Final exams for both of our local institutions of higher “learning” are over, grades are in, and the students are making a mass exodus. Every street has kids pulling wheelie suitcases behind them, and the have fortunately been coming into our little shop to get food cooked by 10b0t and WebDom. 10b0t, to his credit, doesn’t spit into the sandwiches served to people with Rainbow Coalition hairstyles, enough piercings to imitate the sound of an ocarina when there’s a breeze, and Hamas t-shirts. It will be slow here the next couple of months and while we could use the revenue, the Glibsters need a bit of a break. To that end, I’m taking my daughter to a wine tasting this morning, leaving 10b0t in charge, always a risky maneuver.
Birthdays today include a focused individual; an actor who was big in the #Resist movement; one of my favorite historians; a guy whose face smelled like ginger; a woman with a really shitty sense of direction; a guy who told tales of a lost continent; someone who got stuck in traffic; a secret crush of Jodie Foster; a statesman with a legendary name; and a mediocrity who was the butt of my all-time favorite joke (“Well, stop fookin’ doin’ that!”).
But we will not stop fookin’ doing the Links.
Woodchipper needed on Aisle 8B.
Speaking of which… swamp creature croaks.
Or… just get rid of them, full stop.
Wherein Euromorons inadvertently prove the need for a Jewish state.
Another reason why DeSantis is a bullet we dodged.
And speaking of Team Red being unserious about cutting taxes…
Hey, if it’s so sad to stop robbing taxpayers, how about YOU pay for it?
Interview with a mentally ill guy. Live your life, be happy, be free, but not in the military if the commander in chief doesn’t want you there.
Your boss may indeed be an idiot, but saying that out loud miiiiight be career-limiting.
The technology is interesting and something I’ve worked on, but don’t hold your breath.
The birthday boy was omnipresent during my teen years. I found him mildly amusing, but my interests were elsewhere. Nonetheless, this song somehow lodged in the young Old Guy’s brain, a discussion on the Zooms last night triggered me, and after all the flooding we’ve had here last week, this seems a good time to disgorge it.
Birthdays today include a focused individual;
Happy birthday Thijs van Leer!
“ 10b0t in charge “
I’d watch that show.
Right there. Only took half of the 2,000 word plus article to get there.
(If you are here the first article link is dead.)
Woodchipper needed on Aisle 8B.
The link is already shredded.
The woodchipper link leads to an error of some kind.
a guy whose face smelled like ginger
Happy birthday Bob Denver!
And the professor and the captain and the millionaire. Perhaps even Mary Ann?
a woman with a really shitty sense of direction
Happy birthday Chantal Akerman!
Elaine May?
I was going to say this isn’t right. My wife’s birthday is still two months away.
Amelia Earhart?
That was my guess
Speaking of Euromorons
That will surely get Putin to end the war and resign from office.
Fantasizing about putting your foe on trial is far more important than actually having a military that might defeat them.
Or having an economy capable of building a viable military. Or financial growth, or a native population that doesn’t want to lynch their leaders.
Classic poisoning the well, ain’t gonna be any meaningful peace talks with that hanging over one sides head.
After a long night of talks mediated by the United States, I am pleased to announce that India and Pakistan have agreed to a FULL AND IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE. Congratulations to both Countries on using Common Sense and Great Intelligence. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114483405683675564
Assuming this is real, this is how it’s done. Stay TF out, offer to mediate.
The guy who used to be in charge of taking away your garbage is now in charge of delivering garbage to your mail box:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/09/david-steiner-fedex-postal-service-usps-waste.html
Paulie is going postal? This ends badly.
“Hey, it’d be a shame if something happened to mail…”
“Number one: God is real. He’s a giant alien with three eyes that lives in the center of the earth.”
https://youtu.be/vEm0oZQtYB0?si=uBfcWpM9M4BMw07y
Also, a “lifetime supply” of root beer is not the same as an “unlimited supply” of root beer.
My greatest fear is that he is a Bears fan.
“Another reason why DeSantis is a bullet we dodged.”
Meh. I’d rather have lower property taxes and higher sales taxes. Anyway, still way better than Harris.
That is so fucking stupid I can’t even.
“Approximately how many service members will be impacted is unclear. Recent figures from the Defense Department reported 4,240 — or 0.2 percent — of about 2 million service members have been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Data from previous years by advocacy groups has calculated the number to be much higher, at around 15,000.”
The 0.2 sounds high.
“ Data from previous years by advocacy groups” would be completely fabricated and worthless.
True, although all the numbers are worthless since there is no consensus on definitions, and the sample sizes are too small.
And still only come out to between .6-.7
“”Before I came out, I was a 36-year-old white man, married, three kids, two cars, a dog, a house, and I didn’t think racism existed. I didn’t think sexism existed. I didn’t see any of them because I never experienced them. And when I got put into one of the most despised groups in the country right now or vilified groups, the transgender community, I’m hearing this bigotry and this transphobia”
Does not sound like you had gender dysphoria. That you left your wife and kids seems more of a problem.
This.
Also why they dont belong in the military.
Newsflash: You. Dont. Count. Nobody gives a fuck about you in the military. Service members are replaceable cogs in a machine.
Narcissistic personality disorders are not a good fit.
Just because some people dislike trannies doesn’t mean people are racist and sexist, you know.
That this person sounds like an asshole, doesn’t mean that a MTF couldn’t do the same job as a woman.
The “mentally ill” argument seems a bit weak, since they said the same thing about gays.
“Phobia” is an unreasonable fear but given the behavior of the trans community as a whole I’m not sure it’s unreasonable, not to mention the inherent mental illness that manifests in a large percentage of the individuals that make up the community. Phobia might not be the best way to describe it though, it’s more a wariness of people that reject a basic concept of reality and they don’t want that imposed on them and, more importantly, their kids.
I do have some sympathy for those servicemen who are otherwise in good standing and who came forward under the previous rule structure but the emphasis needs to be on the effective and efficient application of force which, when it gets right down to it, is what the military is all about.
Yeah, POS confirmed.
And yes, the miliary is not a place to experiment with “alternative lifestyles”.
All I know is that I had zero phobia about the QUILTBAG community 10 years ago, and am a lot more uncomfortable today with what the T and MAPS are up to, and more than a bit upset with the enthusiastic support of the rest of the categories in the acronym. Yes, individual exceptions exist, but every.single.public.facing.group is all in and then some. And now that laws have been passed saying kids can determine their gender and mom and dad can get on board or lose their child to the state, I find myself becoming more phobic each year.
What you do in your house, I may not do in my house, and I DGAF about what you do in your house. Start sending armed agents of the state to make my kids do what you do in your house, and we have problems.
Well, there’s probably some term for the phenomenon but that’s just what “groups” do. The loudest “groups” are always radical and always against common sense.
It’s been beaten to death but…
1. Gender dysphoria is a mental disorder, you can get DQ’ed for much less serious mental disorders (like ADHD).
2. The military doesn’t want to have to deal with all your “care”; ie: you being reliant on hormone treatments and/or having to continuously dilate your new pseudopussy.
Military service isn’t a right and they can deny anyone for any reason; these are two huge reasons.
Also – once the process of actual gender transition starts, that soldier is permanently non-deployable. Which means they are useless to the military.
I’m not even sure the activists recognize this. The whole thing is now an “alternative lifestyle”.
“Trans kids” and all that.
Team Red doesn’t need to cut taxes, they need to cut spending.
They should do both, but will probably do neither.
Honestly – just leave the fucking tax code alone for 10 years. Every time they dick with it, they build in new bullshit.
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png
Cutting spending is cutting taxes. It’s the only actual way to cut taxes. Playing games with the tax code while maintaining spending levels just shifts taxation around to different people and methods. Inflation is a tax.
We don’t need more taxes, just suspend the debt limit. It’s a hindrance to vote buying.
Dave Mason only sorta played in traffic.
“As prominent supporters and members of the current administration such as Elon Musk and Steve Bannon have taken to Nazi-style salutes in front of large audiences, the tentacles of a resurgent American white supremacism are stretching around the globe, often with deadly consequences.
Members of American white supremacist groups, including Patriot Front and the California-based Rise Above Movement (RAM), have traveled across Europe to take part in public marches and distribute propaganda while the Base, a group of American neo-Nazis, reportedly has Russian links.”
Who is paying these feds to travel?
I’d be shocked if it isn’t taxpayers.
Patriot Front? Those obviously bought and paid for jackasses who wear matching khakis that the feds can’t seem to identify even though they’ve so thoroughly infiltrated every other similar group? Fucking please…
The left has been facing such a critical shortage of Nazis for 80 years that they have make their own.
Just like the majority of hate [hoax] crimes.
Condemn Nazis in one breath and finance them in the next. How much money has the Azov Batallion, now renamed but still there in form and function, received at the behest of people like the author?
“The Liver King – this hilarious exposé is like Tiger King … but with way more genital eating”
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/may/10/untold-the-liver-king-this-hilarious-expose-of-a-fitness-influencer-is-like-tiger-king
Are you sure?
Organ meats and anabolic steroids are the key to physical fitness, it is known.
Pour some sugar on these tits for Silicone Saturday.
https://archive.is/ZKzZk
You mean confectioners sugar? Because regular sugar would just fall off.
You have to wet them down first. Duh.
The lice… hate the sugar.
Then you should just use simple syrup if you want sticky titties.
“a guy whose face smelled like ginger”
Was she a squirter?
Would you rather it was cumin.
None of this would be an issue if the Jews had all been wiped out during that day of murders and rapes that never happened.
Good Morning Glibs. Finally picked up my Reggia Carte yesterday – good for the rest of the year. May finally check out some of the palace and definitely some grounds next week.
But…need some suggestions for a new hat. Had a nice floppy one from Hawaii that finally fell apart a few weeks ago. I’ve got a little bucket hat from one of the local breweries in Virginia – but I’d like something a little classier. I regret never picking up a Panama hat a few years back in Panama…but I’d like something decent for my Hawaiian shirts. The main issue is that I’d like to cover my ears due to my family’s predilection towards skin cancer – not really a ball cap type guy outside my uniforms. Any decent looking boonie caps that aren’t too military-looking?
I would think being in Italy you’d want something a little more stylish. I’m sure you can get Panama hats there.
Get a Tilley!
Narrowed down to best sun protection. (Pay heed to the redhead!)
Old school. Put on some Grandmaster Flash and get a Kangol.
Not enough coverage Tres – although I do see other folks wearing em. Thanks GT – may be worth spending a bit more in my case.
I got one with the widest brim I could find. TT has two.
Stop, I can only get so hard.
Why do I get the feeling that the Guardian is blowing this way out of proportion?
Isn’t “starving artist” a dog bites man story?
““The belief these men are responding to isn’t totally unfounded,” she conceded, “[but] the height standard to which many men seem to feel subjected is not one that was devised by women but rather one imposed on us all by internalized patriarchal beliefs.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/09/lifestyle/this-dating-app-cliche-is-a-red-flag-dont-let-it-slip-by-you/
This shit is so tiring.
“Maddi Miller, an OnlyFans star earning USD $19,272 every month, said that, despite her highly lucrative salary as a sex worker, she draws a line in her own relationships.
“Trust is so important, which is why I had to end it with an ex after I caught him looking at naked photos of other women while in bed with me,” she told news.com.au.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/09/lifestyle/new-breed-of-cheating-on-the-rise-and-women-are-fighting-back/
Another OnlyFans ad.
“Trust is important, now I’m going to go pound my snizz with a dildo the size of the Hindenburg to random guys for money.” Paraphrased of course but that looks to be the gist.
Bailed after a paragraph or so.
That whole world of “dating apps” and “swiping” is just unbelievably repellant and I want nothing to do with it.
Oh, you missed well down the article the part about dating based on sound values rather than superficiality. It was worth the read just for that bit of irony.
The whole 6-6-6 thing is a major case of stated vs. revealed preference. Women are hardwired to want a big, strong protector against sabre toothed tigers in the abstract; but, I think most of us have known a short, not-conventionally-attractive guy in our lives who is up to his eyebrows in pussy because he’s so funny and charismatic.
Dating apps of course turn everything into a product so you might as well just sell yourself as a constellation of quantified commodities.
My understanding is that the app thing has messed up the dating dynamic. Now that chicks that are six’s can pull dudes that are 9’s and 10’s with no social consequences, you have a handful of dudes banging all the chicks on the site.
In the old days, the top shelf dudes had to go to a bar or social setting, and they wouldn’t go near the 6’s (at least publicly) lest it ruin their chances with the 9’s and 10’s.
It’s basically a resurrection of de facto polygamy. Polygamous societies do not function very well in that you end up with a bunch of lonely young men with no prospects (incels) and a bunch of children with paternal underinvestment (fatherlessness crisis). In reality, these trends have been going on for a long time, the apps are just likely accelerating them.
=Just because some people dislike
tranniescrazy attention whores doesn’t mean people are racist and sexist, you know.=Military service isn’t a right and they can deny anyone for any reason; these are two huge reasons.
“Get the fuck off my obstacle, Pyle!”
“Called the Czinger 21C, it is mostly made with a gigantic 3-D printer. However, this electric hypercar is anything but a toy.”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/10/us-news/divergent-czinger-car-is-3-d-printed-goes-0-60-in-2-secs/
No, that’s exactly what it is.
You mean the “wrong path” was something other than joining the porn industry at age 19?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/us-news/adult-star-faye-reagan-reported-35203287
she had been spotted looking “dishevelled” in Las Vegas
Dishevelled in Vegas? If that wasn’t a movie, it should be.
That’s not a good 36.
Few paths out of that career other than overdosing or suicide. The lucky ones end up being born again Christians or something similar that gets them completely out of the lifestyle. It’s a sad meatgrinder of an industry.
Sadly, a lot of young women these days believe they can become millionaires by doing freaky stuff on OnlyFans. They don’t know that only a tiny percentage of them actually make significant money doing that. And they don’t comprehend that when you put your nudies out there even once, they’re out there forever, and it CAN be linked back to you (there are in fact creeps on the Internet who get a thrill out of identifying these “models” and emailing the nudes to their parents, boss, pastor, etc). And while some women in their 20s might find it exciting to be a pornstar, they will feel guilty and dirty about it later in life.
Yet another “chasing the quick reward without thinking about consequences.”
wut
https://nypost.com/2025/05/09/lifestyle/i-had-a-threesome-with-my-dead-husbands-ghost-he-finally-got-his-happy-ending/
This wasn’t written by Demi Moore?
““This isn’t nothing more than a revenge tour! This is nothing more than vindictiveness! This is nothing more than an individual who is upset at me because we secured a $454 million judgment against him and his family and his company!” added James”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/10/us-news/letitia-james-trump-sending-people-to-my-house-as-revenge/
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Whatever happened to that judgment? I’m sure it wasn’t collected, but did it survive appeal?
I think it’s still being appealed.
“The family of legendary NFL coach and current North Carolina football leader Bill Belichick ‘is digging into’ his girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, with fears she could tear down ‘everything he’s built’. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/college-football/article-14698375/Bill-Belichick-family-investigating-Jordon-Hudson-legacy-relationship.html
Let me save you some time: She’s a hooker.
Hookers are more honest generally, they provide a service for a specified price. She is a gold digger extraordinaire. Ole Bill seems like a pretty dim bulb outside of his specialty.
Tranny in military discussion: what seems to be missing is that the military is the opposite of civilian life. In civilian life we take inalienable rights seriously. We take individuals into account. Individuals matter. What people want and their aspirations matter.
Get it?
There is not point in discussing the subject.
“Janeane Garofalo, 60, adopted a boho look as she wandered the stalls of Soho. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14697275/90s-rom-com-star-keeps-low-profile-bargain-hunting-New-York-City.html
Yikes!
Time gets us all.
Holy cow! That’s not time, that’s lack of self care.
“Caroline Miller, 26, claimed 57-year-old Mahendra Patel attempted to kidnap her two-year-old son at a Walmart in Acworth, Georgia, as she was rolling around on a motorized scooter despite not being disabled.
But, after spending a terrifying two months in jail, Patel was released on bail this week after a judge watched bombshell footage that appears to expose Miller as a liar…
Speaking exclusively toDailyMail.com, Miller said she ‘tried to tell her story but it was “twisted” and [she] does not want to be part of the “narrative.”
Miller’s demeanor and unwillingness to elaborate was in marked contrast to the media tour she undertook while accusing Patel of the horrific crime.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14639501/georgia-child-abductor-toddler-walmart-viral-story.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14692015/motorized-scooter-mom-lied-georgia-walmart-abduction-breaks-cover.html
CWAC
Funny they never mention her husband, apparently she just squirts out crotchfruit anonymously.
Speaking of not worth discussing – I saw an video recently where some alleged x-cia guy was giving details on how to spot a spy-op. It made sense. It also led me to the conclusion that spy-op is an accurate description of nearly everything we see and hear meant for public consumption.
Fuckin’ spell check. PSY-OP
Spy-op is pretty good too.
“Washington State has found itself in the midst of an electric vehicle (EV) policy contradiction that raises serious questions about the consistency—and hypocrisy— of its Democratic leadership’s virtue signaling. On one hand, Attorney General Nick Brown is co-leading a lawsuit against the Trump administration for halting federal EV infrastructure funds. On the other, state lawmakers are advancing legislation that appears to penalize Tesla, a company critical to the very EV future the state claims to champion….
Trump targeted the spending after an audit showed that former President Joe Biden’s $7.5 billion investment in EV charging has only produced 7 stations in two years.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/washington-state-sues-trump-admin-to-demand-feds-build-bidens-ev-chargers-while-legislature-goes-after-tesla
What a mess.
We have a shit-ton of chargers out here. If additional ones are needed, surely private actors can fill the void.
“On Wednesday, Washington Governor Bob Ferguson signed rent control into law. Ferguson signed HB 1217, which follows the failed examples of states like California, Oregon, and New York in implementing the policy in an attempt to cap rent increases. The so-called “rent stabilization” law is instead poised to stifle housing development, drive out small landlords, and hurt the very people it claims to help.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/dem-gov-bob-ferguson-signs-rent-control-into-washington-state-law
OK, so the whole state is fucked.
Misunderstanding: govt funding is provided to reach stated goal.
govt funding is provided to spread around to all the right people. Stated goals should never be met. If they are met there is no need for further funding.
I wonder who got fired for actually building 7 chargers.
You do mean “promoted”, right?
Don’t worry, the 7 chargers are almost certainly either in places with an abundance of existing chargers or in places with demand that is statistically indistinguishable from 0.
Jarflax – This.
I thought we were going to block out the sun.
“Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has officially introduced legislation to repeal the infamous USA PATRIOT Act, a cornerstone of post-9/11 surveillance expansion that many constitutional conservatives have long blasted as an all-out assault on civil liberties.
Dubbed the “American Privacy Restoration Act,” the bill aims to undo the sweeping surveillance powers granted to the federal government under the original 2001 legislation, which turned American citizens into perpetual suspects in their own country.
“I introduced the “American Privacy Restoration Act” to FULLY REPEAL the Patriot Act and strip rogue intelligence officers of their extraordinary mass surveillance powers. Since the passage of the USA Patriot Act in the aftermath of 9/11, intelligence agency officials have used their mass surveillance tools to settle personal scores, interfere in elections, and spy on untold numbers of innocent Americans. This abuse must come to an end!””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/rep-anna-paulina-luna-introduces-bill-repeal-usa/
Well she said jackshit about RealID act and that would have been easier to dump
She is, by far, the hottest member of Congress. I like her even more now, but I really really doubt this is going anywhere. A bunch of neo cons on the Team Red side don’t want it to end, and Dems no longer have a true liberal faction of any size so the status quo will remain for the foreseeable future.
Then clearly we should avoid the legislative process, and settle this by having her bikini wrestle AOC in pineapple Jell-O.
Heheh I like the jello wrasslin’ idea. That would work for a pay per view event.
Yup JI, it should be, but it isn’t going anywhere regardless unfortunately. The Patriot Act is safer than Obamacare from being dismantled.
And frankly, I find it unbelievable that spying on citizens is gonna stop because Congress says so.
If it isn’t accompanied by stripping billions of dollars out of the Intel budget(s) then it is meaningless.
The intelligence budget will be funded by tips accrued from Congressional Jell-O wrestling. While not perfect, is better than our current system.
Well if you want to starve the beast, you don’t take the two best racks in Congress as your contestants.
No, you want Schumer and Graham to keep that tip jar empty.
Christopher Hitchens in 2007:
“And now we have further confirmation of the astonishing culture of lawlessness and insubordination that continues to prevail at the highest levels in Langley. At a time when Congress and the courts are conducting important hearings on the critical question of extreme interrogation, and at a time when accusations of outright torture are helping to besmirch and discredit the United States all around the world, a senior official of the CIA takes the unilateral decision to destroy the crucial evidence. This deserves to be described as what it is: mutiny and treason. Despite a string of exposures going back all the way to the Church Commission, the CIA cannot rid itself of the impression that it has the right to subvert the democratic process both abroad and at home. Its criminality and arrogance could perhaps have been partially excused if it had ever got anything right, but, from predicting the indefinite survival of the Soviet Union to denying that Saddam Hussein was going to invade Kuwait, our spymasters have a Clouseau-like record, one that they have earned yet again with their exculpation of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It was after the grotesque estimate of continued Soviet health and prosperity that the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan argued that the CIA should be abolished. It is high time for his proposal to be revived. The system is worse than useless—it’s a positive menace. We need to shut the whole thing down and start again.”
Whole piece here: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/12/it-s-time-to-abolish-the-cia.html
Nuclear nightmare
The Trump administration has tightened its control over the independent agency responsible for overseeing America’s nuclear reactors, and it is considering an executive order that could further erode its autonomy, two U.S. officials who declined to speak publicly because they feared retribution told NPR.
Going forward, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) must send new rules regarding reactor safety to the White House, where they will be reviewed and possibly edited. That is a radical departure for the watchdog agency, which historically has been among the most independent in the government. The new procedures for White House review have been in the works for months, but they were just recently finalized and are now in full effect.
NPR has also seen a draft of an executive order “ordering the reform of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.” The draft calls for reducing the size of the NRC’s staff, conducting a “wholesale revision” of its regulations in coordination with the White House and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency team, shortening the time to review reactor designs and possibly loosening the current, strict standards for radiation exposure.
“It’s the end of the independence of the agency,” says Allison Macfarlane, director of the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia in Canada who was nominated by President Obama to serve as Chair of the NRC from 2012 to 2014. Macfarlane believes the changes will make Americans less safe.
We’ll all die of radiation poisoning.
independent agency
Right there in the Constitution – a whole list of ’em under the heading of “not to be interfered with by either Congress or the Executive”.
Why is it necessary for this particular agency to be “independent” and “autonomous”, to the point where is it mentioned half a dozen times but without any evidence furnished.
https://x.com/LibertyCappy/status/1920643631712477315
Nicely done sir…nicely done. Though, its just too easy
Some questioned what the White House could gain from reviewing abstruse rules for nuclear safety.
“Who has the technical knowledge to actually do a substantive review?” asks Edwin Lyman, a nuclear physicist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit that has been critical of the nuclear industry. “To have political appointees meddling in these technical decisions is just a recipe for confusion and chaos.”
There you are. Case closed.
What technical decisions? They just say no to everything.
That’s a rookie mistake, the regulatory pro understands that you never actually say no as long as there is still some possible, even if only in a theory that would shame a cult leader, impact to be ‘assessed’ by a multi year, very expensive, study conducted by “independent” contractors licensed by your agency.