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New Nick Shirley Video Said to Expose Fraud "Ten Times Worse" Than Prior Videos Pro-Terrorism, Pro-Antifa AG Announces Lawsuit to Stop the "INVASION" of Minnesota by the Federal Government
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was told over the weekend that a new Nick Shirley video being released soon - maybe even as early as Monday -- is "ten times worse" than the "Quality Learing Center" daycare scam.
In Shirley's previous video, he and his source, David Hoch, who has been investigating this billion-dollar-plus scam for years, discovered multiple daycare centers in one building without children in them for years.
And this is where Hoch says is the heart of the ongoing continuing criminal enterprise.
Hoch says the new video will show that most of these companies are Somali-owned, and his and Shirley's visit to these companies found zero companies.
I think that sentence was glitched.
"What I believe is the core of all this is this non-emergency medical transportation. A search showed that Minnesota recognizes 1,020 NEMT [Non-Emergency Medical Transport] companies. Almost 900 of them are Somali-owned," he told Bessent. Hoch went on, "In the second video, Nick Shirley and I went to 16 of them -- I've actually been to about 70 of them." At this point, he held up his papers and leaned forward to Bessent to emphasize, "THEY DON'T EXIST."
They visited the NEMT companies to find the addresses went to places with "no vehicles." Fronts included, "an apartment building. One of them is a liquor store. Another one is a wire transfer. Another one is totally unrelated -- it's a grocery store. There are no vehicles." He said, "The vast majority of these companies exist on paper only. They are not real."
He said that the average NEMT company in the United States has about "20 vehicles and each vehicle generates about $70,000 a year." He said that if you run those numbers, "800 companies, 20 vehicles, $70,000 a year? It's an enormous sum of money that's going out."
Preview of the video at the link.
Minnesota is launching a lawsuit to stop the "invasion" of Minnesota by... the government of the United States of America.
Claim: Delta Force Used Some Kind of Secret Sonic Weapon Against Venezuelan/Cuban Security Troops, Disorienting Them, Disabling Them, and Causing Their Noses to Erupt Into Bleeding
—Ace
I don't know if this is true or not. Karoline Leavitt retweeted this story telling people:
"Stop what you're doing and read this!"
Does that mean it's true? No!
Because I spent the weekend watching videos about the Maduro capture, and I discovered that we are all currently living in a Tom Clancy novel.
Do you remember first reading Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising and wondering, Could this bullshit be true? Are we living in a sci-fi world that is being kept secret from us?
And that's how I feel now. I don't know if this directed energy weapon is real or just another deception pushed by the Trump Administration. And I don't mean that in a bad way-- when you're doing covert military ops, you're going push some deceptions on to the world. You have to.
Is Leavitt confirming we really have a directed energy weapon that Delta Force uses to incapacitate people at a distance? Or is she just pushing this story because she wants Iran to think we have it?
The US used a powerful mystery weapon that brought Venezuelan soldiers to their knees, "bleeding through the nose" and vomiting blood, during the daring raid to capture dictator Nicolas Maduro, according to a witness account posted Saturday on X by the White House press secretary.
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Moments later, a handful of helicopters appeared -- "barely eight," by his count -- deploying what he estimated were just 20 US troops into the area.
But those few men, he said, came armed with something far more powerful than guns.
"They were technologically very advanced," the guard recalled. "They didn't look like anything we've fought against before."
What ensued, he said, was not a battle but a slaughter.
"We were hundreds, but we had no chance," he said. "They were shooting with such precision and speed; it felt like each soldier was firing 300 rounds per minute."
Well they are among the best-trained shooters in history. And they carry some really good guns. I have a video linked below about that.
Then came the weapon that still haunts him.
"At one point, they launched something; I don't know how to describe it," he said. "It was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside."
The effects were immediate and horrific.
"We all started bleeding from the nose," he said. "Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move. We couldn't even stand up after that sonic weapon -- or whatever it was."
The White House did not immediately respond to a question regarding whether Karoline Leavitt's sharing of the post -- captioned, "Stop what you are doing and read this..." -- indicated the administration was verifying the veracity of the eyewitness account.
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The outmatched defenders were helpless as the small US unit wiped them out, the guard said.
"Those 20 men, without a single casualty, killed hundreds of us," he claimed. "We had no way to compete with their technology, with their weapons. I swear, I've never seen anything like it."
The military has had directed energy weapons -- which neutralize targets using focused energy such as microwaves or laser beams -- for years, but this could be the first time it's been used in combat by the US, an ex-US intelligence source told The Post. China reportedly used a microwave weapon in 2020 against Indian soldiers during a border dispute in Ladakh.
This sounds like it might be more powerful variant of the directed energy weapon that Russia is using against US diplomats -- so I'm glad that a bunch of Cuban mercenaries got hit with it.
A Venezuelan security guard for Maduro warns against fighting Americans describing the U.S. raid: 20 men with superior tech disabled radars, downed drones, and killed hundreds unharmed. They fired 300 rounds/min and used a sonic weapon causing instant bleeding and incapacitation.… pic.twitter.com/tTVT2l5Qwk
Now here are some of the things I saw claimed in various videos about the capture.
Some of this is confirmed by General Caine, in his post-action briefing. Some of it is speculative. I think people are asking AI to summarize what happened or what probably happened, and AI is offering possible scenarios, which are being claimed as fact.
But a lot of this at least seems likely to me. I'm sharing it because it's neat. I don't know if it's the truth. But it's a neat story.
1. General Caine said that CIA spooks were infiltrated into the country weeks before the invasion. He claims they were able to gather information and turn some spies to get a good picture of Maduro's "daily habits," including "what he ate."
One assumes they already had the layout of his presidential hidey-hole, because Trump revealed they went in with powerful blowtorches to cut through the steel doors of the panic room they knew he would run to. (They stopped him before he could make it to the panic room.) The Deltas practiced on a replica presidential building for months before the op.
2. This is one of the most jawdropping things -- the entire drug-boat interdiction operation was cover for the real mission of nabbing Maduro. The US needed to park an aircraft carrier (our newest super carrier currently in operation, the Gerald R. Ford) off the coast and flood the skies with surveillance planes and drones, to map out all of Venezuela's communications and their SAM missile arrays. They needed a plausible excuse for all of this US hardware in the region, and decided that the cover story would be hunting down speedboats carrying drugs.
So all of the drug-boat stuff was just window dressing for the real operation.
3. The drug-boat operation stuff also had another purpose, apart from cover and sigint collection and actually stopping the drug boats. The US wanted Venezuela's military and their radar operators to accept that there would be dozens and dozens of US planes in their airspace at all times. They wanted to get them to treat this as Situation Normal, No Big Deal. So the operation went on for 48 days, with Venezuela no longer on high alert just because there were 100 US planes in their skies. So on the night of the operation, they would have no idea that something big was in the air, until it was already all over.
4. The Nightstalkers (the US elite helicopter squadron) used modified Chinooks and Blackhawks with some stealth capability. Like, the helicopters have radar-absorbing skin. But they could not make the helicopters actually quiet. I think they crank out 100 decibels when moving. Because they would be flying nap-of-the-earth, anyone on the ground would hear them.
So this is pretty neat: The military couldn't make the helicopters any quieter, so instead, they made everything else noisier. They sent F-35 Lightning 2s screaming over Venezeula, diving down to the ground and then zooming back up in steep climbs, just to flood the countryside with jetwash and engine noise. Someone observed that the F-35s, which do have a good stealth ability, had all of their stealth sliders turned down so that they'd be all anyone could hear.
Some F-35s did use stealth, when they were actually attacking targets like the radar installations and Russian SAM trucks, but the US put 150 planes into the sky just to create an "acoustic shield" that would effectively create a dome of stealth for the helicopters.
In addition, all of those planes in the sky meant that Venezuelan radarmen had their screens packed with contacts and could not notice six or eight helicopters flying towards the military base at Fuerte Tiuna.
5. Ultimately US planes began attacking positions in the Fuerte Tiuna military base, mostly not for any direct tactical advantage, but just create chaos and confusion and noise.
While the operation killed at least 100 Venezuelan guards and Cuban mercenaries, it was pretty merciful, otherwise. When Venezuelan pilots scrambled to challenge the invading planes, they were told over the radios, in Spanish, "return to the ground or you will be destroyed." Most did. Some Venezuelan planes attempted to follow the helicopters as they flew back into international waters, but US pilots locked their missiles on them, and the missile-lock warning was enough to convince the pilots to turn around and return to their bases.
And this is just speculation on my part, but I think we were trying to convince Venezuela that if we took action against them, it would be a conventional amphibious invasion kind of thing. I think Trump warned that there would be land-based attacks on Venezuela just to prime them to expect that kind of attack. And I bet someone in the administration leaked it to Qatar agent Tucker Carlson that Trump intended an "invasion" of Venezuela, again, so that they were expecting a conventional land invasion rather than a smash-and-grab at the presidential headquarters.
Just amazing stuff, even if you don't believe the US now has some kind of weapon that can stun and incapacitate dozens of men at a distance.
Our newest supercarrier, the Gerald R. Ford, was instrumental in the operation. It cost over $11 billion but it seems to be worth it. A second aircraft carrier in the new Gerald R. Ford class, the USS John F. Kennedy, will be commissioned early in 2026. The Ford had a tough roll-out because it apparently employs 23 new technologies and some of them were buggy, but the John F. Kennedy is built with the lessons learned from the Ford and will hopefully be ready for action more quickly.
A big new innovation in both ships is that the catapults that launch the planes are driven by electromagnets, not steam as in the Nimitz-class carriers, and can launch planes more than twice as quickly as the older flattops.
Under Pressure by Judicial Watch Lawsuit, Oregon Finally Agrees to Remove 800,000 Ineligible/Fake/Dead Names from Their Voting Rolls Violent Leftwing Sissyboys Get Knocked TF Out
Oregon election officials are set to begin removing hundreds of thousands of inactive voters from the state's registration rolls, a move that comes after years of inaction, mounting public pressure, and lawsuits filed against the state in recent months.
Oregon's Democratic Secretary of State Tobias Read, in a press release Friday, outlined two new directives he said will "restart" the "routine cleanup of outdated, inactive voter registration records" in accordance with state law to address the roughly 800,000 inactive voter records that are being maintained by election officials.
The first directive orders counties to immediately cancel long-inactive voter registrations that already met the legal requirements for removal before 2017. These are registrations where election mail was returned as undeliverable, voters failed to respond to official notices, and they did not participate in multiple federal elections. State officials estimate roughly 160,000 registrations fall into this category and should have been removed years ago.
The second directive changes how the state handles inactive voters going forward. It updates the language on voter confirmation cards to clearly warn voters that their registrations will be canceled if they do not respond or vote within the required time frame. State officials say this step restores a process that allows routine cleanup of inactive registrations under federal law.
Together, the directives are designed to address a backlog of inactive records and restart regular voter-roll maintenance after Oregon paused removals in 2017.
"These directives are about cleaning up old data that's no longer in use so Oregonians can be confident that our voter records are up-to-date," Read said. "From day one, our goal was clear: run elections that are secure, fair, and accurate. This move will strengthen our voter rolls and reinforce public trust in our elections."
State officials acknowledge there are about 800,000 inactive registrations total, roughly 20% of Oregon's voter rolls, though they stress multiple times in the press release that inactive voters do not currently receive ballots, saying at one point, "again, none of the individuals associated with these records will receive ballots, and these inactive records have no impact on Oregon elections."
The claim that these "inactive voters" don't receive ballots is false. The nation is flooded with mail-in ballots sent to old addresses of voters who moved (or died) long ago, and the left routinely collects these up -- and pays people to collect them -- and then submit them as illegal votes.
Buzz: Tim Walz May Resign From Governorship Today, As Nick Shirley Prepares to Release Video About Walz Threatening Whistleblowers to Protect Somali Fraudsters
—Ace
I have no idea if this is true. People are claiming it on twitter.
The story goes that, as TheJamesMadison speculated last week, Walz is now a target of the federal fraud investigation. Further, it's claimed that Nick Shirley is dropping a "Part 2" to his fraud investigation and that will be damning to Walz.
But... didn't Shirely already drop a Part 2? I already posted him talking with an investigator revealing that Walz threatened that he would fire any whistleblowers for cause and make sure they never got another government job again, and could not even receive unemployment insurance after their firing.
Is this a Part 2 to that video?
I dunno.
The claims say that he will either resign this week or next week, depending on who's doing the claiming.
Carter Hughes
@itscarterhughes
Jan 10
🚨 BOMBSHELL: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is set to resign within the next week, according to multiple reports from within the Walz campaign.
This comes after he was referred for a criminal indictment over massive Somali fraud within the state.
🚨 🔥 Tim Walz is set to resign after today! @bennyjohnson : "We have on high authority that Tim Walz will resign after Nick Shirley's part two dropping today" Many others inside Minnesota government will also resign! 🍿 pic.twitter.com/TxSjioTHAQ
ABC Talk Radio is reporting the buzz as well, though they can't confirm it:
🚨 BOMBSHELL: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is set to resign within the next week, according to multiple reports from within the Walz campaign. pic.twitter.com/plbqZsg73P
This may be some evidence that the buzz is real: Minneapolis Mayor Frey is, some say, "throwing Walz under the bus," by admitting the fraud is very real and that "everybody" could have done more to stop it.
Jacob Frey after months of Democrats claiming there’s no fraud: “Everybody could have done more to prevent fraud. The fraud is real. The fraud is very real.”
Maybe the Democrat Party has decided that Walz is beyond saving, so they'll Biden him: Pretend that he is solely responsible for the criminality they all supported, and now that he's out, the Democrat Party is pure and holy again.
Jeanine Pirro Opens Investigation Into Fed Chair Jerome Powell's Deceptive Congressional Testimony About His Rampant Overspending
—Ace
He told Congress that he was only spending billions on remodeling the Fed for strictly functional upgrades, like "waterprooofing" the building.
He denied spending billions just to make it a "Taj Mahal" of the Deep State, as Julie Kelly puts it.
The current bill is over $2.5 billion, with $700 million of that overspending not originally budgeted for.
Powell, who oversees the nation's currency, says "Whoops!"
Julie Kelly
@julie_kelly2
18h
This is how it's done:
NYT tonight confirmed DOJ investigation into Fed Reserve chairman Jerome Powell.
"The inquiry, which includes an analysis of Mr. Powell's public statements and an examination of spending records, was approved in November by Jeanine Pirro, a longtime ally of President Trump.
It is not clear whether Ms. Pirro has convened a grand jury or issued subpoenas. But prosecutors in her office have contacted Mr. Powell's staff multiple times to request documents about the renovation project, according to an official with knowledge of the investigation who discussed an open inquiry on the condition of anonymity."
The renovation project is a whopping $700 million over budget.
"A 2021 version of the Fed's proposal described private elevators and dining rooms for top policymakers, water fountains and new marble features, in addition to a rooftop terrace for staff. Pressed at a congressional hearing in June, Mr. Powell denied that many of those features were part of the latest proposal."
This appears to be the testimony in question related to the criminal investigation into Fed Chairman Jerome Powell.
I’m not sure whether the specificity of his claims here are enough to bring intentional false statements charges—however his overall description of the nature of… pic.twitter.com/VVeNRyQXzs
Powell is claiming this is purely political investigation because Trump opposes Powell's purely-political refusal to reduce interest rates. Note that Powell reduced interest rates for Biden months before the election, despite inflation being out-of-control at the time.
🚨 BREAKING: US Attorney Pirro has launched a CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION into Fed Chair Jerome Powell
He LIED TO CONGRESS about massive Federal Reserve spending on his massive “renovation” boondoggle.
Here's my take: Trump may in fact favor an investigation for political reasons and yet the investigation may still be fully warranted by the circumstances.
What does Powell demand, that we have no investigation into misbehaving officials so long as they oppose Trump?
If there's no crime, then there's no crime -- but the federal government should be investigating fraud and, frankly, money-laundering politicians and elected officials all the time.
In fact, Pam Bondi just announced the creation of a new Deputy AG with a very specific jurisdiction: defrauding the federal government (and taxpayers).
Jerome Powell never objected to Letitia James, Merrick Garland, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg, and Jack Smith investigating and prosecuting Trump for fake crime after fake crime just because those prosecutions and investigations were politically motivated.
🚨 JUST IN: Trump advisor Peter Navarro EVISCERATES Fed Chair Jerome Powell, now under CRIMINAL investigation.
"He is the POSTER CHILD for politicizing the Fed!"
New White Leftist Female Trend: Set Up a Date So You Can Secret-Camera Record Your Date Defending Nick Shirley's Fraud Reporting
—Ace
If we want to continue on as an American nation, we have to mainstream marrying foreign women from overseas, and set up companies to facilitate this. The stigma of "mail order brides" must be stripped away and instead valorized.
Leftwing women are literally insane and will not have children, and furthermore, we do not want them to have children.
They are a malignant, toxic, mentally-ill cohort in the country and men must not marry them and should certainly not have children with them.
BREAKING - Liberal white women have started a new “trend” where they ask men on first dates for their opinion on Nick Shirley and the Somali fraud he helped uncover.
“Okay but I’m sure they had like really good reasons and probably used it for good things.”
REPORTER: "Would you be able to take in a Somali?"
WOMAN: “Not sure if I could. I, I, I couldn't do that without talking to my husband first. I'd want to have more information first." pic.twitter.com/9U3x0s5hEZ
This lunatic is encouraging people to run over ICE agents.
This is a direct result of Democratic leadership propagandizing its base to harm federal law enforcement to protect foreign criminals. pic.twitter.com/WabONSiqlk
I read a statistic that said 75% of white liberal women have been treated for a mental disorder. That's terrifying - that means 25% of them are walking around untreated. pic.twitter.com/t02DJu6593
— Leo Kearse - see me on tour! Links in bio (@LeoKearse) January 11, 2026
This whole thing... all of this! ... it's all about me!
Aimee Terese
@aimeeterese
9h
Acting like liberal women aged 18-35 are political powerbrokers or master manipulators is nutty. Women are retarded midwits. Mentally ill pack animals. The feckless & sterile pinnacle of our gay & retarded culture: messy bitches who love drama.
Iran has called Trump, asking to negotiate. I don't know what they could want which they think we could grant. Do they want Trump to allow them to kill x number of protesters without consequences?
Allegedly, Iran has already killed over 530 protesters, no longer using rubber bullets, but spraying real machine-gun fire into masses of protesters. Toussi TV claims the number is more than 2,000.
In addition, they've "arrested" many more, and those people will be tortured and killed in private.
Iran confirms that it is open to talking but that it is "preparing for war." Toussi TV said they're threatening to launch 500 of their ICBMs at Israel and US bases within their reach.
Trump continues threatening to hit Iran if they keep killing protesters, but Iran is killing more protesters. I guess they believe that Trump is bluffing.
Trump says he is considering options that are "so strong" Iran can't even imagine them:
Is this a bluff by Trump? Sometimes he seems to walk back his previous threats. In this clip, he says that Iran is "starting to cross a red line," which sounds like there's wiggle-room in his promise to hit Iran if they kill protesters.
On the other hand, Trump called Maduro to give him one last chance to leave the country. He even specified that he'd let Maduro keep $200 million that he'd stolen from the country. Maduro reportedly did consider it, but then decided Trump was bluffing.
Toussi TV says that many -- he claims "hundreds," which sounds unlikely -- high-ranking IRGC commanders have been killed by assassination. Apparently the Regime is even admitting some of these assassinations, which they usually don't. In one case, they're claiming an IRGC leader was killed in an innocent gas leak explosion. Which Toussi TV says they've claimed before, when Israel assassinated Revolutionary Guards leaders. But others they admit were killed by "the enemy," which I think they mean to imply are Jews and Americans but who might just be Iranian citizens getting payback.
In London, a protester tore down the Islamic flag of Iran at their embassy, and raised the traditional, pre-Islamic Revolution lion-and-sun flag.
This is nice, but you don't topple a brutal regime by whipping your hair:
Iranian women dancing and whipping their hair around in Iran.
It’s Time for a Constitutional Summit Among Leaders of Government's Three Branches to Address Rogue Federal Judges
—Buck Throckmorton
The federal judiciary is assertively impeding President Trump’s administration of the Executive Branch, but under what constitutional authority is this occurring? President Trump should meet face to face with Chief Justice Roberts and ask him.
There is a constitutional crisis in this country due to the judiciary asserting authority to micro-manage the administration of the Executive Branch. The Constitution, however, is quite explicit about the separation of governmental roles and responsibilities. There is nothing in the Constitution that allows the hundreds of federal judges to serve as overseers of President Trump’s Article II executive powers.
There was hope among constitutional conservatives that Chief Justice John Roberts would eventually assert himself as the leader of the judiciary and put a stop to the judicial activism at the District Court level. Unfortunately, Justice Roberts has shown that he will not do this of his own accord.
Perhaps Justice Roberts just doesn’t have the fortitude to take necessary actions. His appointment as Chief Justice was regrettable if he is unsuited for a leadership position. His resume is quite impressive, but it is full of titles including words such as “Deputy,” “Associate,” and “Special Assistant.” Lacking are terms such as “Head,” “Lead,” or “Chief.” Even if Roberts’ resume warranted a spot on the Supreme Court, it might have been better if an existing justice who had exhibited leadership skills had been elevated to chief justice, with Roberts then being appointed as an associate justice.
Because Justice Roberts will not assert control, there is a growing clamor for President Trump to start ignoring the rulings from federal district judges. That “nuclear option” would necessarily serve as a catalyst for John Roberts and the Supreme Court to finally address the problem of rogue judges.
But before going nuclear, perhaps President Trump might compel a reluctant John Roberts to take action in a more genteel way. Quite simply, the president can organize and host a summit of the leaders of the three branches of government to discuss constitutional roles and responsibilities of the branches of government they lead, and how they constitutionally interact with each other. There should be just four attendees at the summit: President Trump, Chief Justice John Roberts, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
Before I go further into what should be discussed at a Constitutional Summit, it is worth recalling that Donald Trump has been pleading with Chief Justice Roberts to address the problem of renegade federal judges, especially since it is simply not feasible for the hundreds of stays and injunctions to wend their way through the appeals process to the Supreme Court during the president’s term, nor can the court conceivably hear every appeal.
Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, the judicial resistance to the new president was already in full swing. In March of 2025, as Judge James Boasberg started asserting his authority to veto the president’s executive actions, President Trump implored Roberts to take action, stating “If Justice Roberts and the United States Supreme Court do not fix this toxic and unprecedented situation immediately, our Country is in very serious trouble!"
It's time for President Trump to ask Justice Roberts directly why he is allowing the courts to go rogue.
If such a summit were to occur, it would be wise for the president to have some conservative legal minds prep some questions and discussion topics, but a few that immediately come to my mind would be:
• Ask Roberts, Johnson and Thune their understanding of the role of federal judges, what constitutional powers they have, and why.
• Ask Roberts if he defends the rogue activism of district judges. If so, explain why. If not, advise why it is being allowed.
• Discuss what the Executive and Legislative branch “checks” on the judiciary are in our “checks and balances” system. What powers do Congress and the Executive Branch have to check rogue judges?
• Should there be more balance in the application of checks and balances? Courts are very aggressive about checking other branches’ powers. Why are there no checks being imposed on the judiciary?
• Ask Roberts his opinion on judges who are routinely overruled. Is repeatedly being overruled by appellate courts a sufficient reason for impeachment?
And most importantly…
• How will Chief Justice Roberts respond if/when Trump announces that rogue federal judges have no constitutional authority to manage the executive Branch, and Trump will no longer comply with their rulings.
The summit I am proposing is neither sanctioned by the Constitution nor prohibited, but it would present a direct challenge to the Chief Justice to be part of the solution for a judicial crisis that will otherwise have to be resolved without his involvement.
Good morning kids. In the lead this morning are the massive anti-regime protests all over Iran that at long last might very well lead to the collapse of this accursed Islamic government that for close to half a century has not only brutally repressed its own people but fomented and exported much of the terrorism that has spilled oceans of blood around the world, including scores of Americans. When they chanted "Death to America" they meant it, and for far too long virtually every administration in this country ignored it and worse, Obama & Biden aided and abetted them, with billions in cash to fuel their nuclear weapons program and as well as their IRGC thugs as well as Hamas, Hezbollah and other proxy groups.
And then came Donald Trump who put a stop to that insanity, and in the wake of the Iranian backed 10/7 attack from Gaza on Israel joined with the Israelis in flattening the Iranian nuclear weapons sites. This, combined with the already collapsing Iranian currency, crumbling fresh water systems and oil refining capacity on top of a disaffected populace that had been on the brink of uprising for years already, is why the Mullahocracy might at long last be on the verge of collapse.
What comes afterwards is of course anyone's guess. Unfortunately, Iran has been a repressive police state and its internal security apparatus along with a very well-armed and no doubt motivated IRGC who will do whatever it deems it must to cling to power as well as save their own skin from an enraged citizenry out for revenge. My gut tells me unless some elements of their armed forces and police back the people or maybe even the son of the Shah if he dares return, then the likelihood of a Moammar Qaddafi or Saddam Hussein coming to power perhaps minus the Islam or the Islamic influence way in the background is a likely scenario.
The Iranian regime slaughtered upwards of 500 protesters over the weekend, marking one of the bloodiest crackdowns in the Islamic Republic’s history, as President Donald Trump weighs a range of military options that reportedly include precision strikes on regime assets and cyber warfare. . . "Iran is looking at FREEDOM, perhaps like never before," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Saturday, his most recent comments on the matter. "The USA stands ready to help!!!" A State Department spokesman told the Free Beacon that the Trump administration is closely monitoring the uprising, adding that "the Iranian regime is fully aware of President Trump’s warning and should not test U.S. resolve." Asked about the regime’s threats to activate a global network of terror cells in response to the protests, the State Department said the Islamic Republic "should carefully consider the consequences of its actions and not underestimate the resolve of the United States under President Trump’s leadership."
While it certainly is a good thing to publicly back the Persian people in their struggle for liberation. Military action of course is fraught with problems and I certainly do not want any kind of massive (or even minimal) boots on the ground. If our intelligence and special ops capabilities can blind or otherwise help defang or neutralize any military forces/assets the Mullahs are still in control of, then why not deploy them. We've already pulverized their nuclear sites with absolute impunity so taking out military barracks and other installations should pose much less of a risk. And Iran's air defenses are essentially useless thanks to the Israeli air force obliterating them earlier last year in preparation for the follow-on attack on their nuke sites.
A U-Haul driver allegedly plowed into a massive crowd of protesters at an anti-Iran regime rally in Los Angeles on Sunday — injuring at least two people in a chaotic scene caught on video.
Authorities responded to the scene after the U-Haul truck drove into a sea of an estimated 3,000 people at the large demonstration in Westwood around 3:40 p.m. local time, an LAPD spokesperson told The Post.
The rental truck, which had the words “NO SHAH. NO REGIME. USA: DON’T REPEAT 1953. NO MULLAH” emblazoned on one side, was swarmed by protesters as tensions quickly escalated, according to harrowing footage obtained by KABC.
The truck had both pro-Iranian regime and anti-Iranian regimes on both its sides, police said. It is not immediately clear what pro-regime text was on the U-Haul.
Some of the scrawlings appeared to warn against the US’s involvement in Iran’s anti-regime demonstrations, where nearly 500 protesters have been killed.
At least two people were injured in the chaos and suffered minor injuries, cops said. Both declined to be transported to the hospital, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. One man was hit by the U-Haul and was treated for non-significant injuries by an ambulance on the scene, cops said.
The driver, who has not yet been identified, was taken into custody, police confirmed.
Officers at the scene were spotted pulling a man into custody from the truck as angered protesters reportedly tried to punch and hit him with flag poles, the outlet reported.
Footage circulating on social media captured protesters punching and shattering the windshield of the U-Haul as others screamed in fear at the speeding truck.
The driver was being treated in the hospital for unspecified injuries and will likely face attempted assault with a deadly weapon charges, officials said at a press conference on Sunday evening, according to KABC.
Bill Essayli, the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, wrote on X that the FBI is on the scene and will assist the LAPD in determining the motive of the driver.
By now, most people have seen about six different angles of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent’s encounter with left-wing radical Renee Nicole Good, proving he was fully justified in using lethal force to stop her from bulldozing over innocent people.
Good was reportedly a member of an insurgency cell called “ICE Watch,” where she received training as a “warrior” to act against ICE agents conducting lawful enforcement operations against illegal aliens. . . But why are we just hearing about this domestic extremist group now? Why does it seem like law enforcement doesn’t know anything about the very active, well-funded, and mobile groups hellbent on obstruction at a minimum, and in many cases, violence? Vice President J.D. Vance addressed some of these concerns in a Thursday press conference, going after corporate media headlines that never mentioned Good’s use of her vehicle as a murder weapon. . .
Good was the mother of a 6-year-old, and the left-wing media will keep regurgitating that she was simply driving through the area after dropping her child off at school. But based on all the evidence, she was there for the sole purpose of obstructing ICE, as part of her duties to her insurgency cell. That reality reveals something more sinister, as Vance argued. . . Vance said something fairly revealing when answering a question about who is behind these terror networks: “It’s one of the things we’re going to have to figure out.” He then added:
When somebody throws a brick at an ICE agent, or somebody tries to run over an ICE agent, who paid for the brick and who told protesters to show up and engage in violent activity against our law enforcement officers? You see just with this most recent terrible incident in Minneapolis, you see friends of this woman’s or other people who are eyewitnesses saying basically that she was there to engage in obstruction of a legitimate law enforcement operation. How did she get there? How did she learn about this? There’s an entire network . . .
I'm not trying to connect the dots between Iran and what happened in Minneapolis. But, then again, look at who and what we are dealing with both abroad and at home. When you hear a chant of DEATH TO AMERICA it could just as easily be coming from the quad of Columbia University as it could from the campus at Teheran U. or 25 years ago from the rooftops of Jersey City as they passed out candy and ululated with orgasmic delight while watching the Twin Towers burn and collapse.
$9 billion Somalian Simoleons grifted from the Minnesota and US treasuries didn't just buy expensive cars, furs, jewelry and homes but much of it likely bought semtex, AK-47s and RPGs back home in Mogadishu that is fueling the anti-Christian bloodbath in the horn of Africa and across the continent. Regardless of whether the Mullahs in Tehran control Boko Haram in Nigeria and Al-Shabab in Somalia, their goals are the same. Global conquest by Jihad in the name of Islam.
It should come as no surprise to anyone that the western media and western Left are not covering or supporting the Iranian protests for freedom. It is anathema for them to give a helping hand to such an ‘Islamophobic’ nightmare. What is transpiring in Iran is a dreadful nightmare for the Left – because it’s oxygen, blood-supply and identity are rooted in its alliance with communism, Islam and every other adversarial totalitarian monstrous genocidal death-cult.
What is transpiring in Iran is a revolution for individual rights, which the Left reviles and detests. It is a revolution against Islam, which the Left worships and adores – and yearns to submit to.
Iranian women are even burning their hijabs! Oh, the horror of it all. This is a horrifying nightmare for the Left, especially for leftist feminists in the West. Poor Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin, what nightmarish sleepless nights they must be having. . . Beneath the leftist believer’s veneration of the despotic enemy lies one of his most powerful yearnings: to submit his whole being to a totalist entity. This psychological dynamic involves negative identification, whereby a person who has failed to identify positively with his own environment subjugates his individuality to a powerful, authoritarian entity, through which he vicariously experiences a feeling of power and purpose.. .
Judd Apatow at Golden Globe Awards: ‘We’re a Dictatorship Now’ . . .“There’s a good chance that some of you in this room voted for Trump. I won’t judge you, I won’t judge you. But God will,” he added.
Funny how Godless heathen Atheists always invoke and take the name of the Lord in vain. But if we truly were a dictatorship, surely Apatow would be sipping his tree bark soup through a straw into his wired shut jaw in the FEMA camp infirmary, nein?
I am so sick to death of these bastards, but cratering box office receipts and TV ratings I'll take as a positive sign that the Apatows of this world are on the wane.
God save the brave Persian people and may they see deliverance from their Islamic tormenters and have at least a chance to establish some sort of ordered and normal society where they can prosper and coexist peacefully (no, not like that cockamamie bumper sticker) with their neighbors and become the thriving nation they once were prior to 1979.
And I hope the brave ICE agent who stood his ground and took out a domestic terrorist is awarded some sort of citation for valor.
Have a great day.
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The driver, who has not yet been identified, was taken into custody, police confirmed. Officers at the scene were spotted pulling a man into custody from the truck as angered protesters reportedly tried to punch and hit him with flag poles, the outlet reported.Footage circulating on social media captured protesters punching and shattering the windshield of the U-Haul as others screamed in fear at the speeding truck. Crowd control U-Haul plows into massive crowd at Iran protest in LA — as demonstrators attack driver, chaotic video shows
The recent (and ongoing) events in Minneapolis invoke historical parallels that are both instructive and alarming. Anatomy of an Insurrection
We live under manufactured narratives—modern myths engineered to direct our outrage, reward performative heroism, and push ordinary people to bear the costs of elite political theater. Myth, Narratives, and the Death of Renee Good
Roger Kimball: The left tried to reboot George Floyd–style chaos after an ICE shooting, but video evidence, public dissent, and firm federal response exposed the narrative as hollow agitprop. Anatomy of a Failed Moral Panic
A crowd of anti-ICE activists tried to force a street shutdown near the Texas Capitol on Saturday, but Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) troopers moved in within seconds, forming a line and driving protesters back as tensions flared on the pavement. The protests follow the shooting by an ICE officer of a woman who appeared to weaponize her vehicle by driving at the officer while she interfered with the enforcement operation. Mob Confronts Texas DPS Troopers in Street Takeover Attempt near Capitol
It’s been a year since Trump took back the White House — how is it possible we know so little about these cells, and when will we see mass arrests of these paid agitators and the politicians who are determined to use whatever power they have to help them? When Can We Start Uprooting Domestic Terror Cells Attacking Law Enforcement?
At least 192 protesters have been killed in Iran’s biggest movement against the Islamic republic in more than three years, a rights group said Sunday, as warnings grew that authorities were committing a “massacre” to quell the demonstrations. Iran protest death toll rises as alarm grows over crackdown ‘massacre’
Iran is a nation wanting its soul back. . . From Qom and Mashhad, the most religious cities, to Rasht and Anzali, the most secular, people took to the streets. The end is near for Iran’s mullahs
Pathetic: Minneapolis Public Schools last week announced they’ll allow remote attendance for students at least through mid-February — and teachers unions are pushing for similar policies throughout the metro region. Pathetic: The pretext — ongoing ICE activities — impacts only a few blocks here and there; this is just performative politics serving adults at the expense of learning. The school system acted at the request of the Minneapolis Federation of Educators; teacher unions are always looking for excuses for their members to slough off work, and this has the added advantage of hyping the supposed ICE menace: Along with every other local lefty institution, the union is “demanding” ICE’s exit from the city. Minneapolis schools betray kids to feed ICE hysteria
A Somali councilman in Maine, who was embroiled in a criminal scandal from the day he was sworn in, has already resigned due to the magnitude of the controversy. . . Osman’s crimes drew national attention amid a Somali fraud scandal involving fake daycares and food assistance fraud. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) had to give up his reelection bid over complicity in covering up the fraud. Somali Councilman Resigns After Days in Office Amid Fraud Scandal
From income taxes to the administrative state, Democrats learned to buy power by redistributing the treasury—locking in constituencies and leaving taxpayers with the bill. Plundering the Treasury and Destroying Common Law
Caving to progressive activists, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill late last month that will all but guarantee more child abuse goes unreported — in the name of fixing “racial disparities” in the child-welfare system. The new law bars callers to the city Administration for Children’s Services from leaving tips anonymously — on the supposed grounds that false tips help drive “inexcusable racial disparities that disproportionately impact Black and Brown families by leading to unnecessary interactions with child welfare services.” What this really means is that more kids will be abused — and some killed — with minority children suffering the most. (the inference about who commits the vast majority of these crimes is clear - jjs) Hochul agrees to allow more child abuse in New York City
The investigation centers around the skyrocketing costs for the renovation of Federal Reserve headquarters, which greatly exceeded previous estimates of $2.5 billion. Powell confirmed the probe in a statement released Sunday. (RELATED: Congress Wants To Keep Agency Despised By Gun Lovers Flush With Cash) DOJ Opens Probe Into Fed Chair Jerome Powell
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After 1,500 years of uninterrupted Christian witness, Egypt’s seizure of St. Catherine’s Monastery puts one of Christianity’s oldest living communities at existential risk. The Closure of the World’s Oldest Monastery
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
The name of the suspect or the charges the person could face have not been released. No motive has been publicly notified. (Achmed bin Son of Somalia?-jjs)
Thad McCotter: Democrats smashed the economy with trillion-dollar spending, then cry “affordability” while blaming the cleanup crew—hoping voters forget who swung the sledgehammer. The Democrats’ ‘Affordability’ Ploy to Avoid Accountability
Consumer sentiment showed modest gains, but concerns about unemployment and inflation persist, with higher-educated and higher-income Americans expressing greater worry. Consumer Confidence Is Rising, Here’s Why:
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
Why does the famed leftist radio bastion have all its broadcasters speak in that insufferable whisper? Here is the somewhat disturbing answer. The Awful Truth about ‘NPR Voice’
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,
The case addresses whether Chevron and other energy companies can move a Louisiana state lawsuit to federal court under the federal-officer removal statute, based on actions taken on behalf of the federal government during World War II. Roughly 40 lawsuits have been filed since 2013 over oil and gas companies’ alleged role in Louisiana’s coastal erosion, and the Supreme Court’s upcoming review of Chevron U.S.A. v. Plaquemines Parish decides whether those cases can be moved from state to federal court. Supreme Court Case Will Set Major Precedent For American Energy
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
The pattern is clear: foreign born, Neo-Marxist academics come to America, work at major universities, teach Neo-Marxist ideas to their students, and their children, inheriting their parents’ ideologies, enter politics. Children of the Long March
DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY
The ousted Democrat National Committee (DNC) vice chair repeatedly used the word “dangerous” to refer to Vice President JD Vance and other Trump administration officials making the case the ICE agent shot Good in self-defense Wednesday in Minneapolis. On the day of the shooting, Assistant Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Good was “attempting to run over our law enforcement officers” and the agent fired the fatal shot “fearing for his life.” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem likewise likened Good’s last actions to “domestic terrorism.” David Hogg Claims Criticism Of Renee Good Is Dangerous While Blasting ‘Vice Tyrant’ JD Vance (If only Little Shitler didn't play hooky that day - jjs)
In the last few years, as our nation has balkanized, we’ve experienced a new type of carpetbagger in the red states: a liberal fed up with the natural end results of the policies he/she/they espoused. This weekend one TikTok user, @thecarolinerfiles, went viral expressing her disgust with the hordes of newcomers moving in and changing their new homes. Warning: the video has some NSFW language . . . Red State Residents Speak Out on the Blue State Invasion, Sparking Viral Videos
MADURO TAKEN DOWN
The situation on the ground in Venezuela is a mixed bag right now, which is to be expected. One doesn't just pluck the lead narco-terrorist from a "government" that's basically organized crime and expect sunshine and roses within a week. It's going to take time for Donald Trump and Marco Rubio and the United States team to pull all the weeds, and I have no doubt that, if anyone can do it, those two men can. Arrests, Prisoners, U.S. Warnings — What's Really Happening on the Ground In Venezuela
The U.S. shouldn’t ignore this small Asian nation, because it offers interesting options for addressing some American concerns. Myanmar Votes While China Schemes
...he finds NASA’s engineering claims that Orion’s heat shield will work using a different less stressful return trajectory as it dives back into the atmosphere about 25,000 mph to be false and untrustworthy. Worse, he sees it as proof that this is a continuation of the same culture at NASA that resulted in the Columbia failure. Former astronaut once again blasts NASA decision to fly Artemis-2 manned
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
“There’s a good chance that some of you in this room voted for Trump. I won’t judge you, I won’t judge you. But God will,” he added. Judd Apatow at Golden Globe Awards: ‘We’re a Dictatorship Now’ (If true, his mouth would've been wired shut before he took the stage - jjs)
More than 70 years on, Alfred Hitchcock’s classic still shines—even in an otherwise lackluster new book on the film. Looking Back at Rear Window
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I have no idea whether they will succeed. But as a columnist writing about how to keep our humanity in the 21st century, I believe it's important to focus on people who are at least trying. Social media, after its promising early days, took a dark turn and is now a deeply alienating force, replacing healthy human interaction and leading us to spend much of our lives looking at our phones.
That's only partly the fault of the social media companies.
Mostly it's just people.
Many fear that AI, still in its adolescence, will take us down the same path because of the financial incentives to maximize eyeballs and time online. But it could go either way, and we as a society still have a choice about how we use these powerful tools.
Fair. Let's see how West Co - the new company in question, is tackling the problem.
Their bid for redemption is West Co. - the Workshop for Emotional and Spiritual Technology Corporation
It's the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation all over again.
- and the platform they're testing is called Tangle, a "purpose discovery tool" that uses AI to help users define their life purposes, then encourages them to set intentions toward achieving those purposes, reminds them periodically and builds a community of supporters to encourage steps toward meeting those intentions.
Danger, Will Robinson.
"A lot of people, myself included, have been on autopilot," Stone said. "If all goes well, we'll introduce a lot of people to the concept of turning off autopilot."
But will all go well?
Each morning, staffers light the candle at the "ancestor table," with photographs of family members dead and alive and other sources of inspiration: Harvey Milk, Jane Goodall, Saint Francis. The founders participate in a fortnightly "covenant" meeting in which they renew their support for each other. Moments of silence precede meetings. Ceremonies mark the changing of seasons. Employees give one another regular updates on their personal triumphs and struggles. Founders rate their weeks on a zero to 100 "poopy to pleasure" index.
I have never seen a tech company more likely to earn its own 10-part miniseries on HBO Max after the comet arrives.
The author installed Linux - specifically CachyOS, an open source distribution with similar goals as SteamOS, to support modern hardware and make it easy to run games.
Everything worked... Except Minecraft. But that was because he wanted to play Minecraft Bedrock, because that's the version his kids play, and it's not easy to make it work on Linux.
No specs, no price, no schedule. It has a bunch of USB-C ports at the back, so we'll see if it delivers a lot of USB4 or it's something less interesting.
Not mine - I have fibre internet, but copper networking inside - but the author's, who carefully laid conduit in the concrete slab when building his new home and ran fibre throughout and is now finding that this was not a good idea at all.
On the evening of January 2nd, while conducting breathalyzer tests on motorists as part of the traditional BOB campaign meant to combat drunk driving in Belgium, police in the commune of Duffel noticed something very peculiar. A car that was approaching their checkpoint seemed to do so at a snail’s pace, finally stopping dozens of meters before reaching them.
As they approached the vehicle, traffic police officers immediately noticed that the person in the driver’s seat seemed unusually short and young. Their initial impressions were confirmed when they reached the driver’s window. It was a young boy, no more than 12 years old. Next to the child was his father, who nonchalantly admitted that he had asked the boy to drive home because he had had too much to drink.
Not ideal by any means. Especially when you find out this additional detail.
Sitting in the backseat of the car were the boy’s mother and two young siblings, all of whom seemed ok with the situation. Interestingly, the mother had a valid driver’s license herself, but somehow thought it was a good idea to let her pre-teen son drive the whole family home at night.
Check out the whole thing. Actually, I'll save you the time.
And, in case you’re wondering how the family got home that night, the boy’s mother took his place behind the wheel and did what she was supposed to do in the first place.
Minnesota Trail, the lesser known sequel to Oregon Trail
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It's that time of the week - when we turn the ONT over to our good friend Piper for a bit. Here's this week's fashion pr0n.
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As we step into January 2026, the fashion landscape has undergone a seismic shift. After domination by the understated elegance of stealth wealth neutrals, the pendulum has swung hard in the opposite direction. Maximalism is back! We are embracing more fun layering, vibrant colors, faux fur details, pattern clashing, and over-the-top accessories. It is confident, curated, and unapologetically expressive, drawing heavily from '80s power dressing while infusing modern sophistication. It is perfect for January when everyone needs a mood boost after the holidays.
Designers are emphasizing statement pieces, dramatic shoulders, vibrant patterns, tactile textures like feathers and fringe, and clashing prints, balanced for impact rather than excess. It's about channeling joy, power, and individuality.
Key designers leading the maximalist charge in 2026, as seen across Spring/Summer 2026 runways and early-year buzz:
Saint Laurent remains a powerhouse for "Glamoratti" maximalism. Sleek yet powerful looks with exaggerated shoulders, rich fabrics, and confident styling that feels intentional and elevated.
From The Luxury Closet
Versace delivers iconic, high-drama glamour with vibrant colors, sculptural elements, and that signature loud luxury. Even with creative transitions, the house continues to embody fearless maximalist energy.
These standout Versace pieces scream pure, unfiltered maximalist fire:
Gucci embraces eclectic, layered maximalism with vibrant patterns, heritage twists, and playful details that celebrate personality and bold mixing.
Vibrant Gucci runway shots that perfectly nail the eclectic maximalist mood:
Moschino reminds that playfulness is alive and well, with over-the-top, colorful, witty maximalist designs that mix patterns and textures in the most fun way.
These Moschino backstage/runway shots show the bold, eclectic chaos we're loving:
Other major players include Chanel (under Matthieu Blazy's direction, adding feathery, colorful drama and whimsical volumes), Bottega Veneta (tactile textures and joy-inducing shades), Balenciaga (wild proportions and feathers), and Chloé (boho-infused maximalism with lace and prints). Emerging voices like Meryll Rogge bring electric pops of color, while houses like Dior and Givenchy add whimsical, statement-driven silhouettes.
This "mindful maximalism" isn't about piling on everything—it's strategic: one hero piece paired with thoughtful balance. It's empowering, nostalgic, and perfect for shaking off winter blues. Are you ready to embrace the chaos? Here are a few ideas on how to style this look:
This outfit:
With these shoes:
This outfit:
These shoes:
This shirt:
These jeans:
These shoes:
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Howdy, Y'all! Welcome to the wondrously fabulous Gun Thread! As always, I want to thank all of our regulars for being here week in and week out, and also offer a bigly Gun Thread welcome to any newcomers who may be joining us tonight. Howdy and thank you for stopping by! I hope you find our wacky conversation on the subject of guns 'n shooting both enjoyable and informative. You are always welcome to lurk in the shadows of shame, but I'd like to invite you to jump into the conversation, say howdy, and tell us what kind of shooting you like to do!
Holy Shitballs! How in the ever-loving Hell did it get to be the Second January Edition? Not much going on here this week, but I do believe I am out of danger with respect to the cold I had last week, so I have that going for me. How about all y'all? Doing well?
With that, step into the dojo and let's get to the gun stuff below, shall we?
So last week we had what I thought was a highly productive conversation on fundamentals of shooting stance courtesy of troublemaker nurse ratched. Here is her troublesome comment.
Ok. Riddle me this.
I get sight alignment and trigger pull.
But why stance? In what real world shooting situation will you be able to make stance a priority? You may be on one knee peering over a half wall, looking around a corner with your weight on your weak leg, moving sideways, backwards, or maneuvering a stairwell. I mean. I get planting your feet and being solid when you’re just standing at a line shooting holes in paper, but how is that a transferable skill to real life?
Not trying to be a troublemaker.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 04, 2026 07:40 PM (IhIKR)
Which sparked a lot of well considered responses. Might the answer be to incorporate the practice of different stances into your range routine? What do all y'all think?
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Colt Boa
Nice! I am not entirely certain I remember the Boa model.
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AR-10 Madness!
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Ax Weasel
Q: Weasel, as a recognized expert in organic tree farming, what can you tell us about paper making?
A: Why, I am glad you axed.
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Our Pal The Nakamura WT-300
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Highway Patrol!
This week's episode: Human Bomb! Holy crap!
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Project Moonbase!
Have we seen Project Moonbase before?
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Olivia Cigars
How they're made.
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Here are some different online cigar vendors. You will find they not only carry different brands and different lines from those brands, but also varying selections of vitolas (sizes/shapes) of given lines. It's good to have options, especially if you're looking for a specific cigar.
A note about sources. The brick & mortar/online divide exists with cigars, as with guns, and most consumer products, with respect to price. As with guns - since both are "persecuted industries", basically - I make a conscious effort to source at least some of my cigars from my local store(s). It's a small thing, but the brick & mortar segment for both guns and tobacco are precious, and worth supporting where you can. And if you're lucky enough to have a good cigar store/lounge available, they're often a good social event with many dangerous people of the sort who own scary gunz, or read smart military blogs like this one. -rhomboid
Anyone have others to include? Perhaps a small local roller who makes a cigar you like? Send me your recommendation and a link to the site!
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That's it for this week - have you been to the range?
Food Thread: Football And Food...A Match Made In Heaven.
—CBD
Maybe not that specific food, but I wonder why football food is so much more important than baseball or hockey or basketball (does anyone know if the NBA is still around?). Yes, the games are a bit longer, but there is an entire culture that has grown up around the football meal, and not just tailgating! It's in the home as well. Chicken wings, all sorts of dips, nachos, potato skins, chili, deviled eggs, guacamole, pizza, jalapeno poppers, pigs in a blanket, and on and on and on!
What is it about football? maybe that there are usually multiple games, so the games intrude upon normal meal time? Or the embarrassing pomp and circumstance of the games lends itself to food and drink excess?
Who knows. But it can be fun, especially since it is, in most homes, restricted to a Sunday or two, and not the interminably long entire season!
So what's your favorite football food? I am partial to pizza and wings! Pizza wreaks havoc on my waistline, so I try to limit it, but wings are almost always fun, and rarely bad. Hell, my local Applebee's has excellent wings! (Please don't tell anyone that I have eaten there)
The new food pyramid is great, at least in comparison to the ridiculous one that emerged from the gaping maw of our government in the last century. And since it pissed off all the right people, I am thrilled! But it also makes me sad that Americans have become so detached from their food, from the farms to their tables, that they don't know how to construct a healthful diet.
Eat a wide variety of foods, cooked by you from fresh raw ingredients, be active, and don't eat too much. That's my method, and it seems to work pretty well. Sure, I try to avoid a lot of carbs, because they seem to make me fat, but if they work for you, go for it!
The insane focus on food misses the mark. It is supposed to be a pleasure. It is supposed to be a centerpiece for the family. It is supposed to be a respite from the insanity of the world. Instead, too many of us have dragged the complexity of the modern world into the kitchen, and it has made us fat and worried!
Relax, have a piece of bacon, and enjoy the bounty of our wonderful world!
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Because I am a cooking nerd I will often add complexity to a simple dish, because I think there might be some marginal improvement in the end result. So when I decided to sear chicken thighs in a Paella-inspired spice rub, then finish them in a warm oven, I realized that I could add significant time and a bit of complexity without an appreciable improvement in taste, well, I had to jump!
So I boned the chicken thighs so they could lay flatter in the pan and get more of the skin nice and crisp and crusty and gloriously brown. And it's easy, but time consuming.
Was it worth it? No, probably not, because the spice mixture worked great (a lot of Paprika, Oregano, salt and pepper), and finishing them in a warm oven kept them lovely and moist, and the marginal extra crisp skin was...um...marginal!
But it was fun to do, so I will probably keep doing it that way until I get really good at removing the bone, then I will never make the dish again!
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Speaking of Football Food! Here's a solid recipe from the website "Amazing Ribs." Easy BBQ Pulled Pork Recipe works well, although I think that he uses too much Rosemary in his signature rub. But that's just my personal taste...you might think that it is the Platonic ideal of dry rubs!
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That's a beef cut guide from South Africa! We are used to a particular way of butchering beef, but most countries have their own way of doing it, and the end result is just a bit different, but amusing and sometimes delicious.
For instance, the French cut their lamb into a shoulder roast (epaule) that is delicious, and amazingly tender in comparison to our traditional cuts.
Does anyone have experience with that sort of thing?
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Anne Burrell was a fine chef, whose recipes were also written well enough for the home cook to decipher, and not just roll our eyes and say, "F*ck off, there are too many steps and too many ingredients."
Her Focaccia recipe is a winner, and if you are feeling energetic, make her Ricotta the same day. The combination is delicious. Focaccia and Ricotta.
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It's a four-panel cartoon, so it's impossible to see on the blog, but click it and you won't be disappointed! Calvin And Hobbes
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A friend graciously gave me some genuine grown-in-the-USA garlic, and I tasted one clove and planted the rest, because my pathetic failure last year is an anomaly...right? I hope so, because it's in the ground (actually, a large pot), and it had better work this time!
Send all of your extra antelope to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.
Rumor has it that the Bourbon Bubble is bursting. I have seen no evidence of decreasing prices, but maybe the bursting started somewhere else! I think the sweet spot is $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle.
The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty or fifty years, but it is worth it!
That's the spring end of a pair of kitchen tongs that I use probably every day. They are of course made in China, but shockingly, the "stainless steel" is actually stainless steel, and the design, though simple, is excellent. That is my third pair of them, and I use them so often that I have two pairs in rotation.
But...and there is always a "but"... the spring is a pathetic piece of junk that is the failure point on every pair. Why not pop for the extra 10 cents and use a stainless steel spring?
Obviously the entire kitchen needs to be redone...maybe mid-century Scandinavian?
The people of Iran made a huge mistake in 1978-1979. Their support for the Ayatollah Khomeini was catastrophic on many levels, especially since the country was meandering toward full modernity and entrance into the 1st World with the Shah in power. What they got for their efforts was a savage religious dictatorship that quickly consolidated power by killing its rivals, and even a large number of supporters. And they didn't stop there...the massacres of 1981 and 1988 were the largest, but the Mullah's police state routinely imprisoned, tortured, and killed its supposed enemies, including women who dared show their hair!
With President Trump firmly on the side of freedom, the struggle against the theocratic dictators intensified after the Israeli and American strikes against the Mullah's nuclear ambition. The decapitation of Venezuela and the loss of its support for Iran seems to have added even more fuel to the revolutionary fire!
Whether the people of Iran are successful remains to be seen. If the army enters the fray it will get even bloodier, and the IRGC has already demonstrated its viciousness. News reports are suggesting that President Trump is considering military options, but that is a complex decision. Will America simply prevent the Iranian army from entering the cities, or will it be a more involved effort?
The people of Iran (Persia!) are in an existential fight, but they must win the war mostly on their own. Large-scale interference on the part of the West will at least partly delegitimize whatever comes next for Iran, although the choice between winning against the Mullahs and remaining under their thumb might make that an unimportant point.
But they are fighting the forces of evil, and they deserve the support of the freedom loving people of the world.
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On the other hand, the rich, entitled, spoiled left of America has elevated their violence against entirely normal and rational effort of the federal government to protect our borders as some sort of revolution against the jack-booted thugs of fascism running rampage across our country, arresting Americans and throwing them into the American version of the Gulag. The reality is different, as ICE seeks out law-breaking border crashers and, hopefully, deporting them. That is a far cry from the fever dreams of the lunatic left, who sees every government law enforcement officer as an amalgam of Pinochet, Hitler, and Franco.
They have taken their right to disagree with the actions of the government to ridiculous extremes. They have demonized and doxxed ICE officers, paid professional protesters, created the conditions for violent protests in left-leaning cities, and created the conditions for a violent response to their clearly illegal actions. And the sad part is that there are clearly understood methods of disagreeing with the policies and behavior of the government. Peaceful protesting is a time-honored tradition in America. Agitating for political change via the vote is too, but they are so sure of the holiness of their mission that they do not appreciate that violence against the government rarely works when the majority of the country supports the actions that are so infuriating to the lunatic few.
Renee Nicole Good was Minneapolis 'ICE Watch' 'warrior' who trained to resist feds before shooting
"Resistance" can take many forms. Only a few cross the line into violence, but the left has decided that circumventing the political process and moving to violence is the only appropriate response. That there has been a muted response from the federal government is a testament to the training of the officers involved and their political masters. In a real fascist dictatorship (like Iran), those nightly protests in Portland would have been met with water hoses, gunfire, and wholesale detention. Those professional "warriors" in Minneapolis would have been run off the road, arrested, and thrown into some hellhole of a prison for an indeterminate amount of time. Or just shot as they threatened the safety of the ICE officers.
But we do not live in anything resembling what they imagine, and that is why they feel confident in their behavior. Hopefully the seemingly justified shooting of the violent protestor in Minneapolis focuses the minds of the others, and the temperature is turned down just a bit.
Sunday Morning Book Thread - 1-11-2026 ["Perfessor" Squirrel]
—Open Blogger
Welcome to the prestigious, internationally acclaimed, stately, and illustrious Sunday Morning Book Thread! The place where all readers are welcome, regardless of whatever guilty pleasure we feel like reading. Here is where we can discuss, argue, bicker, quibble, consider, debate, confabulate, converse, and jaw about our latest fancy in reading material. As always, pants are required, unless you are wearing these pants...
So relax, find yourself a warm kitty (or warm puppy--I won't judge) to curl up in your lap, enjoy a freshly-made batch of Chex Mix, and dive into a new book. What are YOU reading this fine morning?
Massive kudos to MP4 for his debut Sunday Morning Book Thread last week. CBD sent me an email saying I could take the week off and that someone else would be covering for me, but I didn't know who it was until I checked the queue of blog threads on Saturday evening. I was very pleased to find out it was MP4! He did a great job and I hope we can entice him to do more Sunday Morning Book Threads in the future!
This is a random pic I found on a website advertising 23 Unique Home Library Ideas. Naturally, this company wants you to use their products and services, but there are some decent ideas on the webpage if anyone is looking to spice up their library.
HOW A BOOK IS MADE
Technology has come a long, long way from Gutenberg's original printing press featuring moveable type. The video above shows just how easy it is to print a small number of books. Naturally, this process just scales up for huge print runs, like Kamala's New York Times bestselling book about her presidential run (stop laughing!).
In my job I've had to make frequent use of the university print shop, which has most of the machinery shown in the video. They can basically custom-print anything you can imagine, and if they can't do it, they'll outsource it to someone who can. It's just cool what they can do. Personally, my favorite machine is the massive paper cutter, which trims thousands of sheets of paper at once.
Here's a short video about how Amazon's Make on Demand service works. Amazon prints millions of books a year based on customer requests. I have quite a few books that have been printed in Monee, IL, just a few days after I've ordered them on Amazon. The audio isn't great, so you will want to turn on closed-captioning to follow along.
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HOW BOOK THIEVES STEAL MANUSCRIPTS
There are a few lessons to be learned from this video:
Never email your unpublished manuscript to someone you don't know. Double-check the email address to make sure it's correct. In the example above, changing just ONE character in the email address allowed a manuscript thief working at a publishing company to publish the manuscript without the author's permission.
If you are publishing a serialized version of your story online so that you can solicit feedback, make sure you upload the finished, polished manuscript to your final publishing platform as soon as possible. Yes, you do own the copyright on your works, but it can be challenging to prove that sometimes if someone is poaching content from your website and then publishing it as their own material.
"Brandjacking" means your good name is being stolen to be used on content that isn't yours. So if you have published a few books and have had some modest sales, you do owe it to yourself to protect your brand.
I work with professors who are often leery about putting their course content online because they don't want their content being stolen by someone else. It's a valid concern. Unfortunately, the reality is that if someone can view their content--even if it's hidden on a password-protected learning management system like Canvas--it can be stolen and repurposed. This is how cheating sites like Chegg gather data. They rely on students to submit content for them to then publish for other students. I've even downloaded content from courses because I wanted to have a copy of the content for future reference. Not to sell it as my own. Just to have it as a resource. I know one professor who goes so far as to remove modules in his course as soon as the module is over. He doesn't just unpublish them from his Canvas course. He deletes them entirely. Which is kind of pointless since as soon as students know that he does this, they're going to download copies of the content as soon as the module becomes available.
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MORON RECOMMENDATIONS
Before I read it, I didn't know that Dracula was an epistolary novel.
Clever books, like epistolary novels, have always interested me. One comes to mind which I stumbled upon long ago, and found it as fascinating as I found the characters distasteful. When Captain Pierre Laclos first published Les Liasons Dangereuses in 1782, it caused such a scandal that it was briefly banned. Of course, this only made it even more popular behind closed doors. Eventually, a publisher's note was added to the novel, insisting that the author in no way represented the truth.
The story behind the story is that a series of letters, mostly between the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, had been found and assembled, and when put into chronological order, told a strange immoral tale. These two aristocrats schemed between themselves to seduce a young noblewoman; for Merteuil, it was revenge, and for Valmont, merely the challenge.
The letters tell the story in both statements and hints, and describes the cooperation and then competition between the decadent pair. Eventually, the competition turns into hatred, and Valmont exposes Merteuil and ruins her.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at December 28, 2025 09:11 AM (0U5gm)
Comment: The central story of Dangerous Liaisons (I'm not French, so I'll use the English translation) seems to have universal appeal, as the story has been adapted numerous times around the worl, even as far off as China and Korea. It's been told and retold in many different media over the centuries. I was first exposed to the story in high school. My drama club took a trip to London one year and we watched a stage performance of Dangerous Liaisons, which was pretty cool. The 1999 movie Cruel Intentions spawned its own franchise with a prequel, a sequel, and even a television series.
People seem to be fascinated by the deliberate destruction of innocence as depicted in this story. It's very much a tragedy, as no one escapes unscathed.
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You might enjoy Tony Perrotett's Route A.D. 66 (published in the US as Pagan Holidays). He decides to take the Roman version of the Grand Tour, using ancient guidebooks and travels from Rome to Greece and on to Egypt and Arabia. Clever and funny.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at December 28, 2025 09:16 AM (ufSfZ)
Comment: We take for granted how easy it is to travel around the world today. Back in the ancient world, much travel was done on foot. If you were lucky or wealthy you might have a horse or cart. You would, of course, have to take care of the horse and cart because your livelihood depended on them. My pastor at church has been giving us a guided tour of Paul's travels during his ministry. It's been fascinating to see how he traveled between Israel, Asia Minor (now Turkey), Greece, and Rome, as well as exploring the difficulties he had along the way.
One of you Morons sent me an email with an Amazon link for Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series. It was a boxed set with the first three novels in hardcover for about 1/3 the normal price. Naturally, I screamed, "Shut up and take my money!" and purchased it.
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky
I have no idea when I'll get around to reading it, so it goes on top of my teetering TBR pile for now.
WHAT I'VE BEEN READING RECENTLY:
The Final Architecture Book 3 - Lords of Uncreation by Adrian Tchaikovsky
I finished Adrian Tschaikovsky's epic space opera trilogy just before New Year's Eve. That was the final book I completed in 2025. It was well worth the ride. The series as a whole took a bit of time to get going and Tchaikovsky is prone to exposition dumps, particularly in Shards of Earth, but overall it's a good read and quite entertaining. I liked the character development.
The series also featured dueling assholes--a protagonist and an antagonist. Ollie, on the side of the protagonists, is one of those professional assholes that doesn't really get along with most people, but if she chooses to be your friend, she'll be your friend for life. Ollie's major character arc was overcoming her biases against the Parthenon society, as it's composed of "perfect" Amazonian warrior-women while Ollie suffers from numerous birth defects that left her body crippled and deformed.
At first I thought there was going to be some mild wokeness in the story, but much of it was justified by the setting and characters, so it didn't bother me much. Also, Tchaikovsky didn't seem to be too enamored with perfect socialist societies, instead preferring the rough-and-tumble life of the spacers who really keep society running through their rugged individuality, scavenging and trading wherever they can to keep flying between the stars, regardless of the dangers posed by "unspace."
I won't spoil the climax, but it's pretty badass. Idris uncovers the truth behind the so-called "lords of creation and uncreation." The Architects are not what everyone thought they were, either, serving their masters unwillingly, weeping at the destruction they are forced to cause throughout the cosmos.
The Complete Chronicles of Conan - Centenary Edition by Robert E. Howard
This has been on my TBR pile for several years now. I remember being excited when the Centenary Edition came out, but then I got distracted and busy with other things. Now I'm reading it and enjoying it quite a bit. Robert E. Howard's Conan is quite a bit different than Arnold Schwarzenegger's depiction in the movies, though I think he captured Conan's spirit quite well.
I did realize that while compilations of stories by an author are a fun read, they can start to become repetitive after a while. Howard has a formula, for sure. Conan will become enmeshed in some complicated scheme or a situation that's outside his usual understanding and he'll need both brains and brawn to sort it all out. This repetitive formulaic storytelling is not unique to Howard, of course. I had similar experiences when reading Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories or Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot stories. It's probably best to read a few stories, then switch to something else, and come back to the stories again.
I can also tell that Howard was HUGELY influenced by H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Their fingerprints are all over Howard's stories. From Lovecraft, Howard weaves the setting, with it's alien gods and ancient powers walking the land, unknowable to mankind. From Burroughs, Howard develops some of Conan's traits from both Tarzan and John Carter. Conan is wild, unpredictable, animalistic. He's also cunning, powerful, and strong, able to overcome his enemies through sheer determination. He's also chivalric and honorable in his own way. Not quite a Southern gentleman, though.
John Carter of Mars - Volume 1 by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Since I got a bit tired of reading Conan, I decided to mix it up by reading Edgar Rice Burroughs for a bit, starting with A Princess of Mars. John Carter is a former Captain in the Confederate Army of America who goes to Arizona after the war to seek his fortune in gold prospecting. While being chased by Apaches, he hides in cave, then proceeds to have an out-of-body experience that propels his spiritual form to Mars (or Barsoom, as the locals call it).
He meets the local native green Martians and gains their trust. Then escapes their custody to join the red Martians, who are much more human-looking, and falls in love with their princess. It's easy to see how much Burroughs influenced the pulp adventure genre with his stories.
I was a bit surprised to find out that Burroughs was American. For whatever reason I assumed he was British. But nope, he was born in Chicago. I also thought he was writing books later than he did. Although he was a contemporary of Robert E. Howard, that was more towards the end of Burrough's life. A Princess of Mars was published in serialized format in 1912, while Howard was still a child.
The Dresden Files Book 1 - Storm Front by Jim Butcher
Jim Butcher's latest entry in The Dresden Files comes out in a couple of weeks. I believe it's the beginning of the end of the series, since I've read that Butcher wants to finish with around 20-21 stories. Anyway, in preparation, I've decided to do a re-read of The Dresden Files from Storm Front to Battle Ground.
Storm Front introduces us to Chicago's only professional wizard--he has an ad in the Yellow Pages and an office in midtown. Butcher also begins laying out the foundations of his urban fantasy settings, establishing the core rules in which his characters operate. At this point, Harry Dresden is fairly powerful, but he still has a long ways to go until he reaches the heights of power he wields later in the series. He'll take many levels of badass along the way. For now, he's enmeshed in a scheme by a rogue wizard who is creating a magical drug that opens up the "Third Eye" of normal people and lets them see the world for what it really is. In Harry's world this is a very bad idea, because most people are not prepared for that experience without extensive training. There are things that are revealed when using the Sight that can drive you insane. Harry himself will experience one of these later and he pays a heavy price for it.
It's pretty good for a debut novel, but I think the series really gets going with Book 3, Grave Peril as Butcher expands the world considerably and introduces amazing characters, such as Michael Carpenter.
The Dresden Files Book 2 - Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
This is probably my least favorite of The Dresden Files. It's not bad, but it's not the strongest entry. Harry is called upon to investigate a series of murders that only take place during the full moon. Naturally, he reaches the conclusion that it's the work of a pack of werewolves that have infiltrated Chicago. However, his work is complicated by the fact that the FBI is investigating the murders as well and their motives are not exactly pure.
This is where we also see how Harry begins to adapt and grow as a character, as he realizes that the tools and tricks he used in the first book, Storm Front, are not powerful enough to aid him. So he upgrades his equipment using his magical skills. This will become a recurring theme throughout the series. As Harry points out more than once, a wizard who is prepared for a contingency is a very, very formidable opponent, so he does his best to be prepared. Though often his preparations go by the wayside and he has to rely on his wits, skill, determination, and raw power more than once.
Some theories of loop quantum gravity predict small fluctuations of the speed of light in a vacuum. New experiments put an upper bound on how big those fluctuations could be, ruling out some of these theories.
I call them theories rather than mere speculation because they actually made sufficiently robust predictions to be ruled out in the first place. A theory can be wrong, but it's not a theory if you can't test it.
Too late, really. Zen 6 will be out this year, and if you want integrated graphics it looks like Intel's Panther Lake is faster - though only if you are willing to go with a system with soldered memory. If you need conventional DIMM or SODIMM memory, you get models cut down from 12 GPU cores to just 4, which isn't beating anything.
Nvidia GPUs are hardest hit so far, with reports of stock on all models running low in Germany and Japan. Since that was the first direct warning we had of the memory crunch (though in retrospect the signs were there months earlier) I bought myself a 9060 XT while they were in stock and on sale. Which as of time of writing, they still are.
Earlier AM4 motherboards often had as little as 16MB of ROM for the BIOS, which became a problem as AMD kept releasing new chips for the platform - Socket AM4 first appeared in 2016, even before Zen 1, and the most recent new processor for that socket, the 5500X3D, was launched in June last year. There were simply too many different models of compatible processors to fit all the necessary code into 16MB.
With AM5 confirmed to support the upcoming Zen 6 chips later this year, and strongly hinted to support Zen 7 due in 2028, it will end up being an even longer-lived platform with more CPUs, so motherboard makers are fixing the problem before it arises.
Also, without Amazon ever asking permission to do so.
Also also, without Amazon bothering to sync the data properly from your online store so that they don't, for example, still list long-discontinued products for sale.
No, they didn't have a brief moment of self-awareness. They're blaming three years of AI for thirty years of their own failings.
Musical Interlude
In 2008, a young Suzuka Nakamoto was part of a short-lived trio called Karen Girl's - yes, with the misplaced apostrophe - and performed Over the Future, the opening theme for the anime series Zettai Karen Children.
You may know her better as the lead singer for Babymetal.
Thanks Mikeski for pointing me to the Babymetal cover of Over the Future.
(I checked three different versions of the first clip. The full-length animated one is available in every single country in the world, except, for some reason, Belarus. If anyone is reading this from Belarus, sorry.)
Saturday Night Club ONT - January 10, 2026 [Double Ds]
—Open Blogger
Welcome to Club ONT - A collaboration of the Double D's - The Disco and The Dino.
One less D than when we started this thing. Adjust your expectations accordingly. The place might look a little different, but it will still open on time, and it will still only be as classy as the patrons. Yeah, that means YOU! Oh boy...
[Top photo:John Moulton Barn, Grand Teton National Park. Photo Credit: NPS]
He says to sales lady "I would like to buy a Baptist bra for my wife, size 36B."
With a quizzical look the sales lady asked "what kind of bra?"
He repeated a "Baptist bra, she said to tell you she wanted a Baptist bra, and you would know what she wanted."
"Ah now I remember" said the sales lady, "we don't get as many requests for them as we used to. Our customers lately want the Catholic bra, or the Salvation Army bra, or the Presbyterian type."
Confused a little flustered, the man asks "So, what are the differences?"
The lady responded "It's all really quite simple a Catholic type supports the masses. The Salvation Army lifts the fallen. The Presbyterian type keeps things staunch and upright."
He mused on the information for a minute and then asks "So, what is the Baptist type for?"
"They" she replied "make mountains out of molehills."
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Related comment of the week:
(It was either going to be here or in the comments. Might as well embrace and put it front and center.)
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Someone say boobies?
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Drink of the Night
Playing card cocktail tonight. We're still on the FOURs. As fate would have it on the first night without him, this one is in honor of our "D emeritus"
Just kidding, Doggo. You know we still think you're a good boy.
A Utah police department's use of artificial intelligence led to a police report stating - falsely - that an officer had been transformed into a frog.
The Heber City Police Department started using a pair of AI programs, Draft One and Code Four, to automatically generate police reports from body camera footage in December.
A report generated by the Draft One program mistakenly reported that an officer had been turned into a frog.
Thank you for your continued patronage of Club ONT. We regret to inform you that the "Club ONT 2026 Suggestion Box" has gone missing, so we will be unable to implement anything you may have jotted down and dropped in there. The box was last seen in Doggo's possession. On a completely unrelated note, Doggo was last seen digging a hole out back and burying something. We may never know what he was doing.
Tousi TV: France closes embassy in Tehran, US Department of State advises all US citizens to get out of Iran He's been saying that Tuesday will be a decisive day. Other reports say that Trump is in the last stages of planning an action against the mullahs. (And other reports say that Tucker Carlson Simp JD Vance is attempting to get Trump to agree to "negotiations" with Iran -- for fucking what? What do we get out of saving the fucking mullahs and letting them kill and torture their own people? Apart from Tucker Carlson getting to pretend he's a Big Man Influencer and that he's worth all the Qatari money he's receiving.)
Asmongold predicted that AWFLs would turn on immigration the moment we started importing hot women into the country, and he was right via garrett
New Yorkers are shocked after footage goes viral of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Tenant Director stating that white people will be HEAVILY impacted after they transition property "as an individual good to a collective good" [CBD]
Podcast: The Somali grift might be the biggest financial scandal in American history, will the Mullahs finally fall? CFPB gets a lifeline from a corrupt judge, Brigitte Bardot...RIP, and more!
This isn't Christmas Eve fare, and I thought about waiting until the 26th to post it, but supposedly an amateur detective has solved the Zodiac killer mystery. And the horrific Black Dahlia killing. He says it's the same person! I always thought of them as very far apart in time but I think Black Dahlia was mid-fifties (nope, 1947) mid and the Zodiac murders began in 1968 so it's possible it's the same killer.
The killer, if it's the same man, would have been in his 20s when he killed the Black Dahlia and his 40s when he did the Zodiac murders. Possible.
A little caveat: I saw someone snark on Reddit, "The Zodiac case gets solved more often than Wordle." There are a ton of coincidences here, supposedly, like a Zodiac cipher being solved by the name "Elizabeth." Elizabeth Short was the name of the so-called Black Dahlia.
If you don't know about the Black Dahlia, don't look it up. Just accept that it's grisly on the level of Jack the Ripper.
Yes, the named suspect resembles the police sketch of Zodiac.
