I re-lived a fun thing that SP and I used to love doing- minor league baseball. We attended games for at least 3 different AAA teams and just had a blast at all of them. But especially the Round Rock Express at Dell Diamond. We’d drink frozen margaritas and cheer on our favorite and familiar players. I haven’t done this since The Tragedy because I associate it so strongly with her. Last night, I finally got into a good enough mental state to try this with Prime- she got us amazing seats at a AAA game of the Buffalo Bisons, a farm team for the Blue Jays. When I say “amazing,” I’m talking row 2 right behind home plate (see photo below). I gives a great insight into the pitching for sure, but also a superb overview of the field. In any case, I had a fine time with no trauma, so this is just one more small step in my personal healing process.
Sorry to do my psychiatric unburdening here. But it really was fun- craft beer, terrible pizza, Prime almost got a roller dog before her medical training kicked in and warned her otherwise. And toothless mental case behind us yelling and screaming at every play. Prime, being who she is, felt bad for him and his family. Me, being who I am, found him hilarious. And I don’t feel guilty for that, he was having himself a rollicking time. And the pre-game festivities included both the Star Spangled Banner (as a good Baltimorean, I shouted out the “O”) and Oh Canada.
Speaking of rollicking times, birthdays today include a woman who figured into one of my favorite songs; a guy who proved that you can be a great thinker and an utter asshole; a guy who would LOVE the dog cohort that WebDom, l0b0t, and I are dealing with; a guy who was involved in one of Herself’s more minor lies; one of the very few AGs who actually did a right and moral thing; a pretentious and artsy writer who was actually good; one more argument in favor of term limits; a woman who always made Young Man With Candy feel funny in his no-no zone; the woman who needed what Princess Grace had; a woman who proved that you can make great art with strong political messa… oh wait, it sucked; a guitarist whose technique spans the range from A to B; a guy whose erudite and incisive writing has enligh… wait, he’s a comically bad hack; and a woman who understood the whole Patriots ball-inflation scandal.
And following my tradition, Links ensue.
There are a few- a very few- things about which I agree with the Trump Administration. Here’s an example of one of them.
Of course, there’s one minor difficulty in this, since the PA officials were tossed off rooftops.
Just in case there was any question about whether the lying was deliberate.
This is, to an extent, a self-solving problem.
I still say it’s liver and I still say to hell with it.
Notice how the “families” disappear and abandon their problems until there’s a potential payday.
Here’s another memento from my life with SP- we both loved the music of Peter Mulvey, who combined delightful melody with lyric poetry. We probably saw him live 40 times, and twice had him out to our house for private concerts. And here’s a piece with a baseball title, but it’s actually not about baseball (and we knew all the people name-checked in it). Sadly, since that time, Peter seemed to have found more commercial success with stupid politics and nauseatingly smug and shallow pronunciamientos, and I can’t go to his political rallies disguised as concerts any more. And his songs are unlistenable. But the lovely music he created before his brain broke still exists, and The Old Guy smiles when he hears it.
I went to a few Spokane Indians games when I was a kid. Good times, good memories. There’s some minor league team over in Abilene, but I sure as shit wouldn’t drive there for it.
Minneapolis Millers-circa 1950
Saw Willie Mays in his first AAA appearance, 1952
Very Dylan-esque.
Is that supposed to be an endorsement?
I plead the fifth.
“Of course, there’s one minor difficulty in this, since the PA officials were tossed off rooftops.”
I didn’t realize Pennsylvania had so many gays in government and Muslim citizens.
” the PA could receive $100m a year over 15 years.”
What’s that like 1000 rockets a year?
I’m so glad you were able to enjoy a minor league ball game again! You really should venture into the even-more-minor levels of AA, A, and beyond. [Disclaimer: I know from long experience that Single A teams means Single A play and, even more frustrating, Single A umpiring.] And even more minor than that, if you REALLY hurry you can catch a game not far away featuring the Jamestown Tarp Skunks!
We used to go see the Schaumburg Boomers, an independent team in the Frontier League (so uncertain rating, but likely comparable to single A). We particularly liked the rivalry with the neighboring Joliot Slammers.
OK, Boomers.
Frontier league is around A level from my understanding, we’ve got a team in the league here (the Lake Erie, formerly Avon, Crushers) to pair up with the rest of our minor league teams like the Akron Rubber Ducks, the Lake County Captains, and the Cleveland
IndiansGuardians.This is the Boomers game I went to this year. Fun comeback after being down 8-0 in the fourth to win in the last inning.
https://www.boomersbaseball.com/news/archive/2025/2438/boomers-rally-from-down-8-0-to-win-series/
They needed to come up with a name that would plausibly allow them to use Scary Lucy as a mascot.
The local single A team can be frustrating in their performance but I can get tickets behind home plate for less than top deck outfield at a MLB game. They are only 20 minutes away instead of at least an hour on a rare low traffic day up I-95.
a guy who would LOVE the dog cohort that WebDom, l0b0t, and I are dealing with
Happy birthday Cassius Coolidge!
Happy birthday Friedrich Nietzsche?
Happy birthday Bill Conradt?
Happy birthday Joni Mitchell?
Ayn Rand? Oh, you said “guy.”
Re: Tehran Teddy
‘Iran says it has replaced air defenses damaged in Israel war’
So they can be blown up again next time without achieving anything?
It’s like the proverbial trailer park in a tornado zone.
a guy who proved that you can be a great thinker and an utter asshole
My birthday is in June….
Lol
a woman who always made Young Man With Candy feel funny in his no-no zone
Happy birthday Bella Abzug!
That’s more than sarcasm, that’s downright mean!
This is supposed to be family friendly.
I was going to suggest Marie Dressler, but she was before even your time.
‘which is only complicated by her standing as the head of HR, the department that would typically handle and oversee romantic relationships in the workplace’
So, HR approved the relationship, clearly no issue here.
Winner!
But remember, it’s orange Hitler who has a cult of personality and demands total fealty from his underlings.
That picture: I don’t think there’s a single picture of Biden during his presidency that doesn’t suggest he’s trying to figure out where the hell he is and what he’s doing there.
Just below the picture, I got an ad for Trump promoting buying gold. 😐
I understand your sadness, OM.
Every day there are memories…
The price for entering politics should be that you get liquidated at a certain age, like Logan’s Run.
Early and often…
Yeah, but if it comes with Jenny Agutter, it might be worth it.
This is, to an extent, a self-solving problem.
They should have listened to this guy.
Or this guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLWD2WIvRQk
“FBI and NSA Had Low Confidence That Russia Was Behind the DNC Hack”
Didn’t the timestamps prove it was someone in the U.S. years ago?
I think the real news is that they now have a pretty solid paper trail for the whole thing that leads straight to Obama himself.
And we also now have some delightful precedents of former Presidents being prosecuted, and even some SCOTUS guidance on the limits to immunity for Presidential acts.
Heh, while theoretically warranted, I doubt we’d ever see Obama up on charges, and I do wonder if it’s prudent to do so.
Up on charges? When that asshole dies, they’re going to build a colossus straddling the Potomac, arms akimbo.
LOL. While I’d prefer to see him convicted of treason I’ll settle for dynamiting the one they’re still building in Chicago.
What’s a roller dog?
I believe that’s a hot dog (or some form of sausage) cooked and being kept warm on the contraption that keeps it rolling around, presumably being kept warm evenly around its circumference. Usually found in c-stores.
Expanding on GT’s comment, that contraption is known as a roller grill. The constant rolling of the product delays drying-out on one side and requires minimum attention by the staff. Meat in motion is a known effective marketing ploy. 😉
I’m now wondering if there is some special carve out in the health department regs for roller grills so the operation of one doesn’t require a commercial kitchen license and inspection.
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Tonio:
Due to PA’s alcohol laws, every bar is required to have a food menu. Quite a few of the more out of the way bars will have roller dogs to fulfill the requirement, while the clientele know that no one should ever eat them.
You’ve never been in a convenience store or truck stop?
A guilty pleasure you will likely regret.
It’s a perfectly sane food to eat!
I too love going to AAA fields and seeing AAA games. And, initially, the wife and I were excited that our beloved A’s were playing at our beloved Raley field, but that has been a curse. And I think this is due to it being a AAA park, and feeling like that, as opposed to a big league park. And this keeps the team in the mindset of being a little kid at the adult table, so to speak, and screws up their game.
So, we play the Indians tonight, and it should be a good game, considering how the series has gone so far.
Oh, and speaking of Judy Chicago, the boy and I were wandering around the Brooklyn museum last time I visited him, and The Dinner Party was on display in one of the halls. Looking at it, the installation is rather banal. It is all ’60-70s dinnerware, aging badly style-wise, names no one remembers, and it is too big to actually take in as presented, thus loosing any sense of grandeur it might have otherwise.
And my son had no idea what it was, so it isn’t even being forced down any throats in schools anymore.
Never heard of her nor the work. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I lived in Brooklyn for 16 years and never visited that museum, either.
Interestingly, this park was used by the Blue Jays during some construction/renovation of their Toronto digs. And it’s a good sized place for the minors, 404′ to center, seats 17,000.
Close. Sahlen Field was turned into the Jays’ home park for the shortened 2020 season because Canada went full retard on Covid restrictions. They made a bunch of upgrades prior to moving in, and most stayed when the big club got to go back to
SkyDomeRogers Centre.It didn’t hurt that it was a really nice park to begin with, as it was designed with MLB in mind. Buffalo wanted to get an expansion team back in the day.
Good sight lines, and the ball really carries well to left when the wind is coming off Lake Erie. Vlad Guererro Jr. hit some tape-measure shots that year.
Neat. I never got around to watching the Bisons when I lived there. Did catch my hometown Red Wings a few times growing up.
OMG upstate NY pizza sucks.
People wonder why I like Dominoes well it’s because the local chains growing up in Rochester are sooooo bad. Dominoes was reserved for special occasions.
“benzodiazepines lower the heart rate and suppress breathing”
No, they don’t.
““There are an infinite number of things that could show up in the drug supply,” she said. “Some of them have been around forever, some pop up and then disappear. It’s that volatility in the drug supply that is one of the major contributors to overdoses, because there’s not any consistency that people who use drugs can rely on to know what to expect and how to dose.””
What could possibly be the solution there?
Illegal drugs are illegal…
I mean, like any CNS suppressant they have an affect on heart rate and blood pressure, although even at recreational dosages they’re pretty damn safe.
A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk
MAN: Hello. Uhh, can we have your liver?
MR. BROWN: My what?
MAN: Your liver. It’s a large, ehh, glandular organ in your abdomen.
You know, it’s, uh,– it’s reddish-brown. It’s sort of, uhh,–
MR. BROWN: Yeah,– y– y– yeah, I know what it is, but… I’m using it, eh.
I withdrew from the organ donor program a decade ago for exactly that reason.
Scary shit. Tom Woods had a guy on his podcast in the past week or so talking about his son’s drowning incident; the hospital staff was implying there was no chance of survival and recommending some narcotics for comfort until he mentioned that he’s not a donor and his organs will be buried with him, at which point they saved his life. Kid is doing great now.
“Vow’s product is made from cultured quail cells that, when combined with aromatics and other ingredients, can evoke the flavor of the real thing.”
Pretty sure quail isn’t a vegetable.
Tastes like oil and gasoline.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a44913528/the-quail-pebble-beach-car-week/
But are they high on diesel and gasoline?
Nope.
Nope.
Speaking of Elmo, the Elmo skit in this is hilarious
“Elmo Goes Full Kanye + France’s First Lady Is a Dude Dangerous Conversations Ep. 12”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTptO8wtj7E
The older and wiser I get my interest in everyday affairs lessens. In spite of that I have to admit – watching Obama getting convicted would delicious. It might even somewhat refurbish my faith in humans.
“The arrests happened during a protest in support of Ayman Soliman, an Egyptian immigrant who worked as a chaplain at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. He was detained last week after he showed up for a routine check-in with ICE officials at their office near Cincinnati.”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/19/us-news/journalists-among-those-arrested-during-immigration-related-protest-in-cincinnati/
Sounds like there is more to that story.
Your dog lover probably also qualifies as a great-thinking asshole, at least if you were one of his lab assistants.
“The city has backed off a bid to oust an anti-Israel community garden in Queens, and is negotiating a compromise instead — a deal critics suspect was likely made to appease a future Zohran Mamdani mayoral administration.
City attorneys on Thursday told Judge Hasa Kingo any agreement with the management at Sunset Community Garden in Ridgewood would require vast changes to the unconstitutional wording of the group’s 10 “community agreements” — which forced incoming members to pledge “solidarity with the oppressed and marginalized people” of Palestine.
A special section of the green space was labeled “Poppies for Palestine.””
https://nypost.com/2025/07/19/us-news/resolution-to-sunset-community-garden-fight-in-works-irking-opponents/
Does absolutely everything have to be fucking political?
I read that as “Puppies for Palestine” and thought that would piss off the “Haitians of Springfield”
I was going to say that it is none of my business what people do on their own land, but apparently the garden belongs to the cities department of education and was built with park department funds, so this seems like a pretty egregious case of public discrimination.
No shit.
NYC was always a bit off but Jeebus, they look like an asylum now from here.
Nothing some RM43 won’t fix.
Some while back, someone had a recommendation for dealing with grape vines and poison ivy vines: cut them off and dab some herbicide product on the cut face of the vine. Is RM43 that product?
My understanding is that if Agent Orange and Roundup had a baby that was bitten by a radioactive spider, that would be RM43.
Would they allow carnations for Klan members? No?
Then fuck off with that shit.
Yes, of course.
She’s right, but not in the way she thinks she is.
“Aussie A-Lister Margot Robbie has emerged as a favourite to star in a ‘wild and orgasmic’ reboot of the ’90s cult classic Basic Instinct.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14920533/Margot-Robbie-tipped-favourite-star-wild-orgasmic-Basic-Instinct-reboot.html
Enough already. Write original scripts with smaller budgets.
Do we have any original movies anymore or are they all just remakes? No, sequels and prequels dont count.
If the studios weren’t locked into contracts with the Writers Guild of America, ChatGPT could spit out the scripts for every major Hollywood production with absolutely no discernible difference in quality.
Videos that pick apart movies are more entertaining than the movies.
ChatGPT could spit out the scripts
Like the AWESOM-O 4000?
*Raises hand
I am posting those all summer. We are on our third new original movie as of next week.
@ Pat:
I swear those writers are probably doing that already at Pixar. Every single one is:
Adults: “We don’t do X in our culture”
Kid: “But I want to do X!”
Adults: “Now that [kid] did X, we see that X is actually great! [kid] has changed the world!”
The Brave Little Toaster… Now there was an excellent, original movie that holds up to this day. And I better not ever see a “live action remake”.
Ricardo Cortez was the ultimate Sam Spade.
And the movie I watched last night, Illegal, was made in 1956 and the third version of the story.
And movies with story.
Rambo has more story than most modern movies, and it’s about a nut who just wants something to eat and to be left alone.
In any case, I had a fine time with no trauma, so this is just one more small step in my personal healing process.
This is good news. I’m glad it worked out and helped.
Makers of lab-grown aka cell-cultured meat have pitched the product as a fix for our food chain’s environmental and humanitarian issues. But it comes with its own baggage—it is expensive to produce, it can’t nail the protein’s texture and it starts “life” as sludge.
And it’s not meat.
Old Guy Music is good.
For those keeping score:
Natives using every part of the animal is an ideal, being respectful of the life taken, averse to waste, and noble savage nonsense.
Pink slime bad because capitalism.
Lab grown meet good in spite of the fact that it is a nutritional nightmare.
Natives cut out the back straps and left the rest unless they needed a hide.
The Sycamore Gap tree trial and Britain’s tyranny of twee
Things appear to be going well in the cradle of the enlightenment.
Even calling them “grooming gangs” is watered down language.
“the first men in the history of England’s ancient legal system to have been jailed for damaging a tree.”
Wut?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Act_1723#Provisions
Justin Trudeau hit hardest.
The same thing happens in the US.
Rapists get parol, paperwork and process crimes get life.
“CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane claimed on Wednesday that he sustained Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from the July 13, 2024, assassination attempt on President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
On “The Chuck Toddcast” podcast, Macfarlane said that had Trump not jumped up triumphantly after getting shot in his right ear, the crowd would have murdered members of the media who were covering the rally, claiming that Trump supporters blamed the press for the assassination attempt and were looking to “kill” reporters.
“For those of us there, it was such a horror because you saw an emerging America. And it wasn’t the shooting, Chuck. I got diagnosed with PTSD within 48 hours,” MacFarlane said. “I got put on trauma leave. Not because, I think, of the shooting, but because you could—you saw it in the eyes, the reaction of the people. They were coming for us. If he didn’t jump up with his fist, they were going to come kill us!”
https://thepostmillennial.com/cbs-news-scott-macfarlane-claims-he-had-ptsd-because-trump-supporters-wanted-to-kill-media-after-butler-pa-assassination-attempt
OFFS!
If Ernie Pyle were alive today, he’d be spinning in his grave.
He’s a “survivor” in the same way David Hogg is. Maybe he’s in line for a DNC gig.
I respond thusly:
https://youtu.be/C051nfAmnU4?si=qeuJyNgeGwzGdOF_&t=108
Interestingly by twisting the assassination attempt on Trump by a lefty lunatic into an ‘example’ of political violence by the right against journalists he is creating the very hate he is whining about. No matter how much you hate journalists, you don’t hate them enough.
He is fully aware of that. That is why he did it.
This x1000.
What a disgusting piece of shit.
Back in my day, reporters were made of sterner stuff. At least the newspaper men were.
“They ain’t human!”
“I know, Molly. They’re newspapermen.”
~His Girl Friday
Pickling yourself in gin has a certain toughening effect, at least on the liver.
Interesting that you would quote a movie that’s a remake. :-p
Interesting that you would quote a movie that’s a remake. :-p
This! The remake thing has been Hollywood standard practice from the first moment they had a library of successful films to remake, and most of those were based on successful books or plays. I think we just notice it more as we get old enough to have lived through multiple versions of movies we saw as kids.
Partially that, and partially that they’re selecting shittier and shittier material to rehash, and doing so for the purpose of shoehorning hamfisted political messages into apolitical material. Remaking a literary classic with new cinematographic techniques and performances 20 years after its prior screen adaptation is a bit lazy, but it’s of a different character than, say, rebooting a capeshit franchise like Spider-Man less than 5 years after the previous trilogy finished showing in theaters with little difference in the film making besides casting racial minorities in key roles.
Is the line in the original?
I have the original movie, but the quality was so bad I stopped watching it.
They were coming for us. If he didn’t jump up with his fist, they were going to come kill us!
Assumes facts not in the evidence.
“Haitian illegal immigrant convicted for raping, impregnating his 14-year-old daughter in Massachusetts at taxpayer funded shelter”
https://thepostmillennial.com/haitian-illegal-immigrant-convicted-for-raping-impregnating-his-14-year-old-daughter-in-massachusetts
That’s a lot of wrong in one headline.
I thought they were raping our dogs.
Saw that yesterday. Deeply fucked up story.
Necklace him.
“Texas legislature approves 17 constitutional amendments for Nov. 4 ballot ”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/legislature-approves-17-constitutional-amendments-nov-4-ballot
Most of them sound like they should be proposed as laws, not constitutional amendments.
Some states, mine for instance, operate that way. Our constitution is our body of law. New laws or changes in laws are all constitutional amendments.
I think Louisiana’s constitution is ridiculously large.
On the plus side when it grows too large we have a constitutional amendment and start over. The last time was 1974. I think we are about due again.
On the one hand I like that, on the other, you’re liable to toss the baby with the bathwater and end up with a shittier constitution each time it’s modernized.
That’s what you get for buying French.
I was thinking the same thing, although some of the ones prohibiting the imposition of new taxes (cap gains; estates; etc) are worth enshrining in the constitution to make it more difficult to reverse when Austin assimilates the rest of the state.
man eats entire pig (55 lbs of meat)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZzHaMeQrFo
I ate a 10 lb ham by myself once, but it took a week.
I pity his restroom facilities
Eternity is two people and a ham.
Rum ham?
Does Batman’s Butler have a besbol team?
“This morning in the wee hours, following approval by the Senate on Thursday night, Republicans in the House of Representatives voted to claw back $9 billion in funding for foreign aid. The bill had been approved by the Senate on Thursday night and will be signed into law by President Donald Trump later today. According to the medical journal Lancet, the funding loss is so catastrophic that it could cause more than 14 million excess deaths by 2030, including over 4.5 million children younger than five.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/18/gops-foreign-aid-vote-will-cost-lives-and-they-dont-care/
PEOPLE WILL DIE!!!!
Money is the magic medicine we all need and deserve
Remember kids, 9 billion dollars is so trivial an amount that it’s not worth cutting, but also so critical that millions will die without it.
It’s Schrodinger’s billions.
I like the assumption that 100% of the dollars go directly to saving lives. Isn’t it one of those open secrets that a lot of “foreign aid” money sent to Africa just ends up in the hands of dictators and warlords?
Which saves the warlord’s life when his supporters get tired of watching him torture, rape, and eat random children and he has to flee to Switzerland.
Since it popped back into my head yesterday, I re-watched The Outlaw last night. what a weird movie. How could you not not like a story about a love triangle between two outlaws and a horse?
Is it like the donkey in Bachelor Party?
Carolyn Jones was not a donkey!
That was a mule.
Two Mules for Sister Sarah?
“Max the Magical Sexual Mule” as I recall.
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrlvVhL35Ws
I looked. It has a dorsal line. So it was a donkey.
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Owen was granted right of first refusal on any freshly dead animal at the London Zoo. His wife once arrived home to find the carcass of a newly deceased rhinoceros in her front hallway.[8]
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Was that wrong? Should I have not done that?
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/create-your-own-thomas-friedman-op-ed-column
Well look at that. Not an article about chili but we made the national news.
Barn find of the day: https://barnfinds.com/long-term-ownership-find-1966-ford-mustang-fastback/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_source=Newsletter+(Daily)&utm_medium=email&utm_sub=848715f32cb47bcba49313580211d258
I am surprised no jackass stuffed a Chevy LT1 in it yet.
This gem is local:
https://barnfinds.com/time-capsule-find-1988-mazda-rx-7/
Going by the comments, this is a scam.
Movies I can think of that had original scripts: Back to the Future, maybe Star Wars?
I’m sure there are more.
It’s like music – it’s not that there isn’t similarities or influences with other bands, but there is a difference between that and every band just rehashing their first album or releasing mediocre covers of the hits.
I’m also glad the game didn’t spark anything nasty. Positive Distraction Dust, baseball is for me. (NHL to a lesser extent.)
I need to more Indianapolis Indians AAA (The Indians! They’re STILL The Indians! (Team feeds the Pirates.)
I went to a Cubs AA game in South Bend that year. That should be repeated and I hope the timing can work out. Will investigate.
The Evansville Otters are also a part of the Frontier League, and Bosse Field was the home of the Racine Belles in A League of their Own. Stadium was built around 1913. Fond, fond memories.
Not competent to carry out Obama’s national security policy
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) issued one of his sharpest rebukes yet of Tulsi Gabbard on Friday, growing increasingly heated as he told an audience at a national security conference that the director of national intelligence isn’t fit for the job and suggested her actions are driving U.S. allies to scale back intelligence sharing with America.
“Tulsi Gabbard is not competent to be the director of national intelligence,” Warner said during a panel at the Aspen Security Forum, as he embarked on a three-minute critique of her performance on the job since she was sworn in in February.
Warner, the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, hasn’t been shy about criticizing Gabbard. He made similar assertions about her competency and his concerns about allies reducing intel sharing in an appearance on an intelligence podcast last month.
But his Friday comments were to a much broader audience and amounted to a wide-ranging assault on the former Democratic lawmaker’s competence and credibility.
Did he call her an affirmative action hire?
“We can’t spy on people as effectively” seems beneficial, to me.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) issued one of his sharpest rebukes yet of Tulsi Gabbard…
I can’t think of anything that would give me even more more confidence that she’s doing a good job.
Why do I have this notion that he was involved in the Russiagate sedition?
As I understand it, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure was a by-the-book script, following some script writing guide that was popular. Things happening at certain page counts and what not.
I am surprised no jackass stuffed a Chevy LT1 in it yet.
Don’t be silly. That needs a V10.
One of the funny things of watching way too much Motortrend TV is that they’ve almost run out of Mustangs and Camaros from the prime muscle car era. So now they try to hype up resto-mods on meh daily drivers and still act like everyone loved those cars back in the day.
I Watched army guys in 06-10 get excited about G bodies.
I mocked them for paying more than $500 for a doner car to drive.
In Friday’s panel discussion, both Coons and Warner also offered sharp criticism of Republicans’ ongoing efforts with the White House to cancel more than $9 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting funding.
“The depth of the cut and the harm to our reputation, I think, is deep and broad, and this rescission has set us on a very, very bad path as an appropriator,” Coons said during the panel.
They’re cutting off a vital slush fund.
The Republicans have nuked civil society
Whenever the party in control of the White House changes, lawmakers seek to undo the previous administration’s agenda. Only this time, the Senate’s debating a $9 billion package shipped to Capitol Hill by former Trump ally Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency.
It’s an effort to enshrine otherwise illegal government-wide cuts — because, constitutionally-speaking, Congress is supposed to hold the nation’s purse strings, not the White House, agencies and un-elected DOGE team members.
Trump has demanded Republicans send him the measure by week’s end — even as veteran Democrats on Capitol Hill predict the political equivalent of nuclear fallout should the GOP pass the measure, thereby upending decades of bipartisanship on such matters in one fell swoop.
“We won’t have the resources and capacity to respond to disasters,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) told Raw Story of likely effects in the realm of foreign policy should the recissions package pass.
It’ll be the death of the Republic.
We are 37,000 billion dollars in debt but we can’t possibly cut 9 billion!
“Whenever the party in control of the White House changes, lawmakers seek to undo the previous administration’s agenda“
Like when the Repubs controlled Congress and the Presidency and repealed ObamaCare?
Whenever it’s slow news week I have a sneaking suspicion there is something big we aren’t hearing about.
Astrology forecast isnt for another hour, so…..
They are working hard to ignore Obama’s involvement in the 2016 deep state attacks on Trump.
Also, still no picture of that letter Trump allegedly sent to Epstein. The WSJ doesn’t have a photographer?
Too much of a good thing?
A cluster of chicken restaurants — it’s now a whopping seven, two of them brand new — are all footsteps from one another in Pompano Beach, on a prominent stretch of Federal Highway.
This past year they’ve stirred plenty of reaction as the tally seemingly keeps growing and growing. Some neighbors cheer. (“I just can’t get enough chicken.”) Some jeer. (“Oh, not another one.”) And some simply question why. (“Why do we need all these chicken places right on top of each other?”)
If there are too many choices, customers will simply bawk.
I’m thinking of starting up an Italian-Chinese-Latin fusion chicken joint. It’ll be called Marco Pollo.
Ah, the Chicken District.
Chinese-Dominican restaurants are a thing.
Grotesque cruelty
The Trump administration on Thursday afternoon officially terminated the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ Youth Specialized Services program, which gave callers under age 25 the option to speak with LGBTQ-trained counselors.
The announcement that the specialized service would be shuttered was made last month by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The agency said it would “no longer silo LGB+ youth services” — notably removing the “T” representing the transgender community — and would instead “focus on serving all help seekers.”
Genocide. Will they provide complimentary razor blades for wrist-slitting?
The Trevor Project are a bunch of groomers.
And 100% based on a lie.
Mayor Karen Bass was on Meet The Press this morning complaining that people in LA have to wash their own cars because the people who work at car washes are afraid to go to work.
They have water now?
She does, the proles don’t, but that’s ok because they can’t afford gas.
Won’t somebody please think of the millions of Americans we pay to sit at home on the couch and get high?
The specialized LGBTQ hotline was rolled out in October 2022, initially as a pilot program, receiving between $29.7 million and $33 million annually, according to SAMHSA. Also known as the “Press 3 option,” the program gave 988 callers the option to “press 3” to connect with a counselor trained to assist lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer youths and young adults (they could also text 988 with the word “PRIDE”). Nearly 1.5 million contacts were routed to the LGBTQ service since its launch, according to data available on the SAMHSA website.
Jobs created or saved.
“An off-duty Border Patrol agent was shot in the face after being robbed by a moped-riding illegal immigrant in a New York City park — but he shot back and wounded his attacker, according to sources.
The 42-year-old off-duty agent and a female companion were sitting on a rock along the Hudson River in Fort Washington Park in Manhattan when they were approached by the two men on a moped around 11:50 p.m., according to police sources.
After a brief exchange and tussle, one of the moped-riding men fired a gun and hit the victim in the face and left forearm….
The man then drew his own pistol and fired multiple shots at the preps, according to the NYPD.
One suspect, a 21-year-old Dominican national who has been in the country illegally since 2023, was struck and wounded three times by the return gunfire, sources said.”
https://nypost.com/2025/07/20/us-news/off-duty-border-patrol-agent-shot-in-face-during-nyc-park-robbery-before-striking-back-and-wounding-one-of-his-attackers/
Impressed he got shot in the face and could still place shots.
“struck and wounded three times by the return gunfire”
Wounded. Not dead before he hit the ground.
This is why my preferred firearm for pest control in a shotgun. Although unfortunately, there are a lot of place you can’t really take one, such as Fort Washington Park.
fired multiple shots at the preps
What, were they wearing Izod slacks and a gingham plaid shirt buttoned all the way up?
It wasn’t just Democrats who criticized the decision to shutter 988’s LGBTQ youth service. At a news conference outside the Capitol on Thursday, Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., joined several of his colleagues from across the aisle to speak out against the program’s termination.
“This lifeline has provided help — it has connected young people with trained professionals who understand what they are going through, and in many cases, it has saved lives,” Lawler said. “Cutting a program that is working, that is meeting a real and growing need, just does not make sense.”
It’s good to see they have hard data to back these claims up.
Speaking of Butler, a friend says there was a guy at the range yesterday talking about some forensic analysis he saw on the internet. Supposedly, some expert sniper/c.s.i type has reconstructed the flight of the bullet from the shooter’s position to Trump’s position, and concluded that the bullet would have missed Trump if he hadn’t turned his head, placing his ear in a position to get ticked by the bullet.
This, of course, contradicts all the “miracle” talk about God causing Trump to turn just at the right instant. Anyone know anything about this?
He kind of leaned to his left as well. That likely saved him.
I don’t know that it matters at all. This sort of talk, like the shot itself, misses the point.
Well, the claim that God made Trump turn his head is nonfalsifiable, so. . . .
St Paul Saints games were great. And I could afford tickets for a family of four.
Plus Bill Murray would randomly show up serving hot dogs in the food booths just ‘cause he’s a quirky guy.