We have come through the worst of Alumni Reunion Weekend in more or less one piece. I can’t speak for our customers- wine sales were amazing. I have to restock nearly everything. We have the last remnants coming through today, but then we pick up all the pieces, sweep out the refuse, and maybe catch our breaths. Prime came down last night to catch the festivities and watch our crew in action. Sweet Baby James charmed the masses.
Side note since I may not be around for comments: Pie, please email me, omwc at glibertarians dot com.
Birthdays today include the one who didn’t get shot; a guy with the most perfect Mormon name ever; a guy who was eminently forgettable; the sound of Rankin/Bass horror; one of a long and honorable line of White House shills; a strong argument for term limits; the worst president since the last one; and one of my favorite corner backs.
The party will quiet down a bit for Links.
Lucy is pulling the football. Again. Not that any of us can see what the “deal” is, you have to pass it to read it redux.
I’d have more respect if it weren’t White Claw.
How about, and hear me out on this, we, I dunno, GET RID OF THOSE FUCKING CHECKBOXES?
Inevitable, and wait until they get better at it.
A hideous monument to a Trump-size ego.
“Hey, guys, I have a remarkably stupid idea. Literally.”
Another cult band of the Old Guy’s youth, our version of Spike Jones. Just a fun time.
Fun, possibly apocryphal, story about Viv Stanshall of the Bonzos. He checked himself into an insane asylum. Grew bored, so offered to visitors to foam at the mouth (by eating soap). Then sang the madness song from the opera Lucia do Lammermore. They told him he was sane and sent him home.
I like to think Spike Jones would have been proud of the Bonzos. My late great musical trio used to do a mashup of their “I’m the Urban Spaceman” with The Byrds’ “Mr. Spaceman.”
👍
Craig Ferguson et alia lip sync “Look Out, There’s a Monster Coming”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pheDhwSmrAo
Mostly peaceful celebrations.
I still don’t understand why this is a thing. My team won so I’ll destroy someone else’s property doesn’t make any sense to me.
I would rank him as certainly better than Biden, Obama, or Bush Jr. I don’t loathe him like I did Clinton, so probably better than Clinton as well. Bush Sr. was pretty much of a cipher, so maybe not the worst President since Reagan.
Man, talk about a series of low bars.
Funny, I loathed Clinton too, but looking back and compared to others he is your typical blue dog of the era.
I suspect it’s been long enough that the sharp edges have worn off in memory.
No attack ever fed a hungry child.
Clinton was cagey. When the Republicans won big in the midterms, he just went with it, compromised, and took credit. No current Democrat leader is smart enough to do that.
He appointed his wife to a non-existent cabinet position to nationalize healthcare, dropped bombs all over the place, got involved in Bosnia because reasons, and weaponized the alphabet agencies, including the IRS, against political foes.
But compared to what was to follow, he was better.
He had Gingrich to keep him in line.
I’d have more respect if it weren’t White Claw.
How much bail does Brett need?
“Hey, guys, I have a remarkably stupid idea. Literally.”
I do find it amusing that apparently the Dem voters would rather take another shot with Harris than Gov. Hairgel.
Why not? Harris was, and is, the perfect chief executive for the people who run the Democratic Party – a brainless empty suit with a phone, a pen, and lots of obligations.
Don’t forget, she is a “woman of color”, thus her qualifications are at the top of the Dem list.
public-private partnership
“That’s grift” [a la Tom Hardy’s “that’s bait” delivery]
Privatized airport security, meanwhile, is not a novel idea in the United States.
Wasn’t it all private before the TSA? I didn’t fly much before the TSA but I don’t remember any government employees in the security lines pre-TSA beyond maybe a cop or two watching over everything.
I recall lighting a cigarette on my way to the terminal from my car, and being in my seat on the plane before finishing it.
A more civilized era.
Baller.
Yes it was private or airport authority ran.
OBE I saw your earlier comment. Condolences to you and the family for you loss(es).
Thanks buddy. Mrs. OBE is a wreck. Daddy’s girl
Read that this AM, you guys are in my thoughts.
A day that ends in “y” in NYC.
No shit, really?
Gridlock slams NYC as World Cup travelers rocked by ‘chaotic’ transit planning
World’s greatest city.
That was ramping up when I was there a few weeks ago. Glad I missed the worst of it.
POV: you are in a bucharest tap room and see the beer list what are you getting
https://www.hophooligans.ro/pages/taproom
None. I wouldn’t be there.
No brown ale?
I’d be debating between the lager and a stout.
The Blonde, the American Pale Ale, and whatever the bartender was most proud of having on tap.
White Lie and Candyflip.
Whiskey.
Also a good answer.
I’ve (reluctantly) cut out beer, now that I’m pushing on towards fifty.
I tend to avoid it, it is seriously bloating at my age as well. Whiskey and bourbon are preferred at Stately R.J. Manor.
I have two beers then switch over to something less bloating, last night it was G&Ts. It was too muggy for bourbon.
I had a couple St. Germain 75’s last night, just because it was hot and there was a mini-split of Louis Bouillot in the fridge that’d been eyballin’ me.
I have two beers and then call it. It really does start hitting you at 55.
Not sure what temperature it is there, I would probably start with the basic lager and then move ti the blonde. Has to be cooler than 50 degrees for me to want dark beer, and Hell has to freeze over before I touch an IPA.
IPA is the devil’s work.
A proper English IPA is good.
The tough part is finding one. No one in America makes one as far as I know. Samuel Smith’s is OK if you can find it.
Either the Blond or the Fruited Sour.
I mean, its still summer over their, right?
It’s at night, we are meeting with the local talent afterall.
Blestem, sienmorets, Candyflip.
But such small cups. I can’t even bring myself to call them glasses at that tiny size.
Schrodinger’s War. Simultaneously escalating, negotiating a deal, and being undermined by Bibi. All three states exist before looking at any given news story.
LeRoy Brown’s old neighborhood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01pQgdIfhAM
The Obama Library seems to fit in.
So my friends canadia trip starts on july 25 in toronto and ends august 15 in toronto, going along the way through quebec city grand falls halifax prince edward island fredericton riviere de loupe montreal and back to toronto seeing some natural scenery along the way. I am actually considering going
Oh, you mustn’t come that close without at least coming over into upstate New York! Finger Lakes! Wine! Glibs!
You absolutely should and you absolutely need to email me.
I believe i did
Haven’t gotten anything. Just for fun, try omwc at protonmail dot com.
Just did.
Of course i wrote short jokey email maybe they went to spam
On PEI and wine: I liked Rossignol (trigger warning: their website is garbage) wine. I might have gotten some wine from here but I can’t remember.
For beer: It’s hard to go wrong in Halifax. There are a lot of brewpubs, microbreweries, and the like there.
Gahan House started out in PEI but has expanded throughout the Maritimes.
Thank you.
You’re welcome! If I think of more I’ll post them.
Hey, I resemble that remark and I ain’t laughin’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Alzheimer
Happy Birthday Ted’S.!
(I keed, I keed!)
You forgot Steffi Graf and George O’Dowd.
HBD TEDS”
Now I can remember yours (maybe).
Something tells me this “business” wasn’t approved for this and like has no “insurance”.
Woman thrown to her death after staff ‘forget to attach bungee cord’
They all “forgot” to attach the cord?
I read that last night.
Weird.
To the knickerbockers won the national basketball association title. Who’d’ev thunk it. Fox sucked ass and he is owed 200+ mil over the next 4 years. GMs giving these contracts are either dumb or money laundering.
It’s right there in the article… that will never happen because “the rules for counting race will help decide who gets political power”.
And nothing – NOTHING – is more important than getting political power.
Hush up, the heterosexuals are talking.
CNN finally found welfare it doesn’t like.
How much of Musk’s wealth comes from government help? Virtually all of it
That’s nice. Now do Tom Steyner.
Government help is an interesting phrase. Tesla relies on carbon credits Team Blue dreamed up. We wouldn’t have any meaningful space transport for cargo and humans but for SpaceX.
A grant to develop a service for the government is simply a prepayment. Had he not delivered on the contract they would have an argument. Same with a
contract for services.
A loan that was paid back. Government should not provide loans.
Tax credits to buy electric cars? Those shouldn’t exist either.
Had Musk stayed on the political left he could have failed, pocketed all the cash and they would have praised him saying that he would have been a success if only the electric car subsidies continued.
He has a point. I don’t get it myself but a certain segment of humans do celebrate their happiness with spasms of random violence. The key is to be nowhere near such people when you know such a circumstance could come about.
The question is when did we transition from jubilee and into car-flipping. 80s? 90s?
Good question. Another symptom of the slow decline into third-world territory that is going on across “the west”?
Who is this we? I remember a local team winning a championship in the mid-80’s. Downtown, we saw robbing, looting, cars being torched and full scale riots.
Meanwhile, in the suburbs, people were driving down the street honking their horns nonstop.
80s, I went to St Cloud State in ’89. In ’88 they overturned/burned some police cars after a sportsball tournament. In ’89 they were very heavy-handed in breaking up parties.
Another more civilized era.
Being a loser is safer.
I’ve got that covered.
Professional sports should be illegal.
The Rule of the Three Stupids applies here.
Which is what? Help a brother out.
Don’t go to stupid places, don’t hang out with stupid people, don’t do stupid things.
Riots are so third world.
Soccer is so third world.
Let’s import the third world!!
Now if they burn down Seattle I’m good with that.
Congrats to Knicks fans for rioting and taking the crown from unruly fans in Philly, Chicago, L.A. etc.
Eight years of empty suit gets you a brutalist Sandcrawler and vacuous platitudes on repeat until the end of time.
My god that article is a gold mine of derp.
I figured as much and saved my sight for other things.
A Sandcrawler, that’s it, I couldn’t remember the name of it, but looking at the picture in the article (and that was probably the most flattering angle they could find) that was the first thing that came to my mind as well.
Brutalist architecture is appropriate for his monument to himself.
Sunday, Slutty Sunday.
https://www.barnorama.com/35-hot-girls-in-lingerie-serving-looks-that-feel-personal/
I’ll be in my bunk.
I feel like this should be incorporated into an after school special.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/man-25-tragically-dies-after-37254466
I read the headline and punched out.
Random thoughts:
I see that the two “Bulgarians” (actually, I think, Gypsies) who were harassing Scottish Axe Girl just got convicted of harassing and assaulting her and her sister. The amazing thing to me was the media and government op to character-assassinate (a) a 12 year old girl (b) when it was perfectly and instantly obvious that she was being followed, filmed, and harassed by an adult man. I mean, the video he took himself was of a girl being followed and harassed by him.
As we come up on the 250th anniversary of ‘Murica, I wonder if there will be a 300th. I think its a long shot, myself, simply because I don’t see how the nation-state (a) avoids and/or (b) survives the collapse of the dollar and the ensuing economic, social, and political catastrophe.
Part of this will depend on being last horse in line at the glue factory. If China implodes due to one-child policies, Japan goes the way of the Panda for refusing to reproduce or import anyone, Europe slides into totalitarianism, we may be the city shining on the shitty hill.
Also, look what is happening in Argentina. Turnarounds can be unexpected and the results can happen quickly.
300th?
I’m also not sure there will be one.
Don’t hold the door for me…
We may be around simply because China and Europe fall before we do.
“The next great civil rights battle may be whether America’s old racial categories can keep up with its future.”
Get rid of all of them.
We need them to help track the progress of the coming race war that the left wants so badly.
So you want a race war.
Yes Dave.
And you are outnumbered 7-1.
Yes Dave.
And by your own propaganda, the 7 control the levers of power, the banks, the military, and the corporations.
Yes Dave.
I think you may need to rethink your plan.
“Knicks fans set school bus on fire in Times Square madness: ‘I’m scared for my homies!’”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/14/us-news/knicks-fans-ignite-school-bus-on-fire/
“63 people arrested, 4 stabbings and 1 shooting reported in NYC after Knicks fans go wild celebrating NBA Finals win”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/14/us-news/63-people-arrested-in-violent-nyc-night-as-knicks-fans-celebrate-nba-finals-win/
The Knicks are from Philly?
https://nypost.com/2026/06/13/sports/world-cup-fan-base-fever-takes-over-the-united-state/
I just assume any girl in a Brazil shirt has a penis.
At least they’re trying harder than the old guy in the leopard print dress I saw the other day. Closest he could due was long hair. Not even shaved legs.
Transtrenders are the worst.
“An influx of out-of-state agitators — some hailing from elite backgrounds — were arrested in Newark during the chaotic standoff with law enforcement outside the Delaney Hall migrant detention center, The Post has learned.
Out of the at least 12 anti-ICE rioters arrested last weekend for assaulting federal agents or smashing cars…
Only three were from New Jersey, where the violent clashes have raged for three weeks since 300 detainees went on a hunger strike over what they claimed were inhumane conditions inside….
Far-left organizations have supplied protestors with military goggles, helmets, knee and shin pads to face off with federal officials — as they broadcast the chaos to millions of followers on social media.
At least two have connections to the radical nonprofit Sunrise Movement, among the organizers of the Delaney Hall mayhem….
The nonprofit is funded by megadonors that include far-left billionaire George Soros and boasts $2.6 million in revenue and $4.9 million in assets, according to its 2024 tax filings.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/14/us-news/nj-delaney-hall-arrests-include-influx-of-out-of-state-agitators-with-links-to-dark-money-group/
No one can touch grass when everything is astroturf.
lol Bullshit. They are eating better than I do.
If the Soros connections are obvious, why isn’t his ass in Gitmo on terrorism charges?
He’s old.
Just like Biden you can’t convince an old demented guy.
The U.S. is heading toward a more Latino, Asian, Black immigrant and multiracial future — and the rules for counting race will help decide who gets political power, civil rights protections and public resources.
What in the everloving fuck?
I guess e pluribus unum is officially face down in that ditch.
If identity becomes completely fluid, or if old boxes break down, the very legal tools used to protect marginalized communities could weaken.
I remember when people talked about that as a victory.
Wherein we learn that some people actually want to be “marginalized”. 🙄
Race should have nothing to do with who gets public resources.
I wonder if trans women can get all the loans, grants, and free shit available to women?
Hear me out.
There should be no “public resources” to give out.
“A left-wing activist federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to restore propagandistic signs and exhibits related to slavery, climate change, and other contentious historical topics at America’s national parks and monuments across the country.
U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley, a Joe Biden appointee, issued a preliminary injunction requiring the Interior Department to reinstall the displays within 21 days after ruling that the removals likely violated federal law.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/biden-judge-orders-trump-administration-restore-slavery-climate/
CWAC
taking a look at the US visa form it is annoying they make you put in a hotel. Like I don;t know I want to get the visa then start booking. But I guess you can put anything there
The last time I went to Australia, I bought a local SIM card for my phone.
When I was activating the SIM card at a kiosk at a cell phone merchant stand in the airport, I had to put in an address. The address had to be an Australian address. I thought about using my hotel address. The kiosk had a phone which I used to call the mobile phone company’s help line.
Australian law at the time required you to have an Australian address registered to the SIM as an “anti-terrorism measure”. The person at the mobile phone company was very helpful. For tourists like me, every Australian mobile phone company has a default address you can use. The person gave me the address. I put it into the kiosk, and everything worked.
Was it 123 Kangaroo Way?
Was it 123 Kangaroo Way?
🙂
It was some street in Melbourne. I cannot remember the street name but I remember looking it up on Google maps before I left Australia. It was somewhere in the Central Business District.
Just pick one you might stay at.
In Alfred NY there is just economy inn. 4.8 stars on booking. Others are in hornell or somesuch
They want to make sure you have a place to stay and aren’t planning to skip out. At least that’s the idea.
China required a round trip ticket before processing a 10 year visa, which isn’t convenient for last minute trips. So book a refundable ticket, print itinerary and receipt, cancel ticket, and submit paperwork with visa.
That Obama megalith is pretty much precisely what I envision the Ministry of Love to look like.
taking a look at the US visa form it is annoying they make you put in a hotel. Like I don;t know I want to get the visa then start booking. But I guess you can put anything there
Just put “Hilton”.
I was thinking a Best Western myself.
Motel 6.
They leave the light on for you.
“This is a safe space for people to come and, yes, reflect on the historic moments of this presidency and the campaigns, but also to come together as a community to think about what change you can bring to your own neighborhood,” Josh Harris, the Obama Foundation’s vice president of public engagement, said during a recent tour with The Associated Press.
Is there a prediction market for first shooting death on the grounds?
If not, there should be.
It’s Chicago so it will be the weekend after it opens.
Update:
“After two masked armed thugs robbed a lemonade stand in Boston for $50, the community is rallying around the children who had their hard-earned cash stolen from them. After news broke of the kids getting robbed, a huge crowd came out to support the young entrepreneurs. At the same time, one of the suspects in the robbery has been arrested.
The robbery took place on Wednesday afternoon, and police have caught one of the alleged perpetrators. The kids running the stand, 12-year-old David Byrne as well as his 11-year-old little sister, Juliette Byrne, had a gun pulled on them by the thugs.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/boston-teen-arrested-for-50-armed-lemonade-stand-heist-while-hundreds-rally-for-kids-the-suspects-robbed-at-gunpoint
The US Treasury monthly statement for May is out. The statement opens with this highlight:
“May has been a deficit month 71 times out of 72 fiscal years since there are usually no major corporate or individual tax due dates in this month.”
Huh. I thought spending was the reason the Feds run deficits.
Summary of May’s receipts and outlays, rounded to the nearest billion and compared to May FY 2025:
Receipts: $336 billion FY2025 May Receipts: $371 billion
Outlays: $628 billion FY2025 May Outlays: $687 billion
Deficit: $293 billion FY2025 May deficit: $316 billion
Customs duty revenue (i.e. tariffs) for May is negative. I’m assuming this is due to refunds and so I am not going to read much into it.
FY2026 YTD alongside FY2025 comparable period rounded to the nearest billion:
Receipts: $3,656 billion FY2025 comparable period receipts: $3,482 billion
Outlays: $4,902 billion FY2025 comparable period outlays: $4,846 billion
Deficit: $1,246 billion FY2025 comparable period deficit: $1,364 billion
Budget projections for FY2026 and FY2027 full year have not changed since last month.
I looked at the outlays for the Department of Education. FY2026 YTD outlays are $83 billion, FY2025 comparable period is $93 billion, and FY2026 full year estimate is $62 billion.
Interest on the debt is the second biggest line item in FY2026 YTD.
I’m going to laugh my ass off when the social security checks end.
“Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche dropped a bombshell of data on Thursday describing Trump administration efforts to find hundreds of thousands of missing unaccompanied alien children (UACs). UACs are minors trafficked to the U.S. border and smuggled into the U.S. under the guise of reuniting with family. In reality, many have been trafficked through a complex network run by transnational criminal organizations.
More than 475,000 UACs were trafficked to the U.S. during the Biden administration. More than 300,000 were unaccounted as of the end of 2024, Blanche said at a press conference in Washington, D.C.”
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/doj-more-475k-children-trafficked-us-under-biden-300k-unaccounted
It takes a village to traffic a child.
Not much traffic in Podunkville any time
Catapult them back idgaf.
Man of the people
“When I was a child growing up in East Africa, there were towering figures, and then there was George Weah, the first African player to ever win the Ballon d’Or,” he said. “If you had told seven-year-old me that I would one day go into the same line of work as this man, I would be extremely disappointed to understand that you meant politics.” Then he got in a subtle dig at Weah for playing for Chelsea — a rival to Mamdani’s Arsenal, whose uniform the mayor turned into a custom kurta during the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha in May.
But he has also treated his commentary on sports as almost separate from his broader political agenda. While Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) (still angry about the Brooklyn Dodgers’ owner moving them to Los Angeles in his youth) calls MLB team owners “baseball oligarchs,” Mamdani has assiduously avoided comments on Knicks owner James Dolan’s controversial invite to Trump to watch the finals, aside from noting that he would be in a much cheaper part of Madison Square Garden, with a standing-room-only ticket.
Just a regular guy who wants to tear down the oligarchy and replace it with the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Bastard son of Vlad the Impaler and J Pierpont Morgan
Some investors consider Musk a genius and a visionary; others just want a piece of the cash grab. But all of them are pretending that this IPO can be separated from the repugnant things about Musk — his promotion of white supremacy and antisemitism, the poison his social media network pours into global debate every day, the damage he has done to the federal government. None of that exists in a separate sphere from his businesses. It is not a hobby or a sidelight. It is the very heart of who he is and the world he is seeking to create. Musk and his IPO are where greed meets hate, and that stain should be on anyone who participates.
Blood guilt for anyone who invests in any of Musk’s enterprises.