Yes, here we are, yet again. The week has flown by and it’s Saturday. The missus and I spent a couple of days up at the cabin, which made it an especially fine week. The garden is in, and planning for the new daughters nuptials continues apace. I need a generator to power the toilet trailer I rented, and all the rental place had available was a trailer mounted, 45kw unit. I’ll ask the neighbors if they want to save some electricity and just run their house off the generator for awhile.
Links?
Dangling a few below the bridge might yield better results.
Just when you think this guy can’t be a bigger douche.
They could be using this money for something useful, like reparations…
Womp, womp. Nice work Chicago.
Heh heh. “Mormon Mafia”. And Legos.
With friends like this? Seriously, Israel can be it’s own worst enemy at times. You think they would have learned from Jonathan Pollard.
Okay, that’s it for me. Time to pull a couple of weeds and generally goof off. Peace out, Glibbies.
Beaches were stormed
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth used a D-Day anniversary speech on Saturday to appear to link immigration by sea to the wartime liberation of Europe, warning that the freedom won by Allied troops could prove temporary if leaders failed to defend it.
Hegseth, speaking at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer in northwestern France during commemorations for the 82nd anniversary of the June 6, 1944, landings, said that today, “different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies.”
“Beaches in Spain and Italy and Greece and Bulgaria. Boats and men arrive,” he said.
“When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late?” he added. “I pray not, and I believe not.”
Hegseth did not use the word immigration, but his remarks echoed broader Trump administration criticism of Europe over migration, borders and what U.S. officials have described as censorship of nationalist and far-right voices.
Will the EU put him on the no fly list?
Why should he? It is literally an invasion – the word he did use. Only this time the invaders are being showered with cash and other people’s apartments.
The Bears are looking at properties one county west of me, where my parents and 2 of my siblings live. I’m shocked it’s actually happening.
That is really wild. How bad must it be for them to actually move? We aren’t hearing the half of it.
Chicago completely screwed the pooch and ignored every warning that the team was ready to move on.
I still don’t know what’s going on – and, even as a bears fan don’t care to exert too much effort to find out. Reading the linked article didn’t help, don’t know what it as to do with R vs D. I just assumed it’s a case of “GIVE US MORE MONIES OR WE LEAVE!” Is it not?
PutridMeat:
Sorry man.
I guess it’s because of the perennial IL vs IN contrast that seems to around amusement.
Never mind that that city has a Dem mayor and nine Dem council critters.
I’m also shocked. I’ve never been, but I thought Soldier Field had more cultural cache than that. Hrm. Apparently, it’s staying around as a music /fest arena. Huh. That oddly displeases me, but so does all of ‘Chicago.’ It’s kinda lucky it’s not more frequently dragged down like LA or Detroit. That Chicago Shooting site with the numbers remains revealing.
(https://heyjackass.com/ ! I remembered the jackass part! Good boy.)
They say that… but you might wind up with a Bass Pro shop going in there.
Everyone thought the same thing about Candlestick too. And yet, here we are.
ha They were gonna put a Bass Pro Shop in the Aud after the Sabres got a new arena. That deal fell through, they tore it down, and now there is some neat re-creation of the old canals that used to run through the area.
What’s the average commute between the city and the new location?
I dunno but Hammond, Indiana literally borders Chicago. This is like complaining that the Jets and Giants moved to New Jersey. In both cases the stadium is/will be located in the “suburbs”.
rhywun:
That’s what I was wondering. I’ve met a small handful of fans who are upset about the Browns moving (going to a dome is generally like by the other fans… idiots). Considering that the Cavs played in Richfield (~30 minutes outside Cleveland) through a large portion of my life, the football team moving ~10 miles south into a suburb that’s got mass transit and a direct freeway connection to Cleveland is nothing.
The area appears to have several rail lines and freeways running through it.
Yeah, the new Browns stadium location is about as ideal as it gets. I’ve taken that train a few times and it’s like 20 minutes from downtown. MetLife is a little further but it has a direct train line too. I continue to believe that downtowns are an awful place to put a football stadium. It kills so much land around it.
rhywun:
Yeah, I take the Red Line up to the home games. For Cleveland, the Municipal stadium has been there my entire life (with the brief absence during the rebuild). I’m really hoping that and Burke Lakefront (and perhaps some of the parking lots) get turned into something useful instead of the sea of asphalt right by the Lake that they currently are.
Agree. So much wasted potential right now.
But yeah, I am from the Rust Belt too so I am very aware of the phenomenon from previous decades where city leaders were happy to put anything anywhere to hopefully make a (tax) buck.
Chesa would have thrown them a party.
I want to be a judge when the revolution comes.
Judgement will be swift, punishment swifter.
My garden is much smaller than in the past. I changed my garden spot into an orchard, this is the first year. I do see some tiny apples on a tree that’s been in the ground 6 years, it’s from an apple seed from a store bought apple. Mice girdled most of the apple trees but somehow they leafed out and look pretty good. We’ll wait and see. In the long run it’s not my problem.
I was relieved that the letter featured wasn’t another tragic Civil War Sullivan Ballou letter (the “my grandparents” was a bit of a giveaway,) but disappointed that the writer and recipient [spoiler] eventually split up, albeit many years later. Certainly a better outcome than many through history.
This one’s pretty cool.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/world-war-ii-veteran-reveals-1-word-feeling-d-day-82-years-later
That is awesome that he’s still around!
I’ve decisively did not take a shit in Normandy. That’d been rather woeful of me. Unlike my brother, I absolutely loved and dove into the history nerd-stuff my parents like and where they took us.
Ha! Went to Paris in ’03 with ’em. Colin was studying at Harlaxton in Grantham. (Hey Maggie!) Around the Arc De Triumph, Chicago Mom repeatedly warned him to not be so rural journalist, so highly pickpocket vulnerable. He, no shit, put his hands up and loudly said to the square: “Any pickpockets here?! ANY?! COME GET IT!”
They did. Yeesh. Then, in maybe 2015 when we met up again in France (Lyon, specifically), we got separated on the same train. He got out at a stop and got lost. He had to get French train folk to get him back on one. I think that was a 4-6hr mistake of his. I say this like he’s that clueless, but he isn’t. Only with languages, science and tech. Can’t believe he didn’t get pocketed again.
(Silence, Teddy. Silence.) I write then walk away then start again! And I don’t recheck! I’m officially *off* the proofreading app clock! Those vids weren’t fun to do, but I was able to redo ’em. They didn’t tell me I only had two minutes and I had to learn, but I’m pretty happy with ’em.
They certainly prove I’m a small, white, Midwestern American (young) man in a chair. Nailed it!
Wut
@RJ: “I’ve decisively did not take a shit in Normandy.”
That’s brutal. I wrote it, then rewrote it, then left, then came back, changed something, and hit submit.
For the rest, my app for a proofreading gig required I submit two vids through their site, answering two questions they had. We joked it was solely to check my race, and I think hearing my American voice was particularly key. *shrug*
I had to poop in a public restroom today. After two weeks on the road eating road food it was such a wretched poo that I felt like leaving a $5 for the janitor.
(Maybe that’s the same mistake that guy made when he returned the $30k he found in the can. Some janitor must be vengeful.)
I, for one, did not know that aliens with bulbuous heads poo’d.
I thought they regurgitated.
There’s nothing like ringing steak at 500 yards with a 16” AR carbine. Today was a day well spent.
The steak’s already dead, man.
Don’t play with your food.
Guns are for posing with steak, not shooting it!
Exactly!
That’s a particularly awkward auto-correct, isn’t it? Steel rings, steak moos.
I thought you were participating in some new sport, shooting cows at range and then eating them.
I thought it was manly way to tenderize steak.
That was the first article on the Utah Lego debacle I’ve been able to read and understand. Thank you for that.
It’s pretty wild, until you understand the players.
My wife has a cousin who recently moved to Boise, Idaho and she and her husband were telling us a little bit about how the Mormons rule the region.
Welcome to Idaho politics Doc.
Huh… something I have never thought of in my life until just this moment has occurred to me. My father’s entire side of the family is from Idaho but they divorced when I was little and I know almost nothing of them. Mom was very quiet about all of them after moving us East.
I might have a Mormon background and not even know it LOL 😳
It’s funny how those things come up. I recently learned (thanks Dad!) that my great-great-grandfather was the first U.S. Marshal out of Salt Lake City. And…he was Jewish. I suspect that guy was about as hard as a coffin nail…
I believe I recall Moj mentioning that Mormons are big on genealogy. Maybe I can look up my last name.
I Believe Ancestry.com is Mormon owned.
I was just gonna comment that I could not follow this at all the first few times one of you lot has linked it.
Maybe I will give this one a shot.
I am a little confused at the author painting the entire state of Utah’s police force as somehow in cahoots, rather than this one town I’ve never heard of. And it seems there is no reason to repeatedly drag Mormons into it. I mean, everyone’s a Mormon there.
Or am I missing something?
Does seem like collectivist theories are getting in the way of individual criminal actions.
My understanding is it’s not as bad as it used to be in Utah with the cops but it depends on the county more now.
In the broken clock dept:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/06/06/david_brooks_if_democrats_side_with_platner_i_dont_want_to_hear_about_trump_and_his_degeneracy_in_the_future.html
That’s some low hanging fruit.
Wow, when you’ve lost the house “Republican”….
Florida Man gets a W for the law-abiding citizens.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on Friday that the state is settling a federal lawsuit by declaring Florida’s three-day firearm purchase waiting period unconstitutional under the Second Amendment.
Excellent!
Platter wasent broken by war. 100% garantee he was a drunken asshole before he joined.
Agreed.
He volunteered for a combat role. He sent himself into battle.
That at the fun part of the military, if you are lucky enough to experience or even witness it.
I love the whole story. Will the Dems stand by their man or not? I expect they will and with very few exceptions.
This beer tastes like a chocolate imperial stout mixed 50/50 with Vicks Formula 44 cough syrup.
Somehow it works.
I think it has been obvious for many years but yeah. They may be on the cusp of achieving the 1,000-year Reich of their dreams and will go to any lengths to make it happen.
Yeah, what’s amazing though is how they dropped all pretense.
That started in 2020.
They’re counting on generations of good will achieved by “centrists”. The socialists who have taken over the party are without exception terrible people so they attract attention. Hopefully enough attention to make normies recoil at their politics which they state openly but most of their voters have ignored to date.
I’m at the point where I honestly don’t know if I would stop for leftist protestors.
I might not even brake check.
I fucking hate sweaty season. Hoodie season needs to hurry back.
A sweaty gooch is intolerable.
I’m wearing this Zio™ heart monitor for another 9 days. When they put it on the woman said, “try to avoid any activity that generates a lot of sweat.”
Honey, clearly I dont belong to a gym otherwise I may not be here. But you know I have grass to cut in June, right?
I also asked her, “Is that thing capable of delivering a shock, and if so can you put it over my nipple?”
She wasn’t amused.
No bedside manner.
All I did today was some grocery shopping and returned home drenched in disgusting sweat. It’s too early for this shit.
Still in Tennessee. Weather had been pretty darn good.
I got travel guts but I hope to be in good shape by tomorrow so I can tour Dollywood.
lol That sounds like fun. Enjoy.
Huh I had no idea it was near Knoxville. Assumed Ozarks for some reason.
Supposedly CA is hiring SEIU to help count votes.
This is fine. It does explain a few things if accurate.
Of course they are.
Grad party…pole barn, in the woods. Wow i missed a lot as a child.
Im not sure any grad hasnt had jello