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Wife of Sloopy, mother to three bright, curious, and highly active growing girls. Perpetually exhausted.
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Birthright citizenship costs US taxpayers $150.7B annually
They aren’t net taxpayers like illegals?
Science is wonderful.
…when a foreign donor sperm meets a locally based surrogate ovum and they have babies…
whaddup doh’
Heya Banjos- how YOU doin’ ?
Drunk Dem candidate’s bizarre tirade ends with ‘We have guns too’
She’s in Indiana. I thought that was an unofficial state motto.
That was awesome. I’d watch more debates if all the contestants were shitfaced like that.
I wonder if you could make some money livestreaming drunk debates? Each candidate does a shot at the beginning, a shot for every question, and a shot to go over the time limit?
If nothing else, some prospective politicians might die of alcohol poisoning, so win-win!
ES you’ve never seen Drunken History?
No, that one never crossed my radar. I’ll check it out.
Yes – a happy hour debate / drinking contest. I would watch every time.
Now do Chicago kids.
“We have Indiana guns, too”
heh
“those Indiana guns on those Indiana nights…”
Her and that “gun nut” in Alaska could go on a comedy tour together.
She’s right on one level. Democrats do have guns, and are all too willing to use them to get what they want. Always keep that in mind.
On the positive side, combining morbid obesity, box Chardonnay, and Xanax, don’t exactly make for a capable urban guerilla.
Democrats think they have guns, in the hands of uniformed true believers who will simply follow orders. Very few Democrats have the stones to point a loaded gun at another person, least of all one pointing a gun back at them.
The Dems are absolutely right that the Men in Uniform(tm) will do what they’re told. I expect very few of them are true believers, but that doesn’t really matter as long they do what’s necessary to keep their paychecks and pensions.
And they will, with few exceptions.
Supreme Court justices will weigh arguments in a case involving a Nigerian man whom an immigration judge concluded materially supported a terrorist group by working as a cook.
This isn’t Germany …
He was just filling orders?
[golf clap]
The other dude hired with me isn’t there anymore. I got to shadow my trainer and then box myself in my actual gig, which is factory-line VIN checks and ‘Associating’ them into our system by scanning its folder’s barcode. It’s both ungodly easy and repetitive. The production quotas make much more sense, now. I’ll miss The Vault, frankly, but whatevs. (May begin in there today? *shrug*)
Regardless, it pays $19.25 for the monotony and while I absolutely don’t want to be pigeonholed into this gig forever, it’s foolish to not embrace it now. Big step up. Hmm. Onward and up, ladies ‘n gents. I hope Derp’s leads with the staffing agency hold promise.
Is that drunk Indiana candidate SIL’s friend?
She’s not that articulate.
Oh! I get a week’s pay on Friday! That’ll be rewarding. I’ll likely celebrate by not buying anything.
My favorite.
Evan looks at his voucher, sees taxes, SS and med insurance deductions.
“WTF is up with that”
@Fourscore: Morning chipper from you!
🙂↕️
Glad I’m not the only true Scotsman here.
Hello and welcome to amateur hour at my local indoor range.
https://patch.com/new-jersey/westfield/union-police-probe-accidental-shooting-rtsp-range-route-22
Fortunately he should recover and he only hurt himself. I’ve had hot brass go down my clothing – somehow I managed to suck it up.
Was he left-handed? Hot brass and left handed are not unfamiliar.
/Southpaw
And that’s why you don’t wear shirts with loose collars at the range ladies and gentlemen.
Oh c’mon, the ladies with a scoop top and abundant decolletage are a unique joy.
I had one get stuck under my flak jacket and left a blister, but I finished the shoot.
My wife wore a slightly low cut shirt to the range once.
It was our first time shooting in an indoor range,I didn’t realize the partitions would ricochet the casings right back at you.
She managed not to shoot me, but I think she was tempted after one went into her shirt.
I’ve gotten brass down the collar a few times – unless you wear nothing but turtlenecks, it’s hard to avoid.
I’ve also been sliced up by spall from steel targets, have tripped while running a stage and fallen on my face, and once racked myself right in the unit with my own shotshell belt (my groin was black and blue for three days.) But I’ve never shot myself, or even let off a shot accidentally while doing any of those things.
Careless people need to either not shoot guns, or stop being careless.
I wear a t-shirt with a tight collar, never had brass get down my shirt. I once had one land on top of my head though, so then I started wearing a baseball cap to the range after that.
Archer – The Tactleneck
https://youtu.be/8FYJfEHOuY0?si=1V8mcRe_RBYvPUAn
Sensei, I was hoping someone would come up with that clip.
i have a luger, which throws brass straight up, and what goes up must come down… right in the back of your collar.
fun times
+1 coal scuttle helmet
My vz. 61clone does the same thing.
As an aside, I haven’t really fallen for the current FRT/janky-full-auto craze…but an FRT for the vz. 61 would be all kinds of awesome.
Major California tech conference canceled just 2 weeks before start date
🤔
“ESG Investors backed out, no USAID money, and no grassroots sponsors.”?
So basically, the Patriarchy stopped paying the bills.
(((Jarflax:
So shouldn’t it only cost 60% of what it did when it was paid for by men?
Nobody thought it was worth paying their own money to attend. Once the employer money dried up, attendance crashed.
The ESG people are under some legal pressure, too. Turns out, prioritizing the staffing of companies with suboptimal employees creates problems for people with fiduciary duties to shareholders.
That’s why we have D&O insurance. Let me know when somebody in the C-suite actually pays a single $1 out of his/her/Xer own pocket.
I used to tell my C-Suiters – “Do you really want to find out if you were right or wrong when you said to yourself “No worries, the insurance will cover it if I get sued.”?
Pope Leo XIV Diagnosed With Cancer as Doctors Remove Part of His Lung
What does the Pope and a soulless automaton have in common? LOL
I was trying to remember who had a similar procedure and accuse them of being Leo.
Yep, hopefully his procedure went as well as mine. Recovery was fairly quick and included good drugs, I do have some shortness of breath but it is getting better. And I hope he doesn’t have to do chemotherapy, as that shit sucks and I have round two of four starting tomorrow.
My prayers are with the pope.
It’s caused by all that smoke I see in Catholic services. Should come with a warning label.
I was once Catholic, an alter boy even, so maybe there is a connection. Or, maybe for me it was forty plus years of smoking. The world may never know.
4 minutes of incense or 40 years of smoking? You may have a case!
An alter boy, you say? You must have been one of the first minors to transition.
This is what can be expected when the Bishop of Rome goes up against the Bishop of Cleveland and loses.
Ass Wednesday is on ketamine.
https://archive.is/6tb8W
Do they need a place to snort it?
House control all but gone, top Republicans privately concede
Republican groups are trying to limit their losses. But few in the party believe they have a good shot at keeping control of Congress.
I posted yesterday that one of the MAGA PACs threw my local RINO Tom Kean Jr under the bus and pulled funding.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/14/house-republicans-private-lost-cause-01117673
“Damn the competition, preserve the safe seats!”
Politico, so take it with a grain of salt.
With friends like these…
Funny… the Dems have made the election all about Donald too. And unlike the Stupid Party, they fall in line when they are told to.
Throwing out RINOs might be worth the temporary pain of losing the House. Maybe. Except that there’s no reason to think that rock-ribbed conservative MAGAtarians won’t become the same RINO squishes once they take office and get the, “This is how it works in the real world,” speech.
That depends on the answer to a question I have wondered about for a while. How much of the slow rolling, grandstand announcements that end up going nowhere, and broken promises are because the politicians are lying squishes and how much is attributable to actual real world realities making our fantasy results impractical. I am certain both are at play.
Oh clearly, the more you stand on principle, the more outside of the mainstream political crowd you are. ZWAK reminded us that politics is the art of the possible – not what is good, not what is right – just what a majority will support at any given time.
Hey, buddy…
EvilSheldon:
Bill Hicks explains.
Gotta say, I’m not sure the pain of a Dem House will be much worse than whatever it is we have now.
Holy cow the gerrymandering in our corner of the state is impressive. And very obviously based on race.
Japanese journalist visits disputed Kuril Islands; gets arrested for spying.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/news/20261014de58940/index.html
Play stupid games and win stupid prizes.
Japan may claim those islands, but Russia controls them.
Grand pricks coming to Rwanda of all places.
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/formula-1-returns-to-africa-with-10-year-agreement-to-race-in-rwanda.13xs9VMK7cGFiBd2IplyES
The Machete Mile?
I’m assuming they have a crew to keep the track clear of machetes?
“Major banks closed accounts and refused credit to MAGA merchants, pro-life causes, religious groups, conservative organizations and sectors disfavored by the Biden administration, such as firearms, oil and gas, and private prisons, a bombshell report from the federal banking regulator has found.
The Debanking Review by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) investigated 100,000 complaints and scrutinized 50,000 internal bank records to reveal how customers were “debanked” based purely on their political, social, or religious beliefs.
JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bank, Capital One, PNC, TD Bank, and BMO Bank were found to have discriminated against American consumers, citing “reputation risk” as a reason to deny service between 2020 and 2025.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/14/us-news/banks-closed-accounts-of-maga-pro-life-and-other-conservative-groups-disfavored-by-biden-admin/
reputation risk?
Reputation, like “nice business you got there, be a shame to see something happen to your reputation”.
“bombshell” lol
Everybody knew this was going on.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/fdic-and-occ-finalize-rule-removing-1345689/
It’s how FedGov’s regulators beat up banks. It wasn’t created by the banks.
I’m glad its gone for now. I was sick of that stick in the culture war hitting things I liked.
“The bloodshed broke out when the gunmen spotted nearby rivals and opened fire while shouting, “Ewok! Ewok!” — a chant affiliated with the Makk Ballas, or Mac Ballers, a street gang tied to the Bloods and considered one of the most dangerous in the city, law-enforcement sources said.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/13/us-news/nyc-girl-12-struck-by-possible-gang-crossfire/
Because their aim is like a storm trooper?
Maybe the guy he was shooting was short and hairy and thus had the nickname ‘Ewok’?
I seem to recall there is a “gang task force” that even Mamdani has backed off from eliminating even though his commie supporters demand it.
The SRG? My understanding it’s more anti-terrorist.
Jawas for lyfe! *hits the little furry bastards with a flamethrower
“A perverted Maryland paramedic recorded himself masturbating and urinating into food, posting the disturbing footage to a porn site and resulting in his coworkers ingesting his bodily fluid.
Christopher Carroll, a member of the Baltimore County Fire Department’s quick response team, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for causing the ingestion of bodily fluids, stemming from at least three separate incidents, the Baltimore Banner reported.
Carroll, 36, had pleaded guilty to the three charges back in August, revealing he “wanted to be some sort of porn star” to make money off his depraved acts that allegedly began in September 2025, according to court records viewed by The Post.”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/14/us-news/maryland-paramedic-christopher-carroll-recorded-him-masturbating-onto-coworkers-food-for-porn-videos/
CWAA
And this is why we get the sexual harassment training we have.
“Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon, you know, ’cause I’ve worked in a lot of offices and I tell you people do that all the time.”
“Expedition to find Amelia Earhart’s lost plane continues in giant man-eating crab-infested lagoon ”
https://nypost.com/2026/10/13/lifestyle/amelia-earhart-expedition-begins-as-researchers-target-crab-infested-island/
STIJLTH
Lagoons eat men?
The title needs more hyphens.
Back at work after a glorious week of enjoying good company, good food and good nature.
Ladyfriend brought me pecans from Texas, so I made us a pie.
Which then makes me wonder — why do stores sell corn syrup since AFAIK, it’s only used in pecan pies and some candymaking which can’t seem to justify the shelf space. Also, can one substitute simple syrup for corn syrup?
I’ve never seen anyone get simple syrup to the consistancy of corn syrup. So it depends on whether your recipe needs that viscosity for anything or it’s just sweetener.
Corn syrup is also used in some baking recipes as well. There’s also the fake blood market. 🙂
Depends on the use case. From memory, usually the reason for using corn syrup over sugar or simple syrup is that corn syrup will not crystalize at all. So (as an example), using it in fudge instead of sugar will prevent any graininess). I also believe corn syrup is sweeter than simple, but both are over the human taste threshold (so they’ll both taste as SWEET).
Honey has a very similar ratio of glucose and fructose compared to HFCS. So, substitute honey for corn syrup in recipes. You’ll also be honey flavor, but that should help many things.
I get corn syrup, but why they sell vanilla corn syrup?
I installed Fallout 4. It’s basically a reskinned and boring Skyrim?
Oh, no, it’s much less than that.
The lack of explanation of any of the settlement mechanics is annoying. I thought that you had to do the “build beds” for the quest at the bed-building workbench, like how all the other workbenches function. Now I have five beds halfway on a ruined porch and on the street, but my serfs seem to be ok with that.
They don’t like to get rained on.
I’ve never played Skyrim.
I’ve tried to get into it several times but it’s just not my thing I guess. And it demands way too much time.
Fus, Ro, Dah
Much worse than that. No skill tree, just their perks. Be aware that they infinitely generate annoying quests to bother you with.
I like the settler quests in FH when the settler joins you.
The first time I put night sights on a pistol and looked down the slide, I was greatly amused.
I would think you’d appreciate the gun modding aspects.
I thought FO4 was a perfectly cromulent Bethesda game. You either like how they do games or you don’t.
Like every Bethesda game, it can be significantly improved with a few mods. Certainly the unofficial patch for debugging; there are also workshop mods that make settlements a lot better to build and manage.
“A Czech football coach has gone viral for his apparent ‘fight’ to not even glance at a glamorous journalist during a post-match interview.
Sports reporter Sabina Jákšová was interviewing David Oulehla, coach of the Czech second division team FK Viagem Ústí nad Labem, last Friday following their 3-2 defeat against SFC Opava.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16207791/Football-coach-viral-journalist-interview.html
“Czech out my boobs!”
Good on him for not slavvering all over them.
Classy. 🙄
Why does everyone on SNAP somehow manage to be both obese and tattooed.
‘They’re stealing from the poor’: A major source of SNAP fraud robs recipients of millions
TW: https://www.npr.org/2026/10/14/nx-s1-5985198/snap-fraud-ebt-card-skimming-chip-cards
Naturally – “She pictured her 3-year-old daughter and their empty fridge back home.”
Obese because cheap, processed food is loaded with sugar and salt to make it appetizing.
Funny how they can’t afford to feed their kids, but they have money for tattoos.
So… a government-caused problem because they are a decade or more behind the times. I’m sure they’ll get right on fixing that, or they would before Donald cut their funding to the bone.
Why is the state of NJ’s business?
CHERRY HILL, N.J. (WPVI) — A popular Cherry Hill deli is facing a $1,000 fine from the state over its use of terms such as “Jewish” and “kosher-style” on its menu and in its branding.
https://6abc.com/post/deli-cherry-hill-new-jersey-faces-state-fine-use-jewish-kosher-style-terms/19935712/
There is a Turkish vertically-grilled meat restaurant the describes said grilled meat as “gyro” if it’s served on pita or “shawarma” if it’s served on lavash. Thery don’t use the word “donner” for whatever reason.
Does anyone in the U.S. use the word “donner”?
Not after that one party.
Common Tater:
When I see it here, it’s spelled doner
My heterography is a thumb in the eye of the colonialist violence of the Spelling-Industrial Complex!
I have only seen “döner” in Germany.
Never heard the word before in the US.
So it’s made from harvested organs?
“State regulators, however, say businesses that are not kosher but use terms including Jewish, Hebrew, or kosher-style must prominently disclose that their products are not kosher.”
OFFS!
“kosher-style” is a bit misleading but “Jewish”? C’mon.
Can you imagine the shit show if some restaurant was labeled “halal-style”…?
*ululates, throws molotov cocktail*
“‘I haven’t been to the gym in so long, I didn’t know women just dress like w***es now. Look, I’m sorry, there’s no other way to describe [it]. Have you seen it? I’ve seen it. You’ve seen the shorts? They’re those neon, like, artificial bait-colored [shorts], and the wrinkles go around the cheeks and all combine at the b******e. And don’t look! You’re not allowed to look.’
You could be forgiven for thinking someone had dug up an old SNL clip from 2006. But he said this in 2026, while we’re still reeling from the allegations in the Cornell sexual assault case.”
https://www.dailymail.com/lifestyle/article-16205507/Shane-Gillis-SNL-gym-shorts-JANA-HOCKING.html
STFU
Shane isn’t wrong.
Thought experiment: what would the reaction be if men wore workout shorts that highlighted their genitals like a Tom of Finland drawing?
I’ve been seeing women saying that’s the case. That it’s the men that are wearing skimpy clothes and tight tank tops.
We are?
Yes, lots of women are still making Facebook and TikTok reels about it.
I mean, I’m really enjoying seeing that smug school and town getting bitch-slapped right after I moved away but I wouldn’t say I’m “reeling”.
Pope Leo XIV Diagnosed With Cancer as Doctors Remove Part of His Lung
First the White Sox shit the bed and now this. I feed bad for the guy.
Ilhan Omar’s wealth scandal takes a turn just one day after raid of her DC home
I hope this investigation is about the money. The immigration stuff sounds a bit shaky. If it’s bribery/corruption that will shut down at least some of the detractors.
Getty Images to file for bankruptcy
This is going to happen to PornHub at some point.
I don’t think it matters.
No matter what they find, it will be ignored and they will continue to bleat about how this is an attack on our democracy.
But the lawfare against Trump is totes legitimate!
Exactly how many Jewish fraternities are there? I saw links to some story posted a couple of times here about a reported rape at one, but we had a completely different Jewish fraternity at my school (the Zany Bagel tossers).
“The term “QAnon” may seem like a blast from the past, and for good reason. According to a February 2022 report from PRRI, tens of millions of Americans — including 25% of Republican voters — affirmed the QAnon conspiracy theory that Democrats sexually abuse and kill children to drink their blood.”
https://www.salon.com/2026/10/14/trumps-new-qanon-press-secretary-exposes-his-desperation/
That’s a half truth.
Yeah, why would you kill the children if you’re trying to drink their blood? Wouldn’t you run out of children?
Ok Glibs, I need a product recommendation. Yesterday I had the thought that I’d like a home stereo like I had a few decades ago. Something that plays CD’s and tapes, and possibly vinyl. We still have tons of CD’s and some records.
The setup I had in high school was sweet but I have no idea what happened to it. Mrs. TOK agrees that would be a great purchase, and she also agrees it would have been great for me to tell her about this 2 days ago when she and her dad spent the day at flea markets.
Anyone have any recommendations? I’m looking at $250 or less. There are some Jensen models on Amazon that look good, but also a lot of Chinese crap with names like “SoundNice” that I’m steering clear of.
Maybe I should look on Facebook marketplace.
You want something all in one for this?
You’re going to wind up with some cheap Chinese made junk if you want something new at that price. Otherwise – start small. Pick up a vintage receiver + speakers + CD player. Buying the pieces like that would be part of the fun. Otherwise get a Bluetooth soundbar and stream.
For reference I used to be a big subjective audiophile and now I’m an objectivist audiophile that rips CDs to FLAC and plays or streams everything to 5.1 channel AVR (audio video receiver) with digital room correction. No hipster sources for me as I lived the era of Dolby B & C and cleaning records and setting up turntables. No thanks!
So you are looking for a boombox?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/206624293300
I have one like it in my garage and even though it’s 17 years old it still sounds really good.
At what point does everybody realize just how ineffective Saudi Arabia’s military toys are?
Iran-backed Houthis struck Saudi oil giant Aramco’s executive offices, officials say
https://apnews.com/article/saudi-arabia-yemen-strikes-mideast-conflict-riyadh-c81a91347c00b17097c8fafde7e4eeec
You have to wonder how they get their head so far up their ass. A local columnist, known for spouting just about every progressive “free shit” nostrum that comes along, writes a column today about the need for political character, narrowing the wealth gap, fighting the “monied interests”, and promoting the public good. He ends the column, however, with a quote he “cherishes” from Abraham Lincoln: “write far across our native land’s soil, ‘here none shall live upon another’s toil.'”