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July 05, 2025

Ace of Spades Pet Thread, July 5

—K.T.

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Good afternoon and welcome to the almost world famous Ace of Spades Pet Thread. Thanks for stopping by. Kick back and enjoy the world of animals.

Would you like a treat?

Let's relax a little with the animals and leave the world of politics and current events outside today.

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Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, July 5

—K.T.

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Hi, KT … It's good to see you back in the Captain's Chair again. Excellent column! Attached is a pic I found in files on the Venerable XHD - some spider lilies. These were in a 'kinda-sorta' garden next to what had once been JAX Brewery in the French Quarter.

It was about 0730, and the light was great. Equipment was a Bogen tripod, Olympus OM-4 (black) w/16mm Olympus macro lens. Exposure? Heh. A triple exposure on the same film frame. No easy task with the OM-4. It had a button that had to be depressed when 'advancing' the frame (which kept the film stationary in-camera) for each subsequent exposure. In reality, this was a 'hit 'n hope' shot, and I was quite the happy boy when the print was ready at Colorpix. It was also a good seller. Sometimes luck trumps skill, yes?

Oh. Filmstock? It was probably one of the stocks from Agfa, 'cos I really like its 'European' color balance from that time.

Dr_No

A great trip down memory lane. Timely, too. Great substitute for fireworks in the garden (especially around dogs - ask me how I know).

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Independence Day Weekend (with a little socialism)

—K.T.

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Happy Independence Day Weekend! Along with the festivities, why not take the opportunity to make remembering some history fun for the kids? One of the keys to the popularity of the clearly incompetent socialist mayoral candidate in NYC seems to be that he smiles a lot.

We can do better than this with young people. And older people, for that matter.

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History of Independence Day

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The Classical Saturday Morning Coffee Break & Prayer Revival

—Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus)

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Good morning boys and girls and everything in between. I certainly hope you have all of your fingers and toes this morning. Too late to pray for you not to blow those digits off.

Before we enter the Prayer Revival just a few housekeeping matters to go over. (Rulz for those of you in Plover)

1) This is an open thread. Feel free to lurk, opine and/or bloviate.
2) Be kind be nice. Even the trolls have warped feelings.
3) No running with sharp objects.
4) Have a great weekend!

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Daily Tech News 5 July 2025

—Pixy Misa

Top Story

  • AMD's Zen 6 CPUs could be really fast and have lots of cache. (Hot Hardware)

    Some of the rumours around Zen 6 - expected next year - appear to be solid: It will have 12 CPU cores per chiplet, up from 8 in all earlier models, and L3 cache will likewise scale by 50%.

    Speed is expected to pass the 6GHz mark, which seems reasonable. Intel has already done that with its fastest models, and AMD is planning to move from TSMC's 4nm node to 2nm, which is notably faster.

    The one new rumour here is to do with the X3D models. The X3D cache chips are also rumoured to be 50% larger, and it is possible to stack two of them on one CPU for up to 240MB of L3 cache on a single chiplet - up from 96MB currently.

    Also rumoured are the speeds for the smaller, slower Zen 6c cores: Up to 4.5GHz. Since these have exactly the same performance per clock as full-size Zen 6, they will be quite respectable performers.

    Zen 6 will launch on the current-generation AM5 socket, so you can easily upgrade existing Zen 4 and Zen 5 systems. Intel already abandoned Socket 1700 which supported its 12th, 13th, and 14th generation chips (which were basically all the same), and is expected to abandon its current Socket 1851 for yet another platform when it launches Nova Lake next year. So forget any upgrades on that side.

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The Land Of The ONT And The Home Of The Brave

—WeirdDave

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!

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Fourth of July Cafe

—Ace

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Washington Crossing the Delaware (of course)
Emanuel Leutze, 1851

Dachshund pool party.

A baby and a dog are manning the lemonade stand.
She rescued a paralyzed dog from the shelter -- where it was about to be euthanized, because no one wanted to take a chance on it -- and then a miracle happened.

Orphaned baby ducks are put into a duck pond. How long will it take for another duck to adopt them?

Rescue dogs are very grateful.

Owl and parakeet become friends.

Funny Amazon review for a Medusa head.

Elephant asks for treats.

The important thing is that he tried.

Lion and tiger BATTLE over who gets to be the little spoon.

Olga Korbut's perfect (well, 9.8) parallel bars performance at the 1972 Olympics. The "dead loop" maneuver which was later banned for safety reasons is when she comes to a dead stop on the high bar and then stands on it.

A desperate intervention for JackStraw.

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Pool Party Open Thread

—Ace

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The Gift of Crows Open Thread

—Ace

Animals are known to give presents to each other, but the crow is one of the only animals (apart from dogs and cats) to give "gifts" to humans they like.

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Deer Friends Open Thread

—Ace

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Groovy Re-Posts Open Thread

—Ace

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Dogs on Trampolines Open Thread

—Ace

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Beluga Bestie Open Thread

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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Case Addressing Whether “Reverse Discrimination” is also Prohibited by Civil Rights Act of 1964

—Buck Throckmorton

On this blessed Independence Day, I have a disappointing update on a legal case I’ve been covering. Had “B.W. [Brooks Warden] vs Austin Independent School District” been accepted by the Supreme Court, there might finally be clarity as to whether Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits racial discrimination against whites. For now, entities such as the AISD are free to continue engaging in racial animus based on a student’s skin color, so long as the student is white.

As I’ve written, Brooks’ parents, Brandi and Monte Warden, are personal friends of my wife and mine. When they notified me earlier this week that SCOTUS had denied certiorari, they were obviously disappointed, but their disappointment was also mixed with an equal and offsetting pronouncement of patriotism and faith. They stressed that ultimately all of this is in the hands of a higher power, and they also know that Brooks’ ordeal, and the legal path they pursued, will help chip away at the ugly 21st century version of state-sanctioned racism.

Our sacred Declaration of Independence acknowledges that we’re an imperfect Union, but we strive to to form a more perfect Union. Brooks’ and the Wardens’ legal battle will indeed help make this a more perfect Union. There are plenty of landmark cases for which there were preceding writs that were denied certiorari, but the pressure mounted until SCOTUS couldn't hide from the issue any longer. Brooks' case has paved the path for other cases to follow.

As I documented in my previous pieces in April and in June:

Among the abuses claimed by Brooks were a teacher calling him a racial slur; the Principal mocking Brooks and accusing him of listening to Dixie while wearing a headset; the Student Council President circulating a picture of Brooks as a Klansman; another student promising to kill Brooks and all Trump supporters; and a student beating Brooks up in a classroom while the teacher watched. That student is later alleged to have boasted about assaulting Brooks because of his race. As Brooks’ father documented, the Austin Independent School District never disputed or refuted any of this, they just chose to ignore the Wardens’ pleas to make it stop.

Aside from me, The Federalist has also been giving this case good coverage in conservative media, with articles published in February and in June.

Coverage has now broken out into the legacy media, with this surprisingly unbiased report from USA Today on the Supreme Court declining to take the case: “'Whitey' case: Texan cites racial harassment at school. What did Supreme Court say?

The Austin Independent School District said Warden failed to show the alleged hostility was based on race, rather than his political views.

Isn’t it charming that a public school district is arguing that the persecution of one of its students is allowable so long as it’s because the student has the wrong political views, rather than because he has the wrong skin color. But the AISD seems to also understand that acknowledging the hostility Brooks endured with the school district’s acquiescence would get them into Title VI territory, thus their claim that racial slurs directed at Brooks were “political.”

But because the Supreme Court punted, there is still no clarity as to whether Title VI applies to non-minorities, meaning that the “right kind” of government-sponsored racial oppression is still not currently prohibited. We can therefore expect more awful stories like this one from earlier this week:

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Posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM Comments

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

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Independence
Frank Blackwell Mayer,

It's such a simple proposition; just leave us alone! Yet we are the only country on earth that really understands it and is willing to fight for it.

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The Morning Report — 7/ 4 /25

—J.J. Sefton

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Good morning kids, and let me wish all of you a happy Independence Day and God bless America on its 249th birthday.

Of course the top story of the day is the passage of this so-called Big Beautiful Bill by the House. And President Trump is set to sign it into law some time today. Regardless of my personal feelings about government spending, the President is boasting that in the end, passage will supercharge an already recovering economy,

as the latest job numbers and slowing inflation rate from June, indicate, continuing a trend over the past few months.

“There could be no better birthday present for America than the phenomenal victory we achieved just hours ago when Congress passed the One Big, Beautiful Bill to Make America Great Again,” said Trump. “In the last election, the people gave us a historic mandate to cut taxes, raise take-home pay, bring back jobs, stop the invasion … deport the illegals, and slash hundreds of billions of dollars of waste and fraud, and that’s what we’re doing.”

“With this bill, every major promise I made to the people of Iowa in 2024 became a promise kept,” he added.

Obviously, it remains to be seen what real, tangible positive effects will be to the average citizen. And those will shake out over the long term. Of course, the reactions on Wall Street and Main Street will be quicker as they make moves to adjust and adapt to undergird their bottom lines to government regulations and (even better, deregulation) that could affect their ability to invest, create jobs and make a profit.

With all that said, the real tell are the reactions from both the Democrats and their propagandists in the media. The hyperbole, has been completely off the charts, and these are the people (on paper) that created the disgusting and puerile agitprop porn of Paul Ryan shoving granny in a wheelchair off of a cliff.

Here's Debbie Dingell-berry,

President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending bill will cause people to die.

Wait, Democrats for decades have been taxing and spending us into oblivion. So on the one hand they're suddenly fiscal hawks while at the same time claiming that a massive spending bill will cause people to die?

And from a political standpoint, we have this


CNN analyst Paul Begala said Thursday on “Anderson Cooper 360” that the “Big, Beautiful Bill” was a “political death warrant” that will cause the Republican Party to lose the majority in the 2026 midterm elections. Begala said, “Hakeem Jeffries gave the Democrats a voice today. He set the new record for a speech in the House. They don’t have filibusters in the House, but they have this rule that allows the leader to speak pretty much unlimited. So he went on for hours, and he focused on Medicaid,  focused on health care.”

Is it just me, or did you read "CNN analyst" as CNN Anal-Cyst.

Maybe he didn't listen quite closely to Hakeem who stated unequivocally:

If Big Beautiful Bill Passes, a ‘Deportation Machine Will Be Unleashed on Steroids’

Uh, if Hakeem Jeffries is right then guess what, the Democrats will be wiped out electorally for the foreseeable future! Please God let Hakeem be right. The GOP base will be energized and millions of illegal aliens gone not only improves society and our economy, it protects future elections and perhaps will prevent Texas' 38 electoral votes from shifting to the communists forever.

The dissonance between Jeffries and Begala is quite stunning. And that Jeffries would be stupid enough to articulate a position that is music to the ears of the vast majority of Americans is amazing. I think they need to show MAGA-hat wearing Ron DeSantis with a swastika armband throwing little brown babies into a pond of alligators. The Paul Ryan as Tommy Udo schtick is getting stale.

And to cap it off:

“I didn’t vote for him and I’m not always aligned with his approach, but his success on the domestic and international front in such a compressed period of time is nothing short of remarkable and it’s all due to his impressive use of political and executive power,” Michael LaRosa, a former Biden White House spokesman, told The Post. “The last two weeks of his presidency are a throwback to the strong leadership styles reminiscent of LBJ or Reagan, both of whom engendered such personal and political loyalty within their parties, that they could muscle through historic success out of sheer goodwill.” A different Biden White House official, who served all four years in the Democratic administration, said Trump has “hit a stride” and marveled at his ability to pressure holdout Republicans into voting for the major legislation despite centrist reluctance over Medicaid and SNAP cuts and conservative demands for deeper spending reductions. . .

. . . “You voted for it because you’re scared of the guy. And frankly, that’s impressive, given that Biden never invoked fear in anyone,” the former Biden aide said of the GOP holdouts, all but two of whom eventually backed the bill.

“Successful campaigns and successful operations excel when they are provided clarity in mission from their leader — in this case President Trump,” said Chris LaCivita, who ran Trump’s 2024 campaign alongside current White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.

“Elections matter because you now have one of the greatest realignments in political history happening and being backed up by policy. If you work, pay taxes and aspire for a better tomorrow, you are voting Republican,” LaCivita said, describing the working-class reforms encompassed in the bill, which also made permanent Trump’s 2017 tax cuts to all brackets. 

When even two Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants stooges praise Trump, with the faintest of damnation, that kind of says something.

Finally, You'll be shocked to know that rising Democrat Superstar Mamdani lied about being an abeed, as my Syrian friends from Brooklyn would refer to him, in order to get into Columbia. Jeez, Obama 2.0 in more ways than one! Lord forbid.

On a bit of a positive note, SCOTUS has smacked down the lower courts' overreach and ruled the President can deport criminal illegals to places like Sudan.


And lastly, a quick shout-out and thank you for your continued support in hitting our tip jar. It truly is appreciated more than you can know.

Have a happy, safe and enjoyable Fourth of July weekend.


    ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

  • Lloyd Billingsley: Let it begin this July 4. . . In 2025 the president has grounds to withdraw the USA from the United Nations and evict the globalist talk-shop from American soil. That long overdue move would be great preparation for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence next year. 2026.
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Daily Tech News 4 July 2025

—Pixy Misa

Top Story

  • The US government is planning to breed billions of flesh-eating flies, zap them with radiation, and dump them on Mexico. (CBS)

    Take that, you smug-druggling bastiches!

    ...

    Actually, this has been going on for years in Panama. These are New World Screwworm flies, and they are a major problem. The project - which has been keeping them penned up in South America for decades - breeds huge numbers of sterile but otherwise healthy males, which then compete to breed with the females, which produces... Nothing.

    But that's the point. It has to be kept up continuously (and has been) but it has drastically reduced their numbers north of the canal since the 1960s. Until recently, when they swarmed and made a break for it.

    The fly-factory in Panama currently produces 117 million dead-inside flies per week; the plan is to increase the number of sexual zombies to 400 million per week to outcompete real men. Real flies. Real fly men. You know what I mean.


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O Say Can You ONT?

—WeirdDave

Howdy folks! Welcome to the eve of the 4th of July!

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Opinionated Consumer Cafe

—Ace

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US Coast Guard Cutter Spencer Destroys The Nazi Submarine U-175,
April 17, 1943
From @LostTemple7

Dog vouches for his brother, but not for the cat.

The ocean's a bit choppy.

A stray dog that a man feeds went away for a few months. Then she came back with the litter of pups she just had.


Cat and mouse.

Tiny baby 'roo.

Sylvester Stallone runs lines with a young actor.

A man put GPS trackers on his dog and cat.

Teacup teddy bear puppy.

Fluffy puppies on a slide.

Animal cruelty.

Turtle tantrum.

Don't watch, it's gross: ejecting a horsehair worm parasite from a praying mantis. As in America, the parasite is nearly as large as the host.

Baby giraffe shows off the new legs for mom.

Let's go let's go let's go let's go let's go let's go!

Making a friend.

Hunting dog lied on the job application.

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Kari Lake, just when I think you couldn't get any dumber, you pull a stunt like this, and totally redeem yourself!!!
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