Good morning one and all to another wonderful day!
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“Secret Service Missed 102 Warnings Before Trump Assassination Attempt in Butler: Report”
Followed by mass firings?
I would much rather know if it was incompetence or there was an agenda to miss these things on purpose.
Yes, a couple people shot at Trump. Does that count as “mass”?
“Hearn, a three-time Olympic canoeist”
That’s a sport?
If rowing in sculls is a sport, why not paddling in canoes?
I think canoes also do the whitewater courses like kayaks.
It’s called Indigenous Ways of Sporting.
Rape, pillaging, and scalping and Olympic sports now?
a statement from his laywers
lol
It never happened. But the vandalism charge was overblown and mostly peaceful. We demand people finish the job of tearing up Trumphitler’s fascist racist reflecting pool.
Or it did happen and that is a good thing.
“That’s a sport?”
Yes, it is. Whitewater slalom is one of my favorite Olympic events.
Water sports eh?
“Predictably, the vast majority of Republicans, 85 percent, said they would not vote for a “Democratic Socialist,” but most Democrats, 62 percent, said they would do so. Further, only 11 percent of Democrats said they would not, and over a quarter, 27 percent, said they are “not sure.”
So 15% percent of Republicans would?
RINOs.
Never Trumpers.
If you count the “not sure”.
Mind you, there are dumbasses in every group.
I would not be t all surprised if 15% of any group being polled miss-read or heard the question, or simply could not read it at all and selected randomly. In fact I would be very surprised if less than 15% did.
Also put Push Polls in this category.
The answer is to move things, not explain things.
Scott Adams always said the floor on any poll was 25%.
100% would say they would never vote for a fascist, yet almost 100% of our elected officials are some degree of fascists.
So 15% percent of Republicans would?
I rather think that this gives you an empirical idea of the true uncertainty, including systematic, associated with surveys and polling.
Customers to end purchases of PlayStation games 2026.
I know, I know. Most of the consumer base is apathetic and doesn’t get the negative impact of the change.
Physical media uber alles.
In other news I just picked up 29 more distinct NES cartridges making the collection officially top 200 individual titles.
“Kamikaze squirrel goes flying during ceremonial cannon blast for America 250 — but sticks impressive landing ”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/02/us-news/kamikaze-squirrel-goes-flying-in-cannon-blast-for-america-250/
STIJLTH
Did it shout “Banzai?”
I am more familiar with the common suicide squirrels around here.
I’ll try, but sometimes it’s depressing.
Government is how people with no skills other than snake oil salesman skills/options make bank.
We had a road rage shooting a couple of days ago. Two guys got into a dick measuring contest on the highway and one ends up shooting and killing the other. The shooter is claiming self defense but given the details I see prison in his future.
Farek sped past Sherman’s SUV on the left shoulder. Sounds like Sherman started it by clogging the passing lane. If a Prius passes you on the shoulder, you should probably get out of the passing lane.
Farek started it – the other guy retaliated in kind. I thought it was interesting that the police used FLOCK camera history to determine the Farek drove past his usual exit in order to follow the other the guy. You can’t chase someone down and then claim self defense.
Sherman retaliated in kind after Farek’s initial pass, but it could be argued Sherman started it by blocking the left lane. I agree legally Farek is toast with his subsequent actions, but understand his frustration with left lane blockers. I have used the shoulder to pass but never follow up with a brake check. You’re either trying to get somewhere or not.
What I find disappointing is that people who get bent out of shape over someone driving “too slow”, is the complete inability to do the math on how much time that is actually costing them.
Hint: it ranges from none at all to less than a minute. Typical scenario: you both wind up stopped at the next red light. Best case scenario: you get one whole light cycle ahead of them.
It’s not a matter of time saved/lost. It’s a matter of feeling stuck and being prohibited from going the speed you want to.
That said, Once I get past a slowpoke, I just get on with my day and don’t waste more effort on expressing my displeasure, as the issue has been resolved.
*also said – I’ve never passed on the shoulder.
Something tells me he had prison in his future no matter what happened here.
^^^^THIS^^^^
These are the moves of a fucking spoiled and angry 3 year old.
Which is nice, but that just means that whatever illegal ballots were in the pile were also counted three times. The problem isn’t miscounting*, it’s fraudulent ballots.
*Well, maybe there is also miscounting, but that’s not the main problem.
That seems to be the biggest pretend stupid from the left you get. But we recounted n times!! The problem isn’t with the counting obviously – even these idiots are not that stupid to just make up numbers cause they will get caught – it is with the validity of the ballots…
/libtards: BUT EVERY VOTE COUNTS!!
No, in fact it is far better that fewer people vote than we count everyone’s votes. Ballot harvesting needs to end.
Weekend at Mitch’s?
He must be negotiating with the devil about the afterlife..
Mitch, Ol’ Bud, there’s a reason to retire when you can. You lost 20-30 years of enjoyment. Your only legacy will be remembered as the dumb ass that hung around.
You see, the country thrives with or without you.
Oh, no, Mitch loved bossing people around.
He had incredible power. He was the heart of the RINOs. That movement will collapse without him, so he rose the lightning to the end.
“A Maine couple took matters into their own hands when they witnessed a behemoth black bear chasing a terrified moose calf at full speed — driving in between the wild animals to scare away the predator….
Todd noted he didn’t want to hurt the bear but wanted to drive the truck between the animals to free the moose.
The bear suddenly leaped to the side and hobbled off into the woods after the intervention.
“My heart was racing because I did not want to witness the bear catching the calf,” Elvia Malcolm said.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/03/us-news/maine-couple-help-moose-calf-escape-terrifying-bear-chase/
Why take sides here?
Sounds like they managed to injure the bear. Good chance the bear doesn’t survive.
If the moose cow wasn’t around, good chance the moose calf doesn’t survive either.
“Why take sides here?”
Either they feel letting the bear eats keeps the bear alive to maraud, or they are disney nature idiots.
Sounds like you think they should just Bear Witness then.
Bare witness? Why I never…anticipated that much change in the courts.
*commits crime in front of Sydney Sweeney*
Selective emapthy.
“IRGC commander Ahmad Vahidi mourns by the casket of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/03/world-news/iranian-gen-ahmad-vahidi-emerges-from-hiding-for-first-time-in-months-ahead-of-ali-khameneis-funeral/
Wicked Witch of the Middle East?
Love the “alleged ties to terrorism abroad” line. I guess you just can’t rule out that the head of the IRGC has clean hands.
He might sue them for slander!
We should have bombed that event and killed the lot of these devil worshippers.
Well I rented myself a dollar rent a car. If I die driving in your country I will haunt your ass.
Just don’t be dumb, and you should be fine Pie. Be careful if you are forced to only travel at night cause you ran out of sun screen..
Aren’t you already dead?
(hush, he doesn’t know)
Does this mean you know when you’d be where? Or have a rough idea?
Well yes that was the whole point to join the July get together at OWMC/Spud et all. Not just a random drive in the states.
I was just fishing for confirmation of the dates to see if I could make it out to the gulch area.
I mean I am not sure if they are secret or something 🙂 but I should arrive on July 24
Stay a little longer and meet up with the HH gang. Fall is a nice time of the year.
I’ll finish that week in Cleveland, so I may try and make my way east.
Never met a vampire before that Im aware of.
You are in the wrong side of the country to haunt me. No worries.
Sorry wasn’t here last night, but now I get to fix a car in a 100 degree garage.
Woo hoo!
I LOVE car repair in the heat.
I am ferrying my wife around today, 100+ miles to attend a birthday party. Much more comfortable.
I replaced a transmission in an unheated garage at about 10F. You had to hold your breath to stop the fog so that you could read the size of the socket.
I’ve done that too. Hated both. I prefer a comfortable garage.
At the Ford Service Center.
Warm/cool waiting room, free coffee (free doughnuts on Thursday), TV, newspaper
“Temperatures inside City Hall plunged as low as 54 degrees Thursday during the ongoing heat wave — despite Mayor Zohran Mamdani urging New Yorkers to set their air conditioners to a balmy 78, The Post found.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/02/us-news/mamdani-cant-even-get-city-hall-to-stick-to-his-78-degree-ac-rule-as-temps-in-building-hit-as-low-as-54/
Some animals are more equal than others.
I hate the commie as much as anybody. But large old office and commercial buildings never have perfectly even temperatures.
Buried in the NYP hit piece is that most of the building was at the planet saving temperatures within a few degrees.
The heat envelope on those buildings does not match construction (more people + computer systems = increased temps) and they aren’t set up for proper air flow in either winter or summer.
In fact, this is a huge chunk of what used to be called “sick building” syndrome, as the improper ventilation often allow mold, which lead to disease spread.
Agreed. They’re reaching here.
But I am curious how a big room gets that cold. I couldn’t chill my tiny apartment like that if I wanted.
We had a good size conference room with a misconfigured duct that was 10 degrees different from our open concept floor.
Called building services and they verified it and wirelessly changed the config.
Came to proper temp in about 3 hours.
Immigrants are raising housing prices so the free market isn’t working.
I would have thought more cheap labor would reduce the price of food, etc, including housing.
See, Mandamammy gets it right. Rent is too damned high!
I don’t have time to read the whole report from the mortgage industry that Daily Caller linked to.
In the part I read (first ten pages or so), the report talks about net immigration. There is nothing in there about deportations. The projections all involve changes in net immigration. Net immigration in the chart on page ten is always positive, in other words, there are always more people coming in than going out. The rate of change is negative from 2023/2024 until 2025/2026 in the January 2026 projection shown in the graph, when it turns positive again. Interestingly, over the long term, the net immigration rate is higher past 2034 in the January 2026 projection than in the January 2025 projection.
Sure, net immigration lowering will affect the immigrant component of housing demand. However, the projection used is always positive, in other words, the immigrant component of housing demand in the projections used is always growing. It’s just growing slower around 2024 and 2025 than projected. It’s still growing.
The rate of change
To clarify, I’m referring to the slope of the graph in the projected net immigration numbers on page ten.
I have a meeting to go to, checking out for a while.
You may think you’re ready for Friday Funbags but you’re now.
https://archive.is/6APtK
But you’re now…erect?
The old bags at NOW hate fun.
Honda Odyssey R | The Hardcore Van of Your Dreams
One of my favorite no BS car channels. In many ways because they try to have fun. This is an employee built race minivan. Motor is stock except exhaust. It sounds amazing. I never would have guessed the V6 would sound that good. Because the 4 bangers with a fart can Civics sound awful.
Science
It was 100°F yesterday in NYC and will be today as well. The heat wave is unprecedented, although there have been similar ones over the last decade. Those have come and gone. Climatologists say that the 100-degree summer is New York’s future.
QED.
🤣😂
Do they even hear themselves?
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
“The heat wave is unprecedented, although there have been similar ones over the last decade”
The Blizzard of ________was unprecedented except for ’97, ’01, ’03, ’08, ’13. ’16, ’22 and a few earlier ones before accurate records were being kept.
Yep, as I said, this one was unprecedented, almost a record breaker,
“Heat dome” is not a scientific term. However, it describes a high-pressure system that stays in one place for days. Heat and humidity build. “Heat waves like this are so directly connected to the climate crisis and climate change, and it’s because of how we’ve been burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests for so long and increasing the concentration of heat-trapping gasses in the atmosphere,” Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center, recently commented to the AP.
Fossil fuel use around the world continues to grow so much that international agreements to stop the increase have failed. Another byproduct is the global temperature, which has set records in four of the last five years. Many scientists expect this year to set another record.
It’s cute when they pretend people have a direct personal impact on the planetary atmosphere.
Did I say cute? I meant sad.
…without a shred of evidence.
It’s more than sad. It’s dangerously delusional and meant to convince stupid autocrats to put the rest of the world back to the Stone Age. Except themselves, of course.
race minivan. Motor is stock except exhaust.
Needs mid engine rear wheel drive. Manual.
So I’m seeing people talking about Disney floating trial baloons about buying Lionsgate in an effort to make inroads towards the male audiences.
Umm… how are you planning to avoid the mistakes you made with Lucasfilm where you had a heap of ideal franchises for the male audience and handed it all to people who hated men, pivoted the production to appeal to the female audiences who didn’t watch those franchises, and then lost money on what should have been a money printing machine?
You would basically need to keep your entire leaderhip team away from the project.
FLOP
Temperatures near 100 degrees, a massive security apparatus and potentially dangerous plumes of smoke from a record-breaking fireworks display are escalating concerns around the July Fourth celebration on the National Mall — an event that President Donald Trump has already politicized as “the most spectacular TRUMP RALLY of them all.”
Petulant children.
Which one, them or Donald?
But yeah JFC. There is nothing to celebrate, citizens. Stay home and ponder your sins instead.
I started the day stumbling upon an article from an Australian conservative news outlet printing some ridiculous editorial trying to get its audience to feel sorry for the Muslim men who come here and rape.
I’m curious ifhey’d pen that same screed for young native males who are struggling and considered undesirables.
That’s conservative?
For Australia I suppose? They supposed argue for a “classically liberal” point of view. Quadrant. I’m unfamiliar so I’m assuming they are cosmos of the Reason ilk with an Australian bent.
Damn that is fucking sick. “No asshole. You left your shit country to enter the west and try to have a better life.* These are our rules, follow them. The collective “we”, and me personally, do not give a single fuck how you could treat others in your old shithole.”
*Assuming these POS followed the laws of their new countries to enter and stay. If they didn’t, they get a dawn ride on the deportation helicopter.
Do you have a link?
“The plan is for it to be the greatest fireworks display ever displayed in the United States and the world, so you know it’s massive,” Pyrotecnico CEO Stephen Vitale said. “We’re going to be breaking a world record.”
But air quality experts said the record-breaking scale, combined with the weather, creates a perfect storm for vulnerable populations like the elderly and people with asthma. Organizers typically rely on wind to push the smoke plume away from the city. But the extreme heat and cloudy, rainy conditions could potentially create an “inversion” effect, trapping smoke close to ground.
“It’s going to be a disaster,” said Dr. Anthony Wexler, director of the Air Quality Research Center at UC Davis. “It’s going to create a lot of particles in the atmosphere, and those particles are going to contain lots of toxic metals.”
Some of that particulate in the air will likely be 2.5 micrometers or less in width, Wexler said, allowing it to more easily enter the lungs and cause serious illness in both the short and long term.
MASS MURDER!
I feel fairly certain that they set off fireworks in similar weather in DC and every other part of the country every single fucking year.
These people just need to be beaten at this point.
“Kjell Nilsson, who played Lord Humungus in the classic “Mad Max 2″ film, has died.”
https://www.tmz.com/2026/07/03/kjell-nilsson-dead/
Saw that. Rest In Power, king