Good morning one and all to another splendid 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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US Budget Deficit Hits 5-Year High of $1.99 Trillion
Can I have 1 …. eh nevermind.
I am sure a D House can get us over the $2T mark.
And the amount of it going to fraud and the left’s insidious anti America organizations that finance all the criminality and the invasion machine, too.
An R House can do just as well.
Remember when the Big Booty Bill was going to reduce the deficit?
History will record that DJT’s biggest failure was the blowout spending during his administrations. Wait, history will record DJT’s two biggest failures were the blowout spending, and the COVID response. Hold on, hold on, history will record DJT’s three biggest failures were the blowout spending, the COVID response, and the war with Iran. No, wait, history will . . . I’ll just leave now and let myself back in.
Other than that, he’s been great.
The next GOP hack who claims the Dems are going to bankrupt us, Vote Republican! gets a sock in the jaw.
gets a sock in the jaw – fill yourself doing it and put it online!
Fill that sock with nickels, and you’ll be onto something.
I was gonna go with just my fist but your idea is better.
Do it quickly before nickles disappear.
Fill that sock with nickels, and you’ll be onto something.
Then melt them down to get more money than their face value.
The R’s claiming small government while increasing the budget every year has been a thing since forever.
Reagan was President when I was a kid and my dad was a fan, but he didn’t like Regan’s increases.
Reagan or Regan?
I can’t type, they were both supposed to be Reagan.
Although Regan probably helped.
Inside the biggest voter fraud bust in California’s history
ahem the biggest myth in California history.
DANCE BONES, DANCE!
‘I AM A VOTE PRECURER, NOT A MIRACLE WORKER, JIM!”
Did Ilhan Omar’s Husband Sell Empty Barrels of Wine?
selling empty barrels of wine can be legitimate if you sell them to whisky distilleries for finishing whisky.
What if the bill of lading says you paid a ton of money for wine, but all you got is an empty barrel and access to the mechanisms in Minnesodda to commit massive fraud of welfare programs?
massive fraud of welfare programs – as long as whitey pays it alright (because we do not want it to be alt right )
She taught him everything he needs to know about grifting and fraud. It’s a family/tribal tradition.
Media Break Out ‘Fiery But Mostly Peaceful’ Playbook To Downplay France’s Islamo-Marxist Riots
there was a Romanian influencer saying thAt MAGA organized the riots to destabilize Europe.
I’ve seen people claim Putin is behind it all, so basically the same thing respectable-opinion-wise.
Russia, Russia, Russia still has legs on the left.
Well, their go-to of blaming the Jooz is kinda hard on this one, because Jooz are being specifically targeted.
It’s still the Jooz fault! If they would only stop existing the peace loving Mohammedans wouldn’t be forced to rape, murder, or riot.
Don’t be fooled. Jews are burning their own businesses to the ground to trick people into thinking that the adherents of the Religion of Peace are somehow involved.
maybe it is a conspiracy of muslims jews chiana russia maga the far left the far right and some dude named Kevin, all against Macron
It’s the Ashkenazi Double Bluff!
“…some dude named Kevin”
Never did trust that TOK guy.
Its okay, he is the other Kevin.
Boys set out around 530am on their way cross-country to Nevada.
Anxious for their first check in with us. All good drivers of course.
Good luck, OBE, we are all counting on you(re’s).
y’all need trains.
We have plenty. They mostly carry freight.
And miss the good ol’ American road trip?
Trains let you fuel yourself along the way. 🍸🍺
And miss the good ol’ American road trip?
I’ve driven to California and back. It’s a good way to see the country.
OBE, I hope your kids have a good trip.
We have them. For cross country you would need to be retired to take a train. They never leave/arrive on time as they share track with freight trains that get priority on the tracks and the commuter trains end up doing a lot of waiting along the way.
I take the train about 12 days a year. It makes sense to use it to get downtown for Browns games.
I might take the train next time I go to see my son in NYC, but only because I have driven a couple times along with flying. might as well try something new.
“Elon Musk Pledges to Give ‘Every Kid in America’ 1 SpaceX Share”
The left will complain he is only giving away one share per child, that he is giving honkey children shares, that he should give minorities 2 shares, and that government should have been given the money so they could have taken half of it to finance the NGOs and other entities working to destroy Musk and America…
And the Anthropic AI CEO announced a plan to someday give some shares to a wholly-owned subsidiary to dole out to the Right People at NGOs, if, you know, Anthropic eve goes public, via an announcement so larded up with weasel words it will probably never happen. Naturally, he is lauded for this.
From what I hear Anthropic might be cooked financially…
Yes. Those kids would get shares and eventually owe money for a margin call.
I’ve already seen a complaint that this is a way to help destabilize social security, and is a backdoor plot to get children dependent on the (gasp) MARKET for retirement.
Inside The ‘Penal Platoon’ Hell Marines Found Themselves In After Refusing COVID Jab
sounds like a movie plot.
Porn movie…
Penile Platoon?
“US Budget Deficit Hits 5-Year High of $1.99 Trillion”
I have it on good authority that the Pachyderms are fiscally responsible!
Nobody will ever be fiscally responsible when to get votes you have to promise people lucre, and the majority of people are voting for who gives them the most. The system is designed to go broke. Until only people with skin in the game get to vote, we are on a doomed trajectory to eventual bankruptcy.
Nobody is complaining about the amount anymore, it’s what we spend it on.
“Instead of all this money to the military, we should have free health care.”
…and sooner rather that later…
Inflation is a symptom of the future.
I understand why 2% is built in but I’ve never understood why that is good or acceptable.
Devaluing the debt allows them to keep borrowing more and more, while hoping some major event causes massive GDP jump and growth. The problem is that, based on history, they will then jump their spending by that X factor plus another 20% completely undermining the logic of this stupid model.
The only correction that can give us a chance is for ONLY the people that pay net taxes to get to vote, so these people care more about avoiding government bloat and their money being stolen and pissed away. And that is why we can’t get that. too many people’s income potential is tied to a massive and wasteful government.
I was feeling good about work and went to sleep thinking *today* would be my Wednesday ‘hump’ day. But it’s only Tuesday. Alas. However, onward and tally ho! I’ve got to figure out this 30min lunch thing. Regardless, I’m gonna have a smoke in my car, so give that 15 min. Really, I only smoke three a day when I’m working (there, lunch and way back), and the privacy it affords, legit Alone Time, is pretty crucial Reset + Reboot time.
Yesterday’s food was a granola bar in the lunch area, chatting a chill dude I worked with in The Vault, before going out to my Kia. Likely similar today, though I may just spend the whole 30 out there and eliminate the wandering ‘commute’ inside. We shall see. Should be a good day.
Give me a $billion SpaceX shares and watch how I prosper.
Ah, to be young and stupid again.
(Some naive WoC thinks there’s room for happiness in intersectionality
https://journalofpositivesexuality.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/10.51681.1.811_HotGirlScience_Hargons-Thorpe.pdf.)
I remember how when I was young so many young people with zero life experiences believed they really knew how the world worked and that they could fix it all with more free shit.
I tapped out at the first sentence.
A pair of articles that make it hard to feel sympathy for authoritarians suffering from vax injuries.
I would have ended up in that Penal Platoon too.
Shots were an annual tradition. If you lost your shot record you had to start over again, it seemed.
It was guarded piece of paper. Going overseas, you needed more shots plus a booster for those you already had.
Got the vax injury from the experimental anthrax shot to prove it.
@Fourscore – in the better late than never column, you had asked which White Castle I ate at the other day – it was the one by the Capital on Rice St two blocks off University.
I know it well, though I never stopped there. University Ave was my go to place.
The Rice St. location was a frequent lunch spot for me while delivering flowers back in the ’90s. They seemed to have cleaned the place up since last time I was there.
Fuck
O Canada, Alberta is staying put.
In a historic referendum Monday, voters marked their ballots in overwhelming numbers to remain in the country that made Alberta a province 121 years ago.
In early returns, about 76 per cent of Albertans said yes to Confederation, while 24 per cent said they wanted the province to hold a second, binding referendum on leaving.
Least surprising news of the day.
Now makes me wonder, if the separatist continue what will be done since it’s settled til the end of time apparently.
Let the protests begin! Mostly peaceful, of course.
It was always a bit of a long shot.
In the same way that me inventing a time machine so that I can travel back to 1992 and have a threesome with Mia Sorvino and Thandie Newton is a long shot.
I don’t honestly know why people were taking this seriously. Things are going to have to get *much* worse before separation is a real possibility.
I can travel back to 1992 and have a threesome with Mia Sorvino and Thandie Newton is a long shot.
It’s a worthwhile endeavor.
ES – Exactly.
OT – finally got the 43X yesterday. Haven’t fired it yet. But the difference on the trigger on that and my 1990s era G21 are like night and day with the G21 being much smoother.
I’m wondering if its the various generations getting “safer” and/or less amenable to “switches” or simply the single stack compact design.
It’s not awful enough for me to mess with it for something that I want dead nuts reliable, but it’s still annoying. Maybe it will break in more or I’ll just polish the trigger bar and connector.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRHQQLMxxgo-1H-jPZJgtezQxcqnCUPfk4MwCco4VNW2Q&s=10
Last night, I was watching a video about the Lockheed Constellation.
If you like airplanes, it is a fantastic show. Also Clarence “Kelly” Johnson gets his first job designing planes in it.
It is a beautiful aircraft and a big leap in design.
They let Orville Wright fly it and it was the last time he flew anything.
I wondered what he was thinking about the huge changes that had been made in the 40 years since he and Wilbur made the first flight.
then I thought about the 40 years after that and more innovations as we went to jet planes.
It occurred to me that we have been rather stagnant since.
Sure, the planes are larger, safer, and more reliable, and those are all great.
A plane from the 1980’s and a plane from today look very similar and the same cannot be said for planes from the ’40’s and the 80’s.
Have we reached the pinnacle of airplane design?
To be fair, there’s that pesky sound barrier….
Have we reached the pinnacle of airplane design?
What part of the design? There have been massive improvements in materials, engines, efficiencies, and automation over the the last 4 decades that I have been working as an engineer.
Shape-wise? Yeah, they all look mostly the same and will continue to look the same until we go to blended wing bodies or something similarly radical.
That’s what I meant.
Now there are improvements, but no game changing designs.
It seems that we have found the shape for the best efficiency while carrying the most people.
Nope. The current shape is driven largely by the total fear of trying to get a new design (like the blended wing) through the certification process. Oh, and the entire infrastructure of airports and gates is designed to support the current shape.
That would be an incentive to keep the same designs for sure.
That was part of the challenges when they were designing the Constellation, fixing the tail so it would fit into TWA’s hangars.
Motorsport
@Motorsport
Kimi Antonelli (5 foot 8 inches) met NBA star Victor Wembanyama (7 foot 4 inches) before the USGP.
https://x.com/Motorsport/status/2112337810703130672
In a fight Wemby would be excessively vulnerable to the headbutt-to-the-groin maneuver.
Frank Lloyd Wright architecture is shit, Part ∞
https://nypost.com/2026/10/19/us-news/college-president-killed-in-freak-accident-while-touring-frank-lloyd-wrights-taliesin-west-home/
Brilliant designs constructed in ways that stretched the capabilities of construction and materials to the limit back in the day. Resulting in beautiful houses that have turned into maintenance nightmares.
You forgot not being designed for the way people live.
Having lived in one, ur rong.
Yes, they’re ugly. Even inside, I couldn’t help but think “this is really ugly.” And yet it was so homey and comfortable. I wish I could have transplanted that house here.
Oh no you di’int.
I took a tour of one of his famous Buffalo houses once – it was amazing.
But to be fair, he did design more to please himself than his clients.
“A 9-year-old boy burned more than 70% of his body by joining a dangerous viral social media trend known as the “fire challenge,” according to officials.
The unidentified boy is in “unbearable pain” and “lucky to be alive,” New Orleans Fire Department Chief Roman Nelson said in a video address warning families about the challenge where social-media users set themselves ablaze just to see how quickly they can put out the flames.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/20/us-news/boy-9-burns-70-of-his-body-in-terrifying-online-fire-challenge/
There is no peak retard.
Used to at least just use rubbing alcohol as a neat party trick.
I refuse to believe this is a true story.
Oh i missed that…ya I did that so it’s not unbelievable.
Though without the chance of clicks and viral fame…it was usually on the forearm, and doused a second or two later as a neat trick
I accidentally did it. Does that count?
I refilled a Zippo and had fluid all over my hand as a teen. I tested the refilled lighter and lit my hand on fire. It’s true that you don’t feel it as the fluid evaporates and burns. I was briefly stunned while it happened. Fortunately I was filling it over the kitchen sink so I had the brilliant idea I could just turn the water on and put it out.
I still laugh about what an idiot I was.
That’s not the same as dousing yourself.
Did OMWC ever answer which wine to serve with Tide Pods?
“Jay-Z has reportedly picked himself to perform the Super Bowl halftime show when the big game takes place at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Feb. 14, 2027, according to Puck.
The Brooklyn rap icon — who is the decision-maker for Super Bowl halftime talent after his entertainment company Roc Nation reached an agreement with the NFL in 2019 — has long been a more compelling option than Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber, both of whom were in talks for the gig, multiple sources told the outlet.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/20/sports/jay-z-chooses-himself-for-super-bowl-halftime-show/
The Dick Cheney of hip hop?
He shot Tupac in the face?
lol
Compelling me to leap to the remote control to change the channel, yet again.
well we have a new government. hip hip hurrah.
A Mesoamerican Theocracy already planning the human sacrifices?
Congratulations?
please send bourbon I’ll need it
Good luck with anything changing for the better
It never does.
I read that as “hip hop hurrah” – All hail Preşedinte Jay-Z.
“When Bumble was founded in 2014, it positioned itself as a feminist alternative to Tinder, led by a female CEO who put women in control by requiring them to send a message to their matches first.
As of August, the app had turned its back on that fundamental premise, and now anyone can send the first message — making it virtually indistinguishable from competitors.
Even the female founder and CEO herself, Whitney Wolfe Herd, is stepping aside to make room for two incoming male CEOs upon going private. Bumble did not respond to request for comment.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/19/lifestyle/dating-apps-getting-desperate-after-huge-exodus-of-users-deciding-swiping-wont-find-them-true-love/
LOL
Adapt or die, they chose adapt.
Make it a choice on the app then.
Honest Sydney Morning Herald article about the French riots.
@CroweDM
: “Every action is dominated by men in their late teens and early 20s, almost all wearing black uniforms. Young women can also be seen in the crowd, but they are in the minority among those provoking the police.
When the masks are lowered, the faces reflect modern France: this skin tones are white, black and brown. But the white faces are relatively rare. The crowds are overwhelmingly made up of young men who are new to France or born to migrant families, although there is no time to stop and ask whether their French citizenship goes back on, two, three or more generations.
This is a delicate subject because of the argument about whether the riots in France are caused by migration. Donald Trump insists that they are; his critics say they are not. The debate about causation is surely complex. But it is important to be honest about the reality in the streets, rather than waving away what is obvious to every passer-by in Paris.”
https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/2112362073745494421