US HOUSE OF REPRESENTING LEADERSHIP VOTE CANCELED: Jim Jordan cancels third speaker’s vote, will back Speaker Pro Tempore McHenry until January.
ANATOMY OF A HIT-PIECE: A Cleveland prostitution sting nets 149 people seeking to buy sex who were arrested and charged with engaging in prostitution. “[T]hose charged include an EMT, nurses, educators, retirees, former law enforcement officers and delivery drivers.” And the president of a foundation which donates money to charter schools. The article is 18 paragraphs long, and 8 of those paragraphs are about that single person and the organization for which he worked. The term human trafficking, a favorite scare phrase of anti-prostitution fanatics is used, even though this was a sting and nobody was actually trafficked.
YEP, THEY WERE GREEN, ALRIGHT: Investigation of Colorado ‘green’ funeral home uncovers more decaying bodies. [Link has been fixed.]
HOPE FOR A NATIONAL DIVORCE: New survey finds that 31 percent of Biden supporters want Democratic-controlled states to secede from the US and form their own country. Not a majority, nowhere near a majority, and the statists will fight this tooth and nail, but we can always dream.
SPACE-X VS THE REGULATORY STATE: SPACE-X is battling both the FAA and the US Fish and Wildlife Service for permission to launch the next Starship flight. And how is the FWS involved in this, you ask? Because the usual suspects are doing their job and serving as surrogates for attacking the administration’s enemies. Somehow, you never hear about this sort of thing happening to Boeing, but of course Boeing would actually need something ready for a test launch. Note the name of the author of the article, best name for a space journalist, ever.
I THOUGHT THIS WAS A JOKE: Apparently Crocs cowboy boot is a real thing. Come soon, SMOD.
Spurs?
and legit embroidery
I’d think scorpions could get in the ventilation holes tho.
Yeah, I think they miss the point of boots.
You’d have to kill me first to get those on me.
I’m laughing at all the Croc haters, while my feet are cool and well aerated in my Crocs.
/harumph
I like my Crocs. But those boot Crocs are going to get nasty real quick, unless you wear them with socks, which is just ridiculous.
I just wear sandals and flip flops. I don’t understand Crocs.
When will they make Croc hooker boots?
Trying not to kink shame here, but that would be shameful.
It’s a busted link. Entering that phrase into the search engine of your choice will get you the news!
Link has been fixed. Thanks.
Fixing links is quite the undertaking.
Hopefully Tonio is ok, I heard him coffin.
Keep digging that hole guys. Swiss will be here soon.
*narrows gaze*
That happens while being buried alive
Narrows graves?
Eh, it’s your funeral.
New survey finds that 31 percent of Biden supporters want Democratic-controlled states to secede from the US and form their own country. Not a majority, nowhere near a majority, and the statists will fight this tooth and nail, but we can always dream.
Somehow I don’t think these people will receive the same pushback a small subset of Free Staters received when they brought up a state Constitutional amendment (in other words, triggers a referendum in the state) for NH to secede.
I see three issues that the remaining 69% would have to overcome: Their desire to use federal power to control those damn rednecks. Admission that their vision of America didn’t work for everyone. Guilt over “abandoning” all the women, trans, gays, blacks, hisptinx, etc in red America.
Those Free Staters were called insurrectionists and crazed lunatics. A “concerned NH resident” tried having a bunch of the legislators that voted for the amendment booted from the ballot when they ran for reelection.
I haven’t clicked the link yet. Was it discussed that over 40% of Trump voters also want to secede?
Yes. The devil would be in the details, of course. Red counties in blue states, and vice versa. I’d love to live in the sovereign nation of Appalachia, the former West Virginia, plus contiguous counties from other states.
There are no blue states.
There are only cities we need to build walls around.
Yes, beat me to it.
I’m hoping for United States of the Rocky Mountains, from NM up to MT.
I’ll take the state comprising the Louisiana Purchase.
(although I do love Appalachia)
Alas, it would be a blue country unless enough folks to the east and west were brought in.
The US will never give up natural harbors of strategic importance like San Diego.
Any chance some form of technology – like, oh, say, some strategically placed fracking – could shift the harbors a little further east?
I’d counter with Democratic controlled counties or cities seceding. It would minimize the disruption of people fleeing.
Look at any electoral map by county and you’d quickly see how stupid they are. 99% of the US landmass isn’t with them and once you open the books like that who chooses to stay with them.
I remember people here in SF yapping about secession and being shocked about the State of Jefferson project and just how close it came.
@Not Adahn Chrisjen’s wardrobe was one of the best things about The Expanse. I fluved her.
Also, I really liked the show. I just thought they made some questionable plot and characterization blunders. But who doesn’t?
Okay, I’m not a fashion homo, but that was pretty awesome.
Her voice is so fantastic.
Crisjen was teh AweSum on the show, and not at all bad in the books.
I also loved the second in command of the belters, Drummer.
Drummer was awesome except for that one mistake she made there in the 2nd? season by not voting to execute whats-his-buckets and then that came back to bite everybody in the ass. Kill the revolutionary when you get a chance, especially when you know he’s going to rise again.
From what I understand, the American revolution never enjoyed majority support. But, as we all know, once the minority revolution takes power, the subsequent government founded in insurrectionist rebellion becomes an indissoluble perpetual union and secession is no longer permissible.
I have heard through the years that a third wanted it, a third were loyalists, and a third didn’t care.
This is what I was always led to believe too. If I recall correctly, that was roughly the breakdown for the divorce between the Czech Republic and Slovakia – 1/3 for, 1/3 against, 1/3 ambivalent.
Only if you really want to own human beings.
New survey finds that 31 percent of Biden supporters want Democratic-controlled states to secede from the US and form their own country.
It sounds like they hate democracy.
I don’t get that funeral home thing. Says some bodies were 2 weeks old. Did the families just drop them off like the aunt in Vacation?
I don’t know how it works in CO, but when both of my parents died, the funeral home picked them up from the hospital (which doesn’t have a morgue — a fact I only learned while standing in an ICU hallway signing the paperwork to terminate my dad’s life support because the hospital couldn’t be fucked to take us to a conference room, or somewhere private; stay classy Summerlin Hospital), and then after paying by phone and completing the vital statistics questionnaire and cremation authorization, it was about 10 days before the cremation was completed.
Well then it’s no wonder this happened. Luckily they were caught before someone was seriously harmed, or even died.
There’s no indication state regulators visited the site or contacted Hallford until more than 10 months after the Penrose funeral home’s registration expired. State lawmakers gave regulators the authority to inspect funeral homes without the owners’ consent last year, but no additional money was provided for increased inspections.
Lol, weak rules.
What you did there, Pat — I saw it, I did.
I remember ages ago when John Stossel was still on 20/20 he did a piece on how the funeral home industry uses regulatory capture to keep prices high. One of the undertakers argued that if people could go to the Funeral Depot and buy an unregulated coffin off the shelf you might get something that fails before the burial.
Dearly departed falls through the bottom of the coffin at the graveside funeral. Everyone wheels around and fixes their icy stares on that worthless cheapskate Junior.
Let’s ask those Democrat secessionists what they think about Greater Idaho, or the State of Jefferson.
THATS DIFFERENT!!!!
Five Minute University
Far superior to a modern BA degree.
Note the name of the author of the article, best name for a space journalist, ever.
Rocky Jones, Space Ranger?
Danger, danger . . . .
High voltage!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-FxmoVM7X4
High voltage
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wav7x_qwwdo
Thanks, Tonio!
Looks like Jordan is already walking that back.
And someone wants a piece of Gaetz.
Clown show.
luna
Heh. RINOs can’t swing a punch. They have other people do it for them.
Yeah – Ilhan!
That’s one thirsty brotherfucker.
I’m fine bringing back beating each other with canes and dueling.
Should have known Coach would be in that thread. He’s not some random clown.
https://twitter.com/3YearLetterman/status/1715108949421084828
I love that guy. It astonishes me how many people take the bait.
He’s just one meme after another. And I love the sub-accounts that have sprung up, like the Pigeon Forge HOA.
Wouldn’t dumping the bodies in a ravine qualify as “green” burial?
Indian burial platforms
/laments the lack of sky burials
Buzzards need to eat, too, yo.
“Because the usual suspects are doing their job and serving as surrogates for attacking the administration’s enemies.”
Ah, the Center for Biological Diversity. They are obstructionists for hire who stopped a housing development near me by issuing a report that said a specie that doesn’t exist on the property was threatened. I don’t think they even visited the property in person.
Surfrider Foundation. I thought they were dedicated to beaches in California. I guess they want Texas now. Decades ago my father was active in the Sierra Club, because he was in favor of preserving places in the Sierra for hiking, camping and fishing. He quit when they decided the Sierra encompassed the whole world and they were interested in preserving places for their members only. Sounds like Surfrider is going the same way.
20+ years ago, two of my interests collided when what was then one of the most elaborate and expensive paintball fields ever designed had to halt construction, which was already well underway, due to a protected hawk discovered nesting on the property. The owners were going to have to eat the sunk costs and cancel the entire project, but it was saved at the 11th hour when a freak tornado struck the site, destroying the tree in which the hawk was nesting. I’ll bet you can guess which state…
It was either that or the tree would mysteriously catch on fire…
Mark Randazza has cancer, I learn today.
Divorce? I figured it would be the individualist minded that would file.
My thoughts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhQql-ZbZmg
Were they to get their wish, how long before they are neck deep in shit, poverty and tyranny? How long before they start screaming about how the increased prosperity in the conservative states is the reason for their own misery? How long before they demand some kind of reparations?
About ten minutes.
Oh for fuck’s sake
Right?
They don’t even make them in my size. Do better Crocs.
I mean, seriously, that has Florida man written all over it.
It is a true fashion first.
State Department official resigns over U.S. support for Israel’s actions in Gaza
… but…
I’ve noticed that the people writing these kinds of screeds never have any actual solutions to offer.
Here’s my solution.
Let them fund their own war.
Yeah, there is a reason they say “war is hell.”
But we should stop spending any fuckin’ money over there, it is just stupid at this point.
I misread that as ‘Crocs cowboy hat’, which would be even weirder.
In the future, you can only eat Taco Bells, and all clothes are Crocs.
And get a handy at Starbucks
Don’t forget to stop by H&R Block for an adult tax return.
Hammering that nail:
Trashy will be in the DFW area this weekend. We are meeting up at Whiskey Cake in Plano, this Friday after 5:00.
Address: 3601 Dallas Pkwy, Plano Tx, 75093
Menu: https://whiskeycake.com/menu/tx/plano-tx/
“Woman spends 15 YEARS getting revenge on a man who wronged her friend – from spoiling his favorite TV shows to breaking up his engagement”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12649943/Woman-YEARS-revenge-man-wronged-friend.html
She seems nice.
“Fortress recalls 61,000 biometric gun safes that need a fingerprint to open after boy, 12, opened one, took weapon out and accidentally shot himself dead
‘Consumers can believe they have properly programmed the biometric feature when in fact the safe remains in the default to open mode, which can allow unauthorized users, including children, to access the safe to remove hazardous contents, including firearms,’ said the recall announcement.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12650811/Fortress-recalls-biometric-gun-safes.html
Jesus.
Thats a disaster.
Tragic but do people not test shit before they know it works? We change our safe code at work I make sure no other means are available to open it. I know code vs. biometric but same concept.
I tested mine. Nobody’s fingerprint opens it. Totally safe.
just say no to biometrics
This,
On the other hand, my fathers gun safe was combo only, and when he died…
Idiot locksmiths couldn’t get it open and had to go in with an angle grinder.
I watch that Alone show and in the comfort of home and with Mrs OBE I say “mentally easy, I like being alone.” It’s been a week since Mrs went back to Nevada and if not for the dog I’d probably go caveman suspicious of anyone.
In regards to pic above…never go tip to tip
What does that say? Help, Derpy!
Optimal tip-to-tip efficiency
Greatest dick joke in television
An entire season in service of setting up that joke.
I loved that show so much.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/19/politics/us-navy-intercept-missiles-yemen/index.html
Good way to determine actual American capability outside of Hollywood production. Launch a bunch of cheap arms and see how we respond.
Biden expected to lobby for billions of dollars for Israel, Ukraine during address
So much for the stereotypes about Jews being good with money.
We expended days of media coverage over the lost then found-to-be kidnapped little girl here in the states. Hostages? Not happening! Just report the number and move on!
We are a god damn joke of a nation and Biden is expecting people to accept a two-front proxy money laundering operation? We cant even focus on where I piss is hitting the toilet.
Not a reply…
It worked
Fuck that guy. It’s movie night, come see nekkid people in Lady Frankenstein instead.
Finally the weekend for me – going to go waste some shells at the skeet range and envision IRS agents flying through the air. Cheers all.
Almost sounds like an A-team episode.
Hi, Preet!
I got my annual raise today: another princely two percent.
Drinks on Ted tonight!
[fills gallon jug of water]
That’s not really water, is it?
Well, I mean, it’s called “making water” for a reason.
I’m giving myself a 12.5% raise next year.
What the actual fuck?
https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1715056811936739778
LOL
https://twitter.com/stevensongs/status/1715106505903767723
Boss! Boss! Your presidential riv… er, Ron DeSantis sent some planes to Israel to evacuate Americans. What’s your play?
Couldn’t stand to be upstaged by DeSantis.
It’s the thing to do. NY gov beat him by a day
But did his father die as well?
Yet she
soldierspanders on.OK, which one of you is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvVy8OGw5s8
Monsieur le Derp, can you make out the Greek text in the pic above?
ΤΟΥΤΟΕΜΟ
ΡΑΙΤΟΥ ΤΟΣΟΙ
Not sure about the first word. The second line means “that’s why they are”.
I think it means “you gotta keep them separated.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jOk8dk-qaU
I get this from machine translation:
“TOUTOEMO RAITOY TOSOI” translates to “THIS IS MY RIGHT SOIL”
I’m guessing it’s a figurative way of saying “I like dicks.”
Danke!
Evening Ray of Sunshine
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1715009896033206747
I’m so confused at all the conflicting moral positions.
They hate buses now? And migrants??
Lefties hate EVERYTHING. They only use so-called marginalized groups when it advances their social signaling.
That video has it all. People screaming “Stop!” “What are you doing!” “There are people on the Ground!” Yeah, we know. “Migrants” leaning into the windshield watching these dopes get pushed along and thinking, “How did this land of buffoons get so wealthy?” A woman wearing a mask outdoors in a 30-mile-per-hour cross wind. Climate catastrophists mission creeping into migration. Oh wait, that’s right. People are only leaving shitholes and sneaking into wealthier places because of climate.
That’s just good stuff. A guy watching from inside in case someone went under.
LOL Comet just censored the word “Indian”.
I love current year. 🙄
I am watching Dario Argento’s Dracula on a random channel. Seems to me this movie would be a lot better if somebody would go in and fix those crappy-ass CGI effects. Seriously, fan made films on Tubi have better graphics.
Dude, its Dario Argento. It HAS to have crappy effects!
By the way, have I ever recommended Kwaidan before, it is on the internet archive: https://archive.org/details/YouCut20190601150630617
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Joan Gerber (July 29, 1935 – August 22, 2011) was an American voice actress[1] who provided voices for a variety of cartoons.[1]
Her most challenging voice role was “all the children in a Japanese train wreck” for a Godzilla television episode.[2] She voiced Freddy the Flute for H.R. Pufnstuf, which she identified as a favorite role.[2]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdHBoG2bLY
I remember Freddy the Flute.
I remember Jack Wild. ::gets dreamy, faraway look in eyes::
Oh, fuck off.
The constitution requires no such thing. It was a tradeoff made – by the city, not the state – in response to closing the asylums and flooding the streets with homeless back in the seventies. It was a capitulation, in fact – made behind closed doors – in order to shut up the activist set.
This needs to be ended in court once and for all, not settled “behind closed doors” where you know who is going to win and who is going to lose.
linky
Really dig music and Willie! Guy can hardly sing but hey if I can smoke and make music Ill be there!
I love the internet. Still some relics of the old Internet creeping through.
Well, honk my hooter.
https://fox5sandiego.com/news/national-news/cursive-handwriting-to-be-taught-in-california-schools/
They will have to learn to write for when all the electricity goes out from car charging.
Candle making will become a compulsory class, instead of an elective.
Next up, how to tell time with an analog clock.
I may be the odd one here, but I’m not getting the value of making this mandatory. I get the utility of knowing it, but I get the utility of knowing lots of other things that aren’t part of a mandatory curriculum.
Flavor Flav hardest hit.
This, (and even though I think it’s BS (See Below)) it’s like older people mocking young people for not knowing how to use a rotary phone, hey gramps go find one of those Twilight Zone phones where you tapped the plunger down seven times and then said “Hello, Madge? It’s Fred Drummand, get me Mapleburg 4-19” and ask yourself if you could make a call with that.
“A February 2022 report from the National Education Association says 21 states require cursive in public school curriculum.”
We need more ruler-wielding nuns.
Filthy Mouths & Bad Attitudes
I call bullshit on the “I can’t write it so I can’t read it” argument. I can’t write in Copperplate, Olde Gothic, or many other calligraphy styles, but I can read them. I’d wager dollars to donuts that most ‘Kids These Days’ (trademark symbol) can read cursive. They see it everyday in logos and brand names, anyone that says they can’t read it is playing stupid for whatever social cred you get by acting like you’re stupid. It’s this weeks “I don’t even own a TV”.
I agree. I can read Japanese I have no prayer of being able to write.
I LOVED learning cursive. I even have favorite letters…lower case q, and lower and upper case z, upper case L. Reeeeeee