Good morning one and all to another beautiful day!
Trump secures outlines of a Greenland deal, now economics will have to win over its people
NATO: Trump’s Greenland Framework to Ensure China, Russia Never Gain Foothold on Island
Vice President JD Vance to visit Minneapolis, source says, amid unrest over ICE operations
Bondi threatens legal sanctions on Minnesota officials for challenging ICE deployment
SCOTUS Sends Mixed Signals On Trump’s Removal Of Federal Reserve Member
6 Percent of American Travelers Do Not Have Real IDs as Deadline Looms: TSA
Wild video shows Dem lawmakers get in vicious fight after town hall meeting
Uvalde trial: Former school police officer Adrian Gonzales found not guilty on all counts
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Trump secures outlines of a Greenland deal, now economics will have to win over its people”
Both of them?
One would think just promising that the US won’t sterilize them without their knowledge or consent would get enough of a voting bloc.
They’ve been whipped into a frenzy of TDS by the looks of the rEsIsTaNcE showing on the news. To give the impression they prefer their current colonizers, I guess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterilization_of_Native_American_women
Yeah, maybe not…
I read that article and I have doubt.
Likely as legit as the mass graves outside schools in Canada.
Gustave, even the sources on the wiki link are suss.
Sure, but like all good conspiracy theories, there’s a nugget of truth. Compulsory sterilization, usually for the mentally ill, was both policy and goal of the progressive movement.
They should be happy, they’ll end up like Puerto Rico; no worse off, lots of welfare from Uncle Sugar, no federal taxes.
…and rum?!
Genuine ice wine.
No taxation without representation?
no song for you
Be careful — Banjos will cut you down.
You people actually click on the song?
I did and it’s a good un
It’s tradition to check out the song. I also am glad to see St. Louis was the hair-pulling contest between law makers.
““If you do not withdraw that motion, the United States reserves the right to take appropriate action, including sanctions or other disciplinary action,” Bondi wrote.”
Strong letter to follow?
*location of
Bondi threatens legal sanctions on Minnesota officials for challenging ICE deployment
And nothing else happened.
I’m sure there will be just as much accountability as for every other abuse of power over the last two decades.
Oooh, so a bunch of super aggressive sound bites from the ‘firebrands’ in Congress. Some stern but ambiguous threats of consequences. And then it all goes away and oh look at the time, guess we need to get to work passing another CR to keep all the money flowing to important causes like the Every Congressman a Multi-Millionaire Fund. Man I love that stuff!
Look, she sent a strongly worded letter.
Kayfabe.
Far-left agitator who organized MN church storming raked in over $1 million from anti-poverty nonprofit
It got her out of poverty, didn’t it?
Over six years. It’s not an insignificant amount of money, but wow do I hate MSM who sums up all funding across multiple years for click bait headlines.
Exactly. I hate that too.
Maybe just point out her “charity” consistently paid out significantly less in grants than she took home in salary and benefits.
Charity begins at home
Seems like a lot of profit, for some.
https://taconitereview.org/posts/the-mesabi-iron-ranges-big-ideas-a-cautionary-tale-of-economic-development-dreams.html
The Somalis are just playing catch up. Long history of money making in Minnesoda.
WTF?
Made with somali bone handles?
PONick,
I didn’t have to go to Iron World to see orange cars, a trip down main street Podunkville and you knew who worked in the mines. The big thing now is what to do with the local manganese deposits.
Go to an Asian restaurant, get free imported chopsticks.
Imported chop sticks, doing the job American chopsticks won’t do.
Where are my arrests? There was supposed to be arrests.
/Marvin
Why? Do you have a lead on a person who wandered around on January 6th?
Just wait a bit. Hochul’s secret police have identified you as a serial hate speaker, who has not celebrated the new mandatory Transgender Awareness Holidays, and White Shame Rituals. A warrant has been issued and the Gaystapo are on their way to you as we speak.
“addresses anti-poverty issues”
“conduct activities to educate and support Black communities”
Neither of those mean anything.
Started with BML I bet… hm. Six years. Yup.
Fits with my certainly that all these rioters are just the same crowd of commies that have been whipped up by BLM and friend since Floyd.
This is what happens when you don’t properly Pinochet your Commies. They keep agitated and commie on.
Perfect! You can never fail in doing something if there are absolutely no measurable results.
Many forms were filled out, much money was spent, and platitudes were spoken. What more do you want?
It turns out that talk is not, in fact, cheap.
I am laying my bet now that the Barron Trump story gets turned around into “Barron Trump Beats Girl on Video.”
The real story is that UK cops responded to a white woman being attacked and arrested someone.
Bondi threatens a lot of shit, but so far what she does is pretty much what I would expect a deep state mole to do.
Meh, she looks to me more like someone who is stupid and incompetent and so far in over her head that she doesn’t even know how to begin to take any action.
I agree completely. She wasn’t the first choice, I think she was the “holy crap we need a warm body “ choice. Strikes me as a complete incompetent.
“Older women, younger whiskey”
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tomthall/fasterhorses.html
Sounds right to me
Very much this.
Don-Don’s ability to attract and manage competent adults is one of his bigger weaknesses.
She stirs up the impotent rage monkeys.
Her nickname was Pat-to-Play Pam in Florida. Seems to be exactly what her worst critics warned about. Why Trump hired her I can’t understand.
Because who in their right mind is going to work for Trump? Good old mister I-say-one-thing-and-do-another.
She’s blond.
She could get through the Senate.
ICE Moves to Enter Homes Without Warrants Signed by a Judge
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ice-moves-to-enter-homes-without-warrants-signed-by-a-judge-4f7231e7?st=WCFowX&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Oh, good. In other matters most of the judiciary rubber stamps warrants. So I’m sure that a bunch of immune individuals will in no way do a no-nock raid on anyone and if they did will have serious consequences. Right?
Rejected.
If you have information sufficient to justify entry you can follow process and get a fucking warrent.
Yes.
However, this does expose that the Form I-205 Warrant of Removal/Deportation are just pieces of paper we hand out with no previous intentions of enforcing them.
If that isnt a valid warrant, reapproach judges with every outstanding I-205 and get them on record one way or the other.
You want to move immigration law to criminal courts instead of administrative ones?
Don’t know what the solution is. No one does but its either a hammer or a bigger hammer
“You want to move immigration law to criminal courts instead of administrative ones?”
I don’t see why not. Illegal immigration is a crime, so why wouldnt it be handled by criminal courts?
And, in addition, why couldn’t administrative courts use proper search warrants?
Administrative “courts” are not real courts, they’re just executive branch bureaucrats pretending to be judges.
I remember when ALJ were just called hearings officials.
My understanding is immigration enforcement does not require arrest warrants. The people sought are not citizens. Now to enter homes without warrants, that’s another thing.
“But, but, but, ICE is supposed to be on OUR side…”
Compliment or complaint?
Jack Smith is no Robert Mueller.
Because Smith wasn’t a figurehead.
Uvalde trial: Former school police officer Adrian Gonzales found not guilty on all counts
Good to know the court can investigate them and find they did nothing wrong as well.
Look, I don’t expect everyone to rush into the jaws of death to save other people’s kids, it takes a special type of person to be able to do that. What I do expect is that these special types of people be the ones in that position. I believe he was the SRO, so he knew these kids, and yet he did nothing. Sure, police have no duty to protect individuals, but I am willing to make an exception for SROs, they should have that duty. If kids are being shot and you, the SRO, don’t take out the shooter or die trying, then the gallows are too good for you. Sadly, it seems to be the dregs of the department that end up in these assignments.
Fight, flight or freeze. I don’t think its criminal if a persons biology overrode their will or intent.
No. But it definitely shows they’re unfit to be a crisis responder.
I agree for 99% of cases. When you are being paid to protect children, then that 1% better step up.
This is a situation where “Pour encourager les autres” trumps understandable human frailty. When you take certain jobs you have agreed that in some situations you have a duty to go into harms way that trumps your understandable desire for self preservation. If you don’t have it in you to do that, fine, but you can’t be a cop, fireman, or soldier.
“Biology” overriding “will or intent” is why a lot of crimes occur. “I know I shouldn’t ought to do this, but I just can’t help myself” is not a valid defense to any crime. If you have a duty to do X, but just can’t bring yourself to do it, you have still failed your duty.
The United States military codes of justice define cowardice in battle as a crime punishable by death.
Police departments are paramilitary organizations. We may not like this, but it’s true.
This is (yet another) example of cops wanting the virtue without the sacrifice.
ES has it right. You want to put stripes, bars, or stars on you sleeve or collar and give each other honors and medals and “____ of the year” awards, you better step up and do your job when it counts. Waiting for 77 minutes for someone with an actual set of balls to show up and handle the situation is unacceptable.
I am not saying I am that person, hell, I was an electronics repairman in the Army and didn’t train like a Ranger or SF team member. I like to tell myself I would step up, but never training to be under fire, much less actually doing so, I cannot say for sure. But when you are tasked with protecting children, you better know you can perform and you better train to do it. And a conference room at the Hilton hotel with an open bar afterwards (thanks taxpayers) is not the kind of training I’m talking about.
I didn’t sign up to
go to warprotect children. I signed up for the benefits.Probably worked some overtime to pad his retirement that day.
At least he made it home at the end of his shift, and that really is all that counts (not the number of bodies of 10 year old kids.)
Like those that sign up for the military for schooling or travel
I am still surprised that it went to trial at all, let alone going to a verdict.
The courts have ruled repeatedly that the police are under no legal obligation to actually come to help you in a crises.
Meanwhile, mandatory reporters such as teachers, can be fired or prosecuted for failing to report possible child abuse.
Not in the state of Washington.
This.
I don’t get it either. We may not like it but it’s true – that is not why cops exist. Mostly they exist to mop up later and fetch coffee for detectives. And their presence can deter crime but not if they’re somewhere else.
Unfortunately, you don’t know what someone’s mettle under fire is going to be until they’re, well, under fire. And the type of person who is going to run to the 5.56mm danger armed with only a handgun is vanishingly rare — rarer still if they’re local PD.
A good chunk of the reason is the type of person who is attracted to that sort of job in the first place. The reason certain government employees are disproportionately vile is that the career attract low-status, low-quality people who are now in a position to demand the respect and deference that they would never be able to earn otherwise. Police and schoolteachers are particularly susceptible to this, but anyone who’s swallowed his tongue when getting sassed by the DMV lady or the TSA martinet knows the drill as well.
I wonder if he’s the guy who was recorded sanitizing his hands in the hallway while children were dying.
“Be with you in a minute, you guys go ahead and start without me”
SRO is the cake job cops get when they have been good boys or are winding down their careers. It’s safe we than being a beat cop.
Shocking…
CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/ceos-say-ai-is-making-work-more-efficient-employees-tell-a-different-story-6613ce9d?st=WG3VhZ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Because LLMs are NOT good at most of the tasks people are throwing at it.
How good are the kids coming out of the modern University system at anything except grievance analysis? I think AI is the successor idea to importing/outsourcing third world workers to pick up the slack from declining birth rates, skills and motivation, and labor participation rates in the developed world. The importing/outsourcing thing didn’t work as smoothly as hoped so the new managerial fantasy is AI. Anything to avoid confronting the real problem.
Issues at my current company are top down, not bottom up.
Implementing changes with no plans or communication is a common issue, which shouldn’t exist in an IT company.
Neph! You are adorable.
That is how it works everywhere.
I would blame commie Agile, but it goes much deeper than that.
Government managers push agile but want waterfall planning so you get scrumfall.
I hate the code it has generated for me, I just write it myself. But AI does a damn good job of commenting my code. Much better than I do. And much faster.
Are you on my current team ROAT?
Agile works, in a fully committed agile environment.
Agile works, in a fully committed agile environment.
Communism works if you ignore human nature and assume a fully committed New Soviet Man.
We can GIGO at unprecedented speed.
As a matter of entertainment, I have been asking AI for procedures such as oil light reset procedures. It has not gotten one right yet on those, just yesterday it gave me the Toyota procedure while I needed it for a Ford escape. It does seem good on torque specs though.
Good test case.
Usually the procedures are painful. I’m assuming you just normally use one of the multiple professional scanners you own.
Ive had success but you have to be very specific and ask for sources.
For instance, ChatGPT provided me with the consensus found on the interwebs (mostly reddit and 4runner forums) but also provided the page number correctly in the 4runner manual for my year.
Claude on the otherhand provided same info but also pitfalls and clearer instructions that someone might run into, like not being on the ODO readout and instead trying to reset when on Trip A/B.
I give year, make and model and engine size. And yes Sensei, I typically use Mitchell or my scanner, whichever is quickest, which is usually Mitchell. I ask AI after the fact. What I’m trying to see is if it’s getting better. So far, it’s not. The only thing it has gotten right that it has previously gotten wrong is cylinder layouts on Ford V8s. It used to give the GM layout, which is completely different from the Ford layout.
Toyota’s are nice in that they’ve used the odo button for years. I don’t know of one that doesn’t work on. On GMs and Stallantis, sometimes mashing the gas pedal 3 times works, other times it doesn’t.
DrOtto – you can try to make it understand that accuracy is of the utmost importance. Tell it that. Also keep training the same model.
If it fails tell it that it is wrong and to try again.
Thanks for the tips Sensei, I’ll have to give that a try and see if it helps.
On my 2022 Toyota, you go into the control screen on the dash to reset the “service due” light. Once you know where it’s buried (I think it’s three screens deep), you’re good to go.
Current test on Google’s AI summaries:
What’s the difference between oxtail and beef shanks?
[emphasis mine]
I rarely if ever open the google AI prompt. I don’t like that it’s hard to get out of to go back to your original search. I was looking for 1000 amp welder starter parts with a specific part number for the assembly. What AI came up with was something off of an air conditioner.
I’ve had the same problem with Google for over a decade when searching with a part number. It comes back with anything but the part I’m looking for.
So just more of the same from the be evil people.
“American OnlyFans star with alleged cartel ties kidnapped while driving lilac Cybertruck”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/21/world-news/onlyfans-star-with-alleged-cartel-ties-kidnapped-in-mexico/
STIJLTH
Fake kidnapping for the free advertisement?
Some Twat In ‘Jacked Lilac Truck Hoisted?
BWaahahahahahaha
Because electable in the 30th District, where whites are 17% of the population isn’t exactly like the rest of the state of Texas?
Success in that sort of district will surely translate to widespread appeal
Narcissistic solipsism for the win!!!
Pretty sure no solipists other than me exist.
I am loved in my district, therefore the entire state will love me!
I’ve mentioned it here before: every congresscritter makes sound bites on the floor or on the stump that appeal to their district’s base. But in many of those VRA “Designated Darkie Districts,” the base has a “stick it to The Man” attitude that makes statements appealing to them seem clownish (see: Maxine Waters, the entirety of “the Squad,” or the cowboy hat lady in south Florida).
Crockett’s problem is that her affected hoodrat schtick works just fine in TX-30, but it’s not exactly going to play in Pearland or Plano.
FWIW, the donks plucked Val Demings out of her Orlando-area safe seat to run against Lil Marco in 2022, hoping for the same strategy of energizing the yutes and disaffected moderates. She got spanked 58-41%.
“Once considered a basic, fundamental skill, this was phased out back in 2010, with the introduction of the controversial Common Core curriculum. ”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/22/lifestyle/nyc-public-schools-arent-teaching-cursive-writing-we-have-to-fix-this/
The important thing is that they learn gay sex tricks to free Palestine.
Instead, I have to slowly and painstakingly write in print instead, to make sure they’re able to read it all.
Practice more.
Even I can’t read my cursive without great difficulty. This is one cultural conservative issue where I am unimpressed by the need to preserve the ‘skill’.
Except for birthday cards and Christmas cards I abandoned cursive decades ago because I had trouble reading my own writing when writing fast. Switched to block print. But now I block print so sloppily I have trouble reading that unless I write slowly and carefully.
I can still recognize my own signature though.
I print faster than I ever could have written cursive.
Cursive exists not for speed but as a workaround for the poor writing tools of the day.
The pencil and the ball point pen solved the problems of the fountain pen.
Let cursive die the death it deserves.
Jar is right.
I totally gave up cursive by the end of the seventh grade even for my signature as I could not read my notes.
My kids can read and write a secret language. Literally they can write notes to their other homeschooled friends that the public schooled kids have no dream of decoding. The benefit of being able to select cursive for your kids’ curriculum.
I write in cursive, a change I made a couple years back for readability purposes. I do have to be aware of when I need to switch back to print for the sake of the recipient.
I took so much hand drafting back in high school (it was the eighties) that it burned cursive out of me. Now I write in some bastardized version that I cannot even read half the time.
We covered cursive in elementary school. The teachers lied and said it would be the only thing the higher grades would accept work in.
We never used it again.
Learning Russian cursive ruined my English cursive.
Block lettering 90% of the time to some weird hybrid that includes old elements of cursive and hastly written letters for me
The other kids can decode it by pointing a phone camera on it.
Drafting classes cemented my hatred of cursive for sure.
I had given it up years earlier but property knowing how to write letters and numbers made my printing much better. It’s gotten sloppy since but I can still do it correctly given some practice.
The purpose of a cursive script was to prevent ink splotches from quills and fountain pens because they were the technology available at the time. A continuous motion along the paper provided for an even flow of ink. Picking them up and putting them down risked splots.
It is inferior in legibility and clarity.
You’ve clearly never seen my print.
Your solitary penmanship failure is not really an argument. there are outliers in every distribution.
“Solitary penmanship”
We are millions strong. MILLIONS strong!
Maybe even billions!
UCS, Zwak, and Jar are on the winning team.
I read some years ago that there is an italic script which is as fast and more legible than cursive.
Low bar.
Sütterlin for the win.
In one of his final acts as governor of New Jersey, Phil Murphy tried to reverse more than a decade of failing our kids on this front — signing legislation on Monday that will require students in third through fifth grade be taught cursive.
His argument, which had me cheering from across the Hudson River: This will help pupils with basic tasks, later in life — such as opening bank accounts and signing documents.
Bitch we have docusign now, and signing your name to a document is already a poor way to authenticate it. Also, it doesn’t have to be in cursive.
Huge waste of time and resources.
Teach them phonics instead.
My boy wants to learn it and is practicing it at 7.
I rebelled against it in the third grade, full well knowing then that the fountain pen was an antique and cursive was dead.
I have failed my boy.
“NewsNation host Chris Cuomo warned CNN analyst Scott Jennings on Wednesday that if he keeps using the term “illegal aliens,” somebody might beat him up.
Cuomo accused Jennings of acting like a “bully” and a “tough guy” when he dismissed activist Cameron Kasky’s assertion that “You don’t get to say the word ‘illegals’ anymore,” during a recent CNN panel.”
https://nypost.com/2026/01/22/media/chris-cuomo-warns-cnns-scott-jennings-over-his-refusal-to-stop-using-the-term-illegals/
Why are these assholes still around? After being on CNN they should be euthanized.
Can’t we deport the all the Cuomos?
“Our side will use violence to silence opposing views.”
Nuh-uh – those words were violence first, we’re just responding with sticks.
Don’t forget silence is also violence.
Meanwhile Fox has long conceded the ground and calls them immigrants, albeit illegal immigrants, rather than the legally correct illegal aliens.
I’m done with the wish-washy Illegal Alien term – I’m going to strive to refer to them as Invading Savages.
Block importation for the win!
Fox caved in the trannies and calls them by their chosen gender too.
Glibmind:
Dionex was acquired by Thermofisher who deliberately began obsoleting excellent Dionex instruments by refusing to make parts for them. I need a project name for my current effort of sacrificing and gutting a lower-value tool to keep a higher-need tool alive. In the past when I’ve built one of these from leftover parts from previous installations, I used up Project Frankenstein.
My current unofficial name is Project Donner, but that might be considered poor taste.
Project Lecter?
Before there was project Donner there was project Essex:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essex_(whaleship)
And I’m sure a bit of surfing I could find far earlier examples.
Project New Guinea Pig?
Project Upcycle
If anyone recognizes the name, they will probably associate it with Christmas. So, you have plausible deniability.
I can also branch out to other thunder-related themes. The sizzle reel can use “Thunderstruck” as the background music.
Project Alive
Project Theseus.
Project Theseus
I could name it after Marcelo Perez.
Project Wendigo?
“Christy Turlington has said she felt deeply unsettled when men started to ogle her daughter.
As one of the original 1990s supermodels, Christy was no stranger to the male gaze. Yet she says her views on the type of attention she was getting shifted when she could see men ‘looking’ at her daughter Grace Burns, 22….
‘A young woman is a child, and I don’t know if a lot of men have control in the way that they react to that beauty and innocence,’ she said.
Whatever that is, it’s like its a drug I think and people aren’t even aware that they have that reaction.’
‘And they need to actually be taught not to have that reaction or to ask themselves why they’re having that reaction. It’s it’s a very strange thing to observe.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15487293/Christy-Turlington-says-shes-sick-men-ogling-daughter-Grace-22-insists-young-woman-child-dont-know-lot-men-control.html
What?
22 is not a child.
It is for Obamacare.
And the perpetual adolescence movement of government schooling.
If she’s old enough to mutilate her body to try to claim to be a man, she’s not a child.
I sold sex appeal but hate that it sells.
Speaking on Bella Freud’s Fashion Neurosis podcast
Quite the choice of venue to air that opinion too.
I sold sex appeal but hate that
it sellsyounger women are now getting more attention than me.She’s a model, she gets paid to be oogled
Remind me again of how much money you made being ogled when you were young?
“they need to actually be taught not to have that reaction”
Undo millions of years of evolution and reproductive imperative? Good luck with that.
Though y’know, there used to be these cultural guardrails that had been painstakingly built for centuries designed to do exactly what you’re suggesting (civilize boys into men, protect female innocence, reconcile sexual dynamics into a mutually beneficial arrangement); but your “sisterhood” forebears thought that was all just a bunch of patriarchal oppression and tore it all down with no thought to what came after. Oh well, omelet, eggs, etc.
“Scientists have discovered a new form of life, which once stood at a whopping 26ft (eight metres) tall.
Called ‘prototaxites’, this lifeform lived on Earth around 410 million years ago, before becoming extinct 360 million years ago.
Until now, it was thought to be a form of fungus.
However, a new fossil analysis by scientists from National Museums Scotland suggests that prototaxites were neither a fungus nor a plant.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15487477/Scientists-entirely-new-form-LIFE-stands-26ft-tall.html
“That’s a penis!”
“…CLARKSOOOON!”
“discovered a new form of life”
That’s old news.
But Prototaxites is one weird life form. They’ve been trying to shoehorn it into one lineage or another for years.
But to get to that size it must have had ancestors. They just haven’t been reliably ID’d yet.
While they must have had ancestors, if those ancestors didn’t fossilize well, we might never find them.
THICC Thursday loves ketamine.
https://archive.is/wNtoE
Ketamine is the least sexy drug.
the Mewtwo-ization of foids is maybe the most significant geopolitical trend in the last decade
https://x.com/escapefrommelos/status/2014100864978276816
I dont onow why the word foid amuses me so.much
Serious thinkers sue Pokemon-derived concepts. It is known.
Even more serious thinkers misspell “use.”
Though to be fair, only having the lower half of the hourglass is a bad figure.
Less likely to have back issues at 25.
That’s what I call THICC Thursday.
Foids
Should I avoid googling that?
The false unity of Democrats – once Trump is gone, they’ve got nothing.
Id say they will move it all onto Vance but he actually has thick skin and makes fun of himself..sucking the wind out of their sails.
Their core principle is the acquisition of power. They’ll be fine.
Yes, I don’t believe that article for a minute.
“Jeffries also said ICE should have a clear “use of force standard,” adding that “ICE should not be able to storm houses of worship.” He made the comment despite a viral incident last week in Minnesota in which anti-ICE activists stormed a church and disrupted a Christian worship service.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/hakeem-jeffries-says-ice-is-out-of-control-should-not-be-allowed-to-storm-houses-of-worship
CWAA
Ok, the new clear standard is ICE is authorized to use all non-lethal force at will against anyone interfering with their operations, or encouraging others to do so, and lethal force in response to any assault on their persons, or encouragement of others to assault them. A couple of linebacker sized agents will be by your office in a few minutes to deliver the written copy.
This Is London Reel 1 (1950)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co54X683Ob8
Florida Woman confronted by police, can’t squirt free
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (WKRG) — Fort Walton Beach Police Department officers arrested a woman after she allegedly attempted to force a health inspector out of a business and began “defecating towards officers.”
Officers said when they arrived, they spoke with a Department of Health employee, who said she was completing a routine inspection when a massage parlor employee, now identified as 55-year-old Fang Wang, became upset and began yelling at the DOH employee.
No happy ending for that Wang.
Not Wong.
Are you guys trying to Wing it?
Stop resisting. Just take your lumps and get on with your life.
There’s a fine line between fame whoring and performance art.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/bonnie-blue-confirms-breeding-mission-36593834
There’s a line?
Is this article some kind of AI slop?
https://gatewayhispanic.com/video/sneako-is-banned-accused-antisemitism-hate-video/
“A reporter for NewsNation traveled to the state of Maine and uncovered more possible fraud.
He highlighted one particular building that is supposedly home to ten Somali-owned home healthcare companies, yet when he interviewed the landlord, he said that there is never anyone there.
He then interviews a local newspaper reporter who points out various locations that are also supposedly home healthcare companies, which just so happen to be next door to businesses that can wire money to Somalia.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/more-fraud-reporter-maine-finds-building-ten-somali/
Shocking.
The fraud is now a structural part of our government complex. There’s a reason DOGE was shut down in less than a year. It won’t be stopped or even significantly limited until the fiscal collapse.
^^^^^
until the fiscal collapse
I read that as very bloody demise.
Surprising few gamers who play(ed) Ubisoft titles.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/22/ubisoft-shares-plummet-after-assassins-creed-maker-cancels-six-games.html
The controls on assassins creed were too weird for me to figure out. I gave up after messing with it for a couple hours.
Speaking of AI – Who doesn’t love somebody trolling our “friends” at Wikipedia.
Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there’s a plugin to avoid them.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/new-ai-plugin-uses-wikipedias-ai-writing-detection-rules-to-help-it-sound-human/
Meanwhile, Grok is overtly an AI product (is my understanding) and its material is supposed to be superior to much of what is on Wiki.
I haven’t really tested that yet.
Dear Pornhub, I never thought this would happen to me…
https://archive.is/xetka
The corn must flow!
According to comments from lawmakers made to Fox News Digital, as many as 20 Republicans had threatened to kill the spending package during a key procedural vote later on Wednesday. They demanded the inclusion of a provision to allow the year-round sale of E15 ethanol, a type of gasoline blend.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-funding-heads-house-vote-after-johnson-quells-gop-revolt-over-ethanol
I would support if it removed the mandate to sell ethanol-laced gas. Go ahead. Sell it if anyone is buying.
Depends on the state. Here in NJ I’m forced to buy adulterated gasoline. OTH, at least in kinnath’s part of Iowa they can buy 100% gasoline.
Rather ironic.
And I buy only ethanol-free gasoline.
How about letting me buy some frigging pure damn gasoline.
Ethanol can be re-purposed, I’ve heard.
From JI’s link:
So there’s your playbook. Don’t aggressively push your cultural positions but don’t change them either and talk a lot about affordability. After all, voters only really care about economic issues….don’t they?
That’s certainly what most Democrats appear to want to believe. The idea has penetrated deeply into the Democrats’ DNA that cultural issues are not real issues. They are artifacts of the Republican attack machine, preying on bigoted impulses, rather than real concerns of voters. Real issues concern tangible things like the economy, health care, government programs, and the like. How else to explain the remarkable quiescence throughout the party as it moved sharply and consistently left for a decade across all cultural/values issues from crime and immigration to race and gender? These issues were treated as a costless playground for social justice commitments.
The Democrats are the party of envy.
Pam Bondi is worthless.
Why do people still act like they don’t understand Donald Trump? He’s been the same person he’s always been. He’s boisterous and loud, doesn’t give a fuck who hears him, and often says outlandish things simply to get the wheels moving on something. Yet people eat up every word he utters.
Are most people so stupid as to not see that decades long pattern?
And she’s a gun grabber.
“6% of US travelers don’t have Real ID yet”
I’m doing my part.gif
Remember when you didn’t need an ID to fly, just a ticket?
pistoffnick remembers.
/also doing my part
Ground up redesign – how should air travel work?
It must
– discourage the theft of planes by bad actors.
– discourage laxity leading to fatalities.
What volume of travellers would be accomodated?
Remember when you didn’t need a ticket to pickup/dropoff at the gate?
Ratsy:
On a recent trip with the Papal Court, I was regaling the Altar Kids with stories about flying in Olden Times. How you could sell your ticket to someone else and they’d just get on the plane with that ticket – even though it had someone else’s name on it!
As long as you had that paper ticket, no one cared who you were.
I worked with a guy who was sent to Phoenix to work on a project there. The company had a policy to fly everyone home on the weekends. My buddy had a weekly ad in the Phoenix paper selling his ticket. Sold it every week and pocketed the money.
The other nice thing about Olden Days was you could scam the pricing model. In many places it was cheaper to buy a ticket originating in one city that would fly first to a hub and then to the actual city you wanted to go to. For example, buying a ticket from Fargo -> Minneapolis -> Honolulu is cheaper than one from Minneapolis -> Honolulu.
So many people would buy the cheaper ticket and just get on the plane at Mpls.
There were some attempts to stop this practice, but it was pretty hard to stop.
I’m mainly pissed I would have to take a day off work and travel 100 miles away to get the fucking thing.
Hell I remember putting my son on an airplane as an unaccompanied minor. Can’t imagine the hoops you must jump through these days.
Same, for now.
#metoo
My DL is fake, but I carry a passport card.
This is what? The tenth time they have sworn that they will start enforcing the Real ID requirement?
Minnesoda held out for a long time, but they finally caved at about the 8th time the TSA pinky swore that they would start enforcing it.
I have a Real ID. I was doing a lot of business travel at the time and decided convenience trumped my principles.
Getting one was a bitch. My Social Security card was super old and I had it laminated in the ’70s. The card was so old, it didn’t have the “Do Not Laminate” warning on the back that the old ones had. Turns out that having a laminated SS card is a deal breaker for Real ID.
I told the guy at the DMV that I got a passport with that laminated card. I was able to enlist in the Marines with that laminated card. I had used it on countless I-9 forms with no issues.
The guy sympathized with me, but told me that even if he accepted it, the system would kick it out and I’d be back to square 1. I forgot what I used as an alternate, but it was a pain in the ass.
I have a CDL. When real ID came out the CDL, even being a federal ID was not a ‘real id.’ Then it was by the time I had to renew it.
I have no idea where my SS card is. Haven’t used it since 2004 when I joined the army. I used to carry it in my wallet. When I stopped carrying it in my wallet I lost it. Have a passport and the CDL, military ID. Should be good enough.
I member when you could bring your own booze (in bottles!) on the plane. And smoke! In 1998 after they had banned smoking on US flights I took a TACA Air flight from Central America to South America that was all smoking. You could hardly see four rows ahead in the haze and they role a booze cart the entire time up and down the aisles handing out included booze.
The Freedom Bird back from Okinawa was the drunkest flight I have ever been on. Big 747 full of Marines and Army folx on their way home. Carry on full of booze. The stews just put a bucket of ice and cans of pop out in the galleys and disappeared. Bedlam for the first four hours of the flight. Then everyone passed out for another 4 hours or so. Then the last 4 hours was a bunch of drinking again.
I also remember that trips to Asia in the ’90s would leave the last 4 rows or so unbooked so that the smokers had a place to go. You’d look at the back of the plane and it would be a smoke bank there.
Just get one from California. They may even give you a CDL.
I have a question that maybe someone (lawyerly type or just knowledgeable) here could answer: What would stop Praire Barbie from declaring that the next ICE targeted action would be in say, California, and consist of sending agents to all the major jails and prisons and doing an immigration audit of all inmates? After that they would leave a team there (either inside or just outside and arrest anyone in the country illegally that gets released. Of course California has sanctuary laws that prohibit this, but could this be gotten around by the Feds by some legal means?
It seems to me more efficient and definitely a better public relations ploy than having to send in large teams to deal with protestors and nabbing single suspects in the community. It would also draw public attention to the insane sanctuary policies of jurisdictions and states.
That was once the SOP of all jails. They called the Feds and told them they had an illegal, and ICE (or equivalent) would pick him up. But in their fit to prove themselves right, they’ve stopped that because OMB is literally Hitler.
My thinking is there has to be some legal mechanism to counteract their sanctuary bullshit. But Pam Bondi is worthless.
That is standard practice in most other countries and how it used to work here before those shitty laws. In the 1980’s we used to have different drinking ages in different states, but that was changed by putting pressure on states to raise it to 21 by withholding Highway funds. Louisiana held out for a few years, but they all quickly raised the age. Why was that allowed to be done but not forcing states to allow ICE to enforce immigration law in jails and prisons?
It’s almost like there’s a group of people who want unrest….
https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-minnesota-church-disruption-bondi-ed084f5005187f58eabe0cc627d1862b
A woman who led an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church has been arrested, Attorney General Pam Bondi said Thursday, just as Vice President JD Vance is set to visit the state.
Bondi announced the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong in a post on X days after protesters during Sunday service entered the Cities Church in St. Paul, where a local official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement serves as a pastor.
Charge Don Lemon with the Klan Act.
Please do it!
“It would be funny if these views weren’t tied to dangerously bigoted policies and tactics, from funding anti-birth control propaganda to Trump’s unleashing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to terrorize people of color in Minnesota, whether they are citizens or not. Underpinning all this happy talk about “more babies” is a hateful project aimed both at white-ifying America and destroying decades of women’s progress.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/22/dont-buy-magas-baby-boom-hype/
But of course.
Usha so white.
Amanduh outdoes herself with this one. I don’t like children either but I’m not shouting women’s abortions like she does.
The MN charges are on Bondi’s desk.
Does Bongino have a muzzle in his exit contract?
Why would you care what he has to say now?
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say the future of what’s left of the Republic depends on the Save Act. But Republicans elected in the 70s are determined to fuck it all up.
https://x.com/i/status/2014090567815168334
I don’t know exactly what that act does but yes, we are absolutely doomed unless elections are fixed. At a minimum we should be following the same rules that we demand other democracies follow. When they follow our practices, we call their elections “invalid”.
I don’t think its technically possible, but we should have a goal of six-sigma elections.
And, yes, I realize 6 sigma is only 4.5 sigma, for some fucking reason, but its still more than good enough.
To get even close, you would have to have a legitimate trail on ballots, so mail in would be right out.
My idea would be computer system that prints out the name of the candidate you vote for, so you can validate, and also prints a barcode that can be scanned to count votes. Every precinct would hand check a randomly determined race (or three), and if there is any discrepancies, hand count all races.
More proof that the Reps are just damn fools or in on the game. The Dems pass all kinds of bullshit that’s been decided on already and let the courts sort it out later. Enough of the Marquis of Queensbury rules already, especially when the other side has a switchblade.
The Reps are in on the game. That’s why they insist on adhering to MoQ rules instead of the rules the Democrats use, which are ‘whatever it takes, and don’t piss us off or we’ll do worse’.
So you think Lindsay Graham is legitimately elected with nothing but pure, true votes?
It seems to me more efficient and definitely a better public relations ploy than having to send in large teams to deal with protestors and nabbing single suspects in the community. I
A thing I read/linked the other day was bragging on how the ICEWatch RESISTANCE was imposing major costs and inefficiencies on the evil Gestapos.
Send them a bill.
Make their commie rioting hurt them in the pocketbook.
‘Get Smart’ and ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ director Bruce Bilson dead at 97
Missed it by that much!
https://nypost.com/2026/01/21/entertainment/get-smart-hogans-heroes-director-bruce-bilson-dead-at-97/
Not a bad run, especially for a guy.
Cluck cluck cluck
Whatever ultimately happens with tariffs, European leaders should plan for worst-case outcomes, said David Roche, veteran investor from Quantum Strategy.
Trump’s Greenland threat is “the biggest ‘taco’ that you could get,” Roche said, referring to the phrase “Trump Always Chickens Out,” which has come to define a market strategy anticipating the president reneging on his threats.
But Roche said this was becoming a problem — the bigger Trump’s threat, the more allies expect him to “march his troops up the hill and then down the hill.”
“What the European Union has learned is that if you face up to them, you win,” Roche said. “Nobody’s going to believe him anymore.”
What a pussy. He kicks up a lot of dust and then backs off and settles for what he wanted in the first place.
I like how the left has a pissy, toddler reaction when Donald does something less than the threats they universally decry.
That’s my favorite.
And meanwhile The Donald laughs all the way to some metaphorical bank, having been handed everything he wanted from the outset.
Maybe he’s subletting all the space he rents for free inside their heads?
This is exactly the type of shit I was referring to unthread? Are people so stupid as to not have noticed this? They say TACO, but that’s a fundamental misreading of what actually happens.
He’s a typical “open with something outlandish so that I can get what I’m really after” type of person. It’s one of the oldest and most transparent moves in negotiations, but people still act as if he’s about to send troops to Greenland any second. And when he doesn’t send troops to Greenland, they yell “TACO!”, even though his targets have given him exactly what he wanted all along.
It’s simply applying the art of buying a used car to the world stage.
The Democrats are just pissed off because they lost yet another excuse to impeach him once they retake the House.
Of course the word ‘Trump’ is all the excuse they need.
Yes.
But people act as if no one in history has ever done this to the point where when he DOESN’T do *insert outlandish thing everyone criticizes* he’s criticized for it. They hang on every word as gospel.
TOS has been guilty of this for years with their think pieces about every little utterance that comes from his mouth. It’s like no one else has ever been boisterous, and that he himself hasn’t shown this exact pattern for decades.
No, they get it. They’re just pissy assholes with terminal cases of TDS. They must virtue signal their hatred of him By Any Means Necessary.
He quite literally “wrote” a massively successful book on this very topic and yet it is somehow a shocking surprise to everyone when he does it over and over and over again. Just a seamless switch from “we are going to war with NATO!!!,” to “he really didn’t get anything significant out of this deal”. Then they move on to the next laser pointer dot.
It’s simply applying the art of buying a used car to the world stage.
The people complaining pay full price.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Good way to give him a heart attack.
Doing jobs Americans won’t.
“A suspect in the largest jewelry heist in U.S. history was deported to Ecuador, halting his prosecution in the $100-million Brinks truck theft.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-21/jewelry-heist-deportation
Avoids prison here and probably comes back.
Illegals facing major felonies can and should be prosecuted and imprisoned here in the states (to de deported upon completion of their sentence.) I’m fine with sweeping all the everyday drunk drivers, wife beaters, and junkies out with the trash…
Yeah, I thought that was SOP.
This is California letting another criminal off scot-free, and yes – wanting him to return.
NRA cost cutting. No more monthly print magazines. Going to digital. Shooting themselves in the foot.
Why do you say? No one reads the NRA pubs in print or online, and they haven’t contained any information worth archiving since the 90’s. They’re nothing but cheap ad copy now.
This is long overdue.
I like my ad copy in the shitter.
Out of sight, out of mind.
Let’s send the membership another survey. We can explain to politicians that some huge majority of our membership doesn’t want some law.
I flip through them but I went to clean out my work truck the other day and found an unread one from 2015 or 16.
Did you see this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o3riLa-2uA
The Wayne LaPierre crew got punted from the NRA, but then got jobs with the NRA Foundation, and start raising money as if they’re the NRA proper.
Yep. I thought the same way.
The magazine is the monthly reminder that they exist and a way of saying they are still relevant.
The quarterly give us money letters get thrown in the trash and just piss off members.
Throw off your chains
In an incisive analysis of the new age of predatory great powers, where might is increasingly asserted as right, Carney not only accurately defined the coarsening of international relations as “a rupture, not a transition”. He also outlined how liberal democratic “middle powers” such as Canada – but also European countries – must build coalitions to counter coercion and defend as much as possible of the principles of territorial integrity, the rule of law, free trade, climate action and human rights. He spelled out a hedging strategy that Canada is already pursuing, diversifying its trade and supply chains and even opening its market to Chinese electric vehicles to counter Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian-made automobiles.
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Carney’s lesson in Davos could not have been clearer and more timely. “When we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness. We accept what’s offered. We compete with each other to be the most accommodating,” he warned. “This is not sovereignty. It’s the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination. In a world of great power rivalry, the countries in between have a choice – compete with each other for favour, or combine to create a third path with impact.”
In other words, Europe can only hope to stop Trump’s abuse of US power if it acts with unity and strength, and joins forces with like-minded countries such as Canada, but also Japan, Australia, Brazil and India, to build new trade pacts and rules.
Rise of the Lilliputians.
Kittens mewling in a box.
Yes. Let’s transition dependence from US trade that was in many ways rigged for our benefit, to dependence on the Chinese who will in no way take advantage of us.
Canada is already pursuing, diversifying its trade and supply chains and even opening its market to Chinese electric vehicles to counter Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian-made automobiles.
So Canada realizing it is too dependent on a foreign country for critical goods and doing something about it is good, but the US realizing that China had too good of a grasp on its short fuzzies is bad?
I’d also suggest that the idea of Japan, Korea, Australia or any other country that is close to China choosing to ally with the EU instead of the US is crazy. The EU can’t/won’t even help the Ukraine against Russia. Does any sane person think the EU will scare China?
So, gonna run that pipeline to the Canadian west coast and ship that tar sand crude out?
Isn’t that already a thing Juris?
More terminal TDS.
They will sell their souls to China rather than deal with an Orange Hitler who doesn’t roll over on his belly like most previous Presidents.
I don’t remember any columns like this decrying the damage to small restaurants from King Walz’s lockdowns. Of course it is written by the food critic, so it is akin to the sportzball columnists writing about how important it is to give billionaires tax dollars to build a new arena.
Yes. Restaurants operate on thin margins. But that’s okay when the real income is from running nonprofit food scams that draw in millions in tax dollars.
So what they’re saying is the entire industry is driven by illegal aliens.
But will any rational thought be given to questioning why that is so, beyond childish wailing?
Oh no!
Fewer places to get your fried in seed oil food poisoning!
TastefulLindy
@LindyTasteful
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SF Equinox is a major gathering center for the new judeo-hapa class
https://x.com/LindyTasteful/status/2014154712874893635
For those who are Xless american races circa 2100
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G_O3CXcbsAAMQ07?format=jpg&name=medium
Echoes
It should be one of the biggest stories in the United States, if not the world. Eighty years after the death of Hitler and the defeat of Nazi Germany, the US government, in the form of the Trump administration, has a Nazi problem.
Think I’m exaggerating? Consider the copious amounts of evidence. On social media, as recent investigations by CNN, NBC News and PBS NewsHour have all confirmed, official government accounts can’t stop posting Nazi imagery and memes, using dehumanizing language about migrants, and leaning heavily into fascist aesthetics.
The Nazis promoted patriotism and culture. Therefor, anyone who promotes patriotism and culture (especially with catchy slogans) is a NAZI.
But the evidence, it’s copious.
and white and sticky.
Which way, EuroPEON soy boy?
How does this rhetoric and behavior from Trump administration officials and social media accounts not amount to the normalization of Nazis and Nazism? And how are the rest of us supposed to be OK with any of this?
As ever, the rot of course starts at the top with Trump himself. His own vice-president once suggested he might be “America’s Hitler” (regarding his vocal critiques of Trump, he has since said “I was wrong”). Trump’s first wife said he kept a book of Hitler’s speeches in a cabinet by his bed. (Trump said he was “given the book by a friend”.) Trump has repeatedly used language lifted straight out of the pages of Mein Kampf, denouncing his political opponents as “vermin” and accusing immigrants of “poisoning the blood” of the nation.
Hitler used words. Trump uses words.
Case closed.
Hitler was a vegetarian. Trump, while not a vegetarian, sometimes has vegetables on his Big Macs. Same same.
I thought he was more a piscetarian. One of the great plans was to move Germania to vegetarianism.
To be clear: this isn’t about calling everyone the left disagrees with a Nazi, as Trump administration spokespersons like to claim; it’s about recognizing when actual Nazis are not just right in front of us but in power. So here’s a simple rule for Trump and his friends: if you don’t want to be called Nazis, stop hiring Nazis, quoting Nazis and posting Nazi imagery.
Does the same apply to the Maoists infesting the nonprofit/NGO space?
Of course they’ve yet to show any of this alleged Nazi speech and imagery. It must all be written in the same invisible ink the BoR has.