Yep. Here in Manly Time, July has arrived, and with it the heat. We will be close to, or over 100 degrees for the next few weeks. At least I’m not dumb enough to live in Arizona like Mexi.
Links?
They were brown in a field. Of course they were illegal.
Guess what, Dan? The Deep State has more power than you.
There’s violent assholes on both sides? Who knew?
The world need ditch diggers too.
Probably not a bad question to ask.
Alrighty, that’s it for me. Stay cool. Peace out, Glibbies.
Waiting (and hoping) for a thunderstorm to pass through and cool it down enough to make it tolerable to go out and grill a couple of ribeyes. 🥵🤞🌩🌧🥩🥩
Smoke here from Canadian wild fires. Can smell it/see it. Canada over reacts to Trump Tariff Time, apparently.
You got your wish. I was just out and felt the temp drop about 20 degrees in 5 minutes.
Now the rain. Glad I got my grass cut.
Yeah, I’m waiting until the first freeze kills the mosquitoes. It’s bad. Genesee county (home of Flint) doesn’t have the budget to spray. I’m going to do a little environmental warfare Monday at one of the apartment communities I work at, but in a legally dubious manner. But it’s bad. One of the residents sent a picture of the windows by the door just covered in skeeters, and I personally have at least a dozen bites from my last visit, just from walking from my vehicle to the hallway door.
We are at the other end of the mosquito spectrum this year. I see one/two outside, maybe one in the house on a daily basis. All the neighbors are finding the same thing this year, first time ever. A few deer flies, a horse fly once in a while. I hope all those folks that headed South to avoid the skeeters don’t hear about it, they’ll start to return. I’d rather have the mosquitoes.
Today I was moving my shooting bench when a swarm of yellow jackets came out. I avoided getting stung, came back to the house and got a bug bomb. Sprayed the paper nest, turned the table over and sprayed again. Went back in a couple hours and loaded the bench on a trailer and hauled it in.
Sorry, but terrifying new Chinese ‘tank boats’ got nothing on a bear holding a shark.
Trump can’t stop digging.
https://x.com/alx/status/1944149447333630288
I wish Musk would go back to the 160 character limit. Or less.
That’s a screenshot from Truth Social. Trump doesn’t do X any more.
I swear to god, the “Epstein files” were sent as a blessing to the left. And now the right is chasing its tail over this.
It’s his own fault though. He ran on making all of this stuff public and he’s chosen to do the opposite. Unlike the left, and maybe stupidly, the right doesn’t like being blatantly lied to.
The thing is:
(1) files of sexual misadventures by powerful people are exactly catnip for intelligence agencies, and thus the kind of thing they will manufacture, curate, and protect, and
(2) there are a string of apparently massive and well-documented/supported scandals involving sexual misadventures by powerful people that just disappeared into a cloud of dead witnesses, questionable judges and trials, media hit jobs, etc. so
Yeah, I think the Epstein files are absolutely radioactive (he was pretty clearly an intelligence asset), and are being buried because they would wreck a lot of powerful people. I also think anything that can be destroyed by the truth, should be destroyed. So, I am not happy about the Deep State winning on the Epstein files.
He’s a Goddamned idiot, out of touch old man. I look forward to the Dems impeaching him after he completely wrecks the midterms.
Fuck off. We could be importing half a million criminals a day under CommaLa right now. This is better by a million percent.
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I don’t blame Trump for defending Bondi – he learned the hard way what happens when there is either NO Attorney General or one with no loyalty to him.
I’ll be able to sleep well tonight, knowing Trump has all the ducks in a row.
Only had to get a credit line on 5T more.
Tell me that guy isn’t a Dem plant. He is writing their campaign ads for them.
The thing is, he’s not wrong. Very few illegals are white. Ruling out pale people, blonds, and redheads is just common sense. Now, a fair number (given that there are probably 30 million illegals in the country, I’m a little reluctant to say “most”) POCs are perfectly legal, but if you’re playing the odds, that’s where to focus your resources.
Sure but it can’t be that difficult for ICE to develop reasonable suspicion using better methods.
Of course not. It is in fact irrelevant but tell that to the “race is everything” crowd.
Or at the very least not flap your gums in a manner that will just elect more Dems.
You play the odds. In Boston, the illegals will be Irish, and in California, they are not.
That blank check is reserved for Ukraine.
Rhywun: re the doctor & covid shots in the last post. He was giving saline shots to people who did not want to get a covid shot but were being forced to by employers and such.
Sometimes I forget the sarc tag.
I wondered but wanted to be sure.
I love that video. Dude’s so ugly he’s fascinating.
Is he? Or is it just the facial hair?
Actually, now that you say that, I don’t know,
He looks like the guy from the Kinks’ “Apeman” with the mutton chops and such.
A quick google for Ray Dorset shown he’s not pretty either with ‘em or without ‘em.
I googled. I am neither gay nor female, so my opinion doesn’t matter, but I just don’t see what Mojeaux does. He’s way better looking than, say, Steven Tyler or Mick Jagger.
I have never found either Steven Tyler or Mick Jagger interesting enough to catch my eye. They’re … people.* Okay.
“Ugly” isn’t an insult when its subtext is “captivating.”
*Both of whom have unnaturally elastic mouths, so it’s funny to me you put those two together.
Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car
https://archive.fo/5BZz5
Japan and this since dissolved MITI would like word and a discussion about its lost decades.
That said DC claims it wants to save the planet while declining to allow consumers access to inexpensive vehicles that actually do meet global safety standards.
JFC who writes that trash?
Also, the world’s worst IC car is probably still a better bet than the world’s best EV car.
I mean, a Tesla or a 1974 Pinto?
New cars.
I’m going to say I’ll take my Model 3 over a Sentra…
Ok, my bias is probably showing a little. I think EVs have a place. They make excellent commuter cars, but I’d sooner take a Sentra cross country before I would a model 3. I do agree Tesla is making the best EVs made today.
I have no problem with EVs. Just leave me out of it. Kind of like Tranny’.
Depends. NYC to LA direct Model 3. National Parks seeing the sights kind of trip it would be the Sentra.
And I’d still probably take a Model 3 before a flight.
Mind you given a choice of my wife’s Acura MDX or my Model 3, I would take the Acura in a heartbeat for either trip.
I imagine those Chinese tanks would need some serious air cover to be successful.
China has built a robust Air Force.
Would drone swarms work?
I think with these tanks, drown swarm is more likely.
China has its own drone swarms. Unless we get involved, China is taking Taiwan.
But an hour later, you want to bomb again.
I’d like to see one that can cross 100 miles of ocean.
Bingo.
Those are a Chinese adaptation of a Soviet design from the 1960s with thin armor and a weak gun. Even if they made it to Taiwan, which they probably wouldn’t, they’d be burning in short order.
I look at a lot of the Chinese military the way I looked at Saddam Hussein’s. China is very much a quantity over quality military.
I don’t think there’s enough air cover in the world to keep those “tanks” from being crushed by missiles and drones. And you could probably get them in job lots by targeting whatever is carrying them within range, because no way do those cross open ocean.
It’s all for show.
Sorry the constitution you forced upon us precludes us from doing anything. It’s mostly worked out well for us. Thanks!
/s Japan
Also, they ain’t making young men anymore with which to fight with.
DJ: do you live in proximity to the city in your name?
For many decades, including when I took the moniker at TOS. 4yrs ago I moved to Michigan.
Got it, thanks.
We are “governed” by feral children.
You misspelled federal children. Understandable as the middle syllable is often not pronounced.
Speedy Mexican Pato O’Ward wins Iowa race 1. No sign of el Migra in victory lane.
Hot tune
The company embodies a Chinese industrial model that is leaving America in the dust.
We had our chance to nationalize General Motors ~2008 and we let it slip through our fingers!
Funny, they’ll publish articles like this and then decry fascism in the next. Mussolini would be proud.
China has the good kind of fascism.
think of a Manhattan Project but for cars — to restore U.S. competitiveness.
Bless his heart.
How about….
We remove at least 60 years of automobile regulations and let the free market develop cars!
No?
And the chicken tax.
If only the USA had somebody who knew how to build EVs…
Toss in a little “government financial support” and they practically sell themselves!
That unlike the big three makes its own batteries, motors and most of its software stack?
You know, the integration the editorial discusses…
nuclear powered cars?
+ Mr. Fission
To be fair, nuking the Chinese industrial centers would help the US be more competitive.
It’s also not the only reason for BYD’s success.
Yeah, there’s also that whole “First thing we do, let’s kill all the environmental justice advocates” business. I’d definitely be in favor of that.
A safe way to experience lions up close?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n7S6oNexjk
A great joke that is much better when its told. However-
A plane is flying with a cargo of 500 bricks. One falls out. How many are left?
499.
In just 3 easy steps, how do you get an elephant into a refrigerator?
1) open the door 2) push the elephant in 3) shut the door.
But in 4 easy steps, how do you get a giraffe into a refrigerator?
1) open the door 2) take the elephant out 3) push the giraffe in 4) shut the door
A lion, the king of the jungle, was having a birthday party and all the animals were invited. Which one didnt show up?
The giraffe. He was in the refrigerator.
An explorer in the jungle has to cross a river known to be infested with crocodiles. The explorer swims across with no issues. Where were the crocodiles?
At the Lion’s birthday party.
After crossing the river, the explorer falls over dead. What killed him?
He was hit on the head from a brick that fell from the sky.
Ah, the shaggy dog non sequitur with callback. One of the great joke combos.
I give you now Professor Twist
a conscientious scientist
Trustees exclaimed “he never bungles!”
and sent him off to distant jungles
Camped by a riverside
one day he missed his loving bride
She had, the guide informed him later
been eaten by an alligator
Professor Twist could not but smile
“You mean”, he said “a crocodile.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NB6yxE0dF4
That’s not a shaggy dog story, that’s a brick joke.
Now Im waiting on “I Am A Very Model of a Modern Major General”
I have information animal, vegetable and mineral…
Though I prefer the “Scientist Salarian” rendition.
Major General
Scientist Salarian
I’d be more impressed if they opened a can of cat food in there. Or some tuna.
man hand feeds lion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trvPZBkTg4g
suggested music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqIY3NfoYvw
African Lions Accept Man As One of Their Own
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kjWBgA81LM
South Park version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlNN7Shdb7o
Its just a big kitty.
What kind of stupid shit is that?
‘You are the prey’ experience? I am not sure what to make of the psychology behind that. I think it is akin to the fascination young, sheltered people have with violence and death. Get a taste of the real thing and that fascination goes away very quickly. They need to put a slot in those cages so the lion can reach in.
Unable to compete abroad, U.S. automakers will have to retreat into the narrow space where they remain strong: the domestic market for gas-guzzling trucks and S.U.V.s.
Internal combustion transportation is such a tiny market. It could never work.
The market essentially created by government fuel and safety standards making the resulting cars less appealing.
The notion that the vast majority of the planet is going to build out their grids and install EV charging stations in our lifetimes is just laughable. ICE is going to dominate the global market for the foreseeable future.
And when China which is supposedly cleaning our clock with Electric! but hm oh gee they also cannot build coal power plants fast enough…
The people who swallow the narrative™️ that The Guardian and friends put out there are just unbelievably ignorant.
At this point I think it’s a grift. As Manhattan Contrarian has pointed out, if going all electric is such a great idea, why isn’t there a single city sized demonstration project so we can see how great it is?
That fucking clown from the NYT should watch the Savage Geese video that popped up on my roku last night. If he’s capable of listening to reason, he might learn something.
One of my favorite auto channels.
We need to leave the migratory birds treaty. Geece and Robins do not need special protection.
What about Baskin?
I would have thought you’d harp on the Hate Bird Typo.
Geese *is* the word.
Exactly.
The card says “Moops”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0uYJjDHeDU
The bird is the word?
[Imagines UCS firing MG42 at flocks of passenger pigeons]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKJNqDrkctk
There is a taxidermized specimen of one of the last of them in the national natural history museum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_(passenger_pigeon)
The sorrows of young derpy…
Wrong weapon for passenger pigeons.
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Passenger pigeons were shot with such ease that many did not consider them to be a game bird, as an amateur hunter could easily bring down six with one shotgun blast; a particularly good shot with both barrels of a shotgun at a roost could kill 61 birds.[123][124] The birds were frequently shot either in flight during migration or immediately after, when they commonly perched in dead, exposed trees.[123] Hunters only had to shoot toward the sky without aiming, and many pigeons would be brought down.[32] The pigeons proved difficult to shoot head-on, so hunters typically waited for the flocks to pass overhead before shooting them. Trenches were sometimes dug and filled with grain so that a hunter could shoot the pigeons along this trench.[125] Hunters largely outnumbered trappers, and hunting passenger pigeons was a popular sport for young boys.[126] In 1871, a single seller of ammunition provided three tons of powder and 16 tons (32,000 lb) of shot during a nesting. In the latter half of the 19th century, thousands of passenger pigeons were captured for use in the sports shooting industry. The pigeons were used as living targets in shooting tournaments, such as “trap-shooting”, the controlled release of birds from special traps. Competitions could also consist of people standing regularly spaced while trying to shoot down as many birds as possible in a passing flock.[32][127] The pigeon was considered so numerous that 30,000 birds had to be killed to claim the prize in one competition.[43]
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But the birds would have their revenge…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz-o3SLbXh0
Exactly, you don’t use a 1000rpm machine gun. That would destroy the tiny carcasses.
Given your penchant for overkill, I’m surprised you’d hunt anything with less than a Warhammer Titan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK02e3U4Q9U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lknNsZgzG1g
I remember in New Mexico, hunting quail. Not anywhere as numerous as the pigeons described, but I recognize the strategy. Quail send one or two volunteers to run across a clearing in the sage, then they peep back that they made it. That’s when the rest of the flock runs across the clearing, and a 12ga with birdshot can get, well IDK- I think the most I ever got was 4 with one shell.
I’m not that interested in car reviews (especially “regular” cars) but this is one where he is just talking to the camera about how obdurately ignorant and oblivious the entire auto industry has become. I’m sure you’ve seen it.
They do reviews of all kinds, but with no shit held back. Plus they do some awesome one offs.
Nissan Murano Cross Cabriolet | Best Car Ever Made
It is truly impressive how hard Trump can kick himself in the groin.
He’s wanting the DOJ to focus on 2020 voter fraud and the like.
It’s going to be hilarious when Bondi comes out and says that there was zero voter fraud in 2020, so stop talking about it.
It wasn’t zero voter fraud, they did catch a few MAGA idiots that tried to cast their dead mothers absentee ballot for Trump.
A Turkish idiom translates as “to step sideways on your penis”. It’s kind of their version of “to shoot yourself in the foot”.
if Epstein is old news so is Biden. Constantly blaming your predecessor, admittedly impaired, is unproductive.
Just get busy and fix things.
I know, I know, we’re talking about the government but can we pretend a little.?
Stringing up the misc. Deep Staters and operatives involved in the shenanigans over the last 10 -12 years, though, would be good for society.
moveon?
I am about 99% certain that Donald is correct about Joe’s operators stealing 2020 but yeah, like Epstein there is no way that anything will become of it.
It *should* be a national scandal that we don’t know at the close of polling how many ballots there are to be counted. But a lot of people *want* it that way so that a lot of postal ballots can come in late and suddenly, magically, flip a bunch of races.
Matthew Boyd and your Chicago Cubs put on a stomp on the Yanks. He’s damn good this year.
I’ve got a Thursday collagen injection (another ‘conscious’ sedation!) on Thurs and a couple productive appointments next week, one with vocational rehab, but normal plugging at Walmart resumes tomorrow early-morn.
Starting to think an autobio might be in order as my Project. There’s kinda too much fun there to ignore, and the uniqueness of my situation is (oddly?) my biggest In to attract attention and $. Huh. I kinda am thinking about that. I very much need an editor to guide this chatty Cathy, otherwise I’ll just go on and on about everything. (That has the side-effect of boiling it into nothing.)
I had fun on Zoom last before I had to flee. Fun bunch on folk to hear from. I hope all is well with you and your all.
I’ve got a Thursday collagen injection (another ‘conscious’ sedation!)
You’re getting duck lips?
I don’t need no further puckerin’…
They’re aiming for a different spot in my musculature between my titanium hip and pelvis. I think this one’s goin’ straight up into my big ass muscle. The last was more inward on my groin.
Of all places to need further puckerin’… I’m getting the oddest of sorts. I suppose I’m getting medical-grade fentanyl’d again. That shit puts you *out.* I’m rather curious for improvement, but my situation isn’t dire. More a continuous nuisance.
*fans self*
I thought that’d please you, Rhy.
Come *swoon* with me.
I had another biopsy a couple weeks ago and FFS could they have devised a more sadistic method than jamming a gigantic needle into your fucking pelvis? The room where they perform this torture is certainly lined with lead to block the screams.
Ugh. Sorry Rhywun. I hope you got good results.
Doc last Friday says “nothin’ there”. So yep.
Huzzah!
It’ll come back but for now – couple years? – we’re golden.
I’m not clear on cancer coming back but I’m glad you are clear now.
Basically, there is no cure. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Excellent song choice.
I just came here to say the Jardiance commercials have gotten out of hand.
Just dance your diabetes and other chronic conditions away!
It’s like the way PMS can be cured with hang gliding and riding horses on a beach.
Wait, that doesn’t work?
Fuck sakes, it advertising. No one believes that dancing cures cancer, they also don’t believe that Arby’s “has the Meats!”, I know it’s tough to do, with all the idiocy on display every day, but sometime you have to give people a little credit.
Wait, you guys are watching Ads?
QUIET, YOU!
The dog is barking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcxzq1LF7Lk
I did the grocery shopping back when I was married. Next to Aldi’s was an Arby’s. I used to enjoy a couple of Classic Beef & Cheddars without my family (actually, none of them liked Arby’s).
I did wonder how they sold beef sadwiches so cheap.
Two separate, outdoor bathtubs, with an amazing view, will cure anything, and also make you hard.
I’ll see your fat dancing chick or dude and raise you two parents wanting to immunize their sexually active pre-teens. Or some autistic dudes peddling dick pills. Or half of fucking Hollywood peddling a POS mobile game, or….
JFC commercials are unbelievably obnoxious lately.
PReP for a night on the town.
Soldier survives battle with Indians in 1868 tells his story:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAwLLF8n7UE
Story from another soldier in our time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33rxHlhv3IY
The more details come out, the more I’m wondering if Flight 171 wasn’t pilot/copilot suicide. The instigating incident (switching fuel to cutoff) was not procedure and isn’t something you can accidentally do. It also can’t be easily undone by the other person in the cockpit in time to save the plane.
I hope not, since taking hundreds of people with you is a shit thing to do, but it’s one of the few scenarios that still fits the available data.
An interesting take:
By contrast, I’m just a humble hacker with an artistic streak. But one of the purposes of this blog is to push the boundaries of reason, and think that which has not been thunk. In that spirit, I give you one more possible explanation, which I have not heard presented elsewhere:
7. Trump is a Baby Boomer: Technology is magic to most boomers. It can literally do everything, and it has already done most things. This includes mysterious things that terrify and bewilder them.
https://open.substack.com/pub/markbisone/p/the-new-mad?r=d0r3d&utm_medium=ios
Pfft my mom was pre-boomer but she grokked the internet just fine. She might have been a bit smarter than Donald, admittedly.
This is from a couple of years ago:
“The investigators also discovered documents that discussed ‘bank secrecy,’ ‘high-tech transfers,’ ‘terrorism,’ and ‘explosives.’ To their astonishment, they even found a detailed summary of the events surrounding the arrests in Tallahassee the previous night and instructions that were broadcast via a computer network. The instructions advised the ‘participants’ to move the ‘children’ through different police jurisdictions, and ‘how to avoid police attention.’ (Bryant 2009, p. 11)”
Within a month the FBI and CIA had commandeered the investigation, sealed the report, dropped all abuse charges against the men, and returned the children to the Finders.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ponerology/p/the-franklin-cover-up?r=d0r3d&utm_medium=ios
I did the grocery shopping back when I was married. Next to Aldi’s was an Arby’s. I used to enjoy a couple of Classic Beef & Cheddars without my family (actually, none of them liked Arby’s).
I did wonder how they sold beef sadwiches so cheap.
SOYLENT ARBY’S
Problematic!
I took her out for a meal not knowing her daddy’s socioeconomic status.
I see tons of articles on how the ‘base’ wants justice on Epstein….but what if, there is nothing?
What if he liked to party with young girls around creeps but the true nefarious stuff was him and his pimp just alone fucking em?
That would be amazing if Epstein was the only one fucking the harem on pedo island. Although there’s at least Prince Andrew that was screwing some of them.
Maxwell is in jail for trafficking young girls to one guy
I think gigantic conspiracy theory involving hundreds of perverted power-elites is actually the more likely explanation at this point.
But neatly, we will never get the truth so there is that I guess.
Then release the files and have some trusted third party look at the tapes and document it with the necessary redactions if it really is nothing but CP stuff. The cops do stuff like that all the time without releasing identifying info and it holds up to legal standards upon which convictions are made.
Is there something there as far as a blackmail scheme goes? Probably but maybe not but the path they’ve chosen looks as shady as it can get. It doesn’t help that a coverup and trying to put to bed overhyped bullshit that was used to win an election look pretty much the same.
Morning Slackers.
It’s a slacker’s morning.
It’s you and me, Hype,and I’m getting ready to go to work
….and Rat…
𝒢𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝑒𝒾𝓇𝒹𝑜𝓈.
🙋♂️🌤️🧇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mlbg3pJIR4
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Good morning, Sean (show off!), 4(20), Roat, and Teh Hype!
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