The Astros had their best day in a while yesterday. They didn’t play and they fired their GM. The Indians are back in a wild card slot, although it’s arwally a crowded race for the last two WC spots in the AL with a bunch of teams hovering around .500. The College transfer portal now appears to basically be a pipeline from NFL teams to LSU. And I think that’s all I’ve got for today, so I’m moving on.
What’s chaotic about having verifiable ballots? I’ll let the AP explain their logic, because I don’t understand it.
I don’t think these people understood their job. Which comes as no shock.
I’m shocked! Shocked that it wasn’t 50 instead of 30. Great job keeping the streets safe, big blue city prosecutors.
Oh, lighten up, people! It’s a friggin’ costume, not a racism.
I fail to see the problem here. It’s not as if he’s gonna sell anything to children. But maybe the parents would feel safer if their kids walked to school and had to step over fented up bums.
What kind of dumbassery is this? The worst kind, unfortunately.
Well, it’s a start. But I’d like to see another zero added to the end of the number.
Why is this being held in the US? Based on what I’ve seen, it should be in the UK, Germany, or Malta.
I hope he doesn’t end up homeless. Or worse, go back to the dull middle class life he claims to have grown up in. I’m kidding. I actually do hope he ends up homeless.
What do they mean “before Burning Man?” Seems to me it just kicked off early this year.
Here’s a nice mellow tune for you. It was among his best. And here’s one with a little more pop to it. Also among his best. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
Smurf porn? I think Lexi Belle did that.
Once you go blue?
+1 colloidal silver
Lexi Belle was in Avatar?
“That effectively restarts the legal fight over the order in an incredibly compressed timeline, with initial ballots scheduled to be sent to North Carolina’s overseas and military voters in just over a week, on Sept. 4.”
Aren’t military absentee ballots not mail ballots?
“What’s chaotic about having verifiable ballots?”
Well, it looks like they found three retards all using the same word. So that’s the talking point.
AP is playing the usual DNC game of FUD.
Military absentee ballots have never been controversial and are not going to be affected here but they will pretend otherwise in order to advance the cause of permanent Democratocracy.
There’s no functional difference between military ballot and mail in ballot these days?
There shouldn’t be absentee ballots for anyone, including service members.
Nor should they be provided in any language other than English.
I assume military ballots are delivered through military channels, not the post office.
Which means they, theoretically at least, can have a chain of custody.
“Nor should they be provided in any language other than English.”
So much this… You can’t speak English, our language, then I am sorry, but you shouldn’t be here voting.
Not here. They’re mailed and returned via mail. Or emailed or faxed. Yes, those are valid options with a signed secret ballot waiver form.
If you are working overseas in a job required by the US gov’t vote at an approved Gov’t location, and the results can be phoned to whomever is necessary for tabulation, just like any other polling location. No one else can vote outside a polling location! Period. Everyone knows what the day for voting is, it has been the same forever, make your vacation plans round that, not the other way.
(I will possibly accept mail in for people who have a medical reason, provided the doctor signs off on a witnessed affidavit.)
This is the same democrat logic on display last week that conflated a miscarriage with an abortion and was worried women would be thrown in jail if their body failed to carry a child to term.
Military absentee ballots are regular absentee ballots.
The individual has to apply for them from his state. Thank god the unit dosent have any involvement with them.
My county auditor threw mine away one cycle because she didn’t like my signature which was the same one on my DL. My guess is she was just being a good democrat.
Because Pan Am was an American Company? 🤷♂️
By that logic, if somebody smashed into a FedEx truck in London, they could hold the trial in the US.
That can’t be it.
My second thought is that our terrorism legilsation has a lot of extraterritoriality clauses when the attacks are on our people/companies.
Sometimes “Fuck you that’s why” happens to actual bad guys.
Was there a US citizen on board?
Yes, ZWAK, there were a lot. Of the 279 on board, 190 were US citizens.
*269 on board. Sorry, typo.
**259
*pulls hair* whycome I type so bad.
Wasn’t it a US-flagged plane blown up over Lockerbie?
I’m not certain how that affects possible jurisdictions.
I wish they’d have explained why it was being held in the US. I’m genuinely curious.
I’m sure Congress passed some law declaring universal jurisdiction crap.
This article doesn’t completely explain it but I guess there is a federal law that kicks in because the flight’s destination was in the US:
https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/courtside/why-lockerbie-bombing-suspect-is-in-u-s-custody-34-years-after-attack/
Either way, the suspect is probably going to end up mayor of Detroit.
How can it be racism if the kid wearing it is black?
Because, when all you have is a hammer…
When all you have is a hammer, shouldn’t the kid be in parachute pants?
It’s time for this comment!
I ain’t touching this thread.
“When all you have is a hammer, shouldn’t the kid be in parachute pants?”
—————
I don’t have the picture (and it may have been destroyed) but my ex-wife did this costume as a child. With the face.
You’re not going to break this thread down?
And although I didn’t mean for this to happen, of course there is a perfect response to my comment about my ex.
Have you seen her?
Legit. Almost too legit.
Please, don’t hurt ’em!
Stop, it’s hammer time.
Black face of white supremacy ring a bell?
False consciousness. Black minds and womyn minds are susceptible to being overcome by societal racist patriarchal power and forced into mimicry of white supremacist paradigms of being.
Jason Arday, is that you?
Or John Lennon
Because a black person saw a black kid wearing a costume on a package and figured they could get some clout by complaining.
Now they’ll just stop using black kid models for Halloween costumes.
It’s the only sensible response.
Isn’t the idea of a Halloween costume to pretend/laugh at something that is obvious not accurate? Can little black girls not dress as a Snow White/Cinderella? Are gorilla costume off limits? Was I mocking real life cowboys when I strapped on my six shooter cap guns?
I daresay there were burned cork faces around in my neighborhood at H’ween time.
I’m quitting this thread.
I’ve told this story before, but it fits here perfectly…
As a kid, I was going to go trick or treating with a black kid when we were in the 3rd grade or so. My dad drove me into town to go door to door. On the way we picked up my buddy.
He was wearing a sheet and my dad said “nice ghost costume” and my friend said “NO! I’m a spook”.
It was years later before I realized why my dad kept laughing all night.
Once as I rode home in a Haitian-driven cab while on the phone with my ex I relayed to her that “I am in Harlem right now, not too far from where we saw Gorillaz”. I meant The Apollo Theater 🤦
Because Target is from the twin cities.
Twin cities.
I’m aware of the Tri-Cities.
My racism is NOT your costume!
Easily my favorite of his. 🎶
“Residents gathered at a park beside the daycare on Monday, August 3, to protest the planned opening, while an online petition called on officials to stop the business from setting up at the location.”
I looked at several articles, no pictures of the protest. Could just be a few old white women.
Maybe they just need to proclaim a protest like how modern filibusters work.
Left-coast elites. I am sure they look and behave exactly like you would imagine, and yes, they would probably rather set up a facility for violent homeless junkies next door than a purveyor of evil totems.
We get ICE protests some weekends in downtown Suffolk VA.
It always looks like a few residents escaped the old folks home.
For about the past year, a handful of dimwitted white boomers have been waving U.S. and Ukrainian flags and hanging signs on the Great Falls overpass over I495 – a spot calculated to cause the worst possible rush hour delays when people slow down to read their slop.
This morning, it was, “$40 BILLION DEBT TRUMP GETS RICHER.”
We truly can’t means-test Medicare and Social Security quickly enough.
If only the debt were just $40B.
Something like that. But you get the general idea.
The idea of a bunch of retirees publicly complaining about the debt while collecting SS and Medicare payments, makes me long for a return to fire hoses, pickaxe handles, and attack dogs.
ES:
Someone should get the useful youth idiots to join the protests holding flags about abolishing SS. They can put the SS as little lightning bolts too, the boomers may think they’re referring to ICE.
ES, we have the exact same protest over I-5 here.
It’s like they are selling a franchise.
Its Goleta, there was a protest.
I’m sure the guns will just go off and kill kids.
Seeing the gun store every day will cause them to become mass-shooters. The talismanic power is irresistible!
It’s the left getting their foot soldiers to ramp up their woke crusade against a company they hate.
It has nothing to do with that particular product.
I say we declare California an asylum and round up all the people protesting things like this, or supporting murderers, or ranting about invisible kings, and confine them there. They can entertain themselves by banning electricity and agriculture, and protest to their little baby minds’ content, and the rest of us can enjoy a little peace.
Can we use a smaller geographic area, preferrably one isolated better. Like an Island? We should ship them all to Hawaii, and blockade the islands.
I mean we can, but there are apparently millions of these loons, and the largest clump is already in California, so I was going for efficiency. Maybe just wall off the part from LA to SF and have a retard drive to push them all there?
Why would we send them to someplace nice? Maybe a island off the coast of Alaska, where they could see Russia from?
I vote Puerto Rico and Hawaii UCS.
Going to need more land mass for the shear amount of fools.
Yup. It isn’t like the Left is protesting Target for other reasons too.
I’m puzzled. Target gives tons of money to the proggie NGO’s. What will they say when the money dries up?
In case anyone was still under the delusion that teachers unions give a shit about students as opposed to radical leftist politics.
“In case anyone was still under the delusion that teachers unions give a shit about students as opposed to radical leftist politics.”
It is not just the unions. The entire public school system is nothing but marxist indoctrination at this point. And they are robbing property owners to pay for their own children and grandchildren to be brainwashed to hate them and the country.
When the fuck will Target wake up and turn off the spigot?
That would take critical thinking skills, Jimbo. These are teachers, they never leared that in school!
To them it’s just more “evidence” that we live in a racist country, and the whole system needs to be torn down.
In other words, they lied on their visa applications. GTFO and we never want to see your face again.
They mean the fact that a town suffered a lot of fire damage is of little concern, compared to the potential to interfere with the recreational activities of a bunch of urban hedonists.
Reno hotels will be unable to accommodate the tourists.
If he can’t make it to the orgy some it’s worse than peoples houses burning down.
LOL what a transparent phony. How the hell did this trash get so powerful? (Connections, I know.)
I read the Stars & Stripes whenever I had a chance. For years it was the only news we got overseas and often times we were seeing it 3-4 days old but still read it ’cause it was still news.
It didn’t have any advertising, I can’t remember how many pages, 4-6? No gossip (That was the Overseas Weekly).
We always called it the Stars and Lies. It is amusing that they are trying to pretend that it has ever been a fair and independent news rag.
The only useful thing in it was the standings of the various sports leagues.
“We always called it the Stars and Lies.”
Yes. Goes back to before the 80s..
I may have only seen it twenty times or so when in was in.
Probably 30-35 times for the Army Times.
I’m guessing the unit got cases of them to hand out and they ended up in a dumpster.
I am heartily sick of the performative primitivism behind the kind of totemic thinking on display here.
I gotta wonder, though, how many of the people protesting this “for the children’s safety” are making excuses for the woman who strangled her three kids.
making excuses for the woman who strangled her three kids.
I’ve been unplugged enough that I didn’t know about this woman until my wife brought it up and she explained about the women who are supporting her. I was blown away.
Dafuq is wrong with these people? IMO, supporting this lady is incompatible with civilization. Sure, it sounds like husband and psychiatrist were asleep at the wheel, at very best. However, that in no way lessens her culpability in a triple murder. Anybody supporting this lady should lose their franchise.
I guarantee it is the same broken people who support various other recent murders that the left is celebrating, from that health insurance executive to Kirk to festival Jews.
It’s the same sickness and it’s spreading.
“The breakfast mistake you shouldn’t make after age 40 — it can raise your risk of death by up to 29% ”
https://nypost.com/2026/08/24/health/the-breakfast-mistake-that-can-raise-your-risk-of-death-by-up-to-29/
That doesn’t make any sense.
That’s only because it’s nonsensical.
I’ll take spurious correlations for $100, Alex.
Eating breakfast at all?
The one I heard was don’t drink juice on an empty stomach, but the articles that came up in a search are all several months old.
And I’m sure they adequately controlled for *why* people were eating breakfast/first meal later. I mean I’m sure it had nothing to do with staying up until 2am drinking, or shift work, or other medical condition.
I suspect the paper itself was a bit more circumspect but who knows these days with the garbage that can pass for medical research. And I’m sure the authors were more than happy to have a press release.
And five minutes ago the “most important meal of the day” canard was understood to be horseshit.
https://x.com/whitehouse/status/2092216144421663181
Bite your tongue! Ontario is King Walz’s BFF.
They saved our kids when OMB would have let them burn
Sure the fire the campers were stuck in was in Ontario, but when has a mere border meant that the US can’t intervene unilaterally?
Why couldn’t Minnesota save the kids itself?
You mwan Ontario is a School Shooter?
“He’ll save the children, but not the Minnesota children” 🎶
Until someone fucks the shit out of a bear it’s all just silly fun and games anyway.
Tonio considers that a challenge.
Whew, the Iran war must be over, time to move on to more trivial things.
On point. But “old man yells at clouds”.
Democracies don’t repair their finances because a budget office publishes a table. They repair them only when the cost of inaction becomes visible and immediate, when mortgage rates bite, when auctions tail, when the political price of a rising long bond finally exceeds the political price of touching spending.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/let-the-bond-market-speak-81529d74?st=8BfJFm&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
That’s a very trenchant comment on democracy, and why democracies end up failing.
Raise interest rates domestically, prop up JPY so Japanese government can prolong doing the same (and it’s still weakening).
Nobody Wants To Admit Why America Just Bailed Out Japan
https://youtu.be/OC1yu0L7jT4?si=N_cbHFS_Crm7gOsT
Surprisingly on point video. Sadly 14 minutes long because nobody wants to write anymore. TLDW – because they were going to sell Treasury securities in the open market.
Too many people vote for free shit to change course.
The Greeks learned this lesson more than 2500 years ago. Every great empire collapsed because of two things. Massive welfare, and unlimited immigration. Rome died because the elite imported foreigners to replace the people that because of wealth, whether they had too much of it or were getting free shit, lost their edge to do the hard work. Eventually they ran out of money to support the giant welfare state. And bingo. They at least had a few hundred years to unwind it and then came the dark ages.
See that can’t happen because we’re on the right side of history in its glorious aec!
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That is cute
Have the Accountants hit the beach yet for economic D-Day?
Iran is being invited to join the Mecca Defense Pact. Sounds like we’re losing our Middle East allies.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-906316
I assume it’s diplomatic posturing by the pact itself. They’ll make it painful to join and Iran will decline, but they can say they offered.
I’ve got far bigger complaints about the ME than that.
“I assume it’s diplomatic posturing by the pact itself.”
More than that. It is the pact members clearly showing that Iran doesn’t want to play nice because joining the pact would cripple the ambition of owning the gulf. And have no doubt Iran will say no way.
The JP redditors picked that up immediately. And that it would be ineffective because the volume of money swishing around would continue the same downward trend. Sticking fingers in dikes.
I assume that was meant above!
Yes 😞
Middle East allies.
That’s funny.
https://x.com/clarionledger/status/2091952212436021526
God help the Thai ladies. And lady boys.
“Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed got extremely personal with Fox News host Jesse Watters on Monday — asking if he is circumcised — during a bizarre defense of sex change surgery for minors.
“Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised?” El-Sayed bluntly asked the “Jesse Watters Primetime” host, after arguing that the government shouldn’t get involved in transgender medical procedures for children….
Undeterred, El-Sayed argued that it’s a “problem” that Watters believes the government should step in to outlaw sex change surgeries for minors but not circumcisions.
“I’m just saying that yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid’s ding-a-ling,” the former public health official told Watters. “So if you really want to bring that up, you can … I just think you guys are really selective about these things.””
https://nypost.com/2026/08/24/us-news/abdul-el-sayed-asks-jesse-watters-are-you-circumcised-while-defending-sex-change-surgery-for-minors/
CWAA
Dude needs to be dropped from a helicopter onto an impaling stake.
OK, but only if it’s still high enough if he misses the stake.
Will this do?
I’m pretty sure circumcision doesn’t render a person sterile, Abdul.
circumcision should be illegal under the age of 14.
Watters should have flipped the script and asked El-Sayed if his mom was circumcised.
LOL
::standing applause::
👏👏👏
*mic drop*
Oh bravo
Interesting. His fans were throwing around the word “doctor”. He is not a doctor. For extra fun, check out his wikipedia page. He has been getting tongue-bathed for decades. I have to wonder if he’s as much of a fraud as it might appear.
Runoff day in South Carolina. It appears that Darlene Graham has inherited Lindsey’s staff. Her campaign signs are even in in the same inaccessible places like highway medians. Never on anyone’s front lawn.
Drake: https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTZjMDliOTUyaXRocHRkN2x2bDNjN2ZxOWJwYmh3Z3VxNThleHJkMGVuNWh2aWcxdCZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/7T2R1eAIKnEJnAf5U8/giphy.gif
Good luck in kicking her to the curb. Placeholder to “honor” her brother was bad enough. Electing her to the seat is whole different level.
Those voters in SC are almost as bad as the MI Dingle-alings, making seats hereditary.
Very cool. Grand Thumb interviews the guy who engaged the Idaho In-N-Out shooter. I didn’t realize that several other people also shot back.
https://youtu.be/6d8urXdLBu8
One of the erstwhile defenders, in fact I think the first one to make contact with the shooter, was a retired police officer. He was carrying his pistol with the chamber empty, he got shot in the arm, and couldn’t get his gun into the fight – dude was very very lucky to survive.
And still, every day I see some retard on X or r/ccw defending chamber empty carry. “u dONt NeED to wiN a fAStdrAW cONtEst, soNnY! mUh sItUAtANaL AwaRNez!!1!”
What’s the opposite refrain regarding instances of Glock Leg?
Two sides of the same coin, really. Shooting yourself in the leg by accident is generally the end state of a lot of poor decisions. Getting clipped because you couldn’t get your unchambered gun into the fight is also the end state of a lot of poor decisions
Blake Scholl 🛫
@bscholl
Unpopular take: there is only one well-conceived vehicle in this pic, and it’s probably not the one you’d think I’d pick.
https://x.com/xAviation/status/2091869893951881652
… on examination I realized I don’t care what this dude’s opinion is.
The tow tractor?
apparently
No, it’s the rolling staircase, clearly.
It couldn’t be the pickup on the other taxiway.
Watch out for hop ons.
The left. Cant. meme.
https://x.com/PamphletsY/status/2091606434933071932
Nazi and fascism are terms the left uses to try and silence & ostracize people that do not obey the rules of the left’s cult. At this point they are meaningless. The only difference between Nazism and communism is that nobody says “Real Nazism has not been achieved yet.” like the murderous commies on the left do all the time.
I’m sure this will happen…
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is proposing a new six-figure fee for H-1B visas that would apply to most new applicants, not just those applying from abroad, replacing an earlier plan to charge $100,000 for the visa that was struck down by the courts.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/government-proposes-new-six-figure-fee-for-h1-b-visas-a0da2d01?st=n3C5Qc&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
As a non American I always found H1-B visas silly and exploitable.
It was by design.
It’s modern indentured servitude.
When the government exploits H-1B
Visas except for tourist should all be revoked and the programs shut down, the books swept of all these loophole programs, and a single “Intent to immigrate” program set up where the potential future resident must show they will be of a benefit to the US, wants to assimilate to American culture, and does not intend to bring in incompatable cultural traditions. People on this visa will be ineligable for any for of government assitance for the entirety of their lifetimes.
People who are not legally in the country should be summarily executed after being positively identified and status confirmed.
“Lila Moss goes braless in a plunging white vest teamed with denim hotpants as she steps out in New York”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-16077643/Lila-Moss-braless-plunging-white-vest-teamed-denim-hotpants-New-York.html
Not a vest, not hotpants.
there aint that much for a bra to support.
Vest in British English is a wife-beater.
Those are Daisy Dukes, not hot pants.
I had Engineer Boots when I was 14, too. It was what we did in 9th grade.
Look at Fourscore humble bragging about being in the 9th grade by the time he was 14!!!
Big Brain Fourscore!
I thought that “14 in the 9th grade” was him bragging about his boot size
When President Trump shredded U.S. climate policies last year, much of the Western world chastised him for ignoring climate change. Now, Europe, the U.K. and Canada are walking back their own environmental regulations.
No way…
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/europe-chastised-trumps-climate-rollback-now-its-delaying-its-own-green-goals-835b6724?st=fPHbiu&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
walking back their own environmental regulations. – But if we destroy our economy China will respect that and follow suit.
They will never admit that sometimes he is right.
It is why they hate him so much.
The first impression begins long before the front door, with a sweeping driveway approach leading to a waterfront custom cut stone home. The foyer rises three stories, traced by floating staircases with custom wrought-iron railings. A wood and leather paneled library offers a quieter counterpoint, complete with a private second-floor terrace above the water, while the two-story family room brings the house back to a more relaxed scale, with soaring ceilings and a floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace. The gourmet kitchen is supported by a walk-in pantry and butler’s pantry, while a breezeway leads to a sunroom surrounded by windows and water views.
The house continues upward rather than simply outward. Every bedroom functions as its own private suite. Beyond the bedroom level, a third floor introduces a conference room, bunk room, and recreational room. The walk-out lower level is built for recreation, with a game room and bar, a home theater, a gym with steam room, and a cabana.
Outside, covered porches, balconies, terraces, and patios extend the architecture into the landscape. A swimming pool sits beyond the house, and over 200 feet of private waterfront runs along the property, every room across the rear enjoying uninterrupted lake views across five acres.
Innsbruck Avenue does not rely on a single grand gesture. Its distinction comes from the accumulation of them, room after room, level after level.
____
16,400 Total Square Feet | 14,700 Finished Square Feet | 6 Beds | 7 Full & 4 Half Baths | 5 Acres
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSX9_sueqjA
Wait a damn minute! I went by Grand Falls when I was in New Brunswick. You mean to tell me there is more than one Grand Falls?
We are creative in our place naming. We see a waterfall and then follow a simple convention descriptive word plus falls. Sometimes the descriptor is the name of the river, or the region, sometimes its an Indian tribe, if none of those occurs to the namer they fall back on Great or Grand.
I don’t think half of the falls up here have names.
That’s Great Falls, Virginia.
shit you are right I misread. Well not the first time I look dumb.
It’s better to look dumb than to be dumb.
One is a matter of perception, the other makes you eligable to vote for the DSA
Virginia has both a Great Falls and a Little Falls.
No Medium Falls. But there is a Middleburg.
California has both, also. I used to backpack there every other month in scouts.
Can you find the listing for Governor Gavin Newsom‘s home?
https://www.sothebysrealty.com/nicksadeksir/eng/sales/detail/782-l-83103-v5d9kz/7640-tobia-way-fair-oaks-ca-95628
Old and busted: Food deserts
New and Hawt: Legal deserts
I’m not seeing a problem here.
What he said….
These people should consider themselves blessed.
I would think that there would be a big demand for attorneys in that area. OTOH they’d end up being public defenders.
Is there an actual red lake there?
Sometimes.
we got one in Romania as well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Lake_(Romania)
That is a neat fact.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Red+Lake,+MN/@47.8674494,-95.4296186,325761m
I think I see the problem. lack of diversity
White alone (NH) 92.12%
I think I see a second problem:
Record low °F (°C) −50 (−46)
Record high °F (°C) 110 (43)
I’m not seeing a problem yet.
Well, maybe it gets too warm at times.
Uffda. I had just assumed that the Red Lake Indian reservation was in Red Lake county. So I was going to fact check your demographics, but turns out the rez is just east of the county.
That makes the county lawyer job so much more appealing. Not having to deal with all the rez bs.
Also the rez there is closed. No white eyes allowed after dark.
An actual sundown town? No kidding?
ES:
I’ve heard stories from fishing buddies about being “encouraged” by the tribal police to be off the rez by dark during fishing trips there.
Also:
I’m guessing that you don’t have to sit through many land acknowledgements before events there. Even though they are claiming it via conquest.
My county is stuck with the same loser the rubber stamps all the cretins getting out as well.
County of 40,000 and no one even runs against him.
https://x.com/vikingrobvwo/status/2091935684479082939
I…. what?
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) decided on Tuesday that Bulgaria violated the right to respect for private and family life by demolishing a camp inhabited by Roma in August 2023, on the outskirts of the capital Sofia.
Fifty-six claimants brought the case to the Strasbourg court, arguing that they were not involved in the process that led to the demolition. The judges found that Bulgaria violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, but did not find sufficient evidence to condemn Sofia based on Articles 3 and 14, which prohibit inhuman treatment and discrimination.
The claimants only gained access to the demolition order after it had been executed. The ECHR decided to award each claimant compensation of 10,000 euros, and Bulgaria will pay a total of 18,000 euros for costs.
https://informat.ro/en/international/the-echr-condemns-bulgaria-for-the-demolition-of-the-roma-camp-in-2023-136277
Bulgaria should issue arrest warrents for every member of the ECHR.
That body needs to fuck off and die.
goddamn allergy. I BLAME YOU PEOPLE!!!
Why? I didn’t even get to meet you, so you didn’t catch anything from me.
ragweed came from the Americas.
Sorry. I’ll do better.
I’m sure no phone or texting was involved. Bonus how he takes out not only the truck, but the car in the driveway gets a kiss too.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1vogduc/idiot_hits_a_parked_fedex_truck_oc/
was he allowed to park? Also the red car seemed to be going a tad fast for the area.
For deliveries in the US parking like that is generally permitted.
I can’t believe the FedEx guy walked on the grass!
Good thing he wasent in the back of that van.
“We know this is especially hurtful for our Black guests, team members and partners. Removing the costume is an important first step, and the company is looking closely at how this happened and what needs to change to ensure this won’t happen again,” he continued.
The move to pull the costume comes after social media backlash in which critics accused the Minneapolis-based retailer of selling racist merchandise.
Are juggalos racist? I can’t keep up.
Reminds me of the Blackface Pumpkins!idiocy.
I love the black lady at the 7 second mark.
“They’re pumpkins. Black. Pumpkins. Idiots”
FFS, there was a blackface controversy around the show Community. Because one character dressed as a Drow… who have black (actually black, not brown) skin, and white hair. The actor doing it was Asian, and there was even a clarifying joke in the scene discussing “that hatecrime over there”.
It was one of the most important episodes of the show, and it was pulled for a while because people were ‘offended’ (about a joke they didn’t understand).
Fuck. Them.
Neph, that was one of my favorite episodes.
I’m honestly fine with the theater kids not understanding canon* Drow society – they might get ideas.
* – meaning ‘pre-2014’. I hesitate to think about what the current crop of care bears at WotC has done with the Drow lore.
WOTC just announced that their sensitivity readers have removed slavery from Dark Sun. For the uninitiated Dark Sun is a Medieval Mad Max type setting for Dungeons and Dragons – blasted hellscape of an environment, scarce resources, and the brutal peoples that are able to survive in that world. Slavery is integral in how the various factions maintain power, but just like in Mad Max, escaping from slavery/freeing slaves can be a plot point in adventure. But WOTC thinks modern ears might be hurt, so it’s gone.
And people wonder why I hate whenever one of my interests gets the attention of normies.
This is what happens when the parasites normie attention brings along get buried into a niche.
Last American Hero:
Yeah… the takes I’ve read are that Hasbro is trying to bring back the old fans by going with Dark Sun, and are fumbling it by taking all of the flavor items that made Dark Sun DARK out.
“You really don’t have anyone left in Minneapolis to say, ‘Hey, that’s racist’? Y’all cut DEI and now you’ve got a minstrel clown costume for kids on your website,” one user said on Threads.
“I see racists.”
Y’all
I GAY-RON-TEE that was written by a proggie in New England.
I’m originally from Pennsylvania, but after a year in Camp Lejeune with a roommate from the hills of western NC, y’all has become a permanent part of my vocabulary.
Ron,
Living in Memphis made me add y’all to my vocab too. But I almost never write it.
Don’t know why, but I’m sure that post is by a non-Southener. Just doesn’t track for someone who uses that word regularly.
Pope Jimbo,
All y’all would have been more appropriate there, and I don’t think I’ve seen a non-Southern progressive use that correctly.
True, I don’t write it.
Everything is fake and stupid, you might be right about that.
Also, who would call it a minstrel clown but a professional race-baiter?
Ihr/Euch.
Also the red car seemed to be going a tad fast for the area.
“Failed to negotiate the turn.”
We need to get TOK a shirt with this logo on it!
We have a vinyl cutter. I can make one…
I’ll chip in.
#MeToo
This is infuriating. They drove for hours all over Atlantic County, NJ – I know all the towns mentioned well. I don’t understand why at some point given the roads they took the cops couldn’t take them out.
https://nypost.com/2026/08/25/us-news/4-nj-teens-steal-220k-g-wagon-lead-cops-on-hours-long-car-chase-before-crashing-killing-beloved-couple/
I misread the title and was wondering how you could use a 220kg wagon to run from the cops.
That is horrible. How are they not being charged with manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon?
It’s possible later.
They were just going out for Skittles and tea…
Whatever punishment they get I bet it won’t be enough.
Fucking scum.
Agreed and that is an incredibly sad story.
Imagine if they had crashed into a despised couple.
One of my current MSM headline peeves.
If it was single unemployed addict who had a child out of wedlock killed – it would be “beloved father”. It’s the ludicrous struggle for contrast and/or to bring interest to the piece.
That’s where this fake news tale I wrote came from. Children’s book authors (save Rowling) are always touted as “beloved” or somesuch.
Or what about an austere religious scholar?
The Daily Beast
Scaramucci Reveals Trump’s Makeup Routine
1 hour ago
By Harry Thompson
The Times
‘I’ve seen Donald Trump without make-up. He looks like Spam’
10 hours ago
By Will Pavia
Daily Star
Donald Trump turns bright orange as ex-aide claims he looks like Spam without make-up
3 hours ago
By Liam Randall
AOL.com
Ex-Donald Trump staffer reveals what POTUS looks like without makeup – it’s brutal
1 hour ago
By Robin Cottle
Not clicking…
Vain president is vain. News at 11.
I guess they’d prefer if he used LA-Z-Shave.
I don’t care.
Who are these people clicking on these stories and why won’t they stop?
Sensei is obviously one of them.
Compare and contrast with the treatment Sen. Ossoff got.
This.
After clicking the wiki entries of fish types in red lake MinnesotaI saw in many articles explicit references to bowfishing and how wasteful it is. I think someone does not like bow fishing and adds it to articles.
“A recent threat to the species is modern bowfishing, which is unregulated across the USA and prone to harvest discard”
what is the official glibertarian position on bowfishing.
I’ve never seen bow fishermen go after tasty game fish. They are always shooting carp or other trash fish. So I’m not real sure that you care about waste.
The bow fishermen here also have to pay for a fishing license, so they are helping pay for the management of the fisheries. More power to them.
Cook what you kill.
Depends on where and what.
Lionfish are fair game – and apparently pretty tasty!
I assume lionfish are deep in the sea and cannot be hunted by bow.
Look, we can fit bows to UAVs and hunt fish at any depth with them.
As Pope Jimbo said, I’ve only seen people bow fishing for shite fish like carp and [Lake Erie] sheepshead. They weren’t released, they were culled from the lake because they were garbage eating.
Although my dad did tell tales of a [black] neighbor when he was growing up who would walk up and down the breakwall (where there’s a large contingent of locals fishing), collecting sheepshead. Turns out he had a smokehouse set up in his back yard, and he was able to smoke them into something edible.
Dude was doing a public service.
“I assume lionfish are deep in the sea and cannot be hunted by bow.”
They are tropical. And yes, they were over fished/spearfished in places like the Bahamas and Virgin isles, because they were at first considered invasive and very disruptive, to the point they now are considered endangered again.
e they were at first considered invasive and very disruptive, to the point they now are considered endangered again. – what do you mean were? they still are invasive and are hunted. extinction would be the desired outcome.
Probably not standing on dry land and shooting them with a bow, if that’s what you mean.
https://lionfishdivers.com/how-to-hunt-lionfish/
But a sling spear is basically a bow that you use underwater.
Lionfish aren’t even close to endangered. The no-limits any-method hunting is just barely keeping the population in check.
But a sling spear is basically a bow – oh mo its not. I know the spears used like the lionfish extermination corps dude on youtube. they aint bows.
Mysterious
Fabre said he was shocked by what he saw, though he had heard of other recent incidents in which people were seen emerging from beneath city streets.
“I couldn’t believe people would go down there. I couldn’t believe how many of them were there. I couldn’t believe what they were wearing, and then they had the flashlights attached to their heads,” he said.
Fabre said he worried the people might notice him recording and return. He described their exit as seeming “professional” and “strategic,” though he did not know what they had been doing underground.
He said he was left with “all these unanswered questions” about what could have been happening.
Satanic rituals.
Life imitates Marvel.
Runaways or Morlocks?
The rent down there is only $10,000/mo for a studio. It’s a steal for NYC since Mamdani took office.
Music!
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/G7ld-bokIlo
C.H.U.D.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJckCjZ8Tdw
It’s a high bar to make me feel sorry for a lawyer’s lawyer. But I have on background noise in form of a compilation of lawyers having been caught using AI. The clip in question was a Utah court grilling the lawyer for a lawyer about the AI hallucinations in a filing his client made on behalf of a different client.
Oof.
The court did sanction the lawyer who filed the hallucinations.
There’s the matter of ‘In RE B.S.’, which I will not point out the irony of the name in a bench opinion. “That’s an adoption case and is unsurprisingly silent on the matter of the keeping of chickens” – Judge in a later clip
My open quotation mark should be at the very start of the comment.
Asses on Titty Tuesday? What sorcery is this!
https://archive.is/EZzP8
Spending is not the problem
Critics often argue that because federal revenues have remained “roughly flat” as a percentage of gross domestic product while spending has risen, spending is the culprit. Data proves, however, that tax cuts enacted this century are driving this fiscal imbalance.
Let’s consider two critical points.
First, without these tax cuts, debt as a percentage of GDP would be declining. Put simply, it is a mathematical truth that had the Bush and Trump tax cuts never been enacted, the U.S. debt ratio would be declining indefinitely.
Assume a can opener.
JFC. You do not hate these people enough.
We’ve tried raising taxes. It hasn’t worked. How about we try cutting spending. Just for a few centuries. We can check back in and compare.
This article really makes my teeth itch.
Lower than anticipated is not lower, you absolute retard.
He states, without evidence.
Then they totally ignore what actually happens with revenue vs tax cuts and just gripe about theoretical “money loss.”
I would have guessed this was written by Robert Reich or Krugman.
There is no mentally competent person starving in the US – it’s easier to feed yourself than almost any time in history.
This article really makes my teeth itch.
Have you tried being more stoic?
Yes, and this kind of stupidity combined with dishonesty is still a weak point.
It is
turtlesleftist shibboleths all the way down. They know, deep in their harts, thatclimate change is real, kids are starving,that their jobs depend on that money, ando on ad infinitum,and that they must have funding, no matter what the data says.long-term spending projections are actually lower than anticpated
A reduction in expected spending growth is a cut!
That means that spending changes have improved the long-term debt outlook relative to expectations, making tax cuts responsible for all of the worsening fiscal gap relative to the last time the United States had long-term fiscal stability. It doesn’t make sense analytically to blame spending increases relative to the old outlook that were previously fully budgeted for when they actually came in below expectations.
The root cause is clear. And, importantly, our current path is unsustainable — it hurts the economy, driving up interest rates and dragging down real wage growth.
Ow, my hed.
Gentlemen, start your lawsuits
The US Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) has signed a cooperation agreement with CORE POWER (US) Inc. to develop nuclear powered merchant ships. CORE POWER plans to start construction of its first nuclear-powered vessel in 2028.
The agreement will focus on the practical issues that need to be addressed before nuclear-powered merchant ships can operate commercially. These include regulations for small modular reactors (SMRs), port operations, crew training and certification, fuel, insurance, financing and services needed throughout a ship’s life.
Smooth sailing.
Should have been doing that in the 50s.
Base Price (as-tested) $85,545 ($106,190)
Just what I need as a suburban solo commuter vehicle! How soon can I chip it and do an emissions delete?
2027 Ram Power Wagon Cummins First Drive Review: The Diesel You Asked for in the Unstoppable Truck You Want
https://www.thedrive.com/car-reviews/2027-ram-power-wagon-cummins-first-drive-review-the-diesel-you-asked-for-in-the-unstoppable-truck-you-want
Only way I could justify spending that much would be if the truck was making me money.
Better to buy an old one and soup it up a little.
Well, works for me anyway.
This is the truck I want, if I was to replace my Frontier
https://www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Steyr-puch-haflinger_ea5ec.jpg
where’s the pintle machine gun mount? It should at least have an M2 if not a 30mm AA gun.
You may be able to get a deal on a G-Wagon from upthread!
Shit, this would probably do everything I want around town:
https://buildyourown.deere.com/cbyo/summary
I have toyed with getting a 525 wagon, between the two I think I would be covered
That wiring harness is going to melt.
It is leftist shibboleths all the way down.
There are many implicit unchallengeable assumptions in that article.
BMW – You know all the stuff people and automotive journalists have been telling us to let up on? Let’s double down!
BMW moving away from traditional switches, buttons to cater to younger buyers
https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/bmw-moving-away-from-traditional-switches-buttons-to-cater-to-younger-buyers
“Let’s kill our customers and those around them!”
I truly hate this shit.
That screen is ridiculous.
Interesting catering to people who do not drive.
Last night, I saw a white import with a large wing and full body kit, maybe a Honda, got distracted by the writing on the rear bumper:
バカ な 白人 男
Basically it says foolish white boy.
I laughed.
🤣🤣🤣
And mostly grammatically correct too! That’s doubly rare.
I thought the な was a nice touch.
You need a “no” particle between white person and boy.
Speaking of nature…
Youtube served up a breathlessly melodramatic AI thing about the invasive pythons in the Everglades. Scientists are SHOCKED to see evidence of the everglades “fighting back”.
Incredibly enough, animals which the giant snakes have been preying upon are beginning to see the eggs and young pythons as a food source. Not just alligators, but birds, other snakes, even bobcats.
BMW moving away from traditional switches, buttons to cater to younger buyers
I want a car controlled exclusively by voice command.
That would kill some people.
I had a young Marine in the early 2000’s buy a new Impala SS and put a couple thousand dollar stereo system in it with voice control.
Being a black guy from the swamps of Louisiana, his creole accent was THICK.
I remember him saying “PLAY CD” as slowly and clearly as he could and the car would respond,”I’m sorry, I didn’t understand that”, while we were dying laughing.
After a week or so,he replaced the head unit.
Nowadays the thing would have to be programmed to respond to humans of all hues in order for the company to not be sued for being “racist”.
rhywun:
I can tell stories about complaints about ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition/Response) systems that were ‘failing tests’ when they were using ESL testers with amazingly thick accents. To the point the people complaining couldn’t understand it when we gave them the audio files.
We were asked how we would be able to fix that…
I have a friend who basically uses his Model 3 Tesla this way.
He uses Self Driving with Grok to tell the car where to go. “Take me to work, and on the way stop at a local, non-chain coffee shop with a drive through”
This was literally the prompt he told me about when I asked how he liked it. Says he sits there with his hands in his lap and doesnt touch the controls at all.
Self Driving and Brain Rot | Featuring Tesla FSD
https://youtu.be/nODjwyaREM4?si=acF5r3b8outvm5Yu
“We can see that voice and touch are becoming more and more common. Maybe it’s a generational thing as well. You would see that a lot of the younger generation, maybe 45 or below, they’re tapped into these technologies at a faster pace, using voice, using touch.
“They want things done quickly and they’re multitasking. And we have to keep that in mind. That’s how customers are evolving. They are multitasking.”
Exactly. And actually driving the car is not their top priority.
Apparently our scheduling woes are still in effect.
New post is up.