Good morning one and all to another glorious day!
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
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Wife of Sloopy, mother to three bright, curious, and highly active growing girls. Perpetually exhausted.
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Then no California Election can be regarded as valid. Still. Among a million other fraud gates built in to they way they pretend to have elections.
Systems produce the results they are designed to produce. The cheating is built in by design. It is neither accidental or abuse.
He said he holds a master’s degree in Persian literature, but is currently looking for menial labor just to put food on the table.
Just like the US.
Holds a degree in a luxury field not necessary for society to function? Not something you can lean on in bad times. At least he recognizes this and noticed he has functioning hands.
The marxist US block is replete with these types. All with masters & PhDs in useless leftist clap trap, massive student loan debt, and burning anger towards those that see them – correctly – as dumbfucks for doing this stupid shit.
Well, a MA in the humanities hasn’t really opened any doors in decades.
Remember the OG academic fields: theology, law and (Galenic) medicine. Literally all about opinions.
However, those three fields would lead to viable professions at the time.
There’s nothing wrong with getting a degree in something interesting but not financially rewarding. I’d be doing that if the Universities near me were less full of communist scum. But then, I am retired and free to pursue leisure activities. Getting a degree Persian Literature and expecting to make a living from it is poor judgment.
Is that from the Iranian article? Wouldn’t a degree in Persian Literature be the equivalent in an English degree here in the States?
–Rick Sanchez to Morty Smith
Wouldn’t a degree in Persian Literature be the equivalent in an English degree here in the States?
Do they also teach that their historic writers were evil and their works should be discarded?
Stop smoking dope.
Get a CDL
Take a crane certification course.
My customers are hurting because they can’t find guys who are willing to work, show up, show up sober, and stay on the job without stairing at their phones all day.
They have two plants only running one shift because the young guys have dropped off the face of the earth and melted into a couch somewhere.
Why would anyone want to work a grungy job? Duh
They’ll pay to use a gym when they could get paid to work.
That never made sense to me.
“Pentagon probes 30 U.S. academic institutions over foreign ties”
they should start with the military academies. They are all overrun by marxist scumbaggery and have for over a decade been producing idiots, not US military officers.
How did this happen? Sounds like someone should write a tell-all book so we can get on with cleaning out the scum.
Forget it; it’s Alextown.
All you need to do is talk to people that graduated before the 2010s and they will all tell you how the teaching staff was replaced by woke idiocy to the point you had graduating cadet at West Point wearing a sign saying he hoped communism destroyed the US and slew of DEi grads taking over the military.
“FEC Cracks Down After Talarico Donors Break Campaign Finance Law”
Why is the default setting by now, with what we know, not that all democrat fundraising is criminal activity?
Morning from C-bus!
Final stage prep today, shooting tomorrow. Maybe be done with the RM program in a few days. My former mentor that got punted from the program because his students’ book work kept being rejected is running the stage after mine; I will endeavor to stack squads on him so he never has a break.
Finally got a chance to stop by the Cheese Barn. Picked up snacks.
Not sure if you saw my comment Saturday, but I did try to meet you at Saraspa, but failed to find you.
I have 1/3 of the grip sets positively located. I’m convinced the other two are together, but there’s a few possible spots they’re hiding.
Hope your match goes well.
I did. From the clubhouse, the shotgun field is visible to your left. Going past that you’ll come to the 50 yard range. After that is the 200 yard range. Between those two ranges is a dilapidated fence with an open gate and through that gate are the pistol pits. Since Watervilet stopped hosting, we’re getting >50 shooters/match so there are lots of people/vehicles around.
I think I’ve mapped that to my refreshed memory of the front of the club.
The way it was phrased, I want to bring a “Beware the Leopard” sign. 😁
Have fun! Don’t suck! I do want to hear about the stages this year…
Hope you enjoyed Grandpa’s Cheese Barn. It was better before the lockdowns, there would be enough free samples out that you could fill up on them.
LOL
Do deep state stuff, that’ll happen.
I assume everyone involved in these nefarious activities especially around protecting the Chicoms has been executed for treason?
Why don’t you trust people who have repeatedly betrayed your trust?
As solar companies fold, homeowners are stuck with panels and no support
I thought Democrats opposed corporate subsidies.
So, a product that was only viable when subsudized up the wazoo is failing?
I have no sympathy – you took my tax money for those panels.
The best part is all them lifetime – TRANSFERABLE – warrantees!
I have neighbors that plopped down big money for them panels. We live in a heavily wooded area. The only one that has a viable service spent an addition $40K clearing out enough trees to get over 50% efficiency. I had no desire to spend the money clearing trees not getting panels that would not work.
Happy for people that live where this work, but the problems with support – and solar is intensive when it comes to maintenance, no matter what they say – always turned me off. Especially when they tell you there is law that says if you do it yourself you void the warrantee.
Nothing says green technology like having to clear cut your lot to make it work…
Jar, Jar, Jar – it’s totemic. You don’t see the vile chemcial slop dumped after manufacturing your clean panels. those trees are a small price to pay for the ‘clean’ power from the fancy futurisitc solar panels that don’t do what you hoped they would. But everyone can see that you’re a goodthinker, it’s out there on your roof or your lawn.
I’m a bad thinker. The signal I would like to have on my lawn is traditionally tarred for preservation and mounted on pikes.
Corn farmers are capturing solar energy and getting paid subsidies for it.
Next thing will probably be cutting ag subsidies and taking ethanol out of gasoline.
What will the farmers do with all that excess corn? Feed it to the cattle?
They could always grow something else. We produce too much corn for our needs, some of that land should be allowed to naturally move to other crops. Stop propping up bad decisions.
A couple years ago solar sales came through the neighborhood. I listened to their pitch which included recommending removing trees from my front yard. I’m not removing shade trees which make my front yard tolerable in summer. I also told them I wasn’t interested in any lease or debt which killed their business model.
Yet I see ads daily on TV from companies urging you to buy their panes and “start saving big time” on your electric bill.
“Yet I see ads daily on TV from companies urging you to buy their panes and “start saving big time” on your electric bill.”
Have a tiny pee-pee? Well, worry no more! With this ONE neat trick you will be banging a hammer on the table and making all the ladies – both without and with penises – swoon!..
Advertising like that?
We’ve got those Iranian bastards right where we want them now. Just 2 more weeks…
They don’t realize the predicament they are in.
Trump needs to explain better and more often.
And louder, I hear that helps.
As long as US soldiers are not coming home in body bags I don’t think it’s as big of a PR problem as the media might think it is.
FTFY
Gas prices are.
“Last month, the US unemployment rate — the percentage of Americans who are jobless and actively looking for work — dipped to 4.1%, its lowest level of the year and well below the 5.6% average since the end of World War II.”
That always seemed like an odd definition.
Better than lumping in retired folk like other insights of the workforce does?
Retired folks are unemployed and need to be counted too.
Count the retired folks and set a new baseline for what unemployment should look like.
Unemployment rate should be number of people over 18 who aren’t working divided by number of people over 18.
Don’t forget the children.
And I agree if our FedGov overlords use the same metric and don’t play games with it like they always do.
I’m not unemployed, I’m on a long term sabbatical.
I’m employed at spending my kids’ inheritance.
Trashy.
School should end for just about everyone at the eighth grade.
13 and above should be counted in the unemployment numbers.
Workforce participation rate is a much more useful metric.
Treat the discouraged, new workers, retirees, and welfare slobs as properly unemployed.
“Gen Z has already established itself as pessimistic and skeptical of capitalism. A new CNBC poll showed more than half of Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 now favor Democratic Socialism.”
What do they think the hammer and sickle mean?
free shit.
Never you mind it represents the less efficient manual method of doing tasks capitalism has built better tools to handle.
free shit
Shit for free
Do you understand they believe that “Shit for free” nonsense because they were “educated” to think that is how it could/should work? Envy & jealousy are now good emotions to have.
They can easily move to Europe to experience being poorer than living in Mississippi.
They don’t even have to move. Just watch an hour of House Hunters International followed by an hour of House Hunters. See what the prices get you. Because a spacious family home in suburbia in the US/Canada costs about the same as a loft minus AC in many of the countries they show.
They know shit ain’t free. Just free to them. Those they envy will be forced to pick up the tab. That’s “justice.”
“They know shit ain’t free. Just free to them. Those they envy will be forced to pick up the tab. That’s “justice.””
A Russian friend that grew up in the USSR once told a bunch of leftists that were arguing the merits of that stupid commie shit with us that he KNEW their motivation had nothing to do with social justice of any kind. It was all about making your neighbors suffer, regardless of how much it made you suffer yourself. It is envy, jealousy, and feeling superior knowing you are inflicting pain on others. And he told them he knew because he himself suffered from that affliction while under the communist yoke.
I’m hiring. Again.
Slim pickings right now.
I’m 100% not a good fit for your business.
What do you need?
Laborers with some carpentry experience. Residential electrical experience a plus.
“I’m hiring. Again.”
*raises hand* I may be slim, but I’m an experienced picker. ‘Pick me, slim!’
Get Evan a nail gun and some meth and he’ll turn into a framer instantly.
I have a great nephew who just graduated high school who is going to electrician school. He’s going to make a nice life for himself.
“Still, a paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that men, when they’re not working, spend about 70% of their non-working hours playing video games.”
If they’re not working, aren’t all their hours non-working?
I get the dig but now do – watching sports/TV/ or any other sedentary activity that people do in their off-time
Men should be working during their non-working hours.
They should be reading romantasy instead of wasting their time on video games.
Who knew completely feminizing the entire educational journey and treating males who act like males as pariahs would have dire consqueneces?
U6 is the way it needs to be calculated.
Ah political season is upon us.
Time to dial back the internet and watch hydraulic presses smash stuff and super slo-mo videos of things getting wrecked.
Trump may even pardon family members on his way out.
He better. It would be stupid not to follow precidence.
^^ this
Ah political season is upon us.
Virginia, with its offset federal and state elections, only gives a brief respite from electioneering.
If people don’t care about half of our federal budget going to outright fraud, they’re not going to care about this either.
That is one of the more disturbing cartoon cats I’ve ever seen. Bravo.
Getting oral sex from a goldfish on an elevator?
20 food flakes is 20 food flakes my man
*Slow fin clap*
I have to assume while Aerosmith plays.
“Cornyn Aide Takes Job With Talarico”
It’s just one big uniparty. Also f*ck John Cornyn. The state is lousy with squishes like him.
All this move shows us is that Cornyn was a stealth democrat.
It’s his aide. Not to say he isn’t but people will be chameleons isn’t exactly headline news
He was a stealth democrat somewhat like Lindsey Graham was a stealth homo – everyone knew.
“Winfield Becker, 48, was peering through the bedroom window of a young girl in Cabin Run around 10:40 p.m. on Aug. 6, the Plumstead Township police said. ”
https://nypost.com/2026/08/17/us-news/peeping-tom-caught-peering-into-young-girls-bedroom-is-athletic-director-for-nj-school-district-report/
Just look at him.
He just did what he was taught in the learing centers of his youth.
Just look at him.
Guilty.
Looks like your average school coach.
“A man wearing a Chucky doll mask allegedly targeted six people at random in Philadelphia — and chillingly asked a female jogger if she was ready to die, police have revealed.
The masked suspect – thought to be a black man between 16 and 20 – terrorized people going about their business within a crazed 15 minute window early Wednesday morning and remains at large.
The young man went into a Dunkin Donuts store wearing the “distinctive, Chucky doll Halloween-style face mask” just after 5:20 a.m. but was refused service because he was being erratic, Jason Smith, the Philadelphia Police Captain, told reporters at a presser Monday.”
https://nypost.com/2026/08/18/us-news/philadelphia-man-wearing-chucky-mask-allegedly-targeted-six-people/
Drugs or TikTok stunt?
“The masked man is facing charges of terroristic threats, harassment, assault, reckless endangerment and intimidation, Smith said.
The cop revealed the fiend will also face a weapons charge as his right arm was behind his back when he issued the threat to the jogger. This was despite the fact there was no weapon in surveillance video from the scene.”
He hasn’t been caught.
Predict a run on bear spray from the Philly female jogging community.
creech:
Because they’d rather encounter a man when jogging than a bear? Or should we rebrand some bear spray as man spray?
Sounds like a job for Tonio!
Why wasn’t he shot? was he not visibly armed?
They didn’t want to start the voodoo curse.
¿Por Qué No Los Dos?
“Despite Scott’s conviction, sex workers tell The Post business around Pennsylvania Avenue — also known as “the Blade” — continues as brazenly as usual, with tens of women on the streets selling sex for as little as $85 a time and conditions worse than ever.”
https://nypost.com/2026/08/17/us-news/inside-brooklyns-seedy-penn-track-sex-market-where-pimps-murder-and-human-trafficking-are-part-of-daily-life/
Not the same as downtown? Inflation is real.
Yeah, $85 seems high for a lousy front-seat blowjob. Just another example of how printing umpteen-billion dollars during the Covid panic might not have been a great strategy…
A really high hourly rate for maybe 5 minutes of work.
“”New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in 2022 he was in favor of decriminalizing sex work. In a statement to The Post for this story, his office said: “As the Mayor has made clear, he does not support the legalization of sex work, and there has been no change in city policy on sex work since he has taken office.”
Decriminalizing things never works. Either make something legal or make it a crime.
It does serve the useful purpose of redirecting law enforcement to actual crime instead of wasting resources on some guy having a smoke on his front porch.
“It does serve the useful purpose of redirecting law enforcement to actual crime”
Not seeing that.
Decriminalization = moar taxes.
Bureaucrats don’t weight this heavily so it doesn’t show up in the CPI.
“Trump’s Navy in crisis as another warship breaks down with sailors going FOUR DAYS without food, water and toilets”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16061013/Trumps-Navy-crisis-warship-breaks-sailors-going-FOUR-DAYS-without-food-water-toilets.html
doubt
Four days without water? The crew must have been dead or dying. Where is the casualty list?
^^^^THIS^^^^
At this point you can disregard any media coverage of military, cause it is all bullshit. By design.
3 days is largely a ‘rule of thumb’ for easy remembering/prioritizing. 3 minutes without air, 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food.
3 days only really applies to desert-like conditions, high temps, direct sunlight. In a more temperate, controlled environment, 5-10 days is closer to truth.
On a ship though, I’d guess you might be closer 3 days as illustrated in this documentary song.
Now we get the click baiters and social hounds…
Photos of clearly a mothballed/stored aircraft with ‘remarks written in the dust’ on extended flaps of the airframe.
3 days only really applies to desert-like conditions, high temps, direct sunlight. In a more temperate, controlled environment, 5-10 days is closer to truth.
a warship lost all power while deployed in the South China Sea, stranding sailors without drinkable water, food, air conditioning or working toilets for four days.
A ship in the South China Sea without air conditioning is on the low end of the range.
Fat guys (I digress as we’re talking about the navy) can dry fast for a long time.
Ships break down all the time.
Gives new meaning to the term “poop deck.”
I think I’ve seen several dozen Hayden Panettiere headlines this morning and I’ve only looked at two papers.
She’s more popular now than when she was alive.
In a tense March 2020 meeting just months before the presidential election, the National Security Agency’s (NSA) deputy director blocked the release of a long-delayed report on foreign targeting of U.S. elections—not because the intelligence was flawed, but because he feared it would brand the agency as part of the “deep state.”
By doing the very thing you did you became the very thing which you were trying not to be.
Just like the CDC and other health organizations lying to us so we’ll keep trusting them.
DOJ Opens Path to Restore Federal Gun Rights for 30 Million Americans
The same people who completely ignored billions in fraud will do an in-depth expose of the two people who got their gun rights back and then committed a crime.
“”Liberals are saying this sorority rush video of ASU Alpha Phi crossed the line… What do you think?”
https://x.com/DonaldTDaily/status/2088443071432147054
I think liberals said no such thing.
I am a bit surprised at the level of choreography all these videos have.
Nice pins on that blond.
Young girls have been creating choreography at this level for decades – I’m honestly surprised at the lack of back flips.
I belonged to Y Tapa Keg!
I was already in Sigma Eta Pi Alpha by the time I went to college.
College admissions standards have been trashed, but looks like the Alpha’s are still maintaining their standards.
Might as well put up a sign saying “gold diggers apply here”
“The Media Lynched Jason Arday by Ibram X. Kendi”
https://theemancipator.org/2026/08/15/ideas/the-media-lynched-jason-arday/
I should probably stop right there.
“The attacks are wielded by racist propagandists, resenting you for shining a light on anti-Black racism. They hope everyone finally picks up their baseless claims. They know that to dim your light is to dim the light on their anti-Blackness.”
Baseless?
“And if you die from all the attacks, the media still calls the attacks on you “accusations” to wash their hands of the blood. Your lynchers announce your death as if they had no role in your lynching.
But you know what your lynchers won’t announce: when you are cleared of wrongdoing. We won’t be seeing a media pile-on for that news on Jason Arday or other prominent Black scholars.”
He won’t be cleared of wrongdoing.
Can the media do the same to Kendi? He’s an insufferable hack whose greatest contribution to this would would be to leave it.
As I said in last night’s thread…Jason Arady is not the victim here. The victims are the college students who paid for an education, and instead got the deranged fabulism of a pathological narcissist. Also, the taxpayers who funded the entire grift in the first place.
I’ve seen at least a couple people float the idea that the students who got poor grades after Arday told them they were doing great should sue for fraud.
Any students he interacted with should sue for fraud.
Why stop with just him? Sue the heck out of any school if you failed to get a nice job with your underwater basket weaving degree. This could be an excellent idea.
Shorter Ibram Kendi: Don’t criticize me; I’m black and will play the “Racism!” card.
The death Friday of Jason Arday, a 41-year-old Black scholar
Scholar should be in quotation marks, and maybe black and 41 as well.
Tom woods did a pretty good monologue on him, I behave released two days before he took the cowards path.
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2786-jason-arday-and-our-embarrassing-academic-elite/
One key point of worry: the share of men aged 16 to 24 participating in the labor market dipped to 56.1% – tumbling nearly 13 percentage points from 69% in 2000, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
How many of those guys are working under the table, or off the books, or engaged in jobs not captured by the official statistics?
Unlicensed pharmacist.
Still, a paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that men, when they’re not working, spend about 70% of their non-working hours playing video games.
If that is not complete and utter bullshit nothing is.
Some quick math: If I work only four hours a day and sleep for only four hours, I’ve already used up 20% of my non-working hours asleep. Eating, shitting, commuting to and from work, and everything else not related to video games would have to be done in 2 hours.
If I work 8 hours and sleep for 6, then I’ve used up too much time sleeping to get to 70% of my off hours playing video games.
Introduced the boy to the NES two weeks ago.
Now that we’ve got him hooked we’re going to time him and charge him ukulele/piano/guitar practice time for game time.
And man is he hooked already.
ukulele?
I have no idea if it’s spelled correctly.
Little four string guitar thing.
But that’s not important right now.
I have several classical guitars and baritone ukuleles at home. The baritone ukulele has the same tuning as the top four strings of the guitar. Learning to play one, means learning to play the other as well.
I am trying to get into playing bass guitar. But I, like Peter Hook, don’t want to play the boring root shit in the back. I want the melodic bass lines.
“Men need to go start becoming home health care aides. This is a booming industry and if they want good employment, that’s the kind of jobs they’re going to have to take,” Pachman told The Post.
What a fucking retard.
I know a couple guys that have done those jobs.
I wouldn’t call them men.
It’s the new “learn to code.”
“The Media Lynched Jason Arday by Ibram X. Kendi”
*Zzzzzzzzzzzzz*
“Scientists who turned to OnlyFans to fund marmot research receive crypto boost”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/18/scientists-onlyfans-marmots-crypto
STIJLTH
I think that grift has gone on long enough.
To be fair, the marmots are naked.
Was some Richard Gere shit going on here?
Did she shave her marmot?
My first kill was a yellow bellied marmot.
Shot her when I was 7 off hand with a Ruger MKII at about 40’ through the ears. Likely the best shot I’ve ever taken in my life.
My dad had her stuffed. Have her in a drawer in my office. Can’t have her out cause the cats like it too much.
I shoot about ten a year since they like to dig under my container and now the shop house. Need to find someone with a ferret to send down the burrows.
“Nice marmot, man”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlJTFKkvewA
The first I remember was a woodchuck at about 30-40 feet with a pump .22, about 8-9 YO. I may have taken chipmunks/gophers before that though.
White Sox @ Cubs yesterday was perhaps the most exciting of the year. MVPete again making his case. Fun to watch.
Sob story of the day
Rottenberg had quit her job as a public health policy analyst in Washington D.C. earlier that year, and spent the summer traveling. She had climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and hiked through several national parks in the United States. By the time she saw her parents, she was job hunting, which they assumed explained her anxiety.
——-
In early February 2025, Sophie Rottenberg died by suicide in Ithaca, leaving her parents shocked and grieving.
TL,DR: It were chatgpt wot dunnit.
Millions of people are turning to chatbots for a sympathetic shoulder. AI is putting human headshrinkers out of work.
Must be nice to be paid enough for a useless job to take a year off and travel.
Artificial intelligence companies are facing lawsuits by family members of individuals who died by suicide after prolonged interactions with chatbots. The lawsuits claim the chatbots led to or supported the individuals in their suicides. Reiley and her husband, Jonathan Rottenberg, chose not to pursue a lawsuit after their daughter’s death. Instead, Reiley, a journalist, is telling her family’s story and advocating for the AI industry to change.
Smart. Why let some shyster ambulance chaser glom onto your jackpot?
When Sophie Rottenberg’s mental health began to unravel in the fall of 2024, she moved in with her parents in Ithaca. Sophie’s dad, Jonathan Rottenberg, is a psychologist studying depression at Cornell University, and “has suffered from depression himself,” Reiley says. So, “he felt supremely comfortable in helping her, in getting her to a better place.”
No wonder she was a wreck.
Perhaps she is in a better place? Who’s to know?
“Andon Labs, the parent company for Andon Market, announced on Friday that Luna had fired its first employee, citing repeated lateness, abandoning shifts at the last minute, throwing merchandise in the garbage, and taking home a company credit card. Despite repeated infractions, it wasn’t until after repeated probing from Andon Labs engineers that the AI agent determined these were fireable offenses that went against the employee handbook the AI itself had written, per the San Francisco Standard.
The goal of the shop is more to see whether an AI agent can effectively run a retail store alongside customers and human workers than to make money. The shop has lost $40,000 so far. Andon Labs says it’s preparing for a world where “organizations are run autonomously by AI.
Andon Market sells fancy snacks and teas, alongside knick-knacks such as 3D-printed dragons and copies of an effective altruism magazine. Inside, customers are greeted with an AI-curated house music playlist. Luna selected the items that are sold in the store.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/ai-boss-terminates-human-worker-at-san-francisco-boutique-in-first-ever-instance-of-ai-human-firing
Burn it to the ground.
DEI hire got fired?
Sounds overstaffed. Likely a store where if ran by a rational person you would have two minimum wage employees on the floor at any one time and the owner/manager.
That person would be a step up at some places I’ve shopped.
Unless you imbue AI with a moral code, you can forget it running anything, much less a lemonade stand.
I see that the criminal employee was human (my bad) but AI has also done these things when entrusted with similar responsibilities.
The site is back to being borderline unusable* on Safari, even with the low-impact option enabled on Monocle. I turned Monocle off, we’ll see how it goes.
*constant bot checks, and the bot checks don’t even load the first time or two or three