Norway dismantled Brazil. And then England took Mexico down at the Azteca in an absolutely wild game. Spain-Portugal and then the USA-Belgium games are today. And yes, a good part of the soccer world are saying Trump pressured FIFA (without evidence) to change a red card and say it should stand even if the entire VAR protocol was ignored by the match officials. For some reason, they think a poor decision that was incorrectly implemented should stand rather than be remedied so one team isn’t at a wrongfully-imposed distinct disadvantage. That’s retarded. Joker keeps going into the QF of Wimbledon. And the women’s draw is complete chaos, as usual. And that’s pretty much all I’ve got for sports.
Wait, are some people saying he shouldn’t? Because that’s what’s supposed to happen when somebody allegedly murders someone else in a premeditated attack.
Well that’s too bad. The chaos the legacy employees put America through after funding GOF research in China and their response to it makes their concerns pale by comparison.
I bet he’d gladly exchange that “last laugh.” Especially for several more years above ground. Stupid Variety.
“Let me give you the knife you want. Please don’t stab me in the back with it.” These dumbasses aren’t big readers of history, it seems.
This guy’s story gets weirder every day. I wonder what will happen next.
This should surprise nobody. But I’m sure dumbasses will keep catching flights for it.
Yeah, no shit. I’m only posting it because I found the featured image funny. Kinda like those home security videos where nobody involved looks anything like you’d expect.
What a golden opportunity. I know I’m not the only one thinking that.
These people sure seem to hate democracy. No, not those at the conference. The other ones who are trying to stop it from happening.
This guy can’t catch a break. A recent DUI and now this? Maybe he shouldn’t be driving.
Here’s some fun stuff. Like much of their stuff. And especially like this one. Enjoy them both. Note: I played these songs for Banjos in the old days at TOS. And I’m playing them today because it’s her birthday. Love you, sweetie.
And enjoy this lovely Monday, dear friends. Go USA, beat Belgium!
Yeah, no shit. I’m only posting it because I found the featured image funny.
What, don’t you know twentysomething white women are inconsiderate narcissists?
I kid, I kid!
I believe that’s just a procedural requirement but yeah of course his defense is going to try to throw it out because that’s their job.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N5PNlMUcaPE
I think the odd part is the length of the article on such a routine proceeding that never gets reported other than “arraignment set for Tueday for blah blah”
It’s not odd when you consider they are rooting for the killer.
So, when are thry burying the cardboard Ayatollah? I mean he’s been dead about as long as the previous one.
It’s all games with that pack of rats.
I can understand that those in power want to stay in power.
What I don’t understand is the millions of ordinary people that are in line in that crowd.
How can person mourn someone they’ve never met, that daily screws them over, brings chaos into their lives.
You want to mourn? Be a Vikings fan and watch it on TV while eating pizza and drinking something that will take your mind off the game.
There are lots of people who *enjoy* watching the Vikings suck.
I suspect they have to “mourn” or else.
Some, certainly, but there are probably a substantial number of people who genuinely support the IRGC.
Some, certainly, but there are probably a substantial number of people who genuinely support the IRGC.
Yeah. People like this former Lizzie Warren staffer.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/elizabeth-warren-staffer-chants-death-america-tehran-radicalization-plagues-democrat
Queen Pelosi has no power anymore.
Because she is out of congress or because the DSA has given her the finger?
She has a lot of money, and I’m sure a lot of stroke still. Her drugged up pervert of a husband will be fine.
Jill Biden?
If she still had power (and money is not power, although there is a relation) he would not even be in this much trouble. It would have been quietly forgotten, and there would be no news about it, only rumor.
My god can you imagine all the skeletons in their closet. They need another mansion to hold them all.
What a golden opportunity
I’ve seen arguments that this is part of why the new ayatollah isn’t at the proceedings.
A second corpse at the funeral would dilute attention from the main dead guy.
The IRGC is desperate to pretend they have organized leadership, when it is obvious they don’t.
Am I misremembering, but didn’t Wimbledon used to be a “fortnight in June?”
It’s always been a fortnight, but not necessarily in June.
July 4 has traditionally been in the second week. The first Wimbledon I remember (1982) had the men’s final on July 4.
Some years back the tours moved to putting three weeks of grass court events between RG and Wimbledon instead of two.
whaddup doh’
He’s not in jail, so he’s caught plenty of breaks. I confidently predict he will catch at least one more.
Hey, leave the guy alone. Being married to Nancy is punishment enough.
He’ll go to heaven, he’s spent his time in purgatory.
More sports news:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jul/05/tour-de-france-2026-isaac-del-toro-tadej-pogacar-cycling-remco-evenepoel-jonas-vingegaard
Apparently lots of people are enjoying an extended weekend.
Im on a two-week vacation. Was supposed to go to Norway but circumstances changed. So now its all local stuff we will be going about doing.
You could have been in one of the fan zones with all the Haaland fans.
It was balls over here. Nothing but driving long distances, chaos and no time for fireworks.
“philosophy” memes
https://x.com/philosophymeme0/status/2073123278059700429
Too wordy. Didn’t read.
That was the correct call. Another crappy commie meme.
This is that annoying commie bitch, right?
I don’t know but the description sounds accurate.
Which annoying commie bitch?
The one who is apparently a philosophy student and posts cringeworthy pseudo-intellectual crap ‘cuase they studied philosophy!.
So, all of them?
Heather Cox Richardson?
Gen. Jack D. Ripper was wrong! Not only do commies drink water, but they can apparently get drunk off it!
Joseph S Blatter
@SeppBlatter
Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls. They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies. If a U.S. President intervenes with the FIFA President — and a player is suddenly cleared before a World Cup knockout match — the question is unavoidable: Quo vadis, FIFA?
Football must never become a playground for political power.
https://x.com/SeppBlatter/status/2074022159916130658
word.
That’s got to be a parody account.
In the abstract I think suspending players from games in important tournaments is a bad idea. It punishes one team and rewards another for actions by one individual and opens the door to improper interference by the referee in the outcome.
That said FIFA makes the NBA look honest.
They like to claim it’s a “contact sport” but a moment of contact which the tea leaves tell them is too “reckless” is heavily punished. It makes no sense.
“Grown man allegedly whipped 12-year-old boy with belt near NYC playground in anti-gay hate crime attack”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/05/us-news/grown-man-allegedly-whipped-12-year-old-boy-with-belt-near-nyc-playground-in-anti-gay-hate-crime-attack/
STIJLTH
That is some of the most ridiculous charges mixed in with two actual charges.
Some people pay to get whipped like that.
Anti gay hate crime 🙄🙄🙄
Why is a 12 year old at a park at 1 AM?
Meeting an online “friend”?
Lol, poorly written. He did this months ago
“Married Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese broke his silence Monday after he was heavily criticized for revealing on a podcast he would have sex with pop star Kylie Minogue…
“Rather than politely decline to engage, Mr Albanese got into the gutter with his grubby remarks, which show extremely poor judgement at a time when trust in Labor is collapsing,” she said.
“Mr Albanese’s crude locker room talk makes a mockery of Labor’s claim to be champions of women. How low can this prime minister go? Australians deserve better than this.”
Zali Steggall, a MP for Australia’s Community Strong party, said the pol’s answer was “entirely inappropriate.”
“He needs to learn to push back, lead by example and call it out as sexist,” she said….
Melinda Tankard Reist, who spearheads the Collective Shout movement, an organization that campaigns against the objectification of women, said the comments were “beneath” Albanese, News.au reported.”
https://nypost.com/2026/07/06/world-news/married-australian-pm-anthony-albanese-breaks-silence-after-coming-under-fire-for-saying-hed-have-sex-with-kylie-minogue/
OFFS!
No men have ever been objectified, have they.
For the record, I would have sex with Kylie Minogue
RC Dean is not going to believe this
“2 officers assaulted while trying to break up July 4th block party in North Charleston”
https://www.live5news.com/2026/07/05/north-charleston-police-release-statement-viral-incident-block-party/
That doesn’t sound like the North Charleston I’m familiar with…
I’m not sure someone thought this all the way through.
Food That Time Forgot: “Lobster Pie”
Townsends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMiEPg49dPc
I was thinking too bad I can’t get to Maine to eat some Maine lobster. My friends tell me there is good lobster in Nova Scotia or PEI but I fear the Canadian air will make it taste a bit commie.
I’ve never had Canukistani lobster. I have had Maine in Maine.
The lobsters from Kanukistan are poached out of the Main coast waters… Make sure they do not do any of them weird things to cook it up. Steam it with white wine or dark beer and serve with drawn butter and some Worchester sauce. Sides are optional…. and if you get Poutine make sure to eat that slow..
The Atlantic off the Maine coast is far too cold to poach a lobster, even if you for some reason wanted to poach it in water rather than butter.
Don’t listen to Alex, he wants to ruin your experience with that recommendation. Worchestershire Sauce wipes out the flavor of the lobster. Only put that on if you hate lobster and don’t want to taste it. Using wine or beer as a cooking medium also ruins it.
Look at me being attacked by culinarily challenged people…
Says the guy trying to bury the flavor of the star ingredient.
I stood in line for 2 hours to get a Red’s Eats lobster roll. It was worth it.
https://www.redseatsmaine.com
There’s plenty of frozen Maine lobster tails available through the US.
The second Dammed song is a cover of a song by Love. I’ve never heard the Dammed version or knew it existed. Thanks.
Yeah, both versions are fantastic in their own way. You’re welcome.
That song is how I discovered The Damned when it came out. It played on the regular pop station in Germany. Love it.
The article doesn’t mention what time poor Paul Pelosi’s accident happened. Also, where was Nancy? I had noted previously poor Paul seems to have the worst luck after mid-night when Nancy is out of town.
230 pm is what I previously read. Daytime old and/or drunk!
Did it say if he was hammered?
Sorry, not sorry.
Q for Ted’S and other artistic communication geeks:
I finished Arcane, loved it. I can see why some people might think S2 was not the equal of S1 but I don’t think I agree with that take. Bought it on physical media, 4k.
A technique that got used was “show characters changed, have them interact differently than before, show the situations that caused the change later.” Is there a name for that technique? It’s kind of the opposite technique of the exposition dump.
It’s not flashbacks or non-linear storytelling?
It’s both of that*, but in the way it’s used it has an effect of raising additional questions in the viewer’s mind which can then get answered. It’s a level of tension/resolution not usually seen.
I mean, if there’s a special name for in media res surely there’s one for this.
*When I think of flashbacks, they are usually in proximity to the events that they’re explaining. I’d contrast the way it’s sone in Arcane with the way “flashbacks” are done in Arrow if you saw that series.
I don’t watch much episodic TV.
Some game shows, but generally old movies for scripted entertainment.
This series plays right into my post about The Prisoner and how the demands on/expectations of the viewer have increased with better screen size/resolution and rewatch potential. All the details matter. It’s a freaking Checkov’s arsenal.
Arcane is something I’d actually like to have on physical media. Where did you pick it up, if you don’t mind my asking?
Amazon.com
Though I just received notice that while S2 is on the way S1 was cancelled due to a lack of stock.
…and ordered the “steelbook” limited edition of S1 so now the two seasons won’t match on the shelf, but there’s also been a price drop so its saving me a few bucks.
““Did you know that it’s been 100 years since the equal rights amendment was first introduced? And now, still, women don’t have an explicit guarantee to equal rights under the U.S. Constitution,” Keys said in a video posted to social media.
“Can you believe that? I couldn’t even believe that was real,” the “Girl on Fire” singer continued, before claiming, “Women are not asking for special rights, just equal rights.””
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2026/07/06/watch-alicia-keys-grieves-on-americas-250th-anniversary-women-dont-have-equal-rights-in-u-s/
CWAC
Did you know that they don’t want the reduction in privileges that ewqulity would entail?
Make them register for the draft.
Women don’t have equal rights. They have unequal rights. they get to vote western civilization into obsolescence without being forced to sign up for selective service.
“Introducing the film in Minneapolis, Saujani told a crowd of dozens of mostly women that America makes it “impossible to be a mom” by pitting women against each other – working moms versus stay-at-home moms, trad wives versus girl-boss feminists. The goal is to keep moms distracted with culture wars, rather than united over policies they agree on, like paid leave or universal childcare, Saujani suggested.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/06/no-country-for-mothers-film
They need more leering centers.
Isn’t the whole point of the tradwives *not* to have government taking care of their children?
“Policies they agree on”
I don’t know anyone who voted for Nixon.
Why, if it weren’t for that vast conspiracy keeping them apart women would never disagree with each other.
America makes it “impossible to be a mom” by pitting women against each other
That’s a weird way to spell “feminists”.
“Let me give you the knife you want. Please don’t stab me in the back with it.”
Some of you were wondering what happens post-Trump. I think this is it. Up until now the left has been mostly united over Trump hatred.
Skin suiting the skin suiters does seem an interesting trick.
Sooner than later you end up with skinsuited entities/people, trying to double or triple skinsuit like the DSA is doing to the dems, and then it gets jiggy.
Yup. They have been plotting this takeover for a long time. But boy will they be surprised when they notice that communism doesn’t play well in flyover country.
It may not matter.
My suspicion is that after they get trounced because they will be a permanent minority outside of deep blue crime ridden urban areas, that they will start doing what the commies did for the previous 100 years: lie about who they are, what they want, and how many bodies they want to stack up in order to get their revenge on those they hate for being more successful than they are.
The way things are going, Team Red is going to end up controlling all the food and energy while Team Blue is stuck with tinderbox cities.
In Chinese civil war, the nationalists lost mainly because while they controlled the cities, the communists controlled the countryside.
I can see truckers boycotting deliveries to pinkos. That’s probably why Team Blue is so desperate to get foreign truck drivers.
In any case, Team Red will also end up with most of the guns and people with combat experience. And all the farmers too. I feel pretty comfortable here in small town Tennessee surrounded by cows and pigs.
If they want to make their urban shitholes even shitholier that’s their business. I do feel bad for the politically sane in those places though.
I hope all of you had a great weekend. We had two days of entertaining, swimming, grilling, a bit of drinking, and fireworks all around us. I’m a bit tired from all of it.
We also have a pair of red shouldered hawks nesting in our back yard. They’re getting more comfortable and occasionally they’ll fly over our heads.
This weekend we had people celebrating our nation’s 250th, and people making speeches about how our country is terrible. Let’s see which one of those turns out to be more inspiring.
I do love my country, that’s not going to stop me from complaining about my government.
I think we’re all on the same page here. You’re complaining BECAUSE you love your country. There’s a difference between “There a are a lot of things that are broken that we need to fix”, and “This whole place was shit from the beginning and it’s still shit.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/18/trump-300-billion-redevelopment-fund-iran-deal-obama/90603499007/
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WASHINGTON – As he touted a newly signed memorandum of understanding with Iran, President Donald Trump slammed former President Barack Obama for giving Iran $1.7 billion in “green cash” as part of the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal that Trump ripped up.
Yet Trump’s preliminary deal to end the U.S. war in Iran is under scrutiny for providing Iran a potentially much larger financial windfall in the form of a $300 billion redevelopment fund.
The memorandum of understanding Trump signed June 17 with Iran has raised questions about the funding sources for the Iranian redevelopment fund ‒ and whether the U.S. could end up being on the hook for it. Trump insists no U.S. dollars will go into the fund, but he has not identified which countries or private entities will cover the costs.
***
We spent $100 billion to bomb them and now we’re going give them 3x as much? One Trump’s (and Americans’) biggest blind spots is assuming we can bribe foreigners to do anything with enough money.
For comparison, since 1946, we’ve given over $300 billion to Israel, most of it military aid.
https://www.cfr.org/articles/us-aid-israel-four-charts
It makes no sense.
It’s like welfare for unwed mothers and a bonus for additional babies.
You get more of what you reward.
“Trump insists no U.S. dollars will go into the fund”
Whopper of the year
It’ll be washed through a third party. Wow, look how much Iraq (or some other recipient of our extravagant largesse) is investing in Iran.
My understanding is most of the funding will come primarily from a private gulf regional fund. Given the rush to create Hormuz oil transport options and benefit to those nations the numbers seem reasonable.
Happy birthday Banjos!
Double J Ranch | Daniel, Wyoming | 3,210 Acres
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaR-6qkb0eQ
17 mil
For $17 you can buy a lot of ranch dressing.
Ahead of the meeting last Monday — attended by reps from city agencies and trade groups for the city’s 13,000 bodegas — Su asked the group in a questionnaire, “What items are sold the most at your stores?” and “Where is your profit margin the greatest?” sources said.
All the grievance studies graduates that surround Mamdani can’t figure out why the businesses he looks to undercut won’t give them information. The mind boggles.
Mamdani officials scramble to ease concerns about public supermarkets — but local business leaders aren’t buying it
https://nypost.com/2026/07/06/business/mamdani-officials-scramble-to-ease-concerns-about-public-supermarkets-but-local-business-leaders-arent-buying-it/
There is no tax on food, so it would be retarded even if it wasn’t already retarded.
“Shotguns are our biggest sellers and we make the most off truck bed liners.”
People who spent their entire lives in school studying liberal arts are much smarter than people with decades of practical experience. That’s what they want us to believe.
TOK – I’m planning on creating a non-profit member owned gym down the road from you.
Can you give me your membership totals, demographics, types of membership plans available and utilizations rates. Also it would be really helpful if you tell me what equipment is most popular!
Thanks. I hope that will make you feel more relaxed about us helping to make your neighborhood more healthy!
Love, Sensei
One of the guys on the All-In Podcast made a little speech about Makers vs Takers. As in, the division isn’t Left vs Right or Rich vs Poor or Black vs White, it’s those who produce things of value vs those who produce nothing but spend their lives bitching and talking and criticizing.
Go for it Mamdani, the moneysucking debacle is going to be hilarious.
These days things move really quickly, so I’m hoping the results happen fast and hard and aren’t stretched out over decades.
Howdy, y’all and good cheer. Pres msgd me back and I’m to call his cell at 2:30.
Hopefully, turning a new leaf. Quite exciting. Was not pleased to be in the dark about it most of last week. We shall see.
MLB defense is atrocious, Cubs (usually) excepted. Mets+ have shown this to my benefit. Cards yesterday gave us a few runs as well. Greatly appreciated.
I’ve possibly got a great big day ahead. Hope it and yours go swimmingly.
Is this for that office job I thought would end up a sales slavery position?
Yes, that one. I’d be their “escrow processor/asst,” the link between the buyers, sellers, real estate agents, and mortgage lenders to make sure all the numbers are correct for all parties. I’d go over docs and make sure stuff like liens or taxes are accounted for. I think I’m also involved in the final paperwork for real estate closings. Phone calls are involved to confirm bank details and accounting figures, but no sales.
According to outside research, these folk are pleased I don’t have direct experience cuz everywhere’s different and they have their own internal systems. During the interviews, they were very impressed with me. By the end, they were directly talking about how they’d be working with me and how they’d train me to get to that point. It felt like a work meeting and not like the interview anymore. Setting that up, I’m pleased my ‘call ’em and find out’ ploy worked well.
Another company got in touch with me this morning, trying to set up a 6pm Zoom, and it *is* a straight-up commission-only sales gig. I’ll not be attending said meeting.
With a fun post publishing tomorrow, I also worked a lot on a ‘more important’ one yesterday, tho far less fun to write. I was pleased to find good news awaiting me as I woke today. Could be a big, big change. *crosses fingers*
“The dissent authored by Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan pointed out that women did not vote or serve in political office in 1868, because the ratifiers of both the original Constitution and the 14th Amendment “did not understand women as full members of the community embraced by the phrase ‘We the People.’” It thus criticized the majority for determining what the amendment means for women by citing laws that women did not draft or even influence, and that were drafted without any awareness of 20th-century knowledge about women’s health.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/07/06/the-subjective-originalism-of-scotuss-conservative-majority/
Magnets how do they work?
Nothing in the Constitution prohibited women voting.
Wisdom of the ages did….
I’m too lazy to look it up, WTF is a ‘biohacker”?
A fool and his money.
“If Donald Trump were not both a convicted felon and found civilly liable for sexual abuse and defamation, he might be more believable when he says he broke things off with his BFF (seemingly the only soulmate he’s had in his life), convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Does that help?”
https://www.salon.com/2026/07/06/lets-fix-america-with-grammar/
No.
But our made up words and ever changing definitions are not to be questioned you bigots
It’s not wrong to say that sloppy language leads to sloppy thinking. That’s an axiom.
But what the left wants is to control the language, just like they want to control everything else. Once again, Orwell’s prescience is confirmed.
I still pop into Salon to see how unhinged the headlines have become. But I refuse to actually read any of the articles.
Two Banks Agreed to Merge. They Can’t Agree on How to Make Chili.
Fifth Third’s acquisition of regional bank Comerica has leaders confronting a dicey question: Beans or no beans?
It’s like saying deep dish is a pizza.
https://www.wsj.com/business/fifth-third-bank-comerica-chili-beans-a703e5a5?st=6Yn3pA&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
My brain wishes to simplify that to 1 2/3.
In November, I’ll be 672/12 years old.
It’s named after the merger of the Third National Bank and the Fifth National Bank so you add rather than simplify. It works out to 8/15ths.
Years ago when I learned of the company’s existence that’s what I used to refer to it as.
It’s fairly acquisitive. So when it made a major acquisition of roughly 1/3rd its size I asked the analyst at the time I we could just call it 2.
He wasn’t amused. But he was also ex McKinsey.
Mark ponick in the no beans camp.
I love when people argue about good things. Pizza. Tacos. BBQ and now chili. If it’s tasty, I’ll eat it all, I don’t give a fuck.
That piece of cake in my fridge may be tasty, but it’s neither pizza nor chili.
Another headline about “Why are American women not having babies?”
Maybe because society/medicine consider pregnancy a disease?
“This is why childcare routinely comes up on the list of must-haves for American parents, and for good reason (the affordability of high-quality childcare outside of the U.S. is what made having a child begin to feel possible for me). And the type of childcare matters. Americans have largely heard about the famous French creche system of public daycares, but the French government also subsidizes the kind of one-on-one at-home care that many parents of infants prefer. High-quality local daycares cost-adjusted to income plus the ability to take adequate parental leave (six to nine months seems to be the sweet spot) and then have a nanny for the youngest children is the kind of childcare policy that really could push the yes-ifs over the edge—or allow existing parents to decide that having another baby is doable…..
Housing is also key to making parenthood seem possible. This means families need the kind of affordable single-family housing in good school districts that characterized the dreams of so many boomer parents, but it also means more affordable two- and three-bedroom apartments in desirable cities so that adults can stay in the communities they chose and love even if they have kids (as someone who spent her 20s in New York City and hates to drive, the thought of being a Car Seat Mom was a surprisingly big barrier to even thinking about having a child). And affordable urban housing can make parenting visible. Humans are social primates, and our perceptions of what’s normal or desirable are shaped by those around us.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/07/fertility-birth-rate-decline-women-men-conservatives.html
Every problem is due to a lack of free shit.
NYT headline:
Decline of PhD Admissions Could Imperil a Generation of New Talent
Oh, no.
Where will our next generation of pompous expert eggheads come from? Who will hector us for our sinful ignorance?
Next thing you know people will be making their own decisions.
I blame Trump:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mount-etna-eruption-live-catania-37389869