Great friendships also state “Now I know you’re an asshole.”
“Douchenugget.”
“Fart licker.”
And so on. Dudes that will insult the hell out of their friends, but never fail to show up when you need them are gold. The trope that a guy will drop everything to go save somebody with no questions asked is a common trope foe a reason.
Yes, we do dumb sh*t on the regular. But sometimes that dumb stuff is awesome.
I’ve got a short list of people that if they call at 0200 saying, “Yeah, I need bail money/shovels and a tarp/ a pickup to move something to the acreage/ firepower/a casserole” I will be there, no questions asked until much later, if then. Only one is blood kin.
Oh, I figured out what I wanted to tell you about the trench where you toss the cats’ offerings. Some future archeologist is going to decide you performed arcane sacrifices. :D
Well, considering the ground water depositing minerals into the bones, that may well be true. Neighborcat has been at his preferred profession for years now. And of late, there’s another little fuzzy thing that’s been at it, too. Strange little yellow cat, only tends to come out late in the afternoon or night, but she’s been cleaning house up the holler from here.
I only see her from the window of the truck coming home late, but she’s always got some little dead thing in her mouth. Can’t tell if she’s collared or not, so no knowing if she’s attached to any hooman household or feral.
Himself only knows what we’d do without cats in this patch of woods. I know the verminous horde makes off with food from the restaurant’s dumpsters on the regular, so that keeps the population booming. Only then to make the foolish choice of trying to cross the back lot. Or, like the squirrely nation, trying to colonize the Christmas tree pine in the front.
Though the thought of Neighborcat sacrificing the lives of birbs, squirbs, rattinus and scaley noodles to the Great Lord of the Chicken Pot is something I had not, to this moment, considered.
This was in Brave.
Back in the annals of time, I used PaleMoon both home and work. Then I moved to something else (slimjet? or whatever it was before SJ) latest are Brave, Vivaldi, and Opera (prime video is baulky but most of the time I can use Opera and get it to work)
(This is supposed to be standalone. If it’s another comment below JP Kalishek’s, WPDE.)
The 57 Chevy was so beautiful that GM decided to follow it up with the 58. Dad bought one, and 6 year old RCPete knew what “fugly” meant long before he heard the word.
It was a happy day when Dad replaced the 58 Chev wagon with a 63, though I kind of liked the 59 and 60 sedans.
OTOH, Dad liked odd cars (or is it Odd?). We had a 66 Mercury sedan with the breezeway rear window. No AC, but it was tolerable on a hot day on the highway with the rear window open wide. Looked odd as hell with the reverse slope in the back. 12MPG, no matter what, tent trailer or no. Fun to drive in a straight line with the quad barrel 410 engine (though I got smoked by the Mopar muscle car…).
Hubby had his folks ’58 Plymouth Power Wagon until ’85. We called it the Blue Whale for a reason. He was always going to “fix it up someday”. Sold it in ’85 because we didn’t want to try and move it from Longview to Eugene. By then the breaks were a “suggestion” VS actually working. Person who bought it was restoring a ’58 sedan and needed all the flourishes the Whale still had intact.
Blue Whale was also the vehicle that got Washington State all bothered. Seems our neighbor didn’t like seeing it parked in front of them (alongside our property off the ally on our property) and turned it in for still having Oregon plates. State said we needed to get it legally licensed. Not happening. By then it was so not moving anywhere. State said they’d come and confiscate it. Asked when they were coming. I think I threw a wrinkle in the DMV receptionist conversation. Funny the state never showed up. Four years later we sold it.
BIL has a 1st generation Ford Bronco that a) hasn’t been used in decades, and b) he won’t sell. I thought about trying anyway, but A) $SPOUSE would kill me, B) I don’t want to spend the shop space to do a good job, and C) it’s pink. (Nickname Priscilla.) A and B are more important. I had a TR3A that originally was sky blue, but the former owner had it painted British Racing Green. Still, pink. :)
A friend put a sign advertising his business on his house fence. The City objected, it being in a residential zoned area. He then bought a big old junker step-in van as a business vehicle, licensed it, had it repainted and painted with even larger business signs on each side, and permanently parked it in his driveway. Take that, City!
The Spooner quote reminds me that I found a bunch of his writings on gutenberg.org (after having learned his name from L. Neil Smith). “An essay on the trial by jury” is fascinating. Jury nullification? Sure, but he uses history to go much beyond that.
A Frederick Douglass quote I like:
“A man’s rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her sex.” — Frederick Douglass, in a speech delivered on 15 November 1867.
At some point in the next year, I’ll be publishing one of his books not on Gutenberg, and not available in a good ebook anywhere, The Law of Intellectual Property. He may have coined the term “intellectual property”, and he argues that it should be perpetual, which I strenuously disagree with (as well as thinking the term is horribly misleading), but it’s a fascinating think piece.
“Intellectual Property” (though not called that) is one of the very few topics specifically called out in detail in the Constitution. Among other things it says explicitly “for a limited time”.
Right, which means that it is not “property” as that term is usually used. I’ll be publishing a monograph reaction to Spooner’s book at about the same time. Or that’s the plan.
I was in Scotland the summer of ’95. It was touted as “the hottest in x years”. But that is all. No “extreme heat warnings”. No panic. Just “Huh. This sunshine’s nice and it is hot out. Would you like a drink to cool off? It’s probably going to rain tomorrow.”
Significant riots in LA against ICE deportation operations.
So the obvious answer is simple. Leave the harder-working illegals here, and deport every single protester to the poorest part of Central America regardless if they’re citizens or not. Surely if it’s so important these illegals stay, these rioters would be willing to make the sacrifice to give themselves up in their place.
Illegals stay, riots stop. Win win.
(The curmudgeon level is high today and I am thoroughly sick of this bleep.)
Well, per Data republican (small r), that’s because CA state grants is funding one of the main riot organizers, and he does not thing he’s gotten my moneys worth yet.
Meanwhile, Mad Maxine decided to pull the “we’re doing Congressional Oversight” at the LA detention facility. They refused to let her in, because those have to be signed off by either the Committee Chairman or the Speaker…. neither of whom were doing any such thing.
Apparently on Friday, one of the “protestors” made the rather permanent mistake of standing in front of a moving government vehicle. Standing in front of vehicles to block them from moving, secure in the knowledge that the driver *won’t* do the pragmatic thing and run them down, has been a standard tactic of the lefties for quite some time now. And now someone who tried it is dead (technically, he was declared brain dead, iirc).
Of course, the left being the left, people are already trying to turn him into a martyr against the evil fascists.
In a story I’m writing, nobody loses the ability to lie, but they gain the ability to see when somebody’s lying. Unfortunately, far too many still choose to go along with the lies.
“I am still human. Of course I can lie. Unlike you, I choose not to.”
“When no one believes their lies, children will not develop the habit of lying.”
Re: the (looks like XKCD) comic strip about the guy not hitting on the girl with the laptop –
Reminds me of an incident on X a few months ago. Some woman posted a picture of an unsigned note that basically said (paraphrasing), “I think you’re pretty.” She claimed that a female friend of hers had been at some tech industry conference (I don’t remember the specific kind of conference she claimed it was), and a guy at the conference had handed the note to the friend. The woman posting the picture was quite indignant about the whole thing. How dare some man have the GALL to hand a complimentary note to a woman!?
So, yeah. The attempts to “score points” by mocking men for hitting on women are real.
Though I will also note that a wide consensus quickly developed that in this particular case, the whole thing was made up by the woman who posted about the claimed incident.
A couple of items regarding the current disturbances in Los Angeles –
1.) I live and work in LA County. I’ve not seen any of the current civil unrest. As with any such stuff, remember that it’s always very local. From my point of view, it might as well be on the other side of the world, instead of somewhere else in my own county.
At least for now. Given that one of the focuses of the rioters is to interfere with ICE activities, it’s possible that a raid might take place near one of the places that I frequent, with rioters subsequently showing up to interfere with ICE’s actions.
2.) A TV reporter was on camera, and a puff of smoke is clearly visible coming from the gun of one of the riot cops in the line behind her at the same moment that she yelps in surprise and jerks her leg. For whatever reason, it appears that a cop shot her in the leg on-air. Expect to hear about this a *lot* tomorrow in the news.
“remember that it’s always very local. From my point of view, it might as well be on the other side of the world, instead of somewhere else in my own county.“
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What my 4 of my nieces say about Portland. Two live in downtown high rise apartments.
I’m acutely aware of this because my parents will call me about events in whatever city I’m in, and to me it’s an ordinary day, and I’ll stop in the middle of cleaning or shopping or working and go “What?”
Always reminds me of the calls our families got after May 18, 1980. No one called us. But then we were in Longview, Washington that was “destroyed” by Mt St Helens … Response – “Um. No.”
Note the anarchist/communist/shitbag mouth-boy immediately after the shot. He was directly behind the reporter. And primed to say a line.
Because you can bet money it or a close-by associate got behind that reporter and drew fire. Deliberately. In order to get the reporter startled or (most effectively) hit. Miming throwing a big rock or bottle would do it. or pointing something pipe/gun-ish.
Standard practice. if you are ever near these shitbags, expect one or more to try to get you hurt to gleefully shout “they are shooting bystanders at random!” or other bullshit.
According To Hoyt 
Another fine collection. Thank you!
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The Reader almost choked avoiding spitting coffee on his keyboard over the Oxford comma memes. Not sure what this says about the Reader…
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Great friendships also state “Now I know you’re an asshole.”
“Douchenugget.”
“Fart licker.”
And so on. Dudes that will insult the hell out of their friends, but never fail to show up when you need them are gold. The trope that a guy will drop everything to go save somebody with no questions asked is a common trope foe a reason.
Yes, we do dumb sh*t on the regular. But sometimes that dumb stuff is awesome.
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I’ve got a short list of people that if they call at 0200 saying, “Yeah, I need bail money/shovels and a tarp/ a pickup to move something to the acreage/ firepower/a casserole” I will be there, no questions asked until much later, if then. Only one is blood kin.
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As it oughta be. There’s the family of blood, what is yours whether you like it or not. And there’s the family you chose, what chooses you, too.
Either way, the best ones will always show up. Even if they give you sht about it for the rest of your life. *grin
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Oh, I figured out what I wanted to tell you about the trench where you toss the cats’ offerings. Some future archeologist is going to decide you performed arcane sacrifices. :D
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By simulating the wounds caused by wild animals.
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Well, considering the ground water depositing minerals into the bones, that may well be true. Neighborcat has been at his preferred profession for years now. And of late, there’s another little fuzzy thing that’s been at it, too. Strange little yellow cat, only tends to come out late in the afternoon or night, but she’s been cleaning house up the holler from here.
I only see her from the window of the truck coming home late, but she’s always got some little dead thing in her mouth. Can’t tell if she’s collared or not, so no knowing if she’s attached to any hooman household or feral.
Himself only knows what we’d do without cats in this patch of woods. I know the verminous horde makes off with food from the restaurant’s dumpsters on the regular, so that keeps the population booming. Only then to make the foolish choice of trying to cross the back lot. Or, like the squirrely nation, trying to colonize the Christmas tree pine in the front.
Though the thought of Neighborcat sacrificing the lives of birbs, squirbs, rattinus and scaley noodles to the Great Lord of the Chicken Pot is something I had not, to this moment, considered.
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Right? Came to me in the middle of the night….
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A friend comes down to bail you out.
A true friend is in the cooler with you, saying ‘Day-um, that was fun!’
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some wouldn’t show up for me, but would open via “Open image in a new tab”
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Hmm, no problem with Pale Moon (one of the more interesting and quirky forks of Firefox available). Try a different browser, or C4 perhaps…
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I dunno, isn’t C-4 a bit extreme? Just because a few images are messed up? :-D
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C-4 is often a Goa’uld idea.
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This was in Brave.
Back in the annals of time, I used PaleMoon both home and work. Then I moved to something else (slimjet? or whatever it was before SJ) latest are Brave, Vivaldi, and Opera (prime video is baulky but most of the time I can use Opera and get it to work)
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(This is supposed to be standalone. If it’s another comment below JP Kalishek’s, WPDE.)
The 57 Chevy was so beautiful that GM decided to follow it up with the 58. Dad bought one, and 6 year old RCPete knew what “fugly” meant long before he heard the word.
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The Reader wouldn’t call a 58 fugly, but it was sure a letdown after the 57s.
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It was a happy day when Dad replaced the 58 Chev wagon with a 63, though I kind of liked the 59 and 60 sedans.
OTOH, Dad liked odd cars (or is it Odd?). We had a 66 Mercury sedan with the breezeway rear window. No AC, but it was tolerable on a hot day on the highway with the rear window open wide. Looked odd as hell with the reverse slope in the back. 12MPG, no matter what, tent trailer or no. Fun to drive in a straight line with the quad barrel 410 engine (though I got smoked by the Mopar muscle car…).
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Hubby had his folks ’58 Plymouth Power Wagon until ’85. We called it the Blue Whale for a reason. He was always going to “fix it up someday”. Sold it in ’85 because we didn’t want to try and move it from Longview to Eugene. By then the breaks were a “suggestion” VS actually working. Person who bought it was restoring a ’58 sedan and needed all the flourishes the Whale still had intact.
Blue Whale was also the vehicle that got Washington State all bothered. Seems our neighbor didn’t like seeing it parked in front of them (alongside our property off the ally on our property) and turned it in for still having Oregon plates. State said we needed to get it legally licensed. Not happening. By then it was so not moving anywhere. State said they’d come and confiscate it. Asked when they were coming. I think I threw a wrinkle in the DMV receptionist conversation. Funny the state never showed up. Four years later we sold it.
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BIL has a 1st generation Ford Bronco that a) hasn’t been used in decades, and b) he won’t sell. I thought about trying anyway, but A) $SPOUSE would kill me, B) I don’t want to spend the shop space to do a good job, and C) it’s pink. (Nickname Priscilla.) A and B are more important. I had a TR3A that originally was sky blue, but the former owner had it painted British Racing Green. Still, pink. :)
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A friend put a sign advertising his business on his house fence. The City objected, it being in a residential zoned area. He then bought a big old junker step-in van as a business vehicle, licensed it, had it repainted and painted with even larger business signs on each side, and permanently parked it in his driveway. Take that, City!
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Makes me think of the Blue Whale of Catoosa, one of the delights of a Route 66 trip.
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word press!
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WPDE Ad Infinitum
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Ad Infinitum, Ad Nauseam, Ad infinitum Nauseam….. 🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
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I laughed out loud over “Yeah. We’re men, not Tim Walz.”
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SFBS!
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I should send the Skeletor get up and run one to someone who wants to join the Army.
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Ah, yes, Tracer Bullet. My very favorite Champions pulp character.
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The harvest is bountiful this week.
Had a good laugh at the reverse 9/11.
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There’s a reason Cher could write “If I Could Turn Back Time”
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Anyone checked the old recordings of her Sonny & Cher appearances? Maybe one of those is all wrinkly…
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I may have read too much of a series when the first thing I think when I see that meme is that “familiar” should be capitalized…..😇😏
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At least the meme’s familiar doesn’t have Rodney’s taste for sketchy food. :)
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I don’t know, limited sample size. Also, I’m not sure how “field-mouse breath” compares with “rat breath”. 🐀🐁
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Well Rodney wouldn’t be afraid of a field mouse. 😉
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I’m not sure he’d be afraid of a field moose.
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c4c
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Yeah, two points on Old Abe and courts.
Point 1: Someone needs to point out to Chief Justice “Taney Jr” Roberts how issuing court decisions on the wrong side of fundamental issues works out.
Point 2: Ignoring those court decisions and doing the right thing regardless isn’t ultimately settled at the ballot box.
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Point 3: What’s a guy in a grey military uniform doing in Abe Lincoln’s office?
:P
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Hilary and President Jill.
LOL
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The Spooner quote reminds me that I found a bunch of his writings on gutenberg.org (after having learned his name from L. Neil Smith). “An essay on the trial by jury” is fascinating. Jury nullification? Sure, but he uses history to go much beyond that.
A Frederick Douglass quote I like:
“A man’s rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her sex.” — Frederick Douglass, in a speech delivered on 15 November 1867.
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I wanna see the alternate universe where Frederick Douglass won the 1888 election. The Democrats would have tried to re-start the Civil War. :-P
Maybe we could have got rid of them once and for all.
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Not quite the story you describe, but he is named as one of the presidents in Neil Smith’s debut novel The Probability Broach. Still a great work.
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At some point in the next year, I’ll be publishing one of his books not on Gutenberg, and not available in a good ebook anywhere, The Law of Intellectual Property. He may have coined the term “intellectual property”, and he argues that it should be perpetual, which I strenuously disagree with (as well as thinking the term is horribly misleading), but it’s a fascinating think piece.
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That will be an interesting book to read.
“Intellectual Property” (though not called that) is one of the very few topics specifically called out in detail in the Constitution. Among other things it says explicitly “for a limited time”.
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Right, which means that it is not “property” as that term is usually used. I’ll be publishing a monograph reaction to Spooner’s book at about the same time. Or that’s the plan.
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I was in Scotland the summer of ’95. It was touted as “the hottest in x years”. But that is all. No “extreme heat warnings”. No panic. Just “Huh. This sunshine’s nice and it is hot out. Would you like a drink to cool off? It’s probably going to rain tomorrow.”
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I, too, was in Scotland summer of ’95, mainly for the Worldcon. I didn’t find it hot at all. Of course, I was coming from the Marshall Islands . . .
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That’s no escape pod. That’s a spare bedroom.
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Significant riots in LA against ICE deportation operations.
So the obvious answer is simple. Leave the harder-working illegals here, and deport every single protester to the poorest part of Central America regardless if they’re citizens or not. Surely if it’s so important these illegals stay, these rioters would be willing to make the sacrifice to give themselves up in their place.
Illegals stay, riots stop. Win win.
(The curmudgeon level is high today and I am thoroughly sick of this bleep.)
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As I said on Twitter, we all knew the summer of “mostly peaceful protests, Pt 2,” was coming. Now we know where it starts.
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Maybe whatever uncompromised authorities there are (ahahahahahaha) will remember they have water cannons this time.
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It’s the City of Angels. There are no uncompromised authorities below the Federal (or Federalized) level.
Forget it, Featherblade. It’s LA.
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Seems to be Los Angeles concentrated – so kind of business as usual.
And I continue to bless my wife for letting us move out of CA.
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New York Post says there is one there too. Those two are all I’ve seen.
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And now the Lefties show themselves to be Uncivilized “People”.
There were periods when they had enough power in Congress to change the Immigration Laws but they didn’t bother to do so.
So now they choose Violence and in a Rational World they’d be countered with Violence.
My not so civilized mind is saying “Death To Them”.
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Well, President Trump is going to be rational. The Left is really going to wish they hadn’t given him time to think.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/national-guard-troops-deploying-to-la-after-violent-anti-ice-demonstrations-homan-5869556
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Newscum isn’t taking this well at all….
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/06/07/oh-my-gavin-newsom-throws-a-tantrum-over-trump-calling-out-national-guard-n2190177
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Well, per Data republican (small r), that’s because CA state grants is funding one of the main riot organizers, and he does not thing he’s gotten my moneys worth yet.
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Yeah, I saw her write up.
Meanwhile, Mad Maxine decided to pull the “we’re doing Congressional Oversight” at the LA detention facility. They refused to let her in, because those have to be signed off by either the Committee Chairman or the Speaker…. neither of whom were doing any such thing.
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Complete with suspiciously convenient pallets of building materials, this time cinderblocks.
Perhaps the current DOJ will actually investigate this strange and completely unsuspicious riot-adjacent occurrence.
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Apparently on Friday, one of the “protestors” made the rather permanent mistake of standing in front of a moving government vehicle. Standing in front of vehicles to block them from moving, secure in the knowledge that the driver *won’t* do the pragmatic thing and run them down, has been a standard tactic of the lefties for quite some time now. And now someone who tried it is dead (technically, he was declared brain dead, iirc).
Of course, the left being the left, people are already trying to turn him into a martyr against the evil fascists.
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Making the rounds:
Of course if Musk really had access to the list, Hillary would not need any prompting for yet another “silencing”.
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In a story I’m writing, nobody loses the ability to lie, but they gain the ability to see when somebody’s lying. Unfortunately, far too many still choose to go along with the lies.
“I am still human. Of course I can lie. Unlike you, I choose not to.”
“When no one believes their lies, children will not develop the habit of lying.”
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Guided imagery scans.
Booty pics! Yes!
Nice assortment here. : )
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Our June book is How to Be a Victorian
Discussion here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/23149518-june-2025—-how-to-be-a-victorian
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Meanwhile nominations here:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/23149526-july-2025
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Re: the (looks like XKCD) comic strip about the guy not hitting on the girl with the laptop –
Reminds me of an incident on X a few months ago. Some woman posted a picture of an unsigned note that basically said (paraphrasing), “I think you’re pretty.” She claimed that a female friend of hers had been at some tech industry conference (I don’t remember the specific kind of conference she claimed it was), and a guy at the conference had handed the note to the friend. The woman posting the picture was quite indignant about the whole thing. How dare some man have the GALL to hand a complimentary note to a woman!?
So, yeah. The attempts to “score points” by mocking men for hitting on women are real.
Though I will also note that a wide consensus quickly developed that in this particular case, the whole thing was made up by the woman who posted about the claimed incident.
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(Sigh. Note to self: Check for link-rot first.)
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A couple of items regarding the current disturbances in Los Angeles –
1.) I live and work in LA County. I’ve not seen any of the current civil unrest. As with any such stuff, remember that it’s always very local. From my point of view, it might as well be on the other side of the world, instead of somewhere else in my own county.
At least for now. Given that one of the focuses of the rioters is to interfere with ICE activities, it’s possible that a raid might take place near one of the places that I frequent, with rioters subsequently showing up to interfere with ICE’s actions.
2.) A TV reporter was on camera, and a puff of smoke is clearly visible coming from the gun of one of the riot cops in the line behind her at the same moment that she yelps in surprise and jerks her leg. For whatever reason, it appears that a cop shot her in the leg on-air. Expect to hear about this a *lot* tomorrow in the news.
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Here’s the footage –
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What my 4 of my nieces say about Portland. Two live in downtown high rise apartments.
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I’m acutely aware of this because my parents will call me about events in whatever city I’m in, and to me it’s an ordinary day, and I’ll stop in the middle of cleaning or shopping or working and go “What?”
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Always reminds me of the calls our families got after May 18, 1980. No one called us. But then we were in Longview, Washington that was “destroyed” by Mt St Helens … Response – “Um. No.”
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One man’s good deed on 9/11 was explaining to an elderly immigrant about the geography of NYC and how her granddaughter didn’t work near the towers.
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I am trying to think of a sufficiently snarky retort.
….
Ever read the Carreraverse books, and note how the Legion handles “press”? Yeah.
…
Will leave it at “No true bill”
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Now, having watched it (grin), more to say.
Note the anarchist/communist/shitbag mouth-boy immediately after the shot. He was directly behind the reporter. And primed to say a line.
Because you can bet money it or a close-by associate got behind that reporter and drew fire. Deliberately. In order to get the reporter startled or (most effectively) hit. Miming throwing a big rock or bottle would do it. or pointing something pipe/gun-ish.
Standard practice. if you are ever near these shitbags, expect one or more to try to get you hurt to gleefully shout “they are shooting bystanders at random!” or other bullshit.
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Japanese Snow Fairly Bird
Plush toy
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Trying again:
plush toy nhow fairy bird
https://www.amazon.com/Chameleon-Colorful-AnimalPlush-Valentine-Christmas/dp/B09RV783S4/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1AYXEUVFUIH9Y&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.yeNI_MEQGphoTxltXljGw9aJwRzUdUuwGDlzzkxw1l1Vcg11N1Yn5pLGmwW1hTwNCFHMrqaqE7IBOK2RWl4n-T3QqW57lUyGLQsJILoU-o42zmfbddx7HamoK2a8XEidyVtvp8xxNDYllvoCAZR8vUFgG_PoES_15h8m25PN91YE5jvw2PUE2dX_v6A5gqKD.yjcL1n9bM90GX7lwIUK-OE3rUb3LesD-QsiMjtLTl-Y&dib_tag=se&keywords=japanese%2B%22snow%2Bfairy%2Bbird%22%2Btoy&qid=1749487454&sprefix=japanese%2Bsnow%2Bfairy%2Bbird%2Btoy%2Caps%2C56&sr=8-1&th=1
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DON’T MAKE ME SPEND MONEY. (I won’t, but I’m feeling fragile today, and cuddling one of those is tempting.)
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