Good morning one and all to another spectacular day!
- Navy secretary fired after feud over Trump’s ‘Golden Fleet’ with Pentagon leaders, including Hegseth
- Supreme Court liberals side with Clarence Thomas on Taliban suicide bomber lawsuit, 3 others dissent
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“400 US Soldiers Wounded In Operation Epic Fury, Military Says”
Sad.
What is the rate of injury for a similarly sized cohort during normal idle/training time? It doesn’t sound like we’re much above that rate.
When I was in UCS, 04-10 we had more soilders killed in car crashes on fort Campbell than by enemy action
We had a gal in Iraq went out of a window of the infantry guy she was screwing and broke her ankle during a mortar attack. She got a bunch of time off back home over the deal and to hide it my chain of command wrote it up that she tripped and fell when running to a shelter.
I’m not sure which one of them she was screwing as well.
Just one example of an injury due to “enemy action.”
“Appeals Court Blocks California Law Requiring Federal Agents to Show ID”
Were they trying to vote?
No, just deport people who don’t belong here.
Morning, Banjos.
Morning
I keep seeing Team Redders moaning and rending their garments over how Trump’s administration will be completely stymied, and the Dems will lock down the 2028 Presidential election, if Team Blue takes the House this year.
I don’t get it. The Repub House has done practically nothing. The House can’t stop Trump from running the Executive, which is where all the action/progress* has been over the last year or so. The House going from inert to spouting spittle-flecked press releases at a President who clearly doesn’t give a fuck doesn’t strike me as that big a deal, frankly.
*A lot of what Trump has done is progress, in my book. Not all of it, of course.
I keep seeing unhinged people being the loudest of any group.
It’s tiresome, I just put in the effort to filter out the shriekers.
Money doesn’t donate itself, RC.
(and I agree with you re Trump. Any politician has to herd cats, and Trump is no different in this.)
We keep trying to be a parliamentary government, based on who’s fucking dirty ass is sitting in the White House. Of course our government can’t work like that – it wasn’t designed to. But that is what the majority of morons voting in this country want.
So who *is* fucking dirty ass?
HM only fucks clean ass.
My reverence for the Great and Glorious IMPERIOUS Leader is lacking a bit, isn’t it?
What I despise most of my fellow citizens is how much they hate one and worship another.
Well, it will mean non-stop “impeachment” theater which will be designed to take up all of Donald’s time.
The problem with that is it WILL waste all of Congress’s time with little to no impact on Trump.
I seem to remember the last few impeachments had him sitting in court all day. That’s an impact.
Buried lede – the commies in Cuba actually honored a federal court order, scooped them up and sent them to the US.
“We don’t want this weirdo, not even to spite the Imperialist Americans”
Now they’re even for Elian.
*faints*
“Transvestite” fathers are women, bigot.
When did transvestite get de-deprecated?
I remember when tumblr decided that the sacred trans- prefix should only be used for identities while a mere sexual fetish should be referred to as “crossdressing.”
It’s absolutely verboten still. I assume Breitbart is using it on purpose, for spite.
Which is weird because the word was current as recently as 10 or so years ago.
Derp. I forgot who was using it. You’re undoubtedly correct.
Doesn’t the “-vestite” piece of the word refer to one’s vestments?
So I guess Rocky Horror is problematic now?
” On April 13, 2026, a Utah State Court ordered that 10-year-old to be returned to the child’s mother immediately and granted the mother exclusive custody of the child. On April 16, 2026, Cuban law enforcement located the group in Cuba.”
Couldn’t they just go to California?
After RTFA, the tranny pile was in Cuba for 16 days before being arrested, but it does NOT say whether or not this supposed surgery actually happened.
I’m assuming that they didn’t bring enough dollars to expedite the cutting. Or possibly Cuban doctors aren’t as gung-ho about transing kids as the dadmommy was fantasizing.
At least the father will have an enthusiastic audience in prison for his feminine stylings.
whaddup doh’
Heya Banjos- how YOU doin’ ?
“Thomas — joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson”
So KBJ agreed with Thomas?
I’m reading it as Gorsuch and Thomas said “yeah, ‘battlefield preemption’ isn’t a thing” whereas the trio said “screw the corporashunz!”
She was smart enough for once to not disagree?
The case is a suit against a defense subcontractor regarding the actions of an afghan contracotr who turned out to be Taliban.
The reasoning I expect is Thomas – the law doesn’t shield the company under the legal theory presented; Jackson – Company Bad!
The guilty party is the individual. Not the corporation.
But the company has the cash.
The company would have had a duty to vet its employees for “Are you a member of the organization we are fighting?”
Eh. If Gorsuch and Thomas are on it, I’m declaring the reasoning decent. And it the case was as the article states I would agree with it at first glance. Making up new doctrines on the fly no es bueno.
Trump’s “Golden Fleet” is a farce and I’d imagine the SecNav said so. You can’t build ships without Navy requirements and Congressional funding despite any inflated ego.
You’d think a longtime bureaucrat would know how to say “We can’t do that” without using those exact words.
At the cabinet level in general, but even more so in this administration – it is political pissing contests.
Ladies and Gentleman, our Acting SecNav (formerly Asst SecNav), Hung Cao. He’s a Virginian whose family fled VietNam when he was young. He ran for US Senate against Tim Kaine.
I thought it was the bulls that were hung, not the cows.
Today’s first-time buyer is juggling way more than someone buying their first home 20 years ago. They’re coming in with kids, fully formed careers, sometimes aging parents, and zero interest in a temporary starter home.
All of that is false except the “zero interest in a starter home.”
The noobs want their parents’ 4000sf home without putting in the 40 year high-end career.
Building affordable (real affordable, not Democrat “affordable” i.e. subsidized) housing is not happening because regulations don’t allow it. Only those 4,000 sq ft homes make any money anymore.
And whatever existing affordable housing was left is already filled by the tens of millions of illegals that Joe let in.
The last time I read about it California’s regulatory burden costs a developer $170k per house before construction begins.
My house cost $172,000 in 2012.
Sure it was a for lost lure with no well but it’s on five acres, had not been lived in and had an unfinished 60×34 shop.
Money printing is a bitch.
And yet young people impacted the most by all of this continue to vote overwhelmingly for the Party making everything worse.
Because of trans kids or some shit.
This is my personal experience based on what my kids will/won’t consider. They were shocked the other day when they found out we first moved into “gasp” an apartment after getting married.
We lived in an apartment too. Both of us in grad school making a combined $1800/month. We lived in an apartment for about 2 years before buying our first house, which was only possible because her father died.
We lived in an apartment after getting married too. We were outraged when they tried to raise the rent from $175 to $225 (it was a very sketchy neighborhood), so we rented a house for $275 (another sketchy neighborhood).
When we moved to Mpls, we also rented for a while as looked for a house. We got a nice house in ’95 and have lived here ever since.
All you rich people with apartments….:) I lived in a vintage 1962 mobile home (trailer) from 1984 – 1988 that was in a trailer park. It was a cheap place to live while I was going to school and working P/T at UPS. It was well built and had real wood knotty pine cabinetry and paneling. I got married in 1987 and we lived in the trailer for about a year. In 1988 I sold the trailer for what I paid for it – $3K. We then bought our first “starter” home, it was 950 sq ft slab MCM home built in 1958. We paid $55K for it.
40+ years ago, when I was born, my parents were kicked out of their apartment building (which did not allow children), and found the house I grew up in. They did not get a zero interest loan.
We moved in to the house I grew up in when I was just old enough to start remembering. One of my earliest memories was playing just outside the front porch on move-in day when the last few things were being completed.
We got it for $1.
The neighborhood sucked.
My parents lived in a trailer for 7 years after they got married and bought their first house, the one I grew up in, in 1980.
My folks rented a trailer.
Then bought a lot with a tiny house on it and borrowed money from my mom’s mom to buy a ten year old trailer to live in.
Five or six years later my dad started building the house I grew up in.
I had it easy.
Nice.
I hope I can find that for my next move. Even better, no dogs.
My parents divorced when I was 3 and I had maybe a dozen different homes before leaving for college. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yikes.
I remember my mom bought one house I grew up in (Ridge Road West if you recall Rochester) for around 20K. Just looked and the same house is going for 172K.
Zillow says my childhood home is worth $92k, but the only sale on record is from 2001 for $3k
Ah, I didn’t check that.
Mine last sold in 2010 for $25K lol.
Assessed in 2024 for $133K WTF?
RHY, there is a trailer park in my wife’s parents neighborhood, no pets, no kids, over 50 only.
The noobs want their parents’ 4000sf home without putting in the 40 year high-end career.
The “get off my lawn” theory may have some explanatory power, but it’s not a major player in the story.
We live 35 minutes from our community and are looking to move 20 minutes closer. We have some unimproved land picked out and right of first refusal when the sellers are ready. That land will go at around $10k per acre, which is insane for this area. However, that’s what the market bears, and it’s somewhat beside my point.
Setting aside the land purchase, we are going to end up spending almost as much building the new house than we’ll get from selling a bigger, more nicely finished 15 year old house on 13 acres. At $250/sqft, 2000sqft gets unreasonably expensive.
My house was 280k to build 20 years ago. It was put on a 35k lot.
Latest appraisal was 415k.
No idea what to cost to build from scratch would be today. But I expect that to exceed the current appraisal by a fair margin.
We plan to stay put forever.
Last year Trump got his hand picked guy in as Chair of the RNC. I thought they’d wise up and stop wasting money protecting establishment candidates in the primaries. Hell, I hoped they’d go RINO hunting.
Nope, still the stupid party. More than ever.
Trump is the ultimate RINO, so who exactly would be hunting whom?
Yep. Campaigning for Graham and against Massie is such an insult.
“Hell, I hoped they’d go RINO hunting”
____________
I don’t know if they actually believe it but they say that is what they are doing 😉
It’s a difference in the two faces of the uniparty. The Democrats are interested in gaining and consolidating power. The Republicans are (broadly) interested in feathering their own nests while they can, before the entire system collapses.
Based on the congressional forced resignations this month, that’s an odd thing to say. By the way, is there a good place to get wine from Omar’s vinyard? I need to bring some to the party at the learing center.
I’m getting to the point I think Rand Paul and Massie are the ones who are RINOs…
ISWYDT. That is a charge that is frequently, and not unfairly, leveled against them.
If Lindsey Graham’s actions represent the name well and Thomas Massie and Rand Paul’s don’t then the name ain’t worth a shit anyway.
Yep. Too conservative to be lumped with the rest.
Rand and Massie are the only true Scotsmen.
If they’re Scotsmen, they’re ineligable to serve in Congress.
“Republican Assemblyman Alec Brook-Krasny of Brooklyn recently issued a bill in the state legislature demanding that outdoor urinators — and defecators — be ordered to pay a $500 fee.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/22/lifestyle/public-urination-in-nyc-is-up-50-in-just-one-year-report/
Those are two different things.
Fee? Fine? Fo? Fum?
Parisians are allowed to piss outside in public and they’re all like, sophisticated and stuff.
“Staggering”?
OFFS.
That’s just an average Iron Maiden concert.
Sounds like you need to up your game. :-p
Back in the day I might have been responsible for a handful of those per year.
All 316 were reported by a lady who looks out her window into the alley with binoculars.
I rarely pissed outside till Covid hit and everyone closed their bathrooms. I taught me how to get creative. Let’s just say a new habit was created.
Public urinators frequently stagger
Generally if I’m pissing outside, it’s because I’m staggering…
Every place I stopped during Covid while on the road that had a locked bathroom I left them gifts.
My bank and a local thrift store permanently closed their bathroom with Covid as an excuse.
“I believe ICE should be abolished.”
Mayor Z hasn’t ushered in the utopia that his fans wanted just yet, but at least he’s still saying all the right things. 💕
Howdy, y’all.
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“Report: FBI Rescues 10-Year-Old Boy Kidnapped by Transvestite Father, Taken to Cuba for Sex Change Surgery
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) rescued a ten-year-old boy who was reportedly taken to Cuba by his biological father and his father’s partner without the knowledge of the boy’s mother, allegedly for the purpose of “gender reassignment surgery.”
The unnamed biological boy, who reportedly identifies as a “female child,” was supposed to be going on a camping trip to Canada with his biological father, Rose Inessa-Ethington, also known as Eri Ethington…”
Identifies as a female child. And the transvestite dad and “his partner,” uh. Huh. Bio father’s grooming his own son. I’m guessing the partner was particularly interested, and having the dad’s okay, uh. Made it a lot easier. “Kinkier,” I’m sure.
People are fucked. Mama needs a shotgun.
“Russell Brand has admitted he slept with a 16-year-old when he was 30 — and says he now sees the encounter as “exploitative.”
The 50-year-old, who has been battling multiple allegations of rape and sexual assault in UK courts since 2023, spoke about the encounter during Wednesday’s edition of “The Megyn Kelly Show.”
“The plain fact of it is, in Europe and in the United Kingdom, where I’m from, the age of consent is 16. And I did sleep with a 16-year-old when I was 30,” he said.”
https://pagesix.com/2026/04/23/celebrity-news/russell-brand-admits-he-slept-with-a-16-year-old-when-he-was-30/
IANAL, but I would tell him to shut up.
So that’s your worst case of statutory rapen in the UK in the last 30 years? Nothing worse has happened since then, right?
Ermagod, the mighty Russians are going to conquer all with their terrible might (and the 8th or 9th largest economy in Europe).
Be careful; you might be getting some people here orgasmic.
Link won’t open.
Can they just obliterate each other so we don’t have to hear about them any more?
Except that would give the EU a sad – maybe they can find somewhere else to throw their money out the window.
Glad I’m done and my son didn’t enlist to fight in the coming robot wars.
I guess “I will end that war in a week” was a tiny bit of an exaggeration.
“Vicious flesh-eating bacteria may be lurking in bodies of water across Long Island, as researchers warned that victims face a 20% chance of dying within 48 hours.
Stony Brook University professor Dr. Christopher Gobler, an ecologist in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, announced this week that his team has found evidence of vibrio vulnificus “hotspots” festering in several ponds.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/22/us-news/flesh-eating-bacteria-found-in-long-island-waters-leaves-victims-with-20-of-dying-in-48-hours/
yikes!
Let me just leave this here from the LAST LINE of that bullshit scare piece:
“ No deaths have been reported on Long Island since the three in 2023, but researchers warn the risk grows each summer as waters continue to warm.”
Trump’s fault, no doubt.
Or they may not be lurking in bodies of water across Long Island.
“A Florida couple who claimed a fertility clinic error led to the woman giving birth to a “non-Caucasian child” who was not related to them said they have identified their child’s biological parents, according to reports.
“The results of testing delivered to us today confirm that our baby’s genetic parents have been identified,” Tiffany Score and Steven Mills said in a statement obtained by People on Wednesday.
Score and Mills filed a lawsuit in January against Fertility Center of Orlando and its head reproductive endocrinologist, Dr. Milton McNichol, alleging that another patient’s embryo was implanted in Score’s uterus in April 2025.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/23/us-news/florida-couple-in-alleged-embryo-mix-up-have-identified-biological-parents-of-non-caucasian-baby/
RACIST!!!
So, does the kid get handed off to it’s bio-mom? Are the bioparents on the hook for child support?
It takes a village! LOL
If she birthed the baby, isn’t she at least partially related now? Or did that science get unsettled when I wasn’t looking?
How so? Some other couple provided both the gametes.
Sounds like IVF, with the zygote being neither her egg nor her husband’s sperms.
Not her egg. She was the surrogate for some other couple’s embryo.
I couldn’t be assed to read the story. If I wanted to read stories, I would have read the links. So now I have to ask, what’s the point of the egg swapping? Seems like there used to be another way to do these things…
The swapping was not intentional. The clinic put the kid from the wrong client in her.
Before the implantation, the clinic should have written “this embryo to be implanted in X” on it in sharpie.
This is actually the plotline for the The Jerk reboot.
I think it’s the plotline of mutliple cop dramas too. Usually coupled with “baby was only conceived to be a donor for their defective born child.”
The wasted year is going to make it that much harder to have a kid of their own. That’s harsh.
“Livvy Dunne poses for Sydney Sweeney’s lingerie brand SYRN — sending Victoria’s Secret’s stock plunging
“I would love to see a Sydney Sweeney & Livvy Dunne collab,” one user commented under the photo.
Another wrote: “The collab everyone has been waiting for.””
https://nypost.com/2026/04/22/business/livvy-dunne-poses-for-sydney-sweeneys-lingerie-brand-as-victorias-secret-plumet/
“collab”
“Sydney Sweeney’s Euphoria co-star now turns on her: Chloe Cherry says controversial OnlyFans story is ‘crazy and weird’ – as scandal mounts around the ‘MAGA Barbie’
Porn star and actress Chloe, who nabbed a role on the show after starring in an adult spoof of the programme, weighed in on Sydney’s character Cassie’s storyline, in which she launches an OnlyFans career with shocking scenes.
Chloe, who plays heroin-addict prostitute Faye Valentine on the show, spoke to Refinery29 about Cassie’s storyline and said it feels ‘crazy as f**k’ that a character with Cassie’s life would ‘turn to sex work’, with episodes seeing her go nude.”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15758127/Sydney-Sweeneys-Euphoria-star-turns-Porn-actress-Chloe-Cherry-says-controversial-OnlyFans-story-crazy-weird-scandal-mounts-MAGA-Barbie.html
I am a bit disappointed that they didn’t do that trick where they present (only) the funniest and most outrageous titles as a sample of what the starlet has appeared in.
When I was a kid we had National Enquirer and Weekly World News at the grocery store checkout, and a lot of people were into celebrity gossip. All that’s really changed is that everything is high tech now.
Bite your tongue TOK!
The Weekly World News is nothing like the National Enquirer. The Enquirer is a trashy tabloid full of dirty gossip.
The WWN is bringing the real news with hard hitting topics like Bat Boy and Elvis.
“Donald Trump has moved to reclassify cannabis following a months-long federal review of the drug and its current restrictions.
The President’s acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed an order reclassifying state-licensed medical marijuana on Thursday.
The administration’s plan would move to classify cannabis as a Schedule III substance, which is the same category as prescription painkillers, ketamine and anabolic steroids.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15756337/Trump-reclassifies-marijuana-bold-angering-closest-Republican-allies.html
Just take it off the list.
Does the president actually have the authority to de-schedule a substance?
Within the fiction that the scheduling of drugs by the administration was constitutional to begin with, then yes the administration can reschedule items on the list.
No, I meant “removing from the list” as de-scheduling. not changing the schedule
Well, the routinely add things to the schedule. I don’t see why they couldn’t remove things from the schedule.
I still have a philosophical block about declaring a plant illegal.
Sure, some refined plant product could be regulated… but a plant? Seems weird. Also seems to violate the enumerated powers. Surely a plant growing in my back yard isnt covered in those enumerated powers.
Note that castor/nightshade/destroying angel aren’t on the banned plants list. Only wrongfun ones are.
I may be turning into a northener.
When I first moved here I never got sunburned because the sun at this latitude is a piddly little ineffective thing. This year I got sunburned in April. Alas, poor melanin, I never appreciated ye.
The sun is the same sun as further south, we just have more air between us and it.
And it never gets overhead here. There are times in the south when the sun is very overt about how it’s going to kill you if you give it half a chance.
Heh. I sent DEG a picture of lawn mowing at the new house in July once. The sun was dead overhead, we had no trees yet. I could feel my skin cooking within moments of walking outside. It looked like a nuclear furnace in the picture.
I think you are right, Northerners don’t experience that.
*sigh*
The difference in angle between us and the sun is the reason there’s more air in between.
I hate it when I have to explain what I thought was a perfectly good joke.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Two things:
I don’t think the air actually has much to do with anything, since the increased mean path length is dwarfed by the tiny extinction coefficient.
As such I was working on a cos(latitude) joke but couldn’t make it good enough to bother figuring out how to copy-paste the formatting required.
Technically not dead overhead unless you’re between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
NA – I already admitted that the attempt at humor fell flat.
Nobody appreciates ultraviolet irradiance based jokes anymore. You would thing the combination of physics, chemistry, biology and geometry would make for a real knee-slapper… but noooo!
Don’t feel bad, nobody appreciated the Python/Durang level absurdism of my “writing on an embryo with a sharpie” joke.
Was your angle joke too obtuse?
Technically not dead overhead unless you’re between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
I got disoriented when I was in the tropics and forgot the Sun was to the north at noon.
Ted is correct. The two Tropics are the limits on who gets the Sun overhead. In Hawaii the two days are noon as “Lahaina Noon” days. I try to go outside on the local day and have fun looking at the tall objects with no shadow. Signs, light posts, etc look like early video games with no shadow. The first time I was driving north with the Sun in my eyes was a mind game.
Because of the state’s geography each island, and parts of the larger islands, has their own time and date. For Honolulu this year, the north moving Sun’s Lahaina Noon is May 26th at 1228 and the south moving Sun will be July 15th at 1237.
“Judge’s repeal of Trump ban on gender-affirming care for children ‘a meaningful win for patients’, experts say
“Unserious leaders are unsafe,” Mustafa T Kasubhai, a US district judge in Oregon wrote in the opening to his final judgment on the gender-affirming care case, a 49-page decision that excoriated the administration for disregarding the law and overreach in its regulations. The judge also barred the administration from implementing similar policies under any other names to restrict care nationally by withholding funding….
Khadijah Silver, director of gender justice and health equity at Lawyers for Good Government, who uses they and them pronouns, said they were “so overwhelmingly ecstatic” and “couldn’t actually process” that the ruling “was real life”.
In December, Kennedy announced that any health system providing pediatric gender-affirming care would be suspended from receiving Medicaid and Medicare funding. Medicaid and Medicare would also be banned from paying for any gender-affirming care, he said.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/23/rfk-jr-agenda-trans-care-children
LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE!!!
As someone who is forced to take these drugs to keep from dying of cancer, I can report that they are far worse than you can imagine. The negative health impacts are everywhere throughout your body. But worse, they impact your mind as well.
The tradeoff of “not dead” is worth it. But damn, dont do it just because you have a fetish. It will not do what you think it will.
Sorry 🙁
Hope you get well soon.
Best wishes and regards, cyto. I hope you kick cancers butt.
Sorry to hear, Cyto. Cancer sucks.
“care”
Won’t someone please think of the luxury liberals and their trophy trans kids??
Can’t breed em.
Gotta groom em.
Greater Idaho.
I’m about to pay $3.37 here in a few minutes.
Down here in south Florida, $3.87 is the best price.
Unless you use an app.
7-11 has promotions for their app. I got $1.47 off for 1 fill-up (times 3 phones) took both vehicles at the same time. With the SUV it ended up saving us $35 each trip.
They also have a lock-in pricing feature as a hedge against rising prices.
Most of my deals have expired, but with lock in and a few deals stacked, I am only paying $2.89
So, 7-11 successfully purchased my patronage.
Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas: A number of stations at $2.99 and $3.02.
Taxes here are “only” 44 cents.
So the rest is transportation, I suppose. Maybe business costs.. real estate is high here.
Anyway, a buck price difference is quite a bit, with taxes in Dallas being 38.4 cents.
Los Angeles has a tax of 89 cents. Yet gas costs $6 per gallon.
Does anyone know why the cost at the pump is so much more than is explained by the gas and sales tax?
I asked Grok.
Taxes aren’t the main reason. California has way higher taxes — about 90 cents total per gallon versus Florida’s 40 or so — but that’s only half of the gap.
The real difference comes from California’s special cleaner-burning gas blend that costs refiners 10-20 cents extra per gallon, plus strict environmental rules like cap-and-trade and low-carbon fuel standards that add another 40-50 cents. Refinery closures in California are tightening supply too, driving prices up even more.
Right now LA’s around $5.90 a gallon, while Broward is closer to $4.00. The extra dollar-plus mostly comes from those California-only regulations and supply constraints, not just the tax difference.
The refineries left due to regulation.
I think it is transportation. I was pondering that last time I was in Florida.
Special gas formula and closing refineries?
Special blend
Taxes
Transportation into CA on trucks that are tier IV EPA clean diesels limited at traveling at a maximum of 55 mph
Carbon taxes
Fuel taxes are not the only taxes involved.
Every business that participates in producing and delivering energy is taxed heavily on their profits. Those taxes wind up in the end price of the product.
Ours is over $4 and we’re taking a road trip to Kentucky for a wedding tomorrow. No bueno.
Funny how concerned the Trump admin was with the economy not too long ago, now it’s meh, no big deal.
Yeah, I really dont understand the shift. He has been pretty strongly anti war for a very long time.
Because he is going at things in a very limited way, I suspect that someone convinced him that we need to control resources before China does, and the entire thing is just that, an oil gambit. It is the only thing that ties Venezuela and Iran together.
His plans do seem to have a long-term restructuring of the economy and global trade in mind.
Not just oil and domestic production, but also shipbuilding, steel, even chemicals – there is a big fight right now because he is moving to bring all agricultural chemical production home from China (who now produce our pesticides and fertilizer, including Roundup, which became the poster boy)
It is wild that such a sweeping restructuring of the economy is happening with almost no coverage.
Obama did a ton in the other direction too, with things like Operation Choke Point and trade deals that offshored lots of manufacturing. It didnt get covered as a major change to all of the economy, but glowingly as a disconnected series of good things ™. But change it they did.
It’s $4 in money that’s lost half its value in the last ten years.
It’s still a bargain.
That is a good point.
Too bad pay has not increased by the same amount.
(But sure, democrats are champions of the poor and working class)
I did t realize roundup production had shifter to China.
The EPA makes it expensive to do extraction and processing in the states. Even so Simplot and whoever is mining down in the Pocotello area for phosphates and phosphate manufacturing is humming right along.
The fall of the value of dollar sucks. I saw a meme a couple of weeks ago about the US has a new $5 bill and showed a hand holding a silver dime. I thought that can’t be, and sadly I was correct. The melt value of a silver dime was $5.29. FUCK! I just checked and today the melt value is $5.50!
“This is a cover song produced by the Power Music app. Some gym-goers will never hear the real Rihanna, or any other well-known artist, again, because GLL – the social enterprise that owns and operates Better and its 250 leisure centres across England, Wales and Northern Ireland – decided to cancel its music licence and instead play royalty-free songs from the Power Music app from 1 March.”
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/apr/23/fitness-classes-gym-music-better-cover-versions
I’m sick of AI slop everywhere.
Agreed. It makes me sick. One of our highest functions as humans is creativity, and AI has turned creative work into a mass-produced commodity.
Steven Wilson was prescient.
https://youtu.be/s-D81XpeBqE?si=Yc3nWNsxF5e3WWpA
Seems to me that AI is not the problem here, but excessive royalties.
Muzak has been a thing for decades for probably the same reason.
Best Muzak experiance I had was in Seattle in an elevator when I recognized the song it was Aerosmith Love in an Elevator. Sadly I was in the elevator my myself and could not share the experiance.
Threedoor:
Don’t tell me that you are one of those prissy hand models who are too good to love themselves in such a situation?
“Scientists say a crucial Atlantic system is more likely to collapse than previously thought. But the billionaire death cult that steers humanity’s destiny doesn’t do existential crises…
They reshape the world to suit their demands. One of the symptoms of the pathology known as “billionaire brain” is an inability to see beyond their own short-term gain. They would sack the planet for a few more stones on the pointless mountain of wealth. And we can see it happening. Last week delivered the biggest news of the year so far, perhaps the biggest news of the century. But partly because billionaires own most of the media, most people never heard it. We might find ourselves committed to a civilisation-ending event before we even learn that such a thing is possible.
The news is that the state of a crucial oceanic circulation system has been reassessed by scientists. Some now believe that, as a result of climate breakdown changing the temperature and salinity of seawater, it is more likely than not to collapse. This system – known as the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) – delivers heat from the tropics to the North Atlantic. Recent research suggests that if it shuts down, it could cause both a massive drop in average winter temperatures in northern Europe and drastic changes in the Amazon’s water cycles. This could help tip the rainforest into cascading collapse and trigger further disaster.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/23/catastrophic-climate-event-scientists-atlantic-system-collapse-billionaire-existential-crisis
Peak Guardian?
Definitely in the “this is new” part. They have been worrying over this for at least a couple of decades.
I’m pretty sure there was a “by 2015” in there at some point, but I could be mixing a few things together.
I heard that crap in the early 90s.
Or it could not.
Sounds like they’re jelly to me.
So, they are pivoting back to global cooling.
Or… bet-hedging so that any variation is “just as predicted”
Would freezing the euros and their Islamic conquerors be a bad thing?
I think the WEF a little too much credit, myself.
“Can we finally admit that rape culture exists?
But it does. It always has. Rape culture is an assemblage of ideas, beliefs and received wisdom: That male sexual aggression is natural, that heterosexual sex is something that men enact on — rather than with — women; that women make themselves rapeable by flirting or drinking or wearing revealing clothing. Guardian columnist Moira Donegan characterizes rape culture as “a whole complex of attitudes: attitudes about women’s status, attitudes that eroticize inequality or violence, attitudes about sexuality that reference, naturalize and glamorize rape even when they do not themselves amount to or grant permission for actual forcible sexual penetration.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/04/22/can-we-finally-admit-that-rape-culture-exists/
No.
But enough about the middle east. What about the west?
Beat me to it. If they were talking about certain third-world cultures they’d be correct. But they’re not, are they?
FTFY
Similar to the worries about all the missing Native American Women.
Way too many people who have never seen a rez think that the NAWs are all being kidnapped, raped and murdered by whitey. The idea that the Native men are the perps in the vast majority of cases never occurs to them.
Pope even the women on the Rez spread that lie.
When you dig into the statistics it’s 99.9% in-house violence and in most cases it’s run away girls who go to a relatives house on another Rez.
Who comes up with this stuff?
I cant decide if it is women with no libido who cannot understand human sexuality, or high libido women who feel shame over their rape fantasies.
38 Special fans, here is a great deal on ammo.
https://aimsurplus.com/products/cci-speer-gold-dot-le-duty-38-special-p-125grn-jhp-ammunition-50rd-box
$19.95/box
😑
I hate New York.
Yeah. Tiny little niche complaint:
I can’t get calibration ammo shipped to me, and no stores ever carry it. So I have to beg for it when I RM a match.
LE Duty .38spl? Ok grampa.
Yeah, all the cool kids carry .32 H&R Magnum in their J-frames.
.38 special is only three years older than 9x19mm.
/deliberately missing thr point.
After the BUG match showed me that my P365 was literally smaller in every dimension than my Colt Agent I’ve decided revolvers are either fun toys or affectations.
I’m not stocking another caliber, especially for pistols.
There’s a little more too it than that, though.
While the P365 is dimensionally smaller then a J-frame*, the shape of the revolver makes it carry and conceal better for some people.
The revolver is also much better in an entangled fight, where a semi-auto slide can get pushed out of battery either while grappling for the gun, or when going for a contact shot**. Revolvers are also completely immune to limp-wrist malfunctions, which are especially common when firing a semi-auto from an unconventional position.
Going the other direction, revolvers can also handle high-powered cartridges that semi-autos have a lot of trouble with.
Revolvers aren’t the best general-purpose pistols, but they have some niches that they still fill very well.
* – I don’t know for sure that this is true, but I’m accepting it for the sake of argument.
** – There are ways to disable a revolver in a grapple, such as blocking the hammer or the cylinder rotation, but it’s much much harder than with a semi-auto.
There are un-fluted cylinders and concealed hammers. Bobbing hammers is fairly common.
Sure. You can still block a bobbed hammer. It’s not easy, especially in an actual tussle, but it can be done. The older shrouded or fully internal hammers, those are pretty much impossible to block.
But regardless of all that, revolvers are much easier to employ if your defensive gun use becomes a grappling match. This doesn’t happen often*, but it does happen.
* – Tom Givens/Rangemaster statistics indicate that criminals usually display a weapon at a distance to terrorize their victims into compliance, and then move in to contact distance to do the actual robbery part. Only 5-10% of defensive gun uses involved the criminal making initial physical contact with the victim.
Revolvers don’t leave shell casings with your fingerprints at the scene either.
Just sayn.
This is why I only choose those orphans for magazine loading duty that have no official record of their existence.
I thought you were discussing the band for a minute.
I totally thought they were releasing a box set. I was like, “why all the .38 special hate?”
“Hold on loosely” is probably not good advice to the shooters here.
It’s good advice for a big SA revolver.
That’s less than what I paid for it when my sister in law picked it up at the company store.
Regarding ammo,
There this lawsuit against OpenAI ’cause sumdood used GhatGPT to plan his mass shooting. Anybody know what those recommendations actually were? I’d be interested if it recommended Federal HST/Underwood/Lehigh Controlled Chaos or the like and freaking amazed if the dude actually shelled out the money for it.
If OpenAI actually recommended Underwood or Lehigh or any of that other meme-tier garbage, that’s a cause for action all by itself. Federal HST might get the AI a pat on the head, though.
ChatGPT is trained on the internet.
At least I think that it is. Someone ask it about dating tips for catgirls.
Yeah, but which parts of the internet? The smart ones or the retarded ones?
I know, I know, it’s a trick question…
They fed it reddit.
So it’s retarded.
So…I feel dirty saying this, but as an ex-Redditer I have to admit that there were some parts of that site that were not 100% retarded.
r/CompetitionShooting was consistently good. r/CCW was solid on 90% of doctrine. r/Snakes was great. There were probably others that I’m forgetting.
Didn’t stop Reddit overall from being a giant soul-destroying pile of dogshit, but there were bright spots.
I used to love my reddit communities. Science forums where I discussed molecular biology and parasitology with people in their field, space forums where people working on Falcon 9 would discuss things with you. We even put together a group charter to watch Falcon Heavy from sea. Great people. No politics. And every good post was seen by every active member. No algorithm, just up votes.
Now, communist ideology is pushed everywhere. Every forum is political. Well, it was when I quit going a couple of years back.
Sucks. I enjoyed my usenet groups too.
At least we have our little community
That is 11 levels of stupid. I suppose Google maps is similarly vulnerable?
Meanwhile, some cop doesnt like your attitude, twists your arm to manufacture “resistance” to justify a beating that comes with a hospital stay, and a local prosecutor decides to back the state… the judge is on board and you get 8 years for resisting arrest and assaulting an officer…. but when you finally are vindicated and it all gets thrown out 3 years later, everyone involved is immune from lawsuits and prosecution.
I’ve often said that accountability is the fundamental problem of government. But lately I’ve realized that this doesn’t go far enough. Accountability is the fundamental problem of human civilization.
It is the root of human civilization.
And it is built into our DNA. It is what allows us to form cooperative groups.
The power of collective shame is massive. I was just watching a clip about the Asch conformity experiment, where test subjects sit in a group of people and are asked to judge which lines are equal. The group picks the wrong answer- and the test subject almost always goes along. A large percentage reported actually believing the (obviously wrong) answer is correct.
So by allowing these pockets of culture to form, we create an environment not only of “lack of accountability” to the rules we prefer (whether that be police abuse, Trans women are women, theft is fine), we create an environment where these beliefs and behaviors are reinforced and supported, and “holding them accountable” becomes impossible, because *we* are the nonconforming outliers who need to be held to account.
Hence, fascists and dictators are everywhere.
Now I want an AI that focuses on guns called GatGPT.
I would like to subscribe to your gatnewsletter please.
I have never read or listened to Hassan Piker, even though i hear his name mentioned a lot.
Someone help me make sense of this:
https://x.com/i/status/2047020878270025961
He advocates theft as a broad policy. It superficially seems insane, but i suspect he has a point he is trying to make.
The guy is a commie islamist. He is basically against anything good, or western.
He is also an asshat who will say anything for publicity. If he believes half of what he says he should be under psychiatric care.
He’s also Cenk Uygur’s nephew, and tortures dogs.
Steal from the rich and give to the poor.
Man needs to get mugged.
As a very young lad I thought Robin Hood was cool. I grew out of it when I started paying taxes.
Good ol Robbinhood stole the taxes back.
I never heard of him before yesterday – he’s the guy who was hosting the gal who admitted to stealing from Whole Foods.
If he really is a communist then yes, I bet he believes every word of what he says. The mistake sane people make is not taking these types at their word. It’s becoming clear that they mean every word of it.
The good thing about him is he is getting more and more public, and he is a freak. The more he gets tied to democrats the better.
I believe every word they say.
Unfortunately, we don’t have a legal justification to shoot them yet.
“I never heard of him before yesterday”
I thought the dog torture thing was big news?
Not aware of any dog torture thing.
Yes, the millionaire is going to stick it to the OTHER millionaires by stealing!
The morality is so clear to me now. Face tattoo for Piker.
Champagne socialist from a well to do Turkish family and nephew of leftist spokesbuffalo Cenk Uyghur. He got rich(er) off the communism schtick and has to constantly push the envelope to appeal to his nutjob fans. One of the final boss douchebags of the left leaning online world.
Damn mute Twix videos.
“Amy Dangerfield’s CRAZIEST Political Interview – Casey Putsch”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVhIBQLIbqA
Should they be wearing regular flammable clothes on a racetrack?
I noped out of there wjen he said Vivek wants to import 4 million Indians to Ohio for cheap labor so he can be a hero in his homeland.
“DOJ Indicts Southern Poverty Law Center for Funding KKK, Defrauding Donors — Accusations Include Giving Funds to Undercover Operatives Who Helped Plan Notorious 2017 Charlottesville Rally -With TGP Exclusive Video”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/doj-indicts-southern-poverty-law-center-funding-kkk/
Is everything astroturf?
“In 2018, the far-left Democrat operative Jocelyn Benson was elected as Michigan’s Secretary of State after losing her first Soros-funded bid in 2014. Curiously, prior to the 2018 election, Benson’s online profile appeared to be scrubbed, removing any evidence of her ties to the radical SPLC hate group.
In 2020, Benson oversaw the nation’s most mistrusted elections, while referring to the nation’s most corrupt election as the safest and most secure in history. She has repeatedly lied about “armed protesters” showing up in front of her home after the 2020 election, despite the Detroit Police claiming they saw no evidence that any protesters were carrying weapons. She frequently drones on about the threat of violence in our elections, despite never providing a shred of evidence to support her claims, and was caught red-handed lying to the now-deceased top radio host Frank Beckman during an interview about the windows that were covered to prevent GOP poll challengers from watching the absentee ballots being counted in Detroit on the day after the 2020 election.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/04/yikes-dirty-sec-state-candidate-mi-governor-jocelyn/
CWAC
“Top radio host Frank Beckham”
Who?
Is everything astroturf?
It really does appear so. One of the worst things the left have done is adopt the idea of “narrative”. It’s easier to brainwash people when you tell them a story that appeals to their emotions. You can make up the story, or you can create the story yourself like a theater production. Then you carefully edit it, and expose people to it over and over. It’s the perfect way to influence people who are sitting on their asses consuming content all day.
+1 “sure this never actually happened but it could have”
I watched Elmer Gantry last night. I don’t think I had ever seen it before. Quite a show.
Is it a good Thursday post?
Minnesoda Legislature finally doing something important!
Not in this story, but on the local news last night, these new officers would cost the state about $15M/year. Can you really put a price on the safety of our rulers though?
I noped out of there wjen he said Vivek wants to import 4 million Indians to Ohio for cheap labor so he can be a hero in his homeland.
I didn’t make it that far.
I don’t expect the left to care about the explicitly racist La Raza getting money, but surely they’re freaking out about the blatant ‘Separation of Church and State’ violation of giving money to to explicitly religious organizations, right?
No love for Oasis Legal Services? They are doing a bang up job of importing HIV+ vibrant new neighbors to CA
And I suppose we’re paying for the health care they are supposedly not eligible for.
Lepers hardest hit.
They’re your wonderwall.
Here come the Haitians.
Daily Ray of Sunshine 1
Ray 2
Sus videos
AI is getting a lot better.
I expect in a year or so it
Won’t forget muddy footprints.
“Federal immigration authorities have lodged a detainer against a Mexican national in South Carolina accused of sexually assaulting a minor, after the victim was discovered giving birth in a hospital parking lot. The case has drawn attention from federal officials, and it unfolded quickly over the course of several days….
According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Montejo was arrested days after a female minor, believed to be between the ages of 11 and 14, was found giving birth in the parking lot of Oconee Memorial Hospital. Authorities say evidence collected by the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office indicates Montejo had sexual intercourse with the victim.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/illegal-alien-charged-with-incest-child-sex-crimes-after-girl-gives-birth-in-south-carolina-parking-lot
I’ll wait for the feminist outrage.
“Federal officials said Lara-Lopez had already been convicted in 2022 in Benton County Superior Court for molesting a 12-year-old child. Court records show he received a sentence above the standard range because he held a position of trust over the victim. At the time of that offense, Lara-Lopez, a Mexican national, was illegally residing in the United States.
Despite both his immigration status and sex offense conviction, Lara-Lopez was released back into the community after serving his prison term in Washington state custody.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/illegal-immigrant-child-molester-gets-2-years-for-assaulting-ice-agents-in-washington
They’re not sending their best.
I have noticed that traffic is not as heavy on central Washington highways and it’s not as erratic in the last year or so.
WA state has not been helping but my guess is that there have been a lot of self deportations.
No human child molester is illegal!
Is legal at home.
No, it’s not legal in Mexico.
Thought the age of convent there was 12.
Just ruined my vacation plans.
Thanks Tater.
Is it a good Thursday post?
It would be a radical change of pace.
I know stories like this are supposed to make me think that the Libertarian Moment has arrived, but they tend to just urinate me off.
Why should I be happy that the govt has “approved” an activity that shouldn’t have been any of its business in the first place? I’d have been much happier with a story about a bunch of drunk geezers telling The Man to fuck off and die.
Living in a nursing home shouldn’t mean giving up everyday freedoms
Until we say “virus”, at which point we can keep the entire state under house arrest.
Well played.
Word.
Your taxes are probably paying for a good chunk of that activity so of course there will be strings attached.
Wait…. did they have a law against people in nursing homes having alcohol? Or is this just a widespread policy?
I say, if you are living out your last couple of years as an invalid, nothing is off limits. Who cares if you become an addict at that point??
The victims of the mean drunk, I suppose.
I think individual geezers could have their own bottle, but if there was a Card Night, they couldn’t serve booze in the community room.
Minnesoda has some real stupid blue laws. We can finally buy booze on Sunday (still can’t buy a car on Sunday though). I’m sure someone was upset about the idea of some old coot having fun.
Nursing home boss lady: “Every time you take your father out for dinner he comes back drunk”
Me: “Yeah, I know”