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Sadly Outlook and 365 products are all functional this morning,
Other than that, good morning!
I needed the email to come back so we’d know to retain certain logs needed to troubleshoot a rare but recurring issue between the mainframe and the schedule automation system.
No, we’re not migrating away from the mainframe any time soon.
We aren’t migrating either. New systems are super expensive and tend to be more difficult to adapt to task.
Functional but I wonder how many emails got lost in the ether.
Apparently bunches. When I started getting emails about 3:30 this morning, there was no rush of previously sent ones.
Looks like all my sent/receive came rushing in after a restart.
What is Microsoft Outlook?
NPR is seeding the justification for Peach 4-7
Story 1: Mention that “scientific polling” says that the voters want to “hold Trump accountable.”
Story 2: Mention that experts say bringing Huang on the China trips “might have endangered national security.”
I guess the attempt to seed the “voters loudly demand socialism” narrative is fizzling out.
Even if it is naked partisan hackery, I approve of limiting a governor’s powers.
How it wasn’t done wirh intense vigor after the naked power grabs during Covid really cemented my view that Americans do not want to self-govern
Save us oh mighty ruler!!!
There were states that did it. None of them made the news beyond local reporting.
I approve of limiting powers.
No one cares about Cuba.
The Canadians do
Cuba north.
“Trump: US Will Take Care of Cuba After Iran”
This is what worries me. We are already taking care of millions of people. Now Trump et al want to add more grifters.
Didn’t learn a damn thing from last week’s election, did he?
Everybody learned from last week’s election – they’ve taken away different lessons and all tell themselves it’s the correct interpretation. And will not allow anyone else’s interpretation to change their pre-determined lessons learned.
If he does something stupid with Cuba, I think he can kiss getting re-elected goodbye.
I heard there were never going to be elections again.
I heard there were never going to be elections again.
On a related note, I have this book in my library. Note the publication date.
Rubio does, and he has the President’s ear on these matters.
As if there would be some South Florida exodus if there was regime change.
Giving the soldier a medal is well warranted for Hegseth and company not reading the fucking room/ceremony.
If you are going to spin a narrative, there are worse ways.
Who actually laughed? I get that the important thing is that it happened in proximity to and was thus the fault of
SatanHegseth, but the actual malefactor’s identity might be worth knowing if only as trivia.An unidentified female in his posse.
He was with several people. I thought I read it was one of the women, but I may be misremembering.
True and Hegseth should call him/her out or they themselves should just step forward.
They wouldn’t be the first to get dressed down at the ceremony so why not just say “I messed up”
Nah, I think she got immediately dressed down right there. Good enough IMHO.
The radio yesterday said the Pete hung “one of the higher medals” on the Specialist. For the record, the Joint Commendation Medal is 2d from the bottom.
The SPC did his job as a Tomb Guard. I thought it was a nice gesture to recognizing that he did his job.
So apparently the DC shooter was am ER doctor who blamed his gym for seeing him with the spores that turned into mold in his apartment.
Which drug cocktail had he self-prescribed?
Porparanoianol
Sounds like a text-book snap.
Probably was already disgruntled, just needed his mind to concoct a story that took him over the edge.
That’s why we need Medicare for All, even doctors need to be able to heal themselves.
I didn’t see that nugget but yeah, he sure seemed ready for the funny farm.
What I read was that the mold came from faulty renovations that he obsessively documented for years.
:: Quietly buys Mold-X, sprays gym floor ::
Payday! A day less than normal, cuz I took last Tues off for a couple appointments. Oooh, reminds me to check on using the rest of my PTO before the year ends. Family trip coming up, which is likely important that I go on, the 13yo being 13, and extra time with the 6yo.
Unfortunate, but whatever: Mandatory Saturday work tomorrow, 9-3. Happens once every 2-3 months, rumored. Kinda sweet in its own way, ‘specially as I have a $250 “Holiday Bonus” coming next check. I’m shocked this company runs as ‘considerate’ as it does. Perhaps a reaction to the turnover rate I’ve heard of. To be fair, the older black lady next to me only started a month before me. She’s nice, no sarcasm.
Forgot Friday’s have been chill in Shipping, this being the third. Hope it keeps up. I certainly don’t mind meandering the Vault. Do well on your travels and travails. Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.
Judging by the sorts of things you’ve admitted to doing, I think my standard of “things I won’t do” is more restrictive.
My company gives (((early dismissal))) at 4pm every Friday until February. Yay!
Update on unusual levels of security here today:
Our Emergency Response Team has been told to NOT use the emergency radios until the “special event” is over. They’ve pre-picked which ERT members will respond to incidents should they occur and have phone chains set up to notify them. I have NOT been added to the chain so I can enjoy the picnic we’re having in the 33 degree drizzle.
I find that instruction suspicious.
What’s being broadcast on that band today?
Some honeypot on the line with the CCP…?
What surprises does Friday the 13th have for me?
19 American this morning but that’s not unexpected.
If all goes well I will take the afternoon off and do as little as possible for Friday the 13th.
HAVANA—After more than six decades of U.S. efforts to block trade with Cuba, the Trump administration’s oil embargo has produced an unlikely result: The U.S. is now the island’s primary fuel supplier.
https://www.wsj.com/world/the-u-s-cut-cuba-off-from-the-worlds-oil-now-it-runs-on-american-fuel-d8f26a9a?st=Kuz1Se&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
What could go wrong?
I would say that is an excellent tool to ensure Cuba does what you want. Naturally it will be abused.
Army LTC was the alleged spy.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-military-officer-arrested-in-the-u-k-was-detained-in-sting-operation-e809a042?st=djKWxh&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Que the current crop of Dems to put this soldier on a pedestal
You mean run him as a Democrat candidate in the next election.
/Vindefuckface
He was serving in a personnel and human resources role, officials said.
Insert Det. [Dirty Harry] Callahan quote about personnel assignments.
“A man’s got to know his limitations.”
-SARC-
“Personnel is for assholes.” [but the above is acceptable]
CA residents – good luck getting insurance.
Jane Kim, a Bernie Sanders-backed progressive who will take office next year as California’s new insurance commissioner, wants the state to insure all homes against wildfire.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/another-winner-from-the-midterms-crusaders-against-insurance-companies-36adf244?st=1vTujr&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
In an election filled with voter stupidity that was the worst for me personally. She was a terrible supervisor in SF, that was leftie even by our standards. She somehow failed upwards and has zero experience in any way with insurance. We can look forward to much higher rates, even less choice, and the possibility that the taxpayers will be totally on the hook for the next wildfire or disaster that takes out a bunch on property.
So the mortgage rate story is really good news. Rates are higher than they have been for awhile, but home prices have come down and are now more affordable. It’s definitely a buyer’s market right now. Why isn’t that angle getting more coverage?
Affordability has much less to do with price and more to do with monthly payments. With rates going up, I suspect that monthly payments are still pretty much what they were. We’ll know its a buyer’s market when sales increase.
It has the potential to become a buyers market. There are still a bunch of people out there asking insane prices for mediocre homes. I suspect many of them are on the edge of financial crisis and are trying to avoid the consequences of being underwater by asking delusional prices.
A buddy had his neighbor offer him 10 adjacent acres with no road access and a ravine running through the middle of it. His price? $30k/acre.
Meanwhile, the good land down the road is going for $10k/acre.
Because the MSM doesn’t care about affordability for the middle class.
Home prices in central Texas have come down. Not so in much of New England.
Mine is down almost 30 percent from the peak in 2019 – admittedly, that peak was absolutely bonkers high.
My home valuation has been skyrocketing. But, location, location, location.
DEG. Only benefits the tax man.
My property tax up another $242 this year for no reason.
DEG. Only benefits the tax man.
In NH, property taxes are calculated based on approved spending and valuations. Your valuation going up doesn’t necessarily mean your taxes go up.
My town just finished the state mandated “every five year revaluation”. My property valuation just about doubled in that time. But, since we don’t have the new tax rate yet, I don’t know if my taxes actually went up. The municipal, school, county budgets were all approved in the Spring and won’t change until next year. The change in taxes depends on how my property changed relative to the average property in town.
To add on before I step out for the day: I have had an instance where my valuation went up but my taxes went down. A bunch of big commercial property went into my town. That new property was big enough to shift the tax burden in town around.
Rates are still too low.
Meanwhile in Korea:
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/news/democratic-party-hints-at-impeaching-chief-justice-jo-hee-de-amid-han-release-pressure/ar-AA2hkuLo
Basically the Chief Justice isn’t giving the extremists in the legislature what they want, specifically on persecuting people they think we’re involved with the 2024 martial law declaration, so they want to install compliant judges while claiming to be defending democracy.
https://news.sbs.co.kr/english/article.do?news_id=N1008839097
Kraft Heinz Has a Comeback Plan: Cheesy Ramen and High-Protein Jell-O
Packaged-food giant is stepping up investments in new products to bring life to aging brands
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/kraft-heinz-has-a-comeback-plan-cheesy-ramen-and-high-protein-jell-o-6fbfc2f8?st=wZSeFa&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
As somebody with a soft spot for box mac and cheese I’d give the ramen a shot. Not so much the others.
FWIW, this stuff is pretty good.
https://www.kraftheinz.com/jell-o/products/00043000042045-zero-sugar-dulce-de-leche-pudding-snack-cups
Pair with:
https://www.reddiwip.com/dairy-whipped-topping/zero-sugar
Jello is made of protein. It’s just not complete.
Beijing Is Trying to Build a Chinese Rival for Insuring World Shipping
If they pull this off this could be interesting. This was big club the west has used.
https://www.wsj.com/business/logistics/beijing-is-trying-to-build-a-chinese-rival-for-insuring-world-shipping-eaf8ccdb?st=Yi97BY&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I wouldn’t trust China for insurance. No way they’d actually pay out.
Lloyd’s of London started by insuring slave ships, so the right thing to do is to use insurance from China which never had slavery or oppression.
Friday the 13th Funbags, luckiest day of the year!
https://archive.is/3ogsa
Pending disaster in Texas:
Texas has a constitutional amendment guaranteeing public access to beaches. SpaceX can’t launch from TX without closing Boca Chica beach. The Texas legislature passed a law allowing it to be closed for rocket launches.
The new all-Dem administration is setting up a constitutional challenge to the statute and has asked the land commissioner not to sell the beach to SpaceX, which had been on its agenda but got pulled.
All the pieces are lining up to shut down Starbase launches, and its the only facility for Starship launches.
More Texas fun!
https://thetexan.news/issues/second-amendment/texas-democrats-introduce-deluge-of-gun-control-legislation-on-first-day-of-pre-filing/article_4f0486a1-2ff9-41dd-b7ec-8fb13c8a5183.html
What was that? Did I just hear some boomerkaren say, “Nobody wants to take your guns?”
*sigh* The one nice thing about the left – they’re not shy about what their priorities are.
It’s a problem with democracy. A majority of voters think they know what’s best for everyone.
See: Government run schools…
Among those things, “red flag laws”
We have that here in Florida.
I dunno how they do it elsewhere, but it is massively flawed here.
The idea seems sound, even here. Say you have an abusive ex who is threatening you and your kids. He keeps showing up at your house and being threatening.
You can go to court and get a judge to issue a protective order and the police will go and serve the notice that he has to stay away and take his guns.
Seems kinda sane.
The reality: an ex business partner of James O’Keefe made threats against him on video.
That ex business partner goes to the court and gets a protective order (even though he is the one who was making threats) without hearing any evidence of any threatening behavior and despite the fact that he lives like 3 counties away, issues an order.
The local police in his county come and search his home and confiscate any weapons.
Now, he has his rights. So he can file a motion with the court (several counties away) and then get a hearing in a couple of months to see about amending the order.
Wait….
Really?
Yes, really.
In the aftermath of the Kirk assassination, a prominent gadfly with many credible death threats against him can be very publicly disarmed – and then he has the right to get his protection back in a couple of months, maybe, if he can pay a lawyer to prove that the original order was unnecessary to begin with.
That actually happened.
Well, yes and no. They certainly don’t campaign on them. TX Dems weren’t running on gun control and shutting down SpaceX. Dem Congressional candidates weren’t running on impeaching Hegseth (or Trump, really).
In fact, they were making noises pretending to not want to waste time on ‘peachments.
As usual, they were lying through their teeth.
Agred, RC. Aside from a few of the usual radical suspects, nearly all the Dems elected ran relatively silent campaigns or professed moderation (if not downright alignment with key Trump platform areas such as closing the border, men in women’s sports).
The extremely minor solace I have post-election is most people didn’t vote for left-wing ideas (the ballot measures also show this), however, most people are absolutely idiots that they fell for the bait and switch.
Every restrictions Democrats want to apply to gun ownership should be required to simultaneously apply to voting. So if you have a friend who you think might vote for a Democrat, you can tell the sheriff, who will be obliged to confiscate all of your friend’s mail-in ballots until it can be determined they’re not a threat to vote for a Democrat. For safety.
Funny how you or I could predict it though…
The threat of actually keeping us going back to the dark ages depends on part, SpaceX and other private companies.
The Left must destroy them to usher in utopia.
Yeah, the commitment to destruction is impressive.
They are really going hard after Musk. Expect a slew of indictments that make Trump look like a piker.
The incoming Texas House Speaker was interviewed the other day and could not name 1 suspected crime, but promised sweeping investigations that will uncover and prosecute every crime they can find.
It sounded like they were going to make it one of the major budget items for the state.
He pretty much guaranteed that rhey would be shutting down SpaceX AI and the GigaFab and other huge projects slated for Texas.
He really is starting to look like a real-life Hank Reardon
I suspecting even more that the vote count in TX is bullshit and this is exactly why.
To take down Enemy No. 1.
Where’s Thomas Friedman when you need him to lecture us on how China “gets things done” without having to deal with messy “democracy”.
“All the pieces are lining up to shut down Starbase launches”
Why are they against that? Because he bought Twitter?
That was the start. Then came his dollar-a-year job with DOGE.
That, and because he supports and funds Republicans.
My opinion: Musk is an apostate. Just like Trump. Just like RFK. The worst sin imaginable.
It’s all fun and tyranny until some billionaire
Parks a rocket on your petty ass.
The effort to remake a racist america is still going strong. The latest, this Ring camera nonsense.
Check out this link, responded to by a bunch of us, including the Redheaded Libertarian
https://x.com/SarahisCensored/status/2120992791425581120
Now, this is a post saying “see, they got the story wrong and they are pushing an agenda”. But notice some subtleties that show hust how powerful culture is.
They have to do the Soave throat clear: “Was the prank stupid? Absolutely.”
So the story is, 3 college girls are headed out of their apartment for the night and they are being loud and performing for the ring cameras they pass. They act like monkeys.
And this guy is forced to say this is stupid and a prank.
But is it? Do we really have to say that?
What if they had done some Fornight “loser” dances? Would that have necessitated a denouncement before you can call the reaction stupid?
What if they had made elephant noises? Or maybe acted like birds? Or gone “Moo!!” like a cow?
We have lost our damned minds, and the social engineers who need us to be divided by race are winning.
Just look at the replies. Lots of “you are a racist” for pointing out that they dont even know each other and didnt know race was a factor.
That is where we are.
And then you have the fake double-trolls who post things like “Karmelo Anthony was just defending himself from a racist bully.”
We have lost our damned minds.
It is because if performative stuff like this in the media that I see comments that actually are racist online, where they were largely absent for 20 years or more.
Nicely done, assholes.
There is another woman-owned gym in our area, one more bougie than ours, and my wife saw some FB posts from their members. Apparently some guys were trolling workout videos, and these women were over the top about “you can’t convince me that all men aren’t misogynists” and that sort of thing. I told my wife that they’re the type of people who think the Internet is real and represents all people. We have indeed lost our damned minds.
Perhaps they *deserve* to be trolled.
I have been imagining that world for decades. Of course it is stupid but like I said yesterday you can’t grow up in America without learning that that will land you in trouble.
That is just anti-Irish discrimination!
Woo hoo! Christmas cane early!
4 pallets of Ion Chromatograph components to unpack, sort and verify receipt of. I’mma be offline for a while.
I’m actually a little bit jealous.
Not Adahn – How many rounds of Zinc-plated steelcase did you go through before first failure, and what kind of failures did you see?
So far the Shield hasn’t cared, but I’m still at a low round count.
I had a 4% failure rate over ~450 rounds. I forget the math needed to calculate when you’d expect to see your first failure or when you could be 95% sure you wouldn’t see one.
Okay. I’ll keep shooting and see what happens.
“Microsoft Outlook is experiencing widespread service disruptions on Thursday starting around 12:00 p.m. ET, leaving millions of users unable to access their email inboxes and other Microsoft 365 services. The outage affects users across multiple regions and services.”
I thought it was just an email program. The users all run off the same servers?
“Outlook” is a domain too. A bunch of services come from “outlook.com”
All the MS crap runs in the cloud now. “MS 365”. MS’s cloud took in the ass, root cause is not clear yet (one unsubstantiated claim that the BGP routing got poisoned).
“All the MS crap runs in the cloud now”
sounds retarded
I remember when DR plans required on premise servers, I also remember the first time someone’s response to that was “Well, if the cloud is down, everyone will be down.”
That’s when it’s the most important time to be up you retard.
I am certainly not an expert, but Microsoft has driven its Office users to 365, which is cloud-based. So, their cloud is now a single point of failure for a great many businesses.
I hope there’s a class action suit against Microsoft seeking damages for business interruption and lost productivity.
Yeah, it is wild that we have largely given up on desktop software. Owning your own… anything… is kinda going away.
Music and movies have moved to subscription services.
Cars are headed that way too.
There won’t be a class action suit about that. Each of those contracts has very, VERY, specific terms about up-time, reliability, and charge backs in the case of outages.
Each of those contracts has very, VERY, specific terms about up-time, reliability, and charge backs in the case of outages.
*rubs hands together in a sinister manner*
Update:
“A raccoon that went viral last year for going on a drunken rampage inside a Virginia liquor store has helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for an animal shelter.
The trashed raccoon was discovered snoozing in a booze-induced haze by the toilet last December after helping itself to 14 bottles of alcohol in the Ashland ABC Store.
The Hanover County Animal Protection and Shelter has since raised more than $290,000 from selling merchandise emblazoned with the masked bandit’s likeness and the slogan “trashed panda,” The Washington Post reported.”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/12/us-news/drunk-raccoon-who-passed-out-after-raiding-virginia-liquor-store-helped-raise-290k-for-animal-shelter/
The cash me ousside of carnivores.
It wasn’t me.
I bought a Trashed Panda T shirt and supported the shelters. Mostly because the T shirt was great.
I’ll see your trashed panda, and raise you a hefty hawk: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/hefty-hawk-9.7412660
SpaceX is going to attempt catching both the booseter and upperstage.
If they nail it, I think there is nothing stopping them from holding off Texas government from trying to torpedo them.
They scrub the second catch, still okay.
If the upperstage crashes no where near where they intend, it may spell doom.
Yeah, that is going to be a pretty big milestone. It shouldnt be long after that catch that they ramp up the cadence and really start bumping into the bureaucracy. So far, Musk has managed to work out deals with the dozens of agencies that have a say over SpaceX so they can mostly continue apace.
That is certainly about to change.
The incoming house speaker was repeating every anti-Musk talking point you have ever heard, including a ton of stuff from the Bezos and old space crowd. He angrily claimed they “dump trash in national parks” among other nutty nonsense.
Musk coming to Texas was such a proud moment for me. So of course retarded envious politicians are going to shit on it.
He is already building a launch station in Florida so this will not be a permanent setback for him.
For Space Port, that place was a total shit hole before he got there. Watching it fall to dust again while politicians croon about “beating the bad capitalists” will make me very sad.
He may have seen the writing on the wall.
They have 2 launch towers at Starbase Texas.
They are building 2 more at Cape Canaveral.
But they want a launch cadence that nobody has ever heard of. They currently launch more than the entire rest of the world combined out of Canaveral. Way over 100 launches.
They have announced a new launch facility in Louisiana that will have NINE launch towers and will eventually see dozens of launches every day. They will launch south to sun synchronous orbits in order to support their StarMind AI compute satellites.
And when Florida goes blue?
I believe it will happen sooner or later.
Believing florida will go Blue is not crazy.
The Texas flip has not been studied yet.
But I saw a chart of recent governor races. The Republican candidate got a steady increase in each race, culminating with about 4.5 million this time.
The democrats also saw a steady vote, substantially less than the republican.
Until this election.
The republican got their normal small increase.
But the democrat jumped by 2 million to get 5.2 million.
This seems *really* implausible.
I will look forward to the post-mortem that will never happen.
That is the endgame. Texas suddenly going completely blue was an effective test. Miraculously the whole country will go blue by 2028.
I will look forward to the post-mortem that will never happen.
Tucker Carlson interviewed Rich Baris recently (link goes to right around where the interview starts). Baris has been beating the “Trump destroyed his coalition” drum for a while. In the interview, he talks about looking at exit polls and election data. Trump destroyed his coalition.
And to add on, in NH the state level Republicans have been discussing what went wrong. Number one? Donald Trump destroyed the Republican brand.
I hope he lashes out eventually. Don’t fuck with someone that owns ICBMs.
The left is so evil and tyrannical they can’t see that their actions can lead to their demise if just a handful of people decide to push back in an uncivilized manner.
Miraculously the whole country will go blue by 2028.
Demographics and culture are destiny. Maybe immigration and the culture war were the important things the whole time and everything else was a distraction.
I don’t see why a successful double catch would slow down the Dem campaign to shut down Starbase.
AOC recently said she wants to impeach the conservative justices because “you know, they kind of legalized a lot of his criminality.”
Reality will not stop these people.
Never underestimate the power of needs and a whole cottage industry that has sprung from that well.
AOC is not alone. There is a sizeable contingent of national democrats who have been seriously suggesting that we nationalize all of Musks companies.
The communists are here. We elected them. And people like Chuck Schumer are on board – if only because he is afraid that AOC will rob him of his final tour of duty.
Moobs has two years before he gets primaried by whatever commie the DSA has waiting in the wings for his job.
Everyone I know on the left hates Musk with a passion. They all say he was fine and then he went crazy when he started working with Trump.
The real reason of course is that they were told to hate him.
Yes. It is so transparent. The man never changed! It’s the only explanation for hating him one moment and loving him the next.
“Moobs has two years before he gets primaried by whatever commie the DSA has waiting in the wings for his job.”
probably AOC
I still wonder if they’re priming her for Prez. It would be ridiculous but I can’t put anything past them anymore.
“An incoming Georgia state representative proudly claimed that being the first “openly nonbinary or trans person elected to a state legislature in the Deep South” is proof that “Woke 3.0 has now commenced.”
Nonbinary lawmaker-elect Bentley Hudgins, 33, also boasted about being “the first Japanese-American elected in Georgia” by winning a seat in the state House during last week’s so-called “blue tsunami.”
Hudgins’s brag led to online snark, with End Wokeness writing on X: “Good news, Georgia! You now have your 1st non-binary trans, Japanese elected official!”
https://nypost.com/2026/11/13/us-news/new-nonbinary-lawmaker-calls-election-win-proof-that-woke-3-0-has-commenced/
CWAA
I do not understand why people brag about being tag bundles (especially when the tags are stupid.)
It’s probably a sign that they have nothing else in their life beyond their ‘identity.’ Sad.
They do it because it works. It gives them power.
It is stupid.
But real.
This is identity politics in a nutshell. You are not celebrated for what you do or accomplish. You are celebrated for certain immutable traits. It’s why we’ll have another dark ages if the lefties get enough power.
This isn’t even an immutable trait. Some guy decided to identify as non-binary.
Which is a made-up identity.
“winning with more than 92% of the votes”
So, a one-Party district. What a proud achievement. 🙄
Is power even all that much worth having, that it’s worth debasing yourself this way?
Sometimes I think that I’m not even the same species as the political class.
I agree. I don’t want power over others, and if you gave it to me I would spend the short time I have before impeachment or assasination completely dismantling the excesses of the state, all the way back to the “small and limited” government of the constitution.
Is power even all that much worth having, that it’s worth debasing yourself this way?
Debasing implies having a base that isn’t just the naked lust for power. I see no evidence of such a base.
Wow, we’re already to Woke 3.0? Woke 2.0 lasted, what, a month or so?
LOL! They copped to Woke being bad for a period that coincidentally happened to exactly match the 3 month run up to the election.
What are the odds?
Woke never went away. The Democrats just shoved it in the closet temporarily to put economic issues front and center so they could win elections. As I thought they would.
I’m off to CA to go the Darker Waves music festival. Wish me luck. If there will be any Glibs in attendance hit me up
That sounds awesome!
Interesting lineup. A lot of those aren’t what I would call “darkwave” but hey, it’s their show.
Uh… not to sound all old and stuff… but…. what is “darkwave”?
Sort of a “minor key” synth-pop, goth, and similar.
Soft Cell and Gary Numan on that list count. Christian Death too. I don’t recognize some of the ones near the bottom.
That’s a great lineup.
Bring rain gear, but hopefully, you won’t need it.
“Giants running back Cam Skattebo threw up on the sideline during the 24-21 home loss to the Commanders on Thursday after the specialty dish did not sit well with him.
“I had a pretzel-wrapped hot dog. Didn’t sit right in the stomach,” Skattebo said while shaking his head. “Nothing crazy, got rid of it. Felt good after.””
https://nypost.com/2026/11/13/sports/cam-skattebo-reveals-bizarre-meal-that-lead-to-him-puking-during-giants-loss/
I never had a pretzel wrapped hot dog. How do you people eat these non-sandwich hot dogs? Do you put mustard in a cup and dunk, or run it up the side with a squeeze bottle?
Reminds self not to eat pretzel-wrapped hot dogs
I believe that particular one is inserted rectally.
Pretzel dogs are fantastic.
Well, at least the one I had at the Florida State Fair was.
10/10.
A pretzel brat is a routine purchase at our local Oktoberfest for me.
Basically a corn dog, only with pretzel. You can either dunk it in mustard as you go (the preferred method) or you can run a line down the side.
Sounds pretty awesome, to tell you the truth.
Probably sits different if your torso is being hammered by linebackers?
The one I had was a massive sausage. So really heavy… tons of fat. Not great if you are just about to play an NFL game.
I don’t believe for a second that Cam Skattebo remembers what he had for dinner
Yes.
In Local News
Three adults were found dead inside a home in suburban Cleveland, Ohio, after police were called to investigate a report of an “unwanted guest” at the address, authorities said.
The bodies were discovered on Tuesday night after neighbors reported hearing a commotion at the home in North Royalton, about 21 miles north of Cleveland, according to the North Royalton Police Department.
Officers went to the home after receiving a report of an “unwanted guest” there, authorities said.
The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the bodies on Wednesday morning as Emilia Ciortan, Sorin Ciortan and Stefan Pascu, all 71 years old.
Pascu is suspected of being the unwanted guest that police were initially called to the scene to investigate, authorities said.
https://abcnews.com/US/ohio-police-find-3-dead-people-after-call/story?id=138041570
This made the local news cause the three were apparently Romanian, and the names check out.
Stabbed with a stake through the heart?
Nope, but the attacker left 2 little holes on the neck of each victim, who were exsanguinated.
North of Cleveland? So a houseboat in the lake?
Strike that, reverse it. It’s ~20 miles SOUTH of Cleveland. It’s where the suburbs start becoming exurbs.
See what happens when you invite them in?
“When I read the testimony of Woman Five in the trial of Russell Brand, my teeth began chattering violently. It was sudden and unexpected, an uncontrollable reaction that gripped my body as the words from witness statements fired up neurons in my brain, dislodging long-buried memories of my own demeaning encounters with the comedian. As I read this brave woman’s words – him asking her to have a shower and brush her teeth before the appalling encounter – I realised I was shaking like a leaf, and I was crying, too.
My body was finally releasing something it had known for 21 years, something my brain had not ever fully allowed it to accept: that Russell Brand was a cruel and ruthless predator, and I was far from the only woman who had been degraded by him….
I was bulimic, depressive, riddled with OCD and I now realise in active alcoholism: what little self-esteem I did have was largely derived from the validation of men, whom I looked to in that post-Bridget-Jones era for something approaching safety and security. I am not proud to admit this. In fact, it makes me feel pretty sad. But it’s just how things were in 2005, for me at least.
What I’m trying to say is that, while I can now see I was experiencing Brand’s narcissistic lovebombing, at the time I was completely and utterly dazzled by it. I remember he called me and sang James Blunt’s You’re Beautiful down the phone. It was not something I’d ever experienced before. I was hooked. Eventually, I agreed to go on a date with him. We went for Sunday lunch, and then to see a movie at the cinema….
I’m not going to go into the details of the rest of my night with Brand. But what I will say is that when I left the next day, any discomfort I had about the encounter I blamed squarely on myself.”
https://archive.is/MUxtH
https://www.dailymail.com/debate/article-16287795/BRYONY-GORDON-brave-women-Russell-Brand-allow-acknowledge-truth.html
There are going to be more and more of these bullshit stories.
IMO, Brand did not deserve such a harsh sentence. Also, Brand was a weirdo/freak for a very long time.
But spouting beliefs the chattering classes liked.
It’s only when Brand changed his public views that people suddenly “remembered” Brand’s weirdness.
I thought brand was gay for the longest time.
Degenerate drug addict at the least.
Had he stayed a degenerate doper and not gotten saved and pulled his head out of his ass he would never have been in trouble.
The judge chastised him for putting up a defense instead of pleading out.
Keep in mind that he was acquitted of most of the charges precisely because he put up a defense.
There’s no doubt in my mind that he’s a rapist, but the sentencing was clearly biased, and there would be clear constitutional issues if it happened here.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that he’s a rapist”
There is in mine.
His trial concerned me.
They did a combined trial of a bunch of allegations that had no relationship other than the defendant.
In the US we have rules about unrelated evidence. They use the word “cumulative” and then rule testimony inadmissible.
Do we do this here? Can they stack a whole bunch of unrelated incidents into 1 trial so the jury feels They have to convict on something because “there is just so much here”?
In the US the standard is “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
We are quite proud of that standard.
It means that “is think he probably did it” isnt good enough.
So, I ask you. How is it even remotely possible to convince a jury of guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt” when the accusation is that, more than 20 years ago, “i willingly had a one night stand with this guy even though I was in a relationship, and during that one night stand he wanted to do anal and I said I didnt like it and he didnt stop”
Uh.
Beyond a reasonable doubt.
In the US, this should be impossible, shouldnt it? Am I wrong here?
How could there not be reasonable doubt on such a case, even if it 100% went down like that?
Do we have any legal experts out there? How would this play out in the US? Could a trial like this ever happen? And if so… what can you do about a case where “beyond a reasonable doubt” seems definitionally impossible?
“In the US, this should be impossible, shouldnt it? Am I wrong here?”
Looking at trials here in the U.S. it is possible.
I’m standing by my theory this is regret sex which only became regret sex after Brand went conservative.
They nailed an Idaho state rep for a he said she said they charged on the last possible day of charging and went to trial with the jilted lover unnamed and behind a screen. Guy is still in prison.
It happens all the time in the U.S.
Threedoor
Holy shit!
Face your accuser, huh?
I didnt think that was possible either.
Apparently I dont know shit.
Rule of law is a pleasant fiction. Anything is possible when you have a country full of amoral emoters.
https://www.dailymail.com/sport/nfl/article-16289337/jameis-winston-giants-commanders-antics.html
still funny
“A Texas couple said they were ‘traumatized’ after discovering a vile racial slur written on the back of their receipt at a popular Houston restaurant, claiming that staff appeared to laugh off the disrespect.
Melanie Mathews and LaToya Harris-Mathews said they were dining at a Becks Prime location in the Meyerland neighborhood of Houston on August 16 when they found the n-word scribbled in red on the check….
The couple said they confronted staff and an employee at the beloved chain admitted to writing the slur.
He appeared to laugh before telling them that ‘this is just something we do in the kitchen,’ Mathews told the outlet.
A spokesperson for Becks Prime said the incident was ‘deeply troubling’ and confirmed the employee had been fired that same evening.
A second employee was also fired after an internal review, according to the Becks Prime spokesperson.”
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16287345/houston-couple-restaurant-check-racial-slur-texas.html
WTF?
The photo just shows an “N.” I don’t see a word. And it does not look edited.
I thought same thing R.J., but it is pixelated.
Ah. I can’t tell on the old GETAC S400. My screen res isn’t even HD.
I’ll put my money on “The offended complainers wrote it themselves”
With two people fired?
Yes.
Corporate HR Panicked and canned the accused to appease the PR nightmare without looking into the available information.
Companies burn the front line employees at the drop of a hat.
It could be interstore communications, uh? The server? N is for Nice?
I never look on the back of my receipt, I wouldn’t know the correct letter to be offended by.
Messenger
Scott Colom is a fan of sweatshirts and hoodies. That is itself a fashion statement from Mississippi’s first Black U.S. senator-elect since post-Civil War Reconstruction.
But Colom, a 43-year-old Democrat, goes further with what’s printed on his attire. There’s nearly always a message, usually expressing pride in Mississippi and Black America. Colom stumps for Mississippi as a whole, but he also embraces its civil rights history and Black residents — the largest proportion of the population and electorate of any U.S. state.
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On the day he found out The Associated Press had called the race in his favor, Colom was wearing a hoodie with a photo of the late comedian Richard Pryor, whose repertoire includes searing commentary on racism and classism in America.
Fascinating. What does he believe? What does he want Mississippi to be when it grows up? Who gives a shit, as long as his skin is black and he’s not a Republican.
Richard Pryor was actually funny because he was brutally observant. Could he offer up that searing commentary today without getting booed off the stage?
I watched an old Mantan Moreland movie the other night. I wonder what modern racialists think about him.
I can trump that. And I found a complete copy on YouTube, of all things. I remember seeing ads for this in the newspaper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv5hc-0BKAk
Does it get cold enough in Mississippi to need hoodie?
Some parts of Mississippi get cold at night during the winter. Mainly northern Mississippi.
So the piece of shit is openly racist, but black racist is ok?
It’s been OK my entire life. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Shockingly, acceptable racism is moving society further away from colorblindness.
BBC headline:
“How does a building just fall?”
Ask Isaac Newton.
https://www.amazon.com/Why-Buildings-Fall-Down-Structures/dp/039331152X/
Classic text.
Outrage
Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) issued a statement obtained exclusively by The Hill urging Congress to conduct oversight on Kyiv’s reports of disruptions to Starshield satellites, impacting the country’s ability to defend against Russian attacks.
“Congress must determine who ordered or approved these disruptions and hold those responsible accountable,” the senators, who are both leaving at the end of the 119th Congress, wrote in a statement.
“The Pentagon and SpaceX must preserve all records, turn over the contracts and communications Congress needs to establish the facts, and put safeguards in place so this never happens again.”
Throw Musk in jail and nationalize all his businesses.
Also…
The US congress must investigate something in a war in Ukraine that involves a private company *not* doing something?
Kafka was a piker.
Oh right, another reason they hate Elon. Because he isn’t being helpful enough in the never-ending Ukraine boondoggle.
Amazing that the dude, on his own nickel, sent them like a hundred million in goods and services….. and they still act like this.
I was right earlier. This dude really is Hank Reardon.
One searches in vain for the required “legislative purpose”.
Honestly, if I was going to investigate anything about that kerfuffle, it would be “Why the fuck are we giving the Ukrainians access to our most sensitive satellites and communications infrastructure?”
Scott Colom- “taking back” the hoodie from that white supremacist poseur Fetterman.
Also… congress has called the now Ex-CEO of Nvidia to testify.
They really, really need to hand this off to the house intelligence committee.
I mean, you gotta have this on Swallwell’s old committee, don’t you?
https://x.com/3yearletterman/status/2121073141258801607
“Montana Democrats Install Trans ‘Nonbinary’ SJ Howell as Minority Leader and Trangender Activist Zooey Zephyr as Whip
Howell, a biological woman born Sarah J. Howell, was elected in 2022 as Montana’s first “nonbinary” legislator. She previously worked as a lobbyist and activist on women’s and LGBTQ+ issues, and serves as executive director of Montana Women Vote, a nonprofit that works to get low-income women into the political process….
Zephyr, a biological man born Zachary Todd Raasch, is Montana’s first openly transgender lawmaker. He was also elected in 2022 and gained national attention in 2023 after House members barred him from the floor for refusing to apologize for telling colleagues supporting a ban on gender-affirming care for minors that they would have “blood” on their hands.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/11/montana-democrats-install-trans-nonbinary-sj-howell-as/
WTF, Montana?
Last month, Musk publicly acknowledged slowing down Starlink satellite systems over Ukraine for what he said was Kyiv’s violation of terms of service, using the systems for offensive actions. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also downplayed Ukraine’s access to Starshield, the military-grade satellite system contracted with the Pentagon. He said Ukraine was obligated to abide by the commercial terms of service for Starlink.
“The bottom line is that that is governed by a private commercial contract as to how their stuff can be used and what speeds they’ll allow it to be used at,” Rubio told reporters last month.
Using Starlink to control strikes on civilian infrastructure deep inside Russia? Who could object?
And remember….. this is *identical* to easily accessible technology that our enemies (large and small) could use to attack us.
It would be trivial to build a starlink connected drone that could fly high explosives anywhere inside the US for hundreds of dollars. A capability we pay we pay tens to hundreds of millions of dollars for.
So, demanding that Musk *not* enforce the TOS for starlink in a foreign country where he is not even licensed to operate (russia) they really open a can of worms.
Now, starlink mini – not approved for use on aircraft – would be required to remain operational as an agricultural drone outfitted with a dirty bomb flies via remote control into a crowded DC football stadium.
(Yes, there are plenty of other methods of doing this. But the point remains)
“Dozens of left-wing activists from the Sunrise Movement were arrested Thursday after staging a sit-in inside Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s personal office in the Hart Senate Office Building, chanting “Schumer has got to go!” and demanding he either end the filibuster or step aside.
Capitol Police confirmed 54 arrests on charges of crowding, obstructing, and incommoding, as hundreds more demonstrators from across the country delivered letters to every Democrat senator’s office.
Photos and videos posted by the group showed protesters sitting on the floor of Schumer’s office in Green New Deal shirts, holding signs that read “The filibuster kills,” “Stop the climate crisis,” and “Schumer: Step up or step aside.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/11/schumers-own-party-turns-him-54-leftist-activists/
CWABOA
They may be assholes, but they have the right to petition their government for redress of grievances.
More reps and senators should be subjected to hazing by pissed off consituents.
True. But if they are going the throw the book at Jan 6th protesters, I should think these folks should also get stiff prison sentences.
Turn about is fair play.
But, nothing changes the fact that the prosecution of the Jan 6th protesters as evil and shouldn’t be used to set a baseline for how protesters are handled going forward.
Interesting that the story is “can you believe they arrested these people” this time around.
Good news!
Pence leaves door open to 2028 White House run, issues stark warning to GOP after midterm disaster
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pence-leaves-door-open-2028-white-house-run-issues-stark-warning-gop-after-midterm-disaster
That will bring Team Red to the polls in record numbers.
Haaaaaahahhahahahahahaahahahaaaaaaa
No fucking way. I’ll vote Green party before I vote for that cock stain.
https://x.com/joshrainergold/status/2121245066647986482