No, not what you’re thinking. Prime’s middle son is getting married today so I’ll be heading to Buffalo to join in the festivities and will be trying hard not to say anything that will embarrass her. “PBS and NPR are just government propag… HEY, that hurt!” Though I’ve met most of her family and close friends, this will be the first time I will meet her ex. That should be comfortable for both of us.
Birthdays could be comfortable and there’s a shitload of them being celebrated today, including that of a nepo baby; a guy who rode the backs of cowboys; the most influential guy on American youth who you never heard of; a guy whose fame was deadpan; Jim Bouton’s best buddy and inspiration; a guy who would not have gotten along with Diane Fosse or Jane Goodall; an absolute maestro of lunacy; a guy who fucking owned the corner of the endzone; the pioneer in a genre of fiction I despise; a race hustler from before we even had the term; a squish who was the wrong guy at the wrong time for the wrong president; one more brainless actress who never let that stop her activism; and someone who has not done her job given that there’s still a job to be done.
My job is, of course, Links.
I mean, really, this whole thing in Britain is wall to wall stereotype. So many perfect touches.
Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown.
There’s sucking up and there’s sucking up.
“It works well, so let’s try to fuck it up.”
She’s no 2000-era Tymoshenko, but she’ll do.
The mackerel-snappers might have him, but we have Warty.
And the decline of England continues apace.
RESIST! If she were truly presidential material, she would have dropped trou and puddled right at their front door.
If you’re anywhere near my age and you grew up anywhere near DC, you know who was the best damn electric guitarist, and we apparently kept him as a secret from the rest of the world. At least that’s my hypothesis about why Stevie Ray Vaughan (deservedly) got insanely famous and Roy Buchanan (undeservedly) didn’t. The Old Guy uses recordings of RB to demonstrate what a Stratocaster really sounds like in the hands of a true master.
There is a representation of a suffering Jew front and center, however.
Rarely does this get awarded to the topmost comment. Even more rare is for me to award this before reading all the comments.
But because nothing could possibly beat this, I’m awarding you the coveted [golf clap]. Well done.
I’m sure no subsequent comment will altar your approbation — we’ll join in your mass approval.
And no risk of being a nave.
Buster Keaton is my favorite of the big three Silent Era Comedy stars.
Steamboat Bill, Jr. is probably his most accessible film.
I’m still more of a Harold Lloyd fan. I think I’m just a sucker for Idiot Boy meets Sweet Girl who redeems him storylines, honestly.
Lloyd was the highest-earning actor of the three—or, his movies brought in the most money at the box office. He wasn’t as funny as Chaplin or Keaton, but he worked really hard at his craft.
Safety Last is a favorite.
Never Weaken is another. It has a hilarious scene where he thinks he has died, and is rising toward an angel that is really just a statue on the side of a building.
How could anyone not be a pushover for this?
https://silentlocations.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/hot-water_00137.jpg
And all on eight fingers, after the 1920 accident.
I’m with you re: Keaton and particularly partial to The General.
I think I prefer Lloyd a bit over Keaton (and both of them a lot over Chaplin) too.
One Week and Three Ages are also fairly accessible.
Geography was probably my least favourite class and my least favourite teacher but we did get to watch “The Railrodder” and “see Canada” with Buster.
Happy birthday Meghan McCain, Hunter Biden, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump Jr.?
Happy birthday Johnny Weissmuller?
Happy birthday Peter Benchley?
“It works well, so let’s try to fuck it up.”
Or how can we get some of that cash and get some power to boot.
In Newsom’s California, the only question is what best serves his interests.
an absolute maestro of lunacy
Happy birthday Jonathan Winters!
JW was one of my all time favorite human beings. I had an encounter with him back in the 1980s in Montecito, which cemented my idolization.
“How about we kill all the Jews from the river to the sea?”
“No dice.”
“Understandable, have a nice day.”
I don’t know how Witkoff will get rolled. But I know he will.
Probable happy birthday George Takei. Oh my….
And as to what I was thinking before reading, OMWC… well, I never took you for such a hardcore T-Swizzle fan.
I honestly expected Steven Wright here.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday fired Navy chief of staff Jon Harrison, delivering a blow to the insider who helped rewire internal protocols to fit the vision of the Trump administration’s defense agenda.
An article on Politico is referenced: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/03/top-navy-official-fired-00593997
No reason for the termination is offered, and I’m not even certain that he was “fired”. The language is ambiguous.
Yeah, really weird. Just talks about crucial role in implementing Trump’s reforms…. aaaaand, you’re fired.
I read the article. He was empire building.
a guy who rode the backs of cowboys
Happy birthday Jake Gyllenhaal!
They’ve sure been trying their damnedest… AB5 apparently didn’t quite do it, so here they go again.
Of course, with El Segundo going up in flames, the price of gas might do it anyway soon. Yay.
California is the second state where Uber and Lyft drivers can unionize as independent contractors; Massachusetts voters passed a ballot referendum in November allowing unionization, while drivers in Illinois and Minnesota are pushing for similar rights.
Collective bargaining for self-employed people.
That’s not as idiotic as it seems at first blush, IMO. It’s not all that different from, say, a co-op to obtain group rates on health insurance. Of course, in libertopia it would be rather self-defeating since the number of willing scabs would undoubtedly far outnumber the collective bargainers, eliminating any incentive for management to negotiate collectively.
It’s really more of a guild than a union…
This is why I take gypsy cabs.
I dont understand how that could possibly work. Can they use state law to block other drivers from joining?
How could you get enough drivers to agree and forego making a living? Are the teamsters going to jump in and fund a work stoppage and pay them?
So many practical considerations.
My only question is how many drivers will it put out of business when prices double?
This is more real fascism than Trump cozying up to big business. Fascism was a three-legged stool – the State, Business, and Labor, all coordinated from the top. FDR was a crypto-fascist (it really was the fashion at the time), and the NLRA was pretty obviously intended to set up the Labor leg of the stool.
“Crypto”?
He was ahead of his time on the crypto front
He was open.
The members of his “brain trust” all red Mussolini.
But what if you don’t need to operate any clandestine bioweapon labs or launder your family’s political graft?
I seem to remember when accusations of Ukrainian corruption was an impeachable offense. A more innocent age, I guess.
Speaking of Frederick Remington: I don’t remember if he painted it or not, but the Cowboy museum in Oklahoma City has a massive painting of a desert scene that covers the wall of the auditorium.
I was impressed.
So you’re saying she should have been more pissed at them?
This whole ICE drama is so fucking junior high school.
A Dem president deports millions of illegal aliens? Crickets, when he isn’t being sainted by the media and every other American institution.
You-know-who does the same fucking thing and it’s commie ratfuckers rioting in every city and Dem pols play-acting tuffgai heroes.
I’m thoroughly disgusted with the whole thing.
“First female Archbishop of Canterbury”.
That will certainly work toward converting all the British Muslims to Christianity.
To be fair, the Church of England is only tangentially related to Christianity.
Oh, Henry.
But Henry.
https://chuckjones.com/wp-content/uploads/the-three-bears-chuck-jones.jpg
Oh Lord, not another discussion of what denominations qualify as “Christian”.
I started to plan out an article about the Abrahamic religions, but gave it up because I am really not qualified to write it accurately enough to do the subject justice, and because enough people already hate me so I don’t need to make more enemies.
https://youtu.be/m2dNCw0hPLs
Neph:
Having just started watching What is Gnosticism, what qualifies as Christian and what doesn’t seems to be an argument that goes back two thousand years. At least Christians aren’t killing each other over the subject. Currently.
lol
Something I’ve noticed recently is that every church I see that isn’t Roman Catholic is almost without exception led by a female.
Another job boys won’t do?
Rhy, Pastor mark Driscol has a good commentary on that point.
I will not be baited into posting the racist joke from Boondock Saints.
Ill have a coke!
OT You don’t say…
https://avweb.com/aviation-news/nextgen-program-falls-significantly-short-report-finds/https://avweb.com/aviation-news/nextgen-program-falls-significantly-short-report-finds/
The important thing is, the consultants got paid on time.
Wow. $36 billion so far, 1.6% of goals reached.
Another $12.5 billion so far this year, and they want another $19 billion this year.
How do we get in on this scam?
Privatize ATC, like Canada did.
Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/10/the-week-in-pictures-mariachi-edition.php
If the guys with the foosball table who eat at all the good restaurants give the go ahead isn’t that all that matters?
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-israel-trump-gaza-peace-deal-50643a6d?st=6Ywtpj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I guess now that Hamas politicos don’t have a safe haven any more because the Jews bombed them in Qatar, they’re a little more open minded.
Stupid Jews, wrecking the peace process like that.
Why should Hamas accept a deal that is not them winning everything they want? It’s not like the world is going to let Israel do the needful, or that this sad drama isn’t playing out exactly the way everyone knew it was going to.
To buy time to rearm and replace their casualties, just like every other time they have signed an agreement.
(((Jarflax gets it.
Those are the base demands. I’m positing they will demand even more because “what are you gonna do about it?”
I literally rolled my eyes as I guessed Susan Sarandon, but thought to myself that could be any of them and *surprise* it was Sarandon. I should be as lucky at guessing lottery numbers.
`She probably has the lowest IQ of the activist actress brigade, and the least talent. Although Fonda and Streep make it an interesting competition.
I know it’s a close race but I have to give the nod to Fonda for unmitigated gullibility combined with hubris.
NYT headline:
Well we wouldn’t want to do that to those nonpartisan altruists who work there for below market wages and benefits. Particularly because these are expert opinions.
Bitchy DMV clerks that everyone hates graduate to esteemed public servants and members of our cherished democratic institutions as soon as they sign their federal employment contract, it is known.
How Americans View the Israel-Hamas Conflict 2 Years Into the War
We spent a quarter of a fucking century and around 4 trillion dollars blowing up illiterate goat fuckers who couldn’t find the United States on a labeled map and extrajudicially killing American citizens because of a terrorist attack that killed about as many people as died on 10/07, in a country with a population 34 times larger. But yeah, those dastardly Jews are savages 🙄️
Too many people went overboard on the Charlie Kirk thing, making it easier to argue Tucker Carlson, Candice O, etc. are antisemitic.
Candace is simply a blithering idiot.
Candace is after the Laura Loomer demographic.
Surprised that after two straight years of relentless anti-Israel propaganda from the MSM, the loudest Dem pols, and commie activists from coast to coast that the “unfavorable” opinion only notched up eight points.
Maybe they’re upset at their tax money going towards ethnic cleansing.
Gazan isn’t an ethnicity, and if Israel’s goal is to extinguish the Arab population then we should, indeed, see about a refund on our tax money, since they’re quite clearly incompetent at it.
In two years I expected Israel to have bulldozed all those mud bricks into the sea and eliminated all males, including the livestock
They have not lived up to my expectations.
Don’t you have to be dead to be on a coin?
They’ve already shown that’s what they have planned for OMB.
I read a story that said for commemorative coins there may be way around it.
This is not unprecedented.
Is that like a challenge coin? Heads/tails you lose?
Like many things, we continue apace on canonizing living beings for political expediency
Yes, and the recently dead too.
This story just keeps on giving.
School chief to suspect: ICE arrest of Des Moines superintendent exposes fake degrees, drug convictions
That story just keeps getting worse for the people who hired him.
Pfft, like that will be a factor.
He’s committing the fraud that American’s refuse to commit.
lol If this story was fiction nobody would believe it.
My normally rational lefty friend said there hasn’t been proof he actually voted.
Oh, well that’s all right then! 🙄
That’s the type of clear headed thinking that won America’s trust.
Well, I’ve now met Josh Cribba and Joe Haden. Both have been decent people, even buying rounds for the fans who came. The Brits don’t quite know what to make of American football fans. Though some rugby fans had some thoughts.
“$120 Bloody Mary served with whole lobster at 155-year-old LI seafood restaurant ”
https://nypost.com/2025/10/04/lifestyle/120-bloody-mary-served-with-whole-lobster-at-li-restaurant/
No.
I would hate to bus tables there.
I dunno. With a clientele dumb enough to pay $155 for a large bloody mary, cold lobster and a small shrimp cocktail, the tips might just be extravagant.
Its Viking Days at the RenFaire. Gonna rock it out representing rape and plunder!
The Vikings must fall tomorrow. Just so I can rub OMWC’s nose in the fact the Browns have a better record. If even for a couple of hours.
With essentially the entire starting defense out, an offensive line with two gigantic holes at guards, and Jackson injured because of that, yeah, I can safely say that the Ravens may finish behind the browns.
You said rape twice.
You know, I should start a movement of wailing and gnashing that the misrepresentation of my heritage has disparaged and harmed me centuries later
Its the weekend. No Day Four of my shutdown chronicles. I’m not a heathen consumed by my dark arts of FedGov work.
Enjoy these Dark Arts instead.
Their Families Fled Soviet Socialism. Now They’re Knocking Doors for Mamdani.
This time it will be different because it’s the right Top Man!
History does sure rhyme doesn’t it. I think humans broke the natural order of evolution.
To The Success Of Our Hopeless Cause by Benjamin Nathans does a good job reminding us that most Soviet dissidents weren’t necessarily Western liberals, although they were nearly universally portrayed that way for propaganda purposes. The majority weren’t opposed to socialism in general, nor Marxism-Leninism in particular, and merely wanted reforms that would align the Soviet government with its purported values and constitutional guarantees. Since they got Gulag’d or merc’d for their trouble, many fled, but retained their ideology.
Lotsa New Yorkers making stupid decisions when it comes to Mamdani. See also: New York Jews.
The numerous hasidim – who went something like 90% for Orange – won’t vote for him. Southern Brooklyn is basically a sea of red.
Your Manhattan Jews… yeah, 90% or more will support the commie.
I’d bet a large majority won’t vote for him, but more than double digit percentage absolutely will.
We are on the same page.
.
There will be a large east side versus west side disparity.
I think I won’t read that because it will make me spitting angry.
Wait until it all fails and they blame everyone but themselves.
That has been the story for nearly a decade….but we will have a Brand New ™ Air Traffic Control system in 3 years!
I had to correct a controller who had their family on a tour. “You use floppy disks!” No, we really don’t, not in the way the news has stated. We use them on an old system for backups, for a system that is information only, not used to control traffic. So stop listening to these asshats.
He scurried his tour along.
If you get Musk in there to “fix” things like he as with self-driving cars you will have a brand new ATC system in only a perpetual 2 year promise!
But it will deploy right now.
“Move fast and break things”
I wonder why we are so married to the idea of a bespoke American government air traffic control system. Other countries and regions have been deploying them for decades. Why not just buy in to one of those products? Shouldn’t it be like a commercial product, that gets continuously upgraded over time?
Maybe just form an international standards body that sets the protocols and standards for the equipment for interoperability, and then let individual airports buy from private vendors as they see fit, delegating the government to a regulatory and inspection role.
“Why not just buy in to one of those products?”
Where’s the graft in that?
I which RC Dean exposes the corruption inherent in the system…..
We basically have 3 vendors for equipment L3/Harris, Raytheon ans, Leidos
Project management is nearly always Parsons
Though we have some inhouse stuff going on that is awesome and will probably be swallowed up
This woman seems nice, and not at all crazy.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15159125/chicago-woman-dog-poop-cybertruck-trump.html
“You people need to bring down the temperature!”
Daily Mail reached out to Owen for comment and received a picture of a dog’s private parts in response.
Perfect.
Could we cat-butt her unprovoked?
Donald’s greatest legacy might be getting half the country to show its true colors.
“A vile Chicago woman was filmed smearing dog poop over a man’s Donald Trump-themed Cybertruck….
Owner John Evans was attending a conference at the time and came back to his car trashed and a video of a woman wiping dog feces across the truck’s bodywork.
Evans posted the pictures to X, where users quickly claimed to have identified the woman as ‘Dorothy,’ who is apparently affiliated to a Chicago doggy daycare called Renegade Dog Services.
Online records indicate that the company is owned by Matthew Tatone along with a woman named Dorothy Owen.
On Friday, the doggy day care’s Instagram posted an image of the excrement-smeared Tesla with the caption: ‘Let’s be honest, that could be anyone’s sh*tty tattoos and saggy t*ts.
‘Also, #f**kmontana #f**ktrump #f**kice #chingalamigra #hogwatch.’
Daily Mail reached out to Owen for comment and received a picture of a dog’s private parts in response.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15159125/chicago-woman-dog-poop-cybertruck-trump.html
She seems nice.
Braless, check. Frida Kahlo tattoo, check.
I thought you were joking…
I have to believe the Tesla’s onboard cameras have good images of the perp.
But at least she refreshed before posting a link.
“For the new owners of the 007 super-spy movie franchise have airbrushed two of his favourite things from their film posters – guns and girls.
Bosses at Amazon, which acquired the rights to the franchise how much after purchasing MGM studios earlier this year for around £1billion, made the ‘woke’ changes to the digital posters ahead of its upcoming installments of the series.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15161727/James-Bond-fans-blast-woke-Amazon-007-posters.html
CWABOA
This bodes well for future Bond.
Ayup. 🙄
They will kill the franchise deader than Star Wars.
That is pretty much everything Bond is about, isnt it? Whether the campy version or the gritty version, 007 has a license to kill and he gets the girl.
The Moonraker poster really makes the divide Stark- from ludicrous girls everywhere to a nice closeup of that terrible costuming.
Tits and hits. That is the entire point of a James Bond movie.
I dipped out on the franchise when they announced Bond was going to be a weepy cuck stay at home dad and his retired number would be assigned to a stronk black wamen for Craig’s finale in the role. Now instead of going to the theatre every 5 years I can save the $20 and put it towards purchasing enough booze to drink myself as stupid as Amazon’s execs.
Pathetic but entirely unsurprising.
Men are toxic, men are bad, yada yada yada.
I didnt bother reading through but I saw recently a supposed explanation of why the Disney lady deliberately destroyed the Star Wars franchise. So now they are doing the same thing to 007. I assume some kind of ‘destroy western culture’ thing but really, who cares? Those franchises have long outlived their reason for existing.
I gotta know what CWABOA means.
Christ What A Bunch Of Assholes
Can’t wait for Woketopussy to hit theaters..
“Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell participated in a mayoral debate against Katie Wilson on Thursday and when asked about repeat offenders in the Emerald City, he said that his top concern is compassion for the criminal….
“So let me make something very clear,” Harrell said. “I was the one that sponsored the Ban the Box legislation when everyone opposed it because the criminal system has had a disparate impact on black and brown communities. Let me lead with that.” That legislation is one that prevents employers from asking if an applicant has a criminal record….
“So when this person is committing 6 or 7 crimes, I don’t know his or her story, maybe they were abused as a child, maybe they’re hungry. So my remedy is to find their life story to see how we could help, first.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-mayor-bruce-harrell-offers-more-concern-for-criminals-than-their-victims
CWAA
Yeah.. can’t having the bank asking potential hires if they have a history of, you know, bank fraud, embezzlement, forgery….
Incarcerating criminals disparately impacts black and brown people. But so does not incarcerating criminals since most of these crimes also have black and brown victims. There is no possible twisting of the facts that supports the idea that refusing to lock up criminals betters the lives of minorities.
It’s almost like Democrat politicians aren’t actually interested in the impact of the policies they support.
REMINDER: They’re not “soft on crime.”
This monster knows the animal will bite again. He WANTS him to bite again. He wants the animal to kill your son and rape your daughter. It’s good for his revolution.
This language is just how he hides that fact.
https://x.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1974170573153722579?s=19
How many years have I been saying that?
Yeah, this is straight up commie lunacy that no electable Democrat could have gotten away with even ten years ago.
“While prosecutors asked for at least 30 years in prison for Nicholas Roske, who now goes by Sophie after deciding in prison that he identified as transgender, Maryland federal Judge Deborah Boardman handed down a little more than 8 years…
Daily Wire reporter Luke Rosiak was in the courtroom as the sentence was delivered. “Judge Boardman, a Biden appointee, is referring to the defendant as Ms. Roske and asking whether ‘she’ will be placed in a women’s prison and given hormone replacement. The implication is that if not, she will be given a shorter sentence,” Rosiak said.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-kavanaughs-trans-would-be-assassin-sentenced-to-only-8-years-in-prison-as-judge-takes-identity-into-consideration
After deciding in prison? Why do judges have such poor judgement?
Apparently the judge said that one benefit of this incident is that her parents will accept who she is. This was a reason to depart 22 years below the sentencing guidelines.
(Aside: 22 years less than the recommendation – several J6 defendants got 22 years for not doing much of anything to anyone. At least one wasnt even in the district at the time)
Because many of them are activists first.
I had to tap out at “a trauma surgeon who is said to live in state-funded housing in Britain”.
NHS docs don’t make as much money as American docs do.
Not that that’s the issue here. He’s in it for the grift.
“The feds cut off FCPS from the Magnet School Assistance Program a week earlier for the same policies, and a new Title IX complaint alleges FCPS told girls they had no recourse against a male student with “facial hair,” wearing skintight pants that “clearly outlined his genitalia,” leering at them in their locker room as they changed clothes.
If that weren’t enough, the feds took “enforcement action” against FCPS on Monday in response to a report in August that a high school social worker scheduled an abortion for a student, paid for it, “swore the girl to secrecy” and pressured another girl to get an abortion at the same clinic. That would violate parental rights in the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/education/va-school-districts-let-males-girls-restrooms-imperiled-appeals-court
WTF??
This cant be real… I mean, this would be a national news story if it was real, right? We haven’t fallen that far, right??
There’s something to be said for the good old 1980s where a couple of football players would have just beat the hell out of the guy in the parking lot. He’d get the message, no federal or state intervention necessary.
Narrator: We have fallen that far.
At this point I think the onus is on any teacher or school admin to prove that they are not evil before being accepted in polite society.
I can’t see insurance claims for other members of my family, claims that take money out of my HRA/FSA, due to privacy reasons. This includes minor children over 13 years old.
Really??? That seems kinda insane.
Yes on both.
Signs your kids teachers fucki g your daughter.
most influential guy on American youth who you never heard of
This is Glibs, not your college classroom.
“Alana*, a student at Utah Valley University, was taken aback by the deification of Charlie Kirk in the wake of his assassination on 10 September. As an Afro-Latina genderqueer senior at DC’s Howard University, she found it off-putting when she saw an image on Instagram of Kirk hugging Jesus. “He wasn’t this national hero or politician,” Alana, who is using an alias, said. He was “just a white man with a loud opinion.”
…
In the days and weeks following Kirk’s death, several HBCUs and Black students have been targeted with racist threats. Journalists have lost their jobs and students of color have received disciplinary action for not properly mourning his death or for celebrating it. Interviews with Black, brown and queer students throughout the US show a consternation about the valorization of Kirk in his death and concern about attacks on free speech. Some students worry that Kirk’s killing would lead to increased hyper-militarization and censorship on college campuses.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/04/charlie-kirk-killing-colleges
This is so tiring.
Progressive dreamfunk is better than Post-avant jazzcore.
Where is Che when we actually need him?
“Recieved discipline for not properly mourning”
Don’t believe that.
“Targeted with racist threats”
Don’t believe that
“Hypermilitarization”
I cant even imagine what that could have meant to the speaker, beyond “this word sounds ominous and Hitlerian”
Were those students disciplined for mocking his death or was it for calling for more? There’s a difference you know.
Kim Jong Un ordered emergency crackdown on ‘anti-socialist’ breast augmentation surgeries: reports
https://nypost.com/2025/10/01/world-news/kim-jong-un-ordered-emergency-crackdown-on-anti-socialist-breast-implantsurgeries-report/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
I assume this was coveres round here. Drufs bbl etc. but i did not see it amd givem the hunger there i now assume NK is full of skinny chicks with large breasts.
He’s been watching YouTube videos of Yeonmi Park obviously.
I knew he was a monster.
Trump once more snatching defeat from the jaws of victory
H-BOMB: It took three years for California’s flagship hydrogen energy booster to go from an idea in a Biden-era law to signing a mega $1.2 billion agreement with the feds. The Trump administration wiped it all away in a day.
The industry is putting on a brave face. But the move likely marks a major turning point in the future of an energy state leaders see as essential to decarbonizing industries that are difficult to electrify, such as big-rig trucking and ports.
The U.S. Department of Energy canceled its funding for the Alliance for Renewable Clean Hydrogen Energy Systems on Wednesday. The Irvine-based public-private partnership was set up to distribute funding to hydrogen projects across California and was seen by many as the linchpin to launching the nascent industry. And while DOE’s move takes away just 10 percent of the project’s money, the federal grant is the reason the initiative was launched in the first place.
We were on the threshold of a beautiful clean energy future!
If your business venture is likely to earn a positive return on capital you will not be short of potential investors. If your business venture is unlikely to earn a positive return on capital, you can try to baffle potential investors with bullshit, or alternatively, beg your bankrupt state for capital.
It’s always the latter. I am a bug fan of hydrogen as a fuel source. And the California project is 1000x too complex to ever work.
So the aliens are bugs, not space lizards?
Would you like to know more?
The last time we watched the Tarzan movies with Johnny and Maureen my wife and I noticed that Tarzan uses a cleverly-disguised trapeze bar when swinging through the trees. Now we can’t unsee it.
Gov. Gavin Newsom came out with a swift rebuke to the Trump administration cut, assuaging the worst fears of many in the hydrogen world.
“Clean hydrogen deserves to be part of California’s energy future — creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs and saving billions in health costs,” Newsom said in a statement. “We’ll continue to pursue an all-of-the above clean energy strategy that powers our future and cleans the air, no matter what DC tries to dictate.”
Soon we’ll be living in cities among the clouds. Hurry hurry hurry. Get your magic beans today.
He isn’t! Damn, Newsom lies.
Well, lookee. Somebody is calling Newsom’s bluff:
https://www.drewberquist.com/2025/10/golf-legend-throws-down-the-gauntlet-challenges-gavin-newsom-to-town-hall-debate/
“Vance is betting that the typical Trump voter would rather lose his own health insurance than see a dark-skinned immigrant receive medical treatment.
When you dig into it, this strategy presents itself as especially vile, because it depends on the MAGA base being so racist that they would choose bankruptcy, or even death, over having to share a doctor’s waiting room with people speaking Spanish.”
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/03/jd-vances-shutdown-bet-maga-loves-racism-more-than-health-care/
Also, tiring.
Oh fuck off, Salon.
She asserted without evidence that the government shutdown will make the “typical Trump voter” lose health insurance.
Funny how “asserted without evidence” only applies to one political party.
Also odd… it is often used immediately after the citation of evidence
Extra dumb because my HMO funnels me through a management practice that exclusively hires Spanish as first language staff. And I do mean exclusively. Doctors and nurses are more diverse, but the staff is 100% native Spanish speakers. It is a big operation too.
Pssst racist commie ratfuckers at Salon: I am very much against paying for free health tourism for illegals of any color.
Yours etc. and fuck off
I am a bug fan of hydrogen as a fuel source.
Not a dig at you, but in what form? Burnt directly? Fuel cells? It seems as if the articles I see never even refer to the actual energy production (release) process. It’s just an incantation. Hydrogen seems to me to be so impractical as to be a grotesque joke.
Mined from the upper atmosphere of Jupiter. Duh. Do I have to think of everything?
Hydrogen has gasoline and diesel beat when it comes to energy density. I suspect that eventually someone will solve the pesky production, transport and storage issues and it will become feasible. The problem with all of this stuff is people trying to force their pet ‘future’ tech into existence via subsidies and penalties instead of letting ordinary profit motives and the innovation those spur work their magic. It’s smug assholes convinced they can control reality by rigging the markets.
It was solved. Several plastic-based lattices were produced which effectively store it. That was discovered at least 20 years ago. But that does not get used anymore than nuclear energy gets used. Mostly because Greenies hate actual solutions.
“Energy density”
By weight. Which is why it makes great rocket fuel, where weight is important. Critical, even.
But only when liquid.
Diesel has fantastic energy density for transportation. Much higher as a system.
I dont think current technology allows hydrogen to beat batteries for energy density for transportation when you include the storage tech. (Not sure about latest developments on that.)
Grok tells me that Toyota, Honda and Hyundai have hydrogen vehicles fpr sale using compressed gas tanks at 10,000 psi.
Carbon fiber overwrap pressure vessels. So they are better than batteries on larger vehicles (but dont have refueling infrastructure.)
So I stand corrected. A bit.
Propaganda works, even when it is stupid.
https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1974251328881701029?s=19
Look at all the responses buying the claim that a group of protesters blocking an ICE vehicle is simply “Chicago traffic”.
Also, tear gas guy is fairly incompetent.
Should have used VX
Free speech
The developer of ICEBlock, Joshua Aaron, said he made the app in response to the Trump administration’s stepped up immigration enforcement. After it was booted from Apple’s app store, Aaron blamed political pressure and vowed to fight it.
He argued the app’s service was engaged in a type of protected speech not unlike some of Apple’s own apps, like the company’s mapping app which allows users to crowdsource accidents, hazards and police speed traps along roadways.
“Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move,” Aaron said in a statement.
Apple’s action has reignited the debate about what’s known as jawboning, when government officials censor speech through intimidation and threats.
Conservatives for years accused the Biden administration of this tactic over communications it had with tech companies related to accounts that were spreading COVID and election misinformation.
That was different. That was misinformation. This is justice.
I am generally opposed to censorship in every case…. but the one case where governments around the world have consistently been successful in getting censorship hooks in has been violent anti-government organizing.
This one is really complicated. Would a website that lists places where police have obtained search warrants be OK? What about a website that listed where the president is going to be along his travels, with hints of assassination intentions?
This app is essentially a glorified web page giving information for protesters (potential rioters?) To go and blockade legitimate government functions.
Jan 6 saw thousands of people jailed, many without bail or trial for years, for something analogous- delaying a government function.
I am not sure what to make of this. If the plan was simply to show up and wave signs, the answer would be obvious. But they go way beyond that, and have shown intentions to do real harm, like trailing workers to their home in order to dox them and threaten their safety at home.
Since I am an awesome coworker, im smoking ribs, chicken wings and pork for the downtrodden, havent missed a paycheck, federal workers
He asserted without evidence….
Kate Ruane, Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology’s Free Expression Project, said Apple’s move should also be viewed as the government’s heavy hand muzzling free expression.
“When companies agree to the administration’s demands in order to achieve some other goal, whether it be avoiding tariffs or getting merger approval, they send a message to others that it’s ok to do the same,”Ruane said. “What’s worse, they erode the promise of the First Amendment for all of us at the same time.”
I’m sure she’d feel the same way if the Proud Boys were tracking and broadcasting antifa’s movements in order to disrupt their activities.
Grok tells me that Toyota, Honda and Hyundai have hydrogen vehicles fpr sale using compressed gas tanks at 10,000 psi.
Do they burn hydrogen directly for power, or are they powered by fuel cells?
I have seen stories about hydrogen fuel in t form of liquid ammonia, but I don’t think it is anywhere near competitive with gasoline.
I think those are fuel cell vehicles.
What about a website that listed where the president is going to be along his travels, with hints of assassination intentions?
I was thinking about that one too.
I think those are fuel cell vehicles.
That’s what I thought, but I don’t know.
Being an early adopter of a 10,000 psi tank of hydrogen in the trunk doesn’t really tempt me.
Hydrogen used to generate electricity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Mirai
Cmon its works for spaceX, I mean most of the time…..
I thought they used kerosine because the weight difference wasent worth the complexity of the hydrogen systems.
Cook in August walked into the White House and gave Trump a 24-karat gold plaque, a move that has come to symbolize Silicon Valley’s deference to the president.
I can’t believe it wasn’t a solid gold apple.
Eris was busy that day
North Carolina governor signed a law making it illegal to stab people to death on public transportation?
“Jay Jones is running for attorney general in Virginia, and he wants you to think that he is the sober, responsible candidate who is standing against those crazy right-wingers. In a pinned tweet on his X account, he calls his opponent, Jason Miyares, an “anti-abortion extremist,” but Jay Jones is a man of action; he is impatient with mere words. In a series of text messages from 2022 that have just surfaced, he fantasizes about the murder of former Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, as well as his wife and children — and like a true leftist, explains chillingly that such murders are the only way to bring about real political change.”
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/10/04/virginia-dem-ag-candidate-wants-gop-leader-and-his-children-shot-and-it-gets-worse-from-there-n4944457
Yikes!
Genuinely curious to see if that affects Democrat voters.
““We found $3.6 million for pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups for male prostitutes in Haiti.”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/10/04/sen-kennedy-just-exposed-more-absurd-things-democrats-shut-down-the-government-for-n4944465
Who wants a Haitian rent boy that can’t dance?
I’d have thought Haitian rent boys already had all the aids they could stand, more aid seems superfluous.
If my male prostitute doesn’t know how to cook, then I’m not interested.
“It’s just a drop in the bucket!”
/ Democrats who don’t want to reckon with how fucking ridiculous some of this spending is or explain to the cash-strapped American people why they should continue to pay taxes for this