Sloopy and Banjos are off auctioning things. As far as I know, not the name of their next daughter. How the hell are y’all? I’ve been far too absent. One day, my shit will slow down. Probably about 2 years from now when all of my kids can reliably dress, feed, and wipe themselves 100% of the time. But enough about the 11 year old, here’s some links!
I’m going to piss a lot of people off, but I can’t help it… Begun, the Drone Wars have.
I hope RFK, jr. responds with: “You first”
On the one hand, they’re murderers, on the other hand, as long as nobody adopts them, the Menendez brothers are probably at low risk of repeating their crime.
Holy shit, I find myself agreeing with a columnist from The Atlantic
Today’s musical selection earwormed me a couple weeks ago, and now you can have it
At least it’s not a Harry Potter reference I don’t get.
It’s a reference I don’t get.
But I find it amusing that the MSM is going apeshit over the fact that, huh, a war is still going on.
s/Dr/Cl/
https://scatteredquotes.com/begun-clone-war/
If only we could send them to the front lines.
Yeah, I figured it was from some movie that doesn’t exist.
You’d really take umbridge at that, hmm?
Morning, Ba…. Brett
How I picture Brett every time he does morning links…
“the Menendez brothers are probably at low risk of repeating their crime.”
LOL
Did they plead mercy because they were orphans?
Cloning technology has advanced since their crimes …
While their first victims were their parents, murder for personal gain is a repeatable crime.
Paywalled Atlantic article:
https://archive.is/ICVJ3
I was able to see the headline, and that’s all that matters.
“At the same time, I understood the compulsion of Oliver’s parents, still processing their profound grief, to do anything in their power to preserve their son’s memory and to make meaning out of senseless violence. How could I possibly judge the loss that leads Oliver’s mother to talk to the chatbot for hours on end, as his father described to Acosta—what could I do with the knowledge that she loves hearing the chatbot say “I love you, Mommy” in her dead son’s voice?”
That doesn’t sound healthy.
It isn’t. Shut the machine off and get the woman help.
The really sad thing? This very idea (using recordings to build a virtual representation of a deceased loved one) was used in a fucking Max Headroom episode. Forget life imitating Black Mirror, can we not imitate 80’s sci-fi television?
Each person processes grief in their own way. This isn’t healthy for any human being.
I will say, they hoisted their dead child up for political and social clout years ago and felt the need to somehow feel that dopamine hit againg with this stunt and because of those actions, will never be able to properly grieve their child.
But… ’80s sci-fi TV was awesome.
*upvotes NA’s comment*
“That doesn’t sound healthy.”
No shit. It sounds scary to me.
The AI thing…good grief. As for the judge that let an AI resurrected murder victim testify at his murderer’s …trial? hearing? ….whatever, that person needs to be off the bench and both he and the defense attorney disbarred.
AI is here and it is going to make us all unemployed. Of that I have no doubt.
I talked to my son about this. He has 4 employees so it takes 5 people to run his company. I asked him how many he would have to have if there were no AI. He started thinking and counting on his fingers…..fifteen.
I think People, l nearly everything else, do not understand what AI is.
Speaking of ’80s sci fi and AI clones, I haven’t seen many complaints about people going full Barkley/LaForge and making pr0nclones of real people’s personalities.
If any of you have read Neuromancer, and I bet most of you have, you will remember the Dixie Flatline, a AI type construct made from a dead mans memories.
It wanted to be deleted, and I think that was the most prescient thing Gibson ever wrote.
Speaking of RFK Jr
It’s wonderful that we have reached a point where my trust in the medical establishment is so unbelievably low that I trust RFK, who I am under no illusions about, he is a nutjob of the first water, more than the CDC or AMA. That is not to say that I trust him to be right about anything, but I think I have a marginally better chance of finding nuggets of truth in his tinfoil hat rantings than in the outright lies I now expect from the CDC.
Same.
They are no more trustworthy or believable than any other part of the government blob that has been stuck in the swamp for decades.
Preach, brother.
Dis fuggin guy wanted to jail “climate deniers” but he seems to be right (or less wrong) on this issue.
‘climate deniers’ <— I dont know what that means. Is that like 'Santa Klaus deniers'? They believe climate doesnt exist? Is it like 'you cant scare me into surrendering my money and liberty' ? I think it is probably more like the second one
I only received the first paragraph but the headline seems solid. It’s certainly deluding the programmer world.
Given it has all the talent, skill and depth of stackoverflow.com — I personally don’t get it. But I just have to ride it out another 10 or so years hopefully… then I can retire to become a Walmart greeter or something. Or pick up cans at the side of the road with the rest of humanity.
This.
But I hope the next new shiny thing that sucks all the oxygen out of the room is more interesting than this one.
Typical stackoverflow:
Q: How do I do this under these constraints?
A: Ignoring those constraints, here is how you do that.
Given the way they seem to try new combinations, I think the next big shiny will be the “AI of things.” Your thermostat will read 6 exabytes of reddit and salon articles and refuse to turn the ac on.
Your thermostat will read 6 exabytes of reddit and salon articles and refuse to turn the ac on.
“I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that.”
This is whybI refused my new “free” wifi thermostat when I got our AC replaced last year. The installer agreed. Also, just got a new sprinkler controller last week “do you want wifi?” “No, I want to water when I want to, not when someone says I can.”
This is whybI refused my new “free” wifi thermostat when I got our AC replaced last year.
That’s okay, the next time the Dems get power they will eliminate non-wifi thermostats so you’ll have no choice. To save Gaia.
I’m not telling IoT shit my wifi password.
I’m not telling IoT shit my wifi password.
When I do a WiFI scan I see a couple IoT devices begging for a conversation.
But algorithmic web-scrapers with built in summarization of results will surely usher in a post scarcity world! The whole theory of AI seems to my limited knowledge to be:
1. Read every post on Reddit really really fast
2. Average said posts using weightings programmed in by the kind of people who used to hang out in Barrens chat
3.??????
4. Profit
Step 3 is either “Turn over finances” or “Turn over life” to the LLM. Then generate stories about how well it’s going.
Solid WoW reference
Chuck Norris once made such a reference, that’s why it’s now known as WoW, before that it was known as MeH
So, it’s Imitation Intelligence. AKA Bullshit
Seems to be no shortage
I put it a bit differently.
Why do we want to make more brains? We have so many unused ones laying around….
This is exactly why i use Hal 9000 as my avatar at work. And i am stunned how many computer geeks over 40 that i work with have no idea what it is.
Bloat – it’s not just for algorithms anymore.
That’s sad
Based on the VAERS stats, even though they were falsely minimized, RFK Jr. is probably correct. Good to know the usual suspects are still promoting the false narrative of covid vaccine safety and efficacy.
Follow the Silenced is an award-winning independent film, alive with evidence, which gives a much-needed voice to heavily censored covid vaccine victims.
If he isn’t… I’m more than a little curious what hell potion was already out there.
Item the 1st
Item the 2nd
Who has been spreading misinformation? You lie to us for 5 years – probably more like 50 years – and then expect a whiny, bitchy letter complaining, essentially, that the Emperor’s wardrobe has been exposed to convince me of… anything? Fuck off.
ABC News should go ahead and tell us which vaccine is the deadliest ever made. “Er, um…. All vaccines are equally not deadly at all.”
lolwut?
“But I assure you that Winnie’s intent was purely innocent. In the Chinese culture, money is often given to others in a gesture of friendship and gratitude.”
Oh, of course. Multi-culti FTW!
I can hear Mamdami measuring the curtains from here.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/20/us-news/top-eric-adams-advisor-winnie-greco-busted-for-handing-city-reporter-a-bag-of-chips-stuffed-with-cash/
That sounds like an early Law & Order episode with a corrupt councilman (it is so cliche…)
That is a thing in my culture as well! Can I get one of those bags of chips?
You too?
It’s such laughably transparent bullshit even by the standards of corrupt NYC politics.
Normalizing rape-gangs by normalizing smaller, ‘its a culture’ things.
My culture involved the riutalized flensing and disemboweling of rapists and people who protect rapists. We’ll clean up the blood, we’re just not finished yet.
I’m pretty sure both rape and bribery are native to all cultures. It’s the odd idea of punishing them that used to set Western European culture apart.
We need more Charles James Napier, “Let us all act according to our customs.”
*Dianne Wilkerson waves hi*
These are the kind of titties Amy Klobuchar likes.
Mormon women can wear new sacred undergarments. Some wonder: Why now?
Book your Utah vacation for some Mormon shoulder sightings.
I’ll guess OnlyFans.
We need a new religion whose sacred female undergarments bring back the garter belt and stockings. But which discourages piercings anywhere but the earlobes.
And also discourages tats, stop with the tats already.
Maybe that religion that likes offerings of Irn Bru can help you out.
But why garter belts? They reduce the attractiveness of the wearer.
Start your own sex cult! This one’s mine.
Now I’m missing my youth.
Thanks (((Jarflax
Down with the False Prophet Jarflax!
Burn the Blasphemer!
My youth was in the 70s and 80s, but somehow neither aqua-net, nor bell bottoms fill me with nostalgia. The 80s, when touching your date’s hair was like stroking a bale of hay.
I wish to subscribe to your newsletter, especially if there will be pictures.
So Jarflax is saying that if black women use massive amounts of Aquanet then whites won’t want to feel their hair any more?
Now I’m missing my youth
Of course, your youth correspondent to the era of the bullet bra.
I’ve got some land in Scotland that might interest you.
The mormon moms that were running a consentual sex club like it was Mary Kay?
I’m glad they’re no longer expected to wear used sacred undergarments.
We still get the Provo Push right?
Speaking of AI
““If Republicans are gonna have beautiful girls with perfect t-tties in their ads, we want ads for Democrats too, you know?” the deepfake version of Klobuchar said, eerily mirroring the senator’s voice and vocal style.
“We want ugly, fat bitches wearing pink wigs and long-ass fake nails being loud and twerking on top of a cop car at a Waffle House because they didn’t get extra ketchup, you know?” the video continued.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/20/us-news/klobuchar-sets-record-straight-she-never-said-sydney-sweeney-had-perfect-t-tties/
LOLOL
Need a second opinion from Gov Tim, unless he’s busy getting ready for hunting season…
By the time he manages to load his shotgun, Hunting Season will be over.
They really selected the perfect picture of Amy for that article…
Speaking of twerking…
https://x.com/atensnut/status/1958218919120089288
Are they wearing shower caps? Is that the new thing?
Sadly no Zwak
At least it’s not our flappy-headed muppet’s stomping grounds.
https://archive.is/FBRZV
Either take up arms now or forever be the serfs you’ve always will be.
Also, how true is it that ‘most’ wildfires are human caused…cause that sound like bullshit
So, your friends and relatives are forbidden from hiking on your own property.
Wow. Serfs indeed.
Assumes that some of us would have friends or relatives that would visit us…
Is crucifying leftist politicians on the banned list?
Best part is all the exemptions Nova Scotia allows….like large firework displays
Huh, rifle hunting isn’t on that list…
Geocaching, orienteering, and parkour aren’t banned!
Those are the King’s forests! The peasantry is not allowed!
They did the same thing in California when we were having a lot of fires a few years ago. The justification was that all the people who could fight fires were busy already, so if a new one started up, they’d be truly screwed. It caused the cancelation of a bike race I was going to do, but the air was so smoky I probably wouldn’t have done it anyway.
Finally, a smart solution for downtown L.A.’s empty skyscrapers
LA has a housing shortage. LA office vacancy is at 28%. Convert offices to housing. But office to housing conversions face many problems making them costly.
Or, or, hear me out – Let the city die.
This is the new trend? Progressive cities are dying, so let’s turn offices into apartments? That’s going to cost a lot more than they think it will…
That’s been happening since Covid. My Dad got forced out of the office he had occupied since the early 1960s because the Mercantile Library Building was becoming the Mercantile Apartments. It demoralized him to an extent that I will always consider a major factor in his decline and death.
If it was really a good idea, private developers would have done it.
(((Jarflax:
We’re behind the trends up here in the CLE. We’re still in the tearing down old warehouses and single tenant houses for fancy, overpriced condos. We’re even still waiting for the Sherwin Williams new headquarters to open! It was announced to be opening in 20
232425!Private developers have been doing it in NYC for decades. The problem for the MSM is that it can never deliver the “affordable housing” they want to stuff their homeless into.
Private developers have stupid ideas as well. The difference is government gets to keep trying the same ones and private developers have one and then go broke.
Private developers have been doing it in NYC for decades.
I’m aware, I was referring to the stupid “adult dorms” idea.
Boarding houses were adult dorms, weren’t they?
WTF:
You mean boarding houses/flophouses? If they were serious about bringing those back, I’d be on board.
Boarding houses/flophouses were never converted high-rises. It would be too expensive for the concept to work.
But actual flophouses/boarding houses were just fine.
Same concept but now with millions of dollars worth of subsidies/graft.
Win-win!
Something tells me it would violate a bunch of codes, codes no man would want to bear.
Gosh, how come nobody has thought of this before??
So like growing up in a 1 bathroom home with older siblings? And taking turns washing dishes? Yeah, right
Just gut each floor and let the druggies and bums set up their tents wherever they want to.
*Karen Bass enters the chat
Needs more tire fires.
Am I reading this right? Is the undertone of this article talking about shoving the homeless into dorms in skyscrapers shoulder to shiulder with businesses? That would be epic if you aren’t the one who has to deal with the world’s largest shooting gallery while trying to get work done and hope to arrive home from said job with your catalytic converter still attached to your car.
….while watching the shooting gallery across the street go up in flames.
Sounds like “tenements.”
I’ll also add that they are basically advocating for the SRO’s they banned a decade ago.
“A serial child rapist in Louisiana has been sentenced to surgical and chemical castration after pleading guilty to the attempted rape of a 7-year-old girl, according to authorities and reports….
McCartney, 37, agreed to the surgical and chemical castration and will also serve 40 years in prison under the plea deal, the outlet said.
Louisiana has become the first state where judges can order offenders guilty of certain sex crimes against children to undergo surgical castration under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry last year.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/20/us-news/serial-sex-offender-who-tried-to-rape-7-year-old-agrees-to-be-castrated-in-plea-deal/
That’s nuts.
Question – is the surgical castration a full emasculation, or just snipping a few tubes?
In (((Jarflaxtopia it is performed with a 12 gauge from about 8 feet away.
By the father of said child
“Tennis star Sachia Vickery serves up defense of OnlyFans account, charging men $1K for dates as US Open kicks off: ‘Easiest money I’ve ever made’
The American and 559th-ranked player divulged that she’s also an adult content creator on OnlyFans and the experience has been life-changing.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/20/sports/tennis-star-sachia-vickery-serves-up-defense-of-onlyfans-account-charging-men-1k-for-dates-as-us-open-kicks-off/
I love how this is under “Sports/Tennis”
If she’s ranked 559, she’s not a “tennis star”.
I think she’s been higher – I’ve definitely seen her play in a few tournaments.
Ugly whores make money too.
News at 11.
It’s an old racket, but it serves a need. I don’t fault her for this backhand way of making a living from love for all.
I wonder, what’s her net?
Droopy in the middle, been used over the years with minimal maintenance to her court.
Yeah but dat ass tho.
Take advantage when you can.
Serving Love/1,000,000+.
I love how you keep reposting all these OnlyFans ads.
You can earn $3997.58 a week just posting links in your spare time! My cousin’s sister in law’s hairdresser started doing this and now he drives a Bugatti!
“My shit will slow down”
It won’t
I’m having a colonoscopy this morning. Hopefully I got all of my shit done. Also, the anesthesiologist had better not wake me up in the middle of the procedure this time. Or kill me like the one that was there for my ankle replacement almost dis.
I am glad I’m on the 10 year plan. Prep sucks.
Prep sucks
Why do want the gays to get AIDS?
Yes Ted. Yes.
My dad recently had a colonoscopy and declined anesthesia. He was in the Navy at one point though.
Sodomy, rum, and the lash?
They wouldn’t let me have anesthesia, since there wouldn’t be an adult at my side for the next 24 hours.
I might have to hire an adult next time. I don’t have one handy here.
But the US Navy never got into the cannibalism craze light the Brits.
I decline the anesthesia as well.
Why incur additional risk – though admittedly very small – and require someone else to come pick you up for basically no reason? Embarrassment? Comfort? Bah, a Jedi craves not these things.
Plus, it’s kind of interesting to watch the screen, especially if the Dr. explains what they are seeing.
Putrid: So it’s not painful?
I’ve had multiple biopsies in the last year that had me screaming in agony. If it’s anything less than that, sounds like no biggie.
So it’s not painful?
Not really. One sort of uncomfortable “pinch” sensation as they went around a particularly sharp corner, but no real pain. I do have a high pain tolerance in general and a stoic disposition wrt pain though, so mileage may vary.
I do find the process interesting scientifically and I’d be lying if I said that making sure the diagnosis and treatment/follow-up recommendations were reasonable/on point was not a (small) part of the calculus.
Good luck, hopefully YOUR prep went as expected.
These pipes are clean.
I love the anesthesia when I had mine. Best nap I’d had in years.
Carnival Cruise Lines…Spirit Airlines of the sea.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/20/us-news/wild-footage-captures-massive-carnival-cruise-ship-brawl-that-erupted-over-chicken-tenders/
Also, I know white folk can melee just as stupidly as black folk, but are they just smarter to not video it?
You need to meet some of your neighbors. Dumb hilljacks will record themselves doing dumb shit all the time. Usually involving alcohol, drugs, explosives, firearms, barnyard animals, or any combination of the five.
I meant melees.
I know my kind will film us swinging on the business end of a front loader like its the county fair’s premeir ride.
Anvil launching comes immediately to mind.
I worked at a bar on Calhoun Street (border street for UC’s campus) called Mr. K’s. We had more or less nightly brawls between the fine denizens of Northern Kentucky and each other, or UC students, or on one especially rowdy occasion the entire UC football team, but this was before ubiquitous cameras. I once watched a gentleman from Florence KY bite the ear off a guy because he was so frustrated that his cast (he had broken his hand in another fight earlier that week) interfered with punching. I also once watched a bouncer, who was a powerlifter, straight arm lift a kid and punch him down a flight of concrete exterior stairs, and it sure looked like he didn’t touch until the bottom. We all thought he was dead. It was a running joke that last call was announced by pepper spraying the entire crowd.
It wasn’t over chicken tenders, it was over 2am chicken tenders.
Can you imagine what would happen if Waffle Houses had deep fryers?
Just one more reason you couldn’t pay me to go on a cruise.
You need an inside man
AI is a misnomer that certainly isn’t intelligent but it does kick ass as a search engine if you have the sense to take the results as suspect. With the enshittification of everything from Google to DuckDuckGo it’s a godsend for finding stuff but that’s about it.
Well, thats cause you understand what it isnt. Majority do not and for real you can bet all the LLM companies want to keep it that way.
Thinking of it, it was a marketting ploy of great success.
Companies really arent doing anything new with “AI”. But changing from jargon based terms like “running through the algorithms” its “AI powered” and people gobble that shit up
OBE:
AI is the latest internet gold rush.
Early explorers found big gold nuggets just lying around. It was easy and profitable. This is the stage where the new tech can be applied to situations where it does good things for cheap and gets results.
When word gets out, everyone rushes in and tries to get rich. By this time though, the easy gold nuggets are gone and you have to work a mine to get results. Still profitable, but the returns are diminishing.
The last phase is when the naïve show up to get in on the action. By this time all the profitable claims are taken. The boom town is starting to get organized. The only people who are really making any money at this point are the folks selling equipment and hope to the rubes who are just showing up. That is where AI is now. The only people making money are the consultants helping companies integrate AI into their processes.
This is when – during the IoT boom – people started connecting their washing machine to the internet. Not because it made any sense but because some consultant told Maytag that only IoT enabled washing machines would ever be sold in the future and they had better get cracking.
My last job we were pretending to do AI (we did a little integration with Chat GPT, but mostly it was the same old sql queries) so that we could tell our customers that we were a cutting edge platform.
Our company bought a new “AI powered” phone system. I got a little excited because a lot of the phone calls I make are absolute boilerplate, and they often involve just answering prompts on automated menus until I get the info I need. Perfect application for AI.
Nope, AI will not actually take any rote monkey-work tasks off my plate. It just transcribes the phone calls (poorly) and gives a summary (with inaccuracies).
It also flagged some of my calls for “swearing” because it mis-transcribed something as “ho”, and on another occasion I said “oh crap” when I pushed the wrong button on an automated menu.
That’s a good description. It’s a great search engine wrapped in a human-like interface, and I’m fine with that.
Ask Jeeves 3.0
invisible finger:
Astalavista (link is to wiki, so as safe as a wiki link generally is) returns?
The chatbot, which was built with the full cooperation of Oliver’s parents to advocate for gun control, responds like a press release: “We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections, making sure everyone feels seen.” It offers bromides such as “More kindness and understanding can truly make a difference.”
Carnival sideshow spiritualism. A seance for the amazement of the mouthbreathing rubes.
See how far we’ve come.
The only people that get a pass on crazy are people who have lost a child. It seems especially bad with people whose child has been shot.
Dont expect anything rational from them and dont condemn them. Most of all, do not follow their policy recommendations.
On the ‘we need more peace and love’ bit. We just spent the last 5 million years evolving alongside a dozen or so other species of hominids all of whom were fucking scary as hell monsters. They were eating each other and they were eating us. It was a two way street and we are the ones who won out. In fact there are still people in the world today that will be happy to put you on a spit.
We have it in us to be empathetic, to love and to care but dont forget what is lurking under the surface and dont expect a world of unicorns and rainbows any time soon.
In fact there are still people in the world today that will be happy to put you on a spit.
Why are you bringing the Hawk-tuah gal into this?
Yep. You have every right to grieve and get a little crazy. But if you start publicly advocating for laws to be imposed on the rest of us, just be aware that you’re stepping into a boxing ring, and nobody is obligated to go easy on you. If you’re not emotionally prepared to hear that your ideas are fucking dumb, just keep your political opinions private until you recover.
Cootie bug vaccines: There are a lot of people fucking around with things they should not be fucking around with. That is how we got the cooties to start with. That is how we got the not-vaccines. There is no small crossover between those people and evil malthusian nutters.
Listen carefully: THERE ARE NO MOSQUITOES HERE. NONE. ZERO. THAT IS NOT NORMAL.
It isn’t just not normal, It is wildly abnormal. I have lived here all of my life. There have never been no mosquitoes. They are present year round and absolutely relentless. I went out to put out bird seed right at sunup this morning. It is hot, humid and the air wasn’t moving. Any other august since the beginning of time that five minutes would have gotten me two or three bites while I helicopter my arms for five minutes. This morning…nothing. It is fucking weird. I cannot think of a single reason that none of the 5000 species of mosquitoes would all be gone. One or two species due to drought or some other weather anomaly maybe. But all of them? Something weird is going on but I have no idea what it is and no one seems to be curious.
Why do you have to make me want more mRNA vaccines? If you tell me they’ll eradicate ticks I’ll get on board the mandate train.
There has been efforts in the past to weaponize ticks by infecting them with….stuff. There is even strong evidence that that is how we got Lyme’s disease but I think that is unlikely. What if some pathogen was introduced to the mosquito and rather than turn it into a disease vector it made them sterile?
Plenty of mosquitoes here. Little bastards too.
Funny, it’s the same in Texas this year. I thought maybe it was because of my move south of DFW. Not a single bite this year.
Mosquitoes are way down here in Minnesoda too.
It has been a great summer for growing stuff, but apparently no the skeeters. Wet and warm. You should be able to make a sandwich out of them by simply slapping two pieces of bread together.
Can’t say I am disappointed, but I am also worried about down stream events. What are the bats going to do if they don’t have their favorite snack around? They gonna get a taste for humans?
I don’t think I’ve seen one all summer here, either. Usually that’s an indication of a late cold snap that kills them off, or a really dry spell, but I don’t remember that happening.
We had a long dry spell here in August that had local news writing stories about the poor mosquitos, while pointing out that their eggs could lie dormant for months (or years) waiting for a rain to hatch. It’s been raining the past couple of days. I expect swarms this weekend.
Suthen, same here.
We always had the reputation of Skeeterville for a reason. In years gone by I couldn’t prime the pump (no euphemism) because the mosquitoes would be so thick I couldn’t hold a jug of water long enough to fill the pump.
I see one a day, some days, always seems to be young, small ones. What ever the cause, I’m loving it.
“DC’s Hoagie Hero is a decorated veteran. Trump & Co. don’t care
Sean Dunn fought fascism with a Subway sandwich — and there’s more to his story…
However, the government’s latest overreach — bringing a federal felony assault charge against Sean Dunn for throwing a submarine sandwich at an immigration enforcement agent in Washington, D.C. — is beyond the pale.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/08/21/dcs-hoagie-hero-is-a-decorated-veteran-trump-co-dont-care/
How about don’t throw sandwiches at people?
“Hoagie Hero”
JFC.
Isn’t that redundant?
Well now he is going to be put in the Klink.
Well done. I saw nothink… NOTHINK!
Col. Kink: “HOAGIE!!!”
Do you know who else was a decorated veteran?
” military personnel and veterans involved in remote killing suffer from the same post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms that affect those who served in manned aircraft and as boots-on-the-ground personnel”
Mess hall staff hardest hit with PTSD
REMFs having nightmares about internet outages.
The Man let things slide for too long. No laws were enforced because everyone thought the punishments were too harsh.
The pendulum swung the other way and now there is way too much crime. The only way to tip the pendulum the other way is to break some eggs and impose harsher sentences than would have been done ten years ago. Unfortunately some people are going to have to serve as examples of what not to do. This guy is one of them.
Yeah, he might have only been tagged with a disorderly conduct a few years ago, but that was then. Now, he is going to be Example #1 of why you don’t fuck around in DC anymore.
Fucking up a few people’s lives are what Minneapolis needs to do to put an end to nonsense like this. I don’t think the city’s leadership is ready for that yet.
We can’t return to “broken windows” because it’s racist and only white supremacists like Rudy Giuliani supported it.
That won’t be retroactive, I hope.
/Retired Snowballer
Fourscore, unless you were riding around in a stolen car and damaging hundreds of cars, I think you are safe.
This is. the state of our politics and commentary today. Congratulations everyone.
Timothy McVeigh was a veteran, too.
Just like me!
Speaking of happenstance… yesterday there was some discussion of Bruce Campbell. Last night, what should pop up on Amazon but “They Call Me Bruce” which I have never seen. I’m not much of a Campbell fan because I don’t do horror movies. Anyway- Bruce Campbell playing himself playing himself. I liked it.
Super Troopers 3? Meh, Ill still watch it but come on guys…come up with something new.
Meh. I’ll rewatch Beerfest again.
The only people that get a pass on crazy are people who have lost a child. It seems especially bad with people whose child has been shot.
Not from me.
Am I to understand that you lost a child? If that is the case I am very sorry for your loss.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
A CDC staffer who signed the letter and asked to remain anonymous due to fears of retribution and safety concerns said she has been frustrated by what she sees as misinformation coming from the nation’s top public health officials.
“As part of my oath as a public health professional to stay true to the science and help people, it just felt like a I needed to speak up in some way,” the staffer told ABC News.
What a steaming pile of dog shit.
Dollars to donuts that CDC staffer had no problem pushing “misinformation” during COVID.
“Washington state’s first hybrid-electric ferry pulled from service after less than a month in operation
The state initially estimated that converting three ferries would cost $120 million total. Instead, the Wenatchee alone cost $133 million and was nearly a year behind schedule….
The Wenatchee, which underwent a 22-month, $133 million conversion from diesel to hybrid-electric power, had been running the busy Seattle-to-Bainbridge Island route since July 24. But on Friday morning, two of its four drive motors suddenly went offline as the vessel pulled into Seattle’s Colman Dock, briefly leaving the boat without power.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/washington-states-first-hybrid-electric-ferry-pulled-from-service-after-less-than-a-month-in-operation
I’m thinking that people who made that decision aren’t surprised either.
They should have built a high-speed rail line.
Ferguson and Inslee.
Two of the dumbest to ever hold that office
Nice grift if you can get it.
“President Donald Trump has vowed to take “harsh measures” in Colorado if the state government does not release Tina Peters, a former state county clerk who was sentenced to 9 years in jail on counts related to suspected breach of her county’s voting system.
Trump posted to Truth Social on Thursday, “FREE TINA PETERS, a brave and innocent Patriot who has been tortured by Crooked Colorado politicians, including the big Mail-In Ballot supporting the governor of the State. Let Tina Peters out of jail, RIGHT NOW.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trump-demands-colorado-release-tina-peters-after-conviction-for-2020-election-interference
The internet takes the bully pulpit to a whole another level.
That is another thing we need to rid of in addition to “vote by mail”.
The obvious and only reason Dems insist on keeping that shit is so they can continue to rig elections.
Trust this black box. No, we can’t tell you how it works because it’s proprietary.
Uffda. Red flag laws are good for
you rubespolice.So we have hired two full time employees to file 40 petitions per year?
They worry that short circuiting due process may short circuit due process? That is the whole point of a red flag law, isn’t it?
Suthen:
What did you expect the journalo to write?
“The law short circuits due process.”?
No, no, no. You’ll never get a column in a big newspaper if you stick to the simple facts. You have to soft soap it for your readers. By having the “gun owners” “worry” about something, your readers can safely ignore any concerns because it is just something icky people say.
Everyone knows due process is only for illegal aliens.
SCIENCE!
My rights are not subject to a business case analysis.
They’ll just lose their jobs to AI which will just predict future criminals.
Well thats easy, anyone not us is a criminal. Dont need no fancy AI to do that
Altman had promised “a Ph.D.-level” intelligence on any topic. But early tests of GPT-5 revealed all kinds of anecdotal examples of sloppy answers to queries, including hallucinations, simple-arithmetic errors, and failures in basic reasoning.
Mission accomplished.
Welp, on to GPT-6!
Did anybody post this, or did this article just find me?
https://mises.org/mises-wire/sad-legacy-bush-political-dynasty-george-hw-bush
I hardly need a reminder since I lived through it. But this might be good to for others to show how the Bush dynasty wrecked the idea of conservatism for decades.
The Bush dynasty is kind of a nice example of the division between establishment Rs and the base. The establishment thought Jeb! was a shoo-in for the nomination in 2016. And the base has very little interest.
“compassionate conservatism”
Am I to understand that you lost a child?
No.
So, am I to understand you kept a map to the child’s shallow unmarked grave?
Well that was a fun read.
It’s just like the bread bleached with bromide, a thyroid inhibitor, or fluoride in the water, the same thing. Who needs iodine anyway?
Just now upon hearing Jefferies gibbering…something: Mrs. Suthenboy “That is ridiculous. How can he say that?”
The reason we hear lefties making arguments that sound like lunacy is because they are. Their positions are indefensible. That is what happens when you try to defend the indefensible.
It is also why the Democrat party is a dead man walking. People are getting tired of their bullshit.
So, am I to understand you kept a map to the child’s shallow unmarked grave?
On a certain day, at a certain time, a beam of sunlight will guide you there.
What can I say, I have a lot of distractions going on here.
“Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced on Wednesday that she had eliminated the Foreign Malign Influence Center, a Biden-era government organization that worked with social media giants to censor conservatives and voices that opposed Biden administration beliefs.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/dni-tulsi-gabbard-axes-biden-era-censorship-office/
Long read here:
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/05/30/stanford_silicon_valley_and_the_rise_of_the_censorship_industrial_complex_1034440.html
Sad how the censorship didn’t get more attention.
I’m looking forward to finding out how eliminating government censorship is totalitarian.
How will we ever reach paradise without a Ministry of Truth?
“The Gates Foundation has been a leader in the promotion of anti-racist math instruction. It supported a project called “A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction.” The project discards basic tenets of learning, like asking students to “show their work” and find the “right” answer as vestiges of “white supremacy culture.”
…
The foundations similarly fund practical lessons that put race at the center of math instruction. In Alexandria, Virginia, for example, the Heising-Simons Foundation supported a public-school program that encouraged kindergartners through second-graders to count the characters in picture books by race. At the end of each session, teachers guided students in creating racial scorecards for each book, then voting to select those with the fewest white characters. The exercise was presented as mathematics education.”
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/08/19/billionaires_backing_woke_math_doesnt_add_up_amid_dei_rollback_1129311.html
Another long read. This is just going to make black students worse at math.
Lets stop pussy-footing around the idea and just do it.
I will over looking one of my staunch principles to invade ans completely displace another peoples so these retards can have their fantasy land bullshit.
Strangely, the boys in the hood seem to understand supply and demand and the math of profit-loss.
And what to do when competing entities start to carve into that profit
That is the point.
You cant have the serfs learning how to read or able to think rationally.
They cant make it illegal for people to read so they are going about it by skin suiting academia. They dont have the luxury of being the Catholic Church or Antebellum slave owners.
“Anti-racism” is some of the most racist shit I have ever seen.
Well, I have hope that some backlash is finally coming. Because this shit is killing ’Merica.
All black classes teaching math in a culturally sensitive way is only half the battle.
Everything will work fine until they have to take a standardized test. I don’t think it is a reach to predict that the New Black Mathletes won’t do as well on them. Obviously it is because the tests are culturally biased and need to be changed.
A new BS-AT test will need to be developed and the results need to be honored by all colleges and employers as equal to the SAT’s.
And a decade or so down the road people will be asking why all the bridges keep collapsing.
“It’s just something bridges do, you have to learn to live with it.”
I thought this was a cool idea. Quick summary:
In Florida they have a pilot program that uses drones to stop school shootings. The drone will be on-site at the school in a locked box. If a silent alarm is triggered, the box opens and a remote team controls the drone. The drone is armed with something to break glass, and a non-lethal weapon (sounds like pepper spray). If they can’t neutralize the shooter, they can at least distract it and give law enforcement eyes on the shooter.
https://x.com/OwenGregorian/status/1958490913560273155
I think a teacher executing the rowdy student the minute they get out of line would likely keep the local high school population in-line better than some drone thing.
I think we’d be better off the other way around. The students may be bad, the teachers are worse.
I guarantee you that students will gain access to launch the drones before the drones are ever used to stop a school shooter.
Where is our patriot uprising?
In the early summer of 2020, at the height of the pandemic, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Washington in raucous protests against the police killing of George Floyd.
In the late summer of 2025, following an unprecedented Trump administration takeover of local law enforcement, the best local critics have done so far is a relatively small procession from Dupont Circle around the White House demanding that “Donald Trump must go.” “Danger! Danger! There’s a fascist in the White House!” marchers chanted, at one point yelling at the occupants of a National Guard Humvee, which was quickly surrounded by D.C. Police. It was a well-organized, energetic demonstration, but all in all, there were only a few hundred marchers.
Where’s the rest of this famously progressive city?
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Local elected officials, eager not to provoke the administration, have been diplomatic in expressing their dismay. Notably, the small protests I went to were dominated by dedicated activists. One was sponsored by Free D.C., a grass-roots pro-statehood group. The other, which involved the march to the White House, was organized by Refuse Fascism, an anti-Trump group with historic ties to the Revolutionary Communist Party.
Why aren’t the streets clogged with protestors banging pots and pans and chanting witty anti-Trump slogans and looting shoe stores?
Look, without USAID money they cant afford to hire rioters and shit stirrers. They have fallen on hard times.
Seriously, I knew USAID was a problem but I had no idea how much bullshit would get shut down by killing it. Wow.
I’m guessing that USAID money dried up and they can no longer rent as many rioters as they did in the past?
I mean, you don’t expect them to pay for their own mob do you?
Enjoying the relatively improved safety?
The Floyd bullshit was all about ginning up anti-white racism. Not to be too blunt but the population of DC can often be very down with that.
This doesn’t have a racist angle. It’s just public safety and the only people against public safety of any kind are commies.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/21/trump-fraud-new-york-appeals.html
As expected. Tossed out on appeal.
“What he’s doing is basically about power and not public safety,” scoffed Philip Pannell, who runs the Anacostia Coordinating Council in the city’s historically impoverished southeast corner. “He’s turned certain areas of the city into runways for his fascist fashion show.”
But when I asked about the lack of street-level backlash to match this disdain, the answers from pro-democracy activists and experienced political organizers were all over the place. Some cited the season: “The only thing I can think of is, it’s August and people are away,” said George Conway, a strident Trump critic who told me the police takeover was “a step to controlling what’s happening in the capital, whether it’s legislation or the streets.” He said hadn’t been aware of any serious protest since the police takeover was announced. He said there might be a change once fall arrives.
Others cited exhaustion and even fear. “I know a number of folks who are activists who are just thinking that possibly protesting can be risking your life,” said Pannell, a longtime local activist.
Stop it. You’re killing me.
It’s because the Left has hosted a freakout-athon since 2016 with regards to Trump. It’s like a cult that proclaims the world will end every year, and yet it never happens. At some point, people will start ignoring them and not taking anything, they say seriously.
—NYT and NPR: “There Is a Stampede of Voters Away from the Democratic Party”.
That is a long-winded way to say “antifa ratfuckers”.
FO:NV memes
I on’y see the “short route” map, and besides Radscorpions, Cazadors, and maybe the Deathclaws, it’s not wrong.
Half the fun of Fallout games is stubbornly bulling through a straight line route to early game objectives. There’s nothing like running across minefields chased by two Deathclaws and an entire raider camp because you ran through your 17 rounds of pistol ammo and managed to do nothing more than aggro the zone.
More intriguingly, it may also be that there’s a longer-term change in the culture of protesting in left-leaning towns like Washington after the overreach of 2020 and the backlash of 2024. The gathering designed to make a statement by turning out normies in mass numbers somewhere like the National Mall is fading. In its place, hard-core encampments (like the Gaza protests at colleges) and targeted demonstrations (like angry visits to the personal homes of politicians) have risen for the truly committed. Everyone else posts zingers on social media.
Maybe the normies realized they were being duped into serving as cover for the hard core Maoist bullshit.
“Left-leaning”?
Ahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
I mean, you don’t expect them to pay for their own mob do you?
They have to get the new money laundry set up. Gates and Buffett don’t want that crap traced back to them.
“The US State Department said Monday the American government played no role in the release of an Israeli official charged with soliciting sex electronically from a minor.
Tom Artiom Alexandrovich was one of eight people charged last week following an undercover operation “targeting child sex predators,” the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said in a statement issued last week.
Alexandrovich faces a felony charge of luring or attempting to lure a child or mentally ill person to commit a sex act “with use of computer technology,” according to Nevada state court records reviewed by Reuters….
The court records reviewed by Reuters show a $10,000 bond was posted in Alexandrovich’s case at the Henderson Detention Center, southeast of Las Vegas, on August 7.”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/us-says-it-played-no-part-in-release-of-israeli-official-accused-soliciting-sex-from-minor/
Dave Smith called this a “PR Disaster” for Israel. I’m not seeing it.
Barn find of the day: https://barnfinds.com/patina-time-capsule-1959-chevy-apache/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Newsletter+(Daily)
“While a few important details are missing, such as running condition”
Running condition? The carb is missing.
It’s a Keto Car – Zero Carbs.
I e been trying to sell my 59 Apache panel and huge pile of parts for years.
No takers.
Seems everyone wants a pickup and not the less common panel.
That and most hat the 58-59 with four headlights, prefers g the 56/57 with two and the different hood.
$5000 and a utility box?
Naw.
Stateless sob stories
In the absence of government action to help people in the U.S. without any citizenship, Ambartsoumian-Clough co-founded United Stateless, a group advocating for the stateless community.
And she knows the threat of indefinite detention looms over the stateless community right now. She says at least six members of United Stateless have been detained in recent months. Some have been detained for longer than six months, she tells NPR. Many have been continually moved around to different detention centers throughout the U.S., making it difficult to keep track of them, according to Ambartsoumian-Clough.
Let’s stir up a bunch of emotional outrage over a tiny group of outliers. If Biden and Co hadn’t forced the issue with their come one come all bullshit these poor people wouldn’t be in this situation. If Congress had done their fucking jobs and cleaned up the immigration process we wouldn’t be where we are today.
I’d rather have this “barn find”.
Unless you’re a contractor who likes rust.