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My preferred outcome would be “It’s legal everywhere”. My read of the 21st says “The Feds can’t ban it, but the states can”
“ Congress cannot prohibit intrastate activity solely because it might produce products hard to tax.”
Music to my ears. May 10,000 other court challenges to stupid tax laws arise from this one decision.
Im sure Roberts will overturn that
Let me dream that it might get Wickard reversed for a while, okay? As long as we’re having a glimmer of hope that someone on SCOTUS might recognize limits on Federal power and all….
Im sure Roberts will overturn that
+1 penal-tax
U.S. Supreme Court also to rule on Round-up case (originating at the state level), with potential to further fracture MAHA/MAGA.
Care to provide some background on it? That’s not one I’ve been following.
https://www.oyez.org/cases/2025/24-1068
“This stuff causes plants to shrivel and die rapidly – Must be harmless to humans”
🙄
Why do I think he took no precautions when spraying?
How much exposure is a big question, and the actual scientific linkage (and not just voodoo statistics).
“When we doused mice with 100 gallons all at once of this substance they developed cancer”
“Surprisingly, Glyphosate causes drowning.”
Sure, glyphosate causes this. 12 fucking ignorant citizens.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/non-hodgkins-lymphoma/symptoms-causes/syc-20375680
Breakfast causes lunch!
“Is that the good lymphoma?” Larry David.
Juries are stupid.
The findings on glyphosate that it is evil were nothing but a fever dream. If you got non hojins lymphoma the odds that you had syphalis are much higher than the odds you had any minor contact with roundup.
But an anti corporate jury said it’s bad so it’s bad now.
Was not aware of any link between syphilis and non-hodgkins lymphoma.
Just did a quick search, apparently secondary syphilis can mimic the symptoms of on-hodgkins.
This is the same reason that we ended up with the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 – to stop idiot juries from bankrupting Big Pharma.
Roundup is so
Dangerous you can drink it.
Less carcinogenic than coffee.
Journalist Challenges Jim Acosta To Fight Outside His Hotel
Dana White should have had an octagon at the dinner and had the correspondents fight each other.
I would have tuned in for that.
It would be the ultimate Woke Fights.
You wouldn’t need to separate out the sexes when setting up fights. The sissy ass “male” journalos don’t actually have a physical advantage over the women journalos. You could fight them against each other.
“Allen was part of a group called “The Wide Awakes””
Any songs I’d recognize?
They just do shittier covers of bad works by other deranged people.
His version of “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” is not worth your time certainly.
Their version of “Eyes Wide Open” is a real snooze.
“A LinkedIn page that is believed to belong to Allen shows he had worked a part-time teacher and tutor, and he was named “Teacher of the Month” in December 2024 at C2 Education, a test-preparation service.”
Do they have any students?
You think there’s learing going on there?
*taps nose*
Is that a cocaine-related tap?
Isn’t that the U2 album that came on the iPhone that everyone deleted?
Brown, Tracey, Acosta and Substack did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
We’ve often compared Capitol Hill to the Mean Girls’ lunch table at the local junior high. Methinks our local paid liars in the media are no different.
From the attempted murderer’s Steam game comments:
I appreciate that the Left does not even hide any more that they are a death cult.
The right had some crackpot theories on Obama and camps but never to the level of this…
The amount of gaslighting happening with all the media and political marxist in unison decrying they would never say the President is evil/fascist/racist/a danger to democracy/etc is absolutely amazing to behold.
They don’t. And there is no self-awareness that they are a death cult.
They are very happy to project the death cult onto Republicans.
And probably would on libertarians too if we were important enough to notice.
I forgot which side went after us at one time, like we were a secret society operating the levers of government. Threatened FBI investigations, etc..
like we were a secret society operating the levers of government. Threatened FBI investigations, etc..
Oh yeah, I remember that. Pops up every now and then.
Walter Cronkite told one of Ed Clark’s aides in 1980 that he wouldn’t cover the evil Libertarian campaign.
The left will eliminate the libertarians first.
I’ve been overly lax on even lurking lately so didn’t read the weekend links… was the Wisconsin brewery mentioned in the “shamelessly calling for murder” group?
Yeah, I remember someone mentioned that guy.
It really is amazing how mainstreamed that thought is among much of the country. And it’s not even “fringe” anymore – as the radical left takes over the Dems, it’s all of them playing along.
That the brewery offering free beer on the day of his death?
I know I’ve brought it up in Friday links.
all of them playing along.
The fact that there is internal peer pressure/shaming of those NOT calling for what would be the largest genocide in history is kind of terrifying. The default position among the oh so caring and tolerant is that approximately 80 million of their countrymen need at minimum reeducation in camps, and probably death.
It is terrifying.
This is literally how the Nazis took over Germany. All they need is to win the next Presidency and it’s off to the races.
Hatred really is the most effective unifying force.
And I get banned from X for no reason.
“Trump admin moves to require disclosure for non-profit fiscal sponsors, crackdown on ‘black hole’ of donations”
Racist!!
STEVE SMITH CRACK DOWN ON BLACK HOLES! AND BY CRACK DOWN MEAN RAPE.
Time to bring back proper dueling, as carried out by gentlemen?
So, don’t stand by your man?
Andy Jackson endorses Duel Legalization, even in Tennessee
“as carried out by gentlemen?”
That would exclude Jim Acosta.
Sawe runs 13 MPH for two hours. A 4 minute mile is 15 MPH but only for 1 mile.
I don’t know what is in African water but I wish I had some.
My guess:
What was in that African water was cholera, and he was just trying to make it to the porta-potties at the finish line.
I could possibly complete a marathon in 2 hours on a bicycle.
Google says it should take A little over an hour
If you are a professional cyclist, maybe. 13 MPH over 26 miles is a pretty good clip for a casual cyclist, though.
Sorry, I forgot to add “By car, depending on traffic.
Though I am in a car, I identify as a runner.
A train car, of course.
But we don’t have high speed rail, so that wouldn’t work here!
Yeah. 25 MPH on a bicycle is really fast. Average speeds for weekend warriors is usually around 10-12 MPH.
whaddup doh’
Heya Banjos- how YOU doin ?
“U.S. Supreme Court likely to decide legality of homemade whiskey”
Every substance, except things such as plutonium, nerve gas, and Miracle Whip, should be legal.
No substance is illegal on stolen land!
I wonder why Kash got a pass. Brown?
That struck me and no one I have seen has wondered except you right now.
I mean, it’s the kind of pissy little detail a shitlib like that guy might obsess over.
Patel is an oppressed brown person.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5Eoax6I-O4
He wanted to Kash him outside.
Well, how ’bout that?
“Nike Announces over 1,000 Layoffs As Sales Slump”
Anyone working in the U.S.?
Looks like Nike is starting to Just Do It!
Nike managed to piss off the right with going hard into the BLM/Oppression politics and then recently they pissed off the left with Phil Knight openly supporting Republicans to stop some of the crazy coming out of Portland.
“WH Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting Suspect Cole Allen: 5 Things We Know”
This guy looks just like if Obama had a son…
BTW, we had a manchurian commie supposedly black president for 8 years, and not a single redneck or racist he claimed ran freely all over this land took a shot at him. But yeah, this violence problem is not exclusive to one group of deranged dingbats…
Did Roman soldiers get fat before the fall?
Before the fall practically every single Roman soldier was foreign barbarian, because the top people could not trust Roman citizens with weapons.
Roman citizens bought their way out of military service.
Europe is moving in that direction too.
And the English used to buy their way into service.
Stalemate?
Thanks to Caracalla everyone was a Roman citizen and thus subject to taxation. As Alex said the authorities disarmed the populace to keep them from killing the tax collectors. Taxes in the western half of the empire got so bad farmers sold their freeholds to the local big shots for protection from the tax man. Others became outlaws, fleeing to mountains and forests, or joined the barbarian hordes.
English aristocrats may have done that, while the Royal Navy used impressment to fill the ranks.
That would be a fascinating study. See if Roman armor became larger as time went on.
Especially the cod pieces, right?
Not my prime source, but another one mentioned this, and the absolute embargo on it in the MSM.
Only the US is a chaotic mess ji. /MSM
Frankly, I’m amazed it is still going. Figured they’d go full Canada-Truckers on the protestors by now, seems to be the trend these days.
Irish have a history of going boom if push come to shove though, so can see how the government is going about it a different way now.
It ended a week or so ago with the government giving some subsidies, but the Media Class pissed.
They have a thing against Irish farmers because the media is all in on Net Zero and Irish farmers largely produce the wrong kind of food.
As an Irish comedian once said, it isn’t like he comes from a country with a long history of terrorism.
Yeah, Irish farmers like to kill bugs, not raise them for food.
lol Who knew they’re just Democrats in green clothing?
It’s that Marxist connection.
Didn’t they have connections with the Soviets and Islamic terrorists?
Yes, there was a strong Marxist connection, much like all of European populist movements from before WWII.
Ted S.:
“Have”?
Still do.
Technically the Soviets aren’t around any more.
That could hardly be more incoherent and self-contradictory.
Welcome to Sinn Fein. Would you like you complimentary Guinness now, or in Heaven?
That manifesto is another long, rambling pile of crap meant to convince himself he was doing the right thing.
BTW, AI writes long rambling screeds too.
You know who else liked to deliver a long, rambling screed?
Me?
Biden?
I wouldn’t say Biden screeded. More meandered.
Fidel Castro?
The CEO at a company I once worked for?
Patton Oswalt?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5BBhNkywMJY&t=63s&pp=ygUicGF0dG9uIG9zd2FsdCBzdGFyIHdhcnMgZmlsaWJ1c3Rlcg%3D%3D&ra=m
Change of command speeches were long and rambling but at least not screeds.
Be on the watch for AI manifestos.
I think most manifestos are long rambling screeds intended to convince the author that they are doing the right thing. Planned violence like an assassination requires you to maintain the resolve to kill longer than ordinary hot blooded violence.
Sounds like most philosophers.
Just looking at the guy…I don’t think he could carry 128 pounds.
Ok now I’m wondering what it would take to set up in a room and machine gun through whatever walls/floors existed between the guest room and the venue. Concrete is a difficult barrier to penetrate, but interior walls are not.
And if you could set up multiple of these emplacements in order to maximize the chance of getting a lucky shot on target.
An M2HB will tear up structural concrete, especially if you have access to the Mk211 ‘Raufoss’ HEDP ammo that the military has*. Interior walls would be like shooting through tissue paper.
Securing the tripod indoors so that the recoil doesn’t tear it out of the floor might be a problem. I’ve only ever fired an M2 outdoors, so I don’t know what might be involved.
Also, as I noted earlier, an M2HB with the tripod weighs 128 pounds (plus the ammo), and even broken down it still takes up a lot of space. You’re probably not going to smuggle one in your luggage without attracting some attention.
* – You’d have to steal it from the military. Interestingly, Mk211 ammo isn’t technically illegal, as the explosive content is below the cut-off for DD registration. But no one will sell it to you without a .gov purchase contract.
Nike announced it will be enacting roughly 1,400 layoffs globally as it continues to suffer an ongoing downturn in sales.
In other news, some fourteen hundred Chinese children will have the opportunity to attend school and learn to read.
Or participate in advanced medical procedures like transplants.
“Acosta accused Tracey in social media posts of harassing Miami Herald journalist Julie K. Brown, an investigative reporter who played a key role in pushing the story of financier Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring into the national news. At one point, Tracey claimed Acosta “threatened to fight” him during the Substack afterparty for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.”
There seem to be as many Julie Brown’s as Dave Smith’s.
What kind of drugs at a Substack afterparty?
child sex trafficking
Hell, I want to punch the person that insists on morphing Epstein’s skeezy behavior into this.
Fecund late-teens are “children” when there is a narrative to further. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Anyone under 26 is a child to the left.
Well unless its against their narrative then 16 can be an adult.
In the context of men dating younger women any gap is pedophilia. In the context of grooming children, especially into transing, age is irrelevant. It is exhausting to argue with people who can ignore any contradiction.
You can’t keep harping on God when people don’t believe in God. God didn’t reveal this until the Enlightenment? That’s a pretty long time for letting all of the bullshit that humans do go unanswered. It’s also an ironic argument, since the Enlightenment stands against law from revelation. This is important, because if we are unmoored from this foundation (and we are), we need to put a new better foundation in place.
Ok, but how? I think Nietzsche was absolutely correct that the enlightenment, and later developments had shattered the religious foundation of society, morality, culture et al. by the late 19th Century. I also think he was correct that it would require something beyond human to create a functioning society without that foundation. The issue is, as it always was, that we have a serious shortage of supermen, and our efforts to replace that foundation have largely been nightmarish failures.
Abandoning our primitive superstitions would be a start, rather than being like progressives and doubling down on what has already failed.
Rousseau and all of his bastard heirs will always have an audience, because he offers the out that it isn’t you that is responsible for your misery. God/Satan is the same game, just older (and thus more comfortable to a conservative mind). In that sense I, somewhat like Nietzsche, have more respect for the Jewish tradition – you fuck up, God takes it out on you and your progeny. But, that Jewish tradition isn’t open to everyone (and it fails under my assertion above). And we don’t really want to be a plaything of the supernatural as Job was.
I don’t have an answer, as I’m no ubermensch.
“God takes it out on you and your progeny”
Job enters the conversation.
And no there wasn’t a happy ending, that was tacked on later.
“Abandoning our primitive superstitions would be a start”
Pray tell, what are said primitive superstitions?
The Book of Job fascinates me, as it is the most subversive text in the Bible, both to the OT and the New.
Alex, I won’t say there isn’t a God – a creator of the universe. That is beyond all human knowledge – something we simply cannot know in the affirmative or negative. What I clearly don’t believe in is Levantine monotheism, the God and His chosen people, the Messiah that redeems all of humanity (when the Lord clearly only cared about one group), or the offshoot that believes we all must submit.
Yeah JD, you will excuse me for saying that it is usually that mentality that has justified some of the worst humanity has offered us. As someone involved in science, I will just leave you with a quote from Werner Heisenberg:
“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
And as someone that has seen both the hand of God and the other one in life, I worry for those that think there is not something going on…
“Abandoning our primitive superstitions would be a start, rather than being like progressives and doubling down on what has already failed.”
Abandoning our primitive superstition is what progressivism does. In that way, Nietzsche is shown just as foolish as Rousseau in not understanding man and his world. There are no supermen, “natural state” is brutish and short, etc. No, the answer is to have the idea of god evolve along with mans world having evolved.
Just as we no longer have a divine right of kings, but do have the evolving idea of equality of man, with rights flowing from that, and not from it coming from other, base, men.
Not really. Progressivism doesn’t abandon primitive superstitions, so much as trade in one set of primitive superstitions for another set that feels better to them.
Just as we no longer have a divine right of kings, but do have the evolving idea of equality of man
Divine right of kings was always an idea that require a vast suspension of disbelief given the average quality of kings, but even so it was more believable than the idea of the equality of men.
the worst humanity has offered
I offer no Paradise, not in this life or the next. It is clinging to that that often justifies the worst that humanity can do.
“natural state” is brutish and short
Hobbes was nearly as big an asshole, and fool, as Rousseau.
but do have the evolving idea of equality of man
I’ll be very happy when it evolves into a general agreement that none of us has the right to boss around others, on the basis of being a majority or an aristocrat, or a priest.
I don’t expect to live to see that day.
Hobbes was nearly as big an asshole, and fool, as Rousseau.
STEVE SMITH LIKE BIG ASSHOLE….
I offer no Paradise, not in this life or the next. It is clinging to that that often justifies the worst that humanity can do.
primitive superstition
I think I understand basically where you are coming from and don’t disagree. The problem, as I see it, is that the above seems to be the only thing that works for any period of time with modernish societies. “Putting a better foundation in place” never seems to work out that well; maybe in the time frame of societal evolution, but that doesn’t bode well for people in the short term.
PM – it can be summed up that humanity is a mess. I don’t begrudge anyone their personal religious belief; what I can’t stand is the purely human social instinct to make me conform to it. God ain’t got nothin’ to do with that.
it can be summed up that humanity is a mess
All well and good, but does nothing to address – I won’t say solve, as there is no solution, either in the short term or ‘final’ – the problem. “God [in some form or another] ain’t got nothing to do with” does seem to provide a short to medium term ‘solution’, subject to all the caveats about humanity being a mess; no alternative seems to do a better job, regardless of whether it is rational to you or I. And, in the end, that’s what most people care about.
No ES, those are advanced, committee organized best practices of going about life, not your bones-in-a-tin-can-rattling, or searching about in the entrails of a pig!
Railing against a basic fact of the human condition, the need to fill a god sized hole, is as much a folly as communism rejecting mans need to provide for himself before the communal “good”
That God-sized hole comes down to one thing – death. Man humans hate that fucking reality.
And that god sized hole lets them accept death. Not fight against it.
I watched the first three episodes of “The Sins of Kujo.” There was no rabid St. Bernard anywhere, though a gold-chain-wearing Doberman did appear by the end of the third ep. It’s about a quirky-but-competent Japanese criminal defense attorney defending actual criminals, who understands that every time he’s successful he adds to the pain of his client’s victims (the titular “sins.”)
I was drinking grog while I watched it (it was warm yesterday) but I liked it. So far just the characters and setting but I get the feeling that the plot is going to matter more by the end, in the traditional manga style.
“Journalist Challenges Jim Acosta To Fight Outside His Hotel”
——-
Anyone else remembering when Fetterman wanted to fight The Jacket on Bill Maher?
Wait, did the Lump scream “me master, him blaster!”?
‘Cause that would be cool.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kKtX8g1_TQQ
And yes, that is Donna Brazile between them. Fetterman spent the entire episode backing her up, of course.
Holy cow the Lump was YUGE back then!
Anyone else remembering when Fetterman wanted to fight The Jacket on Bill Maher?
/raises hand
They just couldn’t squeeze out the last one.
Daily ray of sunshine.
It isnt hanging from lamp posts, but its a start.
I will say, that manifesto is quite on the nose in many aspects.
“Investigators also recovered notes with instructions from a therapist in Washington, D.C., directing the transgender father to send the therapist $10,000 and providing guidance on “gender affirming medical care for children.””
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5847178-a-child-abduction-case-shows-how-the-media-hide-the-ball-on-gender-identity/
That seems extremely odd.
“gender affirming medical care for children.”
Should read “medical care *against* children”.
Transing the kids is a very profitable enterprise.
Because they are radical leftists, it was inevitable that they would frame the story that way.
“Transing the kids is a very profitable enterprise.”
True. Still no idea why anyone would pay a therapist $10K. In many states you can get a therapist to rubber stamp it for free.
Oh thank you. It’s been quite a while since I’ve fallen out of my chair laughing…
Journalism is about finding the truth, dragging it into an alley, raping it, cutting its throat, burying it as deeply as possible, and then coming up with a story Karmelo Anthony’s family would be ashamed to tell.
What’s that? The consequences of our own policy choices?
Why I never (hies to fainting couch)!
To be honest, most people don’t expect their policy choices to lead to bad puns.
Also relevant:
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2025/05/aversions.html
Hmm. The firewall says that’s a porn site. Doesn’t look that dangerous.
It’s misreading it as PERversions.
I mean, I got off on it but I don’t think that the general public would. So I think that technically makes it a fetish site.
Looks like your firewall is confusing it with THOMASblog.
It is an honest mistake.
Bonus ray of
sunshinecomedyLooks like he moved from PUMA to PUNTA real quick.
“Put otherwise, preventing activity lest it give rise to tax evasion places no limit whatsoever on Congress’s power under the taxation clause.”
GUYS GUYS GUYS! Get with the program! You’re not allowed to say things like that!
“Shocking video shows a Florida pickup truck running over a $250,000 Lamborghini — with the driver still inside.
The Lambo driver, Ramon Ferrer, said he’s lucky to be alive after his supercar was crushed under the weight of the truck during Wednesday’s terrifying incident in a Lake Nona gym parking lot….
“I don’t know how you can miss a whole car. I mean, yes, I’m slammed to the ground because it’s a Lamborghini, but I mean, still, how can you miss a car?” Ferrer said.
The identity of the pickup truck driver has not yet been released, and it isn’t clear if she was issued a citation.
The Orlando Police Department did not respond immediately to requests for comment.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/26/us-news/florida-pickup-truck-crushes-250k-lamborghini-in-shocking-video/
Curious.
STUNT JUMP COMPLETED
49 Stunt Jumps remaining
I wanted to know how that punk affords a $250,000 automobile.
When an immoveable douche meets an unstoppable asshole…
Argh. I went to rehab my old Raspberry Pi boxes. They were in storage for over a year while ai moved. I was successful, but ran into the bugabear of old HDMI cables that only support 60Hz. All my TVs are now 120Hz. So, lots of screen tearing, etc… BUY MOAR CABLES!
Don’t 120Hz TV’s play 60Hz?
To go from the computer to the TV, I use an 8K cable. It’s very long to go over the door. Less handshaking failures than the 4K cable.
Yes, the TV should be able to go to 60Hz for that one device, I am going to try that before ordering a new cable. But right now it is close to unplayable for a lot of games on Retropie on that new TV using that cable, and no issues on an old 24 inch TV I use for my computer monitor. I am saying it is a cable issue, which a new 120hx 4K cable should solve. To your point, I did find one that is 8K, and does 4K at 240 hz, and that should have zero issues. I’ll update later after I do some more experiments.
I don’t even know if my office TV is 120Hz? There is no owner’s manual. Not even online. It was pretty much, “We’ll leave a 50″ 4K TV on your porch for less than $200.”
I saw this exact same issue when HDMI standard changed a long time ago. All my old cables ceased to work properly on newer TVs, and I had to throw out the old cables and get new ones. That solved the problem. It’s a scam, I tell you!
Was the serial number ground off?
When TCL stopped making Roku TVs I got 4 of them, 65” 4K TVs for $325 a piece, about $350 all in with taxes. Just dirt cheap. And there are still various deals out there, all the time. With my eyes I get no value out of blowing $1,000 or more on a TV.
“Sydney Sweeney’s ‘Euphoria’ wedding dress is fit for a ‘bridezilla’ ”
https://pagesix.com/2026/04/27/style/sydney-sweeney-euphoria-wedding-dress-designer-interview/
Those aren’t tiny arms…
“A Florida pastor who wrote an advice book on how to love your spouse was arrested this week for allegedly having multiple wives.
Leslie Williams, 62, was arrested Wednesday on an outstanding warrant for bigamy near his house in rumored swingers’ paradise, The Villages retirement community, according to the Sumter County Sheriff Department and the Villages News.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/27/us-news/florida-pastor-who-wrote-book-on-how-to-love-your-spouse-arrested-over-allegations-he-has-multiple-wives/
At least he was good at it?
Did he write that you should only love *one* spouse?
It’s all just a misunderstanding. He wrote about loving *your* spouse, not *his* spouse.
Lived experience for the win!
Two or more MILs, there is a Hell…
What about two or more MILFs?
“Near 11 p.m., in Connecticut, the New London Police Department was contacted by someone who expressed concern about the incident at the Correspondents’ dinner. The individual “wanted to share information they believed to be pertinent to the matter,” the police said in a statement. After reviewing the information, the department immediately contacted federal law enforcement.
Allen’s brother lives in New London, according to public records.”
Actual reporting work…
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/caltech-grad-teacher-of-the-month-named-as-washington-shooting-suspect-310cf6fb?st=58RC69&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
“A Wisconsin brewery and taproom known for promising “free beer” when President Donald Trump dies is drawing renewed scrutiny for posting on Facebook “we almost got #freebeerday.”
The Minocqua Brewing Company is owned by Wisconsin Democrat Kirk Bangstad, a former state Assembly candidate who has repeatedly used the brewery’s brand to attack Trump and Republicans. The brewery’s social media lamented Saturday night’s foiled attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
“Well, we almost got #freebeerday,” the company’s post read, although Fox News could not immediately identify the poster’s tie to the owner. “Either a brother or sister in the Resistance needs to work on their marksmanship or he faked another assassination to get a positive news cycle. We’ll never know.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/26/us-news/wisconsin-dems-bar-laments-we-almost-got-free-beer-day-for-trump-assassination/
Imagine if some Republican did this while Obama was President?
That Republican would still be rotting in a prison somewhere.
I’m old enough to remember a rodeo clown getting fired for wearing an Obama mask.
He deserved it. That was an insult to the dignity of Rodeo Clowns by comarping them to Obama.
Who the devil is Jim Acosta?
I just got a bunch of captcha shit after being logged in and posting for 2.5 hours. That has nothing to do with security. WordPress is just trying to extract free labor.
The wordpress AI is a loyal Demi Rose fan who hates traitors.
“Sydney Sweeney’s wedding ends in bloodshed as fans blast ANOTHER ‘cringe’ BDSM scene with topless Hunter Schafer in shock new Euphoria episode”
https://www.dailymail.com/tv/article-15767731/Sydney-Sweeney-Euphoria-wedding-ends-bloodshed-BDSM.html
I’m starting the week in a bit of a mood. I spent the weekend at an in-law’s wedding, 6.5 hours away. This part of the family has a lot of crabby people who hold grudges. It doesn’t help that they’re all in poor health because they chain smoke and refuse to take care of themselves. The wedding was nice, but I’m still recovering form the crabby people and the long drive. I’m still under a cloud because of our dear Hayek too. Hope you are all ok and that your week is starting better than mine.
I’m crabby because, last fall, I planted over 100 tulip bulbs. They came up nicely this spring ONLY TO BE, EATEN-EVERY-SINGLE-ONE, BY THE FUCKING DEER.
The pellet gun is loaded, waiting…
That would make me crabby too. I have many such stories of critters eating and otherwise ruining my plants.
Mice got my apple trees but an SKS got a porkypine yesterday.
Looks like I have a post scheduled for tonight.
Come and point and laugh.
I shall do this thing! I have to mow the lawn and cut up some boxes (a crap load of boxes) right after work, then I shall spend the evening with you. Other Kevin should come too, looks like he needs some cheer.
Mark park the car in Harvard yard.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/why-we-talk-funny-review-the-twisted-mother-tongue-2ef54276?st=YVePyg&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Brazilian pronounces some R’s as H’s too as I recall. I think if it is the first consonant.
A handy reminder of what an asshole he was.
I never got the Trebek worship.
I did love the Trebek appearance on The X Files.
Consider ‘Pacific Ocean’ — each of the 3 ‘c’s is pronounced differently.
As least you are on the road to recovery, those in-laws don’t know any different.
Glad you’re back and on the mend.
For TOK
Thanks. My wife and I have had several conversations in the past week about people making excuses. They don’t exercise at all because blah blah blah. They don’t quit smoking because they had a cousin who never smoked and got lung cancer, therefore smoking doesn’t cause cancer. There’s always a reason to be mad at SOMEONE. It’s exhausting to be around those people.
The cuz got lung cancer from being around all his/her related smokers
“Allen was allegedly brandishing the Mossberg Maverick 12-gauge when he rushed toward security at the gala dinner in Washington, DC, on Saturday night.
The pump-action shotgun has a folding stock that made it easier to conceal, as well as a pistol grip and an extended magazine tube.
Allen legally purchased the weapon from Turner’s Outdoorsman in Torrance, California, last August, according to sources.”
https://nypost.com/2026/04/27/us-news/cole-allens-shotgun-pictured-for-the-first-time-after-alleged-whcd-gunman-rushed-security-checkpoint/
Surprised that’s California legal.
When it comes to shotguns and concealment, I think Kyle Reese made the point of how easy it can be back in 1984 just fine.
The bank robbery scene in Heat is very instructive on this.
First time you watch it, you think, “How did they make those shorty M4s appear from under suit coats?”
Watch it a few more times, and you start noticing some stuff. The heisters’ coats are all a little bit oversized. If you look closely at Tom Sizemore, you can easily see the magazine of his rifle printing through his jacket from the back. He’s also carrying a newspaper in his right hand, and using it to obscure the rifle barrel where it sticks out. There are other tells.
Point being, you can conceal almost anything from someone who’s not actively looking for it.
The first time I watched I could only note how fucking stupid DeNeros character was. Take a guy you need to get rid of to breakfast? Then try to do the exection in a public place? Do a job you aren’t 100% confident in?
Whole movie is dumber than a box of rocks.
No restrictions on pump guns in NY, IIRC.
Three of those would make it a NYS-illegal assault shotgun were it semiauto.
Is this legal in California?
https://www.academy.com/p/kel-tec-ks7-gen2-12-gauge-pump-action-shotgun?sku=12-gauge
This is my shocked face…
Why is shootie-boi underdressed in the pics?
Stripped down looking for other ‘bad things’ that might go boom?
Or, you know, hot Secret Service She wolf of the SS type stuff.
That was a Thursday Night documentary.
*resists just enough*
Will he reach the mythical hot guy status of Mangione?
It was! I found another one too. Coming soon.
There is so much to unpack in this whole article. We could start with how FedGov proscribes healthcare marketing must be done, but that’s really not mentioned in the article.
The short version of the complex and lengthy dispute is that Henry’s Catering treated the frozen items as exempt from taxes because cold food is generally exempt, while hot food is generally taxable.
Frozen lasagna dispute shows how arbitrary California tax law can be
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2026/04/california-tax-law-arbitrary-lasagna/
“Kimmel was slammed for claiming Melania Trump looked like a ‘widow’ just days before shots were fired at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Kimmel held a parody of the dinner an annual event honoring journalism and funding scholarships on Thursday when he called Melania an ‘expectant widow.’
‘Our First Lady, Melania, is here. Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow,’ Kimmel said before turning his attention the First Lady’s birthday.
‘You know, Melania’s birthday in on Sunday. She’s planning to celebrate at home the same way she always does, looking out a window and whispering, “What have I done?”‘”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15769137/Melania-Trump-breaks-Jimmy-Kimmel-hateful-violent-skit-calls-ABC-fire-him.html
Adam Carolla swears he’s a great guy, but WTF?
Blinded by old friendship, perhaps.
Kimmel is one of the most loathsome of the species. A ringleader of the giggling death cult.
My guess is that they avoid talking about anything political.
They just remember the good times when they were young and poor and coming up.
Bravery under fire
A video clip captured Michael Glantz, a senior talent agent with the Creative Artists Agency, leisurely forking leaves from his burrata salad into his mouth against a backdrop of a stage just yards away, by then empty of everyone save a rifle-wielding officer in tactical combat gear.
“I’m a New Yorker,” Glantz told the New York Times in a brief interview after Donald Trump was bundled to safety amid a scene of chaos and confusion, and the function ultimately cancelled.
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Glantz told the New York Times he was asked why he had not sunk to the floor, as everyone else at his table and most others in the ballroom had done.
“First of all, I have a bad back,” he said.
“I couldn’t get on the floor, and if I did get on the floor, they’d have to bring in people to get me off the floor. And I’m a hygiene freak. There was no freaking way I was getting in my new tux on the dirty Hilton floor. It was not happening.”
It was a hell of a show.
A visitor to San Francisco has been a complete flop (in a good way).
San Francisco is not only on the rebound, she is in love.
His name is Chonkers. He is a 2,000-pound Steller sea lion who swam up to a dock on Pier 39 a month ago and has decided to stay.
This gets my seal of approval.
The sea lions down in the Galapogos were the same way. If you look at a place and think, “That would be a good spot for a snooze,” there would be a sea lion or six already there.
Best headline!
22 Buddhist monks arrested at airport after record drug bust
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monks-arrested-sri-lanka-airport-record-drug-bust-kush/
Dude, say what you want about the tenets of Buddhism, but at least it’s a business.
I’m saying AI wrote that:
had Kush — a potent, plant-based strain of cannabis
There are synthetic cannabinoids, but I’m not sure why that really warrants mentioning plant based here.
Here at NPR we do our absolute best to bring you stories from dispassionate neutral sources
The average salary for a public school teacher in the U.S. rose to $74,495 in the last school year, up 3.5% from the year before. But adjusted for inflation, today’s teachers are estimated to be earning less, not more, than they were in 2017. That’s according to a new review of school-related data from the National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teachers union with 3 million members.
Why are we treating these noble selfless public servants like chattel slaves?
Are they paid more or less than prison guards?
Considering public schools are the precursor to prisons, less seems reasonable.
Now do private sector wages, and tax burdens.
Now add in all benefits like health insurance and pension plan.
Don’t forget getting 3 months in the summer off and tons of other 3 day weekends that no one in the private sector gets off.
Maybe we could give them a raise if there weren’t so many new administrators and support staff?
Especially when those administrators are making so much more than the teachers.
Every teacher’s dream is to get their Masters or Phd so they can quit teaching those brats and get a job at the district office pushing paper around.
I am sick of all the right wing tweeters getting their panties in a bunch about lax security.
We don’t need more armed goons, ID checks and bullshit.
Minnesoda pols are creating a new office of 18 State Troopers to guard them. Fuck that noise. Arm yourself Mr. Politician!
The online right likes to wave their hands and panic just as much as the online left. Sometimes, more.
Politicians should pay for their own security out of pocket. The Secret Service can go back to chasing counterfeiters and pretending to be 10-year-old girls on the internet.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
I have a present for you! Seems Korea has changed recently.
The Cleverlys perform “Gangnam Style”
https://youtu.be/uB-5HM3zNU8?si=GFO1mDuBoQ39a2Bo
I’m just depressed that J-Pop has fallen so much.
Without the dance, that song isn’t that great.
In ’98 some coworkers and I went to a country western bar in Tokyo where those guys would have fit right in. My colleagues were impressed when I showed them pics of me with Hank Williams Jr. (He was a headliner at a local music fest and stayed at the hotel I worked at).
The music video makes that tune!
The youngest Altar Boy could dance right along with that video when he was 10 or so. It was pretty funny watching him.
Apropos of nothing, Jason Kelce’s wife is about a thousand times better looking than Taylor Swift.
Are cyclists suicidal?
I took my lunch break to run to the grocery store for a few items. On the way there and back I very nearly ran over three different cyclists all doing stupid shit. One decided that red lights were for cars and shot across the intersection. One decided to do the same thing, but at the middle of the roadway with traffic going both ways at speed. The third merely wove errattically between the lane and the curb.
Some are. Blowing through red lights is generally a bad idea. But sometimes the light won’t switch because the sensor won’t pick up a bike, so you have to go on red. Though that doesn’t sound like the case here. What you might perceive as weaving erratically might be a cyclist trying to avoid glass and debris. Or not.
Yeah… I have had people turn right across my path in the bike lane while at speed, causing me to slam into their passenger door… expensive for both of us and painful for me.
And I have had cyclists decide that their convenience trumps traffic laws, common sense ans self preservation. Setting aside kids swerving through traffic doing wheelies for kicks because kids do stupid things, I had one guy almost delete himself recently, riding on the sidewalk, at speed, going the wrong way, along a very high hedge. As I was pulling into heavy traffic on a main road, he blazed from behind the hedge and in front of my truck. I barely caught him in the corner of my eye as I was turning to look forward after that one last check to the left. Not enough to recognize what it was, but enough to make me slam on the brakes just in time. A 10th of a second later and I would have run him completely over.
What is the moral?
I dunno. Maybe there is enough stupid to go around?
At the intersection in question, there were cars waiting for the red, so sensor or timed, it would change. Guy just couldn’t be bothered to wait.
I got pulled over for something like that in college. 2 am. Double 4 lane intersection. A mile of visibility in either direction. We sat at the light for about 2 minutes. No changes. Nobody else on the road for miles.
I finally decide to just go. As soon as I clear the intersection, the cop pulls out of the trees and pulls me over.
He was looking for DUI and had control of the light. I dont drink, but that was pretty infuriating.
Completely different scenario… but decades later I’m still easily provoked to share that story.
“Dedicated educators show up every day in classrooms across this country to inspire, support, and lift up their students, but too many are struggling to stay in the profession they love,” NEA President Becky Pringle said in a press release. “They deserve pay that reflects their expertise, the strong support they need to succeed, and the respect that honors the essential role they play in shaping the future of this nation.”
*outright prolonged laughter*
I stumbled into bizarro world this morning. This guy reports on Ford patents that monitor the cabin and disable your car.
https://x.com/i/status/2048697287543538023
They listen to your conversations. Even run your biometrics against police databases.
Why might this be happening, you ask?
Well, the law requires it. Massey is fighting this law.
https://x.com/i/status/2014424639821251065
This is Ford playing patent defense for cramming this into your auto at the direction of governments both foreign and domestic.
They makers have pushed back hard against FedGov for the mandatory “distracted driving” nanny they are being forced to implement.
It’s not a matter of “if” it’s a matter of “when” unfortunately.
There are other videos documenting existing practices of collecting and selling data collected on automobiles on the road today.
Ford’s patents would be both defensive and opportunistic. They will market the shit out of all the data they collect that results from the legally required sensors.
Exactly. All that crazy paranoid stuff we used to make fun of decades ago? Yeah, it is happening.
In the 70’s a national ID was one of the 3rd rails of politics.
Now? Mandatory monitoring of how you use your car, including remote kill switches.
Mandatory digital currency is on the way. No more untraceable cash. They have been pushing it across the west for decades. We are getting pretty close to that one now.
In so many ways, we are at a point where Orwell’s works don’t have any impact because the Orwellian aspects will seem quaint.
Agreed. However, that “opportunism” blew up nicely for GM. Couldn’t happen to a nicer company.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-takes-action-against-general-motors-sharing-drivers-precise-location-driving-behavior-data
On the GM story:
“Banned for 5 years from sharing” geolocation data without consent.
5 years?
Why only 5 years????
I watched the video over the weekend. Pretty terrifying.
On Sundays I elude the eyes…
This guy reports on Ford patents that monitor the cabin and disable your car.
If it saves one life while generating millions of dollars in fines…
Speaking of Big Brother monitoring your driving habits, remember when “your car will turn you in to the cops” was ridiculous paranoid nonsense?