OMWC is gallivanting somewhere this weekend with Prime. Pray for her sanity.
Okay, it’s the Old Man’s slot, so I’ll toss in a few birthdays. I’ll be disappoint if there aren’t any jokes about the Old Man’s slot:
I got rhythm…I’m not a real witch, I just play one on tv…the only baseball player to hit a natural cycle with a grand slam…Dillinger’s buddy…Browns fans look to the past, sigh, and down another Xanax with a whiskey chaser…“What’s a few thousand dead old people?”…He has no personality, but you still laugh at his jokes…Ryan Leaf looks down his nose and shakes his head. Okay, that’s it for birthdays.
Links?
We need a large West Coast earthquake. Portland needs to become part of a lost “civilization”.
And trucking used to be such a noble profession.
My guess is all the shady shit on video will turn out to be incompetence and apathy.
I just can’t even find the capacity to give a shit about this one.
It was (((them))) and their space lasers.
Alright. That’s it for me. I’ll see you all this evening. Peace out, Glibbies.
He has no personality, but you still laugh at his jokes
I don’t laugh at politicians’ jokes.
I laugh at joke politicians a lot, does that count?
A single teenage death is a tragedy. A couple thousand seniors is a joke?
Fuck! That was supposed to be Stephen Wright.
I was wondering if Cuomo was born twice on the same day. He is a motherfucker.
Replaced with an exact replica?
I love the National Parks, but they should never have free admission days, and should be entirely self supporting.
This was my thought. Either every day is free, or you pay. Any specific days are political, and we need to get rid of that shit.
Yup. It just feeds the racial grievance industry that the left is so fucking obsessed with.
They should be auctioned off and fully privatized.
Juneteenth is a Texas holiday.
It should not be a federal holiday.
Happy birthday Christine O’Donnell?
Nancy Pelosi?
Happy birthday Harry Partch?
Fun fact: if any of the jury members had uttered the phrase “jury nullification” before issuing the verdict they would have been held in contempt and the case would be retried. Just don’t call it what it is.
Because our politics and morals are bester?
/libertarians
Words (and assumed words) are violence and you can now use deadly force to defend yourself from them now.
This is the precedent.
I have been calling for the Cascadia Subduction zone to kick off your years.
Yeah I am perfectly willing to defend the difference between jury nullification when you have moral objections to the law being enforced. and jury nullification because you are the same race as the defendant and the victim isn’t. The one is a moral objection, the other is tribalist racism,
The knife in the criminal’s hand, moving toward the victim? Just a thought.
I’m going to say that the man who should have been charged with attempted murder is the racist here.
Edwards defense attorney Daniel Small reportedly told the jury that his client was approaching Howard to see if he would trade his knife for cigarettes.
I hope all 12 of those jurors get stabbed by a homeless criminal. They deserve it.
I wouldn’t wish that on them, just a trade for the money in their wallet for a knife.
The freshman senator seems to be leaving all doors open, insiders told NOTUS: reelection, retirement and even a long-shot run for president. Some think he’s likely to leave the Senate, which they say he doesn’t seem to enjoy much.
I’ve had Fetterman on my dark horse list for President for 2028 for a while.
I don’t think he will run, and seems pretty worn out by the whole thing right now, but the left base will never let that happen anyway.
Oh, saw this and thought of you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdJN_77bPRE
I like it. Thanks!
Yeah, what would he run as…? The Dems won’t have him.
Ahh, left handed too. What could be better?
“Removing free-entry days on MLK Day and Juneteenth sends a troubling message about who our national parks are for.These holidays hold profound cultural and historical significance for Black communities, and eliminating them as access points feels like a direct targeting of the very groups who already face systemic barriers to the outdoors.”
So black folks will only visit these historic sites on the two days that have free entry? WTH is systemic barriers to the outdoors? Fuck off.
It says they’re for everybody, and not about pandering to race.
When I was a more active outdoorsman, I was reliably informed that the reason black ppl didn’t do camping was that they were glad to have moved on past sleeping in primitive shelter and didn’t want to repeat their ancestors’ experiences.
Recently, I have noticed an uptick in black people engaging in more types of outdoor recreation, of course accompanied by complaints about imagined “systemic barriers to the outdoors.”
Then there are the white savior orgs whose mission is to let urban youths experience “the wonders of nature.” I’ve heard park personnel (etc) cynically refer to these as “hoods in the woods.”
Locally there’s a do-gooder group called “Richmond Cycle Corps” who connect urban youths with mountain biking. Some of their posts are truly cringeworthy apologies for why they can’t enforce helmet use among the kids in their programs, which all boil down to “it would be racist of us to tell them what to do.” Needless to say, I don’t volunteer or donate to them; I can only imagine their release form enforcement.
This is the same bullshit that Burning Man has – black people don’t come out to camp in the desert in a tent and we need more black people. Only to find if you LISTEN to the black people that do come – it isn’t that they aren’t welcomed or they don’t enjoy it, it is their own community saying “what you doin’ goin’ to that white people thing”.
Fuck me being the racist.
There have been articles published locally about how our park systems aren’t doing enough outreach to the black community. The parks are in the neighborhoods, nearly all are free (even ones that aren’t, like the zoo have days that are free for children), but they are less popular with black families than other races, so the only explanation is racism.
Free day at the Frist art gallery in Nashville was wild.
I get about a foot from a painting and the guards yell at me.
People on free day touching a Dutch master?
That’s fine.
Dyer told space.com that cosmic rays “can interact with modern microelectronics and change the state of a circuit”.
And electronics should be able to handle it. It’s not a new problem.
This was my immediate question, why are the electronics in aircraft not shielded?
They are.
Google AI Overview
HIRF and Lightning Aircraft Certification
Airborne Hardware HIRF (High-Intensity Radiated Fields) refers to the rigorous testing and certification of aircraft electronics to ensure they function safely when exposed to powerful external electromagnetic fields from sources like radar and communication towers, preventing system failures or hazardous data from intense RF energy, as defined by regulations (CFR 25.1317) and standards (SAE ARP5583, DO-160), ensuring critical functions aren’t disrupted during flight.
What they are describing is Neutron Single Event Upset (NSEU). Apparently some event exceeded the standards that equipment is designed and tested to.
I don’t do hardware, but I work with people that do.
To the best of my recollection, SEU is caused by gamma rays. There isn’t any effective shielding for gamma rays on aircraft. It’s a statistical analysis to determine how well as system can survive SEU during high altitude operation where exposure is higher.
Google AI Overview
Understanding Gamma and Alpha Radiation
Effective gamma ray shielding requires materials with high density and a high atomic number, such as lead, tungsten, or concrete, and the thickness of the shielding is a critical factor. Other materials, like flexible polymer-lead composites or specialized lead-free options, are being developed for specific applications such as flexible personal protective equipment or aerospace shielding. The most suitable shielding material depends on factors like the radiation energy, the specific application, and the trade-offs between effectiveness, weight, flexibility, and cost.
“Gamma ray seu” likely refers to Single Event Upsets (SEU) caused by gamma rays, a significant issue in electronics, especially for spacecraft, where energetic particles flip bits (0 to 1 or vice versa) in memory/logic, requiring robust design or error correction (like memory scrubbing) to ensure reliability
Aluminum and silicon aren’t going to cut it.
I know that spacecraft electronics generally use radiation-hardened CPUs which are rather pricey compared to desktop versions.
These guys make some fun and functional stuff.
We dodged a Carrington event the last couple years but this coming year could hold some big solar storms yet. https://www.concordaerospace.com/products/jewish-space-laser-activation-panel
I remember being reliably assured ~20 years ago when states started issuing driver licenses to illegal immigrants that it would be an unvarnished good on account of they’d be able to obtain insurance, and that no illegal immigrants would ever be driving big rigs because the CDL requirements were so stringent.
In my younger days I had a chauffeurs license issued by the state of Missouri which was required to drive any commercial vehicle or truck. The requirements: 18 years old, have a regular license and pass an additional written test. It cost an extra $10. You got a new license with the word Chauffeur at the top. Missouri got rid of the chauffer license in the mid 80’s and replaced it with different classes of CDL’s. No idea what the requirements are today.
I had a chauffeur’s license as well, circa 1955. Same requirements.
The requirements today suck.
Must be 21.
Go to a school, pay a bunch of money to get a piece of plastic from the feds.
Pay every time for a new school to get a new or improve your level of CDL
Schedule and pay for random annual drug testing.
Before Feb 2022 you could get a learners permit, take a road test and you have a CDL. Now you have to pay for a school.
Have a bus endorsement?
Hazmat?
Take that school over and pay every five years and a federal background check.
Before 1992 there was no CDL. Many states did not have the chauffeurs lisence.
The new system rested the problem.
Thanks government.
And a DOT physical every other year that starts at $150.
If they see BP over 90/135 they DQ you and make you pay the fee and visit annually. That’s to push meds.
So, is free admission explicitly for OMB’s birthday? The article doesn’t mention that it coincides with Flag day/US Army’s birthday. AI says it’s also national cucumber day and national strawberry shortcake day.
It’s SFgate, so they have kneejerk TDS, but I was wondering what Trumps birthday coincides with. And there it is.
I do wish, if they are going to do free days, that they kept MLK day. That seems appropriate.
It’s also my birthday. And Burl Ives’, among others.
🎵 Born on the fourteenth of June 🇺🇸
whaddup doh’
whats goody yo
Travelling across the USA.
We’re gonna need confirmation from Animal if the bears in Alaska do, in fact, twerk.
Lyrics by the birthday boy (with no known involvement by his more famous brother.)
““What’s a few thousand dead old people?”…He has no personality, but you still laugh at his jokes”
Same link.
The second one has to be this guy.
Thanks 🙂
How far we’ve strayed from our agrarian past.
I know that kid!
“However, he was found not guilty of the crime on October 31 after the jury learned the victim was using racial slurs in the aftermath of the altercation.”
Aftermath of the altercation? So it was after he stabbed him?
“Edwards defense attorney Daniel Small reportedly told the jury that his client was approaching Howard to see if he would trade his knife for cigarettes.”
You cannot be serious.
The Cheech and Chong defense.
So the repeatedly violent African American fellow was just working on a trade and things went south? Not guilty!
“He was convicted of attempted second-degree assault in 2021 and was sentenced to three years in prison for another stabbing in 2020, records show.
Edwards was accused of fourth-degree assault for fighting with a shop clerk, but the case was dismissed because he could not secure a public defender.”
So how long before he stabs someone else?
Won’t be long most likely. They’ll eventually put him in prison after he murders someone, it’s almost inevitable.
The guy was certainly being a n…
The black had pre-cog capabilities and knew the white guy would say it if stabbed. So that made the whole thing okay.
The sheriff is near !
“This is the first picture of a mountaineer who froze to death on Austria’s highest peak after being allegedly ‘abandoned’ by her boyfriend during a night-time ascent in brutal sub-zero conditions.
Kerstin Gurtner, 33, died just 150ft below the summit of the 12,460ft Grossglockner in January last year as temperatures plunged to minus 20C.
Her climbing partner and boyfriend, Thomas Plamberger, 39, now faces a charge of negligent homicide after prosecutors concluded he left her ‘exhausted, hypothermic and disoriented’ in the dark while he descended alone.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15358873/Pictured-Girlfriend-33-left-freeze-death-Austrian-mountain-boyfriend-20C-cold-faces-homicide-trial-tragic-questions-swirl-happened.html
Maybe she was really annoying.
He was going for help. Cell phone died.
Lots of explanations….
Only a man exercising toxic masculinity would have tried to bring her down with him.
“Rogan told podcast host Jesse Michels (Right) that humans had been genetically engineered to create an ultimate AI supercomputer”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15350107/Joe-Rogan-predicts-spark-Second-Coming-Jesus.html
That podcast has some set.
I love the “stock image” disclaimer on the Jesus picture.
Second coming?
More like an Angel of light.
Silicone Saturday on a chilly morning.
https://archive.is/fMyXu
Disappointing, they don’t look cold at all.
When my mom came to live with me, she was strict about not doing certain things on the Sabbath, e.g., shopping or getting fast food. Except she wanted some whatever. It was not a hint, and she was kind of pissed I went and got her what she wanted, so she didn’t eat it until the next day. I told her I was happy to serve as her Sabbath Goy.
“A grandfather and his 3-month-old granddaughter were found dead in their Tennessee home — apparently mauled to death by the family’s pack of pit bulls that were known to terrorize the neighborhood.
The lifeless body of James Alexander Smith, 50, was found inside the Tullahoma home Wednesday afternoon while the tiny tot was still being attacked by their 7 dogs, all of which police had to gun down to reach the bloodied victims, according to the 14th Judicial District Attorney General. ”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/06/us-news/tennessee-grandpa-3-month-old-grandkid-mauled-to-death-by-7-pit-bulls/
yikes!
Inevitable.
Guarantee he wasn’t taking care of those dogs properly.
The house was condemned due to its condition, according to a GoFundMe started by the family.
Pity the little one, but the fat-ass white trash got what he deserved.
“Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani vowed Thursday to stop clearing homeless encampments throughout the Big Apple — ending a signature initiative pushed by the Adams administration since taking office.
The Democratic Socialist flatly told reporters at an unrelated press conference in Manhattan that he would stop all sweeps of makeshift settlements come the new year when he is sworn in as mayor.
“If you are not connecting homeless New Yorkers to the housing that they so desperately need, then you cannot deem anything you’re doing to be a success,” Mamdani said of the Adams policy, which has faced criticism for not getting those homeless people into permanent homes after the sweeps.”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/04/us-news/mamdani-to-stop-all-sweeps-of-homeless-encampments-as-nyc-mayor/
OFFS!!
Who’s going to tell him that most of them don’t want “permanent homes”? And the ones they do put into “permanent homes” turn them into crack houses and meth labs? (Ask me how I know.)
NYC will be working on social programs to teach people how turn your crack house into a crack home.
Of course, none of this has anything to do with supposedly “helping” the “homeless”.
It has everything to do with winning the votes of the luxury left.
DrOtto:
No cheap crack houses for me no more!
How many “permanent homes” have you turned into a meth lab?
Will homeless be allowed to set up in Schurz Park which surrounds Gracie Mansion, the mayoral residence?
Yo Mamdummy – learn from a predecessor.
“Pattie Gonia, the drag queen and environmentalist, arrived in San Francisco on Friday afternoon where she crossed the Golden Gate Bridge with $1m more than when she set out on her journey last week.
The diversity and inclusion advocate completed the 100 mile trek from Point Reyes national seashore to San Francisco in full drag with her voluminous red wig and smokey eye. The effort was part of a campaign she launched to raise $1m for eight non-profits that aim to expand access and make the outdoors a more “equitable place”.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/06/pattie-gonia-drag-queen-environmentalist
Because the trees are bigots?
Is “smokey eye” a euphemism ?
Not a bad grift.
I wonder what “her” cut is.
I thought that was weird. Almost all drag queens are “he”.
Nature don’t give a shit about diversity. It’ll kill anybody.
This is like the trans protests on El Capitan. That rock doesn’t care and if you fuck up, gravity sucks as hard for everybody.
“The panel’s landmark vote to change the hepatitis B recommendation will create confusion and access issues for families, and questions about routine vaccines more widely indicate a worrying trend, experts said.
“It’s really very devastating to have seen what unfolded today,” said Susan Wang, a pediatrician and the former lead for prevention of perinatal hepatitis B at the CDC. “It’s also laying the groundwork for destroying the rest of the childhood immunization schedule.””
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/06/vaccine-panel-hepatitis-b-change
Good.
“The hepatitis B decision is a major misstep, he said. The virus lives on surfaces for a week, making it a concern for anyone who comes into contact with it – but young children are especially vulnerable to long-term illness and death.”
Bullshit.
CT you are being too cynical about Hep B for kids. When my 2d grade friends and I were shooting up heroin in 1967 we only worried about three things: getting drafted, the astronauts sinking into and disappearing into the lunar dust, and not having a Hep B vaccine to protect us.
Ha – you weren’t worried about HepB because the virus wasn’t isolated until 1970. That’s what a long time scourge this thing is!
“For Raksha Raheja, the committee’s decisions are professional and personal. She is a pediatrician whose child is living with cancer.
Eroding access to and confidence in vaccines puts her immune-compromised son at greater risk, she said.”
Eroding access?
Eroding access=you can still have it, but YOU have to pay for it.
The real kicker is they are only delaying it from a neo-natal shot to a few months old. Why it was pushed as immediately post-birth I have no idea.
WaWa superiority
A Philadelphia convenience store popular for its specialty sandwiches and coffee has been named as America’s best – narrowly beating QuikTrip and Buc-ee’s.
The American Customer Satisfaction Index has declared Wawa as the superior outlet in its first ever convenience store study which was released earlier today.
The study was based on 5,710 surveys done by random customers who answered questions on their store experiences including convenience of hours and locations, coffee freshness and food quality over a seven month period.
Each chain was ranked between zero to 100 – with the Philadelphia store scoring the highest at 82.
Speaking of sandwiches, I saw a definition of hubris the other day. Directly next door to an old established Italian deli, someone decided to open a Subway.
They need an exclusionary lease!
Never been there. It would have to be pretty stunning to beat Bucees and Busy Bee.
The Bucees sandwiches are pretty good
Texas has been getting whole “adult amusement park” areas now, where you get gas, there is one or more sit-down restaurants, and a big plaza with coffee and silly stuff to buy. It’s like Cracker Barrel in steroids. Makes stopping for gas an event.
I’ve been to both.
Their food is different. BBQ and fudge at Buc-ee’s. Sandwiches, pizzas, and soup at WaWa. I like both places for food.
Unless you are close to Philly, the average WaWa has less insanity than Buc-ee’s. WaWa, being in the mid-Atlantic, tends to get you in and out faster than Buc-ee’s.
You ain’t lyin’…
So a truck stop?
Hoagies for the win!
People clinging to face diapers
As winter viruses continue to spread, counties across the US are reinstating mask mandates for people entering hospitals.
Major New Jersey hospital systems are reimposing mask requirements for staff, patients and visitors in response to rising cases of Covid, flu and RSV statewide.
Hackensack Meridian Health, the state’s largest network with 18 hospitals, announced Monday that all visitors to admitted patients must wear masks effective December 1.
RWJ Barnabas Health, which operates 14 hospitals, also reinstated last year’s mandate that same day, requiring masks for direct-care employees, patients leaving their rooms, and all visitors in patient areas.
The move follows a recent increase in hospitalizations linked to respiratory illnesses, particularly among adults over 65 and young children. The leading culprit is the H3N2 subtype of Influenza A.
State health officials warn cases are expected to rise further during the holiday season. The policy shift mirrors a similar mask mandate that was recently reinstated in Sonoma County, California.
That is nuts.
With all this super cold weather lately I have to say I’m very disappointed in global warming. I’ve been using fossil fuels for decades and this is the result?
Global Warning: you had one job!
Of course there’s a typo
Warning works just as well or better.
Stet.
That’s why you are annoyed.
Some CNN employees were concerned that an acquisition by Paramount could lead to ideological changes at the news channel.
Nobody wants that.
My god, that might lead to more viewers!
CDL fraud.
A problem the Feds created with the creation of the CDL.
Eliminate the CDL.
Deport the illegals.
Problem solved.
I saw this video on POTP.
“A Pakistani-origin Muslim New York Times contributor posted a blatantly racist anti-white message to his Substack account in which he said that white Americans “have lost” and will be replaced with “brown” people.”
https://podscripts.co/podcasts/part-of-the-problem/the-great-replacement
https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/nyt-contributor-embarks-on-anti-white-rant-message-you-have-lost/
“You lost. The mistake that you made is you let us in the first place. See that’s the thing with brown people. And I’m going to say this as a brown person. There’s a lot of us.… There’s like 1.2 billion in India. There’s more than 200 million in Pakistan. There’s a 170 million in Bangladesh.… And we breed, we’re a breeding people. And the problem is, is you let us in in 1965.… Once you let one of us in, you know what happens with brown folks? Our grandmother comes, our grandfather comes, our uncle comes, our aunt comes, our cousin comes, our second cousin comes, our third cousin comes. Then we have kids, a bunch of kids.… We are everywhere.
You have lost. Your story is a shittty story filled with misery. It’s filled with bland chicken. It’s filled with terrible, terrible dry ass meat. Your music sucks. All your culture sucks. That’s why the kids, like, listen to black people and their music. That’s why the kids love Latinos. Your parties suck because they’re monochromatic. Our parties have better food, better music, better-looking women.”
99% of the racists I have met sound exactly like this guy and hate crackers just like he does.
He justified the beliefs of every American racist.
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/dear-hatemongers-we-arent-going-back
But that’s the good kind of racism and you’re racist for not celebrating his stunning bravery.
I never got the whole white people have bland food thing.
Common Tater:
I would say it’s seeing things like the midwestern take on Tex-Mex and wide spread ignorance of various regional dishes. It isn’t the coasts that have extra mild salsa as an example.
And Robert 4thReich’s column today is all about how Trump is being hateful to foreign immigrants who just want to assimilate into America and love the ideas expressed in our founding documents.
Makes stopping for gas an event.
I’ll stick my card in the pump and GTFO.
Awesome euphemism.
When I am 8-14 hours on the road, I want to sit down at a dinner and good beer. Traveling should be adventure, not torture.
Jane Fonda has a concern
We don’t know which company Warner Bros. Discovery will choose as its new owner. We don’t know what price will be paid or who will be left standing afterward. But we don’t need to know the final outcome to understand the danger. The threat of this merger in any form is an alarming escalation in a consolidation crisis that threatens the entire entertainment industry, the public it serves, and — potentially — the First Amendment itself.
Regardless of which company ends up acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery or its parts, the resulting impact is clear: Consolidation at this scale would be catastrophic for an industry built on free expression, for the creative workers who power it, and for consumers who depend on a free, independent media ecosystem to understand the world. It will mean fewer jobs, fewer opportunities to sell work, fewer creative risks, fewer news sources and far less diversity in the stories Americans get to hear.
For actors, writers, directors, editors, designers, animators and crew already fighting for work, consolidation will lessen the overall demand for their skills. And when only a handful of mega-companies control the entire pipeline, they gain the power to steamroll every guild — SAG-AFTRA, the WGA, the PGA, the DGA, IATSE, everyone — making it harder for workers to bargain, harder to stand up for themselves and harder to make a living at all.
We don’t want the wrong people to have a stranglehold on the business.
These same people hate Angel Studios.
Start your own goddamn content creation company.
Exactly this.
Start your own goddamn content creation company.
That’s crazy. Pander to the rubes in Peoria?
he said that white Americans “have lost” and will be replaced with “brown” people.”
I have been assured by the Best People this is a myth. A scary campfire story told by white nationalists.
Oh, right. December 6. Some people did some things.
We would all be better off today if FDR had called Hirohito first thing Monday morning and surrendered.
We wouldn’t have been vulnerable to a Japanese attack if FDR had let the fleet return to home port.