It’s been an illuminating experience running a food establishment in the Gulch. Despite the highly educated population who style themselves as worldly and sophisticated, the general food tastes here run close to that of an eight year old boy raised on junk food. Anything even vaguely out of the mainstream is absolutely rejected. My rule of thumb for a proposed menu item is, “If it’s a foreign word ending in a vowel, no-one will even try it, much less order it.” Unless it’s on the menu at Taco Bell. We had a Distinguished Professor Emeritus grumble at us, “I shouldn’t need a goddam interpreter to read the menu!” He was complaining about a sandwich that came on “ciabatta.” Then again, these are people who expect ranch dressing for their pizza.
Eh, enough about retarded Progs, let’s have a quick today’s birthday rundown: a guy who was basically a good egg; a guy who wasn’t as sloppy as Fleming, so didn’t get a Nobel; one of the most underappreciated cinema auteurs; and perhaps the most influential person in the creation of American films, despite his very short life; a terrific talent whose name has been as misused as Uncle Tom; a habitual plasma donor; the greatest voice actor there ever was and ever will be; a guy who was not Steve Allen; a guy who, sorry, can’t do that; and a guy who would never be a grup.
And much as I would prefer not to be a grup, I suppose it’s time for some Links.
Wait, Obama is president again?
I hate every single person and group mentioned in this story. Then again, it’s New Jersey, so why not.
Fortunately, I’ll be dead by the time we get stuck with the bill.
Know what? It’s their fucking property and they can build any goddam thing they want on it.
Someone has been reading Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter.
One more piece of evidence that we need to repeal the 19th Amendment.
Something something protect our phony-baloney jobs.
I expect to see Fred pounding on the door screaming, “WILMA! WILMAAAAAA!”
The Old Guy wishes people knew what an outstanding jam band the Byrds were. No-one else was close, not the Dead, not Quicksilver, not (in later years) Fish. Clarence White was genius and The Day The Music Died was actually when he was killed at the age of 29. Anyway, you know the song, but this is purely instrumental. Damn these guys were good.
“If it’s a foreign word ending in a vowel, no-one will even try it, much less order it.”
I’d probably starve to death.
“Then again, these are people who expect ranch dressing for their pizza.”
WTF??
Ranch on pretty much anything in vile.
I first saw people put ranch on pizza after I joined the army.
You get together with a group of people from all over the U.S. and world for the first time and you quickly learn that some cultures are superior to others.
Meh…depends on the topping but can do ranch.
Ranch on pizza is no different than drinking red wine. Gross, but so it goes.
I was once given an Oreo with the filling replaced with ranch.
It ended any positive association I have with the dip.
You don’t have chicken bacon ranch pizzas out that way?
Neph I’m sure papa
Murphies makes them. It’s been a while since I’ve been in there.
I’ve never seen anyone use ranch as a topping on pizza, but I thought using it as a dipping sauce for the crust was fairly common?
Pizza? Spaghetti? Omelette?
“ Then again, these are people who expect ranch dressing for their pizza.”
Truly, a dystopian hellscape.
It’s like you people have never had chicken bacon ranch cheese pie.
BBQ chicken pizza enters the chat
BBQ chicken bacon is awesome.
It may be delicious, but it ain’t pizza.
Wouldn’t that really clash with the pineapple?
I am telling you, pineapple, anchovy and jalapeno pizza is the best pizza.
But never get that cracker pizza, it is like eating ketchup on a saltine.
It’s been the kind of morning where I can’t manage to do anything right.
It must be going around. I can’t get motivated to get on the road, also I lost my phone walking from the bedroom to the kitchen, less than 10 yards. The orphans had to search for it and I was delayed.
*sigh*
And I overcooked my breakfast now too.
😥
“But Michelle Scrogham, the Labour MP for Barrow & Furness, said the demonstrations outside the site were “racist”, adding that the area “had immigration on a mass scale for many, many years”.”
Everything is racist.
“They should be fucking grateful for all the vibrancy,” she added.
I know. Talk about missing the fucking point.
I’d like to see their crime stats.
It is a classic example of two sides talking past each other and completely unable to have a rational discussion.
Seems to be a common occurrence these days.
***narrows gaze***
That’s cultural appropriation.
But what if GT is a Swiss Miss?
a guy who was basically a good egg
Happy birthday Percy Kilbride!
a guy who wasn’t as sloppy as Fleming, so didn’t get a Nobel
Happy birthday Alex Trebek!
“One more piece of evidence that we need to repeal the 19th Amendment.”
The looksmaxxing thing is men though.
“But we made up a new word, so it’s totally different from anything anyone has over done before!”
I don’t feel like “selecting all pictures of motorcycles”. What’s the article?
Rich people getting fat injections from dead people.
Gross.
I’m sure you’re right but it’s the Guardian and likely full of lies so I would be very skeptical (if I were going to read it).
Reading The Fuckin’ Article, it looks like NJ is taking over police protection of a fed facility, moving protesters to a “free speech zone”, and not much else.
Don’t see the tsuris here.
Huh. Wasn’t the governor just there the other day trying to burnish her anti-ICE cred with the rioters?
So, anonymous (and possibly imaginary) sourcing. And Iranians at that.
I’m betting no, we aren’t going to give the Iranians $300BB to open Hormuz.
Has there even been evidence of mines actually deployed? I get the fear of it, but I think that has been their best propaganda in this and the world media ran with it.
Not deploying mines but saying you did is the best move. The other guys run around in circles looking for them without ever being sure they proved their absence.
One way to find out.
Is any of it real? Every day Trump declares victory, announces an agreement, rejects Iranian terms, then threatens escalation. Is it all his internal monologue or are any actual American and Iranian diplomats involved at all?
Oil stocks think it’s real.
They have dropped a lot. I’m betting they stay high overall though.
Is it all his internal monologue
The Hat, The Hair and the Turban, and the Beard.
For about five minutes I actually believed Kathy might hold the line against Zoh’s commie demands for geysers of cash. It was a simpler time, before every Dem rushed to hurl themselves off the left cliff as fast as humanly possible.
I will be delighted if the pensions can’t pay out 100 cents on the dollar and the then president says no federal bailout.
Ed Koch hardest hit.
I’m with you, up until the part with loudspeakers blasting their call to prayer five times a day.
My first thought too.
Once they have whatever building they want, there’s still noise ordinances. If those aren’t enforced, that’s a different question. But property rights are still property rights- see tomorrow’s Links for a story about that…
And borders are still borders. See how that works?
touché
The UK is famous for unbiased enforcement of their laws and ordinances.
I think the concept of
personal freedomproperty rights has been so abused over there that the average yob doesn’t give a rats at this point.Im torn cause towns accepted/tolerated church bells on the hour…then again, a bell is a chime and not a signal to pray I guess.
Personal bias but bells are pretty. The noises coming out of mosques are… not.
Nothing sounds better to a commies ears than “death to America!”
I’m with you up until the part about slowing Muslims into the nation.
Allowing.
Not as charming as church bells?
whaddup doh’
L’chaim!
I’ll bet that town in England wishes that’s how the locals made a toast.
This is right in my backyard. It’s been fun.
Bonus NJ stupidity.
NJ Senate approves bill to protect reproductive, transgender healthcare
“vital healthcare”
Fucking ghouls.
“The bill is backed by many LGBTQ+ advocates, including multiple parents who testified in committee hearings about the struggle they face to secure healthcare services for their trans children.”
LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE
In NJ… It’s pure signaling.
So if your kid breaks his arm nobody will treat him?
Which will lead to more delusional parents pumping their kids full of hormones that they don’t need. It’s sick.
The older I get the more comfortable I am with secession, civil war, and genocide.
Sure but I can understand the reaction. Their adherents have kind of worn out their welcome in recent years with many of the “natives” and you know they are going to use the thing to preach jihad. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Recent years.
Yeah.
Around 620 AD.
It’s a Rahbat. A fortress base from which they continue to prosecute a conquest.
That how North Africa was conquered.
Yep.
“Build what they want”
Unless zoning laws and neighbors make the decisions for you.
Try thinking sometime. You might enjoy the change of pace.
Currently drinking beer on a beach in Sorento with a row of Italian eye candy in front of me. This early retirement thing is going well so far.
Pics or gtfo
OBE gets it.
Sorry. Can’t send pics. My Internet isn’t working.
It’s not too cramped?
It’s good to see you enjoy your retirement.
Must’ve been a helluva bike ride to get there.
We came by car.
Have one (a limoncello) for me.
On a beach that faces a giant car wash?
Italian eye candy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4K7i2yZiTM
(having known a couple Italian women, it is a documentary and not an ad.)
They start talk and hot then turn dumpy and bulbous?
Given where we are, I don’t have a sort of global beef with ICE.
Since the detainees are on a labor strike, I am wondering what kind of labor the illegals are doing in the facility. I enthusiastically encourage them to go on a hunger strike, though. Make it a real one, though – no food of any kind while on strike.
As I was skimming the Tablet article (“The Joy of Hating Jews”) it struck me that ICE are just another kind of Jews.
The grinning hatred of its detractors and the joy they get from their cosplay is exactly the same. And of course there is a great overlap in the crowds protesting both in recent years.
The average Union guy can probably make it about three or four months on a hunger strike.
LOL
retarded Progs
But you repeat yourself.
The draft memorandum of understanding being discussed by Iran and the US references a postwar investment fund to support Tehran’s postwar reconstruction and economic growth if a final deal is reached, the New York Times reports, citing an Iranian official and a diplomat involved in the talks.
The two sources put the fund at $300 billion, though other officials involved in mediation would not confirm the amount, according to the report.
Trump would only support the biggest, hugest, best rebuilding funds which involve real money, not $300 billion.
And a chain of gold-plated, Trump-themed mosques.
Move aside onion domes here comes the Hair.
This may be an Iranian wish or it could be real. Sadly, it’s believable.
Only if they provide the $300bn in shrink wrapped pallets of cash.
As much as I dislike sending Iran cash, I would rather it was above board and public than secretive like the 0 admin process.
The congressional vote is going to be epic.
“Congressional vote.”
How droll.
Close to where I grew up.
Father, son who own N.J. liquor store sold marijuana out of the business, cops say
From Google Images
Does it look like they were trying to hide from our intrepid authorities?
Jay and Silent Bob could not reached for comment.
15 bucks little man, put that shit in my hand…
“Park Slope Coop’s Israel boycott actually ripped Arab products from the shelves”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/29/lifestyle/park-slope-coops-israel-boycott-actually-forced-arab-products-from-shelves-business-owner/
LOLOL
So they can still plausibly claim they’re anti-Israel, not anti-Jew!
But yeah, the mere existence of Arabs living freely in Israel must be news to most of those idiots.
Genocide is allowing 2 million Arabs to have equal rights.
Two Kless people in NJ.
The prosecutor says he killed her Wednesday morning in their home’s basement, by strangulation with a barbell.
One of my neighbors who is a property developer divorced his wife of thirty plus years recently and remarried a woman from central
America, is adopting her 15 and 11 year old and moving them up. It’s going to be a shit show. I’m sure it’s true love, especially after she saw his net worth.
There seem to be three stages on the divorce.
1. Young and stupid.
2. Midlife crisis.
3. OMG – this is going to be my golden years?
This one seems closer to #2.
It’ll be fun to watch from down the street.
I’m glad I made drugs my midlife crisis. It was cheaper than the other options.
This device with a finite shelf life because of its battery backup is best I can tell, going to sit on the roof of your GM. I’m sure people can’t wait to test water resistance and GM’s engineering prowess. Bonus if replacement requires painting too!
GM To Replace Shark-Fin Antenna With Connectivity Hub Module
I was looking to make a product that blocks the signals from your shark antenna. Just a nicely painted metal cover that magnetically sticks to the roof of the car.
Then I realized that few are as paranoid as I about being tracked and the TAM would be small.
That’s not a bad idea.
If you can’t unplug it, putting it in a faraday cage works just as well.
The GPS should be stand alone.
The HVAC should be standalone.
The trailer brake controller should be stand alone.
The radio should be stand alone…
From my article about the guy that barbelled his wife – the police tracked him with one or more of his electronics.
People are so addicted to their phones they have to take them to the scene of the murder and back.
Pix or it didn’t happen.
Good morning from sunny Lake George NY.
Americade?
Yep. Been coming here since the early 90’s.
We’ve upgraded our accommodations from the battleground campground to a sweet air bnb.
Lake George is pretty, but a massive tourist trap.
Enjoy yourself. I used to go camping on islands with my dad back in the 70s.
Just about a month early.
Today in vaginamaxxing
“Hamptons residents shelling out tens of thousands for ‘tightest vagina’ as demands for peak sexual performance skyrocket”
https://nypost.com/2026/05/30/us-news/the-hamptons-hottest-new-status-symbol-is-a-tighter-vagina/
Q: Why did the sea lion attend the Tupperware party?
A: He was looking for a tight seal.
Is it a contest and who are the judges?
Vaginamaxing documentary. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8i0qov
Probably not a good idea to click that link during my flight.
It’s OK if you’re the pilot.
NPR – Morning news summary is perfect NPR.
Israel, Lebanon officials to meet. And, judge won’t block Trump’s mail-in voting order
JEWS! OMB!
The only way investors use this data is to determine if the companies they purchase have appropriately greased the government and special interests enough to get a passing grade that will permit them to continue to operate. It is 100% a racket.
SEC moves to repeal rule that requires companies to report greenhouse gas emissions and climate risk
Environmental groups — parasites that the host really needs to shed.
“Jennifer Lopez’s child Emme unveils new trans identity: Emotional photos show vibrant celebrations, a new name and a touching connection to former stepdad Ben Affleck
Jennifer Lopez glowed with pride at her child’s high school graduation this week.
The singer has 18-year-old twins, who were christened Max and Emme Muniz, with her third ex-husband, Marc Anthony.
Then, in June 2022, when the youngsters were 14, Lopez went viral after introducing Emme onstage as ‘they,’ indicating a nonbinary identification.
Now, the Daily Mail has seen a public announcement that shows the teenager, formerly known as Emme, is now called Oskar Muniz and goes by ‘he.'”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15858873/jennifer-lopez-emme-muniz-new-identity-trans-child.html
https://archive.fo/jYOhI
Deport them all to Uganda.
Isn’t one of Afleck’s kids with Jennifer Garner trans? That seems statistically unlikely.
Trans is the new black.
Yes. Charlize Theron has two kids, Megan Fox has three kids, all of them trans.
Buying the winning powerball ticket then getting struck by lightening leaving the bodega is more likely.
When your mom is a ho and you’re goofy looking.
More like when your mom is a fame ho and you desperately want her attention and then she in turn seeks media attention.
And you’re drowning in an insular culture of madness.
To ward off 30min lunch demons, I’m packing my Cobb salad (prepackaged) and my Coke Z in a cooler and leaving it in my car. This way, no 3min walk to work’s break room to fetch it, and the 3min walk to my car from there. (The break room is fine, but no one ‘talks,’ so not missing out. Same at Walmart. But I’d prefer Me Time on break, and although not enough time for a post-meal smoke, this is at least closer in that direction.
Hopefully, it plays. Done at 630 today and then a two-day break before my next three shifts midweek. I hope my scheme pays off, and it shall in its own way. Cheery morning to ya all.
Good. You enjoy your day.
I drink twice a week, one of those nights is a bottle of red wine for the health benefits. People laugh when I tell them this, but the last article pretty much sums it up nicely. Also, Boone’s Farm red wine is delicious.
Does it go to your head?
Boone’s Farm drinkin. At the party big booty pinchin.
Pop the top and the panties drop.
Sometimes it’s all in the timing.
“Over the course of a day, the Guardian followed Shahida to witness how rising temperatures are reshaping the rhythm of life for Delhi’s homeless women.”
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/may/30/delhi-homeless-family-endures-extreme-heat
This shit is getting beyond parody.
“Newsom Designates California Sanctuary State For Fraud”
https://babylonbee.com/news/newsom-designates-california-sanctuary-state-for-fraud
See?
Being a beggar sucks.
Nothing new.
If it was a temperate climate they couldn’t live on the streets without a much higher fatality rate from temperature variation. Try winter.
That’s like the show Survivor. Dump their asses in northern Canada in the winter, then tell me how well they fare.
They make it down to close to the U.S. border to work at Dairy Queen or Tim Hortons.
No way they stay in the Yukon territories.
lol
Peak Guardian?
“Talarico, though, is anything but normal. It turns out he has a bizarre four-word term to describe the female race: neighbors with a uterus.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/tomorrow-social-media-users-light-up-james-talarico/
Looks like he was on Joe Rogan.
I think he might be an actual skin job.
He is trans-Christian himself – not really one, but pretends to be.
Huh. Ten months ago. I’ll queue it up and watch it later so that you don’t have to.
I found Steve Smith’s favorite coffee mug on Craigslist.
https://lewiston.craigslist.org/hsh/d/uniontown-cute-mugs/7935961104.html
“On Thursday, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins announced The Great American Cotton Plan, an effort to help revitalize the nation’s cotton-producing industry to move Americans back toward wearing natural fibers as opposed to plastic materials and other pontially toxic fibers.”
https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/cotton-over-chemicals-how-trumps-usda-making-americas-fabric-great-again
How long before some Democrat accuses them of trying to bring back slavery?
As long as the seeds do not end up in the food supply.
“such as children aged 6–14 working long hours”
It would be much better for them to be prostitutes.
Mmm… Persian tacos.
Caught an episode yesterday of Diners, Drive-ins and Dives with duck tacos from some place in Anchorage.
Zwak, will you be back in time?
https://events.oregonstate.edu/event/beavcon-2026
I’m guessing there will be no actual beavers there.
I’m not sure there will be adults there.
There might be someone dressed as a beaver. But they probably came up from Coos bay.
But, yeah, we are back.
A logger down in Coos Bay Oregon by chance?
I won’t post a link because OMWC is not a Dylan fan, but Roger McGuinn led the vocals on the version of My Back Pages at the 30th Anniversary concert for Dylan. Brilliant.
Grievous harm to civil society
After Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won the state’s Republican Senate primary this week, he delivered a run of insults directed at his general election opponent, Democratic Texas state Rep. James Talarico.
“He goes by a few names that you all may have heard of. Some people know him as tofu Talarico. Some people call him six-gender Jimmy. I’ve even heard some people call him James Talafreako,” he said to laughter and cheers. “And others refer to him simply as Low-T Talarico.”
Paxton also quickly released an ad that ends with an image of Talarico next to the words: “Radical Talarico: too low-T for Texas.”
What followed was an immediate, widespread barrage of attacks on Talarico’s manhood from the right. This tactic — the explicit, sometimes vulgar emphasis on masculinity as an electoral argument — is one highly visible way that President Trump has changed the Republican Party, and American politics in general, in the last decade.
OH
MY
GOD!
Politics was never nasty or underhanded before OMB.
Thank goodness the left is above insulting their enemies.
Because the left was never forced to call a Republican candidate Hitler before Trump.
Not forced of course, they just did so because they liked it.
Now do all the Democrats using swear words when going after their opponents.
“I think that the universe of people who look at these two men and think that somehow Ken Paxton is the model of manhood and is in a credible position to critique James, and for them to make a voting decision based on that messaging, I think the universe of those folks is negligible,” Walker said, later adding that he thinks Paxton is “grasping at straws.”
As negligible as the universe of women trapped in men’s bodies?