California Bridge to Nowhere Remains Unfinished, Now Costs $114 Million

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Every time I see a dead critter by the highway I wonder: Why can't we build gently-sloping pedestrian bridges, topped with grass and bushes, for wildlife to cross over safely? It's not just good for them; people crash their cars due to deer all the time.

Well, a government filled with left-wing fuck-up grifters is why.

In 2022, California Gov. Gavin Newsom broke ground on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing (WAWC), a project featuring an overpass for animals atop ten lanes of the 101 Freeway in Southern California.

At the ceremony, Newsom boasted that the state had committed $54 million. He promised to "complete the job within another $10 million," before seeming to hedge on whether that final sum would do the trick.

Officials projected a 2025 completion date for the overpass, and estimated that the entire project -- which includes the bridge and other ancillary developments -- would cost $92 million, some of it coming from private philanthropists.

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Pratt, a cougar-sweater-wearing environmental activist who serves on WAWC's Partner Leadership Team, is the program's public face. She is also a regional executive director of the national Wildlife Federation. In 2021, the group received a $25 million grant from "Wallis Annenberg and the Annenberg Foundation" for the bridge that bears the late philanthropist's name.

That money apparently was not enough. This past January, donning a hard hat and a "#SAVELACOUGARS" jersey, Pratt announced a possible $21 million overage. She effectively blamed President Trump, attributing the multimillion-dollar overrun to "tariffs, inflation, [and] labor problems."

"There's no boondoggle," she said. "Given the times we're living in," a potential $21 million overage is "not that bad."

Over $100 million for a bridge which only needs to bear the weight of, checks notes, skunks and the occasional herd of deer. Oh, and six inches of dirt, maybe.

This is not an overpass for vehicles. It does not need to bear the weight of multiton trucks driving at 75mph. The engineering needed here is pretty forgiving.

But still, they can't finish it for less than $114 million.

And if you think that will be the final bill, I've got a Butterfly Bridge to sell you.

(Yes, the bridge must also serve as a path for butterflies. Think of the additional engineering requirements to bear the weight of several dozen butterflies.)

How can you degenerates literally be bad at everything?

Here's how: They're all taking a piece.

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Why has a project primarily consisting of a bridge for animals cost over $100 million? One reason is that Newsom and WAWC's philanthropic supporters apparently don't mind it becoming a patronage program.As the WAWC-endorsing Wildlife Crossing Fund notes, citing the California Department of Transportation's estimate, "for every $1 billion spent" on wildlife crossings, "13,000 jobs are created."

A group of experts apparently adds to the operation's expense. A fungi whiz, Pratt says, worked as a WAWC habitat designer, periodically scrutinizing root samples under a microscope. A contracted soil scientist said his process involves assessing local dirt to "rebuild it ... as close to nature as possible."

1, that's a scam, 2, you build a slope, a bridge, put some dirt on it, and it's done. It's close enough to nature. We just want animals crossing here, not attempting to build animal cities.

By the way: I think any path covered in dirt would be "closer to nature" than the highway it spans, no?

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At the groundbreaking ceremony, Newsom envisioned WAWC as a catalyst for the construction of wildlife crossings across the state. California, he boasted, set aside $105 million "to replicate projects like this all up and down the state." Pratt reportedly thinks "hundreds more crossings are needed."

Here's the thing: their own incompetence and greed keeps them from accomplishing any of the things they claim to want to accomplish. If they'd built this... bike path with dirt for something reasonable like $15 million, then yeah, this would serve as a model for building additional bridges.

But at a cost of $114 million and climbing for one incomplete bridge? No. You have once again fucked everything up for everyone, including the animals.

But you'll all still get paid, right? That's the important thing.

Shock! Left-Wing "Civil Rights" Icon and Democrat Hero Cesar Chavez Was a Child Molester and Rapist

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Of course. Of course.

The evidence was staring us in the face:

He died 33 years ago -- in 1993 -- so the Pravda Media is now dusting off the archives and reporting what they knew decades ago but suppressed until it was safe to do so.

John Sexton, who quotes the Soviet Archivist NYT:

As predicted yesterday, the story about Cesar Chavez sexually abusing young girls was published today by the NY Times. The paper spoke to multiple women including one who claims she was abused repeatedly when Chavez was 45 and she was 13-years-old.

Ana Murguia remembers the day the man she had regarded as a hero called her house and summoned her to see him. She walked along a dirt trail, entered the rundown building, passed his secretary and stepped into his office.

He locked the door, as he always did when he called her, and told her how lonely he had been. He brought her onto the yoga mat that he often used in his office for meditation, kissed her and pulled her pants down. "Don't tell anyone," he told her afterward. "They'd get jealous."

The man, Cesar Chavez, one of the most revered figures in the Latino civil rights movement, was 45. She was 13. Ms. Murguia said she was summoned for sexual encounters with him dozens of times over the next four years.

Recently, more than 50 years later, Ms. Murguia learned that a street near her home in the Central California city of Bakersfield was in the process of being renamed. City officials want to name it in honor of her abuser.

A second woman described similar abuse which began when she was 12-years-old.

Ms. Rojas said she was 12 when Mr. Chavez first touched her inappropriately, groping her breasts in the same office where he'd meet with Ms. Murguia. When Ms. Rojas was 15, he arranged to have her stay at a motel during a weekslong march through California, she said, and had sexual intercourse with her -- rape, under state law, because she was not old enough to consent.

And he didn't just sexually abuse and rape children, he also abused his adult female staffers and partners. See the link for that.

Sexton notes that "allegations and rumors" about this sex predator have swirled for years, but gosh darn it, the story just wasn't ready until 33 years after he died without any apologies or reckoning.

Just the News: US Intelligence Officials Hid Evidence That China Interfered in the 2020 Presidential Election on Biden's Behalf

—Disinformation Expert Ace

They hid this evidence from the Commander in Chief and President, Donald John Trump.

Are we at treason yet?

Jerry Dunleavy:

US Intel hid Chinese 2020 election meddling from Trump because they opposed his policies, memo says

Dr. Barry A. Zulauf, a member of the Senior National Intelligence Service reported that others in the intelligence community said "I don't want my intelligence going to the White House where it will be used by that vulgarian in the Oval Office to support policies against China with which I personally disagree."

Analysts inside the U.S. intelligence community sought to conceal evidence of Chinese influence efforts from President Donald Trump during the 2020 election, with analysts saying they didn't want their intel used by "that vulgarian in the Oval Office" to pursue policies toward China they personally disagreed with.

The revelation is found within a January 2021 report written by -- and never before reported upon comments by -- analytic ombudsman Barry Zulauf, who conducted a review of the spy community's handling of Russian versus Chinese meddling efforts during the 2020 election. Among his conclusions was that intelligence analysts downplayed China's actions because they had disdain for the "vulgarian" Trump and did not want to support the policies and priorities of the Trump administration toward China with which they "personally disagree."

Just the News reported this week that the U.S. intelligence community has known since early 2020 that Beijing also gained access to American voter registration data and used that information to conduct opinion analysis related to the presidential election between Trump and then-former Vice President Joe Biden.

This is not the only piece of evidence pointing to Chinese government election influence efforts in the 2020 election. Although much about China's activities in 2020 remains classified, Just the News conducted a thorough review of publicly-available intelligence assessments, federal indictments, foreign government warnings, and cybersecurity firm analyses.

There is credible evidence that Chinese government-linked cyber hackers and Chinese social media troll farms took aim at the U.S. presidential election in 2020 and sought to undercut Trump during his run against now-former President Biden. There are also indicators that Chinese intelligence and law enforcement agencies -- China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) and its Ministry of Public Security (MPS) -- also played a role in 2020.

He found that actions taken by Russia would be claimed by analysts to be election interference, while the exact same actions taken by China would be ruled as no interference at all -- all depending on the political narratives favored by highly partisan "intelligence analysts."

He doesn't say that last part, but it's implicit.

Zulauf -- a longtime intelligence officer -- wrote in his January 2021 report: "Given analytic differences in the way Russia and China analysts examined their targets, China analysts appeared hesitant to assess Chinese actions as undue influence or interference. These analysts appeared reluctant to have their analysis on China brought forward because they tended to disagree with the Administration's policies, saying in effect, I don't want our intelligence used to support those policies."

U.S. intel analysts downplayed China assessments to avoid helping Trump

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"Dr. Zulauf went on to point out the various errors in this way of thinking -- intelligence belongs to the community, not a single analyst, and further, while analysts are entitled to like or dislike particular leaders, they are not entitled to allow that to alter the intelligence products that they put forward," the journal article said.

The review by Zulauf also found that allegations of Russian meddling and Chinese meddling were being measured based on differing standards, meaning Russia may have taken actions that were determined to be influence or interference efforts while, if and when China took the same or similar actions, those Chinese actions likely would not have been determined to be influence or interference efforts.

"Due to varying collection and insight into hostile state actors' leadership intentions and domestic election influence campaigns, the definitional use of the terms 'influence' and 'interference' and associated confidence levels are applied differently by the China and Russia analytic communities," Zulauf wrote in his report.

The ombudsman found that "the terms were applied inconsistently across the analytic community" and that "failing to explain properly these definitions is inconsistent with Tradecraft Standards."

Oh, and out treasonous Deep State also hid information that Ukraine was using US taxpayer dollars to rig the election in Biden's favor.

Uh-Oh: The Highly Influential Tuq'r Qarlson and Nick Fuentes Have Succeeded in Turning MAGA Against Trump
Not, as My Eighth Grade Self Would Add

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Is this a high approval rating? Because it seems like a high approval rating to me.

Iranian Intelligence Chief Who Plotted Trump's Assassination Confirmed Dead Due to Airstrike and Overdose of Amyl Nitrite and Disco Dancing but Mostly the Airstrike

—Disinformation Expert Ace

The homophobes Trump and Netanyahu are murdering one Brown Homosexual after another.

Grok @grok

Yes, verified. Israel's Defense Minister announced that Iranian Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib was killed in an overnight airstrike in Tehran. Iranian President Pezeshkian has since confirmed the death, calling it a "cowardly assassination." This is the third senior Iranian official killed in 48 hours per multiple reports (AP, BBC, Al Jazeera, Reuters).

So close to Pride Month? SO CLOSE TO PRIDE MONTH?!?!

By the way I don't know this guy was gay. I just assume that everyone in the Iranian leadership is (was) a closet case.

Let's see what Iran's current (for the nonce) President says:

Masoud Pezeshkian @drpezeshkian

2h

Translated from Persian

The cowardly assassination of my dear colleagues Ismail Khatib, Ali Larijani, and Aziz Nasirzadeh, alongside some of their family members and accompanying team, has left us in deep mourning.

I extend my condolences to the great people of Iran for the martyrdom of two cabinet members, the secretary of the Shura, and the military and Basij commanders. I am certain their path will continue more steadfastly than before.

Sounds tough!

But then... there are reports he is desperate to resign because he doesn't want to be the next to be killed:

Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav

19h

There are reports that Iran's President Pezeshkian tried to submit his resignation to the Supreme Leader today, but Mojtaba Khamenei is not available (he is likely dead).

Nobody is in charge of Iran.

The top 200 mullahs and IRGC leaders are dead.

SMOD linked this report. I have no idea how credible it is:

The Iran Watcher 🇮🇷 @TheIranWatcher

🚨 Iran's presidency has collapsed as its own president pleads not to be assassinated.

Masoud Pezeshkian is telling foreign counterparts he has no authority, no access to leadership, and no control over the system, effectively disavowing responsibility as the regime fractures from within.

According to Persian Gulf sources, he informed officials across the region, as well as Russia and Turkey, that the constitutional leadership structure has broken down and he is completely cut off from it, stressing there is no justification for targeting him.

Pezeshkian is trying to save his own life as the regime crumbles, a clear sign the Islamic Republic is losing control.

Yesterday a commenter reported that Iranian civilians were passing intel to Israel via Starlink, telling them where Basij troops were on the streets, so that they could be targeted for airstrikes.

This Jerusalem Post story has more:

Iranian civilians sent Israel intel to strike Basij checkpoints in Tehran - WSJ

The Wall Street Journal reported that Iranians on the ground have been transmitting information in Persian through Israeli social media accounts.

Israel has been relying in part on target information sent by ordinary Iranians for strikes carried out during the current war with Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

The report said this was the case on Wednesday night, when an Israeli Hermes UAV struck Basij checkpoints in Tehran, citing a senior Israeli security official.

The official said Iranians on the ground have been transmitting information in Persian through Israeli social media accounts. According to the report, the information is first verified and vetted by Israeli authorities, and action is taken only after it is found to be accurate.

Iranian state media reported on Wednesday evening that Israeli drones targeted checkpoints in Tehran, killing several members of Iran's security forces, including some affiliated with the Basij militia. Separate reports said several regime security personnel and Basij members were killed in the strikes.
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If confirmed, the reported use of civilian-supplied intelligence would point to an additional layer in Israel's targeting apparatus inside Iran.

Thanks to Michael the Texan for that link.

Meanwhile, beckster sends this report:

Thought this was interesting, from Amit Segal's daily Substack Noon In Israel:

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Meanwhile, Israel is calling mid- and low-level commanders, threatening them and their families if they don't stand aside in the event of an uprising.

One conversation is worth recounting.

"Can you hear me?" a Mossad agent can be heard, speaking in Farsi. "We know everything about you. You are on our blacklist, and we have all the information about you."

"OK," the commander said in the recording.

"I called to warn you in advance that you should stand with your people's side," the Mossad agent said. "And if you will not do that, your destiny will be as your leader. Do you hear me?"

"Brother, I swear on the Quran, I'm not your enemy," the commander said. "I'm a dead man already. Just please come help us."

Lefty Influencer, TikTok Revolutionary, and AOC-Style "Palestinian-American" Kat Aboogabooga Suffers Humiliating Loss in Illinois Democrat Congressional Primary

—Disinformation Expert Ace

You may not have heard of Kat Aboogabooga, aka "Kat Abughazaleh." She is one of the new breed of post-AOC Pro-Invasionary Democrat Socialist, the type that no longer hides her desire for authoritarian Soviet communism or simple hatred of America, Christians, and white people, but announces it straight up and then pauses for applause with a gum-smacking grin.

If you are unfamiliar with her work, see the beginning of this Black Conservative Perspective where she pops off with one Grinning Idiot communist take after another.

She ran to be the Democrat nominee for an Illinois congressional seat. She #MeToo'd her opponent, who had been a professor who had once dated a student.

She... lost. 29% to 26%. (It was a multicandidate field.)

Progressive influencer Kat Abughazaleh's bid for election to Congress failed Tuesday after Democratic primary voters opted for Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss.

Biss' victory came only hours after his campaign confirmed the mayor had a relationship with a former student while working as a professor at the University of Chicago in 2004.

Abughazaleh, who formerly worked for left-wing organization Media Matters in conducting opposition research against conservative outlets, was one of 15 Democrats jockeying to succeed retiring Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) in the Land of Lincoln's 9th District, which covers parts of Chicago and its northwestern suburbs.

The 26-year-old also known as Kat Abu achieved minor online infamy for a series of stunts -- including getting herself arrested and charged with conspiracy to impede Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) vehicles during a September 2025 demonstration in Broadview, Ill.

She received about 26% of the vote compared to Biss' 30% support when the Associated Press called the race just after 10:35 p.m. ET.

Now, the guy who beat her isn't really a pedophile or anything. The student he dated was only, he says, "5 or 6 years younger" than he was and they didn't date until after she was out of his class. And he claims the affair was short-lived and only involved kissing.

But still, when a radical communist loses to a guy smeared as a #MeToo Child Molester, well, maybe AOC-style Socialism of Stupidity isn't the winning way after all.

Oh, she's a flake, too. She blew off a campaign event and blamed... narcolepsy.

Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer

I hardly know anything about this race (except Kat used narcolepsy in a hilariously overwrought Gen-Z statement as an excuse for skipping an event), but I'm glad Bliss won if only so it sends this signal that this kind of fake MeToo-ing doesn't work and is then disincentivized.

Oh, and this terrorist bitch just got indicted by the feds for assaulting ICE officers so the gum-smacking grinning idiot may be going to prison, too.

While she and her antifa pals blocked an ICE vehicle from moving and pounded on the hood and windows, she allegedly scratched the word "PIG" into the SUV's paint.

Wednesday Morning Rant

—Joe Mannix

One of the hallmarks earmarks of entitled, aristocratic rule is the great and powerful exemption. The rulers impose - as the name implies - rules, but the rules do not apply to the rulers themselves. Rules are for the subjects, not the rulers. The rulers get the authority to make and enforce rules, and - thanks to their royal prerogatives, Party privileges or whatever nomenclature is popular in the style of the time - get to ignore them.

The notion of "rule of apply" does not exist to Party Men or other aristocrats. They live by exemption, as is fitting their stations. They used to at least pretend that this is not how it worked, but the mask is slipping off. While in the old days, they would pass laws and then ignore them without consequence, that is old-fashioned. The new way is to formally exempt themselves, like it was in the good old days when kings reigned and peasants served. The only thing that can stop them is a modicum of shame from within their own clique.

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Oaks and Wild Boars
Karl Bodmer

The Morning Report — 3/18/26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. With a nod to Gil Scott-Heron . . .

it looks as if we almost lost Cleveland.

Residents across Northeast Ohio got a shock the morning of St. Patrick's Day. A bright fireball streaked across the sky around 9:00 a.m., visible in multiple states before a loud boom rattled homes from Cleveland into parts of Pennsylvania and New York. Windows shook, phones lit up, and, for a moment, people wondered if something far more serious had happened. The object started as a small asteroid about six feet wide, weighing close to seven tons, and entered Earth's atmosphere at more than 40,000 miles per hour. The fireball first became visible about 50 miles above Lake Erie near Lorain, traveling roughly 34 miles before breaking apart about 30 miles above Valley City in Medina County. The breakup produced the flash and the shockwave people felt on the ground. . . The energy released reached about 250 tons of TNT, which sounds large until you place it next to a historical benchmark. 

The Tunguska blast in Siberia in 1908 released between 10 and 15 megatons of energy. The difference isn't small: Tunguska was tens of thousands of times more powerful and flattened more than 800 square miles of forest. . .

. . . The fireball over Ohio didn't bring destruction, but it offered a clear reminder of what moves through space every day. A slightly larger object, a lower breakup point, or a different angle could've changed the story. Cleveland heard the boom and felt the shake, then went back to their day.

That outcome wasn't guaranteed. It was luck.

Depending upon how one considers what we here at the HQ refer to as the SMOD, the Sweet Meteor of Death, the aforementioned luck was either good or bad. In any case, wow. Forget about mining asteroids, if some egghead out there wanted to make a fast buck, figure out a way to weaponize asteroids to bring them down on Red China, Iran, Russia or whoever and then con the War Dept. or Sandia to give you a few hundred million to develop a prototype. It'd be the perfect cover for a first strike on an enemy that left no evidence.

Moving on from the Science FRICTION department to other things that rub the wrong way . . .

Like the National Counterterrorism Director Joe Kent whose letter of resignation was a transparent attack on President Trump and his almost total evisceration of the globalist America last/never foreign policy of Foggy Bottom/Langley et al.

99% of the time when a local politician goes national, turns out to be a squish or a quisling, there were warnings locally. And most of the time people at the national level didn’t pay attention. I remember trying to break through the social media bubble of everyone who enjoyed Chris Christie’s viral video takedowns to get out the message that he was a fraud, that he had actually implemented every liberal policy and was an Islamic apologist. For many people it didn’t sink in until that hurricane photo with Obama. For others it didn’t sink in until he stabbed Trump in the back. . . he got the counterterrorism job as some sort of consolation prize for losing elections.

But there were warnings that Joe Kent was not what he seemed to be when he first ran for office. Ex-CIAers who run for office should be treated with extra scrutiny. And Kent scrambled to explain why he was a registered Democrat who had voted for Bernie Sanders. His explanation that he was trying to help Trump win and sabotage Dems was fishy. . .

. . . Anyone talking about an alliance between the Left and the Right, dismissing MAGA and America First, is out to take down America. This is exactly what we used to call RINOs before they got smart and started trying to disguise themselves as MAGA. But in the end, they always out themselves. Kent sure did.

Long before this happened, we should have listened to the local conservatives.

Well, there's the stabbing in the back and then there's the full frontal assault.

Susan Rice, who played leading roles in the Obama and Biden administrations, has broken a Washington code of silence by threatening that anyone who plays ball with the Trump administration will suffer payback the next time Democrats take control.

‘When it comes to the elites, you know, the corporate interests, the law firms, the universities, the media, it’s not going to end well for them.’ ” she said on a podcast.

“They’re going to be held accountable by those who come in opposition to Trump and win at the ballot box,” Rice added. She is no stranger to dirty tricks, having been involved in the Obama administration’s spying on Trump’s 2016 White House campaign. As such, her threat marks yet another example of how the left preaches one thing and practices the opposite. It blames Trump for destroying historic norms despite how the last two Dem presidents abused their power for nakedly partisan purposes.

Meh, forget the IRGC, the greater threat to America comes from the DNC. Meh, this is nothing new. We've seen this tyranny before, with every shampeachment and every single time a rogue hack-in-black issues an injunction against this President's constitutional executive branch authority. It's all well and good to root for the freedom of the Persian people and the long suffering Cubans, but unless and until the cancer of Susan Rice and her ilk are excised from our society, it won't be long before we too go the way of Iran circa 1979 and Cuba 1959.

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ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY LINKS
• The fireball that Northeast Ohio residents saw, as well as the explosion they heard at 9:00 a.m. this morning, was an asteroid that broke apart over the greater Cleveland area, NASA said.
  7-Ton Asteroid Enters Earth’s Atmosphere, Explodes, Breaks into Pieces over Cleveland

• Michael Goodwin: Susan Rice, who played leading roles in the Obama and Biden juntas, has broken a Washington code of silence by threatening that anyone who plays ball with the Trump administration will suffer payback the next time Democrats take control. ‘When it comes to the elites, you know, the corporate interests, the law firms, the universities, the media, it’s not going to end well for them.’ ” she said on a podcast. (funny, those are all leftist institutions! Shorter Goodwin, Rice is an evil filthy subhuman shit-whore - jjs)
  Susan Rice is no stranger to dirty tricks — and her latest threat shows how shameless the Democrats are

Daily Tech News 18 March 2026

—Pixy Misa

• Overwhelmingly Negative: Everybody hates DLSS 5. (Ars Technica)
  
  Ars Technica rounds up the response to Nvidia's showcase of its DLSS 5 $10,000 AI slop filter and concludes that... It's bad.
  
  (Not kidding about the cost: The demo required two RTX 5090s and they currently cost between $4000 and $6000 each, depending on the model. Yes, they launched at $2000. That was then; this is now.)
  
  
  
• A roundup of some of the memes. (Notebook Check)
  
  AI-generated. Because of course.
  
  
  
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says you're holding it wrong. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Thanks Steve.

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - March 17, 2026 [Doof]

—Open Blogger

Skerries Harbour, Ireland

Top o' the evening to ya! Welcome to the Tuesday, St. Patrick's Day 2026 ONT. Did you celebrate the day? Still doing so? Tell us all about it! Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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A St. Patty's Day message from President Trump

TRUMP CELEBRATES ST. PATRICK'S DAY ☘️ pic.twitter.com/MydXm6Ms8s

— Shawn Farash (@Shawn_Farash) March 17, 2026

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What are ya drinkin' today, lads and lassies? Want something other than green beer or Guinness (or my preferred Irish stout - Murphy's)? The ONT has you covered!

32 St. Patrick’s Day Cocktails To Bring You Extra Luck This Year

St. Patrick's Day is all about the booze. So why not make a cocktail that will be sure to impress? Even if you're avoiding the bar crawl (we totally get it), you can still have a little fun with your drinks at home. This holiday is all about the drinks, so don’t let it pass by without jazzing up what you’re imbibing (even if it's just adding a little green to your beer). Lucky you, we’ve got everything from bright green cocktails to boozy milkshakes. Check out the list of our favorite St. Patrick’s Day drinks to get some inspiration (and likely feel the luck of the Irish as well). And who knows, you just might find a pot of gold (or a Gold Rush cocktail) at the end of the rainbow!

Check out the link and let us know which one is yer favorite!

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Kewl Solar System Stuff

How long is a day on Each Planet?pic.twitter.com/AeozQOjGBw

— Curiosity (@CuriosityonX) March 15, 2026

visualization of gravity on different planets pic.twitter.com/ZxT1hgAKjy

— You Should Know (@YouShouldKnown) March 15, 2026

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To our Rocky Mountain Hordelings -- be careful out there!

5 Most Rattlesnake Infested Areas in The Rockies

Running all the way from Canada to the northern section of New Mexico, the Rocky Mountains support a vast array of ecosystems from deserts to prairies to cold alpine slopes. The most common species you'll find here are the prairie rattlesnake and western rattlesnake. Towards the New Mexico region, you might also find the large Western diamondback rattlesnake, or the small mottled rock rattlesnake, or the massausaga rattlesnake in southeastern Colorado.

These rattlesnakes play a key role in their ecosystems by keeping certain pest populations like mice under control and preventing prairie dogs from overpopulating the land. In the vast majority of cases, these snakes will ignore humans or use their rattles to warn humans to stay away. However, if a person ignores these warnings or accidentally steps on them, it can lead to a bad bite. If left untreated, many of these rattlesnakes are capable of killing a human with their venom. The best way to prevent this from happening is simply being aware of where you might encounter rattlesnakes. Here are 5 of the most rattlesnake-infested areas in the Rockies to be on the lookout for them.

Not related, yet somehow related

Remember those guys? The band LIVE was formed in the late 80s (originally known as Public Affection) in York, PA. I saw them more times than I can count back in the 90s - they played a lot in the Baltimore / DC area. Still enjoy their music. You may remember their breakthrough hit "Lightning Crashes" for their outstanding album THROWING COPPER. Anyway, they're still around. Well, a semblance of the band is still around. Vocalist Ed Kowalczyk is the only original member with them. Legal drama engulfed the band over the years.

From a few years ago - Whatever happened to the band Behind Throwing Copper, Lightning Crashes & I Alone?

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DJ Doof - Today's Birthdays Edition
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Born on this date in 1959: Mike Lindup, keyboard player and falsetto voiced singer from Level 42

Born on this date in 1967: Billy Corgan, American musician, songwriter with alternative rock band, Smashing Pumpkins

Born on this date in 1975: Justin Hawkins, singer with English rock The Darkness who had the 2003 UK No.2 single ‘I Believe In A Thing Called Love’, and the 2003 UK No.1 album ‘Permission To Land’.

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Close it up

Baby Elephants Bathing Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Feeding the baby.

Penguin girl, from Piper.

Puppy isn't sure what the spigot has to do with the water but he's sure there's some connection.

Life, in one visual metaphor.

Just a cute puppy, nothing more.

Just two dogs snuggling.

Even cuter with puppies!

Feeding a baby manatee. They are also called "Sea Potatoes" or "the CNN Media Reporters of the Sea."

Miniature farm.

Dogs playing hacky sack.

A nightmare for Duncanthrax.

Quick Hits

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Members of antifa are threatening to kill the wife of the judge who is about to sentence the nine terrorists who attacked police at the Prairieland ICE station.

Members of Antifa have threatened violence and accused the wife of a judge of being a fan of "white supremacist" Charlie Kirk in the wake of nine members of the militant far-left group being found guilty of various charges, including terrorism-related charges, on Friday.

In the wake of Kirk's September killing during a Utah campus stop, US District Judge Mark Pittman's wife wrote, "Keep spreading the Good news, Bishop. The world needs it more than ever. Come, Lord Jesus, Come!" An Antifa member screenshotted her Facebook post and posted it to X, writing that Pittman's wife "is a big fan of white supremacist Charlie Kirk."

Evidence of that? She said it was sad that an innocent man had been shot in the throat in front of his children.

So, you know: White supremacist.

Nine total members of a North Texas Antifa cell were convicted on various charges on Friday for an attack on a Texas ICE detention facility in July in which an officer was shot. Eight of the nine defendants were found guilty of providing material support to terrorists. Additional charges the defendants were found guilty of include rioting, use of an explosive device, and attempted murder.

"Protect Trans Kids," huh?

Tony Shaffer 🇺🇲☢️ @tspooky

The @FBI used over 40% of its foreign counter intelligence division's budget on targeting @realDonaldTrump and his associates in 2016 and 2017 - people need to go to jail...

That post links this article from Revolver News.

I saw Chris Murphy crying about some of these rogue FBI agents who got fired, claiming that they were key "counter-terrorism" agents and their firing might have caused the four (4!) Muslim terrorist attacks in the last two weeks.

Well explain this to me then, Chris: If they were so critical to hunting down terrorists, why were they considered superfluous enough that they could be detailed to searching Melania Trump's underwear drawers?

Is this real? I think so but I'm not sure: An Iranian plays the sound of a drone over his boombox, and Basij street thugs go running.

I tend to think it's fake just because, well, they'd shoot you for that. They're shooting machine guns blindly into people's apartments just for singing and dancing.

Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol

🚨#BREAKING: North Carolina Senator, Thom Tillis COMPLETELY MISSED THE VOTE on the motion to move forward the SAVE Act.

He didn't show up.

Absolutely unbelievable.

Murkowski voted "Nay," of course.

Me-Again Kelly Demands to Know Why Online Influencers Aren't Defending Her Against Mark Levin's "Disgusting" Attacks

—Disinformation Expert Ace

If that sounds insane to you, that means you're paying attention.

Cavernous Nostrils has been smearing Erika Kirk since a week after his murder, claiming that she was "covering up" for The Real Killers, who she has alleged at various times to be Israelis, Mormon Bee Cultists, French Intelligence, Egyptian Planes, US military personnel, etc.

Lately Cavernous Nostrils has changed her attacks on Erika Kirk, now claiming she was associates with Jeffrey Epstein and groomed children for sex trafficking.

When Me-Again Kelly was asked to say something about this absolute demonic horrorshow, Me-Again responded: "I'm not the mom of the internet.'

But she thinks it's "disgusting" that Mark Levin routinely calls her "Granny Groyper" --like many women, and many men too (guilty!) she does not like it being noted that she is old enough to be a grandparent -- she has been demanding that various online personalities condemn Levin for "stalking" her.

Here's just one example of Me-Again -- who, I repeat, said it was none of her business if Candace Owens accused Erika Kirk of arranging for her husband's murder because she's not "the mom of the internet" -- demanding that men gather 'round her to protect her from Levin's "disgusting" attacks:

The widowed now-single mother Erika Kirk can fend for herself, but Me-Again demands her Simps form a Protective Simp Circle around her!

Aɴᴛ @AntSpeaks

It's extraordinary how Megyn is now asking everyone around her why they didn't speak up when Mark Levin supposedly attacked her.

The same woman who has made a conscious effort to ignore all the insults and accusations Candace has made against Erika Kirk over the last six months.

She even went so far as to claim she had gotten close to Candace and supported her in "questioning Israel."

I use this comparison a lot, but it's nevertheless accurate.. Megyn is a prime example of a stupid person who desperately believes they're smart. She was convinced she had outwitted everyone, that she was in the right, and that most would side with her. Now it's come back to bite her in the ass.

Is it just me, or....?

I mean... pic.twitter.com/jNlMWuPeed

— The Reaping Phase (@AceofSpadesHQ) March 16, 2026

If you remember the show: Cersei allowed the High Sparrow to imprison and torture Queen Margery, because Cersei was afraid, due to a prophecy, that she was fated to be "displaced by another queen, younger and more beautiful."

Does that explain Me-Again's hatred of Erika Kirk? Could be!

(And Cersei was also revealed to have been both stupid and emotionally fragile all along -- she just seemed to be smart and confident because she kept her face frozen in an inscrutable mask.)

One of the most extraordinary shows of inauthenticity I've ever seen was back when Me-Again discovered that it would spike her traffic if she filled her podcast with four-letter words. This was like two years ago. First she said "bullshit" a couple of times and when she got clicks for that, everything was "fuck you" and "go fuck yourself."

No really -- she has repeatedly told her critics "go fuck yourself" if you think I should criticize Cavernous Nostrils.

She looked like a five year old who just learned how to say cursewords. She looked so pleased with herself!

(And Me-Again keeps lying, claiming people just want her to criticize Cavernous Nostrils for her Black Nazi takes on the Jews, while pretending she's unaware that the real complaint is the DAILY attacks on a grieving widow as a murderers and lesbian sex trafficker.)

She's continuing to be a Follower, following "men" she identifies as the Strong Alpha Men and repeating whatever they say. First she followed Roger Ailes, then she followed Brit Hume, then she followed Chris Wallace -- remember her disgraceful bit as Chris Wallace's attack dog at the Republican debate? -- and now she's following Tuq'r Qarlson.

Well, Tuq'r Qarlson and Piers Morgan, two BBWs with big soft bellies and low-hanging tits, both just attacked Ben Shapiro for being short. I'm told he's 5'9", which is an inch below average.

So Me-Again the follower followed, and attacked Mark Levin for having a "micropenis."

Megyn Kelly @megynkelly

Micropenis Mark @marklevinshow thinks he has the monopoly on lewd. He tweets about me obsessively in the crudest, nastiest terms possible. Literally more than some stalkers I've had arrested. He doesn't like it when women like me fight back. Bc of his micropenis.

She means that Levin says she's a 14-year-old mean girl trapped in the botoxed body of a 55-year-old woman. And that she's a Nazi.

As she did when she first learned to curse, she then went on to say "micropenis, micropenis, micropenis" over and over again, to show how Young and Brat she is.

Here's the "disgusting" and "lewd" attack that provoked Me-Again into devolving back into her 14-year-old mean girl self. Does this sound "lewd" or "disgusting" to you?

Micropenis Mark @marklevinshow thinks he has the monopoly on lewd. He tweets about me obsessively in the crudest, nastiest terms possible. Literally more than some stalkers I’ve had arrested. He doesn’t like it when women like me fight back. Bc of his micropenis. https://t.co/7cl3Efc3N7

— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) March 15, 2026

Seems like pretty standard internet invective to me.

But note she plays the How Dare You Insult a Woman Card, as we've seen her play so many times before.

Is Me-Again really the right person to be judging how well-endowed other people are?

I don't think so.

I do question whether Me-Again, who is flatter than Rachel Corrie after an all-Ozempic diet, is really the person qualified to judge how well-endowed people are.

Hey Thimble-Tits, when you can fill a training bra without needing a wad of toilet paper, get back to us.

— The Reaping Phase (@AceofSpadesHQ) March 16, 2026

I dunno. She's weighing in on men's equipment, but meanwhile she's rocking an A Minus cup filled with nothing but ribs and gristle. It's like ordering a two piece from Popeye's and getting two backs. Not what I was looking for, Popeye's!

Now that was a lewd and disgusting personal attack.

But this is where she herself took the dispute.

Trump actually defended his former enemy Mark Levin:

And that is as a real as it comes, boys.

Oh wait it's not, it's a fake made by an internet wisenheimer.

But really, Trump did post about the feud and say that while Levin was in fact MAGA, Me-Again Kelly and Tuq'r Qarlson -- who are not named but strongly hinted at -- are not MAGA.

Me-Again has reinvented herself more times than Madonna and Cher and has a couple more transformations left in her. She's not quite sixty yet. https://t.co/ivEpNWW5C6

— The Reaping Phase (@AceofSpadesHQ) March 16, 2026

Close it up

Rumors of a "MAGA Rift" Have Been Greatly Overstated (By Saboteurs Paid by Hostile Foreign Governments, Lunatics, and Assorted Sex Criminals)

—Disinformation Expert Ace

OSZ @OpenSourceZone

5h

Donald Trump's Approval on Iran among MAGA

🟢 Approve: 87%
🔴 Disapprove: 6%

Economist/YouGov poll | 3/13-3/16

Illegal Alien 19-Year-Old High School Student Keeps Groping Girls As Young as Thirteen, Between the Legs "Front to Back";
Fairfax County School District Has Covered It Up a Year and Won't Expel Him

—Disinformation Expert Ace

This 19 year old high school student -- anyone want to take the under on that alleged age? Because I'll take the over -- is a junior.

I'll give you a second to recover from your shock at learning that.

Matt Whitlock @MattWhitlock

Absolutely radicalizing story.

A 19-year-old illegal enrolled as a junior at Fairfax High has been sexually assaulting students as young as 13 ALL YEAR. Fairfax covered it up despite 12 reports from girls.

Fairfax want to release him AND they won't allow him to be deported.

They just want to "breathe" and live freely and rape your pre-teen daughters. Is that so wrong?

Nick Minock
@NickMinock

🚨New: Fairfax County parents tell me their girls were groped in between their legs front to back during school by an adult male student who happens to be an illegal immigrant and that this has been happening the entire school year.

Parents are livid at Fairfax County Public Schools.

Today, Steve Descano's prosecutor Jenna Sands agreed to release the suspect from jail. The judge said no.

ICE lodged a detainer. ICE says Fairfax County Sheriff Stacey Kincaid isn't honoring their detainer.

Descano is the Soros prosecutor who routinely drops all charges on dangerous violent criminals, especially if they're from a Protected Race.

Without Oil, Cuba Is Burning

—Disinformation Expert Ace

From John Sexton, the fall has begun.

WSJ:

"Libertad, libertad," shouted hundreds of demonstrators as they faced off against police outside the precinct in Morón, a city of about 70,000 near Cuba's northeastern coast. Protesters then marched to the offices of the ruling Communist Party, according to the Cuban government and videos posted on social media.

Residents threw rocks at the building and tried to set it ablaze. Others climbed on the building's second story and threw papers and furniture into the street, which they then set on fire. At the time of the protest, Morón hadn't had any electricity for 30 hours...

Alberto Echemendía, the head of the Communist Party in Morón, held a rally of "revolutionary reaffirmation" in front of the ransacked party headquarters. "We live in complicated times," he told El Invasor, a regional official newspaper, blaming U.S. economic sanctions for the riots.

Iran's De Facto Supreme Leader Ali Larijani Dies of Complications Due to Mojtaba Khamenei's AIDS and an Israeli Airstrike But Mostly Complications Due to Mojtaba Khamenei's AIDS

—Disinformation Expert Ace

He didn't take his PrEP.

Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, was considered one of the most veteran and senior figures within the Iranian regime leadership and was a close associate of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

During the most recent wave of protests in Iran, Larijani employed violent enforcement measures and repression operations, personally overseeing the massacre against Iranians protesting the regime.

After Khamenei was killed in the opening strikes of the war over two weeks ago, Larijani consolidated his status as the de facto leader of the Iranian regime and led the combat efforts against the State of Israel and countries across the region.

Reports say that even before Khamenei was killed, Larijani had been put in charge of all of Iran's day-to-day management.

He delivered a defiant message on state television after the U.S.-Israeli strikes killed Khamenei, warning that Iran would make its enemies "regret" their actions and promising a forceful response.

That forceful response? Dying like a cigarette crushed under a boot.

Trump is reportedly very angry at the Europeans for refusing to help keep the Strait of America open -- and keeping their own oil flowing.

The US doesn't depend on the Strait of America. Europe does.

And they're refusing to send ships to keep it clear.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday called out NATO for making a "very foolish mistake" by not helping the U.S. with the Iran operation, though he added "we don't need them."

Trump made the comments when answering questions from reporters during a meeting with the Taoiseach of Ireland in the Oval Office at the White House.

"I think NATO's making a very foolish mistake," Trump said when a reporter asked about getting America's allies to assist the U.S. in escorting oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. "And I've long said that, you know, I wonder whether or not NATO would ever be there for us."

Trump added: "So this is a this was a great test because we don't need them, but they should have been there."

Warmongering homosexual homonculous Lindsey Graham ranted emotionally as usual, but he's not wrong.

Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC

Just spoke to @POTUS about our European allies' unwillingness to provide assets to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning, which benefits Europe far more than America. I have never heard him so angry in my life. I share that anger given what's at stake.

...

The repercussions of providing little assistance to keep the Strait of Hormuz functioning are going to be wide and deep for Europe and America.

I consider myself very forward-leaning on supporting alliances, however at a time of real testing like this, it makes me second guess the value of these alliances. I am certain I am not the only senator who feels this way.

It's time to end NATO. There is no reciprocal advantage to the US -- it's just a blank-check commitment to continue supporting this dying-but-Islamizing continent with no counter-commitments flowing back to us.

They have no capacity or desire to defend themselves, let alone provide any kind of defense for us.

The Morning Rant

—CBD

Gavin Newsom is a creation of the media and of the dynastic California political families that run the state along with the lunatic leftists who are their storm troopers.

He is, frankly, dumber than a rock, and as he ages he looks more and more like a middle-aged lesbian trying to pass as a soccer mom. His media consultants seem to be equally stupid, since any 12-year-old could tell them that he looks like an effete, effeminate ass with his tight jeans and tightly crossed legs. And his neck seems to be stretching also, perhaps because of the face lifts? Or maybe that is a side effect of years of BrylCreem use?

He is obviously trying to position himself as the de facto Democrat Presidential nominee for the 2028 election, and he is gleefully embracing the tax-the-rich mantra that the Democrats can't seem to shake. But Newsom is doubling down on that tired old parasitic talking point, and actually claiming that contrary to all data, California is a better tax state!

How he does it is an exercise in rank stupidity and ignorance, both of the speaker and the audience. Why his rapt and captive listeners don't laugh him off the stage is a testament to the idiocy of the rank-and-file left.

Fox News refuses to report the truth:

Texas and Florida are the REAL high-tax states. pic.twitter.com/1PtCN5Uvj8

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) March 16, 2026

The California tax scheme is indeed progressive, and the Texas and Florida schemes are indeed regressive, but those are technical terms that do not reflect the reality, which is that the total tax burden of everyone in California: rich, middle class, or poor, is higher than that of Texas and Florida residents. And by a lot!

And it's not just high gas taxes and sales taxes; California has an income tax, unlike Florida and Texas, so the more its residents work and make, the more they are taxed. It tops out at an unbelievable 13.3%, plus -- I'm not making this up -- a 1% "Mental Health Services" tax. And it is onerous not just on well-off people who make more than $1,000,000/year. It is an insulting 9.3% marginal rate on income over about $75,000! That's not wealthy. That is scraping by in many parts of California, with $5 gasoline and outrageously expensive electricity (more than 50% higher than average).

Hopefully the Republican nominee in 2028 will "pounce" on this inconvenient, economy-destroying rate and eviscerate Governor Brylcreem for this and many other anti-freedom and anti-growth policies that he embraces like the unrepentant economic and social leftist that he is.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Use of Tears
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