Every year, I celebrate Pearl Harbor Day in the most appropriate manner- I get bombed.
There comes a time in most people’s lives where they hit a special age.
18 so you can vote.
21 so you can drink.
30 so you can start to feel old.
40 so you are aware that you’re over the hill.
50 so you can deny aging by starting to saying shit like, “50 is the new 30!”
60 so you can start getting those sweet senior discounts.
And 70 so you know you shouldn’t buy green bananas. I have no green bananas.
Speaking of which, there ARE birthdays today, including a guy who pioneered the Zero for one; a guy who pioneered stroke books for farm boys; one of the very underrated players in Caddyshack; a fancifully named pianist whose name is largely forgotten today, but his tunes aren’t; a guy who proved that being a genius doesn’t mean you have basic sense (trivia: his family and mine came from the same little shtetl- maybe we’re related); a woman famous for moving away; the quintessential corrupt cop; a talented songwriter who will make you long for the fine vocals of Bob Dylan; a reliable vote for Team Blue; and a basketball player with my jumping ability. Oh yes, and a certain decrepit and perverted scientist who hits that last landmark today and is celebrating with NPR Lady 2 (whom Mojeaux and KK affectionately call “Retread”).
Let’s link while I’m still alive.
This doesn’t look good for the cops, but the family’s lawyers are making me sympathetic to them by screaming RACISM. I guess they know their audience and it’s not me.
Those perfidious Jews, at it again! Note the byline.
I may put off my trip to Romania. Sorry, Pie.
The only thing worse than dipping it in crazy is electing it. That said, yeah, I would have as well.
We already knew that gingers have no soul.
Just for shits and giggles, here’s the second most famous tune from one of our Birthday Boys.
Happy Birthday, Neil Young!
…and Old Man! 🥳🎉🎈🎊💃👯♀️🎂
Yup — happy birthday. Though I don’t get the green banana thing… I will always buy bananas on the greener side, I don’t plan to change when I hit 3.5×20.
Mine go straight into the freezer for smoothies anyway, so I buy them yellow.
My wife thinks I’m an absolute weirdo (cue the “And not just for that!” responses, yeah yeah…) — I like them a little crisp, and I like when you get that odd feeling on your teeth because they’re a little sticky. Green to greenish-yellow is my preferred range. Once they go full yellow or start showing any brown, I’m out.
My mom used to eat totally green bananas. If they were even slightly yellow she’d say they were too ripe. I always told her, just buy plantains.
Harder to peel, not as sweet as a green banana (so taste preferences kick in). But I’ve considered it, yes.
I should really use plantains in more recipes, though… I do enjoy fried plantain chips with a good jerk chicken or pork.
Err, you do realize the green banana saying isn’t really about the precise color and ripeness of bananas for optimal eating, yes?
Evidently not, RC… I didn’t think it was a euphemism because I didn’t think OMWC swang towards bananas, “ripe” or not… thought that was more Tonio.
Oh and if it is a euphemism — we all better hope Pat didn’t realize it either…. “straight into the freezer for smoothies” indeed…..
Lol, well the nature of the “don’t buy green bananas” thing is that once you reach a certain age, you may kick off before they ripen.
Even more ominous medical advice: “Don’t stream the director’s cut of any movies or download the dance mix of any songs.”
I may put off my trip to Romania. Sorry, Pie. – if anything you should hurry before all blows up
You’d think it would be easier to just “find” the correct votes and count them.
Romania has yet to become an advanced democracy like us.
Where is Tepes when you need him?
On (naga)saki?
As long as it isn’t “Blowing up Arizona” I suppose..
decrepit and perverted scientist who hits that last landmark today and is celebrating with NPR Lady 2 – happy birthday. also i probably ahve an indecent question which i will not ask.
No you aren’t going to get a lot of miles out of retreads.
Ask away. Remember who your audience is.
Happy birthday Merrick Garland?
Happy birthday my mom who died in Nevada 2 years ago?
Happy birthday Alfred Kinsey?
Heh… I was thinking J. Edgar Hoover. (“Is the FBI in the habit of cleaning up multiple murders? Of course — why do you think it is run by a man called Hoover?” obligatory ref)
I wonder if anyone would be interested in a post on the past and present of Romanian politics for a bit of context… it could not be a very short post so i m not sure if it is worth writing one if no one wants it…
I would be interested! I first became aware of Romania’s circumstances when the AIDS crisis hit the orphanages and, of course, when Ceausescu fell, but I’m sure what little knowledge I have is superficial (if, indeed, it’s accurate.)
I would. I found the Iron Guard stuff we were talking about quite interesting.
Dude — if I could blather on about building a NAS and folks evidently found some value in it based on the comments… I’m sure that level of insight into Eastern European history and politics outside of our normal / past education perspective would be welcomed. I would expect it would need a series, personally — you could burn an article just on historical leadups we don’t know beyond Tepes and the Ottomans, I’d bet.
YES YES YES. It’s all very confusing to us because of all the names ending in “u.’
“scu” even.
I always wondered if that was influenced by “ski” from nearby regions.
One of my favorite films. An epic orgy of cleverness behind each line.
MSNBC host Joy Reid and her primetime colleagues have faced a brutal decline in viewership since the election.
“The ReidOut” has shed 47% of its total audience, averaging just 759,000 viewers after averaging 1.4 million viewers throughout 2024 leading up to Election Day, according to Nielsen Media Research.
Maybe her Election Night chimpouts were enough to move her audience from “She’s entertaining and says things we like to hear” to “She’s batshit crazy, and her schtick has gotten stale.”
She looks and acts like a straight up crazy person.
She is a straight up crazy person.
Once again I’m a victim of anti-Titianism! 👩🦰😢
Well, it is true that I cannot dance.
But that is not what I would do with a pair of breasts!
Way too narrow a “majority” on the GOP side to actually do the right thing and decouple “health insurance” from employment (and preferably shift the regulations so only critical care, not basic care needs “insurance” anyway… if we could get back to “basic service prices are on the board, cash up front preferred” as well as doctors not needing 5 clerks to handle all the paperwork required by all the levels, perhaps people wouldn’t require ‘insurance’ for basic health care, prices could come down and we’d have a market again instead of only mega-corp mega-hospitals (who can share the Clerk Staff across the actually-there-to-provide-service-Staff) and all.)
Pure-bloody-fantasy-rant off.
I’ve been seeing a bunch of “health dot gov” or whatever it is commercials lately with the actors claiming they pay little or nothing per month.
JFC one is on right now. “4 out 5 customers can find a plan for ten dollars a month or less.”
Then I recall what I’m paying and want to throw some punches.
Yeah, it’s fucking obscene how much my wife pays for insurance. Between what we pay and what the company pays as part of her compensation should make most of us want to choke children.
It’s a worthwhile fantasy.
Nose stud… lip piercing… looks like a “Chain me and lead me by the nose” ring too…. Nope, I’m all the way out. Those are huge red flags for me (as if I cared/was in the dating market… I know…)
Is County Commissioner a step up or down from OnlyFans?
At least OF girls are more honest about their prostitution – so I’d say “down”.
Not many Only Fans girls fuck the entire county on a regular basis.
Remember, that county is where Evergreen University is, also.
So, a WHOLE lot of crazy in that town.
Glamorous? No.
Cute? Yes.
Would? Sure despite the green hair.
Poison frog hair!
Yep, the unnatural hair colors are a pretty sure sign of toxicity.
Danger Hair.
An easy marker for where they are on the crazy/hot matrix.
It is always about racism. A narrative must be fed, and that narrative is that the U.S.A. has the most racisty racism in the history of racismtown.
That narrative’s past its sellby date.
The Doctor weighs in…
Happy birthday you decrepit, perverted old scientist.
+1 HBD! 🎂🎈🎉
At 27 your car insurance rates drop.
At 45 you’ll find you occasionally sit on one of your own balls when getting into your car.
45+, that’s not a thing.
Maybe it was 50 and I’ve lost track. You wear boxers?
TMI: David Archy micro modal briefs.
The most comfortable underwear ever. Nothing else compares.
I gave up boxers years ago.
I gave up boxers years ago.
Because you were sitting on your balls?
He gave up boxers because he prefers to be ravished by wrestlers.
Could someone here with a cat try this and tell me if it works (just curious)?
https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1865086207144640534
If I remember I’ll give it a shot. Ours is a typical non obedient cat. I had one cat in college who knew his name and would come like a dog.
Not buying it.
Cats do what they want, not what you want.
Tried it last night. Does not work. That said, I’ve never had a cat that went nuts for catnip, either.
Every time you end a “temporary” government program by definition those in the program will no longer have whatever benefit it provides.
The next step in the kabuki play is for MSM to take the participation number in that program and write the scary headline.
Also today is my mother’s birthday. Thanks to Japan it’s easy to remember.
Payblocked. What’s disgusting about it?
All I heard was casting Jews in it was wrong for some reason.
You know who else cast Jews?
Harvey Weinstein?
Menahem Golan?
Yul Brynner?
I was thinking Ted Healy or maybe that immigrant guy in Argentina.
That’s still pretty much the gist of it. Apparently the mother of the self-proclaimed Messiah and king of the Jews was a modern Palestinian.
This whole shit is so fucking tiresome. Those who care about race/gender/whatever as paramount to everything need to be driven out of polite society like The Wanderer.
Also a wanderer
lol, I had a confuze….
I pay for YouTube Premium to rid myself and my children of them. But when I clicked the link it went to the webpage and not the app. It started with a quite long ad (a sappy St Jude’s ad) that I genuinely mistook for the content of the video. I was like (Mrs.) Dafuq.
Christians hate it because they think it’s blasphemous. Muslims and their useful idiots hate it because Mary and Joseph are played by Jews. Or as they call it, “European Jews,” on-brand for their tactic of denying that Jews were Middle Easterners.
I question the devotion of those “Christians”.
So what’s the basis for the claim I see that Jesus was an immigrant? Wasn’t his family from Nazareth (in Judea) and they went to Bethlehem (also, in Judea) for a Roman census? It’s not like somebody whose family lives in Waco and goes to Fort Worth, where they are born, is an immigrant to Texas, after all.
Mary and Joseph fled to Egypt with Jesus in order to avoid Herod the Great’s order to kill all of the newborn Hebrew children after Christ’s birth.
Even for the Egypt thing – Egypt and Judea were both parts of the Roman Empire at the time, with super-close connections. Not really a foreign land in the sense one understands it today.
And they didn’t get enslaved. Guess the Egyptians learned their lesson on that one.
Pine_Tree:
I don’t know. Ask the coastals what they think of the flyover states. 🙂
So like going to Canada after the election results.
Maybe Tom Waits can’t sing, but he has been a decent actor in a few flicks.
Them’s fightin’ words.
Maybe?
Of course, like GT, my first thought was Neil Young.
My other choice was Leonard Cohen, but people get all indignant when I say that. 🙄
Any votes for John Prine?
I had Leonard Cohen.
Ballad of Buster Scruggs was my favorite Waits.
I’ll stick with a classic and underrated movie.
My father was standing guard at the Panama Canal this day in ’41. According to him the news reports were that the Japanese had only sunk a few oil tankers and minor vessels, such was the propaganda and censoring of the day. When he started seeing large ships from the Atlantic Fleet start passing through the Canal in the dead of night is when he starting thinking ‘I guess the Nips hurt us a lot more than the radio and newspapers said they did’.
My sister was born on this day. At least she wasn’t born thirteen years afterwards, that would have been double bad luck.
The St. Louis PD posted some articles and photos from Dec 8 – Dec 14, 1941. I never knew that on Dec 8, 1941 that he National Guard was activated and was guarding all the bridges over the Mississippi and Missouri rivers from Japanes attack and sabotage. A week later (12/14/41) blackout drills were held along with a new civilian organization to keep watch for enemy bombers over the city. The article mentioned how several local Japanese in the city were rounded up and arrested by the FBI. I had read of the panic along the west coast after Pearl Harbot but never realized it reached deep into the midwest.
The National Guard had been called up since September 1940, for “one year”. That got extended indefinitely in the fall of 41 so that the slogan “Over the Hill In October” and the initialism OHIO started showing up.
Bananas don’t stay green very long, OM.
They don’t stay ripe (yellow) very long either
I’ll start to worry if you only buy gas a half a tank at a time, though.
Enjoy your day and keep on keeping on. It only seems like they’ll last forever.
Happy birthday, Academician!
Wherein “Eat shit” or “Elections have consequences” are the only acceptable responses.
Topical
Holly Cole did a whole album of Tom Waits covers.
What are those flying things above the Torah in the pic up there, anyway? I just can’t seem to decipher them.
AI hallucinations.
We need an army of woodchippers.
I hope all of these ghouls from the psychiatrists to the doctors are bankrupted from this shit. Also, if one of their victims ends up going united healthcare on them, I wouldn’t convict them.
That’s maybe why the American Bar Association is for transitioning kids. They are hoping on making money on the resulting lawsuits.
Well, that and they’ve been far-left for a quite some time.
Remember when nobody was doing transition treatments on minors, swearsies? Oh, they meant nobody was doing transition surgery on minors, honest to God?
Caligula didn’t start overnight. The lack of visibility, outrage is the most flagrant flag.
Silicone Saturday is definitely on the naughty list.
https://archive.is/q8yvs
Trust us
But to discount serious allegations simply because the sources were granted anonymity is misguided.
For one, while the sources of anonymous allegations are not named publicly, their identities are known to the journalists reporting them. Journalists also work to verify and/or corroborate the information such sources provide. As legendary journalist Bob Woodward noted in “Fear,” his first book focused on Trump’s first term, he uses anonymous sources “to get the real truth” and remains fully confident in his reporting because “[t]he sources are not anonymous to me. … I know exactly who they are.”
That whole “and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him” thing just muddies the water.
We are obligated to accept anonymous smears at face value as long as they reinforce the proper narrative.
Never forget Woodward was Naval Intelligence before he was a ‘reporter’.
Name one time in Trump’s first term where the press got it wrong? I said one time, not everytime.
Bob Woodward can eat a bag of dicks. No more cruising on the Watergate thing from almost 50 years ago.
HBD OMWC 🙂
Yeah, you really have to celebrate those decennial ones!
“What the video seeks to explain is the complex and convoluted process in which major financial firms, like Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Chase and more have all handed over their customer’s data to the government for free….
This data can include the location, date and description of transactions, making it easy for the government to compile an understanding of where people go, what they buy and what activities they spend their time on.
After receiving this data, the FBI created an internal portal, where employees could search these typically private transactions and profiles could then be made on individual citizens of concern, like those who have shopped at Cabela’s or purchased a Bible, the panel claims.
Over 14,000 federal employees accessed that sensitive financial data in 2023 during which the subcommittee claims 3.3 million ‘warrantless searches’ were made.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14167011/pro-trump-feds-spy-americans-banks-transaction-report-congress.html
And nothing else happened.
Mass casualty event
Afraid. Disappointed. Frustrated.
This is how Giovanni Santiago is feeling after former President Donald Trump’s reelection victory.
“What I do believe is that LGBTQ people, specifically trans people, are a target for him, and are a target for his fan base,” Santiago, who is trans, says about the president-elect.
The 38-year-old lives in Ohio, where state law has banned gender-affirming care for youths and participation of transgender girls and women on girls and women’s sports teams. He is seeing and feeling the impacts of the political fight over rights for transgender people every day.
——-
Santiago, a local activist in Cleveland, isn’t alone in how he feels.
No more “gender affirming care”. No more shoving positive “trans rights” in people’s faces. No more tyranny of an infinitesimal minority. How will the nation survive?
“a local activist”
Restricting access to gender-affirming care for minors and barring trans women from women’s sports teams covered by Title IX are just some of the policies that Trump’s campaign has said will be under consideration once he is in office.
Local advocates, trans people and their families, as well as national LGBTQ organizations are preparing for these potential Trump administration actions.
“We know that the next four years [are] going to be a grind,” Santiago says.
That means the work — on both policy and personal levels — is just beginning, Santiago and others tell NPR.
Won’t you give generously?
What a steaming pile of melodramatic hogwash. Don’t worry, the mass graves will be provided at no charge.
Take gender-affirming care for youths. Major medical groups in the U.S. — including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association — support access to gender-affirming care for youth with gender dysphoria, the discomfort or psychological distress caused when one’s sex assigned at birth and one’s gender identity are different. That care can range from using a child’s preferred pronouns to using puberty-blocking medications and sex hormones.
“one’s sex assigned at birth”
The doctors and nurses get in a circle and do “rock, paper, scissors” to decide which box to check on the birth certificate.
“Major medical groups in the U.S. — including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association — support access to gender-affirming care for youth with gender dysphoria”
I think that’s what will sway the “liberal” justices — fucking “experts”.
Is it possible for a “news” organization to crawl so far up its own ass it winks out of existence?
I don’t think they’re getting any more converts to this cause. It’s reached peak penetration.
Happy birthday, young man!
I thought 50 was “don’t trust a fart”?
Happy birthday, whippersnapper!
I know men in women’s sports isn’t a popular thing in these parts, but they had the WNBA on the other night at the restaurant we were at, and I thought to myself “you know what could really make the WNBA watchable…”?
With a few notable exceptions (racquet sports, gymnastics, figure skating) women’s sports are a slow, boring, and ungainly version of a far superior product made by men.
Everyone but a few academics and women’s league sports commissioners realizes this.
Shirts vs. skins?
Happy birthday, Old Man.
My gramps used to say that every day above ground is a damn fine day. Cheers!
According to my model
If countries meet the shared goal of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, 1.8% of species will be at risk of extinction by the end of the century, Urban reports. But if global warming gets out of hand, warming four or five degrees Celsius, as many as 30% of species could be at risk.
“That 30 percent might be the best case scenario of the worst case scenario,” says Cristian Román-Palacios, a biological data scientist at the University of Arizona who wasn’t involved in the study.
He points to confounding complexities in how species might respond to such climate extremes that scientists don’t yet know. More critters may simply not be able to cope, or ecosystems that lose species after species may collapse altogether. Additionally, many rare species are understudied, or not even discovered, and might be especially vulnerable in ways that don’t show up in this analysis.
Still, “we need broad-scale studies like this,” says John Wiens, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona. “If we want to stop the loss of biodiversity, we need to know what the threats are.”
Obviously, the there is no likelihood whatsoever of successful adaptation. Only an anti-science hick would think it possible.
And, so what if these hyper-specialized little birdies disappear? Nobody asks about that, because all change is bad, to these people.
It was me.
Did you just re-set the front page?!
It’s a
ChristmasPearl Harbor Day miracle! 😃Now add comment counts to the articles on the main page.
Dunno about that, but I’ll try.
I was so disturbed by the tank in comments engagement, I had a dream about it and remembered what to do.
Thank you! I turned off my little hack and the front page is still readable and usable!
“Connecticut appeals court upholds most of Alex Jones $1.3 billion Sandy Hook judgment
The Appeals court said the jury’s verdict was not unreasonable due to the mental anguish the family members suffered because of Jones’ lies.”
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/connecticut-appeals-court-upholds-alex-jones-13-billion-sandy-hook-judgment
OFFS!
Mental anguish? Those fucksticks have been using their dead children as political props for years. Where’s my payment for their attempted emotional manipulation?
That kind of judgement, and being upheld, really makes me wonder if Jones doesn’t have a nugget of truth in his insanity.
If he’d done the shooting himself he wouldn’t owe that much money. The CAP is controlled by retards.
Can I sue for the mental anguish caused by the people who claimed I was trying to kill them by opposing covid lockouts so my job wouldn’t go bye-bye?
“Judicial Bombshell: Federal Judge Forces FDA to Release Over a Million Pages of Pfizer’s COVID-19 Trial Documents They Wanted to Keep Hidden for 75 Years
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in a high-profile case brought by the Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency (PHMPT).
The decision mandates the FDA to release the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) file for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine no later than June 30, 2025.
The case stemmed from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the PHMPT, which sought comprehensive data related to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/judicial-bombshell-federal-judge-forces-fda-release-million/
I’ll believe that info will be released when it gets released.
Agreed.
Why have them produce a “file” in 7 months time? Why not fucking Monday Morning?
It was me.
Thanks, Edit Faerie!