The humidity broke to something below “am I actually under water?” this weekend, and the house cooled below the set temp for the AC for several hours. It was glorious. I could almost feel Duke Energy’s big slimy tentacles withdrawing from my… wallet. So of course, the littlest one wants to go in the pool. It was like the Arctic Ocean in there. Swear I saw an iceburg. Water temp was probably in the mid 70s.
Let’s do some linkin’
In a too local story, once again a couple of deputies who were fine officers right up until a couple weeks ago suddenly became ex-cops after being caught misappropriating law enforcement data for personal use. Maybe law enforcement doesn’t need all that data…
The major difference between this and an attack on the US Capitol is that pretty much anyone with a concealed carry license in Texas can carry a firearm into the Texas Capitol building, and lawmakers are permitted to possess a firearm on the chamber floor. So I’m kind of disappointed DPS took the joy of having this moron blown away by 3 matronly administrative assistants.
UCLA discovers it really sucks when your political foes have control of the Justice Department and can “weaponize” civil rights laws. You can almost hear them crying “How?? How did our perfectly crafted system for crushing people at the whim of the bureaucracy ever turn on us?!”
I’m confused about this… did the guy get launched from the trebuchet and died from his encounter with a stationary object, or did his body try to play the stationary thing stopping an object launched from the trebuchet?
Today I feel like an Irish guy who just wants to be cowboy
But then how could they possibly keep us safe? Don’t you remember those dark times in 2015 when murderers and kidnappers were getting away scot-free because the cops had to actually get a warrant and call the phone company to track your every movement?
Flock knows!
It’s worrisome to think: “Overall Violent Crime: The national violent crime rate dropped by 9.3% in 2025 compared to 2024, marking one of the largest single-year declines in U.S. history, with further drops continuing into early 2026.”
Is that cuz of Trump? (‘UNDO IT!’) Or cuz of Flock tech, etc? Or is it just safer? (I really don’t believe that one.) I don’t like giving ammunition to Flocksters+ who’ll think more surveillance is ultra okay and we should have more of it, like, everywhere.
The real reason is probably that several large metros with high crime rates that skew the national statistics stopped reporting to the national crime database a few years back because of the bad orange man. That and several states and municipalities are either pleading down or outright ignoring violent crimes committed by illegal aliens to prevent them from being deported.
Several large metros ” stopped reporting to the national crime database a few years back…”
Oooh, good point. I’d forgotten about that. Like, all blue cities/states. 🧐
No idea but I bet their getting their numbers from the FBI or some other Fed source and IIRC cities are free to report whatever numbers they want – or not report at all.
What Pat said plus deportations.
And maybe all the homicides have just thinned the herd of those inclined to kill each other for sport, disrespect, or are too tired to wait for all the free stuff promised them?
Have we met the point where the curves of Margret Sanger and section eight housing cross Creech?
I wouldn’t cross Creech if I were you.
He looks the type to load the cannon with grape shoot and then fix bayonets.
“I could almost feel Duke Energy’s big slimy tentacles withdrawing from my… wallet.”
Pro of my living situation: I don’t pay utilities. (Or rent.)
Negative “: Out of necessity, I kept the heater in my room on… all summer. It’s cold, man. Downstairs, it’ll read “63” and Mom will complain and turn it up. I’ve joked about changing it to Metric to confuse Dad, but we’d likely end up colder as a result. (He’d wanna keep it in the teens, once he figured it out.)
Not my money, but that’s a helluva First World problem (and climate) to have.
That’s bonkers. I set it around 75 when it’s hot and that ended a couple weeks ago. My first electric bill in nu-apartment wasn’t all that bad – around $100.
I will maintain to my grave that Florida (and the also popular Texas) are not fit for human habitation.
neither is the desert, but millions of people live there
It does boggle my mind how people lived here for eons without air conditioning. I visited a local historical mansion that’s now a museum, and the tour guide pointed out the transom windows and how they worked for cooling and ventilation. But I mean… 110 degrees Fahrenheit is 110 degrees Fahrenheit.
Well, it was pretty tough this summer. Most people I know had $400 to $500 electric bills. Myself included.
My first apt in Korea had ‘communal pricing’ on the floor for utilities. There were a couple small businesses in studio apt-sized offices on the 3rd floor I shared w ’em. One January, I never once turned the heat on. (I don’t think I knew how. And it never became urgent.)
Bill? $300. I loved that studio, but DAMN! Something goofy, though. That only happened that one time. Fuckin’ somebody was up to fuckin’ somethin’ with someone that winter. 🧐 <– It's no good I now have easy access to these.
When my poor family got off the plane in Palm Springs from Okinawa in July, the first thing my daughter said:
It’s so hot! Why do people live here?
I had no answer.
Then we drove for an hour through the desert to 29 Palms and my wife was not impressed.
Those people are crazy, too.
Because it never rains in southern california
I’ll take the desert.
I like the beach but humidity sucks. TN, KY, LA, GA, NC, SC…. Not fit for human habitation.
When I first moved upstate I commented that it was possible to live here without modern technology.
“Why do people live here?”
Jai Alai.
Yes and I would go up the coast to at least Maryland. Summers are bad in NYC too but fortunately only three months or so – the rest of the year is fine.
or did his body try to play the stationary thing stopping an object launched from the trebuchet
I expect he was on the receiving end of a projectile that overflew the wall (the primary target of the trebuchet).
What are the odds he said something ironic in the moments before the rock arrived?
almost certain
I admittedly don’t follow my state’s politics all that closely, but I don’t believe there’s any substantial number of Jewish state legislators.
They control everything!
But the question of how many cups of coffee Balzac consumed is kind of beside the point. Because according to Balzac himself, he eventually graduated from drinking coffee to eating it: he pretty much literally dry-scooped raw grounds and ate them on an empty stomach. (There may have been some minimal water involved as lubricant, but the point is that he was mainlining those grounds instead of drinking an infused brew.)
So he could see noises?
I hope the trebuchet operator got a commendation for that well placed shot.
I can almost hear the trebuchet crew now…
“Oooo! Almost, almost…”
“…And… YEAH! TEN POINTS!”
I’m afraid that impact most likely occurred behind the wall that was the actual target. So, that goes down on the scoresheet as a miss (since there was no way for the line crew to rcognize/verify the bonus impact beyond the wall).
https://6abc.com/post/pats-king-steaks-owner-wants-justice-cheesesteak-assault-caught-video/19894516/
Has anybody seen Geno?
Cheese Wiz. With.
There is a place near my office that trucks rolls up from Philly everyday.
It’s the only “real” cheesesteak I’ve had in NYC. Same options are available.
Why can’t we kick this Gazan nutter out of Britain?
Dayum… he’s more on fire than usual.
Purposely. How many of their leaders have a vibrant background themselves? It’s only going to get more… interesting from here on out.
Shocking development
A federal judge on Thursday ruled that President Donald Trump doesn’t have the power to fire court-appointed U.S. attorneys, rejecting a core tenet of the Trump administration’s approach to top prosecutorial jobs.
“The president cannot unilaterally fire a United States attorney appointed by the district court,” U.S. District Judge Stanley Bastian said in a ruling from the bench. Doing so, Bastian said, “would upend the framework created by the Constitution and the statutes, which together balance the president’s right to appoint and the Senate’s right to confirm.”
The judiciary are omnipotent.
In his ruling, Bastian not only restored Rogoff to the job, but also took steps designed to thwart any attempts by the Trump administration to undermine his authority or transfer it to someone else. Bastian ordered that the executive office of the president, Attorney General Todd Blanche and the Justice Department are barred from “any purported firing” or removal of Rogoff from his post, interference with his service in the role and from treating anyone other than Rogoff as the U.S. attorney.
Seems legit.
The DoJ is a wholly owned subsidiary of the court system, right?
So basically he gets a no-show job because orangemanbad. It’s all so tiresome.
Going to 13yo’s Indianapolis cross country. He’s doing a 3000m and here are top times for previous competitions:
1 11:04.00
2 11:05.00 – Same school as my nephew
3 11:22.93 -Harshman Middle School
4 My newphew 11:52.48 — They misspelled our last name.
Next kid is 12:50, 24 total. If he decides he really likes a sport, he’ll be fantastic at it. As long as it doesn’t involve large muscle mass. Like his dad and me, frankly, but I was nowhere near as good at him (or bro) at what I did, though I was good at ’em. But *cared* more, which is fascinating, IMO.
I kinda like this Steve Hilton for California governor ad despite the unfortunate piercings in the actresses.
I think all the Hilton ones have been AI.
A bit like the Democrat nursing home ballot harvesting.
I tapped out of an LA Times article I came across with serious journalismists ridiculing his campaign. Because obviously the communist asshole is going to win.