I guess it’s time to say the Patriots are for real. Same for Da Bears. Looks like Penn State has finally narrowed their search for a new head coach. They’re sure handling it with more class than the LSU situation. Speaking of college ball, the next to last CFP poll is out today and I can only assume there will be some gnashing of teeth in Austin. Protip: don’t lose to Florida and your tough OOC game won’t matter. And that’s it for sports.
Let’s see how this goes. Probably a waste of time with all the Euros banging the war drum. That so-called buffer being a meat grinder doesn’t really matter to them.
I suppose the Dems will call this a war crime too. They sure are fond of narco-terrorists as of late, so I wouldn’t be surprised. And never mind that it happened last year.
If only his party affiliation were different. Those NYT and WaPo writers would be chasing Pulitzers.
This broad gets all the scoops. Sleeping around sure can pay off.
Blah blah blah. After all the Obama double-tap shit, I simply do not care. And the current crop of political outrage-merchants are nothing but hypocrites.
“Everything is his fault!” He sends people in, it’s fascism. He withdraws like the city and state officials demand, it’s still fascism.
This is good news. I hope the guy makes it.
Australia has completely gone to shit. They’ve lost their way. Also, the trigger warning in the article is hilariously stupid. Just what I’d expect.
Good for them. The whole damn thing was a scam.
I can only imagine this is for political purposes. And she’ll do what she always does: go seek mental health care to help her through…and use that treatment to avoid being removed from office.
Good stuff here. Great track. Same for this one. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely Tuesday, dear friends.
I hope Gunner Olszewski is OK.
Legal hit but yow. I always liked that guy.
Also, Jaxon Dart needs to stop trying for the extra half yard on every play and learn to step out of bounds or his career will be measured in months.
Was it a legal hit? It looked like helmet to helmet. It even took the paint off of his helmet.
“Also, Jaxon Dart needs to stop trying for the extra half yard on every play and learn to step out of bounds or his career will be measured in months.”
True, but looks like he got hit after he got out of bounds.
Helmet to helmet is legal when trying to tackle a runner a long as you don’t lead with the crown of the helmet. It’s illegal when hitting a defenseless receiver.
Dart hadn’t yet stepped out of bounds when he got hit, and the tackler led with his shoulder there. Hard hit, but legal.
“Helmet to helmet is legal when trying to tackle a runner a long as you don’t lead with the crown of the helmet.”
Not sure that isn’t what happened.
https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/47172761
Looks like front-right just above the facemask to front-left just above the facemask.
Also, in slow motion Ellis looked like he was trying to lead with his shoulder, and the other Patriot hit Gunner and moved him into where Ellis’ helmet was. So i don’t think there was intent to injure anyone, or even hit with his helmet.
“Let’s see how this goes. Probably a waste of time with all the Euros banging the war drum. That so-called buffer being a meat grinder doesn’t really matter to them.”
Putin simply can’t give up on this war because the cost and ROI are too disparate. This is not stopping for now.
Trump got Rubio out of there (he was pulling his neo-con stuff) and is giving it one last try. If the Euros and Zelensky sabotage a peace agreement, Trump can wash his hands of the mess and walk away.
The alternatives are a fall of Saigon / Kabul scene or WWIII. The Uke Army put up a hell of a fight, but they’re done.
He has the opportunity to wash his hands of it but will he? With Graham whispering sweet nothings in his ear he might decide to send Tomahawks if the Russians don’t go for it and Trump, unfortunately, is flighty as fuck.
Maybe we’ll get a musical out of it. “Miss Keev”
This broad gets all the scoops. Sleeping around sure can pay off.
You sound like you hate female empowerment
I have no clue about empowerment, but I can’t wait for the movie where she gets bukkaked.
Um, no thanks.
Nope. Just journalists with no ethical standards.
So basically all of them.
Pretty much, yeah.
Although I’m not sure there are many prominent ones out there who slept with so many sources that her card is punched enough to get a free Subway sandwich.
“If only his party affiliation were different. Those NYT and WaPo writers would be chasing Pulitzers.”
The big question is why we have only found out this shit was done in the completely blue owned state of Venezuela. My bet is that every North East state, and California, Oregon, and Washington are all rife with this shit. The democrats are a cabal of crime syndicates They make their wealth fooling low information voters into voting for them (with massive fraud to carry them over the line) in return for a fraction of the money they steal to enrich themselves.
Want to know why we are over $38 trillion in debt and can’t balance a budget? These people have been stealing upwards of $5 trillion a year for the last couple of decades.
I bet all 50 states…
Yeah, but I guarantee you that only the blue states have crooks willing to do this shit when caught…
My quibble is that most of the media are characterizing the Minnesota fraud as some sort of “leadership failure” from Walz rather than the result of deliberate policy.
“Want to know why we are over $38 trillion in debt and can’t balance a budget?”
Spending? About $10 Trillion went to pointless wars.
Yeah, I am pretty sure most of that war spending never went to the war effort at all.
WA state too. They fell for a Nigerian scam with the covid unemployment.
“Instead, federal agents who once built those cases are now rounding up immigrants to deport, taking away one of the most potent tools for combatting everything from drug trafficking to gun violence, nine current and former federal officials familiar with the changes said. All spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the department’s work.”
That’s just too cute.
Wait, they think ICE and CBP were after gun runners and drug dealers in San Francisco until OMB got put back in office?
lol FFS, now they care about this??
Oh Reuters… never change.
Ban narcan.
“I can only imagine this is for political purposes. And she’ll do what she always does: go seek mental health care to help her through…and use that treatment to avoid being removed from office.”
What crazy talk is this? why would anyone grifiting at the government’s teat give that racket up? Especially for something as rote as being a classless and evil troon?
Troon?
Australia has completely gone to shit. They’ve lost their way. Also, the trigger warning in the article is hilariously stupid. Just what I’d expect.
the natives are a sensitive bunch they need the warning. Shit situation really. The world is going sideways.
They went from being a bad ass penal colony of strong people to just being a terrible prison movie shower scene.
The “Indigenous teenager” thief who died looks whiter than most Italians.
I noticed that.
We have a bunch of tribal members in the US that look like that too. Some tribes are down to 1/16 blood quanta. Or in the case of other tribes they have done away with any percentage at all like the Cherokee. Most of them are whiter than I am and I’m pretty pasty.
If only the thief hadn’t been appropriating white culture by operating a motor vehicle, this would never have happened.
Will the Australian police pull back like American police did?
Surely. Who’s going to risk prison for doing their job?
I wonder if the street takeover burnouts go the other way down under?
Australia hasn’t gone to shit, just back to their roots… criminal colony and all.
For all the supposed progress in the Ukraine talks I remain skeptical. Moscow is not going to accept a peace without receiving most of the Ukrainian territory they hold, and Kiev doesn’t sound ready to cede it.
Yes – so the fighting will continue, Russians will take more territory, and this deal will look great for the Ukes compared to the one that ends the war.
Zelensky is running out of supporters as the corruption investigation rolls on. You know there’s a lot of highly placed Euros with their fingers in that pie, so the math on making concessions is changing across the board. We’ll see.
there’s a lot of highly placed Euros with their fingers in that pie
I hope they at least bought him that decent bottle of Rye first!
That judge married Kip from Napoleon Dynamite ?
I thought that was Laushawnda’s gig?
Speaking of. Uncle Rico was telling me the other day how he threw a football straight over some mountains nearby.
That dude looks like there isn’t a molecule of testosterone in his whole body.
Getting separated on your first wedding anniversary is very romantic.
Nice lady he found. Or I guess she found him.
Traditionally the first anniversary is the paper anniversary. In this case it’s divorce papers.
“Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this story contains the image of a person who has died.”
Is that against their religion?
“Benedict Bryant pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving occasioning death over the crash in inner Sydney in February 2022.”
I don’t speak Australian.
“The prosecutor said as an experienced police officer of more than 22 years, Bryant ought to have known the rider would not stop.”
But he could have stopped.
Abos have no agency, it is known. It is the white man’s burden.
My biggest quibble was that the guy simply parked a car. He wasn’t driving. He didn’t do a pit maneuver. He just parked his car to block the road a dumbass motorcycle thief was driving at high speed on, endangering everyone who may be on it. And for that, he’ll face prison.
(It sounds racist when stated that way, doesn’t it?)
It is racist.
I had to read the whole article just to understand the the police officer didn’t crash into the criminal, but the other way around. Sounds like the little punk should have hit the brakes. Who knows who he may have killed later on due to reckless driving and other criminal acts in the future…
Should be giving the PO a medal.
“n a statement, the Aboriginal Legal Service (ALS) said Friday’s verdict could be the first time a police officer had been convicted over an Indigenous death in custody in NSW.”
He looks white. Do you mean indigenous to Scotland?
Kid wasn’t in custody, which was the problem.
One drop rule!
So, even though he caused his own death avoiding custody, he was somehow in custody?
And I thought US prosecutions ere insane.
The judge tied herself into a logical pretzel to reach the “in custody” conclusion, which is how the charges stuck.
Judge Culver told the court she agreed with the Crown’s arguments, saying that all the reasons proved beyond a reasonable doubt that “the accused was driving the motor vehicle in a manner dangerous to another person or persons.”
“The accused so seriously failed to properly manage the vehicle that he created a real danger,” she said.
He wasn’t driving the vehicle. He parked it.
Also, why was this not a jury trial?
Also, why was this not a jury trial?
Because FYTW. Also Australia doesn’t have an American-style constitution, so the government can nullify any supposed ‘rights’ whenever they see fit.
Wait, the Constitution means the US government can’t nullify any supposed rights whenever it wants to?
Somebody should tell the government
Meanwhile, this guy is “white”.
https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/1995573779553251532
You really want a jury trial in the indigenous people’s court?
Meh. People with Spanish surnames identify as all kinds of different “races”. Given that the entire point of ascertaining that information is for “affirmative action” purposes I’d really prefer to be rid of that racist crap.
This wouldn’t have happened if the evil whiteman had not brought the wheel to the continent.
Holy shit. So the cop was wrong because he set up a roadblock and the kid crashed trying to go around it. Australia really is finished.
I can all but assure you that if the bike thief was white and not an abbo, nothing would have happened to the cop.
That kid was whiter than Casper the Friendly Ghost.
Isn’t the point of a roadblock to prevent someone from maneuvering around it? Australia is doing all it can to prove that there is no peak stupid.
Again, the prosecution’s arguments are insanely racist – “those people aren’t smart enough not to crash into a roadblock and the officer should have known that”
Well, the first part of that statement appears to be correct. The conclusion they reached, on the other hand, is absurd.
I’m putting this here. As a reminder that Australia used to be a proper country.
https://youtu.be/x1Zuo2JtTdY?si=CN9I8DcXzS1vlGlR
Shit, I expected Crocodile Dundee doing the “That’s not a knife” skit…
Any time Australian political correctness comes up, it’s time to pull out a Kevin Bloody Wilson song to remind people of a simpler, better time.
Here’s another classic:
https://youtu.be/_GO4JnUCYHU?si=-FDpK8c99qsf0b3y
“Why didn’t Minnesota authorities crack down sooner on the blatant theft? Reportedly they were afraid of offending the Somali community, which constitutes a solid voting bloc for Walz and his Democrat colleagues. As one local politician put it, “If you don’t win the Somali community, you can’t win Minneapolis. And if you don’t win Minneapolis, you can’t win the state. End of story.”
OFFS!!
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!!!
Lol, guy in green tired himself out punching this idiot in the head.
Kid was dumb to fuck with a construction worker.
Also, can’t help but notice the cultural difference here. Guy’s friend was ready to step in either direction and had his friend stop once it was clearly over. No one emptied the kid’s pockets or gave him a good night kick to the head…
You mean by providing yet another advantage to rich, smug people beyond the subsidies that came out of everybody else’s pocket?
Well, I never.
The funniest part of the Ukraine negotiations – Zelensky got the Audit clause changed to amnesty.
Don’t investigate the theft of billions, just accept and forgive.
“Let’s see how this goes.”
When I clicked through I immediately got a popup about “giving Tuesday” and the AP begging for donations for itself. LOL
Did you just dismiss it, or did you pretend donate, then dismiss it?
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter about small rebellious concepts…
I like the way you think…
A taste of the coming derp in Virginia
A proper country, like France, would ban face coverings of any kind.
So when the hordes from DC wander into Richmond and the cops don’t stop them, this will get interesting.
That seditious 6 bunch that was trying to set up another hoax and false flag, now claim our military focusing on lethality is not the purpose of the military. No wonder we never fought to win any of those stupid wars they started in the last 25 years…
“Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem proposed a “full travel ban” Monday on unnamed countries “flooding” the US with dangerous migrants, after a meeting with President Trump.
“I just met with the President,” Noem wrote on X. “I am recommending a full travel ban on every damn country that’s been flooding our nation with killers, leeches, and entitlement junkies.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/01/us-news/dhs-chief-kristi-noem-wants-full-travel-ban-on-every-damn-country-she-says-sends-killer-migrants-to-us/
How does that work if you don’t name the countries?
That would be a lot of countries. Every commie and semi-commie nation took advantage to send their troublemakers here during the Obama and Biden years.
All of them. It’s all of them. Hell, being a killer, leech, or entitlement junky is the one job Americans will do. We can supply our own.
None of this would have been an issue before the advent of the Welfare State.
^^^^THIS^^^^
I think at minimum a “pause” from anywhere is completely justified. It’s over a million a year legally. No way is very much of that being vetted, let alone the many millions who got in illegally.
Everybody knows the reason the Dems will go apeshit is because they want to use them as pawns to increase their power. So… another good reason for a “pause”.
“Spanish military sets up ‘exclusion zone’ to contain African swine fever — that may have started from a tainted sandwich”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/01/world-news/spanish-military-sets-up-exclusion-zone-to-contain-african-swine-fever/
STIJLTH
Europe is a joke and lost to the barbarians.
Some Transmissable Infections Jump Long Travel Hurdles?
So, considering the meaning/implication of people count in the terms “Threesome” and “Foursome”, what should your reaction be when you are called “Handsome”?
$20, same as downtown?
For the first time since 1988, the U.S. is not officially commemorating World AIDS Day
Why the hell would anyone set aside a day to celebrate a transmissible disease?
The grifters like to celebrate the awesome magnitude of their grift.
And one that by all means…has been contained and controlled fairly well.
They celebrate it all the time on TV with the Prep and related commercials. Apparently it’s 1975 again and this time without the social stigma.
Reducing? We should fucking eliminate foreign aid. It’s not the responsibility of US taxpayers to take care of the fucking world. And AIDS is easily avoidable by adjusting your behavior.
According to the PrEP ads you can continue with the behavior that got you there.
Reduce foreign aid to reduce foreign AIDS?
Oh how that must have the NPR set all aflutter with indignation.
Good.
Let them reap the consequences of their behavior.
I amount of duplicated work in the FAA is fucking ridiculous
Not surprised.
5Pillars
@5Pillarsuk
The Your Party conference concluded yesterday with a rendition of John Lennon’s anti-religion song “Imagine.”
Your Party has been heavily criticised for being a hostile environment for practising Muslims.
https://x.com/5Pillarsuk/status/1995415545794163193
Imagine no religiooon except Islam duh
I had to look up WTF is a “Your Party”.
But um… left-wing crackpots and Islamists have BFF’s for a long time now. Not sure why it would any different there.
Jury trials going away in the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/dec/02/david-lammy-courts-law-starmer-labour-reeves-budget-obr-uk-politics-live-news-updates
the twitteres were getting away with it too much.
If you can’t trust some inbred blueblood in a stupid powdered wig to render a just verdict who can you trust?
Based on the guy making the change? More likely some immigrant who doesn’t believe in your customs enforcing right think on you.
Now the UK will finally have the law enforcement tools required to solve the very real problem of child rape gangs! Not the problem of children being raped. That is not the REAL problem. The real problem is the colonizer Anglo-Saxons and Celts saying hurtful things to the indigenous Islamic Britons.
The sun truly has set upon the British empire
The sun don’t shine there.
Also…at least this is up front unlike that case from last week in which the judge overrid the jury
Admittedly, in the US it’s totes kewl to imprison people for years without a trial as long as you pinky swear you’re getting around to having one.
I guess it’s time to say the Patriots are for real.
For beating up on a 2-10 team that just fired its head coach and defensive coordinator and sat its top draft pick pass rusher for the first quarter when New England scored the bulk of its points? I’m a Pats fan, but I’m not there yet.
This team scraped by Bengals who were without Joe Burrow. With Burrow back they clobbered the Ravens. Granted, they did beat the Bills and Bucs already, but they also lost to the Raiders. They might get a first round bye, but I don’t see them making it to the Super Bowl.
“Next Models co-founder, Faith Kates, is the latest female powerhouse to take a hit amid the Jeffrey Epstein files.
We’re told Kates, who co-founded the modeling agency in 1989, quietly exited the company via a grammatically challenged email on Nov. 24, after her friendly emails with the pedo resurfaced.
In the email obtained by Page Six, Kates wrote, “36 years after starting next by accident I have decided it’s the right moment to step back and retire from a job I loved.””
https://pagesix.com/2025/12/01/society/next-model-management-co-founder-faith-kates-retires-after-jeffrey-epstein-e-mails-resurface/
Nothing about her procuring girls for Epstein.
I’m sure good old Jeffrey was just hanging around and giving beauty tips. Nothing untoward about that.
He knew a nifty trick that increases bust size!
Simple makeup tips to make you look 10 years younger.
Or 10 years older…
Happy Ending.
Loved the commentary.
“The glamorous blonde writes how Kennedy, who famously struggled with substance abuse in the past and has long spoken of being sober, would smoke the hallucinogenic drug DMT in secret while his wife was out of the house.”
Well, it only lasts 20 minutes. Still, extremely odd thing to do habitually.
“He told her about one summer when he lived with musicians Keith Richards and John Phillips — and The Mamas and The Papas singer purchased a pharmacy so they would have access to amphetamines.”
Wow.
It is but I wouldn’t believe her if she told me the sky is blue either. On top of being an attention whore and a regular whore she also strikes me as being a liar.
The articles never give a clear timeline, I’m guessing she was engaged during her affair with Kennedy, meaning she is indeed a massive liar.
One of her exes has written his own Zoe Post.
Engaged in 2022, slept with Kennedy in 2023.
Oh, and Mark Sanford in 2020 – pre engagement but had been dating Lizza for a few years.
She’s a liar (and he’s a cuck – still asked her to marry him after the Sanford affair)
“slept with Kennedy in 2023”
She says that never happened, but who knows?
“‘The View’ Hosts Debate Whether Pete Hegseth’s Narco Terrorist Boat Strikes Count As War Crimes”
https://decider.com/2025/12/01/view-pete-hegseths-narco-terrorist-boat-strikes-war-crimes/
No.
I can’t possibly guess what conclusion their “debate” arrived at. 🙄
Doesn’t matter. They will have enough moms eating it up who then tell little Timmy or Jane that are in the armed forces to ‘resist illegal orders!’
If there’s one place I look for knowledgeable, nuanced discussion of international “law”, it’s “The View”.
There’s no such thing as international law, only treaties between nations, that nations can choose to withdraw from.
Agreed, thus my scare-quotes around ‘law’
*fruitlessly searches for their debate on whether Obama assassinating American citizens by drone was a war crime*
That was different! Terrorist! Plus they didn’t mean to kill his son, so it’s cool.
That was (D)ifferent.
You see it is nothing at all like the disposition matrix.
Question: I need a “CR123a” battery. At the store there was a similar looking one labelled “123.” Are these the same thing?
Backstory: SIG was having a sale that included a “get a free pistol light.” It doesn’t work. I wanted to try a fresh battery before going for an RMA. It would be amazing that I own so many items from a company I dislike were it not for the fact that I’ve won the bulk of them. Except for my EDC which is great.
Internet says they should work in the same devices. There are differences, but it’s unclear from a quick search what they are – these are not electrical or size in nature.
If it fits, it sits. Just make sure the voltage is the same. Most of those button batteries are 5V, so that should not be an issue.
“Yes, CR123 and CR123A batteries are essentially the same, with both having identical specifications, including voltage and capacity. The difference is mainly in branding, as “A” denotes a specific designation used by some manufacturers.”
Via AI but sounds right.
Zarah Sultana says we should “nationalise the entire economy.”
I asked her what meant in practise.
https://x.com/owenjonesjourno/status/1995556619866784166
Britain should give it a shot. Hell, it’s never been tried before, right?
He should have asked her to give examples of any of that being successful.
She’s supposed to be Muslim. Where’s the hijab?
Are these the same thing?
Same voltage? Same physical size?
Same bat size, same bat channel.
The Duracell one at the store (“123”) says 3V. Unbranded one doesn’t say. WML aanual (only available online) doesn’t say, just specifies “CR123A.” AI says a CR123A is 3.2-3.3V, 10% seems like a pretty typical permissable tolerance.
barbarism critic
@barbarismcrit
I strongly believe that the yimby movement is the most concentrated collection of Adolfs Hitler in American politics and I don’t think anything good will happen while they retain a modicum of power.
https://x.com/barbarismcrit/status/1993348440382960081
So. Is there a case for Adolf Hitlers as a plural, or is Adolfs Hitler better?
Weird. So people who want to solve the housing crisis by building houses are Hitlers?
I strongly believe that the internet is full of r-tarded crackpots.
The internet rewards having the most extreme takes. Obviously that is going to produce stupid takes
Yimbys don’t want to solve the housing crisis, they want to end regulations that are blocking their pet projects.
It is just a different name for the 5 minute city asshoes.
I’m not seeing the problem.
Only for the things they want, and they will increase the regs to eliminate the things the don’t wan’t.
It is just another form of progressivism.
Zarah Sultana says we should “nationalise the entire economy.”
Good gravy. Deport that woman.
Deport her to China, she should fit right in.
Not even China is that stupid. They allow private businesses.
“”On November 5, federal agents charged three Chinese nationals – Xu Bai, 28, Fengfan Zhang, 27, and Zhiyong Zhang, 30 – with conspiring to smuggle biological materials into the US while working at a University of Michigan (U-M) research lab…
According to the DOJ, Bai and Fengfan Zhang allegedly received multiple shipments from China between 2024 and this year containing ‘concealed biological materials related to round worms.’ The parasites are known to infect both humans and livestock.
The samples allegedly had ‘genetic modifications,’ according to notes in the suspect packages, and were shipped to them while they worked at U-M’s Shawn Xu laboratory, prosecutors say…
In the same month Han was arrested, federal prosecutors charged a Chinese couple – Zunyong Liu and Yunqing Jian – with trying to smuggle a dangerous crop fungus into the US, which could potentially devastate American fields and poison livestock.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15269547/University-Michigan-foreign-bioweapons-spying.html
They should be sent back to China by trebuchet.
Adolf Hitlers as a plural, or is Adolfs Hitler better?
Personally I’m inclined to consider an “Adolph Hitler” an entity.
“ yimby movement is the most concentrated collection of Adolfs Hitler in American politics”
They’ve reduced “Nazi” to a meaningless pejorative that’s so overused people laugh it off and now they’re working on doing the same with the Hitler analogies it seems.
We certainly do live in stupid times.
What ever happened to those rumors about Putin being practically at Death’s door?
He is at Death’s door and is shoveling through a significant amount of Ukrainians every day.
Fuck you for making me laugh at that.
Those were true. In the grand scheme of things aren’t we all at Death’s door?
In the less grand scheme of things that was all bullshit.
They went to the same place as the rumors that Lloyd Austin was KIA in Ukraine.
Battery update: the reason I didn’t just by it ’cause it looked close enough was the price $18/2. Doing this online searching says Amazon has them for $35/TWELVE. Now I’m wondering about the shelf life on these things.
…and “Voniko” brand is just $1.67/ea. As long as they last as least half as long as Duracell…
My two cents: The stuff on Amazon is cheap shit that dies quickly, even if you leave it on the shelf. Avoid. If those are made cheaply and exposed to air they are well on the way to dying before you even get them.
There is definately an element of “you get what you pay for” though I don’t know where the threshold of diminishing returns lies.
To be clear, the 4x price differential was for Duracell online v. grocery store.
There is a very cheap brand called YeahWhee, whether that’s an actual (((brand))) or an unfortunate Chinese attempt at communicating “thrifty” I don’t know.
I would assume Chinese knockoff until proven otherwise.
Lol, that name reminds of the scene when Bruce Almighty logs into God’s email.
Amazon sells batteries making claims that violate the laws of physics. I would only buy reputable brands that you are sure not counterfeit.
I buy name brand batteries in bulk through Amazon. I have not had any problems with the batteries.
I typically buy batteries at the wholesale club, though I don’t remember seeing the 123s there. They do have the 2032’s for my optics there, though I discovered you need to remove the anti-eating compound from them with alcohol or they make poor contact .
Yes, lets put sights on a gun that require batteries. That will never fail!
anti-eating??
ZWAK: The bedside gun has irons, but having shot tens of thousands of rounds through a particular gun and a quite a few hundred through the same model of gun with an optic — the optic not only makes me a vastly better shooter, it makes me a better shooter relative to my competition.
Of course, at inside-the-house ranges I can point shoot without issue.
CT: Some makers of shiny-round batteries put something supposedly bad tasting on them to keep toddlers from having them as a side dish with their paint chips. It’s not supposed to affect the functionality, but it does. I personally have never licked them to find how bad it is.
This story gets stupider and stupider
Beginning Feb. 1, travelers 18 and older flying domestically without a REAL ID and who don’t have another accepted form of ID on them, such as a passport, will pay the non-refundable fee to verify their identity through TSA’s alternative “Confirm.ID” system.
TSA officials said that paying the fee does not guarantee verification, and travelers whose identities cannot be verified may be turned away. If approved, however, the verification covers a 10-day travel period.
The fee can be paid online before arriving at the airport. Travelers can also pay online at the airport before entering the security line, but officials said the process may take up to 30 minutes.
That’s one way to fight airport congestion.
I have to travel an hour and a half each way in order to get that fucking thing when there is a perfectly good DMV office 10 minutes away.
Still pissed about that, and not doing it unless/until I have to.
“Sleeping around sure can pay off.”
The power of pussy. Though she does have a very masculine jawline and she’s a bit light up top for my taste I still would.
https://archive.is/DG8ok
Titty Tuesday.
@TPTB: I submitted something last week and it’s still pending. With Derp joining the Wally World fun, it seems rather well-timed.
IT consultant arrested by British police after posing with shotgun on holiday in Florida for LinkedIn post
Jon Richelieu-Booth described enduring “13 weeks of hell” after he was arrested in the UK following his trip overseas.
The 50-year-old was instructed to be careful, but claimed the pictures were taken in the US, where owning and shooting firearms are legal.
A week later, on August 23, the officers returned and arrested him on suspicion of possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence and another allegation of stalking related to a photograph of a house that appeared on his social media.
Mr Richelieu-Booth was held overnight in a cell before being interviewed and released on bail until October.
He claims police visited his home three more times before the charges against him were dropped.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/consultant-arrested-linkedin-shotgun-florida-5HjdNhP_2/
why you bad Americans getting poor Brits in trouble?
In the meantime in Britain
Transgender castle owner drops lawsuit after NHS refused third sex change
Samantha Kane gives up claim for £162,000 in compensation after alleging discrimination and breach of human rights
While this is of course hideous, it’s not uniquely so.
The US has a policy IIRC of prosecuting its citizens for “crimes” committed in jurisdictions where they aren’t.
To be fair, anyone stupid enough to post that on LinkedIn deserves a night or two in jail.
“Hundreds of Russian Porsche owners have found their cars immobilised across the country, amid fears of deliberate satellite interference.
Drivers have complained that their vehicles have suddenly locked up, lost power and refused to start, as owners and dealerships warn of a growing wave of failures that has left hundreds of vehicles stuck in place.
The nationwide meltdown hit Porsche models built since 2013, which are all fitted with the brand’s factory VTS satellite-security unit.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15345095/Russian-Porsche-owners-cars-immobilised-country-deliberate-satellite-interference-feared.html
Cars shouldn’t have that shit.
No shit. Also, what’s meant to be a knee slapper of an own on the Russians will turn into an own on Porsche. Some potential buyers will definitely go elsewhere.
I’m sure governments will eventually use it to force cars to stay off the road, using an environmental fig leaf.
the price $18/2.
Where did you go, Batteries Plus?
A nation turns its lonely eyes to them?
Is Britain a free country?
Oi mate! You got a loicense for that opinion?
Take, for example, the story of a singer called Louise Distras who was arrested by police and questioned about comments she made on GB News about ‘trans-right extremists’. According to the Mail story, officers appeared at her door and proceeded to take her fingerprints and DNA.
Or the group of citizens convicted of sending offensive Boomer memes in a private WhatsApp group called ‘Old Boys Beer Meet’, private messages deemed to be too outrageous for the fragile public to see for themselves.
They were lucky to escape jail. Last year another British citizen was sentenced to 20 weeks in prison for sending offensive jokes in a WhatsApp chat with friends.
Or consider the case of the police coming to a man’s home to arrest him for posting a video on Facebook criticising migrants in his area of London putting up Palestine flags. He had no criminal record or links to extremist groups or politics.
Or the case of police in Edinburgh turning up at the home of a parent who had complained to the school about a teacher ‘being allowed to impose her gender ideology on a classroom of little kids’.
https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/is-britain-a-free-country
Insert bugs bunny no gif
“ UK free speech crackdown sees up to 30 people a day arrested for petty offenses such as retweets and cartoons”
https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/uk-free-speech-struggle-30-arrests-a-day-censorship/
No, they aren’t and they aren’t just isolated incidents either. Britain’s cooked.
It’s perfectly free as long as you express the correct opinions about the currently favorable oppressed classes. I mean, come on.
Sounds like the US in 2020-2021
Ummmmm… why would you do this in Malaysia (which apparently has Islamic laws surrounding this) when anything-goes Thailand is right next door?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-three-brits-among-201-36337943
Can’t some brows just hang out naked drinking beer and watching the football?
No.
Why go to Malaysia at all?
for the curry. Though you can get attacked by a monkey should you carry brightly colored gatorade
Malaysia’s fun and remarkably pretty. $30 round trip from Singapore, like a 20min flight. On the bridge back, there’s some law where the cops can check your fuel before and after so you don’t just cross over to get the cheaper gas.
Economically? Singapore is fantastically free. Politically? That’s a weird-ass place. Neighborhoods that didn’t vote for the Yew family would have trash and other utilities either come late (or not at all?) or become more expensive. ‘Polite’ cajoling that isn’t, is kinda how it was, to paraphrase a Singaporean colleague.
I’m guessing they live there.
“Under Malaysian law, anal and oral sex are considered crimes punishable by up to 20 years in jail and whipping.”
Kinky.
Exceptions for that activity with goats/sheep? It is Islam, after all…
“Costco has sued the Trump administration in an effort to recoup the money it has paid in tariffs if the Supreme Court considers the policy unlawful.
In a complaint filed on Friday in the US Court of International Trade in Manhattan, the wholesaler said the President’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose levies should be deemed illegal.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-15343895/costco-trump-tariff-agenda-lawsuit-billions.html
It’s going to cause massive chaos if the SCOTUS deems it illegal.
Can’t they just take it as a credit on next year’s taxes?
A week later, on August 23, the officers returned and arrested him on suspicion of possessing a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence
Oogah boogah!
Former Patriot owes me $5 from a bet in 7th grade he never paid up.
I want it inflation adjusted from 1991.
Don’t forget the compound interest.
I wonder if that guy who hates “yimbys” recognizes “nimbys” as the obverse side of the same authoritarian coin.
I doubt it.
My 12 year old Samsung plasma TV is showing signs of failure, it has developed a blue speckling effect in the center of the screen. If I stand close to the TV I can see it, otherwise it is hardly noticeable. But you really notice it when watching hockey, it sticks out like a sore thumb on a white background. I typically buy a flagship model TV, I believe they produce a better quality and more accurate image. This time around I may go for a mid tier set, they cost $600 – $800 less than a flagship model. From all the reviews the mid tier sets are really close in picture quality as the flagship models. I’ve noticed flagship OLED TV sets by LG, Samsung and Sony are much cheaper than the same size flagship plasma TV’s from 12 years ago. Curious if others here are picky about choosing a new TV? It seems a lot of people buy on price and size – the bigest TV for the lowest price.
Flatscreens are incredibly cheap now. Supermarket was selling 55″ 4K Vizio for $175.
TVs are another thing I will never be able to buy new again. They are nothing but spyware infested listening devices.
Don’t connect it to the internet.
Kind of difficult to stream content that way
I only stream stuff through my computer HDMI into the TV.
Although there are ways to harden your TV and its internet connection, I’m not the best person to ask.
My current plasma had all the latest features from 2013 – 3D capable (a “flash in the pan”), a camera for motion control(first thing I disabled, the camera could be depressed into the bezel) and Samsungs Smarthub which was kinda of cool and later unsupported. Plasma TV tech died a sudden death a year later once the OLED sets started rolling out.
If I was gonna spend a chunk of money on one, I’d pick Panasonic.
However, I didn’t spend a chunk and got a *very* reasonably priced Amazon Fire Tv instead.
The black friday prices on TV’s are still available. These are my 3 finalists in a 65″ mid tier set: C5 LG, S90F Samsung, Z85 Panasonic. Leaning towards the Panny as Best Buy has it on sale for a good price which includes a 26 month extended warranty.
Pete Hegseth is in trouble now…
https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/franklin-the-turtle-publisher-rips-hegseth-over-violent-use-of-character-in-meme/
““Franklin the Turtle is a beloved Canadian icon who has inspired generations of children and stands for kindness, empathy, and inclusivity,” Canadian publisher Kids Can Press said in a statement on X. “We strongly condemn any denigrating, violent, or unauthorized use of Franklin’s name or image, which directly contradicts these values.””
I am sure you are oh so concerned about those “fisherman” and not, say, defying Orange Hitler.
“Mamdani Appoints Trans Rabbi to Transition Team to Please his Sabbatian Frankist Backers!”
https://leozagami.com/2025/12/01/mamdani-appoints-trans-rabbi-to-transition-team-to-please-his-sabbatian-frankist-backers/
That’s some headline.
“The first publicly transgender woman from an Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community, Abby Stein, joins the health committee with an eye toward advancing LGBTQ+ rights and economic justice….
Rabbi Stein earned a rabbinical degree in 2011. One year later, she made her exodus from the Hasidic community in the direction of a feminine identity, leaving almost everything she knew behind and coming out three years later as a woman. She is the author of Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman. It is a coming-of-age account of struggle, revelation and her journey of “shedding of one identity and growing into another.””
https://gomag.com/article/transgender-rabbi-joins-zohran-mamdanis-nyc-mayoral-transition-team/
That doesn’t sound kosher.
I have no idea what some of that means but really, the only qualification he demands is “commie ratfucker”. The flapdoodle over religion or sex parts is just icing on the cake.
That’s quite the circumcision.
It’s demeaning to authentic retards to be compared to that guy
On Sunday, Nov. 30, Donald’s nephew Fred wrote on X, “As the parent of a young adult with severe disabilities, the use of the ‘R’ word is never acceptable and is very hurtful. Where has this country gone that we even have to discuss this?”
Fred’s 26-year-old son, William, was born with a KCNQ2 mutation, “a genetic misfire that the doctors called a potassium channel deletion.” He is nonverbal and uses a wheelchair.
Does he think his son is going to hop up out of that chair some fine morning and cure cancer?
Great Echo and the Bunnymen links. I hadn’t heard those songs in forever.
Curious if others here are picky about choosing a new TV? It seems a lot of people buy on price and size – the bigest TV for the lowest price.
That would be me. I have recently bought two TCLs. To be honest, my level of “focus” doesn’t justify spending a big pile of money.
The picture on the big (55″) one is not very bright. Night scenes and dark locations are frequently difficult to see. I went in and adjusted the surprisingly limited settings and it helped.
Same. TCLs work, if you put in effort 5to adjust the settings. Good tuners for over the air also.
Turn off the camera and microphone apps.
Yes, if it has them. Lower end models do not.
Hmm, not familiar with TCL – I looked and their upper end models are the same price as the other brands.
I preferred them when they made Roku TVs, those are easier to use and stream with out major privacy invasions. TCL became captive of Google and now makes Google TVs, which are about as private as pissing in public. WalMart still had mid-range Roku TCLs in June, 55″ models, for $300 on closeout.
I’m currently a Roku user, the Panasonic set I’m leaning towards uses Fire TV.
I’ve always gotten Sonys. Not the cheapest by any means, but they have great pictures and seem to last forever. I’m going to go through the new one again and make sure all the spy ware is turned off and its disconnected from the WiFi. It’s jammed with Google software, but the only alternative for the size I wanted that didn’t have that crap was five figures.
ps- I do not let my teevees phone home.
Yellow peril
China’s electric-vehicle industry captured half its domestic market in just a few years, crushing sales of gasoline-powered vehicles from once-dominant global automakers.
But foreign players weren’t the only losers. Many Chinese legacy automakers also watched their sales collapse – and responded by flooding the world with fossil-fuel vehicles they couldn’t sell at home.
While Western policymakers have focused on the threat of China’s heavily subsidized EVs, protecting their markets with tariffs, U.S. and European automakers face greater competition from China’s gas-guzzlers in countries from Poland to South Africa to Uruguay. Fossil-fuel vehicles have accounted for 76% of Chinese auto exports since 2020, and total annual shipments jumped from 1 million to likely more than 6.5 million this year, according to data from China-based consultancy Automobility.
The boom in gasoline-powered exports is driven by the same EV subsidies and policies that wrecked the China businesses of automakers including VW, GM and Nissan by underwriting scores of Chinese EV makers and igniting a devastating price war, a Reuters examination found. The phenomenon highlights the far-reaching impacts of Chinese industrial policy, as foreign competitors struggle to keep pace with government-backed firms chasing Beijing’s goals to dominate critical sectors nationally and globally.
Chinese industrial policy is so awesome they’re flooding the world with gas guzzlers. Cheap efficient gas guzzlers. Those poor consumers.
There’s also no question that, for now, gasoline cars are selling better in second-tier markets, such as Eastern Europe, Latin America and Africa, with scarce EV-charging infrastructure. Longer term, Beijing aims to dominate EVs and plug-in hybrids globally. But in the interim, many Chinese automakers are building overseas brands by giving customers whatever they want.
Them sneaky bastards!
Uhh, gas cars also outsell EVs by a huge margin in “first-tier” markets.
Read an interesting article that China’s rise to dominance(?) in manufacturing wasn’t the “cheap labor” story peddled by MBAs. It was China’s massive investment in new/next-gen factories, comparable to what the US did after WWII.