For decades, libertarians and anarchists have been subjected to the same idiotic retort when confronted by someone that finds it laughable people can interact peaceably without the benevolent hand of the state.
“If you hate the government so much, why don’t you just move to Somalia?”
”Somalia isn’t anarchy, its a failed state with warlords in direct competition for control.”
”Yeah but there’s no government….”
On and on it goes where I am assured Somalia is my ideological happy land…but today, Somalia has the last laugh.
¡enlaces!
Is the Orange Man being obstinate? Why not just negotiate around him? Good luck, Canada.
I old enough to remember when the Mexican Batman was called Zorro.
Bolsonaro sentenced to house arrest by order of the Brazilian Supreme Court. At this point, I’m just wondering if Brazil has some kind of island they can just let him live for the remainder of his life. Like Napoleon. Seems more reasonable that subjecting that judge to OFAC sanctions and your industries to a 50% tariff. Its going to be tough, because where am I going to find a US based alternative to jackfruit?
The Deftones…are back! Although they do hit differently when you’re not in high school.
Somebody has to take down Mexican Joker.
/calls Butters
Mantaquilla!!!
Pours one out for the late Chi Cheng.
I like jackfruit, but it is a lot of work to get the edible parts out.
Not with a can opener.
I thought Zorro was Joaquin Murrieta.
No, he’s Anthony Hopkins.
That doesn’t work with Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker. It would be like two magnets that cannot touch each other.
You misspelled “Tyrone Power”.
What seemed like the umpteenth twist on the character’s universe — nothing less than a Mexican bat-man during the Conquest period in the animated film Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires, scheduled for release in September — has become the subject of debate about historical memory in cultural products.
I’m tapping out. That’s enough stupid for the day.
Saw a couple comments on twitter – but not sure if actually from folks who watched it – saying that Aztec batman actually beats (kills?) the Aztec priests (who sacrificed his parents or something…) and lets the Spanish into Tenochtitlan – which would actually be somewhat based…
I have a hard time believing they’d actually let that plot go through with the modern corporate media culture and the lead time on these sorts of productions.
“The human sacrifices will stop!”
Which is a good thing.
Maybe I should give the article another try, but I’m not. Instead I’m going to walk away from the computer and go make myself regret life decisions by going to the gym at peak post-work rush hour.
“Hispanophobic”
OFFS 🙄
I wonder if the other pigeonholes objected to their Batmans… actually, no. IDGAF.
Didn’t know they had jackfruit in Latin America – I only ever had it in Indonesia. Got some frozen ones at walmart in VA once (don’t remember the brand…maybe Dole?) – or maybe at the commissary. Been a couple years.
Publix sold jackfruit for a while. I can’t recall the last time I saw some. Now we get it from Lotte in Richmond.
Lot of places sell it in cans. Trader Joe’s for example.
Moaner
Now President Trump has announced that he will “modernize” (which must mean demolish) the East Wing and replace it with a huge, gaudy ballroom. At 90,000 square feet, the ballroom will dwarf the West Wing and even the residence. Naturally it will be adorned in white and gold (to get a flavor, have a look at the way Trump has decorated the Oval Office). This permanent disfigurement will solve a problem that doesn’t exist. When the president entertains more people than can comfortably fit in the East Room (about 200), tents are erected on the lawn complete with floors and walls. But Trump is dissatisfied with the historic building that was good enough for Lincoln and Eisenhower and Reagan. Ladies’ high heels sink into the grass, he says, explaining why he has also paved over the Rose Garden.
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[insert catalogue of atrocities]
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This presidency is a repudiation of the republican principles of our founding. Trump is a walking wrecking ball of law, tradition, civility, manners, and morals. Many visitors to the nation’s capital won’t know or understand much of that damage. But starting now with the paving of the Rose Garden, and coming soon with the construction of a garish ballroom, they will see a physical representation of a low and shameful time. The once graceful executive mansion will be transformed into something tasteless and embarrassing. It will be both awful and fitting.
He should tear it down and build a thirty story building with Presidential Quarters in the penthouse.
According to the article, the East Wing was built in 1909. I’m not sure how Lincoln fits in.
As far as paving the Rose Garden, it would be more in accordance with the majesty of the place to transport the Great Ladies across the grass in palanquins.
I’d rather leave well enough alone as I don’t care much about how many people can be entertained at the White House, but there’s a certain irony to the party that labels itself “progressive” is constantly looking to enshrine status quo into law whether it be in terms of climate which apparently is the most perfect climate that has ever existed in the entirety of our planet’s history to rents to the composition of and buildings that exist within various neighborhoods.
He should turn the press room back into a pool.
Go back into the swamp, Mona – you’re drunk.
Polluters
Canada is experiencing its second-worst wildfire season on record, according to government data. There have been nearly 4,000 fires recorded already this calendar year.
Exposure to wildfire smoke is a growing health problem across the country, as human-caused climate change increases the risk and intensity of wildfires and the smoke that can drift thousands of miles downwind from them.
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May-Lin Wilgus, a pulmonologist and professor at UCLA, compares breathing wildfire smoke to smoking cigarettes — a lot of cigarettes.
Scientists track air quality with the air quality index, or AQI, which incorporates different pollution sources like ozone and fine particulates. Many scientists don’t think there’s a “safe” AQI level because the measurement doesn’t capture many harmful pollutants, but under 50 is often considered acceptable. Higher numbers indicate more health-damaging pollution in the air.
The EPA should fine Canada 99 trillion dollars a day.
They are never going to quit are they? An endless parade of hobgoblins.
Now do blunts. Oh, they’re in favor of that now.
Carry on.
He should turn the press room back into a pool.
And stock it with alligators and piranhas.
There are no good guys in that story. The Spaniards were bad but they were light years better than the Stone Age death cult they found here. What happened to the Aztecs was better than they deserved.
My hatred for the Aztecs is not reserved for them. Such Stone Age cannibal death cults existed in nearly every place man has occupied at one time or other.
I feel poor.
I know I deliberately locked away my liquidity, so I have no cash.
I know I’ll get paid next week, but I’m getting flashbacks to when I was stressed out by swimming in debt. I’m not, I owe $950 on my credit card, which goes away on payday. (Damn car repairs).
I know I live within my means. That doesn’t shake the irrational “I have no money” feeling of the checking account being just about empty.
I do not like this feeling.
🙁
I like carrying around a few bucks, in case…Small purchases, restaurant tips, etc. I get cash about once every 4-6 weeks. Pay off the credit card monthly. I kind of like using someone else’s money interest free.
What’s the penalty for early withdrawal?
If the shit hits the fan that’s what you have access to. Use that amount to calm yourself.
I’m not suggesting dong unless you were forced, of course. I hate having no liquidity so I keep more in checking than I should.
I can convert $7,500 for $0 (minimum balance to avoid monthly fees, change the account type by visiting the bank to a non-interest bearing account, $0 to change account type)
If I take out of the CD the fee is $50+182 days of interest.
I feel the same way.
Incited a $1600 HVAC repair. Replaced the $700 motor as a precaution. I should have tested each winding but I had too much on my
Plate so I hired it out.
Oh that reminds me, I need to check on my IRA rollover. Thanks.
Put $4 or $5k in your safe and another $1-2k in your pockets. Maybe you’ll sleep easier. Or not.
I don’t carry more than $200 in cash unless I’m specifically moving the money to somplace immediately.
“Just maybe like 10 years ago, wildfire was an exceptional issue. It was something that happens once in a lifetime for most people,” he says.
But climate change has increased the chance of wildfires across many parts of the country and the intensity of many of the burns themselves and the smoke they produce.
He claimed, without evidence.
About 70 years ago I got a day’s pay (buck an hour) for walking around with a shovel, throwing dirt on any sparks or embers that were in free fall, from the forest fire. It was small as FF go but we had a crew of about 15-20 volunteers, watching, with shovels at the ready.
I didn’t realize we were getting paid ’til I got an 8 buck check, someone had came around getting names…
Now see, when you make false claims about objectively verifiable things….oh fuck what is the use?
I remember the worstester than ever in history forest fires all over NA in the ’70s….multiple ones every year. I wonder how forest management figures into this. I do know this guy is lying his ass off.
Bullshit. The boreal forest burns. That’s what it does.
Combine a wet spring (to create more fuel) with a hot dry summer (to dry out the fuel), you get lots of forest fires.
It happens regularly. Everyone CTFD.
I know I live within my means. That doesn’t shake the irrational “I have no money” feeling of the checking account being just about empty.
I do not like this feeling.
A guy likes to have a little walking-around money.
A little? Most of the mugging or car break in reports in Philly area would seem to indicate the victims carry around $400 to $1000 (per their reports to the cops).
That used to be a lot of money but a monthly trip to Walmart can be a real surprise. Borrow someone else’s money for that, repay at EOM.
My dad used to keep 2K on him, as you never knew when you cam across someone letting some guns go.
He also drove a POS Nissan truck with 300K on the clock, while dressing like a bum.
Those are the guys who have cash. Guys driving a Mercedes SUV have credit cards.
the victims carry around $400 to $1000
With inflation, that gets you, what? A Big Mac meal?
LCDR_Fish: If ya don’t see on your submission, thanks for that fantastic article.
Your pics are spectacular and so are the descriptions. Venus at the end… well damn. That highlights the end of a walk. Preferably with comely lass in arm. (Would gallivant.)
They are experts with no influence from others that provide health goods and services.
RFK Jr. may be on the verge of dismantling U.S. preventive health care
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/05/rfk-preventive-services-task-force/
https://archive.fo/tuDFf
Because what we’ve been doing has worked so well.
+1 obesity and diabetes rates
Doctors are dunces. There is no way they can figure out what is in a patient’s best interest on their own.
Preventive health care is how the medical-industrial complex makes money off of people who aren’t sick.
Yup!
Also, may I interest you in a Medicare Advantage plan?
https://www.wsj.com/business/unitedhealth-doj-medicare-billing-investigation-8d56800d?st=A3QgAT&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Bingo! I am cautiously optimistic that AI will help identify the absurd number of “null” tests, medical visits, other treatments, etc.
Just out of curiosity, I looked for “Historical average treasury return” earlier.
The answer I got was 4.25% on the ten year (which sounds probable, anyway). But we need to get it back below 2%, for reasons.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DGS10
Volcker liked 20% in ’81, my home loan was 8.25 from ’75. I started putting my meager savings into a Savings and Loan at 18 %.
And inflation back to zero.
/Stifles laugh
I’m at a rather odd, and oddly positive, point in my life. TPTB: I would like to make an additional edit, but is it possible to post my submission ahead of schedule? Midday on a weekday is preferable, as I’d be around to return-comment if warranted. (I can edit it on the dashboard and it doesn’t fuck things up, eh?)
With that piece and other thoughts, I’m beginning to realize *my* story is the one I should be writing. I don’t have whole direction yet, but I’m mostly unsure of how to pose it, and what its structure might be. What *point* it may have is crucial, if I ‘discover’ it. (How to combine my medical adventures with my professional and geographic ones, is a primary investigation.)
I feel I need to talk about it, cuz I do think this should really be an objective of mine. Making sure nothing I say sounds therapeutic is also important, though that’s certainly something I’m getting out of it.
There are so many stories, and Dad agrees with me, they’re to be written down. Shared with Glibs and family, if nothing else. (I kinda think I can reach a bigger audience, however. That would be nice.)
if it is still pending you can go back in, edit it and hit submit again.
I’ll pass the request along, but offer no guarantees or warranties.
And as R.J. says, as long as it’s not scheduled, you should be able to edit it without issue.
As of now it’s scheduled, but honestly I’m not concerned anymore.
I will edit it, but no need to change the timing (though midday would help others, methinks).
I’m taking the edited piece with me to Voca Rehab tomorrow to show him my chops, along with Tribune and Glibs submissions.
I’m disappointed that Aztec Batman isn’t directed by Senor Spielbergo.
Mexican Batwoman was a honey.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T0_oBiy9vDs
🤣
Just got an email from Nintendo – I can now pre-order a Switch 2.
A bit late fore reelase day delivery.
Maybe the first batch sold out?
Maybe.
But since I didn’t hear from them before the release date, I got one retail. The price was the same either way.
Preventive health care is how the medical-industrial complex makes money off of people who aren’t sick.
How else will they be able to afford the machine that goes “ping”?
greatest comedy genius’ in history. Insightful and just the right amount of irreverence in pointing out that everything is ridiculous.
Doctors and nurses that are dressed for the job instead of looking like they were summoned from a dive bar. The good olde days.
Now see, when you make false claims about objectively verifiable things…
At the same time, they will happily throw around assertions about historical trends or events for which absolutely no records exist.