So I have the pleasure today of working the line at our little café/bistro since WebDom and 10b0t are moving. And they’re moving to about 200 yards behind my house. “I can hear your dog from here.” And looking out their kitchen window, with a .22 and a scope, they can shoot apples out of the tree in my back yard. So the young family living within spitting distance of the Olds and In Laws. I think I’ve seen a sitcom about this before…
Everyone else is getting older, too, and in that spirit, birthdays today include a guy who apparently inspired Biden; a guy who apparently decorated every condo in Del Boca Vista; another widely heralded artist who makes me wonder why, exactly (other than the mustache)? ; a woman who bravely went out there and failed every goddam time; a guy who delighted me when I was a kid (and before his son ruined it); a guy who lived a pedophile’s wet dream; a fine competitor to LBJ as “Most Evil Person To Occupy The White House” in my lifetime; the guy who was the best part of Get Smart; a guy who always preferred a pair of big ones; the subject of Michael O’Donoghue’s best impression; a guy with a meteoritic career; someone not to shower with; someone not to go camping with; another strong competitor to LBJ as Worst President of My Lifetime; a guy who has greatly aided the milk crate industry; and someone we could have had instead of Tracy Ullman.
What could we have instead of the Links? Nothing.
This just gets worse and worse.
“Independence” is a euphemism for “loud and retarded.”
Pressing questions explained clearly.
“Here’s my idea: make me king.”
She’s trying to foil the Jews.
Don’t bother, the game is rigged and you know it.
I’m sure this is totally legit.
Since the Old Guy is shredding potatoes this morning, this seemed appropriate.
“a guy who has greatly aided the milk crate industry”
I don’t get that one.
I had to DDG it, but I’m betting it is this quote.
…and I thought it was because he was not tall…
Height.
I’m finding sources (that mostly just copy each other) that he is either 5′ 8″ or 5′ 10″.
5’8″… 5’7″
Is that with or without the milk crate?
Me neither.
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody yo
Happy birthday Tom Selleck?
Happy birthday Kamala Harris?
Happy birthday Q Continuum?
Nah… the Bynars… the more sub Zeros are always looking for big Ones to XOR with.
Here is WSJ commentary quoted in the article
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/new-palestinian-offer-peace-israel-hebron-sheikh-emirate-36dd39c3?st=Bs6PYo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I have no idea whether it will happen but it’s fascinating a major faction is willing to leave the PLO and seek peace.
“Nine kontris dey known to get nuclear weapons. How dem take get am and odas fit get am too?”
What we are all asking.
Wasn’t this a George Carlin routine?
Tom Lehrer song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRLON3ddZIw&list=RDoRLON3ddZIw&start_radio=1
““I am introducing a bill that prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of chemicals or substances into the atmosphere for the express purpose of altering weather, temperature, climate, or sunlight intensity. It will be a felony offense,” she wrote in a Saturday post on X.”
Sounds reasonable.
Sounds like an easy way for the lunatics to spin into “You must have known… look at the SCIENCE! Therefore it was for the express purpose!” regarding cattle methane emissions and whatnot when the pendulum swings back. I’d rather not make it easier for them.
I was told that cloud seeding was a conspiracy theory, now opposing it is science denial. More apologies owed to the local conspiracy theorists.
MTG reminds me that much as I hate the Democrats, and love to mock their stable of village idiots, the phenomenon crosses the aisle.
Out here in the west, where states have been cloud seeding for many years, people will not be happy.
Sort of a return to the older family dynamic? (I have to wonder if given the costs of living — we’ll get back to multi-generational homes… though I saw a couple of videos and noticed looking at Zillow charts for my house to confrm that say the housing market is decidedly softening and may be ready for a bubble pop… to which I can only say “Good… the housing market has been insane and could use a reset — sorry for anyone looking for short term rollover profit, but long term buyers will be fine”)
Don’t know if it’s still the case, but I remember reading a lot of headlines in the years after I finished uni that there were more multigenerational households than there had been in X number of years. Since the boomers are dying off and handing their wealth to their millennial kids, it’s probably tapered off.
I wonder how much of that is due to immigration. It is very common outside the US, but much less so here. And you are right about the Great Boomer Die Off coming, like Robert DeNiro’s rain.
Mmmmkay, but the real threat is sun-blocking satellites such as have been proposed by some (Gates?) to fight alleged anthropogenic global warming. That same technology could easily be weaponized.
Good luck extending US law into space.
Laws in space are enforced by those that can get there (much like blue water oceanic law used to be) springs to mind. So I wouldn’t be surprised if some attempt at US law in LEO is in our future. F-15s with the ASAT missiles if nothing else.
The totally-not-gay uniformed guardians of the US Space Force has a sad.
So it’s up to the Russians then…
Space Hat!
Space Pants!
Space Pants!
That was very nearly the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen, but now I’m walking around randomly yelling “Space Pants.” So thanks for that, I guess.
Gates is the spraying reflective particles into the atmosphere guy:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2021/01/11/bill-gates-backed-climate-solution-gains-traction-but-concerns-linger/
Ah, thanks. Still on first cup of coffee.
Still a Bond super-villain.
Isn’t the US a party to the Outer Space Treaty?
Yes, but I’m not sure if totally peaceful, we swear sunscreen spacecraft would be covered by that. Remember, they aren’t weapons until they are.
I got a flood warning about it the day of, but it was a middling drizzle here, thankfully. Midland’s only about 100 miles west of me.
In all fairness, you’d have to be some of retard to want to vacation in Mexico City. What, was Mogadishu all booked up?
Just imagine when the protests reach La Paz.
Mexico City is huge. You can easily have a very enjoyable vacation there if, like most major cities, you avoid the parts that you should avoid.
Sounds like Mexico City is experiencing the same problems that leftists always cause. I wonder what she is up to now.
“Zohran Mamdani shared ‘sick’ video mocking Hannukah and ‘cosplaying Jews,’ advocacy group charges”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/06/us-news/mamdani-shared-sick-video-mocking-hannukah-advocacy-group/
Zohran Mamdani said he wants to seize the means of production, but this seems like a nothing burger.
If anything he should be disqualified for his horrible ideas and his cringe rap video. The guy sucks but if NYC wants him they can have him. If anyone has a yearning for the dirty crime ridden New York of the 1970s that was depicted in a million movies the man’s a godsend.
Violent communists are way worse than violent criminals.
https://thepostmillennial.com/f-ck-the-4th-nyc-agitators-torch-american-flag-to-protest-independence-day
More commies. 🙄
Yawn.
Well, not really. I am only aware of the “government supermarkets” he wants to create, but as far as I know he doesn’t want to “seize” anything more than wealth.
Now you’re aware.
Zohran Mamdani’s ‘chilling’ call for ‘seizing the means of production’ draws outrage from communist refugees https://share.google/4YYmU5cms3FOFt3KU
Fun fact: the term “deep state” was likely copped from the Turkish derin devlet.
“New Yorkers horrified after feminist erects ‘outrageously inappropriate’ phallic sculpture that ‘squirts’ over passersby”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14865355/phallic-sculpture-nyc-high-line-feminist-locals-rage.html
WTF, New York?
Stunning and brave
Looks like someone got inspiration from dropping acid while watching The Thing.
Well, now I know what Im doing next weekend.
First time I saw that I thought it was a naked Dalek.
INSEMIN-AAATE!
“In January, the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking issued a draft report on its findings analyzing the impact of alcohol intake on overall health.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/alcohol-limits-odds-upcoming-dietary-guidelines
Nothing left to cut!
“Don’t eat or drink any of the things your ancestors did for 10,000 years or you will surely die.”
Interagency Coordinating Committee should be a cool jazz band.
“Firearms are extremely difficult to purchase legally in Mexico. There is only one gun store in Mexico run by the Mexican military (SEDENA) in Mexico City. Many firearms banned in Mexico, such as semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazines”
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/democrats-scrutinize-us-firearm-companies-selling-weaponry-mexican-cartel
So how is that working out?
Operation Fast and Furious having come to an end.
StudyFinds.org , that is a parody website, right?
*clicks*
Yep. Parody.
“FIFTEEN Democrats Including Several Democrat Officials Indicted in Frio County Texas Vote Harvesting Scandal Including a Local Judge, Former Rep. Candidate, and Two Former Mayors”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/fifteen-democrat-officials-indicted-frio-county-texas-vote/
There is no cannibalism in the Royal Navy!
Paging SugarFree. SF to the courtesy phone……
Inside Barron Trump’s outrageously lavish childhood as president’s son bags his first girlfriend
“I always said the same thing. I said: no drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes. I also would say don’t get tattoos, but I don’t say it too strongly, because a lot of people have gotten tattoos, and that’s what they choose to do,’ he [Trump] told The New York Post in a podcast interview.
No pictures of said love interest.
I doubt it would be hard for the kid.
“Say baby- Im like super rich and my Dad is president.”
By all accounts he’s pretty spergy, and in the social circles in which he’s accustomed to running, the Trump name isn’t likely to moisten any panties. He ain’t attending Hillsdale.
Seeing how GenZ is going right, along with smoking, this could be a moment.
He could be one of the near-mythical Triple 6s. He certainly has the height and money angles covered. We lack the final data point, though.
There’s a great Hallmark Movie in the making if he goes on a camping trip or something and ends up with a knockout of a backwoods gal with a real solid head on her shoulders to keep him grounded navigating the corridors of wealth and power.
Saw that, but it’s just a rumor.
On the veggie crowd….I must admit that almost have a tendency to….something…after watching a pig unscrew a bolt in a fence in order to escape being penned.
I feel some sympathy too. If only they weren’t so damn tasty.
So, mass excitement outside Schloss ZWAK last night. Some jackass blew two stop signs on the cross street, forgot that it dead ends at my neighbors house, missed the turn and hit the giant cedar on their front lawn instead. This caused them to flip on their side backwards, slide about six inches from said neighbors house, end up DOA from the impact, and get all the police and fire outside at around 11PM.
Major block party ensued.
Yikes! I gather your neighbor(s) and neighbor’s house is OK, at least.
Jesus. RIP and all that, but I’m glad they hit the tree first instead of plowing into the house and taking out some poor schmuck trying to enjoy their evening.
Isn’t that how the founder of MADD died?
Is the tree going to be OK?
The Tree Abides.
(Idiot didn’t hit it square on, but at an angle)
^Asking the real questions.
So it will be fine after the neighbor does some spruce up work?
How long have you been pining to use that pun?
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1kuuudl/guy_crashes_in_to_my_tree_oc/
Tree didn’t so much as drop a leaf.
Sometimes you just have to needle this crowd.
A very poplar question, Pat, people have been aspening it all morning.
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I am Groot!
Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun. I shall do the next best thing: block it out. – Mr. Burns portraying a cartoon villain. Also, Bill Gates trying to portray a hero. See also sterilization vaccinations for more Bill Gates style “heroism”.
To be honest, the older I get, the more sympathetic I am to killing or dispossessing the super rich of their wealth, as a practical matter. A preponderance of the evidence suggests that either the money inevitably turns them into villains, or only villains are sufficiently driven to accumulate the levels of wealth required to pursue their villainy. But, that would be utterly immoral.
I’m sorry, which exactly is the immoral action, the villainy or killing the villainous?
I think probably a combination of a few things. Power corrupting (I think this is misstated BTW, I think we all have some degree of darkness and power just insulates people from the consequences that keep it in check), the courtier effect (any extremely wealthy or powerful person draws people who seek to access that wealth or power by ingratiating themselves), self-made billionaires tending to be people with a degree of sociopathy and drive (as you mentioned), and selection bias since you’re obviously going to hear more about the ones playing Dr. Evil than the ones just enjoying their wealth.
I guess each in their own way, but I meant killing or dispossessing the villainous. That way lies the fate of Robespierre.
‘”On the “Politics War Room” podcast, host James Carville said people are “f*cking fools” if they don’t think President Donald Trump will cancel the midterm election in 2026. Carville also predicted that the veteran suicide rate would increase following the passage of the Big, Beautiful Bill.
“This thing is a giant stinking turd and it needs a giant sewer fan to dispense its odor all over the country. It already is stinking. You got to make it stink more,” Carville said of Trump’s signature legislation.’
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/07/05/carville_people_who_think_trump_wont_postpone_the_2026_elections_are_fcking_fools.html
Yes, keep driving the short bus, Carville.
Kind of surprising, tbh. He’s actually been trying to rein in the crazies on his side in order to get Democrats elected.
Being reasonable isn’t good for feeding the grift.
I have a good friend who is liberal and generally very rational who has a full blown case of Trump derangement.
I don’t understand it. On regular liberal issues he and I have good discussions that come down to first principles. On Trump he is completely irrational.
Anymore I think it is the rationality that is the exception.
Fear that he is going to destroy everything they have built.
ZWAK and the country will burn. Not only everything torn down, but apocalypse as well.
Relevant to ZWAK’s contention…
https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/rewinding-woodrow-wilson
How does one come into possession of a milk crate? They are all labeled as being someone else’s property, yet I have several and couldn’t tell you how I came into possession of them. They just seem to have appeared over the years.
I went to purchase one a while back to keep my emergency supplies in the trunk of my car, and a little 12″x12″ one was like 3x more than a Sterilite plastic tote. Granted, I could probably the the milk crate as a makeshift jack stand, but I keep actual jack stands in my trunk for that, so I went with the cheaper option.
Maybe the record companies were behind it?
“But the genius of Cool Whip lies as much in its branding as in the food science behind it. Even if you’ve never eaten the stuff, you can probably picture its bright blue tub and crisp white lettering.
This convenient, catch-all, somewhat mysterious product may be divisive, but you can’t deny its staying power. From no-effort whipped cream substitute to “healthy” dessert base endorsed by fitness influencers, Cool Whip has shape-shifted through the decades to meet America’s cravings.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/05/we-cant-quit-cool-whip/
Anti-MAHA propaganda?
“Lots of Us Forget How Bad Life Was Before Vaccines. I Have a Theory About That.”
https://slate.com/life/2025/07/rfk-jr-cdc-vaccine-autism-hhs.html
My parents were fully bought in to the low fat craze of the ’80s and ’90s, so I grew up with the stuff. We never had fewer than 10 of the leftover containers in the cupboard to be used as white trash tupperware. I haven’t bought any Cool Whip in probably a decade, but I still have one of those damn containers lurking about.
I don’t think it’s just white trash, as I’ve recently inherited a hundred empty plastic containers. I also remember black people drinking out of glasses that used to be jelly jars.
Not just black people.
Mrs F is constantly sharing food with neighbors, she uses the plastic containers so people may not return them. We seem to always have lots.
She gets upset when a Pyrex doesn’t get returned. She’s also very good about returning any canning jars we get in trades.
Don’t. It’s disgusting.
When I was little I ate it out of the tub. I tried it again ten or so years ago – blech.
Welch’s grape jelly (with a pry-off lid instead of a screw lid) with Hanna-Barbera characters on the jar!
Wait, when did they have such an inconvenient design?
When I was a kid. [Actual time frame redacted]
“I also remember black people drinking out of glasses that used to be jelly jars.”
I have some of those in my cabinet as I type. They even come with handles. I even have some handleless mason jars that I drink from. A quart mason jar full of ice and topped off with root beer is good on a day like today….I just finished cutting the grass.
They make it sound like mayonnaise with sugar.
It’s worse.
Red hot American Summer
https://x.com/LindyTasteful/status/1941525358475681975
Leg day
https://x.com/LindyTasteful/status/1941811027261247837
Nice pins
I am supposed to know who that is?
she needs to work on her calves a bit.
“This is the Martini time of day”
https://x.com/LindyTasteful/status/1939319016570356056
Notice those bolt-ons don’t move at all.
I noticed that. Passing out boob jobs without a medical need is the greatest crime of our modern times. Ok, not the worst…mutilating kids is worse but still.
*stands and salutes*
“Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has opened a criminal investigation into transgender TikTok influencer Lilly Tino, whose legal name is Nicholas Sylvan Contino, following a viral video showing unauthorized filming in a women’s restroom at Disney World. Under Florida Statute §810.145, secretly recording in a restroom is a felony offense punishable by up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine. The investigation was prompted after the video gained widespread attention, raising concerns about privacy violations. The case highlights ongoing legal scrutiny regarding unauthorized recordings in sensitive areas.”
https://deepnewz.com/crime/florida-ag-investigates-transgender-tiktok-influencer-lilly-tino-disney-bathroom-3b368ef3
“Transgender activist Lilly Tino announced he is “stepping away” from social media, citing emotional hurt and a desire to shift the tone of his content, following Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s announcement of an investigation into a video Tino posted from women’s restrooms at Disney World.”
https://flvoicenews.com/transgender-activist-steps-back-from-social-media-amid-state-investigation/
womp womp
Dudes putting on dresses and going in women’s rest rooms are totally not pervs. Nope, not one bit. It’s just their identity….or some such bullshit.
Fuck you. Instead of asking others to step up it should be confiscated from American’s pockets.
TW Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jul/04/us-aid-cuts-kill-millions-unaids-head-winnie-byanyima
Parasite decrying an unwilling host.
This time of year I catch a lot of wood ticks, first a free ride, then they get to the blood sucking.
If we take every international aid worker out and shoot them in the head it would almost certainly improve the life of the common person in Africa within a decade.
We need to subsidize the shit out American farmers. Buy that subsidized output and provide it to Africa as relief.
Rinse and repeat. Now ponder why Africa has trouble creating and supporting its own agricultural industry.
That’s part of it. The aid providing enormous pools of graft fueling and protecting the unbelievable corruption, and the demoralizing effect created by dependence are also factors.
Evergreen meme
Wait, I thought the Evergreen got stuck in the Suez.
If that tiny little bit of money is what’s keeping millions alive, why do we need $7T annual budgets?
Third world commies want money.
She can fuck right off. I. Dont. Care.
Feels like a Korean holiday – work til 2, 5pm flight and arrive in Virginia at 10.
Busch gardens early tomorrow morn!
This should be a fun trek. 3.5 hours til I depart work, first.
GLHF
“I am also told that some people think I am courageous for the ways in which I engage with litigants and my colleagues in the courtroom, or the manner in which I address thorny issues in my legal writings,” Jackson said.
“Some have even called me fearless.”
I think that’s enough delusion for today.
Ahh, the age old question, is it courage or stupidity, can finally be answered definitively. Stupidity, it was stupidity.
A call the manager because my fries are cold attitude with a legal degree and a Supreme Court robe. Not a good combo.
Christ. She is the poster child for Dunning-Kruger syndrome.
“Some have even called me fearless.”
We’re all comic book heroes.
Why is it that it’s always the innocent that are killed?
Professor Costa Samaras, who worked on energy policy at the White House under President Joe Biden, said NOAA had been in the middle of developing new flood maps for neighbourhoods and that cuts to NOAA were “devastating”.
“Accurate weather forecasts matter. FEMA and NOAA matter. Because little girls’ lives matter,”
NOAA had been in the middle of developing new flood maps for neighbourhoods
If we had those maps, the floods never could have happened.
In my parts NOAA/state/county have been “working” on those maps for the last 25 years.
All the while ignoring the recommendations of the people that have lived in those areas for far longer.
When the 80 year old guy tells you where it floods and where it dosent you should probably listen.
They also refuse to fly one the disputed areas with FLIR to confirm actual elevations.
Nuremburg revisited
A hugely popular right-wing Croatian singer and hundreds of thousands of his fans performed a pro-Nazi World War II salute at a massive concert in Zagreb, drawing criticism.
One of Marko Perkovic’s most popular songs, played in the late Saturday concert, starts with the dreaded “For the homeland — Ready!” salute, used by Croatia’s Nazi-era puppet Ustasha regime that ran concentration camps at the time.
Perkovic, whose stage name is Thompson after a U.S.-made machine gun, had previously said both the song and the salute focus on the 1991-95 ethnic war in Croatia, in which he fought using the American firearm, after the country declared independence from the former Yugoslavia. He says his controversial song is “a witness of an era.”
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Organizers said that half a million people attended Perkovic’s concert in the Croatian capital. Video footage aired by Croatian media showed many fans displaying pro-Nazi salutes earlier in the day.
The salute is punishable by law in Croatia, but courts have ruled Perkovic can use it as part of his song, the Croatian state television HRT said.
On to Poland!
In my parts NOAA/state/county have been “working” on those maps for the last 25 years.
All the while ignoring the recommendations of the people that have lived in those areas for far longer.
Sounds familiar. There was a similar thing going on in Livingston. Oddly enough, a lot of people didn’t like being included in the flood zone because their insurance would go up and their property value would go down.
I talked to my insurance company a few years ago about its flood policy. They have my place rates as moderate, I told him of my home ever floods I have far more serious problems, like there is an Ark floating bye. The river would have to rise 1700’ for my place to flood.
My dad’s place is considered to be in the flood plain, he had a minor flood off the hill where there is no stream about 15 years ago that spread 4” of mud into his shop. Had he bought shelves and had all the stuff off his floor he wouldn’t have lost a thing. He’s anti shelf. It’s weird.
Prior to that the last actual flood from the creek was in the 50s.
The USDA paid for one of the local farmers to build a big hay barn 15 years ago. 40’ from the creek, in the actual flood plain.
I talked to my insurance company a few years ago about its flood policy. They have my place rates as moderate, I told him of my home ever floods I have far more serious problems, like there is an Ark floating bye. The river would have to rise 1700’ for my place to flood.
When my parents bought their house in Indianapolis, the insurance company called and wanted to talk to them about flood risk/insurance, because it was “right on the bank” of the White River. True enough, except the house was on a bluff about fifty feet above the water, and the neighborhood on the other side was just above the river. It would have taken a truly unimagineable flood to get to their back door.
Back when I was a kid I figured out the only recession proof industries to be in were insurance and government.
Hustles that scratch eachothers backs.