn’t matter, you’d need 8 more to win. 😛
4 would win, 8 would be a landslide
You are supposing flipped votes, but Shpip was talking about people who did not vote voting so it takes 8, one more than the 7 vote difference.
The people are the losers. We got a 40T debt by all those elected winners.
It dosent matter until you get 2/3 majority in the school board.
I remember reading a story a long time ago about an election in a small town that would have designated the town as “dry” and banned all booze.
The result was like 100 – 1 against. The only person who voted (presumedly) for the measure was the battle axe of a woman who proposed the measure in the first place.
The kicker of the story was the speculation on the misery that the battle axe of a woman put her wimpy husband through after the results came out. She was probably pretty pissed there weren’t at least 2 votes to get rid of the booze.
“I need the drink to deal with you.” – Husband’s unspoken thoughts.
Awesome, is she a shuttle
Shitlord?
Rossi lost to Gregoire about a couple hundred votes – after the 3rd recount and the Dem ballot dumps. If a few people had gotten off their asses, Washington would have been in better shape.
I wonder, would Kamala have started a late Saturday night unwinnable war?
“Cheer up, things could be worse”
So I cheered up and sure enough, things got worse.
They would have done a fourth recount.
Goods Comrades. We have a revision to our planned economy.
President Trump announced a plan to temporarily allow more foreign beef imports into the U.S. without paying higher tariffs, his latest move aimed at easing a run-up in beef prices for American shoppers
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u-s-to-boost-beef-imports-to-address-high-prices-trump-says-52b0f5dc?st=9C79nw&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Keep twisting the knobs Donald, you’ll get it right eventually. 🙄
OTH, here is a ray of sunshine.
Trump Administration Attacks Bar Association’s Power to Accredit Law Schools
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/aba-american-bar-association-law-schools-accredit-trump-education-e56f4cbc?st=G36Njo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Good. Get the ABA out of the gatekeeping role entirely.
In fact, burn them to the ground.
Burn all gate keepers to the ground.
No. I want to keep the proggies out of places they shit up. So I need my gatekeepers.
Every time you empower gatekeepers, they will be skin suited by psychos and commies. People need to prove their value in the crucible of skilled labor. Schools need to prove their value by showing how successful their students become.
I thought they made nice by removing their dei policies.
They tried to paper over that issues, but the organization is full of “true believers” and will subvert that at every oppurtunity and the Trump administration knows it.
However, I doubt Team Trump will be successful.
Against highly-motivated armies of radicalized true believers? Nope.
To be fair, twisting the rules to get what they want is literally a lawyer’s job.
I thought states were already getting rid of Bar requirements because they are racist.
You think NJ, CA and NY are going to buck the ABA?
Maybe Somalia just shouldn’t have that many people in it. I guess cutting off the pirates and fraud schemes in Minnesota are having knock on effects back home.
A solution? Maybe this will cull the herd
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/somali-child-hunger-crisis-deepens-130823136.html
Putting my tinfoil hat on for a second, what if all the fraud in MN was an intentional way to tamp down on piracy back in Somalia?
Elon Musk will destroy the US.
As soon as he creates a viable opportunity to move to Mars, the US will become as sclerotic as the EU. All the pioneers will move to Mars and make their fortunes there.
The only ones left here in the US will be the statists (and the Somalis, Haitians and El Salvadorans who will still be on TPS).
Oh, and the statists still here will no longer have to contend with those pesky Far Righties who don’t want their rights trampled. They will be on Mars and won’t care anymore if a 5% one time wealth tax is passed.
Of course. This tracks with a whole series of books by L. Neal Smith. The commies will stay on Earth and will try in vain to control the colonies on Mars. This was also in Heinlein’s “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.”
Heinlein had others like that.
I can’t remember the name. In it, Moon colonists came back to live on Earth (specifically Connecticut as they were from Connecticut). They hated being back on Earth because of dealing with unions to get stuff done, regulation, small minded people. Probably made worse by being in Connecticut.
You’re making me extremely nostalgic for my college libertarian futurist days. Time to pull out my autographed copy of Kings of the High Frontier.
Similar premise in Tom Kratman’s series.
Am I gonna have access to my Steam library from Mars?
What these candidates fail to understand—or refuse to acknowledge—is that applying Medicare payment rates to all services provided to all patients would destroy the American healthcare system.
The debate usually centers on taxes and the role of government. But there is a more fundamental question: Could America’s hospitals survive if every patient were reimbursed at Medicare rates?
Cool! Now do prescription drug prices for US citizens with private insurance or no insurance.
The ‘Medicare for All’ Math Doesn’t Add Up
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-medicare-for-all-math-doesnt-add-up-1a3a4758?st=Kosotf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Just start paying doctors and nurses the rates they do in Europe and we can make it work.
Doctor shortage!
Single-payer for lawyers.
When you just don’t give a **** about your gelcoat or your neighbors in the marina.
How to Dock a Boat in 20 Seconds Without Taking Out a Tiki Bar
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/how-to-dock-a-boat-in-20-seconds-without-taking-out-a-tiki-bar-91734ce7?st=ZXPasB&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Boy that is some skill. I agree that I wouldn’t want to do that with a boat I cared about. Whopping those tires over and over is going to break something.
Back in my boating days the spectacle after a day of boating was sitting back on the boat and watching everybody come in for the day.
You’d see how well or badly they docked and score it.
We had a sailboat with a one cylinder diesel auxiliary. It couldn’t produce much power or change direction with any kind of authority. To back into the slip we used to pull perpendicular to the slip grab the springs lines and warp us stern first into the slip. It was much easier than trying to back into the slip on auxiliary power alone.
When I learned to sail the smaller boats had no auxiliary motors at all. Docking under sail is a ballet.
I’m always amazed when you see the pros dock their boats at a marina. So much money is floating around them. The guide I used to salmon fish on Lake Michigan with could drop his boat into its slip in a river with a ton of current. If he missed it, he’d bang into some other really expensive boats. Never saw him blow it though.
On the other hand, when we had our cabin, I always referred to my docking method as “smash and grab”. I’d bang into the dock and Mrs. Holiness and the Altar Kids would be charged with grabbing a dock post and holding on.
I don’t want to watch Tiki Bar violence!
Seriously, I hope that dude had the good grace to apologize.
I bet I know which tiki bar he ran into, too…https://tikibarsolomonsisland.com/ I’ve never actually been there, but it’s the only tiki bar with dock access on the Eastern Shore. Next time I’m down at Sanner’s Lake for a match, I’m gonna make a point of stopping by.
You’d have to wipe out a few cars and some asphalt before you touched the bar.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/CCCpfyumAEFYztbK6
I’d be more interested in watching a boat launching tournament.
As soon as they started, 10 other boats would pull in behind them and start honking. There would be a big hill with a sharp turn at the bottom.
Also, the dock would have some some asshole’s boat tied onto it, so you had to launch around it.
The real fun is watching drunk people try to put boats and jet skis on trailers at a slip or ramp.
“A Texas woman watched in horror as an Amazon delivery drone dropped her package directly into her pool — one day after the retail giant announced plans to roll out the ultrafast air delivery services to 500 US cities by the end of the year.
Amazon shopper Lindsey Austen received an alert on Monday that her package was out for delivery by the retail giant’s Prime Air program, according to Storyful.
The Richmond, Texas, resident then heard the drone’s loud buzzing noise and raced outside to watch the newly rolled-out drone delivery service drop off her package.”
https://nypost.com/2026/08/20/us-news/amazon-delivery-drone-drops-shocked-customers-package-directly-into-swimming-pool-in-viral-video/
Was this in R.J.’s neighborhood? Can you buy stinger missiles on Amazon?
An Iranian reject drone?
The comments pointed out that you tell the package drone where to put the package. She had to have told it to drop there.
I ended up seeing two of those things last night as I sat in the (almost finished) pool.
Unless it is life-saving medicine, what does one need air dropped from Amazon at a moment’s notice? Winston’s Mom ran out of condoms?
The “model” says this is actually cheaper last mile delivery than a truck and driver.
I remain unconvinced.
Sensei – You can automate the process of giving the drones their GPS targets. So the robots can pick and pack the boxes, load the drones, the computer can set the routes and destinations, and the drones fly on autopilot, removing the cost of so many humans who are expensive.
Winston’s mom’s customers.
Condom’s ain’t helpin’ her at this point.
This is “look at my amazing pool clickbait.” Nothing of value was lost.
Something broke Nancy Mace’s brain, and the signs are getting too obvious to ignore.
To be fair, she’s a Citadel alum, but trying to look like an E-2 at forty-eight years of age is disconcerting.
I really do not like tats. And she looks rough.
50 years ago tats were great. A tat on a gal at the bar meant that she was looser than Winston’s Mom.
Now everyone has them. Even a tramp stamp means nothing. Back to having to randomly hit on chicks at the bar trying to find the one with questionable morals.
Tats on dudes were also a good indicator that they had done something real stupid (joined a biker gang, went to prison or joined the Marines) and should be avoided.
Tats are still a sign that someone has done something real stupid.
Hey!
I resemble that remark!
Tat free! After all these years.
My wife has 4 tattoos. Shoulder, stomach (side) hip and foot.
Polish flowers on her shoulder
A pierogi on her side (stomach)
A rooster that matches in colors the shoulder tattoo
A series of stars on her foot to cover up a bad tattoo she got when she was younger.
I drew the stars. The others all have meaning (The flowers include the kids and my birth flowers) The rooster is a symbol of Key West, where she loves to go, and the pierogi (also has polish-style flowers) is one she shares with her niece. (They got them together).
I guess I don’t mind them as they are well done and meaningful to her (and she got most of them later in life)
The rooster is on her hip.
The rooster is on her hip.
Must… resist… cock joke…
JI – I’ve never even thought about that. Ha!
Did she move to Indiana?
48, female…
Could America’s hospitals survive if every patient were reimbursed at Medicare rates?
Oh, those poor hospitals.
according to models …
According to my model, those models are wrong.
You laugh, why do you think you get charged more?
““Nuclear weapons . . . I don’t think were created by people.” — Tucker Carlson, Monday”
https://nypost.com/2026/08/20/opinion/this-week-in-whoppers-tucker-carlson-muses-on-supernatural-origin-of-nukes-ex-ny-mag-writer-wishes-he-copied-better-and-more/
Because the Manhattan Project was a bunch of Jews?
Beyond Carlson personally…. I am amazed at how people who present as well-spoken, intelligent and reasonably well-heeled can be *profoundly* ignorant.
I dont necessarily mean that as the direct insult it sounds like…. I mean ignorant as in “dont even know what they dont know”.
I have expectations. Unrealistic expectations, true, but expectations nonetheless.
I expect a normal adult human to have basic understandings of the physical world around them. Things like how the digestive system works. How the reproductive system works.
Not just the general shape and size of the earth, solar system, galaxy and universe… but also a general idea of how we know these things. What the core of the earth is like, and how we learned about this.
Just a basic background knowledge of reality. Like, knowing that the guy saying he has a free energy machine is a fraud because you have a general idea of the 1st and 2nd law of thermodynamics. Not that you could do the math, or cite chapter and verse… just a general idea.
Tucker isnt alone. I deal with otherwise intelligent people who lack just basic tools for survival.. like women who are grown with kids, yet do not know what a menstrual cycle actually is.
It is flabbergasting, truly. And it isnt benign. Sure, believing that every blurry blob on a video is an alien space ship is generically harmless. And you can believe that serially diluting strychnine 10-fold a dozen times will make a cure for fever if you want to….. but that wont make the magic water actually do anything. And you could actually avoid real medicine that could help because of it.
But that is more of a personal failing.
Yet we have created an education system that confers masters degrees in the humanities on these people. And they go forth with not just no knowledge, but negative knowledge. They believe the earth is flat and they want to fly airplanes and captain ships.
These idiots think Hitler was uniquely evil, supposing him to be “right wing, like Trump”… never realizing that their preferred ideology has resulted in mass murder that makes (the socialist) Hitler look like a piker.
It is truly dangerous to have such a high percentage of the public this profoundly ignorant. We actually do know things… and we have proven methods of learning them that do not include “concensus” or any nod to “lived truth”.
Tucker and Candace and all these other folks being this insanely ignorant isnt just an eye-roll. It is a symptom of a complete failure of the educational system. An educated populace is key to having a successful democracy. And if you have an electorate who cannot tell you why the earth isnt flat, or why communism cannot work… you dont have an electorate that is qualified to make decisions about who will lead.
You have to be willing to believe that the Tuckers and Candaces know better but are also incentivized to say outlandish things.
I’ve been watching these videos of this ginger guy walking around some huge job site building asking his coworkers geography questions.
I’d fire all but a handful of those people.
It’s not just trivia. They don’t know basic shit about the world.
I watched another glibflick candidate last night. Interesting cast.
Didn’t see this trend ever ending! /sarc
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/labubu-makers-revenue-momentum-slows-after-explosive-growth-7d32c266?st=DhpdVM&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Fads Fade.
It is a law.
You know how I know I am old?
I never heard of any of this.
I learned of the fad from watching trainwrecks on a youtube show by a guy who verbally abuses people who are chronically bad with their money.
We’re not talking about the person that gets $10 worth of gas, 2 packs of smokes, 2 scratch offs, a weekly lottery ticket and 2 six packs and charges it, are we?
Whew! That’s good to know.
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!
I want to get in at the VC stage at least.
You can use a clean bathroom, play a hand of blackjack, eat at an all you can eat buffet featuring nine things Sacramento has outlawed, get four new tires fitted, and walk out having won a gas generator.
See from the title and it being in Nevada I thought it was going to be offering different kinds of services.
It was, indeed, obvious.
They have to offer full service …
“buffet featuring nine things Sacramento has outlawed”
???
It *would* be a handy way to get customers in the door to blow some money.
Not sure if I’d trust the beaver nuggets there, though.
The parking lots will have plenty of ‘independent contractors’.
California banned pate for while. Probably still banned. I don’t know what else because I GTFO in the late 1980s.
The giggity economy.
It included Arizona: I-40, I-10 and I-8. But not Oregon: I-5.
How can they omit prostitution with a name like that?
See! I’m not alone…
Beautiful.
Haitians and Somalians are missing the big payout.
They should start their own “reservations” in Cali. Proclaim that they are taking stolen land back from the colonizers.
Then run something similar to these Fuc-ees. But it will be right in LA and Frisco. No driving all the way to Nevada.
Would the Cali pols dare to shut down an unlicensed gas station run by illegals?
Unlicensed pharmaceuticals with the BBQ?
The thing that Somalia and Haiti have in common is that it is a “government thing”, not a natural disaster, geography or any other such problem.
We have known this about Somalia since the 1980s at a minimum. The famines there have always been about government. There is plenty of food. But they use territorial control for power there, so people starve.
Haiti is the same. Bad government follows bad government follows bad government. I have acquaintances from Haiti. All good people. Hard working. Smart. (Also good Christians, incidentally) but it is a shithole country because of the government.
Funny how the Dominican Republic manages not to be a complete basket-case, with just an invisible line separating them from Haiti.
And if anything, Spain fucked up their colonies worse than the French.
Which French colony turned out well?
Louisiana?
Had a lot of help from being bought by the United States rather than going it alone.
Also, the timing of that sale is important. We bought it during the Napoleanic wars. Most of the colonies gained independence in the mid 20th century. By then Louisiana was so well integrated into the greater US it can’t be measured as a separate unit.
🤔
Another interesting data point – Haiti declared independence from france in 1804. It’s had more time to get its act together as an independant state than Vietnam or Algeria and somehow managed to do worse than either.
See also: most of Africa
Those who dismiss this as a “those stupid people over there” problem should take heed. Our form of government is fragile, and it is constantly under attack. Now more than any time in nearly 100 years.
Do not fall prey to the hubris that we are superior and immune to this. We can descend into chaos very easily.
Just look to history.
Persia was the shining beacon for centuries. The pinacle of science and learning. Then the government changed.
Rome had a quality of life that is hard to imagine in a world 2,000 years ago. Not as different from today’s city life as one might suppose. Yet, despite centuries of prosperity and a vast empire, it collapsed.
We can go that way just as easily as they did.
I don’t know when the last “real” famine was. I’m pretty sure it was early 20th century.
All of the famines since then have been political. Some govt was using famine as a tool to bring the plebes to heel. The Ethiopian famine that triggered “We are the World” was political.
Yup. And the part that never really gets much thought is – why don’t we teach it that way?
Why didnt we tell it that way at the time?
Why did “the press”, then and now, insist that it was a completely unforseeable natural disaster that requires our government to send sacks of rice to mitigate.
If you dont know the problem, you cannot know the solition
1. The check is in the mail.
2. The package is on the truck.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday there’s a “very good chance” that the U.S. budget deficit under President Donald Trump has likely peaked.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/20/bessent-budget-deficit-trump.html
FY 2025 actual annual deficit was $1.8 trillion. Projected FY 2026 deficit is $2.0 trillion. Projected FY 2027 deficit is $2.2 trillion. Those projections came out with the March 2026 monthly Treasury statement.
Unless I see new projections in the next monthly Treasury statement, I’ll say Bessent is full of shit.
Hmmm… A politician full of shit you say? Inconceivable!
Peaked in inflation adjusted dollars….
At times I am amused at my wife’s forgetfulness.
– Can I throw a wet rag in the dryer with some clothes to remove wrinkles? I hate using the iron.
– The dryer has a built in steam mode for that. You asked for it when we bought it.
– I will start using that.
My wife would add in exasperation that I am trying to explain how something works.
Sometimes the forgetfulness is real and sometimes serious.
Dragging this over from the movie thread because I can’t believe nobody agrees Sigourney in Aliens is one of the original girl bosses:
I don’t know why Aliens gets so much love. I thought the beginning was good, the shit talking Marines seemed accurate, but then it devolved into a girl boss movie before girl boss was a thing. I remember rolling my eyes as Bill Paxton was freaking out and Sigourney Weaver showed him where to set machine guns to cover the hallways.
That made my teeth itch.
Alien was pretty good.
She wasn’t a girlboss. She had flaws and vulnerabilities.
If that movie was made today she would have single handedly beat up every alien monster using her kung fu.
Doesn’t matter how much they weighed or how many there were.
I agree. The girl boss trope has to be more than a girl who is boss.
The female protagonist in horror works for a reason. We intuitively see a woman as more vulnerable to physical threats. So it works as a story.
Aliens, being an action movie sequel to a suspense horror movie brings forward our vulnerable protagonist. She can see the threat in a way that those who didnt experience it cannot.
This is why it works. Her experiences have given her the tools to survive – including the ability to drive a loader, and the raw killer instinct needed to survive.
That is why this story works, and captain marvel doesnt.
She was calmer under pressure than a Marine and knew more about setting the defenses than they did.
I think they made Bill Paxton act that way to show how brave she is.
That being said Michelle Rodriguez’s character was pretty good.
Every group will have people who are unable to keep a cool head in adverse conditions. Including those ostensibly screened by military training.
A Girlboss isn’t a tough or capable female protagonist. As already mentioned, Vasquez was tough and capable and made it look right.
A Girlboss is a female protaganist who is better than every man at everything, and who has no character arc allowing for improvement, because she’s already perfect the way she is – she just needed to believe in herself and stop listening to the haters.
Specifically talking about Aliens, Ripley was a (cashiered) spaceship commander. It’s not at all unbelievable that she would be cool under pressure.
We intuitively see a woman as more vulnerable to physical threats.
Though in Aliens she was a momma grizzly.
I am with you sir.
It’s gay and retarded.
She earned her leadership with the events of Alien. Today, Aliens would be the first movie in the franchise.
OK, it might not be as bad as I remember, but to me the first one made a lot more sense.
Paxtons character was a tool.
But I saw that same reaction once down range. But it came from a woman…
Calkins was a shitbag SF douche writing in the Seattle papers. His articles were mostly contrarian and designed to get clicks and nothing else. So kudos for taking a stand but the rest of his work was shit.
Such lofty prose
What Scott encountered was a fight that had become personal in the most literal sense. In West Texas, CBP’s maps run through ranches, water sources, family histories and a deeply rooted belief that land is not something you own — it is something you inherit, work, defend and pass on.
By the time Scott arrived, the argument was no longer simply about how to secure the border. It was about who gets to decide what security should cost — and what Texas will have to surrender in its name.
This barren wasteland is too precious to be defended.
*for the cost of all that construction, you could just turn a bunch of killbots loose.
I love how she found exactly one property owner to bitch about it.
A nature preserve bigger than Rhode Island!!
And?
Neither should exist.
Rhode Island shouldnt exist?
They should make Rhode Island an actual island. Start digging those moats!
“New Black Panther Party national chairwoman Krystal Muhammad celebrated the removal of the judge who presided over Karmelo Anthony’s murder trial, and immediately demanded that the convicted killer be released from prison.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/meet-new-black-panther-party-chairwoman-demanding-freedom/
*lights Q signal*
Good job Barry. You and yours have successfully resurrected racism.
Well done.
Tucker and Candace and all these other folks being this insanely ignorant isnt just an eye-roll. It is a symptom of a complete failure of the educational system.
Rudimentary aboriginal emotionalism and god-worship will get you through life just fine.
Until it doesnt.