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- President Trump officially kicks off US 250th birthday celebrations with ‘Great American State Fair’
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“Earthquake in Venezuela!”
Doesn’t that happen often?
a double not really
They just had one last year.
yes. But this year and last were the only two such in their history.
It’s all the shaking from Mexican Sharpshooter’s new GIF.
I hope this doesn’t mean we have to let millions of them in “temporarily”.
So the Euros that have air conditioning will be the Omega Men?
That’s last century – these days they’ll become the iOmega Men.
what powers do we get?
Depends – are you more Zip or Jaz?
Silly me though LS-120 was going to be the storage medium of the future.
Immunity from heat waves.
The Omega Them.
President Trump officially kicks off US 250th birthday celebrations with ‘Great American State Fair’
Celebrate by giving Pie a visa.
They holding you up?
“Temporary protected status was created by Congress to shield certain groups from deportation if returning to their home countries was considered unsafe.”
What if they are living in Baltimore now?
Homicides are down in Balmer! They’ve seemingly killed everyone there is to kill.
lol That is not at all why “temporary protected status” was created.
Petulant children whose life force consists entirely of ego get in whiny pissing match over being disrespected?
Generic headline is generic?
PG&E bills set to skyrocket — bringing misery for 16 million across California
Is Musk to blame? Must be.
Those Teslas don’t charge themselves.
I thought windmills were cheaper than fossil fuels.
Do better, California.
We can’t. We keep electing idiots.
Don’t blame me. Everyone I vote for loses.
Deadly ‘Omega’ heat wave cooking Europe expected to shatter more records
It’s not like they don’t know about air conditioning.
You need a note from Ze Doktor to have such verboten technology installed!
Only in Geneva though.
So THATS the Geneva convention!
Should have been Geneva convection, know what I mean?
the added issue is the electricity grid is over loaded. Some solar panels don;t work if they get to hot and the French needed to shut down some nuclear reactors.
Only in France would a nuclear reactor go on strike.
the issue is they use river water for cooling and the river water temperature would exceed the recommended temperature and as such closed the reactor in order not to warm the river water
So the river needs air conditioning.
You build a refrigeration system immediately downstream of the reactor.
But Euro houses are only built to hold in heat. Cold air easily escapes their homes.
They apparently don’t know how to swim. Or how to not drink and swim.
In Venezuela, Trump has angered the communist gods!
Bolivar trying to kick his way out of his grave?
While we joke about the heat it seems more than 50 french teenagers drowned by jumping in rivers to cool down. In a way sad, in a way silly. Do not jump in a place you can;t swim.
French or “French”?
Probably “French” as in “French teenager Muhammad Haji Jihad drowned in a river Tuesday…”.
They are not used to places with water.
in civilized France they do not collect such statistics.
There’s a handful of morons every year who die doing this. Barges don’t have brakes, and will not see you.
Puzzling. Are you sure they weren’t Romanians? I heard they had trouble crossing running water.
We live very close to the Indiana Dunes. There was a 15 year old last week who got pulled under and they never found him. If you’re not familiar with Lake Michigan and its rip currents, it’s easy to disregard the warnings and pay the price.
Jumped off the end of the pier in Holland Michigan once.
That was stupid.
Don’t get drunk and jump in a river.
I might consider trading “birthright citizenship” for the immediate end to all welfare and cash assistance of the sort that did not exist when their vaunted “citizenship clause” they pretend allows it was written.
What so you, the Left?
Agreed – get rid of both.
They’re going to get birthright citizenship anyway from the cowards of SCOTUS, so they don’t need to trade off anything.
I am afraid so. The arguments for it are plainly wrong so it will be interesting to see how they will justify it.
What WTF said.
Federal benefits are currently not allowed for illegals and other non-citizens. And for some reason there is no rule saying “The federal government may not do indirectly that which it is prohibited from doing directly”, so hundreds of billions are given to NGOs to provide benefits to illegals and other non-citizens.
Federal benefits are currently not allowed for illegals and other non-citizens.
Technically true, not true in practice. Blue states like NJ funnel these benefits to illegals anyway, and if the feds try to cut off funding for it a federal judge rules that they must continue the funding.
And given to illegal moms for their anchor babies.
The French Right is aboard the free stuff bandwagon!
They’re French, it’s to be expected.
Gaaaaah.
Stop throwing subsidies! How about you allow cheap American window units to be sold, and stop regulating and banning the shit out of everything?
I grow weary of the Euroweenies.
the cheapest AC here is 250 bucks American.
https://www.emag.ro/aparat-de-aer-conditionat-star-light-control-wifi-3d-inverter-9000-btu-functie-incalzire-clasa-a-display-alb-act-09wifi/pd/DHWT4LBBM/
250 is about right for a cheap portable unit. Window units are as low as 100.
cheap American window units
Manufactured in China I imagine.
Yeah I doubt any of them have been made in the USA for decades.
Not Adahn, re HBSDT, certainly. If you tell me which panels I can send you (or upload to the Media Library) PDFs of the individual panels so you wont have to cut and paste.
Thank’ee. I’ll figure out which one(s) and let you know.
Kill it. Pass a fucking amendment or something if necessary.
That must be a misprint. I can’t believe it’s that low.
You can drop delivery to one day a week and specific couriers for certified mail and nobody would notice.
Weekly I get maybe 3 pieces of mail, including junk.
I get more circulars from TOPS supermarket than anything else and it is not even close. Probably 2 or 3 a week.
My favorite junk is from a local funeral home.
At least the political junk has dropper for now.
I get a bunch more, but most of it is junk. Lots of businesses around here advertise through the mail. At least some of it is useful for starting the grill.
Even just knocking it down to 4 days per week would probably save a ton of cash.
I get the majority of my bills in the mail and pay them with checks.
Tuesday wed Thursday delivery would be fine for me for mail but we get more packages than mail.
I thought only people my Dad’s age did that.
Why don’t mail delivery trucks play music like ice cream trucks? What would the song be if they did?
Yakety Sax?
I propose something energetic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZmUfUBqE-s
Too obvious?
Yes: you’ve pissed Mojeaux off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNn_UoI97GU
Well, I could also have linked to The Beatles’ cover to even more howls of derision, but I chose to go with the (as far as I know) original.
You’re welcome.
Put It In the Slot ?
SFW, in case anyone is wondering.
I’m Sorry by Brenda Lee?
I still feel like I need a service to reliably deliver my letters and important documents to the wrong house.
Just raise the cost of bulk mailing until junk direct mail becomes undesirable, and then you can cut down service to 1-2 days a week.
We left America and bought an abandoned home in Romania! (full renovation timelapse)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-MR31O1aw0
the Youtube genre of buying an old rural house in Europe and renovating it is getting put of hand
You had your eye on that one?
How are you doing btw? You were evacuating from a fore the other day. Are you back home?
Fore=fire
who are you asking?
Hobbit does not seem to be here
It was Hobbit who was evacuating. Pie was not burning
Ah. Forgive me, I have had a lot of very busy weeks in a row and my attention span is broken.
If it’s the evacuation I think it is it’s still in effect, 85% contained. One elderly woman’s remains found.
No.
That place looks like the crap houses I’ve seen 100 times in videos of the Ukraine war being blown up. Let it fall in.
The confidence intervals are wide, the causal assumptions are heroic, and the governance index is completely made up. But hey, it matches their methods exactly.
The MODEL says!
“Just 7% of active voters supported Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s radical ally Darializa Avila Chevalier over establishment Democrat Rep. Adriano Espaillat in Tuesday’s main event primary, data shows.
The overall low turnout — roughly 17% of Democratic voters citywide — came as Avila Chevalier and two other Mamdani-backed House primary winners captured a mix of high-earning, young, white and black voters, analysts found….
Steve Rattner, an economic analyst, posted on X that election data showed college-educated, non-Hispanic voters were more likely to vote for Avila Chevalier.
“Last night’s big wins for Mamdani-backed candidates were driven by young college grads, often at odds with the party’s traditional working-class & minority base,” he wrote.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/24/us-news/mamdanis-red-wedding-sweep-in-nyc-congressional-races-came-from-small-sliver-of-dem-voters/
There are no working class communists.
Elitists voting for the communist? Where is my fainting couch?
In other words, a normal primary where only the party diehards bother to play. The rest of the party members will duly ratify whomever the lunatics have decided on.
Lee Kuan Yew:
“Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics. Without air conditioning you can work only in the cool early-morning hours or at dusk. The first thing I did upon becoming prime minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was key to public efficiency.”
https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/2069499505637261356
COUNTERPOINT
How do I feel about air conditioning? On the one hand, I’m extremely hot. On the other, it’s destroying the planet
This article is more than 11 months old
Emma Beddington
Yes, temperatures are rising. But more and more AC means more and more CO2 – and then more and more global heating. Let’s have some long-term thinking instead
. But the French AC debate rapidly heated up: Le Pen faced scathing criticism from the Greens and ecological transition minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher, who noted Le Pen’s party voted against plans to develop more sustainable “cooling networks”. The environment agency president called AC “an alibi for inaction”.
AC is quantifiably bad, but I think it’s also philosophically problematic. Cooling offers comfort, making the unbearable bearable, at least for now. That happens at a community level (no one is really disputing we should keep the very old, the very young and the vulnerable cool), but also individually. When you can buy a personal bubble of coolness and not truly feel the heat, the screaming urgency to tackle the collective issue of a world on fire can recede slightly.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/13/air-conditioning-heat-destroying-planet
self-flagellation with extras steps?
except temperatures are not rising. They plateaued, which fits with the solar cycle model which tracks to the sinusoidal temperature graph that goes from high in the 1930s, to low in the 1970s, to high now. We’re positioned for a drop in temperatures to levels which led to climate doomers crying about the coming ice age.
Also, we’re still in an ice age. The current interglacial hasn’t ended.
what part of it is hot right now outside do you not understand?
The part where weather means we must suffer under evil regimes
But the French deserve to suffer!
right now
This is why our civilization is doomed – this is in fact the dominant frame of reference.
She needs a steak, a sun tan and some dick.
Our progress towards AI utopia continues!
Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads by $200 or More on Some Models
https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-raises-prices-on-macs-ipads-by-200-or-more-on-some-models-a7463f99?st=Lmi2pj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
It’s a small price to pay for all the wonderful AI slop.
I’m glad I refreshed my desktop, phone, and game console in the last year or so before all of this silliness.
Ugh. Maybe I should pick up an iPad air before Amazon increases the prices.
>.>
Damn it. I’ve been holding off thinking this bubble was going to burst soon.
Can we finally stop pretending they are not communists?
OTOH they are pro-Islamic terrorism and pro-crime, they openly hate the United States, Americans, and Jews and they are proud of all of these things. And it doesn’t seem to impact their popularity at all. So maybe calling them commies will just make them more popular.
A funny thing about the type of wall unit AC used here in Romania was that some french or german tried to say on some internet debate that European houses have thick brick walls so you cannot just drill to take the exhaust out. LOL. I have quite thick brick walls of a hard brick and drilled them to get my AC.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/zGg14yWZc1HGGNYT9
I’m going to guess this eurorando was an academian and not a tradesman. You can drill through brick and concrete with hand-held power tools. Battery operated even.
COUNTERPOINT
Plate of ice. Wet towel for makeshift tent. Fan directed into the tent. Boom, 2C drop in temperature across 2 hours.
https://x.com/TheDryhtscipe/status/2069736547654492537
He’s bragging about a 2 degree drop in temperature?
One would hope that in the course of their travels in These United States, some of our World Cup international visitors will discover how to make a proper Redneck Air Conditioner.
2ºC, so about 3.6ºF. Which is not nothing, but it’s pretty close. He’s also increasing the relative humidity.
lol Why not.
The climate cultists tell us we are supposed to rearrange society and impoverish all of humanity in order to achieve even less than that.
More popular here are ones you just put in a window, like this:
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Vissani-5-000-BTU-115-Volt-Window-Air-Conditioner-Cools-150-sq-ft-in-White-VAW05R1AWT/327450115
After summer you just put it away. Is this an option for the sweaty Italians? Or must everything go through a wall?
Those seem dangerous. I remember a Seinfeld episode when one fell on Kramer’s head.
Runs on Euro current even.
“After the 2015 federal Every Student Succeeds Act gave states more control over school accountability and teacher quality, states used that authority to embed “culturally responsive education,” or CRE, into the rules and expectations for educators….
CRE rules and standards direct teachers to view society through the lens of an oppressor/oppressed dichotomy, to treat institutions (including their own schools) as inherently racist or sexist, and to encourage students to engage in activism….
In some states, they begin with children as young as three or four.
In many states — including Illinois, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and California — teachers must demonstrate mastery of CRE as a professional competency to earn or keep a teaching license.”
https://nypost.com/2026/06/25/opinion/pull-the-plug-on-activist-classrooms-indoctrinating-our-kids/
Thanks, Obama
Nice sentiment but killing that program is not going to stop the leftist indoctrination at all.
Yea hers have been leftists for the last century or more.
Not so fast: Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN] (Introduced 04/30/2015)
114th Congress – Republicans controlled both House and Senate.
And?
And?
Thanks, Obama
Sure, he could’ve vetoed it. I didn’t bother to check if this was bi-partisan. I already know it was bullshit when the article said gave states more control over school accountability and teacher quality. That nugget might have been believable if the legislation dissolved all teacher unions.
Meh. Politicians are guilty until proven guilty. I really don’t give a fuck about being fair to them.
But this bill does seem like a good example of the whole ‘bipartisan = stupid + evil’ concept. Alexander was probably stupid enough to think that this bill would advance educational freedom, and Obama was probably evil enough to see how it could be exploited.
I was ripping some Blu-Rays and in one of those moments where I pay undue attention to everyday things, I took note of the fact that I habitually always close tray-based optical drives by pushing the button while I know people who close them by pushing the tray.
Impromptu survey – which method do you lot tend to use when closing optical media drives?
I did not know Blu-Rays were still a thing.
Button. I’m paranoid about the lever effect from pushing the tray.
I press the button, but I play CD’s more than DVD/BR
There is also a button on the remote so it will be open by the time I get out of my chair.
Mine has a lid and latch, does not have a tray. So I have to manually close it.
Well, when I wrote the question I was working with a tower computer – lidded optical drives are less common in that form factor, so they slipped my mind.
RJ over here using a PS2 to watch DVDs.
I use an external drive. It only supports push to close.
I have one of those as well. It’s like an enclosure for a laptop drive where you clip the disk in and the tray has no close motor.
I haven’t closed an optical media drive in 10 years.
Sad.
Button.
Robert Reich
@RBReich
It’s no longer left versus right or even Democrat versus Republican.
It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong.
Millions are awakening to this new reality — and they’re speaking up.
The sleeping giant of America is roaring.
https://x.com/RBReich/status/2069950441048203394
the dwarf says the giant is roaring.
It’s actually becoming more like Americans versus Islamic communists.
Yep. He will realize that when he sees the ditch full of bodies. By that point it will be too late.
This.
I don’t WTF he is blathering on about – like most establishment lefties he is probably willfully blind to reality.
You follow more retards than a referee at the special olympics.
RR is pushed by X and YouTube hard.
I agree, but I think Robert and I would disagree about which side he’s on.
Bobby thinks you should be free to do exactly the things he approves of and none of the things he dislikes. If you disagree, you are a fascist!
@Neph, I was just going to type that. We do have an oligarchy, it’s basically everyone you see on the “news” and opinion pages.
Ex-oligarch complains about oligarchy. News at 11.
Government functionary, not just a generally wealthy person. And of course he’s actually arguing against a populist movement. That man is dumber than he is short.
Work and then four days off, all book-ended with promising job interviews. Tomorrow I’ve got Sr. Operations Admin-1 with FedEx, basically a secretary in the factory bay. Shitty part-time schedule, 3-9pm, Mon-Fri, but a toe in the Big Corp tent.
https://careers.fedex.com/sr-operations-admin-1/job/P25-306573-2
More exciting, interview for the “escrow processor” gig w a nearby title services org on Monday. I called them up and they gave me their VP’s address to send my non-dick junk to. Then they called the next day to set something up in person. FedEx would be interesting in its own way, but this one seems a legit, big step up. Other than ‘sex crime transcriptionist’ with the Indy Metro Police last year, the only real interviews I’ve had in several years.
Big plus to ‘learn’ that escrow processing isn’t a job employers expect you to really know before you begin. It’d be my first ‘office-office’ job, thereabouts. And likely my wardrobe would need to be updated. (Such awful problems!) However, don’t swing before the ball gets there, Ev. Because it’s a local firm, not sure if/how to up-sell my ‘situation’ in the assured ‘tell us about yourself’ campaign. Knowing me, I won’t bring it up unless asked, really. (But do-gooders here really like feeling good! I can help with that!)
Onward, Glibistuckis. The world continues to burn and it’ll never stop. Just give a thumbs-up as the molten steel engulfs you. (That’s how you know he wins!)
Be careful with that escrow processor stuff. Sounds like a potential “hahaha we meant phone sales” kind of job.
I do need to hear things like that, no snark. Says it was data checking audit numbers. We shall see. They got in touch really quickly after I called them. Hrm.
Seems promising in many ways. Also, hrm.
I wish you the best. But I see red flags on that one.
Would love to know more. Link expired on Indeed so I called in and front desk gave me info. They called the next day.
Said it was processing and verifying numbers. Some dealing w agents and buyers. Verifying closings.
Company’s two blocks away. $20-$22 Hrm.
BREAKING: Women Have Babies
“The piece, written by Times fashion critic Vanessa Friedman, was titled The Politics and Power of the Pregnancy Image and examined the public pregnancies of Vance, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Katie Miller, wife of White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller….
‘That three such prominent women in the MAGA movement were pregnant at pretty much the same time was, indubitably, a coincidence,’ Friedman wrote.
But she argued the pregnancies had nevertheless created a ‘consistent’ public picture of the White House’s family and fertility agenda.
‘If the bare-chested, muscled mixed martial arts fighters of the U.F.C. match that President Trump hosted on Flag Day were the poster guys for MAGA’s image of masculinity,’ Friedman wrote, ‘then the pregnant women of Trump world are one half of their feminine counterparts.'”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15928181/Usha-Vance-mocks-New-York-Times-analyzing-maternity-dress-Old-Navy.html
It’s getting harder to tell real articles from satire.
Technically, only birthing people have babies.
I’m having a serious, “Uh, yeah?” moment here.
The real power of women comes from fucking without reproducing, donchaknow?
Inconceivable.
What you did there was seen.
It’s further proof that MAGA is Nazi because the Nazis encouraged women to stay home and have babies.
Peppermint Patty had a baby when she worked at the White House if I remember.
I wish Camille Paglia was still churning out material. At least she’d be fun to read in this environment.
“The celebrity hairstylist, 43, stripped down to skimpy red Speedos and flaunted his six-pack on the boat before cooling off in the sea….
He was joined by his two children, Billy, 23, and Kitty-Blue, 21, who he shares with his former partner, Katie Katon.”
https://www.dailymail.com/tvshowbiz/article-15926681/Kim-Kardashians-hairstylist-Chris-Appleton-shows-six-pack-skimpy-swimwear-kicks-luxury-yacht-Portofino-kids-ahead-Strictly-Come-Dancing.html
Are you sure he isn’t gay?
I’m pretty sure anyone who’s interested in that article is gay.
lol
Yeah, I have questions.
Cheese tax collection
https://x.com/RareImagery/status/2069826721193636263
Everyone ready to feel old?
‘Labyrinth’ Still Dances the Magic Dance
At 40, the Jim Henson film remains a wonderfully strange fantasy that lets its heroine grow up without growing up too fast.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/labyrinth-still-dances-the-magic-dance-2b2987b3?st=ZCd428&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I neither hated nor particularly loved this film.
Another biggin in my Never Seen list.
I can definitely recommend it, but it doesn’t live up to the hype for me personally.
I don’t regret having watched it. Probably several times if you go back to the days of cable TV before “on demand”. You watched it again because it was currently on HBO.
I’m sure at some point I saw that movie.
It was forgettable.
I know that was my assessment because I forgot it existed.
Two nerdy guys ended up writing one of the best female coming of age movies ever.
This right here. Mind you on the Japanese anime front there are few works on female coming of age I really do like.
NA and I like “Revolutionary Girl Utena” and I like “Spirited Away” very much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Girl_Utena
I e heard Utena is good. Forgot about it though.
Put me on the “love” side.
I don’t know how well it holds up though, since part of what made it amazing were the effects, which included a lot of monocular/forced perspective illusions. Modern effects make that sort of thing feel less magical, undoubtedly because they’re simpler to do with modern equipment as the following four minutes demonstrates:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m86ae_e_ptU
The physical effects and the models hold up.
We took the kids to the theatre to see it last year. It was fun.
When she gets to the castle there are empty milk bottles on the step. Got a chuckle out of that.
SCOTUS is dropping rulings.
A couple immigration related:
Mullin v. Doe (25-1083)
Section 1254a(b)(5)(A) bars judicial review of non-constitutional claims related to Temporary Protected Status (TPS); Miot respondents’ equal protection claim—that Haiti’s TPS designation was terminated because of race—is unlikely to succeed because a race-neutral explanation for the Government’s action exists: the current administration opposes the TPS program as it has been implemented in the past and has terminated every TPS designation that has come up for renewal.
Mullin v. Al Otro Lado (25-5)
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, an alien “arrives in the United States” for purposes of 8 U. S. C. §§1158(a)(1) and 1225(a) only when the alien crosses the border into the United States; the INA neither entitles an alien standing at the border in Mexico to apply for asylum nor requires an immigration officer to inspect him.
Trump is white therefore everything he does is racist. QED
It really is the go-to explanation for everything the left does not like.
Keough could have tried to build a lint-roller empire. Instead, he decided to coast. Seven years later, he works on it two hours or less in a typical month and personally nets about $50,000 to $115,000 a year.
How has this guy not been knocked into oblivion by Chinese copies from multiple sellers?
Forget Work. Passive Income Is the New American Dream.
Driven by a growing feeling that 9-to-5 jobs are a dead end, people are turning to social media to test out eccentric moneymaking schemes—along with a fair share of scams
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/passive-income-dreams-2e67ee5c?st=id9Ewp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
So, OnlyFans?
Is that active or passive income? Sub or Dom?
We definitely don’t want to know what that big lint roller has picked up…
I’ve looked into passive income over the years, but I never got anything to really take off. The only new thing here is people using AI to assist.
Netting $50-115k a year for me with minimal hours spent would be a game changer.
That would be awesome. I could quit my day job.
“The commission, which leads the Caribbean’s slavery reparations movement, says the manifesto addresses concerns that repair is about extracting wealth from European nations. It adds that it is a chance for the world to address the political and economic systems that promote racism and inequity.
While retaining points such as a “full and formal apology” from Britain and other colonisers, key updates include strengthened legal arguments and a greater focus on the disproportionate impact of enslavement on girls and women. It also addresses climate justice, which the document asserts is “inextricably linked” to slavery reparations.”
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/jun/25/what-is-in-caribbean-slavery-reparations-manifesto
Commie mad libs.
Here’s my solution – everyone who lines up for reparations gets 115 grains of copper jacketed lead injected directly to the braincase and the debts are regarded as absolved on all sides.
Or, hear me out, we could put them to work on a sugar plantation. It will help them build character.
9mm target ammo?
Yes, it’s readily available and will do the job just as well as good bullets at point-blank range.
Go sue the African tribes that sold your ancestors to the white devils.
Maybe Ghana, Tunisia, Libya and other countries where the slaves were sold should pony up.
I thought the fix was to move to the coloniser and live on the dole.
Have minimum-wage hikes met their match? Affordability concerns led voters in Oklahoma last week to reject, by 55% to 45%, a ballot measure that would have raised the state minimum rapidly from $7.25 to $15 an hour over three years.
I can’t see how that would be inflationary.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/voters-turn-against-minimum-wage-hikes-921df2c7?st=PecPpc&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The minimum wage is, of course, 0.
And anyone who suggests otherwise should be on a chain gang.
Go and check the average hourly salary for a McD’s crew member in Oklahoma. $12-$14/hour. The market wage is the only one that matters.
Ruminations on freedom
“Laws for drivers written by people who have chauffeurs.”
Excellent in its entirety.
I now own 5 older vehicles. My goal is to never buy a new vehicle over the rest of my life.
Even if that means you have to Frankenstein your current vehicles together?
Oh, better yet – Voltron them together!
UCS:
Vehicle Voltron always sucked. Lions or GTFO.
You need one more. Odd numbers are bad luck.
Where are you getting your superstitions? Five is literally “perfect” in Japan, and in the West, three and seven are the luckiest numbers. Four is unlucky across most of the world.
I do expect that all of these vehicles will be forced off the road before I pass on. Either governments will ban vehicles without drivers aids or insurance companies will refuse to ensure them (or make insurance cost prohibitive).
@NA
I’m not basing it on anything.
I watched that earlier and only needed 50% of the rant.
Physical buttons.
Wing windows.
No wiring harness computer, switches and relays.
Stand alone wiring harness for accessories.
High beam switch on the floor where it belongs.
A pickup with a bed and tailgate made out of 16 gauge or thicker steel.
A tailgate that is level with the floor of the bed.
No plastic caps on the bed rails or tailgate.
I can go on with my demands.
“In other words, cults are as American as McDonald’s apple pie. So the latest revelations about former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s membership in what the Washington Post described as a “breakaway Hare Krishna group” led by a guru who “controlled his followers’ major life decisions and demanded total obedience and secrecy” — and apparently held major sway over her political career and positions — shouldn’t come as a surprise.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/25/tulsi-gabbard-was-in-more-than-one-cult/
A cult is any religion you don’t like.
But not communism – that’s SCIENCE!
“Whether MAGA is an actual cult, or a cult of personality like those that formed around Joseph Stalin, Chairman Mao — or even someone like Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan, who built a golden statue of himself that rotated with the sun and renamed the months of the year after himself — is irrelevant. It’s a cult.”
It’s a cult regardless whether it’s a cult?
If you really want a cult of personality, look no further than Barack Obama.
All political movements are cults.
My immediate thought.
Living Colour – Cult Of Personality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0
Please list them, with pictures of their membership cards. I’ll wait.
Buddy of mine had a card with his picture on it from the Bahai
McDonald’s took fried apple pie off the menu 30 years ago.
For a limited time this year they’ll be offering it again – might end up with the McRib marketting schema of popping back in from time to time and leaving before people remember how not that great it is.
It’s why we have two. I wonder if he had the fish?
Plane lands safely at Logan after pilot becomes incapacitated, Massport says
https://www.wcvb.com/article/air-canada-flight-lands-safely-logan-pilot-emergency/71708890
I’ve heard rumors of an “Airplane!” fish rule where the filght officers are not allowed to have the same meal in case of such an incident.
I do not know the veracity of that assertion.
I read this as decapitated.
That does tend to be incapacitating.
Liberal MS NOW writer calls Mamdani primary sweep a ‘genuinely scary night for New York City Jews’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/liberal-ms-now-writer-calls-mamdani-primary-sweep-genuinely-scary-night-new-york-city-jews
“Why have you taken me to this ditch filled with dead bodies?”
“Some of my best friends are black.”
But yeah, while they are all vicious Jew-haters I think we can’t let that obscure the fact that they are also all radical communists who hate all Americans (not just Jewish ones).
Supreme Court strikes down Hawaii’s ‘vampire rule’ for gun owners
The sad part is that it had to go to the SC.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-strikes-hawaiis-vampire-rule-gun-owners-rcna261385
So Pie can own guns now?
🥳
I did expect this outcome, as it is an absurd rule.
Let me guess – 6-3?
It’s like you can read minds.
Also a mind reader
Hey Banjos!?
https://ibb.co/60yqbRKd
😨 They’re hurt!
Are they going to get medical attention?
I bought one complete playable 4 string and then this pile of parts plus a nearly complete late 20s early 30s Melody king that’s really cool looking.
And a project mandolin from the same guy.
I’m having a surgery in August and will mess with them when I’m on the mend.
Or build Lego sets. Or play NES games. Who knows.
Paddle faster!
/you sure got a pretty mouth
Hello all, checking in,
We are still evacuated, in a hotel in Albuquerque today. No spread on the fire last night, our house is still safe so far.
Some rain last night and more is forecast for today.
Thanks to RJ for the note this morning. It was appreciated.
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+1
It’s good to hear.
Still hoping the fire stops where it is and leaves your stuff alone.
Good news, and best of luck.
🤞😃👍
Excellent news. I hope things go well.
Not the fire I thought it was. Good to hear your place is still standing.
Onerous burden
A big reason Trump has been obsessed with getting the SAVE America Act sent to his desk for signature ahead of what could be a pretty bruising midterms for the GOP, is that he believes it would ensure that Republicans never lose another election for at least 50 years.
Much of this belief is based on false claims that Democrats only win elections because of noncitizen participation in elections, which according to the Bipartisan Policy Center, and many experts, is extremely rare.
Positive ID and proof of citizenship to exercise one’s god given right to vote? It’s an outrage.
If voter fraud is so vanishingly rare why are they so terrified?
“reasonable gun control”?
They cheat in other ways besides “noncitizen participation” you mendacious hacks. And that is not even the major complaint. How about ballot harvesting and zero chain of command mail? And voting by dead people?
I don’t think I have ever seen someone claim that the only reason any Democrat wins any election anywhere in the country is because of noncitizens voting.
“A Miami woman accused of drowning her 15-month-old daughter in a bathtub and stabbing her husband and teenage daughter has been found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Precious Bland waived her right to a jury trial and instead had a bench trial, where Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Miguel de la O acquitted her of multiple criminal charges, including for the death of her daughter.
During the trial, defense attorney Larry Handfield argued Bland suffered a psychotic episode triggered by COVID-19.”
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/woman-found-not-guilty-after-claiming-covid-made-her-kill-daughter-and-stab-loved-ones/3825334/
Sure it wasn’t climate change?
The dog ate her sanity.
“de la O”
Oh, come on.
I’m surprised they didn’t blame the stress from Trump’s presidency.
She is 100% crazy though.
“temporary insanity”
Well, that’s convenient.
“Bland is allowed to remain at home pending that determination (is she still nuts?)”
Sorry. No.
She needs to spend the rest of her life away from the public. Period.
Feed her to the gators.
The original contract awarded to Dynetics totaled $131 million, to which NASA later added $9 million for a payload separation system. At the time the program was canceled earlier this year, the contract value had grown to $353 million, with a delivery date delayed to September 2028. The inspector general’s report projected that the project would likely cost $497 million and not be ready until May 2030.
To be clear: NASA was likely going to pay half a billion dollars for a relatively straightforward stage adaptor. This doesn’t have propulsion or anything like that on board. Also, for some unfathomable reason, it was likely to take 13 years to build.
The important thing is we need to focus on the sunk costs and throw down another $140m. More than the original cost of the contract.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/analysis-finds-the-exploration-programs-nasa-recently-canceled-were-running-way-late/
Dianetics wasn’t a red flag?
But what about the First Amendment?
Eight protesters accused by the Justice Department of having ties to antifa were sentenced Tuesday to decades in federal prison over a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center that wounded a police officer and prosecutors called an act of terrorism.
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The lengthy sentences were condemned by family members and supporters in a news conference outside the federal courthouse in Fort Worth. Hope Song, whose son Benjamin Song received the heftiest sentence, disputed prosecutors’ claims that her son shot the officer and said he didn’t intend to hurt anyone.
US District Judge Reed O’Connor, one of two judges overseeing the proceedings, said what happened wasn’t a protest but “an assault on democracy.”
Their intentions were pure and noble. They just wanted to end fascism. Sometimes people get in the way.
Ashli Babbitt never intended to hurt anyone, either.
They planned an ambush where explosives drew agents out and then opened fire. They planned this in advance. We know this because of co-conspirator testimony.
Babbit tried to climb through a window (at the urging of people who were likely acting under the direction of fhe FBI)
So the rifles and head-to-toe black bloc outfits were just for show?
It’s their culture.
“Protestors”
“Scientists Find Poison-Resistant Mutant Rats Spreading Across America’s Biggest Cities”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/scientists-find-poison-resistant-mutant-rats-spreading-across/
Can we train them to kill communists?
Mutations is a pretty strong word. I was hoping for rats that walked like men and used tools when I saw the headline.
There’s no such thing as Skaven, RJ.
I had long heard of sheriffs/judges withholding carry/purchase permits for reasons of politics/race/lack of bribery, but this is the first time Ive heard of one determining which handguns were appropriate for carry and denying improper selection/features.
https://saf.org/saf-files-lawsuit-challenging-contra-costa-countys-carry-bans/
Yeah, that shit is wild. Even for CA.
No one NEEDS a red dot or flashlight!
High-caste Indian women hardest hit
“BELLEVUE, Wash. — June 17, 2026 — The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has filed a federal lawsuit in California challenging Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office policies that prohibit permit holders from carrying handguns equipped with red dot sights or flashlights, as well as their outright ban on the carry of single action only (SAO) 1911- and 2011-style pistols.”
That doesn’t make any sense.
The CCCSO can’t keep from glock-legging themselves, surely there will be waaay too many ADs if people are allowed to carry a sub-15# trigger.
The right to keep an bear arms shall not be infringed…. unless you tape a flashlight to a pistol.
“Wilson was described by multiple callers as a male. However, the sheriff’s office investigation found that Wilson preferred to be referred to with female pronouns…..
In the corner’s report, Wilson was referred to as a “female” and not a male due to a Colorado law that prohibits “misgendering” the dead. House Bill 25-1109, enacted last year after being signed into law by Governor Jared Polis, legally requires death certificates to reflect a person’s “gender identity” and not their biological sex.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/trans-identifying-male-killed-by-cops-after-stabbing-customer-at-colorado-dairy-queen
This retardation needs to stop.
You don’t say.
Another, more anonymous and remote witness on the internet described the entire state government as having mental problems.
Wikipedia founder Larry Sanger has been banned from contributing to Wikipedia.
But there is no political agenda.
https://x.com/i/status/2069061483422425287
The censorship industrial complex has not been dismantled.
*shrug*
Every thinking person knows that Wikipedia is a cesspool of radical leftism when it comes to anything political, and knows to looks elsewhere for less biased takes.
Not the writers at Reason.
Yes, I have gotten that bug up my ass again. Old habits doe hard.
their outright ban on the carry of single action only (SAO) 1911- and 2011-style pistols.
WTF?
Too dangerous! Citizens don’t have the extensive training in gun handling!
Yeah. Why those?
Same reason PDs demand makers convert handguns to DAO and/or increase the trigger pull weight.
Official Fuddery.
Prosecutors said the eight are members of antifa, a decentralized anti-fascist organization and a target of the Trump administration. Antifa is not a single organization but rather an umbrella term for far-left militant groups that confront or resist neo-Nazis and white supremacists at demonstrations.
There is no such thing as antifa.
But- if there were, they would be the good guys.
I read that part of the plea deals were that the antifans specified that antifa did exist and that they were members.
OFFS!!
A little game of what if –
What if a 42 year old Mayor of a small town bought a bunch of liquor for teenagers at a pool party? What if the Mayor had sex with one of the son’s underage friends. What if the Mayor got caught, and also pressured witnesses to lie?
After the felony conviction, how much time do you suppose that Mayor got?
Make your guess, then check the story
https://youtu.be/vMNIuy7uVtM
Blocked by the firewall.
I will guess 0 time.
They block Nate the Lawyer? Dang. Not cool.
Spoiler: post was worded to remove gender. Story is, first female mayor gets 90 days. Possible time off for good behavior could further reduce that.
People get way more than 90 days just for the witness tampering. (Eg, the domestic terror case above. One dude’s wife got a couple of decades because he asked her to move a bunch of lefty pamphlets and books. That was her role – after the fact, moving indirect evidence of motive for her husband. Hard to reconcile with 90 days here)
My guess?
She gave the judge one hell of a blow job.
Male Republican mayor or Female Democrat mayor?
She’s blond too.
Depends on the sex of the parties involved.
MM no time
M mayor F teen. Time
F mayor M teen no time.
SPLITTERS
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) expressed frustration with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) for endorsing a group of democratic socialists for statewide races following his victory last November.
“Some of the candidates that he has supported are individuals who do not understand the politics of New York City, the cultural differences from district to district, who have not been part of the history and the struggle of some of these districts, and are relatively new to the body politic,” James told CNN.
The New York attorney general said some of the Mamdani-backed candidates don’t understand the issues of race and class, per the outlet.
She will protect us from those who stray from the True Path of Righteousness.
Maybe she can prosecute them using novel interpretations of NY law.
inorite?
You guys opened up this can of worms by welcoming communists into the fold for many years.
I don’t wanna hear any complaints about it now.
The young, rich French revolutionaries had a similar experience as they thought they were in control, some 200 years ago.
Actually, Rhy, I want to hear about it now. I want them to go scorched earth on eath other, resulting in mutual destruction and clearing the field.
What if the Mayor had sex with one of the son’s underage friends.
What if I didn’t give a shit?
Forcing a teenage boy, uh-huh.
As a younger person I never got invited to a party like that. I was lucky if I got a half bottle of warm Cold Spring in the parking lot.