So last night I get a text from my son at the gym that I need to stop and grab a Mt. Dew for the wife on the way home. I had dinner done already so I dropped my sons off to get a post workout meal and ran to a Circle K. It was nice out last night, a really nice 68°. How nice? Nice enough for me to open the windows and sunroof. Too bad for me because this morning I discovered I forgot to close the sunroof.
…I’ve been meaning to clean this out anyways. Luckily, it has leatherish seats and the lesbian that owned it before me bought the Subaru branded rubber mats so at least drying it off wasn’t that bad. Please laugh at my expense.
¡enlaces!
This of course, being the source of the rain last night.
I’m calling it now, cocaine will be trafficked by Amazon Prime.
One day, we will stop Indiana.
On Wednesday, the newly appointed head for the disaster preparedness and response agency said the government would request rescue teams from only four countries: the US, El Salvador, Ecuador and Israel.
Based….*checks notes* Lula? What?
Milei threatens the UK! Okay he’s only throwing his lawyers at them for now.
Yesterday, I had some time to kill with my oldest so we went to a guitar store near his high school. He didn’t know what to do, so I told him grab one, see how it feels, heard how it sounds, thats why they’re on display and not behind the counter. He looked at the stoner working there and got an approving nod. So he picks one eventually (an Ibanez) and I hear him hit the strings. By then I was probably 20 feet away on the other end of the store when I shouted, “Hey! No Stairway!”
He set it down realizing I set him up. This isn’t Stairway, but appropriate for today.
Can’t do it, as I’m still in the process of refinishing the window frames on my car, and we keep getting a little 10 minute thunderstorm, just enough to bloom a new batch of surface rust that I have to knock off with a wire wheel. On the bright side, I should be ready for Bondo, primer and paint by this time next week. Climate controlled garages should be a human right.
Oh Lord. You saw all the rain coming tomorrow – Friday?
Yeah, we’re not supposed to get it quite as bad over here as you guys, but it’s still going to be wet. I might just either shut some trash bags into the door frames or park in my no-doors garage – it’ll still bloom a little rust from the humidity, but probably won’t be as big a pain in the ass.
Nolo and Polo? Whoever names these storms is really phoning it in these days. RIP bash.org
I thought pacific storms were typhoons?
I hate that storms have men’s names now too.
Why?
“Why?” Like cats and the moon, the sea belongs to the female.
(To my SiL+, I’ve decided I’ll say “I choose to respect the ancient, indigenous beliefs of Greco-Romans for their contributions to modern society.”)
I tried to explain to the wife that all cats are female, and all dogs male. She isn’t buying it.
The ship is a real lady.
The storm is a stone cold bitch.
I hate that storms have men’s names now too.
Been that way since at least 1989.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Hugo
I think 1978 was the first year Atlantic hurricanes had male names.
Of course, if all hurricanes had male names, they’d never make it past the Virgin Islands.
Rich Hall, American comedian who’s been in England for a few decades, he named hurricanes as a young man for the United States Meteorological Service. He was upset he couldn’t name one “Jugs” or something more frightening.
Excellent song choice!
It rains in Arizona?
five times a year
One of the most fascinating vistas I saw on a road trip was in Arizona where I could see several different rainstorms in the distance. I could see the clouds, the columns of rain, and in between the sunny clear skies. It was so flat and open and the scattered showers literally scattered.
But not in southern California.
Seems I’ve often heard that kind of talk before.
So they tell me:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e1YYqeKUp-M&list=RDe1YYqeKUp-M&start_radio=1&pp=ygU0dG9ueSB0b255IHRvbnkgaXQgbmV2ZXIgcmFpbnMgaW4gc291dGhlcm4gY2FsaWZvcm5pYaAHAQ%3D%3D
I used to roll the windows down on the car and leave them down for months at a time. {no a/c}
One day, we will stop Indiana.
* narrows gaze *
*stairs narrow in solidarity*
So the remaining 20% is just U.S. origin with extra steps?
They should make their own weapons instead of being dependent on more serious countries.
I wonder how many of those passed through the hands of the police or military before ending up with the cartel.
I’m betting most of them.
I was thinking the same thing. If these are military grade guns I’m certain neither the US Army nor IDF filled the cartels order.
Bullshit on its face.
Without prediction markets it will be more difficult to determine how statistically anomalous his landslide victory will be.
You’ve been president too long, we’re going to bury you ina mausaleum with all of your retainers, bureaucrats, and party members.
Whose who refuse the honor will be burned as heretics affronting the gods.
And possibly on target and not early!
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/politics/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-restart-controversial-deportations-to-third-countries
lol FAFO
Seriously… if you’re so awful the country where you are a citizen doesn’t want you, why should we have to keep them?
Amazing how shit like container homes and “tiny houses” are pitched as the solution to the aFfOrDaBiLItY CrISiS for uppity “young” Americans in their early 40s whose median salary is 30% too low to qualify for financing on the median priced home, but it’s inhumane torture for our sainted “irregular migrants.”
Linques of moistness? I hope your car doesn’t get a fungus.
You have to make sure it’s really dry, there isn’t mushroom for error.
He should just tell them their oil project violates the practices and beliefs of Argentine Muslims, they’ll be gone tomorrow.
That’s only a two on the Stoic meter.
*ron scowls*
Some good news:
https://ij.org/press-release/federal-jury-strikes-down-texas-sheriffs-surveillance-driven-traffic-stop-program/
How are these cameras not the execution of a general warrant without the paperwork?
Because fuck you, that’s how.
And we have what actually happened. ICE actually played this one well.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/crime/2026/09/29/doordash-driver-shot-by-ice-agent-faces-charges/92006186007/
Minus the shooting that is…
Deport them all.
Did ICE make the food deliveries?
“Did ICE make the food deliveries?”
Outstanding question, this.
Some nice fight choreography; Spear Vs Sword & Buckler & Dagger (Dan Carter + Ben Aycrigg).
Nothing as fierce as discussions in the AM Linques, but still nice.
I always thought the buckler was too small but it appears effective hear. *pulls out pistol Indiana Jones style and shoots both of them
This is choreographed and looks totally unnatural to me.
However, bucklers have value. Big shield is great, but it totally limits your visibility.
A buckler (or a parrying dagger) in the off hand gives great visibility, but better be pretty fucking fast if you want to actually protect yourself with it.
*here
You’re right, kinnath, there is definately a fantasy over reality element.
as an example, here is another: Drizzt Do’Urden vs Artemis Entreri . I enjoy them partly because I read all those books by R.A. Salvatore.
Bold strategy
Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, took a surprising new tack during the first hearing after her mistrial. Instead of arguing she could not be held criminally responsible for the strangulation deaths of her three children, he argued Tuesday that the prosecution failed to prove she caused their deaths.
“Where does she say she did this?” Reddington said in court on Tuesday.
NewsCenter 5 asked retired Massachusetts District Judge Jim Barretto to respond to the change.
“I almost don’t know what to make of it,” Barretto responded during our live interview. “I’ve heard hundreds, if not thousands, of motions for required finding of not guilty. I never expected this: Attorney Reddington, while arguing that motion, actually asserted that Lindsay Clancy — or that there was no evidence that — Lindsay Clancy killed her children.”
Barretto continued, “That was a bedrock fact which he himself virtually conceded throughout the entire trial.”
Ahh, the Eddie Murphy defense.
Basically, he’s feeding on the politicization and ridiculous support she’s gained online that wasn’t there before the trial hit the mainstream.
It’s smart as a defense attorney. With Trump commenting on this even to some degree, I guarantee no Massachusetts jury would vote to convict in anyway.
I wonder if the TikTok servers are ready for the flood of new wine mom conspiracy videos.
Every one of them are evil and stupid.
Lego jobs in Mexico.
So more after hours off color Darth Vader helmets on the market or like the Creator Castle I bought three of a crap ton of broken 1×1 bricks because quality control is crap.
Fun set but almost every 1×1 was broken out of the box. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/medieval-castle-31120
Oh, how I laughed: Curious George Carlin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLmGs5gm3UA
Shaka Zulu learns about Jesus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6hWYErT9qI
fun fact: Shaka means parasite because he was an unwanted child. He didn’t take it well.
Without having looked at the nitty gritty details, my bullshit detector is abuzzing more than it was for Rolling Stone’s Jackie story or Mattress Girl herself.
Which story?
Outstanding question, this.
I assumed that he meant the Cornell story but I can’t say for sure.
Status Imperium Americanum Anno 2026
50 states
14 territories (9 uninhabited)
about 800 military bases in 80+ countries
About 200k troops stationed overseas (a larger force than almost every military)
233 active ships in the Navy
Semper festinat pecuniam ex machina!
Money printer always go BRRR?
Euge, homo!
Close enough! That year of Latin paid off.
The 800 military bases is mostly BS.
Tons of NATO postings with 2-10 guys and a crap ton of empty ports of call that are empty. Plus counting every embassy and consulate with marine Corp security.
I guarantee they count every guard armory as well.
If the US had kept Mexico, Germany, Japan, Italy, the Philippines, Cuba, Belgium, France, Panama… and had gotten any oil from Iraq the argument that the us was an empire would hold water.
Even if the actual figure is 1/4 of that it’s still about 150 too many.
https://ourcommunitynow.com/P/at-mexicos-2-legal-gun-shops-a-conflicted-view-of-firearms-is-on-display
No word on what the hundreds of black-market gun stores think.
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There are only two legal gun stores in all of Mexico — making them destinations for customers from every corner of the country and an embodiment of Mexico’s conflicted relationship with firearms.
The Constitution enshrines the right to own them, and there are millions of weapons in civilian hands, with a black market flooded by American-made guns. But the two legal stores, military-run and tightly regulated, are emblematic of government efforts to better control Mexico’s guns.
Private security guards, sport shooters and others make strenuous trips to the stores, which look like a cross between a D.M.V. office and a small museum. Applicants need to present nearly a dozen documents at the stores — once they’ve waited a few months for approval to buy a gun.
Cristian Ulices Ocaranza Marquez, 32, a municipal police officer, rented a van with six other officers and drove eight hours from his home to Mexico City for guns. His state, Colima, has one of the highest homicide rates in the country, and he is barred from bringing his work gun home, so he applied for a handgun, waited three months for approval and paid $518. (The average monthly salary in Mexico is roughly $320.)
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[head desk]
So just like NJ.
The
DMVMVC was faster than they promised, at least. “REAL ID” arrived in just a week and a day.Two tries and days off from work for me.
First try “the computer was down”.
I did it on a (((day off))) we had last week. Took a couple hours.
https://archive.li/eg28h
Because just looking cool on a bicycle while blocking traffic isn’t enough.
https://www.wsj.com/style/fashion/skintight-running-unitards-are-having-a-masculine-moment-956a4bd5?st=t6M1wC&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
No.
Unitard sounds like a pejorative for political moderates.
I kinda like it.
Sounds to me like they misspelled the word, and need to RE-try it.
“Unitards” would also work as a term for all of the employees and students at a post-secondary institution (possibly in a town that doesn’t have much else in it).
You’d have to ask the OM for confirmation but yeah, sounds about right.
Oooh, that is outstanding. I fear it’s only gold ’round here, though. Useful Idiots don’t get the Team Red = Team Blue (Be Ruled) reality, so it’d have to be explained. Kinda kills the joke, but their blank stares may be fun.
It also sounds like a frustrating class to teach. Maybe seven or eight bright kids, eager to learn, and there’s just one retard who ruins everything.
“I just had a unicorn class! They’re all so smart, fun, cute and silly! Wondrous!”
“Eh, I had a unitard in mine. That one kid sinks everyone with ‘im!”
“Let’s make out.”
Back from errands. I saw a cybertruck in the wild, at close range. It makes a Chevrolet Apache look good. And that takes some doing.
Grabbed some cold fried chicken wings at the store and shoveled them down my gullet with some cold leftover rice from the fridge. I have regrets. Don’t go to the store when you’re ravenously hungry. Mistakes will be made.
A neighbor has one nearby. I will say, they’re different. Kinda a jacked up DeLorean, but I think they’re ugly. Looks sleek, spacious inside. Unlike other vehicles, I kind of expect it to be comfortable. *shrug*
I see Cybertrucks on the road every now and then in NH.
They look weird.
I see them all the time in Oregon, but not in any states west of that on this trip. Pretty sure I will see some in ABQ tomorrow.
I spotted one in the parking lot of our local grocery store, and again at the hardware store. At the grocery store I was taking a pic on my phone to yuck it up with one of my friends, and some random guy just crossing the parking lot saw me and went “It’s like a giant garbage can, isn’t it?” Tbh, I kind of admire the chutzpah of driving one in small town west Texas.
Which story?
I’m guessing Cornell
behold my empowered sexual liberation and cater to my needs and desires, come one, come allgang rape girl.Also- how could ACO set foot on that horrific pervert sanctuary?
That was my guess, too.
AOC actually held court off-campus, downtown. But yeah, the town is like that lesbian bar but on steroids. Those kids would be in prison already if the “survivor’s” tale had any truth to it.
Always love finding out that I just answered something that was already answered downthread LOL. Maybe I should listen more.
Because I tend to come late to the comments section that’s why I tend to read the comments starting at the bottom and working up.
TOO LOCAL NEWS: Property taxes and school funding are a big deal this year
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cinde Warmington says New Hampshire’s Education Freedom Account (EFA) program is picking taxpayers’ pockets and driving up local property taxes.
Josiah Bartlett Center President Drew Cline has a one-word fact check: “Ridiculous.”
“That’s one of the more ridiculous claims that comes out in politics,” Cline told NHJournal during a recent podcast interview. “It really doesn’t have any bearing on reality whatsoever.”
Democrats have made the claim that GOP state education policy is “downshifting” costs onto local taxpayers, driving up property taxes, central to their 2026 messaging.
Warmington has called the EFA program “a pickpocket scheme taking money out of the pockets of working people” and “driving up everybody’s property taxes.”
How did I not know about the Josiah Bartlett center? I thought this was a joke for a minute b/c of West Wing President Joshiah Bartlet (i.e. Jed Bartlet) who originated from NH.
They tend to concentrate on NH related stuff, so I wouldn’t expect many people outside of NH to know about them. I don’t read everything from them, but I like what I have read.
TOO LOCAL NEWS: Gordon Darby at it again
The debate is over clean air, but the company that’s been making money off New Hampshire’s now-revoked vehicle inspection mandate is muddying the waters on the environmental issues involved.
The state’s decision to dump mandatory vehicle inspections created a conflict with federal emissions-testing requirements. However, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency announced earlier this year that it would clear federal obstacles to shutting down the program and let New Hampshire remain free of an inspection mandate.
But on Friday, Gordon-Darby Holdings and New Hampshire resident Marilyn C. Jonas filed separate objections to those EPA actions. It’s the latest in a series of legal objections that have already produced two federal lawsuits.
At the center of their objections is an analysis Gordon-Darby commissioned from Ramboll Americas Engineering Solutions. The consultant contends the state’s modeling inflated emissions from certain buses and trucks, obscuring the relative impact of eliminating inspections.
Among its examples: a model that, according to Ramboll, attributed more nitrogen oxide emissions to 13 buses in Hillsborough County than to 280,075 passenger cars.
Jesus Christ, how much were they pulling in off that inspection racket that they can afford to pursue, what is this, like their 10th federal lawsuit? You can’t even walk into federal court for under a million bucks.
Just shit tons of money. Grifting is a never ending basket of gold.
Gordon Darby is the parent company. They’re based in Kentucky. They do business administering government programs nationwide.
Gordon Darby had a subsidiary based in NH. The subsidiary’s only job was to administer the NH inspection program.
The subsidiary isn’t suing. It’s the parent company suing on behalf of the subsidiary.
Ahh, that makes more sense. Even still, they must have been absolutely pillaging if the cost of litigation is commensurate with the potential upside.
I don’t know how much Gordon-Darby got from NH.
Average cost of car inspections in NH was around $30, if I remember correctly, at the time of repeal. State law did not set the cost of inspections. However, state law does specify that $3 per inspection goes from the inspection mechanic to the state government. The money went into a dedicated fund shared with municipalities. I don’t remember what the fund was earmarked for. However, the inspection repeal ended the fund which is why inspection repeal could be part of the budget. Being part of the budget was the weapon the State House of Representatives used to strong-arm the State Senate and governor into signing off on the end of car inspections.
TOO LOCAL NEWS: LET’S GET READY TO RUMBLE!
Portsmouth Democratic state Rep. Ned Raynolds wants you to know that when he told House Majority Leader Jason Osborne he wanted to “put you on the ground and rub gravel in your face. And make you eat sh*t,” he didn’t mean it in a violent way.
“If you read my (message) carefully, it’s insulting, it’s profane, but it’s not a sense of violence,” Raynolds told Seacoastonline. Instead, he called it an “invitation.”
Raynolds means it, too. It’s a fringe benefit of being part of the political left: You’re never the bad guy. Even when you want to beat the crap out of someone over their politics.
Here is Raynolds’ full “invitation” to Osborne:
“How about this you pssy? Come on over to Portsmouth and meet me in the middle of Market Square. No weapons, no posse – just you & me. We’ll stop traffic, and I’ll put you on the ground and rub gravel in your face. And make you eat sht.”
It’s not as offensively juvenile as last week’s post from the fringe nutters kicked out of the Libertarian Party supporting the assassination of elected New Hampshire Democrats. But it is more egregious than the tasteless Holocaust joke tweeted by GOP Rep. Travis Corcoran.
To be sure, we must always examine violent rhetoric from Democrats in light of how much the dirty Republican was asking for it.
Also, not for nothing, but we’ve had a president who participated in perhaps as many as 100 duels, one of which resulted in a fatality. I think we can skip the pearl clutching over a couple effete political bitches threatening each other with a slap fight in town square.
TOO LOCAL NEWS: Rookie numbers
The Milton School District is facing an estimated $2.5 million budget deficit, according to school leaders.
The district reportedly hasn’t done an audit since 2023, which is why district leaders say it’s hard to know what the exact scope of the deficit is.
How does a school district not know what it’s budget is or how much it’s spending? How are they knowing to borrow anything if they don’t know if they need more money?
Incompetence and ignorance of the law requiring them to not go over budget. I doubt any of the exceptions apply.
It is axiomatic in government accounting that they need more money.
And one more: NH made silent comedy film found in Japan
A silent comedy filmed in New Hampshire more than a century ago was recently found in Japan, and plans have been set to show the film in early November in the state where it was created.
Van-ar-chy, a 1919 film starring the US entertainer and film-maker Billy B Van, was rediscovered by Kohei Okita, a film student in Sendai, Japan. While researching early cinema related to the word “anarchy”, Okita bought several old film reels at an antique store in Japan and found the comedy starring Van, whom he did not recognize, according to a Van-ar-chy news release.
Internet searching then connected Okita with John Tariot, a Van archivist. Tariot identified the comedy as Van-ar-chy, one of Van’s films made in New Hampshire in the communities of Newport and Sunapee.
I am making a note. It shall be posted when available.
If hurricanes get male names shouldnt they be him-acanes?
And how about Xericanes? Are you trying to genocide xericanes, you monster?
Don’t forget about the intersex hermacanes.
Yes! Forgetting is genocide!
Don’t be herstrionic.
All those innocent Theynadoes will die because of you!
The “clean comic” thread was last night.
I’ll be here all week!
Excellent!
Not this Stairway?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkq1Q6Qgauc