Hüngri?
The news is mainly krep today (as it has been for a couple of days now). There seems little I can do to alleviate that, but lets see what is out there in our idiot world…
Not a good PR weekend or Monday for the Senility in Chief. Not that I’d want him to do anything other than stay away from any large red buttons…
Instead of “gimme money, come play us more often” – try playing better. Whining about New Zealand being a “Big Landowner”, bah.
I am vaguely reminded of the old “Ed Anger” figure at the World Weekly News.
Swiss Link – Swiss Cryptids. No ALP SMITH that I can tell.
Music? Only once in a while, so you’ll have to post your own today. Thanks.
Shouldn’t that be “baa”?
Afternoon, Swiss. Thanks for the links mostly outside of the Gaza situation.
Now you’ve got me thinking of Andy Rooney diatribes when 60 Minutes wasn’t obvious propaganda (or I was too young/naive to see it as such… 4×20 will doubtless tell me so…)
60 minutes was once “must watch” TV
It was in our house, especially after I aged out of Disney.
There were biases, obviously, but it wasn’t pure propaganda back then and was actually pretty hard hitting journalism for the most part. I don’t know the exact date when it switched to being just another propaganda outlet, but probably sometime in the late 90’s or early 2000’s. When I was a kid my parents watched it every Sunday, and even as a kid I thought it was very interesting.
I lost faith in 60 minutes when they covered the Evan Mecham debacle in Az. He was a wacko that won the governors office when two Dems (one running for the party, one running as an independent) split the vote.
At one point, he was simultaneously be the subject of a lawsuit, an impeachment hearing, and a recall vote. The recall campaign was run by an openly gay man (in AZ in the early 90s).
60 minutes did their usual 15-20 deep dive. There was nothing wrong or misleading, it was just so terribly incomplete. So, it made me question everything that I had seen from them in the past.
But, yes at one time, they were serious journalists.
“Did you ever wonder?”
What would happen in Joe B put in a full days work? I’m happy that he needs time off for an ice cream cone and a nap, the more the better. We are much safer and don’t have to hold onto our billfolds quite so tight.
Re: Swiss Cryptid links — check the Schmutzli…. the Swiss must think we’re so damned spoiled with only the threat of coal for naughty children.
Of course — I’m sure going back to the Middle Ages it would have been something more like “an evil spirit coming to eat your soul”, so even they’ve moderated it seems…
Belsnickel would like a word:
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Belsnickel is related to other companions of Saint Nicholas in the folklore of German-speaking Europe. He may have been based on an older German myth, Knecht Ruprecht, a servant of Saint Nicholas and a character from northern Germany.[4] Unlike those figures, Belsnickel does not accompany Saint Nicholas but instead visits alone[4] and combines both the threatening and the benign aspects which in other traditions are divided between the Saint Nicholas and the companion figure.
Belsnickel is a man wearing furs and sometimes a mask with a long tongue. He is typically very ragged and disheveled. He wears torn, tattered, and dirty clothes, and he carries a switch in his hand with which to beat naughty children, but also pocketsful of cakes, candies, and nuts for good children.
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“pocketsful of cakes, candies, and nuts for good children”
So, a groomer?
Isn’t that just Krampus?
Schnabelgeiss. Just for the name.
I keep thinking that was a song cut from Sound of Music….
Schnabelgeiss…. Schnabelgeiss… in December we greet thee.
Not a good PR weekend or Monday for the Senility in Chief.
So they stopped bothering with political interns and have moved right to chat bots, apparently. I’m assuming any human would read the room enough to know that to keep trotting out the Bidenomics! crap this weekend is in poor taste.
What’s next — an auto-text touting the latest Iran deal there, PPP admin?
A lot of the “junk” those fees pay for is straight out of the lefty grab-bag of gifts to their base. Are they just too stupid to remember that?
Yes.
I remember back when the cheap ass airlines would offer $99 tickets that ended up costing something like $250. So congress decided to get involved over the false advertising and demanded itemized tickets.
Turned out the airlines really were just charging $99 per ticket and all the extras were government mandated stuff the airlines really had no control over.
Once people started seeing the itemized government costs,the feds decided to go back to hiding the costs.
I know of some of these cryptids because of this Top Trumps game.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/695235465/cryptid-trumps-cryptozoology-card-game
“I have great cryptids.. the best cryptids. You’ll be winning the game so much with my cryptids you’ll get tired of it!”
Every cryptic head has a shock of blonde hair.
DONALD SMITH the best SMITH. Everyone says so. He not pasty, whiny Englishman. He real cryptid with big hands.
Music link — This feels appropriate for today, though I think it was more of a “British overreaction to 9/11” intended song.
Today, I learned there’s an X-rated movie titled The Texas Vibrator Massacre.
In case anybody’s wondering, it doesn’t seem to be on Tubi. On the other hand, they do have a movie called Texas Voodoo Zombies.
This is an excellent find. I shall look on Archive.com
This is probably the counterpart to whatever animation studio it was back in the 89-95 timeframe (when I worked retail and saw first hand)… Goodtimes, I think… that would have something of the same title as whatever the hot Disney (and later live action, but theirs was usually animated) title of the season was, to do their best to pick up people who didn’t realize what they were looking at — the porn version of “If there’s a popular movie, there’s a porn variant of it”.
I still recall coming across Muffy the Vampire Layer around my college days. That one sticks in the memory.
I remember seeing the title Intercourse With the Vampire around the time of the Tom Cruise movie. So, long before Twilight.
Not Booty and the Beast
Does no one remember Edward Penis Hands?
I do. And don’t sleep on Shaving Ryan’s Privates.
This Ain’t Top Gun: A Gay Porn Parody is just the Top Gun DVD in a different box.
There is an x-rated version of Re-Animator titled “Re-Penetrator”.
Did SF write it?
We can hope.
A naked selfie of Joe Biden’s brother Frank has been discovered on a gay porn site.
Perfect for Halloween scares! Next up… a full frontal of Pelosi and Schiff to scare your friends!
*Chris Christie waves from a nude beach
He doesn’t look bad for a guy in his 60s.
The reflection in my mirror doesn’t look that good.
inorite?
Photoshop?
Not being into gay porn — have to admit I didn’t care to look. I accept it is out there, I need nothing more on the subject.
The Bidens brought back the class and decorum to the White House that was missing under Trump.
All the competence and likability of Jimmy and class of Billy.
I’m glad adults are back in charge.
Who doesn’t like a cook out on a Saturday afternoon?
I know they caught the incarcerated, but my people get busted?
Amish men shunned following emergency alert test that outed them for having cell phones
Heh… I expected that to be the Bee. The test bugged the crap out of me solely because there was no way (barring turning the phone off) to mute the stupid thing. And given Hawaii and past performance – I don’t trust the government to use it properly anyway, so I don’t really care that the system is there in the first place.
So did I!
I have a phone without a SIM card that I use for music and podcasts in my car. Even that got the alert.
How is that possible?
I think it’s possible to make a 911 call even without a SIM card, so there must be some connectivity by default.
Huh, I did not know that.
My phone never went off. I’m more unplugged than the Amish.
lol
Fuck that guy for not warning his buddies about the test.
It wasn’t on purpose from the article I read.
He didn’t think what was going to happen.
He didn’t see all the articles that we saw for two weeks?
Not everybody reads the news like we do or assumes the government will always screw you in some way.
I remember the emergency alert during Katrina that blocked out actual emergency information being broadcast on radio and teevee.
government fucks up everything in ways only the government can.
I left out that it was a test…the mandatory test of the system.
Hockey season starts this week. While my beloved Blackhawks will probably end up in the cellar again this year, they are fielding a bunch of rookies which makes it a lot more fun to watch. I still think they should bring back Kane.
Take solace in having the best logo in all sports.
I agree. And I always feel lucky when I get to put on that jersey for my own games.
Speaking of anti-Semites…
Pink Floyd fans walk out of Roger Waters gig at London Palladium after he spent an HOUR reading from his unpublished autobiography and told stories about his pet duck called Donald
Sounds like he only did that for 20 minutes. Big deal.
The rest of the article is just a shitty hit piece. No surprise, but still.
Pink Floyd – Not Now John
Probably felt like an hour, though. At least.
I can see that. Only so much discussion of a pet duck could I take. That would be like being trapped at a cat lady’s house.
Certainly isn’t all it is quacked up to be.
I see why so many people ducked out.
They’d like to have something taken off their bill.
They weren’t down for that.
Ruffled a few feathers in any case
When God created the duck, did he just say”waterproof that chicken and give it a kazoo?”
Is it an eider or situation?
LOL.
Reminds me of the time we went to see Jim Carroll at some small joint in the Village expecting to hear “People Who Died” and instead were treated to his shitty “poetry”. His response to the booing and hissing: “This is a fucking poetry reading. Shut the fuck up, I don’t rattle, man.” While doing a perfect impression of a crazed methhead.
That’s when you set off the electronic wounded rabbit predator call, throw it someplace up high and leave.
That is peak Jim Carroll, No Wave poetry era.
I would be down.
“I was born at a very young age…”
A daily ray of sunshine, also Sean porn.
Stopped at the local ShopRite to pick up peppers and corned beef after today’s doctor visit. As I am walking by the meat department I glance up and there in glorious large print is the following sign:
BONE-IN NY STRIP $5.99/lb.
Not a typo. 5 lb. limit, not complaining since additional quantities are $8.99/lb. Glibs in NJ/Eastern PA should check this out.
Insert Keanu “whoa” here.
Wow.
That’s like back in the olden days.
Today, it appears prominently in the shape of an explosives-stuffed snowman as part of Zürich’s Sechseläuten spring festival. Every year, a Böögg is lit on fire. And popular tradition has it that the time between the lighting of the pyre and the explosion of the Böögg’s head predicts the coming summer. The faster the Böögg explodes, the warmer and sunnier the summer will be!
Sounds like fun.
Imagine the crossover with Groundhog Day — if Punxsutawney Phil blows up before he sees his shadow… 6 weeks of nuclear winter!
Certainly more entertaining than watching some PA mayor fondle a groundhog!
If the groundhog identifies as trans there will be an early spring.
Fetterman fondling a groundhog would be interesting.
*rubs down goosebumps. gags*
Yeah, sure it would.
Sounds better than picking Booggs.
Then again, if they live in a small town, they might like the local Booggers.
OFFS. Greater money and population size = greater success on the pitchfield. This is new information! 🙄
Israel’s central bank appears to be in some trouble. They’re dumping over half their UST holdings in order to protect the shekel.
https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1711269180530737203
Hamas has figured out how to do combined arms operations. Ukraine has yet to get the hang of that. Towards the end of the clip, a Hamas drone plants a charge on an abandoned Israeli 50 cal on a guard tower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sHNR_2717o
In this one, they show off their home-made air defense system. It appears to use radar proximity fuses. The phone doesn’t appear to have an antenna or a landline connection. Probably just for show. The music they picked sounds vaguely like Crazy Train.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW0jKf8-TU8
Release the golems!
I wonder how long those videos will stay up on youtube compared with say…. videos questioning the official Lil Rona line?
They won’t be coming down. YT is awash in Hamas released propaganda right now.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/kibbutz-beeri-bloodbath-reminds-israelis-of-fears-and-fortitudes-from-1948/
108 murdered civilians found so far just in this kibbutz. Many more are thought to be abducted and taken back to Gaza. The Hamas death squads actually came with dedicated journalists and cameramen to broadcast the executions. It adds a level of barbarity that’s almost incomprehensible in today’s modern age. There can be no compromise possible with such an enemy… nor should there be.
!Bee had a hit parade of cheering celebrants in dozens of cities around the world – every one of them thick with commies and “democratic socialists”. The world is fucking sick.
Not finding it….link?
Blargh – !!Bee.
What are the odds it was a CNN reporter?
My money is on the AP. Those were the reporters shocked to find out that their bureau station shared a building with Hamas HQ. Which either made them world’s shittiest investigative reporters, or supporters of Hamas using them as human shields.
Or porque no los dos as Socrates used to say.
“…a level of barbarity that’s almost incomprehensible in today’s modern age.”
That anyone would say that earnestly is a testament to weak minded people who cannot face the horrors that happen and have always happened with regularity. Those weak minded people vote. They vote for the evil people that will say or do anything to get elected because, even thought that evil is right in front of their nose, they refuse to believe it is true. They do not have the psychological fortitude to face it.
The current leadership of Sweden is calling out the military to quell the crime and destruction caused by their invaders. They openly say that inviting those monsters into their country was a mistake born of naivety.
This was an interesting analysis of some of the Hamas videos. https://ryanmcbeth.substack.com/p/analyzing-imagery-from-operation
You know, I went to Substack to get away from embedded videos masquerading as blog posts.
Hand to mouth
The U.S. Army wants to help supply both its Ukrainian and Israeli allies with as many bombs and other equipment as they need in their separate wars.
But it can’t happen as long as Congress in chaos.
Pentagon leadership is still in the early stages of evaluating what Israel might need to battle Hamas militants, but an administration briefing to members of Congress laid out some early markers: air-to-ground bombs, and air defense systems.
But whatever Israel needs, those requests will run headlong into the dysfunction and uncertainty enveloping Capitol Hill, as the House grapples with selecting a new leader and both chambers race to avoid a government shutdown just weeks away.
Those priorities will also need to compete with rush orders for Ukraine, which is already straining the capacity of companies in the U.S. and Europe to send arms to Kyiv and resupply inventories back home.
“One thing that is really important in terms of the munitions in particular, and our ability to support both potentially the Israelis and the Ukrainians simultaneously, is additional funding from Congress to be able to increase our capacity,” Army Secretary Christine Wormuth told reporters at the Association of the United States Army conference in Washington Monday.
Not two nickels to rub together.
Maybe Israel and Ukraine can purchase what they want instead of the US giving freebies.
When the political elites are united in what our response should be, you know it’s a bad idea.
Israel doesn’t need our help to fuck up Hamas. They just need a greenlight that we aren’t going to try and police them and will have their back internationally. Which would cost us…nothing financially.
But no congress critters get to wet their beaks and get their own war boners on that way.
This
There’s already rumblings of them not being prepared for this.
Which is utter bullshit, certain parties just want us dragged into it.
Yup.
Ehh. Israel has always been the Boise State of geopolitics – the perennial champ of a weak division. While I’ve had U.S. Army combat arms officers tell me that Hamas should not be underestimated.
It’s unlikely to alter the eventual outcome, and I certainly don’t want us involved, but I absolutely believe that the IDF could be suffering the kind of progressive ennui that’s becoming more apparent in our own armed forces.
I thought the Israelis (IDF, not civilians) were armed to the teeth. Where are their stockpiles?
“In terms of our capacity to expand production and then to also pay for the munitions themselves, we need additional support from Congress. So I hope we’ll see that soon,” Wormuth said.
Too bad you pissed your allowance away on candy and comic books.
Those cunts at Youtube are trying to kill ad blockers on their platform. I get it, but I’ll be telling them to fuck off despite how much time I spend on their currently. I refuse to support them, especially when they demonetize people but continue to run ads on their channels. They’ll gladly profit off content they tell creators they can’t.
I’ll just stick to Rumble. And I suspect a good number of people on the fence already will say adios along with me.
Should add, I won’t support people financially who fucking hate me and what I believe in and insist on rubbing my nose in it. I’ll spite those people right back, thanks.
I’ll spite those people right back, thanks.
Whoa there, don’t be evil!
Bro is a spiter not a swallower.
Democratic Socialists.
Every time I see any group with a name that includes the word socialist it reminds me of the gold standard of socialists. So far I have not been wrong about my assumptions about them.
What is the “gold standard of socialists”?
That any modifiers to “socialist” don’t modify what all socialists stand for? That they’re trying to distract you?
Any group that has the word “socialist” in its name is a bunch of scumbags.
Democratic Socialists
National Socialists
Arab Ba’ath Socialists
etc
Gold Standard: The National Socialist Workers Party of Germany
Socialist modifiers are so much bullshit and blather. Whatever they say the road they choose only leads to one place. We have seen it too many times. There is no excuse for giving them the benefit of doubt.
One day in the not so distant future they will stop using the word socialist in their never ending effort to distance themselves from their own past. I can only guess what they will replace it with…the party of love and peace? The fair share party?
Some kind of butterflies and rainbows moniker to fool the foolish.
They’ve already ruined liberalism and progressive. Stop encouraging them.
Distraction. Robin Hood for Modern Audiences.
RJ I enacted the labour on your behalf. Je te presente Texas Vibrator Massacre
“Joe Biden is our third Black president
by Juan Williams, Opinion Contributor ”
https://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/juan-williams/4240822-joe-biden-is-our-third-black-president/
OFFS!
Juan always was a fucking retard.
This just settles it over and for all.
You left out “racist piece of shit”. S’okay, it happens.
If you’re not offended by that, you ain’t black.
So. Blacks over represented lately. Equity and diversity require no Blacks for a couple more decades.
So, anything happening today?
I’m tired of this shit, so I give you baby goats.
Yore welcome.
Well, duh….
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/what-if-ufos-have-been-cover-high-tech-human-defense-research-programs
Pfft, next you’ll be telling me the U2 was never meant to be a weather plane. It’s vitally important to understand the weather over Soviet military bases, but only on clear days when the ground is visible.
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With approval from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)’s director Hugh Dryden, Bissell’s team at the CIA developed a cover story for the U-2 that described the aircraft as used by NACA for high-altitude weather research; the cover story would be used if the aircraft were lost over hostile territory. U-2s flew some real weather-related missions, taking photographs that appeared in the press,[67][68] and sometimes had civilian government decals,[69] but few believed in the cover story; in May 1957 the UK’s Daily Express newspaper reported the U-2 operating east of the Iron Curtain.[68]
The civilian advisers Land and Killian disagreed with the cover story, advising that in case of an aircraft loss, the United States forthrightly acknowledge its use of U-2 overflights “to guard against surprise attack”. Their advice was not followed, and the weather cover story led to the disaster that followed the May 1960 U-2 loss.[67]
***
Powers was from my father’s hometown.
They still have a sign up memorializing it to this day.
And one that memorializes their 1954 state championship in basketball.
It took some beating and prying, but I got the back storm door wedged into its doorframe. I wired it shut for good measure. Now I need to add weatherstripping to the regular door so my heater won’t be drawing cold air from outside this winter. It probably won’t make a goddam bit of difference.
Pinball machine repair needed here. I know, first world problems. Anybody have a recommendation for the Dallas area? I have a vintage Creature from the Black Lagoon with ball return issues.
Lol. I had Ms Pac Man, Centipede and No Good Gophers in the old house. I’ll reach out to my guy in Minne and see if there’s a guild!
DFW?
Yes.
I’ll see what I can find
Thank you. It’s depressing to be unable to repair it myself.
How old is it?
I initially saw that as DTF
Friendly advice, don’t loan your balls out to lagoon creatures.
Finders keepers, losers weepers
Indigenous Peoples’ Day honors Native Americans, their resilience and their contributions to U.S. society in the face of generations of assimilation, discrimination and genocide. It shifts focus away from the federal holiday named after Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, who is credited with discovering the Americas — despite the devastating effects that colonization had on the Indigenous people who already lived there.
President Biden was the first president to recognize the holiday in 2021. A growing number of localities have come to acknowledge Indigenous Peoples’ Day in recent years: Ten states and more than 100 cities officially celebrate it.
Liberal White Knights do a little dance.
Let’s make a deal.
I’m perfectly willing to ditch Columbus Day – never got it off since high school anyway – for never having to hear about “Indigenous Peoples’ Day” again.
‘K?
Columbus Day explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRQFli6zMh4
It’s depressing to be unable to repair it myself.
There’s a whole lot of wires and solenoids in there.
Four switches and two solenoids. All of which function independently in testing, but fail to load the pinball on the shooter. I surrender.
A week ago, hundred of Jewish settlers entered the grounds of the Al-Aqsa mosque. It reminds me of Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount, which also provoked violence. Gazans have basically been banned from there since 2000.
The guy who modernized the rocket forces of Hamas is known as Mohammed Deif. He grew up in a refugee camp. His wife and kids were killed in an Israeli airstrike in 2014, and the Israelis have tried unsuccessfully to assassinate him at least seven times. He was responsible for bus bombings that killed 50 Israelis, which led him to becoming Israeli’s most wanted man in 1995. He’s hard to track because he never uses phones or computers. He moves around a lot. Deif isn’t his real name, it means “guest” in Arabic.
Much like turning the Hagia Sophia into a mosque, putting the Al-Aqsa mosque where it is was specifically done to humiliate a conquered people.
Fair point, but that isn’t the fault of modern-day Palestinians. The Babylonians and the Romans are the ones responsible for destroying the Jewish temple and its reconstruction.
Which Temple?
Babylonians demolished the first one in 587 BC and the Romans destroyed the second one 650 years later.
“Frank, 69, has been in a long-term relationship with his partner Mindy Ward, a former Hooters waitress-turned-American Airlines flight attendant, since 2010”
You can’t buy class like that.
“n 2020 DailyMail.com revealed that he had spent 20 years dodging a $1 million judgement for the car crash killing of a man in California in 1999 – despite earning hundreds of thousands of dollars.
A police report of the incident says Frank rented a high-powered Jaguar, and was operating the stick shifter from the passenger seat while his friend drove at 80mph down a 35mph zone of Highway 101 near San Diego – before fatally striking 38-year-old single father Michael Albano as he crossed the road”
CWAA
This pregame MNF crew is painful to listen to and watch.
Go Raiders!
Glad to be home watching after a day of lying in bed and trying to heal. “Closed burst fracture of vertebrae” is kinda painful as it turns out.
I must respectfully disagree, as my wife and I have Wisconsin connections — go Pack!
Good luck on your recovery, your accident sounds horrific. Take it easy and heal well.
Did you know?
Elon Musk fired all the content moderators and tore down the guardrails on the information superhighway. There is nothing but a festering stew of disinfo on X. Don’t trust it. Find a credible source, like a major legitimate news network.
“Its just a fucking metaphor!”
Someone doesnt know how to celebrate responsibly.
California cop who won award for ‘most DUI arrests’ is arrested for DUI